Quotes About Transcendence

Hope transcends everything. It goes beyond all doubts. It silences fear. It quiets despair.

Wine is a successful effort to translate the perishable into the permanent.

Music bypasses the conceptual mind. Music does not give you food for thought.

The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.

So there's only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That's why I say, "Who cares if you're enlightened forever?"

There is often in people in whom 'the worst' has happened an almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced 'the worst' and survived it.

Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.

Dear me! I must be turning into a god.

The evolving soul is not made divine by what it does, but by what it strives to do.

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Freedom has no history.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.

O s? înot pe burt? o zi, dou?, un an, pân? obosesc bine, apoi pe spate, apoi într-o dung?. Apoi într-un deget, apoi într-un fir de p?r, apoi într-un fir de suflet, apoi într-o r?suflare, apoi într-un geam?t. Ies eu la mal.

Î?i e?ti ?i drum lung ?i merind? ?i vreme oricât?, oricând. ?i spa?iu cabrând nenoroc. ?i totu-i vibrare pe loc.

Departe-i trilul susei ciocarlii, Chemata-n cer pe scara-i de matasa... Te potrivesti din carji si dioptrii. Si ca-ntr-o apa-adanca, lunecoasa, Ca un copil te ratacesti in casa, Pleci in oglinda-ncet...si nu mai vii.

When I read a book, everything around me stopped existing. All the unhappiness in my family--my parents' bitter fights, my grandmother's sadness at having had everything taken away from her--disappeared. I merged with the characters.

Child, we can't see the face of God with these eyes, but with our souls. You have to know that death is only a step we have to take to reach the other world and live, only in a different way.

Si soy incapaz de trascender mi pasado, es difícil que pueda inventar un futuro que no sea directamente predecible desde el pasado

What a paradox is there: flying higher into heaven, at the same time being forced to work deeper into the hell of my addiction, the hell of my own unconscious body.

You think of yourself -- light, fast, free -- free of earth, free of bondage to your body. In your 'perfect' body, you are in control, addicted to the light that keeps you out of body. You're a swan maiden, addicted to wings, addicted to spirit. You refused to eat in order to fly.

Die moeilikste ding op aarde om te aanvaar, buiten jou eie verganklikheid, is jou eie middelmatigheid.' – WILLEM PRINS (Misverstand)

Penny's bowels yearned over his son. He gave him something more that his paternity. He found that the child stood wide-eyed and breathless before the miracle of bird and creature, of flower and tree, of wind and rain and sun and moon, as he had always stood. And if, on a soft day in April, the boy had prowled away on his boy's business, he could understand the thing that had drawn him. He understood, too, its briefness.

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth." Colossians 3:2

What does being on earth ask of us? The world wants to be rescued from evanescence, to be translated into an immaterial realm that does not perish because it was never exactly alive. To become, in other words, poetry--either in the poem the poet writes out of engagement with things, or in the interior "poem" of anyone who loves the world, the never-said words we come, over time, to carry within us.