"The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we are salvaging from the splitting-open of our lives. -from "Transcendental Etude"
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"The future is the only transcendental value for men without God."
"The transcendental knowledge of devotional service is digested by the engyme of humility."
"There is no mundane dimension really, if you have the eyes to see it, it is all transcendental."
"The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories."
"I do transcendental meditation, which is, I suppose, derived from Vedic or Ayurvedic principles, which is sort of Hindu principles."
"I do not believe in a personal connection to God; that's where it gets transcendental."
"Only let's cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw."