All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
PLOTINUSIt is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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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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Until 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.
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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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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