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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“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
You and I are created for transcendence, laughter, caring. God deliberately did not make the world perfect, for God is looking for… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
What is wrong with looking muscular? Muscles are beautiful. Strength is beautiful. Muscle tissue is beautiful. It is metabolically, medically, and philosophically… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
A little group of thatched cottages in the middle of the village had an orchard attached; and I remember well the peculiar… — A. L. Rowse Copy Share Image
“One sip of this wine and you will go mad with drunkenness. You will drop your masks and tear your clothes —… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Classically, there are three ways in which humans try to find transcendence--religious meaning--apart from God as revealed through the cross of Jesus:… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“Like writing, publishing is not easy. No endeavor worth pursuing is. Discomfort and fear are easy outs—and ultimately dead ends. They are… — Rossandra White Copy Share Image
The father's life is surrounded by mysterious prestige: the hours he spends in the home, the room where he works, the objects… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Insofar as the intervention of grace constitutes the core of religious experience, the constant aim of every religious movement ought to be… — Adam Miller Copy Share Image
Institutionalized desublimation thus appears to be an aspect of the "conquest of transcendence" achieved by the one-dimensional society. Just as this society… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“Mark you, no Krishna can clear your eyes and make you look with a broader vision upon life in your march upward… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
When the eternal and the human meet, that's where love is born -- not through escaping our humanity or trying to disappear… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“Christ was an ordinary man who upon the attainment of absolute divinity or Nirvana or Samadhi became a better version of himself.… — Abhijit Naskar 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
“...he liked his transcendence out in plain sight where he could keep an eye on it -- say, in a nice stained-glass… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“We fell into each other’s arms and kissed like we were coming up for air after being underwater for days. The melding… — Emme Rollins Copy Share Image
“The lover drinks and the cup-bearer pours. The lover thinks but the cup-bearer knows: love begets love. Since this wine is love,… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those… — Will Self 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
