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Quotes About Transcendence

You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of your complicated state of mind,The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind.And everyone will say,As you walk your mystic way,"If this young man expresses himself in terms too deep for me,Why, what a very singularly deep young man this deep young man must be!"
~ Sir William S. Gilbert
Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.
~ Adyashanti
Moral judgment is not life-giving; love that transcends the boundaries of judgment as Jesus' love did, is.
~ John Shelby Spong
No matter what is happening in the world of appearances, beyond the veil of illusion there is love and only Love.
~ Marianne Williamson
I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue.
~ Carl Sagan
The body will blossom and fade, but you will remain after this body of yours has gone away. This knowledge allows you to love the body without attachment. Thus, the body becomes absolutely pure.
~ Frederick Lenz
I love him who wants to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.
~ George Eliot
We don't need more Hindus, more Christians, or more Muslims - we need more Buddhas, more Jesuses, and more Krishnas - then there will be true change. Every human being has that inner potential.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
"God" is just a name to refer to something that is beyond all limitations.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality.
~ Jewel
An ideal's love-fraught, imperious call That bides the spheres become articulate.
~ Josephine Preston Peabody
Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends time and space.
~ Russell Brand
It's goodbye to reality when love sets in.
~ Saul Bellow
My understanding is that to love, we need to be able to totally surrender to the living/dying nature of this world.
~ Tara Brach
Study, therefore, to withdraw the love of your soul from all things that are visible, and turn it to things that are invisible.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams?
~ Wallace Stevens
When you have an intense contact of love with nature or another human being, like a spark, then you understand that there is no time and that everything is eternal.
~ Paulo Coelho
I love Love -- though he has wings, And like light can flee.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.
~ Philip Sidney
<...> God is a person; godliness is a quality. You cannot become God, but you can be godly. <...>.
~ Rajneesh
There is something that is transcendental about when we are immersed in that which we most love.
~ Richard Bach