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Transcendence is surpassing what is ordinary |
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Transcendence is surpassing what is ordinary
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It is in our nature to transcend; to become more than ourselves
- Arise, transcend thyself, thou art man and the whole nature of man is to become more than himself. Sri Aurobindo
- Self-transcendence means self-expansion in every way. Sri Chinmoy
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The urge for transcendence can be strong
- Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul. Aldous Huxley
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Transcendence brings joy
- Our philosophy is progress. In our self-transcendence is our tremendous joy. Sri Chinmoy
- When we transcend our capacities, immediately we get an inner joy, an inner thrill. Sri Chinmoy
- Self-transcendence gives us joy in boundless measure. When we transcend ourselves, we do not compete with others. We do not compete with the rest of the world, but at every moment we compete with ourselves. Sri Chinmoy
- Joy
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Transcend your limitations
- As you transcend your own limitations and tendencies, you will naturally show loving- kindness to others. As your own light shines more brightly, you illuminate the world. Dan Millman
- Limitation
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Transcend pain and suffering
- The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it. Eckhart Tolle
- We transcend suffering, not because our problems are solved, but because we experience a level of consciousness in which nothing is missing, a way of being that doesn’t depend on the conditions of our mind, body, and life situation. Peter Fenner
- Pain is important; how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it. Audre Lorde
- Pain, Suffering
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Transcend your past
- As we transcend our past in the things we do, we also become who we can be. Thus creativity is those attitudes by which we fulfill ourselves. John G. Young
- The past
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Transcend your paradigms and beliefs
- Creativity is an attitude that transcends paradigms and beliefs. It’s a soul level yearning to fulfill a purpose, uniquely contribute and leave a mark. Janice Francisco
- Belief
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Transcend differences through empathy
- Empathy is the only human superpower-it can shrink distance, cut through social and power hierarchies, transcend differences, and provoke political and social change. Elizabeth Thomas
- Empathy
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Transcend the barriers of personal survival and become fully alive
- Life takes on shape and meaning when a person is able to transcend the barriers of personal survival and become a conduit for its vital energy. Roz & Ben Zander
- Being fully alive
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Transcend the ego
- Enlightenment cannot be attained if it is sought as a future goal. Give up the search. The entry point is now, not in the future. The ego can only be transcended in the now. In the depth of you, your essence is already complete. You are already it. You just need to realise it. Eckhart Tolle
- I know there are those who are convinced that seeing ego as a problem is an outdated perspective that only adds fuel to the fire, and that simply “accepting” and “making space” for it is the more “enlightened” approach. But I beg to differ. It may sound good in theory, but the ability to recognize ego for what it is, in all its gross and often very subtle manifestations, to “accept” it and simultaneously not act out of it, requires a level of self- mastery that, to be brutally honest, is attained by very few. I have found that for most, transcending what would traditionally be called our “lower impulses” may require the willingness to struggle as if our life depended on it. Because if we want to evolve beyond ego in a way that is truly going to make a difference, it literally does. Andrew Cohen
- Transcendence of the world is to act and to interact without any self- seeking. In other words, it means to act without seeking to enhance one’s sense of self through one’s actions or one’s interactions with people. Ultimately, it means not needing the future anymore for one’s fulfillment or for one’s sense of self or being. There is no seeking through doing, seeking an enhanced, more fulfilled, or greater sense of self in the world. When that seeking isn’t there anymore, then you can be in the world but not be of the world. You are no longer seeking for anything to identify with out there. Eckhart Tolle
- We love ourselves to the point of idolatry; but we also intensely dislike ourselves — we find ourselves unutterably boring. Correlated with this distaste for the idolatrously worshipped self, there is in all of us a desire, sometimes latent, sometimes conscious and passionately expressed, to escape from the prison of our individuality, an urge to self-transcendence. It is to this urge that we owe mystical theology, spiritual exercises and yoga — to this, too, that we owe alcoholism and drug addiction. Aldous Huxley
- Transcending the ego
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Transcend the familiar
- It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it. Henry Kissinger
- Change
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Transcend what is by accepting and embracing it
- I’ve never transcended what I haven’t embraced. Jon Marc Hammer
- Awareness or spirit simply means a beingness, a sense of aliveness which transcends all of our form. This awareness is totally inclusive. It is a state of being where everything is okay simply the way it is. Adyashanti
- Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we know that life is difficult, then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters. M. Scott Peck
- The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it. Eckhart Tolle
- Acceptance
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Transcend thought …
- The next step in human evolution is to transcend thought. This is now our urgent task. It doesn’t mean not to think anymore, but simply not to be completely identified with thought, possessed by thought. Eckhart Tolle
- The mind may accept or deny that you are awareness, but either way it can’t really understand. It cannot comprehend. Thought cannot comprehend what is beyond thought. That’s why we call this a transcendent recognition, a transcendent revelation. Adyashanti
- Thinking
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… and in so doing, find God
- God transcends all conceptuality. Only ego presumes that the All Pervading Divine Presence could be reduced to words. Leland Lewis
- God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that. Joseph Campbell
- God
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Transcend the body and mind
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Transcend through self-acceptance
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Transcend through trust
- Trust each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities for which they were previously unaware. David Armistead
- Trust
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Transcend through surrender
- Opening to our fear is an act of intimacy, a courageous welcoming of the disfigured and outcast into the living room of our being. Opening thus is also an act of surrender. As such, it is not a dissolution – or collapsing – or personal boundaries, as in submission, but rather an expanding of them. In submission, we deaden ourselves, sinking into the shallows; in surrender, we enliven ourselves, dying into a deeper Life. In surrender we may lose face, but we do not lose touch. Submission flattens the ego; surrender transcends it. Submission is passive, but surrender is dynamic. Robert Augustus Masters
- Surrender
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Transcend through the power of saying yes
- 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
- Say yes to life
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Transcend through creating a relationship with God
- One needs to spend time with the Holy One. Like any relationship, it must be built and nurtured. It needs familiarity. Trust. Quiet, special time together. This goes beyond thoughts and concepts. Losing oneself in the presence. Letting anxieties and concerns melt away as I am transcended and uplifted. John Kehoe
- God
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Transcend through laughter and humour
- Transcendence restores humor. Spirit restores humor. Suddenly, smiling returns. Too many representatives from too many movements – even many good movements, such as feminism, environmentalism, meditation, spiritual studies – seem to lack humor altogether. In other words, they lack lightness, they lack a distance from themselves, a distance from the ego and its grim game of forcing others to conform to its contours. There is self-transcending humor, or there is the game of egoic power. No wonder Mencken wrote that “Every third American devotes himself to improving and lifting up his fellow citizens, usually by force; this messianic delusion is our national disease.” We have chosen egoic power and politically correct thought police; grim Victorian reformers pretending to be defending civil rights; messianic new paradigm thinkers who are going to save the planet and heal the world. They should all trade two pounds of ego for one ounce of laughter. Ken Wilber
- Laughter, Humour
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Transcend through the power of purpose and passion
- Most individuals who are deeply talented are driven by a sense of urgency, an ecstatically urgent sense that “I must bring into life this potential that I see and experience in the depths of my own being. This must come through me.” If we get to know them, we will usually find that truly great human beings are driven by a passion that transcends their separate self- sense. And in the way I understand it, the highest expression of this creative impulse is the urge to evolve at the level of consciousness itself. Andrew Cohen
- When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all of your thoughts break their bonds, your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction and you find yourself in a new great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be. Patanjali
- Purpose, Passion
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Transcend through the finding of meaning
- Most humans feel the transcendent temptation, the emotional drive to festoon the universe with large-scale meaning. Paul Kurtz
- Meaning
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Transcend through spirituality
