Quotes About Transcendence

Here I am and there is my body dancing on glass

Judaism or Islam or Sikhism. I can be a believer in something bigger than what I can touch. I can make a leap of faith to a higher power in a way that's appropriate to my culture but not be imprisoned by it.  

For just a moment, with great effort, I could imagine my will as a force that would not disappear but redistribute when I died, and that all life contained the same force, and that I needn't worry about my impending death because the great responsibility of my life was to contain the force for a while and then relinquish it.

Religion appears in this book as it does in my other work on religion, media, and consumption—not as a solid, circumscribed, institutional, organized entity but more as (to borrow a phrase from author Anne Lamott) "the water at the edge of things.

Any pain that human beings can create, human beings can transcend.

It is in the early morning hour that the unseen is seen, and that the far-off beauty and glory, vanquishing all their vagueness, move down upon us till they stand clear as crystal close over against the soul.

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

I SPEAK TO YOU from the depths of eternity. Before the world was formed, I AM!

And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. —PHILIPPIANS 4:7

LET MY LOVE ENFOLD YOU in the radiance of My Glory. Sit still in the Light of My Presence, and receive My Peace. These quiet moments with Me transcend time, accomplishing far more than you can imagine.

They were beautiful beyond words, beautiful beyond understanding. So beautiful, I wanted to tear out my heart and hand it over, because after seeing them, I surely wouldn't have any more use for it.

Do not get attached to worldly things and pursuits. Be in the world, but do not let the world be in you.

since all my letters are equally bare of personal information. The buildings I try to describe will last longer than we will, so it is only fitting that they should have the greater space.

I had known another world. It is impossible to give it a name. There are words like enchantment, words like bliss, but they didn't say it, they were stupid words. No words really said it. There was nothing to say about it except that I had known it, it had been mine. It was the one real thing, more real than the world.

I am a moment illuminating eternity....I am affirmation...I am ecstasy.

There is a deeper life than the life we see and hear with the open ear and the open eye and this is the life important and the life everlasting.

To watch the sun sink behind a flower clad hill. To wander on in a huge forest without thought of return. To stand upon the shore and gaze after a boat that disappears behind distant islands. To contemplate the flight of wild geese seen and lost among the clouds. And, subtle shadows of bamboo on bamboo.

Paradise was not far away when I died

Was music once a proof of God's existence? As long as it admits things beyond measure, That supposition stands.

So whether he calls it spirit music or not, I don't care. He took it out of wind off mid-Atlantic.

You are like a rich man entering heaven/through the ear of a raindrop.

As we understand the world better, the idea that it has a transcendent purpose seems increasingly untenable.

The ruins of time build mansions in eternity.

Once you touch a dimension which is boundless, the idea of time and space disappears. What is here is there; what is there is here.