Leo Tolstoy Quotes

You know, if you hang around this earth long enough you really see how things come full circle.

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

From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

I believe that life is basically a process of growth-that we go through many lives, choosing those situations and problems that we will learn through.

As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race... and the hearts of the meanest were humbled.

The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation.

If you had been poor in your last life I would have asked you to be rich when you come again. But you were rich. If you had been a coward, I would have asked you to bring courage. But you were a fearless warrior. If you had died young, I would have asked you to get life. But you lived long. So I shall ask you to come again the way you came before.

I adopted the theory of Reincarnation when I was twenty six. Religion offered nothing to the point. Even work could not give me complete satisfaction. Work is futile if we cannot utilise the experience we collect in one life in the next. When I discovered Reincarnation... time was no longer limited. I was no longer a slave to the hands of the clock... I would like to communicate to others the calmness that the long view of life gives to us.

Death in my mind isn't a finality. There's a continuum: It's like at night, you go to sleep and in the daytime you wake up, or whenever you wake up, and it's a new day.

I want to save lives, including my own, but Cambodians believe we just rent this body. It is just a house for the spirit, and if the house is full of termites, it is time to leave.

I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?

Many instances exist of small children who seem to remember and describe their previous life in another body, another place, and with other people. These memories emerge usually shortly after these children begin to talk.

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?

In my beginning is my end.

I don't believe in any particular definition of the afterlife, but I do believe we're spiritual creatures and more than our biology and that energy cannot be destroyed, but can change. I don't know what the afterlife is going to be, but I'm not afraid of it.

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

Life comes full circle.

I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.

Either we are in the universe to inhabit the eternity of our souls and grow real, or else we might as well dedicate our days to shopping and kill time watching talk-shows.

One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other.

I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I have looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life.

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

I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die.

I hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am dead.