In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
PLOTINUSAs the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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If 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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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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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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 Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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As in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life.
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