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.
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.
PLOTINUSThe Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
PLOTINUSWe ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
PLOTINUSBeauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
PLOTINUSThe world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
PLOTINUSEverything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
PLOTINUSIt is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
PLOTINUSWhy should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
PLOTINUSIn actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
PLOTINUSNow we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
PLOTINUSIntelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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.
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.
PLOTINUSKnowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
PLOTINUSFear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
PLOTINUSThe stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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