Transcending Quotes

• One of the most effective means for transcending ordinary and moving into the realm of extraordinary is saying yes more frequently and eliminating no almost completely. I call it saying yes to life. Say yes to yourself, to your family, your children, your coworkers, and your business.

  Wayne Dyer

  Life, Children, Business

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-create Your World Your Way: Easyread Large Edition”, p.137, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

  Gabriel Marcel

  Men, Thinker, Contemporary

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• One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same.

  Amos Oz

  Sea, Secret, Facts

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• Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Choices, Fundamentals, Way

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• See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

  Keith Haring

  Reality, Paint

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• Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.

  Max Bill

  Taken, Creating, Yield

  Max Bill, Eduard Hüttinger, Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1978). “Max Bill”

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• Europe has lived on its contradictions, flourished on its differences, and, constantly transcending itself thereby, has created a civilization on which the whole world depends even when rejecting it. This is why I do not believe in a Europe unified under the weight of an ideology or of a technocracy that overlooked these differences.

  Albert Camus

  Believe, Europe, Civilization

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.243, Vintage

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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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• Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.

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  Ram Dass

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Data

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.53, Harmony

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• Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Success, Dream

  "The Law of Success". Book by Napoleon Hill, 1928.

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• One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Eye, Identity

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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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• My struggle has allowed me to transcend that sense of shame and stigma identified with my being a Black gay man. Having come through the fire, they can't touch me.

  Marlon Riggs

  Struggle, Gay, Men

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• A true spiritual practitioner is someone who has discovered that it is possible to be at ease in the world for no reason, if only for a few moments at a time, and that such ease is synonymous with transcending the apparent boundaries of the self.

  Sam Harris

  Spiritual, Self, Ease

  Sam Harris (2014). “Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• One's attention has to penetrate the chaotic activity, pass through all the layers of subtle thought, and at last emerge into silence. This is the basic process of transcending.

  Deepak Chopra

  Silence, Layers, Lasts

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• I strive to express the spiritual nature of the universe.

  Richard Pousette-Dart

  Spiritual, Strive, Universe

  Richard Pousette-Dart, Judith Higgins, Paul Kruty (1986). “Transcending Abstraction: Richard Pousette-Dart, Paintings 1939-1985”

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• Transcending the cycle of death and rebirth is the real purpose of this life in human form.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Real, Purpose

  Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Amma (2014). “Awaken Children Vol. 6”, p.22, M A Center

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• Yoga does not remove us from the reality or responsibilities of everyday life but rather places our feet firmly and resolutely in the practical ground of experience. We don't transcend our lives; we return to the life we left behind in the hopes of something better.

  Donna Farhi

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or ideal, there would be no wars.

  Arthur Koestler

  Loyalty, War, Self

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• Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

  Jimmy Carter

  Love, Nature, Art

  Jimmy Carter (1994). “An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections”, p.10, University of Arkansas Press

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• In achieving the depersonalization of childbirth and at the same time solving the problem of pain, our society may have lost more than it has gained. We are left with the physical husk; the transcending significance has been drained away.

  Sheila Kitzinger

  Pain, Parenting, May

  Sheila Kitzinger (1978). “Women as mothers”

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• The individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals; he exists only by transcending himself, and his freedom can be achieved only through the freedom of others. He justifies his existence by a movement which, like freedom, springs from his heart but which leads outside of himself.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Spring, Heart, Movement

  Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.133, Open Road Media

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• The first question here, then, is not "What is best for my soul?" nor is it even "What is most useful to humanity?" But-transcending both these limited aims-what function must this life fulfill in the great and secret economy of God?

  Evelyn Underhill

  Soul, Humanity, Secret

  Evelyn Underhill (2003). “Evelyn Underhill: Essential Writings”

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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

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• The great soul is the person who has taken on the task of change. If he or she is able to transcend fear, to act out of courage, the whole group will benefit and each one, in his or her own life, will be suddenly more courageous, though they may not see how or why.

  Gary Zukav

  Taken, Soul, Groups

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Feb 16, 2015

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