Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes

There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet.

We have our insides and our outsides, and I find the struggles between the two, as well as the occasions of harmony between the two, fascinating.

Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty.

Some people take me as being a rowdy, honky-tonk hero type. Some people see me as a quiet person. I guess I can be either one, you know, at any moment.

I really like blending two things together that are polar opposites. Because I feel like, in a large aspect, that's kinda like what I am.

The person I am on the court is not who I am off the court.

Earth is a in-between world touched by both Heaven and Hell. Earth leads directly into Heaven or directly into Hell, affording a choice between the two. The best of life on Earth is a glimpse of Heaven; the worst of life is a glimpse of Hell.

If I could get their attention long enough, I felt they would see beneath the boobs and find the heart, and that they would see beneath the wig and find the brains. I think one big part of whatever appeal I possess is the fact that I look totally one way and that I am totally another. I look artificial, but I'm not.

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

I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.

You are not a human being. You are not your body, you are not your mind, and you are not your soul. These are things that You have. The You that has these things - indeed, that has given your Self these things - is far bigger than any of them, and even all of them put together.

I embody EVERYTHING from the Godly to the party.

'I Am' is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.

All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God's self in the soul.

And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.

Above all, know that ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that's just more ego.

And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.

The truth is that we are a part of God. God could not have created anything except out of his own consciousness. We're all his dream, and our duty in life that God has assigned to us, that the universe has placed squarely in our laps, is to find out who we really are. "Gnothi seauton," as the Greeks used to say. "Know thyself." But to know thyself, if you trace it back, to the deeper and deeper levels, you discover that that self is not your body or your ego or your personality or your country or anything, that's just a sack of self-definitions that you carry around with you

Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night

What you BECOME on earth matters far more than what you DO. You're taking your character to heaven, not your career.

Philosophers say the Soul is double-faced, her upper face gazes at God all the time and her lower face looks somewhat down, informing the senses; and the upper face, which is the summit of the soul, is in eternity and has nothing to do with time: it knows nothing of time or of body.

Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel I remember wondering to be always together yet forever apart?

We're all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me.

Attachment is the shadow of the ego. Attachments are immediately created wherever you see 'I am'.