Quotes About Transcendence

When you practice looking deeply, you see your true nature of no birth, no death; no being, no non-being; no coming, no going; no same, no different. When you see this, you are free from fear. You are free from craving and free from jealousy. No fear is the ultimate joy. When you have the insight of no fear, you are free. And like the great beings, you ride serenely on the waves of birth and death.

Don't ask me anything more. My essence is wordless.

To fully experience this life as a human being, we all need to connect with our desire to realize something larger than our individual selves.

The most important matter for a practitioner is to be able to break through the veil of the material plane in order to enter the ultimate dimension and see the interconnection between us and all other phenomena in the world around us.

Like the Buddha, we too have come from suchness, remain in suchness, and will return to suchness. We have come from nowhere and have nowhere to go.

The good certainly cling to nothing. They do not talk aimlessly, concerned with personal gains. The wise, whether experiencing comfort or discomfort, show neither elation not depression.

Look at the body as a royal chariot to which the ignorant cling, while the wise let go.

The Divine is what you adore in Sri Aurobindo.

The Divine manifests upon earth whenever and wherever it is possible.

Chi sa se invece non veniamo veramente da lassù, e, quando qui è finita, non torniamo in cielo, tra le stelle, o ancor più oltre? Non so, non voglio saperlo, lo desidero soltanto.

I think the dead are tender. Shall we kiss?--

Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death.

The raft is used to cross the river. It isn't to be carried around on your shoulders. The finger which points at the moon isn't the moon itself.

TRUE LOVE MAKES US HAPPY. If love doesn't make us happy, it's not love; it's something else. Love is a wonderful thing. It gives us the ability to offer joy and happiness, relieve suffering, and transcend all kinds of separation and barriers.

Reality is reality. It transcends every concept. There is no concept which can adequately describe it, not even the concept of interdependence.

We do not have to die to get to the gates of Heaven.

With nonattachment, we see both being and nonbeing as creations of our mind, and we ride the wave of birth and death. We don't mind birth. We don't mind death. [...] Reality transcends both birth and death.

We ride on the wave of birth and death, and we are free from birth and death.

No birth and no death; no being and no nonbeing; no coming and no going; no same and no different

Similarly by looking deeply into the nature of impermanence and no self, you can also touch the nature of nirvana.

Kant described beauty as a feeling of ungraspability: this is why the beauty experience is beyond concept.

It's not easy to talk about transcendence, just as it's not easy to play or listen to a late Beethoven quartet You have to practice quite hard, like you do with any art form. Religion is hard work.

Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.

I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.