Transcendence Quotes

"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." "In you, the rivers sing and my soul flees in them." "And your very flesh shall be a great poem." "Nothing can happen more beautiful than death." "If you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels freeing you from the earth" "The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if He stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge" "Poetry is for me Eucharistic worthiness" "Another world lies beyond the world of money and power. It's on the other side of that thin membrane, and it's more real than all the stuff we see on the news." "He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary" "It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity." "The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate."