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.
PLOTINUSI am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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.
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When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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