Ram Dass Quotes

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.

I love graveyards. To some, it might sound morbid, but there's nothing dark about the natural cycles of life, really.

Death is the Graduation of the Soul

I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another

There is another side to death. Whether death happens through an act of violence to a large number of people or to an individual, whether death comes prematurely through illness or accident, or whether death comes through old age, death is always an opening. So a great opportunity comes whenever we face death.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.

But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.

I am through with this body, and what becomes of it will make no difference with me in the future.

If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Corporeal death is not the whole story.

I've always been so curious about death. With my personal beliefs as a Baha'i, we believe that birth and death are very similar and that we're here on this Earth to develop all of the things we can't see.

I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.

For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me.

I don't believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

Then you must look for a new body. That's what we call reincarnation.

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

There is no death, only a change of worlds.