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1:Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. ~ Hans Christian Andersen,

2:Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.    ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Proverbs, 20:13,

3:There will be plenty of food in towns and villages, but it will be poisoned. Many will eat because of hunger and die immediately. Those who will fast to the end will survive because the Holy Ghost will save them and they will be close to God..." ~ Mitar Tarabich,

4:More interesting than to demonstrate the Christian Faith, would be to set out a temptation... to describe it with plenty of detail, to show forth its wonderful cohesion with force enough to make the unbeliever giddy, and leave nothing for him but to plunge in. ~ Jacques Rivière,

5:The 'lords of the earth' are those who are doing their Will. It does not necessarily mean people with coronets and automobiles; there are plenty of such people who are the most sorrowful slaves in the world. The sole test of one's lordship is to know what one's true Will is, and to do it. ~ Aleister Crowley,

6:It is terrible to see how a single unclear idea, a single formula without meaning, lurking in a young man's head, will sometimes act like an obstruction of inert matter in an artery, hindering the nutrition of the brain, and condemning its victim to pine away in the fullness of his intellectual vigor and in the midst of intellectual plenty. (402) ~ Charles S Peirce,

7:Q: In your opinion, what literary figures would be the appropriate archetype example for the Illusionist class?    Gary: I believe that the best examples of illusion magic are found in L. Sprague de Camp's "Haorld Shea" stories, with various practitioners using it, the Finnish wizards most generally. there are plenty of others found in fairy tales such as those of Andrew Lang. ~ Gary Gygax, Dragonsfoot, Q&A with Gary Gygax, 2008,

8:I think what you ought to do is start by thinking about the simplest things and go from there. For example, you could stand on a street corner somewhere day after day and look at the people who come by there. You're not in any hurry to decide anything. It may be tough, but sometimes you've got to just stop and take time. You ought to train yourself to look at things with your own eyes until something comes clear. And don't be afraid of putting some time into it. Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge. ~ Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,

9:Disciple: What are the conditions of success in this yoga? Sri Aurobindo: I have often told of them. Those go through who have the central sincerity. It does not mean that the sincerity is there in all the parts of the being. In that sense no one is entirely ready. But if the central sincerity is there it is possible to establish it in all the parts of the being. The second thing necessary is a certain receptivity in the being, what we call, the "opening" up of all the planes to the Higher Power. The third thing required is the power of holding the higher Force, a certain ghanatwa - mass - that can hold the Power when it comes down. And about the thing that pushes there are two things that generally push: One is the Central Being. The other is destiny. If the Central Being wants to do something it pushes the man. Even when the man goes off the line he is pushed back again to the path. Of course, the Central Being may push through the mind or any other part of the being. Also, if the man is destined he is pushed to the path either to go through or to get broken, Disciple: There are some people who think they are destined or chosen and we see that they are not "chosen". Sri Aurobindo: Of course, plenty of people think that they are specially "chosen" and that they are the first and the "elect" and so on. All that is nothing. Disciple: Then, can you. say who is fit out of all those that have come? Sri Aurobindo: It is very difficult to say. But this can be said that everyone of those who have come in has some chance to go through if he can hold on to it. Disciple: There is also a chance of failure. Sri Aurobindo: Of course, and besides, the whole universe is a play of forces and one can't always wait till all the conditions of success have been fulfilled. One has to take risks and take his chance. Disciple: What is meant by "chance"? Does it mean that it is only one possibility out of many others, or does it mean that one would be able to succeed in yoga? Sri Aurobindo: It means only that he can succeed if he takes his chance properly. For instance, X had his chance. Disciple: Those who fall on the path or slip, do they go down in their evolution? Sri Aurobindo: That depends. Ultimately, the Yoga may be lost to him. Disciple: The Gita says: Na hi kalyānkṛt - nothing that is beneficial - comes to a bad end. Sri Aurobindo: That is from another standpoint. You must note the word is kalyān kṛt - it is an important addition. ~ Sri Aurobindo, EVENING TALKS WITH SRI AUROBINDO, RECORDED BY A B PURANI (20-09-1926),

*** WISDOM TROVE ***

1:And plenty makes us poor. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove

2:There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove

3:There are plenty of good reasons for fighting. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove

4:We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. ~ winston-churchill, @wisdomtrove

5:When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove

6:The man who falls in love chill find plenty of occupation. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove

7:My life is only important if i can help plenty of people ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove

8:Oh I've plenty of time, my time is entirely my own. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove

9:When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten. ~ moliere, @wisdomtrove

10:There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead. ~ benjamin-franklin, @wisdomtrove

11:If we possess nothing, God will allow us to have plenty. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove

12:Remember there is plenty of room at the top-but not enough to sit down. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove

13:An Abundance Mentality is believing there is plenty for everyone.   ~ stephen-r-covey, @wisdomtrove

14:Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove

15:There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove

16:I rejoice in the success of others, knowing that there is plenty for us all. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove

17:Nothing is better, nothing is best, take heed of this and get plenty of rest. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove

18:Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty. ~ aesop, @wisdomtrove

19:I have plenty of money to do what I want to do, and I have the relationships. ~ tim-ferris, @wisdomtrove

20:It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove

21:No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. ~ abraham-lincoln, @wisdomtrove

22:There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove

23:I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it. ~ josh-billings, @wisdomtrove

24:Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. ~ benjamin-franklin, @wisdomtrove

25:There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove

26:We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove

27:A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove

28:Don't neglect the future in times of plenty, for tomorrow you may need what you wasted today. ~ aesop, @wisdomtrove

29:Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove

30:Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough. ~ booker-t-washington, @wisdomtrove

31:Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove

32:I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove

33:I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove

34:Our country has plenty of five-cent cigars, but the trouble is they charge fifteen cents for them. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove

35:My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove

36:May you have plenty of wealth, you men of Ephesus, in order that you may be punished for your evil ways ~ heraclitus, @wisdomtrove

37:There is plenty of peace in any home where the family doesn't make the mistake of trying to get together. ~ kin-hubbard, @wisdomtrove

38:God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove

39:You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove

40:but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove

41:France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove

42:There is plenty of time to argue with new ideas later. They key is to take careful notes first and debate second. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove

43:We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove

44:If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own. ~ johann-wolfgang-von-goethe, @wisdomtrove

45:In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours. ~ joseph-campbell, @wisdomtrove

46:My life anuh fi me alone... My life a fi people... Fi help plenty people... If my is for me alone mi nuh want it ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove

47:If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove

48:Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream. ~ josh-billings, @wisdomtrove

49:I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults but I'm very faithful. You'll be sick of me I'll be so faithful. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove

50:There's no shame about any honest calling; don't be afraid of soiling your hands, there's plenty of soap to be had. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove

51:Giving is a powerful action to bring more money into your life, because when you are giving you are saying, "I have plenty." ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove

52:I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face. ~ rodney-dangerfield, @wisdomtrove

53:True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence. ~ josh-billings, @wisdomtrove

54:It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese. ~ henri-cartier-bresson, @wisdomtrove

55:Children are wonderful. It don't take plenty y'know. Just a nice girl who don't take birth control. Sexual intercourse is a lovely thing. ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove

56:Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need. ~ anais-nin, @wisdomtrove

57:There's plenty about God that I don't understand and can't explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He's for us. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove

58:The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it. ~ henry-ford, @wisdomtrove

59:Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove

60:Our religious activities should be ordered in such a way as to have plenty of time for the cultivation of the fruits of solitude and silence. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove

61:I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay. ~ bette-davis, @wisdomtrove

62:Listen," I told him. "Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I haven't even had my coffee yet. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove

63:Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support. ~ paul-davies, @wisdomtrove

64:There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove

65:Learn to give, give in plenty, give with love, give without any expectation, one does not lose anything by giving, on the other hand you get back a thousand fold. ~ sivananda, @wisdomtrove

66:In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t or can’t and plenty of them aren’t in prison either. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove

67:There is plenty of television. There are plenty of talk shows. There are plenty of comedians. But there is not plenty of worship of the true and living God. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove

68:Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it. ~ meher-baba, @wisdomtrove

69:Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.) ~ meher-baba, @wisdomtrove

70:There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove

71:I make plenty of mistakes and I'll make plenty more mistakes, too. That's part of the game. You've just got to make sure that the right things overcome the wrong ones. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove

72:Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove

73:If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them. ~ lewis-carroll, @wisdomtrove

74:Daddy,' my mother asked, &

75:Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale. ~ oliver-goldsmith, @wisdomtrove

76:I just know that there are plenty of people who are in terrible trouble and can't get out. And so I'm impatient with those who think that it's easy for people to get out of trouble. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove

77:Never sell tomorrow short. There's plenty to get excited about. Be filled with expectation, hope and confidence. Believe something good is going to happen - and it usually will. ~ robert-h-schuller, @wisdomtrove

78:I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I've got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer. ~ gertrude-stein, @wisdomtrove

79:Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove

80:You don't become indispensable merely because you are different. But the only way to become indispensable is to be different. That's because if you're the same, so are plenty of other people. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove

81:Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have always met with will, and plenty of it, but it has either been led captive by sin or held in the blessed bonds of grace. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove

82:Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something... . If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously. ~ salvador-dali, @wisdomtrove

83:I don't think there's a shortage of remarkable ideas. I think your business has plenty of great opportunities to do great things. Nope, what's missing isn't the ideas. It's the will to execute them. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove

84:Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much - who will still be extremely useful in unjust wars. We are sick about that. We did the best we could. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove

85:I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one. ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove

86:I am powerful and I am loving. I have much to give to this world. I am a person of worth. I deserve love. I am a capable person. My life has meaning. My life is unfolding perfectly. There is plenty of time. ~ susan-jeffers, @wisdomtrove

87:You have no time for the prayer meeting, but you have time enough to be brushing your hair to all eternity; you have no time to bend your knee, but plenty of time to make yourselves look smart and grand. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove

88:I think you'll have plenty of scrutiny as how the money's invested. I mean, just like the RFC. When the RFC operated, people knew which institutions they were buying preferred stock in. And it worked very well. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove

89:You may not agree, you may not care, but if you are holding this book you should know that of all the sights I love in this world — and there are plenty — very near the top of the list is this one: dogs without leashes. ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove

90:My life nah important to me, but other people life important. My life is only important if me can help plenty people. If my life is just for me and my own security then me no want it. My life is for people. That's way me is. ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove

91:Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient. ~ oliver-wendell-holmes-sr, @wisdomtrove

92:I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove

93:It is not only poverty that torments the Negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. It is a misery generated by the gulf between the affluence he sees in the mass media and the deprivation he experiences in his everyday life. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove

94:I want to let you in on a little secret: I don't always feel like I'm a success. That's right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I've just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I'm trying to communicate with. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove

95:To the youngsters of today, I say "Believe in the future, the world is getting better; there still is plenty of opportunity." Why, would you believe it, when I was a kid I thought it was already too late for me to make good at anything. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove

96:Just like heaven. Ever'body wants a little piece of lan'. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It's just in their head. They're all the time talkin' about it, but it's jus' in their head. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove

97:Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a happy place, of love and peace and plenty, and that the lion will lie down with the lamb and everybody will believe anybody. ~ gertrude-stein, @wisdomtrove

98:During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove

99:A strange species we are, We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much, and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy, sick. -John Steinbeck to Adlai Stevenson ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove

100:Plenty of people did not care for him much, but then there is a huge difference between disliking somebody - maybe even disliking them a lot - and actually shooting them, strangling them, dragging them through the fields and setting their house on fire. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove

101:Business is not the supreme virtue, and sanctity is not measured by the amount of work we accomplish. Perfection is found in the purity of our love for God, and this pure love is a delicate plant that grows best where there is plenty of time for it to mature ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove

102:In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops, because a bookshop is one of the few places where you can hang about for a long time without spending any money. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove

103:Like Joseph storing up grain during the years of plenty to be used during the years of famine that lay ahead, may we store up the truths of God's Word in our hearts as much as possible, so that we are prepared for whatever suffering we are called upon to endure. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove

104:Luxury spreads its ample board before their eyes; but they are excluded from the banquet. Plenty revels over the fields; but they are starving in the midst of its abundance: the whole wilderness has blossomed into a garden; but they feel as reptiles that infest it. ~ washington-irving, @wisdomtrove

105:A Republican moves slowly. They are what we call conservatives. A conservative is a man who has plenty of money and doesn't see any reason why he shouldn't always have plenty of money. A Democrat is a fellow who never had any, but doesn't see any reason why he shouldn't have some. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove

106:We can look at any experience in two ways: through the eyes of lack, or the eyes of plenty. Fear sees limits, while love sees possibilities. Each attitude will be justified by the belief system you cherish. Change your allegiance from fear to love, and love will sustain you wherever you walk. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove

107:No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more - to be happy and successful - than much money. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove

108:The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental , nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove

109:Art was always a means to an end with me. You get an idea, and you just can't wait. Once you've started, then you're in there with the punches flying. There's plenty of trouble, but you can handle it. You can't back out. It gets you down once in a while, but it's exciting. Our whole business is exciting. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove

110:I never understood society. i undersand that it works somehow and that it functions as a reality and that its realities are necessary to keep us from worse realities. but all i sense are that are plenty of police and jails and judges and laws and that what is meant to protect me is breaking me down. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove

111:Letting go of ill will does not mean passivity, silence, or allowing yourself or others to be harmed. [... ] There is plenty of room for speaking truth to power and effective action without succumbing to ill will. [... ] In fact, with a clear mind and peaceful heart, your actions are likely to be more effective. ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove

112:Perhaps I am still very much of an American. That is to say, naïve, optimistic, gullible. In the eyes of a European, what am I but an American to the core, an American who exposes his Americanism like a sore. Like it or not, I am a product of this land of plenty, a believer in superabundance, a believer in miracles. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove

113:It is easy enough to tell the poor to accept their poverty as Gods will when you yourself have warm clothes and plenty of food and medical care and a roof over your head and no worry about the rent. But if you want them to believe youtry to share some of their poverty and see if you can accept it as Gods will yourself! ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove

114:When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "So it goes. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove

115:I am one with the Power that created me. I am totally open and receptive to the abundant flow of prosperity that the Universe offers. All my needs and desires are met before I even ask. I am Divinely guided and protected, and I make choices that are beneficial for me. I rejoice in other's successes, knowing there is plenty for us all. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove

116:To me, it has always been difficult to understand those evangelical Christians who insist upon living in the crisis as if no crisis existed. They say they serve the Lord, but they divide their days so as to leave plenty of time to play and loaf and enjoy the pleasures of the world as well. They are at ease while the world burns. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove

117:Cultivate your own capabilities, your own style. Appreciate the members of your family for who they are, even though their outlook or style may be miles different from yours. Rabbits don't fly. Eagles don't swim. Ducks look funny trying to climb. Squirrels don't have feathers. Stop comparing. There's plenty of room in the forest. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove

118:One of the most spiritual things you can do is embrace your humanity. Connect with those around you today. Say, "I love you", "I'm sorry", "I appreciate you", "I'm proud of you"... whatever you're feeling. Send random texts, write a cute note, embrace your truth and share it... cause a smile today for someone else... and give plenty of hugs. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove

119:With old inflation riding the headlines, I have read till I am bleary-eyed, and I can't get head from tails of the whole thing. ... Now we are living in an age of explanations-and plenty of 'em, too-but no two things that's been done to us have been explained twice the same way, by even the same man. It's and age of in one ear and out the other. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove

120:Whenever they tell me children want this sort of book and children need this sort of writing, I am going to smile politely and shut my earlids. I am a writer, not a caterer. There are plenty of caterers. But what children most want and need is what we and they don't know they want and don't think they need, and only writers can offer it to them. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove

121:The world gives us PLENTY of opportunities to strengthen our patience. While this truth can definitely be challenging, this is a good thing. Patience is a key that unlocks the door to a more fulfilling life. It is through a cultivation of patience that we become better parents, powerful teachers, great businessmen, good friends, and a live a happier life. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove

122:Associate only with positive, focused people who you can learn from and who will not drain your valuable energy with uninspiring attitudes. By developing relationships with those committed to constant improvement and the pursuit of the best that life has to offer, you will have plenty of company on your path to the top of whatever mountain you seek to climb. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove

123:Could God exist if nobody else did? No. That’s why gods are very avid for worshipers. If there is nobody to worship them, there are no gods. There are as many gods as there are people thinking about God. In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours. The god you worship is the god you deserve. ~ joseph-campbell, @wisdomtrove

124:Our culture is dominated by quantity. Even those who have plenty hunger for more and more. Everywhere around us, the reign of quantity extends and multiplies. Sadly the voyage of greed has all the urgency but no sense of destination. Desire becomes inflated and loses all sense of vision and proportion. When beauty becomes an acquisition it brings no delight. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove

125:Your prosperity consciousness is not dependent on money; your flow of money is dependent on your prosperity consciousness. As you can conceive of more, more will come into your life. There is an ocean of abundance available! There is plenty for everyone. You cannot rob another and they cannot rob you, and in no way can you drain the ocean dry... there is always more. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove

126:Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere. ~ barack-obama, @wisdomtrove

127:You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly. So you learn. You put things in perspective. You pull your energies together. You change. You go forward. My fellow Americans, I have a great deal that I want to accomplish with you and for you over the next two years. And, the Lord willing, that's exactly what I intend to do. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove

128:Do I think that American democracy ends if Trump is president? No! I think, there are plenty of checks and balances in place. I think he would do some damage to the country but we would recover. The office of the presidency and American democratic institutions are a lot stronger than one person. So if he wins, our job is just to keep the office strong, right? And hope he'll be replaced by something better! ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove

129:They take the circuits out of people’s brains that make it possible for them to think for themselves. Their world is like the one that George Orwell depicted in his novel. I’m sure you realize that there are plenty of people who are looking for exactly that kind of brain death. It makes life a lot easier. You don’t have to think about difficult things, just shut up and do what your superiors tell you to do. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove

130:We don't need women. There are plenty other things in the world to have sex with, just go to a sexaholics meeting and take notes. There's microwaved watermelons. There's the vibrating handles of lawn mowers right at crotch level. There's vacuum cleaners and beanbag chairs. Internet sites. All those old chat room sex hounds pretending to be sixteen-year-old girls. For serious, old FBI guys makes the sexiest cyberbabes. ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove

131:There are plenty of good reasons for fighting... but no good reason to ever hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. It's that part of every man that finds all kinds of ugliness so attractive... .it's that part of an imbecile that punishes and vilifies and makes war gladly. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove

132:There were plenty of women around who dressed smartly, and plenty more who dressed to impress, but this girl was different. Totally different. She wore her clothing with such utter naturalness and grace that she could have been a bird that had wrapped itself in a special wind as it made ready to fly off to another world. He had never seen a woman who wore her clothes with such apparent joy. And the clothes themselves looked as if, in being draped on her body, they had won new life for themselves. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove

133:Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine called a Speakwrite. Winston would receive articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, in Newspeak, rectify. If, for example, the Ministry of Plenty forecast a surplus, and in reality the result was grossly less, Winston's job was to change previous versions so the old version would agree with the new one. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove

134:The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mould. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation. ~ thomas-edison, @wisdomtrove

135:If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happened better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that's often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don't be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb. ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove

136:I had been hungry all the years- My noon had come, to dine- I, trembling, drew the table near And touched the curious wine. &

137:As one comes into and lives continually in the full, conscious relation of his oneness with the Infinite Life and Power, then all else follows. This it is that brings the realization of such splendors, and beauties and joys, as a life that is thus related with the Infinite Power alone can know. This it is to come into the realization of heaven’s richest treasures while walking the earth. This it is to bring heaven down to earth, or rather to bring earth up to heaven. This it is to exchange weakness and impotence for strength; to exchange sorrows and sighings for joy; to exchange fears and forebodings for faith; to exchange longings for realizations. This it is to come into Fullness of Peace, Power, and Plenty. ~ william-walker-atkinson, @wisdomtrove

*** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***

1:And plenty makes us poor. ~ John Dryden,

2:We’ve got plenty of time. ~ Natalie Baszile,

3:He was mad and plenty brave. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

4:I have plenty of fire myself. ~ Suzanne Collins,

5:In delay there lies no plenty, ~ Shirley Jackson,

6:In delay there lies no plenty. ~ Shirley Jackson,

7:In delay, there lies no plenty ~ Shirley Jackson,

8:Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land. ~ Thomas Gray,

9:Eat plenty, wisely, without waste. ~ Herbert Hoover,

10:Hackett had plenty of maxillary damage. ~ Lee Child,

11:plenty of Republican politicians oppose ~ Anonymous,

12:In delay there lies no plenty. ~ William Shakespeare,

13:Lord, 'tis Thy plenty-dropping hand ~ Robert Herrick,

14:No one talked, but they all said plenty. ~ Lee Child,

15:This baby got plenty of daddies. - Esch ~ Jesmyn Ward,

16:If you didn`t want much, there was plenty. ~ Harper Lee,

17:Is our species crazy? Plenty of evidence. ~ Saul Bellow,

18:There is plenty of homework to do! ~ Charlie N Holmberg,

19:there's plenty of blame to go around. ~ Suzanne Collins,

20:Acting makes you live plenty of lives. ~ Emmanuelle Riva,

21:Even down here, money has plenty to say. ~ Cherie Priest,

22:If you did not want much, there was plenty. ~ Harper Lee,

23:Man cannot live in the midst of plenty. ~ Thomas Malthus,

24:Enjoy Life there's plenty of time to be dead! ~ Anonymous,

25:If it is dark enough, one candle is plenty. ~ Idries Shah,

26:There's plenty of room at the bottom. ~ Richard P Feynman,

27:I have plenty to look forward to, I'm sure. ~ Miranda Otto,

28:It is an honour to have plenty of enemies! ~ Sigmund Freud,

29:If you did not want so much, there was plenty. ~ Harper Lee,

30:I have plenty of Law & Order on my resume. ~ Jesse L Martin,

31:There's plenty of fire in the coldest flint! ~ Rachel Field,

32:Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it. ~ Ian Fleming,

33:Many dreams is what we had and plenty wishes. ~ Tupac Shakur,

34:There'll be plenty of time to rest in the grave. ~ Paul Erdos,

35:I've written plenty of scripts that sucked. ~ Nicholas Jarecki,

36:The catfish is Plenty good enough fish for anyone ~ Mark Twain,

37:There is plenty of dignity in just holding on ~ Steven Erikson,

38:I have plenty of places to go, but no place to be. ~ Nick Flynn,

39:Let your words be petty and actions plenty! ~ Israelmore Ayivor,

40:[T]he people of plenty were a people of waste. ~ William Cronon,

41:There is plenty of work for love to do. ~ Alexander McCall Smith,

42:We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. ~ Winston Churchill,

43:When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing. ~ Ovid,

44:Friends are plenty when the purse is full. ~ Gene Stratton Porter,

45:Grow angry slowly - there's plenty of time. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

46:The man who falls in love chill find plenty of occupation. ~ Ovid,

47:All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me. ~ Saint Augustine,

48:David Bentley has got balls - and plenty of them. ~ Harry Redknapp,

49:There's plenty of juice to keep this economy going. ~ Steve Forbes,

50:Well, Sonny should make you plenty powerful then. ~ Samantha Towle,

51:If you practice with your head, two hours is plenty. ~ Leopold Auer,

52:There is plenty of time to sleep in the grave ~ William Shakespeare,

53:There's plenty of symmetry in revenge, but no virtue. ~ Hugh Mackay,

54:Does anyone really need 50 percent more of plenty? The ~ Bill Bryson,

55:I know plenty of adults who act like teenagers. ~ Michael K Williams,

56:Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty. ~ Harry Vardon,

57:I've had plenty of big hits and plenty of big misses. ~ Bret Michaels,

58:My life is only important if i can help plenty of people ~ Bob Marley,

59:Plenty of friendships, I am sure, are based on lies. ~ Sabine Durrant,

60:He who has plenty of pepper will pepper his cabbage. ~ Publilius Syrus,

61:I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part. ~ Bette Midler,

62:Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

63:Plenty of people get excited about the universe. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson,

64:...there are plenty of attractive beasts in the world. ~ Andrea Cremer,

65:Oh I've plenty of time, my time is entirely my own. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky,

66:there is plenty of room for meeting in the universe. ~ George MacDonald,

67:Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. ~ Hans Christian Andersen,

68:Oh I've plenty of time, my time is entirely my own. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky,

69:You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the truth in. ~ Herman Melville,

70:Hugs aren't like pieces of pie. Plenty of hugs to go around. ~ Bernie Mac,

71:Industry and patience are the surest means of plenty. ~ Benjamin Franklin,

72:I've had plenty of negative reviews. I have my entire life. ~ David Cross,

73:There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead. ~ Robin S Sharma,

74:When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten. ~ Moliere,

75:Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough. ~ Saint Basil,

76:I eat healthy and stay active and drink plenty of water. ~ Behati Prinsloo,

77:I should have a therapist. I have plenty to therapise about. ~ Norah Jones,

78:One thing solitude does is give you plenty of time to reflect. ~ Alexa Land,

79:There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead ~ Benjamin Franklin,

80:between a man and a woman, and yes, there is plenty of that. ~ Lucinda Riley,

81:Bit by bit, whatever you see to be petty becomes plenty. ~ Israelmore Ayivor,

82:I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. ~ Robert Kennedy,

83:If you get one photograph that's good from a trip, that's plenty. ~ Todd Hido,

84:I got you plenty of hats at home, Vickie, what are you doing? ~ Dolph Ziggler,

85:Ive had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting. ~ John Boyega,

86:Oh, there's plenty of reasons. I just don't know which one. ~ Terry Pratchett,

87:Say nothing and just make music and you'll find plenty to say. ~ Richard Hugo,

88:I had plenty to worry about without creating phantom worries. ~ Maria V Snyder,

89:Love me. Be with me." "That's enough?" "That's plenty. ~ Susan Mallery,

90:There are plenty of beautiful girls who don't photograph well. ~ Lauren Hutton,

91:The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,

92:The Dursleys wouldn’t have liked it — there were plenty of weeds, ~ J K Rowling,

93:There was plenty of green light left in that orange light Em. ~ Jaclyn Moriarty,

94:The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,

95:The stream of plenty always flows towards the open expectant mind ~ Bob Proctor,

96:excuses. There was plenty of room for magic in any race, too, for ~ Paula McLain,

97:It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray,

98:Plenty of girls saw college as some sort of exploratory period. ~ Tammara Webber,

99:witches in there to scrutinize, there’s plenty of ruins to keep ~ Tony Hillerman,

100:You must drink plenty of water if you want to have good skin. ~ Jennifer L Scott,

101:A holiday isn't a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun. ~ Louisa May Alcott,

102:That is true plenty, not to have, but not to want riches. ~ Saint John Chrysostom,

103:The good thing about it, is that there will be plenty of make-up sex. ~ Lia Davis,

104:There are plenty of nightmares that stalk the night. I’m yours. ~ Justina Ireland,

105:There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major. ~ Arnold Schoenberg,

106:Nothing doth sooner breed a distaste or satiety than plenty. ~ Michel de Montaigne,

107:You sell yourself short Bea. There’s plenty to be interested in, ~ Jane Washington,

108:Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,

109:I'd rather get to the 70-year-old guy who's got plenty of cash. ~ Bernie Ecclestone,

110:I'm afraid of plenty of things," he said. "I just do them anyway. ~ Kristin Cashore,

111:there’s plenty about life that might best be ignored yet can’t be. ~ Gregory Miller,

112:At forty-two, he still had plenty of agent years left in him. “What’ve ~ Layla Reyne,

113:My beauty routine is basically plenty of sleep and lots of water. ~ Rebecca Gayheart,

114:Neurotics have plenty of non-neurotic friends, but not for long. ~ Mignon McLaughlin,

115:Plenty of guys are good at sex, but conversation, now there's an art. ~ Linda Barnes,

116:There are plenty of cases of war being begun before it is declared. ~ Arthur Balfour,

117:We got plenty of money in Washington. What we need is more priority. ~ George W Bush,

118:For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money. ~ Louis C K,

119:Keeping plenty of gold and jade in the palace makes no one able to defend it. ~ Laozi,

120:Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it. ~ William Faulkner,

121:There were plenty of ways to hurt someone without using your fists. ~ Kristen Simmons,

122:Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others. ~ Otto Rank,

123:He who sounds his own trumpet will soon find plenty to laugh at him. ~ Publilius Syrus,

124:I bet there are plenty of people who've been dick-struck by the Kraken. ~ Meghan March,

125:It's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it. ~ Ransom Riggs,

126:it’s easy to say you don’t care about money when you have plenty of it. ~ Ransom Riggs,

127:making it more than what it is lessens it. Just to see it clear is plenty. ~ Ken Kesey,

128:My dear, I can't promise you plenty or prosperity or even butter... ~ Mary Ann Shaffer,

129:Oh, insomnia! Ah, well, I know a good cure for it... Get plenty of sleep. ~ W C Fields,

130:There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery. ~ Charles Dickens,

131:Ease, luxury, and plenty are not shameful, but they are not happiness. ~ Naomi Alderman,

132:Eat breakfast. Do some push-ups. Go for long walks. Get plenty of sleep. ~ Austin Kleon,

133:I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available. ~ Saul Bellow,

134:In every issue there are winners are losers, and the losers are plenty. ~ Dick Gephardt,

135:I won’t mind growing up if only I’m able to develop plenty of glamour, ~ Mildred A Wirt,

136:No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to paint with. ~ John Singer Sargent,

137:Plenty more birds in the sea, the man said. Plenty more plastic bottles. ~ Ali Smith,

138:The lips are closed, for the dancer has plenty of other voices at his service. ~ Lucian,

139:We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn't admit it. ~ Daniel Dennett,

140:Made plenty of mistakes along the way - all of which I am truly sorry. ~ Lance Armstrong,

141:The game was played hard in those days, Mr.King, with plenty of fuck-you. ~ Stephen King,

142:there was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery. I ~ Charles Dickens,

143:Violet, the Dowager Countess: ‘I have plenty of friends I don’t like. ~ Jessica Fellowes,

144:We have plenty of money to do everything we want to do, if we do it smart. ~ Jim McCrery,

145:But even though there were plenty of teeth in the grin, there was no heart. ~ Eoin Colfer,

146:I didn't want fine. I wanted to be somebody. Somebody with plenty of money. ~ Donald Jans,

147:I rejoice in the success of others, knowing that there is plenty for us all. ~ Louise Hay,

148:Nothing is better, nothing is best, take heed of this and get plenty of rest. ~ Bob Dylan,

149:Plenty poisoned minds of the people are ours. Slaves, from mental death. ~ Big Daddy Kane,

150:Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty. ~ Aesop,

151:There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones. ~ Hugh MacDiarmid,

152:The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough. ~ Aleksandar Hemon,

153:The world is always greater then your desires; plenty is never enough. ~ Aleksandar Hemon,

154:God has tortured Theo plenty. If suffering makes noble, then he is a prince. ~ Donna Tartt,

155:Going through the motions gives you plenty of time to examine the motions ~ David Levithan,

156:I've had plenty to worry about one time or other. I'm through worrying. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

157:My disability makes this rather a slow process, so I had plenty of time. ~ Stephen Hawking,

158:Oh, we'll suffer in silence. You've given us plenty of practice at that. ~ Jonathan Stroud,

159:Their ideas helped drag humanity from agrarian poverty to manufactured plenty. ~ Anonymous,

160:There was no need to fake bitchy defiance. I had plenty of it to dish out. ~ Richelle Mead,

161:They still have plenty to say to each other, just not anything right now. ~ David Levithan,

162:I guess you are all right. That was bad luck all right. Plenty bad luck. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

163:I have plenty of money to do what I want to do, and I have the relationships. ~ Tim Ferriss,

164:I may not have a lot of hope but I have plenty of love, which gives me fight. ~ Janisse Ray,

165:It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. ~ John Dryden,

166:Maybe I should sit. Plenty of people use sitting as a way to pass the time. ~ Lauren Graham,

167:No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. ~ Abraham Lincoln,

168:Plenty and peace breed cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother. ~ William Shakespeare,

169:Stress the thought of plenty. Thoughts of plenty help create plenty. ~ Norman Vincent Peale,

170:The problem is, there was plenty of trash talk during my presidency. A lot. ~ George W Bush,

171:There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them. ~ Blaise Pascal,

172:The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind. ~ Homer,

173:I've been hated by many, wanted by plenty, disliked by some, but confronted by none. ~ Drake,

174:There are plenty of monsters hidden behind smiles of seemingly normal folks. ~ Madison Johns,

175:There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it. ~ Cassandra Clare,

176:There’s plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it. ~ Cassandra Clare,

177:Give people plenty and security, and they will fall into spiritual torpor. ~ Charles A Murray,

178:Not that you mind the killings! There's plenty of killings in your book, Lord.. ~ Davis Grubb,

179:Falling in love could be like falling off a cilff, no water but plenty of rocks. ~ Dean Koontz,

180:I know where he should have put his flag up, and he'd have got plenty of help. ~ Ron Atkinson,

181:I think there are plenty of soulmates out there. That's what I choose to believe. ~ Emma Stone,

182:Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. ~ Benjamin Franklin,

183:There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop. ~ David Byrne,

184:There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete. ~ Helen Keller,

185:No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. ~ Abraham Lincoln,

186:Tar had a reason, plenty of reasons. The latest were painted on his face, too. ~ Melvin Burgess,

187:Though thou wert scattered to the wind, Yet is there plenty of the kind. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson,

188:You can't assume that because you have plenty to eat that everyone does. ~ Cinda Williams Chima,

189:Certainly on the vast windy plain, there was plenty of nothing to be looked at. ~ Larry McMurtry,

190:I fucked plenty of women for money. Unfucking them, though? That wasn’t my expertise. ~ L J Shen,

191:Legends grow beards, and twenty-three years is plenty of time to grow a long one. ~ Stephen King,

192:The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life. ~ Donald Miller,

193:There are plenty of people who, you know—people who still like the smell of books. ~ Robin Sloan,

194:I get into plenty of trouble. It just doesn't seem to get picked up by the papers. ~ Jamie Cullum,

195:Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld,

196:The appearance of plenty can be deceptive. It doesn't always mean a person is well. ~ Kate Morton,

197:The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom. ~ Margaret Drabble,

198:the majority of critical, and plenty of uncritical, readers find quotations a bore. ~ Ethel Smyth,

199:There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women. ~ Joanna Russ,

200:There are plenty of mothers who should not be allowed to raise their children. ~ Bernardine Dohrn,

201:It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. ~ Jerome K Jerome,

202:I've never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout. ~ Babe Ruth,

203:No. I have plenty of reason. But without honor and goodness, reason isn’t worth much. ~ Penny Reid,

204:Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work. ~ Nat King Cole,

205:Then again, it's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it. ~ Ransom Riggs,

206:Then again, it’s easy to say you don’t care about money when you have plenty of it. ~ Ransom Riggs,

207:there is plenty to be learned even from a bad teacher: what not to do, how not to be ~ J K Rowling,

208:There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business. ~ Al Franken,

209:The world will knock you down plenty. You don't need to be doing it to yourself. ~ Elizabeth Scott,

210:I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. ~ George Eliot,

211:Looking at him, you'd believe he didn't have a brain in his head, but he had plenty. ~ Stephen King,

212:There is plenty to be learned even from a bad teacher: what not to do, how not to be. ~ J K Rowling,

213:There's plenty of anger among Muslims in the world right now. How can you have more? ~ Donald Trump,

214:Falling in love could be like falling off a cliff, no water below but plenty of rocks. ~ Dean Koontz,

215:You're the one who can do no wrong." "I do plenty wrong." "You don't have to tell me. ~ Joy Fielding,

216:A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty. ~ Mark Twain,

217:Always give the appearance that he has plenty of space. It gets him to drop his guard. ~ Sherry Argov,

218:A sensitive nose isn’t always that great a gift. Plenty of smells are better unsmelt. ~ Ann H Gabhart,

219:Don't neglect the future in times of plenty, for tomorrow you may need what you wasted today. ~ Aesop,

220:Don’t sabotage yourself. There are plenty of other people willing to do that for free. ~ Jenny Lawson,

221:Henry shrugged. "I've kissed plenty of girls." "I'm not talking about your mom,dork. ~ Heather Brewer,

222:If you make your business about helping others, you'll always have plenty of work. ~ Chris Guillebeau,

223:If you make your business about helping others, you’ll always have plenty of work. ~ Chris Guillebeau,

224:Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human. ~ V E Schwab,

225:Seeing people get messed up never gets un-funny! And there's plenty of ways to do that. ~ Bam Margera,

226:Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge. ~ Haruki Murakami,

227:Then again, It' easy to say you don' care about money when you have plenty of it. ~ Maggie Stiefvater,

228:I can think of plenty of writers whose work I revere and whose lives I know little about. ~ Brad Listi,

229:It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness. ~ Gregory Maguire,

230:Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there. ~ Wernher von Braun,

231:Plenty of humans were monstruous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human. ~ V E Schwab,

232:We can all have plenty of lives, but there are limits. You never can tell what they are. ~ Colm T ib n,

233:Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests. ~ Novalis,

234:It’s been a long, rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness. ~ Gregory Maguire,

235:My secret for staying young is good food, plenty of rest, and a makeup man with a spray gun. ~ Bob Hope,

236:She put a hard-boiled sneer on her face and gave me plenty of time to get used to it ~ Raymond Chandler,

237:There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined. ~ Anton Chekhov,

238:There is always plenty of capital for those who can create practical plans for using it ~ Napoleon Hill,

239:There's nothing wrong with being gay. I have plenty of friends who are going to hell. ~ Stephen Colbert,

240:We always think there will be plenty of time later, but it never seems like there is. ~ Lindsay Buroker,

241:And I'm a Catholic, from an Irish Catholic family, and we know plenty of stuff about guilt. ~ Bob Gunton,

242:Growth and Income, Growth, Aggressive Growth, and International. There are plenty of other ~ Chris Hogan,

243:I told him. We got a library here. Got plenty of good books, too. -Larry Brown, Dirty Work ~ Larry Brown,

244:Plenty of people are good-looking. That doesn't make them interesting or intriguing or cool. ~ Jenny Han,

245:Point was, she had plenty of girlfriends and a sister who made Lucifer look like a Care Bear. ~ L J Shen,

246:There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action. ~ Winston Churchill,

247:There's nothing wrong with failing if you learn from it, and I've failed out here plenty. ~ Trent Dilfer,

248:There’s plenty of serious stuff that works to cord the muscles of literary merit. But ~ Michael Robotham,

249:There were plenty of things in the world that deserved to stay dead, yet they walked. ~ Colson Whitehead,

250:We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. ~ Alan Turing,

251:All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn. ~ Robert Burns,

252:Henry shrugged. "I've kissed plenty of girls." "I'm not talking about your mom,dork. ~ Heather Brewer,

253:I was a kid; I had plenty more to do; I'd been through some crap but I was learning from it ~ Ned Vizzini,

254:Oh, on the contrary, I'm plenty real, and I can prove it." "Prove it then. I'll be waiting. ~ Nely Cab,

255:Plenty of humans are monstrous, and plenty of monsters know how to play at being human. ~ Victoria Schwab,

256:Tomorrow is another day. I've got plenty of things to worry about right now. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni,

257:But also . . . I have plenty of people around me to talk to, and no one to be honest with. ~ Helen Oyeyemi,

258:For every sleazeball in the business there are plenty of decent and wonderful people. ~ Kathie Lee Gifford,

259:He gripped my arms and kissed me for all he was worth, and believe me, that was plenty. ~ Charlaine Harris,

260:He had broken plenty of rules today. If he wasn’t fired for it, he would break a few more. ~ Thomas Mullen,

261:If you believe you are plenty, you will validate that belief and create plenty of abundance. ~ T Harv Eker,

262:Instead of assuming everything you're being told is the truth, ask plenty of questions. ~ Barbara Corcoran,

263:Is there anything you can’t do?” “Plenty, Mrs. Proffitt. I just don’t dwell on them. ~ Shelley Gray,

264:Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human. ~ Victoria Schwab,

265:Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough. ~ Booker T Washington,

266:There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent. ~ J B Priestley,

267:there’s no right way to plan a life and no right way to live one—only plenty of wrong ways. ~ Richard Ford,

268:What is your advice to young writers?” “Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes. ~ Charles Bukowski,

269:All her life she had longed to breach that pale and hazy boundary between enough and plenty. ~ Sarah Miller,

270:And on the way, we'll have plenty of time to talk or not talk about whatever's on your mind ~ Justin Somper,

271:Hell of a thing when a man's got good health, plenty of money and absolutely nothing to do. ~ Harrison Ford,

272:I didn't know till 15 that there was anyone in the world but me,and it cost me plenty. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald,

273:Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do. ~ Criss Jami,

274:Plenty of people are raised Catholic and then aren't Catholic anymore, like any religion. ~ Danny Masterson,

275:There were days when he touched the tip of her nose and it was enough, a miracle of plenty. ~ Helen Oyeyemi,

276:19 A hard worker has plenty of food,       but a person who chases fantasies ends up in poverty. ~ Anonymous,

277:I didn't really see why people should look at me. Plenty of people looked queerer than I did. ~ Sylvia Plath,

278:If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that. ~ Lydia Davis,

279:I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool. ~ Kurt Vonnegut,

280:Marv's a guy you've got to be careful around. He doesn't mean any harm, but he causes plenty. ~ Frank Miller,

281:No one who has lived side by side with animals that have plenty of room can ever visit the zoo. ~ Peter H eg,

282:One who has learned to love all people will find plenty of people who will return that love. ~ Ernest Holmes,

283:We are weary of being without gold in the midst of plenty. We wish to become men of means. ~ George S Clason,

284:I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct. ~ Haruki Murakami,

285:I resist anything better than my own diversity, And breathe the air and leave plenty after me, ~ Walt Whitman,

286:I've been in plenty of situations where someone I'm dating had more time for a console than me. ~ Josie Maran,

287:…majority rule gives the ruthless strong man plenty of elbow room to oppress his fellows. ~ Robert A Heinlein,

288:Plenty of clever children have to pretend to be not clever or else they get bullied by the thick. ~ Tom Baker,

289:There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing. ~ Victor Hugo,

290:There is plenty of Hühnerfleisch in the Kühlschrank. (There is plenty of chicken in the fridge) ~ Kurt Cobain,

291:There's plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water. ~ Sylvia Earle,

292:I get plenty of, 'Is that song about me?' from men but I just tell them to get over themselves. ~ Paloma Faith,

293:I want to work for myself, and I do work for myself. I make plenty of money working for myself. ~ Adam Carolla,

294:Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment. ~ Deepak Chopra,

295:More health tips: Eat lots of fruits and vegetables. Get plenty of rest. And learn to duck. ~ Charles M Schulz,

296:practically impossible. There are plenty of other useful books. But you start with Brewer’s. ~ Terry Pratchett,

297:Real change begins with ridding Washington of corruption, of which there's plenty going around. ~ Donald Trump,

298:There is plenty of Hühnerfleisch in the Kühlschrank. (There is plenty of chicken in the fridge). ~ Kurt Cobain,

299:There was plenty of liquor flowing, but most of it seemed to be going down my mother's throat. ~ Richard Yates,

300:Well, there were plenty of things to do; there always were. There was no end to the wanting. ~ Terry Pratchett,

301:You could make plenty of money and be miserable, just as you could be broke and be pretty happy. ~ Mark Manson,

302:But like most actions that rely on faith, it still took plenty of our own muscle and ingenuity. ~ Heather Lende,

303:I enjoyed retirement the right way linguine con vongole, red wine and plenty of truffle cheese. ~ Craig Kilborn,

304:I have had a delightfully lonely time of it — plenty of leisure to think and think about things. ~ Henrik Ibsen,

305:I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around. ~ Martin McDonagh,

306:I've been getting plenty off my chest. Sometimes I get too much off my chest and I regret it. ~ Stephen Malkmus,

307:Just think what this land would raise with plenty of water! Why, it will be a frigging garden! ~ John Steinbeck,

308:Oh, you’ve made plenty of short stories long. But never, ever, have you made a long story short. ~ Harlan Coben,

309:Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living. ~ Carlos Fuentes,

310:I don't know about you but I've learned plenty from mistakes and I want to learn from laughing now. ~ Anna Blake,

311:It's not the most normal life in the world, but I screw up plenty of times to be a normal teenager. ~ Mila Kunis,

312:I've got plenty of money, more money than I ever dreamed I would have. But I am not a billionaire. ~ J K Rowling,

313:Maybe we’re not doing it, but believe me, Sage, there are plenty of other ways to pass the time. ~ Richelle Mead,

314:My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do. ~ Helen Keller,

315:People talk but do nothing,” the Ginen people said. “Papa God doesn’t talk, but he does plenty. ~ Nalo Hopkinson,

316:Plenty of people have dreams, after all, but many do nothing to actually accomplish them. ~ Emily Esfahani Smith,

317:The world has plenty of room, riches, money and beauty ... Let us begin by dividing it more fairly. ~ Anne Frank,

318:A strange species we are. We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. ~ John Steinbeck,

319:Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered. ~ Marion Cotillard,

320:Life is never a simple problem made of questions and one answer. There are always plenty answers. ~ Conn Iggulden,

321:Plenty of she-cats have kits and then return to the warriors’ den.” But do they become Clan leader? ~ Erin Hunter,

322:There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too. ~ Clayton Christensen,

323:Well, good. Excellent. There’ll be plenty of time for boys when you leave college and become a nun. ~ Derek Landy,

324:You two go and have fun. I have plenty of stuff here to entertain me with. Plato rocks! (Tory) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,

325:A big, studly football jock like me? I got plenty of blood to spare. For you, I have anything to spare. ~ P C Cast,

326:Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. ~ Plato,

327:In fact, that's a great thing about America and even about being Catholic, we have plenty of opinions. ~ Tim Kaine,

328:Laurel had gotten plenty of head in her time, but never like this. Flynn fucked her with his mouth… ~ Cara McKenna,

329:Life always gives you plenty to do. The secret is not forgetting the things that matter.” “Yes, ~ Christina Wodtke,

330:no more of this blubbering now, we are going a-whaling, and there is plenty of that yet to come. ~ Herman Melville,

331:One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies, given time; plenty of time; ~ Ursula K Le Guin,

332:If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that. ~ Lydia Davis,

333:The nice thing about immortality is that you have plenty of time to figure out how to get rid of it. ~ T Kingfisher,

334:How much shit does a man have to take just to stay alive?” “Plenty,” came the answer, “and more … ~ Charles Bukowski,

335:...if you've eaten your fill since childhood, you've plenty of time to think of love and nothing else. ~ Maryse Cond,

336:Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination. ~ Christopher Isherwood,

337:May you have plenty of wealth, you men of Ephesus, in order that you may be punished for your evil ways ~ Heraclitus,

338:Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures. ~ Nicolas Chamfort,

339:There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing. ~ William Glasser,

340:Why should I give my Readers bad lines of my own when good ones of other People's are so plenty? ~ Benjamin Franklin,

341:Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want. ~ Albert Einstein,

342:If you put yourself in the center of your world, you will find plenty of things to complain about. ~ Paul David Tripp,

343:Liquidity. When an executive said his bank had plenty of liquidity it always meant that it didn’t. At ~ Michael Lewis,

344:The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there. ~ Leigh Hunt,

345:The True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty. ~ L Frank Baum,

346:You’re the scientist. I think you’ve got plenty of hard evidence that I don’t find you repulsive at all. ~ Sarah Fine,

347:A big, studly football jock like me? I got plenty of blood to spare. For you, I have anything to spare. ~ Kristin Cast,

348:Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there. ~ Samuel Insull,

349:Best to leave quietly, and no reunions. Move on, and look to the future. Plenty more faces out there. ~ David Nicholls,

350:But no more of this blubbering now, we are going a-whaling, and there is plenty of that yet to come. ~ Herman Melville,

351:Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them. ~ Queen Victoria,

352:Happiness is not a limited resource. So help yourself, and there will be plenty left for everyone else. ~ Marie Forleo,

353:I have always had plenty of friends, and now at age sixty, I face four walls as a common prisoner. ~ Albert Kesselring,

354:I took it back: he didn't just hate himself down deep. He'd made plenty of room in there for me, too. ~ Michelle Rowen,

355:Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about. ~ Etta James,

356:I got plenty. You can have all my light, my shine. I got plenty. All my boys here, we working being creative. ~ Ab Soul,

357:I'll have plenty of time to rest when I die, but this eventuality is not yet part of my plans. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez,

358:I’ll have plenty of time to rest when I die, but this eventuality is not yet part of my plans. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez,

359:Look, let’s not turn this into a blamestorming session. There’ll be plenty of time for that if we fail. ~ Daniel Suarez,

360:Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends. ~ Barbara Johnson,

361:Oh, yes," said Mother, "you may be sure that there will always be plenty of chocolate cake around here. ~ Russell Hoban,

362:Human beings can get used to virtually anything, given plenty of time and no choice in the matter whatsoever. ~ Tom Holt,

363:I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me. ~ Bear Grylls,

364:I have two new nephews and a new niece this year, so I have plenty of kids that I can spend time with. ~ Anjelica Huston,

365:It was easy to be good and kind in times of plenty. The trying times were the moments that defined a man. ~ Ren e Ahdieh,

366:I've had plenty of practice and I'm hitting the ball well. I've had no injury worries so I'm in good shape. ~ Tim Henman,

367:My skin doesn't look as good when I'm not eating enough fruits and vegetables, so I try to eat plenty. ~ Joanne Froggatt,

368:Our society makes plenty of room for complacency or laziness; we’re rarely surrounded by accountability. ~ Rachel Hollis,

369:She'd jumped out of plenty of planes. Albeit with a parachute in place, but she pushed that worry aside. ~ Robin Bielman,

370:the travel time between the restaurant and the hotel had given her mind plenty of time to circle back to ~ Rhenna Morgan,

371:We Irish know how to make the most of the times of plenty, for sure enough they'll be famine again. ~ Karen Marie Moning,

372:As an actress, I get plenty of drama in my professional life. When I'm at home, I want a peaceful life. ~ Lysette Anthony,

373:It just occurred to me that life’s too short. Plenty of time to watch the calories when one goes to heaven. ~ Ian Fleming,

374:I’ve gotten plenty of things. Plenty of girls. But never her. ", Drew Donovan in Loving Summer by Kailin Gow ~ Kailin Gow,

375:Many inspired plans are hatched in darkness. And once dignity is surrendered there are plenty of options. ~ Richard Russo,

376:Now, the past has plenty to teach us, but I don't think it should be allowed to detain us against our will. ~ Pat Condell,

377:No. You cared. The rest of them were slowing down to see the blood on the road.” There had been plenty of it. ~ C D Reiss,

378:In 168 hours, there is plenty of space to nurture yourself alongside your career and your relationships. ~ Laura Vanderkam,

379:Peace is an extension of war by political means. Plenty of elbow-room is pleasanter -- and much safer. ~ Robert A Heinlein,

380:There had been plenty of singers whose high notes could smash a glass but Nanny's high C could clean it. ~ Terry Pratchett,

381:There might be plenty of rainy days, but those perfect ones will make all the memories of rain disappear. ~ Maria V Snyder,

382:There's plenty of drama and comedy and bodily fluids! And what's a good origin story without all three? ~ Lucy Knisley,

383:You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly. ~ Ronald Reagan,

384:A healthy strong ego, with plenty of self-esteem, does not feel itself threatened by every innocent remark. ~ Maxwell Maltz,

385:but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry. ~ Charles Bukowski,

386:having plenty of time to do anything in the world meant that the appeal to do any of it mysteriously faded. ~ Tori de Clare,

387:I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all. ~ Louisa May Alcott,

388:I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger,

389:I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write. ~ Mary Archer,

390:The Day women were the definition of mob mentality. And here they were on a farm with plenty of pitchforks. ~ Gillian Flynn,

391:There's plenty of stories that need telling what never get told, just because people can't bear the listening. ~ Caleb Carr,

392:There was certainly plenty in her own past that she was reluctant to look at. Because looking made it real. ~ Barbara Davis,

393:...we'll have a duel in the morning on the moors. Plenty of fog. It will be quite dramatic, I daresay. ~ Julianne Donaldson,

394:For it was easy to be good and kind in times of plenty. The trying times were the moments that defined a man. ~ Ren e Ahdieh,

395:France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte,

396:I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money. ~ Leonard Baskin,

397:I have plenty of friends," she says. "Name one." She looks at me. Which I guess is sort of sweet. ~ George Saunders,

398:I've got plenty of love in my life already in the form of my sons and a few good friends who I value dearly. ~ Colin Farrell,

399:Oh, folderol and fiddlesticks!” said Mrs. Wiggins. “You’ve done plenty. Now let’s have your ideas.” Freddy ~ Walter R Brooks,

400:The common perception of Riesling wines is that they’re sweet, and many of them are — but plenty of them aren’t. ~ Anonymous,

401:The Lord is my shepherd. I do not want. He makes me to lie down in plenty, in fullness. I am satisfied with Him. ~ Anonymous,

402:There are plenty of Marxist-Leninist textbooks about taking power; but there are none about giving it up. ~ Victor Sebestyen,

403:There is plenty of time to argue with new ideas later. They key is to take careful notes first and debate second. ~ Jim Rohn,

404:There’s plenty that poetry cannot do. But the miracle, of course, is how much it can do, how much it does do. ~ Mary Szybist,

405:There were plenty of reasons to do the things I'd done, but Aiby had always been my reason. ~ Pierdomenico Baccalario,

406:Well I haven't fucked much with the past, But I've fucked plenty with the future. - Babelogue ~ Patti Smith,

407:I have plenty of machinery around me; what I really need is a more enchanting world in which to live and work. ~ Thomas Moore,

408:I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them. ~ Howard Barker,

409:My life anuh fi me alone... My life a fi people... Fi help plenty people... If my is for me alone mi nuh want it ~ Bob Marley,

410:She was a rut in the road. Plenty of life beneath the surface but it was kept beaten down by the wheels. ~ Zora Neale Hurston,

411:Stern social measures had to be adopted to keep entire populations from disintegrating in an orgy of plenty. ~ Bruce Sterling,

412:We’ve got plenty of eleven o’clock services and not enough 12:15 action. We need pews that reach into the street. ~ Anonymous,

413:Getting plenty of sleep is always great. It really is. I have a girlfriend who's sending me a slant board. ~ Bernadette Peters,

414:God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies. ~ Jean Anouilh,

415:Loving someone doesn’t mean that it’ll work out. Plenty of times I thought love was going to make me whole. ~ Corinne Michaels,

416:Plenty of men came back from war with more scars than they left with, and some of those scars weren’t physical. ~ Katee Robert,

417:Promise too much and you'll have plenty of room to fail. Promise little and you'll have plenty of room to excel. ~ Ron Kaufman,

418:There is a certain grandeur and nobility in administering to another’s need out of one’s fullness and plenty. ~ Howard Thurman,

419:There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands. ~ Agatha Christie,

420:There's plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply. ~ Marilyn vos Savant,

421:there’s plenty of stories that need telling what never get told, just because people can’t bear the listening. My ~ Caleb Carr,

422:Tut, tut, we have solved some worse problems. At least we have plenty of material, if we can only use it. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle,

423:Do you see anything Wrong with my teeth?" "Plenty, I'm surprised you can eat. Maybe that's why your're so little ~ Lee Child,

424:If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,

425:In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours. ~ Joseph Campbell,

426:I think our insecurities are our biggest challenges, and we all have them. Trust me, I've got plenty of my own. ~ Abby Huntsman,

427:The Day women were the definition of mob mentality. And here they were on a farm with plenty of pitchforks. She ~ Gillian Flynn,

428:There are plenty of towns in America where the 4-year-old has shot his 2-year-old sister by using daddy's gun. ~ Geraldo Rivera,

429:America’s two great specialties are demagogues and rock and roll, and we’ve all heard plenty of both in our time. ~ Stephen King,

430:As I’ve heard you say plenty of times, what we know and what we can prove are often two quite different things. ~ Peter Grainger,

431:Don’t compete! — competition is always injurious to the species, and you have plenty of resources to avoid it! ~ Pyotr Kropotkin,

432:There is plenty of people I'd love to collaborate with, would love to produce with, would love to write songs with. ~ Kris Allen,

433:There will be plenty of blame to go around but if you take credit for the sunshine, you also get blamed for the rain. ~ Tom Rath,

434:Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it. ~ Keith Ablow,

435:There are plenty of people who might prefer to go sideways. What about them? How are we to inspire them? ~ Alexander McCall Smith,

436:Best thing about a theatre wedding: plenty of people who were used to partying hard and without shame to show tunes. ~ Lucy Parker,

437:If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up. ~ Charles Spurgeon,

438:I have a good life, I remind myself. There are plenty of people who love me. They're just not around at the moment. ~ Cynthia Hand,

439:I have plenty of friends who are boys, most of them gay or too socially awkward to consider a romantic relationship. ~ Riley Sager,

440:Over the course of my career, which is about 40 years, I've visited plenty of prisons and I know what they're like. ~ Kate Mulgrew,

441:Plenty of people on the street but all glued to their phones. Everyone was perpetually connected, but to what? She ~ Laura Griffin,

442:There is a certain grandeur and nobility in administering to another’s need out of one’s fullness and plenty. One ~ Howard Thurman,

443:There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty, to live happily, and to be at peace with his neighbors. ~ Harry S Truman,

444:There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.” He ~ Agatha Christie,

445:There’s plenty of time and a million different ways to be an asshole. Don’t feel you got to get them all done at once. ~ Anonymous,

446:Yes, think what a lot of nonsense one can figure out with plenty of time. Brooding is the mother of ineffectiveness. ~ Maj Sjowall,

447:Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle. ~ Sacha Baron Cohen,

448:I don't have scientific data, but I think plenty of perfectly nice weekends are being given over to the binge craze. ~ Hank Stuever,

449:Lord Chi Wen thought three times before taking any action. When the Master heard this, he said: Twice is plenty enough. ~ Confucius,

450:Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends. - Anonymous ~ Anonymous,

451:No worries, I won't force you to marry me. I'll get over you. There are plenty of fish in the sea and all that jazz. ~ Quinn Loftis,

452:People tell themselves there’s plenty of time to do it all, but most of the time they never see death coming. ~ Denise Grover Swank,

453:SOLOMON'S LAWS 4. If you're going to all the trouble to make a fool of yourself, be sure to have plenty of witnesses. ~ Paul Levine,

454:We're breaking all of the rules, even our own rules, and how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities. ~ John Cage,

455:We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty. ~ Charles Fillmore,

456:But then, it’s what I always wanted. My own apartment, a car, and plenty of women. And still, goddammit, I’m lonely. ~ Arthur Miller,

457:Nobody turns down an invitation to the white house, but I've seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live. ~ Bob Goff,

458:Theres plenty of great independent films to do, but you cant support yourself making independent film as an actress. ~ Gaby Hoffmann,

459:The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way. ~ Jean Webster,

460:We're all on a continuous journey to try and fix our mistakes and flaws. And, believe me, I've got plenty of them. ~ Ezekiel Emanuel,

461:Courage not aligned with a higher good isn’t always positive—a burglar can be plenty courageous as he robs you blind. ~ Judith Orloff,

462:Hallie had had plenty of practice over the years at hiding her true feelings and presenting a brave face to the world. ~ Jill Mansell,

463:The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure. ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton 1st Baron Lytton,

464:There are plenty of things worth rushing into the unknown for. But don’t be dumb. Save your courage for when it counts. ~ Chip Gaines,

465:There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears. ~ Dorothy Dix,

466:We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. [Referring to the theory that over-production caused the Depression] ~ Winston Churchill,

467:And money you have, Rose. Plenty of it. And time. And if time can’t give us freedom to do what we want, what good is time? ~ Anne Rice,

468:Give people plenty of opportunity to enjoy themselves by emphasizing ways that let people participate in the experience. ~ Marty Sklar,

469:Having plenty of time and all the museum's funds at my disposal, I put myself on a regime to buy one picture a day. ~ Peggy Guggenheim,

470:I get plenty of time to re-engage with the world I'm trying to depict, so I'm not always living in these parallel worlds. ~ Toby Jones,

471:I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults but I'm very faithful. You'll be sick of me I'll be so faithful. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

472:It’s not that I’m vain; I simply thought I had plenty of time, so I told Vivian I’d be ready to go in a few minutes. ~ Nicholas Sparks,

473:I’ve had plenty of meaningless dates and pointless conversations. This woman was never pointless. She was everything. ~ Lauren Blakely,

474:Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.    ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Proverbs 20:13,

475:Seneca’s version of that Stoicism is antifragility from fate. No downside from Lady Fortuna, plenty of upside. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb,

476:She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself. ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett,

477:Sorry, Carlos. What have you got? (Terri) Plenty of fine wine and silk sheets with a high threat count. (Carlos) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,

478:There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had. ~ Charles Spurgeon,

479:but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry. ~ Charles Bukowski,

480:Get plenty of education. Lead you class in all things. Keep your body clean and strong. Keep your opinions to yourself. ~ Kurt Vonnegut,

481:He’d never seen his father so angry, and that was saying a lot, because he’d seen him plenty mad the last few years. ~ Karen McQuestion,

482:He guessed plenty of kids had gone off to plenty of wars with that same excited gonna-kick-some-ass look on their faces. ~ Stephen King,

483:I believe in my cosmetics line. There are plenty of charities for the homeless. Isn't it time someone helped the homely? ~ Dolly Parton,

484:Most of us start from nothing, with plenty of rejection. I remind myself of that whenever I get to feeling too important. ~ Kate Alcott,

485:She had appetites in plenty: she spent all her strength in repressing them and she underwent this denial in anger. ~ Simone de Beauvoir,

486:The guys looked attractive and not too serial-killery, and there were plenty of testimonials from satisfied customers. ~ Melanie Harlow,

487:There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible. ~ Terri Windling,

488:There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy. ~ Vikram Seth,

489:As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity. ~ Margaret Cavendish,

490:But I did what I thought was right in the moment. In the end, that’s all a man has to measure his life, and it’s plenty. ~ Justin Cronin,

491:Honey, I am the chief of my train. If critics want to hop on board, fantastic. There's plenty of room. The KP train is fun. ~ Katy Perry,

492:I certainly think I'll end up writing about America in some form. I've taken plenty of notes. I like America very much. ~ Helen Fielding,

493:I don’t need poetry to know about love. My love for you has taught me plenty about heartache. ~ Sherry JonesAi’sha ~ Sherry Jones,

494:I don't want to make more friends. I have four kids, I have plenty of friends, and all the personal relationships I need. ~ Guy Kawasaki,

495:It's always the rich and there's plenty to waste, yet still China has a lot of people living in very spare, poor conditions. ~ Ai Weiwei,

496:Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well. ~ James Freeman Clarke,

497:People die when you crowd the streets of New York City with protesters. You can do plenty of protesting on the sidewalk. ~ Rudy Giuliani,

498:The bottom line is that drugs are good money even to wealthy people, and plenty have no moral dilemmas about the business. ~ Ioan Grillo,

499:There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things. ~ Vannevar Bush,

500:We all lose sometimes. Life’s plenty easy when you’re winning. It’s what you do when you’re down. That’s the real test. ~ Jami Attenberg,

501:We have plenty of room for people...in our lives, I mean. Especially the ones who make us be the people we want to be. ~ Suzanne LaFleur,

