Quotes #1: Trail of Diamonds in Sand: Famous Quotes on Reincarnation
The truth is that more people in the world believe in reincarnation than do not. Sadly, for those of us who live here, most people in the United States of America do not. Yet, just in case, you believe that the only people who believe in the principles of karma and reincarnation live in the East, below are quotes from famous Westerners to show that "you are not alone". Of course, to balance my karma, there are quotes from famous Easterners. For after all, most Easterners believe very firmly in the concepts of karma and reincarnation. Trail of Diamonds in the Sand Like a trail of diamonds in the sand, these quotes reveal the truth of our existence. For as we journey through life, we learn tolerance. For we have been and will be all things... If you have any quotes to share about reincarnation, karma, or past lives, I invite you to send them to me so that I can share them here. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Reincarnation:
Wisdom of the West: The Bible - New Testament & the Teachings of Jesus
"The Jews unto him, 'Thou art not
yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? ' Jesus
said unto them, 'Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before
Abraham was, I am.'" "And from the days of John the
Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth
violence, and the violent take it by force. For all the
prophets and the law prophesied until John. And if ye
will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come. He
that hath ears, let him hear." "No honest theologian therefore
can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically
binds every Christian to a belief in reincarnation - in
Elias case (who was later John the Baptist) at
least." "For the children being not yet
born, neither having done any good or evil, that the
purpose of God according to election might stand, not of
works, but of him that calleth; It was said unto her, The
elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob
have I loved, but Esau have hated." "Behold, I shew you a mystery. We
shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. In a
moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump:
for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised
incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this
corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal
must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall
have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put
on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying
that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. "Souls are poured from one into
another of different kinds of bodies of the world." "'I shall give you what no eye has
seen, what no ear has heard, what no hand has touched,
and what has never arisen in a human mind." So the
disciples said to Jesus, 'Tell us about the end.' Jesus
said, 'Have you already discovered the beginning that now
you can seek after the end? For where the beginning is,
the end will be. Blessed is the one who stands at the
beginning: that one will know the end and will not taste
death. Blessed is the one who came to life before coming
to life.'" Wisdom of the West: The Bible - Old Testament & Teachings of Prophets "Then the word of the Lord came
unto me, saying, 'Before I formed thee in the belly, I
knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I
sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the
nations'…" "And when the sons of the prophets
which were to view at Jericho saw him, they said 'The
spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha'. And they came to
meet him and bowed themselves to the ground before
him." "For a thousand years in thy sight
are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in
the night. Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they
are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which
groweth up." "For behold, this is my work and
my glory - to bring to pass the immortality and eternal
life of man." "Thy dead men shall live, together
with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye
that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs,
and the earth shall cast out the dead." "And many of them that sleep in
the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting
life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt." "Him that overcometh will I make a
pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more
out." "The souls must reenter the
absolute from where they have emerged. They must develop
all the perfections; the germ of which is planted in
them; and if they have not fulfilled this condition
during one life; they must commence another… until
they have acquired the condition that fits them for
reunion with God." "The 'soul' is the bridge between
the spirit and the personality. Pure spiritual energy is
individualized through the soul before it enters the
personality. This is partly to protect the personality
from too great an influx of undiluted spiritual energy
which could 'blow it out'. This is partly to
individualize the energy for the lessons of the
incarnation of that particular Soul." "It can be shown that an
incorporeal and reasonable being has life in itself
independently of the body... then it is beyond a doubt
bodies are only of secondary importance and arise from
time to time to meet the varying conditions of reasonable
creatures. Those who require bodies are clothed with
them, and contrariwise, when fallen souls have lifted
themselves up to better things their bodies are once more
annihilated. They are ever vanishing and ever
reappearing." "Our Lord has written the promise
of the resurrection, not in books alone but in every leaf
in springtime… In our sad condition our only
consolation is the expectancy of another life." "In the midst of life we are in
death. Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in
sure and certain hope of the Resurrection into eternal
life . . . " "Reincarnation is assumed in the
Bible teaching..." Wisdom of the East: The Bhagavad Gita and Buddha
Krishna says: "I produce myself
among creatures whenever there is a decline in virtue and
an insurrection of vice and injustice in the world ; and
thus I incarnate from age to age, for the preservation of
the just, the destruction of the wicked, and the
establishment of righteousness." "Learn thou! the Life is,
spreading life through all; "Impenetrable, unentered,
unassailed, unharmed, untouched, immortal, "To be born here and to die here,
to die here and to be born elsewhere, "Samsara-the Wheel of Existence,
literally, the "Perpetual Wandering"-is the
name by which is designated the sea of life ever
restlessly heaving up and down, the symbol of this
continuous process of ever again and again being born,
growing old, suffering, and dying. (It) is constantly
changing from moment to moment, (as lives) follow
continuously one upon the other through inconceivable
periods of time. Of this Samsara, a single lifetime
constitutes only a vanishingly tiny fraction." "Whenever I am born in every life
to come, may I meet again my Guardian Angel of this life!
