Quotes About Reincarnation

Carlo: Do you feel that evil can be reincarnated? Ramirez: I hope so. [laughs]

If Jesus ever comes back to earth again, I'm thinking, he'll come as a dog, because there isn't anything as humble or patient or loving or loyal as the dog I have in my arms right now.

You only live once, except for Shirley MacLaine.

I think that, when you die, you go back to where you came from before you were born. So I don't think death is a bad thing.

I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.

MOYERS: And what does the idea of reincarnation suggest? CAMPBELL: It suggests that you are more than you think you are. There are dimensions of your being and a potential for realization and consciousness that are not included in your concept of yourself. Your life is much deeper and broader than you conceive it to be here.

Children were the foot wedged in the closing door, the glimmer of hope that in reincarnation there would be some house to go to, even if one came back as a dog, or a mouse, or flea that lived on the bodies of men. If...there was a raising of the dead, then a child would be sure to see that its parents were awakened.

Children were the foot wedged in the closing door, the glimmer of hope that in reincarnation there would be some house to go to, even if one came back as a dog, or a mouse, or a flea that lived on the bodies of men.

understood for the first time that having a child was about cheating death. Children were the foot wedged in the closing door, the glimmer of hope that in reincarnation there would be some house to go to, even if one came back as a dog, or a mouse, or a flea that lived on the bodies of men. If

Then again, you only live a few times, so why not be happy? Why be hard on yourself? Why be hard on yourself for who you had been in a previous life? Why be hard on yourself for who you had been before you'd understood the laws? Especially when you couldn't—if you were being honest with yourself—you couldn't really be sure you understood the laws now? Like maybe the laws weren't even

I'm pretty sure that I was JFK in my past life.

I think I was probably a cowboy in a past life.

I think maybe I was a shepherdess in a past life.

I feel I must have been an elephant in a former life. I love the sensitivity and peaceful force of these creatures.

Poul is gone, now, more's the pity — he was a neighbor of mine out here in California, and a friend for more than forty years — but his books live on, and I'm happy to see his lovely High Crusade coming into a new incarnation now. —Robert Silverberg, April 2010

Souls never die, but always on quitting one abode pass to another. All things change, nothing perishes. The soul passes hither and thither, occupying now this body, now that . . . As a wax is stamped with certain figures, then melted, then stamped anew with others, yet it is always the same wax. So, the Soul being always the same, yet wears at different times different forms.

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.

I reckon I probably worked for Euripides a long time ago. I do think we have many Earth walks and it's possible that he's an old friend. Does that sound too stupid for words? Quite frankly I think I've been an actor in so many lifetimes.

Death has such great importance in this society that it affects everything. I learned from my guru that death is not the enemy, I see it as another moment. Yet it's the end of an incarnation and means going on to other incarnations.

As long as one feels that he is the doer, he cannot escape from the wheel of births."—Buddha

Recently she had been going through a period of adolescent melancholia, often talking with her mother, a nurse, about death. She would, she hoped, be some day reincarnated as a cat.

When this physical body is no more capable of functioning, energies do not die with it, but continue to take some other shape or form, which we call another life.

When this physical body is no more capable of functioning, energies do not die with it, but continue to take some other shape or form, which we call another life. In a child all the physical, mental and intellectual faculties are tender and weak, but they have within them the potentiality of producing a full grown man. Physical and mental energies which constitute the so-called being have within themselves the power to take a new form, and grow gradually and gather force to the full.

The circularity of karma is explicitly set from the time of creation: You must be what you are; you cannot change your qualities.