In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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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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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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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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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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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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