Top 207 Transcendence Quotes & Sayings

I'm interested in taking hold of the dull truth narrative and finding inside it the transcendence and spirituality and hysteria normally associated with religion.

Where character forbids self-indulgence, transcendence still hovers around.

Awe is the emotion of self-transcendence.

Transcendence is the only real alternative to extinction. This is serious. This may be the ultimate final exam.

Individual self-transcendence collectively inspires humanity at large.

There is little mysticism without an element of transcendence, and conversely, there is no transcendence without a certain degree of egocentrism. It may be that the genesis of these experiences is to be sought in the unique situation of the very young child in relation to adults. The theory of the filial origin of the religious sense seems to us singularly convincing in this connection.

My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence.

Love is at once an affirmation and a transcendence of who we are.

The whole dimension of religious belief requires transcendence, it requires going beyond what you can establish rationally.

Transcendence of sex is a totally different phenomenon from the suppression of it. But suppression can give you the feeling that you have transcended.

What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist?

Transcendence: that which transcends experience.

Within alpinism's narrow framework we seek transcendence and relentlessly pursue what remains hidden from us on flat ground: our true selves.

To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness to others are nevertheless within one's reach.

Liberation is the path of transcendence. Manifestation is the path of immanence. Both lead to the same place: the divine.

For the uniqueness of man lies in his capacity for self-transcendence.

To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence.

It's one of the things that movies do offer you, despite all of their hardships - they offer you moments of transcendence.

People love miracle stories and dramatic moments of transcendence or transformation, and may then pursue their own dramatic "awakenings."

Transcendence and dissolution, always the same thing.

Disassociating, mindfulness, transcendence-whatever the label-it's a sort of loophole in our contract with reality, a form of self-rescue.

What I am feeling in myself, and what is happening to my physical body, to some extent, and what is happening to me mentally, is not a depression, is not a death. It is a transformation. It is a transcendence.

Without transcendence, life has no beauty.

Church is missing transcendence. My generation was raised on a religion of moral control. Do this. Don't do that. And a lot of self-help religion. Feel better. Get out of debt. Six ways to overcome your fears. Seven ways not to lust. Ultimately that message didn't work. It was empty. There was no transcendence. The omniscient, omnipresent, all-powerful God of the universe wasn't the focus.

Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.

And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances he establishes toward all being in his transcendence does a true nearness to things flourish in him.

Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

I think the origins of music have probably to do with magic and transcendence as well.

Can the perpetrator of a "senseless" crime use transcendence as a defense?

The idea of the Bodhisattva is the one who out of his realization of transcendence participates in the world. The imitation of Christ is joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.

What gives life its value if not its constant cry for self-transcendence?

The most striking feature of contemporary culture is the unslaked craving for transcendence.

The greatest movie would be the movie that gave the audience a cathartic feeling of transcendence.

We music fans go to shows for transcendence; it's like being called to prayer.

To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.

I'm not a doom-and-gloom person. But I think there is a difference between transcendence and denial, and much of the Western world is in major denial today.

Ultimately, I want to prepare food that will be recognized equally in Tokyo, London, and Paris. I am after that universality, that transcendence.

During those rare moments of creativeness, when a person has something in common with the making of the universe, he feels a sense of transcendence. What could be a greater reward?

Connection exists. There is immanence and transcendence, and everything beyond and in between. My tradition calls this connection God Herself.

I think people sleepwalk through their lives, and for me, I wanted to embrace everything. And that meant the agonizing pain and the transcendence, and you can't have one without the other.

The shaman has access to a superhuman dimension and a superhuman condition, and by being able to do that he affirms the potential for transcendence in all people. He is an exemplar, if you will.

In moments of transcendence, when time stands still, your biological clock will stop. The spirit is that domain of our awareness where there is no time.

Accept the responsibility of being yourself as you are, with all that is good and with all that is bad, with all that is beautiful and that which is not beautiful. In that acceptance a transcendence happens and one becomes free.

As always, the illusion of self-transcendence is far more facile and available than self-transcendence itself: in the vast majority of cases what human consciousness opens up to is merely a more encompassing form of finitude (another captivating illusion or delusion).

Genuine transcendence doesn't just look away from human suffering and say, "I am at peace, so I'm at the mountaintop." Genuine transcendence looks human suffering in the eye and attains peace because of a faith in things unseen.

Transcendence constitutes selfhood.

I've done a lot of meditation studying on my own, but I've also taken a couple of transcendence classes.

The desire for transcendence is intimately connected with the desire for creativity. It is just as essential to who and what we are.

Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of self-transcendence.

Transcendence is something between a metaphor and a miracle.

In True Meditation, we're in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the transcendence of form is through form itself.

I'm a seeker of transcendence through music, and that's kind of where I'm at with the live shows - wanting to help people get out of their heads a little bit.

The holiness of the real Is always there, accessible In total immanence. The nodes Of transcendence coagulate In you, the experiencer, And in the other, the lover.

People will find transformation and transcendence in a McDonald's hash brown if it's all they've got.

Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence.

Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.

Our goal is self-transcendence

Nike was the essence of sports, transcendence through sports.

I experience transcendence when something infinite reminds me I am finite.

So there's only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That's why I say, "Who cares if you're enlightened forever?"