I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
PLOTINUSThe means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
More Plotinus Quotes
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When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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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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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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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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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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