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.
PLOTINUSIntelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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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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As in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life.
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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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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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