Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
PLOTINUSWe 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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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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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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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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