supersensual

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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

It coloured the whole moral teaching of the time, and led the chief moralists to regard virtue simply as the highest kind of supersensual beauty.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole

Mr. Murry confesses that at times, as he reads him, he is "seized by a supersensual terror."

From Old and New Masters by Lynd, Robert

The Scholar said to his Master: How may I come to the supersensual life, that I may see God and hear Him speak?

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

Modern love does not express itself in such terms; it is more mental and sentimental, more esthetic and sympathetic, more decorous and delicate, more refined and supersensual.

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