100 Quotes About Transcendence

The Internet is a wonderful place. It’s a place where we can meet people from around the world, share our lives and interests, and donate money to help those who are in need. But as anyone who has used it for a while knows, there isn’t a single spot online that’s without its fair share of trolls and haters. So how can we deal with these people? How do we avoid them and keep them from spreading their negativity around the web? The answer: transcendence. The way we treat others—whether they’re trolls or not—is all about us Read more

If we want to make the web a better place, we need to start by making our own experience more positive and supportive of others. This is where transcendence comes in: not only does it eliminate hateful comments and mean comments, but it also makes you more accepting of people and situations you may not like. Transcendence is a practice that teaches you how to respond to people and situations with compassion and kindness, no matter what they say or do. It works best when you combine it with other positive practices like gratitude and gratitude journaling. Transcendence is the idea that even if someone says or does something hurtful or hateful to you, you can still respond with kindness, compassion, understanding, acceptance, forgiveness, love, or any other similar response. Transcendence is an idea that helps us to stay calm in the face of negative experiences by reminding us that even if someone says or does something hurtful or hateful to us, it doesn’t reflect on the true person inside them.

It simply reflects how they are feeling at that moment. We can choose not to take it personally because it isn’t about us personally . To practice transcendence , start by reading these two quotes on transcendence . They will give you some ideas on how to do it once you get started! The overall message of transcendence is that even though some people are negative about things around them , none of those things are really about them personally .

Through this philosophy , you are reminded each day that hate speech , meanness , anger , arrogance , jealousy , negativity , criticism, judgment , grudges , spitefulness , intolerance , etc. are all just products of how people feel at the time . They are simply passing emotions through patterns of thought .

Therefore no one personally has anything against you because they don’t know your

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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance. Viktor E. Frankl
Never forget:we walk on hell, gazing at flowers.
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Never forget:we walk on hell, gazing at flowers. Kobayashi Issa
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To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives. We need hope, the sense of a future. And we need freedom (or, at least, the illusion of freedom) to get beyond ourselves, whether with telescopes and microscopes and our ever-burgeoning technology, or in states of mind that allow us to travel to other worlds, to rise above our immediate surroundings. We may seek, too, a relaxing of inhibitions that makes it easier to bond with each other, or transports that make our consciousness of time and mortality easier to bear. We seek a holiday from our inner and outer restrictions, a more intense sense of the here and now, the beauty and value of the world we live in. Oliver Sacks
When you become the image of your own imagination, it's...
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When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do. RuPaul
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We awaken by asking the right questions. We awaken when we see knowledge being spread that goes against our own personal experiences. We awaken when we see popular opinion being wrong but accepted as being right, and what is right being pushed as being wrong. We awaken by seeking answers in corners that are not popular. And we awaken by turning on the light inside when everything outside feels dark. Suzy Kassem
Don't call anyone a devil, because within you, you can...
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Don't call anyone a devil, because within you, you can experience hell and the devil, and the devil is nothing, but you! Michael Bassey Johnson
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He woman Caeiro fell in love with. I have no idea who she was, and I intend to never find out, not even out of curiosity. There are things of which the soul refuses to lose its ignorance. I’m perfectly aware no one’s obliged to reciprocate love, and great poets have nothing to do with being great lovers. But there’s a transcendent spite... Let her remain anonymous even to God! Unknown
We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis.
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We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis. LeeAnn Taylor
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A fish cannot drown in water, A bird does not fall in air. In the fire of creation, God doesn't vanish: The fire brightens. Each creature God mademust live in its own true nature; How could I resist my nature, That lives for oneness with God? Mechthild Of Magdeburg
Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or...
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Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can. Michael A. Singer
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Transcendent, magical romance happens when you’re one hundred percent present for each other as #supersoul lovers. Amy Leigh Mercree
I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to...
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I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go. Criss Jami
Ignorance might be bliss. But self-forgetfulness is pure ecstasy.
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Ignorance might be bliss. But self-forgetfulness is pure ecstasy. Kamand Kojouri
The only path wide enough for us all is love.
