We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
PLOTINUSWe must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
PLOTINUSThe 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.
PLOTINUSBecome vision itself.
PLOTINUSWe 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.
PLOTINUSThe world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
PLOTINUSUntil 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.
PLOTINUSIn actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
PLOTINUSKnowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
PLOTINUSBefore we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
PLOTINUSAll things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
PLOTINUSCut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
PLOTINUSEverything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
PLOTINUSNever 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.
PLOTINUSThe soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
PLOTINUSBeing is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
PLOTINUSAs in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life.
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