Quotes About Transcendence

Transcending the limiting ego version of who you are and connecting with your empowered spirit when times are difficult takes imagination, intention, and help from others. It's part of our soul's work to learn to live an empowered, authentic life and not merely be a prerecorded tape replaying the past mistakes of others.

In this, with him... I'm as close to the sky as I've ever been.

I think talking to other people can bring its own unhelpful baggage. Sometimes you just need to talk to an entity. The void. Your God.

You are nothing at all. Just a crack where the light slipped through.

Never to have been born is best. Everyone knows that, and a close second, once you have appeared in this life, is a quick return, as soon as you can, to where you came from.

O god— all come true, all burst to light! O light—now let me look my last on you!

The misfortune of our time is just this, that it has become simply nothing else but 'time', the temporal, which is impatient of hearing anything about eternity.

I need the enchantment of creative work to help me forget life's mean pettiness.

O Lord, I am further away from me than from You!

I actually do believe in life after death.

Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death

The beauty of sorrow is superior to the beauty of life.

There are realms of life where the concepts of sense and nonsense do not apply.

There are as many ways to pray as there are moments in life.

I existed before I received this body. I am the external and fundamental life energy of the universe.

In meditation and/or intense life interfaces, our personal view is often superseded by Self's, causing our apparent reality and all of it's limitations to disappear.

Whether or not enlightenment is possible at the moment of death, the practices that prepare one for this possibility also bring one closer to the bone of life.

At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights of the past.

Why should I stay? Nor seed nor fruit have I, But, sprung at once to beauty's perfect round, Nor loss nor gain nor change in me is found, - A life-complete in death-complete to die.

... the first step to eternal live is you have to die.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

I trust that when people meet, we meet for a transcendent reason, and that the challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.