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Plotinus Quotes about Soul

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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.

The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.

Plotinus
Inspirational, Beautiful, Soul
"DVD Review - Bill Moyers: The Wisdom of Faith with Huston Smith" by Sam McPherson, September 19, 2011.

Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe

Plotinus
Soul, Universe

Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.

Plotinus
Fear, Soul, Fear Nothing

There is one and the same soul in many bodies.

Plotinus
Soul, Body
Plotinus, Arthur Hilary Armstrong, Paul Henry, Hans-Rudolf Schwyzer (1984). “Plotinus: Enneads IV”, Loeb Classical Library

Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.

Plotinus
Soul, Lasts, Knows

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.

Plotinus
Beautiful, Eye, Soul
Plotinus (1952). “The Six Enneads”, p.48, Hayes Barton Press

The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.

Plotinus
Soul, May, Universe
Plotinus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)”, p.448, Delphi Classics

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, 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.

Plotinus
Men, Two, Soul
Plotinus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)”, p.16, Delphi Classics

A dogma recognized throughout antiquity... (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and... afterwards... passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.

Plotinus
Karma, Soul, Darkness

Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?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.

Plotinus
Two, Soul, Desire
Plotinus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)”, p.15, Delphi Classics

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