My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence.
Sex has the unparalleled power to make us absurd to ourselves. It also has the power to make us understand transcendence.
Awe is the emotion of self-transcendence.
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
Within alpinism's narrow framework we seek transcendence and relentlessly pursue what remains hidden from us on flat ground: our true selves.
Without transcendence, life has no beauty.
Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence ...
I experience transcendence when something infinite reminds me I am finite.
Transcendence is something between a metaphor and a miracle.