#transcend

We fell into each other’s arms and kissed like we were coming up for air after being underwater for days. The melding of our mouths was sweeter than oxygen. We took huge, deep gulps of each other as we struggled with worldly constraints like clothing and gravity, seeking to transcend it all in our coming together. ↗

— Emme Rollins

#erotica-romance #eroticism #kisses #kissing #new-adult

The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146) ↗

— Jean-Yves Leloup

#equanimity #knowledge #meditation #mind #reality

[Transcendentalism maintains] that man has ideas, that come not through the five sense, or the powers of reasoning; but are either the result of direct revelation from God, his immediate inspiration, or his immanent presence in the spiritual world. ↗

— Charles Mayo Ellis

#transcendentalism #unitarianism #inspirational

Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it. ↗

— Francis Arinze

#dimension #element #religion #transcendent

The pride people take in their work transcends to their homes, their education, families and communities. ↗

— Leonard Boswell

#education #families #homes #people #pride

Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history. ↗

— Howard Mumford Jones

#american #chief #complicates #cultural #emerson

I'd like to think that the notion of inspiration will transcend cultural things that are going on. There's something classic about this movie that I'm hoping reaches kids. ↗

— Rob Morrow

#classic #cultural #going #hoping #i

How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually. (92) ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#transcendence #art

Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

#desires #flourished #good #held #humanity

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#transcendentalists #men