TERMS STARTING WITH
200,000 firmaments,” and “with every word
2,000 times more massive than an electron that, with neutrons, forms all nuclear matter; a proton is a hadron and is made up of three quarks.
200 angels listed in The Book of Enoch who followed
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201b), one of the “mouths” created on the eve of
203
204) books cnuated by Ezra, according to popular
204 Purificaiion
208 Rajayoga
20. Auza (Oza)
202a). Here he commands 60 myriads of legions
20 Book
20. Chinese sectarian writings (vols. 44-48), e.g.,
20-GATE "language" An algebraic language for the {G-20}, developed at {Carnegie} around 1965. (1995-02-27)
20. Katzhiel
20. Kyriel
20. Maskiel
20. 'O bran Dpal gyi dbang phyug (Odran Palgyi Wangchuk)
20. One who is liberated through both ways (UBHAYATOBHĀGAVIMUKTA)
20. Partashah*
20. Rikbiel
20. See The Book of Adam and Eve, p. 245.
2, 102). In Persian lore, Harut and Maroth were
211
214-215), declares Astanphaeus to be “the Jewish
2:19-20 (where it is God Himself who appoints
219
21. Azaradel
212 Raksasa
21. Bethnael
21. Histories (vols. 49-52, nos. 2026-2120), e.g.,
21. Petrota*
21. Rma Rin chen mchog (Ma Rinchen Chok)
21. Schachniel
21. Shoel
21. Sopheriel Mehayye and
21. Talmud Sotah, fol. 36, narrates that Gabriel taught Joseph seventy languages overnight. The angel Kirtabus
23:13), the Zidonians being the Phoenicians.
233
237
23:9 Haziel is a mortal, an offspring of the
23. Ahiel
23. Azza
23. Lang gro Dkon mchog 'byung gnas (Langdro Konchok Jungne)
23. Non-Buddhist schools (vol. 54, nos. 2137-2144), e.g.,
23. Raphi*
23. Requiel
23. Soqed Hozi
23. Tagriel (chief)
23. The noted 12th-century Jewish poet and theologian, Judah ha-Levi (1085-1140) in his work called The
244 Spiritual Evoiution
2=4=6=8 and 1=3=5=7
24. Abrinael
24. Azzael (Asael)
242 Spiritism
24. Chaniel*
24 Elders sitting on 24 thrones around the throne
24. La gsum rgyal ba byang chub (Lasum Gyalwa Jangchub)
24. Maspiel
24. Sandalphon (originally Elijah)
24. Satrina(h)*
24. Scriptural Catalogues (vol. 55, nos. 2145-2184), e.g.,
24. This “angel of insolence and pride” had two lives. He was deprived of the first for the reason given above.
251
253
254 • Stiperwind
256 Supermind {Descent)
257.]
25a-b, the gibborim “erect synagogues and col¬
25. Aziel
25. Balam (once of the order of dominations)
25. Japanese Buddhist writings (vols. 56-84)
25. Lahal
25. Origen’s belief in a “final restitution,” when God would forgive all his sinning creatures, even the most
25. Sahriel
25. Shemuil
25. Thiltho*
260 Suprameniallsation
261.]
26. Arfiel
26. Baraqel (Barakel, Baraqijal)
26. Buddhist apocrypha and fragments (vol. 85)
26. Malchiel*
26. Prayer of Joseph.
26. Suriel
26. Tagriel
26th day of each month. Astad was found at the
26. Zahriel
270 Symbol
274 Symbol
2780 {Binary Synchronous Transmission}
27. Atheniel
272 Symbol
27. Barbatos (once of the order of virtues)
27. Elijah-Sandalphon became the celestial psychopomp “whose duty it was,” says Pirke R. Eliezer, “to stand
27. Iconography (vols. 86-92)
27 November 1959 page 235, Some Answers from the Mother—Vol -16
27. Shahariel
27. Shebniel
27. Tzadkiel
27. Zefonith
283
288 Vmiy
289. On the other hand, according to Barrett, The
289.
28. According to Jewish tradition, all patriarchs, along with those who led exceptionally virtuous lives,
28. Amnixiel
28 angels ruling the 28 mansions of the moon.
282 Transformation
28. Barbiel (once of the order of virtues)
28. Bibliography and catalogues (vols. 93-100).
28. Bibliography and catalogues (vols. 93-100)
28 mansions of the moon. Enediel is, specifically,
28 Mansions of the Moon. [Rf. Barrett, The
28 mansions of the moon. [Rf. Barrett, The
28 mansions of the moon. See Appendix for a list
28 mansions of the moon. [See Appendix for the
28 mansions of the moon.
28 of the 196 Olympian provinces in which Heaven
28. Rachsiel
28. Sakriel
28. Uriel
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297
29), and an altar. In occult writings Ariel is the
29. Batarjal
29. In theology there are three classifications of spirit: (1) God, Who is divine spirit; (2) angels and demons,
29. Ragiel
29. Rumiel
29. Yefefiah (Dina)
2. Abba (the partsuf of Hochma or Wisdom);
2. Abito
2. absolute truth/ultimate truth (S. paramārthasatya; T. don dam bden pa; C. zhendi/shengyi di/diyiyi di 真諦/勝義諦/第一義諦)
2. Abyzu
2. access of practice (C. xingru 行入)
2. According to Plato, a prophetic prediction is a form of inspired "frenzy" which produces a good result which could not be obtained in a normal state of mind (Phaedrus). The other two forms of this abnormal activity are poetic inspiration and religious exaltation. This concept has been exalted by Christian theology which gave to it a divine origin: the gift of prediction is an attribute of a saint, and also of the biblical prophets.
2. accumulation/equipment of wisdom (S. jNānasaMbhāra; T. ye shes kyi tshogs; C. zhiziliang 智資糧)
2. A company's audit , nominating, and compensation committees should consist entirely of independent directors.
2. A computer algorithm considered as a complete system.
2. Act involving the awareness of the bare presence of an object to consciousness, as opposed to any act which involves judgment about such an object. -- A.C.B.
2. Adding a scalar multiple of a row (column) to another row (column)
2. A differential equation where the term not containing derivatives of y is a function whose value remain the same under the (same) scaling of both arguments, i.e. x and y.
2. adjunct retribution [viz. environmental factors] (yi bao 依報)
2. Adramelec
2. A face of a 3-dimensional geometric figure.
2. Af (angel of anger and the death of mortals)
2. A force. In the context of Newton's Third Law and another force (the reaction) that it induces.
2. A function from a space to itself.
2. A function of 2 variables (a and b) written as Max(a,b) which always gives the larger of the 2 values.
2. A function of 2 variables (a and b) written as min(a,b) which always gives the lesser of the 2 values.
2. A indicator function, taking either a value of 1 or 0, which indicates and takes into account in calculations, the truth value of the presence of a factor which is considered to be significant in the model.
2. A known constant, usually represented by numerals.
2. A line (in a 2D figure) or a plane (in a 3D figure) that is considered perpendicular to the height (or with reference to which we define the height) regardless of the orientation of the object.
2. Allergic reaction: Adverse reaction to a chemical resulting from previous sensitization to that chemical or to a structurally similar one.
2. A logarithmic function.
2. Also known as a midline of a triangle. It is the line segment where one of its endpoints is a vertex of a triangle and the other endpoint is the midpoint of the side oppoosite (not adjacent to) to vertex.
2. Also known as an addend.
2. Alternatively, it describes the representation of Euler's Number through the sum of the series of reciprocals of successive factorials. ( i.e. the above case when x=1 )
2. A mathematical expectation is the value of any chance which depends upon some contingent event. Thus, if a person is to receive an amount of money upon the occurrence of an event which has an equal chance of happening or failing, the expectation is worth half that amount. The mathematical expectation of life is the average duration of life (of an individual or a group) after a given age, as determined by computation from the mortality tables.
2. Anael or Haniel, over Venus
2. Anafiel
2. An edge neither of whose endpoints are the specified vertex in a triangle.
2. An function with positive integer arguments where f(xy)=f(x).f(y) for x,y coprime and f(1)=1.
2. Aniel, over Venus
2. animals (S. tiryak; T. dud 'gro; C. chusheng qu 畜生趣)
2. An operation on a solid angle of a polytope by retaining only the intersection of the polytope and a half space (i.e. half of the space of dimension n separated by a hyperplane of dimension n-1)
2. An operation which takes 2 polynomials and returns a number.
2. A North American unit of weight equals to the force of 2000 pounds.
2. Another class="d-title" name for a kite, the quadrilateral.
2.Another class="d-title" name for an exponent or "power".
2. Another class="d-title" name for the fundamental theorem of algebra.
2. anuyoga (T. rjes su rnal 'byor)
2. Any substance designated by EPA to be reported if a designated quantity of the substance is spilled in the waters of the United States or if otherwise released into the environment.
2. A parashah is also a sidrah (&
2 (April 1950).]
2. A property of a mathematical function for all neighbourhoods within a certain neighbourhood of a point. (e.g. local extrema)
2. A property of an operation where addition and multiplication can commute with the operator in its evaluation, such that:
2. Araqiel (Arakiel)
2. Asanga
2. As a religious concept Pantheism is to be distinguished from Immanent Theism md Deism by asserting the essential imminence of God in the creatures. See Monism, Idealism -- W.L.
2. A self-inverse function or matrix.
2. A sequence where each term is determined by a fixed (simple) rule and the preceeding term.
2. A set of vectors where one is linear dependent of the other vectors is said to be a linearly dependent set of vectors. If all vectors within the set is linearly independent of the other vectors then the set is sais to be linearly independent..
2. A short form of the term scalar quantity.
2) a spark of the Mashiach is contained within each individual soul.
2. A surface with no friction, i.e. a coefficient of friction of 0.
2. A system of equations where all partitions of the equations have one subset being independent (in the sense of 1) to another (non-intersecting) subset.
2. A system of equations where it is possible to partition the equations such that one subset is dependent (in the sense of 1) to another (non-intersecting) subset.
2. A trigonometric function defined to be the reciprocal of the trigonometric function of cosine.
2. attitude of undertaking (S. prasthānacittotpāda; T. 'jug pa'i sems bskyed; C. xing putixin 行菩提心)
2. A type of rounding which handles values of different orders of magnitude in a proportional way where the value of a quantity is represented by a number consisting of only a specified number of signficant figures from the left (the largest ones) of the value, that is closest to the value itself. (With the convention that the mid point is always rounded to the larger of the 2 possible values.)
2. A unit of measure of time that is one sixtieth (1/60) of a minute, or one three-thousand-six-hundredth (1/3600) of an hour.
2. A unit of measure of time that is one sixtieth (1/60) of an hour, or 60 seconds.
2. A unit of temperature, commonly either one one-hundredth (Celsius or Kelvin) or one one-hundred-and-eightieth of the temperature difference between the freezing and boiling point of water. (In certain conditions such as standard atmospheric pressure etc.)
2. Auphanim
2. AVADĀNA (vols. 3-4, nos. 152-219)
2. A value below which a whole number of quarters of the data fall.
2B1D {Basic Rate Interface}
2B1Q {two-binary, one-quaternary}
226 Self-Consecraiion
22. Azazel (once of the order of cherubim)
22. Encyclopedias and references (vols. 53-54, nos. 2121-2136), e.g.,
22. Geliel
22. John of Damascus qualifies this by saying in his Exposition of the Orthodox Faith: “God alone is eternal, or
22. Karkiel
22. Lha lung Dpal gyi rdo rje (Lhalung Palgyi Dorje)
22. Pods*
22. Sheviel
22
22. Sopheriel Memeth
2. basket of discipline (S. vinayapitaka; T. 'dul ba'i sde snod; C. lüzang 律藏)
2B+D {Basic Rate Interface}
2. becoming in the realm of subtle materiality (S. rupabhava; T. gzugs kyi srid pa; C. seyou 色有)
2 being Aebel and Anush), whom God appointed
2 being Anael and Sachiel). Also, one of the pre¬
2. Being in the same direction as the tangent (to another object/at a given point).
2. Belief in the existence of conscious, voluntary beings other than of the organic, corporeal type represented by animals and man, such as souls connected with inorganic Nature, disembodied nature spirits, manes or ancestral spirits, demons, celestial beings, angelic beings, deities. See Animism, Demonism, Spiritualism (4). -- W.L.
2. benefitting others (S. parārtha/parahita; T. gzhan don; C. lita 利他)
2. BKA' GDAMS "Tradition of Precepts and Instructions"
2. Bkra shis rnam rgyal (Tashi Namgyal, 1450-1497)
2. Bkra shis rnam rgyal (Tashi Namgyal, c. 1490-1518)
2. bodhisattva vows (S. bodhisattvasaMvara; T. byang sems kyi sdom pa; C. pusa lüyi 菩薩儀)
2. Bsod nams phyogs kyi glang po (Sonam Chokyi Langpo, 1439-1505)
2. BSOD NAMS RTSE MO (1142-1182)
2. By extension the term has come to mean the pursuit of the good of others, whether motivated by either self-centered or other-centered interest, or whether by disinterested duty. By some it is identified with the protective and other-regarding feelings, attitudes, and behavior of animal life in general; while by others its use is restricted to mean such on the level of reflective intelligence. -- W.L.
2. Chaigidiel The averse sefira to
2. Cherubim
2 chief aides to Uriel (the other aide being Hasdiel)
2. Chokmah (wisdom), 3. Binah (understanding),
2. Chos rje Kun dga' dpal 'byor (Choje Kunga Paljor, 1426-1476)
2. cognitive or noetic obstructions [to omniscience] (S. jNeyāvarana; T. shes bya'i sgrib ba; C. suozhi zhang 所知障)
2. commitments: look into your own mind, a mirror (dam tshig rang sems me long ltos)
2. compassion (S. karunā; T. snying rje; C. bei 悲)
2. Complex Numbers - A real number which can be thought of as the length of the hypotenuse formed with sides (legs) of the real and imaginary parts as perpendicular to each other
2. Components of a matrix.
2. concentration/higher concentration (S. samādhi/adhisamādhisiksā; T. ting nge 'dzin/lhag pa'i ting nge 'dzin gyi bslab pa; C. ding/zengshangxin xue 定/増上心學)
2. contaminant of becoming (bhavāsrava; T. srid pa'i zag pa; C. you lou 有漏)
2. contaminant of becoming (S. bhavāsrava; T. srid pa'i zag pa; C. you lou 有漏)
2. contemplation of conventional existence (C. jiaguan 假觀)
2 "convention, character" In names of translation software, infix 2 often represents the word "to" with the connotation "translate to", as in {dvi2ps} ({DVI} to {PostScript}), int2string (integer to string) and {texi2roff} ({Texinfo} to [nt]{roff}). [{Jargon File}] (1995-01-25)
2. craving for continued existence (S. bhavarāga; T. srid pa'i 'dod chags; C. you'ai 有愛)
2 demons are Af and Hemah (q.v.). In Midrash
2. dependent (S. paratantra; T. gzhan dbang; C. yitaqi xing 依他起性)
2. Derivatives - the number of iterated differentiation of an expression
2. Dge 'dun rgya mtsho (Gendün Gyatso, 1475-1542)
2.Differential Equation - the order (in the sense of 2) of the highest-order derivative in a differential equation.
2. eccentricity
2. Enediel
2. enjoyment body (S. saMbhogakāya; T. longs spyod rdzogs pa'i sku; C. baoshen 報身)
2. enlightenment of the pratyekabuddhas (S. pratyekabodhi; T. rang rgyal gyi byang chub/rang sangs rgyas kyi byang chub; C. yuanjue puti 覺菩提)
2. enrichment (S. paustika; T. rgyas pa'i las; C. zengyi 增益)
2. Erelim
2. esoteric as to practices (shi mi 事密)
2. Fakr-ed-din (“the poor one of the faith”)
2. Fanuel (Peauel,
2. Fifty-one forces associated with thought (CITTASAMPRAYUKTASAMSKĀRA), such as "applied thought" (VITARKA), "sustained attention" (VICĀRA), and "envy" (ĪRsLĀ). These are mental concomitants (CAITTA).
2. For series - a necessary and sufficient condition for the convergence of a series: An infinite series Σan is convergent, if and only if, for any positive number ε, there is an integer N(ε) (N is a function of ε), such that
2. For vertices (in geometry and graph theory), they are adjacent if connected by an edge.
2. Gabriel
2. ghosts (S. preta; T. yi dwags; C. egui 餓鬼)
2 governing spirits of Scorpio are Riehol and
2. Gtsug lag phreng ba (Tsuklak Trengwa, 1504-1566)
2 guardian angels who, in Arabic legend, write
2. GURU CHOS KYI DBANG PHYUG
2. hatred/aversion (S. dvesa; T. zhe sdang; C. chen 瞋)
2. Having the property of relating to or being an integer.
2. Heichaloth (Mansions, Abodes) usually enumerated as seven, describing the structure of the upper and lower realms;
2. his knowledge that all the contaminants are destroyed (S. sarvāsravaksayajNānavaisāradya; T. zag pa zad pa thams cad mkhyen pa la mi 'jigs pa; C. yiqie loujinzhi wuwei 一切漏盡智無畏)
2. Iin reference to food, used to mean complying with the requirements of Jewish dietary laws.
2. ill-will (S. vyāpāda; T. gnod sems; C. chenhui 瞋恚)
2. immediate antecedent condition (S. samanantarapratyaya; T. de ma thag pa'i rkyen; C. dengwujian yuan 等無間)
2. Immensity (guangxia zizai wu'ai men): The relative size of any single thing is derived from that of all things, just as the immensity of all things is derived from any one thing.
2. In a broader sense, "evidence" may be either immediate (evidence in the first sense) or mediate. E.g., an intended fact is mediately evident if (and only if) there is immediate evidence of its entailment as the consequence of an immediately evident fact.
2. Includes fixed overhead as an inventoriable cost 2. Does not include fixed overhead as an inventoriable cost
2. In cosmology, the production of the substantial form out of the potentiality of matter, according to the hylomorphic system. -- T.G.
2. inference (S. anumāna; T. rjes dpag; C. biliang 比量)
2. infinite consciousness (S. vijNānānantyāyatana; T. rnam shes mtha' yas skye mched; C. shi wubian chu 識無邊處)
2. In graph theory, a set of points (vertices) together with a set of pair of points (edges).
2. In its rational aspect, as developed especially by Plato and Aristotle, aristocracy is the rule of the best few, in a true, purposeful, law-abiding and constitutional sense. As a political ideal, it is a form of government by morally and intellectually superior men for the common good or in the general interests of the governed, but without participation of the latter. Owing to the difficulty of distinguishing the best men for directing the life of the community, and of setting in motion the process of training and selecting such models of human perfection, aristocracy becomes practically the rule of those who are thought to be the best. [Plato himself proposed his ideal State as "a model fixed in the heavens" for human imitation but not attainment; and in the Laws he offered a combination of monarchy and democracy as the best working form of government.] Though aristocracy is a type of government external to the governed, it is opposed to oligarchy (despotic) and to timocracy (militaristic). With monarchy and democracy, it exhausts the classification of the main forms of rational government.
2. In Logic and Mathematics, a collection, a manifold, a multiplicity, a set, an ensemble, an assemblage, a totality of elements (usually numbers or points) satisfying a given condition or subjected to definite operational laws. According to Cantor, an aggregate is any collection of separate objects of thought gathered into a whole; or again, any multiplicity which can be thought as one; or better, any totality of definite elements bound up into a whole by means of a law. Aggregates have several properties: for example, they have the "same power" when their respective elements can be brought into one-to-one correspondence; and they are "enumerable" when they have the same power as the aggregate of natural numbers. Aggregates may be finite or infinite; and the laws applying to each type are different and often incompatible, thus raising difficult philosophical problems. See One-One; Cardinal Number; Enumerable. Hence the practice to isolate the mathematical notion of the aggregate from its metaphysical implications and to consider such collections as symbols of a certain kind which are to facilitate mathematical calculations in much the same way as numbers do. In spite of the controversial nature of infinite sets great progress has been made in mathematics by the introduction of the Theory of Aggregates in arithmetic, geometry and the theory of functions. (German, Mannigfaltigkeit, Menge; French, Ensemble).
2. In psychology, the act or process of exercising the mind, the faculty of connecting judgments; the power and fact of using reason; the thought-processes of discussion, debate, argumentation or inference; the manifestation of the discursive property of the mind; the actual use of arguments with a view to convince or persuade; the art and method or proving or demonstrating; the orderly development of thought with a view to, or the attainment of a conclusion believed to be valid. -- The origin, nature and value of reasoning are debated questions, with their answers ranging from spiritualism (reasoning as the exercise of a faculty of the soul) to materialism (reasoning as an epiphenomenon depending on the brain), with all the modern schools of psychology ordering themselves between them. A few points of agreement might be mentioned here: reasoning follows judgment and apprehension, whichever of the last two thought-processes comes first in our psychological development; reasoning proceeds according to four main types, namely deductive, inductive, presumptive and deceptive; reasoning assumes a belief in its own validity undisturbed by doubt, and implies various logical habits and methods which may be organized into a logical doctrine; reasoning requires a reference to some ultimate principles to justify its progress 3. In logic, Reasoning is the process of inference, it is the process of passing from certain propositions already known or assumed to be true, to another truth distinct from them but following from them; it is a discourse or argument which infers one proposition from another, or from a group of others having some common elements between them. The inference is necessary in the case of deductive reasoning; and contingent, probable or wrong, in the case of inductive, presumptive or deceptive reasoning respectively. -- There are various types of reasoning, and proper methods for each type. The definition, discussion, development and evaluation of these types and methods form an important branch of logic and its subdivisions. The details of the application of reasoning to the various sciences, form the subject of methodology. All these types are reducible to one or the other of the two fundamental processes or reasoning, namely deduction and induction. It must be added that the logical study of reasoning is normative logic does not analyze it simply in its natural development, but with a view to guide it towards coherence, validity or truth. -- T.G.
2. instruction class (T. man ngag sde)
2) in Talmudic writings.
2. In the safe drinking water program, water suppliers are required to publish and broadcast notices when pollution problems are discovered.
2. In the Veda, the All-pervading Godhead, the Eternal Personality of Consciousness, the wide-moving One, that which has gone abroad triply extending himself as Seer, Thinker, and Former in the superconscient Bliss.
2. Ishim
2. Jambudvīpa [south] (T. 'dzam bu gling; C. nan Shanbu zhou 南瞻部洲)
2. 'Jigs med phun tshogs 'byung gnas (1824-1863)
2. Kant also developed the Leibnizian principles with some modifications in his early writing Principiorum Primorum Cognitionis Metaphysicae Nova Dilucidatio (1755), where the Principle of Sufficient Reason becomes the Principle of Determining Reason (Ratio Determinans). Two forms of this principle are distinguished by Kant the ratio cur or antecedenter determinans identified with the ratio essendi vel fiendi, and the ratio quod or consequenter determinans identified with the ratio cognoscendi. It has been defended under these forms against Crusius and the argument that it destroys human freedom. -- T.G.
2. Karma pa KARMA PAKSHI (1203-1283)
2. Kong sprul Mkhyen brtse 'od zer (Kongtrül Khyentse Öser, 1904-1953)
2. Kun dga' bstan 'phel (Kunga Tenpel, 1639-1679)
2. Lahatiel (“flaming one of God”)
2. LAM RIM CHUNG BA ("Short Treatise on the Stages of the Path")
2. lesser vehicle (S. hīnayāna; T. theg pa dman pa; C. xiaosheng 小乘)
2. Mahāyāna sāstras and scriptural commentaries, beginning with the DAZHIDU LUN (*MahāprajNāpāramitāsāstra) (K 549-646)
2. MaNjusrī (T. 'Jam dpal; C. Wenshu 文殊)
2. Man ngag mdzod ("Treasury of Instructions")
2 mates are Lilith and Naamah.
2. matrix: juxtaposition of multiplicand and product of a given matrix
2. maturation/continuance (S. sthiti; T. gnas pa; C. zhu 住)
2. mindfulness of sensations (S. vedanāsmṛtyupasthāna; T. tshor ba dran pa nye bar bzhag pa; C. shou nianchu 受念處)
2. Mkha' spyod dbang po (Kacho Wangpo, 1350-1405)
2. Narrower sense: "Actual", belonging to the cogito. As living in a process that is "conscious" in this second sense, the ego is also said to be "conscious", "awake", and "conscious of" (awake to) the intentional object of the process. As objects of processes that are conscious (in either of the first two senses), objects are occasionally referred to as "conscious". -- D.C.
2nd altitude. [Rf. Waite, The Almadel of Solomon.]
2nd Heaven, according to Hechaloth Rabbati. [Rf
2nd Heaven as “prisoners suspended [there],
2nd Heaven. [Rf The Sixth and Seventh Books of
2nd or 3rd in the 2nd triad of the 9 choirs in the
2nd order of archangels,” claiming further that
2. Neo-idealism (q.v.) in Italy introduce a second type of concrete universal whose element^ lack the character of dialectical opposition and logical abstractness. -- W.L.
2NF {database normalisation}
2. niyamas, 3. asanas, 4. pranayama, 5. pratyahara,
2. nonself of phenomena (S. dharmanairātmya; T. chos kyi bdag med; C. fa wuwo 法無我)
2. Not a Koranic angel, as Poe mistakenly makes him out to be. Israfel is not mentioned in the Koran, and
2. (of a function): A zero of a function is also known as the root of a function, that is, an argument that produces a value of zero for the function.
2. Ofanim
2. of meaning (S. artha; T. don; C. yi 義)
2. of wrong views (S. dṛstyupādāna; T. lta ba nye bar len pa; C. jianqu 見取)
2. once-returner (S. sakṛdāgāmin; T. lan cig phyir 'ong ba; C. yilai guo/situohan guo 一來果/斯陀含果)
2 on each side. See picturization in Schaff, A
2. One of 2 vertices which defines an edge.
2. One of the trigonometric functions , it is the length between the point of contact and intersection between the x-axis and the tangent to a unit circle centre at the origin, where the radius (from the point of contact) makes a specified angle from the positive x-axis.
2. One who takes up to seven existences (SAPTAKṚDBHAVAPARAMA)
2. Operators of functions or other functions which takes functions as arguments - when the functions are considered as members of a vector space, such a function of a function can be known as a functional.
2. Padma 'gyur med rgya mtsho (Pema Gyurme Gyatso, 1686-1717)
2. PADMA LAS 'BREL RTSAL
2.PAK "language" An {artificial intelligence} language with {coroutines}. ["The 2.PAK Language: Goals and Description", L.F. Melli, Proc IJCAI 1975]. (1995-01-25)
2p ::: A notation in Integral Mathematics that represents an actual but nonspecific second person.
2-p ::: A notation in Integral Mathematics that represents a second-person mode or perspective.
2. physical body (S. rupakāya; T. gzugs sku; C. shengshen 生身)
2. (pl. dinim, &
2. Prāṇa Prāṇamaya-kośa
2. pratyekabuddhayāna (T. rang sangs rgyas kyi theg pa; C. yuanjue sheng/pizhi fo sheng 覺乘/辟支佛乘)
2. present (S. vartamāna; T. da lta ba; C. xianzaishi 現在世)
2. Process of grouping species into genera, genera into still larger genera, and so on to the summum genus (q.v.). -- A.C.B.
2. Raphael, 3. Raguel, 4. Michael, 5. Sariel or
2. Raphael
2. Ratziel (Raziel)
2. Rdzogs chen 'Gyur med theg mchog bstan 'dzin (Dzokchen Gyurme Tekchok Tendzin, 1699-1758);
2. realm of subtle materiality/form realm (S. rupadhātu; T. gzugs khams; C. se jie 色界)
2. Rebbe is a term used to describe or address a teacher of Torah.
2. Related to definition 1, collection of mathematical objects which is conceptually, graphically or representation-wise resembles the analoguous concept of the collect of points forming a line segment. (e.g. a collection of entries of a matrix as in the main diagonal or a collection of digits in a list of numbers as in the diagonal argument.)
2. Removable discontinuity - both the left-hand and right-hand limits exist for a point, they have the same value but they do not match the value of the function at the point or the value is not defined at the point.
2. Remove or drain the water from a tank or trench.
2. r - the scalar which the second quantity has to multiply by so that it equals to the first quantity.
2) Ruach (&
2. sākyaprabha
2. Samantabhadra bodhisattva (C. Puxian pusa 普賢菩薩)
2. Sangs rgyas ye shes (Sangye Yeshe)
2. second absorption (S. dvitīyadhyāna; T. bsam gtan gnyis pa; C. erchan 二禪)
2. secret empowerment (S. guhyābhiseka; T. gsang dbang; C. mimi guanding 秘密灌頂)
2. See congruence modulo n.
2. Semantics. Theory of the relations between signs and what they refer to (their "designata" or "denotata"). This theory contains also the theory of truth (q.v., semantical definition) and the theory of logical deduction.
2. signlessness (S. ānimitta; T. mtshan ma med pa; C. wuxiang 無相)
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2. speech (S. vāc; T. ngag; C. kou 口)
2. stage of completion (S. nispannakrama; T. rdzogs rim; C. yuanman cidi 圓滿次第)
2. STAG LUNG BKA' BRGYUD originating with STAG LUNG THANG PA BKRA SHIS DPAL
2. standing (S. sthāna; sthita; T. 'greng ba; C. zhu 住)
2. suffering inherent in change (S. viparināmaduḥkatā; T. 'gyur ba'i sdug bsngal; C. huaiku 壞苦)
2. summit (S. murdhan; T. rtse mo; C. ding 頂)
2. supreme attainment (S. uttamasiddhi; T. mchog gi dngos grub; C. zuishang chengjiu/xidi 最上成就/悉地)
2. Tehom
2) That one is greater than the other. / That one is less than the other.
2. The amount of rotation anticlockwise that the initial line (positive x axis) must make on an argand diagram to form the line that contains the complex number in question. If the angle is reflex then the argument is considered negative, and the absolute value of the argument is the amount of clockwise rotation instead.
2. The amount of water used from a tank or reservoir.
2. The attempted clarification of the basic concepts, presuppositions and postulates of the sciences, and the revelation of the empirical, rational, or pragmatic grounds upon which they are presumed to rest. This aspect of the philosophy of science is closely related to the foregoing but includes, in addition to the logical and epistemological subject-matter, a large portion of metaphysics. Roughly, the task here is two-fold. On the one hand it involves the critical analysis of certain basic notions, such as quantity, quality, time, space, cause and law, which are used by the scientist but not subjected to examination. On the other hand it includes a similar study of certain presupposed beliefs, such as the belief in an external world, the belief in the uniformity of nature, and the belief in the rationality of natural processes.
2. The class="d-title" name of the operation and operator related to creating a new set which is the intersection of 2 existing sets.
2. the dharma-wheel of the absence of defining characteristics (S. alaksanadharmacakra; T. mtshan nyid med pa'i chos 'khor; C. wuxiang falun 無相法輪)
2. The diameter of the largest sphere inscribed in an ellipsoid for which the endpoints are on the ellipsoid.
2. The direction of clockwise and anticlockwise from some reference axis/axes.
2. The divine enjoyment, bhaga, typified by the god Bhaga, the Enjoyer in the power of the Truth.” The Secret of the Veda
2. "the divine eye"/clairvoyance (S. divyacaksus; T. lha'i mig; C. tianyan ming 天眼明)
2. The divisor function, which is defined to be the sum of the positive factors of a specified number. e.g. σ(24) = 1+2+3+4+6+8+12+24=60.
2. The equivalent line segment in an ellipse/ellipsoid, seen as an elongated circle/sphere.
2. The expectation of a specified integer power of the difference between a random variable and a value. For an integer power of n, the expectation of the difference between the random variable and a value v raised to the nth power is called the nth moment about v.
2. The factors which caused such deviations.
2. theft (S. adattādāna; T. ma byin par len pa; C. dao 盜)
2. The generalised concept of a function.
2. The heaven of blessed birth (PUnYAPRASAVA)
2. The heaven of Brahmā's ministers (BRAHMAPUROHITA)
2. The heaven of immeasurable radiance (APRAMĀnĀBHA)
2. The heaven of the thirty-three [gods] (TRĀYASTRIMsA), located on the summit of Mount Sumeru
2. The image of the domain of a function - the set of values (outputs) that a function takes.
2. The influence which causes the change in momentum.
2. The largest circle whose centre lies on the centre (the intersection of the lines of symmetry and/or the asymptotes) of the hyperbola.
2. The length of such a line segment.
2. The line or vector which is perpendicular to a given geometric figure.
2. The line segment or its length along the x-axis, between the intersection of the normal and the x-axis and the intersection of x-axis and a line through the conact point parallel to the y-axis. i.e. the projection of the normal between the x-intercept and the contact point, onto the x-axis.
2. The line segment or its length along the x-axis, between the intersection of the tangent and the x-axis and the intersection of x-axis and a line through the conact point parallel to the y-axis. i.e. the projection of the tangent between the x-intercept and the contact point, onto the x-axis.
2. The method of representing exponentations through the use of superscripts.
2. the non-negative integers: 0, 1, 2, 3, ... etc.
2. The number of failures, Y, before the first success (in a Bernoulli trial) appears.
2. The number of units in a sample in sampling of a population in statistics.
2. The number of ways of choosing r elements from a set of n elements when the order of being chosen matter. This is the same as performing (the equivalent actions associated with) combination followed by the factorial.
2. The number resulting from a number multiplying itself.
2. The number which, when raised to a specified power, results in a specified number (operand). e.g. The square root is a number which equals to a specified number when raised to the power of 2.
2. The numerical method of approximating the area underneath a curve (value of a definite integral) by areas of rectangles whose widths are not necessarily all equal (known as Riemann sums in the sense of 1).
2. (theol.) that theory of religious knowledge which asserts that it is impossible for man to attain knowledge of God.
2. The process of giving the value of a root to a certain accuracy by considering values on either side of the (propsed) root in a continuous function (often a polynomial).
2. The property of a geometric figure through 2 specific points within the figure.
2. The quality of uniqueness and persistence through changes (Lat. ipse), by virtue of which any person calls himself I and leading to the distinction among selves, as implied in such words as myself, yourself, himself, etc. (By transfer, this applies to the uniqueness of my thing, as in 'itself').
2. The radius of the largest sphere incribed in a given ellipsoid where one of the endpoints is on the ellipsoid.
2. The radius of the smallest sphere circumscribing a given ellipsoid where one of the endpoints is on the ellipsoid.
2. The relation between two functions that tends to the same value (possibly infinite) and such that the difference between the values of the 2 functions, considered as a proportion of the values of either function, becomes arbitrarily small.
2. The relationship between two polynomials where the quotient of one dividing by another is another polynomial.
2. The remaining amoutn after all deductions are accounted for.
2. The representation of a mathematical object is a certain, conventionally agreed manner. e.g. a quadratic expression as ax2+bx+c and not (ax+b)x+c.
2. the restraint that is engendered by meditative absorption (S. dhyānajasaMvara; T. bsam gtan skyes pa'i sdom pa; C. chanlüyi 禪儀)
2. The result of applying the differential operator del, represented by the nabla symbol \nabla f to find the gradient of a multi-variate scalar function f(x_1, x_2, x_3, \dots x_n).
2. The result of applying the modulus function to a complex value.
2. The scalar quantity that is the rate of change of speed (also a scalar quantity).
2) the Second Temple was destroyed by the Romans;
2. The second triad of sefirot, which together constitute the primary emotions (see Chabad, Nehi).
2. The Shabbat on which this haftarah is recited.
2. The Shakespearean sonnet (or English sonnet): arranged in three quatrains, where each rhyme is distinct. There is a final, rhymed couplet that creates a unifying peak to the entire sonnet. Its rhyme scheme is generally abab, cdcd, efef,gg.
2. The sphere of infinite consciousness (VIJNĀNĀNANTYĀYATANA)
2. "The statement of fact is that relations between things, conjunctive as well as disjunctive, are as much matters of direct particular experience . . . [as] . . . the things themselves.
2. The study of mechanics in such a system.
2. The subseries ak where k ≥ N for some positive integer N, in the series an where n is an integer
2. the teachings (S. dharma; T. chos; C. fa/damo 法/達磨)
2. This view has affinities with, and has occasionally developed into, the notion of a World Mind or Absolute Mind as posited in Vedantic and Buddhist idealism, patristic and scholastic Christian theism, objective idealism, and absolute idealism. See Idealism, The Absolute. -- W.L.
2. Transformation (rotation or reflection) - a (straight) line formed by the invariant points of the transformation.
2. truth of being provisionally real (C. jiadi 假諦)
2. TSHAL PA BKA' BRGYUD originating with Zhang tshal pa Brtson 'grus grags pa (Shangtsalpa Tsondru Drakpa, 1123-1193)-a disciple of Dwags po Sgom tshul
2. tutelary deity ( T. yi dam)
2. Tutrechial
2. Two quantities considered the same under modulo arithmetics. See congruence modulo n.
2. Two sets of equal number of observations with a bijection between the 2 sets.
2. Under the influence of Franz Brentano (1838-1917), Husserl coined the name "Intentionalität" for what he saw is the fundamental character of subjective processes. The reflectively experienceable part of one's stream of consciousness is, on the one hand, consciousness of subjective processes as immanent in the stream itself and, on the other hand, consciousness of other objects as transcending the stieam. This character of subjective processes as consciousness of, as processes in which something is intended, is a property they have intrinsically, regardless of whether what is intended in them exists. Seeing intentionality as the fundamental attribute of subjective processes, Husseil held that phenomenology must describe them not only with respect to their immanent components but also with respect to their intended objects, as intended, in the language of his Ideen, phenomenological description must be "noematic," as well as "noetic" and "hyletic."
2. unwholesome/unvirtuous (S. akusala; T. mi dge ba; C. bushan 不善)
2 .vehicle of solitary buddhas (S. pratyekabuddhayāna; T. rang rgyal gyi theg pa; C. yuanjue sheng 覺乘)
2. vicarana, 3. tanumanasa, 4. sattvapatti, 5. asamsakti, 6. padarthabhavana, and 7. turyaga&
2. vigor/effort (S. vīrya; T. brtson 'grus; C. qin 勤)
2. Virudhaka; in the south (T. 'Phags skyes po; C. Zengzhang 增長)
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2. water/cohesion (S. āpas; T. chu; C. shui 水)
2. Weaknesses: A weakness is a limitation, fault, or defect within the organisation that will keep it from achieving its objectives; it is what an organization does poorly or where it has inferior capabilities or resources as compared to the competition.
2. wisdom derived from reflection (S. cintāmayīprajNā; T. bsam pa las byung ba'i shes rab; C. sihui 思慧)
2. |z| ≥ 0 for all possible values of z
2. Zadkiel
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TERMS ANYWHERE
1. Accompanying in a circumstantial relation; going with as a concomitant; closely consequent. 2. Following closely. 3. Waiting for, awaiting, expecting (a future time, event, result, decision, etc.)
1. A distinctive and pervasive quality or character; air; atmosphere. 2. A subtle emanation from and enveloping living persons and things, viewed by mystics as consisting of the essence of the individual.
1. Anything whatever; any part. 2. A cypher, zero. Aught.
1. Filled with bliss, ecstasy; joy. 2. Filled with spiritual joy. All-Blissful.
1. Hammered or struck repeatedly. 2. Defeated, vanquished, baffled, overcome.
1. Situated at, in, or near the center. 2. Of basic importance; essential or principal.
1. Spirited and original; daring; bold. 2. Fearlessly, often recklessly daring; bold; defiant; insolent; brazen; unrestrained by convention or propriety.
1. The active opposition or mutual hostility of two opposing forces, physical or mental. 2. An opposing force, principle, or tendency.
1. The act, power or property of appealing, alluring, enticing or inviting. 2. A thing or feature which draws by appealing to desires, tastes, etc. 3. The action of a body or substance in drawing to itself, by some physical force, another to which it is not materially attached; the force thus exercised. attractions.
1. ‘The beginning and the end," originally of the divine Being. 2. The first and last letters of the Greek alphabet.
1. The expenditure of something, such as time or labour, necessary for the attainment of a goal. Also fig. **2. The price paid or required for acquiring, producing, or maintaining something, usually measured in money, time, or energy; expense or expenditure; outlay. 3. **Suffering or sacrifice; loss; penalty.
1. To bring into musical accord or harmony; to tune. 2. To bring into accord, harmony, or sympathetic relationship; adjust. attuned, attuning.
1. Touchstone; a very smooth, fine-grained, black or dark-coloured variety of quartz or jasper (also called basanite), used for testing the quality of gold and silver alloys by the colour of the streak produced by rubbing them upon it; a piece of such stone used for this purpose. 2. *fig.* That which serves to test or try the genuineness or value of anything; a test, criterion.
1. Where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence. 2. The place where something begins, where it springs into being.
abandon ::: 1. To give oneself up, devote oneself to (a person or thing); to yield oneself without restraint. 2. To withdraw one"s support or help from, especially in spite of duty, allegiance, or responsibility; desert: leave behind. 3. To give up; discontinue; withdraw from. abandons, abandoned, abandoning.
abandoned ::: 1. Given up, deserted, forsaken, cast off. 2. Left completely and finally, without help or support. 3. adj. Deserted.
abide ::: 1. To wait, stay, remain. 2. To remain in residence; to sojourn, reside, dwell. 3. To remain with; to stand firm by, to hold to, remain true to. 4. To continue in existence, endure, stand firm or sure. abides, abode, abiding.
ablaze ::: 1. Burning; on fire. 2. Gleaming with bright lights, bold colours, etc.
abroad ::: 1. Broadly, widely, at large, over a broad or wide surface; widely apart, with the parts or limbs wide spread. 2. At large; freely moving about.
abrupt ::: 1. Characterized by sudden interruption or change; unannounced and unexpected; sudden, hasty. 2. Precipitous, steep. 3. Of strata: Suddenly cropping out and presenting their edges.
absent ::: 1. Being away, withdrawn from, or not present (at a place). 2. Of time: Not present, distant, far off.
absolute ::: adj. 1. Free from all imperfection or deficiency; complete, finished; perfect, consummate. 2. Of degree: Complete, entire; in the fullest sense. 3. Having ultimate power, governing totally; unlimited by a constitution or the concurrent authority of a parliament; arbitrary, despotic. 4. Existing without relation to any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing. 5. Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned. 6. Considered independently of its being subjective or objective. n. 7. Something that is not dependent upon external conditions for existence or for its specific nature, size, etc. (opposed to relative). Absolute, Absolute"s, absolutes, absoluteness.
absolve ::: 1. To free from guilt, blame or their consequences; discharge (from obligations, liabilities, etc.). 2. To set free, release. 3. To clear off, discharge, acquit oneself of (a task, etc.); to perform completely, accomplish, finish. absolves, absolved.
absorbed ::: 1. Engrossed or entirely occupied; preoccupied. 2. Swallowed up, or comprised, so as no longer to exist apart.
abstract ::: adj. 1. Withdrawn or separated from matter, from material embodiment, from practice, or from particular examples; theoretical. 2. In the fine arts, characterized by lack of or freedom from representational qualities. n. 3. Something that concentrates in itself the essential qualities of anything more extensive or more general, or of several things; essence.
abstruse ::: 1. Concealed, hidden, secret. 2. Hard to understand; difficult, recondite.
abysmal ::: 1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling an abyss; fathomless; deep-sunken. 2. Extremely or hopelessly bad or severe.
abyss ::: 1. The great deep, the primal chaos; the ‘bowels of the earth", the supposed cavity of the lower world; the ‘infernal pit". 2. A bottomless gulf; any unfathomable or apparently unfathomable cavity or void space; a profound gulf, chasm, or void extending beneath. Abyss, abyss"s, abysses.
accent ::: 1. The way in which anything is said; pronunciation, tone, voice; sound, modulation or modification of the voice expressing feeling. 2. A mark indicating stress or some other distinction in pronunciation or value. accents.
accept ::: 1. To take or receive (a thing offered) willingly, or with consenting mind; to receive (a thing or person) with favour or approval. 2. To take formally (what is offered) with contemplation of its consequences and obligations; to take upon oneself, to undertake as a responsibility. 3. To agree or consent to. 4. To regard as true or sound; believe. accepts, accepted, accepting.
access ::: 1. The ability, right, or permission to approach, enter, speak with, or use; admittance. 2. A way or means of approach; an entrance, channel, passage, or doorway.
accident ::: 1. Any event that happens unexpectedly, without a deliberate plan or cause. 2. A fortuitous circumstance, quality, or characteristic. 3. An unfortunate event, a disaster, a mishap. accidents.
accompany ::: 1. To go in company with, to go along with. 2. To add as companion; to associate; to add or conjoin to. accompanied.
account ::: n. 1. A record of debts and credits, applied to other things than money or trade. 2. A particular statement or narrative of an event or thing; a relation, report, or description. v. 3. To render an account or reckoning of; to give a satisfactory reason for, to give an explanation.
accurate ::: 1. Exact, precise, correct, as the result of care. 2. Free from error or defect; consistent with a standard, rule, or model; precise, exact.
accustomed ::: 1. Customary, habitual, usual. 2. Habituated; acclimated (usually followed by to).
achieve ::: 1. To bring to a successful end, to carry out successfully (an enterprise); to accomplish, perform. 2. To succeed in gaining, to acquire by effort, to obtain, win. achieves, achieved, achieving.
aching ::: 1. Having the sensation of continuous or ever-recurring pain, throbbing painfully. 2. Full of or precipitating nostalgia, grief, loneliness, etc.
action ::: 1. The process or condition of acting or doing (in the widest sense), the exertion of energy, influence, power or force. 2. A way or manner of moving. 3. A thing done, a deed**. action"s, actions, self-action.
adamant ::: n. 1. Any impenetrably or unyieldingly hard substance. 2. A legendary stone of impenetrable hardness, formerly sometimes identified with the diamond. adj. **3. Unshakeable, inflexible, utterly unyielding. 4. Incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; immovable, impregnable. adamantine.**
adj. 1. Rousing (something) or being aroused, as if from sleep. n. awakenings. 2. Recognitions, realizations, or coming into awareness of things.
adjoining ::: 1. Adding, annexing, attaching, or appending. 2. Lying next, contiguous, adjacent; neighbouring.
admires ::: 1. Regards with pleased surprise, or with wonder mingled with esteem, approbation, or affection; and in modern usage, gazed on with pleasure. admired, admiring. adj. 2. Regarded with admiration; wondered at; contemplated with wonder mingled with esteem, etc.
admit ::: 1. To allow to enter, let in, receive (a person or thing). 2. Fig. To allow a matter to enter into any relation to action or thought. 3. To accept as true, or as a fact, to acknowledge, concede. 4. To allow, permit, grant. admits, admitted, admitting.
admonishing ::: 1. Reproving or scolding, especially in a mild or good-willed manner. 2. Urging to a duty; reminding.
adoration ::: 1. The act of paying honour, as to a divine being; worship. 2. Reverent homage. 3. Fervent and devoted love. **adoration"s.*Sri Aurobindo: "Especially in love for the Divine or for one whom one feels to be divine, the Bhakta feels an intense reverence for the Loved, a sense of something of immense greatness, beauty or value and for himself a strong impression of his own comparative unworthiness and a passionate desire to grow into likeness with that which one adores.” Letters on Yoga*
adore ::: 1. To worship as a deity, to pay divine honours to. 2. To reverence or honour very highly; to regard with the utmost respect and affection. adores, adored, adoring, adorer, adorer"s.
advance ::: n. **1. Fig. Onward movement in any process or course of action; progress. v. 2. To move or go forward; to proceed. 3. Fig. To go forward or make progress in life, or in any course. 3. To move, put, or push (a thing) forward. Also fig. advances, advanced, advancing.**
adventure ::: n. 1. Any novel or unexpected event in which one shares; an exciting or remarkable incident befalling any one. 2. The encountering of risks or participation in novel and exciting events; bold or daring activity, enterprise. adventure"s, world-adventure, world-adventure"s. *v. 3. To take the chance of; to commit to fortune; to undertake a thing of doubtful issue; to try, to chance, to venture into or upon. 4. To risk or hazard; stake. *adventuring.
aerial ::: 1. Having a light and graceful beauty; airy; ethereal; unsubstantial, intangible; hence, immaterial, ideal, imaginary. 2. Biol. Growing in the air.
affinity ::: 1. Causal relationship or connexion (as flowing the one from the other, or having a common source). 2. A psychical or spiritual attraction believed by some sects to exist between persons.
afflicting ::: 1. Grievously painful, distressing. 2. Distressing with bodily or mental suffering; troubling grievously, tormenting. self-afflicting.
afloat ::: 1. Floating or borne on the water; in a floating condition. 2. From the state of a ship or other body floating on the sea, having liberty of motion and buoyancy.
a game in which a blindfolded player tries to catch and identify one of the other players. The game has been around for at least 2000 years and probably longer. It is known to have been played in Greece about the time of the Roman Conquest.
age ::: n. **1. A great period or stage of the history of the Earth. 2. Hist. Any great period or portion of human history distinguished by certain characters real or mythical, as the Golden Age, the Patriarchal Age, the Bronze Age, the Age of the Reformation, the Middle Ages, the Prehistoric Age. 3. A generation or a series of generations. 4. Advanced years; old age. age"s, ages, ages". v. 5.** To grow old; to become aged.
agent ::: n. **1. One who does the actual work of anything, as distinguished from the instigator or employer; hence, one who acts for another, a deputy, steward, factor, substitute, representative, or emissary. adj. 2. That which acts or exerts power. agents.**
agony ::: 1. Anguish of mind, sore trouble or distress, a paroxysm of grief. 2. The convulsive throes, or pangs of death; the death struggle. 3. Extreme bodily suffering, such as to produce writhing or throes of the body. agonies.
agree ::: 1. To be in harmony or unison in opinions, feelings, conduct, etc.; to be in sympathy; to live or act together harmoniously; to have no causes of variance. 2. To give consent; assent (often followed by to). agreed.
aid ::: n. 1. Help, assistance, support, succour, relief. v. 2. To give help, support, or assistance to; to help, assist, succour. aids.
aim ::: n. Fig. 1. A thing intended or desired to be effected; an object, purpose. Aim, aims. *v. 2. To point or direct a gun, arrow, etc. toward. *aimed.
air ::: 1. The transparent, invisible, inodorous, and tasteless gaseous substance which envelopes the earth. 2. *Fig. With reference to its unsubstantial or impalpable nature. 3. Outward appearance, apparent character, manner, look, style: esp. in phrases like ‘an air of absurdity"; less commonly of a thing tangible, as ‘the air of a mansion". 4. Mien or gesture (expressive of a personal quality or emotion). *air"s.
alarm ::: n. 1. A warning sound of any kind to give notice of danger, or to arouse or attract attention; esp. a loud and hurried peal rung out by a tocsin or alarm bell. v. 2. To arouse to a sense of danger, to excite the attention or suspicion of, to put on the alert; warn. 3. To strike with fear or apprehension of danger; to agitate or excite with sudden fear. alarmed, alarming.
algebra ::: the branch of mathematics that deals with general statements of relations, utilizing letters and other symbols to represent specific sets of numbers, values, vectors, etc., in the description of such relations. 2. Any special system of notation adapted to the study of a special system of relationship.
alien ::: 1. Unlike one"s own; strange; not belonging to one; belonging to another person, place, or family. 2. Adverse; hostile. aliens.
alight ::: 1. Lighted, kindled, in a flame; on fire. Also fig. **2.** Lighted up, illumined.
allotted ::: 1. Divided or distributed by share or portion; apportioned. 2. Assigned as a portion, set apart, dedicated.
allowed ::: 1. Permitted the occurrence or existence of. 2. Allotted, assigned, bestowed. allows.
alloy ::: 1. A substance composed of two or more metals, or of a metal or metals with a nonmetal, intimately mixed, as by fusion or electrodeposition; a less costly metal mixed with a more valuable one, such as that which is added to gold and silver coinage. 2. Admixture, as with good with evil.
allured ::: 1. Attracted as to a lure; drawn or enticed to a place or to a course of action. 2. Attracted or tempted by something flattering or desirable; fascinated, charmed. alluring, **alluringly, allurement.
almighty ::: 1. *Orig. and in the strict sense used as an attribute of the Deity, and joined to God or other title. 2. Absol. The Almighty; a title of God. 3. All-powerful (in a general sense); omnipotent. Almighty"s, Almightiness, almightiness.
aloof ::: 1. At a distance; distant; hence, detached, unsympathetic. 2. Away at some distance (from), with a clear space intervening, apart. aloofness.
already ::: 1. Core Meaning: an adverb indicating that something has happened before now. 2. Happened in the past before a particular time, or will have happened by or before a particular time in the future. 3. Unexpectedly early.
altar ::: 1. A block, pile, table, stand, mound, platform, or other elevated structure on which to place or sacrifice offerings to a deity. 2. With reference to the uses, customs, dedication, or peculiar sanctity of the altar. 3. A place consecrated to devotional observances. altar"s, altars, altar-burnings, mountain-altars.
ambassadors ::: 1. Diplomatic officials of the highest rank. 2. Authorized messengers or representatives.
amber ::: a pale yellow, sometimes reddish or brownish, fossil resin of vegetable origin, translucent, brittle, and capable of gaining a negative electrical charge by friction and of being an excellent insulator. 2. The yellowish-brown colour of resin.
ambience ::: 1. The mood, character, quality, tone, atmosphere, etc., particularly of an environment or milieu. 2. That which surrounds or encompasses.
ambiguous ::: 1. Open to or having several possible meanings or interpretations; equivocal; questionable; indistinct, obscure, not clearly defined. 2. Of doubtful or uncertain nature; difficult to comprehend, distinguish, or classify; admitting more than one interpretation, or explanation; of double meaning. 3. Of oracles, people, using words of double meaning. ambiguously.
ambush ::: 1. An act or instance of lying concealed so as to attack by surprise. 2. The concealed position itself. ambushes.
amorous ::: inclined or disposed to love; in love, enamoured, fond. 2. Showing or expressing love. 3. Being in love; enamoured.
anchor ::: 1. Any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold. 2. A person or thing that can be relied on for support, stability, or security; mainstay.
ancient ::: 1. Of or in time long past or early in the world"s history. 2. Dating from a remote period; of great age; of early origin. 3. Being old in wisdom and experience; venerable. Ancient.
anew ::: 1. Over again; again; once more. 2. In a new form or manner different from the previous.
angel ::: 1. One of a class of spiritual beings; a celestial attendant of the Deity; a divine messenger of an order of spiritual beings superior to man in power. 2. A fallen or rebellious spirit once a spiritual attendant of the Divine. angel, Angels, **angels.
animates ::: 1. Gives life to; makes alive; breathes life into. 2. To move or stir to action; motivate.
annul ::: 1. To reduce to nothing; obliterate; annihilate. To put out of existence, extinguish. 2. To put an end or stop to (an action or state of things); to abolish, cancel, do away with. 3. To make void or null; abolish; cancel; invalidate; declare invalid. annuls, annulled, annulling, annulment.
another ::: adj. 1. Being one more or more of the same; further; additional. 2. Very similar to; of the same kind or category as. 3. Different; distinct; of a different period, place, or kind. pron. **4. A person other than oneself or the one specified. 5. One more; an additional one. another"s**.
antechambers ::: 1. Chambers or rooms that serve as waiting rooms and entrances to larger rooms or apartments; anterooms. 2. Any areas that are entrances to other areas.
anticipations ::: 1. Expectations or hopes. 2. Intuitions, foreknowledge, or prescience.
antique ::: 1. Of or belonging to the past. 2. Dating from a period long ago; ancient.
ape ::: 1. Any of a group of anthropoid primates characterized by long arms, a broad chest, and the absence of a tail; an animal of the monkey tribe. 2. An imitator, a mimic. apelike.
apex ::: 1. The tip, point, or vertex; summit. 2. Climax; peak; acme.
aping ::: adj. 1. Imitating, mimicking. n. 2. Imitation, simulation, mimicry. apings.
apocalypse ::: 1. Any revelation or prophecy. 2. A prophetic revelation, esp. concerning a cataclysm in which the forces of good permanently triumph over the forces of evil.
apparent ::: readily seen; exposed to sight; open to view. 2. Capable of being easily perceived or understood; plain or clear; obvious; visible.
appeal ::: 1. An earnest request for aid, support, sympathy, mercy, etc.; entreaty; petition; plea. 2. An application or proceeding for review by a higher tribunal. 3. The power or ability to attract, interest; attraction. appealed, appealing, sense-appeal.
appear ::: 1. To come into sight; become visible; come into view, as from a place or state of concealment, or from a distance; esp. of angels, spirits, visions. 2. To come into existence; be created. 3. To be clear to the understanding. 4. To seem or look to be. appears, appeared, appearing.
appearance ::: 1. The act or fact of coming forward into view ; becoming visible. 2. The state, condition, manner, or style in which a person or object appears; outward look or aspect. 3. Outward show or seeming; semblance. appearances.
appease ::: 1. To bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify; soothe. 2. To satisfy, allay, or relieve.
appointed ::: 1. Predetermined; arranged; set. 2. Fixed by, through or as a result of authority; ordained; chosen; designated; selected.
approach ::: v. 1. To come near or nearer to; draw near. 2. To come near to a person: i.e. into personal relations; into his presence or audience; or fig. within the range of his notice or attention. 3. To come near in quality, character, time, or condition; to be nearly equal. approaches, approached, approaching.* *n. 4. Any means of access or way of passage, avenue. 5. The act of drawing near. approaches.**
approve ::: 1. To confirm or sanction formally; ratify. 2. To speak or think favourably of; pronounce or consider agreeable or good; judge favourably. approves, approved.
apt ::: 1. Having a natural tendency; inclined; disposed. 2. Unusually intelligent; able to learn quickly and easily. 3. Exactly suitable; appropriate.
arabesques ::: 1. Any ornaments or ornamental objects such as rugs or mosaics, in which flowers, foliage, fruits, vases, animals, and figures are represented in a fancifully combined pattern. 2. *Fine Arts.* A sinuous, spiraling, undulating, or serpentine line or linear motif.
arbiter ::: 1. One empowered to decide matters at issue; judge. 2. Having the sole or absolute power of judging or determining. arbiters.
arbitrary ::: 1. Based on or subject to individual will, judgment or preference: judgment without restriction; contingent solely upon one"s discretion. 2. Capricious; unreasonable; unsupported. 3. Derived from mere opinion or preference; capricious; uncertain. 4. Having unlimited power; uncontrolled or unrestricted by law; despotic; tyrannical.
arc ::: 1. Any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line. 2. A luminous bridge formed in a gap between two electrodes. arcs.
arch ::: 1. An upwardly curved construction, for spanning an opening, consisting of a number of wedgelike stones, bricks, or the like, set with the narrower side toward the opening in such a way that forces on the arch are transmitted as vertical or oblique stresses on either side of the opening, either capable of bearing weight or merely ornamental; 2. Something bowed or curved; any bowlike part: the arch of the foot. 3. An arched roof, door; gateway; vault; fig. the heavens. arches.
archipelago ::: 1. Any sea, or body of water, in which there are numerous islands. 2. A large group or chain of islands.
architecture ::: 1. The profession of designing buildings and other artificial constructions and environments, usually with some regard to aesthetic effect. 2. The character or style of building. 3. Construction or structure generally. architectures.
ardent ::: 1. Having, expressive of, or characterized by intense feeling; glowing with passion, animated by keen desire; intensely eager, zealous, fervent, fervid. 2. Burning, fiery, or hot. ardent-hued.
argument ::: 1. A fact or statement put forth as proof or evidence; a reason; persuasive discourse, debate. 2. A process of reasoning; series of reasons.
arise ::: 1. To get up from sleep or rest; to awaken; wake up. 2. To go up, come up, ascend on high, mount. Now only poet. **3. To come into being, action, or notice; originate; appear; spring up. 4. Of circumstances viewed as results: To spring, originate, or result from. 5. To rise from inaction, from the peaceful, quiet, or ordinary course of life. 6. To rise in violence or agitation, as the sea, the wind; to boil up as a fermenting fluid, the blood; so of the heart, wrath, etc. Now poet. 7. Of sounds: To come up aloud, or so as to be audible, to be heard aloud. arises, arising, arose, arisen. *(Sri Aurobindo also employs arisen as an adj.*)
armour ::: 1. Any covering worn as a defense against weapons, especially a metallic sheathing, suit of armour, mail. 2. Any quality, characteristic, situation, or thing that serves as protection. armours, armoured.* n. 1. Weapons. v. 2. Provides with weapons or whatever will add strength, force or security; supports; fortifies. *armed, arming.
arms ::: n. 1. Weapons. v. 2. Provides with weapons or whatever will add strength, force or security; supports; fortifies. armed, arming.
arouse ::: 1. To awaken from or as if from sleep or inactivity. 2. To stir up; excite 3. To stir to action or strong response; excite. aroused, arousing.
arrange ::: 1. To put into a specific order or relation; dispose. 2. To settle the order, manner, and circumstantial relations of (a thing to be done); to prepare or plan beforehand. arranged, arranging, self-arranged.
arrogant ::: 1. Having or displaying a sense of overbearing self-worth or self-importance. 2. Marked by or arising from a feeling or assumption of one"s superiority toward others.
artifice ::: 1. An artful or crafty expedient; a stratagem. 2. Cleverness or skill; ingenuity; inventiveness.
artificer ::: 1. One who is skilful or clever in devising ways of making things; inventor. 2. A skilful or artistic worker; craftsperson. artificers.
artist ::: 1. One who practises the creative arts; one who seeks to express the beautiful in visible form. 2. A follower of a manual art; an artificer, mechanic, craftsman, artisan. artists. (Sri Aurobindo often employs the word as an adj.)
ashes ::: 1. Bodily remains, especially after cremation or decay. 2. Fig. Ruins; esp. the residue of something destroyed; remains.
aside ::: 1. On or to one"s side; to or at a short distance apart; away from some position or direction. 2. To or toward the side. 3. Out of one"s thoughts or mind. 4. In reserve; in a separate place, as for safekeeping; apart; away.
aspect ::: 1. Appearance to the eye or mind; look. 2. Nature; quality, character. 3. A way in which a thing may be viewed or regarded; interpretation; view. 4. Part; feature; phase. aspects.
aspirant ::: n. **1. One who seeks with eagerness and steady purpose. adj. 2. Aspiring, striving for a higher position; mounting up, ascending. aspirants.**
aspiration ::: 1. A strong desire for high achievement. 2. A steadfast longing for something above oneself. **aspiration"s.
assail ::: 1. To attack vigorously or violently; assault. 2. To impinge upon; make an impact on; beset. 3. To take upon oneself a difficult challenge with the intention of mastering it. assailed, assailing.
assent ::: 1. Agreement, as to a proposal; concurrence. 2. Acquiescence; compliance, concession. assents, assenting.
assume ::: 1. To take upon oneself, to adopt an aspect, form, or attribute. 2. To take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities. 3. To take on as one"s own, to adopt. assumes, assumed, assuming.
assured ::: 1. Made certain; guaranteed. 2. Certified, verified. 3. Made secure or certain; confirmed. 4. Confident, characterized by certainty or security; satisfied as to the truth of something. assuring.
astonished ::: 1. Amazed, filled with sudden and overpowering surprise or wonder. 2. Filled with consternation; dismayed. astonishing.
astral ::: 1. Of, relating to, emanating from, or resembling the stars. 2. Of the spirit world [Greek astron star].
astray ::: 1. Away from the correct path or direction. 2. Away from the right or good, as in thought or behaviour; straying to or into wrong or evil ways.
atavism ::: 1. The reappearance in an individual of characteristics of some remote ancestor that have been absent in intervening generations. 2. Reversion to an earlier type.
athwart ::: 1. Across from side to side; crosswise or transversely; contrary to the proper or expected course; against; crosswise. 2. Of motion; from side to side.
atmosphere ::: 1. A surrounding or pervading mood, environment, or influence. 2. The air.
atom ::: 1. A unit of matter, the smallest unit of an element, having all the characteristics of that element and consisting of a dense, central, positively charged nucleus surrounded by a system of electrons. 2. The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element. 3. An extremely small part, quantity, or amount. The smallest conceivable unit of an element or of anything. atom"s, atoms, atomic.
attain ::: 1. To gain as an objective; achieve; reach, arrive at; accomplish. 2. To arrive at, as by virtue of persistence or the passage of time; To reach in the course of development. attained.
attempt ::: n. 1. An effort made to accomplish something. 2. The thing attempted, object aimed at, aim. attempts, half-attempts. v. 3. To make an effort at; try; undertake; seek. attempted, attempting.
austere ::: 1. Severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding; stark. 2. Rigorously self-disciplined and severely moral; ascetic; abstinent. 3. Grave; sober; solemn; serious. 4. Without excess, luxury, or ease; severely simple; without ornament. austerity.
author ::: 1. An originator or creator, one who originates or gives existence to anything. 2. He who gives rise to or causes an action, event, circumstance, state, or condition of things. 3. The composer or writer of a treatise, play, poem, book, etc. authors.
autonomy ::: 1. Independence or freedom, as of the will or one"s actions. 2. Self-government. autonomies.
average ::: n. 1. A typical amount, rate, degree, etc.; norm. adj. 2. Typical; common; ordinary.
awakened ::: 1. Aroused from sleep, sloth, or inaction. 2. Made aware; cognizant; conscious. half-awakened.
awake ::: v. 1. To arouse from sleep or inactivity. 2. Fig. To rise from a state resembling sleep, such as death, indifference, inaction; to become active or vigilant. 3. To come or bring to an awareness, to become cognizant, to be fully conscious, to appreciate fully (often followed by to). awakes, awoke, awaking. *adj.* 4. Not asleep; conscious; vigilant, alert. half-awake.
awed ::: 1. inspired or influenced by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence; 2. Inspired with reverential wonder combined with an element of latent fear.
awful ::: 1. Inspiring fear; terrible, dreadful, appalling, awe-inspiring. 2. Extremely impressive. 3. Profoundly inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence.
axis ::: 1. The pivot on which any matter turns. 2. A straight line about which a body or geometric object rotates or may be conceived to rotate.
babble ::: 1. v. To utter sounds or words imperfectly, indistinctly, or without meaning. 2.* **n. *A murmuring sound or a confusion of sounds.
bacchant ::: n. **1. A priest or votary of Bacchus (the god of wine). 2. A drunken reveller. adj. 3. Inclined to revelry. Bacchant.**
background ::: n.** 1. The general scene or surface against which designs, patterns, or figures are represented or viewed. 2. Fig. The complex of physical, cultural, and psychological factors that serves as the environment of an event or experience; the set of conditions against which an occurrence is perceived. backgrounds. adj. 3.** Of, pertaining to, or serving as a background.
backward ::: 1. To, toward or into the past. 2. In or toward a past time. 3. Late in developing, behind; slow, esp. relating to time or progress. far-backward.
baffled ::: 1. Confused, bewildered, or perplexed. 2. Frustrated or confounded; thwarted. baffles, baffling.
balance ::: n. **1. A state of equilibrium or equipoise; mental, psychological or emotional. 2. A weighing device, especially one consisting of a rigid beam horizontally suspended by a low-friction support at its center, with identical weighing pans hung at either end, one of which holds an unknown weight while the effective weight in the other is increased by known amounts until the beam is level and motionless. 3. An undecided or uncertain state in which issues are unresolved. v. 4. To have an equality or equivalence in weight, parts, etc.; be in equilibrium. adj. 5. Being in harmonious or proper arrangement or adjustment, proportion. 6. Mental steadiness or emotional stability; habit of calm behaviour, judgement. balanced, balancing.**
bale ::: 1. Evil. 2. Woe, suffering, pain; 3. Mental suffering, anguish.
bank ::: 1. The slope of land adjoining a body of water, especially adjoining a river, lake, or channel. 2. A slope, as of a hill. 3. A long raised mass, esp. of earth. 4. A piled-up mass, as of snow or clouds. banks, cloud-bank.
bankruptcy ::: 1. A state of complete lack of some abstract property; "spiritual bankruptcy”; "moral bankruptcy”; "intellectual bankruptcy”. 2. Depleted of valuable qualities or characteristics.
banner ::: 1. A piece of cloth bearing a motto or legend. 2. A placard carried in a demonstration.
bards ::: an ancient Celtic order of minstrel poets who composed and recited verses celebrating the legendary exploits of chieftains and heroes. 2. Poets, especially lyric poets.
bare ::: v. 1. To make bare; uncover or reveal. 2. Fig. To expose. bared, baring. adj. 3. Lacking clothing or covering; naked 4. Fig. Exposed to view; undisguised. 5. Just sufficient; mere. 6. Lacking embellishment or ornamentation; unembellished; simple; plain. 7. Unprotected; without defence. 8. Devoid of covering, a leafless trees. 9. Sheer, as bare cliffs. heaven-bare, bareness.
bar ::: n. **1. Anything that obstructs or prevents; a barrier. v. 2. To obstruct, prevent, hinder, impede. bars, barred, barring.**
barren ::: 1. Unproductive of results or gains; unprofitable. 2. Lacking vegetation, especially useful vegetation. 3. Devoid of something specified.
barrier ::: 1. Anything built or serving to bar passage. 2. Anything that restrains or obstructs progress, access. 3. A limit or boundary of any kind. barriers, barrier-breakers.
based ::: 1. Formed or established as a base. 2. Supported as a base. 3. Conceived as the fundamental principle or underlying concept.
base ::: n. 1. The fundamental principle or underlying concept of a system or theory; a basis, foundation. 2. A fundamental ingredient; a chief constituent. adj. 3. Having or showing a contemptible, mean-spirited, or selfish lack of human decency; morally low. base"s. baser.
bastioned ::: 1. Anything seen as preserving or protecting some quality, condition, etc. 2. A well-fortified position, a defensive stronghold.
bathe ::: 1. To become immersed in or as if in liquid, as a bath or in other substances or elements. 2. To wash or pour over; suffuse or envelope, like sunshine. bathed, bathing.
battalion ::: 1. An army unit typically consisting of a headquarters and two or more companies, batteries, or similar subunits. 2. A large body of organized troops in battle gear. 3. A large indefinite number of persons or things.
battlefield ::: 1. The field or ground on which a battle is fought. 2. An area of contention, conflict, or hostile opposition. battlefields.
baying ::: 1. Uttering a deep and prolonged bark as a dog in pursuit. 2. The chorus of barking raised by hounds in immediate conflict with a hunted animal. bayings
beacon ::: 1. A source of guidance or inspiration. 2. A signalling or guiding device or warning signal as a light or signal fire.
beam ::: 1. A ray of light. 2. A ray or collection of parallel rays. 3. A column of light, a gleam, emanation. Also fig. **beams.**
bear ::: 1. To carry. Also fig. 2. To hold up, support. Also fig. 3. To have a tolerance for; endure something with tolerance and patience. 5. To possess, as a quality or characteristic; have in or on. 6. To tend in a course or direction; move; go. 7. To render; afford; give. 8. To produce by natural growth. bears, bore, borne bearing.
beast ::: 1. An animal other than a human, especially a large four-footed mammal. 2. Fig. Animal nature as opposed to intellect or spirit. 3. A large wild animal. 4. A domesticated animal used by man. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as an adj.) beast"s, Beast"s, beasts, wild-beast. ::: —the Beast. Applied to the devil and evil spirits.
beating ::: n. 1. A throbbing or pulsation, as of the heart. beatings. adj. 2. Throbbings, pulsations.
beat ::: n. 1. A stroke or blow. 2. A regular sound or stroke. 3. The rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart. 4. A pulsating sound. 5. A forceful flapping of wings. beats, nerve-beat, hammer-beats, heart-beats, heart-beats", moment-beats, rhyme-beats. v. 6. To strike or pound with repeated blows. 7. To shape or break by repeated blows, as metal. 8. To sound in pulsations. 9. To throb rhythmically; pulsate, as the heart. 10. To flap, especially wings. 11. To strike with or as if with a series of violent blows, dash or pound repeatedly against, as waves, wind, etc. beats, beaten, beating. *adj. *sun-beat.
bed ::: 1. A piece or part forming a foundation or base; a stratum. 2. The grave. 3. A sleeping-place generally; any extemporized resting place. 4. A piece or area of ground in a garden or lawn in which plants are grown. beds.
begot ::: pt. of beget. 1. Caused to exist or occur; created. 2. Called into being, gave rise to; produced. begotten.
behaviour ::: 1. Manner of behaving or conducting oneself. 2. The aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation, or the manner in which a thing acts under such circumstances. behaviour"s.
behold ::: v. 1. To perceive by the visual faculty; see. beholds. Interj. **2.** Look; see.
being ::: 1. The state or quality of having existence. 2. The totality of all things that exist. 3. One"s basic or essential nature; self. 4. All the qualities constituting one that exists; the essence. 5. A person; human being. 6. The Divine, the Supreme; God. Being, being"s, Being"s, beings, Beings, beings", earth-being"s, earth-beings, fragment-being, non-being, non-being"s, Non-Being, Non-Being"s, world-being"s.
Sri Aurobindo: "Pure Being is the affirmation by the Unknowable of Itself as the free base of all cosmic existence.” *The Life Divine :::
"The Absolute manifests itself in two terms, a Being and a Becoming. The Being is the fundamental reality; the Becoming is an effectual reality: it is a dynamic power and result, a creative energy and working out of the Being, a constantly persistent yet mutable form, process, outcome of its immutable formless essence.” *The Life Divine
"What is original and eternal for ever in the Divine is the Being, what is developed in consciousness, conditions, forces, forms, etc., by the Divine Power is the Becoming. The eternal Divine is the Being; the universe in Time and all that is apparent in it is a Becoming.” Letters on Yoga
"Being and Becoming, One and Many are both true and are both the same thing: Being is one, Becomings are many; but this simply means that all Becomings are one Being who places Himself variously in the phenomenal movement of His consciousness.” The Upanishads :::
"Our whole apparent life has only a symbolic value & is good & necessary as a becoming; but all becoming has being for its goal & fulfilment & God is the only being.” *Essays Divine and Human
"Our being is a roughly constituted chaos into which we have to introduce the principle of a divine order.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
belched ::: 1. Erupted or exploded. 2. Expelled gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth.
belief ::: 1. Confidence in the truth or existence of something not immediately susceptible to rigorous proof. 2. Trust or confidence, faith. 3. Something believed; an opinion or conviction. beliefs.
Question: "Sweet Mother, l don"t understand very clearly the difference between faith, belief and confidence.”
Mother: "But Sri Aurobindo has given the full explanation here. If you don"t understand, then. . . He has written ‘Faith is a feeling in the whole being." The whole being, yes. Faith, that"s the whole being at once. He says that belief is something that occurs in the head, that is purely mental; and confidence is quite different. Confidence, one can have confidence in life, trust in the Divine, trust in others, trust in one"s own destiny, that is, one has the feeling that everything is going to help him, to do what he wants to do. Faith is a certitude without any proof. Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 6.
belly ::: 1. The stomach. 2. The inside or interior cavity of something.
belong ::: 1. To be a part of or adjunct. 2. To be the property, attribute, or possession of. belongs.
beloved ::: n. 1. A person who is dearly loved. beloved"s, Beloved, Beloved"s. *adj. *2. Dearly loved.
belt ::: 1. Any encircling or transverse band, strip, or stripe characteristically distinguished from the surface it crosses. 2. An elongated region having distinctive properties or characteristics and long in proportion to its breadth. 3. A zone or district.
bench ::: 1. A long seat usually made of wood, for two or more persons. 2. A seat occupied by a person in an official capacity, esp. a judge. 3. Such a seat as a symbol of the office and dignity of an individual judge or the judiciary.
bend ::: 1. To assume a curved, crooked, or angular form or direction, esp. to bend the body; stoop. 2. Fig. To bow, esp. in reverence. 3. To turn or incline in a particular direction; be directed. bends.
beset ::: 1. Attacked from all sides. 2. Hemmed in; surrounded.
besiege ::: 1. To surround with hostile forces. 2. To crowd around; hem in; crowd in upon; surround. besieged.
betray ::: 1. To be false or disloyal to. 2. To lead astray; deceive. 3. To divulge, disclose in a breach of confidence, a secret. 4. To show signs of; reveal; indicate. betrays, betrayed, betraying, moon-betrayed.
betrayed ::: 1. Corrupted, falsified. 2. Exposed. 3. Revealed
bid ::: 1. To invite to attend; summon. 2. To issue a command to; direct. bids.
bind ::: 1. To restrain or confine with or as if with ties. 2. To place (someone) under obligation; oblige. 3. To fasten together. Also fig. **binds, bound, binding.**
binding ::: n. **1. The covering within which the pages of a book are abound. adj. 2.* Fig.* Commanding adherence to a commitment, obligatory.
birth ::: 1. The act or fact of being born. 2. Fig. The coming into existence of something; origin. Birth, birth"s, births.
bitter ::: 1. Having or being a taste that is sharp, acrid, and unpleasant. 2. Difficult or distasteful to accept, admit; bear or endure. 3. Proceeding from or exhibiting strong animosity. 4. Causing a sharply unpleasant, painful, or stinging sensation; harsh; severe. bitterness.
blank ::: n. 1. Fig. Any void space. blanks. adj. 2. Empty, without contents, void, bare. 3. Devoid of activity, interest, or distinctive character; empty. 4. Mere, bare, simple. 5. Lacking expression; expressionless, showing no interest or emotion, vacant. 6. Absolute; complete. blankness.
blaze ::: n. 1. A brilliant burst of fire, a bright glowing flame. 2. A brilliant, striking display; a brilliant light; resplendent with bright colour. 3. A steady, clear light. 4. Fig. An intense outburst of passion, etc. ::: sun-blaze. v. 5. blazed.
blazing ::: 1. Burning with tremendous heat, etc. 2. Shining intensely.
bleak ::: 1. Exposed to the elements; unsheltered and barren; desolate; cold and cutting; raw, windswept. 2. Offering little or no hope or encouragement.
bless ::: 1. To make holy; sanctify. 2. To invoke or bestow divine favour upon.
blessing ::: 1. Something promoting or contributing to happiness, well-being, or prosperity; a boon. 2. A ceremonial prayer invoking divine protection, grace, etc.
blind ::: adj. 1. Unable to see; lacking the sense of sight; sightless. Also fig. 2. Unwilling or unable to perceive or understand. 3. Lacking all consciousness or awareness. 4. Not having or based on reason or intelligence; absolute and unquestioning. 5. Not characterized or determined by reason or control. 6. Purposeless; fortuitous, random. 7. Undiscriminating; heedless; reckless. 8. Enveloped in darkness; dark, dim, obscure. 9. Dense enough to form a screen. 10. Covered or concealed from sight; hidden from immediate view. 11. Having no openings or passages for light; (a window or door) walled up. blindest, half-blind. v. 12. To deprive of sight permanently or temporarily. 13. To make sightless momentarily; dazzle. blinded.* n. 14. A blind person, esp. as pl., those who are blind. 15. Fig.* Any thing or action intended to conceal one"s real intention; a pretence, a pretext; subterfuge.
blind alley ::: 1. A road, alley, etc. that is open only at one end. 2. A position or situation offering no hope of progress or improvement. 3. A situation in which no further progress can be made.
blinded ::: 1. Sightless; deprived of sight or withheld the light from. 2. Fig. Unable or unwilling to perceive or understand, lacking in perception or foresight; deprived or destitute of spiritual light or guidance. thought-blinded.
blinding ::: 1. Withholding light from. 2. Dazzling with a bright light.
blindly ::: 1. Without seeing or looking or without preparation or reflection. 2. Without understanding, reservation, or objection; unthinkingly.
blindness ::: 1. A lack or impairment of vision. 2. *Fig.* Lack of vision or awareness.
blink ::: n. **1. A glance, often with half-shut eyes; a wink. v. 2. To close and open one or both of the eyes rapidly; shut the eyelids momentarily and involuntarily; to wink for an instant. 3. To shut the eyes to; to evade, shirk, pass by, ignore. blinks, blinked.**
blockade ::: 1. The isolating, closing off, or surrounding of a place. 2. Any obstruction of passage or progress.
block ::: n. 1. A solid piece of a hard substance, such as wood, stone, etc. having one or more flat sides. Also fig. 2. Something that obstructs; an obstacle. blocks. *v. 3. To impede, retard, prevent or obstruct the progress or achievement of (someone or something). Also fig.*
bloom ::: n. **1. The flower of a plant. 2. Fig. A condition or time of vigour, freshness, and beauty; prime. 3. Fig. Glowing charm; delicate beauty. blooms. v. 4. To bear flowers; to blossom. Also fig. 5. To be in a healthy, glowing, or flourishing condition. 6. To flourish or grow. 7. To cause to flourish or grow; to flourish. Chiefly fig. blooms, bloomed.**
blossom ::: v. 1. To produce or yield flowers. 2. To flourish; develop. blossomed.* *n. 3. The flower of a plant. mango-blossoms.**
blot ::: n. 1. A dark spot or stain. 2. Something likened to a blot that destroys. v. 3. To make obscure; hide. 4. To destroy utterly; annihilate. blotted.
blow ::: 1. A sudden, hard stroke with a hand, fist, or weapon; a stroke. 2. A sudden attack or drastic action. 3. Fig. A sudden shock, calamity, severe disaster experienced by someone. blows.
bodied ::: v. 1. Furnished or provided with a body; embodied. 2. Gave shape to, gave bodily form to, exhibited in outward reality. 3. Represented; symbolized, typified. adj. 4. Possessing or existing in bodily form, endowed with material form. half-bodied, million-bodied, three-bodied, two-bodied.
bodily ::: 1. Physical as opposed to mental or spiritual. 2. Of, relating to, or belonging to the body or the physical nature of man.
body ::: 1. The entire material or physical structure of an organism, especially of a human or animal as differentiated from the soul. 2. The entire physical structure of a human being. 3. A mass of matter that is distinct from other masses. 4. Substance. 5. An agent or entity. 6. The mass of a thing. 7. A mass of matter that is distinct from other masses. 8. The largest or main part of anything; the foundation; central part. body"s, bodies.
bold ::: 1. Fearless and daring; courageous. 2. Clear and distinct to the eye.
bond ::: 1. Something, such as a fetter, cord, or band, that binds, ties, or fastens things together. Also fig. 2. A duty, promise, or other obligation by which one is bound. 3. Something that binds one to a certain circumstance or line of behaviour. 4. A uniting force or tie; a link. 5. A binding agreement; a covenant. bonds.
bondage ::: 1. The state of one who is bound as a slave or serf. 2. A state of subjection to a force, power, or influence.
boon ::: 1. A blessing; something to be thankful for. 2. A timely blessing or benefit received in response to a request or prayer. boons.
border ::: n. 1. A part that forms the outer edge of something. 2. The line or frontier area separating political divisions or geographic regions; a boundary. 3. A strip of ground, as that at the edge of a garden or walk, an edging. borders. v. 4. To form the boundary of; be contiguous to. fig. To confine. 5. To lie adjacent to another. bordered.
bosom ::: 1. The breast. 2. Something likened to the human breast, such as the bosom of the earth, the sea. 2. The breast, conceived of as the centre of feelings or emotions. 3. Centre of; heart of. bosom"s, bosoms, bosomed, white-bosomed.
bound and –bound ::: 1. Pp. and pt. of bind. *adj. 2. Being under a legal or moral obligation. 3. Circumscribed; kept within bounds. * close-bound, death-bound, earth-bound, fate-bound, form-bound, heart-bound, self-bound, sleep-bound, steel-bound, stone-bound, time-bound, trance-bound.
boundless ::: n. 1. That which is without bounds; illimitable. 2. *adj. *Being without bounds or limits; infinite.
bound ::: n. 1. A boundary; a limit. bounds, earth-bounds. *v. *2. To constitute the limit of; contain; enclose. bounds.
bound ::: n. **1. A leap; a jump. v. 2.** To spring; leap; to advance with leaps or springs: said both of inanimate and animate objects.
bounteous ::: 1. Giving or inclined to give generously. 2. Plentiful; abundant.
bourne ::: 1. A boundary; a limit. 2. A destination; a goal. Also fig. and poetic.
brave ::: possessing or exhibiting courage or courageous endurance. 2. *Archaic. Excellent; fine; admirable*.
breadth ::: 1. The measure or the second largest dimension of a plane or solid figure; width. 2. Freedom from narrowness or restraint; liberality. 3. Tolerance; broadmindedness. breadths.
breakers ::: 1. Those who break down barriers, etc. 2. Waves that crest and break on the shore or coast. breakers".
breaking ::: 1. Smashing, splitting, or dividing into parts violently; reducing to pieces or fragments. 2. Dawning upon; coming upon. 3. An opening made by breaking out from. breakings.
breaks up. ::: 1. Breaks into many parts; divides or become divided into pieces. 2. Dissolves, disbands, puts an end to, gives up; breaks up a house, household, etc.
break ::: v. 1. To destroy by or as if by shattering or crushing. 2. To force or make a way through (a barrier, etc.). 3. To vary or disrupt the uniformity or continuity of. 4. To overcome or put an end to. 5. To destroy or interrupt a regularity, uniformity, continuity, or arrangement of; interrupt. 6. To intrude upon; interrupt a conversation, etc. 7. To discontinue or sever an association, an agreement, or a relationship. **8. To overcome or wear down the spirit, strength, or resistance of. 9. (usually followed by in, into or out). 10. To filter or penetrate as sunlight into a room. 11. To come forth suddenly. 12. To utter suddenly; to express or start to express an emotion, mood, etc. 13. Said of waves, etc. when they dash against an obstacle, or topple over and become surf or broken water in the shallows. 14. To part the surface of water, as a ship or a jumping fish. breaks, broke, broken, breaking.* *n. 15.** An interruption or a disruption in continuity or regularity.
breast ::: 1. Each of two milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman; the human mammary gland. 2. The front of the body from the neck to the abdomen; chest. 3. Fig. The seat of the affection and emotion. 4. Fig. A source of nourishment. 5. Something likened to the human breast, as a surface, etc. breasts, breasts".
breath ::: 1. The air inhaled and exhaled in respiration. Also fig. 2. A momentary stirring of air, a slight gust. 3. Spirit or vitality; life. 4. The vapour, heat, or odour of exhaled air. Also fig. **5. A slight suggestion; hint; whisper. Breath,* *breath-fastened.**
breathe ::: 1. To be alive; live. 2. To take air, oxygen, etc., into the lungs and expel it; inhale and exhale; respire. Also fig. 3. To control the outgoing breath in producing voice and speech sounds. 4. To utter, especially quietly. 5. To make apparent or manifest; express; suggest. 6. To exhale (something); emit. 7. To impart as if by breathing; instil. 8. To move gently or blow lightly, as air. breathes, breathed, breathing. ::: To breathe upon fig. To taint; corrupt.
breathless ::: 1. Motionless or still, as air without a breeze. 2. Not breathing; without breath.
bride ::: 1. A woman who is about to be married or has recently been married. Also fig. 2. The divine creatrix. Bride, brides, earth-bride.
bridge ::: n. 1. A structure spanning and providing passage over a gap or barrier, such as a river or roadway. bridges, bridge-like. v. 2. To build or provide a bridge over something; span. Also fig. 3. To join by or as if by a bridge; link, connect. bridged, bridging.
bright ::: 1. Emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts; shining; radiant. 2. Magnificent; glorious. 3. Favourable or auspicious. 4. Fig. Characterized by happiness or gladness; full of promise and hope. 5. Distinct and clear to the mind, etc. 6. Intensely clear and vibrant in tone or quality. 7. Polished; glistening as with brilliant color. brighter, brightest, bright-hued, bright-pinioned, flame-bright, moon-bright, pearl-bright, sun-bright.
brilliant ::: 1. Full of light; shining; lustrous. 2. Of surpassing excellence; splendid; highly impressive; distinguished. 3. Strong and clear in tone; vivid; bright. pale-brilliant.
brink ::: 1. The upper edge of a steep or vertical slope, esp. the margin of land bordering a body of water. 2. Any extreme edge; verge. 3. A crucial or critical point, esp. of a situation or state beyond which success or catastrophe occurs.
broad ::: 1. Wide in extent from side to side; of great breadth. 2. Of vast extent; spacious. 3. Broad in scope; extensive. 4. Clear and open; full; (said of daylight, etc.). broad-based, broad-flung.
broadened ::: v. 1. Became broad or broader; widened. adj. 2. Extended; expanded; in scope or range.
broken ::: 1. Forcibly separated into two or more pieces; fractured. 2. Crushed in spirit or temper; discouraged; overcome. 3. Incomplete. 4. Interrupted disturbed; disconnected. 5. Torn; ruptured. (Also pp. of break.)
bronze ::: 1. Any of various alloys of copper and tin in various proportions. 2. A moderate yellowish to olive brown color.
brooding ::: 1. *Fig. Protecting (young) by or as if by covering with the wings. *2. Meditating or dwelling deeply on a thought.
brood ::: n. 1. Offspring; progeny; in one family. 2. A breed, species, group, kind or race with common qualities. v. 3. To think deeply on; dwell or meditate upon, contemplate. broods, brooded.
brow ::: 1. The part of the face from the eyes to the hairline. forehead. 2. The expression of the face; countenance. 3. The eyebrow. pl. **brows.**
brute ::: n. **1. Any animal except man; a beast; a lower animal. brute"s. adj. 2. Animal, not human. 3. Lacking or showing a lack of reason or intelligence. 4. Wholly instinctive; senseless; coarse; brutish; dull. 5. Resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; cruel or savage. brute-sensed.**
bud ::: 1. A rudimentary inflorescence, i.e. flower bud. 2. *Fig. Something in an undeveloped or immature condition. *buds, honey-buds, lotus-bud.
build ::: 1. To construct; erect; lit. and fig. (sometimes with up). 2. To mould, form, create. 3. To found, form or construct (a plan, system, etc.) on a basis. 4. To develop or give form to according to a plant or process; create; construct (something immaterial). builds, built, building.
building ::: 1. The act or action of constructing; erecting. Also fig. **2. **Something that is built, as for human habitation; a structure.
burdened ::: 1. Weighed down; oppressed. 2. Bearing a heavy load of work, difficulties or responsibilities. 3. Laden with; charged with. pleasure-burdened, sign-burdened.
burdening ::: 1. Weighing down oppressively. 2. Troubling, trying.
burden ::: n. 1. A weight that is to be borne; a load. 2. Something that is emotionally difficult to bear. v. **3. To load or overload. 4.** To oppress; tax; with responsibility, etc.
burdensome ::: 1. Oppressively heavy; onerous. 2. Distressing, troublesome.
bureau ::: 1. A chest of drawers, especially a dresser for holding clothes, often with a desk top. 2. An office, usually of large organization, that is responsible for a specific duty such as administration, public business, etc.
buried ::: v. 1. Deposited or hid under ground; covered up with earth or other material. Also fig. **2. Plunged or sunk deep in, so as to be covered from view; put out of sight. adj. 3. Put in the ground or in a tomb; interred. 4. Consigned to a position of obscurity, inaccessibility, or inaction. 5.* Fig.* Consigned to oblivion, put out of the way, abandoned and forgotten.
burn ::: 1. To be very eager; aflame with activity, as to be on fire. 2. To emit heat or light by as if by combustion; to flame.. 3. To give off light or to glow brightly. 4. To light; a candle; incense, etc.) as an offering. 5. To suffer punishment or death by or as if by fire; put to death by fire. 6. To injure, endanger, or damage with or as if with fire. 7. Fig. To be consumed with strong emotions; be aflame with desire; anger; etc. 8. To shine intensely; to seem to glow as if on fire. burns, burned, burnt, burning.
burning ::: adj. 1. Aflame; on fire. Also fig. 2. Very bright; glowing; luminous. 3. Characterized by intense emotion; passionate. 4. Urgent or crucial. 5. Extremely hot; scorching. 6. Very hot. ever-burning.* *n. 7. The state, process, sensation, or effect of being on fire, burned, or subjected to intense heat. altar-burnings.**
burst ::: 1. Exploded, flew apart with sudden violence. 2. Came forth suddenly and powerfully as if by pressure or internal force. 3. To emerge, come forth, or arrive suddenly. bursting.
business ::: 1. One"s rightful or proper concern or interest. 2. A specific occupation or pursuit; an action in which one is engaged.
cabbala ::: 1 A body of mystical Jewish teachings based on an interpretation of hidden meanings in the Hebrew Scriptures. Among its central doctrines are, all creation is an emanation from the Deity and the soul exists from eternity. 2. Any secret or occult doctrine or science. 3. "Esoteric system of interpretation of the Hebrew scriptures based on the assumption that every word, letter, number, and accent in them has an occult meaning. The system, oral at first, claimed great antiquity, but was really the product of the Middle Ages, arising in the 7th century and lasting into the 18th. It was popular chiefly among Jews, but spread to Christians as well. (Col. Enc.)” Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works
cabin ::: 1. A small, roughly built house; a simple cottage. 2. An enclosed space; a confined area.
cadence ::: 1. Balanced, rhythmic flow, as of poetry or oratory. 2. Music. A sequence of notes or chords that indicates the momentary or complete end of a composition, section, phrase, etc. 3. The flow or rhythm of events. 4. A recurrent rhythmical series; a flow, esp. the pattern in which something is experienced. 5. A slight falling in pitch of the voice in speaking or reading. cadences.
calamity ::: 1. An event that brings terrible loss, lasting distress, or severe affliction; a disaster. 2. Dire distress resulting from loss or tragedy. calamities.
calligraphy ::: 1. The art of fine handwriting. 2. An artistic and highly decorative form of handwriting, as with a great many flourishes.
callings ::: 1. (i.e. an animal or bird) that calls. 2. Things or voices that announce or address in a clear and often authoritative voice.
calm ::: n. 1. Serenity; tranquillity; peace. 2. Nearly or completely motionless as a condition of no wind. Calm, Calm"s, calms, calmness. adj. 3. Not excited or agitated; composed; tranquil; 4. Without rough motion; still or nearly still. calmer, calm-lipped, stone-calm. *adv. calmly.
