Quotes about Transcendence
They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.
— Cormac McCarthy
Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.
— DH Lawrence
Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.
— Emily Bronte
Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God.
— Mark Buchanan
The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holy-days of a diviner presence.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Think me not unkind and rude That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood To fetch his word to men.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.
— Johannes Tauler
Ecstasy carries you completely outside your ego boundaries. In ecstasy you know yourself as cosmic ego, unbounded in time and space.
— Deepak Chopra
The highest prayers lift you out of the lowest places.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
There is the music of Heaven in all things.
— Hildegard of Bingen