We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
PLOTINUSEverything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
More Plotinus Quotes
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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