If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
PLOTINUSWhen 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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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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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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