Quotes About Transcendence

Sabíais que el Creador... se emborrachaba? ¡Piedad para ese labio mancillado en las copas de la orgía!

The soul does not fall.

"One atom of the plane where He functions would shatter the world."

As Ram Dass puts it, "The ego is a tiny room. But the soul can merge into the One.

Authentic grief is humbling; it causes the ego to face forces that are much greater than it can even imagine and it teaches us how to find gain in loss. With authentic grief, then, our profane wound becomes a sacred wound, permitting us to molt out of the cocoon into a wholly new life. Going through the wound like a gateway, we emerge transformed

Priveau de departe spre imparatia mortii si a vesniciei, catre care se indreptau. Un mers pe pamant, dar care se sfarseste in vesnicie, caci el nu se intreapta catre un scop pamantesc, catre un obiect ori o fiinta, ci spre un lucru care se afla dincolo.

a especialidade do psicoterapeuta é buscar entender como valorizar a vida concreta sem precisar de uma transcendência. Ou seja, sem recorrer a valores externos à vida concreta do paciente.

That which is so universal as death must be a blessing. And none may escape its benediction.

I bought a piece of God, ground to dust and mixed with alcohol in a glass bottle the colour of molasses.

The skin of Herbert's chest and arms and head turned opaque as a nearly colorless essence, smoke or mist or fog, rose off his body.

Sometimes, upon waking, the residual dream can be more appealing that reality, and one is reluctant to give it up. For a while, you feel like a ghost -- Not fully materialized, and unable to manipulate your surroundings. Or else, it is the dream that haunts you. You wait with the promise of the next dream.

I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.

is to break through the bonds that attach the individual to the world of his senses and separate him from his eternal nature.

I mostly believe, deep in my bones, that life is very simply beyond description; regardless of what one makes of it, life always spills over the parameters of how anyone has chosen to define it.

She got out at Raspail. I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A sponge, suffering because it cannot saturate itself; a river, suffering because reflections of clouds and trees are not clouds and trees.

If only the stars contained me. If only everything kept happening in such a way That the so-called world opposed the so-called flesh.

The real, by which I mean God, continues to remain unfathomable.

Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the nightingale still will sing. Because it is neither preaching nor commanding nor urging. It is just singing. And in the beginning was not a Word, but a chirrup.

God cannot be placed within any category larger than God in order to understand God.

I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, what was behind life. So when I had my first communion I was very disappointed. I had expected something amazing and surprising and spiritual. Instead all I got was a bicycle. That wasn't what I was after at all.

Making dance music is a spiritual thing. It's about being completely absorbed by rhythm and vibration, so much so that the petty stuff of life stops mattering.

The Universal view melts things into a blur.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

In human history, we are going from knowledge to omniscience, from potence to omnipotence, from ethics and religion to righteousness. So, in my view, God comes at the end of this long process. This may not happen in our lifetimes or even in the lifetime of our species.