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• Awe is the emotion of self-transcendence.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Self, Emotion, Awe

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.202, Basic Books

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• What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist?

  Leopold Kronecker

  Beautiful, Science, Irrational Numbers

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• The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man. The objective world remains what it was, but, because of a shift of emphasis within the subject, is beheld as though transformed. Where formerly life and death contended, now enduring being is made manifest-as indifferent to the accidents of time as water boiling in a pot is to the destiny of a bubble, or as the cosmos to the appearance and disappearance of a galaxy of stars.

  Joseph Campbell

  Stars, Destiny, Men

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• Emerging into writership, I have plans to discover my other themes, of nation and country, love and conflict, the body and transcendence, mutilation and wholeness, starvation and wicked plenty, and more. That is, I am already thinking ahead to more writing.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Country, Writing, Thinking

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• Transcendence: that which transcends experience.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Experience

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• 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 about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.

  Karen Armstrong

  Ideas, Levels, Santa

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• To encounter Christ is to touch reality and experience transcendence. He gives us a sense of self-worth or personal significance, because He assures us of God's love for us. He sets us free from guilt because He died for us and from paralyzing fear because He reigns. He gives meaning to marriage and home, work and leisure, personhood and citizenship.

  John Stott

  Home, Self Worth, Reality

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• Transcendence and dissolution, always the same thing.

  Brian Francis

  Dissolution

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• Being an artist doesn’t take much, just everything you got. Which means, of course, that as the process is giving you life, it is also bringing you closer to death. But it’s no big deal. They are one in the same and cannot be avoided or denied. So when I totally embrace this process, this life/death, and abandon myself to it, I transcend all this meaningless gibberish and hang out with the gods. It seems to me that that is worth the price of admission.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Mean, Artist, Giving

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• It is only when we understand the transcendence of God that we see how amazing his immanence is, and what a huge privilege it is to be able to enjoy God's intimate friendship.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Able, Privilege, Intimate

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• Transcendence is the only real alternative to extinction. This is serious. This may be the ultimate final exam.

  Joel Garreau

  Real, Finals, Alternatives

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• 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

  Writing, Self, Bigger

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• The point of the overall meditative path is to have Wakefulness (or Consciousness as Such) transcend and include all state-realms, so it ceases to "black out" or "forget" various changes of state (such as dreaming and deep sleep), and instead recognizes a "constant Consciousness" or ever-present nondual Awareness, the union (and transcendence) of individual finite self and infinite Spirit.

  Ken Wilber

  Dream, Sleep, Self

  Ken Wilber (2014). “The Fourth Turning: Imagining the Evolution of an Integral Buddhism”, p.41, Shambhala Publications

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• 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 that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs.

  Terry Pratchett

  Simple, Keys, Games

  "Wyrd Sisters". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1988.

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• Transcendence of sex is a totally different phenomenon from the suppression of it. But suppression can give you the feeling that you have transcended.

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Giving, Feelings

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• A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.

  Adyashanti

  Acceptance, Self

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• It doesn't necessarily matter if I'm onstage or not. I just find the communal experience of a rock concert, or any type of music performance, achieves a kind of transcendence that I associate with spirituality. It's the closest thing to what I think people expect church to be like. Or maybe just what I've always thought church should be. You lose yourself, and at the same time come to the realization or understanding that you're part of something bigger than yourself.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Thinking, Rocks, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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 cold bottle of beer.

  Tom Robbins

  Drinking, Beer, Soul

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.411, Bantam

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• Church is missing transcendence. My generation was raised on a religion of moral control. Do this. Don't do that. And a lot of self-help religion. Feel better. Get out of debt. Six ways to overcome your fears. Seven ways not to lust. Ultimately that message didn't work. It was empty. There was no transcendence. The omniscient, omnipresent, all-powerful God of the universe wasn't the focus.

  Matt Chandler

  Powerful, Feel Better, Self

  Source: skyejethani.com

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• I wanted to experience both. I wanted worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. I wanted what the Greeks called kalos kai agathos, the singular balance of the good and the beautiful. I'd been missing both during these last hard years, because both pleasure and devotion require a stress-free space in which to flourish and I'd been living in a giant trash compactor of nonstop anxiety. As for how to balance the urge for pleasure against the longing for devotion...well, surely there was a way to learn that trick.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Beautiful, Stress, Years

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• Sex has the unparalleled power to make us absurd to ourselves. It also has the power to make us understand transcendence.

  Erica Jong

  Sex, Absurd

  Erica Jong (2007). “Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life”, p.76, Penguin

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• Classical music is at odds with contemporary culture precisely because of its insistence on the tension between the bodily and intellectual, the material and the spiritual, the thinglike and its transcendence in thought. A culture that is merely sensuous and that denies the activity of the mind within sensuous materials risks becoming pornographic.

  Julian Johnson

  Spiritual, Odds, Risk

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• Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower,
  We feel that we are greater than we know.

  William Wordsworth

  Faith, Greatness, Feels

  'The River Duddon' (1820) st. 34 'After-Thought'

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• 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 through inspiration, reverence, gratitude, interconnectedness, transcendence, and grace.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Gratitude, Moving, Inspiration

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• Genuine transcendence doesn't just look away from human suffering and say, "I am at peace, so I'm at the mountaintop." Genuine transcendence looks human suffering in the eye and attains peace because of a faith in things unseen.

  Marianne Williamson

  Eye, Suffering, Unseen

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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