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1:The most dangerous moment comes with victory ~ Napoleon,

2:This is the victory over the world - our faith. ~ 1 John 5:3-5,

3:One day the victory is certain. ~ The Mother,

4:The first and best victory is to conquer self.    ~ Plato,

5:The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.    ~ Karl Popper,

6:Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory." ~ George S. Patton,

7:It is difficult to fight with an enemy who longs more for battle than for victory. ~ Francesco Petrarca,

8:You must have boundless faith in the divine goodness, for the victory is absolutely certain. ~ Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina,

9:Nothing conquers except truth: the victory of truth is charity. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo,

10:To transform death and make of it a means of victory and triumph. ~ Nietzsche, the Eternal Wisdom

11:Death is swallowed up in victory. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, 1 Corinthians, XV. 54, the Eternal Wisdom

12:Be perfectly sincere and no victory will be denied to you.    ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, Sincerity,

13:Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga IV,

14:No one, however weak, is denied a share in the victory of the cross. No one is beyond the help of the prayer of Christ. ~ Saint Leo the Great,

15:Falsehood is merely a wrong placing of the Truth. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda, The Victory of the Fathers,

16:I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self. ~ Aristotle,

17:The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.    ~ Plato,

18:Calm is self's victory overcoming fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,

19:I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.    ~ Aristotle,

20:I shall always be with you, my dear little child, in the struggle and in the victory.    ~ The Mother, Some Answers From The Mother,

21:The more heart you will be able to manifest, the greater will be the victory you achieve. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VI. 425),

22:To see Thy Victory in all circumstances is certainly the best way of helping It to come.    ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III, 240,

23:in a field of grass each flower a victory ~ Matsuo Basho, @BashoSociety

24:If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards." ~ Bear Bryant,

25:He who to some gives victory, joy and good, To some gives rest. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, To R.,

26:In sincerity is the certitude of victory. Sincerity! Sincerity! How sweet is the purity of thy presence!    ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,

27:Persevere in thy quest and thou shalt find what thou seekest. Pursue thy aim unswervingly and thou shalt gain victory. Struggle earnestly and thou shalt triumph. ~ Buddha,

28:It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.    ~ Buddha,

29:Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.    ~ Miyamoto Musashi,

30:God in thy victory, God in thy defeat, God in thy very death & torture, - God who will not be defeated & who cannot die.    ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad,

31:No victory can be won without a fixed fidelity to the aim and a long effort. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, Human Relations and the Spiritual Life,

32:But no victory can be won without a fixed fidelity to the aim and a long effort. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, Human Relations and the Spiritual Life,

33:To conquer the lures of egoistic existence in this world is our first victory over ourselves. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Soul and Its Liberation,

34:No human will can finally prevail against the Divine's Will. Let us put ourselves deliberately and exclusively on the side of the Divine, and the Victory is ultimately certain. ~ Mother Mirra,

35:O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?...Death is swallowed up in victory. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, 1 Corinthians, XV.56.55, the Eternal Wisdom

36:The generalisation of Yoga in humanity must be the last victory of Nature over her own delays and concealments. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Threefold Life,

37:Make pain and pleasure, loss and gain, victory and defeat equal to thee, then turn thyself to the battle, so shalt thou have no sin. ~ Bhagavad Gita II. 38, the Eternal Wisdom

38:Keep full reliance on the Mother. When one does that, the victory even if delayed, is sure. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III, Feelings and Sensations in the Process of Descent,

39:No human will can finally prevail against the Divine's Will. Let us put ourselves deliberately and exclusively on the side of the Divine, and the Victory is ultimately certain. ~ The Mother,

40:When a man has subdued himself and lives in perfect continence, not god, not Gandharva, not Mara, not Brahma himself can turn into defeat his victory. ~ Dhammapada, the Eternal Wisdom

41:f you succeed inconquering yourself entirely, you will conquer the rest with the greatest ease. To triumph over oneself is the perfect victory ~ Imitation of Christ, the Eternal Wisdom

42:The divine Dwarf towered to unconquered worlds, Earth grew too narrow for his victory. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,

43:The Divine's triumph is so perfect that every obstacle, every ill-will, every hatred rising against Him is a promise of a vaster and still completer victory.    ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,

44:The contemplation of the impermanence of things, that wonderful gateway to Truth, leads us to victory over the thirst for the satisfaction of our desires. ~ Sangiti Sutta, the Eternal Wisdom

45:When the city of Jericho fell at the sound of the priests' trumpets, and Joshua the Son of Nun gained the victory, he knew that the valour of the people was weakened through love of money and desire for gold. ~ Saint Ambrose,

46:Destiny's lasso, its slip-knot tied by delight and repining, Draws us through tangles of failure and victory's inextricable twining. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Ahana,

47:It was revealed to me that through the intercession of the Mother of God, all heresies will disappear. This victory over heresies has been reserved by Christ for His Blessed Mother... " ~ Venerable Mary of Jesus of Ágreda (1602-1665),

48:It is by persevering that one conquers difficulties, not by running away from them. One who perseveres is sure to triumph. Victory goes to the most enduring. Always do your best and the Lord will take care of the results. ~ MOTHER MIRA,

49:The spirit rises mightier by defeat; Its godlike wings grow wider with each fall. Its splendid failures sum to victory. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,

50:Be sure that the Mother will be always with you to carry you upon the path. Difficulties come and difficulties go, but, she being with you, the victory is sure.    ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Mother With Letters On The Mother, [T1],

51:In our defeated hearts God's strength survives And victory's star still lights our desperate road; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,

52:That is the supreme felicity of those who have won their victory, it is the perfect and immutable peace, the defeat of Impermanence, a pure and luminous condition, the victory over death. ~ Canon in Pali, the Eternal Wisdom

53:Yet in this victory of the rational I over traditional authority, there is latent a force which is to triumph over the individual: the concept of Truth, a new universal category to which every personal preference must yield. ~ Werner Jaeger, Paideia I:155,

54:Endure and you will triumph. Victory goes to the most enduring. And with the Grace and divine love nothing is impossible. My force and love are with you. At the end of the struggle there is Victory    ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,

55:A mighty victory or a mighty fall, A throne in heaven or a pit in hell, The dual Energy they have justified ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,

56: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],

57:One road conducts to the goods of this world, honour and riches, but the other to victory over the world. Seek not the goods of the world, riches and honour. Let your aim be to transcend the world. ~ Buddhist Texts, the Eternal Wisdom

58:The way to rest is through toil, the way to life is through death. Christ has taken on himself the whole weakness of our lowly human nature. If then we are steadfast in our faith in him and in our love for him, we win the victory that he has won. ~ Saint Leo the Great,

59:With the littlest ones, I am attaining each day my victory over Satan and his powerful army of evil, over the satanic and masonic forces organized against God, because I am leading my children along the road of heroic faith, of sure hope and of perfect love." ~ Our Lady ,

60:A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: The hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.    ~ Joseph Campbell,

61:My fellow Christians, our annual celebration of a martyr's feast has brought us together. She achieved renown in the early Church for her noble victory; she is well known now as well, for she continues to triumph through her divine miracles which occur daily. ~ Methodius of Sicily,

62:A flight of the spirit is not a sufficient victory for the being embodied in this world of the becoming; it effects a separation from Nature, not a liberation and fulfilment of our nature. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Reality and the Cosmic Illusion,

63:Because of Michael's help God's faithful children will march under his protection. They will decimate their foes and achieve victory through God's power…As a result of this a large number of heathens will join Christians in true faith ..." ~ Saint Hildegard of Bingen, (1098- 1179),

64:But every line we write breathes victory and challenge, the bad temper of a conqueror, underground explosions, howls. We are a volcano. We vomit forth black smoke. The heavens open and out comes an imposing Pile of garbage; it looks a lot like Leo Tolstoy ~ Velimir Khlebnikov,

65:It is by persevering that one conquers difficulties, not by running away from them. One who perseveres is sure to triumph. Victory goes to the most enduring. Always do your best and the Lord will take care of the results.    ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,

66:Victory to the Essence of all wisdom, to the unmoving, to the Imperishable! Victory to the Eternal, to the essence of visible and invisible beings, to Him who is at the same time the cause and the effect of the universe. ~ Vishnu Purana, the Eternal Wisdom

67:Things always come in the way when one wants to progress in the sadhana, but in the end if one is sincere in one's aspiration these troubles help to prepare the victory of the soul over all that opposes. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, Anger and Violence,

68:What does 'the final victory' mean? What is victory and what is defeat? What do they represent in our sports?    I was not referring to victory in games, but to the victory of the consciousness over ignorance and stupidity.    ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III,

69:When this corruptible shall have put on incorruption and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, "Death is swallowed up in victory." ~ Anonymous, The Bible, 1 Corinthians, XV. 54, the Eternal Wisdom

70:Death is a stair, a door, a stumbling stride The soul must take to cross from birth to birth, A grey defeat pregnant with victory, A whip to lash us towards our deathless state. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal,

71:No danger can perturb my spirit's calm: My acts are Thine; I do Thy works and pass; Failure is cradled on Thy deathless arm, Victory is Thy passage mirrored in Fortune's glass. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, The Divine Worker,

72:The attitude you express in your letter is quite the right one - whatever sufferings come on the path, are not too high a price for the victory that has to be won and, if they are taken in the right spirit, they become even a means towards the victory. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - IV,

73:Ravana's mind thought it was hungering after universal sovereignty and victory over Rama; but the aim his soul kept its vision fixed upon all the time was to get back to its heaven as soon as possible & be again God's menial. Therefore, as the shortest way, it hurled itself against God in a furious clasp of enmity. ~ Sri Aurobindo,

74:In the past, destruction of your neighbour might have been considered a victory, but today we are all interdependent. We live in a global economy; we face problems like climate change that affect us all. The 7 billion human beings alive today belong to one human family. In the context that others' interests are in our interest and our interest is in their interest, the use of force is self-destructive. ~ Dalai Lama,

75:279 - O soldier and hero of God, where for thee is sorrow or shame or suffering? For thy life is a glory, thy deeds a consecration, victory thy apotheosis, defeat thy triumph. - Sri Aurobindo. For one who is totally consecrated to the Divine, there can be neither shame nor suffering, for the Divine is always with him and the Divine Presence changes all things into glory. 9 January 1970 ~ The Mother, On Thoughts And Aphorisms, volume-10, page no.295,

76:Divine Mother, I want to realise Your Presence in all the parts of my being, penetrating even the body - only I don't know how to do it. You are the very reason of my being; why then do I live now without feeling Your Presence even in the cells of my body?    The physical nature is obscure and recalcitrant everywhere; it is very difficult for it to become conscious of the divine Presence. That is why we must be patient and keep on aspiring with the certitude of Victory. My blessings are always with you.    ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,

77: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,

78:The Divine Worker I face earth's happenings with an equal soul; In all are heard Thy steps: Thy unseen feet Tread Destiny's pathways in my front. Life's whole Tremendous theorem is Thou complete. No danger can perturb my spirit's calm: My acts are Thine; I do Thy works and pass; Failure is cradled on Thy deathless arm, Victory is Thy passage mirrored in Fortune's glass. In this rude combat with the fate of man Thy smile within my heart makes all my strength; Thy Force in me labours at its grandiose plan, Indifferent to the Time-snake's crawling length. No power can slay my soul; it lives in Thee. Thy presence is my immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems,

79:Although our fallen minds forget to climb,    Although our human stuff resists or breaks,    She keeps her will that hopes to divinise clay;    Failure cannot repress, defeat o'erthrow;    Time cannot weary her nor the Void subdue,    The ages have not made her passion less;    No victory she admits of Death or Fate.    Always she drives the soul to new attempt;    Always her magical infinitude    Forces to aspire the inert brute elements;    As one who has all infinity to waste,    She scatters the seed of the Eternal's strength    On a half-animate and crumbling mould,    Plants heaven's delight in the heart's passionate mire,    Pours godhead's seekings into a bare beast frame,    Hides immortality in a mask of death.    ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri,

80:all life is yoga.. :::    In the right view both of life and of Yoga all life is either consciously or subconsciously a Yoga. For we mean by this term a methodised effort towards self-perfection by the expression of the secret potentialities latent in the being and - highest condition of victory in that effort - union of the human individual with the universal and transcendent Existence we see partially expressed in man and in the Cosmos. But all life, when we look behind its appearances, is a vast Yoga of Nature who attempts in the conscious and the subconscious to realise her perfection in an ever-increasing expression of her yet unrealised potentialities and to unite herself with her own divine reality.    ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, 6,

81:O DIVINE Force, supreme Illuminator, hearken to our prayer, move not away from us, do not withdraw, help us to fight the good fight, make firm our strength for the struggle, give us the force to conquer!    O my sweet Master, Thou whom I adore without being able to know Thee, Thou who I am without being able to realise Thee, my entire conscious individuality prostrates itself before Thee and implores, in the name of the workers in their struggle, and of the earth in her agony, in the name of suffering humanity and of striving Nature;    O my sweet Master, O marvellous Unknowable, O Dispenser of all boons, Thou who makest light spring forth in the darkness and strength to arise out of weakness, support our effort, guide our steps, lead us to victory.    ~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations, 211,

82:Thou must teach us the path to be followed and Thou must give us the power to follow it to the very end. . . .    O Thou source of all love and all light, Thou whom we cannot know in Thyself but can manifest ever more completely and perfectly, Thou whom we cannot conceive but can approach in profound silence, to complete Thy incommensurable boons Thou must come to our help until we have gained Thy victory. . . .    Let that true love be born which soothes all suffering; establish that immutable peace wherein resides true power; give us the sovereign knowledge which dispels all darkness. . . .    From the infinite depths to this most external body, in its smallest elements, Thou dost move and live and vibrate and set all in motion, and the whole being is now only a single block, infinitely multiple yet absolutely coherent, animated by one tremendous vibration: Thou.    ~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations,

83:The tide of materialistic thoughts is always on the watch, waiting for the least weakness, and if we relax but one moment from our vigilance, if we are even slightly negligent, it rushes in and invades us from all sides, submerging under its heavy flood the result sometimes of numberless efforts. Then the being enters a sort of torpor, its physical needs of food and sleep increase, its intelligence is clouded, its inner vision veiled, and in spite of the little interest it really finds in such superficial activities, they occupy it almost exclusively. This state is extremely painful and tiring, for nothing is more tiring then materialistic thoughts, and the mind, worn out, suffers like a caged bird which cannot spread its wings and yet longs to be able to soar freely.    But perhaps this state has its own use which I do not see.... In any case, I do not struggle; and like a child in its mother's arms, like a fervent disciple at the feet of his master, I trust myself to Thee and surrender to Thy guidance, sure of Thy victory.    ~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations, January 4th, 1914,

84:It is necessary to observe and know the wrong movements in you; for they are the source of your trouble and have to be persistently rejected if you are to be free. But do not be always thinking of your defects and wrong movements. Concentrate more upon what you are to be, on the ideal, with the faith that, since it is the goal before you, it must and will come. To be always observing faults and wrong movements brings depression and discourages the faith. Turn your eyes more to the coming Light and less to any immediate darkness. Faith, cheerfulness, confidence in the ultimate victory are the things that help, - they make the progress easier and swifter. Make more of the good experiences that come to you; one experience of the kind is more important than the lapses and failures. When it ceases, do not repine or allow yourself to be discouraged, but be quiet within and aspire for its renewal in a stronger form leading to still deeper and fuller experience. Aspire always, but with more quietude, opening yourself to the Divine simply and wholly. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - IV,

85:O King, thy fate is a transaction done At every hour between Nature and thy soul With God for its foreseeing arbiter. Fate is a balance drawn in Destiny's book. Man can accept his fate, he can refuse. Even if the One maintains the unseen decree He writes thy refusal in thy credit page: For doom is not a close, a mystic seal. Arisen from the tragic crash of life, Arisen from the body's torture and death, The spirit rises mightier by defeat; Its godlike wings grow wider with each fall. Its splendid failures sum to victory. O man, the events that meet thee on thy road, Though they smite thy body and soul with joy and grief, Are not thy fate, - they touch thee awhile and pass; Even death can cut not short thy spirit's walk: Thy goal, the road thou choosest are thy fate. On the altar throwing thy thoughts, thy heart, thy works, Thy fate is a long sacrifice to the gods Till they have opened to thee thy secret self And made thee one with the indwelling God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 06:02 The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,

86:O soul, it is too early to rejoice! Thou hast reached the boundless silence of the Self, Thou hast leaped into a glad divine abyss; But where hast thou thrown Self's mission and Self's power? On what dead bank on the Eternal's road? One was within thee who was self and world, What hast thou done for his purpose in the stars? Escape brings not the victory and the crown! Something thou cam'st to do from the Unknown, But nothing is finished and the world goes on Because only half God's cosmic work is done. Only the everlasting No has neared And stared into thy eyes and killed thy heart: But where is the Lover's everlasting Yes, And immortality in the secret heart, The voice that chants to the creator Fire, The symbolled OM, the great assenting Word, The bridge between the rapture and the calm, The passion and the beauty of the Bride, The chamber where the glorious enemies kiss, The smile that saves, the golden peak of things? This too is Truth at the mystic fount of Life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,

87:Endure and you will triumph. Victory goes to the most enduring. And with the Grace and divine love nothing is impossible. My force and love are with you. At the end of the struggle there is Victory And so we find once more that the Ego-idea must be ruthlessly rooted out before Understanding can be attained The emptiness that you described in your letter yesterday was not a bad thing - it is this emptiness inward and outward that often in Yoga becomes the first step towards a new consciousness. Man's nature is like a cup of dirty water - the water has to be thrown out, the cup left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it. The difficulty is that the human physical consciousness feels it difficult to bear this emptiness - it is accustomed to be occupied by all sorts of little mental and vital movements which keep it interested and amused or even if in trouble and sorrow still active. The cessation of these things is hard to bear for it. It begins to feel dull and restless and eager for the old interests and movements. But by this restlessness it disturbs the quietude and brings back the things that had been thrown out. It is this that is creating the difficulty and the obstruction for the moment. If you can accept emptiness as a passage to the true consciousness and true movements, then it will be easier to get rid of the obstacle.    ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - III,

88: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,

89:What is the most useful idea to spread and what is the best example to set? The question can be considered in two ways, a very general one applicable to the whole earth, and another specific one which concerns our present social environment. From the general point of view, it seems to me that the most useful idea to spread is twofold: 1) Man carries within himself perfect power, perfect wisdom and perfect knowledge, and if he wants to possess them, he must discover them in the depth of his being, by introspection and concentration. 2) These divine qualities are identical at the centre, at the heart of all beings; this implies the essential unity of all, and all the consequences of solidarity and fraternity that follow from it. The best example to give would be the unalloyed serenity and immutably peaceful happiness which belong to one who knows how to live integrally this thought of the One God in all. From the point of view of our present environment, here is the idea which, it seems to me, it is most useful to spread: True progressive evolution, an evolution which can lead man to his rightful happiness, does not lie in any external means, material improvement or social change. Only a deep and inner process of individual self-perfection can make for real progress and completely transform the present state of things, and change suffering and misery into a serene and lasting contentment. Consequently, the best example is one that shows the first stage of individual self-perfection which makes possible all the rest, the first victory to be won over the egoistic personality: disinterestedness. At a time when all rush upon money as the means to sat- isfy their innumerable cravings, one who remains indifferent to wealth and acts, not for the sake of gain, but solely to follow a disinterested ideal, is probably setting the example which is most useful at present. ~ The Mother, Words Of Long Ago, Volume-2, 22-06-1912, page no.66-67,

90:Nati is the submission of the soul to the will of God; its acceptance of all touches as His touches, of all experience as His play with the soul of man. Nati may be with titiksha, feeling the sorrow but accepting it as God's will, or with udasinata, rising superior to it and regarding joy and sorrow equally as God's working in these lower instruments, or with ananda, receiving everything as the play of Krishna and therefore in itself delightful. The last is the state of the complete Yogin, for by this continual joyous or anandamaya namaskara to God constantly practised we arrive eventually at the entire elimination of grief, pain etc, the entire freedom from the dwandwas, and find the Brahmananda in every smallest, most trivial, most apparently discordant detail of life & experience in this human body. We get rid entirely of fear and suffering; Anandam Brahmano vidvan na bibheti kutaschana. We may have to begin with titiksha and udasinata but it is in this ananda that we must consummate the siddhi of samata. The Yogin receives victory and defeat, success and ill-success, pleasure and pain, honour and disgrace with an equal, a sama ananda, first by buddhi-yoga, separating himself from his habitual mental & nervous reactions & insisting by vichara on the true nature of the experience itself and of his own soul which is secretly anandamaya, full of the sama ananda in all things. He comes to change all the ordinary values of experience; amangala reveals itself to him as mangala, defeat & ill-success as the fulfilment of God's immediate purpose and a step towards ultimate victory, grief and pain as concealed and perverse forms of pleasure. A stage arrives even, when physical pain itself, the hardest thing for material man to bear, changes its nature in experience and becomes physical ananda; but this is only at the end when this human being, imprisoned in matter, subjected to mind, emerges from his subjection, conquers his mind and delivers himself utterly in his body, realising his true anandamaya self in every part of the adhara.    ~ Sri Aurobindo, Record Of Yoga,

91: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,

92:A difficulty comes or an arrest in some movement which you have begun or have been carrying on for some time. How is it to be dealt with?—for such arrests are inevitably frequent enough, not only for you, but for everyone who is a seeker; one might almost say that every step forward is followed by an arrest—at least, that is a very common, if not a universal experience. It is to be dealt with by becoming always more quiet, more firm in the will to go through, by opening oneself more and more so that any obstructing non-receptivity in the nature may diminish or disappear, by an affirmation of faith even in the midst of the obscurity, faith in the presence of a Power that is working behind the cloud and the veil, in the guidance of the Guru, by an observation of oneself to find any cause of the arrest, not in a spirit of depression or discouragement but with the will to find out and remove it. This is the only right attitude and, if one is persistent in taking it, the periods of arrest are not abolished,—for that cannot be at this stage,—but greatly shortened and lightened in their incidence. Sometimes these arrests are periods, long or short, of assimilation or unseen preparation, their appearance of sterile immobility is deceptive: in that case, with the right attitude, one can after a time, by opening, by observation, by accumulated experience, begin to feel, to get some inkling of what is being prepared or done. Sometimes it is a period of true obstruction in which the Power at work has to deal with the obstacles in the way, obstacles in oneself, obstacles of the opposing cosmic forces or any other or of all together, and this kind of arrest may be long or short according to the magnitude or obstinacy or complexity of the impediments that are met. But here too the right attitude can alleviate or shorten and, if persistently taken, help to a more radical removal of the difficulties and greatly diminish the necessity of complete arrests hereafter. On the contrary, an attitude of depression or unfaith in the help or the guidance or in the certitude of the victory of the guiding Power, a shutting up of yourself in the sense of the difficulties impedes the recovery, prolongs the difficulties, helps the obstructions to recur with force instead of progressively diminishing in their incidence. It is an attitude whose persistence or recurrence you must resolutely throw aside if you want to get over the obstruction which you feel so much—which the depressed attitude only makes, while it lasts, more acute. ~ Sri Aurobindo, LOY4, Imperfections and Periods of Arrest,

93: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,

94:on purifying ego and desire :::    The elimination of all egoistic activity and of its foundation, the egoistic consciousness, is clearly the key to the consummation we desire. And since in the path of works action is the knot we have first to loosen, we must endeavour to loosen it where it is centrally tied, in desire and in ego; for otherwise we shall cut only stray strands and not the heart of our bondage.These are the two knots of our subjection to this ignorant and divided Nature, desire and ego-sense. And of these two desire has its native home in the emotions and sensations and instincts and from there affects thought and volition; ego-sense lives indeed in these movements, but it casts its deep roots also in the thinking mind and its will and it is there that it becomes fully self conscious. These are the twin obscure powers of the obsessing world-wide Ignorance that we have to enlighten and eliminate.    In the field of action desire takes many forms, but the most powerful of all is the vital selfs craving or seeking after the fruit of our works. The fruit we covet may be a reward of internal pleasure; it may be the accomplishment of some preferred idea or some cherished will or the satisfaction of the egoistic emotions, or else the pride of success of our highest hopes and ambitions. Or it may be an external reward, a recompense entirely material, -wealth, position, honour, victory, good fortune or any other fulfilment of vital or physical desire. But all alike are lures by which egoism holds us. Always these satisfactions delude us with the sense of mastery and the idea of freedom, while really we are harnessed and guided or ridden and whipped by some gross or subtle, some noble or ignoble, figure of the blind Desire that drives the world. Therefore the first rule of action laid down by the Gita is to do the work that should be done without any desire for the fruit, niskama karma. ...    The test it lays down is an absolute equality of the mind and the heart to all results, to all reactions, to all happenings. If good fortune and ill fortune, if respect and insult, if reputation and obloquy, if victory and defeat, if pleasant event and sorrowful event leave us not only unshaken but untouched, free in the emotions, free in the nervous reactions, free in the mental view, not responding with the least disturbance or vibration in any spot of the nature, then we have the absolute liberation to which the Gita points us, but not otherwise. The tiniest reaction is a proof that the discipline is imperfect and that some part of us accepts ignorance and bondage as its law and clings still to the old nature. Our self-conquest is only partially accomplished; it is still imperfect or unreal in some stretch or part or smallest spot of the ground of our nature. And that little pebble of imperfection may throw down the whole achievement of the Yoga    ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Divine Works, Self-Surrender in Works - The Way of the Gita, [102],

95::::    As an inner equality increases and with it the sense of the true vital being waiting for the greater direction it has to serve, as the psychic call too increases in all the members of our nature, That to which the call is addressed begins to reveal itself, descends to take possession of the life and its energies and fills them with the height, intimacy, vastness of its presence and its purpose. In many, if not most, it manifests something of itself even before the equality and the open psychic urge or guidance are there. A call of the veiled psychic element oppressed by the mass of the outer ignorance and crying for deliverance, a stress of eager meditation and seeking for knowledge, a longing of the heart, a passionate will ignorant yet but sincere may break the lid that shuts off that Higher from this Lower Nature and open the floodgates. A little of the Divine Person may reveal itself or some Light, Power, Bliss, Love out of the Infinite. This may be a momentary revelation, a flash or a brief-lived gleam that soon withdraws and waits for the preparation of the nature; but also it may repeat itself, grow, endure. A long and large and comprehensive working will then have begun, sometimes luminous or intense, sometimes slow and obscure. A Divine Power comes in front at times and leads and compels or instructs and enlightens; at others it withdraws into the background and seems to leave the being to its own resources. All that is ignorant, obscure, perverted or simply imperfect and inferior in the being is raised up, perhaps brought to its acme, dealt with, corrected, exhausted, shown its own disastrous results, compelled to call for its own cessation or transformation or expelled as worthless or incorrigible from the nature. This cannot be a smooth and even process; alternations there are of day and night, illumination and darkness, calm and construction or battle and upheaval, the presence of the growing Divine Consciousness and its absence, heights of hope and abysses of despair, the clasp of the Beloved and the anguish of its absence, the overwhelming invasion, the compelling deceit, the fierce opposition, the disabling mockery of hostile Powers or the help and comfort and communion of the Gods and the Divine Messengers. A great and long revolution and churning of the ocean of Life with strong emergences of its nectar and its poison is enforced till all is ready and the increasing Descent finds a being, a nature prepared and conditioned for its complete rule and its all-encompassing presence. But if the equality and the psychic light and will are already there, then this process, though it cannot be dispensed with, can still be much lightened and facilitated: it will be rid of its worst dangers; an inner calm, happiness, confidence will support the steps through all the difficulties and trials of the transformation and the growing Force profiting by the full assent of the nature will rapidly diminish and eliminate the power of the opposing forces. A sure guidance and protection will be present throughout, sometimes standing in front, sometimes working behind the veil, and the power of the end will be already there even in the beginning and in the long middle stages of the great endeavour. For at all times the seeker will be aware of the Divine Guide and Protector or the working of the supreme Mother-Force; he will know that all is done for the best, the progress assured, the victory inevitable. In either case the process is the same and unavoidable, a taking up of the whole nature, of the whole life, of the internal and of the external, to reveal and handle and transform its forces and their movements under the pressure of a diviner Life from above, until all here has been possessed by greater spiritual powers and made an instrumentation of a spiritual action and a divine purpose. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 2, 179,

96:64 Arts    1. Geet vidya: art of singing.    2. Vadya vidya: art of playing on musical instruments.    3. Nritya vidya: art of dancing.    4. Natya vidya: art of theatricals.    5. Alekhya vidya: art of painting.    6. Viseshakacchedya vidya: art of painting the face and body with color    7. Tandula­kusuma­bali­vikara: art of preparing offerings from rice and flowers.    8. Pushpastarana: art of making a covering of flowers for a bed.    9. Dasana­vasananga­raga: art of applying preparations for cleansing the teeth, cloths and painting the body.    10. Mani­bhumika­karma: art of making the groundwork of jewels.    11. Aayya­racana: art of covering the bed.    12. Udaka­vadya: art of playing on music in water.    13. Udaka­ghata: art of splashing with water.    14. Citra­yoga: art of practically applying an admixture of colors.    15. Malya­grathana­vikalpa: art of designing a preparation of wreaths.    16. Sekharapida­yojana: art of practically setting the coronet on the head.    17. Nepathya­yoga: art of practically dressing in the tiring room.    18. Karnapatra­bhanga: art of decorating the tragus of the ear.    19. Sugandha­yukti: art of practical application of aromatics.    20. Bhushana­yojana: art of applying or setting ornaments.    21. Aindra­jala: art of juggling.    22. Kaucumara: a kind of art.    23. Hasta­laghava: art of sleight of hand.    24. Citra­sakapupa­bhakshya­vikara­kriya: art of preparing varieties of delicious food.    25. Panaka­rasa­ragasava­yojana: art of practically preparing palatable drinks and tinging draughts with red color.    26. Suci­vaya­karma: art of needleworks and weaving.    27. Sutra­krida: art of playing with thread.    28. Vina­damuraka­vadya: art of playing on lute and small drum.    29. Prahelika: art of making and solving riddles.    30. Durvacaka­yoga: art of practicing language difficult to be answered by others.    31. Pustaka­vacana: art of reciting books.    32. Natikakhyayika­darsana: art of enacting short plays and anecdotes.    33. Kavya­samasya­purana: art of solving enigmatic verses.    34. Pattika­vetra­bana­vikalpa: art of designing preparation of shield, cane and arrows.    35. Tarku­karma: art of spinning by spindle.    36. Takshana: art of carpentry.    37. Vastu­vidya: art of engineering.    38. Raupya­ratna­pariksha: art of testing silver and jewels.    39. Dhatu­vada: art of metallurgy.    40. Mani­raga jnana: art of tinging jewels.    41. Akara jnana: art of mineralogy.    42. Vrikshayur­veda­yoga: art of practicing medicine or medical treatment, by herbs.    43. Mesha­kukkuta­lavaka­yuddha­vidhi: art of knowing the mode of fighting of lambs, cocks and birds.    44. Suka­sarika­pralapana: art of maintaining or knowing conversation between male and female cockatoos.    45. Utsadana: art of healing or cleaning a person with perfumes.    46. Kesa­marjana­kausala: art of combing hair.    47. Akshara­mushtika­kathana: art of talking with fingers.    48. Dharana­matrika: art of the use of amulets.    49. Desa­bhasha­jnana: art of knowing provincial dialects.    50. Nirmiti­jnana: art of knowing prediction by heavenly voice.    51. Yantra­matrika: art of mechanics.    52. Mlecchita­kutarka­vikalpa: art of fabricating barbarous or foreign sophistry.    53. Samvacya: art of conversation.    54. Manasi kavya­kriya: art of composing verse    55. Kriya­vikalpa: art of designing a literary work or a medical remedy.    56. Chalitaka­yoga: art of practicing as a builder of shrines called after him.    57. Abhidhana­kosha­cchando­jnana: art of the use of lexicography and meters.    58. Vastra­gopana: art of concealment of cloths.    59. Dyuta­visesha: art of knowing specific gambling.    60. Akarsha­krida: art of playing with dice or magnet.    61. Balaka­kridanaka: art of using children's toys.    62. Vainayiki vidya: art of enforcing discipline.    63. Vaijayiki vidya: art of gaining victory.    64. Vaitaliki vidya: art of awakening master with music at dawn.    ~ Nik Douglas and Penny Slinger, Sexual Secrets,

97: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,

*** WISDOM TROVE ***

1:This victory will be your I ruin. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove

2:No Victory Without Suffering ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove

3:Victory is the main object in war. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

4:War is not won by victory. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove

5:Grief is the price of victory. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove

6:Do not speak defeat, speak victory. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove

7:Victory is by nature superb and insulting. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove

8:Character is victory organized. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove

9:Victory; a matter of staying power. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove

10:Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove

11:Victory needs conflict as its preface. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove

12:The only victory over love is flight. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove

13:You win the victory when you yield to friends. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove

14:The hotter the battle the sweeter the victory. ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove

15:You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove

16:Victory belongs to the most persevering. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove

17:With great victory comes great sacrifice. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove

18:Defeat may be victory in disguise. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove

19:Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle. ~ zhuangzi, @wisdomtrove

20:The heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory. ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove

21:The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove

22:Victory comes from finding opportunities in problems. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

23:In defeat unbeatable; in victory unbearable. ~ winston-churchill, @wisdomtrove

24:The greatest victory is that which requires no battle. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

25:Another such victory over the Romans and we are undone. ~ plutarch, @wisdomtrove

26:The most dangerous moment comes with victory. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove

27:We will accept nothing less than full Victory! ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove

28:There is no victory at bargain basement prices. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove

29:There are 1,000 lessons in defeat. But only one in victory. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove

30:If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

31:It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove

32:The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove

33:What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

34:Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove

35:Victory is reserved for those who are willing to pay its price. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

36:Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove

37:On victory, you deserve beer. On defeat, you need it. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove

38:One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove

39:Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove

40:Faith is making claims to victory before it is achieved. ~ robert-h-schuller, @wisdomtrove

41:If this is victory, then our hands are too small to hold it. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove

42:our bones like stems into the sky will forever cry victory ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove

43:I love the smell of paper in the morning; it smells like victory. ~ alan-moore, @wisdomtrove

44:How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men? ~ lao-tzu, @wisdomtrove

45:Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove

46:Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove

47:In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

48:Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove

49:we can not prepare for defeat and expect to live a life in Victory. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove

50:Finally we have a victory, not only morally but also in a material sense, ~ horace, @wisdomtrove

51:Victory is not the absence of problems, it is the presence of power. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove

52:I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove

53:Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat one needs it. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove

54:Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove

55:If a man only likes victory he must always come late for the battle. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove

56:So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

57:Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the attack. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

58:Gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove

59:Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove

60:The greatest victory you can win is over your own mind. ~ swami-satchidananda-saraswati, @wisdomtrove

61:Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting. ~ napoleon-hill, @wisdomtrove

62:Replace those thoughts of worry with thoughts of hope, faith, and victory. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove

63:There are some timid souls that will never know victory nor defeat. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove

64:The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove

65:No matter what's going on in our lives, the victory is in refusing to quit. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove

66:Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove

67:... for the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove

68:He who rules his spirit has won a greater victory than the taking of a city. ~ jesus-christ, @wisdomtrove

69:If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless. ~ robert-h-schuller, @wisdomtrove

70:Difficulty on the way to victory is opportunity for God to work ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove

71:Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary. ~ mahatma-gandhi, @wisdomtrove

72:War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove

73:Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat. ~ winston-churchill, @wisdomtrove

74:Fear tries to get us to give up but faith takes us all the way through to victory ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove

75:No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove

76:Victory is not always winning the battle... but rising every time you fall. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove

77:Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove

78:God has destined you to soar. You have victory, freedom and excellence on the inside. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove

79:Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat. ~ jean-paul-sartre, @wisdomtrove

80:The Concordat is not the victory of any one party but the consolidation of all. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove

81:Among the fearless soldiers that fight for your victory in life, character has no equal. ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove

82:Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.  ~ mahatma-gandhi, @wisdomtrove

83:The bayonet has always been the weapon of the brave and the chief tool of victory ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove

84:For victory is victory, however small, nor is its worth only from what follows from it. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove

85:Today is a new day, so rise up and move forward into the victory God has prepared for you! ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove

86:Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove

87:Doing the best you are capable of doing is victory in itself, and less than that is defeat. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove

88:If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

89:The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove

90:To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

91:I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove

92:He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove

93:The allies we gain by victory will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove

94:I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about. ~ vince-lombardi, @wisdomtrove

95:The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove

96:Victory and disaster establish indestructible bonds between armies and their commanders. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove

97:The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

98:He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove

99:I call upon those who love freedom to stand with us now. Together we shall achieve victory. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove

100:FORGIVE The People That Hurt You. God Will Pay You Back With Double The Joy... Double The Victory. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove

101:Victory comes late&

102:It's always darkest before the dawn. The bigger your challenge, the closer you are to your victory. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove

103:I am not a victim. No matter what I have been through, I'm still here. I have a history of victory. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove

104:If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove

105:Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove

106:According to my assessment, even if you have many more troops than others, how can that help you to victory? ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

107:It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove

108:Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove

109:No individual should take the blame for a loss, because no individual should get the credit for a victory. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove

110:Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

111:The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove

112:In conflict, straightforward actions generally lead to engagement, surprising actions generally lead to victory. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

113:It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove

114:So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove

115:Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy; forceful execution of even a poor plan can often bring victory. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

116:I send you a kaffis of mustard seed, that you may taste and acknowledge the bitterness of my victory. ~ alexander-the-great, @wisdomtrove

117:Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat. ~ democritus, @wisdomtrove

118:The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficult. ~ winston-churchill, @wisdomtrove

119:When I have won a victory I do not repeat my tactics but respond to circumstances in an infinite variety of ways. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

120:Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence. ~ thomas-paine, @wisdomtrove

121:Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and then seeks victory. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

122:This is the unusual thing about nonviolence - nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove

123:Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts. ~ aeschylus, @wisdomtrove

124:As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us. ~ winston-churchill, @wisdomtrove

125:Many times, we miss out on God's best because we give up too soon. We don't realize how close we are to victory. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove

126:As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory. ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove

127:The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove

128:We may get knocked down on the outside, but the key to living in victory is to learn how to get up on the inside. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove

129:All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove

130:All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

131:I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. ~ aristotle, @wisdomtrove

132:If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonourable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible. ~ epictetus, @wisdomtrove

133:It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you. ~ buddha, @wisdomtrove

134:Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of it. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove

135:When you fall, feel the pain. And then stand up. You were born for victory. And failure has no place in your world. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove

136:Send your life to a whole new level! Zip up the negative words and start speaking faith and victory into your future. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove

137:The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. ~ plato, @wisdomtrove

138:Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

139:In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove

140:The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God's victory over him. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove

141:The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one. ~ reinhold-niebuhr, @wisdomtrove

142:Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it's understanding the necessity of both; it's engaging. It's being all in. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove

143:When things gets difficult, and it seems like the intensity has been turned up, that’s a sign you are close to your victory. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove

144:Satan will battle you with doubt and unbelief, but God has victory waiting for you if you'll keep trusting and believing Him. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove

145:What comes after victory? Why do people value victory so much? What is &

146:I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove

147:In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

148:The one who figures on victory at headquarters before even doing battle is the one who has the most strategic factors on his side. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

149:There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove

150:To perceive victory when it is known to all is not really skilful. Everyone calls victory in battle good, but it is not really good. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

151:As water shapes its flow in accordance with the ground, so an army manages its victory in accordance with the situation of the enemy. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

152:Once you have established Your inner contact With your inner Pilot, Your life's transformation-victory Will not remain a far cry. ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove

153:Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy! ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove

154:The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory... but to keep the very structure of society intact. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove

155:What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove

156:Know the enemy, know yourself; your victory will never be endangered. Know the ground, know the weather; your victory will then be total. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

157:But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove

158:Here you find us sitting on a field of victory, amid the plunder of armies, and you wonder how we came by a few well-earned comforts! ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove

159:It is your soul's journey to enroll the ego in the quest for the ultimate victory - the evolution of your own individual consciousness. ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove

160:There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan... . I'm the responsible officer of the Government. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove

161:Even forgiveness, if weak and passive, is not true: fight is better. Forgive when you could bring legions of angels to the victory. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove

162:Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove

163:Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove

164:Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory. ~ vernon-howard, @wisdomtrove

165:No matter how many mistakes you've made in the past, or what sort of difficulties you struggle with now, you are destined to live in victory. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove

166:The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities... It is best to win without fighting. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

167:It is, in the imagination of combat's fans, the divinely listless loveplay that follows the orgasm of victory. It is called &

168:When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove

169:Those skilled in attack move as from above the nine-fold heavens. Thus they are capable both of protecting themselves and of gaining complete victory. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

170:You can’t talk mediocrity and expect to have victory. You are prophesying your future. If you want a shift to occur, you’ve got to think positive. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove

171:Many's very human habit of trusting in himself is generally the last great obstacle blocking his pathway to victory in Christian experience. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove

172:Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. ~ winston-churchill, @wisdomtrove

173:If we know that the enemy is open to attack, but are unaware that our own men are not in a condition to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

174:Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove

175:When God looks at you, he doesn’t see you; he sees the One who surrounds you. That means that failure is not a concern for you. Your victory is secure. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove

176:There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove

177:We make and sell a very, very large number of (hopefully) beautiful, well-made things. Our success is a victory for purity, integrity - for giving a damn. ~ jony-ive, @wisdomtrove

178:It is imperative to contest all factions for complete victory, so the army is not garrisoned and the profit can be total. This is the law of strategic siege. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

179:Trying to do well and trying to beat others are two different things. Excellence and victory are conceptually different and are experienced differently. ~ stephen-r-covey, @wisdomtrove

180:The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove

181:A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won. ~ joseph-campbell, @wisdomtrove

182:I fought, and therefore, believed in my victory. There is more to the fact that I didn't fear death and preferred a brave death instead of a life of an idiot. ~ giordano-bruno, @wisdomtrove

183:I fall, I stand still... I trudge on. I gain a little... I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove

184:Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove

185:Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove

186:If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove

187:You had to fight to get into the womb. Not only you but many souls rushed to enter, and the ones that won are you, and you and I. It was not an easy victory. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove

188:So a military force has no constant formation, water has no constant shape: the ability to gain victory by changing and adapting according to the opponent is called genius. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

189:Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you now Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

190:If you can manage to be thankful in every situation, really believing that God is working everything out for your good, you will end up with the victory every single time. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove

191:Therefore, to estimate the enemy situation and to calculate distances and the degree of difficulty of the terrain so as to control victory are virtues of the superior general. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

192:A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Men are moved by only two mechanisms: fear and self-interest. Victory belongs to the most persevering. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove

193:Achievers can almost literally taste success because they imagine their goals in such vivid detail. Setbacks only seem to add spice and favor to the final taste of victory. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove

194:Let us therefore rely on the goodness of the cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble actions. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove

195:Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove

196:Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God's Word. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove

197:Satan will aggressively fight against the renewal of your mind, but it is vital that you press on and continue to pray and study in this area until you gain measurable victory. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove

198:You can't talk defeat and expect to have victory. You can't talk lack and expect to have abundance. You've got to send your words out in the direction you want your life to go. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove

199:As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove

200:Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

201:I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove

202:This so much joy! This so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory! ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove

203:Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove

204:If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

205:If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day. I have so much business I cannot get on without spending three hours daily in prayer. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove

206:My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all. ~ audrey-hepburn, @wisdomtrove

207:The most terrible of all my battles was the one before Moscow. The French showed themselves to be worthy of victory, but the Russians showed themselves worthy of being invincible. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove

208:I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part of our Empire. Still less do I wish success to injustice, oppression and absurdity. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove

209:Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

210:Factors in the art of warfare are: First, calculations; second, quantities; third, logistics; fourth, the balance of power; and fifth, the possibility of victory is based on the balance of power. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

211:In warfare, first lay plans which will ensure victory, and then lead your army to battle; if you will not begin with stratagem but rely on brute strength alone, victory will no longer be assured. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

212:One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove

213:There is no Nation however small which had the right to set itself free, that has not rescued itself from the dishonour of obeying the Prince imposed by an enemy in the hour of victory. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove

214:God is with you, and He'll help you make spiritual progress-strengthening and encouraging you to keep on keeping on during rough times. It's easy to quit, but it takes faith to press on to victory. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove

215:Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove

216:To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove

217:Prepare your hearts for Death's cold hand! prepare Your souls for flight, your bodies for the earth; Prepare your arms for glorious victory; Prepare your eyes to meet a holy God! Prepare, prepare! ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove

218:The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove

219:Hold on to that new, enlarge vision of victory that God has given you. Start expecting things to change in your favor. Dare to boldly declare that you are standing strong against the forces of darkness. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove

220:I am a Christian‚ ¶so that I do not expect history to be anything but a long defeat though it contains (and in a legend may contain more clearly and movingly) some samples or glimpses of final victory. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove

221:We are not to be alarmed when Satan hinders us, for it is proof that we are on the Lord's side and are doing the Lord's work. In His strength, we will win the victory and triumph over our adversary. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove

222:As infants, our first victory comes in grasping some bit of the world, usually our mother's fingers. Later we discover that the world, and the things of the world, are grasping us, and have been all along. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove

223:It is a secret from nobody that the famous random event is most likely to arise from those parts of the world where the old adage"There is no alternative to victory" retains a high degree of plausibility. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove

224:A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove

225:To defeat procrastination learn to tackle your most unpleasant task first thing in the morning instead of delaying it until later in the day. This small victory will set the tone for a very productive day. ~ steve-pavlina, @wisdomtrove

226:I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech. [Optimism through positive expectations can help to bring about what is desired and makes the wait more enjoyable.] ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove

227:It is according to the shapes that I lay the plans for victory, but the multitude does not comprehend this. Although everyone can see the outward aspects, none understands the way in which I have created victory. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

228:Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear of victory, As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break agonized and clear. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove

229:The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove

230:No test... no testimony. You can not make lemonade with sugar alone... you must have some sour lemons. You can not learn good horsemanship by riding a tame horse. The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory. ~ les-brown, @wisdomtrove

231:Obesity is a double victory for consumerism. Instead of eating little, which will lead to economic contraction, people eat too much and then buy diet products - contributing to economic growth twice over. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove

232:On the relationship side, if you teach people to respond actively and constructively when someone they care about has a victory, it increases love and friendship and decreases the probability of depression. ~ martin-seligman, @wisdomtrove

233:Instead of focusing on how big your problems are, focus on how big your God is! He is everything you need. He is the Great I AM, and He is the one leading and guiding you into victory in every area of your life! ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove

234:When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that... the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove

235:When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavour to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory. ~ bertrand-russell, @wisdomtrove

236:Abraham Lincoln - the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War - was the true representative of this people, not only for his own generation, but for all time, because he was a man among men. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove

237:Keep my eyes fixed on You, Lord. Help me to stop tinkering and realize my total inability to change. I look to You to change me and give me victory as I focus on Your friendly eyes looking lovingly at me. Amen. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove

238:It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.   ~ nelson-mandela, @wisdomtrove

239:To perceive victory when it is known to all is not really skilful... It does not take much strength to lift a hair, it does not take sharp eyes to see the sun and moon, it does not take sharp ears to hear the thunderclap. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

240:We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove

241:For me, the best time to pray is the very moment a tense situation or an unspiritual attitude overtakes me. God the Holy Spirit is always there, ready to help me gain victory in the spiritual battles I face-big or small. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove

242:We will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of a worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth - but neither shall we shrink from that risk any time it must be faced. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove

243:A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of justice is to fail to comprehend the process of achieving full victory. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove

244:I would say that the quality of each man's life is the full measure of that man's commitment of excellence and victory - whether it be football, whether it be business, whether it be politics or government or what have you. ~ vince-lombardi, @wisdomtrove

245:It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove

246:Our goal is not victory of might but the vindication of right - not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this hemisphere and, we hope, around the world. God willing, that goal will be achieved. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove

247:I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove

248:So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak. Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

249:Resist discouragement by speaking His Word over your future. Keep standing. Keep hoping; keep believing because He is working behind the scenes. He's going to accelerate your times and lead you into the life of victory He has for you. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove

250:Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty of tyrants. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove

251:The most striking difference between ancient and modern sophists is that the ancients were satisfied with a passing victory of argument at the expense of truth, whereas the moderns want a more lasting victory at the expense of reality. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove

252:They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience. ~ giordano-bruno, @wisdomtrove

253:He who wishes to fight must first count the cost. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men's weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be dampened. If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your strength. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

254:Despotism, which we regard with abhorrence, is rather too plausible in decaying feudal, agrarian, pastoral societies. That's why we must expect to have many a defeat before we'll have an ultimate victory in this contest with Communism. ~ reinhold-niebuhr, @wisdomtrove

255:God is the Champion at bringing people from a place of destruction to a place of total victory. As they reach that place of victory they become trophies of his grace. and they are set on the display as a fragrant reminder of God's goodness. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove

256:The totalitarian attempt at global conquest and total domination has been the destructive way out of all impasses. Its victory may coincide with the destruction of humanity; wherever it has ruled, it has begun to destroy the essence of man. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove

257:I think the Messianic concept, which is the Jewish offering to mankind, is a great victory. What does it mean? It means that history has a sense, a meaning, a direction; it goes somewhere, and necessarily in a good direction&

258:When I read the Bible, I see that we should have victory in our life and be overcomers, and I can't even control my temper. I'm impatient. I'm hard to get along with. I'm selfish and self-centered, and I don't seem to have any control over it. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove

259:Surrender all thought, emotion, and circumstance to that which is bigger and deeper.  Surrender your identity. Surrender your suffering to that which is closer than identity,  deeper than suffering. Do you discover victory or defeat in this surrender? ~ gangaji, @wisdomtrove

260:The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally; but a power of estimating the adversary,  of controlling the forces of victory,  and of shrewdly calculating difficulties, dangers and distances,  constitutes the test of a great general. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

261:This operation is not being planned with any alternatives. This operation is planned as a victory, and that's the way it's going to be. We're going down there, and we're throwing everything we have into it, and we're going to make it a success. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove

262:We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove

263:But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove

264:It is through the dispositions of an army that its condition may be discovered. Conceal your dispositions, and your condition will remain secret, which leads to victory,; show your dispositions, and your condition will become patent, which leads to defeat. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

265:Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove

266:Every expansion of civilization makes for peace. In other words, every expansion of a great civilized power means a victory for law, order, and righteousness. ... It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove

267:For love of domination we must substitute equality; for love of victory we must substitute justice; for brutality we must substitute intelligence; for competition we must substitute cooperation. We must learn to think of the human race as one family. ~ bertrand-russell, @wisdomtrove

268:Let us remember with devotion that the flag we love and honor is the flag of freedom that flew in victory at Yorktown, the flag the United States Marines raised on Mount Suribachi, the flag Francis Scott Key saw by the dawn's early light. Long may it wave. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove

269:If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

270:Events of October 1962 indicated, as they had all through history, that control of the sea means security. Control of the seas can mean peace. Control of the seas can mean victory. The United States must control the seas if it is to protect your security... . ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove

271:The experiences of men who walked with God in olden times agree to teach that the Lord cannot fully bless the a man until He has first conquered him. The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God's victory over him. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove

272:The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams. ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove

273:To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove

274:Hostile armies may face each other for years, striving for the victory which is decided in a single day. This being so, to remain in ignorance of the enemy's condition simply because one grudges the outlay of a hundred ounces of silver in honors and emoluments, is the height of inhumanity. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

275:Your thoughts about your circumstances have you down. On the other hand, you can be in one of the biggest battles of your life, and still be filled with joy and peace and victory - if you simply learn how to choose the right thought. It’s time to think about what you’re thinking about. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove

276:Whenever Alexander heard Philip had taken any town of importance, or won any signal victory, instead of rejoicing at it altogether, he would tell his companions that his father would anticipate everything, and leave him and them no opportunities of performing great and illustrious actions. ~ plutarch, @wisdomtrove

277:In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. In battle, there are not more than two methods of attack.. the direct and the indirect; yet these two in combination give rise to an endless series of maneuvers. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

278:The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels me! ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove

279:Think about the holes children make when they dig in the sand on the seashore. When the waves come in, the holes are swallowed up by the ocean. Similarly, when we know Christ, our physical death is overwhelmed by the love and grace of God. Death is swallowed up in the victory of Christ. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove

280:Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of society; it is descending to society's own level, and congratulating itself that it has scored a victory because society is smilingly accepting its surrender. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove

281:Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagerness for victory, and without any airs of superiority. ~ david-hume, @wisdomtrove

282:No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today! ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove

283:God has already done everything He's going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you're going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove

284:My net worth is the market value of holdings less the tax payable upon sale. The liability is just as real as the asset unless the value of the asset declines (ouch), the asset is given away (no comment), or I die with it. The latter course of action would appear to at least border on a Pyrrhic victory. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove

285:The triumph of the Confederacy... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of progress and damp the sprits of its friends all over the civilized world... [The American Civil War] is destined to be a turning point, for good or evil, of the course of human affairs. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove

286:You are not a victim. No matter what you have been through, you're still here. You may have been challenged, hurt, betrayed, beaten, and discouraged, but nothing has defeated you. You are still here! You have been delayed but not denied. You are not a victim, you are a victor. You have a history of victory. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove

287:Invincibility is in oneself, and vulnerability is in the opponent. Invincibility is a matter of defense, vulnerability is a matter of attack. Therefore skillful warriors are able to be invincible, but they cannot cause opponents to be vulnerable. That is why it is said that victory is discerned and not manufactured. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

288:People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove

289:Most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a challenge. One could make a victory of those experiences, turning life into an inner triumph, or one could ignore the challenge and simply vegetate, as did a majority of the prisoners. ~ viktor-frankl, @wisdomtrove

290:So, you've got a problem? That's good! Why? Because repeated victories over your problems are the rungs on your ladder of success. With each victory, you grow in wisdom, stature and experience. You become a better, bigger, more successful person each time you meet a problem and tackle and conquer it with a positive mental attitude. ~ w-clement-stone, @wisdomtrove

291:But I noted with real satisfaction how well ex-footballers seemed to have leadership qualifications . . . I believe that football, perhaps more than any other sport, tends to instill in men the feeling that victory comes through hard - almost slavish - work, team play, self-confidence, and an enthusiasm that amounts to dedication. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove

292:Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive. ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove

293:The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight into life and strives for the same kind of victory over blind change. Classical music as gesture signifies knowledge of the tragedy of the human condition, affirmation of human destiny, courage, cheerful serenity. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove

294:When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you &

295:The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove

296:What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England has done its duty until it has furnished a victim. ... Even our boasted navy never achieved a great victory until we shot an admiral. Suppose an architect were hanged? Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove

297:The general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple ere the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes but few calculations beforehand. Thus do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat: how much more no calculation at all! It is by attention to this point that I can foresee who is likely to win or lose. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

298:In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. Indirect tactics, efficiently applied, are inexhaustible as Heaven and Earth, unending as the flow of rivers and streams; like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

299:If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his own work, instead of sitting idle to envy the luck of others. He must face life with resolute courage, win victory if he can, and accept defeat if he must, without seeking to place on his fellow man a responsibility which is not theirs. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove

300:All these years I had been sustained by an illusion-happiness through victory- and now that illusion was burned to ashes. I was no more happier, no more fullfilled, for all my achievements. Finally I saw through the clouds I saw that I had never learned how to enjoy life, only how to achieve. All my life i had been busy seeking happiness, but never finding it or sustaining it. ~ dan-millman, @wisdomtrove

301:The Bible talks about how God uses difficult situations to develop our character and get us stronger. The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends. But out of that darkness, out of that disappointment in my life, that's what God used to push me into another level of victory or another level of ministry that I never knew I had. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove

302:Most important of all, to be successful in life demands that a man make a personal commitment to excellence and to victory, even though the ultimate victory can never be completely won. Yet that victory might be pursued and wooed with every fiber of our body, with every bit of our might and all our effort. And each week, there is a new encounter; each day, there is a new challenge. ~ vince-lombardi, @wisdomtrove

303:... I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire... I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove

304:The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasums, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at best know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove

305:Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer concern the Great Powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by wind and water and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war&

306:You haven't yet opened your heart fully, to life, to each moment. The peaceful warrior's way is not about invulnerability, but absolute vulnerability&

307:I have never met anyone who built a bomb shelter and felt protected by it. I have never met a modern military man who did not realize that military victory is a concept which became obsolete with the coming of the nuclear age, and most civilians realize this also. Wisdom demands that we stop preparing to wage a war which would eliminate mankind - and start preparing to eliminate the seeds of war. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove

308:Raising children who are hopeful and who have the courage to be vulnerable means stepping back and letting them experience disappointment, deal with conflict, learn how to assert themselves, and have the opportunity to fail. If we're always following our children into the arena, hushing the critics, and assuring their victory, they'll never learn that they have the ability to dare greatly on their own. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove

309:That Hegelian dialectics should provide a wonderful instrument for always being right, because they permit the interpretations of all defeats as the beginning of victory, is obvious. One of the most beautiful examples of this kind of sophistry occurred after 1933 when the German Communists for nearly two years refused to recognize that Hitler's victory had been a defeat for the German Communist Party. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove

310:He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove

311:War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice - is often the means of their regeneration. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove

312:Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory: He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces. He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks. He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared. He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

313:A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance, this new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia but to keep the very structure of society intact. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove

314:Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove

315:Do to us what you will, and we will still love you. Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and as difficult as it is, we will still love you. But we assured that we'll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves, we will so appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove

316:If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves. ~ winston-churchill, @wisdomtrove

317:Discouragement destroys hope, so naturally the devil always tries to discourage us. Without hope we give up, which is what the devil wants us to do. The Bible repeatedly tells us not to be discouraged or dismayed. God knows that we will not come through to victory if we get discouraged, so He always encourages us as we start out on a project by saying to us, Don’t get discouraged. God wants us to be encouraged, not discouraged. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove

318:The warriors that fought for their country, and bled, Have sunk to their rest; the damp earth is their bed; No stone tells the place where their ashes repose, Nor points out the spot from the graves of their foes. They died in their glory, surrounded by fame, And Victory's loud trump their death did proclaim; They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove

