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

  Eric Butterworth

  Whole

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• Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the immanent and transcendent Godhead.

  Aldous Huxley

  Soul, Contemplation, Divine

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• We're losing a ritual. We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.

  Abraham Verghese

  Motivation, Believe, Inspiration

  "A doctor's touch". TED Talks, www.ted.com. July 2011.

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• Transcendent values like trust and integrity literally translate into revenue, profits and prosperity.

  Patricia Aburdene

  Integrity, Prosperity, Profit

  Patricia Aburdene (2005). “Megatrends Two Thousand and Ten”, Hampton Roads Publishing Company Incorporated

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• I’m aware that there is a bigger, far more complicated world out there than I’d ever realized, and just like the students at Beijing University, I’ve glimpsed it only fleetingly, peripherally. I’ve sensed the vast expanse of my own ignorance now. I feel antsy and constricted and a deep, almost sexual yearning for velocity, for some sort of raw, transcendent experience that I cannot even begin to articulate.

  Susan Jane Gilman

  Ignorance, Complicated World, Velocity

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• I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent.

  Edward Abbey

  Magic, Wonder, Evoke

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• Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Giving, Attention, Action

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.117, Stanford University Press

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• My whole life had been spent waiting for an epiphany, a manifestation of God's presence, the kind of transcendent, magical experience that lets you see your place in the big picture. And that is what I had with my first [compost] heap.

  Bette Midler

  Waiting, Firsts, Kind

  "Singing the Praises of Composting" by Jodi Wilgoren, articles.latimes.com. May 8, 1996.

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• Contemplation is life itself, fully awake, fully active, and fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder. It is spontaneous awe at the sacredness of life, of being. It is gratitude for life, for awareness, and for being. It is a vivid realization of the fact that life and being in us proceed from an invisible, transcendent, and infinitely abundant Source.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Realization

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.1, New Directions Publishing

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• Made in the perfect image of a perfect relationship, we are relational to the core of our beings and filled with a desire for transcendent purpose. We long to be an irreplaceable part of a shared adventure.

  Stasi Eldredge

  Adventure, Long, Perfect

  John Eldredge, Stasi Eldredge (2011). “Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul”, p.15, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Lying, Media

  "What I've Learned: Chuck Close" by Andy Ward, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. 'Terra Nova' is the Hubble Telescope of television.

  Stephen Lang

  Telescopes, Myopic, Stories

  "'Terra Nova is the Hubble Telescope of television,' says Terra Nova star who means that in a good way" by Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. March 09, 2012.

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• We need Goddess consciousness to reveal earth's holiness. Divine feminine imagery opens up the notion that the earth is the body of the Divine, and when that happens, the Divine cannot be contained solely in a book, church, dogma, liturgy, theological system, or transcendent spirituality. The earth is no longer a mere backdrop until we get to heaven, something secondary and expendable. Mater becomes inspirited; it breathes divinity. Earth comes alive and sacred. And we find ourselves alive in the midst of her and forever altered.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Book, Divine Feminine, Forever

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• I pray we... come to this darkness so far above light! If only we lacked sight and knowledge so as to see, so as to know, unseeing and unknowing, that which lies beyond all vision and knowledge. For this would be really to see and to know: to praise the Transcendent One in a transcending way... We would be like sculptors who set out to carve a statue. They remove every obstacle to the pure view of the hidden image, and simply by the act of clearing aside they show up the beauty which is hidden.

  Pope Dionysius

  Christian, Lying, Light

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• Have endless patterns and repetitions accompanying your thoughtlessness, as if to say let go of that other more linear story, with its beginning, middle, and end, with its transcendent end, let go, we are the poem, we have come miles of life, we have survived this far to tell you, go on, go on.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Letting Go, Stories, Goes On

  Lidia Yuknavitch (2013). “The Chronology of Water: A Memoir”, p.18, Hawthorne Books

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• We all look to have transcendent experiences that lift us out of the everyday, and fear is a good one. But, I think it's the same reason why people want to laugh their heads off.

  Adam Arkin

  Thinking, People, Laughing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The collective experience of watching a great film together in a room is a transcendent moment that will never die.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Together, Rooms, Film

  "Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna Stage Their Own Revolución". Interview with Cynthia Ellis, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2010.

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• Life is a terrible conflict, a grandiose and atrocious confluence. Hunting submerges man deliberately in that formidable mystery and therefore contains something of religious rite and emotion in which homage is paid to what is divine, transcendent, and in the laws of Nature.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Religious, Men, Hunting

  Jose Ortega y Gasset (2007). “Meditations on Hunting”, p.106, Wilderness Adventures Press

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• Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

  Goldwin Smith

  Beauty, Heart, Ignorant

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• The Christian is more than an empty vessel. He has...Someone within. We have a treasure in the earthen vessel, and not only a treasure - a transcendent power! That is humanity as God intended it to be. The vessel is not much in itself, but it holds an inestimable treasure, beyond price, and a transcendent power, greater than any other power known to men.

  Ray Stedman

  Christian, Men, Empty Vessels

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• Best of all, persons can sometimes be app-transcendent: making dramatic progress or discoveries, without any dependence on any app. In this context, I like to mention Steve Jobs. While he had as much to do as anyone with the invention and development of apps, he NEVER was limited by the current technology - indeed, he typically transcended it and relied on his own considerable wits.

  Howard Gardner

  Jobs, Technology, Discovery

  Source: howardgardner.com

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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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