Plotinus

Let the soul banish all that disturbs

Plotinus | April 2016 (Vol. XXIX, No. 4)

Let the soul banish all that disturbs; and let the body that envelops it be still, and all the fretting of the body, and all that surrounds it; let earth and sea and air be still; and heaven itself. And then feel the Spirit streaming, pouring, rushing into you from all sides, while you are quiet in this Peace.

~ Plotinus, AD 205

Let the soul banish all that disturbs

Plotinus | January 2016 (Vol. XXIX, No. 1)

Let the soul banish all that disturbs; and let the body that envelops it be still, and all the fretting of the body, and all that surrounds it; let earth and sea and air be still; and heaven itself. And then feel the Spirit streaming, pouring, rushing into you from all sides, while you are quiet in this Peace.

~ Plotinus, AD 205, thanks to Suzanne and Philip Norton

We ourselves possess Beauty

Plotinus | May 2012 (Vol. XXV, No. 5)

We ourselves possess Beauty when
we are true to our own being; ugliness
is in going to another order;
knowing ourselves, we are beautiful;
in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

~ by Plotinus

The universe is in Soul

Plotinus | October 2004 (Vol. XVII, No. 9)

Soul is not in the universe,
on the contrary,
the universe is in Soul.

~ Plotinus
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