Susanna Kaysen Quotes

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 am Walter, a body, but more important than the body is my spirit.

There is something more - the spirit, or the soul. I think that that quality encourages our courtesy and care and our minds. And mercy, and identity.

The soul is the truth of who we are.

Soul or Intelligence destined to possess the sense of Identity.

It’s not the body that people love, but the soul. The body is a temporary vehicle. Without the soul, the body is like a car without a driver. I see through my eyes, smell through my nose, taste through my tongue, hear through my ears, feel through my skin, think through my brain, and love through my heart. But who am I? Who is the witness, enjoyer and sufferer that activates my body?

All we are is in the soul.

A man with a soul is not like every other man.

There is no self.

A human being is a spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation.

I consist of a little body and a soul.

The real things about man are not his body.

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.

your soul is an inner something that is another you and hardly anybody knows what it's really thinkin' except you.

The self is the modern substitute for the soul.

I’ve always felt almost human. I’ve always known that there’s something about me that’s different than other dogs. Sure, I’m stuffed into a dog’s body, but that’s just the shell. It’s what’s inside that’s important. The soul. And my soul is very human.

And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?

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

We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

You can't get away from who you are I guess.

I can explain my body and my brain, but there's something more. I can't explain my own existence - what makes me a unique human being.

The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.