Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
PLOTINUSWherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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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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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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.
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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; 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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Become vision itself.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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