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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: either, for only in this way can it be in both. And in changing it changes
in a moment, and when it is changing it will be in no time, and will not
then be either in motion or at rest.
It will not.
And it will be in the same case in relation to the other changes, when it
passes from being into cessation of being, or from not-being into becoming
--then it passes between certain states of motion and rest, and neither is
nor is not, nor becomes nor is destroyed.
Very true.
And on the same principle, in the passage from one to many and from many to
one, the one is neither one nor many, neither separated nor aggregated; and
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