319:We are not a warlike people. Nor is our history filled with tales of aggressive adventures and imperialism, which might come as a shock to some of the placard painters in our modern demonstrations. The lesson of Vietnam, I think, should be that never again will young Americans be asked to fight and possibly die for a cause unless that cause is so meaningful that we, as a nation, pledge our full resources to achieve victory as quickly as possible. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove

320:After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the enduring things that are left are: the dedication to excellence, the dedication to victory, and the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live. ~ vince-lombardi, @wisdomtrove

321:There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always do not forget this, Winston‚ always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face‚Äî forever. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove

322:Forgiveness doesn't mean that what that person did was right or that you even have to get back into a relationship with that person. Forgiveness simply releases the debt they owe you so that God can release the debt you owe Him. Ask the Lord to search your heart and show you if there is any unforgiveness blocking His blessing in your life. Ask Him to show you more about this gift of forgiveness so that you can walk in the freedom and victory He has for you today. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove

323:There was a solemn article in the local paper seriously advocating systematic exterminating of the entire German nation as the only proper course after military victory: because, if you please, they are rattlesnakes, and don't know the difference between good and evil! (What of the writer?) The Germans have just as much right to declare the Poles and Jews exterminable vermin, subhuman, as we have to select the Germans: in other words, no right, whatever they have done. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove

324:War is a culture, bellicosity is addictive, defeat for a community that imagines itself to be history's eternal victim can be as intoxicating as victory. How long will it take for the Serbs to realize that the Milosevic years have been an unmitigated disaster for Serbia, the net result of Milosevic's policies being the economic and cultural ruin of the entire region, including Serbia, for several generations? Alas, one thing we can be sure of, that will not happen soon. ~ susan-sontag, @wisdomtrove

325:The fear thou art in, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "prevents thee from seeing or hearing correctly, for one of the effects of fear is to derange the senses and make things appear different from what they are; if thou art in such fear, withdraw to one side and leave me to myself, for alone I suffice to bring victory to that side to which I shall give my aid;" and so saying he gave Rocinante the spur, and putting the lance in rest, shot down the slope like a thunderbolt. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove

326:Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better... or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future. ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove

327:People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove

328:Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards... Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing. Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions. He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent and thereby succeed in winning, may be called a heaven-born captain. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

329:I am the subject of depression so fearful that I hope none of you ever get to such extremes of wretchedness as I go to. But I always get back again by this-I know that I trust Christ.  I have no reliance but in Him, and if He falls, I shall fall with Him.  But if He does not, I shall not.  Because He lives, I shall live also, and I spring to my legs again and fight with my depressions of spirit and get the victory through it.  And so may you do, and so you must, for there is no other way of escaping from it. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove

330:Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. People, worldwide, hunger for the right of self-determination, for those inalienable rights that make for human dignity and progress. America must remain freedom's staunchest friend, for freedom is our best ally and it is the world's only hope to conquer poverty and preserve peace. Every blow we inflict against poverty will be a blow against its dark allies of oppression and war. Every victory for human freedom will be a victory for world peace. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove

331:In order to succeed we need leaders of inspired idealism, leaders to whom are granted great visions, who dream greatly and strive to make their dreams come true; who can kindle the people with the fire from their own burning souls. The leader for the time being, whoever he may be, is but an instrument, to be used until broken and then to be cast aside; and if he is worth his salt he will care no more when he is broken than a soldier cares when he is sent where his life is forfeit in order that the victory may be won. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove

332:If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory. If we know that the enemy is open to attack, but are unaware that our own men are not in a condition to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory. If we know that the enemy is open to attack, and also know that our men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the nature of the ground makes fighting impracticable, we have still gone only halfway towards victory. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove

333:Remember the high board at the swimming pool? After days of looking up at it you finally climbed the wet steps to the platform. From there, it was higher than ever. There were only two ways down: the steps to defeat of the dive to victory. You stood on the edge, shivering in the hot sun, deathly afraid. At last you leaned too far forward, it was too late for retreat, and you dived. The high board was conquered, and you spent the rest of the day diving. Climbing a thousand high boards, we demolish fear, and turn into human beings. ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove

334:It was with the last revolution and the coming of INGSOC (Inglish/English Socialism) that the latest High learnt how to keep their position permanently - by cultivating ignorance among the other classes and by constantly surveying them through the Thought Police. Part of this strategy included the maintenance of a state of continual warfare, which Goldstein discussed in the third chapter. The three major powers were not fighting this perpetual war for victory; they were fighting to keep a state of emergency always present as the surest guarantee of authoritarianism. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove

335:Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove

336:Much indeed to be regretted, party disputes are now carried to such a length, and truth is so enveloped in mist and false representation, that it is extremely difficult to know through what channel to seek it. This difficulty to one, who is of no party, and whose sole wish is to pursue with undeviating steps a path which would lead this country to respectability, wealth, and happiness, is exceedingly to be lamented. But such, for wise purposes, it is presumed, is the turbulence of human passions in party disputes, when victory more than truth is the palm contended for. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove

337:The greatest victory in living memory – of the United States over the Soviet Union – was achieved without any major military confrontation. The United States then got a fleeting taste of old-fashioned military glory in the First Gulf War, but this only tempted it to waste trillions on humiliating military fiascos in Iraq and Afghanistan. China, the rising power of the early twenty-first century, has assiduously avoided all armed conflicts since its failed invasion of Vietnam in 1979, and it owes its ascent strictly to economic factors. In this it has emulated not the Japanese, German and Italian empires of the pre-1914 era, but rather the Japanese, German and Italian economic miracles of the post-1945 era. In all these cases economic prosperity and geopolitical clout were achieved without firing a shot. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove

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1:Victory won't come ~ Marianne Moore,

2:Dead men have no victory. ~ Euripides,

3:Victory comes late-- ~ Emily Dickinson,

4:Victory is in the battle. ~ Amy Harmon,

5:This victory will be your I ruin. ~ Ovid,

6:By yielding you may obtain victory ~ Ovid,

7:#Victory #Monopoly #I'mAwinner ~ Anonymous,

8:Love is not a victory march ~ Leonard Cohen,

9:Strength is itself victory. ~ Daisaku Ikeda,

10:No Victory Without Suffering ~ J R R Tolkien,

11:Victory is the main object in war. ~ Sun Tzu,

12:Full effort is full victory. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,

13:I do not steal victory. ~ Alexander the Great,

14:One day the victory is certain. ~ The Mother,

15:War is not won by victory. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

16:Grief is the price of victory, ~ Frank Herbert,

17:Grief is the price of victory. ~ Frank Herbert,

18:The greatest victory is defeat. ~ Henrik Ibsen,

19:The greatest victory is over self. ~ Aristotle,

20:Feel the victory inside you. ~ Tera Lynn Childs,

21:Man's greatest victory is over oneself. ~ Plato,

22:Faith is necessary to victory. ~ William Hazlitt,

23:Victory is a thing of the will. ~ Ferdinand Foch,

24:The victory is to the most enduring. ~ The Mother,

25:Unity and victory are synonymous. ~ Samora Machel,

26:What's a victory when its hollow? ~ Keshia Chante,

27:Let your peace be a victory! ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,

28:Staring is half the victory in love. ~ R K Narayan,

29:The victory's in believing. ~ James Russell Lowell,

30:They only the victory win, ~ William Wetmore Story,

31:Victory passes back and forth between men. ~ Homer,

32:Blood is the price of victory ~ Carl von Clausewitz,

33:God grants victory to perseverance. ~ Simon Bolivar,

34:In politics, victory is never total. ~ Donald Freed,

35:It must be a peace without victory ~ Woodrow Wilson,

36:Lha Gyal Lo! (Victory to the gods) ~ Dalai Lama XIV,

37:Lok’tar ogar!” Victory, or death. ~ Christie Golden,

38:Pardon is the virtue of victory. ~ Giuseppe Mazzini,

39:This is God’s victory: not mine. ~ Philippa Gregory,

40:Those who give up cannot gain victory. ~ Lee Min ho,

41:Victory is by nature superb and insulting. ~ Horace,

42:Victory puts us on a level with heaven. ~ Lucretius,

43:Character is victory organized. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte,

44:Fire opens the gates of victory. ~ Alexander Suvorov,

45:Give me victory or give me death! ~ William B Travis,

46:Impatience for victory guarantees defeat ~ Louis XIV,

47:Lemony fresh victory shall be mine! ~ Jhonen V squez,

48:Victory; a matter of staying power. ~ Elbert Hubbard,

49:victory is a byproduct of obedience. ~ Jerry Bridges,

50:What feeds a fighters soul is victory. ~ Miesha Tate,

51:Which, if not victory, is yet revenge. ~ John Milton,

52:The first and best victory is to conquer self ~ Plato,

53:The prevent defense prevents victory. ~ Rush Limbaugh,

54:Victory lies in not getting defeated. ~ Daisaku Ikeda,

55:You cannot have victory without conflict. ~ T D Jakes,

56:For every victory there is a price. ~ Jacqueline Carey,

57:Pray for victory, plan for disaster. ~ Robert Ferrigno,

58:Victory belong to the most persevering. ~ Andre Norton,

59:A strategic victory seen as luck by laymen. ~ Toba Beta,

60:every failure is also a victory. ~ David Foster Wallace,

61:Great victory requires great risk. -Hera ~ Rick Riordan,

62:Happiness is not pleasure - it is victory. ~ Zig Ziglar,

63:I guess 14% plus Jesus equals victory ~ Stephen Colbert,

64:PAIN IS TEMPORARY. VICTORY IS FOREVER. ~ Samantha Towle,

65:True victory is victory over oneself. ~ Morihei Ueshiba,

66:Victory is an illusion. In all things. ~ Steven Erikson,

67:Victory is produced by and belongs to all. ~ Bill Walsh,

68:Death is swallowed up in victory. ~ I Corinthians XV. 54,

69:The art of victory is learned in defeat. ~ Simon Bolivar,

70:The best way to spell victory? K-I-L-L. ~ Gena Showalter,

71:The most dangerous moment comes with victory ~ Napoleon,

72:Tomorrow’s victory is today’s practice. ~ Chris Bradford,

73:Any victory would be dear at such a price. ~ Robert E Lee,

74:Defeat has its lessons as well as victory. ~ Pat Buchanan,

75:Defeat is a disease, and victory is the cure. ~ Anonymous,

76:It is not truth that matters, but victory. ~ Adolf Hitler,

77:Our legislative victory - an end to earmarks. ~ Rand Paul,

78:The first and best victory is to conquer self.    ~ Plato,

79:The hardest victory is the victory over self. ~ Aristotle,

80:Victory needs conflict as its preface. ~ Charles Spurgeon,

81:Victory solved all manner of problems. ~ Jonathan Moeller,

82:Without victory there is no survival! ~ Winston Churchill,

83:1994 GOP victory destroyed bipartisanship. ~ Newt Gingrich,

84:Already the scent of victory is in the air. ~ Wesley Clark,

85:And either victory, or else a grave. ~ William Shakespeare,

86:Great victory requires great risk. -Hera ~ Rick Riordan,

87:In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. ~ Horace,

88:Public victory comes from private discipline. ~ Levi Lusko,

89:The first and the best victory is to conquer self. ~ Plato,

90:The only victory over love is flight. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte,

91:The only victory over love is flight. ~ Napol on Bonaparte,

92:Today is Siddhi Day or the Day of Victory. ~ Sri Aurobindo,

93:Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever. ~ Billie Jean King,

94:Victory is not won in miles but in inches. ~ Louis L Amour,

95:Victory is ten times sweeter for the underdog. ~ Jenny Han,

96:Youth loves honor and victory more than money. ~ Aristotle,

97:You win the victory when you yield to friends. ~ Sophocles,

98:At least is was a victory and at least we won ~ Bobby Moore,

99:But Above all things truth beareth away the victory ~ Plato,

100:I prefer a dirty victory to a noble defeat. ~ Steve Inskeep,

101:Ours is a just cause; victory will be ours! ~ Joseph Stalin,

102:The hotter the battle the sweeter the victory. ~ Bob Marley,

103:Victorious and dead is a poor sort of victory ~ M L Stedman,

104:Victory only comes through wear and tear. ~ E A Bucchianeri,

105:What is the strongest cure?--Victory. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,

106:Any victory won that way would be Pyrrhic. ~ Lisa Scottoline,

107:Every literate woman is a victory over poverty ~ Ban Ki moon,

108:If the tanks succeed, then victory follows. ~ Heinz Guderian,

109:In politics, purity is the enemy of victory. ~ Haley Barbour,

110:One more such victory and we are undone. ~ Pyrrhus of Epirus,

111:war is not just a victory or loss ... People die. ~ Maya Lin,

112:Where's the victory without opposition?--Joel ~ Rachael Wade,

113:You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat. ~ Joel Osteen,

114:After victory, you have more enemies. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero,

115:Every victory contains the germ of future defeat. ~ Carl Jung,

116:Every victory of Hezbollah, I celebrate. ~ Norman Finkelstein,

117:Every word written is a victory against Death. ~ Michel Butor,

118:God save me from another such victory. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold,

119:Indomitable in victory, insufferable in defeat. ~ Woody Hayes,

120:One play does not a team or victory make. ~ Elizabeth Eulberg,

121:Someone going home was a victory for us all. I ~ Piper Kerman,

122:Think doubt and fail, think victory and succeed ~ Ann Maxwell,

123:To whom God will, there be the victory. ~ William Shakespeare,

124:Victory belongs to the most persevering. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte,

125:Victory belongs to the most persevering. ~ Napol on Bonaparte,

126:Victory is only wrested by running risks. ~ Winston Churchill,

127:Victory,' she said, 'means peace. ~ Kimberly Brubaker Bradley,

128:Where there is unity, there is the victory. ~ Publilius Syrus,

129:Who speaks of victory? To endure is all. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,

130:A symbolic victory is still a victory. ~ George Elliott Clarke,

131:but it was a Pyrrhic victory now it was here. ~ Natasha Pulley,

132:first—private victory before public victory. ~ Stephen R Covey,

133:God wants us to walk in obedience—not victory. ~ Jerry Bridges,

134:In war there is no substitute for victory. ~ Douglas MacArthur,

135:I pray not for victory, but to do my best. ~ Amos Alonzo Stagg,

136:Love shouldn’t only count when there’s victory. ~ Adam Silvera,

137:The bud of victory is always in the truth. ~ Benjamin Harrison,

138:The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself. ~ Plato,

139:The greatest victory is the one over oneself. ~ Gautama Buddha,

140:There's no victory-condition for being human. ~ Bruce Sterling,

141:Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat. ~ Malcolm Forbes,

142:With great victory comes great sacrifice. ~ Theodore Roosevelt,

143:A masterful retreat is itself a victory. ~ Norman Vincent Peale,

144:Austria's victory crawled out of her latrines. ~ Jaroslav Ha ek,

145:Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory. ~ Aberjhani,

146:Defeat may be victory in disguise. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,

147:Don't focus on the victory, focus on the task. ~ Erik Spoelstra,

148:"Every victory contains the germ of future defeat." ~ Carl Jung,

149:It is also a victory to know when to retreat. ~ Erno Paasilinna,

150:It was the silliest victory of her entire life. ~ Jennifer Egan,

151:Masterly retreat is in itself a victory. ~ Norman Vincent Peale,

152:One player does not a team or victory make. ~ Elizabeth Eulberg,

153:The heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory. ~ Bob Marley,

154:The Italians are hoping for an Italian victory. ~ David Coleman,

155:The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory. ~ Blaise Pascal,

156:The victory of Mr. Kostunica will be a reality. ~ Javier Solana,

157:Victory comes from finding opportunities in problems. ~ Sun Tzu,

158:We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat! ~ Rumi,

159:Each day feels like an obstacle. And a victory. ~ Krista Ritchie,

160:It is a great victory that comes without blood. ~ George Herbert,

161:The greatest victory is that which requires no battle. ~ Sun Tzu,

162:To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory. ~ Neal Ascherson,

163:A moment of pain is worth a lifetime of victory ~ Louis Zamperini,

164:It's not victory if it doesn't end the war. ~ Michel de Montaigne,

165:Perseverance and perspective until victory. ~ Lincoln Diaz Balart,

166:Reaching tomorrow is always a great victory! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,

167:Reconciliation is more beautiful than victory. ~ Violeta Chamorro,

168:Victory and defeat are each of the same price. ~ Thomas Jefferson,

169:Victory breeds hatred, for the conquered is unhappy. ~ Max Muller,

170:Wherever work is done, victory is attained. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

171:After victory, tighten the cords of your helmet. ~ Ieyasu Tokugawa,

172:Another victory like that and we are done for. ~ Pyrrhus of Epirus,

173:Fear is slavery, work is liberty, courage is victory. ~ The Mother,

174:I'm not here to be liked. -Batman,Dark victory. ~ Jeph Loeb,

175:Most men wait to move until victory is guaranteed. ~ John Eldredge,

176:The most dangerous moment comes with victory. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte,

177:The quest, the fight—never the finding or the victory. ~ Greg Bear,

178:There's a victory in letting go of your expectations. ~ Mike White,

179:Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes. ~ Bobby Knight,

180:Victory is by nature insolent and haughty. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero,

181:What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat. ~ Don Meyer,

182:After every ''victory'' you have more enemies. ~ Jeanette Winterson,

183:History is full of examples of slaughter and victory. ~ Bobby Adair,

184:In Love, Victory goes to the man who runs away ~ Napol on Bonaparte,

185:In victory, the hero seeks the glory, not the prey. ~ Philip Sidney,

186:It's not victory that makes a man. It's his defeats. ~ Pierce Brown,

187:One positive thought is the victory you need today! ~ Bryant McGill,

188:Preparedness is the key to success and victory. ~ Douglas MacArthur,

189:the Battle of Alamein, called Desert Victory. ~ Winston S Churchill,

190:There is only one decisive victory: the last. ~ Carl von Clausewitz,

191:Think doubt and fail. Think victory and succeed. ~ David J Schwartz,

192:Victory brings obliviousness; defeat, attentiveness. ~ Mason Cooley,

193:Victory has a thousand fathers and defeat is an orphan. ~ Anonymous,

194:We learn far more from defeat than victory, Lola. ~ Jessica Hawkins,

195:Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance. ~ Ethan Zuckerman,

196:8 And the LORD gave them victory over their enemies. The ~ Anonymous,

197:Dream big, sacrifice all, and you will enjoy victory. ~ Henry Cejudo,

198:Every step was a victory. He had to remember that. ~ George Saunders,

199:If you trust your instincts, victory will be your reward. ~ Roy Huff,

200:The more a victory cost, the more it was esteemed. ~ Patrick O Brian,

201:The only victory that counts is the one over yourself. ~ Jesse Owens,

202:To obtain victory by any means and with any weapon. ~ Chris Bradford,

203:We will accept nothing less than full Victory! ~ Dwight D Eisenhower,

204:Each kind act and simple insight is a victory. ~ Ivan M Granger,

205:Fortune seized at the right moment gives victory. ~ Alexander Suvorov,

206:My winning is getting to perform. That's my victory. ~ Kelly Clarkson,

207:One learns more from defeat than from victory. ~ Samuel Eliot Morison,

208:our circumstances and know that ultimate victory is ours. ~ Anonymous,

209:Peace and quiet are preferred. Victory should not be praised. ~ Laozi,

210:the face of victory often resembles the face of defeat. ~ Jane Bowles,

211:There is no victory at bargain basement prices. ~ Dwight D Eisenhower,

212:Victory! As I cried into my ice cream every night. ~ Rachel Higginson,

213:Above all else, do not fear to climb the victory tower. ~ Kate Elliott,

214:Fight only after creating conditions for victory. ~ Toyotomi Hideyoshi,

215:He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother. ~ Anonymous,

216:I hope that in victory we are more grateful than proud. ~ David Brooks,

217:In all Debates, let Truth be thy Aim, not Victory, ~ Benjamin Franklin,

218:Misfortune is the best fortune. Rejection by all is victory. ~ Valmiki,

219:Such is the love of praise, so great the anxiety for victory. ~ Virgil,

220:There's room for everyone at the rendezvous of victory. ~ Aime Cesaire,

221:The seeds of great victory lie in minor triumphs. ~ Toyotomi Hideyoshi,

222:To secure victory, first you have to dare to do so. ~ Stephen Richards,

223:War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory. ~ Albert Pike,

224:Be perfectly sincere and no victory will be denied to you. ~ The Mother,

225:Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory. ~ Philip Sidney,

226:Satan can wreak havoc but he cannot claim the victory. ~ David Jeremiah,

227:The finest victory is to conquer one's own heart. ~ Jean de La Fontaine,

228:There are 1,000 lessons in defeat. But only one in victory. ~ Confucius,

229:Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan ~ John F Kennedy,

230:Victory settles a lot of arguments in most men's heads. ~ Robert Jordan,

231:You get what you expect. Expect to heal. Expect victory. ~ Janet Morris,

232:Be perfectly sincere and no victory will be denied to you. ~ The Mother,

233:Don’t let a first-set victory lead into a second-set slump ~ Chris Evert,

234:If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight. ~ Sun Tzu,

235:If I believe I will win, then victory will believe in me. ~ Paulo Coelho,

236:I'm on a quest to claim absolute victory on every front. ~ Charlie Sheen,

237:It is not the victory that defines the Man, it is the fight. ~ Anonymous,

238:It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory. ~ Blaise Pascal,

239:On the day of victory, no man is tired. -Arab proverb ~ Justin Cronin,

240:The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory ~ Napoleon Bonaparte,

241:The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory ~ Napol on Bonaparte,

242:The mostimportant victory is the one which has to arrive. ~ Enzo Ferrari,

243:... the winner is the one who believes in victory more. ~ Novak Djokovic,

244:This is the victory that has conquered the world: our faith. ~ Anonymous,

245:To be defeated and yet not surrender, this is victory. ~ Jozef Pilsudski,

246:Victory has 1,000 fathers; defeat has 1,000 kibitzers. ~ Jeff Greenfield,

247:Victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man. ~ Nikolai Berdyaev,

248:What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations. ~ Sun Tzu,

249:A defeat borne with pride is also a victory. ~ Marie von Ebner Eschenbach,

250:And is it selfish of me to crave victory, or is it brave? ~ Veronica Roth,

251:A victory at Kursk would shine like a beacon to the world! ~ Adolf Hitler,

252:Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy. ~ Socrates,

253:In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest. ~ William McKinley,

254:Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser. ~ Toba Beta,

255:love means eventual pain victory means eventual defeat ~ Charles Bukowski,

256:People don't like to talk about victory and defeat anymore. ~ John Bolton,

257:Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. ~ John F Kennedy,

258:Victory is a good wine; defeat is a good university! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,

259:Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog. ~ Jenny Han,

260:Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you’re the underdog. ~ Jenny Han,

261:Victory is gay only back home. Up front it is joyless. ~ Marlene Dietrich,

262:Victory is reserved for those who are willing to pay its price. ~ Sun Tzu,

263:Enthusiasm is the force that leads us to the final victory. ~ Paulo Coelho,

264:Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory. ~ Ovid,

265:I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory. ~ Fernando Pessoa,

266:It is more difficult to look upon victory than upon battle. ~ Walter Scott,

267:Misfortune is the best fortune. Rejection by all is victory. ~ Valmiki,

268:Old age is a humble victory in this killing universe. ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,

269:On victory, you deserve beer. On defeat, you need it. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte,

270:The fruits of victory are tumbling into our mouths too quickly. ~ Hirohito,

271:There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble. ~ Jack Kemp,

272:There may be no "I' in Team, but there is an "I" in Victory. ~ J L Collins,

273:Victory carries a moral burden the vanquished never know, ~ Scott Anderson,

274:Victory comes only to those prepared to make it, and take it. ~ Tom Clancy,

275:Victory Consistently, train all year to be the enemy's misery! ~ Lil Wayne,

276:Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. ~ Raymond E Feist,

277:What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? ~ Mahatma Gandhi,

278:Wizard's Eighth Rule Talga Vassternich. (Deserve Victory) ~ Terry Goodkind,

279:You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up. ~ Jay Samit,

280:Courage isn’t the absence of fear. It’s victory over fear. ~ Jonathan Yanez,

281:Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory. ~ Douglas MacArthur,

282:I am Defeated all the time, yet to Victory I am born. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

283:If you believe in victory, then victory will believe in you. ~ Paulo Coelho,

284:In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory. ~ Douglas MacArthur,

285:Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods. ~ Andre Gide,

286:One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory. ~ Franz Kafka,

287:Our victory was a victory and a win for conservative values. ~ Donald Trump,

288:There is only one answer to defeat and that is victory. ~ Winston Churchill,

289:Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. ~ Og Mandino,

290:victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. ~ Og Mandino,

291:Every victory enlarges the magnitude of our possible defeat. ~ John Williams,

292:If this is victory, then our hands are too small to hold it. ~ J R R Tolkien,

293:I hear your insults and plan to silence them with my victory. ~ Claudia Gray,

294:Let him who doubts the victory wrest the banner from my hand. ~ Steven Brust,

295:No matter how often defeated, you are born to victory. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

296:Success through the eyes of one once defeated, is true VICTORY. ~ Jim Cramer,

297:The Grace will win the Victory in due time by the Eternal Love. ~ The Mother,

298:The true victory is the victory for democracy and pluralism. ~ Hosni Mubarak,

299:To win a moral victory at the expense of your sanity is dumb. ~ Stuart Wilde,

300:True victory is self-victory; let that day arrive quickly! ~ Morihei Ueshiba,

301:Victory is the only option. And we will be victorious in Iraq. ~ Andrew Card,

302:Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat. ~ Adolf Hitler,

303:A victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory. ~ Bertrand Russell,

304:Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. ~ Horace Mann,

305:Defeat is most devastating at the moment of victory" Saint Dane ~ D J MacHale,

306:Glory and honor were found as much in defeat as in victory. ~ Scott Nicholson,

307:He would have achieved victory and rebellion at the same time. ~ Graham Moore,

308:How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men? ~ Laozi,

309:our bones like stems into the sky will forever cry victory ~ Charles Bukowski,

310:So much for the high road: Victory is more important than purity. ~ Anonymous,

311:The greatest victory you can win is over your own mind. ~ Swami Satchidananda,

312:To transform death and make of it a means of victory and triumph. ~ Nietzsche,

313:...victory does not come to men who listen to their fears. ~ Bernard Cornwell,

314:beheld a power whose head was crowned with signs of victory. ~ Dante Alighieri,

315:do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat ~ Sun Tzu,

316:He’d always wondered what he’d do when victory wasn’t an option. ~ Evan Currie,

317:I love the smell of paper in the morning; it smells like victory. ~ Alan Moore,

318:I was extremely excited personally about the Obama-Biden victory. ~ Jay Carney,

319:The Democrats just want to ram it down my ear with a victory ~ George H W Bush,

320:Wealth meant victory and victory was the only reality. What ~ Charles Bukowski,

321:We cannot accept in victory what we would not accept in defeat. ~ Dick Bennett,

322:worship is going to be the soundtrack that leads us to victory. ~ Louie Giglio,

323:A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory. ~ Arthur Golden,

324:A victory which is not honourable is nothing but a defeat! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,

325:Happiness is not mostly pleasure, it is mostly victory. ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick,

326:I enjoy the hunt much more than the “good life” after the victory. ~ Carl Icahn,

327:In the end, the best victory is the one that looks like a defeat. ~ Neel Burton,

328:Judgment of eye, speed and attack are the basis of victory. ~ Alexander Suvorov,

329:Non-engagement or retreat can turn certain defeat into victory. ~ Bryant McGill,

330:Shared victory is a double victory, shared defeat is half-defeat. ~ John Kessel,

331:Such a display of death - how could it be considered a victory? ~ James Dashner,

332:The Republicans are going to have a massive victory in November. ~ Donald Trump,

333:Victory is victory, dead is dead, however it is achieved. ~ Christopher Paolini,

334:And oh, how a warrior drunk on victory can enchant a young woman. ~ Timur Vermes,

335:Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

336:Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory. ~ Frederick William Faber,

337:Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory. ~ Miguel de Cervantes,

338:I had no taste for defeat - much less victory - without a fight. ~ Yukio Mishima,

339:In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns. ~ Sun Tzu,

340:Know your enemy. Know yourself. Only then may you achieve victory. ~ Jim Butcher,

341:Men, do as I say and I will always lead you to victory. ~ Nathan Bedford Forrest,

342:Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death. ~ Ernest Becker,

343:The victory of Socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims! ~ Che Guevara,

344:1CO15.55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?  ~ Anonymous,

345:Even with Eragon, Saphira, and the elves to help, victory would be no ~ Anonymous,

346:First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can. ~ Horatio Nelson,

347:If you can not win, make the enemy pay a steep price for victory ~ Carlson Gracie,

348:More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt,

349:Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love. ~ Saint Augustine,

350:One can only savor the victory if he has felt the bitter defeat. ~ Anderson Silva,

351:Status, worry and comparison are ways to madness, not victory. ~ James Scott Bell,

352:The victory of socialism will not descend like fate from heaven. ~ Rosa Luxemburg,

353:To experience spiritual victory, you must depend on God's resources. ~ Jim George,

354:we can not prepare for defeat and expect to live a life in Victory. ~ Joel Osteen,

355:What is Waterloo? A victory? No. The winning number in the lottery. ~ Victor Hugo,

356:When the battle is long and hard the victory is even sweeter ~ Anthony Venn Brown,

357:winners expect to win, they expect victory, and they expect success! ~ Zig Ziglar,

358:Without a plan, there's no attack. Without attack, no victory. ~ Curtis Armstrong,

359:Death has been swallowed up in victory’” (1 Corinthians 15:51-54). ~ Jerry Bridges,

360:Do not despair. In every defeat are found the seeds of victory. ~ Walter F Mondale,

361:God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt of death. ~ Hannibal,

362:Our armies were in as much chaos in victory as theirs in defeat. ~ Jefferson Davis,

363:Sometimes in a defeat, you can set the stage for future victory. ~ Mike Krzyzewski,

364:The only thing worse than a victory in battle, Otoku said, is defeat. ~ Will Wight,

365:There is no pain in the wound received in the moment of victory. ~ Publilius Syrus,

366:To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain. ~ Ignatius of Loyola,

367:We can’t afford to let the Illuminati have another victory, Janus. ~ James Swallow,

368:At my age, every day that I overcome simple inertia is a victory. ~ Michael LaRocca,

369:Champagne. In victory one deserves it, in defeat one needs it. ~ Napol on Bonaparte,

370:I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory. ~ J R R Tolkien,

371:It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory ~ Victor Hugo,

372:The thrill, believe me, is as much in the battle as in the victory. ~ David Sarnoff,

373:Victory awaits him who has everything in order—luck, people call it. ~ Sam Sheridan,

374:When it looks impossible and you are ready to quit, victory is near! ~ Tony Robbins,

375:As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. ~ Galeazzo Ciano,

376:build inner character first—private victory before public victory. ~ Stephen R Covey,

377:Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat one needs it. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte,

378:For me, victory isn't measured by winning in the traditional sense. ~ Dinesh D Souza,

379:Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory. ~ Miguel de Cervantes,

380:I learned from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed ~ Mahatma Gandhi,

381:I learnt from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,

382:In war, the key to victory is the ability to surprise one's opponent. ~ Paulo Coelho,

383:Seeing victory only moments away stripped caution from the hunters. ~ Steven Erikson,

384:This is a narrative of turning worldly defeat into spiritual victory. ~ David Brooks,

385:victory will never be found by taking the line of least resistance. ~ Martin Gilbert,

386:You are closest to your victory when you face the greatest opposition. ~ Joel Osteen,

387:You'll sing a song of victory eternally, though there is none to be had. ~ Anne Rice,

388:Every moment is a new moment to rise up and move forward into the victory. ~ Amit Ray,

389:It's the extra effort after you have done your best that creates victory. ~ Lou Holtz,

390:It was a victory for all the girls that they remembered not to scream. ~ Ann Patchett,

391:love is not a victory march, it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah. ~ Jeff Buckley,

392:One cannot think that blind bravery gives victory over the enemy. ~ Alexander Suvorov,

393:So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence. ~ Sun Tzu,

394:The election result is not a victory that belongs to me or my party. ~ Chen Shui bian,

395:Therefore victory in war is not repetitious, but adapts its form endlessly. ~ Sun Tzu,

396:Victory and growth don’t come through an easy life, but from struggle. ~ Cathy Bryant,

397:Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest. ~ Nicolas Chamfort,

398:A victory with so many victims is nothing but the biggest defeat! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,

399:Gentlemen, you are about to witness the most famous victory in history. ~ Adolf Hitler,

400:If we cannot win, we can at least deprive them of the victory. ~ J Michael Straczynski,

401:I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory. ~ Michel de Montaigne,

402:Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack. ~ Sun Tzu,

403:Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the attack. ~ Sun Tzu,

404:So it’s true what I hear, that victory makes strange bedfellows. ~ Victor Mil n,

405:I wanted to hurt you / but the victory is that I could not stomach it. ~ Richard Siken,

406:Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory. ~ Norman Vincent Peale,

407:Such was the Bush code: Strive for victory, but never seem self-involved ~ Jon Meacham,

408:The Grace’s victory is sure but a quite endurance makes it come quicker . ~ The Mother,

409:These military devices, leading to victory, must not be divulged beforehand. ~ Sun Tzu,

410:To blame others for our misfortunes is always a victory for the nafs. ~ Timothy Winter,

411:We should just declare victory, end the wars and bring our troops home. ~ Bob Woodward,

412:You ask what the aim is? I tell you it is victory - total victory. ~ Winston Churchill,

413:A Race car is more beautiful than the Victory of Samotracia ~ Filippo Tommaso Marinetti,

414:Endurance, after all, was a kind of victory; a kind of heroism, too. ~ Orson Scott Card,

415:Gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it. ~ Joyce Meyer,

416:If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. ~ William Hazlitt,

417:I wanted to hurt you but the victory is that I could not stomach it. ~ Richard Siken,

418:Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

419:Peace has cost you your strength,” Bane declared. “Victory has defeated you. ~ Greg Cox,

420:Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus. ~ Stephen Covey,

421:Some days making it to the end of the day is quite the victory. -- Bea ~ Jennifer Brown,

422:Such was the code: Strive for victory, but never seem to be self-involved. ~ H W Brands,

423:The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else. ~ Tim Tigner,

424:Victory awaits him who has everything in order - luck, people call it. ~ Roald Amundsen,

425:Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting. ~ Napoleon Hill,

426:Victory will never be found by taking the path of least resistance. ~ Winston Churchill,

427:Focus on the victory instead of on everything that could go wrong. ~ Sanya Richards Ross,

428:In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest. ~ William Penn,

429:I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you. ~ Barack Obama,

430:Life and peace. Victory and vengeance. And never the twain shall meet. ~ Laini Taylor,

431:Of all the weapons vital for a speedy victory, the most vital is information. ~ John Man,

432:The Christian never works toward victory, he always works FROM victory. ~ Henry Blackaby,

433:The greatest victory a man can win is victory over himself. ~ Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi,

434:The increase in the world's population represents our victory over death. ~ Julian Simon,

435:The Lord has given an overcoming victory to every person who is born again. ~ T B Joshua,

436:There are some timid souls that will never know victory nor defeat. ~ Theodore Roosevelt,

437:The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. ~ Marcus Aurelius,

438:To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain. ~ Saint Ignatius of Loyola,

439:Victory claimed by violence is tantamount to defeat for it is momentary ~ Mahatma Gandhi,

440:Victory doesn’t matter to the dead, nor to the living who mourn them. ~ Jacqueline Carey,

441:Victory is not final. Defeat is not failure. It's all about courage. ~ Winston Churchill,

442:We only have victory over satan when we walk in the Spirit in Christ Jesus. ~ T B Joshua,

443:Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory. ~ George S Patton,

444:A single tree in the middle of nowhere means resistance and victory! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,

445:Carry the burden smilingly and cheerfully, because patience is the key to victory. ~ Rumi,

446:Each society is a hero system which promises victory over evil and death. ~ Ernest Becker,

447:Every victory accomplished with weapons is a funeral that should be mourned. ~ Wayne Dyer,

448:If I can give you the words you need to have, we will have a great victory. ~ Paul Auster,

449:one may know how to gain victory, and know not how to use it ~ Pedro Calder n de la Barca,

450:our bones like stems into the sky will forever cry victory ~ Charles Bukowski,

451:Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions. ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton,

452:there’s just one rule with no exceptions: before victory comes temptation. ~ Stephen King,

453:To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory. - Jósef Piłsudski ~ Neal Ascherson,

454:... to pause is to win & to rest can actually be part of the victory. ~ Annie F Downs,

455:A clear victory of satyagraha is impossible so long as there is ill will. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,

456:Be resolute, fear no sacrifice, and surmount every difficulty to win victory. ~ Mao Zedong,

457:Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem ~ Henry Kissinger,

458:...for the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear. ~ Charles Darwin,

459:For the true victory,neither enemies nor allies don't die without difference ~ Jan Guillou,

460:In the environment, every victory is temporary, every defeat permanent. ~ Thomas Jefferson,

461:It is often wiser not to fight at all than attack before victory is sure’, ~ Trudi Canavan,

462:Life is hard and uncertain, and sometimes a small victory has to be enough. ~ Jeff Lindsay,

463:There are occasions when losing is a victory, so long as there is a fight. ~ Robert Harris,

464:The wounds would become her armor, and a constant reminder of her victory. ~ Marissa Meyer,

465:Truth always ends by victory; it is not unassailable, but invincible. ~ Ignatius of Loyola,

466:Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory. ~ Nicolas Chamfort,

467:You know how to vanquish, Hannibal, but you do not know how to profit from victory. ~ Livy,

468:As Bliss declared victory, Bell struggled with a nagging sense of unease. ~ Candice Millard,

469:A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers. ~ William Shakespeare,

470:Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories. ~ Sri Aurobindo,

471:every victory accomplished with weapons is a funeral that should be mourned. ~ Wayne W Dyer,

472:Faith begins to praise God before the promised victory, not merely after it. ~ Derek Prince,

473:If a man only likes victory he must always come late for the battle. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton,

474:Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory. ~ Winston Churchill,

475:It is important to remind young people that peace is the only victory. ~ Scarlett Johansson,

476:Reconciliation means - in victory, I win and you're wrong, and then you lose. ~ Alveda King,

477:Survival is the key word to remember—not victory, not conquest, just survival. ~ Max Brooks,

478:The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.    ~ Karl Popper,

479:The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,

480:The most important part of seeking victory is defining it first,” Tisis said. ~ Brent Weeks,

481:The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force. ~ Adolf Hitler,

482:The smallest effort to win means, at the end of each day, a sort of victory. ~ Ray Bradbury,

483:Thirst for victory leads to defeat; not tiring of defeat leads to victory. ~ Yamaoka Tesshu,

484:To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle. ~ Dalai Lama,

485:Victory loses its meaning without the memory of what you've vanquished. ~ Alastair Reynolds,

486:Walk a single path, become neither cocky with victory nor broken with defeat. ~ Kano Jigoro,

487:We will defend our victory through armed struggle. We will have to do that. ~ Robert Mugabe,

488:31 A horse is prepared for the day of battle,  but victory comes from the Lord.  ~ Anonymous,

489:A true champion is not only formed in victory. To be defeated makes you learn. ~ Renan Barao,

490:Borges, who said, “Defeat has a dignity which noisy victory does not deserve. ~ Paul Theroux,

491:Confidence comes from victory, but strength comes from the struggle. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger,

492:Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. ~ Edwin Markham,

493:Difficulty on the way to victory is opportunity for God to work ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,

494:Even if the trophy is gone, you still won it and that victory lasts forever. ~ Jay Crownover,

495:Fear is always death. Faith is life. Have faith and your victory is assured. ~ Bryant McGill,

496:I know who I am. And after all these years, there's a victory in that. ~ Matthew McConaughey,

497:It is not in Victory that you learn how strong you truly are. - Stronghand ~ Kate Elliott,

498:One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it. ~ Pedro Calder n de la Barca,

499:One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it. ~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca,

500:The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. ~ Joseph Joubert,

501:There is nothing more intoxicating than victory, and nothing more dangerous. ~ Robert Greene,

502:There is nothing so dreadful as a great victory--except a great defeat. ~ Duke of Wellington,

503:Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,

504:A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought. ~ Honor de Balzac,

505:Do not enter with defeat in your heart for that is the first victory of evil. ~ Margaret Weis,

506:It’s not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self. ~ Stephen R Covey,

507:Life isn't, and has never been, a 2-0 home victory after a fish and chip lunch. ~ Nick Hornby,

508:This is an unfair thing about war: victory is claimed by all, failure to one alone. ~ Tacitus,

509:Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,

510:Victory takes sides on people who are more compatible with nature and future. ~ Toba Beta,

511:Victory tastes sweetest in the absence of haunting memories, Bult. Savor it. ~ Steven Erikson,

512:A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought. ~ Honore de Balzac,

513:A venture not accomplished is loss; working together towards success is VICTORY! ~ Mark Edward,

514:General Douglas MacArthur said, “In war there is no substitute for victory. ~ Warren W Wiersbe,

515:It's easy to do anything in victory. It's in defeat that a man reveals himself. ~ Sam Sheridan,

516:I want to go to my grave a free man. Surviving against giants-that's victory. ~ Todd McFarlane,

517:Kill, Destroy, Sack, Tell lie; how much you want after victory nobody asks why? ~ Adolf Hitler,

518:May I accept upon myself the defeat / And offer to others the victory”—Chekawa ~ Thupten Jinpa,

519:My body’s a battlefield. Victory’s a void filled, a memory vanquished momentarily. ~ Kris Kidd,

520:No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. ~ William Faulkner,

521:So long as I'm the president, my measure of success is victory -- and success. ~ George W Bush,

522:The U.S. victory in Gulf War was a stirring victory for the forces of aggression. ~ Dan Quayle,

523:The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan. ~ Honore de Balzac,

524:Victory!? There is no victory in war! War takes everything and gives nothing! ~ Joseph R Lallo,

525:War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat. ~ Sri Aurobindo,

526:We must fight our way to victory on a sea of blood and a horizon of fire. ~ Gamal Abdel Nasser,

527:When you're in a weak position, getting the best deal possible is a victory. ~ Robert Ferrigno,

528:Without labor there is no rest, nor without fighting can the victory be won. ~ Thomas a Kempis,

529:Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat. ~ Winston Churchill,

530:Calm and repose are what he prizes; victory (by force of arms) is to him undesirable. ~ Lao Tzu,

531:Fear tries to get us to give up but faith takes us all the way through to victory ~ Joyce Meyer,

532:For victory in life, we've got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven. ~ Lou Holtz,

533:How could a decent person ever rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men ~ Lao Tzu,

534:If you want to win any meaningful kind of victory, you’ll have to fight for it. ~ Eric Greitens,

535:It’s impossible to hold up the banners of victim and victory at the same time. ~ Lysa TerKeurst,

536:Jesus Christ is the Conqueror, and all believers share in His great victory. ~ Warren W Wiersbe,

537:joining a battle where there is no chance for victory was to die a noble fool, ~ Brian Rathbone,

538:Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle. ~ Lucy Stone,

539:The only way to get to victory is to be willing to make mistakes on the way there. ~ Levi Lusko,

540:The will to victory may be demonstrated in places other than actual battle. ~ Steven Pressfield,

541:Victory is about recognizing all the work that went into achieving your dream. ~ Tommy Hilfiger,

542:Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte,

543:Victory!? There is no victory in war! War takes everything and gives nothing! ~ Lindsay Buroker,

544:A player should never be selfish and should always contribute to team's victory. ~ Shahid Afridi,

545:Bernie or bust actually reduces the leverage for Bernie [Sandеrs] to claim victory. ~ Ben Wikler,

546:Ethan felt a tiny ripple of victory, like he’d scored a blow against a tornado. ~ Heidi Cullinan,

547:If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. ~ Oscar Wilde,

548:If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. ~ Simone de Beauvoir,

549:IOX. Io means ‘shout.’ X is ten. It’s a Roman cheer for victory: ‘Shout ten times! ~ Noah Gordon,

550:Know the enemy, know yourself and victory is never in doubt, not in a hundred battles. ~ Sun Tzu,

551:My favourite victory is when it is not even clear where my opponent made a mistake. ~ Peter Leko,

552:The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory ~ Mahatma Gandhi,

553:There is nothing more intoxicating than victory, and nothing more dangerous. ~ Robert Greene,

554:Truth always ends by victory; it is not unassailable, but invincible. ~ Saint Ignatius of Loyola,

555:We were made for victory. Sometimes we just have to find our way to that truth. ~ Lysa TerKeurst,

556:You are right—nothing can harm your soul and the Victory of the Truth is certain. ~ ~ The Mother,

557:You have not paid for this victory, false one, cheat, and I will give you nothing. ~ Naomi Novik,

558:He’s less a CEO chasing riches than a general marshaling troops to secure victory. ~ Ashlee Vance,

559:I am dead. Only vengeance can restore me! Only victory can return my life to me! ~ Terry Goodkind,

560:If I want to be great, I have to win the victory over myself...self-d iscipline. ~ Harry S Truman,

561:If there is a way to victory in anything in life, it is surely found in our habits. ~ Nate Miyaki,

562:In a competition of love we'll all share in the victory, no matter who comes first ~ Muhammad Ali,

563:It's easy to do anything in victory. It's in defeat that a man reveals himself. ~ Floyd Patterson,

564:So long as victory can be attained,  stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness. ~ Sun Tzu,

565:Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat. ~ Horatio Nelson,

566:We either have total victory or we burn up in the sky.' -Fuuko Kurasaki/Sky Raker ~ Reki Kawahara,

567:We have to always look ahead enough moves to be well prepared, even for victory! ~ Garry Kasparov,

568:Bravery despite defeat is praiseworthy. Victory despite cowardice is beyond praise. ~ Mason Cooley,

569:But when someone is grieving, a genuine smile is a small victory in the big battle. ~ Adam Silvera,

570:Even if you rise up a thousand times, your side will never achieve victory. ~Ulquiorra ~ Tite Kubo,

571:If you expect a kick in the balls and you get a slap in the face, it's a victory. ~ Ardal O Hanlon,

572:One nation is weakened by a victory, another finds new forces in defeat ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry,

573:Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events. ~ Robert Harris,

574:That they have learned to weep at war is no victory. That they know loss is no gain. ~ Brent Weeks,

575:Victory will be ours soon, Iraqis will strike the necks as God has commanded you. ~ Saddam Hussein,

576:Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. ~ George Santayana,

577:57 But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ. ~ Anonymous,

578:Always carry champagne! In victory You deserve it & in defeat You need it! ~ Napol on Bonaparte,

579:A reactionary is anyone who is not prepared to buy his victory at any price. ~ Nicol s G mez D vila,

580:Art needs no victory because it is already the victory of the meticulous mind! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,

581:Being humble doesn't mean you lose; it means you have won. Give the victory to others. ~ Tsem Tulku,

582:God wants to give you victory, but He can only do it if you show up for the battle. ~ James Robison,

583:If you want to win a great victory on any matter, make your move unexpectedly! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,

584:Macit was certain that victory was to be won around the table, not on the battlefield. ~ Ay e Kulin,

585:Surviving herself was a bittersweet victory. It meant that some part of her had lost. ~ Kate Scelsa,

586:SWEEP!' THe Titan grinned with delight and did a victory dance.'Sweep, sweep, sweep! ~ Rick Riordan,

587:There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted. ~ Hunter S Thompson,

588:Victory was to be bought so dear as to be almost indistinguishable from defeat. ~ Winston Churchill,

589:It’s impossible to hold up the banners of victim and victory at the same time. With ~ Lysa TerKeurst,

590:It wasn’t Amundsen’s job to make his men happy, but to lead them to victory, alive. ~ Stephen R Bown,

591:Jesus fought Satan in 'hand to hand combat' . . . 'you need to protect this victory.' ~ Pope Francis,

592:Keep pressing through. Never give up. Your victory today can inspire others tomorrow. ~ John Herrick,

593:LEONATO: A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers. ~ William Shakespeare,

594:Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat. ~ Jean Paul Sartre,

595:Only in England is the perversion of language regarded as a victory for democracy. ~ Anthony Burgess,

596:Regrets are for the weak—” “—and victory is for the strong,” Dalton finished for him. ~ Jamie Begley,

597:Sometimes Victory knocks on your window even though you never sent out an invitation. ~ Maria Semple,

598:The Concordat is not the victory of any one party but the consolidation of all. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte,

599:The victory of democracy in South Africa is the common achievement of all humanity. ~ Nelson Mandela,

600:Those with nothing but vengeance to live for are condemned by their own bitter victory. ~ Luke Scull,

601:To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero,

602:A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible. ~ Polybius,

603:Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory. ~ Max Euwe,

604:Even if you win in ego it is a loss. Even if you lose in love it is a victory. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar,

605:For one brief moment victory was within our grasp!" "And then the game started! ~ Charles M Schulz,

606:Hell’s bells,” I muttered. “Harry, you idiot, when will you learn not to victory gloat? ~ Jim Butcher,

607:Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,

608:Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,

609:There is no victory over death; there is only the realization of Who we all really are. ~ Dan Millman,

610:Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,

611:Among the fearless soldiers that fight for your victory in life, character has no equal. ~ Sri Chinmoy,

612:Celebrate every small victory in life. You never know when they’d come around again. ~ Jennifer Probst,

613:He celebrates yesterday's victory in order to gain more strength for tomorrow's battle. ~ Paulo Coelho,

614:If “defeat is an orphan,” the old saying goes, “victory has a thousand fathers, ~ Doris Kearns Goodwin,

615:Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort, and joy? ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

616:The bayonet has always been the weapon of the brave and the chief tool of victory ~ Napoleon Bonaparte,

617:The crowd sometimes plays a tremendous role to give you wings and carry you to victory. ~ Bela Karolyi,

618:The victories may be small, but one small victory to a defeated mind is a big victory. ~ Stephen Guise,

619:To conquer the command in the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat. ~ Giulio Douhet,

620:We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and the victory is worth the trouble ~ Giacomo Casanova,

621:And was his conscience not needling him, leeching some of the sweetness from his victory? ~ Eoin Colfer,

622:Failure is not fatal until we surrender trying again is the key of glorious victory ~ Muhammad Iqbal,

623:For victory is victory, however small, nor is its worth only from what follows from it. ~ J R R Tolkien,

624:Here was a man who would never rail against fate but accept it and pass on to victory ~ Agatha Christie,

625:I could not live without Champagne. In victory I deserve it. In defeat I need it. ~ Winston S Churchill,

626:If there be no enemy, no fight; if do fight, no victory; if no victory, no crown. ~ Girolamo Savonarola,

627:Life seems to be a system that eats itself to death, and in which victory equals defeat. ~ Alan W Watts,

628:Our victory rests not on faith in our spirituality. Our victory rests on faith in our God. ~ Beth Moore,

629:Sound trumpets! Let our bloody colours wave! And either victory, or else a grave. ~ William Shakespeare,

630:The horse is made ready for the day of battle,         but the victory belongs to the LORD. ~ Anonymous,

631:The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder. ~ Ida B Wells,

632:Victory to the spider. Patience wins the day. And today my patience ends. (Apollymi) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,

633:When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, 'Victory,' and walked off the field. ~ Paul Keating,

634:You don't pity a warrior for her scars, because scars are proof of survival and victory. ~ Chloe Jacobs,

635:How a man handles himself in defeat is more important than how he handles himself in victory. ~ T A Uner,

636:Slowly, a gentle, quiet, personal victory of the spirit grows out of her fear and doubt. ~ Elaine N Aron,

637:Sometimes being a friend is enough in its own right to inspire someone on to victory. ~ Stephen Richards,

638:The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the nonobvious. —MARCUS AURELIUS ~ Anthony Robbins,

639:We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win. ~ Edward Gibbon,

640:You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you. ~ Josephine Baker,

641:A too-swift and easy coalition victory may substantially increase the risk of future wars. ~ Robert Manne,

642:Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory. ~ Miguel de Cervantes,

643:Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded. ~ Audre Lorde,

644:Happy that New York passed marriage equality tonight. A victory for human rights. Progress. ~ John Legend,

645:If you can hit your opponent's nose more than he can hit yours, you too will taste victory. ~ Derek Landy,

646:If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. ~ Sun Tzu,

647:In contending with certain sins there remains no mode of victory but by flight. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon,

648:Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue. ~ Jean de La Fontaine,

649:Men can resist almost everything, but they are always jealous of the victory of a fellow man. ~ Anonymous,

650:The American People in their Righteous Might will win through to Absolute Victory. ~ Franklin D Roosevelt,

651:The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

652:The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most ~ Muhammad Ali,

653:The most important thing is not victory, the most important thing is don't get defeated. ~ Rickson Gracie,

654:The place where you are now is vital. The path toward victory opens from where you stand. ~ Daisaku Ikeda,

655:Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men. ~ Miyamoto Musashi,

656:To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence. ~ Sun Tzu,

657:…victory that comes from the sacrifice on an innocent isn’t a victory. It’s the end of us. ~ Claudia Gray,

658:Woe be to the wug who forgets that destroying one part of a thing does not equal victory ~ David Baldacci,

659:Bill Walsh says, “Almost always, your road to victory goes through a place called ‘failure. ~ Ryan Holiday,

660:But he clung to hope, to faith in life, to the victory of the virtuous, to the defeat of evil. ~ Zane Grey,

661:Calm is self’s victory overcoming fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,

662:Every anniversary was a victory, a middle finger to everyone who thought we wouldn't last. ~ Jamie McGuire,

663:Feminism's latest victory: the right to get your limbs blown off in war. Congratulations. ~ Tucker Carlson,

664:In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement. ~ Paulo Coelho,

665:In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will. ~ Winston Churchill,

666:The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most. ~ Muhammad Ali,

667:Victory is the ability to fight five minutes longer than any other army in the world. ~ Duke of Wellington,

668:von Moltke’s definition of victory: “the highest goal attainable with available means. ~ Lawrence Freedman,

669:When two great forces oppose each other, the victory will go to the one that knows how to yield. ~ Lao Tzu,

670:As in the war of 1941-45, our victory and our survival depend on how and where we attack. ~ James Forrestal,

671:Defeat itself is defeated by the embrace of defeat, and death is swallowed up in victory. ~ Andrew Davidson,

672:Final perseverance is the doctrine that wins the eternal victory in small things as in great ~ Muriel Spark,

673:First, measurement; second, quantity; third, calculation; fourth, comparison; and fifth, victory. ~ Sun Tzu,

674:He who to some gives victory, joy and good, To some gives rest. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, To R.,

675:In the cycle of nature, there is no such thing as victory or defeat: there is only movement. ~ Paulo Coelho,

676:The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism. ~ Pat Conroy,

677:The non-violent movement seeks justice and reconciliation, not victory - or not just victory. ~ Alveda King,

678:The victory's found in truth, like innocence found in youth Self defeat is your own dispute ~ Damian Marley,

679:This will not be a campaign of half measures, and we will accept no outcome except victory. ~ George W Bush,

680:Though a revolution may call itself "national," it always marks the victory of a single party. ~ Andre Gide,

681:You must think of neither victory nor of defeat, but only of cutting and killing your enemy. ~ Barry Eisler,

682:Although our fight will be long and hard, our people are resolved to fight till final victory. ~ Ho Chi Minh,

683:Arguing from facts never wins a definitive victory against skillfully presented opinion. ~ Albert Schweitzer,

684:best thing in a great victory is that it deprives the conqueror of the fear of defeat. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,

685:He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat. ~ John Steinbeck,

686:In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited. ~ Sallust,

687:It took a great deal of force and time to deal with these barricades, and victory was elusive. ~ Jan Guillou,

688:Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself ~ Mahatma Gandhi,

689:Our Promised Lands are characterized by the presence of victory, not the absence of opposition. ~ Beth Moore,

690:Superstition was with me at that moment, but it was not yet her hour for complete victory. ~ Charlotte Bront,

691:The allies we gain by victory will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte,

692:The violent white backlash to Obama’s victory will still be unlike anything we’d ever seen... ~ Kiese Laymon,

693:We have to let the Warrior Code rule our hearts. The death of a warrior does not mean victory. ~ Erin Hunter,

694:We may be doomed, but why not enjoy ourselves? It will lessen the victory of our adversaries. ~ Brandon Mull,

695:Won without a drop of bloodshed. His mother had been right. That truly was the best victory. ~ Meljean Brook,

696:Be perfectly sincere and no victory will be denied to you.    ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, Sincerity,

697:Fear is never a good counselor and victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man. ~ Nikolai A Berdyaev,

698:it was in defeat more than victory that Polybius saw the essence of Rome’s greatness. It ~ Robert L O Connell,

699:I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold,

700:I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about. ~ Vince Lombardi,

701:John Kennedy once remarked that “victory has a thousand fathers and defeat is an orphan. ~ William Manchester,

702:My victory had come at the cost of a friendship. I swore I would never make the same twice. ~ Rachel E Carter,

703:The crisis of European jurisprudence began a century ago with the victory of legal positivism. ~ Carl Schmitt,

704:The more heart you will be able to manifest, the greater will be the victory you achieve. ~ Swami Vivekananda,

705:These sudden joys have sudden endings. They burn up in victory like fire and gunpowder. ~ William Shakespeare,

706:The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. ~ Og Mandino,

707:To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary. ~ Abraham Lincoln,

708:Victory and defeat are but ordinary events in a soldier's career, and why should you give up? ~ Luo Guanzhong,

709:Victory and disaster establish indestructible bonds between armies and their commanders. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte,

710:You must think of neither victory nor of defeat, but only of cutting and killing your enemy. I ~ Barry Eisler,

711:You only understand the concept of victory. Makeda does not comprehend the concept of defeat. ~ Larry Correia,

712:Consecration thus constitutes the only unconditional surrender which is also a total victory! ~ Neal A Maxwell,

713:I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win. ~ Lucy Stone,

714:Napoleon said, “The moment of greatest vulnerability is the instant immediately after victory. ~ Dave Grossman,

715:No victory is irreversible, no defeat is definitive. That is what makes life worth living. ~ Leszek Kolakowski,

716:Real faith has perfect peace and joy and a shout at any time. It always sees the victory. ~ Smith Wigglesworth,

717:The better part of wisdom is turning failure into victory. You have to complete the transition. ~ Sasha Martin,

718:The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men. ~ Sun Tzu,

719:This victory alone is not the change we seek; it is only the chance for us to make that change. ~ Barack Obama,

