Quotes About Reincarnation

#1. If you want to believe in reincarnation, you have to believe that this life, what you're living through right now, is the afterlife. You're missing out on the afterlife you looked forward to in your last existence by worrying about your next life. This is what happens after you die. Take a look.

Brad Warner

#2. To think you can just go out and help people and somehow get a better life is not reincarnation as I know it. A better life comes from being happy and inner realizations. Now if helping others adds to that, well then, it's great.

Frederick Lenz

#3. Reincarnation is not an exclusively Hindu or Buddhist concept, but it is part of the history of human origin. It is proof of the mindstream's capacity to retain knowledge of physical and mental activities. It is related to the theory of interdependent origination and to the law of cause and effect.

Dalai Lama

#4. Turing knew of Babbage's work, and the universal Turing machine can be seen as a reincarnation of Difference Engine No. 2. In fact, Turing had gone much further, and provided computing with a solid theoretical basis,

Simon Singh

#5. There's nothing bad about reincarnation per se, it's basically a very good system, cost-effective and ecologically friendly.

Tom Holt

#6. If a benevolent God exists, so does reincarnation. He wouldn't send me here just once.

Zach Braff

#7. When you become completely loving and kind without fear and without thought of harming others, you graudate from the Earth school. That is when reincarnation ends.

Gary Zukav

#8. The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God.

Annie Besant

#9. But I don't believe in reincarnation! he protested.
SQUEAK.
And this, Mr Pounder understood with absolute rodent clarity, meant: reincarnation believes in you.

Terry Pratchett

#10. Reincarnation is simply changing awareness. What you are reincarnating into are different states of mind. The whole show is on the inside.

Frederick Lenz

#11. I believe in reincarnation," [Bjorn] said.
I KNOW.
"I tried to live a good life. Does that help?"
THAT'S NOT UP TO ME. Death coughed. OF COURSE ... SINCE YOU BELIEVE IN REINCARNATION ... YOU'LL BE BJORN AGAIN.

Terry Pratchett

#12. General Studies
Question: Redundancy is often an unpleasant and unexpected event in someone's life. Give two examples of unexpected life events.

Answer: 1) death 2) Reincarnation

Richard Benson

#13. As skeptical as I was about the reincarnation hypothesis, part of me wanted it to be true. If the people we loved came back to us, then all the tragedy in life might somehow be a little easier to accept.

Lisa Manterfield

#14. I couldn't decide whether I thought reincarnation was a scare tactic or a hopeful message.

Roshani Chokshi

#15. In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow

Richard Wagner

#16. I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or as a .400 baseball hitter. But now I would like to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.

James Carville

#17. Naturally there is reincarnation ... otherwise life would be pretty dull. All the patterns in this lifetime are results from patterns in other lifetimes.

Frederick Lenz

#18. Reincarnation is a cyclic process. There are endless levels of creation, different universes. In each one something similar is taking place, the evolution of spirit through matter.

Frederick Lenz

#19. If ... if there is reincarnation, it's about forward motion. It has to be, or else we would all be forever stuck in the past.

M.J. Rose

#20. They suggested I should introduce an element of reincarnation in the story. At first, I thought that was silly. But then, this whole time dimension began to fascinate me.

Roland Joffe

#21. Doesn't reincarnation strike you as just another form of procrastination?

Chuck Palahniuk

#22. Most women dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous reincarnation, or hope to be one in the next.

Edith Sitwell

#23. I am a firm believer in reincarnation for people who either have more work to do or have so much debt to pay back that they have to be here.

Prince

#24. Reincarnation is the dissolution of the self. It's like going swimming in the ocean, no one ever comes out, because one has become the ocean.

Frederick Lenz

#25. Precautions to be taken in the case
Of freak reincarnation: what to do
On suddenly discovering that you
Are now a young and vulnerable toad
Plump in the middle of a busy road,
Or a bear cub beneath a burning pine,
Or a book mite in a revived divine.

Vladimir Nabokov

#26. Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant

Henry Miller

#27. Is it true that soulmates always end up together? I didn't think so, but I hoped that if there was such a thing as reincarnation, we would meet again in a another life and try again. If it was possible, I'd find him, for another chance at love.

Ilsa Madden-Mills

#28. Actually, I have only two things to worry about now: afterlife and reincarnation.

Gail Parent

#29. If you want to understand UFOs, reincarnation and God, do not study UFOs, reincarnation and God. Study people.

Scott Adams

#30. The witches are firm believers in reincarnation, and they say that 'once a witch always a witch.'

Gerald Gardner

#31. There is no such thing as reincarnation, but only similar incarnation.

Abhijit Naskar

#32. The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just is.

