The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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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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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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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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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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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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