Top Transcendentalism Quotes

Oneness is God.

In the non-dual state, God, soul and universe are essentially one absolute system which is all-pervading, uncreated, self-luminous and eternal.

Transcendentalism Definition

(n.) The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.

(n.) Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction.

Enmerson's interest is in the workshop phase, the birthing stage of art, not the museum moment, the embalming phase. Poetry mimics Creation and is therefore sacred. More precisely, just as God may ind...

There is no such thing as 'God given scripture', 'the messenger of God' or 'the Last Prophet'.

Awakening into the God state makes all the perceptual limitations of the mind disappear, just like a bucket of muddy water turns crystal-clear once poured into the ocean.

The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything. Like the sun at noonday, mysticism explains everything else by the blaze of its own victorio...

The troubles of modern life come from being divorced from nature.

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye an...

All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

Let the sounds of nature amplify your vibrations of peace.

For who can we be, but ourselves.

I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was relieved by the grotesque visions with which, owing to bodily weakness, his disea...

I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete,The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.

None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed. Ah me! no man goeth alone. All men go in flocks to this saint or that poet, avoiding the God who seeth in secret. Th...

Another point of economy is to look for seed of the same kind as you sow, and not to hope to buy one kind with an other kind. Friendship buys friendship; justice, justice; military merit, military suc...