#incarnation

Immortality like this is about as useful as sunscreen on a submarine. ↗

— Elizabeth Marx

#humor #immortality #reincarnation #death

I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#called #come #daughter #dog #i

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

— Stanislav Grof

#belief #consciousness #cultures #developed #earth

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 born and they die. 'When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.' This, even dow during this life time, every moment we are born and die, but we continue. If we can understand that in this life we can continue without a permanent, unchanging substance like Self or Soul, why can't we understand that those forces themselves can continue without a Self or a Soul behind them after the non-functioning of the body? ↗

— Walpola Rahula

#buddha-quotes #buddhism #change #circle-of-life #death

Life ends with a snap of small bones, a head cracked from its stem, and a spirit unmoored... ↗

— Sarah Kernochan

#jane-was-here #karma #paranormal #paranormal-fiction #paranormal-suspense

The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly. ↗

— James Martineau

#exclusively #god #incarnation #man #true

I'm not going to be singing songs that I made in the past. I closed the door on that incarnation of Sinead O'Connor. ↗

— Sinead O'Connor

#connor #door #going #i #in the past

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? ↗

— Rumi

#fear #reincarnation #death

For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction are the suspension of these laws. I am always astonished at the emphasis the Church puts on the body. It is not the soul she says that will rise but the body, glorified. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#catholicism #death #incarnation #resurrection #death

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. ↗

— Chelsie Shakespeare

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