I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
PLOTINUSThe soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
More Plotinus Quotes
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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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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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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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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