Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

I like the idea that the body is a vessel, that it's not necessarily representative of the real you that's inside of it.

The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.

It’s not the body that people love, but the soul. The body is a temporary vehicle. Without the soul, the body is like a car without a driver. I see through my eyes, smell through my nose, taste through my tongue, hear through my ears, feel through my skin, think through my brain, and love through my heart. But who am I? Who is the witness, enjoyer and sufferer that activates my body?

Your body is not who you are. The mind and spirit transcend the body.

The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.

We are all spirits inwardly. This is what's alive in the body, not the body on its own.

Throughout much of our lives, our association with the temporary has risen. This transitory body, a sack of bones and flesh, is considered erroneously as our true body and we have accepted this temporary condition as conclusive.

The real things about man are not his body.

Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the senses, it hearkeneth also with the ears of the spirit.

Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are - infinite Spirit. That is practical religion. Everything else is impractical, for everything else will perish.

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.

On the deepest level, what I know for sure is that who I am, essentially, is consciousness and consciousness is timeless and it transcends the body; it transcends the psychological "me," the egoic self. Everybody can know themselves as consciousness.

The soul is the truth of who we are.

Bodies come and go, but the soul does not change.

The spirit is the true self.

All we are is in the soul.

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.

I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is.

The more expanded your sense of self, the more possibilities are released from the level of the soul.

The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves, which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world’s weather

For me, the soul is connected to a higher being. It's not about religion; it's about connecting to your true self - your truth, the truth inside of you, the one you were born with.

Your real identity is your spiritual being. And every problem, if you're a spiritual being, every problem has a spiritual solution.

We are not our bodies, our possessions, or our careers. Who we are is DIVINE LOVE and that is INFINITE.

I have realized that my real self is a greater entity than any possible post or title.