#transcend

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#dissociation #mind #stoicism #transcendence #zen

Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space? ↗

— D.T. Suzuki

#transcendence #universe #zen #zen

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers. ↗

— Ed Sullivan

#because #cure #dose #good #good job

When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from the known, were made to mirror the unknown spiritual truth. ↗

— William H. Hunt

#complete #enough #familiar #heavenly #images

Dream Song: As my eyes Search the prairie, I feel the summer in the spring. Whenever I pause The noise Of the village. ↗

— Frances Densmore

#old-songs #silence #transcendence #wind #dreams

I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#always #conventional way #get #heartbreaking #i

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#after #expert #familiar #leader #operate

On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love. ↗

— Edith Stein

#commandment #else #end #every #everything

Science does not know its debt to imagination. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#imagination

We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis. ↗

— LeeAnn Taylor

#become #becoming #being #butterflies #butterfly