We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
PLOTINUSThe soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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 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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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