TOPICS
SEE ALSO
AUTH
BOOKS
IN CHAPTERS TITLE
1.024_-_The_Light
IN CHAPTERS CLASSNAME
IN CHAPTERS TEXT
1.024_-_The_Light
PRIMARY CLASS
chapter
SIMILAR TITLES
TERMS STARTING WITH
TERMS ANYWHERE
KEYS (10k)
81 Sri Aurobindo
18 The Mother
15 Sri Ramana Maharshi
8 Sri Ramakrishna
7 Anonymous
7 Saint Thomas Aquinas
6 Jalaluddin Rumi
5 Rabindranath Tagore
5 Nolini Kanta Gupta
5 Aleister Crowley
4 Ramakrishna
4 Joseph Campbell
3 Sri Ramana Maharshi
3 Sri Aurobindo
3 Manly P Hall
3 Buson
3 Baha-ullah
3 Jalaluddin Rumi
3 Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
3 ?
2 William Butler Yeats
2 To-shu-hing-tsan-king
2 Taigu Ryokan
2 Sophronius of Jerusalem
2 Saint Maximus of Turin
2 Leonard Cohen
2 Ken Wilber
2 Irenaeus
2 id
2 Friedrich Nietzsche
1 Wu Hsin
1 Whitman
1 Victor Hugo
1 Ven. Mother Marie Josepha of Bourg (1788-1862)
1 T S Eliot
1 The Wrathful Compassion of Guru Dorje Drollo
1 Theophilus of Antioch
1 Tecumseh
1 Tao Te Ching
1 Swami Vijnanananda
1 Swami Shivananda
1 St. Francis of Assisi
1 Stephen King
1 Sri Aurobindo's translation
1 SRI ANANDAMAYI MA
1 Shaykh Abdul Qadir Jilani
1 Satprem
1 Saint Thomas Aquinas
1 Saint Maximus the Confessor
1 Saint Leo the Great
1 Saint John Chrysostom [PG 64
1 Saint John Chrysostom
1 Saint John Bosco
1 Saint Francis of Assisi
1 Saint Francis de Sales
1 Saint Francis
1 Saint Clement of Rome
1 Saint Bonaventure
1 Saint Ambrose of Milan
1 Rabbi Moses Luzzatto
1 Proclus
1 Philokalia
1 PARAMAHAMSA YOGANANDA
1 Owen Barfield
1 Our Lady to Fr. Stefano Gobbi
1 Osho
1 Noam Chomsky
1 Nisargadatta Maharaj
1 Michio Kaku
1 Manly P. Hall
1 M Alan Kazlev
1 Majjhima Sntta
1 Maitre Eckhart
1 Leo the Great
1 Leon Brown
1 Leonardo da Vinci
1 Lalita-Vistara
1 Koran
1 John Scottus Eriugena
1 John of the Cross
1 John II. 9
1 John I 5.10
1 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1 Jerusalem Catecheses
1 Jean Gebser
1 Jason Bowman
1 James George Frazer
1 Jalalu'l-Din Rumi
1 Israel Regardie
1 https://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=6520
1 Hindu Wisdom
1 Hermes I. "Poimandres"
1 Hermes
1 Henry David Thoreau
1 Henri Poincare
1 Hazrat Inayat Khan
1 Gregory the Great
1 Gregory of Nazianzen
1 grand are the sky and stars
1 Gospel of Thomas
1 Frank Herbert
1 Fo-shu-hing-tsan-king
1 Evagrius Ponticus
1 Eric Micha'el Leventhal
1 Epistle to Diognetus
1 Emerald Tablet
1 Dylan Thomas
1 Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
1 C S Lewis
1 Chandogya Upanishad
1 Chamtrul Rinpoche
1 Buddhist Texts
1 Bruce Lee
1 Brihadaranyaka Upanishad V.6
1 Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
1 Bram Stoker
1 Book of Golden Precepts
1 Bill Hicks
1 Baha-ullah: The Seven Valleys
1 Baha-ullah : The Seven Valleys
1 Auguttara Nikaya
1 Archilochus
1 Anthony de Mello
1 Angelns Silesius
1 Alfred Korzybski
1 Albert Pike
1 Walt Whitman
1 Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
1 Saint Teresa of Avila
1 Plato
1 Meister Eckhart
1 Leonardo da Vinci
1 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1 Ibn Arabi
1 Heraclitus
1 Hafiz
1 Aristotle
1 Abul Husayn al-Nuri
NEW FULL DB (2.4M)
43 Paulo Coelho
37 Anonymous
27 Rumi
21 Mehmet Murat ildan
11 Cassandra Clare
10 Sri Ramana Maharshi
9 Bren Brown
9 Amit Ray
8 Eckhart Tolle
7 Terry Pratchett
7 Sri Aurobindo
7 Ralph Waldo Emerson
7 Pope Francis
7 Plato
7 Frederick Lenz
7 Anne Rice
6 Victoria Aveyard
6 Seth Adam Smith
6 Leonard Cohen
6 Ernest Hemingway
1:The Light it's there. It's always been there. ~ ?, #KEYS
2:The light of that greater invisible sun... ~ Jean Gebser, #KEYS
3:The light of the Sun is the pure energy of intellect. ~ Proclus, #KEYS
4:Grand is the seen, the light, to me ~ grand are the sky and stars, #KEYS
5:During the night we must wait for the light. ~ Saint Francis de Sales, #KEYS
6:There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." ~ Leonard Cohen, #KEYS
7:There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
~ Leonard Cohen,#KEYS
8:Saki, with the light of wine up-kindle the cup of ours. ~ Hafiz, #KEYS
9:The light of Christ is an endless day that knows no night. ~ Saint Maximus of Turin, #KEYS
10:Love like the light silently wrapping all. ~ Walt Whitman, #KEYS
11:All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle. ~ Saint Francis, #KEYS
12:And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, #KEYS
13:It is in the darkness that one finds the light. ~ Meister Eckhart, #KEYS
14:You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life." ~ Whitman, #KEYS
15:Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
~ Rabindranath Tagore, [T5],#KEYS
16:The lamps are different, but the Light is the same. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, #KEYS
17:The heavy is the root of the light. The unmoved is the source of all movement. ~ Tao Te Ching, ch.26, #KEYS
18:All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle. ~ St. Francis of Assisi, #KEYS
19:Does the moth seek darkness once it has seen the light? ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
20:All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle." ~ Saint Francis of Assisi, #KEYS
21:The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, John, 1:5, #KEYS
22:It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." ~ Aristotle, #KEYS
23:I desire and love nothing that is not of the light. ~ id, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
24:Look again, you may be the light... ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
25:There is no darkness, we only close our eyes and shut out the Light.
~ Nolini Kanta Gupta, To The Heights, [T6],#KEYS
26:And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
~ Anonymous, The Bible, John, 1:5, [T5],#KEYS
27:But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, John, 11:10, #KEYS
28:Comprehend then the light and know it. ~ Hermes I. "Poimandres", the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
29:The light must be dim in order to enable the ego to rise up. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
30:Never give up hope. Things can change overnight, problems can dissolve in the light of a new day's sun." ~ Leon Brown, #KEYS
31:The veils that hide the light shall be rent asunder. ~ Baha-ullah, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
32:if we live our lives in the light, as he is in the light, we are in union with one another . . . ~ Anonymous, The Bible, #KEYS
33:A pure heart, open to the Light will be filled with the elixir of Truth. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, #KEYS
34:Nothing can be sworn impossible since Zeus made night during mid-day, hiding the light of the shining Sun. ~ Archilochus, #KEYS
35:They wander in darkness seeking light, failing to realize that the light is in the heart of the darkness.
~ Manly P Hall,#KEYS
36:The wound is the place where the light enters you. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
37:All have eyes, but some have eyes that are shrouded in darkness, unable to see the light of the sun. ~ Theophilus of Antioch, #KEYS
38:Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #KEYS
39:He alone is the true teacher who is illumined by the light of true Knowledge. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
40:The first step towards the light is to guard the heart; for it is impossible otherwise to cut off the passions." ~ Philokalia, #KEYS
41:Our names are the light that glows on the sea waves at night and then dies without leaving its signature. ~ Rabindranath Tagore, #KEYS
42:Do not forget that you have been rescued from the power of darkness and brought into the light of God's kingdom. ~ Leo the Great, #KEYS
43:There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
~ Bram Stoker, [T5],#KEYS
44:It is through the search after Truth that man can elevate himself. This he should regard in the light of a duty. ~ SRI ANANDAMAYI MA, #KEYS
45:Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
46:Mortal delight has its mortal danger. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda, The Guardians of the Light, #KEYS
47:The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
48:I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things
~ Anonymous, The Bible, Isaiah, 45:7,#KEYS
49:When you stand in the light of the Supreme Consciousness, you must not make a shadow. ~ The Mother, Agenda 10, [T5], #KEYS
50:It will be like a judgment in miniature and each one will see himself in the light of the very Truth of God." ~ Our Lady to Fr. Stefano Gobbi, #KEYS
51:Lead me from the Unreal to the Real. Lead me from Darkness to the Light.Lead me from the Temporary to the Eternal. ~ Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, #KEYS
52:Thus, then now as ever, I enter the Path of Darkness, if haply so I may attain the Light.
~ Aleister Crowley,#KEYS
53:Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
~ Dylan Thomas,#KEYS
54:The supermind lives in the light of spiritual certitudes. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Intuitive Mind, #KEYS
55:The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light. ~ Joseph Campbell, #KEYS
56:A pure heart, open to the Light, will be filled with the elixir of Truth." ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
57:in the light of your present." ~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal, literary consultant and holistic educator on the island of Maui, Hawaii, poet and author., #KEYS
58:By Light we live and to the Light we go. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal, #KEYS
59:The intellect or mind of man is, as it were, a light lit up by the light of the Divine Word. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae III q5 a4 ad 2, #KEYS
60:We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
~ Plato,#KEYS
61:The light is everywhere, the force is everywhere. And the world is so small. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother, MCW Vol. 15., #KEYS
62:A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #KEYS
63:Truth is the light of the intellect, and God Himself is the rule of all truth ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1.107.2)., #KEYS
64:In the heart-lotus which is of the nature of all the light of that self in the form 'I' shines. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
65:How can one attempt seeing truth without knowing falsehood. It is the attempt to see the light without knowing darkness. It cannot be.
~ Frank Herbert,#KEYS
66:One has to persevere until the light conquers there. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II, Peace - The Basis of the Sadhana, #KEYS
67:The Three Thousand Worlds
that step forward
with the light snow,
and the light snow that falls
in those Three Thousand Worlds ~ Taigu Ryokan,#KEYS
68:If you keep your gaze fixed upon the Light, you will be delivered from dualism and the plurality of the finite body. ~ Jalalu'l-Din Rumi, Mathnawi, III, 1259 #KEYS
69:Concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
70:Cross even beyond the light which illumines thee and cast thyself upon the bosom of God. ~ Maitre Eckhart, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
71:A person will always interpret everything he hears according to the Light which dominates his heart ~ Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, #KEYS
72:But for one who has faith in the Divine Grace, the return to the Light becomes easy.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953, [T7],#KEYS
73:Just as the light of the sun attracts a healthy eye, so through love knowledge of God naturally draws to itself a pure intellect. ~ Saint Maximus the Confessor, #KEYS
74:Ground yourself, strip yourself down to blind loving Silence. Stay there, until you see you are gazing at the Light with its own ageless eyes. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, #KEYS
75:He alone is truly a man who is illumined by the light of the true knowledge. Others are only men in name. ~ id, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
76:Peace to him who has finished this supreme journey under the guidance of the Truth and the Light ! ~ Baha-ullah, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
77:If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
78:I looked one day at the Light and I did not cease looking at it until I became the Light ~ Abul Husayn al-Nuri, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
79:We are so engrossed with the objects or appearances revealed by the light that we pay no attention to the light. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
80:There is a light that shines beyond all things on earth, beyond the highest, the very highest heavens. This is the light that shines in your heart. ~ Chandogya Upanishad, #KEYS
81:When the vasanas become extinct, the mind also disappears, absorbed into the light of the one reality, the Heart. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
82:Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because dawn has come." ~ Rabindranath Tagore, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
83:Seek my grace within the Heart. I will drive away your darkness and show you the light. This is my responsibility. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
84:The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
85:What is realized is the heart, as the light of Pure Consciousness, into which the the mind is completely absorbed. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
86:The ajnani sees only the mind which is a mere reflection of the light of Pure Consciousness arising from the heart. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
87:He who has to see written things has need of the light; and he who has to learn the wisdom of beings has need of spiritual love. ~ Evagrius Ponticus, Kephalaia Gnostika 3.58, #KEYS
88:How can I know anything about the past or the future, when the light of the Beloved shines only Now? ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
89:His is a search of darkness for the light,
Of mortal life for immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
90:Through enquiry into the source, the mind also disappears being absorbed into the light of the one Reality, the heart. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
91:God is light; there is no darkness in him at all. . . . if we live our lives in the light, as he is in the light, we are in union with one another . . . ~ Anonymous, The Bible, #KEYS
92:He who in his neighbour sees no other tiling but God, lives with the light that flowers in the Divinity. ~ Angelns Silesius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
93:As the light of a torch illumines the objects in a dark room, even so the light of wisdom illumines all men, whosoever they be, if they turn towards it. ~ To-shu-hing-tsan-king, #KEYS
94:The light is there, and the colours surround us; but, if we had no light and no colours in our own eyes, we should not perceive the outward phenomena. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #KEYS
95:There is an immortal within us that is a spark of the Light and Bliss that are for ever. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Master of the Work, #KEYS
96:A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #KEYS
97:If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Talks, 31, [T8],#KEYS
98:The light has come and has shone upon a world enveloped in shadows; the Dayspring from on high has visited us and given light to those who lived in darkness. ~ Sophronius of Jerusalem, #KEYS
99:The idea of self is the Maya of the soul. It is our egotism that shuts out the light. When this "I" is gone, all difficulty will vanish. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
100:The light of incarnations such as Chaitanya Deva, distinguished by both Jnana and Bhakti, is like the blended light of the sun and moon. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
101:The light of incarnations such as Chjaitanya Deva, distinguished by both Jnana and Bhakti, is like the blended light of the sun and moon. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
102:The light of thy spirit cannot destroy these shades of night so long as thou hast not driven out desire from thy soul. ~ Hindu Wisdom, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
103:The Living Light to which one is drawn does not burn and cause death. It is like the light of a gem, shining yet soft, cool and soothing. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
104:So and likewise, if you tear away the veils of the heart, the light of the oneness will shine upon it. ~ Baha-ullah: The Seven Valleys, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
105:In fact, such truths about God have been proved demonstratively by philosophers, guided by the light of natural reason ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ScG 1.1)., #KEYS
106:A Guru is a God-knowing person who has been divinely appointed by Him to take the seeker as a disciple and lead him from the darkness of ignorance to the light of wisdom. ~ PARAMAHAMSA YOGANANDA, #KEYS
107:Mind is not the native dynamism of consciousness of the Spirit; supermind, the light of gnosis, is its native dynamism. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Divine Life, #KEYS
108:Our mortality is only justified in the light of our immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Integral Knowledge and the Aim of Life; Four Theories of Existence, #KEYS
109:Stop, open up, surrender the beloved blind silence. Stay there until you see you're looking at the light with infinite eyes. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
110:Christ rose early when the day was beginning to dawn, to denote that by His Resurrection He brought us to the light of glory ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 3.52.2ad3)., #KEYS
111:Life-World
The Light is nearer to us than we think and at any time its hour may come. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram, Birthday Messages for Disciples,#KEYS
112:The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people's minds, exposing them to the light. ~ Bill Hicks, #KEYS
113:The Creator desired that the Light be veiled in order to grant existence to the lower beings, which could not otherwise survive in its full presence. ~ Rabbi Moses Luzzatto, General Principles of Kabbalah, #KEYS
114:Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
115:I am the light in stars, of flowers
The bloom, the nameless fragrance that pervades
Creation. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Love and Death,#KEYS
116:Just as sacred doctrine is founded on the light of faith, so things in philosophy are founded on the light of natural reason ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (On the Trinity, 2.3)., #KEYS
117:As those who see light are in the light sharing its brilliance, so those who see God are in God sharing his glory, and that glory gives them life. To see God is to share in life. ~ Irenaeus, Against Heresies, #KEYS
118:Rejoicing with Simeon, let us sing a hymn of thanksgiving to God, the Father of the light, who sent the true light to dispel the darkness and to give us all a share in his splendor. ~ Sophronius of Jerusalem, #KEYS
119:Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come." ~ Rabindranath Tagore, (1861 - 7 1941), a polymath, poet, musician, and artist from the Indian subcontinent, Wikipedia., #KEYS
120:Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come." ~ Rabindranath Tagore, (1861 - 7 1941), a polymath, poet, musician, and artist from the Indian subcontinent, Wikipedia.", #KEYS
121:For life cannot subsist without science and science exposes us to this peril that it does not walk towards the light of the true life. ~ Epistle to Diognetus, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
122:The Sun from which we kindle all our suns,
The Light that leans from the unrealised Vasts, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother, [T1],#KEYS
123:Light in the world-
World in the mind-
Mind in the heart-
Heart in the night.
Pain in the day-
Strength in the pain-
Light in the strength-
World in the light. ~ Owen Barfield, A Meditation, 1970,#KEYS
124:Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice. ~ Noam Chomsky, #KEYS
125:Christ wished to be born, when the light of day begins to increase in length, to show that He came so men might ascend to the Divine Light ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 3.35.8ad3)., #KEYS
126:One forward step is something gained,
Since little by little earth must open to heaven
Till her dim soul awakes into the Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories, Act V,#KEYS
127:But few are they who tread the sunlit path;
Only the pure in soul can walk in the light
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, [T5],#KEYS
128:Jesus said, 'I am the light that is over all things. I am all: from me all came forth, and to me all attained. Split a piece of wood; I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find me there.'
~ Gospel of Thomas,#KEYS
129:Where Ignorance is, there suffering too must come;
Thy grief is a cry of darkness to the Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
130:We can reach a point where our way of life again has the dignities and the values which make living important. ~ Manly P. Hall, Lecture #KEYS
131:We find ourselves in this earth as in a tempestuous sea, in a desert, in a vale of tears. Now then, Mary is the Star of the Sea, the solace of our desert, the light that guides us towards heaven." ~ Saint John Bosco, #KEYS
132:O Life, thy breath is but a cry to the Light
Immortal, whence has come thy swift delight. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, O Life, thy Breath is but a Cry,#KEYS
133:No thought is vain; our very dreams
Substantial are;
The light we see in fancy, yonder gleams
In the star. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, The Rishi,#KEYS
134:The light shineth in the darkness and the darkness comprehended it not. ...It was in the world and the world was made by it, and the world knew it not. ~ John I 5.10, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
135:All intuitive knowledge comes more or less directly from the light of the self-aware spirit entering into the mind. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Towards the Supramental Time Vision, #KEYS
136:Seek the bridegroom not the teacher; God and not man; darkness not daylight; and look not to the light but rather to the raging fire that carries the soul to God with intense fervour and glowing love. ~ Saint Bonaventure, #KEYS
137:When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself." ~ Tecumseh, #KEYS
138:Your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets. ~ Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, #KEYS
139:From the non-being to true being,
from the darkness to the Light,
from death to Immortality.
OM Peace! Peace! Peace!
(Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, I.3.28)
So be it. ~ Sri Aurobindo,#KEYS
140:The intellect of our soul is to those immaterial beings, which are by nature the most clear of all, as the eyes of owls are to the light of day ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (In 2 Meta. lect. 1)., #KEYS
141:So what should I do when an unconverted part rises to the surface?
Put the light and the knowledge on it patiently until it gets converted. 29 May 1934
~ The Mother, More Answers From The Mother,#KEYS
142:The light of glory, whereby God is seen, is in God perfectly and naturally; whereas in any creature, it is imperfectly and by likeness or participation ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.5.6ad2)., #KEYS
143:As the light of a torch illumines the objects in a dark room, even so the light of wisdom illumines all men, whosoever they be, if they turn towards it. ~ To-shu-hing-tsan-king, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
144:This mental being in the inner heart who has the truth and the light is the lord and sovereign of all; he who knows it, governs all this that is. ~ Brihadaranyaka Upanishad V.6, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
145:Q. What is the Light of Consciousness?
A: It is the self-luminous Existence-Consciousness which reveals to the Seer the world of names and forms both inside and outside.
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi,#KEYS
146:In a supreme golden sheath the Brahman lies, stainless, without parts. A Splendour is That, It is the Light of Lights, It is That which the self-knowers know.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Kena And Other Upanishads,#KEYS
147:Zen is a path of liberation. It liberates you. It is freedom from the first step to the last. You are not required to follow any rules; you are required to find out your own rules and your own life in the light of awareness." ~ Osho, #KEYS
148:Dear friend, your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it clean of the veil of dust that has gathered on it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets. ~ Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, #KEYS
149:Even when we fail to look into our souls
Or lie embedded in earthly consciousness,
Still have we parts that grow towards the light, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
150:As the darkness of centuries is scattered when the light is brought into a chamber, so the accumulated faults of numberless births vanish before a single shaft of the light of the Almighty. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
151:Let everyone hold what opinion he will until that Light shall come which makes of the light of the false philosophers a darkness and converts the darkness of those who truly know into light. ~ John Scottus Eriugena, Periphyseon 5 (1022c), #KEYS
152:Man cannot seize or hold at once all that the illumination brings to him; it has to be repeated constantly so that he may grow in the light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda, The Ashwins, Lords of Bliss, #KEYS
153:...God will elevate to the throne a model king, a Christian king. The son of Saint Louis will love religion, goodness, justice. The Lord will give him the light, the wisdom, and the power." ~ Ven. Mother Marie Josepha of Bourg (1788-1862), #KEYS
154:Just as those who see light are within the light and share in its splendour, so those who see God are in God and share his splendour also. But God's splendour gives life: and so those who see God receive life. ~ Irenaeus, Against Heresies, #KEYS
155:The true lovers are never free from striving; they revolve restlessly and ceaselessly around the light of God. And God consumes them, making them nothing, destroying the veil of their reason. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, #KEYS
156:O Life, thy breath is but a cry to the Light
Immortal, whence has come thy swift delight,
Thy grasp. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, O Life, thy Breath is but a Cry,#KEYS
157:The disciple has rejected indolence and indolence conquers him not; loving the light, intelligent, clearly conscient, he purifies his heart of all laxness and all lassitude. ~ Buddhist Texts, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
158:One thing that comes out of myth is that at the bottom of the abyss comes the voice of salvation. The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light. ~ Joseph Campbell, #KEYS
159:Always we must keep ourselves open to the higher Word from above that does not confine itself to its own sense and the light of the Thought that carries in it its own opposites
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga,#KEYS
160:For body without mind has not the light,
The rapture of spirit sense, the joy of life;
All then becomes subconscient, tenebrous. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries,#KEYS
161:261. Perceive always and act in the light of thy increasing perceptions, but not those of the reasoning brain only. God speaks to the heart when the brain cannot understand him.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human,#KEYS
162:Darkness, darkness, vanish away! O Mother, are You not here?
I am here and I am concentrating upon you all the light needed to dissolve any darkness whatever. It is up to you to receive it.
18 May 1935 ~ The Mother,#KEYS
163:The Truth of truths men fear and deny,
The Light of lights they refuse;
To ignorant gods they lift their cry
Or a demon altar choose. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, A God's Labour,#KEYS
164:Already God is near, the Truth is close:
Because the dark atheist body knows him not,
Must the sage deny the Light, the seer his soul? ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
165:As the darkness of centuries is scattered when the light is brought into a chamber, so the accumulated faults of numberless births vanish before a single shaft of the light of the Almighty. ~ Ramakrishna, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
166:Prayer is the light of the spirit, true knowledge of God, mediating between God and man.... I speak of prayer, not words. It is the longing for God, love too deep for words, a gift not given by man but by God's grace. ~ Saint John Chrysostom [PG 64, 462-466], #KEYS
167:As sunlight hitting an object creates a shadow, the light of consciousness hitting the form of its instrument creates what in essence is also a shadow, the seeming self. What efforts can such a shadow make? Can you cook food on a painting of a fire? ~ Wu Hsin, #KEYS
168:When the wind blows the clouds disappear, and all of space is filled with the light of the sun. Likewise, through the power of dharma practice, our obscurations will disappear, revealing what has been there since beginningless time; a buddha. ~ Chamtrul Rinpoche, #KEYS
169:The Divine is the sure friend who never fails, the Power, the Support, the Guide. The Divine is the Light which scatters darkness, the conqueror who assures the victory.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, The Divine Is with You, [T3],#KEYS
170:Through him we fix our gaze on the heights of heaven. In him, we see the mirror of God's pure and transcendent face. Through him, the eyes of our hearts are opened. Through him, our foolish and darkened comprehension wells up to the light. ~ Saint Clement of Rome, #KEYS
171:Don't be ruled by the light in which birds and serpents, beasts and cattle, flies and worms delight. Keep the material light for your bodily senses, and with all your mental powers embrace the 'true light that enlightens every man' ~ John 1:9). ~ Saint Leo the Great, #KEYS
172:The true disciple rejects enervation and idleness; he is delivered from caieless lassitude. Loving the light, intelligent and clear of vision he purifies his heart of all carelessness and idleness. ~ Majjhima Sntta, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
173:He will go from doubt to certitude, from the night of error to the light of the Guidance; he will see with the eye of knowledge and begin to converse in secret with the Well-beloved. ~ Baha-ullah : The Seven Valleys, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
174:Evil is the fruit of a spiritual ignorance and it will disappear only by the growth of a spiritual consciousness and the light of spiritual knowledge. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Origin and Remedy of Falsehood, Error, Wrong and Evil, #KEYS
175:The light of Christ is eternally glowing with luminous radiance and can never be extinguished by the darkness of sin. This is why John the evangelist says: "The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has never been able to overpower it." ~ Saint Maximus of Turin, #KEYS
176:The light of God which illumines an Angel enlightens him, and sets him on fire with love, for he is a spirit already prepared for the infusion of that light; but man, being impure and weak, is ordinarily enlightened in darkness, in distress and pain. ~ John of the Cross, #KEYS
177:Christ, the light of all lights, follows John, the lamp that goes before him. The Word of God follows the voice in the wilderness; the bridegroom follows the bridegroom's friend, who prepares a worthy people for the Lord by cleansing them by water. ~ Gregory of Nazianzen, #KEYS
178:D.: Sri Aurobindo says that the Light which resides in the head must be brought down to the heart below.
M.: Is not the Self already in the Heart? How can the all-pervading Self be taken from one place to another? ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi,#KEYS
179:The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning, But I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, But I did not observe it. Until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel.
~ Bruce Lee,#KEYS
180:Be resigned to the Mother. Pray to Her earnestly, crying like a child, and you will discover the Light. Whenever we asked the Master, he told us also: ''Pray sincerely to the Mother, and She will straighten the path". He gave us this advice again and again. ~ Swami Shivananda, #KEYS
181:A friend is more to be longed for than the light; I speak of a genuine one. And wonder not: for it were better for us that the sun should be extinguished, than that we should be deprived of friends; better to live in darkness, than to be without friends." ~ Saint John Chrysostom, #KEYS
182:How can one conquer the obscure vital? Rather, how is it possible to change the obscure vital into a luminous vital?
By the surrender of the vital, its opening to the light, and by the growth of consciousness.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#KEYS
183:As our Saviour spent three days and three nights in the depths of the earth, so your first rising from the water represented the first day and your first immersion represented the first night. At night a man cannot see, but in the day he walks in the light. ~ Jerusalem Catecheses, #KEYS
184:The Self is the one reality that always exists and it is by its light all other things are seen. We forget it and concentrate on the appearances. We are so engrossed with the objects or appearances revealed by the light that we pay no attention to the light. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
185:The dawn intimates that the night is over; it does not yet proclaim the full light of day…Are not all of us who follow the truth in this life daybreak and dawn? We do some things which already belong to the light but are not free from the remnants of darkness ~ Gregory the Great, #KEYS
186:Still have we parts that grow towards the light,
Yet are there luminous tracts and heavens serene
And Eldorados of splendor and ecstacy
And temples to the godhead none can see
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
187:In the waking state or dream state, in which things appear, and in the sleep state, in which we see nothing, there is always the light of consciousness or Self. Concentrate on the Seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
188:In the region of politics faith is the result of imagination working in the light of history; it takes its stand on reason and experience and aspires into the future from the firm ground of the past. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - I, The Leverage of Faith, #KEYS
189:Tat savitur varam rupam jyotih parasya dhimahi
yannah satyena dipayet.1
1. Let us meditate on the most auspicious form of Savitri, on the light of the Supreme which shall illumine us with the Truth. ~ Sri Aurobindo's translation, Sri Aurobindo Centenary Library, vol. 26, p. 513,#KEYS
190:A last high world was seen where all worlds meet;
In its summit gleam where Night is not nor Sleep,
The light began of the Trinity supreme. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness,#KEYS
191:Apr 28 The Master Himself said, 'You should meditate on this portrait of Mine & that will do.' By invoking the Master one can have so many visions of light. But He must be invoked heart & soul. He is the light of the world & all-pervading. His manifestations are everywhere.~ Swami Vijnanananda, #KEYS
192:As the troubled surface of rolling waters cannot reflect aright the full moon, but gives only broken images of it, so the mentality troubled by the desires and passions of the world cannot reflect fully the light of the Eternal. ~ Ramakrishna, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
193:The light of the mysteries is of itself more effective where people do not know what to expect than where some instruction has been given beforehand. Open then your ears. Enjoy the fragrance of eternal life, breathed on you by means of the sacraments. ~ Saint Ambrose of Milan, On the Mysteries, #KEYS
194:Even as the troubled surface of rolling waters cannot properly reflect the full moon, but only gives broken images of it, so a mind troubled by the desires and passions of the world cannot fully reflect the light of the Ineffable. ~ Ramakrishna, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
195: I took out the extracted material (see below for prep info), which was separated into the Strength(caapi) and the Light(viridis). We opted to take the Strength by rolling the extract into balls and swallowing with water, which was pretty easy. ~ https://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=6520 #KEYS
196:It is the light from within that you have to make room for; the light of the outer mind is quite insufficient for the discovery of the inner values or to judge the truth of spiritual experience. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, Steps towards Overcoming Difficulties, #KEYS
197:DAWN
I have returned to my native village after twenty years;
No sign of old friends or relatives-they have all died or gone away.
My dreams are shattered by the sound of the temple bell struck at sunrise.
An empty floor, no shadows; the light has long been extinguished. ~ Taigu Ryokan,#KEYS
198:The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day." ~ Heraclitus, ( c. 535 - c. 475 BC) pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, believed that change is fundamental essence of the universe, Wikipedia., #KEYS
199:When someone acquires knowledge, puts it into practice and does so sincerely, his flint and his assistant come to be within his heart, a light from the light of Allah. He can then provide illumination for himself and for others. ~ Shaykh Abdul Qadir Jilani, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
200:Has put the stars out ere the light,
And from their dewy cushions rise
Sweet flowers half-opening their eyes.
O pleasant then to feel as if new-born
The sweet, unripe and virgin air, the air of morn. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Songs to Myrtilla,#KEYS
201:The more thou shalt advance, the more thy feet shall encounter bog and morass. The path which thou walkest, is lighted by one only fire, even the light of the audacity which burns in thy heart. The more thou shalt dare, the more thou shalt obtain ~ Book of Golden Precepts, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
202:A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj, #KEYS
203:when it arrives at an intellectual perception or conclusion, to attach no final value to it, but rather look upward, refer all to the divine principle and wait as in complete silence as it can command for the light from above.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Purified Understanding, 316,#KEYS
204:Your weakness is due to the conviction that you were born in this world. In reality the world is ever recreated in you & by you. See everything emanating from the light which is the source of your own being. You'll find in that light there is love & infinite energy. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, #KEYS
205:368. The Vedanta is God's lamp to lead thee out of this night of bondage and egoism; but when the light of Veda has dawned in thy soul, then even that divine lamp thou needest not, for now thou canst walk freely and surely in a high and eternal sunlight.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human, Karma, [T8],#KEYS
206:Why, O men born from the earth, do you yield yourselves to death, when it is permitted to you to obtain immortality? Return to yourselves, O you who walk in error and languish in ignorance, withdraw from the light that is darkness, renounce corruption, take part in immortality. ~ Hermes, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
207:That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commenced with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.
~ Albert Pike,#KEYS
208:Because it carries this creative force of the divine Idea, the Sun, the lord and symbol of the gnosis, is described in the Veda as the Light which is the father of all things, Surya Savitri, the Wisdom-Luminous who is the bringer-out into manifest existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, Vijnana or Gnosis, #KEYS
209:Beyond mind on spiritual and supramental levels dwells the Presence, the Truth, the Power, the Bliss that can alone deliver us from these illusions, display the Light of which our ideals are tarnished disguises and impose the harmony that shall at once transfigure and reconcile all the parts of our nature. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine and Human #KEYS
210:One need only open the eyes to see that the conquests of industry which have enriched so many practical men would never have seen the light, if these practical men alone had existed and if they had not been preceded by unselfish devotees who died poor, who never thought of utility, and yet had a guide far other than caprice. (417) ~ Henri Poincare, #KEYS
211:God is the light of the heavens and the earth, his light is like a niche in which is a lamp, the lamp in glass and the glass like a brilliant star, lit from a blessed tree, an olive neither of the East nor of the West whose oil would almost give light even though no fire touched it. Light upon light; God guides to his light whomsoever he wills. ~ Koran, 24, 35 #KEYS
212:If this were not a stade through which we pass
On our road from Matter to eternal Self,
To the Light that made the worlds, the Cause of things,
Well might interpret our mind's limited view
Existence as an accident in Time, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
213:he light of the sun is the same every where where it may fall, but it is the clear surfaces, water and mirror and polished metals, that can give its perfect reflection. Even such is the light of the Divine. It falls equally and impartially on every heart, but only the clean and pure heart can perfectly reflect it. ~ Ramakrishna, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
214:The life you lead conceals the light you are.
Immortal Powers sweep flaming past your doors;
Far-off upon your tops the god-chant sounds
While to exceed yourselves thought's trumpets call,
Heard by a few, but fewer dare aspire,
The nympholepts of the ecstasy and the blaze.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Call to the Quest,#KEYS
215:By the understanding of the impermanence, of subjection to grief and of the unreality of substance of all formations arises the light of the true wisdom and without it there can be no veritable illumination. The gate of the Way is found in this understanding. Whoever strives not to come to it, is torn into pieces by death. ~ Fo-shu-hing-tsan-king, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
216:He that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother, is in the darkness even until now. He that loveth his brother abideth in the light and there is no occasion of stumbling in him. But he that hateth his brother is in darkness and walketh in darkness and knoweth not whither he goeth, because the darkness hath blinded his eyes. ~ John II. 9, 11, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
217:... The undivine, therefore, is all that is unwilling to accept the light and force of the Mother. That is why I am always telling you to keep yourself in contact with the Mother and with her Light and Force, because it is only so that you can come out of this confusion and obscurity and receive the Truth that comes from above. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Mother With Letters On The Mother, #KEYS
218:God & the World is my subject, ... the conditions in which the kingdom of heaven on earth can be converted from a dream into a possibility, - by the willed evolution in man of his higher nature, by a steady self-purification and a development in the light of this divine knowledge towards the fulfilment of his own supra-material, supra-intellectual nature.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad,#KEYS
219:Remember that the Mother is always with you.
Address Her as follows and She will pull you out of all difficulties:
"O Mother, Thou art the light of my intelligence, the purity of my soul,
the quiet strength of my vital, the endurance of my body.
I rely on Thee alone and want to be entirely Thine.
Make me surmount all obstacles on the way."
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III, [T1],#KEYS
220:We cannot counteract the harm done by mental faith in the need for drugs by any external measures. Only by escaping from the mental prison and emerging consciously into the light of the spirit, by a conscious union with the Divine, can we enable Him to give back to us the balance and health we have lost.The supramental transformation is the only true remedy.
~ The Mother, On Thoughts And Aphorisms,#KEYS
221:A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild flower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East. Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself,--and not a taper lighted at the hearth-stone of the race, which pales before the light of common day. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #KEYS
222:If you examine the highest poetry in the light of common sense, you can only say that it is rubbish; and in actual fact you cannot so examine it at all, because there is something in poetry which is not in the words themselves, which is not in the images suggested by the words 'O windy star blown sideways up the sky!' True poetry is itself a magic spell which is a key to the ineffable. ~ Aleister Crowley, Eight Lectures on Yoga, #KEYS
223:If you think for yourself or feel for yourself or act for yourself, you become a misappropriator, a dishonest trustee-a thief of force.
Let the Divine think through you, feel through you and act through you. Then only right and perfect use will be made of the instruments that compose your being.
Let the Divine's Thoughts shine in your mind, let the Divine's Love swell in your heart, let the Divine's Energy impel your limbs. ~ Nolini Kanta Gupta, Towards The Light,#KEYS
224:What is the path that leads to the Eternal? When a disciple pours over the whole world the light of a heart overflowing with love, in all directions, on high, below, to the four quarters, with a thought of love, large, profound, boundless, void of wrath and hate, and when thereafter he pours over the whole world the light of a thought of profound serenity, then the disciple is on the path that leads to the Eternal. ~ Auguttara Nikaya, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
225:Our sense by its incapacity has invented darkness. In truth there is nothing but Light, only it is a power of light either above or below our poor human vision's limited range.
For do not imagine that light is created by the Suns. The Suns are only physical concentrations of Light, but the splendour they concentrate for us is self-born and everywhere.
God is everywhere and wherever God is, there is Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human,#KEYS
226:One must have an unvarying will to acquire what one does not have in one's nature, to know what one does not yet know, to be able to do what one cannot yet do. One must progress constantly in the light and the peace which come from the absence of personal desire. If one has a strong will, he has only to orient it properly; if he has no will, he has first of all to build one for himself, which always takes long and is sometimes difficult.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#KEYS
227:All that the Light from above asks of us that it may begin its work is a call from the soul and a sufficient point of support in the mind. This support can be reached through an insistent idea of the Divine in the thought, a corresponding will in the dynamic parts, an aspiration, a faith, a need in the heart. Any one of these may lead or predominate, if all cannot move in unison or in an equal rhythm.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Divine Works, Self-Consecration, 81,#KEYS
228:One does not say to God, Show your love for me first, shower on me the experience of yourself, satisfy my demand, then I will see whether I can love you so long as you deserve it. It is surely the seeker who must seek and love first, follow the quest, become impassioned for the Sought-then only does the veil move aside and the Light be seen and the Face manifest that alone can satisfy the soul after its long sojourn in the desert
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II, Sadhana through Love and Devotion,#KEYS
229:The Real made me contemplate the light of the veils as the star of strong backing rose, and He said to me, "Do you know how many veils I have veiled you with?"
"No", I replied.
He said, "With seventy veils. Even if you raise them you will not see Me, and if you do not raise them you will not see Me."
"If you raise them you will see Me and if you do not raise them you will see Me."
"Take care of burning yourself!"
"You are My sight, so have faith. You are My Face, so veil yourself" ~ Ibn Arabi,#KEYS
230:If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent
If the unheard, unspoken
Word is unspoken, unheard;
Still is the spoken word, the Word unheard,
The Word without a word, the Word within
The world and for the world;
And the light shone in the darkness and
Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled
About the center of the silent Word.
Oh my people, what have I done unto thee.
Where shall the word be found, where shall the word
Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence ~ T S Eliot,#KEYS
231:The presence of the Spirit is there in every living being, on every level, in all things, and because it is there, the experience of Sachchidananda, of the pure spiritual existence and consciousness, of the delight of a divine presence, closeness, contact can be acquired through the mind or the heart or the life-sense or even through the physical consciousness; if the inner doors are flung sufficiently open, the light from the sanctuary can suffuse the nearest and the farthest chambers of the outer being. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine #KEYS
232:Too seldom is the shadow of what must come
Cast in an instant on the secret sense
Which feels the shock of the invisible,
And seldom in the few who answer give
The mighty process of the cosmic Will
Communicates its image to our sight,
Identifying the world’s mind with ours. ||11.30||
Our range is fixed within the crowded arc
Of what we observe and touch and thought can guess
And rarely dawns the light of the Unknown
Waking in us the prophet and the seer. ||11.31|| ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 1:4, || 11.30 - 11.31 ||,#KEYS
233:The Mantra in other words is a direct and most heightened, an intensest and most divinely burdened rhythmic word which embodies an intuitive and revelatory inspiration and ensouls the mind with the sight and the presence of the very self, the inmost reality of things and with its truth and with the divine soul-forms of it, the Godheads which are born from the living Truth. Or, let us say, it is a supreme rhythmic language which seizes hold upon all that is finite and brings into each the light and voice of its own infinite. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, #KEYS
234:There are not many, those who have no secret garden of the mind. For this garden alone can give refreshment when life is barren of peace or sustenance or satisfactory answer. Such sanctuaries may be reached by a certain philosophy or faith, by the guidance of a beloved author or an understanding friend, by way of the temples of music and art, or by groping after truth through the vast kingdoms of knowledge. They encompass almost always truth and beauty, and are radiant with the light that never was on sea or land. - Clare Cameron, Green Fields of England ~ Israel Regardie, A Garden Of Pomegranates, #KEYS
235:... What you should do, is always to reject the lower experiences and concentrate on a fixed and quiet aspiration towards the one thing needed, the Light, the Calm, the Peace, the Devotion that you felt for two or three days. It is because you get interested in the lower vital experiences and in observing and thinking about them that they take hold, and then comes the absence of the Contact and the confusion. You have surely had enough of this kind of experience already and should make up your mind to steadily reject it when it comes.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II,#KEYS
236:Shake off thy bondage, O children,
and walk in the Light of the glorious day.
Never turn thy thoughts to the darkness
and surely ye shall be One with The Light.
Man is only what he believeth,
a brother of darkness or a Child of The Light.
Come though into the Light my Children.
Walk in the pathway that leads to the Sun.
Hark ye now, and list to the Wisdom.
Use thou the word I have given unto thee.
Use it and surely though shalt find
power and wisdom and Light to walk in the way.
Seek thee and find the key I have given
and Ever shalt Thou be a Child of The Light. ~ Emerald Tablet,#KEYS
237:High priests of wisdom, sweetness, might and bliss,
Discoverers of beauty's sunlit ways
And swimmers of Love's laughing fiery floods
And dancers within rapture's golden doors,
Their tread one day shall change the suffering earth
And justify the light on Nature's face.
Although Fate lingers in the high Beyond
And the work seems vain on which our heart's force was spent,
All shall be done for which our pain was borne.
Even as of old man came behind the beast
This high divine successor surely shall come
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#KEYS
238:The real human division is this: the luminous and the shady. To diminish the number of the shady, to augment the number of the luminous,-that is the object. That is why we cry: Education! science! To teach reading, means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles. However, he who says light does not, necessarily, say joy. People suffer in the light; excess burns. The flame is the enemy of the wing. To burn without ceasing to fly,-therein lies the marvel of genius. When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in darkness. ~ Victor Hugo, #KEYS
239:Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have given to the pursuit of knowledge. They lure the weary enquirer, the footsore seeker, on through the wilderness of disappointment in the present by their endless promises of the future: they take him up to the top of an exceeding high mountain and show him, beyond the dark clouds and rolling mists at his feet, a vision of the celestial city, far off, it may be, but radiant with unearthly splendour, bathed in the light of dreams. ~ James George Frazer, The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, Volume 1, #KEYS
240:For the conscious appreciation of beauty reaches its height of enlightenment and enjoyment not by analysis of the beauty enjoyed or even by a right and intelligent understanding of it, - these things are only a preliminary clarifying of our first unenlightened sense of the beautiful, - but by an exaltation of the soul in which it opens itself entirely to the light and power and joy of the creation. The soul of beauty in us identifies itself with the soul of beauty in the thing created and feels in appreciation the same divine intoxication and uplifting which the artist felt in creation. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, #KEYS
241:In all doubt and depression, to say 'I belong to the Divine, I cannot fail'; to all suggestions of impurity and unfitness, to reply 'I am a child of Immortality chosen by the Divine; I have but to be true to myself and to Him-the victory is sure; even if I fell, I would be sure to rise again'; to all impulses to depart and serve some smaller ideal, to reply 'This is the greatest, this is the Truth that alone can satisfy the soul within me; I will endure through all tests and tribulations to the very end of the divine journey.' This is what I mean by faithfulness to the Light and the Call.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II,#KEYS
242:Bride of the Fire :::
Bride of the Fire, clasp me now close, -
Bride of the Fire!
I have shed the bloom of the earthly rose,
I have slain desire.
Beauty of the Light, surround my life, -
Beauty of the Light!
I have sacrificed longing and parted from grief,
I can bear thy delight.
Image of Ecstasy, thrill and enlace, -
Image of Bliss!
I would see only thy marvellous face,
Feel only thy kiss.
Voice of Infinity, sound in my heart, -
Call of the One!
Stamp there thy radiance, never to part,
O living sun. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems,#KEYS
243:It may yet be said that a logical succession of the states of progress would be very much in this order. First, there is a large turning in which all the natural mental activities proper to the individual nature are taken up or referred to a higher standpoint and dedicated by the soul in us, the psychic being, the priest of the sacrifice, to the divine service; next, there is an attempt at an ascent of the being and a bringing down of the Light and Power proper to some new height of consciousness gained by its upward effort into the whole action of the knowledge.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent Of The Sacrifice - I, [T1],#KEYS
244:And so, please practice! Please let that be your guide. And I believe that you will find, if your practice matures, that Spirit will reach down and bless your every word and deed, and you will be taken quite beyond yourself, and the Divine will blaze with the light of a thousand suns, and glories upon glories will be given unto you, and you will in every way be home. And then, despite all your excuses and all your objections, you will find the obligation to communicate your vision. And precisely because of that, you and I will find each other. And that will be the real return of Spirit to itself. ~ Ken Wilber, Interview, Bodhisattvas will have to turn to politics, Interview with Frank Visser, 1995, #KEYS
245:... Hear again: no state was ever more precarious than that of man when he was separated on earth from his divine origin. Above him stretched the hostile borders of the usurper, and at his horizon's gates watched jailers armed with flaming swords. Then, since he could climb no more to the source of life, the source arose within him; since he could no more receive the light from above, the light shone forth at the very centre of his being; since he could commune no more with the transcendent love, that love offered itself in a holocaust and chose each terrestrial being, each human self as its dwelling-place and sanctuary. ...~ The Mother, Words Of Long Ago, The Supreme Discovery, [T1], #KEYS
246:There is always some tendency to looseness, forgetfulness and inattention in the physical consciousness. One has to be very vigilant and careful to prevent this tendency having its way. There are many [defects of the physical consciousness] - but mainly obscurity, inertia, tamas, a passive acceptance of the play of wrong forces, inability to change, attachment to habits, lack of plasticity, forgetfulness, loss of experiences or realisations gained, unwillingness to accept the Light or to follow it, incapacity (through tamas or through attachment or through passive reaction to accustomed forces) to do what it admits to be the Right and the Best.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - IV,#KEYS
247:Every painful event contains in itself a seed of growth and liberation. In the light of this truth return to your life now and take a look at one or another of the events that you are not grateful for, and see if you can discover the potential for growth that they contain which you were unaware of and therefore failed to benefit from. Now think of some recent event that caused you pain, that produced negative feelings in you. Whoever or whatever caused those feelings was your teacher, because they revealed so much to you about yourself that you probably did not know. And they offered you an invitation and a challenge to self-understanding, self-discovery, and therefore to growth and life and freedom. ~ Anthony de Mello, #KEYS
248:The Fire is to be quieted and silenced says the Upanishad. Then we come nearer, to the immediate vicinity of the Truth; an inner hearing opens, the direct voice of Truth - the Word - reaches us to lead and guide. Even so, however, we have not come to the end of our journey; the Word of revelation is not the ultimate Light. The Word too is a clothing, though a luminous clothing - hiranmayam pair am. When this last veil dissolves and disappears, when utter silence, absolute calm and quietude reign in the entire consciousness, when no other lights trouble or distract our attention, there appears the Atman in its own body ; we stand face to face with the source of all lights, the self of the Light, the light of the Self. We are that Light and we become that Light.
~ Nolini Kanta Gupta, The Approach To Mysticism,#KEYS
249:The messengers of the Incommunicable,
The architects of immortality.
Into the fallen human sphere they came,
Faces that wore the Immortal's glory still,
Voices that communed still with the thoughts of God,
Bodies made beautiful by the spirit's light,
Carrying the magic word, the mystic fire,
Carrying the Dionysian cup of joy,
Approaching eyes of a diviner man,
Lips chanting an unknown anthem of the soul,
Feet echoing in the corridors of Time.
High priests of wisdom, sweetness, might and bliss,
Discoverers of beauty's sunlit ways
And swimmers of Love's laughing fiery floods
And dancers within rapture's golden doors,
Their tread one day shall change the suffering earth
And justify the light on Nature's face. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 3:4,#KEYS
250:It is only when after long and persistent concentration or by other means the veil of the mind is rent or swept aside, only when a flood of light breaks over the awakened mentality, jyotirmaya brahman, and conception gives place to a knowledge-vision in which the Self is as present, real, concrete as a physical object to the physical eye, that we possess in knowledge; for we have seen. After that revelation, whatever fadings of the light, whatever periods of darkness may afflict the soul, it can never irretrievably lose what it has once held. The experience is inevitably renewed and must become more frequent till it is constant; when and how soon depends on the devotion and persistence with which we insist on the path and besiege by our will or our love the hidden Deity.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, [305],#KEYS
251:Thus slowly I lift man's soul nearer the Light.
But human mind clings to its ignorance
And to its littleness the human heart
And to its right to grief the earthly life.
Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand,
Only when infinity weds the finite's thought,
Can man be free from himself and live with God.
I bring meanwhile the gods upon the earth;
I bring back hope to the despairing heart;
I give peace to the humble and the great,
And shed my grace on the foolish and the wise.
I shall save earth, if earth consents to be saved.
Then Love shall at last unwounded tread earth's soil;
Man's mind shall admit the sovereignty of Truth
And body bear the immense descent of God."
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
252:11. The Ultimate Boon:The gods and goddesses then are to be understood as embodiments and custodians of the elixir of Imperishable Being but not themselves the Ultimate in its primary state. What the hero seeks through his intercourse with them is therefore not finally themselves, but their grace, i.e., the power of their sustaining substance. This miraculous energy-substance and this alone is the Imperishable; the names and forms of the deities who everywhere embody, dispense, and represent it come and go. This is the miraculous energy of the thunderbolts of Zeus, Yahweh, and the Supreme Buddha, the fertility of the rain of Viracocha, the virtue announced by the bell rung in the Mass at the consecration, and the light of the ultimate illumination of the saint and sage. Its guardians dare release it only to the duly proven. ~ Joseph Campbell, #KEYS
253:Our life's uncertain way winds circling on,
Our mind's unquiet search asks always light,
Till they have learned their secret in their source,
In the light of the Timeless and its spaceless home,
In the joy of the Eternal sole and one.
But now the Light supreme is far away:
Our conscious life obeys the Inconscient's laws;
To ignorant purposes and blind desires
Our hearts are moved by an ambiguous force;
Even our mind's conquests wear a battered crown.
A slowly changing order binds our will.
This is our doom until our souls are free.
A mighty Hand then rolls mind's firmaments back,
Infinity takes up the finite's acts
And Nature steps into the eternal Light.
Then only ends this dream of nether life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
254:God doesn't easily appear in the heart of a man who feels himself to be his own master. But God can be seen the moment His grace descends. He is the Sun of Knowledge. One single ray of His has illumined the world with the light of knowledge. That is how we are able to see one another and acquire varied knowledge. One can see God only if He turns His light toward His own face.
The police sergeant goes his rounds in the dark of night with a lantern in his hand. No one sees his face; but with the help of that light the sergeant sees everybody's face, and others, too, can see one another. If you want to see the sergeant, however, you must pray to him: 'Sir, please turn the light on your own face. Let me see you.' In the same way one must pray to God: 'O Lord, be gracious and turn the light of knowledge on Thyself, that I may see Thy face.' ~ Sri Ramakrishna,#KEYS
255:It is no good asking for a simple religion. After all, real things are not simple. They look simple, but they are not. The table I am sitting at looks simple: but ask a scientist to tell you what it is really made of-all about the atoms and how the light waves rebound from them and hit my eye and what they do to the optic nerve and what it does to my brain-and, of course, you find that what we call "seeing a table" lands you in mysteries and complications which you can hardly get to the end of. A child saying a child's prayer looks simple. And if you are content to stop there, well and good. But if you are not--and the modern world usually is not--if you want to go on and ask what is really happening, then you must be prepared for something difficult. If we ask for something more than simplicity, it is silly then to complain that the something more is not simple. ~ C S Lewis, Mere Christianity, #KEYS
256:It is not enough to devote ourselves by the reading of Scriptures or by the stress of philosophic reasoning to an intellectual understanding of the Divine; for at the end of our long mental labour we might know all that has been said of the Eternal, possess all that can be thought about the Infinite and yet we might not know him at all. This intellectual preparation can indeed be the first stage in a powerful Yoga, but it is not indispensable: it is not a step which all need or can be called upon to take. Yoga would be impossible, except for a very few, if the intellectual figure of knowledge arrived at by the speculative or meditative Reason were its indispensable condition or a binding preliminary. All that the Light from above asks of us that it may begin its work is a call from the soul and a sufficient point of support in the mind.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, [T5],#KEYS
257:He found the vast Thought with seven heads that is born of the Truth; he created some fourth world and became universal. . . .
The Sons of Heaven, the Heroes of the Omnipotent, thinking the straight thought, giving voice to the Truth, founded the plane of illumination and conceived the first abode of the Sacrifice. . . . The Master of Wisdom cast down the stone defences and called to the Herds of Light, . . . the herds that stand in the secrecy on the bridge over the Falsehood between two worlds below and one above; desiring Light in the darkness, he brought upward the Ray-Herds and uncovered from the veil the three worlds; he shattered the city that lies hidden in ambush, and cut the three out of the Ocean, and discovered the Dawn and the Sun and the Light and the Word of Light. Rig Veda.2 ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Out of the Sevenfold Ignorance towards the Sevenfold Knowledge,#KEYS
258:
There is no darkness, we only close our eyes
and shut out the Light;
There is no pain, it is only our shrinking
from an intense and unwelcome Delight;
There is no death, it is only our dread of the Life Eternal
that comes back upon us and smites us.
Our senses are tremulous and fearsome
and cling to the empty littlenesses of the surface moment,
they heed not the vast surges of Infinitude
that sweep and pass by.
Calm, calm, my soul! Sink down and deep:
Fashion the crystal bowl of thy heart
with all the serene profundity of the unknown spaces -
And drop by drop will gather there
a bliss immortals only can taste,
And ray by ray will dawn the Light supernal....
Or - be prepared for this too, soul, my soul -
the down-rush of a myriad undyked cataracts,
the sudden bursting of a whole stellar conflagration
March 17, 1935 ~ Nolini Kanta Gupta, , To the Heights,#KEYS
259:Maheshwari can appear too calm and great and distant for the littleness of earthly nature to approach or contain her, Mahakali too swift and formidable for its weakness to bear; but all turn with joy and longing to Mahalakshmi.
For she throws the spell of the intoxicating sweetness of the Divine: to be close to her is a profound happiness and to feel her within the heart is to make the existence a rapture and a marvel; grace and charm and tenderness flow from her like the light from the sun and wherever she fixes her wonderful gaze or lets fall of the loveliness of her smile, the soul is seized and made captive and plunged into the depths of an unfathomable bliss.
Magnetic is the touch of her hands and their occult and delicate influence refines the mind and life and body and where she presses her feet course miraculous streams of an entrancing Ananda.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Mother With Letters On The Mother,#KEYS
260:But if in passing from one domain to another we renounce what has already been given us from eagerness for our new attainment, if in reaching the mental life we cast away or belittle the physical life which is our basis, or if we reject the mental and physical in our attraction to the spiritual, we do not fulfil God integrally, nor satisfy the conditions of His selfmanifestation. We do not become perfect, but only shift the field of our imperfection or atmost attain a limited altitude. However high we may climb, even though it be to the Non-Being itself, we climb ill if we forget our base. Not to abandon the lower to itself, but to transfigure it in the light of the higher to which we have attained, is true divinity of nature. Brahman is integral and unifies many states of consciousness at a time; we also, manifesting the nature of Brahman, should become integral and all-embracing. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, #KEYS
261:The Vedic poets regarded their poetry as mantras, they were the vehicles of their own realisations and could become vehicles of realisation for others. Naturally, these mostly would be illuminations, not the settled and permanent realisation that is the goal of Yoga - but they could be steps on the way or at least lights on the way. Many have such illuminations, even initial realisations while meditating on verses of the Upanishads or the Gita. Anything that carries the Word, the Light in it, spoken or written, can light this fire within, open a sky, as it were, bring the effective vision of which the Word is the body. In all ages spiritual seekers have expressed their aspirations or their experiences in poetry or inspired language and it has helped themselves and others. Therefore there is nothing absurd in my assigning to such poetry a spiritual or psychic value and effectiveness to poetry of a psychic or spiritual character.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II,#KEYS
262:
To learn to be quiet and silent... When you have a problem to solve, instead of turning over in your head all the possibilities, all the consequences, all the possible things one should or should not do, if you remain quiet with an aspiration for goodwill, if possible a need for goodwill, the solution comes very quickly. And as you are silent you are able to hear it.
When you are caught in a difficulty, try this method: instead of becoming agitated, turning over all the ideas and actively seeking solutions, of worrying, fretting, running here and there inside your head - I don't mean externally, for externally you probably have enough common sense not to do that! but inside, in your head - remain quiet. And according to your nature, with ardour or peace, with intensity or widening or with all these together, implore the Light and wait for it to come.
In this way the path would be considerably shortened. 5 November 1958
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1957-1958, 422,#KEYS
263:All that the Light from above asks of us that it may begin its work is a call from the soul and a sufficient point of support in the mind. This support can be reached through an insistent idea of the Divine in the thought, a corresponding will in the dynamic parts, an aspiration, a faith, a need in the heart. Any one of these may lead or predominate, if all cannot move in unison or in an equal rhythm. The idea may be and must in the beginning be inadequate; the aspiration may be narrow and imperfect, the faith poorly illumined or even, as not surely founded on the rock of knowledge, fluctuating, uncertain, easily diminished; often even it may be extinguished and need to be lit again with difficulty like a torch in a windy pass. But if once there is a resolute self-consecration from deep within, if there is an awakening to the souls call, these inadequate things can be a sufficient instrument for the divine purpose.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Divine Works, Self-Consecration, 81,#KEYS
264:The personal will of the sadhaka has first to seize on the egoistic energies and turn them towards the light and the right; once turned, he has still to train them to recognise that always, always to accept, always to follow that. Progressing, he learns, still using the personal will, personal effort, personal energies, to employ them as representatives of the higher Power and in conscious obedience to the higher Influence. Progressing yet farther, his will, effort, energy become no longer personal and separate, but activities of that higher Power and Influence at work in the individual. But there is still a sort of gulf or distance which necessitates an obscure process of transit, not always accurate, sometimes even very distorting, between the divine Origin and the emerging human current. At the end of the process, with the progressive disappearance of egoism and impurity and ignorance, this last separation is removed; all in the individual becomes the divine working. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, #KEYS
265:Gaya, the Rishi, prays to Agni, Lord of Tapas, the representative in Nature of the Divine Power that builds the worlds & works in them towards our soul's fulfilment in and beyond heaven - Agni, as játavedas, the self-existent luminosity of knowledge in this Cosmic Force - for Force is only Chitshakti, working power of the Divine Consciousness & therefore Cosmic Force is always self-luminous, all-knowing force. Agni Jatavedas then is the ray of divine knowledge in this embodied state of existence; - he is Adhrigu - the Light in our embodied being. For this reason all action offered by us to Agni as a work of divine tapas becomes in its nature a self-luminous activity guiding itself whether consciously in our minds or super-consciously, guháhitam, to the divine goal. All Tapas is self-effective and God-effective. As Adhrigu, the divine Light in our embodied being, Agni is to bring to us an illumination of knowledge in our mentality which is ojistha, most full of ojas, superabundant ... ~ Sri Aurobindo, Hymns To The Mystic Fire, #KEYS
266:When man's thoughts rise upon the wings of aspiration, when he pushes back the darkness with the strength of reason and logic, then indeed the builder is liberated from his dungeon and the light pours in, bathing him with life and power. This light enables us to seek more clearly the mystery of creation and to find with greater certainty our place in the Great Plan, for as man unfolds his bodies he gains talents with which he can explore the mysteries of Nature and search for the hidden workings of the Divine. Through these powers the Builder is liberated and his consciousness goes forth conquering and to conquer. These higher ideals, these spiritual concepts, these altruistic, philanthropic, educative applications of thought power glorify the Builder; for they give the power of expression and those who can express themselves are free. When man can mold his thoughts, his emotions, and his actions into faithful expressions of his highest ideals then liberty is his, for ignorance is the darkness of Chaos and knowledge is the light of Cosmos.
~ Manly P Hall,#KEYS
267:THE MASTER and Mover of our works is the One, the Universal and Supreme, the Eternal and Infinite. He is the transcendent unknown or unknowable Absolute, the unexpressed and unmanifested Ineffable above us; but he is also the Self of all beings, the Master of all worlds, transcending all worlds, the Light and the Guide, the All-Beautiful and All-Blissful, the Beloved and the Lover. He is the Cosmic Spirit and all-creating Energy around us; he is the Immanent within us. All that is is he, and he is the More than all that is, and we ourselves, though we know it not, are being of his being, force of his force, conscious with a consciousness derived from his; even our mortal existence is made out of his substance and there is an immortal within us that is a spark of the Light and Bliss that are for ever. No matter whether by knowledge, works, love or any other means, to become aware of this truth of our being, to realise it, to make it effective here or elsewhere is the object of all Yoga.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, [T1],#KEYS
268:The earth too, one with the surrounding mass of darkness and inconscience is asleep and insentient. She has to wake up and start on her journey moving forward, unveiling her secret mysteries towards the supreme revelation, the Divine incarnation in matter. The Gods are awake, in order to awaken the earth. A first ray is sent down and it touches as it were the sleeping Mother. The Divine Ray is just like a finger of a child touching her mother trying, as it were, to persuade her to open her eyes and look at her child. The first ray, however, comes not as a caress to the inert being of darkness, it is a sharp prick, even a hard blow. Such is the first impact of light upon dead matter; and the light is thrown back, as an unwelcome intruder, into what it came from; and the darkness grovels in its old groove. The second stage comes when the impact is not felt as a pain or something totally foreign and strange; its touch is felt as something soothing, something that heals an eternal sore. But this too was not suffered long and the light has to go back again. ~ Nolini Kanta Gupta, On Savitri, #KEYS
269:The alchemist of today is not hidden in caves and cellars, studying alone, but as he goes on with his work, it is seen that walls are built around him, and while he is in the world, like the master of old, he is not of it. As he goes further in his work, the light of other people's advice and outside help grows weaker and weaker, until finally he stands alone in darkness, and then comes the time that he must use his own lamp, and the various experiments which he has carried on must be his guide. He must take the Elixir of Life which he has developed and with it fill the lamp of his spiritual consciousness, and holding that above his head, walk into the Great Unknown, where if he has been a good and faithful servant, he will learn of the alchemy of Divinity. Where now test tubes and bottles are his implements, then worlds and globes he will study, and as a silent watcher will learn from that Divine One, who is the Great Alchemist of all the universe, the greatest alchemy of all, the creation of life, the maintenance of form, and the building of worlds. ~ Manly P Hall, The Initiates of the Flame, #KEYS
270:15. The Crossing of the Return Threshold:The returning hero, to complete his adventure, must survive the impact of the world. Many failures attest to the difficulties of this life-affirmative threshold. The first problem of the returning hero is to accept as real, after an experience of the soul-satisfying vision of fulfillment, the passing joys and sorrows, banalities and noisy obscenities of life. Why re-enter such a world? Why attempt to make plausible, or even interesting, to men and women consumed with passion, the experience of transcendental bliss? As dreams that were momentous by night may seem simply silly in the light of day, so the poet and the prophet can discover themselves playing the idiot before a jury of sober eyes. The easy thing is to commit the whole community to the devil and retire again into the heavenly rock dwelling, close the door, and make it fast. But if some spiritual obstetrician has drawn the shimenawa across the retreat, then the work of representing eternity in time, and perceiving in time eternity, cannot be avoided" The hero returns to the world of common day and must accept it as real. ~ Joseph Campbell, #KEYS
271:Do not be over-eager for experience, - for experiences you can always get, having once broken the barrier between the physical mind and the subtle planes. What you have to aspire for most is the improved quality of the recipient consciousness in you - discrimination in the mind, the unattached impersonal Witness look on all that goes on in you and around you, purity in the vital, calm equanimity, enduring patience, absence of pride and the sense of greatness - and more especially, the development of the psychic being in you - surrender, self-giving, psychic humility, devotion. It is a consciousness made up of these things, cast in this mould that can bear without breaking, stumbling or deviation into error the rush of lights, powers and experiences from the supraphysical planes. An entire perfection in these respects is hardly possible until the whole nature from the highest mind to the subconscient physical is made one in the light that is greater than Mind; but a sufficient foundation and a consciousness always self-observant, vigilant and growing in these things is indispensable
- for perfect purification is the basis of the perfect siddhi. ~ ?,#KEYS
272:In order to strengthen the higher knowledge-faculty in us we have to effect the same separation between the intuitive and intellectual elements of our thought as we have already effected between the understanding and the sense-mind; and this is no easy task, for not only do our intuitions come to us incrusted in the intellectual action, but there are a great number of mental workings which masquerade and ape the appearances of the higher faculty. The remedy is to train first the intellect to recognise the true intuilion, to distinguish it from the false and then to accustom it, when it arrives at an intellectual perception or conclusion, to attach no final value to it, but rather look upward, refer all to the divine principle and wait in as complete a silence as it can command for the light from above. In this way it is possible to transmute a great part of our intellectual thinking into the luminous truth-conscious vision, -- the ideal would be a complete transition, -- or at least to increase greatly the frequency, purity and conscious force of the ideal knowledge working behind the intellect. The latter must learn to be subject and passive to the ideal faculty.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Purified Understanding, 316,#KEYS
273:I have loved in life and I have been loved.
I have drunk the bowl of poison from the hands of love as nectar,
and have been raised above life's joy and sorrow.
My heart, aflame in love, set afire every heart that came in touch with it.
My heart has been rent and joined again;
My heart has been broken and again made whole;
My heart has been wounded and healed again;
A thousand deaths my heart has died, and thanks be to love, it lives yet.
I went through hell and saw there love's raging fire,
and I entered heaven illumined with the light of love.
I wept in love and made all weep with me;
I mourned in love and pierced the hearts of men;
And when my fiery glance fell on the rocks, the rocks burst forth as volcanoes.
The whole world sank in the flood caused by my one tear;
With my deep sigh the earth trembled, and when I cried aloud the name of my beloved,
I shook the throne of God in heaven.
I bowed my head low in humility, and on my knees I begged of love,
"Disclose to me, I pray thee, O love, thy secret."
She took me gently by my arms and lifted me above the earth, and spoke softly in my ear,
"My dear one, thou thyself art love, art lover,
and thyself art the beloved whom thou hast adored. ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan,#KEYS
274:The Apsaras are the most beautiful and romantic conception on the lesser plane of Hindu mythology. From the moment that they arose out of the waters of the milky Ocean, robed in ethereal raiment and heavenly adornment, waking melody from a million lyres, the beauty and light of them has transformed the world. They crowd in the sunbeams, they flash and gleam over heaven in the lightnings, they make the azure beauty of the sky; they are the light of sunrise and sunset and the haunting voices of forest and field. They dwell too in the life of the soul; for they are the ideal pursued by the poet through his lines, by the artist shaping his soul on his canvas, by the sculptor seeking a form in the marble; for the joy of their embrace the hero flings his life into the rushing torrent of battle; the sage, musing upon God, sees the shining of their limbs and falls from his white ideal. The delight of life, the beauty of things, the attraction of sensuous beauty, this is what the mystic and romantic side of the Hindu temperament strove to express in the Apsara. The original meaning is everywhere felt as a shining background, but most in the older allegories, especially the strange and romantic legend of Pururavas as we first have it in the Brahmanas and the Vishnoupurana. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #KEYS
275:understanding fails when pulled down by lower movements ::: By the understanding we mean that which at once perceives, judges and discriminates, the true reason of the human beingnot subservient to the senses, to desire or to the blind force of habit, but working in its own right for mastery, for knowledge. Certainly, the reason of man as he is at present does not even at its best act entirely in this free and sovereign fashion; but so far as it fails, it fails because it is still mixed with the lower half-animal action, because it is impure and constantly hampered and pulled down from its characteristic action. In its purity it should not be involved in these lower movements, but stand back from the object, and observe disinterestedly, put it in its right place in the whole by force of comparison, contrast, analogy, reason from its rightly observed data by deduction, induction, inference and holding all its gains in memory and supplementing them by a chastened and rightly-guided imagination view all in the light of a trained and disciplined judgment. Such is the pure intellectual understanding of which disinterested observation, judgment and reasoning are the law and characterising action.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Knowledge, The Purified Understanding,#KEYS
276:Many are God's forms by which he grows in man;
They stamp his thoughts and deeds with divinity,
Uplift the stature of the human clay
Or slowly transmute it into heavens gold.
He is the Good for which men fight and die,
He is the war of Right with Titan wrong;
He is Freedom rising deathless from her pyre;
He is Valour guarding still the desperate pass
Or lone and erect on the shattered barricade
Or a sentinel in the dangerous echoing Night.
He is the crown of the martyr burned in flame
And the glad resignation of the saint
And courage indifferent to the wounds of Time
And the heros might wrestling with death and fate.
He is Wisdom incarnate on a glorious throne
And the calm autocracy of the sages rule.
He is the high and solitary Thought
Aloof above the ignorant multitude:
He is the prophets voice, the sight of the seer.
He is Beauty, nectar of the passionate soul,
He is the Truth by which the spirit lives.
He is the riches of the spiritual Vast
Poured out in healing streams on indigent Life;
He is Eternity lured from hour to hour,
He is infinity in a little space:
He is immortality in the arms of death.
These powers I am and at my call they come.
Thus slowly I lift mans soul nearer the Light.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
277:the joy of progress :::
It is the will for progress and self-purification which lights the [psychic] fire. The will for progress. Those who have a strong will, when they turn it towards spiritual progress and purification, automatically light the fire within themselves.
And each defect one wants to cure or each progress one wants to make - if all that is thrown into the fire, it burns with a new intensity. And this is not an image, it is a fact in the subtle physical. One can feel the warmth of the flame, one can see in the subtle physical the light of the flame. And when there is something in the nature which prevents one from advancing and one throws it into this fire, it begins to burn and the flame becomes more intense....
How can one feel sweetness and joy when one is in difficulty?
Exactly, when the difficulty is egoistic or personal, if one makes an offering of it and throws it into the fire of purification, one immediately feels the joy of progress. If one does it sincerely, at once there is a welling up of joy.
That is obviously what ought to be done instead of despairing and lamenting. If one offers it up and aspires sincerely for transformation and purification, one immediately feels joy springing up in the depths of the heart. Even when the difficulty is a great sorrow, one may do this with much success. One realises that behind the sorrow, no matter how intense it may be, there is divine joy. ~ The Mother,#KEYS
278:To see life steadily and see it whole is only permitted to a Perfect and Infinite Consciousness standing outside Time, Space and Conditions. To such a divine Vision the working out of preordainment may present itself as a perfect, immediate and unhindered consummation. God said, 'Let there be Light' and, straightway,there was Light; and when the Light came into being, God saw that it was good. But to the imperfect finite consciousness, Light seems in its inception to have come into being by a slow material evolution completed by a fortuitous shock of forces; in its operation to be lavished with a prodigal wastefulness since only a small part is used for the purposes of life; in its presentation to be conveyed to a blinking and limited vision, hampered by obstacles and chequered with darkness. Limitation, imperfection, progression and retrogression are inseparable from phenomenal work, phenomenal intelligence, phenomenal pleasure and satisfaction. To Brahman the Will who measures all Time in a moment, covers all Space with one stride, embraces the whole chain of causation in one glance, there is no limitation, imperfection, progression or retrogression. He looks upon his work as a whole and sees that it is good. But the Gods cannot reach to His completeness, even though they toil after it; for ever He outruns their pursuit, moving far in front. Brahman, standing still, overtakes and passes the others as they run.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad,#KEYS
279:The Quest
A part, immutable, unseen,
Being, before itself had been,
Became. Like dew a triple queen
Shone as the void uncovered:
The silence of deep height was drawn
A veil across the silver dawn
On holy wings that hovered.
The music of three thoughts became
The beauty, that is one white flame,
The justice that surpasses shame,
The victory, the splendour,
The sacred fountain that is whirled
From depths beyond that older world
A new world to engender.
The kingdom is extended. Night
Dwells, and I contemplate the sight
That is not seeing, but the light
That secretly is kindled,
Though oft-time its most holy fire
Lacks oil, whene'er my own Desire
Before desire has dwindled.
I see the thin web binding me
With thirteen cords of unity
Toward the calm centre of the sea.
(O thou supernal mother!)
The triple light my path divides
To twain and fifty sudden sides
Each perfect as each other.
Now backwards, inwards still my mind
Must track the intangible and blind,
And seeking, shall securely find
Hidden in secret places
Fresh feasts for every soul that strives,
New life for many mystic lives,
And strange new forms and faces.
My mind still searches, and attains
By many days and many pains
To That which Is and Was and reigns
Shadowed in four and ten;
And loses self in sacred lands,
And cries and quickens, and understands
Beyond the first Amen.
~ Aleister Crowley,#KEYS
280:It is, then, in the highest mind of thought and light and will or it is in the inner heart of deepest feeling and emotion that we must first centre our consciousness, -in either of them or, if we are capable, in both together,- and use that as our leverage to lift the nature wholly towards the Divine. The concentration of an enlightened thought, will and heart turned in unison towards one vast goal of our knowledge, one luminous and infinite source of our action, one imperishable object of our emotion is the starting-point of the Yoga. And the object of our seeking must be the very fount of the Light which is growing in us, the very origin of the Force which we are calling to move our members. our one objective must be the Divine himself to whom, knowingly or unknowingly, something always aspires in our secret nature. There must be a large, many-sided yet single concentration of the thought on the idea, the perception, the vision, the awakening touch, the souls realisation of the one Divine. There must be a flaming concentration of the heart on the All and Eternal -and, when once we have found him, a deep plunging and immersion in the possession and ecstasy of the All-Beautiful. There must be a strong and immovable concentration of the will on the attainment and fulfilment of all that the Divine is and a free and plastic opening of it to all that he intends to manifest in us. This is the triple way of the Yoga.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Divine Works, Self-Consecration, 80 [where to concentrate?],#KEYS
281:So too we can rise to a consciousness above and observe the various parts of our being, inner and outer, mental, vital and physical and the subconscient below all, and act upon one or other or the whole from that higher status. It is possible also to go down from that height or from any height into any of these lower states and take its limited light or its obscurity as our place of working while the rest that we are is either temporarily put away or put behind or else kept as a field of reference from which we can get support, sanction or light and influence or as a status into which we can ascend or recede and from it observe the inferior movements. Or we can plunge into trance, get within ourselves and be conscious there while all outward things are excluded; or we can go beyond even this inner awareness and lose ourselves in some deeper other consciousness or some high superconscience. There is also a pervading equal consciousness into which we can enter and see all ourselves with one enveloping glance or omnipresent awareness one and indivisible. All this which looks strange and abnormal or may seem fantastic to the surface reason acquainted only with our normal status of limited ignorance and its movements divided from our inner higher and total reality, becomes easily intelligible and admissible in the light of the larger reason and logic of the Infinite or by the admission of the greater illimitable powers of the Self, the Spirit in us which is of one essence with the Infinite. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, 1.2.02 #KEYS
282:need for the soul's spiritualization :::
And yet even the leading of the inmost psychic being is not found sufficient until it has succeeded in raising itself out of this mass of inferior Nature to the highest spiritual levels and the divine spark and flame descended here have rejoined themselves to their original fiery Ether. For there is there no longer a spiritual consciousness still imperfect and half lost to itself in the thick sheaths of human mind, life and body, but the full spiritual consciousness in its purity, freedom and intense wideness. There, as it is the eternal Knower that becomes the Knower in us and mover and user of all knowledge, so it is the eternal All-Blissful who is the Adored attracting to himself the eternal divine portion of his being and joy that has gone out into the play of the universe, the infinite Lover pouring himself out in the multiplicity of his own manifested selves in a happy Oneness. All Beauty in the world is there the beauty of the Beloved, and all forms of beauty have to stand under the light of that eternal Beauty and submit themselves to the sublimating and transfiguring power of the unveiled Divine Perfection. All Bliss and Joy are there of the All-Blissful, and all inferior forms of enjoyment, happiness or pleasure are subjected to the shock of the intensity of its floods or currents and either they are broken to pieces as inadequate things under its convicting stress or compelled to transmute themselves into the forms of the Divine Ananda. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 2, 168,#KEYS
283:In the Judeo-Christian tradition, it is called 'the resurrection body ' and 'the glorified body.' The prophet Isaiah said, 'The dead shall live, their bodies shall rise' (Isa. 26:19). St. Paul called it 'the celestial body' or 'spiritual body ' (soma pneumatikon) (I Corinthians 15:40). In Sufism it is called 'the most sacred body ' (wujud al-aqdas) and 'supracelestial body ' (jism asli haqiqi). In Taoism, it is called 'the diamond body,' and those who have attained it are called 'the immortals' and 'the cloudwalkers.' In Tibetan Buddhism it is called 'the light body.' In Tantrism and some schools of yoga, it is called 'the vajra body,' 'the adamantine body,' and 'the divine body.' In Kriya yoga it is called 'the body of bliss.' In Vedanta it is called 'the superconductive body.' In Gnosticism and Neoplatonism, it is called 'the radiant body.' In the alchemical tradition, the Emerald Tablet calls it 'the Glory of the Whole Universe' and 'the golden body.' The alchemist Paracelsus called it 'the astral body.' In the Hermetic Corpus, it is called 'the immortal body ' (soma athanaton). In some mystery schools, it is called 'the solar body.' In Rosicrucianism, it is called 'the diamond body of the temple of God.' In ancient Egypt it was called 'the luminous body or being' (akh). In Old Persia it was called 'the indwelling divine potential' (fravashi or fravarti). In the Mithraic liturgy it was called 'the perfect body ' (soma teilion). In the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo, it is called 'the divine body,' composed of supramental substance. In the philosophy of Teilhard de Chardin, it is called 'the ultrahuman'.
~ ?, http://herebedragons.weebly.com/homo-lumen.html,#KEYS
284:The Nirmanakaya manifestation of Amitabha, I,
the Indian Scholar, the Lotus Born,
From the self-blossoming center of a lotus,
Came to this realm of existence through miraculous powers
To be the prince of the king of Oddiyana.
Then, I sustained the kingdom in accordance with Dharma.
Wandering throughout all directions of India,
I severed all spiritual doubts without exception.
Engaging in fearless activity in the eight burial grounds,
I achieved all supreme and common siddhis.
Then, according to the wishes of King Trisong Detsen
And by the power of previous prayers, I journeyed to Tibet.
By subduing the cruel gods, nagas, yakshas, rakshas,
and all spirits who harm beings,
The light of the teachings of secret mantra has been illuminated.
Then, when the time came to depart for the continent of Lanka,
I did so to provide refuge from the fear of rakshas
For all the inhabitants of this world, including Tibet.
I blessed Nirmanakaya emanations to be representatives of my body.
I made sacred treasures as representatives of my holy speech.
I poured enlightened wisdom into the hearts of those with fortunate karma.
Until samsara is emptied, for the benefit of sentient beings,
I will manifest unceasingly in whatever ways are necessary.
Through profound kindness, I have brought great benefit for all.
If you who are fortunate have the mind of aspiration,
May you pray so that blessings will be received.
All followers, believe in me with determination.
Samaya. ~ The Wrathful Compassion of Guru Dorje Drollo, Vajra Master Dudjom Yeshe Dorje, translated by Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche,#KEYS
285:Musa Spiritus :::
O Word concealed in the upper fire,
Thou who hast lingered through centuries,
Descend from thy rapt white desire,
Plunging through gold eternities.
Into the gulfs of our nature leap,
Voice of the spaces, call of the Light!
Break the seals of Matter's sleep,
Break the trance of the unseen height.
In the uncertain glow of human mind,
Its waste of unharmonied thronging thoughts,
Carve thy epic mountain-lined
Crowded with deep prophetic grots.
Let thy hue-winged lyrics hover like birds
Over the swirl of the heart's sea.
Touch into sight with thy fire-words
The blind indwelling deity.
O Muse of the Silence, the wideness make
In the unplumbed stillness that hears thy voice,
In the vast mute heavens of the spirit awake
Where thy eagles of Power flame and rejoice.
Out, out with the mind and its candles flares,
Light, light the suns that never die.
For my ear the cry of the seraph stars
And the forms of the Gods for my naked eye!
Let the little troubled life-god within
Cast his veils from the still soul,
His tiger-stripes of virtue and sin,
His clamour and glamour and thole and dole;
All make tranquil, all make free.
Let my heart-beats measure the footsteps of God
As He comes from His timeless infinity
To build in their rapture His burning abode.
Weave from my life His poem of days,
His calm pure dawns and His noons of force.
My acts for the grooves of His chariot-race,
My thoughts for the tramp of His great steeds' course! ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems,#KEYS
286:IN OUR scrutiny of the seven principles of existence it was found that they are one in their essential and fundamental reality: for if even the matter of the most material universe is nothing but a status of being of Spirit made an object of sense, envisaged by the Spirit's own consciousness as the stuff of its forms, much more must the life-force that constitutes itself into form of Matter, and the mind-consciousness that throws itself out as Life, and the Supermind that develops Mind as one of its powers, be nothing but Spirit itself modified in apparent substance and in dynamism of action, not modified in real essence. All are powers of one Power of being and not other than that All-Existence, All-Consciousness, All-Will, All-Delight which is the true truth behind every appearance. And they are not only one in their reality, but also inseparable in the sevenfold variety of their action. They are the seven colours of the light of the divine consciousness, the seven rays of the Infinite, and by them the Spirit has filled in on the canvas of his self-existence conceptually extended, woven of the objective warp of Space and the subjective woof of Time, the myriad wonders of his self-creation great, simple, symmetrical in its primal laws and vast framings, infinitely curious and intricate in its variety of forms and actions and the complexities of relation and mutual effect of all upon each and each upon all. These are the seven Words of the ancient sages; by them have been created and in the light of their meaning are worked out and have to be interpreted the developed and developing harmonies of the world we know and the worlds behind of which we have only an indirect knowledge. The Light, the Sound is one; their action is sevenfold.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, 7 - The Knowledge and the Ignorance, 499,#KEYS
287:
Should not one be born with a great aspiration?
No, aspiration is a thing to be developed, educated, like all activities of the being. One may be born with a very slight aspiration and develop it so much that it becomes very great. One may be born with a very small will and develop it and make it strong. It is a ridiculous idea to believe that things come to you like that, through a sort of grace, that if you are not given aspiration, you don't have it - this is not true. It is precisely upon this that Sri Aurobindo has insisted in his letter and in the passage I am going to read to you in a minute. He says you must choose, and the choice is constantly put before you and constantly you must choose, and if you do not choose, well, you will not be able to advance. You must choose; there is no "force like that" which chooses for you, or chance or luck or fate - this is not true. Your will is free, it is deliberately left free and you have to choose. It is you who decide whether to seek the Light or not, whether to be the servitor of the Truth or not - it is you. Or whether to have an aspiration or not, it is you who choose. And even when you are told, "Make your surrender total and the work will be done for you", it is quite all right, but to make your surrender total, every day and at every moment you must choose to make your surrender total, otherwise you will not do it, it will not get done by itself. It is you who must want to do it. When it is done, all goes well, when you have the Knowledge also, all goes well, and when you are identified with the Divine, all goes even better, but till then you must will, choose and decide. Don't go to sleep lazily, saying, "Oh! The work will be done for me, I have nothing to do but let myself glide along with the stream." Besides, it is not true, the work is not done by itself, because if the least little thing thwarts your little will, it says, "No, not that!..." Then?
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1950-1951,#KEYS
288:mastering the lower self and leverage for the march towards the Divine :::
In proportion as he can thus master and enlighten his lower self, he is man and no longer an animal. When he can begin to replace desire altogether by a still greater enlightened thought and sight and will in touch with the Infinite, consciously subject to a diviner will than his own, linked to a more universal and transcendent knowledge, he has commenced the ascent towards tile superman; he is on his upward march towards the Divine.
It is, then, in the highest mind of thought and light and will or it is in the inner heart of deepest feeling and emotion that we must first centre our consciousness, -- in either of them or, if we are capable, in both together, -- and use that as our leverage to lift the nature wholly towards the Divine. The concentration of an enlightened thought, will and heart turned in unison towards one vast goal of our knowledge, one luminous and infinite source of our action, one imperishable object of our emotion is the starting-point of the Yoga. And the object of our seeking must be the very fount of the Light which is growing in us, the very origin of the Force which we are calling to move our members. Our one objective must be the Divine himself to whom, knowingly or unknowingly, something always aspires in our secret nature. There must be a large, many-sided yet single concentration of the thought on the idea, the perception, the vision, the awakening touch, the soul's realisation of the one Divine. There must be a flaming concentration of the heart on the All and Eternal and, when once we have found him, a deep plunging and immersion in the possession and ecstasy of the All-Beautiful. There must be a strong and immovable concentration of the will on the attainment and fulfilment of all that the Divine is and a free and plastic opening of it to all that he intends to manifest in us. This is the triple way of the Yoga.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Self-Consecration, 80-81,#KEYS
289:I know perfectly well that pain and suffering and struggle and excesses of despair are natural - though not inevitable - on the way, - not because they are helps, but because they are imposed on us by the darkness of this human nature out of which we have to struggle into the Light. . . .
The dark path is there and there are many who make like the Christians a gospel of spiritual suffering; many hold it to be the unavoidable price of victory. It may be so under certain circumstances, as it has been in so many lives at least at the beginning, or one may choose to make it so. But then the price has to be paid with resignation, fortitude or a tenacious resilience. I admit that if borne in that way the attacks of the Dark Forces or the ordeals they impose have a meaning. After each victory gained over them, there is then a sensible advance; often they seem to show us the difficulties in ourselves which we have to overcome and to say, "Here you must conquer us and here."
But all the same it is a too dark and difficult way which nobody should follow on whom the necessity does not lie.
In any case one thing can never help and that is to despond always and say, "I am unfit; I am not meant for the Yoga." And worse still are these perilous mental formations such as you are always accepting that you must fare like X (one whose difficulty of exaggerated ambition was quite different from yours) and that you have only six years etc. These are clear formations of the Dark Forces seeking not only to sterilise your aspiration but to lead you away and so prevent your sharing in the fruit of the victory hereafter. I do not know what Krishnaprem has said but his injunction, if you have rightly understood it, is one that cannot stand as valid, since so many have done Yoga relying on tapasya or anything else but not confident of any Divine Grace. It is not that, but the soul's demand for a higher Truth or a higher life that is indispensable. Where that is, the Divine Grace whether believed in or not, will intervene. If you believe, that hastens and facilitates things; if you cannot yet believe, still the soul's aspiration will justify itself with whatever difficulty and struggle. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - IV,#KEYS
290:The guiding law of spiritual experience can only come by an opening of human consciousness to the Divine Consciousness; there must be the power to receive in us the working and command and dynamic presence of the Divine Shakti and surrender ourselves to her control; it is that surrender and that control which bring the guidance. But the surrender is not sure, there is no absolute certitude of the guidance so long as we are besieged by mind formations and life impulses and instigations of ego which may easily betray us into the hands of a false experience. This danger can only be countered by the opening of a now nine-tenths concealed inmost soul or psychic being that is already there but not commonly active within us. That is the inner light we must liberate; for the light of this inmost soul is our one sure illumination so long as we walk still amidst the siege of the Ignorance and the Truth-consciousness has not taken up the entire control of our Godward endeavour. The working of the Divine Force in us under the conditions of the transition and the light of the psychic being turning us always towards a conscious and seeing obedience to that higher impulsion and away from the demands and instigations of the Forces of the Ignorance, these between them create an ever progressive inner law of our action which continues till the spiritual and supramental can be established in our nature. In the transition there may well be a period in which we take up all life and action and offer them to the Divine for purification, change and deliverance of the truth within them, another period in which we draw back and build a spiritual wall around us admitting through its gates only such activities as consent to undergo the law of the spiritual transformation, a third in which a free and all-embracing action, but with new forms fit for the utter truth of the Spirit, can again be made possible. These things, however, will be decided by no mental rule but in the light of the soul within us and by the ordaining force and progressive guidance of the Divine Power that secretly or overtly first impels, then begins clearly to control and order and finally takes up the whole burden of the Yoga. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 1, 138, #KEYS
291:So then let the Adept set this sigil upon all the Words he hath writ in the book of the Works of his Will. And let him then end all, saying: Such are the Words!2 For by this he maketh proclamation before all them that be about his Circle that these Words are true and puissant, binding what he would bind, and loosing what he would loose. Let the Adept perform this ritual right, perfect in every part thereof, once daily for one moon, then twice, at dawn and dusk, for two moons; next thrice, noon added, for three moons; afterwards, midnight making up his course, for four moons four times every day. Then let the Eleventh Moon be consecrated wholly to this Work; let him be instant in constant ardour, dismissing all but his sheer needs to eat and sleep.3 For know that the true Formula4 whose virtue sufficed the Beast in this Attainment, was thus:
INVOKE OFTEN
So may all men come at last to the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel: thus sayeth The Beast, and prayeth his own Angel that this Book be as a burning Lamp, and as a living Spring, for Light and Life to them that read therein.
1. There is an alternative spelling, TzBA-F, where the Root, "an Host," has the value of 93. The Practicus should revise this Ritual throughout in the Light of his personal researches in the Qabalah, and make it his own peculiar property. The spelling here suggested implies that he who utters the Word affirms his allegiance to the symbols 93 and 6; that he is a warrior in the army of Will, and of the Sun. 93 is also the number of AIWAZ and 6 of The Beast.
2. The consonants of LOGOS, "Word," add (Hebrew values) to 93 [reading the Sigma as Samekh = 60; reading it as Shin = 300 gives 333], and ΕΠΗ, "Words" (whence "Epic") has also that value; ΕΙ∆Ε ΤΑ ΕΠΗ might be the phrase here intended; its number is 418. This would then assert the accomplishment of the Great Work; this is the natural conclusion of the Ritual. Cf. CCXX, III, 75.
3. These needs are modified during the process of Initiation both as to quantity and quality. One should not become anxious about one's phyiscal or mental health on à priori grounds, but pay attention only to indubitable symptoms of distress should such arise. ~ Aleister Crowley, Liber Samekh,#KEYS
292:This is the real sense and drive of what we see as evolution: the multiplication and variation of forms is only the means of its process. Each gradation contains the possibility and the certainty of the grades beyond it: the emergence of more and more developed forms and powers points to more perfected forms and greater powers beyond them, and each emergence of consciousness and the conscious beings proper to it enables the rise to a greater consciousness beyond and the greater order of beings up to the ultimate godheads of which Nature is striving and is destined to show herself capable. Matter developed its organised forms until it became capable of embodying living organisms; then life rose from the subconscience of the plant into conscious animal formations and through them to the thinking life of man. Mind founded in life developed intellect, developed its types of knowledge and ignorance, truth and error till it reached the spiritual perception and illumination and now can see as in a glass dimly the possibility of supermind and a truthconscious existence. In this inevitable ascent the mind of Light is a gradation, an inevitable stage. As an evolving principle it will mark a stage in the human ascent and evolve a new type of human being; this development must carry in it an ascending gradation of its own powers and types of an ascending humanity which will embody more and more the turn towards spirituality, capacity for Light, a climb towards a divinised manhood and the divine life.
In the birth of the mind of Light and its ascension into its own recognisable self and its true status and right province there must be, in the very nature of things as they are and very nature of the evolutionary process as it is at present, two stages. In the first, we can see the mind of Light gathering itself out of the Ignorance, assembling its constituent elements, building up its shapes and types, however imperfect at first, and pushing them towards perfection till it can cross the border of the Ignorance and appear in the Light, in its own Light. In the second stage we can see it developing itself in that greater natural light, taking its higher shapes and forms till it joins the supermind and lives as its subordinate portion or its delegate.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, Mind of Light, 587,#KEYS
293:the three stages of the ascent :::
There are three stages of the ascent, -at the bottom the bodily life enslaved to the pressure of necessity and desire, in the middle the mental, the higher emotional and psychic rule that feels after greater interests, aspirations, experiences, ideas, and at the summits first a deeper psychic and spiritual state and then a supramental eternal consciousness in which all our aspirations and seekings discover their own intimate significance.In the bodily life first desire and need and then the practical good of the individual and the society are the governing consideration, the dominant force. In the mental life ideas and ideals rule, ideas that are half-lights wearing the garb of Truth, ideals formed by the mind as a result of a growing but still imperfect intuition and experience. Whenever the mental life prevails and the bodily diminishes its brute insistence, man the mental being feels pushed by the urge of mental Nature to mould in the sense of the idea or the ideal the life of the individual, and in the end even the vaguer more complex life of the society is forced to undergo this subtle process.In the spiritual life, or when a higher power than Mind has manifested and taken possession of the nature, these limited motive-forces recede, dwindle, tend to disappear. The spiritual or supramental Self, the Divine Being, the supreme and immanent Reality, must be alone the Lord within us and shape freely our final development according to the highest, widest, most integral expression possible of the law of our nature. In the end that nature acts in the perfect Truth and its spontaneous freedom; for it obeys only the luminous power of the Eternal. The individual has nothing further to gain, no desire to fulfil; he has become a portion of the impersonality or the universal personality of the Eternal. No other object than the manifestation and play of the Divine Spirit in life and the maintenance and conduct of the world in its march towards the divine goal can move him to action. Mental ideas, opinions, constructions are his no more; for his mind has fallen into silence, it is only a channel for the Light and Truth of the divine knowledge. Ideals are too narrow for the vastness of his spirit; it is the ocean of the Infinite that flows through him and moves him for ever.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Supreme Will,#KEYS
294:Who could have thought that this tanned young man with gentle, dreamy eyes, long wavy hair parted in the middle and falling to the neck, clad in a common coarse Ahmedabad dhoti, a close-fitting Indian jacket, and old-fashioned slippers with upturned toes, and whose face was slightly marked with smallpox, was no other than Mister Aurobindo Ghose, living treasure of French, Latin and Greek?" Actually, Sri Aurobindo was not yet through with books; the Western momentum was still there; he devoured books ordered from Bombay and Calcutta by the case. "Aurobindo would sit at his desk," his Bengali teacher continues, "and read by the light of an oil lamp till one in the morning, oblivious of the intolerable mosquito bites. I would see him seated there in the same posture for hours on end, his eyes fixed on his book, like a yogi lost in the contemplation of the Divine, unaware of all that went on around him. Even if the house had caught fire, it would not have broken this concentration." He read English, Russian, German, and French novels, but also, in ever larger numbers, the sacred books of India, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, the Ramayana, although he had never been in a temple except as an observer. "Once, having returned from the College," one of his friends recalls, "Sri Aurobindo sat down, picked up a book at random and started to read, while Z and some friends began a noisy game of chess. After half an hour, he put the book down and took a cup of tea. We had already seen him do this many times and were waiting eagerly for a chance to verify whether he read the books from cover to cover or only scanned a few pages here and there. Soon the test began. Z opened the book, read a line aloud and asked Sri Aurobindo to recite what followed. Sri Aurobindo concentrated for a moment, and then repeated the entire page without a single mistake. If he could read a hundred pages in half an hour, no wonder he could go through a case of books in such an incredibly short time." But Sri Aurobindo did not stop at the translations of the sacred texts; he began to study Sanskrit, which, typically, he learned by himself. When a subject was known to be difficult or impossible, he would refuse to take anyone's word for it, whether he were a grammarian, pandit, or clergyman, and would insist upon trying it himself. The method seemed to have some merit, for not only did he learn Sanskrit, but a few years later he discovered the lost meaning of the Veda. ~ Satprem, Sri Aurobindo Or The Adventure of Consciousness, #KEYS
295:Thus the eternal paradox and eternal truth of a divine life in an animal body, an immortal aspiration or reality inhabiting a mortal tenement, a single and universal consciousness representing itself in limited minds and divided egos, a transcendent, indefinable, timeless and spaceless Being who alone renders time and space and cosmos possible, and in all these the higher truth realisable by the lower term, justify themselves to the deliberate reason as well as to the persistent instinct or intuition of mankind. Attempts are sometimes made to have done finally with questionings which have so often been declared insoluble by logical thought and to persuade men to limit their mental activities to the practical and immediate problems of their material existence in the universe; but such evasions are never permanent in their effect. Mankind returns from them with a more vehement impulse of inquiry or a more violent hunger for an immediate solution. By that hunger mysticism profits and new religions arise to replace the old that have been destroyed or stripped of significance by a scepticism which itself could not satisfy because, although its business was inquiry, it was unwilling sufficiently to inquire. The attempt to deny or stifle a truth because it is yet obscure in its outward workings and too often represented by obscurantist superstition or a crude faith, is itself a kind of obscurantism. The will to escape from a cosmic necessity because it is arduous, difficult to justify by immediate tangible results, slow in regulating its operations, must turn out eventually to have been no acceptance of the truth of Nature but a revolt against the secret, mightier will of the great Mother. It is better and more rational to accept what she will not allow us as a race to reject and lift it from the sphere of blind instinct, obscure intuition and random aspiration into the light of reason and an instructed and consciously self-guiding will. And if there is any higher light of illumined intuition or self-revealing truth which is now in man either obstructed and inoperative or works with intermittent glancings as if from behind a veil or with occasional displays as of the northern lights in our material skies, then there also we need not fear to aspire. For it is likely that such is the next higher state of consciousness of which Mind is only a form and veil, and through the splendours of that light may lie the path of our progressive self-enlargement into whatever highest state is humanity's ultimate resting-place. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Human Aspiration, #KEYS
296:
When one is bored, Mother, does that mean one does not progress?
At that time, yes, certainly without a doubt; not only does one not progress, but one misses an opportunity for progressing. There was a concurrence of circumstances which seemed to you dull, boring, stupid and you were in their midst; well, if you get bored, it means that you yourself are as boring as the circumstances! And that is a clear proof that you are simply not in a state of progress. There is nothing more contrary to the very reason of existence than this passing wave of boredom. If you make a little effort within yourself at that time, if you tell yourself: "Wait a bit, what is it that I should learn? What does all that bring to me so that I may learn something? What progress should I make in overcoming myself? What is the weakness that I must overcome? What is the inertia that I must conquer?" If you say that to yourself, you will see the next minute you are no longer bored. You will immediately get interested and you will make progress! This is a commonplace of consciousness.
And then, you know, most people when they get bored, instead of trying to rise a step higher, descend a step lower, they become still worse than what they were, and they do all the stupid things that others do, go in for all the vulgarities, all the meannesses, everything, in order to amuse themselves. They get intoxicated, take poison, ruin their health, ruin their brain, they utter crudities. They do all that because they are bored. Well, if instead of going down, one had risen up, one would have profited by the circumstances. Instead of profiting, one falls a little lower yet than where one was. When people get a big blow in their life, some misfortune (what men call "misfortune", there are people who do have misfortunes), the first thing they try to do is to forget it - as though one did not forget quickly enough! And to forget, they do anything whatsoever. When there is something painful, they want to distract themselves - what they call distraction, that is, doing stupid things, that is to say, going down in their consciousness, going down a little instead of rising up.... Has something extremely painful happened to you, something very grievous? Do not become stupefied, do not seek forgetfulness, do not go down into the inconscience; you must go to the end and find the light that is behind, the truth, the force and the joy; and for that you must be strong and refuse to slide down. But that we shall see a little later, my children, when you will be a little older. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953, 50,#KEYS
297:To Know How To Suffer
IF AT any time a deep sorrow, a searing doubt or an intense pain overwhelms you and drives you to despair, there is an infallible way to regain calm and peace.
In the depths of our being there shines a light whose brilliance is equalled only by its purity; a light, a living and conscious portion of a universal godhead who animates and nourishes and illumines Matter, a powerful and unfailing guide for those who are willing to heed his law, a helper full of solace and loving forbearance towards all who aspire to see and hear and obey him. No sincere and lasting aspiration towards him can be in vain; no strong and respectful trust can be disappointed, no expectation ever deceived.
My heart has suffered and lamented, almost breaking beneath a sorrow too heavy, almost sinking beneath a pain too strong.... But I have called to thee, O divine comforter, I have prayed ardently to thee, and the splendour of thy dazzling light has appeared to me and revived me.
As the rays of thy glory penetrated and illumined all my being, I clearly perceived the path to follow, the use that can be made of suffering; I understood that the sorrow that held me in its grip was but a pale reflection of the sorrow of the earth, of this abysm of suffering and anguish.
Only those who have suffered can understand the suffering of others; understand it, commune with it and relieve it. And I understood, O divine comforter, sublime Holocaust, that in order to sustain us in all our troubles, to soothe all our pangs, thou must have known and felt all the sufferings of earth and man, all without exception.
How is it that among those who claim to be thy worshippers, some regard thee as a cruel torturer, as an inexorable judge witnessing the torments that are tolerated by thee or even created by thy own will?
No, I now perceive that these sufferings come from the very imperfection of Matter which, in its disorder and crudeness, is unfit to manifest thee; and thou art the very first to suffer from it, to bewail it, thou art the first to toil and strive in thy ardent desire to change disorder into order, suffering into happiness, discord into harmony.
Suffering is not something inevitable or even desirable, but when it comes to us, how helpful it can be!
Each time we feel that our heart is breaking, a deeper door opens within us, revealing new horizons, ever richer in hidden treasures, whose golden influx brings once more a new and intenser life to the organism on the brink of destruction.
And when, by these successive descents, we reach the veil that reveals thee as it is lifted, O Lord, who can describe the intensity of Life that penetrates the whole being, the radiance of the Light that floods it, the sublimity of the Love that transforms it for ever! ~ The Mother, Words Of Long Ago, To Know How To Suffer, 1910,#KEYS
298:What do we understand by the term "chance"? Chance can only be the opposite of order and harmony. There is only one true harmony and that is the supramental - the reign of Truth, the expression of the Divine Law. In the Supermind, therefore, chance has no place. But in the lower Nature the supreme Truth is obscured: hence there is an absence of that divine unity of purpose and action which alone can constitute order. Lacking this unity, the domain of lower Nature is governed by what we may call chance - that is to say, it is a field in which various conflicting forces intermix, having no single definite aim. Whatever arises out of such a rushing together of forces is a result of confusion, dissonance and falsehood - a product of chance. Chance is not merely a conception to cover our ignorance of the causes at work; it is a description of the uncertain mele ́e of the lower Nature which lacks the calm one-pointedness of the divine Truth. The world has forgotten its divine origin and become an arena of egoistic energies; but it is still possible for it to open to the Truth, call it down by its aspiration and bring about a change in the whirl of chance. What men regard as a mechanical sequence of events, owing to their own mental associations, experiences and generalisations, is really manipulated by subtle agencies each of which tries to get its own will done. The world has got so subjected to these undivine agencies that the victory of the Truth cannot be won except by fighting for it. It has no right to it: it has to gain it by disowning the falsehood and the perversion, an important part of which is the facile notion that, since all things owe their final origin to the Divine, all their immediate activities also proceed directly from it. The fact is that here in the lower Nature the Divine is veiled by a cosmic Ignorance and what takes place does not proceed directly from the divine knowledge. That everything is equally the will of God is a very convenient suggestion of the hostile influences which would have the creation stick as tightly as possible to the disorder and ugliness to which it has been reduced. So what is to be done, you ask? Well, call down the Light, open yourselves to the power of Transformation. Innumerable times the divine peace has been given to you and as often you have lost it - because something in you refuses to surrender its petty egoistic routine. If you are not always vigilant, your nature will return to its old unregenerate habits even after it has been filled with the descending Truth. It is the struggle between the old and the new that forms the crux of the Yoga; but if you are bent on being faithful to the supreme Law and Order revealed to you, the parts of your being belonging to the domain of chance will, however slowly, be converted and divinised. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931, #KEYS
299:The madman.-
Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place. and cried incessantly: "I seek God! I seek God!" -As many of those who did not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter. Has he got lost? asked one. Did he lose his way like a child? asked another. Or is he hiding? Is he afraid of us? Has he gone on a voyage? emigrated? -Thus they yelled and laughed.
The madman jumped into their midst and pierced them with his eyes. "Whither is God?" he cried; "I will tell you. We have killed him-you and I. All of us are his murderers. But how did we do this? How could we drink up the sea? Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon? What were we doing when we unchained this earth from its sun? Whither is it moving now? Whither are we moving? Away from all suns? Are we not plunging continually? Backward, sideward. forward. in all directions? be there still any up or down? Are we not straying as through an infinite nothing? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Has it not become colder? Is not night continually closing in on us? Do we not need to light lanterns in the morning? Do we hear nothing as yet of the noise of the gravediggers who are burying God? Do we smell nothing as yet of the divine decomposition? Gods, too. decompose. God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.
"How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it? There has never been a greater deed; and whoever is born after us-for the sake of this deed he will belong to a higher history than all history hitherto."
Here the madman fell silent and looked again at his listeners; and they, too, were silent and stared at him in astonishment. At last he threw his lantern on the ground, and it broke into pieces and went out. "I have come too early," he said then: "my time is not yet. This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light of the stars requires time; deeds, though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars-and yet they have done it themselves... It has been related further that on the same day the madman forced his way into several churches and there struck up his reqttiem aeternam deo. Led out and called to account, he is said always to have replied nothing but: "What after all are these churches now if they are not the tombs and sepulchers of God? ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, trans. Kaufmann,#KEYS
300:What do you mean by these words: 'When you are in difficulty, widen yourself'?
I am speaking, of course, of difficulties on the path of yoga, incomprehension, limitations, things like obstacles, which prevent you from advancing. And when I say "widen yourself", I mean widen your consciousness.
Difficulties always arise from the ego, that is, from your more or less egoistic personal reaction to circumstances, events and people around you, to the conditions of your life. They also come from that feeling of being closed up in a sort of shell, which prevents your consciousness from uniting with higher and vaster realities.
One may very well think that one wants to be vast, wants to be universal, that all is the expression of the Divine, that one must have no egoism - one may think all sorts of things - but that is not necessarily a cure, for very often one knows what one ought to do, and yet one doesn't do it, for one reason or another.
But if, when you have to face anguish, suffering, revolt, pain or a feeling of helplessness - whatever it may be, all the things that come to you on the path and which precisely are your difficulties-if physically, that is to say, in your body- consciousness, you can have the feeling of widening yourself, one could say of unfolding yourself - you feel as it were all folded up, one fold on another like a piece of cloth which is folded and refolded and folded again - so if you have this feeling that what is holding and strangling you and making you suffer or paralysing your movement, is like a too closely, too tightly folded piece of cloth or like a parcel that is too well-tied, too well-packed, and that slowly, gradually, you undo all the folds and stretch yourself out exactly as one unfolds a piece of cloth or a sheet of paper and spreads it out flat, and you lie flat and make yourself very wide, as wide as possible, spreading yourself out as far as you can, opening yourself and stretching out in an attitude of complete passivity with what I could call "the face to the light": not curling back upon your difficulty, doubling up on it, shutting it in, so to say, into yourself, but, on the contrary, unfurling yourself as much as you can, as perfectly as you can, putting the difficulty before the Light - the Light which comes from above - if you do that in all the domains, and even if mentally you don't succeed in doing it - for it is sometimes difficult - if you can imagine yourself doing this physically, almost materially, well, when you have finished unfolding yourself and stretching yourself out, you will find that more than three-quarters of the difficulty is gone. And then just a little work of receptivity to the Light and the last quarter will disappear.
This is much easier than struggling against a difficulty with one's thought, for if you begin to discuss with yourself, you will find that there are arguments for and against which are so convincing that it is quite impossible to get out of it without a higher light. Here, you do not struggle against the difficulty, you do not try to convince yourself; ah! you simply stretch out in the Light as though you lay stretched on the sands in the sun. And you let the Light do its work. That's all. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers, Volume-8, page no.286-288),#KEYS
301:At it's narrowest (although this is a common and perhaps the official position; need to find ref in What is Enlightenment) "integral", "turquois" (Spiral Dynamics), and "second tier" (ditto) are all synonms, and in turn are equivalent to Wilber IV / AQAL/Wilber V "Post-metaphysical" AQAL. This is the position that "Integral = Ken Wilber". It constitutes a new philosophical school or meme-set, in the tradition of charismatic spiritual teachers of all ages, in which an articulate, brilliant, and popular figure would arise, and gather a following around him- or her-self. After the teacher passes on, their teaching remains through books and organisations dedicated to perpetuating that teaching; although without the brilliant light of the Founder, things generally become pretty stultifying, and there is often little or no original development. Even so, the books themselves continue to inspire, and many people benefit greatly from these tecahings, and can contact the original Light of the founders to be inspired by them on the subtle planes. Some late 19th, 20th, and early 21st century examples of such teachers, known and less well-known, are Blavatsky, Theon, Steiner, Aurobindo, Gurdjieff, Crowley, Alice Bailey, Carl Jung, Ann Ree Colton, and now Ken Wilber. Also, many popular gurus belong in this category. It could plausibly be suggested that the founders of the great world religions started out no different, but their teaching really caught on n a big way.
...
At its broadest then, the Integral Community includes not only Wilber but those he cites as his influences and hold universal and evolutionary views or teachings, as well as those who, while influenced by him also differ somewhat, and even those like Arthur M Young that Wilber has apparently never heard of. Nevertheless, all share a common, evolutionary, "theory of everything" position, and, whilst they may differ on many details and even on many major points, taken together they could be considered a wave front for a new paradigm, a memetic revolution. I use the term Daimon of the Integral Movement to refer to the spiritual being or personality of light that is behind and working through this broader movement.
Now, this doesn't mean that this daimon is necessarily a negative entity. I see a lot of promise, a lot of potential, in the Integral Approach. From what I feel at the moment, the Integral Deva is a force and power of good.
But, as with any new spiritual or evolutionary development, there is duality, in that there are forces that hinder and oppose and distort, as well as forces that help and aid in the evolution and ultimate divinisation of the Earth and the cosmos. Thus even where a guru does give in the dark side (as very often happens with many gurus today) there still remains an element of Mixed Light that remains (one finds this ambiguity with Sai Baba, with Da Free John, and with Rajneesh); and we find this same ambiguity with the Integral Community regarding what seems to me a certain offputting devotional attitude towards Wilber himself. The light will find its way, regardless. However, an Intregral Movement that is caught up in worship of and obedience to an authority figure, will not be able to achieve what a movement unfettered by such shackles could. ~ M Alan Kazlev, Kheper, Wilber, Integral,#KEYS
302:(Novum Organum by Francis Bacon.)
34. "Four species of idols beset the human mind, to which (for distinction's sake) we have assigned names, calling the first Idols of the Tribe, the second Idols of the Den, the third Idols of the Market, the fourth Idols of the Theatre.
40. "The information of notions and axioms on the foundation of true induction is the only fitting remedy by which we can ward off and expel these idols. It is, however, of great service to point them out; for the doctrine of idols bears the same relation to the interpretation of nature as that of the confutation of sophisms does to common logic.
41. "The idols of the tribe are inherent in human nature and the very tribe or race of man; for man's sense is falsely asserted to be the standard of things; on the contrary, all the perceptions both of the senses and the mind bear reference to man and not to the Universe, and the human mind resembles these uneven mirrors which impart their own properties to different objects, from which rays are emitted and distort and disfigure them.
42. "The idols of the den are those of each individual; for everybody (in addition to the errors common to the race of man) has his own individual den or cavern, which intercepts and corrupts the light of nature, either from his own peculiar and singular disposition, or from his education and intercourse with others, or from his reading, and the authority acquired by those whom he reverences and admires, or from the different impressions produced on the mind, as it happens to be preoccupied and predisposed, or equable and tranquil, and the like; so that the spirit of man (according to its several dispositions), is variable, confused, and, as it were, actuated by chance; and Heraclitus said well that men search for knowledge in lesser worlds, and not in the greater or common world.
43. "There are also idols formed by the reciprocal intercourse and society of man with man, which we call idols of the market, from the commerce and association of men with each other; for men converse by means of language, but words are formed at the will of the generality, and there arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind. Nor can the definitions and explanations with which learned men are wont to guard and protect themselves in some instances afford a complete remedy-words still manifestly force the understanding, throw everything into confusion, and lead mankind into vain and innumerable controversies and fallacies.
44. "Lastly, there are idols which have crept into men's minds from the various dogmas of peculiar systems of philosophy, and also from the perverted rules of demonstration, and these we denominate idols of the theatre: for we regard all the systems of philosophy hitherto received or imagined, as so many plays brought out and performed, creating fictitious and theatrical worlds. Nor do we speak only of the present systems, or of the philosophy and sects of the ancients, since numerous other plays of a similar nature can be still composed and made to agree with each other, the causes of the most opposite errors being generally the same. Nor, again, do we allude merely to general systems, but also to many elements and axioms of sciences which have become inveterate by tradition, implicit credence, and neglect. ~ Alfred Korzybski, Manhood of Humanity,#KEYS
303:There is no invariable rule of such suffering. It is not the soul that suffers; the Self is calm and equal to all things and the only sorrow of the psychic being is the sorrow of the resistance of Nature to the Divine Will or the resistance of things and people to the call of the True, the Good and the Beautiful. What is affected by suffering is the vital nature and the body. When the soul draws towards the Divine, there may be a resistance in the mind and the common form of that is denial and doubt - which may create mental and vital suffering. There may again be a resistance in the vital nature whose principal character is desire and the attachment to the objects of desire, and if in this field there is conflict between the soul and the vital nature, between the Divine Attraction and the pull of the Ignorance, then obviously there may be much suffering of the mind and vital parts. The physical consciousness also may offer a resistance which is usually that of a fundamental inertia, an obscurity in the very stuff of the physical, an incomprehension, an inability to respond to the higher consciousness, a habit of helplessly responding to the lower mechanically, even when it does not want to do so; both vital and physical suffering may be the consequence. There is moreover the resistance of the Universal Nature which does not want the being to escape from the Ignorance into the Light. This may take the form of a vehement insistence on the continuation of the old movements, waves of them thrown on the mind and vital and body so that old ideas, impulses, desires, feelings, responses continue even after they are thrown out and rejected, and can return like an invading army from outside, until the whole nature, given to the Divine, refuses to admit them. This is the subjective form of the universal resistance, but it may also take an objective form - opposition, calumny, attacks, persecution, misfortunes of many kinds, adverse conditions and circumstances, pain, illness, assaults from men or forces. There too the possibility of suffering is evident. There are two ways to meet all that - first that of the Self, calm, equality, a spirit, a will, a mind, a vital, a physical consciousness that remain resolutely turned towards the Divine and unshaken by all suggestion of doubt, desire, attachment, depression, sorrow, pain, inertia. This is possible when the inner being awakens, when one becomes conscious of the Self, of the inner mind, the inner vital, the inner physical, for that can more easily attune itself to the divine Will, and then there is a division in the being as if there were two beings, one within, calm, strong, equal, unperturbed, a channel of the Divine Consciousness and Force, one without, still encroached on by the lower Nature; but then the disturbances of the latter become something superficial which are no more than an outer ripple, - until these under the inner pressure fade and sink away and the outer being too remains calm, concentrated, unattackable. There is also the way of the psychic, - when the psychic being comes out in its inherent power, its consecration, adoration, love of the Divine, self-giving, surrender and imposes these on the mind, vital and physical consciousness and compels them to turn all their movements Godward. If the psychic is strong and master...
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - IV, Resistances, Sufferings and Falls, 669,#KEYS
304:
Sweet Mother, how can one feel the divine Presence constantly?
Why not?
But how can one do it?
But I am asking why one should not feel it. Instead of asking the question how to feel it, I ask the question: "What do you do that you don't feel it?" There is no reason not to feel the divine Presence. Once you have felt it, even once, you should be capable of feeling it always, for it is there. It is a fact. It is only our ignorance which makes us unaware of it. But if we become conscious, why should we not always be conscious? Why forget something one has learnt? When one has had the experience, why forget it? It is simply a bad habit, that's all.
You see, there is something which is a fact, that's to say, it is. But we are unaware of it and do not know it. But after we become conscious and know it, why should we still forget it? Does it make sense? It's quite simply because we are not convinced that once one has met the Divine one can't forget Him any more. We are, on the contrary, full of stupid ideas which say, "Oh! Yes, it's very well once like that, but the rest of the time it will be as usual." So there is no reason why it may not begin again.
But if we know that... we did not know something, we were ignorant, then the moment we have the knowledge... I am sincerely asking how one can manage to forget. One might not know something, that is a fact; there are countless things one doesn't know. But the moment one knows them, the minute one has the experience, how can one manage to forget? Within yourself you have the divine Presence, you know nothing about it - for all kinds of reasons, but still the chief reason is that you are in a state of ignorance. Yet suddenly, by a clicking of circumstances, you become conscious of this divine Presence, that is, you are before a fact - it is not imagination, it is a fact, it's something which exists. Then how do you manage to forget it once you have known it?
...
It is because something in us, through cowardice or defeatism, accepts this. If one did not accept it, it wouldn't happen.
Even when everything seems to be suddenly darkened, the flame and the Light are always there. And if one doesn't forget them, one has only to put in front of them the part which is dark; there will perhaps be a battle, there will perhaps be a little difficulty, but it will be something quite transitory; never will you lose your footing. That is why it is said - and it is something true - that to sin through ignorance may have fatal consequences, because when one makes mistakes, well, these mistakes have results, that's obvious, and usually external and material results; but that's no great harm, I have already told you this several times. But when one knows what is true, when one has seen and had the experience of the Truth, to accept the sin again, that is, fall back again into ignorance and obscurity - this is indeed an infinitely more serious mistake. It begins to belong to the domain of ill-will. In any case, it is a sign of slackness and weakness. It means that the will is weak.
So your question is put the other way round. Instead of asking yourself how to keep it, you must ask yourself: how does one not keep it? Not having it, is a state which everybody is in before the moment of knowing; not knowing - one is in that state before knowing. But once one knows one cannot forget. And if one forgets, it means that there is something which consents to the forgetting, it means there is an assent somewhere; otherwise one would not forget.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1955, 403,405,406,#KEYS
305:The supreme Form is then made visible. It is that of the infinite Godhead whose faces are everywhere and in whom are all the wonders of existence, who multiplies unendingly all the many marvellous revelations of his being, a world-wide Divinity seeing with innumerable eyes, speaking from innumerable mouths, armed for battle with numberless divine uplifted weapons, glorious with divine ornaments of beauty, robed in heavenly raiment of deity, lovely with garlands of divine flowers, fragrant with divine perfumes. Such is the light of this body of God as if a thousand suns had risen at once in heaven. The whole world multitudinously divided and yet unified is visible in the body of the God of Gods. Arjuna sees him, God magnificent and beautiful and terrible, the Lord of souls who has manifested in the glory and greatness of his spirit this wild and monstrous and orderly and wonderful and sweet and terrible world, and overcome with marvel and joy and fear he bows down and adores with words of awe and with clasped hands the tremendous vision. "I see" he cries "all the gods in thy body, O God, and different companies of beings, Brahma the creating lord seated in the Lotus, and the Rishis and the race of the divine Serpents. I see numberless arms and bellies and eyes and faces, I see thy infinite forms on every side, but I see not thy end nor thy middle nor thy beginning, O Lord of the universe, O Form universal. I see thee crowned and with thy mace and thy discus, hard to discern because thou art a luminous mass of energy on all sides of me, an encompassing blaze, a sun-bright fire-bright Immeasurable. Thou art the supreme Immutable whom we have to know, thou art the high foundation and abode of the universe, thou art the imperishable guardian of the eternal laws, thou art the sempiternal soul of existence."
But in the greatness of this vision there is too the terrific image of the Destroyer. This Immeasurable without end or middle or beginning is he in whom all things begin and exist and end.
This Godhead who embraces the worlds with his numberless arms and destroys with his million hands, whose eyes are suns and moons, has a face of blazing fire and is ever burning up the whole universe with the flame of his energy. The form of him is fierce and marvellous and alone it fills all the regions and occupies the whole space between earth and heaven. The companies of the gods enter it, afraid, adoring; the Rishis and the Siddhas crying "May there be peace and weal" praise it with many praises; the eyes of Gods and Titans and Giants are fixed on it in amazement. It has enormous burning eyes; it has mouths that gape to devour, terrible with many tusks of destruction; it has faces like the fires of Death and Time. The kings and the captains and the heroes on both sides of the world-battle are hastening into its tusked and terrible jaws and some are seen with crushed and bleeding heads caught between its teeth of power; the nations are rushing to destruction with helpless speed into its mouths of flame like many rivers hurrying in their course towards the ocean or like moths that cast themselves on a kindled fire. With those burning mouths the Form of Dread is licking all the regions around; the whole world is full of his burning energies and baked in the fierceness of his lustres. The world and its nations are shaken and in anguish with the terror of destruction and Arjuna shares in the trouble and panic around him; troubled and in pain is the soul within him and he finds no peace or gladness. He cries to the dreadful Godhead, "Declare to me who thou art that wearest this form of fierceness. Salutation to thee, O thou great Godhead, turn thy heart to grace. I would know who thou art who wast from the beginning, for I know not the will of thy workings." ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays On The Gita, 2.10_-_The_Vision_of_the_World-Spirit_-_Time_the_Destroyer,#KEYS
306:The perfect supramental action will not follow any single principle or limited rule.It is not likely to satisfy the standard either of the individual egoist or of any organised group-mind. It will conform to the demand neither of the positive practical man of the world nor of the formal moralist nor of the patriot nor of the sentimental philanthropist nor of the idealising philosopher. It will proceed by a spontaneous outflowing from the summits in the totality of an illumined and uplifted being, will and knowledge and not by the selected, calculated and standardised action which is all that the intellectual reason or ethical will can achieve. Its sole aim will be the expression of the divine in us and the keeping together of the world and its progress towards the Manifestation that is to be. This even will not be so much an aim and purpose as a spontaneous law of the being and an intuitive determination of the action by the Light of the divine Truth and its automatic influence. It will proceed like the action of Nature from a total will and knowledge behind her, but a will and knowledge enlightened in a conscious supreme Nature and no longer obscure in this ignorant Prakriti. It will be an action not bound by the dualities but full and large in the spirit's impartial joy of existence. The happy and inspired movement of a divine Power and Wisdom guiding and impelling us will replace the perplexities and stumblings of the suffering and ignorant ego.
If by some miracle of divine intervention all mankind at once could be raised to this level, we should have something on earth like the Golden Age of the traditions, Satya Yuga, the Age of Truth or true existence. For the sign of the Satya Yuga is that the Law is spontaneous and conscious in each creature and does its own works in a perfect harmony and freedom. Unity and universality, not separative division, would be the foundation of the consciousness of the race; love would be absolute; equality would be consistent with hierarchy and perfect in difference; absolute justice would be secured by the spontaneous action of the being in harmony with the truth of things and the truth of himself and others and therefore sure of true and right result; right reason, no longer mental but supramental, would be satisfied not by the observation of artificial standards but by the free automatic perception of right relations and their inevitable execution in the act. The quarrel between the individual and society or disastrous struggle between one community and another could not exist: the cosmic consciousness imbedded in embodied beings would assure a harmonious diversity in oneness.
In the actual state of humanity, it is the individual who must climb to this height as a pioneer and precursor. His isolation will necessarily give a determination and a form to his outward activities that must be quite other than those of a consciously divine collective action. The inner state, the root of his acts, will be the same; but the acts themselves may well be very different from what they would be on an earth liberated from ignorance. Nevertheless his consciousness and the divine mechanism of his conduct, if such a word can be used of so free a thing, would be such as has been described, free from that subjection to vital impurity and desire and wrong impulse which we call sin, unbound by that rule of prescribed moral formulas which we call virtue, spontaneously sure and pure and perfect in a greater consciousness than the mind's, governed in all its steps by the light and truth of the Spirit. But if a collectivity or group could be formed of those who had reached the supramental perfection, there indeed some divine creation could take shape; a new earth could descend that would be a new heaven, a world of supramental light could be created here amidst the receding darkness of this terrestrial ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Standards of Conduct and Spiritual Freedom, 206,#KEYS
307:STAGE TWO: THE CHONYID
The Chonyid is the period of the appearance of the peaceful and wrathful deities-that is to say, the subtle realm, the Sambhogakaya. When the Clear Light of the causal realm is resisted and contracted against, then that Reality is transformed into the primordial seed forms of the peaceful deities (ishtadevas of the subtle sphere), and these in turn, if resisted and denied, are transformed into the wrathful deities.
The peaceful deities appear first: through seven successive substages, there appear various forms of the tathagatas, dakinis, and vidyadharas, all accompanied by the most dazzlingly brilliant colors and aweinspiring suprahuman sounds. One after another, the divine visions, lights, and subtle luminous sounds cascade through awareness. They are presented, given, to the individual openly, freely, fully, and completely: visions of God in almost painful intensity and brilliance.
How the individual handles these divine visions and sounds (nada) is of the utmost significance, because each divine scenario is accompanied by a much less intense vision, by a region of relative dullness and blunted illuminations. These concomitant dull and blunted visions represent the first glimmerings of the world of samsara, of the six realms of egoic grasping, of the dim world of duality and fragmentation and primitive forms of low-level unity.
According to the Thotrol. most individuals simply recoil in the face of these divine illuminations- they contract into less intense and more manageable forms of experience. Fleeing divine illumination, they glide towards the fragmented-and thus less intense-realm of duality and multiplicity. But it's not just that they recoil against divinity-it is that they are attracted to the lower realms, drawn to them, and find satisfaction in them. The Thotrol says they are actually "attracted to the impure lights." As we have put it, these lower realms are substitute gratifications. The individual thinks that they are just what he wants, these lower realms of denseness. But just because these realms are indeed dimmer and less intense, they eventually prove to be worlds without bliss, without illumination, shot through with pain and suffering. How ironic: as a substitute for God, individuals create and latch onto Hell, known as samsara, maya, dismay. In Christian theology it is said that the flames of Hell are God's love (Agape) denied.
Thus the message is repeated over and over again in the Chonyid stage: abide in the lights of the Five Wisdoms and subtle tathagatas, look not at the duller lights of samsara. of the six realms, of safe illusions and egoic dullness. As but one example:
Thereupon, because of the power of bad karma, the glorious blue light of the Wisdom of the Dharmadhatu will produce in thee fear and terror, and thou wilt wish to flee from it. Thou wilt begat a fondness for the dull white light of the devas [one of the lower realms].
At this stage, thou must not be awed by the divine blue light which will appear shining, dazzling, and glorious; and be not startled by it. That is the light of the Tathagata called the Light of the Wisdom of the Dharmadhatu.
Be not fond of the dull white light of the devas. Be not attached to it; be not weak. If thou be attached to it, thou wilt wander into the abodes of the devas and be drawn into the whirl of the Six Lokas.
The point is this: ''If thou are frightened by the pure radiances of Wisdom and attracted by the impure lights of the Six Lokas [lower realms], then thou wilt assume a body in any of the Six Lokas and suffer samsaric miseries; and thou wilt never be emancipated from the Ocean of Samsara, wherein thou wilt be whirled round and round and made to taste the sufferings thereof."
But here is what is happening: in effect, we are seeing the primal and original form of the Atman project in its negative and contracting aspects. In this second stage (the Chonyid), there is already some sort of boundary in awareness, there is already some sort of subject-object duality superimposed upon the original Wholeness and Oneness of the Chikhai Dharmakaya. So now there is boundary-and wherever there is boundary, there is the Atman project. ~ Ken Wilber, The Atman Project, 129,#KEYS
308:Although a devout student of the Bible, Paracelsus instinctively adopted the broad patterns of essential learning, as these had been clarified by Pythagoras of Samos and Plato of Athens. Being by nature a mystic as well as a scientist, he also revealed a deep regard for the Neoplatonic philosophy as expounded by Plotinus, Iamblichus, and Proclus. Neoplatonism is therefore an invaluable aid to the interpretation of the Paracelsian doctrine.
Paracelsus held that true knowledge is attained in two ways, or rather that the pursuit of knowledge is advanced by a two-fold method, the elements of which are completely interdependent. In our present terminology, we can say that these two parts of method are intuition and experience. To Paracelsus, these could never be divided from each other.
The purpose of intuition is to reveal certain basic ideas which must then be tested and proven by experience. Experience, in turn, not only justifies intuition, but contributes certain additional knowledge by which the impulse to further growth is strengthened and developed. Paracelsus regarded the separation of intuition and experience to be a disaster, leading inevitably to greater error and further disaster. Intuition without experience allows the mind to fall into an abyss of speculation without adequate censorship by practical means. Experience without intuition could never be fruitful because fruitfulness comes not merely from the doing of things, but from the overtones which stimulate creative thought. Further, experience is meaningless unless there is within man the power capable of evaluating happenings and occurrences. The absence of this evaluating factor allows the individual to pass through many kinds of experiences, either misinterpreting them or not inter preting them at all. So Paracelsus attempted to explain intuition and how man is able to apprehend that which is not obvious or apparent. Is it possible to prove beyond doubt that the human being is capable of an inward realization of truths or facts without the assistance of the so-called rational faculty?
According to Paracelsus, intuition was possible because of the existence in nature of a mysterious substance or essence-a universal life force. He gave this many names, but for our purposes, the simplest term will be appropriate. He compared it to light, further reasoning that there are two kinds of light: a visible radiance, which he called brightness, and an invisible radiance, which he called darkness. There is no essential difference between light and darkness. There is a dark light, which appears luminous to the soul but cannot be sensed by the body. There is a visible radiance which seems bright to the senses, but may appear dark to the soul. We must recognize that Paracelsus considered light as pertaining to the nature of being, the total existence from which all separate existences arise. Light not only contains the energy needed to support visible creatures, and the whole broad expanse of creation, but the invisible part of light supports the secret powers and functions of man, particularly intuition. Intuition, therefore, relates to the capacity of the individual to become attuned to the hidden side of life. By light, then, Paracelsus implies much more than the radiance that comes from the sun, a lantern, or a candle. To him, light is the perfect symbol, emblem, or figure of total well-being. Light is the cause of health. Invisible light, no less real if unseen, is the cause of wisdom. As the light of the body gives strength and energy, sustaining growth and development, so the light of the soul bestows understanding, the light of the mind makes wisdom possible, and the light of the spirit confers truth. Therefore, truth, wisdom, understanding, and health are all manifesta tions or revelations ot one virtue or power. What health is to the body, morality is to the emotions, virtue to the soul, wisdom to the mind, and reality to the spirit. This total content of living values is contained in every ray of visible light. This ray is only a manifestation upon one level or plane of the total mystery of life. Therefore, when we look at a thing, we either see its objective, physical form, or we apprehend its inner light Everything that lives, lives in light; everything that has an existence, radiates light. All things derive their life from light, and this light, in its root, is life itself. This, indeed, is the light that lighteth every man who cometh into the world. ~ Manly P Hall, Paracelsus,#KEYS
309:
What is the exact way of feeling that we belong to the Divine and that the Divine is acting in us?
You must not feel with your head (because you may think so, but that's something vague); you must feel with your sense-feeling. Naturally one begins by wanting it with the mind, because that is the first thing that understands. And then one has an aspiration here (pointing to the heart), with a flame which pushes you to realise it. But if you want it to be truly the thing, well, you must feel it.
You are doing something, suppose, for example, you are doing exercises, weight-lifting. Now suddenly without your knowing how it happened, suddenly you have the feeling that there is a force infinitely greater than you, greater, more powerful, a force that does the lifting for you. Your body becomes something almost non-existent and there is this Something that lifts. And then you will see; when that happens to you, you will no longer ask how it should be done, you will know. That does happen.
It depends upon people, depends upon what dominates in their being. Those who think have suddenly the feeling that it is no longer they who think, that there is something which knows much better, sees much more clearly, which is infinitely more luminous, more conscious in them, which organises the thoughts and words; and then they write. But if the experience is complete, it is even no longer they who write, it is that same Thing that takes hold of their hand and makes it write. Well, one knows at that moment that the little physical person is just a tiny insignificant tool trying to remain as quiet as possible in order not to disturb the experience.
Yes, at no cost must the experience be disturbed. If suddenly you say: "Oh, look, how strange it is!"...
How can we reach that state?
Aspire for it, want it. Try to be less and less selfish, but not in the sense of becoming nice to other people or forgetting yourself, not that: have less and less the feeling that you are a person, a separate entity, something existing in itself, isolated from the rest.
And then, above all, above all, it is that inner flame, that aspiration, that need for the light. It is a kind of - how to put it? - luminous enthusiasm that seizes you. It is an irresistible need to melt away, to give oneself, to exist only in the Divine.
At that moment you have the experience of your aspiration.
But that moment should be absolutely sincere and as integral as possible; and all this must occur not only in the head, not only here, but must take place everywhere, in all the cells of the body. The consciousness integrally must have this irresistible need.... The thing lasts for some time, then diminishes, gets extinguished. You cannot keep these things for very long. But then it so happens that a moment later or the next day or some time later, suddenly you have the opposite experience. Instead of feeling this ascent, and all that, this is no longer there and you have the feeling of the Descent, the Answer. And nothing but the Answer exists. Nothing but the divine thought, the divine will, the divine energy, the divine action exists any longer. And you too, you are no longer there.
That is to say, it is the answer to our aspiration. It may happen immediately afterwards - that is very rare but may happen. If you have both simultaneously, then the state is perfect; usually they alternate; they alternate more and more closely until the moment there is a total fusion. Then there is no more distinction. I heard a Sufi mystic, who was besides a great musician, an Indian, saying that for the Sufis there was a state higher than that of adoration and surrender to the Divine, than that of devotion, that this was not the last stage; the last stage of the progress is when there is no longer any distinction; you have no longer this kind of adoration or surrender or consecration; it is a very simple state in which one makes no distinction between the Divine and oneself. They know this. It is even written in their books. It is a commonly known condition in which everything becomes quite simple. There is no longer any difference. There is no longer that kind of ecstatic surrender to "Something" which is beyond you in every way, which you do not understand, which is merely the result of your aspiration, your devotion. There is no difference any longer. When the union is perfect, there is no longer any difference.
Is this the end of self-progress?
There is never any end to progress - never any end, you can never put a full stop there. ~ The Mother,#KEYS
310:A God's Labour
I have gathered my dreams in a silver air
Between the gold and the blue
And wrapped them softly and left them there,
My jewelled dreams of you.
I had hoped to build a rainbow bridge
Marrying the soil to the sky
And sow in this dancing planet midge
The moods of infinity.
But too bright were our heavens, too far away,
Too frail their ethereal stuff;
Too splendid and sudden our light could not stay;
The roots were not deep enough.
He who would bring the heavens here
Must descend himself into clay
And the burden of earthly nature bear
And tread the dolorous way.
Coercing my godhead I have come down
Here on the sordid earth,
Ignorant, labouring, human grown
Twixt the gates of death and birth.
I have been digging deep and long
Mid a horror of filth and mire
A bed for the golden river's song,
A home for the deathless fire.
I have laboured and suffered in Matter's night
To bring the fire to man;
But the hate of hell and human spite
Are my meed since the world began.
For man's mind is the dupe of his animal self;
Hoping its lusts to win,
He harbours within him a grisly Elf
Enamoured of sorrow and sin.
The grey Elf shudders from heaven's flame
And from all things glad and pure;
Only by pleasure and passion and pain
His drama can endure.
All around is darkness and strife;
For the lamps that men call suns
Are but halfway gleams on this stumbling life
Cast by the Undying Ones.
Man lights his little torches of hope
That lead to a failing edge;
A fragment of Truth is his widest scope,
An inn his pilgrimage.
The Truth of truths men fear and deny,
The Light of lights they refuse;
To ignorant gods they lift their cry
Or a demon altar choose.
All that was found must again be sought,
Each enemy slain revives,
Each battle for ever is fought and refought
Through vistas of fruitless lives.
My gaping wounds are a thousand and one
And the Titan kings assail,
But I dare not rest till my task is done
And wrought the eternal will.
How they mock and sneer, both devils and men!
"Thy hope is Chimera's head
Painting the sky with its fiery stain;
Thou shalt fall and thy work lie dead.
"Who art thou that babblest of heavenly ease
And joy and golden room
To us who are waifs on inconscient seas
And bound to life's iron doom?
"This earth is ours, a field of Night
For our petty flickering fires.
How shall it brook the sacred Light
Or suffer a god's desires?
"Come, let us slay him and end his course!
Then shall our hearts have release
From the burden and call of his glory and force
And the curb of his wide white peace."
But the god is there in my mortal breast
Who wrestles with error and fate
And tramples a road through mire and waste
For the nameless Immaculate.
A voice cried, "Go where none have gone!
Dig deeper, deeper yet
Till thou reach the grim foundation stone
And knock at the keyless gate."
I saw that a falsehood was planted deep
At the very root of things
Where the grey Sphinx guards God's riddle sleep
On the Dragon's outspread wings.
I left the surface gauds of mind
And life's unsatisfied seas
And plunged through the body's alleys blind
To the nether mysteries.
I have delved through the dumb Earth's dreadful heart
And heard her black mass' bell.
I have seen the source whence her agonies part
And the inner reason of hell.
Above me the dragon murmurs moan
And the goblin voices flit;
I have pierced the Void where Thought was born,
I have walked in the bottomless pit.
On a desperate stair my feet have trod
Armoured with boundless peace,
Bringing the fires of the splendour of God
Into the human abyss.
He who I am was with me still;
All veils are breaking now.
I have heard His voice and borne His will
On my vast untroubled brow.
The gulf twixt the depths and the heights is bridged
And the golden waters pour
Down the sapphire mountain rainbow-ridged
And glimmer from shore to shore.
Heaven's fire is lit in the breast of the earth
And the undying suns here burn;
Through a wonder cleft in the bounds of birth
The incarnate spirits yearn
Like flames to the kingdoms of Truth and Bliss:
Down a gold-red stairway wend
The radiant children of Paradise
Clarioning darkness' end.
A little more and the new life's doors
Shall be carved in silver light
With its aureate roof and mosaic floors
In a great world bare and bright.
I shall leave my dreams in their argent air,
For in a raiment of gold and blue
There shall move on the earth embodied and fair
The living truth of you.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, A God's Labour, 534,#KEYS
311:What are these operations? They are not mere psychological self-analysis and self-observation. Such analysis, such observation are, like the process of right thought, of immense value and practically indispensable. They may even, if rightly pursued, lead to a right thought of considerable power and effectivity. Like intellectual discrimination by the process of meditative thought they will have an effect of purification; they will lead to self-knowledge of a certain kind and to the setting right of the disorders of the soul and the heart and even of the disorders of the understanding. Self-knowledge of all kinds is on the straight path to the knowledge of the real Self. The Upanishad tells us that the Self-existent has so set the doors of the soul that they turn outwards and most men look outward into the appearances of things; only the rare soul that is ripe for a calm thought and steady wisdom turns its eye inward, sees the Self and attains to immortality. To this turning of the eye inward psychological self-observation and analysis is a great and effective introduction.We can look into the inward of ourselves more easily than we can look into the inward of things external to us because there, in things outside us, we are in the first place embarrassed by the form and secondly we have no natural previous experience of that in them which is other than their physical substance. A purified or tranquillised mind may reflect or a powerful concentration may discover God in the world, the Self in Nature even before it is realised in ourselves, but this is rare and difficult. (2) And it is only in ourselves that we can observe and know the process of the Self in its becoming and follow the process by which it draws back into self-being. Therefore the ancient counsel, know thyself, will always stand as the first word that directs us towards the knowledge. Still, psychological self-knowledge is only the experience of the modes of the Self, it is not the realisation of the Self in its pure being.
The status of knowledge, then, which Yoga envisages is not merely an intellectual conception or clear discrimination of the truth, nor is it an enlightened psychological experience of the modes of our being. It is a "realisation", in the full sense of the word; it is the making real to ourselves and in ourselves of the Self, the transcendent and universal Divine, and it is the subsequent impossibility of viewing the modes of being except in the light of that Self and in their true aspect as its flux of becoming under the psychical and physical conditions of our world-existence. This realisation consists of three successive movements, internal vision, complete internal experience and identity.
This internal vision, dr.s.t.i, the power so highly valued by the ancient sages, the power which made a man a Rishi or Kavi and no longer a mere thinker, is a sort of light in the soul by which things unseen become as evident and real to it-to the soul and not merely to the intellect-as do things seen to the physical eye. In the physical world there are always two forms of knowledge, the direct and the indirect, pratyaks.a, of that which is present to the eyes, and paroks.a, of that which is remote from and beyond our vision. When the object is beyond our vision, we are necessarily obliged to arrive at an idea of it by inference, imagination, analogy, by hearing the descriptions of others who have seen it or by studying pictorial or other representations of it if these are available. By putting together all these aids we can indeed arrive at a more or less adequate idea or suggestive image of the object, but we do not realise the thing itself; it is not yet to us the grasped reality, but only our conceptual representation of a reality. But once we have seen it with the eyes,-for no other sense is adequate,-we possess, we realise; it is there secure in our satisfied being, part of ourselves in knowledge. Precisely the same rule holds good of psychical things and of he Self. We may hear clear and luminous teachings about the Self from philosophers or teachers or from ancient writings; we may by thought, inference, imagination, analogy or by any other available means attempt to form a mental figure or conception of it; we may hold firmly that conception in our mind and fix it by an entire and exclusive concentration;3 but we have not yet realised it, we have not seen God. It is only when after long and persistent concentration or by other means the veil of the mind is rent or swept aside, only when a flood of light breaks over the awakened mentality, jyotirmaya brahman, and conception gives place to a knowledge-vision in which the Self is as present, real, concrete as a physical object to the physical eye, that we possess in knowledge; for we have seen. After that revelation, whatever fadings of the light, whatever periods of darkness may afflict the soul, it can never irretrievably lose what it has once held. The experience is inevitably renewed and must become more frequent till it is constant; when and how soon depends on the devotion and persistence with which we insist on the path and besiege by our will or our love the hidden Deity.
(2) And it is only in ourselves that we can observe and know the 2 In one respect, however, it is easier, because in external things we are not so much hampered by the sense of the limited ego as in ourselves; one obstacle to the realisation of God is therefore removed.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Status of Knowledge,#KEYS
312:[an Integral conception of the Divine :::
But on that which as yet we know not how shall we concentrate? And yet we cannot know the Divine unless we have achieved this concentration of our being upon him. A concentration which culminates in a living realisation and the constant sense of the presence of the One in ourselves and in all of which we are aware, is what we mean in Yoga by knowledge and the effort after knowledge. It is not enough to devote ourselves by the reading of Scriptures or by the stress of philosophical reasoning to an intellectual understanding of the Divine; for at the end of our long mental labour we might know all that has been said of the Eternal, possess all that can be thought about the Infinite and yet we might not know him at all. This intellectual preparation can indeed be the first stage in a powerful Yoga, but it is not indispensable : it is not a step which all need or can be called upon to take. Yoga would be impossible, except for a very few, if the intellectual figure of knowledge arrived at by the speculative or meditative Reason were its indispensable condition or a binding preliminary. All that the Light from above asks of us that it may begin its work is a call from the soul and a sufficient point of support in the mind. This support can be reached through an insistent idea of the Divine in the thought, a corresponding will in the dynamic parts, an aspiration, a faith, a need in the heart. Any one of these may lead or predominate, if all cannot move in unison or in an equal rhythm. The idea may be and must in the beginning be inadequate; the aspiration may be narrow and imperfect, the faith poorly illumined or even, as not surely founded on the rock of knowledge, fluctuating, uncertain, easily diminished; often even it may be extinguished and need to be lit again with difficulty like a torch in a windy pass. But if once there is a resolute self-consecration from deep within, if there is an awakening to the soul's call, these inadequate things can be a sufficient instrument for the divine purpose. Therefore the wise have always been unwilling to limit man's avenues towards God; they would not shut against his entry even the narrowest portal, the lowest and darkest postern, the humblest wicket-gate. Any name, any form, any symbol, any offering has been held to be sufficient if there is the consecration along with it; for the Divine knows himself in the heart of the seeker and accepts the sacrifice.
But still the greater and wider the moving idea-force behind the consecration, the better for the seeker; his attainment is likely to be fuller and more ample. If we are to attempt an integral Yoga, it will be as well to start with an idea of the Divine that is itself integral. There should be an aspiration in the heart wide enough for a realisation without any narrow limits. Not only should we avoid a sectarian religious outlook, but also all onesided philosophical conceptions which try to shut up the Ineffable in a restricting mental formula. The dynamic conception or impelling sense with which our Yoga can best set out would be naturally the idea, the sense of a conscious all-embracing but all-exceeding Infinite. Our uplook must be to a free, all-powerful, perfect and blissful One and Oneness in which all beings move and live and through which all can meet and become one. This Eternal will be at once personal and impersonal in his self-revelation and touch upon the soul. He is personal because he is the conscious Divine, the infinite Person who casts some broken reflection of himself in the myriad divine and undivine personalities of the universe. He is impersonal because he appears to us as an infinite Existence, Consciousness and Ananda and because he is the fount, base and constituent of all existences and all energies, -the very material of our being and mind and life and body, our spirit and our matter. The thought, concentrating on him, must not merely understand in an intellectual form that he exists, or conceive of him as an abstraction, a logical necessity; it must become a seeing thought able to meet him here as the Inhabitant in all, realise him in ourselves, watch and take hold on the movement of his forces. He is the one Existence: he is the original and universal Delight that constitutes all things and exceeds them: he is the one infinite Consciousness that composes all consciousnesses and informs all their movements; he is the one illimitable Being who sustains all action and experience; his will guides the evolution of things towards their yet unrealised but inevitable aim and plenitude. To him the heart can consecrate itself, approach him as the supreme Beloved, beat and move in him as in a universal sweetness of Love and a living sea of Delight. For his is the secret Joy that supports the soul in all its experiences and maintains even the errant ego in its ordeals and struggles till all sorrow and suffering shall cease. His is the Love and the Bliss of the infinite divine Lover who is drawing all things by their own path towards his happy oneness. On him the Will can unalterably fix as the invisible Power that guides and fulfils it and as the source of its strength. In the impersonality this actuating Power is a self-illumined Force that contains all results and calmly works until it accomplishes, in the personality an all wise and omnipotent Master of the Yoga whom nothing can prevent from leading it to its goal. This is the faith with which the seeker has to begin his seeking and endeavour; for in all his effort here, but most of all in his effort towards the Unseen, mental man must perforce proceed by faith. When the realisation comes, the faith divinely fulfilled and completed will be transformed into an eternal flame of knowledge.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Self-Consecration, 82-83 [T1],#KEYS
313:To what gods shall the sacrifice be offered? Who shall be invoked to manifest and protect in the human being this increasing godhead?
Agni first, for without him the sacrificial flame cannot burn on the altar of the soul. That flame of Agni is the seven-tongued power of the Will, a Force of God instinct with Knowledge. This conscious and forceful will is the immortal guest in our mortality, a pure priest and a divine worker, the mediator between earth and heaven. It carries what we offer to the higher Powers and brings back in return their force and light and joy into our humanity.
Indra, the Puissant next, who is the power of pure Existence self-manifested as the Divine Mind. As Agni is one pole of Force instinct with knowledge that sends its current upward from earth to heaven, so Indra is the other pole of Light instinct with force which descends from heaven to earth. He comes down into our world as the Hero with the shining horses and slays darkness and division with his lightnings, pours down the life-giving heavenly waters, finds in the trace of the hound, Intuition, the lost or hidden illuminations, makes the Sun of Truth mount high in the heaven of our mentality.
Surya, the Sun, is the master of that supreme Truth, - truth of being, truth of knowledge, truth of process and act and movement and functioning. He is therefore the creator or rather the manifester of all things - for creation is out-bringing, expression by the Truth and Will - and the father, fosterer, enlightener of our souls. The illuminations we seek are the herds of this Sun who comes to us in the track of the divine Dawn and releases and reveals in us night-hidden world after world up to the highest Beatitude.
Of that beatitude Soma is the representative deity. The wine of his ecstasy is concealed in the growths of earth, in the waters of existence; even here in our physical being are his immortalising juices and they have to be pressed out and offered to all the gods; for in that strength these shall increase and conquer.
Each of these primary deities has others associated with him who fulfil functions that arise from his own. For if the truth of Surya is to be established firmly in our mortal nature, there are previous conditions that are indispensable; a vast purity and clear wideness destructive of all sin and crooked falsehood, - and this is Varuna; a luminous power of love and comprehension leading and forming into harmony all our thoughts, acts and impulses, - this is Mitra; an immortal puissance of clear-discerning aspiration and endeavour, - this is Aryaman; a happy spontaneity of the right enjoyment of all things dispelling the evil dream of sin and error and suffering, - this is Bhaga. These four are powers of the Truth of Surya. For the whole bliss of Soma to be established perfectly in our nature a happy and enlightened and unmaimed condition of mind, vitality and body are necessary. This condition is given to us by the twin Ashwins; wedded to the daughter of Light, drinkers of honey, bringers of perfect satisfactions, healers of maim and malady they occupy our parts of knowledge and parts of action and prepare our mental, vital and physical being for an easy and victorious ascension.
Indra, the Divine Mind, as the shaper of mental forms has for his assistants, his artisans, the Ribhus, human powers who by the work of sacrifice and their brilliant ascension to the high dwelling-place of the Sun have attained to immortality and help mankind to repeat their achievement. They shape by the mind Indra's horses, the chariot of the Ashwins, the weapons of the Gods, all the means of the journey and the battle. But as giver of the Light of Truth and as Vritra-slayer Indra is aided by the Maruts, who are powers of will and nervous or vital Force that have attained to the light of thought and the voice of self-expression. They are behind all thought and speech as its impellers and they battle towards the Light, Truth and Bliss of the supreme Consciousness.
There are also female energies; for the Deva is both Male and Female and the gods also are either activising souls or passively executive and methodising energies. Aditi, infinite Mother of the Gods, comes first; and there are besides five powers of the Truthconsciousness, - Mahi or Bharati, the vast Word that brings us all things out of the divine source; Ila, the strong primal word of the Truth who gives us its active vision; Saraswati, its streaming current and the word of its inspiration; Sarama, the Intuition, hound of heaven who descends into the cavern of the subconscient and finds there the concealed illuminations; Dakshina, whose function is to discern rightly, dispose the action and the offering and distribute in the sacrifice to each godhead its portion. Each god, too, has his female energy.
All this action and struggle and ascension is supported by Heaven our Father and Earth our Mother Parents of the Gods, who sustain respectively the purely mental and psychic and the physical consciousness. Their large and free scope is the condition of our achievement. Vayu, master of life, links them together by the mid-air, the region of vital force. And there are other deities, - Parjanya, giver of the rain of heaven; Dadhikravan, the divine war-horse, a power of Agni; the mystic Dragon of the Foundations; Trita Aptya who on the third plane of existence consummates our triple being; and more besides.
The development of all these godheads is necessary to our perfection. And that perfection must be attained on all our levels, - in the wideness of earth, our physical being and consciousness; in the full force of vital speed and action and enjoyment and nervous vibration, typified as the Horse which must be brought forward to upbear our endeavour; in the perfect gladness of the heart of emotion and a brilliant heat and clarity of the mind throughout our intellectual and psychical being; in the coming of the supramental Light, the Dawn and the Sun and the shining Mother of the herds, to transform all our existence; for so comes to us the possession of the Truth, by the Truth the admirable surge of the Bliss, in the Bliss infinite Consciousness of absolute being. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Hymns to the Mystic Fire, The Doctrine of the Mystics,#KEYS
314:The Supermind [Supramental consciousness] is in its very essence a truth-consciousness, a consciousness always free from the Ignorance which is the foundation of our present natural or evolutionary existence and from which nature in us is trying to arrive at self-knowledge and world-knowledge and a right consciousness and the right use of our existence in the universe. The Supermind, because it is a truth-consciousness, has this knowledge inherent in it and this power of true existence; its course is straight and can go direct to its aim, its field is wide and can even be made illimitable. This is because its very nature is knowledge: it has not to acquire knowledge but possesses it in its own right; its steps are not from nescience or ignorance into some imperfect light, but from truth to greater truth, from right perception to deeper perception, from intuition to intuition, from illumination to utter and boundless luminousness, from growing widenesses to the utter vasts and to very infinitude. On its summits it possesses the divine omniscience and omnipotence, but even in an evolutionary movement of its own graded self-manifestation by which it would eventually reveal its own highest heights, it must be in its very nature essentially free from ignorance and error: it starts from truth and light and moves always in truth and light. As its knowledge is always true, so too its will is always true; it does not fumble in its handling of things or stumble in its paces. In the Supermind feeling and emotion do not depart from their truth, make no slips or mistakes, do not swerve from the right and the real, cannot misuse beauty and delight or twist away from a divine rectitude. In the Supermind sense cannot mislead or deviate into the grossnesses which are here its natural imperfections and the cause of reproach, distrust and misuse by our ignorance. Even an incomplete statement made by the Supermind is a truth leading to a further truth, its incomplete action a step towards completeness. All the life and action and leading of the Supermind is guarded in its very nature from the falsehoods and uncertainties that are our lot; it moves in safety towards its perfection. Once the truth-consciousness was established here on its own sure foundation, the evolution of divine life would be a progress in felicity, a march through light to Ananda. Supermind is an eternal reality of the divine Being and the divine Nature. In its own plane it already and always exists and possesses its own essential law of being; it has not to be created or to emerge or evolve into existence out of involution in Matter or out of non-existence, as it might seem to the view of mind which itself seems to its own view to have so emerged from life and Matter or to have evolved out of an involution in life and Matter. The nature of Supermind is always the same, a being of knowledge, proceeding from truth to truth, creating or rather manifesting what has to be manifested by the power of a pre-existent knowledge, not by hazard but by a self-existent destiny in the being itself, a necessity of the thing in itself and therefore inevitable. Its -manifestation of the divine life will also be inevitable; its own life on its own plane is divine and, if Supermind descends upon the earth, it will bring necessarily the divine life with it and establish it here. Supermind is the grade of existence beyond mind, life and Matter and, as mind, life and Matter have manifested on the earth, so too must Supermind in the inevitable course of things manifest in this world of Matter. In fact, a supermind is already here but it is involved, concealed behind this manifest mind, life and Matter and not yet acting overtly or in its own power: if it acts, it is through these inferior powers and modified by their characters and so not yet recognisable. It is only by the approach and arrival of the descending Supermind that it can be liberated upon earth and reveal itself in the action of our material, vital and mental parts so that these lower powers can become portions of a total divinised activity of our whole being: it is that that will bring to us a completely realised divinity or the divine life. It is indeed so that life and mind involved in Matter have realised themselves here; for only what is involved can evolve, otherwise there could be no emergence. The manifestation of a supramental truth-consciousness is therefore the capital reality that will make the divine life possible. It is when all the movements of thought, impulse and action are governed and directed by a self-existent and luminously automatic truth-consciousness and our whole nature comes to be constituted by it and made of its stuff that the life divine will be complete and absolute. Even as it is, in reality though not in the appearance of things, it is a secret self-existent knowledge and truth that is working to manifest itself in the creation here. The Divine is already there immanent within us, ourselves are that in our inmost reality and it is this reality that we have to manifest; it is that which constitutes the urge towards the divine living and makes necessary the creation of the life divine even in this material existence. A manifestation of the Supermind and its truth-consciousness is then inevitable; it must happen in this world sooner or lateR But it has two aspects, a descent from above, an ascent from below, a self-revelation of the Spirit, an evolution in Nature. The ascent is necessarily an effort, a working of Nature, an urge or nisus on her side to raise her lower parts by an evolutionary or revolutionary change, conversion or transformation into the divine reality and it may happen by a process and progress or by a rapid miracle. The descent or self-revelation of the Spirit is an act of the supreme Reality from above which makes the realisation possible and it can appear either as the divine aid which brings about the fulfilment of the progress and process or as the sanction of the miracle. Evolution, as we see it in this world, is a slow and difficult process and, indeed, needs usually ages to reach abiding results; but this is because it is in its nature an emergence from inconscient beginnings, a start from nescience and a working in the ignorance of natural beings by what seems to be an unconscious force. There can be, on the contrary, an evolution in the light and no longer in the darkness, in which the evolving being is a conscious participant and cooperator, and this is precisely what must take place here. Even in the effort and progress from the Ignorance to Knowledge this must be in part if not wholly the endeavour to be made on the heights of the nature, and it must be wholly that in the final movement towards the spiritual change, realisation, transformation. It must be still more so when there is a transition across the dividing line between the Ignorance and the Knowledge and the evolution is from knowledge to greater knowledge, from consciousness to greater consciousness, from being to greater being. There is then no longer any necessity for the slow pace of the ordinary evolution; there can be rapid conversion, quick transformation after transformation, what would seem to our normal present mind a succession of miracles. An evolution on the supramental levels could well be of that nature; it could be equally, if the being so chose, a more leisurely passage of one supramental state or condition of things to something beyond but still supramental, from level to divine level, a building up of divine gradations, a free growth to the supreme Supermind or beyond it to yet undreamed levels of being, consciousness and Ananda.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, 558,#KEYS
315:Mental Education
OF ALL lines of education, mental education is the most widely known and practised, yet except in a few rare cases there are gaps which make it something very incomplete and in the end quite insufficient.
Generally speaking, schooling is considered to be all the mental education that is necessary. And when a child has been made to undergo, for a number of years, a methodical training which is more like cramming than true schooling, it is considered that whatever is necessary for his mental development has been done. Nothing of the kind. Even conceding that the training is given with due measure and discrimination and does not permanently damage the brain, it cannot impart to the human mind the faculties it needs to become a good and useful instrument. The schooling that is usually given can, at the most, serve as a system of gymnastics to increase the suppleness of the brain. From this standpoint, each branch of human learning represents a special kind of mental gymnastics, and the verbal formulations given to these various branches each constitute a special and well-defined language.
A true mental education, which will prepare man for a higher life, has five principal phases. Normally these phases follow one after another, but in exceptional individuals they may alternate or even proceed simultaneously. These five phases, in brief, are:
(1) Development of the power of concentration, the capacity of attention.
(2) Development of the capacities of expansion, widening, complexity and richness.
(3) Organisation of one's ideas around a central idea, a higher ideal or a supremely luminous idea that will serve as a guide in life.
(4) Thought-control, rejection of undesirable thoughts, to become able to think only what one wants and when one wants.
(5) Development of mental silence, perfect calm and a more and more total receptivity to inspirations coming from the higher regions of the being.
It is not possible to give here all the details concerning the methods to be employed in the application of these five phases of education to different individuals. Still, a few explanations on points of detail can be given.
Undeniably, what most impedes mental progress in children is the constant dispersion of their thoughts. Their thoughts flutter hither and thither like butterflies and they have to make a great effort to fix them. Yet this capacity is latent in them, for when you succeed in arousing their interest, they are capable of a good deal of attention. By his ingenuity, therefore, the educator will gradually help the child to become capable of a sustained effort of attention and a faculty of more and more complete absorption in the work in hand. All methods that can develop this faculty of attention from games to rewards are good and can all be utilised according to the need and the circumstances. But it is the psychological action that is most important and the sovereign method is to arouse in the child an interest in what you want to teach him, a liking for work, a will to progress. To love to learn is the most precious gift that one can give to a child: to love to learn always and everywhere, so that all circumstances, all happenings in life may be constantly renewed opportunities for learning more and always more.
For that, to attention and concentration should be added observation, precise recording and faithfulness of memory. This faculty of observation can be developed by varied and spontaneous exercises, making use of every opportunity that presents itself to keep the child's thought wakeful, alert and prompt. The growth of the understanding should be stressed much more than that of memory. One knows well only what one has understood. Things learnt by heart, mechanically, fade away little by little and finally disappear; what is understood is never forgotten. Moreover, you must never refuse to explain to a child the how and the why of things. If you cannot do it yourself, you must direct the child to those who are qualified to answer or point out to him some books that deal with the question. In this way you will progressively awaken in the child the taste for true study and the habit of making a persistent effort to know.
This will bring us quite naturally to the second phase of development in which the mind should be widened and enriched.
You will gradually show the child that everything can become an interesting subject for study if it is approached in the right way. The life of every day, of every moment, is the best school of all, varied, complex, full of unexpected experiences, problems to be solved, clear and striking examples and obvious consequences. It is so easy to arouse healthy curiosity in children, if you answer with intelligence and clarity the numerous questions they ask. An interesting reply to one readily brings others in its train and so the attentive child learns without effort much more than he usually does in the classroom. By a choice made with care and insight, you should also teach him to enjoy good reading-matter which is both instructive and attractive. Do not be afraid of anything that awakens and pleases his imagination; imagination develops the creative mental faculty and through it study becomes living and the mind develops in joy.
In order to increase the suppleness and comprehensiveness of his mind, one should see not only that he studies many varied topics, but above all that a single subject is approached in various ways, so that the child understands in a practical manner that there are many ways of facing the same intellectual problem, of considering it and solving it. This will remove all rigidity from his brain and at the same time it will make his thinking richer and more supple and prepare it for a more complex and comprehensive synthesis. In this way also the child will be imbued with the sense of the extreme relativity of mental learning and, little by little, an aspiration for a truer source of knowledge will awaken in him.
Indeed, as the child grows older and progresses in his studies, his mind too ripens and becomes more and more capable of forming general ideas, and with them almost always comes a need for certitude, for a knowledge that is stable enough to form the basis of a mental construction which will permit all the diverse and scattered and often contradictory ideas accumulated in his brain to be organised and put in order. This ordering is indeed very necessary if one is to avoid chaos in one's thoughts. All contradictions can be transformed into complements, but for that one must discover the higher idea that will have the power to bring them harmoniously together. It is always good to consider every problem from all possible standpoints so as to avoid partiality and exclusiveness; but if the thought is to be active and creative, it must, in every case, be the natural and logical synthesis of all the points of view adopted. And if you want to make the totality of your thoughts into a dynamic and constructive force, you must also take great care as to the choice of the central idea of your mental synthesis; for upon that will depend the value of this synthesis. The higher and larger the central idea and the more universal it is, rising above time and space, the more numerous and the more complex will be the ideas, notions and thoughts which it will be able to organise and harmonise.
It goes without saying that this work of organisation cannot be done once and for all. The mind, if it is to keep its vigour and youth, must progress constantly, revise its notions in the light of new knowledge, enlarge its frame-work to include fresh notions and constantly reclassify and reorganise its thoughts, so that each of them may find its true place in relation to the others and the whole remain harmonious and orderly.
All that has just been said concerns the speculative mind, the mind that learns. But learning is only one aspect of mental activity; the other, which is at least equally important, is the constructive faculty, the capacity to form and thus prepare action. This very important part of mental activity has rarely been the subject of any special study or discipline. Only those who want, for some reason, to exercise a strict control over their mental activities think of observing and disciplining this faculty of formation; and as soon as they try it, they have to face difficulties so great that they appear almost insurmountable.
And yet control over this formative activity of the mind is one of the most important aspects of self-education; one can say that without it no mental mastery is possible. As far as study is concerned, all ideas are acceptable and should be included in the synthesis, whose very function is to become more and more rich and complex; but where action is concerned, it is just the opposite. The ideas that are accepted for translation into action should be strictly controlled and only those that agree with the general trend of the central idea forming the basis of the mental synthesis should be permitted to express themselves in action. This means that every thought entering the mental consciousness should be set before the central idea; if it finds a logical place among the thoughts already grouped, it will be admitted into the synthesis; if not, it will be rejected so that it can have no influence on the action. This work of mental purification should be done very regularly in order to secure a complete control over one's actions.
For this purpose, it is good to set apart some time every day when one can quietly go over one's thoughts and put one's synthesis in order. Once the habit is acquired, you can maintain control over your thoughts even during work and action, allowing only those which are useful for what you are doing to come to the surface. Particularly, if you have continued to cultivate the power of concentration and attention, only the thoughts that are needed will be allowed to enter the active external consciousness and they then become all the more dynamic and effective. And if, in the intensity of concentration, it becomes necessary not to think at all, all mental vibration can be stilled and an almost total silence secured. In this silence one can gradually open to the higher regions of the mind and learn to record the inspirations that come from there.
But even before reaching this point, silence in itself is supremely useful, because in most people who have a somewhat developed and active mind, the mind is never at rest. During the day, its activity is kept under a certain control, but at night, during the sleep of the body, the control of the waking state is almost completely removed and the mind indulges in activities which are sometimes excessive and often incoherent. This creates a great stress which leads to fatigue and the diminution of the intellectual faculties.
The fact is that like all the other parts of the human being, the mind too needs rest and it will not have this rest unless we know how to provide it. The art of resting one's mind is something to be acquired. Changing one's mental activity is certainly one way of resting; but the greatest possible rest is silence. And as far as the mental faculties are concerned a few minutes passed in the calm of silence are a more effective rest than hours of sleep.
When one has learned to silence the mind at will and to concentrate it in receptive silence, then there will be no problem that cannot be solved, no mental difficulty whose solution cannot be found. When it is agitated, thought becomes confused and impotent; in an attentive tranquillity, the light can manifest itself and open up new horizons to man's capacity. Bulletin, November 1951
~ The Mother, On Education,#KEYS
316:The Supreme Discovery
IF WE want to progress integrally, we must build within our conscious being a strong and pure mental synthesis which can serve us as a protection against temptations from outside, as a landmark to prevent us from going astray, as a beacon to light our way across the moving ocean of life.
Each individual should build up this mental synthesis according to his own tendencies and affinities and aspirations. But if we want it to be truly living and luminous, it must be centred on the idea that is the intellectual representation symbolising That which is at the centre of our being, That which is our life and our light.
This idea, expressed in sublime words, has been taught in various forms by all the great Instructors in all lands and all ages.
The Self of each one and the great universal Self are one. Since all that is exists from all eternity in its essence and principle, why make a distinction between the being and its origin, between ourselves and what we place at the beginning?
The ancient traditions rightly said:
"Our origin and ourselves, our God and ourselves are one."
And this oneness should not be understood merely as a more or less close and intimate relationship of union, but as a true identity.
Thus, when a man who seeks the Divine attempts to reascend by degrees towards the inaccessible, he forgets that all his knowledge and all his intuition cannot take him one step forward in this infinite; neither does he know that what he wants to attain, what he believes to be so far from him, is within him.
For how could he know anything of the origin until he becomes conscious of this origin in himself?
It is by understanding himself, by learning to know himself, that he can make the supreme discovery and cry out in wonder like the patriarch in the Bible, "The house of God is here and I knew it not."
That is why we must express that sublime thought, creatrix of the material worlds, and make known to all the word that fills the heavens and the earth, "I am in all things and all beings."When all shall know this, the promised day of great transfigurations will be at hand. When in each atom of Matter men shall recognise the indwelling thought of God, when in each living creature they shall perceive some hint of a gesture of God, when each man can see God in his brother, then dawn will break, dispelling the darkness, the falsehood, the ignorance, the error and suffering that weigh upon all Nature. For, "all Nature suffers and laments as she awaits the revelation of the Sons of God."
This indeed is the central thought epitomising all others, the thought which should be ever present to our remembrance as the sun that illumines all life.
That is why I remind you of it today. For if we follow our path bearing this thought in our hearts like the rarest jewel, the most precious treasure, if we allow it to do its work of illumination and transfiguration within us, we shall know that it lives in the centre of all beings and all things, and in it we shall feel the marvellous oneness of the universe.
Then we shall understand the vanity and childishness of our meagre satisfactions, our foolish quarrels, our petty passions, our blind indignations. We shall see the dissolution of our little faults, the crumbling of the last entrenchments of our limited personality and our obtuse egoism. We shall feel ourselves being swept along by this sublime current of true spirituality which will deliver us from our narrow limits and bounds.
The individual Self and the universal Self are one; in every world, in every being, in every thing, in every atom is the Divine Presence, and man's mission is to manifest it.
In order to do that, he must become conscious of this Divine Presence within him. Some individuals must undergo a real apprenticeship in order to achieve this: their egoistic being is too all-absorbing, too rigid, too conservative, and their struggles against it are long and painful. Others, on the contrary, who are more impersonal, more plastic, more spiritualised, come easily into contact with the inexhaustible divine source of their being.But let us not forget that they too should devote themselves daily, constantly, to a methodical effort of adaptation and transformation, so that nothing within them may ever again obscure the radiance of that pure light.
But how greatly the standpoint changes once we attain this deeper consciousness! How understanding widens, how compassion grows!
On this a sage has said:
"I would like each one of us to come to the point where he perceives the inner God who dwells even in the vilest of human beings; instead of condemning him we would say, 'Arise, O resplendent Being, thou who art ever pure, who knowest neither birth nor death; arise, Almighty One, and manifest thy nature.'"
Let us live by this beautiful utterance and we shall see everything around us transformed as if by miracle.
This is the attitude of true, conscious and discerning love, the love which knows how to see behind appearances, understand in spite of words, and which, amid all obstacles, is in constant communion with the depths.
What value have our impulses and our desires, our anguish and our violence, our sufferings and our struggles, all these inner vicissitudes unduly dramatised by our unruly imagination - what value do they have before this great, this sublime and divine love bending over us from the innermost depths of our being, bearing with our weaknesses, rectifying our errors, healing our wounds, bathing our whole being with its regenerating streams?
For the inner Godhead never imposes herself, she neither demands nor threatens; she offers and gives herself, conceals and forgets herself in the heart of all beings and things; she never accuses, she neither judges nor curses nor condemns, but works unceasingly to perfect without constraint, to mend without reproach, to encourage without impatience, to enrich each one with all the wealth he can receive; she is the mother whose love bears fruit and nourishes, guards and protects, counsels and consoles; because she understands everything, she can endure everything, excuse and pardon everything, hope and prepare for everything; bearing everything within herself, she owns nothing that does not belong to all, and because she reigns over all, she is the servant of all; that is why all, great and small, who want to be kings with her and gods in her, become, like her, not despots but servitors among their brethren.
How beautiful is this humble role of servant, the role of all who have been revealers and heralds of the God who is within all, of the Divine Love that animates all things....
And until we can follow their example and become true servants even as they, let us allow ourselves to be penetrated and transformed by this Divine Love; let us offer Him, without reserve, this marvellous instrument, our physical organism. He shall make it yield its utmost on every plane of activity.
To achieve this total self-consecration, all means are good, all methods have their value. The one thing needful is to persevere in our will to attain this goal. For then everything we study, every action we perform, every human being we meet, all come to bring us an indication, a help, a light to guide us on the path.
Before I close, I shall add a few pages for those who have already made apparently fruitless efforts, for those who have encountered the pitfalls on the way and seen the measure of their weakness, for those who are in danger of losing their self-confidence and courage. These pages, intended to rekindle hope in the hearts of those who suffer, were written by a spiritual worker at a time when ordeals of every kind were sweeping down on him like purifying flames.
You who are weary, downcast and bruised, you who fall, who think perhaps that you are defeated, hear the voice of a friend. He knows your sorrows, he has shared them, he has suffered like you from the ills of the earth; like you he has crossed many deserts under the burden of the day, he has known thirst and hunger, solitude and abandonment, and the cruellest of all wants, the destitution of the heart. Alas! he has known too the hours of doubt, the errors, the faults, the failings, every weakness.
But he tells you: Courage! Hearken to the lesson that the rising sun brings to the earth with its first rays each morning. It is a lesson of hope, a message of solace.
You who weep, who suffer and tremble, who dare not expect an end to your ills, an issue to your pangs, behold: there is no night without dawn and the day is about to break when darkness is thickest; there is no mist that the sun does not dispel, no cloud that it does not gild, no tear that it will not dry one day, no storm that is not followed by its shining triumphant bow; there is no snow that it does not melt, nor winter that it does not change into radiant spring.
And for you too, there is no affliction which does not bring its measure of glory, no distress which cannot be transformed into joy, nor defeat into victory, nor downfall into higher ascension, nor solitude into radiating centre of life, nor discord into harmony - sometimes it is a misunderstanding between two minds that compels two hearts to open to mutual communion; lastly, there is no infinite weakness that cannot be changed into strength. And it is even in supreme weakness that almightiness chooses to reveal itself!
Listen, my little child, you who today feel so broken, so fallen perhaps, who have nothing left, nothing to cover your misery and foster your pride: never before have you been so great! How close to the summits is he who awakens in the depths, for the deeper the abyss, the more the heights reveal themselves!
Do you not know this, that the most sublime forces of the vasts seek to array themselves in the most opaque veils of Matter? Oh, the sublime nuptials of sovereign love with the obscurest plasticities, of the shadow's yearning with the most royal light!
If ordeal or fault has cast you down, if you have sunk into the nether depths of suffering, do not grieve - for there indeed the divine love and the supreme blessing can reach you! Because you have passed through the crucible of purifying sorrows, the glorious ascents are yours.
You are in the wilderness: then listen to the voices of the silence. The clamour of flattering words and outer applause has gladdened your ears, but the voices of the silence will gladden your soul and awaken within you the echo of the depths, the chant of divine harmonies!
You are walking in the depths of night: then gather the priceless treasures of the night. In bright sunshine, the ways of intelligence are lit, but in the white luminosities of the night lie the hidden paths of perfection, the secret of spiritual riches.
You are being stripped of everything: that is the way towards plenitude. When you have nothing left, everything will be given to you. Because for those who are sincere and true, from the worst always comes the best.
Every grain that is sown in the earth produces a thousand. Every wing-beat of sorrow can be a soaring towards glory.
And when the adversary pursues man relentlessly, everything he does to destroy him only makes him greater.
Hear the story of the worlds, look: the great enemy seems to triumph. He casts the beings of light into the night, and the night is filled with stars. He rages against the cosmic working, he assails the integrity of the empire of the sphere, shatters its harmony, divides and subdivides it, scatters its dust to the four winds of infinity, and lo! the dust is changed into a golden seed, fertilising the infinite and peopling it with worlds which now gravitate around their eternal centre in the larger orbit of space - so that even division creates a richer and deeper unity, and by multiplying the surfaces of the material universe, enlarges the empire that it set out to destroy.
Beautiful indeed was the song of the primordial sphere cradled in the bosom of immensity, but how much more beautiful and triumphant is the symphony of the constellations, the music of the spheres, the immense choir that fills the heavens with an eternal hymn of victory!
Hear again: no state was ever more precarious than that of man when he was separated on earth from his divine origin. Above him stretched the hostile borders of the usurper, and at his horizon's gates watched jailers armed with flaming swords. Then, since he could climb no more to the source of life, the source arose within him; since he could no more receive the light from above, the light shone forth at the very centre of his being; since he could commune no more with the transcendent love, that love offered itself in a holocaust and chose each terrestrial being, each human self as its dwelling-place and sanctuary.
That is how, in this despised and desolate but fruitful and blessed Matter, each atom contains a divine thought, each being carries within him the Divine Inhabitant. And if no being in all the universe is as frail as man, neither is any as divine as he!
In truth, in truth, in humiliation lies the cradle of glory! 28 April 1912 ~ The Mother, Words Of Long Ago, The Supreme Discovery,#KEYS
317:It does not matter if you do not understand it - Savitri, read it always. You will see that every time you read it, something new will be revealed to you. Each time you will get a new glimpse, each time a new experience; things which were not there, things you did not understand arise and suddenly become clear. Always an unexpected vision comes up through the words and lines. Every time you try to read and understand, you will see that something is added, something which was hidden behind is revealed clearly and vividly. I tell you the very verses you have read once before, will appear to you in a different light each time you re-read them. This is what happens invariably. Always your experience is enriched, it is a revelation at each step.
But you must not read it as you read other books or newspapers. You must read with an empty head, a blank and vacant mind, without there being any other thought; you must concentrate much, remain empty, calm and open; then the words, rhythms, vibrations will penetrate directly to this white page, will put their stamp upon the brain, will explain themselves without your making any effort.
Savitri alone is sufficient to make you climb to the highest peaks. If truly one knows how to meditate on Savitri, one will receive all the help one needs. For him who wishes to follow this path, it is a concrete help as though the Lord himself were taking you by the hand and leading you to the destined goal. And then, every question, however personal it may be, has its answer here, every difficulty finds its solution herein; indeed there is everything that is necessary for doing the Yoga.
*He has crammed the whole universe in a single book.* It is a marvellous work, magnificent and of an incomparable perfection.
You know, before writing Savitri Sri Aurobindo said to me, *I am impelled to launch on a new adventure; I was hesitant in the beginning, but now I am decided. Still, I do not know how far I shall succeed. I pray for help.* And you know what it was? It was - before beginning, I warn you in advance - it was His way of speaking, so full of divine humility and modesty. He never... *asserted Himself*. And the day He actually began it, He told me: *I have launched myself in a rudderless boat upon the vastness of the Infinite.* And once having started, He wrote page after page without intermission, as though it were a thing already complete up there and He had only to transcribe it in ink down here on these pages.
In truth, the entire form of Savitri has descended "en masse" from the highest region and Sri Aurobindo with His genius only arranged the lines - in a superb and magnificent style. Sometimes entire lines were revealed and He has left them intact; He worked hard, untiringly, so that the inspiration could come from the highest possible summit. And what a work He has created! Yes, it is a true creation in itself. It is an unequalled work. Everything is there, and it is put in such a simple, such a clear form; verses perfectly harmonious, limpid and eternally true. My child, I have read so many things, but I have never come across anything which could be compared with Savitri. I have studied the best works in Greek, Latin, English and of course French literature, also in German and all the great creations of the West and the East, including the great epics; but I repeat it, I have not found anywhere anything comparable with Savitri. All these literary works seems to me empty, flat, hollow, without any deep reality - apart from a few rare exceptions, and these too represent only a small fraction of what Savitri is. What grandeur, what amplitude, what reality: it is something immortal and eternal He has created. I tell you once again there is nothing like in it the whole world. Even if one puts aside the vision of the reality, that is, the essential substance which is the heart of the inspiration, and considers only the lines in themselves, one will find them unique, of the highest classical kind. What He has created is something man cannot imagine. For, everything is there, everything.
It may then be said that Savitri is a revelation, it is a meditation, it is a quest of the Infinite, the Eternal. If it is read with this aspiration for Immortality, the reading itself will serve as a guide to Immortality. To read Savitri is indeed to practice Yoga, spiritual concentration; one can find there all that is needed to realise the Divine. Each step of Yoga is noted here, including the secret of all other Yogas. Surely, if one sincerely follows what is revealed here in each line one will reach finally the transformation of the Supramental Yoga. It is truly the infallible guide who never abandons you; its support is always there for him who wants to follow the path. Each verse of Savitri is like a revealed Mantra which surpasses all that man possessed by way of knowledge, and I repeat this, the words are expressed and arranged in such a way that the sonority of the rhythm leads you to the origin of sound, which is OM.
My child, yes, everything is there: mysticism, occultism, philosophy, the history of evolution, the history of man, of the gods, of creation, of Nature. How the universe was created, why, for what purpose, what destiny - all is there. You can find all the answers to all your questions there. Everything is explained, even the future of man and of the evolution, all that nobody yet knows. He has described it all in beautiful and clear words so that spiritual adventurers who wish to solve the mysteries of the world may understand it more easily. But this mystery is well hidden behind the words and lines and one must rise to the required level of true consciousness to discover it. All prophesies, all that is going to come is presented with the precise and wonderful clarity. Sri Aurobindo gives you here the key to find the Truth, to discover the Consciousness, to solve the problem of what the universe is. He has also indicated how to open the door of the Inconscience so that the light may penetrate there and transform it. He has shown the path, the way to liberate oneself from the ignorance and climb up to the superconscience; each stage, each plane of consciousness, how they can be scaled, how one can cross even the barrier of death and attain immortality. You will find the whole journey in detail, and as you go forward you can discover things altogether unknown to man. That is Savitri and much more yet. It is a real experience - reading Savitri. All the secrets that man possessed, He has revealed, - as well as all that awaits him in the future; all this is found in the depth of Savitri. But one must have the knowledge to discover it all, the experience of the planes of consciousness, the experience of the Supermind, even the experience of the conquest of Death. He has noted all the stages, marked each step in order to advance integrally in the integral Yoga.
All this is His own experience, and what is most surprising is that it is my own experience also. It is my sadhana which He has worked out. Each object, each event, each realisation, all the descriptions, even the colours are exactly what I saw and the words, phrases are also exactly what I heard. And all this before having read the book. I read Savitri many times afterwards, but earlier, when He was writing He used to read it to me. Every morning I used to hear Him read Savitri. During the night He would write and in the morning read it to me. And I observed something curious, that day after day the experiences He read out to me in the morning were those I had had the previous night, word by word. Yes, all the descriptions, the colours, the pictures I had seen, the words I had heard, all, all, I heard it all, put by Him into poetry, into miraculous poetry. Yes, they were exactly my experiences of the previous night which He read out to me the following morning. And it was not just one day by chance, but for days and days together. And every time I used to compare what He said with my previous experiences and they were always the same. I repeat, it was not that I had told Him my experiences and that He had noted them down afterwards, no, He knew already what I had seen. It is my experiences He has presented at length and they were His experiences also. It is, moreover, the picture of Our joint adventure into the unknown or rather into the Supermind.
These are experiences lived by Him, realities, supracosmic truths. He experienced all these as one experiences joy or sorrow, physically. He walked in the darkness of inconscience, even in the neighborhood of death, endured the sufferings of perdition, and emerged from the mud, the world-misery to breathe the sovereign plenitude and enter the supreme Ananda. He crossed all these realms, went through the consequences, suffered and endured physically what one cannot imagine. Nobody till today has suffered like Him. He accepted suffering to transform suffering into the joy of union with the Supreme. It is something unique and incomparable in the history of the world. It is something that has never happened before, He is the first to have traced the path in the Unknown, so that we may be able to walk with certitude towards the Supermind. He has made the work easy for us. Savitri is His whole Yoga of transformation, and this Yoga appears now for the first time in the earth-consciousness.
And I think that man is not yet ready to receive it. It is too high and too vast for him. He cannot understand it, grasp it, for it is not by the mind that one can understand Savitri. One needs spiritual experiences in order to understand and assimilate it. The farther one advances on the path of Yoga, the more does one assimilate and the better. No, it is something which will be appreciated only in the future, it is the poetry of tomorrow of which He has spoken in The Future Poetry. It is too subtle, too refined, - it is not in the mind or through the mind, it is in meditation that Savitri is revealed.
And men have the audacity to compare it with the work of Virgil or Homer and to find it inferior. They do not understand, they cannot understand. What do they know? Nothing at all. And it is useless to try to make them understand. Men will know what it is, but in a distant future. It is only the new race with a new consciousness which will be able to understand. I assure you there is nothing under the blue sky to compare with Savitri. It is the mystery of mysteries. It is a *super-epic,* it is super-literature, super-poetry, super-vision, it is a super-work even if one considers the number of lines He has written. No, these human words are not adequate to describe Savitri. Yes, one needs superlatives, hyperboles to describe it. It is a hyper-epic. No, words express nothing of what Savitri is, at least I do not find them. It is of immense value - spiritual value and all other values; it is eternal in its subject, and infinite in its appeal, miraculous in its mode and power of execution; it is a unique thing, the more you come into contact with it, the higher will you be uplifted. Ah, truly it is something! It is the most beautiful thing He has left for man, the highest possible. What is it? When will man know it? When is he going to lead a life of truth? When is he going to accept this in his life? This yet remains to be seen.
My child, every day you are going to read Savitri; read properly, with the right attitude, concentrating a little before opening the pages and trying to keep the mind as empty as possible, absolutely without a thought. The direct road is through the heart. I tell you, if you try to really concentrate with this aspiration you can light the flame, the psychic flame, the flame of purification in a very short time, perhaps in a few days. What you cannot do normally, you can do with the help of Savitri. Try and you will see how very different it is, how new, if you read with this attitude, with this something at the back of your consciousness; as though it were an offering to Sri Aurobindo. You know it is charged, fully charged with consciousness; as if Savitri were a being, a real guide. I tell you, whoever, wanting to practice Yoga, tries sincerely and feels the necessity for it, will be able to climb with the help of Savitri to the highest rung of the ladder of Yoga, will be able to find the secret that Savitri represents. And this without the help of a Guru. And he will be able to practice it anywhere. For him Savitri alone will be the guide, for all that he needs he will find Savitri. If he remains very quiet when before a difficulty, or when he does not know where to turn to go forward and how to overcome obstacles, for all these hesitations and incertitudes which overwhelm us at every moment, he will have the necessary indications, and the necessary concrete help. If he remains very calm, open, if he aspires sincerely, always he will be as if lead by the hand. If he has faith, the will to give himself and essential sincerity he will reach the final goal.