720:What victory would the Devil have to win a soul already bad? It is the best the Devil wants... ~ Arthur Miller,

721:Winning without problem is just victory , but winning with lots of trouble create History .. ~ Adolf Hitler,

722:You are not fighting for victory—you are fighting from victory. This battle has already been won! ~ Tony Evans,

723:A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory. ~ Friedrich Durrenmatt,

724:Even if you rise up a thousand times, your side will never achieve victory. ~ Tite KuboUlquiorra ~ Tite Kubo,

725:He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him. ~ John Dryden,

726:It appeared that a great part of victory--or at least survival--was simply a dogged hanging on. ~ Ellen Airgood,

727:It is not the victory that makes the joy of noble hearts; but the combat. ~ Charles Forbes Rene de Montalembert,

728:No compromise with the main purpose; no peace till victory; no pact with unrepentant wrong. ~ Winston Churchill,

729:The harder you work and the more you sear and bleed for a win, the sweeter that victory tastes. ~ Branch Warren,

730:This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail. ~ Charles Ferguson,

731:Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans. ~ Charles de Gaulle,

732:When you stand on the victory stand, you must be able to ask yourself: 'Did I win this medal?' ~ Kipchoge Keino,

733:A victory is scored when your opponents are forced to debate issues they would rather leave ignored ~ Owen Jones,

734:A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability. ~ Nick Nolte,

735:Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga IV,

736:Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel. ~ Karel Capek,

737:History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. ~ B R Ambedkar,

738:“Victory requires knowledge, fortitude, and focus.” -THE BOOK OF THE ETERNAL ROSE ~ Fiona Paul,

739:Planting the seeds of future victory in present defeat is strategic brilliance of the highest order. ~ Anonymous,

740:The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt. ~ Rebecca Solnit,

741:Those who are able to adapt and change in accord with the enemy and achieve victory are called divine. ~ Sun Tzu,

742:Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me. ~ Ingrid Bergman,

743:. . . But no, there weren't any maybes. Wealth meant victory and victory was the only reality. ~ Charles Bukowski,

744:He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful. ~ Laozi,

745:How is it,” Stix asked, “that men always seem to claim victory over the triumphs earned by women? ~ Susan Dennard,

746:I call upon those who love freedom to stand with us now. Together we shall achieve victory. ~ Dwight D Eisenhower,

747:Robert used to tell me it is not the victory but why a man fights the battle which makes him a hero ~ Paula Quinn,

748:The more you say goodbye, the stupider you’ll feel when we’re blitzed as bats at the victory party. ~ Meg Merriet,

749:Today’s decision was a victory for people all across this country whose lives will be more secure. ~ Barack Obama,

750:Whatever happened to “In victory, magnanimity; in defeat, defiance.” So said Frederick the Great. ~ George Carlin,

751:An ongoing relationship with God through His Word is essential to the Christian's consistent victory! ~ Beth Moore,

752:Happiness is not the victory, success or accomplishment; it is what happens at the end of the day? ~ M F Moonzajer,

753:Not so much thy skill, then, O hunter, as the great necessities that strike the victory to thee! ~ Herman Melville,

754:No victory or accomplishment achieved with God’s help is private property. It is meant to be shared. ~ Pete Wilson,

755:Once you find your positive vision, then share the victory of your loving attitudes with everyone. ~ Bryant McGill,

756:People who become successful take every “today’s victory” as a rehearsal for tomorrows trophy. ~ Israelmore Ayivor,

757:Strength is happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness ~ Daisaku Ikeda,

758:Victory comes late, And is held low to freezing lips Too rapt with frost To take it. ~ Emily Dickinson,

759:What is common to both, however, is the accumulation of many minor victories to make a major victory. ~ Mao Zedong,

760:After our humiliating loss of Alsace-Lorraine, France needs a victory to restore pride in the nation. ~ Jules Ferry,

761:Few take up the burden of their own victory; most give up their dreams when these become impossible. ~ Paulo Coelho,

762:I make little account of victory. Nothing is so stupid as to vanquish; the real glory is to convince. ~ Victor Hugo,

763:I want you to carry this question home with you: gain such a victory, and what do you do with it? ~ Joseph S Nye Jr,

764:The battle lines are drawn, priyatama. The more formidable the foe, the sweeter the victory. ~ Colleen Houck,

765:The place of private prayer is the key, the strategic position, where decisive victory is obtained. ~ Andrew Murray,

766:The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.” ~ Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom,

767:To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat. ~ Jozef Pilsudski,

768:We may have been wounded by lies, but we have not lost the battle. And we have been promised victory ~ Holley Gerth,

769:You can do right or you can do what you are told. And the prize of the victory will belong to the bold. ~ Phil Ochs,

770:I am not a victim. No matter what I have been through, I'm still here. I have a history of victory. ~ Steve Maraboli,

771:If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown. ~ Thomas Carlyle,

772:I learned then that many a victory is easier won with words than a sword—and the results are better. ~ Louis L Amour,

773:In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: Magnanimity In Peace: Good Will. ~ Winston S Churchill,

774:I still judge every joyous moment, every victory and revelation against those few seconds of living ~ Tim Winton,

775:Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is noise before defeat. ~ Sun Tzu,

776:The gray had not yet chased all of the brown out of his hair but it was getting close to victory. ~ Michael Connelly,

777:The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. ~ Winston Churchill,

778:There are many people who aren’t experiencing victory today because they are focused on yesterday. But ~ Joyce Meyer,

779:The victory is not gained by the men at arms, who manage the pike and the sword; but by the trumpeters, ~ David Hume,

780:Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust, that more to mighty hands, then rightfull cause doth trust. ~ Edmund Spenser,

781:victory is not determined as much by what we’ve been delivered from as by what we’ve been delivered to. ~ Beth Moore,

782:Victory will not go to those who can inflict the most suffering, but to those who can survive the most. ~ CrimethInc,

783:I am cocky in prediction, I am confident in preparation but I am always humble in victory or defeat. ~ Conor McGregor,

784:Most of us have just learned to exercise our survival muscle. It's time to build our victory muscle. ~ Iyanla Vanzant,

785:Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you. ~ Henry Ward Beecher,

786:No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. ~ Al Gore,

787:Or is what remains in me like a defeated army, Fleeing in disarray from victory already won? ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer,

788:Part of winning is a downdeep certainty that, no matter how bad things look, a road to victory will open. ~ Glen Cook,

789:Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life. ~ John Milton,

790:the silence broken only by the tap of rook and pawn as they battled for victory in the hands of men. ~ Natalie Fergie,

791:To ensure victory the troops must have confidence in themselves as well as in their commanders. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli,

792:According to my assessment, even if you have many more troops than others, how can that help you to victory? ~ Sun Tzu,

793:Even if you win three or four times, the next victory will not necessarily be yours without trying. ~ Malala Yousafzai,

794:Falsehood is merely a wrong placing of the Truth. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda, The Victory of the Fathers,

795:Find a victory in every defeat to remain hopeful and find a defeat in every victory to remain humble. ~ Orrin Woodward,

796:For six days a week Switzerland works for Nazi Germany, and on the seventh it prays for an Allied victory. ~ Anonymous,

797:In every victory, Let it be said of me...My source of strength, My source of hope... Is Christ alone. ~ Brian Littrell,

798:Losing leaves a bitter taste that lingers long after the sweetness of victory has been forgotten. ~ Michael J Sullivan,

799:The formation of a herd is a significant victory and advance in the struggle against depression. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,

800:The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion. ~ Alva Myrdal,

801:The novelist Richard Powers once wrote that “software is the final victory of description over thing. ~ Claire L Evans,

802:The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow. A victory should be celebrated with the funeral rite. ~ Laozi,

803:The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine. ~ Yasser Arafat,

804:To win brings its pleasure. The true victory brings laughter and satisfaction that can’t be matched. ~ David R Hawkins,

805:True strength is not always shown through victory. Stand up, try again and display strength of heart. ~ Rickson Gracie,

806:@tvayi_kimviryam Difficulties come and difficulties go, but, she being with you, the victory is sure. ~ Sri Aurobindo,

807:Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan. [News conference, April 21 1961] ~ John F Kennedy,

808:Victory lies not only in the end goal but in the steps of faith we take every day toward that goal. ~ Susan May Warren,

809:War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory. ~ Douglas MacArthur,

810:A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. ~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo,

811:It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory ~ Napoleon Bonaparte,

812:It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory ~ Napol on Bonaparte,

813:Kill, Destroy, Sack, Tell lie; how much you want after victory nobody asks why? -- uncited source ~ Adolf Hitler,

814:Releasing both victory and defeat, the tranquil minds dwell in happiness. Victory produces hostility. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,

815:Right now you are in training for a trial you’re not yet in. Public victory comes from private discipline. ~ Levi Lusko,

816:The aspiration should be for the full descent of the Truth and the victory over falsehood in the world. ~ Sri Aurobindo,

817:To help people believe they can achieve victory, put them in a position to experience small successes. ~ John C Maxwell,

818:Victory usually goes to those green enough to underestimate the monumental hurdles they are facing. ~ Richard P Feynman,

819:Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause. ~ Henry Ward Beecher,

820:Happinessis a byproduct of function. Those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. ~ William S Burroughs,

821:I glory in the conflict, that I may hereafter exult in the victory. I know that victory is certain. ~ Frederick Douglass,

822:...it is in the rightness of our cause, and not the fear of our bombs, that our prospects of victory lie. ~ Peter Singer,

823:O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?...Death is swallowed up in victory. ~ I Corinthians XV.56.55,

824:Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. ~ Sun Tzu,

825:The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow. A victory should be celebrated with the funeral rite. ~ Lao Tzu,

826:The thrill of victory in business blows away the thrill of victory in sports. Business is a sport 24/7/365. ~ Mark Cuban,

827:Thinking faith thoughts, and speaking faith words, will lead the heart out of defeat and into victory. ~ Kenneth E Hagin,

828:To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory. ~ Douglas MacArthur,

829:Trump's victory is an opportunity for Israel to immediately retract the notion of a Palestinian state. ~ Naftali Bennett,

830:When humanity wins its battle against the forests, this victory will be humanity's greatest defeat! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,

831:You must make grow in you the peace that is born of the certitude of victory. ~ Sri Aurobindo. pic.twitter.com/hAT11RKlA,

832:Young Frank Pastore may have pitched the biggest victory of 1979. Maybe the biggest victory of the year! ~ Jerry Coleman,

833:Learning to walk or live in the power of the Holy Spirit is the key to victory over sin and temptation. Paul ~ Tony Evans,

834:So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat ~ Theodore Roosevelt,

835:4for the LORD your God is he who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory. ~ Anonymous,

836:Bombay is both, the beautiful parts and the ugly parts, fighting block by block, to the death, for victory. ~ Suketu Mehta,

837:Devil, it was game over. His goddess had gone to war on his defences and was now assured of her victory. ~ Jennifer Ashley,

838:Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

839:He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that...victory deserved the best-looking armour. ~ Xenophon,

840:In conflict, straightforward actions generally lead to engagement, surprising actions generally lead to victory. ~ Sun Tzu,

841:It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte,

842:I wanted to high-five the fuck out of myself then do a victory dance. But I didn’t, because, you know, manly. ~ L H Cosway,

843:Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel. ~ Melina Mercouri,

844:So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat. ~ Theodore Roosevelt,

845:The call of the gospel is for the church to implement the victory of God in the world through suffering love. ~ N T Wright,

846:Those who praise victory relish manslaughter. Those who relish manslaughter cannot reach their goals in the world. ~ Laozi,

847:Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy; forceful execution of even a poor plan can often bring victory. ~ Sun Tzu,

848:We get offered so few real victories. It's a question I can't even really answer: what is the victory I want? ~ Jesse Ball,

849:We have only to conquer Now, by suffering. This is the easier victory. Now is the triumph of the cross. ~ T S Eliot,

850:As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us. ~ Robin S Sharma,

851:Don’t leave Christmas in the abstract. Your sin. Your conflict with the Devil. Your victory. He came for this. ~ John Piper,

852:I don't think it's a low point being in the finals of the French Open, three points away from the victory. ~ Martina Hingis,

853:I knew the point wasn’t the victory, but pulling yourself together and crawling your way back. That was life. ~ Chloe Neill,

854:I send you a kaffis of mustard seed, that you may taste and acknowledge the bitterness of my victory. ~ Alexander the Great,

855:Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat. ~ Democritus,

856: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,

857:This is the unusual thing about nonviolence -- nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory. ~ Martin Luther King Jr,

858:Victory breeds hatred; the defeated live in pain. The peaceful live happily, giving up victory and defeat. ~ Gautama Buddha,

859:Victory in war is apparent to all, but the science of ensuring victory is a mysterious secret, generally unknown. ~ Sun Tzu,

860:When I have won a victory I do not repeat my tactics but respond to circumstances in an infinite variety of ways. ~ Sun Tzu,

861:Yes, victory is sweet, but it doesn't necessarily make life any easier the next season or even the next day. ~ Phil Jackson,

862:before victory comes temptation. And the greater the victory to win, the greater the temptation to withstand. ~ Stephen King,

863:Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold,

864:He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful. - Lao-Tzu ~ #Truth,

865:I am not doing any favour, only performing a duty; this victory is a result of struggle of five generations. ~ Narendra Modi,

866:If I then discovered a cancer in myself and died, I'd consider it a victory of that reality of things. ~ Pier Paolo Pasolini,

867:In the old days, you'd get credit if you would spend less money and have victory. That would be a good thing. ~ Donald Trump,

868:It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory. ~ Martha Gellhorn,

869:No strike could ever be won with a Communist at its head since the employers would make victory impossible. ~ James P Cannon,

870:Nothing increases the odds of victory more than letting the enemy think he’'s already taken your secret weapon.” ~ Greg Iles,

871:Numerical superiority is of no consequence. In battle, victory will go to the best tactician."- G. A. Custer ~ Robert Asprin,

872:Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence. ~ Thomas Paine,

873:pyrrhic victory is not, as is sometimes thought, a hollow triumph. It is one won at a huge cost to the victor. ~ Bill Bryson,

874:Real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self. ~ Anwar Sadat,

875:They realized neither the war nor the victory was their own creation. Both were products of destiny. The ~ Devdutt Pattanaik,

876:Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more. ~ Louis L Amour,

877:You’ve been destined to live in victory, destined to overcome, destined to leave your mark on this generation. ~ Joel Osteen,

878:he had never let pain win its one permanent victory: he had never allowed it to make him lose the desire for joy. ~ Anonymous,

879:In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best. ~ Eric Liddell,

880:I've learned so much, so very much about myself in defeat. I've learned very little to nothing in victory. ~ Floyd Patterson,

881:I will give up troops gladly as long as I know that they will be used in the right place to bring victory. ~ Erich Ludendorff,

882:Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever. ~ Alison Lurie,

883:The Blue Miracle? Don't make me laugh. I don't believe in miracles. That's why I'll snatch my victory by force. ~ Yana Toboso,

884:The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and vile. ~ Plato,

885:Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and then seeks victory. ~ Sun Tzu,

886:the torturer scores a victory over his victim when the latter, in the grip of doubt, begins to torture himself. ~ Elie Wiesel,

887:The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner. ~ Vincent Van Gogh,

888:The worst mistake that a statesman can make is to promise victory and to see it dashed, the hopes dashed. ~ Winston Churchill,

889:Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts. ~ Aeschylus,

890:Victory means exit strategy. And it's important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is. ~ George W Bush,

891:V-J Day, or Victory in Japan Day, marks the date of the Japanese surrender that ended fighting in the Pacific. ~ Doc Hastings,

892:You don't go into battle because you're sure of victory. You go into battle because it's the right thing to do. ~ C J Redwine,

893:As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us. ~ Winston Churchill,

894:BDS represents three words that will help bring about the defeat of Zionist Israel and victory for Palestine. ~ Ronnie Kasrils,

895:Healing stories are magickal tales born from personal tribulation and victory, which are then shared. ~ S Kelley Harrell M Div,

896:how different everything would have been “if they had been victorious in life who have won victory in death. ~ Walter Benjamin,

897:I'm not so much against the war as I am for a Vietnamese victory. I'm not so much for peace as for a U.S. defeat. ~ Bill Ayers,

898:It is precisely when we have suffered defeat that we can determine to win and open the path to future victory. ~ Daisaku Ikeda,

899:Jesus gave us the victory with which He overcame Satan, and commissioned us to cast out devils in His Name. ~ Chris Oyakhilome,

900:The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things shameful and vile. ~ Plato,

901:Victory breeds hatred. The defeated live in pain. Happily the peaceful live, giving up victory and defeat. ~ Gautama Buddha,

902:Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side that employs air power as it should be employed. ~ Sir Arthur Harris 1st Baronet,

903:We are creatures of our thinking. We can talk ourselves into defeat or we can talk ourselves into victory. ~ Gordon B Hinckley,

904:You become a man by knowing both victory and defeat, by running and crying. It’s ok to cry..!! You can overcome ~ Eiichiro Oda,

905:All men can see the tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved. ~ Sun Tzu,

906:As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory. ~ Bob Marley,

907:As believers in Christ, we do not fight for victory; we fight from victory. In Christ’s power, we are invincible. ~ Chip Ingram,

908:Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is the one who endures that the final victory comes. ~ Dean Karnazes,

909:If this was what victory looked like, what was defeat? Kova, Elise. Earth's End (Air Awakens Series Book 3) ~ Elise Kova,

910:If you win non-violently, then you have a double victory, you have not only won your fight, but you remain free. ~ Cesar Chavez,

911:I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory. ~ Mickey Kaus,

912:Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts has got to have Ted Kennedy rolling over in his grave, spilling his drink. ~ Ann Coulter,

913:Step follows step, Hope follows Courage, Set your face towards danger, Set your heart on victory. ~ Gail Carson Levine,

914:The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte,

915:Thus the eternal God, our Lord, gives victory to those who follow His way over apparent impossibilities. ~ Christopher Columbus,

916:Truth is so terrible, even in fetters, that for a moment Syme’s slender and insane victory swayed like a reed. ~ G K Chesterton,

917:We are creatures of our thinking. We can talk ourselves into defeat, or we can talk ourselves into victory. ~ Gordon B Hinckley,

918:We don't need to [know the date and hour and second that we're going to attack] - they just want to see victory. ~ Donald Trump,

919:We may get knocked down on the outside, but the key to living in victory is to learn how to get up on the inside. ~ Joel Osteen,

920:What comes after victory? Why do people value victory so much? What is 'glory'? What kind of victory is 'glorious'? ~ Bruce Lee,

921:When Nietzsche proclaimed God is dead, it wasn’t a victory cry but a lamentation on the loss of moral compass. ~ Scott Galloway,

922:Why did the Germans and Japanese keep fighting after 1943 when every rational hope of victory had disappeared? ~ Niall Ferguson,

923:You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves. ~ Winston Churchill,

924:All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory ~ Dale Carnegie,

925:For every victory," Necthana whispered, her great dark eyes shining with a mother's tears, "there is a price. ~ Jacqueline Carey,

926:Have courage, be capable of loving.... Be happy in love. Be joyful in victory. Follow the dictates of your heart. ~ Paulo Coelho,

927:His victory over the Cleveland refiners would be the first but also the most controversial campaign of his career. ~ Ron Chernow,

928:Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence. ~ George Eliot,

929:I also drink Scotch. But I'm not picky. I'll take the victory Scotch, or the Scotch of defeat. Or the rotgut swill. ~ Rob Thomas,

930:If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible. ~ Epictetus,

931:inspired my own life. Victory has thousands father but failure always find itself an orphan. --Fidel Castro ~ Fidel Castro,

932:It is not for us to calculate our victory or fear our defeat, but to do our duty and leave the rest in God's hands. ~ Alan Keyes,

933:real success is success with self. It’s not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self. ~ Stephen R Covey,

934:The fact that human beings are now the only animals left on Earth, I confess, seems a confusing sort of victory. ~ Kurt Vonnegut,

935:There's no such thing as a limited victory. You must protect what you have won. You must take is seriously. ~ Jeanette Winterson,

936:Victory fades so quickly that it is scarcely apparent and it is always the face of defeat that we are able to see. ~ Jane Bowles,

937:Victory in war is usually the result of compromising what you want and behaving like those you despise." - Tapio ~ Miles Cameron,

938:We stand in victory because of our God. Faith in faith is pointless. Faith in a living, active God moves mountains. ~ Beth Moore,

939:You will learn a lesson repeated through history, that no matter what you think, occupation is not victory! ~ Immortal Technique,

940:A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory. ~ Pablo Neruda,

941:Aethe, near my heart. Without vanity, the ribbon. Without duty, the wind. Without blood, the victory. ~ Patrick Rothfuss,

942:All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved. ~ Sun Tzu,

943:All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory. ~ Dale Carnegie,

944:A man's character is not judged after he celebrates a victory, but by what he does when his back is against the wall. ~ John Cena,

945:Fate and victory shift ... now this way, now that way -- like a line of unarmored men under a hail of enemy arrows. ~ Dan Simmons,

946:From his moment of victory, a kinder, gentler Donald Trump - praise for the opponent he promised to jail. ~ George Stephanopoulos,

947:God wants us to walk in obedience—not victory. Obedience is oriented toward God; victory is oriented toward self. ~ Jerry Bridges,

948:I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self. ~ Aristotle,

949:I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. ~ Aristotle,

950:Numerical superiority is of no consequence. In battle, victory will go to the best tactician."- G. A. Custer ~ Robert Lynn Asprin,

951:peered out at its subjects like a telescreen keeping watch over Winston Smith in his flat at the Victory Mansions. ~ Daniel Silva,

952:Righteousness is like a weapon. It deflects the enemy’s attacks and positions you, God’s warrior, for victory. ~ Priscilla Shirer,

953:There is nothing which is so weak for working purposes as the enormous importance attached to immediate victory. ~ G K Chesterton,

954:Victory is much more meaningful when it comes not just from one person, but from the joint achievements of many. ~ Howard Schultz,

955:Victory was close. Just one final push. "Send in the rest," I ordered. "All wings attack. Take that base down now. ~ Julie Kagawa,

956:We conquer ourselves by learning patience, for she gives to us our longed for victory only in the surrender of self. ~ Guy Finley,

957:You don't go to battle because you're sure of victory. [...] You go into battle because it's the right thing to do. ~ C J Redwine,

958:A glorious victory has a funny way of erasing memories of the reasons why a victory was needed in the first place. ~ Simon Scarrow,

959:And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win. ~ Sachin Tendulkar,

960:A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference nor does he try to make a victory of it. ~ Paulo Coelho,

961:But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength. ~ Victor Hugo,

962:Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes. ~ Gautama Buddha,

963:First and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered By self is, of all things. the most shameful and objectionable. ~ Plato,

964:For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. ~ Anonymous,

965:Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side. ~ George Eliot,

966:Note from Mike: Whom I had not spoken with in two years, but who knew how important the victory would’ve been to me. ~ Amy Poehler,

967:Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of it. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte,

968:Sometimes it is better to give an opponent a small victory then suffer a devastating defeat yourself. Gabriel Allon ~ Daniel Silva,

969:The great victory, which appears so simple today, was the result of a series of small victories that went unnoticed ~ Paulo Coelho,

970:The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well. ~ Pierre de Coubertin,

971:There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory. ~ Alison Goodman,

972:The victory of the ignorant masses always means a temporary backward movement in the progression of humanity! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,

973:To a man, first love is a victory, to a girl it is a sweet wonder, and a joy, and a tender longing, all in one ~ F Marion Crawford,

974:Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck. ~ Ba Jin,

975:We're more concerned about our own "victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sins grieve God's heart. ~ Jerry Bridges,

976:When you fall, feel the pain. And then stand up. You were born for victory. And failure has no place in your world. ~ Robin Sharma,

977:Without suffering, there can be no victory. But take heart: courage can be found in the unlikeliest of places." "Where ~ Kyle West,

978:I shall always be with you, my dear little child, in the struggle and in the victory.    ~ The Mother, Some Answers From The Mother,

979:The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. ~ Plato,

980:The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built. ~ Rosa Luxemburg,

981:Tuesday's victory was big. But it did nothing more than level the playing field and give you a shot. Take it. ~ Charles Krauthammer,

982:Victory is the most important aspect in Iraq, because victory in Iraq will help us have victory in the War on Terror. ~ Andrew Card,

983:When you are able to attack, you must seem unable. When you are close to victory, you must appear close to defeat. ~ Karpov Kinrade,

984:Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat. ~ Winston Churchill,

985:I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.    ~ Aristotle,

986:If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia. ~ Ron Fournier,

987:I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory. ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery,

988:In the politics of consent, no victory is ever permanent unless the victor makes it firm on a base of persuasion. ~ Theodore H White,

989:NATO and the USA wanted a complete victory over the Soviet Union. They wanted to sit on the throne in Europe alone. ~ Vladimir Putin,

990:No one, however weak, is denied a share in the victory of the cross. No one is beyond the help of the prayer of Christ. ~ Pope Leo I,

991:remember the two signatures of modern war: (1) You never win, exactly; you claim victory. (2) Perception is paramount. ~ Mark Bowden,

992:Success for the leader is a single victory. However, when the protégé experiences success, it becomes a double win. ~ John C Maxwell,

993:The discovery brings him victory, the kind of victory that isn’t the end of a battle but the beginning of a life. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,

994:The revolution had been largely successful, but as it turned out, the struggle was much more fun than the victory. ~ Michael Azerrad,

995:To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power & movement. The enemy's 'Center of Gravity' ~ Carl von Clausewitz,

996:We wanted peace. We did not care about anyone’s victory or defeat. We just wanted the bombs to stop falling on us. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,

997:Whatever I am today is a product of that conviction that victory through Christ is victory indeed. The rest is history. ~ T B Joshua,

998:When you cleanse yourself of a big victory, you may open yourself up to the opportunity for an even bigger victory ~ Mike Krzyzewski,

999:But when you are born again (saved), the Holy Spirit takes up residence in you to empower you to live a life of victory. ~ Paul Tsika,

1000:Freedom is completely without meaning unless it is related to necessity, unless it represents victory over necessity. ~ Jacques Ellul,

1001:I love to win, but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat. ~ Lou Gehrig,

1002:I’m growing to hate the word love because it always sounds lame, but love shouldn’t only count when there’s a victory. ~ Adam Silvera,

1003:Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated. ~ Sun Tzu,

1004:Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled; Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your glory bed, Or to victory. ~ Joe Haldeman,

1005:Sometimes fear comes, not before the battle or even in the midst of the battle, but after we have won the victory. ~ Warren W Wiersbe,

1006:The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence. ~ Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero,

1007:the truth of Ho’s teachings, that the party and the army were not enough. Real victory could come only from the people. ~ Mark Bowden,

1008:To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power and movement. The enemy’s "center of gravity ~ Carl von Clausewitz,

1009:Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife. ~ Pope Leo I,

1010:We raise our voices in holy gladness to celebrate the victory of the risen Christ over the terrible forces of death. ~ Nelson Mandela,

1011:What good was a personal victory to someone who'd spent her life losing herself for the greater good of everyone else? ~ Jodi Picoult,

1012:He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace. ~ Hesiod,

1013:In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished. ~ H L Mencken,

1014:My victory is when the audience buys a ticket to watch my film. I am extremely thrilled when they give it a thumbs-up. ~ Emraan Hashmi,

1015:Rome was not built in a day Opposition will come your way But the harder the battle you see It's the sweeter the victory ~ Jimmy Cliff,

1016:sometimes victory doesn't go to the strongest or swiftest. Sometimes it goes to a desperate dead man with deep pockets. ~ Tim Waggoner,

1017:The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.    ~ Plato,

1018:There are many paths to victory; choose the shortest one! There are many paths to defeat; choose the longest one! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,

1019:To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat. ~ Plato,

1020:To see Thy Victory in all circumstances is certainly the best way of helping It to come.    ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III, 240,

1021:Victory over our hurts and pain is not found by delving deeper into our wounds, but by clinging to the wounds of Jesus. ~ Louie Giglio,

1022:We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin,

1023:If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory. ~ Judy Woodruff,

1024:No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends. ~ William Jennings Bryan,

1025:One thing is absolutely certain, namely, that victory will never be found by taking the line of least resistance. ~ Winston S Churchill,

1026:Rectitude is a perpetual victory, celebrated not by cries of joy but by serenity, which is joy fixed or habitual. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

1027:The factors in warfare are: First, measurement; second, quantity; third, calculation; fourth, comparison; and fifth, victory. ~ Sun Tzu,

1028:The Lord your God is the One who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory. Deuteronomy 20:4 ~ Beth Moore,

1029:There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms. ~ Karl Marx,

1030:The victorious army is victorious first and seeks battle later; the defeated army seeks battle first and seeks victory later. ~ Sun Tzu,

1031:Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed. ~ Winston Churchill,

1032:We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations ~ Winston Churchill,

1033:We were fitted neither for defeat nor for victory: we could be true to neither friend nor foe. Not even to ourselves! ~ Ford Madox Ford,

1034:A disobedient soul will win no victory, even if the Lord Jesus himself, in person, were to hear its confession. ~ Mary Faustina Kowalska,

1035:A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone. ~ Julien Gracq,

1036:Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured. ~ Victor Davis Hanson,

1037:Every page a victory. Who cooked the feast for the victors? Every ten years a great man. Who paid the bill? ~ Bertolt Brecht,

1038:I cannot believe the path to victory lies in staining our souls so black we become indistinguishable from those we fight. ~ Anthony Ryan,

1039:On the path of the budo one does not strive for victory over an opponent. One strive to avoid defeat by one's own self. ~ Akira Toriyama,

1040:The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one. ~ Reinhold Niebuhr,

1041:The existentialists did say that life was all about pulling the victory of meaning from the jaws of senseless absurdity ~ Matthew Mather,

1042:The ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants. ~ Gichin Funakoshi,

1043:True victory does not come from defeating an enemy, true victory comes from giving love and changing an enemies heart. ~ Morihei Ueshiba,

1044:Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it’s understanding the necessity of both; it’s engaging. It’s being all in. ~ Bren Brown,

1045:We must share our knowledge, share our strengths and weakness, share the burden of danger and the rewards of victory. ~ Jacqueline Carey,

1046:What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? - I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can. ~ Tennessee Williams,

1047:What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?—I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can... ~ Tennessee Williams,

1048:What woman would not appreciate a God who becomes her attorney, assumes her case, requires no fee, and wins her the victory? ~ T D Jakes,

1049:You didn’t tell me that living was a choice, and that every day I choose to continue was another victory, another triumph. ~ S Jae Jones,

1050:Always prepared for disruption, always working that disruption into our plans. Fitted, as they say, for defeat or victory. ~ Ryan Holiday,

1051:A victory won without struggle is an honourless victory; a defeat happened despite struggle is an honourable defeat! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,

1052:but men inspired by prophecy will attempt any foolishness in the knowledge that the fates have ordained their victory. ~ Bernard Cornwell,

1053:Glory and honor were found as much in defeat as in victory. Maybe more so, when the war was senseless and never-ending. ~ Scott Nicholson,

1054:If you want to take the island, then burn your boats. With absolute commitment come the insights that create real victory. ~ Tony Robbins,

1055:If you want victory in your life you must learn to be alone with your own thoughts and cause them to be correct thoughts! ~ Sandra Hersey,

1056:quote by Martina Navratilova popped into my mind. The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else. ~ Tim Tigner,

1057:Victory always begins with a cry for help. When we come to the end of ourselves and cry out for help, amazing things happen. ~ Beth Moore,

1058:Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it’s understanding the necessity of both; it’s engaging. It’s being all in. ~ Brene Brown,

1059:Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods. ~ Livy,

1060:Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory. ~ Michael Hastings,

1061:Every triumph over some major pathology, no matter how ringing the victory, is only a reprieve from the inevitable end. ~ Sherwin B Nuland,

1062:If you can win complete mastery over self, you will easily master all else. To triumph over self is the perfect victory. ~ Thomas a Kempis,

1063:"It is better to conquer yourself, than to win a thousand battles. Then victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you." ~ Buddhist proverb,

1064:I've gone through so many of these stages of defeat and loss and victory, the ups and downs, that I know how to handle it. ~ Barbara Boxer,

1065:Leaders who practice the Law of Victory believe that anything less than success is unacceptable. And they have no Plan B. ~ John C Maxwell,

1066:Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death. ~ Hilaire Belloc,

1067:Today it is time for strong and courageous people because only they can achieve victory and rid the world of tyranny. ~ Wladyslaw Sikorski,

1068:Until you prevail with God, you cannot prevail with men; your victory has to be spiritual first, before it is physical. ~ Chris Oyakhilome,

1069:A strong pursuit, give no time for the enemy to think, take advantage of victory, uproot him, cut off his escape route. ~ Alexander Suvorov,

1070:Friends don't get jealous of each other or begrudge the other for finding success. They celebrate every victory together. ~ Karen Kingsbury,

1071:I was left there alone - winner of the field. It was the hardest battle I had fought, and the first victory I had gained. ~ Charlotte Bront,

1072:The cost in men and ships … ran up a score which Irish eyes a-smiling on the day of Allied victory were not going to cancel, ~ Max Hastings,

1073:The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. And, at the worst, there is that in us which can turn defeat into victory. ~ Edith Hamilton,

1074:...they no longer had any hope, but they had despair. Despair is a last weapon that sometimes brings victory; Virgil said so. ~ Victor Hugo,

1075:You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know any better than that by now? ~ Jim Butcher,

1076:A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods. ~ Livy,

1077:Congratulations to Barack Obama - great victory based on building fairer economy and optimism about what politics can achieve. ~ Ed Miliband,

1078:I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. ~ Horace,

1079:In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. ~ Sun Tzu,

1080:It was a scene from before civilisation, or after it, beyond the apocalypse. A ceremony of victory, or initiation, or sacrifice. ~ Matt Haig,

1081:I win the private victory when I have made my mind up and commit to live by correct principles and to serve worthy purposes. ~ Stephen Covey,

1082:Long before the enemy can steal your victory, he steals your song. Long before he can steal your joy, he steals your praise. ~ Joseph Prince,

1083:May he at the last bind us to his triumphal carriage so that, although in bonds oppressed, we may participate in his victory! ~ Eric Metaxas,

1084:On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory. ~ Douglas MacArthur,

1085:Persisting in one way is not a guarantee of victory. But persistence blended with experimentation does guarantee success. ~ David J Schwartz,

1086:Prayerlessness is the most prohibitive obstacle in the road to a believers victory, no matter what our specific pursuit may be. ~ Beth Moore,

1087:Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it - you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory. ~ Franco Harris,

1088:Stephanos was angry, but he was still a military man, and the best path to victory was following orders. Not exacting revenge. ~ Evan Currie,

1089:The American mind in particular has been trained to equate success with victory, to equate doing well with beating someone. ~ Elliot Aronson,

1090:The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours. ~ Norman Finkelstein,

1091:The one who figures on victory at headquarters before even doing battle is the one who has the most strategic factors on his side. ~ Sun Tzu,

1092:There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos. ~ E M Forster,

1093:Without training, they lacked knowledge. Without knowledge, they lacked confidence. Without confidence, they lacked victory. ~ Julius Caesar,

1094:Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is. ~ Fidel Castro,

1095:I don't see a situation where one side will win militarily, take over Syria, and there will be peace and quiet, a clean victory. ~ Kofi Annan,

1096:I learned from Hussain how to be wronged and be a winner, I learnt from Hussain how to attain victory while being oppressed. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,

1097:It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized. ~ Aristotle,

1098:Julian will go to the gallows for us, and we will smile, and dream of victory-- hazy-red, soon to come, a blood-colored dawn. ~ Lauren Oliver,

1099:Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself. ~ Brandon Sanderson,

1100:Accepting the eventual certainty of defeat in turn liberates you to take real joy in any small victory, that one good kick. /225 ~ Adam Gopnik,

1101:I hate the neologism "owned" for "scored a victory over". I have no intention of owning anyone, and nobody will ever own me. ~ Richard Dawkins,

1102:No war has ever won in the history, because people died in every single war! Where there are deaths, there is no victory! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,

1103:The fixed determination to have acquired the warrior soul, to either conquer or perish with honor, is the secret of victory. ~ George S Patton,

1104:To perceive victory when it is known to all is not really skilful. Everyone calls victory in battle good, but it is not really good. ~ Sun Tzu,

1105:To those who’ve survived: Breathe. That’s it. Once more. Good. You’re good. Even if you’re not, you’re alive. That is a victory. ~ N K Jemisin,

1106:When you have the chance to fight for victory or a podium finish, you have the motivation to push that extra bit out of yourself. ~ Niki Lauda,

1107:Above all, don’t dwell on yesterday’s victory. If your focus is on what’s behind you rather than what’s ahead, you will crash. ~ John C Maxwell,

1108:A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out, till he leads justice to victory." Matthew 12:20 ~ Thomas Watson,

1109:A leader’s cross is the temporal pain they go through and his crown is the permanent gain when at last victory is achieved. ~ Israelmore Ayivor,

1110:A loss leads to victory, being fired leads to a dream job..I find comfort in believing that good things can grow out of tragedy. ~ Ronda Rousey,

1111:As water shapes its flow in accordance with the ground, so an army manages its victory in accordance with the situation of the enemy. ~ Sun Tzu,

1112:He could fight two men at once on the battlefield and be certain of his victory. Defeating two women was another thing entirely. ~ Tracy Brogan,

1113:I understood, then, where his madness had come from: He, too, had experienced the loss of the good and the victory of the evil. ~ Douglas Clegg,

1114:Not all the fruits of Victory are appetising to the palate,’ said Pennistone. ‘An issue of gall and wormwood has been laid on. ~ Anthony Powell,

1115:Once you have established Your inner contact With your inner Pilot, Your life's transformation-victory Will not remain a far cry. ~ Sri Chinmoy,

1116:Our only concern should be to keep the fight [for souls] aggressive and to win victory regardless of cost or sacrifice. ~ Samuel Marinus Zwemer,

1117:The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society intact. ~ George Orwell,

1118:A concrete agenda and landslide victory might not even guarantee a president his mandate in a capital as polarized as Washington. ~ Ron Fournier,

1119:@ A power greater than that of Evil can alone win the victory. It is not a crucified but a glorified body that will save the world. ~ The Mother,

1120:Be willing to dance the victory dance as if your greatest dreams are realized, and watch how easily things fall into place. ~ Colette Baron Reid,

1121:Competition is healthy, if you can turn it off and on. When someone gets too cocky in victory, that can ruin the positive aspect. ~ Eddie Vedder,

1122:Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,

1123:For everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. —1 JOHN 5:4, NIV ~ David Jeremiah,

1124:Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. ~ William S Burroughs,

1125:I am old. I should have left before. Any fool can ride the chariots of victory. It takes judgement to get off at the right time. ~ Richard Sapir,

1126:If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat. —JEAN-PAUL SARTRE, Le Diable et le Bon Dieu ~ Catherine Steadman,

1127:Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy! ~ Thomas Carlyle,

1128:In sincerity is the certitude of victory. Sincerity! Sincerity! How sweet is the purity of thy presence!    ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,

1129:I think it's fair to say you can't predict a straight line to victory. You know, there'll be good days and bad days along the way. ~ Dick Cheney,

1130:It takes more strength to care deeply enough to give your heart than it does to go into battle, and the victory is far greater. ~ Donna Fletcher,

1131:Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war. ~ Dan Quayle,

1132:There was no victory in death, just death. To live through the chaos would be victory and it would come at an extremely high cost. ~ Luke Taylor,

1133:These sudden joys have sudden endings. They burn up in victory like fire and gunpowder. — William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ~ Karpov Kinrade,

1134:Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy. ~ Jack Weatherford,

1135:Victory was not so much in being perfect toward each other. Rather, victory would flow out of how they dealt with their failures. ~ Tessa Afshar,

1136:Charles Martel’s victory at the Battle of Tours in 732 is recognised for having prevented the spread of Islam throughout Europe. ~ Douglas Murray,

1137:Declaring victory without war .. the belief that India gave up the option of war under American pressure is totally wrong. ~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee,

1138:Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even survive the victory. ~ Stephen Vincent Benet,

1139:Friends, there is one thing I have realized, there is no victory in causing suffering. Triumph is a peaceful kingdom.’ Caliph ~ A P J Abdul Kalam,

1140:Grace. Loss. Fortune. Hardship. Victory. Sometimes the worst seat is best seat in the house and it comes as a result of leading. ~ Dan B Allender,

1141:Grand Admiral Thrawn could perhaps have breathed the remaining sparks into an Imperial Victory. But Grand Admiral Thrawn was gone. ~ Timothy Zahn,

1142:he realized that real success is success with self. It’s not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self. ~ Stephen R Covey,

1143:If one thinks only of winning, a sordid victory will be worse than a defeat. For the most part, it becomes a squalid defeat. ~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo,

1144:It was necessary to close the front against Germany and that it (victory) depended on us whether it was to be closed or not. ~ Kliment Voroshilov,

1145:The winner's margin of victory also matters. If it's a squeaker, that will make the lessons learned for both parties much murkier. ~ Mara Liasson,

1146:What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul. ~ Orison Swett Marden,

1147:A King has the most value, but without a Queen, he's a hell of a lot less powerful. Together, they have the best chance of victory. ~ Meghan March,

1148:Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances. ~ Sun Tzu,

1149:If (Black) is going for victory, he is practically forced to allow his opponent to get some kind of well-known positional advantage. ~ Mikhail Tal,

1150:In defeat, look at the stars; in victory, look at the ground! From the stars, you get hope; from the ground, you get caution. ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,

1151:In the last analysis, productivity of labour is the most important, the principal thing for the victory of the new social system. ~ Vladimir Lenin,

1152:It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry,

1153:...it is not the victory but why a man fights the battle which makes him a hero. Kate speaking to Callum in LAIRD OF THE MIST ~ Paula Quinn,

1154:I wonder sometimes what would happen if victory was imagined not just as the elimination of evil but the establishment of good... ~ Rebecca Solnit,

1155:Like a lawyer, the human brain wants victory, not truth; and, like a lawyer, it is sometimes more admirable for skill than virtue. ~ Robert Wright,

1156:No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war. ~ Calvin Coolidge,

1157:Struggle is the meaning of life; defeat or victory is in the hands of God. But struggle itself is man’s duty and should be his joy. ~ Aga Khan III,

1158:The most effective time to resolve to obey Christ is in advance of difficulty. Planning to stay faithful can greatly enhance victory. ~ Beth Moore,

1159:The tears would choke you, sweet, in vain; My soul with victory is fed, Because I see your face again— No jewels, but the lips are red. ~ K lid sa,

1160:Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope. ~ Hunter S Thompson,

1161:What good was a personal victory to someone who'd spent her life losing herself for the greater good of everyone else? -Plain Truth ~ Jodi Picoult,

1162:Deliverance is always found on 'the mount'; living faith must first prove to God that it has taken His word and promise for victory. ~ Rees Howells,

1163:Gentleness brings victory to him who attacks, and safety to him who defends. Those whom Heaven would save, it fences round with gentleness. ~ Laozi,

1164:Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won. ~ Franz Grillparzer,

1165:In politics, victory goes to those with cunning, mettle and deviousness, not those who have facts and principles on their side. ~ Milo Yiannopoulos,

1166:Know the enemy, know yourself; your victory will never be endangered. Know the ground, know the weather; your victory will then be total. ~ Sun Tzu,

1167:President Bush is trying to put a positive spin on the latest bad economic numbers. Today he declared victory in the 'War on Jobs.' ~ Craig Kilborn,

1168:Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary." (Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13, 3 May 1919) ~ Mahatma Gandhi,

1169:Victory must be real. It must be earned. That means it must be rare and difficult, against steep odds, and defeat must be the other. ~ Rick Riordan,

1170:We star crossed lovers of District 12, who suffered so much and enjoyed so little the rewards of our victory. We are unforgiving. ~ Suzanne Collins,

1171:When Sun Tzu spoke of victory, this is what he meant—the prevention or quick resolution of conflict, not the conquering of your opponent. ~ Sun Tzu,

1172:When you look back over your life, what are the three greatest ways God brought you through a challenge or set you up for victory? ~ Valorie Burton,

1173:All men can see the individual tactics necessary to conquer, but almost no one can see the strategy out of which total victory is evolved. ~ Sun Tzu,

1174:Every great thing starts with an idea, followed by a doubt and finally a resolve to abandon or pursue. Victory is a treacherous journey. ~ Dane Cook,

1175:Hear the soundless sound, and see the formless form. At a glance, read your opponent’s mind, and attain victory without contention ~ Morihei Ueshiba,

1176:If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory. ~ Miguel de Unamuno,

1177:I had hoped for something." "Defeat?" "No. Something more." "There isn't anything more. Except victory. It may be worse. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

1178:It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,

1179:Maybe the tiny lions were merely ornaments, a display of pride for the victory over a man who defied men, only to be slain by women. ~ Hafsah Faizal,

1180:Next they passed a beautiful statue of a winged lady. “Who’s that?” said Jack. “She’s Nike, the goddess of victory,” said Plato. ~ Mary Pope Osborne,

1181:The key to victory is not to win the game. The key, my daughter, is to arrange the game so you are victorious no matter who wins. ~ Jonathan Moeller,

1182:The Maid and her soldiers will have the victory. Therefore the Maid is willing that you, Duke of Bedford, should not destroy yourself. ~ Joan of Arc,

1183:There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government. ~ John F Kennedy,

1184:We were told that we had to win. Against whom? The atom? Physics? The universe? Victory is not an event for us, but a process. ~ Svetlana Alexievich,

1185:What the Voortrekkers failed to realize in their moment of victory was that they had offered the covenant to God, not He to them. ~ James A Michener,

1186:When we smile, the world smiles with us: each experience of joy is an experience of joy for all people and a victory for human kind. ~ Keith Raniere,

1187:As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war. ~ B H Liddell Hart,

1188:But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother. ~ George Orwell,

1189:By His life, death, and resurrection, our Savior has conquered our enemies, and by His Spirit He has granted us to share in the victory. ~ R C Sproul,

1190:Here you find us sitting on a field of victory, amid the plunder of armies, and you wonder how we came by a few well-earned comforts! ~ J R R Tolkien,

1191:I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory. ~ Anthony Hamilton,

1192:It is your soul's journey to enroll the ego in the quest for the ultimate victory - the evolution of your own individual consciousness. ~ Debbie Ford,

1193:It’s easy to be a hero when your own survival is aligned with someone else’s, when your victory is a victory for your entire clan. ~ Delilah S Dawson,

1194:The cross is evidence that in the hands of the Redeemer, moments of apparent defeat become wonderful moments of grace and victory. ~ Paul David Tripp,

1195:The truth of my identity as a child of God empowers me to believe that living in victory tastes sweeter than any unhealthy delicacy. ~ Lysa TerKeurst,

1196:Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's cousin, depression. ~ Robert McKee,

1197:It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave. ~ Sallust,

1198:Lesson Number One in Everworld: There’s them, and there’s us. And any day we can keep them from destroying us, that’s a victory. ~ Katherine Applegate,

1199:The Greatest Generation got to save old tires, dig a Victory Garden and forgo sugar. The Richest Generation is being asked to shop. ~ Margaret Carlson,

1200:The Republican path to victory is compromised when gay Americans are perceived as being attacked for just being how God created them. ~ Reince Priebus,

1201:The victory over Euclidean space was not achieved by isolated individuals, but by a field of young rebels opposed to all absolutes. ~ Marshall McLuhan,

1202:Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it’s understanding the necessity of both; it’s engaging. It’s being all in. Vulnerability ~ Bren Brown,

1203:And often the result of daring greatly isn’t a victory march as much as it is a quiet sense of freedom mixed with a little battle fatigue. ~ Bren Brown,

1204:Even forgiveness, if weak and passive, is not true: fight is better. Forgive when you could bring legions of angels to the victory. ~ Swami Vivekananda,

1205:Every man fights backward to kill others. Yet his victory comes not in the killing others, but in the killing of certain parts of himself. ~ Gene Wolfe,

1206:Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson,

1207:I am a Prince of Calberna. I have trained my whole life not only to lead our warriors to victory in battle, but also to serve and protect. ~ C L Wilson,

1208:If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world. ~ Vinoba Bhave,

1209:It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory. ~ George C Marshall,

1210:I want Dmitrii's admiration. I want a victory. I even want power, over princes and chyerti. I am allowed to want things, winter-king. ~ Katherine Arden,

1211:I wanted the reward and not the struggle. I wanted the result and not the process. I was in love with not the fight but only the victory. ~ Mark Manson,

1212:Objectification of the world gives a sense of power, and control, which is intensified by every victory of instrumental reason. And ~ Charles Taylor,

1213:Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. ~ Norman Vincent Peale,

1214:There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited . . . What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations. ~ Sun Tzu,

1215:There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again. ~ George Bernard Shaw,

1216:To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. ~ Walter Cronkite,

1217:A lot of people respond to almost any achievement, positive development, or outright victory with "yes but". Naysaying becomes a habit. ~ Rebecca Solnit,

1218:God has so ordained and governed the Christian church that the cross has been the preparation for victory, and death the way to life. Such ~ John Calvin,

1219:HOPE looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honourable defeat to be a form of victory. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson,

1220:It is, in the imagination of combat's fans, the divinely listless loveplay that follows the orgasm of victory. It is called 'mopping up. ~ Kurt Vonnegut,

1221:it looked like the centuries-long wrestling match between state and capital had ended in a decisive victory for capital. Possibly ~ Kim Stanley Robinson,

1222:Knowing that you are forgiven of all your sins will give you the power to reign over every destructive habit and live a life of victory! ~ Joseph Prince,

1223:Many's very human habit of trusting in himself is generally the last great obstacle blocking his pathway to victory in Christian experience. ~ A W Tozer,

1224:There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year. ~ Richard Lugar,

1225:Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity. ~ Vladimir Lenin,

1226:Without training, they lacked knowledge. Without knowledge, they lacked confidence. Without confidence, they lacked victory ~ Gaius Julius Caesar,

1227:And so the greatest of American triumphs... became a peculiarly joyless victory. We had won the Cold War, but there would be no parades. ~ Robert M Gates,

1228:Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck. ~ Abdul Kalam,

1229:Every one called effectually by God and regenerated by the Spirit has secured the victory in the terms of Romans 6:14; 1 John 3:9; 5:4, 18. ~ John Murray,

1230:I struggle to celebrate or enjoy any victory, no matter how big, because I’m always mindful of something bigger I could be doing instead. ~ Rachel Hollis,

1231:I waited to feel incredibly embarrassed, but the feeling didn't come. It was more like a small victory, a secret to everyone else but me. ~ Morgan Matson,

1232:No matter what you're trying to do there will be noise in the market... Before the race starts, I'm already focused on the victory. ~ Sanya Richards Ross,

1233:Shake hands, kids,” Jack said. “Remember, humble in victory, gracious in defeat.” He grinned up at her. “I feel very humble, don’t you? ~ Kristan Higgins,

1234:That's what resistance looks like, Merlin. It's not one glorious, shining victory. It's a torch that you keep burning, no matter what. ~ Amy Rose Capetta,

1235:The victory is not gained by the men at arms, who manage the pike and the sword; but by the trumpeters, drummers, and musicians of the army. ~ David Hume,

1236:those too often unheralded men and women in the engine rooms and snaking access tubes…as much as any who serve, the true arbiters of victory. ~ Jay Allan,

1237:Victory in life is the result of good decisions. Good decisions are the result of experience. Experience is the result of bad decisions. ~ Keri Topouzian,

1238:Without training, they lacked knowledge. Without knowledge, they lacked confidence. Without confidence, they lacked victory. ~ Gaius Julius Caesar,

1239:28. Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances. [As ~ Sun Tzu,

1240:An act of renunciation is an act of union with God. The Divine Master looks lovingly upon a person who gains a victory over self. ~ Madeleine Sophie Barat,

1241:But usually the attempt to defeat evil engenders more evil. I advise you to do good; that is the only way to win the victory!” Alisher ~ Sergei Lukyanenko,

1242:damage. An interesting aside: the word ‘vijaya’ signifies victory over external events, while the word ‘jaya’ means victory over self. ~ Sharath Komarraju,

1243:Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory. ~ Vernon Howard,

1244:It is wonderful, awesome and merrywise to see satan lose the battle to us in fear and panic and shame! Our victory is in Christ Jesus! ~ Israelmore Ayivor,

1245:More planning shall give greater possibility of victory while less planning, lesser possibility of victory. So how about those without planning? ~ Sun Tzu,

1246:Sometimes you don’t win the war. You don’t even win any of the battles. All you have left to celebrate is the victory of getting home alive. ~ Johnny Shaw,

1247:The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting. ~ Sun Tzu,

1248:This was a war, and in a war, there is nothing right or wrong, nothing righteous or immoral. It’s two sides fighting for victory. That’s it. ~ Varun Sayal,

1249:Victory gives birth to hate; The defeated sleep in anguish. Giving up both victory and defeat, Those who have attained peace sleep happily. ~ Gil Fronsdal,

1250:Do not forget: seek to win all your battles, including those you fight against yourself. Do not fear the scars. Do not be afraid of victory. ~ Paulo Coelho,

1251:God in thy victory, God in thy defeat, God in thy very death & torture, - God who will not be defeated & who cannot die.    ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad,

1252:I like to think the only man who has the means to destroy me is myself. It’s not so much a victory of the other but a failure of myself. ~ Aleksandr Voinov,

1253:It is not a matter of wishing success to the victim of aggression, but of sharing his fate; one must accompany him to his death or to victory ~ Che Guevara,

1254:Make pain and pleasure, loss and gain, victory and defeat equal to thee, then turn thyself to the battle, so shalt thou have no sin. ~ Bhagavad Gita II. 38,

1255:Never take your eyes off your opponent. And never think you don’t have to work for a victory. Even now, you could surprise me. (Takeshi) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,

1256:No victory can be won without a fixed fidelity to the aim and a long effort. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, Human Relations and the Spiritual Life,

1257:Raise the sky. We got to fly over the land, over the sea. Fate unwinds and if we die, souls arise. God, do not seize me please, till victory. ~ Cleve Jones,

1258:Shoes were invented by the Sith to keep our delicate toes in anguish and misery, I'm sure of it." -Tahiri Veila (Edge of Victory: Conquest) ~ Greg Keyes,

1259:This is the sort of situation I enjoy: a game in the San Siro, a huge crowd and a night for big men. Remember, only victory is beautiful. ~ Marcel Desailly,

1260:Victory and defeat are matters of the temporary force of circumstances. The way of avoiding shame is different. It is simply in death. ~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo,

1261:When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death. ~ Thomas Hobbes,

1262:grinned. ‘Xenophon taught me that victory is achieved by putting the thought of defeat into the heart of your enemy. To him goes the honour. ~ David Gemmell,

1263:If an army is to win through to victory, it has to spend all its time helping itself or hurting its foe. Therefore, an army should never be idle. ~ Xenophon,

1264:If any overarching conclusion emerges from the Afghan and Iraq Wars (and from their Israeli equivalents), it's this: victory is a chimera. ~ Andrew Bacevich,

1265:If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated. ~ Epictetus,

1266:It is therefore not true that the mere existence of the Soviet Union is capable of assuring the victory of the revolution in other countries. ~ Leon Trotsky,

1267:Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright,

1268:Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed. ~ Marie von Ebner Eschenbach,

1269:There's a moment in fighting when strength of muscle ain't everything because enemy has already given you enough energy to gain the victory. ~ Toba Beta,

1270:This is the reason I write, to remind people of honor and courage; to tell them that their cause isn’t lost, that their destiny is victory. ~ Charles M Blow,

1271:Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the proletariat? ~ Rosa Parks,

1272:War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit. ~ Robert Fisk,

1273:Anyone who is living in sin is not under grace and has not experienced the gift of no condemnation. Grace always results in victory over sin! ~ Joseph Prince,

1274:A remarkable and definite victory. The bright gleam has caught the helmets of our soldiers and warmed and cheered all our hearts. ~ Winston S Churchill,

1275:In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time. ~ Robert Collier,

1276:In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first. ~ Harry Truman,

1277:Occupation of vast reaches of space means nothing. It is control of population centers and essential resources that determines victory or defeat. ~ Greg Bear,

1278:of preparing for defeat, prepare for victory. Prepare for increase. Prepare for God’s favor. You have to set the tone at the start of each day. ~ Joel Osteen,

1279:Real success or victory is measured by the quality of that very process of attention and mindful involvement, practice, and commitment. ~ Chungliang Al Huang,

1280:The biggest victory they can have is to change our lives. I am going to carry on exactly as before. Anything else is allowing them to win. ~ Peter F Hamilton,

1281:The problem with history was that it was written by the survivors, and they usually wrote in the sunshine on harvest day, from victory stands. ~ Timothy Egan,

1282:Whether in commerce, administration, or on the battlefield, leaders who win understand the Secret of Victory: Act first to finish first. ~ Toyotomi Hideyoshi,

1283:Always look at the people, not at the mass. A face, not the crowd. Look at the world, not at the ground. Every little detail you see is a victory. ~ Vic James,

1284:No prize was to reward the sacrifices of the combatants. Victory was to be bought so dear as to be almost indistinguishable from defeat. ~ Winston S Churchill,

1285:Since defeat in the Struggle must always be envisaged, the preparation of one's own successors is as important as what one does for victory. ~ Antonio Gramsci,

1286:What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable. ~ Karl Marx,

1287:56The sting of death is sin, and  z the power of sin is the law. 57But thanks be to God,  a who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. ~ Anonymous,

1288:Anytime my magic involved fire and didn't destroy something of cause an explosion, I considered it a victory. My victories have been rare. ~ Suzanne Johnson,

1289:At the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,

1290:But no victory can be won without a fixed fidelity to the aim and a long effort. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, Human Relations and the Spiritual Life,

1291:Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck. ~ A P J Abdul Kalam,

1292:If you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and know Earth, you may make your victory complete. ~ Sun Tzu,

1293:In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first. ~ Harry S Truman,

1294:in the swastika, the mission of the struggle for the victory of the Aryan man, and, by the same token, the victory of the idea of creative work. ~ Adolf Hitler,

1295:On April 30, 1796, Federalists eked out a razor-thin victory of fifty-one to forty-eight in the House to make money available for the Jay Treaty. ~ Ron Chernow,

1296:Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory. ~ Langston Hughes,

1297:Success is deliberate! Excellence is intentional! Victory comes out of struggles... Winners win because they played a role... Get busy now! ~ Israelmore Ayivor,

1298:That was the difference between a hero and a villain, a soldier and a murderer, a victory and a crime. Which side of a river you called home. ~ Joe Abercrombie,

