Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
Transcendence constitutes selfhood.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
In Sufi terms, there are two very interesting notions of transcendence. One is to gaze out at the universe and to comprehend that what you see out there reflects what you are. The other one is to look inside yourself and recognise that the universe is present there.
The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.