Transcendence

Can something transcend itself? Not, tautologically, while in the form of itself. The transcendence occurs by not being in the form of itself. So this transcendence cannot occur as a progression, a progression involving the movement from itself to not-itself. Transcendence cannot be something linear, a movement within time. Also if one is trying to transcend oneself, then this "oneself" is being accepted as real, the starting-point from which movement emanates, but if real how can it make any sense for reality to transcend reality?