Quotes About Transcendence

psychical life is neither unity nor multiplicity, that it transcends both the mechanical and the intellectual, mechanism and finalism having meaning only where there is "distinct multiplicity," "spatiality," and consequently assemblage of pre-existing parts: "real duration" signifies both undivided continuity and creation.

The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.

If music thus carries us to heaven, it is because music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

The soul may be immortal because she is fitted to rise towards that which is neither born nor dies, towards that which exists substantially, necessarily, invariably, that is to say towards God.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

aquel que alcanza la realización, regresa a la belleza del mundo natural»

The individual is identified with the perishable; what can become eternal in the individual pertains exclusively to the separate and unique active Intelligence.

The Imagination is the scene of the encounter whereby the supersensory-divine and the sensible "descend" at one and the same "abode.

Ibn Arabi was above all the disciple of Khidr ( Khidr). We shall attempt further on to indicate what it signifies and implies to be "the disciple of Khidr." In any event such a relationship with a hidden spiritual master lends the disciple an essentially "transhistorical" dimension and presupposes an ability to experience events which are enacted in a reality other than the physical reality of daily life, events which spontaneously transmute themselves into symbols.

Prayer is the highest form, the supreme act of the Creative Imagination.

Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!

He is not Old Brown any longer; he is an angel of light.

Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.

Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.

I have found God, but he is insufficient.

Religious faith always transcends culture, and is the integrating principle and power of man's cultural striving.

I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to.

Her mouth is a soft explosion of roses A burst of raw animal definition For a few moments I was mortal

The mystery of death is not solved by dying just as the mystery of life is not solved by living .

Dear, beauteous death, the jewel of the just!Shining nowhere but in the dark;What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust,Could man outlook that mark!

They are all gone into the world of light!And I alone sit lingering here;Their very memory is fair and bright,And my sad thoughts doth clear.

But felt through all this fleshly dressBright shoots of everlastingness.

I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright; And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres Like a vast shadow mov'd; in which the world And all her train were hurl'd.

There is in God a deep but dazzling darkness.