Transcendent Quotes

164 Transcendent quotes by 145 unique authors

The fragility of love is what is most at stake hereâ€”humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing or… — Christopher Hitchens
People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state,… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need… — Joseph Campbell
[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising… — Stephen Batchelor
You aren't a bit romantic, are you?" he asked, amused. She sat back and stared at him. She was beginning to think that Neal required… — Tamora Pierce
Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth. — Thomas Pynchon
If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from… — Terence McKenna
In the end, the bedrock of existence is not made up of the family, or work, or what others say or think of you, but… — Nicolas Bouvier
I'm very nearly drunk enough to be transcendent," Calla said after a space. She was not the only psychic drinking, but she was the closest… — Maggie Stiefvater
The most fundamental liberal failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent faith that human… — Bill Moyers
The power of transcendent vision is greater than the power of the scripting deep inside the human personality and it subordinates it [the scripting], submerges… — Stephen Covey
Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So it… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. — John Milton
At its best, a live show is completely transcendent. The image I get is breaking through glass or shooting out into the free zone. — Alex Ebert
The transcendent gift of the Holy Ghost, along with membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is bestowed by confirmation, by the… — James E. Faust
Movies have these transcendent moments where everything is just right, from the dialogue to the music to the lighting to the narrative context; everything is… — Jason Silva
I very much believe in values-based leadership and that the values that I believe in and try to govern by are transcendent values. — Deval Patrick
I need an inspiration that is grounded in reality while thoroughly transcendent. — John Ortberg
The noblest men of all ages, Christian saints of the most transcendent spirituality have attained their wonderful development through the spiritual rays of this planet… — Max Heindel
Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid. — Siri Hustvedt

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