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Quotes About Transcendence

Search for the Divine Being.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
It is easy to become disillusioned with the circumstances of our lives compared to others'. But in the presence of God, He gives us a deeper peace and joy that transcends it all.
~ Francis Chan
He who can see his own mistake can become absolute supreme Self (Parmatma)!
~ Dada Bhagwa
Like God, art seemed to hover over us, perhaps benevolent, and often sublime, but constantly, maddeningly out of reach.
~ Matthew Gallaway, #Gods
Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations.
~ George Nelson
When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
~ Ramakrishna
For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
People who meditate seek good moments forever. They know that there are other worlds beyond this world. They feel it. I experience those worlds when I meditate.
~ Frederick Lenz
Great art picks up where nature ends.
~ Marc Chagall
Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.
~ J. Frank Dobie
What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.
~ Sun Ra
Death is a great tragedy…a profound loss…I don't accept it…I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death.
~ Ray Kurzweil
Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakeable remains.
~ C. S. Lewis
There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it, by so much the more we draw nearer to the Great Author of Nature.
~ Eliza Haywood
Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.
~ Martin Filler
The great thing about the dead, they make space.
~ John Updike
I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo.
~ Peter Heller, The Dog Stars
Once the bliss of the Soul (Self) is attained, it never leaves you. Bliss of the Soul (Self) is eternal.
~ Dada Bhagwan
Fly me high through the starry skies or maybe to an astral plane, cross the highways of fantasy, help me to forget today's pain.
~ Gary Wright
And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery.
~ Diane Arbus
Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?
~ Emily Dickinson
Come into my eyes, and look at me through them, for I have chosen a home far beyond what eyes can see.
~ Rumi
I shall seeThe hour of death draw near to me,Hope, blossoming within my heart. . . .
~ William C. Bryant
There is nothing beyond God, and the sense enjoyments are simply something through which we are passing now in the hope of getting better things.
~ Swami Vivekananda