Quotes About Transcendence

death is ultimately a dimension of life through which we journey into timelessness.

We walk into the mystery of God; we do not define that mystery.

The task of religion is not to turn us into proper believers; it is to deepen the personal within us, to embrace the power of life, to expand our consciousness, in order that we might see things that eyes do not normally see.

With no change in the tone of her voice, Lydia began to pray in tongues. And at that instant I felt--actually felt--a wave of warmth pass from her hands into my head and then swiftly down through my chest and arms. The sensation was of heat, but without the effect of heat: I didn't feel flushed or hot. It was like coming close to some immense source of heat, a blast furnace or a sun, that had no burning quality whatever.

To worship means to feel distance. But God is not distant.

As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.

Absolute perfection belongs not to man, nor to angels, but to God alone.

The strongest of us are but the puniest weaklings, are but tinkling cymbals and sounding brass, before the eternal mystery.

He believed, you know, that it takes a material body, a spiritual body, and a soul, to make a man. Death is simply the slipping off of the outer body, as a husk slips off from its kernel. The deathless frame stands ready then for the soul's untrammeled occupation.

In time the earth will be inhabited by almost god-like beings who shall analyze and discuss the remnants of humanity as we now discuss the chimpanzee.

I remember she had a silver light, real powerful but not really shining beyond her own skin. Almost too bright to look at. But I couldn't not look. None of us could bear to look at anything else. Sometimes it was Miss Drummond in the middle of the light, sometimes it was something else.

This ability to transcend context is the essence of mindfulness and central to creativity in any field.

You must go beyond everything you have known about God and prayer in the past. You must pray many ways1 and at many times.

Las vidas son ectoplasmas al trasluz con ramificaciones de sangre, se enredan unas con otras, se enlazan, se separan, dejando a su paso, después de que todo termine, un rastro de luz removida.

Where there is neither light nor darkness, there God can cast His reflections. That seems to you impossible, because you are neither light nor dark; If you were either you would know your opposite -- and the neuter state where the two join hands. But that is too deep for you and too deep for the world of twilight people.

A long shaft of light came down from the sun behind the clouds and fell on the rearing, striking horses so that Thowra was the glittering foam on a waterfall, was quicksilver held for a dazzling moment in the shape of a horse, but a horse that was never still

The outward transformation of our feelings and actions is accomplished through the inner transformation of our mind.

This I can declare: things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world.

for every man's soul is in a spiritual body after it has cast off the material coverings which it carried about in the world.

Look here, your days here (on earth) are numbered. Yes, you heard me right as usual, your life can't and won't last forever. So, you've got to stop living your life as if you will live here (on earth) forever. I mean, endeavour to discover and fulfill your core purpose (your God-given destiny) for being here (on earth). For, indisputably your lifetime is limited, mark you. ~Emeasoba George.

If death had only negative aspects, dying would be an unmanageable action.

I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it burst, the resonance it provoked in me, and an upheaval out of all proportion to this insignificant event thrust me into miracle, into the rapture of the definitive, as if there were no more questions—only answers. I was drunk on a thousand unexpected discoveries, none of which I could make use of. … This is how I nearly reached the Supreme. But instead I went on with my walk.

Cînd zaresc cerul, îmi vine sa ma dizolv în el, iar cînd privesc pamîntul, sa ma îngrop în maruntaiele lui.

The initial revelation of any monastery: everything is nothing. Thus begin all mysticisms. It is less than one step from nothing to God, for God is the positive expression of nothingness.