The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
PLOTINUSThe sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
PLOTINUSThe stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
PLOTINUSBecome vision itself.
PLOTINUSThe Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
PLOTINUSThere is one and the same soul in many bodies.
PLOTINUSWithdraw 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.
PLOTINUSWhen 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.
PLOTINUSI am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
PLOTINUSLife here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
PLOTINUSBefore we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
PLOTINUSThe means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
PLOTINUSBut 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.
PLOTINUSBeauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
PLOTINUSYou can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
PLOTINUSIt is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
PLOTINUSWhy should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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