Quotes about Transcendence

I will talk about my dances...when I was onstage I simply forgot about the woman I was and offered everything to God. That is why I was able to undress so easily. At that moment, I was nothing, not even my body. I was just movements communing with the universe.

In art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water; we speak to the angels who call us; we move, unfettered, among the stars.

Revelation always supposes that man is able to receive impressions or thoughts or inclinations from another than this phenomenal world, and in a way other than that usually employed.

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

Life will continue on the other side of the veil.

Souls will never ascend to Heaven until the sight of beauty lifts them there.

Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new.

When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, 'Ah,' you are participating in divinity.

The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things.

Heaven is beautiful because it is the expression of that which is the perfection of beauty.

God is love, and music is the language of love; therefore, music is the language of God. Music is a language more profound than words. How often have you heard a great piece of music and felt that? Great music does not just make you feel good; great music suggests some profound truth or mysterious meaning that is objectively true but not translatable into words.

Only because a bird doesn't swim in the ocean but flies in the air can it enter the ocean from above; only because God is not temporal can he enter into time.