Levels Of Life Quotes

“Initially, you continue doing what you used to do with her, out of familiarity, love, the need for a pattern. Soon, you realise the trap you are in: caught between repeating what you did with her, but without her, and so missing her; or doing new things, things you never did with her, and so missing her differently. You feel sharply the loss of shared vocabulary, of tropes, teases, short cuts, injokes, sillinesses, faux rebukes, amatory footnotes – all those obscure references rich in memory but valueless if explained to an outsider.”
― Julian Barnes, Levels of Life

“You put together two people who have not been put together before; and sometimes the world is changed, sometimes not. They may crash and burn, or burn and crash. But sometimes, something new is made, and then the world is changed. Together, in that first exaltation, that first roaring sense of uplift, they are greater than their two separate selves. Together, they see further, and they see more clearly.”
― Julian Barnes, Levels of Life

“Against total corruption, those on the side of Truth must never be drawn down to the lower level. They must be able to bring the others upward; to The Higher Way. That will be the victory needed here .”
― Leland Lewis, Random Molecular Mirroring

“Regardless of where you started, there is always the next level. You need to keep leveling up your skills.”
― Mustafa Saifuddin

“Reach the level where you are no longer afraid to tell the truth.”
― Rashid Siddique Parhyar

“We don't so much have LEVELS as ASPECTS. It might be a lot more healthy to think of ourselves as having various aspects rather than hierarchies of levels.”
― Laurence Galian, Beyond Duality: The Art of Transcendence

“God encased the human soul succesively in three bodies -
[1.] The idea, or causal body. A causal-bodied being remains in the blissful realm of ideas.
[2.] The subtle astral body, seat of man's mental and emotional natures. An astral being works with his consciousness and feelings and a body made of lifetrons / prana.
[3.] the gross physical body. [This utilises the] physical senses.

[...]

In wakeful state on earth a human being is conscious more or less of his three vehicles.

When he is sensuously intent on tasting, smelling, touching, listening or seeing, he is working principally through his physical body.

Visualizing or willing, he is working mainly through his astral body.

His causal being finds expression when man is thinking or diving deep in introspection or meditation; the cosmical thoughts of genius come to the man who habitually contacts his causal body.

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If he dreams, [man] remains in his astral body, effortlessly creating any object even as do the astral beings. [Such astral-level sleep is] not fully refreshing.

If man's sleep be deep and dreamless, for several hours, he is able to transfer his consciousness to the causal body; such deep sleep is revivifying.


pg416-431, Chapter 43, The resurrection of Sri Yukteswar”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

“Every level requires a certain change and every change requires a certain level of mindset.”
― Zinny Ekechukwu