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.
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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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Become vision itself.
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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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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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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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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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