Withdraw into yourself and look.
PLOTINUSIt is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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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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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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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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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the 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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