Quotes About Transcendence

Reading is, by its nature, a strategy for displacement, for pulling back from the circumstances of the present and immersing in the textures of a different life.

Float with me in the world of ether.

Always remember that you belong to no one, and no one belongs to you. Reflect that some day you will suddenly have to leave everything in this world - so make the acquaintanceship of God now.

God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived.

God is too large to be housed under one roof.

A comprehended god is no god.

God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.

There is nothing wrapped in my turban but God.

Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows.

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

Between God and the soul there is no between.

Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also something greater than can be thought.

As Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin knew, the future of humankind is God-consciousness.

If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.

God's name is not known; it is wondered at.

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

Light is the shadow of God.

The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

You may live in a crowd but you meet God and face eternity alone

Armenian is the language to speak with God.

You obtain God only when you get rid of the notion of separateness from God.

We do not know what God is. God Himself does not know what He is because He is not anything. Literally God is not, because He transcends being.