Sri Aurobindo: "Calm is a still unmoved condition which no disturbance can affect — it is a less negative condition than quiet.” Letters on Yoga*
"Calm is a positive tranquillity which can exist in spite of superficial disturbances.” *Letters on Yoga
"Calm is a strong and positive quietude, firm and solid — ordinary quietude is mere negation, simply the absence of disturbance.” *Letters on Yoga
"But more powerful still is the giving up of the fruit of one"s works, because that immediately destroys all causes of disturbance and brings and preserves automatically an inner calm and peace, and calm and peace are the foundation on which all else becomes perfect and secure in possession by the tranquil spirit.” Essays on the Gita
The Mother: "Calm is self-possessed strength, quiet and conscious energy, mastery of the impulses, control over the unconscious reflexes.” Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 14*.
camp ::: n. 1. A place where tents, huts, or other temporary shelters are set up, as by soldiers, nomads, or travelers. 2. The people using such shelters. 3. Temporary living quarters for soldiers or prisoners. v. 4. To make or set up a camp. or to live temporarily in or as if in a camp or outdoors. 5. To settle down securely and comfortably; become ensconced. camps, camped.
cancel ::: 1. To annul, make void or invalidate. 2. To equalize or make up for; offset. 3. To cross out with lines or other markings, making something invalid. cancels, cancelled, cancelling, self-cancelling.
candid ::: 1. Characterized by openness and sincerity of expression; unreservedly straightforward. 2. Free from prejudice; impartial. 3. Clear or pure 4. Not posed or rehearsed.
canvas ::: 1. A piece of such fabric on which a painting, especially an oil painting, is executed. 2. A painting executed on such fabric, esp. an oil painting. 3. The background against which events unfold. canvases, canvas-strips.
capacity ::: 1. The ability to receive, hold, or absorb. 2. The power to learn or retain knowledge; mental ability.
capital ::: 1. A town or city that is the official seat of government in a political entity, such as a state or nation. 2. Wealth in the form of money or property.
capitol ::: 1. A building occupied by a state legislature. 2. A building that is the seat of government. Also fig.
caprice ::: 1. A sudden, unpredictable change or series of actions or changes. 2. A sudden, unpredictable change, as of one"s mind; whim, fancy. caprices.
captain ::: 1. One who commands, leads, or guides others. 2. The officer in command of a ship, an aircraft, or a spacecraft.
captive ::: n. 1. One, such as a prisoner of war, who is forcibly confined, subjugated, or enslaved. captives. v. 2. Those taken and held as a prisoners. captived. adj. 3. Kept under restraint or control; confined. 4. Enraptured, as by beauty; captivated.
capture ::: 1. To take possession of; to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize. 2. To represent, preserve or record in lasting form, a quality, etc. captures, captured, capturing.
caravan ::: a company of travelers journeying together, as across a desert or through hostile territory. 2. A procession or train likened to a caravan. caravans.
careful ::: 1. Attentive to potential danger, error, or harm; cautious. 2. Exercising caution or showing care or attention to; circumspect.
careless ::: 1. Unconcerned or indifferent; heedless. 2. Taking insufficient care; negligent; inattentive.
care ::: n. **1. A burdened state of mind, as that arising from heavy responsibilities; worry. 2. An object of or cause for concern. 3. Watchful oversight; charge or supervision. 4. An object or source of worry, attention, or solicitude. care, cares. v. 5. To be concerned or interested, have concern for. cares, cared.**
caress ::: n. 1. A gentle touch or gesture of fondness, tenderness, or love. v. 2. To touch or stroke lightly in a loving or endearing manner. caressed, caressing.
carved ::: 1. Divided into pieces by cutting; sliced. 2. Cut or sculpted into a desired shape; fashioned by cutting. 3. Engraved or cut figures. carves, carving, close-carved, star-carved.
carving ::: v. **1. Sculpting into a desired shape. Also fig.* *n. 2. A figure or design produced by carving stone or wood. carving"s.**
case ::: 1. A set of reasons or supporting facts; an argument. 2. The facts or evidence offered in support of a claim.
cast ::: v. 1. To throw with force; hurl. 2. To form (liquid metal, for example) into a particular shape by pouring into a mould. Also fig. 3. To cause to fall upon something or in a certain direction; send forth. 4. To throw on the ground, as in wrestling. 5. To put or place, esp. hastily or forcibly. 6. To direct (the eye, a glance, etc.) 7. To throw (something) forth or off. 8. To bestow; confer. casts, casting.
casual ::: 1. Occurring by chance; accidental. 2. Occurring offhand; not premeditated. 3. Occurring at irregular or infrequent intervals; occasional. 4. Without definite or serious intention; careless or offhand; passing.
catch ::: n. 1. A concealed, unexpected, or unforeseen drawback or handicap. 2. Anything that is caught, esp. something worth catching. v. **3. To take, seize, or capture, esp. after pursuit. 4. To become cognizant or aware of suddenly. 5. To receive. 6. catches, caught, catching.**
cathedral ::: 1. A large and important church of imposing architectural beauty. 2. Of, relating to, or resembling a cathedral.
cause ::: 1. A person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect. 2. A basis for an action or response; a reason. 3. Grounds for action; motive; justification. 4. Good or sufficient reason. 5. The principle, ideal, goal, or movement to which a person or group is dedicated. Cause.
causeway ::: 1. A raised roadway, as across water or marshland. 2. A paved highway.
cave ::: 1. A hollow or natural passage under or into the earth, especially one with an opening to the surface. 2. A hollow in the side of a hill or cliff, or underground of any kind; a cavity. Cave, caves, death-cave, deep-caved, cave-heart.
cease ::: v. 1. To come to an end; stop. 2. To put an end to a condition or state of being; discontinue. 3. To come to an end; pass away; no longer exist. ceases, ceased* *n. 4.** Cessation.
ceiling ::: 1. An upper limit, especially as set by regulation. 2. The upper interior surface of a room.
celestial ::: 1. Of or relating to the sky or the heavens. 2. Of or relating to heaven; divine. 3. Heavenly; divine; spiritual. celestials", celestial-human.
cell ::: 1. A small humble abode, such as a hermit"s cave or hut. 2. A narrow confining room, as in a prison or convent.
certainty ::: 1. The fact, quality, or state of being certain. 2. Something certain; an assured fact.
chain ::: n. 1. A series of things connected or following in succession. 2. Something that binds or restrains. chains. v. 3. Fig. To restrain or confine with or as with a chain.
challenge ::: 1. A call or summons to engage in a contest, fight, or competition. 2. A demand for explanation or justification; a calling into question. v. **3. To invite; arouse; stimulate; provoke. challenges, challenged, challenging.**
chamber ::: 1. Archaic or poetic: A room in a private house, esp. a bedroom. 2. An enclosed space; compartment. chamber"s, chambers, work-chamber.
chance ::: n. 1. The absence of any cause of events that can be predicted, understood, or controlled: often personified or treated as a positive agency. 2. The happening of events; the way in which things happen; fortune. 3. An opportune or favourable time; opportunity. 4. Fortune; luck; fate. Chance, chances. *adj.* 5. Not planned or expected; accidental. v. 6. To happen by chance; be the case by chance.** chanced.
change ::: v. 1. To make the form, nature, content, future course, etc. of (something) different from what it is or from what it would be if left alone. 2. To become different or undergo alteration. changes, changed, changing, ever-changing.* n. 3. The act or fact of changing; transformation or modification of anything. Change, changes, soul-change.
channel ::: n. **1. A course through which something may be transmitted or through which something may be moved or directed onward. 2. The bed of a stream or river, etc. v. 3. To direct or convey something through (or as through) a channel. channels.**
chant ::: n. **1. A short, simple series of syllables or words that are sung on or intoned to the same note or a limited range of notes. 2. A song or melody. v. 3. To sing, especially in the manner of a chant. chants, chanted, chanting, chantings.**
chaos ::: 1. The infinity of space or formless matter supposed to have preceded the existence of the ordered universe. 2. A condition, place, or state of great disorder or confusion. 3. A disorderly mass; a jumble. Chaos.
characters ::: 1. The combination of qualities, features and traits that distinguishes one person, group, or thing from another. 2. The marks or symbols used in writing systems such as the letters of the alphabet.
charge ::: 1. An assigned duty or task; a responsibility given to one. 2. Care; custody. 3. An order, an impetuous onset or attack, command, or injunction. 4. The quantity of anything that a receptacle is intended to hold. v. 5. *Fig. To load to capacity; fill. *charged.
charged ::: 1. Filled; loaded to capacity. 2. Given the responsibility of or for; entrusted.
charm ::: 1. An action or formula thought to have magical power. 2. A particular quality that attracts; a delight. charms.
charmed ::: 1. Delighted or fascinated. 2. Marked by good fortune or privilege. 3. Protected from evil and harm as by a magical power vested in an amulet, etc. 4. Filled with wonder and delight.
chased ::: 1. Followed rapidly in order to catch; overtake; pursued. 2. Put to flight; driven away by force.
chase ::: v. **1. To follow rapidly in order to catch or overtake; pursue. 2. To follow or devote one"s attention to with the hope of attracting, winning, gaining, etc. 3. To put to flight; drive out. ::: —chases, chased.* *n. 3. The act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture thunder-chase.**
chasm ::: 1. A deep, steep-sided opening in the earth"s surface; an abyss or gorge. 2. A void or gap. chasms.
chastened ::: 1. Restrained, subdued. 2. Made pure or refined in style; simplified; rid of excess.
chastise ::: 1. To discipline or punish, esp. by beating. *v. *2. Purify; refine.
cheat ::: v. 1. To deceive by trickery; swindle. 2. To mislead; fool. n. **3.** A fraud or swindle; a dishonest trick.
check ::: v. 1. To investigate, examine or verify as to correctness; examine carefully or in detail; to ascertain the truth about. 2. To inspect so as to determine accuracy, authenticity, quality, or other condition; test. checked.* n. *3. A person or thing that stops, limits, slows, or restrains.
chequered ::: 1. Marked by numerous and various shifts and changes. 2. Marked by dubious episodes; suspect in character or quality. 3. Diversified in colour, variegated.
cherish ::: 1. To hold great love for someone; feel love for one. 2. To care for, protect and love —(a person). 3. To cling fondly to (a hope, idea, etc.); nurse. cherished.
chiaroscuro ::: 1. The arrangement of light and dark elements in a pictorial work of art. 2. *Poetic*: Contrasting sense as in, darkness and light, ‘joy and gloom", ‘praise and blame," etc.
child ::: 1. A person between birth and full growth. 2. A baby or infant. 3. A person who has not attained maturity. 4. One who is childish or immature. 5. An individual regarded as strongly affected by another or by a specified time, place, or circumstance. 6. Any person or thing regarded as the product or result of particular agencies, influences, etc. Child, child"s, children, Children, children"s, child-god, Child-Godhead, child-heart, child-heart"s, child-laughter, child-soul, child-sovereign, child-thought, flame-child, foster-child, God-child, King-children.
childhood ::: 1. The time or state of being a child. 2. The early stage in the existence or development of something. childhood"s.
childish ::: 1. Of, like, or befitting a child. 2. Marked by or indicating a lack of maturity; puerile.
chill ::: adj. 1. Cold, often unpleasantly so; numbing. 2. Discouraging; dispiriting. 3. Unduly formal; unfriendly; unfeeling. v. 4. To lower in temperature; cool; make cold. 5. Fig. To depress (enthusiasm, etc.); discourage. chilled, chilling.
chimaera ::: 1. A mythological, fire-breathing monster, commonly represented with a lion"s head, a goat"s body, and a serpent"s tail. 2. A horrible or unreal creature of the imagination. chimaeras.
choice ::: 1. The act of choosing; selection. 2. The power, right, or liberty to choose; option. 3. A person or thing chosen or that may be chosen.
choir ::: 1. An organized company of singers. 2. Fig. The songs of angels, birds, etc. choirs.
choose ::: 1. To select from a number of possible alternatives; decide on and pick out. 2. To determine or decide. chooses, chose, chosen, choosing, choosest.
chords ::: 1. A combination of three or more pitches sounded simultaneously. 2. Emotional responses, feelings. 3. Harmony.
chosen ::: n. 1. Having been selected by God; elect. adj. 2. Selected from or preferred above others. self-chosen. (Also pp. of choose.)
chrysalis ::: 1. The hard sheath encasing the larvae from which the mature insect emerges. 2. A protected stage of development.
cipher ::: n. 1. Something having no influence or value; a zero; a nonentity. 2. A secret method of writing, as by transposition or substitution of letters, specially formed symbols, or the like. unintelligible to all but those possessing the key; a cryptograph. ciphers. *v. 3. To put in secret writing; encode. *ciphers. Note: Sri Aurobindo also spelled the word as Cypher, the old English spelling.
circling ::: 1. Making or forming a circle around; enclosing. 2. Encircling. 3. Moving in a circle. ever-circling, far-circling.
circuit ::: 1. The act of following a curved or circular route or one that lies around an object. 2. A complete route or course, esp. one that is curved or circular and begins and ends at the point of departure. 3. The boundary line encompassing an area or object. 4. A regular or accustomed course from place to place. circuits.
circumstance ::: 1. A condition, fact or detail attending an event and having some bearing on it; a determining or modifying factor. 2. A particular incident or occurrence. Circumstance.
clad ::: 1. Dressed; clothed. 2. Covered. green-clad, white-clad.
claim ::: n. 1. A demand for something as rightful or due. 2. Something claimed in a formal or legal manner as a right or title. claims. *v. *3. To demand, ask for, assert, or take as one"s own or one"s due. 4. To state to be true, especially when open to question; assert or maintain. claims, claimed, claiming, claimest, claimst, death-claimed, trance-claimed.
clamorous ::: 1. Full of, marked by, or of the nature of clamour; shouting; noisy, loud. 2. Insistently demanding attention; importunate.
clamour ::: 1. A loud uproar, as from a crowd of people. 2. A vehement expression of collective feeling or outrage. 3. A loud and persistent noise. clamours. clamouring.
clamouring ::: 1. Raising an outcry for; seeking, demanding, or calling importunately for, or to do a thing. 2. Making a clamour; shouting, or uttering loud and continued cries or calls; raising an outcry, making a noise or din of speech.
clamped ::: 1. Fastened with or fixed in a clamp (a device for binding, holding, compressing or fastening objects together); hence, fig. Restricted, repressed, tightened down, restrained. 2. Established by authority; imposed clamps. (Sri Aurobindo also employs clamped as an adj.)
clang ::: 1. A loud resounding noise, as a large bell or metal when struck. 2. v. To make or cause to make, or produce a loud ringing, resonant sound as of a large bell.
clangour ::: 1. A loud resonant, often harsh sound. 2. A loud resonant often-repeated noise.
clarity ::: 1. Clearness or lucidity as to perception or understanding; freedom from indistinctness or ambiguity. 2. The state or quality of being clear or transparent to the eye; pellucidity; brightness, splendour.
clash ::: n. 1. A loud, harsh noise, such as that made by two metal objects in collision. 2. An encounter between hostile forces; a battle or skirmish. 3. A conflict, as between opposing or irreconcilable ideas. v. 4. To engage in a physical conflict or contest, as in a game or a battle (often followed by with). 5. To come into conflict; be in opposition. clashes, clashed, clashing.
clasp ::: n. 1. A grip or grasp of the hand, also reciprocal. 2. Union. 3. An embrace or hug. Also fig. v. 4. To seize, grasp, or grip with the hand. **5. To hold in a tight embrace. clasps, clasped, clasping.**
clatter ::: 1. A rattling noise or a series of rattling noises. 2. Noisy disturbance; din; racket.
claw ::: n. **1. A sharp, usually curved, nail on the foot of an animal, as on a cat, dog, or bird. v. 2. To tear, scratch, seize, pull, etc., with or as if with claws. clawed.**
clay ::: 1. A natural earthy material that is plastic when wet, consisting essentially of hydrated silicates of aluminium: used for making bricks, pottery, etc. 2. The material which is said to form the human body. 3. The human body, esp. as opposed to the spirit. clay-kin.
clear ::: 1. Not obscured or darkened; bright. 2. Free from darkness, obscurity, or cloudiness; transparent. 3. Serene; calm; untroubled. 4. Free from doubt or confusion; certain. 5. Easily perceptible to the eye or ear; distinct. 6. Easily understood; without ambiguity. 7. Free from impediment, obstruction, or hindrance; open. clearer, sun-clear, surface-clear.
cleave ::: 1. To adhere closely to; stick; cling. 2. To be faithful (usually fol. by to.)
cleave ::: 1. To split with or as if with a sharp instrument. 2. To pierce or penetrate. cleaves, cloven, cleaving.
cleft ::: 1. A crack, crevice, or split. 2. A long narrow opening. clefts.
climes ::: 1. Poetic: Regions or their climates; atmospheres. 2. The prevailing attitudes, standards or conditions of a group, period, or place.
cling ::: 1. To come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation 2. To hold fast or adhere to as if by embracing. 3. To be emotionally or intellectually attached or remain close to. 4. To hold on tightly or tenaciously to. 5. To remain attached as to an idea, hope, memory, etc. clings, clung, clinging.
cloak ::: 1. A loose outer garment, such as a cape. 2. Anything that covers or conceals. 3. Something that covers or conceals; a disguise. world-cloak.
cloisters ::: 1. Covered walks with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle. 2. Secluded, quiet places. cloister"s, cloisters.
clothe ::: 1. To cover as if with clothing. 2. To present in a specific form. 3. To furnish or invest with power or authority or endue or endow attributes, qualities. 4. To cover or envelop (something) so as to change its appearance, as the face of the earth. clothes, clothed.
cloud ::: 1. A visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth"s surface. 2. Any similar mass, esp. of smoke or dust. 3. Something fleeting or unsubstantial. 4. Anything that obscures or darkens something, or causes gloom, trouble, suspicion, disgrace, etc. clouds, clouds", cloud-veils.
cloudy ::: 1. Of or like a cloud or clouds. 2. Full of or overcast by clouds. 3. Darkened by gloom, trouble, etc.
cloven hoof ::: 1. A divided or cleft hoof, as in deer or cattle. 2. Evil or Satan, often depicted as a figure with cleft hooves.
clustering ::: a number of things of the same kind, growing or held together; a bunch. 2. A group of things or persons close together.
clutch ::: n. 1. A tight grasp. v. 2. To grip or hold tightly or firmly. 3. To try to seize or grasp (usually fol. by at) clutched, clutching.
coarse ::: 1. Composed of relatively large parts or particles. 2. Lacking in fineness or delicacy of texture, structure, etc. Not refined or delicate, rough.
coast ::: 1. The land next to the sea; the seashore. 2. Fig. The frontier or border of a country. coasts.
code ::: 1. A system of symbols, letters, or words given certain arbitrary meanings, used for transmitting messages requiring secrecy or brevity. 2. A systematic collection of regulations and rules of procedure or conduct. codes.
coerce ::: 1. To compel or restrain by force or authority without regard to individual wishes or desires. 2. To dominate or control, esp. by exploiting fear, anxiety, etc. 3. To bring about through the use of force or other forms of compulsion. coerced, coercing.
coeval ::: 1. Of the same era, period or age. 2. A contemporary.
coil ::: n. **1. A series of connected spirals or concentric rings formed by gathering or winding. 2. Such a series resembling a serpent or a vine. v. 3. To form concentric rings or spirals. 4. To move in a spiral course. coils, coiled, coiling, coilings.**
coin ::: 1. A small piece of metal, usually flat and circular, authorized by a government for use as money. 2. A mode of expression considered standard, a symbol; token.
collapse ::: 1. To fall or cave in; crumble suddenly. 2. Fig. To break down suddenly in strength or health and thereby cease to function. collapsed, collapsing.
colourful ::: 1. Having striking colour; full of colour. 2. Striking in variety and interest.
combat ::: n. 1. Fighting, especially armed battle; strife. combats. v. 2. To oppose in battle; fight against.
comedy ::: 1. The comic element of drama, of literature generally, or of life. 2. A humorous element of life or literature. Comedy (see also Divine Comedy).
command ::: n. 1. An order; mandate. 2. The possession or exercise of controlling authority. Command. v. 3. To direct with specific authority or prerogative; order. 4. To give orders. 5. To have or exercise authority or control over; be master of; have at one"s bidding or disposal. commands, commanded.
commerce ::: 1. The buying and selling of goods, especially on a large scale, as between cities or nations. 2. Intellectual exchange or social interaction. 3. Intellectual or spiritual interchange; communion.
common ::: 1. Belonging equally to or shared alike by two or more. 2. Of or relating to the community or humanity as a whole. 3. Belonging equally to or shared equally by two or more; joint. 4. Not distinguished by superior or noteworthy characteristics; average; ordinary. 5. Occurring frequently or habitually; usual. commonest.
commune ::: 1. To communicate intimately with; be in a state of heightened, intimate receptivity. 2. To be in intimate communication or rapport. communes, communed, communing.
communicated ::: 1. Had an interchange, as of ideas. 2. Conveyed information about; imparted knowledge of; made known. communicates, communicating.
communion ::: 1. The act or an instance of sharing, as of thoughts or feelings. 2. Religious or spiritual fellowship. communion"s, communions.
community ::: 1. An assemblage of interacting populations occupying a given area. 2. Identity.
companion ::: 1. A person who accompanies or associates with another; a comrade. 2. Astronomy. The fainter of the two stars that constitute a double star. companions, companionless.
company ::: 1. A number of people gathered together; assembly. 2. A number of persons united or incorporated for joint action. companies.
compeer ::: 1. An equal in rank, ability, accomplishment, etc.; peer; colleague. 2. A comrade, companion, or associate. compeers.
compel ::: 1. To cause (someone) by force (to be or do something) 2. To force to submit; subdue. 3. To exert a strong, irresistible force on; sway. compels, compelled, compelling, compellingly.
compendium ::: 1. A brief treatment or account of a subject, esp. an extensive subject; concise treatise. 2. A short, complete summary; an abstract.
complements ::: 1. Things that complete, make up a whole, or bring to perfection. 2. Things that complete each other when combined and complete the whole.
complete ::: adj. 1. Having all necessary or normal parts, components, or steps; entire. 2. Thorough; consummate; fully realised. n. completeness. *v. *3. To bring to a finish or an end.
compression ::: 1. The act or process of compressing. 2. The process or result of constricting; becoming smaller or pressed together.
conceit ::: 1. An excessively favourable opinion of one"s own ability, importance, wit, etc. 2. Something that is conceived in the mind; a thought; idea. 3. Imagination; fancy. 4. A fanciful thought or idea. conceits.
conceive ::: 1. To form or hold an idea. 2. To begin, originate, or found (something) in a particular way (usually used in the passive). 3. To apprehend mentally; understand. 4. To be created or formed in the womb; to be engendered; begotten. conceives, conceived, self-conceived.
concept ::: 1. An idea, esp. an abstract idea or notion. 2. An idea of something formed by mentally combining all its characteristics or particulars; a construct. 3. A directly conceived or intuited object of thought. concept"s, concept-maps.
conception ::: 1. Origin or beginning. 2. The act or power of forming notions, ideas, or concepts. 3. The act of conceiving; the state of being conceived; fertilization; inception of pregnancy. 4. Something conceived in the mind; a concept, plan, design, idea, or thought. conception"s.
conch-shells :: 1. The spiral shell of a gastropod, often used as a horn. 2. The fabled shell trumpet of the Tritons.
conclaves ::: 1. Secret or confidential meetings. 2. Assemblies or gatherings, esp. those that have special authority, power, or influence.
concrete ::: 1. Formed by the coalescence of separate particles or parts into one mass; solid. 2. Made real, tangible, or particular as opposed to abstract.
condemned ::: 1. Pronounced judgment against; sentenced. 2. Forced into a specific state or activity. condemning.
cone ::: 1. A solid whose surface is generated by a straight line, the generator, passing through a fixed point, the vertex, and moving along a fixed curve, the directrix. 2. Anything that tapers from a circular section to a point.
confidence ::: 1. Full trust or faith in a person or thing. 2. A feeling of assurance, especially of self-assurance.
confident ::: 1. Having or showing confidence or certainty; sure. 2. Sure of oneself; having no uncertainty about one"s own abilities, correctness, successfulness, etc.; self-confident; bold.
confine ::: 1. To enclose within bounds, limit, restrict. 2. To shut or keep in; prevent from leaving a place because of imprisonment, illness, discipline, etc. confined.
confines ::: 1. The limits of a space or area; the borders. 2. A bounded scope. 3. Restraining elements.
confirm ::: 1. To make valid or binding by a formal or legal act; ratify. 2. To support or establish the certainty, or validity of; verify. 3. To reaffirm (something), so as to make (it) more definite. confirmed.
confront ::: 1. To come up against; encounter. 2. To come face to face with, especially with defiance or hostility. **confronts, confronting.**
confused ::: 1. Lacking logical order or sense. 2. *adj. Disordered and difficult to understand or make sense of. *3. Chaotic; jumbled.
conjunction ::: 1. The state of being joined. 2. Astronomy: The position of two celestial bodies on the celestial sphere when they have the same celestial longitude, especially a configuration in which a planet or the Moon lies on a straight line from Earth to or through the Sun.
conquer ::: 1. To defeat or subdue by force, especially by force of arms. 2. To overcome (an enemy, army, etc.); defeat. 3. To overcome or surmount by physical, mental, or moral force. conquers, conquered, conquering.
conquest ::: 1. The act or process of conquering, being victorious. 2. Something, such as territory, acquired by conquering. conquests.
consanguinity ::: 1. Relationship by blood or by a common ancestor. **2*.** *A close affinity or connection.
conscious ::: 1. Having an awareness of one"s environment and one"s own existence, sensations, and thoughts. 2. Conscious implies being awake or awakened to an inner realization of a fact, a truth, a condition. half-conscious, half-consciously.
consequence ::: 1. Something that logically or naturally follows from an action or condition. 2. Significance; importance.
conserved ::: 1. Prevented the waste or loss of; preserved. 2. Carefully protected; preserved.
consort ::: n. 1. A companion or partner. consort"s. *v. 2. To keep company; associate. *consorts.
constant ::: 1. Unchanging in nature, value, or extent; invariable. 2. Continuing without pause or letup; unceasing. 3. Steadfast; firm in mind or purpose; resolute.
contact ::: 1. A coming together or touching, as of objects, surfaces or people. 2. The state or condition of touching or of immediate proximity. contact"s, contacts.
contain ::: 1. To be capable of holding. 2. To halt the spread or development of; check, esp. of opposition. 3. To hold or keep within limits; restrain. contained, contains, containing, all-containing, All-containing.
context ::: 1. The part of a text or statement that surrounds a particular word or passage and determines its meaning. 2. The set of circumstances or facts that surround a particular event, situation, etc.
continent ::: 1. Mainland as opposed to islands. 2. A continuous extent of land. Also fig. continents.
contradiction ::: 1. The act of going against; opposition; denial. 2. Inconsistency; discrepancy. contradictions.
contrivance ::: 1. The act or faculty of devising or adapting; inventive skill or ability esp. in a negative sense. 2. The act or manner of contriving; the faculty or power of contriving. inventing or making with thought and skill; invention.
control ::: n. 1. Power to direct, determine or command. 2. A means of regulation or restraint; curb; check. v. 3. To exercise authoritative control or power over. 4. To hold in restraint; check, esp. one"s emotions. controls, controlled, controlling.
convey ::: 1. To take or carry from one place to another; transport. 2. To communicate or make known; impart. conveys, conveyed.
copy ::: n. 1. A imitation or reproduction of an original; a duplicate. 2. A reproduction or an image. copies. v. 2. To make a reproduction or copy of.
cord ::: 1. An influence, feeling, or force that binds or restrains; a bond or tie. 2. Fig. Like a thin rope made of several strands woven together to hold the parts of anything. cords, heart-cords.
corner ::: 1. The position at which two lines, surfaces, or edges meet and form an angle. 2. The area enclosed or bounded by an angle formed in this manner. 3. A region, part, quarter. 4. A remote, secluded, or secret place. corners, corner-Mind.
coronet ::: 1. A crown worn by nobles or peers. 2. A crown-like ornament decorated with gold or jewels.
corrupt ::: 1. To destroy or subvert the honesty or integrity of. 2. To ruin morally; pervert. 3. To cause to become rotten; spoil. 4. To taint; contaminate. corrupted, corrupting.
costume ::: n. A style of dress, including garments, accessories, and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular country, period, or people. costumes. *v. 2. To furnish with a mode of attire, set of garments; dress. *costuming.
couchant ::: 1. Lying down; crouching, with the head raised. 2. (Of an animal) Lying on the stomach with head raised and legs pointed forward.
couch ::: n. 1. A place on which one rests or sleeps; a sofa. v. 2. To lie down; recline, as for rest. couched.
count ::: n. 1. The act of counting; or calculating. v. 2. To take account of; reckon to another"s credit. 3. To have merit, importance, value, etc.; deserve consideration. counts, counted, counting.
course ::: 1. A direction or route taken or to be taken. 2. The path, route, or channel along which anything moves. 3. Advance or progression in a particular direction; forward or onward movement. 4. The continuous passage or progress through time or a succession of stages. chariot-course.
court ::: 1. An extent of open ground partially or completely enclosed by walls or buildings; a courtyard. 2. The place of residence of a sovereign or dignitary; a royal mansion or palace. courts, courtyard, courtyard"s.
court ::: 1. The room or building in which a tribunal sits and justice is administered. 2. A judicial tribunal duly constituted for the hearing and determination of legal cases.
courted ::: 1. Endeavoured to win favour with. 2. Tried to gain the love or affections of. 3. Attempted to gain (applause, favour, a decision, etc.).
covered ::: 1. Served as a cover for; extended over. 2. Put all over the surface of.
covering ::: n. **1. Anything that veils, screens, disguises or shuts from sight. 2. Something that covers or is laid, placed, or spread over or upon something else. v. 3. Protecting or shielding from harm, loss, or danger. coverings.**
cover ::: n. 1. Fig. Something, such as darkness, that screens, conceals, or disguises. v. 2. To spread over a surface to protect or conceal or warm something. 3. To hide from view or knowledge; conceal. covers, covered, covering.
covert ::: 1. Secret or hidden from view or knowledge; not openly practiced or engaged in, shown or avowed. 2. Concealment; secrecy. 3. A covered place or shelter; hiding place.
covet ::: 1. To desire wrongfully, inordinately, or without due regard for the rights of others. 2. To wish for, especially eagerly. coveted.
cowl ::: n. 1. The hood or hooded robe worn especially by a monk. 2. A hood, especially a loose one; garment. v. 3. To cover with or as with a cowl.
crabbed ::: 1. Difficult to understand; complicated; obscure. 2. Difficult to read; cramped; as crabbed handwriting.
crack ::: 1. To break without complete separation of parts; fissure. 2. To break with a sharp snapping sound. doom-crack.
cradle ::: n. 1. A small low bed for an infant, often furnished with rockers. 2. Where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence. cradles v. 2.* *To hold gently and carefully as in a cradle. 3. To hold gently or protectively. cradles, cradled.**
craft ::: 1. An art, trade, or occupation requiring special skill, esp. manual skill. 2. Skill; dexterity. 3. Skill or ability used for bad purposes; cunning; deceit; guile; fraud; evasion or deception. crafts.
crannies ::: 1. Small, narrow openings in a wall, rock, etc.,; chinks, crevices, fissures. 2. Small out-of-the-way places or obscure corners; nooks.
crash ::: v. 1. To break violently or noisily; smash; shatter into pieces. crashed, crashing.* n. 2. A sudden loud noise, as of an object breaking. 3. *An act or instance of breaking and falling to pieces.
crave ::: 1. To have an intense desire for. 2. To need urgently; require. 3. To beg earnestly for; implore. craves, craved, craving.
crawl ::: n. 1. The action of moving slowly on the hands or knees or dragging the body along the ground. 2. A very slow movement or progress. v. 3. To move slowly, either by dragging the body along the ground or on the hands and knees. 4. To advance slowly, feebly, laboriously, or with frequent stops. crawls, crawled, crawling.
create ::: 1. To cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes. 2. To evolve from one"s own thought or imagination, as a work of art or an invention. 3. To cause to happen; to bring about; arrange, as by intention or design. creates, created, creating, all-creating, self-creating, world-creating, new-create.
creation ::: 1. The act or process of creating, esp. the universe as thus brought into being by God. 2. Something that has been brought into existence or created, esp. a product of human intelligence or imagination, as a work of art, music, etc. creation"s, creations, half-creations, **self-creation.
creator ::: 1. The Divine Being, creator of all things. 2. A person, force or thing that creates. Creator, creator"s, Creator"s, creators, world-creators. (Sri Aurobindo also employs creator as an adjective.)
creature ::: 1. Something created; a living being, esp. an animal. 2. A human. 3. A person who is dependent upon another; tool or puppet. creature"s, creatures, creatures".
creed ::: 1. A formal statement of religious belief; a confession of faith. 2. Any system or codification of belief or of opinion. creeds.
creep ::: 1. To move with the body close to the ground, as on hands and knees. 2. To go or approach stealthily or furtively. 3. To move slowly, quietly, or cautiously. creeps, crept.
crest ::: 1. The top, highest point, or highest stage of something. 2. The top line of a hill, mountain, or wave. 3. A tuft or other natural growth on the top of the head of an animal as the comb of a rooster. 4. The fan-like tail of a comet. crests.
crooked ::: 1. Bent, angled or winding; deformed or contorted. 2. Dishonest or unscrupulous; fraudulent; perverse.
cross ::: 1. A structure consisting essentially of an upright and a transverse piece, upon which persons were formerly put to a cruel and ignominious death by being nailed or otherwise fastened to it by their extremities. 2. A representation or delineation of a cross on any surface, varying in elaborateness from two lines crossing each other to an ornamental design painted, embroidered, carved, etc.; used as a sacred mark, symbol, badge, or the like. 3. A trouble, vexation, annoyance; misfortune, adversity; sometimes anything that thwarts or crosses. v. 4. To go or extend across; pass from one side of to the other: pass over. 5. To extend or pass through or over; intersect. 6. To encounter in passing. crosses, crossed, crossing.
crouch ::: 1. To stoop, especially with the knees bent esp. in fear, humility or submission. 2. (of animals) to lie close to the ground, in fear, readiness for action etc. crouches, crouched, crouching.
crowded ::: 1. Filled near or to capacity. 2. Filled with a crowd. 3.* Fig.* packed closely together, as experiences, events; occurrences.
crowd ::: n. 1. A large number of persons gathered tightly together; a throng. 2. The masses. 3. A large number of things or people gathered or considered together; a multitude. crowds. v. 4. To press together into a confined space; assemble in large numbers. 5. To fill, occupy or cram things tightly together. 6. To advance by pressing or shoving. crowds, crowded, crowding.
crowned ::: 1. Invested with regal power; enthroned. 2. Ultimate; perfect; sovereign. 3. Having the finishing touch added to; completed worthily; brought to a successful consummation.
crown ::: n. **1. An ornament worn on the head by kings and those having sovereign power, often made of precious metal and ornamented with gems. 2. A wreath or garland for the head, awarded as a sign of victory, success, honour, etc. 3. The distinction that comes from a great achievement; reward, honour. 4. The top or summit of something, esp. of a rounded object. etc. 5. The highest or more nearly perfect state of anything. 6. An exalting or chief attribute. 7. The acme or supreme source of honour, excellence, beauty, etc. v. 8. To put a crown on the head of, symbolically vesting with royal title, powers, etc. 9. To place something on or over the head or top of. crowns, crowned.**
crucified ::: 1. Afflicted with severe pain or distress; tormented. 2. In reference to being put to death by nailing or otherwise fastening to a cross.
crude ::: 1. In a raw or unprepared state; unrefined or natural; unfinished, coarse. 2. Lacking in intellectual subtlety, perceptivity, etc.; rudimentary; undeveloped. 3. Rough or primitive. 4. Lacking culture, refinement, tact. crudely.
cruel ::: 1. Causing or inflicting pain or suffering without pity. 2. Pleased at causing pain; merciless. 3. Rigid; stern; strict; unrelentingly severe. cruelly.
crumble ::: 1. To fall into small pieces; break or part into small fragments. 2. To decay or disintegrate gradually. crumbles, crumbling.
crush ::: 1. Fig. To conquer by force. 2. To put down; subdue completely 3. To hug, especially with great force. crushed.
crust ::: 1. The exterior portion of the earth. 2. Fig. Any hard or stiff outer covering or surface.
cry ::: 1. To entreat loudly; supplicate. 2. To call loudly; shout. 3. To sob or shed tears because of grief, sorrow, or pain; weep. 4. To utter or shout (words of appeal, exclamation, fear, etc.) 5. To utter a characteristic sound or call. Used of an animal. cries, cried, criedst, criest, crying.
crypt ::: 1. An underground vault or chamber, especially one beneath a church that is used as a burial place. 2. A cellar, vault or tunnel. 3. A location for secret meetings, etc. crypts.
cryptic ::: 1. Secret; occult. 2. Mysterious in meaning; puzzling; ambiguous.
crystal ::: 1. A mineral, especially a transparent form of quartz, having a crystalline structure, often characterized by external planar faces. 2. Resembling crystal; transparent as water or a liquid. 3. Fig. Sometimes used to describe the eyes.
cube ::: 1. A regular solid having six congruent square faces. 2. A block having the general shape of a cube. cubes.
cue ::: 1. A hint or suggestion. 2. The part a person is to play; a prescribed or necessary course of action.
cult ::: 1. Obsessive, especially faddish, devotion to or veneration for a person, principle, or thing. 2. A specific system of religious worship, esp. with reference to its rites and deity. 3. A group or sect bound together by veneration of the same thing, person, ideal. cults.
cunning ::: 1. Skill or adeptness in execution or performance; dexterity. 2. Artfully subtle or shrewd. 3. Cunning implies a shrewd, often instinctive skill in concealing or disguising the real purposes of one"s actions. cunningly.
cup ::: 1. A small open container, usually with a flat bottom and a handle, used for drinking, or something resembling it. cup"s 2. *Fig.* Something that one must endure; one"s lot to be experienced or endured with pain or happiness, as these lines in Savitri:
cupola ::: 1. A roof or ceiling in the form of a dome. 2. A vertical cylindrical furnace for melting iron for casting.
cure ::: n. 1. A means of correcting or relieving anything that is troublesome or detrimental. v. 2. To remove or remedy (something harmful or disturbing). curing.
curious ::: 1. Eager to learn more. 2. Arousing interest because of novelty or strangeness.
**curled** ::: 1. Formed into a coiled or spiral shape. 2. Bent or raised the upper lip slightly on one side, as an expression of contempt or scorn. foam-curled.
current ::: 1. (esp. of water or air) A steady usually natural flow in a particular direction. 2. A flow of electric charge through a conductor. current"s, currents.
curse ::: n. 1. The expression of a wish that misfortune, evil, doom, etc., befall a person, group, etc. 2. A formula or charm intended to cause such misfortune to another. 3. An evil brought or inflicted upon one. 4. The cause of evil, misfortune, or trouble. 5. A profane or obscene expression or oath. curses. v. 6. To wish harm upon; invoke evil upon. 7. To invoke supernatural powers to bring harm to (someone or something). cursed.
curtain ::: 1. A hanging piece of fabric used to shut out the light from a window, adorn a room, increase privacy, etc. 2. Something that functions as or resembles a screen, cover, or barrier. curtains.
custom ::: 1. A habitual practice of a person or a group. 2. A common tradition or usage so long established that it has the force or validity of law. custom"s.
n. 1. Acceptance or approval of what is planned or done by another; acquiescence. v. 2. To give assent, as to the proposal of another; agree. consents, consented, consenting.
n. 1. The point, axis, or pivot about which a body rotates. 2. A point, area, or part that is approximately in the middle of a larger area or volume. 3. A person or thing that is a focus of interest or attention. 4. A point of origin. centre"s, centres. v. 5. To focus or bring together. 6. To move towards, mark, put, or be concentrated at or as at a centre. 7. centred. Brought together to a centre, concentrated.
The Mother: "In the physical world, of all things it is beauty that expresses best the Divine. the physical world is the world of form and the perfection of form is beauty. Beauty interprets, expresses, manifests the Eternal. Its role is to put all manifested nature in contact with the Eternal through the perfection of form, through harmony and a sense of the ideal which uplifts and leads towards something higher. On Education, MCW Vol. 12.
The Mother (to a young person): "It is very simple, as you will see. 1) The Infinite is the inexhaustible storehouse of forces. The individual is a battery, a storage cell which runs down after use. Consecration is the wire that connects the individual battery to the infinite reserve of forces. Or 2) The Infinite is the river that flows without cease; the individual is the little pond that dries up slowly in the sun. Consecration is the canal that connects the river to the pond and prevents the pond from drying up.” Some Answers from the Mother, MCW *Vol. 16.
::: The Mother: "True art means the expression of beauty in the material world. In a world wholly converted, that is to say, expressing integrally the divine reality, art must serve as the revealer and teacher of this divine beauty in life.” On Education, MCW Vol. 12.
v. **1. Focused attention, thought, etc., on (something). adj. 2. Directed or drawn toward a common center; focussed. concentrating.**
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1:wither-soever ye turn, there is the Presence of Allah. ~ Koran, 2:115, #KEYS
2:Kenosis: Christ emptied Himself
~ Anonymous, The Bible, Philippians, 2:7,#KEYS
3:Whoever denies the Father and the Son, this is the antichrist." ~ 1 John :2:22, #KEYS
4:A little I can read. ~ William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, act 1 scene 2, #KEYS
5:Sin is a spiritual blindness: "Their wickedness blinded them" (Wis 2:21). ~ STA, #KEYS
6:until we put the seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God." ~ Revelation 7:2-3, #KEYS
7:Everyone who has this hope based on him makes himself pure, as he is pure." ~ 1 John 3:2-3, #KEYS
8:Not all sins are equal ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.73.2)., #KEYS
9:even laziness in learning ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.2.4)., #KEYS
10:She refused to be consoled" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Mt. 2:18)., #KEYS
11:7) His coming for the judgment ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.1.8)., #KEYS
12:And, first, ordinarily be silent. ~ Epictetus 33. 2, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
13:Foresight is part of prudence ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.49.6)., #KEYS
14:Everything that is not the divine essence is a creature. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae I.18.2, #KEYS
15:'To change one's life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions.'
~ William James,#KEYS
16:Hatred of God is man's worst sin ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.34.2)., #KEYS
17:Light, endless Light! darkness has room no more... ~ Sri Aurobindo, cwsa, 2:618, #KEYS
18:Walk in charity. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Ephesians,. V. 2, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
19:Murder is the killing of the innocent ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.88.6)., #KEYS
20:Self-love is the cause of every sin ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.77.4sc)., #KEYS
21:We need play to live a human life ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.168.2ad3)., #KEYS
22:When there was no world, there was no time ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (DP 3.2)., #KEYS
23:2/ The brave alone can afford to be sincere. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VI. 110), #KEYS
24:before they embark on the journey. ~ Sam Keen, "To Love and Be Loved,", (1997), First 2 of 7 stanzas. Wikipedia., #KEYS
25:Sin cannot be taken away except by grace ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 3.27.2)., #KEYS
26:A lying joke has a deceptive nature ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.110.3ad6)., #KEYS
27:God cannot make a man to be without a soul ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ScG 2.25)., #KEYS
28:Moral virtues are habits of the appetite ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.60.1)., #KEYS
29:Nov 2 "Without the assistance of grace, immortality is more of a burden than a blessing." ~ Saint Ambrose of Milan, #KEYS
30:Tears and sighs naturally lessen sadness ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.38.2)., #KEYS
31:No eyes demanded her replying eyes. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 4:2, #KEYS
32:Every sin makes man a citizen of Babylon ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.77.4sc)., #KEYS
33:The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ScG 2.79)., #KEYS
34:Love is the root and cause of every emotion ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.62.2)., #KEYS
35:The Church was signified by the ark of Noah ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.173.3), #KEYS
36:Yet the world and its enticement are passing away. But whoever does the will of God remains forever. ~ 1 John 2:16-17, #KEYS
37:You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder! ~ Anonymous, The Bible, James, 2:19, #KEYS
38:Our Lord promises comfort to those that mourn ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.69.4)., #KEYS
39:VICE is opposed to virtue properly as such ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.71.1ad1)., #KEYS
40:In divine matters, natural reason has its failings ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ScG 1.2)., #KEYS
41:Practice not doing. When action is pure and selfless everything settles into its own perfect place. ~ Tao Te Ching, ch.2, #KEYS
42:To do evil belongs pre-eminently to unhappiness ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1.109.2)., #KEYS
43:Poor souls are they whose work is for a reward. ~ Bhagavad Gita. 2.49, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
44:I will trust and not be afraid. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Isaiah, XII. 2, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
45:the changing of water into wine ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Commentary on Mt. 4, lect. 2)., #KEYS
46:The common good of a nation is a divine thing ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.99.1ad1)., #KEYS
47:Anger when it lasts a long time fosters hatred ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.46.3ad2)., #KEYS
48:Faith implies merely assent to what is proposed ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.8.5ad3)., #KEYS
49:The Blessed Virgin Mary never committed a venial sin ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (CT 2.224)., #KEYS
50:(b) God's HELP in moving the soul toward the good ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.112.2)., #KEYS
51:Every sin grows out of the love of temporal things ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.84.1)., #KEYS
52:Prudence is a virtue most necessary for human life ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.57.5)., #KEYS
53:Spiritual sins are greater faults than carnal sins ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.73.5)., #KEYS
54:To love the Divine is to be loved by Him. 2 November 1932 ~ The Mother, Some Answers From The Mother, #KEYS
55:And do good. Indeed, Allah loves the doers of good" Quran 2:195 ~ Quran, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
56:True self-love consists in directing oneself to God ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.100.5)., #KEYS
57:3) in the virtuous activity which pertains to a work ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (In 2 Cor. 6.2), #KEYS
58:Love is due first to God, and then to our neighbor ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.34.6ad2)., #KEYS
59:The descent to Hades is the same from every place. ~ Anaxagoras, Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Anaxagoras, 2 #KEYS
60:Truth consists in the conformity of the mind to reality ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1.21.2)., #KEYS
61:Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness.
~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 29:2,#KEYS
62:But his desire is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night.
~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 1:2, [T2],#KEYS
63:If you consider that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who acts in righteousness is begotten by him. ~ 1 John 2:28-29, #KEYS
64:To boast in order to stir quarrels is a mortal sin ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.112.2ad1)., #KEYS
65:all of these and their like are evil in themselves ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (In 2 NE, lect. 7)., #KEYS
66:Being in general and the true in general cannot be hated ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.29.5)., #KEYS
67:Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Romans, 12:2, #KEYS
68:Thou hast a right only to work, but never to its fruits. ~ Bhagavad Gita. 2.47, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
69:Every sin includes an inordinate turning to a mutable good ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.84.1)., #KEYS
70:The virtue of gratitude inclines to return something more ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.107.2)., #KEYS
71:Do not damage the land or the sea or the trees until we put the seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God." ~ Revelation 7:2-3, #KEYS
72:Nothing moves a man to anger except a hurt that grieves him ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.47.3)., #KEYS
73:From God's effects it can be demonstrated that there is a God ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1.2.2ad3), #KEYS
74:In human actions and passions, example moves more than words ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.34.1)., #KEYS
75:Or do ye think that ye shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed away before you? ~ Koran, 2:214, #KEYS
76:Human nature rebels against a promiscuous union of the sexes ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.154.2)., #KEYS
77:It is more grievous for a man to kill himself than another ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.73.9ad2)., #KEYS
78:not only of things incorruptible, but also of things corruptible ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1.22.2), #KEYS
79:as God, he adds, and the truth, and the life ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Commentary on Jn. 14, lect. 2)., #KEYS
80:A heretic is one who devises or follows false or new opinions ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.11.1sc)., #KEYS
81:One of the conditions required for prudence is a good memory ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.56.5ad3)., #KEYS
82:That which provokes anger is always something considered unjust ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.47.2)., #KEYS
83:The head of the family is related to the home as a king to a realm ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (QL 2.5.1)., #KEYS
84:The sorrow which is a vice is caused by inordinate self-love ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.28.4ad1)., #KEYS
85:Patience is called the root and safeguard of all the virtues ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.136.2ad3)., #KEYS
86:Sin destroys virtue and spiritual beauty ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Commentary on Colossians 3, lect. 2)., #KEYS
87:2. the work of JUSTICE by rendering due service to his master ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.104.2ad1)., #KEYS
88:Divine law leaves nothing unpunished that is contrary to virtue ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.77.1ad1)., #KEYS
89:For whatever we do, it is on account of one of these that we do it ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.73.9)., #KEYS
90:Friendship with God, which is charity, is impossible without faith ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.65.5)., #KEYS
91:Has there not been a time when each and everyone of us has felt that we are a 'stranger in a strange land.'" ~ Anon. From Exodus 2:22, (KJV), #KEYS
92:Murder does more harm to one's neighbor than blasphemy does to God ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.13.3)., #KEYS
93:Sins are divided into these three: sins of thought, word, and deed ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.72.7)., #KEYS
94:Man's perfect Happiness consists in the vision of the Divine Essence ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.5.5)., #KEYS
95:Our intellect never understands so much that it cannot understand more ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1.86.2)., #KEYS
96:Sometimes it is through fear of punishment that one obeys the law ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.92.1ad2)., #KEYS
97:The greatest of all pleasures consists in the contemplation of truth ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.38.4)., #KEYS
98:The salvation of many is to be preferred to the peace of any single man ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 3.42.2), #KEYS
99:Our Lord! Accept this from us. You are indeed the All-Hearing, All-Knowing ~ Quran 2:127, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
100:The child, even before it comes out of the uterus, is specifically human ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ScG 2.59)., #KEYS
101:The Lord gives wisdom (sophia), from his face come knowledge (gnosis) and understanding (sunesis)
~ Anonymous, The Bible, Proverbs, 2.6, [T5],#KEYS
102:Those actions alone are properly called "human" of which man is master ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.1.1)., #KEYS
103:God is not only true, but truth itself, so there can be no falsity in him ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ScG 2.61)., #KEYS
104:Adultery involves not only a sin of lust but also a sin of injustice ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.73.5ad1)., #KEYS
105:A healthy mind pays more attention to what is good than to what is bad ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.106.3)., #KEYS
106:Every sinful act proceeds from inordinate desire for some temporal good ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.77.4)., #KEYS
107:If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'. ~ Georg C Lichtenberg, [T5], #KEYS
108:Lust causes inconstancy by totally destroying the judgment of reason ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.53.6ad1)., #KEYS
109:The Beautiful is the same as the Good, and they differ in notion only ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.27.1ad3). #KEYS
110:It is impossible absolutely speaking for hatred to be stronger than love ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.29.3)., #KEYS
111:The BEAUTIFUL is the same as the GOOD, and they differ in notion only ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.27.1ad3)., #KEYS
112:The intensity of love stems from the union of the beloved with the lover ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.26.8)., #KEYS
113:The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ScG 2.79). twitter.com/ManlyVirtue/st…, #KEYS
114:To excuse oneself for sin is a circumstance that aggravates every sin ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.13.3ad3)., #KEYS
115:God is of Himself a necessary being, whereas a creature is made from nothing ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1.41.2)., #KEYS
116:The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained, ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Genesis, 8:2, #KEYS
117:The intellect or mind of man is, as it were, a light lit up by the light of the Divine Word. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae III q5 a4 ad 2, #KEYS
118:To sin is nothing else than to stray from what is according to our nature ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.109.8)., #KEYS
119:But its final effect is to lead men to the PERFECT GOOD ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Commentary on 2 Tim. 3, lect. 3)., #KEYS
120:But the Holy Spirit works this in man, by bringing him to everlasting life ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.139.1)., #KEYS
121:God alone is a being by essence, whereas all other things participate in being ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ScG 2.53)., #KEYS
122:Nothing is hated except by being contrary to a suitable thing that is loved ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.29.2)., #KEYS
123:And as he says further on, this was the greatest of all the Divine ministries ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1.112.2)., #KEYS
124:By His institution, the apostles healed the sick by anointing them with oil ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.108.2)., #KEYS
125:In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? ~ Anonymous, The Bible, John, 14:2, #KEYS
126:Truth is the light of the intellect, and God Himself is the rule of all truth ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1.107.2)., #KEYS
127:A mortal sin is one that is contrary to charity, which gives life to the soul ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.59.4)., #KEYS
128:The good of a single household is ordered toward the good of a single city ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2 90.3ad3)., #KEYS
129:The primary and formal object of faith is the good which is the First Truth ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.7.1ad3)., #KEYS
130:We have not understood the present. Why should we seek to know the future? ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Day By Day, 10-2-46, #KEYS
131:Now among the passions, sorrow is effective at obstructing the good of reason ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.136.1)., #KEYS
132:The sacraments are spiritual remedies for the healing of wounds inflicted by sin ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 3.61.2)., #KEYS
133:And be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. ~ Romans XII. 2, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
134:Humility is necessary for the person praying, because he recognizes his neediness ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.83.15)., #KEYS
135:The Christian faith regards fire not as fire, but as representing the sublimity of God ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ScG 2.4)., #KEYS
136:The good which is the end of the whole universe must be a good outside the universe ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1.103.2)., #KEYS
137:To these four can be reduced whatever is scientifically inquirable or knowable ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (In 2 PA lect. 1)., #KEYS
138:Be therefore followers of God as most dear children, and walk in love" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Compendium of Theology 2.5)., #KEYS
139:More men follow the inclinations of their sentient nature than the order of reason ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.71.2ad3)., #KEYS
140:Our Lord, undeterred by their taking offense, publicly taught the truth which they hated ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 3.42.2)., #KEYS
141:The soul is the form of the whole body in such fashion as to be also the form of each part ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ScG 2.72), #KEYS
142:When we pray, we direct our intention to God, which intention has the force of a cry ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.12.2ad1). #KEYS
143:Commercial enterprises are forbidden to clerics because they unsettle the mind too much ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.40.2)., #KEYS
144:When we pray, we direct our intention to God, which intention has the force of a cry ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.12.2ad1)., #KEYS
145:But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Genesis, 2:17, #KEYS
146:If they worked for honor, however, it would no longer be a virtue, but rather ambition ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.2.2ad1)., #KEYS
147:In the state of future bliss, the human intellect will gaze on the Divine Truth in Itself ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1.101.2)., #KEYS
148:Prudence applies universal principles to the particular conclusions of practical matters ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.47.6)., #KEYS
149:The Lord's Prayer should be said to fight, not only venial sins, but also mortal sins ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.74.8ad6)., #KEYS
150:A heretic who disbelieves one article of faith has neither living faith nor lifeless faith ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.5.3)., #KEYS
151:All things, inasmuch as they participate in existence, must be subject to divine providence ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1.22.2)., #KEYS
152:Natural law is nothing else than the rational creature's participation of the eternal law ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.91.2)., #KEYS
153:so too is the grace of MIRACLES necessary that people may be confirmed in their faith ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.178.1ad5)., #KEYS
154:A SPIRITUAL sin involves more of a turning-away, which is the root character of sinfulness ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.73.5)., #KEYS
155:But first philosophy considers what is universally true of things ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Commentary on Metaphysics 2, lect. 1)., #KEYS
156:The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shined. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Isaiah, 9:2, #KEYS
157:Everything is full of signs, and the one who understands one thing on the basis of another is a wise man of sorts. ~ Plotinus, Enneads §2.3.7, #KEYS
158:The essence of vice is that it consists in failing to do what is in accordance with reason ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.135.1)., #KEYS
159:The life of a man is unfulfilled unless he has found the Divine. 2 June 1972
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, The True Aim of Life, 7,#KEYS
160:All the commandments of the decalogue are directed to the love of God and of our neighbor ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.44.1ad3)., #KEYS
161:If we were all going to be equal in heaven it would be useless for us to humble ourselves here in order to have a greater place there. ~ Jerome, Against Jovinian 2:32, #KEYS
162:Man has a natural inclination toward knowing the truth about God and toward living in society ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.94.2)., #KEYS
163:The natural law is nothing else than the rational creature's participation of the eternal law ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.91.2)., #KEYS
164:A lie is sinful not only because it injures one's neighbor, but also because of its deviance ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST. 2-2.110.3)., #KEYS
165:If the emperor commands one thing and God another, you must disregard the former and obey God ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.104.5)., #KEYS
166:The infinite could not be known actually, unless all its parts were counted, which is impossible ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1.86.2)., #KEYS
167:Christ's soul was glorified from the instant of His conception by perfect fruition of the Godhead ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (St 3.54.2)., #KEYS
168:If a man shows pity for animals, he is all the more disposed to take pity on his fellow-men ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.102.6ad8)., #KEYS
169:They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might
~ Anonymous, The Bible, 2 Thessalonians, 1:9,#KEYS
170:„We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed." ~ 2 Corinthians 4:8, #KEYS
171:Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Isaiah, 6:2 #KEYS
172:Charity makes us adhere to God for His own sake, uniting our minds to God by the emotion of love ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.17.6)., #KEYS
173:The moral virtues dispose one to the contemplative life by causing peace and cleanness of heart ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.180.2)., #KEYS
174:Adultery is more grave than theft, since a man's wife is more dear to him than his possessions ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.73.5ad1)., #KEYS
175:It is difficult, even after having learned much, to arrive at the desired term of science. ~ Sutra in 42 Articles. XI. 2, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
176:Faith is more noble than science on the part of the object because its object is the First Truth ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.67.3ad1)., #KEYS
177:If nature operates for an end, it is necessary that it be ordered by someone intelligent ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (On Physics 2, lect. 12)., #KEYS
178:When a thing acts contrary to its nature, that which is natural to it is corrupted little by little ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.34.5)., #KEYS
179:2. Christ's body is miraculously contained therein and thus it is included under God's omnipotence ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.1.8ad6)., #KEYS
180:Because of his infinite goodness, it is more proper to God to show mercy and to spare than to punish ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.21.2)., #KEYS
181:Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that the antichrist was coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. Thus we know this is the last hour." ~ 1 John 2:18, #KEYS
182:The nature of a lie is based on formal falsehood, namely, that someone intends to say what is false ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.110.1)., #KEYS
183:By inordinately using the body through lust, a man wrongs God Who is the Supreme Lord of our body ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.153.3ad2)., #KEYS
184:or the Christian faith is resisted after it has been accepted ... and such is the unbelief of heretics ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.10.5), #KEYS
185:Boredom ... is sadness weighing you down, that is, your heart, so that you do not care to do anything ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (DV 2.26.4ad6)., #KEYS
186:Everything "obeys money", for the multitude of fools who only know material goods that money can buy ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.2.1ad1)., #KEYS
187:It is contrary to the nature of the will's own act that it should be subject to compulsion and violence ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.6.4)., #KEYS
188:To curse a creature, as such, reflects on God, and thus accidentally has the character of blasphemy ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.76.4ad1)., #KEYS
189:When the soul has been made godlike (deiformis), Wisdom immediately enters into it. . . . Without sanctity a person is not wise. ~ Bonaventure, Collations on the Hexaemeron 2.6, #KEYS
190:A man must of necessity love himself, and it is impossible for a man to hate himself, properly speaking ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.29.4)., #KEYS
191:Desire, sadness, and pleasure, and consequently all the other passions of the soul, result from love ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.28.6ad2)., #KEYS
192:Fasting is directed to two things, the deletion of sin, and the raising of the mind to heavenly things ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.147.5)., #KEYS
193:It is indispensable to keep the faith and the will to conquer. 2 May 1949
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, Faith and the Divine Grace, FAITH [80],#KEYS
194:Love is due to our neighbor in respect of what he holds from God, that is, in respect of nature and grace ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.34.3)., #KEYS
195:St. Lawrence endured roasting on a gridiron to avoid sacrificing to idols ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Commentary on Nichomachean Ethics 3, lect. 2), #KEYS
196:Among all human pursuits, the pursuit of wisdom is more perfect, more noble, more useful, and more full of joy ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ScG 1.2)., #KEYS
197:2) in the mystery of Christ's incarnation, according to Jn. 14:1, 'You believe in God, believe also in Me' ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.174.6)., #KEYS
198:it is ordered toward confirming the faith, and it proceeds from God's omnipotence on which faith relies ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.178.1ad5)., #KEYS
199:This is part of the infinite goodness of God, that He should allow evil to exist, and out of it produce good ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1.2.3ad1). #KEYS
200:A perfected human world cannot be created by men or composed of men who are themselves imperfect. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
201:A work is rendered virtuous and praiseworthy and meritorious mainly insofar as it proceeds from the will ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.104.1ad3)., #KEYS
202:I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 116:1-2, NIV, #KEYS
203:This is part of the infinite goodness of God, that He should allow evil to exist, and out of it produce good ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1.2.3ad1)., #KEYS
204:Everyone should have some role in governance, since the peaceful existence of a people is thereby maintained ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.105.1)., #KEYS
205:Fraternal correction is likewise an act of charity, since through it we repel our brother's evil, namely, sin ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.33.1)., #KEYS
206:I will rise now and go about the city in the streets and the broadways, I will seek him whom my soul loveth. ~ Songs of Songs III.2, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
207:Sin is remitted to us when God is at peace with us, and this peace consists in the love whereby God loves us ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.113.2)., #KEYS
208:An evil prelate should not be honored because of who he is, but because of the one whose position he holds ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Quodlibet 8.4.2)., #KEYS
209:III. THEOREMS: 1. Every intentional act is a Magical Act. 2. Every successful act has conformed to the postulate.
~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA, Magick,#KEYS
210:Of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 103:1-2, #KEYS
211:Count it all joy when ye fall into diverse temptations, knowing this that the trying of your faith work-eth patience. ~ James 1. 2, 3, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
212:The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 18:2, #KEYS
213:Kind words and forgiveness are better than charity followed by injury. And Allah is Self-Sufficient, Most Forbearing. ~ Quran 2:263, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
214:The essential gravity of sins committed against one's neighbor must be weighed by the injury they inflict on him ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.73.3)., #KEYS
215:The soul offers herself in sacrifice to God as the beginning of her creation and as the end of her beatification ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.85.2)., #KEYS
216:But He is not supremely lovable TO US in this way, because of our appetite's inclination towards visible goods ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.24.2ad2)., #KEYS
217:The letter, even of the Gospel would kill, unless there exists the inward presence of the healing grace of faith ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.106.2)., #KEYS
218:We do not pour forth our prayers as individuals, but with unanimous accord we declare, "Our Father" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Compendium Theologiae 2.5)., #KEYS
219:When a person considers that the Son of God, the Lord of death, willed to die, he no longer fears death ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Commentary on Hebrews 2)., #KEYS
220:As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast. But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days. ~ Mark 2:19-20, #KEYS
221:It is customary, when one is habituated to prosperity, that he becomes sadder when adversities come ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Commentary on Mt. 2, lect. 4)., #KEYS
222:But in God's court judgment is based on the person accusing himself, namely, on self-confession ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Commentary on Matthew 12, lect. 2)., #KEYS
223:But it is called COOPERATING grace inasmuch as it is the principle of meritorious works, which spring from free-will ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.111.2)., #KEYS
224:Since every lie is a sin, avoidance of a lie, to whatever truth it may be contrary, may be the cause of martyrdom ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.124.5ad2)., #KEYS
225:They went out from us, but they were not really of our number; if they had been, they would have remained with us. Their desertion shows that none of them was of our number." ~ 1 John 2:18-19, #KEYS
226:Animal is not properly and per se divided by white and black, which lie completely outside of the definition of animal ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.95.4)., #KEYS
227:Christ for His part drinks the wine even with Judas in the kingdom of God, but Judas himself repudiated this banquet ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 3.81.2.ad1)., #KEYS
228:For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Ephesians, 2:8-9, #KEYS
229:The vehemence of desire for sensible delight arises from the fact that operations of the senses are more perceptible ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.2.6ad2)., #KEYS
230:In things lacking awareness, this desire is called "natural desire". Thus, it is said that a stone desires to be downwards ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ScG 2.47)., #KEYS
231:Secrecy is sometimes a cause of sin, as when a man employs secrecy in order to commit a sin, as in the case of fraud ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.66.3ad1)., #KEYS
232:Insofar as human law deviates from reason, it is called an unjust law, and has the nature not of law, but of violence ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.93.3ad3)., #KEYS
233:It is the parents' duty to look after the salvation of their children, especially before they come to the use of reason ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.10.12)., #KEYS
234:Sin is the father of death. If there had been no sin, there would have been no death ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, Sermons of the Liturgical Seasons, 231.2)., #KEYS
235:All acts of virtue are prescribed by the natural law, since each one's reason naturally dictates to him to act virtuously ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.94.3)., #KEYS
236:It is written ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Mich. 5:2): "And thou, Bethlehem, Ephrata... out of thee shall He come forth unto Me, that is to be the ruler in Israel.", #KEYS
237:But Muslims and pagans accept neither one, so we must turn to natural reason, to which all men are forced to give their assent ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ScG 1.2)., #KEYS
238:People must think of us as Christ's servants, stewards entrusted with the mysteries of God. What is expected of stewards is that each one should be found worthy of his trust. ~ 1 Corinthians 4:1-2, #KEYS
239:Since you are risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sits at the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth" ~ Colossians 3:1-2)., #KEYS
240:Yes, to live in the consciousness of the Divine Presence is the only thing that matters. 2 June 1934
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, The True Aim of Life, [3] [T6],#KEYS
241:Schismatics properly so called are those who willfully and intentionally separate themselves from the unity of the Church ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.39.1ad3)., #KEYS
242:To take pleasure in another's evil belongs to hatred, which is contrary to the charity whereby we are bound to love all men. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.108.1)., #KEYS
243:FAITH and HOPE can exist indeed in a way without charity, but they do not have the perfect character of virtue without CHARITY ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.65.4)., #KEYS
244:The last degree of humility is "fear of God": to this is opposed "the habit of sinning," which implies contempt of God ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.162.4ad4). /12, #KEYS
245:We love irrational creatures out of charity, in as much as we wish them to endure, to give glory to God, and be useful to man ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.25.11)., #KEYS
246:Clerics should abstain not only from things that are evil in themselves, but even from those that have an appearance of evil ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.77.4ad3)., #KEYS
247:When there is a greater favor on the part of the giver, a greater act of thanksgiving is required on the part of the recipient ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.106.3)., #KEYS
248:A fruit is something that proceeds from a source as from a seed or root ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.70.3). https://twitter.com/lazyraran/status/1382480995321004034, #KEYS
249:The place where light and dark begin to touch is where miracles begin." ~ Robert A. Johnson, (b.1921) an American Jungian analyst and author. His books have sold more than 2.5 million copies, Wikipedia., #KEYS
250:And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
~ Anonymous, The Bible, Romans, 12:2,#KEYS
251:Hence Valerius Maximus says of the ancient Romans that "they would rather be poor in a rich empire than rich in a poor empire" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.47.10ad2), #KEYS
252:A heretic with regard to one article has no faith in the other articles, but only a kind of opinion in accordance with his own will ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.5.3)., #KEYS
253:All things, by desiring their own perfection, desire God Himself, inasmuch as the perfections of all things are so many similitudes of the divine being. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae I.6.1 ad 2, #KEYS
254:Feb 6 "I had learned in my college days that one cannot imagine anything so strange or so little believable that it had not been said by one of the philosophers." ~ Descartes, Discourse on Method, part 2., #KEYS
255:Saying the truth does not bully anyone into accepting it. Rather, anyone is free either to accept or not to accept, as he wills ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.60.6ad1)., #KEYS
256:To Allah belong the east and the west: Wherever you turn, there is the presence of Allah. For Allah is all-Present, all-Knowing." Quran 2:115 ~ Quran, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
257:Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Ecclesiastes, I, 2, 3, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
258:Faith is essentially and chiefly about God Who is the very truth, and secondarily about creatures in which God's truth is reflected ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.89.6)., #KEYS
259:If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, 1 Corinthians, 13:2 #KEYS
260:The word was used as a hieratic means
For the release of the imprisoned spirit
Into communion with its comrade gods. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 4:2,#KEYS
261:Just as sacred doctrine is founded on the light of faith, so things in philosophy are founded on the light of natural reason ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (On the Trinity, 2.3)., #KEYS
262:To allow the free working of the New Consciousness that descended last year, what should a sadhak do?
1) Be receptive and 2) Be plastic
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III,#KEYS
263:By suffering out of love and obedience, Christ gave more to God than was required to compensate for the offense of the whole human race ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 3.48.2)., #KEYS
264:By suffering out of love and obedience, Christ gave more to God than was required to compensate for the offense of the whole human race ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST.3.48.2)., #KEYS
265:Sculpture and painting concentrated sense
Upon an inner vision's motionless verge,
Revealed a figure of the invisible, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 4:2,#KEYS
266:2) in His effects, when "the invisible things" of God . . . "are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Rm. 1:20)(ST 2-2.34.1)., #KEYS
267:A heretic who disbelieves a single article of the Faith does not have either the habit of formed faith or the habit of unformed faith ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.5.3sc)., #KEYS
268:The will moves the intellect and the other powers of the soul to the end: and in this respect an act of faith is "to believe in God" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.2.2ad4)., #KEYS
269:Our philosopher adheres to the three following things: first, contemplation; second, the fulfillment of the commandments; and third, the formation of people of virtue. ~ Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 2.10.46, #KEYS
270:Since our father is related to us as principle, even as God is, it belongs properly to the father to receive honor from his children ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.26.9ad3)., #KEYS
271:Consolation should be forthcoming, as long as a remedy is hoped for, but when there is no hope, there is no consolation ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Commentary on Mt. 2, lect. 4)., #KEYS
272:Christ is all, and in all. For circumcision is obtained through Christ alone, and freedom comes from Christ alone ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Commentary on Colossians 3, lect. 2)., #KEYS
273:It is in the latter way that he withdraws some from the use of wine, that they may aim at perfection, even as from riches and the like ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.149.3ad3), #KEYS
274:In Christ, there is a twofold nature: one which He received of the Father from eternity, the other which He received from His Mother in time ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 3.35.2)., #KEYS
275:The justification of a sinner is a certain movement by which the human mind is moved by God from the state of sin to the state of justice ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.113.5)., #KEYS
276:Errors about creatures sometimes lead one astray from the truth of faith, in so far as the errors are inconsistent with a true knowledge of God ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ScG 2.3)., #KEYS
277:Excess sadness is a disease of the mind, but mild sadness is the mark of a well-conditioned mind, according to the present state of life ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2 59.3ad3)., #KEYS
278:But the holy man (Saint Martin) chose to serve the heavenly God rather than to fight under an earthly emperor... to exchange the sacramenta of the military for evangelical edicts... ~ Alcuin of York, Vita Martini 2, #KEYS
279:If it were permissible for bad men to rob other people of their property, it would tend to the detriment of the truth of life and justice ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.43.8ad2)., #KEYS
280:Prudence or political science is the servant of Wisdom, for it leads to wisdom, preparing the way for her, as the doorkeeper for the king ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.66.5ad1)., #KEYS
281:Sometimes, when a man is already excited by violent passions, he is disturbed by mere trifles and behaves as though he were really angry ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (In I DA lect. 2)., #KEYS
282:Form gives being to a thing in the following sense: in every existing thing the form is the being, so that the very form which gives being is the being which is given to the thing. ~ Nicholas of Cusa, De Dato 2 (98), #KEYS
283:I say: When matters of great moment are inquired into by men of little ability, they usually make them men of great ability. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, Contra Academicos 1.2.6, #KEYS
284:The notion of GOOD is that which calms the desire, while the notion of the BEAUTIFUL is that which calms the desire by being seen or known ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.27.1ad3)., #KEYS
285:He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Revelation, 9:2, #KEYS
286:Regarding virtue, perfection consists in man not following the passions of the body, but moderating and controlling them in accordance with reason ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ScG 2.79), #KEYS
287:We do not pray to change God's plan; rather, we pray in order to procure what God has planned to be fulfilled through the prayers of the saints ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.83.2). #KEYS
288:Certainly the sacraments of the body and blood of Christ, which we receive, is a divine thing. On account of this and through the same 'we are made partakers of the divine nature' (2 Pet. 1:4). ~ Pope Saint Gelasius I, #KEYS
289:Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Romans, 12:2, #KEYS
290:The ostrich, which cannot fly but is always close to the ground, signifies those who fight for God and entangle themselves in secular business ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.206.1)., #KEYS
291:We do not pray to change God's plan; rather, we pray in order to procure what God has planned to be fulfilled through the prayers of the saints ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.83.2)., #KEYS
292:As Augustine says, the principal error regarding divine things is the mistake of those who try transfer to them what they know of the corporeal world ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (DT 6.2)., #KEYS
293:Just as it belongs to charity to love God, so it likewise belongs to charity to detest the sins through which the soul is separated from God ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.113.5ad1)., #KEYS
294:To do anything through ignorance or through passion takes away from the nature of injury, and to a certain extent calls for mercy and forgiveness ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.47.2)., #KEYS
295:All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, 2 Timothy, 3:16-17, #KEYS
296:And the statement made nearly 2,000 years ago came to my mind:
'Not even a hair dares to fall from your head without My Father's will . . .'
To realize this means to reach the inner peace. ~ Mouni Sadhu, Concentration,#KEYS
297:Anselm desired to dry up the marrow of his body through the fullness of his devotion ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (In Sent. 4.17.2.3). https://twitter.com/bubodeserti/status/1415263913852248067, #KEYS
298:The word ἐκένωσεν (ekénōsen) is used in Philippians 2:7, [Jesus] made himself nothing ...[Phil. 2:7] (NIV) or ...[he] emptied himself...[Phil. 2:7] (NRSV), using the verb form κενόω (kenóō) to empty. ~ Def, #KEYS
299:The intellect of our soul is to those immaterial beings, which are by nature the most clear of all, as the eyes of owls are to the light of day ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (In 2 Meta. lect. 1)., #KEYS
300:The object or matter of generosity ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (liberalitatis) is money and whatever has a money value ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.117.3)., #KEYS
301:To those who want to practise the integral Yoga, it is strongly advised to abstain from three things: 1) Sexual intercourse 2) Smoking 3) Drinking alcohol
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, [T1],#KEYS
302:Evil cannot possibly be intended by anyone for its own sake, but it can be intended for the sake of avoiding another evil, or obtaining another good ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.78.1ad2)., #KEYS
303:It is indeed the tyrant who is seditious and who feeds discord and sedition among the people subject to him, so that he can more safely dominate them ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.42.2ad3)., #KEYS
304:The light of glory, whereby God is seen, is in God perfectly and naturally; whereas in any creature, it is imperfectly and by likeness or participation ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.5.6ad2)., #KEYS
305:The Lord can rescue the good from the ordeal, and hold the wicked for their punishment until the day of Judgement, especially those who are governed by their corrupt bodily desires and have no respect for authority. ~ 2 Peter 2:9, #KEYS
306:God is the universal cause of the enlightening of souls, according to Jn. 1:9: "That was the true light which enlightens every man that cometh into this world" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.79.3)., #KEYS
307:I judged not myself to know anything among you but Jesus Christ and him crucified" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (1 Cor 2:2). For in the Cross is the perfection of all law and the whole art of living well., #KEYS
308:Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman, adorned with the sun, standing on the moon, and with the twelve stars on her head for a crown. She was pregnant, and in labour, crying aloud in the pangs of childbirth. ~ Revelation 12:1-2, #KEYS
309:According to the statutes of the Church, which does not inflict death to the body, a pecuniary punishment is inflicted so that men may be deterred from sacrilege ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.99.4)., #KEYS
310:Where is this renewal taking place? It is taking place where the image of God is, and this is not in the sense faculties, but in the mind ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Commentary on Colossians 3, lect. 2)., #KEYS
311:In the Church and in every department of human life, whoever wishes to seem what he is not is a hypocrite: for he pretends to be just without being so in reality ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.111.2)., #KEYS
312:Let us become fire, let us travel through fire. We have a free way to the ascent. The Father will guide us, unfolding the ways of fire; let us not flow with the lowly stream from forgetfulness. ~ Proclus, De Philosophia Chaldaica, fr. 2, #KEYS
313:The woman was not formed from the feet of the man as a servant, nor from the head as lording it over her husband, but from the side as a companion, as it says in Genesis ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (2:21)., #KEYS
314:St. Cyprian does not forbid married women to adorn themselves in order to please their husbands, lest the latter be afforded an occasion of sin with other women ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.169.2ad1)., #KEYS
315:The captain had answered the man of God, "If the Lord himself should make windows in heaven, could such a thing be?" And he had said, "You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it." ~ Anonymous, The Bible, 2 Kings, 7:19, #KEYS
316:The Lord said against this error ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Dt 6:4): "Hear O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Commentary on John 1, lect. 2)., #KEYS
317:There is nothing to prevent a man, who cannot grasp a proof, accepting as a matter of faith, what in itself is capable of being scientifically known and demonstrated ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1.2.2ad1)., #KEYS
318:If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold, warm, whether it is really and truly composed of H-2-O, or even mineral water, or saki. Meditation is Drinking it! ~ Taisen Deshimaru, #KEYS
319:7. To the divine flame, the seer, him whose law of being is the Truth, the shining one, the destroyer of all evils, approach and chant the hymn of praise. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Hymns To The Mystic Fire, 2 - Other Hymns, #KEYS
320:The devil is said to rejoice most over the sin of lust because it involves the greatest attachment and it is only with difficulty that a man can be torn away from it ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.73.5ad2)., #KEYS
321:The soul, since it is part of the human body, is not the whole human being: my soul is not me [anima autem cum sit pars corporis hominis, non est totus homo, et anima mea non est ego]. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, Super I Cor. Cap 15 lec. 2 n. 924, #KEYS
322:Just as the principal intention of human law is to create friendship of one man to another; so the chief intention of Divine law is to establish friendship of man to God ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.99.2)., #KEYS
323:This marriage between Christ and His Church was begun In the womb of the Virgin, when God the Father united a human nature to his Son in a unity of person ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Commentary on Jn. 2, lect 1)., #KEYS
324:Detachment begets love. Hope in God begets detachment. Endurance and long-suffering beget hope. Total self-mastery begets these. Fear of God begets self-mastery. And faith in the Lord begets fear ~ Maximus the Confessor, Centuries on Charity 1.2, #KEYS
325:The UNDERSTANDING of principles results from man's very nature, which is equally shared by all: whereas FAITH results from the gift of grace, which is not equally in all ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.5.4ad3)., #KEYS
326:Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense." ~ e. e. cummings, (1894 - 1962), American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright, wrote approx. 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays, and several essays, Wikipedia., #KEYS
327:A man needs a supernatural light in order to penetrate further, so that he might have cognition of certain things that he is unable to have cognition of by the natural light ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.8.1)., #KEYS
328:The Church is called the threshing floor; the wheat is the faithful, who will be gathered together by the angels: "Ask the lord of the harvest to send laborers into his harvest" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Lk 10:2)., #KEYS
329:There are seven articles concerning the divine nature. Similarly, seven articles are posited concerning Christ's human nature . . . so that in all there are fourteen articles ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.1.8)., #KEYS
330:Every agent acts for an end. Now the end is the good desired and loved by each one. So it is evident that every agent, whatever it be, does every action from love of some kind ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.28.6)., #KEYS
331:Matrimony is specially ordained for the good of human offspring, but adultery is specially opposed to matrimony, by breaking the marriage faith which is due between spouses ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.154.8ad2)., #KEYS
332:Vice is contrary to man's nature, in as much as he is a rational animal: and when a thing acts contrary to its nature, that which is natural to it is corrupted little by little ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.34.5)., #KEYS
333:If a man sin after receiving the grace of the New Testament, he deserves greater punishment, as being ungrateful for greater benefits, and as not using the help given to him ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.106.2ad2)., #KEYS
334:For God appears the greater to every man in proportion as he has grasped a larger survey of the creatures: and when his heart is lifted up by that larger survey, he gains withal a greater conception of God. ~ Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures IX.2, #KEYS
335:Faith adheres to all the articles of faith by reason of one medium: the First Truth proposed to us in Scriptures, according to the teaching of the Church who well understands them ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.5.3.ad2)., #KEYS
336:Our troubles arise not from the failures of our thoughts alone; they arise largely because we have not given leadership to our hearts. We have not given to our souls the power to direct us in the right way of things. ~ Manly P Hall (Resurrection 1964, p.2), #KEYS
337:Through wisdom we arrive at the kingdom of immortality, for ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Wis. 6:21) "the desire of wisdom leads to the everlasting kingdom" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ScG 1.2)., #KEYS
338:God's power and essence are infinite, and He is a universal cause of all things; and so He touches all things by His power, and He exists not just in more than one place, but everywhere ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1.52.2)., #KEYS
339:Many are unable to make progress in the study of science, either through dullness of mind, or through having a number of occupations, and temporal needs, or even through laziness in learning, ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, 2-2.2.4, #KEYS
340:You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, James, 4:2-3, #KEYS
341:Beloved, we are God's children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed. We do know that when it is revealed we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. Everyone who has this hope based on him makes himself pure, as he is pure." ~ 1 John 3:2-3, #KEYS
342:The sinking of a ship is attributed to the sailor as the cause since he does not do what is required to save the ship. By contrast, God does not fail to do what is necessary for salvation ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1.49.2)., #KEYS
343:When Christ descended into hell He freed those who were detained there for the sin of our first parent, but left behind those who were being punished for their own sins ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Compendium of Theology 2.235)., #KEYS
344:Everything imperfect is a participation of what is perfect. Therefore even what falls short of the nature of an image, so far as it possesses any sort of likeness to God, participates in some degree the nature of an image. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, ST I.93.2.ad1, #KEYS
345:Virtue arises from the desire for the immutable God, and so charity, which is the love of God, is called the root of the virtues, according to Eph. 3:17: "Rooted and founded in charity" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.84.1ad1)., #KEYS
346:Many are unable to make progress in the study of science, either through dullness of mind, or through having a number of occupations, and temporal needs, or even through laziness in learning ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.2.4)., #KEYS
347:There are three parts of the love we are asked to give one another. They are, (1) kindness, (2) encouragement, (3) and challenge. Only the mind and heart of love know when each is needed by the one loved." ~ John Powell, S.J. "Happiness Is An Inside Job.", (1989), #KEYS
348:To suffer as a Christian is not only to suffer in confession of the faith, which is done by words, but also to suffer for doing any good work, or for avoiding any sin, for Christ's sake ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.124.5ad1)., #KEYS
349:Another etymological theory considers the term guru to be based on the syllables gu (गु) and ru(रु), which it claims stands for darkness and light that dispels it, respectively.[Note 2] The guru is seen as the one who dispels the darkness of ignorance. ~ ?, #KEYS
350:The fact that children and brute animals seek pleasures does not prove that all pleasures are evil, for there is in them from God a natural appetite moved by that which is congenial to them ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.34.1ad2)., #KEYS
351:Creation does not mean the building up of a composite thing from pre-existing principles; but it means that the composite is created so that it is brought into being at the same time with all its principles. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae I q. 45 a. 4 ad. 2), #KEYS
352:Creation is not a change, but the very dependency of the created act of being upon the principle from which it is produced. And thus, creation is a kind of relation; so that nothing prevents its being in the creature as its subject. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, SCG II 18.2, #KEYS
353:The spirits of Angels are indeed [like us] bounded by space, yet their knowledge extends far above us beyond comparison; for they expand by external and internal knowing, since they contemplate the very source of knowledge itself. ~ Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job 2, #KEYS
354:It would even have been better for him never to have learnt the way of holiness, than to know it and afterwards desert the holy rule that was entrusted to him. What he has done is exactly as the proverb rightly says: 'The dog goes back to his own vomit.' ~ 2 Peter 2:22, #KEYS
355:Paul says, when Christ who is our life appears, because he is the Author of our life, and because our life consists in knowing and loving him: "It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Gal 2:20)., #KEYS
356:As the Father speaks Himself and every creature by His begotten Word, inasmuch as the Word "begotten" adequately represents the Father and every creature; so He loves Himself and every creature by the Holy Spirt.... ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae I q 37 a 2 ad 3, #KEYS
357:8. Here proclaim which is he, O Fire, what demon-sorcerer, who is the doer of this deed? To him do violence with thy blaze, O youthful god, subject him to the eye of thy divine vision. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Hymns To The Mystic Fire, 2 - Other Hymns, #KEYS
358:God is prior to the world by priority of duration. But the word "prior" signifies priority not of time, but of eternity. Or we may say that it signifies the eternity of imaginary time, and not of time really existing. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae I q 46 a 1 ad 2, #KEYS
359:Human justice imitates God's wisdom insofar as it can, for it puts to death those who are dangerous to others, while it allows time for repentance to those who sin without grievously harming others ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.64.2ad2)., #KEYS
360:Sacred Scripture does not present divine things to us under sensible images so that our intellect may stop with them, but that it may rise from them to immaterial things ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (On Boethius' De Trinitate, q. 6, a. 2 ad 1)., #KEYS
361:We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch." ~ E. E. Cummings, (1894 -1962), American poet, painter, author, and playwright, wrote approx. 2,900 poems, Wikipedia., #KEYS
362:The common good of many is more divine than the good of an individual. So it is virtuous for a man to endanger even his own life, either for the spiritual or for the temporal common good of the republic ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.31.3ad2)., #KEYS
363:As the hart panteth after the fountains of water, so my soul panteth after Thee, O God! when shall I come and appear before the face of God? My tears have been my bread day and night, while they say to me daily: Where is thy God?" ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, xli, 2 - 4; Douay, #KEYS
364:Our soul is a universal discriminating power for discerning. It is one and simple and is present as a whole in the whole [body]...The eye is not the soul that sees or discerns; yet, the whole of what discerns in the eye is the gift of the soul. ~ Nicholas of Cusa, De Dato 2 (101), #KEYS
365:Tapasya lies in three things:1) You must be very truthful. Truth is the pillar, to which you must always hold. Every inch of you must be truthful. 2) You must get rid of lust. 3) You must gain control over your Vasanas. These are the main things to be observed. ~ Swami Brahmananda, #KEYS
366:In obedience to Our Lord's institution, the Church extends her charity to all, not only to friends, but also to foes who persecute her, according to Mt. 5:44: "Love your enemies; do good to them that hate you" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.11.4)., #KEYS
367:For there is going to come a time when people won't listen to the truth, but will go around looking for teachers who tell them just what they want to hear. They won't listen to what the Bible says but will blithely follow their own misguided ideas. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, 2 Timothy, 4, #KEYS
368:At that time, when the whole world lived under one ruler, peace abounded on the earth. So it was a fitting time for the birth of Christ, for "He is our peace, who hath made both one," as it is written ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Eph. 2:14)(ST 3.35.8ad1)., #KEYS
369:The knowledge of the saints is more excellent than the knowledge of the wayfarer, and yet faith is more properly said of the wayfarer's knowledge, because the word "faith" denotes an imperfection of knowledge ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.174.2ad3)., #KEYS
370:My lower nature continues to do the same stupid things. You alone can change it. What are Your conditions?
1) to be convinced that you can change. 2) to will to change without accepting the excuses of the lower nature.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#KEYS
371:The end of human law is temporal peace within the political community, and human law achieves this end by curbing exterior acts that involve evils capable of disturbing the peaceful state of the political community ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.98.1)., #KEYS
372:To slander is to speak ill of an absent person in order to blacken his good name. Now it is a very grave matter to blacken a man's good name, because of all temporal things a man's good name seems the most precious ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.73.2)., #KEYS
373:When My servants ask you [O Prophet] about Me: I am truly near. I respond to one's prayer when they call upon Me. So let them respond with obedience to Me and believe in Me, perhaps they will be guided to the Right Way. ~ Quran 2:186, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
374:The foolish follow after outward desires and they enter into the snare of death that is wide-extended for them; but the wise, having found immortality, know that which is sure and desire not here uncertain things. ~ Katha Upanishad. IV. 2, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
375:You are no longer aliens or foreign visitors: you are citizens like all the saints, and part of God's household. You are part of a building that has the apostles and prophets for its foundations, and Christ Jesus himself for its main cornerstone ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Ephesians, 2:19-20)., #KEYS
376:patience or resoluteness? :::
The power needed in yoga is the power to go through effort, difficulty or trouble without getting fatigued, depressed, discouraged or impatient and without breaking off the effort or giving up one's aim or resolution. ~ ?, Collaboration Journal, Vol 41 No 2,#KEYS
377:The principle of the spiritual life, which is a life in accord with virtue, is the order to the last end, and if this order be corrupted, it cannot be repaired by any intrinsic principle, but by the power of God alone ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.88.1)., #KEYS
378:5. High-uplifted be, piercing through reveal in us the things divine, O Fire; lay low what the demon forces42 have established: companion or single, crush the foe.
42 Or, demon impulsions ~ Sri Aurobindo, Hymns To The Mystic Fire, 2 - Other Hymns,#KEYS
379:And so because I too am, why am I asking you to come into me, who would not be unless you were in me? I am not hell, after all; and yet even in hell, you are present; for if I descend into hell, you are there ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, Confessions 1.2)., #KEYS
380:He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it.’ ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Revelation, 2:17, #KEYS
381:The upbringing of a human child clearly requires, not only the mother's care for his nourishment, but much more the care of his father as guide and guardian, and under whom he progresses in both internal and external goods ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.154.2)., #KEYS
382:If soul and body were not united in Christ, Christ was not a man. This goes against the Apostle's words ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (1 Tim. 2:5): "The mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ScG 4.37)., #KEYS
383:When My servants ask you concerning Me, I am indeed (close to them), I listen to the prayer of every suppliant when he calls on me. Let them also, with a will, listen to My call, and believe in Me. That they may walk in the right way. ~ 2: 186), @Sufi_Path #KEYS
384:The sacrifice of the New Law, the Eucharist, contains Christ Himself, the Author of our Sanctification: for He sanctified "the people by His own blood" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Heb. 13:12) ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.101.4ad2), #KEYS
385:Christ of Himself instituted the sacraments whereby we obtain grace: Baptism, Eucharist, Orders of the ministers of the New Law, by the institution of the apostles and seventy-two disciples, Penance, and indissoluble Matrimony ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.108.2)., #KEYS
386:The existence of God and other like truths about God, which can be known by natural reason, are not articles of faith, but are preambles to the articles; for faith presupposes natural knowledge, even as grace presupposes nature ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1.2.2ad1)., #KEYS
387:19. Ever dost thou crush the demon-sorcerer, O Fire, never have the Rakshasas conquered thee in the battles; burn one by one from their roots the eaters of raw flesh, may they find no release from thy divine missile. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Hymns To The Mystic Fire, 2 - Other Hymns, #KEYS
388:There are five ways in which men are different. The first way is by sex, which Paul excludes when he says, there cannot be male and female, because men and women do not differ in mind, but in their physical sex ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Commentary on Colossians 3, lect. 2)., #KEYS
389:Sri Aurobindo does not belong to the past nor to history.
Sri Aurobindo is the Future advancing towards its realisation.
Thus we must shelter the eternal youth required for a speedy advance, in order not to become laggards on the way. 2 April 1967
~ The Mother, On Education, 210,#KEYS
390:As the certitude of scientia rests on first principles naturally known, so the principles of faith are known from a light divinely infused: "You are saved by grace, through faith; and this is not due to yourselves, for it is the gift of God" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Eph 2:8)., #KEYS
391:We are commanded to live righteously, and the reward is set before us of our meriting to live happily in eternity. But who is able to live righteously and do good works unless he has been justified by faith? ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, Various Questions to Simplician 1:2:21, #KEYS
392:The Blessed Virgin is said to have merited to bear the Lord of all, not because she merited God to be incarnate, but because she merited, from the grace given to her, that grade of purity and holiness, which suited her to be the Mother of God ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 3.2.11ad3)., #KEYS
393:If foreigners were allowed to meddle with the affairs of a nation as soon as they arrived, many dangers might occur, since the foreigners not yet having the common good firmly at heart might strive for certain goals in opposition to the people ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.105.3)., #KEYS
394:We worship God by external sacrifices and gifts, not for His own profit, but for that of ourselves and our neighbor. For He needs not our sacrifices, but wishes them to be offered to Him, in order to arouse our devotion and to profit our neighbor ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.30.4ad1)., #KEYS
395:The only nature contrary to the nature which supremely is, and by which everything else that is was made, is a nature which has no being at all.... There is no being contrary to God... who is the author of all beings of any kind whatsoever. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, City of God xii.2, #KEYS
396:2. O knower of all things born, high-kindled, iron-tusked, touch with thy ray the demon-sorcerers; do violence to them with thy tongue of flame, the gods who kill,28 the eaters of flesh, putting them off from us shut them into thy mouth. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Hymns To The Mystic Fire, 2 - Other Hymns, #KEYS
397:No words can express what is of Christ: "Glorify the Lord as much as you ever can, for he will yet far exceed, and his magnificence is wonderful. Blessing the Lord, exalt him as much as you can, for he is above all praise" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Sir. 43:30)(Commentary on Hebrews 5, lect. 2)., #KEYS
398:The conditions for living ever in union with Purushottama: -
1. Loss of egoism - including all ambition (even "spiritual" ambition), pride, desire, self-centered life, mind, will.
2. Universalization of the consciousness.
3. Absolute surrender to the transcendental Divine.
~ Sri Aurobindo,#KEYS
399:We see that some things lacking cognition, namely, natural bodies, act for the sake of an end. This is apparent in that they always or very frequently act in the same way in order to bring about what is best, and from this it is clear that it is not by chance ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1.2.3)., #KEYS
400:There is in man a tendency to good, acc to the nature of his reason, which nature is proper to him, thus man has a natural tendency to know the truth about God and to live in society. In this respect, whatever pertains to this inclination belongs to the natural law ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.94.2)., #KEYS
401:It is a great gift to suffer for Christ, as it says in James ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (1:2): "Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces patience" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Commentary on Mt. 10, lect.2 )., #KEYS
402:The power of Love supramentalised can take hold of all living relations without hestitation or danger and turn them Godwards delivered from their crude, mixed and petty human settings and sublimated into the happy material of a divine life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 2, 169, #KEYS
403:The harmony of a rich culture's tones
Refined the sense and magnified its reach
To hear the unheard and glimpse the invisible
And taught the soul to soar beyond things known,
Inspiring life to greaten and break its bounds
Aspiring to the Immortals' unseen world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 4:2,#KEYS
404:A DEVOTEE: "Sir, how can one see God?"
MASTER: "Can you ever see God if you do not direct your whole mind toward Him? The Bhagavata speaks about Sukadeva. When he walked about he looked like a soldier with fixed bayonet. His gaze did not wander; it had only one goal and that was God. This is the meaning of yoga. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, 2.08 - AT THE STAR THEATRE (II),#KEYS
405:(1) Offer yourself more and more - all the consciousness, all that happens in it, all your work and action.
(2) If you have faults and weaknesses, hold them up before the Divine to be changed or abolished.
(3) Try to do what I told you, concentrate in the heart till you constantly feel the Presence there. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II,#KEYS
406:1. Do not think dishonestly. 2. The Way is in training. 3. Become acquainted with every art. 4. Know the Ways of all professions. 5. Distinguish between gain and loss in worldly matters. 6. Develop intuitive judgement and understanding for everything. 7. Perceive those things which cannot be seen. 8. Pay attention even to trifles. 9. Do nothing which is of no use. ~ Miyamoto Musashi, #KEYS
407:All worshipped marvellingly, none dared to claim.
Her mind sat high pouring its golden beams,
Her heart was a crowded temple of delight.
A single lamp lit in perfection's house,
A bright pure image in a priestless shrine,
Midst those encircling lives her spirit dwelt,
Apart in herself until her hour of fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 4:2,#KEYS
408:My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, making your ear atentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. ...
~ Anonymous, The Bible, Proverbs, 2:1-22,#KEYS
409:In the 20th century he became an important element within the mystical system of Thelema, founded by Aleister Crowley, where he is the Dweller in the Abyss,[1][2] believed to be the last great obstacle between the adept and enlightenment. Thelemites believe that if he is met with proper preparation, then his function is to destroy the ego, which allows the adept to move beyond the Abyss of occult cosmology. ~ Wikipedia, #KEYS
410:In men, says the Upanishad, the Self-Existent has cut the doors of consciousness outward, but a few turn the eye inward and it is these who see and know the Spirit and develop the spiritual being. Thus to look into ourselves and see and enter into ourselves and live within is the first necessity for transformation of nature and for the divine life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
411:What are the steps to follow for (1) sadhana and (2) silence of the mind?
(1) Do work as sadhana. You offer to the Divine the work you do to the best of your capacities and you leave the result to the Divine. (2) Try to become conscious first above your head, keeping the brain as silent as possible. If you succeed and the work is done in that condition, then it will become perfect.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#KEYS
412:Our human consciousness has windows that open on the Infinite but generally men keep these windows carefully shut. They have to be opened wide and allow the Infinite freely to enter into us and transform us.
Two conditions are necessary for opening the windows:
1) ardent aspiration;
2) progressive dissolution of the ego.
The Divine help is assured to those who set to work sincerely. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#KEYS
413:...to do the integral yoga one must first resolve to surrender entirely to the Divine, there is no other way, this is the way. But after that one must have the five psychological virtues, five psychological perfections and we say that the perfections are 1.Sincerity or Transparency 2.Faith or Trust (Trust in the Divine) 3.Devotion or Gratitude 4.Courage or Inspiration 5.Endurance or Perseverance
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1956,#KEYS
414:In the growth into a divine life the spirit must be our first preoccupation; until we have revealed and evolved it in our self out of its mental, vital, physical wrappings and disguises, extricated it with patience from our own body, as the Upanishad puts it, until we have built up in ourselves an inner life of the spirit, it is obvious that no outer divine living can become possible. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
415:The new D&D is too rule intensive. It's relegated the Dungeon Master to being an entertainer rather than master of the game. It's done away with the archetypes, focused on nothing but combat and character power, lost the group cooperative aspect, bastardized the class-based system, and resembles a comic-book superheroes game more than a fantasy RPG where a player can play any alignment desired, not just lawful good. ~ Gary Gygax, GameSpy interview, Pt. 2 (16 August 2004), #KEYS
416:Q: I wrote to the Mother a prayer in French. Her answer to it was: "Ouvre ton cæur et tu me trouveras déjà là." ("Open your heart and you will find me already there.") What exactly does this signify?
A: What the Mother meant was this that when there is a certain opening of the heart, you find that there was always the eternal union there (the same that you experience always in the Self above).
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Mother With Letters On The Mother, 2-7-1935,#KEYS
417:... The sadhana of inner concentration consists in:
(1) Fixing the consciousness in the heart and concentrating there on the idea, image or name of the Divine Mother, whichever comes easiest to you.
(2) A gradual and progressive quieting of the mind by this concentration in the heart.
(3) An aspiration for the Mother's presence in the heart and the control by her of mind, life and action. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II, Combining Work, Meditation and Bhakti,#KEYS
418:Threefold are those supreme births of this divine force that is in the world, they are true, they are desirable; he moves there wide-overt within the Infinite and shines pure, luminous and fulfilling. . . . That which is immortal in mortals and possessed of the truth, is a god and established inwardly as an energy working out in our divine powers. . . . Become high-uplifted, O Strength, pierce all veils, manifest in us the things of the Godhead. Vamadeva - Rig Veda.2 ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, #KEYS
419:MESSAGES FOR CENTRES AND ORGANISATIONS (Suggested programme for a study group)
1. Prayer (Sri Aurobindo, Mother - grant us your help in our endeavour to understand your teaching.)
2. Reading of Sri Aurobindo's book.
3. A moment of silence.
4. One question can be put by whoever wants to put a question on what has been read.
5. Answer to the question.
6. No general discussion. This is not the meeting of a group but simply a class for studying Sri Aurobindo's books. 31 October 1942
~ The Mother,#KEYS
420:For example, when practitioners transform into Shenlha Ökar (Shen Deity of White Light), they visualize their bodies as being adorned with the thirteen ornaments of peacefulness that in themselves evoke the enlightened quality of peacefulness.2 Shenlha Ökar himself embodies all six of the antidote qualities of love, generosity, wisdom, openness, peacefulness, and compassion; so as soon as you transform into Shenlha Ökar, you instantly embody these same qualities. ~ Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Tibetan Yogas of Body, Speech, and Mind, #KEYS
421:MAGIC is the Highest, most Absolute, and most Divine Knowledge of Natural Philosophy, advanced in its works and wonderful operations by a right understanding of the inward and occult virtue of things; so that true Agents 2 being applied to proper Patients, 3 strange and admirable effects will thereby be produced. Whence magicians are profound and diligent searchers into Nature; they, because of their skill, know how to anticipate an effort, 4 the which to the vulgar shall seem to be a miracle.
~ King Solomon, Lesser Key Of The Goetia,#KEYS
422:Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS (/ˈtjʊərɪŋ/; 23 June 1912 - 7 June 1954) was an English computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist. He was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general purpose computer.[2][3][4] Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.[5]
~ Wikipedia,#KEYS
423:the process of unifying the being :::
(1) becoming aware of one's psychic being
(2) putting before the psychic being, as one becomes aware of them, all one's movements, impulses, thoughts and acts of will, so that the psychic being may accept or reject each of these movements, impulses, thoughts or acts of will. Those that are accepted will be kept and carried out; those that are rejected will be driven out of the consciousness so that they may never come back again. ~ The Mother, Some Answers From The Mother,#KEYS
424:Enthusiasm and Straightforwardness
Joyous enthusiasm: the best way of facing life.
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True enthusiasm is full of a peaceful endurance.
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Our courage and endurance must be as great as our hope and
our hope has no limits. 2 August 1954
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A steady hope helps much on the way. 15 August 1954
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Our hopes are never too great for manifestation.
We cannot conceive of any thing that cannot be. 22 August 1954
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Straightforwardness shows itself as it is, without compromising. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#KEYS
425:The fundamental realisations of this yoga are: 1. The psychic change so that a compete devotion can be the main motive of the heart and the ruler of the thought, life and action in constant union with the Mother and in her Presence. 2. The descent of the Peace, Power, Light, etc. of the Higher Consciousness through the head and heart into the whole being, occupying the very cells of the body. 3. The perception of the One and Divine infinitely everywhere, the Mother everywhere and living in that infinite consciousness.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - IV,#KEYS
426:Now then, that part of him which belongs to tamas, that, O students of sacred knowledge (Brahmacharins), is this Rudra.
That part of him which belongs to rajas, that O students of sacred knowledge, is this Brahma.
That part of him which belongs to sattva, that O students of sacred knowledge, is this Vishnu.
Verily, that One became threefold, became eightfold, elevenfold, twelvefold, into infinite fold.
This Being (neuter) entered all beings, he became the overlord of all beings.
That is the Atman (Soul, Self) within and without - yea, within and without! ~ Maitri Upanishad 5.2,#KEYS
427:The Temple represents the external Universe. The Magician must take it as he finds it, so that it is of no particular shape; yet we find written, \Liber VII,\ V:I:2 \We made us a temple of stones in the shape of the Universem even ashou didst wear openly and I concealed.\ This shape is the vesica piscis; but it is only the greeatest Magicians who can thus fashion the Temple. There may, however, be some choice of rooms; this refers to the power of the Magician to reincarnate in a suitable body.
~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA, Book 04: Magick, Part II, Chapter 1, The Temple [49],#KEYS
428:To return to the question of the development of the Will. It is always something to pluck up the weeds, but the flower itself needs tending. Having crushed all volitions in ourselves, and if necessary in others, which we find opposing our real Will, that Will itself will grow naturally with greater freedom. But it is not only necessary to purify the temple itself and consecrate it; invocations must be made. Hence it is necessary to be constantly doing things of a positive, not merely of a negative nature, to affirm that Will.
~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA, Book 4, Magick, Part 2,#KEYS
429:Lojong Slogan 1. First, train in the preliminaries; The four reminders. or alternatively called the Four Thoughts
1. Maintain an awareness of the preciousness of human life.
2. Be aware of the reality that life ends; death comes for everyone; Impermanence.
3. Recall that whatever you do, whether virtuous or not, has a result; Karma.
4. Contemplate that as long as you are too focused on self-importance and too caught up in thinking about how you are good or bad, you will experience suffering. Obsessing about getting what you want and avoiding what you dont want does not result in happiness; Ego.
~ Wikipedia,#KEYS
430:The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made. ~ John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690), #KEYS
431:They climb Indra like a ladder. As one mounts peak after peak, there becomes clear the much that has still to be done. Indra brings consciousness of That as the goal.
Like a hawk, a kite He settles on the Vessel and upbears it; in His stream of movement He discovers the Rays, for He goes bearing his weapons: He cleaves to the ocean surge of the waters; a great King, He declares the fourth status. Like a mortal purifying his body, like a war-horse galloping to the conquest of riches He pours calling through all the sheath and enters these vessels. Rig Veda.2 ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, 1.26,#KEYS
432:The word is a sound expressive of the idea. In the supra-physical plane when an idea has to be realised, one can by repeating the word-expression of it, produce vibrations which prepare the mind for the realisation of the idea. That is the principle of the Mantra and of japa. One repeats the name of the Divine and the vibrations created in the consciousness prepare the realisation of the Divine. It is the same idea that is expressed in The Bible, God said, Let there be Light, and there was Light. It is creation by the Word. 6 May 1933 ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Poetry And Art, 1.1.1.02 - Creation by the Word / 2.3.02 - Mantra and Japa, #KEYS
433:There are two kinds of black magicians: (1) those who use the demons of the astral plane for their villainy, which they invoke through necromancy and invocation; and (2) those who create their own demons and launch them against the world. The first group does the greatest harm to the world, but the second injure themselves more. The first group is composed mostly of conscious black magicians, while there are many in the second group who are totally ignorant of what they are doing. Some never learn their mistake until the demons they have created come back to the persons who sent them forth. ~ Manly P Hall, Magic: A Treatise on Esoteric Ethics, #KEYS
434:Cheerfulness
ONE AFTERNOON, in a large town in a rainy country, I saw seven or eight vehicles full of children. That morning, they had been taken into the country to play in the fields, but the bad weather had made them return home early in the rain.
And yet they were singing, laughing and waving merrily to the passers-by.
They had kept their cheerfulness in this gloomy weather. If one of them had felt sad, the songs of the others would have cheered him. And for the people hurrying by, who heard the children's laughter, it seemed that the sky had brightened for a moment.
~ The Mother, mcw, 2:189,#KEYS
435:There are only three fundamental obstacles that can stand in the way: (1) Absence of faith or insufficient faith. (2) Egoism - the mind clinging to its own ideas, the vital preferring its own desires to a true surrender, the physical adhering to its own habits. (3) Some inertia or fundamental resistance in the consciousness, not willing to change because it is too much of an effort or because it does not want to believe in its own capacity or the power of the Divine - or for some other more subconscient reason. You have to see for yourself which of these it is.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - III, Difficulties of the Path,#KEYS
436:How to open to the Mother? The following are the means:
(1) To remember You constantly or from time to time--
Good.
(2) By taking Your name through Japa [mantra; repeating the Mother's name]--
Helpful.
(3) With the help of meditation--
More difficult if one has not the habit of meditation.
(4) By conversation about You with those who love and respect You--
Risky because, when talking, often some nonsense or at least some useless things can be said.
(5) By reading Your books--
Good.
(6) By spending time in thoughts of You--
Very good.
(7) By sincere prayers--
Good. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#KEYS
437:It is said that the faculty of concentrated attention is at the source of all successful activity. Indeed the capacity and value of a man can be measured by his capacity of concentrated attention.[2]
In order to obtain this concentration, it is generally recommended to reduce one's activities, to make a choice and confine oneself to this choice alone, so as not to disperse one's energy and attention. For the normal man, this method is good, sometimes even indispensable. But one can imagine something better.
[2] Generally it comes through interest and a special attraction for a subject - Mother's note.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, [T4],#KEYS
438:This then is the first necessity, that the individual, each individual, shall discover the spirit, the divine reality within him and express that in all his being and living. A divine life must be first and foremost an inner life; for since the outward must be the expression of what is within, there can be no divinity in the outer existence if there is not the divinisation of the inner being.
The Divinity in man dwells veiled in his spiritual centre; there can be no such thing as self-exceeding for man or a higher issue for his existence if there is not in him the reality of an eternal self and spirit. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, 2.28 - The Divine Life,#KEYS
439:The glory he had glimpsed must be his home. ||19.2||
A brighter heavenlier sun must soon illume
This dusk room with its dark internal stair,
The infant soul in its small nursery school
Mid objects meant for a lesson hardly learned
Outgrow its early grammar of intellect
And its imitation of Earth-Nature’s art,
Its earthly dialect to God-language change,
In living symbols study Reality
And learn the logic of the Infinite. ||19.3||
The Ideal must be Nature’s common truth,
The body illumined with the indwelling God,
The heart and mind feel one with all that is,
A conscious soul live in a conscious world. ||19.4|| ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 1:5, || 19.2 - 19.4 ||,#KEYS
440:2. What should be the object or ideas for meditation?
Whatever is most consonant with your nature and highest aspirations. But if you ask me for an absolute answer, then I must say that Brahman is always the best object for meditation or contemplation and the idea on which the mind should fix is that of God in all, all in God and all as God. It does not matter essentially whether it is the Impersonal or the Personal God, or subjectively, the One Self. But this is the idea I have found the best, because it is the highest and embraces all other truths, whether truths of this world or of the other worlds or beyond all phenomenal existence, - 'All this is the Brahman.'
~ Sri Aurobindo, Autobiographical Notes,#KEYS
441:The contribution of the psychic being to the sadhana is: (1) love and bhakti, a love not vital, demanding and egoistic but unconditioned and without claims, self-existent; (2) the contact or the presence of the Mother within; (3) the unerring guidance from within; (4) a quieting and purification of the mind, vital and physical consciousness by their subjection to the psychic influence and guidance; (5) the opening up of all this lower consciousness to the higher spiritual consciousness above for its descent into a nature prepared to receive it with a complete receptivity and right attitude - for the psychic brings in everything, right thought, right perception, right feeling, right attitude. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - III, #KEYS
442:Jordan Peterson's Book List
1. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
2. 1984 - George Orwell
3. Road To Wigan Pier - George Orwell
4. Crime And Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
5. Demons - Fyodor Dostoevsky
6. Beyond Good And Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
7. Ordinary Men - Christopher Browning
8. The Painted Bird - Jerzy Kosinski
9. The Rape of Nanking - Iris Chang
10. Gulag Archipelago (Vol. 1, Vol. 2, & Vol. 3) - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
11. Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
12. Modern Man in Search of A Soul - Carl Jung
13. Maps Of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief - Jordan B. Peterson
14. A History of Religious Ideas (Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3) - Mircea Eliade
15. Affective Neuroscience - Jaak Panksepp ~ Jordan Peterson,#KEYS
443:Systematic study of chemical and physical phenomena has been carried on for many generations and these two sciences now include: (1) knowledge of an enormous number of facts; (2) a large body of natural laws; (3) many fertile working hypotheses respecting the causes and regularities of natural phenomena; and finally (4) many helpful theories held subject to correction by further testing of the hypotheses giving rise to them. When a subject is spoken of as a science, it is understood to include all of the above mentioned parts. Facts alone do not constitute a science any more than a pile of stones constitutes a house, not even do facts and laws alone; there must be facts, hypotheses, theories and laws before the subject is entitled to the rank of a science. ~ Alfred Korzybski, Manhood of Humanity, #KEYS
444:We cannot perceive Chaos directly, for it simultaneously contains the opposite to anything we might think it is. We can, however, occasionally glimpse and make use of partially formed matter which has only probablistic and indeterministic existence. This stuff we can call the aethers.
* If it makes us feel any better we can call this Chaos, the Tao, or God, and imagine it to be benevolent and human-hearted. There are two schools of thought in magic. One considers the formative agent of the universe to be random and chaotic, and the other considers that it is a force of spiritual consciousness. As they have only themselves on which to base their speculations, they are basically saying that their own natures are either random and chaotic or spiritually conscious.
~ Peter J Carroll, Miscellaneous Excerpts Part 2,#KEYS
445:The Soul watches the ceaselessly changing universe and follows all the fate of all its works: this is its life, and it knows no respite from this care, but is ever labouring to bring about perfection, planning to lead all to an unending state of excellence- like a farmer, first sowing and planting and then constantly setting to rights where rainstorms and long frosts and high gales have played havoc... Well, perhaps even the less good has its contributory value in the All. Perhaps there is no need that everything be good. Contraries may co-operate; and without opposites there could be no ordered Universe: all living beings of the partial realm include contraries. The better elements are compelled into existence and moulded to their function by the Reason-Principle directly
~ Plotinus, 2 Ennead 3:16,#KEYS
446:With many people custom and habit of which ethics is but the social expression are the things most difficult to give up: and it is a useful practice to break any habit just to get into the way of being free from that form of slavery. Hence we have practices for breaking up sleep, for putting our bodies into strained and unnatural positions, for doing difficult exercises of breathing -- all these, apart from any special merit they may have in themselves for any particular purpose, have the main merit that the man forces himself todo them despite any conditions that may exist. Having conquered internal resistance one may conquer external resistance more easily. In a steam boat the engine must first overcome its own inertia before it can attack the resistance of the water.
~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA, Book 4, Magick, Part 2, The Wand,#KEYS
447:2. Refusal of the Call:Often in actual life, and not infrequently in the myths and popular tales, we encounter the dull case of the call unanswered; for it is always possible to turn the ear to other interests. Refusal of the summons converts the adventure into its negative. Walled in boredom, hard work, or 'culture,' the subject loses the power of significant affirmative action and becomes a victim to be saved. His flowering world becomes a wasteland of dry stones and his life feels meaningless-even though, like King Minos, he may through titanic effort succeed in building an empire or renown. Whatever house he builds, it will be a house of death: a labyrinth of cyclopean walls to hide from him his minotaur. All he can do is create new problems for himself and await the gradual approach of his disintegration. ~ Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #KEYS
448:the soul alone ensures sincerity :::
It is here that the emergence of the secret psychic being in us as the leader of the sacrifice is of the utmost importance; for this inmost being alone can bring with it the full power of the spirit in the act, the soul in the symbol. It alone can assure, even while the spiritual consciousness is incomplete, the perennial freshness and sincerity and beauty of the symbol and prevent it from becoming a dead form or a corrupted and corrupting magic; it alone can preserve for the act its power with its significance. All the other members of our being, mind, life-force, physical or body consciousness, are too much under the control of the Ignorance to be a sure instrumentation and much less can they be a guide or the source of an unerring impulse. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 2, 166,#KEYS
449:
Often, when I read Sri Aurobindo's works or listen to His words, I am wonderstruck: how can this eternal truth, this beauty of expression escape people? It is really strange that He is not yet recognised, at least as a supreme creator, a pure artist, a poet par excellence! So I tell myself that my judgments, my appreciations are influenced by my devotion for the Master - and everyone is not devoted. I do not think this is true. But then why are hearts not yet enchanted by His words?
Who can understand Sri Aurobindo? He is as vast as the universe and his teaching is infinite...
The only way to come a little close to him is to love him sincerely and give oneself unreservedly to his work. Thus, each one does his best and contributes as much as he can to that transformation of the world which Sri Aurobindo has predicted. 2 December 1964
~ The Mother, On Education, 396,#KEYS
450:This is the integral knowledge, for we know that everywhere and in all conditions all to the eye that sees is One, to a divine experience all is one block of the Divine. It is only the mind which for the temporary convenience of its own thought and aspiration seeks to cut an artificial line of rigid division, a fiction of perpetual incompatibility between one aspect and another of the eternal oneness. The liberated knower lives and acts in the world not less than the bound soul and ignorant mind but more, doing all actions, sarvakrt, only with a true knowledge and a greater conscient power. And by so doing he does not forfeit the supreme unity nor falls from the supreme consciousness and highest knowledge. For the Supreme, however hidden now to us, Is here in the world no less than he could be in the most utter and Ineffable self-extinction, the most intolerant Nirvana. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, 2:1, #KEYS
451:He found the vast Thought with seven heads that is born of the Truth; he created some fourth world and became universal. . . .
The Sons of Heaven, the Heroes of the Omnipotent, thinking the straight thought, giving voice to the Truth, founded the plane of illumination and conceived the first abode of the Sacrifice. . . . The Master of Wisdom cast down the stone defences and called to the Herds of Light, . . . the herds that stand in the secrecy on the bridge over the Falsehood between two worlds below and one above; desiring Light in the darkness, he brought upward the Ray-Herds and uncovered from the veil the three worlds; he shattered the city that lies hidden in ambush, and cut the three out of the Ocean, and discovered the Dawn and the Sun and the Light and the Word of Light. Rig Veda.2 ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Out of the Sevenfold Ignorance towards the Sevenfold Knowledge,#KEYS
452:10 You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance,
11 persecutions, sufferings—what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.
12 In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
13 while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it,
15 and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,
17 so that the servant of God[a] may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. ~ 2 Timothy 3#KEYS
453:55: A similar rejection is a necessary self-restraint and a spiritual discipline for the immature seeker, since such powers may be a great, even a deadly peril; for their supernormality may easily feed in him an abnormal exaggeration of the ego. Power in itself may be dreaded as a temptation by the aspirant to perfection, because power can abase as well as elevate; nothing is more liable to misuse. But when new capacities come as an inevitable result of the growth into a greater consciousness and a greater life and that growth is part of the very aim of the spiritual being within us, this bar does not operate; for a growth of the being into supernature and its life in supernature cannot take place or cannot be complete without bringing with it a greater power of consciousness and a greater power of life and the spontaneous development of an instrumentation of knowledge and force normal to that supernature. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, 2.08, #KEYS
454:A silence, an entry into a wide or even immense or infinite emptiness is part of the inner spiritual experience; of this silence and void the physical mind has a certain fear, the small superficially active thinking or vital mind a shrinking from it or dislike, - for it confuses the silence with mental and vital incapacity and the void with cessation or non-existence: but this silence is the silence of the spirit which is the condition of a greater knowledge, power and bliss, and this emptiness is the emptying of the cup of our natural being, a liberation of it from its turbid contents so that it may be filled with the wine of God; it is the passage not into non-existence but to a greater existence. Even when the being turns towards cessation, it is a cessation not in non-existence but into some vast ineffable of spiritual being or the plunge into the incommunicable superconscience of the Absolute. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
455:Part 2 - Initiation
6. The Road of Trials:Once having traversed the threshold, the hero moves in a dream landscape of curiously fluid, ambiguous forms, where he must survive a succession of trials. This is a favorite phase of the myth-adventure. It has produced a world literature of miraculous tests and ordeals. The hero is covertly aided by the advice, amulets, and secret agents of the supernatural helper whom he met before his entrance into this region. Or it may be that he here discovers for the first time that there is a benign power everywhere supporting him in his superhuman passage. The original departure into the land of trials represented only the beginning of the long and really perilous path of initiatory conquests and moments of illumination. Dragons have now to be slain and surprising barriers passed-again, again, and again. Meanwhile there will be a multitude of preliminary victories, unsustainable ecstasies and momentary glimpses of the wonderful land. ~ Joseph Campbell,#KEYS
456:reading :::
50 Philosophy Classics: List of Books Covered:
1. Hannah Arendt - The Human Condition (1958)
2. Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics (4th century BC)
3. AJ Ayer - Language, Truth and Logic (1936)
4. Julian Baggini - The Ego Trick (2011)
5. Jean Baudrillard - Simulacra and Simulation (1981)
6. Simone de Beauvoir - The Second Sex (1952)
7. Jeremy Bentham - Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789)
8. Henri Bergson - Creative Evolution (1911)
9. David Bohm - Wholeness and the Implicate Order (1980)
10. Noam Chomsky - Understanding Power (2002)
11. Cicero - On Duties (44 BC)
12. Confucius - Analects (5th century BC)
13. Rene Descartes - Meditations (1641)
14. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Fate (1860)
15. Epicurus - Letters (3rd century BC)
16. Michel Foucault - The Order of Things (1966)
17. Harry Frankfurt - On Bullshit (2005)
18. Sam Harris - Free Will (2012)
19. GWF Hegel - Phenomenology of Spirit (1803)
20. Martin Heidegger - Being and Time (1927)
21. Heraclitus - Fragments#KEYS
457:In the terrestrial formulation of Knowledge and Power, this correlation is not altogether apparent because there consciousness itself is concealed in an original Inconscience and the natural strength and rhythm of its powers in their emergence are diminished and disturbed by the discordances and the veils of the Ignorance. The Inconscient there is the original, potent and automatically effective Force, the conscious mind is only a small labouring agent; but that is because the conscious mind in us has a limited individual action and the Inconscient is an immense action of a universal concealed Consciousness: the cosmic Force, masked as a material Energy, hides from our view by its insistent materiality of process the occult fact that the working of the Inconscient is really the expression of a vast universal Life, a veiled universal Mind, a hooded Gnosis, and without these origins of itself it could have no power of action, no organising coherence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
458:You must make up your mind what you want. There is no harm in drawing back from all vital and physical relations and wanting only the true relation that is in fact what happens to everybody who wants the true relation the only thing kept is the universal goodwill (not vital affection) to all. But if you swing about from one mood to another then of course they will not understand and have some ground to say that they are perplexed by your variations. This matter of touching and caressing is one on which you ought to take a firm and unvarying stand. If you dont want it, you should repel it always with the utmost firmness, otherwise there will necessarily be clash and disturbance. All depends upon your inner will and establishing a unity of will in yourself turned exclusively towards the Divine.
I think I have told you that an entire physical retirement is seldom healthy, although a comparative retirement is often helpful. But the main thing is the inner detachment and complete turning to the Divine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga IV, 2.4.2,#KEYS
459:The key one and threefold, even as universal science. The division of the work is sevenfold, and through these sections are distributed the seven degrees of initiation into is transcendental philosophy.
The text is a mystical commentary on the oracles of Solomon, ^ and the work ends with a series of synoptic schedules which are the synthesis of Magic and the occult Kabalah so far as concerns that which can be made public in writing. The rest, being the esoteric and inexpressible part of the science, is formulated in magnificent pantacles carefully designed and engraved. These are nine in number, as follows
(1) The dogma of Hermes;
(2) Magical realisation;
(3) The path of wisdom and the initial procedure in the work
(4) The Gate of the Sanctuary enlightened by seven mystic rays;
(5) A Rose of Light, in the centre of which a human figure is extending its arms in the form of a cross;
(6) The magical laboratory of Khunrath, demonstrating the necessary union of prayer and work
(7) The absolute synthesis of science;
(8) Universal equilibrium ;
(9) A summary of Khunrath's personal embodying an energetic protest against all his detractors. ~ Eliphas Levi, The History Of Magic,#KEYS
460:The Transcendent Mother and the Higher Hemisphere
"At the summit of this manifestation of which we are a part there are worlds of infinite existence, consciousness, force and bliss over which the Mother stands as the unveiled eternal Power."1 The Transcendent Mother thus stands above the Ananda plane.There are then four steps of the Divine Shakti:
(1) The Transcendent Mahashakti who stands above the Ananda plane and who bears the Supreme Divine in her eternal consciousness.
(2) The Mahashakti immanent in the worlds of SatChit-Ananda where all beings live and move in an ineffable completeness.
(3) The Supramental Mahashakti immanent in the worlds of Supermind.
(4) The Cosmic Mahashakti immanent in the lower hemisphere.
Yes; that is all right. One speaks often however of all above the lower hemisphere as part of the transcendence. This is because the Supermind and Ananda are not manifested in our universe at present, but are planes above it. For us the higher hemisphere is pr [para], the Supreme Transcendence is prA(pr [paratpara]. The Sanskrit terms are here clearer than the English.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Mother With Letters On The Mother, Three Aspects of the Mother, 52,#KEYS
461:And now what methods may be employed to safeguard the worker in the field of the world? What can be done to ensure his safety in the present strife, and in the greater strife of the coming centuries? 1. A realisation that purity of all the vehicles is the prime essential. If a Dark Brother gains control over any man, it but shows that that man has in his life some weak spot.... 2. The elimination of all fear. The forces of evolution vibrate more rapidly than those of involution, and in this fact lies a recognisable security. Fear causes weakness; weakness causes a disintegration; the weak spot breaks and a gap appears, and through that gap evil force may enter.... 3. A standing firm and unmoved, no matter what occurs. Your feet may be bathed in the mud of earth, but your head may be bathed in the sunshine of the higher regions... 4. A recognition of the use of common-sense, and the application of this common-sense to the matter in hand. Sleep much, and in sleeping, learn to render the body positive; keep busy on the emotional plane, and achieve the inner calm. Do naught to overtire the body physical, and play whenever possible. In hours of relaxation comes the adjustment that obviates later tension. ~ Alice A. Bailey, Letters on Occult Meditation p. 137/8, (1922) #KEYS
462:
Sweet Mother, Is it possible to have control over oneself during sleep? For example, if I want to see you in my dreams, can I do it at will?
Control during sleep is entirely possible and it is progressive if you persist in the effort. You begin by remembering your dreams, then gradually you remain more and more conscious during your sleep, and not only can you control your dreams but you can guide and organise your activities during sleep.
If you persist in your will and your effort, you are sure to learn how to come and find me at night during your sleep and afterwards to remember what has happened.
For this, two things are necessary, which you must develop by aspiration and by calm and persistent effort.
(1) Concentrate your thought on the will to come and find me; then pursue this thought, first by an effort of imagination, afterwards in a tangible and increasingly real way, until you are in my presence.
(2) Establish a sort of bridge between the waking and the sleeping consciousness, so that when you wake up you remember what has happened.
It may be that you succeed immediately, but more often it takes a certain time and you must persist in the effort. 25 September 1959
~ The Mother, Some Answers From The Mother, 226,#KEYS
463:
Sweet Mother, Just as there is a methodical progression of exercises for mental and physical education, isn't there a similar method to progress towards Sri Aurobindo's yoga?
It should vary with each individual.
Could you make a step-by-step programme for me to follow daily?
The mechanical regularity of a fixed programme is indispensable for physical, mental and vital development; but this mechanical rigidity has little or no effect on spiritual development where the spontaneity of an absolute sincerity is indispensable. Sri Aurobindo has written very clearly on this subject. And what he has written on it has appeared in The Synthesis Of Yoga.
However, as an initial help to set you on the path, I can tell you: (1) that on getting up, before starting the day, it is good to make an offering of this day to the Divine, an offering of all that one thinks, all that one is, all that one will do; (2) and at night, before going to sleep, it is good to review the day, taking note of all the times one has forgotten or neglected to make an offering of one's self or one's action, and to aspire or pray that these lapses do not recur. This is a minimum, a very small beginning - and it should increase with the sincerity of your consecration. 31 March 1965
~ The Mother, Some Answers From The Mother, [T1],#KEYS
464:The Twenty Tenets of Holons
1. Reality as a whole is not composed of things, or processes, but of holons.
2. Holons display four fundamental capacities:
a. self-preservation,
b. self-adaptation,
c. self-transcendence.
d. self-dissolution.
3. Holons emerge.
4. Holons emerge holarchically.
5. Each emergent holon transcends but includes its predecessor.
6. The lower sets the possibilities of the higer; the higher sets the probabilities of the lower.
7. "The number of levels which a hierarchy comprises determines whether it is 'shallow' or 'deep'; and the number of holons on any given level we shall call its 'span'" (A. Koestler).
8. Each successive level of evolution produces greater depth and less span.
9. Destroy any type of holon, and you will destroy all of the holons above it and none of the holons below it.
10. Holarchies coevolve.
11. The micro is in relational exchange with the macro at all levels of its depth.
12. Evolution has directionality:
a. Increasing complexity.
b. Increasing differentiation/integration.
c. Increasing organisation/structuration.
d. Increasing relative autonomy.
e. Increasing telos.
~ Ken Wilber, Sex Ecology Spirituality, 1995, p. 35-78.,#KEYS
465:CHAPTER V
The Actual Practice:The Yoga of Meditative Equipoise
Part II
The Yoga of the Speech Recitation
The next section explains the yoga of vajra recitation in seven parts:
(1) general understanding, (2) the particular necessity for practice, (3) the actual nature of the recitation, (4) different types of recitation, (5) the manner of reciting the mantra, (6) number of recitations and (7) activity upon completion.
General Understanding
A general understanding of the yoga of vajra recitation is approached by considering the object that needs to be purified by the yoga, the means of purification and the result. The object that needs to be purified through the yoga of speech is the habit of perceiving all sounds-names, words, syllables and anything that is spoken-as merely ordinary sounds with ordinary meanings.
Simply stated, the object to purify is your present, obscured experience of speech and the habitual instincts that accompany it.
The practice of mantra recitation purifies this impure experience and results in pure, vajra-like speech. One achieves the Sambhogakaya and becomes imbued with the sixty qualities of the Buddha's speech. All of one's words become pleasing, meaningful and helpful. The means of purification is to recite the mantra, the pure sounds which the buddhas have given to us, over and over until they are like a spinning wheel of sound. ~ Gyatrul Rinpoche, Generating the DeityZ,#KEYS
466:If the spirit of divine love can enter, the hardness of the way diminishes, the tension is lightened, there is a sweetness and joy even in the core of difficulty and struggle. The indispensable surrender of all our will and works and activities to the Supreme is indeed only perfect and perfectly effective when it is a surrender of love. All life turned into this cult, all actions done in the love of the Divine and in the love of the world and its creatures seen and felt as the Divine manifested in many disguises become by that very fact part of an integral Yoga.
It is the inner offering of the heart's adoration, the soul of it in the symbol, the spirit of it in the act, that is the very life of the sacrifice. If this offering is to be complete and universal, then a turning of all our emotions to the Divine is imperative. This is the intensest way of purification for the human heart, more powerful than any ethical or aesthetic catharsis could ever be by its half-power and superficial pressure. A psychic fire within must be lit into which all is thrown with the Divine Name upon it. In that fire all the emotions are compelled to cast off their grosser elements and those that are undivine perversions are burned away and the others discard their insufficiencies, till a spirit of largest love and a stainless divine delight arises out of the flame and smoke and frankincense. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 2, 165, [T2],#KEYS
467:Bryan Del Monte (Author | Entrepreneur | Advertising & Marketing Expert | bryandelmonte.com)Answered April 26, 2016
That's like asking - what's considered a good day... it's so broad it depends.
That said, here's some realities about website traffic generally...
Under 10K unique visitors a month, it's very hard to draw any meaningful conclusions from your analytics. You're just way too small.
Around 100K a month, you'll be able to really spot some decent trends in your analytics that will allow you to make better content...
If you're drawing a million unique visitors a year, you're rapidly approaching the top 2% of all websites in the world.
If you're at 5-10M a year in unique visitors, you're a name brand site in your niche that is routinely visited. It also means you probably have 1000's of articls that are drawing a few hundred visits a month through SEO.
To be in the top 1/2 1% - you need to draw over 10M unique views a month. If you're at that level... you're on the level of Drudge, Facebook, Amazon, Pintrest, Twitter, etc...
Most websites have less than 3000 visitors a month... and by most I mean like 98%.
Putting all the aggregate stuff aside, here are some things to think about:
New/Returning matters. Do people find your content useful or not? Anything under 80% is a win... which is the average bounce rate.
A thousand true fans can lead to a successful website - it's not all about aggregate stats. (see Kevin Kelly's post - The Technium: 1,000 True Fans ~ Bryan Del Monte, Quora,#KEYS
468:In a letter the question raised was: "Is not all action incompatible with Sri Aurobindo's yoga"?
Sri Aurobindo: His idea that all action is incompatible with this yoga is not correct. Generally, it is found that all Rajasic activity does not go well with this yoga: for instance, political work.
The reasons for abstaining from political activity are:
1. Being Rajasic in its nature, it does not allow that quiet and knowledge on the basis of which the work should really proceed. All action requires a certain inner formation, an inner detached being. The formation of this inner being requires one to dive into the depth of the being, get the true Being and then prepare the true Being to come to the surface. It is then that one acquires a poise - an inner poise - and can act from there. Political work by Rajasic activity which draws the being outwards prevents this inner formation.
2. The political field, together with certain other fields, is the stronghold of the Asuric forces. They have their eye on this yoga, and they would try to hamper the Sadhana by every means. By taking to the political field you get into a plane where these forces hold the field. The possibility of attack in that field is much greater than in others. These Asuric forces try to lead away the Sadhaka from the path by increasing Kama and Krodha - desire and anger, and such other Rajasic impulses. They may throw him permanently into the sea of Rajasic activity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, EVENING TALKS WITH SRI AUROBINDO25), #KEYS
469:So too we can rise to a consciousness above and observe the various parts of our being, inner and outer, mental, vital and physical and the subconscient below all, and act upon one or other or the whole from that higher status. It is possible also to go down from that height or from any height into any of these lower states and take its limited light or its obscurity as our place of working while the rest that we are is either temporarily put away or put behind or else kept as a field of reference from which we can get support, sanction or light and influence or as a status into which we can ascend or recede and from it observe the inferior movements. Or we can plunge into trance, get within ourselves and be conscious there while all outward things are excluded; or we can go beyond even this inner awareness and lose ourselves in some deeper other consciousness or some high superconscience. There is also a pervading equal consciousness into which we can enter and see all ourselves with one enveloping glance or omnipresent awareness one and indivisible. All this which looks strange and abnormal or may seem fantastic to the surface reason acquainted only with our normal status of limited ignorance and its movements divided from our inner higher and total reality, becomes easily intelligible and admissible in the light of the larger reason and logic of the Infinite or by the admission of the greater illimitable powers of the Self, the Spirit in us which is of one essence with the Infinite. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, 1.2.02 #KEYS
470:need for the soul's spiritualization :::
And yet even the leading of the inmost psychic being is not found sufficient until it has succeeded in raising itself out of this mass of inferior Nature to the highest spiritual levels and the divine spark and flame descended here have rejoined themselves to their original fiery Ether. For there is there no longer a spiritual consciousness still imperfect and half lost to itself in the thick sheaths of human mind, life and body, but the full spiritual consciousness in its purity, freedom and intense wideness. There, as it is the eternal Knower that becomes the Knower in us and mover and user of all knowledge, so it is the eternal All-Blissful who is the Adored attracting to himself the eternal divine portion of his being and joy that has gone out into the play of the universe, the infinite Lover pouring himself out in the multiplicity of his own manifested selves in a happy Oneness. All Beauty in the world is there the beauty of the Beloved, and all forms of beauty have to stand under the light of that eternal Beauty and submit themselves to the sublimating and transfiguring power of the unveiled Divine Perfection. All Bliss and Joy are there of the All-Blissful, and all inferior forms of enjoyment, happiness or pleasure are subjected to the shock of the intensity of its floods or currents and either they are broken to pieces as inadequate things under its convicting stress or compelled to transmute themselves into the forms of the Divine Ananda. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 2, 168,#KEYS
471:scope and aim of the works of sacrifice :::
Into the third and last category of the works of sacrifice can be gathered all that is directly proper to the Yoga of works; for here is its field of effectuation and major province. It covers the entire range of lifes more visible activities; under it fall the multiform energies of the Will-to-Life throwing itself outward to make the most of material existence. It is here that an ascetic or other-worldly spirituality feels an insurmountable denial of the Truth which it seeks after and is compelled to turn away from terrestrial existence, rejecting it as for ever the dark playground of an incurable Ignorance. Yet it is precisely these activities that are claimed for a spiritual conquest and divine transformation by the integral Yoga. Abandoned altogether by the more ascetic disciplines, accepted by others only as a field of temporary ordeal or a momentary, superficial and ambiguous play of the concealed spirit, this existence is fully embraced and welcomed by the integral seeker as a field of fulfilment, a field for divine works, a field of the total self-discovery of the concealed and indwelling Spirit. A discovery of the Divinity in oneself is his first object, but a total discovery too of the Divinity in the world behind the apparent denial offered by its scheme and figures and, last, a total discovery of the dynamism of some transcendent Eternal; for by its descent this world and self-will be empowered to break their disguising envelopes and become divine in revealing form and manifesting process as they now are secretly in their hidden essence.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 2, 169,#KEYS
472:science reading list :::
1. and 2. The Voyage of the Beagle (1845) and The Origin of Species (1859) by Charles Darwin [tie
3. Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy) by Isaac Newton (1687)
4. Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo Galilei (1632)
5. De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres) by Nicolaus Copernicus (1543)
6. Physica (Physics) by Aristotle (circa 330 B.C.)
7. De Humani Corporis Fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body) by Andreas Vesalius (1543)
8. Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein (1916)
9. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (1976)
10. One Two Three . . . Infinity by George Gamow (1947)
11. The Double Helix by James D. Watson (1968)
12. What Is Life? by Erwin Schrodinger (1944)
13. The Cosmic Connection by Carl Sagan (1973)
14. The Insect Societies by Edward O. Wilson (1971)
15. The First Three Minutes by Steven Weinberg (1977)
16. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (1962)
17. The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould (1981)
18. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks (1985)
19. The Journals of Lewis and Clark by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark (1814)
20. The Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard P Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, and Matthew Sands (1963)
21. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male by Alfred C. Kinsey et al. (1948)
22. Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey (1983)
23. Under a Lucky Star by Roy Chapman Andrews (1943)
24. Micrographia by Robert Hooke (1665)
25. Gaia by James Lovelock (1979)
~ Editors of Discovery Magazine, Website,#KEYS
473:The link between the spiritual and the lower planes of the mental being is that which is called in the old Vedantic phraseology the vijnana and which we may term the Truth-plane or the ideal mind or supermind where the One and the Many meet and our being is freely open to the revealing light of the divine Truth and the inspiration of the divine Will and Knowledge. If we can break down the veil of the intellectual, emotional, sensational mind which our ordinary existence has built between us and the Divine, we can then take up through the Truth-mind all our mental, vital and physical experience and offer it up to the spiritual -- this was the secret or mystic sense of the old Vedic "sacrifice" -- to be converted into the terms of the infinite truth of Sachchidananda, and we can receive the powers and illuminations of the infinite Existence in forms of a divine knowledge, will and delight to be imposed on our mentality, vitality, physical existence till the lower is transformed into the perfect vessel of the higher. This was the double Vedic movement of the descent and birth of the gods in the human creature and the ascent of the human powers that struggle towards the divine knowledge, power and delight and climb into the godheads, the result of which was the possession of the One, the Infinite, the beatific existence, the union with God, the Immortality. By possession of this ideal plane we break down entirely the opposition of the lower and the higher existence, the false gulf created by the Ignorance between the finite and the Infinite, God and Nature, the One and the Many, open the gates of the Divine, fulfil the individual in the complete harmony of the cosmic consciousness and realise in the cosmic being the epiphany of the transcendent Sachchidananda. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, 2.15, #KEYS
474:Man's refusal of the Divine Grace has been depicted very beautifully and graphically in a perfect dramatic form by Sri Aurobindo in Savitri. The refusal comes one by one from the three constituent parts of the human being. First of all man is a material being, a bodily creature, as such he is a being of ignorance and misery, of brutish blindness . He does not know that there is something other than his present state of misfortune and dark fate. He is not even aware that there may be anything higher or nobler than the ugliness he is steeped in. He lives on earth-life with an earth-consciousness, moves mechanically and helplessly through vicissitudes over which he has no control. Even so the material life is not a mere despicable thing; behind its darkness, behind its sadness, behind all its infirmities, the Divine Mother is there upholding it and infusing into it her grace and beauty. Indeed, she is one with this world of sorrows, she has in effect become it in her infinite pity and love so that this material body of hers may become conscious of its divine substance and manifest her true form. But the human being individualised and separated in egoistic consciousness has lost the sense of its inner reality and is vocal only in regard to its outward formulation. It is natural for physical man therefore to reject and deny the physical Godhead in him, he even curses it and wants to continue as he is.
He yells therefore in ignorance and anguish:
I am the Man of Sorrows, I am he
Who is nailed on the wide cross of the Universe . . .
I toil like the animal, like the animal die.
I am man the rebel, man the helpless serf...
I know my fate will ever be the same.
It is my Nature' s work that cannot change . . .
I was made for evil, evil is my lot;
Evil I must be and by evil live;
Nought other can I do but be myself;
What Nature made, that I must remain.2' ~ Nolini Kanta Gupta, On Savitri, 13,#KEYS
475:A supreme divine Love is a creative Power and, even though it can exist in itself silent and unchangeable, yet rejoices in external form and expression and is not condemned to be a speechless and bodiless godhead. It has even been said that creation itself was an act of love or at least the building up of a field in which Divine Love could devise its symbols and fulfil itself in act of mutuality and self-giving, and, if not the initial nature of creation, this may well be its ultimate object and motive. It does not so appear now because, even if a Divine Love is there in the world upholding all this evolution of creatures, yet the stuff of life and its action is made up of an egoistic formation, a division, a struggle of life and consciousness to exist and survive in an apparently indifferent, inclement or even hostile world of inanimate and inconscient Matter. In the confusion and obscurity of this struggle all are thrown against each other with a will in each to assert its own existence first and foremost and only secondarily to assert itself in others and very partially for others; for even man's altruism remains essentially egoistic and must be so till the soul finds the secret of the divine Oneness. It is to discover that at its supreme source, to bring it from within and to radiate it out up to the extreme confines of life that is turned the effort of the Yoga. All action, all creation must be turned into a form, a symbol of the cult, the adoration, the sacrifice; it must carry something that makes it bear in it the stamp of a dedication, a reception and translation of the Divine Consciousness, a service of the Beloved, a self-giving, a surrender. This has to be done wherever possible in the outward body and form of the act; it must be done always in its inward emotion and an intentsity that shows it to be an outflow from the soul towards the Eternal.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 2, 164,#KEYS
476:middle vision logic or paradigmatic ::: (1:25) Cognition is described as middle-vision logic, or paradigmatic in that it is capable of co-ordinating the relations between systems of systems, unifying them into principled frameworks or paradigms. This is an operation on meta-systems and allows for the view described above, a view of human development itself. Self-sense at teal is called Autonomous or Strategist and is characterized by the emergent capacity to acknowledge and cope with inner conflicts in needs, ... and values. All of which are part of a multifacted and complex world. Teal sees our need for autonomy and autonomy itself as limited because emotional interdependence is inevitable. The contradictory aspects of self are weaved into an identity that is whole, integrated and commited to generating a fulfilling life.
Additionally, Teal allows individuals to link theory and practice, perceive dynamic systems interactions, recognize and strive for higher principles, understand the social construction of reality, handle paradox and complexity, create positive-sum games and seek feedback from others as a vital source for growth. Values embrace magnificence of existence, flexibility, spontaneioty, functionality, the integration of differences into interdependent systems and complimenting natural egalitarianism with natural ranking. Needs shift to self-actualization, and morality is in both terms of universal ethical principles and recognition of the developmental relativity of those universals. Teal is the first wave that is truly able to see the limitations of orange and green morality, it is able to uphold the paradox of universalism and relativism. Teal in its decision making process is able to see ... deep and surface features of morality and is able to take into consideration both those values when engaging in moral action. Currently Teal is quite rare, embraced by 2-5% of the north american and european population according to sociological research. ~ Essential Integral, L4.1-53, Middle Vision Logic,#KEYS
477:What is the most useful idea to spread and what is the best example to set?
The question can be considered in two ways, a very general one applicable to the whole earth, and another specific one which concerns our present social environment.
From the general point of view, it seems to me that the most useful idea to spread is twofold:
1) Man carries within himself perfect power, perfect wisdom and perfect knowledge, and if he wants to possess them, he must discover them in the depth of his being, by introspection and concentration.
2) These divine qualities are identical at the centre, at the heart of all beings; this implies the essential unity of all, and all the consequences of solidarity and fraternity that follow from it.
The best example to give would be the unalloyed serenity and immutably peaceful happiness which belong to one who knows how to live integrally this thought of the One God in all.
From the point of view of our present environment, here is the idea which, it seems to me, it is most useful to spread:
True progressive evolution, an evolution which can lead man to his rightful happiness, does not lie in any external means, material improvement or social change. Only a deep and inner process of individual self-perfection can make for real progress and completely transform the present state of things, and change suffering and misery into a serene and lasting contentment.
Consequently, the best example is one that shows the first stage of individual self-perfection which makes possible all the rest, the first victory to be won over the egoistic personality: disinterestedness.
At a time when all rush upon money as the means to sat- isfy their innumerable cravings, one who remains indifferent to wealth and acts, not for the sake of gain, but solely to follow a disinterested ideal, is probably setting the example which is most useful at present.
~ The Mother, Words Of Long Ago, Volume-2, 22-06-1912, page no.66-67,#KEYS
478:the spiritual force behind adoration :::
All love, indeed, that is adoration has a spiritual force behind it, and even when it is offered ignorantly and to a limited object, something of that splendor appears through the poverty of the rite and the smallness of its issues. For love that is worship is at once an aspiration and a preparation: it can bring even within its small limits in the Ignorance a glimpse of a still more or less blind and partial but surprising realisation; for there are moments when it is not we but the One who loves and is loved in us, and even a human passion can be uplifted and glorified by a slight glimpse of this infinite Love and Lover. It is for this reason that the worship of the god, the worship of the idol, the human magnet or ideal are not to be despised; for these are steps through which the human race moves towards that blissful passion and ecstasy of the Infinite which, even in limiting it, they yet represent for our imperfect vision when we have still to use the inferior steps Nature has hewn for our feet and admit the stages of our progress. Certain idolatries are indispensable for the development of our emotional being, nor will the man who knows be hasty at any time to shatter this image unless he can replace it in the heart of the worshipper by the Reality it figures. Moreover, they have this power because there is always something in them that is greater than their forms and, even when we reach the supreme worship, that abides and becomes a prolongation of it or a part of its catholic wholeness. our knowledge is still imperfect in us, love incomplete if even when we know That which surpasses all forms and manifestations, we cannot still accept the Divine in creature and object, in man, in the kind, in the animal, in the tree, in the flower, in the work of our hands, in the Nature-Force which is then no longer to us the blind action of a material machinery but a face and power of the universal Shakti: for in these things too is the presence of the Eternal.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Ascent of the Sacrifice - 2, The Works of Love - The Works of Life, 159,#KEYS
479:For centuries and centuries humanity has waited for this time. It is come. But it is difficult.
I don't simply tell you we are here upon earth to rest and enjoy ourselves, now is not the time for that. We are here..... to prepare the way for the new creation.
The body has some difficulty, so I can't be active, alas. It is not because I am old, I am not old, I am younger than most of you. If I am here inactive, it is because the body has given itself definitely to prepare the transformation. But the consciousness is clear and we are here to work - rest and enjoyment will come afterwards. Let us do our work here.
So I have called you to tell you that. Take what you can, do what you can, my help will be with you. All sincere effort will be helped to the maximum.
It is the hour to be the heroic. Heroism is not what it is said to be; it is to become wholly unified - and the Divine help will always be with those who have resolved to be heroic in full sincerity.
There!
You are here at this moment that is to say upon earth, because you chose it at one time - you do not remember it any more, but I know it - that is why you are here. Well, you must rise to the height of the task. You must strive, you must conquer all weakness and limitations; above all you must tell your ego: "Your hour is gone." We want a race that has no ego, that has in place of the ego the Divine Consciousness. It is that which we want: the Divine Consciousness which will allow the race to develop itself and the Supramental being to take birth.
If you believe that I am here because I am bound - it is not true. I am not bound, I am here because my body has been given for the first attempt at transformation. Sri Aurobindo told me so. Well, I am doing it. I do not wish anyone to do it for me because.... Because it is not very pleasant, but I do it willingly because of the result; everybody will be able to benefit from it. I ask only one thing: do not listen to the ego.
If there is in your hearts a sincere Yes, you will satisfy me completely. I do not need words, I need the sincere adhesion of your hearts. That's all. ~ The Mother, (This talk was given by the Mother on April 2,1972,#KEYS
480:The Absolute is beyond personality and beyond impersonality, and yet it is both the Impersonal and the supreme Person and all persons. The Absolute is beyond the distinction of unity and multiplicity, and yet it is the One and the innumerable Many in all the universes. It is beyond all limitation by quality and yet it is not limited by a qualityless void but is too all infinite qualities. It is the individual soul and all souls and more of them; it is the formless Brahman and the universe. It is the cosmic and the supracosmic spirit, the supreme Lord, the supreme Self, the supreme Purusha and supreme shakti, the Ever Unborn who is endlessly born, the Infinite who is innumerably finite, the multitudinous One, the complex Simple, the many-sided Single, the Word of the Silence Ineffable, the impersonal omnipresent Person, the Mystery, translucent in highest consciousness to its own spirit, but to a lesser consciousness veiled in its own exceeding light and impenetrable for ever. These things are to the dimensional mind irreconcilable opposites, but to the constant vision and experience of the supramental Truth-Consciousness they are so simply and inevitably the intrinsic nature of each other that even to think of them as contraries is an unimaginable violence. The walls constructed by the measuring and separating Intellect have disappeared and the Truth in its simplicity and beauty appears and reduces all to terms of its harmony and unity and light. Dimensions and distinctions remain but as figures for use, not a separative prison for the self-forgetting Spirit.
2:In the ordinary Yoga of knowledge it is only necessary to recognise two planes of our consciousness, the spiritual and the materialised mental; the pure reason standing between these two views them both, cuts through the illusions of the phenomenal world, exceeds the materialised mental plane, sees the reality of the spiritual; and then the will of the individual Purusha unifying itself with this poise of knowledge rejects the lower and draws back to the supreme plane, dwells there, loses mind and body, sheds life from it and merges itself in the supreme Purusha, is delivered from individual existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, 2.01 - The Object of Knowledge,#KEYS
481:So then let the Adept set this sigil upon all the Words he hath writ in the book of the Works of his Will. And let him then end all, saying: Such are the Words!2 For by this he maketh proclamation before all them that be about his Circle that these Words are true and puissant, binding what he would bind, and loosing what he would loose. Let the Adept perform this ritual right, perfect in every part thereof, once daily for one moon, then twice, at dawn and dusk, for two moons; next thrice, noon added, for three moons; afterwards, midnight making up his course, for four moons four times every day. Then let the Eleventh Moon be consecrated wholly to this Work; let him be instant in constant ardour, dismissing all but his sheer needs to eat and sleep.3 For know that the true Formula4 whose virtue sufficed the Beast in this Attainment, was thus:
INVOKE OFTEN
So may all men come at last to the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel: thus sayeth The Beast, and prayeth his own Angel that this Book be as a burning Lamp, and as a living Spring, for Light and Life to them that read therein.
1. There is an alternative spelling, TzBA-F, where the Root, "an Host," has the value of 93. The Practicus should revise this Ritual throughout in the Light of his personal researches in the Qabalah, and make it his own peculiar property. The spelling here suggested implies that he who utters the Word affirms his allegiance to the symbols 93 and 6; that he is a warrior in the army of Will, and of the Sun. 93 is also the number of AIWAZ and 6 of The Beast.
2. The consonants of LOGOS, "Word," add (Hebrew values) to 93 [reading the Sigma as Samekh = 60; reading it as Shin = 300 gives 333], and ΕΠΗ, "Words" (whence "Epic") has also that value; ΕΙ∆Ε ΤΑ ΕΠΗ might be the phrase here intended; its number is 418. This would then assert the accomplishment of the Great Work; this is the natural conclusion of the Ritual. Cf. CCXX, III, 75.
3. These needs are modified during the process of Initiation both as to quantity and quality. One should not become anxious about one's phyiscal or mental health on à priori grounds, but pay attention only to indubitable symptoms of distress should such arise. ~ Aleister Crowley, Liber Samekh,#KEYS
482:34
D: What are the eight limbs of knowledge (jnana ashtanga)?
M: The eight limbs are those which have been already mentioned, viz., yama, niyama etc., but differently defined:
(1) Yama: This is controlling the aggregate of sense-organs, realizing the defects that are present in the world consisting of the body, etc.
(2) Niyama: This is maintaining a stream of mental modes that relate to the Self and rejecting the contrary modes. In other words, it means love that arises uninterruptedly for the Supreme Self.
(3) Asana: That with the help of which constant meditation on Brahman is made possible with ease is asana.
(4) Pranayama: Rechaka (exhalation) is removing the two unreal aspects of name and form from the objects constituting the world, the body etc., puraka (inhalation) is grasping the three real aspects, existence, consciousness and bliss, which are constant in those objects, and kumbhaka is retaining those aspects thus grasped.
(5) Pratyahara: This is preventing name and form which have been removed from re-entering the mind.
(6) Dharana: This is making the mind stay in the Heart, without straying outward, and realizing that one is the Self itself which is Existence-Consciousness-Bliss.
(7) Dhyana: This is meditation of the form 'I am only pure consciousness'. That is, after leaving aside the body which consists of five sheaths, one enquires 'Who am I?', and as a result of that, one stays as 'I' which shines as the Self.
(8) Samadhi: When the 'I-manifestation' also ceases, there is (subtle) direct experience. This is samadhi.
For pranayama, etc., detailed here, the disciplines such as asana, etc., mentioned in connection with yoga are not necessary.
The limbs of knowledge may be practised at all places and at all times. Of yoga and knowledge, one may follow whichever is pleasing to one, or both, according to circumstances. The great teachers say that forgetfulness is the root of all evil, and is death for those who seek release,10 so one should rest the mind in one's Self and should never forget the Self: this is the aim. If the mind is controlled, all else can be controlled. The distinction between yoga with eight limbs and knowledge with eight limbs has been set forth elaborately in the sacred texts; so only the substance of this teaching has been given here. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Self-Enquiry, 34,#KEYS
483:Daemons
A daemon is a process that runs in the background, not connecting to any controlling terminal. Daemons are normally started at boot time, are run as root or some
other special user (such as apache or postfix), and handle system-level tasks. As a
convention, the name of a daemon often ends in d (as in crond and sshd), but this is
not required, or even universal.
The name derives from Maxwell's demon, an 1867 thought experiment by the physicist James Maxwell. Daemons are also supernatural beings in Greek mythology,
existing somewhere between humans and the gods and gifted with powers and divine
knowledge. Unlike the demons of Judeo-Christian lore, the Greek daemon need not
be evil. Indeed, the daemons of mythology tended to be aides to the gods, performing
tasks that the denizens of Mount Olympus found themselves unwilling to do-much
as Unix daemons perform tasks that foreground users would rather avoid.
A daemon has two general requirements: it must run as a child of init, and it must
not be connected to a terminal.
In general, a program performs the following steps to become a daemon:
1. Call fork( ). This creates a new process, which will become the daemon.
2. In the parent, call exit( ). This ensures that the original parent (the daemon's
grandparent) is satisfied that its child terminated, that the daemon's parent is no
longer running, and that the daemon is not a process group leader. This last
point is a requirement for the successful completion of the next step.
3. Call setsid( ), giving the daemon a new process group and session, both of
which have it as leader. This also ensures that the process has no associated controlling terminal (as the process just created a new session, and will not assign
one).
4. Change the working directory to the root directory via chdir( ). This is done
because the inherited working directory can be anywhere on the filesystem. Daemons tend to run for the duration of the system's uptime, and you don't want to
keep some random directory open, and thus prevent an administrator from
unmounting the filesystem containing that directory.
5. Close all file descriptors. You do not want to inherit open file descriptors, and,
unaware, hold them open.
6. Open file descriptors 0, 1, and 2 (standard in, standard out, and standard error)
and redirect them to /dev/null.
Following these rules, here is a program that daemonizes itself:
~ OReilly Linux System Programming,#KEYS
484: Ekajaṭī or Ekajaṭā, (Sanskrit: "One Plait Woman"; Wylie: ral gcig ma: one who has one knot of hair),[1] also known as Māhacīnatārā,[2] is one of the 21 Taras. Ekajati is, along with Palden Lhamo deity, one of the most powerful and fierce goddesses of Vajrayana Buddhist mythology.[1][3] According to Tibetan legends, her right eye was pierced by the tantric master Padmasambhava so that she could much more effectively help him subjugate Tibetan demons.
Ekajati is also known as "Blue Tara", Vajra Tara or "Ugra Tara".[1][3] She is generally considered one of the three principal protectors of the Nyingma school along with Rāhula and Vajrasādhu (Wylie: rdo rje legs pa).
Often Ekajati appears as liberator in the mandala of the Green Tara. Along with that, her ascribed powers are removing the fear of enemies, spreading joy, and removing personal hindrances on the path to enlightenment.
Ekajati is the protector of secret mantras and "as the mother of the mothers of all the Buddhas" represents the ultimate unity. As such, her own mantra is also secret. She is the most important protector of the Vajrayana teachings, especially the Inner Tantras and termas. As the protector of mantra, she supports the practitioner in deciphering symbolic dakini codes and properly determines appropriate times and circumstances for revealing tantric teachings. Because she completely realizes the texts and mantras under her care, she reminds the practitioner of their preciousness and secrecy.[4] Düsum Khyenpa, 1st Karmapa Lama meditated upon her in early childhood.
According to Namkhai Norbu, Ekajati is the principal guardian of the Dzogchen teachings and is "a personification of the essentially non-dual nature of primordial energy."[5]
Dzogchen is the most closely guarded teaching in Tibetan Buddhism, of which Ekajati is a main guardian as mentioned above. It is said that Sri Singha (Sanskrit: Śrī Siṃha) himself entrusted the "Heart Essence" (Wylie: snying thig) teachings to her care. To the great master Longchenpa, who initiated the dissemination of certain Dzogchen teachings, Ekajati offered uncharacteristically personal guidance. In his thirty-second year, Ekajati appeared to Longchenpa, supervising every ritual detail of the Heart Essence of the Dakinis empowerment, insisting on the use of a peacock feather and removing unnecessary basin. When Longchenpa performed the ritual, she nodded her head in approval but corrected his pronunciation. When he recited the mantra, Ekajati admonished him, saying, "Imitate me," and sang it in a strange, harmonious melody in the dakini's language. Later she appeared at the gathering and joyously danced, proclaiming the approval of Padmasambhava and the dakinis.[6] ~ Wikipedia,#KEYS
485:If we look at this picture of the Self-Existence and its works as a unitary unlimited whole of vision, it stands together and imposes itself by its convincing totality: but to the analysis of the logical intellect it offers an abundance of difficulties, such as all attempts to erect a logical system out of a perception of an illimitable Existence must necessarily create; for any such endeavour must either effect consistency by an arbitrary sectioning of the complex truth of things or else by its comprehensiveness become logically untenable. For we see that the Indeterminable determines itself as infinite and finite, the Immutable admits a constant mutability and endless differences, the One becomes an innumerable multitude, the Impersonal creates or supports personality, is itself a Person; the Self has a nature and is yet other than its nature; Being turns into becoming and yet it is always itself and other than its becomings; the Universal individualises itself and the Individual universalises himself; Brahman is at once void of qualities and capable of infinite qualities, the Lord and Doer of works, yet a non-doer and a silent witness of the workings of Nature. If we look carefully at these workings of Nature, once we put aside the veil of familiarity and our unthinking acquiescence in the process of things as natural because so they always happen, we discover that all she does in whole or in parts is a miracle, an act of some incomprehensible magic. The being of the Self-existence and the world that has appeared in it are, each of them and both together, a suprarational mystery. There seems to us to be a reason in things because the processes of the physical finite are consistent to our view and their law determinable, but this reason in things, when closely examined, seems to stumble at every moment against the irrational or infrarational and the suprarational: the consistency, the determinability of process seems to lessen rather than increase as we pass from matter to life and from life to mentality; if the finite consents to some extent to look as if it were rational, the infinitesimal refuses to be bound by the same laws and the infinite is unseizable. As for the action of the universe and its significance, it escapes us altogether; if Self, God or Spirit there be, his dealings with the world and us are incomprehensible, offer no clue that we can follow. God and Nature and even ourselves move in a mysterious way which is only partially and at points intelligible, but as a whole escapes our comprehension. All the works of Maya look like the production of a suprarational magical Power which arranges things according to its wisdom or its phantasy, but a wisdom which is not ours and a phantasy which baffles our imagination. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, 2.02, #KEYS
486:It is then by a transformation of life in its very principle, not by an external manipulation of its phenomena, that the integral Yoga proposes to change it from a troubled and ignorant into a luminous and harmonious movement of Nature. There are three conditions which are indispensable for the achievement of this central inner revolution and new formation; none of them is altogether sufficient in itself, but by their united threefold power the uplifting can be done, the conversion made and completely made. For, first, life as it is is a movement of desire and it has built in us as its centre a desire-soul which refers to itself all the motions of life and puts in them its own troubled hue and pain of an ignorant, half-lit, baffled endeavour: for a divine living, desire must be abolished and replaced by a purer and firmer motive-power, the tormented soul of desire dissolved and in its stead there must emerge the calm, strength, happiness of a true vital being now concealed within us. Next, life as it is is driven or led partly by the impulse of the life-force, partly by a mind which is mostly a servant and abettor of the ignorant life-impulse, but in part also its uneasy and not too luminous or competent guide and mentor; for a divine life the mind and the life-impulse must cease to be anything but instruments and the inmost psychic being must take their place as the leader on the path and the indicator of a divine guidance. Last, life as it is is turned towards the satisfaction of the separative ego; ego must disappear and be replaced by the true spiritual person, the central being, and life itself must be turned towards the fulfilment of the Divine in terrestrial existence; it must feel a Divine Force awaking within it and become an obedient instrumentation of its purpose.
There is nothing that is not ancient and familiar in the first of these three transforming inner movements; for it has always been one of the principal objects of spiritual discipline. It has been best formulated in the already expressed doctrine of the Gita by which a complete renouncement of desire for the fruits as the motive of action, a complete annulment of desire itself, the complete achievement of a perfect equality are put forward as the normal status of a spiritual being. A perfect spiritual equality is the one true and infallible sign of the cessation of desire, - to be equal-souled to all things, unmoved by joy and sorrow, the pleasant and the unpleasant, success or failure, to look with an equal eye on high and low, friend and enemy, the virtuous and the sinner, to see in all beings the manifold manifestation of the One and in all things the multitudinous play or the slow masked evolution of the embodied Spirit. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 2, 176,#KEYS
487:root of the falsification and withdrawl of divine love :::
At every moment they are moved to take egoistic advantage of the psychic and spiritual influences and can be detected using the power, joy or light these bring into us for a lower life-motive. Afterwards too, even when the seeker has opened to the Divine Love transcendental, universal or immanent, yet if he tries to pour it into life, he meets the power of obscuration and perversion of these lower Nature-forces. Always they draw away towards pitfalls, pour into that higher intensity their diminishing elements, seek to capture the descending Power for themselves and their interests and degrade it into an aggrandised mental, vital or physical instrumentation for desire and ego. Instead of a Divine Love creator of a new heaven and a new earth of Truth and Light, they would hold it here prisoner as a tremendous sanction and glorifying force of sublimation to gild the mud of the old earth and colour with its rose and sapphire the old turbid unreal skies of sentimentalising vital imagination and mental idealised chimera. If that falsification is permitted, the higher Light and Power and Bliss withdraw, there is a fall back to a lower status; or else the realisation remains tied to an insecure half-way and mixture or is covered and even submerged by an inferior exaltation that is not the true Ananda. It is for this reason that Divine Love which is at the heart of all creation and the most powerful of all redeeming and creative forces has yet been the least frontally present in earthly life, the least successfully redemptive, the least creative. Human nature has been unable to bear it in its purity for the very reason that it is the most powerful, pure, rare and intense of all the divine energies; what little could be seized has been corrupted at once into a vital pietistic ardour, a defenceless religious or ethical sentimentalism, a sensuous or even sensual erotic mysticism of the roseate coloured mind or passionately turbid life-impulse and with these simulations compensated its inability to house the Mystic Flame that could rebuild the world with its tongues of sacrifice. It is only the inmost psychic being unveiled and emerging in its full power that can lead the pilgrim sacrifice unscathed through these ambushes and pitfalls; at each moment it catches, exposes, repels the mind's and the life's falsehoods, seizes hold on the truth of the Divine Love and Ananda and separates it from the excitement of the mind's ardours and the blind enthusiasms of the misleading life-force. But all things that are true at their core in mind and life and the physical being it extricates and takes with it in the journey till they stand on the heights, new in spirit and sublime in figure. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 2, 166,#KEYS
488:The Absolute is in itself indefinable by reason, ineffable to the speech; it has to be approached through experience. It can be approached through an absolute negation of existence, as if it were itself a supreme Non-Existence, a mysterious infinite Nihil. It can be approached through an absolute affirmation of all the fundamentals of our own existence, through an absolute of Light and Knowledge, through an absolute of Love or Beauty, through an absolute of Force, through an absolute of peace or silence. It can be approached through an inexpressible absolute of being or of consciousness, or of power of being, or of delight of being, or through a supreme experience in which these things become inexpressibly one; for we can enter into such an ineffable state and, plunged into it as if into a luminous abyss of existence, we can reach a superconscience which may be described as the gate of the Absolute. It is supposed that it is only through a negation of individual and cosmos that we can enter into the Absolute. But in fact the individual need only deny his own small separate ego-existence; he can approach the Absolute through a sublimation of his spiritual individuality taking up the cosmos into himself and transcending it; or he may negate himself altogether, but even so it is still the individual who by self-exceeding enters into the Absolute. He may enter also by a sublimation of his being into a supreme existence or super-existence, by a sublimation of his consciousness into a supreme consciousness or superconscience, by a sublimation of his and all delight of being into a super-delight or supreme ecstasy. He can make the approach through an ascension in which he enters into cosmic consciousness, assumes it into himself and raises himself and it into a state of being in which oneness and multiplicity are in perfect harmony and unison in a supreme status of manifestation where all are in each and each in all and all in the one without any determining individuation - for the dynamic identity and mutuality have become complete; on the path of affirmation it is this status of the manifestation that is nearest to the Absolute. This paradox of an Absolute which can be realised through an absolute negation and through an absolute affirmation, in many ways, can only be accounted for to the reason if it is a supreme Existence which is so far above our notion and experience of existence that it can correspond to our negation of it, to our notion and experience of nonexistence; but also, since all that exists is That, whatever its degree of manifestation, it is itself the supreme of all things and can be approached through supreme affirmations as through supreme negations. The Absolute is the ineffable x overtopping and underlying and immanent and essential in all that we can call existence or non-existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, 2.06 - Reality and the Cosmic Illusion, #KEYS
489:Evil
Hasten towards the good, leave behind all evil thoughts, for to do good without enthusiasm is to have a mind which delights in evil.
