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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 23

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23. The Motion which acts upon Sensible objects enters from without, and so shakes, drives, rouses and thrusts its participants that they may neither rest nor preserve their identity- and all to the end that they may be caught into that restlessness, that flustering excitability which is but an image of Life. We must avoid identifying Motion with the objects moved: by walking we do not mean the feet but the activity springing from a potentiality in the feet.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 23

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