Quotes About Transcendence

Abide in that Consciousness which you are—unconditioned, immutable, formless, serene and imperturbable, of unfathomable intelligence." (17)

Meditation is death with breathing. And to remain without breathing is death.

Privative appropriation and domination are thus originally imposed and felt as a positive right, but in the form of a negative universality. Valid for everyone, justified in everyone's eyes by divine or natural law, the right of privative appropriation is objectified in a general illusion, in a universal transcendence, in an essential law under which everyone individually manages to tolerate the more or less narrow limits assigned to his right to live and to the conditions of life in general.

The ultimate essence of yoga is the contact and the union between the individual consciousness and the divine consciousness.

So long, I replied, may we all have one good flight before we rest among flowers and the orbits of hungry worms.

They were no more than conscious that she spoke to them. They had seen a thing that was unearthly. They were in a trance from the strong spell of its beauty. •11•

Contemporary philosopher Max More describes the goal of humanity as a transcendence to be "achieved through science and technology steered by human values.

Ultimately, we will be able to port our mental processes to a more suitable computational substrate. Then our minds won't have to stay so small.

Ray Kurzweil La Singularidad está cerca Cuando los humanos transcendamos la biología

When you didn't force yourself to think in formal reconstructions, when you didn't catch these moments of ravishments under the lens of premises and conclusions, when you didn't impale them and label them, like so many splayed butterflies, bleeding the transcendental glow right out of them, then... what?

The greatest movie would be the movie that gave the audience a cathartic feeling of transcendence.

My goal is not to create a better baseball player but to create a superhuman that just happens to play baseball.

The belief in something bigger and supernatural is not the same thing as linear religion.

It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves primarily as a conductor, or writer, or salesclerk, and go to a supportive environment to deeply immerse in meditation practice.

There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind.

I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.

Full surely there is a blessedness beyond the grave for those who have already entered on it here, and in no other form than that wherein they know it here, at any moment.

There's another world out there just beyond the world we're in. It's just on the other side of that translucent, semitransparent surface.

Shostakovich's final pieces, his quartets, are scratching the surface of another world.

Obviously I believe in reincarnation and all that kind of stuff - I don't think anyone's going to be surprised to hear that.

Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.

When I finish a job, I surrender it completely. I have to, because after that, it really is out of my hands.

Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.

Such beauty that for a minute death and ambition, even love, doesn't enter into this.