Quotes About Transcendence

When you can stand apart from your own mind and examine it—to think about your thoughts, feelings, and moods—you then have the basis for using imagination, conscience, and independent will in entirely new ways. You literally become transcendent. You transcend your background, history, and psychic baggage.

The greatest gifts given to man are his ability to think in terms of abstraction and his ability of transcendence. From these he derives his imaginative power. These are part of his major distinction from the lower animals. Although we need our moments of hearts and flowers, we need also to see the other side of the universal fence.

Dagegen fühlten jetzt alle, die Beflügelten und die Flügellosen, einen Drang in sich, ungeheuer hoch hinaufzusteigen, ja bis über die Wolken hinauf, um zu sehen, was sich darüber befinde, einen Drang, den schweren Körper zu verlassen, der sie auf die Erde hinabzog, und nach dem Überirdischen hinzuschweben.

Pardon me, dear human self, capable of the most heinous degradation, capable of soaring.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

O societate dematerializata este o societate respiritualizata.

Sa punem capat cautarii pl?cerii, sa eliberam omul de înveli?ul sau de carne ca sa asistam la venirea omului - spirit, ale c?rui unice bucurii vor fi cerebrale ?i morale.

There are far more reasons for death than there are for life.

Cada época lee a sus clásicos de distinta manera. El lector encuentra en ellos los contenidos que le permiten aclarar su presente, resolver sus dilemas, vislumbrar con mayor claridad sus objetivos. Una gran obra trascenderá siempre las intenciones de su autor y las limitaciones de su tiempo

There is something beyond the grave; death does not end all, and the pale ghost escapes from the vanquished pyre.

Beauty is at once a royal path to God and an impediment to reaching God if it is taken as a god in itself.

Dance is the ritual of immortality

Only when there is absolute submission can the soul ascend through dance

Transcend the terrestrial, surpass the celestial, from nature's hands when you receive the sublime pleasures of dance

Inside this robe there is only God.

Almost any form of meditation will eventually take you to an experience of your spiritual source, or your higher self.

She was beyond herself; she touched eternity; she was no mere Witch; she was Moonhawk, and a goddess.

If I ever prayed, as a child, for everlasting union, these were its shoes: one dew-licked kicked-off slipper of a being now flying, one sunrise-milk-green boot of the dead, which I wore, as I dreamed.

I sang the mothers and fathers out, into the stars and the nothing beyond them, into which we will follow them, at the end of our turn.

I called for him through solid earth until he woke, and left.

For the world slows and the stars falter, and all that remains is you...

What do humans go to art for, but to locate within themselves that inward-turning eye, which breathes significance into all of existence-for what is art but the act of infusing matter with the breath of God?

Perhaps we can only give in total beauty and simplicity in the moment of our dying, because that is the only giving that demands no return.

The moment was utterly timeless: we didn't know that time existed; and it contained, therefore, some foretaste, it may be, of eternity.