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

First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.

In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions.

The life of any one can by no means be changed after death; an evil life can in no wise be converted into a good life, or an infernal into an angelic life: because every spirit, from head to foot, is of the character of his love, and therefore, of his life; and to convert this life into its opposite, would be to destroy the spirit utterly.

No one's character is completely like another'sthis infinite variety is like a mirror in which we can see the infinity of God the Creator.

Goodness shapes our will, and truth shapes our understanding.

The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.