Quotes About Elevation

When I first started reading about the kabbalists, I would hear about them being seen in strange places. It would turn out that they were doing some kind of spiritual work to elevate the sparks. In my life and career, I've had the opportunity to find myself where I could make some spiritual moves, to do some work that is spiritually important.

The highest state is laughter.

Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its outer casings, and - as the snake from its skin, the butterfly from its chrysalis - emerges from one after another, passing into a higher state of consciousness.

People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it's big money, so people are elevated in status. If I was a bus driver, I'm sure you wouldn't be interviewing me.

This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my whole life's direction. It immediately elevated me to the status of one of the world's leading anthropologists.

I have the mindset of a mid-level guy or a minimum guy. My path here wasn't expected: my path wasn't that I was going to the NBA and making $16 million a year. So I identify more with those guys, and I want to be a voice for them. I want to help them elevate their status in the league. That's my goal.

I have been elevated to such a high status that the fall will be very steep.

Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.

My soule, poore soule thou talkes of things/ Thou knowest not what, my soule hath sliver wings,/ That mounts me up unto the highest heavens.

If you can't stand the way this place is take yourself to higher places

Todos estamos en el Camino, y esta vía va siempre ascendiendo, con frecuentes sitios de reposo.

When you're going a bit higher than you think you normally can, and you can feel the adrenaline and excitement of the public, that's really great.

If the audience is bringing it, it always goes up 10 notches.

El amor es una elevación, un cambio de estado; los amantes transcienden, por un momento al menos, su condición temporal y, literalmente, se transportan a otro mundo.

What I love most about reading: It gives you the ability to reach higher ground. And keep climbing.

Its Like Joy Rising

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, says Mary Wortley Montagu; nor any pleasure so lasting. Good books elevate the character, purify the taste, take the attractiveness out of low pleasures, and lift us upon a higher plane of thinking and living. It is not easy to be mean directly after reading a noble and inspiring book. The conversation of a man who reads for improvement or pleasure will be flavored by his reading; but it will not be about his reading.

calling a man a god did not elevate the man, it only diminished the idea of godhood.

The elevation of grief to a status transcending that which it sorrows.

I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell

El ser espiritual, en cambio, se consagra a elevarse él y elevar a los demás a niveles cada vez más altos de conciencia y realización.

Climb a tree — it gets you closer to heaven.

If we dance amongst the rooftops, is it not that much further to jig into the starshine?

Don't ever think I feel for you, or feel over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.