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Quotes About Transcendence

The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.
~ Richard Le Gallienne
The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.
~ Samuel Johnson
Time's violence rends the soul, by the rent eternity enters.
~ Simone Weil
It is possible to transcend the usual limitations of the body, ego, space, and linear time.
~ Stanislav Grof
IMMORTAL is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, 'Tis a necessity.
~ Emily Dickinson
Through incarnations, some beings do go down. That is to say, they forget. The soul falls into an eclipse of itself and there is a downward progression for a time.
~ Frederick Lenz
Our larger body is eternity. Eventually, we return to the source in its undifferentiated form, in its absolute form, which is both form and formlessness, but we exist in that sea all the time.
~ Frederick Lenz
At the same time, I've never been afraid of death or the concept of death.
~ Alex Lifeson
Time is the image of eternity.
~ Diogenes Laertius
Time is the moving imago of the unmoving eternity.
~ Plato
There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.
~ Emile M. Cioran
The concept of time shuts off eternity.
~ Joseph Campbell
Wonder - the sensation of being whisked out of time and space...to be bathed in ... epiphanous delight.
~ Robert Dessaix
I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion.
~ Thomas Hardy
You a low down dog is what's wrong. It's time to leave you and enter into the creation. And your dead body just the welcome mat I need.
~ Alice Walker
When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.
~ Robert Smith
and at last there was nothing but darkness, and in the darkness the ecstasy, and after the ecstasy, death and life.
~ Marghanita Laski
And then, one day, my love, you come out of eternity.
~ Marguerite Duras
We tell each other things that have no relation to the afternoon's events or the coming night but that relate to God, to his absence that is so present, like the breasts of the young girl, so young before the immensity of what is to come.
~ Marguerite Duras
La passion reste en suspens dans le monde, prête à traverser les gens qui veulent bien se laisser traverser par elle.
~ Marguerite Duras
Suddenly I see myself as another, as another would be seen, outside myself, available to all, available to all eyes, in circulation for cities, journeys, desire.
~ Marguerite Duras
And it was at about this time that I began to feel myself divine.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Piccola anima smarrita e soave, compagna e ospite del corpo, ora t'appresti a scendere in luoghi incolori, ardui e spogli, ove non avrai più gli svaghi consueti. Un istante ancora, guardiamo insieme le rive familiari, le cose che certamente non vedremo mai più... Cerchiamo d'entrare nella morte a occhi aperti...
~ Marguerite Yourcenar