The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
PLOTINUSFear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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