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.
PLOTINUSIf 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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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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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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 are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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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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