If one does an evil action, he should not persist in it, he should not delight in it. For full of suffering is the accumulation of evil.
If one does a good action, he should persist in it and take delight in it. Full of happiness is the accumulation of good.
As long as his evil action has not yet ripened, an evildoer may experience contentment. But when it ripens, the wrong-doer knows unhappiness.
As long as his good action has not yet ripened, one who does good may experience unhappiness. But when it ripens, the good man knows happiness.
Do not treat evil lightly, saying, "That will not touch me." A jar is filled drop by drop; even so the fool fills himself little by little with wickedness.
Do not treat good lightly, saying, "That will not touch me." A jar is filled drop by drop; even so the sage fills himself little by little with goodness.
The merchant who is carrying many precious goods and who has but few companions, avoids dangerous roads; and a man who loves his life is wary of poison. Even so should one act regarding evil.
A hand that has no wound can carry poison with impunity; act likewise, for evil cannot touch the righteous man.
If you offend one who is pure, innocent and defenceless, the insult will fall back on you, as if you threw dust against the wind.
Some are reborn here on earth, evil-doers go to the worlds of Niraya,1 the just go to the heavenly worlds, but those who have freed themselves from all desire attain Nirvana.
Neither in the skies, nor in the depths of the ocean, nor in the rocky caves, nowhere upon earth does there exist a place where a man can find refuge from his evil actions.
Neither in the skies, nor in the depths of the ocean, nor in the rocky caves, nowhere upon earth does there exist a place where a man can hide from death.
People have the habit of dealing lightly with thoughts that come. And the atmosphere is full of thoughts of all kinds which do not in fact belong to anybody in particular, which move perpetually from one person to another, very freely, much too freely, because there are very few people who can keep their thoughts under control.
When you take up the Buddhist discipline to learn how to control your thoughts, you make very interesting discoveries. You try to observe your thoughts. Instead of letting them pass freely, sometimes even letting them enter your head and establish themselves in a quite inopportune way, you look at them, observe them and you realise with stupefaction that in the space of a few seconds there passes through the head a series of absolutely improbable thoughts that are altogether harmful.
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Conversion of the aim of life from the ego to the Divine: instead of seeking one's own satisfaction, to have the service of the Divine as the aim of life.
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What you must know is exactly the thing you want to do in life. The time needed to learn it does not matter at all. For those who wish to live according to Truth, there is always something to learn and some progress to make. 2 October 1969 ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931,#KEYS
490:It is thus by an integralisation of our divided being that the Divine Shakti in the Yoga will proceed to its object; for liberation, perfection, mastery are dependent on this integralisation, since the little wave on the surface cannot control its own movement, much less have any true control over the vast life around it. The Shakti, the power of the Infinite and the Eternal descends within us, works, breaks up our present psychological formations, shatters every wall, widens, liberates, presents us with always newer and greater powers of vision, ideation, perception and newer and greater life-motives, enlarges and newmodels increasingly the soul and its instruments, confronts us with every imperfection in order to convict and destroy it, opens to a greater perfection, does in a brief period the work of many lives or ages so that new births and new vistas open constantly within us. Expansive in her action, she frees the consciousness from confinement in the body; it can go out in trance or sleep or even waking and enter into worlds or other regions of this world and act there or carry back its experience. It spreads out, feeling the body only as a small part of itself, and begins to contain what before contained it; it achieves the cosmic consciousness and extends itself to be commensurate with the universe. It begins to know inwardly and directly and not merely by external observation and contact the forces at play in the world, feels their movement, distinguishes their functioning and can operate immediately upon them as the scientist operates upon physical forces, accept their action and results in our mind, life, body or reject them or modify, change, reshape, create immense new powers and movements in place of the old small functionings of the nature. We begin to perceive the working of the forces of universal Mind and to know how our thoughts are created by that working, separate from within the truth and falsehood of our perceptions, enlarge their field, extend and illumine their significance, become master of our own minds and active to shape the movements of Mind in the world around us. We begin to perceive the flow and surge of the universal life-forces, detect the origin and law of our feelings, emotions, sensations, passions, are free to accept, reject, new-create, open to wider, rise to higher planes of Life-Power. We begin to perceive too the key to the enigma of Matter, follow the interplay of Mind and Life and Consciousness upon it, discover more and more its instrumental and resultant function and detect ultimately the last secret of Matter as a form not merely of Energy but of involved and arrested or unstably fixed and restricted consciousness and begin to see too the possibility of its liberation and plasticity of response to higher Powers, its possibilities for the conscious and no longer the more than half-inconscient incarnation and self-expression of the Spirit. All this and more becomes more and more possible as the working of the Divine Shakti increases in us and, against much resistance or labour to respond of our obscure consciousness, through much struggle and movement of progress and regression and renewed progress necessitated by the work of intensive transformation of a half-inconscient into a conscious substance, moves to a greater purity, truth, height, range. All depends on the psychic awakening in us, the completeness of our response to her and our growing surrender. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 2, 183, #KEYS
491:(Nirodbaran:) "It was the first week of January 1930.
At about 3 p.m., I reached Dilip Kumar Roy's place. "Oh, you have come! Let us go," he said, and cutting a rose from his terrace-garden he added, "Offer this to the Mother." When we arrived at the Ashram he left me at the present Reading Room saying, "Wait here." My heart was beating nervously as if I were going to face an examination. A stately chair in the middle of the room attracted momentarily my attention. In a short while the Mother came accompanied by Nolini, Amrita and Dilip. She took her seat in the chair, the others stood by her side. I was dazzled by the sight. Was it a ‘visionary gleam’ or a reality? Nothing like it had I seen before. Her fair complexion, set off by a finely coloured sari and a headband, gave me the impression of a goddess such as we see in pictures or in the idols during the Durga Puja festival. She was all smiles and redolent with grace. I suppose this was the Mahalakshmi smile Sri Aurobindo had spoken of in his book The Mother. She bathed me in the cascade of her smile and heart-melting look. I stood before her, shy and speechless, made more so by the presence of the others who were enjoying the silent sweet spectacle. Minutes passed. Then I offered to her hand my rose and did my pranam at her feet which had gold anklets on them. She stooped and blessed me. On standing up, I got again the same enchanting smile like moonbeams from a magic sky. After a time she said to the others, "He is very shy." "[1]
(Amal Kiran:) "Now to come back to all the people, all – the undamned all who were there in the Ashram. Very soon after my coming Dilip Kumar Roy came with Sahana Devi. They came and settled down. And, soon after that, I saw the face of my friend Nirod. It was of course an unforgettable face. (laughter) I think he had come straight from England or via some place in Bengal, but he carried something of the air of England. (laughter) He had passed out as a doctor at Edinburgh. I saw him, we became friends and we have remained friends ever since. But when he came as a doctor he was not given doctoring work here. As far as I remember he was made the head of a timber godown! (laughter) All sorts of strange jobs were being given to people. Look at the first job I got. The Mother once told me, "I would like you to do some work." I said, "All right, I am prepared to do some work." Then she said,"Will you take charge of our stock of furniture?" (laughter)"[2]
(Amal Kiran:) "To return to my friend Nirod – it was after some time that he got the Dispensary. I don't know whether he wanted it, or liked it or not, but he established his reputation as the frowning physician. (laughter) People used to come to him with a cold and he would stand and glare at them, and say, "What? You have a cold!" Poor people, they would simply shiver (laughter) and this had a very salutary effect because they thought that it was better not to fall ill than face the doctor's drastic disapproval of any kind of illness which would give him any botheration. (laughter) But he did his job all right, and every time he frightened off a patient he went to his room and started trying to write poetry (laughter) – because that, he thought, was his most important job. And, whether he succeeded as a doctor or not, as a poet he has eminently succeeded. Sri Aurobindo has really made him a poet.
The doctoring as well as the poetry was a bond between us, because my father had been a doctor and medicine ran in my blood. We used to discuss medical matters sometimes, but more often the problems and pains of poetry."[3] ~ https://wiki.auroville.org.in/wiki/Nirodbaran#KEYS
492:Wake-Initiated Lucid Dreams (WILDS)
In the last chapter we talked about strategies for inducing lucid dreams by carrying an idea from the waking world into the dream, such as an intention to comprehend the dream state, a habit of critical state testing, or the recognition of a dreamsign. These strategies are intended to stimulate a dreamer to become lucid within a dream.
This chapter presents a completely different set of approaches to the world of lucid dreaming based on the idea of falling asleep consciously. This involves retaining consciousness while wakefulness is lost and allows direct entry into the lucid dream state without any loss of reflective consciousness. The basic idea has many variations.
While falling asleep, you can focus on hypnagogic (sleep onset) imagery, deliberate visualizations, your breath or heartbeat, the sensations in your body, your sense of self, and so on. If you keep the mind sufficiently active while the tendency to enter REM sleep is strong, you feel your body fall asleep, but you, that is to say, your consciousness, remains awake. The next thing you know, you will find yourself in the dream world, fully lucid.
These two different strategies for inducing lucidity result in two distinct types of lucid dreams. Experiences in which people consciously enter dreaming sleep are referred to as wake-initiated lucid dreams (WILDs), in contrast to dream-initiated lucid dreams (DILDs), in which people become lucid after having fallen asleep unconsciously. 1 The two kinds of lucid dreams differ in a number of ways. WILDs always happen in association with brief awakenings (sometimes only one or two seconds long) from and immediate return to REM sleep. The sleeper has a subjective impression of having been awake. This is not true of DILDs. Although both kinds of lucid dream are more likely to occur later in the night, the proportion of WILDs also increases with time of night. In other words, WILDs are most likely to occur the late morning hours or in afternoon naps. This is strikingly evident in my own record of lucid dreams. Of thirty-three lucid dreams from the first REM period of the night, only one (3 percent) was a WILD, compared with thirteen out of thirty-two (41 percent) lucid dreams from afternoon naps. 2 Generally speaking, WILDs are less frequent than DILDs; in a laboratory study of seventy-six lucid dreams, 72 percent were DILDs compared with 28 percent WILDs. 3 The proportion of WILDs observed in the laboratory seems, by my experience, to be considerably higher than the proportion of WILDs reported at home.
To take a specific example, WILDs account for only 5 percent of my home record of lucid dreams, but for 40 percent of my first fifteen lucid dreams in the laboratory. 4 Ibelieve there are two reasons for this highly significant difference: whenever I spentthe night in the sleep laboratory, I was highly conscious of every time I awakened andI made extraordinary efforts not to move more than necessary in order to minimizeinterference with the physiological recordings.
Thus, my awakenings from REM in the lab were more likely to lead toconscious returns to REM than awakenings at home when I was sleeping with neitherheightened consciousness of my environment and self nor any particular intent not tomove. This suggests that WILD induction techniques might be highly effective underthe proper conditions.
Paul Tholey notes that, while techniques for direct entry to the dream staterequire considerable practice in the beginning, they offer correspondingly greatrewards. 5 When mastered, these techniques (like MILD) can confer the capacity toinduce lucid dreams virtually at will. ~ Stephen LaBerge, Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming, 4 - Falling Asleep Consciously,#KEYS
493:The Teachings of Some Modern Indian Yogis
Ramana Maharshi
According to Brunton's description of the sadhana he (Brunton) practised under the Maharshi's instructions,1 it is the Overself one has to seek within, but he describes the Overself in a way that is at once the Psychic Being, the Atman and the Ishwara. So it is a little difficult to know what is the exact reading.
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The methods described in the account [of Ramana Maharshi's technique of self-realisation] are the well-established methods of Jnanayoga - (1) one-pointed concentration followed by thought-suspension, (2) the method of distinguishing or finding out the true self by separating it from mind, life, body (this I have seen described by him [Brunton] more at length in another book) and coming to the pure I behind; this also can disappear into the Impersonal Self. The usual result is a merging in the Atman or Brahman - which is what one would suppose is meant by the Overself, for it is that which is the real Overself. This Brahman or Atman is everywhere, all is in it, it is in all, but it is in all not as an individual being in each but is the same in all - as the Ether is in all. When the merging into the Overself is complete, there is no ego, no distinguishable I, or any formed separative person or personality. All is ekakara - an indivisible and undistinguishable Oneness either free from all formations or carrying all formations in it without being affected - for one can realise it in either way. There is a realisation in which all beings are moving in the one Self and this Self is there stable in all beings; there is another more complete and thoroughgoing in which not only is it so but all are vividly realised as the Self, the Brahman, the Divine. In the former, it is possible to dismiss all beings as creations of Maya, leaving the one Self alone as true - in the other it is easier to regard them as real manifestations of the Self, not as illusions. But one can also regard all beings as souls, independent realities in an eternal Nature dependent upon the One Divine. These are the characteristic realisations of the Overself familiar to the Vedanta. But on the other hand you say that this Overself is realised by the Maharshi as lodged in the heart-centre, and it is described by Brunton as something concealed which when it manifests appears as the real Thinker, source of all action, but now guiding thought and action in the Truth. Now the first description applies to the Purusha in the heart, described by the Gita as the Ishwara situated in the heart and by the Upanishads as the Purusha Antaratma; the second could apply also to the mental Purusha, manomayah. pran.asarı̄ra neta of the Upanishads, the mental Being or Purusha who leads the life and the body. So your question is one which on the data I cannot easily answer. His Overself may be a combination of all these experiences, without any distinction being made or thought necessary between the various aspects. There are a thousand ways of approaching and realising the Divine and each way has its own experiences which have their own truth and stand really on a basis, one in essence but complex in aspects, common to all, but not expressed in the same way by all. There is not much use in discussing these variations; the important thing is to follow one's own way well and thoroughly. In this Yoga, one can realise the psychic being as a portion of the Divine seated in the heart with the Divine supporting it there - this psychic being takes charge of the sadhana and turns the ......
1 The correspondent sent to Sri Aurobindo two paragraphs from Paul Brunton's book A Message from Arunachala (London: Rider & Co., n.d. [1936], pp. 205 - 7). - Ed. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II,#KEYS
494:Reading list (1972 edition)[edit]
1. Homer - Iliad, Odyssey
2. The Old Testament
3. Aeschylus - Tragedies
4. Sophocles - Tragedies
5. Herodotus - Histories
6. Euripides - Tragedies
7. Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian War
8. Hippocrates - Medical Writings
9. Aristophanes - Comedies
10. Plato - Dialogues
11. Aristotle - Works
12. Epicurus - Letter to Herodotus; Letter to Menoecus
13. Euclid - Elements
14.Archimedes - Works
15. Apollonius of Perga - Conic Sections
16. Cicero - Works
17. Lucretius - On the Nature of Things
18. Virgil - Works
19. Horace - Works
20. Livy - History of Rome
21. Ovid - Works
22. Plutarch - Parallel Lives; Moralia
23. Tacitus - Histories; Annals; Agricola Germania
24. Nicomachus of Gerasa - Introduction to Arithmetic
25. Epictetus - Discourses; Encheiridion
26. Ptolemy - Almagest
27. Lucian - Works
28. Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
29. Galen - On the Natural Faculties
30. The New Testament
31. Plotinus - The Enneads
32. St. Augustine - On the Teacher; Confessions; City of God; On Christian Doctrine
33. The Song of Roland
34. The Nibelungenlied
35. The Saga of Burnt Njal
36. St. Thomas Aquinas - Summa Theologica
37. Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy;The New Life; On Monarchy
38. Geoffrey Chaucer - Troilus and Criseyde; The Canterbury Tales
39. Leonardo da Vinci - Notebooks
40. Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince; Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy
41. Desiderius Erasmus - The Praise of Folly
42. Nicolaus Copernicus - On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
43. Thomas More - Utopia
44. Martin Luther - Table Talk; Three Treatises
45. François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel
46. John Calvin - Institutes of the Christian Religion
47. Michel de Montaigne - Essays
48. William Gilbert - On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies
49. Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote
50. Edmund Spenser - Prothalamion; The Faerie Queene
51. Francis Bacon - Essays; Advancement of Learning; Novum Organum, New Atlantis
52. William Shakespeare - Poetry and Plays
53. Galileo Galilei - Starry Messenger; Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
54. Johannes Kepler - Epitome of Copernican Astronomy; Concerning the Harmonies of the World
55. William Harvey - On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals; On the Circulation of the Blood; On the Generation of Animals
56. Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan
57. René Descartes - Rules for the Direction of the Mind; Discourse on the Method; Geometry; Meditations on First Philosophy
58. John Milton - Works
59. Molière - Comedies
60. Blaise Pascal - The Provincial Letters; Pensees; Scientific Treatises
61. Christiaan Huygens - Treatise on Light
62. Benedict de Spinoza - Ethics
63. John Locke - Letter Concerning Toleration; Of Civil Government; Essay Concerning Human Understanding;Thoughts Concerning Education
64. Jean Baptiste Racine - Tragedies
65. Isaac Newton - Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy; Optics
66. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - Discourse on Metaphysics; New Essays Concerning Human Understanding;Monadology
67.Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
68. Jonathan Swift - A Tale of a Tub; Journal to Stella; Gulliver's Travels; A Modest Proposal
69. William Congreve - The Way of the World
70. George Berkeley - Principles of Human Knowledge
71. Alexander Pope - Essay on Criticism; Rape of the Lock; Essay on Man
72. Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu - Persian Letters; Spirit of Laws
73. Voltaire - Letters on the English; Candide; Philosophical Dictionary
74. Henry Fielding - Joseph Andrews; Tom Jones
75. Samuel Johnson - The Vanity of Human Wishes; Dictionary; Rasselas; The Lives of the Poets
~ Mortimer J Adler,#KEYS
495:The supreme Form is then made visible. It is that of the infinite Godhead whose faces are everywhere and in whom are all the wonders of existence, who multiplies unendingly all the many marvellous revelations of his being, a world-wide Divinity seeing with innumerable eyes, speaking from innumerable mouths, armed for battle with numberless divine uplifted weapons, glorious with divine ornaments of beauty, robed in heavenly raiment of deity, lovely with garlands of divine flowers, fragrant with divine perfumes. Such is the light of this body of God as if a thousand suns had risen at once in heaven. The whole world multitudinously divided and yet unified is visible in the body of the God of Gods. Arjuna sees him, God magnificent and beautiful and terrible, the Lord of souls who has manifested in the glory and greatness of his spirit this wild and monstrous and orderly and wonderful and sweet and terrible world, and overcome with marvel and joy and fear he bows down and adores with words of awe and with clasped hands the tremendous vision. "I see" he cries "all the gods in thy body, O God, and different companies of beings, Brahma the creating lord seated in the Lotus, and the Rishis and the race of the divine Serpents. I see numberless arms and bellies and eyes and faces, I see thy infinite forms on every side, but I see not thy end nor thy middle nor thy beginning, O Lord of the universe, O Form universal. I see thee crowned and with thy mace and thy discus, hard to discern because thou art a luminous mass of energy on all sides of me, an encompassing blaze, a sun-bright fire-bright Immeasurable. Thou art the supreme Immutable whom we have to know, thou art the high foundation and abode of the universe, thou art the imperishable guardian of the eternal laws, thou art the sempiternal soul of existence."
But in the greatness of this vision there is too the terrific image of the Destroyer. This Immeasurable without end or middle or beginning is he in whom all things begin and exist and end.
This Godhead who embraces the worlds with his numberless arms and destroys with his million hands, whose eyes are suns and moons, has a face of blazing fire and is ever burning up the whole universe with the flame of his energy. The form of him is fierce and marvellous and alone it fills all the regions and occupies the whole space between earth and heaven. The companies of the gods enter it, afraid, adoring; the Rishis and the Siddhas crying "May there be peace and weal" praise it with many praises; the eyes of Gods and Titans and Giants are fixed on it in amazement. It has enormous burning eyes; it has mouths that gape to devour, terrible with many tusks of destruction; it has faces like the fires of Death and Time. The kings and the captains and the heroes on both sides of the world-battle are hastening into its tusked and terrible jaws and some are seen with crushed and bleeding heads caught between its teeth of power; the nations are rushing to destruction with helpless speed into its mouths of flame like many rivers hurrying in their course towards the ocean or like moths that cast themselves on a kindled fire. With those burning mouths the Form of Dread is licking all the regions around; the whole world is full of his burning energies and baked in the fierceness of his lustres. The world and its nations are shaken and in anguish with the terror of destruction and Arjuna shares in the trouble and panic around him; troubled and in pain is the soul within him and he finds no peace or gladness. He cries to the dreadful Godhead, "Declare to me who thou art that wearest this form of fierceness. Salutation to thee, O thou great Godhead, turn thy heart to grace. I would know who thou art who wast from the beginning, for I know not the will of thy workings." ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays On The Gita, 2.10_-_The_Vision_of_the_World-Spirit_-_Time_the_Destroyer,#KEYS
496::::
As an inner equality increases and with it the sense of the true vital being waiting for the greater direction it has to serve, as the psychic call too increases in all the members of our nature, That to which the call is addressed begins to reveal itself, descends to take possession of the life and its energies and fills them with the height, intimacy, vastness of its presence and its purpose. In many, if not most, it manifests something of itself even before the equality and the open psychic urge or guidance are there. A call of the veiled psychic element oppressed by the mass of the outer ignorance and crying for deliverance, a stress of eager meditation and seeking for knowledge, a longing of the heart, a passionate will ignorant yet but sincere may break the lid that shuts off that Higher from this Lower Nature and open the floodgates. A little of the Divine Person may reveal itself or some Light, Power, Bliss, Love out of the Infinite. This may be a momentary revelation, a flash or a brief-lived gleam that soon withdraws and waits for the preparation of the nature; but also it may repeat itself, grow, endure. A long and large and comprehensive working will then have begun, sometimes luminous or intense, sometimes slow and obscure. A Divine Power comes in front at times and leads and compels or instructs and enlightens; at others it withdraws into the background and seems to leave the being to its own resources. All that is ignorant, obscure, perverted or simply imperfect and inferior in the being is raised up, perhaps brought to its acme, dealt with, corrected, exhausted, shown its own disastrous results, compelled to call for its own cessation or transformation or expelled as worthless or incorrigible from the nature. This cannot be a smooth and even process; alternations there are of day and night, illumination and darkness, calm and construction or battle and upheaval, the presence of the growing Divine Consciousness and its absence, heights of hope and abysses of despair, the clasp of the Beloved and the anguish of its absence, the overwhelming invasion, the compelling deceit, the fierce opposition, the disabling mockery of hostile Powers or the help and comfort and communion of the Gods and the Divine Messengers. A great and long revolution and churning of the ocean of Life with strong emergences of its nectar and its poison is enforced till all is ready and the increasing Descent finds a being, a nature prepared and conditioned for its complete rule and its all-encompassing presence. But if the equality and the psychic light and will are already there, then this process, though it cannot be dispensed with, can still be much lightened and facilitated: it will be rid of its worst dangers; an inner calm, happiness, confidence will support the steps through all the difficulties and trials of the transformation and the growing Force profiting by the full assent of the nature will rapidly diminish and eliminate the power of the opposing forces. A sure guidance and protection will be present throughout, sometimes standing in front, sometimes working behind the veil, and the power of the end will be already there even in the beginning and in the long middle stages of the great endeavour. For at all times the seeker will be aware of the Divine Guide and Protector or the working of the supreme Mother-Force; he will know that all is done for the best, the progress assured, the victory inevitable. In either case the process is the same and unavoidable, a taking up of the whole nature, of the whole life, of the internal and of the external, to reveal and handle and transform its forces and their movements under the pressure of a diviner Life from above, until all here has been possessed by greater spiritual powers and made an instrumentation of a spiritual action and a divine purpose. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 2, 179,#KEYS
497:PRATYAHARA
PRATYAHARA is the first process in the mental part of our task. The previous practices, Asana, Pranayama, Yama, and Niyama, are all acts of the body, while mantra is connected with speech: Pratyahara is purely mental.
And what is Pratyahara? This word is used by different authors in different senses. The same word is employed to designate both the practice and the result. It means for our present purpose a process rather strategical than practical; it is introspection, a sort of general examination of the contents of the mind which we wish to control: Asana having been mastered, all immediate exciting causes have been removed, and we are free to think what we are thinking about.
A very similar experience to that of Asana is in store for us. At first we shall very likely flatter ourselves that our minds are pretty calm; this is a defect of observation. Just as the European standing for the first time on the edge of the desert will see nothing there, while his Arab can tell him the family history of each of the fifty persons in view, because he has learnt how to look, so with practice the thoughts will become more numerous and more insistent.
As soon as the body was accurately observed it was found to be terribly restless and painful; now that we observe the mind it is seen to be more restless and painful still. (See diagram opposite.)
A similar curve might be plotted for the real and apparent painfulness of Asana. Conscious of this fact, we begin to try to control it: "Not quite so many thoughts, please!" "Don't think quite so fast, please!" "No more of that kind of thought, please!" It is only then that we discover that what we thought was a school of playful porpoises is really the convolutions of the sea-serpent. The attempt to repress has the effect of exciting.
When the unsuspecting pupil first approaches his holy but wily Guru, and demands magical powers, that Wise One replies that he will confer them, points out with much caution and secrecy some particular spot on the pupil's body which has never previously attracted his attention, and says: "In order to obtain this magical power which you seek, all that is necessary is to wash seven times in the Ganges during seven days, being particularly careful to avoid thinking of that one spot." Of course the unhappy youth spends a disgusted week in thinking of little else.
It is positively amazing with what persistence a thought, even a whole train of thoughts, returns again and again to the charge. It becomes a positive nightmare. It is intensely annoying, too, to find that one does not become conscious that one has got on to the forbidden subject until one has gone right through with it. However, one continues day after day investigating thoughts and trying to check them; and sooner or later one proceeds to the next stage, Dharana, the attempt to restrain the mind to a single object.
Before we go on to this, however, we must consider what is meant by success in Pratyahara. This is a very extensive subject, and different authors take widely divergent views. One writer means an analysis so acute that every thought is resolved into a number of elements (see "The Psychology of Hashish," Section V, in Equinox II).
Others take the view that success in the practice is something like the experience which Sir Humphrey Davy had as a result of taking nitrous oxide, in which he exclaimed: "The universe is composed exclusively of ideas."
Others say that it gives Hamlet's feeling: "There's nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so," interpreted as literally as was done by Mrs. Eddy.
However, the main point is to acquire some sort of inhibitory power over the thoughts. Fortunately there is an unfailing method of acquiring this power. It is given in Liber III. If Sections 1 and 2 are practised (if necessary with the assistance of another person to aid your vigilance) you will soon be able to master the final section. ~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA,#KEYS
498:64 Arts
1. Geet vidya: art of singing.
2. Vadya vidya: art of playing on musical instruments.
3. Nritya vidya: art of dancing.
4. Natya vidya: art of theatricals.
5. Alekhya vidya: art of painting.
6. Viseshakacchedya vidya: art of painting the face and body with color
7. Tandulakusumabalivikara: art of preparing offerings from rice and flowers.
8. Pushpastarana: art of making a covering of flowers for a bed.
9. Dasanavasanangaraga: art of applying preparations for cleansing the teeth, cloths and painting the body.
10. Manibhumikakarma: art of making the groundwork of jewels.
11. Aayyaracana: art of covering the bed.
12. Udakavadya: art of playing on music in water.
13. Udakaghata: art of splashing with water.
14. Citrayoga: art of practically applying an admixture of colors.
15. Malyagrathanavikalpa: art of designing a preparation of wreaths.
16. Sekharapidayojana: art of practically setting the coronet on the head.
17. Nepathyayoga: art of practically dressing in the tiring room.
18. Karnapatrabhanga: art of decorating the tragus of the ear.
19. Sugandhayukti: art of practical application of aromatics.
20. Bhushanayojana: art of applying or setting ornaments.
21. Aindrajala: art of juggling.
22. Kaucumara: a kind of art.
23. Hastalaghava: art of sleight of hand.
24. Citrasakapupabhakshyavikarakriya: art of preparing varieties of delicious food.
25. Panakarasaragasavayojana: art of practically preparing palatable drinks and tinging draughts with red color.
26. Sucivayakarma: art of needleworks and weaving.
27. Sutrakrida: art of playing with thread.
28. Vinadamurakavadya: art of playing on lute and small drum.
29. Prahelika: art of making and solving riddles.
30. Durvacakayoga: art of practicing language difficult to be answered by others.
31. Pustakavacana: art of reciting books.
32. Natikakhyayikadarsana: art of enacting short plays and anecdotes.
33. Kavyasamasyapurana: art of solving enigmatic verses.
34. Pattikavetrabanavikalpa: art of designing preparation of shield, cane and arrows.
35. Tarkukarma: art of spinning by spindle.
36. Takshana: art of carpentry.
37. Vastuvidya: art of engineering.
38. Raupyaratnapariksha: art of testing silver and jewels.
39. Dhatuvada: art of metallurgy.
40. Maniraga jnana: art of tinging jewels.
41. Akara jnana: art of mineralogy.
42. Vrikshayurvedayoga: art of practicing medicine or medical treatment, by herbs.
43. Meshakukkutalavakayuddhavidhi: art of knowing the mode of fighting of lambs, cocks and birds.
44. Sukasarikapralapana: art of maintaining or knowing conversation between male and female cockatoos.
45. Utsadana: art of healing or cleaning a person with perfumes.
46. Kesamarjanakausala: art of combing hair.
47. Aksharamushtikakathana: art of talking with fingers.
48. Dharanamatrika: art of the use of amulets.
49. Desabhashajnana: art of knowing provincial dialects.
50. Nirmitijnana: art of knowing prediction by heavenly voice.
51. Yantramatrika: art of mechanics.
52. Mlecchitakutarkavikalpa: art of fabricating barbarous or foreign sophistry.
53. Samvacya: art of conversation.
54. Manasi kavyakriya: art of composing verse
55. Kriyavikalpa: art of designing a literary work or a medical remedy.
56. Chalitakayoga: art of practicing as a builder of shrines called after him.
57. Abhidhanakoshacchandojnana: art of the use of lexicography and meters.
58. Vastragopana: art of concealment of cloths.
59. Dyutavisesha: art of knowing specific gambling.
60. Akarshakrida: art of playing with dice or magnet.
61. Balakakridanaka: art of using children's toys.
62. Vainayiki vidya: art of enforcing discipline.
63. Vaijayiki vidya: art of gaining victory.
64. Vaitaliki vidya: art of awakening master with music at dawn.
~ Nik Douglas and Penny Slinger, Sexual Secrets,#KEYS
499:[the sevenfold ignorance and the integral knowledge:]
We are ignorant of the Absolute which is the source of all being and becoming; we take partial facts of being, temporal relations of the becoming for the whole truth of existence,-that is the first, the original ignorance. We are ignorant of the spaceless, timeless, immobile and immutable Self; we take the constant mobility and mutation of the cosmic becoming in Time and Space for the whole truth of existence, -that is the second, the cosmic ignorance. We are ignorant of our universal self, the cosmic existence, the cosmic consciousness, our infinite unity with all being and becoming; we take our limited egoistic mentality, vitality, corporeality for our true self and regard everything other than that as not-self,-that is the third, the egoistic ignorance. We are ignorant of our eternal becoming in Time; we take this little life in a small span of Time, in a petty field of Space, for our beginning, our middle and our end,-that is the fourth, the temporal ignorance. Even within this brief temporal becoming we are ignorant of our large and complex being, of that in us which is superconscient, subconscient, intraconscient, circumconscient to our surface becoming; we take that surface becoming with its small selection of overtly mentalised experiences for our whole existence,-that is the fifth, the psychological ignorance. We are ignorant of the true constitution of our becoming; we take the mind or life or body or any two of these or all three for our true principle or the whole account of what we are, losing sight of that which constitutes them and determines by its occult presence and is meant to determine sovereignly by its emergence their operations,-that is the sixth, the constitutional ignorance. As a result of all these ignorances, we miss the true knowledge, government and enjoyment of our life in the world; we are ignorant in our thought, will, sensations, actions, return wrong or imperfect responses at every point to the questionings of the world, wander in a maze of errors and desires, strivings and failures, pain and pleasure, sin and stumbling, follow a crooked road, grope blindly for a changing goal,-that is the seventh, the practical ignorance.
Our conception of the Ignorance will necessarily determine our conception of the Knowledge and determine, therefore, since our life is the Ignorance at once denying and seeking after the Knowledge, the goal of human effort and the aim of the cosmic endeavour. Integral knowledge will then mean the cancelling of the sevenfold Ignorance by the discovery of what it misses and ignores, a sevenfold self-revelation within our consciousness:- it will mean [1] the knowledge of the Absolute as the origin of all things; [2] the knowledge of the Self, the Spirit, the Being and of the cosmos as the Self's becoming, the becoming of the Being, a manifestation of the Spirit; [3] the knowledge of the world as one with us in the consciousness of our true self, thus cancelling our division from it by the separative idea and life of ego; [4] the knowledge of our psychic entity and its immortal persistence in Time beyond death and earth-existence; [5] the knowledge of our greater and inner existence behind the surface; [6] the knowledge of our mind, life and body in its true relation to the self within and the superconscient spiritual and supramental being above them; [7] the knowledge, finally, of the true harmony and true use of our thought, will and action and a change of all our nature into a conscious expression of the truth of the Spirit, the Self, the Divinity, the integral spiritual Reality.
But this is not an intellectual knowledge which can be learned and completed in our present mould of consciousness; it must be an experience, a becoming, a change of consciousness, a change of being. This brings in the evolutionary character of the Becoming and the fact that our mental ignorance is only a stage in our evolution. The integral knowledge, then, can only come by an evolution of our being and our nature, and that would seem to signify a slow process in Time such as has accompanied the other evolutionary transformations. But as against that inference there is the fact that the evolution has now become conscious and its method and steps need not be altogether of the same character as when it was subconscious in its process. The integral knowledge, since it must result from a change of consciousness, can be gained by a process in which our will and endeavour have a part, in which they can discover and apply their own steps and method: its growth in us can proceed by a conscious self-transformation. It is necessary then to see what is likely to be the principle of this new process of evolution and what are the movements of the integral knowledge that must necessarily emerge in it,-or, in other words, what is the nature of the consciousness that must be the base of the life divine and how that life may be expected to be formed or to form itself, to materialise or, as one might say, to realise.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, pg 680-683 [T1],#KEYS
500:What are these operations? They are not mere psychological self-analysis and self-observation. Such analysis, such observation are, like the process of right thought, of immense value and practically indispensable. They may even, if rightly pursued, lead to a right thought of considerable power and effectivity. Like intellectual discrimination by the process of meditative thought they will have an effect of purification; they will lead to self-knowledge of a certain kind and to the setting right of the disorders of the soul and the heart and even of the disorders of the understanding. Self-knowledge of all kinds is on the straight path to the knowledge of the real Self. The Upanishad tells us that the Self-existent has so set the doors of the soul that they turn outwards and most men look outward into the appearances of things; only the rare soul that is ripe for a calm thought and steady wisdom turns its eye inward, sees the Self and attains to immortality. To this turning of the eye inward psychological self-observation and analysis is a great and effective introduction.We can look into the inward of ourselves more easily than we can look into the inward of things external to us because there, in things outside us, we are in the first place embarrassed by the form and secondly we have no natural previous experience of that in them which is other than their physical substance. A purified or tranquillised mind may reflect or a powerful concentration may discover God in the world, the Self in Nature even before it is realised in ourselves, but this is rare and difficult. (2) And it is only in ourselves that we can observe and know the process of the Self in its becoming and follow the process by which it draws back into self-being. Therefore the ancient counsel, know thyself, will always stand as the first word that directs us towards the knowledge. Still, psychological self-knowledge is only the experience of the modes of the Self, it is not the realisation of the Self in its pure being.
The status of knowledge, then, which Yoga envisages is not merely an intellectual conception or clear discrimination of the truth, nor is it an enlightened psychological experience of the modes of our being. It is a "realisation", in the full sense of the word; it is the making real to ourselves and in ourselves of the Self, the transcendent and universal Divine, and it is the subsequent impossibility of viewing the modes of being except in the light of that Self and in their true aspect as its flux of becoming under the psychical and physical conditions of our world-existence. This realisation consists of three successive movements, internal vision, complete internal experience and identity.
This internal vision, dr.s.t.i, the power so highly valued by the ancient sages, the power which made a man a Rishi or Kavi and no longer a mere thinker, is a sort of light in the soul by which things unseen become as evident and real to it-to the soul and not merely to the intellect-as do things seen to the physical eye. In the physical world there are always two forms of knowledge, the direct and the indirect, pratyaks.a, of that which is present to the eyes, and paroks.a, of that which is remote from and beyond our vision. When the object is beyond our vision, we are necessarily obliged to arrive at an idea of it by inference, imagination, analogy, by hearing the descriptions of others who have seen it or by studying pictorial or other representations of it if these are available. By putting together all these aids we can indeed arrive at a more or less adequate idea or suggestive image of the object, but we do not realise the thing itself; it is not yet to us the grasped reality, but only our conceptual representation of a reality. But once we have seen it with the eyes,-for no other sense is adequate,-we possess, we realise; it is there secure in our satisfied being, part of ourselves in knowledge. Precisely the same rule holds good of psychical things and of he Self. We may hear clear and luminous teachings about the Self from philosophers or teachers or from ancient writings; we may by thought, inference, imagination, analogy or by any other available means attempt to form a mental figure or conception of it; we may hold firmly that conception in our mind and fix it by an entire and exclusive concentration;3 but we have not yet realised it, we have not seen God. It is only when after long and persistent concentration or by other means the veil of the mind is rent or swept aside, only when a flood of light breaks over the awakened mentality, jyotirmaya brahman, and conception gives place to a knowledge-vision in which the Self is as present, real, concrete as a physical object to the physical eye, that we possess in knowledge; for we have seen. After that revelation, whatever fadings of the light, whatever periods of darkness may afflict the soul, it can never irretrievably lose what it has once held. The experience is inevitably renewed and must become more frequent till it is constant; when and how soon depends on the devotion and persistence with which we insist on the path and besiege by our will or our love the hidden Deity.
(2) And it is only in ourselves that we can observe and know the 2 In one respect, however, it is easier, because in external things we are not so much hampered by the sense of the limited ego as in ourselves; one obstacle to the realisation of God is therefore removed.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Status of Knowledge,#KEYS
501:For instance, a popular game with California occultists-I do not know its inventor-involves a Magic Room, much like the Pleasure Dome discussed earlier except that this Magic Room contains an Omniscient Computer.
To play this game, you simply "astrally project" into the Magic Room. Do not ask what "astral projection" means, and do not assume it is metaphysical (and therefore either impossible, if you are a materialist, or very difficult, if you are a mystic). Just assume this is a gedankenexperiment, a "mind game." Project yourself, in imagination, into this Magic Room and visualize vividly the Omniscient Computer, using the details you need to make such a super-information-processor real to your fantasy. You do not need any knowledge of programming to handle this astral computer. It exists early in the next century; you are getting to use it by a species of time-travel, if that metaphor is amusing and helpful to you. It is so built that it responds immediately to human brain-waves, "reading" them and decoding their meaning. (Crude prototypes of such computers already exist.) So, when you are in this magic room, you can ask this Computer anything, just by thinking of what you want to know. It will read your thought, and project into your brain, by a laser ray, the correct answer.
There is one slight problem. The computer is very sensitive to all brain-waves. If you have any doubts, it registers them as negative commands, meaning "Do not answer my question." So, the way to use it is to start simply, with "easy" questions. Ask it to dig out of the archives the name of your second-grade teacher. (Almost everybody remembers the name of their first grade teacher-imprint vulnerability again-but that of the second grade teacher tends to get lost.)
When the computer has dug out the name of your second grade teacher, try it on a harder question, but not one that is too hard. It is very easy to sabotage this machine, but you don't want to sabotage it during these experiments. You want to see how well it can be made to perform.
It is wise to ask only one question at a time, since it requires concentration to keep this magic computer real on the field of your perception. Do not exhaust your capacities for imagination and visualization on your first trial runs.
After a few trivial experiments of the second-grade-teacher variety, you can try more interesting programs. Take a person toward whom you have negative feelings, such as anger, disappointment, feeling-of-betrayal, jealousy or whatever interferes with the smooth, tranquil operation of your own bio-computer. Ask the Magic Computer to explain that other person to you; to translate you into their reality-tunnel long enough for you to understand how events seem to them. Especially, ask how you seem to them.
This computer will do that job for you; but be prepared for some shocks which might be disagreeable at first. This super-brain can also perform exegesis on ideas that seem obscure, paradoxical or enigmatic to us. For instance, early experiments with this computer can very profitably turn on asking it to explain some of the propositions in this book which may seem inexplicable or perversely wrong-headed to you, such as "We are all greater artists than we realize" or "What the Thinker thinks, the Prover proves" or "mind and its contents are functionally identical."
This computer is much more powerful and scientifically advanced than the rapture-machine in the neurosomatic circuit. It has total access to all the earlier, primitive circuits, and overrules any of them. That is, if you put a meta-programming instruction into this computer; it will relay it downward to the old circuits and cancel contradictory programs left over from the past. For instance, try feeding it on such meta-programming instructions as: 1. I am at cause over my body. 2. I am at cause over my imagination. 3.1 am at cause over my future. 4. My mind abounds with beauty and power. 5.1 like people, and people like me.
Remember that this computer is only a few decades ahead of present technology, so it cannot "understand" your commands if you harbor any doubts about them. Doubts tell it not to perform. Work always from what you can believe in, extending the area of belief only as results encourage you to try for more dramatic transformations of your past reality-tunnels.
This represents cybernetic consciousness; the programmer becoming self-programmer, self-metaprogrammer, meta-metaprogrammer, etc. Just as the emotional compulsions of the second circuit seem primitive, mechanical and, ultimately, silly to the neurosomatic consciousness, so, too, the reality maps of the third circuit become comic, relativistic, game-like to the metaprogrammer. "Whatever you say it is, it isn't, " Korzybski, the semanticist, repeated endlessly in his seminars, trying to make clear that third-circuit semantic maps are not the territories they represent; that we can always make maps of our maps, revisions of our revisions, meta-selves of our selves. "Neti, neti" (not that, not that), Hindu teachers traditionally say when asked what "God" is or what "Reality" is. Yogis, mathematicians and musicians seem more inclined to develop meta-programming consciousness than most of humanity. Korzybski even claimed that the use of mathematical scripts is an aid to developing this circuit, for as soon as you think of your mind as mind 1 , and the mind which contemplates that mind as mind2 and the mind which contemplates mind2 contemplating mind 1 as mind3, you are well on your way to meta-programming awareness. Alice in Wonderland is a masterful guide to the metaprogramming circuit (written by one of the founders of mathematical logic) and Aleister Crowley soberly urged its study upon all students of yoga. ~ Robert Anton Wilson, Prometheus Rising,#KEYS
502:SECTION 1. Books for Serious Study
Liber CCXX. (Liber AL vel Legis.) The Book of the Law. This book is the foundation of the New Æon, and thus of the whole of our work.
The Equinox. The standard Work of Reference in all occult matters. The Encyclopaedia of Initiation.
Liber ABA (Book 4). A general account in elementary terms of magical and mystical powers. In four parts: (1) Mysticism (2) Magical (Elementary Theory) (3) Magick in Theory and Practice (this book) (4) The Law.
Liber II. The Message of the Master Therion. Explains the essence of the new Law in a very simple manner.
Liber DCCCXXXVIII. The Law of Liberty. A further explanation of The Book of the Law in reference to certain ethical problems.
Collected Works of A. Crowley. These works contain many mystical and magical secrets, both stated clearly in prose, and woven into the Robe of sublimest poesy.
The Yi King. (S. B. E. Series [vol. XVI], Oxford University Press.) The "Classic of Changes"; give the initiated Chinese system of Magick.
The Tao Teh King. (S. B. E. Series [vol. XXXIX].) Gives the initiated Chinese system of Mysticism.
Tannhäuser, by A. Crowley. An allegorical drama concerning the Progress of the Soul; the Tannhäuser story slightly remodelled.
The Upanishads. (S. B. E. Series [vols. I & XV.) The Classical Basis of Vedantism, the best-known form of Hindu Mysticism.
The Bhagavad-gita. A dialogue in which Krishna, the Hindu "Christ", expounds a system of Attainment.
The Voice of the Silence, by H.P. Blavatsky, with an elaborate commentary by Frater O.M. Frater O.M., 7°=48, is the most learned of all the Brethren of the Order; he has given eighteen years to the study of this masterpiece.
Raja-Yoga, by Swami Vivekananda. An excellent elementary study of Hindu mysticism. His Bhakti-Yoga is also good.
The Shiva Samhita. An account of various physical means of assisting the discipline of initiation. A famous Hindu treatise on certain physical practices.
The Hathayoga Pradipika. Similar to the Shiva Samhita.
The Aphorisms of Patanjali. A valuable collection of precepts pertaining to mystical attainment.
The Sword of Song. A study of Christian theology and ethics, with a statement and solution of the deepest philosophical problems. Also contains the best account extant of Buddhism, compared with modern science.
The Book of the Dead. A collection of Egyptian magical rituals.
Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie, by Eliphas Levi. The best general textbook of magical theory and practice for beginners. Written in an easy popular style.
The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage. The best exoteric account of the Great Work, with careful instructions in procedure. This Book influenced and helped the Master Therion more than any other.
The Goetia. The most intelligible of all the mediæval rituals of Evocation. Contains also the favourite Invocation of the Master Therion.
Erdmann's History of Philosophy. A compendious account of philosophy from the earliest times. Most valuable as a general education of the mind.
The Spiritual Guide of [Miguel de] Molinos. A simple manual of Christian Mysticism.
The Star in the West. (Captain Fuller). An introduction to the study of the Works of Aleister Crowley.
The Dhammapada. (S. B. E. Series [vol. X], Oxford University Press). The best of the Buddhist classics.
The Questions of King Milinda. (S. B. E. Series [vols. XXXV & XXXVI].) Technical points of Buddhist dogma, illustrated bydialogues.
Liber 777 vel Prolegomena Symbolica Ad Systemam Sceptico-Mysticæ Viæ Explicandæ, Fundamentum Hieroglyphicam Sanctissimorum Scientiæ Summæ. A complete Dictionary of the Correspondences of all magical elements, reprinted with extensive additions, making it the only standard comprehensive book of reference ever published. It is to the language of Occultism what Webster or Murray is to the English language.
Varieties of Religious Experience (William James). Valuable as showing the uniformity of mystical attainment.
Kabbala Denudata, von Rosenroth: also The Kabbalah Unveiled, by S.L. Mathers. The text of the Qabalah, with commentary. A good elementary introduction to the subject.
Konx Om Pax [by Aleister Crowley]. Four invaluable treatises and a preface on Mysticism and Magick.
The Pistis Sophia [translated by G.R.S. Mead or Violet McDermot]. An admirable introduction to the study of Gnosticism.
The Oracles of Zoroaster [Chaldæan Oracles]. An invaluable collection of precepts mystical and magical.
The Dream of Scipio, by Cicero. Excellent for its Vision and its Philosophy.
The Golden Verses of Pythagoras, by Fabre d'Olivet. An interesting study of the exoteric doctrines of this Master.
The Divine Pymander, by Hermes Trismegistus. Invaluable as bearing on the Gnostic Philosophy.
The Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians, reprint of Franz Hartmann. An invaluable compendium.
Scrutinium Chymicum [Atalanta Fugiens]¸ by Michael Maier. One of the best treatises on alchemy.
Science and the Infinite, by Sidney Klein. One of the best essays written in recent years.
Two Essays on the Worship of Priapus [A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus &c. &c. &c.], by Richard Payne Knight [and Thomas Wright]. Invaluable to all students.
The Golden Bough, by J.G. Frazer. The textbook of Folk Lore. Invaluable to all students.
The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine. Excellent, though elementary, as a corrective to superstition.
Rivers of Life, by General Forlong. An invaluable textbook of old systems of initiation.
Three Dialogues, by Bishop Berkeley. The Classic of Subjective Idealism.
Essays of David Hume. The Classic of Academic Scepticism.
First Principles by Herbert Spencer. The Classic of Agnosticism.
Prolegomena [to any future Metaphysics], by Immanuel Kant. The best introduction to Metaphysics.
The Canon [by William Stirling]. The best textbook of Applied Qabalah.
The Fourth Dimension, by [Charles] H. Hinton. The best essay on the subject.
The Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley. Masterpieces of philosophy, as of prose.
~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA, Appendix I: Literature Recommended to Aspirants#KEYS
503:Attention on Hypnagogic Imagery The most common strategy for inducing WILDs is to fall asleep while focusing on the hypnagogic imagery that accompanies sleep onset. Initially, you are likely to see relatively simple images, flashes of light, geometric patterns, and the like.
Gradually more complicated forms appear: faces, people, and finally entire scenes. 6
The following account of what the Russian philosopher P. D. Ouspensky called "half-dream states" provides a vivid example of what hypnagogic imagery can be like:
I am falling asleep. Golden dots, sparks and tiny stars appear and disappear before my eyes. These sparks and stars gradually merge into a golden net with diagonal meshes which moves slowly and regularly in rhythm with the beating of my heart, which I feel quite distinctly. The next moment the golden net is transformed into rows of brass helmets belonging to Roman soldiers marching along the street below. I hear their measured tread and watch them from the window of a high house in Galata, in Constantinople, in a narrow lane, one end of which leads to the old wharf and the Golden Horn with its ships and steamers and the minarets of Stamboul behind them. I hear their heavy measured tread, and see the sun shining on their helmets. Then suddenly I detach myself from the window sill on which I am lying, and in the same reclining position fly slowly over the lane, over the houses, and then over the Golden Horn in the direction of Stamboul. I smell the sea, feel the wind, the warm sun. This flying gives me a wonderfully pleasant sensation, and I cannot help opening my eyes. 7
Ouspensky's half-dream states developed out of a habit of observing the contents of his mind while falling asleep or in half-sleep after awakening from a dream. He notes that they were much easier to observe in the morning after awakening than before sleep at the beginning of the night and did not occur at all "without definite efforts." 8
Dr. Nathan Rapport, an American psychiatrist, cultivated an approach to lucid dreaming very similar to Ouspensky's: "While in bed awaiting sleep, the experimenter interrupts his thoughts every few minutes with an effort to recall the mental item vanishing before each intrusion that inquisitive attention." 9 This habit is continued sleep itself, with results like the following:
Brilliant lights flashed, and a myriad of sparkles twinkled from a magnificent cut glass chandelier. Interesting as any stage extravaganza were the many quaintly detailed figurines upon a mantel against the distant, paneled wall adorned in rococo.
At the right a merry group of beauties and gallants in the most elegant attire of Victorian England idled away a pleasant occasion. This scene continued for [a] period of I was not aware, before I discovered that it was not reality, but a mental picture and that I was viewing it. Instantly it became an incommunicably beautiful vision. It was with the greatest stealth that my vaguely awakened mind began to peep: for I knew that these glorious shows end abruptly because of such intrusions.
I thought, "Have I here one of those mind pictures that are without motion?" As if in reply, one of the young ladies gracefully waltzed about the room. She returned to the group and immobility, with a smile lighting her pretty face, which was turned over her shoulder toward me. The entire color scheme was unobtrusive despite the kaleidoscopic sparkles of the chandelier, the exquisite blues and creamy pinks of the rich settings and costumes. I felt that only my interest in dreams brought my notice to the tints - delicate, yet all alive as if with inner illumination. 10
Hypnagogic Imagery Technique
1. Relax completely
While lying in bed, gently close your eyes and relax your head, neck, back, arms, and legs. Completely let go of all muscular and mental tension, and breathe slowly and restfully. Enjoy the feeling of relaxation and let go of your thoughts, worries, and concerns. If you have just awakened from sleep, you are probably sufficiently relaxed.
Otherwise, you may use either the progressive relaxation exercise (page 33) or the 61-point relaxation exercise (page 34) to relax more deeply. Let everything wind down,
slower and slower, more and more relaxed, until your mind becomes as serene as the calmest sea.
2. Observe the visual images
Gently focus your attention on the visual images that will gradually appear before your mind's eye. Watch how the images begin and end. Try to observe the images as delicately as possible, allowing them to be passively reflected in your mind as they unfold. Do not attempt to hold onto the images, but instead just watch without attachment or desire for action. While doing this, try to take the perspective of a detached observer as much as possible. At first you will see a sequence of disconnected, fleeting patterns and images. The images will gradually develop into scenes that become more and more complex, finally joining into extended sequences.
3. Enter the dream
When the imagery becomes a moving, vivid scenario, you should allow yourself to be passively drawn into the dream world. Do not try to actively enter the dream scene,
but instead continue to take a detached interest in the imagery. Let your involvement with what is happening draw you into the dream. But be careful of too much involvement and too little attention. Don't forget that you are dreaming now!
Commentary
Probably the most difficult part of this technique to master is entering the dream at Step 3. The challenge is to develop a delicate vigilance, an unobtrusive observer perspective, from which you let yourself be drawn into the dream. As Paul Tholey has emphasized, "It is not desirable to want actively to enter into the scenery,
since such an intention as a rule causes the scenery to disappear." 11 A passive volition similar to that described in the section on autosuggestion in the previous chapter is required: in Tholey's words, "Instead of actively wanting to enter into the scenery, the subject should attempt to let himself be carried into it passively." 12 A Tibetan teacher advises a similar frame of mind: "While delicately observing the mind, lead it gently into the dream state, as though you were leading a child by the hand." 13
Another risk is that, once you have entered into the dream, the world can seem so realistic that it is easy to lose lucidity, as happened in the beginning of Rapport's WILD described above. As insurance in case this happens, Tholey recommends that you resolve to carry out a particular action in the dream, so that if you momentarily lose lucidity, you may remember your intention to carry out the action and thereby regain lucidity.
~ Stephen LaBerge, Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming,#KEYS
504:Mental Education
OF ALL lines of education, mental education is the most widely known and practised, yet except in a few rare cases there are gaps which make it something very incomplete and in the end quite insufficient.
Generally speaking, schooling is considered to be all the mental education that is necessary. And when a child has been made to undergo, for a number of years, a methodical training which is more like cramming than true schooling, it is considered that whatever is necessary for his mental development has been done. Nothing of the kind. Even conceding that the training is given with due measure and discrimination and does not permanently damage the brain, it cannot impart to the human mind the faculties it needs to become a good and useful instrument. The schooling that is usually given can, at the most, serve as a system of gymnastics to increase the suppleness of the brain. From this standpoint, each branch of human learning represents a special kind of mental gymnastics, and the verbal formulations given to these various branches each constitute a special and well-defined language.
A true mental education, which will prepare man for a higher life, has five principal phases. Normally these phases follow one after another, but in exceptional individuals they may alternate or even proceed simultaneously. These five phases, in brief, are:
(1) Development of the power of concentration, the capacity of attention.
(2) Development of the capacities of expansion, widening, complexity and richness.
(3) Organisation of one's ideas around a central idea, a higher ideal or a supremely luminous idea that will serve as a guide in life.
(4) Thought-control, rejection of undesirable thoughts, to become able to think only what one wants and when one wants.
(5) Development of mental silence, perfect calm and a more and more total receptivity to inspirations coming from the higher regions of the being.
It is not possible to give here all the details concerning the methods to be employed in the application of these five phases of education to different individuals. Still, a few explanations on points of detail can be given.
Undeniably, what most impedes mental progress in children is the constant dispersion of their thoughts. Their thoughts flutter hither and thither like butterflies and they have to make a great effort to fix them. Yet this capacity is latent in them, for when you succeed in arousing their interest, they are capable of a good deal of attention. By his ingenuity, therefore, the educator will gradually help the child to become capable of a sustained effort of attention and a faculty of more and more complete absorption in the work in hand. All methods that can develop this faculty of attention from games to rewards are good and can all be utilised according to the need and the circumstances. But it is the psychological action that is most important and the sovereign method is to arouse in the child an interest in what you want to teach him, a liking for work, a will to progress. To love to learn is the most precious gift that one can give to a child: to love to learn always and everywhere, so that all circumstances, all happenings in life may be constantly renewed opportunities for learning more and always more.
For that, to attention and concentration should be added observation, precise recording and faithfulness of memory. This faculty of observation can be developed by varied and spontaneous exercises, making use of every opportunity that presents itself to keep the child's thought wakeful, alert and prompt. The growth of the understanding should be stressed much more than that of memory. One knows well only what one has understood. Things learnt by heart, mechanically, fade away little by little and finally disappear; what is understood is never forgotten. Moreover, you must never refuse to explain to a child the how and the why of things. If you cannot do it yourself, you must direct the child to those who are qualified to answer or point out to him some books that deal with the question. In this way you will progressively awaken in the child the taste for true study and the habit of making a persistent effort to know.
This will bring us quite naturally to the second phase of development in which the mind should be widened and enriched.
You will gradually show the child that everything can become an interesting subject for study if it is approached in the right way. The life of every day, of every moment, is the best school of all, varied, complex, full of unexpected experiences, problems to be solved, clear and striking examples and obvious consequences. It is so easy to arouse healthy curiosity in children, if you answer with intelligence and clarity the numerous questions they ask. An interesting reply to one readily brings others in its train and so the attentive child learns without effort much more than he usually does in the classroom. By a choice made with care and insight, you should also teach him to enjoy good reading-matter which is both instructive and attractive. Do not be afraid of anything that awakens and pleases his imagination; imagination develops the creative mental faculty and through it study becomes living and the mind develops in joy.
In order to increase the suppleness and comprehensiveness of his mind, one should see not only that he studies many varied topics, but above all that a single subject is approached in various ways, so that the child understands in a practical manner that there are many ways of facing the same intellectual problem, of considering it and solving it. This will remove all rigidity from his brain and at the same time it will make his thinking richer and more supple and prepare it for a more complex and comprehensive synthesis. In this way also the child will be imbued with the sense of the extreme relativity of mental learning and, little by little, an aspiration for a truer source of knowledge will awaken in him.
Indeed, as the child grows older and progresses in his studies, his mind too ripens and becomes more and more capable of forming general ideas, and with them almost always comes a need for certitude, for a knowledge that is stable enough to form the basis of a mental construction which will permit all the diverse and scattered and often contradictory ideas accumulated in his brain to be organised and put in order. This ordering is indeed very necessary if one is to avoid chaos in one's thoughts. All contradictions can be transformed into complements, but for that one must discover the higher idea that will have the power to bring them harmoniously together. It is always good to consider every problem from all possible standpoints so as to avoid partiality and exclusiveness; but if the thought is to be active and creative, it must, in every case, be the natural and logical synthesis of all the points of view adopted. And if you want to make the totality of your thoughts into a dynamic and constructive force, you must also take great care as to the choice of the central idea of your mental synthesis; for upon that will depend the value of this synthesis. The higher and larger the central idea and the more universal it is, rising above time and space, the more numerous and the more complex will be the ideas, notions and thoughts which it will be able to organise and harmonise.
It goes without saying that this work of organisation cannot be done once and for all. The mind, if it is to keep its vigour and youth, must progress constantly, revise its notions in the light of new knowledge, enlarge its frame-work to include fresh notions and constantly reclassify and reorganise its thoughts, so that each of them may find its true place in relation to the others and the whole remain harmonious and orderly.
All that has just been said concerns the speculative mind, the mind that learns. But learning is only one aspect of mental activity; the other, which is at least equally important, is the constructive faculty, the capacity to form and thus prepare action. This very important part of mental activity has rarely been the subject of any special study or discipline. Only those who want, for some reason, to exercise a strict control over their mental activities think of observing and disciplining this faculty of formation; and as soon as they try it, they have to face difficulties so great that they appear almost insurmountable.
And yet control over this formative activity of the mind is one of the most important aspects of self-education; one can say that without it no mental mastery is possible. As far as study is concerned, all ideas are acceptable and should be included in the synthesis, whose very function is to become more and more rich and complex; but where action is concerned, it is just the opposite. The ideas that are accepted for translation into action should be strictly controlled and only those that agree with the general trend of the central idea forming the basis of the mental synthesis should be permitted to express themselves in action. This means that every thought entering the mental consciousness should be set before the central idea; if it finds a logical place among the thoughts already grouped, it will be admitted into the synthesis; if not, it will be rejected so that it can have no influence on the action. This work of mental purification should be done very regularly in order to secure a complete control over one's actions.
For this purpose, it is good to set apart some time every day when one can quietly go over one's thoughts and put one's synthesis in order. Once the habit is acquired, you can maintain control over your thoughts even during work and action, allowing only those which are useful for what you are doing to come to the surface. Particularly, if you have continued to cultivate the power of concentration and attention, only the thoughts that are needed will be allowed to enter the active external consciousness and they then become all the more dynamic and effective. And if, in the intensity of concentration, it becomes necessary not to think at all, all mental vibration can be stilled and an almost total silence secured. In this silence one can gradually open to the higher regions of the mind and learn to record the inspirations that come from there.
But even before reaching this point, silence in itself is supremely useful, because in most people who have a somewhat developed and active mind, the mind is never at rest. During the day, its activity is kept under a certain control, but at night, during the sleep of the body, the control of the waking state is almost completely removed and the mind indulges in activities which are sometimes excessive and often incoherent. This creates a great stress which leads to fatigue and the diminution of the intellectual faculties.
The fact is that like all the other parts of the human being, the mind too needs rest and it will not have this rest unless we know how to provide it. The art of resting one's mind is something to be acquired. Changing one's mental activity is certainly one way of resting; but the greatest possible rest is silence. And as far as the mental faculties are concerned a few minutes passed in the calm of silence are a more effective rest than hours of sleep.
When one has learned to silence the mind at will and to concentrate it in receptive silence, then there will be no problem that cannot be solved, no mental difficulty whose solution cannot be found. When it is agitated, thought becomes confused and impotent; in an attentive tranquillity, the light can manifest itself and open up new horizons to man's capacity. Bulletin, November 1951
~ The Mother, On Education,#KEYS
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Or two dumpsters. ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove 21:I went to a 7-11 and asked for a 2& 22:Day 1 - Still tired from the move. Day 2 - Everybody talks to me like I'm an idiot. ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 23:she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more: youth and beauty ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 24:My wife had her drivers’ test the other day. She got 8 out of 10. The other 2 guys jumped clear. ~ rodney-dangerfield, @wisdomtrove 25:120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer. ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove 26:I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an idiot. ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 27:I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 28:They just elected me Mis Phonograph Record of 1966. They discovered my measurements were 33 1/2, 45, 78! ~ phyllis-diller, @wisdomtrove 29:Got a problem? Our Evolutionary Agony Aunt can help by Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2009. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 30:The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali ~ salvador-dali, @wisdomtrove 31:Success Recipe: 2 cups faith, 2 cups love, 1 cup hard work, 1 cup persistence, 1 tbsp vision and a dash of swagger. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 32:I joined gamblers anon., they gave me 2 to 1 I wouldn't make it! I joined AA, there was a two drink minimum! ~ rodney-dangerfield, @wisdomtrove 33:An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths - by panicked shouting. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove 34:I had a paper route when I was a kid. I was a paperboy. I was supposed to go to 2,000 houses... or two dumpsters. ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove 35:Leadership is no longer about position - but passion. It's no longer about image but impact. This is Leadership 2.0. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 36:The three most difficult things in life are: 1. To keep a secret. 2. To forget an injury. 3. To make good use of leisure. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 37:Ever wonder about those people who spend $2 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backward. ~ george-carlin, @wisdomtrove 38:India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove 39:it is good to be sitting some place in public at 2:30 in the afternoon without getting the flesh ripped from your bones. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 40:2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other for a change. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 41:Getting things done requires two basic components: defining (1) what done means (outcome) and (2) what doing looks like (action). ~ david-allen, @wisdomtrove 42:I miss the $2 bill, 'cause I can break a two. $20, no. $10, no. $5, maybe, $2? Oh yeah. What do you need, a one and another one? ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove 43:We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering. ~ viktor-frankl, @wisdomtrove 44:Couples should abstain from sexual relations at least 2 or 3 days a week. Gradually try to reach a stage of celibacy most days. ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove 45:I live my life based on 2 principles. One, I live as if today was my last day on earth. Two, I live today as if I am going to live forever. ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove 46:Science, ever since the time of the Arabs, has had two functions: (1) to enable us to know things, and (2) to enable us to do things. ~ bertrand-russell, @wisdomtrove 47:Interior Castle by, (Ch. 2), as translated by the Benedictines of Stanbrook (1911), revised and edited by Fr. Benedict Zimmerman, 1577. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 48:Principle 49:Ask yourself, What is the worst that can possibly happen? 2. Prepare to accept it if you have to. 3. Then calmly proceed to improve on the worst. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 50:Clear workspace clutter. Clear computer clutter. Turn off email notifications. Check e- mail at set points in the day, only 2 to 3 times per day. ~ leo-babauta, @wisdomtrove 51:People Are Hard to Hate Close Up. Move In. 2. Speak Truth to Bullshit. Be Civil. 3. Hold Hands. With Strangers. 4. Strong Back. Soft Front. Wild Heart. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 52:Religion, Terror, and Self-Transcendence. The Ethical Culture Society and the Center for Inquiry, New York, NY, Broadcast on CSPAN-2, November 16, 2005. ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove 53:New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along! ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove 54:PRINCIPLE 1 Don’t criticize, condemn or complain. PRINCIPLE 2 Give honest and sincere appreciation. PRINCIPLE 3 Arouse in the other person an eager want. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 55:Incredible amounts of energy are hidden in your brain; enough in a gram of flesh to run the city of Chicago for 2 days. And you say you are tired? ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 56:Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 57:Josiah has a tremendous reputation in the text. He rediscovered the Book of the Law; you remember how Hilkiah the High Priest somehow found it [2 Kings 22:8]. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 58:I’ve discovered that the greatest challenges in defining your work are (1) to think about what you’re doing and (2) to do something about what you’re thinking. ~ david-allen, @wisdomtrove 59:I don't care if 1 is prime or not, if 2 is prime or not, if 3 is prime or not. All I care is that there are more stars in the heavens than primes in the earth. ~ giordano-bruno, @wisdomtrove 60:I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie. ~ erma-bombeck, @wisdomtrove 61:So, then, what is style? There are two chief aspects of any piece of writing: 1) what you say and 2) how you say it. The former is "content" and the latter is "style." ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove 62:The 2 extremes, neither one worse than the other: the result of bad religion is self-loathing and violence; the result of bad spirituality is self-worship and narcissism. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 63:All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope? ~ immanuel-kant, @wisdomtrove 64:Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW! ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove 65:The writer must be four people: 1) The nut, the obsede 2) The moron 3) The stylist 4) The critic. 1 supplies the material; 2 lets it come out; 3 is taste; 4 is intelligence. ~ susan-sontag, @wisdomtrove 66:It is intelligent to ask two questions: (1) Is it possible? (2) Can I do it?. But it is unintelligent to ask these questions: (1) Is it real? (2) Has my neighbor done it? ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 67:The key to having more time is doing less, and there are two paths to get there, both of which should be used together: (1) Define a short to-do list and (2) define a not-to-do list. ~ tim-ferris, @wisdomtrove 68:Surveys show that the 69:People who are crucified with Christ have three distinct marks: 1. they are facing only one direction, 2. they can never turn back, and 3. they no longer have plans of their own. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 70:Collect things that command our attention; (2) process what they mean and what to do about them; and (3) organize the results, which we (4) review as options for what we choose to (5) do. ~ david-allen, @wisdomtrove 71:As far as the search for truth is concerned, 98% of our thinking is rubbish. The remaining 2% is garbage. Throw it all out and be empty! Truth cannot be caught by intellect alone - grace is needed. ~ mooji, @wisdomtrove 72:From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove 73:All these things He must be in me, abiding, living, speaking in me; that I may be the righteousness of God in Him (2 Cor. v. 21); not in love, nor in gifts and graces which follow; but in Him. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 74:Only about 2 percent of people can work entirely without supervision. We call those people & 75:Bethlehem was just the beginning. I call Jesus Christ's next appearance, Bethlehem, Act 2. No silent night this time, however. The skies will open, trumpets will blast, and a new kingdom will begin. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 76:Three things are necessary to make every man great,every nation great1.Conviction of the powers of goodness.2.Absence of jealousy and suspicion.3.Helping all who are trying to be and do good. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 77:I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 78:Today I dialed a wrong number... The other person said, "Hello?" and I said, "Hello, could I speak to Joey?"... They said, "Uh... I don't think so... he's only 2 months old." I said, "I'll wait." ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 79:We may distinguish six kinds of terrain, to wit: (1) Accessible ground; (2) entangling ground; (3) temporising ground; (4) narrow passes; (5) precipitous heights; (6) positions at a great distance from the enemy. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove 80:Man has 2 common problems with God: the one is that there is evil in the world; the other is that free will is limited. The one, he is charging that the world is too evil; the other is that it is not evil enough. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 81:Examples of Quadrant 2 tasks (important and non urgent tasks) : Preparation, planning activities, prevention, relationships, new opportunities, creativity, true recreation, personal development, empowerment ~ stephen-r-covey, @wisdomtrove 82:People go through four stages before any revolutionary development: 1. It's nonsense, don't waste my time. 2. It's interesting, but not important. 3. I always said it was a good idea. 4. I thought of it first. ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove 83:Plurality of languages: [... ] It is crucial 1. that there are many languages and that they differ not only in vocabulary, but also in grammar, and so in mode of thought and 2. that all languages are learnable. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove 84:Rules for Self Discovery: 1. What we want most; 2. What we think about most; 3. How we use our money; 4. What we do with our leisure time; 5. The company we enjoy; 6. Who and what we admire; 7. What we laugh at. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 85:In a Nutshell - Fundamental Techniques In Handling People; Principle 1 - Don't criticize, condemn or complain; Principle 2 - Give honest and sincere appreciation; Principle 3 - Arouse in the other person an eager want. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 86:Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along. ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove 87:There [are] just two things I’d need to find out everything I want to know about everyone: 1) Let me see them drive; 2) let me hear them talk about marriage … That’s going to tell me exactly your relationship to the world. ~ jerry-seinfeld, @wisdomtrove 88:The three requirements to make the capturing phase work: 1 Every open loop must be in your capture system and out of your head. 2 You must have as few capturing buckets as you can get by with. 3 You must empty them regularly. ~ david-allen, @wisdomtrove 89:To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 90:The education situation which most effectively promotes significant learning is one in which (1) threat to the self of the learner is reduced to a minimum and (2) differential perception of the field of experience is facilitated ~ carl-rogers, @wisdomtrove 91:When the president of the United States goes out at, you know, 8:00 o'clock in the morning and then his own party votes gets him 2 to 1 in the house, you know that somehow a message isn't getting out. It takes real leadership. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 92:I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book ‚ something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 93:Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 1 but from faults for which the general is responsible. These are: (1) Flight; (2) insubordination; (3) collapse; (4) ruin; (5) disorganisation; (6) rout. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove 94:Some American delusions: 1) That there is no class-consciousness in the country. 2) That American coffee is good. 3) That Americans are business-like. 4) That Americans are highly-sexed and that redheads are more highly sexed than others. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove 95:Aside from your three most important tasks, there are always smaller tasks you need to complete each day. The trick is 1) not to let these smaller tasks take priority over your most important tasks, and 2) to do them in batches as much as possible to save time. ~ leo-babauta, @wisdomtrove 96:Try to spend at least 2 or 3 days every month in an ashram. Just breathing the pure air there will purify and strengthen our bodies and minds. Like recharging the batteries, even after returning home we will be able to continue our meditation and japa. ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove 97:Here's a phrase that apparently the airlines simply made up: near miss. They say that if 2 planes almost collide, it's a near miss. Bullshit, my friend. It's a near hit! A collision is a near miss. WHAM! CRUNCH! “Look, they nearly missed!" “Yes, but not quite.” ~ george-carlin, @wisdomtrove 98:Diplomacy, n : 1. The patriotic art of lying for one's country. 2. The art of letting someone have your way. 3. The art of saying & 99:Principle 1: By setting limitations, we must choose the essential. So in everything you do, learn to set limitations. Principle 2: By choosing the essential, we create great impact with minimal resources. Always choose the essential to maximize your time and energy.' ~ leo-babauta, @wisdomtrove 100:To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That’s what lasts. That’s what continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better. ~ susan-sontag, @wisdomtrove 101:Get the big rocks in. Big rocks are your quadrant 2 tasks – the important but non- urgent tasks. When big rocks are in place, you can easily get the small rocks, gravel, sand and water into the jar. Much easier than if you tried to do it the other way round, isn’t it? ~ celestine-chua, @wisdomtrove 102:soon I'll finish this 5th of Puerto Rican rum. in the morning I'll vomit and shower, drive back in, have a sandwich by 1 p.m., be back in my room by 2, stretched on the bed, waiting for the phone to ring, not answering, my holiday is an evasion, mt reasoning is not. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 103:A little arrogance (or even a lot) isn't such a bad thing, although your mother undoubtedly told you different. Mine did. "Pride goeth before a fall, Stephen", she said... and then I found out - right around the age that is 19 x 2 - that eventually you fall down, anyway. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 104:Science is converging on an all-encompassing dogma, which says that organisms are algorithms, and life is data processing. 2. Intelligence is decoupling from consciousness. 3. Non-conscious but highly intelligent algorithms may soon know us better than we know ourselves. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 105:I had loved magic tricks from the time I was six or seven. I bought books on magic. I did magic acts for my parents and their friends. I was aiming for show business from early days, and magic was the poor man's way of getting in: you buy a trick for $2, and you've got an act. ~ steve-martin, @wisdomtrove 106:It ought to be remembered by all [that] the Games more than 2,000 years ago started as a means of bringing peace between the Greek city-states. And in those days, even if a war was going on, they called off the war in order to hold the Games. I wish we were still as civilized. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 107:In the great city of San Francisco, where I used to live, at 2 in the morning every other Victorian house has somebody who is writing the great American novel. And the city is not loaded with James Joyces or Virginia Woolfs. But entrepreneurship is about distorted views of reality. ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove 108:Adults are interested if you don't play down to the little 2 or 3 year olds or talk down. I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment. I like to kind of just talk in a general way to the audience. Children are always reaching. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 109:OUR INSPIRATION: Billy Graham, July 2, 1962 úWorld events are moving very rapidly now. I pick up the Bible in one hand, and I pick up the newspaper in the other. And I read almost the same words in the newspaper as I read in the Bible. Itôs being fulfilled every day round about us. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 110:Accounting consequences do not influence our operating or capital-allocation decisions. When acquisition costs are similar, we much prefer to purchase $2 of earnings that is not reportable by us under standard accounting principles than to purchase $1 of earnings that is reportable. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 111:After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some error in them; (3) all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism, in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own close relatives. ~ mahatma-gandhi, @wisdomtrove 112:For more than 2 million years, human neural networks kept growing and growing, but apart from some flint knives and pointed sticks, humans had precious little to show for it. What then drove forward the evolution of the massive human brain during those 2 million years? Frankly, we don’t know. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 113:In what way is it truer and kinder not to need you approval? 1. You're free to do and say anthing you want without my interruptions or interjections. 2. I don't need to manipulate you. 3. I find my own approval and that's really what I've been looking for all along and I didn't even recognise it. ~ byron-katie, @wisdomtrove 114:If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500 years ago. ... This time, however, it is not only based on intuition, but also on experiments of great precision and sophistication, and on a rigorous and consistent mathematical formalism. ~ fritjof-capra, @wisdomtrove 115:About 120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer. If our polls are to be trusted, nearly 230 million Americans believe that a book showing neither unity of style nor internal consistency was authored by an omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent deity. ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove 116:Somebody's buying these treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent. Consuming about $2 billion a day of goods and services beyond what we're producing. In other words, the rest of the world sends about $2 billion a day net of something.We got to send them something in return, don't we. So we send them little pieces of paper. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 117:In earlier years, a lesser effort produced literally dozens of comparable opportunities. It is difficult to be objective about the causes for such diminution of one's own productivity. Three factors that seem apparent are: (1) a somewhat changed market environment; (2) our increased size; and (3) substantially more competition. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 118:To find the balance you want, this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have 4 legs instead of 2. That way, you can stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 119:I mean, you can explain the fact that these are depressed prices, you know. We think these assets are going to be worth a lot more. And I think that case can be made in certain situations. But I think to just say, you know, we're going to say a dollar of cash is worth $2 all of a sudden, it isn't worth $2. It's worth a dollar today. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 120:My preference is live performance. Because you get the feedback. There's an energy. It's live theater. That's why I think actors like that. You know, musicians need it, comedians definitely need it. It doesn't matter what size and what club, whether it's 30 people in the club or 2,000 in a hall or a theater. It's live, it's symbiotic, you need it. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 121:When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. 2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. 3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove 122:Theres a verse thats meant a lot to me ever since I was in my early 20s. 2 Timothy 2:8, Paul told Timothy to remember Jesus Christ, descended from David and raised from the dead. Thats a good principle, that if my theology, my whole life can be focused on remembering Jesus. Just trying to remember who He is, what He did, being strong in what He did and what He accomplished. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 123:2 p.m. beer nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the horses die and the landladies stare in the halls; brisk the music of pulled shades, a last man's cave in an eternity of swarm and explosion; nothing but the dripping sink, the empty bottle, euphoria, youth fenced in, stabbed and shaven, taught words propped up to die. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 124:Were all human beings suddenly 2 become blind, still the sun would shine by day and the stars by night, for these owe nothing 2 the millions who benifit from their light. So were every man on earth 2 become atheist it could not affect God in any way. He is what He is in Himself without regard to any other. To believe in Him adds nothing to His perfections to doubt Him takes nothing away. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 125:Because you so often listen autobiographically, you tend to respond in one of four ways: 1. Evaluate: You either agree or disagree. Probe: You ask questions from your own frame of reference 2. Advise: You give counsel and solutions to problems based on your own experiences. 3. Interpret: You try to figure people out—explain their motives and behaviour—based on your own motives and behaviour. ~ stephen-r-covey, @wisdomtrove 126:I think we're going to have to do better. Mr. Nixon talks about our being the strongest country in the world. I think we are today, but we were far stronger relative to the Communists 5 years ago. And what is of great concern is that the balance of power is in danger of moving with them. They made a breakthrough in missiles and by 1961, & 127:God alone can do what seems impossible. This is the promise of his grace: & 128:We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors and businessmen. Thirty years ago, no one could have foreseen the huge expansion of the Vietnam War, wage and price controls, two oil shocks, the resignation of a president, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a one-day drop in the Dow of 508 points, or treasury bill yields fluctuating between 2.8% and 17.4%. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 129:PRINCIPLE 1 The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it. PRINCIPLE 2 Show respect for the other person’s opinions. Never say, You’re wrong. PRINCIPLE 3 If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically. PRINCIPLE 4 Begin in a friendly way. PRINCIPLE 5 Get the other person saying yes, yes immediately. PRINCIPLE 6 Let the other person do a great deal of the talking. PRINCIPLE 7 Let the other person feel that the idea ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 130:I asked, What does a religion need to be like in order to save people?” They said, We are going to divide this question into a number of subquestions. Before we have come to conclusions on these we will not be able to give a reply to your question. The points for discussion will be the following. (1) Is religion anything? (2) Does salvation exist or not? (3) Is one religion more effective than another? (4) Do heaven and hell exist?” ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove 131:IN A NUTSHELL SIX WAYS TO MAKE PEOPLE LIKE YOU PRINCIPLE 1 Become genuinely interested in other people. PRINCIPLE 2 Smile. PRINCIPLE 3 Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language. PRINCIPLE 4 Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves. PRINCIPLE 5 Talk in terms of the other person’s interests. PRINCIPLE 6 Make the other person feel important—and do it sincerely. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 132:I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 133:The difference between the best worker on computer hardware and the average may be 2 to 1, if you're lucky. With automobiles, maybe 2 to 1. But in software, it's at least 25 to 1. The difference between the average programmer and a great one is at least that. The secret of my success is that we have gone to exceptional lengths to hire the best people in the world. And when you're in a field where the dynamic range is 25 to 1, boy, does it pay off. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove 134:There's always a mismatch. I mean, you know, as the economy evolves, it reallocates resources. Now, the real problem, in my view, is - this has been - the prosperity has been unbelievable for the extremely rich people. If you go to 1982, when Forbes put on their first 400 list, those people had $93 billion. They now they have $2.4 trillion, 25 for one. That is - this has been a prosperity that's been disproportionately rewarding to the people on top. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 135:The Three Laws of Robotics: 1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; 2: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; 3: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law; The Zeroth Law: A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove 136:On coming to the house, they (the Magi), saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. (Matthew 2:11) [This] adoration, too, was not the same as the worship of God. In my opinion they did not yet recognize him as God, but they acted in keeping with the custom mentioned in Scripture, according to which Kings and important people were worshiped; this did not mean more than falling down before them at their feet and honoring them. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 137:The fear will never go away as long as I continue to grow. Truth 2. The only way to get rid of the fear of doing something is to go out and do it. Truth 3. The only way to feel better about myself is to go out… and do it. Truth 4. Not only am I going to experience fear whenever I’m on unfamiliar territory, but so is everyone else. Truth 5. Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the underlying fear that comes from a feeling of helplessness. ~ susan-jeffers, @wisdomtrove 138:I just wanted to speak to you about something from the Internal Revenue Code. It is the last sentence of section 509A of the code and it reads: & 139:Pay attention to your body and mindset throughout the day. Notice any tightness. When you do, do the following: 1. Visualize it dissipating. Just imagine the tightness floating out of you and into the air, dissolving into little bits and then being blown away by the breeze. 2. Go from tight to loose. 3. Breathe. Take in a deep, slow breath. Smile. This transforms everything. You can now approach any activity, any moment, with an attitude of relaxed enjoyment. ~ leo-babauta, @wisdomtrove 140:The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2) because he introduces different first principles, making debate impossible: and debate is the life of democracy; (3) because the fading of the images of sacred persons leaves a man too prone to be a respecter of earthly persons; (4) because there will be more, not less, respect for human rights if they can be treated as divine rights. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 141:Let us suppose that an ichthyologist is exploring the life of the ocean. He casts a net into the water and brings up a fishy assortment. Surveying his catch, he proceeds in the usual manner of a scientist to systematise what it reveals. He arrives at two generalisations: No sea-creature is less than two inches long. (2) All sea-creatures have gills. These are both true of his catch, and he assumes tentatively that they will remain true however often he repeats it. ~ sir-arthur-eddington, @wisdomtrove 142:The true self is certain and clear about things. The everyday self gets influenced by countless outside influences, leading to confusion. 2. The true self is stable. The everyday self shifts constantly. 3. The true self is driven by a deep sense of truth. The everyday self is driven by the ego, the unending demands of "I, me, mine." 4. The true self is at peace. The everyday self is easily agitated and disturbed. 5. The true self is love. The everyday self, lacking love, seeks it from outside sources. ~ deepak-chopra, @wisdomtrove 143:In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness that starts to set in about 2:55, when you know you've taken all the baths that you can usefully take that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the newspaper you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o'clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 144:Well, a funny thing, there are three that I like all for the same reason, golf, fishing, and shooting, and I do because first, they take you into the fields. There is mild exercise, the kind that an older individual probably should have. And on top of it, it induces you to take at any one time 2 or 3 hours, if you can, where you are thinking of the bird or that ball or the wily trout. Now, to my mind it is a very healthful, beneficial kind of thing, and I do it whenever I get a chance, as you well know. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove 145:The benefits of becoming fluent in a foreign tongue are as underestimated as the difficulty is overestimated. Thousands of theoretical linguists will disagree, but I know from research and personal experimentation with more than a dozen languages that (1) adults can learn languages much faster than children when constant 9-5 work is removed and that (2) it is possible to become conversationally fluent in any language in six months or less. At four hours per day, six months can be whittled down to less than three months. ~ tim-ferris, @wisdomtrove 146:Do not get up immediately at the end of the archana. The beloved deity should be brought from the seat in front of us back into our hearts and re-installed there. Seeing the form of the deity seated in the heart, meditate for a little longer. If it is possible, it is good to sing 2 or 3 kirtans. After taking an injection, a patient is asked to rest for a few minutes to let the medicine spread throughout the body. Similarly, to obtain the full benefit of the mantras, we should keep the mind calm for a while after worship. ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove 147:What we want is another sample of life, which is not on our tree of life at all. All life that we've studied so far on Earth belongs to the same tree. We share genes with mushrooms and oak trees and fish and bacteria that live in volcanic vents and so on that it's all the same life descended from a common origin. What we want is a second tree of life. We want alien life, alien not necessarily in the sense of having come from space, but alien in the sense of belonging to a different tree altogether. That is what we're looking for, "life 2.0." ~ paul-davies, @wisdomtrove 148:[The Book of the Law]was lost for so many years. And then Josiah decided to celebrate Passover. The text says that "The Passover sacrifice had not been offered in that way ... during the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah" [2 Kings 23:22]. What do you mean? Not in the days of David and Solomon? Never before? And what of the days of the prophets? What happened? That's what I'm anguishing over. If the Book of the Law could be forgotten for so many years, who knows what was done to it during those years? Maybe it was lost later, too. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 149:For example: (1) As if governed by Newton's First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction; (2) Just as work expands to fill available time, corporate projects or acquisitions will materialize to soak up available funds; (3) Any business craving of the leader, however foolish, will be quickly supported by detailed rate-of-return and strategic studies prepared by his troops; and (4) The behavior of peer companies, whether they are expanding, acquiring, setting executive compensation or whatever, will be mindlessly imitated. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 150:We are for aiding our allies by sharing of our material blessings with those nations which share in our fundamental beliefs, but we're against doling out money government to government, creating bureaucracy, if not socialism, all over the world. We set out to help 19 countries. We're helping 107. We've spent 146 billion dollars. With that money, we bought a 2 million dollar yacht for Haile Selassie. We bought dress suits for Greek undertakers, extra wives for Kenya[n] government officials. We bought a thousand TV sets for a place where they have no electricity. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 151:The good folks mostly win, courage usually triumphs over fear, the family dog hardly ever contracts rabies: these are things I knew at twenty-five, and things I still know now, at the age of 25 x 2. But I know something else as well: there's a place in most of us where the rain is pretty much constant, the shadows are always long, and the woods are full of monsters. It is good to have a voice in which the terrors of such a place can be articulated and its geography partially described, without denying the sunshine and clarity that fill so much of our ordinary lives. (viii) ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 152:Though methods play an important role in the early stage, the techniques should not be too mechanical, complex or restrictive. If we cling blindly to them, we shall eventually become bound by their limitations. Remember, you are expressing the techniques and not doing the techniques. If somebody attacks you, your response is not Technique No.1, Stance No. 2, Section 4, Paragraph 5. Instead you simply move in like sound and echo, without any deliberation. It is as though when I call you, you answer me, or when I throw you something, you catch it. It's as simple as that - no fuss, no mess. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 153:The methods I present here are all based on three key objectives: (1) capturing all the things that might need to get done or have usefulness for you—now, later, someday, big, little, or in between—in a logical and trusted system outside your head and off your mind; (2) directing yourself to make front-end decisions about all of the inputs you let into your life so that you will always have a workable inventory of next actions that you can implement or renegotiate in the moment; and (3) curating and coordinating all of that content, utilizing the recognition of the multiple levels of commitments with yourself and others you will have at play, at any point in time. ~ david-allen, @wisdomtrove 154:Hunter-gatherers spent their time in more stimulating and varied ways, and were less in danger of starvation and disease. The Agricultural Revolution certainly enlarged the sum total of food at the disposal of humankind, but the extra food did not translate into a better diet or more leisure. Rather, it translated into population explosions and pampered elites. The average farmer worked harder than the average forager, and got a worse diet in return. The Agricultural Revolution was history’s biggest fraud.2 Who was responsible? Neither kings, nor priests, nor merchants. The culprits were a handful of plant species, including wheat, rice and potatoes. These plants domesticated Homo sapiens, rather than vice versa. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 155:TEN GUIDEPOSTS FOR WHOLEHEARTED LIVING 1. Cultivating authenticity: letting go of what people think 2. Cultivating self-compassion: letting go of perfectionism 3. Cultivating a resilient spirit: letting go of numbing and powerlessness 4. Cultivating gratitude and joy: letting go of scarcity and fear of the dark 5. Cultivating intuition and trusting faith: letting go of the need for certainty 6. Cultivating creativity: letting go of comparison 7. Cultivating play and rest: letting go of exhaustion as a status symbol and productivity as self-worth 8. Cultivating calm and stillness: letting go of anxiety as a lifestyle 9. Cultivating meaningful work: letting go of self-doubt and supposed to 10. Cultivating laughter, song, and dance: letting go of being cool and always in control ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 156:Even in the context of suffering—poverty, violence, human rights violations—not belonging in our families is still one of the most dangerous hurts. That’s because it has the power to break our heart, our spirit, and our sense of self-worth. It broke all three for me. And when those things break, there are only three outcomes, something I’ve borne witness to in my life and in my work: 1. You live in constant pain and seek relief by numbing it and/or inflicting it on others; 2. You deny your pain, and your denial ensures that you pass it on to those around you and down to your children; or 3. You find the courage to own the pain and develop a level of empathy and compassion for yourself and others that allows you to spot hurt in the world in a unique way. I certainly tried the first two. Only through sheer grace did I make my way to the third. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 157:Spirit, considered in terms of Universal Mind, may be thought of as (1) manifesting Ideation and Will; (2) forming ideative and creative ideas, mental images, pictures, or appearances by the exercise of Ideation and Will; (3) manifesting Law and Order, or Pure Logic, in its ideative, creative activities and manifestations; (4) manifesting its ideative, creative activities and manifestations that it may express consciousness, as otherwise it would be unconscious save only in its consciousness of its own existence; (5) manifesting constant change in its ideative and creative activities that consciousness may be maintained; (6) manifesting subconscious activities and energies, in various degrees, as well as those of actual consciousness; and (7) manifesting the activities of consciousness in order that it may express its "lifeness," for consciousness is the "lifeness" of Life. ~ william-walker-atkinson, @wisdomtrove 158:If we think in term of months, we had probably focus on immediate problems such as the turmoil in the Middle East, the refugee crisis in Europe and the slowing of the Chinese economy. If we think in terms of decades, then global warming, growing inequality and the disruption of the job market loom large. Yet if we take the really grand view of life, all other problems anddevelopments are overshadowed by three interlinked processes: 1. Science is converging on an all-encompassing dogma, which says that organisms are algorithms and life is data processing. 2. Intelligence is decoupling from consciousness. 3. Non-conscious but highly intelligent algorithms may soon know us better than we know ourselves. These three processes raise three key questions, which I hope will stick in your mind long after you have finished this book: 1. Are organisms really just algorithms, and is life really just data processing? 2. What’s more valuable – intelligence or consciousness? 3. What will happen to society, politics and daily life when non-conscious but highly intelligent algorithms know us better than we know ourselves? ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:First Peter 2:21. ~ Lynette Eason, #NFDB
2:The best is yet 2 b ! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
3:2 In the fourth form ~ Enid Blyton, #NFDB
4:Afrika 2
~ Adam Oehlenschläger,#NFDB
5:Chapter 2 Questions 11 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
6:PRINCIPLE 2 Smile. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
7:Walk in charity. ~ Ephesians. V. 2, #NFDB
8:Part 2: Confidence ~ Howard Schultz, #NFDB
9:Sonnet 2
~ Claude de Malleville,#NFDB
10:Chapter 1 Chapter 2 ~ David Baldacci, #NFDB
11:Rondeau 2
~ Claude de Malleville,#NFDB
12:Une Statue (2)
~ Emile Verhaeren,#NFDB
13:2 days to the U.N. ~ Joel C Rosenberg, #NFDB
14:Let there be chaos. 2 ~ Lani Lenore, #NFDB
15:Summary of Rule #2 Rule ~ Cal Newport, #NFDB
16:1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ~ Attica Locke, #NFDB
17:YEAR 1: YEAR 2: ~ Rachel Ren e Russell, #NFDB
18:2. Stay lean and flexible ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
19:2.自我验证:人们总倾向在外界寻找和自我设想一致的信息 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
20:Kaljoyi - 2
~ Bhawani Prasad Mishra,#NFDB
21:2 e- --> Cu, the Cu2 ~ Chris McMullen, #NFDB
22:Chanson De Fou (2)
~ Emile Verhaeren,#NFDB
23:2. Fear of missing out (FOMO) ~ S J Scott, #NFDB
24:Been brainwashed since age 2 ~ Mac Lethal, #NFDB
25:Fear God. Honour the King. ~ 1 Peter 2:17, #NFDB
26:WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2 ~ Rachel Ren e Russell, #NFDB
27:2. A FEATHER FOR A FRIEND ~ John Forrester, #NFDB
28:7, 1, 9, 3, 2, 4, 0. For NC. ~ Tony Abbott, #NFDB
29:Round 2: 2 SC in each ST around ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
30:Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor. ~ Ellen Baker, #NFDB
31:There are 2 rules in life: ~ Duke Ellington, #NFDB
32:Over 2,000 reptiles await you. ~ Donna Tartt, #NFDB
33:I started tennis around age 2. ~ Tracy Austin, #NFDB
34:The number was: "2 B R 0 2 B. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
35:1.发动机:产品; 2.加速器:社会化媒体; 3.关系链:用户关系。 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
36:Tanker Over 1. Cor. Ii, 2
~ Ambrosius Stub,#NFDB
37:2. Almost everything is negotiable ~ Herb Cohen, #NFDB
38:2. Greed, or acquisitive desire. ~ Peter Kreeft, #NFDB
39:Arabia ca. 622 AD
2 Muslim lands ~ Anonymous,#NFDB
40:I will trust and not be afraid. ~ Isaiah XII. 2, #NFDB
41:The ‘90s had The Breakfast Club 2. ~ J J McAvoy, #NFDB
42:What's wrong with being number 2? ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
43:2: Begin with the End in Mind). ~ Stephen R Covey, #NFDB
44:Carol Dweck’s excellent Mindset 2. ~ Timo Kiander, #NFDB
45:I'm 6'2 and not a small person. ~ Andrew Rannells, #NFDB
46:Seagate NAS HDD 2 Тбайт (ST2000VN001) ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
47:THE GATE TO FUTURES PAST (#2)* ~ Julie E Czerneda, #NFDB
48:Fig. 2.3 Why interoperability is hard ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
49:I have a podiatrist appointment at 2. ~ Todd Barry, #NFDB
50:killed nearly 2,200 people in Gaza and ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
51:Miss a putt for $2,000? Not likely! ~ Walter Hagen, #NFDB
52:Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass. ~ Lou Reed, #NFDB
53:2. A bad plan is better than no plan. ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
54:And, first, ordinarily be silent. ~ Epictetus 33. 2, #NFDB
55:Burn your bridges every 2 years. ~ Carlos Castaneda, #NFDB
56:How the mighty have fallen (2 Sam 1.19) ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
57:If there is no love, what then?”2 ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
58:on Thursday, October 2, 2014 11:40:47 AM ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
59:Stops (Deadly Reunions Book #2): A Novel ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
60:4.2-kiloyear BP aridification event, ~ Hourly History, #NFDB
61:Appendix 2 A Study of Assassinations* ~ H P Albarelli, #NFDB
62:Discipline #2: Act on the Lead Measures ~ Cal Newport, #NFDB
63:On another night, they'd have won 2-2. ~ Ron Atkinson, #NFDB
64:oops!…i did it again saturday, april 2 ~ Karyn Bosnak, #NFDB
65:Rule #2, Cultivate New Friendships. ~ Debbie Macomber, #NFDB
66:Strategic Principle #2: Secure Your Base The ~ Vox Day, #NFDB
67:Pain is a ritual we all must endure.” 2 ~ Douglas Clegg, #NFDB
68:I’m not like other men, Ash. I’m Man 2.0. ~ Sarina Bowen, #NFDB
69:It takes me 2 days to open my eyes. There ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
70:I've been 6 ft. 2 ins. since I was 13. ~ Saskia de Brauw, #NFDB
71:2. Not overcoming laziness and so forth ~ Ch gyam Trungpa, #NFDB
72:Azulão E Dos 2 Tico-Ticos
~ Catulo da Paixão Cearense,#NFDB
73:Come what may; I want to run - 2 Samuel 18:23 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
74:By 2030 over 2 billion jobs will disappear. ~ Reid Hoffman, #NFDB
75:I Play Dodgeball with Cannibals (Chapter 2) ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
76:2. Campo de conocimiento Ontología y metafísica ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
77:6.2 MM State/Sub: (19,8)IDLE/NORMAL SERVICE 6.3 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
78:A Walk to Remember. 2.15.2014 #INCWorldWideWalk ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
79:But analog photography peaked in 2000.2 ~ Erik Brynjolfsson, #NFDB
80:Myth 2: If You’re Not Happy, You’re Defective ~ Russ Harris, #NFDB
81:Rule #1; Don't care to much. Rule #2; Shut up! ~ John Green, #NFDB
82:2) Get a good night sleep before the test. ~ Jawanza Kunjufu, #NFDB
83:5'10" I seem 5'8" I seem 6'2" I seem dead. ~ Daphne Gottlieb, #NFDB
84:Right now, my favorite game is Resident Evil 2. ~ Shane West, #NFDB
85:With Kindness 1+1 always equals more than 2 ~ Brian Williams, #NFDB
86:2 The firm changed its name from frogdesign ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
87:DAYS 1, 2, 3
Cruise is relatively uneventful. ~ Sarah Lotz,#NFDB
88:Gotta finish those eps. So we can get to season 2 ~ G L Tomas, #NFDB
89:Highlight on page 2-2 | Added on Tuesday, May 20, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
90:I Play Dodgeball with Cannibals
(Chapter 2) ~ Rick Riordan,#NFDB
91:Law 2: When given a choice … take both. Law ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
92:Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine. ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
93:Psalm 100:2: “Serve the Lord with gladness. ~ Robert J Morgan, #NFDB
94:Anything from 1-0 to 2-0 would be a nice result ~ Bobby Robson, #NFDB
95:Iran exports about 2.2 million barrels a day. ~ Elliott Abrams, #NFDB
96:Listen! My love is approaching. Song of Songs 2:8 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
97:Whoever has 2 hands can hold a gaderfii. ~ John Jackson Miller, #NFDB
98:Yo, it's 1 universal law but 2 sides to every story, ~ Mos Def, #NFDB
99:You should have a 1-on-1 roughly every 2 weeks. ~ Keith Rabois, #NFDB
100:During the race, we lose 2-4 kilos of liquids. ~ Lewis Hamilton, #NFDB
101:For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody. ~ Abdul Kalam, #NFDB
102:For 2 years the Babylonians lay siege to Jerusalem. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
103:I have 2 weapons; my arms, my legs and my brain. ~ Michael Vick, #NFDB
104:My wife doesn't even want to spend 2 hours with me. ~ Lou Holtz, #NFDB
105:Only 2% of women describe themselves as beautiful. ~ John Lloyd, #NFDB
106:There's only 2 reasons that you hate gay marriage; ~ Joe Rogan, #NFDB
107:2/ The brave alone can afford to be sincere. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
108:burn whoever tries to burn you.-coven rule #2. ~ Amanda Lovelace, #NFDB
109:Even 9 1/2 Weeks made some kind of terrible sense. ~ Lena Dunham, #NFDB
110:I have over 2 million followers now on Google Plus. ~ Larry Page, #NFDB
111:I love 'Evil Dead 2!' Who doesn't love 'Evil Dead 2? ~ Joe Dante, #NFDB
112:In sighing and dismay. ~ William Blake, The Schoolboy, Stanza 2., #NFDB
113:I try and do 2,500 words a day, every day of the year ~ Tom Holt, #NFDB
114:Liverpool will think 'we could have won this 2-2' ~ Ron Atkinson, #NFDB
115:the density of air is 1.2 kilograms per cubic metre, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
116:through the 2-a.m.-dead neighborhood, being ~ Catherine McKenzie, #NFDB
117:Bowie Comeback Makes Top 10 Singles Chart 2.52M ~ Alain de Botton, #NFDB
118:PRINCIPLE 2 Give honest and sincere appreciation. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
119:Principle 2: Use Existing Habits to Build New Ones ~ John Assaraf, #NFDB
120:Promises from Lo are like bars at 2 a.m.--empty. ~ Krista Ritchie, #NFDB
121:(see 1 John 1:8–9; Romans 10:9; Ephesians 2:8–9). ~ Joshua Harris, #NFDB
122:We live by faith, not by sight. 2 CORINTHIANS 5 : 7 ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
123:#2—COMPRENDA QUE LA FE ES MÁS FUERTE QUE EL TEMOR ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
124:2. Seize the initiative in whatever you undertake. ~ Garr Reynolds, #NFDB
125:been there done that, bought the t-shirt" Chapter 2 ~ Jeff Lindsay, #NFDB
126:Dom suggests a 5-day fast 2 to 3 times per year. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
127:If you want to change the world, pick up your pen.”2 ~ Ann Voskamp, #NFDB
128:Men of few words are the best men." (3.2.41) ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
129:No eyes demanded her replying eyes. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 4:2, #NFDB
130:that God “giveth his beloved sleep” (Ps. 127:2). ~ Kenneth E Hagin, #NFDB
131:The 2 things I like the most are girls and loud noises. ~ Iggy Pop, #NFDB
132:Veterans Day. 2 another term for REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY. ~ Erin McKean, #NFDB
133:6 四波羅底提舍尼法 1 從非親尼受食學處 2 受苾芻尼指授食學處 3 學家受食學處 4 阿蘭若住處外受食學處 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
134:AT&T anuncia la compra de Iusacell en 2 mil 500 mdd ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
135:El Palacio de la Medianoche Trilogía de la Niebla Vol 2 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
136:February 2, 1882, ~ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, #NFDB
137:I didn't know there were 2 ten o'clocks in a day. ~ Thelonious Monk, #NFDB
138:Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises. ~ John Lydon, #NFDB
139:Principle 2 Give honest and sincere appreciation. 3 ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
140:the 2.5 billion seconds that make up the average human ~ Sam Harris, #NFDB
141:There is no respect of persons with God. ~ Romans, 2:11; Acts 10:34, #NFDB
142:Uncertainty and doubt are the domain of System 2. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
143:2 Nicole gnawed on her lip as she pressed her back ~ Karen Witemeyer, #NFDB
144:I got in at 2 with a 10, and woke up at 10 with a 2. ~ Willie Nelson, #NFDB
145:i find people confusing.
