I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
PLOTINUSGod is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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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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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 stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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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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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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Become vision itself.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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.
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