We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
PLOTINUSWe are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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