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1:The thief left it behind: the moon at my window." ~ Taigu Ryokan,

2:The thief left it behind; the moon at my window. ~ Taigu Ryokan, 1758-1831,

3:Light of the moon moves west - flower's shadows creep eastward. ~ Yosa Buson, 1716-1783,

4:Though it be broken- broken again - still it's there; the moon on the water.    ~ Choshu,

5:Soon drunk, I watch my cap tumble in the wind, dance in love - a guest the moon invites." ~ ?,

6:the moon over my hometown brings tears ~ Kobayashi Issa,

7:Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." ~ Confucius,

8:I am a sleeping emerald Faintly, faintly the ring round the moon Opens within my heart. ~ Yamamura Bocho, 1884-1924,

9:the mountains are as isolated as the moon ~ Buson, @BashoSociety

10:a silhouette of wild geese across the moon ~ Buson, @BashoSociety

11:melancholy walking alone viewing the moon ~ Buson, @BashoSociety

12:by the lamp of the moon she reads her letter ~ Buson, @BashoSociety

13:if I am to be alone the moon will be my friend ~ Buson, @BashoSociety

14:Dusk rain the moon peeking in and out the clouds ~ Ikkyu, @BashoSociety

15:very alone in the fallen leaves my friend the moon ~ Buson, @BashoSociety

16:as the moon recedes in the west purple dawn ~ Mansei Manyoshu, @BashoSociety

17:Having slept in the temple solemnly I watched the moon ~ Tosei, @BashoSociety

18:for a moment darkness over the moon ~ Ogawa, @BashoSociety

19:Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, @Sufi_Path

20:the moon missing from the dark cold sky ~ Ogawa, @BashoSociety

21:The moon floated, a luminous waif through heaven ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Call to the Quest,

22:All was a limitless sea that heaved to the moon. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,

23:in the long night writing poetry with the broken edge of the moon ~ Buson, @BashoSociety

24:the moon sails down the river of heaven into a forest of stars ~ Manyoshu, @BashoSociety

25:the moon above the sea lives again ~ Matsuo Basho, @BashoSociety

26:A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. ~ Revelation 12:1,

27:A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars." ~ Revelation 12:1,

28:the moon in east the sun in the west yellow wildflowers ~ Ogawa, @BashoSociety

29:the moon over my hometown brings tears ~ Kobayashi Issa, @BashoSociety

30:fields of cotton as if the moon has flowered ~ Matsuo Basho, @BashoSociety

31:do not view the moon from the scale of the human mind ~ Dogen Zenji, @BashoSociety

32:alone drinking wine without flowers or the moon ~ Matsuo Basho, @BashoSociety

33:under a pine tree viewing the moon thinking all night ~ Matsuo Basho, @BashoSociety

34:under a pine tree watching the moon thinking all night ~ Matsuo Basho, @BashoSociety

35:Clouds drifting by providing rest for the moon viewers ~ Matsuo Basho, @BashoSociety

36:Mesmerized by the huge variety of perceptions, which are like the illusory reflections of the moon in water, beings wander endlessly in samsara's vicious cycle. ~ Jigme Lingpa,

37:I worship the moon... Tell me of the soft glow of a candle light and the sweetness of my moon. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, @Sufi_Path

38:The moon gliding amazed through heaven In the uncertain wideness of the night. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan and Savitri,

39:limitations gone ::: limitations gone since my mind fixed on the moon clarity and serenity make something for which there's no end in sight ~ Saigyo,

40:As on the troubled surface of a lake the moon is reflected in broken images, in Maya the mental reflection of God is partial and broken. ~ Sri Ramakrishna,

41:As on the troubled surface of a lake, the moon is reflected in broken images, in Maya the mental reflection of God is partial and broken. ~ Sri Ramakrishna,

42:Shuddered in silence as obscurely stir Ocean's dim fields delivered to the moon. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,

43:Never ignore a person who loves you, cares for you, and misses you. Because one day, you might wake up from your sleep and realize that you lost the moon while counting the stars. ~ Nico Lang,

44:He whose mind is utterly pure from all evil as the Sun is pure of stain and the moon of soil, him indeed I call a man of religion. ~ Udanavagga, the Eternal Wisdom

45:The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. ~ Oscar Wilde,

46:He whose mind is utterly purified from soil, as heaven is pure from stain and the moon from dust, him indeed I call a man of religion. ~ Buddhist Text, the Eternal Wisdom

47:Mary, a proper name is taken to mean star of the sea or enlightener and lady; hence in Rev ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (12:1) she is described with the moon under her feet.,

48:The small man builds cages for everyone he knows    While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low,    Keeps dropping keys all night long    For the beautiful rowdy prisoners. ~ Hafiz,

49:The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them. ~ Henry David Thoreau,

50:The heavens of the ideal Mind were seen In a blue lucency of dreaming Space Like strips of brilliant sky clinging to the moon. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,

51:Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman, adorned with the sun, standing on the moon, and with the twelve stars on her head for a crown. She was pregnant, and in labour, crying aloud in the pangs of childbirth. ~ Revelation 12:1-2,

52:Night over tired lands, when evening pales And fading gleams break down the horizon's walls, Nor yet the dusk grows mystic with the moon. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Towards the Black Void,

53:His fires of grandeur burn in the great sun, He glides through heaven shimmering in the moon; He is beauty carolling in the fields of sound; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,

54:... Strange signs will appear in the skies: both horns of the moon will join the cross. Happy will be those who will have survived the war, since the pleasures of life will begin again, and the sun will have a new brilliance..." ~ Saint Odile, (660-720 AD),

55:Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi,

56:Follow wise and intelligent men possessed of experience, patient and full of spirituality and elevation...Follow just and perfect men faithfully as the moon follows the path of the constellations. ~ Dhammapada, the Eternal Wisdom

57:Put your thoughts to sleep let them not cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Drown them in the sea of love." ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, (1207 - 1273), 13th-century Persian poet; Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic, Wikipedia.,

58:To Him whose great wisdom, like a divine path, pervades all knowable things; Whose compassion, like the moon, is the crowning ornament of living beings, Whose divine activity, like a wish-fulfilling gem, is a treasure of all needs and wishes. ~ Gorampa Sonam Senge,

59:We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean & the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together." ~ T. McKenna, (1946 - 2000) American ethnobotanist, mystic,Wikipedia.,

60:Whoso has been careless and has conquered his carelessness, whoso having committed errors concentrates his whole will towards good, shines on the darkened world like the moon in a cloudless sky, ~ Buddhist Sayings from the Chinese, the Eternal Wisdom

61:The magnificent cosmos is a palace that has the sun and the moon as its lamps and the stars as its candles; time is like a rope or ribbon hung within it, on to which the Glorious Creator each year threads a new world. ~ - Said Nursi, @Sufi_Path

62:Night, splendid with the moon dreaming in heaven In silver peace, possessed her luminous reign. She brooded through her stillness on a thought Deep-guarded by her mystic folds of light, And in her bosom nursed a greater dawn. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Return to Earth,

63:There in the Heart, where the couple finally unite, the entire game is undone, the nightmare of evolution, and you are exactly where you were prior to the beginning of the whole show. With a sudden shock of the entirely obvious, you recognize your own Original Face, the face you had prior to the Big Bang, the face of utter Emptiness that smiles as all creation and sings as the entire Kosmos - and it is all undone in that primal glance, and all that is left is the smile, and the reflection of the moon on a quiet pond, late on a crystal clear night. ~ Ken Wilber, A Brief History of Everything, p. 43,

64:Direct not thy mind to the vast surfaces of the earth; for the Plant of Truth grows not upon the ground. Nor measure the motions of the Sun, collecting rules, for he is carried by the Eternal Will of the Father, and not for your sake alone. Dismiss from your mind the impetuous course of the Moon, for she moveth always by the power of Necessity. The progression of the Stars was not generated for your sake. The wide aerial flight of birds gives no true knowledge, nor the dissection of the entrails of victims; they are all mere toys, the basis of mercenary fraud: flee from these if you would enter the sacred paradise of piety where Virtue, Wisdom, and Equity are assembled." ~ Zoroaster,

65:Reply To A Friend ::: In stubborn stupidity, I live on alone befriended by trees and herbs. Too lazy to learn right from wrong, I laugh at myself, ignoring others. Lifting my bony shanks, I cross the stream, a sack in my hand, blessed by spring weather. Living thus, I want for nothing, at peace with all the world. Your finger points to the moon, but the finger is blind until the moon appears. What connection has moon and finger? Are they separate objects or bound? This is a question for beginners wrapped in seas of ignorance. Yet one who looks beyond metaphor knows there is no finger; there is no moon. ~ Taigu Ryokan,

66:None is travelling ::: None is travelling Here along this way but I, This autumn evening. The first day of the year: thoughts come - and there is loneliness; the autumn dusk is here. An old pond A frog jumps in - Splash! Lightening - Heron's cry Stabs the darkness Clouds come from time to time - and bring to men a chance to rest from looking at the moon. In the cicada's cry There's no sign that can foretell How soon it must die. Poverty's child - he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon. Won't you come and see loneliness? Just one leaf from the kiri tree. Temple bells die out. The fragrant blossoms remain. A perfect evening! ~ Matsuo Basho,

67:Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we." ~ G K Chesterton, Orthodoxy,

68:Who does not understand should either learn, or be silent." "Perspective is an Art Mathematical which demonstrates the manner and properties of all radiations direct, broken and reflected." "Neither the circle without the line, nor the line without the point, can be artificially produced. It is, therefore, by virtue of the point and the Monad that all things commence to emerge in principle. That which is affected at the periphery, however large it may be, cannot in any way lack the support of the central point." "Therefore, the central point which we see in the centre of the hieroglyphic Monad produces the Earth , round which the Sun , the Moon , and the other planets follow their respective paths. The Sun has the supreme dignity , and we represent him by a circle having a visible centre." There is (gentle reader) nothing (the works of God only set apart) which so much beautifies and adorns the soul and mind of man as does knowledge of the good arts and sciences . Many arts there are which beautify the mind of man; but of all none do more garnish and beautify it than those arts which are called mathematical , unto the knowledge of which no man can attain, without perfect knowledge and instruction of the principles, grounds, and Elements of Geometry." ~ Dr. John Dee, The Hieroglyphic Monad,

69:In the name of Him Who created and sustains the world, the Sage Who endowed tongue with speech. He attains no honor who turns the face from the doer of His mercy. The kings of the earth prostate themselves before Him in supplication. He seizes not in haste the disobedient, nor drives away the penitent with violence. The two worlds are as a drop of water in the ocean of His knowledge. He withholds not His bounty though His servants sin; upon the surface of the earth has He spread a feast, in which both friend and foe may share. Peerless He is, and His kingdom is eternal. Upon the head of one He placed a crown another he hurled from the throne to the ground. The fire of His friend He turned into a flower garden; through the water of the Nile He sended His foes to perdition. Behind the veil He sees all, and concealed our faults with His own goodness. He is near to them that are downcast, and accepts the prayers of them that lament. He knows of the things that exist not, of secrets that are untold. He causes the moon and the sun to revolve, and spreads water upon the earth. In the heart of a stone hath He placed a jewel; from nothing had He created all that is. Who can reveal the secret of His qualities; what eye can see the limits of His beauty? The bird of thought cannot soar to the height of His presence, nor the hand of understanding reach to the skirt of His praise. Think not, O Saadi, that one can walk in the road of purity except in the footsteps of Mohammed (Peace and Blessings be Upon Him) ~ Saadi, The Bustan of Sa'di,

70:See how, like lightest waves at play, the airy dancers fleet;    And scarcely feels the floor the wings of those harmonious feet.    Ob, are they flying shadows from their native forms set free?    Or phantoms in the fairy ring that summer moonbeams see?    As, by the gentle zephyr blown, some light mist flees in air,    As skiffs that skim adown the tide, when silver waves are fair,    So sports the docile footstep to the heave of that sweet measure,    As music wafts the form aloft at its melodious pleasure,    Now breaking through the woven chain of the entangled dance,    From where the ranks the thickest press, a bolder pair advance,    The path they leave behind them lost--wide open the path beyond,    The way unfolds or closes up as by a magic wand.    See now, they vanish from the gaze in wild confusion blended;    All, in sweet chaos whirled again, that gentle world is ended!    No!--disentangled glides the knot, the gay disorder ranges--    The only system ruling here, a grace that ever changes.    For ay destroyed--for ay renewed, whirls on that fair creation;    And yet one peaceful law can still pervade in each mutation.    And what can to the reeling maze breathe harmony and vigor,    And give an order and repose to every gliding figure?    That each a ruler to himself doth but himself obey,    Yet through the hurrying course still keeps his own appointed way.    What, would'st thou know? It is in truth the mighty power of tune,    A power that every step obeys, as tides obey the moon;    That threadeth with a golden clue the intricate employment,    Curbs bounding strength to tranquil grace, and tames the wild enjoyment.    And comes the world's wide harmony in vain upon thine ears?    The stream of music borne aloft from yonder choral spheres?    And feel'st thou not the measure which eternal Nature keeps?    The whirling dance forever held in yonder azure deeps?    The suns that wheel in varying maze?--That music thou discernest?    No! Thou canst honor that in sport which thou forgettest in earnest.    ~ Friedrich Schiller,

71:Mother of Dreams ::: Goddess supreme, Mother of Dream, by thy ivory doors when thou standest, Who are they then that come down unto men in thy visions that troop, group upon group, down the path of the shadows slanting? Dream after dream, they flash and they gleam with the flame of the stars still around them; Shadows at thy side in a darkness ride where the wild fires dance, stars glow and glance and the random meteor glistens; There are voices that cry to their kin who reply; voices sweet, at the heart they beat and ravish the soul as it listens. What then are these lands and these golden sands and these seas more radiant than earth can imagine? Who are those that pace by the purple waves that race to the cliff-bound floor of thy jasper shore under skies in which mystery muses, Lapped in moonlight not of our night or plunged in sunshine that is not diurnal? Who are they coming thy Oceans roaming with sails whose strands are not made by hands, an unearthly wind advances? Why do they join in a mystic line with those on the sands linking hands in strange and stately dances? Thou in the air, with a flame in thy hair, the whirl of thy wonders watching, Holdest the night in thy ancient right, Mother divine, hyacinthine, with a girdle of beauty defended. Sworded with fire, attracting desire, thy tenebrous kingdom thou keepest, Starry-sweet, with the moon at thy feet, now hidden now seen the clouds between in the gloom and the drift of thy tresses. Only to those whom thy fancy chose, O thou heart-free, is it given to see thy witchcraft and feel thy caresses. Open the gate where thy children wait in their world of a beauty undarkened. High-throned on a cloud, victorious, proud I have espied Maghavan ride when the armies of wind are behind him; Food has been given for my tasting from heaven and fruit of immortal sweetness; I have drunk wine of the kingdoms divine and have healed the change of music strange from a lyre which our hands cannot master, Doors have swung wide in the chambers of pride where the Gods reside and the Apsaras dance in their circles faster and faster. For thou art she whom we first can see when we pass the bounds of the mortal; There at the gates of the heavenly states thou hast planted thy wand enchanted over the head of the Yogin waving. From thee are the dream and the shadows that seem and the fugitive lights that delude us; Thine is the shade in which visions are made; sped by thy hands from celestial lands come the souls that rejoice for ever. Into thy dream-worlds we pass or look in thy magic glass, then beyond thee we climb out of Space and Time to the peak of divine endeavour. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems,

72:Darkness I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air; Morn came and went-and came, and brought no day, And men forgot their passions in the dread Of this their desolation; and all hearts Were chill'd into a selfish prayer for light: And they did live by watchfires-and the thrones, The palaces of crowned kings-the huts, The habitations of all things which dwell, Were burnt for beacons; cities were consum'd, And men were gather'd round their blazing homes To look once more into each other's face; Happy were those who dwelt within the eye Of the volcanos, and their mountain-torch: A fearful hope was all the world contain'd; Forests were set on fire-but hour by hour They fell and faded-and the crackling trunks Extinguish'd with a crash-and all was black. The brows of men by the despairing light Wore an unearthly aspect, as by fits The flashes fell upon them; some lay down And hid their eyes and wept; and some did rest Their chins upon their clenched hands, and smil'd; And others hurried to and fro, and fed Their funeral piles with fuel, and look'd up With mad disquietude on the dull sky, The pall of a past world; and then again With curses cast them down upon the dust, And gnash'd their teeth and howl'd: the wild birds shriek'd And, terrified, did flutter on the ground, And flap their useless wings; the wildest brutes Came tame and tremulous; and vipers crawl'd And twin'd themselves among the multitude, Hissing, but stingless-they were slain for food. And War, which for a moment was no more, Did glut himself again: a meal was bought With blood, and each sate sullenly apart Gorging himself in gloom: no love was left; All earth was but one thought-and that was death Immediate and inglorious; and the pang Of famine fed upon all entrails-men Died, and their bones were tombless as their flesh; The meagre by the meagre were devour'd, Even dogs assail'd their masters, all save one, And he was faithful to a corse, and kept The birds and beasts and famish'd men at bay, Till hunger clung them, or the dropping dead Lur'd their lank jaws; himself sought out no food, But with a piteous and perpetual moan, And a quick desolate cry, licking the hand Which answer'd not with a caress-he died. The crowd was famish'd by degrees; but two Of an enormous city did survive, And they were enemies: they met beside The dying embers of an altar-place Where had been heap'd a mass of holy things For an unholy usage; they rak'd up, And shivering scrap'd with their cold skeleton hands The feeble ashes, and their feeble breath Blew for a little life, and made a flame Which was a mockery; then they lifted up Their eyes as it grew lighter, and beheld Each other's aspects-saw, and shriek'd, and died- Even of their mutual hideousness they died, Unknowing who he was upon whose brow Famine had written Fiend. The world was void, The populous and the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless- A lump of death-a chaos of hard clay. The rivers, lakes and ocean all stood still, And nothing stirr'd within their silent depths; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal: as they dropp'd They slept on the abyss without a surge- The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The moon, their mistress, had expir'd before; The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need Of aid from them-She was the Universe. ~ George Gordon Byron,

73:Coded Language Whereas, breakbeats have been the missing link connecting the diasporic community to its drum woven past Whereas the quantised drum has allowed the whirling mathematicians to calculate the ever changing distance between rock and stardom. Whereas the velocity of the spinning vinyl, cross-faded, spun backwards, and re-released at the same given moment of recorded history , yet at a different moment in time's continuum has allowed history to catch up with the present. We do hereby declare reality unkempt by the changing standards of dialogue. Statements, such as, "keep it real", especially when punctuating or anticipating modes of ultra-violence inflicted psychologically or physically or depicting an unchanging rule of events will hence forth be seen as retro-active and not representative of the individually determined is. Furthermore, as determined by the collective consciousness of this state of being and the lessened distance between thought patterns and their secular manifestations, the role of men as listening receptacles is to be increased by a number no less than 70 percent of the current enlisted as vocal aggressors. Motherfuckers better realize, now is the time to self-actualize We have found evidence that hip hops standard 85 rpm when increased by a number as least half the rate of it's standard or decreased at ¾ of it's speed may be a determining factor in heightening consciousness. Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. Equate rhyme with reason, Sun with season Our cyclical relationship to phenomenon has encouraged scholars to erase the centers of periods, thus symbolizing the non-linear character of cause and effect Reject mediocrity! Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that which as been given for you to understand. The current standard is the equivalent of an adolescent restricted to the diet of an infant. The rapidly changing body would acquire dysfunctional and deformative symptoms and could not properly mature on a diet of apple sauce and crushed pears Light years are interchangeable with years of living in darkness. The role of darkness is not to be seen as, or equated with, Ignorance, but with the unknown, and the mysteries of the unseen. Thus, in the name of: ROBESON, GOD'S SON, HURSTON, AHKENATON, HATHSHEPUT, BLACKFOOT, HELEN LENNON, KHALO, KALI, THE THREE MARIAS, TARA, LILITH, LOURDE, WHITMAN BALDWIN, GINSBERG, KAUFMAN, LUMUMBA, GHANDI, GIBRAN, SHABAZZ, SIDDHARTHA MEDUSA, GUEVARA, GURDJIEFF, RAND, WRIGHT, BANNEKER, TUBMAN, HAMER, HOLIDAY DAVIS, COLTRANE, MORRISON, JOPLIN, DUBOIS, CLARKE, SHAKESPEARE, RACHMANINOV ELLINGTON, CARTER, GAYE, HATHAWAY, HENDRIX, KUTI, DICKINSON, RIPPERTON MARY, ISIS, THERESA, HANSBURY, TESLA, PLATH, RUMI, FELLINI, MICHAUX, NOSTRADAMUS, NEFERTITI LA ROCK, SHIVA, GANESHA, YEMAJA, OSHUN, OBATALA, OGUN, KENNEDY, KING, FOUR LITTLE GIRLS, HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI, KELLER, BIKO, PERÓN, MARLEY, MAGDALENE, COSBY SHAKUR, THOSE WHO BURN, THOSE STILL AFLAME, AND THE COUNTLESS UNNAMED We claim the present as the pre-sent, as the hereafter. We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. We are not afraid of the darkness, we trust that the moon shall guide us. We are determining the future at this very moment. We now know that the heart is the philosophers' stone Our music is our alchemy We stand as the manifested equivalent of 3 buckets of water and a hand full of minerals, thus realizing that those very buckets turned upside down supply the percussion factor of forever. If you must count to keep the beat then count. Find you mantra and awaken your subconscious. Curve you circles counterclockwise Use your cipher to decipher, Coded Language, man made laws. Climb waterfalls and trees, commune with nature, snakes and bees. Let your children name themselves and claim themselves as the new day for today we are determined to be the channelers of these changing frequencies into songs, paintings, writings, dance, drama, photography, carpentry, crafts, love, and love. We enlist every instrument: Acoustic, electronic. Every so-called race, gender, and sexual preference. Every per-son as beings of sound to acknowledge their responsibility to uplift the consciousness of the entire fucking World. Any utterance will be un-aimed, will be disclaimed - two rappers slain Any utterance will be un-aimed, will be disclaimed - two rappers slain ~ Saul Williams,

*** WISDOM TROVE ***

1:We ran as if to meet the moon. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove

2:The sun is within me and so is the moon. ~ kabir, @wisdomtrove

3:I am going with him, if he climbs to the Moon. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove

4:the moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy ~ e-e-cummings, @wisdomtrove

5:When water is still like a mirror it can behold the Moon. ~ rumi, @wisdomtrove

6:If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove

7:Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star. ~ w-clement-stone, @wisdomtrove

8:If there are poor on the moon, we will go there too. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove

9:She takes your voice and leaves you howling at the moon. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove

10:The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity. ~ d-t-suzuki, @wisdomtrove

11:The moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars. ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove

12:Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars. ~ bette-davis, @wisdomtrove

13:Clouds are like boogers hanging on the nostrils of the moon. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove

14:Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. ~ les-brown, @wisdomtrove

15:It's the moon that makes it so still, weaving some mystery. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove

16:Shoot for the moon and even if you miss you'll land among the stars. ~ les-brown, @wisdomtrove

17:Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.   ~ buddha, @wisdomtrove

18:When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove

19:Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars. ~ les-brown, @wisdomtrove

20:Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove

21:There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ~ george-carlin, @wisdomtrove

22:When finger point at moon, don't look at finger or you'll miss the moon. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove

23:With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?     ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove

24:Be humble because until the sun with all its grandeur, let the moon shine. ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove

25:I secretly assumed, as poets do, The duty on me to define the moon. ~ jorge-luis-borges, @wisdomtrove

26:I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it. ~ albert-einstein, @wisdomtrove

27:The Moon for all her light and grace Has never learned to know her place. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove

28:We'll go into orbit. We'll go to the Moon. This business has no limits. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove

29:If I could light my own farts I could fly to the moon or at least Uranus. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove

30:When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger. ~ anthony-de-mello, @wisdomtrove

31:Shoot for the moon, because even if you miss you miss, you'll land in the stars. ~ les-brown, @wisdomtrove

32:In autumn even though I may see it again, how can I sleep with the moon this evening? ~ dogen, @wisdomtrove

33:May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove

34:The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun. ~ william-shakespeare, @wisdomtrove

35:For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams of the beautiful Annabel Lee ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove

36:But all night, Aslan and the Moon gazed upon each other with joyful and unblinking eyes. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove

37:To point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon. ~ d-t-suzuki, @wisdomtrove

38:Men are climbing to the moon, but they don’t seem interested in the beating human heart. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove

39:The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back. ~ dorothy-parker, @wisdomtrove

40:the moon shone bright on Mrs Porter / And on her daughter / They wash their feet in soda water. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove

41:Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. Then your love would also change. ~ william-shakespeare, @wisdomtrove

42:In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove

43:Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove

44:The moon, like a flowerIn heaven's high bower,With silent delightSits and smiles on the night. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove

45:Tomorrow we may come this way, And take the hidden paths that run Towards the Moon or to the Sun ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove

46:When you see the earth from the moon, you don't see any divisions there of nations or states.  ~ joseph-campbell, @wisdomtrove

47:The moon, like a flower in heaven's high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove

48:We all know we fall. Newton's discovery was that the moon falls, too-and by the same rule that we do. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove

49:What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove

50:The more there is, the less I want. The more man flies to the moon, the more I want to look at a tree. ~ audrey-hepburn, @wisdomtrove

51:Who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty people? ~ e-e-cummings, @wisdomtrove

52:Ever since I saw the moon landing as a young teenager, I was determined I would go into space one day. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove

53:The sun shall not smite I by day, nor the moon by night, and everything that I do shall be upfull and right. ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove

54:The piece of equipment I'm most found off is my telescope. The other night I had a superb view of the moon. ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove

55:Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; for I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face every day.   ~ rumi, @wisdomtrove

56:The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump? ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove

57:The finger pointing at the moon remains a finger and under no circumstances can it be changed into the moon itself. ~ d-t-suzuki, @wisdomtrove

58:When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator. ~ mahatma-gandhi, @wisdomtrove

59:Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don’t concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove

60:A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove

61:When you come upon a path that brings benefit and happiness to all, follow this course as the moon journeys through the stars. ~ buddha, @wisdomtrove

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63:A good heart is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never changes. ~ william-shakespeare, @wisdomtrove

64:If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove

65:We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove

66:Earth would soon Be uninhabitable as the moon. What for that matter had it ever been? Who advised man to come and live therein? ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove

67:No matter where it is in the sky... No matter where you are in the world... the moon is never bigger than your thumb. -John ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove

68:Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied,- "If you seek for Eldorado. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove

69:Each that we lose takes a part of us; A crescent still abides, Which like the moon, some turbid night,    Is summoned by the tides. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove

70:The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove

71:First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove

72:In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove

73:He who gets nearer the sun is leader, the aristocrat of aristocrats, or he who, like Dostoevsky, gets nearest the moon of our non-being. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove

74:Just go on dancing with me like this forever and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoe on the stars and hang upside down from the moon. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove

75:The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love. ~ walt-whitman, @wisdomtrove

76:When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove

77:I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove

78:It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove

79:Realization doesn't destroy the individual any more than the reflection of the moon breaks a drop of water. A drop of water can reflect the whole sky. ~ dogen, @wisdomtrove

80:I came to realize clearly that the mind is no other than the Mountain and the Rivers and the great wide Earth, the Sun and the Moon and the Sky”. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove

81:Thoughts can at best point to the truth, but it never is the truth. That’s why the Buddhist say: The finger pointing to the moon is not the moon. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove

82:The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.   ~ michel-de-montaigne, @wisdomtrove

83:Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being. ~ carl-jung, @wisdomtrove

84:I suppose we shall soon travel by air-vessels; make air instead of sea voyages; and at length find our way to the moon, in spite of the want of atmosphere. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove

85:Although its light is wide and great, the Moon is reflected in a puddle one inch wide. The whole Moon and the entire sky is reflected in one dew drop on the grass. ~ dogen, @wisdomtrove

86:When you point to the moon, what do you see in front of your finger; Your task is to feel, not to think, when you can understand that the lesson will be learned. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove

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88:Were Women all like those whom here I name, Woman to man I surely would prefer; The Sun is feminine, nor deems it shame; The Moon, though masculine, depends on her. ~ rabia-basri, @wisdomtrove

89:... what makes humanity beautiful is our free will, our individuality, our endless striving in spite of our imperfection. BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON Chapter 27 Page 214 ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove

90:When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I'm really small. What are my problems?' It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove

91:(a womanist) 3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless. ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove

92:You only have to solve two problems when going to the moon: first, how to get there; and second, how to get back. The key is don't leave until you have solved both problems. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove

93:I’ve always had a soft spot for dreamers – not those who waste their time thinking ‘what if’ but the ones who look to the sky and say ‘why can’t I shoot for the moon?’ ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove

94:This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and fear is real fear. The moon in the sky is no paper moon. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove

95:The First, then, should be compared to light, the next [Spirit or Intellect] to the sun, and the third [soul] to the celestial body of the moon, which gets its light from the sun. ~ plotinus, @wisdomtrove

96:The world is being Americanized and technologized to its limits, and that makes it dull for some people. Reaching the Moon restores the frontier and gives us the lands beyond. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove

97:But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask; why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas? ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove

98:I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove

99:The difference between pleasure and joy? Ohh ...  the distance is from here to the moon! From here to another galaxy! Pleasure is an attempt to fill yourself.  Joy is what you are. ~ byron-katie, @wisdomtrove

100:then, as though it had been waiting on a near by roof for their arrival, the moon came slanting suddenly through the vines and turned the girl's face the color of white roses. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove

101:If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. ... Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations. ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove

102:Nothing that is can pause or stay; / The moon will wax, the moon will wane, / The mist and cloud will turn to rain, / The rain to mist and cloud again, / Tomorrow be today. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove

103:Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman's power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove

104:In the Upanishads they talk about the path of the sun and the path of the moon. The path of the moon is rebirth. The path of the sun leads to self-knowledge, from which there is no return. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove

105:The wind is rushing after us, and the clouds are flying after us, and the moon is plunging after us, and the whole wild night is in pursuit of us; but, so far we are pursued by nothing else. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove

106:Leave him! I said. I never mean to. I am going with him, if he climbs to the Moon; and if any of these Black Riders try to stop him, they'll have Sam Gamgee to reckon with, I said. They laughed. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove

107:When I think of mystery, I don't think about myself. I think of the universe, like why does the moon rise when the sun falls? Caterpillars turn into butterflies? I really haven't remained a recluse. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove

108:How sad, a heart that does not know how to love, that does not know what it is to be drunk with love. If you are not in love, how can you enjoy the blinding light of the sun, the soft light of the moon? ~ omar-khayyam, @wisdomtrove

109:The sky grew darker and the moon rose higher as the evening wore on. and without either or them being conscious of it, they began to regain the intimacy, the bond of familiarity, they had once shared. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove

110:Rover did not know in the least where the moon's path led to, and at present he was much too frightened and excited to ask, and anyway he was beginning to get used to extraordinary things happening to him. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove

111:Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove

112:At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 p.m. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove

113:Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove

114:See yonder fire! It is the moon slow rising o'er the eastern hill. It glimmers on the forest tips, and through the dewy foliage drips In little rivulets of light, and makes the heart in love with night. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove

115:But at my back from time to time I hear The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring. O the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter And on her daughter They wash their feet in soda water. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove

116:One of the principles we teach in our programs is "If you shoot for the stars, you'll at least hit the moon." Poor people don't even shoot for the ceiling in their house, and then they wonder why they're not successful. ~ t-harv-eker, @wisdomtrove

117:The primitive in each of us climbs closer to the surface during the night, for the moon sings to it, and the cold void between the stars speaks its language. To that savage self, evil can look lovely in too little light. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove

118:The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the phenomena occurring - and all of the acts carried out - on this earth. But the moon remained silent; it told no stories. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove

119:Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove

120:The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The moon, their mistress, had expir'd before; The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need  Of aid from them-She was the Universe. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove

121:With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the earth is in the heavens.   ~ joseph-campbell, @wisdomtrove

122:What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove

123:On Earth, we are unmanned by our longing for a pastoral past that never really existed; and that, if it had existed, could never exist again... on the Moon, there is no past to long for or dream about. There is no direction but forward. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove

124:The real moon,if you could reach it and survive it, would in a deep and deadly sense be just like anywhere else... no man would find an abiding strangness on the moon unless he were the sort of man who could find it in his own back garden. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove

125:And it was awfully strange, he thought, how she still had the power, as she came tinkling, rustling, still had the power as she came across the room, to make the moon, which he detested, rise at Bourton on the terrace in the summer sky. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove

126:Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people live, while only a fraction of that amount is appropriated to service the densely populated slums. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove

127:The stars are far brighter Than gems without measure, The moon is far whiter Than silver in treasure; The fire is more shining On hearth in the gloaming Than gold won by mining, So why go a-roaming? O! Tra-la-la-lally Come back to the Valley. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove

128:When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil's walking parody On all four-footed things. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove

129:Possibly it had occurred to him the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. [... ] It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove

130:... And, all at once, the moon arouse through the thin ghastly mist, And was crimson in color... And they lynx which dwelleth forever in the tomb, came out therefrom. And lay down at the feet of the demon. And looked at him steadily in the face. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove

131:I want to make rockets 100 times, if not 1,000 times better. The ultimate objective is to make humanity a multiplanet species. Thirty years from now, there'll be a base on the moon and on Mars, and people will be going back and forth on SpaceX rockets. ~ elon-musk, @wisdomtrove

132:There rises the moon, broad and tranquil, through the branches of a walnut tree on a hill opposite. I apostrophize it in the words of Faust; "O gentle moon, that lookest for the last time upon my agonies!" -or something to that effect. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove

133:Why should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure? ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove

134:Through one word, or seven words, or three times five, even if you investigate thoroughly myriad forms, nothing can be depended upon. Night advances, the moon glows and falls into the ocean. The black dragon jewel you have been searching for, is everywhere. ~ dogen, @wisdomtrove

135:Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable, but it fails to capture the public's imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars. ~ paul-davies, @wisdomtrove

136:All you need to do is recognize your true position as the witness. You only have to do this for some time, until the spell is broken. Even after the spell is broken these mental tendencies may arise, but without any power, just like you can see the moon in the daylight. ~ mooji, @wisdomtrove

137:I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books. ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove

138:The melancholy river bears us on. When the moon comes through the trailing willow boughs, I see your face, I hear your voice and the bird singing as we pass the osier bed. What are you whispering? Sorrow, sorrow. Joy, joy. Woven together, like reeds in moonlight. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove

139:There is an eternal vital correspondence between our blood and the sun: there is an eternal vital correspondence between our nerves and the moon. If we get out of contact and harmony with the sun and moon, then both turn into great dragons of destruction against us. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove

140:Farewell," they cried, "Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!" That is the polite thing to say among eagles. "May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks," answered Gandalf, who knew the correct reply. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove

141:We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove

142:Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird's cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world. ~ jorge-luis-borges, @wisdomtrove

143:If I venture to displace ... the microscopical speck of dust... on the point of my finger,... I have done a deed which shakes the Moon in her path, which causes the Sun to be no longer the Sun, and which alters forever the destiny of multitudinous myriads of stars. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove

144:The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains&

145:Cold be hand and heart and bone, and cold be sleep under stone: never more to wake on stony bed, never, till the Sun fails and the Moon is dead. In the black wind the stars shall die, and still on gold here let them lie, till the dark lord lifts his hand over dead sea and withered land. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove

146:Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight! From the molten golden notes, And all in tune What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens while she gloats On the moon! ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove

147:The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to burst forth in full splendor and shed her light on all the objects around; anon, driving over her again, with increased velocity, and shrouding everything in darkness. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove

148:Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said Because it is there. Well, space is there, and were going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove

149:The night crept on apace, the moon went down, the stars grew pale and dim, and morning, cold as they, slowly approached. Then, from behind a distant hill, the noble sun rose up, driving the mists in phantom shapes before it, and clearing the earth of their ghostly forms till darkness came again. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove

150:Faërie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove

151:The first man-made satellite to orbit the earth was named Sputnik. The first living creature in space was Laika. The first rocket to the Moon carried a red flag. The first photograph of the far side of the Moon was made with a Soviet camera. If a man orbits the earth this year his name will be Ivan. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove

152:We are surrounded by a lot of failed ecosystems; the moon being one, Mars, Venus. There’s evidence of water on Mars and rivers and it didn’t take. Also, we have planets to guard us like Jupiter and Saturn that take the hits of the comets. It is miraculous that we exist on this planet, that it took. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove

153:I've always wanted to be part of something that would radically change the world. . . . People forget the power of inspiration. All of humanity went to the moon with the Apollo missions. The issue was cost. There was no chance to build a base and create frequent flights. That's the problem I would like to solve. ~ elon-musk, @wisdomtrove

154:People gave ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon... .This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred scripture tells us [Joshua 10:13]that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove

155:The cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great nerve center from which we quiver forever. Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove

156:I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No single space project... will be more exciting, or more impressive to mankind, or more important... and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove

157:The fish is my friend too... I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove

158:I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No single space project... will be more exciting, or more impressive to mankind, or more important... and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish... ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove

159:I'm moving and not moving at all. I'm like the moon underneath the waves that ever go on rolling and rocking. It is not, I am doing this, but rather, an inner realization that this is happening through me, or it is doing this for me. The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove

160:The moon is hidden behind a cloud... On the leaves is a sound of falling rain... No other sounds than these I hear; The hour of midnight must be near... So many ghosts, and forms of fright, Have started from their graves to-night, They have driven sleep from mine eyes away: I will go down to the chapel and pray. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove

161:For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride, In the sepulchre there by the sea, In her tomb by the sounding sea. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove

162:We will eventually build space science labs and hotels, prodding the capability for missions beyond the orbit of the Earth. Our space-hotel guests will be able to take breath-taking excursions, flying a couple of hundred feet above the Moon's surface in small two-man spaceships. In time, we will launch missions to Mars and beyond. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove

163:We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove

164:The sense &

165:Life and death are nothing but the mind. Years, months, days, and hours are nothing but the mind. Dreams, illusions, and mirages are nothing but the mind. The bubbles of water and the flames of fire are nothing but the mind. The flowers of the spring and the moon of the autumn are nothing but the mind. Confusions and dangers are nothing but the mind. ~ dogen, @wisdomtrove

166:At the beginning of human history, as we struggled to light fires and to chisel fallen trees into rudimentary canoes, who could have predicted that long after we had managed to send men to the moon and areoplanes to Australasia, we would still have such trouble knowing how to tolerate ourselves, forgive our loved ones, and apologise for our tantrums? ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove

167:While there are many who would say that the race to the moon was hardly green, many others have noted that the photographs brought back from Apollo 8 created the environmental movement. "They fuelled an awareness of the vulnerability of the Earth which still resonates with us today and shapes our behaviour." It was Kennedy who started it all with his pledge: ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove

168:The same technology transforming our lives can solve the greatest problem of the 20th century. A security shield can one day render nuclear weapons obsolete and free mankind from the prison of nuclear terror. America met one historic challenge and went to the Moon. Now America must meet another: to make our strategic defense real for all the citizens of planet Earth. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove

169:Nor do we merely feel these essences for one short hour no, even as these trees that whisper round a temple become soon dear as the temples self, so does the moon, the passion posey, glories infinite, Haunt us till they become a cheering light unto our souls and bound to us so fast, that wheather there be shine, or gloom o'er cast, They always must be with us, or we die. ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove

170:Now if I believe in God's Son and remember that He became man, all creatures will appear a hundred times more beautiful to me than before. Then I will properly appreciate the sun, the moon, the stars, trees, apples, as I reflect that he is Lord over all things. ... God writes the Gospel, not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove

171:And then I feel as if I'm witnessing a miracle, as ever so slowly she raises her face towards the moon. I watch her drink in the sight, sensing the flood of memories she's unleashed and wanting nothing more than to let her know I'm here. But instead I stay where I am and stare up at the moon as well. And for the briefest instant, it almost feels like we're together again. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove

172:So we'll go no more a-roving So late into the night, Though the heart still be as loving, And the moon still be as bright. For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul outwears the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, And love itself have rest. Though the night was made for loving, And the day returns too soon, Yet we'll go no more a-roving By the light of the moon. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove

173:The mind must learn that beyond the moving mind there is the background of awareness, which does not change. The mind must come to know the true self and respect it and cease covering it up, like the moon which obscures the sun during solar eclipse. Just realise that nothing observable, or experienceable is you, or binds you. Take no notice of what is not yourself. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove

174:There are moments when the elixir of life rises to such over‚àíbrimming splendor that the soul spills over. In the seraphic smile of the Madonnas the soul is seen to flood the psyche. The moon of the face becomes full; the equation is perfect. A minute, a half‚àíminute, a second later, the miracle has passed. Something intangible , something inexplicable, was given out-and received. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove

175:It is often said that the Buddha's teaching is only a raft to help you cross the river, a finger pointing to the moon. Don't aistake the finger for the moon. The raft is not the shore. If we cling to the raft, if we cling to the finger, we miss everything. We cannot, in the name of the finger or the raft kill each other. Human life is more precious than any ideology, any doctrine. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove

176:So we down-to-earth, gutsy, tough, realistic, and practical types have just been squandering billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of energy, nerve-work, and materials in whizzing off to the moon to discover, as astronomers knew before, that it was just a dreary slag heap. This is the true, original and scientifically etymological meaning of being lunatics.  Crying for the moon. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove

177:God's terrible face brighter than a spoon collects the image of one fatal word;so that my life(which liked the sun and the moon)resembles something that has not occurred:i am a birdcage without any bird a collar looking for a dog a kisswithout lips;a prayer lacking any kneesbut something beats within my shirt to provehe is undead who living noone is.I have never loved you dear as now i love. ~ e-e-cummings, @wisdomtrove

178:When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines the mind of man, as, for example, the moon, to which is attributed the change of seasons, the progress of diseases, etc. For the chief malady of man is a restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand; and it is not so bad for him to be in error as to be curious to no purpose. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove

179:For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the moon. It reads, ‚ÄòWe came in peace for all Mankind.’ As the United States was dropping seven and a half megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity. We would harm no one on a lifeless rock. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove

180:Since we are provided with both a body and a mind, we grasp onto the physical forms we see. Since we are provided with both a body and a mind, we cling to the sounds we hear. As a consequence, we make ourselves inseparable from all things, yet we are not like some shadowy figure &

181:When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional selves will stay with that person as long as we live. From that time on, there will be another person on this earth whose orbit around us will affect us as surely as the moon affects the tides, and affect us in some ways more deeply than anyone else can. Our children are extensions of ourselves. ~ fred-rogers, @wisdomtrove

182:He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy. He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove

183:Farewell sweet earth and northern sky, for ever blest, since here did lie and here with lissom limbs did run beneath the Moon, beneath the Sun, L√∫thien Tin√∫viel more fair than Mortal tongue can tell. Though all to ruin fell the world and were dissolved and backward hurled; unmade into the old abyss, yet were its making good, for this - the dusk, the dawn, the earth, the sea - that L√∫thien for a time should be. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove

184:The earth covered with a sable pall as for the burial of yesterday; the clumps of dark trees, its giant plumes of funeral feathers, waving sadly to and fro: all hushed, all noiseless, and in deep repose, save the swift clouds that skim across the moon, and the cautious wind, as, creeping after them upon the ground, it stops to listen, and goes rustling on, and stops again, and follows, like a savage on the trail. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove

185:There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object, those qualities, with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious. We find human faces in the moon, armies in the clouds; and by a natural propensity, if not corrected by experience and reflection, ascribe malice or good-will to every thing, that hurts or pleases us. ~ david-hume, @wisdomtrove

186:Don't let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don't worry about losing your "personality," as you persist in calling it: at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 p.m. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove

187:I'm an enormous product of my century, I'm a product of my upbringing. I was not aware of the fact that I was entering marriage with the highest set of expectations that humans have ever brought to the institution. It was really good to find that out. It doesn't have to be the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end, the moon and the stars - it can just be the moon. It's enough that it just can be what it is. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove

188:It was a grey day, that least fleshly of all weathers; a day of dreams and far hopes and clear visions. It was a day easily associated with those abstract truths and purities that dissolve in the sunshine or fade out in mocking laughter by the light of the moon. The trees and clouds were carved in classical severity; the sounds of the countryside had harmonized to a monotone, metallic as a trumpet, breathless as the Grecian urn. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove

189:Who knows if the moon's a balloon,coming out of a keen city in the sky&

190:But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun.; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic monotony that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove

191:Daisy put her arm through his abruptly but he seemed absorbed in what he had just said. Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to him, almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted things had diminished by one. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove

192:You can put this another way by saying that while in other sciences the instruments you use are things external to yourself (things like microscopes and telescopes), the instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred - like the Moon seen through a dirty telescope. That is why horrible nations have horrible religions: they have been looking at God through a dirty lens. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove

193:Had the news of salvation by Jesus Christ been inscribed on the face of the sun and the moon, in characters that all nations would have understood, the whole earth had known it in twenty-four hours, and all nations would have believed it; whereas, though it is now almost two thousand years since, as they tell us, Christ came upon earth, not a twentieth part of the people of the earth know anything of it, and among those who do, the wiser part do not believe it. ~ thomas-paine, @wisdomtrove

194:The moralist and the revolutionary are constantly undermining one another. Marx exploded a hundred tons of dynamite beneath the moralist position, and we are still living in the echo of that tremendous crash. But already, somewhere or other, the sappers are at work and fresh dynamite is being tamped in place to blow Marx at the moon. Then Marx, or somebody like him, will come back with yet more dynamite, and so the process continues, to an end we cannot foresee. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove

195:Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?" We didn't spend it; it was done for political reasons. ... Apollo was a response to the Bay of Pigs fiasco and to the successful orbital flight of Yuri Gagarin. President Kennedy's objective was not to find out the origin of the moon by the end of the decade; rather it was to put a man on the moon and bring him back, and we did that. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove

196:... fiction is made out of the writer's experience, his whole life from infancy on, everything he's thought and done and seen and read and dreamed. But experience isn't something you go and get - it's a gift, and the only prerequisite for receiving it is that you be open to it. A closed soul can have the most immense adventures, go through a civil war or a trip to the moon, and have nothing to show for all that "experience"; whereas the open soul can do wonders with nothing. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove

197:Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, By streams that never find the sea; Over snow by winter sown, And through the merry flowers of June, Over grass and over stone, And under mountains of the moon. Roads go ever ever on Under cloud and under star, Yet feet that wandering have gone Turn at last to home afar. Eyes that fire and sword have seen And horror in the halls of stone Look at last on meadows green And trees and hills they long have known ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove

198:The whole game is undone, this nightmare of evolution, and you are exactly where you were prior to the beginning of the whole show. With a sudden shock of the utterly obvious, you recognize your own Original Face, the face you had prior to the Big Bang, the face of utter Emptiness that smiles as all creation and sings as the entire Kosmos—and it is all undone in that primal glance, and all that is left is the smile, and the reflection of the moon on a quiet pond, late on a crystal clear night. ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove

199:If to enjoy even an enjoyable present we must have the assurance of a happy future, we are “crying for the moon.” We have no such assurance. The best predictions are still matters of probability rather than certainty, and to the best of our knowledge every one of us is going to suffer and die. If, then, we cannot live happily without an assured future, we are certainly not adapted to living in a finite world where, despite the best plans, accidents will happen, and where death comes at the end. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove

200:The Sword of Elendil was forged anew by Elvish smiths, and on its blade was traced a device of seven stars set between the crescent Moon and rayed Sun, and about them was written many runes; for Aragorn son of Arathorn was going to war upon the marches of Mordor. Very bright was that sword when it was made whole again; the light of the sun shone redly in it, and the light of the moon shone cold, its edge was hard and keen. And Aragorn gave it a new name and called it And√∫ril, Flame of the West. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove

201:Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it. We can change our life, our being; no matter what our will is, we are changed. As the moon changes yet is one, so we are virgin, wife, mother, grandmother. For all their restlessness, men are who they are; once they put on the man's toga they will not change again; so they make a virtue of that rigidity and resist whatever might soften it and set them free. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove

202:But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of the grated window, as through the narrow crevice of one good deed in a murky life of guilt, the face of Heaven shone bright and merciful. He raised his head; gazed upward at the quiet sky, which seemed to smile upon the earth in sadness, as if the night, more thoughtful than the day, looked down in sorrow on the sufferings and evil deeds of men; and felt its peace sink deep into his heart. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove

203:The sweetness of dogs (fifteen) What do you say, Percy? I am thinking of sitting out on the sand to watch the moon rise. Full tonight. So we go and the moon rises, so beautiful it makes me shudder, makes me think about time and space, makes me take measure of myself: one iota pondering heaven. Thus we sit, I thinking how grateful I am for the moon’s perfect beauty and also, oh! How rich it is to love the world. Percy, meanwhile, leans against me and gazes up into my face. As though I were his perfect moon. ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove

204:Day was breaking at Plashwater Weir Mill Lock. Stars were yet visible, but there was dull light in the east that was not the light of night. The moon had gone down, and a mist crept along the banks of the river, seen through which the trees were the ghosts of trees, and the water was the ghost of water. This earth looked spectral, and so did the pale stars: while the cold eastern glare, expressionless as to heat or colour, with the eye of the firmament quenched, might have been likened to the stare of the dead. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove

205:The Moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in the night sky, and what she actually communicates to me across space I shall never fully know. But the Moon that pulls the tides, and the Moon that controls the menstrual periods of women, and the Moon that touches the lunatics, she is not the mere dead lump of the astronomist. . . . When we describe the Moon as dead, we are describing the deadness in ourselves. When we find space so hideously void, we are describing our own unbearable emptiness. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove

206:When you are a young person, you are like a young creek, and you meet many rocks, many obstacles and difficulties on your way. You hurry to get past these obstacles and get to the ocean. But as the creek moves down through the fields, it becomes larges and calmer and it can enjoy the reflection of the sky. It's wonderful. You will arrive at the sea anyway so enjoy the journey. Enjoy the sunshine, the sunset, the moon, the birds, the trees, and the many beauties along the way. Taste every moment of your daily life. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove

207:Wouldn't it be wonderful if we had a world where everybody said, &

208:Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women? The sun, the moon, and the stars have been worshiped. Shall we then pluck them out of the sky? ... see how much he [God] has been able to accomplish through me, though I did no more than pray and preach. The Word did it all. Had I wished I might have started a conflagration at Worms. But while I sat still and drank beer with Philip and Amsdorf, God dealt the papacy a mighty blow. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove

209:Taking her hand he led her out into a broad stretch of hard sandy soil that the moon flooded with great splendor. They floated out like drifting moths under the rich hazy light, and as the fantastic symphony wept and exulted and wavered and despaired, Ardita's last sense of reality dropped away, and she abandonded her imagination to the dreamy summer scents of tropial flowers and the infinite starry spaces overhead, feeling that if she opened her eyes it would be to find herself dancing with a ghost in a land created by her own fantasy. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove

210:I was too tired to think. I merely felt the town as a unique unreality. What was it? I knew - the moon's picture of a town. These streets with their houses did not exist, they were but a ludicrous projection of the moon's sumptuous personality. This was a city of Pretend, created by the hypnotism of moonnight. - Yet when I examined the moon she too seemed but a painting of a moon and the sky in which she lived a fragile echo of color. If I blew hard the whole shy mechanism would collapse gently with a neat soundless crash. I must not, or lose all. ~ e-e-cummings, @wisdomtrove

211:There was just one moon. That familiar, yellow, solitary moon. The same moon that silently floated over fields of pampas grass, the moon that rose&

212:As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of Atheism — a sort of religious denial of God. It professes to believe in a man rather than in God. It is a compound made up chiefly of Manism with but little Deism, and is as near to Atheism as twilight is to darkness. It introduces between man and his Maker an opaque body, which it calls a Redeemer, as the moon introduces her opaque self between the earth and the sun, and it produces by this means a religious, or an irreligious, eclipse of light. It has put the whole orbit of reason into shade. ~ thomas-paine, @wisdomtrove

213:Mindfulness makes our eyes, our heart, our non-toothache, the moon, and the trees deep and beautiful. And when we touch our suffering with mindfulness, we begin to transform it.  Mindfulness is like a mother holding her baby in her arms and caring for her baby’s pain.  When our pain is held by mindfulness it loses some of its strength. . . . Mindfulness recognizes what is there, and concentration allows you to be deeply present with whatever it is.  Concentration is the ground of happiness.  If you live twenty-four hours a day in mindfulness and concentration, one day is a lot. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove

214:If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay, said Gatsby. "You always have a green light that burns at the end of your dock." Daisy put her arm through his abruptly but he seemed absorbed in what he had just said. Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to him, almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted things had diminished by one. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove

*** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***

1:The Hare in the Moon ~ Ruskin Bond,

2:The moon sheds a tear. ~ Kyra Davis,

3:The moon has become a dancer ~ Rumi,

4:The moon shines for you. ~ Lisa Loeb,

5:Only the moon was familiar ~ Lois Lowry,

6:over the moon’s. Jupiter lifts a ~ Rumi,

7:The moon made me do it. ~ Cecelia Ahern,

8:I thought you hung the moon. ~ John Green,

9:Tonight the moon kisses the stars. ~ Rumi,

10:You outshine the moon, ~ Maggie Stiefvater,

11:A rock against the moon sits big ~ Seisensui,

12:I'd like to go to the Moon. ~ Jeanne Calment,

13:Her smile put the moon to shame. ~ Dan Rhodes,

14:I'm proud of "Shoot the Moon." ~ Diane Keaton,

15:See the moon? It hates us. ~ Donald Barthelme,

16:The moon is a loyal companion. ~ Tahereh Mafi,

17:We ran as if to meet the moon. ~ Robert Frost,

18:Why doesn’t the Moon fall down? ~ Max Tegmark,

19:Papa, please get the moon for me. ~ Eric Carle,

20:The moon in her chariot of pearl ~ Oscar Wilde,

21:I love you to the moon and back ~ Sam McBratney,

22:The moon set. The sun rose. ~ Madeleine L Engle,

23:the sun is within me and so is the moon ~ Kabir,

24:more perfect than the moon ~ Patricia MacLachlan,

25:The moon is a loyal companion. It ~ Tahereh Mafi,

26:The sun is within me and so is the moon. ~ Kabir,

27:I haven't shaken my fists at the moon. ~ Ian Dury,

28:I look like the man in the moon. ~ Martin Freeman,

29:i love, like the moon loves the earth ~ Nick Lake,

30:It drew him as the moon draws water. ~ Harper Lee,

31:The sun is within me, and so is the moon. ~ Kabir,

32:Under your skin the moon is alive. ~ Pablo Neruda,

33:We must strive to be like the moon ~ Ishmael Beah,

34:What made the beauty of the moon? ~ Anis Mojgani,

35:As shines the moon amid the lesser fires. ~ Horace,

36:Go take a flying fuck at the moon. ~ Kurt Vonnegut,

37:Go to the moon, that's my dream. ~ Steve Jurvetson,

38:The moon is made of a green cheese. ~ John Heywood,

39:It could reach up and grab the moon. ~ Ray Bradbury,

40:slim and curving sickle of the moon ~ Cameron Dokey,

41:Slowly, silently, now the moon ~ Walter de La Mare,

42:The Moon for all her light and grace ~ Robert Frost,

43:They danced by the light of the moon. ~ Edward Lear,

44:What is the moon if not a magician ~ Sabrina Benaim,

45:White in the moon the long road lies. ~ A E Housman,

46:You are the sun and the moon to me. ~ Kathleen Duey,

47:After a lustre of the moon, we say ~ Wallace Stevens,

48:East of the sun and west of the moon. ~ Edith Pattou,

49:The moon has nothing to be sad about, ~ Sylvia Plath,

50:The moon shows the truth of things. ~ Joseph Delaney,

51:The moon was as thin as a nail clipping ~ Jess Ryder,

52:I love you girl...to the moon and back. ~ Abbi Glines,

53:Mad as the moon when Merlin falls. ~ Robin Williamson,

54:One step at a time, a man walked on the moon. ~ Q Tip,

55:The moon is bleached as white as wool, ~ Jean Ingelow,

56:You and me … like the moon and the stars ~ Ella Fields,

57:I'm sorry. I was just talking to the moon. ~ Ruth Ozeki,

58:You and me … like the moon and the stars. ~ Ella Fields,

59:I like being The moon To your sun ~ Nikki Giovanni,

60:Religion is pointing toward the moon ~ Joan D Chittister,

61:The clouds are scudding across the moon, ~ Bayard Taylor,

62:The moon was sewn into the sky that night ~ Markus Zusak,

63:I could see Armstrong bouncing on the moon ~ Alexey Leonov,

64:The moon is brighter since the barn burned. ~ Matsuo Basho,

65:What's the orbital velocity of the moon? ~ Terry Pratchett,

66:A finger pointing to the moon is not the moon. ~ Ole Nydahl,

67:I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed. ~ Charles Baudelaire,

68:I want to be the first black man on the moon ~ Muhammad Ali,

69:The moon had the old moon in her arms. ~ Dorothy Wordsworth,

70:The moon twangs its silver strings; ~ George Elliott Clarke,

71:The sun provides the moon with its brightness. ~ Anaxagoras,

72:But you've never even been as far as the Moon. ~ Larry Niven,

73:I'd like to walk on the moon (and return). ~ Terry Pratchett,

74:Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake. ~ Rumi,

75:The moon was a fang in the lightning sky. ~ Alexander Maksik,

76:You should strike at the moon in the water. ~ Yagyu Munenori,

77:And my heart has flown to the moon without me. ~ Tahereh Mafi,

78:But the moon doesn’t say what it knows. ~ Catherine Ryan Hyde,

79:Do not mistake the pointing finger for the moon. ~ Wei Wu Wei,

80:the moon is just another kind of clock ~ Kelli Russell Agodon,

81:The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night. ~ Rumi,

82:The wind is the moon's imagination wandering. ~ Saul Williams,

83:Whenever the moon and stars are set, ~ Robert Louis Stevenson,

84:Where, indeed, does the moon not look well? ~ Charlotte Bront,

85:You gazed at the moon and fell in the gutter. ~ Thomas Fuller,

86:He dreamed of ghosts, and of the moon and stars. ~ Neil Gaiman,

87:I am going with him, if he climbs to the Moon. ~ J R R Tolkien,

88:If anyone understood loneliness, the moon would. ~ Delia Owens,

89:Shoot for the moon. If you miss, shoot again. ~ Jennifer Grant,

90:The moon, also, is merciless: she would drag me ~ Sylvia Plath,

91:the moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy ~ E E Cummings,

92:the moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy ~ e e cummings,

93:You were the sun, and I wasn't even the moon. ~ David Levithan,

94:And all the insects ceased in honor of the moon. ~ Jack Kerouac,

95:Holding up my purring cat to the moon. I sighed. ~ Jack Kerouac,

96:I do have a girl that sets the moon and stars. ~ Caroline Fyffe,

97:It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire. ~ Yann Martel,

98:Lie back, baby. I’m about to fly you to the moon. ~ Amy Andrews,

99:The moon is friend for the lonesome to talk to. ~ Carl Sandburg,

100:The moon shone like herrings in the water. ~ Dorothy Wordsworth,

101:The thief left it behind: the moon at my window. ~ Ry kan,

102:We went to the moon and discovered Earth. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson,

