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.
PLOTINUSAs the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
PLOTINUSI am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
PLOTINUSKnowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
PLOTINUSThe vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
PLOTINUSFear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
PLOTINUSEach one of us is part of the soul of the universe
PLOTINUSIf someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
PLOTINUSThe soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
PLOTINUSBeing is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
PLOTINUSOne principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
PLOTINUSThe Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
PLOTINUSBeauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
PLOTINUSWherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
PLOTINUSWe are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
PLOTINUSAnd 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.
PLOTINUSBeauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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