Parker Palmer Quotes

The seed dies into a new life, and so does man.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Die and born again, die and born again. It's the story of my life.

Death is not just the end, it's the beginning.

Death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

We are not as we were. Death has been our pentecost.

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Death is the beginning of something.

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.

If you come back from the dead, you don't have the same value system, I think.

I was reborn," she said, her hot breath brushing his ear. "You were reborn," Tengo said. "Because I died once." "You died once," Tengo repeated. "On a night when there was a cold rain falling," she said. "Why did you die?" "So I would be reborn like this." "You would be reborn," Tengo said. "More or less," she whispered quietly. "In all sorts of forms.

Only where there are graves are there resurrections.

By daily dying, I have come to be.

You may be reborn a thousand times, but you can never know the real, for only that which dies, that which comes to an end, can renew itself.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, and I can't wait to experience that.

There is no death, only a change of worlds.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.

The first step to eternal life is you have to die.

Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.