1. Walking upon or over. 2. Pressing beneath the feet; trampling. treadings.
4. going beneath the earth (S. pātāla; T. sa 'og; C. tuxing 土行)
above ::: prep. --> In or to a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper surface; over; -- opposed to below or beneath.
Figuratively, higher than; superior to in any respect; surpassing; beyond; higher in measure or degree than; as, things above comprehension; above mean actions; conduct above reproach.
Surpassing in number or quantity; more than; as, above a hundred. (Passing into the adverbial sense. See Above, adv., 4.)
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.
Aetna, Mount A frequently active volcanic mountain in northeastern Sicily, the highest volcano in the Mediterranean region (c 10,900 feet). In Greek mythology, Zeus is said to have hurled Mt. Aetna at Typhon, who lies beneath the mountain, sending up smoke and flames; also Hephestos is sometimes said to have a forge there. See also MOUNTAINS, HOLY
Allegory: Description in symbolical terms, or representation in symbolical form, with the true meaning hidden beneath the literal or obvious significance.
alluvium ::: n. --> Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas.
Al-Waliyy ::: The One who guides and enables an individual to discover their reality and to live their life in accordance to their essence. It is the source of risalah (personification of Allah’s knowledge) and nubuwwah (prophethood), which comprise the pinnacle states of sainthood (wilayah). It is the dispatcher of the perfected qualities comprising the highest point of sainthood, risalah, and the state one beneath that, nubuwwah.
aneath ::: prep. & adv. --> Beneath.
Angkor Thom. Twelfth-century Khmer (Cambodian) temple city constructed by Jayavarman VII (r. 1181-c. 1220) and dedicated to AVALOKITEsVARA. Built shortly after the Khmer capital was sacked by invading Chams from the region of today's central Vietnam, Angkor Thom is surrounded by a hundred-meter-wide moat and an eight-meter-high wall. Arranged in the shape of a perfect rectangle oriented toward the cardinal directions, its walls are pierced at their center by gates that connect the city to the outside world via four broad avenues that bridge the moat. The avenues are flanked by massive railings in the form of a cosmic snake (NAGA) held aloft on one side by divinities (DEVA) and on the other by ASURAs, a motif recalling the Hindu creation myth of the churning of the cosmic ocean. The avenues run at right angles toward the center of the city complex, where the famous funerary temple of BAYON is located. Constructed of sandstone and in the form of a terraced pyramid, the Bayon represents among other symbols Mt. SUMERU, the axis mundi of the Hindu-Buddhist universe. The temple is entered through four doorways, one on each side, that lead through galleries richly carved with bas-reliefs depicting scenes from contemporary life and Hindu mythology. The temple is crowned with fifty-two towers, the largest of which occupies the center and pinnacle of the structure. The four sides of every tower bear colossal guardian faces that are believed to be portraits of Jayavarman VII in the guise of the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara. The Bayon is the first of Angkor's many temples dedicated to a MAHAYANA Buddhist cult; those built earlier were exclusively Hindu in affiliation. Beneath the central tower is a chamber that once housed a buddha image protected by a hooded nAga. This image was situated above a receptacle intended to receive the king's ashes at death. The Bayon thus combines the function and architectural elements of a Hindu temple and a Buddhist STuPA; and Jayavarman's identification with Avalokitesvara was but an extension of Angkor's long-standing Hindu devarAja (divine king) cult, which identified the reigning monarch as an incarnation of siva. Angkor Thom was the last of several temple cities that cover the large area known today as Angkor, each city having been built by a successive Khmer king and crowned with an elaborate funerary shrine at its center. The most famous of these is the nearby ANGKOR WAT, the largest religious structure in the world, built by Suryavarman II between 1131 and 1150.
A piece of wood or stone placed beneath a door; a doorsill. Also fig. 2. Fig. A level or point at which something would happen, would cease to happen, or would take effect, become true, etc. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as an adj.)
are said to have “emanated from beneath the
armpit ::: n. --> The hollow beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder; the axilla.
Arupa-devas (Sanskrit) Arūpa-deva-s [from a not + rūpa form, body + deva divine being] Formless celestial beings; suggested in The Mahatma Letters (p. 107) to refer to beings who were once men as we now are, but who have graduated out of the human sage into one of the two main classes of dhyani-chohans. According to this scheme, there are men; those superior to men who nevertheless were formerly men, divided into the rupa and arupa; and beneath men two classes who will be men in the future, such as asuras (elementals having a more or less human form) and beasts or elementals of a less advanced class which can be called animal elementals.
Atma-buddhi (Sanskrit) Ātma-buddhi [from ātman self + buddhi spiritual soul] The divine-spiritual part of a human being, the Pythagorean Monas or higher duad. Full mahatmas, who may be called vajra-sattvas, have merged their whole being in their compound sixth and seventh principles (atma-buddhi), through and with the buddhi-manas. Atma-buddhi is impersonal and a god per se, but when divorced from manas it can have no consciousness or perception of things beneath its own plane.
Attention is drawn to the philosophic need of making a sharp distinction between what Blavatsky has called primary creation and secondary creation, the former referring to the one divine unity in which all later manifesting hierarchies primordially inhere as One; whereas the secondary creation or stage in cosmic evolution begins with the fourth stage or fourth cosmic plane beneath the former, where polarity, duality, and the consequent emanational elaboration of the universe into its hierarchical structures begins. Thus through emanational cosmic evolution the One breaks through its two aspects of parabrahman and mulaprakriti into the cosmically androgyne and phenomenal finite manifested universe.
axilla ::: n. --> The armpit, or the cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder.
An axil.
baxiang. (J. hasso; K. p'alssang 八相). In Chinese, "eight episodes"; eight archetypal events in the life of any buddha: (1) descending from TUsITA heaven to undertake his final life as a BODHISATTVA; (2) entering the womb of his mother for his final life; (3) birth; (4) renunciation (i.e., leaving home to become a monk); (5) subjugating MARA; (6) attaining enlightenment; (7) turning the wheel of the dharma (DHARMACAKRAPRAVARTANA) at the first sermon; (8) passing into PARINIRVAnA. Another common list is (1) descent from tusita heaven; (2) birth in LUMBINĪ; (3) seeing the four portents (CATURNIMITTA); (4) going forth into homelessness (PRAVRAJITA); (5) ascetic practice in the HimAlayas; (6) subjugating MAra beneath the BODHI TREE and attaining enlightenment; (7) turning the wheel of the dharma in the Deer Park (MṚGADAVA); (8) passing into parinirvAna beneath twin sALA trees. The lists may differ slightly, e.g., replacing subjugating MAra with gestation in the womb. These eight episodes are common themes in Buddhist art. See also TWELVE DEEDS OF A BUDDHA.
Bayon. One of the most important Buddhist temples sites at ANGKOR THOM, the temple-city of the ancient Khmer kingdom; built by the Khmer king Jayavarman VII (r. 1181-c. 1220). The Bayon is a funerary temple located at the center of the Angkor Thom city complex. Constructed of sandstone and in the form of a terraced pyramid, the Bayon represents among other symbols Mt. SUMERU, the axis mundi of the Hindu-Buddhist universe. The temple is entered through four doorways, one on each side, that lead through galleries richly carved with bas-reliefs depicting scenes from contemporary life and Hindu mythology. The temple is crowned with fifty-two towers, the largest of which occupies the center and pinnacle of the structure. The four sides of every tower bear colossal guardian faces that are believed to be portraits of Jayavarman VII in the guise of the bodhisattva AVALOKITEsVARA. The Bayon is the first of Angkor's many temples specifically dedicated to a MAHAYANA Buddhist cult; those built earlier were exclusively Hindu in affiliation. Beneath the central tower is a chamber that once housed a buddha image protected by a hooded cobra. This image was situated above a receptacle intended to receive the king's ashes at death. The Bayon thus combines the function and architectural elements of a Hindu temple and a Buddhist STuPA, while Jayavarman's identification with Avalokitesvara was but an extension of Angkor's long-standing Hindu devarAjan (divine king) cult.
Chromospheres - The layer of the solar atmosphere that is located above the photosphere and beneath the transition region and the corona. The chromospheres is hotter than the photosphere but not as hot as the corona.
below ::: prep. --> Under, or lower in place; beneath not so high; as, below the moon; below the knee.
Inferior to in rank, excellence, dignity, value, amount, price, etc.; lower in quality.
Unworthy of; unbefitting; beneath. ::: adv.
beneath ::: prep. --> Lower in place, with something directly over or on; under; underneath; hence, at the foot of.
Under, in relation to something that is superior, or that oppresses or burdens.
Lower in rank, dignity, or excellence than; as, brutes are beneath man; man is beneath angels in the scale of beings. Hence: Unworthy of; unbecoming.
Bhaddiya-KAligodhAputta. (S. *Bhadrika-KAligodhAputrika; C. Bati; J. Batsudai; K. Palche 跋提). An ARHAT whom the Buddha declared foremost among his disciples of aristocratic birth (P. uccakulika). According to PAli sources, Bhaddiya was the son of lady KAligodhA and belonged to the royal SAkiyan (S. sAKYA) clan of Kapilavatthu (S. KAPILAVASTU) and entered the order together with Anuruddha (S. ANIRUDDHA) and other nobles in the Anupiya mango grove. Bhaddiya and Anuruddha were childhood friends. When Anuruddha decided to renounce the world, his mother agreed, but only on the condition that Bhaddiya accompany him. Her hope was that Bhaddiya would dissuade him, but in the end Anuruddha instead convinced Bhaddiya to join him as a renunciant. Soon after his ordination, Bhaddiya attained arhatship and subsequently dwelled in solitude beneath a tree, exclaiming, "Oh happiness, Oh happiness!," as he reveled in the bliss of NIRVAnA. When the Buddha queried him about his exclamation, he explained that as a prince in his realm he was well guarded but nevertheless always felt anxious of enemies; now, however, having renounced all worldly things, he was finally free from all fear. Bhaddiya was regal in bearing, a consequence of having been born a king five hundred times in previous lives. During the time of Padumuttara Buddha, he was the son of a wealthy family and performed numerous meritorious deeds, which earned him this distinction under the current buddha GAUTAMA.
Bhayabheravasutta. In PAli, "Discourse on Fear and Dread," the fourth sutta in the MAJJHIMANIKAYA (an untitled recension of uncertain affiliation appears in the Chinese translation of the EKOTTARAGAMA); preached by the Buddha to a brAhmana named JAnussoni in the JETAVANAGrove in sRAVASTĪ. The Buddha explains how a monk living alone in a fearful jungle must guard his thoughts, words, and deeds from evil. He then explains how he had to guard his own thoughts, words, and deeds while he strove to attain enlightenment as he sat beneath the BODHI TREE.
