{"quotes":[{"text":"Everything turns in circles and spirals with the cosmic heart until infinity. Everything has a vibration that spirals inward or outward — and everything turns together in the same direction at the same time. This vibration keeps going: it becomes born and expands or closes and destructs — only to repeat the cycle again in opposite current. Like a lotus, it opens or closes, dies and is born again. Such is also the story of the sun and moon, of me and you. Nothing truly dies. All energy simply transforms.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["afterlife","birth","born","born-again","circle","circles","closes","cosmic","cosmic-heart","creation","currents","cycle","cycle-of-life","cycles","death","destruction","destructs","dies","direction","dreams","dying","end","ending","energy","evolution","expands","geometria","harmonic-principles","harmonics","heart","infinity","knowledge","life","living-things","lotus","lotus-flower","matter","metaphysics","mother-nature","natural-world","nature","opposite","philosopher","philosophy","physics","poet","reality","rebirth","reborn","reincarnation","relgion","repeat","repeats","science","soul","spirals","spiritual","spirituality","suzy-kassem","theory","time","transform","transforms","true","turns","universe","vibration","vibrations","wisdom"],"id":83003,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"It may be said, in broad-brush terms, that the primary purpose of life is the continuation of life. A deep program for survival and reproduction underwrites the complex cycles of life, in which death is the grand equalizer. There is, however, a peculiar novelty: human awareness of the cycle of life and a capacity to anticipate our own, individual death.","author":"Richard J. Borden","tags":["cycle-of-life","death","ecology","human","purpose-of-life"],"id":106919,"author_id":"Richard+J.+Borden"},{"text":"I guess I think differently than most folks. I think the reason the world is a mystical, enchanting place, is because of the cycle of life. My body will decompose, but maybe some little element of it will be transformed into a particle of dirt, over years and years,and then a glorious flower will be nurtured by this particle of dirt. Then this flower will nourish a random bumblebee, who in turn will be eaten by a raven. So, in some future life, I'll be able to fly. I look forward to that. I've always admired the freedom of birds.","author":"E. M. Crane","tags":["cycle-of-life","death","death-and-dying","hope"],"id":142711,"author_id":"E.+M.+Crane"},{"text":"To focus solely on endings is to trade conclusions for the very beginnings that created them. And if this cycle should persist, we will likewise miss the beginning that will follow this ending.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["begin","beginnings","conclusions","cycle","cycle-of-life","end","endings","fresh","mulligan","new","opportunity","restart","second-chances","start","trade"],"id":172013,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"It takes two to Tao.","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["attitude","cosmic-dance","cycle","cycle-of-life","dance","dao","energy","enlightenment","envision","force","intuitive-wisdom","life","meaning-of-life","nature","path","physical-and-spiritual","principles","route","seasons","tao","taoist","vision","way","yin-and-yang","yin-yang"],"id":175461,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"Baba always used to say that as we age, things change, we become more rigid, and then eventually, most of us, become forgiving again. He called it the cycle of life.","author":"Yasmine El Rashidi","tags":["age","cycle-of-life","forgiving"],"id":175923,"author_id":"Yasmine+El+Rashidi"},{"text":"And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep going on, they overlap and blur, your story is part of your sister's story is part of many other stories, and there is no telling where any of them may lead.","author":"Erin Morgenstern","tags":["community","cycle-of-life","network"],"id":200102,"author_id":"Erin+Morgenstern"},{"text":"Rabbi Hiyya advised his wife, “When a poor man comes to the door, be quick to give him food so that the same may be done to your children.” She exclaimed, “You are cursing our children [with the suggestion that they may become beggars].” But Rabbi Hiyya replied, “There is a wheel which revolves in this world.” —Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 151b.","author":"Joseph Telushkin","tags":["altruism","cycle-of-life","generosity","income-inequality","jewish","poverty","talmud","what-goes-around-comes-around"],"id":214283,"author_id":"Joseph+Telushkin"},{"text":"The perfect orchestration of the symphony of life is one of the Creator's greatest and most beautiful miracles.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["beautiful","creator","creator-s","cycle","cycle-of-life","design","earth","flow","god","greatest","heaven","miracles","music","orchestration","perfect","planet","symphony","symphony-of-life","universe","world"],"id":323046,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It is also true that that renewal comes at a price, for even if the flower grows from an ancient vine, the flowers of spring are themselves new to the world, untried and untested. The flower that wilted last year is gone. Petals once fallen are fallen forever. Flowers do not return in the spring, rather they are replaced. It is in this difference between returned and replaced that the price of renewal is paid. And as it is for spring flowers, so it is for us.","author":"Daniel Abraham","tags":["cycle-of-life","death","renewal","seasons"],"id":326950,"author_id":"Daniel+Abraham"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}