One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
PLOTINUSIt is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
More Plotinus Quotes
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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 sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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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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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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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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