#metaphysic

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

— Lianne Downey

#past-livesves #reincarnation #spirituality #change

Man lives on earth not once, but three times: the first stage of his life is his continual sleep; the second, sleeping and waking by turns; the third, waking forever. ↗

— Gustav Fechner

#philosophy #psychology-spirituality #life

Morality is totally God’s standard, and his standards and conditions are revealed to us through his written word, the Scriptures (The Bible). ↗

— Reid A. Ashbaucher

#nature-of-god #nature-of-man #philosophy-of-religion #reid-ashbaucher #change

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#metaphysics #philosophy #religion #tao #taoism

I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain. ↗

— René Descartes

#logic #metaphysics #ontology #philosophy #psychology

Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith. ↗

— Aberjhani

#dreams #faith #inspiration #inspirational #metaphysics

Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth. ↗

— Aberjhani

#dignity #faith #haiku #heaven #human-mortality

If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. ↗

— Woody Allen

#metaphysics #philosophy #philosophy

Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you. ↗

— Aberjhani

#inspirational-quotes #metaphysics #philosophy #poetry #self-esteem

We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself. ↗

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

#music #philosophy #music