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.
PLOTINUSBecome vision itself.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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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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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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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 vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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