Transcendence Quotes
"Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into"
"We do not want merely to see beauty...we want something else which can hardly be put into words—to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it"
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music"
"I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you"
"To see a World in a Grain of Sand and a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour"
"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite"
"Faith obliterates time, annihilates distance, and brings future things at once into its possession."
"Hope is the struggle of the soul breaking loose from what is perishable and attesting her eternity"
"In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice"
"The soul of sweet delight can never be defiled"
"Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs"
"The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union"
"Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof"
"It will always be there—the need to connect, the need to understand, the need to deal with unbearable pain through a form of transcendence."
"Love is at once an affirmation and a transcendence of who you are."