There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
PLOTINUSWe are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
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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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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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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.
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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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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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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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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.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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