Quotes about Transcendence

Transcendence constitutes selfhood. Votes: 6

To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence. Votes: 5

A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself. Votes: 4

My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence. Votes: 4

The holiness of the real Is always there, accessible In total immanence. The nodes Of transcendence coagulate In you, the experiencer, And in the other, the lover. Votes: 4

This watchfulness, this witnessing is the ultimate secret of creating a religious life, of creating a life of transcendence, a life of spirituality, of enlightenment, of buddhahood. Votes: 4

There's nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth. Votes: 4

I really do think that art can save you in some sense. It's the last meaning, unless you're religious-and I'm not religious. It's the only secular vehicle for transcendence we have. It's an immediate self-validating experience. It lifts you beyond your mortal clay. Votes: 4

Only the human heart can live in present moment awareness. The human mind cannot, because its essential nature is to ponder the past and plan the future. This is why all wise beings encourage us to go beyond the mind into the timeless, boundless transcendence of heart-centered awareness. Votes: 4

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward. Votes: 4

Math . . . music .. . starry nights . . . These are secular ways of achieving transcendence, of feeling lifted into a grand perspective. It's a sense of being awed by existence that almost obliterates the self. Religious people think of it as an essentially religious experience but it's not. It's an essentially human experience. Votes: 4

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience. Votes: 4

You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come alive. But you cannot will this to happen. It is a matter of persistence and faith and hard work. So you might as well just go ahead and get started. Votes: 4

Classically, there are three ways in which humans try to find transcendence--religious meaning--apart from God as revealed through the cross of Jesus: through the ecstasy of alcohol and drugs, through the ecstasy of recreational sex, through the ecstasy of crowds. Church leaders frequently warn against the drugs and the sex, but at least, in America, almost never against the crowds. Votes: 4

The revelation of His glory includes seeing One so high (transcendence) who went so low (condescension) to bring us so near (redemption) because we are so dear (Bride). The Most High God went so low because of such great desire to partner with us... We are awestruck by His power, overwhelmed by His humility, and made confident by His love. Votes: 4

Praying and living deeply, richly and fully have become for me almost indistinguishab le. Prayer is being present, sharing love, opening life to transcendence. It is not necessarily words addressed heavenward. Prayer is entering into the pain or joy of another person. Prayer is what I am doing when I love wastefully, passionately and wondrously and invite others to do so. Votes: 4

So the Buddha is presenting awakening not as a single mystical experience that may come upon us at some meditation, some private moment of transcendence, but rather as a new engagement with life. He is offering us a relationship to the world that is more sensitized to suffering and the causes of suffering, and he gives rise to the possibility of another kind of culture, another kind of civilization. Votes: 4

Transcendence is transformation. Votes: 3

Transcendence: that which transcends experience. Votes: 3

Transcendence and dissolution, always the same thing. Votes: 3

Transcendence and dissolution, always the same thing. Votes: 3

Transcendence is something between a metaphor and a miracle. Votes: 3

Transcendence means going beyond duality. Attachment means remaining within duality. Votes: 3

Transcendence is the only real alternative to extinction. This is serious. This may be the ultimate final exam. Votes: 3

Transcendence of sex is a totally different phenomenon from the suppression of it. But suppression can give you the feeling that you have transcended. Votes: 3

I want to be a man of mountaintops: to scale the heights, achieve a sublime transcendence, and breathe in the thin air. Transcendence requires suffocation. Votes: 3

Transcending the world does not mean to withdraw from the world, to no longer take action, or to stop interacting with people. Transcendence of the world is to act and to interact without any self-seeking. Votes: 3

Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs. Votes: 3

Transcendence is more about the personal act of not engaging the enemy, finding a way out of the cage that is being designed for you at a particular moment by others, circumstance, or your own bad habits and ignorance. Votes: 3

Transcendence gets you beyond ego. If you go beyond ego, you see all of this in a more decent perspective and you can start to put all the pieces together. We haven't done that yet. Not as a civilization. Votes: 3

Transcendence implies the surpassing of two things, and the consequent attainment of a third thing. But there are no 'things' in reality, of any kind whatever: there is only the thing-in-itself, its suchness, which is Reality, revealed when the illusory dualism of inexistent qualities is dissolved. Votes: 3

The sun loves to be eclipsed. Votes: 1

Truth could never be wholly contained in words. Votes: 1

We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis. Votes: 1

Everybody dies, but great souls ressurects in our memories. Votes: 1

Travel doesn't become adventure until you leave yourself behind. Votes: 1

Never forget:we walk on hell,gazing at flowers. Votes: 1

I am Not, but the Universe is my Self. Votes: 1

Silence is the best way to confabulate with the unseen. Votes: 1

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable. Votes: 1

Thinking beyond the human condition often transcends us from it. Votes: 1

Hatred never ceases with hatred, but with love alone is healed. Votes: 1

I experience transcendence when something infinite reminds me I am finite. Votes: 1

