Quotes About Transcendence

Sometimes I wish I could describe how wonderful I feel in those few seconds from the time he spreads his arms above his head, as if trying to grab hold of something, to the instant he vanishes into the water. But I can never find the right words. Perhaps it's because he's falling through time, to a place where words can never reach.

Life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves, when we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves.

I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is a source of comfort. It kind of, in a sense, negates the sense of total oblivion. Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.

Where I am, death is not; where death is, I am not.

Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms. The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One's own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one's sphere of control. There is some evidence, for example, that those who enter the death-related professions (soldiers, doctors, priests, and morticians) may in part be motivated by a need to obtain control over death anxiety.

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.

Creo en la poesía, en el amor y en la muerte, por eso precisamente creo en la inmortalidad.

Dio che ci fugge dalle avide mani

On God's calendar, there are no ordinary days.

Serena smiled. "The historical Buddha who lived two and a half thousand years ago, Shakyamuni Buddha, he was a man. But enlightenment is a state beyond being male or female

For a moment, all that remained lit was a solitary gold lotus flower—the Buddhist symbol of transcendence, renunciation, and hope—on the front of the temple. It floated on the unseen surface of an ocean of shadow.

He was the first military remote viewer—the first man to transcend time and space for the purpose of viewing selected targets and collecting intelligence information. I learned early to rely on his counsel. What he said was always true: no lies, no exaggerations, no betrayal, and no ego.

The path to a higher power than ego is saying yes to the predicament

She closed her eyes and lifter her face to the

Ralph Waldo Emerson noted that genius lies in "being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.

The old Pilgrim barks, borne as by a miracle over the angry ocean

being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.

For some moments in life, there are no words.

We don't want half-truths, misinformation and a cute, dumbed down description of reality using cringy words. We want words we have never heard before. Give us cerebral explosions. Give us words that trigger nuclear reactions in the darkest places of our unconscious. We want the laser light of knowledge that removes all confusion, illusion and delusion. We welcome and embrace the pain of transcending our conditioned minds.

At a certain pitch of religious experience, the heart just wants to sing; it breaks into song. Paradoxically, you could say when the silence finds its fullness, it comes to word.

To go beyond our normal identities and become closer than close is to lose our sense of self in temporary joy: a form of arrival that only opens us to deeper forms of intimacy that blur our fixed, controlling, surface identity.

So long as your eyes remain set upon the things of this world, your acts will lead to earthbound results.

We struggle. Always. We are doing the best that we can. And we dream of transcendence. For me, there was a time when the dream was incarnate. And the dream's name was Muhammad Ali. This is the story of my time spent with that dream.

By choosing these practices, we use our minds deliberately in order to induce transcendent states. Such states become not an inadvertent happy accident, but a lifestyle upgrade that we have deliberately installed.