Quotes About Transcendence

I am not sure our brains and our psychologies are ready for immortality.

Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

My background is Indian, so I believe in a spiritual idea that there is another level, another layer or layers, if you will, above us. I believe that there are elements that allow things to be drawn together, a sort of energy.

But some day, somehow she would move into soul. It happened to everybody who had ever lived since the beginning of time. Soul was her, minus her body.

Nicolas Wells rejoignit les autres. De son onde propre, il renrichit la vibration collective : OM. Un instant, il se sentit devenir un nuage immatériel et léger qui s'élevait et traversait les matières. C'était mille fois mieux qu'être dieu parmi les fourmis. Libre ! Il était libre.

The marks of philosophy are reflection and heightened self-awareness, not maximal transcendence of the human perspective. . . . There is no cosmic point of view, and therefore no test of cosmic significance that we can either pass or fail.

No hay palabras que sean como el agua destilada, insustanciales, ajenas a la vida y al mundo.

What is important to you is simply this for the moment: that being surrounded by the astral and mental worlds, contacts from these are continually touching you, continually causing changes in your consciousness. If your astral body were thoroughly organised like your physical, the impressions made would be clear and sharp like the physical.

Death is nothing more than the putting off your overcoat, in which you wandered through the street, when you come inside your house and no longer need its protection. It is nothing more than that--the putting off of a garment because it is no longer wanted, because it is no longer useful for the high purposes of the Spirit.

The Spirit is ever free in his own nature and his own life, but, confined within the barriers of the body, he has to learn to transcend them, before, on these planes of matter, he can realise the divine freedom which is his eternal birthright.

There is no suffering for him who has finished his journey, and abandoned grief, who has freed him self on all sides, and thrown off all fetters.

Every holy passage leaves a scar.

Another face shone through his man's face, like a stone through running water.

Seeing Your great effulgent and various-colored form touching the sky; Your mouth wide open and large shining eyes; I am frightened and find neither peace nor courage, O Krishna.

All created beings are unmanifest in their beginning, manifest in their interim state, and unmanifest again when they are annihilated. So what need is there for lamentation

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

There are two ways of passing from this world - one in light and one in darkness. When one passes in light, he does not come back but when one passes in darkness, he returns.

You exist in time, but you belong to eternity.

A man of meditation functions differently. Whatever profession he chooses, it does not matter. He will bring to his profession some quality of sacredness. He may be making shoes, or he may be cleaning the roads, but he will bring to his work some quality, some grace, some beauty, which is not possible without sam?dhi.

By and by... there are more and more gaps of silence. Through those gaps, windows will open to the divine.

in the absolute world there is no such difference,because in the absolute everything is spiritual

If God can speak through a bee sting, why cannot He speak through the ghost of life-loving Rebecca?

Calling upon our crucible moments allows us to transcend our own limitations. Those moments create completely new possibilities within each of us.

We must get our minds set on spiritual things because as long as we fill our minds with what's happening in the natural, we restrict our effectiveness.