Transcendental Quotes - Page 3

• Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm
  in the midst of so much turbulence.

  Paul McCartney

  Islands, Giving, Meditation

  11 Copy quote

• If world peace is to be established, peace in the individual must be established first. Transcendental Meditation directly brings peace in the individual life.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Meditation, World, Firsts

  19 Copy quote

• Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature
  is ourselves, to be cherished and explored. Shamanism has always known this,
  and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the
  path required allies. These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the
  mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that
  nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until
  it is now nearly too late.

  Terence McKenna

  Teaching, Expression, Understanding

  38 Copy quote

• The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.

  David Lynch

  Lying, Meditation, True Happiness

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Modern transcendental idealism, Emersonianism, for instance, also seems to let God evaporate into abstract Ideality. Not a deity in concreto, not a superhuman person, but the immanent divinity in things, the essentially spiritual structure of the universe, is the object of the transcendentalist cult. In that address of the graduating class at Divinity College in 1838 which made Emerson famous, the frank expression of this worship of mere abstract laws was what made the scandal of the performance.

  William James

  Letting Go, Spiritual, College

  "The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature". Book by William James, 1902.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Mediums, Contact

  Interview with Nicholas Serota, www.timeout.com. October 10, 2011.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The transcendental light permeates your being and washes away impurity. All those different selves which are limited and binding and hurting are washed away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hurt, Buddhism, Light

  8 Copy quote

• It is in the measure that special methods acknowledge their common core in transcendental method, that norms common to all the sciences will be acknowledged, that a secure basis will be attained for tackling interdisciplinary problems, and that the sciences will be mobilized within a higher unity of vocabulary, thought and orientation, in which they will be able to make their quite significant contribution to the solution of fundamental problems.

  Bernard Lonergan

  Vocabulary, Unity, Special

  17 Copy quote

• Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because if it is shared, you are down in duality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Effort, Eternity

  4 Copy quote

• The problem of an eidos in history, hence, arises only when a Christian transcendental fulfillment becomes immanentized. Such an immanentist hypostasis of the eschaton, however, is a theoretical fallacy.

  Eric Voegelin

  Christian, Problem, Arise

  Eric Voegelin, James L. Wizer (1998). “The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin”, p.185, University of Missouri Press

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nothing has ever opened my eyes like transcendental meditation has. It makes me calm and happy, and, well, it gives me some peace and quiet in what’s a pretty chaotic life!

  Hugh Jackman

  Eye, Giving, Meditation

  4 Copy quote

• Mathematics speaks to the transcendental, as does this extraordinary friendship. A beautiful book!

  James Tanton

  Beautiful, Book, Doe

  4 Copy quote

• When the great religious and philosophical conceptions were alive, thinking people did not extol humility and brotherly love, justice and humanity because it was realistic to maintain such principles and odd and dangerous to deviate from them, or because these maxims were more in harmony with their supposedly free tastes than others. They held to such ideas because they saw in them elements of truth, because they connected them with the idea of logos, whether in the form of God or of a transcendental mind, or even of nature as an eternal principle.

  Max Horkheimer

  Religious, Philosophical, Humility

  "Eclipse of Reason" by Max Horkheimer, (p. 34), 1947.

  37 Copy quote

  Show source

• Read books that expand you, that are bright. See films, plays, art forms that elevate your consciousness, that bring you into a sense of how beautiful this world is, how beautiful other worlds are, how beautiful nirvana, the transcendental is.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Art, Book

  4 Copy quote

• People do tend to fear and despise shamans but turn to them in times of desperation. Such a contradiction is a human characteristic, no? I'm more pulled to the human drama of shamans - their experience in society and identity struggles - than their transcendental power. Their drastic lives enable them to empathize with others and provide solace.

  Hyon Gyon

  Drama, Struggle, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Be true to yourself. Don't take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.

  David Lynch

  Meditation, Answers, Be True To Yourself

  "Watch: David Lynch Gives Some Pithy Filmmaking Advice On Instagram" by Paula Bernstein, www.indiewire.com. August 28, 2013.

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• It seems that certain transcendental realities emit rays to which the masses are sensitive. That is how, for example, when an event takes place, when at the front an army is in danger, or defeated, or victorious, the rather obscure news which the cultivated man does not quite understand, excite in the masses an emotion which surprises him and in which, once the experts have informed him of the actual military situation, he recognizes the populace's perception of that "aura" surrounding great events and visible for hundreds of kilometers.

  Marcel Proust

  Military, War, Army

  6 Copy quote

• I do not believe that there was ever a question of being abstract or representational. It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing, and stretching one's arms again transcendental experiences became possible.

  Mark Rothko

  Believe, Breathing, Silence

  Mark Rothko (1997). “Mark Rothko”, Stewart Tabori & Chang

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ocean, Greatness, Silence

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.15

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think music is a spiritual way to communicate transcendental things.

  Christopher Owens

  Spiritual, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.gq.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is a power in the land in Concord, in Lincoln, in the western Boston suburbs. There's an inter-dimensional vortex that opens in a variety of places in this area, which leads one to a transcendental reality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reality, Boston

  4 Copy quote

• Rice and peas fit into that category of dishes where two ordinary foods, combined together, ignite a pleasure far beyond the capacity of either of its parts alone. Like rhubarb and strawberries, apple pie and cheese, roast pork and sage, the two tastes and textures meld together into the sort of subtle transcendental oneness that we once fantasized would be our experience when we finally found the ideal mate.

  John Thorne

  Two, Oneness, Apples

  19 Copy quote

• When you practice Transcendental Meditation you are given a key to the deepest level of life.

  David Lynch

  Keys, Practice, Meditation

  4 Copy quote

• The impersonal aspect [of God] (Nirakara, Nirguna) is called Brahman, or 'unknowable' by Herbert Spencer, 'will' by Schopenhauer, Absolute Noumenon by some 'substance' by Spinoza. The personal aspect (Sakara) of that Being is termed 'Ishvara' or Allah, Hari, Jehova, Father in Heaven, Buddha, Siva, etc. Just as vapour or steam is formless, so also God is formless in His unmanifested or transcendental state.

  Sivananda

  Father, Heaven, Substance

  13 Copy quote