Quotes About Transcendence

Ex hoc momento pendet aeternitas. (La eternidad pende de este momento) Inscripción en un Rel. De sol, Middle temple (Londres)

Prayers, Hestians believed, fly out into the ether and are heard or not heard, but their work is always done within.

that is what life is for it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty

The glittery feeling. She'd named it because it felt to her as if her skin and everything beneath it briefly became shiny and jumpy and bubbly, as if glitter materialized inside her, then rose quickly through the layers of tissue that comprised her, momentarily sparkling all over the surface of her skin before dissipating into the air. Martha

As we turn from the galaxies to the swarming cells of our own being, which toil for something, some entity beyond their grasp, let us remember man, the self-fabricator who came across an ice age to look into the mirrors and magic of science. Surely he did not come to see himself or his wild visage only. He came because he is at heart a listener and a searcher for some transcendent realm beyond himself.

Maybe that's the way to go, Manny thought. Your body snatched up and spirited away. Your last memory a dream of flight.

do believe it is possible for us to communicate with beings in a higher realm and that many people are meant to do so in this age.

Many spiritual and religious teachings talk about the concept that we have forgotten who we are as spiritual beings and have come to see ourselves as human beings.

Embracing life means accepting death.

Perhaps moksha lies in not thinking about the afterlife.

The thorn of death falls from heaven, and its myriad forms leave us no room to move.

He who is neither human nor demon is not the dawn nor the dusk.

Religion seemed as good an escape route as any, plus it was conveniently compatible with psychedelics.

There is something magical about running; after a certain distance, it transcends the body. Then a bit further, it transcends the mind. A bit further yet, and what you have before you, laid bare, is the soul.

Here — your shirt , he said, after. Lifting it. Bringing it to me as if it were not a shirt but a thing immaculate, or in flames, or— with a single sword positioned through it— a sacred heart.

When I can relax, and be close to the transcendental core of me, then I may behave in strange and impulsive ways in the relationship, ways I cannot justify rationally, which have nothing to do with my thought processes. But these strange behaviors turn out to be right in some odd way. At these moments it seems that my inner spirit has reached out and touched the inner spirit of the other. Our relationship transcends itself and has become something larger.

When my faith was weak, all this would have seemed incomprehensible to me. I was afraid as a child is of the night. But now I have conquered it, and it is mine. I experience joy in night, navigating upon it as upon the sea. The night is no longer my enemy, nor does it make me afraid. On the contrary, its darkness and divine transcendence are a source of delight.

Los dioses se alejan cada día un poco más en sus cielos. El hombre se queda solo, a merced de un mundo en revolución. Las líneas que Jaynes escribe sobre este período son muy bellas. En ellas percibimos el eco del célebre lamento [Tablilla «Ludlul bel nemeqi», figura 19]: Mi dios me abandonó y desapareció. Mi diosa me visita con menos frecuencia y se mantiene distante. El ángel bueno que caminaba a mi lado se fue…

If we see a child playing on the beach, it is only because between him and ourselves there is this lake of vibrating lines that transport his image to us. Is the world not marvelous?

we are nothing but images of images. Reality, including our selves, is nothing but a thin and fragile veil, beyond which . . . there is nothing.

Qui, sul bordo di quello che sappiamo, a contatto con l'oceano di quanto non sappiamo, brillano il mistero del mondo, la bellezza del mondo, e ci lasciano senza fiato.

Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds. Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties, and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be." —Patanjali, an Indian teacher often called the Father of Yoga.

We need to ponder such events, ask to have their meaning revealed to us, and allow ourselves to recognize that we have been touched by the transpersonal world.