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.
PLOTINUSOne principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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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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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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