103:You will never make the Moon Card doubt herself. ~ Kresley Cole,

104:As true as steel, as plantage to the moon, ~ William Shakespeare,

105:Dresden was like the moon now, nothing but minerals. ~ Anonymous,

106:Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars. ~ Frank Sinatra,

107:In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf ~ Eric Carle,

108:rise said the moon and the new day came ~ Rupi Kaur,

109:I shoot for the moon but I'm too busy gazing the stars. ~ Eminem,

110:The finger pointing to the moon is not the moon. ~ Eckhart Tolle,

111:The moon is profound except when we land on it. ~ Rebecca Solnit,

112:The moon was sharp enough to draw blood from a stone ~ Tom Waits,

113:When water is still like a mirror it can behold the Moon. ~ Rumi,

114:Blaire, i love you girl. To the moon and back <3 ~ Abbi Glines,

115:Dense clouds have swallowed the moon and stars—the ~ Paula McLain,

116:I thought the only lonely place was on the moon. ~ Paul McCartney,

117:Let the dog bark; the moon shall beam on. ~ Mohammed Reza Pahlavi,

118:One day we will destroy the moon with indifference! ~ Joseph Fink,

119:The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to. ~ Carl Sandburg,

120:The moon is, in fact, a hole in the sky. Consider. ~ Mick Jackson,

121:The moon moved in so close she eavesdropped on us. ~ Marlon James,

122:What good is the Moon? You can't buy it or sell it. ~ Ivan Boesky,

123:A Faërie: Why the Man in the Moon came down too soon’, ~ Anonymous,

124:Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer! ~ Tennessee Williams,

125:He's going to twitch himself through the moon roof. ~ Abigail Roux,

126:If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down. ~ D H Lawrence,

127:Is that the moon? I have been told it's more fertile. ~ Gene Wolfe,

128:It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald,

129:Joost had two problems: the moon and his mustache. ~ Leigh Bardugo,

130:Nobody quite knew what to make of the moon any more. ~ Tom Robbins,

131:Papa what is the moon supposed to advertise? ~ Carl Sandburg,

132:The moon is waxing. December moon. Cold Moon. ~ Alexandra Sokoloff,

133:Therefore the moon, the governess of floods, ~ William Shakespeare,

134:All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch. ~ Matsuo Basho,

135:Drink in the moon as though you might die of thirst. ~ Sanober Khan,

136:He was drawn to her like the tides were to the moon. ~ Dani Pettrey,

137:I wished on the moon, for something I never knew. ~ Michelle Dalton,

138:I wonder where you wander when you look into the moon ~ R H Sin,

139:The moon glows on the river, wind rustles the pines. ~ Ueda Akinari,

140:You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars. ~ Gary Allan,

141:Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star. ~ W Clement Stone,

142:If anyone would understand loneliness, the moon would. ~ Delia Owens,

143:If there are poor on the moon, we will go there too. ~ Mother Teresa,

144:I would still like to go to the moon before I die. ~ Richard E Grant,

145:She takes your voice and leaves you howling at the moon. ~ Bob Dylan,

146:The moon had been lighted and was hung in a treetop. ~ Stephen Crane,

147:The moon that rose over New Orleans then still rises. As ~ Anne Rice,

148:We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new. ~ Burt Rutan,

149:At six-fifteen the sun snuck up and mugged the moon. ~ Sister Souljah,

150:For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams ~ Edgar Allan Poe,

151:Glance at the sun. See the moon and the stars. ~ Hildegard of Bingen,

152:He is the sun and the moon and everything in between. ~ Colleen Oakes,

153:He's stuck at 3:14 a.m. with only the moon to talk to. ~ Miranda July,

154:I am so tired. Tired--but so so so wired to the moon. ~ Caitlin Moran,

155:Joost had two problems: the moon and his mustache. He ~ Leigh Bardugo,

156:Maybe the moon is beautiful only because it is far. ~ Mahmoud Darwish,

157:She was like the moon—part of her was always hidden away ~ Dia Reeves,

158:The Moon is a dead rock—eighty-one quintillion tons ~ Anthony O Neill,

159:There is something haunting in the light of the moon. ~ Joseph Conrad,

160:The sweet love between the moon and the deep blue sea. ~ Jimi Hendrix,

161:We all shine on in the moon and the stars and the sun. ~ Ben Sherwood,

162:For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams ~ Edgar Allan Poe,

163:I carry the Sun in a Golden Cup, the Moon in a Silver Bag. ~ W B Yeats,

164:If you shoot for the stars, you'll at least hit the moon ~ T Harv Eker,

165:I've looked at the moon, and I need to talk to someone. ~ Paulo Coelho,

166:Microsoft shoots for the moon. Sony shoots for the sun. ~ Ken Kutaragi,

167:She was like the moon-part of her was always hidden away. ~ Dia Reeves,

168:She was like the moon—part of her was always hidden away. ~ Dia Reeves,

169:The future was cloudy, but tonight the moon was bright. ~ Stephen King,

170:They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run. ~ Gaylord Perry,

171:But asking him to hug me was like asking for the moon. ~ Pepper Winters,

172:I lost my hat while gazing at the moon, and then I lost my mind. ~ Rumi,

173:Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine. ~ Gautama Buddha,

174:princess. You’d have brought her the moon. Her or me, did ~ Tana French,

175:She was like the moon--part of her was always hidden away. ~ Dia Reeves,

176:That is a question you have to ask the Old Man of the Moon. ~ Grace Lin,

177:They don't know that I'm already asking for the moon. ~ Suzanne Collins,

178:Tonight, the moon came out, it was nearly full. ~ Mary Chapin Carpenter,

179:You live by the light of the moon, and I live by desire. ~ Stevie Nicks,

180:benevolent throne set someplace high up on the moon. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert,

181:By death the moon was gathered in Long ago, ah long ago; ~ Julian Huxley,

182:During the days in detention, I thought most about the moon. ~ Ai Weiwei,

183:I'm still ready to go to the moon, if they'll take me. ~ Walter Cronkite,

184:I tell you sometimes the moon is too weak to be full. ~ Ijeoma Umebinyuo,

185:nothing in the universe loves like the moon loves the earth. ~ Nick Lake,

186:The moon and stars on her face give her a puckish look. ~ Liane Moriarty,

187:The moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven. ~ William Shakespeare,

188:your skin smells like light. i think you are the moon. ~ Nayyirah Waheed,

189:Although I am, figuratively speaking, a brother to the moon ~ Dean Koontz,

190:A restaurant on the moon could not have had less atmosphere. ~ Geoff Dyer,

191:Does the moon play only silver when it strums the galaxy? ~ Joni Mitchell,

192:Even the moon was embarrassed by the beauty of Barcelona. ~ Andrew Barger,

193:There is no dark side of the Moon. It's all dark, really. ~ Pink Floyd,

194:The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity. ~ D T Suzuki,

195:And "Immortality" mildews ... in the museums of the moon ~ Mina Loy,

196:Each night the Moon kisses secretly the Lover who counts the Stars. ~ Rumi,

197:He thought this must be what the moon must look like, if you ~ Ann Cleeves,

198:I’d fly to the moon and back to comfort you when you need it. ~ Skyla Madi,

199:It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was. ~ Patti Smith,

200:Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides. ~ Rita Mae Brown,

201:Lovely as the moon: not flawless, perhaps, but perfect. ~ Patrick Rothfuss,

202:Observe the jasmine lightness of the moon. ~ William Carlos Williams,

203:she reaches a pale arm up into the sky and polishes the moon ~ Jenni Fagan,

204:...their kiss was like a paper airplane landing on the moon. ~ Tom Robbins,

205:The light of the moon is all we've got to go on... ~ Mary Chapin Carpenter,

206:a girl as pale as the moon’s reflection in a rain barrel. ~ Jeff VanderMeer,

207:Anybody knows, you can conjure anything by the dark of the moon ~ Tori Amos,

208:A proverb: My barn having burned down, I can now see the moon. ~ Weike Wang,

209:Calligraphy of geese against the sky- the moon seals it. ~ Yosa Buson,

210:He was pointing at the moon, but I was looking at his hand. ~ Richard Siken,

211:I'll be looking at the moon, but I'll be seeing you. ~ Michael Ondaatje,

212:"Like the sun and the moon, meditate in brightness and clarity!" ~ Milarepa,

213:Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full. ~ Rumi,

214:The f inge r which point s a t the moon i sn' t the moon itself ~ Anonymous,

215:The moon invented natural rhythm. Civilization uninvented it. ~ Tom Robbins,

216:The moon is always holding the stars, you must do the same. ~ M F Moonzajer,

217:The moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

218:The moon may be small, but it's powerful enough to move oceans. ~ K K Allen,

219:The Moon Will Illuminate My Room And Soon Im Consumed By My Doom ~ Kid Cudi,

220:The Snow White the midnight the moon tales of the mechanics ~ Marissa Meyer,

221:The sun's down and the moon's pretty - it's time to ramble. ~ Elvis Presley,

222:without the stars, the moon is left alone to battle the dark. ~ Ella Fields,

223:I have the LIFE magazine of the men walking on the moon. ~ Christa McAuliffe,

224:I'm African American / I'm African / I'm black as the moon. ~ Kendrick Lamar,

225:It is like the keening sound the moon makes sometimes,/rising. ~ Robert Hass,

226:Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars. ~ Bette Davis,

227:Perhaps home, like the moon, will follow wherever she goes. ~ Chloe Benjamin,

228:Some are like the Moon, good looking, but only when they're away from you. ~,

229:The moon is at her crystal window / Spinning and weaving... ~ Hilda Conkling,

230:There are cries in the dark at night As owls answer the moon ~ R S Thomas,

231:Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing. ~ Matsuo Basho,

232:You have made the moon," The Jester said. "That is the moon. ~ James Thurber,

233:Your window square a yellow kite, and the Moon a white balloon ~ John Geddes,

234:Always aim for the moon. If you miss you'll land among the stars. ~ Anonymous,

235:Clouds are like boogers hanging on the nostrils of the moon. ~ Robin Williams,

236:Each night the moon kisses secretly the lover who counts the stars ~ Rumi,

237:Going to the moon is not a matter of physics but of economics. ~ John R Platt,

238:However long the moon disappears, someday it must shine again. ~ Chris Cleave,

239:If we can send a man to the moon, then why don't we send a woman? ~ Kylie Bax,

240:If you wait to dance on the moon, you may never dance at all. ~ Nadia Hashimi,

241:I'm offering a special prize for the first Buick on the moon. ~ George Carlin,

242:I'm quite disappointed that I'm still the last man on the moon. ~ Gene Cernan,

243:Shoot for the moon even if you miss, You'll land among the stars. ~ Les Brown,

244:The moon was just starting to rise above the Tetons, shining ~ RaeAnne Thayne,

245:The night I was born, Lord I swear the moon turned a fire red. ~ Jimi Hendrix,

246:BRICK [to the moon]: I envy you--you cool son of a bitch. ~ Tennessee Williams,

247:pleasure pain are equal in a clear heart no mountain hides the moon ~ Ikkyu,

248:Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. ~ Les Brown,

249:THE MOON BLEW UP WITHOUT WARNING AND FOR NO APPARENT reason. ~ Neal Stephenson,

250:The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible. ~ Roberto Bolano,

251:the sun loved the moon so much he died every night to let her breathe". ~ Rumi,

252:we’d end up with a mole planet slightly larger than the Moon. ~ Randall Munroe,

253:When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk ~ Chinua Achebe,

254:Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun. ~ John Lennon,

255:Bach is how buildings got taller. It's how we got to the moon. ~ Charles Mingus,

256:Free your heart. Travel like the moon among the stars. —BUDDHA ~ Jack Kornfield,

257:I'll leave you fulla clips like the moon blockin' the sun. ~ Immortal Technique,

258:The moon is full, and even the stars are scared of me. ~ Brenna Yovanoff,

259:It's the moon that makes it so still, weaving some mystery. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky,

260:i was the ocean you wanted rivers i was the moon you chased the stars ~ R H Sin,

261:Not all of night is dark. There’s the moon, the stars.” “Just ~ Jessica Hawkins,

262:There's no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon. ~ Tom Robbins,

263:When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk. ~ Chinua Achebe,

264:Aristarchos simply divided it by 3.7 and got the size of the Moon! ~ Max Tegmark,

265:He looked at me like I was the moon. Pale and lonely and so far away. ~ L J Shen,

266:He looked out at the dark of night seeking rumors of the moon. ~ Chet Williamson,

267:He wrote a novel, The Moon Is Down, for a precursor to the CIA, ~ John Steinbeck,

268:Is the Moon made out of green cheese? No, it's American cheese. ~ William Anders,

269:It's the moon that makes it so still, weaving some mystery. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky,

270:POETRY: A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog. ~ Carl Sandburg,

271:Shoot for the moon and even if you miss you'll land among the stars. ~ Les Brown,

272:There'll be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run. ~ Alvin Dark,

273:When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger. ~ Confucius,

274:You'll shoot the moon... put out the sun... when you love someone. ~ Bryan Adams,

275:Einstein wondered if the moon would exist if we didn’t look at it. ~ Jenny Offill,

276:Even Wittgenstein did not think that we would ever reach the moon. ~ Iris Murdoch,

277:Hand in hand with the boy who gave me the moon and the stars. ~ Stephanie Perkins,

278:How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers ~ Matsuo Basho,

279:I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman. ~ William Shakespeare,

280:Shoot for the moon, even if you fail, you'll land among the stars ~ Cecelia Ahern,

281:telling me there’s no difference between the moon and the Earth? ~ Bertolt Brecht,

282:Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. ~ Confucius,

283:With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy? ~ Oscar Wilde,

284:Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there's footprints on the moon. ~ Anonymous,

285:Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars. ~ Les Brown,

286:The moon and the stars are soothing constants in an idler’s life. ~ Tom Hodgkinson,

287:The moon charm has an inscription: Yours from dark to light. ~ Sarah Addison Allen,

288:The moon made horns, the sky was gnarly. The cults were skittish. ~ China Mi ville,

289:The moon touched my shoulder and I longed for a vanished love ~ Agha Shahid Ali,

290:We went to the Moon as technicians; we returned as humanitarians. ~ Edgar Mitchell,

291:Because without the stars, the moon is left alone to battle the dark. ~ Ella Fields,

292:but I figure if I shoot for the stars, I might just land on the moon. ~ Aileen Erin,

293:"Do not mistake the finger pointing at the moon for the moon itself." ~ Zen proverb,

294:Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon ~ Anonymous,

295:Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon. ~ G K Chesterton,

296:I like to think the moon is there even if I am not looking at it. ~ Albert Einstein,

297:In May 2014, the Moon had faster broadband than most of rural Britain. ~ John Lloyd,

298:It would take a human nine years to walk from the Earth to the moon. ~ Warren Ellis,

299:Life is like the moon— now dark, now full.   —Polish Proverb ~ James Conroyd Martin,

300:The moon does not simply disappear when we are not looking at it. ~ Albert Einstein,

301:The moon hung over the desert of Klatch like a huge ball of rock. ~ Terry Pratchett,

302:The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing. ~ John Fowles,

303:The moon upon the ocean is swept around in motion, but without ever knowing. ~ Enya,

304:"Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." ~ Confucius,

305:We've gone from looking up at the moon to looking down at Instagram. ~ Bill Whittle,

306:Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn't I? ~ Neil Armstrong,

307:Do you really believe that the moon isn’t there when nobody looks? ~ Albert Einstein,

308:How very wonderful friends the moon, the sea and the night are! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,

309:If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon. ~ Ellen Glasgow,

310:If we can send one man to the moon, why can't we send them all there? ~ Cynthia Hand,

311:Poverty's child - he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon. ~ Matsuo Basho,

312:Science flies men to the moon, religion flies men into buildings. ~ Victor J Stenger,

313:Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings. ~ Victor J Stenger,

314:the hole left by the moon’s tearing-free and monument to her exile; ~ Thomas Pynchon,

315:There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ~ George Carlin,

316:The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future. ~ Paul Auster,

317:"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." ~ The Buddha,

318:We’re on the moon,” Sadie murmured. “El Paso, Texas,” Bast corrected. ~ Rick Riordan,

319:When finger point at moon, don't look at finger or you'll miss the moon. ~ Bruce Lee,

320:When you woke up, for a moment you thought you were the moon. ~ Amy Krouse Rosenthal,

321:I will build you a castle with a tower so high it reaches the moon. ~ Smokey Robinson,

322:Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future. ~ Uta Hagen,

323:So how come it looks so beautiful? How come the moon falls from the sky? ~ Thom Yorke,

324:the moon is like a floating silver hell a song of adolescent ivory. ~ E E Cummings,

325:There is no dark side in the moon, really. Matter of facr it's all dark. ~ Pink Floyd,

326:The sun loved the moon so much, He died every night just to let her breath. ~ Unknown,

327:Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. ~ Tarryn Fisher,

328:Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth. ~ Gautama Buddha,

329:Don’t Tell Me the Sky’s the Limit When There Are Footprints on the Moon ~ Harlan Coben,

330:everything under the sun is in tune but the sun is eclipsed by the moon ~ Roger Waters,

331:God walking on the earth is more important than man walking on the moon. ~ James Irwin,

332:Her naked ass as she climbed was as perfect and inviting as the moon. ~ Pepper Winters,

333:I do not wish to hear about the moon from someone who has not been there. ~ Mark Twain,

334:in skies of deepening blue the moon, heaven's queen was now afloat ~ Colm T ib n,

335:Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves. ~ Karl Kraus,

336:The Sun loved the Moon so much he died every night just to let her breath. ~ Anonymous,

337:We know less about the ocean's bottom than about the moon's back side. ~ Roger Revelle,

338:Always reach for the moon cuz if u slip up u will still be a star!! #Jeah ~ Ryan Lochte,

339:And be over-the-moon grateful that everything is working out for your good. ~ Pam Grout,

340:Be humble because until the sun with all its grandeur, let the moon shine. ~ Bob Marley,

341:I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me. ~ Harry S Truman,

342:I know it's not very masculine to say the moon is beautiful...but it is! ~ Darren Hayes,

343:Oh Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars. - Now, Voyager ~ Bette Davis,

344:Shoot for the moon, even if you miss you will still land amongst the stars. ~ Anonymous,

345:The moon is a cadaver and a dusty mummy and a damned rotten investment. ~ Carl Sandburg,

346:Three things cannot be long hidden. The sun, the moon, and the truth. ~ Janet Evanovich,

347:We’re on the moon,” Sadie murmured. “El Paso, Texas,” Bast corrected. ~ Rick Riordan,

348:Ah, pray no mistake, We are not shy; We're very wide awake The Moon and I. ~ W S Gilbert,

349:Fair as the moon and cold as ice. Cara. He held her until he slept. ~ Alexandra Sokoloff,

350:He was the heat of a fire and the sweetness of the moon I'd only just met. ~ Ann Aguirre,

351:I am a finger pointing to the moon. Don't look at me; look at the moon. ~ Gautama Buddha,

352:I’m not scared. You and me … like the moon and the stars, we’re permanent. ~ Ella Fields,

353:It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon. ~ Galileo Galilei,

354:i was the ocean you wanted rivers i was the moon you chased the stars ~ R H Sin,

355:I watched the moon alone, unable to share his cold beauty with anyone. ~ Haruki Murakami,

356:Tabari Lee Crook says don't say Skye the limit when there are foot prints on the moon. ~,

357:That although I love Nick, on most days I don't think he lassoed the moon ~ Emily Giffin,

358:There are men who reach the moon when most of us can not peel off the ground ~ Bob Dylan,

359:Though it be broken- broken again - still it's there; the moon on the water.    ~ Choshu,

360:We are the naked monkey that went to the moon. People seem to forget that. ~ Jason Silva,

361:What a guy, what a fool am I, to think my breaking heart could kid the moon ~ Chet Baker,

362:Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me light glinting on broken glass. ~ Henrik Ibsen,

363:Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton,

364:If you asked me to fly to the moon and bring it back to you, I'd find a way ~ Abbi Glines,

365:Living in Manchester was like living on the moon... wherever that might be ~ Johnny Giles,

366:My gravest secret is that I really did fake the moon landing. On Venus! ~ Richard M Nixon,

367:Overhead the moon guided him, his fair mistress, his unattainable lover. ~ Elizabeth Hoyt,

368:Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. ~ Norman Vincent Peale,

369:Shoot for the moon, the worst that could happen is you land amongst the stars ~ Les Brown,

370:The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone. ~ Sappho,

371:the moon was sewn into the sky that night. Clouds were stitched around it. ~ Markus Zusak,

372:There is no dark side of the moon really. As a matter of fact it's all dark. ~ Pink Floyd,

373:There was a brief, piercing scream as the moon began to set over HAWAll. ~ Conor Lastowka,

374:The sun had folded itself away and the moon was in no hurry to replace it. ~ Tahereh Mafi,

375:The Sun represents the right half of the body and the Moon the left half. ~ Harry Houdini,

376:the ten thousand things are all reflections the moon originally has no light ~ Hanshan,

377:We'll go into orbit. We'll go to the Moon. This business has no limits. ~ Richard Branson,

378:By the year 2000, I want to be the first Latin musician to play on the moon. ~ Tito Puente,

379:Driving, Lambright thought the moon looked like a fingerprint of chalk. ~ Elizabeth Strout,

380:East of the sun, west of the moon," said Morozko. "Beyond the next tree. ~ Katherine Arden,

381:If I could light my own farts I could fly to the moon or at least Uranus. ~ Robin Williams,

382:I remember; I was 15 years old when Neil Armstrong put feet in the moon. ~ Umberto Guidoni,

383:No matter where you are in the world the moon is never bigger than your thumb. ~ John Dear,

384:On the Earth, you admire the Moon; on the Moon, you admire the Earth! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,

385:Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead. ~ Neil Armstrong,

386:the fortune of us that are the moon’s men doth ebb and flow like the ~ William Shakespeare,

387:The moon is a trick of light suggested to us by the seas, the house thought. ~ Joseph Fink,

388:The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon. ~ Jean Ingelow,

389:The moon's reflection bored into the flat water like a hole into the sea... ~ Annie Proulx,

390:The place was a familiar as breath but as far from his life now as the moon. ~ Kim Edwards,

391:There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact, it’s all dark. ~ Michael Chabon,

392:Two things can take you to the Moon: A space shuttle or a sweet love! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,

393:We've got to reinvest in space travel. We should have never left the moon. ~ Ray Bradbury,

394:A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon. ~ Benjamin Franklin,

395:If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today ~ John Sculley,

396:I know the ugly faces the moon makes when it thinks no one is watching. ~ Caitl n R Kiernan,

397:I love you more than there are fishes in the sea and higher than the moon ~ Nicholas Sparks,

398:I love you more than there are stars in the sky and higher than the moon. ~ Nicholas Sparks,

399:It is time to turn on the moon. It is time to live by a different light. ~ Nancy Willard,

400:Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

401:The moon looks upon many night- flowers, the night flower sees but one moon. ~ Thomas Moore,

402:The moon was little thicker than a crescent, the light a glitter of blue. ~ Katherine Arden,

403:We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck. ~ M T Anderson,

404:When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger. ~ Anthony de Mello,

405:A country that can put men on the moon can put women in the constitution. ~ Margaret Heckler,

406:He didn't give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity. ~ Jenny Han,

407:How,” the moon whispered, “can you be sure it is lost? Until you try to find it? ~ Ken Kesey,

408:In sleep, my sister and I found a common breath. In dreams, we knew the moon. ~ Lori Lansens,

409:Man will never reach the Moon, regardless of all future scientific advances. ~ Lee De Forest,

410:Shoot for the moon, because even if you miss you miss, you'll land in the stars. ~ Les Brown,

411:sky. Every few moments the moon ripped through them, creating wraithlike ~ Madeleine L Engle,

412:That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley,

413:The future was cloudy, but tonight the moon was bright. All was as it should be. ~ Anonymous,

414:The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens. ~ Anaxagoras,

415:After orbiting the moon, mundane business problems did not faze him. ~ William N Thorndike Jr,

416:As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin. ~ Pablo Neruda,

417:Dance when the moon sings, and don't cry about troubles that haven't yet come ~ Ilona Andrews,

418:In autumn even though I may see it again, how can I sleep with the moon this evening? ~ Dogen,

419:insomnia has this romantic way of making the moon feel like perfect company. ~ Sabrina Benaim,

420:just remember, ‘Three things cannot be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. ~ C L Bevill,

421:Nobody can take those footsteps I made on the surface of the moon away from me. ~ Gene Cernan,

422:There are no flowers in the Moon; that’s why the Moon is a boring place! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,

423:Why has nobody ever told him that the man in the moon is shouting in alarm? He ~ Lauren Groff,

424:You were the moon of my existence; your moods dictated the tides of my heart. ~ Sherry Thomas,

425:But as poet Mizuta Masahide wrote, “Barn’s burnt down / now / I can see the moon. ~ Bren Brown,

426:Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ~ Anton Chekhov,

427:I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright. ~ Tim Burton,

428:I feel panicky, like things are growing distant: the sun, the moon, my dreams. ~ Carolyn Crane,

429:I had had an affair with the moon, in which there was neither sin nor shame. ~ Laurence Sterne,

430:Let us be Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon ~ William Shakespeare,

431:May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks. ~ J R R Tolkien,

432:No matter how pale and pure and perfect you are, the moon is even more perfect. ~ T Kingfisher,

433:Realization is a pendulum the size of the moon. It won't stop slamming into me. ~ Tahereh Mafi,

434:The moon has set And the Pleiades. Midnight. I lie in bed alone. ~ Sappho,

435:The moon is a loyal companion...The moon understands what it means to be human. ~ Tahereh Mafi,

436:The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun. ~ William Shakespeare,

437:there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption. ~ C J Sansom,

438:To the moon and back, Marley Jane.” “From the stars to the ocean, Cameron Michael. ~ T K Leigh,

439:When I say drop your pants and show me the moon, I'm not just whistling Dixie! ~ George W Bush,

440:You can't land on the moon and say, "Ooh, it's all sticky! It's covered in jam! ~ Eddie Izzard,

441:And you are with us and one of us, and we are the people of the moon and the stars. ~ Anne Rice,

442:a state of mind so powerful that it can move mountains and land a man on the Moon ~ Steve Alten,

443:From the back of the fish to the moon every atom is a witness to his Being. ~ Attar of Nishapur,

444:He who, calm and clear as the moon, hankers no more for continuity-he is holy. ~ Gautama Buddha,

445:If they could offer up a way to go to the moon that wouldn't kill you, I'd sign up. ~ Tom Hanks,

446:Put your foot down, Fred!” yelled Ron, and the car shot suddenly toward the moon. ~ J K Rowling,

447:Someday, Sarah, someone will come along and give you the moon, and the stars too. ~ Betty Neels,

448:Dance when the moon sings, and don't cry about troubles that haven't yet come. ~ Patricia Briggs,

449:Ere the moon has climbed the mountain, ere the rocks are ribbed with light, ~ Rudyard Kipling,

450:Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being. ~ Rumi,

451:The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone. ~ Sappho,

452:There wasn't an asteroid big enough to punch. Not this time. Not even the moon. ~ Margaret Stohl,

453:The stars would be different, where he was going. But the moon would be the same. ~ Rachel Caine,

454:We should live every day like people who have just been rescued from the moon. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,

455:Don't tell me the moon is shining, show me the glint of light on broken glass. ~ Bernard Cornwell,

456:For you, dear Sophie, I would rope the moon itself and drag it to your window. ~ Sherry D Ficklin,

457:I always shoot for the moon in my work, so that I'm happy when I land on the roof. ~ Darren Criss,

458:I raise my glass to the moon and drink it myself. Life has never tasted sweeter. ~ Kami Garcia,

459:Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon? ~ Edward Abbey,

460:I will always love you, over the moon, under the sun and in and out of the stars. ~ Aleisha Maree,

461:Lennon is the moon: often dark and hidden, but closer than any star. Always there. ~ Jenn Bennett,

462:Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes! ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,

463:My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon. ~ Oscar Wilde,

464:No matter where you are in the world, the moon is never bigger than your thumb. ~ Nicholas Sparks,

465:The moon floated, a luminous waif through heaven ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Call to the Quest,

466:The moon is up, and yet it is not night, The sun as yet divides the day with her. ~ Lord Byron,

467:After the moon went down, the heaven was a thing to wonder at for stars.  ~ Robert Louis Stevenson,

468:Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ~ Anton Chekhov,

469:How far is the light of the moon from the moon? How far is the taste of candy from the lip? ~ Rumi,

470:I am a cemetery abhorred by the moon, In which long worms crawl like remorse. ~ Charles Baudelaire,

471:I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher,

472:I don't believe in the moon landing conspiracy theory. I don't believe in Big Foot. ~ Jerome Corsi,

473:If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it. ~ Laurie Anderson,

474:I will never be a morning person, for the moon and I are too much in love ~ Christopher Poindexter,

475:Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either. ~ Junot D az,

476:Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either. ~ Junot Diaz,

477:The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance. ~ Arthur Smith,

478:... there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption. ~ C J Sansom,

479:Three things cannot hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.” ― Gautama Buddha ~ Penny Reid,

480:Time, the moon, arguments, and, most of all, coins. All good things are circular. ~ Kiersten White,

481:We've been to the Moon nine times. Why would we fake it nine times, if we faked it? ~ Charles Duke,

482:All was a limitless sea that heaved to the moon. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,

483:A woman's face, naked and unadorned, is as beautiful as the moon, and as mysterious. ~ Cate Tiernan,

484:Be the moon in somebody's night. Be the yusr (ease), in somebody's usr (hardship). ~ Yasmin Mogahed,

485:For the moon though one, dispels the darkness, which the stars, though numerous, do not. ~ Chanakya,

486:Outside, the moon is a thin, luminous scrape and the stars throb weakly above the sea. ~ Liz Jensen,

487:So no, he didn't give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity. ~ Jenny Han,

488:So no, he didn’t give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity. ~ Jenny Han,

489:The army is always the same. The sun and the moon change. The army knows no seasons. ~ Frank Nugent,

490:The dark circle became a dot on the moon-flooded snow as Spitz disappeared from view. ~ Jack London,

491:the EDA decided to construct a secret defense base here on the far side of the moon, ~ Ernest Cline,

492:There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.” — George Carlin ~ G S Jennsen,

493:And at that moment, a lilting melody lifts to the moon as a single sparrow sings. ~ Lisa Ann Sandell,

494:And he wrote, "When the moon rises tonight think of me and I'll think of you. ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery,

495:And together we disappeared into the darkness swift and silent as shadows on the moon. ~ Zo Marriott,

496:As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin. ~ Pablo Neruda,

497:But all night, Aslan and the Moon gazed upon each other with joyful and unblinking eyes. ~ C S Lewis,

498:How difficult it is to speak of the moon and not lose one's head, the witless moon. ~ Samuel Beckett,

499:If the Aztecs saw Giza, they would have called Menkaure - the Pyramid of the Moon. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim,

500:It was a nearly starless sky. Black clouds hung heavy overhead, blocking out the moon. ~ Ally Carter,

501:Man has left footprints on the moon but still hasn't walked on the ocean floor. ~ Richard Paul Evans,

502:The moon, Earth, and stars aligned. God blew on the bullet, and I gut-shot the jackass. ~ Chris Kyle,

503:The moon is a good, solid base to build a space travel organization in the community. ~ Ray Bradbury,

504:There are three things that cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth. ~ Gautama Buddha,

505:when I glanced at the moon it seemed to quiver as though mirrored in unquiet waters. ~ H P Lovecraft,

506:And I return home always. Because love's call has always been stronger than the moon's. ~ Nikita Gill,

507:At night, the moon, a pregnant woman, walks cautiously over the slippery heavens. ~ Richard Aldington,

508:How can the moon be scooped from the water's surface, or flowers be plucked from the void? ~ Lisa See,

509:I looked for every loveliness. It all came true. I wished on the moon. . . for you. ~ Michelle Dalton,

510:Mary's light is like that of the moon, totally reflected from the sun, the Son of God. ~ Peter Kreeft,

511:More astronauts have been to the moon than farmers who paid the inheritance tax in 2013. ~ Bill Maher,

512:One should never start one's day without a complete spin of Dark Side of the Moon. ~ Sienna McQuillen,

513:The moon is my fear. The sun is my heart afire. The stars, my love songs. ~ Richelle E Goodrich,

514:The moon is set and the Pleiades; Middle of the night, time passes by, I lie alone. ~ Sappho,

515:The moon was up, painting the world silver, making things look just a little more alive. ~ N D Wilson,

516:The stars are not wanted now, put out every one Pack up the moon & dismantle the sun. ~ W H Auden,

517:We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck. ~ Matthew Tobin Anderson,

518:and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon. ~ Madeline Miller,

519:Don't worry if you are making waves by simply being yourself. The moon does it all the time. ~ Unknown,

520:Everything goes away, Jack Sawyer, like the moon. Everything comes back, like the moon. ~ Stephen King,

521:God put the moon in the sky to remind us that our darkest moments lead to our brightest. ~ Lynne Ewing,

522:Having sex in new locations can be exciting, like when Neil Armstrong fucked the moon. ~ Matt Fraction,

523:I assure you, my dear, were you to play the piano on the moon, I would hear every chord. ~ Amor Towles,

524:I live. I write. I watch old movies. I read. I watch the sunset. I watch the moon rise. ~ W P Kinsella,

525:I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere. ~ Clifford Geertz,

526:I would like to show the world today as an ant sees it and tomorrow as the moon sees it. ~ Hannah Hoch,

527:Love comes like storm clouds Fleeing from the wind, and casts Shadows on the moon. ~ Zo Marriott,

528:Our relationship wasn’t the sun, the moon, and the stars, but it wasn’t bullshit, either. ~ Junot D az,

529:Reach for the moon, because even if you don't get there, you will end up amongst the stars ~ R L Weeks,

530:The moon rose, an opalescent goddess tipping light from her harsh maternal scimitar. ~ Gregory Maguire,

531:When we have 13,000 Americans living on the moon, they can petition to become a state. ~ Newt Gingrich,

532:And no matter how eager you are for it, you cannot make the moon set nor rise any faster. ~ Holly Black,

533:Could it be that goodness waxes and wanes like the moon, and that only evil is constant? ~ Alan Bradley,

534:Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon. ~ Haruki Murakami,

535:Even when robbed he is still rich, for The thief Left it behind– The moon at the window. ~ Alan W Watts,

536:I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. Mary ~ Mary Anne Radmacher,

537:I love it when the dark bottle of night spills out, and the Moon writes in chalk about us ~ John Geddes,

538:In a country where you can get to the moon, God help you if you want to cross the street. ~ Yves Engler,

539:Key to all fiction, long or short, is to remember that the wolfman did not want the moon. ~ Ron Carlson,

540:Once in a thousand years the sea/ smothers the moon at my window/ opens a gate in my heart: ~ Jo Graham,

541:Their eyes were usually open, and they stared up at the moon that had killed them. ~ Susan Beth Pfeffer,

542:The Moon is essentially gray - no color - looks like plaster of paris - soft of gray sand. ~ Jim Lovell,

543:Thirty-five craters on the moon are named for Jesuit scientists and mathematicians. ~ Thomas E Woods Jr,

544:And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light. ~ Gustave Flaubert,

545:Go further than you planned. Ask for the moon: you will be surprised how often you get it ~ Paulo Coelho,

546:I am living on the moon, I told myself, I have little house all by myself on the moon. ~ Shirley Jackson,

547:I was a terrible Sugar Babies addict, so I had more cavities than the surface of the moon. ~ Rick Reilly,

548:Just like the moon, I'll step aside, and let your sun shine while I follow behind. ~ Natasha Bedingfield,

549:Leave that cycle at home. I like a truck bed to play around in under the moon and stars. ~ Carolyn Brown,

550:Of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are the most apt to get out of order. ~ Herman Melville,

551:Reach for the moon, because if you don't get there, you will still end up amongst the stars. ~ R L Weeks,

552:San Francisco is ours, we’ve signed our name on it a hundred times: SISTERS OF THE MOON. ~ Jennifer Egan,

553:The moon passes into clouds so hurt by the street lights of your glance oh my heart ~ Frank O Hara,

554:The night surrounds, breathes across her skin. They’re lost in the shadows of the moon. ~ Laura Kreitzer,

555:The stars are not wanted now, put out every one Pack up the moon & dismantle the sun. ~ W H Auden,

556:The stars could fall - the moon could crash from the heavens - and Mariko could not care. ~ Ren e Ahdieh,

557:To point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon. ~ D T Suzuki,

558:We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself. ~ Anais Nin,

559:We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself. ~ Ana s Nin,

560:What’s the earthly use of putting a man on the moon when we cannot live on the earth? ~ Anthony de Mello,

561:a field of cotton as if the moon   had flowered    ~ Matsuo Basho, a field of cotton ,

562:Eighteen thousand miles from the moon is some slide, but I'll get up there again some way! ~ Winsor McCay,

563:If space suits looked less like marshmallows, I'd be more interested in going to the moon. ~ Dov Davidoff,

564:Love was the sun and the moon and the stars in a world that was otherwise cold and dark. ~ Kristin Hannah,

565:Men are climbing to the moon, but they don’t seem interested in the beating human heart. ~ Marilyn Monroe,

566:One night I saw the moon, shining so big and round, and I tried to grab it out of the sky. ~ Michael Ende,

567:She’d wanted so much for me: the moon and more. But maybe, right now, the moon was enough. ~ Sarah Dessen,

568:That’s what makes it fun. It’s you and me and the moon and the sea.” “All right, Dr. Seuss. ~ Marie Force,

569:The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle that's curded by the frost from purest snow. ~ William Shakespeare,

570:The moon that rises within a woman doesn't follow the same calendar as the one in the sky. ~ Kim Dong Hwa,

571:The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back. ~ Dorothy Parker,

572:To see the moon that cannot be seen, turn your eyes inward & look at yourself,in silence... ~ Rumi,

573:Whatever you need, I will find a way to get it to you. I will give you the moon, and more. ~ Sarah Dessen,

574:1/r^2 has a nasty singularity at r=0, but it did not bother Newton-the Moon is far enough. ~ Edward Witten,

575:By the time she had finished unburdening herself, someone had turned off the moon ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez,

576:I am living on the moon, I told myself, I have a little house all by myself on the moon. ~ Shirley Jackson,

577:I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon. ~ Ezra Cornell,

578:I love it when the dark bottle of night spills out, and the Moon writes in chalk about us. ~ John J Geddes,

579:I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her. ~ Oscar Wilde,

580:It broke my heart when I learned the moon had been passing the sun’s light off as its own. ~ Joanna Newsom,

581:Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon. ~ Robert Duvall,

582:One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon. ~ Henry David Thoreau,

583:Sokka: "My first girlfriend turned into the moon." Zuko: "That's tough buddy. ~ Michael Dante DiMartino,

584:sometimes the night wakes in the middle of me. and i can do nothing but become the moon. ~ Nayyirah Waheed,

585:The essence of the moon, gathered by a virgin, added to the death of innocence. [Sylvian] ~ Karen Maitland,

586:The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary. ~ Alfred Kreymborg,

587:Tonight I'm going to shower and then just walk for about four hours and look at the moon. ~ Rafer Johnson,

588:For years politicians have promised the Moon. I'm the first one to be able to deliver it. ~ Richard M Nixon,

589:HOW IMO MADE THE WORLD, IN THE TIME WHEN THINGS WERE OTHERWISE AND THE MOON WAS DIFFERENT ~ Terry Pratchett,

590:I kissed bitten nails that shine, in hindsight, like quartz, spoils I pulled down from the moon. ~ R O Kwon,

591:Kids today learn a lot about getting to the moon, but very little about getting to heaven. ~ David Jeremiah,

592:Live and laugh like there is no tomorrow. Bark at the moon frequently, but never alone... ~ Jos N Harris,

593:On a night without the moon or stars you can’t see a thing, but you can imagine anything. ~ Chuck Palahniuk,

594:San Francisco is ours, we’ve signed our name on it a hundred times: SISTERS OF THE MOON. ~ Jennifer Egan,

595:The moon understands what it means to be human. Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections. ~ Tahereh Mafi,

596:The thief left it behind: the moon at my window. ~ Taigu Ryokan, The Thief Left It Behind ,

597:Tonight the man in the moon looks as though he’s winking, or smirking: a moon with secrets. ~ Lauren Oliver,

598:Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools? ~ B F Skinner,

599:Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote! ~ Susan B Anthony,

600:All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight. ~ Shannon L Alder,

601:Apes. The moon woke them-- round the world's navel revolved prayer wheels of steps. ~ Dag Hammarskj ld,

602:Before you measure the years, you measure the days. And before the days, you measure the moon. ~ Mitch Albom,

603:Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life. ~ Jean Paul,

604:If you love someone, you must love all of them. Even the dark parts—the craters of the moon. ~ Nicole Archer,

605:Maybe the wolf is in love with the moon, and each month it cries for a love it will never touch. ~ Anonymous,

606:My teaching is like a finger pointing to the moon. Do not mistake the finger for the moon. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,

607:...Neruda was right about all mysterious women - The moon lives in the lining of their skin... ~ John Geddes,

608:soon the moon will come from my lips and you will not remember your name. – oshún ~ Nayyirah Waheed,

609:When you feel homesick,’ he said, ‘just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go. ~ Donna Tartt,

610:You are guarded and full of light at the same time, like the moon before she undresses. ~ Pavana,

611:Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon. ~ Langston Hughes,

612:Did we really put a man on the moon? If you are looking for proof we didn’t, you can find it. ~ David McRaney,

613:Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. Then your love would also change. ~ William Shakespeare,

614:Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change. ~ William Shakespeare,

615:He’s the dark side of the moon. He’s my beautiful, terrible mystery. My friend. My soulmate. ~ Laura Thalassa,

616:In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. ~ Albert Schweitzer,

617:Life on the moon was basically long stretches of boredom punctuated by quick bursts of terror. ~ Stuart Gibbs,

618:Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite. ~ Elie Wiesel,

619:Maybe he was a good a good whitecoat—like Jeb. And maybe the moon was made of cream cheese. ~ James Patterson,

620:Not every one of us sees the beauty of the stars and innocence of the moon by looking at sky. ~ M F Moonzajer,

621:Oh, if the moon only had a secret, if the moon only held a truth. But the moon was just the moon. ~ Anne Rice,

622:One has to love unconditionally - the trees and the rocks and the sun and the moon and the people. ~ Rajneesh,

623:Things which are gone in the morning: sleep, darkness, grief, the moon. Women. Dreams. ~ Catherynne M Valente,

624:"Three things shine openly, not in secret. What three? The sun, the moon, and the Dharma." ~ Anguttura Nikaya,

625:Close the language door and open the lovers window. The moon won’t use the door, only the window. ~ Rumi,

626:For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon. ~ W B Yeats,

627:I believed that once we got to the Moon, there was no stopping us. But in fact, we did stop. ~ Peter Diamandis,

628:Next time you must stay for tea and we'll all sit together on a rock and sing a song to the moon ~ P L Travers,

629:O the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter / And on her daughter / They wash their feet in soda water. ~ T S Eliot,

630:Redheads are said to be children of the moon, thwarted by the sun and addicted to sex and sugar. ~ Tom Robbins,

631:Religions should be understood as only the fingers that point to the moon, not the moon itself. ~ Richard Rohr,

632:Tell me the story about how the sun loved the moon so much, he died every night to let her breath. ~ Anonymous,

633:The only darkness we should allow into our lives is the night, for even then, we have the moon. ~ Warsan Shire,

634:The sky is peppered with smudges of indigo and grey as the moon and sun occupy the same space. ~ Louise Jensen,

635:The village seemed very old, eaten away at the edge like the moon which had commenced to wane, ~ H P Lovecraft,

636:The wind howled in defiance as viscous clouds suffocated the moon, taking the night as their own. ~ J D Barker,

637:- What's in the water? - Flowers and the part of the moon that isn't in the sky tonight. ~ Patrick Rothfuss,

638:And pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon, the golden apples of the sun. ~ W B Yeats,

639:And when the fog's over and the stars and the moon come out at night it'll be a beautiful sight. ~ Jack Kerouac,

640:How in this world can we put a man on the moon, and still have a need for a place like St. Judes? ~ Clay Walker,

641:I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates. ~ Paul Gauguin,

642:In the '20s they were telling us wed all have our own private plane and take vacations to the moon. ~ Jay Chiat,

643:In the darkest crease of the night, I would love you until the moon lost its footing in the sky. ~ Jodi Picoult,

644:It’s short-sighted to think ads won’t one day end up wherever humans are - even the moon. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson,

645:It was here we turned the coffee cups upside down. And your eyes and the moon swept the valley. ~ Carl Sandburg,

646:I worship the moon. Tell me of the soft glow of a candle light and the sweetness of my moon. ~ Rumi,

647:So long as the cloud of ego hides the moon of jnana, the lily of the Self will not bloom. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi,

648:Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she's in sorrow. ~ Yoko Ono,

649:The Moon and Pleiades have set, / Midnight is nigh, / The time is passing, passing, yet / Alone I lie. ~ Sappho,

650:When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer. ~ Olivier Theyskens,

651:You may as well attempt to colonise the moon with white mice as publish a volume of poetry'. ~ Victoria Clayton,

652:And if you're ever feeling lonely just look at the moon. Someone, somewhere is looking right at it too ~ Unknown,

653:How do you expect to get us to the Moon if you people can't even hook us up with a ground station? ~ Gus Grissom,

654:I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway. ~ Mark Twain,

655:Low hangs the moon, it rose late,  It is lagging - O I think it is heavy with love, with love. ~ Walt Whitman,

656:My teaching is like a finger pointing to the moon. Do not mistake the finger for the moon.” In ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,

657:The bats stop flying above and the moon stands still. He commands the air and the sky and my body. ~ Eliza Freed,

658:The moon is swimming naked and the summer night is fragrant with a mighty expectation of relief. ~ Leonard Cohen,

659:There's a name for people with an interest in the moon," Alex said. "They're called lunatics. ~ Anthony Horowitz,

660:There’s a name for people with an interest in the moon,” Alex said. “They’re called lunatics. ~ Anthony Horowitz,

661:Tomorrow we may come this way, And take the hidden paths that run Towards the Moon or to the Sun ~ J R R Tolkien,

662:To think we’ve put a man on the moon… And we still can’t teach our kids right from wrong. ~ Panayotis Cacoyannis,

663:Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there. ~ Ron Paul,

664:When you see the earth from the moon, you don't see any divisions there of nations or states. ~ Joseph Campbell,

665:You yourself are even another little world and have within you the sun and the moon and also the stars. ~ Origen,

666:And we came to understand the cycle of creation, because our bodies repeat the rhythm of the moon. ~ Paulo Coelho,

667:Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered. ~ Marion Cotillard,

668:Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock. ~ Anaxagoras,

669:He is the sun, and I am the moon. We must stay apart or the world will be thrown out of balance. ~ Jessica Khoury,

670:Im obsessed with the moon and space travel, so if I could incorporate that, Id love to go to space. ~ Sam Heughan,

671:Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does. ~ Giovanni Boccaccio,

672:Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking. ~ Rumi,

673:Sun is the reason And the world it will bloom 'Cause sun lights the sky And the sun lights the moon ~ Cat Stevens,

674:The blowing mist, filled with the light of the moon, was seeking to swallow the lamps of the heavens. ~ Anne Rice,

675:The man who eventually reached the moon would be traveling in a vessel made of earthly materials. ~ Pierre Boulle,

676:The moon, like a flower in heaven's high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night. ~ William Blake,

677:There is nothing u can see that is not a flower;there is nothing u can think that is not the moon. ~ Matsuo Bashō,

678:until the moon had waxed fat and thinned, and again grown heavy with the child of night, ~ Rosemary Hawley Jarman,

679:Across the road, tadpoles are dancing on the quarter thumbnail of the moon. They cant see, not yet. ~ James Wright,

680:...Ah, but the Moon my Love is jealous, and can you blame him? You outshine him with your virtues... ~ John Geddes,

681:...and pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun. ~ W B Yeats,

682:Glance at the sun. See the moon and stars. Gaze at the beauty of the green earth. Now think. ~ Hildegard of Bingen,

683:He didn’t give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity -Belly Conklin- ~ Jenny Han,

684:He hurried out into the yard in time to see the moon lit red, like some new sun swung into orbit. ~ Benjamin Percy,

685:What matters it if the earth be red! the moon remains white; these are the indifferences of the sky. ~ Victor Hugo,

686:winter garden the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing. ~ Matsuo Basho, winter garden ,

687:You'll never have to beg me for anything, my love. If you ask me for the moon, I'll fetch it for you. ~ Maya Banks,

688:An infinite Resignedness Rains where the white Mists opalesce In the moon-shower... ~ Paul Verlaine,

689:For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon. ~ William Butler Yeats,

690:From time to time The clouds give rest To the moon beholders.. ~ Matsuo Basho, from time to time ,

691:Mars-sized object slammed into Earth, blowing out enough material to create the Moon from the debris. ~ Bill Bryson,

692:She shrugs."Men" "Men." "If we can send one man to the moon, why can't we send them all there? ~ Cynthia Hand,

693:Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God. ~ Leonard Ravenhill,

694:Tell me the story about how the sun loved the moon so much that he died every night to let her breathe. ~ Anonymous,

695:There was a man with the sun in the place of his head and a woman with the moon instead of a face. ~ Karen Maitland,

696:The sun stood still and the moon stopped, until the nation took vengeance on its enemies. Joshua 10:13 ~ Beth Moore,

697:When I found out I was pregnant, I was over the moon about it, but I was upset I wasn't married! ~ Jennifer Ellison,

698:Funny, one somehow imagines her snuffing quietly out now, the way the moon would if the sun vanished. ~ Mary Stewart,

699:I feel as though someone's handed me the moon... and I don't exactly know what to do with it. ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery,

700:I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,

701:Mystic grimoirs, walking corpses... I'm so far out of my wheelhouse that I might as well be on the moon. ~ Mark Waid,

702:Neil Armstrong today takes his place in the hall of heroes. The moon will miss its first son of earth. ~ Mitt Romney,

703:Now I know why I'm here. Not for a closer look at the moon, but to look back at our home, the Earth. ~ Alfred Worden,

704:[On bebop years] All I did was sing 'How High the Moon.' It seemed like the only song I ever sang. ~ Ella Fitzgerald,

705:On the moon we wore feathers in our hair, and rubies on our hands. On the moon we had gold spoons. ~ Shirley Jackson,

706:standing on Europa, discussing the possibility of extraterrestrial life beneath the moon’s icy crust. ~ Ernest Cline,

707:The moon bathed his naked figure in light as his fingers reached to touch the stars, his hair streaming. ~ Grace Lin,

708:The moon does not think to be reflected, nor does the water think to reflect, in the Hirosawa Pond. ~ Yamaoka Tesshu,

709:The moon’s a powerful mistress. She can reach through any wall or covering and work her wicked charms. ~ Darren Shan,

710:The un-people, the anti-tribe, humanity’s sack unpicked and sewn together again with the moon inside. ~ Clive Barker,

711:They were as sublime as the moon and stars above them, and the moon and stars were as ardent as they. ~ Thomas Hardy,

712:They were as sublime as the moon and stars above them, and the moon ans stars were as ardent as they. ~ Thomas Hardy,

713:This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it. ~ David Brinkley,

714:Time flies so fast because it does not have any guidance. Like the moon in its zenith or the horizon. ~ Albert Camus,

715:We all know we fall. Newton's discovery was that the moon falls, too-and by the same rule that we do. ~ Isaac Asimov,

716:We all shine on...like the moon and the stars and the sun...we all shine on...come on and on and on... ~ John Lennon,

717:We Indians are a strange race; we send MOM to Mars, but listen to mom-in-law and look for the moon. ~ Twinkle Khanna,

718:Your face more beautiful than the moon,stand across from me,until I see hundreds ofeternal worlds. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi,

719:because the moon has always been to him the lamp of wisdom, a symbol of the right way to see the world. ~ Dean Koontz,

720:Don't ask for the moon -- we have the stars!" Pardon my saying so, but fuck the fucking stars! ~ Marisa de los Santos,

721:Drink wine and look at the moon and think of all the civilisations the moon has seen passing by. ~ Omar Khayy m,

722:I am completely through the roof, over the moon, skyrocketing through space in love with my best friend. ~ Cassie Mae,

723:I didn't go to the moon, I went much further—for time is the longest distance between two places ~ Tennessee Williams,

724:I'm convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon. ~ Wernher von Braun,

725:I'm like that guy who single-handedly built the rocket and flew to the moon. What was his name? Apollo Creed? ~ Homer,

726:I'm shy in person - so afraid to confess my love - I need a go-between - our mutual friend, the Moon. ~ John J Geddes,

727:In the darkest crease of the night, that she would love me until the moon lost its footing in the sky. ~ Jodi Picoult,

728:Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. I am the first man to piss his pants on the moon. ~ Buzz Aldrin,

729:The best years of a man's life are after he is forty. A man at forty has ceased to hunt the moon. ~ George du Maurier,

730:There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~ Matsuo Bash,

731:Tradition of the Moon, which teaches through time and the things that are imprisoned in time’s memory. ~ Paulo Coelho,

732:your cell phone today has more computer power than all of NASA when it put two men on the moon in 1969. ~ Michio Kaku,

733:3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established; ~ Anonymous,

734:Child, the moon is very lovely tonight. I just saw a kangaroo. I guess the refugees hadn’t eaten them all. ~ Liu Cixin,

735:I am not the moon orbiting around your planet; I am the sun that will burn through your frozen mind. ~ Shannon L Alder,

736:Night was her time. The Keeper. Bond-mate of the cat. Protector of the night. Daughter of the moon. ~ Kelley Armstrong,

737:There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~ Matsuo Basho,

738:What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? ~ Thomas Merton,

739:Above me, the moon spun low across the sky and a few watery clouds hung from the stars like cobwebs. In ~ Cherie Priest,

740:As well to clutch at the moon’s reflection in a still midnight pond as to seek a grip on that bright mind. ~ Robin Hobb,

741:But even when the moon looks like it's waning...it's actually never changing shape. Don't ever forget that. ~ Ai Yazawa,

742:From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go. ~ Tom Hanks,

743:He was gravity. He was the moon, and I was the ocean, and together we couldn’t look away for a moment. ~ Pepper Winters,

744:I can't give you the moon,” the tinker said. “She doesn't belong to me. She belongs only to herself. ~ Patrick Rothfuss,

745:I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,

746:In New York, there are so many potholes, they're like craters on the moon. That's another traffic thing. ~ Jimmy Fallon,

747:I promise to be a splendid husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, won't in my sky every day... ~ Anton Chekhov,

748:Of course I want the moon. And were you to offer it, I'd propose as a trade the stars in my eyes. ~ Richelle E Goodrich,

749:The golden rays of the moon paid him absolute tribute. He was a buffet of muscles and corded strength. ~ Gena Showalter,

750:The more there is, the less I want. The more man flies to the moon, the more I want to look at a tree. ~ Audrey Hepburn,

751:Who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty people? ~ e e cummings,

752:You are the treasure custodian, cleaning the moon for me, scouring the sky so the stars would shine bright. ~ Lisa Loeb,

753:You don't have to promise me the moon or the stars, just promise me you will stand under them with me. ~ Danielle Paige,

754:And the greatest adventure is not going to the moon - the greatest adventure is going to your own innermost core. ~ Osho,

755:Because when I said I wanted to touch the moon you took my hand, held me close, and taught me how to fly. ~ Tahereh Mafi,

756:Ever since I saw the moon landing as a young teenager, I was determined I would go into space one day. ~ Richard Branson,

757:Forget about your scar,' he told her. 'It doesn't matter. The Moon has scars, but it's still beautiful. ~ Michelle Paver,

758:I am a king’s daughter, And if I cared to care, The moon that has no mistress Would flutter in my hair. ~ Peter S Beagle,

759:If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon. ~ Wernher von Braun,

760:I loved him the way the moon loves the stars—that is what we say, when a person fills the world with light. ~ V E Schwab,

761:...I'm shy in person - so afraid to confess my love - I need a go-between - our mutual friend, the Moon... ~ John Geddes,

762:...I'm the last person to ask about unrequited love - I've run away to the Moon and fled to its valleys... ~ John Geddes,

763:I would have more luck trying to steal the moon. At least I knew where to look for the moon at night. ~ Patrick Rothfuss,

764:Upon consideration of the central question of the moon's toughness there can be little doubt. It is hella tough. ~ Plato,

765:We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth. ~ William Anders,

766:And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun. ~ William Butler Yeats,

767:Blot out the moon, Pull down the stars. Love in the dark, for we're for the dark So soon, so soon. ~ Jean Rhys,

768:By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American. ~ Newt Gingrich,

769:"Close the language-door and open the love-window. The moon won't use the door, only the window" ~ Jalaluddin Rumi #quote,

770:Don’t mistake a lightbulb for the moon, and don’t believe that the moon is useless unless we land on it. ~ Rebecca Solnit,

771:It is the very error of the moon. She comes more nearer earth than she was wont. And makes men mad. ~ William Shakespeare,

772:It is the very error of the moon; She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, And makes men mad. ~ William Shakespeare,

773:It's a great thing for a man to walk on the moon. But it's a greater thing for God to walk on the earth. ~ Neil Armstrong,

774:It's weird seeing her here after last night, like I took a trip to the moon and found a McDonald's there. ~ Michelle Krys,

775:Many years ago, plunging was discovered when the moon was in two halves- it's all about dreams, you see ~ William O Brien,

776:Monday is the day of silence, day of the whole white mung bean, which is sacred to the moon. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni,

777:...she noticed that the moon, so clear in the sky, had lost her first slice; the dark was on its way. ~ Storm Constantine,

778:THE MOON BLEW UP WITHOUT WARNING AND FOR NO APPARENT reason. It was waxing, only one day short of full. ~ Neal Stephenson,

779:There is no moonlight in the Moon. It is same for the fame! Celebrity shines only from the distance! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,

780:The sun shall not smite I by day, nor the moon by night, and everything that I do shall be upfull and right. ~ Bob Marley,

781:The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. ~ John Milton,

782:What do you want me to do? Marry you? People grow up! Move away! I’m going to college, not the moon! ~ Kim Harrison,

783:Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face everyday. ~ Rumi,

784:But even though Victor wasn't the sun in my sky anymore, he was still the moon and several important stars. ~ Sarah Graves,

785:cubs, and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived. "Augrh!" said Father Wolf. "It ~ Rudyard Kipling,

786:He disappears, and her endless wanderings in search of him take her to the moon, the sun, and the wind. ~ Bruno Bettelheim,

787:I am like the heaven, like the moon, like a candle by your glow; I am all reason, all love, all soul, by your soul. ~ Rumi,

788:Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking. ~ Rumi,

789:Sometimes, if you are lucky, you will see the moon coming up, and two distant deodars in perfect silhouette. ~ Ruskin Bond,

790:The book of Revelation says that we no longer need the sun or the moon, for Christ is the light of the world. ~ Tim LaHaye,

791:The water in the stream may have changed many times, but the reflection of the moon and the stars remains the same. ~ Rumi,

792:A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon. ~ Eoin Colfer,

793:Anarchy could never get a man to the moon, but it may the only mode that can allow us to survive on earth. ~ Sheldon B Kopp,

794:A wave of warmth and tingles passes through me, like Beau's mouth is the moon pulling tides through my veins. ~ Emily Henry,

795:Every single thing changes and is changing always in this world. Yet with the same light the moon goes on shining. ~ Saigyo,

796:He whose evil deeds are removed by good deeds done, brightens up this world, like the moon when freed from clouds. ~ Buddha,

797:I am and stare up at the moon as well. And for the briefest instant, it almost feels like we’re together again. ~ Anonymous,

798:Make no mistake about it. The first man who will walk on the moon has already been born. I hope in America. ~ James M Gavin,

799:night, and the moon a blur above— I wonder where the world hides you, and if perhaps you still love me ~ John Geddes,

800:The clouds come and go, providing a rest for all the moon viewers ~ Matsuo Basho, the clouds come and go ,

801:When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator. ~ Robin S Sharma,

802:When the sun shines you cannot see the moon," he said. "But when the sun is gone ah,when the sun is gone. ~ Agatha Christie,

