Transcendence
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The state of going beyond normal or physical human experience.
Meditation can help some people reach a state of transcendence.
Often appears as...
- state of transcendence
- spiritual transcendence
noun
The action of going beyond or above the range limits.
His work is a symbol of the transcendence of the human spirit over physical obstacles.
Often appears as...
- transcendence over physical limitations
- transcendence of the human spirit
noun
In religious context, the aspect of a god's nature and power which is wholly independent of the material universe, beyond all physical laws.
Many religions believe in the transcendence of God.
Often appears as...
- god's transcendence
- divine transcendence
noun
In philosophy, existence or experience beyond the normal or physical level.
The concept of transcendence is central to many philosophical theories.
Often appears as...
- concept of transcendence
- philosophical transcendence
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noun
The state of going beyond normal or physical human experience.
Meditation can help some people reach a state of transcendence.
Often appears as...
- state of transcendence
- spiritual transcendence
noun
The action of going beyond or above the range limits.
His work is a symbol of the transcendence of the human spirit over physical obstacles.
Often appears as...
- transcendence over physical limitations
- transcendence of the human spirit
noun
In religious context, the aspect of a god's nature and power which is wholly independent of the material universe, beyond all physical laws.
Many religions believe in the transcendence of God.
Often appears as...
- god's transcendence
- divine transcendence
noun
In philosophy, existence or experience beyond the normal or physical level.
The concept of transcendence is central to many philosophical theories.
Often appears as...
- concept of transcendence
- philosophical transcendence
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Pro Tip 1/2Beyond Normal Experience
Use to describe experiences that are not typical, often achieving a higher understanding or feeling.
The artist's vision of the world has a sense of transcendence.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Physical
Transcendence is often about abstract, non-physical experiences rather than concrete, tangible things.
Through love, one can feel a transcendence that's hard to express in words.
Pro Tip 1/2Beyond Normal Experience
Use to describe experiences that are not typical, often achieving a higher understanding or feeling.
The artist's vision of the world has a sense of transcendence.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Physical
Transcendence is often about abstract, non-physical experiences rather than concrete, tangible things.
Through love, one can feel a transcendence that's hard to express in words.
Pro Tip 1/2Beyond Normal Experience
Use to describe experiences that are not typical, often achieving a higher understanding or feeling.
The artist's vision of the world has a sense of transcendence.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Physical
Transcendence is often about abstract, non-physical experiences rather than concrete, tangible things.
Through love, one can feel a transcendence that's hard to express in words.
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The secret to desire in...
What do you seek to express there? Is it a place for transcendence and spiritual union? Is it a place for naughtiness and is it a place to be safely aggressive? Is it a place where you can finally surrender and not have to take responsibility for everything? Is it a place where you can express your infantile wishes?
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Expanding your mind with...
contemplate space and time on a scale just shy of the infinite and then he talks about the Deep Field photograph and he says gazing upon the deep field is like mainlining the whole of time through the optic nerve okay so you talk about ah as like a sense of like salvation or a sense of transcendence
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She Dances With 10,000...
I'm going to integrate the work that I do helping people heal based on helping people break an emotional or a physical pattern once people are interested in just connecting to nature so that's one of their focuses I really want people to have a little transcendence I had no
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There's more to life...
transcendence. Transcendent states are those rare moments when you're lifted above the hustle and bustle of daily life, your sense of self fades away, and you feel connected to a higher reality. For one person I talked to, transcendence came from seeing art.
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the majority of parents do not think that their kids will be better off than they were. This is true of rich and poor, men and women. Now, some of you might hear this and feel sad. After all, America is deeply invested in this idea of economic transcendence,
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Social animal - David...
it's a drive and a motivation the conscious mind hungers for success and prestige the unconscious mind hungers for those moments of transcendence when the skull line disappears and we are lost in a challenge or a task when a
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David Brooks: The social...
And this is not an ability; it's a drive and a motivation. The conscious mind hungers for success and prestige. The unconscious mind hungers for those moments of transcendence, when the skull line disappears
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What really matters at...
In a hospital, that's a stolen moment. In my work over the years, I've known many people who were ready to go, ready to die. Not because they had found some final peace or transcendence,
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Jill Tarter: Why the...
in a universe of possibilities. For many millennia, humans have been on a journey to find answers, answers to questions about naturalism and transcendence,
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Karen Armstrong: 2008...
give us intimations of that utterly mysterious transcendence which is God. And now, here's my I wish that you would help with the creation,
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The secret to desire in...
What do you seek to express there? Is it a place for transcendence and spiritual union? Is it a place for naughtiness and is it a place to be safely aggressive? Is it a place where you can finally surrender and not have to take responsibility for everything? Is it a place where you can express your infantile wishes?
