“Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed; the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though catastrophe were his natural vocation, or to ignore the effects of misfortune on the soul, to assume, that is, that the soul can suffer and remain unmarked by it, can fail, in fact, to be recast in misfortune's image.” PersonsSoulFactsSufferingNaturalFailingEffectsTreatsAssumingTendenciesMisfortunesUnfortunateCatastropheVocation Book:War and the Iliad Source: War and the Iliad
“A psychiatrist who professes to be a healer of souls, but who keeps people asleep, treats them for waking up, and drugs them asleep again (increasingly effectively as this field of technology sharpens its weapons), helps to drive them crazy.” PeopleSoulHelpingTechnologyCrazyFieldsDrugWeaponsTreatsWake UpWakingPsychiatristHealer Author:R. D. Laing
“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.” MenFeelsMayDoeTwoSoulBodyOne ThingShareToolsTreatsRelationInstrumentsAssociationOrganismsLiving Organisms Book:Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)