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Quotes About Transcendence

Half-heartedness doesn't reach into majesty. You set out to find God, but then you keep stopping for long periods at meanspirited roadhouses.
~ Rumi
God can do anything. He has all power in the palm of His Hand. My Body, like all other bodies, is a temporary habitation; but, My Power is eternal, all-pervasive, ever-dominant.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Anyone who knows God cannot describe Him. Anyone who can describe God does not know Him.
~ Paulo Coelho
Connection exists. There is immanence and transcendence, and everything beyond and in between. My tradition calls this connection God Herself.
~ T. Thorn Coyle
God is so great, he does not even need to exist.
~ Victor Frederick Weisskopf
Prepare your hearts for Death's cold hand! prepare Your souls for flight, your bodies for the earth; Prepare your arms for glorious victory; Prepare your eyes to meet a holy God! Prepare, prepare!
~ William Blake
God cannot be seen, but He can listened to and spoken to!
~ Martin Buber
Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.
~ Meher Baba
In my breaking through...I transcend all creatures and am neither God nor creature...for in this breaking through I find that God and I are both the same.
~ Meister Eckhart
The human spirit must transcend number and break through multiplicity, and God will break through him; and just as He
~ Meister Eckhart
When I create art, it's like holding hands with God.
~ Robert Mapplethorpe
If there were no way into God, I would not have lain in the grave of this body so long.
~ Rumi
Invoked or not invoked, the god is present.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
I don't think anyone is more intrinsically holy. People experience God in many ways; and it seems to me that God does what the rest of us do: He chooses the means that best gets His message across.
~ Gene Wolfe
When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
~ George Eliot
So it's really a process of actually having a realization of God, which all becomes clear with the expanded state of consciousness that develops when you chant.
~ George Harrison
Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.
~ John Milton
There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness.
~ Jules de Goncourt
Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
The veil between us and the divine is more permeable than we imagine.
~ Sue Thoele
O God, my God, the night has values that the day never dreamed of.
~ Thomas Merton
God Himself begins to live in me not only as my Creator but as my other and true self.
~ Thomas Merton