Quotes about Transcendence

If it weren't for death, life would be unbearable.

He ceases to argue about God who has found God within. Relying upon that calm strength which is not the strength of self, he lives God, manifesting in his daily life the Highest Goodness, which is Eternal Life.

The animal in man can never respond to and know the divine; only the divine can respond to the divine.

On the wings of aspiration man rises from earth to heaven, from ignorance to knowledge, from the under darkness to the upper light. Without it he remains a grovelling animal, earthly, sensual, unenlightened, and uninspired. Aspiration is the longing for heavenly things.

The absence of Jesus is the mode of his presence.

One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.

However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.

The more man becomes irradiated with Divinity, the more, not the less, truly he is man.

Man was never meant to be a god, but he is forever trying to deify himself.

By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.

The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.

Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny.