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.
PLOTINUSUntil 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Become vision itself.
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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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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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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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