One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
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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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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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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