502:You may get cheated, robbed, and murdered, in London. But there are plenty of people anywhere, who'll do that for you. ~ Charles Dickens,

503:Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit. ~ Lillie Langtry,

504:Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity. ~ Ellis Peters,

505:Fill the day with enthusiasm. Give the day all you've got and it will give you all it's got, which will be plenty. ~ Norman Vincent Peale,

506:If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon,

507:I must have 25 AT&T iPhones, maybe more than that. I've got plenty of Verizons. I just don't have them in the small size. ~ Rush Limbaugh,

508:I've got my mind set on you. But it's gonna take money, a whole lot of spending money, it's gonna take plenty of money. ~ George Harrison,

509:Such people, such individuals, will be a most productive yeast and ferment, and lucky the society who has plenty of them. ~ Doris Lessing,

510:There is plenty to do, for each one of us, working on our own hearts, changing our own attitudes, in our own neighborhoods. ~ Dorothy Day,

511:All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn." [Brigs of Ayr] ~ Robert Burns,

512:He thinks being black means having plenty of attitude; I think having plenty of knowledge is what black is all about; ~ Eric Jerome Dickey,

513:I'd kissed plenty of boys in my time but never one that made my head spin to the point that it made me forget where I was. ~ Jay Crownover,

514:If you get the best people on your team, you've got plenty of time to do the things you like to do and can add more value to. ~ Jack Welch,

515:In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited. ~ Herbert Hoover,

516:Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some. ~ Rhonda Byrne,

517:Satan's greatest success is in making people think they have plenty of time before they die to consider their eternal welfare. ~ John Owen,

518:The problem is, some people think they're above the law. There are plenty of good reasons why we have so much regulation. ~ Mary E Pearson,

519:There are plenty of ways you can play the game of fighting and really seem to be fighting without going for the jugular. ~ Laurie Anderson,

520:There's nothing that isn't worth writing about. If you look closely at your life you'll find plenty to write about there, too. ~ Sara Gran,

521:We were plenty good last night when we whipped your podex, Larry!” “Enough, Dakota,” Reyna said. “Let’s leave Larry’s podex ~ Rick Riordan,

522:When I was trekking across Brooklyn, looking for MC battles - and there were plenty of them - I never dreamed I'd be at this podium. ~ GZA,

523:You’ve got a point. But I like it better when the bad guys are just the bad guys.” “There’s always plenty of them to go around. ~ J D Robb,

524:but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry. ~ Charles Bukowski,

525:Giving is a powerful action to bring more money into your life, because when you are giving you are saying, "I have plenty." ~ Rhonda Byrne,

526:If I'm remembered for having done a few good things and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty. ~ Sidney Poitier,

527:If there’s anything you can think of that you might need from a real man with plenty of testosterone, you just let me know. ~ Erin Nicholas,

528:Intelligence is not a competition," she said. "There is plenty to go around, and there are many ways it can be demonstrated. ~ Chris Colfer,

529:she had been overweight but she knew plenty of other big girls who were popular and well-liked and had dates all the time. ~ RaeAnne Thayne,

530:We've been programmed to think meat is protein and you need meat. No, we are not cavemen. There are plenty other ways. ~ Christian Serratos,

531:You’ve hardly left me anything to rest on.” Larksong purred. “You’ve got plenty of padding to keep you comfortable till then. ~ Erin Hunter,

532:Bobby is a good southern boy,” says Sebastian. “Which means he thinks plenty of mean things but never says them aloud. ~ Susan Rebecca White,

533:Guitars are fun. There are plenty of different kinds to play. They look cool. They sound cool. Don't you want to play guitar? ~ Joe Satriani,

534:I was a lawyer and I have been married to a lawyer. I think one lawyer per household is plenty. It's a good quota for us. ~ Kellyanne Conway,

535:Money is dehydrated mercy. If you have plenty of it, you just add tears, and people come out of the woodwork to comfort you. ~ Kurt Vonnegut,

536:Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. ~ William Feather,

537:There is plenty to worry about in any given day without resorting to worrying about the things that are entirely unfounded— ~ Robert J Crane,

538:[As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray,

539:Cosmologists have plenty of ego. How could you not when your job is to deduce what brought the universe into existence? ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson,

540:I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face. ~ Rodney Dangerfield,

541:On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away. ~ Annie Dillard,

542:...so we could all burn in our beds with no warning?' 'Oh, you’d have plenty of warning, ma’am. The smoke detectors all work. ~ Beth Kendrick,

543:Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else. ~ P J O Rourke,

544:I know I have plenty of enemies, but I'd rather be the most-hated winning coach in the country than the most-popular losing one. ~ Adolph Rupp,

545:Most women prefer lovemaking with romance, appreciation, respect, and caring with plenty of foreplay, satisfaction, and afterglow. ~ J F Kelly,

546:My heavenly bank, my heavenly bank, The house of God's treasure and store. I have plenty in here; I'm a real millionaire. ~ Smith Wigglesworth,

547:'Plenty of men are good at acquiring money and cars and things, but only a few have real forward motion. You know. Thrust.' ~ Vicki Pettersson,

548:There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books says a man's life's his own. ~ Dalton Trumbo,

549:There are plenty of laws to protect guys’ money even in war time but there’s nothing on the books says a man’s life’s his own. ~ Dalton Trumbo,

550: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,

551:acting in concert and without human control, built a rope bridge across a short chasm. There are plenty of other wild drone ~ Erik Brynjolfsson,

552:At no point in history has a bright young girl with plenty of food and a good constitution perished from too much learning. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert,

553:There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand. ~ John Jay Chapman,

554:There’s plenty of fantastic evidence that shows we can gain huge benefits from altering the way we view our daily stresses. ~ Rangan Chatterjee,

555:The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm ~ Leonard Bernstein,

556:What about Annabel?" "I hate her too", said Julian, without emotion. "There's plenty of room for me to hate them all". ~ Cassandra Clare,

557:Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art. ~ Gustav Klimt,

558:At no moment in history has a bright young girl with plenty of food and a good constitution perished from too much learning. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert,

559:Don’t worry,” she said. “You’ll have plenty more experiences like that working in this place.” Then she added these words. ~ Loren W Christensen,

560:Hopeless emptiness. Now you've said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness. ~ Richard Yates,

561:I can take care of myself. I’ve got plenty of potions. If he comes back again, I’ll turn him into a frog and feed him to a duck. ~ Mario Acevedo,

562:I'm not prepared for a zombie apocalypse. I need more bottled water, a shotgun, and stronger abs. I have plenty of canner food. ~ Jenna Fischer,

563:It is a paradox of Life that all species breed past mere replacement. Any paradise of plenty soon fills to become paradise no more. ~ David Brin,

564:Luke, I can’t say that I’m well adjusted, but I’m pretty sure it’s not your fault. I’ve done plenty of twisting all on my own. ~ John G Hartness,

565:Why is there such controversy about drug testing? I know plenty of guys who'd be willing to test any drug they can come up with. ~ George Carlin,

566:He had to accept the fate of every newcomer to a small town where there are plenty of tongues that gossip and few minds that think. ~ Victor Hugo,

567:It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese. ~ Henri Cartier Bresson,

568:Obviously the administration intends to publicize all the weapons of mass destruction U.S. forces find - and there will be plenty. ~ Robert Kagan,

569:There are plenty of wonderful, good fat people in the USA that have no problems being fat, who I have no problems with being fat. ~ Brad Williams,

570:You cannot be a military leader without physical courage. But there are Plenty of soldiers with physical courage who are not leaders ~ John Adair,

571:I can’t get Yaqui Delgado out of my mind. Plenty of girls shake their junk. How is that enough to make somebody hate you? It’s crazy. ~ Meg Medina,

572:Plenty of other books say how to see as much of the city as possible,” his boss had told him. “You should say how to see as little.”) ~ Anne Tyler,

573:The Blossoms and leaves in plenty From the apple tree fall each day; The merry breezes approach them, And with them merrily play. ~ Heinrich Heine,

574:the poverty of human intelligence has plenty to say, for inquiry employs more words than the discovery of the solution; ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo,

575:There are plenty of people who like you just as you are. You should remember that when you start feeling like you're being erased. ~ Heather Cocks,

576:And for the record, there are plenty of women I haven't slept with." Several sets of eyes turned on him in disbelief. Geez. ~ Jennifer L Armentrout,

577:I also feel like I've done plenty of wrong things. I'm not innocent here, and I'm certainly not going to be righteous about that. ~ Paula Broadwell,

578:I didn’t know why, or who, but I could buy those answers with money and time. One, I had plenty of. The other, I’d have to manufacture. ~ C D Reiss,

579:I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York. ~ Gabriel Macht,

580:in this life you’ll get plenty of the things you try your hardest to avoid most of which will hurt plenty of which will make you stronger ~ R H Sin,

581:Invite them back if you’d like,” she called after him. “There’s plenty.” She was four courses upset and considering an amuse-bouche. ~ Louise Penny,

582:I resist any thing better than my own diversity, Breathe the air but leave plenty after me, And am not stuck up, and am in my place. ~ Walt Whitman,

583:our triumphant age of plenty is riddled with darker feelings of doubt, cynicism, distrust, boredom and a strange kind of emptiness ~ Samuel Johnson,

584:There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer. ~ J K Rowling,

585:Women who disapprove of men - and there's plenty to disapprove of - should remember how we started out, and how far we had to travel. ~ Nick Hornby,

586:I have plenty of invitations to go places, lots to do. If I'm not working, I go to have my hair taken care of and work at needlepoint ~ Ethel Merman,

587:In Paris and London he had seen nothing to make a return to life worth while; in Washington he saw plenty of reasons for staying dead. ~ Henry Adams,

588:Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world. ~ James K Polk,

589:Plenty of time for a close friendship to turn to hate. As only a good friendship could. The conduit to the heart was already created. ~ Louise Penny,

590:there are some things you don’t have a choice about, but there’s plenty you can choose. Like happiness. Like focusing on the positive. ~ Susan Wiggs,

591:I always remind people from outside our state that there’s plenty of room for all Alaska’s animals — right next to the mashed potatoes. ~ Sarah Palin,

592:Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest. ~ E O Wilson,

593:Nothing to mountaineering, just a little physical endurance, a good deal of brains, lots of practice, and plenty of warm clothing. ~ Annie Smith Peck,

594:The best way to get acid out of your body is to wash it out. The best way to wash it out is to provide plenty of water to do the job ~ Robert O Young,

595:There were plenty of times some writers would make some kind of stupid joke to each other and then it was on TV that night or that week. ~ Jon Glaser,

596:While I've said that there are plenty of things I dislike about the South, I can be clear that there are things I love about the South. ~ Jesmyn Ward,

597:While there's plenty to be said for drive and talent, it was my parents' support that started me on the path that led me here today. ~ Tichina Arnold,

598:Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler's break. Travel should not be hard work. ~ Tom Hodgkinson,

599:But enough of the words. We all know there ain't no extra pay, and rations will be catch as catch can. But we still got plenty of medals! ~ John Ringo,

600:Children are wonderful. It don't take plenty y'know. Just a nice girl who don't take birth control. Sexual intercourse is a lovely thing. ~ Bob Marley,

601:Despite all that good news, there's plenty of horror stories being told. All of them are untrue, but they're being told all over America. ~ Harry Reid,

602:God, help me with my immunity force field with this boy. Falling for him would bring nothing but trouble. And I've had plenty already. ~ Jenny B Jones,

603:It’s not an unusual American story. Just as there’s no right way to plan a life and no right way to live one—only plenty of wrong ways. ~ Richard Ford,

604:Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were. ~ Russell Baker,

605:The one thing everyone in the Republic had plenty of was time. Whatever you didn’t do today really could be put off until tomorrow. ~ Jonathan Franzen,

606:Two of an actress's greatest assets are love and pain. A great actress, even a good actress, must have plenty of both in her life. ~ Katharine Hepburn,

607:You are not the only one with sorrows in this world. Don't hoard them like they are precious. There is always plenty of them to go around. ~ Matt Haig,

608:Being President is a little like being the grounds-keeper at a cemetery: there's plenty of people below you but no one's listening. ~ William J Clinton,

609:Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there. ~ Wernher von Braun,

610:I won't say the pain was indescribable, since there are plenty of good descriptive words: excruciating, agonizing, unbearable, and so on. ~ Jeff Strand,

611:Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need. ~ Anais Nin,

612:Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence. ~ Albrecht Durer,

613:There is plenty of justice on television, but not so much in the real world. Maybe that’s why so many of us like television so much. ~ Charlaine Harris,

614:Women who disapprove of men—and there’s plenty to disapprove of—should remember how we started out, and how far we have had to travel. 3. ~ Nick Hornby,

615:You are not the only one with sorrows in this world. Don't hoard them like they are precious . There is always plenty of them to go around. ~ Matt Haig,

616:Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what ~ Lewis Carroll,

617:They made it plain to everyone, however, and above all to the king himself, that although he had plenty of troops, he did not have many men. ~ Herodotus,

618:Think of peace. Think of brotherly love. Think of plenty. Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise. ~ Kurt Vonnegut,

619:I am at my wit's end.' 'Tut, tut, we have solved some worse problems. At least we have plenty of material, if we can only use it. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle,

620:I don't need any drug to show me Heaven And I sure know how to spend plenty of time cleaning Hell But I'm missin' that feeling of falling. ~ Bonnie Raitt,

621:I had plenty of money in a satchel inside my trunk, but if they were going to kidnap me, then they could do it with their own coins. ~ Jennifer A Nielsen,

622:It is not that there is no food,” one commissar insisted. “There is plenty of grain, but 90 percent of the people have ideological problems. ~ Ian Morris,

623:The earth, though in comparison of heaven so small, nor glistering, may of solid good contain more plenty than the sun, that barren shines. ~ John Milton,

624:There are plenty of good reasons for admitting mistakes, starting with the simple likelihood that you will probably be found out anyway—by ~ Carol Tavris,

625:There was plenty of evidence that Saddam had nuclear weapons, by the way. That is not in dispute. There is plenty of evidence of that. ~ Christopher Dodd,

626:You might as well get used to it." "What, fish? Trust me, I'm plenty used to fish." "No," he said. "Letting me protect you. ~ Cassandra Rose Clarke,

627:And him, in that killer suit, his head bent, his eyes shielded behind his aviators. No comment, the caption says. But the finger says plenty. ~ Katy Evans,

628:She's called Jay that 'ol' hood rat from the projects' plenty of times. Then again, Jay has called her 'that ol' bougie heffa' just as much ~ Angie Thomas,

629:There are plenty of eyewitness accounts, just because you're so narrow-minded you need to have everything shoved under your nose before you- ~ J K Rowling,

630:There are so many things we take in subconsciously and are unaware we ever saw. There is plenty of lumber like that in our minds. ~ Alexander McCall Smith,

631:What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure. ~ William Shakespeare,

632:I had absolutely no idea how I had ballooned during my pregnancy. All I thought about was eating plenty of food to keep my baby healthy. ~ Jennifer Ellison,

633:No man ever lay on his death bed pissed off that he’d apologized too many times throughout his life, but plenty wish they’d apologized more. ~ Beth Ehemann,

634:Susan read her letter. ‘Mother says I must give you plenty of lettuces and peas and things, or else you’ll all get scurvy. What is scurvy? ~ Arthur Ransome,

635:Always surround yourself with friends that have plenty of light in them. That way, you will always have candles around you when days are dark. ~ Suzy Kassem,

636:Guy keeps the heart of a vampire he killed as a pet in his basement armory. He's plenty crazy. But that's okay. I'm a little crazy too. ~ Guillermo del Toro,

637:I know plenty of actors smarter than me with better taste than me who love horror movies and love sci-fi and it just doesn't make sense to me. ~ Ben Feldman,

638:In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility. ~ Victoria Moran,

639:Someone’s really sold you a bill of goods. Plenty of mortals are better at plenty of stuff than the Folk. Why do you think we steal them away? ~ Holly Black,

640:The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it. ~ Henry Ford,

641:There's plenty of stuff that I don't feel dissident about: I really like tea, I don't have any problem with that. I like lots of paintings. ~ China Mieville,

642:A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro’ fear of being thought to have but little. ~ Various,

643:A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers. ~ Nicolas Chamfort,

644:If I didn’t have a boy, at least I had plenty of stories about boys. And honestly? Some of the stories were better than the boys themselves. ~ David Levithan,

645:I have seen plenty of humanity. The vast majority would not help their fellow neighbor unless forced to do so at gunpoint,” Nathaniel said. ~ Christina Henry,

646:I'm not here to say what [Clintons] did wrong. I mean, there's going to be plenty of post-mortem review of what should have gone differently. ~ Keith Ellison,

647:Well, the plenty of fish in the sea thing is bullshit," I said. "The other fish are weird, smell funny, or hooked on someone else's fishing line. ~ L D Davis,

648:Ah hears tings which Ah don’ like at all. Cain’t say much. Get mahself ’n plenty trouble. But yuh all want to watch yo step plenty good. Yassuh. ~ Ian Fleming,

649:Although there is plenty of space on a gravestone to contain, bound in moss, the abridged version of a man's life, detail is always welcome. ~ Vladimir Nabokov,

650:Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context. ~ Haruki Murakami,

651:Might want to leave him alone," Sturmhond said. "That type needs plenty of time for brooding and self-recrimination. Otherwise they get cranky. ~ Leigh Bardugo,

652:Plenty of friendships are sustainable through dinners and lunches, but will not stand a week away. So be careful with whom you go on holiday. ~ Julian Fellowes,

653:Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don't have great legs, there are plenty of alternatives. ~ Ralph Lauren,

654:There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility. ~ Lyndon B Johnson,

655:The right way to build a company is to experiment in lots of small ways, so that you have plenty of room to make mistakes and change strategies. ~ Vinod Khosla,

656:Trust me, if you want to complain, you’ll always find plenty to complain about, even when fortune appears to be shining her favor upon you. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert,

657:Who the hell ever said that plenty was supposed to abolish unhappiness? But what it will do is free our hands to concentrate on unhappiness. ~ Francis Spufford,

658:You don't have to be crazy to act crazy. You just have to know what crazy people act like. And I had plenty of experience watching crazy people. ~ Howard Dully,

659:You've written plenty of romantic tales," he said, taking the book from her hands and gently closing it. "Didn't you know I would come? ~ Kelly O Connor McNees,

660:Countries who don’t have brave prosecutors and fearless judges will instead have plenty of thieves, many killers and even stupid dictators! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,

661:Do you know Eastern proverbs? "Unskilled guns, but... The more guns, the likely they will hit..." I've got plenty of Akuma to go around. ~ Katsura Hoshino,

662:I am moneys medium. It passes through me- taxes, insurance, mortgage, child support, rent, legal fees. All this dignified blundering costs plenty. ~ Saul Bellow,

663:I’m afraid the truth is you’re putting yourself in for plenty of disappointment if you expect people to hang around for very long in this life! ~ Patrick McCabe,

664:There are plenty of people in the in the military and high ranking generals that do not feel that they have been optimized or listened to . ~ Kimberly Guilfoyle,

665:There were plenty of words to be said, but neither spoke them, because “if we die tomorrow” is never the best preface to confess your feelings. ~ Melissa Wright,

666:The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way.” Which is a roundabout way ~ Heather Lende,

667:Wit, like hunger, will be with great difficulty restrained from falling on vice and ignorance, where there is great plenty and variety of food. ~ Henry Fielding,

668:I decided the world was filled with plenty of good guitar players, many of them my match or better, but how many good songwriters were there? ~ Bruce Springsteen,

669:I don’t know about you, but there have been plenty of times when I have driven home from a hospital visit wondering why they let me be the pastor. ~ Andy Stanley,

670:In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility. (17) ~ Victoria Moran,

671:Love, it turns out, is as undemocratic as money, so it accumulates around people who have plenty of it already: the sane, the healthy, the lovable. ~ Nick Hornby,

672:September fattens on vines. Roses flake from the wall. The smoke of harmless fires drifts to my eyes. This is plenty. This is more than enough. ~ Geoffrey Hill,

673:Valuing ourselves rightly means we understand love to be the only foundation of being that will sustain us in both times of lack and times of plenty ~ bell hooks,

674:Without plenty, the wealthy lack compassion for the poor, hoarding without sharing. Without law, the strong bully the weak, stealing by force. ~ Jacqueline Carey,

675:Your enemy is still yourself. You don't have enemies. They may be self-styled. I have plenty of self-styled enemies. I don't wish them harm. ~ Goswami Kriyananda,

676:Snaps and snails and puppy-dogs’ tails, And dirty sluts in plenty, Smell sweeter than roses in young men’s noses When the heart is one-and-twenty. ~ Marcel Proust,

677:Sometimes we must do things, plenty scared or not. To be able to say afterward,`I was plenty scared`makes a man a bigger man, not a smaller one. ~ LaVyrle Spencer,

678:Tara, you are the most unexpected, but best thing, that has ever happened to me. I have let plenty of women into my bed, but none of them into my heart. ~ M Never,

679:Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle. ~ Sasha Cohen,

680:[Hillary Clinton] talks about solar panels. We invested in a solar company, our country. That was a disaster. They lost plenty of money on that one. ~ Donald Trump,

681:I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress. ~ Robert Kennedy,

682:Plenty of crazy people in New York. There are so many crazy people here, I think it's like one out of every one person is completely out of their mind. ~ Louis C K,

683:The primes are the raw material out of which we have to build arithmetic, and Euclid's theorem assures us that we have plenty of material for the task. ~ G H Hardy,

684:There are plenty of dates that are dead nights that you could do. There are plenty evenings that are dead nights that you could have the debates in. ~ Donald Trump,

685:Trust me, if you want to complain, you’ll always find plenty to complain about, even when fortune appears to be shining her favor upon you. But ~ Elizabeth Gilbert,

686:Working 40 hours a week is plenty. Plenty of time to do great work, plenty of time to be competitive, plenty of time to get the important stuff done. ~ Jason Fried,

687:An itinerant selfish gene/ Said 'bodies a- plenty I've seen./ You think you're so clever/ But I'll live for ever./ You're just a survival machine. ~ Richard Dawkins,

688:Come on," Falco said. "I'll see you safely home to your fancy sheets. I'd say you need your beauty sleep, but it looks like you've been getting plenty. ~ Fiona Paul,

689:Come on,” Falco said. “I’ll see you safely home to your fancy sheets. I’d say you need your beauty sleep, but it looks like you’ve been getting plenty. ~ Fiona Paul,

690:I am perfectly capable of taking care of myself, young lady. I have plenty of cartridges for my shotgun and this is a new pair of trousers. I’m ready. ~ Derek Landy,

691:I know plenty of actresses in their early thirties who look amazing, although there's that old saying: 'Ladies get older, men get more distinguished. ~ Scott Porter,

692:I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay. ~ Bette Davis,

693:The attraction of a life devoted to sensation, pleasure and self would probably wear thin one day, but there was still plenty of time for that yet. ~ David Nicholls,

694:The owl and the pussycat went to sea, / In a beautiful pea green boat. / They took some honey, and plenty of money, / Wrapped up in a five pound note. ~ Edward Lear,

695:There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel. ~ Franklin P Adams,

696:There is plenty of room to make a profit in a zero-carbon economy; but the profit motive is not going to be the midwife for that great transformation. ~ Naomi Klein,

697:He'd had enough suffering right now to last him forever with plenty left over for others if they didn't have enough and wanted to have some more. ~ Richard Brautigan,

698:I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress. ~ Robert F Kennedy,

699:I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all," added little Amy, with an injured sniff. ~ Louisa May Alcott,

700:I spent plenty of hours trying to escape my childhood reality holed up in a ratty movie theater watching larger-than-life heroes take on the bad guys. ~ Meghan March,

701:It is but one of the many follies of luxury which lead men to believe that plenty now is abundance always and fortune is everlasting. Pure folly. ~ Stephen R Lawhead,

702:Listen," I told him. "Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I haven't even had my coffee yet. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

703:Plenty of philosophical men live in abstract regions, debating types and shadows. The rarer sort is the reader and thinker who can see the world whole. ~ Jon Meacham,

704:Plenty of white space and generous line spacing,and don't make the type size too miserly. Then you will be assured of a product fit for a king. ~ Giambattista Bodoni,

705:Worse still, it isn’t actually necessary to look to space for petrifying danger. As we are about to see, Earth can provide plenty of danger of its own. ~ Bill Bryson,

706:A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little. ~ Benjamin Franklin,

707:Inside was where she lived, physically and mentally. She resided in the horn of plenty of her own prodigious mind, fertilized by inexhaustible curiosity. ~ Tim LaHaye,

708:I tried to stay mad at her, but it wasn't easy. We'd been through a lot together. She saved my life plenty of times. It was stupid of me to resent her. ~ Rick Riordan,

709:I was dealing with bullies. I had plenty of experience with that. Only these bullies had claws and fangs. And spells. Mustn’t forget the spells. Dastien ~ Aileen Erin,

710:When we cultivate an intentional life, we have plenty to share. We learn to share, not out of our excess but to purposefully grow things to bless others. ~ Lara Casey,

711:A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of being thought to have but little. ~ Benjamin Franklin,

712:I did plenty of crazy stuff, but I did a lot of charity stuff. You can't stop. You want to continue to taste, and sometimes that's crazy, stupid things. ~ Leif Garrett,

713:I don't like to comment on a specific local issue because there are plenty of people already working on the problem who know a lot more about it than I do. ~ Van Jones,

714:I eat healthy most of the time. Whole foods are the best for you when you are super active, so I get plenty of fruits and veggies to keep me energized. ~ Witney Carson,

715:Jake had never felt like such a fool for keeping a promise. He'd broken plenty of others he should have kept. Why had he kept one he should have broken? ~ Randy Alcorn,

716:Our faith is the rock we stand on, Willa--but we don't demand anyone else stand here with us. Though if ever you wanted to, there is plenty of room. ~ Roseanna M White,

717:Plenty of bad movies are very successful, and plenty of good movies are not. And distribution is so crazy, some films won't even get their day in court. ~ Willem Dafoe,

718:You know, she said finally, we colored folks talk plenty of shit about loving our children but we really don't. She exhaled. We don't, we don't, we don't. ~ Junot D az,

719:Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing. ~ Christine McVie,

720:My Best Friend and I have spent plenty of time together, despite me being in my First Ever Relationship. This is because friends should always come first. ~ Holly Smale,

721:Plenty of pundits have really high IQs, but they don't have any discipline in how they look at the world, and so it leads to a lot of bullshit, basically. ~ Nate Silver,

722:These idle disputants overlooked the invariable laws of nature, which have connected peace with innocence, plenty with industry, and safety with valour. ~ Edward Gibbon,

723:At the BBC we've had plenty of women in good management jobs. It comes and goes but there's been plenty. On air, I think there's quite a bit more we can do. ~ Evan Davis,

724:By definition, gay is smart. I see plenty of macho heterosexual idiots, but nine times out of 10 you can have a great conversation if you find a gay guy. ~ Jason Bateman,

725:Human Rights for everyone is the necessary foundation upon which all of us may build a world where everybody may live in peace and serenity and plenty. ~ Michael Douglas,

726:I've been hit on plenty of times, mostly by men with little finesse who thought what was between their legs made up for what they lacked between their ears. ~ Megan Hart,

727:I was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse. As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them. ~ Joan of Arc,

728:Our best theories of people, presented on their own terms and without reference to underlying particles and forces, leave plenty of room for human choice. ~ Sean Carroll,

729:Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support. ~ Paul Davies,

730:That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches. ~ William Penn,

731:The result is ... that there's no room left in the world for the weird – though plenty for crude, contemptuous, wisecracking, fun-poking imitations of it. ~ Fritz Leiber,

732:Don't reach for the halo too soon. You have plenty of time to enjoy yourself, even a little maliciously sometimes, before you settle down to being a saint. ~ Ellis Peters,

733:If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it. ~ E W Howe,

734:If people like electronic music, then great - let that be the next thing. I don't think I ever really will, but there's plenty of records for me to go buy. ~ Doug Martsch,

735:I have gotten over feeling badly. We would be eternally miserable if our errors worried us too much because as we push forward we will make plenty more. ~ Ernest Lawrence,

736:I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. PHILIPPIANS 4 : 4,12 ~ Sarah Young,

737:I think the first trick to writing a feminist work is to write plenty of women. That way you get to write characters, instead of worrying about paradigms. ~ Leigh Bardugo,

738:It's good to learn early that every show is a family - -complete with dysfunctional relationships, tough love, and plenty of occasion for forgiveness. ~ Kristin Chenoweth,

739:Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived. ~ Niccol Machiavelli,

740:My grandmother once told me that while there is no suffering a person cannot endure, there is plenty of good fortune one can never hope to enjoy. I believe that. ~ Mo Yan,

741:The actors had plenty of stories about tourists discussing everything from crimes they’d committed to their secret ATM codes right in front of the mascots. ~ Stuart Gibbs,

742:Yes, well. It’s hard to follow a person’s logic if you don’t know how they feel. And you’re wrong. Perry does talk. Watch him. You’ll see he says plenty. ~ Veronica Rossi,

743:But what if you don’t like Chico?” she asked him, her brow furrowed. “Will you be there? Because if that’s where you want to be, I’ll find plenty to like. ~ Robyn Carr,

744:distinct vision, a precise plan, plenty of resources, and incredible leadership, but if you don’t have the right people, you’re not going to get anywhere. ~ John C Maxwell,

745:He threw my father into a cold prison cell, then took me in his place! I think tying him up in front of a warm roaring fire is plenty generous, considering! ~ Liz Braswell,

746:I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me. ~ Karen Carpenter,

747:I have sparred with commenters as a music writer (on The Rumpus, among other places, see e.g., my review about Taylor Swift), and that was plenty of training! ~ Rick Moody,

748:I looked plenty close, Mireille, and saw many beautiful things but I also saw terrible things. I can’t pretend otherwise. You shouldn’t expect me to.” “Right, ~ Roxane Gay,

749:In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours. The god you worship is the god you deserve. ~ Joseph Campbell,

750:I've turned up to costume parties in the wrong costume. I've made social faux pas a plenty. I've put one foot in front of the other and fallen over. ~ Benedict Cumberbatch,

751:I was a thirty-eight-year-old man, so I had plenty of time to consider the world through the eyes of someone else: yet that someone had rarely been a woman. ~ Laila Lalami,

752:Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli,

753:Plenty people even in the middle of sufferation going pick the bad they know over the good they can only dream about, because who dream but madman and fool? ~ Marlon James,

754:The few gray hairs she has on her head are my doing. But”—with an exaggerated change of mood—“I send her plenty of money, so she can pay to have them dyed! ~ Tamora Pierce,

755:Baseball is a game of failure. There are plenty of opportunities to be down, or to feel sorry for yourself, or to be upset at somebody or upset at yourself. ~ Mark Teixeira,

756:But we had plenty of time for youthful indecision, both apart and together, for limping into the future past the unforgettable ash heaps of our histories. ~ Robyn Schneider,

757:Educating yourself does not mean that you were stupid in the first place; it means that you are intelligent enough to know that there is plenty left to learn. ~ Melanie Joy,

758:I came here with plenty of holes in my shoes and plenty of nothing in my belly. Life felt like I was sipping it through a narrow straw. I always gasped for more. ~ L J Shen,

759:Like Twitter, which faced much skepticism early on, Jelly has plenty of folks raising an eyebrow in its direction while trying to figure out what it’s good for. ~ Anonymous,

760:Lucien took the cigar and lit it, in the Spanish fashion, from that of the priest. "He is right," Lucien thought; "there is plenty of time to kill myself. ~ Honor de Balzac,

761:Plenty of people get cheated on and don’t lose their minds. Take me, for example. I threw a vase at Charlie’s head and moved on. That’s a normal reaction. ~ Karen M McManus,

762:There are plenty of troubled, clutter souls who make you want to hurt them as much as they hurt you, even though you know they’re already suffering plenty. ~ Julie Klausner,

763:In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours.   The god you worship is the god you deserve. ~ Joseph Campbell,

764:Tea" to the English is really picnic indoors. Plenty of sandwiches and cookies and of course hot tea. We all used the same cups and plates. (Walker 2000: 116) ~ Alice Walker,

765:The Bible's historical accuracy is a reminder that while "the heavens declare the glory of God," there's also plenty of evidence among the rubble and ruins. ~ Charles Colson,

766:There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. ~ Kurt Vonnegut,

767:Going through the motions gives you plenty of time to examine the motions. I used to find this interesting. Now it has taken on the taint of meaninglessness. ~ David Levithan,

768:Here at St Mary’s, our needs are simple. So long as there’s plenty of it and it’s covered in gravy – or custard – or sometimes both – we’re usually quite happy. ~ Jodi Taylor,

769:If you're growing up in times of peace and live in a country where there's plenty of food and good healthcare, you grow up without any relationship with death. ~ Peter Morgan,

770:I'm not even the coolest one of my friends. I'm just the guy who sat down and wrote everything down. Like I know plenty of people who do crazier stuff than I do. ~ Tucker Max,

771:Learn to give, give in plenty, give with love, give without any expectation, one does not lose anything by giving, on the other hand you get back a thousand fold. ~ Sivananda,

772:Many people in Paris are quite content to look on at others, and there are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing. ~ Victor Hugo,

773:Oh, I'm crazy all right. I do have plenty of psychoses. Multiple personality, delusional dementia, OCD. I've got them all, but most of all, I'm crazy about you. ~ Eoin Colfer,

774:There are plenty of people out there judging us every day of our lives and for every move we make. The gods of guilt are many.You don't need to add to them ~ Michael Connelly,

775:When a man had married into a family where there was a whole litter of women, he might have plenty to put up with if he chose. But Mr. Tulliver did not choose. ~ George Eliot,

776:A good plan allows for plenty of spontaneity and room for change - but without a plan at all, it's difficult to work toward something significant over time. ~ Chris Guillebeau,

777:Even so, it was a goodish yarn, with plenty of derring-do, and I added some derring-didn’ t-really-but-it-sounds-good, just to keep up her glowing opinion of me. ~ Hugh Laurie,

778:He’d calloused his mind plenty, but because his foundation was cracked, when shit got real he lost control of his mindset and became a slave to his self doubt. ~ David Goggins,

779:I've given her signs! I've given her plenty of signs. What does she want me to do? Slap him across the face with my glove, and challenge him to pistols at dawn? ~ Molly Ringle,

780:Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. ~ Christopher Hitchens,

781:No," he assured her. "The old Alex would've had plenty to say." She lifted an amused eyebrow as he continued. "Old Alex would've instantly hated that douche. ~ Elizabeth Reyes,

782:There are beds and tables in the world - plenty of them, are there not? But there are only two ideas or forms of them - one the idea of a bed, the other of a table. ~ Socrates,

783:there’s plenty of blame to go around. But without them, I would not have been part of a larger plot to overthrow the Capitol or had the wherewithal to do it. ~ Suzanne Collins,

784:We should find other platforms, other forums for that [foreign policy], and there are plenty of them, including, for example, the UN and the Security Council. ~ Vladimir Putin,

785:Actors need steely determination. It's a tough profession with plenty of knocks along the way. You have to be very determined and never take 'no' for an answer. ~ Naomie Harris,

786:Always refuse to be like the others! The more you become similar to the others the more you will be useless because there are already plenty of the others! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,

787:A struggle for existence is not a decent living. A man or woman or child may die of starvation in a city teeming with plenty. Only human life is concerned. ~ Susette La Flesche,

788:Availing himself of the innate Apache love of fighting, he offered full army pay to warriors willing to turn against their own people (he had plenty of takers). ~ Peter Cozzens,

789:Believe it or not, there are plenty of ways to satisfy your need for blood without harming anyone." I raised an eyebrow. "Yeah, but where's the fun in that? ~ Jaye Wells,

790:Garrison wrote in his memo to Hoar. “There is no place in Mogadishu we cannot go and be successful in a fight. There are plenty of places we can go and be stupid. ~ Mark Bowden,

791:In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t or can’t and plenty of them aren’t in prison either. ~ Stephen King,

792:I thought of the many people who had said to me, 'You're young; you've got plenty of time to recover.' This seemed the coldest comfort, the grimmest fact of all. ~ Denton Welch,

793:Plenty of things in life are superlatively uninteresting; so that it is one-half of art to select from realities those which contain the possibility of poetry ~ Honor de Balzac,

794:So far I've always kept my diet secret but now I might as well tell everyone what it is. Lots of grapefruit throughout the day and plenty of virile young men. ~ Angie Dickinson,

795:There are plenty of designers around who could advise you on artwork. I'm not the person you want." "Oh, I suspect you are exactly the person I'm looking for. ~ B J Daniels,

796:There was plenty of dysfunction in my family and I went to Catholic School with these psychotic nuns. I would always try to be funny to lighten the mood. ~ Downtown Julie Brown,

797:What people tend to forget is the journey that I had getting to Formula One. There were plenty of years where I had to learn about losing and having bad races. ~ Lewis Hamilton,

798:Ladies, ladies, ladies,” Hugh Shaughnessy said as he strode into the room with his son in his arms. “There is plenty of this baby – and his poop – to go around. ~ Samantha Chase,

799:There had been plenty of books and films romanticizing vampires over the last century. It was only a matter of time before a vampire started romanticizing himself. ~ Holly Black,

800:was never one for accepting convention at face value, but through (plenty of) trial and error I have made working hard, being polite, and being honest a choice. ~ Sophia Amoruso,

801:When there is a lot of power concentrated in one place, there are plenty of scraps to fight over. If the Court isn’t busy drinking poison, then it’s drinking bile. ~ Holly Black,

802:Nog was proud to be a Ferengi, but that didn’t mean he was proud of everything the Ferengi people had ever done, and that definitely included plenty of his relatives. ~ S D Perry,

803:our women did give plenty of suck for their children, and were strong, yea, even like unto the men; and they began to bear their journeyings without murmurings. ~ Joseph Smith Jr,

804:The cast gets along pretty well, it's a good work environment. I hang out a lot with Brett Claywell, he plays Tim Smith on the show. We play plenty of basketball ~ James Lafferty,

805:Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.) ~ Meher Baba,

806:In spite of the problems he was having, he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t or can’t, and plenty of them aren’t in prison, either. ~ Stephen King,

807:In their faces--plenty of them were handsome, but ruined--I've seen the remnants of who they almost succeeded in being but failed to be, before becoming themselves. ~ Richard Ford,

808:We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to the Blue Ridge Mountains. ~ Roy Barnes,

809:And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it. ~ Brian Lumley,

810:Daddy,' my mother asked, 'aren’t we going to run out of gas?' No there’s plenty of god-damned gas.' Where are we going?' I’m going to get some god-damed oranges! ~ Charles Bukowski,

811:I knew being your girlfriend wouldn’t have many perks. I still owe you things.” “You have plenty of perks,” I tell her. “You just choose not to delight in them. ~ Krista Ritchie,

812:I knew how you liked long tales," he said, giving her a wink. "There's sure to be plenty of those." "In Gaelic," she said. "All the better for learning it. ~ Margaret Mallory,

813:Love dies in many different ways, and it's natural for the grass to seem greener on the other side. But it's not a competition; there's plenty of pain to go around. ~ Rob Sheffield,

814:There are plenty of men who philander during the summer, to be sure, but they are usually the same lot who philander during the winter - albeit with less convenience. ~ Nora Ephron,

815:There's plenty more fish in the sea than Prince Jonathan," he told her softly. "And this particular fish loves you with all his crooked heart." -George to Alanna ~ Tamora Pierce,

816:There are plenty of girls who can go pull a guy on the dance floor or in a dark corner of a bar, but no matter what continent I’m on, I am certainly not one of them. ~ Abby McDonald,

817:There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. ~ Kurt Vonnegut,

818:To me it’s splitting hairs not to think these men monsters. After all, there are plenty of human monsters too, just as twisted and evil as anything supernatural. ~ Rebecca Roanhorse,

819:Everyone knows that yellow, orange, and red suggest ideas of joy and plenty. I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will. ~ Eugene Delacroix,

820:JOE2.26 And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed. ~ Anonymous,

821:The applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes. ~ Thomas Gray,

822:The free market is 'socialism' for the rich: the public pays the costs and the rich get the benefit - markets for the poor and plenty of state protection for the rich. ~ Noam Chomsky,

823:The satyr was a little trigger-happy, and the helm had plenty of bright, dangerous buttons that could cause the picturesque Italian villages below them to go BOOM! Leo ~ Rick Riordan,

824:Bring together as many people as you can to help you. Share your energy. Share your ideas. Share your cause. And make sure you have plenty of cake. Everyone loves cake. ~ Jessica Hagy,

825:My bitterness is not an abstract substance, it is as solid as a Christmas cake; I can cut it in slices and hand it round and there is still plenty left, for tomorrow. ~ Caitlin Thomas,

826:My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people; which is one reason why I'm not subject to what is known as loneliness. I have plenty of company. ~ William S Burroughs,

827:Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways. ~ H Jackson Brown Jr,

828:The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb says: 'God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.' ~ Frederick Marryat,

829:There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty. ~ L Frank Baum,

830:There was still plenty of time to spare when Çetin Efendi dropped my parents and me at the revolving doors, which were shaded by a canopy in the form of a flying carpet. ~ Orhan Pamuk,

831:Tonight I think again of many days that are sacrificed for one night of love. Of the waste and the fruit of the waste, of plenty and of fire. And how painlessly-time. ~ Yehuda Amichai,

832:Also, I had not yet found out about time; I was still under the illusion that I had plenty of time - time for this, time for that, time for everything, time to waste. ~ Joseph Mitchell,

833:Character is doing what you don't want to do, but know you should do. There's plenty of room and company on the broad road, but it's not easy to walk on that narrow path. ~ Joyce Meyer,

834:If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them. ~ Lewis Carroll,

835:I make plenty of mistakes and I'll make plenty more mistakes, too. That's part of the game. You've just got to make sure that the right things overcome the wrong ones. ~ Warren Buffett,

836:In every issue there are winners are losers, and the losers are plenty. But they have to be willing to grudgingly accept the result. That's the genius of our democracy. ~ Dick Gephardt,

837:I've hated cockroaches my entire life.Tweeting jokes about it helps me cope, in a way. I'm not as jumpy killing cave crickets as I used to be. I still jump plenty though. ~ Drew Magary,

838:Oh, no, Nadia. There are plenty of limits, and trust me, the world will smack you down and teach you where they are. But make the world do that. Don't do it to yourself. ~ Claudia Gray,

839:Sinatra’s idea of paradise is a place where there are plenty of women and no newspapermen. He doesn’t know it, but he’d be better off if it were the other way around. ~ Humphrey Bogart,

840:You can’t tell me anything about family life. I’ve had plenty to last me.’ ‘But it’s not all like that,’ I objected. ‘Near enough. It’s all being under somebody’s thumb. ~ Willa Cather,

841:Good breathers are not apt to "take cold," and they generally have plenty of good warm blood which enables them to resist the changes in the outer temperature. ~ William Walker Atkinson,

842:I am going to turn over a new life and am going to be a very good girl and be obedient to Isa Keith, here there is plenty of gooseberries which makes my teeth watter. ~ Marjorie Fleming,

843:I think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young, and got this idea that a gentleman should know a lot about one thing and plenty about most everything else. ~ John Darnielle,

844:I've been in plenty of situations where I thought the film would turn out one way or my performance would be looked at one way and it was an entirely different situation. ~ Edward Zwick,

845:I've never had a movie that got great reviews. I've had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but you can more or less count on plenty of bad reviews. ~ Wes Anderson,

846:There was plenty of life left and if he had to he would use it all to get her back. The time had passed for making promises to her-all that was left for him was to act. ~ Anna Godbersen,

847:To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen - that is true happiness. ~ Winston Churchill,

848:Around the lunch table everyone seems to have given something up---dairy, meat, gluten, sugar, carbs. Only in a land of plenty could people voluntarily go without so much. ~ J C Carleson,

849:curled up and indulged in that worst of vices, self-pity, doing it thoroughly, with plenty of tears. I don’t see anything wrong with crying; it lubricates the psyche. ~ Robert A Heinlein,

850:gods were always demanding that their followers acted other than according to their true natures, and the human fallout this caused made plenty of work for witches. The ~ Terry Pratchett,

851:Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us! ~ Knut Hamsun,

852:I'm dating three men, living with two more, and having occasional sex with two others. That's seven men. I'm like a pornographic Snow White. I think seven is plenty. ~ Laurell K Hamilton,

853:No one in their right mind would attempt to salvage it, but there were plenty of people not in their right mind. The world was full of them, more produced every minute. ~ Robert Ferrigno,

854:Oh, please. Everyone in this town always says that, like you have to be born here to understand things. I understand plenty. You're only as weird as you want to be. ~ Sarah Addison Allen,

855:The girls who work there dream of a place far away where there is plenty of everything and life can be what they want it to be. They have decided Canada is such a place. ~ Heather Morris,

856:There are plenty of opportunities for common grounds that we need to explore and strengthen. The Hispanic community has a strong affinity for our relationship with Israel. ~ Bob Menendez,

857:Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for the personal attack. ~ Ellen Goodman,

858:Each of us has had plenty of experience with technology, but few of us have the theoretical or theological tools to make sense of the consequences of our use of technology. ~ Tim Challies,

859:I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel ~ Anne McCaffrey,

860:My wife bought me a vintage Gibson guitar that isn't just beautiful but has tremendous sentimental value. I have plenty of guitars for live gigs but this is one to treasure. ~ Bill Bailey,

861:Paul implies that it’s not just hunger and need that pose a challenge to contentment; so do plenty and abundance. Material wealth in a fallen world is surrounded by paradox. ~ Scott Sauls,

862:To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the outset b abstract accusations of self-contradiction ~ William James,

863:Aedan nodded, trying not to stare, failing. “Supper will level your opinion of me.” It was true. There was plenty of stew to be had and Aedan went to bed hungry. ~ Jonathan Renshaw,

864:Fighting a battle with the earth seems like a plenty noble calling to me. Putting food on your table and on the plates of others - it's a quieter way. But it's a good way. ~ Rachel Fordham,

865:I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to read them and then make sure that he had plenty of opportunities to disobey you. ~ C S Lewis,

866:I like gay men who don’t hate women, and I don’t mind being around rich white people, because there’s plenty of them in the Bay Area, and I know how to ignore Republicans. ~ Terry McMillan,

867:Plenty of talented people don't have the careers they want. Plenty of untalented people make millions and make movies. There is a difference between determination and talent. ~ Amy Poehler,

868:Ritie, don't worry 'cause you ain't pretty. Plenty pretty women I seen digging ditches or worse. You smart. I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind. ~ Maya Angelou,

869:She's had plenty of experience of job loss from the other side in her life, but had never noticed how calculated to cause offence a lot of human-resources-speak actually is. ~ Alex Marwood,

870:There's plenty for me to do. There are more albums. I'll record as long as I can and as long as my voice works as well as it does now and for as long as people want to hear me. ~ Tom Jones,

871:There's plenty of room for all sorts of movies and all sorts of comedies, so I never saw that as a competitive thing. I think there's room in the marketplace for everything. ~ Steve Carell,

872:Wedded she some years, and to a man Of fifty, and such husbands are in plenty; And yet, I think, instead of such a ONE 'Twere better to have TWO of five and twenty... ~ Lord Byron,

873:Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale. ~ Oliver Goldsmith,

874:Daddy,' my mother asked, 'aren’t we going to run out of gas?' No there’s plenty of god-damned gas.' Where are we going?' I’m going to get some god-damed oranges! ~ Charles Bukowski,

875:Everywhere we walked we got plenty of attention due to the camera and sound men. The locals love to get on camera. I walked down the street feeling like the Pied Piper. At ~ Karl Pilkington,

876:I’ve met plenty of embarrassing parents, but Kronos, the evil Titan Lord who wanted to destroy Western Civilization? Not the kind of dad you invited to school for Career Day. ~ Rick Riordan,

877:Shinji is a quality player but he is not the only one who is finding it hard to get regular football. There are many top players in the squad and there is plenty of competition. ~ Andy Cole,

878:Steve, on the other hand, has plenty of friends, but he wouldn't bleed for any of them, because he wouldn't trust them to bleed for him. In that way he's just as alone as me. ~ Markus Zusak,

879:There is plenty of work for love to do. That was a wonderful way of putting it, and she had told him that this could be the best possible motto for anybody to have. ~ Alexander McCall Smith,

880:Women have plenty of roles in which they can serve with distinction: some of us even run countries. But generally we are better at wielding the handbag than the bayonet. ~ Margaret Thatcher,

881:Any subject is suitable provided it is of sufficient interest, but the design must be very carefully considered, and plenty of time and thought given to its construction. ~ Walter J Phillips,

882:Hey,” snapped Holly. “This is not the time to blame Artemis.” “Thank you,” said Artemis. “Finally.” “There will be plenty of time to blame Artemis later, when this is resolved. ~ Eoin Colfer,

883:I still wasn't sure I could remember a time when I felt relaxed. I've felt tired plenty of times, but I don't know if I've ever felt relaxed. I wasn't even sure what it meant. ~ James R Doty,

884:I've never suffered from writer's block. I have plenty of ideas, sometimes too many. I've always had a strong imagination. If it dries up I'll stop and look for another career. ~ J G Ballard,

885:I wouldn't think a blues album would be that commercially successful, but I don't really care. I'd do it for the love of blues, not for the money. I've got plenty of money. ~ Christine McVie,

886:Military police,” Reacher said. “But don’t worry. I’m sure by five o’clock we’ll have plenty of civilized people here. You can give up on me and get along with them instead.” The ~ Lee Child,

887:The media loves to take things like that [Rocky Marciano couldn't hold my jockstrap] out of context. There was no harm meant when I said that, but plenty of harm came from it. ~ Larry Holmes,

888:The world's got plenty of mages, Kellen. What it needs are men and women." She made the words sound different than the way people usually say them. Important, somehow. ~ Sebastien de Castell,

889:I have absolutely no histrionic talent, none at all, a constitutional handicap in almost all undertakings of life;but then, after all, plenty of actors possess little enough. ~ Anthony Powell,

890:Is there plenty of celebration in your life? How about your spiritual life? Is it an exercise in following rules and practices? Or does it look more like a joyous celebration? ~ Steve Goodier,

891:I've experienced plenty of times when something I think is funny doesn't do very well. And there are times when something I don't think is funny makes the audience laugh so hard. ~ Carrot Top,

892:Like most of the movies I get involved with, I resisted as long as possible, I really try to figure out why I shouldn't do it and this one had plenty of reasons "not to do it". ~ Jeff Bridges,

893:Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible. ~ Richard M Nixon,

894:Sal could have killed me for trying to escape the mines, but he didn’t. I’d certainly given him plenty of reasons to do it before then as well. I had to help him now. The ~ Jennifer A Nielsen,

895:There will be no peace on Feng Lu. I have seen how humans adapt to a cruel world. I have watched this continent of peace and plenty become the grasping, violent place it is now. ~ Julie C Dao,

896:The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may. ~ Woodrow Wilson,

897:They are spending plenty of time and money on the road, but they never spent enough of themselves to begin with. Thus, their experience of travel has a diminished sense of value. ~ Rolf Potts,

898:Trellis wants his salutary book to be read by all. He realizes that purely a moralizing tract would not reach the public. Therefore he is putting plenty of smut into his book. ~ Flann O Brien,

899:We only work four days a week, we only work three weeks out of the month, and we get four months off for the summer. So there's plenty of time for me to spend with the kids. ~ Patricia Heaton,

900:If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do. ~ Carlos Alazraqui,

901:In a world of plenty, continued suffering is a terrible stain on our conscience. It is inexcusable that we not strive, with every resource at our disposal, to eliminate suffering. ~ Kofi Annan,

902:I’ve met plenty of embarrassing parents, but Kronos, the evil Titan Lord who wanted to destroy Western Civilization? Not the kind of dad you invited to school for Career Day. ~ Rick Riordan,

903:People might think it lonely living on my own nearly all the time, but I never found it lonely. I always had plenty to think about, and anyway maybe I'm not so good on people. ~ Winston Graham,

904:Percy looked at his friends. "I'm getting tired of this guy's shirt." "Combat time?" Piper grabbed her horn of plenty. "I hate wonder bread," Jason said. Together, they charged. ~ Rick Riordan,

905:There were plenty of things I was actually glad I had left unsaid. Still, the comment haunted me. It haunts me today. All the things I wish I had said when I had the chance. ~ William Finnegan,

906:Um, um, um. Stop that thunder! Plenty too much thunder up here. What's the use of thunder? Um, um, um. We don't want thunder; we want rum; give us a glass of rum. Um, um, um! ~ Herman Melville,

907:Cities are the world’s new vacant niches, and the blackbird is one species that has embarked on the road toward speciating to maximize its profits from this horn of plenty, ~ Menno Schilthuizen,

908:Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed. ~ Khaled Hosseini,

909:I also learned that there was always plenty of time later to wallow in one’s comfort zone, but this moment, when an option presents itself, may never come again . . . so grab it. ~ Janaki Lenin,

910:I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It's like - there's plenty of help. ~ Michael McKean,

911:I've won plenty of games by knowing when to take out my pitcher; whom to replace him with; or how to place my infield or outfield to defend properly against the opposing hitter. ~ Walter Alston,

912:There is enough love and good will in our movement to give energy to our struggle and still have plenty left over to break down and change the climate of hate and fear around us. ~ Cesar Chavez,

913:Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction can be difficult, lonely job; it’s like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There’s plenty of opportunity for self-doubt. ~ Stephen King,

914:I felt compelled to venture forth and explore the true face of the world. Leading a satisfying life of plenty had blinded many of us to the immense hardships beyond our borders. ~ Werner Bischof,

915:If it gets to the point where I actually physically cannot have a child, there's plenty of children in the world that need a stable home and loving parent. I'm so down for adoption. ~ Joy Bryant,

916:If we want the whole world to be rich, we need to start loving wealth. In the difference between poverty and plenty, the problem is the pverty, not the difference. Wealth is good. ~ P J O Rourke,

917:I had turned soft, smug, self-satisfied, lulled to sleep by my cushy lifestyle and the easy availability of the game in these pastures of plenty I had been hunting in for so long. ~ Jeff Lindsay,

918:On the right, plenty of new white nationalist voices would like to drag the country backward to an identity once again based on race, ethnicity, or religion. It is urgent that ~ Francis Fukuyama,

919:There are plenty to love you so try to be satisfied with Father and Mother, Sisters and Brothers, friends and babies till the best lover of all comes to give you your reward. ~ Louisa May Alcott,

920:There is plenty of room at the top because very few people care to travel beyond the average route. And so most of us seem satisfied to remain within the confines of mediocrity. ~ Nnamdi Azikiwe,

921:We want a better America, an America that will give its citizens, first of all, a higher and higher standard of living so that no child will cry for food in the midst of plenty. ~ Sidney Hillman,

922:Finally: not human at all. Once the Niess were gone, of course, it became clear that the fabled Niess sessapinae did not exist. Sylanagistine scholars and biomagestres had plenty of ~ N K Jemisin,

923:I did see [in Afghanistan] plenty that reminded me of my childhood. I recognised my old neighbourhood, saw my old school, streets where I had played with my brother and cousins. ~ Khaled Hosseini,

924:If you Google me, you'll find plenty of "dumb blonde" references - even though I graduated with honors from Stanford and studied at Oxford University. I don't let it bother me. ~ Gretchen Carlson,

925:In the marketing society, we seek fulfillment but settle for abundance. Prisoners of plenty, we have the freedom to consume instead of our freedom to find our place in the world. ~ Clive Hamilton,

926:I SAID IT BEFORE AND I’LL KEEP SAYING IT: I’M NOT THE BEST shot in the world. There were plenty of guys better than me, even in that class. I only graduated about middle of the pack. ~ Chris Kyle,

927:People wait in line to see me, saying there's plenty of living to be done even if you have an HIV diagnosis. People say they are 10- or 15-year survivors and still moving forward. ~ Greg Louganis,

928:Undue familiarity cheapens a girl even in her lover’s eyes and lays the foundation of future jealousy and possible murder. There is plenty of time for familiarity after marriage. ~ Therese Oneill,

929:I can best compare my life to a vitaminless diet--plenty of nutritive bulk, but the little something that meant health was lacking. I suppose my trouble was really spiritual scurvy. ~ Dion Fortune,

930:I found plenty of organizations ready to give to veterans or to advocate for them, but no organizations that were ready to ask of wounded veterans that they continue their service. ~ Eric Greitens,

931:I have absolutely no histrionic talent, none at all, a constitutional handicap in almost all the undertakings of life; but then, after all, plenty of actors possess little enough. ~ Anthony Powell,

932:In the marketing society, we seek fulfillment but settle for abundance. Prisoners of plenty, we have the freedom to consume in stead of our freedom to find our place in the world. ~ Clive Hamilton,

933:It seemed like my parents were always trying to get me to care about money, but I didn’t, really. Then again, it's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it. ~ Ransom Riggs,

934:Mrs. Wiggins thought some more, and then she said: “I’ve got it! Suppose you spin a web between my horns! Then you’ll have it with you all day, and you can catch plenty of flies. ~ Walter R Brooks,

935:Republicans and conservatives have to figure out that Democrats have plenty of rope to hang themselves on their own. But you have to give voters a reason to vote for you as well. ~ Andrea Tantaros,

936:The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. (Terullian) When she ceases to bleed, she ceases to bless. She can thrive through persecution, but never through peace and plenty. ~ L E Maxwell,

937:There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is - certainly is one of them. But it's low on my list. ~ P J O Rourke,

938:There's plenty of room for everyone in the world. Enough money, riches, and beauty for all to share. God has made enought for everyone, so let us all begin then by sharing it fairly. ~ Anne Frank,

939:Whether you live in the snake pit of Washington, D.C., work among the materialism of Wall Street, or grew up in a closed-minded small town, you can live well. Plenty of others have. ~ Ryan Holiday,

940:Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction, can be a difficult, lonely job; it's like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There's plenty of opportunity for self-doubt. ~ Stephen King,

941:Bravery is about overcoming fear, not about not having it. There's plenty I'm afraid of. Just not vampires.' 'We fear the unknown,' she said. 'You must know a lot about vampires. ~ Garth Nix,

942:I just know that there are plenty of people who are in terrible trouble and can't get out. And so I'm impatient with those who think that it's easy for people to get out of trouble. ~ Kurt Vonnegut,

943:I’m trying to speak–to write-the truth. I"m trying to be clear. I’m not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them. ~ Octavia E Butler,

944:In this world of plenty, a tiny baby, who does not yet understand the mystery of the world, is allowed to cry and cry and finally fall asleep without the milk she needs to survive. ~ Muhammad Yunus,

945:I started when I was 8 years old, which is obviously nowadays pretty late, but I guess in my generation it was all right. I had plenty of other interests and I didn't do only tennis. ~ Jana Novotna,

946:It's so dreadful to be poor!" sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress. "I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all, ~ Louisa May Alcott,

947:Relax, Jailbait," said Avery. "A drunken kiss is nothing compared to a drunken fall. God knows I've kissed plenty of guys drunk." "And yet, I remain unkissed tonight," mused Adrian. ~ Richelle Mead,

948:What I hope I would do is something new, but I still love print. I love to touch paper. I'm not sure if I will ever do a magazine again, but I have plenty of ideas on the subject. ~ Carine Roitfeld,

949:Although I'm sure there are plenty of tall, gorgeous, life-of-the-party guys who are also true to their wives, I happen to believe that a disproportionate number of them are cheaters. ~ Emily Giffin,

950:And my clan power, Honágháahnii, will show me where that bullet is heading in plenty of time for me to get out of the way. And that usually means I’m a pretty good bullet dodger. ~ Rebecca Roanhorse,

951:I like suggesting that ‘we are slaves to the objects around us,’ that ‘plenty should be enough,’ or that the ‘buyer should beware,’ within the context of conventional selling space. ~ Barbara Kruger,

952:I'm trying to speak--to write-the truth. I"m trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them. ~ Octavia E Butler,

953:In a world of plenty, no one, not a single person, should go hungry. But almost 1 billion still do not have enough to eat. I want to see an end to hunger everywhere within my lifetime. ~ Ban Ki moon,

954:In Cairo, there was a thin line between pestering and hospitality – indeed, they often amounted to the same thing, and although there were plenty of beggars there was little thievery. ~ Paul Theroux,

955:Never worry about anything that is past. Charge it up to experience and forget the trouble. There are always plenty of troubles ahead, so don't turn and look back on any behind you. ~ Herbert Hoover,

956:... we produced a bundle of pens, a copious supply of ink, and a goodly show of writing and blotting paper. For there was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationary. ~ Charles Dickens,

957:When I was younger, I wanted plenty of things, plenty of people, until I realized there was no point in wanting. Since then, I’ve never had something I wanted, not really. Not ’til you. ~ Penny Reid,

958:I don't really find girls to be any more dramatic or delicate than boys; I've known plenty of little boys who've had miserable breakdowns over things... in fact, I was one of them! ~ Harry Connick Jr,

959:I have a full life: I have two amazing kids, I have great friends, great family. And right now, that's plenty for me to manage. A new relationship just seems like way too much work. ~ Sarah McLachlan,

960:There were plenty of girls at school prettier than Harriet, and nicer. But none of them were as smart, or as brave. How could he make her love him, make her notice when he wasn't there? ~ Donna Tartt,

961:I got a very good life. I sold plenty of records, I get recognized plenty, I can always have somebody call up and get me a fine table at a restaurant. What do you really need, ultimately? ~ Huey Lewis,

962:I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I've got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer. ~ Gertrude Stein,

963:I just want ambitious teenagers to know it is totally fine to be quiet, observant kids. Besides being a delight to your parents, you will find you have plenty of time later to catch up. ~ Mindy Kaling,

964:I just want ambitious teenagers to know it is totally fine to be quite, observant kids. Besides being a delight to your parents, you will find you have plenty of time later to catch up. ~ Mindy Kaling,

965:Others’ jealousies or opinions are not her problem, and she will not allow them to constrain her. She knows plenty of women whose self-esteem is based on the estimations of others. They ~ Sejal Badani,

966:Shakespeare opens a mine which contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty, though clouded by incrustations, debased by impurities, and mingled with a mass of meaner minerales. ~ Samuel Johnson,

967:We made plenty of mistakes, but we never tripped anybody to gain an advantage, or took illegal shortcuts when no judge was around. We have all jogged and panted it out the whole way. ~ Wallace Stegner,

968:You are not the fat girl. You are voluptuous!...You are an angle descended from the heavens, a goddess of plenty walking among the denizens of hell where stick figures reign supreme. ~ Alesia Holliday,

969:You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell. ~ Terry Bradshaw,

970:You don’t become indispensable merely because you are different. But the only way to be indispensable is to be different. That’s because if you’re the same, so are plenty of other people. ~ Seth Godin,

971:All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy for self-defense mechanisms, especially among artists. ~ Steven Erikson,

972:Percy looked at his friends. "I'm getting tired of this guy's shirt." "Combat time?" Piper grabbed her horn of plenty. "I hate wonder bread," Jason said. Together, they charged. ~ Rick Riordan,

973:Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them. ~ Michel de Montaigne,

974:Relax, Jailbait," said Avery. "A drunken kiss is nothing compared to a drunken fall. God knows I've kissed plenty of guys drunk." "And yet, I remain unkissed tonight," mused Adrian. ~ Richelle Mead,

975:Yes, I own twenty of these around the world, as well as several dedicated crematoriums and livestock-rendering factories. It gives me plenty of raw materials. Art supplies, if you will. ~ Larry Correia,

976:You don’t speak to people in London, he remembered; in fact you don’t speak to people anywhere in England; there is plenty of time for that sort of thing on the appointed occasions – ~ Raymond Williams,

