Quotes About Transcendence

Do we have anything in music that really wipes everything out? That just cleans everything away?

Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Music is actually where I see heaven.

I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.

Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.

In the presence of great music we have no alternative but to live nobly.

No voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart.

If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it.

But this isn't like anything I've ever seen, or imagined, or even dreamed: This is like music or dancing but better than both.

What happens when the music stops? Where does it go?

Music is the highest art and to those who understand, is the highest worship

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so deep that madness itself cannot penetrate there.

Music for us is about articulating the feelings you can't put into words.

Music is part of God's universe.

The highest goal of music is to connect one's soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment

Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss[Sat-Chit-Ananda].

His essential nature is sat-chit-ananda: (Sat) Absolute Being - He encompasses everything because there is nothing outside of him; (Chit) Absolute Consciousness - He is the complete consciousness

To rise above treeline is to go above thought, and after, the descent back into bird song, bog orchids, willows, and firs is to sink into the preliterate parts of ourselves.

Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.

Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.

Your nature is to keep quiet. You came from silence and you have to return to silence... you are dancing only for a little while you see... a little while you are dancing.

The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics.