Quotes About Transcendence

I've thought a lot about those veils. I wonder if, every once in a while, someone is born without one.

The life of God is above the past, the present, and the future; it is measured by the single instant of immobile eternity.

She writes: "I see nothing and I see all; certitude is obtained in the darkness;"1166 that is, I see nothing determinate, but I see all the divine perfections united, fused in an ineffable manner in the eminence of the Deity.

PRAYER IS THE INTANGIBLE THAT BRINGS THE TANGIBLE INTO BEING, THE INTANGIBLE THAT SUSTAINS THE TANGIBLE, THE INTANGIBLE THAT REALIGNS THE TANGIBLE, THE INTANGIBLE THAT IS MORE REAL THAN THE TANGIBLE.

Describe plum-blossoms? Better than my verses...white Wordless Butterflies

Più in alto salivo, più in alto andavo, più mi era chiaro che il mondo sarebbe andato avanti a esistere anche senza di me, e che tutti gli dei sarebbero scomparsi con l'umanità. Perché sono proprio gli uomini che creano gli dei.

What we think of man and God, of sin and salvation, is partly prompted by the comparative comforts or discomforts in which we live. It is a very sobering reflection on the lack of transcendence of the human spirit over the flux of historical change.

Il craint de s'évanouir, de ne pas reprendre connaissance, de rester à jamais errant dans l'air bleu, fantôme dérisoire en suspens au-dessus des siècles, jusqu'à ce que l'appareil, détraqué, laisse un jour tomber ses cendres, en bouffées légères, sur une civilisation nouvelle.

Whenever enyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

Eternity is not much longer than life.

Est-ce la porte de notre fin obscure, demandais-tu ? Non. Nous sommes dans l'inconcevable, mais avec des repères éblouissants.

It is because this sensation of truth provides me with a joy I would be unable to describe in human words that I believe it to be from some other world and that, through its miracle, I can already picture myself having passed through the gates of death.

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

Jesus transcends the Law, but in the Law's own sense and direction. He does this by appealing to the most humane aspect of the legal prescription, the aspect most foreign to the contagion of violence, which is the obligation of the two accusers to throw the first two stones. The Law deprives the accusers of a mimetic model. Once

Vengeance succeeds in spanning generations and encompassing the world. It transcends time and space. One should not be surprised that in the ancient world vengeance was taken to be sacred.

The destructive action of time only allows what is superior to time to survive.

Lorsque nous trouvons la figure de la croix dans les phénomènes astronomiques ou autres, elle a exactement la même valeur symbolique que celle que nous pouvons tracer nous-mêmes [3] ; cela prouve seulement que le véritable symbolisme, loin d'être inventé artificiellement par l'homme, se trouve dans la nature même, ou, pour mieux dire, que la nature tout entière n'est qu'un symbole des réalités transcendantes.

Les Apsarâs sont les Nymphes célestes, qui symbolisent aussi ces possibilités informelles ; elles correspondent aux Hûris du Paradis islamique (El-Jannah), qui, sauf dans les transpositions dont il est susceptible au point de vue ésotérique et qui lui confèrent des significations d'ordre plus élevé, est proprement l'équivalent du Swarga hindou.

la pensée n'étant pas soumise à la condition spatiale, sa forme n'est aucunement «localisable» ; c'est dans l'ordre subtil qu'elle se situe, non dans l'ordre corporel.

Being human is a portal into your divinity."

Pinot Noir country. My grape. The one varietal that truly enchants me, both stills and steals my heart with its elusive loveliness and false promises of transcendence. I loved her, and I would continue to follow her siren call until my wallet--or liver, whichever came first--gave out.

What separates man from divine Reality is the slightest of barriers: God is infinitely close to man, but man is infinitely far from God. The barrier is, for man, a mountain; he stands before a mountain which he must remove with his own hands. He digs away the earth, but in vain; the mountain remains. Man, however, goes on digging, in the name of God. And the mountain vanishes. It was never there.

If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill - take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edges of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic.

You will reach a point where you know with certainty that you are in the realm of divinity, or for those who prefer to use the word "God," in the presence of God. To be in the presence of God or the realm of divinity is to be beyond the mind.