this is for 2 main reasons. ~ Mark Haddon,#NFDB
146:Poor souls are they whose work is for a reward. ~ Bhagavad Gita. 2.49, #NFDB
147:Self-criticism is one of the functions of System 2. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
148:The 2 prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
149:Assumptions can get you killed. --Titus Ray, Chapter 2 ~ Luana Ehrlich, #NFDB
150:authors and 2 amazing bakeries, the only question is, what ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
151:been there done that, bought the t-shirt"
Chapter 2 ~ Jeff Lindsay,#NFDB
152:Chapter 2. Requirements from the customer’s perspective ~ Karl Wiegers, #NFDB
153:Luck equals (1) diversification plus (2) persistence. ~ James Altucher, #NFDB
154:My beloved is mine and I am his. --Song of Solomon 2:16 ~ Kennedy Ryan, #NFDB
155:My shoes are size 2 and a 1/2, the same size as my feet ~ Elaine Paige, #NFDB
156:Things to do today:
1) Breathe in.
2) Breathe out. ~ Ned Vizzini,#NFDB
157:wither-soever ye turn, there is the Presence of Allah. ~ Koran, 2:115, #NFDB
158:1. Say it. 2. Do it. 3. Receive it. 4. Tell it. ~ Kenneth E Hagin, #NFDB
159:2 It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
160:«La ira es una locura transitoria». Horacio, Epístolas, I.2 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
161:People tend 2 choke
that which they do not understand ~ Tupac Shakur,#NFDB
162:se halla en Vancouver[2], en el estado de Washington. ~ David Foenkinos, #NFDB
163:The President gave a speech recommended for ages 2 to 6. ~ Steve Aylett, #NFDB
164:We came out to get Game 1 but we also want to get Game 2 ~ Marcus Camby, #NFDB
165:1. What am I worrying about? “2. What can I do about it? ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
166:Chapter 2: Thought Waves and Their Process of Reproduction ~ James Allen, #NFDB
167:For we live by faith not by sight."
2 Corinthians 5:7 ~ Anonymous,#NFDB
168:For we live by faith, not by sight.
2 Corinthians 5:7 ~ Anonymous,#NFDB
169:God gave us 2 ears and 1 mouth to be used in that proportion ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
170:Good wombs have borne bad sons." -- (Miranda, I:2) ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
171:He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. (2) ~ Sun Tzu, #NFDB
172:I just lip gloss! It doesn't matter if it's $2 or $30. ~ Vanessa Hudgens, #NFDB
173:MUST LOOK LIKE SCARY GUY FROM POLTERGEIST 2. Jeez. Dr. ~ Dennis E Taylor, #NFDB
174:Time's Edge (The Chronos Files Book 2) (Walker, Rysa) - Your ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
175:Yogurt YOGURT SIDEKICKS: kefir TRY TO EAT: 2 cups daily ~ Steven G Pratt, #NFDB
176:(1) likelihood of (2) imminent, (3) significant harm. ~ Erwin Chemerinsky, #NFDB
177:4.2 จงขะมักเขม้นอธิษฐาน จงเฝ้าระวังอยู่ในการนั้นด้วยขอบพระคุณ ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
178:a lie stands on one foot but the truth stands on 2. ~ Trenton Lee Stewart, #NFDB
179:Be intent on the action,
not on the fruits of action.2 ~ Gurcharan Das,#NFDB
180:birthday or holiday gifts 6 pairs (2 sets of 3-packs) a year. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
181:For we live by faith, not by sight."
2 Corinthians 5:7 ~ Anonymous,#NFDB
182:If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2? ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
183:MAT14.2 And said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
184:Men of few words are the best men."
(3.2.41) ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
185:Negativity and Hulkamania - 2 things that don't go together. ~ Hulk Hogan, #NFDB
186:There was never any danger of Business 2.0 ever going under. ~ James Daly, #NFDB
187:1) Who are you? 2) What do you do? 3) Why does it matter? ~ Marty Neumeier, #NFDB
188:(2) Nikdo nemůže být proti své vůli zbaven státního občanství. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
189:2. The piggyback: Add a new behavior onto an existing habit. ~ Susan David, #NFDB
190:2. The second partner in the meeting is the baptized. ~ Walter Brueggemann, #NFDB
191:Doom 2 is just such a bigger, badder, better version of Doom ~ John Romero, #NFDB
192:Dot 2: There is a realm where neither time nor space exists. ~ Mike Dooley, #NFDB
193:Give me 200 active 2-year-olds and I could conquer the world. ~ Bill Cosby, #NFDB
194:It's hard to think of yourself as a loser at 2 years old. ~ Jeff Foxworthy, #NFDB
195:Kenosis: Christ emptied Himself
~ Anonymous, The Bible, Philippians 2:7,#NFDB
196:Matthew Mark Luke John Acts Romans 1 Corinthians 2 Corinthians ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
197:My daughter lived with my wife being ill since she was 2. ~ Titus Welliver, #NFDB
198:Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land. ~ Susan George, #NFDB
199:She think I'm the realest out and I say 'damn that makes 2 of us'. ~ Drake, #NFDB
200:1013 V St. NW property just SOLD! Only 2 units left! Check them ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
201:below 2 percent in a number of sub-Saharan African nations. ~ Satya Nadella, #NFDB
202:Da gustosamente, 2 pues con ello sólo puedes beneficiarte. ~ Helen Schucman, #NFDB
203:Good wombs have borne bad sons."
-- (Miranda, I:2) ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
204:I never trust anything that can be captured in 2 takes. ~ Eleanor Tomlinson, #NFDB
205:I vividly remember bowling 20 + games a day, 2 or 3 times a week. ~ Joe Tex, #NFDB
206:Mobile will probably disrupt much of what we know of web 2.0. ~ Keith Teare, #NFDB
207:Sir 7:2 Depart from the unjust, and evils shall depart from thee. ~ Various, #NFDB
208:This is love: that we walk according to His commands. 2 John 6 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
209:Until I die, I will maintain my integrity. (27:2–5) This ~ Harold S Kushner, #NFDB
210:Careful, Quint. She goes from cute to carnivorous in 2.5 seconds. ~ C K Dawn, #NFDB
211:In YC experience, 2 or 3 co-founders seems to be about perfect. ~ Sam Altman, #NFDB
212:I pray you school yourself. [MacBeth, Act 1V, Scene 2] ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
213:Life is hard enough when you are operating at 6, 2 and even. ~ Nick Offerman, #NFDB
214:Please know that $2–$50 million companies really need you. We ~ Gino Wickman, #NFDB
215:That’s why I like to call Act 2 fixing things the wrong way. ~ Jessica Brody, #NFDB
216:There's 2 things I love in this world: Burritos and Murder ~ Aaron Hernandez, #NFDB
217:Through is a favorite word of Gods... [follow with] (Isa. 43.2) ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
218:What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.”2 ~ Jerry Bridges, #NFDB
219:2 He smiled, a bit sheepishly. "Just remembering… Ah, never mind. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
220:«El que permanece en él, debe vivir como él vivió» (1 Jn 2:6), ~ Wayne Grudem, #NFDB
221:I started working at Hanna-Barbera in '92 on 2 Stupid Dogs. ~ Craig McCracken, #NFDB
222:My eyes are 2 windows cracked open by the chaos in this world. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
223:the circumference must be about 794 km × 360°/7.2° ≈ 39,700 km, ~ Max Tegmark, #NFDB
224:2 Rien de réel ne peut être menacé. 3 Rien d’irréel n’existe. ~ Helen Schucman, #NFDB
225:2 Thessalonians 3:10, “If a man will not work, he shall not eat. ~ Henry Cloud, #NFDB
226:His voice was like the rest of him - about as exciting as a W-2. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
227:in every way. The Lord be with all of you. —2 THESSALONIANS 3:16 ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
228:Multiplying my age by 2 in my head/I'm a grandfather. Or Dead. ~ Fred Chappell, #NFDB
229:PSA30.2 O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
230:So far, as far as we know comet Wild 2 is a unique object. ~ Donald E Brownlee, #NFDB
231:Thou hast a right only to work, but never to its fruits. ~ Bhagavad Gita. 2.47, #NFDB
232:with ROSTER. 2 (the Rota) the supreme ecclesiastical ~ Oxford University Press, #NFDB
233:1.whom should we love,how much and how?
2.water always helps ~ Arundhati Roy,#NFDB
234:2 The Lord's works are great, studied by all who delight in them. c ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
235:At Rangers you are never more than 2 defeats away from a crisis! ~ Walter Smith, #NFDB
236:Can one come 2 conclusions,
Before the question is conceived? ~ Tupac Shakur,#NFDB
237:First of all read Céline; the greatest writer of 2,000 years ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
238:I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old. ~ Hans Georg Gadamer, #NFDB
239:If I eat 2,700 calories a day, a quarter of that is Coca-Cola. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
240:Learn 2 chords and then get a good lawyer before learning the 3rd. ~ Tony Iommi, #NFDB
241:"Legally Blonde 2" wasn't written specifically for a black woman. ~ Regina King, #NFDB
242:paid $2.50 to smother a baby girl born with a cleft deformity ~ Steven D Levitt, #NFDB
243:People who take more than 2 weeks to plan a wedding are pussies ~ Riki Lindhome, #NFDB
244:Saw-Wielding Man Reportedly Slashes 2 Members Of Japanese Pop Group ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
245:This time, because someone mistook a “½” for a “2,” they bet wrong. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
246:2 The Beneficent, the Merciful, 3 Mastera of the day of Requital.b ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
247:2. What is your family’s top priority—rallying cry—right now? ~ Patrick Lencioni, #NFDB
248:A car is a 2,000 pound projectile that can go 100 miles an hour. ~ Jesse Ventura, #NFDB
249:I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos. ~ Paris Hilton, #NFDB
250:I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years. ~ Hans Kung, #NFDB
251:Laws die, Books never. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu (1839), Act I, scene 2., #NFDB
252:Light, endless Light! darkness has room no more... ~ Sri Aurobindo, cwsa, 2:618, #NFDB
253:O Navio Negreiro Part 2 (With English Translation)
~ Antonio de Castro Alves,#NFDB
254:Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
255:System 1 has more influence on behavior when System 2 is busy, ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
256:Table 2 When will human-level machine intelligence be attained?81 ~ Nick Bostrom, #NFDB
257:2‘The Spirit of the LORD spoke through me; his word was on my tongue. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
258:2 Where did you grow up? Jasper sank onto his cousin’s bed, with his ~ D M Pulley, #NFDB
259:Dinner Special - Turkey $2.35; Chicken or Beef $2.25; Children $2.00 ~ Dave Barry, #NFDB
260:I'm not saying I'm number 1, oh sorry I lied.. I'm number 1,2,3,4 and 5 ~ KRS One, #NFDB
261:PSA103.2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
262:They feared the LORD, but also served their own gods. (2 Kings 17:33 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
263:To refer to the Church as a building is to call people 2 x 4's. ~ Shane Claiborne, #NFDB
264:1. Amar lo que haces. 2. Tener paciencia. 3. Actuar a pesar del miedo. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
265:At current electricity prices, Yoda would be worth about $2/hour. ~ Randall Munroe, #NFDB
266:Be the alien for twenty-four hours and see what you come up with. 2. ~ Jen Sincero, #NFDB
267:Day One – T-Minus four hours before departure – Talbot Journal Entry 2 ~ Mark Tufo, #NFDB
268:Jesus - “the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily” (Colossians 2:9). ~ John Piper, #NFDB
269:Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.2 —American motto suggested ~ Jon Meacham, #NFDB
270:Sometimes you need a B-2 bomber and sometimes you need your mother. ~ P J O Rourke, #NFDB
271:Sweetie, if your going to be 2 faced, at least make one of them pretty ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
272:System 2 thinking tries to follow proper rules of reasoning, ~ Peter Godfrey Smith, #NFDB
273:This film, Tomb Raider 2, is a big challenge. It's quite exhausting. ~ Jan de Bont, #NFDB
274:what emotion is stronger than love?", Falling (FADE #2) by Kailin Gow ~ Kailin Gow, #NFDB
275:2,074 pages isn't nearly enough to cover health care for America. ~ Dennis Kucinich, #NFDB
276:Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
277:He will teach us about His ways so we may walk in His paths. Micah 4:2 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
278:La Década mística 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10 expresa esta idea. ~ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, #NFDB
279:My eyes break open. 2 shattered windows filling my mouth with glass. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
280:Step 2 Mark off a square for the wall, I made mine 67 by 67 blocks. ~ Steve Jenkins, #NFDB
281:suppression of stories about 2,500 assaults on New Year’s Eve 2015. ~ Newt Gingrich, #NFDB
282:Why Have One Heart-Stopping Alpha Billionaire When You Can Have 2? ~ Scarlett Avery, #NFDB
283:2†Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it †with thanksgiving; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
284:Any time I’m at work at 2:00 a.m., it’s either PEBKAC or Microsloth. ~ Cory Doctorow, #NFDB
285:Each of us now has 2.27 kg (5 lbs) of plastic embedded in our bodies. ~ David Suzuki, #NFDB
286:EFR entered into an agreement to sell some noncore assets for $2.05M. ~ David Talbot, #NFDB
287:Expectation is a statistical fiction, like having 2.5 children. ~ William Poundstone, #NFDB
288:It took us 2,000 years to find Noah’s Ark. Do we ever find Flight 370? ~ Bill Hemmer, #NFDB
289:I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5. ~ Bob Edwards, #NFDB
290:Lord, You are my lamp; the Lord illuminates my darkness. 2 Samuel 22:29 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
291:Prayer wasn't a familiar practice in my life. --Titus Ray, Chapter 2 ~ Luana Ehrlich, #NFDB
292:There are 2,500 kinds of sponges, all of them consist largely of holes. ~ Will Cuppy, #NFDB
293:To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people ~ R Buckminster Fuller, #NFDB
294:To you, O LORD, I o lift up my soul. 2 O my God, in you I p trust; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
295:Two rules: 1. Preserve the principal 2. When in doubt, see Rule #1. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
296:2 All a man's ways seem right to him, but the Lord evaluates the motives. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
297:All peoples, clap your hands. Cry to God with shouts of joy! Ps 47 (46):2 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
298:Comments will be moderated by The Hindu editorial team. 2. Comments that ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
299:Good Working Habit No. 2: Do Things in the Order of Their Importance. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
300:• Grace is a state or condition in which we stand (see Romans 5:2). ~ Brennan Manning, #NFDB
301:I'm getting so old my insurance company sends me 1/2 a calendar! ~ Rodney Dangerfield, #NFDB
302:I would do those 2 years over and over again for the rest of my life ~ Paul Gascoigne, #NFDB
303:No one thought the poor more undeserving than the poor themselves.2 ~ Matthew Desmond, #NFDB
304:Rule No. 1 : Never lose money. Rule No. 2 : Never forget Rule No. 1. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
305:The first email was sent at 2:38 a.m, the second email four hours later. ~ A G Riddle, #NFDB
306:We are in bondage to that which overcomes us. See also 2 Peter 2:19. ~ Neal A Maxwell, #NFDB
307:2 A fool has no delight in understanding, But in expressing his own heart. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
308:Genesis 39:2—“The Lord was with Joseph, and he was a successful man... ~ Joseph Prince, #NFDB
309:God is our c refuge and strength, a very d present [2] help in e trouble. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
310:Inner speech seems to be an important part of System 2 thinking. ~ Peter Godfrey Smith, #NFDB
311:It takes between 70,000 and 150,000 crocuses to make 2 pounds of saffron. ~ John Lloyd, #NFDB
312:No one thought the poor more undeserving than the poor themselves. 2 ~ Matthew Desmond, #NFDB
313:Postulate 2. Constant systems of chance causes do exist in nature. ~ Walter A Shewhart, #NFDB
314:Practice coming from a place of integrity and you will be victorious. 2. ~ Jen Sincero, #NFDB
315:RED SEA RULE 2 Be more concerned for God’s glory than for your relief. ~ Robert Morgan, #NFDB
316:when System 2 is otherwise engaged, we will believe almost anything. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
317:(1 percent of GDP growth results in a 2 percent poverty reduction), ~ Peter H Diamandis, #NFDB
318:Formula to live your dream: 1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions. ~ William James, #NFDB
319:I live in New York and I was only there for 2 weeks all last year. ~ Patricia Velasquez, #NFDB
320:Satisfying curiosity ranks No. 2 in my book behind conquering a fear. ~ Scott Carpenter, #NFDB
321:Then the Lord became jealous for His land and spared His people. Joel 2:18 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
322:WELCOME TO LUCKY HARBOR! Home to 2,100 lucky people And 10,100 shellfish ~ Jill Shalvis, #NFDB
323:2. Atoms would like to be free, too, but they’re not so pushy about it. ~ Chris Anderson, #NFDB
324:2 large eggs 3/4 cup sugar 2 cups heavy whipping cream 1 cup whole milk ~ Andrew Gifford, #NFDB
325:As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried. ~ Ben Horowitz, #NFDB
326:By 1927, only the richest 2 percent of Americans paid any federal tax at all. ~ A A Gill, #NFDB
327:From 2:30 to 3:30 we put off for tomorrow what we could have done today. ~ Norton Juster, #NFDB
328:I knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented. ~ Sarah Dessen, #NFDB
329:Nurse Ratchet just brought me daily dose #2 of my zombie cocktail. ~ Brian James Freeman, #NFDB
330:There is no one else but you, my friend, my equal.” --Song of Solomon 5:2 ~ Kennedy Ryan, #NFDB
331:You don't get 5 years to build a team any more. You get 2 if you're lucky. ~ Urban Meyer, #NFDB
332:2 A person may think their own ways are right, but the LORD weighs the heart. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
333:2 Corinthians 3:17. Now the Lord is the Spirit...is that the one you like? ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
334:Commandment #1: Believe in yourself. Commandment #2: Get over yourself. ~ Kristan Higgins, #NFDB
335:I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent ~ Bobby Fischer, #NFDB
336:I grew up listening to 2 Live Crew and NWA and I never went out and shot nobody. ~ Eminem, #NFDB
337:It was 2:49 in the morning. I had never, in my entire life, felt less tired. ~ John Green, #NFDB
338:No big league team is having a gathering like this 2 days before the season ~ Felipe Alou, #NFDB
339:Our purpose is to please God, not people” (1 Thessalonians 2:4). But ~ Jennifer Dukes Lee, #NFDB
340:Overall, OS/2's problems fall into two categories: IBM and Microsoft. ~ Jean Louis Gassee, #NFDB
341:prove that xn + yn = zn has no whole number solutions for n greater than 2. ~ Simon Singh, #NFDB
342:REVIEW 1 John 1:9 Ephesians 2:8–9 1 John 4:7 Psalm 34:19 Jeremiah 33:3 ~ Pamela L McQuade, #NFDB
343:RULE 2: IF YOU WANT TO KEEP SOMETHING SECRET, DON’T LEAVE IT LYING AROUND. ~ Lauren Child, #NFDB
344:Someone who mentions God was 2.2 times more likely to default. ~ Seth Stephens Davidowitz, #NFDB
345:The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting. ~ James Daly, #NFDB
346:There are three kinds of people: 1. Innovators. 2. Imitators. 3. Idiots. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
347:The time will come when they will not tolerate sound doctrine. 2 Timothy 4:3 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
348:we believe instinctively, but disbelief requires a conscious effort.2 ~ Eliezer Yudkowsky, #NFDB
349:You've got your hands full if you have three children under 2 years old. ~ Jackie Collins, #NFDB
350:1. Seek God. 2. Fight fair. 3. Have fun. 4. Stay pure. 5. Never give up. ~ Craig Groeschel, #NFDB
351:2 You forgave the iniquity of your people; you covered all their sin. Selah ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
352:Actually, my parents were separated by the time I was about 2 years old. ~ Christie Hefner, #NFDB
353:all who are justified shall be completely sanctified. 2 Cor. 5:17; Rom. 8:1-2; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
354:APPENDIX 2 THE PREFACE TO OLIVER TWIST AND THE NEWGATE NOVEL CONTROVERSY ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
355:Hayek is amongst the top 2-3 of the all the people who ever influenced me. ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB
356:Jesus is the Author of peace. He is God’s peacemaker (Ephesians 2:13-14). ~ Mark Hitchcock, #NFDB
357:Lucy’s gift,” she said. The watch had stopped. The hands were at 2:20. ~ Mary Pope Osborne, #NFDB
358:Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.” LUKE 2:19 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
359:My mother left me when I was 2 years old which is devestating to a child. ~ Kellie Pickler, #NFDB
360:Nothing can scatter like 3 Siamese cats better than 2 Siamese cats. ~ Lilian Jackson Braun, #NFDB
361:OLD: Be No.1 or No.2 in Your Market. NEW: Find a Niche, Create Something New. ~ Tom Peters, #NFDB
362:… taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. 2 Corinthians 10:5 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
363:Whoever keeps His word, truly in him the love of God is perfected. 1 John 2:5 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
364:2. David majors in God. He sees the giant, mind you; he just sees God more so. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
365:Bless the Lord, O my soul . . . who heals all thy diseases (Psalm 103:2-3). ~ Andrew Murray, #NFDB
366:Cities are 2% of the earths crust, but they are 50% of the worlds population. ~ Carlo Ratti, #NFDB
367:Ernst Mayr characterized the Cartesian view of animals as dumb automatons.2 ~ Frans de Waal, #NFDB
368:I give 98 percent of my mental energy to chess. Others give only 2 percent. ~ Bobby Fischer, #NFDB
369:I'm not sober. I haven't done drugs in 3 1/2 years, so I call myself clean. ~ Scott Weiland, #NFDB
370:No, la llave es internacional y se llama «sentido común». Leo-Capítulo 2 ~ Daniel Glattauer, #NFDB
371:Now, once again, 2 students left. But of course they're a part of you now. ~ Koushun Takami, #NFDB
372:The Master said, “The gentleman does not serve as a vessel.”
(Analects 2.12) ~ Confucius,#NFDB
373:At 2 per cent growth a year, an economy doubles in size in just thirty years. ~ Paul Ormerod, #NFDB
374:Business 2.0 was hugely profitable last year, and will be profitable this year. ~ James Daly, #NFDB
375:I do for one full hour non-stop of 2,000 sit ups and then 6 sets of leg rise. ~ Serge Nubret, #NFDB
376:I'm John Morrison, and if God have 2 sons i would be the better looking one. ~ John Morrison, #NFDB
377:Investing is 95% luck and 5% skill. And maybe if I’m wrong, it’s 98 and 2. ~ Anthony Robbins, #NFDB
378:Promise has 50% chance of happening.
At least always make 2 promises at once. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
379:Rule number 2 - don't listen to me!" Arriane laughed, "I'm certifiably insane! ~ Lauren Kate, #NFDB
380:There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
381:We have 2 big problems here: 1] knowing when to start 2] knowing when to stop ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
382:What did I do in high school? I grew from 5 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 2 inches. ~ Gregory Peck, #NFDB
383:When the clock strikes 2, 3, and 4, if the band slows down we'll yell for more. ~ Bill Haley, #NFDB
384:wow hav u read beastly its really awesome i mean u wont want 2 put it down ever ~ Alex Flinn, #NFDB
385:1/ Serene
2/ In a world full of troubles
3/ i.e. Doing nothing about it. ~ Iain Banks,#NFDB
386:All this time I've just wanted to be blonde, beautiful and 5 feet 2 inches tall. ~ Bea Arthur, #NFDB
387:Commandment 2: Observing in context is key to understanding nonverbal behavior. ~ Joe Navarro, #NFDB
388:Hark, villains! I will grind your bones to dust. (Act V, Scene 2, 2503) ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
389:I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York. ~ Nancy McKeon, #NFDB
390:Life isn't, and has never been, a 2-0 home victory after a fish and chip lunch. ~ Nick Hornby, #NFDB
391:My happiness is measured in Inches, 2, 4, 6, 8, .... I LOVE SHOES TOO MUCH. ~ Veronica Franco, #NFDB
392:[PlayStation 2] is a new canvas for humanity that takes us back to our nature. ~ Trip Hawkins, #NFDB
393:Said 2,000 years of Christian history, baby And you ain't learned to love me yet? ~ Nick Cave, #NFDB
394:The three rules of writing: 1. It’s Work. 2. It’s Work. 3. Surprise! It’s Work. ~ John Scalzi, #NFDB
395:Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion. ~ Vinton Cerf, #NFDB
396:When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep. ~ Marilyn Monroe, #NFDB
397:2 I say to the LORD, “You are my Lord; apart from you I have no good thing. ~ Timothy J Keller, #NFDB
398:2 I will say to God: “Do not declare me •guilty! Let me know why You prosecute me. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
399:Du kannst nicht zu einem Brunnenfrosch vom Ozean sprechen. GESAMT WERKE. Band 2 ~ Ernst J nger, #NFDB
400:Having a 2 year old is like having a blender that you don't have the top for. ~ Jerry Seinfeld, #NFDB
401:If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a Gone with the Wind 2. ~ Vin Diesel, #NFDB
402:I had been in the ditch for 2 and a half min. I wondered if my friends missed me. ~ Wendy Mass, #NFDB
403:James 4:2 tells us we have not because we ask not! We can be bold in our asking. ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
404:Mereka tahu hasil 2 + 2 = 4 tapi tak tahu mengapa 2 x 2 juga sama dengan 4. ~ Goenawan Mohamad, #NFDB
405:the foundation of the world. ISAIAH 61:10; 2 CORINTHIANS 5:21; EPHESIANS 4:22–24 ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
406:When pride comes, disgrace follows, but with humility comes wisdom. Proverbs 11:2 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
407:1.信息从不对称转变为对称; 2.信息传播速度暴增,影响范围空前扩大; 3.互联网信息是去中心化的传播,通过社会化媒体,每个普通人都是信息节点,都有可能成为意见领袖。 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
408:(2) which of these innovations were important enough to be adapted in other plants? ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
409:A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2. ~ Susan Sontag, #NFDB
410:A liar should have a good memory. —Quintilian, Institutions Oratoriae, iv. 2, 91 ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
411:and Jesus advanced in wisdom and age and grace with God and men” (Luke 2:52), ~ Romano Guardini, #NFDB
412:Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds. JAMES 1:2 ~ Ed Young, #NFDB
413:He sat in his armchair, a 2 litre bottle of BlueX Heroin Tonic beside his elbow ~ Wayne Simmons, #NFDB
414:I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead. ~ Michael Caine, #NFDB
415:I'm fine I said for the 2,467th time this semester. (I know. I was keeping count) ~ Ally Carter, #NFDB
416:Incredibly, the human body produces about 2 million red blood cells every second. ~ Nessa Carey, #NFDB
417:It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead. ~ Kim Stanley, #NFDB
418:Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy. ~ Vittorio De Sica, #NFDB
419:PRINCIPLE 2 Show respect for the other person’s opinions. Never say, ‘You’re wrong. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
420:The root cause of the hyperglycemia in type 2 diabetes is high insulin resistance. ~ Jason Fung, #NFDB
421:the typical worker reaches the most unproductive moment of the day at 2:55 p.m. ~ Daniel H Pink, #NFDB
422:They exchanged the glory of God [2] for the image of an ox that eats grass. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
423:We would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead. 2 Corinthians 1:9 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
424:What's the sense of sending $2 million missiles to hit a $10 tent that's empty? ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
425:2:6.8
The love of God saves the sinner; the law of God destroys the sin. ~ Urantia Foundation,#NFDB
426:2[†] h A wise man’s heart inclines him to the right, but a fool’s heart to the left. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
427:All believers are spiritual priests, to offer spiritual sacrifices (1 Pet. 2:5), ~ Matthew Henry, #NFDB
428:A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12. ~ Charles Kuralt, #NFDB
429:controlling thoughts and behaviors is one of the tasks that System 2 performs. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
430:He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. ~ Psalms 23:2, #NFDB
431:I am your Creator. You were in my care even before you were born.” ISAIAH 44:2 (CEV) ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
432:I dream of a Digital India where 1.2 billion Connected Indians drive Innovation. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
433:Jesus Christ is a lily of the valley, Song of Solomon 2:1, not of the mountains. ~ Thomas Watson, #NFDB
434:La noche (2): Arránqueme, señora, las ropas y las dudas. Desnúdeme, desdúdeme. ~ Eduardo Galeano, #NFDB
435:Life 2.0”: life whose hardware is evolved, but whose software is largely designed. ~ Max Tegmark, #NFDB
436:My happiness is measured in Inches, 2, 4, 6, 8, .... I LOVE SHOES TOO MUCH.... ~ Veronica Franco, #NFDB
437:Now GE has connections with Siemens over here, they worked on the V-2 guidance, ~ Thomas Pynchon, #NFDB
438:Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
439:The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition. ~ Edward Abbey, #NFDB
440:The Italians have had 2,000 years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place! ~ P J O Rourke, #NFDB
441:There are around 4,802 IAS, 3,798 IPS and 2,668 IFS officers serving in the country. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
442:You can be on the right track and still get run over by the 2:40 from Albuquerque. ~ Will Rogers, #NFDB
443:1. Career 2. Financial 3. Spiritual 4. Physical 5. Intellectual 6. Family 7. Social ~ Dave Ramsey, #NFDB
444:2. I’m just caging my monkey mind on paper so I can get on with my fucking day. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
445:2“Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who reproves God answer it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
446:Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away. (2) ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
447:A stage space has two rules: (1) Anything can happen and (2) Something must happen. ~ Peter Brook, #NFDB
448:Believe then, if you please, that I can do strange things. [Act 5, Scene 2] ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
449:Cæsar. The Ides of March are come. Soothsayer. [2] Ay, Cæsar; but not gone. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
450:Caffeinated! Temporary changes: Movement speed +10%! Charisma -2. Intelligence +1! ~ Dakota Krout, #NFDB
451:Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 ~ Janet Evanovich, #NFDB
452:disease. 2 The firm changed its name from frogdesign to frog design in 2000 and ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
453:If perfection were possible, the Cross wouldn’t have been necessary. (Galatians 2:21) ~ L R Knost, #NFDB
454:No one has ever imagined what God has prepared for those who love him” (1 Cor. 2:9). ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
455:scapegoat, n. I think our top two are: 1. Not enough coffee. 2. Too much coffee. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
456:The Cards lead the Dodgers 4-2 after one inning and that one hasn't even started. ~ Jerry Coleman, #NFDB
457:Here's a villain! ~ William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part II (c. 1590-91), Act IV, scene 2, line 92., #NFDB
458:I have the attention span of a 2-year-old. I like to jump from project-to-project. ~ Reba McEntire, #NFDB
459:I'm busy gettin rich. I don't want trouble. I made enough for 2 niggas, boy, stunt double. ~ Drake, #NFDB
460:Now once again: '2 students remaining.'
But of course they're part of you now. ~ Koushun Takami,#NFDB
461:Show me your faith without works, and I will show you faith from my works. James 2:18 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
462:They called me Veto Corleone. Because I vetoed 2,500 separate line-items in the budget. ~ Jeb Bush, #NFDB
463:Two basic steps to turning your life around:
1. Have faith in God.
2. Man up. ~ Jos N Harris,#NFDB
464:We can all talk to the dead. It’s getting them to talk back that’s the hard part.”2 ~ Bruce M Hood, #NFDB
465:Yeah, we're working on Blade Runner 2 right now - that will happen sooner or later. ~ Ridley Scott, #NFDB
466:2 Let someone else praise you, not your own mouth— a stranger, not your own lips. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
467:Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety” (Antony, 2.2.245–46). ~ James Shapiro, #NFDB
468:Because. Cupcakes make everything a little better. Except for type 2 diabetes, I guess. ~ Eva Woods, #NFDB
469:EPH1.2 Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
470:God is a dark night to man in this life. ~ St. John of the Cross, The Ascent of Mt. Carmel, I, 2, 1, #NFDB
471:Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. (2 PETER 3:18) ~ Jerry Bridges, #NFDB
472:He does not see that all things slowly weaken and fall to ruin,2 worn out by ages past. ~ Lucretius, #NFDB
473:I am a galley slave to pen and ink. ~ Honore de Balzac letter to Madame Zulma Carraud, 2 July 1832., #NFDB
474:In nature's infinite book of secrecy,
A little I can read"
1.2. 30-31. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
475:Let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. ROMANS 12:2 NLT ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
476:Maybe we can combine 2 things that everybody loves. Helping out the poor and blow jobs. ~ Joe Rogan, #NFDB
477:May the Lord of peace Himself give you peace always in every way. 2 Thessalonians 3:16 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
478:Myth # 2: The unchurched are turned off by denominational names in the church name. ~ Thom S Rainer, #NFDB
479:Oxy prescriptions for chronic pain rose from 670,000 in 1997 to 6.2 million in 2002. ~ Sam Quinones, #NFDB
480:Supervisor + 1 Thesis Committee Member + 2 Internal Examiners + 1 External Examiner = 5 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
481:The eiderdown of this 2-0 lead is a lot more comfortable than the blanket of 1-0. ~ George Hamilton, #NFDB
482:The poster child of Web 2.0 is Flickr.com. Personalization is a key piece of Web 2.0. ~ Jared Spool, #NFDB
483:We take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5). ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
484:but the power of being emotionally stuck is far greater than the power of reason.”2 ~ Melody Beattie, #NFDB
485:Dios no nos dio un espíritu de temor, sino de poder, amor y buen juicio. — 2 TIMOTEO 1:7 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
486:Giving his head a shake, he starts up Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, ~ Laura Thalassa, #NFDB
487:I don’t see that her being cyborg is relevant. - Kai (Lunar Chronicles #2 - Scarlet) ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
488:Markus Müller, “Interview with René Girard,” Anthropoetics 2, no. 1 (June 1996): 3–5. 2 ~ Ren Girard, #NFDB
489:Medical Breakthrough Provides Elderly Woman With 2 Extra Years Of Inconveniencing Family ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
490:My eyes are 2 professional pickpockets, stealing everything to store away in my mind. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
491:Rule 1: don’t lose money. Rule 2: see Rule 1. —WARREN BUFFETT’S RULES OF INVESTING ~ Anthony Robbins, #NFDB
492:takes 12 pounds of grain and 2,500 gallons of water to create a single pound of beef. ~ Mayim Bialik, #NFDB
493:There are two kinds of humble people: (1) Humble people; and (2) broke people. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
494:Therefore, Your servant has found the courage to pray this prayer to You. 2 Samuel 7:27 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
495:The world's first university chair in engineering was founded in Glasgow in 1840.2'x ~ Thomas Sowell, #NFDB
496:Under President Bachmann you will see gasoline come down below $2 a gallon again. ~ Michele Bachmann, #NFDB
497:When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales. ~ Roald Dahl, #NFDB
498:Without these self-service Operations platforms, the cloud is just Expensive Hosting 2.0. ~ Gene Kim, #NFDB
499:2 Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous in Your sight. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
500:As James writes, "Faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action is dead." (2:17) ~ Francis Chan, #NFDB
501:ba bla bla Chapter 5.1 This chapter explains ba bla bla Chapter 5.2 This chapter explains ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
502:Being seen somewhere at 2 a.m. through a "like" or retweet didn't actually fill me. ~ Hannah Brencher, #NFDB
503:Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep. ~ Bob Edwards, #NFDB
504:Could Morgan Stanley please wire $1.2 billion to Deutsche Bank by the end of the day? ~ Michael Lewis, #NFDB
505:Detroit, the heart of the country... I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile. ~ Kristen Bell, #NFDB
506:El país con mayor número de gitanos del mundo es Turquía, en donde vivirían 2-5 millones. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
507:Everyone knows that (1) happiness is the goal of life, and (2) happiness is a chimera. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
508:Examine me, O LORD and prove me; melt my kidneys and my heart. (Psalm 26:2) ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
509:I bought some HP sauce the other day. It's costing me 6p a month for the next 2 years. ~ Tommy Cooper, #NFDB
510:if there are 2 bananas in an apple basket, how many babies are born in africa ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
511:i hate de fact dat i luv u bt i luv de fact dat i wake up every mornin 2 see u smile.. ~ Rebecca York, #NFDB
512:I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” Psalm 91:2 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
513:I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m. ~ Lena Dunham, #NFDB
514:Lucky is he who has been able to understand the causes of things Virgil, Georgics, Book 2 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
515:Most public companies spend less than 2 percent of their annual budgets on R&D. ~ Robert I Sutton, #NFDB
516:Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail. ~ Samuel Rogers, The Pleasures of Memory, 1792, II, l. 1-2., #NFDB
517:The longest way round is the shortest way home”2 is the logic of both fable and of faith. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
518:To love the Divine is to be loved by Him. 2 November 1932 ~ The Mother, Some Answers From The Mother, #NFDB
519:Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change. ~ W Edwards Deming, #NFDB
520:You will eat the fruit of your labor; blessings and prosperity will be yours. Psalm 128:2 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
521:2.5.03.02.005: Generally speaking, if you fiddle with something, it will break. Don't. ~ Jasper Fforde, #NFDB
522:Back then, 13.1 and 26.2 had both extended well into the realm of impossible numbers. ~ Mishka Shubaly, #NFDB
523:Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind” (12:2). ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
524:I could not hear what they say about me, my 2 Stanley Cup rings were stuffed in my ears. ~ Patrick Roy, #NFDB
525:It is possible to prevent and recover completely from type 2 (adult-onset) diabetes. As ~ Joel Fuhrman, #NFDB
526:Maintain your health. Be joyful. Do not force yourself to do things you cannot do.”2 ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
527:Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats. ~ Joseph Stalin, #NFDB
528:Over the last couple of years I have gotten an average of 2,000 letters a week from fans. ~ Davy Jones, #NFDB
529:PSA6.2 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
530:System 1 constructed a story, and his System 2 believed it. It happens to all of us. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
531:The 2 master skills of life are: The Science of Achievement and The Art of Fulfillment. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB
532:There are 2 ways of spreading light: to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it. ~ Edith Wharton, #NFDB
533:there are two core things that bring people value: 1) entertainment, and 2) utility. ~ Gary Vaynerchuk, #NFDB
534:They’ve always been easy as 1-2-3. Pop the hip, bite the lip, and I control the dick. ~ Lauren Landish, #NFDB
535:The zero in the telephone number he pronounced "naught." The number was: "2 B R 0 2 B. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
536:two rules of harmony. #1) Don’t sweat the small stuff, and #2) It’s all small stuff. ~ Richard Carlson, #NFDB
537:wa 哇, (史蒂夫·乔布斯传----- loc 2083--- line 2 hei ke 黑客 -----book 史蒂夫·乔布斯传---- loc 658 --- line1 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
538:We consume about 25 percent of the world's oil. We only have 2 percent of the reserves. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
539:With a 1–2 count, he had to try. The game—and maybe Sam Palomaki’s future—was on the line. ~ Tim Green, #NFDB
540:You need to figure out what the 2 or 3 most important things are, and then just do those. ~ Sam Altman, #NFDB
541:1. All glass will break.
2. I am made of glass.
3. Therefore, I will break. ~ Laura Anderson Kurk,#NFDB
542:2. Christian education places its emphasis on “unity” in relationships between people. ~ James C Dobson, #NFDB
543:And be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. ~ Romans XII. 2, #NFDB
544:Consider what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything. 2 Timothy 2:7 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
545:economists predicted only 2 of the 60 recessions around the world a year ahead of time.21 ~ Nate Silver, #NFDB
546:have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will heal you. 2 KINGS 20:5 ~ Stormie Omartian, #NFDB
547:Readers Series: The Mind Readers, book 1 The Mind Thieves, book 2 The Mind Games, ~ Lori Brighton, #NFDB
548:Small Town Rule #2: Reputations are made in five seconds and stick for twenty years. Or ~ Kendra Elliot, #NFDB
549:Success is the study of the obvious. Everyone should take Obvious 1 and Obvious 2 in school. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
550:The mining industry’s contribution to the GDP varies between 2.25 and 2.5 per cent. ~ A P J Abdul Kalam, #NFDB
551:This sausage roll only contains 2% of your daily intake of calories... if you lick it. ~ Jack Whitehall, #NFDB
552:1 John 2:10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light: and there is no scandal in him. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
553:bila engkau ingin satu, maka jangan ambil dua. karena satu menggenapkan tapi, 2 melenyakan ~ Dee Lestari, #NFDB
554:I'm not sure I'm okay with 2 guys gettin' married, but I don't wanna be a jerk about it. ~ Lizz Winstead, #NFDB
555:Instead, he is under guardians and stewards until the time set by his father. Galatians 4:2 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
556:It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century’s war dead. ~ Kim Stanley Robinson, #NFDB
557:Rid yourselves of all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander. 1 Peter 2:1 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
558:The only reason why world war 2 happened was because Chuck Norris decided to take a nap. ~ Lars Anderson, #NFDB
559:There are three stages of life:
1. Birth.
2. WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?
3. Death. ~ Jill Shalvis,#NFDB
560:The World Bank estimates that half of the world’s population survives on less than $2 a day. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
561:Why couldn't it have been done 2 years ago, and why will 2 years in the future be too late? ~ Sam Altman, #NFDB
562:2-in-1 is a stupid term, because 1 is not big enough to hold 2. That's why 2 was created. ~ Mitch Hedberg, #NFDB
563:A little foolishness, enough 2 enjoy life, & a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do ~ Osho, #NFDB
564:Growth of industrial output I.2 Output in selected industries I.3 Urbanisation 2.1 Investment ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
565:Humility is the doorway 2 truth & clarity of objectives... it's the doorway 2 learning. ~ Wynton Marsalis, #NFDB
566:I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will heal you. 2 KINGS 20:5 ~ Stormie Omartian, #NFDB
567:I have nothing against 2 men sleeping together so long as I am not one of those 2 men. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
568:I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just... wouldn't have come up out of the water. ~ Keanu Reeves, #NFDB
569:LETTERA 2 LA LETTURA CHE GIOVA
È povero non chi possiede poco, ma chi brama avere di più. ~ Seneca,#NFDB
570:Lolcat iz new happeh wai 2 talk,” I explained to them. “U doan haz 2 be kitteh 2 speek it. ~ Kevin Hearne, #NFDB
571:Lord, make Your salvation known, and reveal Your righteousness to the nations (Ps. 98:2). ~ John Eckhardt, #NFDB
572:Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.”2 ~ Robert B Cialdini, #NFDB
573:Oh yeah Kurt? You plan on getting the 1-2-3? But not if I hit you first with the 6-1-9! ~ Oscar Gutierrez, #NFDB
574:PSA91.2 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
575:PSALM 46 God is our c refuge and strength, a very d present [2] help in e trouble. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
576:The priority list is: 1. The Strength Group 2. Moral Self-Interest 3. Moral Nurturance It ~ George Lakoff, #NFDB
577:This ability of Life 2.0 to design its software enables it to be much smarter than Life 1.0 ~ Max Tegmark, #NFDB
578:'To change one's life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions.'
~ William James,#NFDB
579:We belong to 2 different races, races that hate each other. There's no way to get around that ~ L J Smith, #NFDB
580:What do you offer? 2.How will it make my life better? 3.What do I need to do to buy it? ~ Donald Miller, #NFDB
581:1/r^2 has a nasty singularity at r=0, but it did not bother Newton-the Moon is far enough. ~ Edward Witten, #NFDB
582:2 A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only z in expressing his opinion. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
583:Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the Dark. (Act 5, Scene 2) ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
584:God gave people 2 ears and 1 mouth because He wants us to listen twice as much as we talk. ~ Joshua Harris, #NFDB
585:His System 1 constructed a story, and his System 2 believed it. It happens to all of us. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
586:Hosanna!1” “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”2 “Blessed is the king of Israel! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
587:I don't know my why the number 3 is more metaphysically powerful than the number 2, but it is. ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
588:Kingdom of heaven” was an accepted Jewish way of speaking about God’s reign (cf. Da 2:44; 4:26 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
589:Pero cualquiera que ama a su hermano está en la luz y no habrá razón para pecar. — 1 JUAN 2:10 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
590:There are 100,000 artists on Pandora & 70% are indies; artists making $100K - $2 million. ~ Tim Westergren, #NFDB
591:We have gasoline at $2 a gallon. If that doesn't drive demand, I don't know what will. ~ Jennifer Granholm, #NFDB
592:What They Should Teach in School Only two things: 1. Solve interesting problems 2. Lead SOLVE ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
593:You should dream more, Mr Wormold. Reality in our century is not something to be faced.’ 2 ~ Graham Greene, #NFDB
594:2:12 I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
595:98% of all comedians feel obliged to be funny when interviewed. Less than 2% succeed. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
596:Der Ring macht Ehen,
und Ringe sind's, die eine Kette machen.
II, 2. (Elisabeth) ~ Friedrich Schiller,#NFDB
597:I got a few gray hairs to testify to my wisdom, 2 grand babies & long. black dido named Harry... ~ Zane, #NFDB
598:I never thought I'd get [a 'Pitch Perfect 2'] audition because the film was just so massive. ~ Chrissie Fit, #NFDB
599:Jacob Zuma built a 2 million rand swimming pool, but no one in the family knows how to swim ~ Julius Malema, #NFDB
600:Let me say I am here, (1) By God’s appointment, (2) In His keeping, (3) Under His training, ~ Robert Morgan, #NFDB
601:Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2) ~ Aleister Crowley, #NFDB
602:There are loads of amazing actors in the UK and only 2% of them are in work, which is crazy. ~ Yasmin Paige, #NFDB
603:Three mantras you should never say: (1) I don't know. (2) I'm not ready. (3) I can't do it. W ~ Yogi Bhajan, #NFDB
604:We killed 5 terrorists, one committed twicide, The other 2 have been blocked by twitter. ~ Joseph Ole Lenku, #NFDB
605:What is the difference between a 2°C world and a 4°C world? Human civilisation! ~ Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, #NFDB
606:Whether I appear in 'Avatar 2' or 'Avatar 3', I always feel I'm a part of the 'Avatar' team. ~ Stephen Lang, #NFDB
607:William Ames (1576-1633) defined theology as the “teaching [doctrina] of living to God.”[2] ~ Kelly M Kapic, #NFDB
608:2. Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His love endures forever. (1 Chronicles 16:34) ~ Pauline Creeden, #NFDB
609:50 light years from Earth, there is a 2,600-mile-long asteroid made of diamond. ~ Bathroom Readers Institute, #NFDB
610:California had its first medical marijuana job fair. Over 2 million people meant to show up. ~ Conan O Brien, #NFDB
611:CHANGE 2: UNPROCRASTINATE THE CHANGE: Practice not procrastinating for just 10–15 minutes a day. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
612:Join our weekly twitter chat, Sunday Aug 2 at 9amET ~ On New Foundations ~ bit.ly/sc140-newfound #SpiritChat, #NFDB
613:non-Christian thinking, according to Scripture, is “folly” (Ps.14:1; 1 Cor.1:18–2:16; 3:18-23). ~ R C Sproul, #NFDB
614:Rule #2: Hit First. Don’t take the punch first. Hit first. Hit hard. Hit where it counts. Mike ~ Ben Shapiro, #NFDB
615:Scripture is so clear that love for God must translate into love for those closest to us.2 ~ James MacDonald, #NFDB
616:the authority that is seized by violence, not that given by votes, harms republics.2 In ~ Niccol Machiavelli, #NFDB
617:The Bible is very clear that in the last days men will be “lovers of themselves” (2 Tim. 3:2). ~ John Bevere, #NFDB
618:The extra daily social time of 1.7 hours in weekends raises average happiness by about 2%. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
619:There are two obstacles to enlightenment: 1. Thinking you know. 2 Thinking you don't know. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
620:There are two rules for achieving anything. Rule No. 1: Get started. Rule No. 2: Keep going. ~ E Howard Hunt, #NFDB
621:These are: (1) The Moral Law; (2) Heaven; (3) Earth; (4) The Commander; (5) Method and discipline. ~ Sun Tzu, #NFDB
622:These are: (1) the Moral Law; (2) Heaven; (3) Earth; (4) the Commander; (5) method and discipline. ~ Sun Tzu, #NFDB
623:The truth does 2 things: either hurts or sets you free. It's up to you to decide which one! ~ Yushekia Mason, #NFDB
624:Warren Buffett’s top two rules of investing? Rule 1: don’t lose money! Rule 2: see rule 1. ~ Anthony Robbins, #NFDB
625:we human beings have the blessed creative capacity to do so much better. So why don’t we?” 2. ~ Jane Roberts, #NFDB
626:World’s fastest 2-D camera, 100 billion frames per second, may enable new scientific discoveries ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
627:A little foolishness, enough 2 enjoy life, & a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
628:Customers should be number 1, Employees number 2, and then only your Shareholders come at number 3. ~ Jack Ma, #NFDB
629:Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2) ~ Brandon Sanderson, #NFDB
630:God Almighty, I might’ve just committed a cardinal sin just by thinking it, but he was like Cam 2.0. ~ J Lynn, #NFDB
631:God, I’m hungry. Have you tried the 5:2 diet? This is my fast day. I am dying of starvation. ~ Liane Moriarty, #NFDB
632:He was innocent of sin, but became sin for us and bore the curse of God on the cross (2 Cor. 5:21 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
633:I had a paper route when I was a kid. I was supposed to go to 2,000 houses. Or two dumpsters. ~ Mitch Hedberg, #NFDB
634:In the words of Epicurus, “Nothing satisfies the man who is not satisfied with a little.”2 ~ William B Irvine, #NFDB
635:I think I'm undergoing a Lyra-2-type paranoia onslaught, but I'll be okay again in a minute. ~ Brian W Aldiss, #NFDB
636:It's curious that only in Washington can you spend $2 billion and claim that you're saving money. ~ Rand Paul, #NFDB
637:It urges us to set our minds “on things that are on earth,” not on things above (Col. 3:2). ~ Nancy R Pearcey, #NFDB
638:I was the sharp-suited shaman that could fuck all the problems out of them.” Insatiable, Book 2 ~ J D Hawkins, #NFDB
639:Sleeping Roses Across the Ages Exiled (Immortal Essence #1) Beguiled (Immortal Essence #2) ~ RaShelle Workman, #NFDB
640:The Atlanta batter, Gerard, was at 2-2, and Nico just needed to throw one more strike. Jake’s ~ Keira Andrews, #NFDB
641:There are 2.7 billion people in the developing world without access to financial services ~ Peter H Diamandis, #NFDB
642:Web 1.0 was making the Internet for people, Web 2.0 is making the Internet better for companies. ~ Jeff Bezos, #NFDB
643:We don't even get food for 2 times a day, still I didn't give up and continued to play football ~ Luis Suarez, #NFDB
644:Why do you spend money on what is not food, and your wages on what does not satisfy? Isaiah 55:2 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
645:You can't have a $2 million painting unless it's on the wall somewhere and somebody saw it. ~ Lawrence Weiner, #NFDB
646:61% of graduating teens have had sex, 37% will eventually have sex, and 2% become statisticians. ~ Jon Stewart, #NFDB
647:Be angry, [2] and do not sin; l ponder in your own hearts m on your beds, and be silent. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
648:I hate negative songs; I won't sing them. It doesn't matter if it's sold 2 million more albums. ~ Ricky Skaggs, #NFDB
649:It is hard for 2 creative people to work together for that length of time and not fall out. ~ Big Jim Sullivan, #NFDB
650:I was between 2 and 3 in the world for two, three years. That's not exactly where I wanted to be. ~ Ivan Lendl, #NFDB
651:scapegoat, n.
I think our top two are:
1. Not enough coffee.
2. Too much coffee. ~ David Levithan,#NFDB
652:The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column. ~ Nicholas D Kristof, #NFDB
653:#2—10% of people will find a way to take anything personally. Expect it and treat it as math. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
654:Currently, only one in four of India's more than 1.2 billion citizens has uninterrupted electricity ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
655:HEB13.2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
656:I just want everyone to know that even though Hogan won at Summerslam I still pinned him 1, 2, 3. ~ Randy Orton, #NFDB
657:Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced. ~ Ethel Merman, #NFDB
658:Now, rest in the security of My name and all that it means to your identity. (Isaiah 45:2 – 3) ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
659:The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur. ~ Tracy Austin, #NFDB
660:This is why Isaiah 12:2 says, “Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid. ~ Warren W Wiersbe, #NFDB
661:Two things you need to remember:
1. Don't sweat the small stuff.
2. It's ALL small stuff. ~ Rush Limbaugh,#NFDB
662:We are plunging headlong into a cold war, and we have 2,000 nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert. ~ Jill Stein, #NFDB
663:When you judge another, you condemn yourself, since you, the judge, do the same things. Romans 2:1 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
664:America has 2.2 million of it's citizens incarcerated. It's a statistic we should be ashamed of. ~ Henry Rollins, #NFDB
665:Don’t merely read the Bible in your private times; study it. There is a difference (2 Timothy 2:15). ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
666:HOME WITH BRITNEY SPEARS By ELIZABETH LEONARD | 1193 words WITH 2 RAMBUNCTIOUS BOYS, A NEW BOYFRIEND ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
667:If I want to get a taste of beach culture, I'll fire up my season 2 DVD of 'Beverly Hills, 90210.' ~ Diablo Cody, #NFDB
668:I made three movies in 1995 and I was unhappy with all of them: Sleepers, Incognito, and Speed 2. ~ Jason Patric, #NFDB
669:Nichts zählt mehr, nur der Bass in meiner Hand, der Lärm in meinen Ohren. (2. Satz, 1. Kapitel) ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
670:Rule 2: Genuine confidence is not the absence of fear; it is a transformed relationship with fear. ~ Russ Harris, #NFDB
671:she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more: youth and beauty ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
672:Small Town Rule #2: Reputations are made in five seconds and stick for twenty years. Or more. “I ~ Kendra Elliot, #NFDB
673:Song of Solomon 1:2- Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
674:To change one’s life:
1. Start immediately.
2. Do it flamboyantly.
3. No exceptions. ~ William James,#NFDB
675:And you were k dead in the trespasses and sins 2[†] l in which you once walked, following the course ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
676:Conclusion 2:
There's nothing more demonic than two bored twins. ~ Bisco HatoriSigned Tamaki ~ Bisco Hatori,#NFDB
677:Dayne is married to Katy, 39. The couple has three children: Sophie, 6; Egan, 4; and Blaise, 2. ~ Karen Kingsbury, #NFDB
678:For the sake of brevity, we will always represent this number 2.718281828459... by the letter e. ~ Leonhard Euler, #NFDB
679:For we also are weak in Him, yet toward you we will live with Him by God’s power. 2 Corinthians 13:4 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
680:Growing within 2/6/14 "Nothing is difficult for those who call sincerely the Divine. ~ The Mother " #sriaurobindo, #NFDB
681:I’m in a very good mood today, and my System 2 is weaker than usual. I should be extra careful. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
682:It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest. ~ David Korten, #NFDB
683:My good friend Josh Bibby happens to be a pro skier and has used my music in 2 international ski films. ~ SonReal, #NFDB
684:Once people start throwing wet stuff, I go inside.
Bella Swan, Twilight, Chapter 2, p.39 ~ Stephenie Meyer,#NFDB
685:Our family has lived in Iran for 2,500 years, and Iranian Jewry has the long history in that land. ~ Moshe Katsav, #NFDB
686:Religion often gets in the way of God.’ – BONO, AT THE NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST, FEBRUARY 2, 2006 ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
687:Se desacelera economía de EU En el primer trimestre se expandió 0.2%; al cierre del 2014 creció 2.2%. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
688:There are only 2 responses to the world, fear or love. Your life depends on which one you choose. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
689:Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus,
Another thing to fall."
- Angelo, Act 2 Scene 1 ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
690:You see that faith was active together with his works, and by works, faith was perfected. James 2:22 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
691:2 El que entiende el significado de dar, no puede por menos que reírse de la idea del sacrificio. ~ Helen Schucman, #NFDB
692:COUNTRYMAN
I wish you all joy of the worm.
Antony and Cleopatra Act 5, Scene 2 ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
693:Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics: 1. Get elected. 2. Get re-elected. 3. Don't get mad, get even. ~ Everett Dirksen, #NFDB
694:Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” ― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays 2, 1926-29 ~ Misty Griffin, #NFDB
695:God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind” (2 Timothy 1:7). ~ John Hagee, #NFDB
696:I'd rather sell 10,000 records that represent me than 2 million that don't represent me at all. ~ Phillip Phillips, #NFDB
697:I have promised you in marriage to one husband—to present a pure virgin to Christ. 2 Corinthians 11:2 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
698:Lucia replied: I’m about 2 go play Tomb Raider . . . but it’s REAL. Bet U wish U were here. HOOKER! ~ Kresley Cole, #NFDB
699:Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 2 Corinthians 3:17 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
700:she was consumed by 2 simple things:
despair, loneliness; and oh 2 more:
youth and beauty ~ Charles Bukowski,#NFDB
701:Surely the greatest social injustice is that 2 billion people haven't heard of God's love in Christ. ~ David Platt, #NFDB
702:The average user doesn't give a damn what happens, as long as (1) it works and (2) it's fast. ~ Daniel J Bernstein, #NFDB
703:The prison population has increased from 300,000 people in the early 1970s to 2.3 million people ~ Bryan Stevenson, #NFDB
704:Will bless it and approve it with a text. ~ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III, scene 2, line 77, #NFDB
705:A company should limit its growth based on its ability to attract enough of the right people.) 2. ~ James C Collins, #NFDB
706:At the Mirage Sportsbook, you can get a line on 2 kid playing wiffleball in the backyard in Minnesota ~ Artie Lange, #NFDB
707:Bird 1: This is the wrong story.
Bird 2: All stories are the wrong story when you are impatient. ~ Richard Siken,#NFDB
708:I had 2 choices, be silent and get killed, or speak up and be killed, I chose the second option. ~ Malala Yousafzai, #NFDB
709:I landed in this country with $2.50 in cash and $1 million in hopes, and those hopes never left me. ~ Charles Ponzi, #NFDB
710:In post-Mao China, qigong replaced Maoism as an unconscious outlet for religious zealotry.2 PROPOSITION ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
711:in the 1990s, economists predicted only 2 of the 60 recessions around the world a year ahead of time. ~ Nate Silver, #NFDB
712:In Wisconsin the rate is actually 21 percent for Black girls but 2 percent for white girls. ~ Patrisse Khan Cullors, #NFDB
713:I remember when you'll be a month old, and I'll stumble out of bed to give you your 2:00 a.m. feeding. ~ Ted Chiang, #NFDB
714:I swear by my Clarisonic Mia 2! I use it every morning when I wake up and every night before bed. ~ Erin Heatherton, #NFDB
715:I think that's a bit unfair. I'm a father with a 2-year-old child and I feel pretty young, actually. ~ Gordon Brown, #NFDB
716:May he have dominion from b sea to sea, and from b the River [2] to the c ends of the earth! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
717:Only in America do we chain $2.00 ink pens to the counter but leave our $50,000 cars out in the driveway. ~ Various, #NFDB
718:the greatest miracle of omnipotence was in creating beings who had the potential to resist it.2 2. ~ Gregory A Boyd, #NFDB
719:There are two rules for living in harmony. #1) Don’t sweat the small stuff and #2) It’s all small ~ Richard Carlson, #NFDB
720:The Spirit's law of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. Romans 8:2 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
721:You are wired for love, and fear is a learned and not a natural response (2 Tim. 1:7). You have the ~ Caroline Leaf, #NFDB
722:[1] a minor upset feels like an emergency; [2] a minor unfairness feels like a travesty of justice. In ~ Pete Walker, #NFDB
723:And Brighton have beaten Southampton 4-2 which is exactly the same result as last year when they won 3-1 ~ Des Lynam, #NFDB
724:Before Grease 2, I was called the next Richard Gere, then after Grease 2, nobody would touch me. ~ Maxwell Caulfield, #NFDB
725:Don't doubt, don't stop... The only 2 things that can stop you is to stop working and start doubting. ~ Ronda Rousey, #NFDB
726:Hanya ada 2 pilihan, menjadi apatis atau mengikuti arus. Tetapi aku memilih untuk jadi manusia merdeka ~ Soe Hok Gie, #NFDB
727:HEBREWS 2 Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
728:If you tell a kid not to run to a water slide, he/she will walk for 2 steps, then start running again. ~ Brian Regan, #NFDB
729:I should tolerate the closeness of 2-3 caterpillars, if I want to get to know butterflies ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
730:Meyer summarizes his code of honor as "(1) Show up, (2) Work hard. (3) Be kind. (4) Take the high road. ~ Adam Grant, #NFDB
731:Our brain comprises about 2 percent of our body mass but consumes some 25 percent of our energy. ~ Thomas Suddendorf, #NFDB
732:Racism isn’t born, folks. It’s taught. I have a 2-year-old son. Know what he hates? Naps. End of list. ~ Denis Leary, #NFDB
733:Richard Nixon... was just offered $2 million by Schick to do a television commercial - for Gillette. ~ Gerald R Ford, #NFDB
734:So God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Exodus 2:24 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
735:System 2 is activated when an event is detected that violates the model of the world that System 1 ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
736:The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”2 ~ John Eldredge, #NFDB
737:There is no one like You, and there is no God besides You, as all we have heard confirms. 2 Samuel 7:22 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
738:The way I see it, there are just 2 ways to go, livin' fast or dyin' slow! Which way you gonna go? ~ Robert Earl Keen, #NFDB
739:They who pray that they may not be led into temptation, must not lead themselves into temptation. 2. ~ Thomas Watson, #NFDB
740:2 Thessalonians (return to table of contents) 2 Thessalonians 1 • 2 Thessalonians 2 • 2 Thessalonians 3 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
741:against my struggling conscience, I found myself behind the barrel of a gun in Upper O’Connell St’.2 ~ Tim Pat Coogan, #NFDB
742:As my life was fading away, I remembered the Lord. My prayer came to You, to Your holy temple. Jonah 2:7 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
743:For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. EPHESIANS 2:8 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
744:God’s plan for us is to be loved enough by him and others, to not feel isolated—even when we’re alone.2 ~ Henry Cloud, #NFDB
745:I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
746:Kafka's diary entry for August 2, 1914: "Germany has declared war on Russia - Swimming in the afternoon". ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
747:left’s favorite three lines of attack are (1) you’re stupid; (2) you’re mean; (3) you’re corrupt. Sarah ~ Ben Shapiro, #NFDB
748:My wife had her drivers’ test the other day. She got 8 out of 10. The other 2 guys jumped clear. ~ Rodney Dangerfield, #NFDB
749:PSA143.2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
750:There are 2 kinds of fighters: those who fight because they hate, and those who fight because they love. ~ Criss Jami, #NFDB
751:The World Wide Web is a CERN offshoot. It was invented by a CERN scientist, Tim Berners-Lee, in 1989. 2 ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
752:When we see beyond self we no longer cling 2happiness.And when we stop clinging,we can begin 2 be happy. ~ Ajahn Chah, #NFDB
753:You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion” (2 Corinthians 9:11). ~ Randy Alcorn, #NFDB
754:1-2 out of every 100 students reach Black Belt and of those only 1 out of every 1,000 achieves his 2nd Dan ~ Mas Oyama, #NFDB
755:All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?' ~ Norman Ralph Augustine, #NFDB
756:anxious about the cut of one’s clothes in a community of blind men (Collected Letters, vol. 2, pp. 16-17). ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
757:Ashish Shah, Your Kindle book loan for Amelia Bedelia Chapter Book #2: Amelia Bedelia Unleashed has ended. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
758:Do not I know if women have a will
They'll do 'gainst all the watches o'the world?
(2. 7. 8-9) ~ Ben Jonson,#NFDB
759:Even though it has been nearly 2,000 years since Christ's first coming, His second coming is certain. ~ David Jeremiah, #NFDB
760:For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. – Luke 2:11 ~ Robert J Morgan, #NFDB
761:My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it. ~ Bonnie Blair, #NFDB
762:she was consumed by 3 simple things:
drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more:
youth and beauty ~ Charles Bukowski,#NFDB
763:The popular choice, by more than 2 million votes, is a completely qualified candidate for president. ~ Lawrence Lessig, #NFDB
764:Unlike so many, we do not peddle the Word of God for profit.” —Paul of Tarsus in 2 Corinthians 2:17, NIV ~ Frank Viola, #NFDB
765:We have not understood the present. Why should we seek to know the future? ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Day By Day, 10-2-46, #NFDB
766:We over estimate what we can accomplish in 2 months and underestimate what we can accomplish in 5 years ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB
767:What has never come into a man's heart is what God has prepared for those who love Him. 1 Corinthians 2:9 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
768:120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer. ~ Sam Harris, #NFDB
769:1.-Un pez atado pertenece a quien lo ató.
2.-Un pez suelto es presa para cualquiera que lo atrape. ~ Herman Melville,#NFDB
770:2“Speak to the entire assembly of Israela and say to them: ‘Be holy because I, the LORD your God,b am holy. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
771:[6:2] Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah; for I am withered away: O Jehovah, heal me; for my bones are troubled. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
772:Almost half the world’s population lives on less than $2 a day.[31] 70% of those people are women.[32] ~ Trista Hendren, #NFDB
773:A woman in Germany gave birth to a 13 1/2 pound baby. That baby was so fat his first word was strudel. ~ Craig Ferguson, #NFDB
774:Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Hebrews 13:2 ~ Alan Bradley, #NFDB
775:EPUB Edition JUNE 2015 ISBN 9780062363251 Version 060815 15 16 17 18 19 OV/RRD 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ~ Paul Tremblay, #NFDB
776:His secret purpose framed from the very beginning [is] to bring us to our full glory. 1 Corinthians 2:7 NEB ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
777:It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3) ~ John Calvin, #NFDB
778:Miracle Message #2: I choose to reinterpret my fears with a more loving perspective. #MiraclesNow ~ Gabrielle Bernstein, #NFDB
779:There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford. ~ Sydney Brenner, #NFDB
780:Year-over-year, prices for meat, poultry, fish and eggs are up 7.7%, and fruits and vegetables are up 3.2%. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
781:Ask of me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession. —PSALM 2:8 ~ Heidi Baker, #NFDB
782:Dave Scherer: “Those Are Not Transactions (Cassandra 2.0),” blog.foundationdb.com, September 6, 2013. ~ Martin Kleppmann, #NFDB
783:Execution gets divided into two key questions: 1) can you figure out what to do and 2) can you get it done. ~ Sam Altman, #NFDB
784:I don't think God will continue to bless America if we continue to kill 1.2 million children every year. ~ Rick Santorum, #NFDB
785:I grew up watching Mickey Mouse and going to Disney World, like, 2,000 times. Mickey Mouse is like my guru. ~ Greg Cipes, #NFDB
786:It is difficult, even after having learned much, to arrive at the desired term of science. ~ Sutra in 42 Articles. XI. 2, #NFDB
787:I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
788:Marking dynamos for repair $10,000.00-2 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark $9,990.00. ~ Charles Proteus Steinmetz, #NFDB
789:Public transportation is free after 2:00 a.m. It’s a city-wide drinking-driving initiative.” “It’s ~ Meghan Ciana Doidge, #NFDB
790:Romans 2:14–15 (see Ephesians 2:3)—How can those who are by nature sinners keep God’s laws of nature? ~ Norman L Geisler, #NFDB
791:The LORD is with you when you are with him. If you seek him,he will be found by you. (2 Chronicles 15:2) ~ John Eldredge, #NFDB
792:The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. (2) ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
793:There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1...there is a a bigger infinite set of numbers between 1 and 2... ~ John Green, #NFDB
794:We are on the road to producing a race of man too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table.2. ~ John Piper, #NFDB
795:Wherever there is a human being, we have an opportunity for kindness.” —SENECA, ON THE HAPPY LIFE, 24.2–3 ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
796:Who has known the Lord's mind, that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ. 1 Corinthians 2:16 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
797:(1) Define a to-do list and (2) define a not-to-do list. In general terms, there are but two questions: ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
798:{2:100} What! whenever they make a covenant, a party of them cast it aside? Nay, most of them do not believe. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
799:냄새 분자를 처음으로 잡는 것은 후상피의 내부에 있는 후세포이다. 이 세포의 수는 사람의 경우 2 천만 개에서 5 천만 개에 이른다. 한편, 후각이 예민한 개는 1 억 개에서 2 억 개라고 하니, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
800:2% of the people think, 3% of the people think they think and 95% of the people would rather DIE than think ~ Bob Proctor, #NFDB
801:A mitad del camino de la vida, 1 en una selva oscura me encontraba 2 porque mi ruta había extraviado. 3 ~ Dante Alighieri, #NFDB
802:Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness.” PSALM 29 : 2 ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
803:Avoid irreverent, empty speech, for this will produce an even greater measure of godlessness. 2 Timothy 2:16 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
804:Duden Dictionary Meaning #2
Verzeihung - Forgiveness: to stop feeling anger, animosity, or resentment. ~ Markus Zusak,#NFDB
805:Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. PHILIPPIANS 2:4 ~ Os Hillman, #NFDB
806:For you yourselves know that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. 1 Thessalonians 5:2 ~ Henry T Blackaby, #NFDB
807:Hood an ass with reverend purple,
...
