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“Nourishing spirituality means cultivating the inward space, the basis of which all things can be brought together. It means overwhelming deadness and stagnation and living reality in terms of values, inspiration, and symbols of higher meaning.”

Mean Reality Inspiration Together Values Spirituality Term Space Higher All Things Bases Symbols Overwhelming Inward Stagnation Cultivating Spiritual Values Living Reality

Author:Leonardo Boff

“If you think you are a vile slime, that means that you aspire to something higher...It's because you have a sense of perfection, and you obviously want that, that you find something wrong.”

Ifs Thinking Want Inspirational Mean Buddhism Higher Perfection Aspire Slime

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you expound the teaching of the Logos from the standpoint of the moral life, using materialistic words and examples which correspond to the capacity of your hearers, you make the Logos flesh. Conversely, if you elucidate mystical theology by means of the higher forms of contemplation you make the Logos spirit.”

Ifs Mean Christian Form Spirit Moral Teaching Example Higher Capacity Flesh Theology Contemplation Orthodox Mystical Standpoint Materialistic Logos Moral Life

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“You certainly have a higher quality of life when you are not on the Forbes list. It just means that your security changes, and you're known for the wrong things.”

Mean Quality Known Security Higher Lists Quality Of Life Wrong Things Forbes

Author:Ronald Burkle

“Angels can help us understand what intuition means in a personal way. Angels are actually in charge of a large part of our intuitive self. Viewing intuition from the perspective of angel consciousness, we can say that intuition is our way of tapping into a higher power for guidance and awareness.”

Way Mean Self Character Helping Spirituality Consciousness Awareness Perspective Higher Angel Intuition Guidance Intuitive Higher Power Tapping

Author:Terry Taylor

“Reincarnation doesn't simply mean that at the end of this life you will move on to another life in another body, it means that the spirit of life is continually renewing itself and moving to a higher level.”

Mean Ends Body Moving Life Is Spirit Levels Higher This Life Reincarnation Higher Level Another Life Spirit Of Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Just remembering what you did in previous lives doesn't mean a thing. It's nice to remember that you had higher states of mind, but that won't necessarily get you there. It might even make things painful.”

Mind Mean States Might Remember Nice Higher Painful State Of Mind Reincarnation Previous Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Senate races are different from House races, in the sense that they are more candidate-driven. The higher the office - that is, I mean, governor, senator, president - the more important the candidate.”

Mean Important Different House President Race Higher Office Driven Candidates Senate Governors Senators

Author:Judy Woodruff

“The principle of fasting is taught in almost all major world religions as a means of developing a higher level of self-mastery and self-control, and also a deeper awareness of how really dependent we are.”

Source: The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

“Feel the underlying meaning of the teachings that are espoused by me or anyone else. The word's don't mean much. Words are supposed to be catalysts for higher states of attention. That is where the action is.”

Feels Mean States Action Attention Teaching Higher Supposed To Be Catalyst

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Far too many doctors-many of them excellent physicians-commit suicide each year; one recent study concluded that, until quite recently, the United States lost annually the equivalent of a medium-sized medical school class from suicide alone. Most physician suicides are due to depression or manic-depressive illness, both of which are eminently treatable. Physicians, unfortunately, not only suffer from a higher rate of mood disorders than the general population, they also have a greater access to very effective means of suicide.”

Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“Socialism is the preparation for that higher Anarchism; painfully, laboriously we mean to destroy false ideas of property and self, eliminate unjust laws and poisonous and hateful suggestions and prejudices, create a system of social right-dealing and a tradition of right-feeling and action. Socialism is the schoolroom of true and noble Anarchism, wherein by training and restraint we shall make free men.”

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“Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them.”

Life Looks Mean Seems Certain Secret Higher Claims Cherish Satisfying Nurse Vulgar Commonplace

Book:Maxims and Reflections

Source: Maxims and Reflections

“Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean.”

