Quotes About Transcendence

Exister authentiquement ce n'est pas nier le mouvement spontané de ma transcendance, mais seulement refuser de me perdre en lui

Recordemos que el hombre es trascendencia; lo que reclama, no lo reclama sino para superarlo.

To exist genuinely is not to deny this spontaneous movement of my transcendence, but only to refuse to lose myself in it.

Es en el objeto finito que crea, donde el hombre, encontrará un reflejo fijo de su trascendencia.

We cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us.

Time's violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.

Distance is the soul of the beautiful.

La beauté séduit la chair pour obtenir la permission de passer jusqu'à l'âme.

We cannot take a single step towards heaven. It is not In our power to travel in a vertical direction. If however we look heavenward for a long time, God comes and takes us up. He raises us easily.

Man's great affliction, which begins with infancy and accompanies him till death, is that looking and eating are two different operations. Eternal beatitude is a state where to look is to eat.

Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.

At a certain moment, the pain is lessened by projecting it into the universe, but the universe is impaired; the pain is more intense when it comes home again, but something in me does not suffer and remains in contact with a universe which is not impaired. - Simone Weil

Le triomphe de l'art est de conduire à autre chose que soi.

May I disappear in order that those things that I see may become perfect in their beauty from the very fact that they are no longer things that I see.

If we apply to the present the point of that desire within us which corresponds to finality, it pierces right through to the eternal.

Minä on vain synnin ja erehdyksen luoma varjo; synti ja erehdys pysähdyttävät Jumalasta säteilevän valon. Ja tätä varjoa minä luulen olennoksi. Vaikka voisikin olla Jumalan kaltainen, olisi sittenkin parempi olla liejua, joka tottelee Jumalaa.

Dieu n'a pu créer qu'en se cachant. Autrement il n'y aurait que lui.

El virtuosismo en todo arte consiste en la capacidad de salirse de sí mismo

The fall of the petals from fruit trees in blossom. To know that what is most precious is not rooted in existence—that is beautiful. Why? It projects the soul beyond time.

May I disappear in order that those things that I see may become perfect in their beauty from the very fact that they are no longer things I see.

Une oeuvre d'art a un auteur, et pourtant, quand elle est parfaite, elle a quelque chose d'essentiellement anonyme. Elle imite l'anonymat de l'art divin. Ainsi la beauté du monde prouve un Dieu à la fois personnel et impersonnel, et ni l'un ni l'autre.

Zburzenie Troi. Opadaj?ce p?atki kwitn?cych drzew owocowych. Wiedzie?, ?e to, co najcenniejsze, nie jest zakorzenione w istnieniu. To pi?kne. Dlaczego? Przenosi dusz? poza czas.

The idea of a person's being a thing ... constantly aspiring to be ... and never achieving it--here, surely, is death but death spread out over a whole lifetime; here, surely is life, but life that death congeals before abolishing.

What people call woo-woo is transcending logic and tuning in to the voice of your spirit, your true Self, your Divine personal power. We all need a little woo-woo to rise above the fray of an ordinary life of struggle and survival, to free ourselves from the tyranny that comes with endlessly trying to figure things out, and to happily get on our way to living a life of wonder, grace, and flow.