Quotes About Immanence

This is the happy time, I tell myself. I am superstitious about happiness. I worry that too much celebration of immanence, of God-goodness and life force, invites its opposite. Some pagan part of me believes that too much light draws darkness.

Many people wish to stress the possibility of fellowship with God, and therefore they favor his immanence in a way that denies his transcendence.

God is immanent and all-pervading This is not too surprising when we remember that the Gurus were mystics and that the vision of such people is one that finds the presence of God in every experience and object. They also shared with many Hindus the belief that the atman, or jot (divine spark) or individual soul, is one with the Primal Soul, Brahman, though Sikhs tend not to use this particular term.

The One who created the world pervades it. Do not look for the True One far away. Recognize the Word [the Divine Spirit] dwelling in every heart.

God is the immanent spirit of the community" (Royce).

In Christianity, man was concentrated only on himself, he unlinked himself from the chain of sequences in the system of the universe, he made himself a self-sufficing whole, … [H]e no longer regarded himself as being immanent in the world, because he severed himself from connection with it[.]

The best interests of theology lie not in God in the highest but in the depths of God, something deep within God, even older than God, or deeper than God, and for that very same reason, deep within us, we and God always being intertwined.

Obscurely awaited, immanent and concealed, it rouses to such a paroxysm, at the moment when at last it makes itself felt, those other pleasures which we find in the tender glance, in the kiss of her who is by our side, that it seems to us, more than anything else, a sort of transport of gratitude for the kindness of heart of our companion and for her touching predilection of ourselves, which we measure by the benefits, by the happiness that she showers upon us.

There is no sphere of immanence, no realm in which my consciousness is fully at home and secure against all risk of error.

All flesh, and even that of the world, radiates beyond itself.

Immanence is transcendence that has cooled down.

In this breaking-through, I receive that God and I are one. Then I am what I was, and then I neither diminish nor increase, for I am then an immovable cause that moves all things.

Para comemorar devidamente a reconciliação do homem consigo mesmo, é preciso antes de mais nada acabar com os mundos remotos, os céus e supostos lugares de residência das ideias, das essências, das divindades. Esses espaços são míticos, sonhados e supostos. Não têm nenhuma existência, a não ser fantasística.

man would transcend his insignificance only to the extent to which it is possible to make himself symbolic, to incarnate alive a symbol in his own soul, that immanence.

FrumuseÈ›ea, dup? cuvintele lui Dostoievski, va salva lumea, È™i nu mai înÈ›elegem ce înseamn? "a salva". Ce s? salvezi, când tr?im în imanen?? È™i aleatoriu?

Love is a multi-dimensional, multi-reality, metaphysical, immanent, transcendental, cosmic, heavenly feeling. This is the center, this spot is like a tattoo in your subconscious mind that affects consciousness in reincarnation and the wheel of samsara in nostalgic déjà vu. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

If not immanence, the soul's bright anchor--blood passed from one to the other--what knowledge haunts each body, what history, what phantom ache? One man always low, in a grave or on the ground, the other up high, closer to heaven; one man always diseased, the other a body in service, plundered.

What was not possessed of the 'fat light'--an immanence that shed radiance over the world of gross matter--should be left to the portraitists of sausage-shaped ladies and their rich consorts.

This change in religious belief would have dramatic consequences for the world's history, the first stage in a revolution that has made our world of today what it is. It oversaw the move from faith in gods of immanence, spiritual representations of the forces of nature, deities who inhabit the world and wear the natural phenomena they represent like a suit of clothes, to gods of transcendence, deities outside, beyond and above nature rather than part of it.