Quotes About Above

Everything found in this world must have its counterpart in the worlds above. Kabbalists have a phrase to describe this process: As above, so below. Our world is the seeable, touchable, hearable, smellable, and tastable form of all the hidden spiritual worlds. There is nothing in our physical world that does not come from the worlds above. Kabbalah tells us that everything we see in this world is only a reflection, an approximation, a clue, to something beyond outward appearances.

PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.

Autocracy is a government of the few from above; Bolshevism is a government of the few from below.

Patriotism cannot be instilled inside anybody, it just happens to be there. And it can rise above any notion, any emotion.

I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light.

Let me tell you something: remember that the heart is a wonderful thing, but not above all else.

If the script is right, I'm not above doing a movie with broad appeal.

Even if they are teaching truth, all others who have claimed or been accorded prophetic status are still at best human beings on whom this call from God was bestowed. Their assignment is a given one; they are the human receptors. Jesus, in distinction, is the Supreme Giver Himself. He is "from above," say the Gospel writers.

Let us teach the whole counsel of God with a joy and passion that comes from above. And may times of refreshing and revival break out all over the land once again to the glory of God.

I have no sword, Steward thought, and the thought was triumphant. From the state which is above and beyond, from thought I make my sword.

Beneath me lay the Lake of Oblivion, above me loomed Insanity.

I hope life treats you kind And I hope you have all you've dreamed of And I wish to you joy and happiness But above all this, I wish you love

It is hard to lift up your own misfortune. To be at once the viewer and the viewed. To be both above and below. The one below is a spot, a shadow . . . To consider your own person in the light of eternity (read: in the light of death). To rise into the air. The world from a bird's-eye view.

In retrospect, we can see all the inconsequential and unnoticed paths of our lives become necessary parts of the main thoroughfare, the road itself laid out for us from above

Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.

I didn't even think to ask if you had a DVD player." "Does a bear growl in the woods? It's on the shelf above the TiVo.

There are some men above grief and some men below it.

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Do you know what Nabokov said about adultery in his lecture on Madame Bovary? He said it was 'a most conventional way to rise above the conventional'.

But aeronautics purged the sin of height, otherwise known as the sin of getting above yourself.

He had given weight to her life, tied her down to the world when her natural inclination had always been to float above everything, as if it were happening to someone else.

The world is a nest of crows; some caw in praise; some caw in derision. But men should be above the reach of praise and blame.

Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.