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.
PLOTINUSBecome vision itself.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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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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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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 world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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