We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
PLOTINUSWe must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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As 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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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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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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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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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