Transcendence Quotes

118 quotes by 93 authors

We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas… — Karen Armstrong
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how… — Chuck Close
Math . . . music .. . starry nights . . . These are secular ways of achieving transcendence, of feeling lifted into a grand… — Rebecca Goldstein
Golf camaraderie, like that of astronauts and Antarctic explorers, is based on a common experience of transcendence; fat or thin, scratch or duffer, we have… — John Updike
You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come… — Anne Lamott
These are the only two situations possible, and you are in the sad situation. Everybody may know about you - who you are - but… — Rajneesh
There's nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way,… — Joseph Campbell
Transcendence constitutes selfhood. — Martin Heidegger
Eucharistic worship is not so much worship of the inaccessible transcendence as worship of the divine condescension, and it is also the merciful and redeeming… — Pope John Paul II
Transcendence or detachment, leaving the body, pure love, lack of jealousy-that's the vision we are given in our culture, generally, when we think of the… — Robert Bly
Each new day beckons you to walk on the road of self-transcendence. We transcend ourselves, we do not compete with others. We compete only with… — Sri Chinmoy
Little by little a planetary prayer book is thus being composed by an increasingly united humanity seeking its oneness. Once again, but this time on… — Robert Muller
Learning always involves self-transcendence. Learning calls forth what is in us, helping us to move toward authenticity and wholeness. — Karl Rahner
I assure you, my children, that when a Christian carries out with love the most insignificant everyday action, that action overflows with the transcendence of… — Josemaria Escriva
Beauty is a key to the mystery and a call to transcendence. It is an invitation to savor life and to dream of the future.… — Pope John Paul II
What is wrong with looking muscular? Muscles are beautiful. Strength is beautiful. Muscle tissue is beautiful. It is metabolically, medically, and philosophically beautiful. Muscles retreat… — Natalie Angier
So the Buddha is presenting awakening not as a single mystical experience that may come upon us at some meditation, some private moment of transcendence,… — Stephen Batchelor
I feel like when we talk about post-apocalyptic themes that's what we're really talking about. We're always returning to this sense of being alone in… — Colin Stetson
I have managed not to finish certain books. With barely a twinge of conscience, I hurl down what bores me or doesn't give what I… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz
The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body… — Jane Smiley

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