- Spirituality is about being awake. It’s the attempt to transcend the mundane, sleepwalking experience of life we all fall into, to tap into the wonder of being a conscious and grateful thing in the midst of an astonishing universe. It doesn’t require religion. Religion can, in fact, and often does, blunt our awareness by substituting false wonders for real ones. It’s a fine joke on ourselves that most of what we call spirituality is actually about putting ourselves to sleep. Dale McGowan
- Spirituality
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Transcend through the power of desire
- Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. Napoleon Hill
- 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
- Desire
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Transcend through the power of intuition
- Intuition is the highest form of intelligence, transcending all individual abilities and skills. Sylvia Clare
- Intuition
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Transcend through the power of stillness
- Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you’ll come to remember your spirit. When you’re able to transcend an aversion to silence, you’ll also transcend many other miseries. And it is in this silence that the remembrance of God will be activated. Wayne Dyer
- The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. Jean-Yves Leloup
- Stillness
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Transcend through wisdom
- Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them. Ram Dass
- Your bliss can guide you to that transcendent mystery, because bliss is the welling up of the energy of the transcendent wisdom within you. So when the bliss cuts off, you know that you’ve cut off the welling up; try to find it again. Joseph Campbell
- Wisdom
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Transcend through setting goals
- To be fully alive means opening yourself up to all dimensions of life—sadness as well as joy, and pain as well as pleasure. It also involves committing yourself to a search for personal meaning and transcendent goals—of which happiness is a by- product. Robert W. Firestone
- Goal setting
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Transcend through poetry
- 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. Joseph Campbell
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Appreciate the transcendent moments in life
- 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
- Whether you are aware of them or not, whether you recognize them as spiritual or not, you probably have had the experiences of silence, or transcendence, or the Divine—a few seconds, a few minutes that seem out of time; a moment when the ordinary looks beautiful, glowing; a deep sense of being at peace, feeling happy for no reason. When these experiences come, believe in them. They reflect your true nature. Ravi Shankar
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Creativity is a potent form of transcendence
- During those rare moments of creativeness, when an ordinary person has something in common with the making of the universe, he feels a sense of transcendence, of moving beyond his daily life. What could be a greater reward? Joseph Zinker
- Creativity is an attitude that transcends paradigms and beliefs. It’s a soul level yearning to fulfill a purpose, uniquely contribute and leave a mark. Janice Francisco
- As we transcend our past in the things we do, we also become who we can be. Thus creativity is those attitudes by which we fulfill ourselves. John G. Young
- Creativity
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Spiritual enlightenment is the ultimate form of transcendence
- Enlightenment is construed as seeing things as they really are rather than as they appear; it is a direct insight into, and discernment of, the nature of reality that is apprehended only by wisdom, which transcends and is prior to the activity of discriminative thought. In this view, delusion is defined as all that is opposed to enlightenment. Hee-Jin Kim
- The radiance of God is the light of awareness that reveals the divinity of all that exists. In the stillness of the Infinite Presence, the mind is silent as there is nothing that can be said; all speaks of itself with completeness and exactitude. With this realization one transcends the final duality of existence versus nonexistence because only existence is possible. The opposite of Truth does not exist because Reality excludes non-reality. In this realization resides the peace of God. David R. Hawkins
- The goal of society in general is to succeed in the world, whereas the goal of enlightenment is to transcend beyond it. David R. Hawkins
- So there’s only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That’s why I say, “Who cares if you’re enlightened forever? Byron Katie
- Enlightenment
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Worship is a form of transcendence
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Self-actualization is a form of transcendence
- Self-actualizing does not mean a transcendence of all human problems. Conflict, anxiety, frustration, sadness, hurt, and guilt can all be found in healthy human beings. Abraham Maslow
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- To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence. Martin Seligman
- To recognize one’s own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence. Eckhart Tolle
- Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space? D. T. Suzuki
- There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves. Arthur P. Stanley
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