Quotes About Transcendence

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.

Why does the sea induce these feelings of transcendence in us? Is it because an unobstructed view of overarching sky meeting endlessly stirring water is as close as we can come on this earth to a visual symbol of the infinite?

The death of our physical bodies is just the beginning of our ongoing education into other dimensional realities.

William Buhlman

achieve escape velocity in order to break free the dense gravity field of matter and form.

Higher self now!" and "Spiritual essence now!

endless loving sea of pure white conscious light.

At death this fixed self-identity

William Buhlman

reason, say the elders, was so that you and future generations would not have to carry the pain.

Out-of-body exploration provides substantial evidence that we are evolving beyond the dense limits of matter. Is it not possible that some other species may have already achieved this evolutionary leap? I contend that all life-forms are slowly evolving beyond the need for biological form. Eventually we will recognize and consciously explore our multidimensional nature and take our place in the magnificent thought-responsive realities of the universe.

Somewhere beyond the curtainOf distorting daysLives that lonely thingThat shone before these eyesTargeted, trod like Spring.

Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.

There is another world, but it is in this one.

Life has a higher end, than to be amused.

It is in the order of the imagination, the order of poetry, that the possible exceeds itself, is sanctified in excess.

He wanted to sink down and hug the coals to his chest. Flamboyant...coins of light...oil, wood, tatters...fumes from acids, soap, smoke...the sunlight shattered.

Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.

And there it was again, the magic of music.

Sono giunto alla conclusione che siamo creature fatte di spirito, uno spirito che scorre dentro di noi come l'elettricità e può passare dall'uno all'altro. Fu questo ciò che senti scaturire dalla mano di mia madre, lo spirito del suo profondo anelito.

Now the question is, what could conceivably transform an event that is naturally impossible into a real historical event? Clearly, the answer is the personal God of theism. For if a transcendent, personal God exists, then he could cause events in the universe that could not be produced by causes within the universe.

Words penetrated the tank from the outer room. They were tantalizing, like those ghosts of meaning in a great symphonyhinting that the composer had caught a glimpse of something notes could only vaguely convey and words could never even approach.

Her mother had once told her that one could run away from home, from husband, from children, from trouble, but it was impossible to run away from oneself. "You always have to take yourself with you," she said. And now, bending towards her mother, Hope wondered if in death you were finally able to run away from yourself. This might be death's gift. She knew that the thought wasn't terribly profound, but she was moved by the notion of completion and of escape.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I thought, 'Fuck that. I want to be a superhuman.