Quotes About Transcendence

Art's a very metaphysical activity. It's something that enriches the parameters of your life, the possibilities of being, and you touch transcendence and you change your life. And you want to change the life of others, too. That's why people are involved with art.

When one has been touched by the stellar power and ethereal playing of a sublime musician, one is lifted, if only briefly, to a place beyond the realm of the temporal.

I have always been interested in religion, especially in forms of ecstatic religion, where people are touched directly by the Spirit and go completely out of themselves.

My awareness left my body and ego, and went on a grand tour of the cosmos.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

I'm working my way toward divinity.

I'm probably tougher on myself than I used to be. I'll revise my lyrics more. Part of that is working with the right people and producers who will say, 'How can you make that better?' Allowing yourself to collaborate with people will push you toward transcendence.

Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped - to reach it.

I think a lot about death more than life, because we're going towards death.

Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.

To me, theater is a spiritual experience. Probably the reason I do theater is it, I guess, comes the closest to feeling like God, or to feeling a spiritual experience that people can have together.

He entered the elevator and together they moved closer to god

My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

It doesn't happen all the time, but in the moments where you really lose yourself and you fall into this character, it's like time travel.

The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.

Rather than chairs and tables, I preferred the ground, trees, and caves, for in those places I felt I could lean against the cheek of God.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

When one does look up at the grand trees growing up almost to the sky, one does always have longings to pray.

Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.

The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.

The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way.

Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe and transcends all boundaries.