Once you transcend the external differences, anything can be merged with anything. Votes: 1

Might we begin then to transform our passing illuminations into abiding light? Votes: 1

The path to transcendence is unrecognized by many because it appears ordinary. Votes: 1

Can the perpetrator of a "senseless" crime use transcendence as a defense? Votes: 1

... in a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict. Votes: 1

VISION is the voice inside that transcends words and shines through the initiation! Votes: 1

Door of passage to the other side, the soul frees itself in stride. Votes: 1

The plants and flowersI raised about my hutI now surrenderTo the willOf the wind Votes: 1

Blessed are those that transcend the mask, shift their shizz and choose to live Truth. Votes: 1

Everybody has a second personality, it may possess and make you do whatever it likes. Votes: 1

The greatest book is one written by your pen, but not exactly from your mind. Votes: 1

Redefined soul anew, bow now with pride. Reborn from the darkness, a man now wise. Votes: 1

sick of it whatever it's called sick of the namesI dedicate every pore to what's here Votes: 1

People will find transformation and transcendence in a McDonald's hash brown if it's all they've got. Votes: 1

You won't become what you want to be, else you become what you fear to be. Votes: 1

Blessed are those that know the path out of their carnal flesh, for they shall attain intuition. Votes: 1

See with a different eye, visualize with a colorful mind, manifest your thoughts with the energy within. Votes: 1

Inner Knowledge -- You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being. Votes: 1

You can't hack your destiny, brute force...you need a back door, a side channel into Life. Votes: 1

Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can. Votes: 1

There is much to be said for the artwork that answers horror by rejecting or transcending it. Votes: 1

My head was dizzy, but what of that? Float, stupid wooden head, and care nothing for tomorrow. Votes: 1

I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go. Votes: 1

When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do. Votes: 1

Om is the things, Om is the ingredient, Om is the container and the content of this universe. Votes: 1

A sense of Deity is inscribed on every heart. Nay, even idolatry is ample evidence of this fact. Votes: 1

I look up to the night skybut I see no moonAll I see is the sweet faceof Kim Jong-un Votes: 1

This is why we must transcend our physical bodies. Because a body is always going to piss you off Votes: 1

I can see better when i close my eyes; don't make much ado, that's my latest style of view. Votes: 1

Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you how to stop suffering. That is its purpose. Votes: 1

Dream Song of Thunders:Sometimes I go about pitying Myself, While I am carried by the wind Across the sky. Votes: 1

Om is that God of love. Like a loving mother Om cleans us of our clutters collected through many incarnations. Votes: 1

The impression in the colors of your profound words evokes an everlasting impression in the mind of whosoever hears it. Votes: 1

When they have contemplated the world, human beings have always experienced a transcendence and mystery at the heart of existence. Votes: 1

We can create transcending stories for readers and for us. Creativity is a double edge sword, which can kill the writer. Votes: 1

The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146) Votes: 1

Don't call anyone a devil, because within you, you can experience hell and the devil, and the devil is nothing, but you! Votes: 1

Dream Song:As my eyes Search the prairie, I feel the summer in the spring. Whenever I pause The noise Of the village. Votes: 1

There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly. Votes: 1

Be willing to sacrifice everything. Detach from everything to be willing to become more than you THINK that you are. To live differently. Votes: 1

Transformation, on the other hand, is creating beauty from horror or destruction (or, for beginners, an actually pleasant evening with the usual family problems). Votes: 1

People are always evolving, constantly evolving; but when are you going to reach perfection? When you reach perfection, you can stop evolving, and finally transcend. Votes: 1

Consciousness is endless, from one incarnation to the next. It simply will and does manifest in other places and times, regardless of what becomes of the human race. Votes: 1

... the rules of transcendence insist that you will not advance even one inch closer to divinity as long as you cling to even one last seductive thread of blame. Votes: 1

Program your life the way you want it to be: don't waste the unuse energy that lodges in the matrix of your soul. You are transcendent, be a superintendent. Votes: 1

To love, you close your eyes. To do good, you deceive oneself. To be honest, you ditch oneself. To be good, you have to transcend all the three ideas. Votes: 1

The world is more than black and white. Seeing everything in color helps me raise my spirit and find my happy. Life is meant to be lived in color! Votes: 1

The nature of consciousness is to point beyond itself. It is a tending toward or pointing to... Since consciousness points beyond itself, it is in its very being a self-transcendence. Votes: 1

We have within ourselves as a species, the ability to find the beauty in everything. And once we master it, we will be some of the gentlest creatures that ever evolved. Votes: 1

