Quotes About Transcendence

I've been to the other side...You're dead there, too.

She listens to the delicate fluttering of sparrows' wings, tiny messengers. The sound reminds her of life - struggling, beating, rising, flying, and now dissolving into space.

There are moments in life. And, yes, still moments in death.

There is no death! the stars go down To rise upon some other shore And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown They shine for ever more.

... man cannot help but transcend himself as soon as he begins to design and construct.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

The desire for beauty, the hunger for union, the passion to be part of something greater than self, all arise out of our bent to worship.

If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.

For the material, at best, is only temporal, or temporary, while that which may be built from spiritual desire, spiritual purposes, is eternal.

If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.

The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.

When you dance, do you feel desire? Do you feel as if you were summoning up a greater energy? When you dance, are there moments when you cease to be yourself?

Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body.

When you leave the desires behind, you will find the graveyards ahead!

He who does not desire or fear the uncertain day or capricious fate is equal to the gods above and loftier than mortals.

All dreams continue in the beyond.

I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

He had forgotten how to soar upon the wings of his soul...

Each moment is a poetic expression of the undefined. As long as it remains undefined, it has all the beauty of the world and it steps inside to nurture your dreams.

Death does not exist.

I don't like to think of myself as just a person. I don't think I am. I think I existed before, and I think I'll exist again after I die here, so I don't exactly know what I am. I don't think there is ever going to be an answer. I just know that I'm not like you.

It began in mystery and it will end in mystery, but what a rare and beautiful country lies in between.

There is a way of beholding nature that is itself a form of prayer.

Deep play arises in such moments of intense enjoyment, focus, control, creativity, timelessness, confidence, volition, lack of self-awareness (hence transcendence) while doing things intrinsically worthwhile, rewarding for their own sake…It feels cleansing because when acting and thinking becomes one, there is no room left for other thoughts.