Quotes about reincarnation

Maurice Maeterlinck - The Treasure of the humble

We can be born thus more than once and each birth brings us a little nearer to our God.

Chelsie Shakespeare -

I melted into the dream as if I had always been there. I knew where I had come from I knew where I was going.

T.F. Hodge - From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

Until we get it right, we shall return to the earth-school time after time.

Karen Amanda Hooper - Taking Back Forever

Dear Judy Blume, why didn’t you write a book about how to survive talking to your centuries-old, super-duper experienced, smoking-hot soul mate about sex for the first time ever? That book would have been extremely helpful in preparing me for this incredibly awkward situation.

Michael Smith - The Present

The "you only live once" theory: Many people say that they do not believe in reincarnation; they believe when you die, you're dead. What about fish, clams, horses, bears, flies? People that say you only live once are saying some souls get to live just one life as a worm, and that is it for all of eternity.Other people believe you are judged by a god after you die. Is the worm judged?

Luther Burbank -

A theory of personal resurrection or reincarnation of the individual is untenable when we but pause to consider the magnitude of the idea. On the contrary, I must believe that rather than the survival of all, we must look for survival only in the spirit of the good we have done in passing through.Once obsolete, an automobile is thrown to the scrap heap. Once here and gone, the human life has likewise served its purpose. If it has been a good life, it has been sufficient. There is no need for ano

Deyth Banger -

Reincarnation do you know this word??No?Check out the book "Don't touch this book" by Jan Van Helsing and you will find the answer!

Charleston Parker - ONE Soul Many FACES - REVEALING THE HIDDEN TRUTH

IGNORANCE is without gaining Knowledge & Knowledge is gained without IGNORANCE

G.K. Chesterton -

Theosophists for instance will preach an obviously attractive idea like re-incarnation; but if we wait for its logical results, they are spiritual superciliousness and the cruelty of caste. For if a man is a beggar by his own pre-natal sins, people will tend to despise the beggar. But Christianity preaches an obviously unattractive idea, such as original sin; but when we wait for its results, they are pathos and brotherhood, and a thunder of laughter and pity; for only with original sin we can a

Darnell Lamont Walker -

I have to believe in reincarnation. believing that I'll be in one place forever is a hell in itself.

William Faulkner -

You know that if I were reincarnated, I’d want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.

Sarah Kernochan - Jane Was Here

Life ends with a snap of small bones, a head cracked from its stem, and a spirit unmoored...

Dorothy Gravelle - Paradox Love

She communicated in what ways she could – sweet whines of happiness and wet kisses. She knew him. She knew him. He knelt in the grass, still pouring his attention onto her. She received every ounce of it in a way only a dog can, its unconditional love contained in every breath and every heartbeat. And Luke was struck precisely at that moment at his capacity to feel so moved by the simple act of affection for this sweet animal. He swallowed hard. It wasn’t easy to let himself feel it, the gentle

Oliver Rixon - Broken Mirror

Jenny retained a flimsy essence of the truth. It was a quiet knowing she'd always hold in her heart...''Broken Mirror by Oliver Rixon

Oliver Rixon - Broken Mirror

Jenny sensed the energy of the cosmos. It was like a harmonious orchestra vibrating the universe into existence.' Broken Mirror by Oliver Rixon

Nicholas Christopher - Veronica

They were different colors: the right one blue, the left green. And her face in the light of the candle on the table startled me at first, just as it had in the icy night air. After seeing it on the street, I was afraid I had only imagined it: a still, luminous face with a silvery sheen. Finely hewn, with a long, straight nose and a wide mouth, it was nearly identical to another face, which I had photographed years before. Not on a person, bu on the fragment of a frieze I found in some ruins nea

Quentin R. Bufogle -

I want an avowed atheist in the White House. When time comes to push that button, I want whoever's making the decision to understand that once it's pushed, it's over. Finito. They're not gonna have lunch with Jesus. Won't be deflowering 72 virgins on the great shag carpet of eternity, or reincarnated as a cow. I want someone making that decision who believes life on this Earth isn't just a dress rehearsal for something better -- but the only shot we get.

Charleston Parker - Many Faces: Revealing the Hidden Truth

I Only Believe What I See But I Question Everything I Hear

Louise Erdrich - The Antelope Wife

He had a thousand-year-old stare.

N. K. David -

If the soul is immortal then it is one with the Godhead.

N. K. David -

They have to know, for we know , that reincarnation is real.

