Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
PLOTINUSEach one of us is part of the soul of the universe
More Plotinus Quotes
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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Until 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.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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And 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.
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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their 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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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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Become vision itself.
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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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