Ifs Mean Said Sound Higher They Said Jargon

Book:The Jargon of Authenticity

Source: The Jargon of Authenticity

“This is what evolution means--ordered progress; development from poorer to richer, from lower to higher, from less to greater--progress. In the material universe, progress to higher forms; in the moral universe, progress to higher life.”

Mean Form Universe Moral Greater Progress Materials Development Evolution Higher

Book:The Life that Really is

Source: The Life that Really is

“So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational. A free discipline controls the individual by appealing to his reason and conscience, and therefore to his self-respect; while an unfree control works upon some lower phase of the mind, and so tends to degrade him. It is freedom to be disciplined in as rational a manner as you are fit for.”

Mind Mean Self Reason Use Form Individual Higher Discipline Fit Conscience Concerned Absence Rational Self Respect Phases Degrade Unfree

Book:Human Nature and the Social Order

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“The Reservoir system will function not only as an equalizer of business conditions, but also as a national store to meet further emergencies, such as war and drought, and-most important of all-as the concrete means of developing a steadily higher living standard for all.”

Mean Important War Conditions Higher Standards Function Stores Developing Concrete Emergencies Drought Reservoirs Equalizer

Author:Benjamin Graham

“You know what higher interest rates mean. To you it means a higher mortgage payment, a higher car payment, a higher credit card payment. To our economy, it means business people will not borrow as much money, invest as much money, create as many new jobs, create as much wealth, raise as many raises.”

Knows Mean Jobs Interest Wealth Economy Car Higher Raises Rate Credit Cards Payment Mortgage Credit Card New Job Interest Rate Car Payments

Author:William J. Clinton

“I don't mean to imply that we are in imminent danger of being wiped off the face of the earth - at least, not on account of global warming. But climate change does confront us with profound new realities. We face these new realities as a nation, as members of the world community, as consumers, as producers, and as investors. And unless we do a better job of adjusting to these new realities, we will pay a heavy price. We may not suffer the fate of the dinosaurs. But there will be a toll on our environment and on our economy, and the toll will rise higher with each new generation.”

“In the unexamined American Dream rhetoric promoting mass higher education in the nation of my youth, the implicit vision was that one day everyone, or at least practically everyone, would be a manager or a professional. We would use the most elitist of all means, scholarship, toward the most egalitarian of ends. We would all become chiefs; hardly anyone would be left a mere Indian.”

Mean Ends Use Dream Would Be Left Nations Vision Youth Higher One Day Mass Mere Chiefs Managers Indian American Dream Rhetoric Promoting Scholarship Higher Education Implicit Elitist

Author:William A. Henry III

“What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the higher instincts would bring to a finely organized human being. It may appear as prophesy or as poesy...should these faculties have free play, I believe they will open up new, deeper and purer sources of joyous inspiration than have as yet refreshed the earth.”

“Living in, and promoting a eugenic White society. This means that we take particular care in not only assuring the perpetuation of our precious White Race, but we take deliberate care that the misfits are culled and that each generation advances to higher and more salubrious levels, physically, aesthetically, and mentally.”

Mean Care White Levels Race Generations Particular Higher Deliberate Promoting Misfits White Race

Author:Ben Klassen

“Can you control your anger, lust, frustrations, and jealousies? Those are the only people worthy of the higher teachings. By worthy, I mean that they are the only ones capable of it.”

People Mean Teaching Buddhism Higher Capable Worthy Lust Buddhist Frustration Etiquette

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Faith is precisely the paradox that the single individual as the single individual is higher than the universal, is justified before it, not as inferior to it but superior - yet in such a way, please note, that it is the single individual who, after being subordinate as the single individual to the universal, now by means of the universal becomes the single individual who as the single individual is superior, that the single individual as the single individual stands in an absolute relation to the absolute.”

Way Mean Individual Atheism Higher Please Universal Relation Absolutes Notes Superiors Paradox Inferiors Justified Subordinates

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“The whole power of cunning is privative; to say nothing, and to do nothing , is the utmost of its reach. Yet men, thus narrow by nature and mean by art, are sometimes able to rise by the miscarriages of bravery and the openness of integrity, and, watching failures and snatching opportunities, obtain advantages which belong to higher characters.”

Men Mean Art Sometimes Whole Character Able Opportunity Higher Integrity Advantage Bravery Openness Cunning Miscarriage

Book:The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“serene illumination, or just sitting, is not a technique, or a means to some resulting higher state of consciousness, or any particular state of being. Just sitting, one simply meets the immediate present. Desiring some flashy experience, or anything more or other than 'this' is mere worldly vanity and craving.”

Mean States Consciousness Particular Higher Sitting Experience Mere Technique Vanity Worldly Craving Illumination Serene States Of Consciousness Flashy

Book:The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza (Large Print 16pt)

Source: The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza (Large Print 16pt)

“In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of virtue so as to elevate human life to a higher plane... It refers to the attainment of both material well-being and the elevation of the human spirit, [but] since what produces man's well-being and refinement is knowledge and virtue, civilization ultimately means the progress of man's knowledge and virtue.”

“I do not mean to impugn the social justice and social expediency of the redistribution of incomes aimed at by N.I.R.A. and by the various schemes for agricultural restriction. The latter, in particular, I should strongly support in principle. But too much emphasis on the remedial value of a higher price-level as an object in itself may lead to serious misapprehension as to the part which prices can play in the technique of recovery. The stimulation of output by increasing aggregate purchasing power is the right way to get prices up; and not the other way round.”

“Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be worn by Citizen Antoine Saint-Just, of the National Convention and the Committee of Public Safety. In the dark and harrowing days of '94, an obscene feminine inversion will appear: a thin crimson ribbon, worn round a bare white neck.”

Ifs Mean Grows Dark White Higher Citizens Protect Highest Safety Rounds Saint Necks Feminine Throat Conventions Worn Committees Public Life Obscene Ribbons Crimson Public Safety Inversions

Author:Hilary Mantel

“Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.”

Mean Success Spirit Tree Sky Higher

Book:The poetical works of George Herbert

Source: The poetical works of George Herbert

“Most people have an aversion to risk, my college economics professor told me. Which means they have to be rewarded to take on that risk. The higher the risk, the higher the possible payout has to be for people to jump.”

People Mean Risk College Higher Economics Professors Aversion

Author:Michael Arrington

“It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business.”

Mean Reason Higher Productivity Loyalty Wages Profitable Morale Profitable Business

Author:Thomas Perez

“Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them.”

World Mean Art Artist Goal Nature Subjects This World Masters Higher Understood Slave Subservient Higher Goals

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The nature of men and of organized society dictates the maintenance in every field of action of the highest and purest standards of justice and of right dealing.... By justice the lawyer generally means the prompt, fair, and open application of impartial rules; but we call ours a Christian civilization, and a Christian conception of justice must be much higher. It must include sympathy and helpfulness and a willingness to forego self-interest in order to promote the welfare, happiness, and contentment of others and of the community as a whole.”

“To expect to increase prices and then to maintain them at a higher level by means of a plan which must of necessity increase production while decreasing consumption is to fly in the face of an economic law as well established as any law of nature.”

Wells Mean Faces Law Levels Plans Economic Higher Economics Increase Productions Consumption Laws Of Nature Higher Level

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“Science, unguided by a higher abstract principle, freely hands over its secrets to a vastly developed and commercially inspired technology, and the latter, even less restrained by a supreme culture saving principle, with the means of science creates all the instruments of power demanded from it by the organization of Might.”

Mean Hands Might Science Culture Secret Principles Technology Higher Organization Instruments Inspired Supreme Saving Abstract Latter Over It

Author:Johan Huizinga

“It is characteristic of the barbarian ... to insist upon seeing a thing "as it is." The desire testifies that he has nothing in himself with which to spiritualize it; the relation is one of thing to thing without the intercession of the imagination. Impatient of the veiling with which the man of higher type gives the world imaginative meaning, the barbarian and the Philistine, who is the barbarian living amid culture, demands the access of immediacy. Where the former wishes representation, the latter insists upon starkness of materiality, suspecting rightly that forms will mean restraint.”

“Most [people] see education only as the means by which a person is transported from one economic plane to a higher one.”

People Mean Persons Economic Higher Planes

Book:In defense of tradition: collected shorter writings of Richard M. Weaver, 1929-1963

Source: In defense of tradition: collected shorter writings of Richard M. Weaver, 1929-1963

“The sad thing about our society is that women are put in one of two categories. You're either in the beautiful category and you're seen as sexy and beautiful, or some version of that, or you're put into another category... The latter category affords women the opportunity to be smart, funny, independent, mean, strong, intelligent and opinionated. We take them seriously as politicians, if they fit into that latter category. We respect their opinions more and give them higher expectations. That latter category is what allows female actors to be characters.”

“Jesus is an historical figure for me, and he's also a bridge between God and man, in the Christian faith, and one that I think is powerful precisely because he serves as that means of us reaching something higher.”

Thinking Men Mean Christian Jesus Powerful Figures Higher Historical Bridges Reaching Christian Faith Historical Figure

Author:Barack Obama

“The ability to get to a higher level in our life means that we have to generate the energy to be able to do so, and generally, we do that by a fall. Spiritual advances are almost always proceeded by a fall of one kind or another.”

Kind Mean Able Spiritual Fall Energy Ability Levels Our Lives Higher Higher Level Life Means

Author:Wayne Dyer

“If you think your demeanor is mellow or not particularly charismatic, the material can life you higher. So write everyday, and get onstage or in a coffee shop where they are doing open mice, anywhere you can perform even if that means starting your own open mic night - and be your own self.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Mean Self Night Materials Higher Everyday Starting Coffee Shops Mice Charismatic Mellow Coffee Shop Mics Demeanor

Author:Dane Cook

“A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.”

Men Way Inspirational Mean Ideas Self Produce Higher Ambition Noble Compare Aspiration Aspire Vulgar My Ambition Noble Man Mean Man

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Knowing is higher than believing. Knowing means that there is NO doubt.”

Believe Mean Belief Knowing Doubt Higher No Doubt

Book:Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want

Source: Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want

“The idea that when people see prices falling they will stop buying those cheaper goods or cheaper food does not make much sense. And aiming for 2 percent inflation every year means that after a decade prices are more than 25 percent higher and the price level doubles every generation. That is not price stability, yet they call it price stability. I just do not understand central banks wanting a little inflation.”

People Years Mean Littles Doe Ideas Fall Levels Generations Higher Percent Decades Buying Goods Stability Inflation Cheaper Central Banks Price Stability

Author:Paul Volcker

“Information is just simply bootstrapping itself to higher and higher levels of self-reflection and self-coordination using whatever means are necessary.”

Mean Self Levels Information Higher Reflection Self Reflection Higher Level Coordination

Author:Terence McKenna

“Whether happiness or unhappiness, freedom or slavery, in short whether good or evil results from an improved environment depends largely upon how the change has been brought about, upon the methods by which the physical results have been reached, and in what spirit and for what purpose the fruits of that change are used. Because a higher standard of living, a greater productiveness and a command over nature are not good in and of themselves does not mean that we cannot make good of them, that they cannot be a source of inner strength.”

“In the 80's we had high, high, waisted pants, that if they came up any higher they'd have to go up another size, if you know what I mean.”

Ifs Knows Mean Higher Size Pants

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.”

Mean Self Levels Creativity Achieve Awareness Higher Self Awareness Genuine Higher Level Personal Freedom

Book:Man's Search for Himself

Source: Man's Search for Himself

“And we are understanding - we're beginning to understand that the Nigerian military is now better on. And also, probably even more importantly, Michel, morale is higher amongst the military. I mean, you had Nigerian soldiers being accused of cowardice, running away from Boko Haram and not having the will to fight.”

Mean Running Fighting Understanding Military Higher Soldier Running Away Cowardice Accused Morale Being Accused Will To Fight Boko Haram Haram

Author:Ofeibea Quist-Arcton