Quotes About Transcendence

Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy.

You live on Earth only for a few short years which you call an incarnation, and then you leave your body as an outworn dress and go for refreshment to your true home in the spirit.

Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.

If the 'I am the doer' idea goes, then only I Am remains and that 'I Am' has no religion.

I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.

While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

But what do you believe? I don't just mean religion. What are you sure of?" "That once I was not and that now I am. That one day I shall no longer be.

Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.

The inner emptiness is the door to God.

Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.

When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations.

What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?

Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.

In religion, you're supposed to be somehow in touch with something deep and full of mysteries.

God is not an Almighty Being watching over life on earth. God is the Event Horizon of Human Consciousness.

They forget that for a Creator to create, He must be greater than His creation, thus He must be by definition not less than emotional.

If you are religious, pray. If you are philosophical, contemplate. If you are spiritual, meditate.

Only through Absolution will you reach the Absolute.

A god who becomes a man shows mercy.A man who becomes a god does not.

When your identity switch from the personal identity to the eternal self, no fear of death or karmic bondage arise in you.

We stand in awe before that which cannot be seen. We respect with every fiber of our being that which cannot be explained.

Whatever we have in the glory of man is "away". Those are just not enough before we go "home" to the glory of God.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.