1299:The darker the night, the nearer the dawn. Victory in life is decided by that last concentrated burst of energy filled with the resolve to win. ~ Daisaku Ikeda,

1300:Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory. ~ George S Patton,

1301:You I advise not to work, but to fight. You I advise not to peace, but to victory. Let your work be a fight, let your peace be a victory! ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,

1302:Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place. ~ Nelson Mandela,

1303:And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over ~ V S Naipaul,

1304:And so with that spirit of confidence in our step and with that prayer in our heart, let us now quicken our pace to the victory that awaits us! ~ Perry Christie,

1305:Did you get any new spells at the Mages' Guild?" "Of course I did. I've also had four mugs of beer, and now I'm absolutely certain of my victory. ~ Arthur Stone,

1306:her outstretched hand jutting into the engine room, offering the life-sized figure of Nike that stood in her palm, like, Here, have some Victory! ~ Rick Riordan,

1307:immediately before a great victory, one will often experience some form of difficulty. The key is to maintain your focus and keep on believing. ~ Robin S Sharma,

1308:In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances. ~ Henrik Ibsen,

1309:It was not happiness—she was very sad to know that victory had required such an appalling act. But success was success, victory was victory. She ~ Marissa Meyer,

1310:One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth. Let your peace be a victory! ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,

1311:The brave forget. It is those who fought less bravely, or those who fought without justice and live in fear of their victory, who forget the least. ~ Jose Marti,

1312:The real fighter knows perfectly well that there is no difference between victory and defeat, friend and enemy, day and night, life and death. ~ William C Brown,

1313:The victory of the show is in the writing. Coming up with sketches and stand-up bits. The rest is just hitting buttons on a machine more or less. ~ Neal Brennan,

1314:Those skilled in attack move as from above the nine-fold heavens. Thus they are capable both of protecting themselves and of gaining complete victory. ~ Sun Tzu,

1315:All he is concerned with is that I am the most beautiful daughter of the Sea King. I am a prize to be won, and Zale likes the taste of victory". ~ Louise O Neill,

1316:A thousand years hence, every German will speak with awe of Stalingrad and remember that it was there that Germany put the seal on her victory. ~ Joseph Goebbels,

1317:Death,” she whispered. “It isn’t a punishment, you know, Lizzie. It’s the victory we race toward. We’re born, and God draws us to himself. ~ Linda Evans Shepherd,

1318:Do not be lured by the need to be liked: better to be respected, even feared. Victory over your enemies will bring you a more lasting popularity. ~ Robert Greene,

1319:He who suffers wins in politics. The martyr does not obtain the victory personally, but his group, his successors, win in the long run. ~ Eugen Rosenstock Huessy,

1320:If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards. ~ Paul Bryant,

1321:See, God has come to save me. I will trust in him and not be afraid. The LORD GOD is my strength and my song; he has given me victory.” ISAIAH 12:2 NLT ~ Various,

1322:The conflict with Hell cannot be maintained by men, even the most clever. The Immaculata alone has from God the promise of victory over Satan. ~ Maximilian Kolbe,

1323:Victory smiles upon those who anticipate the change in the character of war, not upon those who wait to adapt themselves after the changes occur. ~ Giulio Douhet,

1324:When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory. ~ Martin Luther King Jr,

1325:Yet the victory of fascism was made practically unavoidable by the liberals’ obstruction of any reform involving planning, regulation, or control. ~ Karl Polanyi,

1326:after these last weeks, I know I will allow nothing to keep you from me. I will not go down fighting. I will stay standing until I taste victory. ~ Kristen Ashley,

1327:But on the day after a defeat, the men who matter are the leaders. Anyone can lead men after a victory. Only the best can lead after a defeat. ~ Christian Cameron,

1328:I do believe, as my father once said, that "No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out." ~ Al Gore,

1329:I'm falling back on what some of the standard protocols for politics are after victory. We in America do not prosecute defeated political enemies. ~ Rush Limbaugh,

1330:In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure. ~ Alain Badiou,

1331:I thought of Musashi, the master swordsman, who wrote, You must think of neither victory nor of defeat, but only of cutting and killing your enemy. ~ Barry Eisler,

1332:No one can know what happiness is if you have not gone through the disappointmentOne can only savor the victory if he has felt the bitter defeat. ~ Anderson Silva,

1333:Playing chess is more athletic than artistic. Champions are more concerned with victory than beauty: it's war with occasionally graceful kicks. ~ Jennifer Shahade,

1334:To conquer the lures of egoistic existence in this world is our first victory over ourselves. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Soul and Its Liberation,

1335:Actions speak louder than words. In the days to come the Goddess of Victory will bestow her laurels only on those who prepared to act with daring. ~ Heinz Guderian,

1336:I believed it would succeed. It was Polish Solidarity and its victory that put an end to the old era when what mattered were borders and rival blocs. ~ Lech Walesa,

1337:I believe that Providence would never have allowed us to see the victory of the Movement if it had the intention after all to destroy us at the end. ~ Adolf Hitler,

1338:I claim no victory. But there was blood on my gloves when I hung them up. When was the last time you did a story like that, out of pure indignation? ~ Ray Bradbury,

1339:If you look at polls, Hillary Clinton is considered the toughest in a field of men. That`s no small victory for her going towards a general election. ~ Joe Conason,

1340:nothing which is so weak for working purposes as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success. ~ G K Chesterton,

1341:Once we have chosen the right formation in the centre we have created opportunities for our pieces and laid the foundation of subsequent victory. ~ Alexander Kotov,

1342:Only when Christian faith in God is lost do people feel compelled to make use of all means—even criminal—to force the victory of their cause. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer,

1343:There is no success like the success of a man who had to persevere in order to receive it. People appreciate the victory when they have to walk it out. ~ T D Jakes,

1344:They took my voice," I told her. " I have nothing to sing for." "No. No. That isn't true. Don't let them have that victory. Don't you dare! ~ Vesper Stamper,

1345:Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without vicory there is no survival. ~ Winston S Churchill,

1346:Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. ~ Winston Churchill,

1347:What victory would the Devil have to win a soul already bad? It is the best the Devil wants, and who is better than the minister." - Rev. John Hale ~ Arthur Miller,

1348:When a man has subdued himself and lives in perfect continence, not god, not Gandharva, not Mara, not Brahma himself can turn into defeat his victory. ~ Dhammapada,

1349:If we know that the enemy is open to attack, but are unaware that our own men are not in a condition to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory. ~ Sun Tzu,

1350:In the Vedic Calender, the year 2013 is said to be the year of Victory. Victory of the Good over Bad.It is said to begin in the end of march. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar,

1351:I prefer a defeat that knows the beauty of flowers to a victory in the desert, full of blindness in the soul, alone with its isolated nothingness. ~ Fernando Pessoa,

1352:I’ve always wondered what I would do if faced with an Alamo of my own, Eric thought...He’d always wondered what he’d do when victory wasn’t an option. ~ Evan Currie,

1353:I was right, I knew I was, but it won’t do me any good to say it. I enjoy my victory silently; I take pleasure in it almost as much as in his touch. ~ Paula Hawkins,

1354:Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. ~ Og Mandino,

1355:The Heavenly City outshines Rome,” Augustine wrote. “There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of life, eternity. ~ Robert Morgan,

1356:The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory and to save an empire. ~ Emile de Girardin,

1357:Whatever passably decent treatment Margaret had had from him was the result of a temporary victory of fear over irritation and/or pity over boredom. ~ Kingsley Amis,

1358:What is important is not victory or the position of a victor, but rather the labor of striving towards God and devotion to Him. ~ John of Shanghai and San Francisco,

1359:When God looks at you, he doesn’t see you; he sees the One who surrounds you. That means that failure is not a concern for you. Your victory is secure. ~ Max Lucado,

1360:all the great struggles of history have been won by superior will-power wresting victory in the teeth of odds or upon the narrowest of margins. ~ Winston S Churchill,

1361:A tribe, let us say, is warlike. The successes for which it strives, the achievements upon which it sets store, are connected with fighting and victory. ~ John Dewey,

1362:Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory. ~ Wayne Shorter,

1363:if you develop an image of victory, success, health, abundance, joy, peace, and happiness, nothing on earth will be able to hold those things from you. ~ Joel Osteen,

1364:If you #‎ fail , learn. If you succeed, relish your #‎ success . You can only know the sweet taste of #‎ victory after many bitter struggles. ~ Robert Kiyosaki,

1365:If you succeed inconquering yourself entirely, you will conquer the rest with the greatest ease. To triumph over oneself is the perfect victory ~ Imitation of Christ,

1366:I'm also hurt by injustice. But don't forget that we have passed through hell ,and remained sane people inspite of everything.This is our victory. ~ Alija Izetbegovi,

1367:In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man. ~ Walker Percy,

1368:Never was a person more mortified than I was at this time, to see so fair an opportunity to push a victory; Detroit lost for want of a few men. ~ George Rogers Clark,

1369:No compromise is possible and the victory of the democracies can only be complete with the utter defeat of the war machines of Germany and Japan. ~ George C Marshall,

1370:President Bush announced that the war in Iraq has been won. It's all over, it's been won. I believe this would be Bush's first uncontested victory. ~ David Letterman,

1371:The internet gave us all the power of speech, and what did we discover? That victory goes to he who shouts the loudest, and that reason does not sell. ~ Claire North,

1372:vital political truth: military victory can be secured only by reconciliation with the defeated. Although most empire-builders in the ancient world ~ Anthony Everitt,

1373:You only win when your heart is pure and when the victory is motivated for the right reasons. ========== Dream Warrior (Dream-Hunter) (Kenyon, Sherrilyn) ~ Anonymous,

1374:A defeat which opens the gates of victory for you is a wonderful defeat! A victory which opens the gates of defeat for you is a horrible victory! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,

1375:I dare you to believe that the day will come where what you are most scared of right now will be included in your highlight reel as a triumphant victory. ~ Levi Lusko,

1376:The final act of an unraveling society isn't immoral behavior; it's canonizing immoral behavior as a 'new normal' and celebrating it as a 'moral victory.' ~ Jeff Iorg,

1377:The trouble was, innovation never resulted in victory over the long term. It was too easy for the enemy to imitate and improve on your innovations. ~ Orson Scott Card,

1378:The victory is not to change the mind of the critic; it is to evaluate what you can learn and discard, yet still walk away with peace in your heart. ~ Shannon L Alder,

1379:Victory!? There is no victory in war! War takes everything and gives nothing! I only wish my words were as destructive as you would have me believe! ~ Lindsay Buroker,

1380:You are what you think. Before you succeed physically, it had been done mentally. The hometown of both victory and defeat is the mind of a person. ~ Israelmore Ayivor,

1381:A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily, abandoning up ideas of victory and defeat. ~ Gautama Buddha,

1382:But evil has been around since the Garden of Eden, and God's plan for victory was designed before the world began. The Bible tells us to fear no evil. ~ David Jeremiah,

1383:Getting victory over a war that you can definitely win is a common thing. Winning a war that is totally based on enemy's terms is undisputable victory. ~ Toba Beta,

1384:His weapons were kindness, attention, and compassion—and when victory was assured, he discarded them like spent casings, and his true nature emerged. ~ Liv Constantine,

1385:It is imperative to contest all factions for complete victory, so the army is not garrisoned and the profit can be total. This is the law of strategic siege. ~ Sun Tzu,

1386:It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down. ~ Simone Weil,

1387:One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the bourgeoisie the middle class. ~ Vladimir Lenin,

1388:The most certain way of ensuring victory is to march briskly and in good order against the enemy, always endeavouring to gain ground. ~ Frederick II Holy Roman Emperor,

1389:there are four essentials for victory in trials: a joyful attitude, an understanding mind, a surrendered will, and a heart that wants to believe. 1. ~ Warren W Wiersbe,

1390:The wounds would become her armor, and a constant reminder of her victory. She might be broken. She might be crazy. But she would never be defeated ~ Marissa Meyer,

1391:To take care of the world seemed, finally, a privilege rather than a burden. The Riddler had led them to life's greatest victory. They had found a home. ~ Janet Morris,

1392:Victory always starts in the head. It's a state of mind. It then spreads with such radiance and such affirmations that destiny can do nothing but obey. ~ Douchan Gersi,

1393:We know over very national survival is at stake; and we believe that we should support our troops, yes, and work for an outcome that results in victory. ~ J D Hayworth,

1394:Without a correct strategy the victory is impossible. But even the most correct strategy cannot give the victory under unfavorable objective conditions. ~ Leon Trotsky,

1395:Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory! ~ Leon Trotsky,

1396:A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams. ~ Nabeshima Naoshige,

1397:A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams. ~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo,

1398:For however decisive the Bolsheviks’ victory had been over the privileged classes on behalf of the Proletariat, they would be having banquets soon enough. ~ Amor Towles,

1399:In spite of the existence of the Soviet Union, however, the proletarian revolution during the past years has not recorded a victory in any other country. ~ Leon Trotsky,

1400:Pursue not a victory too far. He hath conquered well that hath made his enemy fly; thou mayest beat him to a desperate resistance, which may ruin thee. ~ George Herbert,

1401:That's not a goal," Kit said. "Why? Because it's not yours? Which is better, Kit Meinem of Atyar? A single great victory, or a thousand small ones? ~ Kij Johnson,

1402:The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. The fighters are our salvation, but the bombers alone provide the means of victory. ~ Winston Churchill,

1403:To [Chinese], war does not revolve around fighting. It is about determining the most efficient way of gaining victory with the least amount of conflict. ~ Chin Ning Chu,

1404:Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing. ~ Sun Tzu,

1405:Churchill had lived by a simple dictum: “In war, resolution. In defeat, defiance. In victory, magnanimity. In peace, goodwill”—and he sincerely meant it. ~ Winston Groom,

1406:Don't wait until the moment of crisis. Plan ahead, hide God's Word in your heart, and pray in advance for victory, holiness, and a life pleasing to God. ~ David Jeremiah,

1407:I think that, at the end of the day, those voters [Barack Obama voters] are going to join ranks, and it is going to help propel Hillary Clinton to victory. ~ Bill Burton,

1408:It is satisfying following such an emphatic victory over the current unbeaten champion (Lucian Bute) to know that there's a lot of people eating humble pie. ~ Carl Froch,

1409:Make up your mind to live differently; praise your way to victory; give God the construction project; and understand that your history is not your destiny. ~ Joyce Meyer,

1410:Paranormalcy seduced me. The two sexy paranormals who vie for Evie's affections each had their own victory; one won Evie's heart and the other won mine. ~ Aprilynne Pike,

1411:The darkest hour of our struggle had become the hour of victory. Disappointment, sorrow, and despair are born at midnight, but morning follows. I ~ Martin Luther King Jr,

1412:The divine Dwarf towered to unconquered worlds, Earth grew too narrow for his victory. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release,

1413:The secret of victory is to find the point of maximum vulnerability and then strike. No matter your feelings. No matter how much you respect the enemy. ~ Robert Ferrigno,

1414:The tool enables man to conquer. But, man, dost thou not know there is no more victory which is thy victory? The victory of our days belongs to the tool. ~ Jacques Ellul,

1415:We can't kill our way to victory, and no armed force anywhere - no matter how good - can deliver these keys alone. It requires teamwork and cooperation. ~ Michael Mullen,

1416:We make and sell a very, very large number of (hopefully) beautiful, well-made things. Our success is a victory for purity, integrity - for giving a damn. ~ Jonathan Ive,

1417:A shard of glass cut my belly as I slid into the battered SUV, but I managed to keep the family jewels intact. I’d be counting every small victory tonight. ~ Lisa Kessler,

1418:Barack Obama can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and never use the word "victory" except when he's talking about his own campaign. ~ Sarah Palin,

1419:Nobody here is questioning the victory. I want to know President-elect [Donald] Trump doesn't believe the conclusions of 17 intelligence agencies. ~ George Stephanopoulos,

1420:The contemplation of the impermanence of things, that wonderful gateway to Truth, leads us to victory over the thirst for the satisfaction of our desires. ~ Sangiti Sutta,

1421:The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth. ~ Abraham Lincoln,

1422:Trying to do well and trying to beat others are two different things. Excellence and victory are conceptually distinct . . . and are experienced differently. ~ Alfie Kohn,

1423:We didn't see [the NBA lockout] as a victory at all. It was far from what we set it out to accomplish in bargaining, but I thought it was a fair compromise. ~ Adam Silver,

1424:Your identity is firmly anchored in Christ's accomplishment, not yours; his strength, not yours; his performance, not yours; his victory, not yours. ~ Tullian Tchividjian,

1425:You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory. ~ J Donald Walters,

1426:For those to whom much is given, much is required. It is not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. There is no substitute for victory. ~ Douglas MacArthur,

1427:He knew that to secure his bureau’s future, he needed a high-profile victory, over intoxication and over the blacks, and so he turned back to Billie Holiday. ~ Johann Hari,

1428:...it is impossible for a genuine people's revolution in any country to win victory without various forms of help from the international revolutionary forces. ~ Mao Zedong,

1429:It is quite clear that the German and Chinese revolutions in case of victory would have changed the face of Europe and Asia, and perhaps of the whole world. ~ Leon Trotsky,

1430:It will be up to each of you to make sure that young people, African Americans, Latinos and women who powered our victory in 2008 stand together once again. ~ Barack Obama,

1431:Oh,” says Fi in an expansive voice, “I know them well.” She grins, all cheeky, her brows waggling. “They bracket Victory Lane on the road to Cocksville. ~ Kristen Callihan,

1432:Remember, one step leads to the other and therefore never neglect the first step. It will give you the confidence you need to sail through with victory ~ Israelmore Ayivor,

1433:Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have learned. ~ Franklin D Roosevelt,

1434:The generalisation of Yoga in humanity must be the last victory of Nature over her own delays and concealments. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Threefold Life,

1435:The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory. ~ Edmund Burke,

1436:There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton,

1437:To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify the full victory of Socialism. ~ Leon Trotsky,

1438:Transparency is therefore more than an esthetic triumph; it is a victory that will be reflected in lower costs throughout the software’s life cycle. 6.2.2 ~ Eric S Raymond,

1439:United in this determination and with unshakable faith in the cause for which we fight, we will, with God's help, go forward to our greatest victory. ~ Dwight D Eisenhower,

1440:Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth is the History of Man. ~ Richard Wagner,

1441:Changing the world has costs. Many would die, Reds most of all. And in the end, there wouldn't be victory, not for you. You don't know the bigger picture ~ Victoria Aveyard,

1442:Even if there comes a time when you do not hear my voice, do not give up. Do not despair. Do not stop fighting for your freedom until you have victory! ~ Muammar al Gaddafi,

1443:Every line we succeed in publishing today - no matter how uncertain the future to which we entrust it - is a victory wrenched from the powers of darkness. ~ Walter Benjamin,

1444:It’s not your boasting but your believing that gives you the victory and gains you new territory. Sometimes those who talk the most accomplish the least. ~ Warren W Wiersbe,

1445:There is nothing which is so weak for working purposes as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success. ~ G K Chesterton,

1446:The victory of the Prussians over the Austrians was a victory of the Prussian over the Austrian schoolmaster. ~ Privy Councillor Peschel, in Ausland, No. 19. July 17, 1866.,

1447:We are leaders. War is what happens when we fail. Or are pushed into failure by the rash and the foolish. Victory is better than defeat, but… not by much. ~ Joe Abercrombie,

1448:I fall, I stand still... I trudge on. I gain a little... I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory. ~ Helen Keller,

1449:I f he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. ~ Theodore Roosevelt,

1450:Reaching the top of a high mountain is just a personal victory. But for a victory to be important for the society, it has to be useful for the humanity! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,

1451:… the understanding of the reasons for the totalitarian flight from freedom is a premise for any action which aims at the victory over the totalitarian forces. ~ Erich Fromm,

1452:Victory is for those who can say "Victory is mine". Success is for those who can begin saying "I will succeed" and say "I have succeeded" in the end. ~ Mustafa Kemal Atat rk,

1453:Victory is for those who can say "Victory is mine". Success is for those who can begin saying "I will succeed" and say "I have succeeded" in the end. ~ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk,

1454:American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001. ~ Russell Baker,

1455:Better for a man to fail, he said, even "to fail greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. ~ Timothy Egan,

1456:Blow out all negative attitudes and live true to your dreams. Talks less and act more. Be confident and see yourself wining even before the victory comes. ~ Israelmore Ayivor,

1457:Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict. ~ Henry Kissinger,

1458:Faith was a battle, its battlefield the mind. Surely, this moment would determine victory or defeat in their struggle to trust the God they proclaimed as good. ~ Mesu Andrews,

1459:I count it as a major victory to not only be on a series that's had a full season run, but to actually be on one that's gotten picked up for a second season. ~ Benjamin Bratt,

1460:In our defeated hearts God’s strength survives And victory’s star still lights our desperate road; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,

1461:Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph. Prayer is life striving, toiling everywhere and everywhen for that ultimate victory. ~ G Campbell Morgan,

1462:Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men. ~ Miyamoto Musashi,

1463:The presence of the devil is on the first page of the Bible, and the Bible ends as well with the presence of the devil, with the victory of God over the devil. ~ Pope Francis,

1464:There is always a victory in starting over or in starting again. You may not feel victorious, but you can keep putting one foot in front of the other. ~ Genevieve Parker Hill,

1465:This is a very big victory for Michael and we are all very proud that he has been completely and totally vindicated in court, as we were certain he would be. ~ LaToya Jackson,

1466:Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide. ~ Barbara Deming,

1467:Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, bot to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority, which all with more or less eagerness desire. ~ Aristotle,

1468:Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing. ~ Sun Tzu,

1469:A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won. ~ Joseph Campbell,

1470:I dealt with legal questions in the interest of Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP and its members during the difficult years of struggle for the victory of the Movement. ~ Hans Frank,

1471:I fought, and therefore, believed in my victory. There is more to the fact that I didn't fear death and preferred a brave death instead of a life of an idiot. ~ Giordano Bruno,

1472:In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory. ~ Alfred North Whitehead,

1473:It marked in fact the turning of “the Hinge of Fate”. It may almost be said, “Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat. ~ Winston S Churchill,

1474:Success is a relative thing―and the victory of a boy at marbles is equal to the victory of an Octavius at Actium when measured by the scale of cosmic infinity. ~ H P Lovecraft,

1475:Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone. ~ John F Kennedy,

1476:With firm faith in our hearts, to sustain us along the hard road to victory, we will find our way to a secure peace, for the ultimate benefit of all humanity. ~ Harry S Truman,

1477:Yet so often it seems that victory eludes us. It is when our self-confidence is finally destroyed and is replaced with dependence upon God that we have victory. ~ K P Yohannan,

1478:At one point he turned to Christie and said, “Chris, you and I are so smart that we can leave the victory party two hours early and do the transition ourselves. ~ Michael Lewis,

1479:Destiny’s lasso, its slip-knot tied by delight and repining, Draws us through tangles of failure and victory’s inextricable twining. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Ahana,

1480:Going back to the elementary school days, I was always drawing. I entered a Victory poster competition and won the top award that recognized my artistic instincts. ~ Paul Smith,

1481:He wins his battles by making no mistakes. Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated. ~ Sun Tzu,

1482:It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.    ~ Buddha,

1483:it is important to recognize that reputation means nothing, and while past deeds might inspire confidence, they are no guarantee of present or future victory. I ~ R A Salvatore,

1484:Lee knew that the key to victory lay not only in terms of engineering or mathematics, but in a crew’s ability to adjust psychologically to the unexpected. ~ James D Hornfischer,

1485:Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won. ~ Louisa May Alcott,

1486:Soon the day will come when science will win victory over error, justice a victory over injustice, and human love a victory over human hatred and ignorance. ~ Magnus Hirschfeld,

1487:The hardest roads are often empty; the darkest paths are mostly silent; toughest destinations are almost peopleless! No easy road brings you great victory! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,

1488:The Wehrmacht was and would remain by far the most effective fighting force in the European theater, even though its chances for a traditional victory were now nil. ~ Anonymous,

1489:We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our godliness. ~ Tullian Tchividjian,

1490:Would you be free from your burden of sin? There’s power in the blood, power in the blood, Would you o’er evil a victory win? There’s wonderful power in the blood. ~ Tim LaHaye,

1491:Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. Always do more than is required of you. If a man has done his best, what else is there? ~ George S Patton,

1492:Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. ~ Orison Swett Marden,

1493:Never enter into spiritual combat lightly. We must engage the enemy only under the direction and protection of God because victory by human means is impossible. ~ Brother Andrew,

1494:Old people deserves a medal, a medal of existence which crowns their long-term victory against the cruelty of time and the dangers of this chaotic universe! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,

1495:Salutations and congratulations upon the victory of Bardia! If I may debase a golden phrase, “never has so much been surrendered by so many to so few”. The ~ Winston S Churchill,

1496:Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.    ~ Miyamoto Musashi,

1497:The Lord will give to truth and righteousness victory “at the last”; and, as Mr. Bunyan says, that means for ever, for nothing can come after the last. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon,

1498:There is no doubt in my mind when history was written, the final page will say: 'Victory was achieved by the United States of America for the good of the world.' ~ George W Bush,

1499:The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the shadow of apparently irrevocable disaster. ~ H G Wells,

1500:To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer,

  369 Integral Yoga
  120 Poetry
   36 Occultism
   30 Christianity
   28 Fiction
   21 Philosophy
   19 Yoga
   14 Islam
   11 Psychology
   7 Mythology
   6 Baha i Faith
   5 Mysticism
   3 Hinduism
   3 Education
   2 Science
   2 Philsophy
   2 Buddhism
   1 Thelema
   1 Sufism
   1 Cybernetics
   1 Alchemy


  206 The Mother
  204 Sri Aurobindo
  126 Satprem
   57 Nolini Kanta Gupta
   20 William Wordsworth
   20 Percy Bysshe Shelley
   16 Saint Augustine of Hippo
   15 Sri Ramakrishna
   15 Aleister Crowley
   14 Muhammad
   12 Walt Whitman
   11 Friedrich Schiller
   10 James George Frazer
   10 Friedrich Nietzsche
   9 H P Lovecraft
   8 Saint John of Climacus
   8 Anonymous
   7 John Keats
   7 A B Purani
   6 Jorge Luis Borges
   6 Carl Jung
   6 Baha u llah
   5 Plato
   5 Ovid
   4 William Butler Yeats
   4 George Van Vrekhem
   3 Vyasa
   3 Plotinus
   3 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
   3 Nirodbaran
   3 Jordan Peterson
   3 Franz Bardon
   2 Swami Sivananda Saraswati
   2 Ralph Waldo Emerson
   2 Joseph Campbell
   2 Jorge Luis Borges
   2 Bokar Rinpoche


   29 Record of Yoga
   26 Prayers And Meditations
   23 Agenda Vol 01
   22 The Synthesis Of Yoga
   21 Savitri
   20 Wordsworth - Poems
   20 Shelley - Poems
   19 Letters On Yoga IV
   17 The Life Divine
   15 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
   15 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
   14 Quran
   14 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
   13 City of God
   12 Whitman - Poems
   12 Essays On The Gita
   12 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
   12 Agenda Vol 08
   11 Schiller - Poems
   11 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
   11 Agenda Vol 12
   10 The Golden Bough
   10 Magick Without Tears
   10 Letters On Yoga II
   10 Agenda Vol 04
   9 Words Of The Mother II
   9 The Human Cycle
   9 Lovecraft - Poems
   9 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
   9 Collected Poems
   9 Agenda Vol 02
   8 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
   8 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
   8 The Bible
   7 Words Of Long Ago
   7 Some Answers From The Mother
   7 Questions And Answers 1929-1931
   7 Keats - Poems
   7 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
   7 Essays Divine And Human
   7 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
   7 Agenda Vol 07
   7 Agenda Vol 06
   7 Agenda Vol 05
   7 Agenda Vol 03
   7 5.1.01 - Ilion
   6 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
   6 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
   6 On the Way to Supermanhood
   6 Labyrinths
   6 Agenda Vol 13
   6 Agenda Vol 09
   5 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
   5 Metamorphoses
   5 Letters On Yoga I
   5 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08
   5 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
   5 Agenda Vol 11
   5 Agenda Vol 10
   4 Yeats - Poems
   4 The Secret Of The Veda
   4 The Divine Comedy
   4 The Confessions of Saint Augustine
   4 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
   4 Questions And Answers 1956
   4 Questions And Answers 1955
   4 Questions And Answers 1954
   4 Questions And Answers 1953
   4 Preparing for the Miraculous
   4 On Education
   4 Liber ABA
   3 Vishnu Purana
   3 Twilight of the Idols
   3 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
   3 The Secret Doctrine
   3 The Practice of Magical Evocation
   3 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
   3 The Book of Certitude
   3 Talks
   3 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 04
   3 Mysterium Coniunctionis
   3 Maps of Meaning
   3 Letters On Yoga III
   3 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
   3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06
   3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
   2 Words Of The Mother III
   2 Words Of The Mother I
   2 Vedic and Philological Studies
   2 The Hero with a Thousand Faces
   2 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
   2 Tara - The Feminine Divine
   2 Selected Fictions
   2 Kena and Other Upanishads
   2 Isha Upanishad
   2 Emerson - Poems
   2 Crowley - Poems
   2 Anonymous - Poems
   2 Amrita Gita
   2 A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah

0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism    While the devotees were returning to the garden house, carrying the urn with the sacred ashes, a calm resignation came to their souls and they cried, "Victory unto the Guru!"    The Holy Mother was weeping in her room, not for her husband, but because she felt that Mother Kali had left her. As she was about to put on the marks of a Hindu widow, in a moment of revelation she heard the words of faith, "I have only passed from one room to another."

0.00 - The Book of Lies Text, #The Book of Lies, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy        Victory implies war.        Glory implies war.

0.01 - Life and Yoga, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   In the right view both of life and of Yoga all life is either consciously or subconsciously a Yoga. For we mean by this term a methodised effort towards self-perfection by the expression of the secret potentialities latent in the being and - highest condition of Victory in that effort - a union of the human individual with the universal and transcendent Existence we see partially expressed in man and in the Cosmos. But all life, when we look behind its appearances, is a vast Yoga of Nature who attempts in the conscious and the subconscious to realise her perfection in an ever-increasing expression of her yet unrealised potentialities and to unite herself with her own divine reality. In man, her thinker, she for the first time upon this Earth devises selfconscious means and willed arrangements of activity by which this great purpose may be more swiftly and puissantly attained.   Yoga, as Swami Vivekananda has said, may be regarded as a means of compressing one's evolution into a single life or a few years or even a few months of bodily existence. A given system of Yoga, then, can be no more than a selection or a compression, into narrower but more energetic forms of intensity, of the general methods which are already being used loosely, largely, in a leisurely movement, with a profuser apparent waste of material and energy but with a more complete combination by the great

0.02 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   "Grant that we may effectuate Thy Victory"8 if the   time has come... but it is for You to answer, O Sweet   --   aspiration that we can hasten the day of Victory.   13 August 1932   --   We want to be faithful workers for the Great Victory.   26 June 1933   --   as a sure sign of Victory - but how can this be done   without getting a headache, Sweet Mother?

0.03 - Letters to My little smile, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   divine grace and the sure Victory.   Sri Aurobindo is working for your transformation - how   --   and in the Victory.   13 January 1934   --   and they will surely win the Victory. I am with you always, in   the struggle and in the Victory.   29 January 1934

0.03 - The Threefold Life, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   The utility of the compromise in the then actual state of the world cannot be doubted. It secured in India a society which lent itself to the preservation and the worship of spirituality, a country apart in which as in a fortress the highest spiritual ideal could maintain itself in its most absolute purity unoverpowered by the siege of the forces around it. But it was a compromise, not an absolute Victory. The material life lost the divine impulse to growth, the spiritual preserved by isolation its height and purity, but sacrificed its full power and serviceableness to the world. Therefore, in the divine Providence the country of the Yogins and the Sannyasins has been forced into a strict and imperative contact with the very element it had rejected, the element of the progressive Mind, so that it might recover what was now wanting to it.   We have to recognise once more that the individual exists not in himself alone but in the collectivity and that individual perfection and liberation are not the whole sense of God's intention in the world. The free use of our liberty includes also the liberation of others and of mankind; the perfect utility of our perfection is, having realised in ourselves the divine symbol, to reproduce, multiply and ultimately universalise it in others.   --   But their aim is one in the end. The generalisation of Yoga in humanity must be the last Victory of Nature over her own delays and concealments. Even as now by the progressive mind in Science she seeks to make all mankind fit for the full development of the mental life, so by Yoga must she inevitably seek to make all mankind fit for the higher evolution, the second birth, the spiritual existence. And as the mental life uses and perfects the material, so will the spiritual use and perfect the material and the mental existence as the instruments of a divine self-expression.   The ages when that is accomplished, are the legendary Satya or Krita3 Yugas, the ages of the Truth manifested in the symbol, of the great work done when Nature in mankind, illumined, satisfied and blissful, rests in the culmination of her endeavour.

0.05 - Letters to a Child, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   Carefully keep this bliss, this repose, this assurance of Victory; they are more precious than all the riches of this world,   and they will keep you very close to me.   --   the path, but with perseverance the Victory is sure.   Love from your mother.   --   Victory.   With my love and blessings.

0.06 - Letters to a Young Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   Keep this aspiration and you are sure of Victory; you will love   me one day with a love which fills you with strength and with   --   of Victory. Drive away these shadows which come between you   and me and hide me from your sight. It is in the pure light of   --   of Victory.   Confidence in the Divine I do not lack, but it is perhaps   --   One must have no fear, Victory is for him who is without fear; I   am always with you to guide and protect you.   --   the final Victory.   Series Six - To a Young Sadhak

01.01 - The New Humanity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    Not that this sovereign power will have anything to do with aggression or over-bearingness. It will not be a power that feels itself only by creating an eternal opponentErbfeindby coming in constant clash with a rival that seeks to gain Victory by subjugating. It will not be Nietzschean "will to power," which is, at best, a supreme Asuric power. It will rather be a Divine Power, for the strength it will exert and the Victory it will achieve will not come from the egoit is the ego which requires an object outside and against to feel and affirm itself but it will come from a higher personal self which is one with the cosmic soul and therefore with other personal souls. The Asura, in spite of, or rather, because of his aggressive vehemence betrays a lack of the sovereign power that is calm and at ease and self-sufficient. The Devic power does not assert hut simply accomplishes; the forces of the world act not as its opponent but as its instrument. Thus the New Man shall affirm his individual sovereignty and do so to perfection by expressing through it his unity with the cosmic powers, with the infinite godhead. And by being Swarat, Self-Master, he will become Samrat, world-master.    This mastery will be effected not merely in will, but in mind and heart also. For the New Man will know not by the intellect which is egocentric and therefore limited, not by ratiocination which is an indirect and doubtful process, but by direct vision, an inner communion, a soul revelation. The new knowledge will be vast and profound and creative, based as it will be upon the reality of things and not upon their shadows. Truth will shine through every experience and every utterance"a truth shall have its seat on our speech and mind and hearing", so have the Vedas said. The mind and intellect will not be active and constructive agents but the luminous channel of a self-luminous knowledge. And the heart too which is now the field of passion and egoism will be cleared of its noise and obscurity; a serener sky will shed its pure warmth and translucent glow. The knot will be rent asunderbhidyate hridaya granthih and the vast and mighty streams of another ocean will flow through. We will love not merely those to whom we are akin but God's creatures, one and all; we will love not with the yearning and hunger of a mortal but with the wide and intense Rasa that lies in the divine identity of souls.

01.02 - The Issue, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   A Victory was won for God in man,   The deity revealed its hidden face.

01.03 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Souls Release, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Earth grew too narrow for his Victory.   Once only registering the heavy tread

01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Privy to a summit Victory's vast descent   And the portent of the soul's immense uprise.

01.08 - Walter Hilton: The Scale of Perfection, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    The conception of original sin is a cardinal factor in Christian discipline. The conception, of sinfulness is the very motive-power that drives the aspirant. "Seek tensely," it is said, "sorrow and sigh deep, mourn still, and stoop low till thine eye water for anguish and for pain." Remorse and grief are necessary attendants; the way of the cross is naturally the calvary strewn with pain and sorrow. It is the very opposite of what is termed the "sunlit path" in spiritual ascension. Christian mystics have made a glorious spectacle of the process of "dying to the world." Evidently, all do not go the whole length. There are less gloomy and happier temperaments, like the present one, for example, who show an unusual balance, a sturdy common sense even in the midst of their darkest nights, who have chalked out as much of the sunlit path as is possible in this line. Thus this old-world mystic says: it is true one must see and admit one's sinfulness, the grosser and apparent and more violent ones as well as all the subtle varieties of it that are in you or rise up in you or come from the Enemy. They pursue you till the very end of your journey. Still you need not feel overwhelmed or completely desperate. Once you recognise the sin in you, even the bare fact of recognition means for you half the Victory. The mystic says, "It is no sin as thou feelest them." The day Jesus gave himself away on the Cross, since that very day you are free, potentially free from the bondage of sin. Once you give your adherence to Him, the Enemies are rendered powerless. "They tease the soul, but they harm not the soul". Or again, as the mystic graphically phrases it: "This soul is not borne in this image of sin as a sick man, though he feel it; but he beareth it." The best way of dealing with one's enemies is not to struggle and "strive with them." The aspirant, the lover of Jesus, must remember: "He is through grace reformed to the likeness of God ('in the privy substance of his soul within') though he neither feel it nor see it."    If you are told you are still full of sins and you are not worthy to follow the path, that you must go and work out your sins first, here is your answer: "Go shrive thee better: trow not this saying, for it is false, for thou art shriven. Trust securely that thou art on the way, and thee needeth no ransacking of shrift for that that is passed, hold forth thy way and think on Jerusalem." That is to say, do not be too busy with the difficulties of the moment, but look ahead, as far as possible, fix your attention upon the goal, the intermediate steps will become easy. Jerusalem is another name of the Love of Jesus or the Bliss in Heaven. Grow in this love, your sins will fade away of themselves. "Though thou be thrust in an house with thy body, nevertheless in thine heart, where the stead of love is, thou shouldst be able to have part of that love... " What exquisite utterance, what a deep truth!

0.10 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   gain a total Victory. My help is always with you as well as my   blessings.   --   The Victory of the Truth is certain, but it is difficult to say   when and how it will come about.

01.12 - Goethe, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    The Christian too accepts the dual principle, but does not give equal status to the two. Satan is there, an eternal reality: it is anti-God, it seeks to oppose God, frustrate his work. It is the great tempter whose task it is to persuade, to inspire man to remain always an earthly creature and never turn to know or live in God. Now the crucial question that arises is, what is the necessity of this Antagonist in God's scheme of creation? What is the meaning of this struggle and battle? God could have created, if he had chosen, a world without Evil. The orthodox Christi an answer is that in that case one could not have fully appreciated the true value and glory of God's presence. It is to manifest and proclaim the great Victory that the strife and combat has been arranged in which Man triumphs in the end and God's work stands vindicated. The place of Satan is always Hell, but he cannot drag down a soul into his pit to hold it there eternally (although according to one doctrine there are or may be certain eternally damned souls).    Goe the carries the process of convergence and even harmony of the two powers a little further and shows that although they are contrary apparently, they are not contradictory principles in essence. For, Satan is, after all, God's servant, even a very obedient servant; he is an instrument in the hand of the Almighty to work out His purpose. The purpose is to help and lead man, although in a devious way, towards a greater understanding, a nearer approach to Himself.

0.11 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   That Victory will form part of the triumph of Truth.   Wealth should not be a personal property and should be at   --   But in any case, transformation gives the power of Victory.   18 October 1968

0.14 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   A Victory won over the lower nature gives a deeper and more   lasting joy than any external success.

0 1955-04-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen    When I am not immediately engrossed in work, I have to confront a thousand little temptations and daily difficulties that come from my contact with other beings and a life that does indeed remain in life. Here, even more, there is the feeling of an impossible struggle, and all these little difficulties seem to gnaw away at me; scarcely has one hole been filled when another opens up, or the same one reappears, and there is never any real Victoryone has constantly to begin everything again. Finally, it seems to me that I really live only one hour a day, during the evening distribution at the playground.2 It is scarcely a life and scarcely a sadhana!    Consequently, I understand much better now why in the traditional yogas one settled all these difficulties once and for all by escaping from the world, without bothering to transform a life that seems so untransformable.

0 1956-05-02, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen    Mother, very recently a text has been circulating which says, What has just now happened, with this Victory, is not a descent but a manifestation. And it is no longer merely an individual event: the Supermind has sprung forth into the universal play.    Yes, yes, yes! I indeed said all that. I acknowledge it. And so?

0 1956-07-29, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen    O Thou who art always therepresent in all I do, all I amnot for repose do I aspire, but for THY INTEGRAL Victory.    ***

0 1956-08-10, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen    But Thy Grace is winning the Victory.    In fact, following the 'Supramental Manifestation' of February 29, 1956, all of Mother's physical difficulties increased, as though all the obscurities in the physical consciousness were surging forth beneath the pressure of the new light. The same observation applies to the disciples who were around Mother and undoubtedly to the world as a whole. A strange 'mysterious acceleration' was beginning to take hold of the world.

0 1956-09-14, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen    Go to Brazil, to this good rich man, make him understand the importance of our work, the extent to which his fortune would be used to the utmost for the good of all and for the earths salvation were he to put it, even partially, at the disposal of our action. Win this Victory over the power of money, and by so doing you will be freed from all your personal difficulties. Then you can return here with no apprehension, and you will be ready for the transformation.    Reflect upon this, take your time, tell me very frankly how you feel about it and whether it appears to you, as it does to me, to be a door opening onto a path that will bring you back, free and strong at last to me.

0 1957-01-01, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen    can alone win the Victory.    It is not a crucified

0 1958-09-16 - OM NAMO BHAGAVATEH, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen    Of course, these things should not be published. We can file them in this Agenda of the Supramental Manifestation for later on. Later on, when the Victory is won, we shall say, If you want to see the curve    But what is going to come now? I constantly hear the Sanskrit mantra:

0 1958-11-14, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen    Do not flee the difficulty, face it courageously and carry home the Victory.    My love is with you.

0 1958-11-15, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen    There is night and sun, night and sun, and night again, many nights, but one must cling to this will for surrender, cling as through a storm, and put everything into the hands of the Supreme Lord. Until the day when the Sun shall shine forever, the day of total Victory.    The Supramental Ship.

0 1958-11-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen    So the difficulty and the Victory go together. Its very interesting.    But what had I done in that life? What did I do? WHAT?!?   --    Because from what I have seen and from what I was told, I am sure that it is decisive, that what is offered to you is the possibility of a decisive Victory, which means that it will no longer recur in the same way.    There is such an abyss between what one truly is and what we are that at times it is dizzying. But one must not let oneself become dizzy. One must not yield. One must remain like a rock until it passes.

0 1958-11-22, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen    It is difficult without a strong will; and above all, above all the capacity to resist the temptation, which was the fatal temptation throughout all ones livesbecause its power builds up. Each defeat gives it renewed force. But a tiny Victory can dissolve it.    Oh, the most terrible of all is when one does not have the strength, the courage, something indomitable! How many times do they come to tell me, I want to die, I want to flee, I want to die.I say, But die, then, die to yourself! No one is asking you to let your ego survive! Die to yourself since you want to die! Have that courage, the true courage, to die to your egoism.

0 1958-11-26, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen    That is why the journey is so long, so difficult. For if one would truly consent no longer to be, everything would become so easy, so swift, so luminous, so joyousthough perhaps not in the way men conceive of joy and ease. At heart, there are very few beings who are not enamored of struggle. There are very few who would consent to having no darkness or who can conceive of light as anything other than the opposite of obscurity: Without shadow, there would be no painting. Without struggle, there would be no Victory. Without suffering, there would be no joy. That is what they think, and as long as they think like that, they are not yet born to the spirit.    ***

0 1958-12-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen    I have just received your letter which I read with all my love, the love that understands and effaces. When you return here, you will always be very welcome, and we shall certainly take up our work together again. I shall be happy, and it is very much needed. But first of all, it will be good for you to go to Rameswaram. I know that you will be welcome there. Stay there as long as necessary to find and consolidate your experience. Afterwards, come back here, stronger and better armed, to face a new period of outer and inner work. At the end of the labor is the Victory.    With all my confident love.

0 1958-12-24, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen    Doubt not of the Victory, it is certain.    Signed: Mother

0 1958-12-28, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen    Mother, I am fighting beside you, for you, for your Victory.    With all my Love, I am at your feet.   --    Happy New Year, my dear child! I am sure it will bring us a decisive Victory.    I am near you with all my love.

0 1959-01-27, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen    In constant communion in the effort towards Victory; my love and my force never leave you.    Signed: Mother

0 1959-04-07, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen    With all my love, I envelope you, my child, and I tell you, Have courage, the Victory is certainnot a compromise or partial Victory, but integral.    Signed: Mother

0 1959-06-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen    I am with you and wish to repeat to you: infinite is the Grace and invincible is the Love; be confident and will the Victory, for this is what X means by your collaboration.    Signed: Mother

0 1959-06-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen    As I appeared to be doubting, X told me, There is no suspicion [doubt], the war will take place in November (in fact, it is to occur some time between September and November), and for the rest of the talk, he had a tone of absolute certitude: The first atom bomb will fall in China. Russia will be crushed. It will be a Victory for America. Not more than 2 or 3 atom bombs will be used. It will be very quick. And he repeated that the starting-point of the conflict would be situated in India due to the aggression of Pakistan, then of China.    The earthquake he mentioned promises to be a kind of pralaya (as X put it), for not only Bombay will be touched. This is what he said: America supports Pakistan, but the gods do not support Pakistan, and Pakistan will be punished by the gods. HALF of western Pakistan, including Karachi, will go into the sea. The sea will enter into Rajasthan and touch India also

0 1960-01-28, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen    To the most stubborn goes the Victory.    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.   --    Yet its HAPPY. It loves doing the work, it lives only for thatto change, to transform itself is its reason for being. And its such a docile instrument, so full of good will! Once it even started wailing like a baby: O Lord, give me the time, the time to be transformed It has such a simple fervor for the work, but it needs timetime, thats it. It wants to live only to conquer, to win the Lords Victory.3    One crore = 10 million.   --    'It wants to live only to conquer.' Then the next day, Mother sent the following note to the disciple: 'Friday, 1.29.60yesterday, when I left you, the experience was there, but in my hurry to leave, the words did not come correctly, or rather they were incomplete (I had said, 'to live only to conquer'). What my body was experiencing was, 'Live to win the Lord's Victory.'    ***

0 1960-07-23 - The Flood and the race - turning back to guide and save amongst the torrents - sadhana vs tamas and destruction - power of giving and offering - Japa, 7 lakhs, 140000 per day, 1 crore takes 20 years, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen    The vehicle and the forward movement are the sadhana, beyond the shadow of a doubt. I understood that the speed of sadhana was greater than the speed of the forces of destruction. And it ended in certain Victory, there is not a shadow of doubt. This feeling of POWER once I was firmly grounded there [in the square], enough power to help others.    These were universal forces. I cant say it means war. Ive foreseen many warswidespread wars, local wars, so many warsand up to now they have never been presented to me in that form. Theyve always come as a fireflames, flames, the home burning. Not as an inundation.

0 1960-07-26 - Mothers vision - looking up words in the subconscient, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen    Vaincre! I wanted to write to someone to proclaim the Victory. The idea was very clear, it was really lovely. Then, in a second, I was stoppedHow do you spell vainquons? And how do you spell vaincs? The person next to me didnt know a thingnothing. Its spelled v-a-i-n, he said. So I said, No, I dont think so! (laughter) It went on like that, you know, it was so funny!    Are you good at spelling?

0 1960-11-12, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen    Its all right for winning a Victory, but not for stopping the rain for one day!    So Im trying to come to an understanding, to reach an agreement these are very complicated matters (!). For its a whole totality You see, we are trying something here which really is contrary to all those laws and practices, something which disturbs everything. So they propose things that have me advancing like this (sinuous motion), without disturbing things too much, and without having to call in forces (Mother makes a gesture of a lance thrust into the pack) forces a bit too great, which may disturb things too much. Like that, we can keep tacking back and forth.   --    But generally and this is something Theon had told me (Theon was very qualified on the subject of hostile forces and the workings of all that resists the divine influence, and he was a great fighteras you might imagine! He himself was an incarnation of an asura, so he knew how to tackle these things!); he was always saying, If you make a VERY SMALL concession or suffer a minor defeat, it gives you the right to a very great Victory. Its a very good trick. And I have observed, in practice, that for all things, even for the very little things of everyday life, its trueif you yield on one point (if, even though you see what should be, you yield on a very secondary and unimportant point), it immediately gives you the power to impose your will for something much more important. I mentioned this to Sri Aurobindo and he said that it was true. It is true in the world as it is today, but its not what we want; we want it to change, really change.    He wrote this in a letter, I believe, and he spoke of this system of compensation for example, those who take an illness on themselves in order to have the power to cure; and then theres the symbolic story of Christ dying on the cross to set men free. And Sri Aurobindo said, Thats fine for a certain age, but we must now go beyond that. As he told me (its even one of the first things he told me), We are no longer at the time of Christ when, to be victorious, it was necessary to die.   --    It will be the great Victory.    (silence)

0 1961-01-22, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    It was only afterwards, a long time after, that I began to see again. It was clearly something that was NOT WILLING. But when will it give in? I cant say. No Victory has been won, far from it. And it has remained like this: status quo.    It will probably have to begin again, but in what manner?   --    You see, personal surrender and devotion is an excellent solution for the individual, but it doesnt work for the collectivity. For example, as soon as I am alone and lying on my bedpeace! (Ah, I forgot! They had invented yet another thing: making my heartbeats irregular. Every three or four beats it would stop; then it would start up again, pounding as if I had been struck. Three, four beats, a faint little beat, then stop then, bang! Blow after blow. One more of their extraordinary inventions!) But, as soon as I stretch out and make a total surrender of all the cellsno more activity, nothingeverything goes well. But I am well aware that this surrender has an effect on the action only to the extent that the Supreme Lord has decided upon the action, and those movements stretch over long periods of time5: all sorts of things may happen before the final Victory is won. Because, for us, the scale is very small; even if it were of terrestrial proportions, it would be a very small scale; but on a universal scale. These forces have their place and their action, their universe, and as long as their place and their action are maintained, they will be here. So before their action can be exhausted or become useless, many things can happen.    Individually, however, there is almost instantaneous bliss. But this is not a true solution its a solution in the long run, by repercussion. To have true comm and here in this world, all of that must be mastered.

0 1961-02-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    Yes. It is better to speak of Victory than (Mother laughs) to speak of difficulties!    (silence)

0 1961-02-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    Two nights ago, I saw a formation of illness over the entire Ashram, a kind of adverse formation trying to prevent me from leaving my room, and I had to hide to get out, leave clandestinely. Oh, what a terrible atmosphere, so heavy, so grayeverybody was ill. And this formation had some actual effects because many people fell ill who normally never do. It is an adverse formation and theres no reason to concede its Victory; its simply a force which doesnt want us to succeed, of courseso we need not pay attention.    The trouble is, if I were thirty or forty years old, people wouldnt be affected. But unfortunately they think about how old I am all the time and it creates a bad atmosphere. After all, they keep saying, Mother is old and. All the usual nonsense.   --    You see, theres a curious fluctuation possibly indicating that your dream is part of the present attack which continues with such violence. The night before last, between midnight and half-past, there was a formidable attack. When I emerged from it, I felt that something had lifted, a Victory had been won and that the bodys condition had improved. It happens like that, the horizon clears and this Certainty comes with. (The presence is always hereSri Aurobindo and I are together almost every night but the night when I saw that formation, the illness spell over the Ashram, Sri Aurobindo was quite sick in his bed, just as I saw him in 1950.) So when it lifts, all is well: once again there is harmony, there is joy, there is force and again the whole thing continues, the effort continues, consciously. Yet there is a kind of fluctuation: it will go on like that for a few moments or a few hours and then suddenly everything becomes muddled again and I am beset by a fatigue. A fatigue which is I cant say almost unbearable, because nothing in the consciousness feels it to be unbearable but it makes me like this (Mother clenches her fist tightly in a tension to hold on).    For example, at five-thirty in the evening, after Ive spent an hour and a half here with people, its a labor to climb the stairs; and by the time I get upstairs, I feel strained to the breaking point. Then I begin to walk (I dont stop, I dont rest), I immediately begin to walk with my japa, and within half an hour, pfft! it has lifted.

0 1961-02-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    The day Victory is won, all this will become infinitely interesting. But why speak of it if the Victory isnt won? It just makes another lengthy description of failures.    I dont believe in failure.

0 1961-03-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    Oh! (Mother notices the flowers in her hands) This is Supramental Beauty,2 this is Supramental Victory and this is the Endurance3 needed to get there and the Promise.4 Then this one is a lily that grows here (Mother looks at it for a long time) and inside I have put Attachment for the Divine5I brought it for you because its so lovely.    What are we working on today? (Mother looks at Sri Aurobindos Aphorisms) Ive already begun replying!

0 1961-03-27, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    The absolute certainty of the Victory is unquestionable; but I am not speaking at the scale of our bounded mind. Its up to us to CHANGE TACKthis is whats expected of us, to change tack and not keep going round in circles.    There you are, petit.

0 1961-06-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    the Conqueror who assures the Victory.    It was a series of experiences resulting from external circumstances. And then I speak of the tears shed, not for oneself but for others. (Mother reads a passage dated July 12, 1918:)   --    a great Victory will be won.    And that is why, when the tears

0 1961-07-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    (Mother gives Satprem a white zinnia she has named 'Integral Endurance,' then an allamanda or 'Victory,' and finally a flower of 'Supramental Victory.')    Here is an Integral Endurance. But Victory. Victory. And this one is Supramental Victory that is, Victory in ALL details.    It grows in huge clusters of many, many flowers. There.

0 1961-07-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    I am constantly seeing images! Not images, living thingslike answers to questions. A magnificent peacock was taking shape (its the symbol of Victory here in India) and its tail opened out, and on it a construction appeared, like this construction of an ideal place. Its a pity this subtle world cant be photographed! There ought to be photographic plates sensitive enough to do it. It has been tried. It would be interesting because it moves, its like a movie.    All right, then. What did you want to ask?

0 1962-04-03, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    It is the battlefield. How far it can resist I dont know. After all, it depends on Him. He knows if the time has come or not, the time for the beginning of the Victory then the body will survive. If not, in any case, my love and consciousness will be there.    And He will have the final Victory.    ***

0 1962-04-13, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    And we set off again on the way, certain of the Victory.    The heavens are ringing with chants of Victory!    Truth alone exists; Truth alone shall manifest. Onward! Onward!

0 1962-05-15, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    There was, in fact, a whole group of Ashram people (they might be called the Ashram "intelligentsia") who, influenced by Subhas Bose, were strongly in favor of the Nazis and the Japanese against the British. (It should be recalled that the British were the invaders of India, and thus many people considered Britain's enemies to be automatically India's friends.) It reached the point where Sri Aurobindo had to intervene forcefully and write: "I affirm again to you most strongly that this is the Mother's war.... The Victory of one side (the Allies) would keep the path open for the evolutionary forces: the Victory of the other side would drag back humanity, degrade it horribly and might lead even, at the worst, to its eventual failure as a race, as others in the past evolution failed and perished.... The Allies at least have stood for human values, though they may often act against their own best ideals (human beings always do that); Hitler stands for diabolical values or for human values exaggerated in the wrong way until they become diabolical.... That does not make the English or Americans nations of spotless angels nor the Germans a wicked and sinful race, but...." (July 29, 1942 and Sept. 3, 1943, Cent. Ed., Vol. XXVI.394 ff.) And on her side also, Mother had to publicly declare: "It has become necessary to state emphatically and clearly that all who by their thoughts and wishes are supporting and calling for the Victory of the Nazis are by that very fact collaborating with the Asura against the Divine and helping to bring about the Victory of the Asura.... Those, therefore, who wish for the Victory of the Nazis and their associates should now understand that it is a wish for the destruction of our work and an act of treachery against Sri Aurobindo." (May 6, 1941, original English.)    See note at the end of this conversation

0 1962-06-30, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    One of them was in Murat, on the day of his great Victory.6 It was a vital force that took possession of him and remained just for that Victory; and it came into me, so I saw it all! I saw its entry into Murats body and the whole battle scene I lived through it all. And once the battle was over, it left him. It was very interesting.    I wanted to clarify something. I dont know if Mona Lisa and Marguerite de Valois were your incarnations, but werent they contemporaries!?

0 1962-07-21, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    Let me tell you in brief one or two things about what I have long seen. My idea is that the chief cause of the weakness of India is not subjection nor poverty, nor the lack of spirituality or dharma [ethics] but the decline of thought-power, the growth of ignorance in the motherl and of Knowledge. Everywhere I see inability or unwillingness to thinkthought-incapacity or thought-phobia. Whatever may have been in the middle ages, this state of things is now the sign of a terrible degeneration. The middle age was the night, the time of the Victory of ignorance. The modern world is the age of the Victory of Knowledge. Whoever thinks most, seeks most, labors most, can fathom and learn the truth of the world, and gets so much more Shakti. If you look at Europe, you will see two things: a vast sea of thought and the play of a huge and fast-moving and yet disciplined force. The whole Shakti of Europe is in that. And in the strength of that Shakti it has been swallowing up the world, like the tapaswins [ascetics] of our ancient times, by whose power even the gods of the world were terrified, held in suspense and subjection. People say Europe is running into the jaws of destruction. I do not think so. All these revolutions and upsettings are the preconditions of a new creation.    Then look at India. Except for some solitary giants, everywhere there is your simple man, that is, the average man who does not want to think and cannot think, who has not the least Shakti but only a temporary excitement. In India, you want the simple thought, the easy word. In Europe they want the deep thought, the deep word; there even an ordinary laborer or artisan thinks, wants to know, is not satisfied with surface things but wants to go behind. But there is still this difference: there is a fatal limitation in the strength and thought of Europe. When it comes into the spiritual field, its thought-power can no longer move ahead. There Europe sees everything as riddlenebulous metaphysics, yogic hallucination. They rub their eyes as in smoke and can see nothing clear. Still, some effort is being made in Europe to surmount even this limitation. We already have the spiritual sensewe owe it to our forefa thersand whoever has that sense has at his disposal such Knowledge and Shakti as with one breath might blow away all the huge power of Europe like a blade of grass. But to get that Shakti one must be a worshiper of Shakti. We are not worshipers of Shakti. We are worshipers of the easy way. But Shakti is not to be had by the easy way. Our forefa thers dived into a sea of vast thought and gained a vast Knowledge and established a mighty civilization. As they went on in their way, fatigue and weariness came upon them. The force of thought diminished and with it also the strong current of Shakti. Our civilization has become an achalayatana [prison], our religion a bigotry of externals, our spirituality a faint glimmer of light or a momentary wave of religious intoxication. And so long as this sort of thing continues, any permanent resurgence of India is improbable

0 1962-11-23, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    So when you write of the Victory, perhaps I too will do a Victory dance!    ***

0 1962-11-30, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    2) The struggle will go on for one and a half years. There will be Victory for India.    3) Struggle is more in the spiritual (subtle) than on the physical and the struggle need not be a shooting war.

