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 … - Plotinus

Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

Self-knowledge reveals to the soul that its natural motion is not, if uninterrupted, in a straight line, but circular, as around some inner object, about a center, the point to which it owes its origin.

the acting force in the Sage is the Intellective Principle [the
diviner phase of the human Soul] which therefore is itself his presiding spirit or is
guided by a presiding spirit of its own, no other than the very Divinity.

We may treat of the Soul as in the body — whether it be set above it or actually within it — since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate. Now from this relation, 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.