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 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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