Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quotes

Your body is the garage where you park your soul.

In true love it is the soul that envelops the body.

I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body

Our bodies... are the tabernacles of our spirits.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.

Souls are designed to fit inside a body.

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

The soul has many motions, body one.

I don't believe there's an afterlife - but I don't believe there's an end to life. Consciousness goes beyond the bounds of your body.

I believe we have a physical body and a soul. It doesn't matter what religion you are, whether or not you believe in God. I think people believe that there is a soul and a body.

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

I have read a lot of spiritual works and believe that our body is just a place for the soul to dwell.

The first part of the spiritual journey should properly be called psychological rather than spiritual because it involves peeling away the myths and illusions that have misinformed us.

Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a whole cloth.

I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism, but admire even more his contributions to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with the soul and the body as one, not two separate things

Your body is only the garage for your soul.

A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.

You are a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.

If my soul exists without my body I am convinced all my clothes will be loose-fitting

The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew… it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal.

I have a body and I have a soul. And my body belongs to the faith - in fact, the church - into which it was born, the Methodist Church.

Olympism is a doctrine of the fraternity between the body and the soul.

God knows what is my greatest happiness, but I do not. There is no rule about what is happy and good; what suits one would not suit another. And the ways by which perfection is reached vary very much; the medicines necessary for our souls are very different from each other. Thus God leads us by strange ways; we know He wills our happiness, but we neither know what our happiness is, nor the way. We are blind; left to ourselves we should take the wrong way; we must leave it to Him.