Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
PLOTINUSI am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
More Plotinus Quotes
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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Become vision itself.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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 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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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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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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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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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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