Quotes About Transcendence

In my bones, I know that I am not long for this world.

When I was no longer of the world, I would miss its extravagant beauty.

The dead are sensitive to the living. They have walked this path ahead of us and know our fears, our failings, our desperate hopes, and how much we cherish what cannot last. They pity us, I think, and no doubt they should.

Some place existed before the universe, exists outside of it now, and will exist when the universe collapses back upon itself. In that mysterious place, outside of time, Stormy waits for me.

Men and women who seek to become gods must first lose their humanity.

There. I'd actually said it. I had told her she was beautiful, even though she might need a translator to have my meaning properly conveyed.

Ray Kurzweil

If we live forever, it doesn't matter so much what happens to us here.

His heart knocked as if on Heaven's door.

Singularity

This life is but the childhood of our immortality.

Do you know the primary difference between men and gods? ... Gods don't think they can become men

When you go to the other place, part of you doesn't come back.' What other place, honey?' He placed his watch on the bedstand. And the part of you that does?' She bit her lip and looked like she was about to punch herself in the face with both fists. 'Shouldn't.

The soul seemed to flower as the body declined.

Do you know the primary difference between men and gods?" "No, sir." "Gods don't think they can become men.

The black person entered the booth one person and emerged on the other side a new, transfigured person.

Perhaps it was only that the sense of reaching out to something larger than yourself gives you some feeling that there is something larger - and there really has to be, because plainly you aren't sufficient to the situation.

thought that was perhaps how some ghosts were made; where a will and a purpose had survived, heedless of the frail flesh that fell by the wayside, unable to sustain life long enough.

No matter how ugly the manner in which a man dies, it's only the presence of a suffering human soul that is horrifying; once gone, what is left is only an object.

Perhaps it was only that the sense of reaching out to something larger than yourself gives you some feeling that there is something larger—and there really has to be, because plainly you aren't sufficient to the situation. I surely wasn't. Ian

me. The cloud cover had parted for a moment and the light touched the

The sacrifice," she said, suddenly impatient. "It gives ye a greater range. And at least a bit of control, so ye have some notion how far ye're going. How did ye get to and fro three times, without blood?

When I started my spiritual journey, I realized I had to cut away from all attachment.

Divinity. That's what I'm trying to get at, in everything I write.