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Quotes About Transcendence

The Love that moves the sun and the other stars.
~ Dante Alighieri, Paradiso
As once I loved you in my mortal flesh, without it now I love you still.
~ Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio
Believe in the wonderment of life, the magic of love, and the reality of death.
~ Carroll Bryant
There is only one all pervading God. It has only one message - Love all, encompass all and transcend the limits of the selfish gene.
~ Amit Ray
...when he possessed her, they seemed to swoon together at the very borderland of life's mystery.
~ Kate Chopin
The underlying melody via every rock, plant, animal, sky and star, inside the water, from the dirt, through the light: only love lasts.
~ Melina Sempill Watts
It was who they were, and it was who they always would be. They would remain forever in lust and forever in love, for theirs was a love that transcended body and mind. Theirs was a love of the soul.
~ Lyn Gardner (Mistletoe, 2012)
Come slowly over the hills and valleys to touch my soul, feel my heart, and vanish in my joy.
~ Debasish Mridha
The truest of loves transcends even the greatest of insecurities.
~ Solange nicole
Pues la vida, después de todo, es sólo una espera por alguna otra cosa además de la que estamos haciendo; y la muerte es todo sobre lo que verdaderamente podemos depender.
~ Bram Stoker
If we can write or sing or create in some way, even when we are dealing with difficulties or pain, then it becomes something bigger than ourselves — and often beautiful.
~ Brenda Peterson
As Jesus continued, it became clear he was proposing a third way that neither the compliant nor the noncompliant had ever considered before. Aliveness won't come through unthinking conformity to tradition, he tells them. And it won't come from defying tradition, either. It will come only if we discern and fulfill the highest intent of tradition—even if doing so means breaking with the details of tradition in the process.
~ Brian D. McLaren
though one can talk significantly about God one can only do so by saying what God is not.
~ Brian Davies
D'murr no longer needed to concern himself with the mundane affairs of humans, so trivial were they, so limited and short-sighted: political machinations, populations milling about like ants in a disturbed hill, lives flickering bright and dull like sparks from a campfire. His former life was only a vague and fading memory, without specific names or faces. He saw images, but ignored them. He could never go back to what he had been.
~ Brian Herbert
When we come / when we come again / to celebrate renewal / at the heart / at the heart of us / our eyes will touch Life." This renewal of the earth is at the heart of our humanity, and in such renewal "our eyes touch Life." In this mixed metaphor, vision and touch are united. Eyes do not just see, they also, in some profound sense, must touch Life. And note that this is Life, not life. There is something about this Life that transcends life itself.
~ Brian J. Walsh
For truly we are all angels temporarily hiding as humans.
~ Brian Weiss
Remain in the eternal nebula, there, in the polyessence of a sweet nonbeing.
~ César Vallejo
Murió mi eternidad y estoy velándola.
~ César Vallejo
Beauty is our escape from the murky flesh-envelope that imprisons us.
~ Camille Paglia
Incarnation, the limitation of mind by matter, is an outrage to the imagination.
~ Camille Paglia
I think music can elevate the human spirit.
~ Candy Darling
In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.
~ Carl Safina
I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the Earth Ã¢â'¬Â¦
~ Carl Sagan
Our species has discovered a way to communicate through the dark, to transcend immense distances. No means of communication is faster or cheaper or reaches out farther. It's called radio.
~ Carl Sagan