We are all spirits inwardly. This is what's alive in the body, not the body on its own.

Everything good or true that the angels inspire in us is God's, so God is constantly talking to us. He talks very differently, though, to one person than to another.

That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race.

This I can declare: things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world.

Wherefore the brain must be looked upon as the universal and general sensory and at the same time as the universal and general motory organ of the body and finally as the universal and general laboratory of the animal spirits and the blood or of the essential juices of life.

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

Every man is received in heaven who receives heaven in himself while in the world, and he is excluded who does not.