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.
PLOTINUSIf a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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