We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
PLOTINUSFear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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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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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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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 means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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