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The only path wide enough for us all is love. Kamand Kojouri
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Once to swim I sought the sea-side, There to sport among the billows; With the stone of many colors Sank poor Aino to the bottom Of the deep and boundless blue-sea, Like a pretty son-bird, perished. Never come a-fishing, father, To the borders of these waters, Never during all thy life-time, As thou lovest daughter Aino.Mother dear, I sought the sea-side, There to sport among the billows; With the stone of many colors, Sank poor Aino to the bottom Of the deep and boundless blue-sea, Like a pretty song-bird perished. Never mix thy bread, dear mother, With the blue-sea's foam and waters, Never during all thy life-time, As thou lovest daughter Aino.Brother dear, I sought the sea-side, There to sport among the billows; With the stone of many colors Sank poor Aino to the bottom Of the deep and boundless blue-sea, Like a pretty song-bird perished. Never bring thy prancing war-horse, Never bring thy royal racer, Never bring thy steeds to water, To the borders of the blue-sea, Never during all thy life-time, As thou lovest sister Aino.Sister dear, I sought the sea-side, There to sport among the billows; With the stone of many colors Sank poor Aino to the bottom Of the deep and boundless blue-sea, Like a pretty song-bird perished. Never come to lave thine eyelids In this rolling wave and sea-foam, Never during all thy life-time, As thou lovest sister Aino.All the waters in the blue-sea Shall be blood of Aino's body; All the fish that swim these waters Shall be Aino's flesh forever; All the willows on the sea-side Shall be Aino's ribs hereafter; All the sea-grass on the margin Will have grown from Aino's tresses. Unknown
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How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually. (92) Joseph Campbell
Door of passage to the other side, the soul frees...
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Door of passage to the other side, the soul frees itself in stride. Jim Morrison
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Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you. Aberjhani
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One sip of this wine and you will go mad with drunkenness. You will drop your masks and tear your clothes – destroying everything that separates you from the Lover. Once you taste the fruit of this vine, you will be kicked out of the city of yourself. You will forget the world. You will forget yourself. I tell you: you will become a madman who wanders the streets looking for the Lover once you drink this Wine of Love. Kamand Kojouri
Having drunk the dregs of Your Love, I am intoxicated...
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Having drunk the dregs of Your Love, I am intoxicated beyond recognition. Now, I only pray for the nearness of You so I may advance in my annihilation. Kamand Kojouri
The lover drinksand the cup-bearer pours. The lover thinksbut the...
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The lover drinksand the cup-bearer pours. The lover thinksbut the cup-bearer knows:love begets love. Since this wine is love, then this cup is love, then this tavern is love, then this life is love. Kamand Kojouri
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The argument against faith is all based upon the rigorous analysis of the scriptures, and not upon the objective observation of the actual individual sensation of faith. Historical experiences of the Kingdom of God gave rise to all the scriptures in the world, but the scriptures themselves don’t account for the actual globally prevalent psychological element of faith or divinity in the human mind. Faith is a natural evolutionary trait of the human mind, selected by Mother Nature as an internal coping-mechanism. Abhijit Naskar
Human logic may be rationally adequate, but it is also...
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Human logic may be rationally adequate, but it is also existentially deficient. Faith declares that there is more than this - not contradicting, but transcending reason. Alister E. McGrath
A being with no faith in the human self is...
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A being with no faith in the human self is a being with no spirit of life, regardless of how many Fathers or Holy Spirits or Sons it believes in. Abhijit Naskar
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If I had been born in the medieval times, my subjective union with God and the Universe would have evoked the rise of another Gnostic religion. But, by the grace of Mother Nature, I am born in an era of Science and Reasoning. Hence, I have dissected my own experience of Absolute Divinity as well as the experiences of all the religious giants in my works, in order to discover the physical truth underneath these apparently supernatural experiences. Abhijit Naskar
People will find transformation and transcendence in a McDonald's hash...
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People will find transformation and transcendence in a McDonald's hash brown if it's all they've got. Patton Oswalt
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It was the ultimate celestial orgasm and I felt like a cup overflowing with plenty. The pulse of God moving through me brought such intense pleasure that I felt I might burst like the ripest berry in the sun. Linda Cull
The quest for enlightenment illustrates the paradox of desire–the fact...
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The quest for enlightenment illustrates the paradox of desire–the fact that you must have desire to be motivated to transcend being ruled by desire. Paul OBrien
The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity,...
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The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146) JeanYves Leloup
Don't ever stop believing in your own transformation. It is...
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Don't ever stop believing in your own transformation. It is still happening even on days you may not realize it or feel like it. Lalah Delia
Don’t ever stop believing in your own personal transformation. It...
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Don’t ever stop believing in your own personal transformation. It is still happening even on the days you may not realize it or feel like it. Lalah Delia
May you reach that level within, where you no longer...
