There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
PLOTINUSOne word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
More Plotinus Quotes
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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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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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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