Quotes About Transcendence

Un monde est absurde dans la mesure où le contemplatif, l'ermite et le moine, y apparaissent comme un paradoxe ou un "anachronisme". Or le moine est dans l'actualité précisément parce qu'il est intemporel : nous vivons à l'époque de l'idolâtrie du "temps", et le moine incarne tout ce qui est immuable, non par sclérose ou par inertie, mais par transcendance.

Se io è presente in me non contano più né Dio né diavolo.

Les premiers instants du sommeil sont l'image de la mort...

Into the dark matter I will disappear But still I go deeper into the labyrinth I don't know if it is the labyrinth of the continuum Who, what, is it that I leave to you?

Love has no logos.

vad är det som blir synligt? I gränsskikten mellan det osynligas former uppstår bilden Eller det verkliga

If there was one last place in which it was possible to escape the riff-raff of humanity, it was Heaven.

Beauty... is the shadow of God on the universe.

y en país sin nombre me voy a morir

Already she was climbing the wind, already was not and didn't know it . . .

E la mia forza supina si stampa nell'arena, diffondesi nel mare; e il fiume è la mia vena, il monte è la mia fronte, la selva è la mia pube, la nube è il mio sudore. E io sono nel fiore della stiancia, nella scaglia della pina, nella bacca del ginepro: io sono nel fuco, nella paglia marina, in ogni cosa esigua, in ogni cosa immane, nella sabbia contigua, nelle vette lontane. Ardo, riluco. E non ho più nome.

The sun is gone; but the Day—still bending over the mountains, loosens a last flower from her plait. And the sky seems now a higher and holier thing.

Sometimes, I would be in so much pain. The only thing that kept me from wanting to die was the fact that I could leave my body and be in a body that worked perfectly for a while—better than perfectly, actually—with a set of problems that were not my own.

All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.

He seems to me to be equal to a god, he, if it may be, seems to surpass the very gods, who sitting opposite you again gazes at you and hears you sweetly laughing.

But there is a point at which he is the instrument and someone or something is playing him. Something larger. Something outside of all of us. Call it the Universal Mind, if you like. But when he feels it, he knows that the people listening feel it as well. They are all tapping into the same thing. They all understand.

Whether he came from monkeys or fish is unimportant. The important idea is that when the body became "human" enough, the first human soul slipped into it. I

Within a few generations, all humans will be multisensory. They will experience not only the domain of space, time, matter, and duality that has been the totality of experience for most humans since the origin of humanity, but also nonphysical domains and dynamics that affect us and that we affect.

Rather than a soul in a body, become a body in a soul.

Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.

But the threads of wyrd are a dimension of ourselves that we cannot grasp with words. We spin webs of words, yet wyrd slips through like the wind. The secrets of wyrd do not lie in our word-hoards, but are locked in the soul. We can only discern the shadows

Transcendence and dissolution, always the same thing.

Creation, for Eckhart, is filled both with God and exists in God. Its "mission" is to point beyond itself to God.

Our body is just a vehicle for us while we're here. It is our soul and our spirit that last forever.