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Quotes About Transcendence

You don't need a special place to meditate. You can transcend anywhere in the world. The unified field is here, and there, and everywhere.
~ David Lynch
And if, happy in the lot of no created thing, he withdraws into the center of his own unity, his spirit, made one with God, in the solitary darkness of God, who is set above all things, shall surpass them all.
~ Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Unless one believes in a superhuman reason which directs evolution, one is bound to believe in a reason inherent in humanity, a motive power transcending that of each separate people, just as the power of the organism transcends that of the organ. This reason increases in proportion as the unity of mankind becomes established.
~ Ellen Key
Only conscious man can mirror the universal: he can consciously become one with the universal and so can consciously transcend the individual.
~ Piet Mondrian
However you define God, and whether you believe in God or not, the world we live in has been shaped by the universal human conviction that there is more to life than life itself; that there is a 'god' shaped hole at the centre of our universe.
~ Robert Winston
People are drawn to the spiritual. It has a universal appeal.
~ Kathleen Battle
Jesus had a universal concern for those who suffered that transcended the rules of the ancient world.
~ John Ortberg
I think you find universal truth when you get really honest with yourself and you can reach people. If you go deep enough, you have that core feeling, and that feeling can transcend the details of your experience.
~ Rachel Platten
You look at a song like 'Lightning Crashes,' and it's just so universal.
~ Ed Kowalczyk
The meaning of the universe lies outside the universe.
~ Jonathan Sacks
Faith is not a rational thing, and yet to understand the universe, rationality alone will not give it to us. Our understanding of the universe must transcend the rational.
~ John Rhys-Davies
I think the secret of the world lies in the C major scale. The universe opens its doors when a major scale is played. There's stuff going on in a major scale that is a direct connection to divine, universal hugeness.
~ Andrew W.K.
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
~ Leonard Bernstein
To me, music is that which connects human hearts. It is something that takes you to unknown levels.
~ Ilaiyaraaja
To me, music is more like a spiritual seeking that takes one to unknown levels.
~ Ilaiyaraaja
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.
~ Michelangelo
The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.
~ Brennan Manning
The eternal feminine draws us on high.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Only until you rise above the use of the second attention for manipulation that you can enter into a consciousness in which there is enlightenment.
~ Frederick Lenz
That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Run to brilliance. Sprint to excellence. Soar to transcendence.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
When a woman knows she cannot attain her worldly love, she gives it an eternal form.
~ Haritha Velpureddy
Confuse them with your intelligence, baffle them with your excellence, bewilder them with your brilliance, and perplex them with your transcendence.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The strong overcome their opponents, the mighty crush them, the shrewd outwit them, the cowardly hide from them, but the enlightened transcend them.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo