Aurelius, Meditations §aur_11_xi: Then is the soul as Empedocles doth liken it, like unto a sphere or globe, wh...

Then is the soul as Empedocles doth liken it, like unto a sphere or globe, when she is all of one form and figure: when she neither greedily stretcheth out herself unto anything, nor basely contracts herself, or lies flat and dejected; but shineth all with light, whereby she does see and behold the true nature, both that of the universe, and her own in particular.