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.
PLOTINUSWherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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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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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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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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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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