black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.

Related Topics

Absorb Contemplanation Hold Longer Object Question State View

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

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

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
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
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
Withdraw into yourself and look.
PLOTINUS

And Look Into Withdraw Yourself
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
The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
PLOTINUS

Complete Each Of One Sent Soul Universe Us
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
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.
PLOTINUS

Beautiful Beauty Become Did Eyes First Itself never See Soul Sun Unless
Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
PLOTINUS

Beauty Because Being Desirable Identical Love
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
It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
PLOTINUS

Being Unity Virtue
Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
PLOTINUS

Address Beauty Chiefly Hearing Itself Slight Too
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
The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
PLOTINUS

Beautiful Beauty Before Behold Soul
Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
PLOTINUS

Consent Image Perpetuation Should Why
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

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes