If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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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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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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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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