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.
PLOTINUSNow we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Become vision itself.
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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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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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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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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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