“The more realities I contain, the more unreal I appear to tribal minds.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“Suppose you're teaching math. You assume that parallel lines meet at infinity. You'll admit that adds up to something like transcendence.” — Günter Grass Copy Share Image
“Inner Knowledge -- You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
In True Meditation, we're in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“Om is the things, Om is the ingredient, Om is the container and the content of this universe.” — Banani Ray Copy Share Image
“I have spent most of my life (like most people) avoiding transcendence at all costs, mainly because the shit hurts.” — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Learning always involves self-transcendence. Learning calls forth what is in us, helping us to move toward authenticity and wholeness. — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
“People experience art as a transformative or even transcendent experience when it really only reflects back and awakens parts of them that… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“I’m the impulse before the language, I’m the reason before the science, I’m the pulse before the poetry, I’m the kernel before… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, what was behind life.… — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
Transcending the world does not mean to withdraw from the world, to no longer take action, or to stop interacting with people.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The loss of transcendence has left in its wake the flotsam of distrustful, cynical Christians, angry at a capricious God, and the… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
This watchfulness, this witnessing is the ultimate secret of creating a religious life, of creating a life of transcendence, a life of… — Rajneesh 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
What I am feeling in myself, and what is happening to my physical body, to some extent, and what is happening to… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane glow with an aura of self-transcendence.… — J. M. Coetzee 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
“There is ... a contemporary trend to make a sort of 'common intellect' out of society and forbid man his own independent… — Mary T. Clark Copy Share Image
Praying and living deeply, richly and fully have become for me almost indistinguishab le. Prayer is being present, sharing love, opening life… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
In a society where rationality has ruled so long, the church frequently fails to see that in forsaking the weekly pursuit of… — James MacDonald 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
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
Friedrich Nietzsche predicted that secular people, losing touch with transcendence, would eventually lose a reference point from which to look down and… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
Religions have found that if you behave in a certain way, if you sort of perform certain rituals that expand your mind… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“...only very few - only humans, as far as we know - achieve the second level of transcendent movement. Through this, the… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
The most striking feature of contemporary culture is the unslaked craving for transcendence. — Andrew Delbanco Copy Share Image
“My head was dizzy, but what of that? Float, stupid wooden head, and care nothing for tomorrow.” — Irfan Orga Copy Share Image
“The quest for enlightenment illustrates the paradox of desire—the fact that you must have desire to be motivated to transcend being ruled… — Paul O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Plato will have to invent a transcendence that can be exercised and situated within the field of immanence itself. This is the… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“Since both knowledge and virtue require the concept of transcendence, they are really obnoxious to those committed to material standards…” — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“The modern architects are incorrect in their thinking. Ornament is not a crime. It is tactile, invigorating, life-sustaining, and human.” — Kristen Wagner Copy Share Image
“The plants and flowers I raised about my hut I now surrender To the will Of the wind” — Ryokan Copy Share Image
Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can — Michael A. Singer Copy Share Image
“Ask the dust of my footsteps on sands, where no history sleeps, the truth of my becoming lies, where no calendar keeps.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Everybody has a second personality, it may possess and make you do whatever it likes.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Once you transcend the illusions you will discover that — you — are the most thrilling experience you will ever have.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Within alpinism's narrow framework we seek transcendence and relentlessly pursue what remains hidden from us on flat ground: our true selves. — Steve House 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