Quotes About Transcendence

It can in no sense be said that heaven is outside of any one; it is within ... and a man, also, so far as he receives heaven, is a recipient, a heaven, and an angel.

Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.

Man is something to be surpassed.

I teach you the Overman. Man is something which shall be surpassed.

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.

The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.

The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.

Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny.

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

There is a transcendental dimension beyond language... It's just hard as hell to talk about!

we shall advance more by contemplating the Divinity than by keeping our eyes fixed on ourselves

When I fear I have done wrong, when I look to those who are less wise, when I forget transcendence, and kneel in the meanings of colour and shadow, when I tell lies to my soul, I seek out water, I follow it's charm - a river, a steam, a lake with its springs and currents. See how it offers life as it flawlessly flows and forms to the shape of this world, the contours of the land, the urge of earth, hear how it sings under the sun, of endless evaporation.

True spirituality breaks down the walls of our souls and lets in not just heaven, but the whole world.

Our intellects, no matter how sharp, can no more grasp this than they can comprehend God.

I find myself most drawn to: art that has arisen from a deeply personal conversation between the artist and the work at hand. It is art that walks perilously close to the Edge, that crosses the river of blood into Faerie, that flies so high it is scorched by the sun, and then returns to tell the tale to us. It is art that needed to be written, or painted, or sung, or woven, or otherwise shaped. It is art gifted by the Mystery to the maker...and then, in turn, gifted to us .

In all my lives, the only thing I've seen save people from themselves is hope. Hope beyond logic. Hope beyond what the eye can see. Filled with hope, the human spirit is an insatiable force of energy, transcending biology to embrace something eternal. Without hope, the spirit dies and nothing awaits but death.

Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs.

Ce n'est pas pour rester dans le ciboire d'or qu'il descend chaque jour du ciel, mais afin de trouver un autre ciel: le ciel de notre âme où il prend ses délices.

Motionless, he held the final chord for a long moment and we felt—I could almost say watched—the harmony rise into the light-filled cold of the atelier.

And life flows on, Within you and Without you

Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non-Being.

The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.

What finite beings say about transcendence is the semblance of transcendence; but as Kant well knew, it is a necessary semblance. Hence the incomparable metaphysical relevance of the rescue of semblance, the object of esthetics.

How body from spirit slowly does unwind, until we are pure spirit at the end.