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Quotes About Transcendence

There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.
~ Virginia Woolf
There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.
~ Virginia Woolf
through the mercy of the Lord, reaches a plane where pedantic and powerless reason is left far behind, and the mere intellectual groping through the dark gives place to the daylight of direct perception. He no more reasons and believes, he almost perceives. He no more argues, he senses. And is not this seeing God, and feeling God, and enjoying God higher than everything else?
~ Vivekananda
Two is the number which separates, three the number which transcends all separation: the one and the many find themselves gathered and circumscribed in the Trinity.
~ Unknown
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
~ Voltaire
All literature in some degree, exists to reveal a more powerful and passionate, a more divine world than ours.
~ Unknown
Envìo tu alma a la Tribu de las Estrellas.
~ Unknown
Where there is nothing, there is God.
~ W.B. Yeats
Before us lies eternity; our souls Are love, and a continual farewell.
~ W.B. Yeats
our souls are love, and a continual farewell
~ W.B. Yeats
The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the teacup opens A lane to the land of the dead.
~ W.H. Auden
Human "nature" is a nature continually in quest of itself, obliged at every moment to transcend what it was a moment before.
~ W.H. Auden
Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.
~ Unknown
The work is to somehow talk ourselves beyond / the sleepiness of selfhood
~ Unknown
How beautiful you must be to have been able to lead me this far with only the sound of your going away
~ W.S. Merwin
I think that the real religion is about the understanding that if we can only still our egos for a few seconds, we might have a chance of experiencing something that is divine in nature.
~ John Cleese
The universe is the primary revelation of the divine, the primary scripture, the primary locus of divine-human communication.
~ Thomas Berry
That which is communicated, i.e., understood, is metaphysical. The means of communication is physical.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
... it doesn't matter if you can't get a cell phone signal or Wi-Fi where you are. You are always connected to Source.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
My communication with aliens is not verbal - we speak the language of light.
~ Valeria Lukyanova
Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.
~ Gautama Buddha
We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
The effort you put forth to anything transcends yourself, for there is no futility even in death.
~ Unknown
I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross