{"quotes":[{"text":"The closest analogy, the one her brain reached for and rejected and reached for again, was splashing into a lake. It was cold, but not cold. There was a smell, rich and loamy. The smell of growth and decay. She was aware of her body, the skin, the sinew, the curl of her gut. She was aware of the nerves that were firing in her brain as she became aware of the nerves firing in her brain. She unmade herself and watched herself being unmade. All the bacteria on her skin and in her blood, the virii in her tissues. The woman who had been Elvi Okoye became a landscape. A world. She fell farther in.","author":"James S.A. Corey","tags":["alien-technology","analogy","awareness","transcendence"],"id":2507,"author_id":"James+S.A.+Corey"},{"text":"...The Master and the boy followed each other as if drawn along the wires of some mechanism, until soon it could no longer be discerned which was coming and which going, which following and which leading, the old or the young man. Now it seemed to be the young man who showed honour and obedience to the old man, to authority and dignity; now again it was apparently the old man who was required to follow, serve, worship the figure of youth, of beginning, of mirth. And as he watched this at once senseless and significant dream circle, the dreamer felt alternately identical with the old man and the boy, now revering and now revered, now leading, now obeying; and in the course of these pendulum shifts there came a moment in which he was both, was simultaneously Master and small pupil; or rather he stood above both, was the instigator, conceiver, operator, and onlooker of the cycle, this futile spinning race between age and youth.","author":"Hermann Hesse","tags":["age","cyclicality","stages-of-life","the-transcendental-subject","transcendence","youth"],"id":3702,"author_id":"Hermann+Hesse"},{"text":"The human self and the God self are both creations of molecules in the human brain.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["advaita","brainy","consciousness-mind-brain","consciousness","god","god","human-brain","human-mind","meditation","mind","mind","mindfulness","nirvana","nondual-philosophy","nonduality","oneness","oneness-with-god","philosophy","religion","sage","science-of-mind","self","transcendence","transcendence","transcendentalism-god","words-of-wisdom"],"id":7634,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"The human self and the God self are both creations of molecules in the human brain.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["advaita","brainy","consciousness-mind-brain","consciousness","god","god","human-brain","human-mind","meditation","mind","mind","mindfulness","nirvana","nondual-philosophy","nonduality","oneness","oneness-with-god","philosophy","religion","sage","science-of-mind","self","transcendence","transcendence","transcendentalism-god","words-of-wisdom"],"id":7634,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"When the fuel is dried up in a vehicle, it stops driving automatically. You are a vehicle in the spiritual and the physical world, so you need some oil for alacrity, in order to get to your destination. The greater the quantity of your oil, the more you cover the distance, and the more you cover the distance, the closer you get to your success.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["ability","achievement","alacrity","car","competition","conquer","conquering","destination","destiny","distance","energy","fast","fastness","flying-high","game","gravitation","greater-heights","greatness","making-money","maximization","michael-bassey-johnson","mystic","mysticism","oil","power","soaring","spiritual-journey","spirituality","strength","success","talent","toil","transcendence","vehicle","win","winning","work-hard"],"id":15670,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Christ was an ordinary man who upon the attainment of absolute divinity or Nirvana or Samadhi became a better version of himself. Such an experience of divine ecstasy neurologically transformed him into a great teacher for humanity filled with love, kindness and divinity.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["advaita","brainy","buddha","christ","inspirational","inspiring","jesus","jesus-christ","jesus","meditation","meditations","mindfulness","neuropsychology","neurotheology","nirvana","nirvana","nonduality","philosophy","samadhi","theology","transcendence","truth","wise-sayings","words-of-wisdom","words-of-wisdom-inspirational"],"id":15764,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"A fish cannot drown in water,A bird does not fall in air.In the fire of creation,God doesn't vanish:The fire brightens.Each creature God mademust live in its own true nature;How could I resist my nature,That lives for oneness with God?","author":"Mechthild of Magdeburg","tags":["atman","god","inner-nature","transcendence","wind"],"id":16490,"author_id":"Mechthild+of+Magdeburg"},{"text":"Truth could never be wholly contained in words.","author":"Catherine Marshall","tags":["emotion","transcendence","worship"],"id":16702,"author_id":"Catherine+Marshall"},{"text":"Worship, then, needs to be characterized by hospitality; it needs to be inviting. But at the same time, it should be inviting seekers into the church and its unique story and language. Worship should be an occasion of cross-cultural hospitality. Consider an analogy: when I travel to France, I hope to be made to feel welcome. However, I don't expect my French hosts to become Americans in order to make me feel at home. I don't expect them to start speaking English, ordering pizza, talking about the New York Yankees, and so on. Indeed, if I wanted that, I would have just stayed home! Instead, what I'm hoping for is to be welcomed into their unique French culture; that's why I've come to France in the first place. And I know that this will take some work on my part. I'm expecting things to be different; indeed, I'm looking for just this difference. So also, I think, with hospitable worship: seekers are looking for something our culture can't provide. Many don't want a religious version of what they can already get at the mall. And this is especially true of postmodern or Gen X seekers: they are looking for elements of transcendence and challenge that MTV could never give them. Rather than an MTVized version of the gospel, they are searching for the mysterious practices of the ancient gospel.","author":"James K.A. Smith","tags":["christianity","church","gospel","liturgy","mtv","postmodernism","seeker-sensitive","tradition","transcendence","worship"],"id":17076,"author_id":"James+K.A.+Smith"},{"text":"Die every night so in the morning you are reborn.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["anew","appreciate","death","die","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","life","live","living","metamorphosis","mindset","morning","night","philosophy","rebirth","reborn","transcend","transcendence"],"id":18200,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":244,"pages":25,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}