We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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