Quotes About Transcendence

Sensuality is the death of the soul.

We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.

I have good hope that there is something after death.

Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.

They say the day you die your name is written on a cloud.

This world is nothing. An illusion. Death is the release.

Death is the tax the soul has to pay for having a name and a form.

I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.

I was thinking about dying the other day the death thought came while I was sitting on the toilet peeing - that's where I have my most contemplative thoughts.

By the creative act, we are able to reach beyond our own death.

If it is finally accepted that the personality in whole or part survives death - and I believe that it will be - then such a belief will be considered as modern as a belief in spaceships and rockets.

Renunciation means death of false ego.

Graveyards remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour.

Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.

To pray is to walk in the full light of God, and to say simply, without holding back, 'I am human and you are God.

Earth is crammed with heaven And every bush aflame with God But only those who see take off their shoes. —ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?

The sufferings of Jesus show us that pain comes to us not as punishment but rather as a testing ground for faith that transcends pain. In truth, pain redeemed impresses me more than pain removed.

We cannot make Him visible to us, but we can make ourselves visible to Him," said Abraham Joshua Heschel

we ourselves will be transubstantiated, we shall be angels

epiphanies rarely repeat themselves.

To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is.

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Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?