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.
PLOTINUSIf a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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