It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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Become vision itself.
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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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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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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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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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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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If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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