transcendence

enlightenment

Profound spiritual awakening

• nirvanaRelease from cyclical existence
• satoriSudden spiritual awakening
• awakeningReturn to consciousness

liberation · moksha · samadhi · illumination · meditation · zen · dharma · karma · yoga · mantra

awe

Reverent fear and wonder

• grandeurImpressive splendor and scale
• majestyImpressive supreme dignity
• splendorImpressive, striking beauty

wonder · beauty · exalted · numinous · breathtaking · overwhelming · vastness · profound · reverence · magnificence

exceed

Go past a limit

• surpassExceed in achievement
• overcomePrevail against difficulty
• surmountPrevail over difficulty

beyond · excel · outstrip · eclipse · rise above · break through · go beyond · supersede · breakthrough · limits

heaven

Sky or bliss

• paradiseIdeal, blissful place
• afterlifeExistence beyond mortality
• salvationDeliverance from harm

redemption · divinity · grace · rapture · ascension · glorification · beatific · eternal · immortality · resurrection

ontology

Study of existence's nature

• cosmologyStudy of universal structure
• essenceFundamental nature of something
• eternityBoundless temporal existence

infinity · timelessness · immaterial · ethereal · ineffable · absolute · being · existence · phenomenology · idealism

metamorphosis

Profound biological restructuring

• evolutionSpecies changing over generations
• growthIncrease in size
• awakeningReturn to consciousness

self-actualization · becoming · emergence · transmutation · elevation · ascent · development · unfolding · realization · flowering

• abstract conceptsparadox, emotions, justice, truth, beauty
• divinitydeity, godhood, divine, godhead, holiness
• literary themesheroism, hero's journey, ennui, social realism, morals
• Peak experiencesflow state, epiphany, enlightenment, euphoria, ecstasy
• spiritual statesenlightenment, devotion, ecstasy, salvation, fervor
• Beyond wordsineffable, unutterable, inexpressible, indescribable, incommunicable