977:I'd been a terrific student. I hadn't wasted a moment of my time in school, and I knew plenty about healing the troubled mind. But no one had taught me a thing about healing the soul ~ Diane Chamberlain,

978:If you want your tree to produce plenty o' fruit, you've got to cut it back from time to time. Same thing with your neural cells. Some people might call it brain damage. I call it prunin'. ~ Tom Robbins,

979:In Harlem, black was white. You had rights that could not be denied you; you had privileges, protected by law. And you had money. Everybody in Harlem had money. It was a land of plenty. ~ Rudolph Fisher,

980:I've always found women more loyal, more disciplined, less neurotic, more hardworking. I just think they're perfect colleagues. Whereas, God knows, I've dealt with plenty of neurotic men. ~ Max Hastings,

981:I've got plenty of train memories. I was sent to school when I was eight years old in 1948 in Kent. So I had to go through London in 1948, just after the war. Many ,many strange experiences. ~ John Hurt,

982:Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it. ~ A C Grayling,

983:Nowhere in this country, from sea to sea, does nature comfort us with such assurance of plenty, such rich and tranquil beauty as in those unsung, unpainted hills of Pennsylvania. ~ Rebecca Harding Davis,

984:Now I only have one rule. Before I do anything I ask, Is it okay? Because I'm an American woman and they don't expect me to act like a Hmong anyway, they usually give me plenty of leeway. ~ Anne Fadiman,

985:Of course there are some bad ones,’ he said. ‘Some of the worst anywhere. Harlem’s the capital of the negro world. In any half a million people of any race you’ll get plenty of stinkeroos. ~ Ian Fleming,

986:Perhaps power had to be tended, like Tieren said, but not all things grew in gardens. Plenty of plants grew wild. And Lila had always thought of herself more as a weed than a rose bush. ~ Victoria Schwab,

987:Spend plenty of time with God; let other things go, but don't neglect Him. We are not here to do work for God, we are here to be workers with Him, those through whom He can do His work. ~ Oswald Chambers,

988:The whole point of micro-democracy was to allow people to choose their government wherever they were, but plenty of people didn’t agree with their 99,999 geographically closest friends. ~ Malka Ann Older,

989:...if you can think of meetings you've attended, you can probably recall a time - plenty of times - when the opinion of the most dynamic or talkative person prevailed to the detriment of all. ~ Susan Cain,

990:I know plenty of dances. My favorite is called Not Getting Your Legs Broken for Stealing Figs from That Baker on Pearl Lane.” “That’s sure to charm the princess right into a wedding pact. ~ Jessica Khoury,

991:I think there's plenty of room, even in the most serious activist circles, for humor. Humor can be very effective both to inspire, and as a weapon. Just ask Frank Zappa and Charlie Chaplin. ~ Jello Biafra,

992:Keep in mind, coal plants claim plenty of birds too. Sadly, hydro claims the lives of many fish. There is a price for everything. Solar does the best as far as very minimal wildlife damage. ~ Ed Begley Jr,

993:My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there are unused resources ... people having skills which are not being used. ~ Milton Friedman,

994:Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty. ~ Lord Byron,

995:Within six weeks they were lovers... 'I realized, from having nearly died, that when you're alive, that's what you're supposed to be doing, being alive. There's plenty of time to be dead. ~ Charlotte Kasl,

996:You don't become indispensable merely because you are different. But the only way to become indispensable is to be different. That's because if you're the same, so are plenty of other people. ~ Seth Godin,

997:Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously. ~ Salvador Dali,

998:After all, when you are sick, there are plenty of places (insurance willing) where you can go to get healed, but when you are healed are there any places you can go to learn not to be sick? ~ Lauren Slater,

999:Did you ever look through a microscope at a drop of pond water? You see plenty of love there. All the amoebae getting married. I presume they think it very exciting and important. We don't. ~ Rose Macaulay,

1000:Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have always met with will, and plenty of it, but it has either been led captive by sin or held in the blessed bonds of grace. ~ Charles Spurgeon,

1001:If you take a moment to consider the state of the world, the thing you notice is that there are plenty of babies being born; the planet doesn't really need all of us to produce more babies. ~ Caitlin Moran,

1002:Surely there would be humidity and plenty of it in Hell. Hard to imagine a condemned sinner saying cheerfully, "Well, yes, it's two hundred and sixty degrees down here, but it's a *dry* heat. ~ Tom Robbins,

1003:That which is inherently nonfinanceable is financed. That which is inherently financeable is not financed. And the illogic of poverty amidst eagerness and ability to produce plenty goes on. ~ Louis O Kelso,

1004:There are plenty of people who don't want change - the Labour Party, some of their militant trade union friends like Unite busy causing strikes at the very beginning of a fragile recovery. ~ George Osborne,

1005:I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage. ~ Anne Frank,

1006:I try to get plenty of sleep every single night so that I wake up each morning feeling fully rested. That is one of the most important practices for someone who wants to lead a healthy lifestyle. ~ Josie Ho,

1007:There are plenty of dead scientists I admire, but I can't think of any living ones. This is probably because it is only in retrospect that one can see who made the important contributions. ~ Stephen Hawking,

1008:There's plenty of room for finger-pointing for the debacle in Iraq. If it's a problem that the Iraqi military is broken at its core, then there's no point in sending more Humvees and Apaches. ~ Bruce Riedel,

1009:The tongue of a man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind, the range of words is wide, and their variance. The sort of thing you say is the thing that will be said to you. ~ Homer,

1010:Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much -- who will still be extremely useful in unjust wars. We are sick about that. We did the best we could. ~ Kurt Vonnegut,

1011:We are far too critical of the fabulous system of plenty that has brought us the highest living standards on earth. The liberals have done a good job of undermining faith in the market system. ~ James Cook,

1012:We now face the danger, which in the past has been the most destructive to thehumans: Success, plenty, comfort and ever-increasing leisure. No dynamic peoplehas ever survived these dangers. ~ John Steinbeck,

1013:Women watch plenty of television and theater. They're consumers, like everybody else. I think people don't thinking women go to the movies is a thing that still has to be addressed and changed. ~ Rose Byrne,

1014:although there are plenty of numbers whose divisors add up to one less than the number itself, that is to say only slightly defective, there appear to be no numbers that are slightly excessive. ~ Simon Singh,

1015:Dinner over, we produced a bundle of pens, a copious supply of ink, and a goodly show of writing and blotting paper. For there was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery. ~ Charles Dickens,

1016:I found that, much like gardening, most cooking manages to be agreeably absorbing without being too demanding intellectually. It leaves plenty of mental space for daydreaming and reflection. ~ Michael Pollan,

1017:Plenty of slick, shiny women watching my man with avarice in their eyes. It was something I’d have to get used to. I couldn’t kill all of them. I mean, where on earth would I hide so many bodies? ~ Anonymous,

1018:There's some connection between visual images and music. But there's plenty of old records where I have no idea what the band looked like, or even what sort of context the music was played in. ~ Robert Crumb,

1019:The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,

1020:They'd done plenty of wild things in their time together, but Reeve's favorite and Sutton's too was when he asked her to beg for it. She always did, and he always made sure she was rewarded. ~ Lauren Blakely,

1021:Why I waited until the last days of my life to feel pampered and beautiful. People tell themselves there’s plenty of time to do it all, but most of the time they never see death coming. ~ Denise Grover Swank,

1022:You can throw - and we've seen plenty of these kinds of companies - millions of dollars in advertising for a website or a service, and in the end if it's not useful no one's going to use it. ~ Alexis Ohanian,

1023:Aristocracy is a relative thing. And there are plenty of out-of-the-way places where the son of an upholsterer is the arbiter of fashion and reigns over a court like any young Prince of Wales. ~ Marcel Proust,

1024:Dinner over, we produced a bundle of pens, a copious supply of ink, and a goodly show of writing and blotting paper. For, there was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery. ~ Charles Dickens,

1025:Flakes, while we listened to the radio. He had spent plenty of early mornings with me and my siblings having breakfast, after having spent the entire night working in a recording studio, or making ~ Anonymous,

1026:The one thing I would tell everyone - myself included - would be to just chill out. Life, by design, provides us with plenty of drama without us having to augment it and invent more. Just chill. ~ Mark Deklin,

1027:I’d try eBay, if I were you,” Harry replies. “You might even get more than you paid for it.” Plenty of fools all over the planet willing to pay good money for allegedly haunted bric-a-brac. ~ Camille DeAngelis,

1028:I have made plenty of mistakes. The key to life is to learn from them. I have been a little too introspective, but I think that stemmed from insecurity or shyness. I took a long time to grow up. ~ Richard Gere,

1029:There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction ~ John Foster Dulles,

1030:When we accomplish a goal, it instantly loses some of its importance and we tend to lose interest. When we write down too many goals, there is plenty to keep our subconscious mind at work. ~ Mark Victor Hansen,

1031:Why I waited until the last days of my life to feel pampered and beautiful. People tell themselves there���s plenty of time to do it all, but most of the time they never see death coming. ~ Denise Grover Swank,

1032:I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that. ~ J B Smoove,

1033:Well I've seen travel in many waysI've traveled in cars and old subwaysBut in Birmingham some people choseTo fly down the street from a fire hose.Doin' some hard travelin'...from hydrants of plenty. ~ Phil Ochs,

1034:Whenever the degraded majority and the promoted minority came into conflict (and there were plenty of opportunities for this, starting with the distribution of food) the results were explosive ~ Viktor E Frankl,

1035:Women. They carried the whole world, one way or another, and they still felt like they weren’t worth a hill of beans unless they got paid for their troubles. And troubles they had plenty of. ~ Stephanie Mittman,

1036:You are worthy and capable of finding a way to live your life just the way you really are. And there are plenty of good people in the world who believe that a life like yours needs to be lived. ~ Kate Bornstein,

1037:Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting alone is plenty of time to review all you’ve learned about the grand themes of life. ~ Carl Safina,

1038:He cupped her face, his thumb running over her bottom lip. “The first year, or maybe longer, is always about finding the balance. The good thing about it, is that there will be plenty of make-up sex. ~ Lia Davis,

1039:I do know plenty of atheists, agnostics and skeptics who have become Christians through the years. In fact, several of my friends were once strong atheists but are now committed followers of Jesus. ~ Lee Strobel,

1040:I don't think there's a shortage of remarkable ideas. I think your business has plenty of great opportunities to do great things. Nope, what's missing isn't the ideas. It's the will to execute them. ~ Seth Godin,

1041:In every age there are plenty of people around to remind you what you cannot possibly do. Thank goodness, for these naysayers provide a priceless service: They spur...us to achieve great things. ~ Jerry Spinelli,

1042:Jason's fingers itched to draw his sword. He'd met plenty of scary demigods, but he was starting to realize that Nico di Angelo--as pale and gaunt as he looked--might be more than he could handle. ~ Rick Riordan,

1043:Whenever the degraded majority and the promoted minority came into conflict (and there were plenty of opportunities for this, starting with the distribution of food) the results were explosive. ~ Viktor E Frankl,

1044:World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace ~ Gifford Pinchot,

1045:Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have always met with will, and plenty of it, but it has either been led captive by sin or held in the blessed bonds of grace. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon,

1046:Fundamentalism is not bred in poverty. There are plenty of poor countries in the world that don't have violence because amid the poverty there is a kind of justice and in some countries a democracy. ~ Robert Fisk,

1047:I don't do passion, and I sure don't do love. I f*ck. And that doesn't require a whole lot of demonstrative hoo-hah. Just technique. Which I have plenty of. -Roman Masterson of Cousins ~ Lisa Lang Blakeney,

1048:In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil. ~ Jhumpa Lahiri,

1049:The air is so crisp it gives me a brief, delusive sense of health and youth. Those I don’t have, but I have learned not to scorn the substitutes: quiet, plenty of time, and a job to spend it on. ~ Wallace Stegner,

1050:the universe was not created for or about human beings, that we are not special, and there was no Golden Age of tranquillity and plenty in the distant past, but only a primitive battle for survival. ~ Matt Ridley,

1051:When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air. ~ John Lubbock,

1052:But I still had trouble with words sometimes. It wasn’t that I didn’t have any. It was that I had too many, and they all got stuck trying to come out at once. But that was okay. Because Joe had plenty. ~ T J Klune,

1053:Don’t you want to say anything?” she asks quietly, her voice shaking slightly. “I’d have thought you would have had plenty of practice at berating silly women who let themselves get too close to you. ~ Callie Hart,

1054:I don't think the Hollywood community is interested in what I can do. That's all right. I've never looked for a job in my life, and I'm not going to start now. I have plenty to keep me busy. ~ Mercedes McCambridge,

1055:I'm bound to say that New York's a topping place to be exiled in. Everybody was awfully good to me, and there seemed to be plenty of things going on, and I'm a wealthy bird, so everything was fine. ~ P G Wodehouse,

1056:I'm here to score a lot of goals. It's my specialty, that's what I've been brought here to do, and I want to score plenty ; like I did with Barcelona. And here, there's every reason to think I can do it. ~ Ronaldo,

1057:The days are long, but the years are short,” and “Always leave plenty of room in the suitcase.” One of my most helpful Secrets is, “What I do every day matters more than what I do once in a while. ~ Jocelyn K Glei,

1058:We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think, our self-awareness, which is our greatest blessing, is also our downfall. ~ Joko Beck,

1059:Yes, there are plenty of politicians who are liars, there is no doubt about this! But some of them are not only liars but also serial killers because they deliberately send people to the wars! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,

1060:You know the only thing for me, obviously the routine was completely different, but I had plenty of time getting loose. I threw enough pitches, took my time. Tried to time it out as best I could. ~ Clayton Kershaw,

1061:America has global trade with plenty of nations that provide inexpensive labor, but it's better for us when they're in our own hemisphere, rather than sending that business halfway around the world. ~ Ernest Istook,

1062:But plenty things like this happened before Buzz Windrip ever came in, Doremus," insisted John Pollikop... "You never thought about them, because they was just routine news, to stick in your paper. ~ Sinclair Lewis,

1063:Church is full of people with plenty to say and nothing to do. You’d think some of them would help us instead of talk about us, but I guess it’s easy to say you love Jesus and harder to act like him. ~ Angie Thomas,

1064:Grocery shopping," Kira's gaze raked over him. "Well, honey, one thing about it, I don't think you have to worry about buying beef while you're out. It looks like you have plenty in residence as it is. ~ Lora Leigh,

1065:Here's the thing: We have plenty of time. These are cockroaches and we want to kill them all. They're just absolute pieces of garbage and we will get them. So why don't we try the air campaign first? ~ Eric Bolling,

1066:I do not know whether God exists, but I know that I have nothing to gain from being an atheist if he does not exist, whereas I have plenty to lose if he does. Hence, this justifies my belief in God. ~ Blaise Pascal,

1067:I laugh plenty. I mean, i laughed plenty. I laughed at how absurdly fucked everything is. I laughed because there's not much else you can do. You can laugh or you can cry. I'd do plenty of both. ~ Val Emmich,

1068:Pfft." She waved a hand at me. "I've seen plenty of penises, thank you. I married a man, and I raised two sons. For years, I couldn't go a day without seeing at least two penises. Years, Magnolia. ~ Kate Canterbary,

1069:The air is so crisp it gives me a brief, delusive sense of health and youth. those I don't have but I have learned not to scorn the substitutes: quiet, plenty of time, and a job to spend it on. ~ Wallace Stegner,

1070:There are plenty of people in the world I don't dislike, some of whom I almost like; on the other hand, I almost hate some of those whom I don't dislike, too. But how many people did I truly love? ~ Hiromi Kawakami,

1071:There`s plenty of other evidence Trump is in sync with the base, including a major survey released that found that 76 percent of Republicans think Islam is incompatible with the American way of life. ~ Donald Trump,

1072:The world has plenty of noise, Julian, but not many voices. And because there are so few, each one matters. . . That's my argument. The simple fact that we need people who remind us of the darkness. ~ Thomas H Cook,

1073:We live in a society today where these children can be wanted children. Even if you don't want to keep this child after you've had it, there's plenty of young couples out there, that want children. ~ Norma McCorvey,

1074:But it is only people who have plenty of money who can despise it. To the rest of us it is important. It can at least put food in our stomachs clothes on our backs, and it can at least feed our dreams. ~ Mary Balogh,

1075:For me, there's still plenty of ground to be covered, as I get older. It's worked out great so far. I take it one job at a time. I'll just keep my eyes toward the next job and see where it takes me. ~ Patrick Fabian,

1076:I don't know if a little tickle of psychic ability means we are divine; there are plenty of people who can accept the miracle of eyesight without believing that eyesight proves the existence of God... ~ Stephen King,

1077:No, there is plenty wrong with Negroes. They have no society. They’re robots, automatons. No minds of their own. I hate to say that about us, but it’s the truth. They are a black body with a white brain. ~ Malcolm X,

1078:Tell you what, you let me go, and I’ll ask you plenty of questions about your race. Until then, I’m slightly distracted with how this little vacation on the good ship Holy Sh*t is going to pan out for me. ~ J R Ward,

1079:Closed. Plenty of time to see it later, remember?" He leads me into the courtyard, and I take the opportunity to admire his backside. Callipygian. There is something better than Notre-Dame. ~ Stephanie Perkins,

1080:If you have mindfulness, if you feel safe, you recognize that you have plenty of conditions to be happy already, and that you don't need to run into the future in order to get a few more conditions. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,

1081:You companies won't be leaving our country under a Trump administration, they'll be staying right here. And believe me, there are plenty of them right now negotiating to leave, I hate to tell you that. ~ Donald Trump,

1082:And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet. ~ Katherine Dunn,

1083:I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim. Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don't have great legs, there are plenty of alternatives. ~ Ralph Lauren,

1084:I have no courage to write much unless I am written to. I soon begin to think that there are plenty of other correspondents more interesting - so if you all want to hear from me you know the conditions. ~ George Eliot,

1085:Immediately after a divorce or a breakup, your mind whispers that there are plenty more fish in the sea, while your heart shouts that there is only one whoever-you-just-divorced-or-broke-up-with. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana,

1086:My father had always said there are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water. After that, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect. ~ Ivy Baker Priest,

1087:The Empire knew a time of peace, a time of glory, a time of plenty: it was the finest age the world had ever known. Justice and love ruled the Empire. The people glorified Zadig, and Zadig glorified heaven. ~ Voltaire,

1088:There were plenty of things I was actually glad I had left unsaid. Still, the comment haunted me. It haunts me today. All the things I wish I had said when I had the chance. A moment recurs. We were ~ William Finnegan,

1089:What makes the terrible twos so terrible is not that the babies do things you don't want them to do --- one-year-olds are plenty good at that --- but that they do things because you don't want them to. ~ Alison Gopnik,

1090:but the Bowery does not think of itself as lost; it meets its peculiar problem in its own way—plenty of gin mills, plenty of flophouses, plenty of indifference, and always, at the end of the line, Bellevue. ~ E B White,

1091:had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; ~ Lewis Carroll,

1092:He shakes his head miserably. “If only I’d gotten here sooner….” “You got here in plenty of time,” I say with a snort. “We’re okay.” “But the truck!” he says as he turns back to us. “It was so cherry. ~ T J Klune,

1093:I borrow to pay my honest debts and not to squander foolishly. What's more, I confine my borrowing to those who can well afford it. I don't go around sponging on widows and orphans unless they have plenty. ~ Will Cuppy,

1094:Work is wholesome, and there is plenty for everyone. It keeps us from ennui and mischief, is good for health and spirits, and gives us a sense of power and independence better than money or fashion. ~ Louisa May Alcott,

1095:Work is wholesome, and there is plenty for everyone; it keeps us from ennui and mischief, is good for health and spirits, and gives us a sense of power and independence better than money or fashion. ~ Louisa May Alcott,

1096:I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one. ~ Euripides,

1097:Probably fake anyway,” Adrana said, with a knowing sniff, as if she had plenty of experience in this area. “C’mon. Don’t want to dawdle, not when there’s so much to see. The next one’s a Limb Broker. ~ Alastair Reynolds,

1098:Soyinka's Death at Dawn, Auden's Musée des Beaux Arts, Stevie Smith's Not Waving but Drowning and Wislawa Szymborska's Some People come to mind immediately. But there are plenty, plenty more that I enjoy. ~ Ama Ata Aidoo,

1099:Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love. ~ Richard Pryor,

1100:The disclosure that President Donald Trump allegedly asked Jim Comey to drop an FBI investigation has raised the question of whether this may constitute obstruction of justice. There's plenty of disagreement. ~ John Yang,

1101:There are so many girls out there that I don't have to work with and who aren't married or have boyfriends. There's plenty of people out there, so you don't have to mix work and pleasure. It gets muddy. ~ Bryan Greenberg,

1102:When Jared smiled, his teeth were stained with fresh scarlet. "Don't you hate me?" he demanded. "I'd hate me." "You just tried to drown yourself," Ash said. "You seem to hate yourself plenty already. ~ Sarah Rees Brennan,

1103:Women are less corruptible. There's plenty of research to show that they are less inclined to take bribes and they are more trustworthy. And so it's all the more important to have them in large percentages. ~ Swanee Hunt,

1104:You made plenty, Abby. We just wanted to tide ourselves over until next year…unless you’d like to do this all over again at Christmas. You’re a Maddox, now. I expect you at every holiday, and not to cook. ~ Jamie McGuire,

1105:I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas. ~ Gary Numan,

1106:I was concerned about the legality of the program, and so I asked lawyers—of which you got plenty of them in Washington—to determine whether or not I could do this legally. And they came back and said yes. ~ George W Bush,

1107:Most dreams are also part reality (otherwise we wouldn’t believe them), and reality happens to be a condition that gives you plenty of chances through your life to rise to - no, soar through - the occasion. ~ Leigh Newman,

1108:There's plenty of great stuff out there. I think it's just what we do is we all spend our allowance on the thing that we're told is going to be the big event, and sometimes the big event is disappointing. ~ Robert Englund,

1109:The vile beverage packed plenty of kick; he hadn’t had a hangover this bad since his wedding night. His head was spinning, his eyes were blurred, and his mouth tasted like he’d been chewing on bantha fur. ~ Drew Karpyshyn,

1110:Names always matter," Maz said..."And yours is such a lonely one, when you think about it." Han had, plenty, and now that familiar sorrow crept back over his heart, an eclipse on never-ending repeat. ~ Daniel Jos Older,

1111:The Earthworm plows the whole world with his tunnels, drains and aerates the earth… If you ever buy any land, be sure it has plenty of Earthworms toiling and moiling all day so that you can sit down and relax. ~ Will Cuppy,

1112:The family was still hard-pressed for money, and dreamed of savory treats to eat, but they had the warmth of one another, and enough on which to live, and in most parts of the world that is called plenty. ~ Gregory Maguire,

1113:The world is so full of a number of things, I am sure we should all be as happy as kings. The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way. ~ Jean Webster,

1114:What’s your point, Legal?” “The point is that there are plenty of people out there judging us every day of our lives and for every move we make. The gods of guilt are many. You don’t need to add to them. ~ Michael Connelly,

1115:What we didn't need to know, we didn't need to ask. Some people just don't quite get the gist of that. You can have plenty of conversations with people, meaningful conversations without getting to personal. ~ Cecelia Ahern,

1116:You have no time for the prayer meeting, but you have time enough to be brushing your hair to all eternity; you have no time to bend your knee, but plenty of time to make yourselves look smart and grand. ~ Charles Spurgeon,

1117:All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty. ~ L Frank Baum,

1118:When Jared smiled, his teeth were stained with fresh scarlet. "Don't you hate me?" he demanded. "I'd hate me." "You just tried to drown yourself," Ash said. "You seem to hate yourself plenty already. ~ Sarah Rees Brennan,

1119:With this one kiss it was possible Riley Shaughnessy had ruined her for any other man. She’d dated plenty in her life, but no one had ever kissed her like this. And she had a feeling no one else ever would. ~ Samantha Chase,

1120:A boxer should quit at the top, as they say. But that’s complicated. There are plenty of people in boxing who make money out off you. And they tell you that you’ve still got it, that it’s still getting better. ~ Lennox Lewis,

1121:you can use that energy to deal with your current situation, maybe with plenty left over. Breathe deeply. Let the feeling of arousal and clarity, triggered by the release of adrenaline into your bloodstream, ~ George Leonard,

1122:I'd known plenty of people who'd worked with Cillian [Murphy], and he was one of those people I'd only heard good things about. It's pleasing when it works like this. As Cillian said, it's not always like that. ~ Jamie Dornan,

1123:I'd spoken with Milo in Spanish only enough to know that he wasn't as comfortable with it as I was. There were plenty of Latinos who would consider Milo's lack of fluency a personal insult. A cultural lobotomy. ~ Rick Riordan,

1124:People in this civilization are starving in the middle of plenty. This is a civilization that is going down, not because it hasn't got the knowledge that would save it, but because nobody will use the knowledge. ~ Idries Shah,

1125:Thank you for all your guidance and wisdom, for setting the bar so much higher than I thought I could reach, and for giving me plenty of room to run with my own ideas. You've been the best teacher I've ever had. ~ Lisa Genova,

1126:This is one of the most telling features of the web—the somewhat humbling fact that no matter what oddball notion you’re deeply passionate about, well, there are plenty of folks who share the same passion. ~ Peter H Diamandis,

1127:I’m not a fucking thinker, wisher, dancer, or whiner. I’m a fucking doer. Can’t expect God to do it all now, can we? The man’s got plenty to do already, I’m just doing my part and cleaning up my side of the room. ~ Lucian Bane,

1128:It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more. ~ C L R James,

1129:Plenty of eggs, apples, strong tea, and a spoonful of cod liver oil twice a week,” he said gruffly. “Keeps up the strength and wards off all the pestilence and disease carried by a roomful of unwashed urchins. ~ Helen Simonson,

1130:Revenge is a dish best eaten cold. The reason for this, of course, is that while you're gleefully anticipating the event, the victim has plenty of time to worry about when, where, and how you're going to strike. ~ Alan Bradley,

1131:Ted Cruz is a nice guy, a likeable guy. He's not crazy. He's not nasty. And he certainly is not - he's not a liar. He's a down - down the middle guy that I - anybody could trust. He has got plenty of integrity. ~ Rush Limbaugh,

1132:The critics have been writing me off for 20 years. That's nothing new. As far as I know I still have plenty of fans and sell lots of records. Do I care what critics say about me? No, and I don't read reviews. ~ Madonna Ciccone,

1133:There are plenty of violent people, but for any randomly selected person today the chances of meeting a violent death at the hands of his or her fellow humans is lower now than it has ever been in human history. ~ Peter Singer,

1134:To avoid arousal more generally, women were instructed to get plenty of fresh air, avoid stimulating pastimes like reading and card games, and above all never to use their brains more than was strictly necessary. ~ Bill Bryson,

1135:When the birds had all flown, the monkey landed on May’s pillow and smacked it, letting her know it was time to get up. Or more likely that he was hungry. Or wanted to annoy her. There were plenty of options. May ~ James Riley,

1136:Why not just find another boy, one who wasn’t an asshole?” “There were no other boys for me.” “There are plenty of boys.” “Maybe for someone like you, but not for me. There wasn’t the possibility of another boy. ~ Sarai Walker,

1137:As long as miracles are possible, plenty of weird, wacky, unexplained ones will happen. And this is what most of us don’t like. We want to box God in, slip a spiritual condom on so we don’t contract Pentecostalism. ~ Mike Duran,

1138:I have plenty of good friends that I think the world of - and Bob [Dylan] is one of them, and I like his music - but with some others... their music I just don't care too much about all of it. Some of it I like. ~ Ralph Stanley,

1139:I liked to watch the real salesmen-- the old-time travelers. A lot could be learned from those guys. Those fellas had plenty of charm. They used to say that sincerity sells-- and if you can fake that, you've got it made. ~ Seth,

1140:I think you'll have plenty of scrutiny as how the money's invested. I mean, just like the RFC. When the RFC operated, people knew which institutions they were buying preferred stock in. And it worked very well. ~ Warren Buffett,

1141:It was an article of faith with NCOs [noncommissioned officers] that they were better than their officers. And they were usually right. Certainly I had been happy with mine. They had done plenty of good work for me. ~ Lee Child,

1142:I would be twenty before I learned how to be fifteen, thirty before I knew what it meant to be twenty, and now at seventy-two I have to stop myself from thinking like a man of fifty who has plenty of time ahead. ~ Arthur Miller,

1143:The best beauty advice I ever received is to keep skin hydrated and limit harsh exposure to the sun. If you are set on the tanned look, there are plenty of great creams that will give you a healthy-looking glow. ~ Erica Durance,

1144:The problem carbon is that everyone thinks we have an energy problem, we don't. We have plenty of energy. We have a carbon problem. Carbon is a material, so we have a material problem, not an energy problem. ~ William McDonough,

1145:To yield is to be preserved whole. To be bent is to become straight. To be hollow is to be filled. To be tattered is to be renewed. To be in want is to possess. To have plenty is to be confused,” Lao Tzu wrote. ~ Gretel Ehrlich,

1146:I've done plenty of daredeviling - from white-water rafting to bungee jumping. But I think the most fearless was hosting the Emmy Awards. It was overwhelming, and I definitely had to leave fear at the door. ~ Neil Patrick Harris,

1147:Love should be unpredictable. I want it to hit me and like, knock me on my ass. And I don’t want it to take me years to realize that’s what I was feeling. I think two to three months is plenty of time, if not sooner. ~ J Daniels,

1148:No, no, not 'she,' he reminded himself. Cam lived as a boy, and though Merik wasn't used to that yet–to thinking of Cam as a 'he'–they had weeks of travel ahead, Plenty of time which Merik could retrain his mind. ~ Susan Dennard,

1149:strengthening my grip on the Sword of the Spirit, God began wedging the Shield of Faith in my other hand so that I’d learn to use them the way He intended: in tandem. Mind you, I thought I had plenty of faith. After ~ Beth Moore,

1150:There are plenty of directors who work with the same actors over and over, many more times than I have. Like I have worked with Bill Nighy more times than I have worked with Kate, but I'm not married to Bill Nighy. ~ Len Wiseman,

1151:We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this is good, but people are beginning to suspect we have paid a high spiritual price for our plenty. ~ Euell Gibbons,

1152:Wherever desirable superfluities are imported, industry is excited, and thereby plenty is produced. Were only necessaries permitted to be purchased, men would work no more than was necessary for that purpose. ~ Benjamin Franklin,

1153:You going to walk me to my room, and kiss me goodnight?” he jokes. “Do you ever shut up?” “There’s plenty of times I don’t talk, but making you squirm seems to have become my new favorite pastime.” “I do not squirm. ~ Remy Blake,

1154:He caught her, and he held her, and he let her cry, and cry, and cry, and he let her use his sheets to wipe her eyes, and her nose, and God knows what, because he had plenty of clean sheets, and he only had one Kat. ~ Tara Janzen,

1155:If you think of life as like a big pie, you can try to hold the whole pie and kill yourself trying to keep it, or you can slice it up and give some to the people around you, and you still have plenty left for yourself. ~ Jay Leno,

1156:There's no way to know if we would have lasted. There's no way to be sure, and plenty of reasons to doubt it. I just wish I'd had the chance. That is one of the things I miss the most— the chance to make it work. ~ David Levithan,

1157:There’s plenty of food here,” Erik said dismissively. “We have fish traps and eel traps, we net wildfowl and eat well. And the prospect of silver and gold buys a lot of wheat, barley, oats, meat, fish, and ale. ~ Bernard Cornwell,

1158:You may think you see plenty of stars, friend reader, but you are wrong. Night is both blacker and more brilliant than you can imagine, and the sky a glory that puts to shame the most splendid jewels at Renwick's. ~ Marie Brennan,

1159:At this point, the only thing separating konyhaszekrény from Moktor is a personal connection, and fortunately, you have plenty of personal connections to choose from. When’s the last time you encountered a particularly ~ Anonymous,

1160:Got plenty of special features, hasn't it? Shame it doesn't come with a parachute - in case you get too near a Dementor. Pity you can't attach an extra arm to yours, Malfoy. Then it could catch the Snitch for you. ~ J K Rowling,

1161:Is there anything you can't do? I ask, only halfway joking. She considers. " There are plenty of things I've never done. Fly a plane. Speak Chinese. But nothing I can think of that I couldn't learn or find a way around. ~ Amy Plum,

1162:Plenty of people say my guesses about a future drought in the western U.S. (where I live and grew up) are wrong, so I don't see why I won't be wrong in some people's eyes when I go set a story on foreign shores. ~ Paolo Bacigalupi,

1163:sleeping baby. I would never advise you to miss out on this unique and beautiful experience. But balance this with plenty of times when you put your baby in his bed when he is drowsy and relaxed but not asleep. ~ Elizabeth Pantley,

1164:The point I wish to emphasize is that if you convince your subconscious mind that wealth is yours and that plenty of money is always circulating in your life, you’ll always have it, regardless of the form it takes. ~ Joseph Murphy,

1165:A strange species we are, we can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much, and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy, sick. ~ John Steinbeck,

1166:I do believe in high, high intensity. I don't believe that there's anytime while I'm on the floor that I should be sitting down catching my breath; that doesn't make sense. There's plenty of time to rest when I'm done. ~ Kai Greene,

1167:I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music. ~ George Eliot,

1168:Let's talk about the next president being someone who would be prosecuted if she wasn't a Clinton, because I would have prosecuted her. And I have seen plenty of people prosecuted for much less, like Martha Stewart. ~ Rudy Giuliani,

1169:she sighs, then breaks a piece off the muffin in my hand. 'Hey. There are plenty more just five feet to your right.' 'then you shouldn't be so concerned about losing some of yours.' she says, grinning. 'Fair enough. ~ Veronica Roth,

1170:There have been plenty of chances to close my eyes and go back to the sleep of my life as it was, but I hadn't taken any of them. Do I wish now that I had? It's hard to answer that question, as the wraiths move closer. ~ Lisa Unger,

1171:The survival of their political system justified anything. The promise of a golden age where none of this brutality would exist, where everything would be in plenty and poverty would be a memory, justified anything. ~ Tom Rob Smith,

1172:Drop all negative thoughts from the mind. Do not dwell on adversity but think plenty into everything, for there is power in the word. Meditate on the things you are doing as being already done - complete and perfect. ~ Ernest Holmes,

1173:I always said there were plenty of things going on here, right under our noses, that we couldn't see," she said, holding out her apron. "I don't see with my nose," I remarked. "What have you got there? ~ Mary Roberts Rinehart,

1174:If it works, it will be plenty dramatic. And I suppose that if it doesn't work, it will be even more dramatic, what with the blast." "David, I think you just made a joke." He frowned, utterly perplexed. "Did I? ~ Leigh Bardugo,

1175:There are plenty of reasons for hope. There need be no war with Russia, and those who would fight her now, on the theory that we had better do it and get it over with, are lightheaded promoters of world destruction. ~ Harold W Dodds,

1176:There are plenty of things that are unknown, but are assumed reasonably to exist, even in the most basic sciences. Maybe 90 percent of the mass-energy in the universe is called "dark," because nobody knows what it is. ~ Noam Chomsky,

1177:there are plenty of your species who lack the ability to process new facts and adapt, but with humans those are mostly old people, their brains no longer are able to process new information. Or they're just lazy. But ~ Craig Alanson,

1178:Yeah, I know I've changed. Nothing gets to me anymore. Well, okay, except for stuff in the past. Back then I was all innocent and trusting and didn't know anything. Now I know plenty and you can't fucking touch me. ~ Laura Wiess,

1179:It's a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistakes do you make in a day? I don't know about you, but I make plenty. You can't turn the clock back, so you have to look ahead. ~ Mel Gibson,

1180:My thoughts are rancorous, ruinous. They throng through me like a shoal of sharp, silver sprat whenever the outer noises aren’t loud or plenty enough to keep them at bay, to keep them out of the bay, the bay of my brain. ~ Sara Baume,

1181:Now there were plenty of words to describe the kind of rippling muscle perfection that greeted me. Jacked. Ripped. Built. Drool-worthy. Man candy. God damn! But the most appropriate seemed to be: holy fucking shit. ~ Jessica Gadziala,

1182:Our life together wasn’t easy. We had plenty of heartbreak, plenty of sorrow. But we also had each other. We’d fought to have each other . . . as long as we had each other, anything was bearable. Anything was possible. ~ Katy Regnery,

1183:So I think I’ll stay here a little while longer. There’s plenty of time to get off this gurney and open that door and rejoin the rest of you. There’s all the time I have left on Earth. There’s the rest of my life. ~ Ilsa J Bick,

1184:Those with lives filled with laughter and sorrow, Have no choice but to live between the two, in borrow. Where is the green garden of love, that’s infinite? More than sorrow and laughter, plenty of fruits in it. ~ Rumi,

1185:You may not agree, you may not care, but if you are holding this book you should know that of all the sights I love in this world — and there are plenty — very near the top of the list is this one: dogs without leashes. ~ Mary Oliver,

1186:have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through him who gives me strength” (Phil. 4:12–13, emphasis added). ~ Holley Gerth,

1187:I'm 52 years old, which means I'm of an age where my reading habits are more or less set. I read plenty of stuff on line but I rely on pretty traditional sources. I'm a newspaper reader, whether in hand or on my iPad. ~ Michael Wilbon,

1188:It is vital that we provide North Dakota's children with nutritionally sound diets. That means ensuring that they are getting plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, and are developing good eating habits for their future. ~ Kent Conrad,

1189:I've heard plenty of wacky things in my time and you just have to learn to roll with them without directly challenging the person spewing the weirdness. Challenging weirdness is a pointless and sometimes dangerous exercise. ~ Susan Ee,

1190:I’ve heard plenty of wacky things in my time and you just have to learn to roll with them without directly challenging the person spewing the weirdness. Challenging weirdness is a pointless and sometimes dangerous exercise. ~ Susan Ee,

1191:The problem with marriage, we all know, is the endlessness of it. Plenty of things we do will have long-term repercussions, but in what other situation do you promise to do something for the rest of your life? ~ John Jeremiah Sullivan,

1192:When I was nineteen and I didn’t have a boyfriend, I never felt bad about it. Because I figured someday I would. My friends and I had plenty of fun alone. What ruins the fun is the fear that you’ll be that way forever. ~ Caren Lissner,

1193:Another tip to weld society together. Give the person up to bat at the ATM plenty of space so they’re not nervous about you peeking at their PIN number or slipping a blade between their ribs the second the money spits out. ~ Tim Dorsey,

1194:CORPORAL BURKE GRINNED, no humor in his expression but plenty of satisfaction as he jammed the throttle of the M7 Abrams main battle tank, flattening the tiny import in front of him to a mashed pulp as he rumbled over it. ~ Evan Currie,

1195:Hmm. If it’s ‘bout classes rememba that ya won’t care in ten years if ya miss a question or two; if it’s ‘bout friends ya got plenty of ‘em in this house; and if it’s ‘bout a boy…give him a shot. Take pity on us wankers. ~ Laury Falter,

1196:I am strong. I have learned. I love Love and have plenty to give. It is my powerful destiny that I am supposed to raise two good girls into two great women! All right. Here we go, my beautiful little girls. Here we go. ~ Drew Barrymore,

1197:I don't buy into the dystopian scenarios of self-aware robots enslaving mankind, but you don't have to be a sci-fi conspiracy theorist to acknowledge that plenty of good, well-paying jobs are being taken over by machines. ~ Marco Rubio,

1198:If you can’t bring yourself to encourage employees to lie down on the job, at least give them plenty of breaks. The ordinary fatigue most of us feel during the workday makes us grouchier—and dumber—as the hours go by. ~ Robert I Sutton,

1199:If you’ve got plenty of nerve, you’re all set, because then you’re entitled to do practically anything at all, you’ve got the majority on your side, and it’s the majority who decide what’s crazy and what isn’t. ~ Louis Ferdinand C line,

1200:It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally there are plenty of people of our own class, or race, or religion to play, live, and eat with, and to marry. ~ Gordon Allport,

1201:Babes crying in the wilderness know that the world already has plenty of terrifying noise, but there aren't enough clear voices to smooth our troubled journey through the darkness ... only a few can speak truth to power. ~ Thomas H Cook,

1202:I always hope to come up with a style of writing that's appropriate to the material and I felt like this was. And then there's plenty of - I don't know if it's the right word but - lampooning, but it's always at my expense. ~ Geoff Dyer,

1203:Miserable, sullen men, black and white under guard had to keep on searching for bodies and digging graves. A huge ditch was dug across the white cemetery and a big ditch was opened across the black graveyard. Plenty ~ Zora Neale Hurston,

1204:My father said once that if I didn't have my mother's ginger hair, I wouldn't blush or curse as easily. Which I though was unfair. I hardly ever curse or blush, even though I've had plenty of days that required both. ~ Maggie Stiefvater,

1205:People are not hungry because there is no food in the world. There is plenty of it; there is a surplus in fact. But between those who want to eat and the bursting warehouses stands a tall obstacle indeed: politics. ~ Ryszard Kapu ci ski,

1206:She's a silly old lady,' my mother said. 'You could be a good Christian and turn the other cheek.' 'I'm a plenty good Christian,' Grandma said, 'but I got it on good authority that God wants me to get Bella for Him. ~ Janet Evanovich,

1207:So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history ~ Murray Gell Mann,

1208:The rap on me on the street is the opposite - I'm impractical, I'm more expensive, it's too complicated and I run over budgets, which isn't true. None of that's true and there's plenty of documentation if anybody needs it. ~ Frank Gehry,

1209:There are plenty of bad actors and there are plenty of bad directors. There are actors who will always be bad and there are good actors who you cry for because they're being badly directed or the material isn't good enough. ~ Mike Leigh,

1210:You may not agree, you may not care, but if you are holding this book you should know that of all the sights I love in this world — and there are plenty — very near the top of the list is this one: dogs without leashes. ~ Mary Oliver,

1211:A hundred castellanoes are as easily obtained for a woman as for a farm, and it is very general and there are plenty of dealers who go about looking for girls; those from nine to ten (years old) are now in demand. ~ Christopher Columbus,

1212:He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once. And someone who has made plenty of errors-though never the same error more than once-is more reliable than someone who has never made any. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb,

1213:He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once. And someone who has made plenty of errors—though never the same error more than once—is more reliable than someone who has never made any. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb,

1214:I been in plenty of fights and even more almost-fights. It's all about posturin'. You just gotta act tough." "What if it didn't work? What if he took a swing at you?" "Sensai say, 'Big like door, swift like glacier'. ~ Marie Sexton,

1215:Independence of mind, enthusiasm, dedication to the field, and willingness to challenge and question and to explore new direction. There are plenty of people like that, but schools tend to discourage those characteristics. ~ Noam Chomsky,

1216:I’ve heard plenty of wacky things in my time and you just have to learn to roll with them without directly challenging the person spewing the weirdness. Challenging weirdness is a pointless and sometimes dangerous exercise. At ~ Susan Ee,

1217:Joel glared at him. “I remember you. It’s Dominic, right? Yeah, I heard plenty of stories about you from females too. They all said the same thing.” Dominic picked up his mug. “It’s true – my dick really is that huge. ~ Suzanne Wright,

1218:My life nah important to me, but other people life important. My life is only important if me can help plenty people. If my life is just for me and my own security then me no want it. My life is for people. That's way me is. ~ Bob Marley,

1219:There is magic in your life! Not appreciating it does not make it any less magical. Yes, some of that magic is dangerous, but so are scissors and electricity and politics- and plenty of other completely human inventions! ~ William Ritter,

1220:This is a slow business to have success in. There are exceptions, but for the most part it's kind of like the last writer standing.... I've got gray. I've got plenty of gray. I'm creating a career slowly, like a coral reef. ~ Robert Reed,

1221:Cult films last forever. I have been in plenty of films that no one will remember, so it is nice to be in some movies that some people do, and that they pass it along to the next generation I'm meeting kids named Ash now. ~ Bruce Campbell,

1222:It doesn't matter where on Earth you live, everyone is utterly dependent on the existence of that lovely, living saltwater soup. There's plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water. ~ Sylvia Earle,

1223:I think there are plenty of good people in America, but there are also plenty of bad people in America and the bad ones are the ones who seem to have all the power and be in these positions to block things that you and I need. ~ Malcolm X,

1224:Plenty of dead vegetation had blown in and dried out, and Daniel managed to knock rocks together, get a spark, and light a tiny blaze. Considering I’d escaped a raging forest fire earlier that day, I was good with tiny. ~ Kelley Armstrong,

1225:The planet spins at over a thousand miles an hour all the time. Actually, it’s going around the sun at sixty-seven thousand miles an hour, even if it wasn’t spinning. So you can move plenty fast without going anywhere. ~ Maggie Stiefvater,

1226:The planet spins at over a thousand miles an hour all the time. Actually, it's going around the sun at sixty-seven thousand miles an hour, even if it wasn't sponging. So you can move plenty fast without going anywhere. ~ Maggie Stiefvater,

1227:Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside. ~ George Bernard Shaw,

1228:I always said if it gets to a point where I really want a child, I would adopt; kids are amazing, so I'm getting the selfish stuff out of my system so when I have them I can say, 'Go, run. I have plenty of money, go play.' ~ Sandra Bullock,

1229:I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. PHILIPPIANS 4 : 12 ~ Sarah Young,

1230:Mankind is nothing more than a parasitic tick gorging himself on temporary plenty while the seas are low and the climate is clement. But the present arrangement of land and sea will change, and with it our brief supremacy. ~ Richard Fortey,

1231:She worked hard for her place in the world. Others’ jealousies or opinions are not her problem, and she will not allow them to constrain her. She knows plenty of women whose self-esteem is based on the estimations of others. ~ Sejal Badani,

1232:Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it. ~ Nas,

1233:we got plenty of moonshine to celebrate with. It’s not legal yet in Florida, but from where we come from it’s like mother’s milk, straight from the teat.” He smiled wide, and I noticed he had more than a few teeth missing. ~ Amanda Carlson,

1234:When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many. ~ Julius Erving,

1235:ARTERIES HARDENED AND LUNGS blackened just by opening the door of the Weak Signal Bar and Grill. The seedy crowd brought plenty of colorful terminology to mind, but “health conscious” and “long life span” were not among them. ~ Harlan Coben,

1236:I didn’t tell him that be on top is to worry. Once you climb to the peak of the mountain, the whole world can take a shot. I know the Singer know that plenty people hate him, but I wonder if he know what shape that hate take. ~ Marlon James,

1237:It was not that he felt that the world would damage or hurt Frankie in any way, it was much more that there were plenty of things out in the world that Frankie would learn about, and that he would then have no scruples at all. ~ Jane Smiley,

1238:Our society makes plenty of room for complacency or laziness; we’re rarely surrounded by accountability. We’re also rarely surrounded by sugar-free vanilla lattes, but when I really want one, I somehow find a way to get one. ~ Rachel Hollis,

1239:Sometimes I wonder who'll come after me," he says. "Oh, we have plenty of excellent people in the next generation. But after that -- well, I don't know. I guess all old people feel like the world is coming to an end. ~ Neal Stephenson,

1240:Treaties often break down over cultural misunderstandings. But there are plenty of everyday examples of culturally induced language breakdowns as well. If you tell someone, ‘We should do lunch sometime,’ what do you mean? ~ Daniel L Everett,

1241:What is love? 'Tis not hereafter. Present mirth hath present laughter. What’s to come is still unsure. In delay there lies no plenty. Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty. Youth’s a stuff will not endure. ~ William Shakespeare,

1242:You can have enemies you never really meet, Logen had plenty. You can kill men you don’t know, he’d done it often. But you can’t truly hate a man without loving him first, and there’s always a trace of that love left over. ~ Joe Abercrombie,

1243:You don't need a big trip to have an adventure. There's plenty of adventure to be had right here. If you can't have an adventure where you are, what makes you think you'll have an adventure anywhere else?" Truth or beard ~ Penny Reid,

1244:Your career and your passion don't always match up. Plenty of talented people don't have the careers they want. Plenty of untalented people make millions and make movies. There is a difference between determination and talent. ~ Amy Poehler,

1245:Everyone's looking," she whispered, letting him lead her to the center of the waltzing couples, several of which moved to allow them plenty of room. "Everyone's been looking at you all night," he said wryly. "Especially me. ~ Lisa Kleypas,

1246:Someone could call themselves a hero and still walk around killing dozens. Someone else could be labeled a villain for trying to stop them. Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human. ~ V E Schwab,

1247:Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day: what you make to eat. With writing, I find, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of time and care, and still get nothing. Also true of love. ~ John Irving,

1248:We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldnt have even a fraction of my current success. ~ Mohnish Pabrai,

1249:Eat your vegetables. Brush your teeth. Sweat once in a while. Get plenty of rest. Don't smoke. Laugh more. There are certain tenets to health that are pretty commonsensical and that we all know we should practice routinely. ~ David Perlmutter,

1250:Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world. ~ Kate Douglas Wiggin,

1251:People have different attitudes about the universal value of life, but that value, with few exceptions, is scaled to how similar or dissimilar a life form is. Plenty of vegetarians will swat a mosquito without thinking about it. ~ Rory Miller,

1252:Sure, art doesn't save anybody the way a sack of rice does. But that doesn't mean it's worthless. There're plenty of ways of living in the world and among words and some of them are a fuck of a lot more predatory than others. ~ Forrest Gander,

1253:To cook is not just to prepare food for someone or to cook for yourself; it is to express your sincerity. So when you cook you should express yourself in your activity in the kitchen. You should allow yourself plenty of time. ~ Shunryu Suzuki,

1254:We haven’t done anything,” Luke agreed, though he knew that was no guarantee of safety. Plenty of things happened to people who hadn’t done anything—things that were never discussed again, or at least not by anyone with any sense. ~ Jason Fry,

1255:Well, perhaps she had a little of his pride. She’d certainly found plenty when he was making her sound like some lofty lady who couldn’t live without “fanciful creatures of sugar paste” to decorate her birthday cake. ~ Sabrina Jeffries,

1256:Cold as a bitch’s tit.” “It’s ‘witch’s.’” “Why? Doesn’t matter,” Eve said quickly. “Neither way makes sense. If somebody’s a witch, why do they put up with cold tits? I’m a bitch, and twenty-four hours ago, my tits were plenty warm. ~ J D Robb,

1257:There's plenty of opportunity for everyone, so there's no reason to worry about somebody else's success, either saying you couldn't do this so she's better than you, or she's doing it so you can't. No, she's doing it so you can. ~ Nancy Pelosi,

1258:There was plenty of room for magic in any race, too, for chance and for grit, for tragedy, if an animal went down, for unexpected reversals at the tape. I had always loved all of it—even what couldn’t be controlled or predicted. ~ Paula McLain,

1259:We live in a world of breathtaking material plenty. That has freed hundreds of millions of people from day-to-day struggles and liberated us to pursue more significant desires: purpose, transcendence, and spiritual fulfillment. ~ Daniel H Pink,

1260:I've learned so much from the Pirahas over the years. But this is perhaps my favorite lesson. Sure, life is hard and there is plenty of danger. And it might make us lose some sleep from time to time. But enjoy it. Life goes on. ~ Daniel Everett,

1261:I've read plenty of amazing science pieces where the writers don't hang out in labs. I just have fun doing it. And I get rewarded for it; I get gushy, especially when kids tell me they expected to be bored by my books, but weren't. ~ Mary Roach,

1262:Just once I'd like to see you be wrong about something." "Oh, I've been wrong about plenty of things," Ander murmured, pulling her toward him and draping both arms around her waist. "I just don't like to advertise the fact. ~ Claire Kent,

1263:That boy,” he said. “I’ve done him ever favor I could. Some folks you can’t do nothing with. Just sorry. God knows I’ve done plenty of drinking and stuff in my time, but I be damn if I ever tried to cheat anybody out of any money. ~ Larry Brown,

1264:There's plenty of challenging, gratifying, interesting, productive workaround for people to do, and there are plenty of people who want to do it―they simply aren't being allowed that opportunity under the current economic system. ~ Noam Chomsky,

1265:There were plenty of other times when I was working too hard, dealing with people I didn’t like, getting my creativity crushed over and over, and so on. When you are in those situations, you need to plot out your exit strategy. ~ James Altucher,

1266:If certain individuals fall in love from motives of convenience, they can be contrasted with plenty of others in whom passion seems principally aroused by the intensity of administrative difficulty in procuring its satisfaction. ~ Anthony Powell,

1267:If you always make him feel he has plenty of space to do his own thing, he’ll always feel that lust. You’ll be like a lover not like his mother. He’ll perceive you as a privilege rather than an obligation, and he’ll come your way. ~ Sherry Argov,

1268:Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr,

1269:There is a very strong linkage between U.S. banks and European banks. There are plenty of European employees that are employed by U.S. companies, and there are plenty of U.S. employees that are employed by European companies. ~ Christine Lagarde,

1270:Absence of doubt? No, nothing so egotistic as that. Nimander has plenty of doubts, so many that he’s lost his fear of them. He accepts them as easily as anything else. Is that the secret? Is that the very definition of greatness? ~ Steven Erikson,

1271:[Answering whether there was life in other worlds, he said there probably was.] After all, there's plenty of unearthly looking things moving around in my refrigerator, so there's always a chance of life springing up almost anywhere. ~ Pete Conrad,

1272:But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms. ~ George MacDonald,

1273:Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations. ~ James Dobson,

1274:I have lots of CDs that came out at one time or another, and according to the statements I've gotten, no one's buying them.I figured there's no need making a new CD. There are plenty of mine out there, and none of them are selling. ~ Mose Allison,

1275:I have rules,” Reacher said. “I have plenty of rules. One of which says a wounded veteran gets the benefit of the doubt. But another of which says always be gone before the government arrives. So I agree. We need to thread the needle. ~ Lee Child,

1276:Most of the time, there’s no need for fancy clothes--having to work in the fields day in, day out. But the Big Times don’t come but once a year. Nobody wants to look bad or feel bad then. Plenty of time to do that all year. ~ Patricia C McKissack,

1277:Someone could call themselves a hero and still walk around killing dozens. Someone else could be labeled a villain for trying to stop them. Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human. ~ Victoria Schwab,

1278:There is a point in fighting. There is a point in struggle. Not wholesale revolution, maybe, that might not be possible, an absolutely just society, but there are plenty of spaces and places where it's worth putting up a fight. ~ Aleksandar Hemon,

1279:Up in the north of Scotland, a lot of the villages are completely Viking names. A lot of Vikings came down and settled in Scotland and in Ireland. And a lot of them didn't, but they took plenty of us with them - mostly the chicks. ~ Gerard Butler,

1280:Well, more accurately, I couldn’t think of anything to say related to our topic of conversation, but I could think of plenty of things to say about the climate of New Guinea or the prehistoric ancestors of the African secretary bird. ~ Penny Reid,

1281:As the former dissident Vladimir Bukovsky once remarked – referring to the Russian proverb to the effect that you cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs – he had seen plenty of broken eggs, but never tasted any omelette. ~ Margaret Thatcher,

1282:But what do I do with them?" Miss Smith said "I've never been around children." "Feed them, bathe them, make sure they get plenty of sleep," the doctor said. "They're no more diffi cult than puppies, really." He grinned ~ Kimberly Brubaker Bradley,

1283:If certain individuals fall in love from motives of convenience, they can be contrasted with plenty of others in whom passion seems principally aroused by the intensity of administrative difficulties in procuring its satisfaction. ~ Anthony Powell,

1284:In general, life is better than it has ever been, and if you think that, in the past, there was some golden age of pleasure and plenty to which you would, if you were able, transport yourself, let me say one single word : Dentistry. ~ P J O Rourke,

1285:She sighed loudly. “Oh, Adrian. This is just like the time you brought home a neighbor’s puppy and seemed surprised when you found out you’d have to feed it every day.” “Hey,” I retorted. “We’ve fed this little guy plenty of times. ~ Richelle Mead,

1286:We no longer need fur for warmth and protection. There are plenty of textiles that provide that today. It's pure whim and vanity to choose to wear fur. It shows a level of ignorance or lack of concern that reflects poorly on the wearer. ~ Tim Gunn,

1287:In truth, I was almost certain that plenty of couples in this world were happy together, whether they were fated for one another or not, simply because they had made the choice to love one another and committed themselves to that union. ~ C J Anaya,

1288:I've got plenty of arthritis. But if you keep moving, it won't bother you that much. That's why old guys stiffen up. They forget they have to get out of their chairs and do something. You let the moss grow over, it's your own fault. ~ Dick Van Dyke,

1289:I wasn’t ever going to play Carnegie Hall, or arenas with the E Street Band, but I did still play—plenty—and had work I liked and was good at. If a man or woman wants more, I often told myself, that man or woman is tempting the gods. ~ Stephen King,

1290:People think of Jews as the Woody Allen stereotype, the nebbishy kind of thing, but that's not the kind of Jews I know. I know plenty of Israelis and plenty of tough guys that are Jewish. So, I think it makes sense that Jews play metal. ~ Scott Ian,

1291:Plenty of people have bad divorces, but few of them end up with cancer, imprisonment, and public scorn. In the dark, rolling, treacherous wake of that sunken ship, the last thing I sought was a "relationship" or, heaven forbid, marriage. ~ Jim Goad,

1292:There isn't much doubt that like other animal societies, those of Homo sapiens involved plenty of cooperation, which might have been considerably enhanced, one would suppose, by the emergence of the remarkable instrument of language. ~ Noam Chomsky,

1293:When someone dies, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place where all the nerves are still a little raw ~ Jodi Picoult,

1294:When someone dies, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to the empty place, when all the nerves are still a little raw. ~ Jodi Picoult,

1295:I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction. ~ John Steinbeck,

1296:I've always needed to bulk up, so until the modeling took off I was ramming Big Macs down my throat and doing plenty of bodyweight work. I'm over the Big Macs now, but I'll still drop down and do my press ups whenever I find the time. ~ Jamie Dornan,

1297:I will go to the saints first. Already there is plenty in Bacon’s Corner for them to be upset about, plenty to divide them. I will keep them busy censuring and smiting each other, and then their hearts will be far from praying.” He ~ Frank E Peretti,

1298:Who are we to be so arrogant as to say 'now WE know what's best, THAT era was full of daft ideas' etc. There will be plenty things we take as normal and good now that future generations will look back at in horror or amusement. ~ Sean Michael Wilson,

1299:Beckett moved quickly. In one motion he snagged the pen out of Kim’s scrub pocket, stepped back, and stabbed his forearm. The ballpoint produced an instant stream of blood. “Here, take mine,” he begged. “I’ve got plenty of blood. ~ Debra Anastasia,

1300:India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent art, but also in the enormous creativity and humanity of our daily life in city and village. ~ Pranab Mukherjee,

1301:Plenty of people craved attention. It had to be the right person, someone who naturally commanded it. Sam suspected most outwardly noisy people were boring in the inside. No more than the textbook swirl of insecurities and narcissism. ~ Mary H K Choi,

1302:There were always plenty of newspapers in the house. The Times, Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail were all regular fixtures on the coffee table. I used to enjoy reading The Times editorial pages and the Daily Mail sports pages. ~ Lionel Barber,

1303:To the youngsters of today, I say "Believe in the future, the world is getting better; there still is plenty of opportunity." Why, would you believe it, when I was a kid I thought it was already too late for me to make good at anything. ~ Walt Disney,

1304:When someone dies, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all the nerves are still a little raw. ~ Jodi Picoult,

1305:Will smart machines lead to a world of plenty, leisure, health care, and education for all; or to a world of inequality, mass unemployment, and a war between the haves and have-nots, and between the machines and the workers left behind? ~ Martin Ford,

1306:You know any single girls in their twenties that would go for Bish?" I asked Caleb. "Sure, I know plenty. But would Bish go for it? He doesn’t seem to be attracted to anything that walks, talks, eats or breathes except my sister. ~ Shelly Crane,

1307:I can’t go back, Lane. I’m sorry. I just can’t.” He fell silent. And then after a long while, he nodded. “All right, but can I ask you for one thing?” No. “Yes.” “Just don’t hate me anymore. I’m doing plenty of that on my own time. ~ J R Ward,

1308:I don't think I have any regrets, but I can tell you what I learned from mistakes or failures. I've had plenty of those. I just don't believe in regret, and my economic world is not what I would ever have imagined; I'm financially free. ~ Tony Robbins,

1309:When someone dies, it feels like the hole in your gums when a tooth falls out. you can chew, youc an eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all the nerves are still a little raw. ~ Jodi Picoult,

1310:when you [lose someone], it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all nerves are still a little raw ~ Jodi Picoult,

1311:Any comic can get on the radio show and be funny. You can get that on any morning radio show or afternoon radio show. There are plenty of people who do that. It's not a difficult format, to sit around with two or three comics and be funny. ~ Marc Maron,

1312:I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I can't get the end of it into my hand. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle,

1313:It is impossible for a believer, no matter what his experience, to keep right with God if he will not take the trouble to spend time with God. Spend plenty of time with him; let other things go, but don’t neglect Him.” —J. Oswald Sanders ~ Randy Alcorn,

1314:It is not only poverty that torments the Negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. It is a misery generated by the gulf between the affluence he sees in the mass media and the deprivation he experiences in his everyday life. ~ Martin Luther King Jr,

1315:People alway ask me what advantages fame has started to bring; there are always plenty of free drinks, but other times people wanna put stuff into your drink to kill you off. Their gonna have to try a lot harder if they want to get me. ~ Marilyn Manson,

1316:There's a home for you here at North Hill, you know that, and my wife joins me in begging you to stay. Plenty to do, you know, plenty to do. There are flowers to be cut for the house, and letters to write, and the children to scold. ~ Daphne du Maurier,

1317:When some-one dies, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, there are plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all the nerves are still a little raw. ~ Jodi Picoult,

1318:I felt the way I did when I was about to dive into deep water. The last pause was to look for shadows that might be rocks. There were plenty that might have been, but nothing broke the surface and the more I looked the fewer there were. ~ Natasha Pulley,

1319:The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even closer to the foot of the great mountain ranges. There are still plenty of shell layers. We notice them, even thicker and more solid ones. ~ Georges Cuvier,

1320:We must contemplate what the meaning of being "educated" is. Some people think a person with plenty of degrees is an educated one. But I believe a person who can judge a situation correctly and make timely decisions is more important. ~ Aung San Suu Kyi,

1321:When someone dies, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all the nerves are still a little raw. ~ Jodi Picoult,

1322:Worry and stress is one of the most unhealthiest things. They say that cancer and sickness comes from that, so you know I do my best. There are times that I do feel very stressed, but I do my best to keep it away and get plenty of rest. ~ Carmen Electra,

1323:For the last 16 years, temperatures have been going down and the carbon dioxide has been going up and the crops have got greener and grow quicker. We've done plenty to smash up the planet, but there's been no global warming caused by man. ~ David Bellamy,

1324:Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their head. They’re all the time talkin’ about it, but it’s jus’ in their head. ~ John Steinbeck,

1325:Love involves a lot of forgiveness. People aren’t perfect. Falling in love is easy, but staying in love is a choice. You have to decide if the ups and downs are worth sticking out because there will be plenty of them. There will be pain. ~ J T Geissinger,

1326:The invention of the telephone was also dismissed at first. Sir William Henry Preece, the chief engineer of the British post office, famously declared, “The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys. ~ Nir Eyal,

1327:But he knew plenty of distracting sinkholes too: gossip, the endless call of work, as well as fear, suspicion, lust. Every human being is pulled by these internal and external forces that are increasingly more powerful and harder to resist. ~ Ryan Holiday,

1328:if i had much money to spend i would like to bought a books...if there's plenty more left i would bought a toys...if it there's left a little more i would bought a clothes...then if i had nothing left in the wallet i had to be more creative... ~ Anonymous,

