54

Here is my usual random image search for the number of my birthday;

today, my 54th birthday, August 5, 2014

…inspiration by numbers

Plotinus, Lion Heart, Studio 54 and some pretty Cellular Automata grids

Plotinus

PLOTINUS:

I.7 [54] ON THE PRIMAL GOOD AND SECONDARY FORMS OF GOOD [OTHERWISE, “ON HAPPINESS”]

[…] Remember that the good of life, where it has any good at all, is not due to anything in the partnership but to the repelling of evil by virtue; death, then, must be the greater good. In a word, life in the body is of itself an evil but the Soul enters its Good through Virtue, not living the life of the Couplement but holding itself apart, even here.