BimbisAra. (T. Gzugs can snying po; C. Pinposuoluo; J. Binbashara; K. Pinbasara 頻婆娑羅) (r. c. 465-413 BCE). King of MAGADHA, and chief royal patron of the Buddha during his lifetime, who reigned from his capital city of RAJAGṚHA (P. RAjagaha). There are several accounts of how the two first met. According to the PAli JATAKA, the two first met at RAjagṛha just after GAUTAMA had renounced the world when the BODHISATTVA passed beneath the king's window. Impressed with the mendicant's demeanor, BimbisAra invited him to join his court. When the bodhisattva refused, BimbisAra wished him success in his quest for enlightenment and requested that he visit his palace as soon as he achieved his goal. The Buddha honored his request and, soon after attaining enlightenment, returned to RAjagṛha to preach to BimbisAra and his courtiers. Immediately upon listening to the sermon, the king and his attendants became stream-enterers (SROTAAPANNA). The PAli MAHAVAMSA, however, states instead that they were childhood friends. BimbisAra was munificent in his support for the Buddha and his SAMGHA. The most famous of his donations was the VEnUVANA (P. Veluvana) bamboo grove, where it is said he constructed a multistoried residence for the monks. He repaired the road from RAjagṛha to the Ganges River, a distance of five leagues, just so the Buddha would have an easier walk on his way to VAIsALĪ. With such gifts, BimbisAra declared that the five ambitions of his life had been fulfilled: that he would become king, that the Buddha would visit his kingdom, that he would render service to the Buddha, that the Buddha would preach to him, and that he would understand the meaning of the Buddha's teachings. BimbisAra met a tragic death at the hands of his son AJATAsATRU (P. AjAtasattu). Even as his son was conceived, according to some accounts, astrologers had predicted that the unborn child would kill his father and recommended to the king that the fetus be aborted. The king would not hear of it and instead showered affection on his son throughout his childhood. AjAtasatru was persuaded to murder his father by DEVADATTA, the Buddha's evil cousin, who saw BimbisAra's continued patronage of the Buddha as the chief obstacle to his ambition to become leader of the saMgha himself. According to some reports, it was only upon the birth of his own son that he realized the paternal love that his father had had for him. According to the PAli account, BimbisAra was reborn as a yakkha (YAKsA) named Janavasabha and is said to have visited the Buddha in that form. See also VAIDEHĪ.
bistoury ::: n. --> A surgical instrument consisting of a slender knife, either straight or curved, generally used by introducing it beneath the part to be divided, and cutting towards the surface.
bodhi. (T. byang chub; C. puti/jue; J. bodai/kaku; K. pori/kak 菩提/覺). In Sanskrit and PAli, "awakening," "enlightenment"; the consummate knowledge that catalyzes the experience of liberation (VIMOKsA) from the cycle rebirth. Bodhi is of three discrete kinds: that of perfect buddhas (SAMYAKSAMBODHI); that of PRATYEKABUDDHAs or "solitary enlightened ones" (pratyekabodhi); and that of sRAVAKAs or disciples (srAvakabodhi). The content of the enlightenment experience is in essence the understanding of the FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS (catvAry AryasatyAni): namely, the truth of suffering (DUḤKHA), the truth of the cause of suffering (SAMUDAYA), the truth of the cessation of suffering (NIRODHA), and the truth of the path leading to the cessation of suffering (MARGA). Bodhi is also elaborated in terms of its thirty-seven constituent factors (BODHIPAKsIKADHARMA) that are mastered in the course of perfecting one's understanding, or the seven limbs of awakening (BODHYAnGA) that lead to the attainment of the "threefold knowledge" (TRIVIDYA; P. tevijjA): "recollection of former lives" (S. PuRVANIVASANUSMṚTI; P. pubbenivAsAnussati), the "divine eye" (DIVYACAKsUS; P. dibbacakkhu), which perceives that the death and rebirth of beings occurs according to their actions (KARMAN), and the "knowledge of the extinction of the contaminants" (ASRAVAKsAYA; P. AsavakkayaNAna). Perfect buddhas and solitary buddhas (pratyekabuddha) become enlightened through their own independent efforts, for they discover the four noble truths on their own, without the aid of a teacher in their final lifetime (although pratyekabuddhas may rely on the teachings of a buddha in previous lifetimes). Of these two types of buddhas, perfect buddhas are then capable of teaching these truths to others, while solitary buddhas are not. srAvakas, by contrast, do not become enlightened on their own but are exposed to the teachings of perfect buddhas and through the guidance of those teachings gain the understanding they need to attain awakening. Bodhi also occupies a central place in MAHAYANA religious conceptions. The MahAyAna ideal of the BODHISATTVA means literally a "being" (SATTVA) intent on awakening (bodhi) who has aroused the aspiration to achieve buddhahood or the "thought of enlightenment" (BODHICITTA; BODHICITTOTPADA). The MahAyAna, especially in its East Asian manifestations, also explores in great detail the prospect that enlightenment is something that is innate to the mind (see BENJUE; HONGAKU) rather than inculcated, and therefore need not be developed gradually but can instead be realized suddenly (see DUNWU). The MahAyAna also differentiates between the enlightenment (bodhi) of srAvakas and pratyekabuddhas and the full enlightenment (samyaksaMbodhi) of a buddha. According to Indian and Tibetan commentaries on the PRAJNAPARAMITA sutras, buddhas achieve full enlightenment not beneath the BODHI TREE in BODHGAYA, but in the AKANIstHA heaven in the form of a SAMBHOGAKAYA, or enjoyment body remaining for eternity to work for the welfare of sentient beings. The bodhisattva who strives for enlightenment and achieves buddhahood beneath the Bodhi tree is a NIRMAnAKAYA, a conjured body meant to inspire the world. See also WU; JIANWU.
bottom ::: n. --> The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page.
The part of anything which is beneath the contents and supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or the plank floor of a ship&
brachyura ::: n. pl. --> A group of decapod Crustacea, including the common crabs, characterized by a small and short abdomen, which is bent up beneath the large cephalo-thorax. [Also spelt Brachyoura.] See Crab, and Illustration in Appendix.
Brisingamen (Icelandic) [from brising fire + men jewel] In Norse myths the fire jewel represents the fire of enlightened intelligence in the human race, pictured as a gem which the goddess Freya wears on her bosom. She is the spiritual power imbodied in the planet Venus and the protectress of evolving, aspiring humanity. Her gem has on more than one occasion been stolen by Loki — the mischievous lower mind — which brought grief to the gods, who have the well-being of humanity at heart. Once the precious gem was in grave danger: the matter-giant Trym (our physical globe earth) stole Thor’s hammer of creation and destruction and hid it deep beneath the ground, and for its return he demanded that Freya become his wife. The story relates that she snorted with such fierce outrage that the gem was shattered.
brisket ::: n. --> That part of the breast of an animal which extends from the fore legs back beneath the ribs; also applied to the fore part of a horse, from the shoulders to the bottom of the chest.
buddhakAya. (T. sangs rgyas sku; C. foshen; J. busshin; K. pulsin 佛身). In Sanskrit, literally "body of the buddha." Throughout the history of the Buddhist tradition, there has been a great deal of debate, and a good many theories, over the exact nature of a buddha's body. In the PAli NIKAYAs and the Sanskrit AGAMAs, we find a distinction made between various possible bodies of sAKYAMuNI Buddha. There are references, for example, to a putikAya, or corruptible body, which was born from the womb of his mother; a MANOMAYAKAYA, or mind-made body, which he uses to visit the heavens; and a DHARMAKAYA, the buddhas' corpus of unique qualities (AVEnIKA[BUDDHA]DHARMA), which is worthy of greater honor than the other two bodies and is the body of the buddha in which one seeks refuge (sARAnA). Perhaps the most popular of these theories on the nature of the buddhakAya is the MAHAYANA notion of the "three bodies," or TRIKAYA. According to this doctrine, a buddha is indistinguishable from absolute truth, but will still appear in various guises in the relative, conditioned world in order to guide sentient beings toward enlightenment. To distinguish these differing roles, MahAyAna thus distinguishes between three bodies of a buddha. First, a buddha has a dharmakAya, which is identical to absolute reality. Second, a buddha has a SAMBHOGAKAYA, or "enjoyment body," which resides in a buddha land (BUDDHAKsETRA); this is the body that is visible only to the BODHISATTVAs. Finally, a buddha possesses a NIRMAnAKAYA, a "transformation" or "emanation body," which are the various earthly bodies that a buddha makes manifest in order to fulfill his resolution to help all different types of sentient beings; this type of body includes the Buddha who achieved enlightenment beneath the BODHI TREE. These are many other theories of the buddhakAya that have developed within the tradition.
buoy ::: n. --> A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc. ::: v. t. --> To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up.
buprestidan ::: n. --> One of a tribe of beetles, of the genus Buprestis and allied genera, usually with brilliant metallic colors. The larvae are usually borers in timber, or beneath bark, and are often very destructive to trees.
cashmere ::: n. --> A rich stuff for shawls, scarfs, etc., originally made in Cashmere from the soft wool found beneath the hair of the goats of Cashmere, Thibet, and the Himalayas. Some cashmere, of fine quality, is richly embroidered for sale to Europeans.
A dress fabric made of fine wool, or of fine wool and cotton, in imitation of the original cashmere.
cellulitis ::: n. --> An inflammantion of the cellular or areolar tissue, esp. of that lying immediately beneath the skin.
cerebellum: ('little brain' in Latin) two small hemispheres located beneath the cortical hemispheres, at the back of the head; the cerebellum plays an important role in directing movements and balance.
chigre ::: n. --> A species of flea (Pulex penetrans), common in the West Indies and South America, which often attacks the feet or any exposed part of the human body, and burrowing beneath the skin produces great irritation. When the female is allowed to remain and breed, troublesome sores result, which are sometimes dangerous. See Jigger.
chthonic: Relating to spirits or gods dwelling beneath the earth.
contusion ::: n. --> The act or process of beating, bruising, or pounding; the state of being beaten or bruised.
A bruise; an injury attended with more or less disorganization of the subcutaneous tissue and effusion of blood beneath the skin, but without apparent wound.
corium ::: n. --> Armor made of leather, particularly that used by the Romans; used also by Enlish soldiers till the reign of Edward I.
Same as Dermis.
The deep layer of mucous membranes beneath the epithelium.
crab ::: n. --> One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body.
The zodiacal constellation Cancer. ::: a. --> A crab apple; -- so named from its harsh taste.
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.
dartos ::: n. --> A thin layer of peculiar contractile tissue directly beneath the skin of the scrotum.
deeply ::: adv. 1. At or to a considerable extent downward; well within or beneath a surface. 2. With deep feeling or emotion; greatly, thoroughly, intensely, acutely.
dentine ::: n. --> The dense calcified substance of which teeth are largely composed. It contains less animal matter than bone, and in the teeth of man is situated beneath the enamel.
dermis ::: n. --> The deep sensitive layer of the skin beneath the scarfskin or epidermis; -- called also true skin, derm, derma, corium, cutis, and enderon. See Skin, and Illust. in Appendix.
disdain ::: v. t. --> A feeling of contempt and aversion; the regarding anything as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn.
