Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
PLOTINUSIt is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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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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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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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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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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