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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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 means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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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 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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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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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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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