One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
PLOTINUSWe 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Become vision itself.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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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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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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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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