Speaking and understanding the moment I am born, may
I… remember my former lives!" "…the individual Soul is
constantly reborn into the world, rising or falling in
fortune according to Its deed and their consequences,
which is karma… Until it awakens to full self
knowledge, Soul may undergo reincarnations for long
periods of time, touching the highest possibilities of
pleasure and the lowest depths of pain…" Wisdom of the East: The Upanishads and Others "Ignorant ones, due to their own
attachment toward wealth and enjoyment, get deluded and
blinded… Such foolish ones come under my Rod again
and again by revolving in the birth-death cycle… For
the Self… does not die when the body dies. Concealed
in the heart of all beings lies the 'atma', the Spirit,
the Self; smaller than the smallest atom, greatest that
the greatest spaces." "To attain to the human form must
always be a source of joy. And then to undergo continuous
transitions, with only the infinite to look forward to:
what incomparable bliss is that!" "The transformation toward eternal
life is gradual. The heavy gross energy of body, mind,
and spirit must first be purified and uplifted. When the
energy ascends… then self mastery can be
sought." "And Allah hath caused you to
spring forth from the Earth like a plant; "God generates beings, and sends
them back over and over again, till they return to
Him." From the Great and Near Great: "You'll Be Back... Again" "A list of brilliant thinkers, who
intuited and taught the doctrine of rebirth is virtually
endless. Let us name a few: Plato, Pythagoras, Origen,
St. Augustine, Philo Judaeus, Paracelsus, Boehme,
Spinoza, Leibniz, Schopenhauer, Goethe, Leonardo da
Vinci, Bruno, Kant, Blake, Schiller, Emerson, Thoreau,
Whitman, Browning, Flaubert, Wagner, Tolstoy, Kipling,
Sibelius, McTaggart, Gandhi." "When I see nothing annihilated,
and not even a drop of water wasted, I cannot suspect the
annihilation of souls… Thus finding myself to exist
in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other,
always exist; with all the inconveniences human life is
liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine;
hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be
corrected." "The idea of a succession of lives
for each human creature would be no more debatable to the
average Hindu than a Westerner's fixed belief that the
continuity from childhood to adulthood exists in a single
life." "You see that who you are isn't
moving in time. Time is describing the incarnations, the
packing changes." "This doctrine of transmigration
or reincarnation of the soul is found among many tribes
of savages…" The Celts were fearless warriors
because "they wish to inculcate this as one
of their leading tenets, that souls do not become
extinct, but pass after death from one body to
another..." "Rebirth is an affirmation that
must be counted among the primordial affirmations of
mankind. The concept of rebirth necessarily
implies the continuity of personality. Here the human
personality is regarded as continuous and accessible to
memory, so that, when one is incarnated or born, one is
able, potentially, to remember that one has lived through
previous existences, and that these existences were one's
own, ie, they had the same ego form as the present life.
As a rule, reincarnation means rebirth in a human body." "The origin of the philosophy of
reincarnation is prehistoric. It antedates antiquity all
over the world." "Know, therefore, that from the
greater silence I shall return… Forget not that I
shall come back to you… A little while, a moment of
rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear
me." "Who says the eternal being does
not exist? Who says the sun has gone out? Someone who
climbs up on the roof and closes his eyes tight, and
says, I don't see anything." "Believing as I do in the theory
of rebirth, I live in the hope that, if not in this
birth, in some other birth, I shall be able to hug all
humanity in friendly embrace." "A person whose life's vision is
limited to this one fleeting incarnation is like the plow
horse which views it's life's work as a single furrow.
