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.
PLOTINUSI am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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