The Great Masters and Reincarnation
If we do a research, we will find that the great geniuses, the brightest minds, the greatest philosophers and thinkers in all ages of humanity, were sympathizers or advocates of Reincarnation, although few had the courage to take such a belief publicly, for obvious reasons.
We will see below some thoughts of these great masters of logical reasoning.
Pythagoras (570 BC - 495 BC), Greek philosopher
"Souls never die, but always on quitting one abode pass to another. All things change, nothing perishes. The soul passes hither and thither, occupying now this body, now that... As a wax is stamped with certain figures, then melted, then stamped anew with others, yet it is always the same wax. So, the Soul being always the same, yet wears at different times different forms."
Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Greek philosopher
"The choice of souls was in most cases based on their own experience of a previous life… Knowledge easily acquired is that which the enduing self had in an earlier life, so that it flows back easily."
Socrates (469 BC – 399 BC), Greek philosopher
"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."
Henry Ford (1863 - 1947), American industrialist
“When I discovered Reincarnation it was as if I had found a universal plan. I realized that there was a chance to work out my ideas. Time was no longer limited. I was no longer a slave to the hands of the clock. 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. Some are older souls than others, and so they know more. The discovery of Reincarnation put my mind at ease. If you preserve a record of this conversation, write it so that it puts men's minds at ease. I would like to communicate to others the calmness that the long view of life gives to us.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), North American scientist, journalist, diplomat, author
“I have some reason to wish, that, in a future state, I may not only be as well as I was, but a little better (…) When I see nothing annihilated, and not even a drop of water wasted, I cannot suspect the annihilation of souls… Thus finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist; with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine; hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 – 1832), German writer and thinker
"As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth."
"I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times."
“The soul of man is like to water; from Heaven it cometh, to Heaven it riseth And then returning to earth, forever alternating.
Liev Tolstoi (1828 – 1910), Russian writer
“The deeds of the preceding life give direction to the present life. As we live through thousands of dreams in our present life, so is our present life only one of many thousands of such lives which we enter from the other more real life and then return after death. “
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 A.C. – 43 A.C), Roman statesman, orator, and philosopher
"It is a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them."
Mohandas Gandhi (1868 – 1948), Hindu leader
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German philosopher
"Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part of the world which is haunted by the incredible delusion that man was created out of nothing, and that his present birth is his first entrance into life."
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), romancista francês
"A lifetime may be needed merely to gain the virtues which annul the errors of a man’s preceding life. The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences which the spirit alone remembers, for matter has no memory for spiritual things." “The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genious”
Carl G. Jung (1875 – 1961), Psiquiatra e psicoterapeuta Suíço
"My life often seemed to me like a story that has no beginning and no end. I had the feeling that I was an historical fragment, an excerpt for which the preceding and succeeding text was missing. I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries and there encountered questions I was not yet able to answer; that I had been born again because I had not fulfilled the task given to me." (Carl Jung – Memories, dreams, reflections)
Jack London (1876-1916), american author, journalist and social activist
"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."
Voltaire (1694 – 1778), French writer, historian, and philosopher
“Doctrine of reincarnation is neither absurd nor useless. It is not more surprising to be born twice than once."
Ralph Valdo Emerson (1803 – 1882), American writer, philosopher and poet
"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."
Tenzin Gyatso (14th Dalai Lama), 1935, Tibetan leader
“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”
Henry David Thoreau ( 1817 – 1862 ), American author, poet and philosopher
“As far back as I can remember, I have unconsciously the experience of a previous state of existence.”
Thomas Edison ( 1847 – 1931 ), American inventor
“The only survival I can conceive is to start a new Earth cycle again.”
Walt Whitman ( 1819 – 1892), American poet and journalist
"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."
Norman Mailer ( 1923 – 2007 ), American writer, journalist, actor
“I’m a great believer in the hereafter, in karma, in reincarnation. It does make sense. I believe that God is not just a law-giver, but a creative artist. The greatest of all. And what characterises artists is that they want to redo their work. Maybe it didn’t come off perfectly, so they want to see it done again, and improved. Reincarnation is a way for God to improve his earlier works.”
