Samsara - the Wheel of Birth, Death and Rebirth Quotes

“Everyone and everything from a tree to mosquito is a unique temporary assembling of atoms existing for a brief moment in the vastness of infinite time and space, an extraordinary everyday miracle.”
― Rebecca Harrison, Samsara - the Wheel of Birth, Death and Rebirth: A journey through spirituality, religion and Asia

“Meaning and purpose are deep human needs and throughout history religions have provided that.”
― Rebecca Harrison, Samsara - the Wheel of Birth, Death and Rebirth: A journey through spirituality, religion and Asia

“Sri Krishna said: As a human being puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones.”6”
― Rebecca Harrison, Samsara - the Wheel of Birth, Death and Rebirth: A journey through spirituality, religion and Asia

“The six perfections of Bodhicitta described in the Prajñapāramitā Sūtras and the Lotus Sutra are: Dāna pāramitā: generosity, giving of oneself Śīla pāramitā : virtue, morality, discipline, proper conduct Kṣānti pāramitā : patience, tolerance, forbearance, acceptance, endurance Vīrya pāramitā : energy, diligence, vigour, effort Dhyāna pāramitā : one-pointed concentration, contemplation Prajñā pāramitā : wisdom, insight”
― Rebecca Harrison, Samsara - the Wheel of Birth, Death and Rebirth: A journey through spirituality, religion and Asia

“Max Planck commented in a speech delivered in 1944 “All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force….We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.” 72 In the language of the Upanishads Planck’s description of a “conscious and intelligent Mind” as “the matrix of all matter” is one and the same as Brahman, source of the universe and consciousness: “This universe comes forth from Brahman, exists in Brahman, and will return to Brahman. Verily all is Brahman.”
― Rebecca Harrison, Samsara - the Wheel of Birth, Death and Rebirth: A journey through spirituality, religion and Asia

“Brahman manifests matter in the cosmos through the interplay between consciousness and energy or prana,”
― Rebecca Harrison, Samsara - the Wheel of Birth, Death and Rebirth: A journey through spirituality, religion and Asia

“We live in accordance with our deep driving desire. It is this desire at the time of death that determines what our next life will be. We will come back to earth to work out the satisfaction of that desire. But those who are free from desire, …. They do not die like the others; but realizing Brahman, they merge in Brahman.”
― Rebecca Harrison, Samsara - the Wheel of Birth, Death and Rebirth: A journey through spirituality, religion and Asia

“May the Lord of Love who projects himself Into this universe of myriad forms, From whom all beings come and to whom all Return- may he grant us the grace of wisdom. He is fire and the sun, and the moon And the stars. He is the air and the sea And the Creator, Prajapati. He is the blue bird; he is the green bird With red eyes; he is the thundercloud, And he is the seasons and the seas. He has no beginning; he has no end. He is the source from whom the worlds evolve. From his divine power comes forth all this Magical show of name and form, of you And me, which casts the spell of pain and pleasure. Only when we pierce through this magic veil Do we see the one who appears as many.”
― Rebecca Harrison, Samsara - the Wheel of Birth, Death and Rebirth: A journey through spirituality, religion and Asia

“word samsara, that occupied so much of my life over the following year, mean? It translates to “wander” or “flow through” describing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth in the world of matter and form.”
― Rebecca Harrison, Samsara - the Wheel of Birth, Death and Rebirth: A journey through spirituality, religion and Asia

“… rituals are unsafe rafts for crossing The sea of samsara of birth and death. Doomed to shipwreck are those who try to cross The sea of samsara on these poor rafts.”
― Rebecca Harrison, Samsara - the Wheel of Birth, Death and Rebirth: A journey through spirituality, religion and Asia