That which is worthy to be disdained or regarded with contempt and aversion.
The state of being despised; shame.
To think unworthy; to deem unsuitable or unbecoming; as, to disdain to do a mean act.
To reject as unworthy of one&
Dragon ::: Unused, guarded beneath Night’s dragon paws,
durgati. (P. duggati; T. ngan 'gro; C. equ; J. akushu; K. akch'wi 惡趣). In Sanskrit, "unfortunate destinies." These destinies refer to the unfortunate or unfavorable rebirths (APĀYA) that occur as a consequence of performing demeritorious actions (AKUsALAKARMAN). Typically a list of three (or sometimes four) such destinies is found in the literature: (1) a denizen of hell (S. NĀRAKA; P. nerayika), (2) an animal (S. TIRYAK; P. tiracchāna), (3) a hungry ghost (S. PRETA; P. peta), and (4) a demigod or titan (ASURA). According to the ABHIDHARMAKOsABHĀsYA, the eight hot and eight cold hells are the lowest place beneath JAMBUDVĪPA; the pretas are ruled by YAMA and primarily live in a region five hundred yojanas (a YOJANA is the distance a pair of bulls can pull a cart in a day) below; animals primarily live on the land, in the water, and in the air. The life spans of beings in the unfortunate destinies are longest in the hells and shortest for animals. The life span of the least-painful, topmost hell is five hundred years calculated as follows: fifty human days makes a day in the life of the lowest level sensuous realm (KĀMADHĀTU) divinity who lives five hundred years; one day in the topmost hell is equal to the life span of that god. The length of life span becomes even more dire for the lower hells. A day for a preta who lives for five hundred years is one month for a human being. Animal life spans range widely, some seeming almost evascent by human standards, others, such as the NĀGA, supposedly able to live for an eon (KALPA). See also APĀYA; BHAVACAKRA.
During the fourth root-race on this globe D of the fourth round, evolution reached the middle of its course for this planetary manvantara, and the door to entry into the state of spiritual and intellectual evolution called the human kingdom was closed. All entities beneath the humans (and probably higher anthropoids who were in existence before that epoch) must await until the next succeeding round before even the highest representatives of the beast kingdom can pass on to the human stage. All subhuman kingdoms will show a tendency as time goes on to die out, because the monads of these kingdoms will go into latency for the remainder of the planetary manvantara; their chance for evolution into the human state will come again during the succeeding planetary manvantara. See also ATLANTEANS
Earth Chakra ::: Considered a transcendental chakra that is linked to one's connection with their planet and the solidity and stability of their form. Located below the Muladhara Chakra around the point of contact between the feet and the Earth and extending beneath the perineal terminal of the Central Channel.
ecchymose ::: v. t. --> To discolor by the production of an ecchymosis, or effusion of blood, beneath the skin; -- chiefly used in the passive form; as, the parts were much ecchymosed.
euplexoptera ::: n. pl. --> An order of insects, including the earwig. The anterior wings are short, in the form of elytra, while the posterior wings fold up beneath them. See Earwig.
exergue ::: n. --> The small space beneath the base line of a subject engraved on a coin or medal. It usually contains the date, place, engraver&
exsufflation ::: n. --> A blast from beneath.
A kind of exorcism by blowing with the breath.
A strongly forced expiration of air from the lungs.
fascia ::: n. --> A band, sash, or fillet; especially, in surgery, a bandage or roller.
A flat member of an order or building, like a flat band or broad fillet; especially, one of the three bands which make up the architrave, in the Ionic order. See Illust. of Column.
The layer of loose tissue, often containing fat, immediately beneath the skin; the stronger layer of connective tissue covering and investing all muscles; an aponeurosis.
fornix ::: n. --> An arch or fold; as, the fornix, or vault, of the cranium; the fornix, or reflection, of the conjuctiva.
Esp., two longitudinal bands of white nervous tissue beneath the lateral ventricles of the brain.
Fu dashi. (J. Fu daishi; K. Pu taesa 傅大士) (497-569). In Chinese, "Great Layman Fu," his secular name was Xi and he is also known as Shanhui, Conglin, and Dongyang dashi. Fu dashi was a native of Wuzhou in present-day Zhejiang province. At fifteen, he married and had two sons, Pujian and Pucheng. Originally a fisherman, he abandoned his fishing basket after hearing a foreign mendicant teach the dharma and moved to SONGSHAN (Pine Mountain). After attaining awakening beneath a pair of trees, he referred to himself as layman Shanhui (Good Wisdom) of Shuanglin (Paired Trees). While continuing with his severe ascetic practices, Fu and his wife hired out their services as laborers during the day and he taught at night, ultimately claiming that he had come from TUsITA heaven, where the future buddha MAITREYA was currently residing. He is said to have been summoned to teach at court during the reign of the Liang-dynasty emperor Wudi (r. 502-549). In 539, Fu dashi is said to have established the monastery Shuanglinsi at the base of Songshan. His collected discourses, verses, and poetry are preserved in the Shanhui dashi yulu, in four rolls, which also includes his own biography as well as those of four other monks who may have been his associates. Fu is also credited with inventing the revolving bookcase for scriptures, which, like a prayer wheel (cf. MA nI 'KHOR LO), could yield merit (PUnYA) simply by turning it. This invention led to the common practice of installing an image of Fu and his family in monastic libraries. In painting and sculpture, Fu dashi is typically depicted as a tall bearded man wearing a Confucian hat, Buddhist raiments, and Daoist shoes and accompanied by his wife and two sons.
gall ::: n. --> The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that of the mucous membrane of the gall bladder.
The gall bladder.
Anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor.
Impudence; brazen assurance.
An excrescence of any form produced on any part of a plant by insects or their larvae. They are most commonly caused by small
ganoine ::: n. --> A peculiar bony tissue beneath the enamel of a ganoid scale.
gati. (T. 'gro ba; C. qu; J. shu; K. ch'wi 趣). In Sanskrit and Pāli, "destiny," "destination," or "bourne," one of the five or six places in SAMSĀRA where rebirth occurs. In ascending order, these bournes are occupied by hell denizens (NĀRAKA), hungry ghosts (PRETA), animals (TIRYAK), humans (MANUsYA), and divinities (DEVA); sometimes, demigods (ASURA) are added between humans and divinities as a sixth bourne. These destinies are all located within the three realms of existence (TRILOKA[DHĀTU]), which comprises the entirety of our universe. At the bottom of the sensuous realm (KĀMADHĀTU) are located the denizens of the eight hot and cold hells (nāraka), of which the lowest is the interminable hell (see AVĪCI). These are said to be located beneath the continent of JAMBUDVĪPA. This most ill-fated of existences is followed by hungry ghosts, animals, humans, demigods, and the six sensuous-realm divinities, who live on MOUNT SUMERU or in the heavens directly above it. Higher levels of the divinities occupy the upper two realms of existence. The divinities of the BRAHMALOKA, whose minds are perpetually absorbed in one of the four meditative absorptions (DHYĀNA), occupy seventeen levels in the realm of subtle materiality (RuPADHĀTU). Divinities who are so ethereal that they do not require even a subtle material foundation occupy four heavens in the immaterial realm (ĀRuPYADHĀTU). The divinities in the immaterial realm are perpetually absorbed in formless trance states, and rebirth there is the result of mastery of one or all of the immaterial dhyānas (ĀRuPYĀVACARADHYĀNA). The bottom three destinies, of hell denizens, hungry ghosts, and animals, are referred to as the three evil bournes (DURGATI); these are destinies where suffering predominates because of the past performance of primarily unvirtuous actions. In the various levels of the divinities, happiness predominates because of the past performance of primarily virtuous deeds. By contrast, the human destiny is thought to be ideally suited for religious training because it is the only bourne where both suffering and happiness can be readily experienced in the proper balance (not intoxicated by pleasure or racked by pain), allowing one to recognize more easily the true character of life as impermanent (ANITYA), suffering (DUḤKHA), and nonself (ANĀTMAN). Some schools posit a transitional "intermediate state" (ANTARĀBHAVA) of being between past and future lives within these destinies. See also DAsADHĀTU.
gematria ::: Gematria Kabbalists believed that the written word of God was the result of His inspiration and that Scripture contained within itself an essence of His being. By the same token they believed that since God is hidden, so too, was there a hidden meaning beneath the divine words of Scripture. To uncover this hidden meaning they employed three separate methods of interpretation, Gematria, Notarikon and Temura. Gematria made use of the fact that every Hebrew letter has a numerical value assigned to it (see Sacred Alphabet), so any words with the same numerical value could be linked. For anyone interested in studying Gematria, Aleister Crowley's 'numerical dictionary' Liber 500 Sepher Sephiroth is essential reading.
glanders ::: n. --> A highly contagious and very destructive disease of horses, asses, mules, etc., characterized by a constant discharge of sticky matter from the nose, and an enlargement and induration of the glands beneath and within the lower jaw. It may transmitted to dogs, goats, sheep, and to human beings.
gusset ::: n. --> A small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening some part or giving it a tapering enlargement.
Anything resembling a gusset in a garment
A small piece of chain mail at the openings of the joints beneath the arms.
A kind of bracket, or angular piece of iron, fastened in the angles of a structure to give strength or stiffness; esp., the part joining the barrel and the fire box of a locomotive boiler.
haematosac ::: n. --> A vascular sac connected, beneath the brain, in many fishes, with the infundibulum.
Heaven and Hell ::: Every ancient exoteric religion taught that the so-called heavens are divided into steps or grades ofascending bliss and purity; and the so-called hells into steps or grades of increasing purgation orsuffering. Now the esoteric doctrine or occultism teaches that the one is not a punishment, nor is theother strictly speaking a reward. The teaching is, simply, that each entity after physical death is drawn tothe appropriate sphere to which the karmic destiny of the entity and the entity's own character andimpulses magnetically attract it. As a man works, as a man sows, in his life, that and that only shall hereap after death. Good seed produces good fruit; bad seed, tares -- and perhaps even nothing of value orof spiritual use follows a negative and colorless life.After the second death, the human monad "goes" to devachan -- often called in theosophical literature theheaven-world. There are many degrees in devachan: the highest, the intermediate, and the lowest. Whatbecomes of the entity, on the other hand, the lower human soul, that is so befouled and weighted withearth thought and the lower instincts that it cannot rise? There may be enough in it of the spirit nature tohold it together as an entity and enable it to become a reincarnating being, but it is foul, it is heavy; itstendency is consequently downwards. Can it therefore rise into a heavenly felicity? Can it go even intothe lower realms of devachan and there enjoy its modicum of the beatitude, bliss, of everything that isnoble and beautiful? No. There is an appropriate sphere for every degree of development of the ego-soul,and it gravitates to that sphere and remains there until it is thoroughly purged, until the sin has beenwashed out, so to say. These are the so-called hells, beneath even the lowest ranges of devachan; whereasthe arupa heavens are the highest parts of the devachan. Nirvana is a very different thing from theheavens. (See also Kama-Loka, Avichi, Devachan, Nirvana)
Heaven and hell may denote states of consciousness experienced in daily life on earth. A rough division of cosmic spheres makes heaven the highest, hell or Tartarus the lowest, with the earth beneath heaven, and the underworld beneath it and preceding Tartarus. The crystalline spheres of medieval astronomy are called heavens surrounding the earth concentrically. Far from being adjudicated by a deity to happiness or torment, after death a person goes to that region to which he is attracted by the affinities which he has set up during his life. Thus theosophy teaches the existence of almost endless and widely varying spheres or regions, all inhabited by peregrinating entities; and of these regions the higher can be dubbed the heavens and the lowest the hells, and the intermediate can be called the regions of experiences and purgation. All spheres possessing sufficient materialized substance to be called imbodied spheres are hells by contrast with the ethereal and spiritual globes of the heavens. Therefore in a sense and on a smaller scale, the lower globes of a planetary chain may be called hells, and the higher globes of the chain, by contrast, heavens.
