Quotes About Transcendence

If complete enlightenment demands relinquishing the self, then complete enlightenment implies the acceptance of mortality. Not that there isn't more to being enlightened than accepting that our lives are brief and end when we did. But I do think it's a requirement.

she had also witnessed a courage which far exceeded endurance, a joy which transcended pain and the manner in which suffering could be the medicine which deepened people's humanity

Death is another bar which lies several steps below the normal world. I'm at its threshold, but not yet in it. Its doorway is doorless.

When we touch...our gods lay down their weapons and I can forgive every trespass...

This has been such a glorious afternoon -- my heart would not weep if I did not live to see another.

God is a philosophical black hole - the point where reason breaks down.

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

None of its components were conscious beings. As post-conscious AIs, they were well beyond that. They

A life had somehow escaped through a rip in the universe.

Because of this, Zion becomes an image of God's rule in the world. In the New Testament the images of Zion and Jerusalem transcend Old Testament realities, reaching to heaven itself (Gal 4:25–26; Heb 12:22; Rev 14:1). Thus, the New Testament sees the center of divine rule being transferred to heaven, where Christ currently rules over his kingdom (John 18:36; Rev 1:5).

The soul puts on a garment of a physical body in order to experience matter.

Your body spreads across my brain Like a bird filled summer; Not like a body, not like a separate thing, But like a nimbus that hovers Over every other thing in all the world. from "When We with Sappho,

What is needed is only a pausing of the heart so the spirit can take wing and be lifted toward the infinite.

This is the process embodied in tragedy, where the agent's action involves a corresponding passion, and from the sufferance of the passion there arises an understanding of the act, an understanding that transcends the act. The act, in being an assertion, has called forth a counter-assertion in the elements that compose its context. And when the agent is enabled to see in terms of this counter-assertion, he has transcended the state that characterized him at the start.

Oh! that "eternal shore," When Death shall be no more! How widely differing from this mortal state, Where we but draw our earliest breath To yield it up again in death, Obedient to the unchanging laws of fate!

There is a solitide in seeing you, Followed by your company when you are gone. You are like heaven's veins of lightning. I cannot see till afterward How beautiful you are. There is a blindness in seeing you, Followed by the sight of you when you are gone.

Material made of spirit is the luxurious border where reality communicates with utopia.

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

some will say that death

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

Nothing could persuade me that "in the image of God" applied only to man. In fact it seemed to me that the high mountains, the rivers, lakes, trees, flowers and animals far better exemplified the essence of God than men with their ridiculous clothes, their meanness, vanity, mendacity, and abhorrent egotism -

A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense, he is lost and miserable.

Numinous experience elevates and humiliates simultaneously.

If you marry the ordered to the chaos you produce the divine child, the supreme meaning beyond meaning and meaninglessness.