One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
PLOTINUSFrom 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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