Quotes About Transcendence

The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.

If we start with such ideas as God's omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence, we will never arrive at a true knowledge of God. However, if we participate by faith in Jesus Christ as the one who "is there for others," we are liberated from self and experience the transcendence that is truly the God of the Bible.

God is never in the world in any way except in his absolute transcendence of it.

La futilité des préoccupations mondaines leur apparaissait dans toute son évidence.

Qual ponte, muti chiedemmo, qual ponte abbiamo noi gettato sull'infinito, che tutto ci appare ombra di eternità ?

Time is the image of eternity.

We take spiritual initiation when we become conscious of the Divine within us, and thereby contact the Divine without us.

The old bookseller had learnt at the seminary that when it comes to conceiving transcendent things, minds vary enormously in their capacity, and the trained mind is a very different matter to the untrained; and the mind that is conditioned by music and incense and dim lights has very different capacities to the mind that goes at the job in cold blood.

she was in this life, but not of it.

I want to save lives, including my own, but Cambodians believe we just rent this body. It is just a house for the spirit, and if the house is full of termites, it is time to leave.

Das Leben ist ewig; darin liegt seine Schönheit.

Only the impossible lasts forever, with time, it is made accessible. Robin's love and mine was always impossible, and loving each other, we no longer love. Yet we love each other like death.

Only the impossible lasts forever; with time, it is made accessible.

Don't hate or fear to death because death is the only one who set us free from life's slavery...

If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it.

Quanti anni era trascorsi dalla sua prima messa su quella stessa tavola posata su due casse? Cinque sei, sette? Come tenere il conto del tempo in un universo senza passato né futuro? In un mondo in cui la vita di tanti uomini è racchiusa nell'attimo di sopravvivenza presente.

Music is a holy place, a cathedral so majestic that we can sense the magnificence of the universe.

If we played three CDs of praise at the same time, we'd have a cacophony of noise that would drive us crazy. This was totally different. Every sound blended, and each voice or instrument enhanced the others. As strange as it may seem, I could clearly distinguish each song. It sounded as if each hymn of praise was meant for me to hear as I moved inside the gates.

the longest way round is the shortest way home." Our truest fulfillment does not lie in the direction of a jealously guarded self but in the direction of self-transcendence as we learn to open to others and to reality.

I think that the effort is to reach a realm of meaning that is not quite sayable. You stay away from what can be said and you try to reach what cant quite be said. Yet it is nevertheless meaningful. And there is such a realm and it is very difficult to talk about. Its not quite nonverbal, but that comes fairly close.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.