For me reincarnation happens to be a fact,
because I remember certain things.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986)
Indian Spiritual Philosopher, Writer and Speaker
My life often seemed to me
like a story that has no beginning and no end.
I had the feeling that I was 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 reborn again because I had not fulfilled the task given to me.
-Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Swiss Psychologist
like a story that has no beginning and no end.
I had the feeling that I was 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 reborn again because I had not fulfilled the task given to me.
-Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Swiss Psychologist
Do you not know great and rare men
who cannot have become what they are at once, in a single human existence?
Who must often have existed before
in order to have attained that purity of feeling,
that instinctive impulse for all that is true, beautiful and good -
in short, that elevation and natural supremacy over all around them?...
Have you observed that children will sometimes,
of a sudden, give utterance to ideas
which makes us wonder how they got possession of them;...
Have you never had remembrances of a former state,
which you could find no place for in this life?...
Have you not seen persons, been in places,
of which you had seen those persons, or had been in those places before?
-J. G. von Herder (1744-1803)
German Philosopher, Theologian, Poet and Literary Critic
who cannot have become what they are at once, in a single human existence?
Who must often have existed before
in order to have attained that purity of feeling,
that instinctive impulse for all that is true, beautiful and good -
in short, that elevation and natural supremacy over all around them?...
Have you observed that children will sometimes,
of a sudden, give utterance to ideas
which makes us wonder how they got possession of them;...
Have you never had remembrances of a former state,
which you could find no place for in this life?...
Have you not seen persons, been in places,
of which you had seen those persons, or had been in those places before?
-J. G. von Herder (1744-1803)
German Philosopher, Theologian, Poet and Literary Critic
All my life I have had an awareness of other times, and places.
I have been aware of other persons in me...
I, like any man, am a growth.
I did not begin when I was born nor when I was conceived.
I have been growing, developing,
through incalculable myriads of millenniums.
All these experiences of all these lives
have gone to the making of the soul-stuff or the spirit-stuff that is I...
All my previous selves have their voices, echoes prompting in me...
My days are few, but the stuff of me is indestructible...
I have been woman born of woman.
I have been a woman and borne my children.
And I shall be born again.
Oh, incalculable times again shall I be born...
-Jack London (1876-1916)
American Author
I have been aware of other persons in me...
I, like any man, am a growth.
I did not begin when I was born nor when I was conceived.
I have been growing, developing,
through incalculable myriads of millenniums.
All these experiences of all these lives
have gone to the making of the soul-stuff or the spirit-stuff that is I...
All my previous selves have their voices, echoes prompting in me...
My days are few, but the stuff of me is indestructible...
I have been woman born of woman.
I have been a woman and borne my children.
And I shall be born again.
Oh, incalculable times again shall I be born...
-Jack London (1876-1916)
American Author
Work is futile if we cannot utilize the experience
we collect in one life in the next.
When I discovered reincarnation
it was as if I had found a universal plan.
I realized that there was a chance to work out my ideas.
Time was no longer limited.
I was no longer a slave to the hands of the clock.
Genius is experience. Some seem to think it is a gift or talent,
but it is the fruit of long experience of many lives.
-Henry Ford (1863-1947)
American Founder of Ford Motor Company
we collect in one life in the next.
When I discovered reincarnation
it was as if I had found a universal plan.
I realized that there was a chance to work out my ideas.
Time was no longer limited.
I was no longer a slave to the hands of the clock.
Genius is experience. Some seem to think it is a gift or talent,
but it is the fruit of long experience of many lives.
-Henry Ford (1863-1947)
American Founder of Ford Motor Company
Where is there an old man
who would not like to feel certain that he would be born again
and bring back into another life
the experience he has gained in the present one?...
We must recognize that we have already lived
before being what we now are,
and that many other lives await us,
some in this world, and the rest in a higher sphere,
with a finer body and more delicate senses.
-Francois Fourier (1772-1837)
French Philosopher and Socialist
who would not like to feel certain that he would be born again
and bring back into another life
the experience he has gained in the present one?...
