Stanislav Grof Quotes

I don't believe in reincarnation, and I didn't believe in it when I was a hamster.

I believe in reincarnation, and I believe I've lived quite a few lives.

I believe in reincarnation of the soul.

I wish there was such a thing as reincarnation.

Reincarnation occurs because we decide that we haven't learned enough lessons.

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.

Obviously I believe in reincarnation and all that kind of stuff - I don't think anyone's going to be surprised to hear that.

Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

I don't really know if things go from one life to another. I don't know if there's another life after this. I don't want to know.

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.

When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine.

I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no death the way we understood it. The body dies, but not the soul.

The 'Course in Miracles' says one day you will realize that death is not the punishment but the reward. And it says that birth is not the beginning of life but a continuation. And physical death is not the end of life but a continuation.

We must assimilate the thought that life between death and a new birth is so constituted that everything we do awakens an echo in the environment.

What is of the nature of spirit and soul must be gleaned from facts belonging to the spirit and soul; we shall then know that in the living thinking which is liberated from the will, a life-germ has been discerned which passes through the gate of death, goes through the spiritual world after death, and afterwards returns again to earthly life.

Life is an endless cycle for those who believe in reincarnation.

Death is just a continuation of life.

If death were the end, then there is no God, and there are no realised masters - it is all a pack of lies. The great ones wouldn't urge you to became better, for what would be the use if, good or bad, we are all junked at the end of life? What would be the value of the scriptures? There would be no justice whatsoever if this present existence is all there is to each individual life. What of those souls who lived only a few years, or lived in blind or crippled bodies?

Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.

It's a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe we've come back during this time, those of us who are here now, specifically to experience it. And to cause a 'quickening of the spirit.'

I'm pretty sure that I was JFK in my past life.

A part of me feels like I was an animal in my past life that wasn't treated very nicely.

It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times, if you know how.