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.
PLOTINUSOne principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Nature 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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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes 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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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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 word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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Become vision itself.
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