Quotes On Life After Death And Reincarnation

30 years ago, if you mentioned you believe in life after death, religious people might have agreed with you, but many others would have laughed at you. But now, with so much credible evidence that the soul survives death, all but the most skeptical among us at least consider the possibility.

Below we list some hopeful opinions on the subject.

“Death is the greatest illusion of all.” Rajneesh

“Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.” Helen Keller

“You live on Earth only for a few short years which you call an incarnation, and then you leave your body as an outworn dress and go for refreshment to your true home in the spirit.” Chief White Eagle

“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.” Rabindranath Tagore

“Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.” Mother Teresa

“I don't think hell exists. I happen to believe in life after death but I don't think it's got a thing to do with reward and punishment. Religion is always in the control business and that's something which people don't really understand.” John Shelby Spong

“The grave itself is but a covered bridge, leading from light to light, through a brief darkness!” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.” Mary Elizabeth Frye

“We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.” Nathaniel Hawthorne

“What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings do not suffice to form even an approximate conception of it. The dissolution of our time-bound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning.” Carl Jung

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow.” Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“There exists a mountain of circumstantial evidence that consciousness survives bodily death. This is the kind of evidence that would stand up in a court of law. Some people believe that science needs better tools to quantify what consciousness is. Perhaps when we discover what consciousness is we will be on the road to providing absolute scientific evidence that there is life after death.” Jean Ritchie

“Of course you don't die. Nobody dies. Death doesn't exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world.” Henry Miller

“I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.” Benjamin Franklin

“Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east.” Rumi

“Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.” Dinesh D'Souza

“Life after death is as improbable as sex after marriage!” Madeline Kahn

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