Quotes About Transcendence

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

True life is elsewhere

The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses

True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Ho teso corde da campanile a campanile; ghirlande da finestra a finestra; catene d'oro da stella a stella, e danzo.

Estendi cordas de campanário a campanário; guirlandas de janela a janela; correntes de ouro de estrela a estrela, e danço.

You break From earthly approval And common urges: Then soar, accordingly

This instant of awakening has conjured a vision of purity! The spirit leads us to God! Bitter misfortune!

Am încetat s? îndr?gesc plictiseala.Furiile,dezm??ul,nebunia--c?reia îi cunosc toate avânturile ÅŸi toate pr?buÅŸirile,întreaga mea povar? a fost lep?dat?.S? m?sur?m f?r? a ameÅ£i întinderea inocenÅ£ei mele.

Elle est retrouvée — Quoi? — l'Éternité. C'est la mer mêlée Au soleil.

The mystic too full of God to speak intelligibly to the world.

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

A fin de cuentas, se consoló, por mucho que duela y tardes en morir, al final siempre te mueres. Y quien muere, descansa.

All compounded things are impermanent!" "Everything bound up with pollution is suffering!" "All phenomena are devoid of self!" and "Nirvana is peace!

After all, suffering, though of course unwanted, has its uses. Without it we would be like the gods, never longing for release from sa?s?ra.

Frustrations are the privilege of the living and transcending them is a privilege of the wise.

At that time of ecstasy there is no thought of others; there is NO THOUGHT. Thither I go and none may lead.

God created everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through" (Paul Valery).

There is no future, there is no past. Everything is now, and we are completely transparent; we have no solidity. We only look as if we had.

Love, sex, and eroticism, with their hormone rush and idealized images, on the one hand, and deep frustrations, on the other, have been variably perceived as either a major source of transcedence or the nadir of the profane.

The quest to trascend life's pains would become far more central to the religious experience as human societies expanded dramatically, beyond the small-scale kin communities of prehistory, with the advent of agriculture, the rise of state societies, and the coming of modernity.

I have come back once more to you all Ã¢â'¬Â¦ once more Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Ã¢â'¬Ëœ Pan paused, and in the silence not a foot moved or a wing rustled, 'and then I shall indeed be gone until that day when we shall all return, yes, all, gnomes and wild forgotten things alike, to the land where once we lived.

If we become aware of its limitations and compulsions, we can transcend them.

The mind is the main instrument to gain enlightenment, but enlightenment is only reached when the mind stops. Q: How can we stop the mind? A: Not hitting it with a hammer. Stop the mind by the mind.