Plotinus on become
Plotinus63 quotes“Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.”
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
PlotinusPlotinus 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.
PlotinusPlotinus When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
PlotinusPlotinus Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
PlotinusPlotinus A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
PlotinusPlotinus God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
PlotinusPlotinus Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
PlotinusPlotinus It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
PlotinusPlotinus 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.
PlotinusPlotinus Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
PlotinusPlotinus We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
PlotinusPlotinus We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
PlotinusPlotinus Withdraw into yourself and look.
PlotinusPlotinus Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
PlotinusPlotinus Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
PlotinusPlotinus 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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I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.
Aimee MannAimee Mann Instead of becoming the world’s expert on Buddhism, just let go, let go, let go.
Ajahn SumedhoAjahn Sumedho Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened.
Ajahn ChahAjahn Chah I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei Become more and more attractive and impressive, and you see that in fact they are beautiful. Not conventionally beautiful, not celebrity beautiful, but beautiful all through.
Aidan ChambersAidan Chambers If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I’m saying is common sense.
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