Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
Interpretation
Knowledge must be put into action to have value; otherwise, it is meaningless.
This quote by Plotinus emphasizes the importance of action in relation to knowledge. Merely possessing knowledge without applying it leads to stagnation; true wisdom lies in the ability to translate understanding into active endeavors that can impact our lives and the world around us.
In practice
A speaker at a seminar on personal development might use this quote to stress the need for implementing learned strategies.
Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life, in actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky. Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
Needing leads to bleeding - to almost all inevitable suffering.
To know oneself is the first step toward making flow a part of one's entire life. But just as there is no free lunch in the material economy, nothing comes free in the psychic one. If one is not willing to invest psychic energy in the internal reality of consciousness, and instead squanders it in chasing external rewards, one loses mastery of one's life, and ends up becoming a puppet of circumstances.
...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.
All you need is already within you, only you must approach your self with reverence and love. Self-condemnation and self-distrust are grievous errors. Your constant flight from pain and search for pleasure is a sign of love you bear for your self, all I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect. Deny yourself nothing -- glue your self infinity and eternity and discover that you do not need them; you are beyond.
You can never be wise unless you love reading.
When you repeat a mistake, it is not a mistake anymore: it is a decision.
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