Transcendence Quotes

Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the exte...

The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis; and the good life is the world seen sub ...

You believed you could transcend the body as you aged, she tells herself. You believed you could ris...

And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creatur...

To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, esc...

People will find transformation and transcendence in a McDonald's hash brown if it's all they've got...

Viewed in this light, life itself appears as a dynamics of integration that is equipped with auto-th...

...only very few - only humans, as far as we know - achieve the second level of transcendent movemen...

I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction...

When I turn my mind's eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and depend...

When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.

What', said he, ' makes the difference between man and all the rest of the animal creation? Every be...

I can discover within me no power of perception which is not glutted with its proper pleasure, yet I...

Art, literature, and philosophy are attempts to found the world anew on a human freedom: that of the...

For example, when Christians discuss sex, it often sounds as if we are somehow "against sex". What w...

To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses ...

Very well. He'd lighten up. As a matter of fact, he felt as light as the bubbly froth that flew from...

There are landscapes in which we feel above us not sky but space. Something larger, deeper than sky ...

The nature of consciousness is to point beyond itself. It is a tending toward or pointing to... Sinc...

Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this wor...

What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?

Christianity grasped perfectly that there is an element in the apparent contingency of love that can...

One cannot transcend the body or mind just by repeating the mantra "I am not the body and I am not t...

and half of learning to play is learning what not to playand she's learning the spaces she leaves ha...

This human need for mysticism – surrender to an unknown truth, union – stands at the helm of all rom...

Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people r...

Record sales don't matter when the people who bought the records are dead and gone.

Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with...

He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. Bu...

To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independe...

The dizziness in the face of les espaces infinis--only overcome if we dare to gaze into them without...

For surely as each November has its April, mysteries only are significant; and one mystery-of-myster...

To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and t...

... the rules of transcendence insist that you will not advance even one inch closer to divinity as ...

Terror and rapture to Emily Dickinson are alternative words for "transport".

The question is not what you look at, but what you see. It is only necessary to behold the least fac...

You shall see rude and sturdy, experienced and wise men, keeping their castles, or teaming up their ...

...the Master and the boy followed each other as if drawn along the wires of some mechanism, until s...

Might we begin then to transform our passing illuminations into abiding light?

sick of it whatever it's called sick of the namesI dedicate every pore to what's here

In a society where rationality has ruled so long, the church frequently fails to see that in forsaki...

I experience transcendence when something infinite reminds me I am finite.

The entity God created to traffic His transcendence has fallen far from its mission when it chooses ...

The only benefit of a Campbell's soup can by Andy Warhol (and it is an immense benefit) is that it r...

Door of passage to the other side, the soul frees itself in stride.

How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn...

The mass-man would never have accepted authority external to himself had not his surroundings violen...

As I see it the world is undoubtedly in need of a new religion, and that religion must be founded on...

When they have contemplated the world, human beings have always experienced a transcendence and myst...

When they have contemplated the world, human beings have always experienced a transcendence and myst...