Afterlife QuotesYou live on earth only for a few short years which you call an incarnation, and then you leave your body as an outworn dress and go for refreshment to your true home in the spirit.  Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was, "Did you bring joy?" The second was, "Did you find joy?" Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight. All are but parts of one stupendous whole whose body Nature is, and God the soul. We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come. I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. When you die, you rejoice, and the world cries. It is not all of life to live, nor yet all of death to die. For life and death are one, and only those who will consider the experience as one may come to understand or comprehend what peace indeed means. Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good. As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities. Everything science has taught me - and continues to teach me - strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. Nothing disappears without a trace. Birth and death are events in time and space.... there is nothing but Life. All pure and holy spirits live on in heavenly places, and in course of time they are again sent down to inhabit righteous bodies. It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection. |
