The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
PLOTINUSBut 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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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 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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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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