Transconceptual Quotes & Sayings

When a rich man is hurt, his wail goeth heavens high. (Sancho Panza) — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

History teaches us these lessons for the interveners: leave your prejudices at home, keep your ambitions low, have enough resources to do the job, do not lose the golden hour, make security your first priority, involve the neighbours. — Paddy Ashdown

This regard, a hotly disputed topic is whether the spiritual/transpersonal stages themselves can be conceived as higher levels of cognitive development. The answer, I have suggested, depends on what you mean by "cognitive." If you mean what most Western psychologists mean - which is a mental conceptual knowledge of exterior objects - then no, higher or spiritual stages are not mental cognition, because they are often supramental, transconceptual, and nonexterior. If by "cognitive" you mean "consciousness in general," including superconscious states, then much of higher spiritual experience is indeed cognitive. — Ken Wilber

Sometimes I'm overcome with such an aversion to human beings that I can barely refrain from retching. — Franz Kafka

It's hard to know another person. It's like everyone fades and glows in ever - changing light. Like we're each a playing card in a deck, random only to a certain point. Yet still random enough to keep us guessing which card will be played next. — E.M. Crane

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is. — Albert Camus

I'm not proud of myself, Olivia. Not even a little bit. Do I wish I'd never let you go? Obviously. Do I wish I'd come to my senses sooner? Of course. And maybe if it had taken me only a day or two to clear my head, then yeah, I would have called. But when you fuck up as badly as I fucked up, for that long, you don't call. You don't text. You don't email. You go to your girl and beg. — Lauren Layne

I used to have a lot of envy for those musicians who have been universally loved. — Moby

The seeds of good deeds become a tree of life; a wise person wins friends. - Proverbs 11:30 — Gary Chapman

I have chosen the way of truth; I have set Your ordinances before me. Psalm 119:30 — Beth Moore