black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.

Related Topics

Defeat Earth Fall Here Life Sink Thing Wing

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
PLOTINUS

Being Doth Image Know Last Nature Only Soul Thing Wisdom
God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
PLOTINUS

All Anyone External God He Ignorant Present So Thing Though
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.
PLOTINUS

Another Birth Come Courtship Fall Father Human Leave Love Lure Mortal Sphere Take
We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
PLOTINUS

Are Drom In IT Separte Spirit
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.
PLOTINUS

Alone Blend Body Both Clean Derive Distinct Either Empty Enjoy Entirely Mode Soul Third Two
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.
PLOTINUS

Daughter Father God Long Love Nature Noble One Soul
Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
PLOTINUS

Become Before Exist Had Here Men Now Other Our Pure Soul We
If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
PLOTINUS

All Could God Himself If Man Once Se Turn Would
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.
PLOTINUS

Depend Head Ignore Inward Look Many On One Outside Outward Until Wel When
Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
PLOTINUS

Demand Fit Know Object Organ
Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
PLOTINUS

Beauty Itself Light Over Play Rather Symmetry Thing
It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
PLOTINUS

All From IT Nothing One Precisely Thing Within
The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
PLOTINUS

Good Harmonious Knowable World
Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
PLOTINUS

Become Dormant Dual Longer No Now Present Sense Thing
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.
PLOTINUS

Above All Beautiful Beauty Cadence Combination Conduct Higher Kind Life Melodies Mind Sense The Themselves Word
You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
PLOTINUS

Appreciate Faulty Infinite Only Reason Superior Vcan You
Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
PLOTINUS

Breathe Coordinate Depend Each Event Everything Full Other Sign Thing Together World
Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
PLOTINUS

Defeat Earth Fall Here Life Sink Thing Wing
It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
PLOTINUS

Being Unity Virtue
We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
PLOTINUS

Another Beauty Being Order Our Ourselves Over Own Possess True Ugliness W
The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
PLOTINUS

Dialectic First Instrument Intuition Mean Second Sense Third
We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
PLOTINUS

Another Beauty Being Ignorance Order Ourselves Over Own Posses Self True Ugly
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

Beautiful Creator Find Into Look Made State Withdraw Yet Yourself
Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
PLOTINUS

Beauty Because Being Desirable Identical Love
In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
PLOTINUS

Action Beauty Character Imnteelct Pursuit Virtue
It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
PLOTINUS

Around Bad Contemed Drag Enough Image Imprisoned Me Nature
I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
PLOTINUS

All Back Divine Give Myself Strive

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes