Albert Schweitzer Quotes

Souls are designed to fit inside a body.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Underneath your physical and psychological form, you are one with Life itself, one with Being.

True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: "I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live."

What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you're not getting the whole thing that's there to be had.

All we are is in the soul.

To be alive is a fine thing. It is the finest thing in the world, though hazardous. It is a unique thing. It happens only once in a lifetime. To be alive, to know consciously that you are alive, and to relish that knowledge -- this is a kind of magic. Or it may be a kind of madness, exhilarating but harmless.

You will come closer and closer to perfection, but you will never be perfect. Perfection is not the way of existence. Growth is the way.

The abyss is full of reality, the abyss experiences itself, the abyss is alive.

Sleep is death without the responsibility.

Life is a sleep, love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved.

To think and to be fully alive are the same.

He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore nothing evil, or else, if you can feel any sensations, you will be a new creature, and so will not have ceased to have life.

We do not become. We simply are.

Love is the very essence of life.

I realize that most of us live on the skin - on the surface - without appreciating just how wonderful it is simply to be alive at all.

The consciousness of life is higher than life.

You are only here now; you're only alive in this moment.

Life is. I am. Anything might happen.

A man is a form of life that dreams in order to act and acts in order to dream.

Life is like an eternal dance. The movements of the dance are choreographed through your awareness.

An 'I' without a body is a possibility. But a body without an 'I' is utterly impossible.

... we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.

You are not 'in the now;' you are the now. That is your essential identity-the only thing that never changes. Life is always now. Now is consciousness. And consciousness is who you are. That's the equation.