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  • When the great religious and philosophical conceptions were alive, thinking people did not extol humility and brotherly love, justice and humanity because it was realistic to maintain such principles and odd and dangerous to deviate from them, or because these maxims were more in harmony with their supposedly free tastes than others. They held to such ideas because they saw in them elements of truth, because they connected them with the idea of logos, whether in the form of God or of a transcendental mind, or even of nature as an eternal principle.

    "Eclipse of Reason" by Max Horkheimer, (p. 34), 1947.
  • It is in the measure that special methods acknowledge their common core in transcendental method, that norms common to all the sciences will be acknowledged, that a secure basis will be attained for tackling interdisciplinary problems, and that the sciences will be mobilized within a higher unity of vocabulary, thought and orientation, in which they will be able to make their quite significant contribution to the solution of fundamental problems.

  • What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?

    Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.6, Courier Corporation
  • This is a donut. It is very sweet, and very good. But if you've never tasted a donut, you wouldn't really know how sweet and how good a donut is... meditation is like that. Transcendental Meditation gives an experience much sweeter than the sweetness of this donut.

  • If a flower had a God it would not be a transcendental flower but a field.

    Alan Watts (2011). “In My Own Way: An Autobiography”, p.169, New World Library
  • The main point of any spiritual practice is to step out of the bureaucracy of ego. This means stepping out of ego's constant desire for a higher, more spiritual, more transcendental version of knowledge, religion, virtue, judgment, comfort, or whatever it is that the particular ego is seeking. One must step out of spiritual materialism.

    Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.16, Shambhala Publications
  • Those who pretend to investigate the transcendental truths of the Being based on pure reasoning fall in the same mistake as someone who, ignoring how to use the science's modern instruments, tries to study the life of what is infinitely small with telescopes and the life of what is infinitely large with microscopes.

    Mistake   Fall   Trying  
  • I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary.

    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.3143, Delphi Classics
  • And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.

  • The reality of our century is technology: the invention, construction and maintenance of machines. To be a user of machines is to be of the spirit of this century. Machines have replaced the transcendental spiritualism of past eras.

    László Moholy-Nagy, Renate Heyne, Hattula Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Molderings (2009). “Moholy-Nagy: the photograms : catalogue raisonné”, Hatje Cantz Pub
  • Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds andwars. When we come out of the caucus, or the bank, or the abolition-convention, or the temperance-meeting, or the transcendental club, into the fields and woods, she says to us, "so hot? my little Sir.

    Nature   Ambition   Clubs  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.151, Penguin
  • Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because if it is shared, you are down in duality.

    Light   Effort   Eternity  
  • The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening.

    Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.129, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
  • Warhol and other Pop artists had brought the art religion of art for art's sake to an end. If art was only business, then rock expressed that transcendental, religious yearning for communal, nonmarket esthetic feeling that official art denied. For a time during the seventies, rock culture became the religion of the avant-garde art world.

    Religious   Art   Rocks  
  • The secret, or innermost, level of wisdom is pure intuition, clarity, lucidity, innate wakefulness, presence, and recognition of reality. This transcendental wisdom is within all of us—it just needs to be discovered and developed, unfolded and actualized.

  • There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

    Believe   Mean   Men  
    "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 84, 1799.
  • Every teacher of Transcendental Meditation is a hero.

  • I practice Transcendental Meditation and I had enough exercise. I am one who thinks that not only need to have patience, we must persevere. If you do it right you'll see results.

  • If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

    Walden ch. 18 (1854)
  • I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don't need high minded talk, they need results.

  • Be true to yourself. Don't take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.

    "Watch: David Lynch Gives Some Pithy Filmmaking Advice On Instagram" by Paula Bernstein, www.indiewire.com. August 28, 2013.
  • The problem of an eidos in history, hence, arises only when a Christian transcendental fulfillment becomes immanentized. Such an immanentist hypostasis of the eschaton, however, is a theoretical fallacy.

    Eric Voegelin, James L. Wizer (1998). “The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin”, p.185, University of Missouri Press
  • It is precisely because our present life is so inseparably linked with desire that we must make use of desire's tremendous energy if we wish to transform our life into something transcendental.

    Wish   Desire   Energy  
    Thubten Yeshe (2005). “Introduction to Tantra: The Transformation of Desire”, p.20, Simon and Schuster
  • Nietzsche seems sometimes to replace the "transcendence" which stands at the center of traditional accounts the existence of a transcendent God, or, failing that, a transcendental viewpoint with that of a continually transcending activity. ... There is no single, final perspective, but given any one perspective, we can always go beyond it.

    "Outside Ethics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2005.
  • I've seen so many cases where lives have been transformed for the good and heard so many stories about this. The technique of Transcendental Meditation really works for the human being.

    "His Mission to Change the World Through Meditation". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2014.
  • The transcendental promises a vacation from history.

  • I started Transcendental Meditation in 1973 and have not missed a single meditation ever since. Twice a day, every day. It has given me effortless access to unlimited reserves of energy, creativity and happiness deep within.

  • The ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else is symbolic, and symbolism is merely transcendental imagery.

    Art   Symbolism   Able  
    "Diary of an Unknown". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1988.
  • Babaji's spiritual state is beyond human comprehension. The dwarfed vision of men cannot pierce to his transcendental star. One attempts in vain even to picture the avatar's attainment. It is inconceivable.

    Spiritual   Stars   Men  
  • I don't feel like the real, transcendental sound experiences I've had in my life have anything to do with intellect.

    "A Flow Of Playfulness: An Interview With Laniakea". Interview with Russell Cuzner, thequietus.com. September 14, 2016.
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