Transcendent Quotes

• Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies.

  John Milton

  Gratitude, Everyday, Thankfulness

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• People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.

  David Eagleman

  People, Bigger

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• Being in love is the only transcendent experience.

  Armistead Maupin

  Love, Being In Love, Love Is

  "The loneliest man in Frisco" by Peter Conrad, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2000.

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• Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.

  John Milton

  Gratitude, Forever, Thankfulness

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• Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.

  Arthur Peacocke

  Selfish, Humanity, Desire

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• David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Running, Home, Watches

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• Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event in that spatial world which appears, by virtue of consciousness, to be transcendent.

  Edmund Husserl

  Events, World, Way

  Edmund Husserl, Peter McCormick, Frederick Elliston (1981). “Husserl, shorter works”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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• After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.

  Martha Gellhorn

  War, Years, People

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• Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?

  Mary Douglas

  Jealousy, Believe, Frustration

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• Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.

  Francis Arinze

  Culture, Elements, Dimensions

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• The new culture war is about national identity rather than religion and 'transcendent authority.' It focuses on which groups the United States will formally admit to residence and citizenship. It asks the same question as the old culture war: 'Who are we?' But the earlier query was primarily about how we define ourselves morally. The new question is about how we define ourselves ethnically, racially and linguistically. It is, in truth, one of the oldest questions in our history, going back to our earliest immigration battles of the 1840s and 1850s.

  E. J. Dionne

  War, Battle, Identity

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• God dwells in His creation and is everywhere indivisibly present in all His works. He is transcendent above all His works even while He is immanent within them.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Creation

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• The thing is, I've always tried to create transcendent moments. Moments that take people away from their concerns. Heaven to me is when people find a way to become so involved with life that they're no longer concerned for the future.

  Jim Carrey

  People, Heaven, Way

  "Jim Carrey On His 'World Stopping' New Book". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. September 24, 2013.

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• When we cultivate mystical awareness or transcendent identity--which is a natural outgrowth of meditation and other practices--what happens is that we begin to take a witness position on our own lives, and that includes our minds. We break the illusion that we think our own thoughts, which is not always the case. Some ideas just arrive in our heads.

  James Redfield

  Thinking, Practice, Ideas

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• Reality is when you pay the rent. Get caught in traffic or your car breaks down. Really it's an AM/FM sort of thing. You've got reality and then there's the miraculous and the transcendent. And once you start, time stops.

  Carolyn See

  Reality, Car, Pay

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• It is in [the] process of making something... that the creator contacts a concrete reality outside his subjective life and moves into the realm of the transcendent.

  Joseph C Zinker

  Moving, Reality, Process

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• I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Prayer, Believe, Everyday

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• Falling in love is a completely transcendent experience. It's like eating pizza-flavored ice cream

  Mike Birbiglia

  Falling In Love, Love Is, Ice Cream

  Mike Birbiglia (2012). “Sleepwalk with Me: And Other Painfully True Stories”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• Beauty is transcendent. It is our most immediate experience of the eternal. Think of what it's like to behold a gorgeous sunset or the ocean at dawn. Remember the ending of a great story. We yearn to linger, to experience it all our days. Sometimes the beauty is so deep it pierces us with longing. For what? For life as it was meant to be. Beauty reminds us of an Eden we have never known, but somehow our hearts were created for.

  Stasi Eldredge

  Ocean, Heart, Sunset

  John Eldredge, Stasi Eldredge (2005). “Captivating: A Guided Journal: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul”, p.53, Thomas Nelson

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• It seems to me that any ideology is bad because it is inevitably reductive and identifies other ideologies as evil, and itself with truth, whereas both truth and goodness are always transcendent.

  Alexander Schmemann

  Evil, Goodness, Ideology

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• Sadly the very thing that strikes us as obvious always defeats our thinking about it in more penetrating ways: just as the Romans said that "the good is the enemy of the better," so too "the self-evident is the enemy of the very process of clarification or understanding," not to mention the enemy of the "transcendent or ultimate."

  Kenny Smith

  Thinking, Self, Understanding

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• So far as the personality is still potential, it can be called transcendent, and so far as it is unconscious, it is indistinguishable from all those things that carry its projections...that is, symbols of the outside world and the cosmic symbols. These form the psychological basis for the conception of man as a macrocosm through the astrological components of his character.

  Carl Jung

  Character, Men, Astrology

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• Through a portrait, we can potentially see everything — the history and depth of a person's life, as well as evidence of a primal universal presence. I have dedicated my life and creative energy to capturing these transcendent moments in which a connection is made between the subject, the photographer, and the viewer.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Creative, Energy

  "Dialogues with Great Photographers - Joyce Tenneson". Interview with Kyle Harris, www.hlphotogallery.com.

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• No wonder psychedelics are threatening to an authoritarian religious hierarchy. You don’t need faith to benefit from a psychedelic experience, let alone a priest or even a shaman to interpret it. What you need is courage—courage to drink the brew, eat the mushroom, or whatever it is, and then to pay attention, and make of it what you will. Suddenly, the tools for direct contact with the transcendent other (whether you call it God or something else) is taken from the hands of an anointed elite and given to the individual seeker.

  Dennis McKenna

  Religious, Courage, Taken

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• Art. Its definitions are legion, its meanings multitudinous, its importance often debated. But amid the many contradictory definitions of art, one has always stood the test of time, from the Upanishads in the East, to Michelangelo in the West: art is the perception and depiction of the sublime, the transcendent, the beautiful, the spiritual.

  Ken Wilber

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Art

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