Quotes About Transcendence

This is it. The final conscious experience. Enjoy it while it lasts.

They're not post-Human. Not yet." "How can you tell?" It was only half a joke. "Because otherwise we wouldn't be able to talk to them at all.

When you die, there is nothing. [...] to describe it in any way is to give it form.

Magick is a doorway through which we step into mystery, wildness, and immanence.

She'd long ago given up trying to visualize God. There was no He or She. This was a Presence higher than gender, race or religion, transcending identity. All she would ever hope to do was follow the lamplit path into a place within and yet beyond her own heart and stay there and wait, patient and passive and without forced piety.

There is a certain transcendent joy in creating a thing of beauty. But even more fulfilling is to become a being of beauty.

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

Even if it means oblivion, friends, I'll welcome it, because it won't be nothing. We'll be alive again in a thousand blades of grass, and a million leaves; we'll be falling in the raindrops and blowing in the fresh breeze; we'll be glittering in the dew under the stars and the moon out there in the physical world, which is our true home and always was.

we must simply develop our spiritual potential in order to escape the chaos of a purely empirical relationship with the universe.

The flower offered of itself And eloquently spoke Of Gods In languages of rainbows Perfumes And secret silence...

The evolution of consciousness culminates in an all-inclusive consciousness that functions in the context of the infinite and the eternal.

man's place in the universe is somewhere between the beasts and the angels, but, because of the divine image planted in him, there are no limits to what man can accomplish....

Sometimes, the stars come down and walk among us as people.

La luna era ormai alta alta nel cielo, s'era rimpicciolita e pareva non volesse più aver che fare col mondo, tutta assorta nella contemplazione di quello che ci stava al di là. Al mondo, pareva che ormai mostrasse solo il sedere; e, da quel sederino d'argento, pioveva giù una luce grandiosa, che invadeva tutto.

I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work of art is ineffable, that it escapes by definition all rational understanding; why are they so eager to concede without a struggle the defeat of knowledge; and where does their irrepressible need to belittle rational understanding come from, this rage to affirm the irreducibility of the work of art, or, to use a more suitable word, its transcendence.

Cette stupeur va durer quelques secondes, pendant lesquelles tout le monde va quitter la vie, s'absenter, perdre le fil de l'existence.

Selon la méthode humaine bien connue : je me guérissais de la terre en me fabriquant un ciel ; je l'appelais néant.

The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.

We use the vocabulary of light to describe a spiritual experience.

True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that - it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.

There can be moments onstage - but sometimes in a movie, too - where you just feel you're in a golden space. You're in this strange world where everything you do makes sense. And it's funny: the audience is right in it with you, and the other actors, and you get these rare moments of feeling at one with something. You hear voices in your head.

When I was 17, I had an experience that I later learned could be called a 'mystical experience.' It was almost violent. No faces, voices, nothing like that. It is like the world burst and flamed into life all around me. That is not a great image, but it is as good as I will ever do.

Ecstasy and beauty are eternal.

Si realmente muriésemos, todas nuestras responsabilidades y obligaciones desaparecerían de inmediato. Lo que quedara de ellas se resolvería de algún modo sin nosotros.