“I believe, and will never stop saying, that we will not only transcend this moment as a species but we will also be better humans on the other side of these undeniable tragedies. Realism and accuracy are essential but so is the human spirit. Not mutually exclusive human goods.”— Scott Barry Kaufman (SBK), twitter.com
“We observe our body and see all the causes and conditions that have brought it to be—our parents, our country, the air, and even future generations. We go beyond time and space, me and mine, and taste true liberation.”— Thich Nhat Hanh, twitter.com
“You always hope to transcend what you’ve already done, and this certainly seems to be doing just that. We really couldn’t be happier. We welcome anyone and everyone to the fold, and it’s just great to know that the emotion and the style of this particular version of this song is affecting so many pe…”— David Draiman, fuse.tv
“The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules—but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them.”— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com
“[God says] Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend—it must transcend all comprehension. Plunge into the deep waters beyond your own comprehension, and I will help you to comprehend even as I do. Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowle…”— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com
“Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.”— Leonard Bernstein, goodreads.com
“You’re swimming in the transcendent twice a day, and when you swim there, the world gets bigger, and you get wet with that, and the creativity grows.”— David Lynch, interviewmagazine.com
“As I stood in contemplation of the garden of the wonders of space, I had the feeling that I was looking into the ultimate depths, the most secret regions of my own being; and I smiled, because it had never occurred to me that I could be so pure, so great, so fair! My heart burst into singing with th…”— Oscar Milosz, amazon.com
“Bright as Eden’s used to be That air and earth have rested me Laid on the grass I lapsed away”— Emily Brontë, amazon.com
“This goes beyond me, beyond you: the white room by window where the sun goes through.”— Thom Yorke, youtube.com