Quotes About Transcendence

What you know can never be the beyond. Whatever you experience is not the beyond. If there is any beyond, this movement of 'you' is absent. The absence of this movement probably is the beyond, but the beyond can never be experienced by you; it is when the 'you' is not there. Why are you trying to experience a thing that cannot be experienced?

39:4.13 There is no material reward for righteous living, but there is profound satisfaction — consciousness of achievement — and this transcends any conceivable material reward.

All religions will pass, but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking in the distance.

Self-awareness is a trait that not only makes us human but also paradoxically makes us want to be more than merely human. As I said in my BBC Reith Lectures, "Science tells us we are merely beasts, but we don't feel like that. We feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, forever craving transcendence

Science tells us we are merely beasts, but we don't feel like that. We feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, forever craving transcendence.

Forget language. After all, it bores me. The senses. And this much is true: any communication must transcend the immediacy of solidarity, must be mediated by ideological and economic connections. And there the senses reappear. No use giving in to words.

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

It is said that, "Nature has a horror of emptiness" (horror vacui). The spiritual counter-truth here is that, "the Spirit has a horror of fullness". It is necessary to create a natural emptiness—and this is what renunciation achieves—in order for the spiritual to manifest itself.

All the baubles offered by the material world fail to satisfy because they are themselves products of finitude and impermanent by nature.

If you were the sky, I would unfurl myself in you, as a rainbow of colors yet unseen. I would become oceans of stars in your night.

The question of purpose and meaning becomes obsolete when you think beyond human life.

Ty or Ra or Thect

And so eternity was the minute.

Man's dignity is in his death.

Wherefore the current of my soul hath broken The bounds of sensual life, And I am grown a god, a sinewy token Of Pan's most ardent strife; I am his own; I seem The shadow of his dream, As he is spinning thoughts of form and sense Out of the formless void, stark, cold and dense.

It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

The world will be saved by beauty.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.

So great was my joy in God that I took no heed of looking at the angels and the saints, because all their goodness and all their beauty was from Him and in Him.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.