
Variant: Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. Some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. Some lose both and become accepted.
Variant: The area dividing the brain and the soul
Is affected in many ways by experience --
Some lose all mind and become soul:
insane.
Some lose all soul and become mind:
intellectual.
Some lose both and become:
accepted.
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
Variant: Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. Some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. Some lose both and become accepted.
“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.”
Once again, this is far from Muir's style of writing. The quote does not come up in any search of John Muir's Journals or his published texts on the John Muir Exhibit website. It is most commonly put on t-shirts - never in any scholarly source.
Misattributed
“If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.”
One Half of Robertson Davies (1989).
Anatol Rapoport, Strategy and Conscience. Harper & Row, 1964. p. 195
1960s
“Find your soul and you'll live. Lose your soul and you'll die.”
Shannon