Quotes About Transcendence

God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him.

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

The troubles of this world pass, and what we have left is what we have made of our souls.

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.

There are moments that have a certain flavor of eternity

When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it's all about.

You must climb above yourself-up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you.

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.

For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

"Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is."

There's a magical layer of love that's laced, designed to take us to a higher place.

Have a seat, while I take to the sky.

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself.

What I am trying to do is to unmuddle the metaphysical.

I come not to entertain you with worldly festivities but to arouse your sleeping memory of immortality.

Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves.

After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked.

We are luminous beings. Beneath our transient physical bodies we are made of intelligent light.

Philosophers are never happy here. Now is not their time, and here is not their space. They live there, they live somewhere else.

No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a movement of desire, supplication, and hope.

In this lifetime you can lose everything. Everything passes here. But you don't lose any spiritual knowledge that you have gained in this or any other lifetime. It is inside you.