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.
PLOTINUSFear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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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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When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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