Become vision itself.
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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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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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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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