Quotes About Transcendence

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

When I first came to Wakefield Cathedral, I thought, 'How does man conceive to build something like this?' It's a building that has transcended time over the centuries, and you appreciate the magnitude of humankind's power and vision. When you're inside, you feel as though the rest of the world doesn't exist.

I want my life to defy human explanation.

Yes, our world is real, but its temporal reality offers us but a glimpse, a faint foreshadowing of the greater reality that is to come.

Waarom moet ieder mens geschokt en geslingerd worden tussen een wereld hier, een wereld van zavel en cement, bloed, zenuwen, telefoonpalen en zonde, mensen die geboren worden en mensen die sterven, en een andere wereld die in onze gedachten spookt zonder te weten of zoiets bestaat, bestaan heeft of ooit zal komen?

I am far more than my personality — past, present, or future. I now choose to rise above my personality problems to recognize the magnificence of my being. I am totally willing to learn to love myself. All is well in my world.

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!

Everything mortal has moments immortal, Swift and God-gifted, immeasurably bright.

With every anguish of our earthly part The spirit's sight grows clearer.

Past and present commingle: Eternity in the single blink of an eye!

Heaven is not the wide blue sky but the place where corporeality is begotten in the house of the Creative.

Our history, especially that of the great religions, Christianity in particular, has given us a "hidden prejudice" in favor of the "beyond" at the expense of the "here and now" and this must be changed. (quoted from The Age of Atheists" by Peter Watson, p 25)

If progeny and heroism—descendants and earthly renown—do not enable us to confront death with a greater degree of serenity, if these attributes afford no true access to the good life, toward what source of wisdom then can we turn?

More was lost than mere life and existence.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both this is an observation of the Middle Way.

The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.

The soul has this proof of its divinity that divine things delight in it.

Therefore death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.

When immortal Death has taken mortal life.

What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.

Nature is precisely what separates man from God … [R]eligion believes that one day this wall of separation will fall away. One day there will be no Nature, no matter, no body, at least none such as to separate man from God: then there will be only God[.]

H]eavenly personality, or the perpetuation of human personality in heaven is nothing else than personality released from all earthly encumbrances and limitations[.] [H]ere we are men, there gods[.]

The belief in the immortality of man is the belief in the divinity of man[.]

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.