Quotes About Transcendence

As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.

Otras veces pienso que si me ha dado por escribir los recuerdos, es porque alguien que está en mí y que sabe más que yo, quiere que escriba los recuerdos porque pronto me iré a morir de no sé qué enfermedad.

Bambi was inspired, and said trembling, "There is Another who is over us all, over us and over Him.

We walk into the olive grove and sit in the dry grass on the bluff. The monastery and the whole world lie before us. Purples, yellows, pinks and blues but all washed, hazy, indefinite, dreamy. The world was dissolving, vanishing. And if you half-closed your eyes, you could see yourself from afar, dissolving in the haze. You could see yourself turning into light.

If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.

Alto, escuálido, traslúcido, hecho de espíritu, don Nicolás Gaviria, rector del instituto, era un fantasma que transitaba con delicado paso por civilizaciones, siglos, milenios, en la única clase que impartía, la de Historia Universal.

In absolute incommunicableness it stood apart, a thought, a system of thought which as yet had no symbol in spoken language

When are we closest to God? When we see ourselves as we really are:

As an oracle to the goddess, the female outcast speaks as prophetess of times to come, interpreter of dreams of an unrevealed future. Outcasts are at home in the world of magic and infinite change. Their individual personalities merge with that of legend. Becoming vehicles of immortality, they self create their own myths, weave a spell over poets and artists and spread a belief in transcendence that heralds the future.

If someone had looked just the right way, they'd have seen how the very water itself took form and reached toward the shore with grasping hands.

through the light which shines in natural things one mounts up to the life which presides over them.

Olvida lo que no eres y recordarás lo que siempre has sido: alguien fuera de este mundo.

Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs.

My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.

In heaven . . . the "communication gap" will be closed.

Our life is not of this world.

My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.

Heaven is not like flying or swimming, but has something to do with blackness and a strong glare.

Religious meditation, when set up as an end, not as an exercise towards an end, can issue only with all the more highly gifted minds in transcendental reverie, but with the great majority in devout torpor and pious monotony.

We shall die alone.

For every thing exists & not one sigh nor smile nor tear, One hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.

Fortune accepted that he could not become a helpless, blameless baby again and yet he was strangely satisfied at the prospect of being carried upwards into the receptive convexities of the clouds.

Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.