Aboveness Quotes & Sayings

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today. — Mark Twain

The dream has to be translated into reality. — Anais Nin

The first star tonight insanely high, virgin, calm.
I have one hour of peace before the documented planets burn me down. — Leonard Cohen

A man has the strength to face what he is thrown in life. If he falls or is beaten, he does not complain but gets up and rides in to face the challenge once more. — Cheryl Matthynssens

If you seek God, you will see Him. If you do not seek God, you will still see Him. — T.A. Cline

Neither Bwitists nor Fang felt they could eradicate ritual sin or evil in the world. This incapacity means that men have to celebrate. Good and bad walk together. As Fang frequently enough told missionaries, "We have two hearts, good and bad." Early missionaries, aware of these self-confessed contradictions, evangelized with the promise of "one heartedness" in Christianity. But Fang by and large did not find it there. For many, Christian one heartedness was a constriction of their selves. While "one heartedness" is celebrated in Bwiti, it is a one heartedness which is coagulated out of a flow of many qualities from one state to another. It is goodness achieved in the presence of badness, an aboveness achieved in the presence of belowness. It is an emergent quality energized in the presence of its opposite. — Terence McKenna

It must be an odd feeling to be thankful to nobody in particular. Christians in public institutions often see this odd thing happening on Thanksgiving Day. Everyone in the institution seems to be thankful 'in general.' It's very strange. It's a little like being married in general. — Cornelius Plantinga

If there are questions then, of course, there are answers, but the final answer makes the questions seem absurd. — John Cage

There are companies that are cutting their costs by over 50% by offshoring. — Sanjay Kumar

There's no pain on earth that doesn't crave a benevolent witness. — Sue Monk Kidd

And again, as always, after so many years we were still in the same place we always were. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez