If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
PLOTINUSIf someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
PLOTINUSIn this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
PLOTINUSAll things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
PLOTINUSThe soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
PLOTINUSIt is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
PLOTINUSKnowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
PLOTINUSWithdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
PLOTINUSAs 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.
PLOTINUSOne word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
PLOTINUSThere is one and the same soul in many bodies.
PLOTINUSThe soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
PLOTINUSThe vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
PLOTINUSPleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
PLOTINUSNow we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
PLOTINUSKnowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
PLOTINUSOne principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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