803:And the blood remembers what the heart has never learned. The approach to kill. ("The Moon Of Montezuma") ~ Cornell Woolrich,

804:Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo. ~ Archibald MacLeish,

805:Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression. ~ Assata Shakur,

806:Borman much later admitted that he was, as Cernan wrote in his memoir, “sick as a dog* all the way to the moon. ~ Mary Roach,

807:Carl just had too much mass - we couldn't stop falling into his gravity any more than we could jump to the moon ~ Hank Green,

808:I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon. ~ Neil Armstrong,

809:Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that. ~ Coolio,

810:Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi,

811:The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep. ~ Alice Hoffman,

812:The sky was a road and the stars made pathways; the moon was a watchtower, a lighthouse that led you home. ~ Cassandra Clare,

813:and the moon rises to take its place in the sky, offering light and guidance to those searching for their way. ~ Sejal Badani,

814:Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full. ~ Augustus Hare,

815:Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. ~ Neil Armstrong,

816:I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulled the sand. ~ Talib Kweli,

817:It is like the moon. We can see it differently by climbing a mountain, but we cannot outrun it. As it should be. ~ Stacey Lee,

818:Just as the moon brought out the wolf in a werewolf, so alcohol brought this creature out of his dad. ~ John Ajvide Lindqvist,

819:Mindfulness gives us the power to understand our deep connection with the trees, flowers, stars, sun and the moon. ~ Amit Ray,

820:Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer. ~ Michelangelo Antonioni,

821:...she stepped outwards into the dim atmosphere, and falling, was most fabulously lit by the moon and the sun. ~ Mervyn Peake,

822:The icicles wreathing On trees in festoon Swing, swayed to our breathing: They’re made of the moon. ~ Elinor Wylie,

823:The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump? ~ D H Lawrence,

824:The moon was absent, a circle of darkness denoting the possibility of presence, the inevitability of return. ~ Naomi Alderman,

825:The two most important positions in any natal chart, after the Sun sign, are the ascendant and the Moon sign. ~ Linda Goodman,

826:We can't change the moon but we can live in harmony with its tides, and we can make some ripples of our own. ~ Germaine Greer,

827:We did 'Erin Brockovich,' we did 'Man on the Moon,' we did 'Living Out Loud,' but now I'm going to keep going. ~ Danny DeVito,

828:We live by the sun, we feel by the moon, we love by the stars. We live in all things, all things live in us. ~ Stephanie Kaza,

829:We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villians by compulsion. ~ William Shakespeare,

830:General, what’s the impact zone on the Moon?” “Eh? Hang on. Looks like…” He paused and then said, “Oh, darn. ~ James L Cambias,

831:He smiled, slow as pouring honey, and the moon shone off his milky teeth and the white corners of his eyes. And ~ Cat Hellisen,

832:I didn’t want to go back to sleep. I wanted to talk to him until the earth started revolving around the moon. ~ Kristen Ashley,

833:Sometimes the moon is light and sometimes it’s in shadow, but you should always remember it’s the same moon. ~ Terry Pratchett,

834:the crescent sun is high, the moon low; life is not for the faint-hearted; so why the fuck should art be? ~ Hal Duncan,

835:The piece of equipment I'm most found off is my telescope. The other night I had a superb view of the moon. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

836:the tower’s silhouettes have come into starker relief, backlit by the moon and a few scattered lights from the ~ Lauren Oliver,

837:We think that tomorrow, unless we surrender, they may drop the moon on us." "You're joking." "Wish I was. ~ Neil Gaiman,

838:When the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him. ~ Rudyard Kipling,

839:Yet above all these hangs the moon as our proof, between our legs runs honey and blood. She teaches us in dreams. ~ Peter Grey,

840:I do not foresee 'spaceships' to the moon or Mars. Mortals must live and die on Earth or within its atmosphere! ~ Lee De Forest,

841:Love is like the moon: if it's not waxing, it's waning, but it's the same as the last time, always the same. ~ Mikhail Shishkin,

842:The moon belongs to the lovers? Yes! But it also belongs to the lonely! It belongs to anyone who needs it! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,

843:The moon hung in its western altar like the last melancholy guest at a dinner party, who was too lonely to leave. ~ Nick Cutter,

844:Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face everyday. ~ Rumi,

845:At the end of every short story the reader should feel as if a cloud has been lifted from the face of the moon. ~ Michael Chabon,

846:Egyptians used carved sky boats as symbols of the Moon and the Babylonians called the Moon the Boat of Light. ~ Rachel Patterson,

847:the finger pointing at the moon remains a finger and under no circumstances can it be changed into the moon itself. ~ D T Suzuki,

848:THERE MIGHT BE A CONNECTION BETWEEN THE MOON'S ENERGY WHEN IT'S FULL AND THE ELECTRICAL IMPULSES IN THE BRAIN. ~ Colin Cotterill,

849:The sun is an arrogant thing, always leaving the world behind when it tires of us. The moon is a loyal companion. ~ Tahereh Mafi,

850:Today my winged horse is coming and I am carrying you off to the moon and on the moon we will eat rose petals. ~ Shirley Jackson,

851:Truly, as the ancients taught us, there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption. ~ C J Sansom,

852:What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand! ~ George Whitefield,

853:When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,

854:Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand! ~ George Whitefield,

855:And I hold my head high toward my big entrance, hand in hand with the boy who gave me the moon and the stars. ~ Stephanie Perkins,

856:But, I tell myself, Weight is just an artifact of gravity. If this were a jazz club on the moon, I would weigh less. ~ Weike Wang,

857:Coach’s sad smile suggested that after a suicide attempt, a girl’s decisions weighed less, like bodies on the moon. ~ Lauren Kate,

858:Fuck the moon landing, that’s just a trick of ‘The Man’; fuck you, Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins, let’s rock. ~ Bruce Springsteen,

859:Glance at the sun. See the moon and the stars. Gaze at the beauty of eath’s greenings. Now, think. ~ Michael Braungart,

860:Him I call indeed a Brahmana who is bright like the moon, pure, serene, undisturbed, and in whom all gaiety is extinct. ~ Various,

861:If the Moon wants to show its beauty to the world, it must make a deal with the wind to disperse the clouds! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,

862:Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Dont concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory. ~ Bruce Lee,

863:It's like if you're an astronaut and you've been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life? ~ Paul McCartney,

864:The moon gliding amazed through heaven In the uncertain wideness of the night. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan and Savitri,

865:The moon, the serene moon, was creating a conflict of opinion in America almost as violent as the racial problem. ~ Pierre Boulle,

866:The moon this particular evening is a great hole carved through nightflesh to reveal pale, luminescent bone, ~ Guillermo del Toro,

867:The sky was incredible that night, the moon nearly full and the stars littering the sky like tossed stones. ~ Sarah Addison Allen,

868:We may go to the moon, but that' s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us. ~ Charles de Gaulle,

869:"What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?" ~ Thomas Merton,

870:You know I think you hung the moon, right?” “Right. Just like I know you held the ladder and looked up my skirt. ~ Gena Showalter,

871:A doctor once told me I feel too much. I said, so does god. that’s why you can see the grand canyon from the moon. ~ Andrea Gibson,

872:A warm body sighed in the darkness inside the little bright object balanced elegantly in the orbit of the moon. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,

873:If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression Of something beautiful, but annihilating. ~ Sylvia Plath,

874:I love you to the moon and back.” Gracie grinned. “Well, I love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck, ~ Carolyn Brown,

875:In a field. With the moon. And the dark. And the dirt. With your mouth. And just one word: god god god. ~ Daphne Gottlieb,

876:Limitations gone: Since my mind fixed on the moon, Clarity and serenity Make something for which There's no end in sight. ~ Saigyo,

877:☀️“Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.” ~ Jalaluddin Rumi☀️,

878:She was the person who hung the moon in my sky. She lit the dark and made me want more than I was comfortable with. ~ Belle Aurora,

879:The brand-new president felt, as he later wrote, “like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me. ~ Denise Kiernan,

880:The moon had never been as bright as the shine it was granting the sky with, committing every moment until sunrise. ~ Truth Devour,

881:The music could even penetrate his remote world, more distant than the moon itself; it could even perform miracles. ~ Paulo Coelho,

882:The music could penetrate even his remote world, more distant than the moon itself; it could even perform miracles. ~ Paulo Coelho,

883:There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon. ~ Tom Robbins,

884:Whenever you hear a politician start a sentence with, “If we can put a man on the moon . . . ,” grab your wallet. ~ Jonah Goldberg,

885:A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined. ~ C S Lewis,

886:For that is the way of the world, Guma’s voice echoed. Some are given a rope to the moon, and others claw up the sky. ~ Julie C Dao,

887:He stared up at the moon, which looked like a giant hole in the sky, letting light through to the other side. ~ Sarah Addison Allen,

888:I figured if you’re a man who knows his books, you can deal with the literary types who come out when the moon is full. ~ Ivan Doig,

889:Joys come from simple and natural things: mists over meadows, sunlight on leaves, the path of the moon over water. ~ Sigurd F Olson,

890:Let the moon shine on the in thy solitary walk; and let the misty mountain-winds be free to blow against thee. ~ William Wordsworth,

891:Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine. ~ Gautama Buddha,

892:Silly. Moon for you?” “No, the moon is for everyone,” I said. “Tree is for everyone.” Pixies, the first communists. ~ Gene Doucette,

893:The distance between a hungry person and a sated one is greater than the distance between here and the moon. ~ Ayelet Gundar Goshen,

894:The moon hung heavy over the lake like an overripe orange, trickling its golden stream of light across inky depths. ~ Julie Lessman,

895:Then finally, he smiled. A wide, bright smile that could extinguish the sun and knock the moon right out of orbit. ~ Danielle Banas,

896:There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." A Libertarian Movement slogan - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1907. ~ Robert A Heinlein,

897:We are programmed to plan ahead. It's part of our rhythm. The sun rises every day and defers to the moon every night. ~ Nicola Yoon,

898:Well, even if I'm in the moon, I needn't be face downwards all the time," so he got cautiously up and looked about him. ~ A A Milne,

899:For every worm beneath the moon Draws different threads, and late and soon Spins, toiling out his own cocoon. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson,

900:Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7 ~ John Sandford,

901:Here in this moment we are beautiful, nocturnal creatures and our thoughts and words are jewels guarded by the moon. ~ Henry Rollins,

902:Here, though, there is nothing. Nothing at all. The sky seems empty even when I am looking at the moon and stars. ~ Edwidge Danticat,

903:In the great green room, there was a telephone And a red balloon And a picture of a cat jumping over the moon. ~ Margaret Wise Brown,

904:I turn back to the moon, wishing away every sharp and dangerous thing that has ever threatened my vulnerable heart. ~ Julie Cantrell,

905:My mind is the sun, and my heart is the moon. In the sky between them, there I am. Cristen Rodgers ~ Cristen Rodgers,

906:Overall, going to the moon is a daunting project because of the amount of fuel it takes to send a payload from Earth. ~ Walter Smith,

907:Please, just tell me the story about how the sun loved the moon so much that he died every night just to let her breath. ~ Anonymous,

908:Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking. ~ Brian Tracy,

909:The moon distresses you by silently reminding you of your solitude; you open your eyes wide to escape your loneliness. ~ Yann Martel,

910:Then he left, and with him he took the sun, the moon, the stars, and anything inside of me that might have been good. ~ Julie Murphy,

911:We all know the moon isn't made out of green cheese...but if it was made out of barbeque spare ribs would you eat it? ~ Will Ferrell,

912:What looks to be a wisp of cloud is actually the moon, narrow and pale like a paring snipped from a snowman's toenail. ~ Tom Robbins,

913:As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed...magnifice nt. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory. ~ Neil Armstrong,

914:For that is the way of the world,' Guma's voice echoed. 'Some are given a rope to the moon, and others claw up the sky. ~ Julie C Dao,

915:Her skin literally glowed. It was as if she had swallowed the moon and couldn’t keep the light from pouring out of her. ~ Liz Schulte,

916:I wanted to create a voyage to the moon just for her, but what I should have given her was a real journey on earth. ~ Mathias Malzieu,

917:Jack stepped through the crack into the night. Outside the yard was quiet and thick dark clouds hid the moon from view. ~ Peter Bunzl,

918:Laser Pointer Q. If every person on Earth aimed a laser pointer at the Moon at the same time, would it change color? ~ Randall Munroe,

919:The moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair; ~ James Baldwin,

920:The Moon has given us months, tides and a destination that ever-beckons. It's time we build a rocket and go to stay. ~ Chris Hadfield,

921:There's more chance of me flying Concorde to the moon blindfolded than there is of you taking Wales to the World Cup. ~ Robbie Savage,

922:And you used to make art and like boys and talk to horses and pull the moon through the window for my birthday present. ~ Jandy Nelson,

923:Come with me and you shall be an empress with the moon for your throne and constellations to wear in your hair. Come ~ Roshani Chokshi,

924:I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum ~ George Bernard Shaw,

925:I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it. ~ Peter Diamandis,

926:I looked up from my writing, And gave a start to see, As if rapt in my inditing, The moon's full gaze on me. ~ Thomas Hardy,

927:I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times! ~ Van Morrison,

928:Let's swim to the moon Let's climb through the tide Surrender to the waiting worlds That lap against our side. ~ Jim Morrison,

929:Where, indeed, does the moon not look well? What is the scene, confined or expansive, which her orb does not hallow? ~ Charlotte Bront,

930:Her skin was more luminous than the moon, her eyes wider than the sky, deeper than the water, darker than the night. ~ Patrick Rothfuss,

931:If there was a little shine of gold on the moon, the mankind would have been to the moon even in the 19th century! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,

932:In the same way that people stare up at the sky to see the moon every night, yet understand next to nothing about it. ~ Haruki Murakami,

933:Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin,

934:My pillow is as good as any ocean to drown in the nightmare of myself. I swam all the way here from the moon. ~ Casey Renee Kiser,

935:She ended up in the arid and dusty southern city of Kandahar, which she once described as “like the moon, with goats on it. ~ Anonymous,

936:she was always falling for the guys who promised her the moon and then delivered stinky cheese with a side of infidelity. ~ Ann Charles,

937:She would search for him. In the land that lay east of the sun and west of the moon. But there was no way there. ~ Edith Pattou,

938:So we'll go no more a-roving so late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, and the moon be still as bright. ~ Lord Byron,

939:Upon the opening of the first seal, a horseman rode forth upon a white horse [...] Here, again, is the moon and the bow of Diana. [...],

940:You could be going to the moon and i'd still love you. I want to remember every moment of tonight; to savor every touch. ~ Kahlen Aymes,

941:And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon. ~ John Milton,

942:Don't be afraid to fall in love again. Open your heart and follow where it leads you...and remember, shoot for the moon. ~ Cecelia Ahern,

943:Every time I see the moon, I shall send you a blessing, knowing the same moon will soon shine my blessing down upon you. ~ Laila Ibrahim,

944:If you have a problem with the Moon in the sky and you are unhappy, change yourself, because the Moon won’t change! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,

945:I wanted to create a voyage to the moon just for her, but what I should have given her was a real journey on earth. ~ Mathias Malzieu,

946:look at what they've done the earth cried to the moon they've turned me into one entire bruise - green and blue ~ Rupi Kaur,

947:The Buddha said many times. "My teaching is like a finger pointing to the moon. Do not mistake the finger for the Moon ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,

948:There's a path from me to you I'm constantly looking for, so I try to keep clear and still as water does with the moon. ~ Rumi,

949:under stars. meet me here beneath the stars near the moon in the dark I’ve been waiting for someone like you ~ R H Sin,

950:We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth." —William Anders ~ Erec Stebbins,

951:A good heart is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never changes. ~ William Shakespeare,

952:All that has been hidden is rising, there is no stopping it! These things you cannot hide: the sun, the moon, and TRUTH. ~ Gautama Buddha,

953:Because as the moon followed the sun, when Illium ascended to become an archangel, Aodhan would go with him as his second. ~ Nalini Singh,

954:Go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut,” murmured Paul Lazzaro in his azure nest. “Go take a flying fuck at the moon ~ Kurt Vonnegut,

955:If all the ineffective ideas for solving the energy crisis were laid end to end, they would reach to the moon and back ~ David J C MacKay,

956:If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression Of something beautiful, but annihilating. ~ Sylvia Plath,

957:…I imagine her looking at me like that. Like I hung the moon and stars and everything in between, all of it just for her. ~ Monica Murphy,

958:Is that a lion with horns and a pitchfork?" "Yep." "Is he carrying the moon on his pitchfork?" "Nope it's a pie. ~ Ilona Andrews,

959:May the sun guide your way.” “May the moon light your path,” Hansa added. “May the wind be your wings,” Anjani continued. ~ Bella Forrest,

960:My pillow is as good as any ocean to drown in the nightmare of myself. I swam all the way here from the moon. ~ Casey Renee Kiser,

961:No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness. ~ Wilfred Owen,

962:So we baked and sweated together. I like punching the dough. I told myself it was the moon and punched it senseless. ~ Susan Beth Pfeffer,

963:The Buddha said many times, “My teaching is like a finger pointing to the moon. Do not mistake the finger for the moon. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,

964:The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon, fail to deliver, and then blame vulnerable others for those failures. ~ Van Jones,

965:Today, there’s more computing power in a cell phone than there was on Apollo 11, and that brought us to the moon and back. ~ Brad Meltzer,

966:to the magician’s eyes the unicorn was the moon, cold and white and very old, lighting his way to safety, or to madness. ~ Peter S Beagle,

967:Under the night rug, the star rug, moon as lantern, man in the moon watching over us, dog star at his heels, we lay. ~ Jeanette Winterson,

968:You are too bright, my Camille, too beautiful for so much darkness. And yet, you would walk under the dark of the moon ~ Yasmine Galenorn,

969:A moth is just a butterfly in love with the moon... So sad that their love can never be that he forgot how to be BEAUTIFUL. ~ John Allison,

970:Centuries ago, human beings created marriage. Later, they looked to the sky and dreamt of traveling to the moon. Coincidence? ~ Dana Gould,

971:Go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut,” murmured Paul Lazzaro in his azure nest. “Go take a flying fuck at the moon. ~ Kurt Vonnegut,

972:He was so much in love with me that I could have asked him for the moon and stars, and he would have gathered them for me. ~ Carolyn Meyer,

973:If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot. ~ Confucius,

974:I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me. ~ Pat Conroy,

975:Let us not be afraid of decreasing. It is like the moon, we see the moon increasing and decreasing, but it is always the moon. ~ Nhat Hanh,

976:My iPhone has 2 million times the storage of the 1969 Apollo 11 computer. They went to the moon. I throw birds at pig houses ~ Bill Murray,

977:Oh, with you, I could conquer the world - oh, with you I could catch hold of the moon like a little silver sixpence. ~ Katherine Mansfield,

978:Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it comes to that. ~ Allen Ginsberg,

979:The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into a rising birth-rate ~ Christopher Fry,

980:The Moon Pie is a bedrock of the country store and rural tradition. It is more than a snack. It is a cultural artifact. ~ William R Ferris,

981:The night crept on apace, the moon went down, the stars grew pale and dim, and morning, cold as they, slowly approached. ~ Charles Dickens,

982:There is no dark side in the moon, really. Matter of fact it's all dark. The only thing that makes it look alight is the sun. ~ Pink Floyd,

983:We are the the night ocean filled with glints of light. We are the space between the fish and the moon, while we sit here together. ~ Rumi,

984:We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard. ~ John F Kennedy,

985:We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard. ~ Taylor Pearson,

986:We know the man by the object[.] Even the moon, the sun, stars, … [t]hat he sees them is an evidence of his own nature. ~ Ludwig Feuerbach,

987:When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator. Mahatma Gandhi ~ Robin S Sharma,

988:When you point a finger at the moon to indicate the moon, instead of looking at the moon,the stupid ones look at your finger. ~ Mao Zedong,

989:You are the sacred consummation of the sun and the moon and the shadow and you will become the poison of death. [Sylvian] ~ Karen Maitland,

990:Above us, the constellations spun and the moon paced her weary course. We lay stricken and sleepless as the hours passed. ~ Madeline Miller,

991:I think you know I love you. Not past tense, not friendly love. Love. Love that lassoes the moon and lays it at your feet. ~ Daisy Prescott,

992:I was aiming for the stars. And I’d be more than happy with the moon. It was fitting, too. I’d have the moon and the wolf. As ~ Aileen Erin,

993:Shuddered in silence as obscurely stir Ocean’s dim fields delivered to the moon. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,

994:The fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the moon. ~ William Shakespeare,

995:The Moon always finds an opportunity to turn our attention from the ground beneath our feet to the sky above our head! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,

996:The Moon said my spine was out of order yet everything was in its place The Moon said a poet must drift sometimes ~ Casey Renee Kiser,

997:The woman's perspective is like the dark side of the moon: it always exists, but it is never exposed, at least not in my culture. ~ Ang Lee,

998:What are your interests?" "Your son in my room," I said. "Excuse me?" "The sun and the moon," I said. "Astronomy. ~ David Levithan,

999:What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth. ~ Norman Cousins,

1000:Yes, I am the last man to have walked on the moon, and that's a very dubious and disappointing honor. It's been far too long. ~ Gene Cernan,

1001:You might not notice the moon very much. White and silent, it shines a cold light that is merely a ghost of the beloved day. ~ Sarah Graves,

1002:A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul. ~ China Mieville,

1003:A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul. ~ China Mi ville,

1004:Buechner uses words with such transformative power that any comment on them is like the moon palely reflecting the sun. ~ Walter Brueggemann,

1005:Fantastic truths perish slower... Sappho's moon will survive the moon of Armstrong. Different computations are necessary. ~ Odysseas Elytis,

1006:His emotions are running about three planets beyond the moon, and there are no tears in outer space. Just black holes ========== ~ Anonymous,

1007:I love both the sun and the moon, day and night. But I enjoy the day the most because I live in Rio and I can play sports. ~ Rodrigo Santoro,

1008:In the great green room, there was a telephone And a red balloon And a picture of a cat jumping over the moon... ~ Margaret Wise Brown,

1009:I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium. ~ Neil Armstrong,

1010:It was a December night so cold and clear that the air felt like the air of the Moon - lung-burning; mentholated and pure ~ Douglas Coupland,

1011:I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon. ~ Eddie Trunk,

1012:Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too. ~ Aberjhani,

1013:Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado! ~ Anonymous,

1014:Shoot the moon," Aurora says dreamily. "Would it bleed, do you think? I think it would. I think it would bleed...shooting stars. ~ Sara Ryan,

1015:Someday her prince would come. And he’d be a rich and hairy Alpha dude who howled at the moon and pissed on fire hydrants. ~ Kerrelyn Sparks,

1016:Staying at an inn where prostitutes are also sleeping   bush clover and the moon.    ~ Matsuo Basho, staying at an inn ,

1017:The foolishness of chasing the moon ached my heart. I was stuck between the moon and the shore and surrounded by an empty sea. ~ Kevin James,

1018:The moon and the stars. It didn’t seem right for one to exist without the other. Yet here I was, being forced to do so anyway. ~ Ella Fields,

1019:There is a path from me to youthat I am constantly looking forso I try to keep clear and stillas water does with the moon. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi,

1020:And when she was alone, she felt like the moon: terrified of the sky, but completely in love with the way it held the stars. ~ Robert M Drake,

1021:A sudden cloud formation of birds was swallowed up by the moon, and he was just as suddenly penned in by four walls-the demons' pen. ~ Mo Yan,

1022:A sudden cloud formation of birds was swallowed up by the moon, and he was just as suddenly penned in by four walls—the demons’ pen. ~ Mo Yan,

1023:i'd go out and party then come home to the moon an empty home and cold bed this was no way to live i needed more ~ R H Sin,

1024:If I ever get to go to the moon, I'll probably just stand on the moon and go 'Hmmm, yeah...fair enough...gotta go home now.' ~ Noel Gallagher,

1025:In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson,

1026:I think that it is a great achievement to put a person on the moon. But to put a person on the earth-that is even more. ~ Harrison Salisbury,

1027:It’s like us humans sending rockets up to the moon only to spend the next fifty years gazing at the pictures of our own earth. ~ Fiona Mozley,

1028:Man has reached the moon, but twenty centuries ago a poet knew the enchantments that would make the moon come down to earth. ~ Julio Cort zar,

1029:No matter where it is in the sky... No matter where you are in the world... the moon is never bigger than your thumb. -John ~ Nicholas Sparks,

1030:She cut into a waffle and said, “Gotta be honest—I’m not over the moon about the word ‘heist.’” “No? It’s one of my favorites. ~ Blake Crouch,

1031:The sky was a pretty canvas of blushing oranges, electric pinks, deep blues and vibrant purples as the sun made way for the moon. ~ A Z Green,

1032:What we will have attained when Neil Armstrong steps down upon the moon is a completely new step in the evolution of man. ~ Wernher von Braun,

1033:When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator. Mahatma Gandhi It ~ Robin S Sharma,

1034:A finger points at the moon, but the moon is not at the tip of the finger. Words points at the truth, but the truth is not in words. ~ Huineng,

1035:At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald,

1036:Being an American is something I wanted to be for a very long time, probably since I saw the moon landing when I was a child. ~ Craig Ferguson,

1037:Each that we lose takes part of us; A crescent still abides, Which like the moon, some turbid night, Is summoned by the tides.7 ~ Thomas Moore,

1038:For the blind poor, Rx: bleed. For yourself; Rx: love nothing. Sow rows of onions only. Plant turnips in the dark of the moon. ~ T R Hummer,

1039:Like the moon on the water, in a way. When you confront a Zen master, what you're really seeing are not his limitations but yours. ~ Pico Iyer,

1040:Moon’s gravitational pull means that earth doesn’t wobble too much. Scientists call it obliquity. The moon holds us fast. ~ Jeanette Winterson,

1041:My fellow, you strike me at present as being situated in the moon, kingdom of dream, province of illusion, capital: Soap-Bubble. ~ Victor Hugo,

1042:Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you. ~ Billy Collins,

1043:the human race was dying out Noone left to scream n shout People living on the moon Smog will get you pretty soon Ship of Fools ~ Jim Morrison,

1044:The moon is quite a show off given the chance. The stars make a sound when they shine so bright. Water so blue and so black. ~ Dave Matthews,

1045:The moon is so beautiful. It's a big silver dollar, flipped by God. And it landed scarred side up, see? So He made the world. ~ Grant Morrison,

1046:we reach with our hands and brush away the clouds and pierce the sky to reach the moon and Mars but we still can't reach the truth ~ Tite Kubo,

1047:Where am I? What the hell difference is it? There’s plenty o’ fresh air and the moon fur a glim. Don’t be so damn pertic’lar! ~ Eugene O Neill,

1048:Don’t you see it Jaxie Clackton, you are an instrument of God.’ ‘Oh, I said, you mad fucker. You been out under the moon too long. ~ Tim Winton,

1049:Go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut,” murmured Paul Lazzaro in his azure nest. “Go take a flying fuck at the moon.” *** ~ Kurt Vonnegut,

1050:He likes to look at the moon and imagine space. He imagines it to be very silent, very cool. You would definitely need a sweater. ~ Claire Adam,

1051:He whose mind is utterly pure from all evil as the Sun is pure of stain and the moon of soil, him indeed I call a man of religion. ~ Udanavagga,

1052:I remember the first time I looked into your eyes, it was like staring at the back of the moon, only to find that it shines too. ~ Keisha Ervin,

1053:No country in the world can continue to spend what we are sacrificing for the moon without rapidly being reduced to utter ruin. ~ Pierre Boulle,

1054:We are the night ocean filled with glints of light. We are the space between the fish and the moon, while we sit here together. ~ Rumi,

1055:"A finger points at the moon, but the moon is not at the tip of the finger. Words points at the truth, but the truth is not in words." ~ Huineng,

1056:Don't you know that I'd lie with you in the groves, under the light of the moon? That I'd defy the laws of gods and men for you? ~ Richelle Mead,

1057:For I could not read or speak and on the long nights I could not turn the moon off or count the lights of cars across the ceiling. ~ Anne Sexton,

1058:here's to one undiscoverable guess of whose mad skill each world of blood is made (whose fatal songs are moving in the moon ~ E E Cummings,

1059:I am surprised nothing has been made of the fact that astronaut Neil Armstrong carried no sidearms when he landed on the moon. ~ Arthur Goldberg,

1060:I am the sun who will bring delight when you are in-front of me. I am the moon who will show shyness when you are away from me. ~ Santosh Kalwar,

1061:I was 11 when I first said I wanted to become an actress, and everyone looked at me as if I had said I wanted to go to the moon. ~ Penelope Cruz,

1062:The moon was undone now, free to move and rise and fall and drip on the boy’s face, making him nice and murky, like his thoughts. ~ Markus Zusak,

1063:The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen. ~ Shannon L Alder,

1064:those who see the nightly splendor of the moon are possessed by perverse ingratitude if they do not recognize the goodness of God. ~ John Calvin,

1065:To me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists. The planets have the sun, the earth, the moon. ~ Alan Hovhaness,

1066:Two-Volume Novel The sun's gone dim, and The moon's turned black; For I loved him, and He didn't love back. ~ Dorothy Parker,

1067:Any culture which can put a man on the Moon is capable of gathering all the nations of the earth in peace, justice and concord. ~ Richard M Nixon,

1068:Before the use of asteroids, the only significators of the feminine in traditional chart interpretation were the Moon and Venus. ~ Demetra George,

1069:It wasn’t morning. The room was dark, with the moon big and yellow and hanging just where I’d left it in the corner of the window. ~ Sarah Dessen,

1070:Journey to the end of day, Come the fire-fly, Come the moon; Say a prayer for God's good grace And sleep with lore upon your face. ~ Clive Barker,

1071:Never ignore someone who loves you and cares about you. 'Cause one day you may realize you lost the moon while counting stars. ~ John O Callaghan,

1072:Some things were simply irrefutable and inescapable. The stars, the moon, and the way my heart would always beat in sync with hers. ~ Ella Fields,

1073:the human race was dying out Noone left to scream n shout People living on the moon Smog will get you pretty soon Ship of Fools ~ Jim Morrison,

1074:The moon of Mahomet Arose, and it shall set; While, blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon, The cross leads generations on. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley,

1075:We love the night and its quiet; and there is no night that we love so well as that on which the moon is coffined in clouds. ~ Fitz James O Brien,

1076:Above us, the moon hangs like a fat blister on the feel of the sky, ready to burst in a spray of viscous white pus" chap 22. ~ Jonathan Tropper,

1077:Abram—Ibrahim, in the Arabic spelling—was the first to worship Allah, the one God, rather than the stars, the moon, or the sun. ~ Susan Wise Bauer,

1078:A good swimming pool could do that—make the rest of the world seem impossibly insignificant, as far away as the surface of the moon. ~ Emma Straub,

1079:But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night! ~ Bayard Taylor,

1080:Every one of today’s smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon. ~ Peter Thiel,

1081:For even in the misty light, the goldfish man could see her smiling a secret smile up to the sky to where the mountain meets the moon. ~ Grace Lin,

1082:If a man is not aware of the existence of the moon, what can the moon do for him except continue sending its lights upon him? ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,

1083:Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine ~ Gautama Buddha,

1084:My mom would say that crying for the moon is a lot like sitting in a rocking chair: It keeps you busy but it won't get you anywhere. ~ Karen White,

1085:Suddenly, eyes heavenward, Mother said, "Do you want to know how special you are? You can see the moon, but the moon can't see you. ~ Kate Mulgrew,

1086:The question that motivates my research is, if we can put a man on the Moon with 100,000 [people], what can we do with 100 million? ~ Luis von Ahn,

1087:The Suicide, as she is falling, Illuminated by the moon, Regrets her act, and finds appalling The thought she will be dead so soon. ~ Edward Gorey,

1088:you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle,

1089:Every word on this page is in fact only made of paper. It only expresses the nature of the paper, although it may describe the moon. ~ Rupert Spira,

1090:Home is watching the moon rise over the open, sleeping land and having someone you can call to the window, so you can look together. ~ Stephen King,

1091:Light bathes him like the moon knows he's beautiful. But even more than that, he's bared more for me than I ever thought he would. ~ Krista Ritchie,

1092:Man is now able to soar into outer space and reach up to the moon; but he is not moral enough to live at peace with his neighbor! ~ Sathya Sai Baba,

1093:Out o' th' moon, I do assure thee. I was the man in the moon when time was, --Stephano (Act II, scene 2, lines 136-137) ~ William Shakespeare,

1094:Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied,- "If you seek for Eldorado. ~ Edgar Allan Poe,

1095:Technological possibilities are irresistible to man. If man can go to the moon, he will. If he can control the climate, he will. ~ John von Neumann,

1096:The moon, methinks, looks with a watery eye; And when she weeps, weeps every little flower; Lamenting some enforced chastity. ~ William Shakespeare,

1097:The moon sets and the eastern sky lightens, the hem of night pulling away, taking stars with it one by one until only two are left. ~ Anthony Doerr,

1098:The night was windy, full of tree sounds. The moon was gone and there was rain, so fine that it was only a tingle on the skin. ~ Marilynne Robinson,

1099:There is no hope for the fanciful idea of reaching the moon because of insurmountable barriers to escaping the earth's gravity ~ Forest Ray Moulton,

1100:todays the first anniversary of the asteroid hitting the moon. A year ago i was sixteen years old, a sophomore in high school. ~ Susan Beth Pfeffer,

1101:...what was the good of being a movie werewolf? You howled at the moon; you couldn't remember what you did, and then somebody shot you. ~ Anne Rice,

1102:Far beyond the moon and stars Twenty light years south of Mars Spins the gentle Bunny Planet And the bunny queen is Janet! ~ Rosemary Wells,

1103:He waited. Everything he was—everything he cared about—was tied up in this woman. He’d give her the moon if that’s what she wanted. ~ Carly Phillips,

1104:I don’t say, “And you used to make art and like boys and talk to horses and pull the moon through the window for my birthday present. ~ Jandy Nelson,

1105:Is it possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening "Do it again" to the moon." from Orthodoxy. ~ G K Chesterton,

1106:It's tiny out there...it's inconsequential. It's ironic that we had come to study the Moon and it was really discovering the Earth. ~ William Anders,

1107:Just like the moon is fully illuminated when facing the sun, so are believers who fully turn themselves to face the Prophet ﷺ ~ Habib Umar bin Hafiz,

1108:Look at us, goddammit, the two of us slingshotted from the back side of the moon, greedily cartwheeling toward everything we are owed. ~ Dave Eggers,

1109:My Life I will celebrate this life of mine, with or without you. The moon does not need the sun to tell her she is already whole. ~ Lang Leav,

1110:Sir, I was in Minnesota once during the winter. If people can be happy living there, then I figure the Moon’s not that far different. ~ John G Hemry,

1111:The moon passed overhead in its path from the Vinkus, and she felt its accusatory spotlight, and moved back from the tall windows. ~ Gregory Maguire,

1112:The moon's my constant mistress, And the lowly owl my marrow; The flaming drake and the night crow make, Me music to my sorrow. ~ Anonymous,

1113:Though everything will seem dark to you now, remember that even behind the darkest clouds of night there shines the moon of dawn. ~ Robert van Gulik,

1114:Until the moon stops shining above you and the sun ceases to rise from beneath, and even then, in all that darkness…I’ll still love you. ~ Ker Dukey,

1115:Whoever has done harmful actions but later covers them up with good is like the moon which, freed from clouds, lights up the world. ~ Gautama Buddha,

1116:Don't think. FEEL. It's like a finger pointing at the moon. Do not concentrate on the finger, or you will miss all of the heavenly glory. ~ Bruce Lee,

1117:If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon. ~ Galileo Galilei,

1118:If you want the moon/do not hide at night.If you want a rose/do not run from the thorns.If you want Love/do not hide from yourself. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi,

1119:lunar material, it is thought, came from the Earth’s crust, not its core, which is why the Moon has so little iron while we have a lot. ~ Bill Bryson,

1120:The first stars had kindled in a sky gone royally violet, and the moon heaved a faint silver curve over the ragged line of palaces. ~ Katherine Arden,

1121:The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective. ~ Mother Teresa,

1122:Well, I think of the folks who are the climate deniers as the flat Earthers and the people who say the moon landings never happened. ~ Jeffrey Kluger,

1123:You can buy gold that is bright as the sun and diamonds as pale as the moon. But you cannot buy the sun. You cannot own the moon.” II ~ David Gemmell,

1124:you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.” I ~ Arthur Conan Doyle,

1125:And suddenly the moon withdraws her sickle from the lightening skies, and to her sombre cavern flies, wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze. ~ Oscar Wilde,

1126:As the moon's fair image quaketh In the raging waves of ocean, Whilst she, in the vault of heaven, Moves with silent peaceful motion. ~ Heinrich Heine,

1127:First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon. ~ John F Kennedy,

1128:...he did not dare to play forbidden games with a woman who had proven too many times that she knew the dark side of the moon ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez,

1129:He whose mind is utterly purified from soil, as heaven is pure from stain and the moon from dust, him indeed I call a man of religion. ~ Buddhist Text,

1130:Humans had spent thousands of years climbing out of caves and building technology so they could reach the moon and live in caves again. ~ John G Hemry,

1131:In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there. ~ John F Kennedy,

1132:It seems to me that it's the best way of wasting money that I know of. I don't think investments on the moon pay a very high dividend. ~ Prince Philip,

1133:I would look up at the moon and see that it was not the smooth orb we had all believed, but a pitted and scarred world with no air. ~ Christopher Pike,

1134:Leave it to a naive world-saver like you to view our love as a Sacred Cause when in actual fact all it was was some barking at the moon. ~ Tom Robbins,

1135:The diameter of the earth is greater than the diameter of the moon and the diameter of the sun is greater than the diameter of the earth. ~ Archimedes,

1136:The moon is queen of everything. She rules the oceans, rivers, rain. When I am asked whose tears these are; I always blame the moon. ~ Lucille Clifton,

1137:The moon, our lonely sister, filters pain and harm from sunlight, and reflects it back to us safely, free of burn and blemish. ~ Gregory David Roberts,

1138:The most important thing is love,” said Leigh-Cheri. “I know that now. There’s no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon. ~ Tom Robbins,

1139:"There is nothing mysterious in Buddhism. Time passes as it is natural, the sun rising in the east, and the moon setting into the west." ~ Dogen Zenji,

1140:The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. ~ Havelock Ellis,

1141:They are the moon; we are a tide, their tide, and under their direction we will wipe clean all the sickness and blight from the world. ~ Lauren Oliver,

1142:To accomplish his object Ahab must use tools; and of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are most apt to get out of order. ~ Herman Melville,

1143:We can send people to the Moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get $5 [mosquito] nets to 500 million people? ~ Jacqueline Novogratz,

1144:Where did you live before you came here?” I asked. “The moon,” he said smoothly. “We left because the place had no atmosphere. ~ Laurie Halse Anderson,

1145:Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars. ~ Bernard M Oliver,

1146:He who gets nearer the sun is leader, the aristocrat of aristocrats, or he who, like Dostoevsky, gets nearest the moon of our non-being. ~ D H Lawrence,

1147:He will kill mice and he will be kind to babies...but when the moon gets up and the night comes, he is the Cat that Walks by Himself. ~ Rudyard Kipling,

1148:I enter into each planet, and by My energy they stay in orbit. I become the moon and thereby supply the juice of life to all vegetables. ~ Gopi Krishna,

1149:I promised you the moon for your throne and stars to wear in your hair," said Amar, gesturing inside. "And I always keep my promises. ~ Roshani Chokshi,

1150:It was hard for them to come home,” admitted Faye Stafford. “Who could ever compete with the Moon? I was lucky if I could come in second. ~ Lily Koppel,

1151:Just go on dancing with me like this forever and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoe on the stars and hang upside down from the moon. ~ Stephen King,

1152:Watching the moon at midnight solitary, mid-sky, I knew myself completely, no part left out. ~ Izumi Shikibu, Watching The Moon ,

1153:we reach with our hands and brush away the clouds and pierce the sky to reach the moon and Mars but we still can't reach the truth ~ Tite Kubo,

1154:You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you. ~ George R R Martin,

1155:You two must be very happy.” “Over the moon. Who’d’ve thought a regular schmoe like me could land a gem like Baby Doll here,” Sam said. ~ Libba Bray,

1156:Each that we lose takes a part of us;  A crescent still abides, Which like the moon, some turbid night,  Is summoned by the tides. ~ Emily Dickinson,

1157:fun fact: there’s more computing power in the average digital washing machine today than was used to put the first man on the moon in 1969.) ~ Ben Sasse,

1158:Funny thing happened on the way to the moon: not much,” wrote Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan. “Should have brought some crossword puzzles. ~ Mary Roach,

1159:Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and the moon to stand still - and they obeyed. ~ Benjamin Franklin,

1160:How do we know where we're going? Follow the moon! Remember, the moon is always over Hollywood, and Needles isn't far from Hollywood. ~ Charles M Schulz,

1161:I see myself at crossroads in my life, mapless, lacking bits of knowledge - then, the Moon breaks through, lights up the path before me. ~ John J Geddes,

1162:So the Wolf had killed a time or two. Big deal. He was a wolf! What did they expect? That he’d lick his balls all day and howl at the moon? ~ Marie Hall,

1163:The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork. ~ Walter Lang,

1164:The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love. ~ Walt Whitman,

1165:The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

1166:When we sense something, it is due to the movement of atoms in space. When I see the moon it is because "moon atoms" penetrate my eye. ~ Jostein Gaarder,

1167:You may want to change the place or the direction of the Moon or you may do something more practical: You accept the Moon as it is! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,

1168:..: but the cracks and scars on Jonsen's enormous hands were as interesting to her as the valleys on the moon to a boy with a telescope. ~ Richard Hughes,

1169:Even on a black and empty street. If we go together, we might one day find something like the moon thats floats in the darkness. ~ Yoshiyuki Sadamoto,

1170:Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

1171:He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven. ~ Oscar Wilde,

1172:Here was our future of cheese-food and aerosol propellants, Styrofoam and Club Med on the moon, roast beef served in a toothpaste tube. ~ Chuck Palahniuk,

1173:I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there. ~ Jonathan Swift,

1174:I think when the United States of America put a man on the moon in 1969, that was one of the greatest accomplishments mankind has ever done. ~ Doug Liman,

1175:I watch with envious eyes and mind, the single-souled who dare not feel The wind that blows beyond the moon, who do not hear the fairy reel ~ Neil Gaiman,

1176:No living thing ever defeated Tain Hu in battle. Only the tide could fight her. Only the moon and the sea together could bring her down. ~ Seth Dickinson,

1177:The moon doesn’t consider one phase better than another. She just glows, equally stunning at each turn. Why should we be any different? ~ Cristen Rodgers,

1178:The Moon would shine as brightly as the midmorning sun, and by the end of the two minutes, the lunar regolith would be heated to a glow. ~ Randall Munroe,

1179:There is no longer any older generation. You have become it, while your mind was mostly on other matters.' (from "The Man in the Moon") ~ William Maxwell,

1180:The self is fundamentally an illusion arising as a reflection of the soul in matter, much as a clear lake at midnight reflects the moon. ~ Fred Alan Wolf,

1181:The wisdom of the Moon is greater than the wisdom of the Earth, because the Moon sees the universe closer than the Earth can see it! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,

1182:Through the sun of your love, the motes of the souls have become like the moon, and every moment a star of felicity comes into the sky. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi,

1183:War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull. ~ Mark Twain,

1184:At a time when we can split the atom, land on the moon, and decode the human genome, why do 2 billion people live on less than $2 a day? ~ Charles Wheelan,

1185:But she laughs like that, one more time, her arms wrapped around her body and her green eyes lit up under the moon, and yeah... I'm ruined. ~ Ginger Scott,

1186:He could well imagine what the moon had given her: pure solitude and tranquillity. That was the best thing the moon could give a person. ~ Haruki Murakami,

1187:I don't know, I'm not from this neighborhood."-to Jake LaMotta after a night of drinking when LaMotta asked "is that the sun or the moon? ~ Rocky Graziano,

1188:I gain my freedom on the day the moon loses her daughter, if that occurs in a week when two Mondays come together. I await it with patience. ~ Neil Gaiman,

1189:...I got to love solitude - to see the Moon rise and set - I had time to watch it trace the window square across the wall in silent grace... ~ John Geddes,

1190:I thought you'd have learned by now. I'm going to stay by you until the sun and the moon and the stars spin down into darkness and dust. ~ Bill Willingham,

1191:I trembled, and my heart failed within me; when, on looking up, I saw, by the light of the moon, the daemon at the casement. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,

1192:Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and he's pining for the moon. ~ Susan Howatch,

1193:Look at this evening. Cousin Kate! Imagine, Cousin Kate! But where have you been off to? Did you succeed in catching the moon in the Ganges? ~ E M Forster,

1194:Man, made after God's image, was a nobler creation than twinkling sparks in the sky, or than the larger and more useful lamp of the moon. ~ David Brewster,

1195:Somehow, from this Gilbert concluded that the Moon’s craters were indeed formed by impacts—in itself quite a radical notion for the time—but ~ Bill Bryson,

1196:So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day. ~ Zora Neale Hurston,

1197:The Russians haven't been to the moon. You know why? Because they're space pussies... You really want to impress us? Bring us back our FLAG! ~ Sam Kinison,

1198:The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon ~ Ken Kesey,

1199:Where did you live before you came here?" I asked. "The moon," he said smoothly. "We left because the place had no atmosphere. ~ Laurie Halse Anderson,

1200:I always wondered if you clone your wife and have the cloned wife on the moon and the real wife down here, would that be considered cheating? ~ Luis Guzman,

1201:I am Sailor Moon, champion of justice! On behalf of the moon, I will right wrongs and triumph over evil, and that means you! - sailor moon ~ Naoko Takeuchi,

1202:I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

1203:...I see myself at crossroads in my life, mapless, lacking bits of knowledge - then, the Moon breaks through, lights up the path before me... ~ John Geddes,

1204:i want to be in love with you the same way i am in love with the moon with the light shining out of its soul. ~ Sanober Khan,

1205:I would say anybody who's willing to listen to Dark Side of the Moon and watch The Wizard of Oz is already a very sensitive, creative person. ~ Wayne Coyne,

1206:Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon. ~ Tom Robbins,

1207:The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,

1208:The moon shows it all. Thank god the moon is on my side. I’ll need a piece of that, a piece of Sarah, all of myself and all of Simon. ~ Catherine Ryan Hyde,

1209:When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life. ~ Charles Dickens,

1210:Ah, faerics, dancing under the moon, A Druid land, a Druid tune! While still I may, I write for you The love I lived, the dream I knew. ~ W B Yeats,

1211:Each that we lose takes part of us; A crescent still abides, Which like the moon, some turbid night, Is summoned by the tides. ~ Emily Dickinson,

1212:How many of us have asked the question, ‘If this great country of ours can put a man on the moon why can’t we find a cure for cancer? ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee,

1213:I hate the moon—I am afraid of it—for when it shines on certain scenes familiar and loved it sometimes makes them unfamiliar and hideous. It ~ H P Lovecraft,

1214:In a way, J.F.K. was the high point of the American dream. In order to go to the moon and back, all we did was say we could - and we did. ~ Richard Dreyfuss,

1215:I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon pales next to it. ~ Kathryn Lasky,

1216:I watch with envious eyes and mind, the single-souled who dare not feel The wind that blows beyond the moon, who do not hear the fairy reel ~ Neil Gaiman,

1217:Once, she had taken love for granted. Never again. Love was the sun and the moon and the stars in a world that was otherwise cold and dark. ~ Kristin Hannah,

1218:One who previously made bad karma, but who reforms and creates good karma, brightens the world like the moon appearing from behind a cloud. ~ Gautama Buddha,

1219:Over the moon about strong support for the National Health Service - an institution I will defend to my dying day, second only to Everton FC. ~ Andy Burnham,

1220:Some nights stay up till dawn, as the moon sometimes does for the sun. Be a full bucket pulled up the dark way of a well, then lifted out into light. ~ Rumi,

1221:The galleon clouds seemed to have dropped anchor in the sky, and the night appeared to have frozen in the ice-pale glow of the moon. Something ~ Dean Koontz,

1222:The moon always calmed her - something about the way its soft glow broke through, like there was still hope, even surrounded by the darkness. ~ Cindi Madsen,

1223:The raft is used to cross the river. It isn't to be carried around on your shoulders. The finger which points at the moon isn't the moon itself. ~ Nhat Hanh,

1224:There was a woman. An old and contorted woman. And the moon was somehow important. But every other detail fled as soon as she reached for it. ~ Darcy Coates,

1225:The Suicide, as she is falling, Illuminated by the moon, Regrets her act, and finds appalling The thought she will be dead so soon. ~ Edward Gorey,

1226:The sun rose, the moon saturated the night sky with its silver light and the stars blazed, indifferent to the events happening below them. ~ Victoria Hislop,

1227:Tis "the witching time of night", / Orbed is the moon and bright, / And the stars they glisten, glisten, / Seeming with bright eyes to listen — ~ John Keats,

1228:When I first discovered the moon, he said, I gave it a different name. But everyone kept calling it the moon. The real name never caught on. ~ Brian Andreas,

1229:When the moon reaches its fullest state, then a man shall go mad for the moon affects the flow of blood just as it affects the tide of the sea. ~ C L Bevill,

1230:whose dark and icy depths were starting to seem as distant as the moon. Just as it had before he faced the Horntail, time was slipping away as ~ J K Rowling,

1231:You can go to the dark side of the moon and back and see nothing more wonderful and strange than the way men and women manage to get together. ~ John Updike,

1232:A future as lonely as the surface of the moon and still just the sight of him feels like a homecoming, like a song I used to know but forgot. ~ Katie Cotugno,

1233:Aristotle thought the earth was stationary and that the sun, the moon, the planets, and the stars moved in circular orbits about the earth. ~ Stephen Hawking,

1234:Evie," he whispered next to her ear, "I want to make love to you, hold you in my arms, until the moon crosses the sky and the morning comes. ~ Caroline Fyffe,

1235:For a shy girl unused to men, it is easier to hurl the moon from the sky than it is to turn away from a man who truly wishes to pursue her. ~ Simone St James,

1236:For the world was built in order around the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

1237:I could smell fog even at this level now. It was rolling down from the mountains, flooding out the moon, as well as rising from the sea. The ~ Ross Macdonald,

1238:If the earth should cease to attract its waters to itself all the waters of the sea would be raised and would flow to the body of the moon. ~ Johannes Kepler,

1239:Look upon our beloved Mexico―the ancient singers gave her such lovely names: Navel of the Moon Foundation of Heaven Sea-Ringed World. ~ David Bowles,

1240:Never," said Hagrid irritably, "try an' get a straight answer out of a centaur. Ruddy stargazers. Not interested in anythin' closer'n the moon. ~ J K Rowling,

1241:The Minnow If I press on its head, the eyes will come out like stars. The ripples it makes can move the moon. ~ Frank Stanford,

1242:The moon floats in a dark blue space, and shames billions of stars by its light. She has things to tell you; in fact she is talking to you, ~ Qais Akbar Omar,

1243:Thought can at best point to the truth, but it never is the truth. That’s why Buddhists say “The finger pointing to the moon is not the moon. ~ Eckhart Tolle,

1244:We do see him,” Amah said. “You know, the Mountain Spirit is also called the Old Man of the Moon. So you see him every time you look at the moon. ~ Grace Lin,

1245:A half-century after racing the Russians to the moon, the U.S. is barely suiting up in the international race to secure interests in the Arctic. ~ Rick Larsen,

1246:Have they built cities on the moon?" another boy asked hopefully. "We left some garbage and a flag there in the sixties, but thats about it. ~ Ransom Riggs,

1247:I came to realize clearly that the mind is no other than the Mountain and the Rivers and the great wide Earth, the Sun and the Moon and the Sky”. ~ Lord Byron,

1248:I can't help myself. I can't let him go. I'm as bound to him as the moon is to the earth. He keeps me in orbit; and maybe I do the same for him. ~ J H Trumble,

1249:If I get hold of a book and see that the sun shone, the moon floated by, the air was fragrant, the birds tweeted—I fling it across the room. ~ Sholom Aleichem,

1250:It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

1251:O, swear not by the moon, th’ inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable. ~ William Shakespeare,

1252:Papa said scientists speculated that from the moon, the earth looked blue. That night I believed it. I would draw it blue and heavy with tears. ~ Ruta Sepetys,

1253:Realization doesn't destroy the individual any more than the reflection of the moon breaks a drop of water. A drop of water can reflect the whole sky. ~ Dogen,

1254:Sending a man to the Moon and finding Osama Bin Laden cost the US government about the same amount of time and money: ten years and $100 billion. ~ John Lloyd,

1255:The message from the moon which we have flashed to the far corners of this planet is that no problem need any longer be considered insoluble. ~ Norman Cousins,

1256:The Moon is our local port opening to the universe; in the future, it's through that port we will sail our ships to the coastless oceans. ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,

1257:Vegas is purposefully constructed as a self-enclosed and isolated biosphere, sort of what a recreational colony built on the moon might be like. ~ Marc Cooper,

1258:We are fiddle, fork, and spoon, We are dancing with the moon, If you'd like to steal a kiss from us, You'd better steal one soon! ~ Elizabeth Gilbert,

1259:You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say? ~ Toni Morrison,

1260:You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon. ~ Ray Bradbury,

1261:You will never know the moon or stars, unless you breathe in their solar system and inspect it from many diverse vantage points as possible. ~ Shannon L Alder,

1262:Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon. ~ Oscar Wilde,

1263:forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums ~ Zbigniew Herbert,

1264:I ended up realizing that NASA was unlikely to get me into space, or get me to the moon or beyond, and I needed some other way to drive this. ~ Peter Diamandis,

1265:If we can send a person to the moon, we can send someone with AIDS to the moon, and then someday we can send everybody with AIDS to the moon. ~ Sarah Silverman,

1266:...I live with regrets - the bittersweet loss of innocence - the red track of the moon upon the lake - the inability to return and do it again... ~ John Geddes,

1267:In the night the cabbages catch at the moon, the leaves drip silver, the rows of cabbages are a series of little silver waterfalls in the moon. ~ Carl Sandburg,

1268:Just as the moon derives the light it reflects from the sun, so the rational human mind derives a created ability to know from its origin, God. ~ Ronald H Nash,

1269:Newt Gingrich wants to build a colony on the Moon. OK, you say, but why? Well, he wants to be the first American to get divorced on the Moon. ~ David Letterman,

1270:People don't roll around naked in my books. I do allow them to go to bed if they're married, but it's all very wonderful and the moon beams. ~ Barbara Cartland,

1271:The moon was so young, so strange, even as a young girl who is dreaming and is afraid to tell her dreams; and it was shining only for itself. ~ Leonid Andreyev,

1272:Then she snapped her fingers and we were standing on Europa, discussing the possibility of extraterrestrial life beneath the moon’s icy crust. I ~ Ernest Cline,

1273:We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

1274:We should have stayed on the moon. We should have made moon the base, instead of building space stations, which are fragile and which fly apart. ~ Ray Bradbury,

1275:When you come upon a path that brings benefit and happiness to all, follow this course as the moon journeys through the stars. ~ Gautama Buddha,

1276:With the terrifying suddenness to which I, the Northerner, never grew accustomed, the equatorial night rushed down upon us and the moon came up. ~ Dore Strauch,

1277:Allah manages everything in the heavens and earth—the sun, the moon, the stars—with perfection, and yet we don’t trust Him to manage our lives! ~ Yasmin Mogahed,

1278:Darkness loves him. He dances with it like a lover and the moon comes up over the purple hill and what was sweet smells sour. Smells like poison. ~ Stephen King,

1279:He has come to be the great man he thought he wanted to be. If this is true, then he is not a man. He is still a little boy and wants the moon. ~ John Steinbeck,

1280:If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library. ~ Peter Singer,

1281:If you want the moon, do not hide from the night. If you want a rose, do not run from the thorns. If you want love, do not hide from yourself. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi,

1282:...in January, everything seems desolate. The Moon ascends to cold heights - and I, a ragged sky filled with dark kisses...lie abandoned by you... ~ John Geddes,

1283:[I was] more than a little willing to take a detour into crazy when the moon was full… “Sometimes nothing says what you feel like a curse. ~ Drew Jordan,

1284:nightmare. He felt a surge of panic and escaped from the darkened bedroom. The moon was nearly full and cast its silvery light through the open ~ Monique Martin,

1285:Now it's like a fog has lifted. I sense Leetu just as clearly as I can see the moon.' Your eyes are closed, and the moon as a haze around it. ~ Donita K Paul,

1286:Out here, in the cold, with the moon and the huge stars overhead and with kind, merry faces all round them, one couldn't quite believe in Underland. ~ C S Lewis,

1287:Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon. ~ Mary Karr,

1288:The moon was gone, but to the magician's eyes the unicorn was the moon, cold and white and very old, lighting his way to safety, or to madness. ~ Peter S Beagle,

1289:We are 93 million miles from the sun. 238 thousand miles from the moon. A moment from finding magic and one kiss away from reaching our dreams. ~ Robert M Drake,

1290:We prayed the moon would unstopper long enough to suck us through to the other side so we could see how dull the stars were at their backsides. ~ Lindsay Hunter,

1291:We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

1292:When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police. ~ Langston Hughes,

1293:As the moon rose, I saw the light illuminate an ancient quote from the Ano Classics, carved into one of the broken lintels: ‘All life is an experiment. ~ Ken Liu,

1294:I, the fiery life of divine wisdom, I ignite the beauty of the plains, I sparkle the water, I burn in the sun, and the moon, and the stars. ~ Hildegard of Bingen,

1295:It is only after we have integrated the dark side of the moon into our world view that we can begin to talk seriously of universal culture. ~ Shulamith Firestone,

1296:Journey to the end of day, Come the fire-fly, Come the moon; Say a prayer for God's good grace And sleep with lore upon your face. ~ Clive Barker,

1297:Just go on dancing with me like this forever, Garraty. And I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoe on the stars and hang upside dowm from the moon. ~ Stephen King,

1298:...the child of a wolf may not feel like she has fangs until she finds herself facing the moon, but they are still there the whole time regardless. ~ Jenni Fagan,

1299:The moon bled, stars fell from the sky, and Death laughed from the shadows: my typical Friday night.”                                      —Caine ~ Morgan Blayde,

1300:The moon shines bright. In such a night as this. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees and they did make no noise, in such a night. ~ William Shakespeare,

1301:The moon was through to the sunset side of the gap, but its light was hardly noticeable on the earth for the ruddy brilliance of the firelight. ~ William Golding,

1302:There was a man who loved the moon, but whenever he tried to embrace her, she broke into a thousand pieces and left him drenched, with empty arms. ~ Laini Taylor,

1303:The same people who crossed seas in bygone eras, or rode wagons out west, or put men on the moon are now dreaming about humanity on Mars and beyond. ~ Hugh Howey,

1304:The Suicide, as she is falling, Illuminated by the moon, Regrets her act, and finds appalling The thought she will be dead so soon. ~ Gavin de Becker,

1305:The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,

1306:Yes, the moon elf was very different. But so were arrow and bow, and yet they worked together to become more than what either might be alone. ~ Elaine Cunningham,

1307:Ah, faerics, dancing under the moon, A Druid land, a Druid tune! While still I may, I write for you The love I lived, the dream I knew. ~ Alfred Tennyson,

1308:But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

1309:Fiery goddess in search of the perfect god. Soar with me through clouds, frolic under the stars, hand me the moon for my own. Mortals need not reply. ~ Kate Perry,

1310:He no longer had an accurate visual memory of the size of the moon in the sky, and so he could not estimate how many times larger the cloud was. ~ Neal Stephenson,

1311:I enjoy looking at your face... Whenever I look at your face, a question always comes to my mind... Will man ever succeed in reaching the moon? ~ Charles M Schulz,

1312:I grew up expecting to see the first man land on the moon. It never occurred to me that I’d see the last one. We thought there’d be a moon base. ~ Terry Pratchett,

1313:I'm not any happier anywhere than when I'm in the studio. I'm over the moon about it. It keeps me young, it keeps me feeling like I have some purpose. ~ Tom Petty,

1314:I saw the reflection of the moon in the water, but was horrified to see there was no moon in the sky: the moon had been drowned in the water. ~ Leonora Carrington,

1315:It is no secret that the moon has no light of her own, but is, as it were, a mirror, receiving brightness from the influence of the sun. ~ Marcus Vitruvius Pollio,

1316:Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal. ~ Wally Schirra,

1317:Nobody looks at the moon in the afternoon, and this is the moment when it would most require our attention, since its existence is still in doubt. ~ Italo Calvino,

1318:Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied,- "If you seek for Eldorado. ~ Edgar Allan Poe,

1319:The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as far as the Moon. ~ Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle,

1320:The raft is used to cross the river. It isn't to be carried around on your shoulders. The finger which points at the moon isn't the moon itself. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,

1321:There is more He-3 energy on the Moon than we have ever had in the form of fossil fuels on Earth. All we have to do is to go there and get it. ~ Wilson Greatbatch,

1322:Time piles up like brush. You burn it in the fall and all you remember are the glowing cinders. I got ash heaps everywhere I look. -Old of the Moon ~ Chris Offutt,

1323:when the moon rises on this coast but the sun still burns shamelessly on yours i crumble knowing even our skies are different - long distance ~ Rupi Kaur,

1324:All those millions of stars and planets and it only takes three to make something important. The Sun, the Moon, and the Earth. And here we are. Life. ~ Dan Skinner,

1325:Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress. ~ John Milton,

1326:If Brett is Sirius, brighter than anything else in the night sky, Lennon in the moon: often dark and hidden, but closer than any star. Always there. ~ Jenn Bennett,

1327:I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full. ~ Lord Dunsany,

1328:It was almost totally dark out, but the trees were casting their shadows on the ground because the moon was out—and it was incredibly bright and clear. ~ Anonymous,

1329:💜 (¸.•´¯) ¸.•´ ✨ Let the water settle, YOᘮ will see the moon and starsmirrored in YOᘮર Being︵‿︵︵‿💜 ~ Jalaluddin Rumi #Peace #enlightenment #awakening#ShinelikeDay🙏,

1330:One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver. ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett,

1331:The moon doesn’t have enough gravity to keep an atmosphere around it and some men doesn’t have enough honour to keep God’s angels around them! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,

1332:The moon shines bright. In such a night as this. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees and they did make no noise, in such a night... ~ William Shakespeare,

1333:The Moon shows us only one side of its face and there is no man on Earth who can succeed this! Every man’s other face has its time to be seen! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,

1334:The ordinal directions are represented by the moon (the north-east), the sun (the south-west), fire (the north-west) and wind (the south-east). ~ Devdutt Pattanaik,

1335:When we went to the moon and realized that the Soviet Union had no realistic plans of getting to the moon, then we stopped going to the moon. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson,

1336:And they dreamt. They dreamt and dreamt, and the stars wheeled overhead and away and the moon hid in the trees and the sun moved around the car. ~ Maggie Stiefvater,

1337:If the character has the motivation to dance round trees, then I will dance round trees. If the motivation is strong enough, then I'll fly to the moon. ~ Rahul Bose,

1338:I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

1339:It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi,

1340:The heat in her eyes? I put it there. She's like a gift that was never mine to unwrap. But now she's looking up at me like I hung the moon and stars. ~ Sarina Bowen,

1341:We constantly learn new lessons up here. The experiences we gather will enable us to establish a long-term station on the moon and to go on to Mars. ~ John Phillips,

1342:We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are the shining parts, is the soul. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

1343:By the way, while Neil was the first human to step onto the moon, I’m the first alien from another world to enter a spacecraft that was going to Earth. ~ Buzz Aldrin,

1344:Drink the sun’s warmth and the moon’s icy glitter, and taste that which the dead and the yet-to-be-born cannot: the potency of this world. ~ Emmanuelle de Maupassant,

1345:Flux Sand of the sea runs red Where the sunset reaches and quivers. Sand of the sea runs yellow Where the moon slants and wavers. ~ Carl Sandburg,

1346:I fully expect that NASA will send me back to the moon as they treated Sen. Glenn, and if they don't do otherwise, why, then I'll have to do it myself. ~ Pete Conrad,

1347:If you howl at the moon and swear on your own blood, anything you desire will be yours. Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch. ~ Laurie Halse Anderson,

1348:Just go on dancing with me like this forever, Garraty, and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoes on the stars and hang upside down from the moon. ~ Richard Bachman,

1349:Paprika is evidence that Japanese animators are reaching for the moon, while most of their American counterparts remain stuck in the kiddie sandbox. ~ Manohla Dargis,

1350:Stars filled every quadrant of the heavens. The moon drew her veil and then lowered it again, and the soft breeze made the pines shiver ever so slightly, ~ Anne Rice,

1351:Tess, I’m not going to promise you the moon and the stars, but I am going to promise you that I won’t forget to dance with you under them anymore. ~ Jennifer Van Wyk,

1352:the craziest thing I’ve ever heard of. It’s about as plausible as someone telling me I need to drag the moon out of the sky and park it in the street. I ~ Ruby Dixon,

1353:The moon is wicked, jealous of the sun. People do bad things in the dark, under the hollow gaze of the moon. It’s smiling at me now, proud of my sin. ~ Tarryn Fisher,

1354:The stars whirled above us and the firecrackers blazed. The moon stood watch as drops of blood fell, careless seeds that sizzled in the snow. ~ Laurie Halse Anderson,

1355:The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful the life is, is from the vantage point of death. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,

1356:The worst part of it is you don't know if he's barking at an owl, the moon or a burglar!" "That's one of the drawbacks of a limited vocabulary! ~ Charles M Schulz,

1357:True poetry (inspired by the Muse and her prime symbol, the moon) even today is a survival, or intuitive re-creation, of the ancient Goddess-worship. ~ Robert Graves,

1358:As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool. ~ Akhenaton,

1359:At Nikitatsu We have waited for the moon Before boarding our boat; Now the tide is in at last -- Come, let's get to rowing ~ Nukata, Lets Get to Rowing ,

1360:Beneath the blossoms with a pot of wine, No friends at hand, so I poured alone; I raised my cup to invite the moon, Turned to my shadow, and we became three. ~ Li Bai,

1361:In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. ~ John Burroughs,

1362:Many girls have been romanced under the moon, and I don’t mean to say moonlight is overrated, but few I think have known the magic of a sunrise kiss. ~ Jerry Spinelli,

1363:She doesn't know where she is going. She doesn't know when the next demons will appear. But she will keep on walking. She will follow the moon. ~ Deborah Ellis,

1364:There was a man who had a fly in his eye when he looked through the telescope, and he discovered that there was a most incredible dragon in the moon. ~ G K Chesterton,

1365:Thy beauty hangs around thee like Splendour around the moon-- Thy voice, as silver bells that strike Upon... ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, Beautys Halo ,

1366:You see?" Thane waved at the photo. "Everything about her is nonsensical. A dragon who lies with a wolf? I suppose pigs fly and the moon is blue, too. ~ Erin Kellison,

1367:A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me. ~ Charles Kuralt,

1368:Definite planning even went beyond the surface of this planet: NASA’s Apollo Program began in 1961 and put 12 men on the moon before it finished in 1972. ~ Peter Thiel,

1369:If you want your hair to be thicker, cut it when the moon is about to be full - a heavy, full, waxing moon. Do not cut it when the moon's waning. ~ Matthew McConaughey,

1370:Little things recall us to earth. The clock struck in the hall; that sufficed. I turned from the moon and the stars, opened a side door, and went in. ~ Charlotte Bront,

1371:Oh, if I had a penny for every time I've been informed by a evangelical male that I have trouble with submission, I could plate the moon in copper. ~ Rachel Held Evans,

1372:President Bush announced a billion dollar mission to the moon and Mars. He came up with a snappy new slogan - to drill where no man has drilled before. ~ Craig Kilborn,

1373:Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being. ~ Carl Jung,

1374:They say she is too much to handle, but when the moon pulls the tide and the wolves howl her name, blessed are the ones who have been taken by her wild. ~ Nicole Lyons,

1375:We didn't go to the moon to explore or because it was in our DNA or because we're Americans. We went because we were at war and we felt a threat. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson,

1376:A man should not love the moon. An ax should not lose weight in his hand. His garden should smell of rotting apples, And grow a fair amount of nettles. ~ Czeslaw Milosz,

1377:I suppose we shall soon travel by air-vessels; make air instead of sea voyages; and at length find our way to the moon, in spite of the want of atmosphere. ~ Lord Byron,

1378:I've never been content to pass a stone without looking under it. And it is a black disappointment to me that I can never see the far side of the moon. ~ John Steinbeck,

1379:Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it—but there is. ~ Olive Schreiner,

1380:O, swear not by the moon, the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable ~ William Shakespeare,

1381:Some nights stay up till dawn, as the moon sometimes does for the sun. Be a full bucket pulled up the dark way of a well, then lifted out into light. ~ Rumi,

1382:The moon has withdrawn behind a kicho of mist. Must she be so formal? Are others, elsewhere, welcomed in behind her screen as ardent lovers? I am jealous. ~ Kara Dalkey,

1383:The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current. ~ Willa Cather,

1384:The tides surged through the marsh and each wave that hit the beach came light-struck and broad-shouldered, with all the raw power the moon could bestow. ~ John Berendt,

1385:What if I approached my life the way I look at the moon, with mystery and longing and a weight that is both beautiful and terrifying at the same time? ~ Emily P Freeman,

1386:What she did to me was bad enough.” Ash’s silver eyes glittered as he turned back, cold as the moon overhead. “What she made me do, I will never forgive. ~ Julie Kagawa,

1387:You wouldn't think a girl in bandages with a blackened eye could be beautiful, but Denna was. Lovely as the moon: not flawless, perhaps, but perfect. ~ Patrick Rothfuss,

1388:Being with her is my survival; loving her is effortless. She is the shining center of my universe and her love is the moon that pulls the tide of my heart. ~ Jewel E Ann,

1389:Even the moon gets to put its feet up once a month. Man in the Moon, of course. If it was a Woman in the Moon, she’d never sit down. Well, would she? I ~ Allison Pearson,

1390:Having day dreams, tonguing you down with, uh, vanilla ice cream. Kissing on your thigh in the moon light, searching your body with my tongue girl all night. ~ LL Cool J,

1391:I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations. ~ Ace Frehley,

1392:I look at the stars and I see you, I look at the moon and I see you, I look at the trees and I see you, Please step aside, you are blocking my view. ~ Anonymous,

1393:Light as feathers the witches fly, The horn of the moon is plain to see; By a firefly under a jonquil flower A goblin toasts a bumble-bee. ~ Katherine Mansfield,

1394:The moon appears to be really present, but if you strike the water, nothing will be there. Similarly, your opponent should find nothing solid to strike ~ Morihei Ueshiba,

1395:the moon knows her better than any man could she told her secrets to the night and kept it all hidden behind a beautiful smile during the day ~ R H Sin,

1396:The moon was still up, still full. Americans called this time of year “October” or, sometimes, “Autumn,” but the librarians reckoned time by the heavens. ~ Scott Hawkins,

1397:The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon. ~ Al McGuire,

1398:There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery. ~ Joseph Conrad,

1399:Your thoughts are a veil on the face of the Moon. That Moon is your heart, and those thoughts cover your heart. So let them go, just let them fall into the water. ~ Rumi,

1400:Everything was bathed in the white, unreal light of the moon, the yard like the wet bottom of a sea from which the water has just been suddenly removed. ~ Haruki Murakami,

1401:I'm not a space writer, obviously, but I had bought this big photo book of the moon landing. You just get attached to certain stories that don't let you go. ~ Lily Koppel,

1402:The undisturbed mind is like the calm body water reflecting the brilliance of the moon. Empty the mind and you will realize the undisturbed mind. ~ Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi,

1403:the year she had run fleetly through the dewy grass under the moon- the night of wine, when dreams condensed out of thin air like the nightmilk of fantasy. ~ Stephen King,

1404:We should go to the moon and prepare a base to fire a rocket off to Mars and then go to Mars and colonize Mars. Then when we do that, we will live forever. ~ Ray Bradbury,

1405:We went into darkness after being in daylight the whole time on the way to the Moon. And then we went into darkness. And we're in the shadow... of the Moon. ~ Gene Cernan,

1406:When many others blamed the eclipse phenomenon on supernatural events, Zhenyi wrote back, “Actually, it’s definitely because of the moon.” (Direct quote!) All ~ Sam Maggs,

1407:Although its light is wide and great, the Moon is reflected in a puddle one inch wide. The whole Moon and the entire sky is reflected in one dew drop on the grass. ~ Dogen,

1408:America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked. ~ David Letterman,

1409:But the Can Man is still touched in the head, and on nights when the world closes in on him, he still gets down on his hands and knees and howls at the moon. ~ Paul Auster,

1410:How we use the knowledge we gain determines our progress on earth, in space or on the moon. Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well. ~ Neil Armstrong,

1411:I have a class in Hermosa Beach that starts at eight, but …” I wanted to offer to pick up her car, drive her back to Hermosa Beach, take her to the moon. ~ Carolee Dean,

1412:Let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal. ~ William Shakespeare,

1413:Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon. (pg. 61) ~ Tom Robbins,

1414:Pat’s knowledge of terrestrial history was vague; like most residents of the Moon, he tended to assume that nothing of great importance had ever happened ~ Arthur C Clarke,

1415:The moon is made round by the right hand of God. The moon is made crescent by His left. But it is God’s heart that makes my love for you forever. ~ Deborah Rodriguez,

1416:The moon's reflection bored into the flat water like a hole into the sea, like the ice well where Tert Card's father's hairy devil washed his pots and pans. ~ Annie Proulx,

1417:The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene. ~ Michel de Montaigne,

1418:The poem says you only think you’re alive but about to be born your radioactive heliographs mock the moon’s tongue.” — Philip Lamantia, “Fin Del Mundo ~ Philip Lamantia,

1419:There is a legend that everything wasted on the earth is stored and treasured on the moon: unfulfilled dreams, broken vows, unanswered prayers, wasted time ~ Martin Millar,

1420:Why not under the moon,” the historian muttered. “Cool night air, stars high overhead with every spirit looking down. Now that would ensure success!” Bult ~ Steven Erikson,

1421:And the moon never beams Without bringing me dreams And the sun never shines But I see the bright eyes I lie down by the side Of my darling My life, my life. ~ Stevie Nicks,

1422:I have trouble controlling my base emotions when the moon is full, but anger is the hardest for me. If I'm mad, I turn into the Hulk. Except I'm not green. ~ Amanda Carlson,

1423:In a world where even the moon had been traveled, the floor of the Atlantic remained uncharted wilderness, its shipwrecks beacons for men compelled to look. ~ Robert Kurson,

1424:note. 285. The Sea. 286. The Moon. 287. The comparison may to a European reader seem a homely one. But Spenser likens an infuriate woman to a cow“That is berobbed ~ Valmiki,

1425:People say the magic has gone out of the moon now that someone’s stood on it. I don’t think so. It would take more than a man’s foot to steal the moon. ~ Jeanette Winterson,

1426:Solitude, says the moon shell. Every person, especially every woman, should be alone sometime during the year, some part of each week, and each day. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh,

1427:The moon ... is a mad woman holding up her dress So that her white belly shines. Haughty, Impregnable, Ridiculous, Silent and white as a debauched queen. ~ Yevgeny Zamyatin,

1428:The Moon, the dried weeds and the Pleiades - Seven feet tall the dark, dried weed stalks make a part of the night a red lace on the milky blue sky ~ William Carlos Williams,

1429:The night was over, for he did not dare to play forbidden games with a woman who had proven too many times that she knew the dark side of the moon. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez,

1430:There is a legend that everything wasted on the earth is stored and treasured on the moon: unfulfilled dreams, broken vows, unanswered prayers, wasted time. ~ Martin Millar,

1431:The sky was black, the moon visiting some other part of the world, as Scarlett took her first step into Caraval. Only a few rebel stars held posts above, ~ Stephanie Garber,

1432:The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out You left me in the dark No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight In the shadow of your heart ~ Florence Welch,

1433:A new road or a secret gate, And though we pass them by today, Tomorrow we may come this way And take the hidden paths that run Towards the Moon or to the Sun. ~ Peter Thiel,

1434:Higher and higher receded the sky, wider and wider spread the streak of dawn, whiter grew the pallid silver of the dew, more lifeless the sickle of the moon... ~ Leo Tolstoy,

1435:In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger, I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover. ~ Wendell Berry,

1436:Into the sunset's turquoise marge The moon dips, like a pearly barge; Enchantment sails through magic seas, To fairland Hesperides, Over the hills and away. ~ Madison Cawein,

1437:The Dark Side of the Moon is a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites, but demands involvement. There is a certain grandeur. ~ Alan Parsons,

1438:When you point to the moon, what do you see in front of your finger; Your task is to feel, not to think, when you can understand that the lesson will be learned. ~ Bruce Lee,

1439:A cat peeped in the window. It had one white paw. One night it had decided to dip it into the reflection of the moon in a fountain to see what would happen. ~ Heather O Neill,

1440:Ah, the feeling you get holding a diamond in your hand! It seems to bore into your skin, to burn, to breathe. It's like holding a bit of the moon in your hand. ~ Anna Magnani,

1441:A Mocking Bird regularly resorts to the south angle of a chimney top and salutes us with sweetest notes from the rising of the moon until about midnight. ~ John James Audubon,

1442:I was wedded to all the stars of the sky.There was not a single star left, and I married every one of them with great spiritual pleasure. Then I married the moon. ~ Ibn Arabi,

1443:Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things. ~ Oscar Wilde,

1444:More than five hundred people have flown in space and twelve people have walked on the moon, but only three humans in history have been to the bottom of the ocean. ~ Bill Nye,

1445:She's a surprise this old earth, one big surprise after another since before she separated from the moon who circles and circles like the mate of a shot goose. ~ Peter Heller,

1446:She’s a surprise this old earth, one big surprise after another since before she separated from the moon who circles and circles like the mate of a shot goose. ~ Peter Heller,

1447:The first time I ever saw your face, I thought the sun rose in your eyes and the moon and the stars were the gifts you gave to the dark and empty sky, my love. ~ Ewan MacColl,

1448:The great thing about the moon landing is that my grandmother got the first color TV in order to be able to see the moon landing that was in black and white. ~ Alfonso Cuaron,

1449:The moon’s a dead rock, but I still like the word, so black in its white space. […] what can we say to the moon except You again? You again. ~ Franz Wright,

1450:...the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great beauty can risk being. ~ Anita Desai,

1451:Then, the night, with the moon and the stars, turned pale and died, and for a little while it seemed as if Creation were delivered over to Death’s dominion. ~ Charles Dickens,

1452:The sun knew not where she had housing; The moon knew not what Might he had; The stars knew not where stood their places. Thus was it ere the earth was fashioned. ~ Anonymous,

1453:This was how we'd always played. You were Cinderella, I was a mouse. You were Alice, I was the Hatter. You were the sun, and I wasn't even the moon. ~ David Levithan,

1454:Tonight or every night if you wish you can have a very distinguished guest from the space: Just open your curtain at night, then the Moon will visit you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,

1455:We can land men on the moon, but, for all our mechanical and electronic wizardry, we cannot reproduce an artificial fore-finger that can feel as well as beckon. ~ John Napier,

1456:What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in the stars. ~ Jodi Picoult,

1457:balancing a marriage’s weight against single independence. But weight is relative, and what’s heavy on Earth is light on the Moon and monstrous on Jupiter. ~ John Joseph Adams,

1458:But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space. ~ Harrison Schmitt,

1459:By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude. ~ Henry David Thoreau,

1460:If it doesn't feel like a job and I'm learning something and getting that rush that I get, I don't care if it's behind a camera, on a TV set, or on the moon. ~ Benjamin Walker,

1461:...maybe moths don’t think lightbulbs are the moon. Maybe they found out how far away the moon is, and simply chose suicide instead of failure. Wouldn’t you? ~ Scarlett Thomas,

1462:The sun is a thief: she lures the sea and robs it. The moon is a thief: he steals his silvery light from the sun. The sea is a thief: it dissolves the moon. ~ Vladimir Nabokov,

1463:They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon. ~ Edward Lear,

1464:Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy, To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt Is once to be resolved. ~ William Shakespeare,

1465:We were just two teenagers, looking up at the sky on a cold February night. So no, he didn’t give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity. ~ Jenny Han,

1466:How lucky our world is to have the Moon! How lucky we humans are to have the Moon! And finally how lucky our Moon is to have a view of the deep blue Earth! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,

1467:I do not want to sleep for fear I might miss the twinkle of the brightest star for fear I may never know how the moon glimmers, in the darkest hour. ~ Sanober Khan,

1468:I don't think in terms of failure....I don't feel like anyone outside of me should be setting limitations. People should be encouraged to shoot for the moon. ~ Whoopi Goldberg,

1469:I never really thought about how when I look at the moon it’s the same moon Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at. ~ Susan Beth Pfeffer,

1470:I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences Don't fence me in ~ Cole Porter,

1471:John F. Kennedy implored us to “ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country” and set us on a trajectory toward the moon. ~ David Cay Johnston,

1472:Mesmerized by the huge variety of perceptions, which are like the illusory reflections of the moon in water, beings wander endlessly in samsara's vicious cycle. ~ Jigme Lingpa,

1473:No more to wait the twilight of the moon in this sequestered vale of star and spire, for one eternal morning of desire passes to time and earthy afternoon. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald,

1474:She didn't quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a strong one, if they used a word like that to describe the insane. ~ Paulo Coelho,

1475:She is . . . the moon in my night sky. And that is the beginning, middle, and end of it. There is no more to be told than that, and never shall I speak of her again. ~ J R Ward,

1476:The moon is a loyal companion. It never leaves. It’s always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. ~ Tahereh Mafi,

1477:The night was serene. Not a cloud was in the zenith. What mattered is that the earth was red, the moon retained her whiteness. Such is the indifference of heaven. ~ Victor Hugo,

1478:We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own. ~ George W Bush,

1479:But this was not a time for begging favors from the moon. Not now. She could not rush and neither could she be delayed. Some things were simply too important. ~ Patrick Rothfuss,

1480: English version by Steven Heine The moon reflected In a mind clear As still water: Even the waves, breaking, Are reflecting its light. ~ Dogen, Zazen ,

1481:Everybody knows what the moon is, everybody knows what this decade is, and everybody can tell a live astronaut who returned from the moon from one who didn't ~ Wernher von Braun,

1482:I was back on the scented hillside with the moon coming out above the ruins of the temple where nothing remains now of the Goddess but her night-owls brooding. So ~ Mary Stewart,

1483:Just because you don't see it right away doesn't mean it's not there. So laugh under the stars. Dance in the rain. Howl at the moon. You never know who's watching. ~ Erica Hayes,

1484:Nights like this. They go on and on, outlasting the moon, because they're made of something else, something as quiet as a heartbeat and as sweeping as the wind. ~ Mary E Pearson,

1485:That orbèd maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon, Glides glimmering o’er my fleece-like floor By the midnight breezes strewn. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley,

1486:The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty. ~ Lyndon B Johnson,

1487:There are countless space activities that would be no less exciting than the moon missions were, I have no doubt. The search for life on Mars, for example. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson,

1488:The sun was good. The men of the llano were men of the sun. The men of the farms along the river were men of the moon. But we were all children of the white sun. ~ Rudolfo Anaya,

1489:We are different, my friend. We are visionaries. A monkey looks up and sees and banana, and that is as far as he looks. But a visionary looks up and sees the moon. ~ Eoin Colfer,

1490:We split the atom, we reached the moon, we’ve filled every household and business with more gadgets and gizmos than early sci-fi writers could have ever dreamed of. ~ Max Brooks,

1491:When I was a kid I used to tell myself the moon was a silver gong and if I could climb high enough to beat on it with both hands all my wishes would come true. ~ John Dos Passos,

1492:Will a day come when our cars have carbon-fiber tubs, 18,000-rpm V-10 engines, and ground-effects tunnels? Perhaps, about the same time we have condos on the moon. ~ Brock Yates,

1493:You can make a stack high enough to reach the moon and back, and only then will you have used your 100 billion hamburgers. This is terrifying news to cows. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson,

1494:And we sit there, by its margin, while the moon, who loves it too, stoops down to kiss it with a sister’s kiss, and throws her silver arms around it clingingly. ~ Jerome K Jerome,

1495:Are there no Moravians in the Moon, that not a missionary has yet visited this poor pagan planet of ours, to civilise civilisation and christianise Christendom? ~ Herman Melville,

1496:For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petar; and't shall go hard But I will delve one yard below their mines And blow them at the moon. ~ William Shakespeare,

1497:I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth. ~ John F Kennedy,

1498:Rhythms appear in the ways flowers grow, water flows, the earth moves around the sun, the moon moves through their dreams, and thoughts travel within their minds. ~ Blue Balliett,

1499:... the first step of the terrible journey toward feeling somebody should act, that ends in utter confusion and hopelessness, east of the sun and west of the moon. ~ John Ashbery,

1500:The moon had risen higher, and floating in the Sound was a triangle of silver scales, trembling a little to the stiff, tinny drip of the banjoes on the lawn. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald,

  409 Poetry
  113 Fiction
  102 Integral Yoga
   75 Occultism
   60 Mysticism
   50 Yoga
   42 Philosophy
   31 Psychology
   23 Christianity
   22 Islam
   14 Zen
   13 Hinduism
   9 Buddhism
   7 Sufism
   7 Philsophy
   5 Baha i Faith
   4 Mythology
   3 Theosophy
   1 Thelema
   1 Integral Theory
   1 Cybernetics
   1 Alchemy


   67 Percy Bysshe Shelley
   54 H P Lovecraft
   48 Nolini Kanta Gupta
   41 William Butler Yeats
   41 Sri Aurobindo
   40 Sri Ramakrishna
   40 Li Bai
   34 William Wordsworth
   31 Carl Jung
   27 Satprem
   26 The Mother
   24 Aleister Crowley
   22 Muhammad
   20 John Keats
   18 Rabindranath Tagore
   18 James George Frazer
   14 Jorge Luis Borges
   14 Edgar Allan Poe
   13 Walt Whitman
   10 Vyasa
   10 Robert Browning
   10 Jalaluddin Rumi
   9 Saint Augustine of Hippo
   9 Friedrich Schiller
   8 Swami Vivekananda
   7 Ralph Waldo Emerson
   7 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
   7 Franz Bardon
   7 Anonymous
   6 Matsuo Basho
   6 Kabir
   6 Friedrich Nietzsche
   5 Yosa Buson
   5 Taigu Ryokan
   5 Plotinus
   5 Plato
   5 Lucretius
   5 Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia
   5 Baha u llah
   4 Sri Ramana Maharshi
   4 Mirabai
   4 Hakuin
   3 Ovid
   3 Jordan Peterson
   3 George Van Vrekhem
   3 Alice Bailey
   3 Aldous Huxley
   3 A B Purani
   2 Ravidas
   2 Ramprasad
   2 Rainer Maria Rilke
   2 Patanjali
   2 Muso Soseki
   2 Masahide
   2 Mahendranath Gupta
   2 Lalla
   2 Jorge Luis Borges
   2 Izumi Shikibu
   2 Dogen
   2 Bokar Rinpoche
   2 Allama Muhammad Iqbal
   2 Al-Ghazali
   2 Alfred Tennyson


   67 Shelley - Poems
   54 Lovecraft - Poems
   41 Yeats - Poems
   40 Li Bai - Poems
   39 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
   34 Wordsworth - Poems
   22 Quran
   20 Keats - Poems
   19 Mysterium Coniunctionis
   18 The Golden Bough
   15 Tagore - Poems
   15 Savitri
   14 Poe - Poems
   13 Whitman - Poems
   12 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
   11 Magick Without Tears
   11 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
   10 Vishnu Purana
   10 Labyrinths
   10 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08
   10 Browning - Poems
   9 The Bible
   9 Schiller - Poems
   9 Liber ABA
   8 Talks
   8 Collected Poems
   8 City of God
   7 On the Way to Supermanhood
   7 Emerson - Poems
   6 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
   6 The Secret Doctrine
   6 The Practice of Magical Evocation
   6 Kena and Other Upanishads
   6 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
   6 Basho - Poems
   5 Vedic and Philological Studies
   5 Ryokan - Poems
   5 Rumi - Poems
   5 Of The Nature Of Things
   5 Goethe - Poems
   5 Crowley - Poems
   5 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
   4 The Practice of Psycho therapy
   4 The Divine Comedy
   4 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
   4 Songs of Kabir
   4 Borges - Poems
   4 Aion
   4 Agenda Vol 11
   4 A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah
   3 The Perennial Philosophy
   3 The Book of Certitude
   3 The Blue Cliff Records
   3 Raja-Yoga
   3 Preparing for the Miraculous
   3 Metamorphoses
   3 Maps of Meaning
   3 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
   3 Bhakti-Yoga
   3 A Treatise on Cosmic Fire
   3 Agenda Vol 10
   3 Agenda Vol 08
   2 Words Of Long Ago
   2 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
   2 The Alchemy of Happiness
   2 Tara - The Feminine Divine
   2 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
   2 Some Answers From The Mother
   2 Selected Fictions
   2 Rilke - Poems
   2 Record of Yoga
   2 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
   2 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 04
   2 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02
   2 Patanjali Yoga Sutras
   2 Letters On Poetry And Art
   2 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
   2 Faust
   2 Dogen - Poems
   2 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
   2 Anonymous - Poems
   2 Agenda Vol 04
   2 Agenda Vol 02

00.02 - Mystic Symbolism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    These other worlds are constituted in other ways than ours. Their contents are different and the laws that obtain there are also different. It would be a gross blunder to attempt a chart of any of these other systems, to use an Einsteinian term, with the measures and conventions of the system to which our external waking consciousness belongs. For, there "the sun shines not, nor The Moon, nor the stars, neither these lightnings nor this fire." The difficulty is further enhanced by the fact that there are very many unseen worlds and they all differ from the seen and from one another in manner and degree. Thus, for example, the Upanishads speak of the swapna, the suupta, and the turya, domains beyond the jgrat which is that where the rational being with its mind and senses lives and moves. And there are other systems and other ways in which systems exist, and they are practically innumerable.    If, however, we have to speak of these other worlds, then, since we can speak only in the terms of this world, we have to use them in a different sense from those they usually bear; we must employ them as figures and symbols. Even then they may prove inadequate and misleading; so there are Mystics who are averse to all speech and expression they are mauni; in silence they experience the inexpressible and in silence they communicate it to the few who have the capacity to receive in silence.

00.03 - Upanishadic Symbolism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    First of all, he has the Sun; it is the primary light by which he lives and moves. When the Sun sets, The Moon rises to replace it. When both the Sun and The Moon set, he has recourse to the Fire. And when the Fire, too, is extinguished, there comes the Word. In the end, when the Fire is quieted and the Word silenced, man is lighted by the Light of the Atman. This Atman is All-Knowledge; it is secreted within the life, within the heart: it is selfluminous Vijnamaya preu rdyantar jyoti..    The progression indicated by the order of succession points to a gradual withdrawal from the outer to the inner light, from the surface to the deep, from the obvious to the secret, from the actual and derivative to the real and original. We begin by the senses and move towards the Spirit.    The Sun is the first and the most immediate source of light that man has and needs. He is the presiding deity of our waking consciousness and has his seat in the eyecakusa ditya, ditya caku bhtvakii prviat. The eye is the representative of the senses; it is the sense par excellence. In truth, sense-perception is the initial light with which we have to guide us, it is the light with which we start on the way. A developed stage comes when the Sun sets for us, that is to say, when we retire from the senses and rise into the mind, whose divinity is The Moon. It is the mental knowledge, the light of reason and intelligence, of reflection and imagination that govern our consciousness. We have to proceed farther and get beyond the mind, exceed the derivative light of The Moon. So when The Moon sets, the Fire is kindled. It is the light of the ardent and aspiring heart, the glow of an inner urge, the instincts and inspirations of our secret life-will. Here we come into touch with a source of knowledge and realization, a guidance more direct than the mind and much deeper than the sense-perception. Still this light partakes more of heat than of pure luminosity; it is, one may say, incandescent feeling, but not vision. We must probe deeper, mount higherreach heights and profundities that are serene and transparent. The Fire is to be quieted and silenced, says the Upanishad. Then we come nearer, to the immediate vicinity of the Truth: an inner hearing opens, the direct voice of Truth the Wordreaches us to lead and guide. Even so, however, we have not come to the end of our journey; the Word of revelation is not the ultimate Light. The Word too is clothing, though a luminous clothinghiramayam ptram When this last veil dissolves and disappears, when utter silence, absolute calm and quietude reign in the entire consciousness, when no other lights trouble or distract our attention, there appears the Atman in its own body; we stand face to face with the source of all lights, the self of the Light, the light of the Self. We are that Light and we become that Light.    II. The Four Oblations   --    One is an ideal in and of the world, the other is an ideal transcending the world. The Path of the Fathers (Pityna) enjoins the right accomplishing of the dharma of Lifeit is the path of works, of Karma; it is the line of progressive evolution that, man follows through the experience of life after life on earth. The Path of the Gods (Devayna) runs above life's evolutionary course; it lifts man out of the terrestrial cycle and places him in a superior consciousness it is the path of knowledge, of Vidya.4 The Path of the Fathers is the soul's southern or inferior orbit (dakiyana, aparrdha); the Path of the Gods is the northern or superior orbit (uttaryaa, parrdha)The former is also called the Lunar Path and the latter the Solar Path.5 For The Moon represents the mind,6 and is therefore, an emblem that befits man so long as he is a mental being and pursues a dharma that is limited by the mind; the sun, on the other hand, is the knowledge and consciousness that is beyond the mindit is the eye of the Gods.7    Man has two aspects or natures; he dwells in two worlds. The first is the manifest world the world of the body, the life and the mind. The body has flowered into the mind through the life. The body gives the basis or the material, the life gives power and energy and the mind the directing knowledge. This triune world forms the humanity of man. But there is another aspect hidden behind this apparent nature, there is another world where man dwells in his submerged, larger and higher consciousness. To that his soul the Purusha in his heart only has access. It is the world where man's nature is transmuted into another triune realitySat, Chit and Ananda.   --    Garhapatya is the Fire in the body-consciousness, the fire of Earth, as it is sometimes called; Dakshina is the Fire of The Moon or mind, and Ahavaniya that of life.10 The earthly fire is also the fire of the sun; the sun is the source of all earth's heat and symbolises at the same time the spiritual light manifested in the physical consciousness. The lunar fire is also the fire of the stars, the stars, mythologically, being the consorts or powers of The Moon and they symbolise, in Yogic experience, the intuitive thoughts. The fire of the life-force has its symbol in lightning, electric energy being its vehicle.    Agni in the physical consciousness is calledghapati, for the body is the house in which the soul is lodged and he is its keeper, guardian and lord. The fire in the mental consciousness is called daki; for it is that which gives discernment, the power to discriminate between the truth and the falsehood, it is that which by the pressure of its heat and light cleaves the wrong away from the right. And the fire in the life-force is called havanya; for pra is not only the plane of hunger and desire, but also of power and dynamism, it is that which calls forth forces, brings them into' play and it is that which is to be invoked for the progression of the Sacrifice, for an onward march on the spiritual path.

00.04 - The Beautiful in the Upanishads, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    There the sun shines not, nor The Moon, nor the stars; these lightnings too there shine not; how then this fire! That shines and therefore all shine in its wake; by the sheen of That, all this shines.    Only, to some perhaps the beauty may not appear as evident and apparent. The Spirit of beauty that resides in the Upanishadic consciousness is more retiring and reticent. It dwells in its own privacy, in its own home, as it were, and therefore chooses to be bare and austere, simple and sheer. Beauty means usually the beauty of form, even if it be not always the decorative, ornamental and sumptuous form. The early Vedas aimed at the perfect form (surpaktnum), the faultless expression, the integral and complete embodiment; the gods they envisaged and invoked were gleaming powers carved out of harmony and beauty and figured close to our modes of apprehension (spyan). But the Upanishads came to lay stress upon what is beyond the form, what the eye cannot see nor the vision reflect:   --    O Lord of Immortality! Thy' heart of beauty that is sheltered in The Moon    or, as the Prasna Upanishad has it,   --    The Moon means Delight... and Delight means the created form.    The perception of beauty in the Upanishadic consciousness is something elemental-of concentrated essence. It silhouettes the main contour, outlines the primordial gestures. Pregnant and pulsating with the burden of beauty, the mantra here reduces its external expression to a minimum. The body is bare and unadorned, and even in its nakedness, it has not the emphatic and vehement musculature of an athlete; rather it tends to be slim and slender and yet vibrant with the inner nervous vigour and glow. What can be more bare and brief and full to the brim of a self-gathered luminous energy than, for example:

0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism    Saradamani, a little girl of five, lived in the neighbouring village of Jayrambati. Even at this age she had been praying to God to make her character as stainless and fragrant as the white tuberose. Looking at the full moon, she would say: "O God, there are dark spots even on The Moon. But make my character spotless." It was she who was selected as the bride for Sri Ramakrishna.    The marriage ceremony was duly performed. Such early marriage in India is in the nature of a betrothal, the marriage being consummated when the girl attains puberty. But in this case the marriage remained for ever unconsummated. Sri Ramakrishna lived at Kamarpukur about a year and a half and then returned to Dakshineswar.   --    The Master took up the duty of instructing his young wife, and this included everything from housekeeping to the Knowledge of Brahman. He taught her how to trim a lamp, how to behave toward people according to their differing temperaments, and how to conduct herself before visitors. He instructed her in the mysteries of spiritual life — prayer, meditation, japa, deep contemplation, and samadhi. The first lesson that Sarada Devi received was: "God is everybody's Beloved, just as The Moon is dear to every child. Everyone has the same right to pray to Him. Out of His grace He reveals Himself to all who call upon Him. You too will see Him if you but pray to Him."    Totapuri, coming to know of the Master's marriage, had once remarked: "What does it matter? He alone is firmly established in the Knowledge of Brahman who can adhere to his spirit of discrimination and renunciation even while living with his wife. He alone has attained the supreme illumination who can look on man and woman alike as Brahman. A man with the idea of sex may be a good aspirant, but he is still far from the goal." Sri Ramakrishna and his wife lived together at Dakshineswar, but their minds always soared above the worldly plane. A few months after Sarada Devi's arrival Sri Ramakrishna arranged, on an auspicious day, a special worship of Kali, the Divine Mother. Instead of an image of the Deity, he placed on the seat the living image, Sarada Devi herself. The worshipper and the worshipped went into deep samadhi and in the transcendental plane their souls were united. After several hours Sri Ramakrishna came down again to the relative plane, sang a hymn to the Great Goddess, and surrendered, at the feet of the living image, himself, his rosary, and the fruit of his life-long sadhana. This is known in Tantra as the Shorasi Puja, the "Adoration of Woman". Sri Ramakrishna realized the significance of the great statement of the Upanishad: "O Lord, Thou art the woman. Thou art the man; Thou art the boy. Thou art the girl; Thou art the old, tottering on their crutches. Thou pervadest the universe in its multiple forms."

0.00 - The Book of Lies Text, #The Book of Lies, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy      The 18th key of the Tarot refers to The Moon, which     was supposed to shed dew. The appropriateness of the   --     The Moon and the earth are the non-ego and the      ego: the Sun is THAT.   --     "And in the midst of The Moon-pool of silver was the      Lily of white and gold. In this Lily is all honey,   --   and The Moon, are all correspondences of Gimel, the letter of the Aspiration,   since gimel is the Path that leads from the Microcosm in tiphareth to the

0.05 - Letters to a Child, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   The Moon is the symbol of the spiritual light, one in its origin,   multiple in its manifestation. There is only one moon and yet   each reflection of The Moon is different. This is what I wanted   to say in a poetic form.

0.06 - Letters to a Young Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   thought about The Moonlight playing upon the water.   Or, better still, not to have thought at all but contemplated the

01.03 - Mystic Poetry, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    There the sun shines not and The Moon has no    splendour and the stars are blind; there these   --    This is what I was trying to make out as the distinguishing trait of the real spiritual consciousness that seems to be developing in the poetic creation of tomorrow, e.g., it has the same rationality, clarity, concreteness of perception as the scientific spirit has in its own domain and still it is rounded off with a halo of magic and miracle. That is the nature of the logic of the infinite proper to the spiritual consciousness. We can have a Science of the Spirit as well as a Science of Matter. This is the Thought element or what corresponds to it, of which I was speaking, the philosophical factor, that which gives form to the formless or definition to that which is vague, a nearness and familiarity to that which is far and alien. The fullness of the spiritual consciousness means such a thing, the presentation of a divine name and form. And this distinguishes it from the mystic consciousness which is not the supreme solar consciousness but the nearest approach to it. Or, perhaps, the mystic dwells in the domain of the Divine, he may even be suffused with a sense of unity but would not like to acquire the Divine's nature and function. Normally and generally he embodies all the aspiration and yearning moved by intimations and suggestions belonging to the human mentality, the divine urge retaining still the human flavour. We can say also, using a Vedantic terminology, that the mystic consciousness gives us the tatastha lakshana, the nearest approximative attribute of the attri buteless; or otherwise, it is the hiranyagarbha consciousness which englobes the multiple play, the coruscated possibilities of the Reality: while the spiritual proper may be considered as prajghana, the solid mass, the essential lineaments of revelatory knowledge, the typal "wave-particles" of the Reality. In the former there is a play of imagination, even of fancy, a decorative aesthesis, while in the latter it is vision pure and simple. If the spiritual poetry is solar in its nature, we can say, by extending the analogy, that mystic poetry is characteristically lunarMoon representing the delight and the magic that Mind and mental imagination, suffused, no doubt, with a light or a reflection of some light from beyond, is capable of (the Upanishad speaks of The Moon being born of the Mind).    To sum up and recapitulate. The evolution of the poetic expression in man has ever been an attempt at a return and a progressive approach to the spiritual source of poetic inspiration, which was also the original, though somewhat veiled, source from the very beginning. The movement has followed devious waysstrongly negative at timeseven like man's life and consciousness in general of which it is an organic member; but the ultimate end and drift seems to have been always that ideal and principle even when fallen on evil days and evil tongues. The poet's ideal in the dawn of the world was, as the Vedic Rishi sang, to raise things of beauty in heaven by his poetic power,kavi kavitv divi rpam sajat. Even a Satanic poet, the inaugurator, in a way, of modernism and modernistic consciousness, Charles Baudelaire, thus admonishes his spirit:

01.06 - Vivekananda, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    There the' sun shines not, nor The Moon nor the stars    or agam,

0 1958-08-29, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen    S, who was sitting in front of me, spontaneously asked me afterwards what I had been holding in my hands during the meditation, and she described it thus: It was round, very soft and luminous like The Moon.    The Swami brought back various objects and souvenirs from the Himalayas which he presented to Mother.

0 1961-07-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    I have always known that cruelty, like sadism, is the need to cut through a thick layer of totally insensitive tamas1 by means of extremely violent sensationan extreme is needed if anything is to be felt through that tamas. I was always told, for example (in Japan it was strongly emphasized to me), that the people of the Far East are very tamasic physically. The Chinese in particular are said to be the remnants of a race that inhabited The Moon before it froze over and forced them to seek refuge on earth (this is supposed to account for their round faces and the shape of their eyes!). Anyway (laughing), its a story people tell! But theyre extremely tamasic; their physical sensibility is almost nilappalling things are required to make them feel anything! And since they naturally presume that what applies to them applies to everyone, they are capable of appalling cruelty. Not all of them, of course! But this is their reputation. Have you read Mirbeaus book? (I believe thats his name.) I read it sixty years ago something on Chinese torture.    Yes, its well-known.

0 1961-10-30, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    It is not surprising, therefore, that exegetes have seen the Vedas primarily as a collection of propitiatory rites centered around sacrificial fires and obscure incantations to Nature divinities (water, fire, dawn, The Moon, the sun, etc.), for bringing rain and rich harvests to the tribes, male progeny, blessings upon their journeys or protection against the thieves of the sunas though these shepherds were barbarous enough to fear that one inauspicious day their sun might no longer rise, stolen away once and for all. Only here and there, in a few of the more modern hymns, was there the apparently inadvertent intrusion of a few luminous passages that might have justifiedjust barely the respect which the Upanishads, at the beginning of recorded history, accorded to the Veda. In Indian tradition, the Upanishads had become the real Veda, the Book of Knowledge, while the Veda, product of a still stammering humanity, was a Book of Worksacclaimed by everyone, to be sure, as the venerable Authority, but no longer listened to. With Sri Aurobindo we might ask why the Upanishads, whose depth of wisdom the whole world has acknowledged, could claim to take inspiration from the Veda if the latter contained no more than a tapestry of primitive rites; or how it happened that humanity could pass so abruptly from these so-called stammerings to the manifold richness of the Upanishadic Age; or how we in the West were able to evolve from the simplicity of Arcadian shepherds to the wisdom of Greek philosophers. We cannot assume that there was nothing between the early savage and Plato or the Upanishads.5    ***

0 1962-10-30, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    I have come to understand that the Chinese are a lunar racetheir origin is The Moon. They came to earth when The Moon got too cold and they could no longer exist there. This is something I saw at the beginning of the century and my impression was further intensified when I went to China.2 They are a lunar race. And they gave me the feeling of people who lack a psychic being: they are cold, ice-cold. But wonderfully intellectual!    I met another Chinese a few years ago, a man with a spiritual life. He came to meet me and talked for an hour about China. It made me understand China externally as if I had been born and lived my whole life there. I saw they were people who have attained the summit of the intellect, and who have a creative powerinventors. He told me, No people in the world could understand Sri Aurobindo intellectually as well as the Chinese. And it was luminously true. The highest intellectual comprehension, really at its peak.

0 1963-03-13, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    Night, splendid with The Moon dreaming in heaven    In silver peace, possessed her luminous reign.

0 1963-10-16, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    At first I thought, My goodness! Who does he take me for? (Laughing) A fool who can be made to believe that The Moon is made of green cheese? Then I decided I wouldnt say anything until he left: I wanted to wait till I saw him a second time. Then I made a very strong formation and I said to Sri Aurobindo, If there was really anything of you in that, well, let it occur again next time. And yesterday, I kept watching all the time, attentively, very carefullyabsolutely nothing happened.    I didnt like that very much.    You understand, I know those things, I have seen thousands of them! Only, as it happens, for more than half a century I have sensed the difference in a most sharp way. I think I told you already that when I returned here from Japan, there were difficulties: once, I was in danger and I called Sri Aurobindo; he appeared, and the danger went away2he appeared, meaning, he came, something from him came, an EMANATION of him came, living, absolutely concrete. The next day (or rather later the same day), I told him my experience and how I saw him; that worried him (it was an unceasing danger, you see), and he very strongly thought that he should concentrate on me to protect me. And the next day, I saw him but it was an image, a mental formation! I told him, Yes, you came in a mental formation, it wasnt the same thing. Then he told me that this capacity of discernment is an extremely rare thing. But I always had it, even when I was small. Its a sensitiveness in the perception. And indeed I believe that very few people can sense the difference. So with X, my first impression was, My goodness, to do this to me! Well, really, I have some experience of the world, I cant be so easily made to believe that The Moon is made of green cheese!    And yesterday, it was all very peaceful: X was there all the time with nobody in front of him, not pretending anything. But the first time, as he expected some result, he stayed on for ten minutesprobably he was expecting some reaction (I never told him that Sri Aurobindo is with me all the time, that we talk to each other every night). Anyhow, he was probably expecting some enthusiasm on my part (!) There you are.

0 1965-06-18 - supramental ship, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    Oh, but the Chinese The Chinese come from The Moon, what are they doing on earth! The origin of the Chinese isnt earthly: it is lunar.    Yes, but still, it seems they would be the ones to come here rather than the Americans or Russians?   --    No, theres no wavering between the two. The Chinese, the Chinese domination over the earth is it means the earth hardening, the earth growing cold like The Moon. Oh, that would be dreadful.    Ah, good-bye, my children.

0 1967-07-15, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    I had a very strong impression, which, so to speak, crystallized when I went to China7 (I know nothing of China: a city or two, a port or two, thats nothing; but still you pick up a bit of the atmosphere): the origin of those people is lunar. There must have been life on The Moon, and these beings (or a few of them, I dont know) took refuge on the earth when The Moon was dying. And that was the origin of the Chinese race.    They are very peculiar. They dont at all have the same kind of vital being as all the other human beings, not at all.

0 1967-07-29, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    And so the conclusion. Ive always heard it said (I dont know if its true) that men think in a certain way and women in another. On an external level, the difference is not visible, but the attitude the mental attitudeis perhaps different. The mental attitude on the Prakriti side is always action, always action; the mental attitude on the Purusha3 side is conception: conception, overall vision, and also observation, as though it observed what the Prakriti had done and saw how it was done. Now I understand that. Thats how it is. Naturally, no man (here on earth) is exclusively masculine and no woman is exclusively feminine, because it has all been mixed together again and again. Similarly, I dont think any one race is absolutely pure: all that is over, its been mingled together (it is another way to re-create Oneness). But there have been TENDENCIES; Its like that note about Israelites and Muslims, its just a manner of speaking; if I were told, This is what you said, I would reply, Yes, I said that, but I can also say something else and many other things! Its a way of selecting certain things and bringing them to the fore with an action in view (its always with an action in view). But for the moment, everything is like that, everywhere mixed and mingled together with a view to general unificationno one nationality is pure and separate from the others, that no longer exists. But to a certain vision, each thing has its essential role, its raison dtre, its place in universal history. Its like that very strong impression that the Chinese are lunar, that when The Moon grew cold, some beings managed to come to the earth, and those beings are at the origin of the Chinese nation; but now there only remains a tracea trace which is the memory of that distinctiveness. And its everywhere the same thing: if you look at the individuals of every nation, you find in every nation that everything is there, but with the memory the memory of a specificness which has been its raison dtre in the great terrestrial unfolding.    (Mother goes into contemplation)

0 1967-10-19, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    But the Russians have sent spacecraft to Venus, they took four months to reach, and in those spacecraft were radio-like communication systems that send news, and a device to collect the soil and analyze itall of it just machines. It reached Venus, and now they give the news every day: Here is how it is on Venus. (Mother laughs) They are rather amazing! The Americans were content with The Moonyou get to The Moon quite soon, in two months, I think, maybe less than that. But the Russians took four months to get to Venus and it arrived there, they got the news, it works with electrical devices.    Yes, but on the earth it doesnt work!    On the earth! A humorist wrote an article in which the Americans had reached The Moon, and while they were looking around, they suddenly saw people coming towards them: Theyre Moonlings! They couldnt understand each other (they could speak to each other but couldnt understand); but one of them spoke English and other languages, and so they discovered that The Moonlings were Russians! That was very funny.    Well, I dont know very well, I read the Gospel long ago, but I dont remember, I didnt know a great battle was announced in it. I know they announced the Last Judgment when all the people who were buried will rise and appear before the Lord God seated in his armchair (Mother laughs), who will tell them whether they are (Laughing) He will put some on one side and others on the other side! I am not exaggerating, thats how its written.

0 1969-05-31, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    After all, its probably probably only on the earth (that I dont know). It doesnt seem to be like that, because for The Moon, its very concretely a sense of devastation. Anyway, theres nevertheless a very strong, very concrete sensation that whats like that, in this Falsehood, is something limited. And unreal. And that we are all in Falsehood and Unreality thats why things are as they are. And the interesting point was that that escape into Nirvana wasnt the solution, it was only a remedya remedy for a time (how can I explain? I dont know) a partial remedy. A partial and, we might almost say, momentary remedy.    So thats a paroxysm at a certain point. Afterwards comes the long path: one must go on and on with the PROGRESSIVE work of transformation. Then, the next minute, there is what Sri Aurobindo called the supramental being. Its like the transition from the one towards the other.

0 1969-06-28, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    We look to the right or to the left, we build theories, reform our Churches, invent super-machines and go out in the streets to break the Machine that stifles uswe struggle in the small sense. When the terrestrial ship is sinking, does it matter whether the passengers drown to the right or to the left, under a flag black or red, or celestial blue? Our Churches have already sunk: they are reforming their own dust. Our patriotisms are crushing us, our machines are crushing us, our schools are crushing us, and we build more machines to break out of the Machine. We go to The Moon, but we do not know our own heart nor our terrestrial destiny. And we want to improve what is but the time for improvements is past: can one improve rot?    (Mother holds back a laugh)   --    In truth, this is the time of the Great Adventure. The world is closed, there are no more adventures outside: only robots go to The Moon and our borders are guarded everywherein Rome or in Rangoon, the same functionaries of the great Machine are watching us, punching our cards, checking our faces and searching our pockets there is no more adventure outside! The Adventure is with inFreedom is within, Space is within, so is the transformation of our world by the power of the Spirit. Because, in truth, that Power was always there, supreme, all-powerful, prodding evolution on: it was the hidden Spirit growing to become the Spirit manifest upon earth, and if we have trust, if we want that supreme Power, if we have the courage to descend into our hearts, everything is possible, for God is in us.    Its unfortunate that there cant be another word than God.

0 1969-07-23, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    (The American astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin landed on The Moon on July 21. Mother shows the following text which was suggested to her as a "message" for August 15.)    Its Nolini who suggested this text because of the people who landed on The Moon! (Mother laughs) But its far too personal I said no. I am just showing it to you, but I told him, No, I dont want.    Q. I have been wondering whether the Mother has been able to establish a direct connection with Mars or any other far off planet which is probably habitable and inhabited.    Someone put this question to Sri Aurobindo. So now that people have landed on The Moon    A. A long time ago Mother was going everywhere in the subtle body but she found it of a very secondary interest. Our attention must be fixed on the earth because our work is here. Besides, the earth is a concentration of all the other worlds and one can touch them by touching something corresponding in the earth-atmosphere.1   --    To hear the voice of the gentleman on The Moon. You hear him as he speaks.    I must say I find all that puerile.2   --    But I also heard the radio. I got a queer sensation: I went there in a trice, like that (gesture like an arrow darting from the forehead to The Moon); when I heard, I went there in a trice because I was told there was a dangerous moment when they were to leave The Moon to rejoin the other man who was going around [orbiting The Moon]it seems that was dangerous. I had just been told about it. At first when I heard the voice, I didnt understand anything he said (it was uninteresting, besides: he said he had picked up a stone, that there were mountainsthings like that, quite uninteresting). Then, hop! I was sent off like that (same gesture to the forehead), and I actually FELT that I was going there (I found that amusing), like that, prrt! Off from here, direct.    Theyre on their way back. But the Russians sent a robot in a machine that went round The Moon, landed on it and picked up stonesand it was a robot! They said, Well never risk a human lifea robot is good enough.3    But the children at the School here were in an extraordinary state of excitement. So I was asked to say something to them. I said, Id better not say anything, because I would say its big children having fun! (Mother laughs) It would have thrown cold water on them!   --    More explicitly, a month earlier, in a text written for Italian television (The Great Sense), Satprem had said, "We go to The Moon, but we do not know our own heart nor our terrestrial destiny."    Their probe, Luna 15, crashed on The Moon.    Let us note that B. is a new, young disciple whose work is to keep that room downstairs clean.

0 1970-01-17, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    These last few days, I saw the photos of those who went to The Moon. Have you seen them? Did you see how decked out they were?    Yes, I saw.

0 1970-01-28, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    The signs abound, they are simple and obvious. The most important event of the sixties is not the trip to The Moon, but the trips on drugs, the great hippie migration, and the student unrest throughout the world but where will they go? There is no more room on the teeming beaches, no more room on the bustling roads, no more room in the ever-growing anthills of our cities. The way out is elsewhere.    But there are many kinds of elsewheres. Those of drugs are uncertain and fraught with danger, and above all dependent on outer meansan experience ought to be obtainable at will and anywhere, in the marketplace as in the solitude of our room, or else it is not an experience but an anomaly or slavery. Those of psychoanalysis are limited, for the moment, to a few dimly lit caves, and above all lack that lever of consciousness which enables us to move about at will, as our own masters and not as helpless witnesses or sickly victims. Those of religion are more illumined, but they too depend on a god or a dogma, and above all confine us within one type of experience, for one can be a prisoner of other worlds as much as of this oneeven more so.

0 1970-02-07, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    Thats it: they are so proud because they go to The Moon, and theyre slaughtering each other on the earth.    (long silence)

0 1970-09-30, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    Oh, yes! The Moon wont do at all.    Thats what I had felt.

0 1971-12-11, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    For the problem is fundamental. It is not a question of bringing a new philosophy to the world or new ideas or illuminations, as they are called. The question is not of making the Prison of our lives more habitable, or of endowing man with ever more fantastic powers. Armed with his microscopes and telescopes, the human gnome remains a gnome, pain-ridden and helpless. We send rockets to The Moon, but we know nothing of our own hearts. It is a question, says Sri Aurobindo, of creating a new physical nature which is to be the habitation of the Supramental being in a new evolution.3 For, in actuality, he says, the imperfection of Man is not the last word of Nature, but his perfection too is not the last peak of the Spirit.4 Beyond the mental man we are, there exists the possibility of another being who will be the spearhead of evolution as man was once the spearhead of evolution among the great apes. If, says Sri Aurobindo, the animal is a living laboratory in which Nature has, it is said, worked out man, man himself may well be a thinking and living laboratory in whom and with whose conscious co-operation she wills to work out the superman, the god.5 Sri Aurobindo has come to tell us how to create this other being, this supramental being, and not only to tell us but actually to create this other being and open the path of the future, to hasten upon earth the rhythm of evolution, the new vibration that will replace the mental vibrationexactly as a thought one day disturbed the slow routine of the beastsand will give us the power to shatter the walls of our human prison.    Indeed, the prison is already starting to collapse. The end of a stage of evolution, announced by Sri Aurobindo, is usually marked by a powerful recrudescence of all that has to go out of the evolution.6 Everywhere about us we see this paroxysmal shattering of all the old forms: our borders, our churches, our laws, our morals are collapsing on all sides. They are not collapsing because we are bad, immoral, irreligious, or because we are not sufficiently rational, scientific or human, but because we have come to the end of the human! To the end of the old mechanism for we are on our way to SOMETHING ELSE. The world is not going through a moral crisis but through an evolutionary crisis. We are not going towards a better worldnor, for that matter, towards a worse onewe are in the midst of a MUTATION to a radically different world, as different as the human world was from the ape world of the Tertiary Era. We are entering a new era, a supramental Quinary. We leave our countries, wander aimlessly, we go looking for drugs, for adventure, we go on strike here, enact reforms there, foment revolutions and counterrevolutions. But all this is only an appearance; in fact, unwittingly, we are looking for the new being. We are in the midst of human evolution.

02.03 - The Shakespearean Word, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    For all beneath The Moon Would I not leap upright.    Glo. Let go my hand.

