Quotes About Transcendence

A window to the Other Side.

Essa dà, secondo me, un senso concreto, vicino, familiare, all'al di là:

ogni autentica preghiera si fonda sulla morte delle potenze, sensibili, intellettuali, volontarie,

Parte de la evolución es aprender a superar el apego, porque el espíritu busca Libertad.

El antónimo más exacto de la soberbia es la humildad, característica del hombre que reconoce sus defectos y es capaz de someter su razón, su voluntad y sus preferencias en bien de los demás; se interesa por los problemas y las circunstancias ajenas. La humildad es el mejor camino para la ascética personal y la espiritualidad trascendente.

Cicerón decía que lo fundamental para llevar una existencia ordenada era el respeto a uno mismo y a los demás, buscando la trascendencia. Una

muchos de estos hombres necesitarán un sufrimiento de cierta trascendencia para iniciar el cambio, pero no olvidemos que el sufrimiento es la forma suprema de aprendizaje;

Why should I fear death? If I am, then death is not. If Death is, then I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not? Long time men lay oppressed with slavish fear. Religious tyranny did domineer. At length the mighty one of Greece Began to assent the liberty of man.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

If death is we are not, if we are death is not.

Why should I fear death If I am, Death is not If death is, I am not Why should I fear that which could not exist when I do?

For if death is we are not,if we are death is not

A morte não é nada para nós, porque o corpo, quando está dissolvido nos seus elementos, não tem sentimento, e o que não tem sentimento não é nada para nós.

Over my lifetime, the car had actually transcended the fact that it is a car. It has become a venue.

For certain fortunate people there is something which transcends all classifications of behaviour, and that is awareness; something which rises above the programming of the past, and that is spontaneity; and something that is more rewarding than games, and that is intimacy.

humanos en expresión pero divinos en creación e ilimitados en potencialidad.

Bonhoeffer's theology had always leaned toward the incarnational view that did not eschew "the world," but that saw it as God's good creation to be enjoyed and celebrated, not merely transcended.

Any outstanding dramatic, musical, literary or visual work invariably draws upon powers far beyond our own to lift us onto a plane that is more imaginatively powerful, emotionally thrilling and intellectually stimulating than the mundane one we normally occupy.

If you insist on reducing it to its basic elements, it's the sure and simple knowledge that there's something more out there, something greater than yourself, than mankind: a grand plan, a design that can't be comprehended by you or by any other human being, because it is numinous, it is God's design, something only He can fathom.

When God is invisible behind the world, the contents of the world will become new gods; when the symbols of transcendent religiosity are banned, new symbols develop from the inner-worldly language of science to take their place. Like the Christian ecclesia, the inner-worldly community has its apocalypse too; yet the new apocalyptics insist that the symbols they create are scientific judgements.

Men can let the contents of the world grow to such an extent that the world and God disappear behind them, but they cannot annul the human condition itself. This remains alive in each individual soul; and when God is invisible behind the world, the contents of the world will become new gods; when the symbols of transcendent religiosity are banned, new symbols develop from the inner-worldly language of science to take their place.

The temptation to fall from uncertain truth into certain truth is stronger in the clarity of the Christian faith than in other spiritual structures. But the absence of a secure hold on reality and the demanding spiritual strain are generally characteristic of border experiences in which man's knowledge of transcendent being, and thereby of the origin and meaning of mundane being, is constituted.

to the end And was there from eternity. GOETHE, Westöstlicher Diwan

By transcending our daily reality and embarking on an alternative journey we create an opportunity to taste the many nitty-gritties of life. Going beyond the day-to-day contingencies and the usual concerns, allows us to recognize ourselves better by figuring out the mystery and the anonymity of our surrounding world. ("Transcendental journey")