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• More than anything I have learned that we are all frail people, vulnerable and wounded; it is just that some of us are more clever at concealing it than others! And of course the great joke is that it is O.K. to be frail and wounded because that is the way the almighty transcendent God made people.

  Sheila Cassidy

  Clever, People, Way

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• The transcendent importance of love and good-will in all human relationships is shown by their mighty beneficent effect upon the individual and upon society.

  George David Birkhoff

  Love, Individuality, Relation

  "Collected Mathematical Papers".

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• It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But instead of bringing art and reality closer together, the new movement merely thins out the distinction.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Art, Reality, Self

  Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1969). “Retrospectives and Conclusions”

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• Love remains a relation with the Other that turns into need, transcendent exteriority of the other, of the beloved. But love goes beyond the beloved... The possibility of the Other appearing as an object of a need while retaining his alterity, or again,the possibility of enjoying the Other... this simultaneity of need and desire, or concupiscence and transcendence,... constitutes the originality of the erotic which, in this sense, is the equivocal par excellence.

  Emmanuel Levinas

  Erotic, Excellence, Desire

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• It is only by entering the transcendental, the supernatural, the authentically spiritual order that man rises above the social. Until then, whatever he may do, the social is transcendent in relation to him.

  Simone Weil

  Spiritual, Men, Order

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.166, Psychology Press

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• We can arrive at a point of view where the preservation of the individual activities is no longer inconsistent with our comprehension of the cosmic consciousness or our attainment to the transcendent and supracosmic.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Views, Consciousness, Individual

  Sri Aurobindo (2016). “The Life Divine: Art of living”, p.31, editionNEXT.com

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• There's no magic bullet; there's no pill that you take that makes everything great and makes you happy all the time. I'm letting go of those expectations, and that's opening me up to moments of transcendent bliss. But I still feel the stress over 'Am I thin enough? Am I too thin? Is my body the right shape?'

  Anne Hathaway

  Letting Go, Stress, Expectations

  "Anne Hathaway Talks About Her Husband, Her Haters, and More in Her January 2013 Glamour Interview". Interview with Eve Ensler, www.glamour.com. December 4, 2012.

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• But following the only true and stedfast Teacher, the Word of God, our Lord Jesus Christ, who did, through His transcendent love, become what we are, that He might bring us to be even what He is Himself.

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Teacher, Jesus, Love Is

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• Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Truth, Work, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Plymouth Pulpit: A Weekly Publication of Sermons Preached by Henry Ward Beecher”, p.529

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• The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Home, Profound, World

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• A transcendent being can be any miracle.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Miracle

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• Grace is more than mercy and love. It super-adds to them. It denotes, not simply love, but the love of a sovereign, transcendent Superior. One that may do what He will. That may wholly choose whether He will love or no. Now God, who is an infinite Sovereign, who might have chosen whether ever He would love us or no; for Him to love us, this is Grace.

  Thomas Goodwin

  Grace, And Love, Add

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• It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour of our history held faithful to an ideal. Here men endured that a nation might live.

  Herbert Hoover

  Memorial Day, Adversity, Men

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• Trust is transcendent, resolute, universal, sacred and tolerant.

  Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

  Trust, Sacred, Universal

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• Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only in contemplation, and the superficial, external self which we commonly identify with the first person singular.

  Thomas Merton

  Self, Firsts, Superficial

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.7, New Directions Publishing

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• No one really wants to follow you per se.  They really don’t.  They want to know that, by following you, they are really following a higher principle, a transcendent truth.  In spiritual followership, people want to know whether they are being led and influenced by God.

  Mel Lawrenz

  Spiritual, People, Principles

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• Worship is transcendent wonder.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Worship, Wonder

  'On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic' (1841) 'The Hero as Divinity'

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• 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 of moments like this when you are exalted by a transcendent power that is more serene than love. Life dispenses them parsimoniously; our feeble hearts could not stand more.

  Nicolas Bouvier

  Heart, Love Life, Thinking

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• The land is like poetry:   it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.

  Barry Lopez

  Land, Consideration, Human Life

  Barry Lopez (2013). “Arctic Dreams”, p.356, Open Road Media

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• 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 one to transcendence. Persephone peered dubiously into the bottom of her own glass. In a very small voice (her voice was always small), she said sadly, "I am not drunk at all." Maura offered, "It's the Russian in you." "Estonian,"Persephone replied.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Drinking, Glasses, Psychics

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• 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 beings are more than the sum of their material appetites, our country is more than an economic machine, and freedom is not license but responsibility.

  Bill Moyers

  Country, Freedom, Responsibility

  "For America's Sake". Speech on December 12, 2006. "Moyers on Democracy", p. 21, 2008.

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• 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 it, until the whole personality is reorganized in the accomplishment of that vision.

  Stephen Covey

  Accomplishment, Personality, Vision

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.583, Mango Media Inc.

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• When you are present, you are transcendent of the mind and ego and so you can witness your mind and ego. You can be conscious of your thoughts without being lost in them when they arise.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Ego, Mind, Conscious

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• Effective magic is transcendent nature.

  George Eliot

  Magic

  George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

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• I seek what lies beneath surface beauty. What interests me are intimate human complexities - the darkness as well as the light. I cannot will this kind of transcendent communication into existence. I have to be open and truly present, and if I am lucky, grace descends. My best photographs are an honest collaboration, and when the viewer also connects, I feel the circle is complete.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Lying, Communication

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