Quotes About As Above So Below

#1. As above, so below," runs the old motto. It

Frank Joseph

#2. Every moment is a crossroad in time. Consider that, as above so below and as inside so outside and live accordingly.

Grigoris Deoudis

#3. Hermetic principle often associated with the Knights Templar: As above, so below.

James Rollins

#4. As above, so below. As within, so without. - The Emerald Tablet, circa 3000 BC

Rhonda Byrne

#5. What is the relationship of the obvious things that we see around us to the things that we believe we understand within ourselves? This is the ancient alchemical formula: "as above, so below, as within, so without."

Fred Alan Wolf

#6. Remember, as each man and woman is a microcosm reflecting the larger natural world, so healing of the self is also a healing for the world. As above, so below.

Brian Froud

#7. As Above, So Below

Hermetic

#8. No breath of wind disturbed the surface of the water. So as we climbed out onto the fallen stone the stars reflected themselves in double fashion; as above, so below.

Patrick Rothfuss

#9. Our Father in heaven, Reveal who you are. Set the world right; Do what's best - As above, so below. Keep us alive with three square meals. Keep us forgiven with you and forgiving others. Keep us safe from ourselves and the Devil. You're in charge!

Eugene H. Peterson

#10. the hermetic philosophy of the harmony between man and nature contained in the phrase "As above, so below.

Christiane Northrup

#11. No country is so peaceful as the one that leads into death. Life arches above one's head like a bridgespan, and below it flows the water, carries the boat, takes it further.

Alfred Doblin

#12. It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#13. Both above and below, without and within, which way so ever thou dost turn thee, everywhere thou shalt find the Cross; and everywhere of necessity thou must hold fast patience, if thou wilt have inward peace, and enjoy an everlasting crown.

Thomas A Kempis

#14. Playing Rachmaninoff was like walking on a rope bridge across a gorge with dreamy skies above and a raging, muddy river below.

Ella Leya

#15. There is an equator that runs just under the nose: all that live below the equator are animals; all that live above it are men.

Henry Ward Beecher

#16. I wasn't going to be an actor. I was going to be a lawyer. I came from a family just above working class, just below middle class, a great family of wonderful values. The idea of me having a chance for a law degree was enticing. Enticing to me but also very enticing to my family.

Gerard Butler

#17. The disciples worshipped the most high Lord Who had come down from heaven, made the earth into heaven and gone up again whence He came, having united things below with things above and formed one Church, at the same time heavenly and earthly, to the glory of His love for mankind.

Gregory Palamas

#18. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.

John Dryden

#19. Weep slept. Dreamers dreamed. A grand moon drifted, and, and the wings of the citadel cut the sky in two: light above, dark below.

Laini Taylor

#20. Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling up from below? Picked up from the air? What? Creativity is a mystery wherever you encounter it ...

Rupert Sheldrake

#21. And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland.

Tycho Brahe

#22. The old ladies were dressing up, she thought; the clouds draped around the mountains' shoulders like a dirty boa, with the snowcaps jutting above and the broad green bases below.

Linda Howard

#23. What is there," Owain wondered aloud, to the sky above him and the soil below, "persuades this man still that my words do not mean what they seem to mean in sane men's ears?

Edith Pargeter

#24. Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try. No hell below us, above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today ...

John Lennon

#25. Summer lightning made it seem that flickering white-hot wires were turning in the terribly blue sky just above the horizon, and the recent storms had driven in toward shore hundreds of gigantic Portuguese man-o'-wars that now hung below the surface of the water like big malignant pearls.

Tim Powers

#26. We've become so used to the concept as a measuring and sorting tool, that it and its correlates - below-average, above-average - are everyday speech. We don't even question the language, although the challenges we face require a different mindset.

L. Todd Rose

#27. The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It's not failure but aiming too low, that is life's greatest tragedy.

Benjamin E. Mays

#28. Each man carries the vestiges of his birth; the slime and eggshells of his primeval past with him to the end of his days. Some never become human, remaining frog, lizard, ant. Some are human above the waist, fish below.

Hermann Hesse

#29. I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000 meters above sea level than down below.

Jean Giono

#30. I really love living in cities where the people living above, below and next to you are from totally different worlds to you.

Rupert Friend

#31. searching the sky from high above to below the horizon, gradually working around until he reached the right and the rear.

Jonathan Falconer

#32. Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.

Walter Winchell

#33. The son needs the father to have access to his source, and the father needs the son to have access to the future and the infinite.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#34. It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Albert Camus

#35. Into the dark night
Resignedly I go,
I am not so afraid of the dark night
As the friends I do not know,
I do not fear the night above
As I fear the friends below.

Stevie Smith

#36. As above in consciousness, so below in matter

Michael Sharp

#37. If you spend your life on a moral hill-top, you see nothing but the mud below. If, like me, you live in the mud itself, you get a damned good view of clear blue sky and clean green hills above. There's none so evil-minded as those with a moral mission, and none so pure in heart as the depraved.

Stephen Fry

#38. We make fiction because we are fiction ... It lived us into being and it lives us still.

Russell Hoban

#39. And so I pray I am today as honest
with myself, with life all around me and below and above me,
with all who I encounter.

Jimmy Santiago Baca

#40. Sometimes while you are so passionately busy building, there will be others as busy destroying. Do not stop. One day you will notice how high above you get, and how down below they end up

Sameh Elsayed

#41. The present seemed suddenly strange to me, so trivial and distracted. I felt like one of those mythical heroes who fights his way back from the underworld only to realize that the world above is every bit as damned as the one below. And

Ransom Riggs

#42. The degree of freedom we enjoy outwardly is a reflection of the degree of love we cultivate inwardly.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#43. Between valleys I took the stone stairways laid down by villages, and would glimpse the farmers toiling up below me in crocodiles of decorated straw hats, or waiting in curiosity above.

Colin Thubron

#44. To a true believer, death is but going to church: from the church below to the church above.

Augustus Toplady

#45. In bed above, we're deep asleep.
While greater love lies further deep.
This dream must end,
The world must know,
We all depend on the beat below.

Steven Moffat

#46. They that crouch to those who are above them, always trample on those who are below them.

George Earle Buckle

#47. If you would know my path and follow in its way, then know the land about, both track and willage, in its bridge and in its drownings. Know the outcast rat-shacks, relic stones and gill-halls. Mark each path above and know the underpath below, its secret way from vault to treasure hole.' My

Alan Moore

#48. You are not a lost cause. You are a hawk who has had her wings clipped for so long that she had forgotten to fly. But when they fully heal and you are let out of the cage, you are going to soar, Alyssa, so high above everyone else that we will be just dots below, forever forgotten. ~Caleb

Kristi Strong

#49. The world has forgotten, in its concern with Left and Right, that there is an Above and Below.

Glen Drake

#50. I wandered through various public rooms, glory below, gloom above: for the look of lust always is gloomy; lust is never quite sure
even when the velvety victim is locked up in one's dungeon
that some rival devil or influential god may still not abolish one's prepared triumph.

Vladimir Nabokov

#51. Therefore the place of what is firm and strong is below, and that of what is soft and weak is above.

Lao-Tzu

#52. A wide valley of the dead spread out below me, hundreds of them gently tucked into the ground in neat rows, their whispers frozen into the stones above them: I am here. I was here. Remember me. Remember.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#53. Acknowledge and take to heart this day that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other. Keep

Anonymous

#54. The world was floods above and fire below

Gregory Maguire

#55. Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water. There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The 'I' is the jar.

Ramakrishna

#56. I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.

William Hazlitt

#57. The strange thing about the sunset is that we actually don't want the sun to set, we want it to stay right on the horizon, not below it, not above it, just right on it!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Ameen Rihani

#59. An exaltation of spirit lifted me, as it were, far above the earth and the sinful creatures crawling on its surface; and I deemed myself as an eagle among the children of men, soaring on high, and looking down with pity and contempt on the grovelling creatures below.

James Hogg

#60. Man cannot live on the human plane, he must be either above or below it.

Eric Gill

#61. Milton was the gold standard of religious poets for English and American scholars. But Milton wrote of Hell and Heaven from above and below, respectively, not from the inside: safer advantages.

Matthew Pearl

#62. Let the disciple cultivate love without measure towards all beings. Let him cultivate towards the whole world, above, below, around, a heart of love unstinted ... For in all the world this state of heart is best.

Gautama Buddha

#63. For it is just as sinful from the standpoint of nature and of truth to be above oneself as to be below oneself.

Haruki Murakami

#64. Though the man above might say hello, expect no love from the beast below

Steven Moffat

#65. If faces were different when lit from above or below
what was a face? What was anything?

William Golding

#66. Enlightenment means rising above thought, not falling back to a level below thought, the level of an animal or a plant.

Eckhart Tolle

#67. It is said that heaven does not create one man above or below another man. Any existing distinction between the wise and the stupid, between the rich and the poor, comes down to a matter of education.

Fukuzawa Yukichi

#68. Reality is merely one-tenth visible section of the iceberg that one sees above the surface of the ocean - art remaining nine-tenths of it that lies below the surface. That is why it is more near Truth than Reality itself. Art does not merely reflect Reality - it enlarges it.

Anita Desai

#69. There is still something in everything I do that defeats me, makes me dissatisfied, challenges me to further effort. Sometimes I rise above my level, sometimes I fall below it, but always I fall short of the things I dream.

H.G.Wells

#70. I don't like to play above or below people's heads. Basically, I just like to get up in front of a crowd and rip it up.

Angus Young

#71. Under star-dark seas and skies of gold
Live those Above and those Below
They sing and weep, both high and deep
While over and under the ocean rolls

Ally Condie

#72. The wheel turns. Blue above, green below, we wander a long way, but love is what the cup of our soul contains when we leave the world and the flesh.

Louise Murphy

#73. The sun never has an inferiority complex. It shines the same whether above or below.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#74. But as the late- seventeenth-century philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz said, 'To be neutral is rather like someone who lives in the middle of a house and is smoked out from below and drenched with urine from above.

Eleanor Herman