Transcendence Quotes

• Transcendence constitutes selfhood.

  Martin Heidegger

  Philosophical

  Martin Heidegger (1969). “The essence of reasons”, Northwestern Univ Pr

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• Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Thinking, Space

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  Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

  John Milton

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "Gratitude in Grief: Finding Daily Joy and a Life of Purpose Following the Death of My Son" by Kelly S. Buckley, (p. 133), 2010.

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• Transcending the world does not mean to withdraw from the world, to no longer take action, or to stop interacting with people. Transcendence of the world is to act and to interact without any self-seeking.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Self, People

  Source: home.online.nl

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• Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Self, Giving

  Viktor E. Frankl (2011). “The Unheard Cry for Meaning: Psychotherapy and Humanism”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Transcendence is something between a metaphor and a miracle.

  Mason Cooley

  Miracle, Metaphor

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• Our spiritual mission is not to ignore the darkness, but to bring light TO the darkness. Ignoring darkness does not dispel it; only the light does. That is the difference between denial and transcendence.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Light, Differences

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• Transcendence gets you beyond ego. If you go beyond ego, you see all of this in a more decent perspective and you can start to put all the pieces together. We haven't done that yet. Not as a civilization.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Civilization, Perspective, Ego

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Without transcendence, life has no beauty.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “Creating Affluence: The A-to-Z Steps to a Richer Life”, p.40, Amber-Allen Publishing

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

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Self, Sides, Side Effects

  Viktor E. Frankl (1966). “Man's Search for Meaning”

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• Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.

  Stanislav Grof

  Time, Space, Psychology

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• Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme. Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine. ... to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal. What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Simple, Intuition, Analysis

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1983). “I Asked for Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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• Each new day beckons you to walk on the road of self-transcendence. We transcend ourselves, we do not compete with others. We compete only with our previous achievements, and we get joy. Life is nothing but a perpetual possibility.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Motivational, Self, New Day

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• It seems to me that one of the most basic human experiences, one that is genuinely universal and unites-or, more precisely, could unite-all of humanity, is the experience of transcendence in the broadest sense of the word.

  Vaclav Havel

  Humanity, Human Experience, Humans

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• When the eternal and the human meet, that's where love is born -- not through escaping our humanity or trying to disappear into transcendence, but through finding that place where they come into union.

  Adyashanti

  Love Is, Escaping, Humanity

  Adyashanti (2014). “Resurrecting Jesus: Embodying the Spirit of a Revolutionary Mystic”, p.114, Sounds True

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• Learning always involves self-transcendence. Learning calls forth what is in us, helping us to move toward authenticity and wholeness.

  Karl Rahner

  Inspirational, Moving, Self

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• 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.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Being Yourself, Responsibility

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• You and I are created for transcendence, laughter, caring. God deliberately did not make the world perfect, for God is looking for you and me to be fellow workers with God.

  Desmond Tutu

  Laughter, Caring, Perfect

  University of Michigan Wallenberg Lecture, October 29, 2008.

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• We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of something that is symbolic of transcendence and mystery. The mystery is what’s important.

  Joseph Campbell

  Thinking, Important, Facts

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

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Get Well, Healing

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.23, Penguin

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• 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.

  Adyashanti

  Yoga, Mean, Meditation

  Adyashanti (2012). “True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness”, p.23, Sounds True

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• It has been preached in every country, taught everywhere, but only believed in by a few, because until we get the experience ourselves, we cannot believe in it.

  Bill Vaughan

  Country, Believe, Taught

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• 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.

  Richard Rorty

  Ambition, Belief, Motive

  Richard Rorty (1991). “Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers”, p.12, Cambridge University Press

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• The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body isn't below the mind and the spirit; from the point of view it's between them. if you reside too much in the mind, then you get too abstract and cut off from the world. You long for the spiritual life, but you can't get to it, and you fall into despair. The exercise of the senses frees you from abstraction and opens the way to transcendence.

  Jane Smiley

  Running, Spiritual, Fall

  Jane Smiley (2017). “Moo”, p.216, Pan Macmillan

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• ...being human always points, and is directed, to something, or someone, other than oneself—be it meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter. The more one forgets himself—by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love—the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.... What is called self-actualization is not an attainable aim at all, for the simple reason that the more one would strive for it, the more he would miss it. In other words, self-actualization is possible only as a side-effect of self-transcendence.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Simple, Self, Giving

  Viktor E. Frankl (2017). “Man's Search for Meaning: A Young Adult Edition”, p.109, Beacon Press

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