Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
PLOTINUSWithdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
More Plotinus Quotes
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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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 in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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