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• An organism exists for no other reason than that it is able to... The wonderful, almost transcendent thing about life on earth is that in order to so exist, organisms must relate to each other and to the earth itself.

  Richard Mabey

  Nature, Order, Earth

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• As in mysterious and transcendent union the Divine takes into itself the human in the person of Jesus, and eternity is blended with time; we, trusting Him, and yielding our hearts to Him, receive into our poor lives an incorruptible seed, and for us the soul-satisfying realities that abide forever mingle with and are reached through the shadows that pass away.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Jesus, Heart, Reality

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• This organization of functional discourse is of vital importance; it serves as a vehicle of coordination and subordination. The unified, functional language is an irreconcilably anti-critical and anti-dialectical language. In it, operational and behavioral rationality absorbs the transcendent, negative, oppositional elements of Reason.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Organization, Negative, Elements

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.100, Routledge

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• Plato, the first true pope of philosophy (sorry, Socrates), argued for a World of Forms above the reality-a transcendent plane of perfect essences, pure and lovely, where nothing ever gets muddy (including the essence of mud.)

  N.D. Wilson

  Sorry, Plato, Philosophy

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• After the dead are buried, after the physical pain of grief has become a permanent wound in the soul, then comes the transcendent and common bond of human suffering, and with that comes forgiveness, and with forgiveness comes love.

  Andre Dubus

  Pain, Grief, Soul

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• All I've done is put into words what all of us are about. We're now at the archetypal stage of being ready to move from a material to a transcendent world view of culture. I'm only articulating what dwells in the consciousness of a good part of the masses now. That's why the response.

  James Redfield

  Moving, Views, Culture

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• One of the great dangers of transformational work is that the ego attempts to sidestep deep psychological work by leaping into the transcendent too soon. This is because the ego always fancies itself much more 'advanced' than it actually is.

  Don Richard Riso

  Ego, Fancy, Psychological

  Don Richard Riso, Russ Hudson (1999). “The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types”, Bantam

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• When we weren't being transcendent we specialized in self-inflicted disaster.

  Slash

  Self, Disaster, Self Inflicted

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• We admire Chaucer for his sturdy English wit.... But though it is full of good sense and humanity, it is not transcendent poetry.For picturesque description of persons it is, perhaps, without a parallel in English poetry; yet it is essentially humorous, as the loftiest genius never is.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Humorous, Humanity, Genius

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.462, Modern Library

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• I'm not worried about what part of their life they needed to massage in order to achieve something that I get to experience as transcendent. Because that's the point of literature, I think: to connect.

  John D'Agata

  Thinking, Order, Literature

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• God is the transcendent whole of things of which you are an individualized part.

  Eric Butterworth

  Whole

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• The surest way to lose democracy is to take it for granted. Every citizen must contribute to its advancement in some way. No nation or culture can long survive the absence of transcendent values and absolutes.

  Carl F. H. Henry

  Long, Democracy, Advancement

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• Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Differences, Evil, Denial

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• We continually encounter hardships. People disappoint us. We disappoint ourselves. But God is constant and compassionate. We are not alone. He cares. Against all reason, the transcendent God loves us so much that He has committed Himself to us.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  People, Encounters, Hardship

  Charles R. Swindoll (2012). “Perfect Trust”, p.22, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• He [Peter after the resurrection] now understood that he and the church were to exercise a transcendent power that did not depend upon having a kingdom or government in any human sense, for it was literally a "God government" in which they were participants (Acts 1:6-8).

  Dallas Willard

  Exercise, Government, Church

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• Another very common use, in all cultures, of psychoactive substances is to give people transcendent experiences. To allow them to transcend their human and ego boundaries to feel greater contact with the supernatural, or with the spiritual, or with the divine, however they phrase it in their terms.

  Andrew Weil

  Spiritual, People, Giving

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• When you buy a used car, you kick the tires, you look at the odometer, you open up the hood. If you do not feel yourself an expert in automobile engines, you bring a friend who is. And you do this with something as unimportant as an automobile. But on the issues of the transcendent, of ethics, of morals, of the origins of the world, of the nature of human beings, on those issues should we not insist upon at least equally skeptical scrutiny?

  Carl Sagan

  Issues, Car, World

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• The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They are better than most of the stories they are in.

  Neil Gaiman

  Stories, Truth Is, Great Things

  "Neil Gaiman Writes a Final 'Love Letter to Batman'". Interview With Scott Thill, www.wired.com. April 21, 2009.

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• Honestly, I don’t believe in menswear. I focus on what pieces are most timeless, transcendent, match my lifestyle, remain remarkable, and command intriguing attention across the room at an art gallery.

  Janelle Monae

  Art, Believe, Focus

  "Janelle Monae Talks New CoverGirl Gig, Signature Style And Being Fearlessly Beautiful". Interview with Julee Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2012.

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• There's no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know?

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Song, Thinking, Suffering

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• This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Moving, Men, Garden

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Book House (2016). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.393, Book House

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• Traditionally, I have responded to the transcendent mystics of all religions. I have always responded with breathless excitement to anyone who has ever said that God does not live in a dogmatic scripture or in a distant throne in the sky, but instead abides very close to us indeed- much closer than we can imagine, breathing right through our own hearts.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Heart, Sky, Breathing

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.14, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• But whenever I meet dynamic, nonretarded Americans, I notice that they all seem to share a single unifying characteristic: the inability to experience the kind of mind-blowing, transcendent romantic relationship they perceive to be a normal part of living. And someone needs to take the fall for this. So instead of blaming no one for this (which is kind of cowardly) or blaming everyone (which is kind of meaningless), I'm going to blame John Cusack.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Relationship, Fall, Mind Blowing

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 a keeper. He seemed to have the craziest ideas. "Romance? Isn't that love stuff?" She asked finally. "It's more than just love. It's color, and-and fire. You don't want things magnificent and filled with-with grandeur," he said, trying to make her understand. "You know, drama. Importance. Transcendent Passion." "I just want to be a knight," Kel retorted, putting her used tableware on her tray. "Eat your vegetables. They're good for you.

  Tamora Pierce

  Drama, Passion, Thinking

  Tamora Pierce (2007). “First Test: Book 1 of the Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.59, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Earth, Hieroglyphics, Paranoia

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.85, Penguin

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