Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
PLOTINUSMankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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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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Become vision itself.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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