Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The universal and ever-present urge to self-transcendence is not to be abolished by slamming the current popular Doors in the Wall. The… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
This is what I think. Addiction is just a way of trying to get at something else. Something bigger. Call it transcendence… — Tess Callahan Copy Share Image
It seems to me that one of the most basic human experiences, one that is genuinely universal and unites-or, more precisely, could… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Our spiritual mission is not to ignore the darkness, but to bring light TO the darkness. Ignoring darkness does not dispel it;… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Not by adding more information, or more learning, or more study, can we now enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but rather by… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“Music is the great unifier. It doesn’t matter which country you’re in or what language is being spoken, the fans just magically… — J.M. Nevins Copy Share Image
I have managed not to finish certain books. With barely a twinge of conscience, I hurl down what bores me or doesn't… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
An improv artist's best instrument is their ability keep their antennae clean so they're able to receive what I call the connection… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
“Worship, then, needs to be characterized by hospitality; it needs to be inviting. But at the same time, it should be inviting… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
I have spent my life watching, not to see beyond the world, merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
These are the only two situations possible, and you are in the sad situation. Everybody may know about you - who you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To physically overcome death – is that not the goal? – we must think the unthinkable thoughts and ask unanswerable questions. Yet… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“You believed you could transcend the body as you aged, she tells herself. You believed you could rise above it, to a… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Eucharistic worship is not so much worship of the inaccessible transcendence as worship of the divine condescension, and it is also the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“Why does the sea induce these feelings of transcendence in us? Is it because an unobstructed view of overarching sky meeting endlessly… — William Boyd 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
An awkward consequence of heightening experience when one is inexperienced, of self-transcendence when one has not much world to lose, is that… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
There is a human striving for self-transcendence. It's part of what makes us human. With all of our flaws we want to… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
“You could think that you had won. But I woke up, I came back to myself. You won nothing. I transcended you… — Tamara Thiel Copy Share Image
“The question is not what you look at, but what you see. It is only necessary to behold the least fact or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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.… — Sam Savage 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
“There's an expression in classical music. It goes, 'We went out to the meadow.' It's for those evenings that can only be… — John Green Copy Share Image
In this way we are reaffirming the transcendence of religious faith in America's heritage and future. From this day forward, the millions… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“The reduction of human experience to the explicable is a desperate act of faith in our power to create reality ("what we… — Dennis E. Johnson Copy Share Image
“he woman Caeiro fell in love with. I have no idea who she was, and I intend to never find out, not… — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“Many of us ordinary folk have tasted these moments of "union" - on the ladder, in the pond, in the jungle, on… — Stephen Cope Copy Share Image
“And yet isn’t it true of all of us? That there are things we feel to be at the heart of our… — Nicole Krauss 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
“As I see it the world is undoubtedly in need of a new religion, and that religion must be founded on humanist… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
“We live in a world of disappointment. You begin with high hopes and the beautiful innocence of childhood but you discover that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The argument against faith is all based upon the rigorous analysis of the scriptures, and not upon the objective observation of the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Love remains a relation with the Other that turns into need, transcendent exteriority of the other, of the beloved. But love goes… — Emmanuel Levinas 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 realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a…” quote by Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8b9/joseph-campbell-300_ancient_comedies-in-the-ancient-world-were-regar_3109729.jpg)
