#incarnation

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. ↗

— Chelsie Shakespeare

#desire #dreams #love #meant-to-be #past-lives

With that, I took a deep breath and leapt; spreading my arms, pretending I could fly . . . ↗

— Chelsie Shakespeare

#dreams #love #reincarnation #romance #soulmates

Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy, or perhaps mausolocracy, in which a living claimant assumes the fleshly mantle of the departed. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#death #exhumation #hugo-chavez #kim-il-sung #kim-jong-il

If Christianity was only about finding a group of people to live life with who shared openly their search for God and allowed anyone regardless of behavior to seek too and who collectively lived by faith to make the world a little more like Heaven would you be interested ’ ‘Hell yes ’ was his reply. He continued ‘Are there churches like that ↗

— Hugh Halter & Matt Smay

#incarnation #incarnational #jesus-christ #missional #faith

The longer I lived, the longer it would be until I saw him alive again, until I could taste his new lips and run my fingers through his new hair. We could be young and beautiful again . . . ↗

— Chelsie Shakespeare

#desire #dreams #love #meant-to-be #past-lives

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 to have very little idea of who they are in this one. . . . Let’s take one life at a time. Perhaps the best way to do that is to live as though there were no afterlife or reincarnation. To live as though this moment was all that was allotted. (132) ↗

— Stephen Levine

#born #life #living #rebirth #reincarnation