Quotes About Transcendence

Excuse me while I kiss the sky.

Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.

At the entrance, my bare feet on the dirt floor, Here, gusts of heat; at my back, white clouds. I stare and stare. It seems I was called for this: To glorify things just because they are.

We seem to have lost our contact with the primordial: the idea of - call it divine revelation as opposed to something that's learned by the human intellect - something that, if you lay yourself completely open, and you just open your heart completely, something will actually come into it.

By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a break of continuity between them and the profane beings.

I want to be taken out of our material world and experience something that is in another dimension.

I realize that I cannot live without a spiritual dimension in my life.

When the Divine descends, you just accommodate.

Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?

That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we experience, follows from the very fact that here nothing final or individual is found expressed.

The downward mobility of the kingdom strikes at the very heart of our earthly strivings.

The twentieth-century philosopher of religion Rudolf Otto famously characterized the transcendent God as the mysterium tremendum et fascinans, the mystery that fascinates us even as it causes us to tremble with fear—

Mingle my dust with the burning brand, Scatter it free to the sky Fling it wide on the ocean's sand, From peaks where the vultures fly.

I have not died as men may die, nor sinned as men have sinned, But I have reached a misty sky upon a granite wind.

As persons, so Mournier maintained, we possess both a spiritual and temporal dimension; we exist in history, in relationship with others, but open to transcendence and ultimately to God. This concept of the person, he believed, was denied as much by an atheistic totalitarianism of the Left as by the bourgeois materialism of capitalist society. To the extent that Christianity had become infected by the bourgeois spirit, it had become a prop in what he called, 'the established disorder.

I'd say we're all just ghosts on a wire seeking the prick of an electric thought.

I shall set forth for somewhere,I shall make the reckless choiceSome say when they are in voiceAnd tossing so as to scareThe white clouds over them on,I shall have less to say,But I shall be gone.

Very convenient, the way people can only speak in crossword clues from the afterlife.

You are here upon the battleground of earth to eradicate weakness, disharmony and discord. To challenge accepted beliefs, orthodox creeds and dogmas, to rise above the lower mental states of being that would hold you back and imprison you to this cycle of birth and death.

The goal of discoverers is not to outdistance their peers, but to transcend themselves.

The beauty of music has the ability to speak where words fail.

a humble act of adoration was transcendently greater than the most noble natural act,

To deprive the Aborigines of their territory, therefore, was to condemn them to spiritual death—a destruction of their past, their future and their opportunities of transcendence.

wondering about a man to whom the difference between a pasture and a meadow seemed important, [...] who seemed like the wind. And moved like it. Came from it, perhaps.