Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
PLOTINUSCut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
More Plotinus Quotes
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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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.
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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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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.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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