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Quotes About Transcendence

All the major world religions (always excluding animism, of course), are founded on these notions: that man and man alone was the desired object of creation, that man occupies a preeminent place in the order of creation, that man has a value in God's eyes that is transcendently greater than that of all other creatures, that this world of matter is illusory, transitory, and worthless.
~ Daniel Quinn
Thanks," he says, and his eyelids flutter a bit, as if he's heard what he's come to hear. This is what is meant by last words: they are keys to unlock the afterlife. They're not last words but passwords, and as soon as they're spoken you can go.
~ Daniel Wallace
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
~ Steve Jobs
Let go of the past. Let go of the future. Let go of the present. Proceed to the opposite shore with a free mind, leaving behind all conditioned things.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
How many lives are frittered away, age after age, in endless coming and going. Find out who you are!
~ Anandamayi Ma
One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.
~ Guru Nanak
Old age spiritualizes people naturally
~ Ram Dass
Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into the eternal present.
~ H. E Davey
Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity.
~ Lord Byron
When you die, i.e., when your physical body is finished with this earth ... and your astral entity goes on to the astral world ... it has to stand alone and answer for successes and failures.
~ Lobsang Rampa
Man is spirit--that is all man needs to know; and spirit is triumphant over matter.
~ White Eagle
A humble person lives from the part of themselves that is immortal.
~ Whitley Strieber
In the higher world, we don't live our lives, we wear them. And that's what it means to rise above life on the wings of objective love. That's where she was.
~ Whitley Strieber
transcendent wonder" described by the poet Tennyson.
~ Whitley Strieber
Our individual separateness is in a sense illusory; we are parts of the great stream of law and cause, parts of God; we are the flitting forms of a being greater than ourselves, and endless while we die. Our bodies are cells in the body of the race, our race is an incident in the drama of life; our minds are the fitful flashes of eternal light.
~ Will Durant
Death like style is the removal of rubbish.
~ Will Durant
The truest vision ever had of God came, perhaps, here.
~ Will Durant
At the end, we meet death. Just as experience begins to coördinate itself into wisdom, brain and body begin to decay.
~ Will Durant
Thou art a man God is no more Thy own humanity Learn to adore
~ William Blake
The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.
~ William Blake
And did those feet in ancient time, Walk upon Englands mountains green: And was the holy Lamb of God, On Englands pleasant pastures seen! And did the Countenance Divine, Shine forth upon our clouded hills? And was Jerusalem builded here, Among these dark Satanic Mills?
~ William Blake
God, so long worshipp'd, departs as a lamp / Without oil.
~ William Blake
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~ William C. Chittick
Glory be to Him who veils Himself through His manifestation and manifests Himself through His veil!
~ William C. Chittick