Stanislav Grof Quotes

They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby.

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

Dead people never seem to address the obvious - the things you'd think they'd be bursting to talk about, and the things all of us not-yet-dead are madly curious about. Such as: 'Hey, where are you now? What do you do all day? What's it feel like being dead? Can you see me? Even when I'm on the toilet? Would you cut that out?'

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

I don't think that because you die and move on to somewhere else that you lose your sense of humor.

Corporeal death is not the whole story.

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.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

As a child, I didn't know what they mean by 'to die.' So I grew up in a place where people used to die all the time, but a child is not allowed to see a dead body. When you ask, 'Where is so-and so?' you're told, 'He's gone to another world where we all go to live in the future.'

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.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

I'm never afraid to die. I think that's the best thing that can happen to somebody is they get to move on and do something better.

There is no death, only a change of worlds.

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.

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

If life after death really does exist, everyone probably gets what they expect to get, because that's the only thing I can think of that would be fair.

We all wonder about death, where people go and what happens. But certainly, they cross over from this dimension to another one.

I believe there's more than this - that maybe, when we die, our brains conjure up some kind of shutdown experience, and that's what people try to sum up as the afterlife.

I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell.

Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it's simply meaningless. We don't live in order to die, we live in order to live.