Quotes About Transcendence

When I die, I will return to where I first came from. Back to the stars.

I love that moment, when you stop struggling to stay awake and your eyelids shut sink down and you slip effortlessly into another realm that's beckoning to you.

This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.

I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.

Life is eternal and it's worth living. What we do in this life is not futile. Death is not the end. Our practice in this life will assist us in our next life.

The answer to human life is not to be found within the limits of human life.

There is a still point in eternity. There is a still point where all things intersect. There is a still point beyond life, time, and death. Your experience of the still point is enlightenment.

Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by the "life eternal"!

Life hath more awe than death.

This watchfulness, this witnessing is the ultimate secret of creating a religious life, of creating a life of transcendence, a life of spirituality, of enlightenment, of buddhahood.

I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality; I am conscious of eternal life.

Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest.

We are too quick to live this life and forget that there is another world to come...this is not the end.

One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight; Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.

There is one great and universal wish of mankind expressed in all religions, in all art and philosophy, and in all human life: the wish to pass beyond himself as he now is.

But I simply can't stand a view limited to this earth, I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds...I like mathematics largely because it is not human.

Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity.

The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried.

You learn the stuff of your life (sports, movies, traveling) ... that's not the essence of your existence, my relationships were always good. Now they have transcended (rise beyond).

There was the Door to which I found no Key;There was the Veil through which I might not see.Some little talk awhile of Me and TheeThere was—and then no more of Thee and Me.

I dreamed that I floated at will in the great Ether, and I saw this world floating also not far off, but diminished to the size of an apple. Then an angel took it in his hand and brought it to me and said, "This must thou eat." And I ate the world. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

For 'the human' is a medium of possible divine revelation.

Our author envisions reality in terms of an eternal realm presently invisible to our earthly senses, and a temporary realm we can now see and touch but that will soon pass away.

No problem can be solved at the same level of consciousness that created it." This