Alex Chiu Quotes

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 think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.

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

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.

Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.

Time is the life of the soul.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Everybody is going to die, so people are enthralled by the possibility that they don't have to completely die, that there is something that comes afterward. It's like if you're going to France for the summer, you're going to read up on it. Everyone just wants to know where they're going, or if they're going anywhere.

No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.

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

Death does not exist.

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

I believe in the immortality of all creatures.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

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.

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.

I have always considered myself to be spiritual in a way that has less to do with religion and more with an awareness that you have, and the consciousness you have of being alive and the consciousness that you will be dead.

Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.

I believe humans have a soul that continues to exist after they die, but I don't know what form that will take.

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

There is no death. The body withers but the spirit still lives.

Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.

The soul is something which contains the body. The body doesn't contain the soul. The soul, if we put it into modern language, is the entire complex of relationships in whose context this organism exists.