Gustave Meyrink Quotes

Each one of us decides to incarnate upon this planet at a particular point in time and space. We have chosen to come here to learn a particular lesson that will advance us upon our spiritual, evolutionary pathway.

If one marries out of necessity, he will have to reincarnate to reach the point where he wants to live only for God.

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.

If we were all perfected beings, we wouldn't be here in the physical world.

The spirit knows that its growth is the real aim of existence.

Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even get the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand! And then another hundred lives until we began to learn that there is such a thing as perfection, and another hundred again to get the idea that our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth... we choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.

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

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

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

I'm on a missionary journey to become the best version of myself.

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.

I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative.

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment.

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

The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain.

The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand this because I have forgotten.

Every living being has the potential to become a Buddha: someone who has completely purified his or her mind of all faults and limitations and has brought all good qualities to perfection.

My whole belief system is that our paths are drawn for us. I believe in reincarnation. I believe we're here to learn and grow. We choose how we come into this life based on what it is we have to learn. Some people have harder lessons than others.

I believe in past lives but I know nothing about mine and I don't want to know. I live in the present, taking one day at a time.

Karma, memory, and desire are just the software of the soul. It's conditioning that the soul undergoes in order to create experience. And it's a cycle. In most people, the cycle is a conditioned response. They do the same things over and over again.