Quotes About Transcendence

The physical world in which we live, the objectively observed universe around us, is only a part of an inconceivably vast system of worlds. Most of these worlds are spiritual in their essence; they are of a different order from our known world.

The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the context of profane existence, and in which special laws apply. Just as in the ceremony the magician first of all marked out the limits of the area where the sacred powers were to come into play, so every work of art describes its own circumference which closes it off from actuality.

I thought when I started meditation that I was going to get real calm and peaceful and it's going to be over. It's not that way; it's so energetic. That's where all the energy and creativity is.

For me, performance is a holy ground. When I perform, I really step into a different state of consciousness.

Que me terrassant aient vécu, plus haut et clair que nous ne vivons, ceux qui furent à peine et redeviennent si peu.

The impression that the world could swallow itself (…) and in a reverse movement could vomit it to a distant innermost, that would answer to the name 'nowhere'.

Où sont cachés les stigmates du pire quand la vie courante nous contraint chaque jour à renaître à la banalité écoeurante et splendide ?

Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen.

By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.

Life is the flight of the alone to the alone.

The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.

Il faut assigner le premier rang à la Beauté, qui est identique avec le Bien et dont dérive l'Intelligence qui est belle par elle-même.

I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.

I am not in the body of life. I hover on the extremities. I float.

I think that it is death alone that makes things poignant.

S]urely the mysterious inner world of the psyche as such still offers an important forum where religions can meet, leaving their dogmas at the door, and pursue together the elusive quest for a common humanity that transcends religious differences.

My God—very literally, my God—we can't go on … having regular bowel movements … while creation happens!

We chatter thus, while miracles go on. Perhaps the saints can pass eternity enrapt in solemn bliss; but we are mortal.

for a moment infinitesimal and infinite, men, women, child, ship, and death were one. It

Kesalahan tindakan tidak pernah terampuni, kecuali hanya oleh Hyang Mahadewa. Untuk itu a?a Mahadewa, karena manusia tidak bersikap pengampun.

Everything is overflowing with Gods.

Look not upon nature, for her name is fatal.- Proc. in Plat. Th. 143