Quotes About Transcendence

of that dragon power. When Siegfried has killed the dragon and tasted the blood, he hears the song of nature. He has transcended his humanity and reassociated himself with the powers of nature, which are the powers of our life, and from which our minds remove us. You see, consciousness thinks it's running the

transcendent means to "transcend," to go past duality. Everything in the field of time and space is dual.

Mythology opens the world so that it becomes transparent to something that is beyond speech, beyond words—in short, what we call transcendence. Without that you don't have a mythology. Any system of thinking, ideologies of one kind or another, that does not open to transcendence cannot be classified or understood mythologically.

All the gods, all the heavens, all the worlds, are within us.

The mechanically induced mystical experience is what you have there.

The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.

The members of the congregation looked as though they'd just dropped in for a rest on the way to the grave.

To look at Him was to go blind. To stand before Him was to die.

Le savant a pris la science, le renonçant a pris le renoncement, le dévot a pris les dévotions, et tous s'en est allés ainsi à Sa rencontre. Prends la pureté et cours à Sa rencontre car c'est Lui le plus pur.

Il existe trois étapes vers la perfection pour les hommes. la première consiste à te connaitre, comme Dieu te connait -et je ne connais personne qui ait une telle connaissance de soi- , la deuxième consiste à ce que tu sois avec Dieu et à ce qu'Il soit, et la troisième consiste à ce que tu ne sois plus et que tout soit Lui.

And now we step to the rhythm of miracles. --from The Light, That Never Dies

The Universe said, 'Let me show your soul something beautiful.

Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state--it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.... Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel

Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.

If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.

The God who never interferes with drownings or train wrecks likes to peer in on the human experiment at such moments of reckoning, touching the scene with a little celestial light.

I remembered what had been circling in me: I am beautiful. I am full of love. I am dying.

Think of how far a voice must have to travel to go beyond the universe. How powerful that voice must be to get there.

the "human need for transcendence should be met with minimal embarrassments to reason,

I am a mystic. I believe in hearing the inaudible and touching the intangible and seeing the invisible.

?y?am na ?wiecie; lecz, ach! nie dla ?wiata! My?l moja, nazbyt skrzydlata, Nigdy na ziemskiej nie spocz??a b?oni.

There are songs that make you cry, right?" "Sure," I say. "When you're dead, everything in the world is like a song that makes you cry.

These beThree silent things:The falling snow… the hourBefore the dawn… the mouth of oneJust dead.