Reincarnation Quotes - Page 2

• Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... The other eight are unimportant.

  Henry Miller

  Funny, Sexy, Good Sex

  Sexus ch. 21 (1949)

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• When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body.

  Paul Gauguin

  Soul, Body, Break

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• Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

  John F. Kennedy

  Destiny, Men, Innovation

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• There’s nothing bad about reincarnation per se, it’s basically a very good system, cost-effective and ecologically friendly.

  Tom Holt

  Friendly, Cost, Very Good

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• I hold that when a person dies / His soul returns again to earth; / Arrayed in some new flesh disguise / Another mother gives him birth / With sturdier limbs and brighter brain.

  John Masefield

  Mother, Giving, Soul

  John Masefield, Donald Elwin Stanford (1984). “Selected poems”, Carcanet Press

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• All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can be brought to understand the value of that silence and solitude of spiritual worlds?

  Honore de Balzac

  Spiritual, Silence, Heaven

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• He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships become newly born. Each one was mortal, a passionate, painful example of all that is transitory. Yet none of them died, they only changed, were always reborn, continually had a new face: only time stood between one face and another.

  Hermann Hesse

  Time, Faces, Saws

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.112, Om Books International

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• I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was 26. Genius is experience. Some think to seem that it is a gift or talent, but it is the fruit of long experience in many lives

  Henry Ford

  Thinking, Long, Genius

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• Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If the evils we suffer are the result of sins committed in our past lives, we can bear them with resignation and hope that if in this one we strive toward virtue out future lives will be less afflicted.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Past, Evil, Suffering

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• Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Clothes, Coats, Flesh

  Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.211, Princeton University Press

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• The knowledge of reincarnation assures us that life is worth living. Life is not a one-shot deal. It is forever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Live Life, Forever, Life Is

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• If we get above the individualized soul's journey, you will see that we are all one. We are all one light. In that sense, we are all enlightened.

  Frederick Lenz

  Journey, Light, Soul

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• In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow

  Richard Wagner

  Karma, Views, Contrast

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• Bodies come and go, ages come and go, yugas come and go, eternities come and go. Selves come and go.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Age, Body

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• If there is reincarnation, I'd like to come back as Warren Beatty's fingertips.

  Woody Allen

  Sex, Fingertips, Statue Of Liberty

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• I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Good Morning, Death, Sleep

  Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow (2011). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself”, p.288, Cambridge University Press

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• My whole belief system is that our paths are drawn for us. I believe in reincarnation. I believe we're here to learn and grow. We choose how we come into this life based on what it is we have to learn. Some people have harder lessons than others.

  Gillian Anderson

  Life Lesson, Believe, People

  "Gillian of the Spirits". Interview with Virginia Campbell, gilliananderson.ws. January, 1999.

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• Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar.

  William Wordsworth

  Stars, Sleep, Afterlife

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 58 (1807)

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• Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Desire, Cases, Duty

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1915). “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche”

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• Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Believe, World, Shapes

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.165

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• Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

  Stanislav Grof

  Karma, Believe, Survival

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• Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth.

  Stanislav Grof

  Culture, Earth, Return

  Stanislav Grof (1998). “The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness”, p.229, SUNY Press

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• I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man, and believing as I do in the theory of reincarnation, I live in the hope that if not in this birth, in some other birth I shall be able to hug all of humanity in friendly embrace.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.

  Waylon Jennings

  Believe, Might, Stuff

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• Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.

  William Wordsworth

  Sleep, Afterlife, Infancy Is

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 58 (1807)

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