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.
PLOTINUSWe may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
More Plotinus Quotes
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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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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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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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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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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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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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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