If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
PLOTINUSIf 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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and 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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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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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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