There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
PLOTINUSEach one of us is part of the soul of the universe
More Plotinus Quotes
-
-
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.
PLOTINUS -
One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
PLOTINUS -
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.
PLOTINUS -
Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
PLOTINUS -
Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
PLOTINUS -
In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
PLOTINUS -
It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
PLOTINUS -
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.
PLOTINUS -
All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
PLOTINUS -
We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
PLOTINUS -
Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
PLOTINUS -
The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
PLOTINUS -
Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
PLOTINUS -
The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
PLOTINUS -
The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
PLOTINUS