And he shall pass for a cathedral doctor"
(1. 2. 113-115) ~ Ben Jonson,#NFDB
808:If it wasn't for 2 Live Crew videos wouldn't look like they do and rappers wouldn't sound like they do. ~ Luther Campbell, #NFDB
809:I have been the most religious person since I was 2 years old. I always felt this crazy connection to God. ~ Heidi Montag, #NFDB
810:In the succinctly elegant words of Carl Jung, “Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.”2 ~ M Scott Peck, #NFDB
811:Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple ~ Gene Wilder, #NFDB
812:It is God who is working in you, enabling you both to will and to act for His good purpose. Philippians 2:13 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
813:Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter and Square, tweeted to his 2 million followers: “Success is never accidental. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
814:Most artists come in and out of the country, they stay may be 2 weeks - or a month max and then they leave. ~ Edwin Starr, #NFDB
815:Suddenly a chariot of fire appeared . . . and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. – 2 Kings 2:11 ~ Robert J Morgan, #NFDB
816:There are 100,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Only 2,000 of them make more than $75,000 a year. ~ Steve Guttenberg, #NFDB
817:There are 2 motives for reading a book; 1. That you enjoy it, 2. that can boast about it on goodreads. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
818:They just elected me Mis Phonograph Record of 1966. They discovered my measurements were 33 1/2, 45, 78! ~ Phyllis Diller, #NFDB
819:Three life lessons:
1.No one will see you.
2.No one will say anything.
3.No one will save you. ~ Elizabeth Scott,#NFDB
820:Watch yourselves so that you don't lose what we have worked for, but you may receive a full reward. 2 John 8 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
821:We don’t abandon our pursuits because we despair of ever perfecting them.” —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 1.2.37b ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
822:We're probably close to reaching 2,000 shows, which is more than Julia Child and Jacques Pepin together. ~ Emeril Lagasse, #NFDB
823:When you have a flaming hot donut in your hand and your trying to eat it your not worried about 10 and 2 ~ Jase Robertson, #NFDB
824:1. "What do you really want to get out of life?" 2. "What can you offer the world that no one else can? ~ Chris Guillebeau, #NFDB
825:diagnosed with the disease. 2 The firm changed its name from frogdesign to frog design in 2000 and moved ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
826:Enter RUMOUR, painted full of tongues."
[Stage direction, Henry IV, Part 2, Induction] ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
827:First, be aware of this: scoffers will come in the last days to scoff, following their own lusts. 2 Peter 3:3 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
828:For this I suffer, to the point of being bound like a criminal; but God’s message is not bound. 2 Timothy 2:9 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
829:Hef holds the Guinness Book of World Records title for largest scrapbook collection at over 2,000 volumes. ~ Holly Madison, #NFDB
830:If Elvis is alive, Tupac is alive. I saw Tupac on 46th Street selling Biggie t-shirts 2 for 10 dollars. ~ Donnell Rawlings, #NFDB
831:I just got threw reading Prada Plan 2 and it was off the chain. I hope there is a part3. Its got 2 be. ~ Ashley Antoinette, #NFDB
832:I spend like $2 million a year on Chinese food and pizza for ten people in the studio who don't sing or produce. ~ R Kelly, #NFDB
833:It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!
(Institutio III.2.3) ~ John Calvin,#NFDB
834:I want my weekends off and I want to put my kids to bed. Those are good reasons to want to be in 'Batman 2'. ~ Gary Oldman, #NFDB
835:I would say that I'm 98 percent skeptical, but the other 2 percent [is] open for the possibility of things. ~ Nicolas Cage, #NFDB
836:Romans 12:2: “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind ~ Caroline Leaf, #NFDB
837:Someone is reckoned as upright not by practicing the Law but by faith in Jesus Christ” (Galatians 2:16)? ~ Brennan Manning, #NFDB
838:The anointing you received from Him remains in you… . His anointing teaches you about all things. 1 John 2:27 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
839:The apostle Paul calls the church to "adorn the doctrine of God" with the fidelity of our lives (Titus 2:10). ~ John Piper, #NFDB
840:There are 2 rules in extreme snowriding: First, always follow your heart; second, never cry when it hurts. ~ Warren Miller, #NFDB
841:The Secret of Drawing consists of just two things: 1) Making lines on paper; and 2) Choosing where they go. ~ James A Owen, #NFDB
842:The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali ~ Salvador Dali, #NFDB
843:We are 6.6 billion people now. We can only feed 4 billion. I don't see 2 billion volunteers to disappear. ~ Norman Borlaug, #NFDB
844:You can't undo yesterday, you can work on today, tomorrow, you will wonder how you screwed up 2 days in a row ~ Eddie Long, #NFDB
845:Back then every small town had a gym, and if itseated more than 2,000 then we'd be interested in playing in it. ~ Bob Cousy, #NFDB
846:Bad movies are when people go oh, I wasted $10 bucks and 2 hours and I don't even want to go back again. ~ Barbara Broccoli, #NFDB
847:Crying is almost totally avoidable if you follow two simple rules:
1. Don't care too much.
2. Shut up. ~ John Green,#NFDB
848:Excessive regulation is costing America as much as $2 trillion a year. And I will end it very, very quickly. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
849:For by grace are ye saved through faith; And that not of yourselves; It is the gift of God. —EPHESIANS 2:8 ~ Rosalind Lauer, #NFDB
850:For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind” (2 Timothy 1:7). ~ Patsy Clairmont, #NFDB
851:India is a 2 trillion dollar economy today. Can we not dream of an India with a 20 trillion dollar economy? ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
852:I use my cell phone as much as I can - I talk to friends all the time. I'm like 2,000 hours a month. It's crazy ~ Lisa Loeb, #NFDB
853:Maybe she was crazy, but she wasn’t stupid. She’d seen Terminator 2. She wasn’t going out like Sarah Connor. ~ Lev Grossman, #NFDB
854:might actually try to make it some night for Doc. ¼ cup salted butter (½ stick, 2 ounces, pound) 1 cup whole ~ Joanne Fluke, #NFDB
855:Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton, #NFDB
856:O this learning, what a thing it is! ~ William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1593-94), Act I, scene 2, line 160., #NFDB
857:Precious souls are the materials of the gospel tabernacle; they are built up a spiritual house, 1 Pet. 2:5. ~ Matthew Henry, #NFDB
858:Rule of thumb: One person per square meter is a light crowd, four people per square meter is a mosh pit. 2 ~ Randall Munroe, #NFDB
859:Sonnet 55 that “Not marble nor the gilded monuments / Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme” [1–2]). ~ James Shapiro, #NFDB
860:Step 1, you find a girl to love. Step 2, she falls in love with you. Step 3, you kiss and hold her tightly. ~ Eddie Cochran, #NFDB
861:There isn’t anything good to say about Kick-Ass 2, the even more witless, mirthless follow-up to Kick-Ass. ~ Manohla Dargis, #NFDB
862:To be a prosperous pastor one needs: (1) a bible (2) a tailored suit; and (3) a few psychology books. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
863:Today it is very fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them.2 ~ Heidi Baker, #NFDB
864:We have renounced shameful secret things, not walking in deceit or distorting God's message. 2 Corinthians 4:2 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
865:What no eye has seen and no ear has heard … is what God has prepared for those who love Him. 1 Corinthians 2:9 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
866:1. Ellie
2. You're
3. The
4. Only
5. Reason
6. I
7. Don't
8. Hate
9. Living
10. Here ~ Kelly Oram,#NFDB
867:1. Leverage your strengths. 2. Embrace your weaknesses. 3. Assert your differences. 4. Pursue your passions. ~ Peter Bregman, #NFDB
868:1. The Amazing Race
2. I Thought This Show Was Gonna Be About Aryans
3. Oh.
(Joe O'Neill, from Opium) ~ Dave Eggers,#NFDB
869:CRANBERRY JELLY IN A CAN 2. EXPLODING BISCUITS 3. NIPSY DOODLES 4. RAINBOW SPRINKLES 5. TOILET PAPER 6. MONEY ~ Barbara Park, #NFDB
870:Even if we have known Christ in a purely human way, yet now we no longer know Him like that. 2 Corinthians 5:16 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
871:It is Plato's portrait of Socrates that has inspired thinkers in the Western world for nearly 2.500 years. ~ Jostein Gaarder, #NFDB
872:It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old. ~ Alison Gopnik, #NFDB
873:My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100. ~ Gail Devers, #NFDB
874:One religion is as true as another. ~ Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Book III. Sec. IV. Memb. 2. Subsec. 1, #NFDB
875:San Francisco was full of people walking around with their pockets stuffed with 1.2 percent of nothing. ~ Gideon Lewis Kraus, #NFDB
876:Some will tell you that there are multiple worldviews. The Bible says we have only 2: the Truth and the Lie. ~ Mark Driscoll, #NFDB
877:17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. [2] The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
878:1. Jerk
2.Smokes cigars
3.Will die of lung cancer
4.Hopefully soon
5.Excellent physical shape ~ Becca Fitzpatrick,#NFDB
879:1. "What do you really want to get out of life?"
2. "What can you offer the world that no one else can? ~ Chris Guillebeau,#NFDB
880:All things appear incredible to us, as they differ more or less from our own manners.
— Utopia, Bk 2. (1516) ~ Thomas More,#NFDB
881:ARTICLE 2 A Bro is always entitled to do something stupid, as long as the rest of his Bros are all doing it. ~ Barney Stinson, #NFDB
882:Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness.
~ Anonymous, The Bible, Ps. 29:2,#NFDB
883:Change..1.Hatred into harmony 2.Jealousy into generosity 3.Ignorance into knowledge. ~ The Mother(Words of The Mother Vol XV), #NFDB
884:Doritos-flavored Mountain Dew is coming. You drink it, you get a combination of type 1 and type 2 diabetes. ~ David Letterman, #NFDB
885:Even though our outer person is being destroyed, our inner person is being renewed day by day 2 Corinthians 4:16 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
886:Lethal Weapon 2 used the platform to talk about the apartheid system. That was a very important moment for us. ~ Danny Glover, #NFDB
887:Now I think these are the three worst things in the world:
1. Waiting
2. Not Knowing
3. Not existing ~ Matthew Dicks,#NFDB
888:Our borders and our obstacles can only do two things: (1) stop us in our tracks, or (2) force us to get creative. ~ Amy Purdy, #NFDB
889:The 3 questions of greatest concern are:, 1) Is it attractive?, 2) Is it amusing?, 3) Does it know its place? ~ Fran Lebowitz, #NFDB
890:The answer doesn’t come, but the power of being emotionally stuck is far greater than the power of reason.”2 ~ Melody Beattie, #NFDB
891:The largest known prime number is 2^32582657-1. I am proud to say that I memorized all its digits-in binary. ~ Carl Pomerance, #NFDB
892:Well, when I did Underworld 2, I was in Vancouver for five months and I was reminiscent to be back up there. ~ Scott Speedman, #NFDB
893:While they were there, the time came for her to give birth. Then she gave birth to her firstborn Son. Luke 2:6–7 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
894:1. Define a misbehavior 2. Explain the cause of the misbehavior 3. Discuss the negative effects of the misbehavior ~ Joy Berry, #NFDB
895:begin by tackling the habits that help us to: 1. sleep 2. move 3. eat and drink right 4. unclutter Foundation ~ Gretchen Rubin, #NFDB
896:Dodd-Frank is 2,000 pages long. It covers thousands of rules, regulations, interpretations and things like that. ~ Jamie Dimon, #NFDB
897:God purposely hides truth so that only a worthy seeker can discover the hidden treasures of His Word (Prov. 25:2). ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
898:History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago. ~ Lewis H Lapham, #NFDB
899:I exist in the depths of solitude pondering my true goal Trying 2 find peace of mind and still preserve my soul ~ Tupac Shakur, #NFDB
900:If people feel 4-4-2 is the way forward in international football, they'll have to wait until I'm out of a job. ~ Glenn Hoddle, #NFDB
901:i My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is j the strength [2] of my heart and my k portion l forever. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
902:In 1930, more than 20% of the American population was employed in agriculture. Today it's less than 2%. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer, #NFDB
903:Increment(y) if y = 0 then return(1) else if (y mod 2) = 1 then return(2 · Increment( y/2
)) else return(y + 1) ~ Anonymous,#NFDB
904:I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really. ~ Maggie Gyllenhaal, #NFDB
905:OK, publishing a book and releasing a movie is all very well, but Tottenham beating Man. U. 3-2... priceless. ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB
906:Recognize the signs that you are in a cognitive minefield, slow down, and ask for reinforcement of system 2. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
907:Success Recipe: 2 cups faith, 2 cups love, 1 cup hard work, 1 cup persistence, 1 tbsp vision and a dash of swagger. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
908:Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill. ~ Glenn Greenwald, #NFDB
909:The man with whom you are so impressed will beguile with that tongue of his twenty who do not know him."2
"Do ~ John Bunyan,#NFDB
910:the Pakistan fundraiser was thoroughly inspiring - the event was able to amass 2.3 million smiles for the school ~ Dave Eggers, #NFDB
911:Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! —2 CORINTHIANS 5:17 ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
912:The two solutions of the equation for the Golden Ratio are:
x1 = (1+ Sqr5) / 2
x2 = (1 - Sqr5) / 2 ~ Mario Livio,#NFDB
913:We speak God’s hidden wisdom in a mystery, which God predestined before the ages for our glory. 1 Corinthians 2:7 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
914:You're not going to be on top of mountain all by yourself with a #2 pencil What we need to learn is how to learn. ~ Joichi Ito, #NFDB
915:2 country music: good-time urban cowboy fare with a hint of honky-tonk and a healthy measure of rock. ~ Oxford University Press, #NFDB
916:Article 2: "A Bro is always entitled to do something stupid, as long as the rest of his Bros are all doing it. ~ Barney Stinson, #NFDB
917:envious of wrongdoers! 2 For they will soon w fade like x the grass and wither y like the green herb. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
918:He pokes a finger inside me as he plays with my wetness.” —Sofia Herrera (French Kiss, Unbearable Passion, #2) ~ Scarlett Avery, #NFDB
919:His gaze is fixed on me: calm, unflappable; 2 buckets of river water at midnight. I'd like to cry into his eyes. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
920:How to see a vampire in three easy steps:
1. Get up.
2. Find a mirror.
3. Look at your first vampire. ~ Brian Meehl,#NFDB
921:I lived at home for 2 1/2 months each time. I waited tables at Govnr's Park Tavern in Denver and then I moved on. ~ Dana Perino, #NFDB
922:I wasn't a bad person who needed to become good...I was DEAD and needed to be brought to life! (Ephesians 2:1-10) ~ Perry Noble, #NFDB
923:Let's redefine scandal. Scandal is not who's dating who. Scandal is 1.2 million people living in tents in Haiti. ~ Olivia Wilde, #NFDB
924:Maturity involves two elements: 1) immediate obedience in specific situations and 2) long-range character growth. ~ Larry Crabb, #NFDB
925:No matter how we may try to deny it, we all rightly sense that we are responsible for our choices (Rom. 1:18–2:29). ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
926:No one is saved by good works (Ephesians 2:8-9), but every Christian has been saved for good works (verse 10). ~ David Jeremiah, #NFDB
927:One of the main functions of System 2 is to monitor and control thoughts and actions “suggested” by System 1, ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
928:Our brains constitute only 2.5 percent of our weight yet consumer 20 percent of our energy when we’re resting. ~ Michael Pollan, #NFDB
929:Pain (2)
...You want to give up, throw in the towel but you
can't give up because you're all you have. ~ Jim Harrison,#NFDB
930:Practice with your fingers and you need all day. Practice with your mind and you will do as much in 1 1/2 hours. ~ Leopold Auer, #NFDB
931:System 2 is activated when an event is detected that violates the model of the world that System 1 maintains. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
932:The dreaded November 18, 2048, at around 2:47 PM Eastern Time, plus or minus a few minutes, is when we go Boom. ~ Vera Nazarian, #NFDB
933: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, #NFDB
934:The State of J&K had an area of 2,22,236 sq km in 1947. Of this only 46 percent is in India’s possession today; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
935:While we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord—for we walk by faith, not by sight. 2 Corinthians 5:6–7 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
936:Why can't I love him (a 2 yr old nephew) from afar? That's how I want to love him - through pictures and folklore. ~ Ray Romano, #NFDB
937:About $4 trillion, Trump said, even more—possibly $5 trillion. Cohn had a chart that showed it was $2.6 trillion. ~ Bob Woodward, #NFDB
938:As Damon Edwards observed, “Without these self-service Operations platforms, the cloud is just Expensive Hosting 2.0. ~ Gene Kim, #NFDB
939:As in plain terms (yet cunningly) he crav'd it; / Love always makes those eloquent that have it (II.71-2). ~ Christopher Marlowe, #NFDB
940:But his desire is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night.
~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms 1:2, [T2],#NFDB
941:Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels” (13:2 NKJV). ~ Rachel Held Evans, #NFDB
942:I have always considered you to be about the best living writer we’ve got. MERTON TO EVELYN WAUGH AUGUST 2, 1948 ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
943:I have three moods: 1. What the fuck? 2. Are you fucking kidding me? 3. Fuck this. -Wink’s secret thoughts Wink ~ Lani Lynn Vale, #NFDB
944:Me: am i allowed 2 be good and evil at the same time?
Higher self: look around, bb. that's all there is. ~ Melissa Broder,#NFDB
945:Out of too much learning become mad. ~ Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III, Section 4. Memb. 1. Subsec. 2., #NFDB
946:Perhaps you do not understand that God is kind to you so you will change your hearts and lives” (Rom. 2:4 NCV). The ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
947:'Shrek 2' made over $120 million during its first week. In a related story, John Kerry asked Shrek to marry him. ~ Conan O Brien, #NFDB
948:The United States invests just 2.4 percent of GDP in infrastructure; whereas, Europe invests twice that amount. ~ Bernie Sanders, #NFDB
949:U.S. citizens employ 1.2 million tax preparers, more than all the police and firefighters in the country combined. ~ Donald Sull, #NFDB
950:When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'. ~ George Foreman, #NFDB
951:165 Great peace have they who love Your law; nothing shall offend them or make them stumble. [Prov. 3:2; Isa. 32:17.] ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
952:1. Przykazanie potrzeby. 2. Przykazanie wejścia. 3. Przykazanie kontroli. 4. Przykazanie skali. 5. Przykazanie czasu. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
953:All you need to know about plotting is twofold. 1. Give your characters goals. 2. Don't let them reach those goals. ~ J A Konrath, #NFDB
954:Am învăţat atunci un adevăr crucial: că o relaţie poate fi judecată după lista de lucruri nespuse dintre 2 persoane. ~ Anna Carey, #NFDB
955:" . . . by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle way, the total psychological equilibrium." ~ Carl Jung (2/2), #NFDB
956:Finding #2: Those with the growth mindset found setbacks motivating. They’re informative. They’re a wake-up call. ~ Carol S Dweck, #NFDB
957:If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a mature man who is also able to control his whole body. James 3:2 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
958:If you're willing to go along for this farcical ride, you'll find 'Dead Snow 2' to be one terrific zombie movie. ~ Leonard Maltin, #NFDB
959:I GREW UP IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE AND HAVE ALWAYS HAD A FRIEND OR 2 THAT TALKED WITH THE SOOUTHERN ACCENT. ~ Larry the Cable Guy, #NFDB
960:I had this roommate in college who would get up almost 2 hours before class to do hair and makeup. That's not for me. ~ Kim Raver, #NFDB
961:I joined gamblers anon., they gave me 2 to 1 I wouldn't make it! I joined AA, there was a two drink minimum! ~ Rodney Dangerfield, #NFDB
962:It gets to be 2 a.m., and they hand you a bottle of whipped cream and some syrup and things start getting silly. ~ Susan Sarandon, #NFDB
963:It is hard to think that a $2 billion company with 4,300-plus people couldn't compete with six people in blue jeans. ~ Steve Jobs, #NFDB
964:managers typically want two things: (1) for everything to be tightly controlled, and (2) to appear to be in control. ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB
965:Soaring rents drove 2,000 of San Francisco’s 8,000 nonprofits out of town or out of existence from 2011 through 2013. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
966:The 2 hardest things you'll have to do when running a company are recruiting and talking people out of leaving. ~ Marc Andreessen, #NFDB
967:There are 2 main things I've learned about following the Holy Spirit: It will never be easy. It will never be boring. ~ Mark Hart, #NFDB
968:There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept ourselves. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel, #NFDB
969:An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths - by panicked shouting. ~ Alain de Botton, #NFDB
970:Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture. ~ Frank Gehry, #NFDB
971:Beauty is not a size. You can be a size 2 and be curvy or you can be a size 24 and be curvy Curvy is being a woman. ~ Denise Bidot, #NFDB
972:c:\work\myproject> lein test Testing myproject.test.core Ran 1 tests containing 2 assertions. 0 failures, 0 errors. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
973:If he was an inch taller he'd be the best center half in Britain. His father is 6 ft 2 in - I'd check the milkman. ~ Alex Ferguson, #NFDB
974:If you don’t have 20 minutes to delve into yourself through meditation, then that means you really need 2 hours. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
975:I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2. ~ Kate Jackson, #NFDB
976:Is it just me or is Sunday a bizarre night for a first date? All wrong, like Saturday morning or Monday at 2 p.m. ~ Helen Fielding, #NFDB
977:Me. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! —2 CORINTHIANS 5:17 ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
978:Nec religionis est cogere religionem. - It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion. ~ Tertullian, Ad Scapulam, 2.2, #NFDB
979:Pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart. 2 Timothy 2:22 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
980:Romans 12:2: “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind” (NIV). ~ Caroline Leaf, #NFDB
981:Rules for today: 1) Pray 2) Laugh 3) Repeat. The only reason to take this life too seriously is if it's your only one. ~ Mark Hart, #NFDB
982:This is a mournful discovery. 1) Those who agree with you are insane. 2) Those who do not agree with you are in power. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
983:Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? ~ Ecclesiastes. I, 2, 3, #NFDB
984:We have 2,500 students and an 8,000-seat basketball arena. You do the math on how important basketball is in Aberdeen. ~ Don Meyer, #NFDB
985:when System 2 is otherwise engaged, we will believe almost anything. System 1 is gullible and biased to believe, ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
986:your subjective experience consists largely of the story that your System 2 tells itself about what is going on. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
987:2 Blessed is the man against whom the LORD l counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit m there is no deceit. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
988:2. Pure Arabs: Who originated from the progeny of Ya‘rub bin Yashjub bin Qahtan. They were also called Qahtanian Arabs. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
989:Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
en.path-2-happiness.com ~ Benjamin Disraeli,#NFDB
990:Another way of saying this is that controlling thoughts and behaviors is one of the tasks that System 2 performs. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
991:As a result, they were all astounded and gave glory to God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this!” Mark 2:12 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
992:As for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed, knowing those from whom you learned. 2 Timothy 3:14 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
993:Dear Teens at Starbucks wearing 'Abstain from Sex 2 Attain Ur Goals' t-shirts: Doesn't it depend on what my goals are? ~ John Green, #NFDB
994:even though our brains account for only 2 percent of our body weight, they demand 20 percent of our energy, ~ Christopher McDougall, #NFDB
995:He has given us very great and precious promises, so that through them you may share in the divine nature. 2 Peter 1:4 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
996:I'm thinking of writing a book on national health care. It will be 2,000 pages, and you'll have two hours to read it. ~ Ann Coulter, #NFDB
997:It is not great talents God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus.”-Charles Spurgeon
Quote Read: 2/1/18 ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon,#NFDB
998:I've learned 2 things about tv. It's always easier with vodka & SOME OF THE BEST SINGERS ARE FROM THE PHILIPPINES ~ Ellen DeGeneres, #NFDB
999:I will never do Pulp [Fiction] 2 but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters. ~ Quentin Tarantino, #NFDB
1000:I will rise now and go about the city in the streets and the broadways, I will seek him whom my soul loveth. ~ Songs of Songs III.2, #NFDB
1001:Leadership is no longer about position - but passion. It's no longer about image but impact. This is Leadership 2.0. ~ Robin Sharma, #NFDB
1002:My Father fights my battles for me and wins all of them (Deu. 1:30-31, 1 Sam. 17:45-47, Neh. 4:20, 2 Tim. 4:17-18). ~ Sylvia Gunter, #NFDB
1003:The only way sinners can be saved is by faith in the shed blood of Christ (Heb. 9:22; see also Isa. 61:10; Eph. 2:8–9). ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1004:This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power. ~ Philip K Dick, #NFDB
1005:We also speak these things, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit. 1 Corinthians 2:13 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1006:With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early they can take steps to avert getting sick. ~ Elizabeth Holmes, #NFDB
1007:World Health Organization estimates that outdoor air pollution causes about 3.2 million deaths yearly worldwide.15 ~ Daniel Goleman, #NFDB
1008:You can tell that hold is effective because his face is red and the rest of his body is the color of a bottle of 2% milk. ~ CM Punk, #NFDB
1009:You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one ~ Mikhail Tal, #NFDB
1010:2. There is another world besides this material world of which we have only limited experience. ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhup da, #NFDB
1011:Destiny, noun: 1. The inevitable or irresistible course of events. 2. The inescapable future. 3. See also “screwed. ~ Seanan McGuire, #NFDB
1012:[Footnote:]Each male has from 2 to 790 females with whom he discusses current events. Of these he marries from 3 to 17. ~ Will Cuppy, #NFDB
1013:I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author. ~ Evelyn Waugh, #NFDB
1014:If my mouth offends you: I’m sorry. I’ll try to do better 1 and 2 are lies. 4. You’re a pussy. -Torren to Sebastian ~ Lani Lynn Vale, #NFDB
1015:I get enraged at the tyranny of text.” “What’s that?” “You know. Left to right. Punctuation. Page 1, page 2, page 3. ~ Samantha Hunt, #NFDB
1016:impressions, feelings, and inclinations; when endorsed by System 2 these become beliefs, attitudes, and intentions ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
1017:It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 2 minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently. ~ Guy Spier, #NFDB
1018:Life has two rules: #1 Never quit #2 Always remember rule # 1.
"Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
1019:My family is healthy and prosperous. Everything we lay our hand to is blessed. —3 JOHN 2 & DEUTERONOMY 28:8, 11-12 ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
1020:Proverbs for Paranoids, 2: The innocence of the creatures is in inverse proportion to the immorality of the Master. ~ Thomas Pynchon, #NFDB
1021:remember the two signatures of modern war: (1) You never win, exactly; you claim victory. (2) Perception is paramount. ~ Mark Bowden, #NFDB
1022:Secret #2 : One Minute Praising
Help People to Reach Their Full Potential. Catch Them Doing Something Right ~ Kenneth H Blanchard,#NFDB
1023:Sometimes you must let go of your pride and do what is asked of us. Anakin Skywalker, Episode 2: Attack of the Clones ~ George Lucas, #NFDB
1024:The biggest hit of my life is Agneepath. My second is Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara and the third biggest hit is Dhoom 2 ~ Hrithik Roshan, #NFDB
1025:The Four Inevitabilities: 1. Musty Books. 2. Uninteresting Nature. 3. Dull Existence. 4. Blank Nirvana, buy that boy. ~ Jack Kerouac, #NFDB
1026:There are 2 kinds of fighters: those who fight because they hate, and those who fight because they love.” - Criss Jami ~ Jamie Magee, #NFDB
1027:There are 3 rules to follow if you want to change; (1) Start immediately, (2) Do it flamboyantly, (3) No exceptions. ~ William James, #NFDB
1028:We have this treasure in clay jars, so that this extraordinary power may be from God and not from us. 2 Corinthians 4:7 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1029:You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one. ~ Mikhail Tal, #NFDB
1030:남의 말을 귀를 기울여 주의깊게 듣는다는 뜻의 경청은 “1) 몸을 말하는 사람쪽으로 돌리고, 시선을 마주치면서 들어야 합니다. 2) 선입견을 갖거나 중간에 짤라먹지 말고 끝까지 헤아려 듣습니다.”라고 해석하면 됩니다. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1031:Above everything else, as fulfillment of the new covenant[2] the Spirit marked the return of the lost presence of God. ~ Gordon D Fee, #NFDB
1032:And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well:
And yet words are no deeds.
King Henry VIII. Act 3, Scene 2 ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
1033:Count it all joy when ye fall into diverse temptations, knowing this that the trying of your faith work-eth patience. ~ James 1. 2, 3, #NFDB
1034:Die Menschen besitzen alle Anlagen zum glücklichen Leben; sie machen aber keinen Gebrauch davon.” GESAMT WERKE. Band 2 ~ Ernst J nger, #NFDB
1035:God's written Word is the plumb line for our lives as we walk daily with him (Amos 7:7; Rev. 22:18–19; Deut. 4:2). ~ Henry T Blackaby, #NFDB
1036:I'm one of the top 2 or 3 or 4 most conservative members in the House of Representatives when it comes to economics. ~ Jeb Hensarling, #NFDB
1037:Kακίας πάντη πάντως ἀναίτιος ὁ Θεὸς
"God is in all ways absolutely guiltless of evil." (Strom. 7.2.12) ~ Clement of Alexandria,#NFDB
1038:My season 2 'Good Wife' wrap gift was this deluxe package of Mortal Kombat. I played it for, like, two weeks straight. ~ Matt Czuchry, #NFDB
1039:Now Manchester United are 2-1 down on aggregate, they are in a better position than when they started the game at 1-1. ~ Ron Atkinson, #NFDB
1040:Number 1: I calls ’em like I see ’em. Number 2: I calls ’em the way they are. Number 3: They ain’t nothing till I calls ~ Michio Kaku, #NFDB
1041:O LORD, be gracious to us; we wait for you. Be our arm every morning, our salvation in the time of trouble. (Isaiah 33:2) ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1042:Shout to God with a jubilant cry. For the LORD Most High is awe-inspiring, a great King over all the earth. Psalm 47:1–2 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1043:Therefore remember Me, I will remember you, And be thankful to Me, and do not be ungrateful to Me.”
[Al-Baqarah 2:152] ~ Anonymous,#NFDB
1044:Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and they become one flesh. —Genesis 2:24 ~ Joseph Telushkin, #NFDB
1045:The three most difficult things in life are: 1. To keep a secret. 2. To forget an injury. 3. To make good use of leisure. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
1046:This should be the most homoerotically charged baseball dance number since “I Don't Dance” in High School Musical 2. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
1047:This should be the most homoerotically charged baseball dance number since “I Don’t Dance” in High School Musical 2. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
1048:Toyota will pay a $1.2 billion penalty to settle the criminal probe into its handling of unintended acceleration problems ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1049:We always pray for you that our God will … fulfill every desire for goodness and the work of faith. 2 Thessalonians 1:11 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1050:When you put emphasis on compromise rather than on principle, you end up with 2/3 of the principles being implemented. ~ Andy Andrews, #NFDB
1051:[W]ith world electricity consumption pushing 2 terawatts, it would take a hundred million Yodas to meet our demands. ~ Randall Munroe, #NFDB
1052:5-1/2-year lows on Monday as worries about a surplus of global supplies amid weak demand continued to drag on oil markets. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1053:A civilized woman's demands: A man who will (1) make her come … sometimes; but (2) pay the bills … at all times. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
1054:... and you can only have 2 or 3 things everyday, because everything else will just come at you; you know fires in a day. ~ Sam Altman, #NFDB
1055:close to climatology, tropical Pacific SST remains near climatology (see Fig. III.2.bc). When the NIÑO3 SSTA was initially ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1056:I have a lot of energy after 2 A.M. I like to sleep in the morning. I have some problems at the start of the day. ~ Valentino Garavani, #NFDB
1057:Our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory. 2 Corinthians 4:17 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1058:Planet Earth thought it had £10. But it turns out we only had £2. Which means everyone must lose 80% of their wealth ~ Jeremy Clarkson, #NFDB
1059:Two conditions that warrant someone's unconditional devotion: 1. Save their life 2. Help them move a pillow top mattress ~ Tim Hawkins, #NFDB
1060:What business could be mature when you have economies with more than 2 billion people in India, China and Southeast Asia? ~ Jack Welch, #NFDB
1061:Whether you received brokenness or goodness from your own father, you are a new creation in Christ (2 Corinthians 5: 17). ~ Tony Evans, #NFDB
1062:Whetstone of Witte introduced the symbol " " because "noe 2 thynges can be more equalle than a pair of paralleles. ~ Peter L Bernstein, #NFDB
1063:You taste so good. I love making you come with my mouth.” —Bryce Van Der Linden (French Kiss, Unbearable Passion, #2) ~ Scarlett Avery, #NFDB
1064:#1 Build people up by encouragement. #2 Give people credit by acknowledgment. #3 Give people recognition by gratitude. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
1065:1.Stop putting sugar in (low-carbohydrate diets, intermittent fasting). 2.Burn remaining sugar off (intermittent fasting). ~ Jason Fung, #NFDB
1066:anointed ones [2] who stand by the Lord of the whole earth.” A Vision of a Flying Scroll ZECHARIAH 5 Again I lifted my eyes ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1067:At the heart of any poor soul not at one with the Force, there is only void. —Unknown Je’daii, 2,545 TYA (Tho Yor Arrival) ~ Tim Lebbon, #NFDB
1068:Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast multitude, for the battle is not yours, but God’s. 2 Chronicles 20:15 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1069:Ever wonder about those people who spend $2 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backward. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
1070:Everyone gets caught inside when surfing. You have 2 options. Give up or paddle outside. Life is the same. Keep paddling! ~ Gerry Lopez, #NFDB
1071:Everything that happens to me is the best possible thing that can happen to me. It is as simple and unerring as: 1 + 1 = 2. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1072:Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB
1073:If the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness overflows with even more glory. 2 Corinthians 3:9 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1074:Kim Jong Il grumbled publicly, saying, ‘Frankly the state has no money, but individuals have two years’ budget worth.’2 ~ Blaine Harden, #NFDB
1075:LORD, I have heard the report about You; LORD, I stand in awe of Your deeds. Revive Your work in these years. Habakkuk 3:2 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1076:Or do ye think that ye shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed away before you? ~ Koran, 2:214, #NFDB
1077:The correct form factor for a laptop is obviously 12" and 2 lbs, and I don't understand why everybody gets that wrong. ~ Linus Torvalds, #NFDB
1078:The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
[Act 1 Sc. 2] ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
1079:The LORD God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils. Genesis 2:7 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1080:Then they may come to their senses and escape the Devil's trap, having been captured by him to do his will. 2 Timothy 2:26 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1081:There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure to repetitive imaging. ~ Eric Topol, #NFDB
1082:Though yet of Hamlet, our dear brother's death, The memory be green. ~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet, c. 1601, Act I, scene 2, line 1., #NFDB
1083:Was it a game of #UCL or was Messi in a Play Station game? Impossible! If he scores 6 goals, can he take home 2 balls? ~ Radamel Falcao, #NFDB
1084:We each should have 2 pockets: in 1 the message, 'I am dust & ashes;' in the other, 'For me the universe was made.' ~ Joan D Chittister, #NFDB
1085:AB=1/4((A+B)^2-(A-B)^2) is an amazing identity, and unfortunately, I have to remind my current students how to prove it. ~ Ronald Graham, #NFDB
1086:Actually, I guess I shouldn't be so hard on myself. 2:23:11 is a very good time - a very good time for a woman that is. ~ Robert Johnson, #NFDB
1087:As a general matter, the left’s favorite three lines of attack are (1) you’re stupid; (2) you’re mean; (3) you’re corrupt. ~ Ben Shapiro, #NFDB
1088:A snake charmer and a clown A treasure that never was A gift from the deity Itzamna: from 9.10.5.10.7 to 11.17.2.13.10 ~ Matt de la Pena, #NFDB
1089:Contents About the Book About the Author Also by John Grisham Title Page Dedication Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter ~ John Grisham, #NFDB
1090:Essay on tragedy.
(1) The silence of Prometheus.
(2) The Elizabethans.
(3) Moliere.
(4) The spirit of revolt. ~ Albert Camus,#NFDB
1091:I made the best business decision at 14 when I decided to get into acting. The worst was owning 2 homes at the same time. ~ Tamala Jones, #NFDB
1092:I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning. ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Rivals (1775), Act I, scene 2., #NFDB
1093:Subtlety #2: To not give a fuck about adversity, you must first give a fuck about something more important than adversity. ~ Mark Manson, #NFDB
1094:the average demographic growth rate between 0 and 1700 was less than 0.2 percent and almost certainly less than 0.1 percent. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1095:They are to teach what is good, so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands and children. Titus 2:3–4 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1096:Totally-awesome-completely-unbelievable-too-good-to-be-true-exciting-wonderful thing #2: I WAS CROWNED SWEETHEART ~ Rachel Ren e Russell, #NFDB
1097:Two kinds of people to avoid in your life; 1. Those who love your lies and 2. Those who hate your truth. Avoid them. ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
1098:1. Love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength.
2. Love your neighbor as yourself.
It's that easy! :-) ~ Jos N Harris,#NFDB
1099:2.22 What a picture represents it represents independently of its truth or falsity, by means of its pictorial form. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, #NFDB
1100:2. As long as at least one partner is in the adult functional at any given time, most—if not all—arguments can be avoided. ~ Neil Strauss, #NFDB
1101:2. In his kitchen: “Coming back after seven months in Indian villages, I saw the craziness of the Western world as well ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
1102:2 Timothy 3:16 ALL Scripture is inspired by God and useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1103:As for God, His way is perfect; the word of the LORD is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him. 2 SAMUEL 22:31 ~ Stormie Omartian, #NFDB
1104:Doing something unimportant well does not make it important. 2. Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
1105:Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me. 2 There is more than enough room in my Father’s home.* ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1106:Happiness Habits for Empowerment 1. Focus on the Solution 2. Look for the Lesson and the Gift 3. Make Peace with Yourself ~ Marci Shimoff, #NFDB
1107:In my experience, followers always ask leaders 3 questions: 1) Do you care 4 me? 2) Can you help me? 3) Can I trust you? ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
1108:Meaningless! Meaningless!”
says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.”
Ecclesiastes 1:2 ~ Anonymous,#NFDB
1109:Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with all of you. (2 THESS. 3:16) ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1110:On any given day, according to UPS, 2 percent of the world’s GDP can be found in UPS delivery trucks or package cars. ~ Thomas L Friedman, #NFDB
1111:Proper apologies have three parts: 1) What I did was wrong. 2) I feel badly that I hurt you. 3) How do I make this better? ~ Randy Pausch, #NFDB
1112:(The biggest organism on earth is not a whale or a tree but a mushroom—a honey fungus in Oregon that is 2.4 miles wide.) ~ Michael Pollan, #NFDB
1113:The movies have a way of seeping out there over time. We don't put them in 2,000 theaters. It wouldn't work that way. ~ Christopher Guest, #NFDB
1114:The No. 2 pencils had been handed out. The timer had been started. But we had not even registered that the test had begun. ~ Atul Gawande, #NFDB
1115:This is a mournful discovery.
1)Those who agree with you are insane
2)Those who do not agree with you are in power. ~ Philip K Dick,#NFDB
1116:Thomas Merton puts it this way: “Life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.”2 ~ David G Benner, #NFDB
1117:Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him. Matthew 2:2 ~ Sarah Palin, #NFDB
1118:With 97.3 percent of the water on the planet too salty for consumption, and another 2 percent locked up as polar ice, ~ Peter H Diamandis, #NFDB
1119:You forget about it whether it was 15-2 or 3-2. It's still a loss. It doesn't matter what the score was if we win tomorrow. ~ Derek Jeter, #NFDB
1120:2.16 จงดำเนินชีวิตอย่างคนมีเสรีภาพ แต่อย่าใช้เสรีภาพนั้น เป็นข้ออ้างเพื่อจะทำความชั่ว แต่จงดำเนินชีวิตอย่างผู้รับใช้ของพระเจ้า ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1121:About 1.2 million jobs—more than three-quarters of domestic employment in the textile sector—vanished between 1990 and 2012. ~ Martin Ford, #NFDB
1122:I kissed her, because 1) when you’re a demigod going into battle, every kiss might be your last, and 2) I like kissing her. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1123:I reckon you've called the turn, Bill. That wolf's a dog, an' it's eaten fish many's the time from the hand of man. (ch. 2.) ~ Jack London, #NFDB
1124:LOWCOUNTRY BOIL (#1) LOWCOUNTRY BOMBSHELL (#2) LOWCOUNTRY BONEYARD (#3) LOWCOUNTRY BORDELLO (#4) LOWCOUNTRY BOOK CLUB (#5) ~ Susan M Boyer, #NFDB
1125:MAXIMUM RIDE #2: SCHOOL’S OUT FOREVER Hardcover: 978-0-316-15559-5 Mass Market: 978-0-446-61889-2 Paperback: 978-0-316-06796-6 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1126:My iPhone has 2 million times the storage of the 1969 Apollo 11 computer. They went to the moon. I throw birds at pig houses ~ Bill Murray, #NFDB
1127:Peter Drucker said, “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.”2 ~ Eric Ries, #NFDB
1128:Sound doctrine is a valuable heritage that is to be treasured in this generation and faithfully transmitted to the next (2:2). ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1129:The impression of familiarity is produced by System 1, and System 2 relies on that impression for a true/false judgment. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
1130:The original of morals lies with the thought that 'the community is more valuable than the individual' (Menschliches 2.1.89 ~ John Carroll, #NFDB
1131:There are 2 primary choices in life:
To accept conditions as they exist, or to accept responsibility for changing them. ~ Denis Waitley,#NFDB
1132:When we lose our desire for God’s Word, then we are vulnerable to the substitutes the world has to offer (Isa. 55:1–2). ~ Warren W Wiersbe, #NFDB
1133:1) они все имеют дело с одной и той же Высшей Реальностью, даже если воспринимают и интерпретируют ее совершенно по-разному; 2) ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1134:ACOUSTICKS (ACO'USTICKS) n.s.[Gr. to hear.]1. The doctrine or theory of sounds.2. Medicines to help the hearing.Quincy. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
1135:A second-guesser is one who doesn't know anything about the first guess, and he's one who needs 2 guesses to get one right. ~ Tommy Lasorda, #NFDB
1136:For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth. ~ R Buckminster Fuller, #NFDB
1137:God: 1. A deity who looks like Marx, was pronounced dead by Nietzsche, and envied by Freud. 2. The monster over our beds. ~ Eric Jarosinski, #NFDB
1138:HIGH STRANGENESS: 2/10. Aside from mind-control rays affecting one out of every thirty Americans, this isn't all that strange. ~ Monte Cook, #NFDB
1139:I don’t care about Enobaria, the vicious District 2 tribute. In fact, I dislike her, but it seems wrong to leave her out. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
1140:If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'. ~ Georg C Lichtenberg, #NFDB
1141:I go to bed at 2 a.m. and get up at 7 a.m. - I've never been a sleeper. But I definitely get sick every month-and-a-half. ~ Alexa Von Tobel, #NFDB
1142:I have to say, 'Gravity' is better in 3-D, even though in 2-D the quality of the picture is better. But the 3-D is better. ~ Alfonso Cuaron, #NFDB
1143:In accordance with what is written, “ I believed, therefore I spoke,” we also believe, and therefore speak. 2 Corinthians 4:13 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1144:It is error alone that needs the support of government.2 Truth can stand by itself. —THOMAS JEFFERSON, on freedom of religion ~ Jon Meacham, #NFDB
1145:it is good to be sitting some place in public at 2:30 in the afternoon without getting the flesh ripped from your bones. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
1146:one is attractive due to (1) wealth, (2) power, (3) fame, (4) beauty, (5) wisdom and (6) renunciation. ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhup da, #NFDB
1147:Pay no attention 2 D faults of others, things done or left undone by others. Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone. ~ Buddha, #NFDB
1148:Regarding the Laws of Thermodynamics: "(1) You can't win, (2) you can't break even, and (3) you can't get out of the game. ~ Dennis Overbye, #NFDB
1149:Sometimes you must let go of your pride and do what is asked of us.
Anakin Skywalker, Episode 2: Attack of the Clones ~ George Lucas,#NFDB
1150:The recipe for the Roman god:
- 2 natures
- 3 persons
- 1 being
Can be served as Poached, Scrambled, Or Raw. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim,#NFDB
1151:The weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but are powerful through God for the demolition of strongholds. 2 Corinthians 10:4 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1152:To be what is called happy, one should have (1) something to live on, (2) something to live for, (3) something to die for. ~ Cyprian Norwid, #NFDB
1153:When the Roman governor Pilate asked Jesus “What is truth?” nearly 2,000 years ago, he didn’t wait for Jesus to respond. ~ Norman L Geisler, #NFDB
1154:You can’t hide your head in the sand without expecting your ass to get burned
"A Destiny of Dragons (Tales From Verania, #2) ~ T J Klune,#NFDB
1155:03:11 Flight 175 crashes into 2 WTC (South Tower) 9:15 New York Center advises NEADS that UA 175 was the second aircraft crashed ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1156:(1) discover and qualify opportunities; (2) develop a pre-proposal; (3) design a solution; and (4) conduct pre-sales planning. ~ Donald Sull, #NFDB
1157:1. Doing something unimportant well does not make it important. 2. Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
1158:Author note re: Torn (Book #2)..."There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice!" ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald ~ Kim Karr, #NFDB
1159:Can I ask you a question? Ya just did.
Can I ask you 2 questions then?
Ya just did.
Ohh, so you're a smart ass ~ Maggie Stiefvater,#NFDB
1160:(door slams open at 2:30am)
"Guess who's DRUAAAHUUUNK!" said Wilson.
"I guess Wilson, now get out," moaned Scott ~ Bryan Lee O Malley,#NFDB
1161:For that matter an individual with the money (between $500 and $2,000) and a place to put it can erect a historical marker. ~ James W Loewen, #NFDB
1162:Her eyes are sometimes the colour of a May sky at 2:00pm on a Saturday, and sometimes they are the colour of polar bear ice. ~ Matthew Quick, #NFDB
1163:I am all the daughters of my father’s house, And all the brothers too. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night, ACT 2, SCENE 4 ~ Lisa Scottoline, #NFDB
1164:I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2. ~ O Henry, #NFDB
1165:I wake up at about 9 a.m., and have a few hours of school or time to relax. Then, I have practice at 2:30 p.m. with my team. ~ Gabby Douglas, #NFDB
1166:I will look favorably on this kind of person: one who is humble, submissive in spirit, and who trembles at My word. Isaiah 66:2 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1167:Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
1168:One of love’s greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us seriously happy. 2. Chloe ~ Alain de Botton, #NFDB
1169:Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, “On Thinking for Oneself,” Parerga und Paralipomena, Vol. 2, § 260, #NFDB
1170:She had to survive if for no other reason than to spite the world.
Kova, Elise. Fire Falling (Air Awakens Series Book 2) ~ Elise Kova,#NFDB
1171:SOLAR ECLIPSE in AQUARIUS on February 15th ~ Great American Eclipse 2.0?? ~ #EvolvingDoor #Astrology Newsletter - mailchi.mp/7aebc2149dec/s…, #NFDB
1172:The Master said, “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.”
(Analects 2.11) ~ Confucius,#NFDB
1173:There’s an awful lot of luck relative to skill. Investing is 95% luck and 5% skill. And maybe if I’m wrong, it’s 98 and 2. ~ Anthony Robbins, #NFDB
1174:The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer. ~ Voices of Vision: Creators of Science Fiction and Fantasy, page 182 [2], #NFDB
1175:What agreement is there between the hyena and the dog? and what peace between the rich and the poor?BibleEcclus,xiii. 18.2. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
1176:Year Average Float (in $ millions) 1967 17 1972 70 1977 139 1982 221 1987 1,267 1992 2,290 1997 7,093 1998 22,762 (yearend) ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
1177:11For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare [2] and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1178:134: 3-verse, all-purpose psalm: 1) Praise G. 2) Lift up your hands. 3) Be blessed. Would that religion were always this simple. ~ Jana Riess, #NFDB
1179:2. Plan every day in advance: Think on paper. Every minute you spend in planning can save you five or ten minutes in execution. ~ Brian Tracy, #NFDB
1180:According to Paul in Romans 2, the conscience is like a radio receiver picking up transmissions from that seat of justice. ~ Timothy J Keller, #NFDB
1181:As of January of 2013 almost half the world lived on less than $2.5 a day, and 80% of the world lived on less than $10 a day ~ James Altucher, #NFDB
1182:As Peter Drucker said, “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.”2 ~ Eric Ries, #NFDB
1183:conservative because “he accepted the need of dealing with things as they were, not as he would have wished them to be.”2 ~ James M McPherson, #NFDB
1184:How beautiful that after 2,000 years, no one can outdo "God is love." It's the most perfectly concise, hopeful phrase in history. ~ Mark Hart, #NFDB
1185:If anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation; old things have passed away, and look, new things have come. 2 Corinthians 5:17 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1186:It's a given that if you start your own business, you're going to be (1) in control of your destiny, and (2) real busy. ~ Georgette Mosbacher, #NFDB
1187:It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than, after knowing it, to turn back. 2 Peter 2:21 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1188:Jack Simple. Though the name is ironic, because there is never anything simple about Jack.", Falling (Fade Book 2) by Kailin Gow ~ Kailin Gow, #NFDB
1189:Let the audience put 2 and 2 together so that it comes up with 4. Let them do that themselves, and they'll love you forever. ~ Vince Gilligan, #NFDB
1190:Metabolic syndrome, of which obesity and type 2 diabetes are a key part, are ultimately caused by—you guessed it—too much sugar. ~ Jason Fung, #NFDB
1191:Millennium Crisis 174 6.2 Post-Crisis Reflection:Agenda for 2000 182 6.3 The Attack on the USS Cole 190 6.4 Change and Continuity ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1192:Opposition is anything that opposes (1) us, (2) the work God desires to do in us, and (3) the work God desires to do through us. ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1193:The are two types of vegetarians: (1) those who have beef with chicken; and (2) those who are too chicken to have beef. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
1194:The life of a man is unfulfilled unless he has found the Divine. 2 June 1972
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, The True Aim of Life, 7,#NFDB
1195:Two things will paralyze our creativity faster than anything else: 1. We haven’t defined success. 2. We haven’t defined failure. ~ Todd Henry, #NFDB
1196:We did not follow cleverly contrived myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Peter 1:16 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1197:You can't go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary, and really understand it, and come out a liberal. ~ Robert Downey Jr, #NFDB
1198:You can’t hide your head in the sand without expecting your ass to get burned”
"A Destiny of Dragons (Tales From Verania, #2) ~ T J Klune,#NFDB
1199:You’re blessed when you’re at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God. Matthew 5, v.2 (The Message Version) ~ Bear Grylls, #NFDB
1200:1The LORD said to Moses, 2“Speak to the entire assembly of Israel and say to them: ‘Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1201:2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other for a change. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
1202:2.3.06.02.087: Unnecessary sharpening of pencils constitutes a waste of public resources, and will be punished as appropriate. ~ Jasper Fforde, #NFDB
1203:And you- there's no way you're 5-foot-4. If you're going to round up, at least go with something more realistic, like 5-foot-2. ~ Lisa Roecker, #NFDB
1204:A salary is, to a man's employer, what his wife's vagina is to his wife: a tool used to (1) reward; and (2) control him. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
1205:…because though a rape is reported only every 6.2 minutes in this country, the estimated total is perhaps five times as high. ~ Rebecca Solnit, #NFDB
1206:Blood and Snow 1: Blood and Snow, Revenant in Training, The Vampire Christopher, Blood Soaked Promises Blood and Snow 2: ~ RaShelle Workman, #NFDB
1207:Dictionary Definition of Delicacy 1. The quality or condition of being delicate, fragile, or sensitive. 2. Discretion, tact. ~ David Foenkinos, #NFDB
1208:Five Values that allow us to live a meaningful life: 1. Health 2. Relationships 3. Passions 4. Growth 5. Contribution ~ Joshua Fields Millburn, #NFDB
1209:Good Morning My Dear FriendsHappy and Blessed Thursday This was the animals 🐾 REACTION after I was away for 2 Weeks!📹 ➤ ©dean.schneider ~ IG •, #NFDB
1210:If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them. ~ Amy Goodman, #NFDB
1211:If we really talked about what's wrong with you, you'd need a 7-1/2-hour movie and nobody would know what category to put it in! ~ Judd Apatow, #NFDB
1212:In a landscape where a 2.8 [demo rating] keeps you on the air, you can maintain that just by treating your fans with respect. ~ Billy Lawrence, #NFDB
1213:In order of importance to me are: 1) the long term trend, 2) the current chart pattern, and 3)picking a good spot to buy or sell. ~ Ed Seykota, #NFDB
1214:It is the the duty of a Webmaster to allocate URIs which you will be able to stand by in 2 years, in 20 years, in 200 years. ~ Tim Berners Lee, #NFDB
1215:One of the tasks of System 2 is to overcome the impulses of System 1. In other words, System 2 is in charge of self-control. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
1216:PROLOG 프로그래밍은 다음과 같은 사항들로 되어 있다. 1) 대상과 그들간의 관계에 대한 사실(Facts) 선언 2) 대상과 그들간의 관계에 대한 규칙(Rules)의 정의 3) 대상과 그들간의 관계에 대한 물음(Questions) ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1217:The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it. ~ Charles Colson, #NFDB
1218:Therefore, I will most gladly boast all the more about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may reside in me. 2 Corinthians 12:9 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1219:...thinking about laughing with 2 yr old Findlay today - Dostoyevsky was right, “The soul is healed by being with children.” ... ~ John Geddes, #NFDB
1220:To a writer, an open browser tab is like a glass of whiskey. 1 or 2 can help the work. Too many ensures that nothing gets done. ~ Andy Ihnatko, #NFDB
1221:1. An 'unit' is that by virtue of which each of the things that exist is called one.
2. A 'number' is a multiple composed of units. ~ Euclid,#NFDB
1222:2 When there is moral rot within a nation, its government topples easily. But wise and knowledgeable leaders bring stability. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1223:As you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith. Colossians 2:6–7 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1224:For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, an most of the conflict in the world comes from that. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
1225:I can clap really fast. I can beatbox. I can type the alphabet in under 2 seconds. That's probably the one I'm most proud of. ~ Asa Butterfield, #NFDB
1226:If we believe terrorists are past redemption, we should just rip up like 1/2 the New Testament because it was written by one. ~ Shane Claiborne, #NFDB
1227:I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to guard what has been entrusted to me until that day. 2 Timothy 1:12 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1228:In November 1981, Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos banned video games and gave arcade owners two weeks to destroy them.2 A ~ Steven L Kent, #NFDB
1229:I was just passing buy some racks of socks and remembered I needed some. So I picked 'em up. 1 black, 2 grey and 3 white pairs. ~ Lucas Grabeel, #NFDB
1230:Mother Teresa said: Today it is very fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them.2 ~ Heidi Baker, #NFDB
1231:Second, if you are one of those rare women who is a size 2 and convinced you're fat, be careful. You're probably delusional. ~ Shaunti Feldhahn, #NFDB
1232:The Lord gives wisdom (sophia), from his face come knowledge (gnosis) and understanding (sunesis)
~ Anonymous, The Bible, Proverbs 2.6, [T5],#NFDB
1233:[The PlayStation 2 is a] historic, a mass-market appliance that fundamentally changes society in the way the printing press did. ~ Trip Hawkins, #NFDB
1234:There are 2 kinds of people in the world- those who walk into a room and say "There you are" and those who say, "Here I am! ~ Abigail Van Buren, #NFDB
1235:What happens when it’s 2 a.m. and you’re alone in a hotel room with the devil’s minibar? Minibar – one; Marissa – zero. ~ Marissa Jaret Winokur, #NFDB
1236:When the world has 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 nuclear plants, can we call that a safe world? I think we need to properly have this debate. ~ Naoto Kan, #NFDB
1237:When you walk to the end of a fiction, its procedure is 1) intuitive; and 2) emotional. Its intelligence is emotional, I think. ~ Fred D Aguiar, #NFDB
1238:2. Boast not thyself in thy riches if thou hast them, nor in thy friends if they be powerful, but in God, who giveth all things, ~ Thomas Kempis, #NFDB
1239:6 of 14 years have one Friday the 13th. 6 of 14 years have two Friday the 13th. 2 of 14 years have three Friday the 13th. ~ Old Farmer s Almanac, #NFDB
1240:By this we know that we are in Him. He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked. —1 John 2:5–6 ~ Paul David Washer, #NFDB
1241:For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
1242:He did not commit sin, and no deceit was found in His mouth… . [He] committed Himself to the One who judges justly. 1 Peter 2:22–23 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1243:I miss the $2 bill, 'cause I can break a two. $20, no. $10, no. $5, maybe, $2? Oh yeah. What do you need, a one and another one? ~ Mitch Hedberg, #NFDB
1244:I will be with you when you pass through the waters, and when you pass through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. Isaiah 43:2 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1245:Nor shall any partake of the benefit of Christ's sacrifice, or feast upon it, who are not first circumcised in heart, Col. 2:11. ~ Matthew Henry, #NFDB
1246:Novice Traders trade 5 to 10 times too big. They are taking 5 to 10% risks on a trade they should be taking 1 to 2 percent risks. ~ Bruce Kovner, #NFDB
1247:PHILIPPIANS 2:13: God's will-healing— is working in you. For it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1248:Randy Alcorn reminds us of “the Jerusalem converts who eagerly sold their possessions to give to the needy (Acts 2:45; 4:32–35). ~ Mark Driscoll, #NFDB
1249:This leads to frustration. Even Paul says, “For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them?” (1 Cor. 2:11). ~ Henry Cloud, #NFDB
1250:...we should all read and forever remember Revelation 2:10 - here's what I require of you, that you should 'be faithful unto death. ~ Nik Ripken, #NFDB
1251:(1) There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it. (2) I would like to be friends with Beyoncé Knowles. ~ Mindy Kaling, #NFDB
1252:1. What is our mission? 2. Who is our customer? 3. What does the customer value? 4. What are our results? 5. What is our plan?2 ~ Peter F Drucker, #NFDB
1253:After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother and s his brothers [2] and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1254:Bacteria dominated our planet for another 2,500 million years before the first truly complex organisms appeared in the fossil record. ~ Nick Lane, #NFDB
1255:Barbara laughed when she saw the list of objectives: “1. Get pictures, 2. Refine space guidance techniques, 3. Impress the world. ~ Nathalia Holt, #NFDB
1256:By about 2 to 3 million years ago, the bipedal plains hominids already had a leg and foot structure almost identical to our own. ~ Bernd Heinrich, #NFDB
1257:feet. Chapter 2 EVENT -04:48 Hours Jewell Island, Maine The wind rose gently, nudging the campfire’s spectral plume toward Alex. ~ Steven Konkoly, #NFDB
1258:For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. 2 Chronicles 16:9 ~ Kyle Idleman, #NFDB
1259:For [you] are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for [you] to do. (Eph. 2:10) ~ Renee Swope, #NFDB
1260:from the dead, giving them new, glorified bodies that will dwell forever on the New Earth (2 Peter 3:13; Rev. 21:1, 22–27). ~ John F MacArthur Jr, #NFDB
1261:Godly grief produces a repentance not to be regretted and leading to salvation, but worldly grief produces death. 2 Corinthians 7:10 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1262:I'm very happy where 3-D is going, which is that it's becoming a choice - and thankfully, most people are still choosing 2-D. ~ Christopher Nolan, #NFDB
1263:It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years. ~ Jim Cooper, #NFDB
1264:Rule #1: You will learn lessons. Rule #2: There are no mistakes—only lessons. Rule #3: A lesson is repeated until it is learned. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
1265:Squee.” 1 (verb): To emit an onomatopoetic girlish swooning sound out of pure fanboy adulation. 2 (noun): the sound itself. ~ Neil Patrick Harris, #NFDB
1266:We learn the Word of God so that we will be strengthened in godliness and equipped sufficiently for every good work (2 Tim. 3:16–17). ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1267:w For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare [2] and not for evil, x to give you a future and a hope. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1268:Whenever people are separated by racism, the church is to work to manifest the one new humanity Jesus died to create (Eph 2:14). ~ Gregory A Boyd, #NFDB
1269:When people talk about Web 2.0, they mean that when the Internet, the World Wide Web, first became popular, it was one way only. ~ Edward Snowden, #NFDB
1270:AirBnB spent 5 months interviewing their first employee, before they hired someone and in their first year, they only hired 2 people. ~ Sam Altman, #NFDB
1271:And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the Lord your God. Deuteronomy 28:2 ~ Henry T Blackaby, #NFDB
1272:Because we are made in God’s image (Gen. 1:26) and have the “mind of Christ” (1 Cor. 2:16), our normal state is one of perfection. ~ Caroline Leaf, #NFDB
1273:Be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God. Romans 12:2 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1274:chapter 2 Raised by Wolves The biggest gift of being unambiguously mentally ill is the time I’ve saved myself trying to be normal. ~ Mark Vonnegut, #NFDB
1275:For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him” (2 Chron. 16:9). ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
1276:Here in the United States, where there is a reported rape every 6.2 minutes, and one in five women will be raped in her lifetime, ~ Rebecca Solnit, #NFDB
1277:If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'. ~ Georg C Lichtenberg, [T5], #NFDB
1278:I get criticized for taking roles in films like Ghost Rider 2, but if you look at my résumé, dude, I've mixed it up as much as I can. ~ Idris Elba, #NFDB
1279:I live my life based on 2 principles. One, I live as if today was my last day on earth. Two, I live today as if I am going to live forever. ~ Osho, #NFDB
1280:I'm going down 2 Alphabet Street I'm gonna crown the first girl that I meet I'm gonna talk so sexy She'll want me from my head 2 my feet. ~ Prince, #NFDB
1281:It's not how long you live that matters. It's what you live for." -Josephine to Apollo (Trials of Apollo: Book 2 The Dark Prophecy) ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1282:Jonathan Ellis: “Facebook’s Cassandra Paper, Annotated and Compared to Apache Cassandra 2.0,” datastax.com, September 12, 2013. ~ Martin Kleppmann, #NFDB
1283:Meditation on Savitri, October 2, 2018 TuesdayThus has been made this real impossible world,An obvious miracle or convincing show. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
1284:My reasons are the same as for any mathematical conjecture: (1) It is a legitimate mathematical possibility, and (2) I do not know. ~ Jack Edmonds, #NFDB
1285:Pues tú eres Dios, oh Soberano SEÑOR; tus palabras son verdad, y le has prometido estas cosas buenas a tu siervo. 2 SAMUEL 7.28 (NTV) ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
1286:Royal Prisoner Marcel Allain Chapter 1 A ROYAL JAG Chapter 2 MOTHER CITRON'S TENANTS Chapter 3 THE TRAGEDY OF THE RUE DE MONCEAU ~ H Rider Haggard, #NFDB
1287:The average woman loses a half million dollars over a lifetime, but women with higher degrees lose $2 million over a lifetime. ~ Patricia Arquette, #NFDB
1288:The Christian God is slow to anger and rich in mercy (see Exodus 34: 6, echoed in Joel 2: 13 and many other places in Scripture). ~ David G Benner, #NFDB
1289:The Columbia River Bar has swallowed more ships, about 2,100 at last count, than any other location on the Pacific north of Mexico. ~ Timothy Egan, #NFDB
1290:The notion of communion with a loved one, by eating of his body and drinking of his blood, may be much, much older than 2,000 years. ~ Neil Oliver, #NFDB
1291:There are Two Secrets to Success: 1. Don't tell ANYONE Everything you know 2.If you have to ask what Jazz is, you'll never know. ~ Louis Armstrong, #NFDB
1292:We have three kinds of family
1.Those we are born to
2.Those who are born to us
3.And those we let into our hearts ♥ ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
1293:2. To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. ~ Sun Tzu, #NFDB
1294:Almost 4.25 lakh toilets were built in 2.62 schools nationwide in one year; this gives self-confidence that we can do what we want. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
1295:And don't worry, if I get thrown in jail in Manila, Beyonce will just bail me out. Sold out night 2 in the Philippines. I love it here! ~ Lady Gaga, #NFDB
1296:And so it’s a subtle balance: 1.You have a bold vision for the future pulling you forward. 2.Yet . . . you’re happy in the NOW. ~ Vishen Lakhiani, #NFDB
1297:A Prius is not a true hybrid, really. The current Prius is, like, 2 percent electric. It's a gasoline car with slightly better mileage. ~ Elon Musk, #NFDB
1298:A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
1299:Be imitators of God, as dearly loved children. And walk in love, as the Messiah also loved us and gave Himself for us. Ephesians 5:1–2 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1300:Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.” Hebrews 13:2 King James Version (KJV) ~ Hope Callaghan, #NFDB
1301:Biblical compatibility has little to do with similar interests, but rather, differing roles (Ephesians 5:22-33; Titus 2:2-8). ~ John F MacArthur Jr, #NFDB
1302:CHANGE 1: MEDITATE THE CHANGE: Find a quiet place and sit for 2 minutes, focusing on your breathing. is is a simple form of meditation. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1303:CHAPTER 2: THE GRACE-SHAPED LIFE 1. Jim Reimann, Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables (Nashville: Word Publishing, 2001), 16. 2. Ibid., 29–31. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
1304:Didn’t God choose the poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom He has promised to those who love Him? James 2:5 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1305:Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete proving nature's laws wrong it learned 2 walk without having feet ~ Tupac Shakur, #NFDB
1306:For me doing Cheaper By The Dozen 2 was great because I did have a lot bigger part in that movie and every situation is different. ~ Carmen Electra, #NFDB
1307:Getting things done requires two basic components: defining (1) what “done” means (outcome) and (2) what “doing” looks like (action). ~ David Allen, #NFDB
1308:Goal; Start some kind of diary or journal or place just for you to keep to keep track of your life and your feelings.
December -2- ~ Demi Lovato,#NFDB
1309:I lift up my eyes to the hills-where does my help come from? My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth." Psalm 121:1,2 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1310:I'm one of those actors who is going to come in with 2,500 ideas. You can shoot down 2,499, but one of them you're going to like. ~ Woody Harrelson, #NFDB
1311:In their last four Blackburn have lost 3-0, 3-1, 5-3 and 3-2. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out that's 12 goals conceded ~ Alan Brazil, #NFDB
1312:It wasnt fair..
3 days away from the beginning of the harvest,
2 days away from salvation,
a breath away from redemption. ~ Yasmina Khadra,#NFDB
1313:Out o' th' moon, I do assure thee. I was the man in the moon when time was,
--Stephano
(Act II, scene 2, lines 136-137) ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
1314:Paul tells us here in 2 Corinthians that the King of the universe
places His indelible mark on the soul of every one of His people. ~ R C Sproul,#NFDB
1315:Sus ojos fueron mi ruina.
—Weston. —Él me tendió la mano—. ¿Y tú eres?
Estoy arruinada.
—Kiersten.
–capítulo 2 ~ Rachel Van Dyken,#NFDB
1316:The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you. 2 Corinthians 13:13 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1317:There are three choices for a woman like me:
1) Be sad and lonely
2) Be the one who is cheated on
3) be the other woman ~ Jodi Picoult,#NFDB
1318:Why did the blonde get so excited after she finished her jigsaw puzzle in only six months? Because on the box it said 'From 2 to 4 years. ~ Various, #NFDB
1319:You leave white people alone in constant isolation for 2,000 years, and you know what their musical contribution will be? Riverdance! ~ Greg Proops, #NFDB
1320:And when you realise that men produce about 1,500 sperm every second,2 the potential for changes to creep in to the genome is obvious. ~ Nessa Carey, #NFDB
1321:Basely indeed they may behave to us,
But they cannot debase us."
Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller
Act 1, Scene 2 ~ Friedrich Schiller,#NFDB
1322:Can you smell his sweat? That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, it's the smell of schizophrenia. ~ Thomas Harris, #NFDB
1323:George Carlin once observed, in some company it’s perfectly all right to prick your finger, but very bad form to finger your prick. 2 ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1324:I encountered three basic keys to language learning: 1. Learn pronunciation first. 2. Don’t translate. 3. Use spaced repetition systems. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1325:If the apostles reminded even Paul himself to remember the poor (Galatians 2:10), then surely the rest of us need such a reminder. ~ Russell D Moore, #NFDB
1326:it is good to be sitting some place
in public at 2:30 in the afternoon
without getting the flesh ripped from
your bones. ~ Charles Bukowski,#NFDB
1327:lead us safe through all difficult places. Keep us always with constant felicities. ~ Sri Aurobindo15 August 1915Arya - A Philosophical Review Vol 2, #NFDB
1328:Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20). 2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson’s Law). ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
1329:Only five NATO countries, including the United States, are currently meeting their minimum requirement to spend 2% of GDP on defense. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
1330:The 5 Second Rule The moment you have an instinct to act on a goal you must 5-4-3-2-1 and physically move or your brain will stop you. ~ Mel Robbins, #NFDB
1331:The four cornerstones of the American political psyche are 1) emotion substituted for thought, 2) fear, 3) ignorance and 4) propaganda ~ Joe Bageant, #NFDB
1332:We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering. ~ Viktor E Frankl, #NFDB
1333:You see, authentic God experience always “burns” you, yet does not destroy you (Exodus 3:2–3), just as the burning bush did to Moses. ~ Richard Rohr, #NFDB
1334:Arson in 2-6, home invasion in 2-10, cocaine trafficking in 5-7: Pick a courtroom—any courtroom—and you’d be sure to be horrified. ~ Jilliane Hoffman, #NFDB
1335:Be strong and let us fight bravely for our people and the cities of our God. The Lord will do what is good in his sight” (2 Sam. 10:12). ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1336:Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul. (1 PETER 2:11) ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
1337:Est profecto deus, qui, quæ nos gerimus, auditque et videt. ~ There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate'er we do. ~ Plautus, Captivi, II. 2. 63, #NFDB
1338:Five styles of wrong livelihood
1. hypocrisy
2. flattery
3. soliciting
4. expropriating
5. calculated generosity ~ Dalai Lama XIV,#NFDB
1339:he said: (1) accept yourself, (2) forget yourself, (3) find something to do and to care about that is more important to you than you are. ~ John Holt, #NFDB
1340:Historians estimate that up to half of nineteenth-century city residents were either boarding or maintaining a boardinghouse.2 Single ~ Bella DePaulo, #NFDB
1341:I always loved rapping ever since Snoop said "1-2-3-4," I was repeating lines, but I didn't start writing my own lyrics until I was twelve. ~ Fashawn, #NFDB
1342:In the late nineteenth century, nearly half of all US workers were employed on farms; by 2000 that fraction had fallen below 2 percent. ~ Martin Ford, #NFDB
1343:In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity" Ch.2, 8 ~ John Locke, #NFDB
1344:ISA33.2 O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1345:I turned down Short Circuit 2 too and I now wish I hadn't. Sequels are a lot of fun and you get to hang out with all your friends. ~ Steve Guttenberg, #NFDB
1346:I would sacrifice 1,000 yards rushing to win a Super Bowl. But I want to be the first back to have back-to-back 2,000-yard seasons. ~ Adrian Peterson, #NFDB
1347:Step 1: Wonder at something. Step 2: Invite others to wonder with you. You should wonder at the things nobody else is wondering about. ~ Austin Kleon, #NFDB
1348:The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out—but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity. [ 1 John 2:17 MSG ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
1349:Two Rules for Happy Living: 1. Be able to experience anything. 2. Cause only those things which others are able to experience easily. ~ L Ron Hubbard, #NFDB
1350:We are His creation—created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1351:What bothers me most about today is that we're getting used 2 it. ENOUGH. 2nd amendment must go. Violence has 2 stop. Culture MUST change. ~ Jay Mohr, #NFDB
1352:1. You're confined to a hospital bed. 2. You're 11. 3. You sustained brain damage in a car accident. -Reasons to watch shows on " The CW ~ Rob Delaney, #NFDB
1353:After three days, they found Him in the temple complex sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. Luke 2:46 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1354:Couples should abstain from sexual relations at least 2 or 3 days a week. Gradually try to reach a stage of celibacy most days. ~ Mata Amritanandamayi, #NFDB
1355:Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete proving nature's laws wrong it learned 2 walk
without having feet ~ Tupac Shakur,#NFDB
1356:Gold is not overvalued at $500, and gold will not be overvalued at $1,500 or $2,000. The real money is buying gold and putting it away. ~ Peter Schiff, #NFDB
1357:Greece is a medium-sized country in Europe. Our debt accounts for only 2.5 percent of the total of all members of the euro zone. ~ Evangelos Venizelos, #NFDB
1358:I live my life based on 2 principles. One, I live as if today was my last day on earth. Two, I live today as if I am going to live forever. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
1359:in certain situations, people are two to three times more motivated to make a change to avoid a loss than they are to achieve a gain.2 ~ Donald Miller, #NFDB
1360:In Nurturant Parent morality, the teenage girl is “in trouble,” she needs help and deserves empathy (moral-action Category 2—helping). ~ George Lakoff, #NFDB
1361:Inwardly, we ought to be different in every respect, but our outward dress should blend in with the crowd.” —SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 5.2 ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
1362:I was one of those guys who never wanted to start their own business. I never saw myself as a leader. I saw myself as a great No. 2. ~ Robert Herjavec, #NFDB
1363:My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema). ~ Charles Stross, #NFDB
1364:My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother. ~ Justin Townes Earle, #NFDB
1365:No eres un accidente Yo soy tu Creador. Te cuidé aun antes de que nacieras. ISAÍAS 44:2 (par) Dios no juega a los dados. ALBERT EINSTEIN ~ Rick Warren, #NFDB
1366:O gentlemen, the time of life is short . . . And if we live, we live to tread on kings. Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I (act 5, scene 2) ~ Carlo Rovelli, #NFDB
1367:out·li·er \-,l()r\ noun 1: something that is situated away from or classed differently from a main or related body 2: a statistical ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
1368:Please wake me when I'm free
I cannot bear captivity
4 I would rather be stricken blind
Than 2 live without expression of mind ~ Tupac Shakur,#NFDB
1369:Potonglah kaki tangan seseorang lalu masukkan di tempat 2 x 3 meter dan berilah kebebasan padanya. Inilah kemerdekaan pers di Indonesia. ~ Soe Hok Gie, #NFDB
1370:Proper apologies have three parts:
1) What I did was wrong.
2) I feel badly that I hurt you.
3) How do I make this better? ~ Randy Pausch,#NFDB
1371:PROVERBS 24:1–2 “Be not envious of evil men, nor desire to be with them, for their hearts devise violence, and their lips talk of trouble. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1372:Sex and the City 2, a movie which goes some way toward justifying the global resentment against America and the English-speaking world. ~ Mark Kermode, #NFDB
1373:Sex is Number 1 of my Top-10 joys in retirement. Number 2 is reading How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free. I forgot the other eight. ~ Ernie J Zelinski, #NFDB
1374:So just to be clear, I'm not going to sign any package that somehow prevents the top rate from going up for folks at the top 2 percent. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
1375:Soothsayer’s warning to Antony in Antony and Cleopatra, “If thou dost play with him at any game, / Thou art sure to lose” (2.3.26–27), ~ James Shapiro, #NFDB
1376:the Cray-2 supercomputer (introduced in 1985) and iPad 2 tablet (introduced in 2011) had almost identical peak calculation speeds. ~ Erik Brynjolfsson, #NFDB
1377:Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 2 CORINTHIANS 5:17 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1378:Through the proof of this service, they will glorify God for your obedience to the confession of the gospel of Christ. 2 Corinthians 9:13 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1379:when guidance comes to you from Me, whoever follows My guidance - there will be no fear concerning them, nor will they grieve...' (2: 38). ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1380:12[†]After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother and s his brothers [2] and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1381:그림 15 탑 마운트 리그(top mount rig)의 모습 그림 16 바텀 마운트 리그(bottom mount rig)의 모습 2.2. 양안식 입체영상의 문제점 이번 장에서는 양안식 입체영상을 촬영할 때 발생할 수 있는 다양한 종류의 문제점에 대해 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1382:1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20). 2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson’s Law). ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
1383:9 Give instruction [2] to a wise man, and he will be n still wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will o increase in learning. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1384:A faith and knowledge resting on the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time. —Titus 1:2 ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
1385:And now, dear children, continue in him, so that when he appears we may be confident and unashamed before him at his coming. —1 JOHN 2:28 ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
1386:And what’s he then that says I play the villain, / When this advice is free I give, and honest, /Probal to thinking (2.3.321-323) ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1387:Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. (1 Peter 2:11) ~ Francis Chan, #NFDB
1388:Bhagavan—in Tibetan, “One who has destroyed the four Maras,”2 which are death, distraction, pride, and the emotional obscurations. The ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB
1389:Cognitive strain, whatever its source, mobilizes System 2, which is more likely to reject the intuitive answer suggested by System 1. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
1390:Deadly Beliefs Chapter 14 |Mifflintown, Pennsylvania – February 2, 2015
“All the people like us are We, and everyone else is They. ~ Rudyard Kipling,#NFDB
1391:Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried.”2 We believe the same about capitalism. ~ Erik Brynjolfsson, #NFDB
1392:«En la medida en que el Espíritu del Señor opera en nosotros, nos parecemos más a él y reflejamos más su gloria». 2 Corintios 3:18 (BAD). ~ Rick Warren, #NFDB
1393:God is able to make every grace overflow to you, so that in every way, always having everything you need, you may excel. 2 Corinthians 9:8 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1394:Seventy-five percent of dementia walk-aways on flat terrain would be found within 2.4 kilometers, approximately a mile and a half, far ~ Joseph Heywood, #NFDB
1395:Some books are drenched sands, On which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps, Like a wrecked argosy. ~ Alexander Smith, A Life Drama, scene 2., #NFDB
1396:Stay close 2 those who r by ur side in happy times, because they do not harbor jealousy or envy in their hearts, only joy 2 c u happy... ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1397:There are three distinct requirements for personal freedom: 1) a heart at peace, 2) healthy relationships, and 3) upright character. ~ Benjamin P Hardy, #NFDB
1398:Today, as it was 2,000 years ago, the Kingdom of God is within each of us. It is not within a church, a temple, a mosque or synagogue. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
1399:Why did the blonde get so excited after she finished her jigsaw puzzle in only six months?
Because on the box it said 'From 2 to 4 years. ~ Various,#NFDB
1400:2+2=5 wasn't intentional. I thought you carry a 1 every time there are two 2's in an equation. I'm not stupid, the mathematicians is stupid ~ Thom Yorke, #NFDB
1401:A child from the age of 2 or 3 absorbs what is in the environment and what generates hatred for anyone perceived to be different. ~ Rita Levi Montalcini, #NFDB
1402:Even something very small can cast a large shadow when it is close to the sun.
Kova, Elise. Fire Falling (Air Awakens Series Book 2) ~ Elise Kova,#NFDB
1403:For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility. EPHESIANS 2:12-14 ~ David Platt, #NFDB
1404:Hey G-Town Gal: turn your underwear inside out! Then u only have to do laundry every 2 weeks—saves on detergent & trips to Laundromat! ~ Patricia Heaton, #NFDB
1405:I have been crucified with Christ and Christ lives in me. I live by faith in the Son of God, who loves me and gave Himself for me." Gal 2:20 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1406:I wish to be an “I” no longer. I reject my “I.” My desire is to be a “He.” “When He is revealed, we shall be like Him” (1 John 3:2). ~ Richard Wurmbrand, #NFDB
1407:Levanto la vista hacia las montañas, ¿viene de allí mi ayuda? 2¡Mi ayuda viene del SEÑOR, quien hizo el cielo y la tierra! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1408:maintained 2-million-year-old solutions to information transfer first invented by Homo erectus. This possibility cannot be dismissed. ~ Daniel L Everett, #NFDB
1409:Who cared whether you could change motor oil when you could snap a rottweiler’s neck in 2.8 seconds? Now there was a practical skill. ~ Kelley Armstrong, #NFDB
1410:Why did the blonde get so excited after she finished her jigsaw puzzle in only six months? Because on the box it said 'From 2 to 4 years.' *** ~ Various, #NFDB
1411:You should quit trying only after two conditions have been met: 1.) You've given yourself a legitimate shot. 2.) Trying is no longer fun. ~ Terry Rossio, #NFDB
1412:You were called to this, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you should follow in His steps. 1 Peter 2:21 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1413:2. Don’t diversify, don’t splinter, don’t try to do too many things at once. This is, of course, the corollary to the ‘do’: be focused! ~ Peter F Drucker, #NFDB
1414:2 percent of America’s electricity now goes to keeping the Internet cool, to keeping the link unbroken, for America and for the world. ~ Simon Winchester, #NFDB
1415:All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness. 2 Timothy 3:16 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1416:A woman arriving at Montreal airport on Halloween last year was carrying in her luggage three pumpkins filled with 4.4 lb. (2 kg) of cocaine. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1417:(Ephesians 2:8-10). We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed. ~ Timothy J Keller, #NFDB
1418:Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theatre. ~ Gail Godwin, as cited in Robert Byrne's The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said #766, #NFDB
1419:... he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him ...” (1 Corinthians 14:2). ~ Chris Oyakhilome, #NFDB
1420:It is indispensable to keep the faith and the will to conquer. 2 May 1949
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, Faith and the Divine Grace, FAITH [80],#NFDB
1421:It varies by community. At (one local community) we've never offered them. But at most communities, we offer 2 or 3 percent off base price. ~ Roger Lewis, #NFDB
1422:I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2? ~ Ned Beatty, #NFDB
1423:Medina stated in 1954 that 'it would be difficult to exaggerate the importance of investment banking to the national econ- omy.'2 This remark ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1424:Need a distraction today? Not only does 12 + 1 = 11 + 2, but the letters "twelve plus one" rearrange to give you "eleven plus two." ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson, #NFDB
1425:No elegir no soluciona nada, solo aleja las 2 opciones y te sitúa en un limbo en el que todo se para. Y tú dejas de crecer y de vivir ~ El sabet Benavent, #NFDB
1426:opportunity for new entrants is to fully embrace the potential of Web 2.0. Companies that succeed will create applications that learn from ~ Tim O Reilly, #NFDB
1427:1. Have I decided on a single meaning for each term in this question? 2. Can an answer to this question be acted upon to improve things? ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
1428:At a time when we can split the atom, land on the moon, and decode the human genome, why do 2 billion people live on less than $2 a day? ~ Charles Wheelan, #NFDB
1429:Biological neurons operate at a peak speed of about 200 Hz, a full seven orders of magnitude slower than a modern microprocessor (~ 2 GHz). ~ Nick Bostrom, #NFDB
1430:He who rides 2 asses bound to fall on his own"
Hag ask eh mama,"how e mouth so lang?'
Mama say, "WAIT BETTA YOU AH GROW, YU GUH KNOW ~ Anonymous,#NFDB
1431:How great you are, O Sovereign Lord! There is no one like you, and there is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears. (2 Sam. 7:22) ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1432:I also saw the Holy City, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, pre- pared like a bride adorned for her husband. Revelation 21:2 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1433:I applied what the unofficial Humvee manual called 2-40 air-conditioning, which meant you opened two windows and drove at forty miles an hour. ~ Lee Child, #NFDB
1434:III. THEOREMS: 1. Every intentional act is a Magical Act. 2. Every successful act has conformed to the postulate.
~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA, Magick,#NFDB
1435:Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual. ~ Dennis Prager, #NFDB
1436:Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest.” —LUKE 2:13–14 ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
1437:The U.S. 10-year Treasury yield US10YT=RR touched a two-month top at 2.20 percent having climbed from 1.92 percent in little more than a week. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1438:Una vez que una ilusión se reconoce como tal, desaparece. 2 Niégate a aceptar el sufrimiento, y eliminarás el pensamiento de sufrimiento. ~ Helen Schucman, #NFDB
1439:We who live are always given over to death because of Jesus, so that Jesus' life may also be revealed in our mortal flesh. 2 Corinthians 4:11 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1440:When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
1441:1. Optimize potential.
2. Facilitate empowerment.
3. Implement visioning.
4. Strategize priorities.
5. Augment core structures. ~ Connie Willis,#NFDB
1442:1. You must let the pain visit.
2. You must allow it teach you
3. You must not allow it overstay.
(Three routes to healing) ~ Ijeoma Umebinyuo,#NFDB
1443:2Count it all joy, my brothers, [2] when you meet trials of various kinds, 3for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1444:A perfected human world cannot be created by men or composed of men who are themselves imperfect. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, 2.28 - The Divine Life, #NFDB
1445:Barcarola (#2)
OLTRE tomba
Qualche cosa?
E che ne dici?
Saremo felici?
Terra mai posa,
E mar rimbomba.
