The shaman has access to a superhuman dimension and a superhuman condition, and by being able to do that he affirms the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with what Ibsen… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“Clear-sightedness, persistence, and transcendence can be excellent antidotes for ultimate peace of mind and buoyancy in life, and sometimes valuable cures against… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues:… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Golf camaraderie, like that of astronauts and Antarctic explorers, is based on a common experience of transcendence; fat or thin, scratch or… — John Updike Copy Share Image
And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the central paradox of the religious life is that it seeks transcendence, a dimension of existence that goes beyond our mundane… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Church is missing transcendence. My generation was raised on a religion of moral control. Do this. Don't do that. And a lot… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
“I was suddenly made aware of another world of beauty and mystery such as I had never imagined to exist, except in… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
Beauty is a key to the mystery and a call to transcendence. It is an invitation to savor life and to dream… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Either the material order is the whole of being, wherein all transcendence is an illusion, or it is the phenomenal surface -… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“As for karma itself, it is apparently only that which binds "jiva" (sentience, life, spirit, etc.) with "ajiva" (the lifeless, material aspect… — Mark X Copy Share Image
“About Reincarnation Q~ After death can one be lured backward into physical reincarnation rather then transcendence into the higher Celestial Realms of… — Leland Lewis Copy Share Image
I assure you, my children, that when a Christian carries out with love the most insignificant everyday action, that action overflows with… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
Accept the responsibility of being yourself as you are, with all that is good and with all that is bad, with all… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Little by little a planetary prayer book is thus being composed by an increasingly united humanity seeking its oneness. Once again, but… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
A movie like 'Transcendence' may be pertinent in its political reverberations of all computer data held in a cloud and monitored by… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
“Studying texts and stiff meditation can make you lose your Original Mind. A solitary tune by a fisherman, though, can be an… — Ikkyu Copy Share Image
“I can discover within me no power of perception which is not glutted with its proper pleasure, yet I do not feel… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To feel that you are the Buddha of all times and places and that in some way the salvation of anyone, including… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Josh Hanagarne has an astonishing story to tell, and he does so with insight, humor, grace, and wonder. All human beings suffer… — Melanie Rae Thon Copy Share Image
You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
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… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“It is the rub that polishes the jewel,” Enso Roshi says. “Nobody ever gets to nirvana without going through samsara. Nobody ever… — T. Scott McLeod Copy Share Image
Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“It was the ultimate celestial orgasm and I felt like a cup overflowing with plenty. The pulse of God moving through me… — Linda Cull Copy Share Image
Intelligent, heartfelt stories that tell a whole new set of truths about growing up American. Julie Orringer writes with virtuosity and depth… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Only the human heart can live in present moment awareness. The human mind cannot, because its essential nature is to ponder the… — David Simon Copy Share Image
“Science is implausible to untutored human common sense, but that in no way casts doubt on the correctness of well-established scientific findings.… — Russell Blackford Copy Share Image
“I’m not sure where I go when I spin wheels for hours on end like that, except into the rapture of doing… — Kate Harris Copy Share Image
“He turned in a small circle and looked at the grass, the rocks, the river, the raining sky with its tatters and… — Richard Bausch Copy Share Image
“The nature of consciousness is to point beyond itself. It is a tending toward or pointing to... Since consciousness points beyond itself,… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“He (Lincoln) recognized the delicate balance between immanence and transcendence, refusing to settle for either of these alone. His was a God… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
“If you have strength of character, you can use that as fuel to not only be a survivor but to transcend simply… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
Religious ideas and practices take root not because they are promoted by forceful theologians, nor because they can be shown to have… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
