Quotes About Transcendence

Looking up at scattered, blinking stars can feel like floating above them and looking down. The universe will seem to hang beneath you in its milky glittering mystery.

brave thinking about truth is the secret to happiness: concerted and regular contemplation will transform us and let us taste what there is to taste of transcendence.

Music did that to me, just like God was supposed to, because music seemed both magic and holy.

This is my secret - that at any moment I might fly away.

We grope after the Spiritual by describing it as invisible. The true meaning of Spiritual is Real.

I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part of God.

The vision that had emerged from the invisible was returning to the invisible. It was no more an appearance that was fading away, having created an illusion. All is but a dream. And, at the peak of happiness, Angélique had vanished, in the faint breath of a kiss.

No, the only good in life lay in not being - or, if one had to be, then in being a tree, a stone, or even less than that, the grain of sand that cannot bleed beneath the grinding heel of a passer-by.

Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?

Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.

I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you.

I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you.  What were the use of my creation, if I were entirely contained here?

Não sei como explicar; mas você e todo mundo sabe que há, ou ao menos deve haver, uma existência nossa além da nossa própria. Para que serviria a minha criação se eu estivesse toda contida em mim?

Me parece apreciar en la muerte un reposo que ni el infierno ni la tierra son capaces de quebrantar, y me invade la sensación de un futuro eterno y sin sombras. Sí; la Eternidad.

Qual seria o sentido da minha existência, se eu ficasse restrita ao que existe aqui?

I cannot express it; but surely you and every body have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you. What were the use of my creation if I were entirely contained here?

Ne mogu to izraziti, ali ti, kao svaki ?ovjek, zasigurno slutiš da postoji ili da bi trebao postojati život izvan našeg života. Kakve bi koristi bilo od mojeg postojanja kad bi bila u potpunosti dio ovog života?

everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you.

I am going to her; and you, darling child, shall come to us;' and never stirred or spoke again; but continued that rapt, radiant gaze, till his pulse imperceptibly stopped, and his soul departed. None could have noticed the exact minute of his death, it was so entirely without struggle.

ona je tako beskrajno iznad njih - iznad svakoga na svijetu, nije li tako, Nelly?

To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—

Earth is crammed with Heaven.

Beauty crowds me till I die, Beauty, mercy have on me! But if I expire today, Let it be in sight of thee

Since then 'tis centuries, and yet each Feels shorter than the day I first surmised the horses' heads Were toward eternity.