Jeff Mangum Quotes

Life is a state of consciousness.

At times I think and at times I am.

Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end?

The primary Reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think.

I am all that there is of the most real.

In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep you are not. And when you are filled with sleep, you never were. I don't know what I am. I don't know if I am or not.

The problem is we think we exist.

I move, therefore I am.

We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.

The very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first place.

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

Transcendence constitutes selfhood.

Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

In this universe, and this existence, where we live with this duality of whether we exist or not and who are we, the stories we tell ourselves are the stories that define the potentialities of our existence. We are the stories we tell ourselves.

To live another person's life is quite a weird thing.

You are.

I am, therefore I'll think.

Never think you can separate who you are from what you're doing.

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

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

Sometimes I think, sometimes I am .

The ultimate question of who we are is set before us at all times and answered with every action.

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

I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation of something I do not know. In spite of all uncertainties, I feel a solidity underlying all existence and a continuity in my mode of being.