Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
PLOTINUSWherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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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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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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