The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
PLOTINUSWhy should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
More Plotinus Quotes
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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Become vision itself.
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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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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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