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.
PLOTINUSWe are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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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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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in 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 may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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