Quotes About Transcendence

To use a medical analogy, while mystics try to heal themselves (that is, to transcend sleep), conventionally religious people simply try to manage the symptoms. Near-death

Mystics from all traditions have the common aim of cultivating wakefulness, while the common aim of all mainstream religions is to offer consolation and psychological support. To use a medical analogy, while mystics try to heal themselves (that is, to transcend sleep), conventionally religious people simply try to manage the symptoms. Near-death

The goal of human life is to realize this oneness, and so to transcend separation, fear and even death.

I would say that the gospel of the Beatles is not found in their conformity to an orthodox creed, especially the creeds of the Christian churches, but in their hunger for transcendence.

I want my words to open a portal through which the reader may leave the self, migrate to some other human sky and return 'disposed' to otherness.

When you die, we go back to the white energy of all the white energy: white heat that's flung against the sky and becomes a star.

When you go to the theater, you are slipping out of your life into someone else's imaginary world.

But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.

At times I beheld visions of dazzling beauty—visions so rapturous, so unearthly, that no artist will ever paint them.

Many reports are given of deep mystical experiences," he wrote, "but their chief characteristic is the wonder at one's own profundity.

Ineffability is of course a hallmark of the mystical experience. "The awareness transcends any particular sensory modality," he explained, unhelpfully. Was it scary? "There was no terror, only fascination and awe.

Could it be that the doctors were mistaking transcendence for insanity?

Ralph Waldo Emerson crossing a wintry New England commons in "Nature": Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.

We are never at home, we are always beyond. Fear, desire, hope, project us toward the future and steal from us the consideration of what is, to busy us with what will be, even when we shall no longer be. -from Our feelings reach out beyond us

Nous ne sommes jamais chez nous, nous sommes toujours au-delà.

Her invisible remains would combine, over time, with all the wonders under the sun. When it snowed she would be part of it, falling softly to earth, rising up again with the snow's evaporation, When it rained, she would be there in the spectral arch that spanned from firth to ground. She would help to wreathe the fields in mists, and yet would always be transparent to the stars. She would live forever.

But to be chemically fixed in time and passed hand to hand forever: that is a nakedness which can never be clothed again.

Through Sade and Goya, the Western world received the possibility of transcending its reason in violence....

As a result, we must entirely reverse the traditional idea of the author. We are accustomed, as we have seen earlier, to saying that the author is the genial creator of a work in which he deposits, with infinite wealth and generosity, an inexhaustible world of significations. We are used to thinking that the author is so different from all other men, and so transcendent with regard to all languages that, as soon as he speaks, meaning begins to proliferate, to proliferate indefinitely.

Music is the voice of God traveling through ten-dimensional hyperspace.

Be impeccable with your word. This is the first agreement that you should make if you want to be free, if you want to be happy, if you want to transcend the level of existence that is hell.

Just imagine what you can create with impeccability of the word. With the impeccability of the word you can transcend the dream of fear and live a different life. You can live in heaven in the middle of thousands of people living in hell because you are immune to that hell. You can attain the kingdom of heaven from this one agreement: Be impeccable with your word.

Suburban transcendence for the Ikea age.

Chi cerca l'infinito non ha che da chiudere gli occhi.