Quotes About Transcendence

To attain Buddhahood ... we must scatter this life's aims and objects to the wind.

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I want to be a compassionate soul, finding worth and beauty in the worlds around me and within me, attempting to sing a transcendent tune with my temporal position in this life.

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.

Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.

You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves.

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

Believing people can soar beyond ordinary life.

The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love.

Christian life is not realized in developing the personality or in shaping human community and somehow changing the world but in turning away from the world and becoming free of it.

In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.

Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.

Death does determine life.

Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.

There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time.

The life, when we're aware of beauty, is kind of a bittersweet thing, it's a transient reminder of eternal beauty, which someday we will be face to face with.

Eternity is the Absolute present.

You can change your life with a simple shift of attention. But to make that simple shift, you have to find your heart. It's the only way. Accept yourself, then transcend yourself.

I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life.

Art is the beginning of vision into the realm of eternal life.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.