There's going to be this realm of Platonic forms and then there's going to be this single mind, the 'nous', which grasps them.

Your soul existed before your birth, your soul will exist after your death.

Plotinus is a neo-Platonist, so he would encourage us to go back to Plato.

When you're seeking after bodily pleasure of food and drink for example, this is going to prevent you from doing what you should be doing which is contemplating.

This condition of uncertainty and unrest in the Roman Empire might explain why at Plotinus' philosophy encourages us to sort of flee from the physical world and towards the world of ideas.

Unlike later Neo-Platonists, Plotinus says that our souls are always connected to the universal intellect and that we never really fall away.

In fact one of the things about Plotinus is that he maybe not singlehandedly, but I think more than anyone else, killed off the variety and dissension among the philosophical schools of antiquity.

We do each have an intellect but there's a universal intellect which is the same for everybody, as it were. And this single intellect is grasping the platonic forms.

We do have intellects and Plotinus controversially thought that even though we might not be aware of it, our souls are always connected to the intellect. They never fully descend as he would put it.

The body is some kind of image of you, it's kind of something that's just attached to your soul, some kind of outside principle, which doesn't really represent who you really are.

The body distracts your soul.

There might not be a measure of happiness left in a life, but there could be beauty and grace and endless love.

The real fun of life is in laughing

Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.

Zen is...joyous iconoclasm which respects nothing and no one, particularly itself.

It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.

I feel passionate about nurses. I would do anything for nurses. Anything.

When bad things happened to other people, I imagined them happening to me. I didn’t know if this was empathy or theft.

One has to reap the fruits of his karma. The law of karma is inevitable and is accepted by all the great philosophies of the world: 'As you sow, so shall you reap.'

I always equate wrestling to having been in the Marine Corps.

Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves.