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.
PLOTINUSBefore we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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As in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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