The urge to transcend self-conscious selfhood is, as I…

“As a spirit schooled to power, his perception stems from one absolute. Universal harmony begins with recognition that the life in an ordinary pebble…

— Janny Wurts

Tennis's beauty's infinite roots are self-competitive. You compete with your own limits to transcend the self in imagination and execution. Disappear inside the game:…

— David Foster

“And then also, again, still, what are those boundaries, if they’re not baselines, that contain and direct its infinite expansion inward, that make tennis…

— David Foster Wallace

This is our challenge at the beginning of the twenty-first century - we need to find the courage to see our own spiritual yearnings…

— Andrew Cohen

I think all kinds of meanings in life transcend your self. They're linked to other generations of people around us, to our children and…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Unless people have a vision of something beyond the bounds of their own natures, they cannot transcend their self-interest.”

— Patrick M. Garry

In advanced meditation you become light. You transcend self, ego, time, space, and dimensionality.

— Frederick Lenz

This is the power of art: The power to transcend our own self-interest, our solipsistic zoom-lens on life, and relate to the world and…

— Maria Popova

“The true opponent, the enfolding boundary, is the player himself. Always and only the self out there, on court, to be met, fought, brought…

— David Foster Wallace

“The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in living creatures on the hither side of good and evil. In human…

— Aldous Huxley

“our perceptions of the external world are habitually clouded by the verbal notions in terms of which we do our thinking. We are for…

— Aldous Huxley

You have expressive nationalism, I mean very identity driven, which shaped each other a lot of that in the Middle East.

— Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries…

— Zachary Quinto

In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you…

— Rose Ayling-Ellis

I don't doubt that straight white men have identity issues and identity complexes and struggle with defining themselves.

— Justin Simien