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Quotes About Transcendence

A man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
The impermanent, which is the body, is given too much importance. The permanent, which is the Atman, is completely forgotten. This should change.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
Only a spiritual being has awareness.
~ Chick Corea
Of course you don't die. Nobody dies. Death doesn't exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world.
~ Henry Miller
Oh, I think it's definitely spiritual. All music is. I think it's maybe one of the highest forms of spirituality.
~ Willie Nelson
In a special sense... the three great natural states of waking, dreaming, and deep sleep contain an entire spectrum of spiritual enlightenment.
~ Ken Wilber
To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual.
~ Piet Mondrian
If you want to find out the purpose of life, you need to look beyond the limitations of body and mind.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
I never really cared for the things of this world. It was the glow of Your Presence that filled it with beauty.
~ Rumi
Faith gives me the ability to rise above anything, because what is true in the spiritual realm is forever true. It cannot be denied.
~ Gary Busey
Human imagination is not simply our means of reaching out to God but God's means of manifesting himself to us.
~ Christian Wiman
Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.
~ Marianne Williamson
...the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that the kingdom of heaven is not of.
~ Bede Griffiths
When one begins to really feel into the spiritual dimension of their beings, they bump into love. They bump into compassion. They bump into beauty.
~ Michael Beckwith
Blindness enhanced my spiritual life.
~ Joaquin Rodrigo
If the spiritual universe and the way to it were shown, No one would remain in this world for a single moment.
~ Rumi
Spiritual nature is inconceivable and unlimited. Therefore, the activities of that realm will always remain beyond our mental speculation and intellectual concept.
~ Bhakti Charu Swami
Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.
~ Germaine Greer
I can be quite surprised by what makes me cry, but it's usually spiritual things.
~ Rachel McAdams
One of the truest tests of spiritual maturity is seeing the miraculous in the monotonous.
~ Mark Batterson
My spiritual goal is to one day walk into God and disappear.
~ Thomas Merton
The spiritual world is hidden and perfectly revealed in the physical world.
~ Richard Rohr
A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.
~ Frances Parkinson Keyes