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.
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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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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Become vision itself.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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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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