Amplify Quote by Sam Harris

The most striking feature of contemporary culture is the unslaked craving for transcendence.

— Andrew Delbanco

There is no inherent awakening power in cultural forms that have become dissociated from the wisdom and practicality that gave birth to them. They…

— Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

The transcendent experience is common to every culture in the world.

— Edgar Mitchell

Transcendence: that which transcends experience.

— Franz Grillparzer

The last struggles of a great superstition are very frequently the worst.

— Andrew Dickson White

The transcendent experience is brotherly love, nature, harmony and unity. Cultures, in trying to define it, try to define an external deity as opposed…

— Edgar Mitchell

“Bliss and joy come in moments of living our highest truth --- moments when what we do is consistent with our archetypal depths. It's…

— Jean Shinoda Bolen

That the corruption of the best thing produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances, by the…

— David Hume

Clutching our crystals and religiously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in steep decline, unable to distinguish between what's true and what feels good,…

— Carl Sagan

“When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.”11 As individuals and as a…

— Thomas Gilovich

There's a path in enlightenment called the path of negation where we intentionally throw ourselves into experiences that are extremely transient. In other words,…

— Frederick Lenz

The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.

— Baron de Montesquieu