Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.

I'm interested in the eternal soul. That's what I write about.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

There is something more spiritual to us than what we are on this earth, but how you access it I'm not sure.

The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.

I think that we all carry the divine within us.

If there is any one truth from the legacy of the Cayce readings, it would be that there is a spiritual dimension to humans, something beyond time and space.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

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.

I believe in the immortality of all creatures.

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

I came to believe that my true identity goes beyond the outer roles I play. It transcends the ego. I came to understand that there is an Authentic 'I' within - an 'I Am,' or divine spark within the soul.

Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine.

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

A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.

Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

I have been here before as a spirit - this is just my physical body, it is just an overcoat. And at death, you will take the overcoat off.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

We are eternal beings. We lived as intelligent spirits before this mortal life. We are now living part of eternity. Our mortal birth was not the beginning; death, which faces all of us, is not the end.

I don't think that because you die and move on to somewhere else that you lose your sense of humor.

Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.