There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
PLOTINUSNow we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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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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