02.05 - The Godheads of the Little Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   A somnambulist walking under The Moon,   An image of ego treads through an ignorant dream

02.12 - Mysticism in Bengali Poetry, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    As The Moon is seen in the water    But flees the touch of your fingers,

02.12 - The Heavens of the Ideal, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Like strips of brilliant sky clinging to The Moon.   73.7

02.14 - Appendix, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    But even The Moon has its spots, and in Wordsworth the spots are of a fairly considerable magnitude. Manmohan Ghose too had mentioned to us these defects. Much of Wordsworth is didactic and rhetoric, that is, of the nature of preaching, hence prosaic and non-poetical although couched in verse. Ghose used to say that even the Ode on the Intimations of Immortality which is so universally admired is mainly didactic and is by and large rhetoric, with very little real poetry in it. I must confess however that to me personally, some of its passages have a particular charm, like    Our birth is but a sleep and forgetting:

03.04 - The Body Human, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    W. B. Yeats, The Phases of The Moon, The Wild Swans at Cook    Sri Aurobindo, The Bird of Fire,Collected Poems & Ploys

03.04 - The Vision and the Boon, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   All was a limitless sea that heaved to The Moon.   A divinising stream possessed his veins,

04.01 - The Birth and Childhood of the Flame, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Accomplishing The Moon-orb of her grace,   Self-guarded in the silence of her strength

04.03 - The Call to the Quest, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   The Moon shut in her halo dreams like thee.   A mighty Presence still defends thy frame.   --   The Moon floated, a luminous waif through heaven   And sank below the oblivious edge of dream;

04.19 - To the Heights-XIX (The March into the Night), #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    The cold and barren face of The Moon stares as bland and stupid as its wont;    The same old shadow still lingers at our feet and entangles them inexorably;

04.37 - To the Heights-XXXVII, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    The solar light with the soul of The Moon's concentrated ecstasy.    The Fire burns-

04.44 - To the Heights-XLIV, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    White-colour of The Moon poised on high in an autumn night-    The soothing peace, the quiet heave of an in-gathered rapture!

05.01 - Man and the Gods, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    "The Moon comes out in the night revealing the inviolable workings of Varuna."    Such are the gods, such is their nature:

05.02 - Satyavan, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   He turned to the vision like a sea to The Moon   And suffered a dream of beauty and of change,

05.03 - Satyavan and Savitri, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Or met The Moon gliding amazed through heaven   In the uncertain wideness of the night,   --   The Moonbeams' silver ecstasy at night   Kissed my dim lids to sleep. Earth's morns were mine;

05.05 - Man the Prototype, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    Indeed, all the luminaries of heaven have each its conscious personality, the planets, The Moon and above all the great sun. It is not a fancy or idle imagination that made the astrologers ascribe definite influences to these heavenly bodies. In Hindu astrology, for example, they are considered as real persons, each with a definite form and character, a dhyna rpa. The so-called Nature-gods in the Vedas or in ancient mythology generally are in the same way not creations of mere poetic imagination: they are realities, more real in a sense than the real objects that represent and incarnate them.    Not only so. Our limited mind and senses are accustomed to view and recognise individuals alone as persons. But there are group personalities too. Thus each species has a generic personality, a consciousness and an ideal or intrinsic form also: the individuals on the physical plane are its various incarnations, projections and formations. Old Plato was not so naive, as we of today are apt to believe, when he spoke of the real reality of general ideas. The attributes, qualities and functions of the generic personality are the source and pattern of what the individuals that form the group actually are. The group person is the king, he is also the body of the Dharma ruling the domain. Any change in the law of being of the group person is necessarily translated in a similar change in the nature and activity of the individuals of the species. What evolutionists describe as sudden variation or mutation and whose cause or genesis they are at a loss to trace, is precisely due to an occult change in the consciousness and will of the group soul.

06.01 - The Word of Fate, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Marvellous The Moon floats on through wondering skies;   Earth's flowers spring up and laugh at time and death;

07.01 - The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   The Moon-gold sweetness of heaven's earth-born child.   The past receded and the future neared:

07.07 - The Discovery of the Cosmic Spirit and the Cosmic Consciousness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   In the sunlight and The Moonlight and the dark   The daily human life went plodding on

09.01 - Towards the Black Void, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Nor yet the dusk grows mystic with The Moon.   The dim and awful godhead rose erect

09.02 - The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   It wandered like a lost ray of The Moon   Revealing to the night her soul of dread;

100.00 - Synergy, #Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, #R Buckminster Fuller, #Science   132.00 The unprotected far side of The Moon has more craters of the "fallen-in"   asteroids. Ergo, the far side weighs more than the near side, which is shielded by   the Earth. The additional far-side weight of The Moon acts centrifugally to keep   the weighted side always away from the Earth around which it orbits. Ergo, there   is always one side, the same side, facing us. The Moon is always oriented toward   us, like a ship that has its masts pointed inwardly toward us and its weighted keel   --   of craters on the far side of The Moon. The Earth acts as a shield. On Earth, the   craters are not so concentrated because the Earth gets its cosmic fallout quite

10.03 - The Debate of Love and Death, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   He glides through heaven shimmering in The Moon;   He is beauty carolling in the fields of sound;   --   Ocean's dim fields delivered to The Moon.   Then lifted up as by a sudden wind

10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Two consort stars in The Mooned night of mind   That towards two opposite horizons gaze,

1.006 - Livestock, #Quran, #unset, #Zen   77. Then, when he saw The Moon rising, he said, “This is my lord.” But when it set, he said, “If my Lord does not guide me, I will be one of the erring people.”   78. Then, when he saw the sun rising, he said, “This is my lord, this is bigger.” But when it set, he said, “O my people, I am innocent of your idolatry.   --   96. It is He Who breaks the dawn. And He made the night for rest, and the sun and The Moon for calculation. Such is the disposition of the Almighty, the All-Knowing.   97. And it is He Who created the stars for you, that you may be guided by them in the darkness of land and sea. We thus explain the revelations for people who know.

10.06 - Looking around with Craziness, #Writings In Bengali and Sanskrit, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   The Moonlight capital in my night-kingdom,   My sea-foaming god of laughter,

1.007 - The Elevations, #Quran, #unset, #Zen   54. Your Lord is God; He who created the heavens and the earth in six days, then established Himself on the Throne. The night overtakes the day, as it pursues it persistently; and the sun, and The Moon, and the stars are subservient by His command. His is the creation, and His is the command. Blessed is God, Lord of all beings.   55. Call upon your Lord humbly and privately. He does not love the aggressors.

1.00a - DIVISION A - THE INTERNAL FIRES OF THE SHEATHS., #A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, #Alice Bailey, #Occultism   b. The Planet. Deep in the heart of the planetsuch a planet as the Earth, for instanceare the internal fires that occupy the central sphere, or the caverns whichfilled with incandescent burningmake life upon the globe possible at all. The internal fires of The Moon are practically burnt out, and, therefore, she does not shine save through reflection, having no inner fire to blend and merge with light external. These inner fires of the earth can be seen functioning, as in the sun, through three main channels:   1. Productive substance, or the matter of the planet vitalised by heat. This heat and matter together act as the mother of all that germinates, and as the protector of all that dwells therein and thereon. This corresponds to the akasha, the active vitalised matter of the solar system, that nourishes all as does a mother.

1.00a - Introduction, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy   On the other hand, you must be careful to avoid taking the correspondences given in the books of reference without thinking out why they are so given. Thus, you find a camel in the number which refers to The Moon, but the Tarot card "The Moon" refers not to the letter Gimel which means camel, but to the letter Qoph, and the sign Pisces which means fish, while the letter itself refers to the back of the head; and you also find fish has the meaning of the letter Nun. You must not go on from this, and say that the back of your head is like a camel the connection between them is simply that they all refer to the same thing.   In studying the Qabalah you mention six months; I think after that time you should be able to realize that, after six incarnations of uninterrupted study, you may realize that you can never know it; as Confucius said about the Yi King. "If a few more years were added to my life, I would devote a hundred of them to the study of the Yi."

1.00b - Introduction, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy   Above the magicians head, with an invisible ribbon for a crown, there is a goldedged silvery white lotus flower as a sign of the divinity. In the inside there is the ruby red philosophers stone symbolizing the quintessence of the whole hermetic science. On the right side in the background there is the sun, yellow like gold and on the left side we see The Moon, silvery-white, expressing plus and minus in the macro and microcosm, the electrical and magnetical fluids.   Above the lotus flower, Creation has been symbolized by a ball, in the interior of which are represented the procreative positive and negative forces which stand for the creating act of the universe.

1.00c - DIVISION C - THE ETHERIC BODY AND PRANA, #A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, #Alice Bailey, #Occultism   There is a close connection between the spleen and the top of the head in connection with the etheric body. The organ of the spleen has an interesting correspondence to the umbilical cord which attaches an infant to the mother for purposes of nourishment, and which is separated at birth. When a man starts to live his own life of conscious desire, when a man is born into a new world of a subtler form of life, that interlaced cord of etheric matter (which had united him to his physical body) is broken; the "silver cord is loosed" and the man severs his connection with the dense physical body and passes out through the highest center of the body instead of the lowest to life in a higher world and of another dimension. So it will be found in all the bodies and sheaths of the microcosm, for the analogy will persist on all planes during manifestation. When more scientific knowledge has been gained it will be found that the same procedure on a larger scale, takes place in planetary manifestation. A planet is but the body of a planetary Logos, that body being etheric, and the Logos expressing Himself through it and building upon the etheric scaffolding a vehicle of manifestation. The Moon once was the body of expression for one of the Logoi; the Earth now is, and the cycles change continuously. The centre of escape for the etheric body is found likewise in a physical planet, and the planetary silver cord is loosed at the time appointed; but the times and cycles, their commencement and termination are hid in the mysteries of Initiation, and do not concern us.   Again in the solar system itself similar action will eventuate at the close of a Mahamanvantara. The Logos will withdraw within Himself, abstracting His three major principles. [xxxvii]37 His body of manifestation the Sun [87] and the seven sacred Planets, all existing in etheric matterwill withdraw from objectivity and become obscured. From the usual physical standpoint, the light of the system will go out. This will be succeeded by a gradual inbreathing until He shall have gathered all unto Himself; the etheric will cease to exist, and the web will be no more. Full consciousness will be achieved, and in the moment of achievement existence or entified manifestation will cease. All will be reabsorbed within the Absolute; pralaya, [xxxviii]38 or the cosmic heaven of rest will then ensue, and the Voice of the Silence will be heard no more. The reverberations of the WORD will die away, and the "Silence of the High Places" will reign supreme.   --   A very pertinent question might here be asked, and though we may not fully explain the mystery, a few suggestive [93] hints may be possible. We might ask: What causes the apparent deadness of The Moon? Is there deva life upon it? Does solar prana have no effect there? What constitutes the difference between the apparently dead Moon, and a live planet, such as the Earth? [xl]40   Here we touch upon a hidden mystery, of which the solution lies revealed for those who seek, in the fact that human beings and certain groups of devas are no longer found upon The Moon. Man has not ceased to exist upon The Moon because it is dead and cannot therefore support his life, but The Moon is dead because man and these deva groups have been removed from off its surface and from its sphere of influence. [xli]41 Man and the devas act on every planet as intermediaries, or as transmitting agencies. Where they are not found, then certain great activities become impossible, and disintegration sets in. The reason for this removal lies in the cosmic Law of Cause and Effect, or cosmic karma, and in the composite, yet individual, history of that one of the Heavenly Men Whose body, The Moon or any other dead planet at any time happened to be.   3. The prana of forms.   --   Though no pictures have been drawn of death bed scenes nor of the dramatic escape of the palpitating etheric body from the centre in the head, as might have been anticipated, yet some of the rules and purposes governing this withdrawal have been mentioned. We have seen how the aim of each life (whether human, planetary or solar) should be the effecting and the carrying out of a definite purpose. This purpose is the development of a more adequate form for the use of the spirit; and when this purpose is achieved then the Indweller turns his attention away, and the form disintegrates, having served his need. This is not always the case in every human life nor even in each planetary cycle. The mystery of The Moon is the mystery of failure. This leads, when comprehended, to a life of dignity and offers an aim worthy of our best endeavour. When this angle of truth is universally recognised, as it will be when the intelligence of the race suffices, then evolution will proceed with certainty, and the failures be less numerous.

1.00e - DIVISION E - MOTION ON THE PHYSICAL AND ASTRAL PLANES, #A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, #Alice Bailey, #Occultism   2. Momentum, resulting therefore in repulsion, was produced by the rotary movement. We have referred to the Law of Repulsion as one of the subsidiary branches of the great Law of Economy, which governs matter. Repulsion is brought about by rotary action, and is the basis of that separation which prevents the contact of any atom with any other atom, which keeps the planets at fixed points in space and separated stably from each other; which keeps them at a certain distance from their systemic centre, and which likewise keeps the planes and subplanes from losing their material identity. Here we can see the beginning of that age-long duel between Spirit and matter, which is characteristic of manifestation, one aspect working under the Law of Attraction, and the other governed by the Law of Repulsion. From aeon to aeon the conflict goes on, with matter becoming less potent. Gradually (so gradually as to seem negated when viewed from the physical plane) the attractive power of Spirit is weakening the resistance of matter till, at the close of the greater solar cycles, destruction (as it is called) will ensue, and the Law of Repulsion be overcome by the Law of Attraction. It is a destruction of form and not of matter itself, for matter is indestructible. This can be seen even now in the microcosmic life, and is the cause of the disintegration of form, which holds itself as a separated unit by the very method of repulsing all other forms. It can be seen working out gradually and inappreciably in connection with The Moon, which no longer is repulsive to the earth, and is giving of her very substance to this planet. H. P. B. hints at this in The Secret Doctrine, and I have here suggested the law under which this is so. [lxxii]70, [lxxiii]71   [155]

1.00 - Main, #The Book of Certitude, #Baha u llah, #Baha i   O kings of the earth! The Most Great Law hath been revealed in this Spot, this scene of transcendent splendour. Every hidden thing hath been brought to light by virtue of the Will of the Supreme Ordainer, He Who hath ushered in the Last Hour, through Whom The Moon hath been cleft, and every irrevocable decree expounded.   82

1.00 - PREFACE, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism   Indeed, there are plenty of simple and obvious signs. This decade's [the 60's] most important phenomenon is not the trip to The Moon, but the "trips" on drugs, the student restlessness throughout the world, and the great hippie migration. But where could they possibly go? There is no more room on the teeming beaches, no more room on the crowded roads, no more room in the ever-expanding anthills of our cities. We have to find a way out elsewhere.   But there are many kinds of "elsewheres." Those of drugs are uncertain and fraught with danger, and above all they depend upon an outer agent; an experience ought to be possible at will, anywhere, at the grocery store as well as in the solitude of one's room otherwise it is not an experience but an anomaly or an enslavement. Those of psychoanalysis are limited, for the moment, to the dimly lit caves of the "unconscious," and most importantly, they lack the agency of consciousness, through which a person can be in full control, instead of being an impotent witness or a sickly patient. Those of religion may be more enlightened, but they too depend upon a god or a dogma; for the most part they confine us in one type of experience, for it is just as

1.010 - Jonah, #Quran, #unset, #Zen   5. It is He who made the sun radiant, and The Moon a light, and determined phases for it—that you may know the number of years and the calculation. God did not create all this except with truth. He details the revelations for a people who know.   6. In the alternation of night and day, and in what God created in the heavens and the earth, are signs for people who are aware.

1.012 - Joseph, #Quran, #unset, #Zen   4. When Joseph said to his father, “O my father, I saw eleven planets, and the sun, and The Moon; I saw them bowing down to me.”   5. He said, “O my son, do not relate your vision to your brothers, lest they plot and scheme against you. Satan is man's sworn enemy.

1.013 - Thunder, #Quran, #unset, #Zen   2. God is He who raised the heavens without pillars that you can see, and then settled on the Throne. And He regulated the sun and The Moon, each running for a specified period. He manages all affairs, and He explains the signs, that you may be certain of the meeting with your Lord.   3. And it is He who spread the earth, and placed in it mountains and rivers. And He placed in it two kinds of every fruit. He causes the night to overlap the day. In that are signs for people who reflect.

1.014 - Abraham, #Quran, #unset, #Zen   33. And He committed the sun and The Moon to your service, both continuously pursuing their courses, and He committed the night and the day to your service.   34. And He has given you something of all what you asked. And if you were to count God’s blessings, you would not be able to enumerate them. The human being is unfair and ungrateful.

1.016 - The Bee, #Quran, #unset, #Zen   12. And He regulated for you the night and the day; and the sun, and The Moon, and the stars are disposed by His command. Surely in that are signs for people who ponder.   13. And whatsoever He created for you on earth is of diverse colors. Surely in that is a sign for people who are mindful.

1.01 - Adam Kadmon and the Evolution, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga   created. His mind is said to have been given to The Moon;   his eyes to the Sun; his breath to the air element; his navel

1.01 - Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious, #The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, #Carl Jung, #Psychology   as summer and winter, the phases of The Moon, the rainy sea-   sons, and so forth, are in no sense allegories 10 of these objective

1.01 - Economy, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy   Arcadia, when I was there, I did not see any hammering stone. Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners? One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as The Moon. I love better to see stones in place. The grandeur of Thebes was a vulgar grandeur. More sensible is a rod of stone wall that bounds an honest mans field than a hundred-gated Thebes that has wandered farther from the true end of life. The religion and civilization which are barbaric and hea thenish build splendid temples; but what you might call   Christianity does not. Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive. As for the Pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs. I might possibly invent some excuse for them and him, but I have no time for it. As for the religion and love of art of the builders, it is much the same all the world over, whether the building be an Egyptian temple or the United States Bank. It costs more than it comes to. The mainspring is vanity, assisted by the love of garlic and bread and butter. Mr.   --   I have no gazers to shut out but the sun and moon, and I am willing that they should look in. The Moon will not sour milk nor taint meat of mine, nor will the sun injure my furniture or fade my carpet, and if he is sometimes too warm a friend, I find it still better economy to retreat behind some curtain which nature has provided, than to add a single item to the details of housekeeping. A lady once offered me a mat, but as I had no room to spare within the house, nor time to spare within or without to shake it, I declined it, preferring to wipe my feet on the sod before my door. It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.   Not long since I was present at the auction of a deacons effects, for his life had not been ineffectual:

1.01 - Hatha Yoga, #Amrita Gita, #Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #Hinduism   1. Hatha means any tenacious practice till the object or end is achieved. Ha and tha mean the union of the Sun and The Moon, union of Prana and Apana Vayus.   2. Hatha Yoga concerns with the body and the Prana. It helps to control the body and the Prana, through Asanas and Pranayama.

1.01 - Maitreya inquires of his teacher (Parashara), #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism   [12]: Sacrifice of Parāśara. The story of Parāśara's birth is narrated in detail in the Mahābhārata (Ādi Parva, s. 176). King Kalmāṣapāda meeting with Sakti, the son of Vaśiṣṭha, in a narrow path in a thicket, desired him to stand out of his way. The sage refused: on which the Rāja beat him with his whip, and Sakti cursed him to become a Rākṣas, a man-devouring spirit. The Rāja in this transformation killed and ate its author, or Sakti, together with all the other sons of Vaśiṣṭha. Sakti left his wife Adriśyantī pregnant, and she gave birth to Parāśara, who was brought up by p. 5 his grandfather. When he grew up, and was informed of his father's death, he instituted a sacrifice for the destruction of all the Rākṣasas; but was dissuaded from its completion by Vaśiṣṭha and other sages or Atri, Pulastya, Pulaha, and Kratu. The Mahābhārata adds, that when he desisted from the rite, he scattered the remaining sacrificial fire upon the northern face of the Himālaya mountain, where it still blazes forth at the phases of The Moon, consuming Rākṣasas, forests, and mountains. The legend alludes possibly to some transhimalayan volcano. The transformation of Kalmāṣapāda is ascribed in other places to a different cause; but he is every where regarded as the devourer of Sakti or Saktri, as the name also occurs. The story is told in the Li   ga Purāṇa (Pūrvārddha, s. 64) in the same manner, with the addition, conformably to the Saiva tendency of that work, that Parāśara begins his sacrifice by propitiating Mahādeva. Vaśiṣṭha's dissuasion, and Pulastya's appearance, are given in the very words of our text; and the story concludes, 'thus through the favour of Pulastya and of the wise Vaśiṣṭha, Parāśara composed the Vaiṣṇava (Viṣṇu) Purāṇa, containing ten thousand stanzas, and being the third of the Purāṇa compilations' (Purāṇasanhitā). The Bhāgavata (b. III. s. 8) also alludes, though obscurely, to this legend. In recapitulating the succession of the narrators of part of the Bhāgavata, Maitreya states that this first Purāṇa was communicated to him by his Guru Parāśara, as he had been desired by Pulastya: i. e. according to the commentator, agreeably to the boon given by Pulastya to Parāśara, saying, You shall be a narrator of Purāṇas;. The Mahābhārata makes no mention of the communication of this faculty to Parāśara by Pulastya; and as the Bhāgavata could not derive this particular from that source, it here most probably refers unavowedly, as the Li

1.01 - MAPS OF EXPERIENCE - OBJECT AND MEANING, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology   Oriental phrase, of confusing The Moon with the finger pointing at it. But as we read on we find that the   Tao can, after all, be to some extent characterized: the way is specifically the way of the valley, the

1.01 - MASTER AND DISCIPLE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism   As he left the room with Sidhu, he heard the sweet music of the evening service arising in the temple from gong, bell, drum, and cymbal. He could hear music from the nahabat, too, at the south end of the garden. The sounds travelled over the Ganges, floating away and losing themselves in the distance. A soft spring wind was blowing, laden with the fragrance of flowers; The Moon had just appeared. It was as if nature and man together were preparing for the evening worship. M. and Sidhu visited the twelve Siva temples, the Radhakanta temple, and the temple of Bhavatarini. And as M.   watched the services before the images his heart was filled with joy.

1.01 - Newtonian and Bergsonian Time, #Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, #Norbert Wiener, #Cybernetics   oceans. The water nearer The Moon than the center of the earth   is more strongly attracted to The Moon than the solid part of the   earth, and the water on the other side is less strongly attracted.   --   under The Moon and one opposite to The Moon. In a perfectly   liquid sphere, these hills could follow The Moon around the   earth with no great dispersal of energy, and consequently would   remain almost precisely under The Moon and opposite to the   moon. They would consequently have a pull on The Moon   which would not greatly influence the angular position of the   --   lags behind the position of The Moon, and the forces producing   this are largely turbulent, dissipative forces, of a character much   --   These frictional forces drag The Moon back in its course about   the earth and accelerate the rotation of the earth forward. TheyNewtonian and Bergsonian Time   --   to one another. Indeed, the day of The Moon is the month, and   The Moon always presents nearly the same face to the earth. It   has been suggested that this is the result of an ancient tidal evo-   lution, when The Moon contained some liquid or gas or plastic   material which could give under the earth's attraction, and in so   --   non of tidal evolution is not confined to the earth and The Moon   but may be observed to some degree throughout all gravitating

1.01 - NIGHT, #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry   The Moon conceals her light   The lamp's extinguished!

1.01 - Tara the Divine, #Tara - The Feminine Divine, #unset, #Zen   The Moon behind her symbolizes the fullness of   inexhaustible happiness.

1.01 - THAT ARE THOU, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy   The nature of the one Reality must be known by ones own clear spiritual perception; it cannot be known through a pandit (learned man). Similarly the form of The Moon can only be known through ones own eyes. How can it be known through others?   Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?   --   And all The Moons in the waters are embraced within the one Moon.   The Dharma-body (the Absolute) of all the Buddhas enters into my own being.

1.01 - The King of the Wood, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism   such as the love of Cybele and The Moon for the fair youths Attis   and Endymion. According to some, the trysting-place of the lovers

1.01 - The Mental Fortress, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga   But its use is not as the mind imagines in the arrogance of its knowledge and discoveries, for the mind always mistakes the instrument for the Master. We thought that the mental tool was both end and means, and that that end was an increasing, ever more triumphant and rigorous mastery over the mental field, which it has colonized with marvelous cities and less marvelous suburbs. But that is only a secondary end, a turbulent by-product, and it turns out that the major effect of the Mind in man has not been to make him more intelligent (intelligent with respect to what? The mouse in its hole has the perfect intelligence for its own terrain), but to individualize him within his own species and endow him with the power to change while the other species were invariable and only individualized as a general type and finally to make him capable of casting a look at what exceeds his own condition. With this individualization and power of variation began the errors of man, his sins, his afflicting dualities; yet his capacity for error is also a secret capacity for progress, which is why all our moralities based on right or wrong and all our flawless heavens have failed and will forever fail if we were flawless and irreproachable, we would be a stagnant and infallible species, like the shellfish or the opossum. In other words, the Mind is an instrument of accelerated evolution, an evolver. In fifty years of scientific development, man has progressed more than during all the prescientific milleniums. But progress in what sense? To be sure, not in the sense of the fallacious mastery, nor in the quality of life or the degree of comfort, but in the sense of the mental saturation of the species. One cannot leave a circle unless one has individually and collectively exhausted the circle. One cannot step alone onto the other side; either everybody does it (or is capable of doing it) or nobody does it; the whole species goes together, because there is but one human Body. Instead of a handful of initiates scattered among a semianimal and ignorant human mass, the entire species is now undergoing its initiation or, in evolutionary terms, its supreme variation. We have not passed through the mental circle for the sake of sending rockets to The Moon, but in order to be individually, innumerably and voluntarily capable of effecting the passage to the next higher circle. The breaking of the circle is the great organic Fact of our times. All the dualities and opposite poles, the sins of virtue and the virtues of sin, all this dazzling chaos were the instruments of the Work, the tensors, we could say, bending us to the breaking point against a wall of iron which is a wall of illusion. But the illusion falls only when one decides to see it.   That is where we are. The illusion is not dead; it even rages with unprecedented violence, equipped with all the arms we have so obligingly polished up for it. But these are the last convulsions of a colossus with feet of clay which is actually a gnome, an oversized, overoutfitted gnome. The ancient sages of India knew it well. They divided human evolution into four concentric circles: that of the men of knowledge (Brahmins), who lived at the beginning of humanity, in the age of truth; that of the nobles and warriors (Kshatriya), when only three fourths of the truth was left; that of the merchants and middle class (Vaishya), who had only half of the truth; and finally ours, the age of the little men, the Shudra, the servants (of the machine, of the ego, of desire), the great proletariat of regimented liberties the Dark Age, Kali Yuga, when no truth is left at all. But because this circle is the most extreme, because all the truths have been tried and exhausted, and all possible roads explored, we are nearing the right solution, the true solution, the emergence of a new age of truth, the supramental age Sri Aurobindo spoke of, like the buttercup breaking its last envelope to free its golden fruit. If the parallel holds true between the collective body and our human body, we could say that the center governing the age of the sages was located at the level of the forehead, while that of the age of the nobles was at the level of the heart, that of the age of the merchants, at the stomach, and the one governing our age is at the level of sex and matter. The descent is complete. But that descent has a meaning a meaning for matter. Had we stayed forever at the forehead level of the divine truths of the mind, this earth and body would never have been changed, and we would have probably ended up escaping into some spiritual heaven or nirvana. Now, everything must be transformed, even the body and matter, since we are right in it. Ironically, this is the greatest service this dark, materialistic and scientific age may have rendered us: to compel such a plunge of the spirit into matter that it had either to lose itself in it or to be transformed with it. Absolute darkness is but the shadow of a greater Sun, which digs its abysses in order to raise up a more stable beauty, founded on the purified base of our earthly subconscious and seated erect in truth down to the very cells of our bodies.

1.01 - To Watanabe Sukefusa, #Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin, #unset, #Zen   Not so a foolish man, for once he engages in unfilial behavior he neither fears the warnings of his elders nor heeds the advice of good, upright people. He defies the sun, he opposes The Moon, and in the end he receives the punishment of heaven and the dire verdict of the gods. In this state, self-redemption is no longer possible.   The difference between the two men does not exist from the start. It arises only because the former heeds to the warnings, and the latter does not.

1.020 - The World and Our World, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga   The point is that the perception of an object need not bind us, though it can bind us. It need not bind us, because we can correctly perceive the existent object as it was created by Ishvara, merely reflecting in our minds the character of the object as it really is in itself from the point of view of the Creator. Then, perceptions would not be binding. For instance, a human being, tentatively speaking, may be regarded as Ishvara's creation. A human being is not created by another human being by the will of creativity. The object in front of me such as a tree, or a mountain, or the shining orb of the sun, and The Moon and the stars may be regarded as parts of Ishvara's creation. We can simply perceive them as such.   But I can perceive a human being in another way altogether by which I can bind myself namely, this human being is my father; this human being is my friend; this human being is my enemy; this human being can do something for me, this way or that way. This is what is known as jiva srishti, which is an attitude of subjective appreciation and evaluation which an individual projects in respect of an external object. A woman is a human being, but the moment that woman is regarded as mother, or a wife, or a sister, that attitude becomes jiva srishti. A relationship that seems to obtain between one individual and another in a subjective manner is the projection of the mind of the jiva or the individual, which is the cause of joy and sorrow in the world and is the essence of samsara bondage.

1.021 - The Prophets, #Quran, #unset, #Zen   33. It is He who created the night and the day, and the sun and The Moon; each floating in an orbit.   34. We did not grant immortality to any human being before you. Should you die, are they then the immortal?

1.022 - The Pilgrimage, #Quran, #unset, #Zen   18. Do you not realize that to God prostrates everyone in the heavens and everyone on earth, and the sun, and The Moon, and the stars, and the mountains, and the trees, and the animals, and many of the people? But many are justly deserving of punishment. Whomever God shames, there is none to honor him. God does whatever He wills.   19. Here are two adversaries feuding regarding their Lord. As for those who disbelieve, garments of fire will be tailored for them, and scalding water will be poured over their heads.

1.029 - The Spider, #Quran, #unset, #Zen   61. And if you asked them, “Who created the heavens and the earth and regulated the sun and The Moon?” They would say, “God.” Why then do they deviate?   62. God expands the provision for whomever He wills of His servants, and restricts it. God is Cognizant of all things.

1.02 - BOOK THE SECOND, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry   When now The Moon disclos'd her purple rays;   The stars were fled, for Lucifer had chased   --   And The Moon shining with a blunter horn,   He bid the nimble Hours, without delay,   --   And now The Moon had nine times lost her light,   When Dian, fainting in the mid-day beams,

1.02 - MAPS OF MEANING - THREE LEVELS OF ANALYSIS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology   the cleft, the cave, hell, death and the grave, The Moon (ruler of the night and the myterious dark),   uncontrollable emotion, matter, and the earth.211 Any story that makes allusion to any of these phenomena   --   determining the movement of the stars, the planets and The Moon.249 Finally, he deigns to create man (out of   Kingu, the greatest and most guilty of Tiamats allies), so that upon him shall the services of the gods be   --   recently in the planting of the flag on The Moon, by the American astronauts.] The Spanish and   Portuguese conquistadors, discovering and conquering territories, took possession of them in the name   --   liberate The Moon from the clutches of the eclipse, to dispel its demons; and if the sun is to be released   from its winter feebleness and rise ever higher with the rising year, a young girl, symbolizing the sun,

1.02 - On the Knowledge of God., #The Alchemy of Happiness, #Al-Ghazali, #Sufism   In the same manner as there is falsity, in the way in which the material world is regarded by the natural man and the astrologer, there is also a diversity of views among those who survey the spiritual world. There are some who, just as they are upon the point of entering upon the vision of the spiritual world, seeing that they discover nothing, descend back to their old sphere. There is also a difference of view between those who do succeed in reaching the spiritual or invisible world by meditation, for some have an immense amount of light veiled from them. Every [51] one in the sphere to which he attains, is still veiled with a veil. The light of some is as of a twinkling star. Others see as by the light of The Moon. Others are illuminated as if by the world-effulgent sun. To some the invisible world is even perfectly revealed, as we read in the holy word of God: "And thus we caused Abraham to see the heaven and the earth."1 And hence it is that the prophet says, "There are before God seventy veils of light; if he should unveil them, the light of his countenance would burn everything that came into his presence." 2   Still the miserable naturalist, who ascribes effects to the influences of nature, speaks correctly. For, if natural causes had no operation, the art of medicine would have been useless, and the holy law would not have allowed to have recourse to medical treatment. The mistake which the naturalist makes, is that he contracts his sphere of vision, and is like the lame ass, that left his load at the first stopping place. He does not know that nature also is subjected to the hand of the power of God, and is a kind of humble servant, such as a shoe is to the ass. The astrologer also says, that the sun is a star, which causes heat and light upon the earth. If there had been no sun, the distinction between day and night would not have existed, and vegetables and grain could not have been produced. The Moon also is a star, and if there bad been no moon, how many things connected with the requirements of the Law of the Koran, would have been impracticable, such as fasting, alms and pilgrimage, since there would have been no distinction of weeks, months and years. The colors and perfumes of herbs and fruits exist also from its influence. The sun is warm and dry; The Moon is cold and moist. Saturn [52] is cold and dry, Venus is warm and moist. And the school of astrologers is to be credited in these representations; but when they ascribe all events to influences proceeding from the heavenly bodies, they are liars. They do not perceive that they all alike are subject to the almighty power of God as God says in his word: "And the sun, moon and stars are subject to his command." 1 There is also an influence exercised by the stars, which resembles the control, exercised by the nerve that comes from the brain over the finger in writing; while the force of nature is like the control exerted upon the pen by the finger....   When the health of a person undergoes a change, and he becomes the prey of melancholy and suspicion, and the pleasures of the world become distasteful, so that from disgust with it, he withdraws from all society, his physician says, "this person is diseased with melancholy; he must take an infusion of dodder, of thyme and bark of endive as a medicine." The naturalist says: "As this person's malady is of a dry nature, it arises from a predominance of dryness, which has settled on the brain. The occasion of his having a dry temperament is the season of winter. Until spring comes, and dry weather predominates, there is no possibility of a cure." The astrologer says, "this person being under the influence of melancholy, which arises from a hurtful conjunction between Mars and Jupiter, there will be no favorable change in his health until the conjunction of Jupiter with Venus shall have reached the Trine." Now know, beloved, that the language of all these persons is correct, for they all speak and believe according to the degree and reach of their reason and understanding. However, the real and essential cause of the malady may be stated thus. When fortune is favorable to any person, and the Deity desires to guide him into the [53] possession of it, he deputes two powerful ministers to that effect, Jupiter and Mars. These in turn, control the light footed ministers, the elements, and command dryness, for example, to fasten its bridle to the neck of the person, and cause dryness to attack his head and brain. He is thus made to become weary of the world by means of the scourge of melancholy and suspicion, and so with the bridle of the will may be impelled towards the Deity. These circumstances can never be understood in this sense, either by medicine, or by nature, or by the stars. One may, however, learn to understand them by knowledge and the prophetic power combined. For they embrace the whole kingdom of the universe with its deputies and servants, and possess the knowledge of the end for which everything was created: they know to whose command all things are subjected, to what men are invited and what they are forbidden to do.

1.02 - Prana, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy   Prnyma is not, as many think, something about breath; breath indeed has very little to do with it, if anything. Breathing is only one of the many exercises through which we get to the real Pranayama. Pranayama means the control of Prna. According to the philosophers of India, the whole universe is composed of two materials, one of which they call ksha. It is the omnipresent, all-penetrating existence. Everything that has form, everything that is the result of combination, is evolved out of this Akasha. It is the Akasha that becomes the air, that becomes the liquids, that becomes the solids; it is the Akasha that becomes the sun, the earth, The Moon, the stars, the comets; it is the Akasha that becomes the human body, the animal body, the plants, every form that we see, everything that can be sensed, everything that exists. It cannot be perceived; it is so subtle that it is beyond all ordinary perception; it can only be seen when it has become gross, has taken form. At the beginning of creation there is only this Akasha. At the end of the cycle the solids, the liquids, and the gases all melt into the Akasha again, and the next creation similarly proceeds out of this Akasha.   By what power is this Akasha manufactured into this universe? By the power of Prana. Just as Akasha is the infinite, omnipresent material of this universe, so is this Prana the infinite, omnipresent manifesting power of this universe. At the beginning and at the end of a cycle everything becomes Akasha, and all the forces that are in the universe resolve back into the Prana; in the next cycle, out of this Prana is evolved everything that we call energy, everything that we call force. It is the Prana that is manifesting as motion; it is the Prana that is manifesting as gravitation, as magnetism. It is the Prana that is manifesting as the actions of the body, as the nerve currents, as thought force. From thought down to the lowest force, everything is but the manifestation of Prana. The sum total of all forces in the universe, mental or physical, when resolved back to their original state, is called Prana. "When there was neither aught nor naught, when darkness was covering darkness, what existed then? That Akasha existed without motion." The physical motion of the Prana was stopped, but it existed all the same.

1.02 - SADHANA PADA, #Patanjali Yoga Sutras, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism   The Moons light is reflected. All the manifestations of nature   are caused by this nature itself, according to the Yogis', but

1.02 - The 7 Habits An Overview, #The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, #Stephen Covey, #unset   Those of us who watched the lunar voyage of Apollo 11 were transfixed as we saw the first men walk on The Moon and return to earth. Superlatives such as "fantastic" and "incredible" were inadequate to describe those eventful days. But to get there, those astronauts literally had to break out of the tremendous gravity pull of the earth. More energy was spent in the first few minutes of lift-off, in the first few miles of travel, than was used over the next several days to travel half a million miles.   Habits, too, have tremendous gravity pull -- more than most people realize or would admit.

1.02 - The Great Process, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga   The secrets are simple, as we have said. Unfortunately the mind has seized this one, as it seizes everything, and has pressed it into the service of its mental, vital or spiritual ego. It has discovered certain powers of meditation or concentration, more refined energies, higher mental planes that were like the divine source of our existence, lights that were not from The Moon or stars, more direct and almost superhuman faculties it has climbed the ladder of consciousness but all that only served to sublimate and rarefy a rare human elite; sublimate it so much, in fact, that there did not seem to be any other issue to this climb than an ultimate leap out of the dualities and into the changeless peace of eternal truths. A few souls were saved, possibly, while the earth went on its dark course, increasingly dark. And what should have been the earth's secret became heaven's. The most frightful schism of all time was accomplished, the bleakest duality was imprinted on the heart of the earth. And the very ones who should have been humankind's supreme unifiers became its dividers, the Founding Fathers of atheism, materialism and all the other isms that struggle for our world. The earth, duped, had no other recourse but to believe exclusively in herself and her own strength.   But the damage does not stop there. Nothing is stickier than falsehood. It sticks to the soles of our shoes even though we have turned away from the wrong path. Others had indeed seen the earthly relevance of the Great Process the Zen Buddhists, the Tantric initiates, the Sufis and others and, more and more, disconcerted minds are turning to it and to themselves: never have so many more or less esoteric schools flourished. But the old error is holding fast (to tell the truth, we don't know whether error is ever an appropriate term, for the so-called error always turns out to be a roundabout route of the same Truth leading to a wider view of itself). It took so much effort out of the Sages of those days, and out of the lesser sages of these days, so many indispensable conditions of peace, austerity, silence and purity for them to achieve their more or less illumined goal, that our subconscious mind was as if branded by a red-hot iron with the idea that, without special conditions and special masters and somewhat special or mystical or innate gifts, it was not really possible to set out on that path, or at best the results would be meager and proportionate to the effort expended. And it was still, of course, an individual undertaking, a lofty extension of book learning. But this new dichotomy threatens to be more serious than the other one, more potentially harmful, between an unredeemed mass and an enlightened elite juggling lights about which anything can be said since there is no microscope to check it. Drugs, too, are a cheap ticket to dizzying glimpses of dazzling lights.

1.02 - The Pit, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism   We may continue further, if we wish, and ask: "What is The Moon?" Science (let us facetiously suppose) replies   "Green cheese I" For our one moon we have now two distinct ideas and all simplicity vanishes and recedes in the darkness. Greenness and Cheese I The one depends on the light of the sun, the sense apparatus of the optic nerves and organs, and a thousand of other things; the latter on bacteria, fermentation, and the nature of the cow. Then we continue to split hairs and juggle words-naught but hairs and words, and juggling and splitting-and we have got no single question answered in any ultimate sense at all.

1.02 - THE QUATERNIO AND THE MEDIATING ROLE OF MERCURIUS, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology   [6] The quaternio in this case evidently consists of the two malefici, Mars and Saturn (Mars is the ruler of Aries, Saturn of Capricorn); the two dim lights would then be feminine ones, The Moon (ruler of Cancer) and Venus (ruler of Libra). The opposites between which Ostanes stands are thus masculine / feminine on the one hand and good / evil on the other. The way he speaks of the four luminarieshe does not know how to save himself from themsuggests that he is subject to Heimarmene, the compulsion of the stars; that is, to a transconscious factor beyond the reach of the human will. Apart from this compulsion, the injurious effect of the four planets is due to the fact that each of them exerts its specific influence on man and makes him a diversity of persons, whereas he should be one.26 It is presumably Hermes who points out to Ostanes that something incorruptible is in his nature which he shares with the Agathodaimon,27 something divine, obviously the germ of unity. This germ is the gold, the aurum philosophorum,28 the bird of Hermes or the son of the bird, who is the same as the filius philosophorum.29 He must be enclosed in the vas Hermeticum and heated until the moistness that still clings to him has departed, i.e., the humidum radicale (radical moisture), the prima materia, which is the original chaos and the sea (the unconscious). Some kind of coming to consciousness seems indicated. We know that the synthesis of the four was one of the main preoccupations of alchemy, as was, though to a lesser degree, the synthesis of the seven (metals, for instance). Thus in the same text Hermes says to the Sun:   . . . I cause to come out to thee the spirits of thy brethren [the planets], O Sun, and I make them for thee a crown the like of which was never seen; and I cause thee and them to be within me, and I will make thy kingdom vigorous.30

1.02 - The Ultimate Path is Without Difficulty, #The Blue Cliff Records, #Yuanwu Keqin, #Zen   On the horizon of the sky the sun rises and The Moon sets;   **It's presented right to your face; above the head   --   the horizon The Moon goes down, and when the mountains   beyond the balustrade deepen, the waters grow cold. When you

1.031 - Luqman, #Quran, #unset, #Zen   29. Have you not seen how God merges the night into the day, and merges the day into the night? That He subjected the sun and The Moon, each running for a stated term? And that God is Cognizant of everything you do?   30. That is because God is the Reality, and what they worship besides Him is falsehood, and because God is the Exalted, the Supreme.

1.035 - Originator, #Quran, #unset, #Zen   13. He merges the night into the day, and He merges the day into the night; and He regulates the sun and The Moon, each running for a stated term. Such is God, your Lord; His is the sovereignty. As for those you call upon besides Him, they do not possess a speck.   14. If you pray to them, they cannot hear your prayer. And even if they heard, they would not answer you. And on the Day of Resurrection, they will reject your partnership. None informs you like an Expert.

1.036 - Ya-Seen, #Quran, #unset, #Zen   39. And The Moon: We have disposed it in phases, until it returns like the old twig.   40. The sun is not to overtake The Moon, nor is the night to outpace the day. Each floats in an orbit.   41. Another sign for them is that We carried their offspring in the laden Ark.

10.37 - The Golden Bridge, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    Still, however, it is not easy to completely ignore or efface the influence of a concrete truth, a fact which is at the basis of human birth the truth and fact of the body, of the external material objects. For example, how to express That which does not belong to this world, has not the measures of this body? The Upanishad has perforce to speak negatively of the Supreme positive Reality. It has to say, "It is not this, it is not this, it is quite other than all this, it has no parallel here below although it is the source and origin of all this." We have found some positive words indeedsat-cit-nanda; but the other key-word is a negative in structureamtam, not death. Immortality means not mortality, and ananta too is a negative expression. We remember the famous lines: Na tatra srya bhti etc.,1 it is a supreme revelation, it is supremely evocative but it is built up of negatives. The Vedic rishis followed a different line, as I said; they did not evade or reject the materials of a physical life, they boldly grasped them and used them as signs, symbols, embodiments of other truths and realities. They accepted the sun, The Moon, the stars, man and woman, even the normal activities of life but they gave these quite a different connotation. They filled them with a new depth and density, a higher specific gravity.    The instruments being inadequate, it was necessary to bypass them and take to an indirect way for expressing realities that are beyond them. Neither the language nor the mental concepts were the vessels that could hold the divine drink. And sometimes the result was not very happy.

1.039 - Throngs, #Quran, #unset, #Zen   5. He created the heavens and the earth with reason. He wraps the night around the day, and He wraps the day around the night. And He regulates the sun and The Moon, each running along a specific course. He is indeed the Almighty, the Forgiver.   6. He created you from one person, then made from it its mate, and brought down livestock for you—eight kinds in pairs. He creates you in the wombs of your mothers, in successive formations, in a triple darkness. Such is God, your Lord. His is the kingdom. There is no god but He. So what made you deviate?

1.03 - Bloodstream Sermon, #The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma, #Bodhidharma, #Buddhism   Or if, while you're dreaming at night, you see The Moon and   stars in all their clarity, it means the workings of your mind are

1.03 - Master Ma is Unwell, #The Blue Cliff Records, #Yuanwu Keqin, #Zen   Sun Face, and the right eye is The Moon Face." What relevance   does this have? Even by the (non-existent) Year of the Ass, you

1.03 - THE ORPHAN, THE WIDOW, AND THE MOON, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology   object:1.03 - THE ORPHAN, THE WIDOW, AND The Moon   author class:Carl Jung   --   ) of good and evil.97 She is The Moon.98 An inscription invokes her as the One, who art All.99 She is named   , the redemptrix.100 In Athenagoras she is the nature of the Aeon, whence all things grew and by which all things are.101   [15] All these statements apply just as well to the prima materia in its feminine aspect: it is The Moon, the mother of all things, the vessel, it consists of opposites, has a thousand names, is an old woman and a whore, as Mater Alchimia it is wisdom and teaches wisdom, it contains the elixir of life in potentia and is the mother of the Saviour and of the filius Macrocosmi, it is the earth and the serpent hidden in the earth, the blackness and the dew and the miraculous water which brings together all that is divided. The water is therefore called mother, my mother who is my enemy, but who also gathers together all my divided and scattered limbs.102 The Turba says (Sermo LIX):   Nevertheless the Philosophers have put to death the woman who slays her husbands, for the body of that woman is full of weapons and poison. Let a grave be dug for that dragon, and let that woman be buried with him, he being chained fast to that woman; and the more he winds and coils himself about her, the more will he be cut to pieces by the female weapons which are fashioned in the body of the woman. And when he sees that he is mingled with the limbs of the woman, he will be certain of death, and will be changed wholly into blood. But when the Philosophers see him changed into blood, they leave him a few days in the sun, until his softness is consumed, and the blood dries, and they find that poison. What then appears, is the hidden wind.103   --   [The Sefiroth] end in Malchuth or The Moon, who is the last to descend and the first to ascend from the elemental world. For The Moon is the way to heaven, so much so that the Pythagoreans named her the heavenly earth and the earthly heaven or star,128 because in the elemental world all inferior nature in respect to the heavenly, and the heavenly in respect to the intelligible world, is, as the Zohar says, feminine and passive, and is as The Moon to the sun. In the same measure as [The Moon] withdraws from the sun, until she is in opposition to him, so does her light increase in relation to us in this lower world, but diminishes on the side that looks upwards. Contrariwise, in her conjunction, when she is totally darkened for us, she is fully illuminated on that side which faces the sun. This should teach us that the more our intellect descends to the things of sense, the more it is turned away from intelligible things, and the reverse likewise.129   The identification of Malchuth with Luna forms a link with alchemy, and is another example of the process by which the patristic symbolism of sponsus and sponsa had been assimilated much earlier. At the same time, it is a repetition of the way the originally pagan hierosgamos was absorbed into the figurative language of the Church Fathers. But Vigenerus adds something that seems to be lacking in patristic allegory, namely the darkening of the other half of The Moon during her opposition. When The Moon turns upon us her fullest radiance, her other side is in complete darkness. This strict application of the Sol-Luna allegory might have been an embarrassment to the Church, although the idea of the dying Church does take account, to a certain extent, of the transience of all created things.130 I do not mention this fact in order to criticize the significance of the ecclesiastical Sol-Luna allegory. On the contrary I want to emphasize it, because The Moon, standing on the borders of the sublunary world ruled by evil, has a share not only in the world of light but also in the daemonic world of darkness, as our author clearly hints. That is why her changefulness is so significant symbolically: she is duplex and mutable like Mercurius, and is like him a mediator; hence their identification in alchemy.131 Though Mercurius has a bright side concerning whose spirituality alchemy leaves us in no doubt, he also has a dark side, and its roots go deep.   [20] The quotation from Vigenerus bears no little resemblance to a long passage on the phases of The Moon in Augustine.132 Speaking of the unfavourable aspect of The Moon, which is her changeability, he paraphrases Ecclesiasticus 27 : 12 with the words: The wise man remaineth stable as the sun, but a fool is changed as The Moon,133 and poses the question: Who then is that fool who changeth as The Moon, but Adam, in whom all have sinned?134 For Augustine, therefore, The Moon is manifestly an ally of corruptible creatures, reflecting their folly and inconstancy. Since, for the men of antiquity and the Middle Ages, comparison with the stars or planets tacitly presupposes astrological causality, the sun causes constancy and wisdom, while The Moon is the cause of change and folly (including lunacy).135 Augustine attaches to his remarks about The Moon a moral observation concerning the relationship of man to the spiritual sun,136 just as Vigenerus did, who was obviously acquainted with Augustines epistles. He also mentions (Epistola LV, 10) the Church as Luna, and he connects The Moon with the wounding by an arrow: Whence it is said: They have made ready their arrows in the quiver, to shoot in the darkness of The Moon at the upright of heart.137 It is clear that Augustine did not understand the wounding as the activity of the new moon herself but, in accordance with the principle omne malum ab homine, as the result of mans wickedness. All the same, the addition in obscura luna, for which there is no warrant in the original text, shows how much the new moon is involved. This hint of the admitted dangerousness of The Moon is confirmed when Augustine, a few sentences later on, cites Psalm 71 : 7: In his days justice shall flourish, and abundance of peace, until The Moon shall be destroyed.138 Instead of the strong interficiatur the Vulgate has the milder auferaturshall be taken away or fail.139 The violent way in which The Moon is removed is explained by the interpretation that immediately follows: That is, the abundance of peace shall grow until it consumes all changefulness of mortality. From this it is evident that The Moons nature expressly partakes of the changefulness of mortality, which is equivalent to death, and therefore the text continues: For then the last enemy, death, shall be destroyed, and whatever resists us on account of the weakness of the flesh shall be utterly consumed. Here the destruction of The Moon is manifestly equivalent to the destruction of death.140 The Moon and death significantly reveal their affinity. Death came into the world through original sin and the seductiveness of woman (= moon), and mutability led to corruptibility.141 To eliminate The Moon from Creation is therefore as desirable as the elimination of death. This negative assessment of The Moon takes full account of her dark side. The dying of the Church is also connected with the mystery of The Moons darkness.142 Augustines cautious and perhaps not altogether unconscious disguising of the sinister aspect of The Moon would be sufficiently explained by his respect for the Ecclesia-Luna equation.   [21] All the more ruthlessly, therefore, does alchemy insist on the dangerousness of the new moon. Luna is on the one hand the brilliant whiteness of the full moon, on the other hand she is the blackness of the new moon, and especially the blackness of the eclipse, when the sun is darkened. Indeed, what she does to the sun comes from her own dark nature. The Consilium coniugii143 tells us very clearly what the alchemists thought about Luna:   The lion, the lower sun,144 grows corrupt through the flesh. [His flesh is weak because he suffers from quartan fever.145] Thus is the lion146 corrupted in his nature through his flesh, which follows the times of The Moon,147 and is eclipsed. For The Moon is the shadow of the sun, and with corruptible bodies she is consumed, and through her corruption is the lion eclipsed with the help of the moisture of Mercurius,148 yet his eclipse is changed to usefulness and to a better nature, and one more perfect than the first.   The changefulness of The Moon and her ability to grow dark are interpreted as her corruptibility, and this negative quality can even darken the sun. The text continues:   During the increase, that is during the fullness of the blackness of the lead, which is our ore, my light149 is absent, and my splendour is put out.   --   After this151 is completed, you will know that you have the substance which penetrates all substances, and the nature which contains nature, and the nature which rejoices in nature.152 It is named the Tyriac153 of the Philosophers, and it is also called the poisonous serpent, because, like this, it bites off the head of the male in the lustful heat of conception, and giving birth it dies and is divided through the midst. So also the moisture of The Moon,154 when she receives his light, slays the sun, and at the birth of the child of the Philosophers she dies likewise, and at death the two parents yield up their souls to the son, and die and pass away. And the parents are the food of the son . . .   [22] In this psychologem all the implications of the Sol-Luna allegory are carried to their logical conclusion. The daemonic quality which is connected with the dark side of The Moon, or with her position midway between heaven and the sublunary world,155 displays its full effect. Sun and moon reveal their antithetical nature, which in the Christian Sol-Luna relationship is so obscured as to be unrecognizable, and the two opposites cancel each other out, their impact resultingin accordance with the laws of energeticsin the birth of a third and new thing, a son who resolves the antagonisms of the parents and is himself a united double nature. The unknown author of the Consilium156 was not conscious of the close connection of his psychologem with the process of transubstantiation, although the last sentence of the text contains clearly enough the motif of teoqualo, the god-eating of the Aztecs.157 This motif is also found in ancient Egypt. The Pyramid text of Unas (Vth dynasty) says: Unas rising as a soul, like a god who liveth upon his fathers and feedeth upon his mothers.158 It should be noted how alchemy put in the place of the Christian sponsus and sponsa an image of totality that on the one hand was material, and on the other was spiritual and corresponded to the Paraclete. In addition, there was a certain trend in the direction of an Ecclesia spiritualis. The alchemical equivalent of the God-Man and the Son of God was Mercurius, who as an hermaphrodite contained in himself both the feminine element, Sapientia and matter, and the masculine, the Holy Ghost and the devil. There are relations in alchemy with the Holy Ghost Movement which flourished in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and was chiefly connected with the name of Joachim of Flora (11451202), who expected the imminent coming of the third kingdom, namely that of the Holy Ghost.159   [23] The alchemists also represented the eclipse as the descent of the sun into the (feminine) Mercurial Fountain,160 or as the disappearance of Gabricus in the body of Beya. Again, the sun in the embrace of the new moon is treacherously slain by the snake-bite (conatu viperino) of the mother-beloved, or pierced by the telum passionis, Cupids arrow.161 These ideas explain the strange picture in Reusners Pandora,162 showing Christ being pierced with a lance by a crowned virgin whose body ends in a serpents tail.163 The oldest reference to the mermaid in alchemy is a quotation from Hermes in Olympiodorus: The virginal earth is found in the tail of the virgin.164 On the analogy of the wounded Christ, Adam is shown in the Codex Ashburnham pierced in the side by an arrow.165   [24] This motif of wounding is taken up by Honorius of Autun in his commentary on the Song of Songs.166 Thou hast wounded my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast wounded my heart with one of thy eyes, and with one hair of thy neck (DV).167 The sponsa says (1 : 4): I am black, but comely, and (1 : 5) Look not upon me because I am black, because the sun hath scorched me. This allusion to the nigredo was not missed by the alchemists.168 But there is another and more dangerous reference to the bride in 6 : 4f.: Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners. Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me . . . 10: Who is this that looketh forth as the rising dawn [quasi aurora consurgens],169 fair as The Moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army with banners?170 The bride is not only lovely and innocent, but witch-like and terrible, like the side of Selene that is related to Hecate. Like her, Luna is all-seeing, an all-knowing eye.171 Like Hecate she sends madness, epilepsy, and other sicknesses. Her special field is love magic, and magic in general, in which the new moon, the full moon, and The Moons darkness play a great part. The animals assigned to herstag, lion, and cock 172are also symbols of her male partner in alchemy. As the chthonic Persephone her animals, according to Pythagoras, are dogs,173 i.e., the planets. In alchemy Luna herself appears as the Armenian bitch.174 The sinister side of The Moon plays a considerable role in classical tradition.   [25] The sponsa is the dark new moonin Christian interpretation the Church in the nuptial embrace 175and this union is at the same time a wounding of the sponsus, Sol or Christ. Honorius comments on Thou hast wounded my heart as follows:   --   [27] The motif of wounding in alchemy goes back to Zosimos (3rd cent.) and his visions of a sacrificial drama.180 The motif does not occur in such complete form again. One next meets it in the Turba: The dew is joined to him who is wounded and given over to death.181 The dew comes from The Moon, and he who is wounded is the sun.182 In the treatise of Philaletha, Introitus apertus ad occlusum Regis palatium,183 the wounding is caused by the bite of the rabid Corascene dog,184 in consequence of which the hermaphrodite child suffered from hydrophobia.185 Dorn, in his De tenebris contra naturam, associates the motif of wounding and the poisonous snake-bite with Genesis 3: For the sickness introduced into nature by the serpent, and the deadly wound she inflicted, a remedy is to be sought.186 Accordingly it is the task of alchemy to root out the original sin, and this is accomplished with the aid of the balsamum vitae (balsam of life), which is a true mixture of the natural heat with its radical moisture. The life of the world is the light of nature and the celestial sulphur,187 whose substance is the aetheric moisture and heat of the firmament, like to the sun and moon.188 The conjunction of the moist (= moon) and the hot (= sun) thus produces the balsam, which is the original and incorrupt life of the world. Genesis 3 : 15, he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel (RSV), was generally taken as a prefiguration of the Redeemer. But since Christ was free from the stain of sin the wiles of the serpent could not touch him, though of course mankind was poisoned. Whereas the Christian belief is that man is freed from sin by the redemptory act of Christ, the alchemist was evidently of the opinion that the restitution to the likeness of original and incorrupt nature had still to be accomplished by the art, and this can only mean that Christs work of redemption was regarded as incomplete. In view of the wickednesses which the Prince of this world,189 undeterred, goes on perpetrating as liberally as before, one cannot withhold all sympathy from such an opinion. For an alchemist who professed allegiance to the Ecclesia spiritualis it was naturally of supreme importance to make himself an unspotted vessel of the Paraclete and thus to realize the idea Christ on a plane far transcending a mere imitation of him. It is tragic to see how this tremendous thought got bogged down again and again in the welter of human folly. A shattering example of this is afforded not only by the history of the Church, but above all by alchemy itself, which richly merited its own condemnationin ironical fulfilment of the dictum In sterquiliniis invenitur (it is found in cesspools). Agrippa von Nettesheim was not far wrong when he opined that Chymists are of all men the most perverse.190   [28] In his Mysterium Lunae, an extremely valuable study for the history of alchemical symbolism, Rahner191 mentions that the waxing and waning of the bride (Luna, Ecclesia) is based on the kenosis192 of the bridegroom, in accordance with the words of St. Ambrose:193   --   [29] Thus the changefulness of The Moon is paralleled by the transformation of the pre-existent Christ from a divine into a human figure through the emptying, that passage in Philippians (2 : 6) which has aroused so much comment: . . . who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be clung to, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men (RSV / DV).195 Even the most tortuous explanations of theology have never improved on the lapidary paradox of St. Hilary: Deus homo, immortalis mortuus, aeternus sepultus (God-man, immortaldead, eternal-buried).196 According to Ephraem Syrus, the kenosis had the reverse effect of unburdening Creation: Because the creatures were weary of bearing the prefigurations of his glory, he disburdened them of those prefigurations, even as he had disburdened the womb that bore him.197   [30] St. Ambroses reference to the kenosis makes the changing of The Moon causally dependent on the transformation of the bridegroom. The darkening of Luna then depends on the sponsus, Sol, and here the alchemists could refer to the darkening of the beloveds countenance in Song of Songs 1 : 45. The sun, too, is equipped with darts and arrows. Indeed, the secret poisoning that otherwise emanates from the coldness and moisture of The Moon is occasionally attributed to the cold dragon, who contains a volatile fiery spirit and spits flames. Thus in Emblem L of the Scrutinium198 he is given a masculine role: he wraps the woman in the grave in a deadly embrace. The same thought occurs again in Emblem V, where a toad is laid on the breast of the woman so that she, suckling it, may die as it grows.199 The toad is a cold and damp animal like the dragon. It empties the woman as though The Moon were pouring herself into the sun.200

1.03 - The Sephiros, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism   Plane, which in one sense being passive and reflecting the energies from above, is lunar J>, even as The Moon reflects the light from the sun. The Astral Light is an omnipresent and all-permeating fluid or medium of extremely subtile matter ; substance in a highly tenuous state, electric and magnetic in constitution, which is the model upon which the physical world is built. It is the endless, changeless, ebb and flow of the world's forces that, in the last resort, guarantee the stability of the world and provides its foundation. Yesod is this stable foundation, this change- less ebb and flow of astral forces, and the universal repro- ductive power in Nature. " Everything shall return to its foundation, from which it has proceeded. All marrow, seed, and energy are gathered in this place. Hence all the potentialities which exist go out through this " (Zohar),   Its Egyptian God is Shu, who was the God of Space, represented as lifting up Nuit, the Queen of Heaven, from off the body of Seb, the Earth. Its Hindu equivalent is   --   Roman Temples represented The Moon. The general conception of Yesod is of change with stability. Some writers have referred to the Astral Light which is the sphere of Yesod as the Anima Mundi, the Soul of the World. The psycho-analyst Jung has a very similar concept which he terms the Collective Unconscious which, as I see it, differs in no wise from the Qabalistic idea.   Its plants are the Mandrake and Damiana, both of whose aphrodisiac qualities are well known. Its perfume is Jas- mine, also a sexual excitant ; its colour Purple ; its Sepher   --   An important consideration, from the practical Qabalistic viewpoint, is the attri bution of The Moon which, according to the occult tradition, is a dead yet living body whose particles are full of active and destructive life, of potent magical power.   62

1.03 - VISIT TO VIDYASAGAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism   But while my mind has understood, alas! my heart has not; Though but a dwarf, it still would strive to make a captive of The Moon.   Continuing, the Master said: "Did you notice?   --   "Man cannot really help the world. God alone does that - He who has created the sun and The Moon, who has put love for their children in parents' hearts, endowed noble souls with compassion, and holy men and devotees with divine love. The man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.   "There is gold buried in your heart, but you are not yet aware of it. It is covered with a thin layer of clay. Once you are aware of it, all these activities of yours will lessen. After the birth of her child, the daughter-in-law in the family busies herself with it alone.

