Quotes About Transcendence

Perhaps when we die our names are taken from us by a divine magnet and are free to flutter here and there within the bodies of birds. I'll be a simple crow who can reach the top of Antelope Butte. (From: Hard Times)

I can make the earth stop in its tracks. I made the blue cars go away. I can make myself invisible or small. I can become gigantic & reach the farthest things. I can change the course of nature. I can place myself anywhere in space or time. I can summon the dead. I can perceive events on other worlds, in my deepest inner mind, & in the minds of others. I can I am

Death Makes Angels of us all.

I pressed her thigh and death smiled

Door of passage to the other side, the soul frees itself in stride.

You can get high on a mantra, he says, but I'm holy on acid.

She always had that look about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world.

maybe there is more to a person than a body and a mind. maybe something else figures into the mix— not a soul, exactly, but a spirit that hints you might one day be greater, stronger than you are now. a promise; a potential.

I remember for that one moment, I believe I was hitch hiking on one of those comets, falling so fast that I'd surely burn away before I ever hit the ground.

The self-description of the soul is usually in terms of light and brightness.

In the beginning you will fall into the gaps in between thoughts...after practicing for years, you become the gap.

lmost everything looked more beautiful from a distance, the earth becoming more perfect as one ascended and came closer to seeing the world from God's eyes, man's hovels and palaces disappearing, the peaks and valleys of geography fading to become strokes of a paintbrush on a divine sphere.

Writing was entering into fog, feeling my way for a route from this world to the unearthly world of words, a route easier to find on some days than others.

My eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy and perhaps a couple of billion light-years beyond?

He who is everywhere is nowhere except God.

Many people wish to stress the possibility of fellowship with God, and therefore they favor his immanence in a way that denies his transcendence.

Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.

Illusions may fade, but the sublime remains.

meus sentimentos, em estado de exaltação, tendem mais às preocupações com a eternidade e a vida eterna.

chúng ta Ä'ón cái ch?t ?? ch?m tá»›i má»™t ngôi sao. ?i?u ch?c ch?n Ä'úng trong l?p lu?n này là n?u chúng ta còn s?ng, chúng ta không th? ??n ???c má»™t ngôi sao cÅ©ng nhÆ° khi ta ch?t, chúng ta không th? b?t tàu n?a

I think it a splendid saying of Victor Hugo's, "les religions passent, mais Dieu demure" [religions pass away, but God remains];

Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.

I smiled, for now I understood that it was not an obsession with death that Mexicans had after all, but rather an acceptance of it - woven like a thick vine throughout our lives, helping us transcend death itself and compelling us to live even richer, more meaningful lives.

Vera incessu patuit dea. (The goddess indubitable was revealed in her step.)