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Quotes About Transcendence

Death is utterly acceptable to consciousness and life.
~ Adi Da
But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.
~ Alfred de Vigny
This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.
~ Alice Walker
After death we live for some time in the astral world in the astral body used during our life on earth, and the more we learn to control and use it wisely now the better for us after death.
~ Annie Besant
...death is ultimately a dimension of life through which we journey into timelessness.
~ John Shelby Spong
What is death all about? What is life all about?
~ Livia Bitton-Jackson
The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her wat'ry hearse.
~ Phineas Fletcher
I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.
~ Oscar Wilde
The enduring life is the one that begins once we awaken from this world. And it is in that awakening that we realize... It was only a dream
~ Yasmin Mogahed
For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other.
~ Yukio Mishima
Taking life seriously requires taking death seriously.
~ Studs Terkel
If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.
~ Sun Ra
I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.
~ T. S. Eliot
I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
~ Wally Lamb
Believing, desiring, deciding, and choosing correctly are the simple actions that define an increase in happiness and an increase in the inner assurance that transcends this life.
~ Benjamin De Hoyos
Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.
~ Robert Schumann
Probably death is the best invention of life.
~ Steve Jobs
Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
Happy Cadaver's hunger as you take The kissproof world.
~ Dylan Thomas
It is vital to understand that however positive this worldly life, or even a small part of it, may appear to be, ultimately it will fail because absolutely nothing genuinely works in samsara.
~ Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
Emptiness is consciousness itself.
~ E M Cioran
Take me up into your mind once or twice before I die (you know why: just because the eyes of you and me will be full of dirt some day). Quickly take me up into the bright child of your mind.
~ e. e. cummings
life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
~ e. e. cummings
It was the hour of unreality.
~ E. M. Forster