Hel (Icelandic) [from helju hell, death] The mythical regent of the Norse realm of the dead, depicted as half black or blue and half flesh-colored. In myths the representative of death is usually said to be a child of mind: in the Edda she is the daughter of Loki (fire of mind) and of the giantess Angerboda (boder of regret). She rules the nine worlds of death which correspond to the nine worlds of life, and apportions to each arrival a domicile appropriate to that soul’s merit or demerit. Some may frolic in sunlit meadows, others suffer agony beneath the lower gates leading to Niflhel [from nifl cloud + hel death] where matter is ground to extinction. The realm of Hel with its varied accommodations resembles the Greek Hades more than the hell of popular belief where evil souls are sent for punishment. Rather, the kingdom of death is a restful interlude where souls spend a fitting time in their rightful environment. The Eddas relate that elves (human souls) sleep among the gods when they are feasting on the mead of a past period of life (experience); thus the resting souls are present in the divine spheres even through unconscious of their surroundings.
hematoma ::: n. --> A circumscribed swelling produced by an effusion of blood beneath the skin.
hemidactyl ::: n. --> Any species of Old World geckoes of the genus Hemidactylus. The hemidactyls have dilated toes, with two rows of plates beneath.
hypaxial ::: a. --> Beneath the axis of the skeleton; subvertebral; hyposkeletal.
hypo- ::: --> A prefix signifying a less quantity, or a low state or degree, of that denoted by the word with which it is joined, or position under or beneath.
A prefix denoting that the element to the name of which it is prefixed enters with a low valence, or in a low state of oxidization, usually the lowest, into the compounds indicated; as, hyposulphurous acid.
hypoarion ::: n. --> An oval lobe beneath each of the optic lobes in many fishes; one of the inferior lobes.
hypoderma ::: n. --> A layer of tissue beneath the epidermis in plants, and performing the physiological function of strengthening the epidermal tissue. In phanerogamous plants it is developed as collenchyma.
An inner cellular layer which lies beneath the chitinous cuticle of arthropods, annelids, and some other invertebrates.
hypogene ::: a. --> Formed or crystallized at depths the earth&
hyposkeletal ::: a. --> Beneath the endoskeleton; hypaxial; as, the hyposkeletal muscles; -- opposed to episkeletal.
inferior ::: a. --> Lower in place, rank, excellence, etc.; less important or valuable; subordinate; underneath; beneath.
Poor or mediocre; as, an inferior quality of goods.
Nearer the sun than the earth is; as, the inferior or interior planets; an inferior conjunction of Mercury or Venus.
Below the horizon; as, the inferior part of a meridian.
Situated below some other organ; -- said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below it, or of an ovary with an
infra ::: adv. --> Below; beneath; under; after; -- often used as a prefix.
inframundane ::: a. --> Lying or situated beneath the world.
infrapose ::: v. t. --> To place under or beneath.
infraposition ::: n. --> A situation or position beneath.
infrascapular ::: a. --> Beneath the scapula, or shoulder blade; subscapular.
"In Greek mythology, a giant with a hundred arms, a son of Uranus and Ge, who fought against the gods. He was hurled down by Athene and imprisoned beneath Mt. Aetna in Sicily. When he stirs, the mountain shakes; when he breathes, there is an eruption. (M.I.; Web.)” Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works
“In Greek mythology, a giant with a hundred arms, a son of Uranus and Ge, who fought against the gods. He was hurled down by Athene and imprisoned beneath Mt. Aetna in Sicily. When he stirs, the mountain shakes; when he breathes, there is an eruption. (M.I.; Web). Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo’s Works
intermembranous ::: a. --> Within or beneath a membrane; as, intermembranous ossification.
internally ::: adv. --> Inwardly; within the enveloping surface, or the boundary of a thing; within the body; beneath the surface.
Hence: Mentally; spiritually.
Inversion ::: An atmospheric condition caused by a layer of warm air preventing the rise of relatively cool air trapped beneath it. This holds down pollutants that might otherwise be dispersed, and can cause an air pollution episode.
isogeotherm ::: n. --> A line or curved surface passing beneath the earth&
Ivaldi seemingly represents the previous lifetime of our planetary consciousness which was imbodied in the moon when it was living before the earth was formed. His is the home of the dark elves, said to be situated beneath Midgard (the earth). His children are Nanna (the lunar soul), and Idun (the terrestrial soul), while Hjuke and Bil are the children whose shadows are seen on the face of the full moon and who live on in the nursery rhyme of Jack and Jill. Additional descendants of Ivaldi are the dwarfs Brock and Sindri, representing respectively the mineral and vegetable kingdoms now on earth.
Jambudvīpa. (P. Jambudīpa; T. 'Dzam bu gling; C. Yanfuti; J. Enbudai; K. Yombuje 閻浮提). In Sanskrit, "The Rose-Apple Continent"; corresponding to India. Jambudvīpa is the southernmost of the four continents where human beings reside in this world, along with VIDEHA (to the east of the world's axis mundi, MT. SUMERU), GODĀNĪYA (to the west), and UTTARAKURU (to the north). (Alternatively, Jambudvīpa is also said to be the central of seven continents that surround Mt. Sumeru.) At the center of Jambudvīpa is found the VAJRĀSANA ("diamond seat"), the spot where the buddhas realize their enlightenment; hence, Jambudvīpa is always the continent where buddhas spend their final lifetimes establishing their dispensations and is therefore the most auspicious site for beings to take rebirth. Also unique in this world, Jambudvīpa is ruled by a wheel-turning monarch (CAKRAVARTIN), the only continent that is so governed. Jambudvīpa is so named either because of the large number of rose-apple trees that grow there, or because of a large rose-apple tree at the top of Mt. Sumeru that is visible from there. It is shaped like a triangular cart, and has two subcontinents, cāmara and aparacāmara. On its eastern side are ten mountain ranges, the last and highest of which is the Himavanta (the Himālayas). From its deep lake Anavatapta flow its four major rivers: the GAnGĀNADĪ (the Ganges), Sindhu, Vaksu, and Sītā. The life span of human beings in Jambudvīpa drops as low as ten years at the end of a KALPA, increasing to incalculable years at the beginning of the eon (prāthamakalpika). The system of hells (see NĀRAKA) is located beneath Jambudvīpa.
jigger ::: n. --> A species of flea (Sarcopsylla, / Pulex, penetrans), which burrows beneath the skin. See Chigoe.
A pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather; same as Jack, 4 (i). ::: n. & v. --> One who, or that which, jigs; specifically, a miner
jugular ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the throat or neck; as, the jugular vein.
Of or pertaining to the jugular vein; as, the jugular foramen.
Having the ventral fins beneath the throat; -- said of certain fishes.
One of the large veins which return the blood from the head to the heart through two chief trunks, an external and an
Just as the Advaita teaches that essentially there is an absolute reality, and that all things issue forth from the incomprehensible womb of cosmic life — which therefore is the only abstract as well as substantial reality of all beings — so the Dvaita teaches the opposite: that while all beneath the abstract reality issue forth from it, they do so rather as creations than as essences, parts, or portions of the eternal reality. The Visishtavaita school straddles these philosophical views, asserting with the Advaita that all are at one in essence, yet holding that the distinctions during manifestation between the eternal reality and all its offspring are relatively real. This stand is little favored by either of the other schools.
kagu ::: n. --> A singular, crested, grallatorial bird (Rhinochetos jubatus), native of New Caledonia. It is gray above, paler beneath, and the feathers of the wings and tail are handsomely barred with brown, black, and gray. It is allied to the sun bittern.
kingbird ::: n. --> A small American bird (Tyrannus tyrannus, or T. Carolinensis), noted for its courage in attacking larger birds, even hawks and eagles, especially when they approach its nest in the breeding season. It is a typical tyrant flycatcher, taking various insects upon the wing. It is dark ash above, and blackish on the head and tail. The quills and wing coverts are whitish at the edges. It is white beneath, with a white terminal band on the tail. The feathers on the head of the adults show a bright orange basal spot when erected.
Ksāntivādin. (P. Khantivādī; T. Bzod pa smra ba; C. Renru xianren/Chanti xianren; J. Ninniku sennin/Sandai sennin; K. Inyok sonin/Sanje sonin 忍辱仙人/羼提仙人). Lit. "Teacher of Patience"; one of the more famous previous lives of the Buddha as recounted in the Sanskrit and Pāli JĀTAKA collections. Over the course of millions of lifetimes, the BODHISATTVA is said to accrue vast stores of merit (PUnYA) through the practice of the six or ten perfections (PĀRAMITĀ). The story of Ksāntivādin is the most famous story about the bodhisattva's practice of patience (KsĀNTI). In the story, the bodhisattva is a brāhmana who renounces the world and lives in a forest near Benaras. One day, the king comes into the forest accompanied by his female attendants, who entertain him. Exhausted by his indulgence in pleasure and drink, the king falls asleep. The women wander off, eventually coming upon Ksāntivādin seated beneath a tree. They gather around him and he preaches to them. The king awakes to find the women gone and becomes enraged. When he finally locates them, he presumes that Ksāntivādin has stolen them away. When he asks the ascetic what he teaches, Ksāntivādin replies "patience." Seeking to test the ascetic's ability to remain free from anger when injured and abused, he tortures him, cutting off his limbs, his nose, and his ears in turn, at each point asking the ascetic whether he still teaches patience; the various versions differ as to the order in which the limbs are severed and whether they are severed by the king himself or by his executioner. Leaving the ascetic to die of his wounds, the king walks away, only to be swallowed by the earth and transported to the AVĪCI hell. It is said that the king was DEVADATTA in a former life and that his fate prefigured Devadatta's own demise.