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May you reach that level within, where you no longer allow your past or people with toxic intentions to negatively affect or condition you. Lalah Delia
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I do not hail myself as an atheist, for I am not an atheist. In fact, I have met God, felt God and even lived in God, same as the prophets of human history. But mark you, humanism cannot be compromised because of some doctrines presented as God’s command. In the domain of transcendence, all commands received by the mind, are created by the mind itself. They manifest as divine revelations, but in reality, they are revelations rising from the mind itself. And as such, they have potential to be both good and evil. Abhijit Naskar
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My Sikh sisters and brothers proclaim with utter glory and faith “Jo Bole So Nihaal, Sat Sri Akaal”, I say ”Jo Anubhava So Nihaal, Sat Sri Akaal”. My translation of the former is “He who utters ‘Great Eternal Truth’ becomes joyous”, while the latter translates to “He who experiences ‘Great Eternal Truth’ becomes joyous”. Abhijit Naskar
The more a person is united within himself or herself...
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The more a person is united within himself or herself and inwardly simple, the more and higher things he or she understands, because he or she receives the light of understanding from within. Abhijit Naskar
If Christ attained the state of Absolute Divinity, so can...
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If Christ attained the state of Absolute Divinity, so can you. And once you do, then only you will understand the true meaning of Religion and God. Abhijit Naskar
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He (Mohammed) was an ordinary man just like any other man. And as such his personal instincts, urges, drives as well as his philosophical goodness bubbled to the surface of his consciousness when he attained the Absolute Unitary Qualia. Abhijit Naskar
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Before I was a Scientist, I was a Monk. And before I was a Monk, I was a naive young mind with ever- flowing streams of questions. And one of those questions, that always used to create intense ripples of curiosity in my psyche, was - Does God exist? And has anyone seen or experienced him? Abhijit Naskar
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An awake heart is like a sky that pours light. Unknown
You have no choice. You must leave your ego on...
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You have no choice. You must leave your ego on the doorstep before you enter love. Kamand Kojouri
I don’t see doctrines, when I talk about religions. All...
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I don’t see doctrines, when I talk about religions. All I see are different experiential realities of the one and the same neuronal Kingdom of God. Abhijit Naskar
I long for the day when I hear the musicwithout...
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I long for the day when I hear the musicwithout any song. Kamand Kojouri
Oneness is God.
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Oneness is God. Abhijit Naskar
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There is no excuse good enough to ever be out of alignment with love. You’re going to get hurt, and you will feel pain. Yet your purpose is to keep loving, anyway. Keep moving forward with an open heart. Love is a Divine gift given to humanity. Wasting it is no longer an option. Love is what brings light to a dark place. Love is what transforms a dying world into a thriving planet. Alaric Hutchinson
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A true religious person should not think that “my religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.” Other religions are also so many paths leading to the same domain of transcendental bliss. Likewise, no person should think “my perception of the reality is the only absolute reality, and all others’ are false”, because each human brain has its own unique way of perceiving the reality. Abhijit Naskar
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Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress because you want the water to touch you. You want to completely immerse yourself in the feeling of the water and to emerge anew. Kamand Kojouri
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They say that the personal transformation that gives rise to self-realization — the transcendent function that leads to the highest echelon of human attainment — takes place on the border between consciousness and unconsciousness, and that when we dream we dissolve the boundary between consciousness and unconsciousness. In other words, we dream a world into being, and we are the collective product of our lifetime of immanent dreams. If the oracles are correct, I dreamed you into being, and you represent the real point of intersection between dream and reality. Kilroy J. Oldster
Stop digging up the past, lay down your shovel, the...
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Stop digging up the past, lay down your shovel, the past is dead. Bert McCoy
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Put down your glass, it is time to dance. If you want to get drunk all you need is to drink love. Put down your pipe and do away with these childish toys. If you want to get high all you need is to breathe love. Now, can I have this dance? Kamand Kojouri
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Art, literature, and philosophy are attempts to found the world anew on a human freedom: that of the creator; to foster such an aim, one must first unequivocally posit oneself as a freedom. The restrictions that education and custom impose on a woman limit her grasp of the universe.. Indeed, for one to become a creator, it is not enough to be cultivated, that is, to make going to shows and meeting people part of one's life; culture must be apprehended through the free movement of a transcendence; the spirit with all its riches must project itself in an empty sky that is its to fill; but if a thousand fine bonds tie it to the earth, its surge is broken. The girl today can certainly go out alone, stroll in the Tuileries; but I have already said how hostile the street is: eyes everywhere, hands waiting: if she wanders absentmindedly, her thoughts elsewhere, if she lights a cigarette in a cafe, if she goes to the cinema alone, an unpleasant incident can quickly occur; she must inspire respect by the way she dresses and behaves: this concern rivets her to the ground and self. "Her wings are clipped." At eighteen, T.E. Lawrence went on a grand tour through France by bicycle; a young girl would never be permitted to take on such an adventure.. Yet such experiences have an inestimable impact: this is how an individual in the headiness of freedom and discovery learns to look at the entire world as his fief..[ The girl] may feel alone within the world: she never stands up in front of it, unique and sovereign. . Simone De Beauvoir
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There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable from the original impulse that can only be described as sacred. Something in the person (dare we call it a soul?) wants to be free, and it seeks its freedom any way it can.... There is a drive for transcendence that is implicit in even the most sensual of desires. Mark Epstein
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If you have strength of character, you can use that as fuel to not only be a survivor but to transcend simply being a survivor, use an internal alchemy to turn something rotten and horrible into gold. Zeena Schreck
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In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the form that is already there; and in that lies not liberation but alienation, the cutting off of things as they really are. Colin E. Gunton
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Absolute freedom comes when we make the choice to wake up and master our individual minds, bodies, hearts, and spirits. When we have this true freedom, we no longer act upon our impulsive thoughts or emotions. We gain the capability of controlling them within ourselves, which unlocks our greatest potential to create, transmute, and transcend the Mundane reality. Alaric Hutchinson
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We are evolving beyond the need for instinctual survival. No longer do we need to rely on our instincts of fight or flight, because our stresses today are not life-threatening. We have the recourse to remain at peace and in tune with the Universe. No longer do we need to be blinded by our impulsive human behaviors and reactions. We are coming to a time of transcendence in which we can choose to unplug ourselves from our predictable reactions and create a new future. Right now, our futures are easily calculable by those who understand the formula for humanity. Yet, what is missing from the formula is humanity’s ability to awaken and begin to truly exercise free will. . Alaric Hutchinson
Until you see beauty everywhere, in every face, until then,...
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Until you see beauty everywhere, in every face, until then, you are blind. Kamand Kojouri
How is it that there was never youuntil there wasand...
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How is it that there was never youuntil there wasand then all was you? Kamand Kojouri
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Beauty always represents an inward and inexhaustible equilibrium of forces; and this overwhelms our soul, since it can neither be calculated nor mechanically produced. A sense of beauty can therefore permit us the direct experience of relationships before we can perceive them, in a differentiated manner, with our discursive reason; in this, incidentally, there is a defence for our own physical and psychic well-being, something that we cannot neglect with impunity. Titus Burckhardt
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Work. Good, honest work, whether it’s working with your hands to create an artwork, or manual labour, brings forth a sense of divinity at play. The only prerequisite is that whatever the work is, it is done sincerely and in congruence with the soul’s true origin and intent, then, without any effort, one experiences a flow, wherein one feels a part of the plan of the entire universe. Kamand Kojouri
The world is more than black and white. Seeing everything...
