Tupac Shakur
Rapper, Actor, Activist
"My only fear of death is reincarnation"
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Reincarnation
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Walt Whitman
Poet, Essayist
"I know I am deathless. No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. I laugh at what you call dissolution, and I know the amplitude of time."
Emile M. Cioran
Philosopher, Essayist
"No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one."
Edward Abbey
Author, Environmentalist
"Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?"
Ian Stevenson
Psychiatrist, Researcher
"The most promising evidence bearing on reincarnation seems to come from the spontaneous cases, especially among children."
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"Every new born being indeed comes fresh and blithe into the new existence, and enjoys it as a free gift: but there is, and can be, nothing freely given. It's fresh existence is paid for by the old age and death of a worn out existence which has perished, but which contained the indestructible seed out of which the new existence has arisen: they are one being."
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"Though I may not be a king in my future life, so much the better: I shall nevertheless live an active life and, on top of it, earn less ingratitude."
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"Every incarnation that we remember must increase our comprehension of ourselves as who we are."
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"I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, that the living spring from the dead, and that the souls of the dead are in existence."
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"I believe we are reincarnated. You, I, we reincarnate over and over. We live many lives, and store up much experience. Some are older souls than others and so they know more. It seems to be an intuitive "gift." It is really hard-won experience."
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"We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem."
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"The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal."
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"You see that who you are isn't moving in time. Time is describing the incarnations, the packing changes."
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"As far back as I can remember I have unconsciously referred to the experiences of a previous state of existence."
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"If there is reincarnation, I'd like to come back as Warren Beatty's fingertips."
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"I do believe in reincarnation, but I do not believe there is life before noon."
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"Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!"
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"I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times."
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"It is conceivable that I might well be reborn as a Chinese coolie. In such case I should lodge a protest."
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"I love taking chances."
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"... I am the same personal being who in old times upon the Earth had those experiences."
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"The greatness of the human being is not in the reincarnation of the world but in the reincarnation of ourselves."
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"The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity."
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"I lived in Judea eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my contemporaries."
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