Yoshida Shoin Quotes

We exist solely because we have a body and a mind ? a mind that arises out of the body. If this were true, we would cease to exist after our body was gone.

Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.

As far as our physical form, the mind is a great temple. But it has a life span and it dies.

You can't have a universe without the mind entering into it.

I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?

It is slowly becoming understood that the modality of being is the modality of mind.

Body and soul. Two different things

The mind and the body are like parallel universes. Anything that happens in the mental universe must leave tracks in the physical one

Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .

Are we our bodies? Is a small person less than a big person, then? If we were our bodies, then when we lost an arm, or a leg, would we be less, would we begin to fade from existence? No. We are the same person. We are not our bodies; we are our thoughts. As they form, they define who we are, and create the reality of our existence.

I desire therefore I exist.

There is a definite correlation between the mind and the body.

The body does not create the mind; the Mind creates the body.

The body is a vehicle for the mind, and that vehicle is how you travel through space.

Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body? I dunno.

Consciousness is not in the body; the body is in consciousness. And you are that consciousness.

What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.

Personally, I am convinced the human personality does survive the change which we call death. Although we have no scientific evidence of this at present, there is no reason to suppose it will always be lacking.

The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.

...What you are is a force--a force that makes it possible for your body to live, a force that makes it possible for your whole mind to dream...You are life

Among the facts of the universe to be accounted for, it may be said, is Mind; and it is self evident that nothing can have produced Mind but Mind.

The mind, when housed within a healthful body, possesses a glorious sense of power.

Spirit forgets that it's Spirit and condenses to a smaller version of itself, which is soul. Soul forgets that it's soul and condenses to mind. Mind forgets that it's mind and condenses to body. Body forgets that it's body and condenses to the lowest dimension that you can have, which is matter.

What's powerful about the mind, the mind comes through every physical and when the physical goes the mind still exists.