Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
PLOTINUSIt is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
More Plotinus Quotes
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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made 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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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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 vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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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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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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Become vision itself.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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