Dave Matthes - and We Died

With riddles as black as coals, and answers as invisible as our past, I can only depend upon the crest of the rolling wave I now traversed; a romance worshiped only by the dreamer in us all, a psithurism of trust making its way through the years of our ascension to one day climb above the kaleidoscopic canopy of this mortal coil.

Charleston Parker - ONE Soul Many FACES - REVEALING THE HIDDEN TRUTH

In life, you have 3 choices. Give up, give in, or give it your all.

Charleston Parker - ONE Soul Many FACES - REVEALING THE HIDDEN TRUTH

It is through your experience you find out who you really are and who you are is from finding your own experience who really defines you.

Alan W. Watts - The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

And if I forget how many times I have been here, and in how many shapes, this forgetting is the necessary interval of darkness between every pulsation of light. I return in every baby born.

Jodi Picoult - My Sister's Keeper

That's the life, she said to me, as we watched a puppy chase its own tail. That's what I want to be next.I had laughed. you would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else.I need you, she replied.Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip.

JoAnne Kenrick - When A Mullo Loves A Woman

Have you ever met someone for the first time, but in your heart you feel as if you’ve met them before?

J.A. Belfield - Darkness & Light

Fate and destiny go hand in hand. It is impossible to change our destiny. Only the path upon which we walk to reach our destination alters. If we should stray from that path, fate will take control and guide us in the right direction.

Lisa Kessler - Night Walker

The monsignor called after him, “If I am to blame, then why have I not met the same fate as Brother Mentigo and Brother De Cardina before him? Why am I still alive?”Calisto glared over his shoulder at the monsignor and growled. “Because there are worse punishments than death. Live with your guilt, old man. May it rot in your heart and kill you slowly for manyyears to come.

Lisa Kessler - Night Walker

She brought her hand to his chest. His chiseled musclesresponded to her touch, and a moan escaped her as he clutched hertighter. Calisto’s fingers slid through her hair, and her lips parted, hertongue tasting him, tangling with his until her knees buckled.Dear God, this man could kiss.

Lisa Kessler - Night Walker

You made it clear you did not want to discuss the past with him. I followed through on your request.”“By beating him senseless?”Calisto looked at Tom, then back to her. “Perhaps he never had any sense to begin with.

Lisa Kessler - Night Walker

He’d given up his mortality, his soul, for this moment, this second chance, and if she fell in love with him again, he needed to know it was real.

Melanie S. Wolfe - The Last Life of Emma Taylor

Emma, you have lived before…in other lifetimes.”I was waiting for him to burst into laughter and tell me this was some ridiculous prank. Where was he going with this?“I have been reincarnated?” “Yes, several times. You accidently breathed in God’s energy at an Egyptian temple and that energy never dies.” I sat there staring blankly, wondering if I had fallen in love with a mad man. “Emma, your soul is confused…”“Between?”“Being human and being God

Ashley Jeffery - Lilith

Flashes of my past lives kept crawling across my vision. I had Akima’s laugh, Eve’s blind ability to love, and Marrah’s unwavering belief in family. I was all of these women and none of them. Their souls carried along inside of me but unmistakable from my own.I saw their lives in pieces, their triumphs and sorrows, loved ones gained and lost. They were all different yet somehow the same. We were sisters and daughters, lovers and wives.Pacey O'Brien-Lilith

Gaspar Noé -

They say you fly when you die.Basically, when you die, your spirit leaves your body. Actually, at first you can see all your life, like, reflected in a magic mirror. Then you start floating like a ghost. You can see anything happening around you, you can hear everything, but you can’t communicate with the world of the living.Then you see these lights, all these different lights, of all different colors. These lights are the doors that pull you into other planes of existence, but most people actu

Daniel Prokop - Taking It with You

Achala, worrying and scheming about your next life, before you have even completed this one, is not a good practice." Rinpoche

J.R.R. Tolkien - The Two Towers

Yes, I am white now,' said Gandalf. 'Indeed I am Saruman, one might almost say, Saruman as he should have been.

Hope Bradford - Oracle of Compassion: The Living Word of Kuan Yin

Kuan Yin Speaks on Reincarnation: “Beliefs are so powerful that they can create expansive or entrapping lifetimes over and over…Another life offers another opportunity, a chance to switch flavors so to speak. Taking oneself too personally, however, can cause a soul to get caught up, stuck in redundancy: in a particular (and perhaps unfortunate) flavor. In such instances, the individual is forgetting one has the ability to choose from a variety of flavors, lives!

Ainslie Hogarth - The Lonely

Lipstick was an easy answer to boredom. It was the most exciting thing you could do in the shortest amount of time because for a second, you got to convince yourself that you were the kind of gal who wears lipstick every day. You got to pout to yourself, and trick yourself that you were glamorous. Then in a second it was over, time to wipe it off and start again.

Alan W. Watts - Psychotherapy East and West

There are various levels above and below the human through which the individual soul may pass in the course of its reincarnations—the angelic, the titanic, the animal, the purgatories, and the realm of the frustrated ghosts.

Roshan Sharma -

When you are born, outside world already exists. When you begin to understand life, all you acquire is the outside world’s beliefs, and different experiences and impressions from the outside world. In the process, you forget to know the person, who entered into this earth and the purpose of his birth.

Hope Bradford - Oracle of Compassion: The Living Word of Kuan Yin

Death is like giving birth. Birth can be painful. Sometimes women die from giving birth. However, when the baby is born, all that pain (that was endured) vanishes in an instant. Love for that tiny baby makes one forget the pain, the fear. And as I’ve said before, love between mother and child is the highest experience, the closest to divine love. You might wonder about the parallel I’m making between birth and death. But I say to you, the fear and pain accompanying an awful death is over quickly

Alyson Noel - Blue Moon

The love of every single one of my lives.

Audrey Auden - Realms Unreel

All who live possess eternal life, and few would trade it for an immortal body, if they truly understood what it is to be alive.

brian L. weiss - m.d.

I believe we can see the future because some part of us responds to the fact that past, present, and the future are one, occurring in a simultaneous time... Quite literally the future is now, and even on this planet we can shape our 'nows' by our actions. That is why it is so important to prepare not only for the rest of our lives but for all our lives to come--for immortality.

C.R. Strahan - Lucid Dreaming

People don't just live one life. They keep coming back until they get it right.

Dean Koontz - Forever Odd

Odd: I wish I could believe in reincarnation.Chief Porter: Not me. Once down the track is enough of a test. Pass me or fail me, Dear Lord, but don't make me go through high school again.Odd: If there's something we want so bad in this life but we can't have it, maybe we could get it the next time around.Chief Porter: Or maybe not getting it, accepting less without bitterness and being grateful for what we have is a part of what we're here to learn.

Danika Stone - Intaglio: The Snake and the Coins

And then they half-ran, half-skipped the last eight blocks to her apartment, their bodies connected by their crossed arms. Half a block away, their combined shadow looked like the wings of a single sea bird, wheeling in a bright sky. Two blocks further, and they looked like two boats, alone on an endless ocean. One block from that, and their joined bodies merged into a symbol of infinity.

J. Aleksandr Wootton - Forgetting: impressions from the millennial borderland

Hardly has the universe stretched its wings to spanWhen it gathers to egg once more

Lianne Downey - Speed Your Evolution: Become the Star Being You Are Meant to Be

No matter how you arrive at the awareness and belief that you've lived before and will live again, the most lasting healing benefit will be the change in your attitude. You are creating your future lives right at this moment, and every moment of decision-making.

Lianne Downey - Speed Your Evolution: Become the Star Being You Are Meant to Be

...knowing about your past lives is worse than useless if that knowledge doesn't bring you some kind of positive change or healing.

Jodi Picoult - My Sister's Keeper

You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else. I need you, she replied.Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip.

David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas

Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves.

Robin Sacredfire -

Most people believe that sharing the same flesh and blood, the same basic DNA structure, makes them your family. How sad that is. Because, you see, as a spiritual person, I believe you must deserve a family, not just own it. If those that are my family, don't behave as such, they are not my family. If I have chosen them before I was born, I have been betrayed. I owe them nothing, in this or the many lives to come. In fact, if they betray me in this life, they will return as my enemies in the nex

Anjali Chugh - Reincarnations and Alternate Realities

The mysteries of universe are revealed to those who seek to know the truth of their own existence first.

Jarett Sabirsh - Love All-Knowing: An Epic Spiritual Poem

while people go on chatting about a million and one thingsI mostly sit and observe with ascended understandingsas they bring up the topic of death and of a person dyingI listen quietly while often accidentally smilingat the absurdity of anybody ever believing in deathI don't mean to be insensitive towards a body's last breatha higher Reality laid bare, bodily expiration is of no accountwith this revelation incalculable life fears we surmountthe Sage is notorious for finding strange things funnyg

J. Sterling - In Dreams

I recognized you instantly. All of our lives flashed through my mind in a split second. I felt a pull so strongly towards you that I almost couldn't stop it.