1.03 - YIBHOOTI PADA, #Patanjali Yoga Sutras, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism   On The Moon, (comes) the knowledge of the cluster of   stars.

1.041 - Detailed, #Quran, #unset, #Zen   37. And of His signs are the night and the day, and the sun and The Moon. Do not bow down to the sun, nor to The Moon, but bow down to God, Who created them both, if it is Him that you serve.   38. But if they are too proud—those in the presence of your Lord praise Him night and day, and without ever tiring.

1.04 - ADVICE TO HOUSEHOLDERS, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism   Incense was burnt in the room, where an oil lamp had been lighted. Sounds of conch-shells and gongs came floating on the air as the evening worship began in the temple of Kli. The light of The Moon flooded all the quarters. The Master again spoke to M.   God and worldly duties   --   They began to talk with him. It was indeed a mart of joy. The Master asked Narendra to sing the song beginning with the line: "In Wisdom's firmament The Moon of Love is rising full."   Narendra sang, and other devotees played the drums and cymbals: In Wisdom's firmament The Moon of Love is rising full, And Love's flood-tide, in surging waves, is flowing everywhere.   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.   Behold! the gates of paradise today are open wide.

1.04 - ALCHEMY AND MANICHAEISM, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology   [34] The inflammation by desire has its analogy in the alchemists gradual warming of the substances that contain the arcanum. Here the symbol of the sweat-bath plays an important role, as the illustrations show.227 Just as for the Manichaeans the sweat of the archons signified rain,228 so for the alchemists sweat meant dew.229 In this connection we should also mention the strange legend reported in the Acta Archelai, concerning the apparatus which the son of the living Father invented to save human souls. He constructed a great wheel with twelve buckets which, as they revolved, scooped up the souls from the deep and deposited them on The Moon-ship.230 In alchemy the rota is the symbol of the opus circulatorium. Like the alchemists, the Manichaeans had a virago, the male virgin Joel,231 who gave Eve a certain amount of the light-substance.232 The role she plays in regard to the princes of darkness corresponds to that of Mercurius duplex, who like her sets free the secret hidden in matter, the light above all lights, the filius philosophorum. I would not venture to decide how much in these parallels is to be ascribed directly to Manichaean tradition, how much to indirect influence, and how much to spontaneous revival.   [35] Our starting-point for these remarks was the designation of the lapis as orphan, which Dorn mentions apparently out of the blue when discussing the union of opposites. The material we have adduced shows what an archetypal drama of death and rebirth lies hidden in the coniunctio, and what immemorial human emotions clash together in this problem. It is the moral task of alchemy to bring the feminine, maternal background of the masculine psyche, seething with passions, into harmony with the principle of the spirittruly a labour of Hercules! In Dorns words:

1.04 - BOOK THE FOURTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry   Which, by The Moon, when trembling Thisbe spies,   Wing'd with her fear, swift, as the wind, she flies;   --   'Tis not The Moon, that o'er thee casts a veil   'Tis love alone, which makes thy looks so pale.   --   And such The Moon, when all her silver white   Turns in eclipses to a ruddy light.

1.04 - GOD IN THE WORLD, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy   How transparent The Moonlight of the four-fold Wisdom!   As the Truth reveals itself in its eternal tranquillity,

1.04 - Magic and Religion, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism   still pursued his daily, and The Moon her nightly journey across the   sky: the silent procession of the seasons still moved in light and

1.04 - On Knowledge of the Future World., #The Alchemy of Happiness, #Al-Ghazali, #Sufism   Once more, if an astrologer should say to you, "if you will drink this bitter and disagreeable medicine, you will not, be attacked with illness during the whole of this coming year, for The Moon is in such a station among the heavenly bodies," notwithstanding the lie of the astrologer should be very clear to your mind, and you have no confidence in what he says, you would reply, "well, let me [102] drink it and see; if it do me no good, it will do me no harm." And with the fancied hope of advantage from it, you swallow down the bitter and unpalatable potion as if it were sugar.   Now come and be candid with yourself; you give credit to a false physician, to a false writer of charms and to a false astrologer, for the sake of being delivered from a day or two of illness in this world, and you even undergo suffering for the sake of it. But the learned in religion, for the sake of saving you from the malady of stupidity and rebellion and bringing you to everlasting health and felicity, have exerted themselves to make the verses of the Koran and the holy traditions to serve as a medicine to deliver you from bitter torment. Still you attach no credit to their words. You treat the Koran and the traditions with entire disregard, neither clinging to the commandments of God, nor avoiding forbidden things. You follow the bent of your own inclinations, instead of following the example and law of the prophet of God, and you indulge in many acts of transgression. Nor do you call to mind what will be your condition in the end of it all, nor how long a time you have yet to live in the world, nor what eternity is compared with this world. Do you not know that by choosing a very little pain in the business of religion during this short life and in this worthless world, you may gain eternal felicity, and riches that cannot be taken from you ? The pain which we may suffer in this world, however severe, yet does not weigh the amount of an atom in comparison with the pains and torment of the other world. This world is a fading shadow, but the future world is abiding and eternal.

1.04 - Te Shan Carrying His Bundle, #The Blue Cliff Records, #Yuanwu Keqin, #Zen   Sha said, "Even if you're like The Moon reflected in an autumn   pond, which when striking the waves is not scattered, or like

1.04 - The 33 seven double letters, #Sefer Yetzirah The Book of Creation In Theory and Practice, #Anonymous, #Various   FIRST DIVISION. He let the letter predominate in wisdom, crowned it, combined one with the other and formed by them: The Moon in the world, the first day in the year, and the right eye in man, male and female.    .

1.04 - The Gods of the Veda, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   These are negative and a priori considerations, but they are supported by more positive indications. The other Aryan religions which are most akin in conception to the Vedic and seem originally to have used the same names for their deities, present themselves to us even at their earliest vaguely historic stage as moralised religions. Their gods had not only distinct moral attri butes, but represented moral & subjective functions. Apollo is not only the god of the sun or of pestilencein Homer indeed Haelios (Saurya) & not Apollo is the Sun God but the divine master of prophecy and poetry; Athene has lost any naturalistic significance she may ever have had and is a pure moral force, the goddess of strong intelligence, force guided by brain; Ares is the lord of battles, not a storm wind; Artemis, if she is The Moon, is also goddess of the free hunting life and of virginity; Aphrodite is only the goddess of Love & Beauty There is therefore a strong moral element in the cult & there are clear subjective notions attached to the divine personalities. But this is not all. There was not only a moral element in the Greek religion as known & practised by the layman, there was also a mystic element and an esoteric belief & practice practised by the initiated. The mysteries of Eleusis, the Thracian rites connected with the name of Orpheus, the Phrygian worship of Cybele, even the Bacchic rites rested on a mystic symbolism which gave a deep internal meaning to the exterior circumstances of creed & cult. Nor was this a modern excrescence; for its origins were lost to the Greeks in a legendary antiquity. Indeed, if we took the trouble to understand alien & primitive mentalities instead of judging & interpreting them by our own standards, I think we should find an element of mysticism even in savage rites & beliefs. The question at any rate may fairly be put, Were the Vedic Rishis, thinkers of a race which has shown itself otherwise the greatest & earliest mystics & moralisers in historical times, the most obstinately spiritual, theosophic & metaphysical of nations, so far behind the Orphic & Homeric Greeks as to be wholly Pagan & naturalistic in their creed, or was their religion too moralised & subjective, were their ceremonies too supported by an esoteric symbolism?   The immediate or at any rate the earliest known successors of the Rishis, the compilers of the Brahmanas, the writers of theUpanishads give a clear & definite answer to this question.The Upanishads everywhere rest their highly spiritual & deeply mystic doctrines on the Veda.We read in the Isha Upanishad of Surya as the Sun God, but it is the Sun of spiritual illumination, of Agni as the Fire, but it is the inner fire that burns up all sin & crookedness. In the Kena Indra, Agni & Vayu seek to know the supreme Brahman and their greatness is estimated by the nearness with which they touched him,nedistham pasparsha. Uma the daughter of Himavan, the Woman, who reveals the truth to them is clearly enough no natural phenomenon. In the Brihadaranyaka, the most profound, subtle & mystical of human scriptures, the gods & Titans are the masters, respectively, of good and of evil. In the Upanishads generally the word devah is used as almost synonymous with the forces & functions of sense, mind & intellect. The element of symbolism is equally clear. To the terms of the Vedic ritual, to their very syllables a profound significance is everywhere attached; several incidents related in the Upanishads show the deep sense then & before entertained that the sacrifices had a spiritual meaning which must be known if they were to be conducted with full profit or even with perfect safety. The Brahmanas everywhere are at pains to bring out a minute symbolism in the least circumstances of the ritual, in the clarified butter, the sacred grass, the dish, the ladle. Moreover, we see even in the earliest Upanishads already developed the firm outlines and minute details of an extraordinary psychology, physics, cosmology which demand an ancient development and centuries of Yogic practice and mystic speculation to account for their perfect form & clearness. This psychology, this physics, this cosmology persist almost unchanged through the whole history of Hinduism. We meet them in the Puranas; they are the foundation of the Tantra; they are still obscurely practised in various systems of Yoga. And throughout, they have rested on a declared Vedic foundation. The Pranava, the Gayatri, the three Vyahritis, the five sheaths, the five (or seven) psychological strata, (bhumi, kshiti of the Vedas), the worlds that await us, the gods who help & the demons who hinder go back to Vedic origins.All this may be a later mystic misconception of the hymns & their ritual, but the other hypothesis of direct & genuine derivation is also possible. If there was no common origin, if Greek & Indian separated during the naturalistic period of the common religion supposed to be recorded in the Vedas it is surprising that even the little we know of Greek rites & mysteries should show us ideas coincident with those of Indian Tantra & Yoga.

1.04 - The Paths, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism   The title of this Path is " The Uniting Intelligence ", and its Yetsiratic attri bution is The Moon <=>. Its Tarot card is   II. - The High Priestess of the Silver Star, picturing a throned woman, crowned with a tiara, the Sun above her head, a stole on her breast, and the sign of The Moon at her feet. She is seated between two pillars, one white (male) and the other black (female), comparable to the right and left-hand pillars of the Tree of Life, and the Masonic   Yachin and Boaz. In her hand is the scroll of the   --   Artemis, Hecate, Chomse, and Chandra are the deities attri buted, all of them being lunar goddesses. Its colour is Silver, the glistening colour of The Moon ; Camphor and   Aloes are its perfumes ; The Moonstone and Pearl being its jewels. The Dog is sacred to Gimel, probably because the huntress Artemis always had hounds in attendance. The   Bow and Arrow, for the same reason, is its symbolic magical instrument.   --   XVIII. - The Moon, is its Tarot card, describing a mid- night landscape on which The Moon is shining. Standing between two towers a jackal and a wolf, with muzzles    pointed in the air, howl at The Moon, and a crayfish or crab crawls out of the water on to dry land.    n-R

1.04 - The Praise, #Tara - The Feminine Divine, #unset, #Zen    THE HARE-MARKED MOON: The Moon. In the East,   people distinguish a hare on The Moon (or a rabbit),   clearly drawn, with its two large ears standing straight   --    THE GODS' LAKE: another metaphor for The Moon,   compared to a perfectly round lake, very beautiful,   --   comparable to nectar flowing out of The Moon, she   gives life, w~alth, and happiness.

1.05 - 2010 and 1956 - Doomsday?, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga   Sri Aurobindo, In The Moonlight   The 2012 phenomenon   --   will die out in due course. You see in The Moon the sort of   thing towards which the earth is tending, something dead,   --   is the largest of The Moons of all other solar planets, large   enough to stabilize Earths spin. Earth is protected by Jupi-

1.054 - The Moon, #Quran, #unset, #Zen   object:1.054 - The Moon   class:chapter   --   1. The Hour has drawn near, and The Moon has split.   2. Yet whenever they see a miracle, they turn away, and say, “Continuous magic.”

1.055 - The Compassionate, #Quran, #unset, #Zen   5. The sun and The Moon move according to plan.   6. And the stars and the trees prostrate themselves.

1.05 - Qualifications of the Aspirant and the Teacher, #Bhakti-Yoga, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism   And the light which causes the beautiful opening out of this lotus comes always from the good and wise teacher. When the heart has thus been opened, it becomes fit to receive teaching from the stones or the brooks, the stars, or the sun, or The Moon, or from any thing which has its existence in our divine universe; but the unopened heart will see in them nothing but mere stones or mere brooks. A blind man may go to a museum, but he will not profit by it in any way; his eyes must be opened first, and then alone he will be able to learn what the things in the museum can teach.   This eye-opener of the aspirant after religion is the teacher. With the teacher, therefore, our relationship is the same as that between an ancestor and his descendant. Without faith, humility, submission, and veneration in our hearts towards our religious teacher, there cannot be any growth of religion in us; and it is a significant fact that, where this kind of relation between the teacher and the taught prevails, there alone gigantic spiritual men are growing; while in those countries which have neglected to keep up this kind of relation the religious teacher has become a mere lecturer, the teacher expecting his five dollars and the person taught expecting his brain to be filled with the teacher's words, and each going his own way after this much has been done. Under such circumstances spirituality becomes almost an unknown quantity. There is none to transmit it and none to have it transmitted to.

1.05 - THE HOSTILE BROTHERS - ARCHETYPES OF RESPONSE TO THE UNKNOWN, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology   ... it is The Moon, the mother of all things, the vessel, it consists of opposites, has a thousand names, is   an old woman and a whore, as Mater Alchimia it is wisdom and teaches wisdom, it contains the elixir of

1.05 - The Magical Control of the Weather, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism   and lightning, the changes of the seasons, the phases of The Moon,   the daily and yearly journeys of the sun, the motions of the stars,   --   eclipse of The Moon some tribes of the Orinoco used to bury lighted   brands in the ground; because, said they, if The Moon were to be   extinguished, all fire on earth would be extinguished with her,   --   The Moon, and some of them have been known to throw stones and   spears at The Moon, in order to accelerate its progress and so to   hasten the return of their friends, who were away from home for

1.05 - THE MASTER AND KESHAB, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism   MASTER (with a smile): "Oh, She plays in different ways. It is She alone who is known as Maha-Kli, Nitya-Kli, Smasana-Kli, Raksha-Kli, and Syama-Kli. Maha-Kli and Nitya-Kli are mentioned in the Tantra philosophy. When there were neither the creation, nor the sun, The Moon, the planets, and the earth and when darkness was enveloped in darkness, then the Mother, the Formless One, Maha-Kli, the Great Power, was one with Maha-Kala, the Absolute.   "Syama-Kli has a somewhat tender aspect and is worshipped in the Hindu households.   --   It was late. Surendra had not yet returned. The Master had to leave for the temple garden, and a cab was brought for him. M. and Narendra saluted him and took their leave. Sri Ramakrishna's carriage started for Dakshineswar through The Moonlit streets.   --------------------

1.05 - The Universe The 0 = 2 Equation, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy   S. The Chinese, like ourselves, begin with the idea of "Absolute Nothing." They "make an effort, and call it the Tao;" but that is exactly what the Tao comes to mean, when we examine it. They see quite well, as we have done above, that merely to assert Nothing is not to explain the Universe; and they proceed to do so by means of a mathematical equation even simpler than ours, involving as it does no operations beyond simple addition and subtraction. They say "Nothing obviously means Nothing; it has no qualities nor quantities." (The Advaitists said the same, and then stultified themselves completely by calling it One!) "But," continue the sages of the Middle Kingdom, "it is always possible to reduce any expression to Nothing by taking any two equal and opposite terms." (Thus n = (-n) = 0.) "We ought therefore to be able to get any expression that we want from Nothing; we merely have to be careful that the terms shall be precisely opposite and equal." (0 = n + (-n). This then they did, and began to diagrammatize the Universe as the a pair of opposites, the Yang or active male, and the Yin or passive Female, principles. They represented the Yang by an unbroken (  ), the Yin by a broken (   ), line. (The first manifestation in Nature of these two is Thi Yang, the Sun, and the Thi Yin, The Moon.) This being a little large and loose, they doubled these lines, and obtained the four Hsiang. They then took them three at a time, and got the eight Kwa. These represent the development from the original {S.B. cap "I"} to the Natural Order of the Elements.   I shall call the male principle M, the Female F.   --   M.2. L The Sun F.2. Khn The Moon   M.3. Kn Fire F.3. Tui Water

1.06 - Being Human and the Copernican Principle, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga   ley of Aijalon. And the Sun stood still and The Moon halted,   till the people had vengeance on their enemies. Was this

1.06 - Origin of the four castes, #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism   gu is the seventh, and kulattha, pulse, the eighth: the others are, Syāmāka, a sort of panic; Nīvāra, uñcultivated rice; Jarttila, wild sesamum; Gavedukā (coix); Markata, wild panic; and (a plant called) the seed or barley of the Bambu (Venu-yava). These, cultivated or wild, are the fourteen grains that were produced for purposes of offering in sacrifice; and sacrifice (the cause of rain) is their origin also: they again, with sacrifice, are the great cause of the perpetuation of the human race, as those understand who can discriminate cause and effect. Thence sacrifices were offered daily; the performance of which, oh best of Munis, is of essential service to mankind, and expiates the offences of those by whom they are observed. Those, however, in whose hearts the dross of sin derived from Time (Kāla) was still more developed, assented not to sacrifices, but reviled both them and all that resulted from them, the gods, and the followers of the Vedas. Those abusers of the Vedas, of evil disposition and conduct, and seceders from the path of enjoined duties, were plunged in wickedness[8]. The means of subsistence having been provided for the beings he had created, Brahmā prescribed laws suited to their station and faculties, the duties of the several castes and orders[9], and the regions of those of the different castes who were observant of their duties. The heaven of the Pitris is the region of devout Brahmans. The sphere of Indra, of Kṣetriyas who fly not from the field. The region of the winds is assigned to the Vaisyas who are diligent in their occupations and submissive. Śūdras are elevated to the sphere of the Gandharvas. Those Brahmans who lead religious lives go to the world of the eighty-eight thousand saints: and that of the seven Ṛṣis is the seat of pious anchorets and hermits. The world of ancestors is that of respectable householders: and the region of Brahmā is the asylum of religious mendicants[10]. The imperishable region of the Yogis is the highest seat of Viṣṇu, where they perpetually meditate upon the supreme being, with minds intent on him alone: the sphere where they reside, the gods themselves cannot behold. The sun, The Moon, the planets, shall repeatedly be, and cease to be; but those who internally repeat the mystic adoration of the divinity, shall never know decay. For those who neglect their duties, who revile the Vedas, and obstruct religious rites, the places assigned after death are the terrific regions of darkness, of deep gloom, of fear, and of great terror; the fearful hell of sharp swords, the hell of scourges and of a waveless sea[11].   Footnotes and references:

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 MASTER WITH THE BRAHMO DEVOTEES, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism   It was about half past eight when the evening worship began in the prayer hall. Soon The Moon rose in the autumn sky and flooded the trees and creepers of the garden with its light. After prayer the devotees began to sing. Sri Ramakrishna was dancing, intoxicated with love of God. The Brahmo devotees danced around him to the accompaniment of drums and cymbals. All appeared to be in a very joyous mood. The place echoed and reechoed with God's holy name. When the music had stopped, Sri Ramakrishna prostrated himself on the ground and, making salutations to the Divine Mother again and again, said: "Bhagavata-Bhakta-Bhagavan! My salutations at the feet of the jnanis! My salutations at the feet of the bhaktas! I salute the bhaktas who believe in God with form, and I salute the bhaktas who believe in God without form. I salute the knowers of Brahman of olden times. And my salutations at the feet of the modern knowers of Brahman of the Brahmo Samaj!"   Then the Master and the devotees enjoyed a supper of delicious dishes, which Benimadhav, their host, had provided.

1.06 - The Sign of the Fishes, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology   thereof is Judaism. . . . And if The Moon is in conjunction with Saturn it sig-   nifies doubt and revolution and change, and this by reason of the speed of the   corruption of The Moon and the rapidity of its motion and the shortness of its de-   lay in the sign." Cf. also Pierre d'Ailly, Concordantia, etc., fol. d8r. J. H. Heideg-

1.071 - Noah, #Quran, #unset, #Zen   16. And He set The Moon in their midst for light, and He made the sun a lamp.   17. And God germinated you from the earth like plants.

1.074 - The Enrobed, #Quran, #unset, #Zen   32. Nay! By The Moon.   33. And the night as it retreats.

1.075 - Resurrection, #Quran, #unset, #Zen   8. And The Moon is eclipsed.   9. And the sun and The Moon are joined together.   10. On that Day, man will say, “Where is the escape?”

1.07 - The Fire of the New World, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga   If we are to believe materialistic mechanics, nothing can come out of a system except what is already contained in it; we can only perfect what is there, in the little bubble. In a sense, they are right, but one may wonder if a perfected ass will ever yield anything other than an ass. It would seem that the closed system of the materialists is doomed to ultimate poverty, and that, by reducing everything to the degree of development of chromosomes and the perfection of gray matter, they have dedicated themselves to a supermechanization of the machine from which they started (machinery can only lead to machinery). But the ape, the mole and the chameleon do just that; they add and subtract; and our machinery is not fundamentally more advanced than theirs, even though it sends firecrackers to The Moon. In short, we are some perfected protoplasm with greater swallowing capacity and smarter (?) tropisms, and soon we shall be able to calculate all that is required to produce biological Napoleons and test-tube Einsteins. All the same, our earth would hardly be a happier place with legions of blackboards and supergenerals, who would not know which way to turn they would set out to colonize other earths... and fill them with blackboards. There is no way out of it, by definition, since the system is closed, closed, closed.   We suggest that there is a better materialism, less impoverishing, and that matter is less stupid than is usually said. Our materialism is a relic of the age of religions, one could almost say its inevitable companion, like good and evil, black and white, and all the dualities stemming from a linear vision of the world which sees one tuft of grass after another, a bump after a hole, and sets the mountains against the plains, without realizing that everything together is equally and totally true and makes a perfect geography in which there is not a single hole to fill, a single bump to take away, without impoverishing all the rest. There is nothing to suppress; there is everything to view in the global truth. There are no contradictions; there are only limited visions. We thus claim that matter our matter is capable of greater wonders than all the mechanical miracles we try to wrest from it. Matter is not coerced with impunity. It is more conscious than we believe, less closed than our mental fortress it goes along for a while, because it is slow, then takes its revenge, mercilessly. But one has to know the right lever. We have tried to find that lever by dissecting it scientifically or religiously; we have invented microscopes and scalpels, and still more microscopes that probed deeper, saw bigger, and discovered smaller and smaller and still smaller reality, which always seemed to be the coveted key but merely opened the door onto another, smaller existence, endlessly pushing back the limits enclosed in other limits that enclosed other limits and the key kept escaping us, even as it let loose a few monsters on us in the process. We peered at an ant that was growing bigger and bigger but kept perpetually having six legs despite the superacids and superparticles we discovered in its ant belly. Perhaps we will be able to manufacture another one, even a three-legged ant. Some breakthrough! We do not need another ant, even an improved one. We need something else. Religiously, too, we have tried to dissect matter, to reduce it to a fiction of God, a vale of transit, a kingdom of the devil and the flesh, the thousand and one particles of our theological telescopes. We peered higher and higher into heaven, more and more divinely, but the ant kept painfully having six legs or three between one birth and another, eternally the same. We do not need an ant's salvation; we need something other than an ant. Ultimately, we may not need to see bigger or higher or farther, but simply here, under our nose, in this small living aggregate which contains its own key, like the lotus seed in the mud, and to pursue a third path, which is neither that of science nor that of religion although it may one day combine both within its rounded truth, with all our whites and blacks, goods and evils, heavens and hells, bumps and holes, in a new human or superhuman geography that all these goods and evils, holes and bumps were meticulously and accurately preparing.

1.07 - The Fourth Circle The Avaricious and the Prodigal. Plutus. Fortune and her Wheel. The Fifth Circle The Irascible and the Sullen. Styx., #The Divine Comedy, #Dante Alighieri, #Christianity   For all the gold that is beneath The Moon,   Or ever has been, of these weary souls

1.07 - The Magic Wand, #The Practice of Magical Evocation, #Franz Bardon, #Occultism   Lead corresponding to Saturn Tin corresponding to Jupiter Iron corresponding to Mars Gold corresponding to the Sun Copper corresponding to Venus Brass corresponding to Mercury Silver corresponding to The Moon Apart from this, the rings may have engravings portraying the intelligences of the above-mentioned planets. The use of a wand like this will, in general, be restricted to the conjuration of intelligences of the seven planets. When used for other purposes, it will not prove superior to the other types of wands.   This is all the magician needs to know: from the examples above he will, by himself, be able to proceed to other variations.

1.07 - TRUTH, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy   Because the finger is adhered to as though it were The Moon, all their efforts are lost.   Yoka Daishi

1.084 - The Rupture, #Quran, #unset, #Zen   18. And by The Moon, as it grows full.   19. You will mount stage by stage.

1.08a - The Ladder, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism   The Sun is to him, as we have already observed, a spiritual principle, a God ; The Moon another ; the planets yet other   Forces with which he is vitally connected, and he realizes that the rhythm of the cosmos is something from which he cannot and must not escape, without bitterly impoverish- ing his existence. His aim is to unite himself to these spiritual potencies. The hierophant of old time - in the rituals- would say to the Neophyte 2 " There is no part of me that is not of the gods ".   --   " ' Knowledge ' has killed the sun, making it a ball of gas, with spots ; * knowledge ' has killed The Moon, it is a dead little earth fretted with extinct craters as with smallpox ; the machine has killed the earth for us, making it a surface, more or less bumpy, that you travel over."   Mr. Lawrence proceeds to state that all this means a return to ancient forms, if we would bring mankind face to face once more with spiritual reality.

1.08 - Origin of Rudra: his becoming eight Rudras, #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism   In the beginning of the Kalpa, as Brahmā purposed to create a son, who should be like himself, a youth of a purple complexion[2] appeared, crying with a low cry, and running about[3]. Brahmā, when he beheld him thus afflicted, said to him, "Why dost thou weep?" "Give me a name," replied the boy. "Rudra be thy name," rejoined the great father of all creatures: "be composed; desist from tears." But, thus addressed, the boy still wept seven times, and Brahmā therefore gave to him seven other denominations; and to these eight persons regions and wives and posterity belong. The eight manifestations, then, are named Rudra, Bhava, Śarva, Iśāna, Paśupati, Bhīma, Ugra, and Mahādeva, which were given to them by their great progenitor. He also assigned to them their respective stations, the sun, water, earth, air, fire, ether, the ministrant Brahman, and The Moon; for these are their several forms[4]. The wives of the sun and the other manifestations, termed Rudra and the rest, were respectively, Suvercalā, Uṣā, Vikesī, Sivā, Svāhā, Diśā, Dīkṣā, and Rohinī. Now hear an account of their progeny, by whose successive generations this world has been peopled. Their sons, then, were severally, Sanaiścara (Saturn), Śukra (Venus), the fiery-bodied Mars, Manojava (Hanumān), Skanda, Svarga, Santāna, and Budha (Mercury).   It was the Rudra of this description that married Satī, who abandoned her corporeal existence in consequence of the displeasure of Dakṣa[5]. She afterwards was the daughter of Himavān (the snowy mountains) by Menā; and in that character, as the only Umā, the mighty Bhava again married her[6]. The divinities Dhātā and Vidhātā were born to Bhrigu by Khyāti, as was a daughter, Śrī, the wife of Nārāyaṇa, the god of gods[7].   --   kara (Śiva); and Śrī is the bride of Śiva (Gaurī). Keśava, oh Maitreya, is the sun; and his radiance is the lotus-seated goddess. Viṣṇu is the tribe of progenitors (Pitrigana); Padma. is their bride (Swadhā), the eternal bestower of nutriment. Śrī is the heavens; Viṣṇu, who is one with all things, is wide extended space. The lord of Śrī is The Moon; she is his unfading light. She is called the moving principle of the world; he, the wind which bloweth every where. Govinda is the ocean; Lakṣmī its shore. Lakṣmī is the consort of Indra (Indrānī); Madhusūdana is Devendra. The holder of the discus (Viṣṇu) is Yama (the regent of Tartarus); the lotus-throned goddess is his dusky spouse (Dhūmornā). Śrī is wealth; Śridhara (Viṣṇu) is himself the god of riches (Kuvera). Lakṣmī, illustrious Brahman, is Gaurī; and Keśava, is the deity of ocean (Varuna). Śrī is the host of heaven (Devasenā); the deity of war, her lord, is Hari. The wielder of the mace is resistance; the power to oppose is Śrī. Lakṣmī is the Kāṣṭhā and the Kalā; Hari the Nimeṣa and the Muhūrtta. Lakṣmī is the light; and Hari, who is all, and lord of all, the lamp. She, the mother of the world, is the creeping vine; and Viṣṇu the tree round which she clings. She is the night; the god who is armed with the mace and discus is the day. He, the bestower of blessings, is the bridegroom; the lotus-throned goddess is the bride.   The god is one with all male-the goddess one with all female, rivers. The lotus-eyed deity is the standard; the goddess seated on a lotus the banner. Lakṣmī is cupidity; Nārāyaṇa, the master of the world, is covetousness. Oh thou who knowest what righteousness is, Govinda is love; and Lakṣmī, his gentle spouse, is pleasure. But why thus diffusely enumerate their presence: it is enough to say, in a word, that of gods, animals, and men, Hari is all that is called male; Lakṣmī is all that is termed female: there is nothing else than they.

1.08 - The Depths of the Divine, #Sex Ecology Spirituality, #Ken Wilber, #Philosophy   We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, The Moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are the shining parts, is the soul [the Over-Soul, the World Soul]. . . . And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one.11   In his famous "transparent eyeball" section from the essay Nature, Emerson speaks movingly of the union of the   --   The whole point of the moral sequence, its very ground and its very goal, its omega point, its chaotic Attractor, is the drive toward the Over-Soul, where treating others as one's Self is not a moral imperative that has to be enforced as an ought or a should or a difficult imposition, but comes as easily and as naturally as the rising of the sun or the shining of The Moon.21   This moral oneness intensifies in the subtle and causal (as we will see), but it first becomes directly obvious here, in the psychic, and issues naturally in the spontaneous compassion inherent in the Over-Soul, a compassion on which all previous moral endeavors depended, but a compassion of which all previous endeavors were but mere and partial glimmers.

1.08 - The Historical Significance of the Fish, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology   woman clothed with the sun, with The Moon under her feet,   lEisler, Orpheus- The Fisher, pp. 51ft. 2 [Cf. par. 127, n. 4.]   --   Like The Moon it shall be established for ever;   the witness in the skies is sure. Selah!

1.091 - The Sun, #Quran, #unset, #Zen   2. And The Moon as it follows it.   3. And the day as it reveals it.

1.09 - ADVICE TO THE BRAHMOS, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism   In Wisdom's firmament The Moon of Love is rising full, And Love's flood-tide, in surging waves, is flowing everywhere.   O Lord, how full of bliss Thou art! Victory unto Thee! . . .   --   See, there He stands, the Lord of life, The Moon of Nanda's line,   Outshining all The Moons in heaven   And with the splendour of His rays   --   As the Master got into the carriage, Surendra and the other devotees bowed down before him. Then the carriage started for Dakshineswar. The Moon still lighted the streets.   --------------------

1.09 - Legend of Lakshmi, #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism   ga, and Kūrma Purāṇas. The Vāyu and Padma have much the same narrative as that of our text; and so have the Agni and Bhāgavata, except that they refer only briefly to the anger of Durvāsas, without narrating the circumstances; indicating their being posterior, therefore, to the original tale. The part, however, assigned to Durvāsas appears to be an embellishment added to the original, for no mention of him occurs in the Matsya P. nor even in the Hari Vaṃśa, neither does it occur in what may be considered the oldest extant versions of the story, those of the Rāmāyana and Mahābhārata: both these ascribe the occurrence to the desire of the gods and Daityas to become immortal. The Matsya assigns a similar motive to the gods, instigated by observing that the Daityas slain by them in battle were restored to life by Śukra with the Sañjīvinī, or herb of immortality, which he had discovered. The account in the Hari Vaṃśa is brief and obscure, and is explained by the commentator as an allegory, in which the churning of the ocean typifies ascetic penance, and the ambrosia is final liberation: but this is mere mystification. The legend of the Rāmāyana is translated, vol. I. p. 410. of the Serampore edition; and that of the Mahābhārata by Sir C. Wilkins, in the notes to his translation of the Bhāgavata Gītā. See also the original text, Cal. ed. p. 40. It has been presented to general readers in a more attractive form by my friend H. M. Parker, in his Draught of Immortality, printed with other poems, Lond. 1827. The Matsya P. has many of the stanzas of the Mahābhārata interspersed with others. There is some variety in the order and number of articles produced from the ocean. As I have observed elsewhere (Hindu Theatre, I. 59. Lond. ed.), the popular enumeration is fourteen; but the Rāmāyana specifies but nine; the Mahābhārata, nine; the Bhāgavata, ten; the Padma, nine; the Vāyu, twelve; the p. 78 Matsya, perhaps, gives the whole number. Those in which most agree, are, 1. the Hālāhala or Kālakūta poison, swallowed by Śiva: 2. Vārunī or Surā, the goddess of wine, who being taken by the gods, and rejected by the Daityas, the former were termed Suras, and the latter Asuras: 3. the horse Uccaiśśravas, taken by Indra: 4. Kaustubha, the jewel worn by Viṣṇu: 5. The Moon: 6. Dhanwantari, with the Amrita in his Kamaṇḍalu, or vase; and these two articles are in the Vāyu considered as distinct products: 7. the goddess Padmā or Śrī: 8. the Apsarasas, or nymphs of heaven: 9. Surabhi, or the cow of plenty: 10. the Pārijāta tree, or tree of heaven: 11. Airāvata, the elephant taken by Indra. The Matsya adds, 12. the umbrella taken by Varuna: 13. the earrings taken by Indra, and given to Aditī: and apparently another horse, the white horse of the sun: or the number may be completed by counting the Amrita separately from Dhanwantari. The number is made up in the popular lists by adding the bow and the conch of Viṣṇu; but there does not seem to be any good authority for this, and the addition is a sectarial one: so is that of the Tulaśī tree, a plant sacred to Kṛṣṇa, which is one of the twelve specified by the Vāyu P. The Uttara Khanda of the Padma P. has a peculiar enumeration, or, Poison; Jyeṣṭhā or Alakṣmī, the goddess of misfortune, the elder born to fortune; the goddess of wine; Nidrā, or sloth; the Apsarasas; the elephant of Indra; Lakṣmī; The Moon; and the Tulaśī plant. The reference to Mohinī, the female form assumed by Viṣṇu, is very brief in our text; and no notice is taken of the story told in the Mahābhārata and some of the Purāṇas, of the Daitya Rāhu's insinuating himself amongst the gods, and obtaining a portion of the Amrita: being beheaded for this by Viṣṇu, the head became immortal, in consequence of the Amrita having reached the throat, and was transferred as a constellation to the skies; and as the sun and moon detected his presence amongst the gods, Rāhu pursues them with implacable hatred, and his efforts to seize them are the causes of eclipses; Rāhu typifying the ascending and descending nodes. This seems to be the simplest and oldest form of the legend. The equal immortality of the body, under the name Ketu, and his being the cause of meteorical phenomena, seems to have been an after-thought. In the Padma and Bhāgavata, Rāhu and Ketu are the sons of Sinhikā, the wife of the Dānava Viprachitti.   [9]: The four Vidyās, or branches of knowledge, are said to be, Yajña vidyā, knowledge or performance of religious rites; Mahā vidyā, great knowledge, the worship of the female principle, or Tāntrika worship; Guhya vidyā, knowledge of mantras, mystical prayers, and incantations; and Ātma vidyā, knowledge of soul, true wisdom.

1.09 - Taras Ultimate Nature, #How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator, #Thubten Chodron, #unset   intention, the aspiration to become a Buddha in order to best benet all sentient beings. The radiance of The Moon is cooling and calming. Similarly,   compassion, which is the root bodhichitta, soothes feelings of alienation and

1.09 - The Greater Self, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga   In fact, the self has always been great. We might as well ask, What is this greater moon? Because we see a first quarter and then a second, we say, with our geocentric vision, that The Moon grows bigger. Our eyes see one thing after another, and for them things grow bigger or appear unless we are still childish enough to claim they fall from the sky or are eaten by dragons. Things and beings die, we think, carried away, like The Moon, by the dragon of death, but they are still there, just hidden from our vision, and nothing ever dies or disappears, any more than anything ever gets born or appears, like the full moon and the new moon. There is merely something eclipsing our vision. And when we say that this lesser or greater self is the result of our lesser or greater capacities, we may be as vain as the savage looking through a telescope for the first time and saying that those unknown stars and lights blinking at the edge of the universe are the result of our instruments. The world does not arrive and nothing arrives; it is we who gradually arrive at total vision. And the fuller that vision, the more the world attains the perfection it has always been.   But what eclipses our vision? We might as well ask, What eclipses the linear vision of the centipede? Or what eclipses the lotus in the seed? For our eyes, the universe is gradually becoming, but our eyes are really the supreme Look hiding from itself to look through the eternity of the ages and through our millions of eyes, and with millions of colors and faces, at the one perfection it saw in an eternal white second. The world is one; it is a single global unity, even the scientists tell us so. And they are trying to find that equation. But to restore this oneness, they have divided and subdivided matter to infinity, or almost. They have come upon an infinitesimal existence and a smaller infinitesimal existence, a vastness and an even greater vastness. But this oneness is neither an addition nor a reduction to the microscopic level, any more than eternity is an infinite number of years or immensity so many miles plus one. This oneness is there, totally, in each point of space and at each second of time, as much as in all the infinitudes put together and all the vastness added up. Each point contains the whole; each second is eternity looking at itself. And we who stand in this point at this second are eternal and complete, and all the earths and all the galaxies meet in our essential point; an eternal lotus shines in our heart only we do not know it. We know it little by little. And it is not enough to know it in our heads and hearts we have to know it in our body. Then the marvel will be truly complete and the eternal lotus on the summits of the spirit will shine forever in our matter and in each second of time.

11.03 - Cosmonautics, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    It is true the process of acclimatisation that Nature follows is a slow one and gradual though somewhat crude, in spite of scientific refinements and subtleties; yet it is a help and has an accumulated effect. We may just record the progress achieved in the mere outward mechanisation from Lindberg's transatlantic crossing to Borman-company's journey to The Moon.    Just at present the appearances are slender but the cumulative effect of these slender forerunners in the long run, or, who knows may be in the short run, is sure to be tremendously obvious. It is expected that the human body itself will acquire new dispositions forced by outer circumstances, the newly developing environment and impelled by the inner stress of the descending consciousness with its formative power. The power and action of the descending consciousness is outside our ken, it is easily overlookedunknown and invisible to the normal mind. But in fact it is a great deal due to this element and thanks to it, that man's phenomenal discoveries of today and miraculous successes have been and are being achieved in the physical field in such a quick and revolutionary manner. The Mother has plainly declared that the new world is already there built and ready and is pressing down upon the material cover and sooner rather than later will force it open and manifest itself.

1.1.04 - Philosophy, #Essays Divine And Human, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   The man of unalloyed intellect has a very high and difficult function; it is his function to teach men to think clearly and purely. In order to effect that for mankind, to carry reason as far as that somewhat stumbling and hesitating Pegasus will go, he sacrifices all the bypaths of mental enjoyment, the shady alleys and The Moonlit gardens of the soul, in order that he may walk in rare air and a cold sunlight, living highly and austerely on the peaks of his mind and seeking God severely through knowledge.   He treads down his emotions, because emotion distorts reason and replaces it by passions, desires, preferences, prejudices, prejudgments. He avoids life, because life awakes all his sensational being and puts his reason at the mercy of egoism, of sensational reactions of anger, fear, hope, hunger, ambition, instead of allowing it to act justly and do disinterested work. It becomes merely the paid pleader of a party, a cause, a creed, a dogma, an intellectual faction. Passion and eagerness, even intellectual eagerness, so disfigure the greatest minds that even Shankara becomes a sophist and a word-twister, and even Buddha argues in a circle. The philosopher wishes above all to preserve his intellectual righteousness; he is or should be as careful of his mental rectitude as the saint of his moral stainlessness. Therefore he avoids, as far as the world will let him, the conditions which disturb. But in this way he cuts himself off from experience and only the gods can know without experience. Sieyes said that politics was a subject of which he had made a science.

1.10 - BOOK THE TENTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry   The Moon beheld her first, and first retir'd:   The stars amaz'd, ran backward from the sight,   --   Nine times The Moon had mew'd her horns; at length   With travel weary, unsupply'd with strength,

1.10 - Concentration - Its Practice, #Raja-Yoga, #Swami Vivkenanda, #unset   Nature has no light of its own. As long as the Purusha is present in it, it appears as light. But the light is borrowed; just as The Moon's light is reflected. According to the Yogis, all the manifestations of nature are caused by nature itself, but nature has no purpose in view, except to free the Purusha.

1.10 - The descendants of the daughters of Daksa married to the Rsis, #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism   giras, Smriti, bore daughters named Sinivālī, Kuhu, Rākā, and Anumati (phases of The Moon[3]). Anasūyā, the wife of Atri, was the mother of three sinless sons, Soma (The Moon), Durvāsas, and the ascetic Dattātreya[4]. Pulastya had, by Prīti, a son called in a former birth, or in the Svāyambhuva Manvantara, Dattoli, who is now known as the sage Agastya[5]. Kṣamā, the wife of the patriarch Pulaha, was the mother of three sons, Karmasa, Arvarīvat, and Sahiṣṇu[6]. The wife of Kratu, Sannati, brought forth the sixty thousand Bālakhilyas, pigmy sages, no bigger than a joint of the thumb, chaste, pious, resplendent as the rays of the sun[7]. Vaśiṣṭha had seven sons by his wife Urjjā, Rajas, Gātra, Ūrddhabāhu, Savana, Anagha, Sutapas, and Śukra, the seven pure sages[8]. The Agni named Abhimānī, who is the eldest born of   Brahmā, had, by Svāhā, three sons of surpassing brilliancy, Pāvaka, Pavamāna, and Śuci, who drinks up water: they had forty-five sons, who, with the original son of Brahmā and his three descendants, constitute the forty-nine fires[9]. The progenitors (Pitris), who, as I have mentioned, were created by Brahmā, were the Agniṣvāttas and Varhiṣads; the former being devoid of, and the latter possessed of, fires[10]. By them, Swadhā had two daughters, Menā and Dhāranī, who were both acquainted with theological truth, and both addicted to religious meditation; both accomplished in perfect wisdom, and adorned with all estimable qualities[11]. Thus has been explained the progeny of the daughters of Dakṣa[12]. He who with faith recapitulates the account, shall never want offspring.

1.10 - The Magical Garment, #The Practice of Magical Evocation, #Franz Bardon, #Occultism   - green beings of Mercury - opalescent, orange beings of The Moon- silver or white   Of course, only the prosperous magician will be able to afford such expenditure. A magician not so prosperous will get satisfactory results with just one robe in a light-violet colour. His cap or magus-band should be of the same colour.

1.10 - THE MASTER WITH THE BRAHMO DEVOTEES (II), #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism   The following Sunday a kirtan was arranged at the house of Ram, one of the Master's householder devotees. Sri Ramakrishna graced the occasion with his presence. The musicians sang about Radha's pangs at her separation from Krishna: Radha said to her friends: "I have loved to see Krishna from my childhood. My finger-nails are worn off from counting the days on them till I shall see Him. Once He gave me a garland. Look, it has withered, but I have not yet thrown it away. Alas! Where has The Moon of Krishna risen now? Has that Moon gone away from my firmament, afraid of the Rahu of my pique? Alas! Shall I ever see Krishna again? O my beloved Krishna, I have never been able to look at You to my heart's complete satisfaction. I have only one pair of eyes; they blink and so hinder my vision. And further, on account of streams of tears I could not see enough of my Beloved. The peacock feather on the crown of His head shines like arrested lightning. The peacocks, seeing Krishna's dark-cloud complexion, would dance in joy, spreading their tails. O friends, I shall not be able to keep my life-breath. After my death, place my body on a branch of the dark tamala tree and inscribe on my body Krishna's sweet name."   The Master said: "God and His name are identical; that is the reason Radha said that.   --   Thou wearest The Moon upon Thy brow,   Where didst Thou find Thy garl and of heads before the universe was made?

1.10 - The Secret of the Veda, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   The substance of modern philological discovery about the Vedas consists, first, in the picture of an Aryan civilisation introduced by northern invaders and, secondly, in the interpretation of the Vedic religion as a worship of Nature-powers & Vedic myths as allegorical legends of sun & moon & star & the visible phenomena of Nature. The latter generalisation rests partly on new philological renderings of Vedic words, partly on the Science of Comparative Mythology. The method of this Science can be judged from one or two examples. The Greek story of the demigod Heracles is supposed to be an evident sun myth. The two scientific proofs offered for this discovery are first that Hercules performed twelve labours and the solar year is divided into twelve months and, secondly, that Hercules burnt himself on a pyre on Mount Oeta and the sun also sets in a glory of flame behind the mountains. Such proofs seem hardly substantial enough for so strong a conclusion. By the same reasoning one could prove the emperor Napoleon a sun myth, because he was beaten & shorn of his glory by the forces of winter and because his brilliant career set in the western ocean and he passed there a long night of captivity. With the same light confidence the siege of Troy is turned by the scholars into a sun myth because the name of the Greek Helena, sister of the two Greek Aswins, Castor & Pollux, is philologically identical with the Vedic Sarama and that of her abductor Paris is not so very different from the Vedic Pani. It may be noted that in the Vedic story Sarama is not the sister of the Aswins and is not abducted by the Panis and that there is no other resemblance between the Vedic legend & the Greek tradition. So by more recent speculation even Yudhishthira and his brothers and the famous dog of theMahabharat are raised into the skies & vanish in a starry apotheosis,one knows not well upon what grounds except that sometimes the Dog Star rages in heaven. It is evident that these combinations are merely an ingenious play of fancy & prove absolutely nothing. Hercules may be the Sun but it is not proved. Helen & Paris may be Sarama & one of the Panis, but itis not proved. Yudhishthira & his brothers may be an astronomical myth, but it is not proved. For the rest, the unsubstantiality & rash presumption of the Sun myth theory has not failed to give rise in Europe to a hostile school of Comparative Mythologists who adopt other methods & seek the origins of early religious legend & tradition in a more careful and flexible study of the mentality, customs, traditions & symbolisms of primitive races. The theory of Vedic Nature-worship is better founded than these astronomical fancies. Agni is plainly the God of Fire, Surya of the Sun, Usha of the Dawn, Vayu of the Wind; Indra for Sayana is obviously the god of rain; Varuna seems to be the sky, the Greek Ouranos,et cetera. But when we have accepted these identities, the question of Vedic interpretation & the sense of Vedic worship is not settled. In the Greek religion Apollo was the god of the sun, but he was also the god of poetry & prophecy; Athene is identified with Ahana, a Vedic name of the Dawn, but for the Greeks she is the goddess of purity & wisdom; Artemis is the divinity of The Moon, but also the goddess of free life & of chastity. It is therefore evident that in early Greek religion, previous to the historic or even the literary period, at an epoch therefore that might conceivably correspond with the Vedic period, many of the deities of the Greek heavens had a double character, the aspect of physical Nature-powers and the aspect of moral Nature-powers. The indications, therefore,for they are not proofs,even of Comparative Mythology would justify us in inquiring whether a similar double character did not attach to the Vedic gods in the Vedic hymns.   The real basis of both the Aryan theory of Vedic civilisation and the astronomical theory of Aryan myth is the new interpretation given to a host of Vedic vocables by the comparative philologists. The Aryan theory rests on the ingenious assumption that anarya, dasyu or dasa in the Veda refer to the unfortunate indigenous races who by a familiar modern device were dubbed robbers & dacoits because they were guilty of defending their country against the invaders & Arya is a national term for the invaders who called themselves, according to Max Muller, the Ploughmen, and according to others, the Noble Race. The elaborate picture of an early culture & history that accompanies and supports this theory rests equally on new interpretations of Vedic words and riks in which with the progress of scholarship the authority of Sayana and Yaska has been more & more set at nought and discredited. My contention is that anarya, dasa and dasyu do not for a moment refer to the Dravidian races,I am, indeed, disposed to doubt whether there was ever any such entity in India as a separate Aryan or a separate Dravidian race,but always to Vritra, Vala & the Panis and other, primarily non-human, opponents of the gods and their worshippers. The new interpretations given to Vedic words & riks seem to me sometimes right & well grounded, often arbitrary & unfounded, but always conjectural. The whole European theory & European interpretation of the Vedas may be [not] unjustly described as a huge conjectural & uncertain generalisation built on an inadequate & shifting mass of conjectural particulars.

11.10 - The Test of Truth, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    Who believed that India would be free and Britain go out lock, stock and barrel? Who believe that the Czardom would disappear for ever? And the Hohenzollerns and the Hapsburgs, where are they now? And the great Hitler? Even a few years ago who would have believed that man would walk on The Moon? And can you believe now that matter can exist and does exist as anti-matter? Not in vain has the mad, bad and sad poet sung: Mais ou sont done les neiges d' antan?1    The physical mind has to be taught, it must learn its lesson, that at every step something new, something unforeseen unpredicted and unpredictable is waiting in front to confound it. And it must gain the perception, the discrimination to recognise it, never to say, "Oh, it is natural, inevitable what is happening, there is nothing to wonder and dismiss the novelty of the thing as an illusion."

11.15 - Sri Aurobindo, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    Man has been striving through his lesser powers, through the grace of the lower gods since his advent upon earth to arrive at a reconstruction of his life and surroundings. That is why he has never attained the full measure of success. Indeed a period of success or progress was always followed by a period of decline and retrogression, a so-called golden age by an age of iron. As a matter of fact today humanity finds itself terribly enclosed in a cage of iron as it were. The earth has become too small for his soaring capacities and multitudinous necessitieshe is already thinking of a place in The Moon! That is only the sign and symbol of an inner impasse to which he has arrived. The anguish of the human soul has reached its acme: the problems, social, political, educational, moral it is facing have proved themselves to be totally insoluble. Yes, he has run into a cul-de-sac, where he is caught as in a death-trap. No ordinary rational methods, half-way nostrums can deliver him any more. All the outer doors and issues are now closed for him; the only way is to turn inward, there lies the open road to freedom and fulfilment. That is the way to transcendence and surpassing. To attempt any other way is not only to try the impossible but to head straight towards doomsday.    The time then is now, for the time is ripe. It will not do to say that the way proposed is beyond the reach of the common man. He has neither the capacity nor the knowledge nor even the inclination or impulse to surpass himself, to do anything non-human. First of all, as I said, if man is to survive in any form, this is the only way and there is no second. Next, what do we know of the capacity and impulsion even of the common man? Even in a smaller scale and on the material level, have we not seen to what tremendous acts of heroism he can rise automatically, through what travailstapasyaof concentrated effort he agreed to pass, simply because the occasion demanded it? Man's secret soul is greater than all the limitation of his outward frame.

1.11 - Powers, #Raja-Yoga, #Swami Vivkenanda, #unset   28. On The Moon, (comes) the knowledge of the cluster of stars.

1.12 - Dhruva commences a course of religious austerities, #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism   All their delusive stratagems being thus foiled, the gods were more perplexed than ever. Alarmed at their discomfiture, and afflicted by the devotions of the boy, they assembled and repaired for succour to Hari, the origin of the world, who is without beginning or end; and thus addressed him: "God of gods, sovereign of the world, god supreme, and infinite spirit, distressed by the austerities of Dhruva, we have come to thee for protection. As The Moon increases in his orb day by day, so this youth advances incessantly towards superhuman power by his devotions. Terrified by the ascetic practices of the son of Uttānapāda, we have come to thee for succour. Do thou allay the fervour of his meditations. We know not to what station he aspires: to the throne of Indra, the regency of the solar or lunar sphere, or to the sovereignty of riches or of the deep. Have compassion on us, lord; remove this affliction from Our breasts; divert the son of Uttānapāda from persevering in his penance." Viṣṇu replied to the gods; "The lad desireth neither the rank of Indra, nor the solar orb, nor the sovereignty of wealth or of the ocean: all that he solicits, I will grant. Return therefore, deities, to your mansions as ye list, and be no more alarmed: I will put an end to the penance of the boy, whose mind is immersed in deep contemplation."   The gods, being thus pacified by the supreme, saluted him respectfully and retired, and, preceded by Indra, returned to their habitations: but Hari, who is all things, assuming a shape with four arms, proceeded to Dhruva, being pleased with his identity of nature, and thus addressed him: "Son of Uttānapāda, be prosperous. Contented with thy devotions, I, the giver of boons, am present. Demand what boon thou desirest. In that thou hast wholly disregarded external objects, and fixed thy thoughts on me, I am well pleased with thee. Ask, therefore, a suitable reward." The boy, hearing these words of the god of gods, opened his eyes, and beholding that Hari whom he had before seen in his meditations actually in his presence, bearing in his hands the shell, the discus, the mace, the bow, and scimetar, and crowned with a diadem, the bowed his head down to earth; the hair stood erect on his brow, and his heart was depressed with awe. He reflected how best he should offer thanks to the god of gods; what he could say in his adoration; what words were capable of expressing his praise: and being overwhelmed with perplexity, he had recourse for consolation to the deity. "If," he exclaimed, "the lord is contented with my devotions, let this be my reward, that I may know how to praise him as I wish. How can I, a child, pronounce his praises, whose abode is unknown to Brahmā and to others learned in the Vedas? My heart is overflowing with devotion to thee: oh lord, grant me the faculty worthily to lay mine adorations at thy feet."   --   kāra), primeval nature, and the pure, subtile, all-pervading soul, that surpasses nature. Salutation to that spirit that is void of qualities; that is supreme over all the elements and all the objects of sense, over intellect, over nature and spirit. I have taken refuge with that pure form of thine, oh supreme, which is one with Brahma, which is spirit, which transcends all the world. Salutation to that form which, pervading and supporting all, is designated Brahma, unchangeable, and contemplated by religious sages. Thou art the male with a thousand heads, a thousand eyes, a thousand feet, who traversest the universe, and passest ten inches beyond its contact[2]. Whatever has been, or is to be, that, Puruṣottama, thou art. From thee sprang Virāt, Svarāt, Samrāt, and Adhipuruṣa[3]. The lower, and upper, and middle parts of the earth are not independent of thee: from thee is all this universe, all that has been, and that shall be: and all this world is in thee, assuming this universal form[4]. From thee is sacrifice derived, and all oblations, and curds, and ghee, and animals of either class (domestic or wild). From thee the Rig-Veda, the Sāma, the metres of the Vedas, and the Yajur-Véda are born. Horses, and cows having teeth in one jaw only[5], proceed from thee; and from thee come goats, sheep, deer. Brahmans sprang from thy mouth; warriors from thy arms; Vaisyas from thy thighs; and Śūdras from thy feet. From thine eyes come the sun; from thine ears, the wind; and from thy mind, The Moon: the vital airs from thy central vein; and fire from thy mouth: the sky from thy navel; and heaven from thy head: the regions from thine ears; the earth from thy feet. All this world was derived from thee. As the wide-spreading Nyagrodha (Indian fig) tree is compressed in a small seed[6], so, at the time of dissolution, the whole universe is comprehended in thee as its germ. As the Nyagrodha germinates from the seed, and becomes first a shoot, and then rises into loftiness, so the created world proceeds from thee, and expands into magnitude. As the bark and leaves of the Plantain tree are to be seen in its stem, so thou art the stem of the universe, and all things are visible in thee. The faculties of the intellect, that are the cause of pleasure and of pain, abide in thee as one with all existence; but the sources of pleasure and of pain, singly or blended, do not exist in thee, who art exempt from all qualities[7]. Salutation to thee, the subtile rudiment, which, being single, becomes manifold, Salutation to thee, soul of existent things, identical with the great elements. Thou, imperishable, art beheld in spiritual knowledge as perceptible objects, as nature, as spirit, as the world, as Brahmā, as Manu, by internal contemplation. But thou art in all, the element of all; thou art all, assuming every form; all is from thee, and thou art from thyself. I salute thee, universal soul: glory be to thee. Thou art one with all things: oh lord of all, thou art present in all things. What can I say unto thee? thou knowest all that is in the heart, oh soul of all, sovereign lord of all creatures, origin of all things. Thou, who art all beings, knowest the desires of all creatures. The desire that I cerished has been gratified, lord, by thee: my devotions have been crowned with success, in that I have seen thee."   Viṣṇu said to Dhruva; "The object of thy devotions has in truth been attained, in that thou hast seen me; for the sight of me, young prince, is never unproductive. Ask therefore of me what boon thou desirest; for men in whose sight I appear obtain all their wishes." To this, Dhruva answered; "Lord god of all creatures, who abidest in the hearts of all, how should the wish that I cerish be unknown to thee? I will confess unto thee the hope that my presumptuous heart has entertained; a hope that it would be difficult to gratify, but that nothing is difficult when thou, creator of the world, art pleased. Through thy favour, Indra reigns over the three worlds. The sister-queen of my mother has said to me, loudly and arrogantly, 'The royal throne is not for one who is not born of me;' and I now solicit of the support of the universe an exalted station, superior to all others, and one that shall endure for ever." Viṣṇu said to him; "The station that thou askest thou shalt obtain; for I was satisfied with thee of old in a prior existence. Thou wast formerly a Brahman, whose thoughts were ever devoted to me, ever dutiful to thy parents, and observant of thy duties. In course of time a prince became thy friend, who was in the period of youth, indulged in all sensual pleasures, .and was of handsome appearance and elegant form. Beholding, in consequence of associating with him, his affluence, you formed the desire that you might be subsequently born as the son of a king; and, according to your wish, you obtained a princely birth in the illustrious mansion of Uttānapāda. But that which would have been thought a great boon by others, birth in the race of Svāyambhuva, you have not so considered, and therefore have propitiated me. The man who worships me obtains speedy liberation from life. What is heaven to one whose mind is fixed on me? A station shall be assigned to thee, Dhruva, above the three worlds[8]; one in which thou shalt sustain the stars and the planets; a station above those of the sun, The Moon, Mars, the son of Soma (Mercury), Venus, the son of Sūrya (Saturn), and all the other constellations; above the regions of the seven Ṛṣis, and the divinities who traverse the atmosphere[9]. Some celestial beings endure for four ages; some for the reign of a Manu: to thee shall be granted the duration of a Kalpa. Thy mother Sunīti, in the orb of a bright star, shall abide near thee for a similar term; and all those who, with minds attentive, shall glorify thee at dawn or at eventide, shall acquire exceeding religious merit.   Thus the sage Dhruva, having received a boon from Janārddana, the god of gods, and lord of the world, resides in an exalted station. Beholding his glory, Uśanas, the preceptor of the gods and demons, repeated these verses: "Wonderful is the efficacy of this penance, marvellous is its reward, that the seven Ṛṣis should be preceded by Dhruva. This too is the pious Sunīti, his parent, who is called Sūnritā[10]." Who can celebrate her greatness, who, having given birth to Dhruva, has become the asylum of the three worlds, enjoying to all future time an elevated station, a station eminent above all? He who shall worthily describe the ascent into the sky of Dhruva, for ever shall be freed from all sin, and enjoy the heaven of Indra. Whatever be his dignity, whether upon earth or in heaven, he shall never fall from it, but shall long enjoy life, possessed of every blessing[11].

