Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Become vision itself.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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