0 1963-03-23, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    A grey defeat pregnant with Victory.    A whip to lash us towards our deathless state.   --    Oh, thats absolutely correct, absolutely true. But anyway, its a fact. And ultimately, a Victory thats conditional [on others], well, its just a way to speed up Natures movement a little. If thats what it is, all well and good but as I said (its very good, I make no demands, I dont protest, I am quite peaceful, and, to tell the truth, the result is all the same to me), theres nothing worth mentioning, thats what I mean, you cant write stories about that! (laughing) Its not worth talking about it.    If there were something like a living proof of the truth of what was promisedah, that would be worthwhile. But thats not it! We havent reached that point. It [a Victory conditional on others] speeds things up a little; but it has always been said that if people joined in the effort, it would speed things up to some extentsome extent, but to what extent? We cant say.    (silence)

0 1963-05-03, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    The next morning, for an hour, I had an experience. Everything always happens as if it were in the body (but this body has become a kind of representative and symbolic object), it always takes place that way, whether its a sense of imminent death or a sense of perfect immortality. All that always takes place in the body it is the battlefield, it is the field of Victory, it is the Defeat, it is the Triumph, it is everything. So I noted the experience down. (Mother hands a slip of paper to Satprem):    The Lord is peaceful resignation,   --    and the Victory.    He is the joyous acceptance

0 1963-05-11, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    Its to prepare the earth to receive the Supremes manifestation, the manifestation of His Victory.    Seen in that way, it becomes clearcomprehensible, and comprehensive, too: it has a content.

0 1963-07-06, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    But it isnt total Victory, no. It isnt the power of transformation. The other day, I told you, I think, that one of my present activities consisted of a sort of conscious concentration on one person or another, one thing or another, to obtain the desired result. For years on end, the Will and Force acted from above, and the outer conscious being [of Mother] wasnt concerned with anything further, knowing that it would only make things more complicated instead of helping them, and that the Force left to itself, directly under the supreme Impulsion, worked things out far better and far more accurately. But over these last months, there have come a will and a tendency to make the material being [of Mother] participate consciously in the details of execution. It has a kind of passive obedience, and so, once that was willed [the need for Mothers material intervention], it began to happen. There was a case recently, with a very good friend of the Ashram, a man with an important position who has been very, very useful. He had to be operated on (I wont tell the whole story, it would be too long); we received two or three wires a day, I followed the thing step by step. There was a very powerful force of destructionit was a very grim battle and there was a will to keep him, because in this body he had been very useful, he was still very useful and could still be very useful. He had a great faith, a great trust, and he was conscious (his consciousness was very sufficiently developed: I saw him constantly and constantly he came to me). He fell into a butchers hands; anyway, it was a wretched thing. Still, even though everyone expected him to leave his body, he held on and was constantly saying (we were kept informed by his son) and feeling that it was I who was keeping him alive. I could even see what they should have done and constantly I sent the formation, the thought, But THIS is what should be done, insistently. Finally they caught my thought, but I think (I cant say, I dont know the details, the small material details), I think probably they didnt do exactly what they should have thats why I say they must have been butchers. Thus they performed three operations in a row, and after undergoing all that, he came to me (before also he used to come very oftenthey said he was drowsy all the time, in a semi-coma, but thats not it: he was living inwardly), he came to me, totally conscious as usual, but he said, I am afraid my body is irretrievably ruined, and if I survive now, instead of this body being a help and a tool of work, it will be a hindrance, an impediment, a source of difficulty, so I have come to ask to be freed I prefer to enter a new body. I answered immediately, But as you are, you are useful, very useful; the position you occupy makes you very useful; you are totally conscious; it would be good if you could recover. He listened, again insisted a little, I too insisted, and then he left.    The next morning, he was much better. I was hoping he had decided to stay, but we were without news for about twenty-four hours, till suddenly we were told he had stopped breathing and was being given oxygen. And then he left.

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 1963-09-28, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    What he announces, and what I am sure of, is that the Victory will be won on the earth and that the earth will become a progressive being (eternally progressive) in the Lord thats understood. But it doesnt preclude the other possibility. The future of the earth he has announced clearly, and its understood that such is the future of the earth; only, if that possibility [of death as an exclusively earthly phenomenon] is what we could term historically correct, it would sort of legitimize the attitude of those who get away from it. How is it that Buddha, who undeniably was an Avatar, laid so much stress on Deliverance as the conclusion of things? He who stayed behind only to help others to get away faster. Then that means he saw only one side of the problem?    Oh, yes!    But if there is a whole universe, thousands of universes with altogether different modes, and if to be here is merely a matter of CHOICE then the choice is free, of course there are those who like conquest and Victory, and those others who like doing nothing.    But Buddha represented only one stage of consciousness. AT THAT TIME it was good to follow that path, therefore

0 1963-11-13, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    Only when the Victory is won over death will things cease to come to a bad end that is to say, when the return to Unconsciousness will no longer be necessary to allow a new progress.    The entire process of development, at least on the earth (I dont know how it is on other planets) is that way. And perhaps (I dont know very much about the history of astronomy) universes toodo they know if universes perish physically, if the physical history of the end of a universe has been recorded? Traditions tell us that a universe is created, then withdrawn into pralaya, and then a new one comes; and according to them, ours is the seventh universe, and being the seventh universe, it is the one that will not return to pralaya but will go on progressing, without retreat. This is why, in fact, there is in the human being that need for permanence and for an uninterrupted progressits because the time has come.

0 1963-11-20, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    We must endure. The Victory belongs to the most enduring.    There are times when one is disgusted, and thats just when one should remember this. Now, your disgust may have reasons of its own (!) But you have only to endure. You know, there is one thing, I dont know if you have savored it yet: as soon as you have a difficulty, dissatisfaction, revolt, disgustanythingfatigue, tension, discomfort, all, all that negative side (there are lots and lots and lots of such things, they take on all kinds of different colors), the immediate movementimmediateof calling the Lord and saying, Its up to You. As long as you try (instinctively you try to arrange things with your best light, your best consciousness, your best knowledge), its stupid, because that prolongs the struggle, and ultimately its not very effective. There is only one effective thing, thats to step back from whats still called me and with or without words, it doesnt matter, but above all with the flame of aspiration, this (gesture to the heart), and something perfectly, perfectly sincere: Lord, its You; and only You can do it, You alone can do it, I cant. Its excellent, you cant imagine how excellent! For instance, someone comes and deluges you with impossible problems, wants you to make instant decisions; you have to write, you have to answer, you have to sayall of itand its like truckloads of darkness and stupidity and wrong movements and all that being dumped on you; and its dumped and dumped and dumpedyou are almost stoned to death with all that. You begin to stiffen, you get tense; then, immediately (gesture of stepping back): O Lord. You stay quiet, take a little step back (gesture of offering): Its up to you.

0 1963-12-11, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    Afterwards I took a look. I wasnt too happy: To do that during the meditation! And I was told that it could be done only during the meditation and not at any other time, in activity or even in concentration, because its not the same thing: it could be done only in deep meditation. So I said, Very well. And I was also shown that there was a concrete result, a kind of partial Victory over that type of ill willa very, very aggressive ill will, extremely aggressive, which belongs to another age: its something that no longer has the right to exist on the earth. It must go.    Its the same thing, moreover, which brought about Kennedys assassination. And I suppose thats why I had to intervene. Because Kennedys assassination has upset many things from the point of view of the general work. And it was the same thing, because as soon as I had news of the assassination, I saw the same kind of vibration, the same black forcevery, very black and spontaneously, I said (it isnt I who said it), Oh, that may mean war. In other words, a Victory of that force over the one that tries to follow more harmonious paths. But I have been protesting and working since then, and what happened on the 9th is the outcome of it.    But when youre right in it it isnt comfortable.

0 1963-12-21, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    Its a great Victory to be wona great Victory.    And all the more great and difficult since (certainly because of the necessities of the work) I am surrounded only by people who are on the other side. I dont have around me a single optimist. All that people tell me, all that they bring to me, is always the vision (more or less clear and complete) of what should go; but the vision of what should be I have never found it except in Sri Aurobindo.

0 1964-01-29, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    The Mothers Victory is essentially a Victory of each sadhak over himself. It can only be then that any external form of work can come to a harmonious perfection.    November 12, 1937   --    The extreme acuteness of your difficulties is due to the yoga having come down against the bed-rock of Inconscience which is the fundamental basis of all resistance in the individual and in the world to the Victory of the Spirit and the Divine Work that is leading toward that Victory. The difficulties themselves are general in the Ashram as well as in the outside world.    The description follows. You would think it was happening now:

0 1964-07-28, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    But in this case, there was such a precise action of the Force. And at the same time I had another experience (but a much more personal and subjective one), which confirmed me in my perception Did you read Rodogune by Sri Aurobindo? In Rodogune, there is a scene in which an eremite meets a young prince and utters these words, This man has around him the atmosphere of someone who is going to die. (The prince had just won a great Victory, anyway all was for the best, and he had decided to go to such and such a place; thats when the eremite uttered those words.) When I read that, I tried to make contact with that vibration the eremite called the atmosphere of a man who is going to die. And when I received S.s letter telling me that with the talisman, he was sure all would be wellexactly the same vibration. That sort of exultation, of assertion of power and force, and, behind, there was exactly the same vibration. So it confirmed for me what I had seen.    But I was very happy with the American doctors receptivity.

0 1964-08-29, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    I see in a very clear way that even in circumstances in which you seem to have made a mistake, even with things that betrayed a hope and give you proof that what you expected wasnt legitimate, even in such a case, there isnt one circumstance, not one encounter, not one event that isnt EXACTLY whats necessary to lead you to the Victory as rapidly as possible.    This, to me, is an absolute thing.

0 1964-10-07, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    The most material consciousness, the most material mind, is in the habit of having to be whipped into acting, into making effort and moving forward, otherwise its tames. So then, if it imagines, it always imagines the difficultyalways the obstacle, always the opposition, always the difficulty and that slows down the movement terribly. So it needs very concrete, very tangible and VERY REPEATED experiences to be convinced that behind all its difficulties, there is a Grace; behind all its failures, there is the Victory; behind all its pain and suffering and contradictions, there is Ananda. Of all the efforts, this is the one that has to be repeated most often: you are constantly forced to stop, put an end to, drive away, convert a pessimism, a doubt or a totally defeatist imagination.    I am speaking exclusively of the material consciousness.

0 1964-10-14, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    Maybe maybe if there is a symbolic being (its what I am beginning to ask myself), if there is a symbolic being who has the power (it takes a great deal of endurance!), the power to CONTAIN the representation of all those disorders and to work on that symbolic representation, it must help the whole. Because if an entire human way of being has to change for the Victory to be won, its going to take millions of years! That may be why there are symbolic beings.    Thats what I am now asking myself.    In the realm of ideas, there arent any problems, everything was resolved long ago the problem is in the fact, in the material fact of the body. It is beginning to learn its lesson. Its beginning to learn. And then, instead of the selfish answer that consists in saying, Ah, no! I dont want that, I dont want any of it! (Laughing) I am above that weakness and disorder, let it come, accept it and see what the solution is. In other words, instead of the old problemrejection of life, rejection of the difficulty, rejection of the disorder and the flight into Nirvanaits the acceptance of everything and Victory.    This is really (as far as I know) the new thing Sri Aurobindo has brought. Not only the idea that its possible, but that its the true solution, and the idea that we can start now. I am not saying well reach the end now, I dont know, but the idea is that we can begin right now, the time has come when we can begin, and its the only true solution, the other solution is no solutionwell, it was a necessary experiment in the universal march, but flight is no solution: the solution is Victory. And the time has come when we can try.    All ordinary common sense (which is still triumphant in this world) tells me, What illusions you nurse, my child! You arrange things to your satisfaction, youre sugarcoating the pill for yourself, and so on, it comes like that, regularly, in waves. Well its also part of the problem. But a time will come when certain truths will be acknowledged as true and no longer disputed; then the Work will be easier. But in order to get there, there has to be at least a beginning of experience, a beginning of realization that enables you to say, But here is the proof.   --    It is a rather obscure labor thats going on at the moment. I remember the day when Sri Aurobindo told me (we were still in the other house), he told me, Yes, you are doing an overmental work, a creation of the Overmind, you will work heaps of miracles and the whole world will admire you! But that is not the Truth we want. I told you the story. Well, this memory very often comes to my aid. I said, Thats right, we dont care for the fanfare of popular Victory!    Its without glory. But it doesnt need any glory at all! I said to him, I dont need glory and I dont care a whit for public admiration! (Laughing) That has no place in my consciousness.

0 1964-10-24a, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    That state didnt remain (that state was a state of Victory). But things havent come back as they were, and they will never come back as they were. Something has really been clarified. And it isnt a personal, individual question: its something general.    (Mother starts making a fair copy of the last sedimentation:)

0 1964-11-14, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    It may be the sign of a Victory.    Yes, he said, Afterwards, there was peace.   --    The Khrushchev affair has been a bad thing. But generally things in the outer world move in a zigzag; instead of going straight, they go like this (zigzag gesture): action, reaction, action, reaction. Thats what Thon always said: in the outer world, a Victory for one side always means a sort of RIGHT to Victory for the other side; and then he added, Those who know must be ever vigilant and on the alert, so that when the enemies win a little Victory (which may be a perfectly superficial and insignificant Victory), they immediately win a big Victory! (Laughing) He said that with great humor. And I noticed that on the individual level, its true. On the level of countries unfortunately, the people who determine the destiny of countries (the outer destiny) are incompetent and stupid, and they miss the opportunity. But that Khrushchev affair gave a right to a Victory, you understand. It gave the other side a right to a Victory.    I told you I would show you the photo of the man [Suslov] whos behind Khrushchevs downfall.   --    It is clearly a Victory through the disappearance of a man or a country.    I dont know why, while you were speaking to me, I saw the twisted face of a Chinese.

0 1965-01-12, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    I knew that being very well (for other reasons the story would be too long to tell), and once, I knew he was going to visit Hitler I went before he did: I took his appearance, it was very easy. Then I said to Hitler, Go and attack Russia. I dont exactly remember the words or the details, but the fact was that I told him, Go In order to have the supreme Victory, go and attack Russia. That was the end of Hitler. He believed it and did ittwo days later, we got the news of the attack.1 And then, the next day, that is, when I came back from Hitler, I met that being and told him, Ive done your job! Naturally enough, he was furious!    But all the same, in that consciousness, there is with that being (the Lord of Falsehood, one of the first four Emanations), there is despite everything a very deep relationship, of course. He said to me, I know, I know I will be defeated eventually, but before my end comes I will wreak as much destruction on earth as I can.

0 1965-05-08, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    And every minute, I have now the feeling of a choice between Victory and defeat, sun and shadow, harmony and disorder, the easy solution truly, the comfortable or pleasant and the unpleasant; and the feeling that if you dont intervene with authority, theres a sort of oh, its a combination of cowardice and spinelessness: its something limplimp, you know, slack.    When I speak like this, its very simple and it seems very easy, but EVERY MINUTE you are hanging between three possibilities (generally three) for the body: the fainting or the acute suffering, the indifferent, mechanical movement, or the glorious Mastery. And I am talking about washing your eyes, rinsing your mouth, doing any of those absolutely indifferent little things (in big things it always goes well because nature is in the habit of thinking that one should bear oneself properly to rise to the occasionall that is ridiculous), but in little things, thats how it is. So the head whirls, and hup! And you can seeyou can see with extreme precision the three possibilities, and if you arent constantly attentive (gesture of a closed fist, of authority and control), the physical nature, with such repulsive spinelessness, you know, absolutely disgusting, lets itself go.

0 1965-07-07, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    I dont know for others but for a very long time in life when there is an illness (some illness of any kind) automatically the cells forget everything, all their sadhana and everything, and it is only slowly when you get out of the illness that the cells begin to remember. And then, my ambition was (I remember that, it was long ago, many years ago), my ambition was that the cells should remember when being illwhich is absurd because it would have been better to aspire to have no illness! But for a time it was like that. The first time that the cells remembered, oh, I was very happy. But now, it is the opposite; that is, as soon as the disorder comes, the cells first first they got a little anxious: Oh, we are so bad that we are still catching illnesses that was a period; and then, afterwards there was the impression: Oh, You want to teach us a lesson, we have something to learn that was already much better: a kind of eagerness. And now there is an intense joy and a kind of power; a power that comes, a power of aspiration and a power of realization that comes with the sense: We are winning a Victory, we are winning a new Victory.    That has been my condition over the last few days.

0 1965-07-10, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    The will for Victory, mon petit, thats the whole thing! Not a will here or there or here (gesture to various spots of the body), not that, not the personal Victory over disease: the Victory over the world. After all, we are here for that; I dont know if it will be for this time, but at any rate thats what is expected of us. We are here for thatto fight. So we are made to fight, and as it is the most (how can I put it?) intimate way, it is the body that is affected.    (silence)

0 1965-08-25, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    More enduring. Sri Aurobindo said, Victory belongs to the most enduring. Thats obvious.    We only have to last.

0 1965-09-08, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    Earth saw my struggle, heaven my Victory.    (X.III.638)    She says, Life and death are the fuel, then, In my blind attempt LIFE ONLY was my attempt to love.1 Because my attempt to love was blind, I limited it to life but I won the Victory in death.    Its very interesting. (Mother repeats:)    Earth saw my struggle, heaven my Victory.    Yet, earth should see the Victory? The Victory should be on earth, shouldnt it?    Yes, but she couldnt win the Victory on earth because she lacked heavenshe couldnt win the Victory in life because she lacked death and she had to conquer death in order to conquer life.    Thats the idea. Unless we conquer Death, the Victory isnt won. Death must be vanquished, there must be no more death.    Thats very clear.   --    Thats what he appears to be saying here: the Victory of Love seems to be the final Victory.    (silence)    He said, Savitri, a Legend and a Symbol; its he who made it a symbol. Its the story of the encounter of Savitri, the principle of Love, with Death; and its over Death that she won the Victory, not in life. She could not win the Victory in life without winning the Victory over Death.    I didnt know it was put so clearly here. I had read it, but only once.

0 1965-09-25, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    And that was an experience lived every second, for about six hours nonstop. Six hours nonstop and in stillness (not stillness, but the possibility of physical immobility on the bed), then the continuation for more than an hour after getting up, with the activities (limited, but ordinary activities), but then it became terrible! And I say: all, all the elements, whatever they are, whether they belong to the old movement or to the other one, all the elements had the same sense of adoration. Therefore it isnt a moral attitude: the same sense of adoration. Only, some, in their adoration, accepted annulment, while others wanted the Victory, the transformationits not that they wanted: they FELT the Victory: and the others accepted the dissolution. And both together Very likely, if I had expressed that (I wasnt in a fit state to do so!), if I had expressed it at the time, I would have been accused of acute delirium I was perfectly conscious. And there, I mean, THERE, above the body, the most wonderful Peace one can imagine, a smiling Peace and    And the fever is going on. Which is to say that I am very, very conscious that this is the maximum of what can be done to advance swiftly towards transformation.   --    Ah, thats exactly the refrain I keep hearing all the time: You say that the Truth is manifesting, well, we really hope it will win the Victory soon!    I dont know.

0 1966-01-31, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    To discover the obstacles, the failings, the resistances in ones own being, in ones own consciousness, isnt a defeat, its a great Victory. And one shouldnt lament, one should rejoice.    But its full of failings!

0 1966-05-14, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    There were two days recently (since I saw you last time), two days especially Thursday, the day the peacock3 was there. The peacock crowed Victory the whole day (I saw it in the evening, it came and saw me on the terrace, it was so sweet!). Two very, very difficult days. After that, a sort of solidly established feeling that nothing is impossiblenothing is impossible (Mother points to Matter). What thought has long known, what the heart has long known, what the whole inner being has long known, now the body too knows: nothing, nothing whatever is impossible, everything is possible. Here inside, here inside, in this (Mother strikes her body), everything is possible.    All the impossibilities created by material life have disappeared.   --    A disciple's peacock had escaped and spent the whole day in the tree above the Samadhi and on the Ashram's terraces. (The peacock is the symbol of Victory.)    ***

0 1966-08-03, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    When the mind is active, or rather, as long as the mind is active, when you have dedicated your life and are fully convinced that its your only raison dtre, you tend to imagine that if you work for the Divine, the whole being participates, and if you aspire to progress, the whole being participates. You are satisfied once all contradiction has disappeared either in the vital or in the mind, and once everything is in agreement and harmonious. You think you have won a Victory. But then, now now that its the cells of the body that want and aspire, they have been forced to note that suffering, difficulty, opposition, complication, all that is only to make them be wholly, completely, totally and CONSTANTLY in their aspiration.    Its extremely interesting, really very interesting.

0 1966-08-19, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    Thats basically the point. We say Savitri is an epic; so Savitri is the epic of the Victory over death.    (silence)

0 1966-09-30, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    "For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in Victory." (I Corinthians 15:53-54)    Cent. Ed., 24.1237.

0 1966-11-03, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    Its generally fragmentsfragments of life that were individualized, and when in the present life you follow a normal development with the [various beings] gathering around the central consciousness, all those elements come back to gather together. They come back, each with its own memories. For instance, I had a memory like that (I tell you, Ive had hundreds of them) when I was very young (I must have been twenty or so). It wasnt at night, but I was lying down, resting: suddenly I felt myself riding a horse, with tremendous warlike power and the sense a will for Victory and the POWER of Victory. And I felt as if I was riding a horse: I saw a white horse, I saw my legs, with riding breeches, you understand, and a red velvet costume. And there I was, at a gallop. I couldnt tell what the head was like or anything, naturally! And also, the crowd, the armies, and the rising sun. It was so strong, the sense that it was the sense of the will for Victory and the POWER of Victory. It came just like that. Then, sometime later, I read somewhere the story of Murat (I forget I think his Victory was Magenta3 I no longer remember all that), and I immediately understood that my vision was at the moment of launching the battle: he had an inner call to a Power, so there was an identification [with Mothers power], and thats what I remembered and what came back. If I said (as the Theosophists tell you), I was Murat, it would be stupid. But it was a consciousness coming back. It was so strong! The impression lasted long enough, with the sense of the battle but above all the sense of that POWER making you invincible. It was interesting, because at the time (it was just in the beginning, I was beginning to take interest in these things and I had just come across the Cosmic teaching), I was convinced that a womans psychic being was always reincarnated in a woman and a mans psychic being was always reincarnated in a man (many schools teach that; Thon too believed so, he insisted on it). So it came as a surprise, because it wasnt in conformity with what I thought (!). Afterwards (long afterwards), I realized that naturally all those dogmas were nonsense, but    It fits with what I told you last time: the STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS are what reincarnate, evolving, developing, growing more perfect. Thats rather how it was, thats how that memory came. Its like that with many memories. And I know that to say states of consciousness are what reincarnate, to adopt that as the sole explanation would be incorrectits absolutely incorrect but its one way of looking at the question beyond the sense of the little personality. It broadens the consciousness: one has in oneself things far more universal and far less limited than personal experiences. Just as in life some people have an exceptional life, in the same way they also have exceptional moments in their life, when they no longer are one single little person: they are a force in action. Thats how it is.

0 1966-11-23, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    So this other Gentleman [Death] would say, See! See there, the kind of pity people have for you! But I answer, I dont need pity. (laughing) Thats not what I want: I want the Victory.    Its interesting.

0 1967-01-04, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    Radha1 is surrender.2 So we can say, The surrender to divine solicitude brings the Victory.    In Indian mythology, Radha gave herself wholly to Sri Krishna.

0 1967-02-04, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    Why? Theres a purple V in front of you. A purple Vnot purple: dark mauve, the colour of the vital. A V for Victory.    Has something happened?

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 1967-06-17, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    There is also that man who wrote from Israel, saying that their success, their Victory exceeded anything they had hoped for. And he adds, They seem to be too materialistic to know the real source of i the knew. But he says (he is American, not an Israeli; he may be Jewish by religion, I dont know, but he is American by birth), he says he greatly admires the way the country is organized, there in Israel, and that its a marvel of brotherhood and sense of organization. So he writes to ask me if this isnt the beginning of a future realization?    They clearly are very receptive. I saw it straight away; when I was told that the Egyptians, and in particular this president,1 had decreed that the Israeli nation must disappear, I straight away saw there was a very strong reaction2(laughing) it brought about quite a categorical result!

0 1967-07-05, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    No, but the incoherence of it all Some resent Indias attitude during the war, others resent Israels Victory in the war! So, never mind the most contradictory things in the same line of thoughtits the need to hate. To be unpleasant, as unpleasant as possible.    ***

0 1967-07-15, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    There was another experience I had a little later (a little later, around eighteen or nineteen), in which I suddenly found myself riding a horse, dressed as a man, leading armies to a fantastic Victory; and it was the glory of the sense of the presence of the Force of Victory that made me lead the entire army to Victory. Afterwards, I remembered the costume I was wearing, the peoples costumes, everything, and I saw it was Murats famous Victory.3 I was (how can I put it?) the victorious spirit in Murat. And ONLY THAT. So when people tell you, I was this person, that person, its all tales: they are forces, states of consciousness that manifested in certain individuals at certain moments in their lives and which, at such moments, touched Matter concretely. And all that is gathered, collected together little by little, gradually, until it produces a conscious being.    Now, this (Mothers being) is a rather special conscious being. The psychic of this life (laughing) was rather collective! Memories of Catherine the Great, memories of Elizabeth, memories of two lives at the same time (!) at the time of Francis I,4 memories innumerable memories, and quite diverse. Each one Its not that you were in such or such person for a whole life: you were the important psychic MOMENT in those existences.

0 1967-09-06, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    And without without the sense of Victory, thats what is so, so wonderful! Its the All-Victorious which doesnt at all have the sense of being victoriousnot at all, at all, at all.    (silence)

0 1967-10-04, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    Jai-jai means Victory-Victory!    So, if youd like to speak to him

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.    When it came, I said (laughing), What a Victory! Then came the memory, the vision of Sri Aurobindos time, and the impression, Well, is this (Durga was there, watching), is this what you want to vanquish? She didnt answer me, she smiled. And a few minutes later, poff! (same gesture of bursting), like that, I dont know how to explain it. But it was strange, I had never seen that before. The other times, when Sri Aurobindo was there, whenever she overcame something, the impression was of a power surrounding a falsehood (gesture as if to pull out a tuft of grass), surrounding it like that, forcibly isolating it, paralyzing it and taking all support away from it; but this time it was an odd phenomenon. Something totally nonexistent, without any truth in it. And all that way of being was as if hanging over the earth, in contact with certain people, but as if wrapped inside a bag: you understand, it had no contact with the rest, but once you were inside it, impossible to get out! You were shut in, it was impossible. Then it burst all at once: Ah! And nothing was left.    It was interesting in that it was the first time I was the witness to such a thing. And really it was as if I tried to feel, to touch it I tried, but there was nothing left! It was oppressive, you know: you tried to get out of it, but it was impossibleyou were shut in, a slave, powerless.

0 1967-10-19, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    This is a time of extremes, even extremes in the downright material. Did I tell you both the other day that I had received the first flower of a plant which visibly was supramental powera flower like this (gesture), a hibiscus? And yesterday there was the first flower of another plant, also a hibiscus, this big, snow-white, with such a colour at the centre! An indefinable colour, it cant be described. Its golden pink, but so beautiful that you wonder how such colours can be physical. A flower this big (gesture, about fifteen centimetres), the first flower was yesterday. And that was VISIBLY (it expressed itself, you know) the Victory of Love, the Power of Love. Its as if all this physical Nature were, oh, like this (gesture of intense aspiration), tryingshe tries, and there is a Response. They are blessed not to have a mind.    It was beautiful. It doesnt keep, otherwise I would have kept it to show it to you. How beautiful it was! Like this (same gesture of ardent aspiration): a thirst, a thirst for the Divine, a thirst for the Divine. All those mental ratiocinations and mental complications, it all goes round and round in circles. Yes, it does bring about whats now happening: a sordid conflict, really sordid, between Falsehood and Truth.   --    I told you about the meeting with Durga. Kali is there, waiting. And naturally, its the great power the great power, a power you understand, they are stronger, more powerful than this teeming humanity, so if you let them loose As for me, I want Love to be victorious RIGHT NOWshe will have the Victory, she will, but not after so much wastage.    (silence)

0 1967-12-16, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    So before we can proclaim, Love, manifest yourself, win the Victory, the ground of Truth must be ready.    Thats what I put to them all at the School: aspire, aspire to the Truth. I dont at all remember what I wrote (Mother tries to remember). One is, May the Truth be our master and our guide, then there were two others, and then, O Truth I dont remember.

0 1967-12-30, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    Its like a progressive Victory over all constraints. So naturally, all the laws of Nature, all the human laws, all habits, all rules, they all become increasingly supple and finally nonexistent. Yet it is possible to keep a regular rhythm that facilitates actionits not contrary to this suppleness. But its a suppleness in the execution, in the adaptation, which comes and changes everything. From the point of view of hygiene, health, organization, from the point of view of relationships with others, all that has not only lost its aggressiveness (because for that, it suffices to be wisewise and level-headed and calm), but also its absolutism, its imperative rule: thats completely gonegone.    And then you see: as the process grows more and more perfectperfect means integral, total, leaving nothing behindit NECESSARILY, inevitably means Victory over death. Not that this dissolution of the cells which death represents stops existing, but it would exist only when necessary: not as an absolute law, but as ONE of the processes, when necessary.    Its mainly that: all that the Mind has brought in terms of rigidity and absoluteness and near invincibility thats what is going to disappear. And simply by handing the supreme power over to the Supreme Consciousness.

0 1968-01-12, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    The day Satprem wrote this letter, Mother saw him as if seated between the two violet wings of a V of Victory (see Agenda 8 of February 4, 1967), See in Addendum the text of this letter.    This child has already been mentioned in relation with Paul Richard's "reincarnation."

0 1968-03-02, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    And for the human consciousness, it takes long. But as you remarked just before, its pretty. It feels like something going like this (gesture like a tide spreading out), very slowly for the human consciousness, certainly, but quite implacable towards resistances, and so sov-er-eign-ly sure of its Victory. Thats pretty. And with the least amount of damage, undeniably. Not to mention that what looks like damage may only be, seen in the whole, a means of higher realization.    "To live in Auroville one must be a willing servitor of the Divine Consciousness."

0 1968-05-22, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    With this latest adventure [the attack on Mother], this body has learned trust. It was very much steeped in pessimism because of its material antecedents. Certain antecedents, that is, father and mother, had been chosen for their great practicality and a very concrete material honesty, but no mysticism, nothing of the sortdeliberately. But then, it gave a kind of not exactly pessimism, but a very sharp vision of how things go wrong. The body had that, and its faith had to struggle against a habit of expecting difficulty, obstacles, resistance; although it had complete faith in the final Victory, it couldnt overcome the habit of expecting difficulties on the path. This latest adventure has given it a good push forward: its trust is much more smiling. And the general vision is as I told you. And constantly, all the time, even at the time of the worst difficulties, all the time there is it wells up from the cells, like a golden hymn: an incantation, you know, a call, an incantation to the supreme Power. And with such faith! A marvelous faith.    (silence)

0 1968-10-23, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    What happens is for the best in this sense only that the end will be a divine Victory in spite of all difficulties that has been and always will be my seeing, my faith and my assuranceif you are willing to accept it from me.    Sri Aurobindo

0 1968-11-02, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    Still, that you should have a man in this gang is a Victory.    Yes.

0 1968-12-28, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    In one minute To such a point that the body perceives that one minute like this (Mother slightly rotates two fingers) is a Victory; and one minute like that (Mother rotates her two fingers the other way) is a catastrophe. And not only for itself (for itself, its on a small scale and concentrated, its not the same thing), but its general.    Its an observation that began today (for hours, you know), and quite acutely. But its newnew in its ASPECT; its the continuation of all that preceded, but in the aspect it has taken on, its completely new. In other words, the body consciousness may be becoming aware of it in a new way.

0 1969-03-12, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    Local elections, which ended in rout for the Congress and Victory for the DMK (a Tamil party which was at the time seeking autonomy for the state of Tamil Nadu).    ***

0 1969-05-28, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    That promise of Victory from the Divine embodied on the earth carried me away with joy.    I repeat that I was fully conscious for as long as those experiences lasted.

0 1969-08-27, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    But by yielding (because in a way he yielded), did he win a greater Victory over that Asura?    Oh, yes, infinitely greater.

0 1969-10-08, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    The greatness of a country does not depend on the Victory of a party, but on the union of all the parties.    (Mother points to another note)

0 1969-10-11, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    (Mother first translates into French the messages she gave to Indira, in particular: "The value of the man is more important than the party to which he belongs.... The greatness of a country does not depend on the Victory of a party, but on the union of all the parties.")    Do you know that theres a passage from Sri Aurobindo that says exactly the same thing?.

0 1970-01-07, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    Truth is a difficult and arduous conquest. One needs to be a true warrior, a warrior who fears nothing, neither enemies nor death, for, despite all opposition, with or without a body, the fight goes on and shall end in Victory.    If you knew how COMPACT with golden light it was when it came! And I did not remember at all what was written.   --    Isnt it? Oh, there was an atmosphere of triumph. The atmosphere was so dense, you know. I only had the impression yes, that impression of Victory, of ABSOLUTE certitude: all possible doubts were gone, all weaknesses were gone, it was all like that. Afterwards, I said to myself, But what did I write? I had forgotten. Then I read it again (they brought it to me yesterday evening), and when I read it again, I said, Oh, thats it! I had forgotten.    It was so much the true consciousness, in which death does not exist: What is it?Nothing. That was the impression while I was writing, as if he had suddenly made me enter a world of truth in which this whole world of illusion and falsehood no longer had any force.

0 1970-03-14, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    That was the old division made by the mind: Above, things are very fine, you may have all experiences and everything is luminous and marvelous; here, nothing doing. And the impression that when one is born, one is born again into the hopeless world. That explains, by the way, why all those who did not foresee the possibility of things being otherwise had said, Better get out of here, and then All that has become so clear! But this change, the fact that its NO LONGER inescapable, that is the great Victory: its NO LONGER inescapable. You feelfeel and see, and the body itself has experienced the possibility that soon, here too, things will be truer.    There is there is really something changed in the world.   --    It has taken this Consciousness3 a little more than a year to win this Victory. Naturally, as yet its visible only to those who have the inner vision, but its done.    (long silence)

0 1970-06-17, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    to hew through, durchhauen, even at the risk or the cost of much damage to the outward life and the body? To the growing soul, to the spirit within us, may not difficulties, obstacles, attacks be a means of growth, added strength, enlarged experience, training for spiritual Victory? The arrangement of things may be that and not a mere question of the pounds, shillings and pence of a distribution of rewards and retri butory misfortunes!    Letters on Yoga, 22.449-450

0 1970-08-01, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    Whatever sufferings come on the path, are not too high a price for the Victory that has to be won and if they are taken in the right spirit, they become even a means towards the Victory.    Letters on Yoga, 24.1636

0 1970-10-31, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    Murat's Victory, galloping at the head of armies. See Agenda III of 30 June 1962 and Agenda VII of 3 November 1966.    Curiously, while Satprem read, Mothers breathing was normal throughout.

0 1971-02-13, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    (After the reading of Chapter 14 of On the Way to Supermanhood, The Victory over Death.)    I have the feeling of a new consciousness being formed.

0 1971-04-07, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    For me, Victory is certain, but I dont know if its tomorrow or (gesture into the distance).    I dont know what road we will take to get there.    Victory is certain, thats obvious, but what road are we going to take to get there?    And it very much depends on our individual position; thats what they dont understand. We must cling, cling so tightly to the Truth that nothing can touch us.

0 1971-04-14, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    Yes, yes I know. I am telling you, day and night, all the time, it was coming like that all the time. But if one couldno not if: one MUST, one must change that into a great Victory, petit. Let everything still clinging to the lower part gofinished, let it be swept away for good.    Yes, Mother, I would like that. With your help, yes.

0 1971-05-15, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    The Greater History tells us that the whole earth is a single body with a single destiny, but that within that single destiny each part of the greater body, each nation, has its special role to play and its rare moments of choice when it must make the decisive gesture, its true gesture in the total movement of the great Eternal History. Each nation is a symbol. Each gesture of each nation potentially represents a little Victory in the total Victory or a little defeat in the total defeat. And sometimes the whole of our history is at stake at a symbolic point of the earth; and, a little gesture, a tiny turn to the right or left, has repercussions, either good or bad, down the ages and over the entire earth body.    India is precisely such a symbol and Bangladesh is another, a little turning point in the great course of events of the earth. The time has come to consider the eternal Landmarks and read the greater tide in the small eddies. Now, the greater tide tells us that Indias role is to be the spiritual heart of the terrestrial body just as, for example, the role of France is to express clarity of intellect, or that of Germany to express skill, Russia the brotherhood of man and the United States enthusiasm for adventure and practical organization, etc. But only if India is ONE can she fulfill this role, for how can one who is herself divided lead others? Thus the division of India is the first Falsehood that must disappear, for it is the symbol of the earths division. As long as India is not one, the world cannot be one. Indias striving for unity is the symbolic drama of the worlds striving for unity.

0 1971-05-22, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    But is that possibility of Victory which you feel something recent?    Yes.   --    Just a few days ago, the disaster seemed to be closing in. And so, at that moment, it was as if my whole being whats the word? (Mother clenches her fists), were, yes, you can call it an aspiration for the true Victorynot the one sought by this side or that side or the true Victory. ALL the difficulties seemed to have been as though a light shone: the possibility of Victory. Its still not miraculous, but the intervention its the intervention of the Supreme Wisdomwill it concretize? Well see. It seems, it seems to be coming like this (gesture at a certain height, her two palms turned downward), as a possibility.    Yes, its recent, quite recent. I cant say because it didnt come abruptly, but its a matter of days.   --    Thats always there. Its everything that does not want the Divine which creates the atmosphere deliberately to discourage those who want the Divine. You must you mustnt pay any attention. Its the device of the devil. Pessimism is the devils tool, for he feels his own situation is (shaky gesture). You know, if the possibility I see materializes, it will really be a decisive Victory over the adverse forcesnaturally they fight back as best as they can. But thats always the devil, as soon as you see even the tail of pessimism, its the devil. Thats his great tool.    (long silence)   --    Perhaps? Perhaps. Perhaps is was the Victory. If it was the Victory, thats good.    Do you still see them?

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 1971-09-22, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    Ooh! That must be the supramental Victory. A white peacock is the integral Victory; a golden tail is the supramental realization. Did you see that?    Satprem saw it.   --    Why, thats splendid! Its splendid. It announces the Victory. What were you meditating on?    But I dont know, I just saw it in passing.    Oh! Thats very good. Its the supramental Victory. (Mother seems delighted) Its good.1    "Coincidentally," that day Mother was wearing a white silk dress with peacock feathers painted on it.

0 1971-09-29, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    (Last day of the Durga festivals, Vijaya dashami, marking the Victory of the Universal Mother over an Asura.)    Do you want a [blessing] packet?   --    It was clear, very clear today, a sort of Pressure to say: Victory is Harmony; Victory is the Divine; and for the body, Victory is good health. Any, any discomfort, any disease is a falsehood. It came this morning. It was very CLEAR. It was convincing, you know.    So its all right.

0 1971-10-20, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    I have become confirmed in a perception which I had always, less clearly and dynamically then, but which has now become more and more evident to me, that the true basis of work and life is the spiritual,that is to say, a new consciousness to be developed only by Yoga. I see more and more manifestly that man can never get out of the futile circle the race is always treading until he has raised himself on to the new foundation. I believe also that it is the mission of India to make this great Victory for the world. But what precisely was the nature of the dynamic power of this greater consciousness? What was the condition of its effective truth? How could it be brought down, mobilised, organised, turned upon life? How could our present instruments, intellect, mind, life, body be made true and perfect channels for this great transformation? This was the problem I have been trying to work out in my own experience and I have now a sure basis, a wide knowledge and some mastery of the secret. Not yet its fulness and complete imperative presence therefore I have still to remain in retirement. For I am determined not to work in the external field till I have the sure and complete possession of this new power of action,not to build except on a perfect foundation.    But still I have gone far enough to be able to undertake one work on a larger scale than before the training of others to receive this Sadhana and prepare themselves as I have done, for without that my future work cannot even be begun. There are many who desire to come here and whom I can admit for the purpose, there are a greater number who can be trained at a distance; but I am unable to carry on unless I have sufficient funds to be able to maintain a centre here and one or two at least outside. I need therefore much larger resources than I at present command. I have thought that by your recommendation and influence you may help Barin to gather them for me.

0 1971-11-27, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    A Victory won over the lower nature will give a deeper and more lasting joy than any outer success.    And then this (Mother hands another paper). This is an experience I had yesterday (Mother smiles with her eyes closed). All of a sudden I saw I saw the world in another way. For a moment, all of a sudden I saw as as the Divine sees the world, you understand? There was no longer the human vision. And I saw something so marvelous. It was so marvelous I cant describe it. Then slowly the human consciousness came back and oh! (Mother takes her forehead in her hands)

0 1971-12-11, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    This body, this obscure beast of burden we inhabit, is the experimental field of Sri Aurobindos yogawhich is a yoga of the whole earth, for one can easily understand that if a single being among our millions of sufferings succeeds in negotiating the evolutionary leap, the mutation of the next age, the face of the earth will be radically altered. Then all the so-called powers of which we boast today will seem like childish games before the radiance of this almighty embodied spirit. Sri Aurobindo tells us that it is possiblenot only possible but that it will be done. It is being done. And perhaps everything depends not so much on a sublime effort of humanity to transcend its limitations for that means still using our own human strength to free ourselves from human strengthas on a call, a conscious cry of the earth to this new being which the earth already carries within itself. All is already there, within our hearts, the supreme Source which is the supreme Poweronly we must call it into our forest of cement, we must understand the meaning of man, the meaning of ourselves. The amplified cry of the earth, of its millions of men and women who cannot bear it anymore, who no longer accept their prison, must open a crack to let the new vibration in. Then all the apparently ineluctable laws that bind us in their hereditary and scientific groove will crumble before the Joy of the sun-eyed children.12 Expect nothing from death, says Mother, life is your salvation. It is in life that you must transform yourself. It is on earth that you progress and on earth that you realize. It is in the body that you win the Victory.13    Nor let worldly prudence whisper too closely in thy ear, says Sri Aurobindo, for it is the hour of the unexpected.14

0 1972-01-15, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    That experience is more and more constant. Its become very. Sometimes its for one thing, sometimes for another (the practical things of life like eating, walking, etc.). It has become very intense. But at the same time, theres the knowledge (Mother raises her forefinger): Now is the time to win the Victory. Which comes from the psychic, from above. Hold on hold on, now is the time to win the Victory.    Quite interesting really.

0 1972-02-23, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    I think that (all these are big words for small things) I think that I have won a Victory. But it was difficult.    Something changed afterwards.

0 1972-04-12, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    Let us put ourselves deliberately and exclusively on the side of the Divine and the Victory is ultimately certain.    The Mother    Strange how human nature resists that. Ordinary human nature is such that it prefers defeat on its own terms to Victory in another way. I am making amazing discoveries these daysjust amazing.    Human stupidity is abysmal. Abysmal.

0 1972-08-16, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    According to what I had heard before,1 according to that, it was a big Victory. But nothing was visible. I didnt say anything to anybody. Even so, several people felt it was the beginning of something.    Its a long story. Some adverse forces had banded together and decided that I was going to die yesterday. And it was true, it happened, there was an attack. In that sense a real Victory took place at the balcony. But it was invisible.    Now if this (whats the word?) this news is true, if it continues to be true, I should last till Ill be this way (gesture in suspense or between two positions) till my centenary, that is, 1978, then (still assuming this voice is true), the supramental transformation of the body will begin.

0 1972-09-30, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    The principle of mechanical repetition is very strong in the material nature, so strong that it makes one easily think that it is incurable. That, however, is only a trick of the forces of this material inconscience; it is by creating this impression that they try to endure. If, on the contrary, you remain firm, refuse to be depressed or discouraged and, even in the moment of attack, affirm the certainty of eventual Victory, the Victory itself will come much more easily and sooner.    Letters on Yoga, XXIV.1336

0 1972-10-18, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    Yes, Mother, if you like. Im tempted to ask you if Durga won a Victory this year?    We shouldnt talk about it.    I think it was a REAL Victory.    (Mother plunges in till the end. Then Sujata draws near her)   --    Of Victory, yes.    (To Satprem:) Did he get the Victory?    Yes, Mother, I hope so! [laughter]    (Sujata:) Which Victory, Mother?    Which Victory? But there is only one, my child.    Which is?    The Victory we can call it what we like: the Victory of Truth over Falsehood, the Victory of the Lord over his creation.    Which means the creation will now go consciously towards the Divine?   --    Well, that Victory is still only for a few.    The creation consciously going towards its divine Origin and ready to manifest that Origin is still only for a few. I think it will take centuries until it becomes generaloh, centuries, maybe millenniums!    But what matters is for us to be the few who are conscious, who consciously (silence, Mother opens her hands) manifest the Divine. That is our Victory, for a few of us, which we can and must win and embodyto win, I mean overcome the material resistance in the body (Mother pinches the skin of her arm). That we can and it is our duty to overcome I mean all the stupid unconscious resistance. That must come to an end. This is our work, and it must be done here (pointing to the body).    (silence)

02.01 - The World War, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    A great opportunity is offered to India's soul, a mighty auspicious moment is come, if she can choose. If she chooses rightly, then can she arrive at the perfect fulfilment of her agelong endeavour, her life mission. India has preserved and fostered through the immemorial spiritual living of her saints and seers and sages the invaluable treasure, the vitalising, the immortalising power of spirituality, so that it can be placed at the service of terrestrial life for the deliverance of mankind, for the transfiguration of the human type. It is this for which India lives; by losing this India loses all her reason of existenceraison d'tre the earth and humanity too lose all significance. Today we are in the midst of an incomparable ordeal. If we know how to take the final and crucial step, we come out of it triumphant, a new soul and a new body, and we make the path straight for the Lord. We have to recognise clearly and unequivocally that Victory on' one side will mean that the path of the Divineof progress and evolution and fulfilmentwill remain open, become wider and smoother and safer; but if the Victory is on the other side, the path will be closed perhaps for ever, at least for many ages and even then the travail will have to be undergone again under the most difficult conditions and circumstances. Not with a political shortsightedness, not out of -the considerations of convenience or diplomacy, of narrow parochial interests, but with the steady vision of the soul that encompasses the supreme welfare of humanity, we have to make our choice, we have to go over to the right side and oppose the wrong one with all the integrity of our life and being. The Allies, as they have been justly called, are really our allies, our friends and comrades, in spite of their thousand faults and defects; they have stood on the side of the Truth whose manifestation and triumph is our goal. Even though they did not know perhaps in, the beginning what they stood for, even though perhaps as yet they do not comprehend the full sense and solemnity of the issues, still they have chosen a side which is ours, and we have to stand by them whole-heartedly in an all-round comradeship if we want to be saved from a great perdition.    This war is a great menace; it is also a great opportunity. It can land humanity into a catastrophe; it can also raise it to levels which would not have been within its reach but for the occasion. The Forces of Darkness have precipitated themselves with all their might upon the world, but by their very downrush have called upon the higher Forces of Light also to descend. The true' use of the opportunity offered to man would be to bring about a change, better still, a reversal, in his consciousness, that is to say, it will be of highest utility if it forces upon him by the pressure of inexorable circumstancessince normally he is so unwilling and incapable to do it through a spontaneous inner awakening the inescapable decision that he must change and shall change; and the change is to be for or towards the birth of a spiritual consciousness in earthly life. Indeed the war might be viewed" as the birth-pangs of such a spiritual consciousness. Whether the labour would be sublimely fruitful here and how or end in barrenness is the question the Fates and the gods are asking of man the mortal beingtoday.

02.04 - The Kingdoms of the Little Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   And praised their Victory and their splendid force.   41.22   --   And pleasure and Victory in small fields of power   And conquest of life-room for self and kin,

02.06 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   A mighty Victory or a mighty fall,   A throne in heaven or a pit in hell,   --   And Victory's star still lights our desperate road;   Our death is made a passage to new worlds.   --   Our life is a march to a Victory never won.   This wave of being longing for delight,

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.    ***

02.10 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Attempt, not Victory, was the charm of life.   68.

02.11 - Hymn to Darkness, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    (VIII) Daughter of Heaven! A Herd of light is this hymn of Victory that moves towards you. I have made it for your sake. Do thou accept it, O Night.    "Towards the other bank in a still darker night."

02.12 - The Heavens of the Ideal, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Insignia of their Victory and their faith,   They offered to the Traveller at their gates

02.13 - In the Self of Mind, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   It gave no heed to the paeans of Victory,   It was indifferent to its own defeats,

03.01 - The New Year Initiation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    Today at the beginning of the New Year we have to bear in mind what aim, what purpose inspired us to enter into this tremendous terrible work, what force, what strength has been leading us to Victory. They who consider themselves as collaborators in the progressive evolution of Nature must constantly realise the truth that if Victory has come within the range of possibility, it has done so in just proportion to their sincerity, by the magic grace of the Mahashakti, the grace which the aspiration of their inner consciousness has called down. And what is now but possible will grow into the actual if we keep moving along the path we have so far followed. Otherwise, if we falter, fail and break faith, if we relapse into the old accustomed track, if under pressure of past habits, under the temptation of immediate selfish gain, under the sway of narrow parochial egoism, we suppress or maim the wider consciousness of our inner being or deny it in one way or another, then surely we shall wheel back and fall into the clutches of those very hostile powers which it has been our determined effort to overthrow. Even if we gain an outward Victory it will be a disastrous, moral and spiritual defeat. That will mean a tragic reversalto be compelled to begin again from the very beginning. Nature will not be baulked of her aim. Another travail she will have to undergo and that will be far more agonising and terrible.    But we do not expect such a catastrophe. We have hope and confidence that the secret urge of Nature, the force of the Mahashakti will save man, individually and collectively, from ignorance and foolishness, vouchsafe to him genuine good sense and the true inspiration.    The hour has come when a choice has to be made, radical and definitive. Lord, give us the strength to reject the falsehood and emerge in Thy truth, pure and worthy of Thy Victory1943    ***

03.02 - The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Escape brings not the Victory and the crown!   Something thou cam'st to do from the Unknown,

03.03 - The House of the Spirit and the New Creation, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   And from the naked Spirit's Victory   A new and marvellous creation rose.

03.04 - The Vision and the Boon, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Where is the thunder of thy Victory's wings?   Only we hear the feet of passing gods.

03.05 - The World is One, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    We ask for freedom, liberty of the individual, self-determinationwell and good. But that does not mean the licence to do as one pleases, impelled by one's irrational idiosyncrasies. The individual must be truly individual, not a fractional being, the self must be the real self, not a shadow or surface formulation in order to have the full right to unfettered movement. Liberty, yes; but that means liberty for all which means again the other two terms of the great trinity, equality and fraternity. Individuality, yes; that means every individuality, in other words, solidarity. The two sides of the equation must be given equal value and equal emphasis. If the stress upon one leads to Nazism, Fascism or Stalinism, steam-rollered uniformity or streamlined regimentation, the death of the individual, the other emphasis leads to disintegration and disruption, to the same end in a different way. But in the world of today, after the Victory in the last war over the Nazi conception of humanity, it seems as though the spirit of disruption has gone abroad, human consciousness has been atom-bombed into flying fragments; so we have the spectacle of all manner of parochialism pullulating on the earth, regional and ideologicalimperial blocs, nations, groups, parties have chequered ad infinitum, have balkanised human commonalty.    We badly needed a United Nations Organisation, but we are facing the utmost possible disunity. The lesson is that politics alone will not save us, nor even economics. The word has gone forth: what is required is a change of heart. The leaders of humanity must have a new heart grafted in place of the old. That is the surgical operation imperative at the moment. That heart will declare in its beats that the cosmos is not atomic but one and indivisible,ekam sat, neha nnsti kicana.

03.06 - The Pact and its Sanction, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    The Pact if it is to be a success must be implemented at three levels. First of all, at the highest level, at the source itself, that is to say, between the Governments who initiated the move. The ministers and members at the top should themselves maintain an entente cordiale (in the literal and true sense of the phrase) and set an example by their word and deed, and what is more difficult and important, in their thought and feeling. They that are on either side of the fence should meet and talk and intermix as real friends and comrades, devise ways and means as to how best to carry out what they sincerely wish and desire. If they do not believe in the agreement in their heart of hearts, if they accept it simply because forced by compelling circumstances and because there was no other way out, if they entertain doubts and reservations and take it up as a pis aller, than surely more than half the force of the Pact is already gone. If the Pact is not sealed by the truth of our heart, then it becomes a mere scrap of paper and is sure to go the way of all such papers. It will not be stronger than the hundred and one contracts that are made between states only to be broken at the earliest opportunity. We have taken as the motto of our government the flaming mantra of the Upanishad, Truth alone leads to Victory; we should not forget the continuation of the text, and not false hood.    The leaders overhead should be actuated by the truth of the soul (indeed for that they should have first a soul). A mainly political deal covers up the fissure, an apparent solution or easing of the situation hides a festering sore. We should have understood by now, it has been the bitter lesson of the epoch comprising the last two great wars that mere politics does not save, on the contrary, it leads you into a greater and greater mess. And still if governments have not learnt the lesson, if they follow the old system of real-politick, well, we can say only God save us, for we are heading straight over the precipicea final crash or a terrible revolution.

03.07 - The Sunlit Path, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    If the present war has any meaning, as we all declare it has, then we must never lose sight of that meaning. And our true Victory will come only in the process of the realisation of that meaning. That is the sunlit path we refer to here which the nations have to follow in their mutual dealings. It is the path of the evolutionary call to which we say we have responded and to which we must remain loyal and faithful in thought, in speech and in deed. If we see dark and ominous clouds gathering round us, dangers and difficulties suddenly raising their heads, then we must look about and try honestly to find out whether we have not strayed away from the sunlit path.    ***

03.10 - Hamlet: A Crisis of the Evolving Soul, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    The crisis in Hamlet reminds us of another somewhat similar one, that is the basis and starting-point of the great episode in the Mahabharata the Gita. Arjuna, the ideal hero and man of action, in absolute self-confidence and certitude, with no doubt or hesitation about anything in the world, advances into the very thick of the bloody strife and lo! all is changed as with a magic wand! What was to him a moment before a clear duty, an evident act of righteousness, the noblest of deeds, now appears nothing less than an inglorious slaughter. The bow of Victory slips from the hand of the mighty warrior and, all nerve and tremor, he sinks down in gloom and dejection and complete confusion.    Arjuna tided over the crisis as he could avail himself of the knowledge of the way out and the necessary help that was given by the Divine Guide. Hamlet bears the full crash of doom upon his head and makes others also share its consequences with him. At one point, however, he seemed to make just a move towards the right solution of the difficulty. He finds that the avoidance of the Evil by self-destructionwhich is a common and natural temptation in like situationsis no solution: it may lead you into a still greater evil. One has to face the evil, stand and fight it. Once this is decided, the right course for the hero (the Aryan fighter, as the Gitawould say) would be to live

03.13 - Dynamic Fatalism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    If it is so, then what is the necessity at all of work and labour and travailthis difficult process of sadhana? The question is rather naive, but it is very often asked. The answer also could be very simple. The change decreed is precisely worked out through the travail: one is the end, the other is the means; the goal and the process, both are decreed and inevitable. If it is argued, supposing none made the effort, even then would the change come about, in spite of man's inaction? Well, first of all, this is an impossible supposition. Man cannot remain idle even for a moment: not only the inferior Nature, but the higher Nature too is always active in himremember the words of the Gita though behind the veil, in the inner consciousness. Secondly, if it is really so, if man is not labouring and working and making the attempt, then it must be understood that the time has not yet come for him to undergo the change; he has still to wait: one of the signs of the imminence of the change is this very intensity and extensiveness of the labour among mankind. If, however, a particular person chooses to do nothing, prefers to wait and seehopes in the end to jump at the fruit all at once and possess it or hopes the fruit to drop quietly into his mouthwell, this does not seem to be a likely happening. If one wishes to enjoy the fruit, one must share in the effort to sow and grow. Indeed, the process itself of reaching the higher consciousness involves a gradual heightening of the consciousness. The means is really part of the end. The joy of Victory is the consummation of the joy of battle.    Man can help or retard the process of Nature, in a sense. If his force of consciousness acts in line with Nature's secret movement, then that movement is accelerated: through the soul or self that is man, it is the Divine, Nature's lord and master who drives and helps Nature forward. If, on the contrary, man follows his lesser self, his lower ego, rajasic and tamasic, then he throws up obstacles and barriers which hamper and slow down Nature's march.

04.01 - The Birth and Childhood of the Flame, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   No Victory she admits of Death or Fate.   Always she drives the soul to new attempt;   --   A scout of Victory in a vigil tower,   Her aspiration called high destiny down;

04.07 - Readings in Savitri, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    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.    II

04.07 - To the Heights VII (Mahakali), #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    Here and now shall be her Victory.    Terrible Mother who presses her children through blazing fire,

04.17 - To the Heights-XVII, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    Rush towards me assured of Victory-    May they roll back in confusion and turn away upon themselves

05.07 - Man and Superman, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    Even so mankind, at the crucial parting of the ways, would very naturally look askance at the diminished value of many of its qualities and attri butes in the new status to come. First of all, as it has been pointed out, the intellect and reasoning power will have to surrender and abdicate. The very power by which man has attained his present high status and maintains it in the world has to be sacrificed for something else called intuition or revelation whose value and efficacy are unknown and have to be rigorously tested. Anyhow, is not the known devil by far and large preferable to the unknown entity? And then the zest of life, peculiar to man, that works through contradictionsdelight and suffering, Victory and defeat, war and peace, doubt and knowledge, all the play of light and shade, the spirit of adventure, of combat and struggle and heroic effort, will have to go and give place to something, peaceful and harmonious perhaps but monotonous, insipid, unprogressive. The very character of human life is its passion to battle through, even if it is not always through. For it is often said that the end or goal does not matter, the goal is always something uncertain; it is the way, the means, the immediate action that is of supreme consequence: for it is that that tests man's manhood, gives him the value he may have. And above all man is asked to give up the very thing which he has laboured to build up through millenniums of his terrestrial life, his individuality, his personality, for the demand is that he must lose his ego in order to attain the superhuman status.    So, the probability is that a large part of humanity will remain wedded to the normal human life. But this does not lessen in any way the value, the tremendous importance of what happens to the other part, may be, not insignificant or inconsiderable. Along with those that doubt and deny, there will be those who believe and affirm, who will stand for divinisation, whatever dehumanisation it may imply.

