Quotes About Transcendence

It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

Sometimes consciousness devises an obstacle in order to have the experience of transcending it.

Falling in love is a completely transcendent experience. It's like eating pizza-flavored ice cream

We are not these bodies, just souls having a bodily experience.

The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime.

Every experience of beauty points to [eternity].

I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience

Getting people into the wilderness for a transcendent experience empowers people for years, if not for their entire lives.

Looking at fires when high, by the way, especially through one of those prism kaleidoscopes which image their surroundings, is an extraordinarily moving and beautiful experience.

The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.

Satori is a brief flash. Suddenly the light breaks through. For a short timeless time we experience eternity in its unmanifest form. It's comparable to salvikalpa samadhi.

I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.

We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.

If I lived a billion years more, in my body or yours, there's not a single experience on Earth that could ever be as good as being dead. Nothing.

Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because if it is shared, you are down in duality.

Bliss defies description, obviously, since it annihilates you, since you're not there to experience it. You get the lead-up and the come-down, never the zenith.

In order to experience the Ultimate Reality you have to be out of your mind.

I think that when people experience something that seems to be supernatural, in some ways it cuts through the secular mindset.

God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.

A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity.

Is there a place here for the spirit ? Is there time on this brief platform for anything other than mind 's failure to explain itself?

You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.

Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us.

Magic is the divinity of man achieved in union with faith.