#transcendence

If you stay in the center and embrace death with your whole heart, you will endure forever.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end: what can be loved in man is that he is an overture and a going under.

What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso.

If we would have pure knowledge of anything, we must be quit of the body; the soul in herself must behold things in themselves.

Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self.

No therapy can be truly complete if it treats the human being merely as a biological mechanism rather than a spiritual being capable of transcendence.

Man has the capacity to rise above his biological, psychological, and sociological conditions—and to defy them.

The deepest thing in our nature is this benevolent whisper: that reality is more than what appears to the senses.

The trailing clouds of glory are never completely dispersed from our consciousness.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

We find ourselves when we lose ourselves in love.

Let go of the past, let go of the future, let go of the present, and cross to the further shore.

I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.

Those who follow the Dao turn away from self-interest and look to the source of all things.

The Dao cannot be heard; what is heard is not the Dao. The Dao cannot be seen; what is seen is not the Dao.

The ultimate joy is to have no joy of the worldly sort; the ultimate praise is to have no praise.

When you stand upon the highest mountain summit, the deepest valleys no longer seem terrifying.

Be a lotus flower: be in the water, and do not let the water touch you.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

Knock, And He'll open the door. Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun. Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens. Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.

In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion.