Quotes About Transcendence

I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of a cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.

We are unable to envision death without the life within us which is full aware of it.

Who can be close to you without the Divine Light of his heart?

To be beyond yourself is the gate to wisdom.

Living a life that in fact lives them, as well as death dies them every moment since the triumphal birth in order to die.

Does somebody know why the consciousness of death has to die?

All can be done if the god-touch is there.

When I had the dividing reason, I shrank from many things; after I had lost it in sight, I hunted through the world for the ugly and the repellent, but I could no longer find them.

In a word, godhead; to remake ourselves in the divine image.

When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.

The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.

Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence. It reveals. It reveals to the aspirant that matter and spirit are one, quantity and quality are one, the immanent and the transcendent are one. It reveals that life can never be the mere existence of seventy or eighty years between birth and death, but is, rather, Eternity itself

Meditation is silence. Silence is God In His Infinity's Smile

When the body is filled with ego and selfishness, the cycle of birth and death does not end.

Look here and know who you are. Instantly you will find freedom, and this suffering--hitchhiking from womb to womb--will instantly stop. The only way is to look within.

Happiness is never your own; it is where the 'I' is not. It is beyond your reach; you have only to reach out beyond yourself and you will find it.

If you have contact with pure consciousness even for a moment, you are liberated.

The mind creates the abyss. The heart crosses over it.

As long as you imagine yourself to be something tangible and solid, a thing among things, you seem short-lived and vulnerable, and of course you will feel anxious to survive. But when you know yourself to be beyond space and time you will be afraid no longer.

The sensation of beingness is a matter of experience, but I am beyond that. Some people claim that they have memories of past lives. I do not have even the experience of myself at anytime.

Consciousness is spotless, formless and prior to intellect.

I am Atma, the Self, formless, without modifications and pure,

The Supreme God is thus the embodiment of pure Consciousness

Dissolving the name is awareness. Dissolving the form is meditation. The world is name and form. Bliss transcends name and form. Bangalore Ashram, India September 24, 1997