I think that much of our depression, anxiety, and addiction has to do with what John writes about: the soul's need and longing for transcendence. This need is instinctual and unavoidable. Votes: 1

Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you. Votes: 1

The only driver for his work was desire, a kind of hunger for reality, for presence, and also for intimacy, as opposed to publicity. In a very wide sense, he was interested in transcendence. Votes: 1

In the rare air of that altitude he forgot he was he. One way or another that was the aim of life. Shamans flew outside the self in ecstasy. Other people found love, or causes. Votes: 1

Recalling his first dreams of flight when he was a small child, Max acknowledged that his entire existence had been building up to this tipping point where he could finally choose to release his self-imposedlimitations. Votes: 1

...he liked his transcendence out in plain sight where he could keep an eye on it -- say, in a nice stained-glass window -- not woven through the fabric of life like gold threads through a brocade. Votes: 1

And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances he establishes toward all being in his transcendence does a true nearness to things flourish in him. Votes: 1

Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space? Votes: 1

The mountains are intimations of transcendence, which he is now free to pursue, and the walking writes messages in every cell of his body, telling him that he is not locked inside a cement box, nor in a water drum, but is moving forward. Votes: 1

For surely as each November has its April, mysteries only are significant; and one mystery-of-mysteries creates them all: nothing false and possible is love(who's imagined,therefore limitless)love's to giving as to keeping's give;as yes is to if,love is to yes Votes: 1

How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually. (92) Votes: 1

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? Votes: 1

We can feel the vibration that comes from the candle flame, burning it way into our innermind, no blurry images, clear as crystal, we enter into the highest consciousness, on our journey back home, we possess the eagle's eye, the eye that can see the invisible. Votes: 1

The question is not what you look at, but what you see. It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our habitual path or routine, to be overcome, enchanted by its beauty and significance. Votes: 1

Studying texts and stiff meditation can make you lose your Original Mind.A solitary tune by a fisherman, though, can be an invaluable treasure.Dusk rain on the river, the moon peeking in and out of the clouds;Elegant beyond words, he chants his songs night after night. Votes: 1

Children I implore youget out of the burning house nowthree carts wait outsideto save you from a homeless liferelax in the village squarebefore the sky everything's emptyno direction is better or worseeast is just as good as westthose who know the meaning of thisare free to go where they want Votes: 1

He turned in a small circle and looked at the grass, the rocks, the river, the raining sky with its tatters and torn places, the shining bark of the wet trees all around. He could not think of any prayers now. But every movement felt like a kind of adoration. Votes: 1

My stubborn, self-savvy heart will not reach for the sky if my earth becomes everything I need. If people fill me up then where is my need for the transcendent? If everything is glory and beauty and sweetness and light, will I be the type of soul that reaches to Jesus? Votes: 1

In the spirit realm, whatever is said becomes a reality, then, it can be same in the abode of the living, for powerful species, to say whatever they like for an immediate manifestation, it is the law in the astral planes, and we don't care about the destination of the acting forces. Votes: 1

I can discover within me no power of perception which is not glutted with its proper pleasure, yet I do not feel myself delighted. Man has surely some latent sense for which this place affords no gratification, or he has some desires distinct from sense which must be satisfied before he can be happy. Votes: 1

How did she do it, I'd always wondered. Dancing with Q., I understood. Once in a while the pain falls asleep on the job, and the experienced sufferer knows enough to seize such moments swiftly and without thought - for when we realize we're actually dancing, the jolt of joy wakens the pain.Laura Acosta Votes: 1

Our goal is self-transcendence Votes: 0

Awe is the emotion of self-transcendence. Votes: 0

Without transcendence, life has no beauty. Votes: 0

Contradiction is the lever of transcendence. Votes: 0

Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence ... Votes: 0

Individual self-transcendence collectively inspires humanity at large. Votes: 0

Where character forbids self-indulgence, transcendence still hovers around. Votes: 0

Vocabulary for aggravation is large. Vocabulary for transcendence is elusive. Votes: 0

For the uniqueness of man lies in his capacity for self-transcendence. Votes: 0

What gives life its value if not its constant cry for self-transcendence? Votes: 0

Love is at once an affirmation and a transcendence of who we are. Votes: 0

The first function of mythology is showing everything as a metaphor to transcendence. Votes: 0

The most striking feature of contemporary culture is the unslaked craving for transcendence. Votes: 0

I think the origins of music have probably to do with magic and transcendence as well. Votes: 0

The whole dimension of religious belief requires transcendence, it requires going beyond what you can establish rationally. Votes: 0

Disassociating, mindfulness, transcendence-whatever the label-it's a sort of loophole in our contract with reality, a form of self-rescue. Votes: 0

Learning always involves self-transcendence. Learning calls forth what is in us, helping us to move toward authenticity and wholeness. Votes: 0

