Quotes about Transcendence

William James wrote in The Varieties of Religious Experience that religion "consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto.

Although in this life one may find solace in the crowd from God's radical demands, "In eternity you will look in vain for the crowd. You will listen in vain to find where the noise and the gathering is, so that you can run to it." In actual fact, "For the Infinite One, there is no place, the individual is himself the place.

Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.' ...'Now we both have people we love who are like birds. They have flown far from anything in this world that can hurt them. They're flying away still.

Swedenborg, the Christian mystic, and the sentiment of charity as divine spoke deeply to him. He felt swept up in something far bigger than himself.

This life soon be over … Heaven last always

I was driven on by.. A force which I see today as something alien to my normal life... so I have been no more than a medium as it were.

The spiritual life is always about letting go. It is never about holding on.

This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.

All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

When I come to be united to thee with all my being, then there will be no more pain and toil for me, and my life shall be a real life, being wholly filled by thee.

There is no one who can return from there,To describe their nature, to describe their dissolution,That he may still our desires,Until we reach the place where they have gone.

The things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.