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Bhagavad Gita Quotes on Reincarnation
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Quotes drawn from the Bhagavad Gita 26 quotes, each linked to the shloka behind it.
Read Bhagavad Gita quotes on reincarnation, Krishna's teaching that the soul takes up new bodies in turn, like changing worn-out clothes.
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What you have learned never entirely leaves you.
Skill sleeps; it does not die.
Be patient with your own slow ripening.
Old learning wakes up when you need it.
Your earlier practice is a quiet inheritance.
Do not feel behind; you carry more than you know.
You have lived more than you remember.
Return to what you once loved, and watch it come back.
Wisdom ripens slowly, over many lifetimes of trying.
Being does not begin or end with a single lifetime.
Hold your small view humbly; the story is much older.
What old skill or practice could you wake up today?
Not knowing your past is no reason to fear your future.
What we forget has still happened.
Resume your effort; your past is on your side.
Like worn clothes, bodies are set aside; the wearer goes on.
The soul carries its impressions as the wind carries scent.
The wise see the whole road; we see the next turn.
A wise upbringing is among life's rarest gifts.
An ending can be a change of garments, not a loss of the wearer.
What is born will pass, and what has passed returns in some form.
When the body ends, the self is not ended with it.
Many lifetimes have shaped who you are today.
Cycles of birth and death invite acceptance, not despair.
Be gentle with today; you are far older than it.
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