1.12 - THE FESTIVAL AT PNIHTI, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism   About Her dense black hair the bees are buzzing in swarms; The Moon has veiled its face, beholding this Sea of Beauty.   Tell me, who can She be, this Sorceress? Wonder of wonders!   --   "What can a man understand of God's activities? The facets of God's creation are infinite. I do not try to understand God's actions at all. I have heard that everything is possible in God's creation, and I always bear that in mind. Therefore I do not give a thought to the world, but meditate on God alone. Once Hanuman was asked, 'What day of the lunar month is it?' Hanuman said: 'I don't know anything about the day of the month, the position of The Moon and stars, or any such things. I think of Rma alone.'   "Can one ever understand the work of God? He is so near; still it is not possible for us to know Him. Balarama did not realize that Krishna was God."

1.12 - The Left-Hand Path - The Black Brothers, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy     And I was about to answer him: "The light is within me." But before I could frame the words, he answered me with the great word that is the Key of the Abyss. And he said: Thou hast entered the night; dost thou yet lust for day? Sorrow is my name and affliction. I am girt about with tribulation. Here still hangs the Crucified One, and here the Mother weeps over the children that she hath not borne. Sterility is my name and desolation. Intolerable is thine ache, and incurable thy wound. I said, 'Let the darkness cover me;' and behold, I am compassed about with the blackness that hath no name. O thou, who hast cast down the light into the earth, so must thou do for ever. And the light of the sun shall not shine upon thee and The Moon shall not lend thee of her luster, and the stars shall be hidden because thou art passed beyond these things, beyond the need of these things, beyond the desire of these things.     What I thought were shapes of rocks, rather felt than seen, now appear to be veiled Masters, sitting absolutely still and silent. Nor can any one be distinguished from the others.

1.12 - The Sacred Marriage, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism   The Moon, and especially, it would seem, as the yellow harvest moon,   she filled the farmer's grange with goodly fruits, and heard the

1.13 - Gnostic Symbols of the Self, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology   The Moon." The text defines the above-mentioned quaternio,   which is identical with Zeesar, the upwards-flowing Jordan, the   --   of The Moon, as the cosmogonic Logos (John 1 : iff.), and the   "life that was in him" (John 1 : 4) as a "generation of perfect

1.13 - Posterity of Dhruva, #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism   Sunīthā was originally the daughter of Mrityu, by whom she was given to Anga to wife. She bore him Veṇa, who inherited the evil propensities of his maternal grandfather. When he was inaugurated by the Ṛṣis monarch of the earth, he caused. it to be every where proclaimed, that no worship should be performed, no oblations offered, no gifts bestowed upon the Brahmans. "I, the king," said he, "am the lord of sacrifice; for who but I am entitled to the oblations." The Ṛṣis, respectfully approaching the sovereign, addressed him in melodious accents, and said, "Gracious prince, we salute you; hear what we have to represent. For the preservation of your kingdom and your life, and for the benefit of all your subjects, permit us to worship Hari, the lord of all sacrifice, the god of gods, with solemn and protracted rites[2]; a portion of the fruit of which will revert to you[3]. Viṣṇu, the god of oblations, being propitiated with sacrifice by us, will grant you, oh king, all your desires. Those princes have all their wishes gratified, in whose realms Hari, the lord of sacrifice, is adored with sacrificial rites." "Who," exclaimed Veṇa, "is superior to me? who besides me is entitled to worship? who is this Hari, whom you style the lord of sacrifice? Brahmā, Janārddana. Śambhu, Indra, Vāyu, Ravi (the sun), Hutabhuk (fire), Varuṇa, Dhātā, Pūṣā, (the sun), Bhūmi (earth), the lord of night (The Moon); all these, and whatever other gods there be who listen to our vows; all these are present in the person of a king: the essence of a sovereign is all that is divine. Conscious of this, I have issued my commands, and look that you obey them. You are not to sacrifice, not to offer oblations, not to give alms. As the first duty of women is obedience to their lords, so observance of my orders is iñcumbent, holy men, on you." "Give command, great king," replied the Ṛṣis, "that piety may suffer no decrease. All this world is but a transmutation of oblations; and if devotion be suppressed, the world is at an end." But Veṇa was entreated in vain; and although this request was repeated by the sages, he refused to give the order they suggested. Then those pious Munis were filled with wrath, and cried out to each other, "Let this wicked wretch be slain. The impious man who has reviled the god of sacrifice who is without beginning or end, is not fit to reign over the earth." And they fell upon the king, and beat him with blades of holy grass, consecrated by prayer, and slew him, who had first been destroyed by his impiety towards god.   Afterwards the Munis beheld a great dust arise, and they said to the people who were nigh, "What is this?" and the people answered and said, "Now that the kingdom is without a king, the dishonest men have begun to seize the property of their neighbours. The great dust that you behold, excellent Munis, is raised by troops of clustering robbers, hastening to fall upon their prey." The sages, hearing this, consulted, and together rubbed the thigh of the king, who had left no offspring, to produce a son. From the thigh, thus rubbed, came forth a being of the complexion of a charred stake, with flattened features (like a negro), and of dwarfish stature. "What am I to do?" cried he eagerly to the Munis. "Sit down" (Nishida), said they; and thence his name was Niṣāda. His descendants, the inhabitants of the Vindhya mountain, great Muni, are still called Niṣādas, and are characterized by the exterior tokens of depravity[4]. By this means the wickedness of Versa was expelled; those Niṣādas being born of his sins, and carrying them away. The Brahmans then proceeded to rub the right arm of the king, from which friction was engendered the illustrious son of Veṇa, named Prithu, resplendent in person, as if the blazing deity of Fire bad been manifested.   --   The mighty Prithu, the son of Veda, being thus invested with universal dominion by those who were skilled in the rite, soon removed the grievances of the people whom his father had oppressed, and from winning their affections he derived the title of Rāja, or king[6]. The waters became solid, when he traversed the ocean: the mountains opened him a path: his banner passed unbroken (through the forests): the earth needed not cultivation; and at a thought food was prepared: all kine were like the cow of plenty: honey was stored in every flower. At the sacrifice of the birth of Prithu, which was performed by Brahmā, the intelligent Sūta (herald or bard) was produced, in the juice of The Moon-plant, on the very birth-day[7]: at that great sacrifice also was produced the accomplished Māgadha: and the holy sages said to these two persons, "Praise ye the king Prithu, the illustrious son of Veṇa; for this is your especial function, and here is a fit subject for your praise." But they respectfully replied to the Brahmans, "We know not the acts of the new-born king of the earth; his merits are not understood by us; his fame is not spread abroad: inform us upon what subject we may dilate in his praise." "Praise the king," said the Ṛṣis, "for the acts this heroic monarch will perform; praise him for the virtues he will display." The king, hearing these words, was much pleased, and reflected that persons acquire commendation by virtuous actions, and that consequently his virtuous conduct would be the theme of the eulogium which the bards were about to pronounce: whatever merits, then, they should panegyrize in their encomium, he determined that he would endeavour to acquire; and if they should point out what faults ought to be avoided, he would try to shun them. He therefore listened attentively, as the sweet-voiced encomiasts celebrated the future virtues of Prithu, the enlightened son of Veṇa.   "The king is a speaker of truth, bounteous, an observer of his promises; he is wise, benevolent, patient, valiant, and a terror to the wicked; he knows his duties; he acknowledges services; he is compassionate and kind-spoken; he respects the venerable; he performs sacrifices; he reverences the Brahmans; he cherishes the good; and in administering justice is indifferent to friend or foe."

1.13 - THE MASTER AND M., #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism   As it was the first day after the full moon, The Moonlight soon flooded the tops of the trees and temples, and touched with silver the numberless waves of the sacred river.   The Master returned to his room. After bowing to the Divine Mother, he clapped his hands and chanted the sweet names of God. A number of holy pictures hung on the walls of the room. Among others, there were pictures of Dhruva, Prahlada, Kli, Radha-Krishna, and the coronation of Rma. The Master bowed low before the pictures and repeated the holy names. Then he repeated the holy words, "Brahma-tm-Bhagavan; Bhagavata-Bhakta-Bhagavan; Brahma-akti, akti-Brahma; Veda, Purana, Tantra, Git, Gayatri." Then he said: "I have taken refuge at Thy feet, O Divine Mother; not I, but Thou. I am the machine and Thou art the Operator", and so on.

1.14 - Descendants of Prithu, #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism   "We bow to him whose glory is the perpetual theme of every speech; him first, him last; the supreme lord of the boundless world; who is primeval light; who is without his like; indivisible and infinite; the origin of all existent things, movable or stationary. To that supreme being who is one with time, whose first forms, though he be without form, are day and evening and night, be adoration. Glory to him, the life of all living things, who is the same with The Moon, the receptacle of ambrosia, drunk daily by the gods and progenitors: to him who is one with the sun, the cause of heat and cold and rain, who dissipates the gloom, and illuminates the sky with his radiance: to him who is one with earth, all-pervading, and the asylum of smell and other objects of sense, supporting the whole world by its solidity. We adore that form of the deity Hari which is water, the womb of the world, the seed of all living beings. Glory to the mouth of the gods, the eater of the Havya; to the eater of the Kavya, the mouth of the progenitors; to Viṣṇu, who is identical with fire; to him who is one with air, the origin of ether, existing as the five vital airs in the body, causing constant vital action; to him who is identical with the atmosphere, pure, illimitable, shapeless, separating all creatures. Glory to Kṛṣṇa, who is Brahmā in the form of sensible objects, who is ever the direction of the faculties of sense. We offer salutation to that supreme Hari who is one with the senses, both subtle and substantial, the recipient of all impressions, the root of all knowledge: to the universal soul, who, as internal intellect, delivers the impressions received by the senses to soul: to him who has the properties of Prakriti; in whom, without end, rest all things; from whom all things proceed; and who is that into which all things resolve. We worship that Puruṣottoma, the god who is pure spirit, and who, without qualities, is ignorantly considered as endowed with qualities. We adore that supreme Brahma, the ultimate condition of Viṣṇu, unproductive, unborn, pure, void of qualities, and free from accidents; who is neither high nor low, neither bulky nor minute, has neither shape, nor colour, nor shadow, nor substance, nor affection, nor body; who is neither etherial nor susceptible of contact, smell, or taste; who has neither eyes, nor ears, nor motion, nor speech, nor breath, nor mind, nor name, nor race, nor enjoyment, nor splendour; who is without cause, without fear, without error, without fault, undecaying, immortal, free from passion, without sound, imperceptible, inactive, independent of place or time, detached from all investing properties; but (illusively) exercising irresistible might, and identified with all beings, dependent upon none. Glory to that nature of Viṣṇu which tongue can not tell, nor has eye beheld."   Thus glorifying Viṣṇu, and intent in meditation on him, the Pracetasas passed ten thousand years of austerity in the vast ocean; on which Hari, being pleased with them, appeared to them amidst the waters, of the complexion of the full-blown lotus leaf. Beholding him mounted on the king of birds, Garuḍa, the Pracetasas bowed down their heads in devout homage; when Viṣṇu said to them, "Receive the boon you have desired; for I, the giver of good, am content with you, and am present." The Pracetasas replied to him with reverence, and told him that the cause of their devotions was the command of their father to effect the multiplication of mankind. The god, having accordingly granted to them the object of their prayers, disappeared, and they came up from the water.

1.14 - INSTRUCTION TO VAISHNAVS AND BRHMOS, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism   The Moon had not yet risen. It was a dark night. The Master, still in an abstracted mood, sat on the small couch in his room and continued his talk with the Divine Mother.   He said: "Why this special discipline of the Gayatri? Why this jumping from this roof to that? Who told him to do it? Perhaps he is doing it of his own accord. . . . Well, he will practise a little of that discipline."   --   "One must not be proud of one's money. If you say that you are rich, then one can remind you that there are richer men than you, and others richer still, and so on. At dusk the glowworm comes out and thinks that it lights the world. But its pride is crushed when the stars appear in the sky. The stars feel that they give light to the earth. But when The Moon rises the stars fade in shame. The Moon feels that the world smiles at its light and that it lights the earth. Then the eastern horizon becomes red, and the sun rises. The Moon fades and after a while is no longer seen.   "If wealthy people would think that way, they would get rid of their pride in their wealth."

1.14 - The Secret, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga   Something radically different is needed another type of consciousness. All the poets and creative geniuses have known these swings of consciousness. Even as he experienced his Illuminations, Rimbaud visited strange realms that struck him with "terror"; he, too, went through the law of dark inversion. But instead of being unconsciously tossed from one extreme to another, of ascending without knowing how and descending against his will, the integral seeker works methodically, consciously, without ever losing his balance, and, above all, with a growing confidence in the Consciousness-Force, which never initiates more resistance than he can meet, and never unveils more light than he can bear. After living long enough from one crisis to the next, we will ultimately discern a pattern in the action of the Force, and will notice that each time we seem to leave the ascending curve or even lose something we had achieved, we ultimately retrieve the same realization, but on a higher, more expanded level, made richer by the part that our "fall" has added; had we not "fallen," this lower part would never have become integrated into our higher ones. Perhaps it was the same collective process that brought about Athens' fall, so that some old barbarians, too, might be exposed to Plato. The integral yoga does not follow a straight line rising higher and higher out of sight, toward a smaller and smaller point, but, according to Sri Aurobindo, a spiral that slowly and methodically annexes all the parts of our being in an ever vaster opening based upon an ever deeper foundation. Not only will we observe a pattern behind this Force, or rather this Consciousness-Force, but also regular cycles and a rhythm as certain as that of the tides and The Moons. The more we progress, the wider the cycles, and the closer their relationship with the cosmic movement itself until the day when we can perceive in our own descents the periodical descents of consciousness on earth, and in our own difficulties all the turmoil, resistance and revolt of the earth. Eventually, everything will become so intimately interconnected that we will be able to read in the tiniest things, the most insignificant events of daily life or the objects nearby, the signs of vaster depressions that will sweep over all men and compel their ascent or descent within the same evolutionary wave.   Then we will understand that we are unfailingly being guided toward a Goal, that everything has a meaning, even the slightest thing nothing moves without moving everything and that we are on our way to a far greater adventure than we had ever imagined. Soon, a second paradox will strike us, which is perhaps the very same one.

1.14 - The Structure and Dynamics of the Self, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology   tion of individuals into groups, 67 the phases of The Moon, the   temperaments, elements, alchemical colours, and so on. Thus,   --   tive life-spirit; the third to The Moon, the female, psychic prin-   ciple; and the fourth to the sun, the male, spiritual principle. It

1.14 - The Victory Over Death, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga   Hence, it is not through an arbitrary and morbid decision of his own that the seeker will undertake this dark descent for a long time he has stopped willing anything, he only obeys the little rhythm, the flowing that is growing in him, and directs it here or there according to where it presses. The descent takes place gradually, almost unknown to him, but it is accompanied, as it were, by certain phenomena which become increasingly clear and define the psychological conditions of the descent. These psychological conditions are threefold. There is that little flowing we have often spoken about, there is that rhythm, and there is that fire of being which opens the doors of the new world. One may be tempted to think that this is a poetic fiction, an imagery for children, but it is nothing of the sort, and the whole world is a poem becoming true, an image becoming clear, a rhythm taking body. Little by little, a Child looks at the world with eyes of Truth and discovers the lovely Image that was always there; he listens to an undying Rhythm and, attuned to that Rhythm, he enters the immortality he had never ceased to be. That flowing actually grows, that rhythm becomes clearer, that fire intensifies as the first mental and vital layers are clarified. In fact, it is no longer simply a flowing but a sort of continuous current, a descending mass that envelops first the crown of the head and the nape of the neck, then the chest, the heart, the solar plexus, the abdomen, the sex organs, the legs, and which even seems to reach under the feet, as if there were an extension of being all the way down there, an abyss of existence. The farther the current descends, the warmer and more compact and denser, almost solid, it becomes it feels like an unmoving cataract. The descent is proportionate to our degree of clarification and the downthrust of the Force (which grows as we become clearer). No mental or psychoanalytical machinery has the power to reach those deeper layers. The movement is irresistibly powerful, sometimes even doubling one over, as if crushing one under the pressure. But at the same time as the power grows so does the stability, as if finally, at the end of the descent, there were a motionless mass of energy or with such an intense vibration, so swift and instantaneous, that it seems solidified, immobile, yet moving unbelievably fast in place a powdering of warm gold, says Mother. That is what Sri Aurobindo called the supramental Force. It would almost seem as if it became supramental, or acquired supramental qualities, as it descends into matter (that is to say, as we consent to let it go through, as the resistances fall away under its pressure and it victoriously penetrates all the way down to the bottom). We say supramental, but it is the same with this word as with everything else: there is only one Force, as there is only one moon, which gradually becomes full to our vision, but The Moon was always full and the Force always the same. It is our receptivity which changes and makes it look different from what it always was. It is that flowing which spontaneously, automatically, without any will or decision on our part (all our wills add more confusion), effects the descent, overturns obstacles, exposes falsehoods under its relentless searchlight, exposes the gray elf, brings to light all our hiding places, cleanses, purifies, widens and brings infinity to each level and into each cranny and does not give up, does not stop for a second until everything, down to the least detail, the smallest movement, is restored to its original joy, its infinity, its light, its clear vision, its right will and divine acquiescence. This is the Force of the yoga, the Consciousness-Force Sri Aurobindo spoke of. It is the one which forges the superman, the one which will forge the supramental being the one which will forge itself in that forgetfulness of itself.   Thy golden Light came down into my brain

1.15 - In the Domain of the Spirit Beings, #The Practice of Magical Evocation, #Franz Bardon, #Occultism   4. Beyond The Moon-zone lies the zone of Mercury and beyond that zone follows   S. the zone of Venus. If the magician has become sufficiently acquainted with these zones he will have to learn   --   The analogies and the hierarchy of each zone are dealt with in the next chapter. Each sphere lying above the zone girdling the earth, between The Moon and Saturn, has a threefold effect: firstly on the mental, secondly on the astral and thirdly on the physical world. Depending on the question in which sphere of the earthzone a certain effect should be caused, the creation of the cause for such an effect must be considered in that zone. Since the zones mentioned above have certain individual influences on our earthzone the magician operating with beings of such zones must have a clear picture of the analogy of the laws of each zone regarding his own microcosm and the microcosm of any other human being. Each analogy of the zones to the micro- and macrocosm must be quite clear to him and he must know how to create the cause corresponding to the analogies with the help of the beings. In the magician's conception each zone will not be a limited plane beyond the earth-zone, but all zones run into one another in the microcosm as well as in the macrocosm. The zones bear astrological names, but do not have directly to do with the constructions of the stars of the universe, although there exists some relation between the stars and their constellations, enabling the astrologers to draw their conclusions for mantic purposes or to find out unfavourable influences. I have already given some hints about the synthesis of astrology.   Each zone is inhabited in just the same way as the earth-zone already known to us. The beings of the zones have their special commissions and are subject to the laws of their zone, as far as causes and effects are concerned. In our opinion there exist millions of beings in each zone. It is impossible to grade these beings categorically. Each of these beings has reached a certain degree in its spiritual development, a certain degree of maturity, and a commission has been transferred upon it according to this degree.

1.15 - LAST VISIT TO KESHAB, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism   MASTER (to Keshab): "Why do the members of the Brahmo Samaj dwell so much on God's glories? Is there any great need of repeating such things as 'O God, Thou hast created The Moon, the sun, and the stars'? Most people are filled with admiration for the garden only. How few care to see its owner! Who is greater, the garden or its owner?   "After a few drinks at a tavern, do I care to Know how many gallons of wine are stored there? One bottle is enough for me.

1.15 - The world overrun with trees; they are destroyed by the Pracetasas, #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism   WHILST the Pracetasas were thus absorbed in their devotions, the trees spread and overshadowed the unprotected earth, and the people perished: the winds could not blow; the sky was shut out by the forests; and mankind was unable to labour for ten thousand years. When the sages, coming forth from the deep, beheld this, they were angry, and, being incensed, wind and flame issued from their mouths. The strong wind tore up the trees by their roots, and left them sear and dry, and the fierce fire consumed them, and the forests were cleared away. When Soma (The Moon), the sovereign of the vegetable world, beheld all except a few of the trees destroyed, he went to the patriarchs, the Pracetasas, and said, "Restrain your indignation, princes, and listen to me. I will form an alliance between you and the trees. Prescient of futurity, I have nourished with my rays this precious maiden, the daughter of the woods. She is called Māṛṣā, and is assuredly the offspring of the trees. She shall be your bride, and the multiplier of the race of Dhruva. From a portion of your lustre and a portion of mine, oh mighty sages, the patriarch Dakṣa shall be born of her, who, endowed with a part of me, and composed of your vigour, shall be as resplendent as fire, and shall multiply the human race.   "There was formerly (said Soma) a sage named Kaṇḍu, eminent in holy wisdom, who practised pious austerities on the lovely borders of the Gomati river. The king of the gods sent the nymph Pramlocā to disturb his penance, and the sweet-smiling damsel diverted the sage from his devotions. They lived together, in the valley of Mandara, for a hundred and fifty years; during which, the mind of the Muni was wholly given up to enjoyment. At the expiration of this period the nymph requested his permission to return to heaven; but the Muni, still fondly attached to her, prevailed upon her to remain for some time longer; and the graceful damsel continued to reside for another hundred years, and delight the great sage by her fascinations. Then again she preferred her suit to be allowed to return to the abodes of the gods; and again the Muni desired her to remain. At the expiration of more than a century the nymph once more said to him, with a smiling countenance, 'Brahman, I depart;' but the Muni, detaining the fine-eyed damsel, replied, 'Nay, stay yet a little; you will go hence for a long period.' Afraid of iñcurring an imprecation, the graceful nymph continued with the sage for nearly two hundred years more, repeatedly asking his permission to go to the region of the king of the gods, but as often desired by him to remain. Dreading to be cursed by him, and excelling in amiable manners, well knowing also the pain that is inflicted by separation from an object of affection, she did not quit the Muni, whose mind, wholly subdued by love, became every day more strongly attached to her.   --   "Thus spoken to by the Muni, Pramlocā stood trembling, whilst big drops of perspiration started from every pore; till he angrily cried to her, 'Depart, begone.' She then, reproached by him, went forth from his dwelling, and, passing through the air, wiped the perspiration from her person with the leaves of the trees. The nymph went from tree to tree, and as with the dusky shoots that crowned their summits she dried her limbs, which were covered with moisture, the child she had conceived by the Ṛṣi came forth from the pores of her skin in drops of perspiration. The trees received the living dews, and the winds collected them into one mass. "This," said Soma, "I matured by my rays, and gradually it increased in size, till the exhalation that had rested on the tree tops became the lovely girl named Māṛṣā. The trees will give her to you, Pracetasas: let your indignation be appeased. She is the progeny of Kaṇḍu, the child of Pramlocā, the nursling of the trees, the daughter of the wind and of The Moon. The holy Kaṇḍu, after the interruption of his pious exercises, went, excellent princes, to the region of Viṣṇu, termed Puruṣottama, where, Maitreya[2], with his whole mind he devoted himself to the adoration of Hari; standing fixed, with uplifted arms, and repeating the prayers that comprehend the essence of divine truth[3]."   The Pracetasas said, "We are desirous to hear the transcendental prayers, by inaudibly reciting which the pious Kaṇḍu propitiated Keśava." On which Soma repeated as follows: "'Viṣṇu is beyond the boundary of all things: he is the infinite: he is beyond that which is boundless: he is above all that is above: he exists as finite truth: he is the object of the Veda; the limit of elemental being; unappreciable by the senses; possessed of illimitable might: he is the cause of cause; the cause of the cause of cause; the cause of finite cause; and in effects, he, both as every object and agent, preserves the universe: he is Brahma the lord; Brahma all beings; Brahma the progenitor of all beings; the imperishable: he is the eternal, undecaying, unborn Brahma, incapable of increase or diminution: Puruṣottama is the everlasting, untreated, immutable Brahma. May the imperfections of my nature be annihilated through his favour.' Reciting this eulogium, the essence of divine truth, and propitiating Keśava, Kaṇḍu obtained final emancipation.   --   Soma having concluded, the Pracetasas took Māṛṣā, as he had enjoined them, righteously to wife, relinquishing their indignation against the trees: and upon her they begot the eminent patriarch Dakṣa, who had (in a former life) been born as the son of Brahmā[5]. This great sage, for the furtherance of creation, and the increase of mankind, created progeny. Obeying the command of Brahmā, he made movable and immovable things, bipeds and quadrupeds; and subsequently, by his will, gave birth to females, ten of whom he bestowed on Dharma, thirteen on Kaśyapa, and twenty-seven, who regulate the course of time, on The Moon[6]. Of these, the gods, the Titans, the snake-gods, cattle, and birds, the singers and dancers of the courts of heaven, the spirits of evil, and other beings, were born. From that period forwards living creatures were engendered by sexual intercourse: before the time of Dakṣa they were variously propagated, by the will, by sight, by touch, and by the influence of religious austerities practised by devout sages and holy saints.   Maitreya said:-   --   The twenty-seven daughters of the patriarch who became the virtuous wives of The Moon were all known as the nymphs of the lunar constellations, which were called by their names, and had children who were brilliant through their great splendour[22]. The wives of Aṛṣṭanemi bore him sixteen children[23]. The daughters of Bahuputra were the four lightnings[24]. The excellent Pratya   girasa Ricas were the children of A   --   [22]: The Nakṣatra Yoginis, or chief stars of the lunar mansions, or asterisms in The Moon's path.   [23]: None of the authorities are more specific on the subject of Aṛṣṭanemis' progeny. In the Mahābhārata this is said to be another name of Kaśyapa. The Bhāgavata substitutes Tārkṣa for this personage, said by the commentator to be likewise another name of Kaśyapa. His wives are, Kadru, Vinatā, Patangi, and Yāminī, mothers of snakes, birds, grasshoppers, and locusts.

1.16 - Dianus and Diana, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism   childbirth, and both were sooner or later identified with The Moon.   As to the true nature and functions of Janus the ancients themselves

1.16 - The Season of Truth, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga   There still remains the irritating secret of the transition between the body of light and this body of darkness, that body of truth and this mortal body. We have spoken of transfusion or perhaps reabsorption of one into the other, and also of transmutation of one by the other. But these are words that hide our ignorance. How will this husk, as She who continued Sri Aurobindo's work used to call it (and who dared the perilous adventure, the last great saltus of material evolution), be opened, give way to that long-nurtured flower of fire? How will that new material substance the substance of the new world make its appearance, materialize? For it is already there; it will not fall from the sky. It is already radiating for those who have the truth-vision. It has been built, condensed, by the flame of aspiration of a few bodies. It almost seems as if a mere nothing would be enough to bring it out into the open, visible and tangible to all but we do not know what that nothing is, that impalpable veil, that ultimate screen, or what will make it fall. It is nothing, really, scarcely a husk, and behind, throbbing and vibrating, is the new world, so intense, radiant and warm, with such a swift rhythm and vivid light, so much more vivid and true than the earth's present light that one really wonders how living in this old callous, narrow, thick and awkward substance is still possible, and that the entire life as it is does seem like an old dried-up husk, thin and flat and colorless, a sort of caricature of the real life, a two-dimensional image of another material world full of depths and vibrancy, of superimposed and fused meanings, of real life, real joy, real movement. Here, outside, there are only little puppets of being moving about, passing figures in a shadow dance, lit up by something else, cast by something else, which is the life of their shadow, the light of their night, the sacred meaning of their futile little gesture, the real body of their pale silhouette. And yet, it is a material world, absolutely material, not some glorious fiction, not a hallucination with eyes closed, not a vague area of little saints. It is there. It is like real matter, Sri Aurobindo used to say. It is knocking at our doors, seeking to exist for our eyes and in our bodies, hammering away at the world, as if the great eternal Image were trying to enter the small one, the true world to enter this caricature which is coming to grief on all sides, the Truth of matter to enter this false and illusory coating as though the illusion were actually on this side, in this false look at matter, this false mental structure which prevents us from seeing things as they are. For they already are, as the fullness of The Moon already is, only hidden to our shadow vision.   This solidity of the shadow, this effectiveness of the illusion, is probably the little nothing that stands in the way. Could the caterpillar have prevented itself from seeing a linear world, so concrete and objective for it, so incomplete and subjective for us? Our earth is not complete; our life is not complete; our matter itself is not complete. It is knocking, knocking to become one and full. It could well be that the whole falsehood of the earth lies in its false look, which results in a false life, a false action, a false being that is not, that cries out to be, that knocks and knocks on our doors and on the doors of the world. And yet, this husk does exist it suffers, it dies. It is not an illusion, even if, behind, lies the light of its shadow, the source of its gesture, the real face of its mask. What prevents the connection?... Perhaps simply something in the old substance that still takes itself for its shadow instead of taking itself for its sun perhaps is it only a matter of a conversion of our material consciousness, of its total and integral changeover from the small shadow to the great Person? A changeover which is like a death, a swing into such a radical otherness that it amounts to a disintegration of the old fellow. An instantaneous death-resurrection? A sudden other view, a plunge into Life true life which abolishes or unrealizes the old shadow?   --   The secrets are simple, we have said, and we wonder if that difficult transmutation, that complex alchemy, those thick manuals and mysterious initiations, those educated austerities and spiritual exercises, those meditations and retreats and tortured breathing, that whole labor of the spirit are not actually the labor of the mind trying to make it difficult, tremendously difficult, so it can inflate itself further, and then glory in untying the enormous knot it had itself tied. If things are too simple, it does not believe in them, because it has nothing to do because it yearns to do, at all costs. That is its food and livelihood its ego's livelihood. But that mental inflation and pontification may hide from us an utter simplicity, a supreme facility, a supreme nondoing that is the art of doing well. We have had to do and do again, tramp around the trails of the mind to individualize a fragment of that formidable, immense Consciousness-Force, that universal Energy-Harmony, to make it self-conscious, as it were, in one form and in billions of forms. But has not the time come, at the end of the little flame's long journey, to break the mold that helped us to grow and rediscover the totality of Consciousness and Energy and Harmony in one small center of being, a little point of matter, in one clear little note, and to let That do, That change our eyes, That permeate our tissues, That widen our substance to let a supreme Child who runs over the great prairies of the world play in us and for us, if we want, because he is us? This difficult transmutation may not be so difficult after all. It must be as simple as truth, simple as a smile, simple as a child at play. Perhaps everything hinges simply on whether we wish to take the path of difficulty the path of the mind desperately inflating itself to try to blow itself up to the size of the universe, the path of the buts and whys and hows and all the implacable laws that choke us time and again in our mental straitjacket or the path of an unknown little something stealing through the air, sparkling in the air, winking at every street corner and every encounter, in everything, all the trifles of the day, as though carrying us along in an indescribable golden wake in which everything is easy and simple and miraculous we are right in the midst of the miracle! We are in the full supramental season. It is knocking at all our closed windows, at our countries, our hearts, our crumbling systems, our shaky laws, our faltering wisdoms, in our thousands of ills that keep coming out, our thousands of little lies abandoning the skiff in distress it is softly slipping its golden skiff beneath the old specious appearances, it is growing its unexpected buds beneath the old rags, awaiting a tiny little crack to spring out into the open, a tiny little call. The transmutation is not difficult; it is all there, already done, only waiting for us to open our eyes to the unreality of misery and falsehood and death and our impotence to the unreality of the mind and the laws of the mind. It is waiting for our radical saltus into that future of truth, our mass uprising against the old cage, our general strike against the Machine. Oh! let us leave it to the elders, the old elders of the old world, the old believers in misery and suffering and the bomb and the gospel and the millions of gospels that struggle for a share of the world, to run their old squeaky machine for a few more days, to quarrel over borders, argue over reforms of the rot, debate agreements of disagreement, stockpile bombs and false knowledge and libraries and museums, preach good and evil, preach the friend and the enemy, preach country and no-country, build more and more machines and supermachines and rockets to The Moon and misery for every pocketbook let us leave to them the last convulsions of the falsehood, the last cries of the rot, we who do not care about countries, borders, machines and all that walled-in future, we who believe in a light and inexpressible something that is pounding at the doors of the world and pounding in our hearts, in a completely new future, completely clear and vibrant and marvelous, without borders, without laws, without gospels, beyond all their possibilities and impossibilities, their good and evil, their small countries and small thoughts we who believe in Truth, in the supreme beauty of Truth, the supreme joy of Truth, the supreme power of Truth. We are the sons of a more marvelous Future which is already there, which will spring out into the open by our cry of trust, sweeping away all the old machinery like an unreal dream, a nightmare of the mind, an old windbag filled with only as much air as we still consent to lend it. The transmutation has to be done in our hearts, the last revolution to be carried out, the supramental revolution of the human species as others had launched the human revolution among the apes its great rebellion against the Machine, its general strike against mental knowledge, mental power and mental fabrications against the mental prison its mass defection from the old groove of pain, and its calling out for what has to be, its simple cry for truth amidst the rubble of the mental age: the truth, the truth, the truth, and nothing but the truth.   Then Truth shall be.

1.16 - WITH THE DEVOTEES AT DAKSHINESWAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism   It was night. The Moon rose, flooding all the quarters with its silvery light. M. was walking alone in the garden of the temple. On one side of the path stood the Panchavati, the bakul-grove, the nahabat, and the Master's room, and on the other side flowed the Ganges, reflecting millions of broken moons on its rippling surface.   M. said to himself: "Can one really see God? The Master says it is possible. He says that, if one makes a little effort, then someone comes forward and shows the way. Well, I am married. I have children. Can one realize God in spite of all that?"   --   M. selected the nahabat because he had a poetic temperament. From there he could see the sky, the Ganges, The Moonlight, and the flowers in the garden.   MASTER: "Oh, they'll let you have it. But I suggested the Panchavati because so much contemplation and meditation have been practised there and the name of God has been chanted there so often."   --   It was the second day of the dark fortnight of The Moon. Soon The Moon rose in the sky, bathing temples, trees, flowers, and the rippling surface of the Ganges in its light. The Master was sitting on the couch and M. on the floor. The conversation turned to the Vednta.   MASTER (to M.): "Why should the universe be unreal? That is a speculation of the philosophers. After realizing God, one sees that it is God Himself who has become the universe and all living beings.

1.17 - Astral Journey Example, How to do it, How to Verify your Experience, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy   Let us suppose that you have been making an invocation, or shall we call it an investigation, and suppose you want to interpret a passage of Bach. To play this is the principal weapon of your ceremony. In the course of your operation, you assume your astral body and rise far above the terrestrial atmosphere, while the music continues softly in the background. You open your eyes, and find that it is night. Dark clouds are on the horizon; but in the zenith is a crown of constellations. This light helps you, especially as your eyes become accustomed to the gloom, to take in your surroundings. It is a bleak and barren landscape. Terrific mountains rim the world. In the midst looms a cluster of blue-black crags. Now there appears from their recesses a gigantic being. His strength, especially in his hands and in his loins, it terrifying. He suggests a combination of lion, mountain goat and serpent; and you instantly jump to the idea that this is one of the rare beings which the Greeks called Chimaera. So formidable is his appearance that you consider it prudent to assume an appropriate god-form. But who is the appropriate god? You may perhaps consider it best, in view of your complete ignorance as to who he is and where you are, to assume the god-form of Harpocrates, as being good defence in any case; but of course this will not take you very far. If you are sufficiently curious and bold, you will make up your mind rapidly on this point. This is where your daily practice of the Qabalah will come in useful. You run through in your mind the seven sacred planets. The very first of them seems quite consonant with what you have so far seen. Everything suits Saturn well enough. To be on the safe side, you go through the others; but this is a very obvious case Saturn is the only planet that agrees with everything. The only other possibility will be The Moon; but there is no trace noticeable of any of her more amiable characteristics. You will therefore make up your mind that it is a Saturnian god-form that you need. Fortunate indeed for you that you have practiced daily the assumption of such forms! Very firmly, very steadily, very slowly, very quietly, you transform your normal astral appearance into that of Sebek. The Chimaera, recognizing your divine authority, becomes less formidable and menacing in appearance. He may, in some way, indicate his willingness to serve you. Very good, so far; but it is of course the first essential to make sure of his integrity. Accordingly you begin by asking his name. This is vital; because if he tells you the truth, it gives you power over him. But if, on the other hand, he tells you a lie, he abandons for good and all his fortress. He becomes rather like a submarine whose base has been destroyed. He may do you a lot of mischief in the meantime, of course, so look out!   Well then, he tells you that his name is Ottillia. Shall we try to spell it in Greek or in Hebrew. By the sound of the name and perhaps to some extent by his appearance one might plump for the former; but after all the Greek Qabalah is so unsatisfactory. We give Hebrew the first chance we start with Ayin Teth Yod Lamed Yod Aleph H. Let us try this lettering for a start. It adds up to 135. I daresay that you don't remember what the Sepher Sephiroth tells you about the number; but as luck will have it, there is no need to inquire; for 135 = 3 x 45. Three is the number, is the first number of Saturn, and 45 the last. (The sum of the numbers in the magic square of Saturn is 45.) That corresponds beautifully with everything you have got so far; but then of course you must know if he is "one of the beliving Jinn." Briefly, is he a friend or an enemy? You accordingly say to him "The word of the Law is " It turns out that he doesn't understand Greek at all, so you were certainly right in choosing Hebrew. You put it to him, "What is the word of the Law?" and he replies darkly. "The word of the Law is Thora." That means nothing to you; any one might know as much as that, Thora being the ordinary word for the Sacred Law of Israel, and you accordingly ask him to spell it to make sure you have heard aright; and he gives you the letters, perhaps by speaking them, perhaps by showing them: Teth, Resh, Ayin. You add these up and get 279. This again is divisible by the Saturnian 3, and the result is 93; in other words, he has been precisely right. On the plane of Saturn one may multiply by three and therefore he has given you the correct word "Thelema" in a form unfamiliar to you. You man now consider yourself satisfied of his good faith, and may proceed to inspect him more closely. The stars above his head suggest the influence of Binah, whose number also is three, while the most striking thing about him is the core of his being: the letter Yod. (One does not count the termination "AH": being a divine suffix it represents the inmost light and the outermost light.) This Yod, this spark of intense brilliance, is of the pale greenish gold which one sees (in this world) in the fine gold leaf of Tibet. It glows with ever greater intensity as you concentrate upon observing him, which you could not do while you were preoccupied with investigating his credentials.

1.17 - Legend of Prahlada, #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism   Listen, Maitreya, to the story of the wise and magnanimous Prahlāda, whose adventures are ever interesting and instructive. Hiraṇyakaśipu, the son of Diti, had formerly brought the three worlds under his authority, confiding in a boon bestowed upon him by Brahmā[1]. He had usurped the sovereignty of Indra, and exercised of himself the functions of the sun, of air, of the lord of waters, of fire, and of The Moon. He himself was the god of riches; he was the judge of the dead; and he appropriated to himself, without reserve, all that was offered in sacrifice to the gods. The deities therefore, flying from their seats in heaven, wandered, through fear of the Daitya, upon the earth, disguised in mortal shapes. Having conquered the three worlds, he was inflated with pride, and, eulogized by the Gandharvas, enjoyed whatever he desired. The Gandharvas, the Siddhas, and the snake-gods all attended upon the mighty Hiraṇyakaśipu, as he sat at the banquet. The Siddhas delighted stood before him, some playing on musical instruments, some singing songs in his praise, and others shouting cries of victory; whilst the nymphs of heaven danced gracefully in the crystal palace, where the Asura with pleasure quaffed the inebriating cup.   The illustrious son of the Daitya king, Prahlāda, being yet a boy, resided in the dwelling of his preceptor, where he read such writings as are studied in early years. On one occasion he came, accompanied by his teacher, to the court of his father, and bowed before his feet as he was drinking. Hiraṇyakaśipu desired his prostrate son to rise, and said to him, "Repeat, boy, in substance, and agreeably, what during the period of your studies you have acquired." "Hear, sire," replied Prahlāda, "what in obedience to your commands I will repeat, the substance of all I have learned: listen attentively to that which wholly occupies my thoughts. I have learned to adore him who is without beginning, middle, or end, increase or diminution; the imperishable lord of the world, the universal cause of causes." On hearing these words, the sovereign of the Daityas, his eyes red with wrath, and lip swollen with indignation, turned to the preceptor of his son, and said, "Vile Brahman, what is this preposterous commendation of my foe, that, in disrespect to me, you have taught this boy to utter?" "King of the Daityas," replied the Guru, "it is not worthy of you to give way to passion: that which your son has uttered, he has not been taught by me." "By whom then," said Hiraṇyakaśipu to the lad, "by whom has this lesson, boy, been taught you? your teacher denies that it proceeds from him." "Viṣṇu, father," answered Prahlāda, "is the instructor of the whole world: what else should any one teach or learn, save him the supreme spirit?" "Blockhead," exclaimed the king, "who is this Viṣṇu, whose name you thus reiterate so impertinently before me, who am the sovereign of the three worlds?" "The glory of Viṣṇu," replied Prahlāda, "is to be meditated upon by the devout; it cannot be described: he is the supreme lord, who is all things, and from whom all things proceed." To this the king rejoined, "Are you desirous of death, fool, that you give the title of supreme lord to any one whilst I survive?" "Viṣṇu, who is Brahma," said Prahlāda, "is the creator and protector, not of me alone, but of all human beings, and even, father, of you: he is the supreme lord of all. Why should you, sire, be offended?" Hiraṇyakaśipu then exclaimed, "What evil spirit has entered into the breast of this silly boy, that thus, like one possessed, he utters such profanity?" "Not into my heart alone," said Prahlāda, "has Viṣṇu entered, but he pervades all the regions of the universe, and by his omnipresence influences the conduct of all beings, mine, fattier, and thine[2]." "Away with the wretch!" cried the king; "take him to his preceptor's mansion. By whom could he have been instigated to repeat the lying praises of my foe?"   --   Again established in the dwelling of his preceptor, Prahlāda gave lessons himself to the sons of the demons, in the intervals of his leisure. "Sons of the offspring of Diti," he was accustomed to say to them, "hear from me the supreme truth; nothing else is fit to be regarded; nothing, else here is an object to be coveted. Birth, infancy, and youth are the portion of all creatures; and then succeeds gradual and inevitable decay, terminating with all beings, children of the Daityas, in death: this is manifestly visible to all; to you as it is to me. That the dead are born again, and that it cannot be otherwise, the sacred texts are warrant: but production cannot be without a material cause; and as long as conception and parturition are the material causes of repeated birth, so long, be sure, is pain inseparable from every period of existence. The simpleton, in his inexperience, fancies that the alleviation of hunger, thirst, cold, and the like is pleasure; but of a truth it is pain; for suffering gives delight to those whose vision is darkened by delusion, as fatigue would be enjoyment to limbs that are incapable of motion[3]. This vile body is a compound of phlegm and other humours. Where are its beauty, grace, fragrance, or other estimable qualities? The fool that is fond of a body composed of flesh, blood, matter, ordure, urine, membrane, marrow, and bones, will be enamoured of hell. The agreeableness of fire is caused by cold; of water, by thirst; of food, by hunger: by other circumstances their contraries are equally agreeable[4]. The child of the Daitya who takes to himself a wife introduces only so much misery into his bosom; for as many as are the cerished affections of a living creature, so many are the thorns of anxiety implanted in his heart; and he who has large possessions in his house is haunted, wherever he goes, with the apprehension that they may be lost or burnt or stolen. Thus there is great pain in being born: for the dying man there are the tortures of the judge of the deceased, and of passing again into 'the womb. If you conclude that there is little enjoyment in the embryo state, you must then admit that the world is made up of pain. Verily I say unto you, that in this ocean of the world, this sea of many sorrows, Viṣṇu is your only hope. If ye say, you know nothing of this; 'we are children; embodied spirit in bodies is eternal; birth, youth, decay, are the properties of the body, not of the soul[5].' But it is in this way that we deceive ourselves. I am yet a child; but it is my purpose to exert myself when I am a youth. I am yet a youth; but when I become old I will do what is needful for the good of my soul. I am now old, and all my duties are to be fulfilled. How shall I, now that my faculties fail me, do what was left undone when my strength was unimpaired?' In this manner do men, whilst their minds are distracted by sensual pleasures, ever propose, and never attain final beatitude: they die thirsting[6]. Devoted in childhood to play, and in youth to pleasure, ignorant and impotent they find that old age is come upon them. Therefore even in childhood let the embodied soul acquire discriminative wisdom, and, independent of the conditions of infancy, youth, or age, strive incessantly to be freed. This, then, is what I declare unto you; and since you know that it is not untrue, do you, out of regard to me, call to your minds Viṣṇu, the liberator from all bondage. What difficulty is there in thinking upon him, who, when remembered, bestows prosperity; and by recalling whom to memory, day and night, all sin is cleansed away? Let all your thoughts and affections be fixed on him, who is present in all beings, and you shall laugh at every care. The whole world is suffering under a triple affliction[7]. 'What wise man would feel hatred towards beings who are objects of compassion? If fortune be propitious to them, and I am unable to partake of the like enjoyments, yet wherefore should I cerish malignity towards those who are more prosperous than myself: I should rather sympathise with their happiness; for the suppression of malignant feelings is of itself a reward[8]. If beings are hostile, and indulge in hatred, they are objects of pity to the wise, as encompassed by profound delusion. These are the reasons for repressing hate, which are adapted to the capacities of those who see the deity distinct from his creatures. Hear, briefly, what influences those who have approached the truth. This whole world is but a manifestation of Viṣṇu, who is identical with all things; and it is therefore to be regarded by the wise as not differing from, but as the same with themselves. Let us therefore lay aside the angry passions of our race, and so strive that we obtain that perfect, pure, and eternal happiness, which shall be beyond the power of the elements or their deities, of fire, of the sun, of The Moon, of wind, of Indra, of the regent of the sea; which shall be unmolested by spirits of air or earth; by Yakṣas, Daityas, or their chiefs; by the serpent-gods or monstrous demigods of Swerga; which shall be uninterrupted by men or beasts, or by the infirmities of human nature; by bodily sickness and disease[9], or hatred, envy, malice, passion, or desire; which nothing shall molest, and which every one who fixes his whole heart on Keśava shall enjoy. Verily I say unto you, that you shall have no satisfaction in various revolutions through this treacherous world, but that you will obtain placidity for ever by propitiating Viṣṇu, whose adoration is perfect calm. What here is difficult of attainment, when he is pleased? Wealth, pleasure, virtue, are things of little moment. Precious is the fruit that you shall gather, be assured, from the exhaustless store of the tree of true wisdom."   Footnotes and references:

1.17 - M. AT DAKSHINEWAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism   "There are five kinds of light: the light of a lamp, the light of various kinds of fire, the light of The Moon, the light of the sun, and lastly the combined light of the sun and The Moon. Bhakti is the light of The Moon, and jnna the light of the sun.   "Sometimes it is seen that the sun has hardly set when The Moon rises in the sky. In an Incarnation of God one sees, at the same time, the sun of Knowledge and The Moon of Love.   "Can everyone, by the mere wish, develop Knowledge and Love at the same time? It depends on the person. One bamboo is more hollow than another. Is it possible for all to comprehend the nature of God? Can a one seer pot hold five seers of milk?"

1.17 - The Spiritus Familiaris or Serving Spirits, #The Practice of Magical Evocation, #Franz Bardon, #Occultism   3. change over to the beings of The Moon according to the hierarchy   4. have regard to the heads of the zone of Mercury

1.18 - Evocation, #The Practice of Magical Evocation, #Franz Bardon, #Occultism   1. If he intends to call a spirit being of a certain sphere into his sphere, no matter whether he calls it into the triangle, the mirror, or into a fluid condenser, he must bear in mind that the being is only able to move about in an atmosphere appropriate to its own sphere. He therefore must artifically create the spheric atmosphere by accumulating the light, the material of the sphere, either into the triangle, or preferably into the whole room in which he is working. If working with a magic mirror it has to be impregnated or condensed respectively with the according light material of the sphere. When operating in the open air, the impregnation must be kept within such limits that the beings or powers that are to manifest themselves have sufficient room to move about. The accumulated or impregnated light must have a colour which is in accordance with the colour-law of the individual planet. I have already given the reader and student a detailed information on this question of impregnating or accumulating light in space in "Initiation into Hermetics" in the chapter dealing with space-impregnation. If, for instance, a being of The Moon-sphere is evoked outside oneself, the light, or rather the material to be accumulated, must be of a silvery white colour; in the case of a being of Mercury the light-material must be opalescent; beings from Venus must have a green, beings from the Sun a golden yellow, from Mars a red, from Jupiter a blue, from Saturn a violet light, etc.   If, for instance, the magician calls a being of the earth-element, he must get the element of the earth into the magic triangle or the magic mirror by the help of his imagination. If he wants to call to him a being from The Moon, he must create the vibration of The Moon sphere. No being is able to dwell in a sphere not appropriate to it. If, in case of citation, this principle is not adhered to, a being might be forced to come to our physical sphere, but it would, in such a case, have to create, by itself, the necessary spheric vibration. The magician would, in this case, lose his control over the being, and his authority, too, would suffer from such a failure, for the being would consider the magician as not perfect and would therefore not pay him respect and would refuse to obey him. Strictly adhering to and acting according to this principle is most important when evocations are carried out, and this must never be forgotten by a true magician.   2. The magician must be able to place himself, with his consciousness, during the evocation, into the sphere of the being cited, so that the being will behold him. This transplanting of one's spirit is done under the laws of the Akasha-principle, i. e. by the magician's putting himself into a state of trance in which he does not know any time or space, and it is in this state that he cites, according to his will, and due to his authority etc. the being concerned. Without these faculties the magician is not able to make a being appear.

1.18 - The Importance of our Conventional Greetings, etc., #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy   From time to time I have exhorted you with mine accustomed matchless eloquence never to neglect the prescribed Greetings: but I think it just as well to collect the various considerations connected with their use and in "Greetings" I include "saying Will" before set meals, the four daily adorations of the Sun (Liber CC, vel Resh) and the salutation of Our Lady The Moon.[28] I propose to deal with the general object of the combined rituals, not with the special virtues of each separately.   The practice of Liber III vel Jugorum*[AC26] is the complement of these grouped customs. By sharp physical self-chastisement when you think, say, or do whatever it is that you have set yourself to avoid doing, you set a sentry at the gate of your mind ready to challenge all comers, and so you acquire the habit of being on the alert. Keep this in mind, and you will have no difficulty in following the argument of this letter.

1.18 - The Perils of the Soul, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism   to render distraught. When The Moon, just risen, looks red above the   eastern horizon, go out, and standing in The Moonlight, with the big   toe of your right foot on the big toe of your left, make a   --    "OM. I loose my shaft, I loose it and The Moon clouds over,     I loose it, and the sun is extinguished.   --   down on an ant-hill facing The Moon, burn incense, and recite the   following incantation:   --     When you look up at The Moon, remember me,     For in that self-same moon I am there.   --   Now wave the end of your turban towards The Moon seven times each   night. Go home and put it under your pillow, and if you want to wear   --   roof in The Moonlight, cast a shadow on the ground and a hyaena trod   on it, the dog would fall down as if dragged with a rope. Clearly in

1.19 - THE MASTER AND HIS INJURED ARM, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism   "He who sees only the eye of the bird can hit the mark. He alone is clever who sees that God is real and all else is illusory. What need have I of other information? Hanuman once remarked: 'I don't know anything about the phase of The Moon or the position of the stars. I only contemplate Rma.'   (To M.) "Please buy a few fans for our use here.

1.19 - The Practice of Magical Evocation, #The Practice of Magical Evocation, #Franz Bardon, #Occultism   * With regard to the various spheres the blotting paper must have the following shapes: for the sphere of Saturn a triangle of Jupiter a quadrangle of Mars a pentagon of the Sun a hexagon of Venus a heptagon of Mercury an octagon of The Moon a nonagon   As far as the earth.zone or any other zones are concerned the round shape of the seal is to be maintained. seal is now ready and you can start preparing the circle and the triangle. If you have a circle sewn into a piece of cloth or painted on a piece of paper you put it on the floor beside the triangle and once more run over its lines with the magic wand or with your right hand, or with one finger of your right hand, meditating on the idea that they represent the eternity, the microcosm and macrocosm, that they are symbolizing the whole universe in its great and in its small aspect. The circle, in the middle of which you must stand when calling the intelligence, is for you the small and the great world. Your meditative attitude must be so strong that no other idea can exist in your mind at that moment.   --   10 lamps for zone of The Moon   9 lamps of Mercury

1.200-1.224 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism   Later on, Penance is Brahman. Another Upanishad says, Itself is penance which is again made up of wisdom alone. There the sun shines not, nor The Moon, nor the stars, nor fire; all these shine forth by Its light.   Talk 201.   --   The linga originally manifested as Arunachala stands even to this day. This manifestation was when The Moon was in the constellation of Orion (Ardra) in December. However it was first worshipped on   Sivaratri day which is held sacred even now.

12.01 - The Return to Earth, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Night, splendid with The Moon dreaming in heaven   In silver peace, possessed her luminous reign.

12.05 - The World Tragedy, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    The complete life is a full circle, one half only is visible to us, real to us: the other half is invisible like the far side of The Moon. The ancients used to call these halves, one the higher half (Parardha) and the other the lower half (Aparardha) The lower half is the domain of death, the Upanishads declare, the higher half is the domain of immortality. As we start our journey upon earth we begin with the ordinary life, the life of death, and we pass through it gaining experience, growing in consciousness; and then when we have crossed the stage we enter into the domain beyond death and begin to learn, to partake of the life immortal.    Dante, the great Christian poet speaks likewise of a life in Hell and a life in Paradise, first, the tragedy, the life of sorrows, transmuted in the end into the Divine Comedy, the life of happiness and bliss. There is an intermediary passage in between through which the poet leads us from the one to the other: the transition is spoken of as a stage of purification through which one has to pass to shake off the human dross from his nature and put on and become in substance the noble metal.

1.2.08 - Faith, #Letters On Yoga II, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   I do not see how the method of faith in the cells can be likened to eating a slice of The Moon. Nobody ever got a slice of the   100

1.20 - The Fourth Bolgia Soothsayers. Amphiaraus, Tiresias, Aruns, Manto, Eryphylus, Michael Scott, Guido Bonatti, and Asdente. Virgil reproaches Dante's Pity., #The Divine Comedy, #Dante Alighieri, #Christianity   And yesternight The Moon was round already;   Thou shouldst remember well it did not harm thee

1.2.1.11 - Mystic Poetry and Spiritual Poetry, #Letters On Poetry And Art, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   I do not remember the context of the passage you quote from The Future Poetry,1 but I suppose I meant to contrast the veiled utterance of what is usually called mystic poetry with the luminous and assured clarity of the fully expressed spiritual experience. I did not mean to contrast it with the mental clarity which is aimed at usually by poetry in which the intelligence or thinking mind is consulted at each step. The concreteness of intellectual imaged description is one thing and spiritual concreteness is another. Two birds, companions, seated on one tree, but one eats the fruit, the other eats not but watches his fellow that has an illumining spiritual clarity and concreteness to one who has had the experience, but mentally and intellectually it might mean anything or nothing. Poetry uttered with the spiritual clarity may be compared to sunlight poetry uttered with the mystic veil to moonlight. But it was not my intention to deny beauty, power or value to The Moonlight. Note that I have distinguished between two kinds of mysticism, one in which the realisation or experience is vague, though inspiringly vague, the other in which the experience is revelatory and intimate, but the utterance it finds is veiled by the image, not thoroughly revealed by it. I do not know to which Tagores recent poetry belongs, I have not read it. The latter kind of poetry (where there is the intimate experience) can be of great power and value witness Blake. Revelation is greater than inspiration it brings the direct knowledge and seeing, inspiration gives the expression, but the two are not always equal. There is even an inspiration without revelation, when one gets the word but the thing remains behind the veil; the transcribing consciousness expresses something with power, like a medium, of which it has not itself the direct sight or the living possession. It is better to get the sight of the thing itself than merely express it by an inspiration which comes from behind the veil, but this kind of poetry too has often a great light and power in it. The highest inspiration brings the intrinsic word, the spiritual mantra; but even where the inspiration is less than that, has a certain vagueness or fluidity of outline, you cannot say of such mystic poetry that it has no inspiration, not the inspired word at all. Where there is no inspiration, there can be no poetry.   10 June 1936

1.21 - My Theory of Astrology, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy   Let me add, to streng then the argument, that on the few occasions where I have erred there has been a good astrological reason for it. E.g. I might plump for Pisces rising when it was actually Capricornus; but in that case Saturn would have been afflicted by being in Cancer, with bad aspects from Venus and The Moon, thus taking away all his rugged, male, laborious qualities, and in the Ascendant might have been Jupiter, suggesting many of the qualities of Pisces: and so forth.   Now let me start! You want me to explain the system or no-system! which I use. I do not "move in a mysterious way My wonders to perform;" for nothing could be simpler. For its origin I have to thank Abramelin the Mage, who empties the vials of his scorn upon the astrologers of his time with their meticulous calculations of "the hours of the planets" and so on. I think he goes too far when he says that a planet can have no influence at all, or very little, unless it is above the horizon; but he meant well, bless him! And, though he does not say so, I believe that I do my stuff in very much the same way as he did.

1.21 - WALPURGIS-NIGHT, #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry   The Moon's lone disk, with its belated glow,   And lights so dimly, that, as one advances,

1.240 - 1.300 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism   D.: What is the Sun marga? What is The Moon marga? Which of them is easier?   M.: Ravi marga (Sun marga) is jnana. Moon marga is Yoga. They think that after purifying the 72,000 nadis in the body, sushumna is entered and the mind passes up to the sahasrara and there is nectar trickling.

