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.
PLOTINUSBeing is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
More Plotinus Quotes
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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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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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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Become vision itself.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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