Those who have reached their arms into emptiness...

Those who have reached their arms into emptiness are no longer concerned with lies or truth, with mind or soul, or which side of the bed they rose from. ~Rumi

There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were. ~Hazrat Inayat Khan

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix. ~Christina Baldwin

Meditation is fire — it burns your thoughts, your desires, your memories; it burns the past and the future. It burns your mind and the ego. It takes away all that you think that you are. It is a death and a rebirth, a crucifixion and a resurrection. You are born anew. You lose your own identity totally, and you attain to a new vision of life. ~Osho