Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
PLOTINUSEach one of us is part of the soul of the universe
More Plotinus Quotes
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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 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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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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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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We 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.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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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 principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Cut 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.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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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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