But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
PLOTINUSAs the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
More Plotinus Quotes
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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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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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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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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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 vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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