0051 From Plotinus: Enneads 4 And 6

Often, I awaken to myself, as from this earthly body lifted up; and feel external to all other things, myself the single knower past all thought; I marvel at the beauty I then see, a beauty all around, yet seen as one; then, know myself to live the noblest life, at one with highest being in that realm. Only when, from this high state past thought, I afterward descend, I ask myself how can so great a thing - that soul I own, take mortal body? How may these things be? And this, the life of gods and blessed men: alone with the All-One; none alien then!