Quotes about Transcendence
There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy.
— Victor Hugo
Point of departure: matter; point of arrival: the soul.
— Victor Hugo
Death belongs only to God. What right have men to lay hands on a thing so unknown?
— Victor Hugo
To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.
— Victor Hugo
There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.
— Milan Kundera
Love is the infinite which is given to the finite.
— Paul Tillich
The Love that moves the sun and the other stars.
— Dante Alighieri
The raft is used to cross the river. It isn't to be carried around on your shoulders. The finger which points at the moon isn't the moon itself.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
TRUE LOVE MAKES US HAPPY. If love doesn't make us happy, it's not love; it's something else. Love is a wonderful thing. It gives us the ability to offer joy and happiness, relieve suffering, and transcend all kinds of separation and barriers.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Now I see that if one doesn't know how to die, one can hardly know how to live - because death is a part of life.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
We do not have to die to get to the gates of Heaven.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
With nonattachment, we see both being and nonbeing as creations of our mind, and we ride the wave of birth and death. We don't mind birth. We don't mind death. [...] Reality transcends both birth and death.
— Thich Nhat Hanh