Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

One of my problems is to find the Ego, which has only one form and is immortal - to find it in animals and men, in the heaven and in the hell which together form the world in which we live.

The authentic self is the soul made visible.

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

It’s not the body that people love, but the soul. The body is a temporary vehicle. Without the soul, the body is like a car without a driver. I see through my eyes, smell through my nose, taste through my tongue, hear through my ears, feel through my skin, think through my brain, and love through my heart. But who am I? Who is the witness, enjoyer and sufferer that activates my body?

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.

For truly we are all angels temporarily hiding as humans.

Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.

When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature. All of us love. All of us do it more and more perfectly. The past has brought us both ashes and diamonds. In the present we find the flowers of what we've planted and the seeds of what we are becoming. I plant the seeds of love in my heart. I plant the seeds of love in the hearts of others.

Each individual has to know himself. He has to know himself as the infinite, eternal and immortal Consciousness.

Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.

All we are is in the soul.

Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.

I am quite confident that the most important part of a human being is not his physical body but his nonphysical essence, which some people call soul and others, personality... The nonphysical part cannot die and cannot decay because it's not physical.

The soul is the birthless, deathless, changeless part of us - the part of us that looks out from behind our eyes and has no form.

It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul.

Your soul is that part of you that existed before you were born and will continue to exist after you die. [It] is immortal. You are a powerful and creative compassionate and loving spirit that has entered the Earth school to learn lessons and to give gifts. Your personality is a tool of your soul.

The sole concern of learning is to seek one's original heart.

You cannot hide the soul.

God cannot be an object. It is deepest depth of your own being. How can you see it.

Mind is the partial side of men; the heart is everything.

The heart is the secret inside the secret.

Awakening to who we really are is at the heart of yoga. . . .Yoga offers a path to this underlying field of being, which is the source of creativity, fulfillment, and abundance.

No one can give a definition of the soul. But we know what it feels like. The soul is the sense of something higher than ourselves, something that stirs in us thoughts, hopes, and aspirations which go out to the world of goodness, truth and beauty. The soul is a burning desire to breathe in this world of light and never to lose it--to remain children of light.

Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is.

Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees have gone into the wilderness to find God; of course they took God with them, and the silence and detachment enabled them to hear the still, small voice of their own souls, as one hears the ticking of his own watch in the stillness of the night.