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The act of climbing past your own limits and not looking back.
means The state of rising above or going beyond ordinary limits — physical, mental, or spiritual.
from From Latin transcendere, 'to climb over or beyond,' built from trans- ('across, beyond') and scandere ('to climb' — the same root that gives us 'ascend' and 'descend'). So at its heart the word is literally a climb: you step over the edge of what bounded you. It entered English through the medieval scholars who used it to describe things that exceeded the categories of ordinary understanding, and later the philosophers — Kant above all — who made it the name for whatever lies past the reach of experience.
- latin roots
- From transcendere, to climb beyond or over
- kant's claim
- He argued some truths sit beyond all experience
- emerson built it
- American transcendentalism trusted intuition over institutions
- meditation aims here
- Monks chase ego-dissolution as the ultimate destination
- math has it
- Pi is a transcendental number, beyond all algebra
the transcendentalists — 19th century american philosophical movement led by ralph waldo emerson and henry david thoreau
transcendental meditation — meditation technique popularized by maharishi mahesh yogi, adopted by the beatles in 1967