“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, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.” LightPerfectVirtueCuttingGoodnessPerfectionShiningCeaseLabourStatuesCrookedShrinesGodlikeSplendourOvercast Book:The Six Enneads Source: The Six Enneads
“Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.” SelfVirtueDivineHolyGloryShiningPerseveranceSeatsMasteryStatuesSelf Mastery Author:Plotinus
“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; 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.” IfsLooksMadeBeautifulFacesLinesCuttingCreatorFinding YourselfIntrospectionStatuesLightersSculptorsBeautiful Face Author:Plotinus
