Quotes About Transcendence

We cannot describe it. We cannot reveal it. And when we do, we disappear.

The Self is beyond birth, death, gender, class, and religion -- only the body wears those labels.

The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before.

The whole aspect of Nature was to him a special revelation of an immanent and abiding power—a breath of the pervading art—a smile of the Eternal Mind.

We have no rational evidence that there exists another world, but we have a clear feeling that man does not exist only to produce and to consume.

What is real is beyond all reach.

A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.

Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.

In reading, you sense the divine: the things that are larger and greater and more mysterious than yourself.

When a story is flying along, and I'm so into it that my 'real' world goes away, it can feel magical. I cease to be, my desk and computer ceases to be, and I am my character in his world. Psychologists call this a 'flow state,' and it's better than publication, money, awards, fame.

You can realise God as you progress in music; nothing in between.

Invisible things are the only realities; invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.

Poetry is the deification of reality.

There's got to be something greater than us.

To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all.

There is a way of living in the world that is not here, although it seems to be. You do not change appearance, though you smile more frequently. Your forehead is serene; your eyes are quiet.

Heaven, on the other hand, is a perfect, indescribable ecstasy that never ceases.

If only beauty could explain the world away.

When men see Han-shan They all say he's crazy And not much to look at - Dressed in rags and hides. They don't get what I say And I don't talk their language. All I can say to those I meet: Try and make it to Cold Mountain.

Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.

In this dynamic rivalry between house and universe, we are far removed from any reference to simple geometrical forms. A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.

L'imagination n'est pas, comme le suggère l'étymologie, la faculté de former des images de la réalité ; elle est la faculté de former des images qui dépassent la réalité, qui chantent la réalité. Elle est une faculté de surhumanité.

Non-knowing is not a form of ignorance but a difficult transcendence of knowledge.

But we must lose our earthly Paradise in order actually to live in it, to experience it in the reality of its images, in the absolute sublimation that transcends all passion.