Kŭmgangsan. (C. Jingangshan; J. Kongosan; 金剛山). In Korean, "Diamond (S. VAJRA) Mountains," Buddhist sacred mountains and important Korean pilgrimage site. The mountains are located in Kangwon Province, North Korea, on the east coast of the Korean peninsula in the middle of the Paektu Taegan, the mountain range that is regarded geographically and spiritually as the geomantic "spine" of the Korean peninsula. The mountains are known for their spectacular natural beauty, and its hundreds of individual peaks have been frequent subjects of both literati and folk painting. During the Silla dynasty, Kŭmgangsan began to be conceived as a Buddhist sacred site. "Diamond Mountains," also known by its indigenous name Hyollye, is listed in the Samguk sagi ("History of the Three Kingdoms") and SAMGUK YUSA ("Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms") as one of the three mountains (samsan) and five peaks (o'ak) that were the objects of cultic worship during the Silla period; scholars, however, generally agree that this refers to another mountain closer to the Silla capital of KYoNGJU rather than what are now known as the Diamond Mountains. The current Diamond Mountains have had several names over the course of history, including Pongnae, P'ungak, Kaegol, Yolban, Kidal, Chunghyangsong, and Sangak, with "Kŭmgang" (S. VAJRA) becoming its accepted name around the fourteenth century. The name "Diamond Mountains" appears in the AVATAMSAKASuTRA as the place in the middle of the sea where the BODHISATTVA DHARMODGATA (K. Popki posal) resides, preaching the dharma to his congregation of bodhisattvas. The Huayan exegete CHENGGUAN (738-839), in his massive HUAYAN JING SHU, explicitly connects the AvataMsakasutra's mention of the Diamond Mountains to Korea (which he calls Haedong, using its traditional name). The AstASĀHASRIKĀPRAJNĀPĀRAMITĀ also says that the Dharmodgata (K. Tammugal; J. Donmuketsu; C. Tanwujian) preaches the PRAJNĀPĀRAMITĀ at GANDHAVATĪ (K. Chunghyangsong; C. Zhongxiangcheng; J. Shukojo, "City of Multitudinous Fragrances"), one of the alternate names of the Diamond Mountains and now the name of one of its individual peaks. According to the Koryo-period Kŭmgang Yujomsa sajok ki by Minji (1248-1326), on a visit to the Diamond Mountains made by ŬISANG (625-702), the vaunt-courier of the Hwaom (C. Huayan) school in Korea, Dharmodgata appeared to him and told him that Kŭmgangsan was the place in Korea where even people who do not practice could become liberated, whereas only religious virtuosi would be able to get enlightened on the Korean Odaesan (cf. C. WUTAISHAN). For all these reasons, Popki Posal is considered to be the patron bodhisattva of Kŭmgangsan. Starting in the late-Koryo dynasty, the Diamond Mountains became a popular pilgrimage site for Korean Buddhists. Before the devastation of the Korean War (1950-1953), it is said that there were some 108 monasteries located on Kŭmgangsan, including four primary ones: P'YOHUNSA, CHANGANSA, SIN'GYESA, and Mahayonsa. Mahayonsa, "Great Vehicle Monastery," was built by Ŭisang in 676 beneath Dharmodgata Peak (Popkibong) and was considered one of the ten great Hwaom monasteries (Hwaom siptae sach'al) of the Silla dynasty. Currently, the only active monasteries are P'yohunsa and its affiliated branch monasteries, a few remaining buildings of Mahayonsa, and Sin'gyesa, which was rebuilt starting in 2004 as a joint venture of the South Korean CHOGYE CHONG and the North Korean Buddhist Federation. In the late twentieth century, the Diamond Mountains were developed into a major tourist site, with funding provided by South Korean corporate investors, although access has been held hostage to the volatile politics of the Korean peninsula. ¶ In Japan, Diamond Mountains (KONGoSAN) is an alternate name for KATSURAGISAN in Nara, the principal residence of EN NO OZUNU (b. 634), the putative founder of the SHUGENDo school of Japanese esoterism, because he was considered to be a manifestation of the bodhisattva Dharmodgata.
labellum ::: n. --> The lower or apparently anterior petal of an orchidaceous flower, often of a very curious shape.
A small appendage beneath the upper lip or labrum of certain insects.
labium ::: n. --> A lip, or liplike organ.
The lip of an organ pipe.
The folds of integument at the opening of the vulva.
The organ of insects which covers the mouth beneath, and serves as an under lip. It consists of the second pair of maxillae, usually closely united in the middle line, but bearing a pair of palpi in most insects. It often consists of a thin anterior part (ligula or palpiger) and a firmer posterior plate (mentum).
laukikamārga. (T. 'jig rten pa'i lam; C. shijiandao; J. sekendo; K. segando 世間道). In Sanskrit, lit. "mundane path," those practices that precede the moment of insight (DARsANAMĀRGA) and thus result in a salutary rebirth in SAMSĀRA rather than liberation (VIMUKTI); also called laukika-BHĀVANĀMĀRGA (the mundane path of cultivation). In the five-stage soteriology of the SARVĀSTIVĀDA school, the mundane path corresponds to the first two stages, the path of accumulation (SAMBHĀRAMĀRGA) and the path of preparation (PRAYOGAMĀRGA), because they do not involve the direct perception of reality that transforms an ordinary person (PṚTHAGJANA) into a noble one (ĀRYA). The mundane path is developed when a practitioner has begun to cultivate the three trainings (TRIsIKsĀ) of morality (sĪLA), concentration (SAMĀDHI), and wisdom (PRAJNĀ) but has yet to eradicate any of the ten fetters (SAMYOJANA) or to achieve insight (DARsANA). The eightfold path (ĀRYĀstĀnGAMĀRGA) is also formulated in terms of the spiritual ascension from mundane (LAUKIKA) to supramundane (LOKOTTARA). For example, mundane right view (SAMYAGDṚstI), the first stage of the eightfold path, refers to the belief in the efficacy of KARMAN and its effects and the reality of a next life after death, thus leading to better rebirths; wrong view (MITHYĀDṚstI), by contrast, denies such beliefs and leads to unsalutary rebirths. After continuing on to cultivate the moral trainings of right speech, action, and livelihood based on this right view, the practitioner next devotes himself to right concentration (SAMYAKSAMĀDHI). Concentration then leads in turn to supramundane right view, which results in direct insight into the FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS and the removal of the initial fetters. ¶ In the MADHYĀNTAVIBHĀGA, a Mahāyāna work associated with the name of MAITREYA, the eightfold path is reformulated as a "worldly" path that a bodhisattva treads after the path of vision (darsanamārga), on the model of the Buddha's work for the world after his awakening beneath the BODHI TREE in BODHGAYĀ. The bodhisattva's supramundane vision, described by the seven factors of enlightenment (BODHYAnGA), is an equipoise (SAMĀHITA) in which knowledge is beyond all proliferation (PRAPANCA) and conceptualization (VIKALPA); the states subsequent (pṛsthalabdha) to that equipoise are characterized as the practice of skillful means (UPĀYA) to lead others to liberation, on the model of the Buddha's compassionate activities for the sake of others. The practice serves to accumulate the bodhisattva's merit collection (PUnYASAMBHĀRA); there is no further vision to be gained, only a return to the vision in the supramundane stages characterized as the fundamental (maula) stages of the ten bodhisattva stages (BODHISATTVABHuMI) or a supramundane cultivation (lokottarabhāvanā). All other acts are laukika ("worldly") skillful means.
Limiting our explanation only to the manifest seven globes of the complete twelve, the six globes other than the earth exist, according to one diagrammatic delineation, two by two, on the three planes of the solar system more ethereal than the physical plane. These three superior planes or worlds are each one superior to the world or plane immediately beneath it. Our earth-globe is the fourth and most material of all the manifest globes of the earth-chain. Three globes precede it on the descending or shadowy arc and three globes follow it on the ascending or luminous arc of evolution.
Logical Link Control "networking" (LLC) The upper portion of the {data link layer}, as defined in {IEEE 802.2}. The LLC sublayer presents a uniform interface to the user of the data link service, usually the {network layer}. Beneath the LLC sublayer is the {Media Access Control} (MAC) sublayer. (1995-02-14)
Logical Link Control ::: (networking) (LLC) The upper portion of the data link layer, as defined in IEEE 802.2. The LLC sublayer presents a uniform interface to the user of the data link service, usually the network layer. Beneath the LLC sublayer is the Media Access Control (MAC) sublayer. (1995-02-14)
Logograms [from Greek logos words + gramma letter] A single letter or other sign representing a whole word. Many ancient esoteric writings are written wholly or partially in logograms, such as the Egyptian Book of the Dead, certain names in the Vedas, and to some extent in the Bible, so that they have a hidden meaning beneath the sense of the words and sentences. The Chinese written language itself is logographical. In Hebrew and Greek, letters represent numbers, which also is often a key to hidden meanings. See also GEMATRIA
longicornia ::: n. pl. --> A division of beetles, including a large number of species, in which the antennae are very long. Most of them, while in the larval state, bore into the wood or beneath the bark of trees, and some species are very destructive to fruit and shade trees. See Apple borer, under Apple, and Locust beetle, under Locust.
lump ::: n. --> A small mass of matter of irregular shape; an irregular or shapeless mass; as, a lump of coal; a lump of iron ore.
A mass or aggregation of things.
