Classical music is at odds with contemporary culture precisely because of its insistence on the tension between the bodily and intellectual, the… — Julian Johnson Copy Share Image
“She finished cleaning him off and then held her baby boy up high to behold this new wonder in his full glory.… — Casey Fisher Copy Share Image
My whole artistic life has been devoted to battling myself and my ability to externalize my deepest emotions. As I have gotten… — Joyce Tenneson 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
Look at Andrew Roe's The Miracle Girl from one angle and you'll see an incisive and insightful critique of America at the… — Doug Dorst 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
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
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
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
“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
My effort here is to create bliss, not happiness. Happiness is worthless; it depends on unhappiness. Bliss is transcendence: one moves beyond… — Rajneesh 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
“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
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
“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
“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
What gives life its value if not its constant cry for self-transcendence? — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
“I am for I think not (Sonnet 2674) Every country needs just one person to embody the best of humanity - but… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
...as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Hz. Isa (Jesus), Hz. Mevlana, or Hz. Naskar - the message comes in many forms, but the message itself is one and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The notion of "humanity" as a form of transcendence derives, I think, from the conviction that intellectuality possesses an absolute power, from… — Talal Asad 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
“Once you transcend the illusions you will discover that — you — are the most thrilling experience you will ever have.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Don't call anyone a devil, because within you, you can experience hell and the devil, and the devil is nothing, but you!” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
