Quotes About Transcendence

We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!

At the sight of her submissively moving her lips his blood shouted Lord and his death leaned above him like a perfectly clear plate of glass.

Humans are capable of having transcendent, transformative experiences in the absence of any given dogma. We are capable of sustaining elaborate systems of false belief and transmitting them to our children. We are capable of feeling so certain about our false beliefs that we are willing to kill or die for them. One

God is so far away that no one can say anything about him and that's why all ideas about God are wrong, and at the same time he is so close that we almost can't notice him, because he is the foundation in a person, or the abyss, you can call it whatever you want

Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath. KABIR

An altar is like an airport where spirits take off and land

God's ways are not our ways. They are beyond our understanding.

Praise be to God that hope is much more than how we feel on a given day. It exists outside of us

Spirit is the real and eternal matter is the unreal and the temporal.

Faith is the capacity of the soul to perceive the abiding ... the invisible in the visible.

Spiritual love is a position of standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.

Faith is primarily a process of identification the process by which the individual ceases to be himself and becomes part of something eternal.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by and turned to the infinite.

Religious faith indeed relates to that which is above us but it must arise from that which is within us.

Did you think I was immortal?

The eye and fantasy feel more attracted by nebulous distance than by that which is close and distinct in front of us.

Silence is one of many forms of prayer.

The Toyota plowed headlong into the boy. But there was no impact. No screams, no blood, no bending metal.The boy simply dematerialized in a swirl of white light.

To put it as simply as possible, I ate a god.

Jesus brooded upon the Divine imminence until at last he could declare, 'I and my Father are One.'

I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness

Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.