Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
PLOTINUSThe soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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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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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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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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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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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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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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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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