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.
PLOTINUSThe vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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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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