Transcendental Quotes - Page 4

• I meditate. I do transcendental meditation and I have been doing that for a long time and that does just clear the mind. I am not religious at all.

  Naomi Watts

  Religious, Long, Meditation

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Every true artist does feel, consciously or unconsciously, that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil. In other words, the natural mystic does know that there is something there, something behind the clouds or within the trees; but he believes that the pursuit of beauty is the way to find it; that imagination is a sort of incantation that can call it up.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Believe, Artist, Clouds

  "The Everlasting Man". Book by G. K. Chesterton, V: Man and Mythologies, 1925.

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• 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

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• 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

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

  David Lynch

  Keys, Practice, Meditation

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• You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of complicated state of mind. The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Lying, Mind, Phrases

  'Patience' (1881) act 1

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• 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

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• I become exaggerated, and loud, and obnoxious, and full of the spirit of improvisation. That's one of the weird things about performing, I think that any performer will say the same thing when you're on stage in front of a crowd there's a certain moment when you kind of click into a trance-like state and you just kind of go with it. I love getting into that mode. It's transcendental.

  Wayne White

  Thinking, Crowds, Spirit

  "That's what art really tries to do. Just strip away all the pretense and it's trying to entertain and excite". Interview with Julie Thomson, logger.believermag.com. October 9, 2013.

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• 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

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• 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.

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• All science is transcendental or else passes away.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Passing Away

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.211, Harvard University Press

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• The future is the only transcendental value for men without God.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Without God, Values

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

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• Transcendental [numbers], They transcend the power of algebraic methods.

  Leonhard Euler

  Numbers, Method

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• Being established in my life, buttressed by my thinking nature, fastened down in this transcendental field which was opened for me by my first perception, and in which all absence is merely the obverse of a presence, all silence a modality of the being of sound, I enjoy a sort of ubiquity and theoretical eternity, I feel destined to move in a flow of endless life, neither the beginning nor the end of which I can experience in thought, since it is my living self who think of them, and since thus my life always precedes and survives itself.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Moving, Thinking, Self

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Thomas Baldwin (2004). “Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings”, p.163, Psychology Press

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• If at the one moment in your life when the chance of something transcendental is offered to you, if you have this chance to move beyond the surface of things, to understand - and you say, No, maybe not... What then? How do you explain the rest of your life to yourself? How do you pass the time until you die? Do you substitute for that an interest in what - eating? Do you spend the next sixty years trying to be fascinated by the act of breathing?

  Sebastian Faulks

  Moving, Years, Breathing

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• The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we are salvaging from the splitting-open of our lives. -from "Transcendental Etude

  Adrienne Rich

  Poverty, Glamour, Mistrust

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• The transcendental knowledge of devotional service is digested by the engyme of humility.

  Radhanath Swami

  Humility, Devotional

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• The theist can only find meaning by leaving this life for a transcendental world beyond the grave. The human world as he finds it is empty of 'ultimate purpose' and hence meaningless. Theism thus is an attempt to escape from the human condition; it is a pathetic deceit.

  Paul Kurtz

  Leaving, Atheism, Deceit

  Paul Kurtz “Toward a New Enlightenment: The Philosophy of Paul Kurtz”, Transaction Publishers

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• It is precisely because our present life is so inseparably linked with desire that we must make use of desire's tremendous energy if we wish to transform our life into something transcendental.

  Thubten Yeshe

  Wish, Desire, Energy

  Thubten Yeshe (2005). “Introduction to Tantra: The Transformation of Desire”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• ...liberation from constraints that operate at the level of ordinary humanity---limits imposed by space and time, by the needs of the body, and by the opaqueness of the computer-like mind. All three examples [Jacob Lorber, Edgar Cayce, and Therese Neumann] illustrates the paradoxical truth that such 'higher powers' cannot be acquired by any kind of attack or conquest conducted by the human personality; only when the striving for 'power' has entirely ceased and been replaced by a certain transcendental longing, often called the love of God, may they, or may they not be 'added unto you.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Space, Personality, Humanity

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• Music that touches the transcendental aspect of a human being is reserved for a marginal audience

  John McLaughlin

  Aspect, Audience, Humans

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• The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly can, and no one should.

  Vartan Gregorian

  House, Library, Graduates

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• Those who pretend to investigate the transcendental truths of the Being based on pure reasoning fall in the same mistake as someone who, ignoring how to use the science's modern instruments, tries to study the life of what is infinitely small with telescopes and the life of what is infinitely large with microscopes.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Mistake, Fall, Trying

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• I love being outside with trees and water, lying down somewhere or walking. I do transcendental meditation, which keeps me calm and steady.

  Naomi Watts

  Lying, Love Is, Water

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• The intellectual tension that seems to work its way through this society almost like fat through meat is the tension between scientific reductionism and the deeply felt intuition of most people that there is a spiritual dimension, or a hidden dimension, or a transcendental dimension.

  Terence McKenna

  Spiritual, People, Intellectual

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