Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

I'm very interested in theories in how we exist: how people exist and how souls exist separate from their bodies or their brains.

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

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.

I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.

I don't think I do have a soul.

Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't.

Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.

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

I know that I'm not my body, and I also know that you're not yours.

It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.

I guess on one hand I believe it doesn't matter if there is life after death.

I'm interested in the eternal soul. That's what I write about.

The me that is me is not my body. It's an awareness and an experience.

There is something in us that can be without us, and will be after us, though indeed it hath no history of what it was before us, and cannot tell how it entered into us.

Death is not the end Death can never be the end. Death is the road. Life is the traveller. The Soul is the Guide ... Our mind thinks of death. Our heart thinks of life Our soul thinks of Immortality

[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]

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

Your body is not who you are. The mind and spirit transcend the body.

Ten out of ten people die. You start thinking about that and it really makes you start to ask the big questions: Where did I come from? Where am I going when I die? What happens when we step out of here? What's out there?

I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

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

Life is the childhood of our immortality.