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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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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Become vision itself.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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