Quotes About Transcendence

The scientific picture of the real world around me is very deficient. It gives a lot of factual information... [but] it cannot tell us a word about red and blue, bitter and sweet, physical pain and physical delight; it knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, God and eternity. So, in brief, we do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us... the scientific worldview contains of itself... not a word about our own ultimate scope or destination.

Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

Love is at once an affirmation and a transcendence of who we are.

I for one have ceased to cling to life and to things; I have the feeling that everything is accidental, that one must break one's inner bonds with people and stand aside for all else.

Life has only one expression, the one where the rooster crows, the one where you listen to it, moved, knowing that the night cannot contain it.

penetrating into the spirit of the Great Doctrine.

Self is the soul minus God.

Classically, there are three ways in which humans try to find transcendence--religious meaning--apart from God as revealed through the cross of Jesus: through the ecstasy of alcohol and drugs, through the ecstasy of recreational sex, through the ecstasy of crowds. Church leaders frequently warn against the drugs and the sex, but at least, in America, almost never against the crowds.

God reveals himself, that is, in creation and in Christ, in ways we can see and hear and touch and taste, in place and person. Beauty is the term we apply to these hints of transcendence, these perceptions that there is more going on here than we can account for. And that is how we come to identify as apostles of the gospel the men and women and, yes, children, who use words and images and sounds and textures to wake us up to beauty latent and implicit all around us.

In a world where nearly everything can be weighed, explained, quantified, subjected to psychological analysis and scientific control, I persist in making the center of my life a God whom no eye hath seen, nor ear heard, whose will no one can probe.

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

Even though there is something out there that is not the world-for-us, and even though we can name it the world-in-itself, this latter constitutes a horizon for thought, always receding just beyond the bounds of intelligibility.

It is often said that the more spiritual a person becomes, the more unassuming they are. Eventually, they vanish entirely.

Brahman into Atman, God incarnated as Christ, the Word made flesh - that any people at all should be a chosen people is the most depressing thought. Must everything that indifferently transcends the human always be brought back to it?

La poesía cruza la tierra sola, / Apoya su voz en el dolor del mundo y nada pide / —ni siquiera palabras. / Llega de lejos y sin hora, nunca avisa; / Tiene la llave de la puerta. / Al entrar siempre se detiene a mirarnos. / Después abre su mano y nos entrega / Una flor, un guijarro, o algo secreto, / Pero tan intenso que el corazón palpita / Demasiado veloz. Y despertamos.

He meant that the dead must be allowed to move about freely inside us, they musn't be encapsulated, made finite by their prejudices

Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.

Most religions assume that you find purpose through some agent that sits above or outside the world and imbues it with purpose.

The closest place that I feel like I come to having religious moments is always musical.

I'm not exactly a religious person, but I am very spiritual.

I want to be remembered as a guy who transcended boxing.

For millennia, artists and mystics have pondered the question of how to represent that which, by definition, cannot or must not be represented.

I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.

The first requisite for immortality is death.