Quotes About Transcendence

Tiens, une ville qu'on traverse la nuit, et tout à coup tu dépasses la dernière maison, tu retombes dans le silence, comme dans le vide.

When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.

the dark night is nothing other than our ongoing relationship with the Divine.

Grace is the most powerful force in the universe. It can transcend repression, addiction, and every other internal or external power that seeks to oppress the freedom of the human heart. Grace is where our hope lies. Journey

Psalms 90:4: "A thousand years in your sight are like a day that passes.

Chapels are emergency rooms for the soul. They are the one place we can reliably go to find who we are and what we should be doing with our lives—usually by finding all we aren't, and what is much greater than us, to which we can only give ourselves up.

Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again.

Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.

I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?

Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing, did certain persons die before they sing.

Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the Infinite and lets us for moments gaze into that!

The fundamental magic of flying is a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed, accessibility and convenience - and will not change as they change.

While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you will be nothing.

To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.

When I use the word spirituality, I don't necessarily mean religion; I mean whatever it is that helps you feel connected to something that is larger than yourself.

Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more - the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men.

O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again...

The day which we fear as our last is but the birth-day of our eternity; and it is the only way to it.

Thank God, there is no such thing as ambition in that blessed world above the stars...

Their bodies were like corpses ready for embalming, from which all innards likely to rot had already been removed. Superfluous emotions like curiosity, fear and lust for gossip or excitement had been shed along with the useless flesh and excess fat. Javer once said that Granny Shano could as easily have grabbed the ear of Benito Mussolini himself as the Italian officer's.

Ideal umjetnika: tiho živjeti i biti u sve dane zaposlen stvaranjem u najraznoli?nijim formama, ali stvaranjem jedino i davanjem uvijek, da se nema vremena da živi i da se ima od svih radosti samo jednu jedinu: veliku radost stvaranja, a potom mirno iš?eznuti i ostaviti se u boji, u liniji, u rije?i, u gestu, u zvuku, da bi se svijetlilo vijekovima i grijalo svoje i svakog.

I evo, naišla je ova gor?ina, kojom mi se prese?e srce nadvoje, da me podseti na ono što sam, zagledan u nebo, zaboravio: da je hlebac koji jedemo ustvari ukraden; da smo za život koji nam je dat dužni zloj sudbini - grehu, taksiratu; da sesa ovoga sveta na onaj bolji ne može pre?i dok se kao zrela vo?ka ne otkine, ne poleti u bolnom i strmoglavom padu, i ne tresne o tvrdu zemlju. Valjda se i raju nosi modrica toga pada.