1329:I want to be afraid of you, Julian. I want you to try and break me, and then I want you to catch me and put me back together. We will have plenty of time for things that are slow and tender, but tonight…tonight I need you to discipline me. ~ Sierra Simone,

1330:The dumpling-eaters are a race sprung partly from the old Epicurean and partly from the Peripatetic Sect; they were first brought into Britain by Julius Caesar; and finding it a Land of Plenty, they wisely resolved never to go home again. ~ John Arbuthnot,

1331:Unfortunately, music is a male-dominated industry. It's not that there aren't plenty of women working in the industry, it's just, the higher up you go... it's like how women who play in the WNBA make so little, compared to men in the NBA. ~ Cassie Ventura,

1332:When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist. ~ Andrea Mitchell,

1333:If you have a great part, you have the opportunity to give a good performance. The greatest actors get the best parts, and the best parts make the greatest actors. There are plenty of people who are as talented, who just never got the part. ~ Tom Hollander,

1334:I've always enjoyed things that are popular,I mean, obviously, there are plenty of things that are popular that I hate. But when something like that is done right, I just think they nail it. I just think Modern Family is a really clever show. ~ Doug Benson,

1335:Movies are a powerful medium. People think you are your character. I've had plenty of people who think I'm Drago. They don't know about the chemical engineering part of my personality. They don't know about the geek part of my personality. ~ Dolph Lundgren,

1336:We were giants, once,” he said. “Bigger than life. And now …” “Now we are tired old men,” Clay muttered, to no one but the night. And what was so wrong with that? He’d met plenty of actual giants in his day, and most of them were assholes. ~ Nicholas Eames,

1337:What next?” Pete asked. “It’s up to you,” the doctor replied. “If you’re sure you want to go forward, there are more tests and the doctors taking care of Mr. Hightower need to be informed.” “I’m sure. I’ve had plenty of time to think about ~ Robert Whitlow,

1338:Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a happy place, of love and peace and plenty, and that the lion will lie down with the lamb and everybody will believe anybody. ~ Gertrude Stein,

1339:Having little to do with the present, Mr. Beaton had plenty of room for the past. Oh, yes, he read the papers and knew that governments came and went ("Conservative, Labor, Sociopath," Mr. Beaton would chuckle), but that made no odds to him. ~ Martha Grimes,

1340:There's plenty to read about keeping your sanity while raising children, but it's all common-sense stuff about task division and taking breaks and the relentlessly repeated magic of date night with your spouse. What's missing is some 'tude. ~ Jeffrey Kluger,

1341:There were whole secret sections that did their work underground then, and sections of the London tube system were used as part of it. There were also plenty of bunkers and tunnels built for use in the event of an invasion.", FADE by Kailin Gow ~ Kailin Gow,

1342:[Africa] is a continent of many countries, not one country. If we are down to three or four conflicts, it means that there are plenty of opportunities to invest in stable, growing, exciting economies where there's plenty of opportunity. ~ Ngozi Okonjo Iweala,

1343:Have you ever thought how much is in the negative quality of nature—the negative—the simply loafing, doing nothing, worrying about nothing, living out of doors and getting fresh air, plenty of sleep—letting everything else take care of itself? ~ Walt Whitman,

1344:...If there’s a God, there are plenty of people who know where he is.” I shrugged, still watching the sky. ... “I just want to know that he’s there, so that I can die knowing there’s going to be someone I can punch in the mouth on the other end. ~ Mira Grant,

1345:Plenty of local hacks think they’re famous. They smile from billboards as they beg for your bankruptcy and swagger in television ads as they seem deeply concerned about your personal injuries, but they’re forced to pay for their own publicity. ~ John Grisham,

1346:Plenty of people think the same thing. All of them are teenagers, mentally if not physically. Only teenagers think boring is bad. Adults, gown men and women who’ve been around the block a few times, know that boring is a gift straight from God. ~ Tana French,

1347:The brave aren’t called the brave because they weren’t scared, Elena, neither the courageous, nor the heroes. All of those people written in history have one thing in common: fear, and plenty of it, but that is when true courage shows itself ~ Adrienne Woods,

1348:The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built. ~ N T Wright,

1349:There's been plenty of adversity, starting the moment he was born. He had a respiratory crisis, and it was touch and go for a week whether he would survive. I think ever since, you can feel this pulse in the guy, an almost physical enthusiasm. ~ James Taylor,

1350:Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could recognize a revolutionary situation when he saw one, and he could act fast and ruthlessly to meet it. ~ Bruce Catton,

1351:For me, one of the important things about keeping vocally healthy is warming up and making sure I'm aware where my voice is at, drinking lots of water and getting plenty of sleep, and just taking care of myself with exercise and eating healthy. ~ Adam Lambert,

1352:He couldn’t even say that he hadn’t seen this day coming. There had been plenty of clues along the way letting him know that one day he would have no choice but to dump her body into a tub of holy water and let the Devil have his protégé back. ~ R L Mathewson,

1353:I sometimes wonder ... if the land is not destroying the people who inhabit it as the people who inhabit it are destroying the land. A magic continent, a Peculiar Treasure, stuffed with riches, millions in it are starving in the midst of plenty. ~ Edna Ferber,

1354:The robots came bearing a gift and the name of it was "Plenty." Plenty is a habit-forming drug. You do not cut the dosage down. You kick it if you can; you stop the dose entirely. But the convulsions that follow may wreck the body entirely. ~ Frederik Pohl,

1355:To those looking on with interest, and there were plenty of gawking eyes fixed on her, she supposed she appeared to be gliding with ease. But in truth, the crushing weight of her charmed life made each demure step as tortuous as a death march. ~ Carey Baldwin,

1356:A study of 73 women and 82 men found that people could not actively absorb more than 500 mg a day of calcium, and this was plenty for people who ate little salt and protein. Those fed more protein and salt used about 700 mg of calcium per day. ~ Janice Stanger,

1357:I always had plenty of ideas. I didn’t exactly have them. They grew—little by little, a half an idea at a time. First, part of a phrase and then a person to go with it. After a person, then a little corner of a place for the person to be in. ~ Carol Emshwiller,

1358:I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.” APOSTLE PAUL (PHILIPPIANS 4:12) ~ Allison Vesterfelt,

1359:I remember being a boy; I remember being a young man; I remember the bloom of my vigour and my strength. I have known famine and plenty, fortune and ill-fortune, in my life-days till to-day. They are great teachers for one the marks them well. ~ Tomas O Crohan,

1360:I've tried plenty of telephones. I tried to get into the Samsung Galaxy and the Blackberry, but the iPhone is just too easy to use. The camera takes clear pictures and the phone itself looks great. Like all Apple products, it kind of just makes sense. ~ Avicii,

1361:There are plenty of things in history that are best left in the shadows. Accurate knowledge does not improve people’s lives. The objective does not necessarily surpass the subjective, you know. Reality does not necessarily extinguish fantasy. ~ Haruki Murakami,

1362:The world is full of noble people who have healthy intentions, but fail to stand up and fight for their rights with the evil forces and then lament the atrocities heaped upon them as their ‘fate’. Even the world in the ocean had plenty such people. ~ Anonymous,

1363:We were born into a peace of plenty, a pleasure-economy, a bonobo masturbation society. The future that our elite handlers have in store for us advertises more of the same. More detached pleasure, less risk, freedom from want, more masturbation. ~ Jack Donovan,

1364:If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble. ~ Wyndham Lewis,

1365:If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder. ~ William Greider,

1366:I'm not greedy. I have love, blue skies, rainbows and Hallmark cards and that has to be enough. It has to be enough, but it's everything in the world and everything in the world is plenty for me. It seems just rude to beg the invisible for more. ~ Penn Jillette,

1367:It won’t be disagreeable,” he said. “It can be made quite enjoyable.” “Oh, it had better be,” she said tartly. “I’ve heard plenty over the years on your amatory prowess. If I’m not on the roof crowing, I will consider myself disappointed. ~ Sherry Thomas,

1368:Rarely is anyone staring at my dick while they’re shaking my hand.” “So you think.” She forces her attention back to my face, then slides her hand into mine and squeezes it. “I bet there are plenty of people who’ve been dick-struck by the Kraken. ~ Meghan March,

1369:There are plenty of people who are willing to pay $2.6 million for 30 seconds on the Super Bowl and hundreds of thousands of dollars for 'American Idol.' There will be advertising dollars on the Internet. We're there as well. We win either way. ~ Leslie Moonves,

1370:To have a great university library near you with plenty of archives of all the journals that you want to research in the twentieth century is a remarkable asset, and I spend a day, maybe two days a week in that library. I just plain love it. ~ John Shelby Spong,

1371:Writing let me escape... It let me escape the insistent tug of my family, and its ongoing misery. Sitting in front of the computer, with the screen blank and the cursor blinking, was the best escape I knew. And there was plenty to escape from. ~ Jennifer Weiner,

1372:During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice. ~ Kurt Vonnegut,

1373:For watching sports, I tend to drink Guinness; early evenings always begin well with a Grey Goose and tonic with plenty of lime; and on a cold winters night, theres nothing quite like a glass of Black Maple Hill... an absolute peach of a bourbon. ~ Martin Bashir,

1374:good news is good news first; how good matters rather little. So to have a pleasant life you should spread these small “affects” across time as evenly as possible. Plenty of mildly good news is preferable to one single lump of great news. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb,

1375:I'm sorry, but I have this fear that someday you're going to wake up a dried-out, bitter old hag with plenty of science awards but no personal life whatsoever. And you'll sit there at night and sob about how you've wasted your life. ~ Robin Brande,

1376:In this world of plenty, a tiny baby, who does not yet understand the mystery of the world, is allowed to cry and cry and finally fall asleep without the milk she needs to survive. The next day she may not have the strength to continue living. I ~ Muhammad Yunus,

1377:I think the important thing is that there be plenty of newspapers, with plenty of different people controlling them, so that there are a variety of viewpoints, so there is a choice for the public. This is the freedom of the press that is needed. ~ Rupert Murdoch,

1378:I've said this before elsewhere: There are plenty of opportunities to make a six-figure salary by attacking projects that would typically not be worth the time of a small engineering team. One person with a broad skill set can tackle it economically. ~ Anonymous,

1379:She’d been busy all day, though she made time to stand over his shoulder plenty. However, he’d discovered the key to getting rid of her. Just a few personal questions, and she ran for cover. He smothered a grin. Might be kind of entertaining. The ~ Denise Hunter,

1380:Some parents struggle to put food on the table. And plenty of women aren't getting the pay they deserve. While I don't expect the government to solve all these problems, I do want leaders who care about these things and do what they can to help. ~ Chrissy Teigen,

1381:There will be plenty of backup and support, but she’s still going to have to do heartbreaking things to people who probably don’t understand why the pale woman with the bone-white violin and blood dripping from her fingertips is coming for them. ~ Charles Stross,

1382:While you don't need a formal written contract before you get married, I think it's important for both partners to spell out what they expect from each other. . . . There are always plenty of surprises- and lots of give and take-once you're married. ~ Muriel Fox,

1383:Although I am nine months pregnant, although I have had plenty of time to dream, I have not really considered the specifics of this child. I have thought of this daughter only in terms of what she will be able to do for the daughter I already have. ~ Jodi Picoult,

1384:Modern man, if he dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the biggest department store in the world, showing new things and gadgets, and himself having plenty of money with which to buy them. ~ Erich Fromm,

1385:People who observe no limits in attempting to get work done aren't nearly as smart as they think. Hard work can be done by any fool. But to be highly productive, and still have plenty of time to rest and play, this is where true genius resides. ~ Ernie J Zelinski,

1386:There was still plenty of water in the basement, and I felt it soaking me from the knees on down. If someone wanted to torture me until I told them a critical piece of information, all they would have to do is get my socks wet. It feels terrible. ~ Daniel Handler,

1387:What had really given birth to the Romantic Movement in the history of human ideas was affluence—an increase in the number of people who had plenty enough to eat, enough education to read and write, and time to ruminate on their own personal emotions. ~ Anne Rice,

1388:You bloody fool, do you never stop to consider the consequences of your actions?” He barreled out of the mirror behind me. “Of course I do,” I said coolly. “There’s always plenty of time to consider the consequences. After I’ve screwed up. ~ Karen Marie Moning,

1389:You can collapse and die if you like. There is plenty of time for that. But that is boring. Be strong and live. Truly live. Be an example for others. Because one day, I assure you, you will die anyway. And while you're alive, you might as well live. ~ Morgan Rice,

1390:I cannot stand the people who get wonderful starts in show business and who abuse it. Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen, for example, although there are plenty of others, too. They are the most blessed people in the world, and they don't appreciate it. ~ Betty White,

1391:Most communities attempting to survive under irresistible pressure from a dominant culture develop a myth that allows them to believe they are somehow a special people. Chosen. Favored by the gods. Gypsies, Jews-- plenty of historical precedents ~ Orson Scott Card,

1392:Plenty of women say, "I'm just going to make myself into a sex object." But they often can't stay afloat doing that. They can't maintain their sanity. Some women can, but many cannot. They think they can, but self-objectification is really dangerous. ~ Anna Biller,

1393:Rarely is anyone staring at my dick while they’re shaking my hand.” “So you think.” She forces her attention back to my face, then slides her hand into mine and squeezes it. “I bet there are plenty of people who’ve been dick-struck by the Kraken. ~ Meghan March,

1394:So I've made up with Mar. I've made up with Señor Shitslacks. I'd even forged a shaky truce with Amanda. The only person I still needed to deal with was Johnny Mercer. Oh yeah, I had to kill Gabe Walker, too, but there was plenty of time for that. ~ Kristin Walker,

1395:There is plenty of work to do, but big business isn't investing in rebuilding a green economy for the 21st century. Instead, they put their money into a gigantic financial casino, and when that led to catastrophe in 2008-9, they made us pay for it. ~ Kshama Sawant,

1396:There's plenty of days when I'm like 'Oh God, why?' But that's just life. It's every job, not just mine. Every moment is not perfect. But it's definitely more good times than bad. You can't even compare. And when I'm on stage it feels incredible. ~ Beyonce Knowles,

1397:And in your time period, there are plenty of tasers and electrical devices that can completely incapacitate me. No offense, but I don’t relish being someone’s science experiment. Been there, done that, and sold the T-shirt for profit. (Sebastian) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,

1398:Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. "It's so dreadful to be poor!" sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress. "I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls ~ Louisa May Alcott,

1399:Face it,” Gary told her kindly. “You’ll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything. Sometimes I wonder if that isn’t what they’re really trying to teach us—to take plenty and keep our mouths shut. ~ Tamora Pierce,

1400:For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. ~ Marco Rubio,

1401:I don't think in terms of what's going to be successful. I have plenty of friends who make very small movies and friends who make giant, $150 million blockbusters, and the thing that I really admire is, the ones who do it well do it very sincerely. ~ James Ponsoldt,

1402:I'm not a sci-fi lover; I wasn't from the start. So perhaps I miss that passion for other worlds, other dimensions, that sort of scope and that magnitude of storytelling; that's not my thing though I meet plenty of people whose thing it definitely is. ~ Paul McGann,

1403:Face it," Gary told her kindly. "You'll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything. Sometimes I wonder if that isn't what they're really trying to teach us--to take plenty and keep our mouths shut. ~ Tamora Pierce,

1404:If you want it done, give it to a busy man. I refuse to work on important projects with persons who have lots of free time. I have learned from painful, expensive experience that the fellow who has plenty of time makes an ineffective work partner. ~ David J Schwartz,

1405:Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want. ~ James F Cooper,

1406:The common suffering is the alienation from oneself, from one’s fellow man, and from nature; the awareness that life runs out of one’s hand like sand, and that one will die without having lived; that one lives in the midst of plenty and yet is joyless. ~ Erich Fromm,

1407:There was no established procedure for evasive action. All you needed was fear, and Yossarian had plenty of that, more fear than Orr or Hungry Joe, more fear even than Dunbar, who had resigned himself submissively to the idea that he must die someday ~ Joseph Heller,

1408:What Wilkinson and others have shown is that poverty is not only a predictor of poor health but, independent of absolute income, so is poverty amid plenty—the more income inequality there is in a society, the worse the health and mortality rates. ~ Robert M Sapolsky,

1409:A strange species we are, We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much, and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy, sick. --John Steinbeck to Adlai Stevenson ~ John Steinbeck,

1410:I think that [Jay] Gould's separate compartments was a purely political ploy to win middle-of-the-road religious people to the science camp. But it's a very empty idea. There are plenty of places where religion does not keep off the scientific turf. ~ Richard Dawkins,

1411:I've been scared plenty of times. What I've never been is fearless. If you can run into a battle unafraid, you're not courageous, you're just a dumbass. It's knowing the price you're going to pay and being willing to pay it anyway that makes you brave. ~ Jill Shalvis,

1412:My chest was aching, splitting open. For the second time that day, I felt like I was suffocating. Except this time there was plenty of air, just no room for it in my lungs as emotion squeezed against them, compressing them and rendering them useless. ~ Laurelin Paige,

1413:She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself. She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself. ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett,

1414:She was glad to see that he was finally growing some hairs on his chin: soon he would have a proper mane that went all the way round his face. The she-lion decided that from now on, she must give him plenty of licking and muzzle-rubs, to help it grow ~ Michelle Paver,

1415:The world is a dangerous place (...) There will always be blurred boundaries. There are plenty of good bad guys and bad good guys. Life's not clear and it's seldom fair (...) I don't want our child growing up under the illusion that it is. Shit happens. ~ Peter James,

1416:was typical. For reasons he couldn’t quite fathom, Father Byrne felt compelled to investigate what was making the magpies so excitable. He had plenty of time; it was just before eight, and worshippers wouldn’t begin to arrive for another half-hour or so. ~ Casey Hill,

1417:You know, compromise can't be a dirty word in American politics. There's plenty to argue about. Trump administration is still talking about ridiculous tax cuts for the wealthiest of the wealthy. That should be resisted with every fiber of our being. ~ Hillary Clinton,

1418:I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.” APOSTLE PAUL (PHILIPPIANS 4:12) PACKING ~ Allison Vesterfelt,

1419:I make time to exercise at least four times a week. I mix up running, yoga, barre classes, and rock-climbing to get a full workout. I also follow my mum and dad's nutritional advice and eat a variety of colors on my plate. Plenty of fruit and vegetables. ~ Rose McIver,

1420:Social scientists could supply plenty of research to show that one member of the family, at least, is happier and more well adjusted when mum stays home and looks after the children. But that person is dada finding of limited use to backlash publicists. ~ Susan Faludi,

1421:There are plenty of other ways to get money, including chance, speculation, marriage, inheritance, theft, extortion, fraud, monopoly, graft, lobbying, counterfeiting, and prospecting. Most of the greatest fortunes have probably involved several of these. ~ Paul Graham,

1422:There's no need to legalize gay marriage. I have plenty of gay friends who are committed couples; some of them call themselves married, some don't, but their friends treat them as married. Anybody who doesn't like it just doesn't hang out with them. ~ Orson Scott Card,

1423:This realization unsettled my sense of personal progress and education: it was possible to have freedom and plenty in the West and craft an empty life; it was possible to “have nothing” in the East and create a life of intimacy and dignity and beauty. ~ Krista Tippett,

1424:You bloody fool, do you never stop to consider the consequences of your actions?" He barreled out of the mirror behind me. "Of course I do," I said coolly. "There’s always plenty of time to consider the consequences. After I’ve screwed up. ~ Karen Marie Moning,

1425:For the narrative to exist, so that it could be read and reread even if I was taken away. Stories outlive their writers all the time. We know plenty about Goethe and Charles Dickens from what they chose to tell, even though they have been dead for years. ~ Jodi Picoult,

1426:I'm an actor. Never trust an actor, whatever their energy is. I suppose you guys see that side of me, but I'm sure there's plenty of people close to me who've seen the other one. I think if we're all honest with ourselves, we all know that internal rage. ~ Hugh Jackman,

1427:Of course Nebraska is a storehouse of literary material. Everywhere is a storehouse of literary material. If a true artist were born in a pigpen and raised in a sty, he would still find plenty of inspiration for his work. The only need is the eye to see. ~ Willa Cather,

1428:Plenty of people did not care for him much, but then there is a huge difference between disliking somebody - maybe even disliking them a lot - and actually shooting them, strangling them, dragging them through the fields and setting their house on fire. ~ Douglas Adams,

1429:Plus, Mama packed a good picnic. That night she brought us plenty of ham sandwiches and Lay's potato chips, plus orange slices and Oatmeal Caramelitas, a salty, buttery layer of oats topped with chocolate chips, walnuts, and melted Kraft caramels. ~ Susan Rebecca White,

1430:Ride the flag pole? Go to the boneyard? Get a good dicking? Fuck for Ol’ Glory’s sake? Take ol’ one eye to the optometrist . . .” “Take ol’ one eye to the optometrist?” I question on a laugh. “That’s a new one.” “I’ve got plenty more where those came from. ~ N A Alcorn,

1431:There are no rules, no right or wrong, and no shame when it comes to what happens between a man and a woman if they’re both enjoying it. So, cut yourself some slack. Just because he’s into control doesn’t make him a monster. Plenty of guys like that shit ~ Meghan March,

1432:There are plenty of publicly-funded organizations and nonprofits that are trying to develop GMO crops that could help feed people in developing nations by producing disease-resistant or drought-resistant strains of staple crops like cassava or bananas. ~ Annalee Newitz,

1433:What I do care about is that it's an obstacle to other women entering politics, because they'll say, "Why would I do that? I have plenty of other options." And women with plenty of options are just the women that we want to be in politics and government. ~ Nancy Pelosi,

1434:HEALTH IS VERY IMPORTANT. REMEMBER EXERCISE. THINK BACK ON TIMES THAT YOU’VE MOVED OR EXPANDED ENERGY. ALSO REMEMBER EATING. RECALL FOOD AND WHAT IT WAS LIKE. REMEMBER SLEEP. REMINISCE ABOUT REST. DRINK PLENTY OF WATER BUT LEAVE SOME WATER IN CASE OF FIRE. ~ Joseph Fink,

1435:Maybe you’ve made something mediocre—there’s plenty of that in any artist’s cabinets—but something mediocre is better than nothing, and often the near-misses, as I call them, are the beckoning hands that bring you to perfection just around the blind corner. ~ Sally Mann,

1436:Plenty of people out there think of me as the Antichrist or the devil incarnate because I do not affirm the literal patterns of the Bible. But the fact is I can no more abandon the literal patterns than I could fly to the moon. I just go beyond them. ~ John Shelby Spong,

1437:The essence of life is suffering, said the Buddha. At first glance this statement seems exceedingly morbid and pessimistic. It even seems untrue. After all, there are plenty of times when we are happy. Aren’t there? No, there are not. It just seems that way. ~ Anonymous,

1438:There was only today to throw yourself into without thinking about tomorrow, let alone forever. To keep you from thinking, there was liquor, an ocean's worth at least, all the usual vices and plenty of rope to hang yourself with. Love is a beautiful liar. ~ Paula McLain,

1439:I don't know what the hell I'm workin' for. Sometimes I sit in my apartment–all alone. And I think of the rent I'm paying. And it's crazy. But then, it's what I always wanted. My own apartment, a car, and plenty of women. And still, goddammit, I'm lonely. ~ Arthur Miller,

1440:I think we need to teach kids two things: 1) how to lead, and 2) how to solve interesting problems. Because the fact is, there are plenty of countries on Earth where there are people who are willing to be obedient and work harder for less money than us. ~ Timothy Ferriss,

1441:There are as many kinds of missionaries as there are human beings. There are the terrible, colonialist power-grabbers, still, and there are plenty of the sort of well-intentioned villains who do great harm and don’t understand that they are doing great harm. ~ Kyle Minor,

1442:There are plenty of things in history that are best left in the shadows. Accurate knowledge does not improve people's lives. The objective does not necessarily surpass the subjective, you know. Reality does not necessarily extinguish the fantasy. ~ Haruki Murakami,

1443:was sure that Charlie was wrong. “Anyone can see that Dad’s smart and hardworking!” she said. “And he has so many friends! People still remember him from when he was a baseball star in college. Plenty of people will be glad to hire him!” Charlie shrugged. ~ Valerie Tripp,

1444:Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper... sharp pencils... typewriter ribbon. Then put your belly up to the desk... roll a sheet of paper into the typewriter... and stare at it until beads of blood appear on your forehead. ~ Jeff MacNelly,

1445:Imperialism and exploitation,” he wrote, “spheres of influence, trade barriers, unequal distribution of the world's goods, starvation in the midst of plenty, slums with gold coasts next door, poverty supporting luxury: These are marks of an unChristian world. ~ Sara Miles,

1446:It’s the task that’s never started that’s more tiresome,” “The days are long, but the years are short,” and “Always leave plenty of room in the suitcase.” One of my most helpful Secrets is, “What I do every day matters more than what I do once in a while. ~ Jocelyn K Glei,

1447:The One to Bring the End Days. Like I said before, the details are in plenty of mythologies, but when you look in the bible, in Revelations, it’s so clear. Someone rises during the End Days and charms his way to a position of great power.”, FADE by Kailin Gow ~ Kailin Gow,

1448:There are plenty of risks when we encourage "investment" or commoditization of natural resources, as power dynamics may mean that poor people (who are often marginalized and have less power) are sidelined by more powerful interests when money is involved. ~ Helene D Gayle,

1449:Why were there far more species of domesticated animals in Eurasia than in the Americas? The Americas harbor over a thousand native wild mammal species, so you might initially suppose that the Americas offered plenty of starting material for domestication. ~ Jared Diamond,

1450:And, in my opinion, that's one of the reasons why you're having this little nervous breakdown. And especially the reason why you're having it at home. This place is made to order for you. The service is good, and there's plenty of cold running ghosts. ~ J D Salinger,

1451:Hugh consoled me, saying, "Don't let it get to you. There are plenty of things you're good at." When asked for some examples, he listed vacuuming and naming stuffed animals. He says he can probably come up with a few more, but he'll need some time to think. ~ David Sedaris,

1452:He had fangs. So what? Plenty of things not a Dark-Hunter have fangs, including Hollywood actors and kids playing vampire. You should have checked his membership card before you attacked. Good grief, what if you’d run across a Masquerade group?” – Sundown ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,

1453:How d-d-delightfully young one is at nineteen! To take a hammer and smash things seems so easy. It's that now--only it's I that am under the hammer. As for you, there are plenty of other people you can fool with lies--and they won't even find you out. ~ Ethel Lilian Voynich,

1454:I always plan the whole story in some detail, long before I start writing the actual thing. But even doing that, I find that there is plenty of room for spontaneity. Often the characters will lead the story off in a direction I hadn't originally intended! ~ Raymond Buckland,

1455:I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little. For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength. Philippians 4:12 ~ Sheila Walsh,

1456:I pray that you all put your shoes way under the bed at night so that you gotta get on your knees in the morning to find them. And while you're down there thank God for grace and mercy and understanding. We all fall short of the glory, we all got plenty. ~ Denzel Washington,

1457:Now Maeve, sweetheart, do not be difficult,” he chided, tipping the glass, still holding her jaw so she couldn’t turn away, and watching her like a hawk to make sure she drank. “I dosed it with plenty of sugar. You’ll find it sweet and tangy, just like you. ~ Danelle Harmon,

1458:Talented people don’t need to work for you; they have plenty of options. You should ask yourself a more pointed version of the question: Why would someone join your company as its 20th engineer when she could go work at Google for more money and more prestige? ~ Peter Thiel,

1459:Business is not the supreme virtue, and sanctity is not measured by the amount of work we accomplish. Perfection is found in the purity of our love for God, and this pure love is a delicate plant that grows best where there is plenty of time for it to mature ~ Thomas Merton,

1460:I had a hunch. Officially, scientists don’t work on hunches. We work on hypotheses and observations and plenty of evidence. Hunches don’t get you research funding, tenure at your university, or access to the world’s largest telescopes. But a hunch was all I had. ~ Mike Brown,

1461:In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops, because a bookshop is one of the few places where you can hang about for a long time without spending any money. ~ George Orwell,

1462:In his experience, motives were simple. There was greed, there was jealousy, he’d seen plenty of revenge played out in gang-related crimes, there was even sadism, and sometimes there was flat-out stupidity, which was a pretty powerful motivator in itself. ~ Jonathan L Howard,

1463:Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in a shared flat. In short... was she happy? Not for a moment. ~ Mikhail Bulgakov,

1464:The best songs come unasked for. You don't have to think about them . . . Summer is good for songs. When it's real warm, if you have a sense of freedom, not a lot on your mind, and a feeling there's plenty of time, it just seems to be a good climate for music. ~ Jim Morrison,

1465:The "discovery" of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the "discovery" of America almost five hundred years earlier. In the case of each of these exotic terrains, plenty of people were on the site before the discoverers ever arrived. ~ Barbara Ehrenreich,

1466:I saw plenty of differences in degree, but not in kind. I felt the same admiration for Kelly and Donen's Singin' in the Rain as for Carl Dreyer's Ordet. I still find any hierarchy of kinds of movies both ridiculous and despicable. ~ Fran ois Truffaut,

1467:Plenty of people said it was wrong to hate. They said it led to the wrong side of humanity. The dark side. But at least hate was honest. It wouldn’t hold punches, or pretend to be something it wasn’t. You knew it when you saw it. You knew it when you felt it. And ~ M R Forbes,

1468:Six years is plenty long enough to soothe the tearing anguish of...death, but maybe no amount of time is enough to soothe something that is no longer there. Something like an emptiness that can never be filled because it's only a bit of space carved out of air. ~ Bette Greene,

1469:Sorry, Sage. Last I checked, you aren’t an expert in social matters..." "At least I take action. You? You let the world go by without you. You have no spine. You don’t fight back." “You don’t know the first thing about me, Adrian Ivashkov. I fight back plenty. ~ Richelle Mead,

1470:The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did have abundant resources. But now we are gradually exhausting our fisheries, our topsoil, our water. On top of that, we're coming to the end of world resources. ~ Jared Diamond,

1471:12I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. 13I can do everything through him who gives me strength. ~ Anonymous,

1472:And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to the suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume the world's resources without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change with it. ~ Barack Obama,

1473:I think there are all sorts of ways of turning into an actor, and there are a vast variety of different actors. You know, you interview plenty of actors and you know they come at it from a different direction and acting means different things to a lot of people. ~ John Lithgow,

1474:Like Joseph storing up grain during the years of plenty to be used during the years of famine that lay ahead, may we store up the truths of God's Word in our hearts as much as possible, so that we are prepared for whatever suffering we are called upon to endure. ~ Billy Graham,

1475:Socialists will often talk as if some form of superbly equalized destitution were preferable to "maldistributed" plenty. A national income that is rapidly growing in absolute terms for practically everyone will be deplored because it is making the rich richer. ~ Henry Hazlitt,

1476:There was only today to throw yourself into without thinking about tomorrow, let alone forever. To keep you from thinking, there was liquor, an ocean's worth at least, all the usual vices and plenty of rope to hang yourself with. Love is a beautiful liar. ~ Paula McLain,

1477:You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty. ~ L Frank Baum,

1478:This land used to yield. Rains used not to fail. What happened?’ inquired Ruoro. It was Muturi who answered. ‘You forget that in those days the land was not for buying. It was for use. It was also plenty, you need not have beaten one yard over and over again. ~ Ng g wa Thiong o,

1479:If elected, Hillary Clinton could be impeached based on what we already know, and there's plenty more yet to be discovered. Emails and other documents that could be used in impeachment proceedings are waiting to be found like Easter eggs laid out for 3-year-olds. ~ Rush Limbaugh,

1480:There are plenty of team players in government who do whatever the leader says. There are too few difficult members, who have complicated minds, unusual perspectives, the toughness to withstand the party-line barrages and a practical interest in producing results. ~ David Brooks,

1481:There have been plenty of occasions in my life when I’ve felt small and insignificant, when I’ve wished to be something I’m not, but when Logan holds me like this, kisses me like this—like the universe starts and ends with me—I don’t want to be anyone but myself. ~ Siobhan Davis,

1482:Before becoming headmaster of Eton, Claude Elliott had taught history at Cambridge University, despite an ingrained distrust of academics and an aversion to intellectual conversation. But the long university vacations gave him plenty of time for mountain climbing. ~ Ben Macintyre,

1483:Emerging into writership, I have plans to discover my other themes, of nation and country, love and conflict, the body and transcendence, mutilation and wholeness, starvation and wicked plenty, and more. That is, I am already thinking ahead to more writing. ~ Shirley Geok lin Lim,

1484:Hugh consoled me, saying, "Don't let it get to you. There are plenty of things you're good at." When asked for some examples, he listed vacuuming and naming stuffed animals. He says he can probably come up with a few more, but he'll need some time to think. ~ David Sedaris,

1485:Omni is not a science magazine. It is a magazine about the future...Omni was sui generis. Although there were plenty of science magazines over the years...Omni was the first magazine to slant all its pieces toward the future. It was fun to read and gorgeous to look at. ~ Ben Bova,

1486:Riffing on language will create wonderful effects you never intended. Which leads me to this writing advice: 'Always take credit for good stuff you didn't intend, because you'll be getting plenty of criticism in your career for bad stuff you didn't mean either.' ~ Roy Peter Clark,

1487:There's plenty of film out there, and quadrillions of cameras that use film - I don't think it makes much sense not to use it. The thing that's going out is the manufacturing of the paper. Incidentally, all these years my wife has told me that I'm color-blind. ~ William Eggleston,

1488:There’s something uniquely valuable in everyone, and we’ll be much happier and better off if we invest the time and energy it takes to find it. But seriously, if the person doesn’t clip their toenails or wear clean socks, look elsewhere. There are plenty of options. ~ Aziz Ansari,

1489:women were beyond me. they saw something depraved. there was one waitress a little older than I, she rather smiled, lingered when she brought my coffee. that was plenty for me, that was enough. - Young in New Orleans ~ Charles Bukowski,

1490:Concentration, itself, is nothing but a matter of control of the attention! Learn to fix your attention on a given subject, at will, for whatever length of time you choose, and you will have learned the secret passage-way to power and plenty! This is concentration! ~ Napoleon Hill,

1491:It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. ~ Jerome K Jerome,

1492:But she didn’t say it, she sing it so we know that it’s you. And plenty in the ghetto, in Copenhagen City, in Rema, and for sure in the Eight Lanes sing it too. The two men who bring guns to the ghetto don’t know what to do since when music hit you can’t hit it back. ~ Marlon James,

1493:Fair summer droops, droop men and beasts therefore: So fair a summer look for never more. All good things vanish, less than in a day, Peace, plenty, pleasure, suddenly decay. Go not yet away, bright soul of the sad year; The earth is hell when thou leav'st to appear. ~ Thomas Nashe,

1494:I had been coming to America very frequently for many, many years, so I had plenty of exposure - and maybe the best kind of exposure, because I think first impressions are very important. Maybe I notice stuff that is just subliminal to people who live here all the time. ~ Lee Child,

1495:I study Carl Jung, who talks a lot about the shadow side, the repressed side. I think the scariest thing in the world is repression. There's plenty to be idealistic about, but we have to be aware of all sides of ourselves, and there are definitely shadows in all of us. ~ Laura Dern,

1496:I've never been on a date before," Isabella said to Mary as she got ready that night. "You've been on plenty of dates," Mary said. "No," Isabella said. "I've been out to eat with boys who were my boyfriend, but that's not dating. That's just parelle eating. ~ Jennifer Close,

1497:Still, the one who best understands the significance of light is not the electrician, not the painter, not the photographer, but the man who lost his sight in adulthood. There must be the wisdom of deficiency in deficiency, just as there is the wisdom of plenty in plenty. ~ K b Abe,

1498:The end of the world was supposed to be gradual. There was supposed to be warning. A long, slow slide. What we got was punctuated equilibrium: a stately wobbling, then a sudden tipping point. There was plenty of warning, I suppose. We just weren’t paying attention. ~ Elizabeth Bear,

1499:The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. It does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm. The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. Poverty is its ornament. It does not need plenty, and can very well abide its loss. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

1500:There is a Ruler above, and His Providence guides all things. He is our Friend and has plenty of work for all His people to do. It is such a blessing and a privilege to be led into His work instead of into the service of the hard taskmasters - the Devil and sin. ~ David Livingstone,

  111 Integral Yoga
   50 Poetry
   23 Occultism
   17 Fiction
   15 Philosophy
   11 Christianity
   7 Yoga
   7 Mythology
   6 Psychology
   3 Islam
   2 Hinduism
   1 Philsophy
   1 Mysticism
   1 Integral Theory
   1 Education
   1 Baha i Faith


   71 Sri Aurobindo
   48 The Mother
   39 Satprem
   13 James George Frazer
   13 A B Purani
   12 H P Lovecraft
   10 Robert Browning
   9 Walt Whitman
   9 Nolini Kanta Gupta
   8 Saint Augustine of Hippo
   8 Plato
   7 Ovid
   7 Carl Jung
   7 Aleister Crowley
   6 Sri Ramakrishna
   5 Percy Bysshe Shelley
   4 William Wordsworth
   4 Saint John of Climacus
   4 Aldous Huxley
   3 Muhammad
   3 John Keats
   2 Vyasa
   2 Nirodbaran
   2 Lucretius
   2 Lewis Carroll
   2 Friedrich Nietzsche
   2 Anonymous


   13 The Golden Bough
   13 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
   12 Lovecraft - Poems
   10 Browning - Poems
   9 Letters On Yoga IV
   9 Agenda Vol 04
   8 Whitman - Poems
   8 Record of Yoga
   8 Agenda Vol 03
   7 Metamorphoses
   6 The Secret Of The Veda
   6 Magick Without Tears
   6 City of God
   6 Agenda Vol 01
   5 The Synthesis Of Yoga
   5 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
   5 Shelley - Poems
   5 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
   4 Wordsworth - Poems
   4 Vedic and Philological Studies
   4 The Perennial Philosophy
   4 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
   4 Letters On Yoga II
   4 Letters On Poetry And Art
   4 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
   4 Agenda Vol 13
   3 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
   3 Quran
   3 Mysterium Coniunctionis
   3 Letters On Yoga I
   3 Keats - Poems
   3 Essays On The Gita
   3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
   3 Collected Poems
   3 Agenda Vol 07
   3 Agenda Vol 05
   3 5.1.01 - Ilion
   2 Vishnu Purana
   2 Twilight of the Idols
   2 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
   2 The Secret Doctrine
   2 The Life Divine
   2 The Human Cycle
   2 The Confessions of Saint Augustine
   2 The Bible
   2 Talks
   2 Questions And Answers 1953
   2 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
   2 Of The Nature Of Things
   2 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06
   2 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
   2 Alice in Wonderland
   2 Aion

0.01 - I - Sri Aurobindos personality, his outer retirement - outside contacts after 1910 - spiritual personalities- Vibhutis and Avatars - transformtion of human personality, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen    Over and above Sadhana, writing work and rendering spiritual help to the world during his apparent retirement there were Plenty of other activities of which the outside world has no knowledge. Many prominent as well as less known persons sought and obtained interviews with him during these years. Thus, among well-known persons may be mentioned C.R. Das, Lala Lajpat Rai, Sarala Devi, Dr. Munje, Khasirao Jadhav, Tagore, Sylvain Levy. The great national poet of Tamil Nadu, S. Subramanya Bharati, was in contact with Sri Aurobindo for some years during his stay at Pondicherry; so was V.V.S. Aiyar. The famous V. Ramaswamy Aiyangar Va Ra of Tamil literature[3] stayed with Sri Aurobindo for nearly three years and was influenced by him. Some of these facts have been already mentioned in The Life of Sri Aurobindo.    Jung has admitted that there is an element of mystery, something that baffles the reason, in human personality. One finds that the greater the personality the greater is the complexity. And this is especially so with regard to spiritual personalities whom the Gita calls Vibhutis and Avatars.

0.05 - Letters to a Child, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   The best thing for your headache is to take Plenty of physical   exercise (such as gardening for example).   --   cure is Plenty of open-air exercise and abundant food.   16 March 1935

0 1958-08-07, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen    Day and night, I am investigating all that has to be transformed I can assure you that there is Plenty of work!    Last night, I had many dreams (not really dreams, but ); I used to find them very interesting because they gave me certain indications, all kinds of things, but when I saw it all now, I said to myself, Good Lord! What a waste of time! Instead, I could be living in a supramental consciousness and seeing things. So during the night, I made a resolution to change all this too. My nights have to change. I am already changing my days; now my nights have to change. But then all this subconscious in Matter, all this, it all has to change! Theres no choice, it has to be seen to.

0 1960-01-28, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen    Of course, things are now going better, especially since Sri Aurobindo became established in the subtle physical, an almost material subtle physical.2 But there are still Plenty of question marks The body understands once, and then it forgets. The Enemys opposition is nothing, for I can see clearly that it comes from outside and that its hostile, so I do whats necessary. But where the difficulty lies is in all the small things of daily material lifesuddenly the body no longer understands, it forgets.    Yet its HAPPY. It loves doing the work, it lives only for thatto change, to transform itself is its reason for being. And its such a docile instrument, so full of good will! Once it even started wailing like a baby: O Lord, give me the time, the time to be transformed It has such a simple fervor for the work, but it needs timetime, thats it. It wants to live only to conquer, to win the Lords Victory.3

0 1960-05-24 - supramental flood, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen    These experiences are always absolute, as long as they last; then, through certain signs that I know (I am accustomed to it), I notice that the body consciousness begins closing up again. Or rather, somethingevidently a Supreme Wisdomdecides its sufficient for this time and that the body has had enough. It ought not to break, which is why certain precautions are taken. So this comes in several little stages that I know quite well. The final one is always a bit unpleasant because my body gets into rather peculiar positions as a result of the work. As its only a sort of machine, towards the end I have some difficulty straightening my knees, for example, or opening my fingers I think they even make a noise, like something forced into one position whose life has become purely spontaneous and mechanical. There are Plenty of people like that, Plenty, who enter into trance and then can no longer get out by themselves; they get themselves into a certain position and someone has to free them. This has never happened to me; I have always managed to extricate myself. But yesterday evening, the experience lasted a very long time. There was even a little cracking at the end, as when people have rheumatism.    And during all this time, approximately three hours, the consciousness was completely, completely different. It was here, however; it was not outside the earth, it was on earth, but it was completely differenteven the body consciousness was different. And what remained was very mechanical; it was a body, but it could just as well have been anything. All this power of consciousness that for more than seventy years Ive gradually pushed into each of the bodys cells so that each cell could become conscious (and it goes on constantly, constantly), all this seemed to have withdrawn there only remained one almost lifeless thing. However, I could raise myself up from my bed and even drink a glass of water, but it was all so bizarre. And when I went back to bed, it took nearly forty-five minutes for the body to regain its normal state. Only after I had entered into another type of samadhi2 and again come out of it did my consciousness fully return. It is the first time I have had an experience of this kind.

0 1960-07-26 - Mothers vision - looking up words in the subconscient, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen    The other day I wrote somethingit was a letter I gave Pavitra to read. I think theres a spelling mistake, he said. Its quite possible, I answered, I make Plenty of them. He looked it up in a splendid dictionary and, as a matter of fact, it was a mistake. I meant to ask him for a dictionary this morning.    Its very simple, actually; its a convention, a conventional construction somewhere in the subconscious brain, and you write automatically. But if you want to try to bring the light of a slightly higher reason into it, its terrible. It becomes meaningless, and you forget everything.

0 1960-08-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen    There are Plenty of them! (Mother indicates a pile of various papers) In another pile there must be as many again! It is a mania for collecting papers.    Oh no, sweet Mother! Fortunately they have been kept.    Oh! I have Plenty of them, Plenty. There must be many more boxes full.    ***

0 1960-12-31, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen    But later I observed, I saw that this had helped drain him of all the weight of his past education. Very interesting Night after night, night after night, night after nightPlenty of things! You could write novels about it all.    'This wonderful world of Delight waiting at our gates for our call, to come down upon earth.'

0 1961-08-25, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    I still have Plenty, you know!    It doesnt matter, mon petit, this is the last of it. I may have one or two boxes left, but thats all.

0 1962-02-09, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    Thats what they want, Plenty of vital, Plenty of imagination, and just enough falsehood to match their own turn of mind!    Take Z, for instanceshe told me that Maharshi1 wrote in his book that if I were Hindu and did asanas every day, all India would be at my feet! This has certainly been Zs biggest difficulty: it was easy to come here, she could speak to me perfectly freely, I didnt behave mysteriously. So of course, it was too simple!

0 1962-02-17, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    And there are Plenty!    Unfortunately, Satprem didn't keep Mother's reply, nor the long story she told afterwards about squabbles among certain Ashram people. Only the end of the conversation still exists.

0 1962-07-04, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    But to learn, to profit from such experiences, one must already be on the other side. Up to that point [April 13], I had learned Plenty of things, but I was learning them from this side of the fence. Now I am on the other side of the fence. Not entirely, but in large part, at least.    Voil.

0 1962-07-25, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    No, you already gave me some, I have Plenty!    I ask because its all I have to give! (Mother laughs.)

0 1962-08-08, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    But I understand your question. You want to know if this has an effect on all identical vibratory modes in the world. In principle, yes. But the effects may not be immediately visible; in the first place, our field of observation is nothingmaterially, what do we know? Only our immediate surroundings thats nothing. In 1920, for example, I had an experience of that type, which resulted in a symbolic but terrestrial action. It was a vision (I dont remember enough details to make it interesting) where each nation was represented by a symbolic entity, and there was a certain type of horrorof terror, rather. A certain will of terror was trying to manifest in that gathering of all nations. And I was witness to the whole thing. I remember it being a very conscious and rather long and detailed vision with a more intense reality than physical things have (it was in the subtle physical). And after it was over and I had done what needed to be done (I am not saying what because I dont remember all the details, and without accuracy it loses its value), when I came out of it I could say with TOTAL conviction: Terror has been overcome in the world. Of course, its not literally true, Plenty of people still feel terror, but a certain type of terror was as if UNDERMINED at the foundations. What had already manifested kept on and is gradually being exhausted, but the terror that was trying to increase and dominate the life of nations was stopped cold.    I have had other similar experienceson Durgas day, for instance, when Sri Aurobindo was still here (you know, thats the day when Durga masters an asura; she doesnt kill him, she masters him). Well, each year one particular type of thing was undermined (and my experiences were never mental: the experience would suddenly come, and AFTERWARDS I would realize it was Durgas day), and each time I used to tell Sri Aurobindo, Looktoday this (or that) thing has been cut off at the roots. Thats how it works with the adverse forcesyes, like something being uprooted from the world. Whatever has already spread out keeps going and follows its karma, but the SOURCE is dried up. Thats also what happened (it was in 1904, I believe) when the Asura of Consciousness and Darkness made his surrender and was converted; he told me, I have millions and millions of emanations, and these will keep on living, but their source has now run dry.4 How much time will it take to exhaust it all? We cant say, but the source has dried up and that is something extremely important. In 1920, that terror was trying to spread all over the world and to become really catastrophic; and then in my inner vision I could see that a whole movement had dried up at its source. This means that little by little, little by little, little by little the karma is being exhausted.

0 1962-08-18, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    I dont say there werent Plenty of dense people there. I have no idea (laughing), I havent asked for their opinion!    And afterwards, its not as though he suddenly went away: he went slowly, slowly, slowly, like something evaporating; then things went back to normal, with various concentrations here and there, various activities.

0 1962-11-20, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    All I know is that it was a very bad night, and I woke up this morning completely drained and with Plenty of difficultiesand its not over yet.2    ***

0 1962-12-22, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    Afterwards, I had to look into it: it really was a memory. It suddenly struck me, and I wondered, Did I really go downstairs physically? There are Plenty of people here to prove that I didnt, that I didnt stir from here. And yet I have the physical memory of having done so, and of having done certain other things as well; I even remember going outside.    Well, it confronts me with a real problem. Not only is that memory absolutely physical, but the EFFECTS of what I said and did are there.

0 1963-01-14, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    And I very well see (because I told Him several times, You know, it would be great fun if I had Plenty of money to play with), so I see that He laughs, but He doesnt answer! He teaches me to be able to laugh at this difficulty, to see the cashier send me his book in which the figures are growing astronomical ([laughing] its by 50,000, 60,000, 80,000, 90,000), while the drawer is nearly empty! And He wants me to learn to laugh at it. The day when I can really laughlaugh, enjoy myselfSINCERELY (not through effortyou can do anything you want through effort), when it makes me laugh spontaneously, I think it will change. Because otherwise its impossible. You see, we have fun with all sorts of things, theres no reason we couldnt have fun with more money than we need and do things in style! It will surely happen one day, but we shouldwe shouldnt be overwhelmed by the amount, and for that we shouldnt take money seriously.    We shouldnt take money seriously.

0 1963-02-23, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    As soon as I got her letter, I saw: thats where she went. Besides, I knew she had gone there. Plenty of people go there and are unaware of it! They forget. But she had a nice memory.    She goes there very often at night, very often, but generally people forget.

0 1963-05-03, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    But during the morning meditation, I was at a loss. Is it the symbol of a clinging to the past? Possible. But then there are Plenty of people like that in the world, who cling to the past, Plenty.    (silence)

0 1963-06-15, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    It seems (its what I heard, I dont know) that all the prisoners (they had Plenty of themmany of the Indians, unfortunately and most of them were released), they all said they had been admirably treated. I heard that from all quarters.    And Nehru, you see (thats what Pavitra told me yesterday, he went to the town hall to listen to Nehrus speech), Nehru is an out-and-out social democrat who believes that the ideal organization for mankind, instead of only an elite being able to progress, is that the entire masses should progress (as if they wanted to! but anyway). Its an ideaeveryone has his own ideas. But then it seems that when the Chinese attacked, it was a violent blow to his conviction: he thought it impossible that the Chinese would do such a thing (!) He was very deeply shattered.

0 1963-06-19, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    Im not giving you all the details, but all sorts of people were there, with all their plans, all their ideas; one would come (what Ive just said was only at the end, but before that Plenty of people had come) and say, Oh, look how cleverly Ive organized this! Then another one would come with another plan, then they would confer among themselves, then It was just life, you see! A whole mental domain of life.    And my experience did not REACH there; there was no contact, I was powerless. What little light that turned on because of my presence and was considered as a dazzling sun was to me a mere street lamp. It was painful.

0 1963-08-31, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    Mother may be alluding to the following Aphorism (141): "Nietzsche saw the superman as the lion-soul passing out of camelhood, but the true heraldic device and token of the superman is the lion seated upon the camel which stands upon the cow of Plenty. If thou canst not be the slave of all mankind, thou art not fit to be its master, and if thou canst not make thy nature as Vasishtha's cow of Plenty with all mankind to draw its wish from her udders, what avails thy leonine supermanhood?" (The Rishi Vasishtha had a cow that supplied all that he needed for himself and his ashram, including armies to defend him.)    ***

0 1963-09-28, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    I dont know, I havent reached the end of Savitri yet. Because I notice (rereading it after the space of a few months, barely two years) that its altogether something else than the first time I read it. Altogether something else: there is in it infinitely more than what I had experienced; my experience was limited, and now its far more complete (maybe if I reread it in a year or two, it would be still more complete, I dont know), but there are Plenty of things that I hadnt seen the first time.    Perhaps that passage Ive just read is only one aspect? I will see when I reach the end.

0 1963-10-19, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    So it appears to be a necessity to shake up a tamas somewhere there is Plenty of TAMAS, Plenty.    You understand, I dont feel any haste I love stones, flowers, plants, animals so much, theyre all so wonderful! It begins to be less pleasant beyond the most unpleasant is human perversionperversion of cruelty, of wickedness, of hardness. You have to rise higher to be able to accept it, to be unaffected by it.

0 1963-12-11, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    I wasnt conscious of an instrument, but I was conscious of Plenty of spots2 to which the thing clings. It clings not even to beings, but to ways of being of beings: to certain tendencies, certain attitudes, certain reactionsit clings to all that. Its not at all one person or one will, thats not it, but its a way of being. Its all universal ways of being that are destined to disappear from the field of activity and are being eliminated.    But the reaction on the body was painful, as it was the first time. The first time (according to X and the Swami), it was supposed to kill meit didnt even make me seriously ill, but it had a very unpleasant effect. I told you at the time that it was a mantra intended to drain you of all your blood; Ive seen several examples of people who died in that way: it was found afterwards to be the result of a mantric formation. In my case, all it succeeded in doing was to make me sick, as if everything came out I vomited terribly. Then there was something pulling me and I absolutely had to go my consciousness told me I had to go and see someone (I was all alone in my bathroom when it happened), a particular person whom I had to go and see; and when I opened the door, Z was there, waiting to prepare my bath, but I didnt see him at all and I absolutely wanted to go somewhere, into the other room, so I pushed against him, thinking, Whats this obstacle in my way? And he thought I was fainting on him! It caused quite a to-do.

0 1964-01-04, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    All this passage. I am sorry, my eyes have become When theres Plenty of light I can see very well.    Youre getting tired.

0 1964-07-18, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    The one safety for man lies in learning to live from within outward, not depending on institutions and machinery to perfect him, but out of his growing inner perfection availing to shape a more perfect form and frame of life; for by this inwardness we shall best be able both to see the truth of the high things which we now only speak with our lips and form into outward intellectual constructions, and to apply their truth sincerely to all our outward living. If we are to found the kingdom of God in humanity, we must first know God and see and live the diviner truth of our being in ourselves; otherwise how shall a new manipulation of the constructions of the reason and scientific systems of efficiency which have failed us in the past, avail to establish it? It is because there are Plenty of signs that the old error continues and only a minority, leaders perhaps in light, but not yet in action, are striving to see more clearly, inwardly and truly, that we must expect as yet rather the last twilight which divides the dying from the unborn age than the real dawning. For a time, since the mind of man is not yet ready, the old spirit and method may yet be strong and seem for a short while to prosper; but the future lies with the men and nations who first see beyond both the glare and the dusk the gods of the morning and prepare themselves to be fit instruments of the Power that is pressing towards the light of a greater ideal.    Sri Aurobindo

0 1964-11-28, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    If the action were individual, it would necessarily be extremely poor and limited; even if the individual is very vast and his consciousness is as vast as the earth, the experience is limited. Its still one aggregate of cells, which can only have a limited sum of experiences (maybe not in the course of time, but undeniably in space). But the minute the identification with the rest takes place, the consequences take place, too: the difficulties of the rest come and have to be absorbed, they have to be transformed. So it amounts to the same thing. Its exactly whats going on now: I dont go out, I have limited my activities as much as possible (I see Plenty of people, but still infinitely less than beforebefore, I used to see them by the thousand), but this reduction is largely made up for by the widening of the physical, material consciousness, to such a point that I constantly, constantly have sensations that seem like individual sensations, but immediately I can see that they are other individuals sensations, which come because the consciousness is spread out and receives all that in its movement: a movement as if one gathered everything together, then gave it to the Lord.    (silence)

0 1965-06-23, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    Then the industrial section Already many people, including the Madras government (the Madras government is lending money) want to set up industries, which will be on a special basis. This industrial section is in the east, and its very large: there is Plenty of space; and it must slope down to the sea. North of Pondicherry, there is indeed a rather large expanse which is totally uninhabited and uncultivated; its by the sea, going northward along the coast. So this industrial section would slope down to the sea, and, if possible, there would be a sort of wharf (not exactly a harbor, but a place where boats can berth), and all those industries with the necessary internal means of transport would have a direct possibility of export. And here, there would be a big hotel, the plan of which R. has already done (we wanted to build the hotel here, in the place of the Shipping Company, but the owner, after saying yes, said no thats very good, it will be better there), a big hotel to receive visitors from outside. Quite a few industries have already signed up for this section; I dont know if there will be enough space, but well manage.    Then in the north (thats where there is the most space, naturally), in the direction of Madras: the cultural zone. There, an auditorium (the auditorium I have dreamed of doing for a long time: plans had already been made), an auditorium with a concert hall and grand organ, the best you find now (it seems they make wonderful things). I want a grand organ. There will also be a theater stage with wings (a revolving stage and so on, the very best you can find). So, here, a magnificent auditorium. There will be a library, there will be a museum, exhibition rooms (not in the auditorium: in addition to it), there will be a cinema studio, a cinema school; there will be a gliding club: already we almost have the governments authorization and promiseanyway its already at a very advanced stage. Then, towards Madras, where there is Plenty of space, a stadium. And a stadium that we want to be the most modern and the most perfect possible, with the idea (an idea Ive had for a long time) that twelve years (the Olympic games take place every four years), twelve years after 1968 (in 1968, the Olympiad will be held in Mexico), twelve years after, we would have the Olympic games in India, here. So we need space.    In between these sections, there are intermediary zones, four intermediary zones: one for public services (the post, etc.), a zone for transportation (railway station and, if possible, an airfield), a zone for food supplies (that one would be towards the Lake and would include dairies, poultry farms, orchards, cultivation, etc.it would spread to incorporate the Lake estate3: what they wanted to do separately will be done as a part of Auroville); then a fourth zone (Ive said public services, transportation, food supplies), and the fourth zone: shops. We dont need many shops, but a few are necessary to get what we dont produce. These zones are like quarters, you see.

0 1966-01-26, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    (Ironically) Its a pity we cant make pictures of those things, because Purani had lots of admirers and disciples, Plenty in America, and so if I could send them a picture of Purani as I saw him, blue and pink (laughing), that would be charming!    (long silence)

0 1966-08-10, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    Plenty of people (I think its those who are usually called intellectuals) cannot distinguish thought from consciousness: if they dont think, they are unconscious! (Thats the sequel to what I told you just before about the new man.) To them, consciousness always means words. Thats odd.    Its still a long, long way to the new man.4

0 1966-09-07, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    The only ones who could give me money are the scoundrels! (Mother laughs) They have Plenty of money, stolen from everywhere, but they dont want to give it!    It doesnt matter, itll only last for a time.

0 1967-12-06, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    Its an acute state of consciousness, that is, wholly awakened. In the cells of the body, it dispels all darkness. Naturally, its a long and slow work, but it dispels, its a state that dispels all darkness everywhere. And darkness is always the sign (sign or cause) of a disorder. We know there is still Plenty of it. Its a slow work, a whole world! When you (how should I put it?) when you descend into (one can say descend or concentrate on) this cellular constitution of the body, on the bodys scale, its an innumerable world! An innumerable world. Everything is as though made up of innumerable tiny points, and each point has to be awakened and flooded with consciousness and lighta long work.    (silence)

0 1971-10-06, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    (Laughing) Then we have Plenty of time!    No, you see, it is bound to go on one side or the other, that is, either my body will be renewed and become stronger (I mean my eyesight better, and so on), and then it will be easy, or else finished.

0 1972-04-04, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    You must give them at least one month. At least one month. But if they show the slightest insincerity, you understand, if they say, I dont do this, I do that, I wont do this, etc, just tell them, You can leave. You dont even need to ask me, you can just send them away. Simply inform me: such and such person has been found unsatisfactory. I give you the authority to do it. I wont protest. But I must be informed because Plenty of people come to me and theyre very cunning, you see: they find another person to channel their request.    (The architect:) The question in our minds, Mother, was to know whether you saw these people as being useful in providing Auroville with a certain type of difficulty.

0 1972-04-15, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    (Laughing) Yes! But I think this baby is a baby only symbolically. I dont know if he will come as a child and then grow up I have no idea. There are still some things that I dont knowPlenty!    But what happened the day before yesterday is that, in the middle of the night, the heart passed from the old government of Nature to the divine government, so at one point there was it was difficult. But accompanied by a strange sensation, a sort of feeling that the closest thing is the psychic consciousness. It has been governing the being for a long, long time thats why the mind and the vital could be removed, because the psychic being had taken up the reins long, long ago.

0 1972-07-29, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    I have Plenty! (two or three garlands around her wrist!) What do you have to tell me?    Nothing. I feel the churning one is put through.

0 1972-12-02, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    Oh, yes! It does Plenty of things. But not, not in the usual way. Its.    (Mother closes her eyes for a moment)

05.01 - Man and the Gods, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    As the human aspiration is to reach out towards divinity, the gods too at times are not satisfied with their closed divine status. They lean down to help humanity, to bring it up into their consciousness; but also they seek this contact and unification for their own sake, for a change and transformation in themselves; they may seek to rise further in a higher status of consciousness or they may wish to participate in the earthly travail, in the human endeavour. In either case the channel lies through the human consciousness. In the Vedas the gods always look to men, almost depend upon them for their own fulfilment and enrichment. Men ask the gods for wealth and Plentymaterial as well as spiritual the gods too ask from men the sacrifice, the sacrifice that pours out the substance of the human reality upon which they feed and grow. The Gita speaks of the same covenant the interchange of gifts between the two, each increasing the other and both attaining the highest good.    Our dark destinies move under vast laws that nothing diverts, nothing softens. Thou canst not have sudden clemencies that disturb the world, O God, Spirit tranquil!Victor Hugo, A Villequier.

06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   In hunger and in Plenty and in pain,   Through peril and through triumph and through fall,

100.00 - Synergy, #Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, #R Buckminster Fuller, #Science   without air. With 30 days' tolerance, humans have Plenty of time to decide how to   cope with vital food problems; with a week's waterless tolerance, they have to

1.002 - The Heifer, #Quran, #unset, #Zen   247. Their prophet said to them, “God has appointed Saul to be your king.” They said, “How can he have authority over us, when we are more worthy of authority than he, and he was not given Plenty of wealth?” He said, “God has chosen him over you, and has increased him in knowledge and stature.” God bestows His sovereignty upon whomever He wills. God is Embracing and Knowing.   248. And their prophet said to them, “The proof of his kingship is that the Ark will be restored to you, bringing tranquility from your Lord, and relics left by the family of Moses and the family of Aaron. It will be carried by the angels. In that is a sign for you, if you are believers.”

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

1.01 - DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE, #Alice in Wonderland, #Lewis Carroll, #Fiction   Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had Plenty of time, as she went down, to look about her. First, she tried to make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked at the sides of the well and noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed. It was labeled "ORANGE MARMALADE," but, to her great disappointment, it was empty; she did not like to drop the jar, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as she fell past it.   Down, down, down! Would the fall never come to an end? There was nothing else to do, so Alice soon began talking to herself. "Dinah'll miss me very much to-night, I should think!" (Dinah was the cat.) "I hope they'll remember her saucer of milk at tea-time. Dinah, my dear, I wish you were down here with me!" Alice felt that she was dozing off, when suddenly, thump! thump! down she came upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves, and the fall was over.

