Quotes About Transcendence

Robbed of its reference to a transcendent spiritual being or substance that nonetheless personally engages with humanity while holding them responsible to its specific directives on how to live, this "love" ("God") has no recourse but to become whatever the current ideology says it is. Currently that means not treating people as different, while liberating them and enabling them to do what they want.

That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.

The human spirit craves for mastery over its carnal shell.

That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.' 

The religion of the future, Einstein had predicted, will be a cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology.

has given me a deep respect for that which transcends human understanding. I've learned never to close my mind to an idea simply because it seems miraculous.

Dios no es una autoridad omnipotente que observa desde arriba, amenazando con arrojarnos en un pozo de fuego si desobedecemos. ¡Dios es la energía que fluye por la sinapsis de nuestro sistema nervioso y las cavidades de nuestros corazones! ¡Dios está en todas las cosas!

What is wrong with the admission that something exists beyond our understanding?

You have been immortal since before you were born and will be long after the body dissolves. The body is Consciousness; never born; never dies; only changes. The mind — your ego, personal beliefs, history, and identity — is all that ends at death.

You have tried to be superior in an ordinary realm. Now you must learn to be ordinary in a superior realm.

What 'is' important is what lies beyond names and beyond questions.

The poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, experienced this realization early in life: "Since boyhood, by repeating my own name silently, an intense awareness of individuality came, then seemed to dissolve and fade away into boundless being, and this was not a confused state, but clear and sure, utterly beyond words, where death was an almost laughable impossibility.

When you begin transcendental training, focusing on your best efforts, without attachment to outcomes, you will understand the peaceful warriors way.

Human art, Mahnmut knew, simply transcended human beings.

beyond ideology and ambition, beyond thought and emotion, there was only pain. And salvation from it.

He sits in the straight-backed chair next to the bed and lifts a cooling cup of tea. "If you die, what happens to me?" "I don't know," I say honestly. "If I die, I don't even know what happens to me.

To be a true poet is to become God.

We were gods then. But even gods must descend from their high thrones upon occasion.

Sort of like the Grim Reaper, but with a penchant for sticking souls on a giant thorn tree Ã¢â'¬Â¦ while the people's souls are still in their bodies." King

As a flame blown out by the wind Goes to rest and cannot be defined So the wise man freed from individuality Goes to rest and cannot be defined. Gone beyond all images— Gone beyond the power of words.

Two waves in the ocean are talking to each other. The front wave tells the second that it's frightened because it is about to crash into the shore and cease to exist. But the second wave shows no fear. It explains to the first: You are frightened because you think you are a wave; I am not frightened because know I am part of the ocean.

Slowly, as waves recede, my expanding spirit shrinks back into earthly dimensions -- not voluntarily, because I would prefer to lose myself, but I am pulled from below, back to myself, into myself, so that for just one moment I am on the couch again, fitting the fingers of my awareness into the glove of my flesh. And I know I can move this finger or wink that eye -- if I want to. But I don't want to move. I will not move!

The state of nirvana infuses all of samsara, and the absolute is found in reality

mahamudra is: Too close to be recognized, Too deep to grasp, Too easy to believe, Too amazing to be understood intellectually. Those are the four obstacles that prevent its recognition.