We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it, 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.
The Essence of Plotinus: Extracts from the Six Enneads and Porphyry's Life of Plotinus (ed. Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2007) - ISBN: 9781556356148