George Saunders Quotes

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

What's powerful about the mind, the mind comes through every physical and when the physical goes the mind still exists.

As far as our physical form, the mind is a great temple. But it has a life span and it dies.

Because there is a larger awareness that transcends time and space, an awareness is available after death.

I like to keep an open mind, but I do think there is some form of energy that exists separate to our flesh and blood. I do think that there's some kind of an energy that leaves the body when it dies, but I certainly don't have religious beliefs particularly.

Souls are designed to fit inside a body.

Death does not exist.

I'm always curious about what happens when we die. And I'd like to think that somehow the spirit goes on. I'd rather not think that it's just about this.

Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't.

The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.

We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.

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

I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no death the way we understood it. The body dies, but not the soul.

I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist.

I think the idea that life ends when we physically die is as painful as the idea in Cromwell's time that there's some awful purgatory, and you have to give money to the Catholic church to get your loved ones out. I certainly have experienced a lot of evidence that there's a consciousness that isn't physical.

At death, you're going to be needing some spiritual guidance and some kind of inner knowledge that extends beyond the boundaries of the physical world... it's what's inside that counts.

I do believe that any sort of electromagnetic energy that can be measured beyond the moment of death is, by the definition of energy, eternal. But I cop to the fact that calling it a 'soul' and presuming it sustains our consciousness in any form is, to put it kindly, a leap.

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

Of course you don't die. Nobody dies. Death doesn't exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world.

Spirit is the life, the mind the builder the physical the result

What does it mean to be born? After we die, will it be the same thing as it was before we were born? Or a different kind of nothingness? Because there might be knowledge then. Memory.

The mind will not believe in death, perhaps because, as far as the mind is concerned, death never happens.

I think it is impossible for human minds to think of Death as a final, irrevocable end to life.

I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.

And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.