A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel. ::: v. i. --> To throw into a mass; to unite in a body or sum without
Lunar Pitri(s) ::: Lunar of course means "belonging to the moon," while pitri is a Sanskrit word meaning "father." It is aterm used in theosophy to signify the seven or ten grades of evolving entities which at the end of thelunar manvantara pass into a nirvanic state, to leave it aeons later as the seven or tenfold hierarchy ofbeings which inform the planetary chain of earth. In a general sense lunar pitris means all entities whichoriginally came from the moon-chain to the earth-chain; but in a more particular and restricted sense itrefers to those elements of the human constitution beneath the evolutionary standing of the agnishvattas.Another term for lunar pitris is lunar ancestors or barhishads. These lunar ancestors are usually given asof seven classes, three being arupa, incorporeal, and four being rupa or corporeal. There is a vast body ofteaching connected with the lunar pitris, of which the best modern exposition thus far given is to befound in H. P. Blavatsky's The Secret Doctrine. Briefly, the earth-chain including our own globe Terrawas populated from the moon-chain, because all entities now on earth, whatever their grade in evolution,came from the chain of the moon. (See also Pitris, Agnishvattas)
Mahākāsyapa. (P. Mahākassapa; T. 'Od srung chen po; C. Mohejiashe; J. Makakasho; K. Mahagasop 摩訶迦葉). Sanskrit name of one of the Buddha's leading disciples, regarded as foremost in the observance of ascetic practices (P. DHUTAnGA; S. dhutaguna). According to the Pāli accounts (where he is called Mahākassapa) his personal name was Pipphali and he was born to a brāhmana family in MAGADHA. Even as a child he was inclined toward renunciation and as a youth refused to marry. Finally, to placate his parents, he agreed to marry a woman matching in beauty a statue he had fashioned. His parents found a match in Bhaddā Kapilānī (S. BHADRA-KAPILĀNĪ), a beautiful maiden from Sāgala. But she likewise was inclined toward renunciation. Both sets of parents foiled their attempts to break off the engagement, so in the end they were wed but resolved not to consummate their marriage. Pipphali owned a vast estate with fertile soil, but one day he witnessed worms eaten by birds turned up by his plowman. Filled with pity for the creatures and fearful that he was ultimately to blame, he resolved then and there to renounce the world. At the same time, Bhaddā witnessed insects eaten by crows as they scurried among sesame seeds put out to dry. Feeling pity and fear at the sight, she also resolved to renounce the world. Realizing they were of like mind, Pipphali and Bhaddā put on the yellow robes of mendicants and abandoned their property. Although they left together, they parted ways lest they prove a hindrance to one another. Realizing what had transpired, the Buddha sat along Pipphali's path and showed himself resplendent with yogic power. Upon seeing the Buddha, Pipphali, whose name thenceforth became Kassapa, immediately recognized him as his teacher and was ordained. Traveling to Rājagaha (S. RĀJAGṚHA) with the Buddha, Mahākassapa requested to exchange his fine robe for the rag robe of the Buddha. The Buddha consented, and his conferral of his own rag robe on Mahākassapa was taken as a sign that, after the Buddha's demise, Mahākassapa would preside over the convention of the first Buddhist council (see COUNCIL, FIRST). Upon receiving the Buddha's robe, he took up the observance of thirteen ascetic practices (dhutanga) and in eight days became an arahant (S. ARHAT). Mahākassapa possessed great supranormal powers (P. iddhi; S. ṚDDHI) and was second only to the Buddha in his mastery of meditative absorption (P. JHĀNA; S. DHYĀNA). His body was said to be adorned with seven of the thirty-two marks of a superman (MAHĀPURUsALAKsAnA). So revered by the gods was he, that at the Buddha's funeral, the divinities would not allow the funeral pyre to be lit until Mahākassapa arrived and had one last chance to worship the Buddha's body. Mahākassapa seems to have been the most powerful monk after the death of the Buddha and is considered by some schools to have been the Buddha's successor as the first in a line of teachers (dharmācārya). He is said to have called and presided over the first Buddhist council, which he convened after the Buddha's death to counter the heresy of the wicked monk SUBHADRA (P. Subhadda). Before the council began, he demanded that ĀNANDA become an arhat in order to participate, which Ānanda finally did early in the morning just before the event. At the council, he questioned Ānanda and UPĀLI about what should be included in the SuTRA and VINAYA collections (PItAKA), respectively. He also chastised Ānanda for several deeds of commission and omission, including his entreaty of the Buddha to allow women to enter the order (see MAHĀPRAJĀPATĪ), his allowing the tears of women to fall on the Buddha's corpse, his stepping on the robe of the Buddha while mending it, his failure to recall which minor monastic rules the Buddha said could be ignored after his death, and his failure to ask the Buddha to live for an eon or until the end of the eon (see CĀPĀLACAITYA). Pāli sources make no mention of Mahākassapa after the events of the first council, although the Sanskrit AsOKĀVADĀNA notes that he passed away beneath three hills where his body will remain uncorrupted until the advent of the next buddha, MAITREYA. At that time, his body will reanimate itself and hand over to Maitreya the rag robe of sĀKYAMUNI, thus passing on the dispensation of the buddhas. It is said that the robe will be very small, barely fitting over the finger of the much larger Maitreya. ¶ Like many of the great arhats, Mahākāsyapa appears frequently in the MAHĀYĀNA sutras, sometimes merely listed as a member of the audience, sometimes playing a more significant role. In the VIMALAKĪRTINIRDEsA, he is one of the sRĀVAKA disciples who is reluctant to visit Vimalakīrti. In the SADDHARMAPUndARĪKASuTRA, he is one of four arhats who understands the parable of the burning house and rejoices in the teaching of a single vehicle (EKAYĀNA); later in the sutra, the Buddha prophesies his eventual attainment of buddhahood. Mahākāsyapa is a central figure in the CHAN schools of East Asia. In the famous Chan story in which the Buddha conveys his enlightenment by simply holding up a flower before the congregation and smiling subtly (see NIANHUA WEIXIAO), it is only Mahākāsyapa who understands the Buddha's intent, making him the first recipient of the Buddha's "mind-to-mind" transmission (YIXIN CHUANXIN). He is thus considered the first patriarch (ZUSHI) of the Chan school.
Mahāmaudgalyāyana. (P. Mahāmoggallāna; T. Mo'u 'gal gyi bu chen po; C. Mohemujianlian/Mulian; J. Makamokkenren/Mokuren; K. Mahamokkollyon/Mongnyon 摩訶目犍連/目連). An eminent ARHAT and one of the two chief disciples of the Buddha, often depicted together with his friend sĀRIPUTRA flanking the Buddha. Mahāmaudgalyāyana was considered supreme among the Buddha's disciples in supranormal powers (ṚDDHI). According to Pāli accounts, where he is called Moggallāna, he was older than the Buddha and born on the same day as sāriputra (P. Sāriputta). Both he and sāriputra were sons of wealthy families and were friends from childhood. Once, when witnessing a play, the two friends were overcome with a sense of the impermanence and the vanity of all things and decided to renounce the world as mendicants. They first became disciples of the agnostic SaNjaya Belatthiputta (SANJAYA VAIRĀtĪPUTRA), although later they took their leave and wandered the length and breadth of India in search of a teacher. Finding no one who satisfied them, they parted company, promising one another that if one should succeed he would inform the other. Later sāriputra met the Buddha's disciple, Assaji (S. AsVAJIT), who recited for him a précis of the Buddha's teachings, the so-called YE DHARMĀ verse, which immediately prompted sāriputra to attain the path of a stream-enterer (SROTAĀPANNA). He repeated the stanza to Mahāmaudgalyāyana, who likewise immediately became a stream-enterer. The two friends thereupon resolved to take ordination as disciples of the Buddha and, together with five hundred disciples of their former teacher SaNjaya, proceeded to the Veluvana (S. VEnUVANAVIHĀRA) grove where the Buddha was residing. The Buddha ordained the entire group with the formula ehi bhikkhu pabbajjā ("Come forth, monks"; see EHIBHIKsUKĀ), whereupon all five hundred became arhats, except for sāriputra and Mahāmaudgalyāyana. Mahāmaudgalyāyana attained arhatship seven days after his ordination, while sāriputra reached the goal one week later. The Buddha declared sāriputra and Mahāmaudgalyāyana his chief disciples the day they were ordained, noting that they had both strenuously exerted themselves in countless previous lives for this distinction; they appear often as the bodhisattva's companions in the JĀTAKAs. sāriputra was chief among the Buddha's disciples in wisdom, while Mahāmaudgalyāyana was chief in mastery of supranormal powers. He could create doppelgängers of himself and transform himself into any shape he desired. He could perform intercelestial travel as easily as a person bends his arm, and the tradition is replete with the tales of his travels, such as flying to the Himālayas to find a medicinal plant to cure the ailing sāriputra. Mahāmaudgalyāyana said of himself that he could crush Mount SUMERU like a bean and roll up the world like a mat and twirl it like a potter's wheel. He is described as shaking the heavens of sAKRA and BRAHMĀ to dissuade them from their pride, and he often preached to the divinities in their abodes. Mahāmaudgalyāyana could see ghosts (PRETA) and other spirits without having to enter into meditative trance as did other meditation masters, and because of his exceptional powers the Buddha instructed him alone to subdue the dangerous NĀGA, Nandopananda, whose huge hood had darkened the world. Mahāmaudgalyāyana's powers were so immense that during a terrible famine, he offered to turn the earth's crust over to uncover the ambrosia beneath it; the Buddha wisely discouraged him, saying that such an act would confound creatures. Even so, Mahāmaudgalyāyana's supranormal powers, unsurpassed in the world, were insufficient to overcome the law of cause and effect and the power of his own former deeds, as the famous tale of his death demonstrates. A group of naked JAINA ascetics resented the fact that the people of the kingdom of MAGADHA had shifted their allegiance and patronage from them to the Buddha and his followers, and they blamed Mahāmaudgalyāyana, who had reported that, during his celestial and infernal travels, he had observed deceased followers of the Buddha in the heavens and the followers of other teachers in the hells. They hired a group of bandits to assassinate the monk. When he discerned that they were approaching, the eighty-four-year-old monk made his body very tiny and escaped through the keyhole. He eluded them in different ways for six days, hoping to spare them from committing a deed of immediate retribution (ĀNANTARYAKARMAN) by killing an arhat. On the seventh day, Mahāmaudgalyāyana temporarily lost his supranormal powers, the residual karmic effect of having beaten his blind parents to death in a distant previous lifetime, a crime for which he had previously been reborn in hell. The bandits ultimately beat him mercilessly, until his bones had been smashed to the size of grains of rice. Left for dead, Mahāmaudgalyāyana regained his powers and soared into the air and into the presence of the Buddha, where he paid his final respects and passed into NIRVĀnA at the Buddha's feet. ¶ Like many of the great arhats, Mahāmaudgalyāyana appears frequently in the MAHĀYĀNA sutras, sometimes merely listed as a member of the audience, sometimes playing a more significant role. In the VIMALAKĪRTINIRDEsA, he is one of the sRĀVAKA disciples who is reluctant to visit VIMALAKĪRTI. In the SADDHARMAPUndARĪKASuTRA, he is one of four arhats who understands the parable of the burning house and who rejoices in the teaching of the one vehicle (EKAYĀNA); later in the sutra, the Buddha prophesies his eventual attainment of buddhahood. Mahāmaudgalyāyana is additionally famous in East Asian Buddhism for his role in the apocryphal YULANBEN JING. The text describes his efforts to save his mother from the tortures of her rebirth as a ghost (preta). Mahāmaudgalyāyana (C. Mulian) is able to use his supranormal powers to visit his mother in the realm of ghosts, but the food that he offers her immediately bursts into flames. The Buddha explains that it is impossible for the living to make offerings directly to the dead; instead, one should make offerings to the SAMGHA in a bowl, and the power of their meditative practices will be able to save one's ancestors and loved ones from rebirths in the unfortunate realms (DURGATI).
Mahāsuddassanasuttanta. (C. Dashanjian wang jing; J. Daizenkennokyo; K. Taeson'gyon wang kyong 大善見王經). In Pāli, the "Great Discourse on King Suddassana"; the seventeenth sutta of the DĪGHANIKĀYA (a separate SARVĀSTIVĀDA recension appears as the fifty-eighth sutra in the Chinese translation of the MADHYAMĀGAMA); preached by the Buddha to ĀNANDA in the town of Kusināra (S. KUsINAGARĪ) while he lay dying beneath twin sāla (S. sĀLA) trees in the grove of the Mallas. Ānanda begs the Buddha not to pass away in such an insignificant town, whereupon the Buddha recounts to him the former splendor of the place eons ago, when the city was governed by the CAKRAVARTIN Suddassana (S. Sudarsana). After recounting the king's virtues, the Buddha reveals that he himself had been Suddassana in a previous life while he was a BODHISATTVA. Thus, the Buddha concludes, Kusināra is indeed a suitable place for the final demise (parinibbāna; S. PARINIRVĀnA) of a buddha.
