Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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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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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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