Become vision itself.
PLOTINUS
PLOTINUS
More from Plotinus
Withdraw into yourself and look.
PlotinusPlotinus Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
PlotinusPlotinus Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
PlotinusPlotinus 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.
PlotinusPlotinus 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.
PlotinusPlotinus We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
PlotinusPlotinus We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
PlotinusPlotinus 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.
PlotinusPlotinus The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
PlotinusPlotinus 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.
PlotinusPlotinus In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
PlotinusPlotinus 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.
PlotinusPlotinus 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.
PlotinusPlotinus The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
PlotinusPlotinus Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
PlotinusPlotinus In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
PlotinusPlotinus
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Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin
More on become
I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
Abraham VergheseAbraham Verghese To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
Abraham VergheseAbraham Verghese Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
Abraham VergheseAbraham Verghese When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
Jim MorrisonJim Morrison The major question is, how will be they become a reality A lot of the people implementing this are the people who violated it.
Abraham FoxmanAbraham Foxman The time to hesitate is through no time to wallowin the mire Try now we can only lose and our love become a funeral pyre
Jim MorrisonJim Morrison Which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.
Abraham FlexnerAbraham Flexner