Transcend Quotes

Ignorance might be bliss. But self-forgetfulness is pure ecstasy.

~ Kamand Kojouri

We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death.

~ Russell Shorto

Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now?

~ Kamand Kojouri

You can create absolutely new reality, both in your personal and professional life and with the same people, by altering your perception towards life, and by putting necessary work into it.

~ Roshan Sharma

One sip of this wine and you will go mad with drunkenness. You will drop your masks and tear your clothes — destroying everything that separates you from the Lover. Once you taste the fruit of this vine, you will be kicked out of the city of yourself. You will forget the world. You will forget yourself. I tell you: you will become a madman who wanders the streets looking for the Lover once you drink this Wine of Love.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Having drunk the dregs of Your Love, I am intoxicated beyond recognition. Now, I only pray for the nearness of You so I may advance in my annihilation.

~ Kamand Kojouri

The lover drinksand the cup-bearer pours.The lover thinksbut the cup-bearer knows:love begets love.Since this wine is love,then this cup is love,then this tavern is love,then this life is love.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Your love brought me closer to God.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Healing—takes time,and—so does—not healing.Chose—how you spend your time —wisely.

~ Lalah Delia

Today, you have the opportunity to transcend from a disempowered mindset of existence to an empowered reality of purpose-driven living. Today is a new day that has been handed to you for shaping. You have the tools, now get out there and create a masterpiece.

~ Steve Maraboli

You become what you digest into your spirit. Whatever you think about, focus on, read about, talk about, you’re going to attract more of into your life. Make sure they're all positive.

~ Germany Kent

To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not.

~ Germany Kent

You have no choice. You must leave your ego on the doorstep before you enter love.

~ Kamand Kojouri

This is a day of celebration!Today, we are divorcing the pastand marrying the present.Dance,and you will find Godin every room.Today, we are divorcing resentmentand marrying forgiveness.Sing,and God will find you in every tune.Today, we are divorcing indifferenceand marrying love.Drink, and play that tambourine against your thighs.We have so much celebrating to do!

~ Kamand Kojouri

I long for the day when I hear the musicwithout any song.

~ Kamand Kojouri

This body is the house of God.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress because you want the water to touch you. You want to completely immerse yourself in the feeling of the water and to emerge anew.

~ Kamand Kojouri

They say that the personal transformation that gives rise to self-realization – the transcendent function that leads to the highest echelon of human attainment – takes place on the border between consciousness and unconsciousness, and that when we dream we dissolve the boundary between consciousness and unconsciousness. In other words, we dream a world into being, and we are the collective product of our lifetime of immanent dreams. If the oracles are correct, I dreamed you into being, and you represent the real point of intersection between dream and reality.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Put down your glass, it is time to dance. If you want to get drunk all you need is to drink love. Put down your pipe and do away with these childish toys. If you want to get high all you need is to breathe love. Now, can I have this dance?

~ Kamand Kojouri

Do not avert your eyes.It is important that you see this.It is important that you feelthis.

~ Kamand Kojouri

The guilt you felt when you were smiling and others were suffering, the guilt you felt when you were petty with friends and impatient with your parents, when you were rude to your teachers and didn’t stand up for strangers, that guilt is marvellous. It proves that you are human, that you want to be better. Thank this guilt for teaching you, for making you aware. And now endeavour to better yourself. It is a lifelong work to become the person we want to be.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Life is not about changing the external circumstances, to please your internal world, rather life is to change your internal circumstances so that you can accept, whatever takes place in the external world.

~ Roshan Sharma

Your love opened up a whole world that no amount of books or wisdom could ever do.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Knowing you,I became mindless.Having wasted previous wishes,I'm riddled with regretsFeeling you,I became hopeless.Adrift in chasms,I surrender to a caress.Loving you,I became love.My universe became love.Planets rotate on love's axes andapples fall to be near their beloveds.No longer a rationalist, I assert my existence with love. I love, therefore I exist,therefore I love.

~ Kamand Kojouri

I have no use for these other loves.Seal them shut in jarsand place them in the pantry. A reserve of love.Thank them for their love.They are so kind.Perhaps store them in the fridgeFor others to take.They say love is a panacea. I know it is not.Flakes of snow,no two are alike.When I am down on my knees, hopeless and angry,for the world no longer makes sense,I won't look in the pantry or fridge.It is your hand pressing on my shoulderthat makes me whole,makes me forget.What trouble? What world?

~ Kamand Kojouri

Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words have the ability to change our lives simply by being next to each other.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Before you, nothing.Now you, and everything

~ Kamand Kojouri

Until you see beauty everywhere, in every face, until then, you are blind.

~ Kamand Kojouri

How is it that there was never youuntil there wasand then all was you?

~ Kamand Kojouri

Work. Good, honest work, whether it’s working with your hands to create an artwork, or manual labour, brings forth a sense of divinity at play. The only prerequisite is that whatever the work is, it is done sincerely and in congruence with the soul’s true origin and intent, then, without any effort, one experiences a flow, wherein one feels a part of the plan of the entire universe.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Be transparent. Let's build a community that allows hard questions and honest conversations so we can stir up transformation in one another.

~ Germany Kent

You want to become a better person?Just give thanks. Give thanks for all of it.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Nature does not abandon us. Rather, it helps us in accepting our loss, grief and pain. It stays with us, even cries with us. It gifts us openings, may be more than once, to heal, transcend and re-emerge. (Page xii)

~ Neena Verma

Forgiveness is a transformative act because it asks you to be a more empathetic and compassionate person, thereby making you better than the person you were when you were first hurt.

~ Kamand Kojouri

I wish for all of us the blindness of love that makes us see no faults in the other.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Any pain that human beings can create, human beings can transcend.

~ Sarah Schulman

Enlightenment lacks any form of judgment.

~ Kamand Kojouri

The best music is that which subtly connects with your reality but mischievously transcends you into an enticing imagination.

~ Hrishikesh Agnihotri

Classical music is the best, and cheapest, mind-altering drug in the world.

~ Kamand Kojouri