Quotes About Transcendence

Petite âme, âme tendre et flottante, compagne de mon corps, qui fut ton hôte, tu vas descendre dans ces lieux pâles, durs et nus, où tu devras renoncer aux jeux d'autrefois. Un instant encore, regardons ensemble les rives familières, les objets que sans doute nous ne reverrons plus… Tâchons d'entrer dans la mort les yeux ouverts...

Contam cu disperare pe eternitatea pitrei, pe fidelitatea bronzului în dorinÈ›a de a perpetua un corp perisabil, ori deja distrus, insistând totodat? ca marmura, uns? zilnic cu un amestec de ulei È™i acizi, s? prind? fineÈ›e È™i aproape moliciunea c?rnii tinere.

Where does love go when it dies? Into flowers and other beautiful things? Back out into the universe to be recycled?

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.

You "The Thought God holds of you is like a star, unchangeable in an eternal sky.

Your human self might be in hell right now, but your divine self is literally untouched by your suffering. And your divine self is who you are.

Eastern religions tell us that if we go for God, all that is not authentically ourselves will drop.

I surrender my attachment to lesser things.

Rumi: "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there.

Somos espíritu y, por consiguiente, somos más que el mundo. Cuando recordamos esto, el mundo mismo se inclinará ante nuestro recuerdo.

The only point where eternity meets time is in the present.

El amor es la única realidad absoluta, que nunca cambia y nunca muere. Morar en lo inmutable, mientras todo a nuestro alrededor cambia constantemente, es nuestra clave para alcanzar la paz interior.

we could wake up to what we were — when we were ocean and before that to when sky was earth, and animal was energy, and rock was liquid and stars were space and space was not at all — nothing before we came to believe humans were so important before this awful loneliness

All my life I've read that the life of the mind is preeminent, and that it can transcend all bodily degradation. But that's just not my experience. When your body has to deal all day with shit and string beans, your mind does too.

I have spent my life watching, not to see beyond the world, merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my eyes. I think the concept of transcendence is based on a misreading of creation. With all respect to heaven, the scene of the miracle is here, among us. The eternal as an idea is much less preposterous than time, and this very fact should seize our attention.

We fly forgotten as a dream, certainly, leaving the forgetful world behind us to trample and mar and misplace everything we have ever cared for. That is just the way of it, and it is remarkable.

Wherever you turn your eyes the world can shine like transfiguration. You don't have to bring a thing to it except a little willingness to see. Only, who could have the courage to see it?

Dawn and its excesses always reminded me of heaven, a place where I have always known I would not be comfortable.

There is no strictly secular language that can translate religious awe.

Wherever you turn your eyes the world can shine like transfiguration. You don't have to bring a thing to it except a little willingness to see. Only, who could have the courage to see it?

I knew perfectly well at the time, as I had for years and years, that the Lord absolutely transcends any understanding I have of Him, which makes loyalty to Him a different thing from loyalty to whatever customs and doctrines and memories I happen to associate with Him.

Szerintem a transzcendencia gondolata a teremtés félreértelmezésén alapszik. Minden tiszteletet megérdemel az ég, de a csoda helyszíne itt van köztünk.

It's wonderful to get lost in a piece of music, she'd said. To forget your name for a while.

Would it be so strange to think that upon death, when there is no newly created consciousness in the continuation of our histories, we might experience ourselves in God as participants in God's own life? And