Hope Bradford - Oracle of Compassion: The Living Word of Kuan Yin

Our spirit knows we don’t die nor are we born. If our ego knew what our greater self knows, it would not fear disaster…Caught up in a new incarnation, one may forget their Always State, Form; perhaps forgetting everything from before. However, one is already always that! There is only eternity, knowledge and bliss!-Kuan Yin

Tim I. Gurung - Afterlife

Death is the start of a beginning, life is the start of the end, and the cycle continues forever." AFTERLIFE - TIM I GURUNG/AUTHOR

John K. Brown -

All three explanations—eternal life, reincarnation, and nothingness—are descriptions of the same reality.

Neil Gaiman - The Ocean at the End of the Lane

My parents had told me that I would not really die, not the real me: that nobody really died, when they died; that my kitten and the opal miner had just taken new bodies and would be back again, soon enough.

Deborah Feldman - Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots

I'd rather believe in reincarnation than hell. The idea of an afterlife is much so more tolerable when returning is an option.

Daniel Marques -

Reincarnation is when I tell a girl I write spiritual books and she thinks I'm a monk. She has a medieval soul.

Michelle Madow - Remembrance

Have you ever met someone and felt like you’ve known them forever?

C. JoyBell C. -

When we get married, we promise a person the rest of our lives, "Til death do us part". But what if in another life we promised someone forever? What if ten lifetimes ago we promised someone lifetime after lifetime after lifetime? Think about it. Maybe that's why marriages fail when they do fail. Because maybe promises are never really broken.

Marilyn Monroe -

Most people in the world are Christ lovers. And then there are Christ haters. But all of them are fixated on Christ, and he perpetuates for ever.

Raymond Rice - Time in a Bottle: The Resonance

There was a bright flash of brilliant white light, like the midday summer sun reflecting off of a freshly cleaned mirror.And then it was gone.

Paramahansa Yoganandamahansa Yogananda -

To understand karma, you must realize that thoughts are things. The very universe…is composed not of matter but of consciousness. Matter responds, far more than most people realize, to the power of thought. For will power directs energy, and energy in turn acts upon matter. Matter, indeed, is energy.

Patricia D. Cornwell -

No one, good or evil, ceases to exist; life is energy and energy cannot be created or destroyed; it is recycled.

Lianne Downey - Cosmic Dancer: An Interdimensional Fantasy

Ohhhhhhh,” she groaned, jerking up from the reclining seat as the tears exploded. She felt as devastated as if she were still in the body of the grizzled fighting man. Convulsing sobs of remorse tortured her energy body and she rocked it like a baby, holding her midsection, feeling as if her stomach would turn inside out. She struggled to speak, gulping in habit for air that didn’t exist, which would have been useless to her energy lungs anyway.She had to know. “Who? Who…was…he?” she managed in

Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse - Not For Happiness: A Guide to the So-Called Preliminary Practices

The sutras liken reincarnation to the relationship between teachers and students. A singing teacher teaches students how to sing. His students learn techniques and benefit from direct experiential advice from their teacher. But the teacher doesn't remove a song from his throat and insert it into a student's mouth. Similarly, reincarnation is a continuity of everything we have learnt, like lighting one candle from another, or a face and its reflection in a mirror.

Aletheia Luna - Old Souls: The Sages and Mystics of Our World

A more common explanation for the feeling of being Old in Soul is tied up in Buddhist and Hindu ideas of reincarnation, or metempsychosis. Interestingly, this is most likely where the origin of the phrase “Old Soul” came from in the first place.

Epictetus -

As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.

Gautama Buddha -

When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.

Dave Barry - Dave Barry Does Japan

I like the relaxed way in which the Japanese approach religion. I think of myself as basically a moral person, but I'm definitely not religious, and I'm very tired of the preachiness and obsession with other people's behavior characteristic of many religious people in the United States. As far as I could tell, there's nothing preachy about Buddhism. I was in a lot of temples, and I still don't know what Buddhists believe, except that at one point Kunio said 'If you do bad things, you will be reb

Chelsie Shakespeare - The Pull

The longer I lived, the longer it would be until I saw him alive again, until I could taste his new lips and run my fingers through his new hair. We could be young and beautiful again . . .

Chelsie Shakespeare - The Pull

With that, I took a deep breath and leapt; spreading my arms, pretending I could fly . . .

Terri Herman-Poncé - In This Life

We do not remember days, Shemei, we remember moments, and the richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Rabindranath Tagore - Selected Poems

Unending LoveI seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times...In life after life, in age after age, forever.My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,In life after life, in age after age, forever.Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, it's age old pain,It's ancient tale of being apart or together.As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,Clad in the light of a pole-star, piercing

Friedrich Nietzsche - The Gay Science

What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.

