Quotes About Transcendence

I do not fear invisible worlds.

Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane glow with an aura of self-transcendence.

yo, nadie especial, supe que él no pertenecía a este mundo; lo supe desde el momento mismo en que puse mis ojos sobre él. Era como esos pájaros –no recuerdo ahora su nombre– que muy de vez en cuando descienden del cielo para que los meros seres terrestres los veamos, y luego levantan vuelo otra vez para continuar su eterno peregrinar.

Qué quieres decir con eso de "si no hay otras vidas"? –¿Si se terminan las vidas y los números, y todo lo demás? ¿Quién seré si me muero y punto? –

I want you to know...that you can trust me. John locked eyes with her and was instantly transported to a different plane of existence. Mighta been heaven again. Who the fuck knew or cared. All he knew was that there was only her and him together, the rest of the world drifting away into fog. Was it possible to fall in love with someone twice, he wondered dimly.

Death was one sure way to find peace, Rhage thought. And everyone died. Even vampires. Eventually.

Strange how mortality made moments like this with her infinite.

Eckhart is saying that once we become empty of all the dross within, God the Mystery can do nothing but rush in to fill the vacuum of our absence. It is up to each one of us to choose between suffocating in the vortex of the limited, knowable self, or instead to cut the cords which bind, and let ourselves drift out into, and be, the vast, incomprehensible sea of Being itself.

Detachment is the means for rising above worldly activities and getting to a state beyond the worldly.

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

Who can leap the world's ties and sit with me among white clouds?

Believe that the world is an ethereal flower, and ye live.

Then it's goodbye, Sangsara for me Besides, girls aren't as good as they look And Samadhi is better than you think When it starts in hitting your head In with Buzz of glittergold Heaven's Angels, wailing, saying We've been waiting for you since morning, Jack Why were you so long dallying in the sooty room? This transcendental Brilliance Is the better part (of Nothingness I sing) Okay. Quit. Mad. Stop.

The dream is already ended and we're already awake in the golden eternity.

wishing there was a Personal God in all this impersonal matter.

the golden eternity is { }

Holy flowers floating in the air, were all these tired faces in the dawn of Jazz America.

I'm the golden eternity in mortal animate form.

Praised be I, writing, dead already and dead again

As we rode in the bus in the weird phosphorescent void of the Lincoln Tunnel we leaned on each other with fingers waving and yelled and talked excitedly, and I was beginning to get the bug like Dean.

Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

Qué será de nosotros cuando muramos?- Le pregunte en cierta ocasión. - Cuando uno se muere se muere, eso es todo - respondió.

Since life is a dream I think I'll stop eating and drinking so much--do some ethereal daydreaming instead--go in the mansion of the mind and close all the doors, as if I was traveling in the back of a bus for 4 days & 4 nights, broke.

Maybe that bird that floats hill belly on the wind up there, and that cat that pats in this grass, is the same Infinite Worldwide Angel