There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
PLOTINUSPleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
More Plotinus Quotes
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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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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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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