Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
PLOTINUSBut 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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