We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
PLOTINUSOne principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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