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.
PLOTINUSThere is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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