Quotes About Transcendence

These are parables not about the end of the world but about the end of psychological time. They point to the transcendence of the egoic mind and the possibility of living in an entirely new state of consciousness.

It read: 'Danger. All structures are unstable.' I said to my friend, 'That's a profound sutra [sacred scripture].' And we stood there in awe. Once you realize and accept that all structures (forms) are unstable, even the seemingly solid material ones, peace arises within you. This is because the recognition of the impermanence of all forms awakens you to the dimension of the formless within yourself, that which is beyond death.

El secreto de la vida es "morir antes de morir" y descubrir que no hay muerte.

Only those who have transcended the world can bring about a better world.

Entonces usted comienza a darse cuenta de que hay un vasto reino de inteligencia más allá del pensamiento, que el pensamiento es sólo un minúsculo aspecto de esa inteligencia. También se da cuenta de que todo lo que importa verdaderamente — la belleza, el amor, la creatividad, la alegría, la paz interior — surgen de un lugar más allá de la mente. Usted comienza a despertar.

Como una mariposa que revolotea de una flor a otra, la mente se aferra a las experiencias pasadas o, proyectando su propia película, anticipa lo que va a venir. Rara vez nos encontramos descansando en la profundidad oceánica del aquí y ahora.

The ego says, 'I shouldn't have to suffer,' and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it.

Die before you die and find that there is no death.

and yet I feel that I cannot go on living forever;

Poetry is the deification of reality.

Your soul: pure glucose edged with hints Of tentative and half-soiled tints

Ah, he would take her beyond---beyond the ugliness, the pettiness, the attrition and corrosion of her soul.

Lily walked on unconscious of her surroundings. She was still treading the buoyant ether which emanates from the high moments of life.

Does anything ever happen in heaven?' - Ellen Olenska

La meditación divina es una poderosa ayuda para engendrar en nosotros un desprecio del mundo y de todas las cosas mundanas

a mortal thing so to immortalize

I might not be human. I might be nothing more than a set of algorithms, running on a spacesuit with a corpse inside it. But I'm not a monster.

As much as the heavens exceed the earth, so much larger is the field of spiritual meditation than that of all terrestrial concerns.

Are angels my attendants? Then I should walk worthy of ray companionship. Am I so soon to go and dwell with angels? Then I should be pure. Are these feet so soon to tread the courts of heaven? Is this tongue so soon to unite with heavenly beings in praising God? Are these eyes so soon to look on the throne of eternal glory, and on the ascended Redeemer? Then these feet and eyes and lips should be pure and holy; and I should be dead to the world, and live for heaven.

I believe we have inherited a world of suffering that must be transcended through the development of pointed direction, fostering an evolution to a higher level of consciousness.

Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?

Podem rezar latim sobre o meu caixão, se quiserem. Se quiserem, podem dançar e cantar à roda dele. Não tenho preferências para quando já não puder ter preferências. O que for, quando for, é que será o que é.

Gli uomini confondono ciò che ha bisogno di uno scopo per giustificare se stesso, con il lirismo che non ha bisogno di uno scopo, perché è di là da ogni scopo;..

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.