Quotes About Transcendence

Our society celebrates nothing more than the overcoming of limitation – in sport, in science, in communications, in health. Every invention, every new world record, every new gadget is a sacrament of the deepest human desire of our age – to become free by transcending limitation, and thus, for a moment, believing we can withstand even death.

He said every time you look at a sunset and feel an expansion in your chest, that's the Divine in you recognizing the Divine in nature.

It's a funny feeling, being suddenly airborne. Just as you realize it, it's over, and you're sinking.

Some powerful magnificence not human in other words, seemed under me. And it was the same mild pink colour, like the water of a watermelon, that did it. At once I recognised the importance of this, as throughout my life I had known these moments when the dumb begin to speak, when I hear the voices of objects and colours; then the physical universe starts to wrinkle and change and heave and rise and smooth, so it seems even the dogs have to lean against a tree, shivering.

Death is going to take the boundaries away from us, that we should no more be persons. That's what death is about. When that is what life also wants to be about, how can you feel except rebellious?

I am giving up the violin. I guess I will never reach my object through it," to raise my spirit from the earth, to leave the body of this death. I was very stubborn. I wanted to raise myself into another world. My life and deeds were a prison.

Do you believe in transcendence downward as well as upward?

I am no earthling. I drink moonshine on Mars and mistake meteors for stars 'cause I can't hold my liquor. But I can hold my breath and ascend like wind to the black hole and play galaxophones on the fire escape of your soul.

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This beauty would remain whether he was here to see it or not.

And do I ask, wherefore my heart Falters, oppressed with unknown needs? Why some inexplicable smart All movement of my life impedes? Alas! in living Nature's stead, Where God His human creature set, In smoke and mould the fleshless dead And bones of beasts surround me yet!

Da allora il sole, la luna e le stelle possono continuare tranquillamente il loro corso, io non so se sia giorno o notte, e tutto il mondo svanisce intorno a me.

Qué otra cosa es el destino del hombre, más que soportar su medida y apurar su vaso? Y si el cáliz le resultó amargo al Dios del cielo, ¿por qué debo pavonearme como si me agradara? ¿Y por qué debo avergonzarme, cuando toda mi existencia tiembla entre el ser y no ser, cuando el pasado brilla como un rayo sobre el oscuro abismo del futuro y todo a mi alrededor se hunde y el mundo se pierde conmigo?

Oh dear, oh dear, that our frames should lack Wings with which to match our soaring spirit,

Tanr?sal ruhlar?n dola?t??? bu dudaklara bir öpücük kondurmaya hiçbir zaman cesaret etmeyece?im!

There is something magical in rhythm; it even makes us believe that we possess the sublime.

Oraya ko?up, oras? da buras? olunca, her ?ey öncesi gibidir ve zavall?l???m?zda, k?s?nt?l?l???m?zda kal?r?z ve ruhumuz s?yr?lan bir tesellinin hasretiyle yanar. (21 Haziran günü.)

Si a un instante le digo alguna vez: -Detente, eres tan bello-, puedes atarme entonces con cadenas y acepto hundirme entonces de buen grado; puede doblar entonces la campana, y libre quedarás de mi servicio: ¡párese allí el reloj con sus agujas! ¡Puede acabar el tiempo para mí!

When God created us, he founded His living nature for our home; But you sit in this gloom, surrounded By mildred skull and arid bone.

S? ridic perdeaua ?i s? trec dup? ea, asta e tot! ?i ce atâta ?ov?ial? ?i t?r?g?neal?! Pentru c? nu se ?tie ce este dincolo de ea? O însu?ire caracteristic? a spiritului nostru este aceea de-a b?nui c? e numai tulburare ?i întunecime acolo unde nu ?tim l?murit ce este.

It was as if my soul were thinking separately from the body: she looked upon the body as a foreign substance, as we look upon a garment. She pictured with extreme vivacity events and times long past, and felt, by means of this, events that were to follow. Those times are all gone by; what follows likewise will go by; the body, too, will fall to pieces like a vesture; but I, the well-known I, I am.

The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.

This is. The apotheosis. Of how she makes me feel.

now I am my own mirror and that which I was I am no more, for "I" and "God" is a denial of the unity of God. Since I am no more, God Most High is His own mirror. Now I say that God is the mirror of myself, for with my tongue He speaks and I have passed away.