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IMMORTALITY
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"There is as little doubt of the existence of a supreme being as of matter. The world beyond is a reality, an experiential fact."
C. G. Jung: Letters, 1951-1961
(Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffe, editors)
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"The individual ego as I-ness, or as the I AM I, is never lost. It is that immortal, eternal center of Self-consciousness that undergoes the experiences within time and space but in itself is immortal."
Riding With the Lion: In Search of Mystical Christianity
(Kyriacos C. Markides)
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"Our souls are immortal and capable of living in one form of paradise or another even after our bodies have long decayed. I suspect that most people believe in an immortal soul in some form."
The Spiritual Universe
(Fred Alan Wolf, Ph. D.)
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"Within each soul infinity lies hidden."
Reincarnation: A Hope of the World
(Irving S. Cooper)
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"The being lives on, spectator of all the innumerable changes of environment. Starting from the great All, radiating like a spark from the central fire, he gathers experience in all ages, under all rulers, civilizations and customs, ever engaged in a pilgrimage to the shrine from which he came." W. Q. Judge, 'Echoes From the Orient'
Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery
(Cranston/Head, editors)
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"Only the material body of the indestructible, immeasurable and eternal living entity is subject to destruction." Bhagavad Gita
Macmillan Dictionary of Religious Quotations
(Margaret Pepper, editor)
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"That true Self of man is an eternal, immortal, spiritual being."
Reincarnation: Fact or Fallacy?
(Geoffrey Hodson)
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"One's real Nature is indeed infinite and eternal."
The Atman Project
(Ken Wilber)
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"There is an incorruptible essence potentially present in every human being."
Collected Works
(Carl Jung)
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"In each situation we are immersed in his peace because God is our permanence, our coherence, our future. We are united to that reality which does not pass away."
The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion
(Wayne Teasdale)
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"Let us face it: 'deep down' nobody in his right mind can visualize his own existence without assuming that he has always lived and will live hereafter; and the religious world-views of old endowed this psychological feeling with images and ideas which could be shared, transmitted, and ritualized." Erik H. Erikson (b. 1902), 'Gandhi's Truth'
Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery
(Cranston/Head, editors)
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"The Past time is the Present time, as also the Future, which, though it has not come into existence, still is." 'Book of the 10,000 Precepts'
The Secret Doctrine
(Helena P. Blavatsky)
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"The cosmologies, philosophies, and mythologies, as well as spiritual and ritual life, of the pre-industrial societies, contain a very clear message that death is not the absolute and irrevocable end of everything, that life or existence in some form continues after the biological demise. The eschatological mythologies of these cultures are in general agreement that a spiritual principle, or soul, survives the death of the body."
The Cosmic Game, Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness
(Stanislav Grof)
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"Our task is to harvest from the mortal world fruits for the immortal. When we contemplate our being, which we ourselves have built up in the past, we must say to ourselves: 'We bear within ourselves the elements of a dying world. These elements work within us. Yet gradually, with the help of the new immortal elements awakening within us, we are able to break their power.' In this way, our path takes us from death to life."
How To Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of Initiation
(Rudolf Steiner)
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"Time and eternity are two aspects of the same experience-whole, two planes of the same nondual ineffable; i.e., the jewel of eternity is in the lotus of birth and death: om mani padme hum."
Hero With A Thousand Faces
(Joseph Campbell)
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"Eternal nature is the kernel hidden within our apparent nature." Pierre Deghaey, 'Jacob Boehme and His Followers'
Modern Esoteric Spirituality
(Antoine Faivre and Jacob Needleman, editors)
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"All who know themselves know that they are of one immortal substance." Antony of Egypt (ca. 251-356 ad), Egyptian monk
The Lion Christian Quotation Collection
(Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers)
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"We are mortal individuals bearing within ourselves an immortal, supra-individual nucleus."
Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization
(Heinrich Zimmer, edited by Joseph Campbell)
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"The distinction between eternity and time is only apparent – made, perforce, by the rational mind, but dissolved in the perfect knowledge of the mind that has transcended the pairs of opposites."
Hero With A Thousand Faces
(Joseph Campbell)
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"There is a bridge between time and Eternity; and this bridge is Atman, the Spirit in us….To one who goes over that bridge, the night becomes like day, because in the worlds of the Spirit there is a Light which is everlasting." Chandogya Upanishad
The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion
(Wayne Teasdale)
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"We are eternally present in the One."
The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation
(W. Y. Evans-Wentz, compiler and editor)
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"Eternity is a cloak wrapped about and enclosing yesterday, today and tomorrow in one moment that never ends."
My Way of Life, The Summa Simplified for Everyone
(Walter Farrell and Martin J. Healy)
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"I have good reasons to assume that things are not finished with death. Life seems to be an interlude in a long story. It has been long before I was, and it will most probably continue after the conscious interval in a three-dimensional existence."
C. G. Jung: Letters, 1951-1961
(Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffe, editors)
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"Mind….cannot die; somewhere it finds a refuge and continues to exist, intangible and imperishable, above the absolute destruction of its instruments or its media."
The Great Secret
(Maurice Maeterlinck)
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"The question of immortality is a question of inner existence, a question which the individual must confront by looking into his own soul." Soren Kierkegaard, philosopher
Experiencing the Soul
(Eliot Jay Rosen, editor)
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