Transcendence Quotes - Page 2

• Praying and living deeply, richly and fully have become for me almost indistinguishab le. Prayer is being present, sharing love, opening life to transcendence. It is not necessarily words addressed heavenward. Prayer is entering into the pain or joy of another person. Prayer is what I am doing when I love wastefully, passionately and wondrously and invite others to do so.

  John Shelby Spong

  Prayer, Pain, Joy

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• I experience transcendence when something infinite reminds me I am finite.

  James MacDonald

  Infinite, Finite

  James MacDonald (2012). “Vertical Church: What Every Heart Longs for. What Every Church Can Be.”, p.36, David C Cook

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• The desire for transcendence is intimately connected with the desire for creativity. It is just as essential to who and what we are.

  Marianne Williamson

  Creativity, Desire, Essentials

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• The holiness of the real
  Is always there, accessible
  In total immanence. The nodes
  Of transcendence coagulate
  In you, the experiencer,
  And in the other, the lover.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Life, Real, Holiness

  Kenneth Rexroth (1967). “The Collected Shorter Poems”, p.248, New Directions Publishing

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• Only the human heart can live in present moment awareness. The human mind cannot, because its essential nature is to ponder the past and plan the future. This is why all wise beings encourage us to go beyond the mind into the timeless, boundless transcendence of heart-centered awareness.

  David Simon

  Wise, Heart, Past

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• Love is at once an affirmation and a transcendence of who we are.

  Esther Perel

  Love Is, Who We Are, Affirmation

  Esther Perel (2009). “Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• During those rare moments of creativeness, when a person has something in common with the making of the universe, he feels a sense of transcendence. What could be a greater reward?

  Joseph C Zinker

  Rewards, Rare Moments, Common

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• Whether you are aware of them or not, whether you recognize them as spiritual or not, you probably have had the experiences of silence, or transcendence, or the Divine-a few seconds, a few minutes that seem out of time; a moment when the ordinary looks beautiful, glowing; a deep sense of being at peace, feeling happy for no reason. When these experiences come...believe in them. They reflect your true nature.

  Ravi Shankar

  Happiness, Beautiful, Spiritual

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• Liberation is the path of transcendence. Manifestation is the path of immanence. Both lead to the same place: the divine.

  Anodea Judith

  Path, Divine, Liberation

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• Every day we have a choice. We can take the easier road, the more cynical road, which is a road sometimes based on a dream of a past that never was, fear of each other, distancing and blame, or we can take the much more difficult path, the road of transformation, transcendence, compassion, and love, but also accountability and justice.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Dream, Past, Compassion

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• Our goal is self-transcendence

  Sri Chinmoy

  Self, Goal

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• There is a human striving for self-transcendence. It's part of what makes us human. With all of our flaws we want to go a little bit further than we've gone before and maybe even further than anyone else has gone before.

  George Leonard

  Self, Want, Littles

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• 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, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Joseph Campbell (2009). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation: Easyread Large Edition”, p.185, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth, like sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes filled with the essence of your passionate being and then opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you, over and over again - the first kiss of the rest of your life.

  Saul Williams

  Love, Life, Romantic

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• By choosing to hang on to your corner of freedom in even the worst situations, you can process your world with the energy of appreciation and beauty, and create an opportunity to transcend your circumstances.

  Wayne Dyer

  Appreciation, Opportunity, Worst Situation

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from May 03, 2011

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• 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 the concept of transcendence is based on a misreading of creation. With all respect to heaven, the scene of the miracle is here, among us. The eternal as an idea is much less preposterous than time, and this very fact should seize our attention.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Eye, Thinking, Ideas

  "The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought". Book by Marilynne Robinson, 1998.

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• ...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Self, Spirituality, Capacity

  Reinhold Niebuhr (1996). “The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation : Human Nature”, p.25, Westminster John Knox Press

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• The Yoga of the Dream State has always held to be one of the fastest, most efficient ways of reaching a plateau experience of subtle and causal realms, thus quickly opening the door to stable adaptation at - and transcendence of - those realms.

  Ken Wilber

  Dream, Yoga, Doors

  Ken Wilber (2000). “One Taste”, p.295, Shambhala Publications

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• The father's life is surrounded by mysterious prestige: the hours he spends in the home, the room where he works, the objects around him, his occupations, his habits, have a sacred character. It is he who feeds the family, is the one in charge and the head. Usually he works outside the home, and it is through him that the household communicates with the rest of the world: he is the embodiment of this adventurous, immense, difficult, and marvelous world; he is transcendence, he is God.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Father, Home, Character

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

  Andrew Delbanco

  Culture, Craving, Contemporary

  Andrew DELBANCO (2009). “The Real American Dream”, p.114, Harvard University Press

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• The shaman has access to a superhuman dimension and a superhuman condition, and by being able to do that he affirms the potential for transcendence in all people. He is an exemplar, if you will.

  Terence McKenna

  People, Able, Dimensions

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• My whole artistic life has been devoted to battling myself and my ability to externalize my deepest emotions. As I have gotten older, the work has become more direct, perhaps reflecting the fact that for the first time in my life I feel really free. I have been fascinated with wings all my life. I have had an obsession with transcendence, the need to push forward and metaphorically fly.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Artistic Life, Wings

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• The Singularity denotes an event that will take place in the material world, the inevitable next step in the evolutionary process that started with biological evolution and has extended through human-directed technological evolution. however, it is precisely in the world of matter and energy that we encounter transcendence, a principal connotation of what people refer to as spirituality.

  Ray Kurzweil

  People, Energy, Next Steps

  Ray Kurzweil (2005). “The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology”, p.498, Penguin

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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 participation in the sorrows of the world.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Ideas, Sorrow

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• 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 alive. But you cannot will this to happen. It is a matter of persistence and faith and hard work. So you might as well just go ahead and get started.

  Anne Lamott

  Real, Hard Work, Persistence

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