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The world is more than black and white. Seeing everything in color helps me raise my spirit and find my happy. Life is meant to be lived in color! Jodi Livon
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Mark you, no Krishna can clear your eyes and make you look with a broader vision upon life in your march upward and onward, until the Self within you morphs into Krishna — until the Self morphs into Buddha — until the Self turns into Christ. Abhijit Naskar
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And half of learning to play is learning what not to playand she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to sayand she's trying to sing just enough so that the air around her movesand make music like mercy that gives what it is and has nothing to proveshe crawls out on a limb and begins to build her homeand it's enough just to look around and to know that she's not aloneup up up up up up up points the spire of the steeplebut god's work isn't done by godit's done by people . Ani DiFranco
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Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air. Leonard Bernstein
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I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work of art is ineffable, that it escapes by definition all rational understanding; why are they so eager to concede without a struggle the defeat of knowledge; and where does their irrepressible need to belittle rational understanding come from, this rage to affirm the irreducibility of the work of art, or, to use a more suitable word, its transcendence. Pierre Bourdieu
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The only benefit of a Campbell's soup can by Andy Warhol (and it is an immense benefit) is that it releases us from the need to decide between beautiful and ugly, between real and unreal, between transcendence and immanence. Jean Baudrillard
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Even the most aware of us do not realize the infinite power we possess or the magnitude of the ability we have to create, transmute, and transcend. Alaric Hutchinson
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Yes, contrast teaches us a great many things and there is purpose for it. Yet it is time to transcend your everyday dramas that are but drops in an ocean. Cease focusing on your droplets of water and look around you. Everything you say and touch and do sets into motion ripples that either heal and create or curse and destroy. Let me repeat: Everything. Alaric Hutchinson
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What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands? Aberjhani
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Without even knowing, humanity actually worships not an Entity, rather a mental state. Abhijit Naskar
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Why people want stuff which make them transcendent or transcendence?? And then they just destroy it?? Why Humanity wants something and then destroy it?? THere are a lot of examples one of them is the film "Transcendence Deyth Banger
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Transcendence and transformation of consciousness will create a new reality for humanity–not our economic success. Debasish Mridha
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He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion. Unknown
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The mountains are intimations of transcendence, which he is now free to pursue, and the walking writes messages in every cell of his body, telling him that he is not locked inside a cement box, nor in a water drum, but is moving forward. Michael D. OBrien
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I was suddenly made aware of another world of beauty and mystery such as I had never imagined to exist, except in poetry. It was as though I had begun to see and smell and hear for the first time. The world appeared to me as Wordsworth describes with “the glory and freshness of a dream.” The sight of a wild rosegrowing on a hedge, the scent of lime-tree blossoms caught suddenly as I rode down a hill on a bicycle, came to me like visitations from another world. But it was not only my sensesthat were awakened. I experienced an overwhelming emotionin the presence of nature, especially at evening. It began to have a kind of sacramental character for me. I approached it with a sense of almost religious awe and , in a hush that comes before sunset, I felt again the presence of an almost unfathomable mystery. The song of the birds, the shape of the trees, the colors of the sunset, were so many signs of the presence, which seemed to be drawing me to itself. Bede Griffiths
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What obligation is more binding than to protect the cherished, to defend whoever or whatever cannot defend itself, and to nurture in turn that which has given nourishment? I’m reminded of words written by John Seed, an Australian environmentalist. When he began considering these questions, he believed, “I am protecting the rain forest.” But as his thought evolved, he realized, “I am part of the rain forest protecting myself. Richard Nelson
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…stand at the foot of a mountain and you may be impressed by how much greater it is than you in degree, how alien it is from you in kind. Climb that mountain and confront limits of endurance beyond which you thought yourself incapable, feel the relation between yourself and the mountain’s flora and fauna as part of one interdependent ecosystem, and discover how the experience of the mountain becomes part of you and changes who you are–then you may draw close to something like transcendence.” - B. T. Newberg. John Halstead
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I realized the universe had consumed my whole entity with its divine sensation of eternal bliss. All I could consciously perceive in that state of mind was absolute oneness. I felt being one with the banyan tree, under which I was sitting. I felt one with the corns in the field. I felt one with the sky and the clouds in it. As if everything was me, and I was everything. I didn’t have any perception of time or space. All that there was, was an all- pervading eternity — a state of non-dualism. Abhijit Naskar
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The transcendental state of Absolute Oneness sets the human mind free. Abhijit Naskar
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Once the lotus of your inner divinity gets full-blown and you reach the mental state where all the religious giants of human history experienced the all-encompassing sense of godliness, the exuberance of the human mind turns infinite. Awakening into that state makes all the perceptual limitations of the mind disappear, just like a bucket of muddy water turns crystal-clear once poured into the ocean. Abhijit Naskar
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When pain is intense, you are at a climax. You can then see the light of transcendence. Debasish Mridha
