Plotinus on flight
Plotinus63 quotes“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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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.
PlotinusPlotinus Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
PlotinusPlotinus 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.
PlotinusPlotinus God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
PlotinusPlotinus Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
PlotinusPlotinus It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
PlotinusPlotinus 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.
PlotinusPlotinus Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
PlotinusPlotinus We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
PlotinusPlotinus We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
PlotinusPlotinus Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
PlotinusPlotinus Withdraw into yourself and look.
PlotinusPlotinus Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
PlotinusPlotinus Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
PlotinusPlotinus 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.
PlotinusPlotinus From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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Life is a fight for territory and once you stop fighting for what you want, what you don’t want will automatically take over.
Les BrownLes Brown Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
EuripidesEuripides Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
Roald DahlRoald Dahl It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
Mark TwainMark Twain Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
Napoleon HillNapoleon Hill Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.
PlatoPlato Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.
Neil ArmstrongNeil Armstrong