Quotes About Transcendence

Cherry blossoms are more beautiful when the blood of the dead stains the flowers from grass below.

Being in love is the only transcendent experience.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

The transcendent effects of a pilgrimage appear after a few days, in waves of perception

When you spend serious time and effort focused on transcendental things, it puts your little world into proper context and takes the focus off yourself. Most of our days, I am thinking me, me, me. It's like watching the same dreary television show, over and over, all day long. It's so boring. Faith forces me into the cosmos, to consider the source of truth, the origin of life, and the good of others. This focus brings refreshment and relief. A

It's questionable whether I believe in God or Jesus but I do believe in a spiritual world and some kind of afterlife.

Unless you're flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what's on the other side? It brings up issues of God, or no God. How does he play into this? Or he, or she, or it? How does it all play into this?

If I had a dozen lives, one of them would involve really getting off the rails in India, heavy into meditation.

The further you go in life, the more you realize what you're going to leave this Earth.

I figure I basically am a ghost. I think we all are.

Alas, I think I am becoming a god.

He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods.

La paura della morte si dileguò e le subentrò una meravigliosa indifferenza. Egli si distese come per dormire. Il cielo gemmato della notte d'agosto stava immobile sopra di lui. Fra i miliardi di stelle nessuna baluginava. Stefano era solo nel mondo e col mondo.

I believe one day the distance between myself and God will / disappear.

You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary

It was the upward-reaching and fathomlessly hungering, heart-breaking love for the beauty of the world at its most beautiful, and, beyond that, for that beauty east of the sun and west of the moon which is past the reach of all but our most desperate desiring and is finally the beauty of Beauty itself, of Being itself and what lies at the heart of Being.

Who can say when or how it will be that something easters up out of the dimness to remind us of a time before we were born and after we will die?

Aber Freund! wir kommen zu spät. Zwar leben die Götter Aber über dem Haupt droben in anderer Welt.

Ser uno con todo, ésa es la vida de la divinidad, ése es el cielo del hombre. Ser uno con todo lo viviente, volver, en un feliz olvido de sí mismo, al todo de la naturaleza, ésta es la cima de los pensamientos y alegrías, ésta es la sagrada cumbre de la montaña, el lugar del reposo eterno donde el mediodía pierde su calor sofocante y el trueno su voz, y el hirviente mar se asemeja a los trigales ondulantes.

It is beautiful to unfold our souls And our short lives

In gods and godhead only he can truly believe who himself is godlike.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.

How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?