Quotes About Transcendence

The essential thing is not to let oneself be impressed by the omnipotence and apparent triumph of the forces of the epoch. These forces, devoid of connection with any higher principle, are in fact on a short chain.

Un factor religioso es necesario como fondo para una verdadera concepción heroica de la vida: es necesario sentir en nosotros mismos la evidencia de que más allá de esta vida terrestre existe una vida más alta, ya que solamente quien siente de este modo posee una fuerza irrompible e indoblegable

To exhaustion and beyond they prayed, to that glittering place where the flesh dies and is born again, where all is agony, and finally, just as La Inca was feeling her spirit begin to loose itself from its earthly pinions, just as the circle began to dissolve--

The world was a world of dreaming souls who could not die.

physical beauty was temporary. A vessel without soul. I didn't want to be a vessel anymore.

True beauty] seeps into you. It doesn't make you forget yourself, but totally the opposite. It connects you with everything and fills you with awe that you share the same space with something that glorious. Like a sunrise or a clear blue day or the most extraordinary piece of glass. And then suddenly...you have this epiphany that there's more to the world than just you and what you want or even who you are.

When I'm with you the world stops spinning for a moment and I lose myself completely."-Master Noah to his submissive Emilia

Feeling not disgusted by corruption and evil, Nor eager grasping after desire and gain, Sacrificing not wisdom for the company of fools, Nor abandoning wonder to preserve the truth, Reaching the great Dao without excessiveness, Attaining the Buddha heart without vindictiveness, Keeping not to the path of mere normal holiness, Transcendent of its own creation.

While his eyes saw the sky, his soul saw Heaven.

Isn't there something beyond pain? Isn't there something beyond determination? Isn't there something beyond the body?

There the whole sky is filled with sound, and there that music is made without fingers and without strings; There the game of pleasure and pain does not cease. Kabir says: "If you merge your life in the Ocean of Life, you will find your life in the Supreme Land of Bliss.

I offer myself to an image: the great being beyond boundaries and beyond beyond

Pandit, you've got it wrong. There's no creator or creation there, no gross or fine, no wind or fire, no sun, moon, earth or water, no radiant form, no time there, no word, no flesh, no faith, no cause and effect, nor any thought of the Veda. No Hari or Brahma, no Shiva or Shakti, no pilgrimage and no rituals. No mother, father or guru there. Is it two or one? Kabir says, if you understand now, you're guru, I'm disciple.

O How may I ever express that secret word? O how can I say He is not like this, and He is like that? If I say that He is within me, the universe is ashamed: If I say that He is without me, it is falsehood. He makes the inner and the outer worlds to be indivisibly one; The conscious and the unconscious, both are His footstools. He is neither manifest nor hidden, He is neither revealed nor unrevealed: There are no words to tell that which He is.

Our work is to cross a treshold into emptiness and stillness. It is like entering an empty room that proves to hold a great presence. The apparent emptiness of simple presence is richer than the crowded experience of ordinary personality. We can either be empty with Spirit or full of ourselves.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Nothing is more hallowing than the union of kindred spirits in art. At the moment of meeting, the art lover transcends himself.

Nothing is more hallowing than the union of kindred spirits in art. At the moment of meeting, the art lover transcends himself. At once he is and is not. He catches a glimpse of Infinity... Freed from the fetters of matter, his spirit moves in the rhythm of things. It is thus that art becomes akin to religion and ennobles mankind. It is this which makes a masterpiece something sacred.

In art, the present is the eternal.

Such, then, is our God: unknowable in his essence, yet known in his energies; beyond and above all that we can think or express, yet closer to us than our own heart.

beautiful koi named Big Sneeze told me, "The wisdom we all seek lies within our own hearts. Inner beauty knows no limits, inner peace no boundaries. The lines between human and animal sometimes blur as the soul progresses and realizes its full potential.

The great problem of humanity is life and death. Every person dreams of becoming invisible one day.

When I am writing, my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be.