Quotes About Transcendence

Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.

Nobody know when he is going to die. It is no good simply putting it off all the time, as we tend to do. If you face it, you realize you hold your life in your hands, and you're ready to let go at any moment. I think that is real wisdom.

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The divine qualities of man are but the slightest hints, the faintest intimations, of the attributes of God.

God does not refuse to make himself known to man. He only will not do it by the symbolism of matter. He comes to us at once by the most natural course. We are in a transient state; our bodies are accidental, and God comes to us by that which is higher and truer--the intuitions of the soul.

Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.

we thought that if we had a language for our feelings we might transcend them.

Painting and religious experience are the same thing, and what we are all searching for is the understanding and realization of infinity.

God and all the attributes of God are eternal.

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.

That bodies should be lent us, while they can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our fellow creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God - when they become unfit for these purposes and afford us pain instead of pleasure-instead of an aid, become an encumbrance and answer none of the intentions for which they were given, it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we may get rid of them. Death is that way.

Life is in fact mortal, and the immortal things are flesh, energy, individuality, and spirit in its various guises.

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight.... A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

What I am talking about is beyond speaking in tongues.Yes, I did speak in a heavenly language, but it was much more than that.The Holy Spirit became real. He became my friend. He became my companion, my counselor.

Somehow, I realized I could write books about black characters who reflected my own experiences or otherworldly experiences - not just stories of history, poverty and oppression.

I wanted to be a monk at some time in my life, or a priest, so there was a kind of reflex quite early on not to be attached to anything that might be taken away.

There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it.

I love that feeling. I guess I love escaping my life, really. I love going into another world and feeling for this amount of time that this is it, this is the world I'm going to live in. You feel it more during the rehearsal process.

The entire aim of my work is to elevate the human spirit. We can put the human spirit down so easily.

Drunkenness as a triumphant irruption of the plant in us.

Plato will have to invent a transcendence that can be exercised and situated within the field of immanence itself. This is the meaning of the theory of Ideas.

Trascendencia, enfermedad propiamente europea.

What a pure way to die.

If she were alive, someone would need to return her. If she were dead, nature would have to give her up.