Transcendence Quotes

To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for those of sound insight'. All others were irrational, merely symptoms of imaginations left idle, of memories out of work. And above these mundane responses, the only elevation allowable, the only valid transcendence, was a sardonic one: a bliss that annihilated the universe with jeers of dark joy, a mindful ecstasy. Anything else in the way of 'mysticism' was a sign of deviation or distraction, and a heresy to the obvious. (“The Medusa”)

~ Thomas Ligotti

I experience transcendence when something infinite reminds me I am finite.

~ James Macdonald

Once you transcend the external differences, anything can be merged with anything.

~ Liezi

I chose to live in the Ether, to be starlight and legend....

~ Laurie Perez

Once you transcend the illusions you will discover that — you — are the most thrilling experience you will ever have.

~ Bryant Mcgill

My head was dizzy, but what of that? Float, stupid wooden head, and care nothing for tomorrow.

~ Irfan Orga

Intellectual transcendence is achieved with the leap out of where you know too much, to where you have a lot to learn; then, facing the odds and turning the latter into the starting point of a new leap to where discipline outweighs all.

~ Majd Bassel Ostah Alhusseini

And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances he establishes toward all being in his transcendence does a true nearness to things flourish in him.

~ Martin Heidegger

Many of us ordinary folk have tasted these moments of union - on the ladder, in the pond, in the jungle, on the hospital bed. In the yogic view, it is in these moments that we know who we really are. We rest in our true nature and know beyond a doubt that everything is OK, and not just OK, but unutterably well. We know that there is nothing to accept and nothing to reject. Life just is as it is.

~ Stephen Cope

The non-dual state shows the true oneness of all creatures in this universe.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Fear of death is fear of surrender to Infinity. Learn to surrender, to exist at Infinity while alive, and fear of death dissolves. Fear of death is fear of the Unknown. Realize the Wonder, the Eternal Unknowability of the Totality of Existence, and fear of death is transcended. If happiness or freedom depends on the Answer to the Question, then there can be no happiness or freedom. The Question cannot be satisfactorily or finally Answered. For one who abides at Infinity, happy and free, at ease with his Ultimate Ignorance, the Question and the Answer are equally unnecessary. What began will come to an end. What is Wonderful is not threatened. The Process of the Totality of Existence is Transcendental and Eternal. Only a fraction of the Whole can pass away in any moment, since only a fraction of the Whole appears in any moment. Therefore, the Heart Itself is always already Full of Wonder and Love. I is the body-mind, the fraction of the Whole that is now appearing and will soon disappear. I must be surrendered to the Heart, to the Whole, which is Infinity, Wonder, and Love.

~ Adi Da Samraj

... the rules of transcendence insist that you will not advance even one inch closer to divinity as long as you cling to even one last seductive thread of blame.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert