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The idea of the Bodhisattva is the one who out of his realization of transcendence participates in the world. The imitation of Christ is joyful… — Joseph Campbell
Amid countless everyday miracles, I come in contact with something greater than myself and realize I am a part of it... I move in wonder… — John Paul Caponigro
This human need for mysticism – surrender to an unknown truth, union – stands at the helm of all romantic feeling. It is, in essence,… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke
It has been preached in every country, taught everywhere, but only believed in by a few, because until we get the experience ourselves, we cannot… — Bill Vaughan
Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with what Ibsen termed "the claims… — George Steiner
We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival. — Tom Robbins
Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is… — Terry Pratchett
I have spent my life watching, not to see beyond the world, merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my eyes. I think… — Marilynne Robinson
Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded credulity of earlier… — John Updike
...being human always points, and is directed, to something, or someone, other than oneself—be it meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter. The… — Viktor E. Frankl
Jewish, Christian, and Muslim theologians have insisted for centuries that God does not exist and that there is 'nothing' out there; in making these assertions,… — Karen Armstrong
What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is… — David Foster Wallace
Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a… — Tom Robbins
Religious ideas and practices take root not because they are promoted by forceful theologians, nor because they can be shown to have a sound historical… — Karen Armstrong
I have never been able to understand the complaint that a story is "depressing" because of its subject matter. What depresses me are stories that… — Tobias Wolff
My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am. — Susan Sontag
[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a… — Joseph Campbell
To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for… — Thomas Ligotti
People will find transformation and transcendence in a McDonald's hash brown if it's all they've got. — Patton Oswalt
There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable from the original… — Mark Epstein
To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence. — Eckhart Tolle
And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances he establishes toward… — Martin Heidegger
Without transcendence, life has no beauty. — Deepak Chopra
I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work… — Pierre Bourdieu

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