One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
PLOTINUSIt is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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