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.
PLOTINUSOne word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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