Quotes About Rebirth

Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.

I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.

It makes sense that the placenta almost looks like a tree with many branches - a tree of life.

"If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves." E.Abbey

No one can look at a pine tree in winter without knowing that spring will come again in due time.

Just as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its roots remain uncut and firm, even so, until the craving that lies dormant is rooted out, suffering springs up again and again.

The tree is stripped, All color, fragrance gone, Yet already on the bough, Uncaring spring!

My mother, she killed me, My father, he ate me, My sister Marlene, Gathered all my bones, Tied them in a silken scarf, Laid them beneath the juniper tree, Tweet, tweet, what a beautiful bird am I.

Chopped down the tree of peace, but it will grow again.

I want to be reborn as a tree; that way I can plant my roots down, never move and can never be separated from the ones I love.

Truth crushed to earth shall rise again.

Truth crushed to earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.

Sometimes something comes along and tears your roots right out the ground, and that's when you know you been planted too long.

To a true collector, the acquisition of an old book is its rebirth," Oscar quoted, absent self-consciousness.

People often ask me, "What is the S?t? Zen view of rebirth?" This is a difficult question because D?gen Zenji, I believe, advocates "not knowing" in this case. Rather than offering us a consistent view on rebirth, he teaches that we should let go of our limiting concepts and beliefs and simply practice right here, right now.

When D?gen says in Sh?b?genz? Sh?ji (Life and Death) that "life and death is Buddha's Life," he means our life in samsara is nothing other than nirvana.

If rebirth exists, that is all right: I will simply try to continue practicing everything good and refrain from everything bad through my next life. If there is no rebirth, I will have nothing to do after my death and I will have no need to consider my practice. This was my view of rebirth for most of my life as a Buddhist.

I suppose the key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth and hope that at any moment we can all be reborn.

You are hatching from the past.

It'd be cool if God gave everyone a Do Over Day and you could yell "Do Over!" and the day would start new.

It would be cool if god gave every a do over day and you could yell, "do over!" and the day would start new. This would definitely qualify for a DOD.

To keep our eyes open longer were but to act our Antipodes. The huntsmen are up in America, and they are already past their first sleep in Persia. But who can be drowsy at that hour which freed us from everlasting sleep? or have slumbering thoughts at that time, when sleep itself must end, and, as some conjecture, all shall awake again?

Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer.

Miracles are to come. With you I leave a remembrance of miracles: they are by somebody who can love and who shall be continually reborn, a human being.