Quotes About Rebirth

The only place where you can regain lost paradises

There is a need for individuals to find ways of transcending their limiting identities, of periodically committing egocide. The submission to God by following transformative spiritual practices can more safely engage the death-rebirth transcendence axis. Some cultures have elaborate and cathartic rites of passage for every stage of life. Our culture has not fostered safe death and rebirth rituals. So people create their own, consciously or unconsciously.

A world he'd waited for to be born came into being with my return to him, and I was now the source of it. I

Mountains fall and seas divide and impossible things may seem but where there's despair there is and faith and where there's sadness the consolation is near. Every breath is a chance to reborn, but to be reborn you have to die before dying.

Is life worth living? Yes, so long As Spring revives the year, And hails us with the cuckoo's song, To show that she is here; So long as May of April takes, In smiles and tears, farewell, And windflowers dapple all the brakes, And primroses the dell.

The lotus comes from the murkiest water but grows into the purest thing.

I would honestly be elated if I could wave a magic wand and eradicate my back catalog and then have a fresh crack at some of those ideas.

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.

I'll take a redrum with a rellik please.

From my personal point of view, the Animals are dead. They killed themselves.

It's almost died, classical dance.

There is nothing we've done that can't be wiped clean by Christ.

Being born again means you have a new concept of yourself.

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

Il craint de s'évanouir, de ne pas reprendre connaissance, de rester à jamais errant dans l'air bleu, fantôme dérisoire en suspens au-dessus des siècles, jusqu'à ce que l'appareil, détraqué, laisse un jour tomber ses cendres, en bouffées légères, sur une civilisation nouvelle.

Who would dare to say that what we have destroyed was worth a hundred times more than what we had dreamt and ceaselessly transfigured in murmuring to the ruins?

Everyone needs faith: faith that even though the world is full of evil, a suitor will come and kiss us awake; faith that the girl will escape the tower, the big bad wolf will die, and even those poisoned by malevolence can be reborn, as innocent as purity itself.

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned   W. B. Yeats 'The Second Coming

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

Dying is easy. Anyone can do it. Living is the problem – Lazarus has been brought back to life and he can't explain himself.

Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again." ? Gautama Buddha

Wilde had to live his life twice over, first in slow motion, then at top speed. During the first period he was a scapegrace, during the second a scapegoat. For the three and a half years he lived after his release from prison, he saw pass before him, mostly in dumb show, a multitude of people he had known earlier, who evaded him.

Pleasures in life are like a flowing river. You float away on them and are carried from lifetime to lifetime. They pursue you like hunter pursues his prey. The cycle of birth, death and rebirth goes on and on. It is a long journey for those who do not know the dharma.