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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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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