~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti,#NFDB
1446:Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable. —Anorak’s Almanac, Chapter 91, Verses 1–2 ~ Ernest Cline, #NFDB
1447:Cognitive strain, whatever its source, mobilizes System 2, which is more likely to reject the intuitive answer suggested by System 1. The ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
1448:Estoy equivocado mi casa no es un volcan, yo lo soy, y los ultimos 2 anos han creado un gigante dormido que ya no va a tolerar ser ignorado ~ Katie McGarry, #NFDB
1449:Every year, humanity produces some 30,000 films, 2 million books and 100,000 albums, and 95 million people visit a museum or art gallery. ~ Alain de Botton, #NFDB
1450:Good," said Dr. Rust. "Take Elizabeth up to stack 9 and show her the ropes."
"But the ropes are on stack 2."
"I meant metaphorically. ~ Polly Shulman,#NFDB
1451:Gweneth Paltrow is a joke. Her life is like taking bullets for a soldier. What a joke! My 2 sons serving in the military should talk to her. ~ Cindy McCain, #NFDB
1452:Having a highly trained obstetrical surgeon attend a normal birth is analogous to having a pediatric surgeon babysit a healthy 2-year-old. ~ Marsden Wagner, #NFDB
1453:If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea. ~ Ben Casnocha, #NFDB
1454:Il a développé le Haunebu 2. Edward Murrow avec William Shirer. ~ Jean Maximillien De La Croix de Lafayette, #NFDB
1455:It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep. (Psalm 127:2) ~ Tim Challies, #NFDB
1456:I was not born a size 2. I'm not skinny, period. I'm not willing to sleep with the director or step on somebody else's neck to get the job. ~ Queen Latifah, #NFDB
1457:lift up my eyes to the mountains — where does my help come from? My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth. PSALM 121:1 – 2 ~ Randy Frazee, #NFDB
1458:My existence was not random, nor was it an accident. God knew who He was creating, and He designed met for a specific work. [Ephesians 2:10] ~ Francis Chan, #NFDB
1459:On the flip side, those who profess salvation but later fall away, demonstrate that their profession was never genuine (1 John 2:19). ~ John F MacArthur Jr, #NFDB
1460:Praise the LORD, my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name. Praise the LORD, my soul, and forget not all his benefits. (Ps. 103:1–2) ~ Renee Swope, #NFDB
1461:The promises of Scripture may very roughly be reduced to five heads. It is promised (1) that we shall be with Christ; (2) that we shall be like ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1462:The soul of our music, The Monkees' music, lies somewhere inbetween the 1 1/2 , the 2 1/2, the 3 3/4 and th giant C-major chord on the piano! ~ Frank Zappa, #NFDB
1463:to focus on a task we need: 1. To be in a distraction-free environment 2. To have control over what we are doing at every moment ~ Hector Garcia Puigcerver, #NFDB
1464:2[†] q If anyone imagines that he knows something, r he does not yet know as he ought to know. 3But if anyone loves God, s he is known by God. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1465:And to add greater honours to his age Than man could give him, he died fearing God. ~ William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (c. 1613), Act IV, scene 2, line 67, #NFDB
1466:APOTOME (APO'TOME) n.s.[from to cut off.]1.In mathematicks,the remainder or difference of two incommensurable quantities.2.In musick, ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
1467:Association of ideas depends upon two principles known, respectively, as (1) the law of contiguity; and (2) the law of similarity. ~ William Walker Atkinson, #NFDB
1468:Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 ~ R R Banks, #NFDB
1469:Faithful continued prayer is one key to answered prayer. As James expresses it, "You do not have, because you do not ask God" (James 4:2). ~ John F Walvoord, #NFDB
1470:Gates and Ballmer accomplished much more by working together than they ever could alone; 1 + 1 is much larger than 2 (Habit 6: Synergize). ~ Stephen R Covey, #NFDB
1471:He was born a King. The wise men came from the East and asked, 'Where is He that is born King of the Jews?' (Matthew 2:2). He died a King. ~ W A Criswell, #NFDB
1472:I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase. ~ Diane Lane, #NFDB
1473:I'm playing somebody who is a recovering drug addict who got out of prison. It takes place in 2 weeks-the 1st 2 weeks I'm out of prison. ~ Maggie Gyllenhaal, #NFDB
1474:I was a boy that age once, and I know that 97.7 percent of their bodies are semen and the 2.8 percent is an incendiary device for spraying it. ~ Mat Johnson, #NFDB
1475:New York lesson 1 - never look lost. Lesson 2 - forget hallowed silences. It's the right of all Americans to talk at the tops of their voices. ~ Alison Fell, #NFDB
1476:There's an old adage that for every second too fast per mile in the first half of the race, you'll run at least 2 seconds slower at the end. ~ Jeff Galloway, #NFDB
1477:the same way, let your light shine before others, so n that [2] they may see your good works and o give glory to your Father who is in heaven. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1478:The word was used as a hieratic means
For the release of the imprisoned spirit
Into communion with its comrade gods. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 4:2,#NFDB
1479:thinking uses up a great deal of energy. The brain represents just 2 percent of the body’s weight, but requires almost 25 percent of its oxygen. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1480:Using volatility as a measure of risk is nuts. Risk to us is 1) the risk of permanent loss of capital, or 2) the risk of inadequate return. ~ Charlie Munger, #NFDB
1481:1. Quality land and natural resources 2. Intellectual property, or good ideas about what should be produced 3. Quality labor with unique skills ~ Tyler Cowen, #NFDB
1482:ABLUENT (A'BLUENT) adj.[abluens, Lat. from abluo, to wash away.]1. That which washes clean.2. That which has the power of cleansing.Dict. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
1483:Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war. ~ William Eldridge Odom, #NFDB
1484:HERE ARE THREE absolute truths: 1. The world is round. 2. We are all going to die. 3. No one enjoyed Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. ~ Mark Kermode, #NFDB
1485:If we thought that instead of 200 Palestinian fatalities, 2,000 dead would put an end to the fighting at a stroke, we would use much more force. ~ Ehud Barak, #NFDB
1486:I'm not a T.G.I.F. guy. I get off a plane at 2 o'clock in the morning and I'm looking for my secretary because I want to know what's going on. ~ Vijay Mallya, #NFDB
1487:LOST 2 Irish Hellhounds. Very black, like bear. Huge, like bear. Answer to Alvin and Mohammed. Like to eat everything. Like bear! REWARD! ~ Christopher Moore, #NFDB
1488:My friend, Christ has defeated the devil and disarmed him. (Colossians 2:15) The only “power” or weapon that he has against you are his lies. ~ Joseph Prince, #NFDB
1489:O God, I could be bounded in a nut shell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams. —Hamlet, act 2, scene 2 ~ Laura Bates, #NFDB
1490:She is afraid I will get lost. Lost adj. 1. No longer known. 2. Unable to find the way. 3. Ruined or destroyed. I’m afraid I already am. ~ Mary E Pearson, #NFDB
1491:Some estimate Hulu IPO could bring in $2 billion. What will the content providers get? Zero. What is Hulu without content? An empty jukebox. ~ Steven Levitan, #NFDB
1492:Sunday morning the Night Vale PTA will be holding a raffle. Tickets are only $2 each, and the winner, as usual, will never be heard from again. ~ Joseph Fink, #NFDB
1493:There's a thing with genre movies and science fiction movies that number two is the charmed; two seems to be the best. I loved 'Terminator 2.' ~ Dave Gibbons, #NFDB
1494:We are ambassadors for Christ; certain that God is appealing through us, we plead on Christ's behalf: “Be reconciled to God.” 2 Corinthians 5:20 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1495:2 is a proletariat prime, but 4, 6 and 8 are also composite proletariats. Composites of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains! ~ Karl Marx, #NFDB
1496:Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that
make life bearable. —Anorak’s Almanac, Chapter 91, Verses 1–2 ~ Ernest Cline,#NFDB
1497:Excessive attachment for material things puts a man in such a bewildering condition of existence. Bhayaṁ dvitīyābhiniveśataḥ syāt (Bhāg. 11.2.37): ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1498:If you are wondering if the Rule works if you count forward 1- 2- 3- 4- 5, instead of backwards 5- 4- 3- 2- 1, the answer is no—it doesn’t. Just ~ Mel Robbins, #NFDB
1499:I have time to write 1-2 novels per year, and get roughly novel-sized ideas every month. I have to perform triage on my own writing impulses. ~ Charles Stross, #NFDB
1500:Sculpture and painting concentrated sense
Upon an inner vision's motionless verge,
Revealed a figure of the invisible, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 4:2,#NFDB
1951 Integral Yoga
162 Poetry
121 Occultism
105 Christianity
66 Fiction
54 Psychology
43 Yoga
34 Science
34 Philosophy
12 Hinduism
8 Theosophy
8 Mysticism
8 Kabbalah
8 Integral Theory
7 Mythology
6 Buddhism
5 Cybernetics
5 Baha i Faith
3 Sufism
1 Thelema
1 Education
1 Alchemy
1183 The Mother
810 Satprem
693 Sri Aurobindo
72 Aleister Crowley
66 Nolini Kanta Gupta
55 Carl Jung
48 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
38 Sri Ramakrishna
38 John Keats
36 H P Lovecraft
30 Percy Bysshe Shelley
24 A B Purani
23 Anonymous
22 Saint John of Climacus
20 Saint Augustine of Hippo
15 Saint Teresa of Avila
13 Jorge Luis Borges
12 Vyasa
12 Rudolf Steiner
12 Li Bai
11 Plato
11 Omar Khayyam
11 Nirodbaran
11 Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia
11 George Van Vrekhem
9 Plotinus
8 Sri Ramana Maharshi
8 Rabbi Moses Luzzatto
7 William Wordsworth
7 Joseph Campbell
6 Walt Whitman
6 Robert Browning
6 Jordan Peterson
6 Bokar Rinpoche
6 Baha u llah
5 Rabindranath Tagore
5 Norbert Wiener
5 Friedrich Nietzsche
5 Edgar Allan Poe
4 Swami Krishnananda
4 Jalaluddin Rumi
3 Thubten Chodron
3 Rainer Maria Rilke
3 Ken Wilber
3 James George Frazer
3 Alice Bailey
2 William Butler Yeats
2 Swami Vivekananda
2 R Buckminster Fuller
2 Rabbi Abraham Abulafia
2 Moses de Leon
2 Jorge Luis Borges
2 Franz Bardon
2 Al-Ghazali
2 Aldous Huxley
617 Record of Yoga
143 Prayers And Meditations
132 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
104 Agenda Vol 01
84 Agenda Vol 13
66 Agenda Vol 12
63 Agenda Vol 08
62 Agenda Vol 09
60 Agenda Vol 10
54 Agenda Vol 04
52 Agenda Vol 11
52 Agenda Vol 06
51 Agenda Vol 05
50 Agenda Vol 03
49 Agenda Vol 02
46 Magick Without Tears
44 Agenda Vol 07
38 Keats - Poems
37 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
36 Lovecraft - Poems
35 Questions And Answers 1956
30 Shelley - Poems
27 The Bible
27 Liber ABA
26 Questions And Answers 1953
24 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
23 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
22 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
21 Mysterium Coniunctionis
20 City of God
19 The Future of Man
18 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
18 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
15 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
15 Let Me Explain
14 Aion
12 Vishnu Purana
12 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
12 Li Bai - Poems
11 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
11 Preparing for the Miraculous
11 Labyrinths
11 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
10 The Life Divine
10 The Interior Castle or The Mansions
10 Talks
9 Some Answers From The Mother
8 The Phenomenon of Man
8 General Principles of Kabbalah
8 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06
7 Wordsworth - Poems
7 The Synthesis Of Yoga
7 The Hero with a Thousand Faces
7 Questions And Answers 1954
7 Letters On Yoga IV
7 Letters On Yoga II
7 Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
7 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
7 A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah
6 The Secret Doctrine
6 The Red Book Liber Novus
6 Tara - The Feminine Divine
6 Maps of Meaning
6 Isha Upanishad
6 Hymn of the Universe
6 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08
6 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
6 Browning - Poems
5 The Way of Perfection
5 The Practice of Psycho therapy
5 Theosophy
5 Tagore - Poems
5 Sefer Yetzirah The Book of Creation In Theory and Practice
5 Letters On Poetry And Art
5 Kena and Other Upanishads
5 Cybernetics
5 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
5 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
5 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
4 Words Of The Mother II
4 Words Of Long Ago
4 The Study and Practice of Yoga
4 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
4 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
4 Poe - Poems
4 Letters On Yoga I
4 Anonymous - Poems
3 Whitman - Poems
3 Vedic and Philological Studies
3 Twilight of the Idols
3 The Secret Of The Veda
3 The Golden Bough
3 Song of Myself
3 Sex Ecology Spirituality
3 Rilke - Poems
3 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 03
3 How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator
3 Essays On The Gita
3 Dark Night of the Soul
3 Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin
3 A Treatise on Cosmic Fire
2 Yeats - Poems
2 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
2 The Practice of Magical Evocation
2 The Perennial Philosophy
2 The Book of Certitude
2 The Alchemy of Happiness
2 Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking
2 Symposium
2 Selected Fictions
2 Savitri
2 Questions And Answers 1955
2 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 04
2 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02
2 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 01
2 Letters On Yoga III
2 Borges - Poems
2 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2E
00.03 - Upanishadic Symbolism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The Word has four breasts. The Gods feed on two, SWAHAKAR and VASHATKAR, men upon the third, HANTAKAR,and the Ancestor upon the fourth, SWADHA 2
Ritualistically these four terms are the formulae for oblation to four Deities, Powers or Presences, whom the sacrificer wishes to please and propitiate in order to have their help and blessing and in order thereby to discharge his dharma or duty of life. Svh is the offering especially dedicated to Agni, the foremost of the Gods, for he is the divine messenger who carries men's offering to the Gods and brings their blessing to men. Vaatkr is the offering to the Gods generally. Hantakr is the offering to mankind, to our kin, an especial form of it being the worship of the guests,sarvadevamayo' tithi. Svadh is the offering to the departed Fathers (Pitris).
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Still the Upanishad says this is not the final end. There is yet a higher status of reality and consciousness to which one has to rise. For beyond the Cosmos lies the Transcendent. The Upanishad expresses this truth and experience in various symbols. The cosmic reality, we have seen, is often conceived as a septenary, a unity of seven elements, principles and worlds. Further to give it its full complex value, it is considered not as a simple septet, but a threefold heptad the whole gamut, as it were, consisting of 21 notes or syllables. The Upanishad says, this number does not exhaust the entire range; I for there is yet a 2 2nd place. This is the world beyond the Sun, griefless and deathless, the supreme Selfhood. The Veda I also sometimes speaks of the integral reality as being represented by the number 100 which is 99 + I; in other words, 99 represents the cosmic or universal, the unity being the reality beyond, the Transcendent.
Elsewhere the Upanishad describes more graphically this truth and the experience of it. It is said there that the sun has fivewe note the familiar fivemovements of rising and setting: (i) from East to West, (ii) from South to North, (iii) from West to East, (iv) from North to South and (v) from abovefrom the Zenithdownward. These are the five normal and apparent movements. But there is a sixth one; rather it is not a movement, but a status, where the sun neither rises nor sets, but is always visible fixed in the same position.
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Devalokddityam... pitlokccandramBrihadaranyaka, VI. 2.15.16.
Cndram mano bhtvAitareya, 1. 2.4; ManasascandramBrihadaranyaka,1.1.4.
00.05 - A Vedic Conception of the Poet, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
'Kavi' is an invariable epithet of the gods. The Vedas mean by this attribute to bring out a most fundamental character, an inalienable dharma of the heavenly host. All the gods are poets; and a human being can become a poet only in so far as he attains to the nature and status of a god. Who is then a kavi? The Poet is he who by his poetic power raises forms of beauty in heavenkavi kavitv divi rpam sajat.1Thus the essence of poetic power is to fashion divine Beauty, to reveal heavenly forms. What is this Heaven whose forms the Poet discovers and embodies? HeavenDyaushas a very definite connotation in the Veda. It means the luminous or divine Mind 2the mind purified of its obscurity and limitations, due to subjection to the external senses, thus opening to the higher Light, receiving and recording faithfully the deeper and vaster movements and vibrations of the Truth, giving them a form, a perfect body of the right thought and the right word. Indra is the lord of this world and he can be approached only with an enkindled intelligence, ddhay man,3a faultless understanding, sumedh. He is the supreme Artisan of the poetic power,Tash, the maker of perfect forms, surpa ktnum.4 All the gods turn towards Indra and become gods and poets, attain their Great Names of Supreme Beauty.5 Indra is also the master of the senses, indriyas, who are his hosts. It is through this mind and the senses that the poetic creation has to be manifested. The mind spreads out wide the Poet's weaving;6 the poet is the priest who calls down and works out the right thinking in the sacrificial labour of creation.7 But that creation is made in and through the inner mind and the inner senses that are alive to the subtle formation of a vaster knowledge.8 The poet envisages the golden forms fashioned out of the very profundity of the consciousness.9 For the substance, the material on which the Poet works, is Truth. The seat of the Truth the poets guard, they uphold the supreme secret Names.10 The poet has the expressive utterance, the creative word; the poet is a poet by his poetic creation-the shape faultlessly wrought out that unveils and holds the Truth.11The form of beauty is the body of the Truth.
The poet is a trinity in himself. A triune consciousness forms his personality. First of all, he is the Knower-the Seer of the Truth, kavaya satyadrara. He has the direct vision, the luminous intelligence, the immediate perception.1 2 A subtle and profound and penetrating consciousness is his,nigam, pracetas; his is the eye of the Sun,srya caku.13 He secures an increased being through his effulgent understanding.14 In the second place, the Poet is not only Seer but Doer; he is knower as well as creator. He has a dynamic knowledge and his vision itself is power, ncak;15 he is the Seer-Will,kavikratu.16 He has the blazing radiance of the Sun and is supremely potent in his self-Iuminousness.17 The Sun is the light and the energy of the Truth. Even like the Sun the Poet gives birth to the Truth, srya satyasava, satyya satyaprasavya. But the Poet as Power is not only the revealer or creator,savit, he is also the builder or fashioner,ta, and he is the organiser,vedh is personality. First of all, he is the Knower-the Seer of the Truth, kavaya satyadrara, of the Truth.18 As Savita he manifests the Truth, as Tashta he gives a perfected body and form to the Truth, and as Vedha he maintains the Truth in its dynamic working. The effective marshalling and organisation of the Truth is what is called Ritam, the Right; it is also called Dharma,19 the Law or the Rhythm, the ordered movement and invincible execution of the Truth. The Poet pursues the Path of the Right; 20 it is he who lays out the Path for the march of the Truth, the progress of the Sacrifice. 21 He is like a fast steed well-yoked, pressing forward; 2 2 he is the charger that moves straight and unswerving and carries us beyond 23into the world of felicity.
Indeed delight is the third and the supremely intimate element of the poetic personality. Dear and delightful is the poet, dear and delightful his works, priya, priyi His hand is dripping with sweetness,kavir hi madhuhastya. 24 The Poet-God shines in his pristine beauty and is showering delight. 25 He is filled with utter ecstasy so that he may rise to the very source of the luminous Energy. 26? Pure is the Divine Joy and it enters and purifies all forms as it moves to the seat of the Immortals. 27Indeed this sparkling Delight is the Poet-Seer and it is that that brings forth the creative word, the utterance of Indra. 28
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RigVeda.,VIII. 8. 2.
Rig Veda, X. 5. 2.
Rig Veda, IX. 96. 17.
Rig Veda., I. 71. 10; kavim ketum-VII. 6. 2.
Rig Veda., IX. 10. 8-9.
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Rig Veda., III. 38. 2.
Rig Veda., VIII. 8. 23.
Taittiriya Samhita, III. 55. 3.
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Rig Veda, V. 5. 2.
Rig Veda, IX. 25. 2.
Rig Veda, IX. 25. 6.
Rig Veda, IX. 25. 4.
Rig Veda, IX. 25. 5.
Rig Veda.,III. 54. 6.
Rig Veda, 111. 38. 2. 3.
Rig Veda, 1. 24. 1.
The Vedic term Kavi means literally 'a seer', 'one who has the vision', as the word 'poet' means etymologically 'a doer', 'a creator'. I have combined the two senses to equate the terms and bring out the meaning involved in their more current acceptation.
0.00a - Introduction, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
The importance of the book to me was and is five-fold. 1) It provided a yardstick by which to measure my personal progress in the understanding of the Qabalah. 2) Therefore it can have an equivalent value to the modern student. 3) It serves as a theoretical introduction to the Qabalistic foundation of the magical work of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. 4) It throws considerable light on the occasionally obscure writings of Aleister Crowley. 5) It is dedicated to Crowley, who was the Ankh-af-na-Khonsu mentioned in The Book of the Law -a dedication which served both as a token of personal loyalty and devotion to Crowley, but was also a gesture of my spiritual independence from him.
In his profound investigation into the origins and basic nature of man, Robert Ardrey in African Genesis recently made a shocking statement. Although man has begun the conquest of outer space, the ignorance of his own nature, says Ardrey, "has become institutionalized, universalized and sanctified." He further states that were a brotherhood of man to be formed today, "its only possible common bond would be ignorance of what man is."
000 - Humans in Universe, #Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, #R Buckminster Fuller, #Science
algebra, and calculation. Then about 2,000 years ago the Roman Empire all but
obliterated mathematics. A little more than 1,000 years ago Arabs and Hindus
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algebra was republished in Latin in Carthage in 1 200, it required a further 200 years
for his elucidation of the function of zero-the cipher-to be diffused into the
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United States and the USSR have for the past 30 years appropriated 200 billion
dollars annually to buy ever more effective weapons of potential destruction. The
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000.111 Up until the 20th century reality consisted of everything that humans
could see, smell, touch, and hear. Then at the entry into the 20th century the
electron was discovered. A century after the time of Malthus much of science
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opening of the 20th century-and aluminum alloys and stainless steel by the 1930s.
These new materials made it possible to design and build engine-powered all-metal
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advances of the 20th century, and employing only well-proven technologies and
already mined and ever more copiously recirculating materials, it is now technically
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family's respective 1-, 2-, 3-, 4-, 5-, and 6-tetravolumes. Frequency to the third
power, F 3 , values then multiply the primitive, already-four-dimensional volumetric
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000.131 In complement with Synergetics 1 and 2 the posters at color plates 1-10
may clarify for everyone the few scientific conceptions and mathematical tools
0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
On January 27, 1868, Mathur Babu with a party of some one hundred and twenty-five persons set out on a pilgrimage to the sacred places of northern India. At Vaidyanath in Behar, when the Master saw the inhabitants of a village reduced by poverty and starvation to mere skeletons, he requested his rich patron to feed the people and give each a piece of cloth. Mathur demurred at the added expense. The Master declared bitterly that he would not go on to Benares, but would live with the poor and share their miseries. He actually left Mathur and sat down with the villagers. Whereupon Mathur had to yield. On another occasion, two years later, Sri Ramakrishna showed a similar sentiment for the poor and needy. He accompanied Mathur on a tour to one of the latter's estates at the time of the collection of rents. For two years the harvests had failed and the tenants were in a state of extreme poverty. The Master asked Mathur to remit their rents, distribute help to them, and in addition give the hungry people a sumptuous feast. When Mathur grumbled, the Master said: "You are only the steward of the Divine Mother. They are the Mother's tenants. You must spend the Mother's money. When they are suffering, how can you refuse to help them? You must help them." Again Mathur had to give in. Sri Ramakrishna's sympathy for the poor sprang from his perception of God in all created beings. His sentiment was not that of the humanist or philanthropist. To him the service of man was the same as the worship of God.
The party entered holy Benares by boat along the Ganges. When Sri Ramakrishna's eyes fell on this city of Siva, where had accumulated for ages the devotion and piety of countless worshippers, he saw it to be made of gold, as the scriptures declare. He was visibly moved. During his stay in the city he treated every particle of its earth with utmost respect. At the Manikarnika Ghat, the great cremation ground of the city, he actually saw Siva, with ash-covered body and tawny matted hair, serenely approaching each funeral pyre and breathing into the ears of the corpses the mantra of liberation; and then the Divine Mother removing from the dead their bonds. Thus he realized the significance of the scriptural statement that anyone dying in Benares attains salvation through the grace of Siva. He paid a visit to Trailanga Swami, the celebrated monk, whom he later declared to be a real paramahamsa, a veritable image of Siva.
0.00 - The Book of Lies Text, #The Book of Lies, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
March 21st, 199 2 e.v. key entry by Frater E.A.D.N., San Diego,
California.
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import of its number. Thus Chapter 25 gives a revised
ritual of the Pentagram; 7 2 is a rondel with the refrain
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Nox adds to 210, which symbolises the reduction of
duality to unity, and thence to negativity, and is thus
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2
{Kappa-Epsilon-Phi-Alpha-Eta Beta}
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grammaton (1 plus 2 plus 3 plus 4 = 10).
It is now seen that this Hawk is not Solar, but
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Liber Legis I, 28-30.
NOTE
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In line 2, Speech with Silence.
In line 3, the Logos is declared as the Negative.
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for their number is 6 (1 plus 2 plus 3), the mystic
number of Binah; but they are called "None", because
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mystic number 6 (= 1 + 2 + 3).
(6) These are not eight, as apparent; for Lao-tzu
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legis, 1, 28-30.
NOTES
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20
{Kappa-Epsilon-Phi-Alpha-Lambda-Eta Kappa}
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21
{Kappa-Epsilon-Phi-Alpha-Lambda-Eta Kappa-Alpha}
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The 21st key of the Tarot is called "The Universe",
and refers to the letter Tau, the Phallus in manifesta-
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2 2
{Kappa-Epsilon-Phi-Alpha-Lambda-Eta Kappa-Beta}
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23
{Kappa-Epsilon-Phi-Alpha-Lambda-Eta Kappa-Gamma}
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24
{Kappa-Epsilon-Phi-Alpha-Lambda-Eta Kappa-Delta}
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25
{Kappa-Epsilon-Phi-Alpha-Lambda-Eta Kappa-Epsilon}
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25 is the square of 5, and the Pentagram has the
red colour of Geburah.
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26
{Kappa-Epsilon-Phi-Alpha-Lambda-Eta Kappa-Digamma}
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The number of the chapter, 26, is that of Tetra-
grammaton, the manifest creator, Jehovah.
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27
{Kappa-Epsilon-Phi-Alpha-Lambda-Eta Kappa-Zeta}
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28
{Kappa-Epsilon-Phi-Alpha-Lambda-Eta Kappa-Eta}
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29
{Kappa-Epsilon-Phi-Alpha-Lambda-Eta Kappa-Theta}
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Chapter 29 continues Chapter 28.
Note that the word Laylah is the Arabic for "Night".
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Chapters 1, 3, 4, 8, 15, 16, 18, 24, 28, 29.
The last sentence of paragraph 4 also connects with
the first paragraph of Chapter 26.
The title "Venus of Milo" is an argument in support
of paragraphs 1 and 2, it being evident from this
statement that the female body becomes beautiful in so
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of Chapter 25; 36 being the square of 6, as 25 is of %.
This chapter gives the real and perfect Ritual of the
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Paragraphs 2-6 explain the method that was given
in Chapters 11 and 31. This method, however, occurs
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In paragraph 2 it is suggested analogically that all
thinkable things are similarly blinds for the Unthinkable
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with Chapters 28 and 29; but this is only an allusion, for
the subject of the chapter is OUR LADY BABALON,
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It is the name referred to in Liber Legis, 1, 2 2.
It will be noticed that the figure, or sigil, of BABALON
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2 2nd Aethyr, as well as the usual authorities.
[109]
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should then be read in connection with Chapters 28, 29,
49.
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in paragraph 2, not only is the Divine Unity destroyed
but Daath, instead of being the Child of Chokmah and
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The number of the chapter refers to Liber Legis I, 24,
for paragraph 1 refers to Nuit. The "twins" in the
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being again introduced, as in Chapters 28, 29, 49 and
55.
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rejoice in uniting. See Liber Legis I, 28-30, which is
paraphrased in the penultimate paragraph.
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Paragraph 2 is a reference to the Obligation of an
Entered Apprentice Mason.
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Paragraph 2 shows the Lingam and Yoni as, in conjunction, the foundation of
ecstasy (I)!), and of the complete symbol I A O.
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Paragraph 2 will easily be understood by those who have practised
Asana. there is perhaps a sardonic reference to rigor mortis, and certainly
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first and second persons. Cf. Liber LXV, Chapter III, vv. 21- 24, and
FitzGerald's Omar Khayyam:
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step 2, the concentration of Ain Soph Aour in Kether;
step 3, duality and the rest of it down to Malkuth;
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Part 2 show the impossibility of stopping on the
Path of Adeptship.
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Paragraph 2 gives the very struggle for life, which
disheartens modern thinkers, as a good enough reason for
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In verse 2, he shows that death is impotent against
life.
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Paragraphs 1 and 2. By "devotion to Frater Per-
durabo" is not meant sycophancy, but intelligent
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March 2 2, 191 2. E. V.
[184]
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Berashith. Coll. Works, II, 233.
The Vision and The Voice (Liber 418). The Eqx.,
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2. The Cry of the Hawk.
3. The Oyster.
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20. Samson.
21. The Blind Webster.
2 2. The Despot.
23. Skidoo!
24. The Hawk and the blindworm.
25. THE STAR RUBY.
26. The Elephant and the Tortoise.
27. The Sorcerer.
28. The Pole-Star.
29. The Southern Cross.
30. John-a-Dreams.
0.00 - THE GOSPEL PREFACE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
They therefore have the value of almost stenographic records. In Appendix A are given several conversations which took place in the absence of M., but of which he received a first-hand record from persons concerned. The conversations will bring before the reader's mind an intimate picture of the Master's eventful life from March 188 2 to April 24, 1886, only a few months before his passing away. During this period he came in contact chiefly with English-educated Benglis; from among them he selected his disciples and the bearers of his message, and with them he shared his rich spiritual experiences.
I have made a literal translation, omitting only a few pages of no particular interest to English-speaking readers. Often literary grace has been sacrificed for the sake of literal translation. No translation can do full justice to the original. This difficulty is all the more felt in the present work, whose contents are of a deep mystical nature and describe the inner experiences of a great seer. Human language is an altogether inadequate vehicle to express supersensuous perception. Sri Ramakrishna was almost illiterate. He never clothed his thoughts in formal language. His words sought to convey his direct realization of Truth. His conversation was in a village patois. Therein lies its charm. In order to explain to his listeners an abstruse philosophy, he, like Christ before him, used with telling effect homely parables and illustrations, culled from his observation of the daily life around him.
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Even as a boy of about thirteen, while he was a student in the 3rd class of the Hare School, he was in the habit of keeping a diary. "Today on rising," he wrote in his diary, "I greeted my father and mother, prostrating on the ground before them" (Swami Nityatmananda's 'M The Apostle and the Evangelist' Part I. P 29.) At another place he wrote, "Today, while on my way to school, I visited, as usual, the temples of Kli, the Mother at Tharitharia, and of Mother Sitala, and paid my obeisance to them." About twenty-five years after, when he met the Great Master in the spring of 188 2, it was the same instinct of a born diary-writer that made him begin his book, 'unique in the literature of hagiography', with the memorable words: "When hearing the name of Hari or Rma once, you shed tears and your hair stands on end, then you may know for certain that you do not have to perform devotions such as Sandhya any more."
In addition to this instinct for diary-keeping, M. had great endowments contri buting to success in this line. Writes Swami Nityatmananda who lived in close association with M., in his book entitled M - The Apostle and Evangelist: "M.'s prodigious memory combined with his extraordinary power of imagination completely annihilated the distance of time and place for him. Even after the lapse of half a century he could always visualise vividly, scenes from the life of Sri Ramakrishna. Superb too was his power to portray pictures by words."
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The two pamphlets in English entitled the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna appeared in October and November 1897. They drew the spontaneous acclamation of Swami Vivekananda, who wrote on 24th November of that year from Dehra Dun to M.:"Many many thanks for your second leaflet. It is indeed wonderful. The move is quite original, and never was the life of a Great Teacher brought before the public untarnished by the writer's mind, as you are doing. The language also is beyond all praise, so fresh, so pointed, and withal so plain and easy. I cannot express in adequate terms how I have enjoyed them. I am really in a transport when I read them. Strange, isn't it? Our Teacher and Lord was so original, and each one of us will have to be original or nothing.
I now understand why none of us attempted His life before. It has been reserved for you, this great work. He is with you evidently." ( Vednta Kesari Vol. XIX P. 141. Also given in the first edition of the Gospel published from Ramakrishna Math, Madras in 1911.)
0.01 - Letters from the Mother to Her Son, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Published in Words of Long Ago, CWM, Vol. 2, pp. 40 - 46.
and diplomacy were used, but on the other hand, behind every
0.02 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
the 2 2nd of March. This makes only 16 days, while a soap must
last 30 days. It is quite evident that your coolie is stealing the
--
Prayers and Meditations,: paragraph one, 29 November 1913; two, 7 January 1914;
four, 8 March 1914; five, 7 April 1914 and 18 April 1914.
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Prayers and Meditations, 29 January 1914.
which led to a subdued revolt in me and consequent
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fatigue? What is the difficulty in keeping such a concentration for all the 24 hours?
The physical being is always fatigued when it is asked to keep a
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Naturally, No. 2 could be set right by increasing the number
of supervisors, provided, of course, that they are sincere and
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of effort. No. 2 wants to conquer the difficulty, not run away
from it. I suggest that for the time being you avoid contact with
0.02 - The Three Steps of Nature, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
manomayah. pran.asarraneta. Mundaka Upanishad II. 2. 8.
The Three Steps of Nature
0.03 - III - The Evening Sittings, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
From 19 2 2 to 19 26, No. 9, Rue de la Marine, where he and the Mother had shifted, was the place where the sittings were held. There, also upstairs, was a less broad verandah than at the Guest House, a little bigger table in front of the central door out of three, and a broad Japanese chair, the table covered with a better cloth than the one in the Guest House, a small flower vase, an ash-tray, a block calendar indicating the date and an ordinary time-piece, and a number of chairs in front in a line. The evening sittings used to be after meditation at 4 or 4.30 p.m. After 24 November 19 26, the sittings began to get later and later, till the limit of 1 o'clock at night was reached. Then the curtain fell. Sri Aurobindo retired completely after December 19 26, and the evening sittings came to a close.
On 8 February 19 27, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother moved to No. 28, Rue Franois Martin, a house on the north-east of the same block as No. 9, Rue de la Marine.
Then, on 23 November 1938, I got up at 2 o'clock to prepare hot water for the Mother's early bath because the 24th was Darshan day. Between 2. 20 and 2.30 the Mother rang the bell. I ran up the staircase to be told about an accident that had happened to Sri Aurobindo's thigh and to be asked to fetch the doctor. This accident brought about a change in his complete retirement, and rendered him available to those who had to attend on him. This opened out a long period of 1 2 years during which his retirement was modified owing to circumstances, inner and outer, that made it possible for him to have direct physical contacts with the world outside.
The long period of the Second World War with all its vicissitudes passed through these years. It was a priceless experience to see how he devoted his energies to the task of saving humanity from the threatened reign of Nazism. It was a practical lesson of solid work done for humanity without any thought of return or reward, without even letting humanity know what he was doing for it! Thus he lived the Divine and showed us how the Divine cares for the world, how He comes down and works for man. I shall never forget how he who was at one time in his own words "not merely a non-co-operator but an enemy of British Imperialism" bestowed such anxious care on the health of Churchill, listening carefully to the health-bulletins! It was the work of the Divine, it was the Divine's work for the world.
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[1] Sri Aurobindo and His Ashram, 1985, p. 2 2.
[ 2]Ibid.
0.03 - Letters to My little smile, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
about 2:00 she made some lime juice for us. I worked
from 1 2:00 to 8:00. I have finished embroidering the
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CWM, Vol. 14, p. 299.
My dear Mother,
--
finish this sari before 24th April.
Mother, I have nothing new to tell You.
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Eleven years ago, in 19 2 2, in the month of February, it was possible to write 2. 2. 2 2 and eleven years from now, in the month
of April, it will be possible to write 4.4.44, and so on. It is
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November 24th, a Darshan day. On the three (later four) Darshan days each year,
the sadhaks went before Sri Aurobindo and the Mother to receive their blessings.
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Ten yards of cloth cost 25 rupees, 15 annas - that
is, 2 rupees, 9 1/ 2 annas per yard. This evening X and
I dyed the big ten-yard piece. But it was not successful:
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silver dragons, for 21 February 1935 - if You ask someone to do the drawing. Because the green cloth and the
gold and silver thread are all ready.
0.05 - Letters to a Child, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have just received your letter of the 25th and I am glad to
know you have recovered at last.
0.06 - INTRODUCTION, #Dark Night of the Soul, #Saint John of the Cross, #Christianity
1Ascent, Bk. I, chap. i, 2.
2Op, cit., 3.
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6Op. cit., Bk. I, chap. viii, 2.
7Ibid.
0.07 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Your answer to my letter of July 2 2, which you kindly
meant to reassure me, did not reassure me. 2 Why is that
0.08 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
On 29 February 1956 there took place, in the Mother's words, "the manifestation of the Supramental upon earth"; "Then the supramental Light and Force and
Consciousness rushed down upon earth in an uninterrupted flow."
0.09 - Letters to a Young Teacher, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 39.
Ibid., p. 10 2.
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The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 47.
On Education, CWM, Vol. 1 2, p. 185.
--
Words of the Mother - I, CWM, Vol. 13, p. 29.
Series Nine - To a Young Teacher
01.01 - The Symbol Dawn, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Section 2
2.1
01.05 - Rabindranath Tagore: A Great Poet, a Great Man, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Ahana", Collected Poems & Plays, Vol. 2
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01.07 - Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
"The zeal for the Lord hath eaten me up." Such has indeed been the case with Pascal, almost literally. The fire that burned in him was too ardent and vehement for the vehicle, the material instrument, which was very soon used up and reduced to ashes. At twenty-four he was already a broken man, being struck with paralysis and neuras thenia; he died at the comparatively early age of 39, emulating, as it were, the life career of his Lord the Christ who died at 33. The Fire martyrised the body, but kindled and brought forth experiences and realisations that save and truths that abide. It was the Divine Fire whose vision and experience he had on the famous night of 23 November 1654 which brought about his final and definitive conversion. It was the same fire that had blazed up in his brain, while yet a boy, and made him a precocious genius, a marvel of intellectual power in the exact sciences. At 1 2 this prodigy discovered by himself the 3 2nd proposition of Euclid, Book I. At sixteen he wrote a treatise on conic sections. At nineteen he invented a calculating machine which, without the help of any mathematical rule or process, gave absolutely accurate results. At twenty-three he published his experiments with vacuum. At twenty-five he conducted the well-known experiment from the tower of St. Jacques, proving the existence of atmospheric pressure. His studies in infinitesimal calculus were remarkably creative and original. And it might be said he was a pioneer in quite a new branch of mathematics, viz., the mathematical theory of probability. We shall see presently how his preoccupation with the mathematics of chance and probability coloured and reinforced his metaphysics and theology.
But the pressure upon his dynamic and heated brain the fiery zeal in his mindwas already proving too much and he was advised medically to take complete rest. Thereupon followed what was known as Pascal's mundane lifea period of distraction and dissipation; but this did not last long nor was it of a serious nature. The inner fire could brook no delay, it was eager and impatient to englobe other fields and domains. Indeed, it turned to its own field the heart. Pascal became initiated into the mystery of Faith and Grace. Still he had to pass through a terrible period of dejection and despair: the life of the world had given him no rest or relaxation, it served only to fill his cup of misery to the brim. But the hour of final relief was not long postponed: the Grace came to him, even as it came to Moses or St. Paul as a sudden flare of fire which burnt up the Dark Night and opened out the portals of Morning Glory.
0.10 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
What I saw on the 26th was satisfactory (of course it can always
be better) and I have heard a great many compliments about
the 2nd December performance. You should not listen to people
who only know how to criticise. Exaggerated criticism is not an
--
Letters on Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 23, pp. 593 - 94.
Series Ten - To a Young Captain
--
The descent of the Supermind, which You announced on the 29th of February 1956, is still only
"something one hears about" for most people here.
--
Letters on Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 2 2, p. 11.
Series Ten - To a Young Captain
--
The Indo-Pakistan conflict ended in a cease-fire on September 2 2. The Mother's
message, sent six days prior to the cease-fire, was: "It is for the sake and the triumph
--
Words of Long Ago, CWM, Vol. 2, p. 50.
Mother, I do not understand what You mean by the
--
How should I prepare myself for the April 24th
Darshan?
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people who are here, there are only 250 or so who understand Sri Aurobindo's yoga, only forty-five who practise
it, five who are capable of realisation and only one who
--
In the Darshan message of November 24th, Sri
Aurobindo speaks of the influence of the Divine Compassion and the Divine Grace.3 2 But what is the difference between the two?
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more irresistibly than the others." - Letters on Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 23, p. 609.
Sincerity, courage, discipline, endurance, absolute faith in the
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year of complete realisation." (Letter of 2 February 1934)
The Mother replied to this question orally; she was speaking to someone other than
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16 October 1967 - 25 July 1970
After all these years I have found the forgotten notebook, and I
01.12 - Goethe, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The year 1949 has just celebrated the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great force of light that was Goethe. We too remember him on the occasion, and will try to present in a few words, as we see it, the fundamental experience, the major Intuition that stirred this human soul, the lesson he brought to mankind. Goe the was a great poet. He showed how a language, perhaps least poetical by nature, can be moulded to embody the great beauty of great poetry. He made the German language sing, even as the sun's ray made the stone of Memnon sing when falling upon it. Goe the was a man of consummate culture. Truly and almost literally it could be said of him that nothing human he considered foreign to his inquiring mind. And Goe the was a man of great wisdom. His observation and judgment on thingsno matter to whatever realm they belonghave an arresting appropriateness, a happy and revealing insight. But above all, he was an aspiring soulaspiring to know and be in touch with the hidden Divinity in man and the world.
Goe the and the Problem of Evil
0.11 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
this volume, the last paragraph of her reply of 20 September 1969.
Series Eleven - To a Sadhak
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The Mother, Prayers and Meditations, 24 August 1914.
This is how I understand the Purusha:
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India Radio, Pondicherry, 23 September 1967. Words of the Mother - I, CWM, Vol. 13,
p. 367.
--
Savitri, Book VI, Canto 2.
Is transparent sincerity a more effective, indispensable
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Savitri, Book X, Canto 2.
Once Mother spoke to me about total sincerity. What
--
Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 5 2.
Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Book I, Canto 3.
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Sri Aurobindo, The Mother, SABCL, Vol. 25, p. 20.
Cannot the ego consent to its own abolition?
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Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 103.
Series Eleven - To a Sadhak
0 1951-09-21, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1951 Fri 21 September
September 21, 1951
mon doux Seigneur,
--
November 25, 1959
0 1952-08-02, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
195 2 Sat 2 August
August 2, 195 2
Only when it is no longer necessary for my body to resemble the bodies of men in order to make them progress will it be free to be supramentalized.1
0 1954-08-25 - what is this personality? and when will she come?, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1954 Wed 25 August
August 25, 1954
The following text is an extract from a 'Wednesday Class,' when every Wednesday Mother would answer questions raised by the disciples and children at the Ashram Playground.
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I dont know to whom I was mentioning this today (I think it was for a Birthday3 No, I dont know now. It was to someone who told me he was 18 years old. I said that between the ages of 18 and 20, I had attained a constant and conscious union with the Divine Presence and that I had done this ALL ALONE, without ANYONES help, not even books. When a little later I chanced upon Vivekanandas Raja Yoga, it really seemed so wonderful to me that someone could explain something to me! And it helped me realize in only a few months what would have otherwise taken years.
I met a man (I was perhaps 20 or 21 at the time), an Indian who had come to Europe and who told me of the Gita. There was a French translation of it (a rather poor one, I must say) which he advised me to read, and then he gave me the key (HIS key, it was his key). He said, Read the Gita (this translation of the Gita which really wasnt worth much but it was the only one available at the timein those days I wouldnt have understood anything in other languages; and besides, the English translations were just as bad and well, Sri Aurobindo hadnt done his yet!). He said, Read the Gita knowing that Krishna is the symbol of the immanent God, the God within. That was all. Read it with THAT knowledgewith the knowledge that Krishna represents the immanent God, the God within you. Well, within a month, the whole thing was done!
So some of you people have been here since the time you were toddlerseverything has been explained to you, the whole thing has been served to you on a silver platter (not only with words, but through psychic aid and in every possible way), you have been put on the path of this inner discovery and then you just go on drifting along: When it comes, it will come.If you even spare it that much thought!
0 1955-03-26, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1955 Sat 26 March
March 26, 1955
(Letter to Mother from Satprem)
Pondicherry, March 26, 1955
Mother, once more I come to ask you for Mahakalis1 intervention. After a period when everything seemed much better, I again awake to impossible mornings when I live badly, very badly, far from you, incapable of calling you and, whats more, of feeling your Presence or your help.
0 1955-10-19, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
2) To unfold ones being before Him, to open entirely ones body from head to toe, as one opens a book, spreading open ones centers so as to make all their movements visible in a total SINCERITY that allows nothing to remain hidden.
3) To nestle in His arms, to melt in Him in a tender and absolute CONFIDENCE.
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2) As You will, as You will
3) I am Yours for eternity.
0 1956-02-29 - First Supramental Manifestation - The Golden Hammer, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1956 Wed 29 February
February 29, 1956
The following text was given by Mother in both French and English.
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(During the common meditation on Wednesday the 29th February 1956)
This evening the Divine Presence, concrete and material, was there present amongst you. I had a form of living gold, bigger than the universe, and I was facing a huge and massive golden door which separated the world from the Divine.
0 1956-03-19, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Note written by Mother in French. At this period, Mother's back was already bent. This straightening of her back seems to be the first physiological effect of the 'Supramental Manifestation' of February 29, which is perhaps the reason why Mother noted down the experience under the name 'Agenda of the Supramental Action on Earth.' It was the first time Mother gave a title to what would become this fabulous document of 13 volumes. The experience took place during a 'translation class' when, twice a week, Mother would translate the works of Sri Aurobindo into French before a group of disciples.
AGENDA OF THE SUPRAMENTAL ACTION ON EARTH
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February 29, 1956
0 1956-03-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1956 Tue 20 March
March 20, 1956
Note written by Mother in French.
0 1956-03-21, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1956 Wed 21 March
March 21, 1956
Note written by Mother in French.
0 1956-04-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1956 Fri 20 April
April 20, 1956
(Letter to Mother from Satprem)
Pondicherry, April 20, 1956
Sweet Mother,
0 1956-04-23, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1956 Mon 23 April
April 23, 1956
Mother takes a passage from Prayers and Meditations of September 25, 1914:
The Lord hast willed, and Thou dost execute;
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29 February 29 March
Lord, Thou hast willed, and I execute:
0 1956-04-24, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1956 Tue 24 April
April 24, 1956
Original English.
0 1956-05-02, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1956 Wed 2 May
May 2, 1956
(Extract from the Wednesday class)
--
Mother is referring to the darshan of April 24, 1956. Four times a year, for 'darshan,' visitors increasingly poured into the Ashram to pass one by one before Mother (and formerly, Sri Aurobindo) to receive her look.
***
0 1956-07-29, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1956 Sun 29 July
July 29, 1956
Note written by Mother in French.
0 1956-08-10, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
In fact, following the 'Supramental Manifestation' of February 29, 1956, all of Mother's physical difficulties increased, as though all the obscurities in the physical consciousness were surging forth beneath the pressure of the new light. The same observation applies to the disciples who were around Mother and undoubtedly to the world as a whole. A strange 'mysterious acceleration' was beginning to take hold of the world.
***
0 1956-09-12, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
The experience of February 29 was of a general nature; but this one was intended for me.
An experience I had never had.
0 1956-10-28, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1956 Sun 28 October
October 28, 1956
(Letter to Mother from Satprem)
Pondicherry, October 28, 1956
Sweet Mother, my birthday is the day after tomorrow, the 30th. I come to place my inner situation before you so that you may help me take a decision.
0 1956-11-22, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1956 Thu 2 2 November
November 2 2, 1956
(Letter to Mother from Satprem)
Pondicherry, November 2 2, 1956
Sweet Mother,
--
October 28, 1956
0 1956-12-12, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
November 2 2, 1956
0 1956-12-26, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1956 Wed 26 December
December 26, 1956
(Letter to Mother from Satprem)
Pondicherry, December 26, 1956
Mother, perhaps it would be good if I told you what is happening within me, as sincerely as I can:
0 1957-01-01, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
December 26, 1956
0 1957-04-22, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1957 Mon 2 2 April
April 2 2, 1957
(Letter to Mother from Satprem)
Pondicherry, April 2 2, 1957
Sweet Mother,
0 1957-09-27, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1957 Fri 27 September
September 27, 1957
(A child's question concerning a vision in which Mother had appeared to her in a luminous body)
0 1957-10-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
September 27, 1957
0 1957-12-13, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Sweet Mother, this is what is rising from my soul: I feel in me something unemployed, something seeking to express itself in life. I want to be like a knight, your knight, and go off in search of a treasure that I could bring back to you. The world has lost all sense of the wonderful, all beauty of Adventure, this quest known to the knights of the Middle Ages. It is this that calls so relentlessly within me, this need for a quest in the world and for a beautiful Adventure which at the same time would be an adventure of the soul. How I wish that the two things, inner and outer, be JOINED, that the joy of action, of the open road and the quest help the souls blossoming, that they be like a prayer of the soul expressed in life. The knights of the Middle Ages knew this. Perhaps it is all childish and absurd in the midst of this 20th century, but this is what I feel, this that is summoning me to leavenot anything base, not anything mediocre, only a need for something in me to be fulfilled. If only I could bring you back a beautiful treasure!
After that, perhaps I would be riper to accept the everyday life of the Ashram, and know how to give myself better.
0 1957-12-21, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1957 Sat 21 December
December 21, 1957
The other day you told me that in order to know things, you plug into the subtle plane, and there it all unrolls as on a tape recorder. How does this work, exactly?
--
(Note written by Mother in connection with the conversation of December 21, 1957)
At the very top, a constant vision of the Supremes will.
0 1958-01-22, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1958 Wed 2 2 January
January 2 2, 1958
It is an error to confuse Joy and Felicity. They are two very different things. Not only are their vibrations different, but their colors are different. The color of Felicity is blue, a clear silvery blue (the blue of the Ashram flag), very luminous and transparent. And it has a passive and fresh quality that refreshes and rejuvenates.
0 1958-01-25, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1958 Sat 25 January
January 25, 1958
Note written by Mother in English (with a touch of irony so reminiscent of Sri Aurobindo).
--
January 2 2, 1958
0 1958-02-03a, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
A Sannyasi, or wandering monk, whom Satprem would join a few weeks later in Ceylon, on February 27, and who would initiate him as a Sannyasi. Unfortunately, almost all the correspondence from this period has been lost.
***
0 1958-02-03b - The Supramental Ship, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
(The following experience was later read out to the Wednesday class on 2.19.58)
Between the beings of the supramental world and men, there exists approximately the same gap as between men and animals. Sometime ago, I had the experience of identification with animal life, and it is a fact that animals do not understand us; their consciousness is so constituted that we elude them almost entirely. And yet I have known domestic animalscats and dogs, but especially catswho made an almost yogic effort of consciousness to understand us. But generally, when they watch us living and acting, they dont understand, they dont SEE US as we are and they suffer because of us. We are a constant enigma to them Only a very tiny part of their consciousness is linked to us. And it is the same for us when we try to look at the supramental world. Only when the link of consciousness has been built shall we see itand even then, only that part of our being which has undergone the transformation will be capable of seeing it as it isotherwise the two worlds would remain as separate as the animal world and the human world.
0 1958-02-25, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1958 Tue 25 February
February 25, 1958
(On suffering)
0 1958-03-07, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Swami must soon take to the road again, through Ceylon, towards March 20 or 25. So I shall go wandering with him until May; towards the beginning of May, he will return to India. I hope to have learned my lesson by then, and to have learned it well. Inwardly, I have understood that there is only you but its these problem children on the surface who must be made to toe the line once and for all.
Sweet Mother, I am in a hurry to work for you. Will you still want me? Mother, I need you, I need you. I would like to ask you an absurd question: Do you think of me? I have only you, you alone in the world.
0 1958-05-11 - the ship that said OM, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Mother is referring to her 'Darshan' when four times a year She appeared on her balcony high above the assembled mass of disciples and visitors on the street below. The 'darshan days' were February 21, April 24, August 15 and November 24.
Tamas: in Indian psychology, inertia and obscurity.
--
During an Indian film on Dhruva in which this manna was chanted for a long time. This film was shown at the Ashram Playground on April 29, 1958.
In the same film.
0 1958-06-22, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1958 Sun 2 2 June
June 2 2, 1958
Note written by Mother in English.
0 1958-07-02, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1958 Wed 2 July
July 2, 1958
Ramdas1 must be a continuation of the line of Chaitanya, Ramakrishna, etc .
0 1958-07-05, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
S brought me a photograph (taken on 2. 21.58 during the Darshan). A saint with a halo! (Mother laughs mockingly.)
The eyes are nice.
0 1958-07-21, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1958 Mon 21 July
July 21, 1958
Human beings dont know how to keep energy. When something happensan accident or an illness, for example and they ask for help, a double or a triple dose of energy is sent. If they happen to be receptive, they receive it. This energy is given for two reasons: to restore order out of the disorder caused by the accident or illness, and to impart a transformative force to repair or change the source of the illness or accident.
0 1958-07-23, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1958 Wed 23 July
July 23, 1958
In the final analysis, seeing the world such as it is and seems meant to be irremediably, human intellect has decided that this universe must be an error of God and that the manifestation or creation is certainly the result of a desire, the desire to manifest, know oneself, enjoy oneself. So the only thing to do is to put an end to this error as soon as possible by refusing to cling to desire and its fatal consequences.
0 1958-07-25a, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1958 Fri 25 July
July 25, 1958
O mon doux Matre,
--
September 21, 1951
0 1958-07-25b, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1958 Fri 25 July
July 25, 1958
O my Lord, my Lord!
0 1958-08-29, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1958 Fri 29 August
August 29, 1958
(Note written by Mother after an experience She had during a playground meditation when Swami J.J. was present. It was this swami with whom Satprem journeyed in the Himalayas to receive tantric initiation.)
0 1958-10-25 - to go out of your body, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1958 Sat 25 October
October 25, 1958
(Concerning the disciple's tantric guru)
0 1958-11-02, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1958 Sun 2 November
November 2, 1958
Last night, I thought, My god! If I have to Individually, with this one or that one, by selecting the best, I could get somewhere, but this this mass.1 Swami had told me sohe told me immediately after his first meditation (collective meditation at the Ashram playground), he told me, The stuff is not good! (Mother laughs)
--
October 25, 1958
0 1958-11-04 - Myths are True and Gods exist - mental formation and occult faculties - exteriorization - work in dreams, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
November 2, 1958
0 1958-11-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1958 Thu 20 November
November 20, 1958
(Mother tries to find the origin of the disciple's difficulties)
0 1958-11-22, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1958 Sat 2 2 November
November 2 2, 1958
Even at a very young age, I had a kind of intuition of my destiny. I felt that something in me had to be exhausted, or that I had to exhaust myself. I dont know, as though I had to descend into the depths of the night to find the thing. I thought it was the concentration camps. Perhaps this was still not deep enough Do you see any meaning in all this?
--
November 20, 1958
0 1958-11-26, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1958 Wed 26 November
November 26, 1958
(Extract from the last Wednesday class)
--
November 2 2, 1958
0 1958-11-27 - Intermediaries and Immediacy, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1958 Thu 27 November
November 27, 1958
(Concerning the disciple's karma and the tantric discipline that he is following to dissolve this karma, Mother wonders why She herself had not been able to dissolve it directly and why it was necessary to resort to intermediaries)
--
November 26, 1958
0 1958-11-28, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1958 Fri 28 November
November 28, 1958
(Extract from the last Friday class)
--
November 27, 1958
0 1958-11-30, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
November 28, 1958
0 1958-12-24, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1958 Wed 24 December
December 24, 1958
(Letter to Mother from Satprem)
Rameswaram, December 24, 1958
Sweet Mother,
--
I am following Swamis instructions to the letter. Sometimes it all seems to lack warmth and spontaneity, but I am holding on. I might add that we are living right next to the bazaar, amidst a great racket 20 hours a day, which does not make things easier. So I repeat my mantra as one pounds his fists against the walls of a prison. Sometimes it opens a little, you send me a little joy, and then everything becomes better again.
Swami told me that the mantra to Durga is intended to pierce through into the subconscient. To complement this work, he does his pujas to Kali, and finally one of his friends, X, the High Priest of the temple in Rameswaram (who presided over my initiation and has great occult powers), has undertaken to say a very powerful mantra over me daily, for a period of eight days, to extirpate the dark forces from my subconscious. The operation already began four days ago. While reciting his mantra, he holds a glass of water in his hand, then he makes me drink it. It seems that on the eighth day, if the enemy has been trapped, this water turns yellow then the operation is over and the poisoned water is thrown out. (I tell you all this because I prefer that you know.) In any event, I like X very much, he is a very luminous, very good man. If I am not delivered after all this!
--
I have received your letter of the 24th. You did well to write, not because I was worried, but I like to receive news for it fixes my work by giving me useful material details. I am glad that X is doing something for you. I like this man and I was counting upon him. I hope he will succeed. Perhaps his work will be useful here, too for I have serious reasons to believe that this time occult and even definite magic practices aimed directly against my body have been mixed in with the attacks. This has complicated things somewhat, so as yet I have not resumed any of my usual activities I am still upstairs resting, but in reality fighting. Yesterday, the Christmas distribution took place without me, and it is likely that it will be the same for January 1st. The work, too, has been completely interrupted. And I do not yet know how long this will last.
Keep me posted on the result of Xs action; it interests me very much
0 1958-12-28, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1958 Sun 28 December
December 28, 1958
(Letter to Mother from Satprem)
Rameswaram, December 28, 1958
Sweet Mother,
--
I have just now received your letter of the 28th. On that day I definitely felt that there was a decisive change in the situation and I understood right away that you had spoken to Swami and also that what I had written to you gave you the opportunity to take a great step. I am very happy and can say with certitude that the worst is over. However, from several points of view, I infinitely appreciate Xs offer. And although I do not think it necessary, or even desirable, that they both come here (it would create a veritable revolution and perhaps even a panic among the ashramites), I am sure that their intervention in Rameswaram itself would not only be useful but most effective
Yes, everything has changed since you now understand that your battle is not only a personal battle and that by winning it, it is a real service you are rendering to the Divine Work.
--
December 24, 1958
0 1958 12 - Floor 1, young girl, we shall kill the young princess - black tent, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Mother withdrew on December 9. In fact, She had been unwell for already more than a month before withdrawing. On November 26, the last 'Wednesday class' took place at the playground; on November 28 the last 'Friday class', on December 6, the last 'Translation class'; on December 1, the end of Mother's tennis and the last visit to the playground. On December 9, She again went down for the meditation around the Samadhi. From December 10, Mother remained in her room for one month. A great period had come to an end. Henceforth, She would only go out of the Ashram building on rare occasions.
A disciple
0 1959-01-06, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
December 28, 1958
0 1959-01-14, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
As for myself, a step has definitely been taken, and I am no longer swept away by this painful torrent. Depressions and attacks still come, but no longer with the same violence as before. X told me that 2/3 of the work has been done and that everything would be purged in twelve days or so, then the thing will be enclosed in a jar and buried somewhere or thrown into the sea, and he will explain it all to me. I will write and tell you about it.
As for the true tantric initiation, this is what X told me: I will give you initiation. You are fit. You belong to that line. It will come soon, some months or some years. Shortly you shall reach the junction. When the time has come, you yourself will come and open a door in me and I shall give you initiation.1 And he made me understand that an important divine work was reserved for me in the future, a work for the Mother. The important practical point is that I have rapidly to develop my knowledge of Sanskrit. The mantra given to me seems to grow in power as I repeat it.
--
I am taking advantage of this situation to work. I have chosen the articles for the Bulletin. They are as follows: 1) Message. 2) To keep silent. 3) Can there be intermediary states between man and super-man? 4) The Anti-Divine. 5) What is the role of the spirit? 6) Karma (I have touched this one up to make it less personal). 7) The Worship of the Supreme in Matter. Now I would like to prepare the first twelve Aphorisms3 for printing. But as you have not yet revised the last two, I am sending them to you. Could you do them when you have finished what you are doing for the Bulletin? It is not urgent, take your time. Do not disturb your real work for this in any way. For, in my eyes, this work of inner liberation is much more important.
You will find in this letter a little money. I thought you might need it for your stamps, etc.
0 1959-01-21, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1959 Wed 21 January
January 21, 1959
(Letter to Mother from Satprem)
Rameswaram, January 21, 1959
Sweet Mother,
--
I was waiting to answer your letter of the 21st until the Friday and Saturday you mentioned had gone by. And then I felt that you were returning the Aphorisms, so I waited a bit more. I have just received them along with your letter of the 23rd, but I have not yet looked at them. Besides, if you intend returning for the February darshan, I think it would be preferable for us to revise the whole book together. There will not be very much work on my side since the Wednesday and Friday classes were discontinued in the beginning of December, and I still do not know when they will resume.3 Right now, I am translating the Aphorisms all alone and it seems to go quickly and well. This could also be revised and the book on the Dhammapada prepared for publication.
For the time being, I am going downstairs only in the mornings at 6 for the balcony darshan and I immediately come back up without seeing anyone then in the afternoons, I go down once more at about 3 to take my bath and at 4:30 I come back up again. I do not yet know what will happen next month. I shall have to find some way to meet you so that we can work together I am going to think it over.
0 1959-01-27, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1959 Tue 27 January
January 27, 1959
(Letter to Mother from Satprem)
Rameswaram, January 27, 1959
Sweet Mother,
--
By a special grace, X gave me both stages of the tantric initiation at the same time, although they are normally separated by several years; then if all goes well, he will give me the full initiation in 6 months. I have thus received a mantra, along with the power of realizing it. X told me that a realization should come at the beginning of the fifth month if I repeat the mantra strictly according to his instructions, but he again told me that the hostile forces would do all they could to prevent me from saying my mantra: mental suggestions and even illness. X has understood that I have work at the Ashram, and he has exempted me from the outer forms (pujas and other rituals), but nevertheless I must repeat my mantra very accurately every day (3,333 times, that is, a little more than 3 hours uninterrupted in the mornings, and more than 2 hours in the evening). I must therefore organize myself in such a way as to get up very early in the morning in Pondicherry, for in no case will your work suffer.
Apart from this, he has not yet entirely finished the work of purging that he has been doing on me for over a month, but I believe that everything will be completed in a short time from now.
--
Your very interesting letter of the 27th has just arrived.
All is well I am enthusiastic and you can count on my conscious help to overcome all the obstacles and all the bad will that may try to stop or delay your progress. It is a matter of being more obstinate, much more obstinate than the enemy, and whatever the cost, to reach the goal in time.
--
January 21, 1959
0 1959-01-31, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Pondicherry, 2. 2.59
My dear child,
--
January 27, 1959
0 1959-03-26 - Lord of Death, Lord of Falsehood, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1959 Thu 26 March
March 26, 1959
(Concerning Satprem's most recent peregrinations and his fundamental rebelliousness, which periodically makes him take to the road)
0 1959-04-07, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
2) I am very pullednot constantly, but periodicallyby the need to write (not mental things) and exasperated by the fact that this Orpailleur is not published because I have not taken the time to carry out certain corrections. When I am in a good mood, I offer all this to you (is it perhaps a hidden ambition? But I am not so sure; it is rather a need, I believe) and when I am not in a good mood, I fume about not having the time to write something else.
Please, enlighten me, Sweet Mother.
0 1959-04-21, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1959 Tue 21 April
April 21, 1959
Above, beginning with the center between the eyebrows, the work has been done for a long time. There it is blank. For ages upon ages upon ages, the union with the Supreme has been realized and is constant.
0 1959-04-23, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1959 Thu 23 April
April 23, 1959
(Letter from Mother to Satprem)
0 1959-04-24, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1959 Fri 24 April
April 24, 1959
(Note sent by Mother to Satprem)
24 April 1959
The divine perfection is always there above us; but for man to become divine in consciousness and act and to live inwardly and outwardly the divine life is what is meant by spirituality; all lesser meanings given to the word are inadequate fumblings or impostures.1
This text by Sri Aurobindo (The Human Cycle, Cent. Ed. Vol. XV p. 247) was translated into French by Mother on the occasion of writing to Satprem.
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0 1959-05-25, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1959 Mon 25 May
May 25, 1959
(Letter from Mother to Satprem)
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May 27, 1959
Mother,
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You are imposing a new ordeal on me by asking me to go to Rameswaram. For you, I have accepted. But I shall go there sheathed in my sturdiest armor and I will not yield, because I know that it is always to be begun again. I do not want to become a great Tantric or whatever else it may be. I want only to love. And since I cannot love, I am leaving. I will arrive in Rameswaram at 2 in the morning, and will leave again by the 11 oclock train.
I want to go to New Caledonia. There, or elsewhere there are forests there. Africa is closing up. You must help me one last time by giving me the means to leave and try something else with a minimum of chancealthough, at the point Im at, I laugh in the face of chance. I need 2,000 rupees, if that is possible for you. If you do not want to, or if you cannot, I will leave anyway, no matter where, no matter how.
And once again, you can judge me all you want, I acknowledge all my wrongs. I am guilty in a guilty and stupid world (which loves its stupidity, no doubt).
0 1959-05-28, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1959 Thu 28 May
May 28, 1959
(Letter to Mother from Satprem)
Pondicherry, May 28, 1959
Mother,
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2) There is the destiny of the writer in me. And this too is linked to the best of my soul. It is also a profound need, like adventuring upon the heaths, because when I write certain things, I brea the in a certain way. But during the five years I have been here, I have had to bow to the fact that, materially, there is no time to write what I would like (I recall how I had to wrench out this Orpailleur, which I have not even had time to revise). This is not a reproach, Mother, for you do all you can to help me. But I realize that to write, one must have leisure, and there are too many less personal and more serious things to do. So I can also sit on this and tell myself that I am going to write a Sri Aurobindo but this will not satisfy that other need in me, and periodically it awakens and sprouts up to tell me that it too needs to breathe.
3) There is also the destiny that feels human love as something divine, something that can be transfigured and become a very powerful driving force. I did not believe it possible, except in dreams, until the day I met someone here. But you do not believe in these things, so I shall not speak of it further. I can gag this also and tell myself that one day all will be filled in the inner divine love. But that does not prevent this other need in me from living and from finding that life is dry and from saying, Why this outer manifestation if all life is in the inner realms? But neither can I stifle this with reasoning.
0 1959-06-07, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
2) X gave me certain details about his powers of prediction, but perhaps it would be better not to speak of this in a letter. On that occasion, he told me that he did not want to keep any secrets from me: I want you to know everything. I want you to be chief disciple in my tradition. When the time comes, you will understand what I mean. With you I have full connection, not only connection in my mind, but in my blood and body.
On another occasion, he said to me, I am ALWAYS taking care of you. And when I asked him why he was taking such trouble for me, he replied, Because I have orders. This attention that comes to me from you and him surprises me, for I do not feel that I am good, and upon the least occasion I know that I am seriously prepared to quit everything because something in me is profoundly revolted by this excess of suffering, by a lack of love and flowering, by an excess of solitude. Yesterday evening, it was still fully there, with all my approval, and at such a time no one in the world can hold me back. It is this POINT OF SUFFERING that makes me want to turn my back on everything. Not to commit suicide: to turn my back.
0 1959-06-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
As I appeared to be doubting, X told me, There is no suspicion [doubt], the war will take place in November (in fact, it is to occur some time between September and November), and for the rest of the talk, he had a tone of absolute certitude: The first atom bomb will fall in China. Russia will be crushed. It will be a victory for America. Not more than 2 or 3 atom bombs will be used. It will be very quick. And he repeated that the starting-point of the conflict would be situated in India due to the aggression of Pakistan, then of China.
The earthquake he mentioned promises to be a kind of pralaya (as X put it), for not only Bombay will be touched. This is what he said: America supports Pakistan, but the gods do not support Pakistan, and Pakistan will be punished by the gods. HALF of western Pakistan, including Karachi, will go into the sea. The sea will enter into Rajasthan and touch India also
0 1959-06-25, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1959 Thu 25 June
June 25, 1959
(Letter to Mother from Satprem)
Rameswaram, June 25, 1959
Sweet Mother,
0 1959-08-11, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Night of July 24- 25, 1959
0 1959-10-06 - Sri Aurobindos abode, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
See July 24- 25.
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0 1959-10-15, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
2) X spoke to me of the Ashrams financial difficulties and said I shall tell you the secret why there are such difficulties. I think he is going to speak to me today or tomorrow. In any case, he told me that he was working (I am preparing) to change these conditions, and he asked me if there had been any improvement as yet. I replied that I did not believe the situation had changed very much. He spoke as well of certain people in the Ashram, but I will tell you about this in person. He had a rather amusing way of speaking about people, people who pretend to worship the Mother but who keep their mind as a dustbin!
7) X wants to send me back to Pondicherry this Sunday (Sunday the 18th, arriving Monday the 19th morning). He says it is useless for me now to remain here any longer since his house is not ready and he can do nothing. But, he said, I will have you come to my house for 3 months and I shall give you a training by which you can know Past, Present and Future, and have the same qualifications as me!
0 1959-11-25, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1959 Wed 25 November
November 25, 1959
There is a difference between immortality and the deathless state. Sri Aurobindo has described it very well in Savitri.
0 1960-01-28, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1960 Thu 28 January
January 28, 1960
All these repetitions of the mantra, these hours of japa I have to do every day, seem to have increased the difficulties, as if they were raising up or aggravating all the resistances.
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Of all forms of ego, you might think that the physical ego is the most difficult to conquer (or rather, the body ego, because the work was already done long ago on the physical ego). It might be thought that the form of the body is a point of concentration, and that without this concentration or hardness, physical life would not be possible. But thats not true. The body is really a wonderful instrument; its capable of widening and of becoming vast in such a way that everything, everything the slightest gesture, the least little taskis done in a wonderful harmony and with a remarkable plasticity. Then all of a sudden, for something quite stupid, a draft, a mere nothing, it forgetsit shrinks back into itself, it gets afraid of disappearing, afraid of not being. And everything has to be started again from scratch. So in the yoga of matter you start realizing how much endurance is needed. I calculated it would take 200 years to say ten crore of my japa. Well, Im ready to struggle 200 years if necessary, but the work will be done.
Sri Aurobindo had made it clear to me when I was still in France that this yoga in matter is the most difficult of all. For the other yogas, the paths have been well laid, you know where to tread, how to proceed, what to do in such-and-such a case. But for the yoga of matter, nothing has ever been done, never, so at each moment everything has to be invented.
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Experience of July 24- 25, 1959, 'Sri Aurobindo's abode.'
As a matter of fact, Mother had ended upon this sentence:
0 1960-01-31, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
January 28, 1960
0 1960-03-03, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Only a few days ago, on the morning of the 29th, I had one of those experiences that mark ones life. It happened upstairs in my room. I was doing my japa, walking up and down with my eyes wide open, when suddenly Krishna camea gold Krishna, all golden, in a golden light that filled the whole room. I was walking, but I could not even see the windows or the rug any longer, for this golden light was everywhere with Krishna at its center. And it must have lasted at least fifteen minutes. He was dressed in those same clothes in which he is normally portrayed when he dances. He was all light, all dancing: You see, I will be there this evening during the Darshan.1 And suddenly, the chair I use for darshan came into the room! Krishna climbed up onto it, and his eyes twinkled mischievously, as if to say, I will be there, you see, and therell be no room for you.
When I came down that evening for distribution, 2 at first I was annoyed. I had said that I didnt want anybody in the hall, precisely because I wanted to establish an atmosphere of concentration, the immobility of the Spirit but there were at least thirty people in there, those who had decorated the hall, thirty of them stirring, stirring about, a mass of little vibrations. And before I could even say scat I had hardly taken my seatsomeone put the tray of medals on my lap and they started filing past.
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The Darshan on February 29, 1960, the first anniversary of the Supramental Manifestation.
On this first anniversary of the Supramental Manifestation, Mother distributed medals commemorating the occasion to the disciples filing past.
0 1960-04-13, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Yesterday was distribution. I am putting six handkerchiefs in this envelope for you and to give to others if you wish. I am also enclosing the April 24 message.
Always with you, in love and joy.
0 1960-04-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1960 Wed 20 April
April 20, 1960
(Letter to Mother from Satprem)
Rameswaram, April 20, 1960
Sweet Mother,
0 1960-04-24, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1960 Sun 24 April
April 24, 1960
(Letter from Mother to Satprem)
0 1960-04-26, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1960 Tue 26 April
April 26, 1960
(Letter to Mother from Satprem)
Rameswaram, April 26, 1960
Sweet Mother,
0 1960-05-21 - true purity - you have to be the Divine to overcome hostile forces, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1960 Sat 21 May
May 21, 1960
What I call purity, the true purity, is not all those things morality teaches: it is non-ego.
0 1960-05-24 - supramental flood, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1960 Tue 24 May
May 24, 1960
It happened last night. For approximately three hours, the physical ego disintegrated for the first time in such a total way.
0 1960-05-28 - death of K - the death process- the subtle physical, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1960 Sat 28 May
May 28, 1960
K left his body. The operation had been extraordinarily, almost miraculously successfulone of those dreadful operations where they extract part of your body. He was quite all right for four days afterwards, then everything went wrong.
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But there is something interesting: when I went down at 2 p.m., I found the family had come to inform me that they had been notified by telephone that he had died at 11:45 a.m. Myself, I saw him come at 1 2:30.
So you see, the outer signs Its not the first time Ive noticed this the doctors observe all the outer signs, then they declare you dead, but youre still in your body!
0 1960-06-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
But for years together I only slept 2 hours a night in all. I mean that my night consisted of 2 hours. And I went straight to Sat-Chit-Ananda and then came back: 2 hours were spent like that. But the body was tired. That lasted more than five or six years while Sri Aurobindo was still in his body. And during the day, I was all the time going into trance for the least thing (it was trance, not sleep I was conscious). But I clearly saw that the body was affected, for it had no time to burn its toxins. 2
There would be many interesting things to tell about sleep, because its one of the things Ive studied the mostto speak of how I became conscious of my nights, for instance. (I learned this with Theon, and now that I know all these things of India, I realize that he knew a GREAT deal.) But it bothers me a lot to say II this, I that. Id rather speak of these things in the form of a treatise or an essay on sleep, for example. Sri Aurobindo always spoke of his experiences but rarely did he say Iit always sounds like boasting.
0 1960-07-23 - The Flood and the race - turning back to guide and save amongst the torrents - sadhana vs tamas and destruction - power of giving and offering - Japa, 7 lakhs, 140000 per day, 1 crore takes 20 years, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
object:0_1960-07- 23 - The Flood and the race - turning back to guide and save amongst the torrents - sadhana vs tamas and destruction - power of giving and offering - Japa, 7 lakhs, 140000 per day, 1 crore takes 20 years
author class:The Mother
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1960 Sat 23 July
July 23, 1960
Something interesting happened last night exactly between ten and eleven. I was in some kind of vehicle. I didnt see the vehicle but I was in it. Someone in front of me was driving, though I could only see his back; I didnt bother about who it washe was simply the one meant to do it.
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Image 2
The water was flowing off towards the right. From time to time there were these fissured dips or depressions along the vehicles path where the water rushed through, and in fact it must have rushed through each one just as soon as I had sped past. It was most dangerous, for if you had reached there a second too late, the water would already have flooded in and you would no longer have been able to get across; it was such that with even only a few drops, you would no longer get across. Not that they were very wide, but And the water was pouring in (pouring in our words are very small), it was pouring in, and I could see it ahead, but then the vehicle would arrive at full speed and instead of stopping, in a wild roller coaster-like movement it would plunge through, vroom!just in time, exactly like a roller coaster. I always arrived just in time to get through. And then again the same thing, broken here and there (in this way there were many fissures, though Ive only drawn two; there were quite a few, five or six at least), and again we would dart across, then race on until we would reach the spot where I have drawn the water turning.
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In the beginning, I said Id do a crore,4 and if that were not enough, Id do ten crore. And one crore will take 20 years!
We shall see.
0 1960-07-26 - Mothers vision - looking up words in the subconscient, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1960 Tue 26 July
July 26, 1960
I woke up at three oclock (what I mean is, I came out of my nightly activities). I had an hour ahead of me before getting up. So I concentrated and went within.
0 1960-08-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1960 Sat 20 August
August 20, 1960
(While filing various old papers, notes, etc., Mother happens upon the plan for a film studio at the lake)
0 1960-08-27, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1960 Sat 27 August
August 27, 1960
I would like to see you much more often, perhaps three or four times a week, every other dayif people would
0 1960-09-02, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1960 Fri 2 September
September 2, 1960
(Letter to Mother from Satprem)
Pondicherry, September 2, 1960
Sweet Mother,
0 1960-09-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1960 Tue 20 September
September 20, 1960
X has spoken to me several times of his lack of esteem for most people in the Ashram: Why does Mother keep all these empty pots? he says.
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So I saw this I saw it moving about. And it kept coming and coming and coming, accumulating, piling up (they work 24 hours a day, six days a weekonly on the seventh do they rest). So I thought that this angry force must have some effect on the peoplewho knows, maybe this is what creates accidents. For I could see that once the sugar cane was fully crushed and had gone back up the chute, this force that had been beaten out was right there. And this worried me a little; I thought that there must be a certain danger in doing such a thing! What saves them is their ignorance and their insensitivity. But Indians are never entirely insensitive in the way Westerners arethey are much more open in their subconscious.
I didnt speak of it to anyone, but it caused me some concern. And just the next day the machine broke down! When I was informed, immediately I thought It was then repaired, and again it broke downthree times. Then the following night, just before ten oclock I should mention that during the day I had thought, But why not attract these forces to our side, take them and satisfy them, give them some peace and joy and use them? I thought about it, concentrated a little, but then I didnt bother any further. At ten oclock that evening, they came upon mein a flood! They kept coming and coming. And I was busy with them the whole time. They were not ugly (not so luminous either! ), they were wholesome, straightforwardhonest forces. So I worked on them. This began exactly at 9:30, and for one hour I was busy working. After an hour, Id had enough: Listen, this is quite fine, youre very nice, but I cant spend all my time like this! We shall see what to do later for it absorbed my whole consciousness. They kept coming and coming (you understand what that means to a body?!). So at 10:30 I told them, Listen, my little ones, be quiet now, thats enough for today At 10:30, the machine broke down!
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September 2, 1960
0 1960-09-24, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1960 Sat 24 September
September 24, 1960
Imagine! I thought I had lost my hearing. But I just realized that when I dont hear its because Im elsewhere.
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September 20, 1960
0 1960-10-02a, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1960 Sun 2 October
October 2, 1960
10. 2.60
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September 24, 1960
0 1960-10-02b, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1960 Sun 2 October
October 2, 1960
(Letter to Mother from Satprem)
Pondicherry, October 2, 1960
Sunday evening
0 1960-10-11, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Chakra: center of consciousness. 1) The crown of the head (sahasradala), 2) between the eyebrows (ajna), 3) the throat (vishuddha), 4) the heart (anahata) 5) the navel (manipura), 6) the abdomen (svadhishthana), 7) the base of the spine (muladhara).
Rue Lemercier.
0 1960-10-22, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1960 Sat 2 2 October
October 2 2, 1960
(Pavitra shows Mother a photograph of the house in which She lived in Paris, rue du Val de Grce)
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There was a considerable library in the studio; one whole end was given over to the librarymore than two thousand books belonging to my brother. There were even the complete works of several classical writers. And I had my entire collection of the Revue Cosmique, and my post card collection (it was down below)mainly post cards of Algeria, Tlemcen, nearly 200 of them. But there were five years of the Revue Cosmique. And written in such a French! How funny it was!
Theons wife dictated it in English while she was in trance. Another English lady who was there claimed to know French like a Frenchman. Myself, I never use a dictionary, she would say, I dont need a dictionary. But then she would turn out such translations! She made all the classic mistakes of English words that mustnt be translated like that. Then it was sent to me in Paris for correcting. It was literally impossible.
0 1960-10-25, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1960 Tue 25 October
October 25, 1960
There is a black cloud over the ashram. Its origin is rather unique and very interesting.
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All this happened just on the day X1 was leaving. So I told S to take the photograph and letter to X and tell him the story. X consulted some book, did a very short japa for a few seconds and said, Oh, hell come back before September 26, BUT inform Mother so that She may see to ft. therefore, I concentrated a little.
About two weeks later (in other words, ten days or so before September 26), some more news the boys older brother, who lives in Ahmedabad (not Bombay), came to visit his mother, father and grandmo ther (theres also a grandmo ther), and he asked about his brother. He had come with a friend. Your brother has disappeared, they explained, we dont know what has happened to him. So the two of them decided to search for him: Well find him .
The day before their departure, the elder brothers friend said he was going to visit the grandmo ther (she lives some hundred yards away). He went outand didnt return. Disappeared.
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Then the police got involved. They wanted to take him back to the countryside around Poona (naturally I suppose they nursed him in the meantime), but not much came out of it. Seems that wherever he remembered seeing these people, when he said he had seen them, he fainted. Finally, I was told the story, and the poor family wrote to me saying, Who are these demons with such a great power that even it withstands Mothers force as well as that of Xand who are holding our son? So X was again informed and, knowing the story of the elder brothers friend, he said, Ah, now I know where the other one is, and I hope it wont take too long. But then September 26 passedgeneral despair in the family. They wrote to me, and I concentrated.
It was just before Durga Puja,3 or just after I cant remember (dates and I dont go together)no, it was after Durga Puja. So I went into a deep concentration and, as a matter of fact, I saw that a very powerful and dangerous rakshasic4 power was involved. And then, when I started walking for my japa upstairs in my room (I had given some thought to this story and tried asking for something to be done), I suddenly saw Durga before me raising high a lance of white light the lance of light that destroys the hostile forcesand She struck into a black swarming mass of men.
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October 2 2, 1960
0 1960-10-30, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
October 25, 1960
0 1960-11-12, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
(It has not stopped raining for the last 20 days ... )
Chittagong was hit by a cyclone, there were tidal waves somewhere else The cyclone went up the wrong side!for according to Xs predictions, it was Karachi that should have disappeared.
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Certainly, we CAN be heard. So far I never said anything. It even surprised me, for I had never paid it any attention, I was quite away from all that: its raining?so what, its raining, it happens. Its not raining?so what, its not raining, its the same thing. And then gradually people started mentioning that should it continue, they wouldnt be able to do their exercises, and they wouldnt be ready for December 2.1 Then I started receiving desperate lettersone person even told me he was doing his puja underwater! So I answered by saying, Take it as the Lords blessing but Im not sure he appreciated it! And then I learned that 200 houses [in the Ashram] 200!are leaking. Naturally, each one is in a great hurryits terribly urgent! So perhaps I shall file a complaint and ask them what they mean by this!
Actually, if communications are interrupted, it can be troublesome Let us see.
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You asked me just now if we have a say in the matter. Well, last year I didnt go out; I had no intention of going to the Sportsground or to the theater for the December 2 program, but I was often asked to see that the weather be good. So while I was doing my japa upstairs, I started saying that it shouldnt rain. But they werent in a very good mood! (When I used to go out myself, it had an effect, for it kept the thing in check, and even if it had been raining earlier, that day it would stop.) So they said, But you arent going out, so what does it matter. I said I wascounting on it. Then they answered, Are you prepared to have it rain the next time you go out?Do what you like, I replied. And when I went out on November 24 for the prize distribution, there was a deluge. It came pouring down and we had to run for shelter in the gymnasiumeveryone was splashing around, the band playing on the verandah was half-drenched, it was dreadful!the day before it hadnt rained, the day after it didnt rain. But on that day they had their revenge!
I dont want that to happen this time. Once is enough. So Im going to see about it.
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Night of July 24, 1959.
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0 1960-11-26, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1960 Sat 26 November
November 26, 1960
(Mother had wanted this personal conversation to be erased and remain untranscribed, but considering its importance, we thought it better to preserve it.)
0 1960-12-02, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1960 Fri 2 December
December 2, 1960
(After meditating together)
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November 26, 1960
0 1960-12-13, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
December 2, 1960
0 1960-12-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1960 Tue 20 December
December 20, 1960
Regarding Christmas, Ill tell you a curious story.
0 1960-12-23, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1960 Fri 23 December
December 23, 1960
(Mother arrives from a meditation with X, the tantric guru)
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December 20, 1960
0 1960-12-25, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1960 Sun 25 December
December 25, 1960
(Letter to Mother from Satprem)
Pondicherry, December 25, 1960
Sweet Mother,
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December 23, 1960
0 1960-12-31, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
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0 1961-01-12, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I am going downstairs on the 21st, for Saraswati Puja. 2 They have prepared a folder with a long quotation from Savitri and five photos of my face taken from five different angles.
The title of the folder is the line from Savitri that gave me the most overpowering experience of the entire book (because, as I told you, as I read, I would LIVE the experiencesreading brought, instantly, a living experience). And when I came to this particular line I was as if suddenly swept up and engulfed in (the is wrong, an is wrongits neither one nor the other, its something else) eternal Truth. Everything was abolished except this:
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Savitri, Vol. 29, XI.I.70 2.
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0 1961-01-22, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1961 Sun 2 2 January
January 2 2, 1961
(Mother had been unwell the past few days. She speaks here of the causes behind the physical disorder.)
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On the previous day, January 21, Saraswati Puja, Mother had given a message and photos to each disciple.