1.01 - Economy, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy   My furniture, part of which I made myself, and the rest cost me nothing of which I have not rendered an account, consisted of a bed, a table, a desk, three chairs, a looking-glass three inches in diameter, a pair of tongs and andirons, a kettle, a skillet, and a frying-pan, a dipper, a wash-bowl, two knives and forks, three plates, one cup, one spoon, a jug for oil, a jug for molasses, and a japanned lamp. None is so poor that he need sit on a pumpkin. That is shiftlessness. There is a Plenty of such chairs as I like best in the village garrets to be had for taking them away. Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse. What man but a philosopher would not be ashamed to see his furniture packed in a cart and going up country exposed to the light of heaven and the eyes of men, a beggarly account of empty boxes? That is Spauldings furniture. I could never tell from inspecting such a load whether it belonged to a so called rich man or a poor one; the owner always seemed poverty-stricken.   Indeed, the more you have of such things the poorer you are. Each load looks as if it contained the contents of a dozen shanties; and if one shanty is poor, this is a dozen times as poor. Pray, for what do we   --   Most High God has created lofty and umbrageous, they call none azad, or free, excepting the cypress, which bears no fruit; what mystery is there in this? He replied; Each has its appropriate produce, and appointed season, during the continuance of which it is fresh and blooming, and during their absence dry and withered; to neither of which states is the cypress exposed, being always flourishing; and of this nature are the azads, or religious independents.Fix not thy heart on that which is transitory; for the Dijlah, or Tigris, will continue to flow through Bagdad after the race of caliphs is extinct: if thy hand has Plenty, be liberal as the date tree; but if it affords nothing to give away, be an azad, or free man, like the cypress.      COMPLEMENTAL VERSES

1.01 - Foreward, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   blessings such as Plenty of cows, horses, fighting men, sons, food,   wealth of all kinds, protection, victory in battle, or to bring

1.01 - On renunciation of the world, #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset   Let us not even abhor or condemn the renunciation due merely to circumstances. I have seen men who had fled into exile meet the emperor by accident when he was on tour, and then join his company, enter his palace, and dine with him. I have seen seed casually fall on the earth and bear Plenty of   1 This means: If every baptized person is not saved, so the same can be said about monksnot all who have made the vow are real monks and will be saved. But I prefer to pass over this matter in silence.

1.01 - The Path of Later On, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   Without thinking, the traveller takes the path that is nearest to him, which seems, after all, quite practicable; it occurs to him for a moment that he could have chosen another way; but there will always be time to retrace his steps if the path he has taken leads nowhere. A voice seems to tell him, "Turn back, turn back, you are not on the right road." But everything around him is charming and delightful. What should he do? He does not know. He goes on without taking any decision; he enjoys the pleasures of the moment. "In a little while," he replies to the voice, "in a little while I shall think; I have Plenty of time."   The wild grasses around him whisper in his ear, "Later." Later, yes, later. Ah, how pleasant it is to brea the the scented breeze, while the sun warms the air with its fiery rays. Later, later. And the traveller walks on; the path widens. Voices are heard from afar, "Where are you going? Poor fool, don't you see that you are heading for your ruin? You are young; come, come to us, to the beautiful, the good, the true; do not be misled by indolence and weakness; do not fall asleep in the present; come to the future." "Later, later," the traveller answers these unwelcome voices. The flowers smile at him and echo, "Later." The path becomes wider and wider. The sun has reached its zenith; it is a glorious day. The path becomes a road.

10.23 - Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    I then thought of all those who were watching over the ship to safeguard and protect our route, and in gratitude, I willed that Thy peace should be born and live in their hearts; then I thought of all those who, confident and carefree, slept the sleep of inconscience and, with solicitude for their miseries, pity for their latent suffering which would awake in them in their own waking, I willed that a little of Thy Peace might dwell in their hearts and bring to birth in them the life of the Spirit, the light which dispels ignorance. I then thought of the dwellers of this vast sea, visible and invisible, and I willed that over them might be extended Thy Peace. I thought next of those whom we had left far away and whose affection is with us, and with a great tenderness I willed for them Thy conscious and lasting Peace, the plenitude of Thy Peace proportioned to their capacity to receive it. Then I thought of all those to whom we are going, who are restless with childish preoccupations and fight for mean competitions of interest in ignorance and egoism and ardently, in a great aspiration for them I asked for the Plenty light of Thy Peace. I next thought of all those whom we know, of all those whom we do not know, of all the life that is working itself out, of all that has changed its form and all that is not yet in form, and for all that, and also for all of which I cannot think, for all that is present to my memory and for all that I forget, in a great eg ingathering and mute adoration, I implored Thy Peace.    What I willed for them, with Thy will, at the moments when I could be in a true communion with Thee, grant that they may have received it on the day when, striving to forget external contingencies, they turned towards their noblest thought, towards their best feelings.

1.02 - BOOK THE SECOND, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry   With peace made happy, and with Plenty crown'd,   Scarce could the hideous fiend from tears forbear,

1.02 - MAPS OF MEANING - THREE LEVELS OF ANALYSIS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology   denial of the hero. Someone miserable and useless in the midst of Plenty just for the sake of illustration   is unhappy because of his or her attachments to the wrong things. Unhappiness is frequently the

1.02 - SADHANA PADA, #Patanjali Yoga Sutras, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism   Hamsa (swan) with Plenty of water in it, he will take all the   milk and leave the water. In that way we should take what is

1.03 - BOOK THE THIRD, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry   And too much Plenty makes me die for want.   How gladly would I from my self remove!

1.03 - PERSONALITY, SANCTITY, DIVINE INCARNATION, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy   In the West, the mystics went some way towards liberating Christianity from its unfortunate servitude to historic fact. (or, to be more accurate, to those various mixtures of contemporary record with subsequent inference and phantasy, which have, at different epochs, been accepted as historic fact). From the writings of Eckhart, Tauler and Ruysbroeck, of Boehme, William Law and the Quakers, it would be possible to extract a spiritualized and universalized Christianity, whose narratives should refer, not to history as it was, or as someone afterwards thought it ought to be, but to processes forever unfolded in the heart of man. But unfortunately the influence of the mystics was never powerful enough to bring about a radical Mahayanist revolution in the West. In spite of them, Christianity has remained a religion in which the pure Perennial Philosophy has been overlaid, now more, now less, by an idolatrous preoccupation with events and things in timeevents and things regarded not merely as useful means, but as ends, intrinsically sacred and indeed divine. Moreover such improvements on history as were made in the course of centuries were, most imprudently, treated as though they themselves were a part of historya procedure which put a powerful weapon into the hands of Protestant and, later, of Rationalist controversialists. How much wiser it would have been to admit the perfectly avowable fact that, when the sternness of Christ the Judge had been unduly emphasized, men and women felt the need of personifying the divine compassion in a new form, with the result that the figure of the Virgin, mediatrix to the mediator, came into increased prominence. And when, in course of time, the Queen of Heaven was felt to be too awe-inspiring, compassion was re-personified in the homely figure of St. Joseph, who thus became me thator to the me thatrix to the me thator. In exactly the same way Buddhist worshippers felt that the historic Sakyamuni, with his insistence on recollectedness, discrimination and a total dying to self as the principal means of liberation, was too stern and too intellectual. The result was that the love and compassion which Sakyamuni had also inculcated came to be personified in Buddhas such as Amida and Maitreyadivine characters completely removed from history, inasmuch as their temporal career was situated somewhere in the distant past or distant future. Here it may be remarked that the vast numbers of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, of whom the Mahayanist theologians speak, are commensurate with the vastness of their cosmology. Time, for them, is beginningless, and the innumerable universes, every one of them supporting sentient beings of every possible variety, are born, evolve, decay and the, only to repeat the same cycleagain and again, until the final inconceivably remote consummation, when every sentient being in all the worlds shall have won to deliverance out of time into eternal Suchness or Buddhahood This cosmological background to Buddhism has affinities with the world picture of modern astronomyespecially with that version of it offered in the recently published theory of Dr. Weiszcker regarding the formation of planets. If the Weiszcker hypothesis is correct, the production of a planetary system would be a normal episode in the life of every star. There are forty thousand million stars in our own galactic system alone, and beyond our galaxy other galaxies, indefinitely. If, as we have no choice but to believe, spiritual laws governing consciousness are uniform throughout the whole planet-bearing and presumably life-supporting universe, then certainly there is Plenty of room, and at the same time, no doubt, the most agonizing and desperate need, for those innumerable redemptive incarnations of Suchness, upon whose shining multitudes the Mahayanists love to dwell.   For my part, I think the chief reason which prompted the invisible God to become visible in the flesh and to hold converse with men was to lead carnal men, who are only able to love carnally, to the healthful love of his flesh, and afterwards, little by little, to spiritual love.

1.03 - Tara, Liberator from the Eight Dangers, #How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator, #Thubten Chodron, #unset   And let us have long life, positive potential, glory, Plenty,   And other conducive conditions as we wish!   --   Glory can refer to the ability and conditions to help others skillfully. Plenty   is the sense of richness that allows us to give our material possessions as well

1.03 - To Layman Ishii, #Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin, #unset, #Zen   "Today's students practice the Way clothed in warm garments and get Plenty to eat, and they are as soft and weak as the eldest son of a wealthy family. Could any of them venture to stand stalwart and resolute in a courtyard on a bitterly cold night like Hui-k'o? Buried up to the waist in icy snow like a stack of firewood? Suffering of this intensity cannot be endured unless one is made of stone or metal, or has wooden legs like a statue. The marrow-chilling cold of the northern Wei winter constantly penetrated the thin cotton robe he wore, but he stood resolutely and silently through that adversity until dawn, never relaxing his efforts for a second, or weeping a single tear. Bodhidharma never offered him the slightest help whatsoever. Finally, Hui-k'o took a knife and cut off his left arm. h Hsisou Shou-t'an was perfectly justified in holding Hui-k'o up as a model for all Zen monks throughout the world.   "When the Sixth Patriarch Hui-neng raised the Dharma standard at Ts'ao-hsi, the priest Nan-yueh came to study with him. Hui-neng asked, 'What is this that thus comes?' Nan-yueh stood in a daze, unable to respond. Hui-neng did not utter a single word to relieve his confusion, and it was not until

1.04 - On blessed and ever-memorable obedience, #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset   While struggling against all the passions, let us who are in communities struggle every hour, especially against these two: greed of stomach and irritability. For in a community there is Plenty of food for these passions.   The devil suggests to those living in obedience the desire for impossible virtues. Similarly, to those living in solitude he proposes unsuitable ideas. Scan the mind of inexperienced novices and there you will find distracted thought: a desire for quiet, for the strictest fast, for uninterrupted prayer, for absolute freedom from vanity, for unbroken remembrance of death, for continual compunction, for perfect freedom from anger, for deep silence, for surpassing purity. And if by divine providence they are without these to start with, they rush in vain to another life and are deceived. For the enemy urges

1.04 - The Divine Mother - This Is She, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga   She also saw to the proper atmosphere of the room. I shall give an instance: many newspapers were sent to us for Sri Aurobindo's perusal, out of which he read only The Hindu, and the Daily Mail for its comic "Curly Wee" feature. Since we had Plenty of time we rummaged through all the papers, one after another, particularly with a view to make interesting news items the subject of our talk with him. The Indian Express used to supply a lot of war news. Whenever the Mother entered the room her first glance was cast at our corner and often in the morning she found a heap of these newspapers, and ourselves making a jolly good feast of them. Suddenly one day to our surprise all the papers stopped coming except The Hindu and the Amrita Bazar Patrika. Sri Aurobindo looked as usual for the Daily Mail. We had to tell him that the Mother had banned all these papers, for they seemed to spoil the atmosphere of the room. The Mother did not know that Sri Aurobindo was interested in the Mail. He simply smiled. This one small incident is indicative of her ever-wakeful Intelligence operating over all affairs, mundane as well as spiritual and Sri Aurobindo's quiet acceptance of her decision. The room in the "Library" in which newspapers were kept for general reading was named by her "Falsehood", and yet she did not interfere with the sadhaks' liberty of reading them.   She was always out of sympathy with certain mechanical contrivances like the radio, gramophone and ceiling-fan. The radio was allowed in Sri Aurobindo's room only after the war had taken a full-blooded turn. His bedroom had no fan, in spite of considerable heat. The sitting-room had a table-fan. Only after the accident a table-fan was installed near Sri Aurobindo's bed which was not very effective in reducing the stuffiness of the room, closed as it was on the east, west and south. Hence the need of small hand-fans during his walk. It was only after the room had undergone thorough repairs and the old beams were replaced by new solid ones that a ceiling-fan came into operation. Till then the Mother feared that a ceiling-fan would be a risk to the old ceiling. This shows how the Mother guarded against all eventualities, inner as well as outer, and gave as little handle as possible to so-called accidents. She knew very well that shrewd and subtle occult forces were actively engaged in causing them grievous harm. Who could have imagined that Sri Aurobindo would meet with a serious accident in his own room at an unwary moment? He had asserted very firmly that their life was a battlefield in a very real sense and that the Mother and himself were actively waging a continuous war against the adverse forces. "The fact that it was being waged from a closed room made it no less real and serious." She said once that illnesses in their case are much more difficult to cure than in the case of sadhaks because of the concentrated attack of the adverse forces. I may mention in passing that the Mother was not only vigilant regarding Sri Aurobindo against all possible outer attacks and accidents, she is also cognizant of the welfare of the sadhaks. During an epidemic in the town, sadhaks are warned not to take any food from outside. All our raw vegetables and fruits are washed in an antiseptic solution before being cooked or eaten and many other precautions are taken to avoid any outbreak in the Ashram. The inspiration behind the origin of the sadhak Ganpatram's Cottage Restaurant came from the Mother, I was told. She did not want the Ashram children to take food from outside and fall ill; so she called him one day and asked him to open a restaurant only for the Ashram children and prepare food under strict hygienic conditions.

1.04 - The Gods of the Veda, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   (14) The Veda proper is karmakanda, not jnanakanda; its aim is not moksha, but divine fulfilment in this life & the next. Therefore the Vedic Rishis accepted Plenty & fullness of physical, vital & mental being, power & joy as the pratistha or foundation of immortality & did not reject it as an obstacle to salvation.1   (15) The world being one in all its parts every being in it contains the universe in himself. Especially do the great gods contain all the others & their activities in themselves, so that Agni, Varuna, Indra, all of them are in reality one sole-existent deity in many forms. Man too is He, but he has to fulfil himself here as man, yet divine (that being his vrata & dharma) through the puissant means provided for him [by] the Veda.   --   What exact sense are we to apply to vajebhir vajinivati when it is spoken of a subjective Power? It is a suggestion I shall make and work out hereafter by application to all the hundreds of passages in which the word occurs that vaja in the Veda means a substantial, firm & copious condition of being, well-grounded & sufficient Plenty in anything material, mental or spiritual, any substance, wealth, chattels, qualities, psychological conditions.   Saraswati has the power of firm Plenty, vajini, by means of or consisting in many kinds of Plenty, copious stores of mental material for any mental activity or sacrifice. But first of all she is purifying, pavaka. Therefore she is not merely or not essentially a goddess of mental force, but of enlightenment; for enlightenment is the mental force that purifies. And she is dhiyavasu, richly stored with understanding, buddhi, the discerning intellect, which holds firmly in their place, fixes, establishes all mental conceptions. First, therefore she has the purifying power of enlightenment, secondly, she has Plenty of mental material, great wealth of mental being; thirdly, she is powerful in intellect, in that which holds, discerns, places. Therefore she is asked, as I take it, to control the Yajnavashtu from Root vash, which bore the idea of control as is evident from its derivatives vasha,vashya & vashin.   But greater capacities, mightier functions are demanded of Saraswati.Mind and discerning intelligence, however active and well-stored, may give false interpretation and mistaken counsel. But Saraswati at the sacrifice is chodayitri sunritanam chetanti sumatinam. It is she who gives the impulsion to the truths that appear in the mind, it is she who, herself conscious of right thoughts and just processes of thinking, awakens to them the mental faculties. Therefore, because she is the impelling force behind intellectual Truth, and our awakener to right thinking, she is present at the sacrifice; she has established and upholds it, yajnam dadhe. This sacrifice, whatever else it may be, is controlled by mental enlightenment and rich understanding and confirmed in & by truth and right-thinking. Therefore is Saraswati its directing power & presiding goddess.   --   We get our first mention of Varuna at the end of the second hymn in the Rigveda, the hymn of Madhuchchhandas in which he calls, as in the third, on several gods, first to Vayu, then to Vayu and Indra together, last, Varuna and Mitra. Arrive, he says, O Vayu, O beautiful one, lo these Soma-powers in their array (is it not a battle-array?), protect them, hear their call! O Vayu, strongly thy lovers woo thee with prayers (or, desires), they have distilled the nectar, they have found their strength (or, they know the day?). O Vayu, thy abounding stream moves for the giver, it is wide for the drinking of the Soma-juice. O Indra & Vayu, here are the outpourings, come to them with outputtings of strength, the powers of delight desire you both. Thou, O Vayu, awake, and Indra, to the outpourings of the Soma, you who are rich in power of your Plenty; so (that is, rich in power) come to me, for the foe has attacked. Come O Vayu, and Indra, to the distiller of the nectar, expel the foe, swiftly hither strong by the understanding. And then comes the closing call to Mitra & Varuna. I call Mitra of purified discernment and Varuna who destroys the foe, they who effect a bright and gracious understanding. By Law of Truth, Mitra and Varuna, who by the Truth increase and to the Truth attain, enjoy a mighty strength. Mitra and Varuna, the seers, born in Force, dwellers in the Vast, uphold Daksha (the discerning intelligence) at his work.   There are here a number of words whose exact meaning is exceedingly important for any fruitful enquiry into the religious significance of the Vedas. The most important, the decisive & capital word in the passage is Ritam. Whatever it may be held to mean, it will decide for us the essential character of Varuna & his constant comradeMitra. I have already suggested in my first chapter the sense in which I understand Ritam. It is its ordinary sense in Sanscrit. Ritam is Truth, Law, that which is straight, upright, direct, rectum; it is that which gives everything its place & its motion (ritu), that which constitutes reason (ratio) in mind and rectitude in morals,it is the rightness or righteousness which makes the stars move in their orbits, the seasons occur in their order, thought & speech move towards truth, trees grow according to their seed, animals act according to their species & nature, & man walk in the paths which God has prescribed for him. It is that in the Akasha the Akasha where Varuna is lordwhich develops arrangement & order, it is the element of law in Nature. But not only in material Nature, not only in the moral akasha even,the akasha of the heart of which the Rishis spoke, but on higher levels also. I have pointed out that Ritam is the law of the Truth, of vijnana. It is this ideal Truth, the Truth of being, by which everything animate or inanimate knows in its fibres of being & serves in action & feeling the truth of itself, in which Law is born. This Law which belongs to Satyam, to the Mahas, is Ritam. Neither of the English words,Law & Truth, gives the idea; they have to be combined in order to be equivalent to ritam. Well, then Varuna is represented to us as increasing in his nature by this Truth & Law, attaining to it or possessing it; Law & Truth are the source of his strength, the means by which he has arrived at his present force & mightiness.   --   So much Varuna does but what is he actually?We cannot tell with accuracy until we have separated him from his companion Mitra. We come across him next no longer in company withMitra, but still not by himself, accompanied this time by Indra and helping him in his work, in the seventeenth sukta of the first Mandala, a hymn of Medhatithi Kanwa, a hymn whose burden is joy, calm, purity & fulfilment. Of Indra & Varuna, the high rulers, I choose the protection, may they be gracious to us in this our state (of attainment). For ye are they who come to the call of the enlightened soul that can contain you; you are they who are upbearers of his actions. Take ye your pleasure to your hearts content in the felicity, O Indra, O Varuna; so we desire you utterly near to us. May we gain the full pitch of the powers, the full vigour of the right thoughts that give men the assured Plenty.Indra is the desirable Strength of all that gives force, Varuna of all that is ample & noble. By their protection may we remain in safety and meditate, may there be indeed an utter purification. Indra and Varuna, I call you for rich and varied ecstasy, do ye render us victorious. Indra and Varuna, now may our understandings be entirely obedient to you, that in them you may give to us peace. May the good praise be grateful to you, O Indra & Varuna, which I call aloud to you, the fulfilling praise which you bring to prosperity.   We are no longer with Madhuchchhanda Vaiswamitra. It is Medhatithi of the Kanwas who has taken the word, a soul of great clearness & calmness who is full of a sort of vibrating peace. Yet we find the same strain, the same fixed ideas, the same subjective purpose & spiritual aspiration. A few words here & there in my translation may be challenged and given a different meaning. Throughout the Veda there are words like radhas etc to which I have given a sense based on reasons of context & philology but which must be allowed to remain conjectural till I am able to take up publicly the detailed examination of the language & substance of the Rigveda. But we have sumati again and the ever recurring vaja, the dhartara charshaninam, holders of actions, & rayah which certainly meant felicity in the Veda. It is clear from the third verse that Varuna and Indra are called to share in the felicity of the poets soul,that felicity is his material of sacrifice,anukamam tarpayetham, he says, Delight in it to your hearts content; and again in the seventh shloka he tells them, Vam aham huve chitraya radhase, a phrase which, in view of verse 3, I can only translate I call you for rich and varied ecstasy; for it is evidently meant to describe that felicity, that heart-filling satisfaction which he has already offered in the third sloka. In return he asks them to give victory. Always in the Veda there is the idea of the spiritual battle as well as the outer struggles of life, the battle with the jealous forces of Nature, with Vala, the grudging guardian of light, with the great obscuring dragon Vritra & his hosts, with the thieving Panis, with all the many forces that oppose mans evolution & support limitation and evil. A great many of the words for sacrifice, mean also war and battle, in Sanscrit or in its kindred tongues.   Indra and Varuna are called to give victory, because both of them are samrat. The words samrat & swarat have in Veda an ascertained philosophical sense.One is swarat when, having self-mastery & self-knowledge, & being king over his whole system, physical, vital, mental & spiritual, free in his being, [one] is able to guide entirely the harmonious action of that being. Swarajya is spiritual Freedom. One is Samrat when one is master of the laws of being, ritam, rituh, vratani, and can therefore control all forces & creatures. Samrajya is divine Rule resembling the power of God over his world. Varuna especially is Samrat, master of the Law which he follows, governor of the heavens & all they contain, Raja Varuna, Varuna the King as he is often styled by Sunahshepa and other Rishis. He too, like Indra & Agni & the Visvadevas, is an upholder & supporter of mens actions, dharta charshaninam. Finally in the fifth sloka a distinction is drawn between Indra and Varuna of great importance for our purpose. The Rishi wishes, by their protection, to rise to the height of the inner Energies (yuvaku shachinam) and have the full vigour of right thoughts (yuvaku sumatinam) because they give then that fullness of inner Plenty (vajadavnam) which is the first condition of enduring calm & perfection & then he says, Indrah sahasradavnam, Varunah shansyanam kratur bhavati ukthyah. Indra is the master-strength, desirable indeed, (ukthya, an object of prayer, of longing and aspiration) of one class of those boons (vara, varyani) for which the Rishis praise him, Varuna is the master-strength, equally desirable, of another class of these Vedic blessings. Those which Indra brings, give force, sahasram, the forceful being that is strong to endure & strong to overcome; those that attend the grace of Varuna are of a loftier & more ample description, they are shansya. The word shansa is frequently used; it is one of the fixed terms of Veda. Shall we translate it praise, the sense most suitable to the ritual explanation, the sense which the finally dominant ritualistic school gave to so many of the fixed terms of Veda? In that case Varuna must be urushansa, because he is widely praised, Agni narashansa because he is strongly praised or praised by men,ought not a wicked or cruel man to be nrishansa because he is praised by men?the Rishis call repeatedly on the gods to protect their praise, & Varuna here must be master of things that are praiseworthy. But these renderings can only be accepted, if we consent to the theory of the Rishis as semi-savage poets, feeble of brain, vague in speech, pointless in their style, using language for barbaric ornament rather than to express ideas. Here for instance there is a very powerful indicated contrast, indicated by the grammatical structure, the order & the rhythm, by the singular kratur bhavati, by the separation of Indra & Varuna who have hitherto been coupled, by the assignment of each governing nominative to its governed genitive and a careful balanced order of words, first giving the master Indra then his province sahasradavnam, exactly balancing them in the second half of the first line the master Varuna & then his province shansyanam, and the contrast thus pointed, in the closing pada of the Gayatri all the words that in their application are common at once to all these four separated & contrasted words in the first line. Here is no careless writer, but a style careful, full of economy, reserve, point, force, and the thought must surely correspond. But what is the contrast forced on us with such a marshalling of the stylists resources? That Indras boons are force-giving, Varunas praiseworthy, excellent, auspicious, what you will? There is not only a pointless contrast, but no contrast at all. No, shansa & shansya must be important, definite, pregnant Vedic terms expressing some prominent idea of the Vedic system. I shall show elsewhere that shansa is in its essential meaning self-expression, the bringing out of our sat or being that which is latent in it and manifesting it in our nature, in speech, in our general impulse & action. It has the connotation of self-expression, aspiration, temperament, expression of our ideas in speech; then divulgation, publication, praiseor in another direction, cursing. Varuna is urushansa because he is the master of wide self-expression, wide aspirations, a wide, calm & spacious temperament, Agni narashansa because he is master of strong self-expression, strong aspirations, a prevailing, forceful & masterful temperament;nrishansa had originally the same sense, but was afterwards diverted to express the fault to which such a temper is prone,tyranny, wrath & cruelty; the Rishis call to the gods to protect their shansa, that which by their yoga & yajna they have been able to bring out in themselves of being, faculty, power, joy,their self-expression. Similarly, shansya here means all that belongs to self-expression, all that is wide, noble, ample in the growth of a soul. It will follow from this rendering that Indra is a god of force, Varuna rather a god of being and as it appears from other epithets, of being when it is calm, noble, wide, self-knowing, self-mastering, moving freely in harmony with the Law of things because it is aware of that Law and accepts it. In that acceptance is his mighty strength; therefore is he even more than the gods of force the king, the giver of internal & external victory, rule, empire, samrajya to his votaries. This is Varuna.   We see the results & the conditions of the action ofVaruna in the four remaining verses. By their protection we have safety from attack, sanema, safety for our shansa, our rayah, our radhas, by the force of Indra, by the protecting greatness of Varuna against which passion & disturbance cast themselves in vain, only to be destroyed. This safety & this settled ananda or delight, we use for deep meditation, ni dhimahi, we go deep into ourselves and the object we have in view in our meditation is prarechanam, the Greek katharsis, the cleansing of the system mental, bodily, vital, of all that is impure, defective, disturbing, inharmonious. Syad uta prarechanam! In this work of purification we are sure to be obstructed by the powers that oppose all healthful change; but Indra & Varuna are to give us victory, jigyushas kritam. The final result of the successful purification is described in the eighth sloka. The powers of the understanding, its various faculties & movements, dhiyah, delivered from self-will & rebellion, become obedient to Indra & Varuna; obedient to Varuna, they move according to the truth & law, the ritam; obedient to Indra they fulfil with that passivity in activity, which we seek by Yoga, all the works to which mental force can apply itself when it is in harmony with Varuna & the ritam. The result is sharma, peace. Nothing is more remarkable in the Veda than the exactness with which hymn after hymn describes with a marvellous simplicity & lucidity the physical & psychological processes through which Indian Yoga proceeds. The process, the progression, the successive movements of the soul here described are exactly what the Yogin experiences today so many thousands of years after the Veda was revealed. No wonder, it is regarded as eternal truth, not the expression of any particular mind, not paurusheya but impersonal, divine & revealed.

1.053 - A Very Important Sadhana, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga   The mind needs variety, no doubt, and it cannot exist without variety. It always wants change. Monotonous food will not be appreciated by the mind, and so the scriptures, especially the larger ones like the Epics, the Puranas, the Agamas, the Tantras, etc., provide a large area of movement for the mind wherein it leisurely roams about to its deep satisfaction, finds variety in Plenty, reads stories of great saints and sages, and feels very much thrilled by the anecdotes of Incarnations, etc. But at the same time, with all its variety, we will find that it is a variety with a unity behind it. There is a unity of pattern, structure and aim in the presentation of variety in such scriptures as the Srimad Bhagavata, for instance. There are 18,000 verses giving all kinds of detail everything about the cosmic creation and the processes of the manifestation of different things in their gross form, subtle form, causal form, etc. Every type of story is found there. It is very interesting to read it. The mind rejoices with delight when going through such a large variety of detail with beautiful comparisons, etc. But all this variety is like a medical treatment by which we may give varieties of medicine with a single aim. We may give one tablet, one capsule, one injection, and all sorts of things at different times in a day to treat a single disease. The purpose is the continued assertion that God is All, and the whole of creation is a play of the glory of God.   The goal of life in every stage of its manifestation is the vision of God, the experience of God, the realisation of God that God is the Supreme Doer and the Supreme Existence. This is the principle that is driven into the mind again and again by the Srimad Bhagavata Mahapurana or such similar texts. If a continued or sustained study of such scriptures is practised, it is purifying. It is a tapas by itself, and it is a study of the nature of ones own Self, ultimately. The word sva is used here to designate this process of study svadhyaya. Also, we are told in one sutra of Patanjali, tad drau svarpe avasthnam (I.3), that the seer finds himself in his own nature when the vrittis or the various psychoses of the mind are inhibited. The purpose of every sadhana is only this much: to bring the mind back to its original source.

1.05 - Christ, A Symbol of the Self, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology   Plenty of statements to be found which show it in a special light   -views and ideas which attach such importance to the stone

1.05 - Hymns of Bharadwaja, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga     5. Found, O Fire, for us and the masters of Plenty by thy safeguardings packed with the plenitudes a treasure of richly brilliant kinds; for these are they who surpass all others in their opulence and inspiration and hero-mights.     6. O Fire, yearn to the sacrifice that the bringer of the offering casts to thee; found the rapture. Hold firm in the Bharadwajas the perfect purification; guard them in their seizing of the riches of the quest.   --     1. O felicitous Fire, of thee are all felicities and they grow wide from thee like branches from a tree. For quickly come, in the piercing of the Python adversary, the Riches and the desirable Plenty and the Rain of Heaven and the flowing of the Waters.     2. Thou art Bhaga of the felicities and thou pourest on us the ecstasy and takest up thy house in us, a pervading presence and a potent splendour. O divine Fire, like Mitra thou art a feeder on the vast Truth and the much joy and beauty.

1.06 - BOOK THE SIXTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry   Plenty, and mirth the royal banquet close,   Then all retire to sleep, and sweet repose.

1.06 - Dhyana, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy   25:Worrying about clothes, food, money, what people may think, how and why, and above all the fear of consequences, clog nearly every one. Nothing is easier, theoretically, than for an anarchist to kill a king. He has only to buy a rifle, make himself a first-class shot, and shoot the king from a quarter of a mile away. And yet, although there are Plenty of anarchists, outrages are very few. At the same time, the police would probably be the first to admit that if any man were really tired of life, in his deepest being, a state very different from that in which a man goes about saying he is tired of life, he could manage somehow or other to kill someone first.   26:Now the man who has experienced any of the more intense forms of Dhyana is thus liberated. The Universe is thus destroyed for him, and he for it. His will can therefore go on its way unhampered. One may imagine that in the case of Mohammed he had cherished for years a tremendous ambition, and never done anything because those qualities which were subsequently manifested as statesmanship warned him that he was impotent. His vision in the cave gave him that confidence which was required, the faith that moves mountains. There are a lot of solid-seeming things in this world which a child could push over; but not one has the courage to push.   --   42:It is probably rare for a single experience to upset thus radically the whole conception of the Universe, just as sometimes, in the first moments of waking, there remains a half-doubt as to whether dream or waking is real. But as one gains further experience, when Dhyana is no longer a shock, when the student has had Plenty of time to make himself at home in the new world, this conviction will become absolute.   43:Another rationalist consideration is this. The student has not been trying to excite the mind but to calm it, not to produce any one thought but to exclude all thoughts; for there is no connection between the object of meditation and the Dhyana. Why must we suppose a breaking down of the whole process, especially as the mind bears no subsequent traces of any interference, such as pain or fatigue? Surely this once, if never again, the Hindu image expresses the simplest theory!

1.06 - MORTIFICATION, NON-ATTACHMENT, RIGHT LIVELIHOOD, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy   A good cook changes his chopper once a yearbecause he cuts. An ordinary cook, once a monthbecause he hacks. But I have had this chopper nineteen years, and though I have cut up many thousands of bullocks, its edge is as if fresh from the whetstone. For at the joints there are always interstices, and the edge of a chopper being without thickness, it remains only to insert that which is without thickness into such an interstice. By these means the interstice will be enlarged, and the blade will find Plenty of room. It is thus that I have kept my chopper for nineteen years, as though fresh from the whetstone.   Nevertheless, when I come upon a hard part, where the blade meets with a difficulty, I am all caution. I fix my eyes on it. I stay my hand, and gently apply the blade, until with a hwah the part yields like earth crumbling to the ground. Then I withdraw the blade and stand up and look around; and at last I wipe my chopper and put it carefully away.

1.06 - The Sign of the Fishes, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology   are Plenty of occasions for fish symbolism within the original,   purely Christian world of ideas. I need only mention the regen-

1.072 - The Jinn, #Quran, #unset, #Zen   16. Had they kept true to the Path, We would have given them Plenty water to drink.   17. To test them with it. Whoever turns away from the remembrance of his Lord, He will direct him to torment ever mounting.

1.07 - A MAD TEA-PARTY, #Alice in Wonderland, #Lewis Carroll, #Fiction   The table was a large one, but the three were all crowded together at one corner of it. "No room! No room!" they cried out when they saw Alice coming. "There's _Plenty_ of room!" said Alice indignantly, and she sat down in a large arm-chair at one end of the table.   The Hatter opened his eyes very wide on hearing this, but all he said was "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?"

1.07 - Hymn of Paruchchhepa, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   the enjoying; for those who hymn thee, O Lord of Plenty,   churn out a great hero-strength as one puissant by his force.

1.07 - Note on the word Go, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   I pass now to a third passage, also instructive, also full of that depth and fine knowledge of the movements of the higher consciousness which every Yogin must find in the Veda. It is in the 9th hymn of the Mandala and forms the seventh verse of that hymn. Sam gomad Indra vajavad asme prithu sravo brihat, visvayur dhehi akshitam. The only crucial question in this verse is the signification of sravas.With our modern ideas the sentence seems to us to demand that sravas should be translated here fame. Sravas is undoubtedly the same word as the Greek xo (originally xFo); it means a thing heard, rumour, report, & thence fame. If we take it in that sense, we shall have to translate Arrange for us, O universal life, a luminous and solid, wide & great fame unimpaired. I dismiss at once the idea that go & vaja can here signify cattle and food or wealth. A herded & fooded or wealthy fame to express a fame for wealth of cattle & food is a forceful turn of expression we might expect to find in Aeschylus or in Shakespeare; but I should hesitate, except in case of clear necessity, to admit it in the Veda or in any Sanscrit style of composition; for such expressions have always been alien to the Indian intellect. Our stylistic vagaries have been of another kind. But is luminous & solid fame much better? I shall suggest another meaning for sravas which will give as usual a deeper sense to the whole passage without our needing to depart by a hairs breadth from the etymological significance of the words. Sruti in Sanscrit is a technical term, originally, for the means by which Vedic knowledge is acquired, inspiration in the suprarational mind; srutam is the knowledge of Veda. Similarly, we have in Vedic Sanscrit the forms srut and sravas. I take srut to mean inspired knowledge in the act of reception, sravas the thing acquired by the reception, inspired knowledge. Gomad immediately assumes its usual meaning illuminated, full of illumination. Vaja I take throughout the Veda as a technical Vedic expression for that substantiality of being-consciousness which is the basis of all special manifestation of being & power, all utayah & vibhutayahit means by etymology extended being in force, va or v to exist or move in extension and the vocable j which always gives the idea of force or brilliance or decisiveness in action or manifestation or contact. I shall accept no meaning which is inconsistent with this fundamental significance. Moreover the tendency of the old commentators to make all possible words, vaja, ritam etc mean sacrifice or food, must be rejected,although a justification in etymology might always be made out for the effort. Vaja means substance in being, substance, Plenty, strength, solidity, steadfastness. Here it obviously means full of substance, just as gomad full of luminousness,not in the sense arthavat, but with another & psychological connotation. I translate then, O Indra, life of all, order for us an inspired knowledge full of illumination & substance, wide & great and unimpaired. Anyone acquainted with Yoga will at once be struck by the peculiar & exact appropriateness of all these epithets; they will admit him at once by sympathy into the very heart of Madhuchchhandas experience & unite him in soul with that ancient son of Visvamitra. When Mahas, the supra-rational principle, begins with some clearness to work in Yoga, not on its own level, not swe dame, but in the mind, it works at first through the principle of Srutinot Smriti or Drishti, but this Sruti is feeble & limited in its range, it is not prithu; broken & scattered in its working even when the range is wide, not unlimited in continuity, not brihat; not pouring in a flood of light, not gomat, but coming as a flash in the darkness, often with a pale glimmer like the first feebleness of dawn; not supported by a strong steady force & foundation of being, Sat, in manifestation, not vajavad, but working without foundation, in a void, like secondh and glimpses of Sat in nothingness, in vacuum, in Asat; and, therefore, easily impaired, easily lost hold of, easily stolen by the Panis or the Vritras. All these defects Madhuchchhanda has noticed in his own experience; his prayer is for an inspired knowledge which shall be full & free & perfect, not marred even in a small degree by these deficiencies.   The combination of go & vaja occurs again in the eleventh hymn where the seer writes Purvir Indrasya ratayo na vi dasyanti utayah, yadi vajasya gomatah stotribhyo manhate magham. The former delights of Indra, those first established his (new &larger) expansions of being do not destroy or scatter, when to his praisers he enlarges the mass of their illuminated substance or strength of being. Here again we have Madhuchchhandas deep experience & his fine & subtle knowledge. It is a common experience in Yoga that the ananda and siddhi first established, is destroyed in the effort or movement towards a larger fullness of being, knowledge or delight, and a period of crisis intervenes in which there is a rending & scattering of joy & light, a period of darkness, confusion & trouble painful to all & dangerous except to the strongest. Can these crises, difficulties, perilous conditions of soul be avoided? Yes, says Madhuchchhandas in effect, when you deliver yourself with devotion into the care of Indra, he comes to your help, he removes that limitation, that concentration in detail, in the alpam, the little, that consequent necessity of losing hold of one thing in order to give yourself to another, he increases the magha, the vijnanamay state of mahattwa or relative non-limitation in the finite which shows itself by an increase of fundamental force of being filled with higher illumination. That support of vaja prevents us from falling from what we have gained; there is sufficient substance of being expressed in us to provide for the new utayah without sacrificing the joys already established; there is sufficient luminousness of mind to prevent darkness, obscuration & misery supervening. Thus we see still the same symbolic sense, the same depth, the same experience as true to the Yogin today as to Madhuchchhandas thousands of years ago.

1.07 - Savitri, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga   It is my task in this chapter to give a factual account of the long process that led to Savitri in its final form. As the grand epic has captured many hearts all over the world by its supernal beauty I thought that they would be much interested in the history of its growth, development and final emergence the birth of the Golden Child. But I own that it is a formidable task. Though I had the unique good fortune to see Sri Aurobindo working on the epic in its entire revised version, and had some small share in being its scribe, to try in retrospect to reconstruct the imposing edifice from such a distance in memory is indeed difficult, for there are many versions, Plenty of revisions, additions, subtractions, emendations from which the final version was made. To give an accurate report of all this process is beyond my capacity. For I am not a scholar, and have no aptitude for research into old (or new) archives, neither did I ever dream that I should one day be called upon to render an account of what the Master had done, or left undone, through this poor mortal as his instrument. Had I not been helped by my esteemed and multi-capable friend Amal Kiran indefatigable researcher no less than a poet and by a young friend as assistant, my readers would have had to remain content with just a bare outline.   The apology submitted, let the rash venture begin. Savitri, according to Dinen Roy,[1] was started by Sri Aurobindo in Baroda. From all the extant versions, for there are quite a number, it appears that originally the scheme of the poem consisted of two parts: I Earth, II Beyond. The first part had four Books and the second had three Books and an epilogue.   --   All this was written to me in 1936. Since then the work proceeded slowly and gradually until between 1939 and 1950 he succeeded to a great extent in achieving what he aimed at, as stated in the letter above. I am sure if he had more time at his disposal and could work by himself, he would have raised it to his ideal of perfect perfection. As it is, Savitri is, I suppose, the example par excellence of the Future Poetry he speaks of in his book The Future Poetry. Founder of the New Age, pioneer in the field of poetry, as in many others, he has left us an inexhaustible heritage of words, images, ideas, suggestions and hints about which we can only say here is God's Plenty. Rameshwar Gupta very aptly calls it Eternity in Words.[5] Generation after generation will drink in its soul's nectar from this perennial source. The life span of the English language itself has increased a thousandfold. Shakespeare, it is said, increased the life span of the English language by centuries. Sri Aurobindo said about Shakespeare, "That kind of spear does not shake everywhere." Now we find another far greater that will shake the world to its very roots. If for no other reason, the English speaking races ought to be eternally grateful to the supreme poet of the grand epic for this miracle.   Sri Aurobindo quoting in The Future Poetry these lines of an Elizabethan poet,

1.07 - The Process of Evolution, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   The law is the same for the mass as for the individual. The process of human evolution has been seen by the eye of inspired observation to be that of working out the tiger and the ape. The forces of cruelty, lust, mischievous destruction, pain-giving, folly, brutality, ignorance were once rampant in humanity, they had full enjoyment; then by the growth of religion and philosophy they began in periods of satiety such as the beginning of the Christian era in Europe to be partly replaced, partly put under control. As is the law of such things, they have always reverted again with greater or less virulence and sought with more or less success to re-establish themselves. Finally in the nineteenth century it seemed for a time as if some of these forces had, for a time at least, exhausted themselves and the hour for sayama and gradual dismissal from the evolution had really arrived. Such hopes always recur and in the end they are likely to bring about their own fulfilment, but before that happens another recoil is inevitable. We see Plenty of signs of it in the reeling back into the beast which is in progress in Europe and America behind the fair outside of Science, progress, civilisation and humanitarianism, and we are likely to see more signs of it in the era that is coming upon us. A similar law holds in politics and society. The political evolution of the human race follows certain lines of which the most recent formula has been given in the watchwords of the French Revolution, freedom, equality and brotherhood. But the forces of the old world, the forces of despotism, the forces of traditional privilege and selfish exploitation, the forces of unfraternal strife and passionate self-regarding competition are always struggling to reseat themselves on the thrones of the earth. A determined movement of reaction is evident in many parts of the world and nowhere perhaps more than in England which was once one of the self-styled champions of progress and liberty. The attempt to go back to the old spirit is one of those necessary returns without which it cannot be so utterly exhausted as to be blotted out from the evolution. It rises only to be defeated and crushed again. On the other hand the force of the democratic tendency is not a force which is spent but one which has not yet arrived, not a force which has had the greater part of its enjoyment but one which is still vigorous, unsatisfied and eager for fulfilment. Every attempt to coerce it in the past reacted eventually on the coercing force and brought back the democratic spirit fierce, hungry and unsatisfied, joining to its fair motto of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity the terrible addition or Death. It is not likely that the immediate future of the democratic tendency will satisfy the utmost dreams of the lover of liberty who seeks an anarchist freedom, or of the lover of equality who tries to establish a socialistic dead level, or of the lover of fraternity who dreams of a world-embracing communism. But some harmonisation of this great ideal is undoubtedly the immediate future of the human race. On the old forces of despotism, inequality and unbridled competition, after they have been once more overthrown, a process of gradual sayama will be performed by which what has remained of them will be regarded as the disappearing vestiges of a dead reality and without any further violent coercion be transformed slowly and steadily out of existence.   ***

1.07 - TRUTH, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy   Theology as we know it has been formed by the great mystics, especially St Augustine and St Thomas. Plenty of other great theologiansespecially St Gregory and St Bernard, even down to Suarezwould not have had such insight without mystic super-knowledge.   Abbot John Chapman

1.08 - BOOK THE EIGHTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry   For Oeneus with autumnal Plenty bless'd,   By gifts to Heav'n his gratitude express'd:   --   With such a Plenty from the spouting veins,   A crimson stream the turfy altars stains.   --   Be unsubdu'd by Plenty's baffled store,   Reject my empire, and defeat my pow'r.

1.08 - The Gods of the Veda - The Secret of the Veda, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   What then is it that Madhuchchhanda, son of Viswamitra, has to say in this Sukta of the goddess of inspiration, speech and knowledge? He does not directly address her, but he assigns to this deity the general control, support and illumination of the sacrifice he is performing. Let Saraswati he says control our Yajna. The epithets which fill the Rik must express either the permanent & characteristic qualities in her which fit her for this high office of control or the possible & suitable qualities with which he wishes her to be equipped in the performance of that office. First, pvak. She is the great purifier. It is as we shall see not a literary inspiration he invokes, but a divine inspiration, an inspiration of truths and right thoughts and, it may be, right feelings. Saraswati by this inspiration, by this inspired truth & knowledge & right feeling, is asked to purify, first, the mental state of the Yogin; for a mind unpurified cannot hold the light from on high. Knowledge purifies, says the Gita, meaning the higher spiritual knowledge which comes by ruti, divine inspiration; there is nothing in the whole world so pure as knowledge: Saraswati who purifies, Pvak Saraswat. Vjebhir vjin vat. She is full of substantial energy, stored with a great variety in substance of knowledge, chitraravastama, as is said in another hymn of the strong god Agni. The inspiration & resultant knowledge prayed for is not that of any isolated truth or slight awakening, but a great substance of knowledge & a high Plenty of inspiration; the mental state has to be filled with this strong & copious substance of Saraswati.Dhiyvasuh. She is rich in understanding. Dh in the Veda is the buddhi, the faculty of reason that understands, discerns & holds knowledge. This inspiration has to be based on a great intellectual capacity which supports & holds the flood of the inspiration. Thus rich, thus strong & plenteous, thus purifying the divine inspiration has to hold & govern the Sacrifice.   The thought passes on in the eleventh Rik from the prayer to the fulfilment. Yajnam dadhe Saraswat. Saraswati upholds the Yajna; she has accepted the office of governance & already upbears in her strength the action of the sacrifice. In that action she is Chodayitr unritnm, chetant sumatnm. That great luminous impulse of inspiration in which the truths of being start to light of themselves and are captured and possessed by the mind, that spiritual enlightenment and awakening in which right thoughts & right seeing become spontaneously the substance of our purified mental state, proceed from Saraswati & are already being poured by her into the system, like the Aryan stream into the Indus. Mati means any activity of the mind; right thoughts in the intellect, right feelings in the heart, right perceptions in the sensational mind, sumati may embrace any or all of these associations; in another context, by a different turn of the prefix, it may express kindly thoughts, friendly feelings, happy perceptions.   --   Sayanas interpretation there is a miracle of ritualism & impossibility which it is best to ignore. ach means in the Veda power, sumati, right thought or right feeling, as we have seen, vjadvan, strength-giving,strength in the sense of steadfast substance whether of moral state or quality or physical state or quality. Yuvku in such a connection & construction cannot mean mixed. The word is in formation the root yu and the adjectival ku connected by the euphonic v. It is akin therefore to yuv, youth, & yavas, energy, Plenty or luxuriance; the common idea is energy & luxuriance. The adjective yuvku, if this connection be correct, would mean full of energy or particularly of the energy of youth. We get, therefore, a subjective sense for yuvku which suits well with ach, sumati & vjadvan and falls naturally into the structure & thought of Medhatithis rik. Bhyma may mean become in the state of being or like the Greek (bh) it may admit a transitive sense, to bring about in oneself or attain; yuvku achnm will mean the full energy of the powers & we get this sense forMedhatithis thought: Let us become or For we would effect in ourselves the full energy of the powers, the full energy of the right thoughts which give substance to our inner state or faculties.   We have reached a subjective sense for yuvku. But what of vriktabarhishah? Does not barhih always mean in the Veda the sacred grass strewn as a seat for the gods? In the Brahmanas is it not so understood and have [we] not continually the expression barhishi sdata? I have no objection; barhis is certainly the seat of the Gods in the sacrifice, stritam nushak, strewn without a break. But barhis cannot originally have meant Kusha grass; for in that case the singular could only be used to indicate a single grass and for the seat of the Gods the plural barhnshi would have to be used,barhihshu sdata and not barhishi sdata.We have the right to go behind the Brahmanas and enquire what was the original sense of barhis and how it came to mean kusha grass. The root barh is a modified formation from the root brih, to grow, increase or expand, which we have in brihat. From the sense of spreading we may get the original sense of seat, and because the material spread was usually the Kusha grass, the word by a secondary application came to bear also that significance. Is this the only possible sense of barhis? No, for we find it interpreted also as sacrifice, as fire, as light or splendour, as water, as ether. We find barhana & barhas in the sense of strength or power and barhah or barham used for a leaf or for a peacocks tail. The base meaning is evidently fullness, greatness, expansion, power, splendour or anything having these attri butes, an outspread seat, spreading foliage, the outspread or splendid peacocks tail, the shining flame, the wide expanse of ether, the wide flow of water. If there were no other current sense of barhis, we should be bound to the ritualistic explanation. Even as it is, in other passages the ritualistic explanation may be found to stand or be binding; but is it obligatory here? I do not think it is even admissible. For observe the awkwardness of the expression, sut vriktabarhishah, wine of which the grass is stripped of its roots. Anything, indeed, is possible in the more artificial styles of poetry, but the rest of this hymn, though subtle & deep in thought, is sufficiently lucid and straightforward in expression. In such a style this strained & awkward expression is an alien intruder. Moreover, since every other expression in these lines is subjective, only dire necessity can compel us to admit so material a rendering of this single epithet. There is no such necessity. Barhis means fundamentally fullness, splendour, expansion or strength & power, & this sense suits well with the meaning we have found for yuvkavah. The sense of vrikta is very doubtful. Purified (cleared, separated) is a very remote sense of vrij or vrich & improbable. They can both mean divided, distributed, strewn, outspread, but although it is possible that vriktabarhishah means their fullness outspread through the system or distributed in the outpouring, this sense too is not convincing. Again vrijana in the Veda means strong, or as a noun, strength, energy, even a battle or fight. Vrikta may therefore [mean] brought to its highest strength. We will accept this sense as a provisional conjecture, to be confirmed or corrected by farther enquiry, and render the line The Soma distillings are replete with energy and brought to their highest fullness.

1.08 - THINGS THE GERMANS LACK, #Twilight of the Idols, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy   show. An amount of good spirits and self-respect, Plenty of firmness   in human relations and in the reciprocity of duties; much industry and

1.09 - BOOK THE NINTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry   Sacred to Plenty, and the bounteous year.   He spoke; when lo, a beauteous nymph appears,

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 - SKIRMISHES IN A WAY WITH THE AGE, #Twilight of the Idols, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy   in plain English: the cow with Plenty of beautiful milk.--Michelet,   or enthusiasm in its shirt sleeves.--Carlyle, or Pessimism after

1.09 - The Worship of Trees, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism   tree, fastened on May-day against the house, will produce Plenty of   milk that summer."

1.1.02 - Sachchidananda, #Letters On Yoga I, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   "I am energetic of my defects." If a man is running fast, you can say of him, "He is running with great energy." Do you think it would mean the same if you said, "He is running with great consciousness"? Consciousness is that which is aware of things - energy is a force put in action which does things. Consciousness may have energy and keep it in or put it out, but that does not mean that it is only another word for energy and that it has to go out when the energy goes out and that it cannot stand back and observe the energy in action. You have Plenty of inertia in you but that does not mean that you and inertia are the same and when inertia rises and swamps you it is you who rise and swamp yourself.   Force, Energy, Power, Shakti

1.108 - Plenty, #Quran, #unset, #Zen   object:1.108 - Plenty   class:chapter   --   1. We have given you Plenty.   2. So pray to your Lord and sacrifice.

1.10 - Harmony, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga   When the bubble bursts, we begin to enter supermanhood. We begin to enter Harmony. Oh, it does not burst through our efforts; it does not give way through any amount of virtues and meditation, which on the contrary further harden the bubble, give it such a lovely shine, such a captivating light that it indeed takes us captive, and we are all the more prisoners as the more beautiful the bubble is, held more captive by our good than by our evil there is nothing harder in the world then a truth caught in our traps; it does not care at all about our virtues and accumulated merits, our brilliant talents or even our obscure weaknesses. Who is great? Who is small and obscure, or less obscure, beneath the drifting of the galaxies that look like the dust of a great Sun? The Truth, the ineffable Sweetness of things and of each thing, the living Heart of millions of beings who do not know, does not require us to become true to bestow its truth upon us who could become true, who would become other than he is, what are we actually capable of? We are capable of pain and misery aPlenty; we are capable of smallness and more smallness, error garbed in a speck of light, knowledge that stumbles into its own quagmires, a good that is the luminous shadow of its secret evil, freedom that imprisons itself in its own salvation we are capable of suffering and suffering, and even our suffering is a secret delight. The Truth, the light Truth, escapes our dark or luminous snares. It runs, breathes with the wind, cascades with the spring, cascades everywhere, for it is the spring of everything. It even murmurs in the depths of our falsehood, winks an eye in our darkness and pokes fun at us. It sets its light traps for us, so light we do not see them; it beckons us in a thousand ways at every instant and everywhere, but it is so fleeting, so unexpected, so contrary to our habitual way of looking at things, so unserious that we walk right past it. We cannot make head or tail out of it; or else we stick a beautiful label on it to trap it in our magic. And it still laughs. It plays along with our magic, plays along with our suffering and geometry; it plays the millipede and the statistician; it plays everything it plays whatever we want. Then, one day, we no longer really want; we no longer want any of all that, neither our gilded miseries, nor our captivating lights nor our good nor our evil, nor any of that whole polychromatic array in which each color changes into the other: hope into despair, effort into backlash, heaven into prison, summit into abyss, love into hate, and each wrested victory into a new defeat, as if each plus attracted its minus, each for its against, and everything forever went forward, backward, right and left, bumping into the wall of the same prison, white or black, green or brown, golden or less golden. We no longer want any of all that; we are only that cry of need in our depths, that call for air, that fire for nothing, that useless little flame that goes along with our every step, walks with our sorrows, walks and walks night and day, in good and evil, in the high and the low and everywhere. And this fire soon becomes like our drop of good in evil, our bit of treasure in misery, our glimmer of light in the chaos, all that remains of a thousand gestures and passing lights, the little nothing that is like everything, the tiny song of a great ongoing misery we no longer have any good or evil, any high or low, any light or darkness, any tomorrow or yesterday. It is all the same, miserable in black and white, but we have that abiding little fire, that tomorrow of today, that murmur of sweetness in the depths of pain, that virtue of our sin, that warm drop of being in the high and the low, day and night, in shame and in joy, in solitude and in the crowd, in approval and disapproval it is all the same. It burns and burns. It is tomorrow, yesterday, now and forever. It is our one song of being, our little note of fire, our paradise in a little flame, our freedom in a little flame, our knowledge in a little flame, our summit of flame in a void of being, our vastness in a tiny singing flame we know not why. It is our companion, our friend, our wife, our bearer, our country it is. And it feels good. Then, one day, we raise our head, and there is no more bubble. There is that Fire burning softly everywhere, recognizing all, loving all, understanding all, and it is like a heaven without trouble; it is so simple that we never thought of it, so tranquil that each drop is like an ocean, so smiling and clear that it goes through everything, enters and slips in everywhere it plays here, plays there, as transparent as air, a nothing that changes everything; and perhaps it is everything.   We are in the Harmony of the new world.

1.10 - Relics of Tree Worship in Modern Europe, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism   they bring Plenty and good luck to the house, and they expect to be   paid for the service. In Russian Lithuania, on the first of May,

1.10 - The Yoga of the Intelligent Will, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga    is a particular intensity, not the essential sign. The test is the expulsion of all desires, their inability to get at the mind, and it is the inner state from which this freedom arises, the delight of the soul gathered within itself with the mind equal and still and highpoised above the attractions and repulsions, the alternations of sunshine and storm and stress of the external life. It is drawn inward even when acting outwardly; it is concentrated in self even when gazing out upon things; it is directed wholly to the Divine even when to the outward vision of others busy and preoccupied with the affairs of the world. Arjuna, voicing the average human mind, asks for some outward, physical, practically discernible sign of this great Samadhi; how does such a man speak, how sit, how walk? No such signs can be given, nor does the Teacher attempt to supply them; for the only possible test of its possession is inward and that there are Plenty of hostile psychological forces to apply. Equality is the great stamp of the liberated soul and of that equality even the most discernible signs are still subjective. "A man with mind untroubled by sorrows, who has done with desire for pleasures, from whom liking and wrath and fear have passed away, such is the sage whose understanding has become founded in stability." He is "without the triple action of the qualities of Prakriti, without the dualities, ever based in his true being, without getting or having, possessed of his self."   For what gettings and havings has the free soul? Once we are possessed of the Self, we are in possession of all things.

1.11 - BOOK THE ELEVENTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry   Starving in all his various Plenty lies:   Sick of his wish, he now detests the pow'r,

1.11 - Delight of Existence - The Problem, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   17:In the egoistic human being, the mental person emergent out of the dim shell of matter, delight of existence is neutral, semilatent, still in the shadow of the subconscious, hardly more than a concealed soil of Plenty covered by desire with a luxuriant growth of poisonous weeds and hardly less poisonous flowers, the pains and pleasures of our egoistic existence. When the divine conscious-force working secretly in us has devoured these growths of desire, when in the image of the Rig Veda the fire of God has burnt up the shoots of earth, that which is concealed at the roots of these pains and pleasures, their cause and secret being, the sap of delight in them, will emerge in new forms not of desire, but of self-existent satisfaction which will replace mortal pleasure by the Immortal's ecstasy. And this transformation is possible because these growths of sensation and emotion are in their essential being, the pains no less than the pleasures, that delight of existence which they seek but fail to reveal, - fail because of division, ignorance of self and egoism.

1.11 - The Influence of the Sexes on Vegetation, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism   are told, is to procure rain, Plenty of food and drink, abundance of   cattle and children and riches from Grandfa ther Sun. They pray that

1.11 - The Seven Rivers, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   The Father of all things is the Lord and Male; he is hidden in the secret source of things, in the super-conscient; Agni, with his companion gods and with the sevenfold Waters, enters into the super-conscient without therefore disappearing from our conscient existence, finds the source of the honeyed Plenty of the   Father of things and pours them out on our life. He bears and himself becomes the Son, the pure Kumara, the pure Male, the

1.11 - WITH THE DEVOTEES AT DAKSHINEWAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism   "The practice of discipline is absolutely necessary. Why shouldn't a man succeed if he practises sadhana? But he doesn't have to work hard if he has real faith-faith in his guru's words. Once Vyasa was about to cross the Jamuna, when the gopis also arrived there, wishing to go to the other side. But no ferryboat was in sight. They said to Vyasa, 'Revered sir, what shall we do now?' 'Don't worry', said Vyasa. 'I will take you across. But I am very hungry. Have you anything for me to eat?' The gopis had Plenty of milk, cream, and butter with them. Vyasa ate it all. Then the gopis asked, 'Well, sir, what about crossing the river?' Vyasa stood on the bank of the Jamuna and said, 'O   Jamuna, if I have not eaten anything today, then may your waters part so that we may all walk to the other side.' No sooner did the sage utter these words than the waters of the Jamuna parted. The gopis were speechless with wonder. 'He ate so much just now,'

1.12 - THE FESTIVAL AT PNIHTI, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism   MASTER: "You are a shrewd man. You do a thing after much calculation. You are like the brahmin who selects a cow that eats very little, supplies Plenty of dung, and gives much milk." (All laugh.)   After a time he said to Jadu: "I now understand your nature. It is half warm and half cold. You are devoted to God and also to the world."

1.12 - The Herds of the Dawn, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga    hand these words are symbolic, the sense will run, "Confirm in us a state of bliss full of light, of conquering energy and of force of vitality." It is therefore necessary to decide once for all the significance of the word go in the Vedic hymns. If it proves to be symbolic, then these other words, - asva, horse, vra, man or hero, apatya or praja, offspring, hiran.ya, gold, vaja, Plenty   (food, according to Sayana), - by which it is continually accompanied, must perforce assume also a symbolic and a kindred significance.

1.12 - TIME AND ETERNITY, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy   Such was the conclusion to which the most celebrated of Indian converts was forced after some years of association with his fellow Christians. There are many honourable exceptions, of course; but the rule even among learned Protestants and Catholics is a certain blandly bumptious provincialism which, if it did not constitute such a grave offence against charity and truth, would be just uproariously funny. A hundred years ago, hardly anything was known of Sanskrit, Pali or Chinese. The ignorance of European scholars was sufficient reason for their provincialism. Today, when more or less adequate translations are available in Plenty, there is not only no reason for it, there is no excuse. And yet most European and American authors of books about religion and metaphysics write as though nobody had ever thought about these subjects, except the Jews, the Greeks and the Christians of the Mediterranean basin and western Europe. This display of what, in the twentieth century, is an entirely voluntary and deliberate ignorance is not only absurd and discreditable; it is also socially dangerous. Like any other form of imperialism, theological imperialism is a menace to permanent world peace. The reign of violence will never come to an end until, first, most human beings accept the same, true philosophy of life; until, second, this Perennial Philosophy is recognized as the highest factor common to all the world religions; until, third, the adherents of every religion renounce the idolatrous time-philosophies, with which, in their own particular faith, the Perennial Philosophy of eternity has been overlaid; until, fourth, there is a world-wide rejection of all the political pseudo-religions, which place mans supreme good in future time and therefore justify and commend the commission of every sort of present iniquity as a means to that end. If these conditions are not fulfilled, no amount of political planning, no economic blue-prints however ingeniously drawn, can prevent the recrudescence of war and revolution.   next chapter: 1.13 - SALVATION, DELIVERANCE, ENLIGHTENMENT

1.13 - BOOK THE THIRTEENTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry   Where Polymestor safe in Plenty reigns.   King Priam to his care commits his son,

1.13 - Posterity of Dhruva, #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism   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 - Reason and Religion, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   The deepest heart, the inmost essence of religion, apart from its outward machinery of creed, cult, ceremony and symbol, is the search for God and the finding of God. Its aspiration is to discover the Infinite, the Absolute, the One, the Divine, who is all these things and yet no abstraction but a Being. Its work is a sincere living out of the true and intimate relations between man and God, relations of unity, relations of difference, relations of an illuminated knowledge, an ecstatic love and delight, an absolute surrender and service, a casting of every part of our existence out of its normal status into an uprush of man towards the Divine and a descent of the Divine into man. All this has nothing to do with the realm of reason or its normal activities; its aim, its sphere, its process is suprarational. The knowledge of God is not to be gained by weighing the feeble arguments of reason for or against his existence: it is to be gained only by a self-transcending and absolute consecration, aspiration and experience. Nor does that experience proceed by anything like rational scientific experiment or rational philosophic thinking. Even in those parts of religious discipline which seem most to resemble scientific experiment, the method is a verification of things which exceed the reason and its timid scope. Even in those parts of religious knowledge which seem most to resemble intellectual operations, the illuminating faculties are not imagination, logic and rational judgment, but revelations, inspirations, intuitions, intuitive discernments that leap down to us from a plane of suprarational light. The love of God is an infinite and absolute feeling which does not admit of any rational limitation and does not use a language of rational worship and adoration; the delight in God is that peace and bliss which passes all understanding. The surrender to God is the surrender of the whole being to a suprarational light, will, power and love and his service takes no account of the compromises with life which the practical reason of man uses as the best part of its method in the ordinary conduct of mundane existence. Wherever religion really finds itself, wherever it opens itself to its own spirit,there is Plenty of that sort of religious practice which is halting, imperfect, half-sincere, only half-sure of itself and in which reason can get in a word,its way is absolute and its fruits are ineffable.   Reason has indeed a part to play in relation to this highest field of our religious being and experience, but that part is quite secondary and subordinate. It cannot lay down the law for the religious life, it cannot determine in its own right the system of divine knowledge; it cannot school and lesson the divine love and delight; it cannot set bounds to spiritual experience or lay its yoke upon the action of the spiritual man. Its sole legitimate sphere is to explain as best it can, in its own language and to the rational and intellectual parts of man, the truths, the experiences, the laws of our suprarational and spiritual existence. That has been the work of spiritual philosophy in the East andmuch more crudely and imperfectly doneof theology in the West, a work of great importance at moments like the present when the intellect of mankind after a long wandering is again turning towards the search for the Divine. Here there must inevitably enter a part of those operations proper to the intellect, logical reasoning, inferences from the data given by rational experience, analogies drawn from our knowledge of the apparent facts of existence, appeals even to the physical truths of science, all the apparatus of the intelligent mind in its ordinary workings. But this is the weakest part of spiritual philosophy. It convinces the rational mind only where the intellect is already predisposed to belief, and even if it convinces, it cannot give the true knowledge. Reason is safest when it is content to take the profound truths and experiences of the spiritual being and the spiritual life, just as they are given to it, and throw them into such form, order and language as will make them the most intelligible or the least unintelligible to the reasoning mind. Even then it is not quite safe, for it is apt to harden the order into an intellectual system and to present the form as if it were the essence. And, at best, it has to use a language which is not the very tongue of the suprarational truth but its inadequate translation and, since it is not the ordinary tongue either of the rational intelligence, it is open to non-understanding or misunderstanding by the ordinary reason of mankind. It is well-known to the experience of the spiritual seeker that even the highest philosophising cannot give a true inner knowledge, is not the spiritual light, does not open the gates of experience. All it can do is to address the consciousness of man through his intellect and, when it has done, to say, I have tried to give you the truth in a form and system which will make it intelligible and possible to you; if you are intellectually convinced or attracted, you can now seek the real knowledge, but you must seek it by other means which are beyond my province.

