next life
Reborn existence ahead
The next life is what follows death in belief systems that posit continued existence—reincarnation, heaven, or some other afterlife.
The phrase often appears in promises or threats that extend beyond mortality: I'll find you in the next life.
More casually, it expresses resignation about missed opportunities: Maybe in my next life I'll learn to play piano.
Sky or bliss
- hellUnderworld of suffering
- purgatoryPlace of temporary suffering
- paradiseIdeal, blissful place
- underworldRealm of the departed
Hades · Valhalla · hereafter · afterworld · limbo · eternity · judgement · salvation
Spiritual or physical regeneration
- karmaSpiritual cause and effect
- samsaraCycle of rebirth
- transmigrationSoul passing into another body
- soul journeyMetaphysical path of growth
cycle · dharma · reincarnate · incarnation · born again · return · renewal · destiny
Innermost animating essence
- enlightenmentProfound spiritual awakening
- nirvanaRelease from cyclical existence
- mokshaRelease from rebirth cycle
- liberationRelease from constraint
transcendence · awakening · salvation · cosmic consciousness · divine union · higher plane · spiritual evolution · release
heaven
Sky or bliss
underworld · Hades · Valhalla · hereafter · afterworld · limbo · eternity · judgement · salvation · damnation
rebirth
Spiritual or physical regeneration
- karmaSpiritual cause and effect
- samsaraCycle of rebirth
- transmigrationSoul passing into another body
soul journey · cycle · dharma · reincarnate · incarnation · born again · return · renewal · destiny · regression
soul
Innermost animating essence
- enlightenmentProfound spiritual awakening
- nirvanaRelease from cyclical existence
- mokshaRelease from rebirth cycle
liberation · transcendence · awakening · salvation · cosmic consciousness · divine union · higher plane · spiritual evolution · release · peace
- karmacomeuppance, good deeds, poetic justice, karmic debt, what goes around comes around
- afterlifeheaven, hell, paradise, purgatory, limbo
next lifeoblivion
Complete erasure from memory
eternal death · nonexistence · annihilation · nothingness · the void
next lifethis world
next, life, nearer, nearest, nearly, nearness, live, lives, lived