Quotes About Transcendence

Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both. They were absorbed alike into the life force of the world, or dissolved alike into atoms.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. Think constantly on the changes of the elements into each other, for such thoughts wash away the dust of earthly life.

The pre-Easter Jesus is dead and gone; he's nowhere anymore. This statement does not deny Easter in any way, but simply recognizes that the corpuscular Jesus, the flesh-and-blood Jesus, is a figure of the past.

I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing…. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black.

You believed you could transcend the body as you aged, she tells herself. You believed you could rise above it, to a serene, nonphysical realm. But it's only through ecstasy you can do that, and ecstasy is achieved through the body itself. Without the bone and sinew of wings, no flight. Without that ecstasy you can only be dragged further down by the body, into its machinery. Its rusting, creaking, vengeful, brute machinery.

and each of his voices left his body in a different colored soul and floated up towards the sun still singing.

Prayer is wanting. Jesus, Jesus he says, but he's not praying to Jesus, he's praying to you, not to your body or your face but to the space you hold at the centre, which is the shape of the universe. Empty.

I wonder why trying to transcend time never even succeeds in stopping it...

Yes, they know her. They touch her lips, gather her words, fly away with the message, disappear into the dark. Pass through the membrane that separates this world from the unseen world that lies just underneath it.

I even spent a certain amount of time worrying about the Spiritualist doctrines: If The Other Side was so wonderful, why did the spirits devote most of their messages to warnings? Instead of telling their loved ones to avoid slippery stairs and unsafe cars and starchy foods, they should have been luring them over cliffs and bridges and into lakes, spurring them on to greater feats of intemperance and gluttony, in order to hasten their passage to the brighter shore.

I want to keep on living, in any form. I resign my body freely, to the uses of others. They

Between the living and the dead. They carried the Word made air.

Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think. It is vital to mourn for the victims of this government, but not at the expense of losing our sense of humor. Our ability to laugh coincides directly with our ability to fight. If we can make fun of it, we can transcend it.

Sound unique and commit... the human has to transcend technology and that's what people will hear.

In a way, technologies have negated the transcendental God in order to invent the machine-God. However, these two gods raise similar questions.

My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.

I believe in spiritual technology.

Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.

Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind was a thanksgiving to the power That made him; it was blessedness and love!

The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

When souls really touch, it is forever. Then space and time disappear, and all that remains is the consciousness that we are not alone in life.

Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.

What I like best about music is when time goes away.