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Quotes About Transcendence

I am a wave on a shoreless sea. From no beginning I travel to no goal, Making my movements stillness. Constantly I am arriving And departing, Being born and dying. I am always with you And yet have never been.
~ Unknown
We have someone with us who is dying--someone whose spirit is ready to leave this world, she thought to the tree. But he wants to be with his clan. With his forest. Will you take us?
~ Tony DiTerlizzi
I am not . . . . . . my life story, the mind, the body, feelings, experiences of pain or pleasure, struggle, success or failure. I am not loneliness, stillness, frustration or compassion. I am not even what I think is my purpose, the seeking, the finding, or anything which is called a spiritual experience.
~ Tony Parsons
When I went on this trip I had a sexual/spiritual experience with a creature named Lucifer.
~ Tori Amos
If I must needs boast, I will boast of my sufferings." II Corinthians 11:30 People boast about their wealth, their physical strength, their financial success, their educational achievements... but there are only a few people who can boast about their pains and sufferings. Those who are able to lay down their lives for a great mission are rare, but they are those who are able to transcend themselves and stand as great leaders and heroes in front of humanity. -Torkom Saraydarian
~ Torkom Saraydarian
Remember, to transform something is to alter how it occurs (how it exists, and how you are being in relation to it): from occurring in a way that constrains or limits you to occurring in a way that frees your actions.
~ Unknown
time never stops, but does it end? and how many lives before take-off, before we find ourselves beyond ourselves, all glam-glow, all twinkle and gold?
~ Tracy K. Smith
It's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.
~ Truman Capote
Bless me to sincerely be aware of death.
~ Unknown
God is neither good nor bad, neither moral nor immoral, he is unmoral;
~ Paul Carus
in the air, there your root remains, there, in the air
~ Paul Celan
Ein Nichts waren wir, sind wir, werden wir bleiben, blühend. die Nichts-, die Niemandsrose.
~ Paul Celan
Threadsuns above the grayblack wastes. A tree- high thought grasps the light-tone: there are still songs to sing beyond mankind.
~ Paul Celan
Le temps est le péché de l'éternité.
~ Paul Claudel
To die is to depart, to go away from these things forever and become one with the generations that have preceded us since the beginning of time, a whispered memory in the bones and whiskers of the generations to come.
~ Paul Gallico
It was Muriel Spark, in her novel Memento Mori: "If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.
~ Paul Theroux
Que son cinco minutos de agonia, a cambio de una eternidad en silencio.
~ Unknown
Death frees from the fear of dying
~ Paulo Coelho
Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated ... Always stay on the bridge between the invisible and the visible.
~ Paulo Coelho
The music could even penetrate his remote world, more distant than the moon itself; it could even perform miracles.
~ Paulo Coelho
The Lord often has his prophets climb mountains to converse with Him. I always wondered why He did that, and now I know the answer: when we are on high, we can see everything else as small. Our glory and sadness lose their importance. Whatever we conquered or lost remains there below. From the heights of the mountain, you see how large the world is, and how wide its horizons.
~ Paulo Coelho
Worshiping someone means...placing that person outside of our world. We are not worshiping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with Creation.
~ Paulo Coelho
Anyone who knows God cannot describe Him. Anyone who can describe God does not know Him.
~ Paulo Coelho
There are moments when, without really knowing it, we are aware of the presence of angels.
~ Paulo Coelho