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.
PLOTINUSWe 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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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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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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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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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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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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