<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460551" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0051 From Plotinus: Enneads 4 and 6</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Often, I awaken to myself, <br>as from this earthly body lifted up; <br>and feel external to all other things, <br>myself the single knower past all thought; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I marvel at the beauty I then see, <br>a beauty all around, yet seen as one; <br>then, know myself to live the noblest life, <br>at one with highest being in that realm.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Only when, from this high state past thought, <br>I afterward descend, I ask myself<br>how can so great a thing - that soul I own, <br>take mortal body? How may these things be? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And this, the life of gods and blessed men: <br>alone with the All-One; none alien then!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460551" data-title="0051 From Plotinus: Enneads 4 and 6 de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Often, I awaken to myself, as from this earthly body lifted up; and feel external to all other things, myself the single knower past all thought; I marvel at the beauty I then see, a beauty all around, yet seen as one; then, know myself to ..."></div> </div> </div>

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