It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
PLOTINUSGod is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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Become vision itself.
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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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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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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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The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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