Quotes About Transcendence

Siddhartha considered the ways of the demon, and in that moment he struck.

Things pass, but the essence remains. You sit, therefore, in the midst of a dream.

Hell has ways of permeating heaven's membrane.

Hell has ways of permeating heaven's membrane.

the love which is over and done with passes into another world like a ship into space, lights no longer winking

For most people, the central questions of existence ultimately come down to transcendental ones: Why is there a universe at all? Why are we here? Whatever presumptions one might bring to the question Why?, if we understand the how better, why will come into sharper focus.

THE BRIDGE TO TOTAL FREEDOM is a journey that goes on and on (although confoundingly, in the Scientology metaphor, one moves "higher and higher"—up the Bridge rather than across it).

Literary art's sudden, startling truth and beauty make us feel, in the most solitary part of us, that we are not alone, and that there are meanings that cannot be bought, sold or traded, that do not decay and die. This socially and economically worthless experience is called transcendence, and you cannot assign a paper, or a grade, or an academic rank, on that. Literature is too sacred to be taught. It needs only to be read.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

On his addiction to opiods): I'll die young, but it's like kissing God.

Todo ser humano y toda sociedad es lo que es en virtud de su máxima aspiración. La ciudad, si es sana, aspira no a las leyes que puede deshacer del mismo modo en que las hizo, sino a las leyes no escritas, la ley divina, los dioses de la ciudad. La ciudad debe trascenderse a sí misma. ...El factor más importante concierne a lo que trasciende la ciudad o que es más grande que la ciudad; no concierne a cosas que están simplemente subordinadas a la ciudad.

There is within you a yearning for the divine that nothing else can satisfy.

Der Augenblick ist zeitlos.

Powoli, ostro?nie podniósÅ' wieko trumny. Scully patrzyÅ'a mu przez ramiÄ™. - Yyyych... - Nie potrafiÅ'a zdÅ'awi? d?wiÄ™ku, który wyrwaÅ' jej siÄ™ z gardÅ'a. Nie mogÅ'a nic poradzi? na to, ?e jej skórÄ™ pokryÅ' zimny pot. ZobaczyÅ'a minÄ™ Muldera i poczuÅ'a siÄ™ jeszcze gorzej. WyglÄ…daÅ', jakby miaÅ' siÄ™ rozpÅ'aka? ze szcz??cia. Jakby otworzyÅ'y siÄ™ przed nim bramy raju.

He was overwhelmed by the beauty of the world. Beside that nothing seemed to matter.

QUESTION AND ANSWER ON THE MOUNTAIN You ask for what reason I stay on the green mountain, I smile, but do not answer, my heart is at leisure. Peach blossom is carried far off by flowing water, Apart, I have heaven and earth in the human world.

So naturally I'm fascinated with the phenomenon of the NDE, of 'going over.

This life wasn't all there was; there was more, much more, and when people spoke of death as passing they were exactly right, because the spirit passed on to that other level of existence. Knowing that was the most comforting thing she could imagine.

The goal of society in general is to succeed in the world, whereas the goal of enlightenment is to transcend beyond it.

The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing.

My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.

The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.

When we become hollow bones there is no limit to what the Higher Powers can do in and through us in spiritual things.

The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer recognizes himself or the fact that he is praying.