05.12 - The Soul and its Journey, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    Now the time and occasion for a particular birth of the soul depends naturally on the inner need of that being. But it must be notedas it is a fact in the occult world that the souls are not so many absolutely separate unrelated autonomous self-sufficient entities, each one coming and going as and when it chooses and likes: on the contrary, the souls form groups or families according to some secret affinity. And when they come down, they do so not unoften in company. A call goes, a bell is rung as it were intimating that the hour is come and they rush down. And it may even happen that in rushing down a psychic being is not too careful or fastidious about the instrument, the vehicle he chooses to inhabit; whatever is handy and nearest and on the whole suitable to his purpose he takes up and goes forward. He takes it all as an adventure and has the joy of battle and the warrior spirit that can taste of Victory only when hard fought and won. That is how we meet not unoften a considerable discrepancy between the inner being of a man and his earthly tenement, his soul and his external character and physical nature. There is a meaning in the choice, a significance in the utilisation of unfavourable conditions: there is a method in the madness.    This grouping will appear natural and inevitable when we bear in mind the purpose of creation and the role of the psychic consciousness. For it is not a matter of individual salvation, of the unilateral growth and development and fulfilment of an individual psychic being. The soul is a luminous point in an inconscient universe and its role is to make it conscious, at least a representative portion of it. The psychic being's activity is the means of a new creation, the trans-mutation of the earth-consciousness, the growth and advent of a divine race, the manifestation and embodiment of the Divine and his play upon earth. The souls are the warriors, playmates, the beloved of the Lord. They have to assemble and move together for the interest of the play. They have to be in companies and regiments and battalions, in associations and concert and harmonised formations.

05.25 - Sweet Adversity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    Hope is the image of the soul's prophetic vision. It is not just a way of escape from present sorrows, but a bridge-head leading to Victory and fulfilment.    ***

06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Or bring to it Victory and the reign of God.   A greater power must come, a larger light.   --   Calm is self's Victory overcoming fate.   Bear; thou shalt find at last thy road to bliss.   --   Its splendid failures sum to Victory.   O man, the events that meet thee on thy road,

06.11 - The Steps of the Soul, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    One who has thus known oneself and possessed oneself conquering all opposition within himself, has by that very fact extended himself and his conquest, making it easier for others to make the same or similar conquest. These are the pioneers or the elite who by their victorious campaign within themselves help others towards their Victory.    ***

06.13 - Body, the Occult Agent, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    A body, in this way, becomes the instrument, a lever for producing mighty changes and creations upon earth. This conception of the occult potency of the body is at the basis of the rite or institution of sacrifice that was a characteristic feature of the old-world society. Iphigenia was offered as a victim to avert the wrath of the gods and bring Victory to the Greeks. Sometimes an animal replaced the human victim and served the same purpose and in the same way. And in a higher senseindeed in the highest sensea body can sacrifice itself in such a waywholly and integrallyas to bring about a corresponding integral reversal or revaluation in the physical world. A human being that makes of himself a holocaustburns himself out at the altar of the Divinekeeping nothing for his own sake, living for the Divine alone, by calling down the divine will in himself, brings into the earthly life too a divine presence and transformation. A total physical sacrifice results inevitably into a total expression and embodiment of the Divine in the Physical world.    ***

07.03 - The Entry into the Inner Countries, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Here is the Victory of a single Truth,   Here burns the diamond of flawless bliss.

07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   And majesty and Victory sat with her   Guarding in the wide cosmic battlefield

07.05 - The Finding of the Soul, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Exults in Victory, struggles for the crown;   526   --   Then lifts the mind a cry of Victory:   "O soul, my soul, we have created Heaven,

07.29 - How to Feel that we Belong to the Divine, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    Personal Effort and Will Sincerity is Victory    Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Part SevenHow to Feel that we Belong to the Divine   --    Personal Effort and Will Sincerity is Victory

07.30 - Sincerity is Victory, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga   object:07.30 - Sincerity is Victory   author class:Nolini Kanta Gupta   --    Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Part SevenSincerity is Victory    Sincerity is Victory    To be sincere and to be candid are not the same thing. To be candid means a simplicity based, in a large measure, upon an ignorance of things. A child is candid, because he is simple and ignorant and hides nothing; he is incapable of it and has no will to deceive anyone. But sincerity is different.    Sincerity is a most difficult thing to have, but it is also the most effective of things. If you have sincerity, you are sure of Victory. But it must be true sincerity. Sincerity means that all the elements of your being, all its movements, each and every one, from the most spiritual to the most physical, from the inmost to the outermost, from the top-most to the bottom-most, all parts, severally and wholly and equally are turned to the Divine,' they ask for nothing else than the Divine, they live for and by the Divine.    And it is not an easy thing. To be sincere in a part, to be sincere on the whole, to be sincere at moments is easy enough; everybody can have or achieve that much. It is within the capacity of any human being with normal good will, to be sincere in his psychic movements, even if these are rare. But to be sincere in every cell of your physical body is a still rarer and arduous achievement. To make the body cells so one-pointed that they too feel they cannot live but for the Divine and in and through the Divine. That is true sincerity and that is what you must have.   --    When I say that if you are sincere you are sure of Victory, I mean that kind of sincerity, whole and undivided: the pure flame that burns like an offering, the intense joy of existing for the Divine alone where nothing else exists, nothing has any meaning or reason for existence but in the Divine. Nothing has value or interest if it is not this call, this aspiration, this opening to the supreme truth; all this that we call the Divine. You must serve the only reason for which the universe exists: take it away, all disappears.    ***

07.31 - Images of Gods and Goddesses, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    Sincerity is Victory The Yogic Centres    Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Part Seven Images of Gods and Goddesses   --    Sincerity is Victory The Yogic Centres

07.40 - Service Human and Divine, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    In a deeper sense it is indeed by serving yourself that you serve others best. When you discover a dark spot in you, a grain of egoism, ambition, selfishness, when you do not yield to its impulsion but surmount it, when you thus conquer in yourself a movement that leads you astray, in the same gesture you make the conquest for the sake of others too, you create the same possibility in others. There can be nothing more dynamic than this setting of personal example. It is not that others observe you and imitate you; the influence is more subtle and more powerful. You create the opportunity, make an opening, bring into active play the force of your realisation, even without the knowledge of others; the others are only benefited by the invisible help that is lent to them. But you must be on your guard here too. You must not say, 1 will help others, so let me improve myself. There should not be any such spirit of barter or bargain. Confine yourself to your own business; how others are affected or not affected is not your concern. If you entertain that kind of idea, you invite the same vanity and egoism, by the back door. Yours should be like the blooming of a flower; it blooms out of its own joy and delight of self-fulfilment; in the process, by its very existence it spreads its perfume all around, fills the surroundings with its glad vibration, but that simply happens, it does not do all that purposely or intentionally. Even so the soul that perfects himself: the Victory he wins for himself is contagious and extends automatically.    I have said your ego is an illusion. Your I does not exist at all. There is nothing like separate, distinct individualities and individual fulfilment. The Divine alone exists and the Divine's Will. He is the single and unique and all-embracing reality. What then is the source of this variety and diversity of existence? What is the significance, if any, of the many individualities and personalities, their appearance and play on the world-stage?

08.26 - Faith and Progress, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    One must aspire, it is indispensable; but there are people who aspire and yet with so much conflict within them, between faith and want of faith, trust and distrust, between optimism that is sure of Victory and pessimism that is just waiting for the catastrophe to come etc., etc. If such is the state of your being, you may aspire but nothing will come out of it. You say, "I aspire and I get nothing"; that is because you are demolishing your aspiration all the while by your want of trust. But if truly you have the trust, things would be different. Children, for example, when they are left to themselves, when they have not been deformed by elderly people, have a great confidence that everything will be all right. When they have an accident they never think that it will be anything serious. They have the spontaneous conviction that it will be set right soon and that helps things to get right soon. When you aspire for the Force, ask for the Divine's help, if you do it with an unshakable certitude that the thing will come, in that case, it is impossible for it not to come. In fact, as I say, such a conviction is in itself an inner opening. There are people who are naturally and automatically in this condition. Whenever or wherever there occurs an opportunity to receive something from above they are there present. And there are others who always fail to be on the spot when there is an occasion for the descent: they close themselves at the right moment. But they who have the childlike reliance they never miss an opportunity. It is a very curious phenomenon. Apparently there may not be much difference between the two types. Both may have the same goodwill, the same aspiration, the same desire to do one's best, but he who has a happy confidence in him, who does not question, who does not ask if he will have the thing or not, whether the Divine will answer or notfor, to him that is not the question, it is understood and taken for granted: "The thing I need I shall be given," he says, "if I pray my prayer will be granted, in am in difficulty and I ask for help, the help will come, it will not only come but settle everything"I say, the person who has such a spontaneous, candid, unquestioning reliance gets the best conditions under which an effective descent can take place; its action then is marvellous.    It is with your mental contradictions and doubts that you spoil everything, with this kind of ideas that enter into you when you are in difficulty: "It is impossible, I shall never come to the end of it, supposing the situation gets worse, supposing I am to roll down etc., etc... " In this way you build up a wall between yourself and the Force that you want to receive.

09.02 - The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   This sorrowful Victory only hast thou won   To live for a little without Satyavan.

10.01 - The Dream Twilight of the Ideal, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   A grey defeat pregnant with Victory,   A whip to lash us towards our deathless state.

1.002 - The Heifer, #Quran, #unset, #Zen   89. And when a scripture came to them from God, confirming what they have—although previously they were seeking Victory against those who disbelieved—but when there came to them what they recognized, they disbelieved in it. So God’s curse is upon the disbelievers.   90. Miserable is what they sold their souls for—rejecting what God has revealed, out of resentment that God would send down His grace upon whomever He chooses from among His servants. Thus they incurred wrath upon wrath. And there is a demeaning punishment for the disbelievers.   --   214. Or do you expect to enter Paradise before the example of those who came before you had reached you? Adversity and hardship had afflicted them, and they were so shaken up, that the Messenger and those who believed with him said, “When is God’s Victory?” Indeed, God’s Victory is near.   215. They ask you what they should give. Say, “Whatever charity you give is for the parents, and the relatives, and the orphans, and the poor, and the wayfarer. Whatever good you do, God is aware of it.

1.003 - Family of Imran, #Quran, #unset, #Zen   123. God had given you Victory at Badr, when you were weak. So fear God, that you may be thankful.   124. When you said to the believers, “Is it not enough for you that your Lord has reinforced you with three thousand angels, sent down?”   --   126. God made it but a message of hope for you, and to reassure your hearts thereby. Victory comes only from God the Almighty, the Wise.   127. He thus cuts off a section of those who disbelieved, or subdues them, so they retreat disappointed.

10.03 - The Debate of Love and Death, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Earth saw my struggle, heaven my Victory;   All shall be seized, transcended; there shall kiss

10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   The battle and the Victory and the fall,   The aimless journey that can never pause,   --   Thou claimst the first fruits of Truth's Victory.   But what is Truth and who can find her form

1.004 - Women, #Quran, #unset, #Zen   73. But when some bounty from God comes to you, he says—as if no affection existed between you and him—“If only I had been with them, I would have achieved a great Victory.”   74. Let those who sell the life of this world for the Hereafter fight in the cause of God. Whoever fights in the cause of God, and then is killed, or achieves Victory, We will grant him a great compensation.   75. And why would you not fight in the cause of God, and the helpless men, and women, and children, cry out, “Our Lord, deliver us from this town whose people are oppressive, and appoint for us from Your Presence a Protector, and appoint for us from Your Presence a Victor.”   --   141. Those who lie in wait for you: if you attain Victory from God, they say, “Were we not with you?” But if the disbelievers get a turn, they say, “Did we not side with you, and defend you from the believers?” God will judge between you on the Day of Resurrection; and God will give the disbelievers no means of overcoming the believers.   142. The hypocrites try to deceive God, but He is deceiving them. And when they stand for prayer, they stand lazily, showing off in front of people, and remembering God only a little.

1.005 - The Table, #Quran, #unset, #Zen   52. You will see those in whose hearts is sickness racing towards them. They say, “We fear the wheel of fate may turn against us.” But perhaps God will bring about Victory, or some event of His making; thereupon they will regret what they concealed within themselves.   53. Those who believe will say, “Are these the ones who swore by God with their strongest oaths that they are with you?” Their works have failed, so they became losers.

1.006 - Livestock, #Quran, #unset, #Zen   16. Whoever is spared on that Day—He had mercy on him. That is the clear Victory.   17. If God touches you with adversity, none can remove it except He. And if He touches you with good—He is Capable of everything.

1.008 - The Spoils, #Quran, #unset, #Zen   10. God only made it a message of hope, and to set your hearts at rest. Victory comes only from God. God is Mighty and Wise.   11. He made drowsiness overcome you, as a security from Him. And He sent down upon you water from the sky, to cleanse you with it, and to rid you of Satan’s pollution, and to fortify your hearts, and to strengthen your foothold.   --   26. And remember when you were few, oppressed in the land, fearing that people may capture you; but He sheltered you, and supported you with His Victory, and provided you with good things—so that you may be thankful.   27. O you who believe! Do not betray God and the Messenger, nor betray your trusts, while you know.

1.009 - Repentance, #Quran, #unset, #Zen   25. God has given you Victory in numerous regions; but on the day of Hunayn, your great number impressed you, but it availed you nothing; and the land, as spacious as it was, narrowed for you; and you turned your backs in retreat.   26. Then God sent down His serenity upon His Messenger, and upon the believers; and He sent down troops you did not see; and He punished those who disbelieved. Such is the recompense of the disbelievers.   --   89. God has prepared for them gardens beneath which rivers flow, wherein they will abide forever. That is the great Victory.   90. Some of the Desert-Arabs came to make excuses, asking to be granted exemption, while those who were untrue to God and His Messenger stayed behind. A painful punishment will afflict those among them who disbelieved.

1.00a - Introduction, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy   I am confirmed in this judgment by your saying: "I don't know if I want to enter into a great conflict. I need peace."" Fortunately you save yourself by adding: "Real peace, that is living and not stagnant." All life is conflict. Every breath that you draw represents a Victory in the struggle of the whole Universe. You can't have peace without perfect mastery of circumstance; and I take it that this is what you mean by "living, not stagnant."   But it is of the first consequence for you to summon up the resolution to stamp on this sea of swirling thoughts by an act of will; you must say: "Peace be still." The moment you have understood these thoughts for what they are, tools of the enemy, invented by him with the idea of preventing you from undertaking the Great Work the moment you dismiss all such considerations firmly and decisively, and say: "What must I do?" and having discovered that, set to work to do it, allowing of no interruption, you will find that living peace which (as you seem to see) is a dynamic and not a static condition. (There is quite a lot about this point in Little Essays Toward Truth, and also in The Vision and the Voice.)

1.00 - Main, #The Book of Certitude, #Baha u llah, #Baha i   Say: From My laws the sweet-smelling savour of My garment can be smelled, and by their aid the standards of Victory will be planted upon the highest peaks. The Tongue of My power hath, from the heaven of My omnipotent glory, addressed to My creation these words: "Observe My commandments, for the love of My beauty." Happy is the lover that hath inhaled the divine fragrance of his Best-Beloved from these words, laden with the perfume of a grace which no tongue can describe. By My life! He who hath drunk the choice wine of fairness from the hands of My bountiful favour will circle around My commandments that shine above the Dayspring of My creation.   Think not that We have revealed unto you a mere code of laws. Nay, rather, We have unsealed the choice Wine with the fingers of might and power. To this beareth witness that which the Pen of Revelation hath revealed. Meditate upon this, O men of insight!   --   Endowments dedicated to charity revert to God, the Revealer of Signs. None hath the right to dispose of them without leave from Him Who is the Dawning-place of Revelation. After Him, this authority shall pass to the Aghsan, and after them to the House of Justice-should it be established in the world by then-that they may use these endowments for the benefit of the Places which have been exalted in this Cause, and for whatsoever hath been enjoined upon them by Him Who is the God of might and power. Otherwise, the endowments shall revert to the people of Baha who speak not except by His leave and judge not save in accordance with what God hath decreed in this Tablet-lo, they are the champions of Victory betwixt heaven and earth-that they may use them in the manner that hath been laid down in the Book by God, the Mighty, the Bountiful.   43   --   On that day the faithful shall rejoice in the Victory of God, and the disbelievers shall lament.   95

1.014 - Abraham, #Quran, #unset, #Zen   15. And they prayed for Victory, and every stubborn tyrant came to disappointment.   16. Beyond him lies Hell, and he will be given to drink putrid water.

1.01 - Foreward, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   outward objects of these ceremonies, wealth, prosperity, Victory   over enemies. Sayana, the great commentator, gives us a ritualistic and where necessary a tentatively mythical or historical   --   wealth of all kinds, protection, Victory in battle, or to bring   down rain from heaven, recover the sun from clouds or from   --   He is not thinking of the Nature-Power presiding over the outer element of fire or of the fire of the ceremonial sacrifice. Or he speaks of Saraswati as one who impels the words of Truth and awakes to right thinkings or as one opulent with the thought: Saraswati awakes to consciousness or makes us conscious of the "Great Ocean and illumines all our thoughts." It is surely not the River Goddess whom he is thus hymning but the Power, theRiver if you will, of inspiration, the word of the Truth, bringing its light into our thoughts, building up in us that Truth, an inner knowledge. The Gods constantly stand out in their psychological functions; the sacrifice is the outer symbol of an inner work, an inner interchange between the gods and men, - man givingwhat he has, the gods giving in return the horses of power, the herds of light, the heroes of Strength to be his retinue, winning for him Victory in his battle with the hosts of Darkness, Vritras, Dasyus, Panis. When the Rishi says, "Let us become conscious whether by the War-Horse or by the Word of a Strength beyond men", his words have either a mystic significance or they have no coherent meaning at all. In the portions translated in this book we have many mystic verses and whole hymns which, however mystic, tear the veil off the outer sacrificial images covering the real sense of the Veda. "Thought", says the Rishi, "has nourished for us human things in the Immortals, in the Great Heavens; it is the milch-cow which milks of itself the wealth of many forms" - the many kinds of wealth, cows, horses and the rest for which the sacrificer prays; evidently this is no material wealth, it is something which Thought, the Thought embodied in the Mantra, can give and it is the result of the same Thought that nourishes our human things in the Immortals, in the Great Heavens. A process of divinisation, and of a bringing down of great and luminous riches, treasures won from the Gods by the inner work of sacrifice, is hinted at in terms necessarily covert but still for one who knows how to read these secret words, nin.ya vacamsi, sufficiently expressive, kavaye nivacana. Again, Night and Dawn the eternal sisters are like "joyful weaving women weaving the weft of our perfected works into the form of a sacrifice."   Again, words with a mystic form and meaning, but there

1.01 - Fundamental Considerations, #The Ever-Present Origin, #Jean Gebser, #Integral   There is hardly another text extant that describes so succinctly and so memorably the collapse of an entire world and a hitherto valid and effectual human attitude. The magic-mythical world of the Mexicans could not prevail against the Spaniards; it collapsed the moment it encountered the rational-technological mentality. The materialistic orientation of present-day Europeans will tend to attribute this collapse to the Spaniards technological superiority, but in actual fact it was the vigor of the Spanish consciousness vis--vis the weakness of the Mexican that was decisive. It is the basic distinction between theego-less man, bound to the group and a collectivementality, and the individual securely conscious of his individuality. Au thentic spell-casting, a fundamental element of the collective consciousness for the Mexicans, is effective only for the members attuned to the group consciousness. It simply by-passes those who are not bound to, or sympathetic toward, the group. The Spaniards superiority, which compelled the Mexicans to surrender almost without a struggle, resulted primarily from their consciousness of individuality, not from their superior weaponry. Had it been possible for the Mexicans to step out of their egoless attitude, the Spanish Victory would have been less certain and assuredly more difficult.   What is of interest to us within the present context is not the historical predicament occasioned by the collision of peoples of differing might, but rather the supersession of the magic group-consciousness and its most potent weapon, spell-casting, by rational, ego-consciousness. Today this rational consciousness, with nuclear fission its strongest weapon, is confronted by a similar catastrophic situation of failure; consequently, it too can be vanquished by a new consciousness structure. We are convinced that there are powers arising from within ourselves that are already at work overcoming the deficiency and dubious nature of our rational ego-consciousness via the new aperspectival awareness whose manifestations are surging forth everywhere. The aperspective consciousness structure is a consciousness of the whole, an integral consciousness encompassing all time and embracing both mans distant past and his approaching future as a living present. The new spiritual attitude can take root only through an insightful process of intensive awareness. This attitude must emerge from its present concealment and latency and become effective, and thereby prepare the transparency of the world and man in which spirituality can manifest itself.

1.01 - How is Knowledge Of The Higher Worlds Attained?, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy    any appreciable progress; but many of those who did not despair, but remained unshaken, have then quite suddenly achieved the inner Victory.   No doubt a great effort is required in many stations of life to provide these moments of inner calm; but the greater the effort needed, the more important is the achievement. In spiritual science everything depends upon energy, inward truthfulness, and uncompromising sincerity with which we confront our own selves, with all our deeds and actions, as a complete stranger.

1.01 - Maitreya inquires of his teacher (Parashara), #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism   OM! GLORY TO VĀSUDEVA[1].-Victory be to thee, Puṇḍarīkākṣa; adoration be to thee, Vīswabhāvana; glory be to thee, Hṛṣikeśa, Mahāpuruṣa, and Pūrvaja[2].   May that Viṣṇu, who is the existent, imperishable, Brahma, who is Īśvara[3], who is spirit[4]; who with the three qualities[5] is the cause of creation, preservation, and destruction; who is the parent of nature, intellect, and the other ingredients of the universe[6]; be to us the bestower of understanding, wealth, and final emancipation.

1.01 - Newtonian and Bergsonian Time, #Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, #Norbert Wiener, #Cybernetics   but as we have said, this Victory is a complete defeat, for from   every point of view which has the slightest relation to morality

1.01 - ON THE THREE METAMORPHOSES, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy   fight him and his last god; for ultimate Victory he   wants to fight with the great dragon.

1.01 - Proem, #Of The Nature Of Things, #Lucretius, #Poetry   And us his Victory now exalts to heaven.   I know how hard it is in Latian verse

1.01 - Tara the Divine, #Tara - The Feminine Divine, #unset, #Zen   In another cosmic era, the kalpa of Perfect Victory,   when Buddha Amoghasiddhi lived, Tara entered

1.01 - The King of the Wood, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism   the prize of Victory in a single combat.   Of the worship of Diana at Nemi some leading features can still be

1.01 - The Three Metamorphoses, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy   13:Its last Lord it here seeketh: hostile will it be to him, and to its last God; for Victory will it struggle with the great dragon.   14:What is the great dragon which the spirit is no longer inclined to call Lord and God? "Thou-shalt," is the great dragon called. But the spirit of the lion saith, "I will."

1.01 - Two Powers Alone, #The Mother With Letters On The Mother, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   14:This is the true attitude and only those who can take and keep it, preserve a faith unshaken by disappointments and difficulties and shall pass through the ordeal to the supreme Victory and the great transmutation.

1.022 - The Pilgrimage, #Quran, #unset, #Zen   39. Permission is given to those who are fought against, and God is Able to give them Victory.   40. Those who were unjustly evicted from their homes, merely for saying, “Our Lord is God.” Were it not that God repels people by means of others: monasteries, churches, synagogues, and mosques—where the name of God is mentioned much—would have been demolished. God supports whoever supports Him. God is Strong and Mighty.

1.02 - Karmayoga, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Yoga is communion with God for knowledge, for love or for work. The Yogin puts himself into direct relation with that which is omniscient and omnipotent within man and without him. He is in tune with the infinite, he becomes a channel for the strength of God to pour itself out upon the world whether through calm benevolence or active beneficence. When a man rises by putting from him the slough of self and lives for others and in the joys and sorrows of others; - when he works perfectly and with love and zeal, but casts away the anxiety for results and is neither eager for Victory nor afraid of defeat; - when he devotes all his works to God and lays every thought, word and deed as an offering on the divine altar; - when he gets rid of fear and hatred, repulsion and disgust and attachment, and works like the forces of Nature, unhasting, unresting, inevitably, perfectly; - when he rises above the thought that he is the body or the heart or the mind or the sum of these and finds his own and true self; - when he becomes aware of his immortality and the unreality of death; - when he experiences the advent of knowledge and feels himself passive and the divine force working unresisted through his mind, his speech, his senses and all his organs; - when having thus abandoned whatever he is, does or has to the Lord of all, the Lover and Helper of mankind, he dwells permanently in   Him and becomes incapable of grief, disquiet or false excitement,

1.02 - MAPS OF MEANING - THREE LEVELS OF ANALYSIS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology   produce a decisive Victory. He rounds up her subordinates including Kingu, who he deprives of the tablet   of destinies and binds them with netting. Then he returns to Tiamat:   --   will be assimilated to Apophis [the god of primordial chaos], and the pharaohs Victory will reproduce   Res triumph [emphasis added].267   --   (Marduk-Tiamat, for example) the gods Victory constitutes the preliminary condition for the   cosmogony. In other cases the stake is the inauguration of a new era or the establishment of a new   --   It would serve no purpose to dwell on the naturalistic interpretations of this myth; the Victory over   Vrtra has been seen either as rain brought on by a thunderstorm or as the freeing of the mountain waters   --   Victory is equivalent, among other things, to the truimph of life over the sterility and death resulting   from the immobilization of the waters by Vrtra. But the structure of the myth is cosmogonic. In Rig   Veda 1.33.4 it is said that, by his Victory, the god created the sun, the sky, and dawn. According to   another hymn (RV 10.113.4-6) Indra, as soon as he was born, separated the Sky from the Earth, fixed   --   In this sequence of danger, battle, and Victory, the light whose significance for consciousness we   have repeatedly stressed is the central symbol of the heros reality. The hero is always a light-bringer   --   the winter solstice. The new light and the Victory are symbolized by the illumination of the head,   crowned and decked with an aureole.332   --   battle of the young gods against the old gods, and (3) the Victory of Marduk, who thus assumes the   sovereignty....

1.02 - The 7 Habits An Overview, #The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, #Stephen Covey, #unset   The net effect of opening the "gate of change" to the first three habits -- the habits of Private Victory   -- will be significantly increased self-confidence. You will come to know yourself in a deeper, more meaningful way -- your nature, your deepest values and your unique contri bution capacity. As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others. "Wrong" and "right" will have little to do with being found out.   --   As you open yourself to the next three habits -- the habits of Public Victory -- you will discover and unleash both the desire and the resources to heal and rebuild important relationships that have deteriorated, or even broken. Good relationships will improve -- become deeper, more solid, more creative, and more adventuresome.   The seventh habit, if deeply internalized, will renew the first six and will make you truly independent and capable of effective interdependence. Through it, you can charge your own batteries.

1.02 - The Age of Individualism and Reason, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   They found and held it with enthusiasm in the discoveries of physical Science. The triumphant domination, the all-shattering and irresistible Victory of Science in nineteenth-century Europe is explained by the absolute perfection with which it at least seemed for a time to satisfy these great psychological wants of the Western mind. Science seemed to it to fulfil impeccably its search for the two supreme desiderata of an individualistic age. Here at last was a truth of things which depended on no doubtful Scripture or fallible human authority but which Mother Nature herself had written in her eternal book for all to read who had patience to observe and intellectual honesty to judge. Here were laws, principles, fundamental facts of the world and of our being which all could verify at once for themselves and which must therefore satisfy and guide the free individual judgment, delivering it equally from alien compulsion and from erratic self-will. Here were laws and truths which justified and yet controlled the claims and desires of the individual human being; here a science which provided a standard, a norm of knowledge, a rational basis for life, a clear outline and sovereign means for the progress and perfection of the individual and the race. The attempt to govern and organise human life by verifiable Science, by a law, a truth of things, an order and principles which all can observe and verify in their ground and fact and to which therefore all may freely and must rationally subscribe, is the culminating movement of European civilisation. It has been the fulfilment and triumph of the individualistic age of human society; it has seemed likely also to be its end, the cause of the death of individualism and its putting away and burial among the monuments of the past.   For this discovery by individual free-thought of universal laws of which the individual is almost a by-product and by which he must necessarily be governed, this attempt actually to govern the social life of humanity in conscious accordance with the mechanism of these laws seems to lead logically to the suppression of that very individual freedom which made the discovery and the attempt at all possible. In seeking the truth and law of his own being the individual seems to have discovered a truth and law which is not of his own individual being at all, but of the collectivity, the pack, the hive, the mass. The result to which this points and to which it still seems irresistibly to be driving us is a new ordering of society by a rigid economic or governmental Socialism in which the individual, deprived again of his freedom in his own interest and that of humanity, must have his whole life and action determined for him at every step and in every point from birth to old age by the well-ordered mechanism of the State.1 We might then have a curious new version, with very important differences, of the old Asiatic or even of the old Indian order of society. In place of the religio-ethical sanction there will be a scientific and rational or naturalistic motive and rule; instead of the Brahmin Shastrakara the scientific, administrative and economic expert. In the place of the King himself observing the law and compelling with the aid and consent of the society all to tread without deviation the line marked out for them, the line of the Dharma, there will stand the collectivist State similarly guided and empowered. Instead of a hierarchical arrangement of classes each with its powers, privileges and duties there will be established an initial equality of education and opportunity, ultimately perhaps with a subsequent determination of function by experts who shall know us better than ourselves and choose for us our work and quality. Marriage, generation and the education of the child may be fixed by the scientific State as of old by the Shastra. For each man there will be a long stage of work for the State superintended by collectivist authorities and perhaps in the end a period of liberation, not for action but for enjoyment of leisure and personal self-improvement, answering to the Vanaprastha and Sannyasa Asramas of the old Aryan society. The rigidity of such a social state would greatly surpass that of its Asiatic forerunner; for there at least there were for the rebel, the innovator two important concessions. There was for the individual the freedom of an early Sannyasa, a renunciation of the social for the free spiritual life, and there was for the group the liberty to form a sub-society governed by new conceptions like the Sikh or the Vaishnava. But neither of these violent departures from the norm could be tolerated by a strictly economic and rigorously scientific and unitarian society. Obviously, too, there would grow up a fixed system of social morality and custom and a body of socialistic doctrine which one could not be allowed to question practically, and perhaps not even intellectually, since that would soon shatter or else undermine the system. Thus we should have a new typal order based upon purely economic capacity and function, guakarma, and rapidly petrifying by the inhibition of individual liberty into a system of rationalistic conventions. And quite certainly this static order would at long last be broken by a new individualist age of revolt, led probably by the principles of an extreme philosophical Anarchism.

1.02 - The Descent. Dante's Protest and Virgil's Appeal. The Intercession of the Three Ladies Benedight., #The Divine Comedy, #Dante Alighieri, #Christianity   Both of his Victory and the papal mantle.   Thither went afterwards the Chosen Vessel,

1.02 - The Development of Sri Aurobindos Thought, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga   is certain Victory, but the road to which is unknown and   must be traced step by step in the unexplored.

1.02 - The Divine Is with You, #Words Of The Mother II, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   still completer Victory.   9 October 1954   --   the conqueror who assures the Victory.   23 December 1954

1.02 - THE QUATERNIO AND THE MEDIATING ROLE OF MERCURIUS, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology   Accordingly Mercurius, in the crude form of the prima materia, is in very truth the Original Man disseminated through the physical world, and in his sublimated form he is that reconstituted totality.62 Altogether, he is very like the redeemer of the Basilidians, who mounts upward through the planetary spheres, conquering them or robbing them of their power. The remark that he contains the powers of Sol reminds us of the above-mentioned passage in Abul-Qasim, where Hermes says that he unites the sun and the planets and causes them to be within him as a crown. This may be the origin of the designation of the lapis as the crown of Victory.63 The power of Above and Below refers to that ancient authority the Tabula smaragdina, which is of Alexandrian origin.64 Besides this, our text contains allusions to the Song of Songs: through the streets and houses of the planets recalls Song of Songs 3 : 2: I will . . . go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth.65 The white and red of Mercurius refers to 5 : 10: My beloved is white and ruddy. He is likened to the matrimonium or coniunctio; that is to say he is this marriage on account of his androgynous form.

1.02 - The Refusal of the Call, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology   This is indeed a dull and unrewarding finish. Apollo, the sun, the lord of time and ripeness, no longer pressed his frightening suit, but instead, simply named the laurel his favorite tree and ironically recommended its leaves to the fashioners of Victory wreaths. The girl had retreated to the image of her parent and there found protectionlike the unsuccessful husb and whose dream of mother love preserved him from the state of cleaving to a wife.   The literature of psychoanalysis abounds in examples of such desperate fixations. What they represent is an impotence to put off the infantile ego, with its sphere of emotional relationships and ideals. One is bound in by the walls of childhood; the father and mother stand as threshold guardians, and the timorous soul, fearful of some punishment, fails to make the passage through the door and come to birth in the world without.

1.032 - Prostration, #Quran, #unset, #Zen   28. And they say, “When is this Victory, if you are truthful?”   29. Say, “On the day of Victory, the faith of those who disbelieved will be of no avail to them, and they will not be granted respite.”   30. So turn away from them, and wait. They too are waiting.

1.033 - The Confederates, #Quran, #unset, #Zen   71. He will rectify your conduct for you, and will forgive you your sins. Whoever obeys God and His Messenger has won a great Victory.   72. We offered the Trust to the heavens, and the earth, and the mountains; but they refused to bear it, and were apprehensive of it; but the human being accepted it. He was unfair and ignorant.

10.36 - Cling to Truth, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    We are in a somewhat different age under different circumstances. At least our aim is different. We stand firm full square against all temptations, all leaning towards compromise, in the faith and certainty that we shall conquer, we shall not go down but the odds against us shall be pushed back and eliminated. This is the age of Victory.    For two things have happenedtwo mighty happenings in earth's history, in the course of nature's evolution here: two unseen events that have new-oriented the destiny of earth and mankind. First of all human consciousness in its essential achievement has risen to a new level of consciousness, although not in the mass, nor generally even in individuals, but there has come a common acquiescence in the being to a higher status of livingproletarianism at its best means nothing else. Human nature has shed something of its mediaeval crudeness and obscurantism, separatism and selfishness; human mind has been more sharpened and polished and widened so as to receive easily the message of the cosmic rays. There has dawned in the atmosphere the perception or sense, of a higher, purer, more luminous and enlightened status of existence. That is, one may say, Nature's gift, the outcome of the millennial, the aeonic working of an aspiration inherent in matter towards light and order. That is the first event. The second one is more occult but more mighty and even devastating. It is the descent, the manifestation, the intervention of a new force here below. They who have seen it know and there is no question. The Veda has declared long ago: The Unseeing have not the Knowledge, those who have eyes possess the Knowledge.    Today, more than ever, only a little of this pure consciousness will bring you Victory, not merely safety from a great perdition. Against the vast, what appears as the all-swallowing gloom of the external space, the inner space is now luminous, doubly luminous and powerful.    [The Mother] (https://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/26-april-1951#p16)

1.03 - Meeting the Master - Meeting with others, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen    These two require different kinds of organisations and they must be allowed to work with the utmost rapidity. It goes without saying that without organisation there can be no success in any work. But the political worker's path is straight. He need not go in for constructive work. He has to organise in the village something like the peasant organisations and associations in Ireland. When they are sufficiently well-organised then they can throw their weight into politics. The second path is much harder and longer and the workers method also will be different. If he succeeds he is one of those who win the highest Victory.    Of late, in some quarters, too much weight is being put upon village work. I know that in India it is a very important work to do. But I do not like people trying to picture future India as a mass of villages only. The village has a lot of life-problems and the villagers must be rescued from their living death. But they cannot be leaders of thought.   --    I have made my watchword: Victory or Death.    Athavale: What is the meaning of coming to the physical and material plane? Does it mean that when the Supermind comes down to the material plane then the difficulties are very great?

1.03 - Preparing for the Miraculous, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga   till the Mother, on 13 April, dictated the following Victory   bulletin in French, probably to Pavitra, another French dis-   --   we set out again on the way, sure of the Victory.   The skies are full of hymns of Victory.   The Truth alone exists, it alone shall be manifested.

1.03 - Self-Surrender in Works - The Way of The Gita, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Even for those whose first natural movement is a consecration, a surrender and a resultant entire transformation of the thinking mind and its knowledge, or a total consecration, surrender and transformation of the heart and its emotions, the consecration of works is a needed element in that change. Otherwise, although they may find God in other-life, they will not be able to fulfil the Divine in life; life for them will be a meaningless undivine inconsequence. Not for them the true Victory that shall be the key to the riddle of our terrestrial existence; their love will not be the absolute love triumphant over self, their knowledge will not be the total consciousness and the all-embracing knowledge. It is possible, indeed, to begin with knowledge or Godward emotion solely or with both together and to leave works for the final movement of the Yoga. But there is then this disadvantage that we may tend to live too exclusively within, subtilised in subjective experience, shut off in our isolated inner parts; there we may get incrusted in our spiritual seclusion and find it difficult later on to pour ourselves triumphantly outwards and apply to life our gains in the higher Nature. When we turn to add this external kingdom also to our inner conquests, we shall find ourselves too much accustomed to an activity purely subjective and ineffective on the material plane. There will be an immense difficulty in transforming the outer life and the body.   Or we shall find that our action does not correspond with the inner light: it still follows the old accustomed mistaken paths, still obeys the old normal imperfect influences; the Truth within us continues to be separated by a painful gulf from the ignorant mechanism of our external nature. This is a frequent experience because in such a process the Light and Power come to be selfcontained and unwilling to express themselves in life or to use the physical means prescribed for the Earth and her processes.   --   Or it may be an external reward, a recompense entirely material,- wealth, position, honour, Victory, good fortune or any other fulfilment of vital or physical desire. But all alike are lures by which egoism holds us. Always these satisfactions delude us with the sense of mastery and the idea of freedom, while really we are harnessed and guided or ridden and whipped by some gross or subtle, some noble or ignoble, figure of the blind Desire that drives the world. Therefore the first rule of action laid down by the Gita is to do the work that should be done without any desire for the fruit, nis.kama karma.   A simple rule in appearance, and yet how difficult to carry out with anything like an absolute sincerity and liberating entireness! In the greater part of our action we use the principle very little if at all, and then even mostly as a sort of counterpoise to the normal principle of desire and to mitigate the extreme action of that tyrant impulse. At best, we are satisfied if we arrive at a modified and disciplined egoism not too shocking to our moral sense, not too brutally offensive to others. And to our partial self-discipline we give various names and forms; we habituate ourselves by practice to the sense of duty, to a firm fidelity to principle, a stoical fortitude or a religious resignation, a quiet or an ecstatic submission to God's will. But it is not these things that the Gita intends, useful though they are in their place; it aims at something absolute, unmitigated, uncompromising, a turn, an attitude that will change the whole poise of the soul.   --   The test it lays down is an absolute equality of the mind and the heart to all results, to all reactions, to all happenings. If good fortune and ill fortune, if respect and insult, if reputation and obloquy, if Victory and defeat, if pleasant event and sorrowful event leave us not only unshaken but untouched, free in the emotions, free in the nervous reactions, free in the mental view, not responding with the least disturbance or vibration in any spot of the nature, then we have the absolute liberation to which the Gita points us, but not otherwise. The tiniest reaction is a proof that the discipline is imperfect and that some part of us accepts ignorance and bondage as its law and clings still to the old nature. Our self-conquest is only partially accomplished; it is still imperfect or unreal in some stretch or part or smallest spot of the ground of our nature. And that little pebble of imperfection may throw down the whole achievement of the Yoga!   There are certain semblances of an equal spirit which must not be mistaken for the profound and vast spiritual equality which the Gita teaches. There is an equality of disappointed resignation, an equality of pride, an equality of hardness and indifference: all these are egoistic in their nature. Inevitably they come in the course of the sadhana, but they must be rejected or transformed into the true quietude. There is too, on a higher level, the equality of the stoic, the equality of a devout resignation or a sage detachment, the equality of a soul aloof from the world and indifferent to its doings. These too are insufficient; first approaches they can be, but they are at most early soul-phases only or imperfect mental preparations for our entry into the true and absolute self-existent wide evenness of the spirit.

1.03 - Sympathetic Magic, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism   India prescribes that when a sacrifice is offered for Victory, the   earth out of which the altar is to be made should be taken from a   --   followed close on the heels of Victory, and that the great   conquering races of the world have commonly done most to advance and

1.03 - The Armour of Grace, #The Mother With Letters On The Mother, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   1:To walk through life armoured against all fear, peril and disaster, only two things are needed, two that go always together - the Grace of the Divine Mother and on your side an inner state made up of faith, sincerity and surrender. Let your faith be pure, candid and perfect. An egoistic faith in the mental and vital being tainted by ambition, pride, vanity, mental arrogance, vital self-will, personal demand, desire for the petty satisfactions of the lower nature is a low and smoke-obscured flame that cannot burn upwards to heaven. Regard your life as given you only for the divine work and to help in the divine manifestation. Desire nothing but the purity, force, light, wideness, calm, Ananda of the divine consciousness and its insistence to transform and perfect your mind, life and body. Ask for nothing but the divine, spiritual and supramental Truth, its realisation on earth and in you and in all who are called and chosen and the conditions needed for its creation and its Victory over all opposing forces.   2:Let your sincerity and surrender be genuine and entire. When you give yourself, give completely, without demand, without condition, without reservation so that all in you shall belong to the Divine Mother and nothing be left to the ego or given to any other power.

1.03 - THE GRAND OPTION, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity   specialized form of consciousness a Victory dearly paid for by   Life but consciousness as a whole must follow it, with all the ac-

1.03 - The Human Disciple, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   The first result is a violent sensational and physical crisis which produces a disgust of the action and its material objects and of life itself. He rejects the vital aim pursued by egoistic humanity in its action, - happiness and enjoyment; he rejects the vital aim of the Kshatriya, Victory and rule and power and the government of men. What after all is this fight for justice when reduced to its practical terms, but just this, a fight for the interests of himself, his brothers and his party, for possession and enjoyment and rule? But at such a cost these things are not worth having. For they are of no value in themselves, but only as a means to the right maintenance of social and national life and it is these very aims that in the person of his kin and his race he is about to destroy. And then comes the cry of the emotions. These are they for whose sake life and happiness are desired, our "own people". Who would consent to slay these for the sake of all the earth, or even for the kingdom of the three worlds? What pleasure can there be in life, what happiness, what satisfaction in oneself after such a deed? The whole thing is a dreadful sin, - for now the moral sense awakens to justify the revolt of the sensations and the emotions. It is a sin, there is no right nor justice in mutual slaughter; especially are those who are to be slain the natural objects of reverence and of love, those without whom one would not care to live, and to violate these sacred feelings can be no virtue, can be nothing but a heinous crime. Granted that the offence, the aggression, the first sin, the crimes of greed and selfish passion which have brought things to such a pass came from the other side; yet armed resistance to wrong under such circumstances would be itself a sin and   The Human Disciple

1.03 - The Sephiros, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism   Victory. Sometimes it is named Eternity and Triumph.   It is the seventh potency, and to it is logically attri buted the Nike (Victory). In his Greek Studies Walter Pater wrote :   " Victory again, meant originally, mythologic science tells us, only the great Victory of the sky, the triumph of morning over darkness. But that physical morning of her origin has its ministry to the later {esthetic sense also. For if Nike, when she appears in company with the mortal, and wholly fleshly hero, in whose chariot she stands to guide the horses, or whom she crowns with her garl and of parsley or bay, or whose names she writes on a shield, is imaginatively conceived, it is because the old skyey influences are still not quite suppressed in her clear-set eyes, and the dew of the morning still clings to her wings and her floating hair."   Astrologieally its planet is Venus $. It should follow in consequence from this that the gods and qualities of Net- sach relate to Love, Victory, and to the harvest. Aphro- dite (Venus) is the Lady of Love and Beauty, with the power of bestowing her beauty and charms to others. The whole implication of this Sephirah is of love - albeit a love of a sexual nature. Hathor is the Egyptian equivalent and is a lesser aspect of the Mother Isis. She is depicted as a cow goddess, representing the generative forces of Nature, and she was the protectress of agriculture and the fruits of the earth. Bhavani is the Hindu goddess of Netsach.   Rose is the flower appurtenant, and Red Sandal is the perfume. It is common knowledge that in some diseases of a venereal ( $ ) origin oils of sandalwood are employed.   --   Zohar soliloquizes that by Victory and Splendour is meant extension, multiplication, and force ; because all the forces which were born into the universe went out of their bosom.   The Hindu God is Hanuman, represented by an Ape or

1.048 - Victory, #Quran, #unset, #Zen   object:1.048 - Victory   class:chapter   --   1. We have granted you a conspicuous Victory.   2. That God may forgive you your sin, past and to come, and complete His favors upon you, and guide you in a straight path.   --   27. God has fulfilled His Messenger’s vision in truth: “You will enter the Sacred Mosque, God willing, in security, heads shaven, or hair cut short, not fearing. He knew what you did not know, and has granted besides that an imminent Victory.”   28. It is He who sent His Messenger with the guidance and the religion of truth, to make it prevail over all religions. God suffices as Witness.

1.04 - ADVICE TO HOUSEHOLDERS, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism   O Lord, how full of bliss Thou art! Victory unto Thee!   On every side shine devotees, like stars around the moon; Their Friend, the Lord All-merciful, joyously plays with them.

1.04 - A Leader, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   Violence is never a good way to bring Victory to a cause such as yours. How can you hope to win justice with injustice, harmony with hatred?   I know. This opinion is shared by nearly all of us. As for me, I have a very particular aversion to bloody actions; they horrify me. Each time we immolated a new victim, I felt a pang of regret, as if by that very act we were moving away from our goal.

1.04 - GOD IN THE WORLD, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy   Looking backwards across the carnage and the devastation, we can see that Vigny was perfectly right. None of those gay travellers, of whom Victor Hugo was the most vociferously eloquent, had the faintest notion where that first, funny little Puffing Billy was taking them. Or rather they had a very clear notion, but it happened to be entirely false. For they were convinced that Puffing Billy was hauling them at full speed towards universal peace and the brotherhood of man; while the newspapers which they were so proud of being able to read, as the train rumbled along towards its Utopian destination not more than fifty years or so away, were the guarantee that liberty and reason would soon be everywhere triumphant. Puffing Billy has now turned into a four-motored bomber loaded with white phosphorus and high explosives, and the free press is everywhere the servant of its advertisers, of a pressure group, or of the government. And yet, for some inexplicable reason, the travellers (now far from gay) still hold fast to the religion of Inevitable Progresswhich is, in the last analysis, the hope and faith (in the teeth of all human experience) that one can get something for nothing. How much saner and more realistic is the Greek view that every Victory has to be paid for, and that, for some victories, the price exacted is so high Uiat it outweighs any advantage that may be obtained! Modern man no longer regards Nature as being in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave towards her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant. The spoils of recent technological imperialism have been enormous; but meanwhile nemesis has seen to it that we get our kicks as well as halfpence. For example, has the ability to travel in twelve hours from New York to Los Angeles given more pleasure to the human race than the dropping of bombs and fire has given pain? There is no known method of computing the amount of felicity or goodness in the world at large. What is obvious, however, is that the advantages accruing from recent technological advancesor, in Greek phraseology, from recent acts of hubris directed against Natureare generally accompanied by corresponding disadvantages, that gains in one direction entail losses in other directions, and that we never get something except for something. Whether the net result of these elaborate credit and debit operations is a genuine Progress in virtue, happiness, charity and intelligence is something we can never definitely determine. It is because the reality of Progress can never be determined that the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have had to treat it as an article of religious faith. To the exponents of the Perennial Philosophy, the question whether Progress is inevitable or even real is not a matter of primary importance. For them, the important thing is that individual men and women should come to the unitive knowledge of the divine Ground, and what interests them in regard to the social environment is not its progressiveness or non-progressiveness (whatever those terms may mean), but the degree to which it helps or hinders individuals in their advance towards mans final end.   next chapter: 1.05 - CHARITY

1.04 - On blessed and ever-memorable obedience, #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset   Every kind of creature, as some say, has its differences which distinguish it from others. So, too, in the company of the brothers there were differences both in success and in disposition. When their physician noticed that some liked to display themselves before people of the world who were visiting the monastery, then in the presence of such visitors he subjected them to extreme insults and gave them the most humiliating task, so that they began to beat a hasty retreat, and the arrival of secular visitors proved to be their Victory. Then an extraordinary spectacle presented itself: vanity chasing herself away and escaping from people.   About Saint Menas

1.04 - On Knowledge of the Future World., #The Alchemy of Happiness, #Al-Ghazali, #Sufism   It is well known that spirits are divided into two classes, in one of which all blessed spirits are embraced and in the other all miserable spirits. With respect to the blessed spirits God says, "Think not that those who have been slain on [81] the divine road are dead : they are alive near their Lord and are sustained by him."1 In regard to the miserable spirits, the apostle of God came to the infidels who had been slain in the battle of Bader,2and called upon each by name, and said, "O ! such a one, son of such a one, I have found the Victory and triumph which my Lord promised. And you, have you found that latter end and torment of which the Lord assured you, or have you not found it ?" His honored companions having remarked to him, "they are dead and how can they hear and how can they speak ?", the glory of the world replied, "By the truth of God who has commissioned me to be a true prophet, they are better able to hear than yourselves : there is only this difference, that they are not able to answer." And the prophet of God declared that the spirits of martyrs are in lanterns under the empyrean : and according to another account that they are suspended to the fruits of the trees of Paradise in the craws of green birds. In brief, whoever will study carefully the verses of the Koran, the Traditions and recollections that have reached us respecting death, and will consider the well substantiated accounts of the movements of the dead in grave yards, he will know, in a manner that should remove all doubt, that the dead clearly do not become non-existent....   Hence it happens, that when a person becomes breathless and is entranced, as sometimes happens in the first exercises among the Soofees, he has a delightful vision of the state after death, notwithstanding the animal spirit continues in the enjoyment of health. Yet if, while in that state, fear and terror should happen to predominate and deprive him of feeling and motion, and if he become so far like the dead that he perceives no external object, the same [82] things may be revealed to him which are revealed to others after death. It is sometimes permitted, after he returns from that state to the sensible world, that all he has seen should remain in his memory, or that if he does not remember it, traces of it should remain in his mind. If he saw hell, he will retain traces of despondency, sadness, heaviness of spirit, suspicion and melancholy. If in the treasury of his imagination he has preserved these traces, it is lawful for him to communicate them to others....

1.04 - Reality Omnipresent, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   13:If we thus accept a positive basis for our harmony - and on what other can harmony be founded? - the various conceptual formulations of the Unknowable, each of them representing a truth beyond conception, must be understood as far as possible in their relation to each other and in their effect upon life, not separately, not exclusively, not so affirmed as to destroy or unduly diminish all other affirmations. The real Monism, the true Adwaita, is that which admits all things as the one Brahman and does not seek to bisect Its existence into two incompatible entities, an eternal Truth and an eternal Falsehood, Brahman and not-Brahman, Self and not-Self, a real Self and an unreal, yet perpetual Maya. If it be true that the Self alone exists, it must be also true that all is the Self. And if this Self, God or Brahman is no helpless state, no bounded power, no limited personality, but the self-conscient All, there must be some good and inherent reason in it for the manifestation, to discover which we must proceed on the hypothesis of some potency, some wisdom, some truth of being in all that is manifested. The discord and apparent evil of the world must in their sphere be admitted, but not accepted as our conquerors. The deepest instinct of humanity seeks always and seeks wisely wisdom as the last word of the universal manifestation, not an eternal mockery and illusion, - a secret and finally triumphant good, not an all-creative and invincible evil, - an ultimate Victory and fulfilment, not the disappointed recoil of the soul from its great adventure.   14:For we cannot suppose that the sole Entity is compelled by something outside or other than Itself, since no such thing exists. Nor can we suppose that It submits unwillingly to something partial within Itself which is hostile to its whole Being, denied by It and yet too strong for It; for this would be only to erect in other language the same contradiction of an All and something other than the All. Even if we say that the universe exists merely because the Self in its absolute impartiality tolerates all things alike, viewing with indifference all actualities and all possibilities, yet is there something that wills the manifestation and supports it, and this cannot be something other than the All. Brahman is indivisible in all things and whatever is willed in the world has been ultimately willed by the Brahman. It is only our relative consciousness, alarmed or baffled by the phenomena of evil, ignorance and pain in the cosmos, that seeks to deliver the Brahman from responsibility for Itself and its workings by erecting some opposite principle, Maya or Mara, conscious Devil or self-existent principle of evil. There is one Lord and Self and the many are only His representations and becomings.

1.04 - Te Shan Carrying His Bundle, #The Blue Cliff Records, #Yuanwu Keqin, #Zen   that would settle Victory over a thousand miles.   Te Shan turned his back on the teaching hall, put on his

1.04 - THE APPEARANCE OF ANOMALY - CHALLENGE TO THE SHARED MAP, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology   presuppositions in a single psyche that constitutes the post-contact Victory, however. This means that the   simplistic promotion of cultural diversity as panacea is likely to produce anomie, nihilism and   --   the ultimate punishment. The Buddhas struggle with and eventual Victory over his emergent tragic selfconsciousness comprises the rest of the great tale: first, Gautama incorporates the knowledge of his   ancestors; then, he transcends and restructures that knowledge.

1.04 - The First Circle, Limbo Virtuous Pagans and the Unbaptized. The Four Poets, Homer, Horace, Ovid, and Lucan. The Noble Castle of Philosophy., #The Divine Comedy, #Dante Alighieri, #Christianity   With sign of Victory incoronate.   Hence he drew forth the shade of the First Parent,

1.04 - The Gods of the Veda, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   We are no longer with Madhuchchhanda Vaiswamitra. It is Medhatithi of the Kanwas who has taken the word, a soul of great clearness & calmness who is full of a sort of vibrating peace. Yet we find the same strain, the same fixed ideas, the same subjective purpose & spiritual aspiration. A few words here & there in my translation may be challenged and given a different meaning. Throughout the Veda there are words like radhas etc to which I have given a sense based on reasons of context & philology but which must be allowed to remain conjectural till I am able to take up publicly the detailed examination of the language & substance of the Rigveda. But we have sumati again and the ever recurring vaja, the dhartara charshaninam, holders of actions, & rayah which certainly meant felicity in the Veda. It is clear from the third verse that Varuna and Indra are called to share in the felicity of the poets soul,that felicity is his material of sacrifice,anukamam tarpayetham, he says, Delight in it to your hearts content; and again in the seventh shloka he tells them, Vam aham huve chitraya radhase, a phrase which, in view of verse 3, I can only translate I call you for rich and varied ecstasy; for it is evidently meant to describe that felicity, that heart-filling satisfaction which he has already offered in the third sloka. In return he asks them to give Victory. Always in the Veda there is the idea of the spiritual battle as well as the outer struggles of life, the battle with the jealous forces of Nature, with Vala, the grudging guardian of light, with the great obscuring dragon Vritra & his hosts, with the thieving Panis, with all the many forces that oppose mans evolution & support limitation and evil. A great many of the words for sacrifice, mean also war and battle, in Sanscrit or in its kindred tongues.   Indra and Varuna are called to give Victory, because both of them are samrat. The words samrat & swarat have in Veda an ascertained philosophical sense.One is swarat when, having self-mastery & self-knowledge, & being king over his whole system, physical, vital, mental & spiritual, free in his being, [one] is able to guide entirely the harmonious action of that being. Swarajya is spiritual Freedom. One is Samrat when one is master of the laws of being, ritam, rituh, vratani, and can therefore control all forces & creatures. Samrajya is divine Rule resembling the power of God over his world. Varuna especially is Samrat, master of the Law which he follows, governor of the heavens & all they contain, Raja Varuna, Varuna the King as he is often styled by Sunahshepa and other Rishis. He too, like Indra & Agni & the Visvadevas, is an upholder & supporter of mens actions, dharta charshaninam. Finally in the fifth sloka a distinction is drawn between Indra and Varuna of great importance for our purpose. The Rishi wishes, by their protection, to rise to the height of the inner Energies (yuvaku shachinam) and have the full vigour of right thoughts (yuvaku sumatinam) because they give then that fullness of inner plenty (vajadavnam) which is the first condition of enduring calm & perfection & then he says, Indrah sahasradavnam, Varunah shansyanam kratur bhavati ukthyah. Indra is the master-strength, desirable indeed, (ukthya, an object of prayer, of longing and aspiration) of one class of those boons (vara, varyani) for which the Rishis praise him, Varuna is the master-strength, equally desirable, of another class of these Vedic blessings. Those which Indra brings, give force, sahasram, the forceful being that is strong to endure & strong to overcome; those that attend the grace of Varuna are of a loftier & more ample description, they are shansya. The word shansa is frequently used; it is one of the fixed terms of Veda. Shall we translate it praise, the sense most suitable to the ritual explanation, the sense which the finally dominant ritualistic school gave to so many of the fixed terms of Veda? In that case Varuna must be urushansa, because he is widely praised, Agni narashansa because he is strongly praised or praised by men,ought not a wicked or cruel man to be nrishansa because he is praised by men?the Rishis call repeatedly on the gods to protect their praise, & Varuna here must be master of things that are praiseworthy. But these renderings can only be accepted, if we consent to the theory of the Rishis as semi-savage poets, feeble of brain, vague in speech, pointless in their style, using language for barbaric ornament rather than to express ideas. Here for instance there is a very powerful indicated contrast, indicated by the grammatical structure, the order & the rhythm, by the singular kratur bhavati, by the separation of Indra & Varuna who have hitherto been coupled, by the assignment of each governing nominative to its governed genitive and a careful balanced order of words, first giving the master Indra then his province sahasradavnam, exactly balancing them in the second half of the first line the master Varuna & then his province shansyanam, and the contrast thus pointed, in the closing pada of the Gayatri all the words that in their application are common at once to all these four separated & contrasted words in the first line. Here is no careless writer, but a style careful, full of economy, reserve, point, force, and the thought must surely correspond. But what is the contrast forced on us with such a marshalling of the stylists resources? That Indras boons are force-giving, Varunas praiseworthy, excellent, auspicious, what you will? There is not only a pointless contrast, but no contrast at all. No, shansa & shansya must be important, definite, pregnant Vedic terms expressing some prominent idea of the Vedic system. I shall show elsewhere that shansa is in its essential meaning self-expression, the bringing out of our sat or being that which is latent in it and manifesting it in our nature, in speech, in our general impulse & action. It has the connotation of self-expression, aspiration, temperament, expression of our ideas in speech; then divulgation, publication, praiseor in another direction, cursing. Varuna is urushansa because he is the master of wide self-expression, wide aspirations, a wide, calm & spacious temperament, Agni narashansa because he is master of strong self-expression, strong aspirations, a prevailing, forceful & masterful temperament;nrishansa had originally the same sense, but was afterwards diverted to express the fault to which such a temper is prone,tyranny, wrath & cruelty; the Rishis call to the gods to protect their shansa, that which by their yoga & yajna they have been able to bring out in themselves of being, faculty, power, joy,their self-expression. Similarly, shansya here means all that belongs to self-expression, all that is wide, noble, ample in the growth of a soul. It will follow from this rendering that Indra is a god of force, Varuna rather a god of being and as it appears from other epithets, of being when it is calm, noble, wide, self-knowing, self-mastering, moving freely in harmony with the Law of things because it is aware of that Law and accepts it. In that acceptance is his mighty strength; therefore is he even more than the gods of force the king, the giver of internal & external Victory, rule, empire, samrajya to his votaries. This is Varuna.   We see the results & the conditions of the action ofVaruna in the four remaining verses. By their protection we have safety from attack, sanema, safety for our shansa, our rayah, our radhas, by the force of Indra, by the protecting greatness of Varuna against which passion & disturbance cast themselves in vain, only to be destroyed. This safety & this settled ananda or delight, we use for deep meditation, ni dhimahi, we go deep into ourselves and the object we have in view in our meditation is prarechanam, the Greek katharsis, the cleansing of the system mental, bodily, vital, of all that is impure, defective, disturbing, inharmonious. Syad uta prarechanam! In this work of purification we are sure to be obstructed by the powers that oppose all healthful change; but Indra & Varuna are to give us Victory, jigyushas kritam. The final result of the successful purification is described in the eighth sloka. The powers of the understanding, its various faculties & movements, dhiyah, delivered from self-will & rebellion, become obedient to Indra & Varuna; obedient to Varuna, they move according to the truth & law, the ritam; obedient to Indra they fulfil with that passivity in activity, which we seek by Yoga, all the works to which mental force can apply itself when it is in harmony with Varuna & the ritam. The result is sharma, peace. Nothing is more remarkable in the Veda than the exactness with which hymn after hymn describes with a marvellous simplicity & lucidity the physical & psychological processes through which Indian Yoga proceeds. The process, the progression, the successive movements of the soul here described are exactly what the Yogin experiences today so many thousands of years after the Veda was revealed. No wonder, it is regarded as eternal truth, not the expression of any particular mind, not paurusheya but impersonal, divine & revealed.   This hymn differs greatly, interestingly & instructively, from the hymn in which Varuna first appears. There the object is to ensure the ananda, the rayah & radhas spoken of in this hymn by the advent of the gods of Vitality & Mind-Force, Indra & Vayu, to protect from the attack of disintegrating forces the Soma or Amrita, the juice of immortality expressed in the Yogins system. Varuna & Mitra are then called for a particular & restricted purpose to perfect the discernment & to uphold it in its works by the sustaining force of a calm, wide, comprehensive self-expression full of peace & love. The Rishi of that sukta is using the amrita to feed the activity of a sattwic state of mind for acquiring added knowledge. The present hymn belongs to a more advanced state of the Yoga. It is sadhastuti, a hymn of fulfilment or for fulfilment, in which peace & a calm, assured, untroubled activity of the soul are very near. Varuna here leads. He is here for Indras purposes, but his activity predominates; it is his spirit that pervades the action and purpose of the hymn.