1.240 - Talks 2, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism   D.: What is the Sun marga? What is The Moon marga? Which of them is easier?   M.: Ravi marga (Sun marga) is jnana. Moon marga is Yoga. They think that after purifying the 72,000 nadis in the body, sushumna is entered and the mind passes up to the sahasrara and there is nectar trickling.   --   If pure, how is He to be experienced by means of the impure I? A man says I slept happily. Happiness was his experience. If not, how could he speak of what he had not experienced? How did he experience happiness in sleep, if the Self was pure? Who is it that speaks of that experience now? The speaker is the vijnanatma (ignorant self) and he speaks of prajnanatma (pure self). How can that hold? Was this vijnanatma present in sleep? His present statement of the experience of happiness in sleep makes one infer his existence in sleep. How then did he remain? Surely not as in the waking state. He was there very subtle. Exceedingly subtle vijnanatma experiences the happy prajnanatma by means of maya mode. It is like the rays of The Moon seen below the branches, twigs and leaves of a tree.   The subtle vijnanatma seems apparently a stranger to the obvious vijnanatma of the present moment. Why should we infer his existence in sleep? Should we not deny the experience of happiness and be done with this inference? No. The fact of the experience of happiness cannot be denied, for everyone courts sleep and prepares a nice bed for the enjoyment of sound sleep.   --   Kavyakantha, and the assemblage of other persons are represented as the Heart, the brain and the body respectively, and again as the sun, The Moon and the earth also. The light from the sun is reflected on The Moon and the earth is illumined. Similarly the brain acts by consciousness derived from the Heart and the body is thus protected.   This teaching of Sri Bhagavan is found in Ramana Gita also. The   --   A certain lawyer from Cuddalore quoted as follows: Neither the sun shines there, nor The Moon, nor the stars, nor lightning. How can fire shine there? All these luminaries shine in His Light only.   With His Light, all these shine forth! He asked, what does with   --   M.: There is only He. He and His Light are the same. There is no individual to perceive other things, because the perceiver and the perceived are only He. The sun, The Moon, etc., shine forth. How?   Do they come and tell you that they shine forth or does another apart from them say that they shine forth?

1.24 - PUNDIT SHASHADHAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism   MASTER (with a smile): "This is indeed a great occasion for me. Today I have seen the crescent moon of the second day of the bright fortnight. (All laugh.) Do you know why I referred to The Moon of the second day? Sita once said to Ravana, 'You are the full moon and Rma is the crescent moon of the second day of the bright fortnight.' Ravana did not understand the meaning of these words. He thought Sita was flattering him and became exceedingly happy. But Sita meant that Ravana had reached the fullest limit of his power and prosperity, and that thenceforth he would wane like the full moon. Rma, on the other hand, was like The Moon of the second day. He would wax day by day."   The Master was about to take his leave. The pundit and his friends bowed low before him.

1.25 - ADVICE TO PUNDIT SHASHADHAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism   Hanuman said: 'Brother, I don't know much about the phase of The Moon or the position of the stars. I just contemplate Rma.'   "But seeing is far better than hearing. Then all doubts disappear. It is true that many things are recorded in the scriptures; but all these are useless without the direct realization of God, without devotion to His Lotus Feet, without purity of heart. The almanac forecasts the rainfall of the year. But not a drop of water will you get by squeezing the almanac. No, not even one drop.   --   "There is a great deal of difference between the knowledge of a householder and that of an all-renouncing sannyasi. The householder's knowledge is like the light of a lamp, which illumines only the inside of a room. He cannot see anything, with the help of such knowledge, except his own body and his immediate family. But the knowledge of the all-renouncing monk is like the light of the sun. Through that light he can see both, inside and outside the room. Chaitanyadeva's knowledge had the brilliance of the sun-the sun of Knowledge. Further, he radiated the soothing light of The Moon of Devotion. He was endowed with both-the Knowledge of Brahman and ecstatic love of God.   (To the pundit) "One can attain spiritual consciousness through both affirmation and negation. There is the positive path of love and devotion, and there is the negative path of knowledge and discrimination. You are preaching the path of knowledge. But that creates a very difficult situation: there the guru and the disciple do not see each other.

1.25 - Temporary Kings, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism   In Siam on the sixth day of The Moon in the sixth month (the end of   April) a temporary king is appointed, who for three days enjoys the

1.26 - FESTIVAL AT ADHARS HOUSE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism   "The knowledge of a devotee is like the light of The Moon, which illumines objects both inside and outside a room. But such light does not enable him to see a distant or a very minute object.   "The Knowledge of an Incarnation of God is like the light of the sun. Through that light the Incarnation sees everything, inside and outside, big and small.   --   It is enough for you to develop love of God. You have no need of many opinions and discussions. You have come to the orchard to eat mangoes. Enjoy them to your heart's content. You don't need to count the branches and leaves on the trees. It is wise to follow the attitude of Hanuman: 'I do not know the day of the week, the phase of The Moon, or the position of the stars; I only contemplate Rma.' "   M: "I now desire that my activities may be much reduced and that I may devote myself greatly to God."   --   It was now dusk. Sri Ramakrishna, as was usual with him during this part of the day, chanted the names of God and turned his mind to contemplation. Soon The Moon rose in the sky. The temples, courtyards, and trees were bathed in its silvery light, and millions of broken moons played on the rippling surface of the Ganges. Rkhl and M.   were with the Master in his room.   --   In Wisdom's firmament The Moon of Love is rising full, And Love's flood-tide, in surging waves, is flowing everywhere.   O Lord, how full of bliss Thou art! Victory unto Thee! . . .   --   The other devotees returned home in The Moonlit night, cherishing in their hearts the Master's ecstatic music and dancing.   --------------------

1.26 - The Eighth Bolgia Evil Counsellors. Ulysses and Diomed. Ulysses' Last Voyage., #The Divine Comedy, #Dante Alighieri, #Christianity   Had been the splendour underneath The Moon,   Since we had entered into the deep pass,

1.27 - AT DAKSHINESWAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism   M: "According to Western astronomy, they are due to the attraction of the sun and The Moon."   In order to explain it, M. drew figures on the earth and began to show the Master the movement of the earth, the sun, and The Moon.   The Master looked at the figures for a minute and said: "Stop, please! It gives me a headache."   --   After some time The Moon came out, flooding the sky with its light.   Sri Ramakrishna was sitting on his couch. He was in a spiritual mood, absorbed in contemplation of the Divine Mother. Now and then he chanted Her hallowed name. Adhar was sitting on the floor. M. and Niranjan, too, were there. Sri Ramakrishna began to talk to Adhar.   --   The Moon rose in the clear autumn sky and was reflected in the river. It was ebb-tide in the Ganges and the river flowed south toward the sea.   Sunday, September 14, 1884   --   Sri Ramakrishna, still in the ecstatic mood, came dawn from his couch to the floor and sat by Narendra. The beloved disciple sang again: In Wisdom's firmament The Moon of Love is rising full, And Love's flood-tide, in surging waves, is flowing everywhere.   O Lord, how full of bliss Thou art! Victory unto Thee! . . .

1.29 - Geri del Bello. The Tenth Bolgia Alchemists. Griffolino d' Arezzo and Capocchino. The many people and the divers wounds, #The Divine Comedy, #Dante Alighieri, #Christianity   And now The Moon is underneath our feet;   Henceforth the time allotted us is brief,

1.2 - Katha Upanishads, #Kena and Other Upanishads, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   15. There the Sun cannot shine and The Moon has no lustre; all   the stars are blind; there our lightnings flash not, neither

1.300 - 1.400 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism   If pure, how is He to be experienced by means of the impure 'I'? A man says "I slept happily". Happiness was his experience. If not, how could he speak of what he had not experienced? How did he experience happiness in sleep, if the Self was pure? Who is it that speaks of that experience now? The speaker is the vijnanatma (ignorant self) and he speaks of prajnanatma (pure self). How can that hold? Was this vijnanatma present in sleep? His present statement of the experience of happiness in sleep makes one infer his existence in sleep. How then did he remain? Surely not as in the waking state. He was there very subtle. Exceedingly subtle vijnanatma experiences the happy prajnanatma by means of maya mode. It is like the rays of The Moon seen below the branches, twigs and leaves of a tree.   The subtle vijnanatma seems apparently a stranger to the obvious vijnanatma of the present moment. Why should we infer his existence in sleep? Should we not deny the experience of happiness and be done with this inference? No. The fact of the experience of happiness cannot be denied, for everyone courts sleep and prepares a nice bed for the enjoyment of sound sleep.

1.34 - The Tao 1, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy     The Moon and Sun rejoice to run     Among the starry Seven."

1.37 - Oriential Religions in the West, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism   Crucifixion on that day without any regard to the state of The Moon.   This custom was certainly observed in Phrygia, Cappadocia, and Gaul,

1.38 - The Myth of Osiris, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism   called him, and he playing at draughts with The Moon won from her a   seventy-second part of every day, and having compounded five whole

1.39 - Prophecy, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy   It was one glorious night in Cefal, too utterly superb to waste in sleep; I got up; I adored the Stars and The Moon; I revelled in the Universe. Yet there was something pulling at me. It pulled eftsoons my body into my chair, and I found myself at this old riddle of 718. Half-a dozen comic failures. But I felt that there was something on the way. Idly, I put down Stl in the Greek, 52,[74] and said, "Perhaps we can make a 'name' out of the difference between that and 718."   I jumped.

1.39 - The Ritual of Osiris, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism   certain presumption that the deity thus honoured either is The Moon   or at least has lunar affinities. If the festival is held at the

1.3 - Mundaka Upanishads, #Kena and Other Upanishads, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   the worlds, on which The Moon shines and the sun.   7. And from Him have issued many gods, and demi-gods and   --   11. There the sun shines not and The Moon has no splendour and   the stars are blind; there these lightnings flash not, how then

1.400 - 1.450 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism   Kavyakantha, and the assemblage of other persons are represented as the Heart, the brain and the body respectively, and again as the sun, The Moon and the earth also. The light from the sun is reflected on The Moon and the earth is illumined. Similarly the brain acts by consciousness derived from the Heart and the body is thus protected.   This teaching of Sri Bhagavan is found in Ramana Gita also. The   --   A certain lawyer from Cuddalore quoted as follows: "Neither the sun shines there, nor The Moon, nor the stars, nor lightning. How can fire shine there? All these luminaries shine in His Light only.   With His Light, all these shine forth!" He asked, what does 'with   --   M.: There is only He. He and His Light are the same. There is no individual to perceive other things, because the perceiver and the perceived are only He. The sun, The Moon, etc., shine forth. How?   403

14.03 - Janaka and Yajnavalkya, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    Once upon a time King Janaka invited sages from everywhere, whoever wanted to come to the assembly. The king from time to time used to call such assemblies for spiritual discussion and interchange of experiences. This time he summoned the assembly for a special reason. He had collected a herd of one thousand cows and nuggets of gold were tied to the horns of each. When all had gathered and taken their places he announced that whoever considered himself the best knower of Brahman (Brahmishtha) might come forward and take away the cows. None stirred. No one had the temerity to declare that he was the best knower and the most eligible for the prize. The king repeated his announcement. Then all of a sudden people saw Yajnavalkya advancing and telling his disciples to take hold of the herd and drive it home. A hue and cry arose: How is it? How dare he? One came forward and asked Yajnavalkya: How is it, Yajnavalkya? Do you consider yourself the most wise in the matter of Brahman? First prove your claim and then touch the cows. Yajnavalkya in great humility bowed down and said to the assembly: I bow down to the great sages. I have come here solely with the intention of getting the cows. As for the knowledge of Brahman, I leave it to the knowers of Brahman. All the others in one voice said: That will not do, Yajnavalkya. You cannot get away so easily. Come, sit down and prove your worth. Yajnavalkya had no way of escape. So one by one the sages came up and put questions and enigmas to Yagnavalkya. All he answered quietly and perfectly to their full satisfaction. Towards the end a woman stood up, Gargi, a fair and famous name too. She said: Yajnavalkya, I shall put two questions to you like two arrows directed at you, even as a king shoots his arrows at his enemies; if you can meet and parry them, yours the victory. Yajnavalkaya: "Let me hear then". Gargi: "Yajnavalkya, you once said that the earth is the warp and woof woven upon water; upon what is woven the water?" Yajnavalkya: "Air". "Upon what then is air woven?" "Sky". "Upon what is woven the sky?" "The world of Gandharvas." "Upon what the Gandharvas?""Upon the Sun." She continued her questioning. And thus she was led successively through higher and higher worlds from the Sun to The Moon, then to the Stars, then to the Gods and the King of Gods, then to the Creator of the Gods and the peoples1 and finally to the Brahmaloka (the world of the One Supreme Transcendent Reality).    Gargi still continued and asked again: "Upon what is Brahman woven?" To this Yajnavalkya cried halt and warned her: "Now, Gargi, your questioning goes too far, beyond the limits. If you question farther, your head will fall off. You are questioning about a thing that does not bear questioning m ati prksih anati prany devat the Gods abide not our question." So Gargi had to desist and Yajnavalkya was accepted as the best of the sages (Brahmishtha) and he could drive his cattle away home.   --    Y: The Moon is his light.    K: When the sun has set, when The Moon has set, what light has man?    Y: The fire is his light.    K: When the sun has set, when The Moon has set, when the fire has gone out, what then is man's light?    Y: The self is his light.   --    There the sun shines not, nor The Moon, nor the stars; nor do these lightnings shine there. And how can this fire be there? That shines and in its wake all others shine. By the light of That all this becomes luminous.3    All other lights, lights of the heaven, lights upon earth are evanescent. They pass away, the only light that endures and never fails is the light of the soul.   --    "There the sun cannot shine and The Moon has no lustre; all the stars are blind; there our lightnings flash not, neither any earthly fire. For all that is bright is but the shadow of His brightness and by His shining all this shines." Sri Aurobindo: The Upanishads, Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library, Vol. 12, p. 261.    ***

1.439, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism   Observing The Moon before the rising sun, Sri Bhagavan remarked:   See The Moon and also the cloud in the sky. There is no difference in their brilliance. The Moon looks only like a speck of cloud. The jnanis mind is like this moon before sunlight. It is there but not shining of itself.   18th February, 1938   --   Because ullam is only the reflected light, it is said to be The Moon.   The original light is in the heart which is said to be the sun.   --   Again, there is The Moon. Let anyone look at her from any place at any time; she is the same moon. Everyone knows it. Now suppose that there are several receptacles of water reflecting The Moon. The images are all different from one another and from The Moon herself. If one of the receptacles falls to pieces, that reflection disappears. Its disappearance does not affect the real moon or the other reflections. It is similar with an individual attaining Liberation. He alone is liberated.   The sectarian of multiplicity makes this his argument against non-duality.   --   as the rays of The Moon which peer through the waving foliage. The   experience was however not through any media (such as the senses of

1.450 - 1.500 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism   Observing The Moon before the rising sun, Sri Bhagavan remarked:   See The Moon and also the cloud in the sky. There is no difference in their brilliance. The Moon looks only like a speck of cloud. The jnani's mind is like this moon before sunlight. It is there but not shining of itself.   18th February, 1938

1.46 - The Corn-Mother in Many Lands, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism   Omonga, who dwells in The Moon. If that spirit is not treated with   proper respect, for example if the people who fetch rice from the

1.49 - Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism   once a year the Egyptians sacrificed pigs to The Moon and to Osiris,   and not only sacrificed them, but ate of their flesh, though on any

1.49 - Thelemic Morality, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy   Neschamah is an entirely different proposition. One of Tiphareth's prime assets is the influence, through the path of "The Lovers," from Binah. The son's milk from the Great Mother. (From his Father, Chiah, Chokmah, he inherits the infinite possibilities of Nuit, through the path of H, "The Star;" and from his "God," Kether, the Divine Consciousness, the direct inspiration, guidance, and ward of his Holy Guardian Angel, through the path of Gimel, The Moon, "The Priestess.")[94]   Neschamah, then, will not be influenced by Ruach, except in so far as it is explained or interpreted by Ruach. These "instincts" are implanted from on high, not from below; they would be imperative were one always sure of having received them pure, and interpreted them aright.

1.51 - How to Recognise Masters, Angels, etc., and how they Work, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy     I once more solemnly renounced all that I have or am. On departing (at midnight from the topmost point of the hill which crowns my estate) instantly shone The Moon, two days before her fullness, over the hills among the clouds.   This record is couched in very general terms, but it was intended to cover the practical point of my resuming the task laid upon me in Cairo exactly as I might be directed to do by my superiors.

1.550 - 1.600 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism   Again, there is The Moon. Let anyone look at her from any place at any time; she is the same moon. Everyone knows it. Now suppose that there are several receptacles of water reflecting The Moon. The images are all different from one another and from The Moon herself. If one of the receptacles falls to pieces, that reflection disappears. Its disappearance does not affect the real moon or the other reflections. It is similar with an individual attaining Liberation. He alone is liberated.   The sectarian of multiplicity makes this his argument against non-duality.

1.56 - The Public Expulsion of Evils, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism   people fasted on the first day of The Moon after the autumnal   equinox. Having fasted during the day, and the night being come,

1.57 - Public Scapegoats, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism   The Moon the Albanians of the Eastern Caucasus kept a number of   sacred slaves, of whom many were inspired and prophesied. When one

1.58 - Human Scapegoats in Classical Antiquity, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism   twenty-fourth day of The Moon, at the fourth hour.   Since this narrative was published by Professor Cumont, its

1.60 - Between Heaven and Earth, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism   The Moon), killed bees, or at least drove them from their hives,   caused mares to miscarry, and so forth. Similarly, in various parts

1.62 - The Fire-Festivals of Europe, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism   strictly Mohammedan feasts, being pinned to The Moon, slide   gradually with that luminary through the whole period of the earth's

1.65 - Balder and the Mistletoe, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism   on the sixth day of The Moon, from whence they date the beginnings   of their months, of their years, and of their thirty years' cycle,   because by the sixth day The Moon has plenty of vigour and has not   run half its course. After due preparations have been made for a   --   increased if the plant was gathered on the first day of The Moon   without the use of iron, and if when gathered it was not allowed to   --   plant, both peoples were determined by observation of The Moon; only   they differed as to the particular day of The Moon, the Italians   preferring the first, and the Druids the sixth.   --   and The Moon is on the wane, on the first, third, or fourth day   before the new moon, one ought to shoot down with an arrow the   --   day of The Moon, the ancient Italians apparently on the first day of   The Moon. In modern times some have preferred the full moon of March   and others the waning moon of winter when the sun is in Sagittarius.

1.68 - The God-Letters, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy   Pisces, house of Jupiter. Atu XVII "The Moon."   You will note that either Jupiter or Luna occurs in every case; in two, doubly. Guttur, moreover, is the Latin word for throat. Both planets emphasize the soft open expansive aspects of Nature; they both refer accordingly to the feminine throat, the tube either of present or of future Life. (Jupiter, when in Sagittarius, has an aggressive, masterful, male side; but his letter when there is Samekh.) Now pronounce these letters; observe the motions of opening and expulsion of the breath. Well, then, you will no longer wonder at that list we had in another letter of the words Cwm, coombe, quean, queen, and so on; also (?) quill, queer, quaintest, curious, (?) quick, (?) quince: especially with the U vowel, which sounds prehensile, ready to suck. Kupris (or Ctytto) the Greek or Syrian Aphrodite-Venus, is the outstanding example in Theogony.

17.04 - Hymn to the Purusha, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    The Moon was born from His mind, the sun from His eyes, the Lord of the senses and the Divine Fire from His mouth and air from the life-force. [13]    From the navel came out the mediate spaces, from His head rose the heavens, from the feet this earth, from His ears the ten directions. Thus were the worlds conceived. [14]

17.09 - Victory to the World Master, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    stain is imbedded in The Moon.    Lo, the Lord has assumed the body of a Boar. Victory

17.11 - A Prayer, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    He dwells in the thousand-petalled lotus, luminous cool like the full orb of The Moon, his lotus-hands carry grace and protection. He wears a robe of pure sweet-scented flowers, ever-smiling and gracious-looking. He embodies all the gods. He is the Spirit, the soaring Bird on the crown of the head. Remember Him and worship Him in any fair form. He is the Guru.    He shines bright 'within the lotus-centre of the head like the soothing moon; like the brilliant sun he flashes; his arms extend to protect and to give. He is radiant like burning camphor. He wears a white robe and white garlands, he is anointed white. His consort gleams like lightning, as she clings to him athwart one-half of his body. He is the Guru, full of Grace. I worship him in adoration.

18.02 - Ramprasad, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    her face is the very orb of The Moon.    Infant bodies shot with arrows dangle from her ears

18.04 - Modern Poems, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    The sun has absconded, The Moon a handful of ashes.    Draining life to a pale emptiness, a bunch of roses

18.05 - Ashram Poets, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    Drowned in her dreams, The Moon sails    In the Night bereft of sense,

19.13 - Of the World, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    One who fell once into error and has not fallen since, shines over the world like The Moon that is freed from the clouds.    [7]    He who has had his wrong acts effaced by right acts shines over the world like The Moon when freed from the clouds.    [8]

1914 07 21p, #Prayers And Meditations, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    There was no longer any body, no longer any sensation; only a column of light was there, rising from where the base of the body normally is to where usually is the head, to form there a disk of light like that of The Moon; then from there the column continued to rise very far above the head, opening out into an immense sun, dazzling and multicoloured, whence a rain of golden light fell covering all the earth.    Then slowly the column of light came down again forming an oval of living light, awakening and setting into movementeach one in a special way, according to a particular vibratory mode the centres above the head, in the head, the throat, the heart, in the middle of the stomach, at the base of the spine and still farther down. At the level of the knees, the ascending and descending currents joined and the circulation thus went on uninterruptedly, enveloping the whole being in an immense oval of living light.

19.25 - The Bhikkhu, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    The young Bhikkhu who yokes himself to the Buddha-discipline illumines the world even like The Moon freed from the clouds.    Ego, doubt, outward ceremonies, greed, ill-will.

19.26 - The Brahmin, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    The sun burns by the day, The Moon shines by the night, the warrior gleams in his armour, the Brahmin is luminous in his meditation, the Buddha sheds his effulgence day and night.    [6]   --    I call him a Brahmin who is like The Moon, stainless, pure, clear, serene, whose worldly cravings have withered away.    [32]

1953-11-18, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    And we benefit by all the experiences of those who were upon earth before us. But if we had to come to a country about which we knew nothing, and had to learn everything by ourselves, we would have very unpleasant experiences. There are other fruits like that, this is not the only one, there are many such. For example, the fig the unripe figif you touch the white juice that oozes from the fig but its awfulyou have boils all over the mouth and become quite ill, and you get ulcers in the stomach also. But when the fig is ripe and you take care not to touch the white juice, it is a perfect food. I could give you a great many examples of this kind. But now we know this because we have been told. Those who told us learnt it from others. But who first made the experiment, who learnt all that, all the things in Nature? There are many, there are countless things in Nature. Well, take plant life in Nature, we dont yet know everything today. For instance, some people tell you: The remedy is always there along with the illness, in Nature; Nature has made it thus. I dont know if this is strictly so, but in any case, in a way it works, it is true. It is said, for instance, that if a snake has its hole somewhere, you may be sure you will find beside it a plant which will cure you if bitten. But which plant? There are so many there and who will teach you? There are people who go up to the mountains in The Moonlight and collect herbs which cure diseases generally considered incurable. How have they learnt that? Who has made the experiment?    And mushrooms?

1955-05-18 - The Problem of Woman - Men and women - The Supreme Mother, the new creation - Gods and goddesses - A story of Creation, earth - Psychic being only on earth, beings everywhere - Going to other worlds by occult means, #Questions And Answers 1955, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   So one sees everything which has a similar quality. But supposing there is something very material, one doesnt see it as it is. So one cant say with certainty, It is like this or like that. One can say, I saw this, thats all. But one cant recount stories like those in the papers about what is happening on The Moon or Jupiter or Venus. One can have an experience and know certain things but usually they are things of a more psychological nature.   However, if it is in order to know whether there are some beings there, I dont think theres any place in the universe where there arent beings, because thats the very principle of this universe: individual creations. Everywhere there are individual creations but they have different densities. Most of them are invisible except to those with a similar density, and only those who have the capacity of coming out of their bodies and going for a stroll can see these things. But so long as you use these eyes you cant see very much.

1957-03-15 - Reminiscences of Tlemcen, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   So he went away. The Moonlight went with him. She lit a lamp for there was no electricityshe lit a lamp and saw a little pool of water in the place where he had stood. So it was not a dream, there really was a little being whose snow had melted in her room. And the next morning when the sun rose, it rose upon mountains covered with snow. It was the first time, it had never been seen before in that country.   Since then, every winternot for long, just for a little whileall the mountains are covered with snow.

1958-02-26 - The moon and the stars - Horoscopes and yoga, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   object:1958-02-26 - The Moon and the stars - Horoscopes and yoga   class:chapter   --   Sweet Mother, you have often spoken about the powers of the sun but you have never said anything about The Moon or the stars.   From what point of view? Symbolically?   --   That depends on the schools of thought, the periods, the countries. In a general way, The Moon is associated with spiritual force, spiritual progress, spiritual aspiration.   The waxing moon used to be considered as the symbol of spiritual aspiration for transformation, and spiritual plenitude was symbolised by the full moon. Moonlight has always been considered to be very favourable to visions, to poetic inspiration and all other-worldly activity. There are all kinds of stories and legends about the starsstars which appeared on the day a divine being was born. But all that is a rather literary kind of symbolism.

1.ac - A Birthday, #Crowley - Poems, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy   There, giving holy berries to The Moon,   July's thanksgiving for the joys of June.

1.ac - Adela, #Crowley - Poems, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy   Rides on The Moon, a lilac conch of pearl,   As if the dread god, charioted anew   --   A meditative mage beneath The Moon   Ah! should we come, a delicate interlude,

1.ac - Lyric of Love to Leah, #Crowley - Poems, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy   To The Moon that beckons us   To dissolve our love in trance   --   Moving in The Moonlight, frond   Wooing frond above the calm   --   Of The Moon with Sirius.   Velvet swatches our lissome limbs   --   Of The Moon & Sirius.   Take the ardour of my impearled   --   To The Moon and Sirius!

1.ac - The Garden of Janus, #Crowley - Poems, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy   Into the wood, my mind. The Moon   Was staggered by the trees; with fierce constraint

1.ac - The Priestess of Panormita, #Crowley - Poems, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy   The ambrosial moon --- The Moon!   For under the tawny star   --   Shall win to The Moon at last.   The mage hath wrought by his art   --   Come, while The Moon (The Moon!)   Sheds her ambrosial splendour,

1.ami - Selfhood can demolish the magic of this world (from Baal-i-Jibreel), #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction    English version by Naeem Siddiqui Original Language Urdu Selfhood can demolish the magic of this world; But our belief in The One is not comprehended by all. Have a seer's eye, and light will dawn on thee; As a river and its waves cannot remain apart. The light of God and knowledge are not in rivalry, But so the pulpit believes, afraid of Hallaj's rope. Contentment is the shield for the pure and the noble A shield in slavery, and a shield in power. In the East the soul looks in vain for light; In the West the light is a faded cloud of dust. The fakirs who could shatter the power and pelf of kings No longer tread this earth, in climes far or near. The spirit of this age is brimful with negations, And drained to the last drop is the power of faith. Muted is Europe's lament on its crumbling pageant, Muted by the delirious beats, the clangour of its music. A sleepy ripple awaits, to swell into a wave A wave that will swallow up monsters of the sea. What is slavery but a loss of the sense of beauty? What the free call beautiful, is beautiful indeed. The present belongs to him who explores, in their depths, The fathomless seas of time, to find the future's pearl. The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glass But my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint Pharaohs of today have stalked me in vain; But I fear not; I am blessed with Moses' wand. The flame that can set afire a dark, sunless wood, Will not be throttled by a straw afloat in the wind. Love is self-awareness; love is self-knowledge; Love cares not for the palaces and the power of kings. I will not wonder if I reach even The Moon and the stars, For I have hitched my wagon to the star of all stars. First among the wise, last of the Prophets, Who gave a speck of dust the brightness of the Mount. He is the first and last in the eyes of love; He is the Word of God. He is the Word of God. <

1.ami - To the Saqi (from Baal-i-Jibreel), #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction    English version by Naeem Siddiqui Original Language Urdu Look! What wonders the spring has wrought! The river bank is a paradise! Rose-embowered glades, Blossoming jasmine and hyacinth, And violets, the envy of the skies!. Rainbow colours transformed Into a chorus of rapturous sounds, And the harmony of flowers The hillside is carnation-red; In the languid haze, the air Seems drunk with the beauty of life! The brook, on the heights of the hill, Dances to its own music. The world is dizzy in a pageant of colour! My rosy-cheeked Cup-bearer! The voice of spring is the voice of life! But the spring lasts not for ever; So bring me the cup that tears all veils -- The wine that brightens life -- The wine that intoxicates the world -- The wine in which flows The music of everlasting life, The wine that reveals eternity's secret. Unveil the secrets, O Saqi. Look! The world has changed apace! New are the songs, and new is the music; The West's magic has dissolved; The West's magicians are bewildered; Old politics has lost its game; The world is tired of kings; Gone are the days of the rich; Gone is the jugglery of old; Awake is China's sleeping giant; The Himalayas' torrents are unleashed; Sinai is riven; Moses awaits the light divine. The Muslim says that God is One But his heart is Still a heathen: Culture, sufism, rites and rthetoric, All adore non- Arab idols; The truth was lost in trifles, And the nation was lost in conventions. The speaker's rhetoric is enchanting, But is devoid of passion; It is clothed in logic neat, But lost in a maze of words; The sufi, unique in the love of truth, Unique in the love of God, Was lost in un-Islamic thought; Was lost in the hierarchic quest; The fire of love is extinguished, And a Muslim is a heap of ashes, O Saqi! Give me the old wine again! Let the potent cup go round! Let me soar on the wings of love; Make my dust bright-pinioned; Make wisdom free; And make the young guide the old; Thou it is that nourishest. this nation; Thou it is that canst sustain it; Urge them to move, to stir; Give them Ali's heart; give them Siddiq's passion; Let the same old love pierce their hearts; Awaken in them a burning zeal; Let the stars throw down their spears, And let the earth's dwellers tremble Give the young a passion that consumes; Give them my vision, my love of God; Free my boat from the whirlpool's grip, And make it move forward-, Reveal to me the secrets of life, For thou knowest them all; The treasures of a fakir like me Are suffused, unsleeping eyes, And secret yearnings of the heart-, My anguished sighs at night, My solitude in the world of men, My hopes and my fears, My quest untiring, My nature an arena of thought A mirror of the world. My heart a battlefield of life, With armies of suspicion, And bastions of certitude; With these treasures I am More rich than the richest of all. Let the young join my throng, And let them find an anchor of hope. The sea of life has its ebb and flow-, In every atom's heart is the pulse of life; It manifests itself in the body, As a flame conceals a wave of smoke; Contact with the earth was harsh for it, But it liked the labour; It is in motion, and not in motion; Tired of the elements' shackles; A unity, imprisoned by plurality; But always unique, unequalled. It has made this dome of myriad glass; It has carved this pantheon. It does not repeat its craft For thou art not me, and I am not thou; It has created the world of men, And remains in solitude, Its brightness is seen in the stars, And in the lustre of pearls-, To it belong the wildernesses, The flowers and the thorns; Mountains sometimes are shaken by its might; It captures angels and nymphs; It makes the eagle pounce on a prey, And leave a blood-stained body. Every atom throbs with life; Rest is an illusion; Life's journey pauses not, For every moment is a new glory; Life, thou thinkest, is a mystery; Life is a delight in eternal flight; Life has seen many ups and downs; It loves a journey, not a goal. Movement is life's being; Movement is truth, pause is a mirage. Life's enjoyment is in perils, In facing ups and downs; In the world beyond Life stalked for death, But the impulse to procreate Peopled the world of man and beast. Flowers blossomed and dropped From this tree of life. Fools think life is ephemeral; Life renews itself for ever -- Moving fast as a flash, Moving to eternity in a breath; Time, a chain of days and nights, Is the ebb and flow of breath. This flow of breath is like a sword, Selfhood is its sharpness; Selfhood is the secret of life; It is the world's awakening, Selfhood is solitary, absorbed, An ocean enclosed in a drop; It shines in light and in darkness, Existent in, but away from, thee and me. The dawn of life behind it, eternity before, It has no frontiers before, no frontiers behind. Afloat on the river of time, Bearing the buffets of the waves, Changing the course of its quest, Shifting its glance from time to time; For it a hill is a grain of sand, Mountains are shattered by its blows; A journey is its beginning and end, And this is the secret of its being. It is The Moon's beam, the spark in the flint, Colourless itself, though infused with colours, No concern has it with the calculus of space, With linear time's limits, with the finitude of life. It manifested itself in man's essence of dust, After an eternity of a strife to be born. It is in thy heart that Selfhood has an abode, As heaven has its abode in the cornea of thy eye. To one who guards his Selfhood, The living that demeans it, is poison; He accepts only a living, That keeps his self- esteem; Keep away from royal pomp, Keep thy Selfhood free; Thou shouldst bow in prayer, Not bow to a human being. This myriad-coloured world, Under the sentence of death, This world of sight and sound, I Where life means eating and drinking, Is Selfhood's initial stage; It is not thy abode, O traveller! This dust-bowl is not the source of thy fire; The world is for thee, not thou for the world. Demolish this illusion of' time and space; Selfhood is the Tiger of God, the world is its prey; The earth is its prey, the heavens are its prey; Other worlds there are, still awaiting birth, The earth-born are not the centre of all life; They all await thy assault, Thy cataclysmic thought and deed; Days and nights revolve, To reveal thy Selfhood to thee; Thou art the architect of the world. Words fail to convey the truth; Truth is the mirror, words its shade; Though the breath is a burning flame, The flame has limited bounds. 'If now I soar any farther, The vision will sear my wings.' <

1.anon - The Epic of Gilgamesh Tablet X, #Anonymous - Poems, #unset, #Zen    eclipse of The Moon    The gods are sleepless

1.anon - The Seven Evil Spirits, #Anonymous - Poems, #unset, #Zen   [3] Adad is god of storm, Anu of heaven, Enlil of storm, Sin of The Moon, Shamash of the Sun, and Ishtar of love and fruitfulness. The meaning of Massu is unknown; but Ea was long the chief ruler.   [4] The evil gods darken The Moon by an eclipse, Shamash helping them by withdrawing his light from The Moon, and Adad by sending cloudy weather.   [5] A name for Ea.

1.at - St. Agnes Eve, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction    Original Language English Deep on the convent-roof the snows Are sparkling to The Moon: My breath to heaven like vapour goes: May my soul follow soon! The shadows of the convent-towers Slant down the snowy sward, Still creeping with the creeping hours That lead me to my Lord: Make Thou my spirit pure and clear As are the frosty skies, Or this first snowdrop of the year That in my bosom lies. As these white robes are soil'd and dark, To yonder shining ground; As this pale taper's earthly spark, To yonder argent round; So shows my soul before the Lamb, My spirit before Thee; So in mine earthly house I am, To that I hope to be. Break up the heavens, O Lord! and far, Thro' all yon starlight keen, Draw me, thy bride, a glittering star, In raiment white and clean. He lifts me to the golden doors; The flashes come and go; All heaven bursts her starry floors, And strows her lights below, And deepens on and up! the gates Roll back, and far within For me the Heavenly Bridegroom waits, To make me pure of sin. The sabbaths of Eternity, One sabbath deep and wide -- A light upon the shining sea -- The Bridegroom with his bride! [2490.jpg] -- from The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse, Edited by D. H. S. Nicholson / Edited by A. H. E. Lee <

1.at - The Higher Pantheism, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction    Original Language English The sun, The Moon, the stars, the seas, the hills and the plains -- Are not these, O Soul, the Vision of Him who reigns? Is not the Vision He? tho' He be not that which He seems? Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams? Earth, these solid stars, this weight of body and limb, Are they not sign and symbol of thy division from Him? Dark is the world to thee: thyself art the reason why; For is He not all but thou, that hast power to feel 'I am I'? Glory about thee, without thee; and thou fulfillest thy doom, Making Him broken gleams, and a stifled splendour and gloom. Speak to Him thou for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet -- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet. God is law, say the wise; O Soul, and let us rejoice, For if He thunder by law the thunder is yet His voice. Law is God, say some: no God at all, says the fool; For all we have power to see is a straight staff bent in a pool; And the ear of man cannot hear, and the eye of man cannot see; But if we could see and hear, this Vision -- were it not He? [2652.jpg] -- from The Longing in Between: Sacred Poetry from Around the World (A Poetry Chaikhana Anthology), Edited by Ivan M. Granger <

1.da - All Being within this order, by the laws (from The Paradiso, Canto I), #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction    English version by John Ciardi Original Language Italian All Being within this order, by the laws of its own nature is impelled to find its proper station round its Primal Cause. Thus every nature moves across the tide of the great sea of being to its own port, each with its given instinct as its guide. This instinct draws the fire about The Moon. It is the mover in the mortal heart. It draws the earth together and makes it one. Not only the brute creatures, but all those possessed of intellect and love, this instinct drives to their mark as a bow shoots forth its arrows. The Providence that makes all things hunger here satisfies forever with its light the heaven within which whirls the fastest sphere. [2327.jpg] -- from The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, the Purgatorio, and the Paradiso,    / Translated by John Ciardi <

1.dd - So priceless is the birth, O brother, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction    English version by K. N. Upadhyaya So priceless is the birth, O brother, That in it, the Supreme Lord can be met. The human body is the Door to salvation. If the meeting is not accomplished while alive, If the contact is not made while alive, If the Lord of the universe is not found while alive, Then one is simply drowned. The One who has made this temple of our hearts, He alone dwells in this temple. None else but our Beloved is in our hearts. With thee is thy Friend. Let thyself recognize Him. Look not at a distance. Know Him as thy reflection, O Dadu. God is within all beings. He accompanies all and is close by. Musk is in the musk deer, and yet it goes around smelling grass. The self knows not God, although God is with the self. Being deaf to the Holy Sound of the Master, sadly does he wander. He for whom thou searchest in the world dwells within thyself. Thou knowest Him not, because the veil of 'mine' and 'thine' is there. He dwells within all beings, yet rarely anyone knows Him. He alone who is a devotee of God will know Him. A true Master unites us with God And shows all within the body. Within the body is the Creator, And within the body is Onkar [divinity of the second heaven]. The sky is within the body, and close by Is the earth within the body. Air and light are within the body. So is water contained within the body. Within the body are the Sun and The Moon. And the Bagpipe is played within the body. By rendering service within the heart, See thou the One who is indestructible and boundless, Having no limit either on this end or on that end, sayeth Dadu. After entering within, let one, O Dadu, bolt the doors of the house. Let one, O Dadu, serve the Lord at the Door of Eternity. God is within the self, His worship alone is to be done. Search thou for the Beloved close to the place Wherefrom the Sound emerges, and thou shalt find Him, sayeth Dadu. There is solitude there, and there is luster of Light. One who, turning the attention inward, Brings it within the self, And fixes it on the Radiant Form of the Master, Is indeed wise, O Dadu. Where the self is, there is God; all is filled with Him. Fix thine attention within, O valiant servant. So does Dadu proclaim. Fix thine attention within, and sing always within the self. This mind then dances with ecstasy, and beats with pleasure the rhythm. God is within the self; He is close to the worshipper. But leaving Him aside, men serve external constructions, lamenteth Dadu. This is the true mosque, this is the true temple. So hath the Master shown. The service and worship are performed within. Destroy delusion, O mind, by means of the Name of God and the Word bestowed by the Guru. The mind is then united with the One untouched by karmas. Liquidate thereby thy karmas, O Dadu. If the mind stays with the Name of the Supreme Lord even for a moment, O Dadu, All its karmas will be destroyed then and there, within the twinkling of an eye. The aspirant who fills his pot with drops of Celestial Melody, alone survives. How can he die, O Dadu? He drinks the divine Nectar. The artistic Creator is playing the instrument in perfect harmony. Melody is the essence of the five [elements], and through the self is the Melody expressed, O Dadu. By enabling people to hear the Sound, the Master can awaken them at His will. He may, at His pleasure, speak within them, and merge them in his own form. The knowledge of the Sound Current imparted by the Guru merges one easily into Truth. It carries me to the abode of my Beloved, says Dadu. [bk1sm.gif] -- from Dadu: The Compassionate Mystic, Translated by K. N. Upadhyaya <

1.dz - Enlightenment is like the moon, #Dogen - Poems, #Dogen, #Zen   object:1.dz - Enlightenment is like The Moon   author class:Dogen   --   Enlightenment is like The Moon reflected on the water.   The Moon does not get wet, nor is the water broken.   Although its light is wide and great,   The Moon is reflected even in a puddle an inch wide.   The whole moon and the entire sky

1.dz - Zazen, #Dogen - Poems, #Dogen, #Zen   The Moon reflected   In a mind clear

1f.lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    that they came not long after the matter forming The Moon was wrenched    from the neighbouring South Pacific. According to one of the sculptured   --    from the waters after the earth had flung off The Moon and the Old Ones    had seeped down from the starswhich had come to be shunned as vaguely   --    sterile disc of The Moon. What we heard was not the fabulous note of    any buried blasphemy of elder earth from whose supernal toughness an   --    of space, the wings, the eyes in darkness, The Moon-ladder, the    original, the eternal, the undying, and other bizarre conceptions; but

1f.lovecraft - Collapsing Cosmoses, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    malformed grotesqueness seethed out there among The Moons of infinity,    we really didnt know, but there was a malign menace in the glow that

1f.lovecraft - Dagon, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    in the glow of The Moon I saw how unwise I had been to travel by day.    Without the glare of the parching sun, my journey would have cost me   --    immeasurable pit or canyon, whose black recesses The Moon had not yet    soared high enough to illumine. I felt myself on the edge of the world;   --    As The Moon climbed higher in the sky, I began to see that the slopes    of the valley were not quite so perpendicular as I had imagined. Ledges   --    closely. The Moon, now near the zenith, shone weirdly and vividly above    the towering steeps that hemmed in the chasm, and revealed the fact   --    most daring anthropologist, I stood musing whilst The Moon cast queer    reflections on the silent channel before me.   --    It is at night, especially when The Moon is gibbous and waning, that I    see the thing. I tried morphine; but the drug has given only transient

1f.lovecraft - He, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    spreading stone where The Moon had hinted of loveliness and elder    magic; and the throngs of people that seethed through the flume-like   --    asking to visit the grounds at the full of The Moon. For years they    stole over the wall each month when they could, and by stealth   --    pyramids flung savagely to The Moon, and devil-lights burning from    unnumbered windows. And swarming loathsomely on arial galleries I saw

1f.lovecraft - Herbert West-Reanimator, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    struck three The Moon shone in my eyes, but I turned over without    rising to pull down the shade. Then came the steady rattling at the   --    the door I cautiously unbolted it and threw it open, and as The Moon    streamed revealingly down on the form silhouetted there, West did a

1f.lovecraft - H.P. Lovecrafts, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    The Thing in The Moonlight    The Thing in The Moonlight is based on a letter that Lovecraft wrote    to Donald Wandrei on 24 November 1927. The story surrounding   --    The Thing in The Moonlight    My dreams occasionally approachd the phantastical in character, tho   --    The Moonlight. They had the regulation caps of a railway company, & I    could not doubt but that they were the conductor & motorman. Then one   --    The Moon. The other dropped on all fours to run toward the car.    After walking for some distance, I encountered the rusty tracks of a   --    up in The Moonlight. They had the regulation caps of a railway company,    and I could not doubt but that they were conductor and motorman. Then   --    howl to The Moon. The other dropped on all fours to run toward the car.    I leaped up at once & raced madly out of that car & away across endless   --    Return to The Thing in The Moonlight

1f.lovecraft - Hypnos, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    fellow-dreamer, weirdly haggard and wildly beautiful as The Moon shed    gold-green light on his marble features. Then, after a short interval,

1f.lovecraft - In the Vault, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    now, since newly gathered clouds hid The Moon; and though progress was    still slow, he felt heartened at the extent of his encroachments on the   --    the old receiving tomb. The Moon was shining on the scattered brick    fragments and marred facade, and the latch of the great door yielded

1f.lovecraft - In the Walls of Eryx, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    could even make out The Moon beside it whenever the vapours momentarily    thinned. It was now impossible to see the corpsemy only landmarkso I

1f.lovecraft - Medusas Coil, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    elbow, you have to think of The Mooncheap as a spotlight at the    varieties! Or perhaps it makes you think of the Roodmas dance around

1f.lovecraft - Memory, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    The Genie that haunts The Moonbeams spake to the Daemon of the Valley,    saying, I am old, and forget much. Tell me the deeds and aspect and

1f.lovecraft - Pickmans Model, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    half-disintegrated against The Moonlit sky. I dont believe there were    three houses in sight that hadnt been standing in Cotton Mathers

1f.lovecraft - The Call of Cthulhu, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    comets tail, and of hysterical plunges from the pit to The Moon and    from The Moon back again to the pit, all livened by a cachinnating    chorus of the distorted, hilarious elder gods and the green, bat-winged

1f.lovecraft - The Colour out of Space, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    passed over The Moon, and the silhouette of clutching branches faded    out momentarily. At this there was a general cry; muffled with awe, but   --    inert on The Moonlit ground between the splintered shafts of the buggy.    That was the last of Hero till they buried him next day. But the   --    thank heaven the branches did their worst twisting high up. The Moon    went under some very black clouds as they crossed the rustic bridge   --    trembling party realised it would be no use waiting for The Moon to    shew what was left down there at Nahums.

1f.lovecraft - The Crawling Chaos, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    Above the waves rose weedy, remembered spires. The Moon laid pale    lilies of light on dead London, and Paris stood up from its damp grave

1f.lovecraft - The Curse of Yig, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    must have cleared after The Moon set, for she saw the square aperture    distinctly against the background of stars.

1f.lovecraft - The Disinterment, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    huge candelabrum, upon which The Moon shone with a pallid glow, and    proceeded very quietly toward the laboratory door.   --    giant stone manor, viewing The Moonlit trail down which I must go to    reach the home of my forefathers, only a quarter of a mile distant. But   --    winding road. Ahead, seemingly only a few rods away in The Moonlight,    stood the venerable mansion where my ancestors had lived and died. Its   --    the oblivion I had desired. As I approached The Moonlit spot the old    familiarityso absent during my abnormal existencereturned to plague

1f.lovecraft - The Doom That Came to Sarnath, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    written that they descended one night from The Moon in a mist; they and    the vast still lake and grey stone city Ib. However this may be, it is   --    horribly when The Moon was gibbous. And it is written in the papyrus of    Ilarnek, that they one day discovered fire, and thereafter kindled   --    damnable green mists that arose from the lake to meet The Moon and to    shroud in a sinister haze the towers and the domes of fated Sarnath.

1f.lovecraft - The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    from a seed dropt down by someone on The Moon; and as Carter drank it    ceremoniously a very strange colloquy began. The zoogs did not,   --    valleys, since on such peaks they dance reminiscently when The Moon is    above and the clouds beneath.   --    draughts of The Moon-wine which the zoogs had given him that the old    man became irresponsibly talkative. Robbed of his reserve, poor Atal   --    and which villagers say are on The Moons dark side, whither the cats    leap from tall housetops, but one small black kitten crept upstairs and   --    moon. The Moon was a crescent, shining larger and larger as they    approached it, and shewing its singular craters and peaks   --    of The Moon as the galley drew near proved very disturbing to Carter,    and he did not like the size and shape of the ruins which crumbled here   --    red-litten streets of that fearsome city. It was night on The Moon, and    all through the town were stationed slaves bearing torches.   --    it is to The Moons dark side that they go to leap and gambol on the    hills and converse with ancient shadows, and here amidst that column of   --    thirteen times greater than that of The Moon as we see it, had risen    with floods of weird light over the lunar landscape; and across all   --    summit of The Moon-mountains still vainly waited the crawling chaos    Nyarlathotep.   --    That night The Moon was very bright, and one could see a great way down    in the water. There was so little wind that the ship could not move   --    and fell into a line of march. It was fortunate that The Moon was not    up, so that all the cats were on earth. Swiftly and silently leaping,   --    times The Moon hears strange music as it shines on those courts and    terraces and pinnacles, but whether that music be the song of the god   --    formless abominations from The Moon.    But the shantak flew on past the fires and the stone huts and the less   --    capture by the slaves of The Moon-things in Dylath-Leen, and that he    now meant to do what the rescuing cats had baffled; taking the victim   --    The Moon.    Then, just as he was about to creep back from that detestable flame, he   --    rescue their brethren and perhaps to wipe out The Moon-beasts from the    black galley. It occurred to him that the portal, like other gates to   --    work, but The Moon-beasts were pleasantly busy and did not hear the    slight noises which he twice made by accident among the scattered   --    ghouls by The Moon-beasts, and of the need of assembling a party to    rescue them. The night-gaunts, though inarticulate, seemed to   --    The Moon-beasts were totally unprepared. The three prisoners lay bound    and inert beside the fire, while their toad-like captors slumped   --    for The Moon but for antique Sarkomand; bent evidently on taking their    captives before the high-priest not to be described. They had touched   --    Meanwhile the frightful detachments of The Moon-beasts and    almost-humans had lumbered up to the top of the headlands and were   --    however, where the leader of The Moon-beast party appeared to be    present, the ghouls had not fared so well; and were slowly retreating   --    were killed by javelins from the hostile galley or from The Moon-beasts    above, but a few survived to be rescued. When the security of the land   --    Finally, The Moon-beasts galley being safely in the distance and the    invading land army concentrated in one place, Carter landed a   --    and howl above the clouds in The Moonlight he never returned. The Other    Gods were there, and they did what was expected. Zenig of Aphorat

1f.lovecraft - The Dunwich Horror, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    library. An open window shewed black and gaping in The Moonlight. What    had come had indeed completed its entrance; for the barking and the   --    panic-struck whirring and fluttering. Against The Moon vast clouds of    feathery watchers rose and raced from sight, frantic at that which they

1f.lovecraft - The Festival, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    We went out into The Moonless and tortuous network of that incredibly    ancient town; went out as the lights in the curtained windows

1f.lovecraft - The Ghost-Eater, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    darkness but for The Moonbeams, I sniffed at the pungent odor that rose    above the scent of the kerosenethe quasi-animal odor I had noticed on

1f.lovecraft - The Horror at Martins Beach, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    low-lying vapors of the horizon. They mention The Moon because what    they saw seemed subtly connected with ita sort of stealthy,   --    their hips. The Moon went partly under a cloud, and in the half-light    the line of swaying men resembled some sinister and gigantic centipede,   --    whirlpool far out in the path of The Moonlight whence the strange cry    had first come. But as I looked along that treacherous lane of silvery

1f.lovecraft - The Hound, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    of strangely colossal bats that flew against The Moon; the antique    ivied church pointing a huge spectral finger at the livid sky; the   --    opaque body darkened the library window when The Moon was shining    against it, and another time we thought we heard a whirring or flapping   --    moor the faint baying of some gigantic hound. The Moon was up, but I    dared not look at it. And when I saw on the dim-litten moor a wide

1f.lovecraft - The Lurking Fear, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    Tempest Mountain. There had been a gorgeous sunset, and now The Moon    came up, nearly full and shedding a silver flood over the plain, the   --    Presently, as I gazed abstractedly at The Moonlit panorama, my eye    became attracted by something singular in the nature and arrangement of   --    blackness. The Moon no longer shone through the chinks and apertures    above me, and with a sense of fateful alarm I heard the sinister and

1f.lovecraft - The Moon-Bog, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen   object:1f.lovecraft - The Moon-Bog   author class:H P Lovecraft   --    in swamps, or see The Moon in lonely places.    I had known Denys Barry well in America, where he had grown rich, and   --    sunset. There were tales of dancing lights in the dark of The Moon, and    of chill winds when the night was warm; of wraiths in white hovering   --    bog itself; so that I could see from my windows in The Moonlight the    silent roofs from which the peasants had fled and which now sheltered   --    There in The Moonlight that flooded the spacious plain was a spectacle    which no mortal, having seen it, could ever forget. To the sound of   --    was clear The Moon was now well in the wane, and would not rise till    the small hours. I thought as I lay there of Denys Barry, and of what   --    The Moon gives. Terrible and piercing was the shaft of ruddy refulgence    that streamed through the Gothic window, and the whole chamber was   --    where The Moon had risen, and began to hear the shrieks in the castle    far below me. Soon those shrieks had attained a magnitude and quality   --    when I am alone in certain marshy places or in The Moonlight.    As I fled from that accursed castle along the bogs edge I heard a new   --    and green in The Moonbeams, and seemed to gaze up at the fount of    light. I followed the gaze of one very fat and ugly frog, and saw the   --    Return to The Moon-Bog

1f.lovecraft - The Mound, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    morning. When The Moon was bright the squaws peculiar figure could be    seen fairly plainly, and over half the villagers agreed that the

1f.lovecraft - The Music of Erich Zann, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    recall that there was no wind, and that The Moon was out, and that all    the lights of the city twinkled.

1f.lovecraft - The Nameless City, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    travelling in a parched and terrible valley under The Moon, and afar I    saw it protruding uncannily above the sands as parts of a corpse may   --    significant was revealed. When night and The Moon returned I felt a    chill wind which brought new fear, so that I did not dare to remain in   --    though The Moon was bright and most of the desert still.    I awaked just at dawn from a pageant of horrible dreams, my ears   --    The Moon was gleaming vividly over the primeval ruins, lighting a dense    cloud of sand that seemed blown by a strong but decreasing wind from   --    stones of the city, and when I glanced at The Moon it seemed to quiver    as though mirrored in unquiet waters. I was more afraid than I could

1f.lovecraft - The Night Ocean, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    impenetrable void. In the absence of The Moon, this light made a solid    bar athwart the walls of the uneasy tide; and I felt an indescribable   --    but The Moon was brighter, and her bluish rays invaded places where the    lamplight was faint. The ancient glow of the round silent orb lay upon   --    moods. It is in the melancholy silver foam beneath The Moons waxen    corpse; it hovers over the silent and eternal waves that beat on naked

1f.lovecraft - The Other Gods, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    vapours hide the summit and The Moon; but Barzai heeded them not when    he came from neighbouring Ulthar with the young priest Atal, who was   --    happen on the summit when The Moon was out and the pale vapours spread    around. For three days they climbed higher, higher, and higher toward   --    For four nights no clouds came, and The Moon shone down cold through    the thin mournful mists around the silent pinnacle,. Then on the fifth   --    The Moon and the summit from view. For a long hour the watchers gazed,    whilst the vapours swirled and the screen of clouds grew thicker and   --    The mists are thin and The Moon is bright, and I shall see the gods    dancing wildly on Hatheg-Kla that they loved in youth! The wisdom of   --    The mists are very thin, and The Moon casts shadows on the slope; the    voices of earths gods are high and wild, and they fear the coming of    Barzai the Wise, who is greater than they. . . . The Moons light    flickers, as earths gods dance against it; I shall see the dancing    forms of the gods that leap and howl in The Moonlight. . . . The light    is dimmer and the gods are afraid. . . .   --    The Moon is dark, and the gods dance in the night; there is terror in    the sky, for upon The Moon hath sunk an eclipse foretold in no books of    men or of earths gods. . . . There is unknown magic on Hatheg-Kla, for   --    eclipse of The Moon that no book ever predicted. And when The Moon came    out at last Atal was safe on the lower snows of the mountain without   --    when pale vapours hide the mountain-top and The Moon. And above the    mists on Hatheg-Kla earths gods sometimes dance reminiscently; for

1f.lovecraft - The Picture in the House, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    countries. They climb to The Moonlit towers of ruined Rhine castles,    and falter down black cobwebbed steps beneath the scattered stones of

1f.lovecraft - The Quest of Iranon, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    that I sing in gardens when The Moon is tender and the west wind stirs    the lotos-buds.   --    I remember the twilight, The Moon, and soft songs, and the window    where I was rocked to sleep. And through the window was the street   --    like any other light, and the visions that danced in The Moonbeams when    my mother sang to me. And too, I remember the sun of morning bright   --    Then one night when The Moon was full the travellers came to a mountain    crest and looked down upon the myriad lights of Oonai. Peasants had   --    magically as shone The Moonlight on the floor by the window where    Iranons mother once rocked him to sleep with song. But Oonai was a

1f.lovecraft - The Shadow out of Time, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    be glimpses of the sunwhich looked abnormally largeand of The Moon,    whose markings held a touch of difference from the normal that I could   --    carefully and supplementing The Moonlight with my electric torch.    Unlike the other very large rocks, this one was perfectly square-cut,   --    precincts. The Moon, slightly past full, shone from a clear sky and    drenched the ancient sands with a white, leprous radiance which seemed

1f.lovecraft - The Shadow over Innsmouth, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    for departure before dark, even though I knew The Moon would be bright.    The buildings were all in fair condition, and included perhaps a dozen   --    with shapes that dove off quick soons The Moon riz? Obed an the folks    was in a dory, but them shapes dove off the far side into the deep   --    The Moonlight. I could not see from my side of the hotel the southward    route toward Arkham which I had determined to take.   --    which they knew must open directly on me. Outside, The Moon played on    the ridgepole of the block below, and I saw that the jump would be   --    The Moonbeams did not reach down here, but I could just see my way    about without using the flashlight. Some of the windows on the Gilman   --    nor any light save that of The Moon. From several directions in the    distance, however, I could hear the sound of hoarse voices, of   --    youths map; since The Moonlight would have free play there. There was    no use trying to evade it, for any alternative course would involve   --    closer glance I saw that The Moonlit waters between the reef and the    shore were far from empty. They were alive with a teeming horde of   --    gaping doorway, reflecting how lucky I was to have left The Moonlit    open space before these pursuers came down the parallel street.   --    under The Moon, but my route would not force me to cross it. During my    second pause I began to detect a fresh distribution of the vague   --    and one wore a peaked diadem which glistened whitely in The Moonlight.    The gait of this figure was so odd that it sent a chill through mefor   --    open space where I had had my first disquieting glimpse of The Moonlit    water I could see them plainly only a block awayand was horrified by   --    deceived them, for they passed on across The Moonlit space without    varying their coursemeanwhile croaking and jabbering in some hateful   --    I was glad to see The Moonlight again when I emerged from that macabre    tunnel. The old tracks crossed River Street at grade, and at once

1f.lovecraft - The Silver Key, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    under The Moon.    He had read much of things as they are, and talked with too many

1f.lovecraft - The Slaying of the Monster, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    long ere they sighted the foe, and as The Moon grew dim and the coming    of the dawn was heralded by gaudy clouds they wished themselves more

1f.lovecraft - The Street, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    with hedged paths and sundials, where at evening The Moon and stars    would shine bewitchingly while fragrant blossoms glistened with dew.   --    and at evening The Moon and stars looked down upon dewy blossoms in the    walled rose-gardens.

1f.lovecraft - The Terrible Old Man, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    they did not like the way The Moon shone down upon the painted stones    through the budding branches of the gnarled trees, they had more

1f.lovecraft - The Tree, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    night when The Moon shines faintly through the crooked boughs. Mount    Maenalus is a chosen haunt of dreaded Pan, whose queer companions are

1f.lovecraft - The Whisperer in Darkness, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    The nocturnal barking of the dogs whenever The Moon was dim or absent    was hideous now, and there had been attempts to molest him on the

1f.lovecraft - The White Ship, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    Out of the South it was that the White Ship used to come when The Moon    was full and high in the heavens. Out of the South it would glide very   --    Very brightly did The Moon shine on the night I answered the call, and    I walked out over the waters to the White Ship on a bridge of   --    night after night did we sail, and when The Moon was full we would    listen to soft songs of the oarsmen, sweet as on that distant night   --    times since has The Moon shone full and high in the heavens, the White    Ship from the South came never again.

1f.lovecraft - Through the Gates of the Silver Key, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    and unbroken under The Moon. Now, intoxicated with wider visions, he    scarcely knew what he sought. Thoughts of infinite and blasphemous

1f.lovecraft - Two Black Bottles, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    looked out of the window. The Moon was now well up in the sky, and by    its light I could see that the fresh cross above Vanderhoofs grave had   --    toward the church. Its wall reflected the light of The Moon, and    silhouetted against it was a gigantic, loathsome, black shadow climbing   --    Old wives say that now, when The Moon is full, there walks about the    churchyard a gigantic and bewildered figure clutching a bottle and

1f.lovecraft - Under the Pyramids, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    Third Pyramid at certain phases of The Moon. It must have been over her    that Thomas Moore was brooding when he wrote a thing muttered about by