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.
PLOTINUSWhen 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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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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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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Become vision itself.
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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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