There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
PLOTINUSWherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
More Plotinus Quotes
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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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As in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life.
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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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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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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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