Not able to appreciate how one furrow blends with the
many others. Not able to understand why there are rocks
in the furrow. Not able to why the furrow is so hard to
plow." "Reincarnation is making a
comeback." From the Great and Near Great: "I Remember Me... From Before" "I have been born more times than
anybody except Krishna." "So as through a glass and darkly,
the age long strife I see, "I am certain that I have been
here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to
return a thousand times." "As far back as I can remember I
have unconsciously referred to the experiences of
previous existences… As the stars looked to me when
I was a shepherd in Assyria, they look to me now as a
New-Englander." "... I am the same personal being who in old
times upon the Earth had those experiences." "Even such is Time which takes all
in trust: Our youth, our joys, our all we have, "It is the secret of the world
that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a
little from sight and afterwards return again. Nothing is
dead; men feign themselves dead, and endure mock
funerals… and there they stand looking out of the
window, sound and well, in some strange new
disguise." "Reincarnation is implicit in the
manifested universe and is a basic and fundamental." "It is no more surprising to be
born once than to be born twice: everything in nature is
resurrection." "The virtuous shall have the power
to revive and live again." Bede writes: "a man from the province
of Northumbria returns from the dead... 'A handsome man in a shining robe
was my guide... He said to me... 'You must now return to your body and
live among men once more; but, if you will weigh your actions with
greater care and study to keep your words and ways virtuous and
simple, then when you die you too will win a home among these happy
spirits that you see'... I was most reluctant to return to my body
...but I did not dare to question my guide. Meanwhile, I know not how,
I suddenly found myself alive among men once more.' ...inspired by an
insatiable longing for the blessings of heaven, and by his words and
by his life, he helped many people to salvation." "Our birth is but a sleep and a
forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life's star, From the Great and Near Great: Evidence You Have Been Here Before "The most promising evidence
bearing on reincarnation seems to come from the
spontaneous cases, especially among children." "It is a strong proof of men
knowing most things before birth, that when mere children
they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show
that they are not then taking them in for the first time,
but are remembering and recalling them." "Have you never observed that
children will sometimes, of a sudden, give utterance to
ideas which makes us wonder how they got possession of
them? Which presuppose a long series of other ideas and
secret self-communings? Which break forth like a full
stream out of the earth, an infallible sign that the
stream was not produced in a moment from a few raindrops,
but had long been flowing concealed beneath the
ground?" "I have been here before, but when
or how I cannot tell: "Live so that thou mayest desire
to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou
wilt live again!" "As death, when we come to
consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence. I
have formed during the last few years such close
relations with this best and truest friend of mankind,
that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me,
but is very soothing and consoling! I thank my God for
graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that
death is the key which unlocks the door to our true
happiness." "The soul, still a dragged
captive, will tell of all the man did and felt; but upon
death there will appear, as time passes, memories of the
lives lived before, some of the events of the most recent
life being dismissed as trivial. As it grows away from
the body, it will revive things forgotten in the
corporeal state. And if it passes in and out of one body
after another, it will tell over the events of the
discarded life. It will treat as present that which it
has just left, and it will remember much from the former
existence. But with lapse of time it will come to
forgetfulness of many things that were mere accretion.