Later, on the 27th, Mother remarked: 'I was reading about this very thing yesterday in The Secret of the Veda, in the first hymn translated by Sri Aurobindo (the reference is to the colloquy between Indra and Agastya, Rig Veda I.170cf. The Secret of the Veda, Cent. Ed., X. 241 ff.), and it helped me put my finger on the problem. In this hymn there is a dispute between Indra and the Rishi because the Rishi wants to progress too quickly without first passing through Indra [the god of the Mind], and Indra stops him; finally they reach an agreement. Sri Aurobindo's commentary is quite interesting: when one has the INDIVIDUAL power to go directly, but neglects the steps which are still necessary for the whole, for the universal movement, then one is stopped short. That is absolutely my experience.'
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0 1961-01-24, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1961 Tue 24 January
January 24, 1961
I have something to tell you now. Well work later.
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A few days later, Mother rectified: 'I have looked at the experience again and realized that it's not Vedic but pre-Vedic. The experience put me into contact with a civilization prior to the Vedas the Rishis and the Vedas are a kind of transition between that vanished civilization and the Indian civilization which grew out of the Vedic Age. It was yesterday [January 26] that I perceived this, and it was quite interesting.'
In the Vedas, the panis and dasyus represent beings or forces hidden in subterranean caves who have stolen the 'Riches' or the 'Lights', symbolized by herds of cows. With the help of the gods, the Aryan warrior must recover these lost riches, the 'sun in the darkness,' by igniting the flame of sacrifice. It is the path of subterranean descent.
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January 2 2, 1961
0 1961-01-27, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1961 Fri 27 January
January 27, 1961
(On the moralistic reactions of someone who thought that certain acts 'angered' God:)
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Since the last experience [January 24] I see it daily. The following day, probably for reasons connected with the bodys development and adaptation, I was rather seriously illwhat is usually called painfully ill: the body was suffering a lot, or WOULD HAVE suffered a lot had it been in its former normal consciousness. Thats where I saw the differencea fantastic difference!
I was perfectly conscious (now when I say I, it refers to my body, I am not speaking of the whole higher consciousness), the body was perfectly conscious of its suffering, the reason for its suffering, the cause of its suffering, everything and it did not suffer. You understand, the two perceptions were there together: the body saw the disorder, saw the suffering just as it would have felt it a few weeks earlier, it saw all that (saw, knew I dont know how to express itit was conscious, it was aware) and it did not suffer. The two awarenesses were absolutely simultaneous.
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Oh, another little example. You know those photos I distributed on the 21st for the Saraswati Puja) Amrita told me he was going to send them to X,1 I but I told him, No, dont bother. (The 21st was a terrible day for me. All the dasyus of the world were in league against me, trying to stop me I understood this afterwards, when I saw those things. 2 So thats what it is! I said to myself, Thats what has been going on!) Then after the night of the 24th, I went down for balcony-darshan3 with such a foursquare certaintyyou know, cubic: such a cubic certainty and I said to Amrita, You can send him those photos today, without an explanation, without a word, with nothing but a feeling of certainty, a kind of definite and absolute THATS HOW IT IS.
And that is a change, truly a change.
--
January 24, 1961
0 1961-01-29, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1961 Sun 29 January
January 29, 1961
My legs are tired.
--
Experience of January 2 2 (the artificial hurricane).
***
January 27, 1961
0 1961-01-31, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Concerning the experience related on January 24, of the supramental Force reorganizing the activity of each center of consciousness. The experience ended in a deep trance: 'I slipped into trance...')
I neglected to mention something very important.
--
(A little later, concerning the Saraswati Puja photos that Mother first refused to send to X on the 21st, then decided to send on the 25th, with a kind of imperative cubic certainty.)
X has replied. He said something like this, which Amrita translated: I have received the photos. It is a I dont know whether he said illumination or flame, ascending towards the Truth, leading towards the Truth. Thats the impression it gave him: that it was leading somewhere.
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But would it really have made a difference to send these photos on the 21st, as Amrita wanted, rather than later?
Ah, yes! (How to explain?) On the 21st, these photos could still have created a kind of difficulty in Xs consciousness (a semiconscious difficulty) because of all the obstacles, all the contradictions, all that was coming to put up a figh the is very sensitive to these things and I didnt want to put him in contact with that realm. Later, though they had been given a good thump on the head (Mother abruptly bangs down both hands) and were keeping still. Then I said, All right, now you can send them.
I always avoid putting him in contact with the realm of conflicts and contradictions because he is extremely sensitive and it causes him difficulties. Thats why I said, No, dont bother. Afterwards, it was fine!
--
January 29, 1961
0 1961-02-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But I have had no indication of this, neither by night nor by day, neither awake nor in tranceno indication. The indication rather points to all that must be clarified, purified so the physical may keep what it received from that experience [of January 24, 1961].
From an ordinary standpoint, I believe the situation is dangerous, because (laughing) the doctor refuses to tell me what the consequences might be. I asked him but he wouldnt tell me, so thats what it must mean! But I really have no indications and I hope I wont be told, Now you must go, only at the very last minute!
--
The most violent attack came immediately after that experience [of January 24]. But of all the experiences in my life, this was the most wonderful for the simple reason that it was NOT EVEN preceded by an aspiration, not even an aspiration from the body it came directly as the Supreme Will, bang! (Mother bangs down her hands in an irresistible gesture) And then there was nothing, nothing but THE thing, WITHOUT ANY PERSONAL PARTICIPATION WHATSOEVER: no will, no aspiration, not even the satisfaction of itnothing. It was. I was (in my higher consciousness) filled with wonder at the ABSOLUTENESS of the experience. It came, a thing DECREED and eternallike that (same irresistible gesture).
(silence)
--
Of course, theres the constant difficulty of all the thoughts coming from outside and from the people you live with. But now the consciousness is such that these outer things are seen objectively (Mother makes a gesture of seeing vibrations coming and stopping before her eyes)automatically I see everything that comes from the surrounding vibrations objectively: far, near, above, below, everywhere. The vibration comes WITH THE KNOWLEDGE. In other words, its not that you see what it is only after it has been received and absorbed: it comes with the knowledge, and this is a great help. This type of perception has considerably increased and become much more precise since that experience [of January 24], much more; it has made a big difference.
But perhaps there will have to be many experiences of this nature before the work is done. It is possible.
--
This particular period was very bad last year too.6 There was a tremendous opposition because of February 29th [first anniversary of the supramental manifestation]. But always a little before Darshans7 or days for special blessings there is a new outbreak of adverse attacksalways.
Well, mon petit, we have done nothing but talk. Its time to go and we havent done anything!
0 1961-02-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(After another digression, Mother again speaks of her experience of January 24, which triggered a backlash of subconscious difficulties.)
A great deal has been brought to light since that experience. It has been the starting point for such turmoil, even physically, such strong jolts that I might have wondered, Was I dreaming or was it real?. And more and more I am coming to understand that this is the INDISPENSABLE preparation in the most material world for that experience to become definitively established, to express itself outwardly, constantlythis is obvious.
--
I have a feeling (but these are old ideas) that if I were all alone somewhere and didnt have to look after these people and things, it would be easier. But that would not be the TRUE thing. For when I had the experience [of January 24], all that is normally under my care was present: the whole earth seemed to be present at the experience. There is no individuality (Mother indicates her body). I have difficulty finding an individuality now, even in my own body. What I do find in this body are the subconscious vibrations (conscious as well as subconscious) of a WORLD, a whole world of things. So it can be done ONLY on a large scale, otherwise its the same old story but then its not the power HERE [in matter]one simply quits this world. Oh, these people cant imagine what it is! They have made such a fuss over their departure. They have wanted us to believe it was something quite extraordinary. But its infantile, its childs play, its nothing at all to quit this world! One simply goes poff!, like diving into watera little kick and one resurfaces, and thats all there is to it, its done (Mother laughs).
And the same goes for their stories about attachments and desiresmy god! Theres nothing to it! Imagine, with anything concerning my body, through all this horror of the subconscient, NOT ONCE have I had to bear the consequence of a desire; I have always had to bear the consequences of the battle against lifes unconscious and malicious resistances, but not once has something come up like that (gesture of something resurging from below) to tell me, You see! You had a desire, now heres the result of it! Not oncevery, very sincerely.
--
On the Sunday preceding each Darshan (this February 21st, Mother would be 84), Mother used to distribute saris, napkins or handkerchiefs to the disciples.
***
0 1961-02-25, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1961 Sat 25 February
February 25, 1961
(Mother gives Satprem some flowers.)
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The second sign is a sense of ABSOLUTENESS in knowledge. As I have already told you, I had this with my experience of January 24. This state CANNOT be obtained through any region of the mind, even the most illumined and exalted. Its not a certainty, its (Mother lowers both hands like an irresistible block descending), a kind of absoluteness, without even any possibility of hesitation (theres no question of doubt), or anything like that. Without (how to say it ?). All mental knowledge, even the highest, is a conclusive knowledge, as it were: it comes as a conclusion of something elsean intuition, for instance (an intuition gives you a particular knowledge, and this knowledge is like the conclusion of the intuition). Even revelations are conclusions. Theyre all conclusions the word conclusion comes to me, but I dont know how to express it. This isnt the case, however, with the supramental experiencea kind of absolute. The feeling it gives is altogether uniquefar beyond certainty, it is (Mother again makes the same irresistible gesture) it is a FACT, things are FACTS. It is very, very difficult to explain. But with that one naturally has a complete power the two things always go together. (In my reply to this man I didnt speak of power because the power is almost a consequence and I didnt want to speak of consequences.) But the fact remains: a kind of absoluteness in knowledge springing from identityone is the thing one knows and experiences: one is it. One knows it because one is it.
When these two signs are present (both are necessary, one is incomplete without the other), when a person possesses both, then you can be sure he has been in contact with the Supermind. So people who speak about receiving the Light well, (laughing) its a lot of hot air! But when both signs are present, you can be sure of your perception.1 2
--
Its like the extraordinary feeling I had in my experience that night [January 24]the individuality, even in its highest consciousness, even whats known as the atman13 and the soul, had nothing to do with it. For it comes like this (same gesture), with an absoluteness. There is NO individual participationits a decision coming from the Supreme.
Its the same thing for the rest: all your aspiration, all your tapasya, all your efforts, all that is individualabsolutely no effect. It comes, and there it is.
--
2) An absolute certainty in knowledge.
To be perfect, the equality must be invariable and spontaneous, effortless, towards all circumstances, all happenings, all contacts, material or psychological, irrespective of their character and impact.
0 1961-02-28, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1961 Tue 28 February
February 28, 1961
I have brought you the exact text of that sentence on Sri Aurobindo I told you about the other day.1 It was in reply to a letter.
--
February 25, 1961
0 1961-03-04, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
February 28, 1961
0 1961-03-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I knew when I caught it: it was at the Playground.4 Certain people poisoned me with a mosquito bite the instant the mosquito bit me, I knew, because it so happens I am a little bit conscious! But I controlled it like this (gesture of holding the disease in abeyance and under control), so it couldnt stir. Probably it would never have stirred if I hadnt had that experience of January 24 and the body didnt need to be made ready. For the body to be ready, a host of things belonging to the dasyus, as the Vedas say, cant be stored inside it! These are very nasty little dasyus (laughing), they have to be chased away!
When the disease came back, I said to myself, Very well, this means it must be dealt with in a new way.
--
Until 1958, Mother went daily to the Ashram Playground, from 5 p.m. to 9 or 10 in the evening, to see people and give her direct spiritual help to some 2,000 disciples who passed before her one by one.
Mother is referring to the movements of consciousness, both good and bad, of those whom she has accepted as disciples and taken into her consciousness.
0 1961-03-14, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mother goes on to the work and listens to the reading of an old Talk of September 26, 1956, to be used in the Bulletin. In it she speaks of moments of opening in the yoga:
Then there are days when you are in contact with the divine Consciousness, with the Grace, and all is tinged, colored by this Presence, and things which usually seem dull to you become charming and pleasant all is alive, all is vibrant. At other moments you are clouded, closed, you no longer feel anything, everything loses its flavor you are like a walking block of wood.
0 1961-03-17, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Between 2 and 3 oclock this morning, I had an experience something resurging from the subconscient: it was appalling, my child, the disclosure of an appalling inefficiency! Disgraceful!
The experience occurred in a place corresponding to ours [the main Ashram building], but immense: the rooms were ten times bigger, but absolutely one cant say emptythey were barren. Not that there was nothing in them, but nothing was in order, everything was just where it shouldnt be. There wasnt any furniture so things were strewn here and therea dreadful disarray! Things were being put to uses they werent made for, yet nothing needed for a particular purpose could be found. The whole section having to do with education [the Ashram School] was in almost total darkness: the lights were out with no way to switch them on, and people were wandering about and coming to me with incoherent, stupid proposals. I tried to find a comer where I could rest (not because I was tired; I simply wanted to concentrate a little and get a clear vision in the midst of it all), but it was impossible, no one would leave me alone. Finally I put a tottering armchair and a footstool end-to-end and tried to rest; but someone immediately came up (I know who, Im purposely not giving names) and said, Oh! This wont do at all! It CANT be arranged like that! Then he began making noise, commotion, disorderwell, it was awful.
0 1961-03-21, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1961 Tue 21 March
March 21, 1961
Last night I had two consecutive experiences showing with extreme precision that black magic is at the root of all this (Mother is speaking of both general and personal difficulties, in the Ashram and in her body).
--
Then I woke up (I always wake up three or four times during the night) and when I went back to bed I had an attack of what the doctor and I have taken to be filariasis but a strange type of filariasis, for as soon as I master it in one spot it appears in another, and when I master it there it reappears somewhere else. Last night it was in the arms (it lasted quite a while, between 2:30 and 4 a.m.); but I was fully conscious, and each time the attack came, I went like this (gestures over the arms, to drive away the attack) and my arms were not affected at all. When it was over, I consciously entered the most material subtle physical, just beyond the body. I was sitting in my room there (an immense, cubic room) reading or writing something, when I heard the door open and close, but I was busy and didnt pay attention, presuming it was one of the people usually around me. Then suddenly I had such an unpleasant sensation in my body that I raised my head and looked, and I saw someone there. Do you know how the magicians in Europe dress, in short satin breeches and a shirt? He was wearing something like that. He was Indian, tall and rather dark, with slicked-down hairwhat you would normally call a handsome young man. He seemed to have been drawn1 there becausehe was standing in front of me staring into space, not looking at me. And the moment I saw him, there was the same sensation in all my cells as I have with what Ive been calling filariasis (its a special, minute kind of pain) and simultaneously all the cells felt disgusta tremendous will of rejection. Then I sat up straight (I didnt stand up) and said to him as forcefully as possible, How do you dare to come in here! I said it so loudly that the noise woke me up! I dont know what happened then, but things went much better afterwards.
The moment I saw this person I knew he was only an instrument, but a well-paid instrumentsomeone paid a great deal to have him do that! I would recognize him again among hundreds I can still see him I see him more clearly than with physical eyes. He is an unintelligent man with no personal animosity, merely a very well-paid instrumentsomeone is hiding behind him, using him as a screen.
0 1961-03-25, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1961 Sat 25 March
March 25, 1961
(On the previous day, Satprem had written a letter to Mother complaining of never having any concrete experiences. After a meditation together, this is what Mother replied.)
0 1961-03-27, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1961 Mon 27 March
March 27, 1961
(Mother brings along a note she had written the same morning concerning a meditation with X, the tantric 'guru':)
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It ruffles me because its like a negation of my power. Till yesterday I had never experienced anything of the kind! On the 29th, you know, it will be forty-seven years since I first came here3thats not exactly yesterday! And ever since I began working with Sri Aurobindo, I have had the sense of this Power, it has never left me; so. It is disconcerting to have this kind of episode come up after such a long time.
Ill try to speak with X and find out exactly what happened.
--
I probably needed the experience. You remember that type of detachment I spoke of when I had that experiencewhen the BODY had that experience of January 24, 1961well, it has increased to such an extent that it now applies to anything and everything linked with action on earth. This detachment was probably necessary. It began with something like things dissolving (Mother makes a gesture of crumbling something between her fingers); certain kinds of links between my consciousness and the Work were dissolving (not links with me, because I dont have any, but with the body; the whole physical consciousness, all that attaches it to the things in its environment, to the Work and to the entourage I spoke to you about that in regard to physical immortality; well, thats what is happening now). Its like things dissolvingdissolving, dissolving, dissolving. And its more and more pronounced. During these last days, things have been becoming increasingly difficultdifficulties have been coming one after another, one after another. Formerly, I had the power to get a grip on them and hold them (Mother tightens her grip as though mastering circumstances); but now that this type of detachment has begun, things drift away everywhereeverywhere, everywhere.
So this episode with X is probably part of the same process. What has been affected is a certain confidence in the REALITY of the Power, the REALITY of spiritual action; there seems to be no communication between here (above) and there (below).
--
On March 29, 1914.
In the occult sense, a 'formation' signifies a concentration of power or force directed towards a particular goal. it is like a bullet of force going inexorably to its target. In fact, all beings are constantly making 'formations' with their thoughts and desires, but these formations have scarcely any power other than that of clinging to the one who has made them or returning upon him like a boomerang.
0 1961-04-12, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mind you, I would never have considered having any, but two cats were already there when I came to the house. They were not very interesting cats, but they became the parents of the one I just told you about (those boys who were living with Sri Aurobindo had already had some experience; they knew quite a few things about cats), and that was the origin of all the cats I had here. But people (you know how simplistic they always are!) believed I had some special attachment for cats, so then of course everybody started keeping cats! It was no use my telling them, No, its a particular study were making I wanted to see, to learn certain things, and I learned what I had to but now that I have moved to another house, the cat era is over; the old friends are gone, only the younger generation is left. I gave them all away and said) Thats enough. But its hard to make people understandsome people here have 25 cats! Thats unreasonable! Its not the way to deal with cats. You have to look after them as I did, and then it becomes interesting.
There was one I know I SAW it: when he died there was already the embryo of a psychic being, ready for a human incarnation. I made them progress like wildfire.
0 1961-04-15, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
On the 24th, how long will it be? Forty-one years since I came here. And I havent moved since.
Its really strange: there is no space between that time and now. I dont know how to explain it. I have no feeling of time, none at all, none.
0 1961-04-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Only just towards the end of the night, after 2 a.m., does all this subconscient rise up to be relived. And with such a new and unexpected perception, oh! Its incredible! It changes all values and relationships and reactions (Mother shapes great movements of shifting forces); its like a chessboard absolutely unexpected!
And I see a very steady, insistent and regular action to eliminate moral values. How I have been plagued all my life by these moral values! Everything is immediately placed on a scale of moral values (not ordinary moralityfar from it! But a sense of what has to be encouraged or discouraged, what helps me towards progress or what hampers it); instantly everything was seen from the angle of this will to progresseverything, all circumstances, reactions, movements, absolutely everything was translated by that. Now, the subconscient is mounting upwards and, knee-deep in it, you see it as a lesson to tell you: so much for all your notions of progress! They are all based on illusionsa general lie. Things are not at all what they seem, they dont have the effects they appear to have, nor the results that are perceivedall, all, all, oh Lord!
0 1961-04-22, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1961 Sat 2 2 April
April 2 2, 1961
I never manage to finish my mornings program. Things just keep piling up.
--
It went on for a long timebetween midnight and 2 a.m.
***
0 1961-04-25, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1961 Tue 25 April
April 25, 1961
(Mother comes in with a book by Alice Bailey, 'Discipleship in the New Age,' which had recently been sent to her. Pavitra is present and shows Mother a brochure he has received, 'World Goodwill Bulletin,' and protests against this proliferation of movements all claiming to work towards 'world union,' and proselytes making so-called 'spiritual' propaganda without having found, within and by themselves, the true spiritual foundation. Mother goes on.)
--
2.10.1934
Cent. Ed., On Himself, Vol. XXVI, pp. 375-76
0 1961-04-29, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1961 Sat 29 April
April 29, 1961
(Some fragments of this conversation were originally published in Mother's 'Commentaries on the Aphorisms' of Sri Aurobindo. Considering it too personal, Mother had not wanted the unabridged text to appear even in her Agenda. However, we felt it should be kept. This conversation's starting point was the following aphorism:)
0 1961-05-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1961 Tue 2 May
May 2, 1961
There is obviously a force at work.
0 1961-05-19, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Experience of January 24, 1961.
This refers to the Ashram dispensary, managed by Dr. Nripendra.
0 1961-05-23, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1961 Tue 23 May
May 23, 1961
(Satprem inquires about Mother's health.)
0 1961-06-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1961 Fri 2 June
June 2, 1961
(Regarding an earlier 'Questions and Answers'March 13, 1957where Mother says: 'And finally, isn't the Divine the best friend one could have? The Divine to whom one can tell all, reveal all, because here is the source of all mercy, of all power to efface error when it no longer recurs....' Surprised, Satprem blurts out.)
--
I know why I gave no explanations as I was speaking: because of the intensity of the experience. There is something like it in Prayers and Meditations. I remember an experience I had in Japan which is noted there. (Mother looks through Prayers and Meditations and reads a passage dated November 25, 1917:) 2
Thou art the sure friend who never fails,
0 1961-06-20, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1961 Tue 20 June
June 20, 1961
(Following a meditation with X.)
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X's deceased guru. See Agenda I, October 4, 1958, pp. 200- 201
See the poem entitled Self
0 1961-06-24, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1961 Sat 24 June
June 24, 1961
I have received your note1 and it didnt surprise me, because just about a month ago I received what seemed like an SOS from your mother, telling me your father was rapidly declining. I have done what I could, mainly to bring in some tranquillity, some calm, some inner peace. But I havent done. You see, there are always two possibilities when people are so seriously ill: they can be helped to die quickly, or else made to linger on for a very long time. When I have no outer or inner indications, all I ever do is apply the consciousness for the best to happen to them (the best from the souls standpoint, of course).
--
Experience of July 24, 1959.
Pranam: To bow down.
0 1961-06-27, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1961 Tue 27 June
June 27, 1961
Aphorism 6 2I heard a fool discoursing utter folly and wondered what God meant by it; then I considered and saw a distorted mask of truth and wisdom.
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(After listening to the conversation of June 24, concerning death:)
You know, we are just on the frontier, on the edge: its as if there were a semi-transparent curtainone sees things on the other side, tries to grasp them, but as yet cannot. But there is such a sense of proximity!
0 1961-07-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The experience I described the day I said I have something to tell you [January 24, 1961] was truly very pleasant and I did try to relive it but I never could. Whenever I try, whenever something in me insists on recapturing the experience, I always see a Smile and something tells me, No, no! Let go! Youll see, youll see. So I let go.
All right, thats enough-enough for you!
0 1961-07-15, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And it has become acute since.1 No, I dont read these days, because Ive had a hemorrhage in this eye. There have been too many letters, and its difficult for me to decipher handwriting the result is this hemorrhage. So I have gone on strike. All right, I said, I wont read any letters for a week. People can write as much as they please, its all the same to me Im not reading any more. But just before stopping (I stopped reading for only three days), I read a passage where Sri Aurobindo speaks of his own experience and his own work and explains in full what he means by the supramental transformation. This passage confirmed and made me understand many experiences I had after that experience of the bodys ascent [January 24, 1961] (the ascent of the body-consciousness, followed by the descent of the supramental force into the body); immediately afterwards, everything (how to put it?) outwardly, according to ordinary consciousness, I fell ill; but its stupid to speak this way I did not fall ill! All possible difficulties in the bodys subconscient rose up en masseit had to happen, and it surely happened to Sri Aurobindo, too. How well I understood! How well, indeed. And its no joke, you know! I had wondered why these difficulties had hounded him so ferociouslynow I understand, because I am being attacked in the same relentless fashion.
Actually, it springs from everything in material consciousness that can still be touched by the adverse forces; that is, not exactly the body-consciousness itself but, one could say, material substance as it has been organized by the mind the initial mentalization of matter, the first stirrings of mind in life making the passage from animal to human. (The same complications would probably exist in animals, but as there is no question of trying to supramentalize animals, all goes well for them.) Well, something in there protests, and naturally this protest creates disorder. These past few days I have been seeing. No one has ever followed this path! Sri Aurobindo was the first, and he left without telling us what he was doing. I am literally hewing a path through a virgin forestits worse than a virgin forest.
0 1961-07-26, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1961 Wed 26 July
July 26, 1961
(Satprem reads several passages from the July 15th conversation where Mother says that Sri Aurobindo left before saying what he had been doing, and that it was a path through a virgin forest: 'Eyes blindfolded, knowing nothing, one plods on....')
0 1961-07-28, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1961 Fri 28 July
July 28, 1961
Here is something important. Sri Aurobindo says that everything is involved down here the mind, the vital, the supermind and that what is involved evolves. But if everything is involved, including the supermind, what is the need for a descent? Cant things evolve by themselves?
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Cent. Ed., Vol. XVII, p. 28 ff.
In Sri Aurobindo's terminology, the 'Overmind' represents the highest level of the mind, the world of the gods and origin of all the revelations and highest artistic creations the world that has ruled mental man till now. in his gradations of the worlds, Sri Aurobindo speaks of two hemispheres, the upper hemisphere and the lower. The Overmind is the line between these two hemispheres, 'This line is the intermediary overmind which, though luminous itself, keeps from us the full indivisible supramental Light, but in receiving it divides, distributes, breaks up into separated aspects, powers, multiplicities of all kinds.' In the words of the Upanishad, 'The face of the Truth is covered by a golden lid.'
0 1961-08-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1961 Wed 2 August
August 2, 1961
When one descends into the subconscient, a time comes when its no longer personal the whole world is there! Then what can we do? Im not speaking of you, but what can people like us do to change it? Its a Sisyphean labor! Vibrations from the whole world keep coming in at each instant. How can we change it?
--
Except for Krishna. In 19 26, I had begun a sort of overmental creation, that is, I had brought the Overmind down into matter, here on earth (miracles and all kinds of things were beginning to happen). I asked all these gods to incarnate, to identify themselves with a body (some of them absolutely refused). Well, with my very own eyes I saw Krishna, who had always been in rapport with Sri Aurobindo, consent to come down into his body. It was on November 24th, and it was the beginning of Mother.8
Yes, in fact I wanted to ask you what this realization of 19 26 was.
0 1961-08-05, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
A.B. Purani, Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo, Volume I, p. 23 2
Through Theon's malevolence, in fact.
--
February 2 2, 1914.
On another occasion, Mother told Sujata more about these three times her brother almost killed her: 'One day we were playing croquet, and either because he got beaten or for some other reason, he flew into a rage and struck me hard with his Mallet; fortunately I escaped with only a slight scratch. Another time, we were sitting in a room and he threw a big chair towards me I ducked just in time and the chair passed over my head. A third time, as we were descending from a carriage, he pushed me down under it; luckily the horse didn't move.'
0 1961-08-25, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1961 Fri 25 August
August 25, 1961
(Mother gives flowers) This is Alchemy.1 And here! (Mother hands Satprem some cheese)
--
Anyway, X has written to me (and to M. also), telling me he will be here on the 29th, but will have to leave on the 10th, so it wont be for very longall because of various ceremonies. 2 He writes me that hes going to train someone to replace him for all these ceremonies so he can be freer to come here for longer periods. But to M. (the devil knows what M. wrote to him), he says something like, Yes, there is a very sorry situation in the Ashram and peoples jealousy and envy are increasing more and more. Yet nevertheless he feels so drawn by the Mothers presence that he will come.
I admit I didnt like this letter. But I dont hold him responsible because. When people tell him things, he believes them. God knows what story M. told him!
0 1961-09-23, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1961 Sat 23 September
September 23, 1961
I have the right to 150 pages! The publisher is giving me 150 pages in his collection. Terrible. But in this Sri Aurobindo, you understand, I would like to make his whole poetic aspect stand out, that poetry which is like the Veda, like a revelation, so a bit of space is required: it cant be squeezed into a few lines, or reduced to a skeleton.
0 1961-09-28, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1961 Thu 28 September
September 28, 1961
(Letter to Mother from Satprem)
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September 23, 1961
0 1961-09-30, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
September 28, 1961
0 1961-10-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1961 Mon 2 October
October 2, 1961
I was holding one of these flowers [Integral Generosity1] in my hand when I saw Z, and I explained to him what I meant by integral generosity. The effect of the ego, I told him, is to shrivel the being. Its the cause of aging, it dries you up the being shrivels under it like a withering flower. And as I was speaking to him, the experience came; all I remember now is the idea, but the idea is nothing the experience itself was there.
0 1961-10-30, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The Secret of the Veda, p. 25.
In the preceding conversation, Mother was alluding particularly to this passage.
0 1961-11-05, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The Arya began in June 1914, and the first issue was scheduled to come out on August 15, Sri Aurobindos birthday; and the war broke out before the first issue appearedon August 3, I believea very interesting point. June 21 was Paul Richards birthday,4 so on that day we announced the coming publication of the Arya and that the first issue would appear on August 15. Between June 21 and August 15, the war broke out. But since everything was ready we went ahead and published it.
I wrote in my book that Paul Richard intended to bring out simultaneously in Paris a Review of the Great Synthesis. Is this true?5
--
Even when I had that experience [the first supramental manifestation of February 29, 1956], when the Lord said, The time has come, well, it was not a complete descent; it was the descent of the Consciousness, the Light, and a part, an aspect of the Power. It was immediately absorbed and swallowed up by the world of Inconscience, and from that moment on it began to work in the atmosphere. But it was not THE thing that comes and gets permanently established; when that happens, we wont need to speak of itit will be obvious!
Although the experience of 56 was one more forward step, its not. Its not final.
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On June 28, Archduke Ferdin and of Austria was assassinated at Sarajevo.
Satprem no longer remembers the source of this false information.
--
See conversation of July 28, p. 279.
***
0 1961-11-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In January 19 25, mother had an inflammation of the knee. On May 25 of the same year, Sri Aurobindo noted in a letter, 'The condition here is not very good. I am at present fighting the difficulties on the physical plane.' (Cited by A.B. Purani, Life of Sri Aurobindo, p. 203.) Note that in 19 25 the Nazi Party was founded.
We aren't sure, but this may refer to the experience of July 1 2, 1960, or to that of November 5, 1958, 'the almighty spring' (in fact, they are probably one and the same experience) which gave rise to the 1959 New Year Message: 'At the very bottom of the Inconscient, most hard and rigid and narrow and stifling, I struck upon an almighty spring that cast me up forthwith into a formless, limitless Vast, vibrating with the seeds of a new world.'
0 1961-11-16b, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You were scheduled for the 21st and the Italian delegate for the 23rd. I have switched it around, so on the 23rd you take the place of this lady, whom I will now see on the 21st.
I find the book VERY BEAUTIFUL.
0 1961-11-23, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1961 Thu 23 November
November 23, 1961
Im going to play you ten minutes of music.
0 1961-12-16, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
November 23, 1961
0 1961-12-20, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1961 Wed 20 December
December 20, 1961
(Satprem reads Mother some extracts from the letter he has just received from his publisher in Paris:)
0 1961-12-23, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1961 Sat 23 December
December 23, 1961
(Concerning the Sri Aurobindo manuscript, Mother advises against replying to the publisher too hastily, because she sees a possibility that could change the situation.)
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See Agenda of March 26, 1959 (Vol. I, p. 288): the Titan sent especially to attack Mother's body, and who uses the people around her for this purpose.
One of Mother's personalities.
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December 20, 1961 View Similar
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0 1962-01-09, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Centenary Edition, Vol. XXV, p. 297
See Agenda I, p. 143
0 1962-01-12 - supramental ship, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
See Agenda II, February 25, 1961, p. 96 ff
The faint: Mother spreading physically over the world.
0 1962-01-21, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
196 2 Sun 21 January
January 21, 196 2
(The point of departure for this conversation was one of Sri Aurobindo's aphorisms:)
0 1962-01-24, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
196 2 Wed 24 January
January 24, 196 2
(In connection with the preceding conversation on antidivine forces:)
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Savitri, Book X, Canto 2 (Cent. Ed. XXIX. 613).
***
January 21, 196 2
0 1962-01-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
196 2 Sat 27 January
January 27, 196 2
Id like to ask you a question about those lines from Savitri I showed you the other day. I dont know if you remember the passage about the white gods.
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January 24, 196 2
0 1962-02-03, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
January 27, 196 2
0 1962-02-24, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
196 2 Sat 24 February
February 24, 196 2
Something seems to have changed.
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I should mention that three or four days before my birthday something apparently very troublesome happened5 (it could have been troublesome, anyway), and it made me wonder: Will I be able to do what I have to on the 21st? I wasnt happy about it. No, I said, I cant let these people down when theyre expecting so much from this day; thats not right. So throughout the 20th I stayed exclusively concentrated in a very, very deep, very interiorized invocation, not in the least superficial, far from all emotions and sentiments something really at the summit of the being. And I remained in contact with That, for everything to be truly for the best, free from any false movement in Matter whatsoever. And that night I was CLEARLY cured; I mean I followed the action and saw myself really and truly cured. When I got up in the morning, I got up cured. All the things I constantly had to do, all the tapasyas just to keep going, were no longer necessarysomeone had taken charge of everything, and it was all over and done with. And on the morning of the 21st, with a crowd of two thousand and some hundred people, it went perfectly smoothly, without the slightest hitch. Then in the afternoon I had that very special experience for my legs.
So on the 21st morning I could say quite spontaneously and unhesitatingly, Today the Lord has given me the gift of healing me. (I was speaking in English about the things people had given me, and I said, and the Lord has given me the gift of healing me.)
This explanation is clear; and the healing was the result of tapasya. Its self-explanatory. Something was even saying to my body, to the bodys SUBSTANCE, O unbelieving substance, now you wont be able to say there are no miracles. Throughout all the work that was being done on the 20th, something was saying (I dont know who, because it doesnt come like something foreign to me any more, its like a Wisdom, it seems like a Wisdom, something that knows: not someone in particular, but that which knows, whatever its form), something that knows was insisting to the body, by showing it certain things, vibrations, movements, From now on, O unbelieving substance, you cant say there are no miracles. Because the substance itself is used to each thing having its effect, to illnesses following a particular course and certain things even being necessary for it to be cured. This process is very subtle, and it doesnt come from the intellect, which can have a totally different interpretation of it; its rather a kind of consciousness ingrained in physical substance, and thats what was being addressed and being shown certain movements, certain vibrations and so forth: You see, from now on you cant say there are no miracles. In other words, a direct intervention of the Lord, who doesnt follow the beaten path, but does things in His own way.
There was also that attack (it was rather serious and threw the doctor into a fit of anxiety) which took place, I think, the day before sari distribution.6 The next morning, throughout the distribution, someone else seemed to have taken possession of my body and to be doing what had to be done, taking care of all the difficulties; I was comfortable, serene, simply like a carefree spectator. I had nothing to worry about, someone was. (What someone? Someone, something, I dont know, theres no more difference, its not delineated like that any more; but anyway, it was a being, a force, a consciousness perhaps a part of myself, I dont know; none of this is clear-cut; its quite precise, but not divided, very smoothMo ther makes a rounded gestureno breaks.) Something, then, a will or a force or a consciousness plainly a powerhad taken possession of the body and was doing all the work, looking after everything. I was witnessing everything, smiling. But its gone now. It came specifically for that work (I was in pretty bad shape); when the work was over, it dissolvedit didnt leave abruptly but it became inactive. Afterwards, I felt rather confident. Well in any case, I thought, something similar could happen on the 21st, since it just happened now.
The 19th was so-so, and on the 20th I was concentrated all day long: no contacts with anyone, nothing external, only an intense invocation as intense and concentrated as when youre trying to melt into the Lord at death. It was like that. The same movement of identification, but at its core a will for everything to work out in a good way here [on the material plane]. In a good way I mean I said to the Lord, YOUR Good, the true Good, not. The true Good, a victorious Good, a real progress over the way life is usually lived. And I stayed in this unwavering concentration the whole day, all the time, all the time: even when I spoke, it was something very external speaking. And then at night when I went to bed I felt something had changed the body felt completely different. When I got up in the morning, all the pains and disorders and dangers had vanished. Lord, I said, You have given me a gift of health.
And with this change, the bodily substance, the very stuff of the cells, was constantly being told, Dont you forget, now you see that miracles CAN happen. In other words, the way things work out in physical substance may not at all conform to the laws of Nature. Dont forget, now! It kept coming back like a refrain: Dont forget, now! This is how it is. And I saw how necessary this repetition was for the cells: they forget right away and try to find explanations (oh, how stupid can you be!). Its a sort of feeling (not at all an individual way of thinking), its Matters way of thinking. Matter is built like that, its part of its make-up. We call it thinking for lack of a better word, but its not thinking: it is a material way of understanding things, the way Matter is able to understand.
--
(Then Mother listens to Satprem read the Playground Talk of March 28, 1956, in which a child asks: How can understanding be increased? Mother had replied: By increasing consciousness, by going beyond the mind, by enlarging ones consciousness, deepening ones consciousness, by touching regions beyond the mind.)
Now I would add one thing: by experience. By changing knowledge into experience. And one experience automatically leads to another.
--
Mother was 84 on February 21.
Mother used to say that when Sri Aurobindo cured somebody, one often saw a subtle hand come with a current of blue force and seize, as it were, the vibration of the illness or disorder between its fingertips.
On the afternoon of the 21st, Mother went to watch a performance given by the children.
Since the black-magic attack in December 1958.
0 1962-02-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
196 2 Tue 27 February
February 27, 196 2
7 2The sign of dawning Knowledge is to feel that as yet I know little or nothing; and yet, if I could only know my knowledge, I already possess everything.
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February 24, 196 2
0 1962-03-03, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
February 27, 196 2
0 1962-03-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
See conversation of February 24.
Aphorism 463At first whenever I fell back into sin, I used to weep and rage against myself and against God for having suffered it. Afterwards it was as much as I could dare to ask, "Why hast thou rolled me again in the mud, O my playfellow?"...
0 1962-04-03, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Since March 16, Mother has been going through a grave ordeal that threatened her physical existence. Even so, she went down to the balcony on the 18th and 20th of March, which were to be the last times. She has not left her room since then. All her conversations with Satprem will henceforth take place in her upstairs room. The latest attack occurred the previous night, April 2-3, and took the form of a total cardiac arrest. Despite her condition, this morning Mother has found the strength to speak. She speaks in English. Her words have been noted down from memory.)
Just between eleven and twelve [last night] I had an experience by which I discovered that there is a group of peoplepurposely their identity was not revealed to mewanting to create a kind of religion based on the revelation of Sri Aurobindo. But they have taken only the side of power and force, a certain kind of knowledge and all which could be utilized by Asuric forces. There is a big Asuric being that has succeeded in taking the appearance of Sri Aurobindo. It is only an appearance. This appearance of Sri Aurobindo has declared to me that the work I am doing is not his. It has declared that I have been a traitor to him and to his work and has refused to have anything to do with me.
0 1962-04-20, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
196 2 Fri 20 April
April 20, 196 2
(Letter to Mother from Satprem)
April 20, 196 2
Sweet Mother,
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2) I have finished the work you gave me. I will bring it to you when you wish, but there is no hurry at allrest.
Your child,
0 1962-04-28, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
196 2 Sat 28 April
April 28, 196 2
(Letter from Mother to Satprem)
April 28, 196 2
Satprem, my dear child,
0 1962-05-08, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
2) That he has understood: it has come to his [inner] knowledge that the present period is terrible.
What am I to tell him or give him to understand when I meet him at the station?
0 1962-05-13, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(A bit later, regarding the Talk of August 2 2, 1956, to be published in the next Bulletin, in which Mother says: When you are in a condition to receive it, you receive from the Divine the TOTALITY of the relationship you are CAPABLE of having; it is neither a share nor a part nor a repetition, but exclusively and uniquely the relationship each one is capable of having with the Divine. Thus, from the psychological point of view, YOU ALONE have this direct relationship with the Divine. Mother then adds, in a voice that seems to come from far, far away:)
One is all alone with the Supreme.
0 1962-05-15, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Night of July 24- 25, 59: first penetration of the supramental force into the body. Sri Aurobindo alive in a concrete and permanent subtle physical body.
I told you about that experience of meeting Sri Aurobindo (the true Sri Aurobindo) in the subtle physical. This is the exact dateearly that morning I jotted it down on this paper. And it gives me the approximate date of the other vision: that is, I must have had my first experience with those people somewhere around the end of June or the beginning of July, 1959.
--
(Somewhat later, Mother gives Satprem the old desk-calendar page on which she had noted the experience of July 24- 25, 59the first meeting with Sri Aurobindo in the subtle physicalalong with another sheet of paper on which she had written: I am only realizing what He has conceived. I am only the protagonist and the continuator of His work.6 Mother explains.)
Some people wanted to get me nominated for the Nobel peace prize; I was asked for a statement and thats what I wrote. I wanted to say that it wasnt this person who did thingsit was all Sri Aurobindo.
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There was, in fact, a whole group of Ashram people (they might be called the Ashram "intelligentsia") who, influenced by Subhas Bose, were strongly in favor of the Nazis and the Japanese against the British. (It should be recalled that the British were the invaders of India, and thus many people considered Britain's enemies to be automatically India's friends.) It reached the point where Sri Aurobindo had to intervene forcefully and write: "I affirm again to you most strongly that this is the Mother's war.... The victory of one side (the Allies) would keep the path open for the evolutionary forces: the victory of the other side would drag back humanity, degrade it horribly and might lead even, at the worst, to its eventual failure as a race, as others in the past evolution failed and perished.... The Allies at least have stood for human values, though they may often act against their own best ideals (human beings always do that); Hitler stands for diabolical values or for human values exaggerated in the wrong way until they become diabolical.... That does not make the English or Americans nations of spotless angels nor the Germans a wicked and sinful race, but...." (July 29, 194 2 and Sept. 3, 1943, Cent. Ed., Vol. XXVI.394 ff.) And on her side also, Mother had to publicly declare: "It has become necessary to state emphatically and clearly that all who by their thoughts and wishes are supporting and calling for the victory of the Nazis are by that very fact collaborating with the Asura against the Divine and helping to bring about the victory of the Asura.... Those, therefore, who wish for the victory of the Nazis and their associates should now understand that it is a wish for the destruction of our work and an act of treachery against Sri Aurobindo." (May 6, 1941, original English.)
See note at the end of this conversation
0 1962-05-22, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
196 2 Tue 2 2 May
May 2 2, 196 2
(The beginning of this conversation, unfortunately not kept, dealt with certain instances of human ugliness. The topic, in fact, was Satprem's break with X who had been his guru for the past few years. The reasons for this rupture may one day be told, but it should be stressed right now that the fault did not really lie with X, whom Satprem continued to respect, but with a group of schemers at the Ashram who fastened onto X in the hope of god knows what "powers." It is perhaps just as well that the human "ugliness" here in question has vanished from Satprem's records, foralthough it did come up again immediately after Mother's departureit concerned only the Ashram disciples. All the details and all Mother's reflections on the subject have thus been lost, with the exception of this last fragment:)
0 1962-05-24, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
196 2 Thu 24 May
May 24, 196 2
73When Wisdom comes, her first lesson is, There is no such thing as knowledge; there are only aperus of the Infinite Deity.
0 1962-05-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
196 2 Sun 27 May
May 27, 196 2
(Concerning the "wave movement" in the experience of April 13.)
0 1962-05-29, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
196 2 Tue 29 May
May 29, 196 2
But isnt this second book on Sri Aurobindo something imposed by circumstances? Is it really something that must be done, that already exists and has been decreed?
0 1962-06-02, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
196 2 Sat 2 June
June 2, 196 2
(Mother refers to the previous conversation, in which she was looking for the reasons behind the passage from one room to another, from the room of pain to the true room: "I can't catch hold of what makes it happen. What's happening? What's going on?!")
0 1962-06-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This is what Mother calls "shifting the needle of consciousness": "When people who are depressed or in despair come to see me," she once told Satprem, "all I have to do is slightly shift the needle of consciousness, and they go away happy. Out of habit, unfortunately, their state returns." (See Agenda I, February 25, 1958, p. 148)
***
0 1962-06-20, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
196 2 Wed 20 June
June 20, 196 2
Pavitra was telling me the other day that, according to the latest scientific discoveries, matter in its present state can be immortal. Theres no reason that it couldnt change (for it changes all the time) enough to avoid decay. Nothing in matters composition stands in the way of its immortalityimmortality of form, I mean. If science simply follows its own course (and does not suddenly find itself confronted with something beyond its grasp), theres no reason it should not provide people who dont have a mystical or occult turn of mind with a way to use the present substance in imperishable forms, without recourse to anything from other realms.
0 1962-06-23, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
196 2 Sat 23 June
June 23, 196 2
One or two days ago, I am not sure when, but anyway after our last meeting, suddenly, without thinking about it or wishing it or anything (I was walking or doing something or other), I suddenly became, or saw, a tall being, all white, with a kind of halberd in its hand and an expression of iron will. And it seemed as if the world were being told: Enough shilly-shallying, enough wavering, now it is time: the thing must be done.
0 1962-06-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
196 2 Wed 27 June
June 27, 196 2
Personally, I have nothing to say.
--
First anniversary of the supramental descent: February 29, 1960.
Like the one Mother just mentioned: Durga's surrender.
0 1962-06-30, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Conversation of June 27
Some days later, Satprem again brought up the above passage, asking whether the Mother hadn't been active on earth since the beginning of time and not merely "with this present incarnation of the Mahashakti." The reply: "It was always through EMANATIONS, while now it's as Sri Aurobindo writes in Savitri the Supreme tells Savitri that a day will come when the earth is ready and 'The Mighty Mother shall take birth'.... But Savitri was already on earthshe was an emanation.
0 1962-07-04, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
See conversation of May 24, 196 2
Later, Mother commented: "This experience is interesting. He would have been able to EXIST in a psychic state (psychically, of course, one is immortal), he would have existed not knowing that he was dead ... if they hadn't burned him."
0 1962-07-14, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1900? Well, yes, in 2000 things will take a clear direction. You will still be here.
I dont know about that!
No, I am not speaking of what one is when one has died unto death, not that. I mean normally, physicallyhow many years before 2000?
Umm.
0 1962-07-21, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
196 2 Sat 21 July
July 21, 196 2
The other day, speaking of Europe, you said that the Old World is truly old.
0 1962-07-25, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
196 2 Wed 25 July
July 25, 196 2
(Mother listens to Satprem read a passage on mental silence from his manuscript on Sri Aurobindo.)
0 1962-07-28, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
196 2 Sat 28 July
July 28, 196 2
(Mother refers back to the last conversation, where she spoke of her different stages of development.)
0 1962-08-25, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
196 2 Sat 25 August
August 25, 196 2
(Satprem complains that he finds it difficult to write his book. Mother concentrates for about fifteen minutes, then says:)
0 1962-08-28, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
196 2 Tue 28 August
August 28, 196 2
(It is extremely unfortunate that the beginning of this conversation, which would have thrown a clear light on what follows, was not kept. As far as Satprem remembers, the subject was his sleep. It seems Mother was saying that while his "strolls by the sea" took place during sleep and by passing into another state, for herand this is where the notes beginthere was no more "sleep" and no more "passing" into another state, from the ordinary physical to the subtle physical, because everything seemed to have become or was becoming one and the same continuous Matter. The true Matter, probably.)
0 1962-09-22, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
196 2 Sat 2 2 September
September 2 2, 196 2
(Mother makes this brief remark about someone who practices traditional yoga and is constantly ill:)
0 1962-09-26, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
196 2 Wed 26 September
September 26, 196 2
(After listening to a passage from Satprem's manuscript:)
--
This must refer to the colloquy of Rishi Agastya and Indra (The Secret of The Veda, Cent. Ed., X. 241), commented on by Mother in the 1961 Agenda (Vol. II, p. 37).
***
September 2 2, 196 2
0 1962-09-29, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
196 2 Sat 29 September
September 29, 196 2
(Concerning an old Talk of October 3, 1956, to be published in the next "Bulletin":)
--
September 26, 196 2
0 1962-10-03, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
September 29, 196 2
0 1962-10-12, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It is quite remarkable that it was the body-consciousness that discoverednine years after his passingSri Aurobindo's abode (experience of July 24- 25, 1959). The world where Mother went is thus a material world, not an "inner" world. The other Matter, the true Matter? We recall that in her very last Playground class, on November 28, 1958, Mother said: "Through each individual formation, physical substance progresses, and one day it will be able to build a bridge between physical life as we know it and the supramental life that is to manifest."
***
0 1962-10-20, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
196 2 Sat 20 October
October 20, 196 2
I was wondering. Concerning whether people should be burned or buried, you said, A week ago, I would unhesitatingly have said buried. Now, because of this, I cant say any more. Which experience are you referring to?
0 1962-10-24, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
196 2 Wed 24 October
October 24, 196 2
(After listening to Satprem read his manuscript Mother enters into a long meditation.)
--
October 20, 196 2
0 1962-10-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
196 2 Sat 27 October
October 27, 196 2
(An unfortunate series of power cuts prevented the recording of most of this conversation, except for a few passages. Satprem noted down the missing parts from memory, and Mother then supplemented his notes with a number of comments and additions.)
--
October 24, 196 2
0 1962-10-30, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
October 27, 196 2
0 1962-11-17, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
June 28,1950
I do not know why you want a line of thought to be indicated to you for your guidance in the affair of Korea. There is nothing to hesitate about there, the whole affair is as plain as a pike-staff. It is the first move in the Communist plan of campaign to dominate and take possession first of these northern parts and then of South East Asia as a preliminary to their manoeuvres with regard to the rest of the continentin passing, Tibet as a gate opening to India.9 If they succeed, there is no reason why domination of the whole world should not follow by steps until they are ready to deal with America. That is, provided the war can be staved off with America until Stalin can choose his time. Truman seems to have understood the situation if we can judge from his moves in Korea, but it is to be seen whether he is strong enough and determined enough to carry the matter through. The measures he has taken are likely to be incomplete and unsuccessful, since they do not include any actual military intervention except on sea and in the air. That seems to be the situation; we have to see how it develops. One thing is certain that if there is too much shillyshallying and if America gives up now her defence of Korea, she may be driven to yield position after position until it is too late: at one point or another she will have to stand and face the necessity of drastic action even if it leads to war. Stalin also seems not to be ready to face at once the risk of a world war and, if so, Truman can turn the tables on him by constantly facing him with the onus of either taking that risk or yielding position after position to America. I think that is all that I can see at present; for the moment the situation is as grave as it can be.10
--
In fact, three days later, on November 20, in an unhoped-for turn of events, China declared a unilateral cease-fire and withdrawal of troops, even as they were making a spectacular and almost unopposed advance. No one ever understood why.
Mother is probably alluding to difficulties in obtaining the dismissal of the Defense Minister, Krishna Menon. It might be recalled that, under Nehru, India's foreign policy was quite pro-Chinese (the slogan of the day was Hindi-Chini-bha-bha: Indians and Chinese are brothers), and when China began to sweep down into India, the Defense Minister calmly left for London on some mission or other, declaring: oh, it's nothing!
--
There is another side to the story. When Nehru died, Mother said in a message of May 27, 1964: "Nehru leaves his body but his soul is ONE with the Soul of India, that lives for Eternity."
All the same, Satprem did keep this conversation, being unable to censor Mother's words or to delete them from History for where is the borderline between censorship and falsehood?
--
Tibet was invaded four months later, on October 21. India did not protest.
Cent. Ed., Vol. XXVI., 404 & 416.
0 1962-11-20, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
196 2 Tue 20 November
November 20, 196 2
(Mother looks weary.)
--
On this same day, November 20, China announced a cease-fire and withdrawal of its troops.
Mother sent a special messenger to Delhi with a symbolic gift of 9 25 grams of gold (some from her own jewelry), as a contri bution to national defense.
0 1962-11-23, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
196 2 Fri 23 November
November 23, 196 2
(Satprem reads a passage from his manuscript in which he says in particular: "We cannot take one step up without taking one step down.")
--
November 20, 196 2
0 1962-11-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
196 2 Tue 27 November
November 27, 196 2
I dont recall whether it was last night or the night before, but I saw you with him, the two of you were busy with the book. And Sri Aurobindo was pleased. When I saw him (I was there, seeing the two of you), I thought, Well, if Satprem could see this (laughing), at least hed be pleased for once.
--
Did you come to the meditation on the 24th?1 What did you feel? Nothing special?
The big difference compared to my meditations at home is that immediately theres complete immobility and with no difficulty. Its truly immobile.
--
The November 24 Darshan.
Sat: Pure Being or Existence.
--
November 23, 196 2
0 1962-11-30, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This gentleman told A. on October 20 that the Chinese hostilities will be under Cease-Fire by the end of November. It actually came to be on November 20. Here are a few other things he has said in reply to A. on his return from here:
1) The human element will increasingly cooperate and people would get stronger in every sense.
2) The struggle will go on for one and a half years. There will be victory for India.
3) Struggle is more in the spiritual (subtle) than on the physical and the struggle need not be a shooting war.
--
Ten days ago (on November 20), the Chinese quite unexpectedly declared a unilateral cease-fire, just when a march on Calcutta had seemed imminent.
***
November 27, 196 2
0 1962-12-22, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
196 2 Sat 2 2 December
December 2 2, 196 2
New Years Day and Christmas. Where there used to be ten letters a day, now there are twenty-five. Nolini comes and he just wont leave. I am late again.1
0 1962-12-25, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
196 2 Tue 25 December
December 25, 196 2
What have you brought? Your book? Do you have your book?
--
December 2 2, 196 2
0 1962-12-28, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
196 2 Fri 28 December
December 28, 196 2
(Satprem reads Mother one last passage from his manuscript:)
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0 1963-01-02, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1963 Wed 2 January
January 2, 1963
My year is off to a dreadful start. And I am afraid it may go on like that.
0 1963-01-12, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I make myself difficult to approach, I keep at a good distance. As much as I can, I teach them to receive directly, but there remains a minimum. So 1,300 or 1,400 people, not to mention all the others I correspond with that means 2,000 or 3,000 people on average in conscious relationship [with Mother].
And it keeps coming and coming. Many come and are not even aware of it! And I keep going and going. Consciously, most of the time, but also quite often not consciously. Heres an example: someone is very ill, someone who truly loves me (its Z, A.s wife). A. informed me she was ill. So I increased the dose (everyone is inside, I am with everyone, that goes without saying, but when something goes wrong I increase the dose). I increased the dose. I expected an improvement but it didnt happen. So I increased the dose again. The next day, I received a letter from A. saying that the night before, Z had had an interesting experience. She has asthma (asthmatics feel as if they are dying, its very painful, and she is very sensitive, very nervousshe was really unwell, so they drugged her, and so). Well then, during an acute attack of asthma, she sat up in her bed, her legs hanging down. Then her feet began to feel cold and she reached out for her slippers; she bent down, and instead of her slippers she felt something soft and alive. Astonished, she looks down and sees my feet. My feet were there with the sandals I used to wear to go outmy bare feet. So she touched my feet and said, Ohh, Mother is here! Immediately she lay down again, fell asleep and woke up cured.
0 1963-01-14, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
February 2 is C.s birthday, so Ill give him a meditation, because these are people who still believe in meditation! (Mother laughs)
It has become quite an entertaining little field of experiences, by the way. Because nowadays I send people cards, and I have lots of cards, innumerable kinds of cards 2 (C. spends his time preparing them), and automatically, whenever I have to write a card for someone, it isnt as I decided beforeh and (because sometimes I decide beforehand), the choice is made at the last minute: THIS is the card I must send and THIS is what I must say. I neednt worry about it, it comes just in time. Then I only have to get up, go find the card, write, and its all over. People will tell me (precisely those who lead a spiritual life), What! You make such a trifle the object of a spiritual experience! And its the same with ALL small things: what object to be used, what perfume to put on, what bath salts, all manner of futile, frivolous, unimportant thingsHow shocking! I dont even make an effort to find out or to (think, thank God I dont think!), it just comes: this, that, that. Not saidKNOWN. It isnt even said, I am not told, Do this, never. Its KNOWN: Ah, here we are, thats it! And I choose and do itvery comfortable!
0 1963-02-15, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The 21st, well have a meditation at 10 A.M., then at 6:15 P.M. I will go out on the terracecan you see me from your house? But it seems you can hear the music.
Yes, we can.
0 1963-02-19, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I wanted the book [The Adventure of Consciousness] to come out for February 21, 1964. That doesnt leave too much time, because Thats another marvel, it must have been one of the things Sri Aurobindo was showing me: at the [Ashram] Press, theyre behind schedule for everything and they work night and day! They have never worked so hard! Very clearly, seen from above, its a lack of organization; for something requiring an ounce of force they have to put in ten pounds, and still it doesnt work.
It grinds and grates.
0 1963-02-21, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1963 Thu 21 February
February 21, 1963
(Message given by Mother for February 21:)
The boon that we have asked from the Supreme is the greatest that the Earth can ask from the Highest, the change that is most difficult to realise, the most exacting in its conditions. It is nothing less than the descent of the supreme Truth and Power into Matter, the supramental established in the material plane and consciousness and the material world and an integral transformation down to the very principle of Matter. Only a supreme Grace can effect this miracle.
0 1963-02-23, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1963 Sat 23 February
February 23, 1963
(Regarding a dream, or rather an experience of Sujata, the notation of which unfortunately was not kept.)
--
Mother was eighty-five on February 21.
Mother refers to the February 21 darshan.
For the first time in a year, Mother appeared on the new balcony above all the assembled disciples.
--
February 21, 1963
0 1963-03-06, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
February 23, 1963
0 1963-03-09, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ill soon start preparing next years February 29,8 and your book is part of the preparation. I am trying to find what to distributewhat will take place. I dont know yet what will take place. But many people, in all corners of the world, are expecting this February 29 (from everywhere they want to come), so I should at least have something ready for them.
The only thing that has come to my consciousness so far is for me to be in an inner state such that I could sit for two or three hours, while people file past me (of course, its out of the question to distribute anything myself, its impossible). Simply, for me to be absorbed in contemplation so that it wouldnt matter, people filing past wouldnt alter my state.
--
But one thing I know, I want your book to be published by then, to come out by the end of February, possibly for the 21st. But those people take ages to do things properly. Thats why I ask you.
I hope itll be finished at the beginning of next month.
0 1963-03-23, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1963 Sat 23 March
March 23, 1963
(Mother first reads from her translation of "Savitri" a few excerpts about death. We give here the original English.)
--
The following time, Mother added, "On the 16th, I stopped seeing people downstairs, but on the 18th and 20th I went down again for the balcony: those were the last two times. Afterwards I was put in bed (ordered!) on April 3rd. Up to April 3rd I still moved around here; then, to bed, no moving! It went on till May. Then the night of April 1 2th came the second experience, that's when I called Pavitra to record [the message]."
The news and the "diagnosis."
0 1963-03-27, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1963 Wed 27 March
March 27, 1963
(Sometimes she cried out)
--
See Agenda III, November 27, 196 2, p. 436 ff
See Agenda III, November 30, 196 2, p. 440 ff
0 1963-04-20, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1963 Sat 20 April
April 20, 1963
D. was telling me just now that he is advised to meditate with his eyes open (I know, it keeps you active somewhere), and he said that if by mischance he closes his eyes, he cant move any more! He is conscious but completely paralyzed: he cant get up, cant move, cant even turn his head!
0 1963-04-22, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1963 Mon 2 2 April
April 2 2, 1963
(Letter to Mother from Satprem)
Rameshwaram, Monday, 2 2 April
Sweet Mother,
--
April 23, 1963
Satprem, mon cher petit,
--
Monday morning, 2 2 April 63
I have just written a word to Mother to tell her that if I could, I would catch the first train home. When I arrived here, I got a horrible impression as never before, almost a panic. Everything was so terribly void and far away. Probably I have grown hypersensitive. If I were not afraid of yielding to that impression and if it werent rude to X, I would take noon train today. The new guest house is beyond description1: cement walls enclosed within cement walls; the plan is so wonderful that not a whiff of air can blow in here, nor can one see a single blade of grass. There are magnificent wrought-iron railings and openwork cement designs, but not even the most basic amenities. I absolutely refused to enter that sarcophagus, so they put me up in an adjoining house purchased by X and used as a garage. Its unspeakably filthy. It didnt even occur to them to offer me a mat. Finally they brought a bench for me to sleep on, which I refused. So much for the material conditions. I hope the body will get better. As soon as I can decently leave, I shall weigh anchor.
0 1963-04-25, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1963 Thu 25 April
April 25, 1963
(Letter to Mother from Satprem)
Rameshwaram, 25 April 63
Sweet Mother,
I received your card of the 23rd yesterday, and it coincided with an improvement in the atmosphere and even a physical improvement. I have rarely felt your Force and your Presence so concretely, continuously and powerfully as since I arrived here. To say that it is the only reality is almost superfluousThat alone really LIVES. All the rest is a false show. I am anxious to leave this place, but X said he wants to make certain changes in my japa, so I have to wait for the right moment. It is difficult to hurry X, as you know. I will wire you as soon as the time comes. Otherwise, I am experiencing Xs power of mental stillness, which is quite remarkable. All the rest I find rather poor.
More and more I feel, live and see that That alone is real. It is a very engrossing experience.
--
April 25, 1963
I am waiting for X to make certain changes in my japa, as he said he would, and will then come back without further delay. These last two days my health has been better. I am no longer constantly tired as I was before. In the evening I take a walk alone in the vast dunes near Rameshwaram, it feels like Arabia, and no loudspeakers! You rest in a sort of tranquil infinity.
0 1963-04-29, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1963 Mon 29 April
April 29, 1963
(Letter to Mother from Satprem)
Rameshwaram, Monday, 29 April
Sweet Mother,
0 1963-05-03, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mother means the perception of herself as a radiating center for the higher Forces. Mother commented on this passage later, on May 29 (see under that date).
In the next conversation, Mother clarified: "It isn't a movement or a vibration.... To put it accurately, one should say 'this something.'"
At Rameshwaram, the night of April 21.
***
0 1963-05-11, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And 7 2, that means 7 + 2, or 9.
And this [the Sanskrit letter] is HRIM.
--
And 7 (7 and 2) is interesting. 7 is the realization; 2 is dual: a dual realization. If you put both together, you get the figure of gestation.
You see, Mahalakshmi is the Divine Mothers aspect of love, the perfection of manifested love, which must come before this supreme Love (which is beyond the Manifestation and the Nonmanifestation) can be expressed the supreme Love referred to in Savitri when the Supreme sends Savitri to the earth:
--
Then 18 The 10 (unless its 1 2 1 2 is two times 6; also 10 plus 2, but that has another meaning), but the 10 in itself is something established (the 11 is something beginning, while the 10 is something established). So if you have 18, it means that the Infinite is established.
Then 36, which is 3 times 1 2: its the union of 30 (Sachchidananda) and 6, the creation.
0 1963-05-22, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1963 Wed 2 2 May
May 2 2, 1963
(This conversation took place a few days after Satprem had a violent attack of an infectious "illness.")
0 1963-05-25, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1963 Sat 25 May
May 25, 1963
(Regarding a letter from a personal friend of Satprem at the Editions du Seuil, who hints that the second manuscript on Sri Aurobindo ["The Adventure of Consciousness"] will also be refused: "I do not know whether P.A.L. has read it yet, he hasn't told me, but as soon as I read the first pages, I felt that this manuscript would never be published by Le Seuil. It has some defects and clumsy passages but that will not be the reason for its refusal....")
0 1963-05-29, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1963 Wed 29 May
May 29, 1963
I would like a clarification on a passage from a previous conversation [of May 3], in which you said: Something tries to draw less and less the attention and concentration of others. And you added: That is, to lessen the SENSE OF INTERMEDIARY necessary for forces and thoughts to spread. What is this sense of intermediary? Do you mean your role of intermediary in the diffusion of forces? Do you want to lessen that roleto withdraw?
0 1963-06-22, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1963 Sat 2 2 June
June 2 2, 1963
I had a rather amusing experience while walking [during japa]. I was looking at peoples attitude (I mean those who think they lead a spiritual life, who think they have made a surrender), and how they are utterly vexed when things dont happen the way they want! (They dont always admit it, they dont always say it to themselves, but its a fact.) Then all at once, I saw a huge robothuge, magnificent, resplendent, covered with gold and jewelsa huge being but a robot. And all-powerfulall-powerful, capable of doing anything, anything at all; anything you could imagine, he could do it: you had only to press a button and he did it. And it was (laughing) as if the Lord were telling me, See, here is what I am to them!
0 1963-06-26a, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1963 Wed 26 June
June 26, 1963
(Regarding Satprem's Tantric yantram)
0 1963-06-26b, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1963 Wed 26 June
June 26, 1963
(Letter to Mother from Sujata)
0 1963-06-29, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1963 Sat 29 June
June 29, 1963
(Mother glances through a collection of Playground Talks and chances on the following question, which she answers immediately:)
0 1963-07-06, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
On June 29
Ayudha Puja, during which workers and servants invoke the divine presence in tools and machines.
0 1963-07-17, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
During the part of the night reserved for the work (generally between 2 and 4:30 in the morning it varies a little), daily now I see people whom I dont know physicallyall the time, all the time, and with lots of work. The work I used to do with the people around me now seems to be spreading: I go to some places that I dont know at all. And always, always something under constructionalways under construction, always. Sometimes I am even testing some new constructions, I mean I try to go this way, that way, do something, try this, try that.1 And at the same time, I am working with people who, on the other hand, arent part of those constructions theyre on the sidelines. To such a point that when I woke up this morning I said to myself, But isnt this going to stop? Wont I get some rest! But it was always an answer (an answer not in words but in FACTS), an instantaneous answertaking no time, not gradual: instantaneous. 2
And along with this, theres a vast, dead-calm rest (if you know what I mean?) in that Lightprobably the Light as it will manifest. Its a golden Light, not very intense or very pale either; a little less pale than the one that I said comes when I concentrate3; a little more intense than that, though not darka golden Light, absolutely immobile, with such an inner intensity of vibration that its beyond all perception. And then its perfect restinstantly. So as soon as I complain, the same ironic remark always comes: Oh, when one can have that in the midst of work, one ought not to complain! The two states are I cant say simultaneous (naturally its not one after the other, both are there together), but its not like two things next to each other, its two ways of looking, I could say, two pointsnot points of view a horizontal look, and a look thats or rather, a specific look and an overall look. A specific look, that of the immediate activity, and an overall and constant look, that of the whole; and as soon as you look at the whole, its (dead-calm gesture) immutable peace, unvarying rest. And then things seem to become swollenswollen with an infinite content.
0 1963-07-20, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1963 Sat 20 July
July 20, 1963
So what would you like to tell me? Tell me a story!
0 1963-07-24, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1963 Wed 24 July
July 24, 1963
(Mother first reads in English an unpublished letter of Sri Aurobindo's:)
0 1963-07-27, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1963 Sat 27 July
July 27, 1963
(Mother first comments on the death of a disciple, M.)
0 1963-08-07, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(As if by chance, Satprem reads Mother an old conversation, of January 24, 1961, on the influenza epidemic in Japan during World War I.)
And the best part of the story is that theyve never had that type of influenza since.
--
(Then Satprem reads the conversation of May 2 2, 1963, in which he tells Mother how she cured him suddenly of an infectious disease, as though something suddenly tipped over.)
Ive noticed that phenomenon: always, when great difficulties crop upa violent attack, a disorganization the change isnt progressive: its abrupt, like a reversal.
0 1963-08-10, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When the experience began, there was something looking on (you know, there is always in me something looking on somewhat ironically, always amused) which said, Very well! If that happened to someone else, he would think he was quite sick! (laughing) Or half mad. So I stayed very quiet and thought, All right, let it be, Ill watch, Ill see Ill see soon enough! It has started, so it will have to end! Indescribable! Indescribable (the experience will have to recur several times before I can understand), fantastic! It started at 8:30 and went on till 2:30 in the morning; that is to say, not for a second did I lose consciousness, I was there watching the most extraordinary things for six hours.
I dont know where this is going.
--
So at 2:30 in the morning, I said to the Lord, That will do, wont it?! (Mother laughs) And He gave me a blissful rest till 4:30.
Good.
--
At the time, there was still a lot of mental activity, and those experiences took all the forms the mind gives to thingsvery nice, very literary! Now, all that is overhappily, thank God! A complete silence I dont make speeches on the thing. But the experience of last night! And to think that when an experience lasts half an hour, three quarters of an hour, one hour, its considered extraordinaryit lasted from 8:30 till 2:15, nonstop.
A sort of ubiquity in the cells?
0 1963-08-13b, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(This note came apropos of an old Playground Talk, of December 21, 1950, which Satprem read Mother during the preceding conversation. Mother spoke in it of the clear, precise and constant vision of the Truth, and she added: Some call it the Voice of God or the Will of God. The real sense of these terms has been perverted, thats why I prefer to say the Truth, although it is but one very limited aspect of That which we cannot name but is the Source and Goal of all existence.)
Satprem,
0 1963-08-21, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1963 Wed 21 August
August 21, 1963
(Regarding an old "Playground Talk," of January 4, 1951, in which Mother said that one of the essential conditions for transformation is an awareness of the inner dimensions: "It's a total reversal of consciousness, which can be compared to what happens to light when it goes through a prism. Or else it's as if you turned a ball inside out, which can be done only in the fourth dimension. You emerge from the ordinary consciousness of the third dimension to enter the higher consciousness of the fourth dimension, and then an infinite number of dimensions. This is the indispensable starting point.")
--
See Agenda III, May 24, 196 2, p. 159
That pit of Inertia, of material Unconsciousness, which feels no raison d'tre for itself and is "nothing."
0 1963-08-24, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1963 Sat 24 August
August 24, 1963
(Mother asks Satprem if he has prepared a question on the aphorism on "renunciation," which is to appear in the next "Bulletin." Then she adds:)
0 1963-08-28, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1963 Wed 28 August
August 28, 1963
Ive received a letter from a publisher friend of mine. He tells me the real reasons for their refusal of my manuscript Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness.
--
See conversation of May 25
The author of this letter is a Westerner turned Sufi.
0 1963-09-07, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother comments on an old experience of June 29: the boat of pink clay.)
Things are moving much faster than I thought because this experience seems to me far, far, far behind [it dates back two months], so many things have happened sincethere are so many things I dont mention.
0 1963-09-21, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1963 Sat 21 September
September 21, 1963
(During the conversation, Mother envisages the possibility of reading out a message, if any comes to her, on the occasion of the second anniversary of the Supramental Manifestation, on February 29, 1964. Then she adds:)
Provided I can speak.
0 1963-09-25, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1963 Wed 25 September
September 25, 1963
(Mother first reads her notation of a recent experience)
--
September 21, 1963
0 1963-09-28, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1963 Sat 28 September
September 28, 1963
Do you remember Savitris debate with Death [The Debate of Love and Death]? According to it, Sri Aurobindo seems to be saying that Disorder arose when Life entered Matter.
--
September 25, 1963
0 1963-10-03, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Then Mother translates Sri Aurobindos letter on the descent of Love, on which she has already commented on July 24, and she adds this comment:)
If divine Love were to descend first, before divine Truth, certain beings with a special power or receptivity might draw it into themselves, personally, and then all those wrong impulses might occur.1 But if this divine Love descends only in the Truth, in the Truth-Consciousness, it will enter someone only if that person is ready to receive it. Without a preparation of Truth, there might occur a very powerful attraction of elements unable to keep that Love in its purity; whereas if the preparation of Truth has been done, with that preparation, It will CHOOSE, in order to manifest, the persons, the individualities, who are ready.
--
September 28, 1963
0 1963-10-05, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
See conversation of September 25
***
0 1963-10-16, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its still there; even in those who have developed their higher mind, who are able to emerge from that darkness and ignorance, its still there its still there in a sort of mental or vital subconscient. And its so dark! Thoroughly stupid, you know: it can be given hundreds and thousands of proofs, it remains unaffecteda kind of incapacity to understand. And then it constantly rises to the surface, and I am constantly obliged (gesture of offering to the Heights) to present it: This is still there, that is still there, that And I see very well that the distinction between what goes on in this body and its atmosphere, and what goes on in all other bodies is I dont know if the distinction still exists, but its imperceptible. And the consciousness is aware of all those movements as if they were personal to the physical person. But the physical person (Mother touches her body) isnt just this body I am not yet sure whether the physical person isnt the whole earth (for certain things, it is the whole earth), or whether the physical person is the entirety of all the bodies of the people I am in contact with. During the last hours of the night, that is, between 2 and 4, I see precise forms; but those precise forms are themselves representative, meaning there are TYPES and those types take on the image of someone I am in contact with or was in personal contact with. But to me they are types: Oh, its such and such a type but that can be thousands of people. And the action (its always for an action), the action on the person-type has repercussions on all that he represents.
And thats a labor which seems infiniteendless, at any rate.
0 1963-10-19, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
President Kennedy will be assassinated almost exactly a month later (on November 2 2).
In October and November, the pujas of the different aspects of the Mother.
0 1963-10-26, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1963 Sat 26 October
October 26, 1963
(Pondicherry has just been hit by a cyclone and Satprem by a strange fever.)
0 1963-10-30, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
October 26, 1963
0 1963-11-20, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1963 Wed 20 November
November 20, 1963
So, any news? How are you?
0 1963-11-23, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1963 Sat 23 November
November 23, 1963
Kennedy has been assassinated, that means the possibility of war.
--
Revolutions, big strikes, dangerous INNER events are always just before February 21. And the catastrophes of this kind in Novemberalways.
Sri Aurobindo too used to say that the most difficult period in the year was November to February.
--
November 20, 1963
0 1963-11-27, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1963 Wed 27 November
November 27, 1963
I spent the whole night with Sri Aurobindo, all night long, it was really very interesting. But I dont remember now.
--
November 23, 1963
0 1963-11-30, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
November 27, 1963
0 1963-12-03, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
December 2nd was interestingsports day1: the day before, the 1st, the weather was wonderful, and insofar as I gave it thought I was convinced that on the 2nd it would be just as fine. But in the morning I saw it was nothing of the sort, and as the day went by, it became worse and worse. In the beginning my first movement was to say to myself, Well, I didnt see to it, I should have given it thought, but then I saw that was absurd. Then I told the Lord, Why are You doing this? Its not very nice! Those children have worked so hard, they have taken great pains. And just as I said it, the consciousness was looking at what I said, smiling, Oh, my! How silly still to be that way! And then there was yet another thing (its becoming very, very complete), something that wasnt exactly the Lord, but like an expression of the Lord, telling me (not with words, of course, but how can I explain? Sri Aurobindo describes it very well in the Yoga of Self-Perfection: its a very new thing which has to do with action, feeling, sensation and consciousness all at the same time; its all of them togethernone of those things, yet all of them), so it was there, telling me (I am putting it into words, but that distorts it entirely), So what! What if its a test, what do you have to say about it? So immediately in the consciousness here the consciousness at work here the thought awakened, Ah, it has to become a test, then. In THEIR consciousness it has to become a test. (Because at first I had made a kind of attempt to stop the rain; then I saw it didnt correspond to the Truth and that the rain had to be acceptedwhy accepted? To do nothing after having worked so hard? And to accept is easy, its nothing, its not interesting, nothing new.) So a test, all right. If they take it as a test, they will go through it victoriously and it will be very good. And all the time, I was so concentrated on them [at the sports ground] that I no longer knew what I was doing or where I was. It lasted from 4 P.M. to 8 P.M. Around 8 P.M., I received the news: they had gone on with the performance just the same, the important visitors had remained till the end, so ultimately it was a real success.
There was only one difficulty: the little children, who cannot be conscious of a test, of course, and who remained four and a half hours in the rain. I didnt want it to do any damage there were about a hundred small ones, tiny tots. I spent the night in concentration to bring into their material sensation the true reaction (because, for a short while, children love rain, they have a lot of fun in it), so I said to myself, That part of their consciousness should predominate so there is no damage. And I waited for the day after. The day after, no one was sick.
--
But in this case, on December 2nd, the thing was observed very attentively, because it was a limited field, and it lasted a certain number of hours (all the other occupations went on automatically, without interfering with the active consciousness, with the observation).
(silence)@
0 1963-12-21, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1963 Sat 21 December
December 21, 1963
(Regarding the "joys" of Tantric discipline, when Satprem was still at his seven thousandth, or was it seven hundred thousandth, Tantric yantram. Satprem unfortunately did not keep the beginning of this conversation.)
0 1963-12-25, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1963 Wed 25 December
December 25, 1963
(Mother looks tired)
--
December 21, 1963
0 1963-12-29, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1963 Sun 29 December
December 29, 1963
(Note from Mother to Satprem)
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December 25, 1963
0 1963-12-31, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
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0 1964-01-04, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Cent. Ed., XXV. 26 ff.
Asura, Rakshasa: demons of the mental and vital planes; Pisacha: depraved beings.
0 1964-01-15, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
On February 29, 1964, second anniversary of the Supramental Manifestation upon earth.
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0 1964-01-18, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Kennedy was assassinated on November 2 2, 1963.
Khrushchev will be dismissed nine months later, on October 15.
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Nehru will die four months later, on May 27.
It may be recalled that Mother had an English governess.
0 1964-01-22, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1964 Wed 2 2 January
January 2 2, 1964
(Mother looks tired and seems to have a cold. First she quotes from memory a note she has written in English:)
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Still, for actions in this domain, actions of transformation, I dont say solitude because thats sillythere is no such thing as solitude but peace is necessary, that is, the perfect control over the activity: the activity must be kept on a level where it doesnt interfere with the inner work thats the point. That was why, in fact, I was forced (apparently) to remain upstairs, because downstairs it had become it was infernalinfernal, no one can imagine! Its always the same principle: Why not me? And there are 1,300 of them, you understand let alone the visitors who come in their hundreds (some days, there are more than 200 or 300 of them at one time); they hear that there is someone worth seeing, and when I was downstairs and one of the circus showmen ([laughing] excuse me!) came, he would bring a troop along.
Now, its a little better, but it has become Why not me? Mother has seen such and such a category of people, therefore the entire category has a right to be seen! The birthdays1 too, it depends on the ages and occupations: if I see people of a certain age and occupation on their birthdays, all those of about the same age and similar occupation have a RIGHT to comethey have the rightand it is my DUTY to see them. And when I say that I dont have the time theyre upset.
0 1964-01-25, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1964 Sat 25 January
January 25, 1964
In the Illustrated Weekly they have published photographs of the Popes visit to Palestine, and there is one in which he is prostrating himself: he is kissing the ground on the Mount of Olives, where Christ, as the story goes, was informed that he would be crucified.
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January 2 2, 1964
0 1964-01-28, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1964 Tue 28 January
January 28, 1964
(The following conversation between Mother and a Bengali disciple, B., was not tape-recorded but only noted from memory in English:)
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January 25, 1964
0 1964-01-29, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1964 Wed 29 January
January 29, 1964
Mother reads a few extracts from letters of Sri Aurobindo:
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(XXVI. 168, June 2, 1946)
This we could repeat to people endlessly, but it is extraordinarily true just now!
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And its connected to February 29.
For a long time people have been like bubbling champagne, you know, always wanting to know, Whats going to happen? What can we expect? A big to-do. I answered, I dont know. I dont know I am not trying to know, I am not looking at it, I am not concerned with it: when it comes, it will come. Then, several times (while I was writing birthday cards or letters), several times, it was as if clearly dictated to me, Prepare yourself for the Truth-Light that is descending. And its clearly this: the Truth-Light that is going to manifest the Truth-Light that is descending the Truth-Light that is preparing its manifestationall sorts of sentences kept coming to me like that, but always the Truth-Light. Then I understood that this was what was going to happen.
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January 28, 1964
0 1964-01-31, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
January 29, 1964
0 1964-02-05, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
See the end of this story in Agenda IX, May 2 2, 1968.
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0 1964-02-22, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1964 Sat 2 2 February
February 2 2, 1964
(The day after Mother's eighty-sixth birthday. Mother first reads the translation of the message she gave on the 21st:)
It was translated in an interesting way. I read it, then I concentrated (A. was sitting here, not moving or saying anything), so first I said a word or two to him to establish the atmosphere. Then I remained quiet, and it simply cameit isnt exactly a translation:
0 1964-02-26, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1964 Wed 26 February
February 26, 1964
Mothers left eye is very bloodshot:
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February 2 2, 1964
0 1964-03-04, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As for me, I only saw one thing: on the morning of the 29th, I woke up (woke up, I mean got up) with the consciousness the Vedic Rishis called the straight consciousness, the one that comes straight from the Lord the Truth-Consciousness, basically. It was absolutely quiet, calm, but with a sort of supersensation of an absolute well-being. Well-being, securityyes, a securityan indescribable peace, without the contrast of opposites. And it lasted about three hours, continuously, solidly, effortlessly (I didnt make any effort to keep it). I only had a definite perception that it was what they called the consciousness of truth and immortality, along with a perception (an observation, rather), fairly clear and precise, of the way in which it becomes crookedness (you know their word).
I hadnt tried to have that experience, I hadnt thought about it or anythingit came as something massive, and it stayed. But I had the feeling it was individual: I didnt feel it was something descending on earth. I felt it was something given to me, given to this body. Thats why I didnt attach much importance to it. The feeling of a grace given to this body. And it didnt leave tillit hasnt left, but it has been little by little and very slowly veiled by you know, that chaos of work, which has never been so chaotic and feverish at the same time.1 For about two weeks, it has been appalling. We havent come out of it yet. It has veiled that state FOR ME. But I clearly felt it was something GIVEN to this body.
During the meditation on the 29th, I noticed (I looked), I noticed that for about two days, the atmosphere had been full of a sparkling of white stars, like dusta twinkling dust of white stars. 2 I saw it had been there for three days. And at the time of the meditation, it became extremely intense. But it was widespread, it was everywhere.
There seemed to be nothing but sparkling dotsdots that glittered like diamonds. It was like sparkling diamonds everywhere, absolutely everywhere. And it had a tendency to come from above downward. It lasted not just hours, but days; others saw it (yet I didnt say anything to anyone), others saw it and asked me what it was.
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Three thousand visitors came for February 21 and 29.
This is reminiscent of the "rain of white stars" seen by Sujata (see conversation of January 29).
On the evening of the 29th, Mother appeared at the balcony.
For the third anniversary of the Supramental Manifestation.
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February 26, 1964
0 1964-03-07, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I told you last time that when I returned from the balcony on the 29th, it was as if in my concentration I said to the Lord, Well, well wait another four years. That was the impression. And since then (today is the same day as the 29th, it was just a week ago), everything has been like this (quivering gesture in the atmosphere), like hosts of little promises but promises that havent come to fruition, in other words, its always something that IS to come, something that IS to be, something that IS to be realized; something thats drawing near, but nothing tangible. And last night, when I awoke from my usual concentration (its almost always at the same time: between midnight and half past midnight), I felt something special in the atmosphere, so immediately I let myself flow into it and made contact with it.
I noticed (Ive known it for some time, but it was quite concrete this time) that in my rest, as soon as I am at rest, the body is completely identified with the material substance of the earth, that is to say, the experience of the material substance of the earth becomes its ownwhich may be expressed by all sorts of things (it depends on the day, on the occasion). I had known for a long time that it was no longer the individual consciousness; it isnt the collective consciousness of mankind: its a terrestrial consciousness, meaning it also contains the material substance of the earth, including the unconscious substance. Because I have prayed a lot, concentrated a lot, aspired a lot for the transformation of the Inconscient (since it is the essential condition for the thing to happen)because of that there has been a kind of identification.
0 1964-03-11, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Perhaps thats what I meant when I said another four years, because I was in a rather strange state when I came back from the balcony on the 29th. Wait, Ill show you a photo: they have given me photos of that balcony.
(Mother goes and gets a photo, then looks at it)
0 1964-03-21, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1964 Sat 21 March
March 21, 1964
(About a letter from the "doctor," who had gone to the U.S.A. for a brain operation: "The operation was torture for four hours; it is done under local anaesthesia but not effective. They cut and scraped my skull and drilled it without any anaesthesia.... Nursing is not so good, my [ nurses ] are far better. They have no feeling and do not do things honestly.... Surgeons are also slack...." It may be noted that the doctor was himself a surgeon of repute in Calcutta.)
0 1964-03-25, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1964 Wed 25 March
March 25, 1964
101In Gods sight there is no near or distant, no present, past or future. These things are only a convenient perspective for His world-picture.
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I had precisely that great difficulty (it was on February 29): all the time while I was living in that consciousness of the DIRECT manifestation of the Truth, I tried to formulate what I was feeling, what I was seeingit was impossible. There were no words. And immediately, merely formulating things made me instantly fall back into the other consciousness.
On that occasion, the memory of this aphorism on the sun and the earth came back to me. Even to say a change of consciousness a change of consciousness is still a movement.
0 1964-03-28, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1964 Sat 28 March
March 28, 1964
The big difficulty is that all of N.s experiences are in his mind. He has worked in his mind, transformed his mind; he has experiences, hes had all the experiences but IN THE MIND: not at all in the body. But then all that I am saying here, all these experiences I have now are in the bodyhe doesnt understand. Thats the difficulty. He cannot understand. And who can? I dont know:
0 1964-03-29, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1964 Sun 29 March
March 29, 1964
(Note from Mother to Satprem)
March 29, 1964
Satprem, my dear child,
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(Two lines from Savitri sent along with this note, on the occasion of March 29, the date when Mother and Sri Aurobindo first met fifty years earlier:)
Because thou art, men yield not to their doom,
0 1964-04-14, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
How empty the days arethey are full of empty things, of empty people and empty movement. You feel you must constantly pull down the Force in order to fill up this enormous Emptiness, or else you would be utterly crushed. I keep my watch by Indian time, so that I always know where you are, although I never know what time it is in France! I have to make a complicated calculation and subtract four and a half hours: its now 2:30 P.M. in our garden, therefore 10 A.M. here, and I have an appointment. I will probably see Corra1 tomorrow. My friend M. tells me that they definitely agree to publish the book, but they would like to cut certain passages! So I will have to argue to try and keep my book more or less whole! What a world! I will write to Mother tomorrow, once I know what the publishers demands are.
I have to see a doctor day after tomorrow but no doctor can close the hole in my heart.
0 1964-04-23, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1964 Thu 23 April
April 23, 1964
(From Satprem to Sujata)
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