Quotes About Transcendence

Nei momenti più insignificanti, mentre sono in cucina a preparare la cena, o quando guardo il tramonto, a volte divento terribilmente malinconica, proprio come se un grosso grumo di tristezza mi fosse tutt'a un tratto penetrato dentro.

D'un tratto capii quanto fosse lontano il passato. Anche più della morte, anche più della distanza incolmabile tra persona e persona.

And then, suddenly, time was flowing differently than usual. It didn't turn back, or even pause. Time simply floated open and started to expand. Time held the two of us in light, inside a space so vast it might have reached the heavens, and turned eternal.

Forse era solo il breve sogno di un'altra me stessa che non aveva più nessuna possibilità di vivere in questo mondo.

Pensai: ecco, se dopo la morte il mio spirito tornasse sulla terra in una sera d'estate, è così che il mondo mi apparirebbe.

Qui il tempo non esiste. È come se fossimo separati dal resto del mondo. Ci siamo soltanto lui e io, fuori dal tempo e senza età. Il tempo si è fermato e io guardo Nakajima senza desiderare nulla in particolare. Sento che questa è la felicità.

Rifletteva il cielo azzurro di quella preziosa schiarita della stagione delle piogge.

Nuestra luz interior, la bella luz transparente del exterior y la luz que resplandecía cuando estábamos juntos se fundió en una sola luz que iluminó nuestro futuro.

It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.

I saw the sky and sea and sand and the flickering flames of the bonfire through my tears. All at once, it rushed into my head with tremendous speed, and made me feel dizzy. It was beautiful. Everything that happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.

Meditation is cultivating the potential to transcend your limited self, limited beliefs and limited existence. It is stepping into the exciting territory of limitlessness.

those of us who wish to draw near to God should not be surprised when our vision goes cloudy, for this is a sign that we are approaching the opaque splendor of God. If we decide to keep going beyond the point where our eyes or minds are any help to us, we may finally arrive at the pinnacle of the spiritual journey toward God, which exists in complete and dazzling darkness.

God shows up in whirlwinds, starry skies, burning bushes, and perfect strangers.

The wind smelled like the moon. I went up there so many times in the weeks that followed that I no longer remember which night it was that God finally answered my prayer. I do not think it was right at the beginning, when I was still saying my prayers in words. I think it came later, when I had graduated to inchoate sounds. Up on that fire escape, I learned to pray the way a wolf howls. I learned to pray the way that Ella Fitzgerald sang scat.

We wanted More. We wanted a deeper sense of purpose. We wanted a stronger sense of God's presence.

To be human is to live by sunlight and moonlight, with anxiety and delight, admitting limits and transcending them, falling down and rising up.

To be human is to live by sunlight and moonlight, with anxiety and delight, admitting limits and transcending them, falling down and rising up. To want a life with only half of these things in it is to want half a life, shutting the other half away where it will not interfere with one's bright fantasies of the way things ought to be.

In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

insistent principle that the life of the spirit and of the afterworld was superior to the here and now, to material life on earth,

When we say that God is infinite, we do not mean that He is of immeasurable size and duration, but that He is beyond all space and time. He is neither in space nor in time; for this reason He is eternal and infinite, and therefore He is also incomprehensible.

I know a logic beyond time and space; that is why I am so illogical, why space cannot hold me nor time make me old.

Boy, just look at the soul shining through my eyes! It's like a goddamned flower!

If you don't believe in transcendent experience, you haven't been to the right concert, you know, you haven't used the right drugs, you haven't had sex with the right partner.