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.
PLOTINUSEverything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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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.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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