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Descent Is Debasement

1
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 64.

Evil Is Emptiness

1
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 103.

2
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 103.

3
.
Meditations on the Soul: Selected Letters of Marsilio Ficino
, p. 138.

4
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 104.

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. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 104.

Matter Is Malignant

1
. NASA High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center:
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/objects/binaries/ neutron_star_structure.html

2
. Greene, p. 146.

3
. Dillon, p. 329.

Body Is a Bother

1
. O’Meara, p. 2 7.

2
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 102.

Reincarnation Is Reality

1
. Rist,
The Road to Reality
, p. 125.

Destiny Is Deserved

1
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 105.

2
. O’Meara, p. 87.

3
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 106.

4
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 104.

Choice Is Compulsion

1
. Rist,
The Road to Reality
, p. 136.

2
. Gerson, p. 161.

Reason Is Restricted

1
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 40.

2
.
Great Books of the Western World, Thomas Aquinas I, Vol. 19
, p. vi.

3
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 48.

Myself Is Multiple

1
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 27.

2
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 27.

3
. Armstrong, “Man and reality,” in
The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy
, p. 226.

4
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 107.

5
. Gerson, p. 217.

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. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 28.

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. Ramana, p. 157.

8
. Hadot, “Neoplatonist Spirituality,” in
Classical Mediterranean Spirituality: Egyptian, Greek, Roman
, pp. 232, 233.

Suffering Is Separation

1
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 27.

2
. Blumenthal, p. 59.

3
. Jowett, p. 388.

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. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 105.

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. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 105.

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. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 105.

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. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 102.

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. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 94.

AND RETURN

Soul Is the Self

1
. Nicholson, pp. 366-67, 389.

2
. MacKenna, p. xxxi.

3
. O’Daly, p. 91.

4
. Armstrong,
Plotinus VI
, pp. 270, 271.

5
. Jowett, p. 476.

Without Is Within

1
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 34.

2
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 44.

3
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 25.

4
. Armstrong,
Plotinus I
, p. xvii.

Detachment Is Delightful

1
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 59.

2
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 67.

3
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 101.

4
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 102.

5
. Rist,
The Road to Reality
, p. 161.

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. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 71.

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. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 72.

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. Gerson, p. 151.

Divesting Is Divine

1
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 47.

2
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 59.

3
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 31.

4
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 46.

5
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 63.

Forgetting Is Favorable

1
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 31.

2
. Wolters, p. 111.

3
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 31.

Purification Is Presence

1
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 67.

2
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 67.

3
. Rist, “Plotinus and Moral Obligation,” in
Significance of Neoplatonism,
pp. 218, 228.

4
. Rist, “Plotinus and Moral Obligation,” in
Significance of Neoplatonism,
p. 218.

5
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 66.

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. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, pp. 71, 70.

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. Dillon, p. 324.

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. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 108.

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. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 94.

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. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 70.

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. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 69.

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. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 70.

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. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, pp. 71, 95.

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. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, pp. 69, 74.

Simplicity Is Superior

1
.
Encyclopedia Britannica 99 (multimedia edition),
“Ockham’s razor”

2
. Trefil, p. 198.

3
. Mencken, p. 127.

4
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 58.

Stillness Is Sublime

1
. Rist, p. 212.

2
. Rist, p. 225.

3
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 61.

Happiness Is Here

1
. Staniforth, p. 108.

2
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 101.

3
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 101.

4
. James Atlas, “The Fall of Fun,”
The New Yorker
, November 18, 1996, p. 71.

5
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 81.

Fear Is a Fiction

1
. Jowett, p. 225.

2
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 108.

Return Is Reunion

1
. Gerson, p. 210.

2
. Gerson, p. 203.

3
. Gerson, pp. 141, 209, 210.

4
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 57.

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. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 52.

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. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 57.

Vision Is Veracity

1
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 21.

2
. Tarnas, p. 77.

3
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 63.

4
. Hadot,
Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision
, p. 62.

WRAP-UP

From Forms to the Formless

1
. Hadot,
Philosophy as a Way of Life
, p. 83.

2
. Armstrong, “Introduction,” in
Classical Mediterranean Spirituality: Egyptian, Greek, Roman
, p. xiv.

3
. Hadot, “The Spiritual Guide,” in
Classical Mediterranean Spirituality: Egyptian, Greek, Roman
, pp. 445, 449.

4
. Smith, p. xiv.

5
. Smith, p. xxv.

6
. Henry, pp. xxxix, lviii.