Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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Become vision itself.
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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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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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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 soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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