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“Within an atom there can be a billion kingdoms, endless. But all of them are bound by the cycle of birth and death. They all come into being for a while and then vanish.”

World Science Buddhism Birth Bounds Billions Endless Kingdoms Cycles Atoms Other Worlds Birth And Death

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everything goes through the cycle of birth, growth, maturation, decay and death. But all of this is an illusion. Everything we see is an illusion.”

Growth Ignorance Birth Illusion Cycles Decay

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Buddhist nirvana ... is based on egolessness and is not anthropocentric but rather cosmological. In Buddhism, humans and the things of the universe are equally subject to change, equally subject to transitoriness or transmigration. A person cannot achieve emancipation from the cycle of birth and death until he or she can eliminate a more universal problem: the transience common to all things in the universe.”

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Book:Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue: Part one of a two-volume sequel to Zen and Western Thought

Source: Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue: Part one of a two-volume sequel to Zen and Western Thought

“From contact comes feeling. From feeling comes reaction. This is what keeps us in the cycle of birth and death. Our reactions to our feelings are our passport to rebirth.”

Feelings Birth Reactions Contact Cycles Rebirth Passports Birth And Death

Book:Being Nobody, Going Nowhere: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought:

Source: Being Nobody, Going Nowhere: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought:

“Unconscious of your story, you are in its grasp; but with consciousness, an alchemical process begins: The solidity of the complex dissolves and you can open up to the arrival of a new archetype, the birth of a new cycle of life. In the shadow, then, lies our myth and our fate.”

Life Stories Lying Process Consciousness Fate Birth Shadow Complexes Myth Unconscious Cycles Arrivals Archetype Solidity Cycle Of Life

Book:Romancing the Shadow: A Guide to Soul Work for a Vital, Authentic Life

Source: Romancing the Shadow: A Guide to Soul Work for a Vital, Authentic Life

“Such growth will move humans into ever-higher energy states, ultimately transforming our bodies into spiritual form and uniting this dimension of existence with the afterlife dimension, ending the cycle of birth and death.”

Humans States Body Spiritual Moving Form Energy Growth Existence Birth Higher Dimensions Cycles Afterlife Transforming Birth And Death Uniting Celestine Prophecy

Author:James Redfield

“Doing work which has to be done over and over again helps us recognize the natural cycles of growth and decay, of birth and death, and thus become aware of the dynamic order of the universe. "Ordinary" work, as the root meaning of the term indicates, is work that is in harmony with the order we perceive in the natural environment.”

Done Helping Order Universe Growth Term Natural Environment Birth Ordinary Roots Harmony Perceive Cycles Decay Natural Environment Birth And Death

Author:Fritjof Capra

“The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.”

Growth Birth Creatures Passing Passings Maturity Cycles Decay Again And Again Living Creatures Fertility

Author:Wendell Berry

“The Orgasmic Death Gimmick is rather complicated. It could be called the whole birth-death cycle of action, persuading people that birth and death are realities.”

People Whole Reality Action Birth Complicated Cycles Birth And Death Gimmicks Persuading

Book:Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997

Source: Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997

“All these tears shed in the world, where do they go? If one could capture all of them, they could water the parched. Then perhaps these tears would have value and all this grief would have some meaning. Otherwise, it was all a waste, just an endless cycle of birth and death; of love and loss.”

Ifs World Values Water Loss Grief Tears Birth Waste Endless Cycles Capture Shed Birth And Death Love And Loss

Author:Thrity Umrigar

“Unfortunately, most people never observe the natural cycle of birth and death. They do not realize that for one living thing to survive, another living thing must die.”

People Dies Realizing Natural Birth Cycles Living Things Birth And Death

Book:Thinking in Pictures

Source: Thinking in Pictures

“Everything passes. Everything experiences the birth and death cycle.”

Birth Cycles Birth And Death

Author:Alyson Noel