Quotes About Transcendence

Art is a vain and hollow show, a toy of gross illusions, unless it points beyond itself and moves ever whither it points.

There is a deep foundation of my being which knows not of time and change and is still and ever with Hartley, in that good place where we once were.

A work of art meant growth from the particular to the universal. To a work of art, time brought timelessness.

What achievement could be grander than the creation of an object that surpasses the creator?

How is it possible, after all, that someone should simply vanish? How can someone who lived, loved, and wrangled with God and with himself just disappear? I don't know how and in what sense but they're here. Since time is an illusion, why shouldn't everything remain?

when everything else fails, we communicate in the language of the stars

Silencio antes de nacer, silencio después de la muerte, la vida es puro ruido entre dos insondables silencios.

La vida es un ruido entre dos grandes silencios

supe que simplemente había cumplido su misión en esta tierra y había volado a otra dimensión donde su espíritu, libre al fin de los lastres materiales, se sentiría más a gusto.

L'unica cosa che voglio è chiudere gli occhi e smettere di esistere, dissolvermi nel vuoto, come la nebbia all'alba

And I've gained spirituality. I'm aware that before, death was is the neighborhood. Now, it's next door, or in my house. I try to live mindfully and be present in the moment.

In her mother's last days, Lucia understood that death was not an end, was not the absence of life, but a powerful oceanic wave of clear, luminous water that was carrying her off to another dimension.

Are you afraid?" asked Alma. "No. I suppose that what comes after death is the same as before birth.

muerte es un umbral hacia otra forma de existencia. El alma trasciende.

Sin duda. El destino del hombre es elevarse por encima de la bestialidad, conducir su vida según los más Noble ideales y salvar su alma.

Sin duda. El destino del hombre es elevarse por encima de la bestialidad, conducir su vida según los más nobles ideales y salvar su alma.

la vida es puro ruido entre dos insondables silencios.

Consciente de que se requiere una gran ligereza para desprenderse del suelo, echó todo por la borda, se deshizo de sus bienes terrenales y eliminó sentimientos y deseos superfluos, quedándose sólo con lo esencial, escribió unas cuantas cartas y por último se tendió en su cama para no levantarse más.

Something happened to me at the precise moment that my grandmother died. She was three time zones away, but that didn't matter. I believe that I felt something at that moment she passed... some bit of her mortality slipping away.

There's these things we do that take us into the zone - and we go in that place that I feel like is the place of love that you reach when you're in love or making love, or you're having a good conversation. I feel like that is God.

There is often in people to whom "the worst" has happened an almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced "the worst" and survived it.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

When words leave off, music begins.

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.