1.04 - The Paths, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism   Its Gods are Athena, insofar as she protected the State from its enemies ; and Shiva and Mars. Minerva is also an attri bution, for she was believed to have guided men in war, where Victory was to be gained by prudence, courage, and perseverance. The Egyptian Mentu is also a god of War, depicted with the head of a Hawk. The Scandinavian Tyr is an attri bution to this Path, for he is the most daring and intrepid of the Gods, and it is he who dispenses valour, courage, and honour in the Wars.   The Spear is the weapon appropriate ; the flower Ger- anium, and the jewel Ruby because of its colour.

1.04 - The Praise, #Tara - The Feminine Divine, #unset, #Zen   To her who enjoys the infinite and Victory,   Who is trusted by the Children of the Conquerors   --   Who has complete Victory over the demon's warriors,   Who kills all the enemies   --   To HER WHO ENJOYS THE INFINITE AND Victory,   WHO IS TRUSTED BY THE CHILDREN OF THE CONQUERORS   --    Victory: the praise wins the same complete Victory   over all adverse circumstances wherever they happen.   --   we wish, the Victory is related to the help Tara brings   us to overcome fear and danger.   --   infinite [of the benefits] and Victory [brought by the   - 101 -   --   WHO HAS COMPLETE Victory OVER THE DEMON'S WARRIORS,   WHO KILLS ALL THE ENEMIES   --    WHO HAS COMPLETE Victory: it is with her wrathful   attitude that Tara vanquishes the demon's warriors,   --    VICTOR: Tara gains Victory over all that causes evil.   Common Meaning   --    THE SUBLIME: once Victory is gained over suffering,   karma, and conflicting emotions, there is the

1.04 - The Silent Mind, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga   Instead of going through Grand Central Station four times a day like someone hounded and forever in a rush, we can walk there consciously, as a seeker. Instead of living haphazardly, dispersed in a multitude of thoughts, which not only lack any excitement but are also as exhausting as a broken record, we can gather the scattered threads of our consciousness and work on ourselves at every moment. Then life begins to become surprisingly exciting, because the least little circumstance becomes an opportunity for Victory; we are focused; we are going somewhere instead of going nowhere.   For yoga is not a way of doing but of being.

1.04 - THE STUDY (The Compact), #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry   O fortunate, for whom, when Victory glances,   The bloody laurels on the brow he bindeth!

1.04 - What Arjuna Saw - the Dark Side of the Force, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga   The Victory of one side (the Allies) would keep the   path open for the evolutionary forces; the Victory of the   other side would drag back humanity, degrade it horribly   --   nations were at their Victory jig, he intensified his action in   the knowledge that, if he did not win one way or another,

1.05 - BOOK THE FIFTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry   Nor think so mean an act a Victory.   While yet he spoke he flung the whizzing dart,

1.05 - Morality and War, #Words Of The Mother III, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   The Victory has come, Thy Victory, O Lord, for which we render to Thee infinite thanks-giving.   But now our ardent prayer rises towards Thee. It is with Thy force and by Thy force that the victors have conquered. Grant that they do not forget it in their success and that they keep the promises which they have made to Thee in the hours of danger and anguish. They have taken Thy name to make war, may they not forget Thy grace when they have to make the peace.

1.05 - Qualifications of the Aspirant and the Teacher, #Bhakti-Yoga, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism   No impure soul can be really religious. Purity in thought, speech, and act is absolutely necessary for any one to be religious. As to the thirst after knowledge, it is an old law that we all get whatever we want. None of us can get anything other than what we fix our hearts upon. To pant for religion truly is a very difficult thing, not at all so easy as we generally imagine. Hearing religious talks or reading religious books is no proof yet of a real want felt in the heart; there must be a continuous struggle, a constant fight, an unremitting grappling with our lower nature, till the higher want is actually felt and the Victory is achieved. It is not a question of one or two days, of years, or of lives; the struggle may have to go on for hundreds of lifetimes. The success sometimes may come immediately, but we must be ready to wait patiently even for what may look like an infinite length of time. The student who sets out with such a spirit of perseverance will surely find success and realisation at last.   In regard to the teacher, we must see that he knows the spirit of the scriptures. The whole world reads Bibles, Vedas, and Korans; but they are all only words, syntax, etymology, philology, the dry bones of religion. The teacher who deals too much in words and allows the mind to be carried away by the force of words loses the spirit. It is the knowledge of the spirit of the scriptures alone that constitutes the true religious teacher. The network of the words of the scriptures is like a huge forest in which the human mind often loses itself and finds no way out.

1.05 - The Ascent of the Sacrifice - The Psychic Being, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      A Yoga turned towards an all-embracing realisation of the Supreme will not despise the works or even the dreams, if dreams they are, of the Cosmic Spirit or shrink from the splendid toil and many-sided Victory which he has assigned to himself In the human creature. But its first condition for this liberality is that our works in the world too must be part of the sacrifice offered to the Highest and to none else, to the Divine shakti and to no other Power, in the right spirit and with the right knowledge, by the free soul and not by the hypnotised bondslave of material Nature. If a division of works has to be made, it is between those that are nearest to the heart of the sacred flame and those that are least touched or illumined by it because they are more at a distance, or between the fuel that burns strongly or brightly and the logs that if too thickly heaped on the altar may impede the ardour of the fire by their damp, heavy and diffused abundance. But otherwise, apart from this division, all activities of knowledge that seek after or express Truth are in themselves rightful materials for a complete offering; none ought necessarily to be excluded from the wide framework of the divine life. The mental and physical sciences which examine into the laws and forms and processes of things, those which concern the life of men and animals, the social, political, linguistic and historical and those which seek to know and control the labours and activities by which man subdues and utilises his world and environment, and the noble and beautiful Arts which are at once work and knowledge, -- for every well-made and significant poem, picture, statue or building is an act of creative knowledge, a living discovery of the consciousness, a figure of Truth, a dynamic form of mental and vital self-expression or world-expressions-all that seeks, all that finds, all that voices or figures is a realisation of something of the play of the Infinite and to that extent can be made a means of God-realisation or of divine formation. But the Yogin has to see that it is no longer done as part of an ignorant mental life; it can be accepted by him only if by the feeling, the remembrance, the dedication within it, it is turned into a movement of the spiritual consciousness and becomes a part of its vast grasp of comprehensive illuminating knowledge.      For all must be done as a sacrifice, all activities must have the One Divine for their object and the heart of their meaning. The Yogin's aim in the sciences that make for knowledge should be to discover and understand the workings of the Divine Consciousness-Puissance in man and creatures and things and forces, her creative significances, her execution of the mysteries, the symbols in which she arranges the manifestation. The Yogin's aim in the practical sciences, whether mental and physical or occult and psychic, should be to enter into the ways of the Divine and his processes, to know the materials and means for the work given to us so that we may use that knowledge for a conscious and faultless expression of the spirit's mastery, joy and self-fulfilment. The Yogin's aim in the Arts should not be a mere aesthetic, mental or vital gratification, but, seeing the Divine everywhere, worshipping it with a revelation of the meaning of its works, to express that One Divine in gods and men and creatures and objects. The theory that sees an intimate connection between religious aspiration and the truest and greatest Art is in essence right; but we must substitute for the mixed and doubtful religious motive a spiritual aspiration, vision, interpreting experience. For the wider and more comprehensive the seeing, the more it contains in itself the sense of the hidden Divine in humanity and in all things and rises beyond a superficial religiosity into the spiritual life, the more luminous, flexible, deep and powerful will the Art be that springs from the high motive. The Yogin's distinction from other men is this that he lives in a higher and vaster spiritual consciousness; all his work of knowledge or creation must then spring from there: it must not be made in the mind, -- for it is a greater truth and vision than mental man's that he has to express or rather that presses to express itself through him and mould his works, not for his personal satisfaction, but for a divine purpose.

1.05 - THE HOSTILE BROTHERS - ARCHETYPES OF RESPONSE TO THE UNKNOWN, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology   Victory. At the end of this, the most cruel and bloodthirsty of centuries, we are in danger not only of failing   to understand evil, but of denying its very existence. Invisibility, however, is what the devil craves most.   --   consequence of the desire for too much security, attains its inevitable Victory. The vicious circle created   by the liar spirals down inevitably to the underworld. This process is schematically represented in Figure   --   Victory of the underworld.   The identity of the individual with his culture protects him from the terrible unknown, and allows him to   --   Fire, fire! We fought the war and we looked into the bonfires to see what kind of Victory it would   be. The wind wafted a glowing husk from the bonfire.   --   and permanence, of Victory over the forces of darkness, disintegration, and decay. The earliest patriarchal   gods and leaders of men combined the life-giving attri butes of the sun with the heroic ideals of man, and   --   life-potion, Victory over death).640 Jung ends his commentary:   The dread and resistance which every natural human being experiences when it comes to delving too   --   war. To allow the other Victory, however or even continued existence, on his terms means subjugation,   dissolution of protective structure, and exposure to that which is most feared. For me, this meant   --   forest, island, castle, etc.) can one find the treasure hard to attain (jewel, virgin, life-potion, Victory over death. Jung,   C.G. (1968b). p. 335.

1.05 - The Universe The 0 = 2 Equation, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy   This too, is very convenient, because it lends itself so readily to orthodox theology; so we have Ormuzd and Ahriman, the Devas and the Asuras, Osiris and Set, et cetera and da capo, personifications of "Good" and "Evil." The foes may be fairly matched; but more often the tale tells of a revolt in heaven. In this case, "Evil" is temporary; soon, especially with the financial help of the devout, the "devil" will be "cast into the Bottomless Pit" and "the Saints will reign with Christ in glory for ever and ever, Amen!" Often a "redeemer," a "dying God," is needed to secure Victory to Omnipotence; and this is usually what little vulgar boys might call a "touching story!"   J. The Monist (or Advaitist) school, is at once subtler and more refined; it seems to approach the ultimate reality (as opposed to the superficial examination of the Dualists) more closely.

1.05 - True and False Subjectivism, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Of these two truths mankind has had some vague vision in the principle with regard to the individual, though it has made only a very poor and fragmentary attempt to regard them in practice and in nine-tenths of its life has been busy departing from themeven where it outwardly professed something of the law. But they apply not only to the individual but to the nation. Here was the first error of the German subjectivism. Reasoning of the Absolute and the individual and the universal, it looked into itself and saw that in fact, as a matter of life, That seemed to express itself as the ego and, reasoning from the conclusions of modern Science, it saw the individual merely as a cell of the collective ego. This collective ego was, then, the greatest actual organised expression of life and to that all ought to be subservient, for so could Nature and its evolution best be assisted and affirmed. The greater human collectivity exists, but it is an inchoate and unorganised existence, and its growth can best be developed by the better development of the most efficient organised collective life already existing; practically, then, by the growth, perfection and domination of the most advanced nations, or possibly of the one most advanced nation, the collective ego which has best realised the purpose of Nature and whose Victory and rule is therefore the will of God. For all organised lives, all self-conscious egos are in a state of war, sometimes overt, sometimes covert, sometimes complete, sometimes partial, and by the survival of the best is secured the highest advance of the race. And where was the best, which was the most advanced, self-realising, efficient, highest-cultured nation, if not, by common admission as well as in Germanys own self-vision, Germany itself? To fulfil then the collective German ego and secure its growth and domination was at once the right law of reason, the supreme good of humanity and the mission of the great and supreme Teutonic race.4   From this egoistic self-vision flowed a number of logical consequences, each in itself a separate subjective error. First, since the individual is only a cell of the collectivity, his life must be entirely subservient to the efficient life of the nation. He must be made efficient indeed,the nation should see to his education, proper living, disciplined life, carefully trained and subordinated activity,but as a part of the machine or a disciplined instrument of the national Life. Initiative must be the collectivitys, execution the individuals. But where was that vague thing, the collectivity, and how could it express itself not only as a self-conscious, but an organised and efficient collective will and self-directing energy? The State, there was the secret. Let the State be perfect, dominant, all-pervading, all-seeing, all-effecting; so only could the collective ego be concentrated, find itself, and its life be brought to the highest pitch of strength, organisation and efficiency. Thus Germany founded and established the growing modern error of the cult of the State and the growing subordination driving in the end towards the effacement of the individual. We can see what it gained, an immense collective power and a certain kind of perfection and scientific adjustment of means to end and a high general level of economic, intellectual and social efficiency,apart from the tremendous momentary force which the luminous fulfilment of a great idea gives to man or nation. What it had begun to lose is as yet only slightly apparent,all that deeper life, vision, intuitive power, force of personality, psychical sweetness and largeness which the free individual brings as his gift to the race.   --   The German gospel has evidently two sides, the internal and the external, the cult of the State, nation or community and the cult of international egoism. In the first, Germany, even if for a time entirely crushed in the battle-field, seems to have already secured the Victory in the moral sense of the human race. The unsparing compulsion as against the assistance of the individual by the State7for his and the common good, of course, but who professes to compel for harm?is almost everywhere either dominant or else growing into a strong and prevailing current of opinion; the champions of individual freedom are now a morally defeated and dwindling army who can only fight on in the hope of a future reaction or of saving something of their principle from the wreck. On the external side, the international, the battle of ideas still goes on, but there were from the beginning ominous signs;8 and now after the physical war with its first psychological results is well over, we are already able to see in which direction the tide is likely to flow. War is a dangerous teacher and physical Victory leads often to a moral defeat. Germany, defeated in the war, has won in the after war; the German gospel rearisen in a sterner and fiercer avatar threatens to sweep over all Europe.   It is necessary, if we are not to deceive ourselves, to note that even in this field what Germany has done is to systematise certain strong actual tendencies and principles of international action to the exclusion of all that either professed to resist or did actually modify them. If a sacred egoism and the expression did not come from Teutonic lipsis to govern international relations, then it is difficult to deny the force of the German position. The theory of inferior and decadent races was loudly proclaimed by other than German thinkers and has governed, with whatever assuaging scruples, the general practice of military domination and commercial exploitation of the weak by the strong; all that Germany has done is to attempt to give it a wider extension and more rigorous execution and apply it to European as well as to Asiatic and African peoples. Even the severity or brutality of her military methods or of her ways of colonial or internal political repression, taken at their worst, for much once stated against her has been proved and admitted to be deliberate lies manufactured by her enemies, was only a crystallising of certain recent tendencies towards the revival of ancient and mediaeval hardheartedness in the race. The use and even the justification of massacre and atrocious cruelty in war on the ground of military exigency and in the course of commercial exploitation or in the repression of revolt and disorder has been quite recently witnessed in the other continents, to say nothing of certain outskirts of Europe.9 From one point of view, it is well that terrible examples of the utmost logic of these things should be prominently forced on the attention of mankind; for by showing the evil stripped of all veils the choice between good and evil instead of a halting between the two will be forced on the human conscience. Woe to the race if it blinds its conscience and buttresses up its animal egoism with the old justifications; for the gods have shown that Karma is not a jest.

1.05 - War And Politics, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga   World War II, in which India also was involved, began in 1939, a year after Sri Aurobindo's accident and ended in 1945 with the Victory of the Allies. India's long struggle for liberty came to an end in 1947 when she became independent. This was one of the most exciting phases in our twelve years' stay with Sri Aurobindo. We had the unique opportunity of watching with him, from his room and, following step by step, the long course and rapid development of these two historic events: on the one hand, the great danger to Europe and the whole world; on the other, opportunity given to India to gain her freedom by her cooperation with the Allies. We shared with Sri Aurobindo his hopes and fears, his anticipations, prognostications and prophecies. He allowed us some glimpses into his action and gave a calm assurance of the Victory of the divine cause. For the Mother had declared that it was her war. Hitler's star was in the ascendant for a time. His Panzer divisions racing through France making Paris' fate hang in the balance, his Luftwaffe over London, Rommel's overrunning of North Africa, the Allied invasion of Europe, the Battle of Stalingrad all these and many other episodes kept us in breathless suspense.   But in the midst of all these dramatic upheavals, Sri Aurobindo never lost his calm equanimity though he knew very well indeed what was at stake. He said that Hitler was the greatest menace the world had to face and that he would stop at nothing to achieve his sinister object, even destroy the whole civilisation; for "An idiot hour destroys what centuries made", as we find in a verse in Savitri.   --   Though we in the Ashram are not supposed to take part in politics, we are not at all indifferent to world affairs. In fact, Sri Aurobindo has said that we are immensely interested in them. The journal Mother India which was a semi-political fortnightly, and came out two years after India's Independence, was edited by one of the sadhaks who was living in Bombay and the editorials were sent to Sri Aurobindo for approval before publication. Sri Aurobindo gave many long and regular interviews to a political leader of Bengal and gave him advice and directions regarding the contemporary situation. The Mother too has said that the Supermind cannot but include in its ultimate work for world-change the political administration, since all secular well-being rests in the hands of the governing power of the country. Besides, the War was not a simple political issue among the big nations. The Nazi aggression meant "the peril of black servitude and a revived barbarism threatening India and the world". It was a life-and-death question for the spiritual evolution of the new man, for the emergence of a new race which the Mother and Sri Aurobindo had come to initiate and establish on the earth. And the Victory of Hitler's Germany would mean not only the end of civilisation, but also the death of that great possibility. It is in this sense I have called this War a modern Kurukshetra.   Let us then go back to the crucial year 1938 when dark war-clouds were gathering and rumblings were heard all over Europe. There was a strong possibility that fighting would break out in December, just a week or two after the night of November 23, when Sri Aurobindo had his accident. But, as he indicated in our talks, his Force pushed it back to a later date, for war at that time would have been a great hindrance to his work. It is possible to surmise that the irresistible forces which no human power could check turned their fury on one who had checked them. Long before Hitler's actual invasion of Poland, long before any other person, Sri Aurobindo had seen this dark Asuric Power rising in Germany and striding over Europe, making Hitler its demoniac instrument, a pseudo-colossus, a self-acclaimed Napoleon. Therefore he supported the Allies and warned India of the forthcoming peril, much to the chagrin and indignation of our blind countrymen. Future events proved his forecast right to the letter.   --   For all the war-news we had to depend on the daily newspapers, since members of the Ashram were not supposed to have radios. Somebody in the town began to supply us with short bulletins; when the War had taken a full-fledged turn, the radio news was transmitted to Sri Aurobindo's room so he might follow the war-movements from hour to hour. Here we find a notable instance of the spiritual flexibility of his rules and principles. What had been laid down for a particular time and condition, would not be inviolable under altered circumstances. Sri Aurobindo, who was once a mortal opponent of British rule in India, came to support the Allies against the threat of world-domination by Hitler. "Not merely a non-cooperator but an enemy of British Imperialism", he now listened carefully to the health bulletins about Churchill when he had pneumonia, and, we believe, even helped him with his Force to recover. It is the rigid mind that cries for consistency under all circumstances. I still remember Sri Aurobindo breaking the news of Hitler's march and England's declaration of war. For a time the world hung in suspense wondering whether Hitler would flout Holland's neutrality and then penetrate into Belgium. We had very little doubt of his intention. It was evening; Sri Aurobindo was alone in his room. As soon as I entered, he looked at me and said, "Hitler has invaded Holland. Well, we shall see." That was all. Two or three such laconic but pregnant remarks regarding the War still ring in my ears. At another crucial period when Stalin held a threatening pistol at England and was almost joining hands with Hitler, we were dismayed and felt that there would be no chance for the Divine, were such a formidable alliance to take place. Sri Aurobindo at once retorted, "Is the Divine going to be cowed by Stalin?" When, seeing Hitler sweeping like a meteor over Europe, a sadhak cried in despair to the Guru, "Where is the Divine? Where is your word of hope?" Sri Aurobindo replied calmly, "Hitler is not immortal." Then the famous battle of Dunkirk and the perilous retreat, the whole Allied army exposed to enemy attack from land and air and the bright summer sun shining above. All of a sudden a fog gathered from nowhere and gave unexpected protection to the retreating army. We said, "It seems the fog helped the evacuation." To which Sri Aurobindo remarked, "Yes, the fog is rather unusual at this time." We, of course, understood what he meant. It was after the fall of Dunkirk and the capitulation of France that Sri Aurobindo began to apply his Force more vigorously in favour of the Allies, and he had "the satisfaction of seeing the rush of German Victory almost immediately arrested and the tide of war begin to turn in the opposite direction".   Thus, we see, Sri Aurobindo was not simply a passive witness, a mere verbal critic of the Allied war policy. When India was asked to participate in the war effort, and the Mother and Sri Aurobindo, much to the surprised indignation of our countrymen, contributed to the War Fund, he, for the first time, made clear to the nation what issues were involved in the War. I remember the Mother darting into Sri Aurobindo's room quite early in the morning with a sheet of paper in her hand. I guessed that something private was going to be discussed and discreetly withdrew. Then Purani came most unexpectedly. "Ah! here is something afoot," I said to myself. A couple of days later the secret was revealed in all the newspapers: Sri Aurobindo had made a donation to the War Fund! Of course, he explained why he had done so. He stated that the War was being waged "in defence of civilisation and its highest attained social, cultural and spiritual values and the whole future of humanity...." Giving the lead, he acted as an example for others to follow. But, all over the country, protests, calumnies and insinuations were his lot. Even his disciples were nonplussed in spite of his explanation why he had made that singular gesture. A disciple wrote to the Mother, "The Congress is asking us not to contribute to the War Fund. What shall we do?" The answer given was: "Sri Aurobindo has contributed for a divine cause. If you help, you will be helping yourselves." Some were wishing for the Victory of the Nazis because of their hatred for the British. The Mother had to give a stern admonition. She wrote: "It has become necessary to state emphatically and clearly that all who by their thoughts and wishes are supporting and calling for the Victory of the Nazis are by that very fact collaborating with the Asura against the Divine and helping to bring about the Victory of the Asura."   Here I may quote a fellow-sadhak's report on the Mother's pro-Allies attitude:   "P reported to the Mother my reactions to Sri Aurobindo's recent contribution to the War Fund. I did not know about it. Suddenly I saw the Mother quite unmindful of me, I thought it might be because She was very busy in those days. But I observed Her for three days, and was convinced that something was amiss. I approached Her and asked, 'Why are you ignoring me?' She said, 'You know it very well.' But I was puzzled. I guessed every other reason than the true one, which according to Her was serious. I did not think that P would report to Her my talks with him. So I begged her to tell me what I had done, because I was sure to rectify my grave error. To this She said, with severity, 'There are things that were settled long before you were even born. We have been working on them for a long time. Now you with your infinitesimally small mind believe that all that is nothing, that Sri Aurobindo and I are wrong, and that you are right in your judgment!' I was taken aback; it flashed before me, 'What could be the reason?' Being nonplussed, I expressed my surprise, 'Is it something about the War that I spoke to P?' The Mother made the sign of Yes. I felt relieved and said, 'Oh, it was nothing. I just spoke to him casually; it was not at all serious.' But the Mother's face was stern and She said, 'Not serious? It was almost unbelievable that you of all persons could speak like that about Sri Aurobindo! Haven't you read all that He has given out to the Press?' I said, 'Yes, Mother, I have. But have not the British done anything wrong to India?' The Mother replied, 'We never said that they had not, nor do we say that in the future they will not do so any more. But today the question is not that; don't you understand it? When you see your neighbour's house on fire, and yet you do not go to help to put it out because he has done wrong to you, you risk the burning of your own house and the loss of your own life. Do you not see the difference between the forces that are fighting for the Divine and those for the Asuras?' I said, 'Yes, Mother, I do see; only what baffles me is that Churchill, whom you and Sri Aurobindo have chosen as your direct instrument, wants today India's help for his own country's existence; and yet says that His Majesty's government has no intention of liquidating its Empire!' The Mother said, 'But leave all that to the Divine. Churchill is a human being. He is not a yogi aspiring to transform his nature, Today he represents the Soul of the Nation that is fighting against the Asuras. He is being guided by the Divine directly and his soul is responding magnificently. All concentration must be now to help the Allies for the Victory that is ultimately assured, but there must be no looseness, not the slightest opening to the Asuras. After the battle is won, if Churchill's soul can remain still in front and he continues to be guided by the Divine, he will go very fast in the line of evolution. But generally on earth it doesn't happen like that. His human mind and vital will take the lead after the crisis is over, and then he will come down to the level of the ordinary human being, though of a higher order.'"   When Dr. Rao, one of the consultant physicians attending on Sri Aurobindo, said that a lot of people in Madras were wondering how Sri Aurobindo, who had been so anti-British, could contribute to the War Fund, the Master explained to him at great length why he had taken that step. His intention was that Dr. Rao should speak about it to others when the occasion arose. Among the points already known, Sri Aurobindo disclosed his own occult action in the War. He said, "Do you know that Hitler is trying to get a foothold in South America and doing extensive propaganda there? It can lead to an attack against the U.S.A. He is now practically master of Europe. If he had invaded England after the collapse of France, he could have been in Asia by this time.... Now another force has been set up against his. Still the danger has not passed. He has a 50% chance of success. Up to the time when France collapsed, he was remarkably successful because he had behind him an Asuric Power which guided him; from that Power he received remarkably correct messages."   --   Sri Aurobindo was not only fighting Hitler, he had also the onerous task of conquering the extreme antipathy of his own disciples towards the British. The Ashram ran the danger of being disbanded for our anti-British and pro-Hitler feelings. How many letters had Sri Aurobindo to write to his disciples to show their grave error and the danger of the Nazi Victory! I quote only one such letter he wrote to a disciple, in 1942, "...You should not think of it as a fight for certain nations against others or even for India; it is a struggle for an ideal that has to establish itself on earth in the life of humanity, for a Truth that has yet to realise itself fully and against a darkness and falsehood that are trying to overwhelm the earth and mankind in the immediate future. It is the forces behind the battle that have to be seen and not this or that superficial circumstance.... There cannot be the slightest doubt that if one wins; there will be an end of all such freedom and hope of light and truth and the work that has to be done will be subjected to conditions which would make it humanly impossible; there will be a reign of falsehood and darkness, a cruel oppression and degradation for most of the human race such as people in this country do not dream of and cannot yet at all realise. If the other side that has declared itself for the free future of humanity triumphs, this terrible danger will have been averted and conditions will have been created in which there will be a chance for the Ideal to grow, for the Divine Work to be done, for the spiritual Truth for which we stand to establish itself on the earth. Those who fight for this cause are fighting for the Divine and against the threatened reign of the Asura."   In a talk in 1940, Sri Aurobindo said: "There are forces which are trying to destroy the British and their empire forces above and here in this world, I mean inner forces. I myself had wished for its destruction; but at that time I did not know such forces would arise. These forces are working for the evolution of a new world-order which would come following upon the liquidation of the Empire. But, for the advent of this new arrangement, the Empire needn't be destroyed. The new arrangement can be achieved more quietly by a change in the balance of forces, without much destruction. Had it not been for Hitler, I wouldn't have cared what power remained or went down. Now the question is whether the new world-order is to come after much suffering and destruction or with as little of it as possible. Destruction of England would mean Victory for Hitler and in that case, perhaps after a great deal of suffering and oppression, and reaction to them, that world-order may come or may not, or it may come only after pralaya! Of course the issue has been decided by the Divine Vision and there can be no change. But nobody knows what the decision is."   These two long extracts are enoughto show clearly Sri Aurobindo's vision of the play of forces, how they try through the use of human instruments to fulfil their purpose and also what Sri Aurobindo's part was in this mysterious play. I shall now give some extracts from our talks to demonstrate Sri Aurobindo's close watch on the trend of the War, his comments on the military movements of the contending parties, sometimes his anticipation of their strategic moves and the consequences that would ensue, or his own suggestions about the courses that could be followed. And all this came enlivened with a sense of quiet humour that made the grimness of the War itself appear light, even an enjoyable game of forces.   --   When half the world was dazzled by the glamour of Hitler's Victory and considered him greater than Alexander and Napoleon, when others were groaning under the iron wheels of his war-machine, and still others hoped to change his heart by non-violence, Sri Aurobindo's vision of Hitler never wavered for a moment he, a dwarf Napoleon with a rudimentary psychic being whose heart was beyond any possibility of change, became the vessel of an Asuric Power which ultimately led him to his nemesis.   Along with the European war, India's political problem naturally played a prominent part in our discussion, Mahatma Gandhi's attitude, the Congress policy, the Hindu-Muslim problem, Jinnah's intransigence and the Viceroy's role as the peace-maker, all this complicated politics and our Himalayan blunders leading to the rejection of the famous Cripps' Proposals, were within our constant purview.... The upshot of the whole discussion till the arrival of the Cripps' Mission can be put in a few words; the Congress made a big mistake by resigning from the Ministry. The Government was ready to offer us Dominion Status which we should have accepted, for it was virtually a step towards independence. We should have joined the war-effort. That would have created an opportunity to enter into all military departments and operations in air, on sea and land; hold positions, become efficient and thus enforce our natural right for freedom.   --   The next issue, if not so great in magnitude, was the Japanese aggression. Japan, like a minor Hitler, had established its supremacy in the East. But Sri Aurobindo had never taken Japan's aggression very seriously. On the contrary, he once remarked that should Hitler become supreme in the West and turn his forces towards the East, Japan's power might be useful in confronting Hitler and checking his advance. This remark supporting as it were Japan's blaze of imperial conquest baffled me at the time. Did he want Japan's rise to serve as a counterblast to Hitler's problematic thrust towards the East? Or could it be read as a move to force America into the War? At any rate it was quite evident from our talks that Japan's dramatic conquests did not disturb him, as did Hitler's. But it was only when Japan's design on India, aided by some of our misguided patriots, was palpably clear, that Sri Aurobindo, as he himself avowed, used his spiritual Force against Japan and "had the satisfaction of seeing the tide of Japanese Victory which had till then swept everything before it, change immediately into a tide of rapid, crushing and finally immense and overwhelming defeat".   We heard of the Japanese bombing of Calcutta and Vishakhapatnam, we also heard that Japanese warships had come to the Indian Ocean at Trincomali and the next information that reached us almost immediately was that they had exploded and sunk before they had time to invade India! In the North-East the I.N.A.[5] with the Japanese army at its back was triumphantly marching into Assam. The Indian army seemed to be in a panicky retreat, and the British Government, counting its imperial glory to be almost at an end, was preparing to leave India. The then Governor of Bengal seemed to have said at a cabinet meeting, "This time the game is up." When the words were reported to Sri Aurobindo he remarked, "Now the wheel will turn." For the Allies the situation at that moment was desperate everywhere, in Africa, in India, in Europe.   --   The other causes then could be considered no more than contributory, even if indispensable factors. Out of all these, I may make some comment on the claims of the I. N. A. Whatever significance there may be in its claims, the role it played was fraught with most dangerous consequences. I wonder how our countrymen had no apprehension of them. It was a fatal game the I.N.A. played, thinking that the Japanese, after the conquest of India, would peacefully leave the country letting the I.N.A. enjoy the fruit of its Victory, or that India would be able to fight and drive them out. Sri Aurobindo pointing out what would have been our condition, had Japan entered India, said, "Japan's imperialism being young and based on industrial and military power and moving westward, was a greater menace to India than the British imperialism which was old, which the country had learnt to deal with and which was on the way to elimination."   Our Ashram came in for a good deal of suffering and inconvenience in the wake of the War: the wrath and abuse of our countrymen, the resentment of a number of our own inmates for our support of the War and the loss of some other valiant sons in the great holocaust. It had to open its doors to the children of all disciples who were in the danger zone, so we were all of a sudden changed into a large community without sufficient means to maintain ourselves. And due to the general embargoes and restrictions imposed by the Government the most necessary food supply was either cut off or reduced to a minimum. Last of all, and the greatest irony of fate, the Ashram in spite of all our help was suspected of being a nest of spies or enemy agents. Police search was apprehended and even the question of disbanding the Ashram was in the air. Perhaps the British Government had never entirely believed that Sri Aurobindo, once the most dangerous enemy of the British Empire, could really become their ally. Was he not still engaged in secret revolutionary activities, his war-contribution serving just as a smoke-screen? Unfortunately, in the Ashram itself there were some who wished for Hitler's Victory, not for love of Hitler but because of their hatred of British domination. Sri Aurobindo conveyed through us a stern message to them: "If these people want that the Ashram should be dissolved, they can come and tell me and I will dissolve it instead of the police doing it.... Hitlerism is the greatest menace that the world has ever met."   Another inconvenience, but of short duration, that we had to pass through was the threat of bombing by the Japanese Air Force. As soon as the alert for a blackout was given, all lights in the Ashram had to go off. Sri Aurobindo sat up in bed, the Mother on a chair in Sri Aurobindo's room; the two of us who were on duty at the time also sat there, Champaklal very near the Mother.... After a short while when the all-clear signal was given, we would revert to our duty. One day, putting a dark shade over Sri Aurobindo's table lamp, the Mother said with a smile, "Your lamp lights up three streets, Lord." "So I should be darkened?" he asked smiling. In truth, I do not think that any Japanese aeroplane flew over Pondicherry. I was very much amused at the sight of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo taking this human precaution against any possible threat. But that is their way. Because they are Divine and possess a great occult power, one would suppose that all the human measures were otiose or a mere show as I thought in my callow days. But I saw in this case and in many others that the Mother was in grim earnest. Even if Sri Aurobindo and she were sure of an eventual success, they would keep applying the pressure of their Force till the issue was decided beyond any question.   --   I cannot end this chapter without noting how the whole Ashram was vitally interested in India's fight for freedom, though we are supposed erroneously to be absorbed only in our own spiritual liberation. When the news of the final Victory came, we celebrated it as much as the people outside, particularly because it coincided with Sri Aurobindo's birthday. He was requested to give a message on this great occasion. I am reproducing at the end of this chapter the whole message called "Five Dreams".   "It was on this occasion that for the first time the Mother hoisted her flag over the terrace of Sri Aurobindo's room. The Mother called it the spiritual flag of India.   --   Now, people may argue, "There is no mystery here. Mountbatten selected it because, as he says, that date marked a glorious achievement in his life." "But why with such decisive haste?" one may ask. "Because he did not want to face any opposition. If he had disclosed it in advance, there was every possibility of its being rejected on one ground or another." Whatever may be the urge to commemorate his own Victory, he was instrumental in linking it with an occasion whose light will grow into a sun with the rolling of the years, while his own Victory will pale into a shade. Left to our countrymen, none would have even dreamt of this date, but One who sees and decides everything gave this date the importance it deserved. Those who have some insight can perceive His inscrutable hand behind this memorable identification.   When one reads Sri Aurobindo's message one will not fail to note how much importance he has given to the role India alone can play in bringing about the unity of the whole of mankind. I do not know of any other great leader of India and worker for her future destiny who spoke in such glowing terms as we find in these "Dreams".

1.05 - Work and Teaching, #Words Of The Mother I, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   Never for an instant vacillate in the belief that the mighty work of change taken up by Sri Aurobindo is going to culminate in success. For that indeed is a fact: there is not a shadow of doubt as to the issue of the work we have in hand. The transformation is going to be: nothing will ever stop it, nothing will frustrate the decree of the Omnipotent. Cast away all diffidence and weakness and resolve to endure bravely awhile before the great day arrives when the long battle turns into an everlasting Victory.   ***

1.05 - Yoga and Hypnotism, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Yoga is therefore no dream, no illusion of mystics. It is known that we can alter the associations of mind and body temporarily and that the mind can alter the conditions of the body partially. Yoga asserts that these things can be done permanently and completely. For the body conquest of disease, pain and material obstructions, for the mind liberation from bondage to past experience and the heavier limitations of space and time, for the heart Victory over sin and grief and fear, for the spirit unclouded bliss, strength and illumination, this is the gospel of Yoga, is the goal to which Hinduism points humanity.   ***

1.061 - Column, #Quran, #unset, #Zen   13. And something else you love: support from God, and imminent Victory. So give good news to the believers.   14. O you who believe! Be supporters of God, as Jesus son of Mary said to the disciples, “Who are my supporters towards God?” The disciples said, “We are God's supporters.” So a group of the Children of Israel believed, while another group disbelieved. We supported those who believed against their foe, so they became dominant.

1.06 - On Thought, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   SERENITY: Certitude of the final Victory.   ***

1.06 - Psychic Education, #On Education, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   "The veiled psychic is the flame of the Godhead always alight within us, inextinguishable even by that dense unconsciousness of any spiritual self within which obscures our outward nature... It is the concealed Witness and Control, the hidden Guide, the Daemon of Socrates, the inner light or inner voice of the mystic... It is the individual soul, caitya purusa, supporting mind, life and body, standing behind the mental, the vital, the subtle-physical being in us and watching and profiting by their development and experience... It is this secret psychic entity which is the true original Conscience in us deeper than the constructed and conventional conscience of the moralist, for it is this which points always towards Truth and Right and Beauty, towards Love and Harmony and all that is a divine possibility in us, and persists till these things become the major need of our nature... If the secret psychic person can come forward into the front... the whole nature can be turned towards the real aim of life, the supreme Victory, the ascent into spiritual existence."2   ~ The Mother On Education

1.06 - Quieting the Vital, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga   obstacles, attacks be a means of growth, added strength, enlarged experience, training for spiritual Victory?67 We complain against evil,   but if it was not there to besiege and defy us, we would long ago have seized the eternal Truth and turned it into a nice, tidy piece of platitude. Truth moves on; it has legs; and the princes of darkness are there to make sure, however brutally, that it does not slumber. God's negations are as useful to us as His affirmations,68 says Sri Aurobindo. The Adversary will disappear only when he is no longer necessary in the world, remarked Mother. He is undoubtedly necessary, as is the touchstone for gold, to make sure we are true.

1.06 - The Ascent of the Sacrifice 2 The Works of Love - The Works of Life, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga    do only the works of Love and Knowledge and leave aside the works of will and power, possession and acquisition, production and fruitful expense of capacity, battle and Victory and mastery, striking away from us the larger part of life because it seems to be made of the very stuff of desire and ego and therefore doomed to be a field of disharmony and mere conflict and disorder. For the division cannot really be made; or, if attempted, it must fail in its essential purpose, since it would isolate us from the total energies of the World-Power and sterilise an important part of integral Nature, just the one force in it that is a necessary instrument in any world-creative purpose. The Life-Force is an indispensable intermediary, the effectuating element in Nature here; mind needs its alliance if the works of mind are not to remain shining inner formations without a body; the spirit needs it to give an outer force and form to its manifested possibilities and arrive at a complete self-expression incarnated in Matter. If   Life refuses the aid of its intermediary energy to the spirit's other workings or is itself refused, they are likely to be reduced for all the effect they can have here to a static seclusion or a golden impotence; or if anything is done, it will be a partial irradiation of our action more subjective than objective, modifying existence perhaps, but without force to change it. Yet if Life brings its forces to the spirit but unregenerate, a worse result may follow since it is likely to reduce the spiritual action of Love or   --    standing in front, sometimes working behind the veil, and the power of the end will be already there even in the beginning and in the long middle stages of the great endeavour. For at all times the seeker will be aware of the Divine Guide and Protector or the working of the supreme Mother Force; he will know that all is done for the best, the progress assured, the Victory inevitable. In either case the process is the same and unavoidable, a taking up of the whole nature, of the whole life, of the internal and of the external, to reveal and handle and transform its forces and their movements under the pressure of a diviner Life from above, until all here has been possessed by greater spiritual powers and made an instrumentation of a spiritual action and a divine purpose.   In this process and at an early stage of it it becomes evident that what we know of ourselves, our present conscious existence, is only a representative formation, a superficial activity, a changing external result of a vast mass of concealed existence. Our visible life and the actions of that life are no more than a series of significant expressions, but that which it tries to express is not on the surface; our existence is something much larger than this apparent frontal being which we suppose ourselves to be and which we offer to the world around us. This frontal and external being is a confused amalgam of mind-formations, lifemovements, physical functionings of which even an exhaustive analysis into its component parts and machinery fails to reveal the whole secret. It is only when we go behind, below, above into the hidden stretches of our being that we can know it; the most thorough and acute surface scrutiny and manipulation cannot give us the true understanding or the completely effective control of our life, its purposes, its activities; that inability indeed is the cause of the failure of reason, morality and every other surface action to control and deliver and perfect the life of the human race. For below even our most obscure physical consciousness is a subconscious being in which as in a covering and supporting soil are all manner of hidden seeds that sprout up, unaccountably to us, on our surface and into which we are constantly throwing fresh seeds that prolong our past and will influence our future, - a subconscious being, obscure, small in its motions, capriciously

1.06 - The Breaking of the Limits, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga   And once again we are struck by the same phenomenon. These fleeting little bursts have nothing to do with big things, the sensational and earthshaking affairs of men. They are humble miracles, one could say meticulous miracles of detail, as if the real key were there in the little stumbling everyday trifle caught by surprise, at ground level, as if, in fact, a Victory won over a minute point of matter were more pregnant with consequences than all the trips to the moon and the huge revolutions of men which in the end revolutionize nothing.   This new functioning seems indeed to be radically new. It is unlike any of the so-called spiritual or occult powers one can obtain by scaling the ladder of consciousness: these are not prophetic powers, or healing powers, or powers of levitation the thousand and one poor powers that have never healed the world's poverty they are not dazzling lights that comm and men's attention for an instant, only to leave them afterwards as they were before, half asleep and afflicted with cancer; not brief, compelling impositions from above that come and upset the laws of matter, only to let it fall back the next moment into its heavy and stubborn obstinacy. It is a new consciousness new, entirely new, like a young shoot on the tree of the world a direct power from matter to matter, without interference from above, without descending course, distorting intermediary or diluting passage. Truth here answers truth there, instantly and automatically. It is a global consciousness, innumerably and infinitesimally conscious of the truth of each point, each thing, each being, each second. We could say a divine consciousness of matter, the very one that one day cast this seed upon our good earth, and these millions of wild seeds, and these millions of stars, which knows perfectly every moment all the degrees of its unfolding, down to the tiniest leaf everything harmonizes when one harmonizes with the Law. Because, in fact, there is only one Law, a Law of Truth.

1.06 - The Greatness of the Individual, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   In all movements, in every great mass of human action it is the Spirit of the Time, that which Europe calls the Zeitgeist and India Kala, who expresses himself. The very names are deeply significant. Kali, the Mother of all and destroyer of all, is the Shakti that works in secret in the heart of humanity manifesting herself in the perpetual surge of men, institutions and movements, Mahakala the Spirit within whose energy goes abroad in her and moulds the progress of the world and the destiny of the nations. His is the impetus which fulfils itself in Time, and once there is movement, impetus from the Spirit within, Time and the Mother take charge of it, prepare, ripen and fulfil. When the Zeitgeist, God in Time, moves in a settled direction, then all the forces of the world are called in to swell the established current towards the purpose decreed. That which consciously helps, swells it, but that which hinders swells it still more, and like a wave on the windswept Ocean, now rising, now falling, now high on the crest of Victory and increase, now down in the troughs of discouragement and defeat, the impulse from the hidden Source sweeps onward to its preordained fulfilment. Man may help or man may resist, but the Zeitgeist works, shapes, overbears, insists.   The great and memorable vision of Kurukshetra when Sri Krishna manifesting his world-form declared himself as destroying Time, is significant of this deep perception of humanity. When Arjuna wished to cast aside his bow and quiver, when he said, This is a sin we do and a great destruction of men and brothers, I will forbear, Sri Krishna after convincing his intellect of error, proceeded by that marvellous vision described in the eleventh canto of the Gita to stamp the truth of things upon his imagination. Thus run the mighty stanzas:   --   Who could resist the purpose of the Zeitgeist? There were strong men in India then by the hundred, great philosophers and Yogins, subtle statesmen, leaders of men, kings of thought and action, the efflorescence of a mighty intellectual civilisation at its height. A little turning to the right instead of to the left on the part of a few of these would, it might seem, have averted the whole catastrophe. So Arjuna thought when he flung aside his bow. He was the whole hope of the Pandavas and without him their Victory must seem a mere dream and to fight an act of madness. Yet it is to him that the Zeitgeist proclaims the utter helplessness of the mightiest and the sure fulfilment of Gods decree. Even without thee all they shall not be, the men of war who stand arrayed in the opposing squadrons. For these men are only alive in the body; in that which stands behind and fulfils itself they are dead men. Whom God protects who shall slay? Whom God has slain who shall protect? The man who slays is only the occasion, the instrument by which the thing done behind the veil becomes the thing done on this side of it. That which was true of the great slaying at Kurukshetra is true of all things that are done in this world, of all the creation, destruction and preservation that make up the ll.   The greatness of this teaching is for the great. Those who are commissioned to bring about mighty changes are full of the force of the Zeitgeist. Kali has entered into them and Kali when she enters into a man cares nothing for rationality and possibility. She is the force of Nature that whirls the stars in their orbits, lightly as a child might swing a ball, and to that force there is nothing impossible. She is aghaana-ghaana-payas, very skilful in bringing about the impossible. She is the devtmaakti svaguair nigh, the Power of the Divine Spirit hidden in the modes of its own workings, and she needs nothing but time to carry out the purpose with which she is commissioned. She moves in Time and the very movement fulfils itself, creates its means, accomplishes its ends. It is not an accident that she works in one man more than in another. He is chosen because he is a likely vessel, and having chosen him she neither rejects him till the purpose is fulfilled nor allows him to reject her. Therefore Sri Krishna tells Arjuna:

1.07 - Samadhi, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy   8:We shall therefore not trouble at all about what any Samadhi may or may not bring as far as its results in our lives are concerned. We began this book, it will be remembered, with considerations of death. Death has now lost all meaning. The idea of death depends on those of the ego, and of time; these ideas have been destroyed; and so "Death is swallowed up in Victory." We shall now only be interested in what Samadhi is in itself, and in the conditions which cause it.   9:Let us try a final definition. Dhyana resembles Samadhi in many respects. There is a union of the ego and the non-ego, and a loss of the senses of time and space and causality. Duality in any form is abolished. The idea of time involves that of two consecutive things, that of space two non-coincident things, that of causality two connected things.

1.07 - The Ideal Law of Social Development, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Mankind upon earth is one foremost self-expression of the universal Being in His cosmic self-unfolding; he expresses, under the conditions of the terrestrial world he inhabits, the mental power of the universal existence. All mankind is one in its nature, physical, vital, emotional, mental and ever has been in spite of all differences of intellectual development ranging from the poverty of the Bushman and negroid to the rich cultures of Asia and Europe, and the whole race has, as the human totality, one destiny which it seeks and increasingly approaches in the cycles of progression and retrogression it describes through the countless millenniums of its history. Nothing which any individual race or nation can triumphantly realise, no Victory of their self-aggrandisement, illumination, intellectual achievement or mastery over the environment, has any permanent meaning or value except in so far as it adds something or recovers something or preserves something for this human march. The purpose which the ancient Indian scripture offers to us as the true object of all human action, lokasa   graha, the holding together of the race in its cyclic evolution, is the constant sense, whether we know it or know it not, of the sum of our activities.

1.07 - The Three Schools of Magick 2, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy   Adepts of the White School regard their brethren of the Black very much as the aristocratic English Sahib (of the days when England was a nation) regarded the benighted Hindu. Nietzsche expresses the philosophy of this School to that extent with considerable accuracy and vigour. The man who denounces life merely defines himself as the man who is unequal to it. The brave man rejoices in giving and taking hard knocks, and the brave man is joyous. The Scandinavian idea of Valhalla may be primitive, but it is manly. A heaven of popular concert, like the Christian; of unconscious repose, like the Buddhist; or even of sensual enjoyment, like the Moslem, excites his nausea and contempt. He understands that the only joy worth while is the joy of continual Victory, and Victory itself would become as tame as croquet if it were not spiced by equally continual defeat.   The purest documents of the White School are found in the Sacred Books of Thelema. The doctrine is given in excellent perfection both in the book of the Heart Girt with the Serpent and the book of Lapis Lazuli. A single passage is adequate to explain the formula.   --   The Christian religion in its simplest essence, by that idea of overcoming evil through a Magical ceremony, the Crucifixion, seems at first sight a fair example of the White tradition; but the idea of sin and of propitiation tainted it abominably with Blackness. There have been, however, certain Christian thinkers who have taken the bold logical step of regarding evil as a device of God for exercising the joys of combat and Victory. This is, of course, a perfectly White doctrine; but it is regarded as the most dangerous of heresies. (Romans VI. 1,2, et al.)   For all that, the idea is there. The Mass itself is essentially a typical White ritual. Its purpose is to transform crude matter directly into Godhead. It is thus a cardinal operation of Talismanic Magick. But the influence of the Black School has corroded the idea with theological accretions, metaphysical on the one hand, and superstitious on the other, so completely as to mask the Truth altogether.

1.080 - Pratyahara - The Return of Energy, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga   There is a story in which it is told that Robert Bruce saw a spider falling down many times climbing up and falling down and climbing up. Robert Bruce was defeated in a war. He was sitting in a cave somewhere, crying. He did not know what to do. Then he saw a spider climbing up the wall and falling down again it went up and again it fell down. A hundred times it fell, and finally it got up and caught the point to which it wanted to rise. Then he said, This is what I have to do now. I should not keep crying here. So, he went up with the regiment that he had and the forces available, and launched a frontal attack once again, and won Victory in the war. The moral of the story is that we should not be melancholy, dispirited or lost in our conscious efforts, because the so-called defeatist feeling that we have in our practice is due to the operation of certain obstructing karmas. Otherwise, what can be the explanation for our defeat in spite of our effort to the best of our ability?   We have been struggling for days and nights, for months and years and we are getting nothing. How is it possible? The reason is that there is some very strong impediment, like a thick wall standing in front of us, on account of some tamasic or rajasic karma of the past lives. All our time is spent in breaking through this wall. The achievement is something quite different that will come later on. So why should we weep that we have achieved nothing? We have achieved; we have pierced through the wall. It is like Bharatpur Fort which the British wanted to break and could not, due to the thickness of the wall. Somehow or other, after tremendous effort, they made a hole and went in. We can imagine what indefatigable effort and what kind of persistence was required in breaking through the fort. Otherwise, one would give up and go back. It was impossible to break in because the wall was too thick fifty feet thick and made of mud. One could not break it by any kind of bullet such was Bharatpur Fort. They did not succeed, but they were very persistent. Somehow or other they made a hole and went in, and the fort was captured.

1.08 - Adhyatma Yoga, #Amrita Gita, #Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #Hinduism   11. If you are balanced in pleasure and pain, gain and loss, Victory and defeat, sin will not touch thee; you will not be affected by the fruits of your actions.   12. Keep the senses from attraction and repulsion. Attain mastery over the senses. Discipline the senses and the mind. You will not be affected now even if you move among sense-objects.

1.08 - Attendants, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga   What could be more heart-rending than that he lost his life at the hands of an assassin during the riot of 1947? When the news was brought to Sri Aurobindo that he had been fatally stabbed, the air was filled with gloom. Sri Aurobindo listened quietly and his face bore a grave and serious expression that we had not seen before. The dark forces seemed to have achieved a perilous Victory in snatching away one of the personal attendants of the Divine. Such is the grim occult struggle between the forces of Light and the forces of Darkness. For days we were under a pall of gloom and none of us referred to the incident in our talks.   Such appalling mist could only be dissolved by counterbalancing incidents like the one of our old doctor Becharlal, a true bhakta by nature. Sri Aurobindo remarked that his bhakti was genuine. How many times he was on the point of shedding tears on seeing his "Bhagawan suffer"! Apart from his age, his emotional nature rendered him incapable of doing anything but light work and we gave him only such work. Neither would he ask for more, since he knew himself quite well. If he could just breathe the nearness of the Lord, that was all he wanted. That was his lifelong aspiration, it appeared, and it was fulfilled. He was called Dadaji by us and given his due respect. During the early days of the accident, in the tranquil atmosphere of the room, we would hear some sudden sobbing trying in vain to control itself. It was our doctor who had been moved to sorrow by the "painful condition" of his beloved Lord! Or sometimes there were tears of spiritual fervour.

1.08 - BOOK THE EIGHTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry   And will, with Victory, his arms reward:   We must be conquer'd; and the captive's fate

1.08 - Independence from the Physical, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga   because the resistance increases in proportion. Matter is the place of the greatest spiritual difficulty, but also the place of Victory. The yoga of the body, therefore, lies well beyond the scope of our vital or mental powers; it is the province of a supramental yoga, which we will discuss later.   Independence from the Senses Matter is the starting point of our evolution. It is confined in Matter that consciousness has gradually evolved; therefore the more consciousness emerges, the more it will recover its sovereignty and assert its independence. This is the first step (not the last, as we will see). We are, however, almost totally subservient to the needs of the body for our survival, and to the bodily organs for perceiving the world; we are very proud, and rightly so, of our machines, but when our machine gets a little headache everything becomes a blur, and when we are denied our array of telegraphs, telephones, televisions,   --   For the integral seeker, the work on the body has been added naturally to his work on the mind and the vital. For convenience, we have described the various levels of being one after another, but everything works as a whole, and each Victory, each discovery at any level has its repercussions on all the other levels. When we worked on establishing mental silence, we observed that several mental layers had to be silenced: a thinking mind, which makes up our regular reasoning process; a vital mind, which justifies our desires, feelings and impulses; there is also a far more troublesome physical mind,   whose conquest is as important for physical mastery as the conquest of the thinking mind and the vital mind are for mental and vital mastery. It would indeed seem that the mind is the scapegoat in integral yoga, since it is being hunted down everywhere. Let us note that it has also been a very substantial aid in the course of our evolution, and it remains, for many, an indispensable agent, but any aid, however high or divine, eventually becomes an obstacle, because it is meant for one step only, and we have many steps to take and more than one truth to conquer. If we accepted this simple proposition throughout our entire value system, including the particular ideal we are currently cherishing, we would progress quite rapidly on the path of evolution. This physical mind is the stupidest of all, the vestige in us of the first appearance of Mind in Matter. It is a microscopic,   --   viewpoint of the truth of things.95 For the true viewpoint is always that of the Master, the psychic, the spirit in us. Each time we feel an impossibility, a limitation, or a barrier, we can be sure that this represents tomorrow's Victory, because without perceiving the obstacle we could not conquer it; we are created to conquer all and live all our dreams, for it is the spirit in us that dreams. In a world where constraints are closing in on us like an iron network, the first of these dreams is perhaps to be able to sail out in the open, unhampered by the body and by boundaries. Then we will no longer need passports;   we will be stateless, the visa-less heirs to all the nations of the world.

