Franz Grillparzer Quotes

The idea of spirituality is difficult to discuss.

There's something uniquely interesting about Buddhism and mathematics, particularly about quantum physics, and where they meet. That has fascinated us for a long time.

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

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

We are consciousness whether we are in this reality or whether we are not in this reality; we are eternal consciousness.

Psychology doesn't address the soul; that's something else.

There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine.

But you're dead,' said Harry. 'Oh, yes,' said Dumbledore matter-of-factly. 'Then... am I dead too?' 'Ah,' said Dumbledore, smiling still more broadly. 'That is the question, isn't it? On the whole, dear boy, I think not.

Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.

One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain, one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature.

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.

I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.

The meaning of the universe lies outside the universe.

The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being.

Only a spiritual being has awareness.

Human spirit, things that aren't tangible, fascinate me, so I'm always researching mind, spirit, soul.

Transcendence constitutes selfhood.

I see a sense of unity in the universe. Spirituality is not limited to only one religion. One can experience it across different religions. I am fascinated by philosophy of Advaita and philosophy of unity. We have to get over the illusion that God is different from us.

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

I believe in metaphysics. I don't believe in God because I think that is a human simplification of the things we can't explain. But I believe in a greater universe.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

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.