Quotes About Transcendence

Oft in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life.

Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

One cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs to something greater and more permanent than oneself.

Death is the greatest illusion of all.

When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.

…Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that divides our infinite origin from our infinite end.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

This life is but the childhood of our immortality.

We shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life.

This life is only a prelude to eternity.

Eternal life is personal existence in continuity with the present life, but transfigured.

Sadness comes, joy comes, and everything passes by. What remains always is the witness. The witness is beyond all polarities.

"I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher." That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.

It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.

Death is more important than life. Life is just the trivial, just the superficial; death is deeper. Through death you grow to the real life, and through life you only reach death and nothing else.

The holiness of the real Is always there, accessible In total immanence. The nodes Of transcendence coagulate In you, the experiencer, And in the other, the lover.

God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

There are more experiences in life than you'd think for which there are no words.

We must, therefore, be here as strangers and pilgrims, that we may plainly declare that we seek a city above.

True life is elsewhere

The ultimate gift of conscious life is a sense of the mystery that encompasses it.

But I bring it up to let you know that this is the way I feel right now. Like Jupiter are aligned with the earth and i'm floating.

Maybe this time I'll do it—let the air carry me away. It will be like floating in a pool, drifting off until there's nothing.