Video examples
Expanding your mind with...
contemplate space and time on a scale just shy of the infinite and then he talks about the Deep Field photograph and he says gazing upon the deep field is like mainlining the whole of time through the optic nerve okay so you talk about ah as like a sense of like salvation or a sense of transcendence
Video examples
She Dances With 10,000...
I'm going to integrate the work that I do helping people heal based on helping people break an emotional or a physical pattern once people are interested in just connecting to nature so that's one of their focuses I really want people to have a little transcendence I had no
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There's more to life...
transcendence. Transcendent states are those rare moments when you're lifted above the hustle and bustle of daily life, your sense of self fades away, and you feel connected to a higher reality. For one person I talked to, transcendence came from seeing art.
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The new American Dream PIPE...
the majority of parents do not think that their kids will be better off than they were. This is true of rich and poor, men and women. Now, some of you might hear this and feel sad. After all, America is deeply invested in this idea of economic transcendence,
Video examples
Social animal - David...
it's a drive and a motivation the conscious mind hungers for success and prestige the unconscious mind hungers for those moments of transcendence when the skull line disappears and we are lost in a challenge or a task when a
Video examples
David Brooks: The social...
And this is not an ability; it's a drive and a motivation. The conscious mind hungers for success and prestige. The unconscious mind hungers for those moments of transcendence, when the skull line disappears
Video examples
What really matters at...
In a hospital, that's a stolen moment. In my work over the years, I've known many people who were ready to go, ready to die. Not because they had found some final peace or transcendence,
Video examples
Jill Tarter: Why the...
in a universe of possibilities. For many millennia, humans have been on a journey to find answers, answers to questions about naturalism and transcendence,
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Karen Armstrong: 2008...
give us intimations of that utterly mysterious transcendence which is God. And now, here's my I wish that you would help with the creation,
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Anselm Kiefer
German Artist
I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, what was behind life. So when I had my first communion I was very disappointed. I had expected something amazing and surprising and spiritual. Instead all I got was a bicycle. That wasn't what I was after at all.
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Will Self
English Author
What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of transcendence when we exclaim 'You know exactly what I mean!' depend for much of their force on the anonymous character of the intimacy between writer and reader.
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Margaret Wertheim
Australian Writer
In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and with transcendence from the material world; women, by their nature, were supposedly rooted in this latter, baser realm.
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Chuck Close
American Artist
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.
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Mohsin Hamid
Pakistani Writer
In Sufi terms, there are two very interesting notions of transcendence. One is to gaze out at the universe and to comprehend that what you see out there reflects what you are. The other one is to look inside yourself and recognise that the universe is present there.
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Jeff Koons
American Artist
Art's a very metaphysical activity. It's something that enriches the parameters of your life, the possibilities of being, and you touch transcendence and you change your life. And you want to change the life of others, too. That's why people are involved with art.
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Sufjan Stevens
American Musician
I believe that music is a spiritual language. My everyday self is pretty mundane and boring, but when I'm making music it allows for me to communicate a kind of transcendence that I can't communicate otherwise.
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Cody Simpson
Australian Musician
I'm a seeker of transcendence through music, and that's kind of where I'm at with the live shows - wanting to help people get out of their heads a little bit.
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Deepak Chopra
American Speaker
In moments of transcendence, when time stands still, your biological clock will stop. The spirit is that domain of our awareness where there is no time.
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Tom Robbins
American Author
Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.
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Anselm Kiefer
German Artist
I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, what was behind life. So when I had my first communion I was very disappointed. I had expected something amazing and surprising and spiritual. Instead all I got was a bicycle. That wasn't what I was after at all.
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Will Self
English Author
What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of transcendence when we exclaim 'You know exactly what I mean!' depend for much of their force on the anonymous character of the intimacy between writer and reader.
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Margaret Wertheim
Australian Writer
In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and with transcendence from the material world; women, by their nature, were supposedly rooted in this latter, baser realm.
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Chuck Close
American Artist
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.
Quote examples
Mohsin Hamid
Pakistani Writer
In Sufi terms, there are two very interesting notions of transcendence. One is to gaze out at the universe and to comprehend that what you see out there reflects what you are. The other one is to look inside yourself and recognise that the universe is present there.
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Jeff Koons
American Artist
Art's a very metaphysical activity. It's something that enriches the parameters of your life, the possibilities of being, and you touch transcendence and you change your life. And you want to change the life of others, too. That's why people are involved with art.
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Sufjan Stevens
American Musician
I believe that music is a spiritual language. My everyday self is pretty mundane and boring, but when I'm making music it allows for me to communicate a kind of transcendence that I can't communicate otherwise.
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Cody Simpson
Australian Musician
I'm a seeker of transcendence through music, and that's kind of where I'm at with the live shows - wanting to help people get out of their heads a little bit.
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Deepak Chopra
American Speaker
In moments of transcendence, when time stands still, your biological clock will stop. The spirit is that domain of our awareness where there is no time.
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Tom Robbins
American Author
Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.
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