Quotes About Transcendence

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

I can sing the saddest song with a bunch of people, and the feeling of sharing that energy activates in a way that either heals it or makes me feel like I've risen a thousand miles above it into space, and I'm staring down on it as a little dot.

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.

It's the feeling of being lifted out of my life into another world that is the thrill of writing fiction.

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.

However great the exertion of our mind may be to comprehend the Divine Being or any of the ideals, we find a screen and partition between Him and ourselves. Thus the prophets frequently hint at the existence of a partition between God and us.

God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.

I conceived of a concept, a project, a band. The Tide. The Tide, acting as a sonic exemplar of flow and fluidity. The way of things. The way of nature. Guitars, rock and surf music, psychedelia, transcendence from everyday bourgeois consciousness.

Life can be tasted and transcended only when there is a distinction between the psychological and the existential.

You either participate in life out of your compulsions or out of your consciousness. Consciousness means to be beyond compulsiveness. Compulsiveness means repetitive nature. Adiyogi participates out of consciousness. He recognizes that there are compulsions in people, but the whole spiritual process is to rise beyond that.

Dhyana or meditation, means to be beyond the limitations of your body and mind.

If God is completely beyond our knowing, how can we know that he is unknowable?

Since happiness is nothing else than the enjoyment of the Supreme Good, and the Supreme Good is above us, no one can enjoy happiness unless he rises above himself.

God is a sea of infinite substance.

Music is the exaltation of the mind derived from things eternal, bursting forth in sound.

Down in adoration falling,Lo! the sacred Host we hail;Lo! o'er ancient forms departing,Newer rites of grace prevail;Faith for all defects supplying,Where the feeble senses fail.

What I don't think they realize is that when they pray for a healing, death is a healing... It's not the healing that you might want, but as sure as we're born, we're going to die. And we're healed from the troubles of this world.

and the strange, undeniable fact that the presence of death can be joyful.

If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Be sure to get away often enough that you are regularly exposed to God's art and able to remember that He is transcendent above all the details of your life.

We live to die, we die to eternally live.

Don't tell me about the seasons in the East, don't talk to me about eternal California summer. It's enough to have a few days naked among three hundred kinds of rain.