The body distracts your soul.

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

Plotinus thought that the entire world has a single soul. He also thought that each animal and plant and of course human, has an individual soul.

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.

Soul puts the determination or forms or images of forms, into matter.

Sometimes clichés are true.

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.