The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition. PLOTINUS DialecticFirstMeanSecondThird
The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical. PLOTINUS BecomeIdenticalObjectOneSeSeenSuch
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. PLOTINUS CreatorFindIntoMadeWithdrawYet
It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it. PLOTINUS AllFromITNothingOnePreciselyThingWithin
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. PLOTINUS AsterEnthronedHolyneverSelStatueUntil
Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded. PLOTINUS EntireFenceIncoundIntegralOne
Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. PLOTINUS BecauseBeingDesirableIdentical
Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing. PLOTINUS BanishedBeEntirelyMustNothingPurified
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. PLOTINUS EstablishGodlikeShallShrineSplendourSurelyUntil