Indeed, Savitri is something concrete, living, it is all replete, packed with consciousness, it is the supreme knowledge above all human philosophies and religions. It is the spiritual path, it is Yoga, Tapasya, Sadhana, in its single body. Savitri has an extraordinary power, it gives out vibrations for him who can receive them, the true vibrations of each stage of consciousness. It is incomparable, it is truth in its plenitude, the Truth Sri Aurobindo brought down on the earth. My child, one must try to find the secret that Savitri represents, the prophetic message Sri Aurobindo reveals there for us. This is the work before you, it is hard but it is worth the trouble. - 5 November 1967
~ The Mother, Sweet Mother, The Mother to Mona Sarkar, [T0],#KEYS
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:Our job is to just be the light. ~ anita-moorjani, @wisdomtrove 2:I'll be the light in the window. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 3:Numb the dark and you numb the light. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 4:Language is the light of the mind. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove 5:Every judgement blocks the light! ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 6:The light has gone out of my life. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 7:The darkness declares the glory of the light. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 8:Reason saw not, till Faith sprung the Light. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 9:The brighter the light, the darker the shadow. ~ carl-jung, @wisdomtrove 10:The light is the left hand of darkness. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 11:The light of morning decomposes everything. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 12:The light of faith makes us see what we believe. ~ denis-diderot, @wisdomtrove 13:Oh Cup-bearer, set my glass afire with the light of wine! ~ hafez, @wisdomtrove 14:The light of faith makes us see what we believe. ~ thomas-aquinas, @wisdomtrove 15:Don't fear the darkness if you carry the light within. ~ sivananda, @wisdomtrove 16:On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 17:Trust God in the dark until the light returns. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 18:The light of our loving awareness transmutes darkness. ~ aimee-davies, @wisdomtrove 19:Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light. ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 20:Bring your pain into the light and everything changes. ~ danielle-laporte, @wisdomtrove 21:In the light of our egos, we are all dethroned monarchs ~ charlie-chaplan, @wisdomtrove 22:There can be no darkness where I provide the light. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 23:A warrior of the light never confuses tension with anxiety. ~ paulo-coelho, @wisdomtrove 24:Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 25:The shadow is the greatest teacher for how to come to the light. ~ ram-das, @wisdomtrove 26:Celebrate the cracks, because that's how the light comes in. ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 27:Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven. ~ washington-irving, @wisdomtrove 28:Your heart is the light of this world. Don't cover it with your mind. ~ mooji, @wisdomtrove 29:So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 30:Before you can see the Light, you have to deal with the darkness. ~ dan-millman, @wisdomtrove 31:Dreaming is to think by moonlight by the light of an inner moon. ~ jules-renard, @wisdomtrove 32:See the light in others, and treat them as if that is all you see. ~ wayne-dyer, @wisdomtrove 33:All the darkness in the world can't put out the light of one candle. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 34:When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 35:It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 36:The light of the day is followed by night, as a shadow follows a body. ~ aristotle, @wisdomtrove 37:To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet. ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove 38:We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 39:Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 40:Stars are holes in the sky from which the light of the infinite shines. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 41:Never are we nearer the Light than when the darkness is deepest. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 42:He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 43:To choose the light or to choose other things is always the question. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 44:God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason. ~ immanuel-kant, @wisdomtrove 45:The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 46:Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 47:The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 48:Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 49:I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps. ~ thomas-edison, @wisdomtrove 50:Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 51:Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 52:Keep alive the light of justice, And much that men say in blame will pass you by. ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove 53:Live by the light of your own heart... but make sure this heart is silent and empty. ~ mooji, @wisdomtrove 54:We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee! ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 55:Space and stillness is the light that illuminates the beauty of our soul's being. ~ adyashanti, @wisdomtrove 56:Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 57:I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 58:The light of Greece opened my eyes, penetrated my pores, expanded my whole being. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 59:There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 60:To trust God in the light is nothing, but trust him in the dark-that is faith. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 61:The Real You isn't damaged goods. The Real You is the light of the universe. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 62:I prefer to stroll which has a buddy at nighttime, than by itself inside the light. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 63:Life, it's life we deal with... He that sees the light And knows the light Shall live. ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove 64:We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it. ~ vernon-howard, @wisdomtrove 65:There isn't enough darkness in all the world to snuff out the light of one little candle. ~ buddha, @wisdomtrove 66:When we keep claiming the light, we will find ourselves becoming more and more radiant. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 67:You are the light of consciousness and also the witness of this light. You are pure awareness. ~ mooji, @wisdomtrove 68:Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars. ~ e-e-cummings, @wisdomtrove 69:There would be more than ocean-water broken Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 70:How can I know anything about the past or the future, when the light of the Beloved shines only Now. ~ rumi, @wisdomtrove 71:Om (AUM) is the truth of all truths, the light of all lights and the destroyer of all illusions. ~ amit-ray, @wisdomtrove 72:Faith is a bird that can see the light when it is dawn and starts singing in the dark. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 73:Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 74:Your spirit is the part of you that has to believe in something more. It's the light of you. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 75:The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. ~ walt-whitman, @wisdomtrove 76:There's nothing wrong with making love with the light on. Just make sure the car door is closed. ~ george-burns, @wisdomtrove 77:My wife was afraid of the dark... then she saw me naked and now she's afraid of the light. ~ rodney-dangerfield, @wisdomtrove 78:You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 79:Be like a lotus. Let the beauty of your heart speak. Be grateful to the mud, water, air and the light. ~ amit-ray, @wisdomtrove 80:No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 81:Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind the light of your consciousness grows stronger. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove 82:Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. ~ ambrose-bierce, @wisdomtrove 83:Now I see that I will never find the light Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, Consuming myself. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 84:Your spirit is the part of you that has to believe in something more. It's the light of you. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 85:A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove 86:Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 87:Read the Bible and inspirational books for a purpose. Ask for divine guidance. Search for the light. ~ w-clement-stone, @wisdomtrove 88:I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up. ~ albert-camus, @wisdomtrove 89:I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars. ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove 90:The light is already there. In Zen Buddhism there's a little speck of dust on the mirror, and that's us. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 91:Yours is the cinema screen, the light as well as the seeing power, but the picture is not you. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 92:You are not given the light by anyone—not even by a spiritual teacher. You are that light. ~ swami-satchidananda-saraswati, @wisdomtrove 93:In the end, we are not the roles we play. We are the light that animates every soul in the dance we call life. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove 94:Invite the darkness into the light so you can see it. And the moment it hits the light, it becomes laughable. ~ byron-katie, @wisdomtrove 95:Seek Unity and you will find neither Unity nor Truth.Seek the light of truth, and you will find Unity and Truth. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 96:Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 97:The redness was going out of the light now, the remains of the day were a fading pink, the color of wild roses. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 98:We don't reach the light through endless analysis of the dark. We reach the light by choosing the light. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 99:If you are in a dark room, don’t beat at the darkness with a stick, but rather try to turn on the light ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 100:The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it. ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove 101:I'm one of those people that think Thomas Edison and the light bulb changed the world more than Karl Marx ever did. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove 102:The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 103:And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can. ~ elizabeth-barrett-browning, @wisdomtrove 104:Light of compassion and the light of wisdom that arises from our deepest and truest nature surpasses all other lights. ~ amit-ray, @wisdomtrove 105:Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 106:Bring your pain body into the light of presence. Free its energy. Allow the pain to become fuel for consciousness. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove 107:God, how easily I make them happy! Give me strength to be always the light of their lives and so lead them to You! ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 108:May the light of freedom, coming to all darkened lands, flame brightly - until at last the darkness is no more. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove 109:Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 110:The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 111:When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 112:Do not live in the shadow of the masters for ever. Learn to live in the light of your soul. Life deserves full expression. ~ amit-ray, @wisdomtrove 113:Purity is receptivity, the ability to sit and wait patiently, for as long as necessary, for the coming of the light. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 114:You must have the guts to throw off the chains of modesty and mediocrity in order to be the light that the world needs. ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove 115:Here we mean by search the search for oneself as the root of being conscious, as the light beyond the mind. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 116:Warriors of the light are not perfect. Their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn. ~ paulo-coelho, @wisdomtrove 117:As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove 118:Men and people will fight you down when you see the light. Let me tell you if you are not wrong than everything is all right. ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove 119:Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 120:The light of compassion opens the petals of the heart. When the petals of the heart unfold fragrance spreads across the valley. ~ amit-ray, @wisdomtrove 121:Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove 122:The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove 123:How is the Supreme affected? M: What can affect it and how? Is the light affected by the picture on the screen? ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 124:To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 125:As you go into the light, you will gain a more profound happiness. That happiness will free you from the desire-aversion cycle. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 126:Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 127:In the name of the Fire, The Flame And the Light; Praise the pure presence of fire That burns from within Without thought of time. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove 128:I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 129:The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light. ~ joseph-campbell, @wisdomtrove 130:The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change. ~ adyashanti, @wisdomtrove 131:From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove 132:I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 133:. . . is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove 134:The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 135:Safe! safe! safe!' the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry & 136:There is seldom just one cockroach in the kitchen. You know, you turn on the light and, all of sudden, they all start scurrying around. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 137:There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 138:If I can get it down on paper without puking all over the word processor, then as far as I'm concerned, it's fit to see the light of day. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 139:I would sooner walk in the dark, and hold hard to a promise of my God, than trust in the light of the brightest day that ever dawned. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 140:Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove 141:Behold thine immortal Self resurrected with Christ in the light of illumination, present in every soul, every flower, every atom! ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 142:The world would have you agree with its dismal dream of limitation. But the light would have you soar like the eagle of your sacred visions. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove 143:It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 144:Once the light of our awareness is cast on any darkness, then it cannot hide and it cannot remain. Such is the law of consciousness. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 145:Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 146:If you strive only to avoid the darkness or to cling to the light, you cannot live in balance. Try striving to be conscious of all that you are. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 147:My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 148:Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 149:The light was only just visible - except of course that there was no one to see, no witnesses, not this time, but it was nevertheless a light. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 150:Down sank the great red sun, and in golden, glimmering vapors Veiled the light of his face, like the Prophet descending from Sinai. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 151:I couldn't see his face, because the light came in from behind him and he was in shadow, and he said, "I am Picasso." And I said, "Well, so what? ~ steve-martin, @wisdomtrove 152:The cross is the lightning rod of grace that short-circuits God's wrath to Christ so that only the light of His love remains for believers. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 153:And as to being in a fright, Allow me to remark That Ghosts have just as good a right In every way, to fear the light, As Men to fear the dark. ~ lewis-carroll, @wisdomtrove 154:You rose into my life like a promised sunrise, brightening my days with the light in your eyes. I've never been so strong. Now I'm where I belong. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 155:Secularism, materialism, and the intrusive presence of things have put out the light in our souls and turned us into a generation of zombies. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 156:This is my password," said the King as he drew his sword. "The light is dawning, the lie broken. Now guard thee, miscreant, for I am Tirian of Narnia. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 157:Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 158:The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove 159:Be a Bringer of the Light. For your light can do more than illuminate your own path. Your light can be the light which truly lights the world. ~ neale-donald-walsch, @wisdomtrove 160:In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is& 161:The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space. ~ immanuel-kant, @wisdomtrove 162:Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid ... Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. ~ bertrand-russell, @wisdomtrove 163:I cannot remember how I felt when the light went out of my eyes. I suppose I felt it was always night and perhaps I wondered why the day did not come. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 164:Intuition is the undoubting conception of a pure and attentive mind, which arises from the light of reason alone, and is more certain than deduction. ~ rene-descartes, @wisdomtrove 165:Faith induces one to pray.Prayer purifies the heart.In the purified heart is reflected the light of Lord.When the Light sighns the mortal becomes immortal. ~ sivananda, @wisdomtrove 166:If we are like Christ, we shall seek, not to absorb, but to reflect the light which falls upon others, and thus we shall become pure and spotless. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 167:Let men do their duty and the women will be such wonders; the female lives from the light of the male: see a male's female dependants, you know the man. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 168:Authentic power is the energy that Is formed by the intentions of the Soul. It is the light shaped by the intentions of love and compassion guided by wisdom ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 169:By unseen hands uplifted in the light Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad, And wafted up to heaven. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 170:The plant is blind but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will continue to do this in the face of endless discouragements. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 171:If I ever become a Saint - I will surely be one of "darkness." I will continually be absent from heaven - to light the light of those in darkness on earth. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 172:The humble person receives praise the way a clean window takes the light of the sun. The truer and more intense the light is, the less you see of the glass. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 173:The Master knows better than to exhaust His servants and quench the light of Israel. Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 174:The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees. ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove 175:I'm glad . . . that Edison didn't give up on the light bulb. That Luther refused to back down. That Michelangelo kept painting. That Lindbergh kept flying. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 176:The light works," he said, indicating the window, "the gravity works," he said, dropping a pencil on the floor. "Anything else we have to take our chances with. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 177:Self-love is a shift more and more from the realms of the mind into the realms of the heart. It re-opens rooms long abandoned and forgotten and lets the light in. ~ aimee-davies, @wisdomtrove 178:No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead he puts it on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light. ~ jesus-christ, @wisdomtrove 179:Behold, I am writing anew, through scribes on Earth who are willing to listen to me again with new ears, in the light of the present crises on planet Earth. ~ barbara-marx-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 180:The corporation that shrinks from the light" would have anything to fear from government. About the welfare of such corporations we need not be oversensitive. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 181:The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 182:When you realise that you are the light of the world, you will also realise that you are the love of it; that to know is to love and to love is to know. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 183:Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 184:I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. . . . So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 185:Negativity is an addiction to the bleak shadow that lingers around every human form ... you can transfigure negativity by turning it toward the light of your soul. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove 186:... what makes humanity beautiful is our free will, our individuality, our endless striving in spite of our imperfection. BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON Chapter 27 Page 214 ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 187:Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 188:Q: I see so much evil in myself. Must I not change it? M: Evil is the shadow of inattention. In the light of self-awareness, it will wither and fall off. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 189:There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 190:Within the universe there is a pure light. It is a light that is beyond all darkness. It does not give way to anything. It is the light of existence, the dharmakaya. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 191:It’s too bad if a heart lacks fire, and is deprived of the light of a heart ablaze. The day on which you are without passionate love is the most wasted day of your life. ~ omar-khayyam, @wisdomtrove 192:Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting them with the power of love. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 193:Mysticism cuts through bullshit, and it takes you right there to the experience. Everything in your life is eventually set up as a pragmatic energy flow into the light. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 194:Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light beckons ahead, and the purpose surging in our nature responds. ~ sir-arthur-eddington, @wisdomtrove 195:As you watch your mind, you discover your self as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover your self as the light behind the watcher. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 196:The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole ‚Äî And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul! ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 197:After all, there is no such thing as a perfect being Warriors of the light are not perfect. Their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn. ~ paulo-coelho, @wisdomtrove 198:Satori is a brief flash. Suddenly the light breaks through. For a short timeless time we experience eternity in its unmanifest form. It's comparable to salvikalpa samadhi. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 199:Science is observing truth in the light of head. Religion is observing truth in the light of heart. Humanity is using both the lights. And education is developing that humanity. ~ amit-ray, @wisdomtrove 200:How strangely is antiquity treated! To answer some purposes it is spoken of as the times of darkness and ignorance, and to answer others, it is put for the light of the world. ~ thomas-paine, @wisdomtrove 201:We must plunge heart and soul and body into the work. And until we are ready to sacrifice everything else to one Idea and to one alone, we never, never will see the Light. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 202:The Light of one human being who discovers the Truth has been lighting human existence for thousands of years. Such is the power of a human being who realizes the Truth of who they are. ~ mooji, @wisdomtrove 203:Americans are incredibly inpatient. Someone once said that the shortest period of time in America is the time between when the light turns green and when you hear the first horn honk. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 204:Let me rest in Your will and be silent. Then the light of Your joy will warm my life. Its fire will burn in my heart and shine for Your glory. This is what I live for. Amen, amen. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 205:The Bible is not the light of the world, it is the light of the Church. But the world does not read the Bible, the world reads Christians! ‚ÄúYou are the light of the world.‚Äù ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 206:If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 207:Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light of ideal goods. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 208:What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces incredible, that, in God's name, leave uncredited. At your peril do not try believing that! ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 209:But ultimately there is no inner, nor outer; the light of consciousness is both the creator and the creature, the experiencer and the experience, the body and the embodied. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 210:And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 211:Like a boil that must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed to the light of human conscience before it can be cured. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 212:... virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. ~ buddha, @wisdomtrove 213:Trust allows you to follow your feelings through your defenses to their sources, and to bring to the light of consciousness those aspects of yourself that resist wholeness, that live in fear. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 214:Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like to think of myself as the one who carries the light bulb. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 215:Your mind is made up of light. We call it the dharmakaya, the clear light of reality. The transcendental eternal light is everywhere. It's the light of god or whatever you want to call it. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 216:Love is the greatest healing power I know. Love can heal even the deepest and most painful memories because love brings the light of understanding to the darkest corners of our hearts and minds. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 217:Be patient with yourself. Be gentle with yourself. Know that all things are working in your favor. If you take one step toward the light of Spirit, Spirit will take five steps on your behalf. ~ lyania-vanzant, @wisdomtrove 218:You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel. ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove 219:But if you search further, you find in yourself nothing similar to God, but rather you affirm that God stands above all this as cause, origin, and the light of life of your intellective soul. ~ nicholas-of-cusa, @wisdomtrove 220:Delusion will vanish as the light becomes more and more effulgent, load after load of ignorance will vanish, and then will come a time when all else has disappeared and the sun alone shines. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 221:Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be wrenched from her with levers, screws and hammers. ~ johann-wolfgang-von-goethe, @wisdomtrove 222:On life’s journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him. ~ buddha, @wisdomtrove 223:The only influence that can really upset the injustice and iniquity of men is the power that breathes in the Christian tradition, renewing our participation in the Life that is the Light of men. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 224:A FEATHER. A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive. ~ gertrude-stein, @wisdomtrove 225:The light of the supra-conscious, of salvakalpa and nirvikalpa samadhi, is not connected to this world at all. It passes through this world but it is not part of this world, in a way of speaking. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 226:But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth. ~ margaret-fuller, @wisdomtrove 227:What is it to bring the man out of his sepulchre if you leave him dead? Why lead him into the light if he is still blind? We thank God, that he who forgives our iniquities also heals our diseases. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 228:Just behind the darkness of closed eyes shines the light of God. When you behold that light in meditation, hold onto it with devotional zeal. Feel yourself inside it: That is where God dwells. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 229:The light will disturb us when we're comfortable, and comfort us when we're disturbed. We turn to spirit for help when our foundations are shaking only to find out that it is spirit who is shaking them! ~ dan-millman, @wisdomtrove 230:Integral wisdom involves a direct participation in every moment: the observer and the observed are dissolved in the light of pure awareness, and no mental concepts or attitudes are present to dim that light. ~ lao-tzu, @wisdomtrove 231:We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 232:I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 233:SMILE! In every language, in every culture - it is the light in your window that tells people there's a caring, sharing individual inside and it's the universal code for "I'm O. K. - You're O. K., too!" ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove 234:A lot of suffering is just getting rid of dross in yourself, and lingering and hanging in the darkness is often - I say this against myself - a failure of imagination, to imagine the door into the light. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove 235:One man may read the Bhagavata by the light of a lamp, and another may commit a forgery by that very light; but the lamp is unaffected. The sun sheds its light on the wicked as well as on the virtuous. ~ sri-ramakrishna, @wisdomtrove 236:One man may read the Bhagavata by the light of a lamp, and another may commit a forgery by that very light; but the lamp is unaffected. The sun sheds its light on the wicked as well as on the virtuous.” ~ sri-ramakrishna, @wisdomtrove 237:There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 238:You are the makers of your own fortunes. You make yourselves suffer, you make good and evil, and it is you who put your hands before your eyes and say it is dark. Take your hands away and see the light. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 239:Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the longer you spend in the dark, the harder it becomes to return to the world aboveground where the light is ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 240:When you sit and meditate and begin to experience expanded states of mind, you will be afraid. The light makes most people very, very afraid. The only way to overcome the fear is walking down into the light. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 241:Beyond this world and beyond all other worlds there is an all-perfect light. It is pure intelligence, ecstasy, peace and happiness. It is the light that shines beyond darkness, time, space and dimensionality. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 242:If we cooperate with Him in loving obedience, God will manifest Himself to us, and that manifestation will be the difference between a nominal Christian life and a life radiant with the light of His face. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 243:Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 244:One love it is that pervades the whole world, few there are who know it fully: They are blind who hope to see it by the light of reason, that reason which is the cause of separation - The house of reason is very far away! ~ kabir, @wisdomtrove 245:The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 246:It is equally vain,she thought, for you to think you can protect me, or for me to think I can worship you. The light of truth beats upon us without shadow, and the light of truth is damnably unbecoming to us both. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 247:It looked as if a night of dark intentWas coming, and not only a night, an age.Someone had better be prepared for rage.There would be more than ocean-water brokenBefore God's last & 248:It is the color which love wears, and cheerfulness, and joy& 249:Great quotes make the light bulb go off in my mind. If you're like me, you'll jump at the chance to bypass all the churning and scoop the cream right off the top ~ that is what quotes are . . . the cream of our learning! ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 250:People have tended (with the help of conventions) to resolve everything in the directions of easiness, of the light, and on the lightest side of light, but it is clear that we must hold to the heavy; the difficult. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove 251:With throbbing veins and burning skin, eyes wild and heavy, thoughts hurried and disordered, he felt as though the light were a reproach, and shrunk involuntarily from the day as if he were some foul and hideous thing. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 252:When you do not take yourself to be the body, then the family life of the body, however intense and interesting, is seen only as a play on the screen of the mind, with the light of awareness as the only reality. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 253:You can visualize God's light each day and send it to someone who needs help. Your divine nature must reach out and touch the divine nature of another. Within you is the light of the world, it must be shared with the world. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 254:But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 255:The duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor dignify by partial representations, but to hold out the light of reason, whatever it may discover; and to promulgate the determinations of truth, whatever she shall dictate. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 256:It is better when you are in the world. You know how much pain there is. You can tell how established you are in the light. To remove yourself from the things you desire or things you find difficult to deal with is no answer. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 257:Heart, we will forget him! You and I, to-night! You may forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light. When you have done, pray tell me, That I my thoughts may dim; Haste! lest while you‚Äôre lagging, I may remember him! ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 258:Q: Does awareness evolve? M: What is seen may undergo many changes when the light of awareness is focussed on it, but itis the object that changes, not the light. Plants grow in sunlight, but the sun does not grow. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 259:M: Have a better look at yourself. The screen is there - it does not change. The light shines steadily. Only the film in between keeps moving and causes pictures to appear. You may call the film - destiny. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 260:Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to others the rays of a supreme and ever-shining benevolence. ~ washington-irving, @wisdomtrove 261:Love is the recognition of oneness in a world of duality. This is the birth of God into the world of form. Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove 262:It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 263:The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God's people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 264:Science contributes to our culture in many ways, as a creative intellectual activity in its own right, as the light which has served to illuminate man's place in the universe, and as the source of understanding of man's own nature. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 265:Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says: it can't be done. ~ eleanor-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 266:We here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years; and shame and disgrace will be ours if in our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed, if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 267:Don't be all the time immersed in your experiences. Remember that you are beyond the experience ever unborn and deathless. In remembering it, the quality of pure knowledge will emerge, the light of unconditional awareness. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 268:I call it God Light, because it reminds me of heaven. Every time the light shines through the window we built or any window at all, you'll know I'm right there with you, okay? That's going to be me. I'll be the light in the window. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 269:Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not understanding and your wisdom will be like not being wise. By not being wise you will become wise later. ~ zhuangzi, @wisdomtrove 270:Every feeling is a field of energy. A pleasant feeling is an energy which can nourish. Irritation is a feeling which can destroy. Under the light of awareness, the energy of irritation can be transformed into and energy which nourishes. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove 271:Jesus invites us to abide in his love. That means to dwell with all that I am in him. It is an invitation to a total belonging, to full intimacy, to an unlimited being-with. The light of the Spirit reveals to us that love conquers all fear. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 272:Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 273:The sky is changed,-and such a change! O night And storm and darkness! ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 274:Were a star quenched on high,For ages would its light,Still travelling downward from the sky,Shine on our mortal sight. So when a great man dies,For years beyond our ken,The light he leaves behind him liesUpon the paths of men. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 275:Like the cellar-growing vine is the Christian who lives in the darkness and bondage of fear. But let him go forth, with the liberty of God, into the light of love, and he will be like the plant in the field, healthy, robust, and joyful. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 276:You must be willing to examine and explore your dark side. You must acknowledge how bad you can be and how horribly unloving you can behave. When you know how deep and dark your dark side is, it helps you stand a little taller in the light. ~ lyania-vanzant, @wisdomtrove 277:And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than ever before, lighted up for her all that had been in darkness, flickered, began to grow dim, and was quenched forever. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 278:It was a cold hard easterly morning when he latched the garden gate and turned away. The light snowfall which had feathered his schoolroom windows on the Thursday, still lingered in the air, and was falling white, while the wind blew black. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 279:In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest; - guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 280:Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 281:Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 282:How can we prevent ourselves being hijacked by the shadow? The clue is in the name. We need to bring it into the light. We need to consciously acknowledge this part of ourselves. Only then will it stop unconsciously possessing us from time to time. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove 283:My apartment is infested with koala bars. It's the cutest infestation ever. Way better than cockroaches. When I turn on the light, a bunch of koala bears scatter. And I don't want 'em to. I'm like, "Hey, hold on fellas. Let me hold one of you." ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove 284:You should stop searching for phrases and chasing after words. Take the backward step and turn the light inward. Your body-mind of itself will drop off and your original face will appear. If you want to attain just this, immediately practice just this. ~ dogen, @wisdomtrove 285:There is no glimpse of the light without walking the path. You can't get it from anyone else, nor can you give it to anyone. Just take whatever steps seem easiest for you, and as you take a few steps it will be easier for you to take a few more. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 286:All experience is illuminated, or made knowable, by the light of pure Knowing. This Knowing pervades all thoughts, feelings, sensations and perceptions, irrespective of their particular characteristics. We are this transparent, unchanging Knowing. ~ rupert-spira, @wisdomtrove 287:... When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your brothers and sisters. Up until then it is night and darkness is still with us. Let us pray for the light. It is the peace the world cannot give. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 288:I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong. ~ abraham-lincoln, @wisdomtrove 289:We all know well that we can do things for others and in the process crush them, making them feel that they are incapable of doing things by themselves. To love someone is to reveal to them their capacities for life, the light that is shining in them. ~ jean-vanier, @wisdomtrove 290:Faith is a light of such supreme brilliance that it dazzles the mind and darkens all its visions of other realities, but in the end when we become used to the new light, we gain a new view of all reality transfigured and elevated in the light itself. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 291:If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.\ ~ michelangelo, @wisdomtrove 292:Let the mind be empty, and not filled with the things of the mind. Then there is only meditation, and not a meditor who is meditating . . . The mind must be clear, without movement, and in the light of that clarity the timeless will be revealed. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 293:You cannot know the knower, for you are the knower. The fact of knowing proves the knower. You need no other proof. The knower of the known is not knowable. Just like the light is known in colours only, so is the knower known in knowledge. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 294:The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 295:We need to give Christ a chance to make use of us, to be His word and His work, to share His food and His clothing in the world today. If we do not radiate the light of Christ around us, the sense of the darkness that prevails in the world will increase. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 296:There is only light and the light is all. Everything else is but a picture made of light. The picture is in the light and the light is in the picture. Life and death, self and not-self - abandon all these ideas. They are of no use to you. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 297:All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. If one could but realize this knowledge, if one could but bring it into the light of day, if we dogs would but own that we know infinitely more than we admit to ourselves! ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove 298:We live between the act of awakening and the act of surrender. Each morning, we awaken to the light and the invitation to a new day in the world of time; each night, we surrender to the dark to be taken to play in the world of dreams where time is no more. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove 299:... losing through you what seemed myself, i find selves unimaginably mine; beyond sorrow's own joys and hopings very fears yours is the light by which my spirit's born: yours is the darkness of my soul's return... you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars. ~ e-e-cummings, @wisdomtrove 300:The heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility. You can only acquire right knowledge when you have learnt to esteem it. Man has certainly the right to turn his eyes to the light, but he must first acquire this right. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove 301:And, as Man gazes at the Light, he grows conscious that all the Universe is pervaded by that Universal Presence— that the Universal Intelligence knows all— that the Universal Power is everywhere in operation— that All is One— All an emanation of God. ~ william-walker-atkinson, @wisdomtrove 302:In this universe the night was falling; the shadows were lengthening towards an east that would not know another dawn. But elsewhere the stars were still young and the light of morning lingered; and along the path he once had followed, Man would one day go again. ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove 303:Consciousness does not shine by itself. It shines by a light beyond it. Having seen the dreamlike quality of consciousness, look for the light in which it appears, which gives it being. There is the content of consciousness as well as the awareness of it. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 304:The eastern light our spires touch at morning, The light that slants upon our western doors at evening, The twilight over stagnant pools at batflight, Moon light and star light, owl and moth light, Glow-worm glowlight on a grassblade. O Light Invisible, we worship Thee! ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 305:Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. In effect, the people who change our lives the most begin to sing to us while we are still in darkness. If we listen to their song, we will see the dawning of a new part of ourselves. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 306:In the relations of man with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to human ethics. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 307:Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 308:We've gotten caught up in thinking we are what we look like, the physical, the exterior. We think we're the lamp shade. We've forgotten that we are the light-the electricity and the luminosity that lights up every man, woman, and child. The light is who we truly are. ~ michael-beckwith, @wisdomtrove 309:Lord Jesus, master of both the light and the darkness, send your Holy Spirit upon our preparations for Christmas. We whose hearts are heavy seek the joy of your presence. We are your people, walking in darkness, yet seeking the light. To you we say, & 310:My apartment is infested with koala bears. It's the cutest infestation ever. Way better than cockroaches. When I turn on the light a bunch of koala bears scatter. But I don't want 'em to, you know, I'm like "Hey, hold on, fellas. Let me hold one of you. And feed you a leaf." ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove 311:Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?' A man may do both,' said Aragorn. & 312:It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret. ~ vernon-howard, @wisdomtrove 313:All night my heart makes its way however it can over the rough ground of uncertainties, but only until night meets and then is overwhelmed by morning, the light deepening, the wind easing and just waiting, as I too wait (and when have I ever been disappointed?) for redbird to sing ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove 314:If you are going to be courageous, an example for all those who are ready to step into their power, then you must be willing to show the world all of who you are. You must have the guts to throw off the chains of modesty and mediocrity in order to be the light that the world needs. ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove 315:Our self – luminous, open, empty Awareness – cannot be enlightened. It is already the light that illuminates all experience. Nor can a separate self be enlightened, for when the separate self faces the light of Awareness, it vanishes, just as a shadow does when exposed to the sun. ~ rupert-spira, @wisdomtrove 316:Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully. So is the light Divine. It falls equally and impartially on all hearts, but the pure and pious hearts of holy men receive and reflect that light well. ~ sri-ramakrishna, @wisdomtrove 317:Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the inter-relations of these. ~ amsel-adams, @wisdomtrove 318:Like all her friends, I miss her greatly... But... I am sure there is no case for lamentation... Virginia Woolf got through an immense amount of work, she gave acute pleasure in new ways, she pushed the light of the English language a little further against darkness. Those are facts. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove 319:There is an ineffable mystery that underlies ourselves and the world. It is the darkness from which the light shines. When you recognize the integrity of the universe and that death is as certain as birth, then you can relax and accept that this is the way it is. There is nothing else to do. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 320:Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 321:To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect on me is to live on the doorstep of hell. Selfishness is doomed to frustration centered as it is upon a lie. To live exclusively for myself, I must make all things bend themselves to my will as if I were a god. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 322:The sun shines equally on diamond and charcoal, but the former has developed qualities that enable it to reflect the sunlight brilliantly, while the latter is unable to reflect the sunlight. Emulate the diamond in your dealings with people. Brightly reflect the light of God's love. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 323:Just as a stone, a tree, a straw, grain, a mat, a cloth, a pot, and so on, when burned, are reduced to earth (from which they came), so the body and its sense organs, on being burned in the fire of Knowledge, become Knowledge and are absorbed in Brahman, like darkness in the light of the sun. ~ adi-shankara, @wisdomtrove 324:Your weakness is due to your conviction that you were born into the world. In reality, the world is ever recreated in you and by you. See everything as emanating from the light which is the source of your own being. You will find that in that light there is love and infinite energy. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 325:Man’s only possible escape from the pain of the mental plane is through the channel of spiritual unfoldment— the growth of consciousness along spiritual lines— the turning of the light of consciousness into the heretofore unexplored field of the spiritual faculties. Here alone is peace. ~ william-walker-atkinson, @wisdomtrove 326:As you watch your mind, you discover your self as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover your self as the light behind the watcher. The source of light is dark, unknown is the source of knowledge. That source alone is. Go back to that source and abide there. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 327:Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me? ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove 328:As you watch your mind, you discover your self as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover your self as the light behind the watcher. The source of light is dark, unknown is the source of knowledge. That source alone is. Go back to that source and abide there go. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 329:Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear, And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea, And flowery earth in May, and bounding waters; And so right many fair things I might praise; Yet nothing is so radiant and so fair As for souls childless, with desire sore-smitten, To see the light of babes about the house. ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove 330:The spirit of Lincoln still lives; that spirit born of the teachings of the Nazarene, who promised mercy to the merciful, who lifted the lowly, strengthened the weak, ate with publicans, and made the captives free. In the light of this divine example, the doctrines of demagogues shiver in their chaff. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 331:If we are going to find our way out of shame and back to each other, vulnerability is the path and courage is the light. To set down those lists of *what we're supposed to be* is brave. To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 332:Feel the love of God; then in every person you will see the face of the Father, the light of love which is in all. You will find a magic, living relationship uniting the trees, the sky, the stars, all people, and all living things; and you will feel a oneness with them. This is the code of divine love. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 333:Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky; but the stars are there and will reappear. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 334:A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 335:Many mothers make the mistake of forever looking for the bad in the child, trying to . . . uproot and drive it out. This is like trying to eject the darkness from a room without opening the shutters and letting in the light. As John Newton said, & 336:If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove 337:... Even so, we say that the air is darkened around us by a deficiency and absence of the light; while yet the light is itself always light and illumines the darkness. Therefore, evil inheres not in the devils or in us, as evil, but only as a deficiency and lack of the perfection of our proper virtues. ~ pseudo-dionysius-the-areopagite, @wisdomtrove 338:In the world it is little comprehended what love is; and yet it is man's very life. That this is little comprehended is evident from the common saying "What is love?" What it is, is not known for the reason that love is not manifest to the understanding, and the understanding is the receptacle of the light of heaven. ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove 339:I don't think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You're always writing it to be something. Later, you decide whether it'll ever see the light of day. But at the moment of its writing, it's always meant to be something. So, to me, there's no practicing; there's only editing and publishing or not publishing. ~ steve-martin, @wisdomtrove 340:There is neither source nor end, for all things are in the Center of Time. As all the stars may be reflected in a round raindrop falling in the night: so too do all the stars reflect the raindrop. There is neither darkness nor death, for all things are, in the Light of the Moment, and their end and their beginning are one. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 341:Of course, there is a sense of identity, but it is the identity of a memory track, like the identity of a sequence of pictures on the ever-present screen. Without the light and the screen there can be no picture. To know the picture as the play of light on the screen, gives freedom from the idea that the picture is real. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 342:Those who grumble at the little thing that has fallen to their lot to do will grumble at everything. Always grumbling, they will lead a miserable life, and everything will be a failure. But those who do their duties as they go, putting their shoulders to the wheel, will see the light, and higher duties will fall to their share. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 343:The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think, and what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny ... it is the light that guides your way. ~ heraclitus, @wisdomtrove 344:When she took her opposite place in the carriage corner, the brightness in her face was so charming to behold, that on her exclaiming, "What beautiful stars and what a glorious night!" the Secretary said "Yes," but seemed to prefer to see the night and the stars in the light of her lovely little countenance, to looking out of window. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 345:What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the source of darkness or vice versa? Is the soul a source of hope or despair? Who are these so called heroes and where do they come from? Are their origins in obscurity or in plain sight? ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 346:Consequently, the truth of God lives in our souls more by the power of superior moral courage than by the light of an eminent intelligence. Indeed, spiritual intelligence itself depends on the fortitude and patience with which we sacrifice ourselves for the truth, as it is communicated to our lives concretely in the providential will of God ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 347:Often you can see power lines running alongside the street. Unless current is flowing through them, there is no light. The power line is you and I! The current is God! We have the power to allow the current to flow through us and thus to generate the light of the world: JESUS - or to refuse to be used and, thus, allow the darkness to spread. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 348:The ghosts race towards the light, you can almost hear the heavy breathing spirits, all determined to get somewhere. New Orleans, unlike a lot of places you go back to and that don't have the magic anymore, still has got it. Night can swallow you up, yet none of it touches you. You can't see it, but you know it's here. Somebody's always sinking. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 349:There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 350:Home is the center of my being where I can hear the voice that says: & 351:To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth - not a truth from you head but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego but a truth from the highest source. You have to be willing to be deeply honest with yourself about the shape your life is in each day. ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove 352:I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 353:People are called & 354:Contradictions have always existed in the soul of [individuals]. But it is only when we prefer analysis to silence that they become a constant and insoluble problem. We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them and see them in the light of exterior and objective values which make them trivial by comparison. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 355:Cold Mountain Buddhas Han Shan Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness be dancing. Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning. The wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry, The laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony Of death and birth. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 356:Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity is the shaking voice& 357:A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement; the light was all withdrawn; the shining church turned cold and dark; the stream forgot to smile; the birds were silent; and the gloom of winter dwelt on everything. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 358:In creating "something else" - namely the realm of the relative - we have produced an environment in which we may choose to be God, rather than simply be told that we are God, in which we may experience our Godness as an act of creation, rather than conceptualisation, in which the little candle in the sun - the littlest soul - can know itself as the light. ~ neale-donald-walsch, @wisdomtrove 359:On Father's Day, we pay tribute to all in our society who have taken on the responsibilities and joys of fatherhood. Whether our fathers are near at hand or a continent away, with their families or watching from the light of eternity, we take this day to remember them, to say our thanks for the years they have given us, and to ask that they receive God's blessings. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 360:There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. Some men, like bats or owls, have better eyes for the darkness than for the light. We, who have no such optical powers, are better pleased to take our last parting look at the visionary companions of many solitary hours, when the brief sunshine of the world is blazing full upon them. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 361:Something magical happens when you begin to love and accept yourself. You start to shine your light again. You realise that you are connected to a deeper Self, a divine spark within. This divine spark is the light of your inner awareness, illuminating all your life experiences, and when you sink back and rest in it, as it, it is felt as a sense of pure aliveness and joy. ~ aimee-davies, @wisdomtrove 362:So we'll go no more a-roving So late into the night, Though the heart still be as loving, And the moon still be as bright. For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul outwears the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, And love itself have rest. Though the night was made for loving, And the day returns too soon, Yet we'll go no more a-roving By the light of the moon. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 363:In order to find God in ourselves, we must stop looking at ourselves, stop checking and verifying ourselves in the mirror of our own futility, and be content to be in Him and to do whatever He wills, according to our limitations, judging our acts not in the light of our own illusions, but in the light of His reality which is all around us in the things and people we live with. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 364:Who am I? It matters not that you know who I am; it is of little importance. This clay garment is one of a penniless pilgrim journeying in the name of peace. It is what you cannot see that is so very important. I am one who is propelled by the power of faith; I bathe in the light of eternal wisdom; I am sustained by the unending energy of the universe; this is who I really am. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 365:The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. When you start to see the light that you really are, the light waking up in you, the radiance, you realize it has no intention to change you. It has no intention to harmonize. It has no agenda. It just happens. The Truth is the only thing you'll ever run into that has no agenda. Everything else will have an agenda. ~ adyashanti, @wisdomtrove 366:Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing - instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 367:The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous. Is it, perchance, cherished by persons who should know better? Then their folly should be brought out into the light of day, and exhibited there in all its hideousness until they flee from it, hiding their heads in shame. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 368:Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled-to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world. I want to believe I am looking into the white fire of a great mystery. I want to believe that the imperfections are nothing-that the light is everything-that it is more than the sum of each flawed blossom rising and fading. And I do. ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove 369:Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to each other and are forever reborn. And with them, all is reborn, the flower of the apple tree, the light of the stars. In life is death. In death is rebirth. What then is life without death? Life unchanging, everlasting, eternal?-What is it but death-death without rebirth? ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 370:The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove 371:The soul of man, left to its own natural level, is a potentially lucid crystal left in darkness. It is perfect in its own nature, but it lacks something that it can only receive from outside and above itself. But when the light shines in it, it becomes in a manner transformed into light and seems to lose its nature in the splendor of a higher nature, the nature of the light that is in it. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 372:You know, the smallest thing can change a life. In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - and when you least expect it - since we're on a course that you could have never planned, into a future you never imagined. Where will it take you? That's the journey of our lives: our search for the light. But sometimes, finding the light means you must past through the deepest darkness. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 373:Forgiveness is a selective remembering. It is a conscious choice to focus on someone's innocence instead of his or her mistakes... This serves *you*... Your body was not created to bear the burden of your overattachment to it, but was created as a container for the light of your spirit. It will more easily remember how to function perfectly when you remember the perfection in everyone. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 374:One has to be a light to oneself; this light is the law. There is no other law. All the other laws are made by thought and so fragmentary and contradictory. To be a light to oneself is not to follow the light of another, however reasonable, logical, historical, and however convincing. You cannot be a light to yourself if you are in the dark shadows of authority, of dogma, of conclusion. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 375:We've forgotten what it's like not to be able to reach the light switch. We've forgotten a lot of the monsters that seemed to livein our room at night. Nevertheless, those memories are still there, somewhere inside us, and can sometimes be brought to the surface by events, sights, sounds, or smells. Children, though, can never have grown-up feelings until they've been allowed to do the growing. ~ fred-rogers, @wisdomtrove 376:Liberation and enlightenment do not exist outside of your own self. We need only open our eyes to see that we ourselves are the very essence of liberation and enlightenment. All dharmas, all beings, contain the nature of full enlightenment within themselves. Don't look for it outside yourself. If you shine the light of awareness on your own self, you will realize enlightenment immediately. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove 377:Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be tired on its journey; that Truth might be accused of false witnesses, the Teacher be beaten with whips, the Foundation be suspended on wood; that Strength might grow weak; that the Healer might be wounded; that Life might die. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 378:You will say these are very small sins... [But] it does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed, the safest road to Hell is the gradual one& 379:I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet & 380:As I look back on what I’ve learned about shame, gender, and worthiness, the greatest lesson is this: If we’re going to find our way out of shame and back to each other, vulnerability is the path and courage is the light. To set down those lists of what we’re supposed to be is brave. To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 381:Every time we focus on someone else's darkness, we are blocking our own view of the light. We think the person we are involved with has attacked us or has withheld love from us, when they really haven't. We focus on their guilt instead of their innocence. Frequently people are just being themselves and we start projecting our own childhood dramas onto them, pushing away the very love we want so much. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 382:World' is a large term, but man must enlarge his allegiance, considering himself in the light of a world citizen... A person who truly feels: & 383:We can step out of our small sense of self and awaken to this reality. One of the reasons people get confused about freedom, enlightenment, and liberation is because this awakened consciousness has different facets or different dimensions, a bit like a crystal. If you hold this luminous crystal up to the light and turn it, it will take a beam of white light and refract it into the many colors of the spectrum. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove 384:Who is Jesus to me? Jesus is the Word made Flesh. Jesus is the Bread of Life. Jesus is the Victim offered for our sins on the cross. Jesus is the sacrifice offered at holy Mass for the sins of the world and for mine. Jesus is the Word - to be spoken. Jesus is the Truth - to be told. Jesus is the Way - to be walked. Jesus is the Light - to be lit. Jesus is the Life - to be lived. Jesus is the Love - to be loved ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 385:We all make mistakes, we all have fears, and we all have weaknesses. Behind all that is our essential self. When our essential self has made contact with another, the light is dazzling and would fill the universe. The challenge of enchantment is to remain faithful to that light, to believe in it when it is not so apparent. Then that light becomes an incandescent glow and it wraps itself around everything. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 386:Creation was given to people as a clean window through which the light of God could shine into people's souls. Sun and moon, night and day, rain, sea, the crops, the flowering tree, all these things were transparent. They spoke to people not of themselves but only of Him who made them. Nature was symbolic. But the progressive degradation of humans led them further and further from this truth. Nature became opaque. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 387:Your desire just happens to you along with its fulfilment, or non-fulfilment. You can change neither. You may believe that you exert yourself, strive and struggle. Again, it all merely happens, including the fruits of the work. Nothing is by you and for you. All is in the picture exposed on the cinema screen, nothing in the light, including what you take yourself to be, the person. You are the light only. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 388:As base a thing as money often is, yet it can be transmuted into everlasting treasure. It can be converted into food for the hungry and clothing for the poor. It can keep a missionary actively winning lost men to the light of the gospel and thus transmute itself into heavenly values. Any temporal possession can be turned into everlasting wealth. Whatever is given to Christ is immediately touched with immortality. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 389:As to the so-called Hindu idolatry - first go and learn the forms they are going through, and where it is that the worshippers are really worshipping, whether in the temple, in the image, or in the temple of their own bodies. First know for certain what they are doing - which more than ninety per cent of the revilers are thoroughly ignorant of - and then it will explain itself in the light of the Vedantic philosophy. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 390:In Savasana or in meditation, the light of the eyes is drawn towards the lotus of the heart, so that the seat of the intelligence of the head is brought into contact with the seat of the intelligence of the heart, which is called the mind. Thus one passes from the individualistic state of consciousness to the universal state of consciousness. It is the merging of the intellect of the brain with the intellect of the soul. ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove 391:I also teach you to love yourself first. It has nothing to do with ego. In fact, love is such a light that the darkness of the ego cannot exist in it at all. If you love others, if your love is focused on others, you will live in darkness. Turn your light toward yourself first, become a light unto yourself first. Let the light dispel your inner darkness, your inner weakness. Let love make you a tremendous power, a spiritual force. ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove 392:If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 393:She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illuminated her alone and left all else dark. She stood before Frodo seeming now tall beyond measurement, and beautiful beyond enduring, terrible and worshipful. Then she let her hand fall, and the light faded, and suddenly she laughed again, and lo! she was shrunken: a slender elf-woman, clad in simple white whose gentle voice was soft and sad. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 394:I SEE thee better in the dark, I do not need a light. The love of thee a prism be Excelling violet. I see thee better for the years That hunch themselves between, The miner‚Äôs lamp sufficient be To nullify the mine. And in the grave I see thee best‚Äî Its little panels be A-glow, all ruddy with the light I held so high for thee! What need of day to those whose dark Hath so surpassing sun, It seem it be continually At the meridian? ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 395:It was a grey day, that least fleshly of all weathers; a day of dreams and far hopes and clear visions. It was a day easily associated with those abstract truths and purities that dissolve in the sunshine or fade out in mocking laughter by the light of the moon. The trees and clouds were carved in classical severity; the sounds of the countryside had harmonized to a monotone, metallic as a trumpet, breathless as the Grecian urn. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 396:I was supremely happy, for I had seen. Nothing could ever be the same. I have drunk at the clear and pure waters and my thirst was appeased. ... I have seen the Light. I have touched compassion which heals all sorrow and suffering; it is not for myself, but for the world. ... Love in all its glory has intoxicated my heart; my heart can never be closed. I have drunk at the fountain of Joy and eternal Beauty. I am God-intoxicated. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 397:Without being bound to the fulfillment of promises, we would never be able to keep our identities; we would be condemned to wanderhelplessly and without direction in the darkness of each man's lonely heart, caught in its contradictions and equivocalities& 398:My talking, or not talking, is a part of a given situation and does not depend on me. When there is a situation in which I have to talk, I hear myself talking. In some other situation, I may not hear myself talking. It is all the same to me. Whether I talk or not, the light and love of being what I am are not affected, nor are they under my control. They are, and I know they are. There is a glad awareness, but nobody who is glad. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 399:I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far, Junpei thought: I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love. But right now I have to stay here and keep watch over this woman and this girl. I will never let anyone-not anyone-try to put them into that crazy box- not even if the sky should fall or the earth crack open with a roar. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 400:Some feelings are quite untranslatable; no language has yet been found for them. They gleam upon us beautifully through the dim twilight of fancy, and yet when we bring them close to us, and hold them up to the light of reason, lose their beauty all at once, as glow worms which gleam with such a spiritual light in the shadows of evening, when brought in where the candles are lighted, are found to be only worms like so many others. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 401:The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause; another chirped lower down. The sun sharpended the walls of the house, and rested like the tip of a fan upon a white blind and made a fingerprint of a shadow under the leaf by the bedroom window. The blind stirred slightly, but all within was dim and unsubstantial. The birds sang their blank melody outside. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 402:The path of the seeker is full of pitfalls and temptations, and the seeker must walk it alone with God. I would recommend that you keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights, so that you may attract only good. Concentrate on giving so that you may open yourself to receiving; concentrate on living according to the light you have so that you may open yourself to more light; get as much light as possible through the inner way. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 403:When a mortal man speaks anything of that eternal blessedness of the saints in glory, he is like a blind man discoursing about the light which he has never seen, and so cannot distinctly speak anything concerning it. He also said that "In a way it is akin to a man writing a travel guide for a land he has never visited or seen. It is to attempt to describe the indescribable with words which cannot come close to expressing the glory of heaven. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 404:Each religion has helped mankind. Paganism increased in man the light of beauty, the largeness and height of his life, his aim at a many-sided perfection; Christianity gave him some vision of divine love and charity; Buddhism has shown him a noble way to be wiser, gentler, purer, Judaism and Islam how to be religiously faithful in action and zealously devoted to God; Hinduism has opened to him the largest and profoundest spiritual possibilities. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove 405:I will remember the kisses our lips raw with love and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me, and I will remember your small room the feel of you the light in the window your records your books our morning coffee our noons our nights our bodies spilled together sleeping the tiny flowing currents immediate and forever your leg my leg your arm my arm your smile and the warmth of you who made me laugh again. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 406:Joy is not a constant. It comes to us in moments - often ordinary moments. Sometimes we miss out on the bursts of joy because we're too busy chasing down the extraordinary moments. Other times we're so afraid of the dark we don't dare let ourselves enjoy the light. A joyful life is not a floodlight of joy. That would eventually become unbearable. I believe a joyful life is made up of joyful moments gracefully strung together by trust, gratitude and inspiration ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 407:You may be going through a trial so overwhelming that it's borderline unbearable. You want to see the end of the tunnel. Which is only natural, because once we see that little speck of light, we feel we can make it through to the finish. But God's tunnels are often twisting, too complex and dark to see the light for many days. In such settings He says, "In that dark, twisting, seemingly endless period of time, trust Me. Stop running scared! Stop fearing!" ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 408:The final awakening is the embracing of the darkness into the light. That means embracing our humanity as well as our divinity. What we go from is being born into our humanity, sleep walking for a long time, until we awaken and start to taste our divinity. And then want to finally get free. We see as long as we grab at our divinity and push away our humanity we aren’t free. If you want to be free, you can’t push away anything. You have to embrace it all. It’s all God. ~ ram-das, @wisdomtrove 409:Each morning we awaken to the light and the invitation to a new day in the world of time; each night we surrender to the dark to be taken to play in the world of dreams where time is no more. At birth we were awakened and emerged to become visible in the world. At death we will surrender again to the dark to become invisible. Awakening and surrender: they frame each day and each life; between them the journey where anything can happen, the beauty and the frailty. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove 410:Q: But ultimately is there a world, or is there none? M: What you see is nothing but your self. Call it what you like, it does not change the fact. Through the film of destiny your own light depicts pictures on the screen. You are the viewer, the light, the picture and the screen. Even the film of destiny is self-selected and self-imposed. The spirit is a sport and enjoys to overcome obstacles. The harder the task the deeper and wider his self-realisation. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 411:We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery - by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press - their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 412:Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life's shut gate. Beyond there is light, and music, and sweet companionship; but I may not enter. Fate, silent, pitiless, bars the way‚ĶSilence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, there is joy is self-forgetfulness.' So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others; ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 413:If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent If the unheard, unspoken Word is unspoken, unheard; Still is the spoken word, the Word unheard, The Word without a word, the Word within The world and for the world; And the light shone in the darkness and Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled About the center of the silent Word. Oh my people, what have I done unto thee. Where shall the word be found, where shall the word Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 414:You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since-on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 415:We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition, and that every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his own heart. In this enlightened Age and in this Land of equal liberty it is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest Offices that are known in the United States. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove 416:It is like the flower and its colour. Without flower - no colours; without colour - the flower remains unseen. Beyond is the light which on contact with the flower creates the colour. realise that your true nature is that of pure light only, and both the perceived and the perceiver come and go together. That which makes both possible, and yet is neither, is your real being, which means not being a & 417:The Sword of Elendil was forged anew by Elvish smiths, and on its blade was traced a device of seven stars set between the crescent Moon and rayed Sun, and about them was written many runes; for Aragorn son of Arathorn was going to war upon the marches of Mordor. Very bright was that sword when it was made whole again; the light of the sun shone redly in it, and the light of the moon shone cold, its edge was hard and keen. And Aragorn gave it a new name and called it And√∫ril, Flame of the West. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 418:Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid ... Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. ~ bertrand-russell, @wisdomtrove 419:I went to the springs while the sun was still up, and sitting on a rocky outcrop above the cave mouth I watched the light grow reddish across the misty pools, and listened to the troubled voice of the water. After a while I moved farther up the hill, where I could hear birds singing near and far in the silence of the trees. The presence of the trees was very strong... The big oaks stood so many, so massive in their other life, in their deep, rooted silence: the awe of them came on me, the religion. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 420:On the whole, we think that the greatest victories are yet to be won, the greatest deeds yet to be done, and that there are yet in store for our peoples, and for the causes that we uphold, grander triumphs than have ever yet been scored. But be this as it may, we gladly agree that the one plain duty of every man is to face the future as he faces the present, regardless of what it may have in store for him, turning toward the light as he sees the light, to play his part manfully, as a man among men. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 421:It may well happen that what is in itself the more certain on account of the weakness of our intelligence, which is dazzled by the clearest objects of nature; as the owl is dazzled by the light of the sun. Hence the fact that some happen to doubt about articles of faith is not due to the uncertain nature of the truths, but to the weakness of human intelligence; yet the slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser things. ~ denis-diderot, @wisdomtrove 422:It may well happen that what is in itself the more certain on account of the weakness of our intelligence, which is dazzled by the clearest objects of nature; as the owl is dazzled by the light of the sun. Hence the fact that some happen to doubt about articles of faith is not due to the uncertain nature of the truths, but to the weakness of human intelligence; yet the slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser things. ~ thomas-aquinas, @wisdomtrove 423:We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noises and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature-trees, flowers, grass-grow in silence. Is not our mission to give God to those we walk with? Not a dead God, but a living, loving God. The more we receive in silent prayer, the more we can give in active life. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say, but what God says to us and through us. Words that don't give the light of Christ increase the darkness. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 424:Day was breaking at Plashwater Weir Mill Lock. Stars were yet visible, but there was dull light in the east that was not the light of night. The moon had gone down, and a mist crept along the banks of the river, seen through which the trees were the ghosts of trees, and the water was the ghost of water. This earth looked spectral, and so did the pale stars: while the cold eastern glare, expressionless as to heat or colour, with the eye of the firmament quenched, might have been likened to the stare of the dead. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 425:From one individual was multiplied the many people who inhabit the earth's surface. And even if that intellectual spirit, sown in earth and swallowed up in shadow, does not see the light and the source of his beginning, nevertheless, you created along with him everything through which he, kindled by wonder at those things which he contacts by the senses, can sometimes lift the eyes of his mind to you, the Creator of all, and can be reunited to you in highest love and so can finally return to his source with joy ~ nicholas-of-cusa, @wisdomtrove 426:. . .in August in Mississippi there’s a few days somewhere about the middle of the month when suddenly there’s a foretaste of fall, it’s cool, there’s a lambence, a soft, a luminous quality to the light, as though it came not from just today but from back in the old classic times. It might have fauns and satyrs and the gods and - from Greece, from Olympus in it somewhere. It lasts just for a day or two, then it’s gone. . .the title reminded me of that time, of a luminosity older than our Christian civilization. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove 427:I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has a right to the kindness and pity of that which is strong. In the relations of man with the animals... there is a great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to humans ethics. Are there not here unsounded depths for the thinker? Is one to think oneself mad because one has the sentiment of universal pity in one's heart? ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 428:In a last violent protest against the hopelessness of imminent death, I sensed my spirit piercing through the enveloping gloom. I felt it transcend that hopeless, meaningless world, and from somewhere I heard a victorious "Yes" in answer to my question of the existence of an ultimate purpose. At that moment a light was lit in a distant farmhouse, which stood on the horizon as if painted there, in the midst of the miserable gray of a dawning morning in Bavaria. "Et lux in tenebris lucet"-and the light shineth in the darkness. ~ viktor-frankl, @wisdomtrove 429:I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness as it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge. ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove 430:Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality. But today, in the world's most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors. ~ aldous-huxley, @wisdomtrove 431:Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with an its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 432:Look within diligently, remember to remember that the perceived cannot be the perceiver. Whatever you see, hear or think of, remember - you are not what happens, you are he to whom it happens. Delve deeply into the sense & 433:For why, my brothers and sisters, would you rejoice in silver? Either your silver will perish, or you will, and no one knows which will perish first. For neither can you remain here always, nor can silver remain here always; so also with gold, wardrobes, houses, money, real estate-and in the end, even the light by which we enjoy all these things. So do not be willing then to rejoice in such things as these. Rejoice instead in the light that has no setting; rejoice in the dawn which no yesterday precedes, and no tomorrow follows. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 434:In the light of her son's comment she reconsidered the scene at the mosque, to see whose impression was correct. Yes it could be worked into quite an unpleasant scene. The doctor had begun by bullying her, had said Mrs Callendar was nice, and then - finding the ground safe - had changed; he had alternately whined over his grievances and patronized her, had run a dozen ways in a single sentence, had been unreliable, inquisitive, vain. Yes, it was all true, but how false as a summary of the man; the essential life of him had been slain. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove 435:The darkness of racial injustice will be dispelled only by the light of forgiving love. For more that three centuries American Negroes have been frustrated by day and bewilderment by night by unbearable injustice, and burdened with the ugly weight of discrimination. Forced to live with these shameful conditions, we are tempted to become bitter and retaliate with a corresponding hate. But if this happens, the new order we seek will be little more than a duplicate of the old order. We must in strength and humility meet hate with love. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 436:Lower the Law and you dim the light by which man perceives his guilt; this is a very serious loss to the sinner rather than a gain; for it lessens the likelihood of his conviction and conversion. I say you have deprived the gospel of its ablest auxiliary [its most powerful weapon] when you have set aside the Law. You have taken away from it the schoolmaster that is to bring men to Christ . . . They will never accept grace till they tremble before a just and holy Law. Therefore the Law serves a most necessary purpose, and it must not be removed from its place. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 437:Grace is from God, and works in the depth of the soul whose powers it employs. It is a light which issues forth to do service under the guidance of the Spirit. The Divine Light permeates the soul, and lifts it above the turmoil of temporal things to rest in God. The soul cannot progress except with the light which God has given it as a nuptial gift; love works the likeness of God into the soul. The peace, freedom and blessedness of all souls consist in their abiding in God's will. Towards this union with God for which it is created the soul strives perpetually. ~ meister-eckhart, @wisdomtrove 438:I would call the attention of the reader to the difference between "reason" and "reasoning." Reason is a light, reasoning a process. Reason is a faculty, reasoning an exercise of that faculty. Reasoning proceeds from one truth to another by means of argumentation. This generally involves the whole mind in labor and complexity. But reason does not exist merely in order to engage in reasoning. The process is a means to an end. The true fulfillment of reason as a faculty is found when it can embrace the truth simply and without labor in the light of single intuition. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 439:I am thinking of one woman and the rest is blotto. I say I am thinking of her, but the truth is I am dying a stellar death. I am lying there like a sick star waiting for the light to go out. Years ago I lay on this same bed and I waited and waited to be born. Nothing happened. Except that my mother, in her Lutheran rage, threw a bucket of water over me. My mother, poor imbecile that she was, thought I was lazy. She didn't know that I had gotten caught in the stellar drift, that I was being pulverized to a black extinction out there in the farthest rim of the universe. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 440:Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sort of repellent animal intended to dwell in darkness which has been dragged out of its cloaca. One seems to see a horned and living creature viciously struggling to be restored to the place where it belongs. One word is like a claw, another like a sightless and bleeding eye; and there are phrases which clutch like the pincers of a crab. And all of it is alive with the hideous vitality of things that have organized themselves amid disorganization. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 441:I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 442:I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 443:Reasoning is compared to understanding as movement is to rest, or acquisition to possession... . Since movement always proceeds from something immovable, and ends in something at rest, hence it is that human reasoning, in the order of inquiry and discovery, proceeds from certain things absolutely understood& 444:Reasoning is compared to understanding as movement is to rest, or acquisition to possession... . Since movement always proceeds from something immovable, and ends in something at rest, hence it is that human reasoning, in the order of inquiry and discovery, proceeds from certain things absolutely understood& 445:The poison was brewed in these West lands but it has spat itself everywhere by now. However far you went you would find the machines, the crowded cities, the empty thrones, the false writings, the barren beds: men maddened with false promises and soured with true miseries, worshipping the iron works of their own hands, cut off from Earth their Mother and from the Father in Heaven. You might go East so far the East became West and you returned to Britain across the great Ocean, but even so you would not have come out anywhere into the light. The shadow of one dark wing is over all Tellus. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 446:And you, Ringbearer' she said, turning to Frodo. & 447:Every Warrior of the Light has felt afraid of going into battle. Every Warrior of the Light has, at some time in the past, lied or betrayed someone. Every Warrior of the Light has trodden a path that was not his. Every Warrior of the Light has suffered for the most trivial of reasons. Every Warrior of the Light has, at least once, believed he was not a Warrior of the Light. Every Warrior of the Light has failed in his spiritual duties. Every Warrior of the Light has said ‘yes’ when he wanted to say ‘no.’ Every Warrior of the Light has hurt someone he loved. That is why he is a Warrior of the Light, because he has been through all this and yet has never lost hope of being better than he is. ~ paulo-coelho, @wisdomtrove 448:A Blessing; May the light of your soul guide you; May the light of your soul bless the work you do with the secret love and warmth of your heart; May you see in what you do the beauty of your own soul; May the sacredness of your work bring healing, light and renewal to those who work with you and to those who see and receive your work; May your work never weary you; May it release within you wellsprings of refreshment, inspiration and excitement; May you be present in what you do. May you never become lost in the bland absences; May the day never burden; May dawn find you awake and alert, approaching your new day with dreams, possibilities and promises; May evening find you gracious and fulfilled; May you go into the night blessed, sheltered and protected; May your soul calm, console and renew you. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove 449:Be silent and listen: have you recognised your madness and do you admit it? Have you noticed that all your foundations are completely mired in madness? Do you not want to recognise your madness and welcome it in a friendly manner? You wanted to accept everything. So accept madness too. Let the light of your madness shine, and it will suddenly dawn on you. Madness is not to be despised and not to be feared, but instead you should give it life... If you want to find paths, you should also not spurn madness, since it makes up such a great part of your nature... Be glad that you can recognise it, for you will thus avoid becoming its victim. Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since life itself is full of craziness and at bottom utterly illogical. Man strives toward reason only so that he can make rules for himself. Life itself has no rules. That is its mystery and its unknown law. What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life. ~ carl-jung, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:Woman is the light of God. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
2:Now I see the light. ~ Kennedy Ryan, #NFDB
3:He let in the light. ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
4:The light of the Way seems dim. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
5:father flipped the light ~ John Gilstrap, #NFDB
6:Keep me where the light is. ~ John Mayer, #NFDB
7:The light was in her eyes. ~ Henry James, #NFDB
8:You try to walk in the light. ~ Marie Lu, #NFDB
9:The boy who walks in the light. ~ Marie Lu, #NFDB
10:When I step into the light ~ Dave Matthews, #NFDB
11:Use the light to return to clarity. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
12:Failure is a trick of the light. ~ Matt Haig, #NFDB
13:Fate lies within the light cone. ~ Liu Cixin, #NFDB
14:"See the light in everyone." ~ Lama Surya Das, #NFDB
15:The Light knows how sane he still ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
16:We turn from the light to see. ~ Don Paterson, #NFDB
17:You are the light of the world. ~ Bill Hybels, #NFDB
18:14“You are the light of the world. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
19:Can the darkness condemn the light? ~ El Greco, #NFDB
20:I am moved by the light. ~ Maurice Maeterlinck, #NFDB
21:In the light of fuller day, ~ Charles Kingsley, #NFDB
22:I see the light in your smile. ~ Stevie Wonder, #NFDB
23:The light of love sees no walls. ~ Suzy Kassem, #NFDB
24:Children always turn to the light. ~ David Hare, #NFDB
25:And with madness comes the light. ~ Karina Halle, #NFDB
26:After darkness comes the light. ~ Cornelius Nepos, #NFDB
27:bullies the light out of the room. ~ Ian Caldwell, #NFDB
28:Weep, for the light is dead. ~ Friedrich Schiller, #NFDB
29:darkness, you bring in the light. ~ Iyanla Vanzant, #NFDB
30:I'll be the light in the window. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
31:Numb the dark and you numb the light. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
32:The Light it's there. It's always been there. ~ ?, #NFDB
33:The Warrior of the Light meditates. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
34:archway and hit the light switch for the ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
35:Fear builds walls to bar the light. ~ Baal Shem Tov, #NFDB
36:I'm drawn between the light and dark. ~ David Bowie, #NFDB
37:Numb the dark and you numb the light. ~ Brene Brown, #NFDB
38:The leaves and the light are one. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
39:The light of the screen annoys me. ~ Franca Sozzani, #NFDB
40:The light that lies In woman's eyes. ~ Charles Lamb, #NFDB
41:They danced by the light of the moon. ~ Edward Lear, #NFDB
42:Your body is woven from the Light of Heaven. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
43:Have faith in the light you carry. ~ Seth Adam Smith, #NFDB
44:Language is the light of the mind ~ John Stuart Mill, #NFDB
45:No one looks for badness in the light. ~ Leah Raeder, #NFDB
46:She runs up into the light surprised ~ Dave Matthews, #NFDB
47:The Light of Christ illumines all. ~ Gregory Palamas, #NFDB
48:The truth, as the light, makes blind. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
49:Why doesn't the wind move the light? ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
50:hands, watching the light ripple ~ Helen Scott Taylor, #NFDB
51:Humility is the light of understanding. ~ John Bunyan, #NFDB
52:I see the light at the end of the candle. ~ Emma Bull, #NFDB
53:It's the light of the oncoming train. ~ Robert Lowell, #NFDB
54:Language is the light of the mind. ~ John Stuart Mill, #NFDB
55:When You Are In The Light, Everything ~ Adolf Hitler, #NFDB
56:be like a flower,look at the light ~ Robin Craig Clark, #NFDB
57:Pen’s novel The Light of the Fireflies ~ Sof a Segovia, #NFDB
58:The dark makes the light stuff brighter. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
59:And the light shineth in the darkness. ~ Bertolt Brecht, #NFDB
60:CHAPTER EIGHTY-NINE Losing the Light ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
61:Every judgement blocks the light! ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB
62:No one can live in the light all the time. ~ Libba Bray, #NFDB
63:Salute the darkness and remember the light. ~ P D James, #NFDB
64:The light has gone out of my life. ~ Theodore Roosevelt, #NFDB
65:This Roberto. He no like the light. ~ Christopher Moore, #NFDB
66:At the darkest moment comes the light. ~ Joseph Campbell, #NFDB
67:I desire and love nothing that is not of the light. ~ id, #NFDB
68:Nobody loves the light like the blind man. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
69:Rage, rage against the dying of the light ~ Dylan Thomas, #NFDB
70:The light of that greater invisible sun... ~ Jean Gebser, #NFDB
71:Tonight the light of love is in your eyes, ~ Carole King, #NFDB
72:We are all broken that's how the light gets in ~ Unknown, #NFDB
73:When I feel the heat, I see the light. ~ Everett Dirksen, #NFDB
74:Humility is the light of the understanding. ~ John Bunyan, #NFDB
75:I rest in the light of forgiveness. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher, #NFDB
76:Put out the light and then put out the light. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
77:the dark, the light. What's the difference ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
78:The light is the left hand of darkness ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
79:The light of that greater invisible sun... ~ Jean Gebser, #NFDB
80:The light's hot, everything’s hot, I’m hot. ~ Niall Horan, #NFDB
81:The mind is the shadow of the light it seeks. ~ Jim Dodge, #NFDB
82:The wound is the place where the Light enters you. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
83:all hail the light, the dark, and the gray. ~ Chuck Wendig, #NFDB
84:All hail the light, the dark, and the grey. ~ Chuck Wendig, #NFDB
85:Deep in our Hearts, the Light of Heaven is shining. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
86:Every moment is made glorious by the light of love. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
87:Love is the light that casts no shadow. ~ Elizabeth Lowell, #NFDB
88:Love is the light that you see by. ~ Bess Streeter Aldrich, #NFDB
89:Reason saw not, till Faith sprung the Light. ~ John Dryden, #NFDB
90:The brighter the light, the darker the shadow. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
91:The light is the left hand of darkness. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
92:Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, ~ Thomas Gray, #NFDB
93:Kidd, turn off the light to spare my blushes. ~ Henry James, #NFDB
94:The ego's blocking the light from coming. ~ Sandra Cisneros, #NFDB
95:Concentrate on the Essence, concentrate on the Light. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
96:Dust particles panicked and swarmed in the light. ~ Ali Shaw, #NFDB
97:No darkness can conquer the light love sheds. ~ Quinn Loftis, #NFDB
98:Not all battles can be fought in the light. ~ Jessica Khoury, #NFDB
99:Walking, reading, watching the light change. ~ Gail Caldwell, #NFDB
100:You are the light of the world. You are the ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
101:You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs. ~ Rob Bell, #NFDB
102:Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light ~ Sallust, #NFDB
103:Ideology is the light that creates darkness. ~ Robert Boswell, #NFDB
104:"It's never too late to turn on the light." ~ Sharon Salzberg, #NFDB
105:No shadow can dare to look at the light! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
106:Out of darkness is born the light. ~ Saint Catherine of Siena, #NFDB
107:Silence is a lie that screams at the light. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
108:The brighter the light, the deeper the shadow. ~ Jay Kristoff, #NFDB
109:The light of morning decomposes everything. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
110:The light strengthened, the mornings came sooner. ~ E B White, #NFDB
111:The shadows are as important as the light. ~ Charlotte Bronte, #NFDB
112:But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. ~ John Green, #NFDB
113:How can one love the light and live in darkness? ~ Brent Weeks, #NFDB
114:The brighter the light, the deeper the shadows. ~ Jay Kristoff, #NFDB
115:The wound is the place where the light enters you. ~ Matt Haig, #NFDB
116:To drive out the darkness, bring in the light. ~ Henri Bergson, #NFDB
117:We write by the light of every book we've read. ~ Richard Peck, #NFDB
118:Comprehend then the light and know it. ~ Hermes I. “Poimandres”, #NFDB
119:During the night we must wait for the light. ~ Francis de Sales, #NFDB
120:If you don't have shadows, you're not in the light. ~ Lady Gaga, #NFDB
121:In him was life, and the life was the light of men. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
122:In the broken places, the light shines through. ~ Leonard Cohen, #NFDB
123:It was as if she was becoming the light. ~ Benjamin Alire S enz, #NFDB
124:I want to go about like the light-footed goats. ~ Johanna Spyri, #NFDB
125:Love is the light that can shine so bright. ~ Christopher Cross, #NFDB
126:The best we can do is lean towards the light. ~ Joseph Campbell, #NFDB
127:The light of the Sun is the pure energy of intellect. ~ Proclus, #NFDB
128:These thoughts robbed the light from my eyes, ~ James Lee Burke, #NFDB
129:The universe and the light of the stars come through me. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
130:We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness. ~ A D Gordon, #NFDB
131:You are the light that shines in my darkness. ~ Sylvain Reynard, #NFDB
132:You must see the darkness to appreciate the light. ~ A G Riddle, #NFDB
133:If you dont have any shadows you're not in the light ~ Lady Gaga, #NFDB
134:In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf ~ Eric Carle, #NFDB
135:It takes practice to shave the skin off the light. ~ Anne Carson, #NFDB
136:Maybe the light's at the other end of the tunnel. ~ Ben Fountain, #NFDB
137:Run while you have the light of life! ~ Saint Benedict of Nursia, #NFDB
138:The dark and the light are braided and bound. ~ Marc Ian Barasch, #NFDB
139:The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
140:The light in that room was a kind of malpractice. ~ Adam Haslett, #NFDB
141:The light of the Sun is the pure energy of intellect. ~ Proclus, #NFDB
142:We are all broken thats how the light gets in ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
143:What's done in the dark always comes to the light. ~ Jesmyn Ward, #NFDB
144:You don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. ~ Libba Bray, #NFDB
145:Every day you play with the light of the universe. ~ Pablo Neruda, #NFDB
146:Folks are like plants; we all lean towards the light. ~ Kris Carr, #NFDB
147:I live in the light,
But carry my dark with me. ~ John Marsden,#NFDB
148:I'm afraid of the dark,and suspicious of the light. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
149:In the light of one choice, we will sing with one voice. ~ Tarkan, #NFDB
150:Let nothing come between you and the light. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
151:People are like plants: they grow toward the light. ~ Hope Jahren, #NFDB
152:Suffer the dark, go to the light whenever it's there. ~ P J Tracy, #NFDB
153:The veils that hide the light shall be rent asunder. ~ Baha-ullah, #NFDB
154:The warrior of the light has a destiny to fulfill. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
155:Turn to the light. Don't fear the shadow it creates. ~ Ted Dekker, #NFDB
156:Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns. ~ William Wordsworth, #NFDB
157:You are the light of my life and I believe in you. ~ David Gaider, #NFDB
158:Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light. ~ Theodore Roethke, #NFDB
159:Don't fear the darkness if you carry the light within. ~ Sivananda, #NFDB
160:For this I came - to open your hearts to the Light. ~ Mother Meera, #NFDB
161:He has learned that it is best to follow the light. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
162:I find the light and work it, work it, work it. ~ Janice Dickinson, #NFDB
163:it’s in the broken places where the light gets in. ~ Maddie Dawson, #NFDB
164:No one thanks you for showing them the light. ~ Michael R Fletcher, #NFDB
165:Nothing can dim the light which shines from within. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
166:On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
167:Reduce the light, increase the concentration! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
168:The ideal was the light; the real, the shadow. ~ Philip Jos Farmer, #NFDB
169:The light at dusk was a low blaze, a brightness. ~ Jeff VanderMeer, #NFDB
170:The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
171:The truth is the light and the light is the truth. ~ Ralph Ellison, #NFDB
172:We are all broken, that's how the light gets in ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
173:We are all broken,that's how the light gets in. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
174:We are all broken—that’s how the light gets in. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
175:you are the light
that most men
will never deserve ~ R H Sin,#NFDB
176:Blessed are the cracked, for they let in the light ~ Spike Milligan, #NFDB
177:Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. ~ Theodore Roethke, #NFDB
178:The light of love drives away the darkness of guilt. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
179:the night of thought is the light of perception. ~ Evelyn Underhill, #NFDB
180:We are all broken, that's how the light gets in. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
181:Breathe in the light, Alice. Breathe out the anger. ~ Melissa Albert, #NFDB
182:Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world. ~ Alfred Jarry, #NFDB
183:I am convinced that it is the light and the way. ~ George C Williams, #NFDB
184:It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light. ~ Wilkie Collins, #NFDB
185:Oppression won't win, the light comes from within. ~ Linda McCartney, #NFDB
186:The warrior of the light has the qualities of a rock. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
187:The wound is the place where the Light enters you. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
188:To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB
189:We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light. ~ Albert Pike, #NFDB
190:Where did the light come from on the first day? ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
191:You cannot let the darkness overcome the light. ~ Melissa de la Cruz, #NFDB
192:During the night we must wait for the light. ~ Saint Francis de Sales, #NFDB
193:I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight. ~ Louis Daguerre, #NFDB
194:I have stared into the light and you are all my shadows. ~ Mike Carey, #NFDB
195:Imagination is the light by which we can penetrate ~ Charles F Haanel, #NFDB
196:In the light from above devotion will blossom in you. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
197:That he'd see the light and it'd still be in a tunnel. ~ Colum McCann, #NFDB
198:The light had simply and utterly destroyed the darkness. ~ Ted Dekker, #NFDB
199:The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. ~ Plato, #NFDB
200:There is something haunting in the light of the moon. ~ Joseph Conrad, #NFDB
201:The soul should be examined in the light of other souls. ~ A D Gordon, #NFDB
202:When you are dead, it is hard to find the light switch. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
203:Atheism is a fairy story for people afraid of the Light. ~ John Lennox, #NFDB
204:At the centre of the Light there is a cold white flame, ~ Susan Cooper, #NFDB
205:During the night we must wait for the light. ~ Saint Francis de Sales, #NFDB
206:The permission cast a shadow with the light of inhibition. ~ C D Reiss, #NFDB
207:“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, #NFDB
208:They who walk in the light do not see those in the shadow. ~ Ana s Nin, #NFDB
209:To pore upon a book, to seek the light of truth. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
210:We write by the light of every story we have ever read. ~ Richard Peck, #NFDB
211:All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light. ~ Clive James, #NFDB
212:For the Warrior of the Light, there are no abstractions. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
213:Integrity is your destiny-it is the light that guides your way. ~ Plato, #NFDB
214:so id burn this whole city down just to show you the light ~ Pete Wentz, #NFDB
215:The light from the oncoming train focuses the mind. ~ Bruce Springsteen, #NFDB
216:The light of faith makes us see what we believe. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, #NFDB
217:The truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light. ~ Menander, #NFDB
218:Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness. ~ Lucretius, #NFDB
219:Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light. ~ Yogi Bhajan, #NFDB
220:Untill the light takes us, the darkness will show us the way. ~ Unknown, #NFDB
221:Yesterday's pain is the Warrior of the Light's strength. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
222:You are my flower and I am your stem holding you to the light. ~ Poppet, #NFDB
223:You can never rise above the light you look up to. ~ Matthew Ashimolowo, #NFDB
224:You live by the light of the moon, and I live by desire. ~ Stevie Nicks, #NFDB
225:Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light. ~ Groucho Marx, #NFDB
226:By the light of our insistent truths we wander into death ~ Edmond Jabes, #NFDB
227:Enlightenment is living in the light of cosmic collaboration. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
228:It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray. ~ Eddie Vedder, #NFDB
229:Love is the light that brightens every heart's darkness. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
230:not all darkness is bad
evil things can travel in the light ~ R H Sin,#NFDB
231:Seems like the light at the end of the tunnel may be you. ~ Steven Tyler, #NFDB
232:So long as you fight the darkness, you stand in the light. ~ Sabaa Tahir, #NFDB
233:The way to extinguish a shadow is to increase the light. ~ Ryder Windham, #NFDB
234:Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you. ~ John Ruskin, #NFDB
235:Well... I still can't see the light at the end of the ~ Leonard Peltier, #NFDB
236:You are a pool of clear water where the light plays ~ Jeanette Winterson, #NFDB
237:Instead of fighting the darkness, you bring in the light. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
238:In the light of our egos, we are all dethroned monarchs ~ Charlie Chaplin, #NFDB
239:Some seek the limelight and some hold the light in place ~ Suanne Laqueur, #NFDB
240:Some shadows are so long, they arrive before the light. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
241:The fire of suffering becomes the light of consciousness. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
242:The fires of suffering become the light of consciousness. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
243:The light remains, because “feel” is a word full of traps. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
244:There can be no darkness where I provide the light. ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB
245:There’s a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
246:Use the truth to fight lies. Use the light to fight darkness. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
247:You have to walk and believe that you can find the light. ~ Lyoto Machida, #NFDB
248:5As long as I am in the world, j I am the light of the world. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
249:A warrior of the light never picks fruit before it is ripe. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
250:By the way, most of the light that comes from the sun is green. ~ Bill Nye, #NFDB
251:Forgetfulness is the darkness, mindfulness is the light. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
252:Night brings our troubles to the light rather than banishes them. ~ Seneca, #NFDB
253:Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart. ~ Virginia Woolf, #NFDB
254:The light gave him hope but he was afraid of it too. ~ L szl Krasznahorkai, #NFDB
255:The light of the moon is all we've got to go on... ~ Mary Chapin Carpenter, #NFDB
256:The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
257:The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
258:The moment the light went out, everyone stopped pretending. ~ Isaac Marion, #NFDB
259:There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
260:There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in. ~ L H Cosway, #NFDB
261:Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light ~ Jennifer A Nielsen, #NFDB
262:you cannot enjoy the light without enduring the heat. ~ Timothy F Geithner, #NFDB
263:A Warrior of the Light cannot always choose his battlefield. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
264:A Warrior of the Light does not accept gifts from his enemy. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
265:Bright was the light of my last martini on my moral horizon ~ Norman Mailer, #NFDB
266:Celebrate the cracks, because that's how the light comes in. ~ Groucho Marx, #NFDB
267:Drag them out into the light and they fail to thrive. ~ Catherine Ryan Hyde, #NFDB
268:Embrace the light and let it guide you Beyond the winds of desire. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
269:Embrace your darkness, and you might actually see the light. ~ Dannika Dark, #NFDB
270:I remember you, Saul. I remember the keeper of the light. ~ Jeff VanderMeer, #NFDB
271:Kagome...the light...the light will kill Naraku."- Kanna ~ Rumiko Takahashi, #NFDB
272:Shadows fell on them like predators as the light went out. ~ China Mi ville, #NFDB
273:So long as you fight in the darkness, you stand in the light. ~ Sabaa Tahir, #NFDB
274:Sometimes when a heart breaks, it starts to let in the light. ~ Tillie Cole, #NFDB
275:Step into the light. Unseen forces are cheering you on. ~ Cheryl Richardson, #NFDB
276:The shadow is the greatest teacher for how to come to the light. ~ Ram Dass, #NFDB
277:Through study we welcome the light of God into our minds. ~ Brian D McLaren, #NFDB
278:Without the light, no chance; without the dark, no dance. ~ Margaret Atwood, #NFDB
279:Absorbed into the light of the one Reality, the heart. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
280:A warrior of the light...never confuses tension with anxiety. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
281:Beauty is not in the face; beauty is the light in the heart. ~ Kahlil Gibran, #NFDB
282:Each and every person has the light of God within,” she said. ~ Stephen Cope, #NFDB
283:If you don't have any shadows, you're not standing in the light. ~ Lady Gaga, #NFDB
284:One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding. ~ Malcolm X, #NFDB
285:The light that burned twice as bright burned half as long. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
286:There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.’ ~ Kami Garcia, #NFDB
287:Turning on the light is easy if you know where the switch is. ~ Colin Wilson, #NFDB
288:We always do the best we can by the light we have to see by. ~ Julia Cameron, #NFDB
289:You are the light of the world, and you will guide us home. ~ Claire Legrand, #NFDB
290:"You can't dream in the light, if you can't live in it." ~ Dan Skinner, #NFDB
291:Every Warrior of the Light has failed in his spiritual duties. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
292:Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. ~ Christopher Columbus, #NFDB
293:How many are quite unworthy to see the light, and yet the day dawns. ~ Seneca, #NFDB
294:It is in our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
295:It's amazing in the blink of an eye you finally see the light. ~ Steven Tyler, #NFDB
296:it’s you and me, ‘til the end. In the darkness and in the light. ~ Laura Kaye, #NFDB
297:She was the light of our lives, our anchor, compass and vision. ~ Ralph Nader, #NFDB
298:Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven. ~ Washington Irving, #NFDB
299:Switch on the light, she said, I want to know if this is real. ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
300:The extravaganza of nature ignites the light that you have inside. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
301:There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. ~ Leonard Cohen, #NFDB
302:Your heart is the light of this world. Don't cover it with your mind. ~ Mooji, #NFDB
303:And we would always be looking for the light... together. ~ A Meredith Walters, #NFDB
304:Don’t question in the dark what God showed you in the light. ~ V Raymond Edman, #NFDB
305:Each Warrior of the Light contains within him the spark of God. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
306:If God created shadows it was to better emphasise the light. ~ Pope John XXIII, #NFDB
307:I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857. ~ Edward Bellamy, #NFDB
308:In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
309:One day, may we all meet together in the light of
understanding ~ Malcolm X,#NFDB
310:So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. ~ T S Eliot, #NFDB
311:There is a crack in everything/That’s how the light gets in. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
312:There’s a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” THE ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
313:The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them. ~ Ida B Wells, #NFDB
314:We move in the light. We slow in the shadows. We stop in the dark. ~ E L James, #NFDB
315:A Warrior of the Light has no regrets, because regrets can kill. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
316:Before you can see the Light, you have to deal with the darkness. ~ Dan Millman, #NFDB
317:Beware, the light seemed to say, for I come to burn and judge. ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB
318:Could they have the light without the darkness of this world? ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
319:darkness makes the light more profound, and the words ring true. ~ Chelle Bliss, #NFDB
320:Faith is a leap into the light, not a step into the darkness. ~ Reinhard Bonnke, #NFDB
321:I have seen the light in the wilderness and I must follow it. ~ Seth Adam Smith, #NFDB
322:See the Light in Others, and Treat Them as if That is All you See. ~ Wayne Dyer, #NFDB
323:Sometimes a change of perspective is all it takes to see the light. ~ Dan Brown, #NFDB
324:So really, children, mathematically, all the light is invisible ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
325:The very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light. ~ Friedrich Schiller, #NFDB
326:The warrior of the Light sits around a fire with his companions. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
327:The wound is the place where the light enters you. —Pablo Neruda ~ Ellery Adams, #NFDB
328:To appreciate the light, we must first understand darkness. ~ Steven A Williams, #NFDB
329:Use the light that is in you to recover your natural clearness of sight ~ Laozi, #NFDB
330:Absurd- that is the light mind that establishes its own borders. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
331:All the darkness in the world can't put out the light of one candle. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
332:A pure heart, open to the Light, will be filled with the elixir of Truth. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
333:Basking in the light and glory that comes with not giving a damn. ~ Alice Oseman, #NFDB
334:Darkness cannot put out the light. It can only make God brighter. ~ John Searles, #NFDB
335:I live in shade. You don’t. You live in the light . . . now change ~ Tillie Cole, #NFDB
336:"In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness." ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
337:I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me. ~ Lydia M Child, #NFDB
338:One the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out. ~ John Green, #NFDB
339:Raging against the dying of the light - used in The Book of Peach ~ Dylan Thomas, #NFDB
340:The only whole heart is a broken one because it lets the light in. ~ David Wolpe, #NFDB
341:There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in. ~ Leonard Cohen,#NFDB
342:There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
~ Leonard Cohen,#NFDB
343:Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light. ~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi, #NFDB
344:True faith is not a leap in the dark; it’s a leap into the light. ~ Eric Metaxas, #NFDB
345:When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat. ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB
346:A Warrior of the Light is wise; he does not talk about his defeat. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
347:Be aware of the darkness but your focus should always be the light. ~ Tyler Perry, #NFDB
348:But even in hell there are moments when the light reaches you. ~ Richard C Morais, #NFDB
349:It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
350:It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
351:...only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail. ~ David Eddings, #NFDB
352:See the light in others, and treat them as if that is all you see. ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB
353:The shadows are only the darkest when the light is at its brightest. ~ Glenn Beck, #NFDB
354:True faith is not a leap in the dark; it’s a leap into the light.* ~ Eric Metaxas, #NFDB
355:True faith is not a leap into the dark; it's a leap into the light ~ Eric Metaxas, #NFDB
356:Until the light became a person. A woman. The Throne in human form. ~ Lauren Kate, #NFDB
357:Words that do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
358:You are nothing at all. Just a crack where the light slipped through. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
359:Consciousness, fully awake to itself, is the Light of God. ~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, #NFDB
360:Darkness admires the light; light admires what it illuminates ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
361:even the darkest shadow may not stand before the light of the sun ~ Jessica Khoury, #NFDB
362:Her voice came through the night, from the light, from the stars. ~ Jerry Spinelli, #NFDB
363:I am empty space, and I am the light that illuminates that space. ~ Joshua Gaylord, #NFDB
364:I can no longer work outside because of the intensity of the light. ~ Claude Monet, #NFDB
365:I’m willing to walk in darkness if it keeps humans in the light. ~ Victoria Schwab, #NFDB
366:Never doubt in the darkness what God has told you in the light. ~ Warren W Wiersbe, #NFDB
367:Never forget what you learned in the light when you are in the dark. ~ Bryan Davis, #NFDB
368:Some people never see the light Till it shines thru bullet holes. ~ Bruce Cockburn, #NFDB
369:that night the light was on in Ben’s room and someone was talking. ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
370:The body itself is to reveal the light that's blazing inside your Presence. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
371:The broken door lets in the light. The broken heart lets in the world. ~ Mark Nepo, #NFDB
372:The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
373:The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
374:The light must be dim in order to enable the ego to rise up. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
375:The light of the day is followed by night, as a shadow follows a body. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
376:To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet. ~ Euripides, #NFDB
377:We will not fear the darkness because we are partners of the light. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
378:Without the darkness, how can we ever hope to understand the light? ~ Terri Cheney, #NFDB
379:Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
380:Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God. ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel, #NFDB
381:You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
382:You are the light of the world. Shine, and darkness will disappear. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
383:A Warrior of the Light shares with others what he knows of the path. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
384:For all of those who keep going, even when they can't see the light. ~ Abigail Roux, #NFDB
385:Laughing cheerfulness throws the light of day on all the paths of life. ~ Jean Paul, #NFDB
386:Let the light be called Day so that men may grow corn or take busses. ~ Anne Sexton, #NFDB
387:My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life. ~ Marion Jones, #NFDB
388:My God, the light is so good all the women risk looking their age. ~ Helen Simonson, #NFDB
389:Never doubt in the dark what God has shown you in the light. ~ Suzanne Woods Fisher, #NFDB
390:Stars are holes in the sky from which the light of the infinite shines. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
391:The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
392:The Light is full of lies, Acolyte. The Suns serve only to blind us. ~ Jay Kristoff, #NFDB
393:The light only truly shines through people who have been broken. ~ Julie Ann Walker, #NFDB
394:The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
395:To the pessimist the light at the end of the tunnel is another train. ~ Joan Rivers, #NFDB
396:When the world is at its darkest, somehow love still carries the light. ~ Keri Lake, #NFDB
397:Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
398:Embrace the light and let it guide you beyond the winds of desire. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, #NFDB
399:Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue. ~ Demosthenes, #NFDB
400:for each age interprets the past in the light of its own biases. ~ Sharon Kay Penman, #NFDB
401:For every one that doeth evil hateth the light." (John 3:19-20.) ~ Spencer W Kimball, #NFDB
402:If everything around seems dark, look again, you may be the light. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, #NFDB
403:I like to get dark sometimes and then come back out into the light. ~ Bat for Lashes, #NFDB
404:I need to live my life in the light of their deaths. I need to live. ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
405:In order to defeat the darkness, you must bring it into the light. ~ Seth Adam Smith, #NFDB
406:Learn to love people unconditionally. The light of love sees no walls. ~ Suzy Kassem, #NFDB
407:Let the light within me salute the light that is within you. Namaste. ~ William Kuhn, #NFDB
408:Never are we nearer the Light than when the darkness is deepest. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
409:Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light. ~ Francine Rivers, #NFDB
410:No light is brighter than wisdom. Wisdom is the light in the world. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
411:Pay attention to the cracks, because that's where the light gets in. ~ Leonard Cohen, #NFDB
412:The cracks in your heart are there so the light can shine through. ~ Elizabeth Noble, #NFDB
413:The light is fading from the day.
The rest is darkness and dismay. ~ Edward Gorey,#NFDB
414:The light of Heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more. ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
415:The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness cannot understand it ~ Ted Dekker, #NFDB
416:The present is only intelligible in the light of the past. ~ Richard Chenevix Trench, #NFDB
417:Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
418:Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher. ~ William Wordsworth, #NFDB
419:Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher. ~ William Wordsworth, #NFDB
420:Do not forget in the darkness what you have been promised in the light. ~ Katie Davis, #NFDB
421:He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out. ~ William Blake, #NFDB
422:If you want to rule the darkness, you must first rule the light! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
423:it is better to be in the dark with a friend than in the light without one. ~ Unknown, #NFDB
424:The light is too painful for someone who wants to remain in darkness. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
425:The light that shines the farthest will shine the brightest at home. ~ Oswald J Smith, #NFDB
426:There are two lights in this universe: The light and the Reason! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
427:The sun teaches to all things that grow their longing for the light. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB
428:Use the Light that dwells within you to regain your natural clarity of sight. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
429:We can’t selectively numb emotion. Numb the dark and you numb the light. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
430:We mustn’t doubt in the darkness what God has showed us in the light. ~ Robert Morgan, #NFDB
431:"You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light." ~ Sogyal Rinpoche, #NFDB
432:And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
433:Grief even in a child hates the light and shrinks from human eyes. ~ Thomas de Quincey, #NFDB
434:Her red hair streaming in the light—
A spill of autumn leaves. ~ Marguerite Bennett,#NFDB
435:I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light. ~ Helen Keller, #NFDB
436:Just be the same person you are in the dark that you are in the light. ~ Jabari Parker, #NFDB
437:Live the light, love the dark and embrace everything in between. ~ Sheila Renee Parker, #NFDB
438:Love the Truth.Let the light dawn in your consciousness.Blessings to all. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
439:She longed to hold my hand in the light, not only in the shadows. ~ Brittainy C Cherry, #NFDB
440:Sometimes to find the light, you have to go through the deepest darkness. ~ Jared Leto, #NFDB
441:the egrets lifting out of the marxh carrying the light on their backs. ~ Sue Monk Kidd, #NFDB
442:The light of the dawn is not so sweet as the first glimpses of fame. ~ Luc de Clapiers, #NFDB
443:“There is a crack, a crack in everythingThat’s how the light gets in.” ~ Leonard Cohen, #NFDB
444:The three years following the release of See The Light were a whirlwind. ~ Jeff Healey, #NFDB
445:The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them. ~ Ida B Wells Barnett, #NFDB
446:Throw stones, make waves. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. ~ Vikki Wakefield, #NFDB
447:To choose the light or to choose other things is always the question. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
448:An angel fighting through the darkness or a devil breaking into the light? ~ K Bromberg, #NFDB
449:And hope was the light of the world, where no darkness could penetrate. ~ Heather Burch, #NFDB
450:But when we are following the light, even its extinction is a guide. ~ George MacDonald, #NFDB
451:Dictator is a shadow; just increase the light, he shall disappear! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
452:Don’t you see? So long as you fight the darkness, you stand in the light. ~ Sabaa Tahir, #NFDB
453:Every Warrior of the Light has suffered for the most trivial of reasons. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
454:He opened a window in my heart, and the light of the world shined in. ~ David Letterman, #NFDB
455:History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB
456:It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light. ~ Saint Catherine of Siena, #NFDB
457:MEGARA: You love the light so much?
AMPHITRYION: I do, I love its hopes. ~ Euripides,#NFDB
458:Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
459:Purification is but the cleaning of the lamp-glass which hides the Light ~ Annie Besant, #NFDB
460:The Warrior of the Light knows that everyone is afraid of everyone else. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
461:We can’t choose to vanish the dark, but we can choose to kindle the light. ~ Edith Eger, #NFDB
462:When I am nothing but shadow, you are the light that guides me back. ~ Kristen Callihan, #NFDB
463:Because you didn’t need words when you were sitting in the light. ~ Benjamin Alire S enz, #NFDB
464:Despite the light she brings into my world, I only bring darkness into hers. ~ S L Scott, #NFDB
465:Do not tell the blind about the light - they will require proof of your sight. ~ Unknown, #NFDB
466:Don't fear the light within. May it ignite the Sacred Flame in your soul. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
467:for the universe becomes transparent, and the light of higher laws ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
468:God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason. ~ Immanuel Kant, #NFDB
469:He who replies to words of doubt
doth put the light of knowledge out. ~ William Blake,#NFDB
470:In that dilated moment after sunset when the sky holds all the light. ~ David Wroblewski, #NFDB
471:Meditate and bath in the light of eternity. Nothing else is worthwhile. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
472:Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. ~ Theodosius Dobzhansky, #NFDB
473:The dark is better than the light as without the darkness there is no light. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
474:The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave. ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB
475:There's a spark in you you've just gotta ignite the light and let it SHINE. ~ Katy Perry, #NFDB
476:Those who cling to the shadows will always hate and despise the light. ~ Seth Adam Smith, #NFDB
477:Turn on the light within, expand your horizons and reach your full potential. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
478:Whatever is scaring you, bring it into the light. It's strength will fade ~ Kerry Reichs, #NFDB
479:You are the light. The darkness will always try to snuff you out. ~ William Kent Krueger, #NFDB
480:and the sad demise of my father before I saw the light of day. Ulf was ~ Juliet Marillier, #NFDB
481:Before getting to the the light, you must pass through a deep darkness. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
482:Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. ~ Rabindranath Tagore, #NFDB
483:I don’t want to fuck you in the dark, Julian. I want to love you in the light, ~ T L Swan, #NFDB
484:If light is the first love of life, is not love the light of the heart? ~ Honor de Balzac, #NFDB
485:It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. ~ Aristotle Onassis, #NFDB
486:I watched you with all the light and darkness I have"
Giorgos Seferis ~ George Seferis,#NFDB
487:Run while you have the light of life lest the darkness of death overtake you. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
488:Shut off the door and don't let the light hit you in the ass on your way out. ~ Ethan Day, #NFDB
489:The light is within. It is already there. Take your time to see it. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
490:The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude. ~ James Joyce, #NFDB
491:The light was going: some cloud cover arriving, as if summoned by drama. ~ China Mi ville, #NFDB
492:The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on. ~ Emily Dickinson, #NFDB
493:The Warrior of the Light concentrates on the small miracles of daily life. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
494:Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
495:"To see the light, it is only necessary to stop dreaming and open the eyes." ~ Alan Watts, #NFDB
496:We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition. ~ Benjamin Tucker, #NFDB
497:When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
498:When you embrace the darkness within, you will always live in the light. ~ Joseph D Lacey, #NFDB
499:And I walked, I walked through the light air; I moved with the morning. ~ Theodore Roethke, #NFDB
500:And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. ~ R C Sproul, #NFDB
501:death is the light by which the shadow of all of life’s meaning is measured. ~ Mark Manson, #NFDB
502:I'd rather walk in the dark with Jesus than to dance in the light on my own ~ Wayne Watson, #NFDB
503:In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. ~ Francis Bacon, #NFDB
504:Science knows no country because it is the light that iluminates the world ~ Louis Pasteur, #NFDB
505:Sometimes it is easier to see the light when you stand partly in the darkness. ~ Garth Nix, #NFDB
506:Sometimes it may seem dark, but the absence of the light is a necessary part. ~ Jason Mraz, #NFDB
507:The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear. ~ Anne McCaffrey, #NFDB
508:The darkness that is my companion leaves little room for the light of love. ~ Sejal Badani, #NFDB
509:The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train. ~ Robert Lowell, #NFDB
510:The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude. ~ James Joyce, #NFDB
511:The light of the face comes from the candle of the spirit. ~ Jalaluddin RumiFriday Joy 😊❤️, #NFDB
512:There are smiles and smiles; learn to tell the dark variety from the light. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
513:The whole world is very bright. The darker the clouds, the greater the light. ~ Mao Zedong, #NFDB
514:Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark. ~ Wallace Stevens, #NFDB
515:Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. ~ T M Frazier, #NFDB
516:We need to find the light within ourselves, so we can see our true worth. ~ Imania Margria, #NFDB
517:When I am in the darkness, I want to think of it in the light, with you. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
518:When I said no, she stood in the light. When I gave up, she said 'forever'. ~ Nancy Holder, #NFDB
519:9Whoever says he is in the light and o hates his brother is still in darkness. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
520:And now we step to the rhythm of miracles.
--from The Light, That Never Dies ~ Aberjhani,#NFDB
521:Don't fight darkness. Bring the light, and darkness will disappear. ~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, #NFDB
522:Every challenge provides light. The light of understanding about life and truth. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
523:For only he who has lived in darkness truly knows and values the light. ~ Stephen R Lawhead, #NFDB
524:He admired the world like a jewel, turning its facets to catch the light. ~ Madeline Miller, #NFDB
525:Born of Sin, Made from Iron
To find the Light, Must Pass Through Fire ~ Anonymous,#NFDB
526:If you believe in the shadow, you cannot help believing in the light. ~ Ry nosuke Akutagawa, #NFDB
527:In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light. ~ Hans Hofmann, #NFDB
528:It is amazing how the light can make us forget we were ever afraid of the dark. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
529:It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest. ~ Richard Paul Evans, #NFDB
530:It often takes the darkness of a storm to show us the light of God's presence. ~ Tony Evans, #NFDB
531:Sometimes the shadow stays next to the Light. Sometimes it disappears into the Light ~ Rumi, #NFDB
532:The moon was little thicker than a crescent, the light a glitter of blue. ~ Katherine Arden, #NFDB
533:The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you ~ Richard Peck, #NFDB
534:Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. ~ Helen Keller, #NFDB
535:We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light. ~ Simone Weil, #NFDB
536:We are stars wrapped in skin. The light you are seeking has always been within. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
537:We hunt the flame, the light in the darkness, the good this world deserves. ~ Hafsah Faizal, #NFDB
538:We need the dark to appreciate the light. And the light always returns. ~ Cheryl Richardson, #NFDB
539:We value the light more fully after we’ve come through the darkness. ~ Suzanne Woods Fisher, #NFDB
540:When you wake up in the morning looking for the light, the light will come. ~ Oprah Winfrey, #NFDB
541:Your mind is a galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile. ~ Matt Haig, #NFDB
542:A flapping tongue puts out the light of wisdom."~ Jonathan OdellPolly Shine ~ Jonathan Odell, #NFDB
543:And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
544:Clouds are no deterrent. Clouds intensify the drama, trap and shape the light. ~ Don DeLillo, #NFDB
545:Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. ~ Helen Keller, #NFDB
546:He watches the ocean surrender to night, knowing that the light will reappear. ~ M L Stedman, #NFDB
547:I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps. ~ Thomas A Edison, #NFDB
548:I said, you're the beat of my heart, the breath in my body, the light in my soul. ~ J D Robb, #NFDB
549:It’s odd…but we didn’t know the shadows were there until we had the light. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
550:I want to ride my motorcycle up the side of the Luxor to the light and vanish. ~ Criss Angel, #NFDB
551:Live by the light of your own heart... but make sure this heart is silent and empty. ~ Mooji, #NFDB
552:Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light,” I ~ Cheryl Strayed, #NFDB
553:Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light. ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
554:Remain faithful to the light... Remember, the sun is shining behind the clouds. ~ Wayne Dyer, #NFDB
555:The clearsighted eye turns the light back to see its own Original Nature. ~ Frederick Franck, #NFDB
556:The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you. ~ Richard Peck, #NFDB
557:Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. ~ Douglas Wynne, #NFDB
558:A lot of times we change, not when we see the light, but when we feel the heat. ~ Rick Warren, #NFDB
559:Death for the Christian is a turning off the light because the dawn has come. ~ Leon Jaworski, #NFDB
560:He was my tormentor and my solace; the creator of the dark and the light within ~ C J Roberts, #NFDB
561:I can't let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film ~ James Dean, #NFDB
562:...in that dilated moment after sunset when the sky holds all the light... ~ David Wroblewski, #NFDB
563:It only takes one person, one small act of stepping from the dark to the light. ~ Dave Eggers, #NFDB
564:Keep alive the light of justice, And much that men say in blame will pass you by. ~ Euripides, #NFDB
565:Strange how seeing the light can make a person feel so alone in the darkness ~ Jackson Pearce, #NFDB
566:The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light. ~ George Gilder, #NFDB
567:The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness could not colonize it. ~ Jamie Arpin Ricci, #NFDB
568:The light that shined upon the summit now seems almost to shine at our feet. ~ Woodrow Wilson, #NFDB
569:This is a black abyss that must be climbed blind before deserving the light. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
570:Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
571:We emerge into the light not by denying our pain, but by walking through it. ~ Joan Borysenko, #NFDB
572:We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee! ~ T S Eliot, #NFDB
573:Will you follow my path and be the light of the world to shine in that darkness? ~ Ted Dekker, #NFDB
574:All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle. ~ Saint Francis, #NFDB
575:Asking in prayer helps you to see your problem in the light of God's power. ~ Elizabeth George, #NFDB
576:Asking in prayer helps you to see your problem in the light of God’s power. ~ Elizabeth George, #NFDB
577:But all I can see is the light glinting off the edges of the interesting ones. ~ Carrie Fisher, #NFDB
578:Darkness is a great opportunity to discover the divine face of the light! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
579:Facts do not 'speak for themselves'; they are read in the light of theory. ~ Stephen Jay Gould, #NFDB
580:He was my tormentor and my solace; the creator of the dark and the light within. ~ C J Roberts, #NFDB
581:"If everything around you seems dark, look again, you may be the light." - Rumi ~ #Inspiration, #NFDB
582:It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it. ~ Boris Pasternak, #NFDB
583:Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light. ~ Joyce Carol Oates, #NFDB
584:Space and stillness is the light that illuminates the beauty of our soul's being. ~ Adyashanti, #NFDB
585:the butterflies that had just hatched hurried into the light to find love as ~ Henri Charri re, #NFDB
586:There is a source within us that always works to bring things into the light. ~ John A Sanford, #NFDB
587:The truth finds its way into the light, no matter what you’ve done to contain it. ~ Wendy Webb, #NFDB
588:We do not lead others into the Light by stepping into the darkness with them. ~ Melody Beattie, #NFDB
589:When you’ve crawled through the darkness, the light is so much more glorious. ~ Rita Stradling, #NFDB
590:Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
591:Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
592:He alone is the true teacher who is illumined by the light of true Knowledge. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #NFDB
593:I looked over at her face. I could see the light from my heartbeat on her tears. ~ M T Anderson, #NFDB
594:I was persisting in reading my present environment in the light of my old one. ~ Richard Wright, #NFDB
595:Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light. ~ W S Merwin, #NFDB
596:The light of unconditional love awakens the dormant seed potentials of the soul. ~ John Welwood, #NFDB
597:The night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee… ~ Karleen Koen, #NFDB
598:To fairy flutes, As the light advances, In square black boots The cabman dances. ~ J B Morton, #NFDB
599:To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB
600:We touch the Sun through the light, we touch the heaven through the music! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
601:Within You is the Light of a Thousand Suns. - Within You is Unimaginable Beauty. ~ Robert Adams, #NFDB
602:All night, far above him the light stood guard, slicing the darkness like a sword. ~ M L Stedman, #NFDB
603:As important as it is to change the light bulbs, its more important to change the laws ~ Al Gore, #NFDB
604:Be the light in the dark, be the calm in the storm and be at peace while at war. ~ Michael Dolan, #NFDB
605:Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
606:In the light of Buddhist meditation, love is impossible without understanding. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
607:I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB
608:It is during our darkest moments.That we must focus to see the light. ~ Buddha.#Buddha #Buddhism, #NFDB
609:It is only in embracing my darkness that we can appreciate our life in the light. ~ Truth Devour, #NFDB
610:Sometimes people needed to see the light before they could get out of the darkness. ~ M Robinson, #NFDB
611:Sometimes you just had to crawl through the dark before
you could see the light. ~ E L Montes,#NFDB
612:The light of Greece opened my eyes, penetrated my pores, expanded my whole being. ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
613:There is no darkness in the whole world that can put out the light of one small candle ~ Various, #NFDB
614:There may be a brighter star. But through my eyes the light of you is all I see. ~ Stevie Wonder, #NFDB
615:There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
616:Due to budget cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off. ~ Robert Townsend, #NFDB
617:Every man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires ~ Richard Wright, #NFDB
618:God judges men according to the use they make of the light which He gives them. ~ Joseph Smith Jr, #NFDB
619:I love the light as much as I love the dark. It's such a beautiful balance. ~ Sheila Renee Parker, #NFDB
620:Let the straight flower bespeak its purpose in straightness - to seek the light. ~ Allen Ginsberg, #NFDB
621:Loving you is like finding the light. I can’t ever lose that again, baby. I won’t. ~ Nashoda Rose, #NFDB
622:My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
623:The light always shows on the outside if you are striving to be good on the inside. ~ Erykah Badu, #NFDB
624:Then he was gone, and all the colors and the light of the day crumbled and went out. ~ Tanith Lee, #NFDB
625:There are many kinds of light. The light of friendship can dispel all darkness. ~ Intisar Khanani, #NFDB
626:To trust God in the light is nothing, but trust him in the dark-that is faith. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
627:We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails. ~ Oswald Chambers, #NFDB
628:When you leave the light behind you, shadows and darkness become your guide! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
629:And the light kept darkness away until the Morning Star came and found it burning ~ Michael Malone, #NFDB
630:A problem that seems unsolvable always looks different in the light of a new day. ~ Peter Lerangis, #NFDB
631:A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you're at home. ~ Author Unknown, #NFDB
632:Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB
633:Every Warrior of the Light has, at some time in the past, lied or betrayed someone. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
634:Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
~ Rabindranath Tagore, [T5],#NFDB
635:For the light to exist, there must be the dark. For the Force, there must be balance. ~ Greg Rucka, #NFDB
636:How far is the light of the moon from the moon? How far is the taste of candy from the lip? ~ Rumi, #NFDB
637:I always look towards the light of my desires, so I never forget where I'm going. ~ Imania Margria, #NFDB
638:I am confident that the day is not far distant when the light of peace shine again. ~ Iwane Matsui, #NFDB
639:If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way. ~ Barry Commoner, #NFDB
640:If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine. ~ Steven Tyler, #NFDB
641:In the light of eternity, is it better to sell out and ride or stand up and walk? ~ Elmore Leonard, #NFDB
642:I prefer to stroll which has a buddy at nighttime, than by itself inside the light. ~ Helen Keller, #NFDB
643:Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky. ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
644:Life, it's life we deal with...He that sees the light And knows the light Shall live. ~ Bob Marley, #NFDB
645:Our love will be the light and the darkness shall perish beneath the weight of it. ~ Andrea Zuvich, #NFDB
646:Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
647:The light made the snowballs look yellow. Or at least I hoped that was the cause. ~ Gary D Schmidt, #NFDB
648:The light obtained by setting straw men on fire is not what we mean by illumination. ~ Adam Gopnik, #NFDB
649:The Real You isn't damaged goods. The Real You is the light of the universe. ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB
650:Those who know what it's like in the dark will do anything to stay in the light ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
651:We are to order our lives by the light of His Law, not by our guesses about His plan. ~ J I Packer, #NFDB
652:Where Lover, Loving, and Loved are one, every moment is made glorious by the light of Love. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
653:Why is it only in darkness that we remember what sustained us even in the light? ~ Francine Rivers, #NFDB
654:You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life ~ Walt Whitman, #NFDB
655:Your defects are the ways that glory gets manifested ... That's where the Light enters you. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
656:16 The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
657:By Light we live and to the Light we go. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal, #NFDB
658:Do not be afraid of your wound, otherwise how can the light sneak into your depths?"
