16. "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?
- Jalalu 'D-Din Rumi, Sufi poet
17. "The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another,
and pass from body to body."
- Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher during Renaissance sentenced to
be burned at the stake by the Inquisition for his teachings about reincarnation
18. "It is a secret of the world that all things subsist and so 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 mournful obituaries,
and there they stand looking out of the window, sound and well, in some new
and strange disguise."
- Emerson (The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson)
19. "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 whose starry plains are but the vestibule
of spiritual worlds?"
- Honore Balzac (Seraphita)
20. "We all have some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally,
of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote
time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects,
and circumstances."
- Charles Dickens (David Copperfield)
21. "Genius is experience. Some seem to think that it is a gift or talent,
but it is the fruit of long experience in many lives."
- Henry Ford
22. "Some people believe that we go on living in another body after death,
that we lived before. They call it reincarnation. That we all lived before on
the earth thousands of years ago or on some other planet. They say we have forgotten
it. Some say they remember their past lives."
- James Joyce (Ulysses)
23. "I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries
and there encountered questions in was not yet able to answer; that I had to
be born again because I had not fulfilled the task that was given to me."
- Carl Jung
24. "The doctrine of transmigration… was a means of constructing
a plausible vindication of the ways of the cosmos to man; … none but very
hasty thinkers will reject it on the grounds of inherent absurdity."
- Thomas Huxley
25. "Let us face it: 'deep down' nobody in his right mind can visualize
his own existence without assuming that he has always lived and will live hereafter."
- American psychoanalyst Erik Erikson
26. "It's so silly. All you do is get the heck out of your body when you
die. My gosh, everybody's done it thousands of times. Just because they don't
remember, it doesn't mean they haven't done it."
- J D Salinger
27. "I hold that when a person dies / His soul returns again to earth;
/ Arrayed in some new flesh disguise / Another mother gives him birth / With
sturdier limbs and brighter brain."
- John Masefield
28. "Friends are all souls that we've known in other lives. We're drawn
to each other. That's how I feel about friends. 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."
- George Harrison
29. "Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation
and a justification of the evil of the world? If the evils we suffer are the
result of sins committed in our past lives, we can bear them with resignation
and hope that if in this one we strive toward virtue out future lives will be
less afflicted."
- W Somerset Maugham (The Razor's Edge)
30. "The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyone…
Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though the body is slain."
- Emerson quoting Katha Upanisad