1.08 - On freedom from anger and on meekness., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset   2. Freedom from anger, or placidity, is an insatiable appetite for dishonour, just as in the vainglorious there is an unbounded desire for praise. Freedom from anger is Victory over nature and insensibility to insults, acquired by struggles and sweat.   3. Meekness is an immovable state of soul which remains unaffected whether in evil report or in good report, in dishonour or in praise.

1.08 - Sri Aurobindos Descent into Death, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga   ler now? may well be the softest worded Victory bulletin   ever.) But then, now that the war was won, why the somber

1.08 - The Four Austerities and the Four Liberations, #On Education, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   This, you will say, is the culmination, the crown of the effort, the final Victory; but what must be done in order to achieve it? What is the path to be followed and what are the first steps on the way?   Since we have decided to reserve love in all its splendour for our personal relationship with the Divine, we shall replace it in our relations with others by a total, unvarying, constant and egoless kindness and goodwill that will not expect any reward or gratitude or even any recognition. However others may treat you, you will never allow yourself to be carried away by any resentment; and in your unmixed love for the Divine, you will leave him sole judge as to how he is to protect you and defend you against the misunderstanding and bad will of others.

1.08 - The Magic Sword, Dagger and Trident, #The Practice of Magical Evocation, #Franz Bardon, #Occultism   There are evocations of negative beings and such not liking being transferred into our physical world. For these beings the magician will use, should the magic wand not suffice, the magic sword, providing he insists on their manifestation. The magic sword has several symbolic meanings, but generally it serves as the symbol of absolute obedience of a being or a power to the magician. It is also the symbol of Victory and superiority over any power or being. The sword is analogous to the light, it is an aspect of the fire and of the word. Already the bible says: "In the beginning was the word - light - and the word was with God". He who is somewhat acquainted with symbolism will remember that, as an example, Archangel Michael, the killer of the dragon, is symbolized with a burning sword; the dragon, in this case, is the symbol of the hostile, the negative principle. Adam and Eve, too, were driven out of paradise by an angel with a burning sword.   The symbolic meaning is also in this case quite clear and unequivocal.   --   The charge of the sword is done by transferring upon it, by the help of the imagination, the qualities belonging to it, such as the power over all beings, the absolute Victory and the respect due to it as the symbol of combat, life etc. These qualities have to be dynamically intensified in the sword by repeated charging. The magician may also accumulate the light-fluid in the sword in such a way that it will look like the shining sun or like a flaming sword, similar to that one which Archangel Michael holds in his hand in his symbolic pictures.   The main point is the attitude of the magician towards the magic sword accompanied by an unbreakable belief in his absolute Victory in all planes, which will give the sword the necessary force so that every power, every being will fear and respect it under any circumstance. After each use the sword has to be wrapped up in a piece of white or black silk and put away safely like the other magic implements.   The magician may, by practising mental wandering, transfer the spiritual form of the sword into the mental plane and visit the planetary spheres taking his magic sword as well as his magic wand with him. There, according to his wish, he can make use of his magic power with the help of his magic implements. That every being will have to obey him in these spheres is clearly evident by what has been said before. The magician is able, during his magical operations and evocations, to transfer his mental sword with his mental hand into the relevant sphere by force of imagination, and there he can make the being carry out his wishes. Such a force, however, can only be exerted without danger by a magician who has a clean heart and a noble soul. If a sorcerer tried to do the like he would only make the being hate him and would soon become a victim of them and their influence.

1.08 - THE MASTERS BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION AT DAKSHINESWAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism   "A man thinks, 'I have practised a little prayer and austerity; so I have gained a Victory over others.' But Victory and defeat lie with God. I have seen a prostitute dying in the Ganges and retaining consciousness to the end."   God-vision through pure love   --   To Thee the Victory, O Lord!   To Thee the Victory!   As Sri Ramakrishna listened to the song with folded hands, his mind soared to a far-off realm. He remained absorbed in meditation a long time. After a while Kalikrishna whispered something to Bhavanath. Then he bowed before the Master and rose. Sri Ramakrishna was surprised. He asked, "Where are you going?"

1.08 - The Supreme Discovery, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   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!   --   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 horizons 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.

1.08 - The Synthesis of Movement, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction   This is why the physical life, the individuals participation in the universal light of consciousness has always been considered by popular intuition no less than by the inspiration of poets and thinkers the supreme and sacred boon and all birth is celebrated as a Victory, for it is indeed a Victory of life and light over the obscurity of the inconscient.   So long as that underworld of subconscient forces whose sole issue is the narrow door opened by physical life on this infinite is not exhausted, the creatures first duty of solidarity and of charity to the creature is to awaken it to the plenitude of existence and light, to enlarge the field of this life that liberates.

1.09 - ADVICE TO THE BRAHMOS, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism   O Lord, how full of bliss Thou art! Victory unto Thee! . . .   Then at the Master's bidding Bhavanath sang:

1.09 - BOOK THE NINTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry   'Till Victory decides th' important war.   Three times in vain he strove my joints to wrest,

1.09 - Civilisation and Culture, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   The Philistine is not dead,quite the contrary, he abounds,but he no longer reigns. The sons of Culture have not exactly conquered, but they have got rid of the old Goliath and replaced him by a new giant. This is the sensational man who has got awakened to the necessity at least of some intelligent use of the higher faculties and is trying to be mentally active. He has been whipped and censured and educated into that activity and he lives besides in a maelstrom of new information, new intellectual fashions, new ideas and new movements to which he can no longer be obstinately impervious. He is open to new ideas, he can catch at them and hurl them about in a rather confused fashion; he can understand or misunderstand ideals, organise to get them carried out and even, it would appear, fight and die for them. He knows he has to think about ethical problems, social problems, problems of science and religion, to welcome new political developments, to look with as understanding an eye as he can attain to at all the new movements of thought and inquiry and action that chase each other across the modern field or clash upon it. He is a reader of poetry as well as a devourer of fiction and periodical literature,you will find in him perhaps a student of Tagore or an admirer of Whitman; he has perhaps no very clear ideas about beauty and aesthetics, but he has heard that Art is a not altogether unimportant part of life. The shadow of this new colossus is everywhere. He is the great reading public; the newspapers and weekly and monthly reviews are his; fiction and poetry and art are his mental caterers, the theatre and the cinema and the radio exist for him: Science hastens to bring her knowledge and discoveries to his doors and equip his life with endless machinery; politics are shaped in his image. It is he who opposed and then brought about the enfranchisement of women, who has been evolving syndicalism, anarchism, the war of classes, the uprising of labour, waging what we are told are wars of ideas or of cultures,a ferocious type of conflict made in the very image of this new barbarism,or bringing about in a few days Russian revolutions which the century-long efforts and sufferings of the intelligentsia failed to achieve. It is his coming which has been the precipitative agent for the reshaping of the modern world. If a Lenin, a Mussolini, a Hitler have achieved their rapid and almost stupefying success, it was because this driving force, this responsive quick-acting mass was there to carry them to Victorya force lacking to their less fortunate predecessors.   The first results of this momentous change have been inspiriting to our desire of movement, but a little disconcerting to the thinker and to the lover of a high and fine culture; for if it has to some extent democratised culture or the semblance of culture, it does not seem at first sight to have elevated or streng thened it by this large accession of the half-redeemed from below. Nor does the world seem to be guided any more directly by the reason and intelligent will of her best minds than before. Commercialism is still the heart of modern civilisation; a sensational activism is still its driving force. Modern education has not in the mass redeemed the sensational man; it has only made necessary to him things to which he was not formerly accustomed, mental activity and occupations, intellectual and even aesthetic sensations, emotions of idealism. He still lives in the vital substratum, but he wants it stimulated from above. He requires an army of writers to keep him mentally occupied and provide some sort of intellectual pabulum for him; he has a thirst for general information of all kinds which he does not care or has not time to coordinate or assimilate, for popularised scientific knowledge, for such new ideas as he can catch, provided they are put before him with force or brilliance, for mental sensations and excitation of many kinds, for ideals which he likes to think of as actuating his conduct and which do give it sometimes a certain colour. It is still the activism and sensationalism of the crude mental being, but much more open and free. And the cultured, the intelligentsia find that they can get a hearing from him such as they never had from the pure Philistine, provided they can first stimulate or amuse him; their ideas have now a chance of getting executed such as they never had before. The result has been to cheapen thought and art and literature, to make talent and even genius run in the grooves of popular success, to put the writer and thinker and scientist very much in a position like that of the cultured Greek slave in a Roman household where he has to work for, please, amuse and instruct his master while keeping a careful eye on his tastes and preferences and repeating trickily the manner and the points that have caught his fancy. The higher mental life, in a word, has been democratised, sensationalised, activised with both good and bad results. Through it all the eye of faith can see perhaps that a yet crude but an enormous change has begun. Thought and Knowledge, if not yet Beauty, can get a hearing and even produce rapidly some large, vague, yet in the end effective will for their results; the mass of culture and of men who think and strive seriously to appreciate and to know has enormously increased behind all this surface veil of sensationalism, and even the sensational man has begun to undergo a process of transformation. Especially, new methods of education, new principles of society are beginning to come into the range of practical possibility which will create perhaps one day that as yet unknown phenomenon, a race of mennot only a classwho have to some extent found and developed their mental selves, a cultured humanity.

1.09 - Equality and the Annihilation of Ego, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   7:And so too we shall have the same equality of mind and soul towards all happenings, painful or pleasurable, defeat and success, honour and disgrace, good repute and ill-repute, good fortune and evil fortune. For in all happenings we shall see the will of the Master of all works and results and a step in the evolving expression of the Divine. He manifests himself, to those who have the inner eye that sees, in forces and their play and results as well as in things and in creatures. All things move towards a divine event; each experience, suffering and want no less than joy and satisfaction, is a necessary link in the carrying out of a universal movement which it is our business to understand and second. To revolt, to condemn, to cry out is the impulse of our unchastened and ignorant instincts. Revolt like everything else has its uses in the play and is even necessary, helpful, decreed for the divine development in its own time and stage; but the movement of an ignorant rebellion belongs to the stage of the soul's childhood or to its raw adolescence. The ripened soul does not condemn but seeks to understand and master, does not cry out but accepts or toils to improve and perfect, does not revolt inwardly but labours to obey and fulfil and transfigure. Therefore we shall receive all things with an equal soul from the hands of the Master. Failure we shall admit as a passage as calmly as success until the hour of the divine Victory arrives. Our souls and minds and bodies will remain unshaken by acutest sorrow and suffering and pain if in the divine dispensation they come to us, unoverpowered by intensest joy and pleasure. Thus supremely balanced we shall continue steadily on our way meeting all things with an equal calm until we are ready for a more exalted status and can enter into the supreme and universal Ananda.   8:This equality cannot come except by a protracted ordeal and patient self-discipline; so long as desire is strong, equality cannot come at all except in periods of quiescence and the fatigue of desire, and it is then more likely to be an inert indifference or desire's recoil from itself than the true calm and the positive spiritual oneness. Moreover, this discipline or this growth into equality of spirit has its necessary epochs and stages. Ordinarily we have to begin with a period of endurance; for we must learn to confront, to suffer and to assimilate all contacts. Each fibre in us must be taught not to wince away from that which pains and repels and not to run eagerly towards that which pleases and attracts, but rather to accept, to face, to bear and to conquer. All touches we must be strong to bear, not only those that are proper and personal to us but those born of our sympathy or our conflict with the worlds around, above or below us and with their peoples. We shall endure tranquilly the action and impact on us of men and things and forces, the pressure of the Gods and the assaults of Titans; we shall face and engulf in the unstirred seas of our spirit all that can possibly come to us down the ways of the soul's infinite experience. This is the stoical period of the preparation of equality, its most elementary and yet its heroic age. But this steadfast endurance of the flesh and heart and mind must be reinforced by a sustained sense of spiritual submission to a divine Will: this living clay must yield not only with a stern or courageous acquiescence, but with knowledge or with resignation, even in suffering, to the touch of the divine Hand that is preparing its perfection. A sage, a devout or even a tender stoicism of the God-lover is possible, and these are better than the merely pagan self-reliant endurance which may lend itself to a too great hardening of the vessel of God: for this kind prepares the strength that is capable of wisdom and of love; its tranquillity is a deeply moved calm that passes easily into bliss. The gain of this period of resignation and endurance is the soul's strength equal to all shocks and contacts.

1.09 - Legend of Lakshmi, #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism   "I bow down to Śrī, the mother of all beings, seated on her lotus throne, with eyes like full-blown lotuses, reclining on the breast of Viṣṇu. Thou art Siddhi (superhuman power): thou art Swadhā and Svāhā: thou art ambrosia (Sudhā), the purifier of the universe: thou art evening, night, and dawn: thou art power, faith, intellect: thou art the goddess of letters (Sarasvatī). Thou, beautiful goddess, art knowledge of devotion, great knowledge, mystic knowledge, and spiritual knowledge[9]; which confers eternal liberation. Thou art the science of reasoning, the three Vedas, the arts and sciences[10]: thou art moral and political science. The world is peopled by thee with pleasing or displeasing forms. Who else than thou, oh goddess, is seated on that person of the god of gods, the wielder of the mace, which is made up of sacrifice, and contemplated by holy ascetics? Abandoned by thee, the three worlds were on the brink of ruin; but they have been reanimated by thee. From thy propitious gaze, oh mighty goddess, men obtain wives, children, dwellings, friends, harvests, wealth. Health and strength, power, Victory, happiness, are easy of attainment to those upon whom thou smilest. Thou art the mother of all beings, as the god of gods, Hari, is their father; and this world, whether animate or inanimate, is pervaded by thee and Viṣṇu. Oh thou who purifiest all things, forsake not our treasures, our granaries, our dwellings, our dependants, our persons, our wives: abandon not our children, our friends, our lineage, our jewels, oh thou who abidest on the bosom of the god of gods. They whom thou desertest are forsaken by truth, by purity, and goodness, by every amiable and excellent quality; whilst the base and worthless upon whom thou lookest favourably become immediately endowed with all excellent qualifications, with families, and with power. He on whom thy countenance is turned is honourable, amiable, prosperous, wise, and of exalted birth; a hero of irresistible prowess: but all his merits and his advantages are converted into worthlessness from whom, beloved of Viṣṇu, mother of the world, thou avertest thy face. The tongues of Brahmā, are unequal to celebrate thy excellence. Be propitious to me, oh goddess, lotus-eyed, and never forsake me more." Being thus praised, the gratified Śrī, abiding in all creatures, and heard by all beings, replied to the god of a hundred rites (Śatakratu); "I am pleased, monarch of the gods, by thine adoration. Demand from me what thou desirest: I have come to fulfil thy wishes." "If, goddess," replied Indra, "thou wilt grant my prayers; if I am worthy of thy bounty; be this my first request, that the three worlds may never again be deprived of thy presence. My second supplication, daughter of ocean, is, that thou wilt not forsake him who shall celebrate thy praises in the words I have addressed to thee." "I will not abandon," the goddess answered, "the three worlds again: this thy first boon is granted; for I am gratified by thy praises: and further, I will never turn my face away from that mortal who morning and evening shall repeat the hymn with which thou hast addressed me."   Parāśara proceeded:-

1.09 - SKIRMISHES IN A WAY WITH THE AGE, #Twilight of the Idols, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy   act of bravery, of Victory, of all extreme action; the ecstasy of   cruelty; the ecstasy of destruction; the ecstasy following upon certain   --   virile instincts which rejoice in war and in Victory, prevail over   other instincts; for instance, over the instincts of "happiness."

11.01 - The Eternal Day The Souls Choice and the Supreme Consummation, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   For Victory in the tournament with death,   For bending of the fierce and difficult bow,

1.10 - BOOK THE TENTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry   His grateful thanks pour'd out for Victory?   His pious incense on my altars laid?

1.10 - Harmony, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga   When the bubble bursts, we begin to enter supermanhood. We begin to enter Harmony. Oh, it does not burst through our efforts; it does not give way through any amount of virtues and meditation, which on the contrary further harden the bubble, give it such a lovely shine, such a captivating light that it indeed takes us captive, and we are all the more prisoners as the more beautiful the bubble is, held more captive by our good than by our evil there is nothing harder in the world then a truth caught in our traps; it does not care at all about our virtues and accumulated merits, our brilliant talents or even our obscure weaknesses. Who is great? Who is small and obscure, or less obscure, beneath the drifting of the galaxies that look like the dust of a great Sun? The Truth, the ineffable Sweetness of things and of each thing, the living Heart of millions of beings who do not know, does not require us to become true to bestow its truth upon us who could become true, who would become other than he is, what are we actually capable of? We are capable of pain and misery aplenty; we are capable of smallness and more smallness, error garbed in a speck of light, knowledge that stumbles into its own quagmires, a good that is the luminous shadow of its secret evil, freedom that imprisons itself in its own salvation we are capable of suffering and suffering, and even our suffering is a secret delight. The Truth, the light Truth, escapes our dark or luminous snares. It runs, breathes with the wind, cascades with the spring, cascades everywhere, for it is the spring of everything. It even murmurs in the depths of our falsehood, winks an eye in our darkness and pokes fun at us. It sets its light traps for us, so light we do not see them; it beckons us in a thousand ways at every instant and everywhere, but it is so fleeting, so unexpected, so contrary to our habitual way of looking at things, so unserious that we walk right past it. We cannot make head or tail out of it; or else we stick a beautiful label on it to trap it in our magic. And it still laughs. It plays along with our magic, plays along with our suffering and geometry; it plays the millipede and the statistician; it plays everything it plays whatever we want. Then, one day, we no longer really want; we no longer want any of all that, neither our gilded miseries, nor our captivating lights nor our good nor our evil, nor any of that whole polychromatic array in which each color changes into the other: hope into despair, effort into backlash, heaven into prison, summit into abyss, love into hate, and each wrested Victory into a new defeat, as if each plus attracted its minus, each for its against, and everything forever went forward, backward, right and left, bumping into the wall of the same prison, white or black, green or brown, golden or less golden. We no longer want any of all that; we are only that cry of need in our depths, that call for air, that fire for nothing, that useless little flame that goes along with our every step, walks with our sorrows, walks and walks night and day, in good and evil, in the high and the low and everywhere. And this fire soon becomes like our drop of good in evil, our bit of treasure in misery, our glimmer of light in the chaos, all that remains of a thousand gestures and passing lights, the little nothing that is like everything, the tiny song of a great ongoing misery we no longer have any good or evil, any high or low, any light or darkness, any tomorrow or yesterday. It is all the same, miserable in black and white, but we have that abiding little fire, that tomorrow of today, that murmur of sweetness in the depths of pain, that virtue of our sin, that warm drop of being in the high and the low, day and night, in shame and in joy, in solitude and in the crowd, in approval and disapproval it is all the same. It burns and burns. It is tomorrow, yesterday, now and forever. It is our one song of being, our little note of fire, our paradise in a little flame, our freedom in a little flame, our knowledge in a little flame, our summit of flame in a void of being, our vastness in a tiny singing flame we know not why. It is our companion, our friend, our wife, our bearer, our country it is. And it feels good. Then, one day, we raise our head, and there is no more bubble. There is that Fire burning softly everywhere, recognizing all, loving all, understanding all, and it is like a heaven without trouble; it is so simple that we never thought of it, so tranquil that each drop is like an ocean, so smiling and clear that it goes through everything, enters and slips in everywhere it plays here, plays there, as transparent as air, a nothing that changes everything; and perhaps it is everything.   We are in the Harmony of the new world.

1.10 - Mantra Yoga, #Amrita Gita, #Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #Hinduism   7. Repetition of Subrahmanya Mantra Om Saravanabhavaya Namah will give success in any undertaking and make you glorious. It will drive off the evil influences and evil spirits. Repetition of Sri Hanuman Mantra, Om Hanumanthaya Namah will bestow Victory and strength. Repetition of Panchadasakshara and Sodasakshara (Sri Vidya) will give you wealth, power, freedom, etc. It will give you whatever you want. You must learn this Vidya from a Guru alone.   8. Repetition of Gayatri or Pranava or Om Namah Sivaya, Om Namo Narayanaya, Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya, one and a quarter lakh of times with Bhava, faith and devotion will confer on you Mantra Siddhi.

1.10 - ON WAR AND WARRIORS, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy   recommend work but struggle. To you I do not recommend peace but Victory. Let your work be a struggle.   Let your peace be a Victory! One can be silent and   sit still only when one has bow and arrow: else one   chatters and quarrels. Let your peace be a Victory   You say it is the good cause that hallows even war?

1.10 - The Three Modes of Nature, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   This is the mode of rajas, the way of passion and action and the thirst of desire. Struggle and change and new creation, Victory and defeat and joy and suffering and hope and disappointment are its children and build the many-coloured house of life in which it takes its pleasure. But its knowledge is an imperfect   234

1.110 - Victory, #Quran, #unset, #Zen   object:1.110 - Victory   class:chapter   --   1. When there comes God’s Victory, and conquest.   2. And you see the people entering God’s religion in multitudes.

11.14 - Our Finest Hour, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    The inner discovery is indeed a battle and here too a Victory has to be won. It needs more than in any physical battle a complete contingent of courage and bravery, calm strength and persevering endurance, skill and energy to gain an absolute success. And there the field is free and vast, one can deploy oneself as largely as possible, move in any direction to any distance as one likes. It is no longer a prison,it is a region where one meets one's soul.    The individual seems always to precede the society. What begins in and with the individual is spread abroad and established in wide commonalty. But this individual self-concentration does not mean that one should withdraw from the world and its activities and sit and settle within oneself, apart and aloof. It does not mean while you are in prison, to accept imprisonment, dig a cave there and go into mere meditation. In other words, to find the inner solution it is not necessary to escape from the world, go into the solitude of mountain-tops or into the depths of the forests, take to the path of total renunciation till you attain perfect siddhi and then turn back and share your light and leading with humanity. Some great souls have done thisBuddha and Christ and Vivekananda. And it is not for every man to try that path in the way they did. But even if the path is not easy, to some extent at least every one of us has to follow it; for we must remember our aim is not easy either. The pioneers have to accept the difficulty of the path. Pursuing the figure of the prison, of the dungeon, we may say, instead of trying to break it down because of the hopelessness of the attempt, or as the alternative: sit down quiet for the inner illumination to come; instead of that one may cut a tunnel under the wall. That should be the nature of our activity in our present situation.

1.11 - BOOK THE ELEVENTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry   The Victory, thus bought, is far too dear.   Accursed snake! yet I more curs'd than he!

1.1.1 - Text, #Kena and Other Upanishads, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga     1.: The Eternal conquered for the gods and in the Victory of the Eternal the gods grew to greatness. They saw, "Ours the Victory, ours the greatness."     2.: The Eternal knew their thought and appeared before them; and they knew not what was this mighty Daemon.   --     1.: She said to him, "It is the Eternal. Of the Eternal is this Victory in which ye shall grow to greatness." Then alone he came to know that this was the Brahman.     2.: Therefore are these gods as it were beyond all the other gods, even Agni and Vayu and Indra, because they came nearest to the touch of That... 5

1.11 - The Change of Power, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga   But this change of power, this transition from the indirect and abstract truths of the mind to the direct and concrete Truth of the great Self is obviously not effected on the summits of the Spirit it has nothing to do with mental gymnastics, just as the other power had nothing to do with the ape's skills. It is effected in a most down-to-earth way, in everyday life, in the minuscule, the futility of the moment, which is futile only to us, if we understand that a speck of dust contains as much truth as the totality of all space, and just as much power. It therefore applies itself to utterly material mechanisms. The play takes place in the substance. Therefore it comes up against age-old resistances, against a bubble that is perhaps the first self-defensive bubble of the protoplasm in its water hole. But in the end resistances turn out to have assisted by the resistance much more than they have impeded the intention of the great Creatrix and her Mover,26 and we do not know, finally, if there is a single shadow and pain that does not secretly build up the very power we are trying to manifest. If it emerged too soon, truth would be incomplete, or unbearable for the other animalcules that share our water hole and which would soon disgorge it we are a single human body, we always forget, and our mistakes or slowness are the mistakes and slowness of the world. But if we can win a Victory here, in this little point of matter, each of us human beings has a formidable task to carry out, if he understands. Being born in this world is a far more powerful mystery than we had thought.   For a long time now the seeker has got rid of the mental machinery. He has also brought order to the vital machinery. And if old desires, wills or reactions still come to muddy his clearing, they are rather on the order of a motion-picture images projected onto a screen, out of habit, but without real substance. The seeker has lost the habit of sitting in the screen and identifying with the characters he looks; he is clear; he observes everything; he is centered in his fire which dissipates all those clouds. From then on, another level of entanglement comes more and more to light, another degree of the machine (this is truly a path of descent): a material, subconscious mechanism. But so long as he is not clear, he sees nothing; he cannot unravel those threads which are so intertwined with his habitual activities, and mentalized like all the rest, that they make up an altogether natural web. This material, subconscious mechanism then becomes extremely concrete, like the whirlings of the goldfish in its glass bowl. But let us emphasize that this is not the subconscious small fry of the psychoanalysts those fry belong to the mental bubble; they are merely the reverse of the little surface fellow, the action of his reactions, the knot of his desires, the constriction of his nurtured smallness, the past of his old little story inside a bubble, the goat tether of his small separate ego tied to the social and familial and religious stake, and the countless stakes that tie men inside a bubble. And we strongly suspect that those dreamers simply go on dreaming inside a psychoanalytical bubble, the way others dream inside a religious one of hells and paradises that exist only in man's mental imagination. But, as long as one is inside the bubble, it is implacable and irrefutable; its hells are real hells, its filth real filth, and one is the prisoner of a little bright or dark cloud. So let us say, in passing, that one does not free oneself from the mud by digging in the mud and unwholesomely plowing up the byways of the frontal fellow (one might as well take a bath in dirty water to get clean), one does not free oneself from the bubble by the lights of the bubble, or from evil by a good that is only its reverse, but by a something else that is not of the bubble: a very simple little fire within and everywhere, which is the key to freedom, all freedoms, and to the world.

1.11 - The Influence of the Sexes on Vegetation, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism   exercise the same self-restraint is Victory in war. Not only the   warrior in the field but his friends at home will often bridle their

1.11 - The Master of the Work, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      A Transcendent who is beyond all world and all Nature and yet possesses the world and its nature, who has descended with something of himself into it and is shaping it into that which as yet it is not, is the Source of our being, the Source of our works and their Master. But the seat of the Transcendent Consciousness is above in an absoluteness of divine Existence -- and there too is the absolute Power, Truth, Bliss of the Eternal -- of which our mentality can form no conception and of which even our greatest spiritual experience is only a diminished reflection in the spiritualised mind and heart, a faint shadow, a thin derivate. Yet proceeding from it there is a sort of golden corona of Light, Power, Bliss and Truth -- a divine Truth-Consciousness as the ancient mystics called it, a supermind, a Gnosis, with which this world of a lesser consciousness proceeding by Ignorance is in secret relation and which alone maintains it and prevents it from falling into a disintegrated chaos. The powers we are now satisfied to call gnosis, intuition or illumination are only fainter lights of which that is the full and flaming source, and between the highest human intelligence and it there lie many levels of ascending consciousness, highest mental or overmental, which we would have to conquer before we arrived there or could bring down its greatness and glory here. Yet, however difficult, that ascent, that Victory is the destiny of the human spirit and that luminous descent or bringing down of the divine Truth is the inevitable term of the troubled evolution of the earth-nature; that intended consummation is its raison d'etre, our culminating state and the explanation of our terrestrial existence. For though the Transcendental Divine is already here as the Purushottama in the secret heart of our mystery, he is veiled by many coats and disguises of his magic world-wide Yoga-Maya; it is only by the ascent and Victory of the Soul here in the body that the disguises can fall away and the dynamis of the supreme Truth replace this tangled weft of half-truth that becomes creative error, this emergent Knowledge that is converted by its plunge into the inconscience of Matter and its slow partial return towards itself into an effective Ignorance.      For here in the world, though the gnosis is there secretly behind existence, what acts is not the gnosis but a magic of Knowledge-Ignorance, an incalculable yet apparently mechanical overmind Maya. The Divine appears to us here in one view as an equal, inactive and impersonal Witness Spirit, an immobile consenting Purusha not bound by quality or Space or Time, whose support or sanction is given impartially to the play of all action and energies which the transcendent Will has once permitted and authorised to fulfil themselves in the cosmos. This Witness Spirit, this immobile Self in things, seems to will nothing and determine nothing; yet we become aware that his very passivity, his silent presence compels all things to travel even in their ignorance towards a divine goal and attracts through division towards a yet unrealised oneness. Yet no supreme infallible Divine Will seems to be there, only a widely deployed Cosmic Energy of a mechanical executive Process, prakriti. This is one side of the cosmic Self; the other presents itself as a universal Divine, one in being, multiple in personality and power, who conveys to us, when we enter into the consciousness of his universal forces, a sense of infinite quality and will and act and a world-wide knowledge and a one yet innumerable delight; for through him we become one with all existences not only in their essence but in their play of action, see ourself in all and all in ourself, perceive all knowledge and thought and feeling as motions of the one Mind and Heart, all energy and action as kinetics of the one Will m power, all Matter and form as particles of the one Body, all personalities as projections of the one Person, all egos as deformations of the one and sole real "I" in existence. In him we no longer stand separate, but lose our active ego in the universal movement, even as by the Witness who is without qualities and for ever unattached and unentangled, we lose our static ego in the universal peace.

1.11 - The Reason as Governor of Life, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   But even the man who is capable of governing his life by ideas, who recognises, that is to say, that it ought to express clearly conceived truths and principles of his being or of all being and tries to find out or to know from others what these are, is not often capable of the highest, the free and disinterested use of his rational mind. As others are subject to the tyranny of their interests, prejudices, instincts or passions, so he is subjected to the tyranny of ideas. Indeed, he turns these ideas into interests, obscures them with his prejudices and passions and is unable to think freely about them, unable to distinguish their limits or the relation to them of other, different and opposite ideas and the equal right of these also to existence. Thus, as we constantly see, individuals, masses of men, whole generations are carried away by certain ethical, religious, aesthetic, political ideas or a set of ideas, espouse them with passion, pursue them as interests, seek to make them a system and lasting rule of life and are swept away in the drive of their action and do not really use the free and disinterested reason for the right knowledge of existence and for its right and sane government. The ideas are to a certain extent fulfilled, they triumph for a time, but their very success brings disappointment and disillusionment. This happens, first, because they can only succeed by compromises and pacts with the inferior, irrational life of man which diminish their validity and tarnish their light and glory. Often indeed their triumph is convicted of unreality, and doubt and disillusionment fall on the faith and enthusiasm which brought Victory to their side. But even were it not so, the ideas themselves are partial and insufficient; not only have they a very partial triumph, but if their success were complete, it would still disappoint, because they are not the whole truth of life and therefore cannot securely govern and perfect life. Life escapes from the formulas and systems which our reason labours to impose on it; it proclaims itself too complex, too full of infinite potentialities to be tyrannised over by the arbitrary intellect of man.   This is the cause why all human systems have failed in the end; for they have never been anything but a partial and confused application of reason to life. Moreover, even where they have been most clear and rational, these systems have pretended that their ideas were the whole truth of life and tried so to apply them. This they could not be, and life in the end has broken or undermined them and passed on to its own large incalculable movement. Mankind, thus using its reason as an aid and justification for its interests and passions, thus obeying the drive of a partial, a mixed and imperfect rationality towards action, thus striving to govern the complex totalities of life by partial truths, has stumbled on from experiment to experiment, always believing that it is about to grasp the crown, always finding that it has fulfilled as yet little or nothing of what it has to accomplish. Compelled by nature to apply reason to life, yet possessing only a partial rationality limited in itself and confused by the siege of the lower members, it could do nothing else. For the limited imperfect human reason has no self-sufficient light of its own; it is obliged to proceed by observation, by experiment, by action, through errors and stumblings to a larger experience.

1.11 - Works and Sacrifice, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   But at least it must be one necessary means, indispensable, imperative? For how, if the works of Prakriti continue, can the soul help being involved in them? How can I fight and yet in my soul not think or feel that I the individual am fighting, not desire Victory nor be inwardly touched by defeat? This is the teaching of   Works and Sacrifice

1.1.2 - Commentary, #Kena and Other Upanishads, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   is, although their Victory, the Victory of the gods, is always the   70   --   Victory of the Brahman over its own self-negations, always the   self-affirmation of His vastness against the denials of the dark   --   and form. This Victory, this supreme immortality it must achieve   here as an embodied soul in the mortal framework of things. Afterwards, like the Brahman, it transcends and yet embraces the   --   will into the balance, put down his darkened children and exalted the children of Light. In this Victory of the Master of all   the gods are conscious of a mighty development of themselves,   --   not know God. Therefore they see the Victory as their own,   the greatness as their own. This opulent efflorescence of the   --   or in the creature. The greatness of the gods is His own Victory   and greatness, but it is only given in order that man may grow   --   Still although the Victory of the gods, that is to say, the   progressive perfection of the mind, life, body in the positive   --   Victory of the Brahman and the necessity of using life and human   works in the world as a means of preparation and self-mastery   --   towards a great cosmic Victory, the eventual conquest of heaven   and earth by the superconscient Truth and Bliss and those who   have achieved the Victory in the past are the conscious helpers   of their yet battling posterity. If this earlier note is missing in the   --   The Vedic gospel of a supreme Victory in heaven and on   earth for the divine in man, the Christian gospel of a kingdom of   --   prepare the supreme Victory of the Brahman may well be and   must be in some way or other a part of our task; but the greatest

1.12 - Delight of Existence - The Solution, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   11:In the things of the mind this pure habitual relativity of the reactions of pleasure and pain is not difficult to perceive. The nervous being in us, indeed, is accustomed to a certain fixedness, a false impression of absoluteness in these things. To it Victory, success, honour, good fortune of all kinds are pleasant things in themselves, absolutely, and must produce joy as sugar must taste sweet; defeat, failure, disappointment, disgrace, evil fortune of all kinds are unpleasant things in themselves, absolutely, and must produce grief as wormwood must taste bitter. To vary these responses is to it a departure from fact, abnormal and morbid; for the nervous being is a thing enslaved to habit and in itself the means devised by Nature for fixing constancy of reaction, sameness of experience, the settled scheme of man's relations to life. The mental being on the other hand is free, for it is the means she has devised for flexibility and variation, for change and progress; it is subject only so long as it chooses to remain subject, to dwell in one mental habit rather than in another or so long as it allows itself to be dominated by its nervous instrument. It is not bound to be grieved by defeat, disgrace, loss: it can meet these things and all things with a perfect indifference; it can even meet them with a perfect gladness. Therefore man finds that the more he refuses to be dominated by his nerves and body, the more he draws back from implication of himself in his physical and vital parts, the greater is his freedom. He becomes the master of his own responses to the world's contacts, no longer the slave of external touches.   12:In regard to physical pleasure and pain, it is more difficult to apply the universal truth; for this is the very domain of the nerves and the body, the centre and seat of that in us whose nature is to be dominated by external contact and external pressure. Even here, however, we have glimpses of the truth. We see it in the fact that according to the habit the same physical contact can be either pleasurable or painful, not only to different individuals, but to the same individual under different conditions or at different stages of his development. We see it in the fact that men in periods of great excitement or high exaltation remain physically indifferent to pain or unconscious of pain under contacts which ordinarily would inflict severe torture or suffering. In many cases it is only when the nerves are able to reassert themselves and remind the mentality of its habitual obligation to suffer that the sense of suffering returns. But this return to the habitual obligation is not inevitable; it is only habitual. We see that in the phenomena of hypnosis not only can the hypnotised subject be successfully forbidden to feel the pain of a wound or puncture when in the abnormal state, but can be prevented with equal success from returning to his habitual reaction of suffering when he is awakened. The reason of this phenomenon is perfectly simple; it is because the hypnotiser suspends the habitual waking consciousness which is the slave of nervous habits and is able to appeal to the subliminal mental being in the depths, the inner mental being who is master, if he wills, of the nerves and the body. But this freedom which is effected by hypnosis abnormally, rapidly, without true possession, by an alien will, may equally be won normally, gradually, with true possession, by one's own will so as to effect partially or completely a Victory of the mental being over the habitual nervous reactions of the body.   13:Pain of mind and body is a device of Nature, that is to say, of Force in her works, meant to subserve a definite transitional end in her upward evolution. The world is from the point of view of the individual a play and complex shock of multitudinous forces. In the midst of this complex play the individual stands as a limited constructed being with a limited amount of force exposed to numberless shocks which may wound, maim, break up or disintegrate the construction which he calls himself. Pain is in the nature of a nervous and physical recoil from a dangerous or harmful contact; it is a part of what the Upanishad calls jugupsa, the shrinking of the limited being from that which is not himself and not sympathetic or in harmony with himself, its impulse of self-defence against "others". It is, from this point of view, an indication by Nature of that which has to be avoided or, if not successfully avoided, has to be remedied. It does not come into being in the purely physical world so long as life does not enter into it; for till then mechanical methods are sufficient. Its office begins when life with its frailty and imperfect possession of Matter enters on the scene; it grows with the growth of Mind in life. Its office continues so long as Mind is bound in the life and body which it is using, dependent upon them for its knowledge and means of action, subjected to their limitations and to the egoistic impulses and aims which are born of those limitations. But if and when Mind in man becomes capable of being free, unegoistic, in harmony with all other beings and with the play of the universal forces, the use and office of suffering diminishes, its raison d'etre must finally cease to be and it can only continue as an atavism of Nature, a habit that has survived its use, a persistence of the lower in the as yet imperfect organisation of the higher. Its eventual elimination must be an essential point in the destined conquest of the soul over subjection to Matter and egoistic limitation in Mind.

1.12 - The Left-Hand Path - The Black Brothers, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy   "Now Master!" (What reproach in the tone of your voice!) All right, all right! Keep your hair on! I know that is the precise term used in The Vision and the Voice, to describe the Great White Brother or the Babe of the Abyss; but to him it means Victory; to the Left-Hander it would mean defeat, ruin devastating, irremediable, final. It is exactly that which he most dreads; and it is that to which he must in the end come, because there is no compensating element in his idea of structure. Nations themselves never grow permanently by smash-and-grab methods; one merely acquires a sore spot, as in the case of Lorraine, perhaps even Eire. (Though Eire is using just that formula of Restriction, shutting herself up in her misery and poverty and idiot pride, when a real marriage with and dissolution in, a real live country would give her new life. The "melting-pot" idea is the great strength of America.)   Consider the Faubourg St. Germain aristocracy now hardly even a sentimental memory. The guillotine did not kill them; it was their own refusal to adapt themselves to the new biological conditions of political life. It was indeed their restriction that rotted them in the first instance; had Lafayette or Mirabeau been trusted with full power, and supplied with adequate material, a younger generation of virtue, the monarchy might still be ruling France.

1.12 - The Office and Limitations of the Reason, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   It is not only that he has to contrive continually some new harmony between the various elements of his being, physical, vitalistic, practical and dynamic, aesthetic, emotional and hedonistic, ethical, intellectual, but each of them again has to arrive at some order of its own disparate materials. In his ethics he is divided by different moral tendencies, justice and charity, self-help and altruism, self-increase and self-abnegation, the tendencies of strength and the tendencies of love, the moral rule of activism and the moral rule of quietism. His emotions are necessary to his development and their indulgence essential to the outflowering of his rich humanity; yet is he constantly called upon to coerce and deny them, nor is there any sure rule to guide him in the perplexity of this twofold need. His hedonistic impulse is called many ways by different fields, objects, ideals of self-satisfaction. His aesthetic enjoyment, his aesthetic creation forms for itself under the stress of the intelligence different laws and forms; each seeks to impose itself as the best and the standard, yet each, if its claim were allowed, would by its unjust Victory impoverish and imprison his faculty and his felicity in its exercise. His politics and society are a series of adventures and experiments among various possibilities of autocracy, monarchism, military aristocracy, mercantile oligarchy, open or veiled plutocracy, pseudo-democracy of various kinds, bourgeois or proletarian, individualistic or collectivist or bureaucratic, socialism awaiting him, anarchism looming beyond it; and all these correspond to some truth of his social being, some need of his complex social nature, some instinct or force in it which demands that form for its effectuation. Mankind works out these difficulties under the stress of the spirit within it by throwing out a constant variation of types, types of character and temperament, types of practical activity, aesthetic creation, polity, society, ethical order, intellectual system, which vary from the pure to the mixed, from the simple harmony to the complex; each and all of these are so many experiments of individual and collective self-formation in the light of a progressive and increasing knowledge. That knowledge is governed by a number of conflicting ideas and ideals around which these experiments group themselves: each of them is gradually pushed as far as possible in its purity and again mixed and combined as much as possible with others so that there may be a more complex form and an enriched action. Each type has to be broken in turn to yield place to new types and each combination has to give way to the possibility of a new combination. Through it all there is growing an accumulating stock of self-experience and self-actualisation of which the ordinary man accepts some current formulation conventionally as if it were an absolute law and truth,often enough he even thinks it to be that,but which the more developed human being seeks always either to break or to enlarge and make more profound or subtle in order to increase or make room for an increase of human capacity, perfectibility, happiness.   This view of human life and of the process of our development, to which subjectivism readily leads us, gives us a truer vision of the place of the intellect in the human movement. We have seen that the intellect has a double working, dispassionate and interested, self-centred or subservient to movements not its own. The one is a disinterested pursuit of truth for the sake of Truth and of knowledge for the sake of Knowledge without any ulterior motive, with every consideration put away except the rule of keeping the eye on the object, on the fact under enquiry and finding out its truth, its process, its law. The other is coloured by the passion for practice, the desire to govern life by the truth discovered or the fascination of an idea which we labour to establish as the sovereign law of our life and action. We have seen indeed that this is the superiority of reason over the other faculties of man that it is not confined to a separate absorbed action of its own, but plays upon all the others, discovers their law and truth, makes its discoveries serviceable to them and even in pursuing its own bent and end serves also their ends and arrives at a catholic utility. Man in fact does not live for knowledge alone; life in its widest sense is his principal preoccupation and he seeks knowledge for its utility to life much more than for the pure pleasure of acquiring knowledge. But it is precisely in this putting of knowledge at the service of life that the human intellect falls into that confusion and imperfection which pursues all human action. So long as we pursue knowledge for its own sake, there is nothing to be said: the reason is performing its natural function; it is exercising securely its highest right. In the work of the philosopher, the scientist, the savant labouring to add something to the stock of our ascertainable knowledge, there is as perfect a purity and satisfaction as in that of the poet and artist creating forms of beauty for the aesthetic delight of the race. Whatever individual error and limitation there may be, does not matter; for the collective and progressive knowledge of the race has gained the truth that has been discovered and may be trusted in time to get rid of the error. It is when it tries to apply ideas to life that the human intellect stumbles and finds itself at fault.

1.12 - The Sociology of Superman, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga   It is therefore probable that for a long time this City under construction will be a place where negative possibilities will be exacerbated as much as the positive ones, under the relentless pressure of the beacon of Truth. And falsehood is skilled at holding on to insignificant details, resistance at sticking to everyday trifles, which become the very sign of refusal. Falsehood knows how to make great sacrifices. It can follow a discipline, extol an ideal, collect merit badges and Brownie points, but it betrays itself in the insignificant that is its last refuge. It is really in matter that the game is played out. This City of the Future is a battlefield, a difficult adventure. What is decided over there with machine guns, guerrilla warfare and glorious deeds is decided here with sordid details and an invisible warfare against falsehood. But a single Victory won over petty human egoism is more pregnant with consequences for the earth than the rearranging of all the frontiers of Asia, for this frontier and this egoism are the original barbed wire that divides the world.   For that matter, the apprentice superman could begin his battle very early, not just in himself but in his children, and not just from their birth but right from their conception.

1.13 - Conclusion - He is here, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga   Both the external and the internal development towards physical divinisation is going on apace in the Mother so that in a not distant future it will be seen that the sacrifice, the martyrdom has not gone in vain, but has resulted in the emergence of a glorified body the consummation of the Supramental Victory over Matter.   One can then conclude by saying that in his departure as well as in life the aim of Sri Aurobindo's entire Sadhana was served namely to make the Mother manifest, without which the divinisation of Matter would be impossible. We hear this truth very beautifully expressed in his poem A God's Labour:

1.13 - On despondency., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset   This is the thirteenth Victory. He who has really gained it has become experienced in all good.

1.14 - INSTRUCTION TO VAISHNAVS AND BRHMOS, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism   I have cast out from me my six unflagging foes; Ready am I to sail life's sea, Crying, "To Durga, Victory!"   Sarada was stricken with grief on account of his son's death. So Adhar had taken him to Dakshineswar to visit the Master. Sarada was a devotee of Sri Chaitanya. Sri Ramakrishna looked at him and was inspired with the ideal of Gaurnga.

1.14 - On the clamorous, yet wicked master-the stomach., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset   The Victory (over this vice) is a courageous one. He who is able, let him hasten to dispassion and to the highest degree of chastity.

1.14 - The Book of Magic Formulae, #The Practice of Magical Evocation, #Franz Bardon, #Occultism   16. Girding on magic sword to magic belt with the meditative attitude of absolute Victory; re-charging, with magic wand in the right and concentrating on the idea that the magician's absolute will be realised   17. Entering of the magic circle with the simultaneous feeling of ties and symbolization of the microcosm and macrocosm

1.14 - The Secret, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga   Sri Aurobindo also calls it the Evil Persona. Sometimes, we can even negatively guess what our goal must be, before understanding it positively, through the sheer repetition of the same difficult circumstances or the same failures that seem to point to a single direction, as if we were forever revolving in an oppressive circle, drawing nearer and nearer to a central point that is both the goal and the opposite of the goal. A person greatly endowed for the work, Sri Aurobindo wrote, has always or almost always, perhaps one ought not to make a too rigid universal rule about these things a being attached to him, sometimes appearing like a part of him, which is just the contradiction of the thing he centrally represents in the work to be done. Or if it is not there at first, not bound to his personality, a force of this kind enters into his environment as soon as he begins his movement to realize. Its business seems to be to oppose, to create stumblings and wrong conditions, in a word, to set before him the whole problem of the work he has started to do. It would seem that the problem could not, in the occult economy of things, be solved otherwise than by the predestined instrument making the difficulty his own. That would explain many things that seem very disconcerting on the surface.232 In her talks to the disciples, Mother stressed the same phenomenon: If you represent a possibility of Victory, you always have in you the opposite of this Victory, which is your constant torment. When you see a very black shadow somewhere in you, something truly painful, you can be sure that you also have the corresponding possibility of light. And she added: You have a special goal, a special mission, your own particular realization, and you carry within yourself all the obstacles needed to make this realization perfect. Always you will find that shadow and light go together in you: you have a capacity, you have also the negation of that capacity. And if you discover a very dense and deep-rooted shadow in you, you can be certain there is also a great light somewhere. It is up to you to use the one in order to realize the other.   Life's secret may have eluded us simply because of our imperfect grasp of this dual law of light and darkness and of the enigma of our double nature animal and divine. Trained in a Manichaean conception of existence, we have seen in it, as our ethics and religions have taught us, a relentless struggle between Good and Evil, Truth and Falsehood, in which is was important to be on the good side, on the right hand of the Lord. We have cut everything in two: God's kingdom and the Devil's, the lower life in this world and the true life in heaven.   --   Such is the key to the Transformation, the key to overcoming the laws of Matter by using the Consciousness within Matter Consciousness above is Consciousness below. It is the door to the future world and the new earth announced by the Scriptures two thousand years ago: "A new earth wherein the Truth shall dwell." (2 Peter 3. 13) For, actually, the earth is our salvation, the ultimate place of Victory and of perfect accomplishment. There is no need to escape to heaven. All is here, totally, in the body Joy, Consciousness, supreme Powers if we have the courage to unseal our eyes and to descend, to dream a living dream instead of a sleeping one:   They must enter into the last finite if they want to reach the last infinite.251

1.14 - The Supermind as Creator, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   3:And certainly, if this consciousness had no relation at all to mind nor anywhere any identity with the mental being, it would be quite impossible to give any account of it to our human notions. Or, if it were in its nature only vision in knowledge and not at all dynamic power of knowledge, we could hope to attain by its contact a beatific state of mental illumination, but not a greater light and power for the works of the world. But since this consciousness is creatrix of the world, it must be not only state of knowledge, but power of knowledge, and not only a Will to light and vision, but a Will to power and works. And since Mind too is created out of it, Mind must be a development by limitation out of this primal faculty and this mediatory act of the supreme Consciousness and must therefore be capable of resolving itself back into it through a reverse development by expansion. For always Mind must be identical with Supermind in essence and conceal in itself the potentiality of Supermind, however different or even contrary it may have become in its actual forms and settled modes of operation. It may not then be an irrational or unprofitable attempt to strive by the method of comparison and contrast towards some idea of the Supermind from the standpoint and in the terms of our intellectual knowledge. The idea, the terms may well be inadequate and yet still serve as a finger of light pointing us onward on a way which to some distance at least we may tread. Moreover it is possible for Mind to rise beyond itself into certain heights or planes of consciousness which receive into themselves some modified light or power of the supramental consciousness and know that by an illumination, intuition or a direct contact or experience, although to live in it and see and act from it is a Victory that has not yet been made humanly possible.   4:And first we may pause a moment and ask ourselves whether no light can be found from the past which will guide us towards these ill-explored domains. We need a name, and we need a starting-point. For we have called this state of consciousness the Supermind; but the word is ambiguous since it may be taken in the sense of mind itself supereminent and lifted above ordinary mentality but not radically changed, or on the contrary it may bear the sense of all that is beyond mind and therefore assume a too extensive comprehensiveness which would bring in even the Ineffable itself. A subsidiary description is required which will more accurately limit its significance.

1.14 - The Victory Over Death, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga   object:1.14 - The Victory Over Death   author class:Satprem   --   14. The Victory Over Death   The seeker has followed step by step the process of demechanization. Degree after degree, he has unraveled and cleared the various levels of entanglement that prevented the free flow of Harmony. He is no longer caught up in the mental machinery or the vital machinery; to a certain extent, he is no longer caught up in the subconscious machinery. The gray elf is still there, but like a shadow on a movie screen, a lingering memory of pain, a sort of old but still sensitive wound. It really no longer has any hold, except through that shadow, which taints joy and leaves a dull feeling of uneasiness in the depths, an unfathomable something still unhealed, a sort of lurking Threat without a face or a name something is still there, like the memory of a catastrophe that can unleash catastrophe at any moment as if everything were in fact terribly precarious and one forgetful second were enough to tip everything over into the old mortal habit again. There remains a point, a formidable point, and so long as that point has not been conquered, nothing is conquered, nothing is definitively certain. One does not quite know what triggers that sudden swing to the other side, the mortal and painful side, the old, anguish-laden and threatening side. (It is a state of threat, a threat in everything, the instantaneous mantle of lead, the old nameless and throat-constricting thing, as though in one second one suffocating little second millennia of night and suffering and shame came bursting into the setting and everything suddenly looked like a brilliant picture plastered on that black, untouched density, which sucks one into its destructive dizziness.) That dark swing sweeps down on you abruptly, without reason, strips you of all your suns, and leaves you naked, as at the beginning of time, before the old Enemy perhaps the foremost enemy of man and life upon earth, an ineffable mystery that wraps you in its embrace, a dreadful vertical fall that is as if tinged with love and the great Fear. You do not know what provokes it apparently no error, no slackening of tension, no wrong movement of consciousness that would reopen that forgotten dungeon but it is wide open. And indeed something has been forgotten; and so long as that forgetting has not been unforgotten, the great golden Memory of Truth will be unable to shine its entire Sun over our entire being. And that Enemy, that shadow, is perhaps the disguised Lover who lures us into his supreme pursuit, his ultimate discovery. We are guided each step of the way. An infallible Hand outlines its meanders in order to take us directly, through a thousand detours, to its happy totality:   --   So we can at least indicate the direction, the simple direction, for as usual the secrets are simple. The fire is built by the particle of consciousness we put into an unconscious act. Viewed from above, it is unconsciousness resisting and heating up from the friction of the new consciousness seeking entry it is that futile and automatic gesture which has trouble untwisting its habitual groove and turning differently, under another impulsion; and we have to untwist the old turn a thousand times, insist and persist until a little flame of consciousness replaces the dark routine. Viewed from below, it is that unconsciousness which suffocates and calls out and knocks and seeks. And both are true. It is the memory within which summons the golden ray; it is the great eternal Sun which makes that call for sunlight well up. The process, the great Process, is simple: we must light that little fire by degrees, put the ray into each gesture, each movement, each breath, each body function. Instead of doing things as usual, automatically, mechanically, we must remember Truth there too, yearn for Truth there too, infuse Truth there too. And we meet with resistance, forgetfulness, breakdowns; the machine goes on strike, falls ill, refuses to take the path of light. We must begin again thousands and thousands of times, point by point, gesture by gesture, function by function. We must remember again and again. Then, all of a sudden, in one little point of the body, in that passing little breath, something no longer vibrates in the old way, no longer works as usual; our breathing suddenly follows another rhythm, becomes wide and sunny, like a comfortable lungful of air, a breath of an air never known before, never tasted before, which refreshes everything, cures everything, even nourishes as if we were inhaling the nectar of the immortals. Then everything falls back into the old habit. We must start all over again, on one point, on another point, at each instant life becomes filled with an extreme preoccupation, an intense absorption. A second's minuscule Victory streng thens us for another discovery, another Victory. And we begin to work in every nook and cranny, every movement; we would like everything to be filled with truth and with that sun which changes everything, gives another flavor to everything, another rhythm, another plenitude. The body itself then begins to awaken, to yearn for truth, for sunshine. It begins to light its own fire of aspiration here and there, begins to want not to forget anymore; and whenever it forgets that new little vibration, it suddenly feels suffocated, as if it were sliding back into death. The process is simple, infinite, perpetual: each gesture or operation accomplished with a particle of consciousness binds that consciousness, that little fire of being, to the gesture or operation, and gradually transforms it. It is an infusion of consciousness, a microscopic and methodical and innumerable infusion of fire, until matter itself, under that conscious pressure, awakens to the need of consciousness as the seed awakens to the need for sunlight. Everything then starts growing together, inevitably, irresistibly, under that golden attraction. By degrees, the fire is lit, the vibration radiates, the note spreads, the cells respond to the Influx. The body inaugurates a new type of functioning, a functioning of conscious truth.   The body's virtue is its obstinate permanence; once it has learned something, it never forgets it it goes on repeating its luminous functioning twenty-four hours a day, day and night, with the same obstinacy with which it used to repeat its diseases, fears, weaknesses and all its dark, age-old animal functioning.   --   But death is a word for something that does not exist. One does not die when one leaves one's body, any more than when one goes from one room to another or changes clothes. Actually, death is not on the other side; it is right here, at every instant, inextricably mingled with life; we take it along everywhere we go and, sometimes, it becomes death. That sometimes, that moment, or more complete movement of death in us, is what we must catch hold of. Death is not another state, an accident suddenly thrusting us into something else. It is ingrained in life itself; it is its base, its dark foundation. And if we could unravel those tightly knit threads, that death in the quick, that self of death that beats softly within us and tries day after day, almost hour after hour and every instant, to supplant life at will. One dies only from want of truth. It is the only want in the world. If we were totally true, we would be totally immortal. Death is dissolution of falsehood for falsehood is in essence decay and we will die only so long as we are not truthful from head to toe and in every cell of our body. In short, death is the keeper of Truth, the dark angel standing at the immortal threshold that destroys anything incapable of passing purely into Truth. We have already crossed the threshold in our purified mind; we have perhaps crossed it in our heart and feelings we must cross it in our body. The self of truth must completely replace the self of death. The process of immortalization takes place from the top down: first in the mind, then in the heart and senses, then in the body but the supreme resistance is also the supreme Victory.   It is indeed a resistance. Death is a resistance to the law of Truth, to the ever-renewed flow of Harmony. Deep down, we are founded on the rock of the Inconscient45 the Vedic Rishis spoke of, the rock that is perhaps the first moment when the great Energy solidified, turned into matter, plunged into a dark contraction of itself, sank into an inert stillness of its triumphant flow, lost itself in a black, motionless ecstasy that was like the inversion of its solar ecstasy on the summits. Those who have had the experience of descending into the material Inconscient know that the image of the Vedic Rishis is not just an image but a rather formidable reality to go through. It is truly a rock immense and seemingly bottomless a sheer drop into a basalt chasm, which cannot even be termed black because there is not one spark of blackness there, not one glimmer that would permit one to call it black it is the Blackness, absolute, without one breath, without one vibration of anything whatever: an instantaneous suffocation, a mortal stifling, a world utterly still, utterly closed, as if strangled on itself, without a sound, without a movement, without an echo of anything whatsoever. An utter void, and yet like a black, asphyxiating existence, something that is in spite of everything but is like a density of absolute negation, a tremendous refusal which raises its walls of basalt and plunges, plunges like an abyss into an abyss, like a death into a death. To descend there is in fact like dying. It is death. It is the Inconscient. One cannot be there; one must not be there. It is like a supreme repudiation of everything that moves and breathes, everything that bears a particle of light making it possible to live. It does not move. It does not breathe. It is a NO. A tremendous NO to everything and of everything, which swallows you or expels you or forces you to summon a light greater than that Darkness.

1.15 - On incorruptible purity and chastity to which the corruptible attain by toil and sweat., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset   This is the fifteenth reward of Victory. He who has received it while still living in the flesh has died and risen, and from now on experiences the foretaste of future immortality.   STEP 16   --   This is the sixteenth struggle. He who has won this Victory has either obtained love or cut out care.

1.15 - Prayers, #Words Of The Mother III, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga       O my heart, be great enough for the Victory.       *       My heart aspires to be vast enough for Thy Victory.       *   --       Lord, deliver us from falsehood, make us emerge in Thy truth pure and worthy of Thy Victory.       *   --       O my sweet Master, Thou art the conqueror and the conquest, the victor and the Victory!       27 November 1951   --       To see Thy Victory in all circumstances is certainly the best way of helping It to come.       *

1.15 - The Transformed Being, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga   It is a long, monumental work. Each Victory changes into defeat; each defeat becomes a greater Victory; and it must be begun again at another point, and still another, endlessly. And we seem to hear Sri Aurobindo's moving voice at the end of the long journey, his cry of indomitable certitude reverberating through the fragile walls of death:   I made an assignation with the Night;...

1.16 - Dianus and Diana, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism   a temple. Here Sulla thanked the goddess for his Victory over the   Marians in the plain below, attesting his gratitude by inscriptions

1.16 - On love of money or avarice., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset   This is the sixteenth struggle. He who has won this Victory has either obtained love or cut out care.