Richard L. Ratliff -

Do your thoughts continue and repeat a cycle Seed, growth, bloom, and seed again

Michelle Madow - Remembrance

Do you believe that we have the ability to change destiny?

Robin Sacredfire -

Most people tend to excuse themselves with the opportunities they have in life, with how many years of school they have, with the people around them. And in doing so, they fail in realizing many other things, such as the fact that not many are lucky enough to give birth to a world bestseller on spirituality, wealth and success in life. Yes, your child may be a little reincarnation of an awesome buddhist monk, of an alchemist or a famous knight templar. Why most people can’t see these things, and

Stephen Levine - A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last

Until we find out who was born this time around, it seems irrelevant to seek earlier identities. I have heard many people speak of who they believe they were in previous incarnations, but they seem to have very little idea of who they are in this one. . . . Let’s take one life at a time. Perhaps the best way to do that is to live as though there were no afterlife or reincarnation. To live as though this moment was all that was allotted. (132)

C.G. Jung -

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud. ”—Psychiatrist Dr. Carl Jung in a 1919 address to the Society for Psychical Research in England

Thomas M. Disch - The Businessman

But there you put your finger on what it is that separates the sheep from the goats, and vice versa: imagination. Those who possess it have an afterlife; those who don't possess it, or in whom it has greatly atrophied, are reborn as plants or animals. It's as simple, and unfair, as that. You could almost say that heaven is no more than a fantasm generated by the excess energies of the pooled imaginations of the blessed.

Molly Ringle - Immortal's Spring

Ah, mate. My soul loves yours. It does. But this lifetime, my body won’t get on board.

Kate McGahan - JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with My Master

The end of this life is not the end of life.

Laurel A. Rockefeller - The Ghosts of the Past

Love for the beauty of the soul. I shall love you always. When the flower of life has gone, ever I shall find you. When all is lost and winter comes, I shall be your spring time. And memory fades and wilts then, I shall always find you.... I shall always find you....

Hope Bradford - Oracle of Compassion: The Living Word of Kuan Yin

Experiential versus the God eye! Possessing ‘ego vision’, a person’s view through her/his physical eyes is quite versatile; able to discern wide and varied vistas over huge distances or scrutinizing the minutest of details.Ego’s very nature: capable of relatively expansive, detailed, and yet individualistic perspective is crucial. Separating itself out from the God Force, ego extracts infinite unique experiences, integral to humanity’s process of spiritualizing matter. Incarnating on the earth,

Kate McGahan - Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge

Grief is an emotional rollercoaster.You will have your ups and downsand moments of terrorand brief moments of peace.You can only go as fastas the ride will take you.Just remember:It will end and you will be okay.

Jalaluddin Rumi -

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Keith Heyer Meldahl - Hard Road West: History and Geology along the Gold Rush Trail

We live and we die, but we are made of sterner stuff. The carbon atoms in our fingernails, the calcium in our bones, the iron atoms in our blood -- all the countless trillions of atoms of which we are made -- are ancient objects. They existed before us, before the Earth itself, in fact. And after each of us dies, they will depart from our bodies and do other things. Forever.

Haruki Murakami - After Dark

Tell me something, Mari—do you believe in reincarnation?” Mari shakes her head. “No, I don’t think so,” she says. “So you don’t think there’s a life to come?” “I haven’t thought much about it. But it seems to me there’s no reason to believe in a life after this one.” “So once you’re dead there’s just nothing?”“Basically.”“Well, I think there has to be something like reincarnation. Or maybe I should say I’m scared to think there isn’t. I can’t understand nothingness. I can’t understand it and I c

Gala.J - a spirit's destiny

We are all one. Everything is meaningless, and yet at the same time meaningful. Everything matters and doesn’t matter just as much," Wisdom said and looked beyond time.(Nakoma, by Gala.J)

Gerhard Falk - American Judaism in Transition: The Secularization of a Religious Community

[On scientist Carl Friedrich Gauss][Carl Friedrich] Gauss told his friend Rudolf Wagner, a professor of biology at Gottingen University, that he did not believe in the Bible but that he had meditated a great deal on the future of the human soul and speculated on the possibility of the soul being reincarnated on another planet. Evidently, Gauss was a Deist with a good deal of skepticism concerning religion.

Sri Aurobindo - Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

The soul attracted leaned to the Abyss:It longed for the adventure of Ignorance

Brownell Landrum -

Sharing feelings, conveying appreciation and whispering desires are all crucial components of a satisfying encounter with your beloved.

Brownell Landrum - The Song Begins: DUET stories Volume I - Adult Version

A dreamory is a dream that’s a memory.