Quotes About Continuity

There is such a thing as reincarnation. If you teach long enough, the same kids keep coming back again.

My father used to say the seeds of the past bear fruit in the present.

Those were the times. Those were still the times, and maybe always would be.

They don't see that you can't have a future without a past.

Thinking creates feeling, and then feeling creates thinking, in a continuous cycle. This

Minutes did not pass, collecting into hours. There was no point in thinking about time in the old way. There was only one moment and then another moment, in a string of moments that went on in a quiet, deadly procession.

Flowing means it didn't stop.

I have no use for before and after pictures. I can't remember starting, and I am never done.

We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

The next generation will always surpass the previous one. It's one of the never-ending cycles in life.

Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.

The smallest sprout shows there is really no death. And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it.

We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then... life goes on.

Life doesn't have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.

People say life begins at conception, I say life began about a billion years ago and it's a continuous process.

Every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years.

What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.

Shows have asked a lot of actors to take cuts. Shows are going off the air. So okay, life goes on.

every act of one's life is the unavoidable result of every act that has preceded it.

I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

Life has never died, which is something that I think people ignore.

I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood.

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.