Anselm Kiefer

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.

German Artist

Will Self

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.

English Author

Margaret Wertheim

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.

Australian Writer

Chuck Close

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.

American Artist

Mohsin Hamid

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.

Pakistani Writer

Jeff Koons

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.

Sufjan Stevens

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.

American Musician

Cody Simpson

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.

Australian Musician

Deepak Chopra

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.

American Speaker

Tom Robbins

Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

American Author

Use to describe experiences that are not typical, often achieving a higher understanding or feeling.

Beyond Normal Experience

Transcendence is often about abstract, non-physical experiences rather than concrete, tangible things.

Not Physical

Use when discussing surpassing challenging limits, whether physical, intellectual, or emotional.

Overcoming Limits

Often associated with the resilience and strength of human spirit against adversity.

Human Spirit

Describes the quality of being above and beyond the material world, especially when referring to a deity.

Divine Quality

Mostly used in religious discussions about gods or deities being beyond worldly existence.

Religious Context

Refers to ideas or states that go beyond ordinary understanding, in a philosophical context.

Philosophical Concept

Encounter in discussions about abstract, profound topics that don't have physical boundaries.

Abstract Thinking

 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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 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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 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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 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.

There's more to life...

 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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 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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 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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 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,

What really matters at...

 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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 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,