John Green Quotes

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

But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail

The soul is not a physical entity, but instead refers to everything about us that is not physical - our values, memories, identity, sense of humor. Since the soul represents the parts of the human being that are not physical, it cannot get sick, it cannot die, it cannot disappear. In short, the soul is immortal.

I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.

Here is where our real selfhood is rooted, in the divine spark or seed, in the image of God imprinted on the human soul. The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.

To me, the soul is a part of us that never dies. It's what we come in with.

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.

From ancient times, the core idea of the soul is the soul is the capacity to integrate different functions into a single being or into a single person. The soul is what holds us all together: what connects our will and our minds and our bodies and connects us to God.

The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.

The soul is an illusion.

I don't like to think of myself as just a person. I don't think I am. I think I existed before, and I think I'll exist again after I die here, so I don't exactly know what I am. I don't think there is ever going to be an answer. I just know that I'm not like you.

There is a part of her greater than the sum of her knowable parts. And that part has to go somewhere, because it cannot be destroyed.

In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.

That I am not my experiences is very obvious. I am the one who is having those experiences. Spirituality has nothing to do with experience.

The real things about man are not his body.

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

I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.

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.

Man never dies, nor is he ever born; bodies die, but he never dies.

You may tell me that my hand and foot are only imaginary symbols of my existence. I could believe you, but you never, never can convince me that the I is not an eternal reality, and that the spiritual is not the true and real part of me.

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?

All we are is in the soul.

[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]

I am quite confident that the most important part of a human being is not his physical body but his nonphysical essence, which some people call soul and others, personality... The nonphysical part cannot die and cannot decay because it's not physical.

The soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you. The soul would be no good to the devil if it could be destroyed. And it is not lost when placed in Satan's care, as is so often said. He always know exactly how to put his finger on it.