Higher Knowledge Quotes

Revelation in matters where reason cannot judge, or but probably, ought to be hearkened to. First, Whatever proposition is revealed, of whose truth our mind, by its natural faculties and notions, cannot judge, that is purely matter of faith, and above reason.

It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it.

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

The seeker of God is the real lover of vidya, unchangeable truth; all else is avidya, relative knowledge.

We must never forget that higher knowledge has to do with revering truth and insight and not with revering people.

You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.

The higher truths are, the more cautious one must be with them; otherwise, they are converted into common things, and common things are not believed.

Nothing is discovered without God's intention and assistance, and I suppose every new knowledge of His works that is conceded to man to be distinctly a revelation by which men are to guide themselves.

Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.

...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

Is not prayer also a study of truth,--a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily, without learningsomething. But when a faithful thinker, resolute to detach every object from personal relations, and see it in the light of thought, shall, at the same time, kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew into creation.

Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.

This earth is higher than all the heavens; this is the greatest school in the universe.

In India there was a sense of time that does not tick with modern clocks, just as there is a knowledge that is not gained through science and empirical experiments. In the modern West knowledge is of objective, finite particulars in historical time. India recognizes that kind of useful information: it calls it "lower knowledge." Higher knowledge (paravidya) proceeds differently, or rather it doesn't proceed at all but enters history full-blown on the morning of a new creation.

Let no knowledge satisfy but that which lifts above the world, which weans from the world, which makes the world a footstool.

That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly.

The capacities by which we can gain insights into higher worlds lie dormant within each one of us.

Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions, and draws their map; and, by acquainting us with new fields of activity, cools our affection for the old. These are at once accepted as the reality, of which the world we have conversed with is the show.

Logical thinking will not be enough to get answers to the questions that matter most in life. We need revelation from God.

Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.

Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.

She [my mother] said that if I listened to her, later I would know what she knew: where true words came from, always from up high, above everything else. And if I didn't listen to her, she said my ear would bend too easily to other people, all saying words that had no lasting meaning, because they came from the bottom of their hearts, where their own desires lived, a place where I could not belong.