1.13 - THE MASTER AND M., #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism   "Achalananda did not support his own children. He said to me, 'God will support them.' I said nothing. But this is the way I felt about it: 'Who will support your children? I hope your renunciation of wife and children is not a way of earning money. People will think you are a holy man because you have renounced everything: so they will give you money. In that way you will earn Plenty of money.'   "Spiritual practice with a view to winning a lawsuit and earning money, or to helping others win in court and acquire property, shows a very mean understanding.

1.1.4 - The Physical Mind and Sadhana, #Letters On Yoga IV, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   It is the usual fit and the same round of thoughts mechanically repeated that you always get in these fits. These thoughts have no light in them and no truth, for the physical mind which engenders this routine wheel of suggestions is shut up in surface appearances and knows nothing of deeper truth or the things of the spirit. There is Plenty of increment, but with this superficial part of the physical mind it is not likely or possible that you can see it. Your impression of the dwindling light is also an impression of this mind natural to it especially in its periods of darkness; for that matter when the periods of darkness come to any sadhak they always seem darker than before; that is the nature of the darkness, to give that impression always. It is also quite according to the rule of these reactions that it should have come immediately after a considerable progress in bhakti and the will to surrender in the inner being for it comes from the spirit of darkness which attacks the sadhak whenever it can, and that spirit resents fiercely all progress made and hates the very idea of progress and its whole policy is to convince him by its attacks and suggestions that he has made none or that what progress he has made is after all null and inconclusive.   The laws of this world as it is are the laws of the Ignorance and the Divine in the world maintains them so long as there is the Ignoranceif He did not, the universe would crumble to pieces, utsdeyur ime lok, as the Gita puts it. There are also, very naturally, conditions for getting out of the Ignorance into the Light. One of them is that the mind of the sadhak should cooperate with the Truth and that his will should cooperate with the Divine Power which, however slow its action may seem to the vital or to the physical mind, is uplifting the nature towards the Light. When that cooperation is complete, then the progress can be rapid enough; but the sadhak should not grudge the time and labour needed to make that cooperation fully possible to the blindness and weakness of human nature and effective.   --   The unsteadiness you speak of is the nature of the human physical mindalmost everybody has it, for the physical mind goes after all sorts of outward things. To fix the consciousness within, to keep it concentrated on the Divine alone is a great difficulty for all, it is what makes sadhana a thing for which long time and a slow development of the consciousness is usually necessary, at first at any rate. So that need not discourage you. In your inner vital there is Plenty of strong will and deep down in your psychic there is the true aspiration and love which come up when the psychic is active and will eventually possess the whole nature.   ***

1.15 - On incorruptible purity and chastity to which the corruptible attain by toil and sweat., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset   I think that our wretched murderers have the habit of besetting and seducing us poor creatures with sins contrary to nature for the following two reasons: that we may have everywhere Plenty of opportunity to fall, and that we may receive greater punishment. What we have just said, was learnt by personal experience by him who had previously commanded asses and had afterwards been given over to wild asses and pitifully disgraced; and though he had previously been nourished with heavenly bread he was afterwards deprived of this blessing. And what is most astonishing is that even after his repentance, our founder Antony, grieving bitterly, said of him: A great pillar has fallen. But that wise man hid the manner of the fall, for he knew that bodily fornication is possible without intercourse with another body. There is in us a kind of death; there is in us a devastating sin, which is ever borne about with us, but especially in youth. But I have not dared to write about it because my hand is restrained by him who said: the things which are done by them in secret, it is a shame even to speak of, or to write or to hear.4   This my beloved adversary (and yet not mine)the flesh was called death by Paul: Who, says he, will deliver me from this body of death?5 And another theologian6 calls it a passionate, slavish and nocturnal enemy. I used to long to know why it was given such names. If the flesh, as was said above, is death, who ever has conquered it undoubtedly does not die. But who is the man who will live and not see death7 in the impurity of his flesh ?8

1.17 - The Seven-Headed Thought, Swar and the Dashagwas, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   It is when enriched in light and force of thought by the Angirases that Indra completes his victorious journey and reaches the goal on the mountain; "In him our primal fathers, the seven seers, the Navagwas, increase their Plenty, him victorious on his march and breaking through (to the goal), standing on the mountain, inviolate in speech, most luminous-forceful by his thinkings," naks.ad-dabham taturim parvates.t.ham, adroghavacam matibhih. savis.t.ham (VI.22.2). It is by singing the Rik, the hymn of illumination, that they find the solar illuminations in the cave of our being, arcanto7 ga avindan (I.62.2). It is by the stubh, the all-supporting rhythm of the hymn of the seven seers, by the vibrating voice of the Navagwas that Indra becomes full of the power of Swar, svaren.a svaryah. and by the cry of the Dashagwas that he rends Vala in pieces (I.62.4). For this cry is the voice of the higher heaven, the thunder that cries in the lightning-flash of Indra, and the advance of the Angirases on their path is the forward movement of this cry of the heavens, pra brahman.o angiraso naks.anta, pra krandanur nabhanyasya vetu (VII.42.1); for we are told that the voice of Brihaspati the Angirasa discovering the Sun and the Dawn and the Cow and the light of the Word is the thunder of Heaven, br.haspatir us.asam suryam gam, arkam viveda stanayann iva dyauh. (X.67.5). It is by the satya mantra, the true thought expressed in the rhythm of the truth, that the hidden light is found and the Dawn brought to birth, gud.ham jyotih. pitaro anvavindan, satyamantra ajanayann us.asam (VII.76.4). For these are the Angirases who speak aright, ittha vadadbhih. angirobhih. (VI.18.5), masters of the Rik who place perfectly their thought, svadhbhir r.kvabhih. (VI.32.2); they are the sons of heaven, heroes of the Mighty Lord who speak the truth and think the straightness and therefore they are able to hold the seat of illumined knowledge, to mentalise the supreme abode of the sacrifice, r.tam samsanta r.ju ddhyana, divas putraso asurasya vrah.; vipram padam angiraso dadhana, yajnasya dhama prathamam mananta (X.67.2).   Arcati (r.c) in the Veda means to shine and to sing the Rik; arka means sun, light and the Vedic hymn.

1.18 - The Human Fathers, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   The hymn closes with the aspiration of the Vasishthas towards this divine and blissful Dawn as leader of the herds and mistress of Plenty and again as leader of the felicity and the truths   (sunr.tanam). They desire to arrive at the same achievement as the primal seers, the fathers and it would follow that these are the human and not the divine Angirases. In any case the sense of the Angiras legend is fixed in all its details, except the exact identity of the Panis and the hound Sarama, and we can turn to the consideration of the passages in the opening hymns of the fourth Mandala in which the human fathers are explicitly mentioned and their achievement described. These hymns of

1.20 - The End of the Curve of Reason, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   A spiritual or spiritualised anarchism might appear to come nearer to the real solution or at least touch something of it from afar. As it expresses itself at the present day, there is much in it that is exaggerated and imperfect. Its seers seem often to preach an impossible self-abnegation of the vital life and an asceticism which instead of purifying and transforming the vital being, seeks to suppress and even kill it; life itself is impoverished or dried up by this severe austerity in its very springs. Carried away by a high-reaching spirit of revolt, these prophets denounce civilisation as a failure because of its vitalistic exaggerations, but set up an opposite exaggeration which might well cure civilisation of some of its crying faults and uglinesses, but would deprive us also of many real and valuable gains. But apart from these excesses of a too logical thought and a one-sided impulsion, apart from the inability of any ism to express the truth of the spirit which exceeds all such compartments, we seem here to be near to the real way out, to the discovery of the saving motive-force. The solution lies not in the reason, but in the soul of man, in its spiritual tendencies. It is a spiritual, an inner freedom that can alone create a perfect human order. It is a spiritual, a greater than the rational enlightenment that can alone illumine the vital nature of man and impose harmony on its self-seekings, antagonisms and discords. A deeper brotherhood, a yet unfound law of love is the only sure foundation possible for a perfect social evolution, no other can replace it. But this brotherhood and love will not proceed by the vital instincts or the reason where they can be met, baffled or deflected by opposite reasonings and other discordant instincts. Nor will it found itself in the natural heart of man where there are Plenty of other passions to combat it. It is in the soul that it must find its roots; the love which is founded upon a deeper truth of our being, the brotherhood or, let us say,for this is another feeling than any vital or mental sense of brotherhood, a calmer more durable motive-force,the spiritual comradeship which is the expression of an inner realisation of oneness. For so only can egoism disappear and the true individualism of the unique godhead in each man found itself on the true communism of the equal godhead in the race; for the Spirit, the inmost self, the universal Godhead in every being is that whose very nature of diverse oneness it is to realise the perfection of its individual life and nature in the existence of all, in the universal life and nature.   This is a solution to which it may be objected that it puts off the consummation of a better human society to a far-off date in the future evolution of the race. For it means that no machinery invented by the reason can perfect either the individual or the collective man; an inner change is needed in human nature, a change too difficult to be ever effected except by the few. This is not certain; but in any case, if this is not the solution, then there is no solution, if this is not the way, then there is no way for the human kind. Then the terrestrial evolution must pass beyond man as it has passed beyond the animal and a greater race must come that will be capable of the spiritual change, a form of life must be born that is nearer to the divine. After all there is no logical necessity for the conclusion that the change cannot begin at all because its perfection is not immediately possible. A decisive turn of mankind to the spiritual ideal, the beginning of a constant ascent and guidance towards the heights may not be altogether impossible, even if the summits are attainable at first only by the pioneer few and far-off to the tread of the race. And that beginning may mean the descent of an influence that will alter at once the whole life of mankind in its orientation and enlarge for ever, as did the development of his reason and more than any development of the reason, its potentialities and all its structure.

1.2.2 - The Place of Study in Sadhana, #Letters On Yoga IV, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   A well-trained intellect and study are two different things there are Plenty of people who have read much but have not a well-trained intellect. Inertia can come to anybody, even to the most educated people.   ***

1.23 - Improvising a Temple, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy   Next, the Lamp. This may be of silver, or silver-gilt, (to represent the Path of Gimel) and is to be hung from the ceiling exactly above the centre of the altar. There are Plenty of old church lamps which serve very well. The light is to be from a wick in a floating cork in a glass of olive oil. (I hope you can get it!) It is really desirable to make this as near the "Ever-burning Lamp of the Rosicrucians" as possible; it is not a drawback that this implies frequent attention.   Now for the Weapons!   --   The Cup. There are Plenty of chalices to be bought. It should be of silver. If ornamented, the best form is that of the apple. I have seen suitable cups in many shops.   The Sword. The ideal form is shown in the Ace of Swords in the Tarot.

1.23 - The Double Soul in Man, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   8:For, as we now know by psychological observation and experiment that the subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches of things which the surface mind ignores, so also we shall find that the subliminal soul responds to the rasa, or essence in experience, of these things which the surface desire-soul rejects by distaste and refusal or ignores by neutral unacceptance. Self-knowledge is impossible unless we go behind our surface existence, which is a mere result of selective outer experiences, an imperfect sounding-board or a hasty, incompetent and fragmentary translation of a little out of the much that we are, - unless we go behind this and send down our plummet into the subconscient and open ourself to the superconscient so as to know their relation to our surface being. For between these three things our existence moves and finds in them its totality. The superconscient in us is one with the self and soul of the world and is not governed by any phenomenal diversity; it possesses therefore the truth of things and the delight of things in their plenitude. The subconscient, so called,6 in that luminous head of itself which we call the subliminal, is, on the contrary, not a true possessor but an instrument of experience; it is not practically one with the soul and self of the world, but it is open to it through its world-experience. The subliminal soul is conscious inwardly of the rasa of things and has an equal delight in all contacts; it is conscious also of the values and standards of the surface desire-soul and receives on its own surface corresponding touches of pleasure, pain and indifference, but takes an equal delight in all. In other words, our real soul within takes joy of all its experiences, gathers from them strength, pleasure and knowledge, grows by them in its store and its Plenty. It is this real soul in us which compels the shrinking desire-mind to bear and even to seek and find a pleasure in what is painful to it, to reject what is pleasant to it, to modify or even reverse its values, to equalise things in indifference or to equalise them in joy, the joy of the variety of existence. And this it does because it is impelled by the universal to develop itself by all kinds of experience so as to grow in Nature. Otherwise, if we lived only by the surface desire-soul, we could no more change or advance than the plant or stone in whose immobility or in whose routine of existence, because life is not superficially conscious, the secret soul of things has as yet no instrument by which it can rescue the life out of the fixed and narrow gamut into which it is born. The desire-soul left to itself would circle in the same grooves for ever.   9:In the view of old philosophies pleasure and pain are inseparable like intellectual truth and falsehood and power and incapacity and birth and death; therefore the only possible escape from them would be a total indifference, a blank response to the excitations of the world-self. But a subtler psychological knowledge shows us that this view which is based on the surface facts of existence only, does not really exhaust the possibilities of the problem. It is possible by bringing the real soul to the surface to replace the egoistic standards of pleasure and pain by an equal, an all-embracing personal-impersonal delight. The lover of Nature does this when he takes joy in all the things of Nature universally without admitting repulsion or fear or mere liking and disliking, perceiving beauty in that which seems to others mean and insignificant, bare and savage, terrible and repellent. The artist and the poet do it when they seek the rasa of the universal from the aesthetic emotion or from the physical line or from the mental form of beauty or from the inner sense and power alike of that from which the ordinary man turns away and of that to which he is attached by a sense of pleasure. The seeker of knowledge, the God-lover who finds the object of his love everywhere, the spiritual man, the intellectual, the sensuous, the aesthetic all do this in their own fashion and must do it if they would find embracingly the Knowledge, the Beauty, the Joy or the Divinity which they seek. It is only in the parts where the little ego is usually too strong for us, it is only in our emotional or physical joy and suffering, our pleasure and pain of life, before which the desire-soul in us is utterly weak and cowardly, that the application of the divine principle becomes supremely difficult and seems to many impossible or even monstrous and repellent. Here the ignorance of the ego shrinks from the principle of impersonality which it yet applies without too much difficulty in Science, in Art and even in a certain kind of imperfect spiritual living because there the rule of impersonality does not attack those desires cherished by the surface soul and those values of desire fixed by the surface mind in which our outward life is most vitally interested. In the freer and higher movements there is demanded of us only a limited and specialised equality and impersonality proper to a particular field of consciousness and activity while the egoistic basis of our practical life remains to us; in the lower movements the whole foundation of our life has to be changed in order to make room for impersonality, and this the desire-soul finds impossible.

1.240 - Talks 2, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism   O stomach! How difficult it is to get on with you! You cannot starve when no food is available, nor can you take more and keep it in reserve when food is Plenty! You will take only what you want and when you want; thus you are troublesome to me, allowing me no rest.   Sri Bhagavan altered it thus: Stomach addressing the prana: O Prana!

1.24 - The Killing of the Divine King, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism   muttering, "Give us Plenty of cattle." The grave of Zeus, the great   god of Greece, was shown to visitors in Crete as late as about the

1.26 - On discernment of thoughts, passions and virtues, #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset   Stupendous, truly stupendous and incomprehensible is the wickedness of the evil spirits. It is not seen by many, and I think that even those few see it only in part. Thus, how is it that while living in luxury and Plenty we keep vigil and do not sleep, and why while fasting and exhausting ourselves with labours are we pitifully overpowered by drowsiness? Or why does our heart become hard while abiding in silence? And why, while sitting among our companions, do we come to compunction? When we are hungry why are we tempted by dreams? Yet when sated we do not experience these temptations. In poverty we become dark and incapable of compunction; but if we drink wine we are happy and easily come to compunction. He who can do so in the Lord, let him bring light to the unenlightened in this matter. For we are not enlightened about this. At least we can say that such a change does not always come from the demons. And this sometimes happens to me, I know not how,   1 Yet the devil fell from heaven.   --   There are virtues, and there are mothers of virtues. So a wise man strives rather to obtain the latter. The Teacher of the mother-virtues is God Himself through His own action, while there are Plenty of teachers for the daughter-virtues.   Let us beware lest we compensate austerity in taking food by excess of sleep, and vice versa; for such behaviour is characteristic of foolish men.

13.07 - The Inter-Zone, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    Death is carrying away Satyavan, the luminous soul of Satyavan. The Great Shadow is leading the way, Satyavan following and Savitri clinging to his steps. Death saw Savitri pursuing, he turned and tried to dissuade her from the pursuit. Savitri refused to turn back. Death warned her, it was already a wrong and anomalous act that she has done to have crossed over to his sphere in her earthly personal being. It is time now to go back. Savitri answered that she would go back only with Satyavan in his earthly body. Death became impatient and answered: "You ask for the impossible. You want to go back to earth for earthly happiness. You can have that in Plenty without Satyavan. Satyavan has passed beyond and there is no return for him." But Savitri was firm in her resolution:    "I claim back Satyavan as he was, my happiness is with him alone."

1.400 - 1.450 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism   "O stomach! How difficult it is to get on with you! You cannot starve when no food is available, nor can you take more and keep it in reserve when food is Plenty! You will take only what you want and when you want; thus you are troublesome to me, allowing me no rest."   Sri Bhagavan altered it thus: Stomach addressing the prana: "O Prana!

1.44 - Serious Style of A.C., or the Apparent Frivolity of Some of my Remarks, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy   I have Plenty of trouble in life, and often enough I am in low enough spirits to please anybody; but turn my thoughts to Magick the years fall off. I am again the gay, quick, careless boy to whom the world was gracious.   Let this serve for an epitaph: Gray took eleven years; I, less.

1.45 - The Corn-Mother and the Corn-Maiden in Northern Europe, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism   village, and then thrown into the river in order to secure Plenty of   rain and dew for the next year's crop. Or it is burned and the ashes

1.45 - Unserious Conduct of a Pupil, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy   I am not saying that this policy is invariably successful; your judgment may have misled you as to the necessity of the Operation which loomed so large at the moment. And so on; Plenty of room for blunders!   But it is a thousand times better to make every kind of mistake than to slide into the habit of hesitation, of uncertainty, of indecision.

1.46 - Selfishness, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy   Selfishness? I am glad to find you worrying that bone, for it has Plenty of meat on it; fine juicy meat, none of your Chilled Argentine or Canterbury lamb. It is a pelvis, what's more; for in a way the whole structure of the ethics of Thelema is founded upon it. There is some danger here; for the question is a booby trap for the noble, the generous, the high-minded.   "Selflessness," the great characteristic of the Master of the Temple, the very quintessence of his attainment, is not its contradictory, or even its contrary; it is perfectly compatible (nay, shall we say friendly?) with it.   The Book of the Law has Plenty to say on this subject, and it does not mince its words.   "First, text; sermon, next," as the poet says.

1.47 - Lityerses, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism   pass by it, Lityerses gave him Plenty to eat and drink, then took   him to the corn-fields on the banks of the Maeander and compelled

1.48 - The Corn-Spirit as an Animal, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism   song, in which he prays for Plenty. At Kohlerwinkel, near Augsburg,   at the close of the harvest, the last bunch of standing corn is cut

1.52 - Killing the Divine Animal, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism   sticks (_inao_) and Plenty of cakes and wine will be sent with it on   the long journey. One speech of this sort which Mr. Batchelor heard   --   us. You will ask God to send us, for the winter, Plenty of otters   and sables, and for the summer, seals and fish in abundance. Do not

1.53 - The Propitation of Wild Animals By Hunters, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism   them Plenty of its children to sustain their tribe. For this reason   they worshipped sardines in one region, where they killed more of

1.54 - Types of Animal Sacrament, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism   and timber! In Plenty of meat, of bed and body clothes, and health   of men may it ever abound!" Then each of the party singed in the

1.62 - The Fire-Festivals of Europe, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism   in the fowls' nests, in order that the hens may lay Plenty of eggs   throughout the year. When all these ceremonies have been performed,   --   and milk; and bring besides the ingredients of the caudle, Plenty of   beer and whisky; for each of the company must contri bute something.

1.64 - The Burning of Human Beings in the Fires, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism   make sure that, for a time at least, vegetation shall have Plenty of   sun. It may be objected that, if the intention is simply to secure

1.65 - Balder and the Mistletoe, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism   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

1.66 - Vampires, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy   Be that as it may, I once knew a lady of some seventy summers. She came of a noble Polish family; she was short, sturdy, rather plump but singularly agile; good-looking in a brutal sort of way. But her eyes! For fifty years she had lived nearly all the year round in her chateau in Touraine. She had Plenty of money, and had always surrounded her- self with a dozen or more boys and young men. (By young I mean up to forty). She not only looked twenty-five but she lived twenty-five. It was a genuine, natural, spontaneous twenty-five, not a gallant effort. She would dance the night through and go a long walk in the morning. You may apply to her for details of the treatment; I dare say she is still about, thought I did hear that she moved to South America when she saw 1914 coming. In any case, you have had some fairly plain hints so I can say in all simplicity, "Go thou and do likewise!"   I think my old friend Claude Farrre had more than an inkling of these matters; the idea of using young cellular tissue to fortify the old is plainly stated in La maison des hommes vivants; but as to the method of transmission his water was drawn form Wells (H.G.)

17.01 - Hymn to Dawn, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    O Goddess of Plenty: you are there for our wide    enjoyment, for our right impulsion, for our felicity.   --    even so, O Queen of Plenty, manifest all this here today.    And may she appear also in days to come:   --    Appear this day, O Goddess of Plenty, to him who expresses    Thee, in me illumine a life rich with its fruitfulness. [17]

1.80 - Life a Gamble, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy   What's more, he must leave it at that; he must not insult Them by constantly looking out for extra safeguards, or "hedging." (You remember the Major in The Suicide Club when Prince Florizel was picking seconds for a duel? "In all my life I never so much as hedged a bet.") You must give Them Plenty of opportunity to show Their approval by steering you miraculously through one crisis after another.   This course of conduct may seem to you a little like the "Act of Truth" but this is only superficially the case. The latter is usually an emergency measure, and either not particularly serious or as serious as anything can be. But what I have said above amounts really to a regular Rule of Life.

1951-04-19 - Demands and needs - human nature - Abolishing the ego - Food- tamas, consecration - Changing the nature- the vital and the mind - The yoga of the body - cellular consciousness, #Questions And Answers 1950-1951, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    Once you have decided upon this, once you are quite conscious that things are like that and that the goal is worth the trouble of a constant and sustained effort, you may begin. Otherwise, after a time you will fall flat; you will get discouraged, you will tell yourself, Oh! It is very difficultdo it and then it is undone, I do it again and it is once again undone, and then I do it again and it is perpetually undone. Then what? When will I get there One must have Plenty of patience. The work may be undone a hundred times, you will do it again a hundred and one times; it may be undone a thousand times, you will re-do it a thousand and one times, until finally it is no longer undone. And finally it is no longer undone.    Only, you see, if one were made all of a piece, it would be very easy, but one is made of many pieces. Then, there is one piece which is ahead, which has worked hard, is very conscious, altogether awake, and when it is there, all goes well, one does not allow anything to enter, one is on ones guard, and thenone goes to sleep and the next day when one gets up it is another part which is there and one tells oneself, But where then is all the work I had done. And one must begin all over again. Begin all over again until all the parts, one after another, enter the field of consciousness and each one can be changed. And when you reach the end of your tether, there is a change, you have made progressafterwards, you must make another, but still that one is made. But it is completely made only when all the pieces of the being are brought like that, one after another, to the front, and upon all without exception you have impressed the consciousness, the light, the will and the goal, in such a way that everything changes.

1953-04-29, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    The reason for this is very generous and kind (according to them): People who have a tiny brain and there are Plentyif we tell them something thats too high, too great, it troubles them, disturbs them, and they become unhappy. They will never be able to understand. Why worry them uselessly? They dont have the capacity to find the truth. Whilst, if you tell them: If you have faith in this, you will go to heaven, they are quite happy. There, you see. It is very convenient. That is why it is perpetuated, otherwise there would be no religions.    I am not telling you this to encourage one particular religion rather than another. But this is a procedure that seems generous. Otherwise there would be no religions; there would be masters and disciples, people who have a higher teaching and an exceptional experience. That would be a very good thing. But as soon as the master is gone, what happens is that the knowledge he gave is changed into a religion. Rigid dogmas are established, religious rules come into being and one cannot but bow down before the Tables of the Law. Yet at the beginning it was not like that. You are told: This is true, this is false, the Master has said. Some time later the master becomes a god, and you are told: God has said this.

1953-09-09, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    Naturally it is very difficult to establish a constant contact between the most external physical consciousness and the psychic consciousness, and oh! the physical consciousness has Plenty of goodwill; it is very regular, it tries a great deal, but it is slow and heavy, it takes long, it is difficult to move it. It does not get tired, but it makes no effort; it goes its way, quietly. It can take centuries to put the external consciousness in contact with the psychic. But for some reason or other the vital takes a hand in it. A passion seizes it. It wants this contact (for some reason or other, which is not always a spiritual reason), but it wants this contact. It wants it with all its energy, all its strength, all its passion, all its fervour: in three months the thing is done.    So then, take great care of it. Treat it with great consideration but never submit to it. For it will drag you into all kinds of troublesome and untoward experiments; and if you succeed in convincing it in some way or other, then you will advance with giant strides on the path.

1954-09-29 - The right spirit - The Divine comes first - Finding the Divine - Mistakes - Rejecting impulses - Making the consciousness vast - Firm resolution, #Questions And Answers 1954, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   But for ordinary things, as for example, giving way before an impulse or refusing it, it is not a space, not even the space of a second; one has Plenty of time before him, one certainly has several minutes. And it is a choice between weak submission and a controlling will. And if the will is clear, if it is based on truth, if truly it obeys the truth and is clear, it always has the power to refuse the wrong movement. It is an excuse you give yourself when you say, I could not. It is not true. It is that truly you have not wanted it in the right way. For there is always the choice between saying yes and saying no. But one chooses to be weak and later gives oneself this excuse, saying, It is not my fault; it was stronger than I. It is your fault if the thing was stronger than you. Because you are not these impulses, you are a conscious soul and an intelligent will, and your duty is to see that this is what governs you and not the impulses from below.   Sweet Mother, is truth in thought the same thing as purity in thought?

1955-02-16 - Losing something given by Mother - Using things well - Sadhak collecting soap-pieces - What things are truly indispensable - Natures harmonious arrangement - Riches a curse, philanthropy - Misuse of things creates misery, #Questions And Answers 1955, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   There are people who have nothing, who dont even have the things which are absolutely indispensable, and who are compelled to make them in some way for their personal use. I have seen people of this kind who, with much effort and ingenuity had managed to make for themselves certain things which are more or less indispensable from the practical point of view. But the way they treated them, because they were aware of the effort they had put in to make them, was remarkable the care, that kind of respect for the object they had produced, because they knew how much labour it had cost them. But people who have Plenty of money in their pockets, and when they need something turn the knob of a shop-door, enter and put down the money and take the thing, they treat it like that. They harm themselves and give a very bad example.   Many a time I say, No, use what you have. Try to make the best possible use of it. Dont throw away things uselessly, dont ask uselessly. Try to do with what you have, putting into it all the care, all the order, all the necessary method, and avoiding confusion.

1958-08-27 - Meditation and imagination - From thought to idea, from idea to principle, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   Of course, if after having imagined that you are in front of a door which is opening, you thought that it was really a physical door inside your body, that would be a mistake! But if you realise that it is the mental form taken by your effort of concentration, this is quite correct. If you go wandering in the mental world, you will see Plenty of forms like that, all kinds of forms, which have no material reality but truly exist in the mental world.   You cannot think powerfully of something without your thought taking a form. But if you were to believe that this form was physical, that would obviously be an error, yet it really does exist in the mental world.

1962 01 12, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    From the point of view of thought it is elementary, very easy. And even from the point of view of feelings, it is not difficult; for the heart, that is, the emotional being, to widen itself to the dimension of the Supreme is relatively easy. But the body! It is very difficult, very difficult without the body losinghow to put it?its centre of coagulation; without it dissolving into the surrounding mass. And even then, if one were in the midst of Nature with mountains, forests and rivers, and great natural beauty, Plenty of space, it would be rather pleasant! But one cannot take a single step materially, out of ones body, without coming across things that are painful. It occasionally happens that one comes in contact with a substance that is pleasing, harmonious, warm, that vibrates with a higher light. But this is rare. Yes, flowers, sometimes flowers sometimes, not always. But this material world, oh! You get knocked everywherescratched, scratched, scraped, knocked by all kinds of things that wont unfold. Oh, how difficult it is! How little human life has blossomed! It is shrivelled up, hardened, without light, without warmthto say nothing of joy.    But sometimes, when one sees flowing water or a ray of sunlight in the treesoh, everything sings, the cells sing, they are happy.

1969 08 31 - 141, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga    141Nietzsche saw the superman as the lion-soul passing out of camel-hood, but the true heraldic device and token of the superman is the lion seated upon the camel which stands upon the cow of Plenty. If thou canst not be the slave of all mankind, thou art not fit to be its master and if thou canst not make thy nature as Vasishthas cow of Plenty with all mankind to draw its wish from her udders, what avails thy leonine supermanhood?    To be the slave of all mankind means to be ready to serve mankind; and to make oneself as the cow of Plenty means to be able to pour forth abundantly all the force, the light, the power that mankind needs in order to emerge from its ignorance and incapacity; for if this were not so, a superhuman being would be a burden rather than a help to earth.    31 August 1969

1.anon - But little better, #Anonymous - Poems, #unset, #Zen   "He, who is possessed of Plenty, and is miserly with his   great wealth toward his people, will be dispensed with,

1f.lovecraft - Herbert West-Reanimator, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    needs, their frequent clashes and stabbing affrays gave us Plenty to    do. But what actually absorbed our minds was the secret laboratory we

1f.lovecraft - In the Walls of Eryx, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    continuation of the one I had been traversing. There would be Plenty of    time to examine the branches after I had reached and returned from the

1f.lovecraft - Medusas Coil, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    told you about that side of her, but I can assure you theres Plenty of    it. She has some marvellous links with the outside. . . .

1f.lovecraft - Pickmans Model, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    You neednt think Im crazy, EliotPlenty of others have queerer    prejudices than this. Why dont you laugh at Olivers grandfather, who   --    dont need to hold a clinic over it. Theres Plenty of reason, God    knows, and I fancy Im lucky to be sane at all. Why the third degree?

1f.lovecraft - The Ghost-Eater, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    night through some miscalculation, I had Plenty of camping experience    to fall back on. Besides, my presence at my destination was not really   --    waiting on yourself. If youre hungry youll find Plenty in the    kitchenPlenty of food, if not of ceremony! It seemed to me that I    could detect the slightest trace of a foreign accent in his tone,

1f.lovecraft - The Last Test, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    month! You work too fast. Youve Plenty of specimens in the cages for a    full week if youll only go at a sensible rate. You might even begin on   --    you must have seen Plenty of unmaskings before. I tell you, I never had    even the start of a fever cure. But my studies had taken me into some   --    couldnt live or think unless I had Plenty to watch. Thats why I    jabbed everything in sight with the accursed hollow needle. Animals,

1f.lovecraft - The Man of Stone, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    But he works slow like all sly, polished dogs, and Ive got Plenty of    time to think up what to do about it. They dont either of them know I   --    to break up a Van Kaurans home. I promise them Plenty of novelty in    what Ill do.   --    Montreal. Plenty of time later to experiment. When everything is over    Ill round up all the statues and sell them as Wheelers work to pay   --    are Plenty of other ways to fall back on. But I would like to carry    this neat statue plan through! Went to the cave this morning and all is

1f.lovecraft - The Mound, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    Plenty. Go off and make new lodges. Me them. You them. Then big waters    come. All change. Nobody come out, let nobody in. Get in, no get out.   --    Injun legends around here. Weve Plenty to keep you busy, heaven    knows!   --    You good boyyou no bother that hill. Bad medicine. Plenty devil under    therecatchum when you dig. No dig, no hurt. Go and dig, no come back.   --    Bring Plenty gold. Me them. You them. Then big waters come. All change.    Nobody come out, let nobody in. Get in, no get out. They no dieno get

1f.lovecraft - The Rats in the Walls, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    was Plenty to engross us close at hand, for we had not gone far before    the searchlights shewed that accursed infinity of pits in which the

1f.lovecraft - The Shadow over Innsmouth, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    fish in Plenty even when the very next islands had lean pickins. Matt    he got to wonderin too, an so did Capn Obed. Obed he notices,   --    Plenty o fishthey druv em in from all over the seaan a few    gold-like things naow an then.   --    mebbe git a holt o sarten paowers as ud bring Plenty o fish an quite    a bit o gold. O course them as sarved on the Sumatry Queen an seed   --    Plenty on em, seein what questions ye aststories abaout things    theyve seed naow an then, an abaout that queer joolry as still comes   --    knew, be Plenty of deserted doorways to shelter me in case I met any    person or group who looked like pursuers.

1f.lovecraft - The Whisperer in Darkness, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    by their civilisation, they would find Plenty of adjustable    faculty-instruments capable of being connected with the encased brains;

1f.lovecraft - Winged Death, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen    medical college. But my work is not hard, and I have always had Plenty    of time to plan things to do to Henry Moore. It amuses me to give his   --    with Plenty of assurances that they are harmless. Trust him to throw    overboard all caution when it comes to studying an unknown speciesand   --    We can get them to Mgonga without trouble. Taking Plenty of crocodile    meat for their food. Undoubtedly all or most of it is infected.

1.jk - Hyperion, A Vision - Attempted Reconstruction Of The Poem, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry   Still was more Plenty than the fabled horn   Thrice emptied could pour forth at banqueting,

1.jk - Lines Rhymed In A Letter From Oxford, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry     There are Plenty of trees,     And Plenty of ease,   And Plenty of fat deer for Parsons;     And when it is venison,

1.jk - The Cap And Bells; Or, The Jealousies - A Faery Tale .. Unfinished, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry   Plenty of posies, great stags, butterflies   Bigger than stags,-- a moon,-- with other mysteries.   --   A Plenty horn of jewels. And here I   (Who wish to give the devil her due) declare

1.pbs - HERE I sit with my paper, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction   and Plenty,   Three score and a thousand, two

1.pbs - Ode To Naples, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction   Bid the Earths Plenty kill!   Bid thy bright Heaven above,

1.pbs - Oedipus Tyrannus or Swellfoot The Tyrant, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction   To include religion, morals, peace, and Plenty,   And all that fit Boeotia as a nation

1.pbs - Queen Mab - Part IV., #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction    Earth's lap with Plenty, and life's smallest chord    Strung to unchanging unison, that gave

1.pbs - The Devils Walk. A Ballad, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction   How vast his stock of calf! when Plenty   Had filled his empty head and heart,

1.rb - Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church, Rome, The, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry     There's Plenty jasper somewhere in the world     And have I not Saint Praxed's ear to pray

1.rb - Cristina, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry   There are Plenty men, you call such,    I suppose she may discover

1.rb - Introduction: Pippa Passes, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry   Make general Plenty cure particular dearth,   Get more joy one way, if another, less:

1.rb - Love Among The Ruins, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry   And such Plenty and perfection, see, of grass    Never was!

1.rb - Pippa Passes - Part III - Evening, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry   Then would come pains in Plenty, as you guess   But guess not how the qualities most fit

1.rb - Sordello - Book the Fifth, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry   Craves aliment in Plentyall the same,   Changes, assimilates its aliment.

1.rb - Sordello - Book the Second, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry   Conceits upon in Plenty as he passed,   That Naddo might suppose him not to think   --   "The rough fat sloven; and there 's Plenty hint   "Your pinions have received of late a shock

1.rb - Sordello - Book the Sixth, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry   "The Parts were more than Plenty, once attained   "The Whole, to quite exhaust it: nought were gained   --   To do, there's Plenty to be done, or ill   Or good. Anointed, then, to rend and rip

1.rb - The Flight Of The Duchess, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry   And here was Plenty to be done,   And she that could do it, great or small,

1.rb - The Twins, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry   ``Poor, who had Plenty once,    ``When gifts fell thick as rain:

1.rwe - Alphonso Of Castile, #Emerson - Poems, #Ralph Waldo Emerson, #Philosophy   Teach your pupils now with Plenty,   For one sun supply us twenty:

1.tm - A Practical Program for Monks, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction    Original Language English 1 Each one shall sit at table with his own cup and spoon, and with his own repentance. Each one's own business shall be his most important affair, and provide his own remedies. They have neglected bowl and plate. Have you a wooden fork? Yes, each monk has a wooden fork as well as a potato. 2 Each one shall wipe away tears with his own saint, when three bells hold in store a hot afternoon. Each one is supposed to mind his own heart, with its conscience, night and morning. Another turn on the wheel: ho hum! And observe the Abbot! Time to go to bed in a straw blanket. 3 Plenty of bread for everyone between prayers and the psalter: will you recite another? Merci, and Miserere. Always mind both the clock and the Abbot until eternity. Miserere. 4 Details of the Rule are all liquid and solid. What canon was the first to announce regimentation before us? Mind the step on the way down! Yes, I dare say you are right, Father. I believe you; I believe you. I believe it is easier when they have ice water and even a lemon. Each one can sit at table with his own lemon, and mind his own conscience. 5 Can we agree that the part about the lemon is regular? In any case, it is better to have sheep than peacocks, and cows rather than a chained leopard says Modest, in one of his proverbs. The monastery, being owner of a communal rowboat, is the antechamber of heaven. Surely that ought to be enough. 6 Each one can have some rain after Vespers on a hot afternoon, but ne quid nimis, or the purpose of the Order will be forgotten. We shall send you hyacinths and a sweet millennium. Everything the monastery provides is very pleasant to see and to sell for nothing. What is baked smells fine. There is a sign of God on every leaf that nobody sees in the garden. The fruit trees are there on purpose, even when no one is looking. Just put the apples in the basket. In Kentucky there is also room for a little cheese. Each one shall fold his own napkin, and neglect the others. 7 Rain is always very silent in the night, under such gentle cathedrals. Yes, I have taken care of the lamp, Miserere. Have you a patron saint, and an angel? Thank you. Even though the nights are never dangerous, I have one of everything. [1499.jpg] -- from Selected Poems of Thomas Merton, by Thomas Merton <

1.wby - A Prayer For My Daughter, #Yeats - Poems, #William Butler Yeats, #Poetry   Whereby the Horn of Plenty is undone.   In courtesy I'd have her chiefly learned;   --   Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn,   Because of her opinionated mind

1.whitman - A Carol Of Harvest For 1867, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen    Thou, bathed, choked, swimming in Plenty!    Thou lucky Mistress of the tranquil barns!

1.whitman - From Pent-up Aching Rivers, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen   From Plenty of persons near, and yet the right person not near;   From the soft sliding of hands over me, and thrusting of fingers

1.whitman - Myself And Mine, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen   (There will always be Plenty of embroiderersI welcome them also   But for the fibre of things, and for inherent men and women.

1.whitman - Song of Myself, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen   Leaving me baskets cover'd with white towels swelling the house with their Plenty,   Shall I postpone my acceptation and realization and scream at my eyes,   --   Breathe the air but leave Plenty after me,   And am not stuck up, and am in my place.   --   We sail the arctic sea, it is Plenty light enough,   Through the clear atmosphere I stretch around on the wonderful beauty,   --   I am not to be denied, I compel, I have stores Plenty and to spare,   And any thing I have I bestow.

1.whitman - Song Of Myself- III, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen   with their Plenty,   Shall I postpone my acceptation and realization and scream at my

1.whitman - Song Of Myself- XL, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen   I am not to be denied, I compel, I have stores Plenty and to spare,   And any thing I have I bestow.

1.whitman - Song Of Myself- XVI, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen   Breathe the air but leave Plenty after me,   And am not stuck up, and am in my place.

1.whitman - Song Of Myself- XXXIII, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen   We sail the arctic sea, it is Plenty light enough,   Through the clear atmosphere I stretch around on the wonderful beauty,

1.ww - 3 - I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, #Song of Myself, #unset, #Zen    Original Language English I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk of the beginning or the end. There was never any more inception than there is now, Nor any more youth or age than there is now, And will never be any more perfection than there is now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now. Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant urge of the world. Out of the dimness opposite equals advance, always substance and increase, always sex, Always a knit of identity, always distinction, always a breed of life. To elaborate is no avail, learned and unlearned feel that it is so. Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well entreatied, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery here we stand. Clear and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul. Lack one lacks both, and the unseen is proved by the seen, That that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn. Showing the best and dividing it from the worst age vexes age, Knowing the perfect fitness and equanimity of things, while they discuss I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself. Welcome is every organ and attribute of me, and of any man hearty and clean, Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile, and none shall be less familiar than the rest. I am satisfied -- I see, dance, laugh, sing; As the hugging and loving bedfellow sleeps at my side through the night, and withdraws at the peep of the day with stealthy tread, Leaving me baskets covered with white towels swelling the house with their Plenty, Shall I postpone my acceptation and realization and scream at my eyes, That they turn from gazing after and down the road, And forthwith cipher and show me to a cent, Exactly the value of one and exactly the value of two, and which is ahead? [2333.jpg] -- from Song of Myself, by Walt Whitman <

1.ww - The Excursion- II- Book First- The Wanderer, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen   Had filled with Plenty, and possessed in peace,   This lonely Cottage. At the door he stood,

1.ww - The Excursion- V- Book Fouth- Despondency Corrected, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen   In sober Plenty; when the spirit stoops   To drink with gratitude the crystal stream

1.ww - The Farmer Of Tilsbury Vale, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen   The Genius of Plenty preserved him from harm:           At length, what to most is a season of sorrow,

1.ww - The Horn Of Egremont Castle, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen   With Plenty was his table spread;   And bright the Lady is who shares his bed.

2.01 - Mandala One, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   (8) Drinking of this, O thou of the hundred works, thou becamest a slayer of the Coverers and thou hast protected the man of plenitude in his Plenty.   (9) So we replenish thee in the plenitude of thy plenitude of the Plenty, O Indra of the hundred works, for the winning of the Riches.   (10) He who is a great continent of riches and takes us easily over, a friend of the offerer of the wine, to that Indra sing.   --   (9) Indra has unwasting prosperities and shall get me this thousandfold Plenty in which are all masculine strengths.   (10) O Indra who hast joy of speech, let not those who are mortal harm our bodies. Thou art the lord, ward off the stroke.   --   (6) Stand on high for the expansion of our being, in firm Plenty of substance, O Shatakratu; may we express it also in other gods.   (7) O friends, we call for our expansions on Indra who grows fuller of force in every getting of fresh being and in every holding of substance gained.   --   (1) O greaten well this Ram who discovers the sun-world. His hundred powers perfect in birth speed together on the way. Indra may I set travelling to me for my increase by my clear cuttings of speech like a galloping horse of Plenty and a swiftly arriving chariot.   (2) He is like a mountain and unfallen in his upholdings. He brings a hundredfold thriving and increases in his strengths, when he has slain Vitra the Coverer where he covers with his siege the Waters and forces downward the streams rejoicing in his nectar food.   --   (9) A song has been made for thee, O Indra, by the Gautamas, and the sacred words spoken towards thee with thy two bright horses; bring us Plenty of thy riches in a beautiful form. At dawn may he quickly come rich with thought.   ***   --   (6) The Maruts, great givers who are born to us in the coming of knowledge, feed the waters and make them a milk full of the brightness of clarified butter and lead about the master of Plenty like a galloping horse that he may rain his bounty and milk the loud unwasting fountain.   (7) Great ones, full of creative knowledge and rich with manifold lustres, moving swiftly, strong in your own strength like hills, Maruts, you devour like the trunked beasts the pleasant woods of earth when you have yoked your strength to the ruddy herd of the lightnings.   --   (13) Soon that mortal whom ye have cherished, O Maruts, takes his place in might above all men. He gets with his war-horses and his strong ones wealth and Plenty and dwells in a wise will that meets the question and increases.   (14) Put in the masters of riches, O ye Maruts, a luminous strength active in works and hard to wound in the battles and may we increase for a hundred winters the Son and offspring of our body who is all-seeing and sung by the word and the []   --   (1) Indra, the Slayer of the Enemy,1 has increased by his men2 for the intoxication, for the puissance and him we call in the great courses of battle and him in the little. May he foster us in the fullnesses of Plenty.3   (2) O Hero, thou art our Lord of hosts4 and thou art the giver over to us of the much, and thou art the increaser even of the little;5 and for the sacrificer who offers the Soma-wine thou bringest out (givest) thy much substance.   --     S. May he protect us in battles. The hymn is rather for increase of wealth than protection. besides does not mean battle; there is not a single passage of the Veda which compels this sense. S. takes it usually food, sometimes strength. But numerous passages can be quoted in which it is equivalent to dhana and this meaning gives good sense everywhere. I render it consistently by Plenty or plenitude.     Senyah. S. equal to an army.   --   (16) Yea, nourish thyself in us, let strong abundance come together to thee from all things and do thou become in the meeting-place of that Plenty.   (17) Grow full in us with all thy rays, O Soma of the complete ecstasy; be in us full of perfect inspirations that we may grow.   --   (8) O Dawn, may I enjoy a victorious and energetic felicity, delivered from the Enemy, perceptively received in the nervous powers, thou who shinest wide by an inspiration perfect in activity giving birth to richnesses,O blissful one, to a Plenty vast.   (9) Divine she beholds all the worlds, wide shines her vision and she gazes straight at things; she awakens every living soul for action and finds the Word for all that aspires to mind.   --   (13) O Dawn with thy energy of Plenty, bring to us that varied richness whereby we can found our creation and our extending.   (14) Here and today, O Dawn of the radiant herds, Dawn of the forceful steeds, Dawn of the wide illumination, shine out upon us with ecstasy, O Lady of the Truths.   (15) O Dawn, energy of the Plenty, yoke today thy steeds of red activity, then bring to us all enjoyable things.   (16) Ye,Obounteous Aswins, drivers of the Steed, with one mind direct your downward car along the path of the luminous rays, the path of the golden Light.   --   (19) Let Indra be ever our spokesman so that unturned to crookedness we may conquer heavens Plenty. This let Mitra and Varuna and the Mother Infinite magnify in me and the great River and Earth and Heaven.   ***   --   (11) May we be the guardians of the strength that is hymned by the Life-Gods and by Indra get us heavens Plenty. This let Mitra and Varuna and the Mother Infinite magnify to me and the great River and Earth and Heaven.   ***   --   (11) Let Indra be ever our spokesman so that unturned to crookedness we may get for ourselves heavens Plenty. This let Mitra and Varuna and the Mother Infinite magnify in me and the great River and Earth and Heaven.   ***   --   (4) I make richer here with my Plenty the master of Plenty who gives his self-expression to man. Our desire goes to Pushan the Increaser with his happinesses in whom the heroes have their dwelling place. O bountiful Vasus, carry us beyond out of all the evil like a chariot out of a difficult place.   (5) O Brihaspati, ever make easy the road of our journeying who yearn for that peace and bliss of thy strength which is set in thinking man. Carry us beyond out of all the evil like a chariot from a difficult place.   --   (6) Come, let us pour out the thinking mind by knowledge to the strong ones of the Air as if clarified butter with a ladle. The Ribhus who have fixed their abodes, crossing beyond Father Heaven, climbed to the Plenty of the luminous middle world.   (7) Indra in his puissance is even to us a newer Ribhu and Ribhu joined with Vajas, lords of the Plenty, and the Vasus, masters of riches, and giver of substance. O ye gods, by your fostering power may we assail in your cherished Day the armies of the powers who give not the nectar wine.   (8) The Ribhus pressed into shape the Cow of Light out of her skin and joined the Mother with the child. O children of Sudhanwan, in your desire of perfect works you made our aged Father and Mother young again.   (9) Increase us by the Vajas, lords of the Plenty, in the winning of Plenty; O Indra with the Ribhus, tear for us from its hiding place our rich felicity. This let Mitra and Varuna and the Mother Infinite magnify in me and the Great River and Earth and Heaven.   ***

2.01 - On Books, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen    Sri Aurobindo: That is mere moralising. If Caesar and Napoleon are not to be admired then it means that human capacity and attainment are not to be admired. They are not to be admired because they were successful; Plenty of successful people are not admired. Caesar is admired because it was he who founded the greatness of imperial Rome which is one of the greatest periods of human civilization; and Napoleon because he was a great organiser who stabilised the Revolution. He organised France and through France Europe. Are not his immense powers and abilities great?    Disciple: I suppose men admire them because they find in them the realisation of their own potential greatness.

2.01 - The Tavern, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction   We come out of the darkness, no, we enter; outside there is darkness, here something can be seen amid the smoke; the light is smoky, perhaps from candles, but colors can be seen, yellows, blues, on the white, on the table, colored patches, reds, also greens, with black outlines, drawings on white rectangles scattered over the table. There are some clubs, thick branches, trunks, leaves, as outside, before, some swords slashing at us, among the leaves, the ambushes in the darkness where we were lost; luckily we saw a light in the end, a door; there are some gold coins that shine, some cups, this table arrayed with glasses and plates, bowls of steaming soup, tarikards of wine; we are safe but still half-dead with fright; we can tell about it, we would have Plenty to tell, each would like to tell the others what happened to him, what he was forced to see, with his own eyes in the darkness, in the silence; here now there is noise, how can I make myself heard, I cannot hear my voice, my voice refuses to emerge from my throat, I have no voice, I do not hear the others' voices either; noises are heard, I am not deaf after all, I hear bowls scraped, flasks uncorked, a clatter of spoons, chewing, belching; I make gestures to say I have lost the power of speech, the others are making the same gestures, they are dumb, we have all become mute, in the forest; all of us are around this table, men and women, dressed well or poorly, frightened, indeed frightful to see, all with white hair, young and old; I too look at my reflection in one of these mirrors, these cards, my hair too has turned white in sudden fear.   How can I tell about it now that I have lost my power of speech, words, perhaps also memory, how can I tell what was there outside; and once I have remembered, how can I find the words to say it, and how can I utter those words? We are all trying to explain something to the others with gestures, grimaces, all of us like monkeys. Thank God, there are these cards, here on the table, a deck of tarots, the most ordinary kind, the Marseilles tarots as they are called, also known as Bergamasque, or Neapolitan, or Piedmontese, call them what you wish, if they are not the same, they are very like those in village taverns, in gypsy women's laps, crudely drawn, coarse, but with unexpected details, not really so easy to understand, as if the person who carved these drawings in wood, to print them, had traced them with his clumsy hands from complex models, refined, with who knows what perfectly studied features, and then he went at them with his chisel, haphazardly, not even bothering to understand what he was copying, and afterward he smeared the wooden blocks with ink, and that was that.

2.03 - On Medicine, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen    Sri Aurobindo: Probably because they are Socialists. But they are getting disillusioned. Plenty of French workers went to Russia and came back disappointed. The same thing had happened when democracy had come. People thought there would be Plenty of liberty, but they found it was a delusion.    Disciple: But formerly they were serving the Emperor and now they serve their own people.

2.04 - Agni, the Illumined Will, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   4. May this strongest of the Powers and devourer of the destroyers manifest2 by his presence the Words and their understanding, and may they who in their extension are lords of plenitude brightest in energy pour forth their Plenty and give their impulsion to the thought.   5. Thus has Agni possessed of the Truth been affirmed by the masters of light,3 the knower of the worlds by clarified minds. He shall foster in them the force of illumination, he too the Plenty; he shall attain to increase and to harmony by his perceptions.   COMMENTARY   --   Therefore is he the priest of the offering, strongest or most apt for sacrifice, he who, all-powerful, follows always the law of the Truth. We must remember that the oblation (havya) signifies always action (karma) and each action of mind or body is regarded as a giving of our Plenty into the cosmic being and the cosmic intention. Agni, the divine Will, is that which stands behind the human will in its works. In the conscient offering, he comes in front; he is the priest set in front (puro-hita), guides the oblation and determines its effectiveness.   By this self-guided Truth, by this knowledge that works out as an unerring Will in the Cosmos, he fashions the gods in mortals. Agni manifests divine potentialities in a death-besieged body; Agni brings them to effective actuality and perfection. He creates in us the luminous forms of the Immortals.   --    brilliant energies. Let them create their Plenty in us, pouring it forth from the secret places of our being so as to be utilisable in its daylight tracts and let their impulsions urge upward the divinising thought in Mind, till it transfigures itself in the supreme lustres.   The hymn closes. Thus, in inspired words, has the divine   --   Agni is Jatavedas, knower of the births, the worlds. He knows entirely the five worlds8 and is not confined in his consciousness to this limited and dependent physical harmony. He has access even to the three highest states9 of all, to the udder of the mystic Cow,10 the abundance of the Bull11 with the four horns. From that abundance he will foster the illumination in these Aryan seekers, swell the Plenty of their divine faculties. By that fullness and Plenty of his illumined perceptions he will unite thought with thought, word with word, till the human Intelligence is rich and harmonious enough to support and become the divine Idea.   The worlds in which, respectively, Matter, Life-Energy, Mind, Truth and Beatitude are the essential energies. They are called respectively Bhur, Bhuvar, Swar, Mahas and

2.05 - On Poetry, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen    Sri Aurobindo: Plenty of people have written it. But this is dactylic hexameter, the metre in which the epics of Homer and Virgil are written. It has a very fine movement and is very suitable for the epic. I have tried it and X and Y have seen and considered it a success. I remember just a few lines:    Old and alone he arrived, insignificant, feeblest of mortals,

2.06 - On Beauty, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen    Sri Aurobindo: Why? The Romans conquered the world in their togas. Plenty of Indian women work with saris on. When this craze for utility that is the modern tendency comes, beauty dies; people now look at everything from the point of utility as if beauty were nothing.    Disciple: But beauty and utility can be combined, I believe. I have found at any rate, that the European dress for men gives one a push for work and activity, while the Indian dhoti gives lethargy and a sense of ease.    Sri Aurobindo: That does not prevent the European dress from being ugly. I have seen Plenty of people leading an active life with the dhoti. The most utilitarian dress is shorts and a shirt.    Disciple: But nowadays European ladies have made many innovations, they go about in shorts without stockings.

2.06 - Works Devotion and Knowledge, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   It is he that burns in the heat of the sun and the flame; it is he who is the Plenty of the rain and its withholding; he is all this physical Nature and her workings. Death is his mask and immortality is his self-revelation. All that we call existent is he and all that we look upon as non-existent still is there secret in the Infinite and is part of the mysterious being of the Ineffable.6   Nothing but the highest knowledge and adoration, no other way than an entire self-giving and surrender to this Highest who is all, will bring us to the Highest. Other religion, other worship, other knowledge, other seeking has always its fruits, but these are transient and limited to the enjoyment of divine symbols and appearances. There are always open for our following according to the balance of our mentality an outer and an inmost knowledge, an outer and an inmost seeking. Outward religion is the worship of an outward deity and the pursuit of an external beatitude: its devotees purify their conduct from sin and attain

2.07 - The Mother Relations with Others, #Words Of The Mother I, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga     What a strange idea! There are Plenty of things and actions that     I find bad and that I do not admire at all.

2.08 - God in Power of Becoming, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga    among the elephants, among the birds Garuda, Vasuki the snakegod among the serpents, Kamadhuk the cow of Plenty among cattle, the alligator among fishes, the lion among the beasts of the forest. I am Margasirsha, first of the months; I am spring, the fairest of the seasons.   In living beings, the Godhead tells Arjuna, I am consciousness by which they are aware of themselves and their surroundings. I am mind among the senses, mind by which they receive the impressions of objects and react upon them. I am man's qualities of mind and character and body and action; I am glory and speech and memory and intelligence and steadfastness and forgiveness, the energy of the energetic and the strength of the mighty. I am resolution and perseverance and victory, I am the sattwic quality of the good, I am the gambling of the cunning; I am the mastery and power of all who rule and tame and vanquish and the policy of all who succeed and conquer; I am the silence of things secret, the knowledge of the knower, the logic of those who debate. I am the letter A among letters, the dual among compounds, the sacred syllable OM among words, the Gayatri among metres, the Sama-veda among the Vedas and the great

2.09 - On Sadhana, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen    Sri Aurobindo: It is not a question of your 'thinking' that you are chosen. There are Plenty of people who think that they are accepted while as a matter of fact they are not. On the other hand, there are people who go on persisting in the belief that they are not accepted almost to the very end and then they find that they have succeeded.    Disciple: I was thinking of X whether anything in him really wanted the Yoga.   --    Sri Aurobindo: Of course, Plenty of people think that they are specially 'chosen' and that they are the first and the 'elect' and so on. All that is nothing.    Disciple: Then, can you say who is fit out of all those that have come?   --    Disciple: I think Japanese instruments also are found in Plenty. You also find European instruments, orchestra, etc. There are places where you find Japanese music and drama patronised and there are many who like them very much. They have also made improvements in their instruments to suit modern requirements. The talk turned to a Theosophical Lodge started by an European in Japan.    Sri Aurobindo: I don't think it came to much.

2.09 - THE MASTERS BIRTHDAY, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism   Sri Ramakrishna laughed and showed his affection to Jatin by touching his chin. He said to Jatin, "Come to Dakshineswar; I'll give you Plenty to eat."   The Master went into the auditorium to see a farce. He sat in a box. He laughed at the conversation of the maidservant. After a while he became absent-minded and whispered a few words to M.

2.1.02 - Combining Work, Meditation and Bhakti, #Letters On Yoga II, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   I dont think you understood very well what Mother was trying to tell you. First of all she did not say that prayers or meditation either were no good how could she when both count for so much in Yoga? What she said was that the prayer must well up from the heart on a crest of emotion or aspiration, the Japa or meditation come in a live push carrying the joy or the light of the thing in it. If done mechanically and merely as a thing that ought to be done (stern grim duty!), it must tend towards want of interest and dryness and so be ineffective. It was what I meant when I said I thought you were doing Japa too much as a means for bringing about a result I meant too much as a device, a process laid down for getting the thing done. That again was why I wanted the psychological conditions in you to develop, the psychic, the mental for when the psychic is forward, there is no lack of life and joy in the prayer, the aspiration, the seeking, no difficulty in having the constant stream of bhakti and when the mind is quiet and inturned and upturned there is no difficulty or want of interest in meditation. Meditation by the way is a process leading towards knowledge and through knowledge, it is a thing of the head and not of the heart; so if you want dhyana, you cant have an aversion to knowledge. Concentration in the heart is not meditation, it is a call on the Divine, on the Beloved. This Yoga too is not a Yoga of knowledge aloneknowledge is one of its means, but its base being self-offering, surrender, bhakti, it is based on the heart and nothing can be eventually done without this base. There are Plenty of people here who do or have done Japa and base themselves on bhakti, very few comparatively who have done the head meditation; love and bhakti and works are usually the basehow many can proceed by knowledge? Only the few.   ***

2.13 - On Psychology, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen    Sri Aurobindo: I don't think so. There are Plenty of people who are against machinery, though they may be in the minority and powerless and there was, at any rate, a fashion of simplicity. He would have, of course, given a European form to his ideas.    Disciple: What about the Charkha?

2.1.3 - Wrong Movements of the Vital, #Letters On Yoga IV, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   The phrase [wrong movements] covers pretty nearly everything that is hurtful to spiritual progressmovements of doubt, revolt, egoistic desire or ambition, sexual indulgence are the most common, but there are Plenty of others.   ***

2.1.4.2 - Teaching, #On Education, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   But I would not advise giving this French book to the students. They do not really need books. The teacher or teachers should use the book to prepare lessons that are adapted to the knowledge, the capacity and the needs of the students. That is to say that the teachers should learn what is in the book and transcribe it and explain it to the students, bit by bit, a little at a time, with Plenty of explanations, comments and practical examples so as to make the subject accessible and attractive, that is, a living application instead of dead, dry theory.   3 December 1967

2.14 - On Movements, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen    Sri Aurobindo: The simile itself is not correct. First of all the matchstick does not get lighted of itself; you have to light it. So it does not agree with X's idea that Yoga would be done by itself. Secondly, the matchstick lights up a small area and there are Plenty of dark corners in the room. Thirdly, the match goes out very soon.    Disciple: So the simile fells to the ground. They also used to say that if knowledge comes then all actions are completely destroyed.

2.15 - CAR FESTIVAL AT BALARMS HOUSE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism   MASTER: "My child, this is all we have. Please sing if it suits you. You must know how Balarm arranges things. "Balarm says to me, 'Please come to Calcutta by boat; take a carriage only if you must.' (All laugh.) You see, he has given us a feast today; so this afternoon he will make us all dance! (All laugh.) One day he hired a carriage for me from here to Dakshineswar. He said that the carriage hire was twelve nns. I said to him, 'Will the coachman take me to Dakshineswar for twelve nns?' 'Oh, that will be Plenty', he replied. One side of the carriage broke down before we reached Dakshineswar. (All laugh.) Besides, the horse stopped every now and then; it simply would not go. Once in a while the coachman whipped the horse, and then it ran a short distance. (All laugh.) The program for the evening is that Ram will play on the drum and we shall all dance.   Ram has no sense of rhythm. (All laugh.) Anyhow, that is Balarm's attitudesing yourselves, dance yourselves, and make yourselves happy!" (All laugh.) Other devotees were arriving. Mahendra Mukherji saluted the Master from a distance.

2.16 - The 15th of August, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen    Sri Aurobindo: Our Yoga aims at the discovery of the Supramental being, the Supramental world, and the Supramental nature, and their manifestations in life. But we must guard ourselves against certain general mistakes which are likely to arise. People think that certain powers such as Anima, Garima, or the control of the physical functions, and the capacity to cure diseases, constitute the Supramentalised physical. In many cases, these powers are acquired by persons who happen to open themselves consciously, or unconsciously, to the subliminal being where these powers lie. There are Plenty of cases where such powers are seen in persons who have no idea of the Supermind or Yoga.    There is an idea that this Yoga has been attempted times without number in the past, that the Light descended and has withdrawn again and again. This does not seem to be correct. I find that the Supramental physical body has not been brought down; otherwise it would have been there. We must not therefore belittle our effort and throw obstacles in the way of its accomplishment.