We must recognize that we have already lived
before being what we now are,
and that many other lives await us,
some in this world, and the rest in a higher sphere,
with a finer body and more delicate senses.
-Francois Fourier (1772-1837)
French Philosopher and Socialist
When I go down to the grave I can say like many others
"I have finished by day's work,"
but I can not say, "I have finished my life."
My day's work will begin again the next morning.
The tomb is not a blind alley; it is a thoroughfare.
It closes at twilight. It opens at dawn.
-Victor Hugo (1773-1828)
French Poet, Novelist and Dramatist
"I have finished by day's work,"
but I can not say, "I have finished my life."
My day's work will begin again the next morning.
The tomb is not a blind alley; it is a thoroughfare.
It closes at twilight. It opens at dawn.
-Victor Hugo (1773-1828)
French Poet, Novelist and Dramatist
There is no death of anything save in appearance.
That which passes over from essence to nature seems to be birth,
and what passes over from nature to essence seems to be death.
Nothing really is originated, and nothing ever perishes;
but only now comes into sight and now vanishes.
It appears by reason of the density of matter,
and disappears by reason of the tenuity of essence.
But it is always the same, differing only in motion and condition.
-Apollonius of Tyana (First Century A.D.)
Greek Philosopher and Teacher
That which passes over from essence to nature seems to be birth,
and what passes over from nature to essence seems to be death.
Nothing really is originated, and nothing ever perishes;
but only now comes into sight and now vanishes.
It appears by reason of the density of matter,
and disappears by reason of the tenuity of essence.
But it is always the same, differing only in motion and condition.
-Apollonius of Tyana (First Century A.D.)
Greek Philosopher and Teacher
Look nature through; 'tis revolution all,
All change; no death. Day follows night, and night
The dying day; stars rise and set, and set and rise.
Earth takes the example. All to reflourish fades
As in a wheel; all sinks to reascend;
Emblems of man, who passes, not expires.
Seem it strange that thou shouldst live forever?
Is it less strange that thou shouldst live at all?
This is a miracle; and that no more.
-Edward Young (1683-1765)
English Poet
All change; no death. Day follows night, and night
The dying day; stars rise and set, and set and rise.
Earth takes the example. All to reflourish fades
As in a wheel; all sinks to reascend;
Emblems of man, who passes, not expires.
Seem it strange that thou shouldst live forever?
Is it less strange that thou shouldst live at all?
This is a miracle; and that no more.
-Edward Young (1683-1765)
English Poet
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 one is immortal.
-Werhner von Braun (1912-1977)
German Rocket Engineer
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 one is immortal.
-Werhner von Braun (1912-1977)
German Rocket Engineer
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.
-Tenzin Gyatso, The Dalai Lama (1935-)
Tibetan Spiritual Leader
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.
-Tenzin Gyatso, The Dalai Lama (1935-)
Tibetan Spiritual Leader
Let us return to reincarnation...
for there never was a more beautiful,
a juster, a purer, a more moral, fruitful and consoling,
nor, to a certain point, a more probable creed...
It alone, with its doctrine
of successive expiations and purifications,
accounts for all the physical and intellectual inequalities,
all the social inequalities, all the hideous injustices of fate.
-Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949)
Belgian Playwright, Poet and Essayist
for there never was a more beautiful,
a juster, a purer, a more moral, fruitful and consoling,
nor, to a certain point, a more probable creed...
It alone, with its doctrine
of successive expiations and purifications,
accounts for all the physical and intellectual inequalities,
all the social inequalities, all the hideous injustices of fate.
-Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949)
Belgian Playwright, Poet and Essayist
The idea of reincarnation shows us
the path of development through the ages
of time and space, who from a certain moment on
- designated in the Bible as the Fall of Man -
was endowed with freedom to choose good or evil,
and who had the opportunity in ever new human incarnations,
with extensive intervening periods
for purification, rest and inner development,
to work its way upward to the Christ, or downward to the anti-Christ.
