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.
PLOTINUSThe soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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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 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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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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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