2.17 - December 1938, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen    But Plenty of people can prophesy. That capacity is common among Yogis. When I was arrested, my maternal grand-aunt asked Swami Bhaskaranand, "What will happen to our Aurobindo?" He replied, "The Divine Mother has taken him in her arms; nothing will happen to him. But he is not your Aurobindo. He is the world's Aurobindo and the world will be filled with his perfume." Another time I was taken by Jatin Banerji to a Swami Narayan Jyotishi who foretold about my three trials, white enemies and also my release. When my horoscope was shown he said that there was some mistake about time and when the time was corrected he replied, "Oh, the lead is turned into gold now."    (Turning to X) Have you had any prophecy in dreams? Many people get dreams or visions of coming events.   --    Disciple: Plenty of thoughts invaded me. I tried to reject them and make myself empty.    Sri Aurobindo: The result was emptiness? (Laughter)

2.18 - January 1939, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen    Mother: That is not the practice here. It is the play of the forces, or rather the play of adverse forces that tries to test the sadhak. If you refuse to listen to them or remain firm, they withdraw. People here have Plenty of difficulties already, why add new ones? To say we purposely test them is not true. We never do it never.    ( After some talk about the cost of homeopathic drugs, Dr. S took leave. Mother went away early at 6:45 but did not go down for the evening meditation before nearly 7:25 or 7:30.)   --    I began Pranayama around 1905. Devdhar was a disciple of Brahmananda and I took instructions from him. I practised it in Khaserao Jadhav's house in Baroda. The results were remarkable: I used to see some visions luminous patterns, figures, etc. Secondly, I felt a sort of electric power round my head. Thirdly, I began to have a very rapid flow of poetry. My powers of writing poetry were nearly dried up, but after the practice of Pranayama, they revived with great vigour and I could write both prose and poetry with a tremendous speed. That flow has never ceased since then. If I have not written much afterwards it is because I had something else to do. But the moment I want to write, it is there. Fourthly, my health improved I grew stout and strong and the skin became smooth and fair and there was a flow of sweetness in the saliva. I used to feel a certain aura round the head. There were Plenty of mosquitoes there but they did not come to me. I used to sit more and more in Pranayama but there were no more results.    It was at that time that I gave up meat diet and found a great feeling of lightness and purification in the system. Meat is a rajasic food. That is why the Kshatriyas did not give it up. Vivekananda recommended it to Indians because it gives a certain force and energy in the physical. From Tamas you pass into Rajas, Vivekananda was not quite wrong.   --    Sri Aurobindo: Plenty of people complain of that. But what work do they do?    Disciple: Medical-relief, famine-relief.

2.2.01 - The Outer Being and the Inner Being, #Letters On Yoga I, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   an ideal also. But there are Plenty of people who have very little   inner life and are governed entirely by the forces of Nature.

2.2.04 - Practical Concerns in Work, #Letters On Yoga II, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   A rule that can be varied by everyone at his pleasure is no rule. In all countries in which organised work is successfully done, (India is not one of them), rules exist and nobody thinks of breaking them, for it is realised that work (or life either) without discipline would soon become a confusion and an anarchic failure. In the great days of India everything was put under rule, even art and poetry, even Yoga. Here in fact rules are much less rigid than in any European organisation. Personal discretion can even in a frame of rules have Plenty of play but discretion must be discreetly used, otherwise it becomes something arbitrary or chaotic.   ***   --   The difficulty rises from a certain excess of sensitiveness in the vital nature which feels strongly any want of harmony or opposition in the work or any untoward happening and, when that comes, one is apt to feel it as if a personal opposition and on the other side also a similar feeling arises and so the difficulty becomes prolonged and leads to conflict. As a matter of fact the difficulty often arises from circumstances, e.g. the B. S. [Building Service] with its much reduced staff and a rush of work using up all its men may find it more difficult to accommodate you than before. Or it may arise from people acting according to their view of a matter which does not accord with yours. Or again it may come from the person following his own ideas, view of what is convenient and effective and thus coming up against yours. There need be no personal feeling in all that and it is best not to look for any and not to see it from that point of view. What is needed is always to take a calm view of the thing and a clear visionnot only from ones own standpoint which may be eventually right and yet need modification in detail, but with a vision that sees also the standpoint of others. This broad seeing, quiet and impersonal, is needed in the full Yogic consciousness. Having it one can insist on what has to be insisted on with firmness but at the same time with a consideration and understanding of the other that removes the chance of any clash of personal feeling. Naturally if the other is unreasonable, he may still resent, but then it will be his own fault entirely and it will fall back on him only. It is here that we see the necessity of some change. Loyalty, fidelity, capacity, strength of will and other qualities in the work you have in Plentya full calm and equality not only in the inner being where it can exist already, but in the outer nervous parts is a thing you have to get completely.   ***   --   As for quietude and work, quietude is the proper basis for worknot restlessness. You speak as if quietude and being alive and working were not compatible! The Mother and myself do Plenty of work, I suppose, and we are quite alive, but it is out of quietude that we do it. To worry and be restless and think always I am not doing well my work is not the way; you have to be quiet, conscious more and more of a greater Force than your own working in you: that Force will hereafter take up your work and do it for you.   ***   --   Asceticism for its own sake is not the ideal of this Yoga, but self-control in the vital and right order in the material are a very important part of itand even an ascetic discipline is better for our purpose than a loose absence of true control. Mastery of the material does not mean having Plenty and profusely throwing it out or spoiling it as fast as it comes or faster. Mastery implies in it the right and careful utilisation of things and also a self-control in their use.   ***

2.21 - 1940, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen    Sri Aurobindo: It is one thing not to think of tomorrow and quite another to try to remove poverty by feeding the poor. People don't understand that philanthropy cannot remove poverty, it can at the most relieve it. If you want to remove poverty you must find the causes of poverty and remove them. It is not a correct idea that when people have Plenty they will think of God, since the greater number of spiritual people have been those who have renounced everything and lived on very little. As soon as people have money they forget those who have no money.    Disciple: His idea was that people cannot believe that God is all-merciful, kind and loving, unless at least their physical needs are satisfied.

2.2.2.03 - Virgil, #Letters On Poetry And Art, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   I dont at all agree that Virgils verse fills one with the sense of the unknown countryhe is not in the least a mystic poet, he was too Latin and Roman for that. Majestic sadness, word-magic and vision need not have anything to do with the psychic; the first can come from the higher mind and the noble parts of the vital, the others from almost anywhere. I do not mean to say there was no psychic touch at all anywhere in Virgil. And what is this unknown country? There are Plenty of unknown countries (other than the psychic worlds) to which many poets give us some kind of access or sense of their existence behind much more than Virgil. But if when you say verse you mean his rhythm, his surge of word music, that does no doubt come from somewhere else, much more than the thoughts or the words that are carried on the surge.   31 March 1932

2.22 - 1941-1943, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen    He can find Plenty of proof of people whose faith has succeeded where all outer reason was against them. There are many such things in history. For example, if England had only thought about her position and depended on reason, then she should have made peace with Hitler. She had no chance against Germany. But in spite of that she had faith that she could win and she is beginning to win.    It was after Dunkirk that I openly came out with my declaration supporting the Allies, and gave the contribution to the War Fund openly. If I had believed in appearances I should not have. It is in spite of contrary appearances that you have to act on faith. I had fixed the 15th August and the 15th September as the dates on which Germany would suffer defeat and both days it was defeated. In August, I believe, over London; and in September, the invasion idea and preparation.

2.2.7.01 - Some General Remarks, #Letters On Poetry And Art, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   I used the word mystic in the sense of a certain kind of inner seeing and feeling of things, a way which to the intellect would seem occult and visionary for this is something different from imagination and its work with which the intellect is familiar. It was in this sense that I said Dilip had not the mystic mind and vision. One can go far in the spiritual way, have Plenty of spiritual experiences, spiritual knowledge, spiritual feelings, significant visions and dreams even without having this mystic mind and way of seeing things. So too one may write poetry from different planes or sources of inspiration and expressing spiritual feelings, knowledge, experiences and yet use the poetic intelligence as the thought medium which gives them shape in speech; such poems are not of the mystic type. One may be mystic in this sense without being spiritualone may also be spiritual without being mystic; or one may be both spiritual and mystic in one. Poems ditto.   I had not in view the Dark Well poems when I wrote about Harin. I was thinking of his ordinary way of writing. If I re member right, the Dark Well poems came from the inner mind centre, some from the Higher Mindother planes may have sent their message to his mind to put in poetic speech, but the main worker was the poetic intelligence which took what was given and turned it into something very vivid, coloured and beautiful,but surely not mystic in the sense given above.

2.3.03 - The Mother's Presence, #The Mother With Letters On The Mother, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Why should it be exceptional to see the Sun and Moon on each side or to feel the Mother's presence everywhere around? There are Plenty of sadhaks who have had these or equivalent experiences. What would be exceptional is to feel the Mother's presence like that always. But occasional experiences like these   15 September 1936 many have had.

2.3.04 - The Mother's Force, #The Mother With Letters On The Mother, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Plenty of people progress rapidly without understanding what the Force is doing - they simply observe and describe and say "I leave all to the Mother." Eventually the knowledge and understanding come.   17 July 1933

2.3.08 - The Mother's Help in Difficulties, #The Mother With Letters On The Mother, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Plenty of people have this condition (it is human nature) and there is naturally a way of coming out of it - having full faith in the Mother to quiet the inner mind (even if the outer continues to be troublesome) and call in it the Mother's Peace and Force, which is always there above you, into the Adhar. Once that is there, consciously, to keep yourself open to it and let it go on working with a full adhesion, with a constant support of your consent, with a constant rejection of all that is not that, till all the inner being is tranquillised and filled with the Mother's Force,   Peace, Joy, Presence - then the outer nature will be obliged to

2.3.1.09 - Inspiration and Understanding, #Letters On Poetry And Art, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   So you are getting Plenty of surrealist poets, eh? Happy at the prospect?   Not at all. Look here, sir, two are enough in all conscience, with an occasional Nishikantian outburst thrown in. If others cut in I will have to strike. I cant spend all my life from set to dawn explaining the inexplicable.

2.3.1 - Svetasvatara Upanishad, #Kena and Other Upanishads, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   11. As body is born and groweth by food and drink and Plenty,   so also the Spirit in body progressively attaineth to successive forms in their fit places - by the allurements of sight,

25.02 - HYMN TO DAWN, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    All delight is within, all that is hostile to man is afar: so let it be in thy dawning. Build our pasture of infinity, illumined with Truth, build our home of delight freed from fear. Drive away all that divides and antagonises, bring to us all the wealth of the human soul, O Mother of Plenty, send forth into life all the plenitude of delight.    Goddess Dawn, manifest thyself in our hearts in the play of thy supreme Effulgence, widen the life of this embodied being. O Mother of Delight, give us stable impulsion. Give us that Plenty whose wealth is the luminous herd of Truth, where range the chariots and horses of Life moving towards Infinity.    We are rich in those riches, we the steadfast aspirants. O Goddess, born in perfection, Daughter of Heaven! We foster Thee with our thought-streams and Thou too holdest in our bosom the knowledge won and the Vast and the Seas of Delight.

25.11 - EGO, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    It is the mounting Plenty to the penniless:    The more you buy up, the more it multiplies

2 - Other Hymns to Agni, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga     8. O god of force, there is a substance of Plenty that is of the Inspiration and it embraces in its circuit any plane whatsoever of being;     9. Therefore do thou, the universal strength that labours, bring by thy strong fighters that richness of Plenty to its goal (of fullness) and by thy wise seers hold it safe.     10. O thou who awakenest to thy wooers, do thou pervade towards Rudra to whom one doeth all sacrifice, for each and every people, a hymn full of vision.     11. May he be to us great and boundless, passionate in perception, wide and full of charm, - so may he favour our understanding and the Plenty of our substance.     12. May he, as one full of impetuosity, the master of these peoples who is divine perception, hearken to us, even Agni who burneth into greatness with the prayers of our desire for his fuel.   --     5. O Flame, we the Gotamas making thee clear and bright like a swift horse who brings our Plenty give expression to thee by our thoughts, to the lord of treasures. At dawn may he quickly come rich with thought.   GOTAMA RAHUGANA   --     4. May this strongest of the Powers and devourer of the destroyers manifest2 by his presence the Words and their understanding, and may they who in their extension are lords of plenitude brightest in energy pour forth their Plenty and give their impulsion to the thought.     5. Thus has Agni possessed of the Truth been affirmed by the masters of light,3 the knower of the worlds by clarified minds. He shall foster in them the force of illumination, he too the Plenty; he shall attain to increase and to harmony by his perceptions.   KUTSA ANGIRASA   --   gods, O giver of the manifold Plenty.   aE`nAvApETvF Ev   --   of Plenty. He is full of joy and closes not his eyes from day   to day, once he has been born from the belly of the Almighty   --   3. In the lauding of this master of Plenty, in his friendship as   his light grows, for all things are in this Fire of the many   --   for you the lords of Plenty, you whose chariot goes abroad   without hurt, O giver of the Horse, -   --   steeds of swiftness, create for those lords of Plenty a great   and luminous inspired knowledge, create for those gods the   --   1. The Master of beings, the Holder of Plenty, the mighty Lord   most awake to knowledge has made me largesse of two RayCows that draw the Wain. Let the Triple Dawn-lord son of   --   them to the lords of Plenty, may both we and they abide in   thy grace, do you protect us ever with all kinds of weal.   --   them to the lords of Plenty, may both we and they abide in   thy grace, do you protect us ever with all kinds of weal.   --   good milch cows, queens of sacrifice, queens of Plenty called   by many seekers, sit on the sacred grass and lodge with us   --   Plenty. Do you always guard us with all kinds of weal.   SUKTA 8   --   Plenty. Do you always guard us with all kinds of weal.   SUKTA 9   --   speak the words and us when we are lords of the Plenty.   (v\ vzZ ut Em/o a`n   --   7. O Fire fed with the offerings, let them abide in thee, the beloved, the illumined wise and those lords of Plenty among men who are they that travel to and allot to us the widenesses of the Rays.   8. Those within whose gated house the goddess of Revelation with her hands of light sits filled with her fullnesses, them deliver from the doer of harm and the Censurer,14 O forceful Fire; give to us the peace that hears the Truth from afar.   9. Do thou then with thy rapturous tongue, for thou art the bearer of the oblation with thy mouth and great is thy knowledge, bring to our lords of the Plenty the riches and hasten on its way our gift of the offering.     14 Or, from betrayal and from bondage,   --   1. O Fire, become high kindled with the Plenty of thy fuel, let   the sacred grass be spread wide.   --   even though one without teats of Plenty brought him to birth   438   --   thy guard, that army send to us43 for the getting of Plenty.   43 Or, speed for us

30.02 - Greek Drama, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    The point to note is that whereas in Valmiki a man is made to say that wives are available by the dozen in every land, Sophocles makes a woman declare as if in retort that husbands too are to be had in Plenty.    (3)

30.18 - Boris Pasternak, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    There are Plenty of similar imageries which give the same lesson:    And white as ghosts, the trees crowded into the road

3.02 - THE DEPLOYMENT OF THE NOOSPHERE, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity   a cutting tool so much so that there is Plenty of room for at   least one more human verticil still lower down, which we shall

3.03 - The Godward Emotions, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      The efficacy of prayer is often doubted and prayer itself supposed to be a thing irrational and necessarily superfluous and ineffective. It is true that the universal will executes always its aim and cannot be deflected by egoistic propitiation and entreaty, it is true of the Transcendent who expresses himself in the universal order that, being omniscient, his larger knowledge must foresee the thing to be done and it does not need direction or stimulation by human thought and that the individual's desires are not and cannot be in any world-order the true determining factor. But neither is that order or the execution of the universal will altogether effected by mechanical Law, but by powers and forces of which for human life at least, human will, aspiration and faith are not among the least important. Prayer is only a particular form given to that will, aspiration and faith. Its forms are very often crude and not only childlike, which is in itself no defect, but childish; but still it has a real power and significance. Its power and sense is to put the will, aspiration and faith of man into touch with the divine Will as that of a conscious Being with whom we can enter into conscious and living relations. For our will and aspiration can act either by our own strength and endeavour, which can no doubt be made a thing great and effective whether for lower or higher purposes, -and there are Plenty of disciplines which put it forward as the one force to be used, -- or it can act in dependence upon and with subordination to the divine or the universal Will. And this latter way, again, may either look upon that Will as responsive indeed to our aspiration, but almost mechanically, by a sort of law of energy, or at any rate quite impersonally, or else it may look upon it as responding consciously to the divine aspiration and faith of the human soul and consciously bringing to it the help, the guidance, the protection and fruition demanded, yogaksemam vahamyaham.      Prayer helps to prepare this relation for us at first on the lower plane even while it is there consistent with much that is mere egoism and self-delusion; but afterwards we can draw towards the spiritual truth which is behind it. It is not then the giving of the thing asked for that matters, but the relation itself, the contact of man's life with God, the conscious interchange. In spiritual matters and in the seeking of spiritual gains, this conscious relation is a great power; it is a much greater power than our own entirely self-reliant struggle and effort and it brings a fuller spiritual growth and experience. Necessarily, in the end prayer either ceases in the greater thing for which it prepared us, -- in fact the form we call prayer is not itself essential so long as the faith, the will, the aspiration are there, -- or remains only for the joy of the relation. Also its objects, the artha or interest it seeks to realise, become higher and higher until we reach the highest motiveless devotion, which is that of divine love pure and simple without any other demand or longing.

3.05 - The Conjunction, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology   must be able to wait on events. Of work there is Plenty the careful   analysis of dreams and other unconscious contents. Where the doctor fails,

3.2.01 - The Newness of the Integral Yoga, #Letters On Yoga II, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Plenty of people, I suppose, would go on with the old lines1for it is not likely that all would be able to take this line. As for the Darshanas most of them have fallen into disuse already except as a battlefield for Pandits. It is only the Vedanta and Patanjali and the later Bhakti Yoga that are still alive, not so much as darshanas but as traditional systems of Yoga.     The correspondent asked, "Is it not likely that the Darshanas and Upanishads will be forgotten in the next hundred years as the New Yoga establishes itself in the world? If it is possible to get the necessary things from your writings and the Mother's, who would care to read the enigmatic sutras and concealed formulas of the Darshanas, Upanishads and Vedas?"Ed.

3.2.05 - Our Ideal, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   This is our ideal and our search. Throughout the world there are Plenty of movements inspired by the same drift, but there is room for an effort of thought which shall frankly acknowledge the problem in its integral complexity and not be restrained in the flexibility of its search by attachment to any cult, creed or extant system of philosophy.   The effort involves a quest for the Truth that underlies existence and the fundamental Law of its self-expression in the universe - the work of metaphysical philosophy and religious thought; the sounding and harmonising of the psychological methods of discipline by which man purifies and perfects himself

3.2.08 - Bhakti Yoga and Vaishnavism, #Letters On Yoga II, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   It is the Vaishnava theory that if you only repeat the name of Hari it is enoughnothing else needed. Even if you do it by accident, you will go posthaste to Heaven. It has always seemed to be the apotheosis of laziness and incompetence. There are Plenty of people who have a little Bhakti for Krishna but I dont find them revelling in all the fruits of tapasya.   ***   --   But I have already told you more than once that I have no objection to your seeking Krishna or to your asking for Ananda or milan or anything else. I have never pressed you or others either to seek after Supermind or to accept me as an Avatar. These things have risen as an answer to questions put by yourself or others and I have treated them as matters of knowledge. But each must go by his own way and his own nature to his own goal. Ahaituki bhakti according to the Vaishnava ideal is the highest way and also the quickest, but if one does not feel equal to it, sahaituki bhakti will do well enough. Or if one has no turn for bhakti at all, there are Plenty of other ways. Or if one does not care to follow any way, there is, as I said, in answer to Xs question, the pressure of something in the nature to find the Self, if that is what it is after, or God or Krishna or the Mother or whatever it may be.   If you know the urge in you, well, follow it straight there is no need of questioning or going this side or that. Follow the hearts urge till it reaches what it is seeking.

3.2.2 - Sleep, #Letters On Yoga IV, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   The depression coming on you in sleep must have been due to one of two causes. It might have been the trace left by an unpleasant experience in some disagreeable quarter of the vital world and there are places in Plenty of that kind there. It can hardly have been an attack, for that would surely have left a more distinct impression of something having happened, even if there was no actual memory of it; but merely to enter into certain places or meet their inhabitants or enter into contact with their atmosphere can have, unless one is a born fighter and takes an aggressive pleasure in facing and conquering these ordeals, a depressing and exhausting effect. If that is the cause, then it is a question of either avoiding these places, which can be done by an effort of will, once one knows that it is this which happens, or putting around you a special protection against the touch of that atmosphere. The other possible cause is a plunge into a too obscure and subconscient sleep that has sometimes the effect you describe. In any case, do not allow yourself to be discouraged when these things happen; they are common phenomena one cannot fail to meet with as soon as one begins to penetrate behind the veil and touch the occult causes of the psychological happenings within us. One has to learn the causes, note and face the difficulty and always reactnever accept the depression thrown on one, but react as you did the first time. If there are always forces around which are concerned to depress and discourage, there are always forces above and around us which we can draw upon,draw into ourselves to restore, to fill up again with strength and faith and joy and the power that perseveres and conquers. It is really a habit that one has to get of opening to these helpful forces and either passively receiving them or actively drawing upon them for one can do either. It is easier if you have the conception of them above and around you and the faith and the will to receive them for that brings the experience and concrete sense of them and the capacity to receive at need or at will. It is a question of habituating your consciousness to get into touch and keep in touch with these helpful forcesand for that you must accustom yourself to reject the impressions forced on you by the others, depression, self-distrust, repining and all similar disturbance.   As for the actual mastery of a situation by occult powers, it can only come by use and experimentas one develops strength by exercises or develops a process in the laboratory by finding out through the actual use of a power how it can and ought to be applied to the field in which it operates. It is of no use waiting for the strength before one tries; the strength will come with repeated trials. Neither must you fear failure or be discouraged by failure for these things do not always succeed at once. These are things one has to learn by personal experiences, how to get into touch with the cosmic forces, how to relate or equate our individual action with theirs, how to become an instrument of the Master Consciousness which we call the Divine.

3.2.4 - Sex, #Letters On Yoga IV, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Conversion [of the sexual movement] is one thing and acceptance of the present forms in ordinary human nature is another. The reason given for indulging the sex-action is not at all imperative. It is only a minority that is called to the strict Yogic life and there will be always Plenty of people who will continue the race. Certainly, the Yogi has no contempt or aversion for human nature; he understands it and the place given to each of its activities with a clear and calm regard. Also, if an action can be done with self-control without desire under the direction of a higher consciousness, that is the better way and it can sometimes be followed for the fulfilment of the divine will in things that would not otherwise be undertaken by the Yogin, such as war and the destruction which accompanies war. But a too light resort to such a rule might easily be converted into a pretext for indulging the ordinary human nature.   ***

33.17 - Two Great Wars, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    I may in this connection tell you another story, a true story and a very pleasant and reassuring one. Some of you may have been actually eye-witnesses. Not so long ago, the air was thick with rumours of a possible danger of a crisis for India: this was a little before the Chinese attack. Was India going to be invaded and subjugated by a foreign Power once again? India was no doubt big and had ample .resources in manpower. But her manpower was little more than that of a rabble, it lacked the cohesion of organised military strength. The question was put to the Mother at the Playground. The Mother gave a smile and, pointing to the map of India on the wall, said, "Can't you see. who is guarding India? Isn't the north-eastern portion of Kashmir a lion's head with its jaws wide open?" The portion indicated does have the appearance of a lion's head as you can see if you look at it closely. Its nozzle projects with wide open mouth facing the front, as if ready to swallow up anyone who dares to come. It is the Lion of Mother Durga. Another little piece might be added to this story. Matching the lion on our northern frontier, there is an elephant dangling its trunk on the southern tip of India bordering the sea; that too is clearly visible on the map. It is as if giving the warning, "Here am I, the coast-guard ever on the watch. Beware!" It is the Elephant on which rides Lakshmi - gajalaksmi,the divine Mother of Plenty and Beauty. The elephant is the symbol of material power,    As Hitler was threatening to cover, as with an ominous comet's tail, the whole of earth and sky, one of our sadhaks here sent up to Sri Aurobindo his wail, "What, O Guru, is this happening to the comforting words you gave? Don't you see that the earth is getting on to the verge of ruin? Where, O Saviour, are you?" Sri Aurobindo's reply was a quiet admonition, "Where is the worry? Hitler is not immortal." After a short while the castle that Hitler had built was blown to the winds like a pack of cards. It was as if an all-englobing fog had been puffed away by a breath, a frightful nightmare had got dissolved in the light of the dawn.

3.3.1 - Agni, the Divine Will-Force, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Plenty, is the greatest of his terrestrial births; fostered by them as the swift Mares of Life he grows at once to his divine greatness, fills all the planes with his vast and shining limbs and forms their kingdoms in the soul of man into the image of a divine Truth.   392

3.3.2 - Doctors and Medicines, #Letters On Yoga IV, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   There are Plenty of allopathic doctors who consider homeopathy, Nature-Cure, Ayurveda and everything else that is not orthodox medical science to be quackery. Why should not homeopaths etc. return the compliment?   ***

3.4.1.06 - Reading and Sadhana, #Letters On Poetry And Art, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Of course the literary man and the intellectual love reading books are their minds food. But writing is another matter. There are Plenty of people who never write a word in the literary way, but are enormous readers. One reads for ideas, for knowledge, for the stimulation of the mind by all that the world has thought or is thinking.   Poetry, even perhaps all perfect expression of whatever kind, comes by inspiration; reading helps only to acquire for the outer instrument the full possession of a language or to get the technique of literary expression. Afterwards one develops ones own use of the language, ones own style, ones own technique. Reading and painstaking labour are very good for the literary man, but even for him they are not the cause of his good writing, only an aid to it. The cause is within himself.

3.4.2 - The Inconscient and the Integral Yoga, #Letters On Yoga IV, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   I have explained to you why so many people (not by any means all) are in this gloomy condition, dull and despondent. It is the tamas, the inertia of the Inconscient, that has got hold of them. But also it is the small physical vital which takes only an interest in the small and trivial things of the ordinary daily and social life and nothing else. When formerly the sadhana was going on on higher levels (mind, higher vital etc.), there was Plenty of vigour and verve and interest in the details of the Asram work and life as well as in an inner life; the physical vital was carried in the stream. But for many this has dropped; they live in the unsatisfied vital physical and find everything desperately dull, gloomy and without interest or issue. In their inner life the tamas from the Inconscient has created a block or a bottleneck and they do not find any way out. If one can keep the right condition and attitude, a strong interest in work or a strong interest in sadhana, then this becomes quiescent. That is the malady. Its remedy is to keep the right condition and to bring gradually or, if one can, swiftly the light of the higher aspiration into this part of the being also, so that whatever the conditions of the environment, it may keep also the right poise. Then the sunlit path should be less impossible.   ***

3-5 Full Circle, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction   Yet Plenty of our colleagues who cannot change are apt to drag their heels: some of the best established, most reputable ones refused even to look through Galileo's telescope or Pasteur's microscope! Their fate is to be dragged, kicking and screaming, in the dust of the chariot of becoming.   The men and women who will take upon themselves the chariots' heavy harness, and change the death-ward course of the world's development are, first of all, young people, and in all cases positively oriented ordinary citizens of vision and faith. How, then, can unified scientists and engineers, who must work out the diagnoses and prescriptions, move the Majority to their correct execution? By learning how these so-called common people think, talk, and act. And that means living among the people, the Literate and sub-Literate Cultures, and learning how to translate scientese into, and out of, their mythic or religious language without changing Unified Science's basic meaning.

3.7.1.03 - Rebirth, Evolution, Heredity, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Face to face with psychic and spiritual secrecies, as in the open elementary world even of mind, Science has still the uninformed gaze and the groping hands of the infant. In that sphere she, so precise, illuminative, compelling in the physical, sees only the big blazing buzzing confusion which James tells us, with a possibly inaccurate vividness of alliterative phrase, is the newborn babys view of the sensible world into which he has dropped down the mysterious stairs of birth. Science, faced with what are still to her the wonderful random accords and unexplained miracles of consciousness, protects herself from the errors of the imagination,but stumbling incidentally by that very fact into Plenty of the errors of an inadequate induction,behind an opaque shield of cautelous scepticism. She clings with the grasping firmness of the half-drowned to planks of security she thinks she has got in a few well-tested correspondences,so-styled, though the word as used explains nothing,between mental action and its accompaniment of suggestive or instrumental physical functionings. She is determined, if she can, to explain every supraphysical phenomenon by some physical fact; psychological process of mind must not exist except as result or rendering of physiological process of body. This set resolution, apparently rational and cautious of ascertainable and firmly tangible truth, but really heroic in its paradoxical temerity, shuts up her chance of rapid discovery, for the present at least, in a fairly narrow circle. It taints too her extensions of physical truth into the psychological field with a pursuing sense of inadequacy. And this inadequacy in extended application is very evident in her theories of heredity and evolution when she forces them beyond their safe ground of physical truth and labours to illumine by them the subtle, complex, elusive phenomena of our psychological being.   There are still, I dare say, persons here and there who cherish a secret or an open unfaith in the theory of a physical evolution and believe that it will one day pass into the limbo of dead generalisations like the Ptolemaic theory in astronomy or like the theory of humours in medicine; but this is a rare and excessive scepticism. Yet it may not be without use or aptitude for our purpose to note that contrary to current popular notions the scientific account of this generalisation, like that of a good number of others, is not yet conclusively proved, even though now taken for granted. But still there is on the whole a mass of facts and indications in its favour so considerable as to look overwhelming, so that we cannot resist the conclusion that in this way or some such way the whole thing came about and we find it difficult to conceive any more convincing explanation of the indubitable ascending and branching scale of genus and species which meets even our casual scrutiny of living existence. One thing at least seems now intellectually certain, we can no longer believe that these suns and systems were hurled full-shaped and eternally arranged into boundless space and all these numberless species of being planted on earth ready-made and nicely tailored in seven days or any number of days in a sudden outburst of caprice or Dionysiac excitement or crowded activity of mechanical conception by the fiat of a timeless Creator. The successive development which was summarily proposed by ancient Hindu thinkers, the lower forms of being first, man afterwards as the crown of the Spirits development of life on earth, has been confirmed by the patient and detailed scrutiny of physical science,an aeonic development, though the farther Hindu conception of a constant repetition of the principle in cycles is necessarily incapable of physical evidence.

3.8.1.02 - Arya - Its Significance, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   In the early days of comparative Philology, when the scholars sought in the history of words for the prehistoric history of peoples, it was supposed that the word Arya came from the root ar, to plough, and that the Vedic Aryans were so called when they separated from their kin in the north-west who despised the pursuits of agriculture and remained shepherds and hunters. This ingenious speculation has little or nothing to support it. But in a sense we may accept the derivation. Whoever cultivates the field that the Supreme Spirit has made for him, his earth of Plenty within and without, does not leave it barren or allow it to run to seed, but labours to exact from it its full yield, is by that effort an Aryan.   If Arya were a purely racial term, a more probable derivation would be ar, meaning strength or valour, from ar, to fight, whence we have the name of the Greek war-god Ares, areios, brave or warlike, perhaps even aret, virtue, signifying, like the Latin virtus, first, physical strength and courage and then moral force and elevation. This sense of the word also we may accept. We fight to win sublime Wisdom, therefore men call us warriors. For Wisdom implies the choice as well as the knowledge of that which is best, noblest, most luminous, most divine. Certainly, it means also the knowledge of all things and charity and reverence for all things, even the most apparently mean, ugly or dark, for the sake of the universal Deity who chooses to dwell equally in all. But, also, the law of right action is a choice, the preference of that which expresses the godhead to that which conceals it. And the choice entails a battle, a struggle. It is not easily made, it is not easily enforced.

3 - Commentaries and Annotated Translations, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   action for growth towards peace, perfection, Plenty (vajas), joy,   strength, immortal godhead. The Yajamana, for whom Agni is   --   7. At once wide extended & gathered in masses, wearing universal shapes, they stood here in the womb of richness, in the flowing stream of sweetnesses, his cows of Plenty, and were nourished; equal & vast were the two mothers of that Lord of bounty.   8. O Son of force, thou bearest them up and shinedst wide abroad holding many bodies of brightness and rapture; streams of honey & richness come dripping out wherever the Mighty One has been greatened by divine knowledge.   --   3. When so he has put forth the tongue of his multitude, pure is the activity of Agni with the pure herd of his rays; then is the goddess discerning yoked to her works in a growing Plenty; she upward-straining, he high-uplifted, he feeds on her with his flaming activities.   4. Towards Agni move the minds of the seekers after the Godhead, as their eyes move in Surya; when the two unlike Dawns bring him forth, he is born a white steed of being in the van of the days (or, at the head of our forces).   --   heaped, abodhi samidha, - that power, Plenty and richness of   being on which this cosmic Force in us is fed and which minister   --   3. Do thou for us, O Agni, increase attainment and Plenty   in these who by the confirming mantras of praise, as Purushas   --   Veda either possession or having, Plenty or a goal; we find it in   this latter sense in such expressions as raghavo na vajam, like   --   Plenty, of Asurya, the divine might, Force or Tapas of the divine   Nature, - magha & vaja, full & assured having as opposed to   --   light & the full Plenty of these active gods of the solar illumination." Gayam pushtim cha. The word gaya, Sayana tells us,   means that which is reached or attained; it is dhanam, wealth.

4.1.1 - The Difficulties of Yoga, #Letters On Yoga IV, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   As for the blows, well, are they always given by the Yogais it not sometimes the sadhak of the Yoga who gives blows to himself? There are Plenty of blows too in ordinary life according to my experience. Blows are the order of existence, and of Yoga; our nature or the nature of things brings them upon us until we learn to present to them a back which they cannot touch.   ***   --   Yoga has always its difficulties, whatever Yoga it be. Moreover it acts in a different way on different seekers. Some have to overcome the difficulties of their nature first before they get any experiences to speak of, others get a splendid beginning and all the difficulties afterwards, others go on for a long time having alternate risings to the top of the wave and then a descent into the gulfs and so on till the vital difficulty is worked out that is the case with X; others have a smooth path which does not mean that they have no difficulties they have Plenty, but they do not care a straw for them, because they feel sure that the Divine will help them to the goal, or that he is with them even when they do not feel himtheir faith makes them imperturbable. What Y feels is truethere are certain signs by which one can know it. As for Z he never tried to do Yoga, so he is not a case in point at allif he had wanted he might have done something, but except at the beginning he did not want it in the least.   For yourself it seems to me that the consciousness is growing towards the point at which there can be the decisive change upwards and inwards, decisive and effective, and there is no cause for depression for that change is the one thing needful.

4.11 - The Perfection of Equality, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   The same equality must be brought into the rest of our being. Our whole dynamic being is acting under the influence of unequal impulses, the manifestations of the lower ignorant nature. These urgings we obey or partially control or place on them the changing and modifying influence of our reason, our refining aesthetic sense and mind and regulating ethical notions. A tangled strain of right and wrong, of useful and harmful, harmonious or disordered activity is the mixed result of our endeavour, a shifting standard of human reason and unreason, virtue and vice, honour and dishonour, the noble and the ignoble, things apprjved and things disapproved of men, much trouble of self-approbation and disapprobation or of self-righteousness and disgust, remorse, shame and moral depression. These things are no doubt very necessary at present for our spiritual evolution. But the seeker of a greater perfection will draw back from all these dualities, regard them with an equal eye and arrive through equality at an impartial and universal action of the dynamic Tapas, spiritual force, in which his own force and will are turned into pure and just instruments of a greater calm secret of divine working. The ordinary mental standards will be exceeded on the basis of this dynamic equality. The eye of his will must look beyond to a purity of divine being, a motive of divine will-power guided by divine knowledge of which his perfected nature will be the engine, yantra. That must remain impossible in entirety as long as the dynamic ego with its subservience to the emotional and vital impulses and the preferences of the personal judgment interferes in his action. A perfect equality of the will is the power which dissolves these knots of the lower impulsion to works. This equality will not respond to the lower impulses, but watch for a greater seeing impulsion from the Light above the mind, and will not judge and govern with the intellectual judgment, but wait for enlightenment and direction from a superior plane of vision. As it mounts upward to the supramental being and widens inward to the spiritual largeness, the dynamic nature will be transformed, spiritualised like the emotional and pranic, and grow into a power of the divine nature. There will be Plenty of stumblings and errors and imperfections of adjustment of the instruments to their new working, but the increasingly equal soul will not be troubled overmuch or grieve at these things, since, delivered to the guidance of the Light and Power within self and above mind, it will proceed on its way with a firm assurance and await with growing calm the vicissitudes and completion of the process of transformation. The promise of the Divine Being in the Gita will be the anchor of its resolution, "Abandon all dharmas and take refuge in Me alone; I will deliver thee from all sin and evil; do not grieve."   The equality of the thinking mind will be a part and a very important part of the perfection of the instruments in the nature. Our present attractive self-justifying attachment to our intellectual preferences, our judgments, opinions, imaginations, limiting associations of the memory which makes the basis of our mentality, to the current repetitions of our habitual mind, to the insistences of our pragmatic mind, to the limitations even of our intellectual truth-mind, must go the way of other attachments and yield to the impartiality of an equal vision. The equal thought-mind will look on knowledge and ignorance and on truth and error, those dualities created by our limited nature of consciousness and the partiality of our intellect and its little stock of reasonings and intuitions, accept them both without being bound to either twine of the skein and await a luminous transcendence. In ignorance it will see a knowledge which is imprisoned and seeks or waits for delivery, in error a truth at work which has lost itself or got thrown by the groping mind into misleading forms. On the other side, it will not hold itself bound and limited by its knowledge or forbidden by it to proceed to fresh illumination, nor lay too fierce a grasp on truth, even when using it to the full, or tyrannously chain it to its present formulations. This perfect equality of the thinking mind is indispensable because the objective of this progress is the greater light which belongs to a higher plane of spiritual cognizance. This equality is the most delicate and difficult of all, the least practised by the human mind; its perfection is impossible so long as the supramental light does not fall fully on the upward looking mentality. But an increasing will to equality in the intelligence is needed, before that light can work freely upon the mental substance. This too is not an abnegation of the seekings and cosmic purposes of the intelligence, not an indifference or impartial scepticism, nor yet a stilling of all thought in the silence of the Ineffable. A stilling of the mental thought may be part of the discipline, when the object is to free the mind from its own partial workings, in order that it may become an equal channel of a higher light and knowledge; but there must also be a transformation of the mental substance; otherwise the higher light cannot assume full possession and a compelling shape for the ordered works of the divine consciousness in the human being. The silence of the Ineffable is a truth of divine being, but the Word which proceeds from that silence is also a truth, and it is this Word which has to be given a body in the conscious form of the nature.

4.18 - Faith and shakti, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   And yet faith is necessary throughout and at every step because it is a needed assent of the soul and without this assent there can be no progress. Our faith must first be abiding in the essential truth and principles of the Yoga, and even if this is clouded in the intellect, despondent in the heart, outwearied and exhausted by constant denial and failure in the desire of the vital mind, there must be something in the innermost soul which clings and returns to it, otherwise we may fall on the path or abandon it from weakness and inability to bear temporary defeat, disappointment, difficulty and peril. In the Yoga as in life it is the man who persists unwearied to the last in the face of every defeat and disillusionment and of all confronting, hostile and contradicting events and powers who conquers in the end and finds his faith justified because to the soul and shakti in man nothing is impossible. And even a blind and ignorant faith is a better possession than the sceptical doubt which turns its back on our spiritual possibilities or the constant carping of the narrow pettily critical uncreative intellect, asuya, which pursues our endeavour with a paralysing incertitude. The seeker of the integral Yoga must however conquer both these imperfections. The thing to which he has given his assent and set his mind and heart and will to achieve, the divine perfection of the whole human being, is apparently an impossibility to the normal intelligence, since it is opposed to the actual facts of life and will for long be contradicted by immediate experience, as happens with all far-off and difficult ends, and it is denied too by many who have spiritual experience but believe that our present nature is the sole possible nature of man in the body and that it is only by throwing off the earthly life or even all individual existence that we can arrive at either a heavenly perfection or the release of extinction. In the pursuit of such an aim there will for long be Plenty of ground for the objections, the carpings, asuya, of that ignorant but persistent criticising reason which founds itself plausibly on the appearances of the moment, the stock of ascertained fact and experience, refuses to go beyond and questions the validity of all indices and illuminations that point forward; and if he yields to these narrow suggestions, he will either not arrive or be seriously tampered and long delayed in his journey. On the other hand, ignorance and blindness in the faith are obstacles to a large success, invite much disappointment and disillusionment, fasten on false finalities and prevent advance to greater formulations of truth and perfection. The shakti in her workings will strike ruthlessly at all forms of ignorance and blindness and all even that trusts wrongly and superstitiously in her, and we must be prepared to abandon a too persistent attachment to forms of faith and cling to the saving reality alone. A great and wide spiritual and intelligent faith, intelligent with the intelligence of that larger reason which assents to high possibilities, is the character of the sraddha needed for the integral Yoga.   This sraddha -- the English word faith is inadequate to express it -- is in reality an influence from the supreme Spirit and its light a message from our supramental being which is calling the lower nature to rise out of its petty present to a great self-becoming and self-exceeding. And that which receives the influence and answers to the call is not so much the intellect, the heart or the life mind, but the inner soul which better knows the truth of its own destiny and mission. The circumstances that provoke our first entry into the path are not the real index of the thing that is at work in us. There the intellect, the heart, or the desires of the life mind may take a prominent place, or even more fortuitous accidents and outward incentives; but if these are all, then there can be no surety of our fidelity to the call and our enduring perseverance in the Yoga. The intellect may abandon the idea that attracted it, the heart weary or fail us, the desire of the life mind turn to other objectives. But outward circumstances are only a cover for the real workings of the spirit, and if it is the spirit that has been touched, the inward soul that has received the call, the sraddha will remain firm and resist all attempts to defeat or slay it. It is not that the doubts of the intellect may not assail, the heart waver, the disappointed desire of the life mind sink down, exhausted on the wayside. That is almost inevitable at times, perhaps often, especially with us, sons of an age of intellectuality and scepticism and a materialistic denial of spiritual truth which has not yet lifted its painted clouds from the face of the sun of a greater reality and is still opposed to the light of spiritual intuition and inmost experience. There will very possibly be many of those trying obscurations of which even the Vedic Rishis so often complained, "long exiles from the light", and these may be so thick, the night on the soul may be so black that faith may seem utterly to have left us. But through it all the spirit within will be keeping its unseen hold and the soul will return with a new strength to its assurance which was only eclipsed and not extinguished, because extinguished it cannot be when once the inner self has known and made its resolution.747 The Divine holds our hand through all and if he seems to let us fall, it is only to raise us higher. This saving return we shall experience so often that the denials of doubt will become eventually impossible and, when once the foundation of equality is firmly established and still more when the sun of the gnosis has risen, doubt itself will pass away because its cause and utility have ended.

4.1 - Jnana, #Essays Divine And Human, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   141. Nietzsche saw the superman as the lion-soul passing out of camel-hood, but the true heraldic device & token of the superman is the lion seated upon the camel which stands upon the cow of Plenty. If thou canst not be the slave of all mankind, thou   440   --    art not fit to be its master and if thou canst not make thy nature as Vasistha's cow of Plenty with all mankind to draw its wish from her udders, what avails thy leonine supermanhood?   142. Be to the world as the lion in fearlessness and lordship, as the camel in patience and service, as the cow in quiet, forbearing

4.2.4.04 - The Psychic Fire and Some Inner Visions, #Letters On Yoga III, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   The wideness of light you saw was the wideness of the true consciousness liberated from the narrow limits of the human mind, human vital, human body consciousness. It is true that the mind is narrow, not only yours, but all human minds even the most developed, - compared with the wideness of the true consciousness which has no limits. It is precisely this wideness which will come by the sadhana and which these processes are preparing. The rain of flowers means a Plenty of the psychic qualities and movements and the white flower of mental victory indicates the step towards it which is now being led up to - the victory in the mind of the inner light over the outer ignorance.   The difficulty in giving up habits is common to the physical mind in all people; nothing is more difficult to it. The fire you feel must be what we call Agni, the fire of purification acting on this physical mind to change it.

4.2.4 - Time and CHange of the Nature, #Letters On Yoga IV, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   My words about the great secret of sadhana1 simply pointed out that that was the most effective way if one could get the things done by the Power behind, did not rule out mental effort so long as one could not do that. Ramakrishnas way of putting it was the image of the baby monkey and baby cat; I have only said the same thing in other words; both are permissible methods, only one is more easily effective. Any method sincerely and persistently followed can end by bringing the opening. You yourself chose the method of prayer and japa because you believed in that, and I acquiesced because it does prepare something in the consciousness and, if done with persistent faith and bhakti, it can open all the doors. Another method is concentration and aspiration in the heart which opens the inner emotional being. Another is the concentration in the head of which I spoke which opens the inner mind or opens the passage through the Brahmarandhra to the higher consciousness. These things are no fantastic invention of mine which one can dismiss as a new-fangled and untested absurdity; they are recognised methods which have succeeded in thousands of cases and here also there are Plenty who have found their effect. But whatever method is used will not bring its effect at once; it must be done persistently, simply, directly till it succeeds. If it is done with a mind of doubt or watching it as an experiment to see if it succeeds or if it is continually crossed by a spirit of hasty despondency saying constantly, You see it is all useless, then it ought to be obvious that the opening will be very difficult, because there is that clogging it every time there is a pressure or a push to open. That is why I wanted you to get rid of these two things and have harped on that so much, because I know by my own experience and that of others how strongly they can stand in the way of what you seek. For you are not the only one who have been troubled by these two obstacles; most have had to struggle against them. If one can get rid of them in their central action, the survival of their activity in the circumference does not so much matter; for then the opening becomes possible, both to make and to keep and the rest can follow.   The six years of which you speak have been spent by you mainly in struggling with sex and doubt and vital difficultiesmany take more than that time about it. What I have been wanting you to do now is to get the right positive attitude within at the centre free from these things. Its basis must be what I have said, I want the Divine and the Divine only; since I want and need, I shall surely arrive, however long it takes, and till I do, I shall persist and endure with patience and courage. I do not mean by that that you should have no activity but prayer and concentration; few can do that; but whatever is done should be done in that spirit.

5.01 - ADAM AS THE ARCANE SUBSTANCE, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology   [544] Like the King and Queen, our first parents are among those figures through whom the alchemists expressed the symbolism of opposites. Adam is mentioned far more frequently than Eve, and for this reason we shall have to concern ourselves first and principally with him. He will give us Plenty to get on with, as he figures in a great variety of significations which enter the world of alchemical ideas from the most heterogeneous sources.   [545] Ruland defines Adam as a synonym for the aqua permanens, in contradistinction to Eve, who signifies earth. Water is the prime arcane substance, and is therefore the agent of transformation as well as the substance to be transformed. As water is synonymous with Mercurius, we can understand the remark of John Dee that that other Mercurius who appears in the course of the work is the Mercurius of the Philosophers, that most renowned Microcosm and Adam.1 Adam is mentioned as the arcane substance in Rosinus. His correlates are lead and Azoch, 2 both, like Adam,3 of hermaphroditic nature. Similarly, Dorn says that the lapis was called Adam, who bore his invisible Eve hidden in his body. 4 This archaic idea occasionally turns up in the products of the insane today.5 The dual nature of Adam is suggested in the Gloria mundi: When Almighty God had created Adam and set him in paradise, he showed him two things in the future, saying, Behold, Adam, here are two things: one fixed and constant, the other fugitive.6

5.03 - The World Is Not Eternal, #Of The Nature Of Things, #Lucretius, #Poetry   Therefore thou seest her minished of her Plenty,   And then again augmented with new growth.

5.06 - Origins And Savage Period Of Mankind, #Of The Nature Of Things, #Lucretius, #Poetry   'Tis Plenty overwhelms. Unwary, they   Oft for themselves themselves would then outpour

5.1.01.2 - The Book of the Statesman, #5.1.01 - Ilion, #unset, #Zen   There where discord had clashed, sweet Peace sat girded with Plenty,   There where tyranny counted her blows, came the hands of a father.

5.1.01.4 - The Book of Partings, #5.1.01 - Ilion, #unset, #Zen   Filled all the corridors; smoke from the kitchens curled in its Plenty   Rich with savour and breathed from the labouring lungs of Hephaestus.

5.1.01.6 - The Book of the Chieftains, #5.1.01 - Ilion, #unset, #Zen   Sicken the soul and the sense and a soil of indolent Plenty   Breeds like the corn in its multitudes natures accustomed to thraldom.

5.1.03 - The Hostile Forces and Hostile Beings, #Letters On Yoga I, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Those in the Asram who have developed the inner view of things on the vital plane1 have Plenty of experience of the hostile forces.   1 One may have the experiences on the mental plane without this knowledge coming

6.09 - THE THIRD STAGE - THE UNUS MUNDUS, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology    which frees the body of its corruptibility, and the elixir vitae which grants the long life of the Biblical aforetime, or even immortality. Since most of them were physicians, they had Plenty of opportunities to form an overwhelming impression of the transitoriness of human existence, and to develop that kind of impatience which refuses to wait till Kingdom come for more endurable conditions better in accord with the message of salvation. It is precisely the claims of the physical man and the unendurability of his dissociation that are expressed in this gnawing discontent. The alchemists, consequently, saw themselves faced with the extremely difficult task of uniting the wayward physical man with his spiritual truth. As they were neither unbelievers nor heretics, they could not and would not alter this truth in order to make it more favourably disposed to the body. Besides, the body was in the wrong anyway since it had succumbed to original sin by its moral weakness. It was therefore the body with its darkness that had to be prepared. This, as we have seen, was done by extracting a quintessence which was the physical equivalent of heaven, of the potential world, and on that account was named caelum. It was the very essence of the body, an incorruptible and therefore pure and eternal substance, a corpus glorificatum, capable and worthy of being united with the unio mentalis. What was left over from the body was a terra damnata, a dross that had to be abandoned to its fate. The quintessence, the caelum, on the other hand, corresponded to the pure, incorrupt, original stuff of the world, Gods adequate and perfectly obedient instrument, whose production, therefore, permitted the alchemist to hope and expect the conjunction with the unus mundus.   [775] This solution was a compromise to the disadvantage of physis, but it was nevertheless a noteworthy attempt to bridge the dissociation between spirit and matter. It was not a solution of principle, for the very reason that the procedure did not take place in the real object at all but was a fruitless projection, since the caelum could never be fabricated in reality. It was a hope that was extinguished with alchemy and then, it seems, was struck off the agenda for ever. But the dissociation remained, and, in quite the contrary sense, brought about a far better knowledge of nature and a sounder medicine, while on the other hand it deposed the spirit in a manner that would paralyse Dorn with horror could he see it today. The elixir vitae of modern science has already increased the expectation of life very considerably and hopes for still better results in the future. The unio mentalis, on the other hand, has become a pale phantom, and the veritas Christiana feels itself on the defensive. As for a truth that is hidden in the human body, there is no longer any talk of that. History has remorselessly made good what the alchemical compromise left unfinished: the physical man has been unexpectedly thrust into the foreground and has conquered nature in an undreamt-of way. At the same time he has become conscious of his empirical psyche, which has loosened itself from the embrace of the spirit and begun to take on so concrete a form that its individual features are now the object of clinical observation. It has long ceased to be a life-principle or some kind of philosophical abstraction; on the contrary, it is suspected of being a mere epiphenomenon of the chemistry of the brain. Nor does the spirit any longer give it life; rather is it conjectured that the spirit owes its existence to psychic activity. Today psychology can call itself a science, and this is a big concession on the part of the spirit. What demands psychology will make on the other natural sciences, and on physics in particular, only the future can tell.

6.0 - Conscious, Unconscious, and Individuation, #The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, #Carl Jung, #Psychology   There is Plenty of evidence to show that consciousness is very   far from covering the psyche in its totality. Many things occur

6.10 - THE SELF AND THE BOUNDS OF KNOWLEDGE, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology   [787] We believe that we can make assertions about God, define him, form an opinion about him, differentiate him as the only true one amongst other gods. The realization might by this time be dawning that when we talk of God or gods we are speaking of debatable images from the psychoid realm. The existence of a transcendental reality is indeed evident in itself, but it is uncommonly difficult for our consciousness to construct intellectual models which would give a graphic description of the reality we have perceived. Our hypotheses are uncertain and groping, and nothing offers us the assurance that they may ultimately prove correct. That the world inside and outside ourselves rests on a transcendental background is as certain as our own existence, but it is equally certain that the direct perception of the archetypal world inside us is just as doubtfully correct as that of the physical world outside us. If we are convinced that we know the ultimate truth concerning metaphysical things, this means nothing more than that archetypal images have taken possession of our powers of thought and feeling, so that these lose their quality as functions at our disposal. The loss shows itself in the fact that the object of perception then becomes absolute and indisputable and surrounds itself with such an emotional taboo that anyone who presumes to reflect on it is automatically branded a heretic and blasphemer. In all other matters everyone would think it reasonable to submit to objective criticism the subjective image he has devised for himself of some object. But in the face of possession or violent emotion reason is abrogated; the numinous archetype proves on occasion to be the stronger because it can appeal to a vital necessity. This is regularly the case when it compensates a situation of distress which no amount of reasoning can abolish. We know that an archetype can break with shattering force into an individual human life and into the life of a nation. It is therefore not surprising that it is called God. But as men do not always find themselves in immediate situations of distress, or do not always feel them to be such, there are also calmer moments in which reflection is possible. If one then examines a state of possession or an emotional seizure without prejudice, one will have to admit that the possession in itself yields nothing that would clearly and reliably characterize the nature of the possessing factor, although it is an essential part of the phenomenon that the possessed always feels compelled to make definite assertions. Truth and error lie so close together and often look so confusingly alike that nobody in his right senses could afford not to doubt the things that happen to him in the possessed state. I John 4 : 1 admonishes us: Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world. This warning was uttered at a time when there was Plenty of opportunity to observe exceptional psychic states. Although, as then, we think we possess sure criteria of distinction, the rightness of this conviction must nevertheless be called in question, for no human judgment can claim to be infallible.   [788] in view of this extremely uncertain situation it seems to me very much more cautious and reasonable to take cognizance of the fact that there is not only a psychic but also a psychoid unconscious, before presuming to pronounce metaphysical judgments which are incommensurable with human reason. There is no need to fear that the inner experience will thereby be deprived of its reality and vitality. No experience is prevented from happening by a somewhat more cautious and modest attitudeon the contrary.

Apology, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction   There is another thing:young men of the richer classes, who have not much to do, come about me of their own accord; they like to hear the pretenders examined, and they often imitate me, and proceed to examine others; there are Plenty of persons, as they quickly discover, who think that they know something, but really know little or nothing; and then those who are examined by them instead of being angry with themselves are angry with me: This confounded Socrates, they say; this villainous misleader of youth!and then if somebody asks them, Why, what evil does he practise or teach? they do not know, and cannot tell; but in order that they may not appear to be at a loss, they repeat the ready-made charges which are used against all philosophers about teaching things up in the clouds and under the earth, and having no gods, and making the worse appear the better cause; for they do not like to confess that their pretence of knowledge has been detectedwhich is the truth; and as they are numerous and ambitious and energetic, and are drawn up in battle array and have persuasive tongues, they have filled your ears with their loud and inveterate calumnies. And this is the reason why my three accusers, Meletus and Anytus and Lycon, have set upon me; Meletus, who has a quarrel with me on behalf of the poets; Anytus, on behalf of the craftsmen and politicians; Lycon, on behalf of the rhetoricians: and as I said at the beginning, I cannot expect to get rid of such a mass of calumny all in a moment. And this, O men of Athens, is the truth and the whole truth; I have concealed nothing, I have dissembled nothing. And yet, I know that my plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth?Hence has arisen the prejudice against me; and this is the reason of it, as you will find out either in this or in any future enquiry.   I have said enough in my defence against the first class of my accusers; I turn to the second class. They are headed by Meletus, that good man and true lover of his country, as he calls himself. Against these, too, I must try to make a defence:Let their affidavit be read: it contains something of this kind: It says that Socrates is a doer of evil, who corrupts the youth; and who does not believe in the gods of the state, but has other new divinities of his own. Such is the charge; and now let us examine the particular counts. He says that I am a doer of evil, and corrupt the youth; but I say, O men of Athens, that Meletus is a doer of evil, in that he pretends to be in earnest when he is only in jest, and is so eager to bring men to trial from a pretended zeal and interest about matters in which he really never had the smallest interest. And the truth of this I will endeavour to prove to you.   --   By the goddess Here, that is good news! There are Plenty of improvers, then. And what do you say of the audience,do they improve them?   Yes, they do.

BOOK I. - Augustine censures the pagans, who attributed the calamities of the world, and especially the sack of Rome by the Goths, to the Christian religion and its prohibition of the worship of the gods, #City of God, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity   If the famous Scipio Nasica were now alive, who was once your pontiff, and was unanimously chosen by the senate, when, in the panic created by the Punic war, they sought for the best citizen to entertain the Phrygian goddess, he would curb this shamelessness of yours, though you would perhaps scarcely dare to look upon the countenance of such a man. For why in your calamities do you complain of Christianity, unless because you desire to enjoy your luxurious licence unrestrained, and to lead an abandoned and profligate life without the interruption of any uneasiness or disaster? For certainly your desire for peace, and prosperity, and Plenty is not prompted by any purpose of using these blessings honestly, that is to say, with moderation, sobriety, temperance, and piety; for your purpose rather is to run riot in an endless variety of sottish pleasures, and thus to generate from your prosperity a moral pestilence which will prove a thousand-fold more disastrous than the fiercest enemies. It was such a calamity as this that Scipio, your chief pontiff, your best man in the judgment of the whole senate, feared when he refused to agree to the destruction of Carthage, Rome's rival; and opposed Cato, who advised its destruction. He feared security, that enemy of weak minds, and he perceived that a wholesome fear would be a fit guardian for the citizens. And[Pg 43] he was not mistaken: the event proved how wisely he had spoken. For when Carthage was destroyed, and the Roman republic delivered from its great cause of anxiety, a crowd of disastrous evils forthwith resulted from the prosperous condition of things. First concord was weakened, and destroyed by fierce and bloody seditions; then followed, by a concatenation of baleful causes, civil wars, which brought in their train such massacres, such bloodshed, such lawless and cruel proscription and plunder, that those Romans who, in the days of their virtue, had expected injury only at the hands of their enemies, now that their virtue was lost, suffered greater cruelties at the hands of their fellow-citizens. The lust of rule, which with other vices existed among the Romans in more unmitigated intensity than among any other people, after it had taken possession of the more powerful few, subdued under its yoke the rest, worn and wearied.   31. By what steps the passion for governing increased among the Romans.

BOOK I. -- PART I. COSMIC EVOLUTION, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy   Plenty," called "the fountain of milk and curds," was extracted from this "Sea of Milk." Hence the   universal adoration of the cow and bull, one the productive, the other the generative power in Nature:

BOOK I. -- PART III. SCIENCE AND THE SECRET DOCTRINE CONTRASTED, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy   "I can easily conceive that there are Plenty of bodies about us not subject to this intermutual action,   and therefore not subject to the law of gravitation."

BOOK IV. - That empire was given to Rome not by the gods, but by the One True God, #City of God, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity   These, not verity but vanity has made goddesses. For these are gifts of the true God, not themselves goddesses.[Pg 158] However, where virtue and felicity are, what else is sought for? What can suffice the man whom virtue and felicity do not suffice? For surely virtue comprehends all things we need do, felicity all things we need wish for. If Jupiter, then, was worshipped in order that he might give these two things,because, if extent and duration of empire is something good, it pertains to this same felicity,why is it not understood that they are not goddesses, but the gifts of God? But if they are judged to be goddesses, then at least that other great crowd of gods should not be sought after. For, having considered all the offices which their fancy has distributed among the various gods and goddesses, let them find out, if they can, anything which could be bestowed by any god whatever on a man possessing virtue, possessing felicity. What instruction could be sought either from Mercury or Minerva, when Virtue already possessed all in herself? Virtue, indeed, is defined by the ancients as itself the art of living well and rightly. Hence, because virtue is called in Greek , it has been thought the Latins have derived from it the term art. But if Virtue cannot come except to the clever, what need was there of the god Father Catius, who should make men cautious, that is, acute, when Felicity could confer this? Because, to be born clever belongs to felicity. Whence, although goddess Felicity could not be worshipped by one not yet born, in order that, being made his friend, she might bestow this on him, yet she might confer this favour on parents who were her worshippers, that clever children should be born to them. What need had women in childbirth to invoke Lucina, when, if Felicity should be present, they would have, not only a good delivery, but good children too? What need was there to commend the children to the goddess Ops when they were being born; to the god Vaticanus in their birth-cry; to the goddess Cunina when lying cradled; to the goddess Rumina when sucking; to the god Statilinus when standing; to the goddess Adeona when coming; to Abeona when going away; to the goddess Mens that they might have a good mind; to the god Volumnus, and the goddess Volumna, that they might wish for good things; to the nuptial gods, that they might make good matches; to the[Pg 159] rural gods, and chiefly to the goddess Fructesca herself, that they might receive the most abundant fruits; to Mars and Bellona, that they might carry on war well; to the goddess Victoria, that they might be victorious; to the god Honor, that they might be honoured; to the goddess Pecunia, that they might have Plenty money; to the god Aesculanus, and his son Argentinus, that they might have brass and silver coin? For they set down Aesculanus as the father of Argentinus for this reason, that brass coin began to be used before silver. But I wonder Argentinus has not begotten Aurinus, since gold coin also has followed. Could they have him for a god, they would prefer Aurinus both to his father Argentinus and his grandfa ther Aesculanus, just as they set Jove before Saturn. Therefore, what necessity was there on account of these gifts, either of soul, or body, or outward estate, to worship and invoke so great a crowd of gods, all of whom I have not mentioned, nor have they themselves been able to provide for all human benefits, minutely and singly methodized, minute and single gods, when the one goddess Felicity was able, with the greatest ease, compendiously to bestow the whole of them? nor should any other be sought after, either for the bestowing of good things, or for the averting of evil. For why should they invoke the goddess Fessonia for the weary; for driving away enemies, the goddess Pellonia; for the sick, as a physician, either Apollo or sculapius, or both together if there should be great danger? Neither should the god Spiniensis be entreated that he might root out the thorns from the fields; nor the goddess Rubigo that the mildew might not come,Felicitas alone being present and guarding, either no evils would have arisen, or they would have been quite easily driven away. Finally, since we treat of these two goddesses, Virtue and Felicity, if felicity is the reward of virtue, she is not a goddess, but a gift of God. But if she is a goddess, why may she not be said to confer virtue itself, inasmuch as it is a great felicity to attain virtue?   22. Concerning the knowledge of the worship due to the gods, which Varro glories in having himself conferred on the Romans.