-Christian Morgenstern (1871-1914)
German Author and Poet
the path of development through the ages
of time and space, who from a certain moment on
- designated in the Bible as the Fall of Man -
was endowed with freedom to choose good or evil,
and who had the opportunity in ever new human incarnations,
with extensive intervening periods
for purification, rest and inner development,
to work its way upward to the Christ, or downward to the anti-Christ.
-Christian Morgenstern (1871-1914)
German Author and Poet
It is not the first time that you live
Garbed in this human form:
Again you will be born, again you will meet death,
With each passing period becoming more enlightened.
Finally, because of these transitions,
You will attain the ultimate perfection of human nature;
Now, as a mature soul you will rise
High above us all,
Suddenly as a new star appears
Among the stars in rank with gods.
-Appollon N. Maykov (1821-1897)
Russian Poet
Garbed in this human form:
Again you will be born, again you will meet death,
With each passing period becoming more enlightened.
Finally, because of these transitions,
You will attain the ultimate perfection of human nature;
Now, as a mature soul you will rise
High above us all,
Suddenly as a new star appears
Among the stars in rank with gods.
-Appollon N. Maykov (1821-1897)
Russian Poet
There is reincarnation,
but not in the same sense in which it is generally expounded.
There is in our (spirit) world a spiritual diamond
which has many, many facets.
These come into your world to gain experience
and to add their quota to the diamond's lustre and brilliance.
Thus the personalities that are incarnated
are facets of the one individuality.
-Maurice Barbanell, "Silver Birch" (1902-1981)
English Medium
but not in the same sense in which it is generally expounded.
There is in our (spirit) world a spiritual diamond
which has many, many facets.
These come into your world to gain experience
and to add their quota to the diamond's lustre and brilliance.
Thus the personalities that are incarnated
are facets of the one individuality.
-Maurice Barbanell, "Silver Birch" (1902-1981)
English Medium
The question which arises so naturally in the mind
and which is so often asked:
"Why do I not remember my past lives?"
is really based on a misconception of the theory of reincarnation.
"I," the true "I," does remember;
but the animal-man, not yet in full responsive union with his true Self,
cannot remember a past in which he, personally, had no share.
Brain-memory can contain only a record of the events
in which the brain has been concerned.
-Annie Besant (1847-1933)
Theosophist, Writer and Orator
and which is so often asked:
"Why do I not remember my past lives?"
is really based on a misconception of the theory of reincarnation.
"I," the true "I," does remember;
but the animal-man, not yet in full responsive union with his true Self,
cannot remember a past in which he, personally, had no share.
Brain-memory can contain only a record of the events
in which the brain has been concerned.
-Annie Besant (1847-1933)
Theosophist, Writer and Orator
It is this certainty that gives meaning to life
and it does not make the slightest difference
whether or not is a later incarnation
we remember the former life.
What counts is not the individual and his comfort,
but the great aspiration to the perfect and the pure
which goes on in each incarnation.
-Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Austrian Composer and Conductor
and it does not make the slightest difference
whether or not is a later incarnation
we remember the former life.
What counts is not the individual and his comfort,
but the great aspiration to the perfect and the pure
which goes on in each incarnation.
-Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Austrian Composer and Conductor
The Body of B. Franklin,
Printer,
Like the Cover of an Old Book,
Its Contents Torn Out
And Stripped of its Lettering and Gilding,
Lies Here
Food for Worms,
But the Work shall not be Lost,
For it Will as He Believed
Appear Once More
In a New and more Elegant Edition
Revised and Corrected
By the Author.
-Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
American Statesman, Printer, Writer and Inventor
(Epitaph written by himself at age 22)
Printer,
Like the Cover of an Old Book,
Its Contents Torn Out
And Stripped of its Lettering and Gilding,
Lies Here
Food for Worms,
But the Work shall not be Lost,
For it Will as He Believed
Appear Once More
In a New and more Elegant Edition
Revised and Corrected
By the Author.
-Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
American Statesman, Printer, Writer and Inventor
(Epitaph written by himself at age 22)
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