Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
PLOTINUSFear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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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.
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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.
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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Become vision itself.
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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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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 actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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The 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.
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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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