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.
PLOTINUSIt is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Become vision itself.
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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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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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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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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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