#transcend

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

Over my lifetime, the car had actually transcended the fact that it is a car. It has become a venue. ↗

— Eric Bana

#become #car #fact #had #lifetime

Because there is a larger awareness that transcends time and space, an awareness is available after death. ↗

— Henry Reed

#available #awareness #because #death #larger

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

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#choose #circumstances #class #creating #every

Children I implore you get out of the burning house now three carts wait outside to save you from a homeless life relax in the village square before the sky everything's empty no direction is better or worse east is just as good as west those who know the meaning of this are free to go where they want ↗

— Han-shan

#old-songs #transcendence #life

When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do. ↗

— RuPaul

#destiny #identity #imagination #inspirational #power

An awake heart is like a sky that pours light. ↗

— Hafiz

#personal-growth #spirituality #transcendence #transformation #personal-growth

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

SUN, MOON, AND STARRY SKY Early summer evenings, when the first stars come out, the warm glow of sunset still stains the rim of the western sky. Sometimes, the moon is also visible, a pale white slice, while the sun tarries. Just think -- all the celestial lights are present at the same time! These are moments of wonder -- see them and remember. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#evening #evenings #heaven #light #lights