Rumi ~ Rumi,#NFDB
659:Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light. ~ Dylan Thomas,#NFDB
660:Do not go gently into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light. ~ Dylan Thomas, #NFDB
661:Don't turn your head. Keep looking at the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
662:Do you see the light within yourself? Do you see how you have given it to others? ~ Seth Adam Smith, #NFDB
663:Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. ~ Rabindranath Tagore, #NFDB
664:Fill your mind with the great truths of life and walk forward in the light of love. ~ Joseph Murphy, #NFDB
665:from the Lion that the light came. No one ever saw anything more terrible or beautiful. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
666:Have you spent so much time in the darkness that you cannot understand the light? ~ Seth Adam Smith, #NFDB
667:He crossed against the light, limping slightly under the weight of the subtext. ~ Christopher Moore, #NFDB
668:He uncovers mysteries hidden in the darkness and brings gloom into the light. Job 12:22 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
669:I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness…” (John 8:12). ~ Sid Roth, #NFDB
670:I like on the table, when we're speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine. ~ Pablo Neruda, #NFDB
671:I would go into the darkness with you, but you won't come into the light with me. ~ Catherine Doyle, #NFDB
672:Mindfulness removes the emotional fogs of negative thoughts with the light of awareness. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
673:She was like a star, always so distant. Even the light she shone on me was always cold. ~ Liu Cixin, #NFDB
674:Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
675:The devil is everywhere under the skin of things, searching for a way into the light. ~ J M Coetzee, #NFDB
676:the light, by the light, by the light of the bloodred moon. I’ll be killing you soon. ~ Holly Black, #NFDB
677:The light is nostalgic about mornings past and optimistic about mornings to come. ~ Wallace Stegner, #NFDB
678:Those who know what it's like in the dark will do anything to stay in the light. ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
679:Those who know what it’s like in the dark will do anything to stay in the light. ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
680:We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it. ~ Vernon Howard, #NFDB
681:After all, it seemed far nobler to give up one’s life to the light than to the dark. ~ Bella Forrest, #NFDB
682:At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day. ~ William Wordsworth, #NFDB
683:Do not fight the darkness, let the light in and the darkness will disappear. ~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, #NFDB
684:Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light. ~ Joseph Campbell, #NFDB
685:Great power does not corrupt a person, it only brings their true self into the light, ~ Kim Harrison, #NFDB
686:Having come from the light and from the gods, here I am in exile, separated from them. ~ Umberto Eco, #NFDB
687:I do twenty minutes every time the refrigerator door opens and the light comes on. ~ Debbie Reynolds, #NFDB
688:If the door to the light is locked, no matter how strong its lock is, break it! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
689:It was just the light,’ she said, ‘up to its old tricks. But how was my heart to know? ~ Sarah Perry, #NFDB
690:O death! We thank you for the light that you will shed upon our ignorance. ~ Jacques Benigne Bossuet, #NFDB
691:Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light. ~ Gregory Orr, #NFDB
692:She knew how to survive in the darkness, but was terrified she’d be lost in the light. ~ C J Redwine, #NFDB
693:So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light. ~ Vincent Van Gogh, #NFDB
694:Take no notice of the ego and its activities but see only the light behind it. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
695:There’s a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in. LEONARD COHEN en Anthem ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
696:When darkness swallows everything, it is up to the light to bring salvation upon us, ~ Bella Forrest, #NFDB
697:Whenever you see darkness, there is extraordinary opportunity for the light to burn brighter. ~ Bono, #NFDB
698:When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun. ~ Saint Jerome, #NFDB
699:When your heart is broken, when your heart has cracks in it, it lets the light in. ~ Ellen DeGeneres, #NFDB
700:And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
701:Because this is what shall be, the light and the dark together, two halves making a whole. ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
702:Darkness holds eternal sway over he who cannot first find the light within himself. ~ Melissa McPhail, #NFDB
703:Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly. ~ Pablo Neruda, #NFDB
704:How can those who live in the light of day possibly comprehend the depths of night? ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
705:incandesce, v.: You are the light of the far-off town, the promise on the dark path. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
706:It isn't the light you want to recover, it’s the certainty that there is only darkness ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
707:Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits. ~ Jennifer Stone, #NFDB
708:The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
709:the rain that held the light
that fell, the rain that fell,
the light that held ~ Anne Michaels,#NFDB
710:There are problems in these times, but none of them are mineI'm beginning to see the light ~ Lou Reed, #NFDB
711:There are those who labor in the darkness, that the rest of us might live in the light. ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
712:There is a full spectrum of human emotions and when we numb the dark, we numb the light. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
713:Those who lived in the light could never truly know what it was to dwell in the shadows. ~ Drew Hayes, #NFDB
714:When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. ~ Tecumseh, #NFDB
715:And he told himself, reader, that it was the cloth that he desired and not the light. ~ Kate DiCamillo, #NFDB
716:Angels are visible to those who accept the light and break the pact made with darkness. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
717:Daylight Savings"
Like the money the light
doesn't go
as far these days ~ Kevin Young,#NFDB
718:Don’t turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That’s where the light enters you. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
719:...goodness is not the absence of evil - it's the light that pushes back the darkness... ~ John Geddes, #NFDB
720:He stood and watched the night push itself into the bar and the light push it back out. ~ David Berman, #NFDB
721:I call the light and high aspects of my being spirit and the dark and heavy aspects soul. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
722:If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of the oncoming train. ~ James Russell Lowell, #NFDB
723:Maybe the sun had set. Maybe the rainbow had lifted—because the light was gone. ~ Benjamin Alire S enz, #NFDB
724:once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right ~ Jerry Garcia, #NFDB
725:Sometimes it is a dark path we must tread so that long more for the light, we shall. ~ Christie Golden, #NFDB
726:The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet's dream. ~ William Wordsworth, #NFDB
727:The rocks would be there a million years after the light went for the last time out. ~ Ford Madox Ford, #NFDB
728:We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
729:When we keep claiming the light, we will find ourselves becoming more and more radiant. ~ Henri Nouwen, #NFDB
730:When you bring the light into your dark house, that is when you see the cobwebs and spiders ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
731:You are the light of consciousness and also the witness of this light. You are pure awareness. ~ Mooji, #NFDB
732:All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle. ~ Saint Francis of Assisi, #NFDB
733:and if anyone was ever going to live eternally in the light, I think it would be you. ~ Caroline Kepnes, #NFDB
734:a warrior of the light is always committed. He is the slave of his dream and free to act ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
735:Every lesson you take from your past immediately turns into a stairs to the light! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
736:...I will find once again the light of your beauty - your colored windows in the night... ~ John Geddes, #NFDB
737:Let go of all distractions. Embrace the light and let it guide You. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi_/\_ N A M A S T É, #NFDB
738:Maybe it’s the light, but she’s so thin that if she turned sideways she might disappear. ~ Erika Swyler, #NFDB
739:Meditation isn't to disappear into the light. Meditation is to see all of what we are. ~ Stephen Levine, #NFDB
740:No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in the light of new thoughts. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
741:Once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right ~ Robert Hunter, #NFDB
742:The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it. ~ Augustus Hare, #NFDB
743:Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
744:When you look at me
you’ll see that I am the light
that ignites my own way. ~ Brittainy C Cherry,#NFDB
745:Where, if not in the Divine Mercy, can the world find refuge and the light of hope? ~ Pope John Paul II, #NFDB
746:1 John 2:10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light: and there is no scandal in him. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
747:Architecture is the learned game; correct and magnificent of forms assembled in the light ~ Le Corbusier, #NFDB
748:As sure as God made black and white, what's done in the dark will be brought to the light. ~ Johnny Cash, #NFDB
749:Being on the side of the Light is much tougher than being on the side of the Dark... ~ Sergei Lukyanenko, #NFDB
750:Ever since time began, people have recognized their true Love by the light in their eyes. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
751:From whichever direction or from whoever the light comes to you, always welcome it! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
752:I crouched down and turned on the radio. The light outside dimmed as the music came up. ~ Melissa Albert, #NFDB
753:Intellect is a part of a good faith. Intellect is the light, the heart is the direction. ~ Tariq Ramadan, #NFDB
754:I spent too long in the shadows... I'm looking forward to being in the light with you. ~ Sylvain Reynard, #NFDB
755:It’s all I can do not to turn my face toward his, the way a plant grows toward the light. ~ Amie Kaufman, #NFDB
756:Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness. ~ Socrates, #NFDB
757:Our role in life is to bring the light of our own souls to the dim places around us. ~ Joan D Chittister, #NFDB
758:The heart had the dark to balance out the light, the uncertainty to balance dreams. ~ Charlie N Holmberg, #NFDB
759:The light is reached not by turning back from the darkness, but by going through it. ~ Leonard Roy Frank, #NFDB
760:The light may be fading on the 20th century, but the sun is still rising on America. ~ William J Clinton, #NFDB
761:The moment that he begins to walk along it, the warrior of the light recognizes the path. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
762:The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out. ~ James A Baldwin, #NFDB
763:The one who says that he is in the light and yet hates his brother is still in the darkness. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
764:The world is blue at its edges and in its depths. This blue is the light that got lost. ~ Rebecca Solnit, #NFDB
765:Without the light the beauty remains hidden,” Gofrid said. “But it is always there. ~ Elizabeth Chadwick, #NFDB
766:You are the light to my darkness. My heart, my soul, and now my blood, will all be yours. ~ Lisa Kessler, #NFDB
767:You didn’t walk away, Judd. You made me see the light when I was suffocating in the dark. ~ Bijou Hunter, #NFDB
768:You must learn to love death’s ink-black shadow as much as you love the light of dawn. ~ Lindsay Buroker, #NFDB
769:You only need the light when it is burning low Only miss the sun when it starts to snow. ~ Chetan Bhagat, #NFDB
770:And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
771:Be the light for all the world to see or be the darkness that hides in the shadows. ~ Sheila Renee Parker, #NFDB
772:Cross even beyond the light which illumines thee and cast thyself upon the bosom of God. ~ Maitre Eckhart, #NFDB
773:Every Warrior of the Light has, at least once, believed he was not a Warrior of the Light. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
774:For within you is the light of the world — the only light that can be shed upon the Path. ~ Mabel Collins, #NFDB
775:I'm becoming the street. Who are you in love with? me? Straight against the light I cross. ~ Frank O Hara, #NFDB
776:I'm the light skinned version of Mandingo, I've seen more Beatles and Jagged Edges than Ringo. ~ Ludacris, #NFDB
777:In darkness I follow the light and find my way to the beginning again, and again, and again. ~ Greg Rucka, #NFDB
778:It's a bit like walking down a long, dark corridor never knowing when the light will go on. ~ Neil Lennon, #NFDB
779:Life is like a chimney - you sometimes have to get through the dark before you see the light. ~ Matt Haig, #NFDB
780:Maybe you have to know the darkness to truly appreciate the light.”—Madeleine L’Engle ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
781:Nothing makes the light, the wonder, the treasure stand out so well as darkness. ~ Clarissa Pinkola Est s, #NFDB
782:Pale sunlight, pale the wall. Love moves away. The light changes I need more grace than I thought. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
783:Sometimes we have to fight our way out of the dark because the light doesn’t come looking. ~ Kennedy Ryan, #NFDB
784:Staring out the window, he drank his beer and watched the darkness eat away the light. ~ Cherise Sinclair, #NFDB
785:The coffee took on the light-brown color of the Capuchin monk robes I had often worn. ~ Kenneth C Johnson, #NFDB
786:The light comes brighter from the east; the cawOf restive crows is sharper on the ear. ~ Theodore Roethke, #NFDB
787:The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, John 1:5, #NFDB
788:The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. —JOHN 1:5 (ESV) ~ Frank E Peretti, #NFDB
789:The stars seemed to distance themselves, as if they knew I’d suck the light out of them. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
790:The Warrior of the Light never forgets the old saying: The good little goat doesn't bleat. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
791:Well you only need the light when it's burning low, only miss the sun when it starts to snow. ~ Passenger, #NFDB
792:Whoever is showing you the right path, he or she deserves to be called as the light! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
793:Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars. ~ E E Cummings, #NFDB
794:Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars. ~ e e cummings, #NFDB
795:Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. ~ Le Corbusier, #NFDB
796:As the light wanes I see what I thought I was anxious to surrender I am only willing to lend ~ Audre Lorde, #NFDB
797:...even if things were broken right now. Sometimes it was the cracks that let the light in. ~ Shannon Hale, #NFDB
798:If not exactly raging against the dying of the light, I was at least a little cross with it. ~ Mark Gatiss, #NFDB
799:I knew that if I let the darkness take me now then I´d never see the light again. ~ Alexander Gordon Smith, #NFDB
800:In the end, bless the darkness, hold the light, because the two aren't divisible. ~ S Kelley Harrell M Div, #NFDB
801:It was from the Lion that the light came. No one ever saw anything more terrible or beautiful. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
802:Mortal delight has its mortal danger. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda, The Guardians of the Light, #NFDB
803:My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled. ~ Jean Racine, #NFDB
804:Nothing in the natural world makes sense - except when seen in the light of evolution ~ David Attenborough, #NFDB
805:Pale sunlight, pale the wall. Love moves away. The light changes. I need more grace than I thought. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
806:People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night ~ C J Roberts, #NFDB
807:Sunset was an hour off but the clouds were hanging low, sponging up the last of the light. ~ Justin Cronin, #NFDB
808:The light shineth in darkness—to fos en te skotia fainei—and the darkness comprehended it not. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
809:There isn't enough darkness in all the world to snuff out the light of one little candle. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
810:When I fell out of the light, I entered The stomach of indifference, the wordless cupboard. ~ Sylvia Plath, #NFDB
811:When we keep claiming the light, we will find ourselves becoming more and more radiant. ~ Henri J M Nouwen, #NFDB
812:When you’ve been in the dark as long as I have, moy ángel, there is no mistaking the light. ~ Kresley Cole, #NFDB
813:1JO2.9 He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
814:actions bring light and eliminate the darkness. Fill your life with the light of positivity. ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
815:All have been blind to the light, deaf to admonitions, and hardened against the commandments. ~ John Calvin, #NFDB
816:Don’t dwell on the dark side of things, but look for the light and build around it. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg, #NFDB
817:How can I know anything about the past or the future, when the light of the Beloved shines only Now. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
818:I could chase the shadows with him. As long as he was willing to let me bring the light in. ~ Jay Crownover, #NFDB
819:I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers. ~ Cynthia Hand, #NFDB
820:I'm a born entertainer, when I open the fridge and the light comes on, I burst into song. ~ Robbie Williams, #NFDB
821:Maybe those who rose into the Light simply died, and the universe beyond this world was silent. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
822:Mightn’t it be, Cathy, that, until you’ve seen the dark, you don’t really know the light? ~ Robert Dinsdale, #NFDB
823:not one girl I think
who looks on the light of the sun
will ever
have wisdom
like this ~ Sappho,#NFDB
824:Om (AUM) is the truth of all truths, the light of all lights and the destroyer of all illusions. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
825:Only in our creative acts do we step forth into the light and see ourselves whole and complete. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
826:People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night. ~ C J Roberts, #NFDB
827:Some people, he thought, are drawn to the light as surely as flowers that bend toward a sun. ~ Claudia Gray, #NFDB
828:The Family is the salt of the earth and the light of the world, it is the leaven of society. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
829:The light in Alaska in particular is so beautiful. So beautiful! Such incredible light. ~ Sebastiao Salgado, #NFDB
830:"The Zen Way is demanding, but it leads to the depths, to the light of clearly seeing what is." ~ Myokyo-ni, #NFDB
831:Trust me. The only way to end shame is to bring it out of the dark and into the light. ~ Josephine Angelini, #NFDB
832:Walking in the light means we pursue obedience and are honest about our remaining darkness. ~ Kevin DeYoung, #NFDB
833:An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray, #NFDB
834:A Warrior of the Light knows what he wants. And he has no need to waste time on explanations. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
835:Blessed are those who have learned to acclaim you, who walk in the light of your presence, LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
836:Blessed are those with cracks in their broken heart because that is how the light gets in. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
837:Don’t turn your head.
Keep looking at the bandaged place.
That’s where
the Light enters you. ~ Rumi,#NFDB
838:Dwell in the light of thy Lord, and let thy soul be always ravished with His love. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
839:Faith is a bird that can see the light when it is dawn and starts singing in the dark. ~ Rabindranath Tagore, #NFDB
840:Had pretended to be Abbadon of the Dark, when always he had been working for the Light. ~ Melissa de la Cruz, #NFDB
841:In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories. ~ Alberto Manguel, #NFDB
842:I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope,
That star on life's tremulous ocean. ~ Thomas Moore,#NFDB
843:Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda, #NFDB
844:Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness. ~ Isobelle Carmody, #NFDB
845:Sometimes you have to explore the darkness to get to the light and get back to who you are. ~ Jennifer Lopez, #NFDB
846:The baby bat
Screamed out in fright,
'Turn on the dark,
I'm afraid of the light. ~ Shel Silverstein,#NFDB
847:The deepest need of our darkness is to comprehend the light which shines in the midst of it. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
848:the music played, always pointing to the light, to the way out, or the way in, to individualism, ~ Morrissey, #NFDB
849:The path into the light seems dark, the path forward seems to go back, the direct path seems long. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
850:The Warrior of the Light pays attention to small things because they can severely hamper him. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
851:They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. ~ Samuel Beckett, #NFDB
852:To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle. ~ Walt Whitman, #NFDB
853:When I am in the darkness, I want to think of it in the light, with you. - James Carstairs ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
854:You can shine the light into the darkness, but you can’t shine the darkness into the light. In ~ Ethan Cross, #NFDB
855:You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light. ~ Barry Lopez, #NFDB
856:Your spirit is the part of you that has to believe in something more. It's the light of you. ~ Caroline Myss, #NFDB
857:And the light, I must apologise for the lack of light... a hereditary affliction of the eyes… ~ Angela Carter, #NFDB
858:But letting the Light of truth into our hearts turns our winter of doubt into a spring of hope. ~ Renee Swope, #NFDB
859:Don't make rash decisions while the world is dark. Wait for the light to make all things clear. ~ Bryan Davis, #NFDB
860:It’s odd,’ said Peaches, ‘but we didn’t know the shadows were there until we had the light. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
861:My life was dark, torture and empty before you found me. You brought the light, Red. I love you. ~ M A Stacie, #NFDB
862:Now, we know which day will be the end of the light and which night will be the long, last one. ~ Ally Condie, #NFDB
863:Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one. ~ C D Wright, #NFDB
864:Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. ~ Jean Giraudoux, #NFDB
865:Slipknot is the darkness; Stone Sour is the light. Slipknot is chaos; Stone Sour is structure. ~ Corey Taylor, #NFDB
866:"The light of the body is the eye; if therefore thine eye be single, they whole body shall be full of light.", #NFDB
867:The light of torches resembles the wisdom of cowards; it gives a bad light because it trembles. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
868:The natural way to activate inner potential is to shine the light of consciousness upon it. ~ Carol S Pearson, #NFDB
869:Turn the light on so your aim is better," he said mildly. "All you did was waste a full beer. ~ Erin McCarthy, #NFDB
870:We can't escape the shadow, so the best thing we can do is notice the light and be open to it. ~ Maggie Smith, #NFDB
871:We must reflect the light of Christ through lives of prayer and joyful service to others. ~ Pope John Paul II, #NFDB
872:We're looking for answers in a landfill instead of looking to people who bring the light. ~ Christopher Titus, #NFDB
873:When truth presents itself, the wise person sees the light, takes it in, and makes adjustments. ~ Henry Cloud, #NFDB
874:But she also said that by staying strong, you can become the light for those who need you most. ~ Scott Snyder, #NFDB
875:Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
876:He alone is truly a man who is illumined by the light of the true knowledge. Others are only men in name. ~ id, #NFDB
877:Heaven...is the same feeling...No fear. No dark. When you know you are loved...that's the light. ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
878:I entered (into my inward self) and beheld with the eye of my soul...the Light Unchangeable. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
879:If you ever wake up and see the light and decide you want me back? You're going to have to crawl. ~ Maya Banks, #NFDB
880:I have a problem, if the light goes on on TV and it blinks midnight, I don't know how to fix it. ~ Don Rickles, #NFDB
881:I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day. ~ Joseph Barbera, #NFDB
882:I saw the exact moment the light left his eyes and he died and a small part of me went with him. ~ Jodi Taylor, #NFDB
883:It is easy to be numb to the world’s marvels when you’ve missed lunch and the light is still red. ~ N D Wilson, #NFDB
884:It is not seeing straight to see him as an animal. It is not sane. It sins against the light; ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
885:I walk so fast, I talk so fast, I could turn the light off and be in bed before the room's dark. ~ Roddy Piper, #NFDB
886:Leo was usefully blocking the light from shining directly in her eyes. Her own personal eclipse. ~ Lucy Parker, #NFDB
887:My body is but wax and wick for flame. When the candle burns out, the light shines elsewhere. ~ Normandi Ellis, #NFDB
888:My wife was afraid of the dark. Then she saw me naked, and now she's afraid of the light. ~ Rodney Dangerfield, #NFDB
889:Not everything needed to be brought into the light, he knew. Not every truth needed to be told. ~ Louise Penny, #NFDB
890:selflessness is the only antidote to evil. It provides the light that destroys the dark. ~ Michael A Stackpole, #NFDB
891:the atmosphere it breathed was like the light-rinsed airiness of a wall opposite an open window. ~ Donna Tartt, #NFDB
892:The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute. ~ Claude Monet, #NFDB
893:The light on the historical information is exceptionally bright. But that’s not where the keys are ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
894:The light was draining out of the room, going back through the window where it had come from. ~ Raymond Carver, #NFDB
895:Turn away. From the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and look at the light. ~ Jennifer Donnelly, #NFDB
896:What I want," he said softly, "is to stand in this meadow and walk in the light of the sun. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
897:You only need the light when it is burning low Only miss the sun when it starts to snow. How ~ Chetan Bhagat, #NFDB
898:All teaching and all truth and all doctrine must be tested in the light of the scriptures. ~ Martyn Lloyd Jones, #NFDB
899:A warrior of the light doesn't rely on strength alone, he makes use of his opponent's energy too ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
900:But how long must she sing in the darkness until she is at last allowed out into the light of day? ~ Unica Z rn, #NFDB
901:DEDICATION “To The Creator, who gives us the Light by which we more clearly see the Darkness… ~ Chet Williamson, #NFDB
902:Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See ~ Anthony Doerr,#NFDB
903:Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
904:He had the feeling that there was something physically behind his eyes, blocking the light. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides, #NFDB
905:If Edison was worried about his candle customers, he would have never invented the light bulb. ~ Nathan Fielder, #NFDB
906:If the light is great in front of you, you should turn around and see what it is doing behind you. ~ Jay Maisel, #NFDB
907:In the light everything is obvious. There are no secrets. You simply have to look in order to see. ~ Amy Harmon, #NFDB
908:May your feet ever walk in the light of two suns... and may the moonshadow never fall on you... ~ Robert Fanney, #NFDB
909:most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears. ~ Max Brooks, #NFDB
910:Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. ~ Georges Rouault, #NFDB
911:Not long after, as Tom, all undressed for bed, was surveying his drenched garments by the light of ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
912:Once in a while you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right. ~ Robert Hunter, #NFDB
913:Peace to him who has finished this supreme journey under the guidance of the Truth and the Light ! ~ Baha-ullah, #NFDB
914:The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. ~ Walt Whitman, #NFDB
915:...the light through the windows is always more enchanting when viewed from the street outside. ~ Gail Caldwell, #NFDB
916:Thus, then now as ever, I enter the Path of Darkness, if haply so I may attain the Light.
~ Aleister Crowley,#NFDB
917:Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time. ~ Meister Eckhart, #NFDB
918:We carry around the light of our loved ones who have passed. It is they who light the path for us. ~ Stacey Lee, #NFDB
919:A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her,--the light which, showing the way, forbids ~ Kate Chopin, #NFDB
920:Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering. ~ Layne Staley, #NFDB
921:Find my hand in the darkness and if we cannot find the light, we will always make our own. ~ Tyler Knott Gregson, #NFDB
922:Here I am of the air, a beautiful thing for the light to shine on. Perhaps you will remember that. ~ Paul Auster, #NFDB
923:It’s hard to see the light in circumstances like this, even if you’re holding the candle.” Tyler ~ Jamie McGuire, #NFDB
924:I've been doing independent films for 10 years, but one out of five didn't see the light of day. ~ Scoot McNairy, #NFDB
925:I WOULD RATHER BE NUMB THAN STAND HERE IN THE LIGHT OF A SUN THAT CAN NEVER CHASE THE CHILL AWAY. ~ Amie Kaufman, #NFDB
926:Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry. ~ Man Ray, #NFDB
927:Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light. ~ Sogyal Rinpoche, #NFDB
928:My past still clings to me, skeleton hands holding me back even as I push forward into the light. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
929:So we ask them who they are, and their leader smiles at me and says, ‘We are the light.’ ~ Emily St John Mandel, #NFDB
930:That is the conviction we must come to in our meditation, that the darkness cannot quench the light. ~ John Main, #NFDB
931:The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB
932:The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
933:The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
934:To love someone is to reveal to them their capacities for life, the light that is shining in them. ~ Jean Vanier, #NFDB
935:What can you know about a person? They shift in the light. You can’t light up all sides at once. ~ Richard Siken, #NFDB
936:While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light ~ Jack Kerouac, #NFDB
937:Who is more foolish—the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? —MAURICE FREEHILL ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
938:You are not given the light by anyone—not even by a spiritual teacher. You are that light. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
939:you can really see it, with an overdose, you can watch the light dripping out of someone’s eyes. ~ Ben H Winters, #NFDB
940:You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
941:Advent is a journey towards Bethlehem. May we let ourselves be drawn by the light of God made man. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
942:As the Promethean fire which banished Darkness, so Knowledge bears the Power and the Light. ~ Leanna Renee Hieber, #NFDB
943:At night our fear is strong . . . but in the morning, in the light, we find our courage again. ~ Malala Yousafzai, #NFDB
944:Be like a lotus. Let the beauty of your heart speak. Be grateful to the mud, water, air and the light. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
945:Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
946:How can those who live in the light of the day possibly comprehend the depths of the night? ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
947:If you manifest the light, you will become a dartboard for others’ fears, doubts, and insecurities ~ Steven Tyler, #NFDB
948:I give myself up to darkness; and wish I may never again be required to lift my head to the light. ~ Sarah Waters, #NFDB
949:In every bend of time there is some surprise, joy and beauty. Mindfulness is the light to discover it. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
950:In truth, I don't want to be there. I don't want to see the light go out of my brother's eyes. ~ Lurlene McDaniel, #NFDB
951:I preach darkness. I don't inspire hope—only shadows. It's up to you to find the light in my words. ~ Charles Lee, #NFDB
952:It is true. I pull the light of truth from men, but man can only suffer the light for so long. ~ Ta Nehisi Coates, #NFDB
953:Joy and sorrow are the light and shade of life; without light and shade no picture is clear. ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan, #NFDB
954:Laa shay'a waqi'un moutlaq bale kouloun moumkine...We work in the Dark, to serve the Light. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli, #NFDB
955:Somehow sleep allows us to see clearly those very things that are obscured by the light of day. ~ James Lee Burke, #NFDB
956:Sometimes the light is on in his apartment upstairs and I get the urge to set the place on fire. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
957:The blowing mist, filled with the light of the moon, was seeking to swallow the lamps of the heavens. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
958:The fears of a few seconds ago seem unfounded, as nightmares always do when the light comes back on. ~ Erin Kelly, #NFDB
959:The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months. ~ Ann Patchett, #NFDB
960:The real world was so messy, the light imperfect, the paint chipped, the happiness only partial. ~ Matthew Thomas, #NFDB
961:understood more clearly in the light of the Gita teaching the implication of the word ‘trustee’. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
962:Watching her was like being caught up in the radiance of a star, and in the light, he was revealed. ~ Paula Quinn, #NFDB
963:You invoke a new future
when you envision your past
in the light of your present. ~ Eric Micha el Leventhal,#NFDB
964:All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
965:And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
~ Anonymous, The Bible, John 1:5, [T5],#NFDB
966:A warrior of the Light does not rely on strength alone; he makes use of his opponent's energy, too. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
967:But then she came closer and we saw the light in her eyes we have been looking for ever since. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides, #NFDB
968:If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. ~ Walt Whitman, #NFDB
969:I’m going to kill a man. I’m going to steal the light from his eyes. I want to watch it go out. ~ Courtney Summers, #NFDB
970:In the light we can see what is and what is not. We know what is right and what is inappropriate. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
971:In the one who is bound
freedom will be found.
Live again, Darkness,
come out of the light. ~ Kami Garcia,#NFDB
972:No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly. ~ J R R Tolkien, #NFDB
973:The light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us. ~ Tony Dungy, #NFDB
974:The pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself. ~ Willa Cather, #NFDB
975:There is no darkness, we only close our eyes and shut out the Light.
~ Nolini Kanta Gupta, To The Heights, [T6],#NFDB
976:When I go in front of the light - go towards it - it is because it brings me energy. That's all. ~ Jean Luc Godard, #NFDB
977:When we have reached the depths of despair, only then can we look up and see the light of hope. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
978:When you start to treat the light weights like heavy weights, the heavy weights will go up a lot easier. ~ Ed Coan, #NFDB
979:You can only see the shadow because you have turned away from the light. Turn back toward the light. ~ Renee Swope, #NFDB
980:A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her,—the light which, showing the way, forbids it. ~ Kate Chopin, #NFDB
981:An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. ~ James A Michener, #NFDB
982:An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine but because people refuse to see it. ~ James A Michener, #NFDB
983:Beyond the edge of universe,
there's a kind of real darkness...
where even the light gone astray. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
984:From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes. ~ Neil Peart, #NFDB
985:I am the light of the world. He who †follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
986:If anyone walks during the day, he doesn't stumble, because he sees the light of this world. John 11:9 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
987:If we walk in the light as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another. 1 John 1:7 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
988:I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up in the morning and see the light. ~ Miles Davis, #NFDB
989:In meditation, we are going back into the light. All our pain will be taken away, our frustration. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
990:Life is known to be a process of combustion; intellect is the light produced by this process. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB
991:most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears. How ~ Max Brooks, #NFDB
992:My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth. ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, #NFDB
993:Now I see that I will never find the light Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, Consuming myself. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
994:Perhaps there simply is no grain of goodness in the heart of man, waiting to be brought to the light, ~ Paul Murray, #NFDB
995:Secrets are like flowers buried under snow. Eventually they rise up and push through into the light. ~ Dacre Stoker, #NFDB
996:There is cracks, cracks, in everything, that's how the light gets in.' I had cracks but not the hope. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
997:We move in and out of darkness and light all our lives. Right now I'm pleased to be in the light. ~ Neal Shusterman, #NFDB
998:When you have learned to walk in the light of the Lord, bitterness and contention are impossible. ~ Oswald Chambers, #NFDB
999:Words are the light and sound of our existence, the heat lightning by which the night is illuminated. ~ Dan Simmons, #NFDB
1000:Almost everything in the night sky gives off light. Even if we can't see it, the light is still there. ~ Nicola Yoon, #NFDB
1001:Almost everything in the night sky gives off light. Even if we can’t see it, the light is still there. ~ Nicola Yoon, #NFDB
1002:An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. ~ James A Michener, #NFDB
1003:A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside. ~ Denis Waitley, #NFDB
1004:Keep hoping to see the light in her eyes. Even knowing it'll mean she's saying good-bye. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
1005:Namaste. It was a Nepalese greeting. It meant: The light within me bows to the light within you. ~ Jennifer Donnelly, #NFDB
1006:Thank you adversity. Oh, how we stretch and grow in the shadows of darkness just to reach the light. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
1007:There is no recovery for anyone without lifting the lid on the pain of the past and letting in the light. ~ Rob Lowe, #NFDB
1008:What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light, or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle? ~ Joseph Campbell, #NFDB
1009:What's down in the dark will be brought to the light. ~ Anonymous, "God's Gonna Cut You Down", traditional folk song, #NFDB
1010:When I filter the sunshine in my life, I bask in the light of a transforming and inspiring reality. ~ Thomas Kinkade, #NFDB
1011:When you stand in the light of the Supreme Consciousness, you must not make a shadow. ~ The Mother, Agenda 10, [T5], #NFDB
1012:While there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight - I'll fight to the very end! ~ William Booth, #NFDB
1013:with the expression of one who knows that the light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1014:Women without love lose the light in their eyes, women without love die while they are still alive. ~ Elena Ferrante, #NFDB
1015:You cannot forever hide your true face in the shade; it will eventually be caught by the light! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1016:You’re the love of my life, the light of my world, and my savior. You’ll be those things to me forever, ~ Sandi Lynn, #NFDB
1017:Your greatness is revealed not by the lights that shine upon you but by the light that shines within. ~ Lolly Daskal, #NFDB
1018:A Warrior of the Light does not waste his time listening to provocations; he has a destiny to fulfill. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1019:Emotions are tunnels. You have to go all the way through the darkness to get to the light at the end. ~ Emily Nagoski, #NFDB
1020:He serves me somewhat darkly, now, I grant, Yet will he soon attain the light of reason. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
1021:In the heart-lotus which is of the nature of all the light of that self in the form 'I' shines. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
1022:In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given. ~ Robert Hunter, #NFDB
1023:I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. ~ Og Mandino, #NFDB
1024:Jesus was killed because He was the light of the world and because men prefer the darkness to the light. ~ R C Sproul, #NFDB
1025:Like electricity, the Light is everywhere, but one must know how to activate it. I have come for that. ~ Mother Meera, #NFDB
1026:Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
1027:Sometimes Evil pursues the Warrior of the Light, and when it does, he calmly invites it into his tent. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1028:There is always the light of Consciousness or Self, like the hall lamp which is always burning. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
1029:The supermind lives in the light of spiritual certitudes. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Intuitive Mind, #NFDB
1030:This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary. The trees of the mind are black. The light is blue. ~ Sylvia Plath, #NFDB
1031:We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy is when men are afraid of the light ~ Plato, #NFDB
1032:Weep for a dead man, for he left the light behind; But weep over a fool, for he left intelligence behind. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1033:You must start to live your life by the light of what you yourself want carved on your stone" (302). ~ Sandra Ben tez, #NFDB
1034:Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. ~ Rabindranath Tagore, #NFDB
1035:During the light days, we held each other close. During the dark days, we held each other closer. ~ Brittainy C Cherry, #NFDB
1036:Heresy is the refusal to speak the truth or to live the truth in the light of the One who is the Truth. ~ James H Cone, #NFDB
1037:If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself. ~ Romain Rolland, #NFDB
1038:If we didn't have shadow we'd just sit around loving the light, likely doing nothing with it. ~ S Kelley Harrell M Div, #NFDB
1039:I’ll tell you why you haven’t, Dave. It’s because you can’t dream in the light, if you can’t live in it. ~ Dan Skinner, #NFDB
1040:I'm becoming
the street.
Who are you in love with?
me?
Straight against the light I cross. ~ Frank O Hara,#NFDB
1041:In the heart-lotus which is of the nature of all, the light of that self in the form 'I' shines. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
1042:In the Light of interbeing, peace and happiness in your daily life means peace and happiness in the world. ~ Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
1043:Lady Luck finally saw fit to shine her light on me but life taught me to share. Welcome to the light. ~ Kristen Ashley, #NFDB
1044:Let’s shine the light of consciousness on places where we can hope to find what we are seeking. ~ Marshall B Rosenberg, #NFDB
1045:Love of Allah is the power of the heart, the sustenance of the heart, the light of the heart. ~ Ibn Qayyim Al Jawziyya, #NFDB
1046:Maybe our single-minded focus on the light makes us unable to see the dark that’s all around, always. ~ Alicia Elliott, #NFDB
1047:My wife says when I go out to the refrigerator, I do three minutes (entertaining) when the light goes on! ~ Davy Jones, #NFDB
1048:Outer beauty is inner beauty made visible, and it manifests itself in the light that flows in our eyes. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1049:The odds are six to five that the light in the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train. ~ Paul Dickson, #NFDB
1050:through the light which shines in natural things one mounts up to the life which presides over them. ~ Frances A Yates, #NFDB
1051:Yes, we have lost track of the light, the mornings, the holy innocence of those who forgive themselves. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
1052:27What I tell you in the dark, say in the light, and what you hear whispered, proclaim on j the housetops. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1053:A Warrior of the Light knows that in the silence of his heart he will hear an order that will guide him. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1054:Happy are the people who know the joyful shout; Lord, they walk in the light of Your presence. Psalm 89:15 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1055:He ignored the light switch in the hall. It was dark but sometimes dark just suited him better anyway. ~ Ophelia Julien, #NFDB
1056:I don't feel that we have any choice but to see the Love and the Light that exists within every person. ~ Doreen Virtue, #NFDB
1057:If Democrats were good at thinking like Republicans, they would see the light and stop being Democrats. ~ Ari Fleischer, #NFDB
1058:I feel the darkness near me; I feel the light shining. And more keenly I feel the contrast between the two. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
1059:I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
1060:Leave the light and travel the shadow-lands," said Blaise, repeating the inscription on the silver box. ~ Teresa Flavin, #NFDB
1061:Life shines where the light shines and our mind is our greatest light that can brighten our lives! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1062:Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
We work in the dark, to serve the light. We are Assassins! ~ Oliver Bowden,#NFDB
1063:Paul’s handwriting and held a few to the light. But why read them? It would only prolong the agony. ~ Martha Hall Kelly, #NFDB
1064:The light is no mystery, the mystery is that there is something to keep the light from passing through. ~ Richard Siken, #NFDB
1065:The poplars were a symbol. It was only the light from behind the poplars that made their silhouettes visible. ~ Can Xue, #NFDB
1066:There was a tear running down his cheek. It seemed like a river in the light of the setting sun. ~ Benjamin Alire S enz, #NFDB
1067:The Sun will rise and set regardless. What we choose to do with the light while it’s here is up to us. ~ Alexandra Elle, #NFDB
1068:They wander in darkness seeking light, failing to realize that the light is in the heart of the darkness ~ Manly P Hall, #NFDB
1069:Things are not always as bad as they seem. Sometimes, the darkness only makes it easier to see the light. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
1070:We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. ~ Plato, #NFDB
1071:We prefer the shadows where we feel safe over the light which exposes us and causes us to say 'woe is me!' ~ R C Sproul, #NFDB
1072:When it's dark, be the one who turns on the light.
—Joseph, Age 9, Brooklyn, New York, November 29 ~ R J Palacio,#NFDB
1073:Always revisit my decisions in the light of new knowledge and information. Don't be afraid to change. ~ Chris Guillebeau, #NFDB
1074:Centuries from now, deep in concrete vaults, the light from our most toxic waste will still be shining. ~ Randall Munroe, #NFDB
1075:He let the light from the upstairs world enter him and fill him. He gasped aloud with the wonder of it. ~ Kate DiCamillo, #NFDB
1076:Here I am of the air, a beautiful thing for the light to shine on. Perhaps you will remember that. I am... ~ Paul Auster, #NFDB
1077:He sighed and shook his head slowly. 'And there will be no bringing back the light once it has gone. ~ Stephen R Lawhead, #NFDB
1078:I refuse to let past bruises cover the light. It ain't all good, but it's all good enough so I know I'm alright ~ Eyedea, #NFDB
1079:It is like a piece of my soul had been lost, empty, and it is now filled with the light of a million stars. ~ Beth Revis, #NFDB
1080:It is only where the light and shadow meet, we can see the beauty of both the light and the shadow! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1081:joy is the salt of the earth and the light of the world. It is the yeast that leavens society as a whole. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1082:Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day that we die. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne, #NFDB
1083:Magrat plunged on with the brave desperation of someone dancing in the light of their burning bridges. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1084:Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven. ~ Robert Burns, #NFDB
1085:Nothing can be sworn impossible since Zeus made night during mid-day, hiding the light of the shining Sun. ~ Archilochus, #NFDB
1086:The poor man, whose intentions were so quickly imagined for him because of the way the light hits his skin. ~ Stacey Lee, #NFDB
1087:There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights. ~ Bram Stoker, #NFDB
1088:The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
1089:We've been through darkness, Andi," Valen said. "But that doesn't mean we can't still live in the light. ~ Sasha Alsberg, #NFDB
1090:When you turn out the light, I've got to hand it to me. Looks like it's you and me again tonight Rosie. ~ Jackson Browne, #NFDB
1091:Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. ~ Henri Fr d ric Amiel, #NFDB
1092:Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel, #NFDB
1093:You are the light of Presence, the awareness that is prior to and deeper than any thoughts and emotions. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
1094:You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright, #NFDB
1095:Every child of Heavenly Father born in the world is given at birth, as a free gift, the Light of Christ. ~ Henry B Eyring, #NFDB
1096:I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1097:If you seek Him, God can raise you up, and replace the darkness of the ocean, with the light of His Sun. ~ Yasmin Mogahed, #NFDB
1098:The light will return, just like the sun came back, but it will be your light, and yours to control. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
1099:I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars. ~ Og Mandino, #NFDB
1100:I wouldn't have seen the light if she hadn't pointed out, but once sje did, it became impossible to ignore. ~ Ally Condie, #NFDB
1101:Nothing can be sworn impossible since Zeus made night during mid-day, hiding the light of the shining Sun. ~ Archilochus, #NFDB
1102:Now I see that I will never find the light
Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel,
Consuming myself. ~ Bruce Lee,#NFDB
1103:Real thinking is possible only in the light of genuine language, no matter how limited, how primitive; ~ Susanne K Langer, #NFDB
1104:The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere following Gandhi's assassination. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru, #NFDB
1105:The light is already there. In Zen Buddhism there's a little speck of dust on the mirror, and that's us. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1106:The night is just a part of the day. Therefore she could feel as safe in the dark as she did in the light. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1107:To any white body receiving the light from the sun, or the air, the shadows will be of a bluish cast. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #NFDB
1108:To the person whose ignorance is destroyed by real knowledge, God gives light equal to the light of the Sun”. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1109:To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
1110:We carry around the light of our loved ones who have passed. It is they who light the path for us.” “Passed? ~ Stacey Lee, #NFDB
1111:Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn’t as bright as it could be. ~ Rob Bell, #NFDB
1112:All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle. ~ Saint Francis of Assisi pic: @gede_prama :, #NFDB
1113:Always revisit your decisions in the light of new knowledge and information. Don't be afraid to change. ~ Chris Guillebeau, #NFDB
1114:And there are men behind bars who pray for the light and there are men in the suburbs who pray for the night. ~ Elton John, #NFDB
1115:At the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of Heaven fills those who are quitting the light of Earth. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
1116:Finally, the day of our meeting crawls into the light and then takes a year to drag itself to the afternoon. ~ Sally Green, #NFDB
1117:I have become a collapsing star, pulling everything around it, even the light, into an ever-expanding void. ~ Tan Twan Eng, #NFDB
1118:In all circumstances, I always look for the light and build around it, with little memory of pain. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg, #NFDB
1119:In all circumstances, I always look for the light and build around it, with little memory of pain. ~ Diane von Furstenberg, #NFDB
1120:It would be the light at the end of the very long tunnel that my life had been so far. He would be my light. ~ Aileen Erin, #NFDB
1121:I wanted the light to be the revelation. It has to do with what we value. I want people to treasure light. ~ James Turrell, #NFDB
1122:The book of Revelation says that we no longer need the sun or the moon, for Christ is the light of the world. ~ Tim LaHaye, #NFDB
1123:The light of an early Summer afternoon as it slips toward dusk has so many good things wrapped up in it.. ~ Brandi L Bates, #NFDB
1124:The Light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed
The Shadow of Shadows looks on the deed alone. ~ W B Yeats,#NFDB
1125:the mind has a thousand eyes, and the heart has one:yet the light of a whole life dies when love is done. ~ Daniel Handler, #NFDB
1126:The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems. ~ Richard Rohr, #NFDB
1127:Thereafter Zarathustra went on again for two hours, trusting to the path and the light of the stars: ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1128:The sun is born again from the womb of night,” he said. “See how the light spreads, remaking the world. ~ Elizabeth Peters, #NFDB
1129:When the light fails and belief fades into nothingness, and the season of your darkest ignorance begins. ~ Bruce Holsinger, #NFDB
1130:Because you are the light in all of my dark,” I said, reciting a line from the letter he’d written me. Preppy ~ T M Frazier, #NFDB
1131:Be the light you want to attract, and darkness will have no spell over you. Darkness is dispelled by light. ~ Rebecca Rosen, #NFDB
1132:Concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
1133:Heaven . . . is the same feeling. . . . No fear. No dark. When you know you are loved . . . that’s the light. ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
1134:He who in his neighbour sees no other tiling but God, lives with the light that flowers in the Divinity. ~ Angelns Silesius, #NFDB
1135:His darkness was caught on those pages, but so was the light he tried so hard to keep from shining through. ~ Jay Crownover, #NFDB
1136:I believe in rainbows and all of that. But there are darker colors and it's the shade that defines the light. ~ Tori Amos, #NFDB
1137:Darkness will always try to extinguish the light. The light will always try to repress the darkness. ~ Morgan Rhodes, #NFDB
1138:If the light of the sun is invisible to the owl it is only the fault of that bird and not of the sun. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
1139:It was dawn and the light coming through the window was a dull blue. It was peaceful, like a fading memory. ~ Renee Carlino, #NFDB
1140:I write only for my shadow which is cast on the wall in front of the light. I must introduce myself to it. ~ Sadegh Hedayat, #NFDB
1141:Ninety isn't old. You're old when your doctor doesn't X-ray you any more - he just holds you up to the light! ~ Red Buttons, #NFDB
1142:That is what a shadow is, and empty space, a hole in the light. Evil is this - a hole in the goodness of God. ~ Ann Voskamp, #NFDB
1143:Their arm did not bring them victory— but by Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your face. Psalm 44:3 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1144:There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it. ~ Edith Wharton, #NFDB
1145:They wander in darkness seeking light, failing to realize that the light is in the heart of the darkness.
~ Manly P Hall,#NFDB
1146:Twilight ...
Say, who you are !!
The dusk before the night
Or the dawn before the light
(Page 73) ~ Neena Verma,#NFDB
1147:You are all children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. ~ Randy Frazee, #NFDB
1148:You delivered me from death, even my feet from stumbling, to walk before God in the light of life. Psalm 56:13 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1149:You must start to live your life by the light of what you yourself would want carved on your stone" (302). ~ Sandra Ben tez, #NFDB
1150:But you know, happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1151:Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1152:Having come from the light and from the gods, here I am in exile, separated from them. —Fragment of Turfa’n M7 ~ Umberto Eco, #NFDB
1153:He wears woe as others wear velvet; sorrow flatters him like the light of candles; tears become him like jewels. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
1154:If you were afraid of something in the light, wasn’t it just good sense to be more afraid of it in the dark? ~ Dot Hutchison, #NFDB
1155:in my story, i am the protagonist & the bad thing, i have to learn how to bend the light out of myself. ~ Sabrina Benaim, #NFDB
1156:In the sky we had rediscovered the moving principle of any work of art: the light, and the motion of color. ~ Sonia Delaunay, #NFDB
1157:I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears. ~ Max Brooks, #NFDB
1158:It's the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear. ~ Quincy Jones, #NFDB
1159:January is my favorite month, when the light is plainest, least colored. And I like the feeling of beginnings. ~ Anne Truitt, #NFDB
1160:Remember—the light of the world will never be diminished, so long as you are brave enough to carry the flame. ~ Leslie Soule, #NFDB
1161:Seek Unity and you will find neither Unity nor Truth.Seek the light of truth, and you will find Unity and Truth. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1162:She was in utter darkness once more. But when we are following the light, even its extinction is a guide. ~ George MacDonald, #NFDB
1163:The light filtered throught the leaves and pine needles above as if through lace, the ground spotted in shadow. ~ John Green, #NFDB
1164:The light is a funny thing, Grant. We think it shows us what we need to see, but in reality, it blinds us. ~ Adrienne Wilder, #NFDB
1165:There’s a great many things hard to fathom in darkness that set themselves straight in the light of day. ~ Diane Setterfield, #NFDB
1166:The willingness to change one’s mind in the light of new evidence is a sign of rationality not weakness. ~ Stuart Sutherland, #NFDB
1167:The world thinks that it moves by the light of reason but it is really impelled by its faiths and instincts. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
1168:Twilight is a scream time for the light: The sun screams magnificently before the total darkness comes! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1169:When we settle back into our selves, everything feels different, like if I turned on the light we'd be bears. ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
1170:18 But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1171:As the light began to fade, the architects lit the library’s gas jets, which hissed like mildly perturbed cats. ~ Erik Larson, #NFDB
1172:But you’re curious, too,” she said. “Why do you say that?” “You guard the light. And light sees everything. ~ Jeff VanderMeer, #NFDB
1173:Cut me open and the light streams out.
Stitch me up and the light keeps streaming out between the stitches ~ Richard Siken,#NFDB
1174:For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home? ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1175:Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men. ~ David O McKay, #NFDB
1176:Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light. ~ Emily Dickinson, #NFDB
1177:His is a search of darkness for the light,
Of mortal life for immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
1178:I feel the darkness near me; I feel the light shining. And more keenly I feel the contrast between the two. Until ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
1179:It is horrific even to think that there are children, victims of abortion, who will never see the light of day ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1180:It's not how long it glows. It's not how long the light lasts. It's what it says while it's still visible. ~ Marianne Wiggins, #NFDB
1181:Lethargics are to be laid in the light, and exposed to the rays of the sun for the disease is gloom. ~ Aretaeus of Cappadocia, #NFDB
1182:One has to persevere until the light conquers there. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II, Peace - The Basis of the Sadhana, #NFDB
1183:[Race] had no substance, like a shadowy shape that terrifies in the dark but vanishes by the light of day. ~ Nayantara Sahgal, #NFDB
1184:Some parts of life are lived in the shadows where the only sunlight you feel is the light you pray for. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
1185:Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
1186:The dawning of the light of awareness is the new birth, where the sun rises and the day breaks within you. ~ Alberto Villoldo, #NFDB
1187:The further you descend into a pit, the darker things appear. You can't keep digging to find the light. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
1188:The light is everywhere, the force is everywhere. And the world is so small. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother, MCW Vol. 15., #NFDB
1189:The light lives in the spaces between. It is there in the soil of that mountain, in the rock and in the snow. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
1190:The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone. ~ William Butler Yeats, #NFDB
1191:The light was misty and actinic, the sort of light to make Steven Spielberg reach for his copyright lawyer. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1192:The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart. - ~ Jalaluddin Rumi facebook.com/mevlana @Celaleddin_Rumi, #NFDB
1193:There is no bad light. There is spectacular light and difficult light. It's up to you to use the light you have. ~ Jay Maisel, #NFDB
1194:We can easily forget a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. ~ Plato, #NFDB
1195:You can’t fight evil in the dark, Sarah. The only way you can truly defeat it is to bring it into the light. ~ Amanda Stevens, #NFDB
1196:A key component of growth is grace—enough grace to open up and bring things into the light to be healed. Because ~ Henry Cloud, #NFDB
1197:Argus, you are fallen, and the light in all your lamps is utterly put out: one hundred eyes, one darkness all the same! ~ Ovid, #NFDB
1198:C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la guerre (attributed to a French observer during the Charge of the Light ~ Thomas Pynchon, #NFDB
1199:Deliberately she shrouded the light in her eyes, but it shone against her will in the faintly perceptible smile. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
1200:I decided to ride the lightning instead of extinguishing the light of life that had once shown out of my eyes. ~ Carrie Fisher, #NFDB
1201:I'm for turning off the tube and turning down the light, cause I'm for nothing else but me and you tonight. ~ Hank Williams Jr, #NFDB
1202:It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air. ~ Walker Evans, #NFDB
1203:Leases, writes, statutes, all are written to be read and each person reads them by the light of self-interest. ~ Hilary Mantel, #NFDB
1204:Leases, writs, statutes, all are written to be read, and each person reads them by the light of self-interest. ~ Hilary Mantel, #NFDB
1205:Like Mary, may we nurture the light born within us at Christmas. May we carry it everywhere in our daily lives. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1206:One day I'll stand before my Lord and King, and he will ask me what I did with the light of his love and mercy. ~ Bodie Thoene, #NFDB
1207:One of the signs that you are walking in the light is that you are honest about having walked in the darkness. ~ Kevin DeYoung, #NFDB
1208:Remember: Always walk in the light. And if you feel like you're not walking in it, go find it. Love the light. ~ Roberta Flack, #NFDB
1209:The early morning sun danced on the ripples of the lazy river, while small white birds floated on the light breeze. ~ J C Kang, #NFDB
1210:The redness was going out of the light now, the remains of the day were a fading pink, the color of wild roses. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1211:The Warrior of the light knows that when somebody wants something, the whole Universe conspires in their favor. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1212:The world is a shoulder of dark meat (black flesh of an old mule). And the light is on the other side. ~ Federico Garcia Lorca, #NFDB
1213:We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. ~ Plato, #NFDB
1214:We don't reach the light through endless analysis of the dark. We reach the light by choosing the light. ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB
1215:You stood with me in the bleak, black house. Don’t let the light fool you. Don’t leave me. What if you leave? ~ Annabel Joseph, #NFDB
1216:All of those who are willing to face the darkness bring the best of themselves to the light, for the world. ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
1217:Everything beautiful has a dark side, and some of us must dwell there, so that others can laugh in the light. ~ Joe Abercrombie, #NFDB
1218:Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the end of the tunnel. ~ Emir Kusturica, #NFDB
1219:He was struck dumb by her brilliant blue eyes. Eyes that could drag a man out of the darkest hole and into the light. ~ J K Coi, #NFDB
1220:If you are in a dark room, don’t beat at the darkness with a stick, but rather try to turn on the light ~ Paramahansa Yogananda, #NFDB
1221:It felt good to say those things out loud. It was a relief to free them from my head and expose them to the light. ~ David Adam, #NFDB
1222:Light helps define a place. Here the light has color. It changes throughout the day and it’s unpredictable. ~ Mary Alice Monroe, #NFDB
1223:Make it your habit to behold the Light without the glass, so that when the glass is shattered you may not be left blind. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
1224:Orthodox devotions that do not let in the light of modern knowledge are no more than a form of ancestor worship. ~ E L Doctorow, #NFDB
1225:She leaned out of the window slow and sleepy, and the light came through her nightdress like sand through a sieve. ~ Laurie Lee, #NFDB
1226:The candle flickered in the wind of the hurricane... Then, the light of one hundred billion stars burned out. ~ Stephen Chbosky, #NFDB
1227:The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
1228:The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It’s our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
1229:The feeling of freedom, of seein' the light
It's Ben Franklin with a key and a kite! You see it, right? ~ Lin Manuel Miranda,#NFDB
1230:The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it. ~ B K S Iyengar, #NFDB
1231:The purpose of suffering is to contain the light of your desire until you see yourself in everything. ~ Eric Micha el Leventhal, #NFDB
1232:This is the mission of every Christian: lumina pandit - to spread the light and to tell the world of God's love. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1233:We need to build up society in the light of the Beatitudes, walking towards the Kingdom with the least among us. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1234:When somebody wants something, the whole Universe conspires in their favor. The Warrior of the Light knows this. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1235:Cherish your tears and their reasons, they will be the light of your smile, your inner peace and reconciliation. ~ Tariq Ramadan, #NFDB
1236:Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children! ~ Julius Charles Hare, #NFDB
1237:Don’t be deceived by the thoughts of obscurity that lingers around your head. Go and shine the light in you. ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
1238:Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
1239:Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light" -Albus Dumbledore ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1240:He that takes away Reason to make way for Revelation puts out the Light of both , as one who pokes out eye to see . ~ John Locke, #NFDB
1241:I don't know anything about light, from where it comes, nor where it goes I only want the light to light up. . . ~ Helen Oyeyemi, #NFDB
1242:I'm one of those people that think Thomas Edison and the light bulb changed the world more than Karl Marx ever did. ~ Steve Jobs, #NFDB
1243:It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest.
(The Walk - Chapter 19, Page 122 ~ Richard Paul Evans,#NFDB
1244:Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
1245:No matter how dim the light filtering through the trees is, you can still try your best to grasp it. -Kaien Cross ~ Matsuri Hino, #NFDB
1246:No one sees life like you do, because you are no one. You change constantly, like the light outside the window. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1247:Tess?” A soft voice at the door; she looked up and saw Will there, silhouetted in the light from the corridor. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1248:The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows. ~ Brene Brown, #NFDB
1249:The perfect man is the one who does not let the light of his knowledge quench the light of his reverence. ~ Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, #NFDB
1250:Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”-Helen Keller
Quote Read: 6/22/18 ~ Helen Keller,#NFDB
1251:We are the light against the darkness, and we must continue to burn brightly, so others may find their way out. ~ Claire Legrand, #NFDB
1252:You led the Army of the Light, Turalyon,' Anduin thought, and his heart lifted. 'But this is the army of hope. ~ Christie Golden, #NFDB
1253:Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in. ~ Isaac Asimov, #NFDB
1254:All people, all possible permutations of good, evil, thought, passion. The lamps are different, But the Light is the same. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
1255:And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, #NFDB
1256:Avoid ending a scene with your character going to bed. Your reader will shut off the light and go to sleep, too. ~ Cheryl St John, #NFDB
1257:Dance, and make joyous the love around you. Dance, and your veils which hide the Light shall swirl in a heap at your feet. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
1258:Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves. ~ Leonora Carrington, #NFDB
1259:every man has a last choice after the first, a chance of forgiveness. It is not too late. Turn. Come to the Light. ~ Susan Cooper, #NFDB
1260:Find the light and it will show you the path. The path that is shown by your own light is the only path that is right. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
1261:It’s been my experience that life usually looks much better under the light of day than in the bleakness of night. ~ Vered Ehsani, #NFDB
1262:It's not my light to begin with, in a sense; it's the light of God, the light of eternity. So take all you want! ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1263:Light of compassion and the light of wisdom that arises from our deepest and truest nature surpasses all other lights. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
1264:There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
~ Bram Stoker, [T5],#NFDB
1265:There is a term for people caught on a street crossing after the light has changed: "pedestrian-traffic residue". ~ Mavis Gallant, #NFDB
1266:There's a difference between preferring books to parties and preferring sixteen cats to seeing the light of day. ~ Lauren Morrill, #NFDB
1267:those who travel the world hoping to get “blinded by the light” are often blind to the light that’s all around them. ~ Rolf Potts, #NFDB
1268:Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
1269:We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
~ Plato,#NFDB
1270:We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. ~ Socrates, #NFDB
1271:We can see the light but we are still inside the tunnel, ... We have not been able to get to all the communities. ~ Pablo Picasso, #NFDB
1272:Your silence furnishes a dark house.
But even at the risk of burning,
the moth always seeks the light. ~ Elizabeth Acevedo,#NFDB
1273:...Being a mother is like being a gardener of souls. You tend your children, make sure the light always touches them ~ Karen White, #NFDB
1274:...but most houses in California were built without roots, leaving us trapped above ground with the light. ~ Karen Thompson Walker, #NFDB
1275:But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation. ~ William Wordsworth, #NFDB
1276:by the light of graveside lanterns eating rice - totally naked
~ Kobayashi Issa, by the light of graveside lanterns
,#NFDB
1277:His fur prickled deliciously in the light wind, and the rustling leaves seemed to whisper his name into the shadows. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
1278:I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes. ~ Bette Midler, #NFDB
1279:If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
1280:I like to say that lighting is about taking the light away. I often like to use the shadows more than the light. ~ Vilmos Zsigmond, #NFDB
1281:I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark. ~ Muhammad Ali, #NFDB
1282:It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #NFDB
1283:It is easy to forgive children who are afraid of the dark but the real tragedy of life is men who are afraid of the light. ~ Plato, #NFDB
1284:I was so drained I felt as if I were staring through a telescope at the light of a star dead for a million years. ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
1285:Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light. ~ Bryant H McGill, #NFDB
1286:Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands. ~ Bram Stoker, #NFDB
1287:One day Boudin said to me, 'Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.' I took his advice. ~ Claude Monet, #NFDB
1288:The blasphemy of the papists is damnable, when they pretend that the light of Scripture merely dazzles the eye. This ~ John Calvin, #NFDB
1289:Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the light. The only reality is action. ~ Karen Traviss, #NFDB
1290:Whatever loss you hold against your breastbone... All that loss needs to be colored in & then held to the light. ~ Kris Radish, #NFDB
1291:"Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in." ~ Isaac Asimov, #NFDB
1292:Addiction is a tunnel that wakes you up in the middle of the night. Everything else happens out here in the light. ~ Cheryl Strayed, #NFDB
1293:Dear young people, let yourselves be taken over by the light of Christ, and spread that light wherever you are. ~ Pope John Paul II, #NFDB
1294:Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
-Albus Dumbledore ~ J K Rowling,#NFDB
1295:Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light
-Albus Dumblodore ~ J K Rowling,#NFDB
1296:If the light that is on you is brighter than the light that is in you, the light that is on you will destroy you. ~ Christine Caine, #NFDB
1297:In the Kabbala, it says that we receive the light in order to impart the light, and thus we repair the world. ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB
1298:More than anything, one is struck by the light. Light everywhere. Brightness everywhere. Everywhere, the sun. ~ Ryszard Kapuscinski, #NFDB
1299:Often the truth remains hidden in the shadows, and it is in the shadows where the light and dark make war...and love. ~ Stjepan eji, #NFDB
1300:Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1301:Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk’s flight on the empty sky. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1302:…Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that divides our infinite origin from our infinite end. ~ Juan Ramon Jimenez, #NFDB
1303:Shadow Work is about facing our inner darkness and immersing it in the light of conscious awareness and compassion. ~ Aletheia Luna, #NFDB
1304:that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
1305:The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid. ~ Tanith Lee, #NFDB
1306:The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light. ~ Nadine Gordimer, #NFDB
1307:The glowing jewel says,
"Don't be fooled by my beauty -
the light of my face comes from
the candle of my spirit. ~ Rumi,#NFDB
1308:The higher the joy is not the light, it's the reflection. The greater pleasure is not climbing up; it's handing down ~ Bruce Feiler, #NFDB
1309:The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
1310:The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton, #NFDB
1311:The one who’d hit the light was handsome and his head was shaved; a soldier in a war where the enemy was everyone else. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1312:The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit...One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts. ~ Saint Basil, #NFDB
1313:To believe in a universe as young as 6 or 7,000 years old is to extinguish the light from most of the galaxy. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson, #NFDB
1314:Today too, amid so much darkness, we need to see the light of hope and to be men and women who bring hope to others. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1315:We are humble because we know we are not the power in salvation. We are obedient because we know we possess the light. ~ Mark Dever, #NFDB
1316:We must stop setting our sights by the light of each passing ship; instead we must set our course by the stars. ~ George C Marshall, #NFDB
1317:You hate him for turning you inside of yourself. You are still getting used to looking at your body in the light. ~ Kristina Haynes, #NFDB
1318:You've got to use it, the pain. Use it as fuel to move past the torment, to the light at the end of the tunnel ~ Thomas E Sniegoski, #NFDB
1319:And even if I had, the answers lived inside me, and when I pulled them out into the light they were pale, weak things. ~ Randy Ribay, #NFDB
1320:But we can’t live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.” I ~ Libba Bray, #NFDB
1321:But what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1322:Happy Day After Christmas, Merry Rest of the Year, even when Christmas is over, The Light of the World is Still Here! ~ Matthew West, #NFDB
1323:In order to choose the right path, we do not have to figure out the wrong one... we just need to follow the light. ~ Akiane Kramarik, #NFDB
1324:Mark that the blessings of sacred fellowship and perfect cleansing are bound up with walking in the light. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1325:O God, how easily I make them happy! Give me strength to be always the light of their lives and so lead them to You! ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
1326:One can easily forgive a child who’s afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light, ~ Lauren Rowe, #NFDB
1327:Our dream of life will end as dreams do end, abruptly and completely, when the sun rises, when the light comes. ~ Marilynne Robinson, #NFDB
1328:…Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that divides our infinite origin from our infinite end. ~ Juan Ram n Jim nez, #NFDB
1329:Run while you have the light of life, that the darkness of death may overtake you not." (Rule of St. Benedict)) ~ Frances Greenslade, #NFDB
1330:Someone might have a crappy childhood, have every right to be bitter, but she still can choose to embrace the light. ~ Tawdra Kandle, #NFDB
1331:Take your clothes off,” she said, knowing that she would never have managed the words in the light.
“Yes, ma’am. ~ Susan Mallery,#NFDB
1332:The light and heat of the universe comes from the sun, and its cold and darkness from the withdrawal of the sun. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #NFDB
1333:The light died on the window-sill as the last survivor of a charge dies on the enemy parapet, murdered but glorious. ~ Josephine Tey, #NFDB
1334:There is a crack in everything / That’s how the light gets in
C’è una crepa in tutto / È così che entra la luce ~ Cassandra Clare,#NFDB
1335:The sound of someone passing by the library entrance made the two of them scatter away, like cockroaches from the light. ~ A Z Green, #NFDB
1336:The truth of the matter is that the light at the end of the tunnel generally belongs to the pharmaceutical companies. ~ Colum McCann, #NFDB
1337:Time however can be easily overcome; not by chasing the light, but by standing back far enough to see it all at once. ~ Mark Helprin, #NFDB
1338:We cannot express the light in nature because we have not the sun. We can only express the light we have in ourselves. ~ Arthur Dove, #NFDB
1339:When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it. ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
1340:With this sunrise somehow I felt I was exactly where I was supposed to be... Have faith, the light seemed to announce. ~ Ethan Hawke, #NFDB
1341:You accept that the shadows on the wall are real, love. I have no idea how to make you turn around and see the light. ~ Marie Sexton, #NFDB
1342:You make choices every day and almost every hour that keep you walking in the light or moving away toward darkness. ~ Henry B Eyring, #NFDB
1343:By dawn you were pure electric. You pulsed like a star. You awoke in the last darkness before the light poured in. ~ Adrienne Rich, #NFDB
1344:Celebrate the best in people. Find the light that shines not on us, but within us, when we trust enough to let it out. ~ Dewitt Jones, #NFDB
1345:Do not live in the shadow of the masters for ever. Learn to live in the light of your soul. Life deserves full expression. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
1346:Here is the thing, you can make a dope movie and it may never see the light of day. I am crazy proud of my first movie. ~ Brad Furman, #NFDB
1347:Her skin literally glowed. It was as if she had swallowed the moon and couldn’t keep the light from pouring out of her. ~ Liz Schulte, #NFDB
1348:I listen to the gunfire we cannot hear, and begin this journey with the light of knowing the root of my own furious love. ~ Joy Harjo, #NFDB
1349:It’s more than just saying lines and turning the light on. You have to drive the story - there’s a technical aspect. ~ Angela Bassett, #NFDB
1350:May the light of freedom, coming to all darkened lands, flame brightly - until at last the darkness is no more. ~ Dwight D Eisenhower, #NFDB
1351:No, you are not to complain or question who you are, but instead, grow, reaching for the light that's inside you. ~ Victor Villasenor, #NFDB
1352:No, you are not to complain or question who you are, but instead, grow, reaching for the light that's inside you. ~ Victor Villase or, #NFDB
1353:Purity is receptivity, the ability to sit and wait patiently, for as long as necessary, for the coming of the light. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1354:She met my gaze and the light dazzled, but I wouldn’t look away. “Your choices are keys to doors I cannot see beyond. ~ Mark Lawrence, #NFDB
1355:The discouraged have their backs turned toward the light, so that all the black shadows fall across their path. ~ Orison Swett Marden, #NFDB
1356:The light of thy spirit cannot destroy these shades of night so long as thou hast not driven out desire from thy soul. ~ Hindu Wisdom, #NFDB
1357:The main part of the tree is the root, and the root is always beneath the ground. It never is brought out into the light. ~ Malcolm X, #NFDB
1358:We need the darkness to appreciate the light, and the bumps along the road to stop us falling asleep at the wheel. ~ Michael Robotham, #NFDB
1359:We sit in meditation and cry to God, we cry to the light, as little children, knowing God will do everything for us. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1360:When the chaos settles and the smoke clears, take inventory of who's still by your side. Walk into the light together. ~ Gabby Rivera, #NFDB
1361:Wherever Jordan's going - and I do believe we all go somewhere - think of it as the light that will bring him home. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1362:You must have the guts to throw off the chains of modesty and mediocrity in order to be the light that the world needs. ~ Debbie Ford, #NFDB
1363:And I should mention the light which falls through the big windows this time of day italicizing everything it touches. ~ Billy Collins, #NFDB
1364:But for one who has faith in the Divine Grace, the return to the Light becomes easy.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953, [T7],#NFDB
1365:He held it up to the light, glancing at the technology he and his partner had embedded almost seventy thousand years ago. ~ A G Riddle, #NFDB
1366:I clawed my way into the light but the light is just as scary. I’d rather quit. I’d rather be sad. It’s too much work. ~ Richard Siken, #NFDB
1367:If you are afraid of the dark, you seek the light. But what do you do when even the light is filled with terrors? ~ Karl Ove Knausg rd, #NFDB
1368:I love you. Charles Wallace, you are my darling and my dear and the light of my life and the treasure of my heart. ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
1369:Nothing shall part us in our love till Thanatos (Death) at his appointed hour removed us from the light of day. ~ Apollonius of Rhodes, #NFDB
1370:People naturally see themselves in the light of their intentions, but they measure others according to their actions. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
1371:So and likewise, if you tear away the veils of the heart, the light of the oneness will shine upon it. ~ Baha-ullah: The Seven Valleys, #NFDB
1372:Staying in the safe darkness of memory and yearning is easy. Going forward to the light of possibility takes courage. ~ Blaize Clement, #NFDB
1373:The day wears on. The light fades. It snows harder with each passing hour. Up and down Main, Christmas lights wink on. ~ Blake Crouch, #NFDB
1374:There was nothing dark and hidden about Jesus. He was and is the Light of the world, and He welcomed the light. ~ Samuel Logan Brengle, #NFDB
1375:the things we hold inside, the nightmares we stifle, have far more power than the things we expose to the light of day. ~ Nalini Singh, #NFDB
1376:We are so engrossed with the objects or appearances revealed by the light that we pay no attention to the light. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
1377:And even in woman's conscious love, there is still always surprise and lightning and night, along with the light. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1378:...each chime pecking a pinhole in the sheeted dark until the last layers shred completely and the light pours in and in. ~ Monica Wood, #NFDB
1379:Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will. ~ Mary Stewart, #NFDB
1380:From love's plectrum arises
the song of the string of life
Love is the light of life
love is the fire of life ~ Muhammad Iqbal,#NFDB
1381:He looks at me, the light in his eyes fractures into millions of bits—a kaleidoscope of darkness that may never be fixed. ~ Alyson Noel, #NFDB
1382:I passed out in our front yard. But honey, don't turn out the light, cause I think I'm in the mood for love tonight. ~ Robert Earl Keen, #NFDB
1383:Like plants, so men also grow, some in light, others in the shadows. There are many who need the shadows and not the light. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
1384:Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin, #NFDB
1385:She poured me another drink and in the light breeze of her movements I smelled again the manufactured smell of these women. ~ Lily King, #NFDB
1386:The light in Lisen and Geoff’s apartment was warm, as was the atmosphere, and it poured around us like heated cream. ~ Ann Howard Creel, #NFDB
1387:The Sun will rise and set regardless. What we choose to do with the light while it's here is up to us. Journey wisely. ~ Alexandra Elle, #NFDB
1388:When the vasanas become extinct, the mind also disappears, absorbed into the light of the one reality, the Heart. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
1389:... while the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough. ~ Rebecca Harding Davis, #NFDB
1390:Who does not love to wander at twilight, when the light of day and the deep shades of night mingle together in deep coloring? ~ Novalis, #NFDB
1391:You have to be in love with your story ... It's the love of the light; the time of day; of watching the moment unravel. ~ Lynn Johnston, #NFDB
1392:All the fallacies of human reason had to be exhausted, before the light of a high truth could meet with ready acceptance. ~ F Max M ller, #NFDB
1393:A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
1394:A shadow cast in the light of day would glow like a silhouette woven from fireflies in the darkness of the night. ~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen, #NFDB
1395:As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day. ~ Alain de Botton, #NFDB
1396:Both of us freeze. The Scavengers, too, freeze. Their footsteps stop; their voices fall silent. And then the light seeps ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
1397:Consciousness without world is impossible, just as there is no sight without the light to see by. Is that your objection, ~ E L Doctorow, #NFDB
1398:her. It was a cruel thing, trying to sprout and find the light of day. It was truth. She wasn’t sure that she wanted it. ~ Kate Atkinson, #NFDB
1399:He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor. ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel, #NFDB
1400:How strange to return to the dust from which they came. Stranger still to never have seen the light of a single day. ~ Jill Eileen Smith, #NFDB
1401:I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light. ~ Patrick Swayze, #NFDB
1402:It was in looking up at him her aspect had caught its lustre - the light repeated in her eyes beamed first out of his. ~ Charlotte Bront, #NFDB
1403:Like a lotus plunging to the surface of a pond to embrace the light from its muddy darkness, truth always rises with time. ~ Suzy Kassem, #NFDB
1404:...perhaps mankind must have a time of darkness so that we will one day again know what a blessing is the light. ~ Marion Zimmer Bradley, #NFDB
1405:Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it. ~ Jacques Ellul, #NFDB
1406:Seek my grace within the Heart. I will drive away your darkness and show you the light. This is my responsibility. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
1407:The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
1408:The wheels in Washington say they see the light at the end of the tunnel." "That could be a train coming at you, you know, ~ Mark Berent, #NFDB
1409:What is realized is the heart, as the light of Pure Consciousness, into which the the mind is completely absorbed. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
1410:writing those lines in his small kitchen, the light wet on the oilskin tablecloth, the night close against the window. ~ Helen Macdonald, #NFDB
1411:You didnt grow up in the shadow of John Steinbeck. He put you on his shoulders and gave you all the light you wanted. ~ Thomas Steinbeck, #NFDB
1412:Zoey inhales, a shriek building in her lungs, but the person steps forward, letting the light wash over his smiling features. ~ Joe Hart, #NFDB
1413:A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
1414:Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will. ~ Mary Stewart, #NFDB
1415:Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up & turn toward the light & that makes them beautiful. ~ Jim Carrey, #NFDB
1416:Humans are born into the light Shining good, shining bright Only evil thrives at night Let us banish them from our sight. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
1417:It had been the golden time of evening when the sun is gone and everything gives back the light it has absorbed all day long. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
1418:It's not a cry you can hear at night. It's not somebody who has seen the light. It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah. ~ Leonard Cohen, #NFDB
1419:Mary means enlightener, because She brought forth the Light of the world. In the Syriac tongue, Mary signifies Lady. ~ Isidore of Seville, #NFDB
1420:Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
1421:Rediscover the Rosary in the light of scripture, in harmony with the Liturgy, and in the context of your daily lives. ~ Pope John Paul II, #NFDB
1422:So when a great man dies For years beyond our ken The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men. ~ Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, #NFDB
1423:The air grows cool and darkles, The Rhine flows calmly on; The mountain summit sparkles In the light of the setting sun. ~ Heinrich Heine, #NFDB
1424:The ajnani sees only the mind which is a mere reflection of the light of Pure Consciousness arising from the heart. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
1425:The heart had the dark to balance out the light, the uncertainty to balance the dreams. All carefully balanced . . . ~ Charlie N Holmberg, #NFDB
1426:The libraries, which they have inherited from their fathers, are secluded, like dreary sepulchres, from the light of day. ~ Edward Gibbon, #NFDB
1427:This evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of the darkness. ~ Ted Kooser, #NFDB
1428:Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
1429:All you did was haul me into the light. I could’ve walked away at any point. I chose to stay. I will always choose to stay. ~ Nalini Singh, #NFDB
1430:Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. ~ Ansel Adams, #NFDB
1431:As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makes plain the pathway. ~ Anne Hutchinson, #NFDB
1432:attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
1433:Aunt Agatha is my tough aunt, the one who eats broken bottles and conducts human sacrifices by the light of the full moon. ~ P G Wodehouse, #NFDB
1434:I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life” (John 8:12). ~ Will Davis Jr, #NFDB
1435:If it feels like cracks are forming in your life, those cracks may be what is needed for the light within to reveal itself. ~ Heidi DuPree, #NFDB
1436:Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics. ~ Qiu Xiaolong, #NFDB
1437:Men and people will fight you down when you see the light. Let me tell you if you are not wrong than everything is all right. ~ Bob Marley, #NFDB
1438:Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light. ~ Russell Kirk, #NFDB
1439:Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
1440:Ring the bellsthat still can ringForget your perfect offeringThere is a crack in everythingThat's how the light gets in... ~ Leonard Cohen, #NFDB
1441:Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1442:The light of compassion opens the petals of the heart. When the petals of the heart unfold fragrance spreads across the valley. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
1443:The light that filled my house was deep and livid, half magnolia, half rainwater. Things sat in it, dark and very still. ~ Helen Macdonald, #NFDB
1444:United by their clasped hands, they became again the two halves, the light and the dark. The Destroyer and the Savior. A whole. ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
1445:“We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.” ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
1446:We must always walk in the presence of the Lord, in the light of the Lord, always trying to live in an irreprehensible way. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1447:What you have to do is just walk into the light. Then you find that it doesn't burn, and it's not particular frightening. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1448:You were the light when my entire world was dark. You gave me a reason to keep going when all I wanted to do was give up. ~ Teresa Mummert, #NFDB
1449:But still, sometimes, in the heart of winter when the light outside seemed yellow- sleepy, like a cat curled up on a sofa... ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1450:Confidence has brought them out into the light, but they seem to have forgotten - light's no good for creatures of the night. ~ Darren Shan, #NFDB
1451:Don't worry about anything. Pray about everything. . . Put your hands together and point your soul toward the light of God. ~ Andrew Klavan, #NFDB
1452:Epicurus ... whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun. ~ Lucretius, #NFDB
1453:He said, I am the Light of the world. He who follows Me will not be walking in the dark, but will have the Light which is Life. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1454:I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things
~ Anonymous, The Bible, Isaiah 45:7,#NFDB
1455:I will never decrease my fire that everyone tries to put out. They are just afraid the light inside me might destroy them. ~ Jennae Cecelia, #NFDB
1456:Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother. ~ Frederick Douglass, #NFDB
1457:Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
1458:Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else. ~ Franz Kafka, #NFDB
1459:the blue and cloudless day closes like the lid of a casket of jewels upon the violet rim of sea, and shuts out the light. ~ Margaret Deland, #NFDB
1460:The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing ~ Mary Oliver, #NFDB
1461:The Light in you is the unalterable truth of who you are. You can deny it and obscure it, but you cannot uncreate it. ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB
1462:the natives “were puzzled as to why the light-skinned men, who must really be ghosts or spirits, had no women with them. ~ Mitchell Zuckoff, #NFDB
1463:The sole reality is that peaceful Self which shines by the light of its own nature as pure consciousness in the supreme state. ~ Sri Ramana, #NFDB
1464:The tiny seed knew that in order to grow, it needed to be dropped in dirt, covered in darkness, struggle to reach the light. ~ Sandra Kring, #NFDB
1465:Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us. ~ Meister Eckhart, #NFDB
1466:Walking toward the light. None of us lives in the light; we can only walk toward it, with the eyes and legs God has given us. ~ John Updike, #NFDB
1467:When the light has sharply faded And you have lost your way Let another's love guide you It can turn blackest night into day. ~ Kevin Myers, #NFDB
1468:You receive the light through what you read, through what you hear in meditation, or through some spiritual practice. ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB
1469:A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing. ~ Muhammad Ali, #NFDB
1470:As fall the light autumnal leaves, one still the other following, till the bough strews all its honors on the earth below. ~ Dante Alighieri, #NFDB
1471:As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong. ~ Tabitha Suzuma, #NFDB
1472:At a guess I see that you may indeed be he: the light silver dew brings to clothe in loveliness a twilight beauty flower. ~ Murasaki Shikibu, #NFDB
1473:Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light. ~ Stephen Jay Gould, #NFDB
1474:Despite her love of pineapple on pizza, Lark was perfection. I felt like a love starved moth drawn to the light of her smile. ~ Bijou Hunter, #NFDB
1475:Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all."
-Dr. Jose Rizal ~ Jos Rizal,#NFDB
1476:Get out,” Dragos said. The dragon was in his voice.
Except for the Light Fae male, all the customers rushed for the door. ~ Thea Harrison,#NFDB
1477:Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle. ~ Fannie Flagg, #NFDB
1478:If we could simply live in the light of our bodies being temples of the Holy Spirit, our daily life would be transformed. ~ Elizabeth George, #NFDB
1479:It's fun to see the light in someone's eyes. It's fun to give your own eccentric experience and have it land. That's fun. ~ Richard Dreyfuss, #NFDB
1480:Just when you think you're coming out and you think, 'OK, I see the light at the end of the tunnel,' then I got this diagnosis. ~ Dana Reeve, #NFDB
1481:Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
1482:Then there was the puzzle of why the sun came out during the day, instead of at night when the light would come in useful. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1483:Through enquiry into the source, the mind also disappears being absorbed into the light of the one Reality, the heart. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
1484:We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, #NFDB
1485:When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead - When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, #NFDB
1486:Where death follows, there’s life. When darkness surrounds you in a world of chaos, search and you’ll eventually find the light. ~ Lee Argus, #NFDB
1487:"You wanted to accept everything. So accept madness too. Let the light of your madness shine, and it will suddenly dawn on you." ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
1488:407Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics. ~ Qiu Xiaolong, #NFDB
1489:But not until the singular flame of the light side was extinguished from the galaxy. Not until the Jedi Order was stamped out. ~ James Luceno, #NFDB
1490:By the light coming from the patio, it looked a shade after sunrise. I had to stop waking up at this hour. It was just insane. ~ Kim Harrison, #NFDB
1491:Creativity is not enough... the skill of the true artist is to show the real in the light of the ideal and so transfigure it. ~ Roger Scruton, #NFDB
1492:If you keep wandering in the dark streets, may be it is because you find peace in the darkness rather than in the light! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1493:In order for the light of gratitude and happiness to shine so brightly, the darkness of how it could be worse must be present. ~ Danny DeVito, #NFDB
1494:it oxidised to form sulphate ions, which developed into tiny particles that reflected away some of the light coming from the sun. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1495:On one end there was who you were before you went underground, and on the other end a new person steps out into the light. ~ Colson Whitehead, #NFDB
1496:Ring the bells that still can ring, Forget your perfect offering, There’s a crack in everything, That’s how the light gets in. ~ Louise Penny, #NFDB
1497:Sometimes life-changing moments slip by unnoticed, their significance only becoming apparent in the light of subsequent events. ~ Alex George, #NFDB
1498:Such an angry little Kitten, with such sad eyes. Who hurt you, Georgia? Who took the light out of those pretty blue eyes, ehh? ~ Lesley Jones, #NFDB
1499:The lamps are different, but the Light is the same. One matter, one energy, one Light, one Light-mind, endlessly emanating all things. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
1500:The light burrows deep into my eyes, brighter than a thousand galaxies. Behind the light his eyes, darker than the deepest pit. ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
721 Integral Yoga
377 Poetry
121 Fiction
111 Philosophy
100 Occultism
94 Christianity
49 Yoga
44 Psychology
39 Mysticism
15 Science
12 Mythology
12 Islam
9 Kabbalah
9 Integral Theory
8 Education
7 Philsophy
7 Hinduism
6 Sufism
6 Baha i Faith
4 Theosophy
4 Cybernetics
1 Zen
1 Thelema
1 Buddhism
1 Alchemy
474 Sri Aurobindo
339 The Mother
199 Satprem
167 Nolini Kanta Gupta
64 H P Lovecraft
63 Percy Bysshe Shelley
42 William Wordsworth
41 Carl Jung
37 Aleister Crowley
32 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
29 Sri Ramakrishna
27 Walt Whitman
25 Rabindranath Tagore
24 Saint Augustine of Hippo
24 James George Frazer
23 Plotinus
19 John Keats
19 Friedrich Nietzsche
18 Lucretius
18 A B Purani
16 Robert Browning
16 Friedrich Schiller
15 Aldous Huxley
12 William Butler Yeats
12 Muhammad
11 Swami Vivekananda
11 Jorge Luis Borges
11 Edgar Allan Poe
10 George Van Vrekhem
10 Franz Bardon
9 Rabbi Moses Luzzatto
9 Plato
9 Nirodbaran
9 Jalaluddin Rumi
9 Anonymous
8 Swami Krishnananda
8 Saint John of Climacus
7 Rudolf Steiner
7 Ralph Waldo Emerson
7 Ovid
6 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
6 Baha u llah
5 Sri Ramana Maharshi
5 Joseph Campbell
5 Jordan Peterson
4 Paul Richard
4 Patanjali
4 Norbert Wiener
4 Li Bai
4 Henry David Thoreau
4 Farid ud-Din Attar
3 Vyasa
3 Symeon the New Theologian
3 Kabir
3 Al-Ghazali
2 Thomas Merton
2 Swami Sivananda Saraswati
2 Mirabai
2 Ken Wilber
2 Jorge Luis Borges
2 Ibn Ata Illah
2 Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia
2 Hafiz
2 Allama Muhammad Iqbal
2 Alice Bailey
81 The Synthesis Of Yoga
64 Lovecraft - Poems
63 Shelley - Poems
59 Record of Yoga
42 Wordsworth - Poems
34 Letters On Yoga IV
34 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
33 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
32 Savitri
30 Letters On Yoga II
30 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
28 The Life Divine
28 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
27 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
25 Whitman - Poems
25 Tagore - Poems
24 The Golden Bough
24 Agenda Vol 08
23 Agenda Vol 01
21 Agenda Vol 02
20 Mysterium Coniunctionis
20 Liber ABA
19 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
19 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
19 Prayers And Meditations
19 Keats - Poems
18 Of The Nature Of Things
18 Letters On Yoga I
18 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
18 Essays On The Gita
18 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
18 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
17 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
17 Collected Poems
17 City of God
17 Agenda Vol 07
17 Agenda Vol 06
16 The Human Cycle
16 Schiller - Poems
16 Questions And Answers 1956
16 Questions And Answers 1953
16 Letters On Yoga III
16 Browning - Poems
15 The Perennial Philosophy
14 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
14 The Bible
14 Questions And Answers 1954
13 Words Of Long Ago
13 The Secret Of The Veda
13 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
13 Magick Without Tears
13 Agenda Vol 10
12 Yeats - Poems
12 Quran
12 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
12 Agenda Vol 03
11 Talks
11 Some Answers From The Mother
11 Poe - Poems
11 Agenda Vol 04
10 Questions And Answers 1929-1931
10 Preparing for the Miraculous
10 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08
10 Agenda Vol 05
9 Words Of The Mother II
9 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
9 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
9 The Future of Man
9 Questions And Answers 1955
9 On the Way to Supermanhood
9 On Education
9 Hymn of the Universe
9 General Principles of Kabbalah
8 The Study and Practice of Yoga
8 The Practice of Psycho therapy
8 The Phenomenon of Man
8 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
8 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02
8 Essays Divine And Human
8 Agenda Vol 12
8 Agenda Vol 11
7 Vedic and Philological Studies
7 The Confessions of Saint Augustine
7 Metamorphoses
7 Labyrinths
7 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
7 Emerson - Poems
7 Crowley - Poems
7 Aion
7 Agenda Vol 09
7 A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah
6 The Secret Doctrine
6 The Practice of Magical Evocation
6 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
6 Rumi - Poems
6 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 04
6 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 01
6 Let Me Explain
6 Kena and Other Upanishads
6 Agenda Vol 13
6 5.1.01 - Ilion
5 Twilight of the Idols
5 The Integral Yoga
5 The Hero with a Thousand Faces
5 Maps of Meaning
5 Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
5 Isha Upanishad
5 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06
4 Words Of The Mother III
4 Walden
4 The Red Book Liber Novus
4 Raja-Yoga
4 Patanjali Yoga Sutras
4 Li Bai - Poems
4 Initiation Into Hermetics
4 Goethe - Poems
4 Cybernetics
4 Borges - Poems
3 Vishnu Purana
3 The Book of Certitude
3 The Alchemy of Happiness
3 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 03
3 Letters On Poetry And Art
3 Bhakti-Yoga
2 The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
2 Theosophy
2 The Divine Comedy
2 Songs of Kabir
2 Sex Ecology Spirituality
2 Selected Fictions
2 Hafiz - Poems
2 Faust
2 Dark Night of the Soul
2 A Treatise on Cosmic Fire
2 Amrita Gita
0 0.01 - Introduction, #Agenda Vol 1, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This AGENDA is not even a path: it is a light little vibration that seizes you at any turning - and then, there it is, you are IN IT. 'Another world in the world,' She said. One has to catch The Light little vibration, one has to flow with it, in a nothing that is like the only something in the midst of this great debacle. At the beginning of things, when still nothing was FIXED, when there was not yet this habit of the pelican or the kangaroo or the chimpanzee or the XXth century biologist, there was a little pulsation that beat and beat - a delightful dizziness, a joy in the world's great adventure; a little never-imprisoned spark that has kept on beating from species to species, but as if it were always eluding us, as if it were always over there, over there - as if it were something to become,
something to be played forever as the one great game of the world; a who-knows-what that left this sprig of a pensive man in the middle of a clearing; a little 'something' that beats, beats, that keeps on breathing beneath every skin that has ever been put on it - like our deepest breath, our lightest air, our air of nothing - and it keeps on going, it keeps on going. We must catch The Light little breath, the little pulsation of nothing. Then suddenly, on the threshold of our clearing of concrete, our head starts spinning incurably, our eyes blink into something else, and all is different, and all seems surcharged with meaning and with life, as though we had never lived until that very minute.
Then we have caught the tail of the Great Possible, we are upon the wayless way, radically in the new, and we flow with the little lizard, the pelican, the big man, we flow everywhere in a world that has lost its old separating skin and its little baggage of habits. We begin seeing otherwise, feeling otherwise. We have opened the gate into an inconceivable clearing. Just a light little vibration that carries you away. Then we begin to understand how it CAN CHANGE, what the mechanism is - a light little mechanism and so miraculous that it looks like nothing. We begin feeling the wonder of a pure little cell, and that a sparkling of joy would be enough to turn the world inside out. We were living in a little thinking fishbowl, we were dying in an old, bottled habit. And then suddenly, all is different. The Earth is free! Who wants freedom?
00.01 - The Approach to Mysticism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
For it must be understood that the heart, the mystic heart, is not the external thing which is the seat of emotion or passion; it is the secret heart that is behind, the inner heartantarhdaya of the Upanishadwhich is the centre of the individual consciousness, where all the divergent lines of that consciousness meet and from where they take their rise. That is what the Upanishad means when it says that the heart has a hundred channels which feed the human vehicle. That is the source, the fount and origin, the very substance of the true personality. Mystic knowledge the true mystic knowledge which saves and fulfilsbegins with the awakening or the entrance into this real being. This being is pure and luminous and blissful and sovereignly real, because it is a portion, a spark of the Divine Consciousness and Nature: a contact and communion with it brings automatically into play The Light and the truth that are its substance. At the same time it is an uprising flame that reaches out naturally to higher domains of consciousness and manifests them through its translucid dynamism.
The knowledge that is obtained without the heart's instrumentation or co-operation is liable to be what the Gita describes as Asuric. First of all, from the point of view of knowledge itself, it would be, as I have already said, egocentric, a product and agent of one's limited and isolated self, easily put at the service of desire and passion. This knowledge, whether rationalistic or occult, is, as it were, hard and dry in its constitution, and oftener than not, negative and destructivewi thering and blasting in its career like the desert simoom.
There are modes of knowledge that are occultand to that extent mystic and can be mastered by practices in which the heart has no share. But they have not the saving grace that comes by the touch of the Divine. They are not truly mystic the truly mystic belongs to the ultimate realities, the deepest and the highest,they, on the other hand, are transverse and tangential movements belonging to an intermediate region where light and obscurity are mixed up and even for the greater part The Light is swallowed up in the obscurity or utilised by it.
The mystic's knowledge and experience is not only true and real: it is delightful and blissful. It has a supremely healing virtue. It brings a sovereign freedom and ease and peace to the mystic himself, but also to those around him, who come in contact with him. For truth and reality are made up of love and harmony, because truth is, in its essence, unity.
00.01 - The Mother on Savitri, #Sweet Mother - Harmonies of Light, #unset, #Zen
My child, yes, everything is there: mysticism, occultism, philosophy, the history of evolution, the history of man, of the gods, of creation, of Nature. How the universe was created, why, for what purpose, what destiny - all is there. You can find all the answers to all your questions there. Everything is explained, even the future of man and of the evolution, all that nobody yet knows. He has described it all in beautiful and clear words so that spiritual adventurers who wish to solve the mysteries of the world may understand it more easily. But this mystery is well hidden behind the words and lines and one must rise to the required level of true consciousness to discover it. All prophesies, all that is going to come is presented with the precise and wonderful clarity. Sri Aurobindo gives you here the key to find the Truth, to discover the Consciousness, to solve the problem of what the universe is. He has also indicated how to open the door of the Inconscience so that The Light may penetrate there and transform it. He has shown the path, the way to liberate oneself from the ignorance and climb up to the superconscience; each stage, each plane of consciousness, how they can be scaled, how one can cross even the barrier of death and attain immortality. You will find the whole journey in detail, and as you go forward you can discover things altogether unknown to man. That is Savitri and much more yet. It is a real experience - reading Savitri. All the secrets that man possessed, He has revealed, - as well as all that awaits him in the future; all this is found in the depth of Savitri. But one must have the knowledge to discover it all, the experience of the planes of consciousness, the experience of the Supermind, even the experience of the conquest of Death. He has noted all the stages, marked each step in order to advance integrally in the integral Yoga.
All this is His own experience, and what is most surprising is that it is my own experience also. It is my sadhana which He has worked out. Each object, each event, each realisation, all the descriptions, even the colours are exactly what I saw and the words, phrases are also exactly what I heard. And all this before having read the book. I read Savitri many times afterwards, but earlier, when He was writing He used to read it to me. Every morning I used to hear Him read Savitri. During the night He would write and in the morning read it to me. And I observed something curious, that day after day the experiences He read out to me in the morning were those I had had the previous night, word by word. Yes, all the descriptions, the colours, the pictures I had seen, the words I had heard, all, all, I heard it all, put by Him into poetry, into miraculous poetry. Yes, they were exactly my experiences of the previous night which He read out to me the following morning. And it was not just one day by chance, but for days and days together. And every time I used to compare what He said with my previous experiences and they were always the same. I repeat, it was not that I had told Him my experiences and that He had noted them down afterwards, no, He knew already what I had seen. It is my experiences He has presented at length and they were His experiences also. It is, moreover, the picture of Our joint adventure into the unknown or rather into the Supermind.
00.02 - Mystic Symbolism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
When a Mystic refers to the Solar Light or to the Fire The Light, for example, that struck down Saul and transformed him into Saint Paul or the burning bush that visited Moses, it is not the physical or material object that he means and yet it is that in a way. It is the materialization of something that is fundamentally not material: some movement in an inner consciousness precipitates itself into the region of the senses and takes from out of the material the form commensurable with its nature that it finds there.
And there is such a commensurability or parallelism between the various levels of consciousness, in and through all the differences that separate them from one another. Thus an object or a movement apprehended on the physical plane has a sort of line of re-echoing images extended in a series along the whole gradation of the inner planes; otherwise viewed, an object or movement in the innermost consciousness translates itself in varying modes from plane to plane down to the most material, where it appears in its grossest form as a concrete three-dimensional object or a mechanical movement. This parallelism or commensurability by virtue of which the different and divergent states of consciousness can portray or represent each other is the source of all symbolism.
A symbol symbolizes something for this reason that both possess in common a certain identical, at least similar, quality or rhythm or vibration, the symbol possessing it in a grosser or more apparent or sensuous form than the thing symbolized does. Sometimes it may happen that it is more than a certain quality or rhythm or vibration that is common between the two: the symbol in its entirety is the thing symbolized but thrown down on another plane, it is the embodiment of the latter in a more concrete world. The Light and the fire that Saint Paul and Moses saw appear to be of this kind.
Thus there is a great diversity of symbols. At the one end is the mere metaphor or simile or allegory ('figure', as we have called it) and at the other end is the symbol identical with the thing symbolized. And upon this inner character of the symbol depends also to a large extent its range and scope. There are symbols which are universal and intimately ingrained in the human consciousness itself. Mankind has used them in all ages and climes almost in the same sense and significance. There are others that are limited to peoples and ages. They are made out of forms that are of local and temporal interest and importance. Their significances vary according to time and place. Finally, there are symbols which are true of the individual consciousness only; they depend on personal peculiarities and idiosyncrasies, on one's environment and upbringing and education.
00.03 - Upanishadic Symbolism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
First of all, he has the Sun; it is the primary light by which he lives and moves. When the Sun sets, the Moon rises to replace it. When both the Sun and the Moon set, he has recourse to the Fire. And when the Fire, too, is extinguished, there comes the Word. In the end, when the Fire is quieted and the Word silenced, man is lighted by The Light of the Atman. This Atman is All-Knowledge; it is secreted within the life, within the heart: it is selfluminous Vijnamaya preu rdyantar jyoti..
The progression indicated by the order of succession points to a gradual withdrawal from the outer to the inner light, from the surface to the deep, from the obvious to the secret, from the actual and derivative to the real and original. We begin by the senses and move towards the Spirit.
The Sun is the first and the most immediate source of light that man has and needs. He is the presiding deity of our waking consciousness and has his seat in the eyecakusa ditya, ditya caku bhtvakii prviat. The eye is the representative of the senses; it is the sense par excellence. In truth, sense-perception is the initial light with which we have to guide us, it is The Light with which we start on the way. A developed stage comes when the Sun sets for us, that is to say, when we retire from the senses and rise into the mind, whose divinity is the Moon. It is the mental knowledge, The Light of reason and intelligence, of reflection and imagination that govern our consciousness. We have to proceed farther and get beyond the mind, exceed the derivative light of the Moon. So when the Moon sets, the Fire is kindled. It is The Light of the ardent and aspiring heart, the glow of an inner urge, the instincts and inspirations of our secret life-will. Here we come into touch with a source of knowledge and realization, a guidance more direct than the mind and much deeper than the sense-perception. Still this light partakes more of heat than of pure luminosity; it is, one may say, incandescent feeling, but not vision. We must probe deeper, mount higherreach heights and profundities that are serene and transparent. The Fire is to be quieted and silenced, says the Upanishad. Then we come nearer, to the immediate vicinity of the Truth: an inner hearing opens, the direct voice of Truth the Wordreaches us to lead and guide. Even so, however, we have not come to the end of our journey; the Word of revelation is not the ultimate Light. The Word too is clothing, though a luminous clothinghiramayam ptram When this last veil dissolves and disappears, when utter silence, absolute calm and quietude reign in the entire consciousness, when no other lights trouble or distract our attention, there appears the Atman in its own body; we stand face to face with the source of all lights, the self of The Light, The Light of the Self. We are that Light and we become that Light.
II. The Four Oblations
--
The one, however, is not completely divorced from the other. The apparent, the inferior nature is only a preparation for the real, the superior nature. The Path of the Fathers concerns itself with man as a mental being and seeks so to ordain and accomplish its duties and ideals as to lead him on to the Path of the Gods; the mind, the life, and the body consciousness should be so disciplined, educated, purified, they should develop along such a line and gradually rise to such a stage as to make them fit to receive The Light which belongs to the higher level, so allowing the human soul imbedded in them to extricate itself and pass on to the Immortal Life.
And they who are thus lifted up into the Higher Orbit are freed from the bondage to the cycle of rebirth. They enjoy the supreme Liberation that is of the Spirit; and even when they descend into the Inferior Path, it is to work out as free agents, as vehicles of the Divine, a special purpose, to bring down something of the substance and nature of the Solar reality into the lower world, enlighten and elevate the lower, as far as it is allowed, into the higher.
--
We have, in modern times, a movement towards a more conscious and courageous, knowledge of things that were taboo to puritan ages. Not to shut one's eyes to the lower, darker and hidden strands of our nature, but to bring them out into The Light of day and to face them is the best way of dealing with such elements, which otherwise, if they are repressed, exert an unhealthy influence on the mind and nature. The Upanishadic view runs on the same lines, but, with the unveiling and the natural and not merely naturalisticdelineation of these under-worlds (concerning sex and food), it endows them with a perspective sub specie aeternitatis. The sexual function, for example, is easily equated to the double movement of ascent and descent that is secreted in nature, or to the combined action of Purusha and Prakriti in the cosmic Play, or again to the hidden fount of Delight that holds and moves the universe. In this view there is nothing merely secular and profane, but all is woven into the cosmic spiritual whole; and man is taught to consider and to mould all his movementsof soul and mind and bodyin The Light and rhythm of that integral Reality.11
The central secret of the transfigured consciousness lies, as we have already indicated, in the mystic rite or law of Sacrifice. It is the one basic, fundamental, universal Law that upholds and explains the cosmic movement, conformity to which brings to the thrice-bound human being release and freedom. Sacrifice consists essentially of two elements or processes: (i) The offering or self giving of the lower reality to the higher, and, as a consequence, an answering movement of (ii) the descent of the higher into the lower. The lower offered to the higher means the lower sublimated and integrated into the higher; and the descent of the higher into the lower means the incarnation of the former and the fulfilment of the latter. The Gita elaborates the same idea when it says that by Sacrifice men increase the gods and the gods increase men and by so increasing each other they attain the supreme Good. Nothing is, nothing is done, for its own sake, for an egocentric satisfaction; all, even movements relating to food and to sex should be dedicated to the Cosmic BeingVisva Purusha and that alone received which comes from Him.
--
TheChhandyogya12 gives a whole typal scheme of this universal reality and explains how to realise it and what are the results of the experience. The Universal Brahman means the cosmic movement, the cyclic march of things and events taken in its global aspect. The typical movement that symbolises and epitomises the phenomenon, embodies the truth, is that of the sun. The movement consists of five stages which are called the fivefold sma Sma means the equal Brahman that is ever present in all, the Upanishad itself says deriving the word from sama It is Sma also because it is a rhythmic movement, a cadencea music of the spheres. And a rhythmic movement, in virtue of its being a wave, consists of these five stages: (i) the start, (ii) the rise, (iii) the peak, (iv) the decline and (v) the fall. Now the sun follows this curve and marks out the familiar divisions of the day: dawn, forenoon, noon, afternoon and sunset. Sometimes two other stages are added, one at each end, one of preparation and another of final lapse the twilights with regard to the sun and then ,we have seven instead of five smas Like the Sun, the Fire that is to say, the sacrificial Firecan also be seen in its fivefold cyclic movement: (i) The Lighting, (ii) the smoke, (iii) the flame, (iv) smouldering and finally (v) extinction the fuel as it is rubbed to produce the fire and the ashes may be added as the two supernumerary stages. Or again, we may take the cycle of five seasons or of the five worlds or of the deities that control these worlds. The living wealth of this earth is also symbolised in a quintetgoat and sheep and cattle and horse and finally man. Coming to the microcosm, we have in man the cycle of his five senses, basis of all knowledge and activity. For the macrocosm, to I bring out its vast extra-human complexity, the Upanishad refers to a quintet, each term of which is again a trinity: (i) the threefold Veda, the Divine Word that is the origin of creation, (ii) the three worlds or fieldsearth, air-belt or atmosphere and space, (iii) the three principles or deities ruling respectively these worldsFire, Air and Sun, (iv) their expressions, emanations or embodimentsstars and birds and light-rays, and finally, (v) the original inhabitants of these worldsto earth belong the reptiles, to the mid-region the Gandharvas and to heaven the ancient Fathers.
Now, this is the All, the Universal. One has to realise it and possess in one's consciousness. And that can be done only in one way: one has to identify oneself with it, be one with it, become it. Thus by losing one's individuality one lives the life universal; the small lean separate life is enlarged and moulded in the rhythm of the Rich and the Vast. It is thus that man shares in the consciousness and energy that inspire and move and sustain the cosmos. The Upanishad most emphatically enjoins that one must not decry this cosmic godhead or deny any of its elements, not even such as are a taboo to the puritan mind. It is in and through an unimpaired global consciousness that one attains the All-Life and lives uninterruptedly and perennially: Sarvamanveti jyok jvati.
00.04 - The Beautiful in the Upanishads, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
And where there is light, there is cheer and joy. Rasamaya and jyotirmayaare thus the two conjoint characteristics fundamental to the nature of the ultimate reality. Sometimes these two are named as the 'solar and the lunar aspect. The solar aspect refers obviously to The Light, that is to say, to the Truth; the lunar aspect refers to the rasa (Soma), to Immortality, to Beauty proper,
yatte suamam hdayam adhi candramasi ritam
00.05 - A Vedic Conception of the Poet, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The poet is a trinity in himself. A triune consciousness forms his personality. First of all, he is the Knower-the Seer of the Truth, kavaya satyadrara. He has the direct vision, the luminous intelligence, the immediate perception.12 A subtle and profound and penetrating consciousness is his,nigam, pracetas; his is the eye of the Sun,srya caku.13 He secures an increased being through his effulgent understanding.14 In the second place, the Poet is not only Seer but Doer; he is knower as well as creator. He has a dynamic knowledge and his vision itself is power, ncak;15 he is the Seer-Will,kavikratu.16 He has the blazing radiance of the Sun and is supremely potent in his self-Iuminousness.17 The Sun is The Light and the energy of the Truth. Even like the Sun the Poet gives birth to the Truth, srya satyasava, satyya satyaprasavya. But the Poet as Power is not only the revealer or creator,savit, he is also the builder or fashioner,ta, and he is the organiser,vedh is personality. First of all, he is the Knower-the Seer of the Truth, kavaya satyadrara, of the Truth.18 As Savita he manifests the Truth, as Tashta he gives a perfected body and form to the Truth, and as Vedha he maintains the Truth in its dynamic working. The effective marshalling and organisation of the Truth is what is called Ritam, the Right; it is also called Dharma,19 the Law or the Rhythm, the ordered movement and invincible execution of the Truth. The Poet pursues the Path of the Right;20 it is he who lays out the Path for the march of the Truth, the progress of the Sacrifice.21 He is like a fast steed well-yoked, pressing forward;22 he is the charger that moves straight and unswerving and carries us beyond 23into the world of felicity.
Indeed delight is the third and the supremely intimate element of the poetic personality. Dear and delightful is the poet, dear and delightful his works, priya, priyi His hand is dripping with sweetness,kavir hi madhuhastya.24 The Poet-God shines in his pristine beauty and is showering delight.25 He is filled with utter ecstasy so that he may rise to the very source of the luminous Energy.26? Pure is the Divine Joy and it enters and purifies all forms as it moves to the seat of the Immortals.27Indeed this sparkling Delight is the Poet-Seer and it is that that brings forth the creative word, the utterance of Indra.28
0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Yet this was only a foretaste of the intense experiences to come. The first glimpse of the Divine Mother made him the more eager for Her uninterrupted vision. He wanted to see Her both in meditation and with eyes open. But the Mother began to play a teasing game of hide-and-seek with him, intensifying both his joy and his suffering. Weeping bitterly during the moments of separation from Her, he would pass into a trance and then find Her standing before him, smiling, talking, consoling, bidding him be of good cheer, and instructing him. During this period of spiritual practice he had many uncommon experiences. When he sat to meditate, he would hear strange clicking sounds in the joints of his legs, as if someone were locking them up, one after the other, to keep him motionless; and at the conclusion of his meditation he would again hear the same sounds, this time unlocking them and leaving him free to move about. He would see flashes like a swarm of fire-flies floating before his eyes, or a sea of deep mist around him, with luminous waves of molten silver. Again, from a sea of translucent mist he would behold the Mother rising, first Her feet, then Her waist, body, face, and head, finally Her whole person; he would feel Her breath and hear Her voice. Worshipping in the temple, sometimes he would become exalted, sometimes he would remain motionless as stone, sometimes he would almost collapse from excessive emotion. Many of his actions, contrary to all tradition, seemed sacrilegious to the people. He would take a flower and touch it to his own head, body, and feet, and then offer it to the Goddess. Or, like a drunkard, he would reel to the throne of the Mother, touch Her chin by way of showing his affection for Her, and sing, talk, joke, laugh, and dance. Or he would take a morsel of food from the plate and hold it to Her mouth, begging Her to eat it, and would not be satisfied till he was convinced that She had really eaten. After the Mother had been put to sleep at night, from his own room he would hear Her ascending to the upper storey of the temple with The Light steps of a happy girl, Her anklets jingling. Then he would discover Her standing with flowing hair. Her black form silhouetted against the sky of the night, looking at the Ganges or at the distant lights of Calcutta.
Naturally the temple officials took him for an insane person. His worldly well-wishers brought him to skilled physicians; but no-medicine could cure his malady. Many a time he doubted his sanity himself. For he had been sailing across an uncharted sea, with no earthly guide to direct him. His only haven of security was the Divine Mother Herself. To Her he would pray: "I do not know what these things are. I am ignorant of mantras and the scriptures. Teach me, Mother, how to realize Thee. Who else can help me? Art Thou not my only refuge and guide?" And the sustaining presence of the Mother never failed him in his distress or doubt. Even those who criticized his conduct were greatly impressed with his purity, guilelessness, truthfulness, integrity, and holiness. They felt an uplifting influence in his presence.
--
But he remained as ever the willing instrument in the hand of God, the child of the Divine Mother, totally untouched by the idea of being a teacher. He used to say that three ideas — that he was a guru, a father, and a master — pricked his flesh like thorns. Yet he was an extraordinary teacher. He stirred his disciples' hearts more by a subtle influence than by actions or words. He never claimed to be the founder of a religion or the organizer of a sect. Yet he was a religious dynamo. He was the verifier of all religions and creeds. He was like an expert gardener, who prepares the soil and removes the weeds, knowing that the plants will grow because of the inherent power of the seeds, producing each its appropriate flowers and fruits. He never thrust his ideas on anybody. He understood people's limitations and worked on the principle that what is good for one may be bad for another. He had the unusual power of knowing the devotees' minds, even their inmost souls, at the first sight. He accepted disciples with the full knowledge of their past tendencies and future possibilities. The life of evil did not frighten him, nor did religious squeamishness raise anybody in his estimation. He saw in everything the unerring finger of the Divine Mother. Even The Light that leads astray was to him The Light from God.
To those who became his intimate disciples the Master was a friend, companion, and playmate. Even the chores of religious discipline would be lightened in his presence. The devotees would be so inebriated with pure joy in his company that they would have no time to ask themselves whether he was an Incarnation, a perfect soul, or a yogi. His very presence was a great teaching; words were superfluous. In later years his disciples remarked that while they were with him they would regard him as a comrade, but afterwards would tremble to think of their frivolities in the presence of such a great person. They had convincing proof that the Master could, by his mere wish, kindle in their hearts the love of God and give them His vision.
--
Sri Ramakrishna also became acquainted with a number of people whose scholarship or wealth entitled them everywhere to respect. He had met, a few years before, Devendranath Tagore, famous all over Bengal for his wealth, scholarship, saintly character, and social position. But the Master found him disappointing; for, whereas Sri Ramakrishna expected of a saint complete renunciation of the world, Devendranath combined with his saintliness a life of enjoyment. Sri Ramakrishna met the great poet Michael Madhusudan, who had embraced Christianity "for the sake of his stomach". To him the Master could not impart instruction, for the Divine Mother "pressed his tongue". In addition he met Maharaja Jatindra Mohan Tagore, a titled aristocrat of Bengal; Kristodas Pal, the editor, social reformer, and patriot; Iswar Vidyasagar, the noted philanthropist and educator; Pundit Shashadhar, a great champion of Hindu orthodoxy; Aswini Kumar Dutta, a headmaster, moralist, and leader of Indian Nationalism; and Bankim Chatterji, a deputy magistrate, novelist, and essayist, and one of the fashioners of modern Bengali prose. Sri Ramakrishna was not the man to be dazzled by outward show, glory, or eloquence. A pundit without discrimination he regarded as a mere straw. He would search people's hearts for The Light of God, and if that was missing he would have nothing to do with them.
--- KRISTODAS PAL
0.00 - The Book of Lies Text, #The Book of Lies, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
down by The Light of a farthing dip.. When I read it
over, I was as discontented as before, but I stuck it
--
helpful for The Light it throws on many of its passages.
The Editors
--
The Light of what is said in "Aha!" and in the Temple
of Solomon the King about the reason.
--
Cast down through The Abyss is The Light, the Rosy
Cross, the rapture of Union that destroys, that is
--
Agony! Agony! The Light within me breeds veils; the
song within be dumbness.
--
or to induce others to follow into The Light. In para-
graph 1 he explains the sardonic laughter, for which he
--
it also symbolises the eventual coming out into The Light
of his that has wandered long in the darkness.
0.00 - THE GOSPEL PREFACE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
He was one of the earliest of the disciples to visit Kamarpukur, the birthplace of the Master, in the latter's lifetime itself; for he wished to practise contemplation on the Master's early life in its true original setting. His experience there is described as follows by Swami Nityatmananda: "By the grace of the Master, he saw the entire Kamarpukur as a holy place bathed in an effulgent Light. Trees and creepers, beasts and birds and men all were made of effulgence. So he prostrated to all on the road. He saw a torn cat, which appeared to him luminous with The Light of Consciousness. Immediately he fell to the ground and saluted it" (M The Apostle and the Evangelist by Swami Nityatmananda vol. I. P. 40.) He had similar experience in Dakshineswar also. At the instance of the Master he also visited Puri, and in the words of Swami Nityatmananda, "with indomitable courage, M. embraced the image of Jagannath out of season."
The life of Sdhan and holy association that he started on at the feet of the Master, he continued all through his life. He has for this reason been most appropriately described as a Grihastha-Sannysi (householder-Sannysin). Though he was forbidden by the Master to become a Sannysin, his reverence for the Sannysa ideal was whole-hearted and was without any reservation. So after Sri Ramakrishna's passing away, while several of the Master's householder devotees considered the young Sannysin disciples of the Master as inexperienced and inconsequential, M. stood by them with the firm faith that the Master's life and message were going to be perpetuated only through them. Swami Vivekananda wrote from America in a letter to the inmates of the Math: "When Sri Thkur (Master) left the body, every one gave us up as a few unripe urchins. But M. and a few others did not leave us in the lurch. We cannot repay our debt to them." (Swami Raghavananda's article on M. in Prabuddha Bharata vol. XXX P. 442.)
0.01 - Letters from the Mother to Her Son, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It may be that life on earth has always been a chaos - whatever the Bible may say, The Light has not yet made its appearance.
Let us hope that it will not be long in coming.
0.02 - II - The Home of the Guru, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
The Master, the Guru, set at rest the puzzled human mind by his illuminating answers, perhaps even more by his silent consciousness, so that it might be able to pursue unhampered the path of realisation of the Truth. Those ancient discourses answer the mind of man today even across the ages. They have rightly acquired as everything of the past does a certain sanctity. But sometimes that very reverence prevents men from properly evaluating, and living in, the present. This happens when the mind instead of seeking the Spirit looks at the form. For instance, it is not necessary for such discourses that they take place in forest-groves in order to be highly spiritual. Wherever the Master is, there is Light. And guru-griha the house of the Master can be his private dwelling place. So much was this feeling a part of Sri Aurobindo's nature and so particular was he to maintain the personal character of his work that during the first few years after 1923 he did not like his house to be called an 'Ashram', as the word had acquired the sense of a public institution to the modern mind. But there was no doubt that the flower of Divinity had blossomed in him; and disciples, like bees seeking honey, came to him. It is no exaggeration to say that these Evening Talks were to the small company of disciples what the Aranyakas were to the ancient seekers. Seeking The Light, they came to the dwelling place of their Guru, the greatest seer of the age, and found it their spiritual home the home of their parents, for the Mother, his companion in the great mission, had come. And these spiritual parents bestowed upon the disciples freely of their Light, their Consciousness, their Power and their Grace. The modern reader may find that the form of these discourses differs from those of the past but it was bound to be so for the simple reason that the times have changed and the problems that puzzle the modern mind are so different. Even though the disciples may be very imperfect representations of what he aimed at in them, still they are his creations. It is in order to repay, in however infinitesimal a degree, the debt which we owe to him that the effort is made to partake of the joy of his company the Evening Talks with a larger public.
***
0.02 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I am happy that you have seen The Light, but it doesn't surprise
me; I was sure that one day you would understand.
--
Let The Light of a luminous consciousness enter into you;
widen yourself into that vast consciousness so that every shadow
0.02 - The Three Steps of Nature, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Do such psychological conceptions correspond to anything real and possible? All Yoga asserts them as its ultimate experience and supreme aim. They form the governing principles of our highest possible state of consciousness, our widest possible range of existence. There is, we say, a harmony of supreme faculties, corresponding roughly to the psychological faculties of revelation, inspiration and intuition, yet acting not in the intuitive reason or the divine mind, but on a still higher plane, which see Truth directly face to face, or rather live in the truth of things both universal and transcendent and are its formulation and luminous activity. And these faculties are The Light of a conscious existence superseding the egoistic and itself both cosmic and transcendent, the nature of which is Bliss. These are obviously divine and, as man is at present apparently constituted, superhuman states of consciousness and activity. A trinity of transcendent existence, self-awareness and self-delight7 is, indeed, the metaphysical description of the supreme Atman, the self-formulation, to our awakened knowledge, of the Unknowable whether conceived as a pure Impersonality or as a cosmic Personality manifesting the universe. But in Yoga they are regarded also in their psychological aspects as states of subjective existence to which our waking consciousness is now alien, but which dwell in us in a superconscious plane and to which, therefore, we may always ascend.
For, as is indicated by the name, causal body (karan.a), as opposed to the two others which are instruments (karan.a), this crowning manifestation is also the source and effective power of all that in the actual evolution has preceded it. Our mental activities are, indeed, a derivation, selection and, so long as they are divided from the truth that is secretly their source, a deformation of the divine knowledge. Our sensations and emotions have the same relation to the Bliss, our vital forces and actions to the aspect of Will or Force assumed by the divine consciousness, our physical being to the pure essence of that Bliss and
0.03 - Letters to My little smile, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But this is not the only way to get rid of it. Opening to The Light
and Consciousness from above and allowing them to replace the
--
some day in order to receive The Light from above; but in the
meantime, you may surely tell me all these stories. I find them
--
hardly emerge into The Light. But with a little concentration and
insistence, the resistance of matter lessens and the life-forces are
--
but simply aspire with calm and perseverance for The Light to
reappear. My love is always with you to help you go through
0.05 - Letters to a Child, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, you are and will be more and more a child of The Light.
No obscurity must be allowed to manifest through you.
--
presence is good. You should judge things in The Light of this
rule. You will see that it will help you to protect yourself from
--
a way of opening yourself which allows The Light to enter into
the obscurity and illumine it.
--
with The Light.
With all my love.
--
peace you will find The Light, and The Light will bring you the
knowledge.
0.06 - INTRODUCTION, #Dark Night of the Soul, #Saint John of the Cross, #Christianity
time enfolds the soul in the splendours of glory. When the effects of The Light that
wounds and yet illumines are combined with those of the enkindlement that melts
--
of the 'Dark Night.' Did we possess them, they would explain the birth of The Light
'dawn's first breathings in the heav'ns above'which breaks through the black
0.07 - DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL, #Dark Night of the Soul, #Saint John of the Cross, #Christianity
4. This light guided me More surely than The Light of noonday
To the place where he (well I knew who!) was awaiting me
0.07 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
My dear, dear child, let The Light of a conscious certitude and the
joy of an everlasting Presence be always with you - concretely
--
Love, love, love to my very dear child; all the joy, all The Light,
all the peace of the divine love and also my loving blessings.
0.08 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
regions he receives The Light of the Truth. These faculties are not
a direct expression of the supreme Truth, but a transcription, an
0.09 - Letters to a Young Teacher, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The force and The Light received by the more developed
parts spread gradually into the rest of the being by a process of
01.01 - A Yoga of the Art of Life, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It is not my purpose here to enter into details as to the exact meaning of the descent, how it happens and what are its lines of activity and the results brought about. For it is indeed an actual descent that happens: the Divine Light leans down first into the mind and begins its purificatory work therealthough it is always the inner heart which first recognises the Divine Presence and gives its assent to the Divine action for the mind, the higher mind that is to say, is the summit of the ordinary human consciousness and receives more easily and readily the Radiances that descend. From the Mind The Light filters into the denser regions of the emotions and desires, of life activity and vital dynamism; finally, it gets into brute Matter itself, the hard and obscure rock of the physical body, for that too has to be illumined and made the very form and figure of The Light supernal. The Divine in his descending Grace is the Master-Architect who is building slowly and surely the many-chambered and many-storeyed edifice that is human nature and human life into the mould of the Divine Truth in its perfect play and supreme expression. But this is a matter which can be closely considered when one is already well within the mystery of the path and has acquired the elementary essentials of an initiate.
Another question that troubles and perplexes the ordinary human mind is as to the time when the thing will be done. Is it now or a millennium hence or at some astronomical distance in future, like the cooling of the sun, as someone has suggested for an analogy. In view of the magnitude of the work one might with reason say that the whole eternity is there before us, and a century or even a millennium should not be grudged to such a labour for it is nothing less than an undoing of untold millenniums in the past and the building of a far-flung futurity. However, as we have said, since it is the Divine's own work and since Yoga means a concentrated and involved process of action, effectuating in a minute what would perhaps take years to accomplish in the natural course, one can expect the work to be done sooner rather than later. Indeed, the ideal is one of here and nowhere upon this earth of material existence and now in this life, in this very bodynot hereafter or elsewhere. How long exactly that will mean, depends on many factors, but a few decades on this side or the other do not matter very much.
01.01 - The One Thing Needful, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The realisation of the Divine is the one thing needful and the rest is desirable only in so far as it helps or leads towards that or when it is realised, extends and manifests the realisation. Manifestation and organisation of the whole life for the divine work, - first, the sadhana personal and collective necessary for the realisation and a common life of God-realised men, secondly, for help to the world to move towards that, and to live in The Light - is the whole meaning and purpose of my Yoga. But the realisation is the first need and it is that round which all the rest moves, for apart from it all the rest would have no meaning.
Yoga is directed towards God, not towards man. If a divine supramental consciousness and power can be brought down and established in the material world, that obviously would mean an immense change for the earth including humanity and its life. But the effect on humanity would only be one result of the change; it cannot be the object of the sadhana. The object of the sadhana can only be to live in the divine consciousness and to manifest it in life.
01.01 - The Symbol Dawn, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Almost with hate repels The Light it brings;
It trembles at its naked power of Truth
01.02 - Natures Own Yoga, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
This has been the highest consummation, the supreme goal which the purest spiritual experience and the deepest aspiration of the human consciousness generally sought to attain. But in this view, the world or creation or Nature came in the end to be looked upon as fundamentally a product of Ignorance: ignorance and suffering and incapacity and death were declared to be the very hallmark of things terrestrial. The Light that dwells above and beyond can be made to shed for a while some kind of lustre upon the mortal darkness but never altogether to remove or change itto live in the full light, to be in and of The Light means to pass beyond. Not that there have not been other strands and types of spiritual experiences and aspirations, but the one we are considering has always struck the major chord and dominated and drowned all the rest.
But the initial illusory consciousness of the Overmind need not at all lead to the static Brahmic consciousness or Sunyam alone. As a matter of fact, there is in this particular processes of consciousness a hiatus between the two, between Maya and Brahman, as though one has to leap from the one into the other somehow. This hiatus is filled up in Sri Aurobindo's Yoga by the principle of Supermind, not synthetic-analytic2 in knowledge like Overmind and the highest mental intelligence, but inescapably unitarian even in the utmost diversity. Supermind is the Truth-consciousness at once static and dynamic, self-existent and creative: in Supermind the Brahmic consciousness Sachchidanandais ever self-aware and ever manifested and embodied in fundamental truth-powers and truth-forms for the play of creation; it is the plane where the One breaks out into the Many and the Many still remain one, being and knowing themselves to be but various self-expressions of the One; it develops the spiritual archetypes, the divine names and forms of all individualisations of an evolving existence.
--
This then is the supreme secret, not the renunciation and annulment, but the transformation of the ordinary human nature : first of all, its psychicisation, that is to say, making it move and live and be in communion and identification with The Light of the psychic being, and, secondly, through the soul and the ensouled mind and life and body, to open out into the supramental consciousness and let it come down here below and work and achieve.
The soul or the true being in man uplifted in the supramental consciousness and at the same time coming forward to possess a divinised mind and life and body as an instrument and channel of its self-expression and an embodiment of the Divine Will and Purposesuch is the goal that Nature is seeking to realise at present through her evolutionary lan. It is to this labour that man has been called so that in and through him the destined transcendence and transformation can take place.
01.02 - The Issue, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Her strength made greater by The Lightning's touch
Awoke from slumber in her heart's recess.
--
His soul steps back and sees The Light supreme.
4.45
01.03 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Souls Release, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
His knowledge shared The Light ineffable.
A strength of the original Permanence
--
And all was known by The Light of identity
And Spirit was its own self-evidence.
--
The Light remained in him a longer space.
In this oscillation between earth and heaven,
01.03 - Yoga and the Ordinary Life, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The best way to prepare oneself for the spiritual life when one has to live in the ordinary occupations and surroundings is to cultivate an entire equality and detachment and the samata of the Gita with the faith that the Divine is there and the Divine Will at work in all things even though at present under the conditions of a world of Ignorance. Beyond this are The Light and Ananda towards which life is working, but the best way for their advent and foundation in the individual being and nature is to grow in this spiritual equality. That would also solve your difficulty about things unpleasant and disagreeable. All unpleasantness should be faced with this spirit of samata.
I may say briefly that there are two states of consciousness in either of which one can live. One is a higher consciousness which stands above the play of life and governs it; this is variously called the Self, the Spirit or the Divine. The other is the normal consciousness in which men live; it is something quite superficial, an instrument of the Spirit for the play of life. Those who live and act in the normal consciousness are governed entirely by the common movements of the mind and are naturally subject to grief and joy and anxiety and desire or to everything else that makes up the ordinary stuff of life.
01.04 - Sri Aurobindos Gita, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The supreme secret of the Gita, rahasyam uttamam, has presented itself to diverse minds in diverse forms. All these however fall, roughly speaking, into two broad groups of which one may be termed the orthodox school and the other the modem school. The orthodox school as represented, for example, by Shankara or Sridhara, viewed the Gita in The Light of the spiritual discipline more or less current in those ages, when the purpose of life was held out to be emancipation from life, whether through desireless work or knowledge or devotion or even a combination of the three. The Modern School, on the other hand, represented by Bankim in Bengal and more thoroughly developed and systematised in recent times by Tilak, is inspired by its own Time-Spirit and finds in the Gita a gospel of life-fulfilment. The older interpretation laid stress upon a spiritual and religious, which meant therefore in the end an other-worldly discipline; the newer interpretation seeks to dynamise the more or less quietistic spirituality which held the ground in India of later ages, to set a premium upon action, upon duty that is to be done in our workaday life, though with a spiritual intent and motive.
This neo-spirituality which might claim its sanction and authority from the real old-world Indian disciplinesay, of Janaka and Yajnavalkyalabours, however, in reality, under the influence of European activism and ethicism. It was this which served as the immediate incentive to our spiritual revival and revaluation and its impress has not been thoroughly obliterated even in the best of our modern exponents. The bias of the vital urge and of the moral imperative is apparent enough in the modernist conception of a dynamic spirituality. Fundamentally the dynamism is made to reside in the lan of the ethical man,the spiritual element, as a consciousness of supreme unity in the Absolute (Brahman) or of love and delight in God, serving only as an atmosphere for the mortal activity.
01.04 - The Poetry in the Making, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
When we say one is conscious, we usually mean that one is conscious with the mental consciousness, with the rational intelligence, with The Light of the brain. But this need not be always so. For one can be conscious with other forms of consciousness or in other planes of consciousness. In the average or normal man the consciousness is linked to or identified with the brain function, the rational intelligence and so we conclude that without this wakeful brain activity there can be no consciousness. But the fact is otherwise. The experiences of the mystic prove the point. The mystic is conscious on a level which we describe as higher than the mind and reason, he has what may be called the overhead consciousness. (Apart from the normal consciousness, which is named jagrat, waking, the Upanishad speaks of three other increasingly subtler states of consciousness, swapna, sushupti and turiya.)And then one can be quite unconscious, as in samadhi that can be sushupti or turiyaorpartially consciousin swapna, for example, the external behaviour may be like that of a child or a lunatic or even a goblin. One can also remain normally conscious and still be in the superconscience. Not only so, the mystic the Yogican be conscious on infraconscious levels also; that is to say, he can enter into and identify with the consciousness involved in life and even in Matter; he can feel and realise his oneness with the animal world, the plant world and finally the world of dead earth, of "stocks and stones" too. For all these strands of existence have each its own type of consciousness and all different from the mode of mind which is normally known as consciousness. When St. Francis addresses himself to the brother Sun or the sister Moon, or when the Upanishad speaks of the tree silhouetted against the sky, as if stilled in trance, we feel there is something of this fusion and identification of consciousness with an infra-conscient existence.
I said that the supreme artist is superconscious: his consciousness withdraws from the normal mental consciousness and becomes awake and alive in another order of consciousness. To that superior consciousness the artist's mentalityhis ideas and dispositions, his judgments and valuations and acquisitions, in other words, his normal psychological make-upserves as a channel, an instrument, a medium for transcription. Now, there are two stages, or rather two lines of activity in the processus, for they may be overlapping and practically simultaneous. First, there is the withdrawal and the in-gathering of consciousness and then its reappearance into expression. The consciousness retires into a secret or subtle worldWords-worth's "recollected in tranquillity"and comes back with the riches gathered or transmuted there. But the purity of the gold thus garnered and stalled in the artistry of words and sounds or lines and colours depends altogether upon the purity of the channel through which it has to pass. The mental vehicle receives and records and it can do so to perfection if it is perfectly in tune with what it has to receive and record; otherwise the transcription becomes mixed and blurred, a faint or confused echo, a poor show. The supreme creators are precisely those in whom the receptacle, the instrumental faculties offer the least resistance and record with absolute fidelity the experiences of the over or inner consciousness. In Shakespeare, in Homer, in Valmiki the inflatus of the secret consciousness, the inspiration, as it is usually termed, bears down, sweeps away all obscurity or contrariety in the recording mentality, suffuses it with its own glow and puissance, indeed resolves it into its own substance, as it were. And the difference between the two, the secret norm and the recording form, determines the scale of the artist's creative value. It happens often that the obstruction of a too critically observant and self-conscious brain-mind successfully blocks up the flow of something supremely beautiful that wanted to come down and waited for an opportunity.
--
In other words, the tension in the human consciousness has been raised to the nth power, the heat of a brooding consciousness is about to lead it to an outburst of new creationsah tapastaptva. Human self-consciousness, the turning of oneself upon oneself, the probing and projecting of oneself into oneselfself-consciousness raised so often to the degree of self-torture, marks the acute travail of the spirit. The thousand "isms" and "logies" that pullulate in all fields of life, from the political to the artistic or even the religious and the spiritual indicate how the human laboratory is working at white heat. They are breaches in the circuit of the consciousness, volcanic eruptions from below or cosmic-ray irruptions from above, tearing open the normal limit and boundaryBaudelaire's couvercle or the "golden lid" of the Upanishads-disclosing and bringing into The Light of common day realities beyond and unseen till now.
Ifso long the poet was more or less a passive, a half-conscious or unconscious intermediary between the higher and the lower lights and delights, his role in the future will be better fulfilled when he becomes fully aware of it and consciously moulds and directs his creative energies. The poet is and has to be the harbinger and minstrel of unheard-of melodies: he is the fashioner of the creative word that brings down and embodies the deepest aspirations and experiences of the human consciousness. The poet is a missionary: he is missioned by Divine Beauty to radiate upon earth something of her charm and wizardry. The fullness of his role he can only play up when he is fully conscious for it is under that condition that all obstructing and obscuring elements lying across the path of inspiration can be completely and wholly eradicated: the instrument purified and tempered and transmuted can hold and express golden truths and beauties and puissances that otherwise escape the too human mould.
01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Still have we parts that grow towards The Light,
Yet are there luminous tracts and heavens serene
--
And rarely dawns The Light of the Unknown
Waking in us the prophet and the seer.
--
With The Light that dwells near the dark end of things,
In this tragi-comedy of divine disguise,
--
His is a search of darkness for The Light,
Of mortal life for immortality.
01.05 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Spirits Freedom and Greatness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
In The Light flooding thought's blank vacancy,
Interpreting the universe by soul signs
--
And The Lightning bareness of a free soul-force.
All once impossible deemed could now become
--
She brings The Light of her mysterious realms:
Here where he stands, his feet on a prostrate world,
--
The Light began of the Trinity supreme.
All there discovered what it seeks for here.
0.10 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
afraid of The Light.
1 August 1961
--
one's movements - those that come from The Light of truth and
those that come from the old inertia and falsehood - in order
01.10 - Principle and Personality, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Religious bodies that are formed through the bhakti and puja for one man, social reconstructions forced by the will and power of a single individual, have already in the inception this grain of incapacity and disease and death that they are not an integrally self-conscious creation, they are not, as a whole, intelligent and wide awake and therefore constantly responsive to the truths and ideals and realities for which they exist, for which at least, their founder intended them to exist. The Light at the apex is the only light and the entire structure is but the shadow of that light; the whole thing has the aspect of a dark mass galvanised into red-hot activity by the passing touch of a dynamo. Immediately however the solitary light fails and the dynamo stops, there is nothing but the original darkness and inertiatoma asit tamasa gudham agre.
Man, however great and puissant he may be, is a perishable thing. People who gather or are gathered round a man and cling to him through the tie of a personal relation must fall off and scatter when the man passes away and the personal tie loses its hold. What remains is a memory, a gradually fading memory. But memory is hardly a creative force, it is a dead, at best, a moribund thing; the real creative power is Presence. So when the great man's presence, the power that crystallises is gone, the whole edifice crumbles and vanishes into air or remains a mere name.
01.11 - Aldous Huxley: The Perennial Philosophy, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
"To its heights we can always come. For those of us who are still splashing about in the lower ooze, the phrase has a rather ironical ring. Nevertheless, in The Light of even the most distant acquaintance with the heights and the fullness, it is possible to understand what its author means. To discover the Kingdom of God exclusively within oneself is easier than to discover it, not only there, but also in the outer worlds of minds and things and living creatures. It is easier because the heights within reveal themselves to those who are ready to exclude from their purview all that lies without. And though this exclusion may be a painful and mortificatory process, the fact remains that it is less arduous than the process of inclusion, by which we come to know the fullness as well as the heights of spiritual life. Where there is exclusive concentration on the heights within, temptations and distractions are avoided and there is a general denial and suppression. But when the hope is to know God inclusivelyto realise the divine Ground in the world as well as in the soul, temptations and distractions must not be avoided, but submitted to and used as opportunities for advance; there must be no suppression of outward-turning activities, but a transformation of them so that they become sacramental."
The neatness of the commentary cannot be improved upon. Only with regard to the "ironical ring" of which Huxley speaks, it has just to be pointed out, as he himself seems to understand, that the "we" referred to in the phrase does not mean humanity in general that 'splashes about in the lower ooze' but those who have a sufficiently developed inner spiritual life.
01.12 - Goethe, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Satan is jealous of man who is God's favourite. He tells God that his partiality to man is misplaced. God has put into man a little of his light (reason and intelligence and something more perhaps), but to what purpose? Man tries to soar, he thinks he flies high and wide, but in fact he is and will be an insect that "lies always in the grass and sings its old song in the grass." God answers that whatever the perplexity in which man now is, in the end he will come out and reach The Light with a greater and richer experience of it. Satan smiles in return and says he will prove otherwise. Given a free hand, he can do whatever he likes with man: "Dust shall he eat and with a relish." God willingly agrees to the challenge: there is no harm in Satan's trying his hand. Indeed, Satan will prove to be a good companion to man; for man is normally prone to inertia and sinks into repose and rest and stagnation. Satan will be the goad, the force that drives towards ceaseless activity. For activity is life, and without activity no progress.
Thus, as sanctioned by God, there is a competition, a wager between man and Satan. The pact between the parties is this that, on the one hand, Satan will serve man here in life upon earth, and on the other hand, in return, man will have to serve Satan there, on the other side of life. That is to say, Satan will give the whole world to man to enjoy, man will have to give Satan only his soul. Man in his ignorance says he does not care for his soul, does not know of a there or elsewhere: he will be satisfied if he gets what he wants upon earth. That, evidently, is the demand of what is familiarly known as life-force (lan vital): the utmost fulfilment of the life-force is what man stands for, although the full significance of the movement may not be clear to him or even to Satan at the moment. For life-force does not necessarily drag man down, as its grand finale as it were, into hellhowever much Satan might wish it to be so. In what way, we shall see presently. Now Satan promises man all that he would desire and even more: he would give him his fill so' that he will ask for no more. Man takes up the challenge and declares that his hunger is insatiable, whatever Satan can bring to it, it will take in and press on: satisfaction and satiety will never come in his way. Satan thinks he knows better, for he is armed with a master weapon to lay man low and make him cry halt!
01.13 - T. S. Eliot: Four Quartets, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
In these latest poems of his, Eliot has become outright a poet of the Dark Night of the Soul. The beginnings of the new avatar were already there certainly at the very beginning. The Waste Land is a good preparation and passage into the Night. Only, the negative element in it was stronger the cynicism, the bleakness, the sereness of it all was almost overwhelming. The next stage was "The Hollow Men": it took us right up to the threshold, into the very entrance. It was gloomy and fore-boding enough, grim and seriousno glint or hint of the silver lining yet within reach. Now as we find ourselves into the very heart of the Night, things appear somewhat changed: we look at the past indeed, but can often turn to the future, feel the pressure of the Night yet sense The Light beyond overarching and embracing us. This is how the poet begins:
I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you
--
So the darkness shall be The Light, and the stillness the dancing.
Yes, by the force of this secret knowledge he has discovered, this supreme skill in action, as it is termed in the Eastern lore, I that the poet at last comes out into the open, into The Light and happiness of the Dawn and the Day:
Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning.
--
Has answered light to light, and is silent, The Light is still
At the still point of the turning world.4
--
But Thompson was not an intellectual, his doubts and despondencies were not of the mental order, he was a boiling, swelling life-surge, a geyser, a volcano. He, too, crossed the Night and saw The Light of Day, but in a different way. Well, I he did not march into the day, it was the Day that marched I into him! Yes, the Divine Grace came and seized him from behind with violence. A modern, a modernist consciousness cannot expect that indulgence. God meets him only halfway, he has to work up himself the other half. He has laid so many demands and conditions: the knots in his case are not cut asunder but slowly disengaged.
The modern temper is especially partial to harmony: it cannot assert and reject unilaterally and categorically, it wishes to go round an object and view all its sides; it asks for a synthesis and reconciliation of differences and contraries. Two major chords of life-experience that demand accord are Life and Death, Time and Eternity. Indeed, the problem of Time hangs heavy on the human consciousness. It has touched to the quick philosophers and sages in all ages and climes; it is the great question that confronts the spiritual seeker, the riddle that the Sphinx of life puts to the journeying soul for solution.
01.14 - Nicholas Roerich, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Ex oriente lux. Out of the East The Light, and that light is of the nature and substance of beauty, of creative and dynamic beauty in the life the spirit. This, I suppose, is Roerich's message in a nutshell. The Light of the East is always The Light of the ample consciousness that dwells on the heights of our being in God.
The call that stirred a Western soul, made him a wanderer over the world in quest of the Holy Grail and finally lodged him in the Home of the Snows is symbolic of a more than individual destiny. It is representative of the secret history of a whole culture and civilisation that have been ruling humanity for some centuries, its inner want and need and hankering and fulfilment. The West shall come to the East and be reborn. That is the prophecy of occult seers and sages.
I speak of Roerich as a Western soul, but more precisely perhaps he is a soul of the mid-region (as also in another sense we shall see subsequently) intermediary between the East and the West. His external make-up had all the characteristic elements of the Western culture, but his mind and temperament, his inner soul was oriental. And yet it was not the calm luminous staticancientsoul that an Indian or a Chinese sage is; it is a nomad soul, newly awakened, young and fresh and ardent, something primitive, pulsating with the unspoilt green sap of life something in the manner of Whitman. And that makes him all the more representative of the young and ardent West yearning for The Light that was never on sea or land.
Is it not strange that one should look to the East for The Light? There is a light indeed that dwells in the setting suns, but that is the inferior light, The Light that moves level with the earth, pins us down to the normal and ordinary life and consciousness: it" leads into the Night, into Nihil, pralaya. It is The Light of the morning sun that man looks up to in his forward march, the sun that rises in the East whom the Vedic Rishi invoked in these magnificent lines:
Lo, the supreme light of all lights is come, a vast and varied consciousness is born in us. . . .
--
Indeed, Roerich considers the Himalayas as the very abode, the tabernacle itself thesanctum sanctorumof the Spirit, The Light Divine. Many of Roerich's paintings have mountain ranges, especially snow-bound mountain ranges, as their theme. There is a strange kinship between this yearning artistic soul, which seems solitary in spite of its ardent humanism, and the silent heights, rising white tier upon tier reflecting prism like the fiery glowing colours, the vast horizons, the wide vistas vanishing beyond.
Roerich is one of the prophets and seers who have ever been acclaiming and preparing the Golden Age, the dream that humanity has been dreaming continuously since its very childhood, that is to say, when there will be peace and harmony on earth, when racial, cultural or ideological egoism will no longer divide man and mana thing that seems today a chimera and a hallucinationwhen there will be one culture, one civilisation, one spiritual life welding all humanity into a single unit of life luminous and beautiful. Roerich believes that such a consummation can arrive only or chiefly through the growth of the sense of beauty, of the aesthetic temperament, of creative labour leading to a wider and higher consciousness. Beauty, Harmony, Light, Knowledge, Culture, Love, Delight are cardinal terms in his vision of the deeper and higher life of the future.
0.11 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
How can one use shadow to realise The Light?
Painters use shadow to bring out The Light.
Shadow is the symbol of the inconscient. This is where men
--
on different colours in The Light of the psychic flame.
The very notion of good and bad is completely changed.
--
The Light began of the Trinity supreme."16
Is the "Trinity supreme" Sachchidananda?
0.13 - Letters to a Student, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Because the darkness tries to prevent The Light from coming.
Blessings.
0.14 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Divine and you will emerge into The Light.
17 December 1971
--
One must constantly progress in The Light and peace that
come from the absence of personal desires.
0 1955-04-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
In all sincerity, I must say that when I was at Brewsters place in Almora, I felt very near to that state in which The Light must surge forth. I quite understand the imperfection of this process, which involves fleeing from difficulties, but this would only be a stage, a strategic retreat, as it were.
Mother, this is not a vital desire seeking to divert me from the sadhana, for my life has no other meaning than to seek the divine, but it seems to be the only solution that could bring about some progress and get me out of this lukewarm slump in which I have been living day after day. I cannot be satisfied living merely one hour a day, when I see you.
0 1956-09-14, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I KNOW that ultimately my place is near you, but is that my place at present, after all these failings? Spontaneously, it is you I want, you alone who represent The Light and all that is real in this world; I can love no one but you nor be interested in anything but this thing within me, but will it not all begin again once I have returned to the Ashram? You alone know the stage I am at, what is good for me, what is possible.
Sweet Mother, may I still ask for your Love, your help? For without your help, nothing is possible, and without your love, nothing has any meaning.
0 1956-10-07, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I cried towards The Light
and Thou gavest me knowledge.
0 1957-10-17, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
We live perennially with a burden on our shoulders, something that bows our heads down, and we feel pulled, led by all kinds of external forces, we dont know by whom or what, nor where tothis is what men call Fate, Destiny. When you do yoga, one of the first experiences the experience of the kundalini, as it is called here in Indiais precisely one in which the consciousness rises, breaks through this hard lid, here, at the crown of the head, and at last you emerge into The Light. Then you see, you know, you decide and you realizedifficulties may still remain, but truly speaking one is above them. Well, as a result of the supramental manifestation, it is THIS experience that came into the body. The body straightened its head up and felt its freedom, its independence.
During the flu epidemic, for example, I spent every day in the midst of people who were germ carriers. And one day, I clearly felt that the body had decided not to catch this flu. It asserted its autonomy. You see, it was not a question of the higher Will deciding, no. It didnt take place in the highest consciousness: the body itself decided. When you are way above in your consciousness, you see things, you know things; but in actual fact, once you descend again into matter, it is like water running through sand. In this respect, things have changed, the body has a DIRECT power, independent of any outer intervention. Even though it is barely visible, I consider this to be a very important result.
0 1957-10-18, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
This evening, you spoke of the possibility of shortening the path of realization to a few months, days or hours. And yesterday, when you talked to me about the freedom of the body, you spoke of the experience of the Kundalini, of this breaking of the lid that makes you emerge once and for all, above difficulties, into The Light.
I need a practical method corresponding to my present possibilities and to results of which I am presently capable. I feel that my efforts are dispersed by concentrating sometimes here, sometimes therea feeling of not knowing exactly what to do to break through and get out of all this. Would you point out some particular concentration to which I could adhere, a particular method that I would stick to?
0 1957-12-21, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Now, I recently had a very striking experience: a discrepancy occurred between my physical consciousness and the consciousness of the world. In some instances decisions made in The Light and the Truth produced unexpected results, upheavals in the consciousness of others that were neither foreseen nor desired, and I did not understand. No matter how hard I tried, I could not understand and I emphasize this word understand. At last, I had to leave my highest consciousness and pull myself down into the physical consciousness to find out what was happening. And there, in my head, I saw what appeared to be a little cell bursting, and suddenly I understood: the recording had been defective. The physical consciousness had neglected to register certain of your lower reactions. It could not have been through preference or through personal will (these things were eliminated from my consciousness long, long ago). But I saw that this most material consciousness was already completely permeated with the transforming supramental truth, and it could no longer follow the rhythm of normal life. It was much more attuned to the true consciousness than to the world! I couldnt possibly blame it for lagging behind; on the contrary, it was in front, too far ahead! There was a discrepancy between the rhythm of the transformation of my being and the worlds own rhythm. The supramental action on the world is slow, it does not act directlyit acts by infiltration, by traversing the successive layers, and the results are slow to come about. So I had to pull myself violently down in order to wait for the others.
One must at times know how not to know.
0 1958-02-03b - The Supramental Ship, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I found myself upon an immense ship, which is the symbolic representation of the place where this work is being carried out. This ship, as big as a city, is thoroughly organized, and it had certainly already been functioning for quite some time, for its organization was fully developed. It is the place where people destined for the supramental life are being trained. These people (or at least a part of their being) had already undergone a supramental transformation because the ship itself and all that was aboard was neither material nor subtle-physical, neither vital nor mental: it was a supramental substance. This substance itself was of the most material supramental, the supramental substance nearest the physical world, the first to manifest. The Light was a blend of red and gold, forming a uniform substance of luminous orange. Everything was like that The Light was like that, the people were like thateverything had this color, in varying shades, however, which enabled things to be distinguished from one another. The overall impression was of a shadowless world: there were shades, but no shadows. The atmosphere was full of joy, calm, order; everything worked smoothly and silently. At the same time, I could see all the details of the education, the training in all domains by which the people on board were being prepared.
This immense ship had just arrived at the shore of the supramental world, and a first batch of people destined to become the future inhabitants of the supramental world were about to disembark. Everything was arranged for this first landing. A certain number of very tall beings were posted on the wharf. They were not human beings and never before had they been men. Nor were they permanent inhabitants of the supramental world. They had been delegated from above and posted there to control and supervise the landing. I was in charge of all this since the beginning and throughout. I myself had prepared all the groups. I was standing on the bridge of the ship, calling the groups forward one by one and having them disembark on the shore. The tall beings posted there seemed to be reviewing those who were disembarking, allowing those who were ready to go ashore and sending back those who were not and who had to continue their training aboard the ship. While standing there watching everyone, that part of my consciousness coming from here became extremely interested: it wanted to see, to identify all the people, to see how they had changed and to find out who had been taken immediately as well as those who had to remain and continue their training. After awhile, as I was observing, I began to feel pulled backwards and that my body was being awakened by a consciousness or a person from here1and in my consciousness, I protested: No, no, not yet! Not yet! I want to see whos there! I was watching all this and noting it with intense interest It went on like that until, suddenly, the clock here began striking three, which violently jerked me back. There was the sensation of a sudden fall into my body. I came back with a shock, but since I had been called back very suddenly, all my memory was still intact. I remained quiet and still until I could bring back the whole experience and preserve it.
--
Those who were sent back for more training were not of a uniform color; their bodies seemed to have patches of a grayish opacity, a substance resembling the earth substance. They were dull, as though they had not been wholly permeated by The Light or wholly transformed. They were not like this all over, but in places.
The tall beings on the shore were not of the same color, at least they did not have this orange tint; they were paler, more transparent. Except for a part of their bodies, only the outline of their forms could be seen. They were very tall, they did not seem to have a skeletal structure, and they could take on any form according to their needs. Only from their waists to their feet did they have a permanent density, which was not felt in the rest of their body. Their color was much more pallid and contained very little red, it verged rather on gold or even white. The parts of whitish light were translucid; they were not absolutely transparent, but less dense, more subtle than the orange substance.
0 1958-03-07, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
To your question, I reply: I do not think of you, I feel you; you are with me, I am with you, in The Light
Your place has remained vacant here; you alone can fill it, and it awaits your return, when the moment comes.
0 1958-09-16 - OM NAMO BHAGAVATEH, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
When I have this mantra, instead of saying hello, good-bye, I shall say that. When I say hello, good-bye, it means Hello: the Presence is here, The Light is here. Good-bye: I am not going away, I am staying here.
But when I have this mantra, I believe something will happen.
0 1958-11-15, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Truly speaking, perhaps one is never rid of the hostile forces as long as one has not permanently emerged into The Light, above the lower hemisphere. There, the term hostile forces loses its meaning; they become only forces of progress, they force you to progress. But to see things in this way, you have to get out of the lower hemisphere, for below, they are very real in their opposition to the divine plan.
It was said in the ancient traditions that one could not live for more than twenty days in this higher state without leaving ones body and returning to the supreme Origin. Now this is no longer true.
0 1958-12-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Otherwise, if you consider it preferable to wait, I could go join Swami in Rameswaram, discarding all my little personal reactions towards him. And I would try my best to find again The Light of the first time and return to you stronger. I dont know. I will do what you say. All this really has to change. I dont know, moreover, whether Swami wishes to have me.
Mother, I need you, I need you. Forgive me and tell me what I should do.
0 1958-12-15 - tantric mantra - 125,000, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I have just received your letter of the 15th. Yes, I know that the hour is critical. It has been grave here as well. I had to stop everything, for the attack upon my body was too violent. Now it is better but I have not yet resumed any of my outer activities, and I remain in my room upstairs. The battle continues in the invisible and I consider it decisive. You are a very intimate part of this battle. This is to tell you that I am with you in the most integral sense of these words. I know what you are suffering, I feel it but you must hold on. The Grace is there, all-powerful. As soon as it is possible and without going through one minute more than needed to transform that which has to be transformed, the trial will reach its end and we shall emerge into The Light and joy. So never forget that I am with youin youand that WE SHALL TRIUMPH:
With all that love can bring of solace and endurance,
0 1958-12-24, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Your last letter was a great comfort to me. If you were not there, with me, everything would be so absurd and impossible. I am again disturbing you because Swami tells me that you are worried and that I should write to you. Not much has changed, except that I am holding on and am confident. Yesterday, I again suffered an agonizing wave, in the temple, and I found just enough strength to repeat your name with each beat of my heart, like someone drowning. I remained as motionless as a pillar of stone before the sanctuary, with only your name (my mantra would not come out), then it cleared. It was brutal. I am confident that with each wave I am gaining in strength, and I know you are there. But I am aware that if the enemy is so violent it is because something in me responds, or has responded, something that has not made its surrender that is the critical point. Mother, may your grace help me to place everything in your hands, everything, without any shadow. I want so much to emerge into The Light, to be rid of all this once and for all.
I am following Swamis instructions to the letter. Sometimes it all seems to lack warmth and spontaneity, but I am holding on. I might add that we are living right next to the bazaar, amidst a great racket 20 hours a day, which does not make things easier. So I repeat my mantra as one pounds his fists against the walls of a prison. Sometimes it opens a little, you send me a little joy, and then everything becomes better again.
0 1959-10-06 - Sri Aurobindos abode, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Shortly before the 15th of August I had a unique experience that exemplifies all this.1 For the first time the supramental light entered directly into my body, without passing through the inner beings. It entered through the feet (a red and gold colormarvelous, warm, intense), and it climbed up and up. And as it climbed, the fever also climbed because the body was not accustomed to this intensity. As all this light neared the head, I thought I would burst and that the experience would have to be stopped. But then, I very clearly received the indication to make the Calm and Peace descend, to widen all this body-consciousness and all these cells, so that they could contain the supramental light. So I widened, and as The Light was ascending, I brought down the vastness and an unshakable peace. And suddenly, there was a second of fainting.
I found myself in another world, but not far away (I was not in a total trance). This world was almost as substantial as the physical world. There were roomsSri Aurobindos room with the bed he rests on and he was living there, he was there all the time: it was his abode. Even my room was there, with a large mirror like the one I have here, combs, all kinds of things. And the substance of these objects was almost as dense as in the physical world, but they shone with their own light. It was not translucent, not transparent, not radiant, but self-luminous. The various objects and the material of the rooms did not have this same opacity as the physical objects here, they were not dry and hard as in the physical world we know.
--
It is similar with this japa: an imperceptible little change, and one can pass from a more or less mechanical, more or less efficient and real japa, to the true japa full of power and light. I even wondered if this difference is what the tantrics call the power of the japa. For example, the other day I was down with a cold. Each time I opened my mouth, there was a spasm in the throat and I coughed and coughed. Then a fever came. So I looked, I saw where it was coming from, and I decided that it had to stop. I got up to do my japa as usual, and I started walking back and forth in my room. I had to apply a certain will. Of course, I could do my japa in trance, I could walk in trance while repeating the japa, because then you feel nothing, none of all the bodys drawbacks. But the work has to be done in the body! So I got up and started doing my japa. Then, with each word pronounced The Light, the full Power. A power that heals everything. I began the japa tired, ill, and I came out of it refreshed, rested, cured. So those who tell me they come out of it exhausted, contracted, emptied, it means that they are not doing it in the true way.
I understand why certain tantrics advise saying the japa in the heart center. When one applies a certain enthusiasm, when each word is said with a warmth of aspiration, then everything changes. I could feel this difference in myself, in my own japa.
In fact, when I walk back and forth in my room, I dont cut myself off from the rest of the worldalthough it would be so much more convenient! All kinds of things come to mesuggestions, wills, aspirations. But automatically I make a movement of offering: things come to me and just as they are about to touch my head, I turn them upwards and offer them to The Light. They dont enter into me. For example, if someone speaks to me while I am saying my japa, I hear quite well what is being said, I may even answer, but the words remain a little outside, at a certain distance from the head. And yet sometimes, there are things that insist, more defined wills that present themselves to me, so then I have to do a little work, but all that without a pause in the japa. If that happens, there is sometimes a change in the quality of my japa, and instead of being fully the power, fully The Light, it is certainly something that produces results, but results more or less sure, more or less long to fructify; it becomes uncertain, as with all things of this physical world. Yet the difference between the two japas is imperceptible; its not a difference between saying the japa in a more or less mechanical way and saying it consciously, because even while I work I remain fully conscious of the japa I continue to repeat it putting the full meaning into each syllable. But nevertheless, there is a difference. One is the all-powerful japa; the other, an almost ordinary japa There is a difference in the inner attitude. Perhaps for the japa to become true, a kind of joy, an elation, a warmth of enthusiasm has to be added but especially joy. Then everything changes.
Well, it is the same thing, the same imperceptible difference, when it comes to entering the world of Truth. On one side there is the falsehood, and on the other, close by, like the lining of this one, the true life. Only a little difference in the inner quality, a little reversal, is enough to pass to the other side, into the Truth and Light.
0 1960-01-28, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
When I started my japa one year ago, I had to struggle with every possible difficulty, every contradiction, prejudice and opposition that fills the air. And even when this poor body began walking back and forth for japa, it used to knock against things, it would start breathing all wrong, coughing; it was attacked from all sides until the day I caught the Enemy and said, Listen carefully. You can do whatever you want, but Im going right to the end and nothing will stop me, even if I have to repeat this mantra ten crore1 times. The result was really miraculous, like a cloud of bats flying up into The Light all at once. From that moment on, things started going better.
You have no idea what an irresistible effect a well-determined will can have.
0 1960-05-16, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
And what is wonderful is that at each moment the Grace, the Joy, The Light, the Love never cease pouring down in the very midst of all thisdespite the ego, despite the shame, despite the unworthiness. To be humble
***
0 1960-05-21 - true purity - you have to be the Divine to overcome hostile forces, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
What was needed was to effect a shift, a sort of transference upwards, a lifting up of all these things that come to meso that each one, each thing, each circumstance could directly and automatically receive the force from above, The Light, the response from above, and I would be a mere intermediary and a channel of The Light and the Force.
Well, I tried hard but I couldnt really find the way. At times, I almost seemed to have it, a mere nothing would have been enough; it was just a matter of getting the knack (and at heart, this is what Power is all aboutto get the knack, to suddenly seize upon the means, the right vibration, what in India is called siddhi). Well, after his departure, all of a sudden it came. It happened while I was doing my japa, while I was walking up and down my room As if I were holding all that in my armsit was so concrete and lifting it up towards The Light, along with this ascending OM, rising from the very depths, OM!and I was carrying all these people, and it was spreading forth, PHYSICALLY spreading, and I was carrying the earth, I was carrying the whole universe, but in such a tangible, concrete wayall towards the Supreme Lord.
And this was not the invisible power: it was concrete, it was tangible, it was MATERIAL.
0 1960-07-12 - Mothers Vision - the Voice, the ashram a tiny part of myself, the Mothers Force, sparkling white light compressed - enormous formation of negative vibrations - light in evil, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
It was a force with a sparkling white light at its center, The Light which is the force of the Divine Mother, and as soon as it was well packed and concentrated inside, or condensed, it took on all the colorsvibrations of every color Like a materialization these colors were like a materialization of the Divine Force when it enters matter. (Just as matter is a condensation of energy, well, this seemed to be a condensation of Divine Force. Thats really the impression it gave.)
It reminded me of tantric things. I have seen tantric formations and how forces are systematically separated by themeach vibration, each color. Its very interesting. They are all one, and yet each is distinct. That is, they are separated in order to be distinguished and for each one to be used individually. Each one represents a particular action for obtaining something in particular. This is the special knowledge the tantrics have, I believe. Or its the reflection of their knowledge. And my impression is that when they do their pujas or say their mantras, what they are trying to do is recombine all that into the white light. Im not sure. I know they use each one separately for a separate purpose, but when they speak of their puja succeeding, it may mean that they have been able to recombine The Light. But I say this very guardedly. For I would have to see X do his puja one day to really knowfrom afar Im not so sure. Its merely an impression.
This is what I am constantly seeing now, but along with this Divine Force or this Divine Consciousness that Sri Aurobindo speaks of when he says, Mothers Force is with you. When it comes, it is sparkling white, perfectly white and perfectly luminous. And as it accumulates inside, it makes living vibrations of every color. And it goes on and on and on. Sometimes it lasts half an hour, three-quarters of an hour, an hournothing goes out. And it keeps constantly entering. And it piles up. Its as if it is all being accumulated or compressed together.
0 1960-07-26 - Mothers vision - looking up words in the subconscient, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Its very simple, actually; its a convention, a conventional construction somewhere in the subconscious brain, and you write automatically. But if you want to try to bring The Light of a slightly higher reason into it, its terrible. It becomes meaningless, and you forget everything.
You have to be inside this automatic convention to remember; its very difficult (Mother laughs). So I make a lot of spelling mistakes (under her breath, in a mischievous tone) I think Ill ask him for his dictionary (laughter)!
0 1960-10-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Sanskrit is better. Sanskrit is a much fuller and subtler language, so its probably much better. But these modern languages are so artificial (by this, I mean superficial, intellectual); they cut things up into little pieces and remove The Light behind.
I also read On the Veda where Sri Aurobindo speaks of the difference between the modern mind and the ancient mind; and its quite obvious, especially from the linguistic point of view. Sanskrit was certainly much more fluid, a better instrument for a more global, more comprehensive light, a light containing more things within itself.
0 1960-10-11, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
And in the beginning, during the first months that I was doing the japa, I felt them I had an almost detailed awareness of these myriads of cells opening to this vibration; the vibration of the first sound is an absolutely special vibration (you see, above, there is The Light and all that, but beyond this light there is the original vibration), and this vibration was entering into all the cells and was reproduced in them. It went on for months in this way.
Even now, when something or other is not all right, I have only to reproduce the thing with the same type of concentration as at the beginning for, when I say the japa, the sound and the words together the way the words are understood, the feel of the wordscreate a certain totality. I have to reproduce that. And the way its repeated is evolving all the time. The words are the same, however, the original sound is the same, but its all constantly evolving towards a more comprehensive realization and a more and more complete STATE. So when I want to obtain a certain result, I reproduce a certain type of this state. For example, if something in the body is not functioning right (it cant really be called an illness, but when somethings out of order), or if I wish to do some specific work on a specific person for a specific reason, then I go back to a certain state of repetition of my mantra, which acts directly on the bodys cells. And then the same phenomenon is reproducedexactly the same extraordinary vibration which I recognized when the supramental world descended. It comes in and vibrates like a pulsation in the cells.
0 1960-10-22, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Yesterday, I suddenly saw a huge living head of blue lightthis blue light which is the force, the powerful force in material Nature (this is The Light the tantrics use). The head was made entirely of this light, and it wore a sort of tiaraa big head, so big (Mother indicates the length of her forearm); its eyes werent closed, but rather lowered, like this. The immobility of eternity, absolutely the repose, the immobility of eternity. A magnificent head, quite similar to the way the gods here are represented, but even better; something between certain heads of the Buddha and (these heads most probably come to the artists). Everything else was lost in a kind of cloud.
I felt that this kind of yes, immobility came from there: everything stops, absolutely everything stops. Silence, immobility truly, you enter into eternity.I told him it wasnt time!
--
The experience I havewhat I mean by I is this aggregate here (Mother indicates her body), this particular individualityis that the more quiet and calm it is, the more work it can do and the faster the work can be done. What is most disturbing and time consuming are all these agitated vibrations that fall on me (truly speaking, each person who comes throws them on me). And this is what makes the work difficultit stirs up a whirlwind. And you cant do anything in this whirlwind, its impossible. If you try to do something material, your fingers stumble; if you try to do something intellectual, your thoughts get all entangled and you no longer see clearly. Ive had the experience, for example, of wanting to look up a word in the dictionary while this agitation was in the atmosphere, and everything jumps up and down (yet The Lighting is the same and Im using the same magnifying glass), I no longer see a thing, its all jumping! I go page by page, but the word simply doesnt exist in the dictionary! Then I remain quiet, I do this (Mother makes a gesture of bringing down the Peace) and after half a minute I open the dictionary: the very spot, and the word leaps out at me! And I see clearly and distinctly. Consequently I have now the indisputable proof that if you want to do anything properly, you must FIRST be calm but not only be calm yourself; you must either isolate yourself or be capable of imposing a calm on this whirlwind of forces that comes upon you all the time from all around.
All the teachers are wanting to quit the schoolweary! Which means theyll begin the year with half the teachers gone. They live in constant tension, they dont know how to relax thats really what it is. They dont know how to act without agitation.
0 1960-11-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
This is entirely another way of understandingits not an ascent, not even a descent nor an inspiration it must be what Sri Aurobindo calls a revelation. Its the meeting of this subconscious notationthis something which has remained buried within, held down so as not to manifest, but which suddenly surges forth to meet The Light streaming down from above, this very vast state of consciousness that excludes nothing and from it springs forth a lightoh, a resplendence of light!like a new explanation of the world, or of that part of the world not yet explained.
And this is the true way of knowing.
0 1961-01-17, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Anger, moreover, like all forms of violence, is always a sign of weakness, impotence and incapacity. Here the deception comes from the approval one gives it or the flattering adjective one covers it with; for rage can be no more than blind, ignorant and asuricopposed to The Light.
But this is still the best of cases.
0 1961-01-22, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Something was obviously bent on preventing me from going down for the distribution.4 But by an act of will I went down. I will do it, I said. But it was difficult. There were moments when it sidled up to me: Now youre going to faint, and then, Now your legs will no longer be able to walk. Now. It kept coming like that. So I kept repeating the japa the whole time, and it was touch-and-go right up to the end. Finally I couldnt distinguish people, I saw only shapes, forms passing by, and not clearly. When the distribution was over, I got up (I knew I had to get up), I stood up without flinching and stepped down from the chair without faltering. But I was not careful and when I turned away from The Light in the room to go towards the staircasean abrupt blackout. Not the blackout of a faintmy eyes no longer saw. I saw only shadows. Ah! I said to myself, where is the step?! And to avoid missing it, I clutched the railing. What a commotion that made! Champaklal came rushing up, thinking I was about to fall!
Anyhow.
0 1961-01-24, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I must say that after this, when I read The Secret of the Veda as I do each evening. In fact, I am in very close contact with the entire Vedic world since Ive been reading that book: I see beings, hear phrases. It comes up in a sort of subliminal consciousness, a lot of things are from the ancient Vedic tradition. (By the way, I have even come to see that the pink marble bathtub I told you about last time, which Nature had offered me, belongs to the Vedic world, to a civilization of that epoch.3) There werethere are alwaysSanskrit words coming up, sentences, bits of dialogue. This is of interest, because I realized that what I had seen the other day (I told you about it) and then what I saw yesterday that whole domainwas connected to what the Vedas call the dasyus the panis and the dasyus4the enemies of The Light. And this Force that came was very clearly a power like Indras5 (though something far, far greater), and at war with darkness everywhere, like this (Mother sketches in space a whirling force touching points here and there throughout the world), this Force attacked all darkness: ideas, people, movements, events, whatever made stains, patches of shadow. And it kept on going, a formidable power, so great that my hands were like this (Mother clenches her fists). Later when I read (I happened to be reading just the chapter concerning the fight against the dasyus), this proximity to my own experience became interesting, for it was not at all intellectual or mental there was no idea, no thought involved.
The remainder of the evening passed as usual. I went to bed, and at exactly a quarter to twelve I got up with the feeling that this presence in me had increased even further and really become rather formidable. I had to instill a great deal of peace and confidence into my body, which felt as though it wasnt so easy to bear. So I concentrated, I told my body to be calm and to let itself go completely.
0 1961-02-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It is attached to nothing: none of its habits, none of its ways of being-nothing. It says in all sincerity, I ask only for The Light, only to change. That is its state. it has never, never said, Oh, Im tired, Ive had enough! Bah! Its not like that. It is attached to nothing for a long, long time it has ceased to have desiresit is attached to nothing at all, to nothing. There isnt a single thing for which it says, Oh, I cant do without that! Not one. It doesnt care-if something comes, it takes it; if it doesnt come, the body doesnt think about it. In other words, its truly good-natured. But if this isnt sufficient, then it doesnt know and it says, If there is something I cant do or I dont know or I am not doing It asks for nothing more than to make the necessary effort!
(silence)
0 1961-02-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Sri Aurobindo et la Transformation du Monde [Sri Aurobindo and the Transformation of the World], a book that Editions du Seuil had asked Satprem to write and subsequently refused on the pretext that it did not conform to the 'spirit of the collection.' This book would never see The Light of day. Satprem would later write another book entitled Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness.
A long-time disciple (Suzanne Karpeles) and a member of the cole Franaise d'Extrme Orient.
0 1961-02-25, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When these two signs are present (both are necessary, one is incomplete without the other), when a person possesses both, then you can be sure he has been in contact with the Supermind. So people who speak about receiving The Light well, (laughing) its a lot of hot air! But when both signs are present, you can be sure of your perception.12
(silence)
0 1961-03-17, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The experience occurred in a place corresponding to ours [the main Ashram building], but immense: the rooms were ten times bigger, but absolutely one cant say emptythey were barren. Not that there was nothing in them, but nothing was in order, everything was just where it shouldnt be. There wasnt any furniture so things were strewn here and therea dreadful disarray! Things were being put to uses they werent made for, yet nothing needed for a particular purpose could be found. The whole section having to do with education [the Ashram School] was in almost total darkness: The Lights were out with no way to switch them on, and people were wandering about and coming to me with incoherent, stupid proposals. I tried to find a comer where I could rest (not because I was tired; I simply wanted to concentrate a little and get a clear vision in the midst of it all), but it was impossible, no one would leave me alone. Finally I put a tottering armchair and a footstool end-to-end and tried to rest; but someone immediately came up (I know who, Im purposely not giving names) and said, Oh! This wont do at all! It CANT be arranged like that! Then he began making noise, commotion, disorderwell, it was awful.
To wind it all up, I went to Sri Aurobindos rooman enormous, enormous room, but in the same state. And he appeared to be in an eternal consciousness, entirely detached from everything yet very clearly aware of our total incapacity.
0 1961-03-25, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
If I could receive The Light: if I could SEE this Light; if I could see the vastness opening before my eyes.
Then its in the realm of visions, of conscious perception.
0 1961-04-25, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ah, but thats far more difficult than talkingfar more! Far more, infinitely more difficult than talking. If you are a bit clear, transparentits enough just to be like this, at a given moment (gesture of opening upwards), to catch The Light, and then you can talk about it. Once you have seen it, you dont forget it. But to do.
This paucity, this narrowness. Its relatively easy to get out of mental paucity, mental narrowness: one has only to pierce a hole, go beyond, and view things from above; and yes, immediately, it all widens. Thats relatively easy. But this vital and PHYSICAL paucity, material narrowness ohh!
For mental narrowness, we know the meansone has only to go beyond itwe know the means. But this (Mother touches her body), however much one keeps bringing in, bringing in, bringing in The Light and the Force. Yes, for a few moments one can live a universal life, even in the sensations but in the body.
(silence)
0 1961-06-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The Light which scatters darkness,
the Conqueror who assures the victory.
0 1961-06-06, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And when the body makes this movement (gesture of stepping back from physical appearances)what to call it? This movement of fusion (is it fusion?), of no longer being a separate body, of being the Divine there is something which. There is a sort of abstraction of something (and even that is putting it too concretely). And sometimes it succeeds, the body floats in The Light; sometimes its only partial. Sometimes all the inner consciousness is there, full and total but HERE things remain as they are, stupid, stupid, utterly stupid! Blind, in shifting sands, painful (and its not a thought, its not even a sensation; I dont know what it is).
And THERE the conscious will can do nothing. Nothing. All it could do it has done, and it continues to do all it can at each minute, and its nothing, it is not THATwhat is it??
0 1961-06-20, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
What I do now when X comes is take it all (gesture from below to above) and do like this (gesture of offering up), in an aspiration and then I let it go. Then all the Immobility, the Silence, The Light, the Peace comes down from above into everything and doesnt move. But that in itself is very difficult for the body to have, very difficult: something is always vibrating and moving.
Its as if it put everything back in order, but nothing is moved.
0 1961-07-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There was an instance of this the other day: someone in a completely detestable mood wrote me a letter; it was impossible, I couldnt reply I didnt know what to say. I simply applied the Force and remained like this (gesture of an offering to The Light). I said, We shall see. Several hours later (I knew I was going to see this person) I didnt even know if I was going to say I had read the letteror rather if what I was going to say would result from having read it. I had come to that pointnothing. But that very morning a little circumstance occurred that changed everything! And when I met the person I knew immediately what had to be said, what had to be done, and everything worked out.
That is ONE example. I mention it because it happened the day before yesterday, but this goes on all the time.
I have made it a habit to always do this (gesture of abandonment to The Light). When a problem comes up, I offer it to the Lord and then leave it. And the moment the solution is required, it comesit comes in facts, in deeds, in movements.
I would be satisfied only if. Can one ever be satisfied? At any rate, I would begin to be satisfied only if this were a constant and total condition, active in all circumstances and at every moment, day and night. But is it possible with this INUNDATION pouring in from outside? Constantly! While walking this morning I was (how to put it?) something of a witness, watching what was coming in from outside. One thing after another, one thing after anotherwhat a mixture! From all sides, from everyone and everything and everywhere. And not only from here, but from far, far away on the earth and sometimes from far back in time, back into the pastthings out of the past coming up, presenting themselves to the new Light to be put in their place. Its always that: each thing wanting to be put in its place. And this work has to be done constantly. Its as if one keeps catching a new illness to be cured.
0 1961-07-28, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Now I see that these rays emanate from a recumbent oval of white light encircled by a superb rainbow, and I sense that the one whom The Light hides from my view is plunged into a profound repose. For long I remain at the outer edge of the rainbow, trying to pierce through The Light and see the one who is sleeping encircled by such splendor. Unable to discern anything, I enter the rainbow, and thence into the white and shining oval. Here I see a marvelous being: stretched on what seems to be a mass of white eiderdown, his supple body, of incomparable beauty, is garbed in a long, white robe. His head rests on his folded arm, but of that I can see only his long hair, the hue of ripened wheat, flowing over his shoulders. A great and gentle emotion sweeps through me at this magnificent spectacle, and a deep reverence as well.
Has the sleeper sensed my presence? For now he awakens and rises in all his grace and beauty. He turns towards me and his eyes meet mine, mauve and luminous eyes with a gentle, an infinitely tender expression. Wordlessly he bids me a sublime welcome and my whole being joyously responds. Taking my hand, he leads me to the couch he has just left. I stretch out on this downy whiteness, and his harmonious visage bends over me; a sweet current of force enters wholly into me, invigorating, revitalizing each cell.
0 1961-08-05, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Three years later I had that experience Ive told you about itof The Light piercing through me; I physically saw it enter into me. It was obviously the descent of a Beingnot a past incarnation, but a Being from another plane. It was a golden light the incarnation of a divine consciousness. Which proves that she succeeded for both her children.
But she
0 1961-08-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And it is strangely indifferent to any scale of values or circumstances. Sometimes when I am meeting and speaking with someone, when I am seeing someone, this great universal Light of a perfect whiteness comes streaming in. Well, I must admit, this also occurs for the merest trifles, when Im tasting some cheese somebody has sent me, for example, or arranging objects in a cupboard, or deciding what things Im going to use or have to organize. It doesnt come in the same massive way as when it comes directly. When it comes directly its a mass, passing through and going out like that (Mother shows The Light descending directly from above like a mass and passing through her head in order to spread out everywhere). In these small things its pulverized, as though it came through an atomizer, but its that same sparkling white light, utterly white. Then, whatever Im doing, theres a sensation in the body thats like lying on a sea of something very soft, very intimate, very deep and eternal, immutable: the Lord. And all the bodys cells are joyously saying, You, You, You, You.
Thats my present condition.
0 1961-10-15, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The first time you read your manuscript, I called Sri Aurobindo to hear it. He was in the subtle physical and he listened. Yesterday when I sat down to listen, I thought, It would be much better if he entered my brain because that way. In fact, I called him; he entered my brain. It took some time; all through the beginning of the reading we were still two; then he came in more and more, more and more, more and more. My headmy physical headseemed to be swelling up! There was no longer space for anyone but him. It was The Light that dark blue light of mental power (but true mental power) in the physical the tantrics use it, you always see it with Xs action, but Ive never seen it this way before! My head was full, you knowfull, full, not an atom of space to spare I could feel it swelling up!
And this light was absolutely immobilevibrationless, totally compact and coherent. When I see Xs light, for example, there are always vibrations in it; it vibrates, vibrates, things are shifting about; out with this, not a single vibration, not one movement: a MASS that seemed eternally immobile but which was (how to put it?) attentive, listening. It was a volume with the form of the head, as if that had wholly taken over the head. It was full, so full, yet with no feeling of tension or of anything resisting, none at all; there was only a kind of immobile eternity and COMPACT, compact, absolutely coherent, no vibrations. And it increased, increased more and more, it became heavy, but with a very particular heavinessnot a weight, the feeling of a mass.
0 1961-10-30, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yet beyond the lower triple world, the Rishis had discovered a certain fourth, touryam svid; they found the vast dwelling place, the solar world, Swar: I have arisen from earth to the mid-world [life], I have arisen from the mid-world to heaven [mind], from the level of the firmament of heaven I have gone to the Sun-world, The Light (Yajur-veda 17.67). And it is said, Mortals, they achieved immortality (Rig-veda I.110.4). What then was their secret? How did they pass from a heaven of mind to the great heaven without leaving the body, without, as it were, going off into ecstasies?
The secret lies in matter. Because Agni is imprisoned in matter and we ourselves are imprisoned there. It is said that Agni is without head or feet, that it conceals its two extremities: above, it disappears into the great heaven of the supraconscient (which the Rishis also called the great ocean), and below, it sinks into the formless ocean of the inconscient (which they also called the rock). We are truncated. But the Rishis were men of a solid realism, a true realism resting upon the Spirit; and since the summits of mind opened out upon a lacuna of lightecstatic, to be sure, but with no hold over the worldthey set upon the downward way.6 Thus begins the quest for the lost sun, the long pilgrimage of descent into the inconscient and the merciless fight against the dark forces, the thieves of the sun, the panis and vritras, pythons and giants, hidden in the dark lair with the whole cohort of usurpers: the dualizers, the confiners, the tearers, the COVERERS. But the divine worker, Agni, is helped by the gods, and in his quest he is led by the intuitive ray, Sarama, the heavenly hound with the subtle sense of smell who sets Agni on the track of the stolen herds (strange, shining herds). Now and again there comes the sudden glimmer of a fugitive dawn then all grows dim. One must advance step by step, digging, digging, fighting every inch of the way against the wolves whose savage fury increases the nearer one draws to their denAgni is a warrior. Agni grows through his difficulties, his flame burns more brilliantly with each blow from the Adversary; for, as the Rishis said, Night and Day both suckled the divine Child; they even said that Night and Day are the two sisters, Immortal, with a common lover [the sun] common they, though different their forms (I.113.2,3). These alternations of night and brightness accelerate until Day breaks at last and the herds of Dawn7 surge upward awakening someone who was dead (I.113.8). The infinite rock of the inconscient is shattered, the seeker uncovers the Sun dwelling in the darkness (III.39.5), the divine consciousness in the heart of Matter. In the very depths of Matter, that is to say, in the body, on earth, the Rishis found themselves cast up into Light that same Light which others sought on the heights, without their bodies and without the earth, in ecstasy. And this is what the Rishis would call the Great Passage. Without abandoning the earth they found the vast dwelling place, that dwelling place of the gods, Swar, the original Sun-world that Sri Aurobindo calls the Supramental World: Human beings [the Rishis emphasize that they are indeed men] slaying the Coverer have crossed beyond both earth and heaven [matter and mind] and made the wide world their dwelling place (I.36.8). They have entered the True, the Right, the Vast, Satyam, Ritam, Brihat, the unbroken light, the fearless light, where there is no longer suffering nor falsehood nor death: it is immortality, amritam.
0 1961-11-05, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Even when I had that experience [the first supramental manifestation of February 29, 1956], when the Lord said, The time has come, well, it was not a complete descent; it was the descent of the Consciousness, The Light, and a part, an aspect of the Power. It was immediately absorbed and swallowed up by the world of Inconscience, and from that moment on it began to work in the atmosphere. But it was not THE thing that comes and gets permanently established; when that happens, we wont need to speak of itit will be obvious!
Although the experience of 56 was one more forward step, its not. Its not final.
0 1961-11-06, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But reading Sri Aurobindo, I seemed to understand the opposite: that FIRST he rose up, and then made The Light redescend to open the passage, and that the pressure of The Light from above is what opens the doors below, in Matter.
I would like to understand the process.
0 1961-11-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When I returned from Japan and we began to work together, Sri Aurobindo had already brought the supramental light into the mental world and was trying to transform the Mind. Its strange, he said to me, its an endless work! Nothing seems to get doneeverything is done and then constantly has to be done all over again. Then I gave him my personal impression, which went back to the old days with Theon: It will be like that until we touch bottom. So instead of continuing to work in the Mind, both of us (I was the one who went through the experience how to put it? practically, objectively; he experienced it only in his consciousness, not in the body but my body has always participated), both of us descended almost immediately (it was done in a day or two) from the Mind into the Vital, and so on quite rapidly, leaving the Mind as it was, fully in The Light but not permanently transformed.
Then a strange thing happened. When we were in the Vital, my body suddenly became young again, as it had been when I was eighteen years old! There was a young man named Pearson, a disciple of Tagore, who had lived with me in Japan for four years; he returned to India, and when he came to see me in Pondicherry, he was stupefied.4 What has happened to you! he exclaimed. He hardly recognized me. During that same period (it didnt last very long, only a few months), I received some old photographs from France and Sri Aurobindo saw one of me at the age of eighteen. There! he said, Thats how you are now! I wore my hair differently, but otherwise I was eighteen all over again.
--
It wasnt the first time; when I was working with Theon at Tlemcen (the second time I was there), I descended into the total, unindividualized that is, general Inconscient (it was the time he wanted me to find the Mantra of Life). And there I suddenly found myself in front of something like a vault or a grotto (of course, it was only something like that), and when it opened, I saw a Being of iridescent light reclining with his head on his hand, fast asleep. All The Light around him was iridescent. When I told Theon what I was seeing, he said it was the immanent God in the depths of the Inconscient, who through his radiations was slowly waking the Inconscient to Consciousness.
But then a rather remarkable phenomenon occurred: when I looked at him, he woke up and opened his eyes, expressing the beginning of conscious, wakeful action.
--
Yes, the Rishis give an absolutely living description of what you experience and experience continuallyas soon as you descend into the Subconscient: all these battles with the beings who conceal The Light and so on. I experienced these things continually at Tlemcen and again with Sri Aurobindo when we were doing the Workits raging quite merrily even now!
As soon as you go down there, thats what happensyou have to fight against all that is unwilling to change, all that dominates the world and does not want to change.
0 1962-01-21, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I find it difficult to take these psycho-analysts at all seriously when they try to scrutinise spiritual experience by the flicker of their torch-lights,yet perhaps one ought to, for half-knowledge is a powerful thing and can be a great obstacle to the coming in front of the true Truth. This new psychology looks to me very much like children learning some summary and not very adequate alphabet, exulting in putting their a-b-c-d of the subconscient and the mysterious underground super-ego together and imagining that their first book of obscure beginnings (c-a-t cat, t-r-e-e tree) is the very heart of the real knowledge. They look from down up and explain the higher lights by the lower obscurities; but the foundation of these things is above and not below, upari budhna esam. The superconscient, not the subconscient, is the true foundation of things. The significance of the lotus is not to be found by analysing the secrets of the mud from which it grows here; its secret is to be found in the heavenly archetype of the lotus that blooms for ever in The Light above. The self-chosen field of these psychologists is besides poor, dark and limited; you must know the whole before you can know the part and the highest before you can truly understand the lowest. That is the promise of the greater psychology awaiting its hour before which these poor gropings will disappear and come to nothing.4
Questioned about the meaning of these words, Mother said, "The state I was in was like a memory."
0 1962-02-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And that is exactly what I have seen in The Light of the events described in Perseus. If you dont take the problem generally but specifically, down to the least detail. But it evaporates as soon as you formulate it. Only when you feel it concretely, when you get a grip on it, can you grasp both things.
(silence)
0 1962-03-11, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It should at least be mentioned that some beings in the vital world can take on completely deceptive appearances at willall the most dazzling lights are found in the vital, but with a particular quality. So those who have truly approached The Light cant be deceived. Because its indefinable, something the spiritual sense alone can feel: perfect security, perfect peace, perfect purity (although I hesitate to use the word purity, which has taken on such an idiotic meaning); what I mean is the absence of all admixture.
To those with the spiritual sense, the most dazzling vital lights always seem to have something artificial about themthey FEEL artificial and cold, hard, aggressive, deceptive. But thats the point: you yourself must be beyond all this. Not to be fooled, you mustnt fool yourself!
0 1962-05-29, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It lasted more than half an hour. It was a marvelous mountain scene, with mountain air and The Lightness of the mountainsit was all there. The splendor of sunlight on the Himalayan peaks.
After that half hour I hadnt the slightest wish to go!
0 1962-07-21, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You say that what is needed is maddening enthusiasm, to fill the country with emotional excitement. In the time of the Swadeshi [fight for independence, boycott of English goods] we did all that in the field of politics, but what we did is all now in the dust. Will there be a more favorable result in the spiritual field? I do not say there has been no result. There has been. Any movement will produce some result, but for the most part in terms of an increase of possibility. This is not the right method, however, to steadily actualize the thing. Therefore I no longer wish to make emotional excitement or any intoxication of the mind the base. I wish to make a large and strong equanimity the foundation of the yoga. I want established on that equality a full, firm and undisturbed Shakti in the system and in all its movements. I want the wide display of The Light of Knowledge in the ocean of Shakti. And I want in that luminous vastness the tranquil ecstasy of infinite Love, Delight and Oneness. I do not want hundreds of thousands of disciples. It will be enough if I can get a hundred complete men, purified of petty egoism, who will be the instruments of God. I have no faith in the customary trade of the guru. I do not wish to be a guru. If anybody wakes and manifests from within his slumbering godhead and gets the divine lifebe it at my touch or at anothersthis is what I want. It is such men that will raise the country.
You must not think from all this lecture that I despair of the future of Bengal. I too hope, as they say, that this time a great light will manifest itself in Bengal. Still I have tried to show the other side of the shield, where the fault is, the error, the deficiency. If these remain, The Light will not be a great light and it will not be permanent.
The meaning of this extraordinarily long talk is that I too am packing my bag. But I believe that this bundle is like the net of St. Peter, only crammed with the catch of the Infinite. I am not going to open the bag now. If I do that before its time, all would escape. Neither am I going back to Bengal now, not because Bengal is not ready, but because I am not ready. If the unripe goes amidst the unripe what work can he do?5
0 1962-08-11, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And I said it because its quite natural for people reading in The Light of their own experience to get the feeling of an individual being who is united with Thatit doesnt work that way with me, I cant do it! I cant. The other movement is natural, spontaneous, wonderful the delight of being and the delight of living. But as soon as the jiva comes, oh, I feel so hemmed in.2
***
--
And The Light that descends. You see, its as though as though I am SEEING that eternal, universal, immense, wondrous Vibration from without, from within, from above, from below, from everywhere at the same time. And at a certain place theres something so fine, delicate, of a silver-gray (something thats spread all around the world, all around the creation), and THE Vibration passes through it and it becomes ideas. Not ideas, something higher than ideas the origin of ideas. Things take form. And the sieve is fine, fine, fine, so fine and tenuous, and its everywhere (gesture enveloping the earth).
And its there all the time! I saw it the other day, I am seeing it nowit seems to be a permanent feature. And its the origin of all intellectual formulations (those closest to the Truth, of course, with no distortion). Very interesting.
0 1962-09-15, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Somewhere in the overmind (beyond the higher mind and from the overmind onwards), things are luminous IN THEMSELVES. Light doesnt have to strike them: things themselves are luminous. And this makes a considerable difference in vision. Things are no longer lit from outside, they are luminous in themselves. This is the main difference in the quality of The Light.
It has even come to the point where things lit from outside seem artificial to me. They have lost their light.
0 1962-11-14, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Because my impression was that the higher I rise, the more I notice things below. I wasnt making a doctrine or theory of it, of course I got rid of that habit a long time ago. But I was looking at it, merely taking note of the fact, without telling myself it was for this or that reason (as you explain here in your book). I observed the phenomenon and was able to say: the more I feel this constant, luminous Presence, the more I see those things. So it has become very clear to me that it is impossible to manifest THAT integrally without everything below being offered up to The Light.
My method is essentially very simple: for each thing that comes, I say, Here, Lord, its for You; change it, transform it. A work of offering and dedication (gesture of presenting something to The Light). And this morning there was a sort of replynot exactly to a question, but as though I were wondering How do I do it? (because the Lord tells me I am here for His work), How do I do His work? Whats the new way of doing the Work? We know all the old ways, but whats the new way? And the reply came, very concrete, without words: By bringing the two extremes together. Everything you see, everything that comes to you or that you discover is automatically put in the presence of the Most High, of the Supreme. You join the two extremes. Your whole work is to make the junction.
And now you read me all this! Its as if you were explaining itdont you find that interesting! (Mother laughs) I find it VERY interesting.
0 1962-11-17, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
From there you had a panoramic view of everything. And no sooner did I arrive than a storm broke outa terrible storm. I kept watching, and then I saw in this direction (I dont know whether it was north, south or west, but it was this direction: Mother points to the north), I saw two nearly simultaneous flashes of lightning. The first one (I was looking north, I was quite conscious of facing north) the first one, a terrific bolt, came and fell from the east; and just a moment after, very soon after, another came from the west. The two didnt come together, but they fell on the same spotthey didnt meet but they fell on the same spot. It was pitch dark, the earth and everything was dark, you couldnt see a thing, and suddenly those two flashes of lightning lit up the area where they fell, making a dreadful din, and (my field of vision was confined to that area; all the rest was in darkness, you see) it burst into flames! Everything was set ablaze. In The Lightning flashes you could distinguish the tops of monuments, houses, all sorts of things, and then everything burst into flames: a dreadful conflagration.
I even remarked to myself (it was a rather curious feeling), Well, its interesting to have such a close view of it. That is, I had the feeling that my station, as Sri Aurobindo calls it, for viewing the world was very high up, and Id had to come down to that place. And thats what made me say, Well, its interesting to have such a close view of things. (I didnt say it to that being, I thought it.) And he was there next to me, gloating, standing some distance off to my right (looking up, I could see his headMo ther looks up at the ceiling). He was jubilant, gloating: You see, you see, you see! Overjoyed. I kept absolutely still; everything was still, calm, motionless (the thought that came was like something passing through me: Its interesting to have such a close view of it). And then I stopped everything, like this (Mother remains as still as a statue, fists clenched). And very soon afterwards (I cant say exactly because time there isnt the same as here), very soon afterwards, everything stopped.1 The storms only purpose was to cause the two thunderbolts, and it stopped after they fell on the earth. And then the flames the whole area was set ablaze (it was like a huge city, but not a city: most likely it was symbolic of a country): vroom! It burst into flames; some flames were leaping up very, very high. But I simply did this, stopped everything (Mother remains motionless, eyes closed, fists clenched), and then looked out once againeverything had returned to order. Then I said (I dont know why, but I was speaking to him in English yes, its because he was speaking English, saying, You see, you see!), I said, Ah, that didnt last long. They quickly brought it under control. With that he turned his back on me (laughing); he went off one way and I the other. Then I regained my outer consciousness, which is why I remember everything exactly.
0 1962-11-23, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But your book shouldnt give the impression that its always that way that The Light cant be established on earth until all the Shadow is transformed. In fact, the very work of transformation is to change all this shadow into its aspect of light.1
Not to reject it: to transform it.
0 1962-11-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Nothing was left but an immensity, without beginning, without end, neither in space nor in timeoutside time. Outside time and space: an immensity of light. It was something of the same nature as light, but not lightfar brighter, far not bright: far more intense than light. It was white, but not our physical white; it was a white at the time I couldnt define it. Afterwards, looking at it again in my consciousness, it seemed to be The Light of a gold turned white, you understand: like when you bring something to white heat. Well, it was like gold becoming white through its intensity. It was ABSOLUTELY immobile that is, I had the feeling you get in Sat.2 Yet that immobility contained (how shall I put it?) yes, it actively containedalthough its action wasnt perceptiblea sort of infinite Power, which could be the creative Power. And directed by an unmanifest Consciousness. If you can make anything out of this, good for you!
Everything was like that, and without thought I am now trying to put it into words. And at the center of that immensity was a concentration of white light as we know it (far more intense), but denser, forming a sort of cube that was relatively tiny in the immensity, but nonetheless quite perceptible. It was vibrant, fluid, condensed, concentrated, and tremendously active. And all that immensity converged there (how?) without moving. And from there, it was spreading everywhere, without going out.
0 1962-12-25, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The force or The Light into the words of the book.
***
0 1963-02-19, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was really very interesting. Afterwards its just a memory, no longer the thing. It concerned the creation of the material world, the material universe, in The Light of the conception of the Supreme in love with His emanation. But the vision was all-embracing, as if I were on the other side the side of the Supreme, not of the creation and saw the creation as a whole, with the true sense of progress, the true sense of advance, of movement, and the true way in which all that doesnt belong to the future creation will disappear in a kind of pralaya1 (it cant really disappear but it will be withdrawn from the Manifestation). And it was very interesting: all that doesnt collaborate (in the sense that it is a sufficient experience, an experience that has come to its end) was reabsorbed. It was like the true vision of what was rendered as the Last Judgment. It is something going on constantly, that mighty gust of manifestation, and there are things that have been, according to our vision of time, but that live on, that continue to exist in the future; there are things that exhaust themselves (thats in the present), and there are things that have no more purpose, that cannot keep pace with the movement (I dont know how to explain this) and enter the Non-Being the pralaya, the Non-Being, the unmanifestof course, not in their forms but in their essence; that is to say, the Supreme in them remains the Supreme but unmanifest.
But it was all a living, palpable experience which lasted for a day and a half. The entire universal movement was LIVED and sensed. Not merely seen but lived and in what light! What stupendous power! With that kind of certitude at the core of everything something very odd. Its very difficult to express. But the experience lasted so long that it became perfectly familiar. To translate it into words I might say: it is the Supremes way of seeingof feeling, of living. I was living things the way He does. And it gives a power of certitude of realization. In the sense that what we are heading for is already here; the road we look back on, the road we have traveled and the road yet to travel, it all lives simultaneously. And with such logic! An eternal, wonderful superlogic which makes it obviousness itselfeverything is obviousness itself. Struggle, effort, fear, all of that, oh, absolutely, absolutely nonexistent. And together with this, the explanation of the feeling we have of not wanting certain things any more: they leave the Manifest. You see, its like a sieve into which everything is thrown and where He to Him, everything, but everything is the same, but there is the vision of what He wants, and also of what is useless for what He wants or would prevent the fullness and totality of what He wants (contradictions of sorts, I dont know how to explain it)so with that He just goes this way (gesture of reswallowing) and it goes out of the Manifestation.
0 1963-03-23, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
By Light we live and to The Light we go.
Here in this seat of Darkness mute and lone,
0 1963-06-19, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There are activities that take place in a semidarkness, which the people of the placepeople who are here at the Ashramregard as light and where everyone attends to his affairs with his own ideas and what he considers to be his knowledge. Everything takes place in a semidarkness, a great confusion and a you know, a most oppressive sense of powerlessness. It went on for hours. Finally, I absolutely wanted I wanted to get out of that place at all costs and return to The Light (the real one) and the open. But it was literally impossible: whatever path I took to get out suddenly collapsed, or disappeared as if swallowed up in a wall or a complexity of incoherent things, or else it came to an abrupt end, plunging straight down very deep. I remember one of those places, I absolutely wanted to find a way out, and when I got there, there was a sheer gulf, and I said to myself, What am I going to do? Just then I saw a man, I dont know who he was, but he was dressed (it was symbolic) as a mountain climber, with all the equipment needed to climb down a sheer cliff, and with the help of his ice axe he fastened himself to the cliff and climbed down. Then I said, This is PRETENDING to find the way, but its not finding the way. I was there concentrating, and as I concentrated, suddenly I was able to find a path which led me up to a terrace.
I was accompanied by three or four people (but they are symbolic people). Everything was taking place in a half-night, and outside it was complete night. But when I reached the terrace, there was one of those big electric street lights, which turned on and gave a white light (like the half-light of an electric lamp in the nightwhich is nothing). The terrace was a very long one, but with a drop on every side: there was no way to get out; at one end, the way was blocked by a sort of house, and on both sides it plunged straight down into a black hole. And then that sense of powerlessness, of knowing nothingyou dont know where to go, you dont know what to do. It was And it is THE ORDINARY STATE OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS the consciousness of human activity. But in my consciousness (I was shut in there, you understand), it was truly it was almost a torture, last night; it was frightful.
--
And I came out like this (gesture as if Mother suddenly emerged from the experience with a movement backward and upward). How can I explain? I was trying to find my way by going down, to find a way out down below, but I couldnt find it. So when that old man came, someone who was with me very obligingly went to turn out The Light [on the old mans orders]! Then I felt within myself, I cant bear it, I cant stand here and watch this light being turned outthis light which turned on when I came I cant bear that! And I left abruptly like this (same gesture of stepping backward and upward), and found myself instantly back in my bed.
Yet the way I seek is ever descending, descending, descendingnever to the heights. Its always descending, descending, descending.
0 1963-07-17, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And along with this, theres a vast, dead-calm rest (if you know what I mean?) in that Lightprobably The Light as it will manifest. Its a golden Light, not very intense or very pale either; a little less pale than the one that I said comes when I concentrate3; a little more intense than that, though not darka golden Light, absolutely immobile, with such an inner intensity of vibration that its beyond all perception. And then its perfect restinstantly. So as soon as I complain, the same ironic remark always comes: Oh, when one can have that in the midst of work, one ought not to complain! The two states are I cant say simultaneous (naturally its not one after the other, both are there together), but its not like two things next to each other, its two ways of looking, I could say, two pointsnot points of view a horizontal look, and a look thats or rather, a specific look and an overall look. A specific look, that of the immediate activity, and an overall and constant look, that of the whole; and as soon as you look at the whole, its (dead-calm gesture) immutable peace, unvarying rest. And then things seem to become swollenswollen with an infinite content.
It requires no preparation, it isnt something you have to attain: its ALWAYS there. Only, it also stems from the fact that I am not here (thats so clear, so clear, it needs no reflection or observation, its such a well-established fact) I am not here for anything, anything whatsoever, any satisfaction of any sort, on any level, any pointnone of that exists any more, that has no more reality, no more existence. The only thing I still FEEL is a sort of not an aspiration, not a will, not an adherence or enthusiasm, but something that is maybe its more like a power: to do the Lords Work. At the same time, I feel the Lord you understand, He isnt in front of me or outside of me! Thats not it, He is everywhere and He is everywhere and I am everywhere with Him. But what holds these cells together in a permanent form is that something which is at once the will and power (and something more than both) to do the Lords work. It contains something which probably is translated in peoples consciousnesses as Bliss, Ananda (I must say its an aspect of the problem I am not concerned with). Something like the intensity of a superlove as yet unmanifestits impossible to say.
0 1963-07-27, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
What the supramental will do the mind cannot foresee or lay down. The mind is ignorance seeking for the Truth, the supramental by its very definition is the Truth-Consciousness, Truth in possession of itself and fulfilling itself by its own power. In a supramental world imperfection and disharmony are bound to disappear. But what we propose just now is not to make the earth a supramental world but to bring down the supramental as a power and established consciousness in the midst of the restto let it work there and fulfill itself as Mind descended into Life and Matter and has worked as a Power there to fulfill itself in the midst of the rest. This will be enough to change the world and to change Nature by breaking down her present limits. But what, how, by what degrees it will do it, is a thing that ought not to be said nowwhen The Light is there, The Light will itself do its workwhen the supramental Will stands on earth, that Will will decide. It will establish a perfection, a harmony, a Truth-creation for the rest, well, it will be the rest that is all.
(XXII.13)
--
The greatest difficulty is that the bodys texture is made of Ignorance, so that every time the Force, The Light, the Power try to penetrate somewhere, that Ignorance has to be dislodged. Every time the experience is similar, renewed in detail (but not in essence; I mean, every time its a particular point, but the essence of the problem is always the same): its a sort of Negation out of ignorant stupiditynot out of ill will, there is no ill will: its an inert and ignorant stupidity which, by the very fact of what it is, DENIES the possibility of the divine Power. And thats what has to be dissolved every time. At every step, in every detail, its always the same thing that has to be dissolved.
Its repeated again and again. Its not as in the realm of ideas, where once you have seen the problem clearly and have the knowledge, its over; some doubts or absurdities may come back to you from outside, but the thing is established, The Light is there, and automatically things are either repelled or transformed. But this here isnt the same thing! Every single aggregate of cells. Not that it comes from outside: its BUILT that way! Built by an inert and stupid Ignorance. An inert and stupid automatism. And so, automatically, it deniesnot denies, theres no will to deny: it is an opposite, I mean it CANNOT understand, its an oppositean ESTABLISHED oppositeof the divine Power. And every time, there is a kind of action which really in every detail is almost miraculous: suddenly that negation is compelled compelled to recognize that the divine Force is all-powerful. Seen from another angle, its a sort of perpetual little miracle.
Ill give you an example: last time you were with me, I got (while you were present) a pain here (gesture to the right side), a frightful pain of the kind that makes people howl (they think theyre very sick, of course!), it came here like that. You didnt see anything, did you, I didnt show anything.
0 1963-09-25, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But the night before, I was with Sri Aurobindo, who gave me a revelation. I was with him, he was reclining (not stretched out but on a sort of chaise longue) and I was supposed to bring him something to eat (not at all like physical food, its something else I dont know what it is its rather different in that world the subtle physical), and it was expressed to me (there were no words in my consciousness; I dont know why, no words), he told me something which I understood perfectly, not only understood but it made me very happy, a joy came into me, and I answered, Yes, exactly! It corresponds to the experience I had today and which is??? (Mother leaves her sentence hanging) You see, I was conscious while I was having all the activity, but it was expressed in words [there] that arent words [here], so I dont know what to do! And he told me in the tone you take when expressing a definitive and overwhelming experience (his tone was one of absolute power) something that was translated like this: Now, the nourishment (it wasnt nourishment but food) comes from the whole of Nature at once. (Mother utters those words like a riddle or an open sesame that has not yet opened the door) And he told me to bring it to him (that too was a translation): Yes, you will bring it (the it was that food coming from the whole Nature at onceits a seemingly silly transcription, but anyway), you will bring it in this translucent bowl. And I replied, Yes, I knew, I knew that I had to use this translucent bowl to bring you the food. But what on earth does that correspond to?? Yet it was so evident! There was such a joy! (Because as I was conscious, I thought, Well, all the same, I am still following him closely in his development, its going on as when he was here: when he wins a victory, it is materialized in me.) Thus I was perfectly conscious and I told him, Ah, I am glad! (I am faltering, of course, it wasnt that at allit was admirable.) Oh, I am glad, I knew that I had to bring you the food in this translucent bowl. And the translucent bowl was a marvel! I had it, you see, it was beautiful! It was like opaline, living glass, all luminous but with all The Lights alive and moving, and what colors! Pink, mauve, silver and gold, oh, it was so very beautiful. And I brought it to him.
It impressed me very strongly. Very strongly: I was under a spell, probably because the experience was still too strong and powerful for the material brain. And I saw it immediately; at the very moment of the experience, I saw it was a transcription, and an extraordinarily poor transcription, but nothing better could be done.
0 1963-10-16, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I had stared at that thingit went on for more than ten minutes I stared and stared at it, and with truly an extreme goodwill I tried to see if Sri Aurobindos vibration was in it (The Light wasnt, but I tried to see if the vibration was), but I didnt feel anything.
Nevertheless, there was a very strong WILL to make me believe it was Sri Aurobindo I saw it, you understand.
0 1963-10-19, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is a constant aspiration in the body for everything that can perfect itperfect the instrument, I mean and there is very, very little asking for Power. When Sri Aurobindo was here, there was a clear awareness of the necessity of Power, and several times I said, It is the supramental Power that will manifest first. Because, without Power, it will be impossible: the mass of opposition in the world is sufficient to swallow up everything, just as The Light was swallowed up in 60the supramental Light and Consciousness were swallowed up; it will be the same thing. But afterwards, when I had to do the whole task, I no longer insisted on this point [Power], there wasnt the sense of this necessity any more but rather the feeling of a WHOLE that has to progress together and manifest together. A kind of perfection of the Whole.
But its coming.
0 1963-11-04, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But then, the remarkable thing is that the Vibration (what we could call the quality of the vibration that comes from the Lord) is constructive: it constructs, it is peaceful and luminous; while that other vibration, of desire and such like, complicates, destroys and confuses, it twists thingsconfuses and distorts them, twists them. And it takes away The Light: it makes for a dullness, which can be intensified with violent movements to the point of very dark shadows. But even where there is no passion, where passion doesnt interfere, thats how it is. You see, the physical reality has become nothing but a field of vibrations mingling together and, unfortunately, clashing together too, in conflict with one another. And the clash, the conflict, is the climax of that kind of turmoil, of disorder and confusion created by certain vibrations, which are ultimately vibrations of ignorance (they come because people dont know, they are vibrations of ignorance), and are too small, too narrow, too limitedtoo short. The problem isnt seen from a psychological standpoint at all: its nothing but vibrations.
If we look at it from a psychological standpoint On the mental plane, its very easy; on the vital plane, its not too difficult; on the physical plane, its a little heavier, because desires are passed off as needs. But there too, there has been a field of experience these last few days: the study of medical and scientific conceptions on the bodys makeup, its needs, and whats good or bad for it. And all this, in its essence, again boils down to the same question of vibrations. It was quite interesting: there was an appearance (because all things as the ordinary consciousness sees them are nothing but appearances), there was an appearance of food poisoning (mushrooms that are thought to have been bad). It was the object of a particular study to find out whether there was something absolute about the poisoning, or whether it was relative, that is, based on ignorance, a wrong reaction and the absence of the true Vibration. And the conclusion was as follows: its a question of proportion between the amount, the sum of the vibrations that belong to the Supreme, and the sum of the vibrations that still belong to darkness. Depending on the proportion, the poisoning appears as something concrete, real, or else as something that can be eliminated, in other words, that doesnt resist the influence of the Vibration of Truth. And it was very interesting, because, immediately, as soon as the consciousness became aware of the cause of the trouble in the bodys functioning (the consciousness perceived where it came from and what it was), immediately the observation began, with the idea: Lets see what happens. First set the body perfectly at rest with the certainty (which is always there) that nothing happens except by the Lords Will and that the effect too is the Lords Will, all the consequences are the Lords Will, and consequently one should be very still. So the body is very still: untroubled, not agitated, it doesnt vibrate, nothingvery still. Once this is achieved, to what extent are the effects unavoidable? Because a certain quantity of matter that contained an element unfavorable to the bodys elements and life was absorbed, what is the proportion between the favorable and the unfavorable elements, or between the favorable and the unfavorable vibrations? And I saw very clearly: the proportion varies according to the amount of cells in the body that are under the direct Influence, that respond to the supreme Vibration alone, and the amount of other cells that still belong to the ordinary way of vibrating. It was very clear, because I could see all the possibilities, from the ordinary mass [of cells], which is completely upset by that intrusion and where you have to fight with all the ordinary methods to get rid of the undesirable element, to the totality of the cellular response to the supreme Force, which renders the intrusion perfectly innocuous. But this is still a dream for tomorrowwere on the way. But the proportion has become rather favorable (I cant say all-powerful, far from it, but rather favorable), so that the consequences of the ill-being didnt last very long and the damage was, so to say, minimal.
0 1963-11-20, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I tried to find out why your physical life began (well, not quite began, but you were very, very young, just the same) with such a painful experience [the concentration camps]. And I saw why: it was like a separationnot separation, but disentanglement, you understand? There are two things in every human being: what comes from the past and has persisted because it is formed and conscious, and then all that dark, unconscious mass, really muddy, that is added in every new life. Then the other thing gets into that and finds itself imprisoned, you knowadulterated and imprisoned and generally it takes more than half ones life to emerge from that entanglement. Well, for you, care was taken to more than double the dose at the beginning, and it caused a kind of tearing apart: one part went up above, another part fell down below. And the part (it acted almost like a filter), the part that rose up was very cleansed, very cleansed of all that swarming: its becoming very, very conscious of the mixture. Just see, today, the whole morning until I was swamped with work by people, till then there was a sharp awareness of the part of the being that still belongs, as I said, to Unconsciousness, to Ignorance, to Darkness, to Stupidity, and is not even as harmonious as a tree or a flower; something thats not even as tranquil as a stone, not even as harmonious and not even as strong as the animal something that is really a downfall. That is really human inferiority. And maybe (no, I shouldnt say maybe: I know) it was necessary for things to settle downsettle, you know, as when you let a liquid settle? Thats exactly it: its The Light that settles, the Consciousness that settles. And indeed its true, there is in you a part that has entirely settled. Every time I see it (it comes in the course of the work, you understand), its lovely in its quality of light, its quality of vibration, and it has settled considerably. But its true that there is also a kind of sediment, a deposit (deposit, you know?) which is a bit heavy thats what youre conscious of.
But you shouldnt say me! Its not you, that residue isnt you! But you are indeed conscious of The Light, arent you?
Yes, I am conscious of it when I write, for instance.
--
Whats you is this (gesture above the head), its there: what sparkles in The Light thats you. This [the body] isnt you, its the sediment. You still have your bodys self-esteem! You should feel: this isnt me, it isnt me. It is yes, what was put together more or less clumsily and ignorantly by father, mother, maybe with the influence of grandparents. That discovery I made at the age of about fifteen or sixteen, or seventeen. I began to see clearly all the gifts (if we can call them that) that came from father, mother, parents, grandparents, education, people who looked after me, that whole mudhole, as it were, into which you fall headfirst. And then, the quality of the vibration, the quality of the sensation, of the so-called thoughts (which arent thoughts, but are almost automatic mental reflexes of sorts) and of the feelings (if you can call them feelings: they are kinds of reactions to the milieu and to all that comes from outside)it all swarms, swarms like worms in the mud.
When you see it all and you begin to say, But this isnt me! and you feel it isnt you: It isnt me! Nome is what looks on; me is what wills; me is what knows.
0 1963-12-07 - supramental ship, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The way to get faith and all things else is to insist on having them and refuse to flag or despair or give up until one has themit is the way by which everything has been got since this difficult earth began to have thinking and aspiring creatures upon it. It is to open always, always to The Light and turn ones back on the Darkness. It is to refuse the voices that say persistently, You cannot, you shall not, you are incapable, you are the puppet of a dream,for these are the enemy voices, they cut one off from the result that was coming, by their strident clamour and then triumphantly point to the barrenness of the result as a proof of their thesis. The difficulty of the endeavour is a known thing, but the difficult is not the impossibleit is the difficult that has always been accomplished and the conquest of difficulties makes up all that is valuable in the earths history. In the spiritual endeavour also it shall be so.
Sri Aurobindo
0 1964-01-29, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Doubt, discouragement, diminution or loss of faith, waning of the vital enthusiasm for the ideal, perplexity and a baffling of the hope for the future are the common features of the difficulty. In the world outside there are much worse symptoms such as the general increase of cynicism, a refusal to believe in anything at all, a decrease of honesty, an immense corruption, a preoccupation with food, money, comfort, pleasure, to the exclusion of higher things, and a general expectation of worse and worse things awaiting the world. All that, however acute, is a temporary phenomenon for which those who know anything about the workings of the world-energy and the workings of the Spirit were prepared. I myself foresaw that this worst would come, the darkness of night before the dawn; therefore I am not discouraged. I know what is preparing behind the darkness and can see and feel the first signs of its coming. Those who seek for the Divine have to stand firm and persist in their seeking; after a time, the darkness will fade and begin to disappear and The Light will come.
(XXVI.169-170, April 9, 1947)
0 1964-02-22, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have never seen such an intensity in the cells, in the consciousness of the cells you know, an almost desperate intensity: Weve had enough, enough of this Falsehood!the Truth, the Truth, the Truth. And then that Light bah-bah! They were conscious of The Light. Conscious of a dazzling light.
Look, its the kind of giddiness one has when one has drunk a bit too much thats it, the giddiness caused by alcohol.
0 1964-03-07, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For a very long time the body hasnt felt in the least separatenot in the least. There is even a sort of constant identification with the people around which at times is troublesome enough, but which I see as a means of action (of control and action). Ill give an example: on the 4th, the last time I saw you, the doctor left for America. He had his lunch here (I told you he was very moved); he was given a sort of little ceremony for his departure. He was sitting on the floor as usual, next to me (I was seated at the table, facing The Light), and they served him his lunch; he turned towards me to receive the things. He was in a state of intense emotion (nothing apparent at all; the appearance was very quiet, he didnt say or do anything extraordinary, but inwardly). At one point I looked at him to encourage him to eat, and our eyes met. Then there came into me from him such a violent emotion that I almost started sobbing, can you imagine! And its always there, in the lower abdomen (really in the abdomen), that this identification with the outside world takes place. There (gesture above the heart center), it dominates; the identification is here (gesture to the abdomen), but the Force dominates (Mother holds up her head); while here (the abdomen), it seems to be still its the lower vital, I mean the lower vital OF MATTER, the vital subdegree OF MATTER. Its on the way to transformation, this is where the work is being done materially. But all those emotions have rather unpleasant repercussions. Even, when I looked at it in detail, I came to think that there must be something analogous in you; you must be open to certain currents of force in the lower vital, and those kinds of spasms which you get must be the result. So then, the solution there is only one solution, because immediately I called, I put the Lords Presence there (gesture to the abdomen), and I saw it was extremely CONTAGIOUS. Because I had received the vibrations, they had entered straight in without meeting any obstacles; so the response had a considerable contagious power I saw it immediately: I stopped the doctors vibrations; it took me a few minutes, and everything was back in order again. Then I understood that this opening, this contagion was kept as a means of actionit isnt pleasant for the body (!), but its a means of action.
Its the same thing with that necessity of returning to the superficial consciousness. In the beginning, in the very beginning, when I identified myself with that pulsation of Love that creates the world, for many days I refused to resume entirely the ordinary, habitual consciousness (to which I was just referring: that sort of surface consciousness which is like bark), I no longer wanted it. Thats why I was outwardly so helpless; in other words, I refused to make any decisions (Mother laughs), the others had to decide and do things for me! Thats what convinced them that I was extremely ill!
--
Amidst all that that mass of experience there was, standing out from the rest, the impression of the gorilla, of the fantastic power of progress that would turn him into a man. It was very odd, it was an extraordinary physical power, with an intense joy of progress, of the thrust forward, and it made a kind of simian form moving forward towards man. And then it was like something repeating itself in the spiral of evolution: the same brute power, the same vital force (theres no comparison, of course, man has lost all that completely), the fantastic force of life thats found in those animals was coming back into the human consciousness and, probably, into the human form, BUT with all that has been brought by the evolution of Mind (a painful enough detour), and transformed into The Light of a higher certitude and a higher peace.
And, you know, it wasnt a thing that came, diminished and came back again, it wasnt like that. It was an immensity, a full, solid, ESTABLISHED immensity. Not something that comes and presents itself to you to tell you, This is how it will be, it wasnt thatit was HERE.
--
It was luminousluminous the whole time. That diamond-like sparkling turning into something much more compact, but less intense, that is, less brightfar more powerful. There was, above all, that sense of power: a power that can crush everything and rebuild everything. And in such an Ananda! But with nothing, absolutely nothing that had the slightest excitement, nothing of that bubbling which comes from the mind the mind was like this (gesture, both hands open towards the Eternal), peaceful, peaceful, quiet, absolutely quiet. And while the experience went on, I knew (because the consciousness above was watching it all), I knew that only when the flash the dazzlingly intense flash of the mental transformation through the supramental descentonly when The Light, the burst of Light, joins the ananda of Power will there occur things that will be a bit indisputable.
Because in an experience of this type, only the one who has it can be sure. The effects are visible in tiny details that can be observed only by those who are already well-disposed, that is (to translate), by those who have faiththose who have faith can see. And I know that because they tell me: they see examples of those tiny miracles of every minute (they arent miracles) multiply; theyre everywhere, all the time, all the timelittle facts, harmonies, realizations, concords all of which are quite unusual in this world of Disorder. But while the experience was there, I knew there would be another one, which is yet to come (God knows when!), and which would join with this one to form a third. And it is that junction that will then probably cause something to be changed in the appearances.
0 1964-03-28, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And The Light and warmth were expressed, that intensity of Ananda, that bliss You understand, it wasnt in opposition to but like a COMPLEMENT of this vibratory knowledge, which was I cant say a coldly scientific knowledge because that introduces mental notions, but it was of such a wisdom! A knowledge so wise, so calm, so imperturbably quiet, absolutely free from any notion of good and evil, of divine, of positive and negative, absolutely independent of all of thatpurely material. And with an absolute power. Then in these same cells, which were fully conscious of this knowledge of vibrations as being the supreme means of control for their harmony, suddenly there arose in them a sort of not a flame (a flame is dark in comparison), a luminous Ananda: Love in its perfect reality.
And it was translated like this: Its so much more marvelous when we know its You!
0 1964-05-17, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Of course, Nature is wonderful, the sea is so beautiful, the climate delightful, but ultimately, when I close my eyes and meditate, I feel something fuller and more solid than all the degrees centigrade on a pearly sea. In reality, I spend my days waiting for my hours of japa-meditation, it is the real open sea, the peace that refreshes. It is something, and if it is nothing, its a nothing that is worth everything. Yet there is no progress of consciousness, I dont see anything, least of all youyou tell me that you know the reason, I would really like to know what it is. I cannot understand why I am so blocked (my Western atavism?). I know The Light, I see the Space, I feel the Force, there is the absolute Truth that rules everything, pacifies everything, but inside there is nothing, not even the tip of your nosewhy? I dont see Mother either, its complete blackout. Inside, there is The Light, without a doubt, but why is it all black outside?No communication between the two. Do you make sense of it? Drat!
S.
0 1964-07-18, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The one safety for man lies in learning to live from within outward, not depending on institutions and machinery to perfect him, but out of his growing inner perfection availing to shape a more perfect form and frame of life; for by this inwardness we shall best be able both to see the truth of the high things which we now only speak with our lips and form into outward intellectual constructions, and to apply their truth sincerely to all our outward living. If we are to found the kingdom of God in humanity, we must first know God and see and live the diviner truth of our being in ourselves; otherwise how shall a new manipulation of the constructions of the reason and scientific systems of efficiency which have failed us in the past, avail to establish it? It is because there are plenty of signs that the old error continues and only a minority, leaders perhaps in light, but not yet in action, are striving to see more clearly, inwardly and truly, that we must expect as yet rather the last twilight which divides the dying from the unborn age than the real dawning. For a time, since the mind of man is not yet ready, the old spirit and method may yet be strong and seem for a short while to prosper; but the future lies with the men and nations who first see beyond both the glare and the dusk the gods of the morning and prepare themselves to be fit instruments of the Power that is pressing towards The Light of a greater ideal.
Sri Aurobindo
0 1964-07-28, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And when I received Els telegram saying it was proof that S. would be cured by a supramental intervention and not by surgery, in her telegram there was a lightE. is a very impassioned person, but suddenly I saw The Light of a revelation. So I thought, Thats why.
But (laughing) S. isnt too enthusiastic! He doesnt have faith, you see. He says he will be very glad to be worthy of this Grace, instead of saying, I have faith that the Grace will Its a polite way of saying (Mother laughs), I dont believe in it.
--
The left side. And the American doctor isnt quite happy about the extent of the cure. Which means, as always, that however things seem to be in the world, when they are brought into contact with The Light, that is to say, a concentration of Truth, they appear in their stark reality: all the ballyhoo about that operation and all the illusion gathered around that miraculous power of surgical cure, it all vanished into thin air. The American doctor himself, according to Dr. S.s letter, was shaken and lost trust in the absoluteness of his system. But from the first minute, you know, I saw that there wasnt even sixty percent of truth in it. There is an entire obscure field, which they deliberately ignore and which showed itself in broad daylight in order to make itself known. And for Dr. S., its the same thing: A doctor COULD NOT be deluded, and he didnt want to admit it. When I told him that one operation might not be enough, he almost got angry: Why do you say such things! (Mother laughs) He knew it as well as I did, but he didnt want to admit it.
He will have gone through a terrible experience.
0 1964-09-26, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You know this: the SAME words, the SAME sentences, spoken by someone who sees and knows and spoken by the ordinary ignorant person, change entirely in nature and power and in action. There is a way of saying things which is the true way, whatever words you speak. And that is the solution: its inside himself, in the depths of his being, that he must find that light The Light that knows what should be said and how it should be said. And then that feeling of responsibility and of complicity with falsehood is finished, it disappears completely. And necessarily, inevitably, absolutely, he will say the thing that should be said and as it should be said, in the way it should be said.
Oh, what a beautiful realization to achieve! A beautiful work can be done in that way. To be able to feel and SEE the thing to be said, and THATS what should be saidnot with the thought, This man is going to die, I shouldnt make him too unhappy, I should, all that is perfectly useless. Perfectly useless, and you put yourself in a kind of mental muddle; besides, it doesnt really help, it doesnt have the expected effect. While this inner vision to see why that being is ill and what that physical disorder expresses in the destiny of the soul of that man or this womanits magnificent, magnificent!
0 1964-10-07, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I quite understand: some people dont like the idea of a Divine because it immediately gets mixed up with all the European or Western conceptions (which are dreadful), and so it makes their lives a little bit more complicated but we dont need that! The something we need, the Perfection we need, The Light we need, the Love we need, the Truth we need, the supreme Perfection we need and thats all. The formulas the fewer the formulas, the better. A need, a need, a need that THE Thing alone can satisfy, nothing else, no half measure. That alone. And then, move on! Move on! Your path will be your path, it doesnt matter; any path, any path whatever, even the follies of todays American youth can be a path, it doesnt matter.
As Sri Aurobindo said, if you cant have Gods love (I am translating), well then, find a way to fight with God and have a wrestlers relationship with Him.1
0 1964-12-07, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But thats how it will be: first the salute, Salute to You, O Light. You understand, The Light is there, like this: it announces itself. And we salute it. Then the whole aspiration rises in conquest of this Light through successive ascents; that is, one sound rises, climbs, and establishes itself; then another climbs and establishes itself. And then, when we have come before The Light, it makes a sort of explosion, like a bomb exploding, an explosion of light. And afterwards, it falls back onto the worldwith sparkles.
And then, I would like at the end the great calm of the Truth.
--
You play the ascent in stages, accompanied by and finishing off with a gust of aspiration: a soaring, a great soaring. Then, we touch The Light, it makes an explosion. We touch the Truth, we touch The Light. That will have to be very beautiful. Then that Light falls back onto the world in a rain, and its joyous, light, very graceful (gesture like a waterfall). And then the world becomes blissful under the Truthvery calm and blissful.
What time is it?
0 1965-01-12, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The Lightning offensive of June 22, 1941.
Stalingrad, on February 2, 1943.
0 1965-02-24, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Those who wish to help The Light of Truth to prevail over the forces of darkness and falsehood, can do so by carefully observing the initiating impulses of their movements and actions, and discriminating between those that come from the Truth and those that come from the falsehood, in order to obey the first and to refuse or reject the others.
This power of discrimination is one of the first effects of the Advent of the Truths Light in the earths atmosphere.
--
But there is something interesting here. I have noticed this: if you try EVERY SECOND to discern the impulse of your action, how difficult it is! To discern whether it comes from the ego, whether it comes from darkness, whether it comes from The Light. And when you want to express as purely as possible what exclusively comes from the Supreme, you have to work at it every second and it is there was a time (not so long ago) when I used to consider it was materially practically impossiblenot in the main lines or in the great movements that come from the higher parts of the being, but in all that is purely material, absolutely material. And all of a sudden, at the beginning of this year, with this Salute to the advent of the Truth5 there came a sort of very sharp inner sense, very sharp, very precise, and so QUIET, So quiet, which gave the power to clearly see the origin of a material impulse or a material reaction, EVEN IN VERY SMALL THINGS. It was very interesting. So I studied carefully, and it has become almost automatic.
Previously it took an inner discomfort, a feeling of some friction to make me aware that it wasnt the true thing; but now it isnt like that: it is seen BEFOREHAND in the space of half a second.
--
And the brickbat that fell on the window here, I know why it hit its mark, I SAW (I saw everything from up above in exact detail), but there was all the same that sort of Peace which was there in that consciousness; that brickbat they kindly threw at my window (because we had left all The Lights on here), hit the mosquito netting (which isnt even a wire netting: its a plastic netting), bounced on it when it should have come through, fell on the roof above andmade a crack (we didnt know, we only heard the noise, but the following night there was heavy rain and it came through, so we found out). Well, normally, that stone that had enough force to break the roofs concrete should have come init couldnt. And it was unthinkableunthinkable that anything could happen, absolutely unthinkable, the idea simply didnt occur.
Italics indicate words spoken or written by Mother in English.
0 1965-03-10, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
To keep himself amused, because he cant bear the strength of The Light.
Yes.
0 1965-03-20, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Because it doesnt seem possible to me (though I dont know), it doesnt seem possible to me that the state of the earth is adequate to justify an integral transformation. As for Sri Aurobindo, he used to say that it would come in stages, that there would first be a sort of small formation, or a small creation that will receive The Light and be transformed, and thats what will work as a leaven for the general transformation.
There are all the Christian, Buddhist theories, Shankara, all those who declare that the world is an unreal Falsehood and that it must disappear and give place to a heaven (a new world and a heaven). And this is among the most aspiring elements of mankind, those who arent content with the world as it is, who dont say, Oh, as long as I am here and alive, things are fine; afterwards, I dont careenjoy the short life. Afterwards, well, its over, and thats that; let me make the most of the moment Ive been given. What a queer conception! Thats the other extreme.
--
I dont know, maybe for others it [the ecstasy] is allowed to last, but for this body After a while, all the problems from outside come back, that is to say, all the vibratory difficulties of the world are allowed to reach it again in order to be taken up and transformed in The Light of the Lord. And the whole problem crops up again.
You know, problems of illness, problems of possession (vital and mental possession), problems of egos that refuse to yield (and this results in circumstances which, humanly, are described in the ordinary way: such and such a thing has happened to so-and-so but thats not how it comes into the consciousness), well, if you look at things in a sufficiently general way, those problems REMAIN problems. There is indeed something, but a something that is still elusive (elusive in its essence): it has to do with feeling, with sensation, with perception, also with aspirationit has to do with all that, and it is what we habitually call divine Love (that is, essential Love, that which is expressed by Love and seems to be beyond the Manifestation and Nonmanifestation, which, naturally, becomes Love in the Manifestation). And That would be the ALL-POWERFUL expression. In other words, That is what would have the power to transform into divine consciousness and substance all the chaos we now call world.
0 1965-03-27, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The waterlily is the white flower opening up to The Light, above those large, floating leaves. Oh, how good it is to be carried.
When the nerves have really calmed down because one has eaten well, one can go into a blissful contemplationdont be occupied with anything, above all dont try to think: like this (gesture of floating, offered), invoking the Lord and his Harmonya luminous harmony and then lying like that at least half an hour, three quarters of an hour after the meal. Its very good, its excellent. Dont fall asleep: blissfulnothing, being nothing. Nothing but a blissful tranquillity. Thats the best remedy.
0 1965-06-02, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But its my eyes that I find the most interesting. For instance, I noticed this while washing early in the morning: I go into the bathroom before turning The Light on, because I turn it on from inside; but I see just as clearly as when The Light is on! It makes no difference. And then everything was as if behind a kind of veil. Then I turned my attention (or rather my attention was drawn) and I said to myself, But all this is becoming so lackluster, its completely uninteresting! And I started thinking (not thinking, but becoming aware of one thing or another), and suddenly, I saw that phenomenon of a bottle in the cupboard becoming so clear, so with an inner life (gesture as if the bottle lit up from inside). Oh! I said the next minute, it was over.
But I seemed to be told, Yes, you can. You no longer see this way, but you can see that way; you no longer see the ordinary way, but you can see (inward gesture). I have been left with enough vision to be able to move around freely, but this is clearly the preparation for a vision through the inner light rather than projected light. And it is oh, its warm, living, intense and of such precision! You see everything at the same time, not only the color and shape, but the character of the vibration: in a liquid, the character of its vibrationits marvelous. Only, it lasts a moment, its like promises that come and tell you (like when you make a promise to someone to comfort him and give him heart), It will be like this. Very well. (Mother laughs) In how many centuries, I dont know!
0 1965-06-05, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
People, in their blindness, leave The Light
(Mother takes over) which they are used to, in order to go to the darkness, which is new for them! That is for the children who have been brought up here and want to go and study in America or wherever. One of them went away to study true education in England! So that was a bit too much.
0 1965-06-12, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There are all kinds! Complications, lots of complications; there are all kinds of ill will, at least of people who go round in circles instead of going forward. And stupid inventions. The other night Because the head is always still, like this (gesture to the forehead, palms open to The Light from above); I give thanks to the Lord for that, and its always like that; so I dont decide whats to be done, I dont decide whats to be answerednothing: when it comes, it comes. And some people had played a really nasty trick ([laughing] I couldnt care less!) and I wasnt budging. And as it happens, in the middle of the night, a force comes, takes hold of me and tells me, Heres the answer, here is what you must say. I say, Very well (I was lying in bed, of course) and I dont budge. (Mother puts on a more imperative tone:) Here is what you must say.Oh, very well! And I still dont budge. (In a still more imperious tone:) Here is what you must say. (Mother laughs)
So I got up, went over there, and in the dark I wrote what I had to say!
0 1965-07-10, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But before you go to sleep, do this: you picture (picture it if you dont see it), you picture a white light. It isnt a crystalline light, mind you, it isnt transparent: its whiteabsolutely white, a very bright white, a white light that looks solid. Picture it like that (and it is indeed like that, but you picture it): a white light. It is The Light of the Creation, what is she called? Maheshwari? (Laughing) The supreme Lady up there.
Yes, Maheshwari.
--
But did I tell you the story of I. who was with Dilip? Before meeting Dilip, she had been with a guru, a sannyasin or whatever, and he was absolutely furious at her leaving him, so he cursed her. His curse gave her a sort of thrombosis (you know, when the blood stops flowing and coagulates), anyway it was here, in the neck, near the right arm, I think, and it was very painfulit was even dangerous. She told me about it. I in turn told Sri Aurobindo about it and Sri Aurobindo told me to protect her. I sent my light to the gentleman. That man, frightful things happened to him! He died of a horrible disease. I. went and saw him at that time, a little before he died, and the man (who was conscious) told her, Here is what your Mother has done with me. He had been conscious. Then I saw that my affair was perfectly objective, because I had never said a word about it to anyone, nothing. And above all, that light had gone through Sri Aurobindo. I quite simply did that, I put The Light, and the gentleman left for the curse to stop. And as he wasnt too pure, it resulted in a horrible disease.
Now, my children, good-bye.
0 1965-08-07, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
P.S. There may be a certain vanity in saying, Why Sri Aurobindo?Because this and that; that is still our mind trying to catch hold of things in order to put its explanations on them, as if nothing could be without its clarifications. Yet, the most potent events in our lives are those we do not explain, because their force goes on working in us without being frozen by ONE explanation there are many other levels of explanation, and there is a mute explanation that remains quietly in the depths, like an ever-calm water, as clear as a childs gaze. And there is still more vanity in saying that Sri Aurobindo is this but not tha the is this and that, and many other things, too; he is with the yes and the no, the for and the against, and with all that seeks without knowing, because everything seeks after Joy, through the yes and the no, through the darkness or The Light, slowly and over the tottering centuries or all at once in an all-seizing light. From age to age, that Light comes down on the earth to help it become sooner what it always was and seeks after in its troubled heart; and that Light is clothed in one word or another, it takes on a sweet or a terrible face, or a vast and powerful one like an all-embracing sea, but it is the same Light always, and the soul that opens itself in that ray secretly recognizes a Face it has loved many a time. From century to century it uncovers itself the same child with folded hands, gazing at the world with love.
August 12, 1965
0 1965-09-18, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Here is the exact text of the question: "If India, who held (till recently) the hope for humanity in The Light of her spiritual leaders, can get involved in such a war, who would lead the world?"
See Sri Aurobindo and Mother on India and Her Destiny, p. 13.
0 1965-10-20, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You must shake that up, mon petit! You must. In your being you have been and still are somewhere in full Light. I told you it was a sort of close collaboration between The Light which is in Sri Aurobindo and your capacity of expression. One has no right to forget that.
I dont forget that.
0 1965-11-23, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It is certainly a mistake to bring down The Light by forceto pull it down. The Supramental cannot be taken by storm. When the time is ready it will open of itself but first there is a great deal to be done and that must be done patiently and without haste.
Sri Aurobindo
0 1965-11-27, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
"It is certainly a mistake to bring down The Light by forceto pull it down. The Supramental cannot be taken by storm. When the time is ready it will open of itself but first there is a great deal to be done and that must be done patiently and without haste."
Sri Aurobindo
0 1965-12-04, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I am made to learn that all the time. You see, its a long time since that blissful contentment stopped existing (I never had it much, if it did exist at a given time, its a very long time since it stopped holding on), but I am taught to pass on to a higher stage in which one is sufficiently free from all external vibrations to be able to live in the true, harmonious Vibration. But for the body its difficult, because every time you eat, you absorb disorder; every time you breathe, you absorb disorderyou live in disorder. So its a work of clarification, organization, harmonization, and everything becomes very still, absolutely still: there (gesture to the forehead), absolute silence and light The Light of an unmoving light; and then, to make that come down here (the body). Very still Yet the blood is constantly moving along, isnt it? But I think it must be moving at a slower pace. Then its fine.
I think external science says its in sleep that toxins are burnt; well, thats the point: its the stillness that illuminates dark vibrations.
0 1965-12-10, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Well, mon petit, sit down a minute, stay still, call your friend and tell him, Here. Here is what I wanted to tell you, here is what I should have taught you, here. Now learn it from me (I mean, from you), from my consciousness. Now I am putting you in The Light; now I am putting you in the Knowledge; now learn all that you are capable of learning, and thats all. You will have done the best you could do.
Its because there is still in your external consciousness a doubt about the invisible reality; its nothing but that, and when that which we can see and touch goes away, its painful.
--
But I am telling you: what has affected you is that there was in this letter a very strong vital formation (which was influencing him too), a sort of (excuse my saying so, I dont want to harm your friendship or your memory), but its a sort of drama he was putting on for himselfbesides, all those who commit suicide are like that, WITHOUT ONE EXCEPTION. Its a drama that he was putting on for himself and living very powerfully in the vital, and the formation came on you along with the letter and thats what has troubled you. I know this, because my first reaction while reading the letter was a smile the smile I wear in the face of the dramas of the vital. I am absolutely sure of it, you could swear to me that its not so, it would make no difference. I am absolutely sure. He was the first I might say victim, if you like, the first victim of the drama, but then it came on you, it pounced on you along with the letter. A drama in the vital. And its a drama in the vital, all these things are dramas in the vital. Listen, just these last few days the days between the 5th and the 9th I always relive the minutes I lived in 1950, and I always see them in The Light of the knowledge I have acquired, and I SAW, I saw to what extent pain, sorrow, regret especially that regret of not having done what one should have done, which is another absurdity because one NECESSARILY did what one had to doone wasnt what one should have been and one must change, thats why one must change, but one did what one had to do because you cannot do anything but what the Lord makes you do, and He makes you do the thing which is at the same time the best possible for the whole and the best possible for your own progress. There. So all the regrets of I should have I shouldnt have are rubbish.
You understand, I am saying this with all the power of the knowledge lived in all the details. I KNOW this. And this is precisely the time of the year when I know it best, in the most living and concrete way, and the most powerful.
0 1965-12-31, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No, I assure you, you can believe me (Mother laughs), I have a little experience: its done. To put it poetically, Your head is in The Light. But your vital doesnt want this manifestation; your vital wanted a vital manifestation, as for instance when it was in the virgin forest, chopping trees down: it wanted to have the sense of the power of life. And that has been denied to it (for yogic AND material reasons, both extremes, because the body wasnt made for that, and because [laughing] the yoga has no time to waste with that), so Mister Vital is furious! It has been told, Calm down, be at peace, quite at peace, its all right, you too will have your joy, but once you are transformed. And it may be less pugnacious or rebellious or aggressive than before, but its dissatisfied, so its what gives you the feeling, But I have no sign that Im making headway! I have no sign that I am progressing. Quite the contrary! Quite the contrary, its more and more dull, more and more morose, more and more ordinary, that is to say, less and less consonant with my ideal, and my ideal
Thats not exactly the point. Yes, when its in one of its fits, its like that, but
0 1966-01-19, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And when I concentrate on someone while calling the Lord, then, generally, near the shoulder (gesture between the persons head and shoulder), there is a great golden light, like that, which sparkles and sparkles, shines and shines, very brightly, all the while. And when The Light goes, the concentration goes.
But just now, it was amusing, it was quite small like this, moving along with my pen. Now its finished, gone! (Mother laughs)
0 1966-01-26, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was about those big shrimps that are called jumbo prawns here: they are as big as crayfish. Someone (a disciple here), who died rather a long time ago, came and brought me prawns; that is to say, I met him in the rooms downstairs There are rooms that are reproduced somewhere, in a sort of subconscient, in fact the subconscient that has to be transformed, organized and so on, and there exists a sort of reproduction of the rooms downstairs [below Mothers room], but not exactly the same (yet with the same layout), and a certain category of activities takes place there. Thats where we were together once, I told you: you were trying to clarify peoples ideas (!) Its the same place. Its not physical here, its in the subconscient. So then, there was that tall fellow who watched over the Samadhi for a long time, Haradhan; he was there. And when he saw me arrive, he told me, I have brought something for you. And in a sort of dark-blue cloth, he had wrapped two big prawns, which he gave me! There were already cooked, ready to be eaten. The cloth wasnt very much to my liking! So I thought, How can I make them a little cleaner before eating them? (Laughing) You know, its a farcea farce to make you understand your stupidity. I began by removing the (what is it called?), its not skin Oh, here too the word hasnt come, but on a tangent came cuirass! (Laughing) Cuirass and cartilage! Anyway I removed that, and as soon as I had removed it, I said to myself, You fool! Now its even more exposed than before! I looked for a way, and I ran to a corner (in the place of Pavitras laboratory), found a water tap and put my prawn under the tap. Immediately someone told me (not someone, the inner voice told me [laughing]), Your water is even dirtier than the cloth! So the consciousness came along with The Light, and I was shown with such a clear vision the relativity of the measures we take, which are all preconceived ideas, based on no true knowledge. And finally he told me, Come on, eat, thats the best you can do! So I ate my prawn, and it was very good!
You know, we could write a farce. And scenes of such buffoonery!
0 1966-03-26, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yesterday evening, after I had written that message (I wrote it in the evening, not in comfort but that was the only time I had; The Light wasnt good, but anyway I did it), after I had written, I felt a strong pain here, in my temples. Ah, I said, now I know! Now and then, after having listened to lots of people and especially after having written lots of birthday cards, answers to letters there is a sort of strange heaviness in my temples (and Ive never had headaches in my life, thats not like me!), and I say to myself, Whats this new decrepitude?! Then I noticed it wasnt that: its my eyes. Its because I havent yet found the secret of how to use my eyes. As I said just before, at times I see with extraordinary precision: things seem to come towards me to show themselves its so clear that the minutest detail is perceived. Thats one extreme. The other extreme is what I have already told several times: a sort of veil. I know things, they are in my consciousness, but I see just clearly enough not to bump against them or knock them over; everything, everything seems to be behind a veil; only I know where things are, so I find them, or I dont bump against them or break them, but thats not because I see I see a picture behind a veil, as it were. Thats the other extreme. In between the two, there are all sorts of gradations. And I am convinced its to show me that my eyes are still capable of seeing accurately the instrument is still very good, but I dont know how to use it. I dont know how to use it, because previously I used it as everyone uses his eyes, his hands, his feet, out of a sort of habit, more or less consciously I was very proud of my consciousness! ([Laughing] We are always very proud!) Very proud to have such conscious hands; in the past, for instance, I would sometimes say, I want twelve sheets of paper, then I would stop bothering about itmy hand would go and take, and there were twelve of them. That had been happening for a long, a very long time, but it would happen AT CERTAIN TIMES: when I was in the required state, that is, when there wasnt the intrusion of an arbitrary will. So all this is a field of experiment and study in very small details, absolutely insignificant in themselves, but very instructive. And it goes on all the time, twenty-four hours a day, night and day (at night its on other planes), but all this takes place in the physical, a more or less subtle physical.
This morning, there was a very amusing story. I was rinsing my eyes and mouth; I do it before daybreak, that is, with electric light. And in my bathroom there is an emergency light. Its one of the latest inventions: its connected to the power and as long as there is power, The Light remains off and a battery inside gets charged; as soon as the power fails, The Light turns on and the battery is discharged to keep The Light on. Its very well made, they invented it for hospitals and other places where any power failure must be avoided: as soon as the power goes, The Light turns on instantaneously, and when the power returns, it goes off and gets recharged for the next time. They installed it for me in the bathroom. And this morning while I was washing my teeth, poff! The Light went off. I continued, naturally, since I had that emergency light. But then, I did a study. The Lights in C.s room (and everywhere) were on, it was only here, in this group of rooms. That was an odd phenomenon to begin with. Then I looked, and while I looked I noticed something I hadnt taken note of all these last few days: a will to disorganize all my personal life. And causing power failures is one of the known occult methods (I dont know how its done, in fact, but that man who wrote books and came here a very long time ago, Brunton, said it was one of the tricks known to those who practice occultism: a sudden failure of The Lights). There are lots of other such tricks designed to disorganize peoples lives with the idea of frightening them or announcing catastrophes to them (I have always found this very childish). But then, I saw that there was (I think I know where, here, it comes from) a will for disorganization, and I saw the path it followed (winding gesture as if Mother were going back to the source). It had begun last night, in the middle of the night: when I got up around midnight, I saw a will wanting to preoccupy me with thoughts of money! And it was insisting: the thought that everything was going wrong, and so on. I saw that in the middle of the night. I was busy with other things, but I saw that will: formations; and naturally I dealt with them as they deserved. But I saw that it went on, trying to disturb people, to make them uncomprehending, and then to turn the power off, all sorts of silly things. Its not the first time it has happenedits not always the same people because generally, when they have tried and got a good knock in return, they dont try a second time, theyve had enough! But there are others who think they are very clever and want to prove to me (laughing) that they are right and I am wrongbecause ultimately it always comes to that! So I spent half an hour this morning, before they restored the power and I resumed my usual activities, half an hour having huge fun following the thread (same winding gesture going back to the source) wherever there was mischief, and then I very kindly answered.
In reality, people who live in the ordinary consciousness know very, very little of what goes on physicallyvery little. They think they know, but all they know is a very superficial appearance, just like like a sheet of paper wrapping a package; there is the whole package underneath with all that it contains, but all they see is an appearance (gesture of something as thin as cigarette paper). And they are so used to it that they always give an explanation. I asked, How is it that just this power connection here gave way? (Lights were on everywhere, only the connection here, which supplies my room, was off.) I asked to see. They told me, Oh, we dont know, maybe the wire was old and it broke! (Mother laughs) I said, Very well.
0 1966-04-13, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is another thing, its that in the transition between the two consciousnesses, there is a moment when you feel you are quite stupidyou feel you cant think anymore, you cant do anything anymore, you have become useless, you have no contact with things. There is always a difficult transition then. Even now for the body, each part, when it changes (what I used to call the change of master), there is a transition when it becomes absolutely useless, you feel its finished. The first few times, you are worried; afterwards, you become used to it and keep still; then The Light suddenly shines.
***
0 1966-06-11, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And at the same time I also had the experience (an experience Ive had very, very often) that when you live in The Light, there is perfect comprehension, and it isnt something reflected or seen, thats not it, it is something that IS, that exists: a living Light. And as soon as you want to express it, it gets into the balloon, and then it becomes conventional (even without uttering words: just saying it to yourself). When you are like this (immobile gesture turned Upward), then its The Thing. And as soon as you try to formulate it to yourself, and, even more so, to write it, it seems to get into the balloon and it becomes conventional. To such a point that these days its very difficult for me, when I am active, to write anything, I find it so flat and dry and distorted.
But at night (laughing) as if by reaction, I dictate all kinds of things! But I dont remember what I write, its absolutely elsewhere.
0 1966-09-03, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ive had several hours of this very experience: how the body is automatically attached to its precise way of doing things, and how it must receive The Light in order to be ready for anything. It must be able to say spontaneously and sincerely, Your Will, Lord, nothing but Your Will. But it accepts this from no one else or nowhere else than the Lord. Otherwise, nothing doing.
To me its very interesting. Once again I note that I always experience what I am going to hear or to be read.
0 1966-09-07, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its a strange thing. The state of consciousness of the bodys cells is a sort of keen, constant thirst for what must be: the vibration of Harmony, of Consciousness, of Light, Beauty, Purity. It isnt even expressed in words, but its an aspiration, and nothing but that. Nothing but that, nothing else. And then, [in that silent aspiration] things come like that, from every side. And the rather peculiar thing is that there are also pains, discomforts, appearances of illnessand it all comes from outside. And with always the same answer (gesture of Descent): put the divine Consciousness put the divine Consciousness, on everything. The Consciousness that contains the Peace, The Light, the Force.
In that letter which he never sent, Satprem ingenuously tried to make the secretaries understand that these conversations with Mother might have import for the whole world, and that if Mother was an hour late for her conversations with Satprem and tired by a heap of trifles and petty personal matters, the atmosphere was not conducive for her to recapture the thread of her experience. But Satprem clearly saw the uselessness of stressing these obvious facts and saw that he would have quite simply been assumed to be indulging in "self-promotion." So be it. (This footnote was written in 1966.)
0 1966-09-14, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, but what would be the right way to go about it when you arent in The Light, without getting your opinion or ego mixed up in it?
I think its to consider all the aspects of the problem, to lay them before your consciousness in as disinterested a way as possible, and to see which is the best (if thats possible), or, if the consequences are unfortunate, which is the least bad.
0 1966-09-17, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And its not me! Me, where is the me? Its not this, in any case (Mother pinches the skin of her hand), poor thispoor this! It keeps on with its aspiration, and it has the sense all at once of its incapacity, its misery, its powerlessness to express what it should express, and its unworthiness to be an instrument of the Divine. At the same time, it has, first, a sort of increasing certitude of (how can I put it?) the magnanimity of the divine Presence, which is so marvelous in its effects in spite of the almost total imbecility of all this (Mother points to her own body); all this is really cast in, outwardly cast in stupidity, but with the ardor of such an intense and constant aspiration, with something touching in its humility and trust, and with the sense of its powerlessness and at the same time of this marvelous Presence there, ready and willing to actif It is allowed to. All that is translated as a sort of film review of all of the bodys difficulties, all its powerlessness, all its incapacities, all its darknesses, its all shown as if on a screen, in order to be dissolved. And then one is a spectator of the dissolution by The Light. Its fantastic.
And the feeling of hanging from such a slender thread, the thread not of faith, its not faith: its a certitude, but at the same time an aspiration, and it feelsit feels there is something so new, so young, in an absolutely rotten atmosphere of disbelief, stupidity, bad will. So thats how it is, a slender thread, and its a miracle if
0 1966-09-30, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But I can very well see it as a sort of luminous blossoming: The Light must have that force. And it doesnt destroy anything in the present structure.
But visible, that can be touched?
0 1966-10-12, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Even now, as soon as I remain quiet with you when you are here, there is always a sort of limitless immensity, with such a pure, tranquil light. And its white, but a white that might have some blue in it, but so pale that its white. Thon gave a name to this region (he had special names for all those regions), I dont remember, but above it, there were only the regions he called pathetism (quite a barbarous name), which were regions belonging to the unmanifested divine Love. I myself experienced the passage through all these regions, and this one [the region of white light in which the meditation took place] was the very last belonging to The Light I dont recall, he used to put together all the regions of light, and then, beyond them, the regions basically, they were regions of divine Love, but unmanifested, that is to say, not manifested as it is on earth. Those were the last regions before reaching the Supreme. And this one [in the meditation] was the last one belonging to the essence of light, that is, Knowledge. And it is oh, theres such peace, such tranquillity and such LIMPIDITY in itespecially that sense of limpidity and transparency. A tranquillity thats more than peace, but it isnt inert immobility, I dont know how to express it. It absolutely gives the sense of a vibration of extreme intensity, but ab-so-lute-ly tranquil, tranquil, luminous, without almost with a sense of motionlessness. And so limpid, so transparent!
Whenever I remain outside action like that and you are here, thats always what comes, always. Last time also, when I saw those two curves of your being the curve of the past and the curve of the future meeting on your birthdaywell, it was again in this light.
0 1966-10-26, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Because its an experience Ive had several times, and with all this work I am doing now, I understand better. You see, what seems to be perpetuated or preserved isnt individuals: its states of consciousness states of consciousness. Those states of consciousness manifest through many individuals and many different lives, and those states of consciousness are what progress towards a more and more luminous perfection. There are now, at present, all kinds of categories of states of consciousness that come one upon another in order to be put in contact with the Truth, The Light, the perfect Consciousness, and at the same time they have retained a sort of imprint (like a memory) of the moments when they manifested.
There is a big work of transformation of the material states of consciousness going on: the states of consciousness nearest to the Inconscient, the most material states of consciousness. They come like that [to present themselves to Mother], with one or two examples of their previous manifestation (perhaps even their first emergence from the Inconscient), and then I see the transition (along with what has transformed them, changed them or even simply altered them through successive manifestations), the transition up to the point when they are now presented before the supreme Consciousness for the final transformation. This is a perpetual work, so to speak, because, interestingly, its a work I can go on doing while seeing people. Generally my work was interrupted when I saw people, because I was busy with them and that diminished and limited the work: they represented a small aggregate of difficulties that enormously shrank the Action [of Mother]. But now its no longer like that. And the interesting point is that it places people in this or that curve of transformation of the consciousness. For some time I have been seeing a considerable number of people I had never seen before (with all the old or familiar people there was no difficulty, but with the new ones it generally caused a shrinking of the work), and now with this study of states of consciousness, people are placed: here, there, here (Mother draws different levels in space). And if they are receptive, they must go away [after seeing Mother] with a new impulse to transform themselves. Those who arent receptive just miss it; but they are no longer a disturbance: they come in and go out. And from that I know what state they are in I can even do it with photos, but when I see people its much more complete. Photos are no more than one moment of their being, while here, even what isnt being manifested is there, hidden behind, and can be seen, so I see the person more completely. Its very interesting. It transforms this whole burden of visitors into something interesting.
0 1966-10-29, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its going to be a good year. A very clear yearvery clear, very vastvast and clear. I dont know whats going to happen here. Circumstances appear to be increasingly difficult, but I must say that leaves me very calm. They are difficult. In the country, in the world, its difficult, things grate. But it seems to be a mere appearance: its the great pressure of The Lighta warm, golden, powerful, supramental lightand it goes on increasing and increasing and increasing.
Also, since the day I saw those two curves for you, they have been asserting themselves, establishing themselves, and the soaring towards the future is magnificentvery strong, very powerful, and at the same time very luminous (luminous, it has always been so: luminous, even crystalline on the intellectual level), but now it has great force. A great force.
0 1966-11-19, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Thats it: the power to free oneself from the past, not to drag that behind foreverto surge into The Light and stay there.
***
0 1966-12-17, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(1) To be able to receive and bear The Light of Truth, the mind must be streng thened, broadened and made supple. These studies are an excellent way to achieve this.
(2) Sciences, if you study them deeply enough, will teach you the unreality of appearances and will thus lead you to the spiritual reality.
0 1966-12-21, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Thats how it is. So then, once its objectified on paper, you can become aware of the relationship between the pressure you received and the things you wrote, which have varying qualities. When, for instance, you read me those few pages, with certain things I saw The Light behind; with others, it was like a horizontal origin or will (horizontal gesture at forehead level), and it was very pretty, very fine (you understand, I am not looking at it from the literary standpoint at all, or even the standpoint of the beauty of the form, thats not it). Its the quality of the vibration in whats written. And while you were reading to me, I felt the two origins, and I felt a sort of conflict between what came like this (gesture from above) and what came out of habit, like that (horizontal gesture to the forehead): it was especially an old habit, something that came from the past and belonged to a mental, artistic, literary region (all that likes the form, likes certain emotions, certain expressions, all that). And it all constituted a horizontal world that exerted a pressure to be expressed, mostly out of habit, but also with a sort of will to be, a will to last. The other way was a Light falling and expressing itself quite naturallyspontaneously, effortlessly, and UNCONCERNED WITH THE EXTERNAL FORM. And that was much more direct in its expression. But of course, the distinction isnt clear-cut, its not easy to say, Oh, this comes from here (gesture to a particular level), oh, that comes from there (gesture to another level). But there is a movement above and another below.
So I think the sadhana would consist in sifting it out, or rather in developing a sensitivity such that the difference would become clear, quite perceptible, so it would no longer be the mind that chose and said, This is all right, that isnt. There would be a spontaneous adherence to what is clothed in this light from above and a rejection of what isnt. The sadhana would consist in developing this sensitivity by separating yourself from the old movement, by taking the old movement outside you.
0 1966-12-31, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And then, when you see how man has had to fight against all of Nature in order to exist, you get the feeling that those who will understand and love those beings will have with them a relationship of devotion, attachment, service, as animals have with man; but those who wont love them will be dangerous beings. I remember, I once had a very clear vision of the precarious situation of those new beings, and I said (this was before 1956, before the descent of the supramental power), I said, The Supramental will first manifest in its aspect of Power, because that will be indispensable for the safety of the beings. And it was indeed Power that descended firstPower and Light. The Light that gives Knowledge and Power.
Thats something I feel more and more clearly: the necessity of intermediary phases. Its perfectly obvious that something is going on, but its not the something that was seen and foreseen and will be the ultimate outcome: whats going to take place is ONE of the stages, not the ultimate outcome.
0 1967-01-18, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The mind will be transformed quite naturally, effortlessly; its not the same as with this body. But for the moment, it cant be used. It can be used only through aspiration, like this (gesture open to the above), a constant aspiration the constancy of aspiration and receptivity to let the forces and The Light come through.
There. So well meet again on Saturday.
0 1967-02-25, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its beautiful, this Nature! I find it more beautiful than animals. From the point of view of consciousness, its obviously more limited; a plant doesnt have the consciousness an animal hasthey have this aspiration towards The Light, but the consciousness isnt precise. But from the point of view of material organization its incomparable. Take a tree like this one (the coconut tree under Mothers window), I see it all the time, this tree, its wonderful! And how it struggles, how it works, how it produces
From the point of view of beauty, I mean material harmony, the Mind has spoilt things a lot, quite a lot (at least thats my impression).
0 1967-03-15, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its the same with all the questions I am asked (I receive innumerable questions), its all like this (same gesture), everything is like this and one cant see anything. If one remains quiet The Light goes through, everything becomes limpid, transparent, and it becomes so natural, so simple! So simple, so obvious: there is ONE thing that can be done and its the true thing. All the rest (same gesture of seething).
Some people live in a constant whirl, and theyre quite surprised that everything goes wrong! They meet with complications, with And its always that (same gesture).
Of course, I am not talking about those who are tamasic and completely inert: they are like an inert mass, so The Light cant go throughit is the restlessness of others that goes through and stirs them up! No, I am talking about a Light (vast gesture) above things, untouched by them, which sees. And this Light is in a (how can I explain?) Everything, the entire universe moves forward rapidly at a fantastic pace and in perfect immobility. Words seem idiotic, but you can feel thisyou can feel it, see it, live it. A luminous immobility moving forward at a fantastic pace.
In that immobility there is perfect transparency and the problem does not exist: the solution precedes the problem. That is to say, things organize themselves (gesture showing the movement of universal forces) in such a way that they can change positions or take a different place in order to express the new thing that must be expressed: something new constantly enters the manifestation (as if emerging from the Un-manifest), it enters the manifestation and transforms. And it takes place automatically. A vast, immense Movement (Mother smiles with her eyes closed) in which one can participate only if one is per-fect-ly peaceful and calm and translucent.
0 1967-04-15, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then there is a sort of internal code of regulations. When there is a pain somewhere, something that goes awry, you should see the others attitude! A seriousness that first says (I have to translate, and it loses all its charm), but first it begins with, Dont you make such a fuss and to-do (or dont you all, it depends). Then, a pressure to surrender. And that action to make The Light circulate everywhere. I am interpreting; with interpretation, the mind always mixes in, unfortunately. The thing itself isnt thoughtit isnt thought, it doesnt watch itself be, its very spontaneous. Very spontaneous and thus very sincere. Its pretty.
Its like an immense society, you understand.
0 1967-04-24, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For after all it is the will in the being that gives to circumstances their value, and often an unexpected value; the hue of apparent actuality is a misleading indicator. If the will in a race or civilisation is towards death, if it clings to the lassitude of decay and the laissez-faire of the moribund or even in strength insists blindly upon the propensities that lead to destruction or if it cherishes only the powers of dead Time and puts away from it the powers of the future, if it prefers life that was to life that will be, nothing, not even abundant strength and resources and intelligence, not even many calls to live and constantly offered opportunities will save it from an inevitable disintegration or collapse. But if there comes to it a strong faith in itself and a robust will to live, if it is open to the things that shall come, willing to seize on the future and what it offers and strong to compel it where it seems adverse, it can draw from adversity and defeat a force of invincible victory and rise from apparent helplessness and decay in a mighty flame of renovation to The Light of a more splendid life. This is what Indian civilisation is now rearising to do as it has always done in the eternal strength of its spirit.1
Sri Aurobindo
0 1967-04-27, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I told you about that experience (which has been growing increasingly concrete and constant) of the Vibration of Harmony (a higher harmony expressing the essential Consciousness in its aspect of love and harmony and, as it draws nearer to the manifestation, of order and organization), and of the nearly constant and general vibration of disorder, disharmony, conflictin reality, Matters resistance to this Action. The two vibrations are like this (Mother slips the fingers of her right hand between those of the left), as if they interpenetrated each other and a simple movement of consciousness sent you to one side or the other, or rather, the aspiration, the will for realization, put you into contact with the Vibration of Harmony, and the SLIGHTEST slackening made you lapse into the other. It has become constant. And then, on the 24th, right from morning there was a constant aspiration, a constant will for the triumph of the Vibration of Harmony. Then I sat down at my table as I always do, about five or ten minutes before it began. And instantly, with a puissancea puissance capable of crushing an elephantthis Vibration of Harmony came down like that, massive to the point that the body lost the sense of its existence altogether: it became That, it was conscious of nothing but That. And the first quarter of an hour literally flashed by in a second. Then, there were three people in the room; one of the three, or maybe all three, felt a malaise (nothing surprising!), and that woke me up: I saw The Light (I burn a candle on my table) and I saw the time, but it wasnt me something saw. Then there was a sort of pacifying action on the place, and thengone again. And one second later, the call of the end!1
Its the first time that has happened to my body. It always used to remain conscious. Sri Aurobindo, too, told me the same thing, that he never, ever, had samadhi in his body. Neither did I: I always, always, always used to remain conscious. While that only the Force remained, there was nothing left but the Force at work: there was a concentration here, a concentration on the whole country, and a concentration on the whole earth. And all that was conscious, like that (vast gesture above the head), at work. But something massive, as powerful as an elephantenough to crush you.
0 1967-05-03, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I want to see The Light.
Yes, you want to see The Light. But you see it!
No, I dont!
--
Yes. My feeling (because Ive studied your problem a good deal I seem as if I couldnt care less, but thats not true! Ive studied your problem a great deal), my feeling is that in your higher mind, the faculty of expression is developedhighly developedso that as soon as The Light touches, it is transformed into ideas, words, concepts, like that. It DOESNT HAVE THE TIME to be visualized. Its not outwardly, but right up above that it is (how can I put it?) particularly and exceptionally active and expressive (something quite rare, because generally, in everyone, its nebulous up above). And because it has developed in that way (which is a higher condition), you are lacking the primary condition which is the vision, the shock of The Light.
So there is only one solution. To me, there is a solution: its the sudden contact with a HIGHER light in the Supermind. Sri Aurobindo said (thats obvious, its always like that) that there are several layers (its not quite like layers, but never mind), several layers of supramental light. The first (the one that has manifested), that one you immediately transformed into conceptions, ideas and words. That is, something a large number of intellectuals are praying and imploring to haveyou had it spontaneously, lets say. So the first contact, the dazzling contact of The Light, that you havent had. But when a HIGHER light comes, you will have it.
I am waiting for that moment.
I dont know if your mind is critical or if To make myself clear, I mean whether your critical mind OR your faith, which of the two is stronger I hope its the faith. So to the faith (not to the critical mind, I dont speak to it), to the faith I say that since the 23rd weve been working hard. And I have asked a great deal that you may, tomorrow, be put into contact with that higher light, that you may have the bedazzlement of the vision of The Light.
If you have faith, you will have it. If the critical mind is stronger, it will be slightly delayed, maybe.
--
You understand, I dont want to say anything that encourages the vanity of the ego, if there is any. But your contact with The Light is unusual; for you it has become something quite natural. But the truth is, its exceptional. So you see people who dont have this realization at all but who enjoy the contact with The Light, precisely because for them its something marvellous and new And so you are deprived (its Sri Aurobindo speaking to me), deprived of the pleasures they have. But you should know that its because you have been given a much higher realization. Only, with aspiration, with opening, with self-giving, can you contact something really new. And then you will have the shock of the new.
This is his answer.
0 1967-05-06, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But even so, I didnt see The Light!
You didnt see The Light.
I didnt have a sensation of touching
--
And the body is conscious enough to be convinced that it has no right to demand the change (I mean a certain change) in the Whole so as to enable its own change. Because, that it knows very well: Then what use am I? If I am like the others, I am useless I MUST have the capacity to emerge into The Light, whatever the people or difficulties around me. It knows that, its under no illusions. But still, there is a little friction.
(silence)
--
He even told me (I saw him), he even told me the vision that was at the origin of his cure. And it was really interesting. He said he saw it, as it were, almost with open eyes: everything was dark (it was in the night), the room was dark, he felt absolutely depressed, andit was a heart attackhad no more interest in anything, no more interest in life, and felt as if he was letting himself slip into death, just like that. Then, suddenly, he thought of me. Andhe says his eyes were open the whole room was dark, except for a sort of oval of light just in front of him. A quite dazzling oval of light, which remained. So he looked (he wasnt asleep), he looked to see what could be causing that light (he is sufficiently materialistic), but then, nothinghe realized there was nothing. Then he started watching that light, and he saw, rising from the bottom (he didnt know from where, couldnt see from where) like a flametwo small flamesof a very, very pale light, very bright. He found it interesting, and continued to watch. And all of a sudden, he saw in The Light the shape of what he calls I think its Mahasaraswati (I forget which, but I think its Mahasaraswati: perfection in work), that he saw there, staying there. And at the same time he felt in himself, oh, a great desire to serve, to work well, to consecrate his life to the divine work, all that. And the next morning, when the doctors came they said, Oh, everything is changed!
Interesting.
0 1967-06-21, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But it is The Lightless lamp!
When Pakistan and China attacked India [in 1965], I had a sort of very clear intuition that the conflict, if there is to be one, that is to decide the fate of civilization, can only be played out in India
0 1967-07-22, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have seen something. In its totality, it is luminous, but not radiant; its extremely peaceful, and as if golden, but not dazzling (I dont know how to explain), like a creamy and golden light. Very, very peaceful. But in it there were patches (as they say in English) of three VERY bright colours that were grouped together, as it were, and as though organized. There was a dazzling red, ruby red; a bluish white, almost like a pearl-grey, very luminous too; and (Mother tries to remember) Its gone, I dont remember if it was. Yes, it was green, but an emerald green that was also luminousluminous and transparent. They were like defined groups, but their positions were changing (Mother makes a rotating gesture, like The Lights in a kaleidoscope). They were almost like entities. And it was in your atmosphere. Like formations moving about and organizing themselves (same gesture), made up of those three colours.
The grey is the grey of spiritual light, spiritual aspiration; the red is the ruby red of the physical; and that emerald green 3
0 1967-07-29, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
During the experience I remembered what Sri Aurobindo had written: Men love suffering, therefore Christ still hangs on the cross in Jerusalem.1 And that was like (smiling) a sort of froth of thought quite on the surface, all the way up, bathed in The Light from above, and like the intellectual way of expressing what I was seeing (gesture from above downward), which came from above. From the point of view of light, it was a very interesting experience.
And seen from above, what was the story like?
0 1967-08-15, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But in any case the Divine Power is working always behind and one day, perhaps when one least expects it, the obstacle breaks, the clouds vanish and there is again The Light and the sunshine. The best thing in these cases is, if one can manage it, not to fret, not to despond, but to insist quietly and keep oneself open, spread to The Light and waiting in faith for it to come: that, I have found, shortens these ordeals.
Sri Aurobindo
0 1967-08-30, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So the result has been to see the immensity of the problem to be solved, of the path to be followed, and of the transformation to be worked out. When you look at it from the purely psychological standpoint, its relatively easy and swift, but when you come down to this (Mother touches her body), to the outer form and so-called matter, oh, its a whole world! Each lesson its as if you were given lessons, and its so interesting! Lessons with all the consequences and explanations. You spend one day or two days like that over a tiny little discovery. And you see that after that, after that day or those hours of work, there is a change in the body consciousness: The Light is there, its changedchanged, the reactions are not the same. But (Mother gestures to express a world of toil).
And the Presence the Presence becomes more and more intimate, more and more concrete, and at such times at times (Mother makes a gesture like a swelling) its so concrete as to be as if absolute. Then (gesture of being covered again) another state of consciousness comes and everything has to begin all over again.
0 1967-09-03, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And the next day she wrote me a letter. And when I read that letter I felt I had put my finger on the Falsehood, the Asura. The REAL Falsehood, you know, that is, the one that has caught hold of The Light and turned it into a falsehood.
Yes, exactly.
0 1967-09-13, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
She believes she is luminous, or enlightened. So I told her, Of course, if you are inside a box and there is light in the box, you have the fullness of The Light in a box!
(Mother laughs) Oh, thats good!
0 1967-09-16, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I am trying to keep her somewhat quiet, I dont like her to interfere too much in your life. Its an unnecessary strain. But if you do as Ive said, if you withdraw into The Light and remain like that, it will no longer tire you, or much less at any rate.
(long silence)
0 1967-09-20, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But now, its the body that has the Experience. In a certain state, the state which corresponds to That, the essential state, everything is harmonious, with a living, smiling, happy peace; then as soon as there is a nothing, you know, a mere trifle, simply the coming into the atmosphere of something conflictinga mere nothingits felt like something extremely acute and painful. But not in the way of the pain of Ignorance, its more like you could call it an uneasiness, but its not even that. Everyone has explained it in his own way: some have called it falling from the Truth into Falsehood, others falling from The Light into Darkness, others falling from Ananda into suffering, yet others Everyone has given his explanation, but its something else. As for me, I have no words for it, but the body feels it, feels it very acutely, and it sees that at the end of it, the consequence of it, is disintegration. And its whole effort is to strive to reestablish that inner harmony, that harmonic state in which everything becomes harmonious, everything and in their appearance things havent changed! Yet in one way they are marvellous, and in the other detestable.
The opposition between the two things is becoming more pronounced every minute: one moment everything is divine, the next moment everything is detestableyet its the same thing.
0 1967-09-30, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is something inexorablewhy? I dont understand. Because Christ came, on the contrary, to speak of brotherhood, goodness, charity, compassion. Yet this expression has something inexorableyes, there is no other word: thin-lipped and the mouth in a straight line like this (same blade-like gesture). It gives the appearance of a terrible nastiness, something inexorable (which found expression in the Inquisition, tortures and so on). Why is it there? But that German, for instance, The Light was there when he was a baby, the day after his birthhe didnt have an inexorable mouth at that time!
But the difficulty with all those people the Pope, this German, those Rosicruciansis that basically they only think in terms of a Church.
--
(Mother laughs) Oh, this is amusing! Yesterday or in the night, I forget when, I told you, but with great force (it was something very important!), I told you, At the end of the tunnel there is The Light, and dont arguedont argue: at the end of the tunnel THERE IS The Light. (Mother laughs) I wondered, Why do I tell him that!
Kalki: the last Avatar, who appears on a winged white horse and is armed with a sword. He will come "like a burning comet."
0 1967-10-11, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There was there (gesture between Mother and the disciple), like that, one of those kinds of lamp stands, like the ones they make with snakes, you know but it was high, this high (gesture about one metre fifty centimetres). It was in copper, with inlays, designs in it, and at the top was a ball that contained all The Lights, as if each snakes head was a lightit was magnificent! Really magnificent. And it was burning. There were Power flowers (red hibiscus) forming garlands around the base. And then, someone said, Isnt this more beautiful than material reality?
And that was the artistic constructionmental, artisticwhich was more beautiful than reality. Thats it, the guiding idea of the person in question. Thats it you see; Isnt this more beautiful than real nature? There.
0 1967-10-14, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All of a sudden, yesterday afternoon towards evening (around six, or a little before), there came a sort of atmosphere of (what should I call it?) a kind of discouraged pessimism in which everything had become lacklustre, grey, dissatisfied. When you see things from above, in a certain atmosphere of totality, each thing plays its part and collaborates in a general manifestation, but there, it was like something shut in itself, with no reason to be except that it was. It had neither aim, nor motive nor reason to be, neither was it a special circumstance or a particular event: it was a kind of self-enclosed formation, a state of being which was obviously morbid, but not violent, nothing violent. Yes, in which each and everything was without reason or aim, without any satisfactionnei ther oneself nor others, nor things. And I was DELIBERATELY shut in it, in order to feel it. The consciousness wondered, Why? What does it mean? Why is it like this? And at the same time (you know that yesterday was the day of Durgas Victory for those who worship Durga), so I asked myself, Why does she choose to shut me in this state just on the day of victory? What does it mean? What does it mean? It was indeed like a factual demonstration of the perfect uselessness of that way of being, which had no reason to be, which could be turned to anything, any time, without reason and without motive. It was like the symbol of disgruntled uselessness. But it went on. I looked and looked at it, trying to find the slightest clue to the cause of that state: what, when, who, how? And the curious thing is that its very, very foreign to my nature, because even when I was in real trouble, I never wasted my time being like that. And it went on, as things go on when I have to study them, understand them, and do what needs to be done. Then, at a certain point I said to myself, Oh, perhaps this is what Durga intends to conquer this year? And at the same time I remembered (like that, far away on the fringes of the consciousness), I remembered the time when Sri Aurobindo was there; every year, on the Victory day, I would tell him, Well, this is what Durga has done this year, and he would corroborate it. I would say, This is what Durga has conquered, this is what Durga Every year, over a long time. And so that memory was there, far away in The Light, as if to tell me, See, do you remember that? And I said to myself, Well, this may be what Durga wants to conquer? Then I thought, But whats to be conquered in this? Its silly! Its a silly state. (Lots of people are in that state, I know, but its absolutely silly, it has neither reason nor cause nor aim, its like something that comes in without one knowing how or why.) It went on for a good while (I dont remember exactly how long). Then, when I had seen clearly, understood clearly what it was, I asked Durga, Is this what you want to do? And it was suddenly as if a very strange thing, as if it evaporated before my eyes, pfft! It went like this (gesture of bursting), and then I tried and tried the memory of it and everything had completely vanished! In one second it had completely gone.
While it was there, it was yes, as if something without any truth in itself, something that didnt rest on any truth. A morose, dissatisfied, grumpy state, and it was grey, grey, grey, lacklustre, looking at everything from the angle of uselessness and stupidity. Then there was a sort of bursting: all of a sudden, poff! like that, and it was all over. And now its a sort of vague memory which I can hardly recapture, which no longer exists.
0 1967-10-21, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is a sort of passive knowledge (not that the body doesnt know how it is, it knows how it isits sloppiness), but when it knows and makes the effort, it is always, every time, expressed as lights, yes, like vibratory waves, and those of progress are the ones which have all the colours, that stippling of all the colours: a light made of a stippling of all the colours. Those are The Lights that choose the immediate little effort to reject the sloppiness. But they are not important events: its something going on each minute, for everything, all the time, all the time, all the time for everything.
It must be a phase. I dont know how long that phase will last, but it must be a phase because its obviously a transitional state. And then, when there is that inner aspiration, oh! I have seen the cells, Ive seen them saying like this, Oh, will there be a possibility to be You effortlessly? Then there comes such a marvellous Response! For a few seconds its (blissful gesture), then the old routine starts up again.
0 1967-10-25, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When you switch The Light on (I have a light in a tube, a fluorescent tube), they dont fade. When you put those flowers under The Light, they dont fade, I even saw some that were half closed that opened. They like that light. In the afternoon I put some in a bowl of water (when they are already nearly closed), I put one or two there, under The Lightand they open!
They have a sensitiveness unknown to us.
0 1967-10-28, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Even in the photo, The Light in the eyes can be seen.
Some people get frightened, others on the contrary are happyits an instantaneous sorting. And I know, I know what this look is: its the moment when there is no personal consciousness left, its completely gone. There isnt the sense of a person anymore: its the Force.
0 1967-11-22, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But anything higher than him man has been used to thinking of as divine beings; that is to say, bodiless beings, appearing in The Light, anyway all the gods in human conception but its not that at all!
(long silence)
--
And its the body that aspires, the body that says the mantra, the body that wants The Light, the body that wants the consciousness you yourself may be thinking of something else, Tom, Dick or Harry or a book or anything, it doesnt matter.
But now I understand, I understand very well! In the beginning I didnt understand, I thought I had been made supposedly very ill in order to stop the life I led downstairs3the life I now lead is far busier than the one I led downstairs, therefore I wondered why, whether it was a transitional phase. But now I understand: cut off I would keep fainting. What made the doctor declare that I was ill is that I couldnt take a step without fainting: if I wanted to walk from here to there, poff! I would faint on the way; I had to be held so that my body wouldnt fall down. So the doctors decision: to bed and no moving. But on my part, not for one minute did I lose consciousness! I would faint but remain conscious, I would see my body and know I had fainted; I didnt lose consciousness, the body didnt lose consciousness. So now I understand! The body was cut off from the vital and the mind and left to its own means; and then little by little, little by little
0 1968-01-12, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But you understand, when Y. supposedly had typhoid (which she never hadit was part of the high drama, it was the illness of transformation), she wanted to go to the Vellore hospital with M. So she wrote me a letter asking for everything to be arranged and for them to be in the same room. And in her letter she literally wrote, For me M. is God. So the poor chap, he finds it somewhat a heavy load! (Mother laughs) And he fell ill! Oh, its better to laugh. Ultimately, these things sink into ridicule. As for me, I simply do this (gesture of bringing The Light). Well see. I tell you, the first result is that this poor M. is ill: he had a pain in his back; his fever is over but hes left without a spine! And the funniest part is that when things go wrong, its to me that they write (laughing), me who belong to an outdated past! So he asked for my advice: should he do this, should he do that? I must confess I treated myself to the satisfaction of answering him (through Y.) that his illness was mostly psychological and I didnt see how the doctor could help him! Since then, silence.
But still, its sad for the kid.
0 1968-05-04, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And little by little, the whole consciousness of the cells emerges from that hold and is reborn in The Light.
It was very, very interesting.
0 1968-06-18, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When I go off like that, within, I always seem to to be shaping vibrations. And when that memory came, it was so clear, I said, But no! One just has to go like this (same gesture of the hand), and he will receive The Light and become intelligent. You understand, when I go within, its always to work on vibrations. And afterwards (the next day, or later in the day) Ill learn that something has happened to someone, he called me and asked me that. Its always a call. And its a response.
But as the mind is very still, I dont know in the mental form: its in a very very simple form, very objective (gesture of looking at a picture): all of a sudden came Christ running away because he was brought an idiotBut no! And there was the movement of turning vibrations (same gesture as before), receiving The Light, and he becomes intelligentlike that.
In fact, its with things of this sort that I spend my time. I dont note them down, because there would be too many of them to begin with.
Someone (most of the time I know who it is, but sometimes I dont) something has happened to him, something has got twisted; so one works on it, one sets it straight again, puts The Light, the good vibration back on it, and then later in the day, or the next day, Ill receive a line, I was in a lot of pain or I called you. Like that.
But free from the whole mental notation that doesnt exist: very still.
0 1968-09-04, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The Light is very clear, the shapes very precise.
(silence)
0 1968-09-11, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It strikes me as a kind of beacona beacon projecting The Lightand at the same time, a sort of receiving set that receives the vibrations. Its very, very accuratevery accurateas regards the quality of the vibrations of everything around it. Oh, its become far more accurate than before. A slight movement here, there, or there, or a waveall that is perceived very clearly, very clearly, with a consciousness which is highly receptive and at the same time without any reactions. There are no reactions, its like an extremely delicate (that is, sensitive) receiving set, but without any reaction. No reaction. Things come into a vast, immense, luminous movement.
The consciousness is constantly like this: something very vastvery vastVERY peaceful, very luminous, like that, and everything gets registered in it.
0 1968-10-30, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Here are The Light and the Divine Love which are always with you on the path, every outcome of which is only the starting point for a new stage.
Its precisely the experience Ive had these last few days (yesterday, I think), just before writing the card. We always set an end to things but there isnt any. There isnt any. The truth is, one rises like this (Mother draws a curve that reaches a point in space), but its in order to go like this (gesture of a new curve rising higher from that point on), and again like this for ever and ever.
--
Last time you asked me, Where do I stand? So when I wrote your card, I remembered your question. I thought I should write something for you about that. Then I evoked Sri Aurobindo in his portrait.1 I wrote, Here is The Light and the Divine Love which always accompany you
Which are always with you on the path
--
One feels The Light growing stronger, the Truth more living. In a sense, there are no more questions; thats for sure, there are no more questions. But what? One feels the consciousness isnt developing much.
(meditation)
0 1968-11-02, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its quite extraordinary. And this Msgr. Z will also be in it. P.L.s letter goes on: You may remember that I had been told about a promotion at the Vatican; that promotion, announced while I was in Pondicherry, gave rise to the basest intrigues, so that the nomination was stopped. And paradoxically, I have been given its duties without the title. They have decided to test me, and to do so for a period of at least four years. The struggle for power in this milieu is frightening. But I see all that from such a distance! I have the sensation that its all about someone else, not me, and that embarrasses those around me, for I do not react to injustice. (And what injustice!If they knew how indifferent I am to this little world.) There is the sad panorama. You will now realize why the Samadhis peace and sweetness are so dear to me and intimate to my soul. At times I feel like a feather blown here or there by the wind, and my whole effort is anchored in The Light Sweet Mother has put into my psyche. Right from the first moment of the day my tenderness rises towards her, and then I see that what I do is not important, but the MANNER is.
(long silence)
0 1969-01-04, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
On the 1st, something really strange took place. And I wasnt the only one to feel it, a few people felt it too. It began just after midnight, but I felt it at 2, and others at 4 in the morning. It was I told you a few words about it last time, but the surprising thing is that it didnt correspond to anything I expected (I didnt expect anything), or to any of the things I had felt. It was something very material, I mean it was very externalvery outward and luminous, with a golden light. It was very strong, powerful. But its character was a smiling benevolence, a peaceful joy, and a sort of blossoming in the joy and The Light. And it was like a happy new year, like a wish. I must say it took me by surprise.
It lasted I felt it for at least three hours. Afterwards, I stopped concerning myself with it, I dont know what happened. But I told you a few words about it, and I spoke to two or three others: they had all felt it. Which means it was VERY material. They had all felt a sort of joy like that, but an amiable, powerful joy, and oh, so sweet, very smiling, VERY BENEVOLENT something I dont know what it is. I dont know what it is, but its a kind of benevolence; so it was something very close to the human. And so concrete! So concrete. As if it had a taste, so concrete was it. Afterwards, I didnt concern myself with it anymore, except that I told two or three people about it: they had all felt it. Now, I dont know whether it has mingled or It hasnt gone, it doesnt give the feeling of something that comes only to go away.
0 1969-04-16, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
One must be able to stand in The Light of the Supreme Consciousness without casting a shadow.
(Satprem:) Without casting a shadow, yes.
--
Its very interesting (Mother points to her note): there was the experience of the Consciousness, The Light of the Consciousness.
Very well, here (Mother gives Franois B. a blessings packet), its to keep in your pocket, always. Its a good means of communication, in the sense that if you hold this and concentrate, I KNOWand I answer. There.
--
One day, I received someone here (it was R., in fact), and the body asked this Consciousness, like that, it asked, How, how to make sure there is no mixture of all the lower movements with this light? Then (I was sitting here), there came down a sort of column wide like this (gesture of about five feet), here (gesture in front of Mother), like a column of light. But it came down IN THE ROOM, mon petit! It wasnt elsewhere it was here. To such a point that I saw it with my own eyes. A light indefinable, dazzling, but I dont know, so tranquil! I cant say, I dont know how to explain so steady, so tranquil. Dazzling. And without any vibrations. And its color indefinable, in the sense that it was neither white nor golden nor It was as if EVERYTHING were there. It cant be described. Wonderful. Then this Consciousness took my consciousness and went like this (gesture in a circle starting from Mother on her left, going through the column of light, then returning to Mother on her right). I felt it [the column of light, when Mothers consciousness went through it]. I felt it, but I didnt see anything [i.e., no shadow]. I didnt see anything, I only saw a slight movement, but It was like a slight movement, but it was the same light.2 Then it went through the column, and came back [into Mother]. And then it took R.s consciousness (same gesture in a circle starting from R., taking her consciousness through the column, and coming back to R.), it went through, and there was an outline [while crossing through the column of light], an outline, and in the place of the head, it was blue, it had become blue [i.e., a shadow in The Light]. That was R.s effect: an outline. Then it said something to me (wordlessly, but it was instantly translated into words, in English):
When you stand in The Light of the Supreme Consciousness you must not make a shadow.
And with that experience, it was so real and intense! It said, Thats the condition the condition. Then, half an hour later, it said it to me in French; it was translated into French.
--
One must be able to stand in The Light of the Supreme Consciousness without casting a shadow.
Words if one hasnt had the experience, words are They dont have what the experience gave that power. It was so intense, you know! Since then, the body has been constantly thinking of that: Dont cast a shadow, dont cast a shadow. And the transformation of the bodys consciousness is taking place at a tremendous speed.
--
No: it [the column of light] was in front of me, like that, between me and R. In front of me, like a layer. Between me and the window. And then, my consciousness was as if seized and taken through it (same gesture). I looked and didnt see anything [i.e. any shadow or trace], but I felt. I felt: there was a slight quiver [while going through]. Then, to give a demonstration, it took R.s consciousness inside the column, and there was an outline of the head: the outline was seen, just an outline; overall it had become somewhat gray, but not dark at all. And at the place of the head, it was more blue; it was blue, opaque: the head, the shape of a head, like thatan outline. So I wholly understood what it meant: When you stand in The Light of the Supreme Consciousness, you must not make a shadow.
It was an experience given TO THE BODYL tell you, my eyes were open. I felt the consciousness (same gesture in a circle). It cant be described, cant be expressed.
0 1969-04-26, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There have been queer things and I thought it may again have been the result of what theyre doing there. I was looking, like that (in fact, trying to put The Light and Peace everywhere), when this new Consciousness said something to me (Mother looks for a note). It didnt say, it showed me. It showed me the vibrations of those who want to cause harm (you know how it is there), vibrations, formations, and it showed me that when it is around someone, around a person, those vibrations come and are violently thrown back on the person who sent them. And it also showed me how, when they go back, they take just the form that can affect the person!
It was seen, like that. Afterwards, it made me write (Mother points to her note). I first wrote it without the first line:
0 1969-05-31, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, yes. But both are there. Its true. A CONFUSIONits a confusiona dark confusion, yes. A dark confusion, but thats what Sri Aurobindo always said: the confusion becomes much more intense and dark just when The Light is to come. Thats correct. It looks like a dark chaos. And especially in this country terrible, oh, unbelievable things. Its because serious people said them to me (they arent newspaper gossip) that I am obliged to believe them. There are really dreadful things going on in the government and in the organizationdreadful. Unbelievable. And the Chinese
But Mother, do you know in the West, the influential books (not only influential, theyre read and devoured by all the young) are those of Mao Tse-tung?
--
Oh, what youre telling me is very interesting, because yesterday (these last few days, these last three days), faced with the horror of the perception of things, this body (which is quite the opposite of sentimental, its never, never been sentimental) started weeping. It didnt weep materially, but it was And with an inner intensity, it said, Oh, why does this world exist? Like that, it was so awful, sad, miserable so miserable and so horrible, you know, oh! But it instantly gets the Responsenot a response with words, its simply like an immensity opening in The Light. Then, theres nothing more to say.
But how can That, that immensity, become this? I dont know. The question is, How did That become this? Thats how it came: How could That, the Wonder, become thisthis hideous, monstrous thing?
0 1969-08-02, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ive received a line from P.L. He is arriving on the 8th. He just writes this: The distress of these last few weeks is slowly turning into strength and calm. I confess that I suffered a good deal from my failure regarding the Vatican, but after what you conveyed to me from Mother, everything is growing clearer Yes, I had told him that it wasnt at all a question of outer triumph or failure, that the simple fact of his PRESENCE there acted as a kind of relay enabling The Light to enter there the very fact of his being there. Thats what I had told him.
As for me, Ill add something. You understand, they made an attempt to unify all of Christendom, and the Pope went to Geneva to unite with the Protestantswhich wouldnt have been so good. Thats not the thing needed, because it would have streng thened Christianitydivision takes away some of its power. Its the unification of ALL religions thats needed, not the unification of Christianity they havent reached that point. So after looking a good deal, I saw it was, on the contrary, a divine grace that it didnt work out.
0 1969-08-06, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And at the end, he says this, which he said many times but which I understand differently: His [mental mans] full liberation and enlightenment will come when he crosses the line into The Light of a new superconscient existence. And then he says:
But in itself this would change nothing in the creation here, the evasion of a liberated soul from the world makes to that world no difference. But this crossing of the line if turned not only to an ascending but to a descending purpose would mean the transformation of the line from what it now is, a lid, a barrier, into a passage for the higher powers of consciousness of the Being now above it.
0 1969-08-20, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You think its that? I dont know; when he said that, I felt it was one of the lower centers that was touched by The Light.
(Mother shakes her head) And did that pain stay long?
--
Because its well known that in a general way, when The Light touches the lower centers, sometimes it provokes this violent sensation.
Yes But it didnt hurt him; I mean he felt in pain, but it didnt hurt him.
0 1969-08-27, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(This note is about a person physically close to Sri Aurobindo, who tried to destroy Mother and separate her from Sri Aurobindo. In fact, it is clear and understandable that the darkest shadow is right under The Light, and that he or she who comes to do the divine work must take on himself or herself the whole burden of the Opposer. Thus is it near Sri Aurobindo and Mother that the greatest adversaries will be found. That also explains Mothers departure and the ensuing murky situation in Auroville and in the Ashram. For obvious reasons we will not publish Mothers note or the long conversation that followed in its integrality, but only a few brief extracts, insofar as they illustrate the problem, or perhaps the mystery, of Sri Aurobindos and Mothers departures, for they have one and the same reason.)
Naturally, this mustnt be published, but its to be kept.
0 1969-09-13, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
After that, he had a vision, and he imagines its me he saw, but I dont think so at all. It was on the seashore, a rather desolate and rocky landscape, and there was a sort of cave, a huge cave opening on the shore. From that huge cave there came out monks: a crowd of dark monks wearing cowls and black robes, who came out of that cave in a desolate and windswept landscapeit was dark, sinister. He saw that and felt like running away. And just when he felt like running away, he saw in the crowd someone who was me, dressed like a priest, the only one in the crowd with a luminous face, and I told him: You see, one must stay here to bring The Light into here. I said to him, As for me, I would stay on until I became a bishop.
It cant be you.
Of course not! But anyway, since I am somehow the ideal representation of his quest, he must have projected me into that. And I supposedly told him, See, one must stay here to cast The Light on this religious crowd.
I dont think the time has come.
--
Yes, but deep down he keeps that desire of doing something for Christianityof bringing The Light in there.
Then he must stay on! Its obvious: if he still has that idea of doing something for Christianity, he must stay onwhat will happen will happen!
0 1969-10-25, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You understand, he didnt see The Light here. He remained shut in his realization.
Exactly! Thats in fact why I would have liked to see him BEFORE he meets you.
0 1969-11-12, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But I cant see what has the power to dissolve that, because in the waking consciousness one is more or less I wont say luminous, but anyway, striving towards The Light; then you close your eyes and fall asleepthree minutes later youre being chased and fighting against things. Why is it like that? What can dissolve that?
Oh, is it like that?
0 1969-12-13, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Theres a practical problem there: one can see that one would like to do away with certain movements because one realizes theres a flaw, but one doesnt know how to do it. Should it be done from above? One puts The Light on it every time such a movement comes, and then
It depends on the kind of movement, mon petit, in which part of the being and the kind of movement.
--
So Id like to know whats the key to the cure WITHOUT REPRESSION. Because usually, as a matter of fact, one puts The Light, and the wrong movement sinks below.
Ah, yes, thats the general rule. Whats needed is the opposite! Instead of repelling it, to offer it. Its to put the thing, the movement itself, to CAST it into The Light . Generally, it squirms and refuses! But (laughing) its the only way. Thats why this Consciousness is so precious . You understand, what caused the repression is the idea of good and evila sort of contempt or shame at whats regarded as evil and so one goes like this (gesture of repelling), one doesnt want to see it, doesnt want to let it be. Whats needed The first thing the first thing to be realized is that the infirmity of our consciousness is what creates this division, and that there is a Consciousness (I am sure of it now), there is a Consciousness in which that doesnt exist, in which what we call evil is as necessary as what we call good, and if we could cast our sensationor our activity or perceptioncast it into this Light, thats what cures.2 Instead of repressing or repelling it as something one wants to destroy (it cant be destroyed!), one must cast it into The Light. I had in fact several days of an experience which for that reason was very interesting; instead of trying to drive far away from yourself certain things (which you dont accept or which cause a disequilibrium in the being), instead of that, accept them, take them as a part of yourself, and (Mother opens her hands) offer themthey dont want to be offered, but theres a way to compel them. A way to compel them: the resistance is lessened to the extent that we can lessen in us the sense of disapproval. If we can replace that sense of disapproval with a higher understanding, then we can do it. Its much easier.
I had a whole baggage which remained like that, of things I did when I was young; it remained like that (gesture on the side), and in fact, after that supramental experience, I was able to gather all of it, and all of a sudden, it got entirely clarified, I understood everything, and it evaporated. Things I had been dragging along for a very long time I didnt want to know, you understand, didnt want to have anything to do with them anymore and then it was all over. It melted, it was clarified like Well, it was in its place.
0 1969-12-31, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
R.s idea is an island at the center, with water around, running water which will be used for the whole water supply of the city; and when it has flowed through the city, it will be sent to a plant, and from there to irrigate all the cultivated lands around. So this center is like an islet, and at this center, there is what we first called the Matrimandirwhich I always see as a very large hall, absolutely bare, you understand, and getting a light from above: it should be so arranged that The Light from above gets concentrated on a spot where there would be what we want to put as the center of the city We first thought of Sri Aurobindos symbol, but we can put anything we like. Like that, with a ray of light constantly striking from aboverevolving and revolving to follow the sun, you understand. If its done well, it would be very good. And then, below, people would be able to sit and meditate, or just rest, but there would be NOTHINGnothing except something comfortable below so they can sit without getting tired, probably with pillars acting at the same time as backrests. Something like that. Thats what I always SEE. A hall with a ceiling high enough to allow sunlight to come in as a RAY, depending on the time of the day, and fall on that center which will be there.
If that is done, it will be very good.
--
Yes. And thats what is needed: something, a symbolwell find whats needed, well seelike an altar, obviously, but what? A symbol which would directly receive The Light from above, and laterally at the same time.
And no other windows, you understand. All the rest in a sort of half-light, and then this light like That would be fine, it can be very fine. Id like someone who could feel that. I dont know at all whether R. is capable of feeling that, but Paolo is.
0 1970-01-03, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So, depending on the hour of the day (the hour of the day and the month of the year), the sun will go round. Then, at night, as soon as sunlight has vanished, well switch on spotlights which will have the same effect and the same color. Night and day The Light will remain there. But no windows or lamps or things of the sortnothing. Ventilation through air conditioners (theyre set inside the walls, thats very easy).
And SILENCE. No talking inside!
--
Aphorism 261: "Perceive always and act in The Light of thy increasing perceptions, but not those of the reasoning brain only. God speaks to the heart when the brain cannot understand him."
***
0 1970-01-10, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You see, R. asked me, And then, what are we going to do afterwards? I said, Well, well think about it afterwards!Thats the trouble, they dont know they dont know that one must NOT THINK. As for me, I wasnt thinking about it at all, not at allone day, I saw it like that, as I see you. Even now, its still so living that I only have to look and I see it. And what I saw was the Center and The Light falling on it, and then, QUITE NATURALLY, while observing, I remarked, I said, So thats how it is. But it wasnt thought, I didnt think, Twelve columns and twelve facets and I didnt think any of that: I saw.
Its like those symbols of Sri Aurobindo. When I speak of the Center, I still see those four symbols of Sri Aurobindo joined at their angles, like this, and that color strange color I dont know where well be able to find that. Its an orange gold, very warm. And its the only color in the place: all the rest is white.
0 1970-03-18, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No external measure can enable us to react against the harm caused by mental faith in the necessity of drugs. It is only by emerging from the minds prison and consciously soaring into The Light of the spirit that, through a conscious union with the Divine, we will be able to let Him give us back the balance and health which we have lost.
Supramental transformation is the only true remedy.
0 1970-04-18, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Sujata:) In my dream? I had a long dream, and towards the end, I met her. I had to go through a place, and I told her, I must go to The Light, to the Mother of Light.
(Satprem:) And then?
0 1970-07-04, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The conception of the Divine as an external omnipotent Power who has created the world and governs it like an absolute and arbitrary monarch the Christian or Semitic conceptionhas never been mine; it contradicts too much my seeing and experience during thirty years of sadhana. It is against this conception that the atheistic objection is aimed,for atheism in Europe has been a shallow and rather childish reaction against a shallow and childish exoteric religionism and its popular inadequate and crudely dogmatic notions. But when I speak of the Divine Will, I mean something different,something that has descended here into an evolutionary world of Ignorance, standing at the back of things, pressing on the Darkness with its Light, leading things presently towards the best possible in the conditions of a world of Ignorance and leading it eventually towards a descent of a greater power of the Divine, which will be not an omnipotence held back and conditioned by the law of the world as it is, but in full action and therefore bringing the reign of light, peace, harmony, joy, love, beauty and Ananda, for these are the Divine Nature. The Divine Grace is there ready to act at every moment, but it manifests as one grows out of the Law of Ignorance into the Law of Light, and it is meant, not as an arbitrary caprice, however miraculous often its intervention, but as a help in that growth and a Light that leads and eventually delivers. If we take the facts of the world as they are and the facts of spiritual experience as a whole, neither of which can be denied or neglected, then I do not see what other Divine there can be. This Divine may lead us often through darkness, because the darkness is there in us and around us, but it is to The Light he is leading and not to anything else.
Letters on Yoga, 22.174
0 1970-09-23, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When you stand in The Light of the Supreme
Consciousness you must not make a shadow.
0 1970-10-07, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
To persevere in turning towards The Light is what is most demanded. The Light is nearer to us than we think
This is interesting!
--
What he called The Light is the Consciousness that came in (Mother tries to remember), it came in 1969.
Oh, the New Consciousness.
--
(Mother repeats) The Light is closer to us
The other one could make a message for February?
0 1970-10-21, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes! He says his whole life has showed him that my book is a falsehood, because he has realized nothing of what I wrote, and its all false, a falsehood. So in every letter he would return to, Yes, you say that in Pondicherry, where you are in The Light and peace, but as for us over here Your book is a falsehood!
Then whatever is he coming here for?!
