As in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life.
PLOTINUSBecome vision itself.
More Plotinus Quotes
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We 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.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in 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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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.
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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
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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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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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