We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
PLOTINUSFear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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As in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Become vision itself.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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