Quotes About Transcendence

One short sleep past, we wake eternally, and death shall be no more, death thou shalt die.

As virtuous men pass mildly away And whisper to their souls, to goe, While some of their friends doe say, The breath goes now, and some say, no: So let us melt, and make no noise...

No man ever saw God and lived; and yet, I shall not live till I see God; and when I have seen him I shall never die

As yet God suspends me between heaven and earth, as a meteor; and I am not in heaven because an earthly body clogs me, and I am not in the earth because a heavenly soul sustains me.

We die and rise the same, and prove Mysterious by this love.

Y por esa puerta entrarán, y en esa casa morarán, donde no habrá ni nubes ni sol, ni oscuridad ni deslumbramiento, sino una luz constante, ni ruido ni silencio, sino una música constante, ni miedos ni esperanzas, sino una ecuanimidad constante, ni amigos ni enemigos, sino unas constantes comunión e identidad, ni fin ni principio, sino una constante eternidad.

I need to take a break from this life as a human for 45 minutes and go experience a little bit of immortality.

Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.

As a general remark, I would say we must move from the moral to the mystical life.

I think it is impossible for human minds to think of Death as a final, irrevocable end to life.

But I was willing to embrace mortal life again, before chasing immortality.

I don't believe there's an afterlife - but I don't believe there's an end to life. Consciousness goes beyond the bounds of your body.

When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.

I am not in the body of life. I hover on the extremities. I float.

Any profound view of the world is mysticism. It has, of course, to deal with life and the world, both of which are nonrational entities.

Life is a luminous pause between two mysteries that are yet one.

Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield.

Look at the big picture of the wheel of life. Above it, there is a Buddha. He is pointing, not towards the wheel, but away from it. He is indicating that there is something else - nirvana.

Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.

There is a conservation of matter and of energy, there may be a conservation of life; or if not of life, of something which transcends life.

The life of a Christian should be a meditation how to unloose his affection from inferior things. He will easily die that is dead before in affection.

Look at everything through the lens of eternity. If you will do this, life will take on a different perspective.

If life transcends death, then I will seek for you there. If not, then there too.