We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
PLOTINUSWe 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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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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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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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
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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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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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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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Become vision itself.
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