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.
PLOTINUSWe are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
More Plotinus Quotes
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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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As in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life.
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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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