A wide and vague impression exists that so-called Eastern religion is more contemplative, innocuous, and humane than the proselytizing monotheisms of the West. Don’t believe a word of this: try asking the children of Indochina...

An empty bottle of Jack is almost just as beautiful as a new and unopened bottle…in the same sense as looking down at muddied feet, and looking back the way you came. The journey you’ve...

No matter how you arrive at the awareness and belief that you’ve lived before and will live again, the most lasting healing benefit will be the change in your attitude. You are creating your future...

He would reach for me in the middle of the night, nearly every single night, wrapping one of those solid arms around my waist and pulling me in close. So. Close.

We live and we die, but we are made of sterner stuff. The carbon atoms in our fingernails, the calcium in our bones, the iron atoms in our blood — all the countless trillions of...

We travel with the same clan over and over again, from one life to the next, until some ultimate purpose is fulfilled and we no longer need to return.

Old Soul” came from in the first place.

My eyes went straight to a soft woman who sat facing the wrong way at the bar top. Soft, because I knew if I were to touch her skin, it would feel like a peach,...

I was not born for death and yet I have died a thousand times, he thought. And now I am born again for these hard times.

There was a bright flash of brilliant white light, like the midday summer sun reflecting off of a freshly cleaned mirror.And then it was gone.

IGNORANCE is without gaining Knowledge & Knowledge is gained without IGNORANCE

With riddles as black as coals, and answers as invisible as our past, I can only depend upon the crest of the rolling wave I now traversed; a romance worshiped only by the dreamer in...

…knowing about your past lives is worse than useless if that knowledge doesn’t bring you some kind of positive change or healing.

I melted into the dream as if I had always been there. I knew where I had come from; I knew where I was going.

All three explanations—eternal life, reincarnation, and nothingness—are descriptions of the same reality.

Do you believe that we have the ability to change destiny?

The love of every single one of my lives.

If you ask me, reincarnation is just another way to procrastinate.

You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don’t need anyone else. I need you, she replied.Well, I said. Maybe I’ll come back as catnip.

You have to remember one life, one death–this one! To enter fully the day, the hour, the moment whether it appears as life or death, whether we catch it on the inbreath or outbreath, requires...

In life, you have 3 choices. Give up, give in, or give it your all.

I’d rather believe in reincarnation than hell. The idea of an afterlife is much so more tolerable when returning is an option.

You know the answer already, don’t you?” Coriskancsia replied gently.

He made me feel unhinged . . . like he could take me apart and put me back together again and again.

Because there are worse punishments than death. Live with your guilt, old man. May it rot in your heart and kill you slowly for manyyears to come.

Have you ever met someone and felt like you’ve known them forever?

All who live possess eternal life, and few would trade it for an immortal body, if they truly understood what it is to be alive.

Yes, I am white now,’ said Gandalf. ‘Indeed I am Saruman, one might almost say, Saruman as he should have been.

If you’re really a mean person you’re going to come back as a fly and eat poop.

Until we find out who was born this time around, it seems irrelevant to seek earlier identities. I have heard many people speak of who they believe they were in previous incarnations, but they seem...

It is through your experience you find out who you really are and who you are is from finding your own experience who really defines you.

Achala, worrying and scheming about your next life, before you have even completed this one, is not a good practice.” Rinpoche

A theory of personal resurrection or reincarnation of the individual is untenable when we but pause to consider the magnitude of the idea. On the contrary, I must believe that rather than the survival of...

I don’t think that science and the paranormal have to be at war; in fact, it’s crucial that they work together. It seems naïve to believe that the world is exactly as it seems.

He’d given up his mortality, his soul, for this moment, this second chance, and if she fell in love with him again, he needed to know it was real.

No one, good or evil, ceases to exist; life is energy and energy cannot be created or destroyed; it is recycled.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud. ”—Psychiatrist Dr. Carl Jung in a 1919 address to the Society for Psychical Research in England

I like the relaxed way in which the Japanese approach religion. I think of myself as basically a moral person, but I’m definitely not religious, and I’m very tired of the preachiness and obsession with...

If the soul is immortal then it is one with the Godhead.

We do not remember days, Shemei, we remember moments, and the richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

I Only Believe What I See But I Question Everything I Hear

Hardly has the universe stretched its wings to spanWhen it gathers to egg once more

To understand karma, you must realize that thoughts are things. The very universe…is composed not of matter but of consciousness. Matter responds, far more than most people realize, to the power of thought. For will...

The kiss. Oh, the kiss. What a perfect, unnerving, luscious kiss. He made me feel unhinged . . . like he could take me apart and put me back together again and again.

She brought her hand to his chest. His chiseled musclesresponded to her touch, and a moan escaped her as he clutched hertighter. Calisto’s fingers slid through her hair, and her lips parted, hertongue tasting him,...

What we call life…is the combination of the Five Aggregates, a combination of physical and mental energies. These are constantly changing; they do not remain the same for two consecutive moments. Every moment they are...

Odd: I wish I could believe in reincarnation.Chief Porter: Not me. Once down the track is enough of a test. Pass me or fail me, Dear Lord, but don’t make me go through high school...

Our spirit knows we don’t die nor are we born. If our ego knew what our greater self knows, it would not fear disaster…Caught up in a new incarnation, one may forget their Always State,...

They have to know, for we know , that reincarnation is real.

In this life or the next, I hold you to your promise Mikhail Ivelitsch.