0 1971-04-07, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its obvious that India is the symbol of the New World in formation, so India must be one, symbolically, in order for the New World to see The Light of day.
Yes.
0 1971-04-14, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its as if as if you went up, as if you threw away an old coat and rose straight up into The Light Ive seen it. I have seen it.
(silence, Mother is still clasping Satprems hands)
0 1971-05-25, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Deep within. To feel The Light, the Force, the Joy, the Certainty the Certainty. The Divine Victory is certain. It cannot be otherwise.
He must let the Divine enfold him completely.
0 1971-06-12, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It is not however a fact that the whole nature has to be emptied of the old things before there can be The Light and Grace. It is done usually in different parts of the nature at different times. You had your former experiences because the mind and higher vital were sufficiently emptied and quiet to receive some experiences of a new consciousness. Now it is the physical mind, physical vital and body that have to be emptied these always take longer than the others because the physical is more full of old habits, more slow to receive anything new or to change. But by the detachment and steady rejection and reliance on the Mothers force, this obstinacy can be overcome and the cup emptied for filling with the Divine Light.
January 15, 1937
0 1971-06-23, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, make me a list. Ill see if The Light shines on one of them.
I see. I see. They gave it to some old fellow to read, you see I dont mean old in age, I mean old in intelligence.
0 1971-09-01, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It has remained clear-clear, so clear: I see you sitting there, like that, with your back to The Light (the sky was behind you). And I dont know why, but that struck me very much, Ive retained the memory of it. Even now I can see the same image. Its strange. We had come to see those people (that really didnt interest me, but), but then, when I saw you: Ah! It was like you know, like something saying to me (Mother lowers her index finger): That one. You understand?
And it has remained with me ever since. There are so many, so many things Ive completely forgotten, but that remains. You dont remember?
0 1971-12-11, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But if this new consciousness is not to be found on the peaks of the human, where then, are we to find it? Perhaps, quite simply in that which we have most neglected since we entered the mental cycle, in the body. The body is our base, our evolutionary foundation, the old stock to which we always return, and which painfully compels our attention by making us suffer, age and die. In that imperfection, Sri Aurobindo assures us, is the urge towards a higher and more many-sided perfection. It contains the last finite which yet yearns to the Supreme Infinite. God is pent in the mire but the very fact imposes a necessity to break through that prison.8 That is the old, uncured Illness, the unchanged root, the dark matrix of our misery, hardly different now from what it was in the time of Lemuria. It is this physical substance which we must transform, otherwise it will topple, one after another, all the human or superhuman devices we try to graft on it. This body, this physical cellular substance contains almighty powers,9 a dumb consciousness that harbors all The Lights and all the infinitudes, just as much as the mental and spiritual immensities do. For, in truth, all is Divine and unless the Lord of all the universe resides in a single little cell he resides nowhere. It is this original, dark cellular Prison which we must break open; for as long as we have not broken it, we will continue to turn vainly in the golden or iron circles of our mental prison. These laws of Nature, says Sri Aurobindo, that you call absolute merely mean an equilibrium established to work in order to produce certain results. But, if you change the consciousness, then the groove also is bound to change.10
Such is the new adventure to which Sri Aurobindo invites us, an adventure into mans unknown. Whether we like it or not, the whole earth is moving into a new groove, but why shouldnt we like it? Why shouldnt we collaborate in this great, unprecedented adventure? Why shouldnt we collaborate in our own evolution, instead of repeating endlessly the same old story, instead of chasing hallucinatory paradises which will never quench our thirst or otherworldly paradises which leave the earth to rot along with our bodies? Why be born if it is to get out at the end? exclaims the Mother, who continues Sri Aurobindos work. What is the use of having struggled so much, suffered so much, of having created something which, in its outer appearance at least, is so tragic and dramatic, if it is only to learn how to get out of itit would have been better not to start at all. Evolution is not a tortuous course that brings us back, somewhat battered, to the starting point. Quite the contrary, it is meant, says Mother, to teach the whole of creation the joy of being, the beauty of being, the grandeur of being, the majesty of a sublime life, and the perpetual development, perpetually progressive, of this joy, this beauty, this grandeur. Then everything has a meaning.11
0 1971-12-25, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Good morning! Its the festival of Light: Christmas is the festival of the return of The Lightits much older than Christianity!when the days were beginning to grow longer (Mother laughs).
And next Saturday is the first of January. Ill see you.
0 1972-01-01, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
A special help has come onto the earth for Sri Aurobindos centenary year; let us take advantage of it to overcome the ego and emerge into The Light.
Happy New Year.
0 1972-01-19, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It may interest the reader to know that according to Sri Aurobindo, these colours generally have the following significances, though the exact meaning may vary "with the field, the combinations, the character and shades of the colour, the play of forces": red = physical; orange = supramental in the physical; yellow = thinking mind; green = life; blue = higher mind; violet = divine compassion or grace; gold = divine Truth; white = The Light of the Mother, or the Divine Consciousness. (See also Agenda IV, May 18, 1963.)
March 30, 1935. (Question:) Sri Aurobindo is bound to be wholly supramental and is being supramentalised in parts. If that is true and it iswell, he can't die till he is supramental and once he is so he is immortal. (Answer:) "It looks very much like a non-sequitur. The first part and the last are all right but the link is fragile. How do you know I won't take a fancy to die in between as a joke?" (Question:) Some people say that yourself and the Mother would have been supramentalised long ago if only we had not kept you down. Is it really true? (Answer:) "I can't say there is no truth in it."
0 1972-04-05, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
That was the end. The atmosphere had become so rotten that, obviously, it could not last much longerMo ther was suffocating there. I later discovered in my own body and from direct experience that all bad thoughts are agonizing to the body, they create a sort of oppression as if you were short of air. Yet, even when they closed Mothers door on me, a year and a month later almost to the day, on May 19, 1973, I COULD NOT believe it was the end. I was convinced that this was the last stage, that Mother was finally going to shake off the old slavery to food: the last tie to the old physiology. But, as we now know, her bodyguard would not let her. In his speech on December 4, 1973, he declared, In the beginning [from May 20], She refused to take any food or drink, but somehow we persuaded Her to take them.2 She did fight as much as she could, and then. At times, I seemed to hear her faltering little voice up there: Where is Satprem? Where is Satprem? and then silence. Had I attempted to force the barrier, this Agenda would never have seen The Light of day. In a way, the following conversation is therefore prophetic.
Such was Mothers immediate entourage: a devoted but uncomprehending helper, a doctor with no faith, a violent and despotic bodyguard, and a blind and blinded little being controlled by her passions and by Pranab.
0 1972-08-02, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Well, I would really like to understand the mechanics of the subconscients transformation. I just dont understand the word transformation. Dissolution, is understandable; I mean, some movements come to the surface (sometimes you even see them symbolically the night before), they rise to the surface, perform their little trick, their little mischief, you more or less control them, then they come in contact with The Light, and pff! sink back again.
(Mother nods)
--
But then, how do you? You seemed to be saying that it gets transformed by coming in contact with The Light. But it looks like it isnt transformed at all: it simply sinks into the depths and surges up again at the first opportunity.
No, something is transformed, but its slow, slow, slow.
0 1972-08-30, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But there are also a good number who see The Light too, you know.
Possibly. (Laughing) Good for them!
0 1973-03-10, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And when I see somebody (Mother opens her hands as if she were offering that person to The Light), regardless of who it is: like this (same gesture).
(silence)
02.01 - Metaphysical Thought and the Supreme Truth, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Knowledge - the Knowledge by which we become what we know. To pass from the external to a direct and intimate inner consciousness; to widen consciousness out of the limits of the ego and the body; to heighten it by an inner will and aspiration and opening to The Light till it passes in its ascent beyond Mind; to bring down a descent of the supramental Divine through selfgiving and surrender with a consequent transformation of mind, life and body - this is the integral way to the Truth.1 It is this that we call the Truth here and aim at in our Yoga.
02.01 - Our Ideal, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
A mind that is not rigidly limited to the ratiocinative process, but has been remoulded in The Light and rhythm of inspiration and intuition and revelation and other higher sources still beyond becomes at once a transfigured vessel, an apt instrument to incarnate and dynamise in the physical and material field truths and realities that normally lie far and above. Something of the kind, though in a small measure, happens, for example, in a poet or an artist. A poet who moves by vision and inspiration is not, at least need not be, devoid of mind: the mind in ills case is not annihilated or even kept in abeyance, but sublimated, undergoing a reorientation and reorganisation, acquiring a new magnitude. Even if there is a suspension of the ratiocinative faculty, it would not mean a suspension of the mental power in itself, but rather an enhancement in a new degree. The same may happen to the other parts and planes of human consciousness and existence.
Of course, if one chooses, one can sidetrack these intervening ranges of consciousness between the Spirit and Matter, and strike something like a chord line between the two; but also one need not follow this bare straight ascetic line of ascension; one can pursue a wider, a circular or global movement which not only arrives but fulfils. The latter is Nature's method of activity, Nature being all reality. The exclusive line is meant for individuals, and even as such it has a value and sense in the global view, for this too is contri butory to the total urge and its total consummation.
02.01 - The World War, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
When man was a dweller of the forest,a jungle man,akin to his forbear the ape, his character was wild and savage, his motives and impulsions crude, violent, egoistic, almost wholly imbedded in, what we call, the lower vital level; The Light of the higher intellect and intelligence had not entered into them. Today there is an uprush of similar forces to possess and throw man back to a similar condition. This new order asks only one thing of man, namely, to be strong and powerful, that is to say, fierce, ruthless, cruel and regimented. Regimentation can be said to be the very characteristic of the order, the regimentation of a pack of wild dogs or wolves. A particular country, nation or raceit is Germany in Europe and, in her wake, Japan in Asiais to be the sovereign nation or master race (Herrenvolk); the rest of mankindo ther countries and peoplesshould be pushed back to the status of servants and slaves, mere hewers of wood and drawers of water. What the helots were in ancient times, what the serfs were in the mediaeval ages, and what the subject peoples were under the worst forms of modern imperialism, even so will be the entire mankind under the new overlordship, or something still worse. For whatever might have been the external conditions in those ages and systems, the upward aspirations of man were never doubted or questioned they were fully respected and honoured. The New Order has pulled all that down and cast them to the winds. Furthermore in the new regime, it is not merely the slaves that suffer in a degraded condition, the masters also, as individuals, fare no better. The individual here has no respect, no freedom or personal value. This society or community of the masters even will be like a bee-hive or an ant-hill; the individuals are merely functional units, they are but screws and bolts and nuts and wheels in a huge relentless machinery. The higher and inner realities, the spontaneous inspirations and self-creations of a free soulart, poetry, literaturesweetness and light the good and the beautifulare to be banished for ever; they are to be regarded as things of luxury which enervate the heart, diminish the life-force, distort Nature's own virility. Man perhaps would be the worshipper of Science, but of that Science which brings a tyrannical mastery over material Nature, which serves to pile up tools and instruments, arms and armaments, in order to ensure a dire efficiency and a grim order in practical life.
Those that have stood against this Dark Force and its over-shadowing menaceeven though perhaps not wholly by choice or free-will, but mostly compelled by circumstancesyet, because of the stand they have taken, now bear the fate of the world on their shoulders, carry the whole future of humanity in their march. It is of course agreed that to have stood against the Asura does not mean that one has become sura, divine or godlike; but to be able to remain human, human instruments of the Divine, however frail, is sufficient for the purpose, that ensures safety from the great calamity. The rule of life of the Asura implies the end of progress, the arrest of all evolution; it means even a reversal for man. The Asura is a fixed type of being. He does not change, his is a hardened mould, a settled immutable form of a particular consciousness, a definite pattern of qualities and activitiesgunakarma. Asura-nature means a fundamental ego-centricism, violent and concentrated self-will. Change is possible for the human being; he can go downward, but he can move upward too, if he chooses. In the Puranas a distinction has been made between the domain of enjoyment and the domain of action. Man is the domain of action par excellence; by him and through him evolve new and fresh lines of activity and impulsion. The domain of enjoyment, on the other hand, is where we reap the fruits of our past Karma; it is the result of an accumulated drive of all that we have done, of all the movements we have initiated and carried out. It is a status of being where there is only enjoyment, not of becoming where there can be development and new creation. It is a condition of gestation, as it were; there is no new Karma, no initiative or change in the stuff of the consciousness. The Asuras are bhogamaya purusha, beings of enjoyment; their domain is a cumulus of enjoyings. They cannot strike out a fresh line of activity, put forth a new mode of energy that can work out a growth or transformation of nature. Their consciousness is an immutable entity. The Asuras do not mend, they can only end. Man can certainly acquire or imbibe Asuric force or Asura-like qualities and impulsions; externally he can often act very much like the Asura; and yet there is a difference. Along with the dross that soils and obscures human nature, there is something more, a clarity that opens to a higher light, an inner core of noble metal which does not submit to any inferior influence. There is this something More in man which always inspires and enables him to break away from the Asuric nature. Moreover, though there may be an outer resemblance between the Asuric qualities of man and the Asuric qualities of the Asura, there is an intrinsic different, a difference in tone and temper, in rhythm and vibration, proceeding as they do, from different sources. However cruel, hard, selfish, egocentric man may be, he knows, he admitsat times, if hot always, at heart, if not openly, subconsciously, if not wholly consciously that such is not the ideal way, that these qualities are not qualifications, they are unworthy elements and have to be discarded. But the Asura is ruthless, because he regards ruthlessness as the right thing, as the perfect thing, it is an integral part of his swabhava and swadharma, his law of being and his highest good. Violence is the ornament of his character.
02.02 - Lines of the Descent of Consciousness, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
A further descent into obscurity occurs when consciousness passes from Mind to Life. Darkness is almost visible here: there is a greater withdrawal on the part of each unit from its surrounding reality, a narrower concentration upon one's own separative existenceshades of the prison-house have gathered close around. The Light, already dulled and faint in the mind, has become a lurid glare here. Passion has arisen and desire and hunger and battle and combat.
Here also in the vital three ranges can be distinguished the lower becoming more and more turbid and turbulent and fierce or more and more self-centred and selfish. These levels can best be seen by their impact on our vital being and formations there. The first, the highest one, the meeting or confluence of the Mind and the Vital is the Heart, the centre of emotion, the knot of the external or instrumental vehicle, of the frontal consciousness, behind which is born and hides the true individualised consciousness, the psyche. The mid-region is the Higher Vital consisting of larger (egoistic) dynamisms, such as high ambition, great enterprise, heroic courage, capacity for work, adventure, masterfulness, also such movements as sweeping violences, mighty hungers, and intense arrogances. The physical seat of this movement is, as perhaps the Tantras would say, the domain ranging between the heart and the navel. Lower down ranges the Lower Vital which consists of small desires, petty hankerings, blind cravingsall urges and impulses that are more or less linked up with the body and move to gross physical satisfactions.
02.02 - Rishi Dirghatama, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
I shall speak only of what seems to me probable and believable and likely and it must be this that he passed a long time in darkness, engulfed in obscurity. The legend says that he was in his mother's womb long past the due time and it seems it was of his own will. His mother's name was Mamata and his father was Uchathya. When he came out of the darkness and saw The Light, it was a light strangely glimmering with all the vibrations of the long obscurity to which he had been accustomed. It was indeed The Light beyond the confines of all darkness, nescience, and yet carrying a mystic imprint of the mysteries of darkness. So he started his quest with this questioning:
I am an innocent babe, my ignorant mind knows nothing, who will tell me of the secret seats of the Godheads?2
02.02 - The Kingdom of Subtle Matter, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The Light now distant shall grow native here,
The Strength that visits us our comrade power;
02.03 - The Glory and the Fall of Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The Light of God she has parted from his dark
To test the savour of bare opposites.
02.03 - The Shakespearean Word, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
In the world of poetry Dante is a veritable avatar . His language is a supreme magic. The word-unit in him is a quantum of highly concentrated perceptive energy, Tapas. In Kalidasa the quantum is that of the energy of The Light in sensuous beauty. And Homer's voice is a quantum of the luminous music of the spheres.
The word-unit, the language quantum in Sri Aurobindo's poetry is a packet of consciousness-force, a concentrated power of Light (instinct with a secret Delight)listen:
02.04 - The Kingdoms of the Little Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The Force that works by The Light of Ignorance,
Her animal experiment began,
02.04 - Two Sonnets of Shakespeare, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Shakespeare has treated love in a novel way; he has given a new figure to that common familiar sentiment. And incidentally he has given a new sense and bearing to Death. From a human carnal base there is a struggle, an effort here to rise into something extracorporeal; that is, something outside and independent of the body and impersonal. The sense of the first sonnet is this: the body decays and dies, even as bleak winter seizes upon the beauties of Nature or black Night swallows up The Light of the day. But love lingers stillas the song of sweet birdsand the dying cadence of love curiously invokes and evokes a resurgent love in the beloved. The second sonnet hymns the soul's conquest over Death. The soul is that which is sinless in the sinful, it is the pure, the unsullied the immortal lovein this filth and dirt of a mortal body with its crude passions. Death eats away the body, but in this way the soul grows and eats away Death. This is the final epiphany, the death of Death and the resurgence of the soul divine in its love divine.
Sonnet 73
02.05 - The Godheads of the Little Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
In The Light of the Timeless and its spaceless home,
In the joy of the Eternal sole and one.
--
But now The Light supreme is far away:
Our conscious life obeys the Inconscient's laws;
--
To The Light that made the worlds, the Cause of things,
Well might interpret our mind's limited view
02.06 - The Integral Yoga and Other Yogas, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
I have never said that my Yoga was something brand new in all its elements. I have called it the integral Yoga and that means that it takes up the essence and many processes of the old Yogas - its newness is in its aim, standpoint and the totality of its method. In the earlier stages which is all I deal with in books like the Riddle or The Lights1 there is nothing in it that distinguishes it from the old Yogas except the aim underlying its comprehensiveness, the spirit in its movements and the ultimate significance it keeps before it - also the scheme of its psychology and its working, but as that was not and could not be developed systematically or schematically in these letters, it has not been grasped by those who are not already acquainted with it by mental familiarity or some amount of practice. The detail or method of the later stages of the Yoga which go into little known or untrodden regions, I have not made public and I do not at present intend to do so.
I know very well also that there have been seemingly allied ideals and anticipations - the perfectibility of the race, certain
02.06 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
To feel The Light and joy intangible,
Half found its way into the Ineffable's peace,
--
Even with The Light denied that sent her forth
And the hope dead she needed for her task,
--
And in The Light that wakes with him recovers
A meaning in the hurry and trudge of Time,
--
Was felt; it saw The Light but not the Truth:
It caught the Idea and built from it a world;
02.06 - Vansittartism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Hence it is suggested that for the postwar reconstruction of Germany what is required is the re-education of its people. For, only a psychological change can bring about a durable and radical change. But certain proposals towards this end raise serious misgivings, since they mean iron regimentation under foreign control. Even if such a thing were possible and feasible, it is doubtful if the purpose could be best served in this way. Measures have to be taken, no doubt, to uproot Prussianism and Junkerism and prevent their revival, no false mercy or sympathy should be extended to the enemies of God and man. But this is only a negative step, and cannot be sufficient by itself. A more positive and more important work lies ahead. The re-education of Germany must come from within, if it is to be permanent and effective. What others can do is to help her in this new orientation. As we have said, there are the progressive elements in Germany too, although submerged for the moment. The task of reconstruction will precisely consist in calling up and organising and marshalling these forces that are for The Light. The Allied organisation, it may be noted, itself has grown up in this way. When one remembers how Britain stood alone at one time against the all-sweeping victorious march of the Titan, how slowly and gradually America was persuaded to join hands, at first in a lukewarm way, finally with all its heart and soul and might and main, how a new France is being built up out of a mass of ruins, we can hope that the same process will be adopted in the work that lies ahead even after victory, with regard to Italy and with regard to Germany. In the second case the task is difficult but it has got to be done.
***
02.07 - George Seftris, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
And in their midst was a face ascending into The Light.
Over the neck the black hair flowed, the eyebrows
02.09 - Two Mystic Poems in Modern French, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
I follow The Light that pierces me. I uproot myself from my home. I seek to fly from that Fire but I am already burnt up.
My blood is now captured. It is the willing prey, the victim of its hunter. It is living only because it is dead. There is now no endeavour to seek and to hear, to run after the golden treasure, for now it is a child's consciousness made of a darkness, a forgetfulness crowded with marvels.
02.10 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It threw The Lightning’s fork and hit the unseen.
68.
It saw in the dark and vaguely blinked in The Light,
Ignorance was its field, the unknown its prize.
--
And from The Light looked out to wider light:
A brilliant hedge drawn round her narrowed her power;
02.11 - Hymn to Darkness, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Many are The Lights now around the heart
Arrayed as in a festive illumination.
--
Our ancient Rishis speak of the supreme Light of lights, the Source of all The Lights that burn here, The Light that is beyond darkness, on the other shore. Darkness is this world, the world of ignorance, our earthly consciousness; this is a perception easily understandable. But in the mystic consciousness of a kind, darkness and light seem to be interchangeable. Darkness seems to be a form of light, nay even of a greater light.
It is said, the occultists say, that between The Light of the day, that is to say, The Light of the ordinary consciousness and the higher spiritual light, there is an interim world, an intermediate zone of consciousness. When one leaves the earthly day, the normal consciousness and goes within and to the heights, towards the other Light, one enters at first into a dark region (the selva oscura of Dante). Physically also, the scientists say today that when you leave the earth's atmosphere, from a certain height you no longer see the earthly light but you dive into a darkness where the sun does not shine in its glory as on earth. You see and feel the sunlight again when you approach the sun and are about to be consumed in its fires. In the same way, we are told that on the spiritual path too, the path of inner consciousness, when you leave the ordinary consciousness, when you lose that normal light and yet have not arrived at the other higher light you grope in an intermediary region of darkness. You have lost the lower knowledge and have not yet gained the higher knowledge, then you are in that uncertain world of greyness or darkness. Or it happens also that while in the comparatively faint light of the ordinary consciousness, you are suddenly confronted with the Superior Lightthrough some grace perhapsyou cannot stand The Light and get blinded and see sheer darkness. Again, the infinite sky in its fathomless depth appears to the naked eye blue, deep blue, blue-black. Light concentrated, solidified, materialised becomes a speck of darkness to the human eye. Do we not say today that a particle of matter (consolidated darkness) is only a quantum of concentrated light-energy?
Something of these supraphysical experiences must have entered into the consciousness of the modern poets who have also fallen in love with darkness and blackness -have become adorers, although they do not know, of Shyma and Shyma.
02.12 - The Heavens of the Ideal, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It longed for The Light that knows not death and birth.
73.4
02.15 - The Kingdoms of the Greater Knowledge, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
He rode The Lightning seas of cosmic Mind
And crossed the ocean of original sound;
03.02 - The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The Power, The Light, the Bliss no word can speak
Imaged itself in a surprising beam
--
The Light that leans from the unrealised Vasts,
The joy that beckons from the impossible,
03.03 - Modernism - An Oriental Interpretation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Not quite so, certainly. The consciousness (rather, the self-consciousness) that man has gained in place of the unconsciousness or semi-consciousness, characteristic of the general mass in the past, and the growing sense of individuality and personal worth, which is an expression of that consciousness, are his assets, the hall-mark of his present-day nature and outlook and activity. The consciousness may not have always been used wisely, but still it is a light that has illumined him, brought him an awareness of himself and of things, that is new and in a special way close and intimate and revealing. The Light is perhaps not of the kind that comes direct from high altitudesit is, as it were, a transverse ray cutting aslant; nonetheless, through its grace a self-revelation and a self-valuation have been possible in spheres hitherto unsurveyed and lost in darkness, and on a scale equally unprecedented. Life has found a self-light. It is indeed as yet a glare, lurid and uncertain, but it has the capacity to develop into, and call in, the white and tranquil effulgence of the Soul-light and the Supreme Light of which it is the image and precursor.
Another similar cycle can be traced farther back in the past. The classicism of Grco-Latin culture dominated by mind and reasonalthough it was a kind of higher mind and intuitive reasonwas supplanted by the heart movement that Christ and the Christian cult initiated.
03.03 - The House of the Spirit and the New Creation, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The Light of a Truth now only seen afar,
A sanction from his high omnipotent Source.
--
This seed was cased in the safety of The Light,
It needed not a sheath of Ignorance.
03.03 - The Inner Being and the Outer Being, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The outer being is a means of expression only, not one's self. One must not identify with it, for what it expresses is a personality formed by the old ignorant Nature. If not identified, one can change it so as to express the true inner personality of The Light.
The individual is not limited to the physical body - it is only the external consciousness which feels like that. As soon as one gets over this feeling of limitation, one can feel first the inner consciousness which is connected with the body but does not belong to it, afterwards the planes of consciousness above the body - also a consciousness surrounding the body, but part of oneself, part of the individual being, through which one is in contact with the cosmic forces and with other beings. This last is what I have called the environmental consciousness.
03.04 - The Vision and the Boon, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
No soul is thy companion in The Light;
Alone thou standest at the eternal doors.
--
The Light his soul had brought his mind has lost;
All he has learned is soon again in doubt;
--
Leave not The Light to die the ages bore,
Help still humanity's blind and suffering life:
--
Too faint The Light that steals through Nature's lids,
Too scant the joy with which she buys our pain.
--
And justify The Light on Nature's face.
Although Fate lingers in the high Beyond
--
Across The Light of fast-receding planes
That fled from him as from a falling star,
03.05 - The Spiritual Genius of India, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
That is not to say that other peoples of the world are soulless, and that India alone may claim to possess the treasure. But no other people has lived so much in and from the soul, none other has sacrificed so much for the sake of this one thing needful. The soul-consciousness in other nations lies veiled behind the more pressing activities and immediate occupations of the external nature; at the most, what is characteristic in them is the soul, not in its pure and fundamental being, but expressed, and therefore encased and limited, within some particular mode of becoming. In India, on the other hand, the external activities and operations have never altogether swamped or clouded this soul-consciousness; they have been either subjugated to it as minor auxiliaries or totally sacrificed as obstacles. The Indian's soul is not imbedded in some far-off region of his unconscious nature; he has succeeded in raising it up and bringing it forward to the level of his waking consciousnessas the gold-tusked Divine Boar lifted the Earth out of the dark depths of the primeval deluge to The Light of the Day.
The French, for example, have developed as a people a special characteristic and mental turn that has set its pervading impress upon their culture and civilisation, upon their creations and activities; that which distinguishes them is a fine, clear and subtle, rational, logical, artistic and literary mind. France, it has often been said, is the head of modern Europe. The Indians are not in the same way a predominantly intellectual race, in spite of the mighty giants of intellect India has always produced, and still produces. Nor are they a literary race, although a rich and grandiose literature, unrivalled in its own great qualities, is their patrimony. It was the few, a small minority, almost a closed circle, that formed in India the elite whose interest and achievement lay in this field; the characteristic power, the main life-current of the nation, did not flow this way, but followed a different channel. Among the ancients the Greeks, and among the moderns the French alone, can rightfully claim as their special genius, as the hallmark of their corporate life, a high intellectual and literary culture. It is to this treasure,a serene and yet vigorous and organized rational mind, coupled with a wonderful felicity of expression in speech,that one turns when one thinks of the special gift that modern France and ancient Greece have brought to the heritage of mankind.
03.06 - The Pact and its Sanction, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The difficulty comes from the middle region, from the second element of the tripartite sanction. It is the "middle class", not quite in the economic but in the ideological sense. In other words, in every society there are people who have risen or are attempting to rise above the mass level. They look around and above: they are not satisfied with their lot, they aspire towards higher and wider ideals. They are the material out of which what we call reformers and revolutionaries are made. In the general mass who are more or less contented, they are the discontented: they form the leaven of cells that move and stir and work for change. Now all depends on what kind of leaven it is, what is the quality of the force that is called up, the nature of the ideal or idea that is invoked. For it can be either way, for good or for evil. There are elements that belong to The Light, and there are elements that belong to darkness. There are mixtures in men no doubt, but on the whole there are these two types: one helps humanity's progress, the other retards and sometimes blocks completely. If the mass of mankind is tamasinertia there is a kind of rajasdynamism that drives towards greater tamas, as the Upanishad says, towards disintegration, under the garb of reformation it brings about disruption.
So we have to see the type of cells that grow and become consciously active in the body politic. It is sattwalight that brings in knowledge and harmony. And the movement for reformation and growth among the mass has to be inspired by that quality or mode of consciousness. A sound and healthy structure can be raised effectively upon that basis alone. The man in the mass, as I have said and as is well known, is a good-natured malleable material, but it is ignorant and inert: it can easily be worked upon by any kind of strong force, worked up to any kind of mischief. Shakespeare has made us very graphically familiar with the reaction of a mob and that remains true even today. Even if right direction is there at the top, at the higher governmental level, reflecting the mind of the true intelligentsia, a well-meaning plan is doomed to failure if it does not touch and move the middle strata that are the real executive agents.
--
A true covenant there can be only between parties that work for The Light, are inspired by the same divine purpose. Otherwise if there is a fundamental difference in the motive, in the soul-impulse, then it is no longer a pact between comrades, but a patchwork of irreconcilable elements. I have spoken of the threefold sanction of the covenant. The sanction from the top initiates, plans and supports, the sanction from the bottom establishes and furnishes the field, but it is the sanction from the mid-region that inspires, executes, makes a living reality of what is no more than an idea, a possibility. On one side are the Elders, the seasoned statesmen, the wise ones; on the other, the general body of mankind waiting to be moved and guided; in between is the army of young enthusiasts, enlightened or illumined (not necessarily young in age) who form the pra, the vital sheath of the body politic. Allby far the largest part of itdepends upon the dreams that the Prana has been initiated and trained to dream.
This life principle of a body politic seems in Pakistan to be represented by the Ansars. The question then to be determined is whether they have accepted the Pact or not. If they have, is it merely a political expedient or do they find in it a real moral value? We have to weigh and judge the ideal and motive that inspire this organisation which seeks to be the steel frame supporting or supported by the Government. We ask: is this a nucleus, a seed bed for the new life to take birth and grow, the new life that would go to the making of the new world and humanity? And we have to ask India too, has she found her nucleus or nuclei, on her side, that would generate and foster the power of her soul and spirit? The high policy of a government remains a dead law or is misconstrued and misapplied through local agents: they are in fact the local growths that feed the national life and are fed by it and they need careful nurture and education, for upon them depends ultimately the weal or the woe of the race.
03.10 - Hamlet: A Crisis of the Evolving Soul, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Shakespeare himself records, in two other of his major dramas, the mystery of two such stages preceding the one he deals with in Hamlet: one in Macbeth and the other in King Lear. Indeed these three mighty creations form a triology with the Karma of the human soul at different crises as its theme. King Lear represents human consciousness low down in the scale of evolution, almost at its starta nature primitive and barbarian. We seem to go back into a prehistoric world, a paleolithic age the domain of utter ignorance, of vulgar greed and hunger, where one sees the rank play of a raw and crude and aboriginal nature. Man is here simply the eater, a true brother of the rest of the animal kind, one in blood with the tiger and the wolf. He is the sheer biological or vital being the Rakshasainto whom The Light of the Mind has not yet descended, at least not to the extent of effecting an appreciable change in his original and primitive texture. It is a world ruled by the mode of tamas. 1
In Macbeth we move up one step farther; human consciousness attains here a higher level. Something of the mental being enters into the purely vital creature: instead of the Eater, the man with the mere stomach, we have here the Ruler, the Tyrant, the human being with its will and its arms that execute the will: the dominating motive is no longer hunger and greed and cruelty for cruelty's sake, but power and position and lordship, and the driving force, not blind passion and dark furysheer unconsciousness but deliberate resolution, foreseeing calculation and steady purposiveness; the Rakshasa gives place to the Asura. The Asura is the incarnation of conscious egotism, the will to dominate, to be the sole master and monarch; he is the self-aggrandising vaulting ambition. He does not seek to possess things for their own sake, not so much to enjoy them as to hold them as symbols of his royalty, of his personal worth and majesty. In Macbeth we have the world of the Asuraa creation of the mode of rajas.
--
The crisis then is the revelation to the aspiring dream-lifted soul that the original and aboriginal humanity that seemed to have been traversed and transcended and left far behind is not wholly obliterated; indeed it is still there in its stark reality. The Light and air and space and colour of the high dreaml and are reared upon dark and dingy abysses, "this brave oerhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire" is none other than" a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours 2 . All the wisdom and culture and virtue and apparent beauty in human nature cannot prevent a man from becoming an arrant knave and a woman from being a whore, even if she were one's own mother.
This disillusionment is the crisis at which the soul has arrivedthis tearing down of the painted arras that hid the naked horror of man's beastly nature and the ugly vanity and stagy show that the world is. The revelation was so sudden and stunning to the innocent and aspiring soul that it lost for the moment all its bearings, its natural strength and capacity and will, and fell from its high status into the slough of dark and despondent impotency.
--
The angelic Cordelia is a ray that has strayed down from some higher region, to evolve hereafter, not for immediate fruition and fulfilment. It is The Light that shines always even in this naughty world, a spark of the Grace that still relieves the blight that mars an otherwise sinful earth. She is the symbol of a promise or prophecy that will justify itself sometime in the future, but for the moment the burden of the gloom is too much upon her and she is engulfed in it and sacrificed.
Hamlet, Act II, Sc. 2.
03.10 - Sincerity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
This central sincerity, however, has to be worked out in actual life. For, one may be true in the spirit, but falseweak, that is to sayin the flesh. The Light of the central being usually finds its way first into the mind. One becomes then mentally sincere: in other words, one has the idea, the thought that the Divine is the goal and nothing else can or shall satisfy. With The Light in the mind, one sees also in oneself more and more the dark spots, the weaknesses, the obstaclesone becomes conscious of one's feelings, discovers elements that have to be corrected or purged. But this mental sincerity, this recognition in the understanding is not enough: it remains mostly ineffective and barren with regard to life and character. One appears at this stage to lead a double life: one knows and understands, to some extent at least, but one is unable to act up even to that much knowledge and understanding. It is only when the power of sincerity descends still further and assumes a concreter form, when the vital becomes sincere and' is converted, then the urge is there not only to see and understand, but to do and achieve. Without the vital's sincerity, its will to be transformed, one remains at best a witness, one has an inner perception of consciousness of the Divine, but in actual living one lets the old ordinary nature to go its own way. It is the sincerity in the vital,-its win to possess the Divine and the Divine alone, its ardour to collaborate with the Divine the conscious that brings about the crucial, the most dynamic change. Sadhana instead of being a mere mental occupation, an intellectual pursuit, acquires the urgency of living and doing and achieving. Finally, the vital sincerity, when it reaches its climax, calls for the ultimate sinceritysincerity in the body. When the body consciousness becomes sincere then we cannot but be and act as decided and guided by the divine consciousness; we live and move and have our being wholly in the divine manner. Then what the inmost being, the psychic, envisages in the divine light, the body inevitably and automatically executes. There is no gap between the two. The spirit and the fleshsoul and bodyare soldered, fused together in one single compact entity. One starts with the central sincerity in the psychic being and progress of sadhana means the extension of this sincerity gradually to all the outlying parts and levels of the being till, when the body is reached, the whole consciousness becomes, as it were, a massive pyramid of loyalty.
***
03.10 - The Mission of Buddhism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
A new humanity broad-based to encompass the whole earth, expressing and embodying The Light and power and joy of spiritual heights, forming a happy world state, may very well announce in the new age the descent of a supreme truth and principle of existence here below.
Wordsworth, "We Are Seven".
03.11 - The Language Problem and India, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Time waits, vacant, The Lightning that kindles, the Word that transfigures:
Space is a stillness of God building his earthly abode. 2
03.14 - From the Known to the Unknown?, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
That is why it is said constantly by the ancient sages that the truth cannot be found by much inquiry and much study, the truth is found only when it condescends to reveal itself to the inquirer. The true truth is not at our beck and call, you cannot get it as and when you like, it does not wait comfortably just at the terminus of your investigations and argumentations. This does not mean, however, that we remain helpless and hopeless until the manna falls from heaven. No, something lies in our power, a spontaneous and natural faculty, to create at least favourable conditions for The Light to descend and appear. A quiet awaiting in the being, calm concentration and aspiration, a sincere opening are some of the conditions under which it is easier for the unknownxto reveal its identity.
It is not a blunder and it need not lead inevitably to a catastrophe if, for example, a child were given its first education not through his mother tongue, but through what is termed a foreign language. Would it, for that matter, harm a child invariably and necessarily, if he did not confine himself within the walls of his school in the midst of the known and the familiar, if he were to stir out and venture into wildshow otherwise would Alice discover her Wonderland? A foreign tongue, a foreign atmosphere would often interest a child more than things known and familiar. The very distance and imprecision and even the peculiar difficulties exert a charm and evoke greater attention in the child. This is not to say that familiarity breeds contempt, but that unfamiliarity does not repel but attracts also.
04.01 - The March of Civilisation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Ancient Greece, the fountainhead of European civilisationof the world culture reigning today, one can almost sayfound itself epitomised in the Periclean Age. The Lightgrace, harmony, sweet reasonableness that was Greece, reached its highest and largest, its most characteristic growth in that period. Earlier, at the very beginning of her life cycle, there came indeed Homer and no later creation reached a higher or even as high a status of creative power: but it was a solitary peak, it was perhaps an announcement, not the realisation of the national glory. Pericles stood as the guardian, the representative, the emblem and nucleus of a nation-wide efflorescence. Not to speak of the great names associated with the age, even the common peoplemore than what was normally so characteristic of Greecefelt the tide that was moving high and shared in that elevated sweep of life, of thought and creative activity. Greece withdrew. The stage was made clear for Rome. Julius Caesar carried the Roman genius to its sublimest summit: but it remained for his great nephew to consolidate and give expression to that genius in its most characteristic manner and lent his name to a characteristic high-water mark of human civilisation.
Greece and Rome may be taken to represent two types of culture. And accordingly we can distinguish two types of elevation or crest-formation of human consciousness one of light, the other of power. In certain movements one feels the intrusion, the expression of light, that is to say, the play of intelligence, understanding, knowledge, a fresh outlook and consideration of the world and things, a revaluation in other terms and categories of a new consciousness. The greatest, at least, the most representative movement of this kind is that of the Renaissance. It was really a New Illumination: a flood of light poured upon the mind and intellect and understanding of the period. There was a brightness, a brilliance, a happy agility and keenness in the movements of the brain. A largeness of vision, a curious sensibility, a wide and alert consciousness: these are some of the fundamental characteristics of this remarkable New Birth. It is the birth of what has been known as the scientific outlook, in the- broadest sense: it is the threshold of the modern epoch of humanity. All the modern European languages leaped into maturity, as it were, each attaining its definitive form and full-blooded individuality. Art and literature flooded in their magnificent creativeness all nations and peoples of the whole continent. The Romantic Revival, starting somewhere about the beginning of the nineteenth century, is another outstanding example of a similar phenomenon, of the descent of light into human consciousness. The Light that descended into human consciousness at the time of the Renaissance captured the higher mind and intelligence the Ray touched as it were the frontal lobe of the brain; the later descent touched the heart, the feelings and emotive sensibility, it evoked more vibrant, living and powerful perceptions, created varied and dynamic sense-complexes, new idealisms and aspirations. The manifestation of Power, the descent or inrush of forcemighty and terriblehas been well recognised and experienced in the great French Revolution. A violence came out from somewhere and seized man and society: man was thrown out of his gear, society broken to pieces. There came a change in the very character and even nature of man: and society had to be built upon other foundations. The past was gone. Divasa gatah. Something very similar has happened again more recently, in Russia. The French Revolution brought in the bourgeois culture, the Russian Revolution has rung in the Proletariate.
In modern India, the movement that led her up to Independence was at a crucial moment a mighty evocation of both Light and Power. It had not perhaps initially the magnitude, the manifest scope or scale of either the Renaissance or the Great Revolutions we mention. But it carried a deeper import, its echo far-reaching into the future of humanity. For it meant nothing less than the spiritual awakening of India and therefore the spiritual regeneration of the whole world: it is the harbinger of the new epoch in human civilisation.
--
Indeed, these movements, the appearance of great souls upon earth and the manifestation of larger collective surges in human society, are not isolated happenings, having no reference or point of contact with one another. On the contrary, they are two limbs of a global evolutionary process. In and through them across countries and centuries the spirit of humanity moves towards greater and greater fulfilment. Evolution means the growth of consciousness. In man in his collective existence the growth continues: it lies in two directions. First of all, in extension. A sufficiently large physical body is needed to house the growing life and consciousness: therefore the unicellular organism has developed into the multicellular. In the same way, in the earliest stages of human society, The Light and power of consciousness, characteristic of that age, found expression among a few only: it was the age of representative individuals, leadersRishi, Magi, Patriarch, Judge, King. Next a stage came when the cultural consciousness widened and, instead of scattered individuals or some families, we have a large group, a whole class or section of society who become the guardian of The Light: thus arose the Brahmin, the lite, the cultured class, the aristocracy of talents. The Light and culture filters down further and embraces larger masses of people who take living interest and share in the creative activities of man, in the higher preoccupations of mind and thought; this is the age of enlightened bourgeoisie. In comparatively recent times what is familiarly known as the "middle class" was the repository and purveyor of human culture.
The Light sinks further down and extends still more its scope seeking to penetrate and encircle the whole of humanity. The general mass of mankind, the lowest strata of society have to be taken in, elevated and illumined. That must be the natural and inevitable consummation of all progress and evolution. And that is the secret sense and justification of the Proletarian Revolution of today. Although, the many names and forms given to it by its violent partisans do not bring out or sufficiently honour the soul and spirit that informs it.
This then is the pattern of cultural development as it proceeds in extension and largeness. It moves in ever widening concentric circles. Individuals, small centres few and far between, then larger groups and sections, finally vast masses are touched and moved (and will be moulded one day) by the infiltrating light. That is how in modern times all movements are practically world-wide, encompassing all nations and peoples: there seems to be nothing left that is merely local or parochial. It is a single wave, as it were, that heaves up the whole of humanity. Political, social, economic and even spiritual movements, although not exactly of the same type or pattern, all are interrelated, interlocked, inspired by a common breath and move from one end of the earth to the other. They seem to be but modulations of the same world-theme. A pulse-beat in Korea or Japan is felt across the Pacific in America and across that continent, traversing again, the Atlantic it reaches England, sways the old continent in its turn and once more leaps forward through the Asiatic vastnesses back again to its place of origin. The wheel comes indeed full circle: it is one movement girdling the earth. What one thinks or acts in one corner of the globe is thought, and acted simultaneously by others at the farthest corner. Very evidently it is the age of radiography and electronics.
--
Not only in extension but the growth or evolution has progressed in another direction. There has not only been a quantitative but also a qualitative development. Culture movements have grown in intent, in depth or elevation, in the meaning and significance of the consciousness involved. And they have converged towards a single aim and purpose. That purpose is not only the establishment of the global consciousness, but the expression and embodiment of the highest, the supreme consciousness. The process here too, as in the domain of extension, is one of graduation, advance by stages. The Light, The Light of awakening consciousness first touches the more easily accessible parts of human nature, the higher domains that are not too much involved in the gross material or animal nature. It is the realm of thoughts and ideas, of idealism, imagination and aspiration: it is man's mind, which is the least heavily weighted or ballasted by a downward gravitational pull and the most buoyant and supple the Ariel in him. It is his head that first receives the glow of the morning sun.
If we look at Europe once again and cast a glance at its origins, we find at the source the Grco-Roman culture. It was pre-eminently a culture based upon the powers of mind and reason: it included a strong and balanced body (both body natural and body politic) under the aegis of mens sana (a sound mind). The Light that was Greece was at its zenith a power of the higher mind and intelligence, intuitively dynamic in one the earlierphase through Plato, Pythagoras, Heraclitus and the mystic philosophers, and discursively and scientifically rational through the Aristotelian tradition. The practical and robust Roman did not indulge in the loftier and subtler activities of the higher or intuitive mind; his was applied intelligence and its characteristic turn found expression in law and order and governance. Virgil was a representative poet of the race; finely sensitive and yet very self-consciousearth-bound and mind-boundas a creative artist: a clear and careful intelligence with an idealistic imagination that is yet sober and fancy-free is the very hall mark of his poetic genius. In the post-Roman age this bias for mental consciousness or the play of reason and intellectual understanding moved towards the superficial and more formal faculties of the brain ending in what is called scholasticism: it meant stagnation and decadence. It is out of this slough that the Renaissance raised the mind of Europe and bathed it with a new light. That movement gave to the mind a wider scope, an alert curiosity, a keener understanding; it is, as I have said, the beginning of that modern mentality which is known as the scientific outlook, that is to say, study of facts and induction from given data, observation and experience and experiment instead of the other scholastic standpoint which goes by a priori theorising and abstraction and deduction and dogmatism.
We may follow a little more closely the march of the centuries in their undulating movement. The creative intelligence of the Renaissance too belonged to a region of the higher mind, a kind of inspirational mind. It had not the altitude or even the depth of the Greek mind nor its subtler resonances: but it regained and re-established and carried to a new degree the spirit of inquiry and curiosity, an appreciation of human motives and preoccupations, a rational understanding of man and the mechanism of the world. The original intuitive fiat, the imaginative brilliance, the spirit of adventure (in the mental as well as the physical world) that inspired the epoch gradually dwindled: it gave place to an age of consolidation, organisation, stabilisation the classical age. The seventeenth century Europe marked another peak of Europe's civilisation. That is the Augustan Age to which we have referred. The following century marked a further decline of the Intuition and higher imagination and we come to the eighteenth century terre terre rationalism. Great figures still adorned that agestalwarts that either stuck to the prevailing norm and gave it a kind of stagnant nobility or already leaned towards the new light that was dawning once more. Pope and Johnson, Montesquieu and Voltaire are its high-lights. The nineteenth century brought in another crest wave with a special gift to mankind; apparently it was a reaction to the rigid classicism and dry rationalism of the preceding age, but it came burdened with a more positive mission. Its magic name was Romanticism. Man opened his heart, his higher feeling and nobler emotional surge, his subtler sensibility and a general sweep of his vital being to the truths and realities of his own nature and of the cosmic nature. Not the clear white and transparent almost glaring light of reason and logic, of the brain mind, but the rosy or rainbow tint of the emotive and aspiring personality that seeks in and through the cosmic panorama and dreams of
--
Turning to India we find a fuller and completerif not a globalpicture of the whole movement. India, we may say, is the spiritual world itself: and she epitomised the curve of human progress in a clearer and more significant manner. Indian history, not its political but its cultural and spiritual history, divides itself naturally into great movements with corresponding epochs each dwelling upon and dealing with one domain in the hierarchy of man's consciousness. The stages and epochs are well known: they are(l) Vedic, (2) Upanishadic, (3) Darshanasroughly from Buddha to Shankara, (4) Puranic, (5) Bhagavataor the Age of Bhakti, and finally (6) the Tantric. The last does not mean that it is the latest revelation, the nearest to us in time, but that it represents a kind of complementary movement, it was there all along, for long at least, and in which the others find their fruition and consummation. We shall explain presently. The force of consciousness that came and moved and moulded the first and the earliest epoch was Revelation. It was a power of direct vision and occult will and cosmic perception. Its physical seat is somewhere behind and or just beyond the crown of the head: the peak of man's manifest being that received the first touch of Surya Savitri (the supreme Creative Consciousness) to whom it bowed down uttering the invocation mantra of Gayatri. The Ray then entered the head at the crown and illumined it: the force of consciousness that ruled there is Intuition, the immediate perception of truth and reality, the cosmic consciousness gathered and concentrated at that peak. That is Upanishadic knowledge. If the source and foundation of the Vedic initiation was occult vision, the Upanishad meant a pure and direct Ideation. The next stage in the coming down or propagation of The Light was when it reached further down into the brain and the philosophical outlook grew with rational understanding and discursive argumentation as the channel for expression, the power to be cultivated and the limb to be developed. The Age of the Darshanas or Systems of Philosophy started with the Buddha and continued till it reached its peak in Shankaracharya. The age sought to give a bright and strong mental, even an intellectual body to the spiritual light, the consciousness of the highest truth and reality. In the Puranic Age the vital being was touched by The Light of the spirit and principally on the highest, the mental level of that domain. It meant the advent of the element of feeling and emotiveness and imagination into the play of The Light, the beginning of their reclamation. This was rendered more concrete and more vibrant and intense in the next stage of the movement. The whole emotional being was taken up into the travailing crucible of consciousness. We may name it also as the age of the Bhagavatas, god-lovers, Bhaktas. It reached its climax in Chaitanya whose physical passion for God denoted that the lower ranges of the vital being (its physical foundations) were now stirred in man to awake and to receive The Light. Finally remains the physical, the most material to be worked upon and made conscious and illumined. That was the task of the Tantras. Viewed in that light one can easily understand why especial stress was laid in that system upon the esoteric discipline of the five m's (pancha makra),all preoccupied with the handling and harnessing of the grossest physical instincts and the most material instruments. The Tantric discipline bases itself upon Nature Power coiled up in Matter: the release of that all-conquering force through a purification and opening into the consciousness of the Divine Mother, the transcendent creatrix of the universe. The dynamic materialising aspect of consciousness was what inspired the Tantras: the others forming the Vedantic line, on the whole, were based on the primacy of the static being, the Purusha, aloof and withdrawing.
The Indian consciousness, we say, presented the movement as an intensive and inner, a spiritual process: it dealt with the substance itself, man's very nature and sought to know it from within and shape it consciously. In Europe where the frontal consciousness is more stressed and valued, the more characteristic feature of its history is the unfoldment and metamorphosis of the forms and expressions, the residuary powers, as it were, of man's evolving personality, individual and social.
--
This movement of extension, looked at from the standpoint of intensiveness, is also a movement of devolution, of reclamation. The Brahminic stage represents culture that is knowledge; it touches the mind, it is the brain that is the recipient and instrument of The Light. The Kshatriya comes into the field when The Light, the vibration of awakening, from the mind comes down into the vital energies, from the brain to the heart region. The Vaishya spirit has taken up man still at a lower region, the lower vital: the economic man that has his gaze fixed upon his stomach and entrails. Lastly, the final stage is reached when physical work, bodily labour, material service have attained supreme importance and are considered almost as the only values worth the name for a human being. To walk and work firmly upon Earth The Light needs a strong pair of feet. Therefore, the Veda says, Padbhym sudro ajyata, out of the feet of the Cosmic Godhead the Sudra was born.
That is how man has become and is becoming integrally consciousconscious in and of all parts of his being. He is awakening and opening to The Light that descends from above: indeed the true light, The Light of truth is something transcendent and it is that that comes down and slowly inhabits the world and possesses humanity. Its progress marks the steps of evolution. It means the gradual enlightening and illumining of the various layers of our being, the different strands of consciousness from the higher to the lower, from the less dense to the more dense, from mind to the body. It means also in the same process a canalisation, materialisation and fixing upon earth and in the physical being of the increasing powers of The Light.
The Light as it descends from its own home above to the lower levels of our being expresses itself no doubt in one way, but also gets diminished, modified, even deformed in another respect. The work of purification certainly goes on and until that is complete and there comes the fullest expression, it will continue. The action of light on the physical plane, for example, on the body of the Cosmic Being is so blurred and confusing apparently that it looks almost like the action of Darkness. And yet the Dark Night of the soul is not simply the obscurity of Ignorance. It is only the mud that lay diffused or settled in the being which has come up in its gathered mass in the process of churning and cleaning and appears like an obscure screen.
***
04.02 - A Chapter of Human Evolution, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The intermediary faculty the Paraclete, which the Greeks brought to play is a corner-stone in the edifice of human progress. It is the formative power of the Mind which gives things their shape and disposition, their consistency and cogency as physical realities. There are deeper and higher sources in man, more direct, immediate and revealing, where things have their birth and origin; but this one is necessary for the embodiment, for the building up and maintenance of the subtler and profounder truths in an earthly structure, establish and fix them in the normal consciousness. The Socratic Dialogues are rightly placed at the start of the modern culture; they set the pattern of modern mentality. That rational turn of mind, that mental intelligence and understanding as elaborated, formulated, codified by the Aristotelian system was The Light that shone through the Grco-Latin culture of the Roman days; that was behind the culture and civilisation of the Middle Ages. The changes and revolutions of later days, social or cultural, did not affect it, rather were based upon it and inspired by it. And even today our scientific culture maintains and continues the tradition.
The Mind of Reason is a kind of steel-frame for other movements of consciousness pure ideas, imaginations or instinctive and sensory notions, or even secret intimations and visions of deeper truths and greater realitiesto take body, to find a local habitation and name and be firmly stabilised for experience or utilisation in physical life. There was indeed a hiatus in the human consciousness of the earlier period. Take, for example, the earliest human civilisation at its best, of which we have historical record, the Vedic culture of India: human consciousness is here at its optimum, its depth and height is a thing of wonder. But between that world, an almost occult world and this world of the physical senses there is a gap. That world was occult precisely because of this gap. The physical life and mind could translate and represent the supra-physical only in figures and symbols; the impact was direct, but it expressed itself in hieroglyphs. Life itself was more or less a life of rites and ceremonies, and mind a field of metaphors and legends and parables. The parable, the myth was an inevitability with this type of consciousness and in such a world. The language spoken was also one of images and figures, expressing ideas and perceptions not in the abstract but as concrete objects, represented through concrete objects. It is the Mind of Reason that brought in the age of philosophy, the age of pure and abstract ideas, of the analytic language. A significant point to note is that it was in the Greek language that the pre-position, the backbone almost of the analytical language, started to have an independent and autonomous status. With the Greeks dawned the spirit of Science.
In India we meet a characteristic movement. As I said the Vedas represented the Mythic Age, the age when knowledge was gained or life moulded and developed through Vision and Revelation (Sruti, direct Hearing). The Upanishadic Age followed next. Here we may say the descending light touched the higher reaches of the Mind, the mind of pure, fundamental, typical ideas. The consciousness divested itself of much of the mythic and parabolic apparel and, although supremely immediate and intuitive, yet was bathed with The Light of the day, the clear sunshine of the normal wakeful state. The first burgeoning of the Rational Mind proper, the stress of intellect and intellectuality started towards the end of the Upanishadic Age with the Mahabharata, for example and the Brahmanas. It flowered in full vigour, however, in the earlier philosophical schools, the Sankhyas perhaps, and in the great Buddhist illuminationBuddha being, we note with interest, almost a contemporary of Socrates and also of the Chinese philosopher or moralist Confuciusa triumvirate almost of mighty mental intelligence ruling over the whole globe and moulding for an entire cycle human culture and destiny. The very name Buddha is significant. It means, no doubt, the Awakened, but awakened in and through the intelligence, the mental Reason, buddhi. The Buddhist tradition is that the Buddhist cycle, the cycle over which Buddha reigns is for two thousand and five hundred years since his withdrawal which takes us, it seems, to about 1956 A.D.
The Veda speaks of Indra who became later on the king of the gods. And Zeus too occupies the same place in Greek Pantheon. Indra is, as has been pointed out by Sri Aurobindo, the Divine Mind, the leader of thought-gods (Maruts), the creator of perfect forms, in which to clo the our truth-realisations in life. The later traditional Indra in India and the Greek Zeus seem to be formulations on a lower level of the original archetypal Indra, where the consciousness was more mentalised, intellectualised, made more rational, sense-bound, external, pragmatic. The legend of Athena being born straight out of the head of Zeus is a pointer as to the nature and character of the gods. The Roman name for Athena, Minerva, is significantly derived by scholars from Latin mens, which means, as we all know, mind.
04.03 - Consciousness as Energy, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Now this superconsciousness is the true origin of creation, although the apparent and objective creation starts with and is based upon Unconsciousness. All norms and archetypes belong to the superconsciousness; for the sake of material creation they are thrown down or cast as seed into the Unconscious and in this process they undergo a change, a deformation and aberration. All the major themes of dream myths and prehistoric legends which the psychologists claim to have found imbedded in man's subconscient consciousness are in fact echoes and mirages of great spiritualsuperconscientrealities reflected here below. The theme of the Hero of the Dual Mother (Dark and Fair), of Creation and Sacrifice, these are, according to Jung, dramatisations of some fundamental movements and urges in the dark subconscient nature. Jung, however, throws a luminous suggestion in characterising the nature of this vast complex. The general sense, Jung says; is that of a movement forward, of a difficult journey, of a pull backward and downward, of yawning abysses that call, of a light that beckons. It is an effort, a travail of what lies imbedded and suppressed to come out into the open, into the normal consciousness and thus release an unhealthy tension, restore a balance in the individual's system. Modern psychology lays great stress upon the integration of personality. Most of the ills that human nature suffers from, they say, are due to this division or schism in it, a suppressed subconsciousness and an expressed consciousness seeking to express a negation of that subconsciousness. Modern psychology teaches that one should dive into the nether regions and face squarely whatever elements are there, help these to follow their natural bent to come up and see The Light of the day. Only thus there can be established a unitary movement, an even consistency and an equilibrium throughout the entire consciousness and being.
So far so good. But two things are to be taken note of. First of all, the resolution of the normal conflict in man's consciousness, the integration of his personality, is not wholly practicable within the scope of the present nature and the field of the actual forces at play. That can give only a shadow of the true resolution and integration. A conscious envisaging of the conflicting forces, a calm survey of the submerged or side-tracked libidos in their true nature, a voluntary acceptance, of these dark elements as a part of normal human nature, does not automatically make for their sublimation and purification or transformation. The thing is possible only through another force and on another level, by the intervention and interfusion precisely of the superconsciousness. And here comes the second point to note. For it is this superconsciousness towards which all the strife and struggle of the under-consciousness are turned and directed. The yearning and urge in the subconsciousness to move forward, to escape outside into The Light does not refer merely to the march towards normal awareness and consciousness: it has a deeper direction and a higher aimit seeks that of which it is an aberration and a deformation, the very origin and source, the height from which it fell.
This superconsciousness has a special mode of its quintessential energy which is omnipotent in action, immediate in effectivity. It is pure as the purest incandescent solar light and embodies the concentrated force of consciousness. It is the original creative vibration of the absolute or supreme Being. Sri Aurobindo calls this supreme form of superconscient consciousness-energy, the Supermind. There are of course other layers and strata of superconsciousness leading up to the super-mind which are of various potentials and embody different degrees of spiritual power and consciousness.
04.03 - The Call to the Quest, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The life you lead conceals The Light you are.
04.04 - Evolution of the Spiritual Consciousness, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
But once there is the possibility gained of a more normalised, familiar and wider reconnaissance of the Beyond, when the human being has been mentalised to a degree and in a manner that makes it inevitable for him to overpass to a higher status and live there habitually, then it becomes an urgent matter of concern to know and find out where one goes exactly, on which level and in what domain, once one is beyond. The question, it is true, engaged the attention of the ancients too; but it was more or less an interesting inquiry, a good part speculative and theoretical; it had not the reality and insistence of the need of the hour. We have today chalked out an almost exhaustive science of the inferior consciousness, of the lower hemisphereof course, so far as it is possible for such a science to be exhaustive moving in The Light of the partial and inferior consciousness. In the same way we need at the present hour a complete and precise science of the Divine Consciousness. As there is a logic of the finite, there is also a logic of the infinite, not merely its magic, and that too has to be discovered and laid out.
Thus, the highest and most comprehensive description of the Divine is perhaps the formula Sat-chit-ananda. But even so, it is a very general and, after all, an inadequate description. It has to be filled in and supplemented by other categories as well, if one may say so. For Sat-chit-ananda presents to us the Sat Brahman. There is also the Asat Brahman. And again we must accept a reality which is neither Sat nor Asatnsadsnno sadst, says the Veda. And as for the filling up of the details in an otherwise almost blank and featureless infinity, Sri Aurobindo's charting of that vast unknownwith the categories of the Supermind and its various levels, of the Overmind and its levels too, all forming the Divine Status and Consciousness is a new, almost a revolutionary revelation, just the required science which the present world needs and demands and for which it has been prepared through all the cycles of evolution.
04.04 - The Quest, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Imparting to our struggling world The Light
They breathed like spirits from Time's dull yoke released,
04.06 - Evolution of the Spiritual Consciousness, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
But once there is the possibility gained of a more normalised, familiar and wider reconnaissance of the Beyond, when the human being has been mentalised to a degree and in a manner that makes it inevitable for him to overpass to a higher status and live there habitually, then it becomes an urgent matter of concern to know and find out where one goes exactly, on which level and in what domain, once one is beyond. The question, it is true, engaged the attention of the ancients too; but it was more or less an interesting enquiry, a good part speculative and theoretical; it had not the reality and insistence of the need of the hour. We have today chalked out an almost exhaustive science of the inferior consciousness, of the lower hemisphereof course, so far as it is possible for such a science to be exhaustive moving in The Light of the partial and inferior consciousness. In the same way we need at the present hour a complete and precise science of the Divine Consciousness. As there is a logic of the finite, there is also a logic of the infinite, not merely its magic, and that too has to be discovered and laid out.
Thus, the highest and most comprehensive description of the Divine is perhaps the formula Sat-chit-ananda. But even so, it is a very general and, after all, an inadequate description. It has to be filled in and supplemented by other categories as well, if one may say so. For Sat-chit-ananda presents to us the Sat Brahman. There is also the Asat Brahman. And again we must accept a reality which is neither Sat nor Asatnsadsnno sadst, says the Veda. And as for the filling up of the details in an otherwise almost blank and featureless infinity, Sri Aurobindo's charting of that vast unknownwith the categories of the Supermind and its various levels, of the Overmind and its levels too, all forming the Divine Status and Consciousness is a new, almost a revolutionary revelation, just the required science which the present world needs and demands and for which it has been prepared through all the cycles of evolution.
04.07 - Readings in Savitri, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The deepest and the most fundamental mystery of the human consciousness (and in fact of the earth consciousness) is not that there is an unregenerate aboriginal being there as its bed-rock, a being made of the very stuff of ignorance and I inconscience and inertia that is Matter: it is this that the I submerged being is not merely dead matter, but a concentrated, a solidified flame, as it were, a suppressed aspiration that burns inwardly, all the more violent because it is not articulate and in the open. The aboriginal is that which harbours in its womb the original being. That is the Inconscient Godhead, the Divinity in painMater Dolorosa the Divine Being who lost himself totally when transmuted into Matter and yet is harassed always by the oestrus of a secret flame driving it to know itself, to find itself, to be itself again. It is Rudra, the Energy coiled up in Matter and forging ahead towards a progressive evolution in light and consciousness. That is what Savitri, the universal Divine Grace become material and human, finds at the core of her being, the field and centre of concentrated struggle, a millennial aspiration petrified, a grief of ages congealed, a divinity lone and benumbed in a trance. This divinity has to awake and labour. The god has to be cruel to himself, for his divinity demands that he must surpass himself, he cannot abdicate, let Nature go her own way, the inferior path of ease and escape. The godhead must exercise its full authority, exert all its pressure upon itselftapas taptv and by this heat of incubation release the energy that leads towards The Light and the high fulfilment. In the meanwhile, the task is not easy. The divine sweetness and solicitude lights upon this hardened divinity: but the inertia of the Inconscient, the 'Pani', hides still The Light within its rocky cave and would not deliver it. The Divine Grace, mellow with all the tears of love and sympathy and tenderness she has gathered for the labouring godhead, has pity for the hard lot of a humanity stone-bound to the material life, yet yearning and surging towards freedom. The godhead is not consoled or appeased until that freedom is achieved and light and immortality released. The Grace is working slowly, laboriously perhaps but surely to that end: the stone will wear down and melt one day. Is that fateful day come?
That is the meaning of human life, the significance of even the very ordinary human life. It is the field of a dire debate, a fierce question, a constant struggle between the two opposing or rather polar forces, the will or aspiration to be and the will of inertia not to be the friction, to use a Vedic image, of the two batons of the holy sacrificial wood, arani out of which the flame is to leap forth. The pain and suffering men are subject to in this unhappy vale of tears physical illness and incapacity, vital frustration or mental confusionare symbols and expressions of a deeper fundamental Pain. That pain is the pain of labour, the travail for the birth and incarnation of a godhead asleep or dead. Indeed, the sufferings and ills of life are themselves powerful instruments. They inevitably lead to the Bliss, they are the fuel that kindles, quickens and increases the Fire of Ecstasy that is to blaze up on the day of victory in the full and integral spiritual consciousness. The round of ordinary life is not vain or meaningless: its petty innocent-looking moments and events are the steps of the marching Divinity. Even the commonest life is the holy sacrificial rite progressing, through the oblations of our experiences, bitter or sweet, towards the revelation and establishment of the immortal godhead in man.
--
Almost with hate repels The Light it brings;. . . ||2.11||
As, however, mortality bears ill the eternal's touch, the eternal too is intolerant of the mortal natureonly it is intolerant not in the ignorant blind squeamish weak human way, but in a divine way, for it is armed with weapons of light and knowledge, it assaults with its luminous force, the energy of ether and fire, the higher and nobler elements as against the dense dark dumb earth, the lowest element that clothes the human consciousness. Indeed, mortality is enamoured of the tangled beam of joy and sorrow, of laughter and tears, of light and shadow and cannot contemplate the unalloyed sheer delight in Eternity. It is out of breath in the serene rarefied air of immortality; it pines for the terra firma, the mud and slime. The human consciousness has been fleeing the Hound of Heaven down the corridors of Time, and yet it will be caught in the end and wholly transmuted in the divine embrace into the substance of the Divine Himself. All the unwillingness and protestation and revolt are meant to forge and hammer the final union into something perfect, faultless, absolute.
04.08 - An Evolutionary Problem, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
I am afraid the metaphysics here found fault with is not surely false, it is the critics appreciation that is at fault. The metaphysics is perhaps somewhat too physical in its imagery and terminology, that is to say, graphic in the Shavian manner, but the matter seems to us quite all right. What the critic fails to understand is that it is not the conscious idea in the mind that brings about its concrete realisation. What is there at the outset in the evolutionary urge is a life-force, blind, no doubt in the usual sense, but driving towards greater expression and articulation, towards a more and more conscious and clear perception of ends and means. Thus, for example,the root shoots out of the earth into the open air, throws up the stem and the stem grows upward and branches out into tendrils and leaves: all that process means an ardent yearning, a wanting, to rush and plunge into The Light and air above: The root or the seed underground does not see The Light or air, how then does it move towards that? In fact, it is not necessary to have seen eyes, known what eyes are in order to grow the vision and the organ. We will what we need: yes, but what we need is not always or wholly covered by the conscious minds conception of it. The needs lie deep down and most of them are unconscious; and at a time, at a stage when conscious mind has not yet evolved, it is a secret sense of the life-force, an instinctive orientation to what is useful and needful that infallibly guides the living organism.
Evolution is purposive: not because it has had always a mentally conscious aim before it, for the mind is a later production, but because the purpose is latent within as an involved force and is gradually unrolled and worked out. It is not as indeterminate and unpredictable as Bergson would have it; it has a veiled determination, a disposition implanted in the very movement by the stress of an apparent unconsciousness seeking conscious formulation. We might also say, reverting to our analogy, that the seed sprouts towards light and air, because it had absorbed light and air in its original formation out of the flower blooming in the open space: the impress of that contact is taken into the very grain of its substance, in its chromosomes and genesit remains there as an indelible memory (although not of the human cerebral variety). It is no wonder therefore that an inner urge towards light gradually leads towards the formation of the instrument for sight. The organism may have no notion of the external eye, but the external eye is only a projection of an inner eye that lies imbedded in the sensory continuum. Behind the physical eye there is a subtle eye, the eye of the eye, as the Upanishad calls it, the secret gaze of an involved consciousness in the apparently unconscious.
04.10 - To the Heights-X, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The Light thou scatterest to the farthest star
Shines in my eye with a purer gleam;
04.19 - To the Heights-XIX (The March into the Night), #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It is thou, O my Soul, it is The Light itself, the beacon from above!
For whither else could Progress lie?
--
It is Darkness that yearns for The Light
And so the Soul has descended in answer
04.21 - To the HeightsXXI, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
And nourish with The Light that we press out of every cell and every pore;
Thou growest with each drop of the Grace that distils from above into our mortality-
04.23 - To the Heights-XXIII, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
and shut out The Light;
There is no pain, it is only our shrinking
--
and ray by ray will dawn The Light supernal. . . . . .
Or-be prepared for this too, soul, my soul-
04.28 - To the Heights-XXVIII, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
In the shade of The Light, a happy traveller I move on
Ever secure and tranquil.
04.35 - To the Heights-XXXV, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
And The Lightning fire leap out
To consume the shadow track
04.43 - To the Heights-XLIII, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
on the rose, The Light of the awakening soul in the human face-
All, all are radiances from the sparkle of her eyes,
04.44 - To the Heights-XLIV, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The creative ardour of The Light of Truth!
White-colour of the pearl reposing in the womb of the mother-of-pearl-
05.01 - Of Love and Aspiration, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Towards The LightOf Love and Aspiration
Of Love and Aspiration
05.02 - Gods Labour, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The Divine brings down with himself his shaft of light, and The Light, as it spreads, begins to scatter and dissolve the clouds of ignorance. The Divine comes here below and as he formulates and concentrates his consciousness in or as an individualised channel, the power of the consciousness becomes dynamic and concrete and works out the desired change in th material plane. In the descent the Divine has to assume the lower potentials on the inferior levels and this involves an apparent veiling and lessening of his higher and divine degrees. In other words, the Divine in becoming human accepts and embraces in that embodiment all that humanity normally means, its weaknesses and frailties, its obstacles and difficulties, all the ignorance and inconscience. This sacrifice he has agreed to, has undertaken in order to create out of it a golden body, a radiant matter, a heavenly or divinised earth.
God made man, the spirit become flesh: this is Grace, the benediction of the Holy One upon the sinful earth. The working of Grace in one of its characteristic movements has been beautifully envisaged in esoteric Christianity. The burden of sin that is to say, of weakness, impurity and ignorancelies so heavy upon man, the force of gravitation is so absolute, that it is divine intervention alone, and in the most physical sense, which can save him. God takes upon himself man's load and relieves him of it: thus freed he can soar up easily and join the company of the Happy in heaven alongside God. This is the ransom paid by God to His Enemy, the vicarious atonement suffered by the Divine, the cross he has to bear when he comes upon this earth, into this vale of tears. I t is said, in terms of human feeling, pity so moved him that he left the happy abode of heaven, came down among men and lived like one of them, sharing their sorrow and pain and, what is divine, taking up the evil into himself, drinking, as it were, out of the poisoned bowl, so that man, frail mortal creature, may escape his doom.
05.02 - Of the Divine and its Help, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Towards The LightOf the Divine and its Help
Of the Divine and its Help
05.03 - Of Desire and Atonement, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Towards The Lightof Desire and Atonement
of Desire and Atonement
05.03 - Satyavan and Savitri, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
All that The Lightning-flash of love reveals
In one great hour of the unveiling gods.
--
Her many-hued raiment glistening in The Light
Hovered a moment over the wind-stirred grass,
05.04 - Of Beauty and Ananda, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Towards The LightOf Beauty and Ananda
Of Beauty and Ananda
--
Knowledge is The Light that Beauty emanates.
Power is the fascination that Beauty exerts.
05.04 - The Immortal Person, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The individualisation of the mind, its organisation as a special formation, as a vehicle of the true light, The Light of the Psychic consciousness is comparatively easy for a man. Mind is the first member of the lower sphere that is taken up and dealt with by the soul; for it is the highest and the most characteristic element in man and less dense and less subject to the darkness inherent in human nature. The mental individual persists the longest after the dissolution of the body, it survives and may survive very long the disruption of the vital being. This vital being is next in the rung to be taken up, organised and individualised by and around the psychic being. The organisation of the vital being in view of a particular object or aim in ordinary life is common enough: the purpose is limited, the scope restricted. Great men of action have done it and one has to do it more or less to be successful in life. This, however, may be called organisation; it is not individualisation in the true sense, much less personalisation. A limb is individualised, personalised only when it is an instrument and formation of the soul consciousness, the psychic being. And the vital is not easily amenable to such a role. For, it is the dynamic element, the effective power of life and it has acquired a strong nature and a definite function in its earthly relations. Naturally, there is a secret drive and an occult inspiration behind over-riding or guiding all immediate and apparent forces and happenings: in and through these the shape of things to come is being built up. In the meanwhile, however, actually the vital is an executive agent of the lower consciousness: it is an anonymous force of universal nature canalised into a temporary figure that is the normal individual man. The individualisation of the vital being would mean an immortal formulation of an immortal soul as energy consciousness with a specific role for the Divine to play. It maintains its identity, its personality independent of the vicissitudes of the physical body: it continues to function as a divine being, a godhead, to work for mankind and the world. The popular legend has imaged this phenomenon in the mystic figure of an immortal Aswatthama and Vibhishana still wandering in earth's atmosphere.
Finally, it is the turn of the body to become individualised, personalised, that is to say, when it takes up the disposition and configurationof the psychic person and individual. The first stage is that of a subtle body individualised, a radiant form of etherealised elements consisting of the concentrated light particles of the divine consciousness of the Psyche. This too is an immortalisation of the personal identity which can be achieved and is achieved by the gnostic man who is to come, who will wholly psychicise and divinise his personality. The second stage is the reorganisation and individualisation of the material sheath itself. The very cells of the body are impregnated with the radiant substance of the supreme spiritual consciousness; they live the life of the spiritual individual, the personal divine embodied in the individual. When the whole process is gone through and the work clone, the individual body, physically too, shares in and attains the immortality of the soul. The body is firm enough to maintain its physical identity and yet plastic enough to change in the manner and to the degree demanded of it at any time.
05.05 - In Quest of Reality, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Creation as a movement or expression of consciousness need not be dubbed a metaphysical jargon; it can be assumed as a scientific working hypothesis and seen how it affects our view, meets our problems and difficulties, whether it can give a satisfactory clue to some of the riddles of physical and psychical phenomena. A scientific supposition (or intuition) is held to be true if it can be applied invariably to facts of life and experience and if it can open up to our vision and perception new facts. The trend of scientific discoveries today is towards the positing of a background reality in Nature of which energy (radiant and electrical) is the first and overt form. We discarded ether, only to replace it by field and disposition. We have arrived at a point where the question is whether we cannot take courage" in both hands and declare, as some have already done, that the substratum in Nature is consciousness-energy and on that hypothesis better explain certain movements of Matter and Life and Mind in a global unity. Orthodox and die-hard views will always protest and cry that it is a misalliance, a misjoinder to couple together Matter and Consciousness or even Life and Consciousness. But since The Light has touched the higher mind even among a few of the positivist type, the few may very well be the precursor of the order of the day.
After all, only one bold step is needed: to affirm unequivocally what is being suggested and implied and pointed to in a thousand indirect ways. And Science will be transformed. The scientist too, like the famous Saltimbanque (clown) of a French poet, may one day in turning a somersault, suddenly leap up and find himself rolling into the bosom of the stars.
05.05 - Of Some Supreme Mysteries, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Towards The LightOf Some Supreme Mysteries
Of Some Supreme Mysteries
--
To be conscious means to become aware of the truth of one's nature and to live with The Light and the force of that truth.
To be unconscious means to be ignorant of the realities that make one's true nature, to be a mere tool driven and utilised by the forces of Untruth.
--
Consciousness is The Light that flows from the Truth of existence.
To be conscious means to be aware of the Truth of one's nature and live and move with the luminous force of that Truth.
Awareness is not a mere passive phenomenon; it is supremely active and dynamic. To be aware means a constant radiation of The Light of consciousness and by the touch of that light a continuous purification and new-creation.
Consciousness: the movement by which existence goes out of itself and turns back upon itself in order to experience itself.
05.06 - The Birth of Maya, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Towards The LightThe Birth of Maya
The Birth of Maya
05.07 - The Observer and the Observed, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
There is still something more. The matter of calculating and measuring objectively was comparatively easy when the object in view was of medium size, neither too big nor too small. But in the field of the infinite and the infinitesimal, when from the domain of mechanical forces we enter into the region of electric and radiant energy, we find our normal measuring apparatus almost breaks down. Here accurate observation cannot be made because of the very presence of the observer, because of the very fact of observation. The ultimates that are observed are trails of light particles: now when the observer directs his eye (or the beam oflight replacing the eye) upon The Light particle, its direction and velocity are interfered with: the photon is such a tiny infinitesimal that a ray from the observer's eye is sufficient to deflect and modify its movement. And there is no way of determining or eliminating this element of deflection or interference. The old Science knew certainly that a thermometer dipped in the water whose temperature it is to measure itself changes the initial temperature. But that was something calculable and objective. Here the position of the observer is something like a "possession", imbedded, ingrained, involved in the observed itself.
The crux of the difficulty is this. We say the observing eye or whatever mechanism is made to function for it, disturbs the process of observation. Now to calculate that degree or measure of disturbance one has to fall back upon another observing eye, and this again has to depend upon yet another behind. Thus there is an infinite regress and no final solution. So, it has been declared, in the ultimate analysis, scientific calculation gives us only the average result, and it is only average calculations that are possible.
05.08 - True Charity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
True charity consists in laying the healing balm upon the sore that lies hidden behind all external miseries which derive from that source and sustainer. And it is in the sole possession of him alone who has found the bliss of the Spirit and dwells in it always. Such a person does not require external accessories for his work of healing and comforting. He need do nothing apparently; he may even appear to be aloof and indifferent. But his presence itself is a healing power: the patient feels it and wonders at the ease and happiness that come into him as if from nowhere. Many physicians have this kind of healing power; indeed without that, a mere medical man, with his pharmacopoeia, is no physician. It may not be well known and recognised, but it is a fact that a good part of the efficacy of medicines lies in the subtle influence, the vital health, that the doctor puts into his medicine or even directly into the body of his patient. And in the case of a spiritual Bhishak, the power can be raised to the nth degree. The healer need not even be present at all physically near the patient; his influence can act very well from any distance. It is quite natural and inevitable that it should be so. For the healing power is in the spiritual consciousness, the inalienable bliss of one's status in the Spirit. One becomes identified with each and every objectperson or thingin one's own self, in the true being and substance; and The Light and happiness that one possesses there inalienably go out in a spontaneous flow to others who are not really others but integral parts and portions of the same self.
This condition is attained, fully and sovereignly, when there is absolute egolessness, when there is no consciousness of a separate person, the dual consciousness of the helper and the helped, the reformer and the reformed, the doctor and the patient. The normal human sense of values is based upon such a division, upon egohood, mamatvam. A philanthropic man helps others through a sense of sympathy giving rise to a sense of duty and obligation. This feeling of pity, of commiseration is dangerous, for it puts you in a frame of mind that tends to make you look down upon, take a superior air towards your object of pity. You become self-conscious, with the consciousness of your inferior self, that you are helping others, doing good to the world, doing something that raises your value: this sense of personal merit is only another name for vanity. Vanity and ambition are the motive powers that lie behind the philanthropical spirit born of sympathy. To denote a shade of meaning different from what is usually conveyed by the word sympathy, modern psychology has I found another wordempathy. Sympathy may be said to be the relation or contact between two egos; it is a link or bridge between two separate and independent entities; empathy, on the other hand, means the entering into the I very being and consciousness of another, becoming that other one; it is identification and identity. This again is what I spiritual consciousness alone can do. Sympathy leads to! philanthropy, empathy is the origin of true charity, the spiritual I compassion of a Buddha or a Christ. Philanthropy is human, I charity (caritas) is divine.
05.18 - Man to be Surpassed, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The limitation of such a human ideal is for us evident. We demand a total surpassing of man, although that does not mean a rejection of man. Unless human life is built upon foundations quite other than what they are now, we say there can be no permanent or radical remedy to the ills it suffers from. Hence we are for utter transcendence; for, the highest height it is possible for the consciousness to reach and the being to dwell in, even the experience of Brahman or un-mitigated Absolute of the Mayavadin or the Zero, Shunyam of the Buddhist not excluded. Since it is there that the true foundations of creation lie hidden and it is from there that a new world has to be recreated, a new humanity reshaped. The very stuff of human nature has to be changed, not only what is considered as bad in it but what is valued as good also. For beyond good and evil is Nature Divine. Man has to find out this divine nature and dissolve his human nature into that, remould it, reshape it in that pattern. So long as human consciousness remains too human, it will be always branded with the bar sinister of all earthly things. Man has to grow into the immortal seated within mortality, into The Light that shines inviolate on the other side of the darkness we live in. That immortality, that light one has to bring down here on earth and in ourselves, and out of it build a new earth and a new human self and life.
***
05.20 - The Urge for Progression, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
In the process of the expression and embodiment of this innermost truth, the first necessary condition is, as we have said, sincerity, that is to say, a constant reference to the demand of that truth, putting everything and judging everything in The Light of that truth, a vigilant wakefulness to it. The second condition is progression. It is the law of the Truth that it is expressing itself, seeking to express itself continually and continuously in the march of life; it is always unfolding new norms and forms of its light and power, ever new degrees of realisation. The individual human consciousness has to recognise that progressive flux and march along with it. Human consciousness, the complex of external mind and life and body consciousness, has the habit of halting, clinging to the forms, experiences and gains of the past, storing them in memory, agreeing to a minimum change only just to be able to pour the new into the old. But this conservatism, which is another name for tamasis fatal to the living truth within. Even like the lan vitalso gloriously hymned by Bergson, the inmost consciousness, the central truth of being, the soul lanhas always a forward-looking reference. And it is precisely because the normal instrument of the body and life and mind has always a backward reference, because it slings ,back and cannot keep pace with the march of the soul-consciousness that these members stagnate, wear away, decay and death ends it all. The past has its utility: it marks the stages of progress. It means assimilation, but must not mean stagnation. It may supply the present basis but must always open out to what is coming or may come. If one arrives at a striking realisation, a light is revealed, a Voice, a mantra heard, a norm disclosed, it is simply to be noted, taken in the stuff of the being, made part and parcel of the consciousness; you leave it at that and pass and press on. You must not linger at wayside illuminations however beautiful or even useful some may be. The ideal of the paryataka the wanderermay be taken as a concrete symbol of this principle. The Brahmanas described it graphically in the famous phrase, caraivete, "move on". The Vedic Rishi sang of it in the memorable hymn to Dawn, the goddess who comes today the last of a succession of countless dawns in the immemorial past and the first of a never-ending series of the future. The soul is strung with a golden chain to the Great Fulfilment that moves ahead: even when fulfilled the soul does not rest or come to the end of its mission, it continues to be an ever new expression or instrumentation of the Infinite.
***
05.34 - Light, more Light, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
But where is to be found this inner light? How is it to be recognised? 'Does it truly require no introduction like the outer light? What are its characters and attributes, its signs and signals? The Light is in one's own consciousness, one has simply to become aware of it. It is mixed p with darkness, imbedded in obscurity, as diamond or gold lies concealed in its ore. But, as I have said, light carries its own au thenticity. One cannot fail to recognise it, provided and that is the sole arid sufficient provisionone is genuinely willing to recognise. A sincere good-will is all that is required in this apparently arduous labour.
Here is a significant mystery and of capital importance. We refer to an activity of the consciousness which is not completely .hidden or behind the veil: it appears covered, because we do not care to look at it, because it is likely to be of an uncomfortable kind and that because we feel safe and cosy at the lowest level of our consciousness and to mount and rise or to be vigilant and straight means effort and trouble.
Let us explain. Man is not as ignorant and helpless as he seems to be, as he would himself consider to be. There is in him always a spark, under the ashes, as it were, a perfect freedom behind the faade of a network of bondages, not dead or dormant but biding the time, to come out and be active on the surface. The spark is The Light that directs to the right and warns against the wrong; the freedom is the choice to do the right and avoid the wrong. It is just a point of perception, just a flash of awareness, but net and clear: it is there, you have only to notice it. It does not give the why or the whither of the rightness: it is a simple declaration presented to you, for you to do what you like with it: to ignore or to profit by. Usually we do not pay attention to it: our attention is diverted towards another direction and other things. Our environment, our education, our domestic and social influences, even a good part of our own nature demand of us other ways of living and inhibit the spontaneous inherent light of the consciousness. Even so, if we care to look at it, if we sincerely turn round and ask for it, we will find it still there the flame behind the smoke, the queen in the harem, the deity in the sanctum. What is required is just a straight look and not the crooked wink we are accustomed to. The first attempts will necessarily mean a little fumbling, but if you mean what you do, you will find your vision getting clearer. It is our own disinclination that weaves the cobweb of ignorance around the truth. Otherwise, an unsophisticated consciousness, a consciousness which is not vitiatedmore often by nurture than by naturecan always feel the presence of the truth and is directly aware of it.
A blinded misdirected mind, if it wakes up at any time and looks about for the truth sincerelywe insist upon the conditioncan recognise it, learn to trace it by certain indications it always leaves behind in the consciousness. A touch of the truth, a step towards it will be always accompanied by a sense of relief, of peace, of a serene happiness and unconditional freedom. These things are felt not as something gross and superficial affecting your outer life and situation, but pertaining to the depth of your being, concerning your inmost fibreit is nothing else but just the sense of light, as if you are at last out of the dark. A right movement brings you that feeling; and whenever you have that feeling you know that there has been the right movement. On the contrary, with a wrong movement you are ill at ease. You may say that a hardened criminal is never ill at ease; perhaps, but only after a great deal of hardening. The criminal was not always a criminal I am speaking of a human being, not a born hostilehe must have started some-where the downward incline. The distinction of the right and the wrong must have been presented to his consciousness and the choice was freely his. Afterwards one gets bound to one's Karma and its chain.
--
This spontaneous recognition of The Light in you is also called, in the Yogic language, openness. It means you are ready, at least, something in you is ready, to accept and admit The Light when it presents itself before you. If you have any hesitation to receive it for its own sake, if you wish to corroborate your initial perception you can look for its sign manual: the peace, the freedom, the elevation, the quiet certitude, the exquisite sweetness or gladness it brings, its own luminosity which is found neither here nor elsewhere but in its own body of self.
***
06.01 - The Word of Fate, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Its radiance bursting into The Light of stars;
He felt a sap of life, a sap of death;
06.02 - Darkness to Light, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The Darkness is the measure of The Light. The world as it is is exactly the opposite of what it has to be and shall be. And in order to be what it shall be it had to become what it is now, just not that which it will be. The antipodes go together unavoidably: the depth of the precipice is the precise measure of the height. Man's fall represents the ascent he has to make, he is destined to make. .
Hurdles and obstacles are put there in the way: not merely to test your strength, but to train it, to increase it, to discipline it. Difficulties abound precisely because by overcoming them you attain to the fullness of your perfection. You have been built with elements and forces that are exactly in keeping with what you are expected to do with them: you are placed in the midst of conditions and circumstances that are absolutely in proportion to what you have to realise. Indeed you carry within yourself all the difficulties that are necessary to make your realisation perfection itself.
06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Thy grief is a cry of darkness to The Light;
Pain was the first-born of the Inconscience
--
Can find no more The Light of eternity;
He sees the beyond as an emptiness void of soul
--
Vanishing into The Light of the Unseen.
But still a cry was heard in the infinite,
06.03 - Types of Meditation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The next type we may call concentration, instead of meditation. Here we do not pursue a thought-line, but fix the thought upon one object unmoved. It means a further process of withdrawing the consciousness from its habitual outgoing and dispersive movement. The thought is held at a point and attention is focussed upon it: it is continuous and unbroken attention, for example, upon an idea, a phrase (mantra) or an image. One can concentrate also upon a physical point, say, fixing the gaze upon the tip of one's nose, or on a luminous point outside etc. In this discipline the whole mind is gathered together and focussed: or, everything else is shut out leaving only one thing upon which all The Light of the consciousness is directed. It is a standstill consciousness, like a flame erect and immobile in a windless place.
There is a third grade when the mind becomes a void, all thoughts being driven out, all vibrations tranquillised. It is a wide silence suffused with a still luminosity. The operation is difficult. For it means a kind of continuous and methodical drainage or rarefication which takes more or less a very long time. First you throw' out well-formed ideas and notions, processes and products of reasoning and judgment the bigger waves, as it were; as soon as these subside you find there are smaller waves below or behindhalf-formed thoughts, budding ideas, fugitive notions and so on; when these too are quieted down, you come across still another layer of smaller ripples of thought, close to sensations, nervous reactions, vibrations of the brain-mind, rudimentary precepts, etc., etc. One may go on like that if not ad infinitum, at least, to a considerable length. One arrives in the end at what is practically a vacuum, to all intents and purposes a silent mind. Even then it is a difficult and arduous process and may not be as absolute as one may expect. There are other surer and even perhaps easier processes to attain the same end. Thus instead of striving and struggling and forcing your will upon the restless waves, you simply relax yourself, bypass them as it were, await and aspire and open yourself towards the Silence that is above: call for the silence with trust and reliance and it comes not unoften as a massive inundation, a glacial sweep and automatically overwhelms you, drowning and filling you from top to toe. There is also another way: to contact, to enter into the Mother's Presence. Mother's Presence means all the realisations to which we aspire concretised, brought down, near to us, within our human reach. We have not to travel far and wide, mount to inaccessible heights, labour and strainwith blood and sweat and tearsto get what we want: all the gettings are ready-made there in our atmosphere, we have only to know and perceive, open something in us for them to flow in. That is perhaps the action of Grace: silence, absolute silence, not only in the mind, but in the whole being, can come this way too.
The last process gives us the clue to the fourth type of meditation the type, in fact, which is recommended for us, both because it is the easiestfollowing as it does the line of least resistance, also because it gives the fullness of the result demanded. Instead of trying to manipulate the mental force with one's personal will and effort, instead of seeking to control and comm and the consciousness, the best thing to do would be to remain quiet as far as it is normally possible for one without struggle and then turn the gaze to the other side, deep inward or high upward, become more conscious of The Light, the Will that brought you to this Path, to be alive with the secret delight, the flaming aspiration that is there within you behind all the turbid turmoil of the surface life and consciousness. This Presence and Guidance will of itself place before you the elements and movements that are to be rejected and those that are to be accepted and given your sincere assent those that help you in doing the necessary gesture. Indeed, if you do not resist too much, it will throw out what is to be thrown out and bring in what is to be brought in. That is how the instrument will be cleansed and refined. Silence will be put in, for that is the basis; but not silence alone, for it will be unified with a new dynamism expressing the Divine's Willpersonal choice there will be none, neither for absolute quietude nor for mere activity.
***
06.04 - The Conscious Being, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The conscious being in us is truly the psychic being. But it is at present behind and out of the picture. What is normally conscious then is the mind, a part of it which has got The Light is illumined. We are conscious through this portion, and even we identify ourselves with it, know and feel it as our self, as I.
The mind, however, has a central consciousness which may be called the Witness Mind, the Purusha in the mind. It stands apart and observes whatever is happening in the mind and in other parts as well; it is in fact the observer of the whole dhra. The other parts are the vital and the physical. The vital too has its own central consciousness, its witness Purusha, which observes all the vital movements and also through its own angle the other parts. Likewise the physical has a Purusha and it too observes through its own consciousness. The mental Purusha says, I see I am thinking, reasoning, etc.; the vital Purusha says, I see I am angry, violent or enjoying, energising, etc.; the physical Purusha says, I see I am acting, walking, running, etc. Now each of these three Purushas, in an ordinary person, stands separately, each is conscious in its own way; they are not clearly conscious of each other; they intermix, but not happily, they are more often than not at cross purposes. Very rarely are they unified and harmonised or bound together as a team for serving a common purpose, a single aim. That union and harmonisation can be done only through the supreme Purusha, the Divine Witness who is the true conscious Being, the one Purusha behind or above all the others, whose light first of all centralises in the psychic being and then through it is canalised into its delegates or emanations on the lower levels, the mind, the vital and the physical.
06.05 - The Story of Creation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The one indivisible Reality and its pure consciousness: that is the origin. This Supreme Consciousness chose to objectify himself, bring himself out of himself, witness himself in play the Upanishad says, the One wished to have a second, a companion to himself, sa dwityam aichhat. This power of self-objectification is a free-will given to the consciousness to move out of its original unified status and move abroad and away, as it liked. Thus the Supreme saw himself as his own power of self-manifestation, and that is the Mother Consciousness, Adya Shakti, Aditiconsciousness-power, who again in her forward creative urge expressed herself in the first four major Emanations (Maheshwari, Mahakali, Mahalakshmi and Mahasaraswati). But this free urge, free to separate itself and proceed in an independent movement of self-expression and evolution precipitated itself immediately, almost as a logical consequence of its career of free choice, into the Denial, the Negation that is inconscience. So, against the Supreme, the Divine Consciousness, there stood out the utter unconsciousness: The Light disappeared into absolute Darkness. It was the result of a self-choice in the consciousness: but the end was the very opposite of consciousness.
It was a dead silence, more silent than Death and more dead than Silence itself. And it was utter helplessness and hopelessness. The Divine Consciousness Aditisaw the terrible line of destiny that freedom had taken and ended in: she could stand it no longer and a cry went out for succour, for help. And the answer came immediate, a ray shot down from the one Supreme Consciousness and entered into the womb of Inconscience. Lo, the miracle, Matter was born, the first creation, the first manifestation of the Supreme Grace. Matter holds in it the spark of consciousness that is to grow and unfold itself, shine more and more into the enveloping gloom of Inconscience, illumining it farther and farther, pushing its frontiers ever backward and away.
--
In the graded descent, in the hierarchy of planes and levels, there appeared forces and beings also proper to each domain. The earliest, the first among them are the Asuras, rather the original Asuras the first quaternary (some memory of them seemed to linger in the Greek legend of Chronos and his brood). For they embody the powers of division, of Inconscience: they are the Affirmations of the Negation. Against the Asuras there came and ranged-at the first line of division, on the one side of the descent of The Light the first godheads, the major powers and personalities of the Divine Consciousness. The battle of the gods and Titans for the possession of the earth has been going on ever since. The end will come one day: it will mean the dissolution of the forces of Negation, at least within the earthly sphere, and the establishment there of the reign of ,Light.
***
06.06 - Earth a Symbol, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The earth is the centre of the material universe. It has been created for concentrating the force that is to transform Matter. It is the symbol of the divine potentiality in Matter. As we have said, the earth was created through a direct intervention of the Divine Consciousness: it is on the earth alone that there is and can be the direct contact with the Divine. The earth absorbs and develops and radiates the divine light; its radiation spreads through space and extends wherever there is Matter. The material universe shares, to some extent, the gift that the earth brings The Light and harmony of the Divine Consciousness. But it is upon the Earth alone that there is the full and final flowering of that consciousness.
The psychic being is found on the earth alone, for it is a product of the earth: it is the touch of the Divine upon Matter. The psychic being is a child of the Earth: it is born and grows upon Earth, it is native to nowhere else. Still when it develops sufficiently and becomes an adult individuality, it can go to other physical domains, visit other planets, for example.
06.07 - Total Transformation Demands Total Rejection, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The reason is very simple. The experience or realisation is not a total one, that is to say, it belongs to a part only of the nature and is not shared by other parts. The sadhak is not of one piece: the whole of his nature is not worked to the same pitch and amplitude, it is not equally responsive everywhere. Thus, when the psychic brings forward an experience and the inner consciousness is full of The Light and energy and joy and faith, even then, in the background or by the side, if you are vigilant and observe carefully, you will see that the mind, the external mind, has its reservations or continues to move in its accustomed way. It looks askance at the experience, criticises or doubts; or it tries to understand or explain in its own terms, seize it within its frame of comprehension. Or else, the vital rises up and tries to get hold of the experience and utilise it for its own purposes; it is enjoyed as a tasty food, made to serve the vital's ambition or vanity, some lower ignorant egoistic urge. Or again, the physical, the body consciousness may not at all participate in the experience; it may remain indifferent, listless, lethargic with no impulse or enthusiasm to carry out in practice the experience of the inner consciousness. Any of these drags or cross-currents is sufficient to maim and diminish and even wipe out the experience: and usually all the three are finally there to combine and reinforce each other's effects to do the mischief.
The remedy is to turn back and hold to the spot of light that is there in the consciousness, the clarity or the aspiration that belongs to the inner and higher being. That has to be used as a torch, as a staff to support and guide you in your periods of darkness and vacillation. That beam of burning light should be thrown, in turn, upon those parts in you that besiege with their obscurity and inconscience, doubt and arrogance, the realisation that comes, the progress on the way. It must be done with firmness, vigilance and perseverance. The mixture has to be sorted out, the dross separated, kept on one side and the pure element on the other: the impurities have to be put under the flame-light to melt, burn away and be eliminated. And this means an ardent sincerity, for that is the tinder which keeps the fire blazing.
06.08 - The Individual and the Collective, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
And this centre is not an isolated entity in its nature: it is, as it were, a universal centre, that is to say, it links itself indissolubly in a secret sense of identity with all other centres. For this self is only one of the selves through which the One Self has multiplied itself for a varied self-objectification. The Light that shines here, the fire that burns here and the delight that flows here illumine, purify and revitalise not only the individual in which it dwells, but move abroad and extend into the other individuals with which it lives in spiritual identity.
***
06.23 - Here or Elsewhere, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
In the same way, there are souls that have emerged out of the fire of earthly life and are enjoying the safety and security of the heavens; but they have been called to come back into the world, add to the experience of the tranquil above the experience of the trouble below. Surely it increases the scope of their consciousness. But to turn upon the world means also to re-enter into ignorance, for this world means ignorance, as it is, it is nothing but ignorance. The role then of one who returns is once more to embrace ignorance, but with a view to bringing into it The Light and bliss that he gained from above, permeating the stuff of the present world with the substance of the higher consciousness. It is a sacrifice demanded of him, thus to abandon the eternal felicity of the high heavens the unbroken union with the Divine above and to enter into the depths of this great perilous world: but this is a privilege too, to bring solace to the afflicted, the transforming light to obscure souls, the radiant energy to inert earth. It is a high privilege for which the luminous soul is thankful: he modestly accepts a gift of grace from the Supreme. He accepts the Ignorance and offers it: he lays it at the feet of the Supreme so that it may be transmuted into lightlight here below. His own role is that of a modest intermediary.
***
06.26 - The Wonder of It All, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The ordinary consciousness takes for granted the things that exist as they are. It does not question; it finds everything very natural and as a matter of course. It sees and expects to see the same old familiar things repeated and is not struck by any extraordinary note in them. That is the unconsciousness of the ordinary consciousness. But when you begin to be conscious, when you look about and gaze at things, you awake, as it were, from sleep, and begin to question, to wonder: why is it like this, how is it so, what is it, to what purpose etc. etc. Normally you see the sun rise, rain fall, earth rotate but you do not spend a thought over any of these objects or happenings, except so far as they are useful or simply nuisance. But when there is a light in you and you become conscious, conscious of yourself and of things around you, everything acquires an importance, a sense and you are full of wonder, wondering at a wonderful creation. The more you advance, the more The Light grows in you, all the more your wonder increases. As your awareness increases, your interest too increases. A new beauty surrounds, flows out of every object and event. You do not take things for granted and let them pass mechanically, but greet everyone of them as a guest, with whom you wish to make acquaintance and be familiar, each one having a message for you and yourself something to deliver. That is a source of inexhaustible delight and of ever increasing knowledge.
