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.
PLOTINUSNature 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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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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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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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Become vision itself.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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 vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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