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.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from 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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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