Source: Reincarnation & Karma
“if we don’t rebel, if we’re not physically in an active rebellion, then it’s spiritual death.”
Man's Greatest Achievement (1908; 1930)
Context: According to an adopted theory, every ponderable atom is differentiated from a tenuous fluid, filling all space merely by spinning motion, as a whirl of water in a calm lake. By being set in movement this fluid, the ether, becomes gross matter. Its movement arrested, the primary substance reverts to its normal state. It appears, then, possible for man through harnessed energy of the medium and suitable agencies for starting and stopping ether whirls to cause matter to form and disappear. At his command, almost without effort on his part, old worlds would vanish and new ones would spring into being. He could alter the size of this planet, control its seasons, adjust its distance from the sun, guide it on its eternal journey along any path he might choose, through the depths of the universe. He could make planets collide and produce his suns and stars, his heat and light; he could originate life in all its infinite forms. To cause at will the birth and death of matter would be man's grandest deed, which would give him the mastery of physical creation, make him fulfill his ultimate destiny.
Source: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
“The death of dogma is the birth of morality.”
As quoted in Faith Or Fact (1897) by Henry Moorehouse Taber, p. 86
“The birth of the mind is the death of the senses”
Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
“There's birth, there's death, and in between there's maintenance.”
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (2000)
“The voice is on the borderline between the physical and the spiritual.”
Mekubolim, 1906. Alle Verk, vi. 53.
