Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
PLOTINUSOne word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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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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Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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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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