Quotes About Transcendence

That name--my conception of Him--extended to me a hand that led to a place where even His divine name could not exist. Why?

Get out of the mind and into the heart.

I will pass then beyond this power of my nature also, rising by degrees unto Him Who made me.

These philosophers, then, whom we see not undeservedly exalted above the rest in fame and glory, have seen that no material body is God, and therefore they have transcended all bodies in seeking for God.

How did I burn then, my God, how did I burn to re-mount from earthly things to Thee, nor knew I what Thou wouldest do with me? For with Thee is wisdom.

For heaven shall be folded up like a scroll; and now is it stretched over us like a skin.

It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.

Clearly we must not be attached to anything, no matter how innocent, because it will slip from our grasp when least expected; nothing but the eternal can content us.

Such as into himself at last Eternity has changed him.

Art is a sense of magic.

The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.

Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.

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

If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

The fact that so many different cultures throughout human history have found shamanic techniques useful and relevant suggests that the holotropic states engage what the anthropologists call the "primal mind," a basic and primordial aspect of the human psyche that transcends race, gender, culture, and historical period.

What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.

Clouds, snow, mist, the dragon's breath on water, smoke from fire—a metaphor's pure being. —(1939–2019)

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Unas voces que se elevaron hasta allá arriba como si fueran pájaros invisibles.

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