Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.

Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.

We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us while they afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge or in doing good to our fellow-creatures, is a kind of benevolent act of God. When they become unfit for these purposes and afford us pain instead of pleasure, instead of an aid become an encumbrance and answer none of these intentions for which they were given, it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we get rid of them. Death is that way.

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.

I firmly believe that when you die you will enter immediately into another life. They who have gone before us are alive in one form of life and we in another.

Death is just where your suit falls off and now you're in your other suit. You can't see it on this level, but it's all right. Don't worry.

We fear death because of pain, and because of the thought that we may become obliterated. This idea is erroneous. Jesus showed himself in a physical form to his disciples after his death. Lahiri Mahasaya returned in the flesh the next day after he had entered mahasamadhi. They proved that they were not destroyed.

Tis true, 'tis certain; man, though dead, retains Part of himself; the immortal mind remains.

Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies.

If it is finally accepted that the personality in whole or part survives death - and I believe that it will be - then such a belief will be considered as modern as a belief in spaceships and rockets.

The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.

When we die, our spirits go to the spirit world, and our bodies return to the elements of the earth until the resurrection.

Because there is a larger awareness that transcends time and space, an awareness is available after death.

I'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind.

Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.

Death does not exist.

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

I'm always curious about what happens when we die. And I'd like to think that somehow the spirit goes on. I'd rather not think that it's just about this.

We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.

After death we live for some time in the astral world in the astral body used during our life on earth, and the more we learn to control and use it wisely now the better for us after death.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death.

I don't know if I believe in life after death so much as I believe that there is something out there.

I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no death the way we understood it. The body dies, but not the soul.