Frederick Lenz

#33. I spend money with reckless abandon. Last month I blew $5000 at a reincarnation. I got to thinking, what the hell, you only live once!

Ronnie Shakes

#34. Real reading is reincarnation. There is no other way to put it. It is being born again into a higher form of consciousness than we ourselves possess.

Mark Edmundson

#35. I believe in reincarnation, and I believe I've lived quite a few lives.

Dr. Dre

#36. I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I'm a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so I think that my voice is a few lifetimes old.

K.d. Lang

#37. Knowing about reincarnation helps us relax. It assists us with an understanding of death and dying. Death is not an end, quite the contrary.

Frederick Lenz

#38. The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.

Stanislav Grof

#39. Flowers are reincarnation. They come out of the earth of our ashes. Nothing else looks so soul-like.

Francesca Lia Block

#40. Reincarnation doesn't help you if in your next incarnation you still don't know who you are.
Eckhart Tolle -The Power of Now

Julie Kelly

#41. The doctor looked my body over. I said: Is there any hope? He said: Yes. Reincarnation.

Phyllis Diller

#42. If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.

Kary Mullis

#43. It is really hard to talk about reincarnation because you have always been and you will always be. You just experience different things in different ways.

Frederick Lenz

#44. I don't use the term 'miracle' lightly. I don't believe in God, or reincarnation, or destiny, or the Publishers' Clearinghouse Sweepstakes.

Rick Reynolds

#45. Do I believe in reincarnation? Well, let's say that I believe in karma. I think you make your own karma.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#46. I don't believe in reincarnation, but what were you when you were alive?

Henny Youngman

#47. The essence of all reincarnation is to have the best lifetime now that you've ever had, no matter what's going on.

Frederick Lenz

#48. So once you're dead there's just nothing?
Mari: Basically ...
Korogi: I get so scared when I start thinking about this stuff. I can hardly breathe, and my whole body wants to shrink into a corner. It's so much easier to just believe in reincarnation.

Haruki Murakami

#49. This doctrine of transmigration or reincarnation of the soul is found among many tribes of savages

James G. Frazer

#50. I wish there was such a thing as reincarnation.

Evel Knievel

#51. I like to think I am the best there is at what I do, and so I have conquered the world like Alexander. But I don't believe I am the reincarnation of Alexander the Great.

Alex Spanos

#52. All I can do is stare blankly at the captain. I finally blink. Reincarnation must be real, because no one could get that stupid in one lifetime. "Captain

Jason Anspach

#53. After Death, there is Reincarnation.

Jeremy Shory

#54. Reincarnation is when I tell a girl I write spiritual books and she thinks I'm a monk. She has a medieval soul.

Daniel Marques

#55. By exercising Spiritual Choices towards Light through the chain of lives you will gain an ultimate goal of a human being - Redemption from reincarnation chain and Spiritual Immortality...

Jacklyn A. Lo

#56. I won't go into a big spiel about reincarnation, but the first time I was in the Gucci store in Chicago was the closest I've ever felt to home.

Kanye West

#57. Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?

Edward Abbey

#58. The knowledge of reincarnation assures us that life is worth living. Life is not a one-shot deal. It is forever.

Frederick Lenz

#59. I have to believe in reincarnation. believing that I'll be in one place forever is a hell in itself.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#60. Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

Stanislav Grof

#61. I don't know what to say, so far... there is some evidence which say that "Reincarnation", exist, but is it true?

Deyth Banger

#62. Reincarnation is not something that occurs at death; it is something that takes place at every moment. Death and rebirth are occurring every second.

Frederick Lenz

#63. To try and fit reincarnation into a neat mental package is very unwise. You will be very surprised when you discover that it doesn't work out that way. Your illusions will be painful for you.

Frederick Lenz

#64. Actually, I do like pink clothes, but it's not because I'm girly, it's because I'm the reincarnation of Oscar Wilde.

Mara Wilson

#65. I realize that some of you may be skeptical about the idea of reincarnation, but there's a lot of evidence that it's real. Exhibit A is Vice President Al Gore, who obviously, at some point in his previous existence, was a slab of Formica.

Dave Barry

#66. We don't believe in anything as simple as metempsychosis - the movement of an individual soul from one body to another. That's not what we mean by reincarnation at all." "What

Neal Stephenson

#67. My favorite alphabet is 'R'. It has got: Revenge, Racism, Reincarnation, Renaissance, Revival and Resurgence.

Bhavik Sarkhedi

#68. I don't believe in reincarnation, and I didn't believe in it when I was a hamster.

Shane Richie

#69. Reincarnation is the journey of hope because in each lifetime we move forward to place a better than our last lifetime, a place within ourselves.

