Quotes About Transcendence

Strange, though, that we can never catch it in the act.

There was a delicate, transient point somewhere between too much alcohol and too little where her pool skills absolutely peaked.

Faith is that something in man that transcends every form of limitation and opens the mind to the limitless powers of the soul

Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave.

The birds have vanished into the sky, And now the last cloud fades away. We sit together, the mountain and I, until only the mountain remains. LI PO

Remember me when I am gone away, gone far away into the silent land.

I WISH I WERE A LITTLE BIRD I wish I were a little bird That out of sight doth soar, I wish I were a song once heard But often pondered o'er, Or shadow of a lily stirred By wind upon the floor, Or echo of a loving word Worth all that went before, Or memory of a hope deferred That springs again no more.

It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live.

ja jos koko ajan ajattelen kuolemaa se ei yllätä minua koskaan

Where words leave off, music begins.

The see lifts me again, and carries me away with it.

It does not matter what happens now. There is no world: it has fallen away from us.

the poetic moment is a static one. It's watching through a window while the action happens elsewhere. And then the poet turns away from the window because the poem is done ... It cannot unflinchingly stare grief down. At some point, by necessity, or design, it must turn away.

The notebooks are full of a fierce attention to things I do not know. But now I know what they are for. These are records of ordered transcendence. A watcher's diary. My father's talk of patience had held within it all the magic that is waiting and looking up at the moving sky.

The Holy Spirit is the highest communication medium.

17. Miracles are the transcendence of the body. They are sudden shifts into invisibility, away from a sense of lower-order reality. That is why they heal.

On the wall of time to come a window appears. I open it, let angels in.

Here all may see my body lie/ But not my soul, for that can fly!

Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.

I proclaim the inevitable advent of the universal republic. Not the transient backslidings, nor the darkness and the dread, nor the tragic difficulty of uplifting the world everywhere at once will prevent the fulfillment of international truth.

Le temps semble s'être arrêté… Tu baisses ton profil sublime, Et nous nous penchons vers l'abîme Dans un frisson d'éternité

Tu nous domines de silence, Tu nous hantes d'éternité.

It is an important experience to be in the presence of a thinking creature who is crying. A weak, broken creature who is crying creates the same impression as an omnipotent god whom one implores; for in its weakness and defeat it rises above the human condition.

Estamos crucificados; no como Dios, que lo fue en carne sobre una cruz, sino que estamos crucificados sobre el tiempo y el espacio.