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.
PLOTINUSWe ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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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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Become vision itself.
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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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