Mahāvagga. In Pāli, "Great Chapter"; an important book in the Pāli VINAYAPItAKA, which provides the first systematic narrative of the early history of the SAMGHA. The KHANDHAKA ("Collections"), the second major division of the Pāli vinaya, is subdivided between the Mahāvagga and the CulAVAGGA ("Lesser Chapter"). The Mahāvagga includes ten khandhakas. The long, opening khandhaka narrate the events that immediately follow the Buddha's experience of enlightenment (BODHI) beneath the BODHI TREE, including the conversion of the first lay disciples, Tapussa (S. TRAPUsA) and BHALLIKA (cf. TIWEI [BOLI] JING); his earliest teachings to the group of five (P. paNcavaggiyā; S. PANCAVARGIKA); the foundation of the order of monks; and the institution of an ordination procedure through taking the three refuges (P. tisarana; S. TRIsARAnA) and the formula ehi bhikkhu pabbajjā ("Come, monks"; see S. EHIBHIKsUKĀ). Much detail is provided also on the enlightenment experiences and conversion of his first major disciples, including ANNātakondaNNa (S. ĀJNĀTAKAUndINYA), Assaji (S. AsVAJIT), and Uruvela-Kassapa (S. URUVILVĀ-KĀsYAPA), as well as the two men who would become his two greatest disciples, Sāriputta (S. sĀRIPUTRA) and Moggallāna (see S. MAHĀMAUDGALYĀYANA). Subsequent khandhakas discuss the recitation of the rules of disciple (P. pātimokkha; S. PRĀTIMOKsA) on the fortnightly retreat day (P. uposatha; S. UPOsADHA), the institution of the rains retreat (P. vassa; S. VARsĀ), medicines, the design of the monastic robes (CĪVARA), and the robe-cloth ceremony (KAtHINA), and of the criteria for evaluating whether an action conforms to the spirit of the vinaya. The Mahāvagga's historical narrative is continued in the Culavagga, which relates the history of the saMgha following the buddha's PARINIRVĀnA.
Manifestation ::: A generalizing term signifying not only the beginning but the continuance of organized kosmic activity,the latter including the various minor activities within itself. First there is of course always the Boundlessin all its infinite planes and worlds or spheres, aggregatively symbolized by the circle; then parabrahman,or the kosmic life-consciousness activity, and mulaprakriti its other pole, signifying root-natureespecially in its substantial aspects. Then the next stage lower, Brahman and its veil pradhana; thenBrahma-prakriti or Purusha-prakriti (prakriti being also maya); the manifested universe appearingthrough and by this last, Brahma-prakriti, "father-mother." In other words, the second Logos orfather-mother is the producing cause of manifestation through their son which, in a planetary chain, is theprimordial or the originating manu, called Svayambhuva.When manifestation opens, prakriti becomes or rather is maya; and Brahma, the father, is the spirit of theconsciousness, or the individuality. These two, Brahma and prakriti, are really one, yet they are also thetwo aspects of the one life-ray acting and reacting upon itself, much as a man himself can say, "I am I."He has the faculty of self-analysis or self-division. All of us know it, we can feel it in ourselves -- oneside of us, in our thoughts, can be called the prakriti or the material element, or the mayavi element, orthe element of illusion; and the other is the spirit, the individuality, the god within.The student should note carefully that manifestation is but a generalizing term, comprehensive thereforeof a vast number of different and differing kinds of evolving planes or realms. For instance, there ismanifestation on the divine plane; there is manifestation also on the spiritual plane; and similarly so onall the descending stages of the ladder or stair of life. There are universes whose "physical" plane isutterly invisible to us, so high is it; and there are other universes in the contrary direction, so far beneathour present physical plane that their ethereal ranges of manifestation are likewise invisible to us.
Māra. (T. Bdud; C. Mo; J. Ma; K. Ma 魔). In Sanskrit and Pāli, lit., "Maker of Death"; the personification of evil in Buddhism and often referred to as the Buddhist "devil" or "demon"; he is in fact a powerful divinity of the sensuous realm (KĀMADHĀTU), devoted to preventing beings from achieving liberation from rebirth and thus conquering death. In the biographies of the Buddha, Māra figures as the Buddha's antagonist. According to the most elaborate accounts of the Buddha's enlightenment experience, when the BODHISATTVA SIDDHĀRTHA sat under the BODHI TREE, vowing not to rise until he attained liberation from SAMSĀRA, he was approached by Māra, who sought to dissuade him from his quest. When he refused, Māra sent his minions to destroy him, but their weapons were transformed into flower blossoms. When he sent his daughters-Ratī (Delight), Aratī (Discontent), and Tṛsnā (Craving)-to seduce him, the bodhisattva remained unmoved, in some versions transforming them into hags and then restoring their beauty once they repented. When Māra questioned the bodhisattva's right to occupy his seat beneath the Bodhi tree, the bodhisattva declared that he had earned that right by accumulating merit over countless eons. When asked who could vouch for these deeds, the bodhisattva extended his right hand and touched the earth, thereby calling the goddess of the earth, STHĀVARĀ, to bear witness to his virtue; this gesture, called the BHuMISPARsAMUDRĀ ("earth-touching gesture"), is one of the most common iconographic depictions of the Buddha. The goddess bore witness to the bodhisattva's virtue by causing the earth to quake. In a Southeast Asian version, the goddess is called THORANI, and she wrung out from her hair all the water that the bodhisattva had offered in oblations over many lives. This created a great torrent, which washed Māra away. In all accounts, Māra is finally vanquished and withdraws, with the entire episode being referred to as the "defeat of Māra" (Māravijaya). Māra reappears shortly after the Buddha's enlightenment, urging him to immediately pass into PARINIRVĀnA and not bother teaching others. His request is rejected, but he nevertheless extracts from the Buddha a promise to enter nirvāna when he has completed his teaching; near the end of the Buddha's life, Māra reappears at the CĀPĀLACAITYA to remind him of his promise. Māra also distracts the Buddha's attendant, ĀNANDA, preventing him from requesting that the Buddha live until the end of the eon, a power that the Buddha possesses but must be asked to exercise. Ānanda is chided by the Buddha and later rebuked by the SAMGHA for his oversight. Māra commonly appears in Buddhist literature when monks and nuns are about to achieve enlightenment, attempting to distract them. Māra would eventually figure in sectarian polemics as well. In the MAHĀYĀNA sutras, those who claim that the Mahāyāna sutras are not the authentic word of the Buddha are condemned as being possessed by Māra. In scholastic literature, Māra is expanded metaphorically into four forms. SKANDHAMĀRA, the māra of the aggregates (SKANDHA), is the mind and body of unenlightened beings, which serve as the site of death. Klesamāra, the māra of the afflictions (KLEsA), refers to such afflictions as greed, hatred, and delusion, which catalyze death and rebirth and which prevent liberation. MṚTYUMĀRA, the māra of death, is death itself, and DEVAPUTRAMĀRA, the deity Māra, is the divinity (DEVA) who attacked the Buddha and who seeks to prevent the defeat of the other three forms of Māra.
mat ::: n. --> A name given by coppersmiths to an alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc., usually called white metal.
A fabric of sedge, rushes, flags, husks, straw, hemp, or similar material, used for wiping and cleaning shoes at the door, for covering the floor of a hall or room, and for other purposes.
Any similar fabric for various uses, as for covering plant houses, putting beneath dishes or lamps on a table, securing rigging from friction, and the like.
mchod rten. (choten). In Tibetan, lit., "basis for worship"; the Tibetan translation of the Sanskrit terms STuPA and CAITYA. As in India, the Tibetan stupa serves as a reliquary, and may contain the remains (ashes, hair, bones) of a prominent lama (BLA MA) or objects associated with an exalted being, such as the begging bowl or robe of a famous monk. In the case of a highly exalted personage, such as one of the DALAI LAMAs, the body is not cremated but is instead embalmed and then entombed inside a stupa. They range greatly in size, from several inches high to hundreds of feet tall. In a standard ritual that precedes a teaching, the lama is offered a statue of the Buddha, a text, and a small stupa, representing the body, speech, and mind of the Buddha, respectively. One of the most common forms of Buddhist practice in Tibet is to circumambulate a stupa in a clockwise direction. There is a large literature in Tibetan devoted to the construction, consecration, and symbolism of the stupa. Many different types of stupas are described, one of the most famous rubrics being the eight types of stupas, each with a different shape, which commemorate eight events in the life of the Buddha. These are: (1) the "heap of lotuses stupa" (pad spungs mchod rten) commemorating the Buddha's birth, (2) the "enlightenment stupa" (byang chub mchod rten) commemorating the Buddha's achievement of enlightenment beneath the BODHI TREE, (3) the "many auspicious doors stupa" (bkra shis sgo mang mchod rten) commemorating the Buddha's turning of the wheel of the dharma, (4) the "display of miracles stupa" (cho 'phrul mchod rten) commemorating the Buddha's display of miracles at sRĀVASTĪ, (5) the "divine descent stupa" (lha babs mchod rten) commemorating the Buddha's descent from the TRĀYASTRIMsA heaven on the summit of Mount SUMERU to SĀMKĀsYA, (6) the "settling of disputes stupa" (dbyen bsdums mchod rten) commemorating the Buddha's healing of a schism within the monastic community caused by his cousin DEVADATTA, (7) the "victory stupa" (rnam rgyal mchod rten) commemorating the Buddha's extension of his life by three months, and (8) the "nirvāna stupa" (myang 'das mchod rten) commemorating the Buddha's passage into PARINIRVĀnA. See also BAXIANG.
Ming: Fate; Destiny; the Decree of Heaven. The Confucians and Neo-Confucians are unanimous in saying that the fate and the nature (hsing) of man and things are two aspects of the same thing. Fate is what Heaven imparts; and the nature is what man and things received from Heaven. For example, "whether a piece of wood is crooked or straight is due to its nature. But that it should be crooked or straight is due to its fate." This being the case, understanding fate (as in Confucius), establishing fate (as in Mencius, 371-289 B.C.), and the fulfillment of fate (as in Neo-Confucianism) all mean the realization of the nature of man and things in accordance with the principle or Reason (li) of existence. "That which Heaven decrees is true, one, and homogeneous . . . Fate in its true meaning proceeds from Reason; its variations (i.e., inequalities like intelligence and stupidity) proceed from the material element, the vital force (ch'i) . . . 'He who understands what fate is, will not stand beneath a precipitous wall.' If a man, saying 'It is decreed,' goes and stands beneath a precipitous wall and the wall falls and crushes him, it cannot be attributed solely to fate. In human affairs when a man has done his utmost he may talk of fate." The fate of Heaven is the same as the Moral Law (tao) of Heaven. The "fulfillment of fate" consists of "the investigation of the Reason of things to the utmost (ch'iung li)" and "exhausting one's nature to the utmost (chin hsing)" -- the three are one and the same." In short, fate is "nothing other than being one's true self (ch'eng)." -- W.T.C.
moccasin ::: n. --> A shoe made of deerskin, or other soft leather, the sole and upper part being one piece. It is the customary shoe worn by the American Indians.
