Quotes About Transcendence

One day I will lie nowhere with an angel at my side.

I cannot be grasped in the here and now. For my dwelling place is as much among the dead as the yet unborn. Slightly closer to the heart of creation than usual. But not nearly close enough.

This change in religious belief would have dramatic consequences for the world's history, the first stage in a revolution that has made our world of today what it is. It oversaw the move from faith in gods of immanence, spiritual representations of the forces of nature, deities who inhabit the world and wear the natural phenomena they represent like a suit of clothes, to gods of transcendence, deities outside, beyond and above nature rather than part of it.

Do what helps others. Refrain from harming others. Transcend your own ignorance, clinging, hate, fear and delusion. This and only this is the dispensation of all the Buddhas.

There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another ... There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body.' (1 Corinthians 15:35–44).

The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God.

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

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

He who participates in God participates in eternity.

real joy is a "severe matter"; it is the happiness of a soul which is "lifted above every circumstance.

The fact that man never is satisfied with any stage of his finite development, the fact that nothing finite can hold him, although finitude is his destiny, indicates the indissoluble relation of everything finite to being-itself.

For encountering God means encountering transcendent security and transcendent eternity.

Self-affirmation, for Tillich, is the paradox of "participation in something which transcends the self" (165).

God is always revived in something or somebody; He cannot be murdered. The story of every atheism is the same.

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally, because everything real comes from eternity and goes to eternity.

The question our century puts before us is: is it possible to regain the lost dimension, the encounter with the Holy, the dimension which cuts through the world of subjectivity and objectivity and goes down to that which is not world but is the Mystery of the Ground of Being.

The sacred mystery of the ECK lies in the initiation of the Ninth Circle

God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.

Dieu a tout fait de rien. Mais le rien perce.

You have made yourself an island of time, you are a time that has become detached from that vast Time in which your indefinite duration has the subsistence and eternity of a smoke-ring.

It was our favorite part of the day, this in-between time, and it always seemed to last longer than it should--a magic and lavender space unpinned from the hours around it, between worlds.

Ler trevas. Nas letras, ler tudo o que de ler não te atrevas. Ler mais. Ler além. Além do bem. Além do mal. Além do além.

I am neither the earth, nor water, nor fire, nor air, nor sky, nor any other properties. I am not the senses and not even the mind. I am Shiva, the undivided essence of consciousness.