“Today the major reason for our interest in Flatland is that for the first time we can achieve some of the dreams of our ancestors a century ago and obtain direct visual experience of phenomena in a dimension higher than our own.” FirstsReasonDreamTodayInterestAchieveCenturyHigherMajorsFirst TimeDirectLogicCertaintyUncertaintyReasoningVisualsDimensionsAncestorOntology Author:Thomas Banchoff
“Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.” FirstsSelfHelpingEvilTeachHigherBattleGainsShiningSufiHigher SelfEvil Within Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf
“The dream is so thick; the Maya is so thick. There's no magic as long as there's all this thought. So the first condition for the practice of higher magic is the stopping of thought.” FirstsLongDreamPracticeMagicConditionsAwarenessBuddhismHigherThickStopping Author:Frederick Lenz
“I have often been reminded of the wild duck that came down on migration into a barnyard and liked it so well that he stayed there. In the fall his erstwhile companions passed overhead and his first impulse was to rise and join them, but he had fed too well and could rise no higher than the eaves of the barn. The day came when his old fellow travelers could pass overhead without his even hearing their call. I have seen men and women who once mounted up with wings like eagles but are now content to live in the barnyard of this world.” MenWorldFirstsWellsChristianFallThis WorldHigherMen And WomenFellowsWingsHearingChristian InspirationalImpulseFedsCompanionDucksTravelerEaglesMigrationOverheadBarnsFellow Travelers Author:Vance Havner
“We must look at what immigration to America involves. To the new arrivals, the change is excruciating. Learning a new language and dealing with strange customs make the first years of life in the new land painful... The economic system of the United States is a mighty engine of persuasion. It motivates people to do what otherwise they never would in return for fulfilling their dreams. In the process, people learn that there is no sharp line between physical well-being and the higher purposes of life. The comfort of owning a house is at once meeting the obligation to care for one” PeopleYearsFirstsWellsLooksStatesDreamCareAmericaPurposeHouseLanguageProcessLinesUnitedUnited StatesEconomicLandStrangeReturnHigherComfortMeetingsPainfulImmigrationObligationWell BeingCustomsPurpose Of LifeEnginesFulfillingPersuasionArrivalsEconomic SystemsYears Of LifeHigher PurposeNew Arrivals Author:John Lachs
“First, the oil and gas business pays its fair share of taxes. Despite the current debate on energy taxes, few businesses pay more in taxes than oil and gas companies. The worldwide effective tax rate for our industry in 2010 was 40 percent. That's higher than the U.S. statutory rate of 35 percent and the rate for manufacturers of 26.5 percent.” FirstsEnergyPayCompanyShareIndustryHigherTaxesPercentFairsRateCurrentsOilDebateDespiteGasFair ShareOil And Gas Author:John S. Watson
“Our inner guidance comes to us through our feelings and body wisdom first - not through intellectual understanding. The intellect works best in service to our intuition, our inner guidance, soul, God or higher power - whichever term we choose for the spiritual energy that animates life.” FirstsSoulFeelingsBodySpiritualSpiritualityEnergyUnderstandingTermHigherIntellectualIntuitionIntellectGuidanceHigher PowerSpiritual AwarenessSpiritual Energy Author:Christiane Northrup
“The cell was the first invention of the animal kingdom, and all higher animals are and must be cellular in structure. Our tissues were formed ages on ages ago; they have all persisted. Most of our organs are as old as worms. All these are very old, older than the mountains.” FirstsAgeAnimalHigherMountainStructureInventionKingdomsCellsOrgansWormsTissuesAnimal KingdomCellular Author:John M. Tyler
“There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.” FirstsMayReasonHappensMovingLiteratureSpeakUnderstandingPleasureTeachHigherFunctionMereAffectionSailOarRudders Book:Leaders in literature Source: Leaders in literature
“To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God - maybe even day after day. Maybe he's too great to stay compressed in the human mind. Maybe he splits it wide open; this is why pretentious intellectualism so often fails to comprehend the concept of God: it is only accepting of what it can explain while in the process finding higher sources offensive. What we may confidently assert is that faith is the opening that allows God, this unpredictable, unseen power, to travel in and out of the mind without all the pains of confusion.” MindFirstsHumansMayIdeasPainProcessAcceptingFailingSourceHigherFindingsConceptsWideOpeningConfusionHuman MindSplitsOffensiveUnseenUnpredictablePretentiousIntellectualism Author:Criss Jami