Higher Quotes - page 9

It is important to focus more on what we need than on what we want, because much of what we want unnecessarily complicates our lives. The answer is to approach the Divinity in the mood of. "Thy will be done. Use me for Your purposes." Even higher than that sentiment is to request that God remove our free will so that we cannot even exercise it. We are then fully available for the Lord's service. (Bhakti Tirtha Swami)
No one is a solitary agent. We all have various types of guides who assist us. Most important, there is a form of God in everyone's heart, and when you put the physical body to rest, you make closer contact with the Lord in the heart and with your higher self. View quote
Bhakti Tirtha Swami
As your consciousness becomes more developed, you must become sensitively attuned to your inner and outer environment so you can receive higher knowledge and guidance. View quote
Bhakti Tirtha Swami
Our situations are arranged by higher agents to allow us to become tired of trying to manipulate the material energy. Due to not being properly appreciative of the beauty of relationship with the Lord, humankind is given a temporary arena in which to act out our desires. This environment is designed to frustrate, disgust, and disappoint us, to make us contemplative and introspective. Ultimately it is meant to drive us away from the temporary world in favor of that which is eternal. This is arranged for us to finally realize that our happiness lies not in dabbling with the material energy but in serving the Lord unconditionally, thus becoming whole again. View quote
Bhakti Tirtha Swami
Fear and love do not go together. Fear is constricting, self-centered and self-conscious, whereas love is expansive, selfless and directed towards service. To become effective spiritual warriors, we must learn to cultivate genuine love, courage, and compassion and come to depend on our inner faculties rather than externals. This allows us to understand our own true nature more deeply, and to behave more like the children and servants of God that we are. Then, firmly established in a higher state of consciousness, we can serve others-and the world-from the deepest, most aware and loving aspect of ourselves during these challenging times. View quote
Bhakti Tirtha Swami
Just as there are higher beings who spread spiritual messages throughout the atmosphere by means of books, films, music, and other mass media, there are beings of a demonic nature who try to slow down the progress on this planet through these media. Exposure to books and media of this type can have a negative effect on you. [...] To counteract this, some of the beings of a higher nature write books or oversee the writing of books that enhance one's spiritual development. View quote
Bhakti Tirtha Swami
I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
He whose intellect overcomes his desire is higher than the angels; he whose desire overcomes his intellect is less than an animal. View quote
Rumi
Existence is Appetite: the gnaw of being; the one attempt of all things to assimilate to some higher attempt. View quote
Charles Fort
Who climbs the mountain does not always climb. The winding road slants downward many a time; Yet each descent is higher than the last. View quote
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; he had acute sensibility to the higher forces. Fire taught him secrets that no other animal could learn; running water probably taught him even more, especially in his first lessons of mechanics; the animals helped to educate him, trusting themselves into his hands merely for the sake of their food, and carrying his burdens or supplying his clothing; the grasses and grains were academies of study. (Henry Adams)
I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind. View quote
Herbert Read
Miracles may be, for anything we know to the contrary, phenomena of a higher order of God's laws, superior to, and, under certain conditions, controlling the inferior order known to us as the ordinary laws of nature. View quote
Charles Babbage
Taking courage and looking forward from the standpoint of higher ideas born of the multiplication of the arts, they gave up huts and began to build houses with foundations, having brick or stone walls, and roofs of timber and tiles; next, observation and application led them from fluctuating and indefinite conceptions to definite rules of symmetry. Perceiving that nature had been lavish in the bestowal of timber and bountiful in stores of building material, they... embellished them with luxuries. View quote
Vitruvius
The human soul has sojourned in lower and higher forms, migrating from one to another according to the samskaras or impressions, but it is only in the highest form as a human being that it attains to freedom. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Those who grumble at the little thing that has fallen to their lot to do will grumble at everything. Always grumbling, they will lead a miserable life, and everything will be a failure. But those who do their duties as they go, putting their shoulders to the wheel, will see the light, and higher duties will fall to their share. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
This earth is higher than all the heavens; this is the greatest school in the universe. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why. View quote
Nadine Gordimer
In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more cowardly, in actions of cunning, actions that steal and lie, actions that divorce the speculative from the practical faculty, and put a ban on reason and sentiment, there is nothing else but drawback and negation. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news. (Peter McWilliams)
A new danger now beset him [Grotius], the danger of becoming simply a venal pleader, a creature who grinds out arguments on this or that side, for this or that client: a mere legal beast of prey. Fortunately for himself and for the world he took a higher view of his life-work: his determination clearly was to make himself a thoroughly equipped jurist, and then, as he rose more and more in his profession, to use his powers for the good of his country and of mankind. View quote
Andrew Dickson White
The greater the penalties laid on sellers in the black market... the higher the black market price. View quote
Kenneth Boulding
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. View quote
Victor Hugo
Life is a frail and transitory thing, but it has been given a higher purpose and dignity through the revelation of God's Teaching to Israel, and the resulting dedication of an entire people to God's service. View quote
Joseph H. Hertz