Transcendence Quotes

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An awake heart is like a sky that pours light.

Transcendence constitutes selfhood.

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

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

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

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

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.

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?

Transcendence is something between a metaphor and a miracle.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.

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.

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

Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.

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.

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.

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

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

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?"

Transcendence means going beyond duality. Attachment means remaining within duality.

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.

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.

Our goal is self-transcendence

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.

Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence.

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.

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.

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

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

Transcendence and dissolution, always the same thing.

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

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

The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life.

Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.

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

Without transcendence, life has no beauty.

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

He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.

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

[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130)

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

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

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

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

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