DO YOU SHARE THEIR BELIEF?

 

 What belief, do you think, was shared by Walt Whitman, Albert Schweitzer, Socrates, Voltaire, Carl Jung and Pythagoras, not to mention Wordsworth, Tolstoy, Gandhi, George Harrison, General George S. Patton, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Mark Twain?

 On the same subject, Benjamin Franklin said:

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

 And Jack London, author of CALL OF THE WILD, maintained: 

“I did not begin when I was born, nor when I was conceived. I have been growing, developing, through incalculable myriads of millenniums. All my previous selves have their voices, echoes, promptings in me. Oh, incalculable times again shall I be born.”

 Napoleon not only believed in reincarnation, but liked to tell his generals who he believed he had been in previous existences.

 Let the last word, for now,  go to Henry Ford, who said: 

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

 So, do you believe as they do, that we live many lives – reincarnating again and again - rather than just one?

 Whether you do or you don’t, great if under Comments you’d like to share your views. Thank you!

 

 

 

DEATH

On my Facebook page a month or so ago, I gave a short extract about death from Kahlil Gibran's THE PROPHET. It has now occurred to me that you might like to see the extract in its entirety. So here it is:

'Then Almitra spoke, saying, We would ask now of death. And he said:

You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life? The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light. If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond; And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honor. Is the shepherd not joyful beneath his trembling, that he shall wear the mark of the king? Yet is he not more mindful of his trembling?

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered? Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.

And when the earth shall claim your limbs, than shall you truly dance.'

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