Sex has the unparalleled power to make us absurd to ourselves. It also has the power to make us understand transcendence. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
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… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“If we can truly relate to God as God, in His full transcendence and majesty, then we can relate to humans as… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
People will find transformation and transcendence in a McDonald's hash brown if it's all they've got. — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
“The world is more than black and white. Seeing everything in color helps me raise my spirit and find my happy. Life… — Jodi Livon Copy Share Image
Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“Just a few isolated moments of transcendence. That's all. But what the hell else is life made of?” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
To make sense of this view (design as opposed to accident), one must accept the idea of transcendence: that the Designer exists… — George F. R. Ellis Copy Share Image
The propensity to intellectualize is itself both essential and dangerous. I think in our modern world we are much more aware of… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
To achieve contact with reality is not to transport oneself elsewhere, it is not transcendence but thorough immersion in one's surroundings. A… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
As always, the illusion of self-transcendence is far more facile and available than self-transcendence itself: in the vast majority of cases what… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
There's nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence;… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
In Sufi terms, there are two very interesting notions of transcendence. One is to gaze out at the universe and to comprehend… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The most transformative experiences people have - bliss, devotion, self transcendence - are currently anchored to the worst parts of culture and… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Transcendence is when God exists outside space and time while immanence is when He is present in time and space. Travel between… — JOEL NYARANGI AKOYA Copy Share Image
“You shall see rude and sturdy, experienced and wise men, keeping their castles, or teaming up their summer’s wood, or chopping alone… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I wanted to experience both. I wanted worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. I wanted what the Greeks called kalos kai agathos, the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“We awaken by asking the right questions. We awaken when we see knowledge being spread that goes against our own personal experiences.… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Science can produce vaccines or gas chambers, religion can initiate soup kitchens or concentration camps. Bigger than science, bigger than religion, I'm… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Rather than protecting music as a sublimely meaningless activity that has managed to escape social signification, I insist on treating it as… — Susan McClary Copy Share Image
Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
Disassociating, mindfulness, transcendence-whatever the label-it's a sort of loophole in our contract with reality, a form of self-rescue. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Transcendence is the only real alternative to extinction. This is serious. This may be the ultimate final exam. — Joel Garreau Copy Share Image
To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
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?" — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Math . . . music .. . starry nights . . . These are secular ways of achieving transcendence, of feeling lifted… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Self-awareness is a trait that not only makes us human but also paradoxically makes us want to be more than merely human.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The idea to have both something that belongs to what we call supernatural and, at the same time, is anchored in the… — Olivier Assayas Copy Share Image
Each new day beckons you to walk on the road of self-transcendence. We transcend ourselves, we do not compete with others. We… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
You might have thought that a world such as ours, so hard-nosed and cynical and brash, would have very little time for… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
By choosing to hang on to your corner of freedom in even the worst situations, you can process your world with the… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“No risk, no discovery - no discovery, no humanity; had I stayed within the narrow confines of facts and figures, in fear… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Transcendence implies the surpassing of two things, and the consequent attainment of a third thing. But there are no 'things' in reality,… — Wei Wu Wei Copy Share Image
What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“The lover drinks and the cup-bearer pours. The lover thinks but the cup-bearer knows: love begets love. Since this wine is love,… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“We fell into each other’s arms and kissed like we were coming up for air after being underwater for days. The melding… — Emme Rollins Copy Share Image
“Ernest Hemingway was right—there is a crack in everything, and that is how the light gets in. Let warmth touch your wound;… — Felisa Tan Copy Share Image
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