Quotes About Transcendence

Look up here, I'm in heaven! I've got scars that can't be seen I've got drama, can't be stolen, Everybody knows me now (...) This way or no way You know I'll be free Just like that bluebird Now, ain't that just like me? - Lazarus

I love to live on the brink of eternity.

It is good for me to be afflicted that I may die wholly to this world and all that is in it.

Abraham Lincoln suffered through depression through his life and then suffered through the pain of conducting a civil war, and emerged with the sense that Providence had taken control of his life, that he was a small instrument in a transcendent task.

Though there are exceptions, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism tend to stress desirable states of consciousness, escaping the fretful, self-aware state of mind that so often makes everyday living a burden. For mystics from the Abrahamic faiths, however, the inward odyssey is also an upward odyssey, a quest for personal and vital communion with an infinite Being.

Once again there shall be great music: this shall be mightier than the first. It shall be unflawed, filled with wisdom and sadness, and beautiful beyond compare

El tiempo no transcurre. Otros tiempos son, simplemente, casos especiales de otros universos.

But there's a world beyond what we can see and touch, and that world lives by its own laws. What may be impossible in this very ordinary world is very possible there, and sometimes the boundaries between the two worlds disappear, and then who can say what is possible and impossible?

What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.

despite the unpopularity of the notion, surrender plays a crucial role in the spiritual journey as understood by most major religions and spiritual traditions. Far from being a sign of weakness, only surrender to something or someone bigger than us is sufficiently strong to free us from the prison of our egocentricity. Only surrender is powerful enough to overcome our isolation and alienation.

Far from being a sign of weakness, only surrender to something or someone bigger than us is sufficiently strong to free us from the prison of our egocentricity. Only surrender is powerful enough to overcome our isolation and alienation.

We seek bridges from our isolation through people, possessions and accomplishment. But none of these are ever quite capable of satisfying the restlessness of the human heart. To be human is to have been designed for intimate relationship with the Divine.

silence is God's first language; everything else is a poor translation.

When I read, the words on the page replace the voice in my head and I cease, for a little while, to be me, or at least to be so painfully aware of being me.

when dealing with the Absolute, there can be no such thing as debt.

Osage concluded that this force was ultimately unknowable and gave it the name Wakonda, which could alternately be translated as 'God' or 'Mystery'.

1992) Wen-tzu: Understanding the Mysteries. Trans. T. Cleary. Boston: Shambhala.

A path is formed by walking on it.... When there is a separation, there is coming together. When there is a coming together, there is dissolution. All things may become one, whatever their state of being. Only he who has transcended sees this oneness. He has no use for differences and dwells in the constant. To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one's true nature. Realization of one's true nature is happiness.22

So the learning of complete people is to return their essential nature to non-being and float their minds in spaciousness.41

The life of the spirit comes from the prior death of the mind. If people kill the mind, the original comes alive. Killing the mind does not mean quietism, it means undivided concentration.29

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

How much of our lives take place in the elusive spaces of this world—how much is conveyed, like the artistry of the master musician, in the silence between the notes?

it is a response to a reality beyond us. Far from being trapped in tribal illusions, we are liberated by transcendent truths.

life ends, but love is eternal.