Quotes About Transcendence

Paul believed American greatness and the ghosts of that greatness surrounded him. But who could publicly express such a belief and not be ridiculed as a patriotic fool? Paul believed in his fellow Americans, in their extraordinary decency, in their awesome ability to transcend religion, race, and class, but what leftist could state such things and ever hope to get laid by any other lefty?

I make music to bring the dead to life for a couple minutes and then let it go.

There is a wonderful expression: seeing through a glass darkly. Everything, even life, is inevitably removed from you. You can't reach, or touch, the real. You just see reflections

God is beyond all the forms of life, but also indwells every form of life as their essence. God is both beyond and within.

To live in God is death; to die in God is life.

Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.

One can no more look steadily at death than at the sun.

In deep meditation, all of the things that we call life, all of the combinations of experiences, fall away.

Life reorders you when you go into the clear light. Even the causal structure is liquefied. The clear light of reality, the dharmakaya, changes us into beings of light.

There is a way beyond this life and beyond death, the path of liberation. In order to be liberated, you have to enter into the world of advanced meditation.

Many aspects of life cannot be explained through logic or reason. The reasoning part of the mind simply doesn't have the capacity to understand the many whys and how's of being and non-being.

Mysticism cuts through bullshit, and it takes you right there to the experience. Everything in your life is eventually set up as a pragmatic energy flow into the light.

There are thousands of worlds, thousands of dimensional planes, billions. Life is endless. It goes on forever.

Think about the flowers. Life is just a bunch of pretty pictures. All this is supposed to do is force you beyond the mind, when you realize that you can't figure it out.

At the point so near to zero, just almost before the death, life's value jumps to infinity!

There is no one to tell this to and yet it seems very important to get this right. The reality and what it is like to escape it. That even now it is sometimes too beautiful to bear.

I believe in life after death.

More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life.

Do you remember how life yearned out of childhood toward the "great thing?" I see that it is now yearning forth beyond the great thing toward the greater one.

Your ecstasy is a movement towards the height and your meditation is a movement towards the depth. And once you have both, your life becomes a celebration.

A Singularitarian is someone who understands the Singularity and has reflected on its meaning for his or her own life.

... on every important issue life transcends logic and it is folly to depend on reason alone.

Life is elsewhere. Cross frontiers. Fly away.

The joy of a self-giving life Can neither be measured Nor be expounded.