Neil Garrison > Quotes

“Many are the questions we could ask about prayer, but what puzzles me most is—does God even want it?”
― Neil Garrison, The Specific Gravity of the Soul

“We must forgive when it is hardest, and when it’s hardest is the most important time to forgive.”
― Neil Garrison, The Specific Gravity of the Soul

“We ask, why does God allow evil to exist, when we should ask, why do we let evil arise within ourselves?”
― Neil Garrison, The Specific Gravity of the Soul

“...I was struck by the beauty of the world. I felt like everything was connected; that everything was significant. I could almost see Karma itself, or "God’s plan," as the universe unfolded before me. Was this enlightenment?”
― Neil Garrison, The Dickensian Reset: A Memoir of the Psych Ward from a Mind in Mania

“We are—all of us—the agents of God, bringing order to a universe that favors entropy. Our souls are borrowed from Him; our will is ultimately His will, but it has been divided into countless fragments and is executed from countless perspectives.

"There is a sense of purpose to it all, but that purpose is constantly realized; it is not a distant goal that remains unattained. In every moment, we are simultaneously the culmination of the grand plan as well as the continuation of it.”
― Neil Garrison, The Specific Gravity of the Soul

“Whereas Descartes reasoned “I think, therefore I am”; let us instead state “I experience, therefore I exist.”
― Neil Garrison, The Specific Gravity of the Soul

“I would get lost in the moment, just me, the graffiti, and many small victories; each measured out by the width of a tooth of a comb.”
― Neil Garrison, The Dickensian Reset: A Memoir of the Psych Ward from a Mind in Mania

“Let us consider the soul to be an ephemeral spark rather than some kind of ghostly apparition, weighing the same whether that of an elephant or ant, manatee or man.”
― Neil Garrison, The Specific Gravity of the Soul

“It is a matter of faith to believe such a thing as a soul exists. It is also a matter of faith to believe it does not exist.”
― Neil Garrison, The Specific Gravity of the Soul