Become vision itself.
PLOTINUSAll things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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