supersensual

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And how may I recover myself in such a temptation as this is, by not sinking under the World, but rising above it by a life which is truly heavenly and supersensual?

From Dialogues on the Supersensual Life by Böhme, Jakob

It is no easy appropriation of supersensual graces, but a deeper entering into the mystery of life, a richer, more profound, participation in pain, effort, as well as joy.

From Ruysbroeck by Underhill, Evelyn

Of the symptoms of true love—mental or sentimental, esthetic and sympathetic, altruistic and supersensual, he knows no more than Sappho did a thousand years before him.

From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Finck, Henry Theophilus

Though joy and inward peace even in desolation are dominant marks of those who have grown up into it, still it offers to none a succession of supersensual delights.

From The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day by Underhill, Evelyn

A theory of life is the fit answer to the supersensual riddle of living.

From The Invisible Censor by Hackett, Francis