***
06.27 - To Learn and to Understand, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Indeed it was not very much necessary for the ancient sages and occultists to try to hide their knowledge in an obscure language, in codes and symbols and ciphers for fear of misuse by the common uninitiate; even if they had expressed their knowledge in ordinary language, ordinary people would not have understood it at all. It would be like my speaking to you in Chinese-, you would not make out anything of it. One comprehends only what one already possesses, that is to say, you must have within you something at least of what you want to know and understand, something corresponding to it, similar in nature and vibration. That is what I mean when I say that you should be open, your mind and consciousness should be turned and attuned to the object it wishes to seize; it must have some light in it in order to receive The Light outside and beyond. If it is mere obscurity, The Light does not light; even if it manages to come it departs soon or is engulfed in the darkness.
The human mind can seize things only in three dimensions. A three-dimensional knowledge is its normal possession. But there is a fourth and a fifth dimension (which some intellectuals in Europe have begun to guess at): indeed there are at least as many as twelve dimensions in reference to the present creation. We cannot readily picture a four-dimensional object, a fifth dimension borders on the bizarre and beyond that it is all a blank to the human consciousness. If I spoke of these multi-dimensional experiences, what would you make of them?
--
What then is the way to this experience, to this opening in the consciousness? The Presence is there, The Light is there, the Grace always leans down to you, surrounds you. On your side you have to make a corresponding gesture. You have to ask for the thing sincerely, whole-heartedly, aspire for it tirelessly. You have to ask for it persistently, without losing faith or trust; you have to go on perseveringly without counting the time taken.
There is an iron door there nailed and fixed. It has to be broken open. It is the door that shuts you within your narrow ego-consciousness. You have to throw down that barrier and widen yourself out. You have to will for it, exert for it with a settled constancy. There is the pressure on the other side too, the pressure of Grace. Your aspiring will meeting the Grace will surely make the necessary opening in the dead wall.
06.30 - Sweet Holy Tears, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It was not easy to prepare the Feast. I had to bear the full load of the cross and ascend the calvary. Jesus as he mounted to his destiny with the Cross on his back stumbled often and fell and rose again with bruised limbs to begin again the arduous journey. Even so, this being too had to go through many disillusions and deceptions, many painful and brutal experiences. It was not a smooth and straight going, but a tortuous and dangerous ascent. But at the end of the tunnel there is always The Light. The calvary and the crucifixion culminated in the Resurrection: the divine Passion of Christ flowered into this supreme Recompense. Here too after all the dark and adverse vicissitudes lies the fulfilment of transformation. One must pass through the entire valley of death and rise to the topmost summit to receive and achieve the fullness of the glory. One must leave behind all the lower ranges of ignorance, the entire domain of human consciousness, come out of the imperfection man is made of; then only will he put on the divine nature as his own body and substance.
The Cross symbolises all the suffering and difficulty, the renunciation and self-denudation that the ascent to the Goal involves. The Calvary of the Christian legend means Ascension and Resurrection is Transformation in our sadhana. The Cross is also symbolic of the Transformed consciousness. It has three branches and represents the triple Divine, the Divine in his three modes of existence. The top branch, the vertical portion above the transverse line, stands for the supreme or transcendent Divine, one who is above manifestation; the middle the transverse or horizontal branch stands for the expanse of the universal consciousness, the Cosmic Divine; and the bottom portion, the vertical line below the transverse stands for the individual Divine immanent or imbedded in the manifestation. You will note that the flower we call transformation has a form similar to the Cross.
07.02 - The Parable of the Search for the Soul, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
His splendour and his greatness and The Light
Of self-creation in Time's infinity
--
And saw The Light of a spiritual sun.
Aspiring he transcends his earthly self;
07.02 - The Spiral Universe, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
There are, in the universe, an infinite number of points moving, each forming a spiral; so there are an infinite number of spirals. And these spirals do not lie only side by side, but cross each other and thus give an aspect of contrariness and contradictoriness. So if you wish to take a total view of the movement of universal progress, you will be somewhat puzzled. There are so many lines that advance and there are so many which recede at the same time. Some come into The Light, others go into the background and none independent or self-sufficient. There is a sort of intermingling, even coordination.
The universe can thus be conceived as a globe consisting of an infinite number of intersecting spirals. One can give to each spiral a different colour, each representing one aspect of nature's movement. A model globe of this kind may perhaps be constructed. A section only of the curve of a spiral is on the outside, the rest is within the globe and can be seen because of its special colour, provided we consider the globe as something transparent. It is these multiple sections outside that form the surface of the globe. The inside is of course full of spirals, excepting that section of a spiral which is outside. And yet though crossing and recrossing they do not form an opaque mass. One can see through and follow the brilliant lines of various colours. That is how I see it. You can try to make a geometrical figure of it, if possible.
07.03 - The Entry into the Inner Countries, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
For body without mind has not The Light,
The rapture of spirit sense, the joy of life;
--
Where The Light comes not nor the mystic voice,
Messengers from our subliminal greatnesses,
--
They carrying The Light to suffering men
Hurried with eager feet to the outer world;
07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
A few I guide who pass me towards The Light;
A few I save, the mass falls back unsaved;
--
Slowly The Light grows greater in the East,
Slowly the world progresses on God's road.
--
To speed my car which now The Lightnings drive
And turn the engines of my miracles.
--
Thus slowly I lift man's soul nearer The Light.
But human mind clings to its ignorance
07.05 - The Finding of the Soul, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The Light was quenched that helps the labouring world,
The power that struggles and stumbles in our life;
Wikipedia - 1% rule (Internet culture) -- Hypothesis that more people will lurk in a virtual community than will participate
Wikipedia - 454 Mathesis -- Main-belt asteroid
Wikipedia - Absolute Income Hypothesis
Wikipedia - A Cruel Angel's Thesis -- Theme song of the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion
Wikipedia - Activation-synthesis hypothesis
Wikipedia - Adaptor hypothesis
Wikipedia - Additive synthesis -- Sound synthesis technique
Wikipedia - Ad hoc hypothesis
Wikipedia - Adjustable pressure-limiting valve -- Flow control valve used in anaesthesiology
Wikipedia - Aesthesiometer
Wikipedia - Aestivation hypothesis
Wikipedia - Aether drag hypothesis
Wikipedia - Aldrete's scoring system -- Scoring system used in Anaesthesiology
Wikipedia - Alfred Thesiger -- British judge and lawyer
Wikipedia - Algorithmic synthesis
Wikipedia - American Synesthesia Association
Wikipedia - Anaesthesia
Wikipedia - Anaesthetic machine -- medical device used to generate a fresh gas flow for anaesthesia
Wikipedia - Analysis by Synthesis
Wikipedia - Anatolian hypothesis -- historical theory
Wikipedia - Ancient astronauts -- Pseudo-scientific hypothesis that posits intelligent extraterrestrial beings have visited Earth
Wikipedia - Anesthesia (1929 film) -- 1929 film
Wikipedia - Anesthesia technician
Wikipedia - Anesthesia -- State of medically-controlled temporary loss of sensation or awareness
Wikipedia - Anesthesiology -- Medical specialty that focuses on anesthesia and perioperative medicine
Wikipedia - Anesthetic -- Drug that causes anesthesia
Wikipedia - Anfinsen's dogma -- Molecular biology hypothesis
Wikipedia - Anoxygenic photosynthesis -- Process used by obligate anaerobes
Wikipedia - ANS synthesizer
Wikipedia - Antithesis
Wikipedia - Aperture synthesis -- Mixing signals from many telescopes to produce images with high angular resolution
Wikipedia - Applications of quantum mechanics -- Theories, models and concepts that go back to the quantum hypothesis of Max Planck
Wikipedia - April Thesis
Wikipedia - Aquatic ape hypothesis -- Evolutionary hypothesis that humans fill a semi-aquatic niche
Wikipedia - Armenian hypothesis -- Hypothesis in historical linguistics
Wikipedia - ARP String Ensemble -- Polyphonic multi-orchestral synthesizer
Wikipedia - ARP synthesizer
Wikipedia - Ars inveniendi -- Mathesis universalis
Wikipedia - Arthur Kwizera -- Ugandan anesthesiologist
Wikipedia - Articulata hypothesis -- The grouping in a higher taxon of animals with segmented bodies, consisting of Annelida and Panarthropoda
Wikipedia - Articulatory synthesis
Wikipedia - Artificial photosynthesis -- Artificial process that uses sunlight energy to drive chemical synthesis
Wikipedia - Ashen light -- Hypothesised glow in Venus's light
Wikipedia - A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits -- Master's thesis by C. E. Shannon
Wikipedia - Audio plug-in -- Software signal processor or synthesizer module
Wikipedia - Augustinian hypothesis -- Solution to the synoptic problem, according to which Matthew was written first, Mark second and depending on Matthew, and Luke in turn depending on Matthew and Mark
Wikipedia - Balanced anesthesia -- Anesthetic technique
Wikipedia - Baryogenesis -- Hypothesized processes that could produce baryonic asymmetry, favoring matter (baryons) over antimatter (antibaryons)
Wikipedia - Behold the Spirit -- Religious thesis published in 1947
Wikipedia - Beneficial acclimation hypothesis -- hypothesis of physiology
Wikipedia - Beta thalassemia -- Thalassemia characterized by the reduced or absent synthesis of the beta globin chains of hemoglobin
Wikipedia - Bicameralism (psychology) -- Hypothesis in psychology
Wikipedia - Big Bang nucleosynthesis -- The earliest production of nuclei other than those of the lightest isotope of hydrogen during the early phases of the Universe
Wikipedia - Biomimetic synthesis
Wikipedia - Biophilia hypothesis -- Hypothesis that humans possess an innate tendency to seek connections with nature and other forms of life
Wikipedia - Biosynthesis
Wikipedia - Bischler-Mohlau indole synthesis -- Chemical reaction
Wikipedia - Black Sea deluge hypothesis -- Hypothetical flood scenario
Wikipedia - Bodroux-Chichibabin aldehyde synthesis
Wikipedia - Bold hypothesis
Wikipedia - Breast implant -- Prosthesis used to change the size, shape, and contour of a person's breast
Wikipedia - C3 carbon fixation -- Metabolic pathway for carbon fixation in photosynthesis
Wikipedia - Calvin cycle -- Light-dependent reactions in photosynthesis
Wikipedia - Cardiocentric hypothesis
Wikipedia - Cataclysmic pole shift hypothesis
Wikipedia - Category:People with synesthesia
Wikipedia - Category:Synesthesia
Wikipedia - Catovirus -- Hypothesized genus of giant double-stranded DNA-containing viruses
Wikipedia - Cellulose synthase (UDP-forming) -- Cellulose synthesizing enzyme in plants and bacteria
Wikipedia - CEM and SSM chips -- Integrated circuits used in synthesizers
Wikipedia - Challenge hypothesis
Wikipedia - Chemesthesis -- Chemical sensitivity of skin and mucous membranes
Wikipedia - Chemical synthesis -- Planned series of chemical reactions to produce a desired substance
Wikipedia - Chemosynthesis -- Biological process building organic matter using inorganic compounds as the energy source
Wikipedia - Chichibabin pyridine synthesis
Wikipedia - Chloroplast -- Plant organelle that conducts photosynthesis
Wikipedia - Christian libertarianism -- The synthesis of Christian beliefs with libertarian political philosophy
Wikipedia - Christian Metaphysics and Neoplatonism -- master thesis of Albert Camus
Wikipedia - Chromesthesia
Wikipedia - ChucK -- Audio programming language for real-time synthesis, composition, and performance
Wikipedia - Church's thesis
Wikipedia - Church thesis
Wikipedia - Church-Turing thesis -- Thesis on the nature of computability
Wikipedia - Clair Mills Callan -- American anesthesiologists
Wikipedia - CLAW hypothesis -- A hypothesised negative feedback loop connecting the marine biota and the climate
Wikipedia - Cobham's thesis
Wikipedia - Coenzyme A -- Coenzyme, notable for its role in the synthesis and oxidation of fatty acids, and the oxidation of pyruvate in the citric acid cycle
Wikipedia - Combined spinal and epidural anaesthesia -- Regional anaesthetic technique
Wikipedia - Common Romanian -- Hypothesis about an ancestor of Romanian language
Wikipedia - Concatenative synthesis
Wikipedia - Confidence -- State of certainty that a hypothesis or prediction or a course of action is correct
Wikipedia - Conflict thesis
Wikipedia - Contact hypothesis
Wikipedia - Continuity thesis
Wikipedia - Continuum Fingerboard -- Music performance controller and synthesizer
Wikipedia - Continuum hypothesis
Wikipedia - Cooperative eye hypothesis
Wikipedia - Cosmic censorship hypothesis
Wikipedia - Cosmological lithium problem -- Discrepancy between the observed abundance of lithium produced in Big Bang nucleosynthesis and the amount that should theoretically exist.
Wikipedia - Cosmopterix athesiae -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Court jester hypothesis -- Hypothesis in evolutionary biology
Wikipedia - Creative synthesis
Wikipedia - Creative Wave Blaster -- MIDI synthesizer
Wikipedia - Critical depth -- hypothesized surface mixing depth at which phytoplankton growth is precisely matched by losses of phytoplankton biomass within this depth interval
Wikipedia - Cryptoterrestrial hypothesis
Wikipedia - Cyanobacteria -- Phylum of photosynthesising prokaryotes
Wikipedia - CYP305M2 -- Gene of the migratory locust involved in synthesizing phenylacetonitrile
Wikipedia - David L. Reich -- American anesthesiologist
Wikipedia - Deep Note -- THX's audio logo, a distinctive synthesized crescendo sound
Wikipedia - Defensive attribution hypothesis
Wikipedia - Delayed-maturation theory of obsessive-compulsive disorder -- Medical hypothesis
Wikipedia - Delay reduction hypothesis
Wikipedia - Dental anesthesia -- anesthesia used in dental procedures
Wikipedia - Depressive realism -- Hypothesis that depressed individuals make more realistic inferences than do non-depressed individuals
Wikipedia - Diathesis-stress model
Wikipedia - Diathesis stress
Wikipedia - Digital synthesizer -- Synthesizer that uses digital signal processing to make sounds
Wikipedia - DNA damage theory of aging -- Hypothesis that aging is caused by accumulated DNA damage
Wikipedia - Doctoral thesis
Wikipedia - Documentary Hypothesis
Wikipedia - Documentary hypothesis -- Hypothesis to explain the origins and composition of the Torah
Wikipedia - Dopaminergic pathways -- Projection neurons in the brain that synthesize and release dopamine
Wikipedia - Drift hypothesis -- Relationship between mental illness and social class
Wikipedia - Dr. Sbaitso -- Artificial intelligence speech synthesis program
Wikipedia - Dual-route hypothesis to reading aloud
Wikipedia - Dysaesthesia aethiopica -- Alleged mental illness linked to scientific racism
Wikipedia - Eckart Muthesius -- German architect
Wikipedia - Ecthesis
Wikipedia - Effective evolutionary time -- Hypothesis offering a causal explanation of diversity gradients
Wikipedia - Efficient market hypothesis
Wikipedia - Efficient-market hypothesis -- Economic theory that asset prices fully reflect all available information
Wikipedia - Eigenstate thermalization hypothesis
Wikipedia - Elohist -- One of the four sources of the Torah in the documentary hypothesis
Wikipedia - Embodied mind thesis
Wikipedia - Emergent evolution -- The hypothesis that, in the course of evolution, some entirely new properties, such as mind and consciousness, appear at certain critical points
Wikipedia - EMS VCS 3 -- Synthesizer model
Wikipedia - Enantioselective synthesis
Wikipedia - Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis -- Encyclopedia published by John Wiley & Sons
Wikipedia - Enyne metathesis -- Organic reaction
Wikipedia - Epenthesis -- Phonological process involving the addition of one or more sounds to a word
Wikipedia - Ergodic hypothesis
Wikipedia - Ernest Thesiger -- Actor
Wikipedia - Escalation hypothesis -- Theory in evolutionary biology
Wikipedia - Eupithecia leucenthesis -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - European Islam -- Hypothesized new branch of Islam
Wikipedia - Evidentialism -- A thesis in epistemology
Wikipedia - Evolution of photosynthesis -- The origin and subsequent evolution of the process by which light energy is used to synthesize sugars
Wikipedia - Exclusion of the null hypothesis -- Position that there is no relationship between two phenomena
Wikipedia - Existential risk from artificial general intelligence -- Hypothesized risk to human existence
Wikipedia - Expected utility hypothesis
Wikipedia - Experiment -- scientific procedure performed to validate a hypothesis
Wikipedia - Exponential time hypothesis
Wikipedia - Extended evolutionary synthesis
Wikipedia - Extraterrestrial hypothesis
Wikipedia - Facial feedback hypothesis
Wikipedia - Farrer hypothesis -- Solution to the synoptic problem that Mark was written first, that Matthew used Mark, and that Luke used Mark and Matthew
Wikipedia - Father Tongue hypothesis
Wikipedia - Feline hyperesthesia syndrome -- Collection of OCD or epilepsy-like symptoms in housecats
Wikipedia - Festival Speech Synthesis System
Wikipedia - Fibroblast -- Animal connective tissue cell that synthesizes the extracellular matrix, collagen, animal stroma and is involved in wound healing
Wikipedia - Final FRCA -- UK postgraduate examination in anaesthesia
Wikipedia - Fine-tuned universe -- The hypothesis that life in the Universe depends upon certain physical constants having values within a narrow range and the belief that the observed values warrant an explanation.
Wikipedia - Five minute hypothesis
Wikipedia - Folate -- Vitamin B9; nutrient essential for DNA synthesis
Wikipedia - Frederick Mathesius -- American architect
Wikipedia - Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford -- British politician
Wikipedia - Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford
Wikipedia - Frequency format hypothesis
Wikipedia - Frequency modulation synthesis -- Form of sound synthesis
Wikipedia - Frontier Thesis
Wikipedia - Frontier thesis -- Frederick Jackson Turner's argument that American democracy was built by the American frontier
Wikipedia - Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Wikipedia - Gabriel G. Nahas -- Anesthesiologist and drug researcher
Wikipedia - GADV-protein world hypothesis
Wikipedia - Gaia hypothesis -- Paradigm that living organisms interact with their surroundings in a self-regulating system
Wikipedia - General anesthesia
Wikipedia - Generalized Riemann hypothesis
Wikipedia - General MIDI -- Standardized specification for music synthesizers adopting the MIDI protocol
Wikipedia - Generic object of dark energy -- hypothesized result of the collapse of very large stars.
Wikipedia - Genetic sexual attraction -- Hypothesis that strong sexual attraction may occur between close relatives first meeting as adults
Wikipedia - Genetics of synesthesia
Wikipedia - Genome Project-Write -- Research project to synthesise the human genome
Wikipedia - George Thesiger -- British Army general
Wikipedia - Geriatric anesthesia -- Branch of medicine that studies anesthesia approach in the elderly
Wikipedia - Germanic substrate hypothesis
Wikipedia - Giant Impact hypothesis
Wikipedia - Giant-impact hypothesis -- Theory of the formation of the Moon
Wikipedia - Global cooling -- Discredited 1970s hypothesis of imminent cooling of the Earth
Wikipedia - Global Ocean Data Analysis Project -- A synthesis project bringing together biogeochemical oceanographic data
Wikipedia - Glutamate hypothesis of schizophrenia -- Hypothesis that decreased glutamatergic signalling is involved in schizophrenia
Wikipedia - God: The Failed Hypothesis
Wikipedia - Granger causality -- Statistical hypothesis test for forecasting
Wikipedia - Grapheme-color synesthesia -- Synesthesia that associates numbers or letters with colors
Wikipedia - Gravastar -- Hypothesized alternative to black hole
Wikipedia - Green-beard effect -- Hypothesis for altruism in evolutionary biology
Wikipedia - Guanylate cyclase -- Lyase enzyme that synthesizes cGMP from GTP
Wikipedia - Habilitation thesis
Wikipedia - Harold Griffith -- Canadian anesthesiologist
Wikipedia - Health at Every Size -- Hypothesis that overweight has no detrimental issue on health, which is unsupported scientifically
Wikipedia - Hebrew Gospel hypothesis -- Group of theories for the synoptic problem, stating that a lost Hebrew or Aramaic gospel lies behind the canonical gospels; based upon a 2nd-century tradition from Papias of Hierapolis, that the apostle Matthew composed such a gospel
Wikipedia - Henry Wood Elliott II -- American physician, pharmacologist and anesthesiologist
Wikipedia - Heterotrophic picoplankton -- The fraction of plankton composed by cells between 0.2 and 2 M-NM-
Wikipedia - High-level synthesis
Wikipedia - Hippocampal prosthesis -- Type of cognitive prosthesis
Wikipedia - History of general anesthesia
Wikipedia - History of synesthesia research
Wikipedia - Hokovirus -- Hypothesized genus of giant double-stranded DNA-containing viruses
Wikipedia - Human image synthesis
Wikipedia - Hunter vs. farmer hypothesis
Wikipedia - Hunting hypothesis
Wikipedia - Hyperdiffusionism -- Archaeological hypothesis
Wikipedia - Hyperesthesia
Wikipedia - Hypesthesia
Wikipedia - Hypoesthesia
Wikipedia - Hypothesis (album) -- album by Vangelis
Wikipedia - Hypothesis test
Wikipedia - Hypothesis -- Proposed explanation for an observation, phenomenon, or scientific problem
Wikipedia - Hypothesis Z -- The first Romanian war plan for World War I
Wikipedia - Ideasthesia
Wikipedia - Immiseration thesis -- Marxist theory on wage growth
Wikipedia - Immunoglobulin class switching -- Switching of activated B cells from IgM biosynthesis to biosynthesis of other isotypes of immunoglobulin
Wikipedia - Impact winter -- Hypothesized extended period of worldwide cold weather due to the impact of a celestial body on the Earth's surface
Wikipedia - Imprinted brain hypothesis
Wikipedia - Ina Pichlmayr -- German anaesthesiologist
Wikipedia - Independence hypothesis -- Proposed solution to the synoptic problem, holding that Matthew, Mark, and Luke are each original compositions formed independently of each other, with no documentary relationship
Wikipedia - Indivirus -- Hypothesized genus of giant double-stranded DNA-containing viruses
Wikipedia - Indo-Semitic languages -- Obsolete linguistic hypothesis of a genetic relationship between Indo-European and Semitic; popular in the 19th century, but mostly rejected in modern times
Wikipedia - Innateness hypothesis
Wikipedia - Innatist hypothesis
Wikipedia - Instrumental convergence -- Hypothesis about intelligent agents
Wikipedia - Integrase inhibitor -- Compounds which inhibit or antagonize biosynthesis or actions of integrase
Wikipedia - Intellectual synthesis
Wikipedia - Interdimensional hypothesis
Wikipedia - Intermediate disturbance hypothesis -- Model proposing regional biodiversity is increased by a moderate level of ecological disturbance
Wikipedia - Inversion (evolutionary biology) -- Hypothesis that during the course of chordate evolution, the structures along the dorsoventral axis have taken on an orientation opposite that of the ancestral form
Wikipedia - Irene Manton Prize -- Learned society prize for UK doctoral thesis in botany
Wikipedia - Iron-sulfur world hypothesis -- Hypothetical scenario for the origin of life
Wikipedia - James C. Eisenach -- American anesthesiologist
Wikipedia - Jean Emily Henley -- Anesthesiologist
Wikipedia - Jerome Adams -- American anesthesiologist and Surgeon General of the United States
Wikipedia - Jerrold Levy -- American critical care physician and cardiac anesthesiologist
Wikipedia - Jerusalem school hypothesis -- Hypothesis for the synoptic problem, developed by Robert Lindsey, that Luke and Matthew both relied on older texts now lost
Wikipedia - Jesus myth hypothesis
Wikipedia - Jim Laidler -- American anesthesiologist and alternative medicine opponent
Wikipedia - Jimmy Womack -- American Anesthesioligist, minister, and politician from Michigan
Wikipedia - Joachim Boldt -- German anesthesiologist known for research misconduct
Wikipedia - Johannes Mathesius
Wikipedia - Just-world hypothesis -- Hypothesis that a person's actions are inherently inclined to bring morally fair and fitting consequences to that person
Wikipedia - Kagamine Rin/Len -- Humanoid personas voiced by synthesizer software
Wikipedia - Kaigas -- Hypothesized snowball earth event
Wikipedia - Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry -- Fringe scientific hypothesis that Ashkenazi Jews are descended from the Khazars
Wikipedia - Kinesthesis
Wikipedia - KK thesis
Wikipedia - Knudson hypothesis
Wikipedia - Kolbe nitrile synthesis
Wikipedia - Kondratiev wave -- Hypothesized cycle-like phenomena in the modern world economy
Wikipedia - Korg Electribe EM-1 -- The Korg Electribe EM-1 is a digital synthesizer first produced by Korg in 1999, alongside the EA-1 and ER-1
Wikipedia - Korg M1 -- Synthesizer
Wikipedia - Korg Mono/Poly -- Analog synthesizer, manufactured by Korg from 1981 to 1984
Wikipedia - Korg MS-20 -- A patchable semi-modular monophonic analog synthesizer
Wikipedia - Korg OASYS -- Workstation synthesizer
Wikipedia - Kurgan hypothesis -- Theory of Indo-European origin
Wikipedia - Kurzweil K2000 -- Digital synthesizer and music workstation by Kurzweil Music Systems
Wikipedia - La Convivencia -- Term for period of hypothesized peace between Muslims, Christians and Jews in Iberia
Wikipedia - Lamarckism -- Hypothesis that an organism can pass on characteristics that it has acquired through use or disuse during its lifetime to its offspring
Wikipedia - Language of thought hypothesis
Wikipedia - Laryngeal theory -- Hypothesis that Proto-Indo-European had phonemes beyond those reconstructed through comparison
Wikipedia - Laura Niklason -- American anesthesiologist
Wikipedia - Lead-crime hypothesis -- Hypothesized effect of blood lead levels on criminal behavior
Wikipedia - Lecithocera parenthesis -- Species of moth in genus Lecithocera
Wikipedia - Lexical hypothesis
Wikipedia - Linear arithmetic synthesis -- Method of sound synthesis
Wikipedia - Linguistic relativity -- Linguistic hypothesis that suggests language affects how its speakers think
Wikipedia - Lipid hypothesis -- Medical hypothesis
Wikipedia - Lipid metabolism -- Biological synthesis and degradation of lipids
Wikipedia - List of computer-assisted organic synthesis software -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of people with synesthesia -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of synthesizers -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - Lithotroph -- Organism using inorganic substrate to obtain reducing equivalents for use in biosynthesis
Wikipedia - Logic synthesis
Wikipedia - Lyon hypothesis
Wikipedia - Magnetic nanoparticles -- Synthesized magnetic particles of diameter under 100 nanometers with biomedical applications
Wikipedia - Mahuika crater -- A submarine feature of the New Zealand continental shelf hypothesized to be an extraterrestrial impact crater
Wikipedia - Male Warrior hypothesis
Wikipedia - Maoism (Third Worldism) -- Broad tendency which is mainly concerned with the infusion and synthesis of Marxism-particularly of the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist persuasion-with concepts of non-Marxist Third Worldism, namely dependency theory and world-systems theory
Wikipedia - Marcan priority -- Hypothesis that the Gospel of Mark was used as a source by the other synoptic gospels of Matthew and Luke
Wikipedia - Marcion hypothesis -- Biblical hypothesis about the gospel of Marcion
Wikipedia - Market timing hypothesis -- Economic theory
Wikipedia - Mars ocean hypothesis -- Hypothesis that nearly a third of the surface of Mars was covered by an ocean of liquid water early in the planetM-bM-^@M-^Ys geologic history
Wikipedia - Master's thesis
Wikipedia - Mathematical multiverse hypothesis
Wikipedia - Mathematical universe hypothesis
Wikipedia - Mathesis universalis
Wikipedia - Matrix hypothesis
Wikipedia - Mechanosynthesis
Wikipedia - Media synthesis (AI)
Wikipedia - Megachile brethesi -- Species of leafcutter bee (Megachile)
Wikipedia - Mendelson's syndrome -- Chemical pneumonitis or aspiration pneumonitis caused by aspiration during anaesthesia
Wikipedia - Merton thesis
Wikipedia - Middle English creole hypothesis
Wikipedia - Minimoog -- Synthesizer
Wikipedia - Mirovia -- A hypothesized superocean surrounding the supercontinent Rodinia in the Neoproterozoic Era
Wikipedia - Mirror-touch synesthesia
Wikipedia - Modern Orthodox Judaism -- Attempt to synthesize Jewish values and the observance of Jewish law with the secular, modern world
Wikipedia - Modern synthesis (20th century)
Wikipedia - Modified Newtonian dynamics -- Hypothesis proposing a modification of Newton's laws
Wikipedia - Modular synthesizer
Wikipedia - Moog synthesizer -- Electronic musical instrument
Wikipedia - Mount Hypothesis -- Antarctic mountain
Wikipedia - Movius Line -- Archaeological hypothesis
Wikipedia - Multiple discovery -- Hypothesis about scientific discoveries and inventions
Wikipedia - Multi-source hypothesis -- Proposed solution to the synoptic problem, holding that Matthew, Mark, and Luke are not directly interdependent but have each drawn from a distinct combination of earlier documents
Wikipedia - Music synthesizer
Wikipedia - N-acetylphosphatidylethanolamine-hydrolysing phospholipase D -- Enzyme involved in biosynthesis of anandamide
Wikipedia - Narcosynthesis
Wikipedia - National Evolutionary Synthesis Center -- A scientific research center in Durham, North Carolina
Wikipedia - Nebular hypothesis -- Astronomical theory that the Solar System formed from nebulous material
Wikipedia - Neocatastrophism -- Hypothesis that life-exterminating events such as gamma-ray bursts have acted as a galactic regulation mechanism in the Milky Way upon the emergence of complex life
Wikipedia - Neoclassical synthesis
Wikipedia - Neolithic creolisation hypothesis -- Archaeological hypothesis
Wikipedia - Neural basis of synesthesia
Wikipedia - New neoclassical synthesis
Wikipedia - Nobel disease -- Hypothesized affliction
Wikipedia - Nominative determinism -- The hypothesis that people tend to gravitate towards areas of work that fit their name
Wikipedia - North European hypothesis -- obsolete linguistic and archaeological theory
Wikipedia - Nothing comes from nothing -- Expression of a thesis first argued by Parmenides
Wikipedia - Nucleosynthesis -- Process that creates new atomic nuclei from pre-existing nucleons, primarily protons and neutrons
Wikipedia - Null distribution -- Probability distribution of the test statistic under the null hypothesis
Wikipedia - Null hypothesis
Wikipedia - Oberheim OB-X -- Analog polyphonic sound synthesizer
Wikipedia - Omphalos hypothesis -- Creationist hypothesis stating that the universe has been created to seem older than it actually was
Wikipedia - One gene-one enzyme hypothesis -- The idea that genes act through the production of enzymes, with each gene responsible for producing a single enzyme
Wikipedia - Oparin-Haldane hypothesis
Wikipedia - Open Polar Sea -- hypothesized ice-free ocean surrounding the North Pole
Wikipedia - OPV AIDS hypothesis
Wikipedia - Organic synthesis
Wikipedia - Orthogenesis -- Hypothesis that organisms have an innate tendency to evolve towards some goal
Wikipedia - Oscillator sync -- Synthesizer feature
Wikipedia - Osteodontokeratic culture -- Archaeological hypothesis
Wikipedia - Ottoman Decline Thesis -- Historical narrative
Wikipedia - Ovulatory shift hypothesis -- Hypothesis that female mating behavior changes throughout the menstrual cycle
Wikipedia - Oxygenic photosynthesis
Wikipedia - PAH world hypothesis -- Hypothesis about the origin of life
Wikipedia - Pan-African Ocean -- A hypothesized paleo-ocean whose closure created the supercontinent of Pannotia
Wikipedia - PANDAS -- hypothesis in pediatric medicine
Wikipedia - Pangamic acid -- Never identified, nor isolated or synthesized, hypothetical chemical compound promoted as quack remedy
Wikipedia - Pannotia -- Hypothesized Neoproterozoic supercontinent from the end of the Precambrian
Wikipedia - Panspermia hypothesis
Wikipedia - Panspermia -- A hypothesis on the interstellar spreading of primordial life
Wikipedia - Parenthesized
Wikipedia - Paresthesia -- Dermal sensation
Wikipedia - Penthesilea (opera) -- Opera by Othmar Schoeck
Wikipedia - Perianesthesia nursing -- Nursing specialty practice area
Wikipedia - Persephone (instrument) -- Analog fingerboard synthesizer
Wikipedia - Pervasive refusal syndrome -- Hypothesized pediatric mental disorder
Wikipedia - Phantom of Heilbronn -- Hypothesized female serial killer whose existence was inferred from DNA found at crime scenes in Austria, France and Germany in 1993-2009; in 2009, it was found that the M-bM-^@M-^\PhantomM-bM-^@M-^] did not exist; the DNA belonged to a worker at the cotton swab factory.
Wikipedia - Phantom time hypothesis -- Conspiracy theory
Wikipedia - Phasor (sound synthesizer)
Wikipedia - Ph.D. thesis
Wikipedia - Phonesthesia
Wikipedia - PhotoRC RNA motifs -- Conserved RNA structures related to photosynthesis
Wikipedia - Photosynthesis -- Biological process to convert light into chemical energy
Wikipedia - Photosystem II -- First protein complex in light-dependent reactions of oxygenic photosynthesis
Wikipedia - Physical symbol systems hypothesis
Wikipedia - Planetarium hypothesis
Wikipedia - Plastoquinone -- Molecule which moves electron in photosynthesis
Wikipedia - Pollution haven hypothesis
Wikipedia - Polymoog -- Synthesizer model manufactured by Moog Music
Wikipedia - Post-dural-puncture headache -- Common side effect of lumbar puncture or spinal anaesthesia
Wikipedia - Pressure Flow Hypothesis
Wikipedia - Priestly source -- One of the four sources of the Torah in the documentary hypothesis
Wikipedia - Primary FRCA -- UK postgraduate examination in anaesthesia
Wikipedia - Primary production -- synthesis of organic compounds from carbon dioxide by biological organisms
Wikipedia - Program synthesis
Wikipedia - Prophet-5 -- Synthesizer made by Sequential
Wikipedia - Propofol -- Intravenous medication used in anaesthesia
Wikipedia - Prosthesis -- Artificial device that replaces a missing body part
Wikipedia - Protein biosynthesis -- Assembly of proteins inside biological cells
Wikipedia - Psychopathography of Adolf Hitler -- Hypothesis that Adolf Hitler suffered from mental illness
Wikipedia - Psychosynthesis
Wikipedia - Pulse wave -- A waveform used by synthesizers
Wikipedia - Purple Earth hypothesis -- astrobiological hypothesis that photosynthetic life forms of early Earth were retinal-based rather than chlorophyll-based, making Earth appear purple rather than green
Wikipedia - PySynth -- Lightweight open-source software synthesizer written in Python
Wikipedia - Q+/Papias hypothesis -- Hypothesis about the synoptic problem that Mark knew Q, Mathew knew Q and Mark, and Luke knew Q, Mark, and Matthew, and that Papias' mention of a Hebrew Matthew actually refers to Q
Wikipedia - Q-value (statistics) -- Statistical hypothesis testing measure
Wikipedia - Radiosynthesis (metabolism) -- Biological process
Wikipedia - Rajlich's hypothesis -- Geological hypothesis
Wikipedia - Rapid onset gender dysphoria controversy -- Controversy surrounding a hypothesised medical condition
Wikipedia - Rare Earth hypothesis
Wikipedia - RCA Mark II Sound Synthesizer
Wikipedia - ReBirth RB-338 -- Software synthesizer
Wikipedia - Red Queen hypothesis
Wikipedia - Removable partial denture -- Prosthesis (dentistry)
Wikipedia - Retrosynthesis
Wikipedia - Ribbon controller -- Tactile sensor used to control synthesizers
Wikipedia - Riemann Hypothesis
Wikipedia - Riemann hypothesis -- Conjecture in mathematics linked to the distribution of prime numbers
Wikipedia - RNA world hypothesis
Wikipedia - Robert M. Epstein -- American anesthesiologist
Wikipedia - Rochette bridge -- dental prosthesis type
Wikipedia - Roland AX-Edge -- Musical synthesizer
Wikipedia - Roland Juno-106 -- Synthesizer
Wikipedia - Roland Juno-60 -- Synthesizer
Wikipedia - Roland MKS-80 -- Polyphonic analog synthesizer
Wikipedia - Roland System-100M -- Synthesizer introduced in the 1980s
Wikipedia - Roland TB-303 -- Synthesizer
Wikipedia - Rp-process -- Process of nucleosynthesis
Wikipedia - RuBisCO -- A key enzyme of the photosynthesis involved in carbon fixation
Wikipedia - Ruth S. Waterman -- American anesthesiologist
Wikipedia - Sample-based synthesis -- Audio synthesis technique
Wikipedia - San Baw -- Burmese orthopaedic surgeon and ivory prosthesis pioneer
Wikipedia - Satpanth -- Religious belief synthesizing Hinduism and Isma'ilism
Wikipedia - Scarr-Rowe effect -- Hypothesized effect of socioeconomic status on heritability of IQ
Wikipedia - Scharnhorst effect -- Hypothesized phenomenon in quantum field theory
Wikipedia - Science and Hypothesis -- Book by Henri PoincarM-CM-)
Wikipedia - Selenoxide elimination -- Method for the chemical synthesis of alkenes from selenoxides
Wikipedia - Selma Calmes -- Anesthesiologist
Wikipedia - Semisynthesis
Wikipedia - Sequence hypothesis
Wikipedia - Sequential (company) -- American synthesizer company
Wikipedia - Sexy son hypothesis -- Postulate in biology
Wikipedia - Silurian hypothesis -- Thought experiment to assess ability to detect evidence of a prior advanced civilization
Wikipedia - Simulated reality hypothesis
Wikipedia - Simulated reality -- Hypothesis that reality could be simulated
Wikipedia - Simulation hypothesis -- Proposal that reality could in fact be a computer simulation
Wikipedia - Sinewave synthesis
Wikipedia - Singular cardinals hypothesis -- set theory concept
Wikipedia - Skeptical hypothesis
Wikipedia - Slab gap hypothesis -- Explanation for several instances of crustal extension that occur inland near former subduction zones
Wikipedia - Slavic liquid metathesis and pleophony
Wikipedia - Snake detection theory -- Evolutionary hypothesis regarding primate vision
Wikipedia - Society for Research Synthesis Methodology -- Learned society focused on research synthesis
Wikipedia - Sociobiology: The New Synthesis
Wikipedia - Soft core (synthesis)
Wikipedia - Software synthesizer
Wikipedia - Somatic marker hypothesis -- Hypothesis that emotional processes guide or bias decision-making
Wikipedia - Somesthesis
Wikipedia - Sound synthesis
Wikipedia - Spearman's hypothesis
Wikipedia - Speech Synthesis Markup Language -- XML-based markup language
Wikipedia - Speech Synthesis
Wikipedia - Speech synthesis -- Artificial production of human speech
Wikipedia - Sphinx water erosion hypothesis -- Fringe theory on the age of the Great Sphinx of Giza
Wikipedia - Spinal anaesthesia -- Form of neuraxial regional anaesthesia
Wikipedia - SS Thesis -- Steamship wrecked in 1889 in the Sound of Mull, Scotland. Now a recreational dive site.
Wikipedia - Statistical hypothesis testing -- Method of statistical inference
Wikipedia - Stellar nucleosynthesis -- Process by which the natural abundances of the chemical elements within stars change due to nuclear fusion reactions
Wikipedia - Strecker amino acid synthesis -- Method for the synthesis of amino acids
Wikipedia - Strong AI hypothesis
Wikipedia - Strong AI thesis
Wikipedia - Subtractive synthesis -- Method of sound synthesis
Wikipedia - Supernova nucleosynthesis -- Production of the elements in a supernova explosion
Wikipedia - Susane Nabulindo -- Kenyan consultant anesthesiologist
Wikipedia - Synaesthesia
Wikipedia - Synesthesia (disambiguation)
Wikipedia - Synesthesia in art
Wikipedia - Synesthesia in fiction
Wikipedia - Synesthesia in literature
Wikipedia - Synesthesia (song) -- 2013 single by Andrew McMahon
Wikipedia - Synesthesia -- Neurological condition involving the crossing of senses
Wikipedia - Synthesia
Wikipedia - Synthesis anarchism
Wikipedia - Synthesis (clothing) -- Clothing in ancient Rome
Wikipedia - Synthesis of precious metals
Wikipedia - synthesis
Wikipedia - Synthesizer -- Electronic musical instrument
Wikipedia - Synth-pop -- Music genre in which the synthesizer is a key instrument
Wikipedia - Table-lookup synthesis
Wikipedia - Telomere hypothesis of aging
Wikipedia - Template talk:Ancient anaesthesia
Wikipedia - Template talk:Speech synthesis
Wikipedia - Testability -- Extent to which truthness or falseness of a hypothesis/declaration can be tested
Wikipedia - The Astonishing Hypothesis
Wikipedia - The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
Wikipedia - The Happiness Hypothesis
Wikipedia - The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting -- 1978 film
Wikipedia - The Sekhmet Hypothesis
Wikipedia - Thesiastes -- Genus of beetles
Wikipedia - Thesis, antithesis, synthesis
Wikipedia - Thesis Eleven
Wikipedia - Thesis or dissertation
Wikipedia - Thesis statement -- Statement that reflects the main idea of a thesis
Wikipedia - Thesis -- Document submitted in support of candidature for an academic degree
Wikipedia - Thesium (beetle) -- Genus of beetles
Wikipedia - The Synthesis of Yoga
Wikipedia - Third-person effect -- Hypothesis in social sciences related to the perception of media effects
Wikipedia - Thought experiment -- Considering hypothesis, theory, or principle for the purpose of thinking through its consequences
Wikipedia - Three-domain system -- Hypothesis for classification of life
Wikipedia - Three-source hypothesis -- A possible solution to the synoptic problem in which Matthew and Luke each depended on both Mark and a sayings collection (Q or a subset of it), and Luke also depended on Matthew
Wikipedia - Titius-Bode law -- Discredited hypothesis about Solar System planets' orbits
Wikipedia - Tomosynthesis
Wikipedia - Total synthesis
Wikipedia - Transcension Hypothesis
Wikipedia - Translation (biology) -- Cellular process of protein synthesis
Wikipedia - Tumescent liposuction -- Method of administering local anesthesia to subcutaneous fat
Wikipedia - Turing's Thesis
Wikipedia - Two-gospel hypothesis -- Hypothesis is that the Gospel of Matthew was written before the Gospel of Luke, and that both were written earlier than the Gospel of Mark; proposed solution to the Synoptic Problem
Wikipedia - Two layer hypothesis -- Archaeological theory suggesting that human occupation of mainland Southeast Asia occurred over two distinct periods by two separate racial groups
Wikipedia - Two-source hypothesis -- Solution to the synoptic problem, stating that Matthew and Luke were based on Mark and a hypothetical sayings collection ("Q")
Wikipedia - Two streams hypothesis
Wikipedia - Two-streams hypothesis -- Model of the neural processing of vision and hearing
Wikipedia - Type A and Type B personality theory -- Hypothesized duality of personality types
Wikipedia - Type I and type II errors -- Concepts from statistical hypothesis testing
Wikipedia - UK Synaesthesia Association
Wikipedia - Ulrike Mathesius -- Australian microbiologist
Wikipedia - Uncanny valley -- Hypothesis that human replicas elicit revulsion
Wikipedia - Variability hypothesis
Wikipedia - VilM-CM-)m Mathesius -- Czech linguist, literature historian and science writer
Wikipedia - Vine-Matthews-Morley hypothesis -- The first key scientific test of the seafloor spreading theory of continental drift and plate tectonics.
Wikipedia - Visual prosthesis
Wikipedia - Vitalism -- Discredited scientific hypothesis
Wikipedia - Vocoder -- Voice encryption, transformation and synthesis device
Wikipedia - Warburg hypothesis -- Hypothesis explaining cancer
Wikipedia - Warm dark matter -- A hypothesized form of dark matter that has properties intermediate between those of hot dark matter and cold dark matter
Wikipedia - Warren Zapol -- American anesthesiologist
Wikipedia - Wave field synthesis -- Technique for creating virtual acoustic environments
Wikipedia - Westermarck effect -- Hypothesis that those who grow up together become desensitized to sexual attraction
Wikipedia - Wigner surmise -- Scientific hypothesis in mathematical physics
Wikipedia - Wilfred Thesiger -- British military officer, explorer, and writer.
Wikipedia - Wilke hypothesis -- Proposed solution to the synoptic problem, that Mark was used as a source by Luke, and both of these were used as sources by Matthew
Wikipedia - Williamson ether synthesis
Wikipedia - Wiseman hypothesis -- Theory of Genesis authorship
Wikipedia - Witch-cult hypothesis
Wikipedia - Yamaha CS1x -- Sample-based synthesizer made by the Yamaha Corporation
Wikipedia - Yamaha CS2x -- Sample-based synthesizer made by the Yamaha Corporation
Wikipedia - Yamaha DX7 -- Synthesizer made by Yamaha in the 1980s
Wikipedia - Yamaha YM2413 -- FM synthesis sound chip by Yamaha
Wikipedia - Yamaha YM2612 -- FM synthesis sound chip by Yamaha
Wikipedia - Ycf4 protein domain -- A plastidial protein involved in photosynthesis
Wikipedia - Y-chromosomal Aaron -- Hypothesized most recent common ancestor of the Kohanim
Wikipedia - Yonah Elian -- 1=Israeli anesthesiologist known for his work with the Mossad
Wikipedia - Zero-energy universe -- hypothesis that the total amount of energy in the universe is exactly zero
Wikipedia - Zipporah Gathuya -- Kenyan anesthesiologist
Wikipedia - Zoo hypothesis
Stuart Hameroff ::: Born: July 16, 1947; Occupation: Anesthesiologist;
Wilfred Thesiger ::: Born: June 3, 1910; Died: August 24, 2003; Occupation: Writer;
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10026475-handbook-of-clinical-anesthesia
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1037414.Sustainable_Communities_A_New_Design_Synthesis_for_Cities_Suburbs_and_Towns
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1074706.Consistency_of_the_Continuum_Hypothesis_Am_3_Volume_3
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10940540-synthesis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1100717.Synthesis_Counseling_in_Astrology
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11195606-the-antithesis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1149179.The_Synthesis_of_Yoga
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11560315-anaesthesia-and-postoperative-care-in-uncommon-diseases
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12246385-aquasynthesis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1253903.The_Hunting_Hypothesis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13542387-the-dim-hypothesis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15111915.The_Synthesis_of_Yoga
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16284961-aisthesis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17673907-the-gaia-hypothesis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17738571-the-seduction-hypothesis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20209620-the-vulnerability-thesis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21480806-oxford-handbook-of-synesthesia
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21845643-mfa-writing-thesis-catalog-2006
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22104615-the-innovator-s-hypothesis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22241044-the-lincoln-hypothesis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/222663.A_Parenthesis_in_Eternity
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22728256-psychosynthesis-typology
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23008526-the-antithesis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23008530-the-antithesis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23285564-the-antithesis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/269936.Penthesilea
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28152335-the-synthesis-and-the-animus
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/320553.Notes_on_the_Synthesis_of_Form
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3561591-art-of-chart-synthesis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36066238-synesthesia
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36160095-synthesis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36407802-the-first-kiss-hypothesis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3709787-psychosynthesis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37219.Synaesthesia
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39300936-synesthesia
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40503185-the-antithesis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40570516-short-textbook-of-anesthesia
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4106725-the-use-of-organometallic-compounds-in-organic-synthesis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42602770-synaesthesia
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/432179.The_Riemann_Hypothesis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43382956-the-antithesis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43680704-happiness-hypothesis-the-righteous-mind-coddling-of-the-american-mind
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44244522-the-antithesis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4843344-the-art-of-synthesis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5669154-anesthesia
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6122575-the-medea-hypothesis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6185499-antithesis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6372758-synthesis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/678607.Synesthesia
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7324541-the-communist-hypothesis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7618919-evolution-the-extended-synthesis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7850263-somatesthesia
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8384118-the-synthesis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8886906-beyond-the-physical---a-synthesis-of-science-and-occultism
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96884.The_Happiness_Hypothesis
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/169954.Wilfred_Thesiger
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8034915.Leon_Logothesis
Goodreads author - Wilfred_Thesiger
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Atropine#Synthesis
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Dimethyltryptamine#Biosynthesis
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Documentary_Hypothesis
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Documentary_hypothesis
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Documentary_hypothesis/Genesis
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Documentary_hypothesis/Gospels
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Documentary_hypothesis/Revelation
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Expounding_of_the_Law#Antithesis_of_the_Law
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Mithraic_mysteries#Cumont.27s_hypothesis:_from_Persian_state_religion
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Omphalos_hypothesis
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Omphalos_hypothesis#As_religion
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Omphalos_hypothesis#As_science
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Omphalos_hypothesis#Omphalos_today
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Omphalos_hypothesis#References
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Out_Of_Africa_Hypothesis
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Salvinorin_A#Biosynthesis
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Salvinorin_A#Chemical_synthesis
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Salvinorin_A#Salvinorin_A_synthesis
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Talk:Omphalos_hypothesis
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Tetrahydrocannabinol#Biosynthesis
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Vision_hypothesis
http://malankazlev.com/kheper/gaia/Gaia_Hypothesis.htm -- 0
Kheper - Philosophical_Thesis_1 -- 73
Kheper - synthesis -- 92
http://malankazlev.com/kheper/theoryofeverything/Philosophical_Thesis_1.html -- 0
Kheper - Psychosynthesis_and_Integral_Psychology -- 41
Kheper - Synthesis_of_Yoga -- 37
Kheper - Gaia_Hypothesis -- 52
Kheper - synthesis -- 52
Kheper - Philosophical_Thesis_1 -- 69
Kheper - comparative1 -- 35
Kheper - comparative2 -- 44
Kheper - comparative3 -- 41
Kheper - grudges-doubts -- 32
Kheper - Psychosynthesis index -- 25
Kheper - Psychosynthesis -- 39
auromere - synthesis-of-yoga
auromere - synthesis-of-yoga
auromere - synthesis-of-yoga
auromere - synthesis-of-yoga
Integral World - Commentary on Peter Collins' Riemann Hypothesis Article, Elliot Benjamin
Integral World - A Deeper Significance: Resolving the Riemann Hypothesis, Peter Collins
Integral World - Reply to Elliot Benjamin on my Riemann Hypothesis Article, Peter Collins
Integral World - Why Humanity Remains Locked in a Mid-Prepersonal Level of Development, Part 2: Ways Integral AQAL Supports the Thesis That Our Development is Fixated at an Early Developmental Stage, Joseph Dillard
Integral World - The Gamma Hypothesis, Adam Kennedy
Integral World - 108 Billion, Living the Pinkerian Thesis, How to better contextualize life in the here and now, David Lane and Andrea Diem-Lane
Integral World - Zombie Consciousness 101, Alan Turing, the Virtual Simulator Hypothesis, and Recalibrating the Hard Problem, David Lane
Integral World - Surfing The Matrix, An Incidental Cosmos and the Fanning Hypothesis, David Lane
Integral World - Synthesizing the Kosmos?, Scott F. Parker
Integral World - Who Needs Littlewood?, The Fallacy of the Intentionality Hypothesis, M.A. Rose
Integral World - The Eon Hypothesis in a Nutshell: A Causal Connection between Mind and Matter, Gerrit Teule
Integral World - The Corona Conspiracy: Part 2: Debunking Andrew Kaufman's Virus Equals Exosome Hypothesis, Frank Visser
selforum - synthesis of science and religion
selforum - sri aurobindo synthesises east and
selforum - sri aurobindo synthesized great
selforum - synthesis that is sri aurobindo
selforum - synthesis of yoga second international
selforum - rosen did not understand churchs thesis
https://thoughtsandvisions-searle88.blogspot.com/2012/10/psychosynthesis_22.html
https://thoughtsandvisions-searle88.blogspot.com/2012/10/synesthesia.html
https://thoughtsandvisions-searle88.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-grand-synthesis-nature-of-god-world.html
wiki.auroville - Marlenka_reads_The_Synthesis_of_Yoga
wiki.auroville - The_Synthesis_of_Yoga
Dharmapedia - The_Synthesis_of_Yoga
Psychology Wiki - Anesthesia
Psychology Wiki - General_anaesthesia
Psychology Wiki - General_anesthesia
Psychology Wiki - Hypothesis
Psychology Wiki - Modern_evolutionary_synthesis
Psychology Wiki - Somatic_markers_hypothesis
Psychology Wiki - Synesthesia
Psychology Wiki - The_Synthesis_of_Yoga
Psychology Wiki - Variability_hypothesis
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - continuum-hypothesis
Occultopedia - radiesthesia
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Advertising/TheSimpsons
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/AluminumChristmasTrees/TheSimpsons
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/LastExileFamTheSilverWing
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Art/TheSin
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Awesome/TheSimpsons
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/BaitAndSwitch/TheSimpsons
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/BewareTheSillyOnes/AnimeAndManga
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/BewareTheSillyOnes/ComicBooks
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/BewareTheSillyOnes/FanWorks
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/BewareTheSillyOnes/Film
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/BewareTheSillyOnes/Literature
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/BewareTheSillyOnes/LiveActionTV
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/BewareTheSillyOnes/VideoGames
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/BewareTheSillyOnes/WesternAnimation
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Bowdlerise/TheSimpsons
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/BrokenAesop/TheSimpsons
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLordsKreia
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLordsTheJediExile
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/TheSilenceTrilogy
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/TheSilmarillion
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/TheSimpsons
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/TheSimpsonsBartSimpson
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/TheSimpsonsHomerJaySimpson
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/TheSimpsonsLisaMarieSimpson
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/TheSims2
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/DarthVaderDarkLordOfTheSith
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/TheSilencer
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/TheSilentGrove
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/TheSilverCoin
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/TheSimpingDetective
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/TheSimpsons
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/TheSixthGun
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ContinuityPorn/TheSimpsonsHitAndRun
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/CouchGag/TheSimpsons
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/CowboyBebopAtHisComputer/TheSimpsons
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/TheSiegePerilous
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Defictionalization/TheSimpsons
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DisproportionateRetribution/TheSimpsons
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DistancedFromCurrentEvents/TheSimpsons
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/EarlyInstallmentWeirdness/TheSimpsons
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Es/BewareTheSillyOnes
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/ChroniclesOfTheSirenWar
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/CollectorHeroSynthesis
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/NeonMetathesisEvangelion
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/OrchestratingTheSilence
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanficRecs/TheSilenceOfTheLambs
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanficRecs/TheSilmarillion
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanficRecs/TheSimpsons
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanficRecs/TheSims
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/RetconOfTheSith
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/TheChampionAndTheSinger
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/TheSilverRaven
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/TheSimpsonsVsArthur
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/TheSiphon
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/TheWildHorseThesis
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanWorks/TheSimpsons
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanWorks/TheSims
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/BarbaraTheFairWithTheSilkenHair
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/BoysOnTheSide
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/FantasticFourRiseOfTheSilverSurfer
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/OnTheSilverGlobe
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/RevengeOfTheSith
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/SexAndTheSingleGirl
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/StarWarsEpisodeIIIRevengeOfTheSith
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/StarWarsRevengeOfTheSith
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheDayOfTheSiege
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheInnOfTheSixthHappiness
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSidehackers
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSiege
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSiegeOfFirebaseGloria
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSiegeOfJadotville
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSignal2007
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSignal2014
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSignOfFourSherlockHolmesGreatestCase
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSignOfVenus
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSilence
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSilence2019
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSilenceOfAdultery
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSilenceOfTheHams
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSilentChild
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSilentHouse
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSilentPartner
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSilentSouls
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSilentSwordsman
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSilentWorld
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSilverChalice
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSilverCord
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSinfulDwarf
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSingingKiller
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSingingNun
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSingingThief
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSingles2ndWard
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSingleStandard
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSinglesWard
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSingularityIsNear
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSinisterUrge
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSinnersOfHell
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSinOfNoraMoran
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSisterhoodOfNight
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSisterhoodOfTheTravelingPants
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSistersBrothers
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSitter
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSixthSense
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSixthWorld
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheTreasureOfTheSierraMadre
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/UnderTheSilverLake
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/WhereTheSidewalkEnds
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Flanderization/TheSimpsons
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FranchiseOriginalSin/TheSimpsons
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/TheSimpsons
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FunnyAneurysmMoment/TheSimpsons
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Funny/TheSimpsons
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/GameBreaker/TheSims3
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/HalfwayPlotSwitch/TheSimpsons
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Hypocrite/TheSimpsons
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ImageSource/TheSimpsons
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustForFun/TheSidekickTheoryOfHeroicWar
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustForFun/TheSixStats
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Laconic/BewareTheSillyOnes
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Laconic/ExampleAsAThesis
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/LightNovel/RokkaBravesOfTheSixFlowers
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/FiveNightsAtFreddysTheSilverEyes
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/HowTheSixMadeTheirWayInTheWorld
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/OutOfTheSilentPlanet
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/ProphecyOfTheSisters
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/RevengeOfTheSith
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/SongInTheSilence
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/SonicTheHedgehogAndTheSiliconWarriors
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheAntithesis
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheDancingWaterTheSingingAppleAndTheSpeakingBird
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheKnightsOfTheSilverDragon
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheSicilian
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheSickLand
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheSignOfTheFour
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheSilence
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheSilenceOfBones
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheSilentSpeaker
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheSilentWar
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheSilerianTrilogy
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheSilkworm
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheSillyCanineCaper
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheSilmarillion
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheSilverBrumby
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheSilverChair
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheSilverCodex
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheSilverCrown
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheSilverKiss
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheSilverSword
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheSingerOfAllSongs
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheSingingBone
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheSingingMermaid
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheSingingSpringingLark
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheSirensOfTitan
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheSissyDuckling
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheSisterhoodOfTheTravelingPants
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheSistersGrimm
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheSisterVerseAndTheTalonsOfRuin
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheSittafordMystery
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheSixBullerbyChildren
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheSixOfCrowsDuology
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheSixServants
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheSixSwans
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheSixthBattle
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheSixtyTwoCursesOfCaliphArenschadd
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/WarlocksOfTheSigil
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BecameTheirOwnAntithesis
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BewareTheSillyOnes
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CantStopTheSignal
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CantYouReadTheSign
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChangingClothesIsAFreeAction
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EditorialSynaesthesia
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ExampleAsAThesis
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FillingTheSilence
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HadTheSillyIndexInReverse
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HadTheSillyThingInReverse
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IrrelevantThesis
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IrritationIsTheSincerestFormOfFlattery
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ItCameFromTheSink
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LiteraryAgentHypothesis
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SnapToTheSide
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpiritualAntithesis
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StallingTheSip
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StateTheSimpleSolution
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StatingTheSimpleSolution
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheSiege
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheSilentBob
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheSilverGuardian
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheSimpleGestureWins
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheSimpleLifeIsSimple
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheSimpsons
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheSingingMute
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheSinglesIndex
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheSingularity
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheSixStats
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheSixthRanger
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheSixthSense
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheSixties
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Memes/RevengeOfTheSith
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/ForeverTheSickestKids
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/TheBlackSaintAndTheSinnerLady
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/TheSickestSquad
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/TheSickness
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/TheSilentCity
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/TheSimpsonsSingTheBlues
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/TheSinsOfThyBeloved
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/TheSistersOfMercy
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/TheSimpsons
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Pinball/TheSimpsonsDataEast
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Pinball/TheSimpsonsPinballParty
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Pinball/TheSixMillionDollarMan
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/PlayingWith/BewareTheSillyOnes
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Podcast/TheSiltVerses
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Quotes/BewareTheSillyOnes
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/QuoteSource/TheSimpsons
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/ChroniclesOfTheSirenWar
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/FamilyGuyS13E1TheSimpsonsGuy
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/FuturamaS6E14TheSilenceOfTheClamps
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/FuturamaS7E7TheSixMillionDollarMon
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsons
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E13HomerToTheMax
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E16MakeRoomForLisa
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E19MomAndPopArt
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E21MontyCantBuyMeLove
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E23ThirtyMinutesOverTokyo
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E10LittleBigMom
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E13SaddlesoreGalactica
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E16Pygmoelian
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E19KillTheAlligatorAndRun
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E22BehindTheLaughter
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E2BrothersLittleHelper
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E6HelloGutterHelloFadder
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E11WorstEpisodeEver
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E14NewKidsOnTheBlecch
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E17SimpsonSafari
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E21SimpsonsTallTales
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E9HOMR
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E15BlameItOnLisa
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E1TreehouseOfHorrorXII
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E2TheParentRap
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E3HomerTheMoe
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E7BrawlInTheFamily
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E8SweetsAndSourMarge
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E15CEDoh
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E18DudeWheresMyRanch
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E22MoeBabyBlues
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E1TreehouseOfHorrorXIV
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E8MargeVsSinglesSeniorsChildlessCouplesTeensAndGays
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E19ThankGodItsDoomsday
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E7MommieBeerest
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS17E13TheSeeminglyNeverEndingStory
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS17E21TheMonkeySuit
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS17E4TreehouseOfHorrorXVI
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS18E11RevengeIsADishBestServedThreeTimes
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS18E15RomeOldAndJuliEh
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS18E18TheBoysOfBummer
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS18E21TwentyFourMinutes
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS18E22YouKentAlwaysSayWhatYouWant
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS19E10EPluribusWiggum
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS19E15SmokeOnTheDaughter
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS19E9EternalMoonshineOfTheSimpsonMind
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E11TheCrepesOfWrath
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E12KrustyGetsBusted
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E2BartTheGenius
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS20E21ComingToHomerica
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS21E22TheBobNextDoor
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS23E18BewareMyCheatingBart
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS23E9HolidaysOfFuturePassed
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS25E13TheManWhoGrewTooMuch
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS25E18DaysOfFutureFuture
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS25E20BrickLikeMe
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS26E10TheManWhoCameToBeDinner
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS26E4TreehouseOfHorrorXXV
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS26E6Simpsorama
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS27E2CueDetective
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS27E5TreehouseOfHorrorXXVI
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS28E18LookingForMrGoodbart
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS28E1MontyBurnsFleeingCircus
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E10BartGetsHitByACar
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E1BartGetsAnF
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E2SimpsonAndDelilah
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E8BartTheDaredevil
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E10FlamingMoes
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E13RadioBart
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E17HomerAtTheBat
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E1StarkRavingDad
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E21BlackWidower
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E8LisasPony
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E11HomersTripleBypass
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E12MargeVsTheMonorail
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E15ILoveLisa
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E18SoItsComeToThisASimpsonsClipShow
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E19TheFront
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E1KampKrusty
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E22KrustyGetsKancelled
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E2AStreetcarNamedMarge
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E3HomerTheHeretic
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E6ItchyAndScratchyTheMovie
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E8NewKidOnTheBlock
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E10Springfield
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E11HomerTheVigilante
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E12BartGetsFamous
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E18BurnsHeir
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E20TheBoyWhoKnewtooMuch
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E2CapeFeare
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E3HomerGoesToCollege
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E4Rosebud
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E5TreehouseOfHorrorIV
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E6MargeOnTheLam
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E9TheLastTemptationOfHomer
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E11FearOfFlying
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E14BartsComet
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E15HomieTheClown
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E17HomerVsPattyAndSelma
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E18AStarIsBurns
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E19LisasWedding
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E20TwoDozenAndOneGreyhounds
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E5SideshowBobRoberts
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E6TreehouseOfHorrorV
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E11MargeBeNotProud
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E13TwoBadNeighbors
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E14ScenesFromTheClassStruggleInSpringfield
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E15BartTheFink
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E20BartOnTheRoad
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E2122ShortFilmsAboutSpringfield
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E22
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E2RadioactiveMan
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E4BartSellsHisSoul
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E7KingSizeHomer
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E10TheSpringfieldFiles
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E13SimpsoncalifragilisticexpialaAnnoyedGruntcious
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E15HomersPhobia
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E16BrotherFromAnotherSeries
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E23HomersEnemy
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E3TheHomerTheyFall
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E8HurricaneNeddy
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E16DumbbellIndemnity
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E17LisaTheSimpson
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E17LisaTheSimpsons
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E1TheCityOfNewYorkVsHomerSimpson
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E23KingOfTheHill
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E2ThePrincipalAndThePauper
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E5TheCartridgeFamily
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E8LisaTheSkeptic
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E9RealtyBites
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Ride/TheSimpsonsRide
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SelfDemonstrating/ExampleAsAThesis
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/TheSiflAndOllyShow
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/TheSimpleLife
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/TheSingingBee
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/TheSingingDetective
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/TheSingingRingingTree
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/TheSingleGuy
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/TheSinner
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/TheSixWivesOfHenryVIII
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SpiritualAntithesis/FanWorks
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TabletopGame/GeistTheSinEaters
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TabletopGame/TheSingularitySystem
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Theatre/TheSilmarillion
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Trivia/TheSimpsons
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TropeNamers/TheSimpsons
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/LooneyTunesInTheSixties
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/TheSilentAgeOfAnimation
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/TheSilentAgeOfHollywood
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/TheSilkRoad
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeofComicBooks
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/TheSixteenLandsOfDeutschland
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/TheSixthGenerationOfConsoleVideoGames
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/TheSixties
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoExamples/BewareTheSillyOnes
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/DetectiveDiTheSilkRoseMurders
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/KnightsOftheOldRepublicIITheSithLords
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/LufiaCurseOfTheSinistrals
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/LufiaIIRiseOfTheSinistrals
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/LunarTheSilverStar
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/OutlawsOfTheSierraNevadas
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/RevengeOfTheSith
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/SherlockHolmesSecretOfTheSilverEarring
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/SpiderMan2TheSinisterSix
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/StarWarsEpisodeIIIRevengeOfTheSith
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/Synthesia
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TabooTheSixthSense
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheSilentAge
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheSilverCase
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheSilverLining
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheSimpsons
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheSimpsonsBartsNightmare
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheSimpsonsBartVsTheSpaceMutants
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheSimpsonsBartVsTheWorld
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheSimpsonsGame
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheSimpsonsHitAndRun
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheSimpsonsNightOfTheLivingTreehouseOfHorror
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheSimpsonsRoadRage
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheSimpsonsSkateboarding
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheSims
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheSims1
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheSims2
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheSims3
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Videogame/TheSims3
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheSims4
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheSimsFreeplay
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheSimsMedieval
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Videogame/TheSimsMedieval
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheSimsOnline
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheSinkingCity
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoSource/TheSimpsons
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebComic/DemonThesis
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/DemonThesis
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/TheSilverEye
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Westernanimation/TheSimpsons
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/TheSinkingOfTheLusitania
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/YMMV/TheSimpsons
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tropers/Cynthesize
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tropers/Kinesthesia
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tropers/Synesthesiademo
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tropers/TheSilverShroud
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hypothesis
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Prosthesis
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Synthesis
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thesis,_antithesis,_synthesis
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wilfred_Thesiger
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: The New Thesis (2018 - 2018) - This is a remake of the 80's cult classic OVA series "Legend of the Galactic Heroes." It was produced by Production I.G.
Hippothesis (2011 - 2011) - Our stars, Dawn, the pygmy Hippopotamus, and Edward the dog, explore their everyday environments and learn about the natural world around them. Dawn enthusiastically investigates anything, while Edward approaches the world more methodically - wanting to know what the result will be before they even...
With Honors(1994) - Harvard University graduate Alek Keshishian directed this tale about a homeless man who teaches some snotty Harvard students a thing or two about real life. Monty (Brendan Fraser) is a self-absorbed graduate student who is obsessed with finishing his thesis on government so that he can satisfy his d...
Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie(2015) - In the year 2027, a year following the end of the non-nuclear World War IV, a bomb has gone off in Newport City, killing a major arms dealer who may have ties with the mysterious 501 Organization. Public Security official Daisuke Aramaki hires full-body cyber prosthesis user and hacker extraordinair...
Nobel Son(2007) - Barkley Michaelson is in a deep life rut. He's struggling to finish his PhD thesis when his father, the learned Eli Michaelson, wins the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Barkley and his mother, Sarah, a renowned forensic psychiatrist, now have the ill-fortune of living with a man-eating monster whose phil...
Corridors of Blood(1958) - Set during the 1840's, Dr. Thomas Bolton begins early experimentation with Anesthesia. However one of his first demonstration turns out to be a failure in front of peers. After this disgrace he ends having to leave his position and having to involved with criminals. Bolton also becomes addicted to g...
Talking Walls(1987) - A sociology student films sexual encounters in a motel for his thesis, and falls in love with a French girl in the process.
Bodied (2017) ::: 7.1/10 -- R | 2h | Comedy, Drama, Music | 2 November 2018 (USA) -- A progressive graduate student finds success and sparks outrage when his interest in battle rap as a thesis subject becomes a competitive obsession. Director: Joseph Kahn Writers:
Starting Out in the Evening (2007) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 51min | Drama, Romance | January 2007 (USA) -- An ambitious graduate student convinces a writer that her thesis can resurrect his career. Director: Andrew Wagner Writers: Brian Morton (novel), Fred Parnes (screenplay) | 1 more credit
Thesis (1996) ::: 7.4/10 -- Tesis (original title) -- Thesis Poster -- While doing a thesis about violence, Angela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student in her faculty... Director: Alejandro Amenabar Writers:
With Honors (1994) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 41min | Comedy, Drama | 29 April 1994 (USA) -- Convinced his thesis will have him graduate with honors from Harvard University, a stuffy student finds himself at the mercy of a homeless man's demands when he holds the papers hostage. Director: Alek Keshishian Writer:
https://analytical.fandom.com/wiki/Abramovitch-Shapiro_tryptamine_synthesis
https://aquaman.fandom.com/wiki/Thesily
https://choroq.fandom.com/wiki/Fotbar_Laboratory:_Synthesizing_Parts_List
https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Antithesis
https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Penthesilea_(DC_Extended_Universe)
https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Penthesilea_(Flashpoint_Timeline)
https://dragons-prophet.fandom.com/wiki/Material_Refinement_(Synthesis)
https://economics.fandom.com/wiki/Acceleration_Hypothesis
https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Shadow_Draining:_A_Hypothesis
https://evanescence.fandom.com/wiki/Synthesis
https://gunnerkrigg.fandom.com/wiki/Gunnerkrigg_Court_Volume_Seven:_Synthesis
https://jump.fandom.com/wiki/Message_Wall:TheSilentHero
https://list.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_classic_synthesizers
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Carbonadium_Synthesizer
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Anesthesia
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Anesthesia_gas
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Food_synthesizer
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Fuel_synthesizer
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Hypothesis
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Matter_synthesizer
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Molecular_synthesizer
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Particle_synthesis
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Photosynthesis
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Prosthesis
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Starbase_515_anesthesiologist_001
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Synthesis
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Thesis
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Voice_synthesizer
https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Anesthesia
https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Biosynthesis
https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Biosynthesizer
https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Food_synthesizer
https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Matter_synthesizer
https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Palmieri_Hypothesis
https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Synthesis
https://monsuno.fandom.com/wiki/Antithesis
https://mythus.fandom.com/wiki/Penthesilea
https://non-aliencreatures.fandom.com/wiki/Non-alien_Creatures_Wiki?file=Leprechaun-TheSimpsons.png
https://ogame.fandom.com/wiki/Deuterium_Synthesizer
https://regularshow.fandom.com/wiki/Gary's_Synthesizer
https://scientology.fandom.com/wiki/Dianetics,_the_Original_Thesis
https://sims.fandom.com/no/wiki/Brukerblogg:TheSIMofNorwegian/1000_filer
https://sims.fandom.com/no/wiki/Brukerblogg:TheSIMofNorwegian/1250_filer
https://sims.fandom.com/no/wiki/Brukerblogg:TheSIMofNorwegian/1500_filer
https://sims.fandom.com/no/wiki/Brukerblogg:TheSIMofNorwegian/Byr
https://sims.fandom.com/no/wiki/Brukerblogg:TheSIMofNorwegian/Dokumentasjon
https://sims.fandom.com/no/wiki/Brukerblogg:TheSIMofNorwegian/Kj
https://sims.fandom.com/no/wiki/Brukerblogg:TheSIMofNorwegian/Lisens
https://sims.fandom.com/no/wiki/Brukerblogg:TheSIMofNorwegian/Simbio
https://sims.fandom.com/no/wiki/Brukerblogg:TheSIMofNorwegian/Simbio-slutt
https://sims.fandom.com/no/wiki/Brukerblogg:TheSIMofNorwegian/Spotlight
https://sims.fandom.com/no/wiki/Brukerblogg:TheSIMofNorwegian/The_Sims:Medival
https://sims.fandom.com/no/wiki/Brukerblogg:TheSIMofNorwegian/Utmerkelser
https://sims.fandom.com/no/wiki/Bruker:TheSIMofNorwegian
https://soundeffects.fandom.com/wiki/SKYWALKER,_WHOOSH_-_SYNTHESIZED_JET_FLY_BY
https://space.fandom.com/wiki/Stellar_nucleosynthesis
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Assault_on_the_DSI_Hyperbaride_Synthesis_Plant
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Biochem_synthesizer
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Synthesized_Operating_Layer,_Grid-Based_Drive_Array
https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Anesthesia
https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Event_Synthesizer
https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Synthesis_Station
https://thesims4.fandom.com/wiki/
https://thesims.fandom.com/id/wiki/
https://thesimsmedieval.fandom.com/wiki/
https://thesimsproject.fandom.com/wiki/
https://thesimssocial.fandom.com/wiki/
https://thesimssocial.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sims_Social_Wiki
https://thesingoff.fandom.com/wiki/
https://totalwar.fandom.com/wiki/Penthesilea
https://turricanfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Turrican_7:_Antithesis_(Wazzupguys)
https://ufo.fandom.com/wiki/Multiverse_hypothesis
https://ufo.fandom.com/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis
https://utaite.fandom.com/wiki/Happy_Synthesizer
https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/Synthesis
https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Quest:Synthesis_of_Power
Babylon -- -- Revoroot -- 12 eps -- Novel -- Mystery Psychological Thriller -- Babylon Babylon -- In the newly formed Shiniki district of Tokyo, Zen Seizaki is a diligent public prosecutor at the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office. Assigned to a case involving false advertisement, Zen—along with his assistant officer, Atsuhiko Fumio—investigate Japan Supiri, a pharmaceutical company that had provided fabricated clinical research on the company's new drug. While investigating the file of Shin Inaba, an anesthesiologist connected to the crime, the case takes a dark turn when Zen finds a page stained with a mixture of blood, hair and skin, along with the letter "F" scribbled all across the sheet. As he investigates further, the case goes beyond Zen's imagination and becomes vastly complex, challenging his sense of justice and his knowledge of the truth. -- -- Digging deeper into the investigation, Zen begins to uncover a concealed plot behind the ongoing mayoral election and ties to many people of interest involved in the election and those closer than he thinks. The case grows more severe and propels Zen into an unforeseen hurricane of corruption and deceit behind the election, the establishment of the Shiniki district, and the mysterious woman associated with it all. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 107,289 6.80
Koukaku Kidoutai: Shin Movie -- -- Production I.G -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Police Psychological Mecha -- Koukaku Kidoutai: Shin Movie Koukaku Kidoutai: Shin Movie -- In the year 2027, a year following the end of the non-nuclear World War IV, a bomb has gone off in Newport City, killing a major arms dealer who may have ties with the mysterious 501 Organization. Public Security official Daisuke Aramaki hires full-body cyber prosthesis user and hacker extraordinaire, Motoko Kusanagi, to investigate. -- -- (Source: Wikipedia) -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- Movie - Jun 20, 2015 -- 40,670 7.47
Midori-ko -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Original -- Dementia Drama -- Midori-ko Midori-ko -- One of the must-see gems making its premiere at our festival, Midori-Ko is adored Japanese animator Kurosaka Keita's whimsically nightmarish vision of 21st-century Tokyo on the brink of apocalypse. Ten years in the making and entirely, single-handedly rendered in colored pencil, Kurosaka's fantastical labor of love is a marvel to behold. Emerging from the staggering detail and craft flooding every frame is the story of a young woman who sets out to engineer a dream-food that can put an end to the world's famine. Synthesizing Frederic Back's subtle, haptic textures with Bill Plympton's frenetic mutations and David Lynch's haunting wormholes, Kurosaka’s work still retains its own singular, luminous potency. -- -- (Source: Los Angeles Animation Festival summary) -- Movie - Sep 24, 2011 -- 2,792 6.07
SKET Dance -- -- Tatsunoko Production -- 77 eps -- Manga -- Comedy School Shounen -- SKET Dance SKET Dance -- At Kaimei High School there is a special club dedicated to helping others known as the SKET Brigade. The brains of the group is Kazuyoshi "Switch" Usui, a tech-savvy otaku who speaks through speech synthesis software, while the brawn is provided by Hime "Himeko" Onizuka, the hockey stick-wielding girl once known as "Onihime." And last but not least, their leader is Yuusuke "Bossun" Fujisaki, whose latent ability is evoked by his goggles, allowing him to summon the awesome power of extraordinary concentration. -- -- However, most of the school only know them as the club that handles odd jobs. Many of their days are spent in the clubroom slacking off, but when there is something to be done, they give their all to help others—usually in sincere, but unintentionally hilarious, ways. The SKET Brigade do all they can to provide support, kindness, encouragement, and troubleshooting to any students crazy enough to ask for their services. -- -- 189,583 8.24
Spirit of Wonder: Shounen Kagaku Club -- -- Ajia-Do -- 2 eps -- - -- Drama Sci-Fi Seinen Space -- Spirit of Wonder: Shounen Kagaku Club Spirit of Wonder: Shounen Kagaku Club -- The now 50 year old Scientific Boys Club decides to built a ship that sails to Mars on the "Ethereal Current" - a thesis of the wife of a club member which claims that the universe is flooded with Ethereal energy. On this stream they travel to Mars in order to prove an old theory about channels on Mars built by Martians, but there is no life. Many years later, when both theories are considered to be nonsense, a Mars expedition discovers a stone with the inscription "Scientific Boys Club 1954". -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment -- OVA - Jan 25, 2001 -- 3,107 6.57
Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld -- -- A-1 Pictures -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Action Game Adventure Romance Fantasy -- Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld -- Despite the defeat of Quinella—the pontifex of the Axiom Church—things have not seemed to calm down yet. Upon contacting the real world, Kazuto "Kirito" Kirigaya finds out that the Ocean Turtle—a mega-float controlled by Rath—was raided. Due to a sudden short-circuit caused by the raiders, Kirito's fluctlight is damaged, leaving him comatose. Feeling insecure about the people at the Axiom Church, Alice brings the unconscious Kirito back to their hometown—Rulid Village, disregarding her banishment due to an unabsolved crime. Now, Alice is living an ordinary and peaceful life close by the village, wishing for Kirito to wake up. -- -- However, tragedy strikes when Alice notices that the Dark Territory has already started to invade the Human Empire. Reassuming her previous alias, Alice Synthesis Thirty, she promises to defeat the Dark Territory in order to defend the world that Kirito and Eugeo worked so hard to protect. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- 466,598 7.60
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/List_of_applications#Audio_synthesis_environments
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/List_of_applications#Speech_synthesizers
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Gaia_hypothesis
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haemisphaeriorum_tabula_Carthesiana_-_CBT_5870962.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ScienceAndHypothesis1905.djvu
2010 Duke University faux sex thesis controversy
271 Penthesilea
2R hypothesis
Abortionbreast cancer hypothesis
Absolute income hypothesis
Acetoacetic ester synthesis
Acid-growth hypothesis
A Cruel Angel's Thesis
Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica
Activation-synthesis hypothesis
Adaptive market hypothesis
Additive synthesis
Ad hoc hypothesis
Aelita (synthesizer)
Aether drag hypothesis
Affect as information hypothesis
Age-area hypothesis
Alarm photosynthesis
Alfred Thesiger
Allergic reactions to anesthesia
Alternative hypothesis
Alvarez hypothesis
Ambush hypothesis
American Dental Society of Anesthesiology
American Society of Anesthesia Technologists & Technicians
American Society of Anesthesiologists
Anaesthesia associate
Anaesthesia Trauma and Critical Care
Analog modeling synthesizer
Analog synthesizer
Anatolian hypothesis
Anesthesia
Anesthesia (1929 film)
Anesthesia (2015 film)
Anesthesia & Analgesia
Anesthesia awareness
Anesthesia (disambiguation)
Anesthesia dolorosa
Anesthesia for eye surgery
Anesthesiologist assistant
Anesthesiology
Anesthesiology (journal)
Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia
Anoxygenic photosynthesis
Antagonistic pleiotropy hypothesis
Antithesis
Antithesis (disambiguation)
Antithesis of Light
Aperture synthesis
Apparent-time hypothesis
Aquatic ape hypothesis
Argus retinal prosthesis
Armenian hypothesis
ARP String Synthesizer
Arsis and thesis
Articulata hypothesis
Articulatory synthesis
Artificial gene synthesis
Artificial photosynthesis
Artificial turfcancer hypothesis
Athesis
Athesis acrisione
Audiosim (software synthesizer)
Augustinian hypothesis
Automated synthesis
Azoic hypothesis
Baccharis thesioides
BaeyerDrewson indigo synthesis
BaeyerEmmerling indole synthesis
Balanced anesthesia
Balkan hypothesis
Banded waveguide synthesis
Bartoli indole synthesis
Bayesian program synthesis
Beau Geste hypothesis
Bell Labs Digital Synthesizer
Benthesikyme
Bi-directional hypothesis of language and action
Big Bang nucleosynthesis
Biodiversity hypothesis of health
Biophilia hypothesis
Biosynthesis
Bio-Synthesis, Inc.
BischlerMhlau indole synthesis
Black Egyptian hypothesis
Black Queen hypothesis
Black Sea deluge hypothesis
Blaise ketone synthesis
Bleeding diathesis
Blue water thesis
BodrouxChichibabin aldehyde synthesis
Book:Pole shift hypothesis
Boord olefin synthesis
BowmanHeidenhain hypothesis
Bradyesthesia
British Journal of Anaesthesia
Calcichordate hypothesis
California Society of Anesthesiologists
CalmforsDriffill hypothesis
Cambridge Low Frequency Synthesis Telescope
Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope
Camps quinoline synthesis
Carbohydrate synthesis
Carbonyl olefin metathesis
Cardiocentric hypothesis
Cardiothoracic anesthesiology
Carnitine biosynthesis
Casio CZ synthesizers
Casio SD Synthesizers
Cataclysmic pole shift hypothesis
Certified Anesthesia Technician
Certified Anesthesia Technologist
Cethosia penthesilea
ChamberlinMoulton planetesimal hypothesis
Chemical synthesis
Chemosynthesis
Chichibabin pyridine synthesis
Chiemgau impact hypothesis
Chinese hypothesis
Chromesthesia
Church's thesis (constructive mathematics)
ChurchTuring thesis
Clathrate gun hypothesis
CLAW hypothesis
Cluster hypothesis
Clypeobarbus matthesi
Cobalamin biosynthesis
Cobham's thesis
Cobordism hypothesis
College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland
Combined spinal and epidural anaesthesia
Comparator hypothesis
Comparison of audio synthesis environments
Comparison of speech synthesizers
Conflict thesis
ConradLimpach synthesis
Contact hypothesis
Continuum hypothesis
Convergent synthesis
CookHeilbron thiazole synthesis
Cooperstock's energy-localization hypothesis
CoreyHouse synthesis
CoreyWinter olefin synthesis
CoRR hypothesis
Cosmic censorship hypothesis
Cost of reproduction hypothesis
Court jester hypothesis
Craniofacial prosthesis
Creative synthesis
Critical period hypothesis
Current Opinion in Anesthesiology
Cyclophora oothesia
Dahrendorf hypothesis
Danishefsky Taxol total synthesis
DavisMoore hypothesis
Debus-Radziszewski imidazole synthesis
Defensive attribution hypothesis
Delay-insensitive minterm synthesis
Delay reduction hypothesis
Dental anesthesia
Dental anesthesiology
Dental prosthesis
Diathesis
Diathesis alternation
Diathesis (medicine)
Diathesisstress model
Differential adhesion hypothesis
Differential susceptibility hypothesis
Digital synthesizer
Digital waveguide synthesis
Dirac large numbers hypothesis
Direct digital synthesis
Divergent synthesis
DNA synthesis
DNAtemplated organic synthesis
Documentary hypothesis
DoeringLaFlamme allene synthesis
Dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia
Dopamine hypothesis of stuttering
Drift hypothesis
Duane's hypothesis
DuhemQuine thesis
Dunathan stereoelectronic hypothesis
Dynamic kinetic resolution in asymmetric synthesis
Dysaesthesia aethiopica
Dysesthesia
Ectaesthesius
Ecthesis
Efficient-market hypothesis
EICA hypothesis
Electrosynthesis
Emphasis! (On Parenthesis)
Enantioselective synthesis
Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis
Enthesis
Eocyte hypothesis
Epenthesis
Ergodic hypothesis
Eric Thesiger
ErlenmeyerPlchl azlactone and amino-acid synthesis
Error exponents in hypothesis testing
Esthesic and poietic
Esthesiometer
Esthesioneuroblastoma
Eupithecia leucenthesis
European College of Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia
European Journal of Anaesthesiology
European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care
Eutherian fetoembryonic defense system (eu-FEDS) hypothesis
Evolution of photosynthesis
Evolution: The Modern Synthesis
Exclusion of the null hypothesis
Expectations hypothesis
Expected utility hypothesis
Expensive tissue hypothesis
Exponential time hypothesis
Extended evolutionary synthesis
Extended mind thesis
Extraterrestrial hypothesis
Eye injuries during general anaesthesia
Farrer hypothesis
Father Tongue hypothesis
Fatty acid synthesis
Feiler faster thesis
FeistBenary synthesis
Feline hyperesthesia syndrome
Festival Speech Synthesis System
Fetal origins hypothesis
Fischer indole synthesis
Fisher hypothesis
Flavonoid biosynthesis
Flying primate hypothesis
Fly Synthesis Storch
Fly Synthesis Syncro
Fly Synthesis Texan
Fly Synthesis Wallaby
Four-document hypothesis
Fractionation of carbon isotopes in oxygenic photosynthesis
Frederic Thesiger
Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford
Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford
Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford
Fredkin finite nature hypothesis
Frequency format hypothesis
Frequency modulation synthesis
Frequency synthesizer
Friedlnder synthesis
Frigg and Freyja common origin hypothesis
Frontier thesis
Frustrationaggression hypothesis
Functional matrix hypothesis
Fungal loop hypothesis
Gabriel synthesis
GADV-protein world hypothesis
Gaia hypothesis
Galantamine total synthesis
Gathering hypothesis
General anaesthesia
Generalized Riemann hypothesis
Genetics of synesthesia
George Mattson (synthesizer inventor)
George Thesiger
Germanic substrate hypothesis
GeschwindGalaburda hypothesis
Ghaza thesis
Giant-impact hypothesis
Glacial survival hypothesis
Glutamate hypothesis of schizophrenia
God: The Failed Hypothesis
Goidelic substrate hypothesis
Grandmother hypothesis
Grand tack hypothesis
Granular synthesis
Graphemecolor synesthesia
Graphesthesia
Graphism thesis
Guitar synthesizer
Habakkuk thesis
Hantzsch pyridine synthesis
Hantzsch pyrrole synthesis
Hebrew Gospel hypothesis
Hemetsberger indole synthesis
Hemihypesthesia
Hermann Muthesius
Hierothesion
High-level synthesis
Hillary Rodham senior thesis
Hinsberg oxindole synthesis
Hippocampal prosthesis
Hippodamia parenthesis
Hip prosthesis zones
History of general anesthesia
History of the ChurchTuring thesis
HockneyFalco thesis
Holton Taxol total synthesis
Human image synthesis
Hunter vs. farmer hypothesis
Hunting hypothesis
Hydrothermal synthesis
Hygiene hypothesis
Hyperesthesia
Hypoesthesia
Hypothesis
Hypothesis Theory
Hypothesis Z
Ideasthesia
Imagined contact hypothesis
Immiseration thesis
Immortal DNA strand hypothesis
Incompatibility thesis
Independence hypothesis
Indian Journal of Anaesthesia
Inferior alveolar nerve anaesthesia
Information centre hypothesis
Innateness hypothesis
Input hypothesis
Instruments used in anesthesiology
Interaction hypothesis
Interdimensional hypothesis
Interface hypothesis
Intermediate disturbance hypothesis
International Anesthesia Research Society
Intravenous regional anesthesia
Iris hypothesis
Iron-sulfur cluster biosynthesis protein family
Ironsulfur world hypothesis
Isotopic resonance hypothesis
JanzenConnell hypothesis
Journal of Clinical Anesthesia
Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology
Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing
Just-world hypothesis
KarplusStrong string synthesis
Kawasaki Synthesizer
Keratoprosthesis
Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry
KilianiFischer synthesis
Kinematic synthesis
KK thesis
Knowledge gap hypothesis
Korean Journal of Anesthesiology
Krhnke pyridine synthesis
Kronos: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Synthesis
Kurgan hypothesis
Lactate shuttle hypothesis
Language of thought hypothesis
Large scale chemical synthesis in Poland
Laser ablation synthesis in solution
Leadcrime hypothesis
Lectka enantioselective beta-lactam synthesis
LeimgruberBatcho indole synthesis
Lethal synthesis
Lvy flight foraging hypothesis
Lexical-gustatory synesthesia
Lexical hypothesis
Lexicalist hypothesis
Life-cycle hypothesis
Lindelf hypothesis
Linear arithmetic synthesis
Lipaesthesius
Lipid hypothesis
List of guitar synthesizer players
List of Moog synthesizer players
List of people with synesthesia
List of synthesizers
Local anesthesia
Logic synthesis
Low-power FSM synthesis
Macrurocampa marthesia
Male warrior hypothesis
Malonic ester synthesis
Manipulation under anesthesia
Marathesium
Marcion hypothesis
Marley hypothesis
Mars ocean hypothesis
Mathematical universe hypothesis
Mathesis
Mathesius
Matthesia
Medea hypothesis
Medical Hypothesis, Discovery & Innovation in Ophthalmology
Merton thesis
Mesopredator release hypothesis
Metathesis
Metathesis (linguistics)
Metropolitan-hinterland thesis
Metropolitan thesis
Middle English creole hypothesis
Minster hypothesis
Mirror-touch synesthesia
Modern synthesis
Modern synthesis (20th century)
Modular synthesizer
Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope
Moog synthesizer
Multi-source hypothesis
Muthesius
Narcosynthesis
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
National Evolutionary Synthesis Center
National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis
Nebular hypothesis
Neoclassical synthesis
Neon Synthesis
Nepenthesin
Network synthesis
Network synthesis filters
Neural efficiency hypothesis
Neuronal recycling hypothesis
Neurosurgical anesthesia
New neoclassical synthesis
New synthesis
Niche hypothesis
Nicolaou Taxol total synthesis
Nikos Mathesis
Noncovalent solid-phase organic synthesis
Nose prosthesis
Notes on the Synthesis of Form
Nucleosynthesis
Null Hypothesis: The Journal of Unlikely Science
Oberheim Matrix synthesizers
Obstetric anesthesiology
Ocular prosthesis
Olefin metathesis
Oligonucleotide synthesis
Omphalos hypothesis
One geneone enzyme hypothesis
One-pot synthesis
Oral polio vaccine AIDS hypothesis
Organic synthesis
Organizational-Activational Hypothesis
Ossicular replacement prosthesis
Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis
Ottoman Decline Thesis
Oxford Synthesiser Company
PaalKnorr synthesis
Paclitaxel total synthesis
PAH world hypothesis
Palaeobenthesicymus
Palatal lift prosthesis
Parallel computation thesis
Paraporthesia
Parenthesis (rhetoric)
Paresthesia
Partial dominance hypothesis
Pediatric Anesthesia
Penthesilea
Peptide synthesis
Perceptual noise exclusion hypothesis
Permanent income hypothesis
Phantom time hypothesis
Pheromone biosynthesis activating neuropeptide
Photosynthesis
Photosynthesis system
Physical modelling synthesis
Plinthanthesis
Pollution haven hypothesis
Porter hypothesis
Post-anesthesia care unit
PrebischSinger hypothesis
Predation risk allocation hypothesis
Prefrontal synthesis
Pressure flow hypothesis
Process network synthesis
Program synthesis
Prosthesis
Protein biosynthesis
Protein leverage hypothesis
Protein synthesis inhibitor
Protein-synthesizing GTPase
Prothesis
Prothesis (altar)
Prothesis (linguistics)
Prout's hypothesis
Psychosocial hypothesis
Pudendal anesthesia
Purine synthesis
Purple Earth hypothesis
Pyresthesis
Q+/Papias hypothesis
Quantitative metathesis
Quinine total synthesis
Radiesthesia
Rajlich's hypothesis
Random walk hypothesis
Rare Earth hypothesis
RCA Mark II Sound Synthesizer
Reactive synthesis
Red Queen hypothesis
Relative income hypothesis
Research Synthesis Methods
Response modulation hypothesis
Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides
Riemann hypothesis
Ring-opening metathesis polymerisation
RobinsonGabriel synthesis
Robotic prosthesis control
RSX Reality Synthesizer
Rutt/Etra Video Synthesizer
Ruzicka large-ring synthesis
Salt metathesis reaction
Sample-based synthesis
Savannah hypothesis
Scalp dysesthesia
Schinzel's hypothesis H
Science and Hypothesis
Self-propagating high-temperature synthesis
Seminars in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia
Semisynthesis
Serge synthesizer
Sexual orientation hypothesis
Sexy son hypothesis
Shiva Hypothesis
Sigma-bond metathesis
Simulation hypothesis
Sinewave synthesis
Singular cardinals hypothesis
Siri thesis
Slavic liquid metathesis and pleophony
Social breakdown thesis
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis
Software synthesizer
Solid-phase synthesis
Solutrean hypothesis
Solvothermal synthesis
Somatic marker hypothesis
Sonochemical synthesis
Spearman's hypothesis
Spectral modeling synthesis
Speech synthesis
Sphinx water erosion hypothesis
Spinal anaesthesia
Split and pool synthesis
Spondylolisthesis
Spreadthesign
Stabilization hypothesis
Stable ocean hypothesis
Staples thesis
Statistical hypothesis testing
Stellar nucleosynthesis
Stemorrhages marthesiusalis
Stephen aldehyde synthesis
Stoll synthesis
Strecker amino acid synthesis
String synthesizer
Substitution hypothesis
Subtractive synthesis
Supernova nucleosynthesis
SWEAT (hypothesis)
Swoon hypothesis
Synsthesia (Canadian band)
Synaesthesia (disambiguation)
Synaesthesia (Kyros album)
Synaesthesia (rhetorical device)
Synesthesia
Synesthesia (Buck 65 album)
Synesthesia in fiction
Synesthesia I Think in Colours
Synesthesia Mandala Drums
Synesthesia (song)
Synthesia
Synthesis
Synthesis & Other Virtual Realities
Synthesis anarchism
Synthesis-dependent strand annealing
Synthesis (Evanescence album)
Synthesis Live
Synthesis of hexagonal boron nitride
Synthesis of nanoparticles by fungi
Synthesis of precious metals
Synthesis/Regeneration
Synthesizer
Synthesizing unit
Takahashi Taxol total synthesis
Talk:De novo protein synthesis theory of memory formation
Tate's thesis
Tetrahedral hypothesis
Texture synthesis
The Astonishing Hypothesis
The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis
The Happiness Hypothesis
The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
The Recombination Hypothesis
Thermal shock synthesis
Thesiger
Thesis
Thesis circle
Thesis (disambiguation)
Thesis Eleven
Thesis (Jimmy Giuffre 3 album)
Thesis (Matthew Shipp and Joe Morris album)
Thesis of Cassiciacum
Thesis (typeface)
Thesium humifusum
Thesixtyone
The Well-Tempered Synthesizer
Three-source hypothesis
Thrifty gene hypothesis
Tollmann's bolide hypothesis
Tomosynthesis
Total synthesis
Total synthesis of morphine and related alkaloids
Trifunctional hypothesis
Tumescent anesthesia
Turnip crinkle virus (TCV) repressor of minus strand synthesis H5
Twilight anesthesia
Twin deficits hypothesis
Two-gospel hypothesis
Two-hit hypothesis
Two layer hypothesis
Two-sample hypothesis testing
Two-source hypothesis
Two-streams hypothesis
Uniqueness thesis (epistemology)
Urech hydantoin synthesis
User:UBX/modular synthesizer
User:UBX/synthesizer
Variability hypothesis
Vasconic substrate hypothesis
Venom optimization hypothesis
Veterinary anesthesia
Video synthesizer
Vilm Mathesius
VineMatthewsMorley hypothesis
Visual prosthesis
Voice prosthesis
Volume combustion synthesis
Vowelconsonant synthesis
Warburg hypothesis
Wave field synthesis
Wavetable synthesis
Weber Thesis
Weinreb ketone synthesis
Wender Taxol total synthesis
Wenker synthesis
Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope
Wilfred Thesiger
Wilke hypothesis
Williamson ether synthesis
Wiseman hypothesis
Witch-cult hypothesis
Without Anesthesia
Whler synthesis
Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology
World Anaesthesia Day
World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists
Yoshimi (synthesizer)
Younger Dryas impact hypothesis
Zilsel Thesis
Zoo hypothesis
convenience portal:
recent: Section Maps - index table - favoritesSavitri --Savitri extended toc Savitri Section Map --1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
authors -- Crowley - Peterson - Borges - Wilber - Teresa -Aurobindo -Ramakrishna - Maharshi -Mother
places -- Garden - Inf. Art Gallery - Inf. Building - Inf. Library - Labyrinth - Library - School -Temple - Tower - Tower of MEM
powers -- Aspiration - Beauty - Concentration - Effort - Faith - Force - Grace - inspiration -Presence - Purity - Sincerity - surrender
difficulties -- cowardice - depres. - distract. - distress - dryness - evil - fear - forget - habits - impulse - incapacity - irritation - lost - mistakes - obscur. - problem - resist - sadness - self-deception - shame - sin - suffering
practices -- Lucid Dreaming - meditation - project - programming - Prayer - read Savitri - studysubjects -- CS - Cybernetics - Game Dev - Integral Theory - Integral Yoga - Kabbalah - Language - Philosophy - Poetry - Zen
6.01 books -- KC - ABA - Null -Savitri - SA O TAOC -SICP - The Gospel of SRK - TIC - The Library of Babel -TLD -TSOY - TTYODAS - TSZ - WOTM II
8 unsorted / add here -- Always - Everyday - Verbs