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.
PLOTINUSWhy should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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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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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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