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!

 

 

 

SOMEWHERE A NEW MORNING DAWNS

 

Yesterday I came across these wonderful words from Patience Strong:

'Light is fading, darkness falls, but somewhere it is dawn. Here it is the eventide, but somewhere it is morn ... As upon the world's red rim the sun sinks out of sight - in some far and distant land, it rises, warm and bright.

When the touch of death has stopped the heart and closed the eyes - our loved ones seem to fall asleep, but somewhere they arise ... We who watch stand in the darkness, blind with grief and pain - But somewhere it is morning and they wake to life again.'

I hope that if you have 'lost' a loved one you can find some comfort in Patience's words, realizing that 'lost' is the wrong term. Far from being lost, they've simply gone - temporarily - beyond our limited sight.

FAMOUS BELIEVERS IN REINCARNATION

Among the many famous believers in reincarnation, one of my favorite poets, John Masefield, said this about it:  “I hold that when a person dies his soul returns again to earth; arrayed in some new flesh-disguise another mother gives him birth. With sturdier limbs and brighter brain the old soul takes the road again.”

Here are some further views that I think will interest you:

Henry Ford: “I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was 26...Work is futile if we cannot utilize the experience we collect in one life in the next. When I discovered reincarnation it was as if I had found a universal plan... Time was no longer limited. I was no longer a slave to the hands of the clock... Genius is experience... It is the fruit of long experience in many lives... The discovery of reincarnation put my mind at ease...”

Richard Wagner: “In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow.”

William Wordsworth: “Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; the soul that rises with us, our life’s Star, hath had elsewhere its setting, and cometh from afar. Not in entire forgetfulness and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come...”

Goethe: “I am certain I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times.”

Voltaire: “It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.”

George Elliot: “Our deeds still travel with us from afar. And what we have been makes us what we are.”

Do you have some views to share on famous believers in reincarnation? Great if you do!