Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. 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.
PlotinusWherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
PlotinusThe world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
PlotinusThe world is finite, harmonious, and good.
PlotinusWithdraw into yourself and look.
PlotinusLife is the flight of the alone to the alone.
PlotinusTo make the existence and coherent structure of this Universe depend upon automatic activity and upon chance is against all good sense.
PlotinusThe 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; 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.
PlotinusIt is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
PlotinusFor at this point one would arrive at the act of thinking of it (evil, i.e. κακως) as if to be disproportion in regards to proportion, and limitlessness in regards to limit, formlessness in regards to the one-shaping-the-forms, always wanting in self-sufficiency, always indefinite, no where having a place to situate itself, wholly passive, insatiable absolute poverty; and these things above have not been corresponding to it, but as if the true essential being of it is these things, and what is it but all these things.
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