Quotes About Transcendence

Whatever prepares you for death enhances life.

Carlisle has a theory...he believes that we all bring something of our strongest human traits with us into the next life, where they are intensified - like our minds, and our senses.

I am conscious of eternal life.

Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh. In these moral acceptions, the way to be immortal is to die daily.

Where your life ends, your being doesn't. Where your being ends, you don't. That is what is able to have and move your forms.

The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to which the senses do not lead.

One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of it.

After my final Breaking Dawn scene, I felt like I could shoot up into the night sky and every pore of my body would shoot light. I felt lighter than I've ever felt in my life.

The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem.

The mind can ask all the questions on the meaning of life. But it cannot answer one of them, for the answers are beyond the mind.

With the practice of meditation you can move into other states of mind, sort of ungluing the glue that binds you to a particular perceptual mode, a way of seeing life which is an illusory one.

As you meditate, you will discover, pleasantly, that you too can see beyond this life, that you can see your eternality.

When it comes time to die, you will not be afraid. By meditating, you will have already seen beyond life and death and you will see there is nothing to fear.

You can't die. Bodies come and go but your spirit is eternal. You're the stuff that life is.

We don't really remember where we came from, and we're not too sure about where we go to, if we are, after this thing we call life.

When you see that you are not the body, that the body comprises only a small fraction of the aggregate of your awareness, then death is no fear, life is no fear, there is no fear.

Enlightenment means that you're living fully, and it means that you die fully. And then you go beyond life and death completely, everything, nothing, all, and beyond all.

If one is enlightened, one does not perceive life with North, South, East and West. There is no California, there is no New York. In a higher bonding state of attention, everything is fluid light.

The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life.

Between skin and skin, there is only light.

when you look at the stars, you should tremble - only dullards have become callous to this frisson ...

I've known damnable beauty - the turgid pull of swirling blackness - but in the end, it's futile - purity alone redeems...

As we begin our study of Genesis 1 then, we must be aware of the danger that lurks when we impose our own cultural ideas on the text without thinking. The Bible's message must not be subjected to cultural imperialism. Its message transcends the culture in which it originated, but the form in which the message was imbedded was fully permeated by the ancient culture. This was God's design and we ignore it at our peril.

It is in suffering that we are withdrawn from the sway of time and mere things, and find ourselves in the presence of profounder truth.