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.
PLOTINUSIntelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Become vision itself.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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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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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 a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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