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.
PLOTINUSKnowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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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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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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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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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Become vision itself.
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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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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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