You are an eternal soul. Another way of expressing this is that you are an eternal, immaterial and unique consciousness who experiences emotions and is able to make moral judgments.

You are currently experiencing a temporary physical existence within a human body.

When your body dies you will leave it and move back to dimensions of existence that are not generally perceptible while you are in this physical human incarnation.

You were not created in the physical world, and it is not your real or permanent home.

You think of yourself as a physical body because that is what your physical senses tell you. However, your physical senses are very limited in scope, and are only intended to sustain your life in the physical dimensions.

Your capacity for conscious thought was not created by your brain.

God created you, a soul, so He is your Father and Mother. We assign a male gender to God by historical convention only. We need to do this because while we exist in this physical incarnation we cannot easily understand how God could be both Mother and Father.

God created the conditions for your human parents to be able to form your temporary physical body. You entered your physical body some time after it had been conceived.

All of us are connected and contain a spark of God. This is why you, a soul, are already eternal and indestructible.

Nothing in God’s creation can be destroyed, but everything can be transformed.

Since you contain a spark of God, you are a creative being and you can create your own reality. This ability is generally referred to as the law of “Intention”. This reality is a reflection of your thoughts and actions. You can create and manage the world in which you live by the way you perceive it. To put it simply think and act positively and the world will be positive think and act negatively and the world will be negative. Your thoughts empower your reality. The law of “Intention” applies to groups of souls as well as individual souls.

You have the potential to be much more powerful than you will ever know, but to access that power you must awaken spiritually and be aligned with God.

Why have you forgotten that you are a soul?

If you knew for sure that you are immortal, you would probably not be genuinely motivated to grow your soul or fully experience the physical world. Therefore, your true nature is temporarily “veiled” from you while you exist in the physical world. This veil is sometimes referred to as the “veil of forgetfulness”. It is more transparent for some than for others.

You are here to learn to love unconditionally. The veil is what keeps you from cheating! Authentic unconditional loves comes from the heart, and you are here to train yourself to react with love. If you were to shortcut the process and respond to creation based on an intellectual understanding of what is expected of you, your behavior would not be sincere.

Life in the spiritual dimensions is generally much more pleasant than life in the physical world. If the spiritual dimensions were not veiled from us, we would get very homesick and we would not focus on our day to day reality. We would therefore not learn the lessons we agreed to try to learn in this physical life.

Some people recognize the existence of the veil and understand that the veil is thinning as souls in the physical dimensions grow towards God. This soul growth process is sometimes described as “ascension”. The veil thins as we grow and understand our connection with each other and God. As we learn and remember who we really are, we no longer need the veil because we are authentically motivated to love unconditionally, and we accept why we are having a physical incarnation.

Souls who can see through the veil know that they will return to the spiritual dimensions. In the meantime, they accept that they have work to do.

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

C. S. Lewis

You are not your body. It is just something you wear for a while, because living in the Earth realm is infinitely more meaningful and more involved if you are encased in its trappings and subject to its rules.

Dr. P.M.H. Atwater

We feel and know that we are eternal.

Edmund Spenser

The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew… it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Within you is the divine capacity to manifest and attract all that you need or desire.

Wayne Dyer "The Secrets to Manifesting your Destiny"

Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Life is eternal and love is immortal and death is only a horizon and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

R. W. Raymond

When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.

Albert Einstein

Do you wish to know God? Learn first to know yourself.

Abba Evagrius the Monk

We are ignorant of the beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing.

Jules Renard

God conceals from men the happiness of death that they may endure life.

Anonymous

The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.

Aart Van Der Leeuw

If we really understood Heaven, we would be most unhappy and unsatisfied with life on Earth. We would rebel against our earthly limitations. If we saw Heaven, we could not bear this earth. That's why Heaven is forever: we cannot bear to leave it after we get there.

C.L. Allen

Humans have a mental and spirit body. Before going through the veil, we chose our own physical body. We must forget these memories because in order to experience a physical life, we must experience the physical things, be physically challenged, make choices of free will, and make mistakes so that we can learn from them in ways that only a physical life could impart.

David Goines

Life in this world exists for us to test our ideals and learn from them. Learning our lessons here in the physical world is the fastest way to learn.

David Oakford

This world is only a temporary place for our schooling. Our true permanent home is the spiritual universe.

Betty Eadie

The highest spiritual values of life can come from the study of death.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Reincarnation is essential to enable the soul to evolve to its Divine right.

R.F. Goudey, Reincarnation: A Universal Truth

The illusion is we are only physical.

Vanna Bonta, Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel

Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.

Erwin Schrödinger

In order to become one with God, work must be done to remember or find the truth. The truth is this: our true self is a spirit and our spirit is one with God.

Sandra Rogers

We have all forgotten that we were the one original being. So we live out our lives in the illusion of separateness. Our aim is for all of us to come together again, to merge back into the original being and become the One we truly are beneath the surface. The way to do this was love. Love is simply the name of the natural force which, like gravity, tends to pull everything back together. As human beings, the way we experience this force is through love. As fragmented creatures, our job is to love each other and become one again.

Joseph Kerrick

The reason we are here in this physical world is for soul growth. This physical world is the ideal place for this. Spiritual growth in the spirit realms is more difficult. The reason is that the influence of our physical bodies gives us the opportunity for a full range of love (a child's love, marital love, and parental love) which is ideally available here. Love that is misused or misdirected is best corrected in the here. In this physical world, there is the full range of physical and spiritual senses with which to act and communicate.

Nora Spurgin

The reason we need to experience a separation of our total reality when we took on a physical body is because in order for us to appreciate, benefit, and learn all we can from our physical life, we must re-discover what we knew before - in physical ways. Through our physical life we must discover how to return to God. By the good that we do to each other here, by the ways we improve our minds, and by the ways that we learn to cope with a physical body and physical life, we earn our right of safe passage back to God and in doing so, we honor God. It is God's love that sends us on the journey and it is our love for God that will allow us to return to God's loving arms.

David Goines