Quotes About Transcendence

All great spirituality is somehow about letting go.

Life is a luminous pause between two great mysteries, which themselves are one.

This realization that Someone is living in us and through us is exactly how we plug into a much larger mind and heart beyond our own.

We are not just humans having a God experience. The Eucharist tells us that, in some mysterious way, we are God having a human experience!

Tell me we're dead and I'll love you even more.

La mente umana segue il sentiero archetipico numinoso che parte dal suo interno.

Dewdrop joins dewdrop Till a petal holds a pool Reflecting its rose.

Making music was its own sort of divinity.

As C. S. Lewis observed, "All that is not eternal is eternally useless." The Bible says, "We fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."12

when he possessed her, they seemed to swoon together at the very borderland of life's mystery.

As she swam she seemed to be reaching out for the unlimited in which to lose herself.

Her words sounded the way all those things made him feel, as if the world, the real world, had been punched through, so that he could see something wonderful and dazzling on the other side of it.

If we keep on fucking, I'm not gonna die.

IF THERE IS A GOD, GOD IS DISJUNCTION AND MADNESS.

What she really wanted [...] was [...] to experience every emotion to the limit so she could go beyond every limit.

Even if I do attain some goal, at that very moment the only thing that's important to me is to go beyond that which is no longer a goal but now only a stage.

posthumous Piano Sonata in B-flat, D. 960. Its haunting

Stardust is the hardest thing to hold out for. You must make of yourself a perfect plane- something still upon which something settles- something like sugar grains on something like metal, but with none of the chill. It's hard to explain. Stardust

No Names There are high places that don't invite us, sharp shapes, glacier- scraped faces, whole ranges whose given names slip off. Any such relation as we try to make refuses to take. Some high lakes are not for us, some slick escarpments. I'm giddy with thinking where thinking can't stick.

If you want to become that close to 'God', die instead.

She put her feet down gently. The whole world was made of glass, and the glass was full of champagne, and Bunnatine was a bubble, just flicking up and up and up.

Immortals must always give humans one thing! Either fear and terror! Or beauty!!

Human beings have the capacity to rise above mundane circumstances and touch the eternal.

Los seres humanos tenemos la capacidad de sobreponernos a las circunstancias cotidianas y acercarnos a lo eterno.