Terry Goodkind Quotes

An 'I' without a body is a possibility. But a body without an 'I' is utterly impossible.

We are what our thoughts have made us

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

I am Walter, a body, but more important than the body is my spirit.

I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.

You are not a human being. You are not your body, you are not your mind, and you are not your soul. These are things that You have. The You that has these things - indeed, that has given your Self these things - is far bigger than any of them, and even all of them put together.

In the phrase ' human being,' the word 'being' is much more important than the word 'human.'

I desire therefore I exist.

I think I exist,' he said wearily. 'I am conscious of my own identity. I was born, and I shall die. I have arms and legs. I occupy a particular point in space. No other solid object can occupy the same point simultaneously.

Life is consciousness.

All thought of something is at the same time self-consciousness [...] At the root of all our experiences and all our reflections, we find [...] a being which immediately recognises itself, [...] and which knows its own existence, not by observation and as a given fact, nor by inference from any idea of itself, but through direct contact with that existence. Self-consciousness is the very being of mind in action.

We do not become. We simply are.

And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?

The mind, whatever else it is, is a constant of everyone's experience, and, in more ways than we know, the creator of the reality that we live within... Nothing is more essential to us.

At times I think and at times I am.

I think, therefore I am.

The human body is not the person. Identity is the way the brain operates; it's memories, it's sensory input and output. The mind is the person.

My mind can never know my body, although it has become quite friendly with my legs.

While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.

The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.

You is what you am, a cow don't make ham.

Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.

I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.

I don’t have a body, I am a body.