Reincarnation doesn’t simply mean that at the end of this life you will move on to another life in another body, it means that the spirit of life is continually renewing itself and moving to a higher level.
It is really hard to talk about reincarnation because you have always been and you will always be. You just experience different things in different ways.
Reincarnation is not necessarily linear. Sometimes people actually become more immersed in darkness or illusion than they were in previous lifetimes.
If we get above the individualized soul’s journey, you will see that we are all one. We are all one light. In that sense, we are all enlightened.
Reincarnation is a process of moving from one state of mind to another. Whether you are in a body or out of a body is immaterial.
Just remembering what you did in previous lives doesn’t mean a thing. It’s nice to remember that you had higher states of mind, but that won’t necessarily get you there. It might even make things painful.
The inner aspects of reincarnation have to do with where you put your mind. The more expansive state of mind you enter into, the less suffering there is.
Reincarnation is the evolution of spirit through matter. Over thousands and millions of lifetimes, the soul evolves. It comes into the light. The growth is slow.
You are no different in this lifetime than you were in your last lifetime. This lifetime is simply a continuation of your last lifetime.
Many practitioners think there is some giant balance scale, where someone is keeping track, like Santa Claus, and that will determine your allotment of presents. That’s a very exoteric understanding of reincarnation.
To think you can just go out and help people and somehow get a better life is not reincarnation as I know it. A better life comes from being happy and inner realizations. Now if helping others adds to that, well then, it’s great.
Reincarnation is not what a lot of people think. Yes, we are eternal. No, everyone does not attain enlightenment; it’s not necessary; life is smarter than we are.
As spirits we have always existed in a generalized form, since we are all part of the universe. As individual spirits, we have existed for a timeless time.
Reincarnation is the journey of hope because in each lifetime we move forward to place a better than our last lifetime, a place within ourselves.
Through incarnations, some beings do go down. That is to say, they forget. The soul falls into an eclipse of itself and there is a downward progression for a time.
All the lives we ever lead are only dreams, these walking moments, that look so solid to you when you consider yourself awake, are just dreams.
This is just one little lifetime in a succession of lifetimes.
What goes on in this one little lifetime is not so important as you might like to think it is because you’re in it. When you can see the larger picture, it’s just a tiny breath in a succession of breaths.
Reincarnation is a hopeful understanding of life. It is an accurate understanding of life. In each lifetime we grow, develop and evolve.
Reincarnation is not something that occurs at death; it is something that takes place at every moment. Death and rebirth are occurring every second.