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Mac Rebennack, better known as Dr. John, once told me that when a brass band plays at a small club back up in one of the neighborhoods, it's as if the audience--dancing, singing to the refrains, laughing--is part of the band. They are two parts of the same thing. The dancers interpret, or it might be better to say literally embody, the sounds of the band, answering the instruments. Since everyone is listening to different parts of the music--she to the trumpet melody, he to the bass drum, she to the trombone--the audience is a working model in three dimensions of the music, a synesthesic transformation of materials. And of course the band is also watching the dancers, and getting ideas from the dancers' gestures. The relationship between band and audience is in that sense like the relationship between two lovers making love, where cause and effect becomes very hard to see, even impossible to call by its right name; one is literally getting down, as in particle physics, to some root stratum where one is freed from the lockstop of time itself, where time might even run backward, or sideways, and something eternal and transcendent is accessed. . Tom Piazza
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Record sales don't matter when the people who bought the records are dead and gone. Chuck Klosterman
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You feel the same hum at a Cohen concert that you do at a church or a synagogue, a feeling that emanates from the realization that the words and tunes you're about to hear represent the best efforts we humans can make to capture the mysteries that surround us, and that by listening and closing your eyes and singing along, you, too can somehow transcend. Liel Leibovitz
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It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable. Seneca
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The human self and the God self are both creations of molecules in the human brain. Abhijit Naskar
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The self, when confined into the usual wakeful state of consciousness, is human, but when enters into the transcendental state of Absolute Oneness, becomes God. Basically, the human and the God are two sides of the same coin. Or to be more specific, the human self and the God self are both creations of molecules in the human brain. Abhijit Naskar
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If your mind can move mountainsand swallow gods, Why does it worry with helpless yesterdays and unborn tomorrows? If it can vomit starsand walk on split hairs, Why must it follow the samepath to despair? Everyone will tell you:' An orgasm here is just as good. Kamand Kojouri
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Om is the things, Om is the ingredient, Om is the container and the content of this universe. Banani Ray
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Om is that God of love. Like a loving mother Om cleans us of our clutters collected through many incarnations. Banani Ray
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There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Blessed are those that know the path out of their carnal flesh, for they shall attain intuition. Michael Bassey Johnson
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You won't become what you want to be, else you become what you fear to be. Michael Bassey Johnson
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The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis; and the good life is the world seen sub specie aeternitatis. This is the connection between art and ethics. The usual way of looking at things sees objects as it were from the midst of them, the view sub specie aeternitatis from outside. In such a way that they have the whole world as background. Ludwig Wittgenstein
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I am Not, but the Universe is my Self. Shihtou
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There’s no matter here you can’t re-matter into love. Laurie Perez
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She captured the spot of my world’s centre and sent me in elliptic rings about it, causing the ground beneath me to vanish and the breath of my lungs to disperse. I was a rock locked in helpless orbit. Richard Ronald Allan
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If I could make people feel, just for a day or an hour, what it’s like to love with infiniteness, then they would be animals no longer, but some greater creature, deserving of that title human. I’ve bettered a day though. On earth, they will have it thus: from birth to unavoidable death, a man is pumped so full of love that his eyes bleed rainbows and his mouth a barrel of miracles. His hands will heal then make monuments to commemorate it; they’ll press tight and pray for no man, no god but himself; and his mind… his mind will shower like spring rains. He will steal away from the shadow of ambition. He’ll be his own sun and light up the world with new marvels — be they art, philosophies, science — and in his brightness put the mundane, not himself, in shadows, and how rightfully. Each a captain and a maker, a mark-setter and stealer of shows.. Earth’s skies will clap with the thunder of our majesty, not with violence, doubt, confusion, futility, and monotony; anything — anything — but the dull drone of duplication and robo-behaviour. Richard Ronald Allan
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I am inclined to trust you. You shouldn’t be like that with another man, not ever; but I can’t help it. I felt it strongly from the instant I heard your voice; and though I thought momentarily that it would falter, it didn’t. It’s still here. You see, the essence of trust is not knowing a person’s motive; it’s knowing what isn’t. It’s a simple process of trial and error that gets you to the heart of a man; and once that soft voice and those light feet of yours got to moving I saw in you no measure of ill intent. Richard Ronald Allan
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How would it alter Juliet’s love perception to learn the sea is but a rounded jug of water? Would her sensuous analogy turned simple simile unveil to her the limits of herself? Or would she forget the ocean, that deplorable casket, and turn on the true bottomless tumbler, the only running tap: the sky? It may have lost the title ‘heavens’ when its gods were dethroned, but its infinity reigns. So long as you walk, it reigns. So long as I talk and you listen, there’s a voice and ears to keep it active, moving, and reason to say: look! infinity lives. And when we and the other consciousnesses pass, though it in part dies with us, still it reigns. It will, in a sense, plod on, like a lifeless coffin through its own space, sails set for nothing, unstoppable when trailing its fabric. Richard Ronald Allan
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See with a different eye, visualize with a colorful mind, manifest your thoughts with the energy within. Michael Bassey Johnson