4 quotes
Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
The First Ennead (250)
All teems with symbol; the wise man is the man who in any one thing can read another.
The First Ennead (250)
Withdraw into yourself and look.
The First Ennead (250)
Hence, as Narcissus, by catching at the shadow, plunged himself in the stream and disappeared, so he who is captivated by beautiful bodies, and does not depart from their embrace, is precipitated, not with his body, but with his soul, into a darkness profound and repugnant to intellect (the higher soul), through which, remaining blind both here and in Hades, he associates with shadows.
The First Ennead (250)