There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
PLOTINUSKnowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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