Many / One
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"Plotinus sees bright shoots of everlastingness in all creation." Elmer O'Brien, S.J.
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"What, then is The One? It is what makes all things possible. Without it nothing would exist." Plotinus, 'Contemplation'
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"The imagination is a power that is, as it were, intellectual. Appetite and impulse are obedient to imagination and to reason." Plotinus, 'The Soul'
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"The cosmos is ensouled….It is in The Soul, which bears it up, and shares in it wholly." Plotinus, 'The Soul'
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"The cosmos is a living organism." Plotinus, 'The Intelligence, The Ideas, and Being'
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"No intelligible entity ever passes away. All it contains exists in an eternal present." Plotinus, 'The Three Primal Hypostases'
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"We are always around The One. If we were not, we would dissolve and cease to exist. Yet our gaze does not remain fixed upon The One. When we look at it, we then attain the end of our desires and find rest. Then it is that, all discord past, we dance an inspired dance around it." Plotinus, 'The Good or The One'
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"The Good is the cause of life, of thought, of being." Plotinus, 'Beauty'
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"Health is contingent upon the body's being coordinated in unity; beauty, upon the mastery of parts by The One; the soul's virtue, upon unification into one sole coherence." Plotinus, 'The Good or The One'
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"The One, transcendent to all differentiation and form, is the source of all." Elmer O'Brien, S.J., translator
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"The divine is beauty, wisdom, goodness, and the like; and by these the wing of the soul is nourished, and grows apace." Plato, 'Phaedrus'
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"Souls are responsive one to another because they all come from the same soul – The Soul." Plotinus, 'The Soul'
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"What could exist were it not one?" Plotinus, 'The Good or The One'
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"The Soul makes each being one by looking upon The One." Plotinus, 'The Good or The One'
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"It is by The One that all beings are beings." Plotinus, 'The Good or The One'
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"The world became a living creature truly endowed with soul and intelligence by the providence of God." Plato, 'Timaeus'
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"The One…is present to those who are prepared for it and are able to receive it, to enter into harmony with it, to grasp and to touch it by virtue of their likeness to it, by virtue of that inner power similar to and stemming from The One when it is in that state in which it was when it originated from The One. Thus will The One be 'seen' as far as it can become an object of contemplation." Plotinus, 'The Good or The One'
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"Within this world-in-little, man, the cyclic rhythm perceptible throughout the universe-at-large, the macrocosm, is recurrently portrayed." Elmer O'Brien, S.J., translator
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"It is because of The One that we breathe and have our being." Plotinus, 'The Good or The One'
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"True knowledge of self and true knowledge of God are so intimately linked within the soul that, if the soul is purified of all that is not itself, it knows at one and the same time itself, and in itself, God." Elmer O'Brien, S.J., translator
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"Things all contain a part of everything." Anaxagoras (ca. 460bce), 'Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers'
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