" "Reincarnation contains a most
comforting explanation of reality by means of which
Indian thought surmounts difficulties which baffle the
thinkers of Europe." "You would know the hidden realm
where all souls dwell. From the Great and Near Great: You are a Soul, You Have a Body Those in India "will never speak
of bodily wants as theirs: they say 'My body is hungry',
'My body is tired', not 'I am hungry' or 'I am
tired'… It is truer to the facts than our
self-identification with our body. If we were in the
habit of identifying ourselves in thought, not with the
habitation we live in but with the Human self, that
dwells therein, life would become a greater and serener
thing. We should brush off troubles as we brush the dust
from garments, and we should realize the measure of all
things happening to us is not the pain or pleasure they
bring to our bodies, but the progress or retardation they
bring to the Human within us. And since all things are
matters of experience and lessons may be learned from
each, we should take the sting out of griefs by searching
in each for the wisdom enwrapped in it as the petals are
folded within the bud." "Every new born being indeed comes
fresh and blithe into the new existence, and enjoys it as
a free gift: but there is, and can be, nothing freely
given. It's fresh existence is paid for by the old age
and death of a worn out existence which has perished, but
which contained the indestructible seed out of which the
new existence has arisen: they are one being." "Why should it be thought incredible that the
same soul should inhabit in succession an indefinite
number of moral bodies? Even during this one life our
bodies are perpetually changing, through a process of
decay and restoration; which is so gradual that it
escapes our notice. Every human being thus dwells
successively in many bodies, even during one short
life." "As long as you are not aware of
the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a
vague guest on a dark Earth." "He who fears death either fears
the loss of sensation or a different kind of sensation.
But if thou shalt have no sensation, neither wilt thou
feel any harm; and if thou shalt acquire another kind of
sensation, thou wilt be a different kind of living being
and thou wilt not cease to live." "I hold that when a person dies,
his Soul returns again to earth; "It appears to me impossible that
I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless
spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only
organized dust -- ready to fly abroad the moment the
spring snaps, or the spark goes out, which kept it
together. Surely something resides in this heart that is
not perishable -- and life is more than a dream." "Though I may not be a king in my
future life, so much the better: I shall nevertheless
live an active life and, on top of it, earn less
ingratitude." "All changes, even the most longed
for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a
part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can
enter another." "Every incarnation that we
remember must increase our comprehension of ourselves as
who we are." "I have a body and I am more than
my body. From the Great and Near Great: As Soul, You Are Eternal "I feel my immortality over sweep
all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - and peal,
like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this
truth, - thou livest forever!" "We feel and know that we are
eternal." "Everything science has taught me strengthens my
belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after
death. I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved
that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and
soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness,
and so are immortal." "George Sand believed very firmly
in the immortality of the soul. On losing any of her
family, the certainty of going to them some day was her
great consolation. 'I see future and eternal life before
me as a certainty,' she said; 'it is like a light, and,
thanks to its brilliancy, other things cannot be seen;
but the light is there, and that is all I need.' Her
belief was in the existence of God, the goodness of
Providence and the immortality of the soul. George Sand
was an adept in natural religion." "The soul is immortal- well then,
if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived
for a whole eternity." "The tomb is not a blind alley: it
is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on
the dawn." "The soul of man is like to water;
from Heaven it cometh, to Heaven it riseth… "My life often seemed to me like a
story that has no beginning and no end. I had the feeling
that I was an historical fragment, an excerpt for which
the preceding and succeeding text was missing. I could
well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries
and there encountered questions I was not yet able to
answer; that I had been born again because I had not
fulfilled the task given to me." "I know I am deathless. No doubt I
have died myself ten thousand times before. I laugh at
what you call dissolution, and I know the amplitude of
time." "All life changes its aspect when
reincarnation becomes a settled conviction, beyond all
argument, raised above all dispute. Each day of life but
one page in the great drama of existence; each sorrow but
a fleeting shadow cast by a passing cloud; each joy but a
gleam of sunshine reflected from a swinging mirror; each
death but the moving from a worn-out house. The strength
of an eternal youth begins slowly to pass into the
awakening life; the calmness of a vast serenity broods
over the tossing waves of human thought. The radiant
glory of the immortal Intelligence pierces the thick
dusky clouds of matter, and the imperishable Peace that
nought can ruffle sheds its pure whiteness over the
triumphant spirit." "We do not believe in immortality
because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because
we cannot help believing it." "Life is eternal, and love is
immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is
nothing save the limit of our sight." |
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"As
Jesus passed by, he saw a man who was blind from his
birth. So his disciples asked him, saying, 'Master, who
did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born
blind?' Jesus answered, Neither hath this man
sinned, nor his parents: but the works of God should be
made manifest in him."
"Reincarnation
is not an exclusively Hindu or Buddhist concept, but it
is part of the history of human origin. It is proof of
the mindstream's capacity to retain knowledge of physical
and mental activities. It is related to the theory of
interdependent origination and to the law of cause and
effect."
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