The hyperbolic notion of being that I propose is guided by the idea that all being is characterised by an inner transcendence that makes it neither reducible to any other being nor to what it itself is in the course of its temporal unfolding. This inner transcendence, I will argue, is the effect of every being's existence. For it is the most common characteristic of existence that it cannot be reduced to anything objective and, being beyond any genus, ultimately escapes any conceptual framework. Since everything that is real also exists, it shares this general characteristic of existence. Thus, in its very existence, its that-it-is, everything is also beyond its own objectivity or what-it-is. In my talk I will discuss some basic ideas that arise from a hyperbolic understanding of being. In particular, I will suggest that the transcendent aspect of being must be united with a relational aspect, according to which everything is what it is, by participating in a plural hermeneutics of being. One can speak of hyperbolic ontology as holistic pluralism. However, the "holon" or the whole of this holism is not absolute. Rather, it is open to a constitutive, somewhat hyper-positive difference from itself, leaving room for the wonders, the secret depths, but also for the dignity of each singular being.