Quotes About Transcendence

There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable from the original impulse that can only be described as sacred. Something in the person (dare we call it a soul?) wants to be free, and it seeks its freedom any way it can. ... There is a drive for transcendence that is implicit in even the most sensual of desires.

If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.

If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.

They're not just dreams. Not anymore, I dream more than I wake now, and, at times, I have crossed over. Can't you see? I've been there.

And how does God speak to you?" "In the language of everything that is beautiful.

Instead of revenge, transcend.

Life should be more Than the body's weight working itself from room to room.

by being both here and beyond I am becoming a horizon from "The Man in the Mirror

No more gods, no more faith, no more timid holding back. Let us blast out of our old forms, our ignorance, our weakness, and our mortality. The future belongs to posthumanity.

Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.

Future generations will know there's nothing mystical about wetware because by 2100, Moore's law will have given us tiny quantum computers powerful enough to upload a human soul.

A little soul scarce fledged for earth Takes wing with heaven again for goal, Even while we hailed as fresh from birth A little soul.

When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven.

God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution.

To become fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

Our goal is self-transcendence

The goal of discoverers is not to outdistance their peers, but to transcend themselves.

God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.

Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days.

Erotic longing is really a longing to merge with something greater than oneself. For every kind of love is a force that holds the promise of taking us beyond the limitations of our individual lives.

Pure awareness transcends thinking.

Weeds grew, and I ignored my chores, while the cat worried her tail of its most plumescent fur. I saw my body, white as tallow, my face framed by colorless hair, noted my appetites, then put them aside, walked and walked to wear it all away.

I want something else. I'm not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it's drenched in sunlight and it's weightless and I know it's not cheap. Probably not even real

His soul sat up. It met me. Those kinds of souls always do - the best ones. The ones who rise up and say "I know who you are and I am ready. Not that I want to go, of course, but I will come." Those souls are always light because more of them have been put out. More of them have already found their way to other places.