Garth Stein Quotes

Whatever we call it - mind, character, soul - we like to think we possess something that is greater than the sum of our neurons and that animates us.

I can explain my body and my brain, but there's something more. I can't explain my own existence - what makes me a unique human being.

There is no self.

Obviously the idea of being human is a very human idea.

I want people to realize that they aren't their bodies. They are something more than their bodies.

The only thing on earth that can determine itself is a human soul.

Each of us possesses a tangible living soul. The system has no such thing. We must not allow the system to exploit us.

your soul is an inner something that is another you and hardly anybody knows what it's really thinkin' except you.

By a monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is confused with a sound produced by the vocal cords." (p. 28)

For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss.

The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.

I have a body, but I am not my body. I have a face, but I am not my face.

The body was a cage, and inside that cage was something which looked, listened, feared, thought and marveled; that something, that remainder left over after the body had been accounted for, was the soul.

Your body is not who you are. The mind and spirit transcend the body.

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

We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.

A man with a soul is not like every other man.

When man began to think he was a separate person with a separate soul, it created a violent situation.

The me that is me is not my body. It's an awareness and an experience.

I'm a human before I'm even a rapper.

It is individuality which is the original and eternal within man; personality doesn't matter so much. To pursue the education and development of this individuality as one's highest vocation would be a divine egoism.

A human being is a spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation.

Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.

Of course I'm a fake. We're all fakes on this whole world, pretending to be something we're not. We are not just bodies walking around, not just atoms, molecules. We are unkillable, undestroyable ideas of the IS, no matter how much we believe otherwise.

This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attention.