We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
PLOTINUSI am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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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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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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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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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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