Quotes About Transcendence

non fui, fui, non sum, non curo—" I was not. I was. I am not. I care not.

In Jesus, God really becomes a mystery, makes himself known as the unknown, speaks as the eternally Silent One.

Man is in his short sojourn on earth equal to God in His eternity.

Realization that is beyond characteristic or designation is marvelous!

The 'Course in Miracles' says one day you will realize that death is not the punishment but the reward. And it says that birth is not the beginning of life but a continuation. And physical death is not the end of life but a continuation.

I've had an experience that... I don't know the right label to put to it, if it was an angel or Jesus or what. Nobody knows anything for sure about that, but I know that I had an encounter, and I know that things exist beyond this realm, most definitely. I'm grounded in that.

For most of my life, I have received messages - images and worded communications, sometimes even in an ancient language - that came to me from above.

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

When I was recording 'Kun-Faaya-Kun,' I did it like I was offering Namaaz.

I don't like listening to records a lot after they're done. There's just no real nourishment there for me.

And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

When you listen to a Yes album, you should listen to the whole thing through headphones with the lights off.

I'm a seeker of transcendence through music, and that's kind of where I'm at with the live shows - wanting to help people get out of their heads a little bit.

If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

I believe in Heaven. I don't believe that this is it, and then we're done.

There's got to be a higher power.

The door closed behind them. They climbed out of the earth; and, still climbing, rose above it. They were in the rainbow. Far abroad, over ocean and land, they could see through its transparent walls the earth beneath their feet. Stairs beside stairs wound up together, and beautiful beings of all ages climbed along with them. They knew that they were going up to the country whence the shadows fall. And by this time I think they must have got there.

Now and then, when I look round on my books, they seem to waver as if a wind rippled their solid mass, and another world were about to break through.

Suddenly pressing both hands on her heart, she fell to the ground, and the mist rose from her and melted in the air. I ran to her. But she began to writhe in such torture that I stood aghast. A moment more and her legs, hurrying from her body, sped away serpents. From her shoulders fled her arms as in terror, serpents also. Then something flew up from her like a bat, and when I looked again, she was gone.

Possessed by the power of the gorgeous night, she seemed at one and the same moment annihilated and glorified.

heaven is high and deep, and its lower air is music; in the upper regions the music may pass, who knows, merging unlost, into something endlessly better!

Everything has a soul and a body, or something like them. By the body we know the soul. But we are always ready to love the body instead of the soul. Therefore, God makes the body die continually, that we may learn to love the soul indeed.

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us, and we drown.4