Quotes About Transcendence

It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

When you are no more identified with your physicality, you become available to Grace.

I'm just into spirituality. I believe that in a previous life I used to be Shirley MacLaine.

Ultimately we want to use dream to liberate ourselves from all relative conditions, not simply to improve them.

The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.

The activities of the liberated soul transcend the pairs of opposites.

Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path , to vanish into the vast sea of God.

You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures followed by pain and ultimate annihilation.

I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.

Death is another life.

Music has the power to transcend your physical being and take you up. Because music has a metaphysical quality it really makes your life beautiful.

Yes, death, the hourly possibility of it, death is the sublimity of life.

You can summon up power from past lives and bring them into this life. That can give you a boost into the next state of mind or further up.

Eroticism is the approval of life unto death.

I was driven on by.. A force which I see today as something alien to my normal life... so I have been no more than a medium as it were.

A sound so fine, there 's nothing lives 'Twixt it and silence.

Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty, even for a moment, it is enough.

Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.

My greatest hope is that we transcend the most fearful thing, which is that we are rapidly degrading the ecological systems on this planet that support everything we are doing and all life on it.

Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.

Consider and act with reference to the true ends of existence. This world is but the vestibule of an immortal life. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

Have you ever once in your life reached out to touch infinity?