The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
PLOTINUSThe sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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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.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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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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