Picture gold caked in mud. The mud hides the gold but doesn’t change it. Scrape it off and the gold is simply gold again. A soul turned ugly is dirtied by what it took on, and it is still gold underneath.
From The Enneads by Plotinus
Picture gold caked in mud. The mud hides the gold but doesn’t change it. Scrape it off and the gold is simply gold again. A soul turned ugly is dirtied by what it took on, and it is still gold underneath.
From The Enneads by Plotinus
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