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Quotes About Transcendence

Nature is imperfectly perfect, filled with loose parts and possibilities, with mud and dust, nettles and sky, transcendent hands-on moments and skinned knees.
~ Richard Louv
Nature is the mirror of divinity.
~ Ellen G. White
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
~ Walt Whitman
My mind can take no hold on the present world, nor rest in it a moment, but my whole nature rushes onward with irresistible force towards a future and better state of being.
~ Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!
~ Henry David Thoreau
I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither "good" or "bad", and who knows neither love nor hatred.
~ Savitri Devi
I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.
~ Mary Oliver
Effective magic is transcendent nature.
~ George Eliot
In the midst of a universe that cannot exist for a second without constant motion, God transcended the order of nature. He stopped. He rested. And He prescribes the same for you and me.
~ Priscilla Shirer
Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Every rebellion which is not in its own nature self-destructive, is an expression of the divine spirit.
~ Paul Carus
Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.
~ Plato
The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature.
~ Swami Vivekananda
It is part of the unceasing human endeavor to prove that the spirit of man can transcend the flaws of his own nature.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
Nature is the difference between the soul and God.
~ Fernando Pessoa
But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me any my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No mind, no form, I only exist; now ceased all will and thought; the final end of [Nature]]'s dance, I am it whom I have sought.
~ Sri Chinmoy
In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God.
~ John Milton
In the consciousness of the infinite, the conscious subject has for his object the infinity of his own nature.
~ Ludwig Feuerbach
The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nature is saturated with deity.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The beauty that lies hidden, makes my soul tremble with awe.
~ Patricia Robin Woodruff
You are the trembling of time, that passesbetween vertical light and darkened sky,
~ Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets