There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
PLOTINUSWe 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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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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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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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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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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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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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