The inward turn

For Plotinus, the soul is normally scattered outward across a thousand objects; to recover what is most real, it must turn back and rise through its own thought toward the silent source from which it comes. This exercise is a brief recollection toward the inward: you draw attention back from its outward dispersion, pass through your own thinking, and rest a moment at the still ground that underlies it. Today, amid constant solicitation, it offers a short way of returning to a center that the feed and the to-do list keep dispersing.