Their need for self-transcendence dissolves them in Me.

ECONOMIST: Letters

Of course this is merely my own opinion, but what deeply saddens me about nostalgia is that so few of us ever see through her glittering lure of earthly associations, and so we miss the longing for self-transcendence she is really trying to evoke.

FORBES: Moving People Means Moving Products

There are slow passages, and sequences that lean too hard on self-pity, but there are many more moments of crazy transcendence, plus a fart joke or two.

NEWYORKER: Black and Blue