People love miracle stories and dramatic moments of transcendence or transformation, and may then pursue their own dramatic "awakenings." Votes: 0

Connection exists. There is immanence and transcendence, and everything beyond and in between. My tradition calls this connection God Herself. Votes: 0

Liberation is the path of transcendence. Manifestation is the path of immanence. Both lead to the same place: the divine. Votes: 0

Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of self-transcendence. Votes: 0

Sex has the unparalleled power to make us absurd to ourselves. It also has the power to make us understand transcendence. Votes: 0

Within alpinism's narrow framework we seek transcendence and relentlessly pursue what remains hidden from us on flat ground: our true selves. Votes: 0

Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival. Votes: 0

What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist? Votes: 0

So there's only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That's why I say, "Who cares if you're enlightened forever?" Votes: 0

...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures. Votes: 0

The desire for transcendence is intimately connected with the desire for creativity. It is just as essential to who and what we are. Votes: 0

My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am. Votes: 0

Ultimately, I want to prepare food that will be recognized equally in Tokyo, London, and Paris. I am after that universality, that transcendence. Votes: 0

Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept. Votes: 0

I'm interested in taking hold of the dull truth narrative and finding inside it the transcendence and spirituality and hysteria normally associated with religion. Votes: 0

The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence. Votes: 0

In moments of transcendence, when time stands still, your biological clock will stop. The spirit is that domain of our awareness where there is no time. Votes: 0

I'm not a doom-and-gloom person. But I think there is a difference between transcendence and denial, and much of the Western world is in major denial today. Votes: 0

To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness to others are nevertheless within one's reach. Votes: 0

Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer. Votes: 0

To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence. Votes: 0

In True Meditation, we're in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the transcendence of form is through form itself. Votes: 0

During those rare moments of creativeness, when a person has something in common with the making of the universe, he feels a sense of transcendence. What could be a greater reward? Votes: 0

You and I are created for transcendence, laughter, caring. God deliberately did not make the world perfect, for God is looking for you and me to be fellow workers with God. Votes: 0

Golf camaraderie, like that of astronauts and Antarctic explorers, is based on a common experience of transcendence; fat or thin, scratch or duffer, we have been somerwhere together where non-golfers never go. Votes: 0

The idea of the Bodhisattva is the one who out of his realization of transcendence participates in the world. The imitation of Christ is joyful participation in the sorrows of the world. Votes: 0

Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded credulity of earlier ages: Let us walk through the door. Votes: 0

He (Lincoln) recognized the delicate balance between immanence and transcendence, refusing to settle for either of these alone. His was a God who was both in the world and above the world. Votes: 0

We live in a world of breathtaking material plenty. That has freed hundreds of millions of people from day-to-day struggles and liberated us to pursue more significant desires: purpose, transcendence, and spiritual fulfillment. Votes: 0

Amid countless everyday miracles, I come in contact with something greater than myself and realize I am a part of it... I move in wonder through inspiration, reverence, gratitude, interconnectedness, transcendence, and grace. Votes: 0

Action painting has to do with self-creation or self-definition or self-transcendence; but this dissociates it from self-expression, which assumes the acceptance of the ego as it is, with its wound and its magic. Votes: 0

The most transformative experiences people have - bliss, devotion, self transcendence - are currently anchored to the worst parts of culture and to ways of thinking that merely amplify superstition, self-deception, and conflict. Votes: 0

It is only when we understand the transcendence of God that we see how amazing his immanence is, and what a huge privilege it is to be able to enjoy God's intimate friendship. Votes: 0

Eucharistic worship is not so much worship of the inaccessible transcendence as worship of the divine condescension, and it is also the merciful and redeeming transformation of the world in the human heart Votes: 0

Our spiritual mission is not to ignore the darkness, but to bring light TO the darkness. Ignoring darkness does not dispel it; only the light does. That is the difference between denial and transcendence. Votes: 0

When the eternal and the human meet, that's where love is born -- not through escaping our humanity or trying to disappear into transcendence, but through finding that place where they come into union. Votes: 0

Wabi means spare, impoverished; simple and functional. It connotes a transcendence of fad and fashion. The spirit of wabi imbues all the Zen arts, from calligraphy to karate, from the tea ceremony to Zen archery. Votes: 0

The shaman has access to a superhuman dimension and a superhuman condition, and by being able to do that he affirms the potential for transcendence in all people. He is an exemplar, if you will. Votes: 0

To achieve contact with reality is not to transport oneself elsewhere; it is not transcendence but thorough immersion in one's surroundings - a reality which is neither purely physical nor metaphysical, but both at once. Votes: 0

We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of something that is symbolic of transcendence and mystery. The mystery is what's important. Votes: 0