Transcendence Quotes

Transcendence constitutes selfhood.

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.

Transcendence is something between a metaphor and a miracle.

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

A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.

Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.

Transcendence means going beyond duality. Attachment means remaining within duality.

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

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.

Our goal is self-transcendence

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

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

Transcendence and dissolution, always the same thing.

Without transcendence, life has no beauty.

Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.

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

Transcendence: that which transcends experience.

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

Awe is the emotion of self-transcendence.

...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures.

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

Sex has the unparalleled power to make us absurd to ourselves. It also has the power to make us understand transcendence.

My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am.

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