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.
PLOTINUSAs the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
More Plotinus Quotes
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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
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