Transcendence

searching for meaning

Transcendence governs meaning: purpose past the self, contact with something larger. These feelings reach beyond the person having them.

All six families pass through this need. Read the feelings below and you'll hear one question asked six ways: what does it mean?

Meaning is a need in its own right. Frankl built a clinical method on it, and Maslow's late work put transcendence above self-actualization. These feelings reach past the self because the self alone was never the whole project.

the feelings here