Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
PLOTINUSFear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
More Plotinus Quotes
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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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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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Become vision itself.
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