Book of Genesis, #The Bible, #Anonymous, #Various   18 And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I; who art thou, my son? 19 And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me. 20 And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the LORD thy God brought it to me. 21 And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not. 22 And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau. 23 And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him. 24 And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am. 25 And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and he drank. 26 And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son. 27 And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed: 28 Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and Plenty of corn and wine: 29 Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.   30 And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting. 31 And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me. 32 And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn Esau. 33 And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who? where is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, and he shall be blessed.   --   25 And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do. 26 The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one. 27 And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine. 28 This is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: What God is about to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh. 29 Behold, there come seven years of great Plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: 30 And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the Plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land; 31 And the Plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous. 32 And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass. 33 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. 34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years. 35 And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities. 36 And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.   Pharaoh Promotes Joseph

BOOK X. - Porphyrys doctrine of redemption, #City of God, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity   As to those who think that these visible sacrifices are suitably offered to other gods, but that invisible sacrifices, the graces of purity of mind and holiness of will, should be offered, as greater and better, to the invisible God, Himself greater and better than all others, they must be oblivious that these visible sacrifices are signs of the invisible, as the words we[Pg 410] utter are the signs of things. And therefore, as in prayer or praise we direct intelligible words to Him to whom in our heart we offer the very feelings we are expressing, so we are to understand that in sacrifice we offer visible sacrifice only to Him to whom in our heart we ought to present ourselves an invisible sacrifice. It is then that the angels, and all those superior powers who are mighty by their goodness and piety, regard us with pleasure, and rejoice with us and assist us to the utmost of their power. But if we offer such worship to them, they decline it; and when on any mission to men they become visible to the senses, they positively forbid it. Examples of this occur in holy writ. Some fancied they should, by adoration or sacrifice, pay the same honour to angels as is due to God, and were prevented from doing so by the angels themselves, and ordered to render it to Him to whom alone they know it to be due. And the holy angels have in this been imitated by holy men of God. For Paul and Barnabas, when they had wrought a miracle of healing in Lycaonia, were thought to be gods, and the Lycaonians desired to sacrifice to them, and they humbly and piously declined this honour, and announced to them the God in whom they should believe. And those deceitful and proud spirits, who exact worship, do so simply because they know it to be due to the true God. For that which they take pleasure in is not, as Porphyry says and some fancy, the smell of the victims, but divine honours. They have, in fact, Plenty odours on all hands, and if they wished more, they could provide them for themselves. But the spirits who arrogate to themselves divinity are delighted not with the smoke of carcases, but with the suppliant spirit which they deceive and hold in subjection, and hinder from drawing near to God, preventing him from offering himself in sacrifice to God by inducing him to sacrifice to others.   20. Of the supreme and true sacrifice which was effected by the Mediator between God and men.

BOOK XVIII. - A parallel history of the earthly and heavenly cities from the time of Abraham to the end of the world, #City of God, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity   In the reign of Balus, the ninth king of Assyria, and Mesappus, the eighth of Sicyon, who is said by some to have[Pg 222] been also called Cephisos (if indeed the same man had both names, and those who put the other name in their writings have not rather confounded him with another man), while Apis was third king of Argos, Isaac died, a hundred and eighty years old, and left his twin-sons a hundred and twenty years old. Jacob, the younger of these, belonged to the city of God about which we write (the elder being wholly rejected), and had twelve sons, one of whom, called Joseph, was sold by his brothers to merchants going down to Egypt, while his grandfa ther Isaac was still alive. But when he was thirty years of age, Joseph stood before Pharaoh, being exalted out of the humiliation he endured, because, in divinely interpreting the king's dreams, he foretold that there would be seven years of Plenty, the very rich abundance of which would be consumed by seven other years of famine that should follow. On this account the king made him ruler over Egypt, liberating him from prison, into which he had been thrown for keeping his chastity intact; for he bravely preserved it from his mistress, who wickedly loved him, and told lies to his weakly credulous master, and did not consent to commit adultery with her, but fled from her, leaving his garment in her hands when she laid hold of him. In the second of the seven years of famine Jacob came down into Egypt to his son with all he had, being a hundred and thirty years old, as he himself said in answer to the king's question. Joseph was then thirty-nine, if we add seven years of Plenty and two of famine to the thirty he reckoned when honoured by the king.   5. Of Apis king of Argos, whom the Egyptians called Serapis, and worshipped with divine honours.   --   In his prayer, with a song, to whom but the Lord Christ does he say, "O Lord, I have heard Thy hearing, and was afraid: O Lord, I have considered Thy works, and was greatly afraid?"[534] What is this but the inexpressible admiration of the foreknown, new, and sudden salvation of men? "In the midst of two living creatures thou shalt be recognised." What is this but either between the two testaments, or between the[Pg 253] two thieves, or between Moses and Elias talking with Him on the mount? "While the years draw nigh, Thou wilt be recognised; at the coming of the time Thou wilt be shown," does not even need exposition. "While my soul shall be troubled at Him, in wrath Thou wilt be mindful of mercy." What is this but that He puts Himself for the Jews, of whose nation He was, who were troubled with great anger and crucified Christ, when He, mindful of mercy, said, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do?"[535] "God shall come from Teman, and the Holy One from the shady and close mountain."[536] What is said here, "He shall come from Teman," some interpret "from the south," or "from the south-west," by which is signified the noonday, that is, the fervour of charity and the splendour of truth. "The shady and close mountain" might be understood in many ways, yet I prefer to take it as meaning the depth of the divine Scriptures, in which Christ is prophesied: for in the Scriptures there are many things shady and close which exercise the mind of the reader; and Christ comes thence when he who has understanding finds Him there. "His power covereth up the heavens, and the earth is full of His praise." What is this but what is also said in the psalm, "Be Thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; and Thy glory above all the earth?"[537] "His splendour shall be as the light." What is it but that the fame of Him shall illuminate believers? "Horns are in His hands." What is this but the trophy of the cross? "And He hath placed the firm charity of His strength"[538] needs no exposition. "Before His face shall go the word, and it shall go forth into the field after His feet." What is this but that He should both be announced before His coming hither and after His return hence? "He stood, and the earth was moved." What is this but that "He stood" for succour, "and the earth was moved" to believe? "He regarded, and the nations melted;" that is, He had compassion, and made the people penitent. "The mountains are broken with violence;" that is, through the power of those who work miracles the pride of the haughty is broken. "The everlasting hills flowed down;"[Pg 254] that is, they are humbled in time that they may be lifted up for eternity. "I saw His goings [made] eternal for His labours;" that is, I beheld His labour of love not left without the reward of eternity. "The tents of Ethiopia shall be greatly afraid, and the tents of the land of Midian;" that is, even those nations which are not under the Roman authority, being suddenly terrified by the news of Thy wonderful works, shall become a Christian people. "Wert Thou angry at the rivers, O Lord? or was Thy fury against the rivers? or was Thy rage against the sea?" This is said because He does not now come to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.[539] "For Thou shalt mount upon Thy horses, and Thy riding shall be salvation;" that is, Thine evangelists shall carry Thee, for they are guided by Thee, and Thy gospel is salvation to them that believe in Thee. "Bending, Thou wilt bend Thy bow against the sceptres, saith the Lord;" that is, Thou wilt threaten even the kings of the earth with Thy judgment. "The earth shall be cleft with rivers;" that is, by the sermons of those who preach Thee flowing in upon them, men's hearts shall be opened to make confession, to whom it is said, "Rend your hearts and not your garments."[540] What does "The people shall see Thee and grieve" mean, but that in mourning they shall be blessed?[541] What is "Scattering the waters in marching," but that by walking in those who everywhere proclaim Thee, Thou wilt scatter hither and thither the streams of Thy doctrine? What is "The abyss uttered its voice?" Is it not that the depth of the human heart expressed what it perceived? The words, "The depth of its phantasy," are an explanation of the previous verse, for the depth is the abyss; and "Uttered its voice" is to be understood before them, that is, as we have said, it expressed what it perceived. Now the phantasy is the vision, which it did not hold or conceal, but poured forth in confession. "The sun was raised up, and the moon stood still in her course;" that is, Christ ascended into heaven, and the Church was established under her King. "Thy darts shall go in the light;" that is, Thy words shall not be sent in secret, but openly. For He had said to His own disciples, "What I tell[Pg 255] you in darkness, that speak ye in the light."[542] "By threatening thou shalt diminish the earth;" that is, by that threatening Thou shalt humble men. "And in fury Thou shalt cast down the nations;" for in punishing those who exalt themselves Thou dashest them one against another. "Thou wentest forth for the salvation of Thy people, that Thou mightest save Thy Christ; Thou hast sent death on the heads of the wicked." None of these words require exposition. "Thou hast lifted up the bonds, even to the neck." This may be understood even of the good bonds of wisdom, that the feet may be put into its fetters, and the neck into its collar. "Thou hast struck off in amazement of mind the bonds" must be understood for, He lifts up the good and strikes off the bad, about which it is said to Him, "Thou hast broken asunder my bonds,"[543] and that "in amazement of mind," that is, wonderfully. "The heads of the mighty shall be moved in it;" to wit, in that wonder. "They shall open their teeth like a poor man eating secretly." For some of the mighty among the Jews shall come to the Lord, admiring His works and words, and shall greedily eat the bread of His doctrine in secret for fear of the Jews, just as the Gospel has shown they did. "And Thou hast sent into the sea Thy horses, troubling many waters," which are nothing else than many people; for unless all were troubled, some would not be converted with fear, others pursued with fury. "I gave heed, and my belly trembled at the voice of the prayer of my lips; and trembling entered into my bones, and my habit of body was troubled under me." He gave heed to those things which he said, and was himself terrified at his own prayer, which he had poured forth prophetically, and in which he discerned things to come. For when many people are troubled, he saw the threatening tribulation of the Church, and at once acknowledged himself a member of it, and said, "I shall rest in the day of tribulation," as being one of those who are rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation.[544] "That I may ascend," he says, "among the people of my pilgrimage," departing quite from the wicked people of his carnal kinship, who are not pilgrims in this earth, and do not seek the country above.[545] "Although[Pg 256] the fig-tree," he says, "shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall lie, and the fields shall yield no meat; the sheep shall be cut off from the meat, and there shall be no oxen in the stalls." He sees that nation which was to slay Christ about to lose the abundance of spiritual supplies, which, in prophetic fashion, he has set forth by the figure of earthly Plenty. And because that nation was to suffer such wrath of God, because, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, it wished to establish its own,[546] he immediately says, "Yet will I rejoice in the Lord; I will joy in God my salvation. The Lord God is my strength, and He will set my feet in completion; He will place me above the heights, that I may conquer in His song," to wit, in that song of which something similar is said in the psalm, "He set my feet upon a rock, and directed my goings, and put in my mouth a new song, a hymn to our God."[547] He therefore conquers in the song of the Lord, who takes pleasure in His praise, not in his own; that "He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord."[548] But some copies have, "I will joy in God my Jesus," which seems to me better than the version of those who, wishing to put it in Latin, have not set down that very name which for us it is dearer and sweeter to name.   33. What Jeremiah and Zephaniah have, by the prophetic Spirit, spoken before concerning Christ and the calling of the nations.

BOOK XVI. - The history of the city of God from Noah to the time of the kings of Israel, #City of God, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity   Isaac's two sons, Esau and Jacob, grew up together. The primacy of the elder was transferred to the younger by a bargain and agreement between them, when the elder immoderately lusted after the lentiles the younger had prepared for food, and for that price sold his birthright to him, confirming it with an oath. We learn from this that a person is to be blamed, not for the kind of food he eats, but for immoderate greed. Isaac grew old, and old age deprived him of his eyesight. He wished to bless the elder son, and instead of the elder, who was hairy, unwittingly blessed the younger, who put himself under his father's hands, having covered himself with kid-skins, as if bearing the sins of others. Lest we should think this guile of Jacob's was fraudulent guile, instead of seeking in it the mystery of a great thing, the Scripture has predicted in the words just before, "Esau[Pg 154] was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a simple man, dwelling at home."[320] Some of our writers have interpreted this, "without guile." But whether the Greek means "without guile," or "simple," or rather "without feigning," in the receiving of that blessing what is the guile of the man without guile? What is the guile of the simple, what the fiction of the man who does not lie, but a profound mystery of the truth? But what is the blessing itself? "See," he says, "the smell of my son is as the smell of a full field which the Lord hath blessed: therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and of the fruitfulness of the earth, and Plenty of corn and wine: let nations serve thee, and princes adore thee: and be lord of thy brethren, and let thy father's sons adore thee: cursed be he that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee."[321] The blessing of Jacob is therefore a proclamation of Christ to all nations. It is this which has come to pass, and is now being fulfilled. Isaac is the law and the prophecy: even by the mouth of the Jews Christ is blessed by prophecy as by one who knows not, because it is itself not understood. The world like a field is filled with the odour of Christ's name: His is the blessing of the dew of heaven, that is, of the showers of divine words; and of the fruitfulness of the earth, that is, of the gathering together of the peoples: His is the Plenty of corn and wine, that is, the multitude that gathers bread and wine in the sacrament of His body and blood. Him the nations serve, Him princes adore. He is the Lord of His brethren, because His people rules over the Jews. Him His Father's sons adore, that is, the sons of Abraham according to faith; for He Himself is the son of Abraham according to the flesh. He is cursed that curseth Him, and he that blesseth Him is blessed. Christ, I say, who is ours is blessed, that is, truly spoken of out of the mouths of the Jews, when, although erring, they yet sing the law and the prophets, and think they are blessing another for whom they erringly hope. So, when the elder son claims the promised blessing, Isaac is greatly afraid, and wonders when he knows that he has blessed one instead of the other, and demands who he is; yet he does not complain that[Pg 155] he has been deceived, yea, when the great mystery is revealed to him, in his secret heart he at once eschews anger, and confirms the blessing. "Who then," he says, "hath hunted me venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him, and he shall be blessed?"[322] Who would not rather have expected the curse of an angry man here, if these things had been done in an earthly manner, and not by inspiration from above? O things done, yet done prophetically; on the earth, yet celestially; by men, yet divinely! If everything that is fertile of so great mysteries should be examined carefully, many volumes would be filled; but the moderate compass fixed for this work compels us to hasten to other things.     38. Of Jacob's mission to Mesopotamia to get a wife, and of the vision which he saw in a dream by the way, and of his getting four women when he sought one wife.

BOOK XXII. - Of the eternal happiness of the saints, the resurrection of the body, and the miracles of the early Church, #City of God, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity   How great shall be that felicity, which shall be tainted with no evil, which shall lack no good, and which shall afford leisure for the praises of God, who shall be all in all! For I know not what other employment there can be where no lassitude shall slacken activity, nor any want stimulate to labour. I am admonished also by the sacred song, in which I read or hear the words, "Blessed are they that dwell in Thy house, O Lord; they will be still praising Thee."[1048] All the members and organs of the incorruptible body, which now we see to be suited to various necessary uses, shall contri bute to the praises of God; for in that life necessity shall have no place, but full,[Pg 541] certain, secure, everlasting felicity. For all those parts[1049] of the bodily harmony, which are distributed through the whole body, within and without, and of which I have just been saying that they at present elude our observation, shall then be discerned; and, along with the other great and marvellous discoveries which shall then kindle rational minds in praise of the great Artificer, there shall be the enjoyment of a beauty which appeals to the reason. What power of movement such bodies shall possess, I have not the audacity rashly to define, as I have not the ability to conceive. Nevertheless I will say that in any case, both in motion and at rest, they shall be, as in their appearance, seemly; for into that state nothing which is unseemly shall be admitted. One thing is certain, the body shall forthwith be wherever the spirit wills, and the spirit shall will nothing which is unbecoming either to the spirit or to the body. True honour shall be there, for it shall be denied to none who is worthy, nor yielded to any unworthy; neither shall any unworthy person so much as sue for it, for none but the worthy shall be there. True peace shall be there, where no one shall suffer opposition either from himself or any other. God Himself, who is the Author of virtue, shall there be its reward; for, as there is nothing greater or better, He has promised Himself. What else was meant by His word through the prophet, "I will be your God, and ye shall be my people,"[1050] than, I shall be their satisfaction, I shall be all that men honourably desire,life, and health, and nourishment, and Plenty, and glory, and honour, and peace, and all good things? This, too, is the right interpretation of the saying of the apostle, "That God may be all in all."[1051] He shall be the end of our desires who shall be seen without end, loved without cloy, praised without weariness. This outgoing of affection, this employment, shall certainly be, like eternal life itself, common to all.   But who can conceive, not to say describe, what degrees of honour and glory shall be awarded to the various degrees of merit? Yet it cannot be doubted that there shall be degrees. And in that blessed city there shall be this great blessing, that no inferior shall envy any superior, as now the archangels are[Pg 542] not envied by the angels, because no one will wish to be what he has not received, though bound in strictest concord with him who has received; as in the body the finger does not seek to be the eye, though both members are harmoniously included in the complete structure of the body. And thus, along with his gift, greater or less, each shall receive this further gift of contentment to desire no more than he has.

Chapter II - WHICH TREATS OF THE FIRST SALLY THE INGENIOUS DON QUIXOTE MADE FROM HOME, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction   bating the bed (for there is not one in the inn) there is Plenty of everything else here." Don Quixote, observing   the respectful bearing of the Alcaide of the fortress (for so innkeeper and inn seemed in his eyes), made

COSA - BOOK II, #The Confessions of Saint Augustine, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity   the Lord? Luxury affects to be called Plenty and abundance; but Thou art   the fulness and never-failing plenteousness of incorruptible pleasures.

COSA - BOOK IX, #The Confessions of Saint Augustine, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity   never-failing Plenty, where Thou feedest Israel for ever with the food   of truth, and where life is the Wisdom by whom all these things are

Cratylus, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction   therefore there is Plenty of o mixed up in the word goggulon   (round). Thus did the legislator, reducing all things into letters and   --   is your meaning I should answer, that there have been Plenty of   liars in all ages.

Gorgias, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction   And this is the reason why the pilot, although he is our saviour, is not usually conceited, any more than the engineer, who is not at all behind either the general, or the pilot, or any one else, in his saving power, for he sometimes saves whole cities. Is there any comparison between him and the pleader? And if he were to talk, Callicles, in your grandiose style, he would bury you under a mountain of words, declaring and insisting that we ought all of us to be engine-makers, and that no other profession is worth thinking about; he would have Plenty to say. Nevertheless you despise him and his art, and sneeringly call him an engine-maker, and you will not allow your daughters to marry his son, or marry your son to his daughters. And yet, on your principle, what justice or reason is there in your refusal? What right have you to despise the engine-maker, and the others whom I was just now mentioning? I know that you will say, 'I am better, and better born.' But if the better is not what I say, and virtue consists only in a man saving himself and his, whatever may be his character, then your censure of the engine-maker, and of the physician, and of the other arts of salvation, is ridiculous. O my friend! I want you to see that the noble and the good may possibly be something different from saving and being saved:May not he who is truly a man cease to care about living a certain time?he knows, as women say, that no man can escape fate, and therefore he is not fond of life; he leaves all that with God, and considers in what way he can best spend his appointed term;whether by assimilating himself to the constitution under which he lives, as you at this moment have to consider how you may become as like as possible to the Athenian people, if you mean to be in their good graces, and to have power in the state; whereas I want you to think and see whether this is for the interest of either of us;I would not have us risk that which is dearest on the acquisition of this power, like the Thessalian enchantresses, who, as they say, bring down the moon from heaven at the risk of their own perdition. But if you suppose that any man will show you the art of becoming great in the city, and yet not conforming yourself to the ways of the city, whether for better or worse, then I can only say that you are mistaken, Callides; for he who would deserve to be the true natural friend of the Athenian Demus, aye, or of Pyrilampes' darling who is called after them, must be by nature like them, and not an imitator only. He, then, who will make you most like them, will make you as you desire, a statesman and orator: for every man is pleased when he is spoken to in his own language and spirit, and dislikes any other. But perhaps you, sweet Callicles, may be of another mind. What do you say?   CALLICLES: Somehow or other your words, Socrates, always appear to me to be good words; and yet, like the rest of the world, I am not quite convinced by them. (Compare Symp.: 1 Alcib.)

Ion, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction   ION: Why then, Socrates, do I lose attention and go to sleep and have absolutely no ideas of the least value, when any one speaks of any other poet; but when Homer is mentioned, I wake up at once and am all attention and have Plenty to say?   SOCRATES: The reason, my friend, is obvious. No one can fail to see that you speak of Homer without any art or knowledge. If you were able to speak of him by rules of art, you would have been able to speak of all other poets; for poetry is a whole.   --   SOCRATES: And did you ever know any one who was skilful in pointing out the excellences and defects of Polygnotus the son of Aglaophon, but incapable of criticizing other painters; and when the work of any other painter was produced, went to sleep and was at a loss, and had no ideas; but when he had to give his opinion about Polygnotus, or whoever the painter might be, and about him only, woke up and was attentive and had Plenty to say?   ION: No indeed, I have never known such a person.   --   SOCRATES: Do you know that the spectator is the last of the rings which, as I am saying, receive the power of the original magnet from one another? The rhapsode like yourself and the actor are intermediate links, and the poet himself is the first of them. Through all these the God sways the souls of men in any direction which he pleases, and makes one man hang down from another. Thus there is a vast chain of dancers and masters and under-masters of choruses, who are suspended, as if from the stone, at the side of the rings which hang down from the Muse. And every poet has some Muse from whom he is suspended, and by whom he is said to be possessed, which is nearly the same thing; for he is taken hold of. And from these first rings, which are the poets, depend others, some deriving their inspiration from Orpheus, others from Musaeus; but the greater number are possessed and held by Homer. Of whom, Ion, you are one, and are possessed by Homer; and when any one repeats the words of another poet you go to sleep, and know not what to say; but when any one recites a strain of Homer you wake up in a moment, and your soul leaps within you, and you have Plenty to say; for not by art or knowledge about Homer do you say what you say, but by divine inspiration and by possession; just as the Corybantian revellers too have a quick perception of that strain only which is appropriated to the God by whom they are possessed, and have Plenty of dances and words for that, but take no heed of any other. And you, Ion, when the name of Homer is mentioned have Plenty to say, and have nothing to say of others. You ask, 'Why is this?' The answer is that you praise Homer not by art but by divine inspiration.   ION: That is good, Socrates; and yet I doubt whether you will ever have eloquence enough to persuade me that I praise Homer only when I am mad and possessed; and if you could hear me speak of him I am sure you would never think this to be the case.

Liber 46 - The Key of the Mysteries, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction    What is that force? I will tell you. But I have still Plenty of other    miracles to tell; and this article is like a judicial investigation. We   --    it is hogs that dig them up: it is analogically the same for Plenty of    things less material and less gastronomical: instincts have groping

Meno, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction   Meno complains that the conversation of Socrates has the effect of a torpedo's shock upon him. When he talks with other persons he has Plenty to say about virtue; in the presence of Socrates, his thoughts desert him. Socrates replies that he is only the cause of perplexity in others, because he is himself perplexed. He proposes to continue the enquiry. But how, asks Meno, can he enquire either into what he knows or into what he does not know? This is a sophistical puzzle, which, as Socrates remarks, saves a great deal of trouble to him who accepts it. But the puzzle has a real difficulty latent under it, to which Socrates will endeavour to find a reply. The difficulty is the origin of knowledge:   He has heard from priests and priestesses, and from the poet Pindar, of an immortal soul which is born again and again in successive periods of existence, returning into this world when she has paid the penalty of ancient crime, and, having wandered over all places of the upper and under world, and seen and known all things at one time or other, is by association out of one thing capable of recovering all. For nature is of one kindred; and every soul has a seed or germ which may be developed into all knowledge. The existence of this latent knowledge is further proved by the interrogation of one of Meno's slaves, who, in the skilful hands of Socrates, is made to acknowledge some elementary relations of geometrical figures. The theorem that the square of the diagonal is double the square of the sidethat famous discovery of primitive mathematics, in honour of which the legendary Pythagoras is said to have sacrificed a hecatombis elicited from him. The first step in the process of teaching has made him conscious of his own ignorance. He has had the 'torpedo's shock' given him, and is the better for the operation. But whence had the uneducated man this knowledge? He had never learnt geometry in this world; nor was it born with him; he must therefore have had it when he was not a man. And as he always either was or was not a man, he must have always had it. (Compare Phaedo.)

r1912 07 20, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga    The trikaldrishti is already stronger in its action, though the confused method of working out the details from uncertainty to partly approximate partly complete correctness still continues. The siddhis of power are evidently much stronger & are overbearing in the field of exercise all the resistance brought against them; the only defect is that time is needed &, if time is not given, the prayoga is apt to be fruitless. In the field of life there are Plenty of instances of success, but the power of offering a strong & successful resistance still belongs to the annamaya prakriti. Ananda is restored & force is coming to the bhava & the action.    During the day the karma was streng thenedRodogune revised, prerana liberated from its shackles, nirukta strongly brought forward ( roots), the RV. proceeded with and, at night, the collection of materials for the R.V.. Bhasha and Sahitya were continued. The triple dasyam & madhura continue to be intensified. Ananda was made invariable & intenser even in touches of discomfort, but the nirvisesha was only increased in frequency. The third chatusthaya streng thens slowly, but lipi & drishti are at present under a cloud. Five hours sleep at night, a little in daytime.

r1912 07 21, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga    Ananda has been restored, but certainty in the sraddha is at a low ebb & the tamasic intelligence finds still Plenty of justification. Today the usual daily programme will not be given. The sixth chatusthaya will now be made permanently manifest in all its parts as a single whole, though not yet a perfect whole; still intensity alone will be wanting. The literary work will in all its parts be brought to a regular activity during the next few days. Outward work will commence in the same interval. The third chatusthaya in the next three days will be liberated from pettiness & want of force, the fourth rise above the tamasic obstruction.    The doing of work in larger masses has begun this morning with the Rigveda. More of this collection of material will be done today, without interfering with other work.

r1912 12 31, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga    Yesterday, it seemed as if the rudimentary equipment of the immediate life in its bare necessities were acquired, with a lacuna, with inconvenient effects of the past confusion, with a precarious source, but still if it is maintained, it stands as the first real triumph of the Power in overcoming this obstinate difficulty. Yesterdays lipis indicated that tyaga (outward) must be entirely abandoned and bhoga fully accepted; submission to desirability or some equivalent phrase was used. Another lipi ran violent purposes have to be justified & is interpreted in the sense that, although hitherto all the more vehement uses of the aishwarya have been abortive and only moderate demands have been satisfied, the vehement Mahakali use of the aishwarya and ishita have not therefore to be abandoned, but must be insisted on till they succeed. Aniruddha and his Shakti Mahasaraswati have been satisfied; the Yogasiddhi has been justified & the Adeshasiddhi is beginning to be justified by slow, small and steadily progressive processes. This is Aniruddhas method, the method of the patient intellectual seeker & the patient and laborious contriver who occupies knowledge & action inch by inch & step by step, covering minutely & progressively all the grounds, justifying himself by details and through the details arriving at the sum. But, if continued, this method would render success in this life impossible. The method chosen for preparation has been Mahasaraswatis, but the method chosen for fulfilment is Mahakalis in the Mahasaraswati mould. Mahakalis method is vehemence, force & swiftness, attaining knowledge by swift intuitions, moving to success in action by forceful strides. It is vehement in lipsa, violent in method, headlong in accomplishment. It seeks to attain the whole & then only returns upon the details. This vehemence, violence & precipitate rapidity has to be established in the prana, chitta and buddhi, so as to govern feeling, thought & action (there have been Plenty of isolated instances & brief periods of it in the past of the sadhana) and justified by success; but the basis of hidden calm & self-possession in the Maheshwari-bhava of Mahasaraswati has to be maintained and all has to be in the [Mahasaraswati]1 mould which demands thoroughness, perfect [contrivance],2 faultless elaboration of detail in the consummate whole. The literary work, the subjective action on others, the outward physical speech and action have all to be done with this swift elaboration & violent minuteness. At first, the Maheshwari bhava will retain some prominence, but will afterwards become implicit only in its Mahasaraswati continent. The first necessity is, however, that the Mahakali method should be justified in the results so that the intellectual sceptic & critic in Mahasaraswati may be assured of the correctness of the instructions given.    Bhasha. Bhs [Bharatis] Panchali Sapatham taken up; in the first verse yesterday only a few words could be understood without reference to the dictionary & no connected sense has been made out from the sum of the vocable. Today, in the second verse, the difficulties of the Tamil way of writing (sandhi etc) were overcome by the intuition as well as some of the difficulties of the grammar, but the Bhashashakti which used formerly to give correctly the meaning of unknown words has not recovered its habit of action.   --    Physical activity 10 hours. Secondary utthapana of arms for half an hour; this time with ease, although earlier in the day there had been difficulty in maintaining it for half an hour due to defect of anima, resultant strain in the arms & pain of the negative electric current. Sleep nearly 7 hours. Swapna samadhi with images indistinguishable to the eye from dream images, distinguishable by the viveka alone. The faculty of understanding the truth behind the dream record and disentangling its confusions has once more returned. Fresh proofs of the siddhis constantly occur, but there are Plenty of instances of misplaced perception and the siddhis of power have as yet no assured mastery over results. Primary utthapana continues in the same condition; it cannot be perfected unless the secondary & tertiary are brought forward.    This day closes the year 1912. From its morrow a new record begins in which the progress of the siddhi of Mahakali-Mahasaraswati has to be recorded. At present there is no sign of any rapid progress or of really great results. All is petty, hampered & limited. A siddhi rapidly established becomes otiose for days together. Continuity in the higher states seems as yet impossible, and from accomplishment there is always a relapse into a condition of partial asiddhi. The whole Yoga is continually beset with tamas and uncertainty & seems unable to rise permanently into clearness & perfect joy & assurance. There is no grief or acute trouble or even anything that can really be called trouble, but a dull depression never acute & a certain weariness & lack of interest has settled down on the system and is only lifted for short intervals or replaced by a mere ahaituka state of ambitionless content. The active force, ananda etc established for a short period, have failed to hold their own. The tejasic ideas of a joyous progress & of siddhi within a given time have once more proved to be falsehoods.

r1914 06 15, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga    When thou hast drunk of this, O thou of the hundred activities, thou becomest the smiter of the Vritras, and protectest man in the fullness of his Plenty    Script.

r1919 07 10, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga    The obstacle to the memory is the clouding of a certain substance of mentality which gets into the way of the rest of the consciousness: the ideality can concentrate completely on thought the power of thought and yet have Plenty of power of attention for other simultaneous experience; this is the principle of multiple concentration in a general embracing infinite consciousness, the divine vijnana. Initially in a very restricted type this is beginning. As the remnants of the old mentality disappear as a result of their present constant progressive diminution, dilution and exclusion, the simultaneous mental and bodily consciousness will be without farther obstacle, except that of sleep, which is already conquered in the type, but has to be conquered in the universality    LipiTraigunyasiddhi in the physical mentality to be established without farther delayThis is already beginning, but not yet in complete perfection.

r1919 07 11, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga    Chitra in some abundance, but unstable. Repetition of vishayas, gandha, rasa, touches of old sparsha, but on a small scale. In Samadhi great abundance of lipi of all kinds, in a successive flow of sentences, but with some incoherence, and without a link of intelligent succession in the flow. Only in the lighter swapna is there full ideality. Some Plenty of shadowy rupa, but insufficient stability. Easily dispelled touches of roga.    ***

r1919 07 18, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga    Vishaya (physical) in jagrat antardarshi attained in touch to a great Plenty; all the subtle results, suggestions, sensations of sparsha, except the actual sthula incidence. This too occurred freely, but only in habitual rupas. It is noticeable however that nothing came which had not previously been gained in past years by sadhana, only they came with a greater force, frequency and intensity. In swapna there is now more frequent and forceful sparsha. Sravana is obstructed both in antardarshi and full jagrat; it is rare even in swapna.    An attempt at a higher Thought confined to the centre of the thought above the head and a withdrawal of that which forms in the brain region of the subtle mind or is occupied with penetration to this region. This was the normal gravitation because here the thought assumed a satisfaction of present living actuality, while above it had a higher, but remoter less physically satisfying quality. The attempt to take up T there failed initially and there was a brief relapse to the mass of possibilities and incertitudes, but all this is now taken up by a fiery thought, ideal of the pragmatic nature. This T is telepathic, but correct except for certain confusions contri buted by an understrain of intuitive suggestions which are for the most taken up and half-justified, half-corrected immediately or with a little difficulty. The centre thought now predominates and gathers round it at its own level all other thinking, but sometimes descends to give its own character to thought manifested in the lower levels or regions of the subtle body.

r1919 07 20, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga    Sparsha is now abundant in the three things formerly gained by the sadhana, touch of subtle water and fire, touch of light things, eg insects, thread, wind,both of these strong, vivid, materialised, effective on the physical body, and other touches not materialised, but having a certain physical result of sensation; subtle in intent, sthula in result, but not with the full density. Some of these sparshas are however on the verge of materialisation. All this action was formerly regarded as an inferior insufficiency by the intellectual impatience, but is now accepted as a stage towards the full sparsha. The old drishya of the pranic ether is also resuming its Plenty. The ravana seems to be awaiting the silence of the night for its manifestation; but the sthula hearing is becoming exceedingly acute and comprehensive and there is a hint of sukshma sound behind its abundance. The lipi is to this extent justified, but there is as yet no sign of new extension, without which the barrier of obstruction cannot be said to have fallen.    Sadhara and niradhara are developing with some rapidity: in the midst of much confused, shapeless or half-shaped rupa there are some of perfect or almost [perfect vividness,]4 completeness and distinctness; old types of rupa are coming back with a greater perfection and vividness, but they have the old fault of instantaneous instability. Nevertheless this is a definite advance. At night there is the old difficulty; there is then the greatest confusion, vagueness, crudity; but there is also a beginning of better things.

Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (text), #Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism   139. What is the use of mere book-learning? The Pandits may be familiar with Plenty of sacred texts and   couplets. But what is the good of repeating them? One must realize in one's life the truths embodied in

Symposium translated by B Jowett, #Symposium, #Plato, #Philosophy   Socrates asks: Who are his father and mother? To this Diotima replies that he is the son of Plenty and Poverty, and partakes of the nature of both, and is full and starved by turns. Like his mother he is poor and squalid, lying on mats at doors (compare the speech of Pausanias); like his father he is bold and strong, and full of arts and resources. Further, he is in a mean between ignorance and knowledge:in this he resembles the philosopher who is also in a mean between the wise and the ignorant. Such is the nature of Love, who is not to be confused with the beloved.   But Love desires the beautiful; and then arises the question, What does he desire of the beautiful? He desires, of course, the possession of the beautiful;but what is given by that? For the beautiful let us substitute the good, and we have no difficulty in seeing the possession of the good to be happiness, and Love to be the desire of happiness, although the meaning of the word has been too often confined to one kind of love. And Love desires not only the good, but the everlasting possession of the good. Why then is there all this flutter and excitement about love? Because all men and women at a certain age are desirous of bringing to the birth. And love is not of beauty only, but of birth in beauty; this is the principle of immortality in a mortal creature. When beauty approaches, then the conceiving power is benign and diffuse; when foulness, she is averted and morose.   --   The course of the seasons is also full of both these principles; and when, as I was saying, the elements of hot and cold, moist and dry, attain the harmonious love of one another and blend in temperance and harmony, they bring to men, animals, and plants health and Plenty, and do them no harm; whereas the wanton love, getting the upper hand and affecting the seasons of the year, is very destructive and injurious, being the source of pestilence, and bringing many other kinds of diseases on animals and plants; for hoar-frost and hail and blight spring from the excesses and disorders of these elements of love, which to know in relation to the revolutions of the heavenly bodies and the seasons of the year is termed astronomy. Furthermore all sacrifices and the whole province of divination, which is the art of communion between gods and menthese, I say, are concerned only with the preservation of the good and the cure of the evil love. For all manner of impiety is likely to ensue if, instead of accepting and honouring and reverencing the harmonious love in all his actions, a man honours the other love, whether in his feelings towards gods or parents, towards the living or the dead. Wherefore the business of divination is to see to these loves and to heal them, and divination is the peacemaker of gods and men, working by a knowledge of the religious or irreligious tendencies which exist in human loves. Such is the great and mighty, or rather omnipotent force of love in general. And the love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another. I dare say that I too have omitted several things which might be said in praise of Love, but this was not intentional, and you, Aristophanes, may now supply the omission or take some other line of commendation; for I perceive that you are rid of the hiccough.   Yes, said Aristophanes, who followed, the hiccough is gone; not, however, until I applied the sneezing; and I wonder whether the harmony of the body has a love of such noises and ticklings, for I no sooner applied the sneezing than I was cured.   --   'What then is Love?' I asked; 'Is he mortal?' 'No.' 'What then?' 'As in the former instance, he is neither mortal nor immortal, but in a mean between the two.' 'What is he, Diotima?' 'He is a great spirit (daimon), and like all spirits he is intermediate between the divine and the mortal.' 'And what,' I said, 'is his power?' 'He interprets,' she replied, 'between gods and men, conveying and taking across to the gods the prayers and sacrifices of men, and to men the commands and replies of the gods; he is the mediator who spans the chasm which divides them, and therefore in him all is bound together, and through him the arts of the prophet and the priest, their sacrifices and mysteries and charms, and all prophecy and incantation, find their way. For God mingles not with man; but through Love all the intercourse and converse of God with man, whether awake or asleep, is carried on. The wisdom which understands this is spiritual; all other wisdom, such as that of arts and handicrafts, is mean and vulgar. Now these spirits or intermediate powers are many and diverse, and one of them is Love.' 'And who,' I said, 'was his father, and who his mother?' 'The tale,' she said, 'will take time; nevertheless I will tell you. On the birthday of Aphrodite there was a feast of the gods, at which the god Poros or Plenty, who is the son of Metis or Discretion, was one of the guests. When the feast was over, Penia or Poverty, as the manner is on such occasions, came about the doors to beg. Now Plenty who was the worse for nectar (there was no wine in those days), went into the garden of Zeus and fell into a heavy sleep, and Poverty considering her own straitened circumstances, plotted to have a child by him, and accordingly she lay down at his side and conceived Love, who partly because he is naturally a lover of the beautiful, and because Aphrodite is herself beautiful, and also because he was born on her birthday, is her follower and attendant. And as his parentage is, so also are his fortunes. In the first place he is always poor, and anything but tender and fair, as the many imagine him; and he is rough and squalid, and has no shoes, nor a house to dwell in; on the bare earth exposed he lies under the open heaven, in the streets, or at the doors of houses, taking his rest; and like his mother he is always in distress. Like his father too, whom he also partly resembles, he is always plotting against the fair and good; he is bold, enterprising, strong, a mighty hunter, always weaving some intrigue or other, keen in the pursuit of wisdom, fertile in resources; a philosopher at all times, terrible as an enchanter, sorcerer, sophist. He is by nature neither mortal nor immortal, but alive and flourishing at one moment when he is in Plenty, and dead at another moment, and again alive by reason of his father's nature. But that which is always flowing in is always flowing out, and so he is never in want and never in wealth; and, further, he is in a mean between ignorance and knowledge. The truth of the matter is this: No god is a philosopher or seeker after wisdom, for he is wise already; nor does any man who is wise seek after wisdom. Neither do the ignorant seek after wisdom. For herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he has no desire for that of which he feels no want.' 'But who then, Diotima,' I said, 'are the lovers of wisdom, if they are neither the wise nor the foolish?' 'A child may answer that question,' she replied; 'they are those who are in a mean between the two; Love is one of them. For wisdom is a most beautiful thing, and Love is of the beautiful; and therefore Love is also a philosopher or lover of wisdom, and being a lover of wisdom is in a mean between the wise and the ignorant. And of this too his birth is the cause; for his father is wealthy and wise, and his mother poor and foolish. Such, my dear Socrates, is the nature of the spirit Love. The error in your conception of him was very natural, and as I imagine from what you say, has arisen out of a confusion of love and the beloved, which made you think that love was all beautiful. For the beloved is the truly beautiful, and delicate, and perfect, and blessed; but the principle of love is of another nature, and is such as I have described.'   I said, 'O thou stranger woman, thou sayest well; but, assuming Love to be such as you say, what is the use of him to men?' 'That, Socrates,' she replied, 'I will attempt to unfold: of his nature and birth I have already spoken; and you acknowledge that love is of the beautiful. But some one will say: Of the beautiful in what, Socrates and Diotima?or rather let me put the question more clearly, and ask: When a man loves the beautiful, what does he desire?' I answered her 'That the beautiful may be his.' 'Still,' she said, 'the answer suggests a further question: What is given by the possession of beauty?' 'To what you have asked,' I replied, 'I have no answer ready.' 'Then,' she said, 'let me put the word "good" in the place of the beautiful, and repeat the question once more: If he who loves loves the good, what is it then that he loves?' 'The possession of the good,' I said. 'And what does he gain who possesses the good?' 'Happiness,' I replied; 'there is less difficulty in answering that question.' 'Yes,' she said, 'the happy are made happy by the acquisition of good things. Nor is there any need to ask why a man desires happiness; the answer is already final.' 'You are right.' I said. 'And is this wish and this desire common to all? and do all men always desire their own good, or only some men?what say you?' 'All men,' I replied; 'the desire is common to all.' 'Why, then,' she rejoined, 'are not all men, Socrates, said to love, but only some of them? whereas you say that all men are always loving the same things.' 'I myself wonder,' I said, 'why this is.' 'There is nothing to wonder at,' she replied; 'the reason is that one part of love is separated off and receives the name of the whole, but the other parts have other names.' 'Give an illustration,' I said. She answered me as follows: 'There is poetry, which, as you know, is complex and manifold. All creation or passage of non-being into being is poetry or making, and the processes of all art are creative; and the masters of arts are all poets or makers.' 'Very true.' 'Still,' she said, 'you know that they are not called poets, but have other names; only that portion of the art which is separated off from the rest, and is concerned with music and metre, is termed poetry, and they who possess poetry in this sense of the word are called poets.' 'Very true,' I said. 'And the same holds of love. For you may say generally that all desire of good and happiness is only the great and subtle power of love; but they who are drawn towards him by any other path, whether the path of money-making or gymnastics or philosophy, are not called loversthe name of the whole is appropriated to those whose affection takes one form onlythey alone are said to love, or to be lovers.' 'I dare say,' I replied, 'that you are right.' 'Yes,' she added, 'and you hear people say that lovers are seeking for their other half; but I say that they are seeking neither for the half of themselves, nor for the whole, unless the half or the whole be also a good. And they will cut off their own hands and feet and cast them away, if they are evil; for they love not what is their own, unless perchance there be some one who calls what belongs to him the good, and what belongs to another the evil. For there is nothing which men love but the good. Is there anything?' 'Certainly, I should say, that there is nothing.' 'Then,' she said, 'the simple truth is, that men love the good.' 'Yes,' I said. 'To which must be added that they love the possession of the good?' 'Yes, that must be added.' 'And not only the possession, but the everlasting possession of the good?' 'That must be added too.' 'Then love,' she said, 'may be described generally as the love of the everlasting possession of the good?' 'That is most true.'

Tablets of Baha u llah text, #Tablets of Baha u llah, #Baha u llah, #Baha i   O peoples of the world! Forsake all evil, hold fast that which is good. Strive to be shining examples unto all mankind, and true reminders of the virtues of God amidst men. He that riseth to serve My Cause should manifest My wisdom, and bend every effort to banish ignorance from the earth. Be united in counsel, be one in thought. Let each morn be better than its eve and each morrow richer than its yesterday. Man's merit lieth in service and virtue and not in the pageantry of wealth and riches. Take heed that your words be purged from idle fancies and worldly desires and your deeds be cleansed from craftiness and suspicion. Dissipate not the wealth of your precious lives in the pursuit of evil and corrupt affection, nor let your endeavors be spent in promoting your personal interest. Be generous in your days of Plenty, and be patient in the hour of loss. Adversity is followed by success and rejoicings follow woe. Guard against idleness and sloth, and cling unto that which profiteth mankind, whether young or old, whether high or low. Beware lest ye sow tares of dissension among men or plant thorns of doubt in pure and radiant hearts. ["O peoples of the world!..."] The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh, vol. 4 p. 35   ["Take heed that your words..."] The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh, vol. 4 p. 37

Talks With Sri Aurobindo 1, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction   But Plenty of people can prophesy and among Yogis that capacity is very   common. When I was arrested, my maternal grand aunt asked Vishuddhananda, "What will happen to our Auro?" He replied, "The Divine Mother   --   DR. MANILAL: Plenty of thoughts invaded me: I tried to reject them and make   myself empty.   --   disillusioned now. Plenty of French workers went to Russia but came back   disappointed. The same thing happened when democracy came in. People   --   D used to write Plenty of letters complaining of the defects of Yogis. One   does not look for defects in the Yogis, for it is not the defects that are important. What ever leads to the upward growth, adding something to one's   --   SRI AUROBINDO: That is different. Plenty of people have written alexandrines.   But this is the dactylic six-foot line, the metre in which the epics of Homer   --   would bite me, though Plenty of mosquitoes were humming around. I took   more and more to Pranayama; but there were no further results.   --   have been able to get rid of Plenty of things, that these things didn't exist in   them any more, and -were much surprised to see them again coming up in   --   convincing people. At Khulna we were given a royal reception, with Plenty   of dishes on the table. I was not known as a political leader but as the son of   --   mankind is not going to be supramentalised; so there will be Plenty of people left for that purpose.   NIRODBARAN: Is it possible to create Manasaputra ("mind-child") by willpower?   --   SRI AUROBINDO: I didn't say there is no successful blank verse. Plenty of people have written successfully, such as Byron, Matthew Arnold in Sohrab and   Rustom and some others. But there are only three who have written great   --   Plenty of people started calling him a swindler.   SRI AUROBINDO: Why swindler? Did he take money for his prophecies? Swindling is when one takes money for things one promises to do but doesn't do.   --   merely because they were successful: Plenty of successful people are not admired. Caesar has won admiration because it was he who founded the greatness of Imperial Rome which gave us one of the greatest periods of human   civilisation. And we admire Napoleon because he was a great organiser and   --   Plenty of Indian women do their work with their saris on. When this craze   for utility comes, beauty goes to the dogs.This is the modern tendency. The   --   SRI AUROBINDO: That doesn't prevent the European dress from being the ugliest in the world. I have seen Plenty of people leading active lives with the   dhoti on. The Europeans are now putting on just shorts and a shirtmost   --   poem there are Plenty of Sanskrit words.   SRI AUROBINDO: But here the country is spoken of as "Durga", so a Hindu   --   the Muslims have Plenty of Persian words in their writings. Let these be removed also.   PURANI : Yes, they don't see that the country is being addressed as Durga.   --   DR. MANILAL: The Puranas can't be believed! Plenty of unreasonable stories!   SRI AUROBINDO: Why not? What about the Upanishads? There are also such   --   SATYENDRA: Plenty of sugar has been destroyed because of a surplus.   SRI AUROBINDO: Instead of destroying it, they could have given it free to the   --   Plenty of imagination. He wrote with an eye to the reading public.   SATYENDRA: He says he has given up his search for Yoga as he has plumbed   --   is nothing new. Plenty of people have said that. However, you can send him   a complimentary copy of The life Divine when the second volume is out.   --   Plenty of ammunition and military equipment for themselves. I don't know   whether they have enough to spare.   --   SATYENDRA: There are Plenty of advertisements for curing baldness, but the   problem remains. Perhaps Nirodbaran can discover something.   --   NIRODBARAN: Plenty of people complain about it. They say he says one thing   to one man and quite the opposite to another, (Laughter)   --   money. He has Plenty himself.   NIRODBARAN: No, they don't suspect that. I think they fear that the Bengal   --   NIRODBARAN: No, they are still going strong. Plenty of researches are still being done.   SRI AUROBINDO: Possibly after some time they will also be quite antiquated.   --   Browning has Plenty of mass, volume, "girth" as you say, but he is a different case. Once he used to be rated a great poet.   NIRODBARAN: Browning?   --   SRI AUROBINDO: But, Plenty of doctors hold the opposite view, and that is now   almost accepted.   --   NIRODBARAN: It may be septicaemia. Sometimes one has to make repeated examinations. For instance, in T.B. one has to search for the bacillus Plenty of   times.   --   that there are Plenty of people who haven't gone mad because of it, he   replies that they just don't know they are mad! (Laughter)   --   Gandhi?" Viswanath replied, "It needs Plenty of money." To this, Moore   said, "All right, I will offer Rs. 500." (Sri Aurobindo kept silent.) Various   --   SRI AUROBINDO: There is Plenty of it already; a little increase won't matter.   NIRODBARAN: But in India there is not so much. In Europe, may be.   --   Plenty of thorns.   SRI AUROBINDO: Divine gifts are like that.   --   SRI AUROBINDO: In England they do. Plenty of people read the reviews. Any   book recommended by the Book Club has a good sale.   --   DR. MANILAL: There are Plenty of people who go about as astrologers just to   rob people. They know practically nothing. I remember an astrologer who   --   SRI AUROBINDO: Plenty of musicians hear ragas without doing Yoga.   NIRODBARAN: Dr. Manilal can have a shot with this Hanumant Rao who, he   --   PURANI: There are Plenty of reasons why one wants Darshan.   DR. MANILAL (to Sri Aurobindo): How did you find this Darshan, Sir?   --   CHAMPAKLAL: There are Plenty of people who are Bhaktas, but when the   money-question comes, their Bhakti disappears. (Sri Aurobindo was enjoying the talk.)   --   DR. MANILAL: It is very rich and hard to digest. It has Plenty of protein and   may cause an excess of uric acid.   --   SATYENDRA: Plenty of people take almond. The Westerners take any amount. I   take it myself. I don't find it hard to digest.   --   SRI AUROBINDO: It depends on their faith. There are Plenty of instances where   people have got what they wanted by worshipping images. Images are only   --   SATYENDRA: Yes, Sir. Plenty of people have seen visions there, and people go   there with a living faith.   --   receive Plenty of letters accusing them of forsaking their duty.   SRI AUROBINDO: Yesand we also receive letters!

Talks With Sri Aurobindo 2, #Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen   publishing. There are Plenty of trivial things. A selection has to be made and   even then it may not be worth publishing it.   --   SATYENDRA: In England there are Plenty of people to fight.   NIRODBARAN: The Americans can land somewhere in England if Germany invades her.   --   PURANI: Yes, many people say that. Plenty of people saw you smiling.   NIRODBARAN: Dilip also said it was a very happy Darshan. But they want   --   PURANI: And there is Plenty of talk and discussion.   SRI AUROBINDO: That is Dilip. That is better left to him. I turned the   --   SATYENDRA: Plenty of people are writing to Doraiswamy about your war   donation. They don't understand why you have done it.   --   NIRODBARAN: That is what the Jains seem to have thought. Plenty of Jain   kings, while being strict vegetarians, had no hesitation in killing others.   --   SRI AUROBINDO: Plenty of people are good speakers!   PURANI: You have seen the Egyptian Government's queer resolution? They   --   Madras think of Hitler? It seems it is anti-British." Rao said Plenty of people were much surprised by Sri Aurobindo's contri bution and were wondering how it was possible for Sri Aurobindo, who once had been so antiBritish, to do such a thing. But there were others who supported Sri Aurobindo. Then Sri Aurobindo explained to Rao at great length all the points   and sides of the question, most of which he had mentioned in the letter. We   --   the power to cure? Besides, knowledge is not necessary for cure. Plenty of   people can cure without knowledge.

The Act of Creation text, #The Act of Creation, #Arthur Koestler, #Psychology   by electric shock? As Berlyne put it: 'There are Plenty of experiments   to show that latent maze-learning can occur in the rat, which is em-   --   hand, however, we have met with Plenty of examples of comparable   fumblings among human geniuses of wild guesses and inappropriate

Theaetetus, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction   Theodorus is inclined to think that this is going too far. Socrates ironically replies, that he is not going beyond the truth. But if the old Protagoras could only pop his head out of the world below, he would doubtless give them both a sound castigation and be off to the shades in an instant. Seeing that he is not within call, we must examine the question for ourselves. It is clear that there are great differences in the understandings of men. Admitting, with Protagoras, that immediate sensations of hot, cold, and the like, are to each one such as they appear, yet this hypothesis cannot be extended to judgments or opinions. And even if we were to admit further,and this is the view of some who are not thorough-going followers of Protagoras,that right and wrong, holy and unholy, are to each state or individual such as they appear, still Protagoras will not venture to maintain that every man is equally the measure of expediency, or that the thing which seems is expedient to every one. But this begins a new question. 'Well, Socrates, we have Plenty of leisure. Yes, we have, and, after the manner of philosophers, we are digressing; I have often observed how ridiculous this habit of theirs makes them when they appear in court. 'What do you mean?' I mean to say that a philosopher is a gentleman, but a lawyer is a servant. The one can have his talk out, and wander at will from one subject to another, as the fancy takes him; like ourselves, he may be long or short, as he pleases. But the lawyer is always in a hurry; there is the clepsydra limiting his time, and the brief limiting his topics, and his adversary is standing over him and exacting his rights. He is a servant disputing about a fellow-servant before his master, who holds the cause in his hands; the path never diverges, and often the race is for his life. Such experiences render him keen and shrewd; he learns the arts of flattery, and is perfect in the practice of crooked ways; dangers have come upon him too soon, when the tenderness of youth was unable to meet them with truth and honesty, and he has resorted to counter-acts of dishonesty and falsehood, and become warped and distorted; without any health or freedom or sincerity in him he has grown up to manhood, and is or esteems himself to be a master of cunning. Such are the lawyers; will you have the companion picture of philosophers? or will this be too much of a digression?   'Nay, Socrates, the argument is our servant, and not our master. Who is the judge or where is the spectator, having a right to control us?'   --   SOCRATES: Yes, Theaetetus; and there are Plenty of other proofs which will show that motion is the source of what is called being and becoming, and inactivity of not-being and destruction; for fire and warmth, which are supposed to be the parent and guardian of all other things, are born of movement and of friction, which is a kind of motion;is not this the origin of fire?   THEAETETUS: It is.   --   SOCRATES: And mine too. But since this is our feeling, and there is Plenty of time, why should we not calmly and patiently review our own thoughts, and thoroughly examine and see what these appearances in us really are? If I am not mistaken, they will be described by us as follows:first, that nothing can become greater or less, either in number or magnitude, while remaining equal to itselfyou would agree?   THEAETETUS: Yes.   --   SOCRATES: And are not we, Protagoras, uttering the opinion of man, or rather of all mankind, when we say that every one thinks himself wiser than other men in some things, and their inferior in others? In the hour of danger, when they are in perils of war, or of the sea, or of sickness, do they not look up to their commanders as if they were gods, and expect salvation from them, only because they excel them in knowledge? Is not the world full of men in their several employments, who are looking for teachers and rulers of themselves and of the animals? and there are Plenty who think that they are able to teach and able to rule. Now, in all this is implied that ignorance and wisdom exist among them, at least in their own opinion.   THEODORUS: Certainly.   --   THEODORUS: Well, Socrates, we have Plenty of leisure.   SOCRATES: That is true, and your remark recalls to my mind an observation which I have often made, that those who have passed their days in the pursuit of philosophy are ridiculously at fault when they have to appear and speak in court. How natural is this!   --   SOCRATES: And the origin of truth and error is as follows:When the wax in the soul of any one is deep and abundant, and smooth and perfectly tempered, then the impressions which pass through the senses and sink into the heart of the soul, as Homer says in a parable, meaning to indicate the likeness of the soul to wax (Kerh Kerhos); these, I say, being pure and clear, and having a sufficient depth of wax, are also lasting, and minds, such as these, easily learn and easily retain, and are not liable to confusion, but have true thoughts, for they have Plenty of room, and having clear impressions of things, as we term them, quickly distribute them into their proper places on the block. And such men are called wise. Do you agree?   THEAETETUS: Entirely.

The Book of Job, #The Bible, #Anonymous, #Various   25 Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have Plenty of silver.   26 For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.   --   and in judgment, and in Plenty of justice: he will not afflict.   24 Men do therefore fear him: he respecteth not any that are wise of heart.

Timaeus, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction   The ancient physical philosophers have been charged by Dr. Whewell and others with wasting their fine intelligences in wrong methods of enquiry; and their progress in moral and political philosophy has been sometimes contrasted with their supposed failure in physical investigations. 'They had Plenty of ideas,' says Dr. Whewell, 'and Plenty of facts; but their ideas did not accurately represent the facts with which they were acquainted.' This is a very crude and misleading way of describing ancient science. It is the mistake of an uneducated personuneducated, that is, in the higher sense of the wordwho imagines every one else to be like himself and explains every other age by his own. No doubt the ancients often fell into strange and fanciful errors: the time had not yet arrived for the slower and surer path of the modern inductive philosophy. But it remains to be shown that they could have done more in their age and country; or that the contri butions which they made to the sciences with which they were acquainted are not as great upon the whole as those made by their successors. There is no single step in astronomy as great as that of the nameless Pythagorean who first conceived the world to be a body moving round the sun in space: there is no truer or more comprehensive principle than the application of mathematics alike to the heavenly bodies, and to the particles of matter. The ancients had not the instruments which would have enabled them to correct or verify their anticipations, and their opportunities of observation were limited. Plato probably did more for physical science by asserting the supremacy of mathematics than Aristotle or his disciples by their collections of facts. When the thinkers of modern times, following Bacon, undervalue or disparage the speculations of ancient philosophers, they seem wholly to forget the conditions of the world and of the human mind, under which they carried on their investigations. When we accuse them of being under the influence of words, do we suppose that we are altogether free from this illusion? When we remark that Greek physics soon became stationary or extinct, may we not observe also that there have been and may be again periods in the history of modern philosophy which have been barren and unproductive? We might as well maintain that Greek art was not real or great, because it had nihil simile aut secundum, as say that Greek physics were a failure because they admire no subsequent progress.   The charge of premature generalization which is often urged against ancient philosophers is really an anachronism. For they can hardly be said to have generalized at all. They may be said more truly to have cleared up and defined by the help of experience ideas which they already possessed. The beginnings of thought about nature must always have this character. A true method is the result of many ages of experiment and observation, and is ever going on and enlarging with the progress of science and knowledge. At first men personify nature, then they form impressions of nature, at last they conceive 'measure' or laws of nature. They pass out of mythology into philosophy. Early science is not a process of discovery in the modern sense; but rather a process of correcting by observation, and to a certain extent only, the first impressions of nature, which mankind, when they began to think, had received from poetry or language or unintelligent sense. Of all scientific truths the greatest and simplest is the uniformity of nature; this was expressed by the ancients in many ways, as fate, or necessity, or measure, or limit. Unexpected events, of which the cause was unknown to them, they attri buted to chance (Thucyd.). But their conception of nature was never that of law interrupted by exceptions,a somewhat unfortunate metaphysical invention of modern times, which is at variance with facts and has failed to satisfy the requirements of thought.   --   SOCRATES: I should like, before proceeding further, to tell you how I feel about the State which we have described. I might compare myself to a person who, on beholding beautiful animals either created by the painter's art, or, better still, alive but at rest, is seized with a desire of seeing them in motion or engaged in some struggle or conflict to which their forms appear suited; this is my feeling about the State which we have been describing. There are conflicts which all cities undergo, and I should like to hear some one tell of our own city carrying on a struggle against her neighbours, and how she went out to war in a becoming manner, and when at war showed by the greatness of her actions and the magnanimity of her words in dealing with other cities a result worthy of her training and education. Now I, Critias and Hermocrates, am conscious that I myself should never be able to celebrate the city and her citizens in a befitting manner, and I am not surprised at my own incapacity; to me the wonder is rather that the poets present as well as past are no betternot that I mean to depreciate them; but every one can see that they are a tribe of imitators, and will imitate best and most easily the life in which they have been brought up; while that which is beyond the range of a man's education he finds hard to carry out in action, and still harder adequately to represent in language. I am aware that the Sophists have Plenty of brave words and fair conceits, but I am afraid that being only wanderers from one city to another, and having never had habitations of their own, they may fail in their conception of philosophers and statesmen, and may not know what they do and say in time of war, when they are fighting or holding parley with their enemies. And thus people of your class are the only ones remaining who are fitted by nature and education to take part at once both in politics and philosophy. Here is Timaeus, of Locris in Italy, a city which has admirable laws, and who is himself in wealth and rank the equal of any of his fellow-citizens; he has held the most important and honourable offices in his own state, and, as I believe, has scaled the heights of all philosophy; and here is Critias, whom every Athenian knows to be no novice in the matters of which we are speaking; and as to Hermocrates, I am assured by many witnesses that his genius and education qualify him to take part in any speculation of the kind. And therefore yesterday when I saw that you wanted me to describe the formation of the State, I readily assented, being very well aware, that, if you only would, none were better qualified to carry the discussion further, and that when you had engaged our city in a suitable war, you of all men living could best exhibit her playing a fitting part. When I had completed my task, I in return imposed this other task upon you. You conferred together and agreed to entertain me to-day, as I had entertained you, with a feast of discourse. Here am I in festive array, and no man can be more ready for the promised banquet.   HERMOCRATES: And we too, Socrates, as Timaeus says, will not be wanting in enthusiasm; and there is no excuse for not complying with your request. As soon as we arrived yesterday at the guest-chamber of Critias, with whom we are staying, or rather on our way thither, we talked the matter over, and he told us an ancient tradition, which I wish, Critias, that you would repeat to Socrates, so that he may help us to judge whether it will satisfy his requirements or not.   --   As to the kinds of earth, that which is filtered through water passes into stone in the following manner:The water which mixes with the earth and is broken up in the process changes into air, and taking this form mounts into its own place. But as there is no surrounding vacuum it thrusts away the neighbouring air, and this being rendered heavy, and, when it is displaced, having been poured around the mass of earth, forcibly compresses it and drives it into the vacant space whence the new air had come up; and the earth when compressed by the air into an indissoluble union with water becomes rock. The fairer sort is that which is made up of equal and similar parts and is transparent; that which has the opposite qualities is inferior. But when all the watery part is suddenly drawn out by fire, a more brittle substance is formed, to which we give the name of pottery. Sometimes also moisture may remain, and the earth which has been fused by fire becomes, when cool, a certain stone of a black colour. A like separation of the water which had been copiously mingled with them may occur in two substances composed of finer particles of earth and of a briny nature; out of either of them a half-solid-body is then formed, soluble in waterthe one, soda, which is used for purging away oil and earth, the other, salt, which harmonizes so well in combinations pleasing to the palate, and is, as the law testifies, a substance dear to the gods. The compounds of earth and water are not soluble by water, but by fire only, and for this reason:Neither fire nor air melt masses of earth; for their particles, being smaller than the interstices in its structure, have Plenty of room to move without forcing their way, and so they leave the earth unmelted and undissolved; but particles of water, which are larger, force a passage, and dissolve and melt the earth. Wherefore earth when not consolidated by force is dissolved by water only; when consolidated, by nothing but fire; for this is the only body which can find an entrance. The cohesion of water again, when very strong, is dissolved by fire onlywhen weaker, then either by air or firethe former entering the interstices, and the latter penetrating even the triangles. But nothing can dissolve air, when strongly condensed, which does not reach the elements or triangles; or if not strongly condensed, then only fire can dissolve it. As to bodies composed of earth and water, while the water occupies the vacant interstices of the earth in them which are compressed by force, the particles of water which approach them from without, finding no entrance, flow around the entire mass and leave it undissolved; but the particles of fire, entering into the interstices of the water, do to the water what water does to earth and fire to air (The text seems to be corrupt.), and are the sole causes of the compound body of earth and water liquefying and becoming fluid. Now these bodies are of two kinds; some of them, such as glass and the fusible sort of stones, have less water than they have earth; on the other hand, substances of the nature of wax and incense have more of water entering into their composition.   I have thus shown the various classes of bodies as they are diversified by their forms and combinations and changes into one another, and now I must endeavour to set forth their affections and the causes of them. In the first place, the bodies which I have been describing are necessarily objects of sense. But we have not yet considered the origin of flesh, or what belongs to flesh, or of that part of the soul which is mortal. And these things cannot be adequately explained without also explaining the affections which are concerned with sensation, nor the latter without the former: and yet to explain them together is hardly possible; for which reason we must assume first one or the other and afterwards examine the nature of our hypothesis. In order, then, that the affections may follow regularly after the elements, let us presuppose the existence of body and soul.