Quotes About Transcendence

Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy

speaks. "When you die you die. And everything

There was a time when I could see God in a single crumb.

Teach me, chile, and I shall Learn. Take me, chile, and I shall Escape. Focus my eyes, chile, and I shall See. Consume more chiles. I feel no pain, for the chile is my teacher. I feel no pain, for the chile takes me beyond myself. I feel no pain, for the chile gives me sight. —Transcendental Capsaicinophilic Society, "Litany Against Pain

What a fine affair it would be if we could flit across the Atlantic as they say the angels do from planet to planet.

until only infinity remained of beauty

The music brought us what it seemed / We had long desired, but in a form / so rarefied there was no emptiness of sensation

As he lay expiring in the agony of death, the standers-by could hear him say softly 'I have seen the glories of the world.

A man was standing at the end of the hallway, just outside an open door, from where a great light shone, illuminating him almost as a god.

We are not material beings on a spiritual journey; we are spiritual beings who need an earthly journey to become fully spiritual.

It is the glory of the next world that will never wear out, while the good things of this world will vanish.

The grey sky had changed a little in character now. It was dimly interspersed with twinkling points of pale luminosity. Most of these points were so blurred and indistinct that it would have been hard to catch them again at a second glance in the same position in the vast ether. They were like nothing on earth; and to nothing on earth could they be compared. They were the stars, not of the night but of the twilight.

The soul can see beautiful things, feel beautiful things, touch beautiful things, even when beautiful things aren't tangible.

You die and die and then you are beyond death.

And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.

Death is unbearable unless you can get beyond the I.

Death is release, if you've lived all right.

Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.

O Death, O Beyond, Thou art sweet, thou art strange!

One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.

Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.

The dead don't bother with particulars.

When you die you pass into inner worlds and continue to perceive. Death is not the dissolution of the self. Death is rather just a change in perception.

Death is only a summer vacation for us. We don't really change or lose what we have learned or who we have been when we die, because we are our karma.