Reincarnation quotes from well-known people

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Benjamin Franklin

 

" I look upon death to be as necessary to the constitution as sleep.

We shall rise refreshed in the morning. " And, " Finding myself to

exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other always

exist. "

 

 

 

Jack London, author, best known for book Call of the Wild

 

" I did not begin when I was born, nor when I was conceived. I have

been growing, developing, through incalculable myriads of

millenniums. All my previous selves have their voices, echoes,

promptings in me. Oh, incalculable times again shall I be born. "

 

 

 

Napoleon

 

Napoleon was fond of telling his generals that he believed in the law

of reincarnation and even told them who he believed to have been in a

previous life.

 

 

 

Mark Twain

 

" I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna. "

 

 

 

Leo Tolstoy

 

" As we live through thousands of dreams in our present life, so is

our present life only one of many thousands of such lives which we

enter from the other more real life and then return after death. Our

life is but one of the dreams of that more real life, and so it is

endlessly, until the very last one, the very real the life of God. "

 

 

 

Henry Ford

 

" I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was 26. Genius is

experience. Some think to seem that it is a gift or talent, but it is

the fruit of long experience in many lives " .

 

 

 

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (German poet, playwright and scientist)

 

" As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be

Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth. "

 

 

 

Freidrich Nietzsche

 

" Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty -

for in any case thou wilt live again! "

 

 

 

Mahatma Ghandi

 

" I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man, and

believing as I do in the theory of reincarnation, I live in the hope

that if not in this birth, in some other birth I shall be able to hug

all of humanity in friendly embrace. "

 

 

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

" The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary

abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations,

for the soul is immortal. " " It is the secret of the world that all

things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight

and afterwards return again. Nothing is dead; men feign themselves

dead, and endure mock funerals… and there they stand looking out

of the window, sound and well, in some strange new disguise. "

 

 

 

General George S. Patton

 

" So as through a glass and darkly, the age long strife I see, Where I

fought in many guises, many names, but always me. "

 

 

 

Albert Schweitzer

 

" Reincarnation contains a most comforting explanation of reality by

means of which Indian thought surmounts difficulties which baffle the

thinkers of Europe. "

 

 

 

Walt Whitman

 

" I know I am deathless. No doubt I have died myself ten thousand

times before. I laugh at what you call dissolution, and I know the

amplitude of time. "

 

 

 

William Wordsworth

 

" Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with

us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting. And cometh from

afar. "

 

 

 

Jalalu Rumi (Islamic Poet of the 13th century)

 

" I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose

to animal, I died as animal and I was man. Why should I fear ? When

was I less by dying? "

 

 

 

Carl Jung

 

" My life often seemed to me like a story that has no beginning and no

end. I had the feeling that I was an 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

born again because I had not fulfilled the task given to me. "

 

 

 

Henry David Thoreau

 

" Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off

of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes. "

 

 

 

Socrates

 

" I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again,

that the living spring from the dead, and that the souls of the dead

are in existence. "

 

 

 

Jesus Christ in Gnostic Gospels: Pistis Sophia

 

" Souls are poured from one into another of different kinds of bodies

of the world. "

 

 

 

Voltaire

 

It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in

nature is resurrection. "

 

 

 

Josephus (most well known Jewish historian from the time of Jesus)

 

" All pure and holy spirits live on in heavenly places, and in course

of time they are again sent down to inhabit righteous bodies. "

 

 

 

Honore Balzac (French writer)

 

" All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many

fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can be brought to

understand the value of that silence and solitude of spiritual

worlds? "

 

 

 

Arthur Schopenhauer (Philosopher)

 

" Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be

forced to answer him: It is that part of the world which is haunted

by the incredible delusion that man was created out of nothing, and

that his present birth is his first entrance into life. "

 

 

 

Paul Gauguin (French post-impressionist painter)

 

" When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then

takes on another body. "

 

 

 

George Harrison

 

" Friends are all souls that we've known in other lives. We're drawn

to each other. Even if I have only known them a day., it doesn't

matter. I'm not going to wait till I have known them for two years,

because anyway, we must have met somewhere before, you know. "