Quotes About Transcendence

You are not your mind. You are not your body. You are not even your beliefs-these are only of this world, mere flesh and blood and a few electrochemical reactions. You, my friend, are far greater than this. Be still and know, not with your mind, but with that which is beyond your mind. Are these words true to you?

He plunged beneath the surface and knew that these were Elyon's waters, and his lake had no bottom.

We're far more than just physical beings having a spiritual experience. We're spiritual beings having a temporary physical experience.

My mind filled with a knowing that set my bloodstream on fire and transported me to a different kind of awareness. With my eyes open to the kingdom of heaven, I saw.

Our bodies, our relationships, our lives. We're terrified of losing those things because we think they make us who we are. Fear of loss keeps it all in place. Dying means letting go of all of it, our entire life in the world, to know ourselves beyond the images and relationships apparent in this world.

The only way to know yourself in and as the light is to let go of all your attachments to who you think you are in this world. You know the sayings: hate your entire life, deny yourself, take up the cross. All these mean the same thing. Let go of the meaning you give life in all your judgments of value based on the knowledge of good and evil. You've heard this?" "Jesus said those things," I said, knowing the verses well.

That death isn't death. It's not the end because we aren't just our minds or our bodies. We're far more than just physical beings having a spiritual experience. We're spiritual beings having a temporary physical experience.

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

God's goodness transcends all thought, all comprehension

Then you see a light—a brilliant, dazzling light—more calming and loving than any words can possibly describe, and everything finally makes sense to you. You are no longer afraid, and you know what lies ahead.

This is my vision-what I imagine I'll pass through on my way to the light. The blue sky, the clouds, the rays of light.

Que la música salve por lo menos el resto de la noche, y cumpla a fondo una de sus peores misiones, la de ponernos un buen biombo delante del espejo, borrarnos del mapa durante un par de horas''.

La repetición al infinito de un ansia de fuga, de atravesar el cristal y entrar en otra cosa.

También hay ríos metafísicos, Horacio. Vos te vas a tirar a uno de esos ríos.

Un racconto è significativo quando spezza i propri confini con quell'esplosione di energia spirituale che illumina bruscamente qualcosa che va molto oltre il piccolo e talvolta miserabile aneddoto che narra.

Que la música salve por lo menos el resto de la noche, y cumpla a fondo una de sus peores misiones, la de ponernos un buen biombo delante del espejo, borrarnos del mapa durante un par de horas.

De pronto me alegra poder pensar que los críticos son mucho más necesarios de lo que yo mismo estoy dispuesto a reconocer [...] porque los creadores [...] son incapaces de extraer las consecuencias dialécticas de su obra, postular los fundamentos y la trascendencia de lo que están escribiendo o improvisando.

feel the same thing I feel standing in front of certain (very few) paintings or drawings by the Surrealists: that for a second I'm on the other side, that they have helped me cross over, that I'm you .

viene a ser ese momento en que algo logra su máxima profundidad, su máximo alcance, su máximo sentido, y deja por completo de ser interesante.

Dadora de infinito, yo no sé tomar, perdoname.

Puede ser que haya otro mundo dentro de éste, pero no lo encontraremos recortando su silueta en el tumulto fabuloso de los días y las vidas, no lo encontraremos ni en la atrofia ni en la hipertrofia. Ese mundo no existe, hay que crearlo como el fénix. Ese mundo existe en éste, pero como el agua existe en el oxígeno y el hidrógeno

According to traditional man the physical plane merely contains effects; nothing takes place in this world that did not originate first in the next world or in the invisible dimension.

Be, make yourself God, and in bringing about, save the world.

T]hose who love to contrast the past with our recent times should consider what modern civilization has brought us to in terms of war. A change of level has occurred; from the warrior who fights for the honor and for the right of his lord, society has shifted to the type of the mere "soldier" that is found in association with the removal of all transcendent or even religious elements in the idea of fighting.