Transcendental Quotes - Page 5

• When an ensemble is really tight or playing as one, it's a transcendental experience. It is spiritual. It goes beyond the ensemble. Ray and I and Robby and Jim were pretty tight, musically and spiritually.

  John Densmore

  Spiritual, Rays, Ensemble

  FaceBook post by John Densmore from Mar 26, 2016

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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of attack or conquest conducted by the human personality; only when the striving for 'power' has entirely ceased and been replaced by a certain transcendental longing, often called the love of God, may they, or may they not be 'added unto you.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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• But the summits of poetry are mysteries; they are shiftingly veiled, and those who catch the glimpses see different aspects of the transcendental; but they have seen something, and they come down with the glory lingering on them.

  Ruth Pitter

  Glimpse, Different, Mystery

  Ruth Pitter (1969). “Collected poems”

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• Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Artist, Touching, Shadow

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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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• I don't feel the individualist anarchists, particularly in the American tradition, including the Transcendental tradition of New England, in any way deserve the derogatory comments that are often made about them by the left. When one gets down to it ultimately, my anarcho-communism stems from a commitment to true individuality. My attempt to recover the power and the right of the individual to control his or her life and destiny is the basis to my anarcho-communism.

  Murray Bookchin

  Commitment, Destiny, Individuality

  Interview with Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. October 1979.

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• In the beginning of my twenties, I started transcendental meditation. For years, I did nothing else. Every holiday, I went to courses. Meditation is a real simple instrument. You don't need a long beard or a sari. It's meant to bring you to yourself. It's as easy as that.

  Peter Lindbergh

  Real, Holiday, Simple

  Interview with Léa Seydoux, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 23, 2014.

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• What interests me is the following paradox: of how, precisely in our liberal societies, where no one can even imagine a transcendental cause for which to die, we are allowed to adopt a hedonistic, utilitarian, or even more spiritually egotistical stance - like, the goal of my life is the realization of all my potential, fulfillment of my innermost desires, whatever you want.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Goal, Desire, Realization

  Source: www.electronicbookreview.com

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• Nietzsche saw that ultimately the problem of nihilism is the problem of what to do with time: Why keep investing in the future when there is no longer any transcendental guarantor, a positive end of time as ultimate reconciliation or redemption, ensuring a pay-off for this investment? Nietzsche's solution - his attempted overcoming of nihilism - consists in affirming the senselessness of becoming as such - all becoming, without reservation or discrimination.

  Ray Brassier

  Nihilism, Redemption, Overcoming

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• There is something that is transcendental about when we are immersed in that which we most love.

  Richard Bach

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• There are ancient and modern poems which breathe, in their entirety and in every detail, the divine breath of irony. In such poemsthere lives a real transcendental buffoonery. Their interior is permeated by the mood which surveys everything and rises infinitely above everything limited, even above the poet's own art, virtue, and genius; and their exterior form by the histrionic style of an ordinary good Italian buffo.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Real, Italian

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• The promise of celebrity is a transcendental human state of existence. It's not real. We do know the fact that celebrities as mortal beings exist and if you are looking for love by being famous or being around the famous - ultimately that goes away.

  George Hickenlooper

  Real, Promise, Facts

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I do not believe in a personal connection to God; that's where it gets transcendental.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Believe, Connections, Personal Connection

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There is no mundane dimension really, if you have the eyes to see it, it is all transcendental.

  Terence McKenna

  Eye, Dimensions, Mundane

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• Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  People, Meditation, Psychology

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• The practice of Transcendental Meditation creates a natural situation in the mind so that the mind entertains right thoughts, useful thoughts, thoughts that are cherished by nature and whose fulfillment is worked out by all the laws of nature.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Law, Practice, Meditation

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• There is one unity, unified wholeness, total natural law, in the transcendental unified consciousness.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Law, Unity, Consciousness

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• The Self of everyone, the Atma of everyone, the transcendental field of reality of everyone, is the same in everyone. Whether the body calls itself an American, German, Indian or Chinese, it doesn't matter.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Reality, Self, Chinese

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• Individual potential of life is cosmic potential. Individual is divine deep inside. Transcendental experience awakens that divinity in man. And when you kill a man you deprive him of that birthright of it.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Men, Divinity, Life Is

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• The so-called transcendental meditation is nothing but a psychological tranquilizer. It is nothing—just a tranquilizer. It helps, but it is good for sleep, not for meditation. You can sleep well, a more calm sleep will be there. It is good, but it is not meditation at all. If you repeat a word constantly it creates a certain boredom, and boredom is good for sleep.

  Rajneesh

  Sleep, Boredom, Meditation

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• Warhol and other Pop artists had brought the art religion of art for art's sake to an end.  If art was only business, then rock expressed that transcendental, religious yearning for communal, nonmarket esthetic feeling that official art denied.  For a time during the seventies, rock culture became the religion of the avant-garde art world.

  Dan Graham

  Religious, Art, Rocks

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• The main point of any spiritual practice is to step out of the bureaucracy of ego. This means stepping out of ego's constant desire for a higher, more spiritual, more transcendental version of knowledge, religion, virtue, judgment, comfort, or whatever it is that the particular ego is seeking. One must step out of spiritual materialism.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Spiritual, Mean, Practice

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.16, Shambhala Publications

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• I've tried Buddhism, Scientology, Numerology, Transcendental Meditation, Qabbala, t'ai chi, feng shui and Deepak Chopra but I find straight gin works best.

  Phyllis Diller

  Philosophy, Buddhism, Meditation

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• Of course, pictures of objects also have this transcendental side to them. Every object, being part of an ultimately incomprehensible world, also embodies that world; when represented in a picture, the object conveys this mystery all the more powerfully, the less of a 'function' the picture has. Hence, for instance, the growing fascination of many beautiful old portraits.

  Gerhard Richter

  Beautiful, Art, Fascination

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• No one can be certain where a nation which spans two continents, whose history begins in the faint traces of early civilization, a nation now struggling to find a new and valid philosophy of existence, will be propelled by the transcendental forces of the nuclear age.

  Harrison Salisbury

  Philosophy, Struggle, Future

  Harrison Evans Salisbury (1965). “Russia”, Scribner

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