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.
PLOTINUSThe vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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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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Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
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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 vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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Become vision itself.
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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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