Paul Tillich Quotes

Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.

You are not your body; you are not your brain, not even your mind. You are Spirit. All you have to do is reawaken to the memory, to remember.

It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.

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.

Man is not mind, he is soul.

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

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.

'I Am' is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.

Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth.

Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the stronghold of man's enslavement and all the horrors it entails.

Meditation is neither of the body nor of the mind, but belongs to the third within you—your being.

Alchemy is about the generation of a psychic construct, a wholeness, a thing which has many properties, which is paradoxical, which is both mind and matter, which can do anything.

I am extremely spiritual. I've not gone into this before because it's personal, but faith is the core of my life.

Faith always shows itself in the whole personality.

Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place.

Faith is not in your head. Faith is in your heart. Sometimes you have to turn your mind off and listen to your heart.

There is One Infinite Spirit and every time man says, "I am" he proclaims it.

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

Individuality in universality is the plan of creation. Each cell has its part in bringing about consciousness. Man is individual and at the same time universal. It is while realising our individual nature that we realise even our national and universal nature. Each is an infinite circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere. By practice one can feel universal Selfhood which is the essence of Hinduism. He who sees in every being his own Self is a Pandita (sage).

In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.

The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.

Underneath your physical and psychological form, you are one with Life itself, one with Being.

Human beings are made of body, mind and spirit. Of these, spirit is primary, for it connects us to the source of everything, the eternal field of consciousness.

At the level of the mind, you are part of the human mind; at the level of the brain you are part of the global brain. This is a perfect example of becoming the change that you want to see.