Quotes About Transcendence

Cand aveam 20 de ani m? îmb?tam ÅŸi pe urm? explicam c? sunt un tip în genul lui Descartes. SimÅ£eam c? m? umflu de eroism, îmi d?deam frîu liber, îmi pl?cea. Dup? care, a doua zi, eram la fel de scîrbit ca ÅŸi cînd m-aÅŸ fi trezit într-un pat plin de v?rs?turi. Ieri n-aveam nici m?car scuza beÅ£iei. M-am exaltat ca un imbecil. Am nevoie s? m? cur?? cu gînduri abstracte, transparente ca apa.

A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.

I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us.

My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work.

Transcendent Oneness does not require self-examination, self-help, or self-work. It requires self-loss.

There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.

Alow immortality to work through you. Be but a mere instrument. And that instrument should be so absorbed in the perfect perfection of existence, that it knows not even that it is absorbed.

We 've wholly forgotten how to die. But be sure you do die nevertheless. Do your work, and finish it. If you know how to begin, you will know when to end.

The very way you breathe, sit, stand, eat, walk, work - everything can become yoga. You can use any process of life to transcend your limitations.

The stratosphere is my church.

I can't help but view the world mystically. It's how I see it. I'm not a strict materialist. I think there's much more to the world than what we see with our five senses.

I would say that Beethoven's late string quartets are the nearest to God that we'll ever get.

I strive to express the spiritual nature of the universe.

But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for - scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality.

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

I wanted to create a body of work that I was proud of. It's come from honesty and integrity, without forcing anything from myself, the ideas had to come instinctively and organically. Whether that translates to people in that way, it's kind of out of my hands now.

It's an honor to have been part of something so core to so many lives. The show has evolved beyond it's original intent and form and has transcended... itself!

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

The life of the hereafter is the outcome of all this world.

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

The choir are screaming now, fugue-permutations veering and careening to the outer limits of the field where any ratio of intervals or pitches might hold sway: tonics swapping with subdominants within the space of single notes that seem to play out in three octaves all at once, false entries, inversions, retrogrades and diminutions running riot through all keys -- until, suddenly, these fall away, like clouds

Bliss, I learned from being sodomized, is an experience of eternity in a moment of real time.