REMINDERS
Dick Sutphen
The following quotes from high-profile historical people are reminders
that we've done all this before. We have experienced the highs and lows
lifetime after lifetime. You would think by now we would not take life
quite so seriously -- we would enjoy the good times a little more and
know that bad times pass on into something better.
PLATO: Every soul is immortal -- for whatever is in perpetual motion is
immortal �?All that is soul presides over all that is without soul and
patrols all heaven, now appearing in one form and now in another ...
Every man's soul has by the law of this birth been a spectator of
eternal truth, or it would never have passed into this our mortal
frame, yet still it is no easy matter for all to be reminded of their
past by their present existence ... By making the right use of those
things remembered from the former life, by constantly perfecting
himself in the perfect mysteries, a man becomes truly perfect -- an
initiate into wisdom more divine.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: I feel as if I was intruding among posterity when I
ought to be abed and asleep. I look upon death to be as necessary to
the constitution as sleep. We shall arise refreshed in the morning.
VOLTAIRE: The doctrine of metempsychosis is, above all, neither absurd
nor useless ... It is not more surprising to be born twice than once;
everything in nature is resurrection.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: I am that which is. I am all that was, that is,
and that shall be.
--Framed quotation kept on his desk
WILLIAM BLAKE: In pain he sighs, in pain he labours in his universe ...
And in the cries of birth and in the groans of death his voice
Is heard throughout the Universe; wherever a grass grows,
Or a leaf buds, The Eternal Man is seen, is heard, is felt,
And all his sorrows, till he reassumes his ancient bliss.
VICTOR HUGO: Each time we die we gain more of life. Souls pass from one
sphere to another without loss of personality, become more and more
bright ... I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the
grave is not myself ... Earth, though are not my abyss! ... The whole
of creation is a perpetual ascension, from brute to man, from man to
God. To divest ourselves more and more of matter, to be clothed more
and more with spirit, such is the law.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON:
It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die,
but only retire a little from sight and afterwards return again ...
Nothing is dead; men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals
and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out of the
window, sound and well, in some new strange disguise. Jesus is not
dead; he is very well alive: nor John, nor Paul, nor Mahomet, nor
Aristotle; at times we believe we have seen them all, and could easily
tell the names under which they go.
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