Quotes About Transcendence

The line between life and death is not thicker than an eyelid.

A tökéletesség nem a mi világunkhoz tartozik. Más, mint a mi világunk, vagy máshonnan ered.

Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.

Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.

What is man? Dust turned to hope.

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

Heaven is not here, it's There. If we were given all we wanted here our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long for.

It is natural indeed. However it's not the only thing God has in mind for us. We are not meant to live merely by what is natural. We need to learn to live by the supernatural. Ordinary fare will not fill the emptiness in our hearts...

And yet I know that in her death, she has found the freedom she could not find in life. She is no longer confined to a room, a bed, and a body that no longer works.

Mystery is not merely a way of saying that reason has not yet completed its victory. It is the goal where reason arrives when it attains its perfection by becoming love.

God is not a being among other beings, but the infinite Whither that makes possible the very functioning of our human spirit.

You're something between a dream and a miracle.

Earth's crammed with heaven... But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.

God's gifts put men's best dreams to shame.

God is an experience of supreme love.

I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water.

Traditionally, I have responded to the transcendent mystics of all religions. I have always responded with breathless excitement to anyone who has ever said that God does not live in a dogmatic scripture or in a distant throne in the sky, but instead abides very close to us indeed- much closer than we can imagine, breathing right through our own hearts.

I couldn't care less about evidence and proof and assurances. I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water.

God does not live in a dogmatic scripture or in a distant throne in the sky, but instead abides very close to us indeed—much closer than we can imagine, breathing right through our own hearts.

the rules of transcendence insist that you will not advance even one inch closer to divinity as long as you cling to even one last seductive thread of blame.

The Bat Phone to the Universe, some kind of Iva-only, open-round-the-clock special channel to the divine.

He became a poet the way other men become monks: as a devotional practice, as an act of love, and as a lifelong commitment to the search for grace and transcendence.

I'm tired of being a skeptic, I'm irritated by spiritual prudence and I feel bored and parched by empirical debate. I don't want to hear it anymore. I couldn't care less about evidence and proof and assurances. I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water.

she would like to spend as much time as possible in such a state of transcendence while she is still here on earth. That's all. That's what I call creative living.