"What I know," he continues, "is that it is everything we say it is and none of those things, that it exists inside us and yet transcends us – possesses no boundaries other than those we inflict on it, neither moral values, nor narrative structures.
The power of religion to motivate derives, Mill suggests, from the human need for some sort of ideal that transcends us.
I think books can help transcend "us and them".
Many of us are driven to seek visions that transcend us horses galloping freely in a field, sunsets or snow-covered mountain tops--and recall them to lift our spirits.
The long-term goal of the group, going beyond probing and modulation, is to enable incorporation of functionalities, not otherwise allowed by biology, for enhancing and transcending us beyond our biological limitations.
I want to feel that I am in the presence of something transcending us mere mortals, even something adventurous: that is why great music, great architecture and great language (English or Latin) is so priceless.
How? Research by Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg and Tom Pyszczynski shows that when we experience mortality salience— that is, when our own imminent demise is front and center in our consciousness– the things that transcend us, like our country, our values, and our customs, become all the more important to us.
How? Research by Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, and Tom Pyszczynski shows that when we experience "mortality salience"—that is, when our own imminent demise is front and center in our consciousness the things that transcend us, like our country, our values, and our customs, become all the more important to us.
Only then can the work we do really transcend us.
Healing occurs as we transcend an "us vs. them" mentality, crossing borders and forging connections.
In a recent double review for the New Scientist, "Green thinking in the era of Trump," Fred Pearce took on two of our recent books in environmental studies Eric T. Freyfogle's A Good that Transcends: How US Culture Undermines Environmental Reform and Nathan F. Sayre's The Politics of Scale: A History of Rangeland Science.
