We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; 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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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