Quotes About Transcendence

There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.

There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.

Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.

Suicide thwarts the plan of the entity which sends out the personality. Fortunately, the entity is far beyond the reach of man's destructive tendencies.

he liked his transcendence out in plain sight where he could keep an eye on it -- say, in a nice stained-glass window -- not woven through the fabric of life like gold threads through a brocade.

How could a man become a god? Nell asked. By living in an extremely pragmatic society, said Constable Moore after some thought

As his heart's rapid drumbeat slowed, Andreas took in the richness of the forest. An endless number of drifting motes outlined beams of sunlight that cut between the trees like blessings from Heaven. We are these specks of dust, he reflected, and it is the design of the Divine Light that brings us together. We cannot see the whole of the Light, but in our passing, we give it form.

Our use of knowledge progresses through successively higher levels of abstraction as we perfect civilization and draw nearer to the mentality of God

But because people could be so beautiful it was hard not to think that there was something of people that came from the other world

A true Master does not "give up" something. A true Master simply sets it aside, as he would do with anything for which he no longer has any use

No longer will you worship human love, or success, money, or power, nor any symbol thereof. You will set aside these things as a child sets aside toys. Not because they are unworthy, but because you have outgrown them.

I just want to not be me. Whether it's sleeping or playing video games or riding my bike or studying. Giving my brain up. That's what's important.

All of sudden, this shooting star went by, and all I could think was that they were listening to us somehow.

I believe the divine is part of the world, not in a pantheistic way but by way of the movement of the Spirit.

Mozart is expressing something that is more than human.

I want to elevate the mundane.

Communicating with people was found to be like suffering judgment. In fact, it was almost impossible for me to dwell upon earthly matters, and equally impossible for me to bring the mind down to mundane thoughts and general conversations.

I've felt since I was a kid this desperate longing to be closer to - I don't know what. Just to something bigger, to be in conversation with the mystery of everything.

I believe that the question of the existence of God is an impenetrable mystery and beyond human comprehension.

It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence.

As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification.

Corporate capitalism has made war on the communal and the sacred, on those forces that allow us to connect and transcend our temporal condition to bond with others. These bonds will be reestablished or we will slip further into a world where death is more attractive than life.

Love transcends all evil

Her mouth was a miracle, plain and simple. Heaven. He had never believed in heaven or God until that moment. Until he found it in her.