James G. Frazer Quotes

I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.

Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure.

India has a long tradition of reinterpreting religious myths.

Many cultures believe that on a certain day - Halloween, the Irish Samhain Eve, Mexico's 'Dia de los Muertos' - the veil between this world and the next is especially thin.

No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life.

Superstitious." What a strange word. If you believed in Christianity or Islam, it was called "faith". But if you believed in astrology or Friday the thirteenth it was superstition! Who had the right to call other people's belief superstition?

We have always been involved in spiritual evolution. We are spiritual beings, we have always been spiritual beings and we will always be spiritual beings.

The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.

Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.

The moment you surrender to love and allow it to lead you to exactly where your soul wants to go, you will have no difficulty.

It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in their lives.

In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints ... and gods.

The afterlife is whatever a soul wishes or believes it to be.

He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.

As they say in my country, the only thing that separates us from the animals is mindless superstition and pointless ritual.

The circumstances of your life are neither good nor bad. They are appropriate to the needs of your soul. They may or may not be what your personality desires.

Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!

The Celts were fearless warriors because they wish to inculcate this as one of their leading tenets, that souls do not become extinct, but pass after death from one body to another.

For me, there is only one question to ask when I am thinking, saying, or doing anything: "What does this have to do with the agenda of my soul?"

Lord! teach me the way my soul should walk.

It is your soul's journey to enroll the ego in the quest for the ultimate victory - the evolution of your own individual consciousness.

The real truth about a lot of life's mysteries can be explained by science but people don't want to get in bed with science because it's cold. They prefer religion, myth, drama.

I want to save lives, including my own, but Cambodians believe we just rent this body. It is just a house for the spirit, and if the house is full of termites, it is time to leave.

Its not possible to do the wrong thing. You do what you do and you experience the consequences of what you do. If you do not experience this before you doe, your soul creates a new life so that you can. This is reincarnation. Eventually, you treat people as you would like to be treated.

I hate those movies where hundreds of people get blown up and there are jokes afterward. They poison the soul.