Frederick Lenz

#70. The entire universe is God's cosmic motion picture, and that individuals are merely actors in the divine play who change roles through reincarnation; mankind's deep suffering is rooted in identifying too closely with one's current role, rather than with the movie's director, or God.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#71. If you believe in Reincarnation, so my life has to be a hangover of my last one!

Fereidoon Yazdi

#72. Reincarnation do you know this word??
No?
Check out the book "Don't touch this book" by Jan Van Helsing and you will find the answer!

Deyth Banger

#73. Reincarnation ... makes life what it is intended to be
a glorious adventure in which victory is absolutely sure to be ours if we persist. It proves that man [is] ... master of his fate on his road to the stars.

Shaw Desmond

#74. To me this is the most beautiful, the most satisfactory from a scientific standpoint, the most logical theory of life. For thirty years I have leaned toward the theory of Reincarnation. It seems a most reasonable philosophy and explains many things.

Henry Ford

#75. Many practitioners think there is some giant balance scale, where someone is keeping track, like Santa Claus, and that will determine your allotment of presents. That's a very exoteric understanding of reincarnation.

Frederick Lenz

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

Deborah Feldman

#77. If the only thing wrong with Moses is that he's not yours; if the only thing wrong with Jesus is that he's not yours; if the only thing wrong with mosques, Lent, chanting, Mecca, Buddha, confession, or reincarnation is that they're not yours
well, maybe the problem is you.

Mitch Albom

#78. What if reincarnation really happens, and Jesus were reincarnated, & you were a total d*ck to him? It could happen. You should probably treat everyone like they were Jesus reincarnated.

Ingrid Weir

#79. I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was 26. Genius is experience. Some think to seem that it is a gift or talent, but it is the fruit of long experience in many lives

Henry Ford

#80. But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know ... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.

Waylon Jennings

#81. 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

#82. Reincarnation?"
He shrugged. "I've never seen any evidence that it's real. But I've never seen anything that disproves it either. I believe the afterlife is better than what we have here - and it would take something extraordinary to make someone willing to come back.

Patricia Briggs

#83. You know we got two lives, sometimes more. I don't mean like reincarnation, I mean like we have our life of innocence and then it rams right into the real life. The life where innocence is just a mirror - looks nice, reflects a lot, but it ain't the real thing. I

Douglas Clegg

#84. I don't believe in reincarnation. That's a cop-out, I know. I don't really want to be reincarnated.

Rod Serling

#85. If, through some kind of reincarnation, it were possible to be reborn as Ushikawa's clothing, with a guarantee of rare glory in the next rebirth, I would still not want to do it.

Haruki Murakami

#86. I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.

Hunter S. Thompson

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

Chuck Palahniuk

#88. There are more people alive today than have everdied. If that's true, and you believe in reincarnation, then thatmeans there are a lot of people walking around without souls ... I've met some of them ... Haven't you?

Bridget Fonda

#89. I do believe in reincarnation, but I do not believe there is life before noon.

Florence King

#90. I'm tired of watching as men destroy all the world. Everything used to be beautiful when women were in charge, and now I, working as the physical manifestation of the goddess Isis and the reincarnation of Cleopatra, have decided to save the world.

Roseanne Barr

#91. A more common explanation for the feeling of being Old in Soul is tied up in Buddhist and Hindu ideas of reincarnation, or metempsychosis. Interestingly, this is most likely where the origin of the phrase "Old Soul" came from in the first place.

Aletheia Luna

#92. Children who remember their past lives offer the most compelling evidence yet for reincarnation.

Carol Bowman

#93. So when we wake from the ignorance of this world, the dream of existence, all of the experiences that we have ever had fall away. The ideas of life and death, of rebirth, of reincarnation, karma, God, truth, knowledge - all these things fall away.

Frederick Lenz

#94. The Beijing government avidly asserts its control over matters of reincarnation as a way of securing the loyalty and political complexion of influential Tibetan figures.

Evan Osnos

#95. Its not possible to do the wrong thing. You do what you do and you experience the consequences of what you do. If you do not experience this before you doe, your soul creates a new life so that you can. This is reincarnation. Eventually, you treat people as you would like to be treated.

Gary Zukav

#96. The inner aspects of reincarnation have to do with where you put your mind. The more expansive state of mind you enter into, the less suffering there is.

Frederick Lenz

#97. Reincarnation is happening all the time. Every moment we are going through a change. Our being isn't solid. Reincarnation is now.

Frederick Lenz

#98. And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.

Barry McGuire

#99. I Used To Believe In Reincarnation, But That Was In a Past Life.

Paul Krassner

#100. Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and live each moment anew.

Paul Brunton