Quotes About Transcendence

the yidam is the expression of one's own basic nature, visualized as a divine form in order to relate with it and express its full potentiality.

Sacred outlook is not only about thinking everything is good; it is the absence of imprisonment. You begin to experience freedom that is intrinsically good, almost unconditionally free. So the vajra world you are entering is basically good, unconditionally free, fundamentally glorious and splendid.

Gone, gone, gone beyond, completely exposed, awake, so be it.

Behold a fire from the opposite shore.

God is the only being who need not even exist in order to reign.

Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!

Passage into new forms, overleaping the bars of time and space, reversal of the laws of inanimate intelligent existence, had been mine to perform and to witness.

Before falling to the ground, the rain has touched the sky. (Avant de tomber au sol, La pluie a touché le ciel)

Flower is breathed in its height. (Fleur se respire - Dans sa hauteur.)

We do not hide the truth in eternity. (On ne cache pas le vrai - Dans l'éternité.)

It is quite normal to fear what one most desires. We desire to transcend the Story of the World that has come to enslave us, that indeed is killing the planet. We fear what the end of that story will bring: the demise of much that is familiar. Fear it or not, it is happening already.

We never were separate from nature and never will be, but the dominant culture on earth has long imagined itself to be apart from nature and destined one day to transcend it. We have lived in a mythology of separation.

The same interbeingness that makes us so immensely vulnerable also makes us immensely powerful. Remember this! Indeed, the vulnerability and the power go hand in hand, because only by relaxing the guard of the separate self can we tap into power beyond its ken. Only then can we accomplish things that are, to the separate self, impossible. Put another way, we become capable of things that we don't know how to "make" happen.

He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman.

Somewhere along the way we identified ourselves with them, and came to associate birds with the realm of spirits, as opposed to that of bodies and their carnal appetites.

Gut ist der Schlaf, der Tod ist besser

You die, you go free.

And this secret life itself spoke to me: "Behold," it said, "I am that which must always overcome itself." Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra[1] Only someone who has overcome himself is truly able to overcome. Jean Gebser, The Ever-Present Origin[2]

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.

Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space.

Death comes to call, you cannot hold water in your hands for long, it leaks away, goes where it's meant to go. To the soil, to the sky. To ions then space, where stars are born." ?Ikrit

But the Christian worldview does not have this intellectual dilemma of justifying the causal principle (inductive or scientific reasoning). It is transcendentally justified by the inner coherence of our presupposed worldview, or within its wider context, being entailed by both the nature and promises of God.

great Sufi poet Rumi. With words that are simple and powerful, he states, "Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing there is a field. I'll meet you there.

There are realms of life where the concepts of sense and nonsense do not apply.