Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.

The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.

If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.

There is one and the same soul in many bodies.

Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls. Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. [...] Then it was as if One voice sounded. One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing; now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.