Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
PLOTINUSUntil there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
More Plotinus Quotes
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The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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As in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life.
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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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