"The Soul is not a simple being, but something that comes from a higher principle; it comes from the One, as all things come from the One.
But it is distinct from it in that it has a higher nature—immortal, eternal, and indivisible.
The soul must ascend, returning to that from which it came, and in that return, it will rest, finding peace in the One.
This is its natural state: to be restored to the One from which it arose."

-Plotinus, The Enneads, Book VI, 9.8