In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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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.
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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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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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Become vision itself.
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