A poisonous snake of the Southern United States. The water moccasin (Ancistrodon piscivorus) is usually found in or near water. Above, it is olive brown, barred with black; beneath, it is brownish yellow, mottled with darker. The upland moccasin is Ancistrodon atrofuscus. They resemble rattlesnakes, but are without
Monitoring Well::: A well used to obtain water quality samples or measure groundwater levels. Well drilled at a hazardous waste management facility or Superfund site to collect groundwater samples for the purpose of physical, chemical, or biological analysis to determine the amounts, types, and distribution of contaminants in the groundwater beneath the site.
mustache ::: n. --> That part of the beard which grows on the upper lip; hair left growing above the mouth.
A West African monkey (Cercopithecus cephus). It has yellow whiskers, and a triangular blue mark on the nose.
Any conspicuous stripe of color on the side of the head, beneath the eye of a bird.
My Favourite Toy Language ::: (jargon, language) (MFTL) Describes a talk on a programming language design that is heavy on syntax (with lots of BNF), sometimes even talks about and meticulous detail at the sacrifice of any conceptual content. Well, it was a typical MFTL talk.2. A language about which the developers are passionate (often to the point of prosyletic zeal) but no one else cares about. Applied to the language by those outside the originating group. He cornered me about type resolution in his MFTL.The first great goal in the mind of the designer of an MFTL is usually to write a compiler for it, then bootstrap the design away from contamination by lesser compiler?. On the other hand, a language that *cannot* be used to write its own compiler is beneath contempt.Doug McIlroy once proposed a test of the generality and utility of a language and the operating system under which it is compiled: Is the output of a Fortran to have worked only under modern systems which lack OS-supported and -imposed file types.See break-even point, toolsmith. (1995-03-07)
My Favourite Toy Language "jargon, language" (MFTL) Describes a talk on a {programming language} design that is heavy on {syntax} (with lots of {BNF}), sometimes even talks about {semantics} (e.g. {type systems}), but rarely, if ever, has any content (see {content-free}). More broadly applied to talks - even when the topic is not a programming language --- in which the subject matter is gone into in unnecessary and meticulous detail at the sacrifice of any conceptual content. "Well, it was a typical MFTL talk". 2. A language about which the developers are passionate (often to the point of prosyletic zeal) but no one else cares about. Applied to the language by those outside the originating group. "He cornered me about type resolution in his MFTL." The first great goal in the mind of the designer of an MFTL is usually to write a compiler for it, then bootstrap the design away from contamination by lesser languages by writing a compiler for it in itself. Thus, the standard put-down question at an MFTL talk is "Has it been used for anything besides its own compiler?". On the other hand, a language that *cannot* be used to write its own compiler is beneath contempt. {Doug McIlroy} once proposed a test of the generality and utility of a language and the {operating system} under which it is compiled: "Is the output of a {Fortran} program acceptable as input to the Fortran compiler?" In other words, can you write programs that write programs? Alarming numbers of (language, OS) pairs fail this test, particularly when the language is Fortran. Aficionados are quick to point out that {Unix} (even using Fortran) passes it handily. That the test could ever be failed is only surprising to those who have had the good fortune to have worked only under modern systems which lack OS-supported and -imposed "file types". See {break-even point}, {toolsmith}. (1995-03-07)
Namsan. (南山). In Korean, "South Mountain," important Buddhist site located to the south of the ancient Silla-dynasty capital of KYoNGJU. Namsan had been worshipped as a Korean sacred mountain since prehistoric times and was strongly embedded in local shamanic cults. With the advent of Buddhism, Namsan became the center of Buddhist worship in Korea as the representation of Mt. SUMERU, the axis mundi of the world in Buddhist cosmology. As a result, the whole area of Namsan is dotted with rock-cut reliefs, engravings, and stone images, all fine examples of Korean Buddhist art from the seventh through the fourteenth centuries, depicting among many others the buddhas sĀKYAMUNI, BHAIsAJYAGURU, and AMITĀBHA. Most of these images date from the seventh and eighth centuries, when the political power of the Silla dynasty was at its height. Most noteworthy is the massive boulder in T'apkok (Pagoda Valley), which is carved with a rich tapestry of Buddhist images that depict the popular view of the Buddhist world during the Silla period. In the center of the boulder's northern face is a seated buddha image, which is flanked by two images of wooden pagodas. A mythical lion below the pagodas acts as a guardian to this scene. The eastern face expresses the belief in the PURE LAND. It depicts a narrative scene of Amitābha, flanked by two BODHISATTVAs, presumably AVALOKITEsVARA and MAHĀSTHĀMAPRĀPTA, with accompanying images of flying beings (S. APSARAS) and monks who came to venerate this central figure. On the boulder's southern face, a buddha triad and an individual image of a bodhisattva are carved. Finally, on its western face is depicted an image of sākyamuni at the moment of his awakening beneath two BODHI TREEs. Other noteworthy Buddhist images at Namsan include the rock-cut reliefs of seven buddhas at Ch'ilburam (Seven Buddhas Rock), which is uniquely composed of two boulders, one with a buddha triad, the other one with four bodhisattvas; the seated stone statue of sākyamuni at Mirŭkkok (Maitreya Valley), which is one of the best-preserved Buddhist stone statues from the eighth century; the seated image of a bodhisattva carved on the high cliff of Sinsonam (Fairy Rock); and the seated figure of sākyamuni in Samnŭnggok (Samnŭng Valley), which was carved on a colossal rock twenty-three feet high and sixteen feet in width.
nāraka. (P. nerayika; T. dmyal ba; C. diyu [youqing/zhongsheng]; J. jigoku [ujo/shujo]; K. chiok [yujong/chungsaeng] 地獄[有情/衆生]). In Sanskrit, "hell denizen," the lowest of the six rebirth destinies (GATI) in the realm of SAMSĀRA, followed by ghosts, animals, demigods, humans, and divinities. In Buddhist cosmography, there is an elaborate system of hells (naraka or niraya in Sanskrit and Pāli), and Buddhist texts describe in excruciating detail the torment hell denizens are forced to endure as expiation for the heinous acts that led to such baleful rebirths (cf. ĀNANTARYAKARMAN). According to one well-known system, the hells consist of eight hot hells, eight cold hells, and four neighboring hells (PRATYEKANARAKA), all located beneath the surface of the continent of JAMBUDVĪPA. The ground in the hot hells is made of burning iron. The ground in the cold hells is made of snow and ice; there is no sun or any source of light or heat. The eight hot hells, in descending order in depth and ascending order in suffering, are named reviving (SAMJĪVA), black line (KĀLASuTRA), crushed together (SAMGHĀTA), crying (RAURAVA), great crying (MAHĀRAURAVA), hot (TĀPANA), very hot (PRATĀPANA), and interminable (AVĪCI). The eight cold hells, in descending order in depth and ascending order in suffering, are named blisters (arbuda), bursting blisters (nirarbuda), chattering teeth (atata), moaning (hahava; translated into Tibetan as a chu zer ba, "saying 'achoo'"), moaning (huhuva), [skin split like a] blue lotus (utpala), [skin split like a] lotus (padma), and [skin split like a] great lotus (mahāpadma). The neighboring hells include (1) the pit of embers (KUKuLA), (2) the swamp of corpses (KUnAPA), (3) the road of razors (KsURAMĀRGA), grove of swords (ASIPATTRAVANA), and forest of spikes (AYAḤsĀLMALĪVANA), and (4) the river difficult to ford (NADĪ VAITARAnĪ). Buddhist hells are places of rebirth rather than permanent postmortem abodes; there is no concept in Buddhism of eternal damnation. The life spans in the various hells may be incredibly long but they are finite; once the hell denizen's life span is over, one will be reborn elsewhere. In a diorama of the hells on display at the Chinese cave sites at DAZU SHIKE, for example, after systematic depictions of the anguish of the various hells, the last scene shows the transgressor being served a cup of tea, as a respite from his protracted torments, before being sent on to his next rebirth.
natica ::: n. --> Any one of numerous species of marine gastropods belonging to Natica, Lunatia, Neverita, and other allied genera (family Naticidae.) They burrow beneath the sand, or mud, and drill other shells.
nat. In Burmese, a generic term for a "spirit" or "god." Burmese (Myanmar) lore posits the existence of numerous species of nats, of both indigenous and Indian origin. Nats can range in temperament from benign to malevolent, including those who are potentially helpful but dangerous if offended. The most generally benevolent species of nats are the divinities (DEVA) of the Indian pantheon. This group includes such gods as Thakya Min (sAKRA) and Byama (BRAHMĀ). Nats of Indian origin are typically looked upon as servants of the Buddhist religion, which is how they are depicted in Burmese Pāli literature. Indigenous nats in the form of nature spirits are thought to occupy trees, hills, streams, and other natural sites, and may cause harm if disturbed. The guardian spirits of villages and of the home are also classified as nats. Certain nats guard medicinal herbs and certain minerals, and, when properly handled, aid alchemists in their search for elixirs and potions. One species of nat, the oktazaung, are ghosts who have been forced to act as guardians of pagoda treasures. These unhappy spirits are thought to be extremely dangerous and to bring calamity upon those who attempt to rob pagodas or encroach upon pagoda lands. The best-known group of nats is the "thirty-seven nats" of the Burmese national pantheon. For centuries, they have been the focus of a royal cult of spirit propitiation; the worship of national nats is attested as early as the eleventh century CE at PAGAN (Bagan). At the head of the pantheon is Thakya Min, but the remaining are all spirits of deceased humans who died untimely or violent deaths, mostly at the hands of Burmese monarchs. The number thirty-seven has remained fixed over the centuries, although many of the members of the pantheon have been periodically replaced. One of the nats who has maintained his position is Mahagiri Min, lord of the nat pantheon, occupying a position just beneath Thakya Min. Mahagiri dwells atop Mount Poppa and is also worshipped as the household nat in most Burmese homes. An annual nat festival of national importance is held in August at the village of Taungbyon near Mandalay. The festival is held in honor of Shwepyingyi and Shwepyinnge, two Muslim brothers who became nats as a consequence of being executed by King Kyanzittha of Pagan (r. 1084-1112) who feared their supernormal strength.
nayaur ::: n. --> A specied of wild sheep (Ovis Hodgsonii), native of Nepaul and Thibet. It has a dorsal mane and a white ruff beneath the neck.
nether ::: 1. Dwelling beneath the surface of the earth. 2. Lower or under.
nether ::: a. --> Situated down or below; lying beneath, or in the lower part; having a lower position; belonging to the region below; lower; under; -- opposed to upper.
Nidhogg (Swedish) Nidhoggr (Icelandic) [from nid down, libel, contumely + hogg to hew, chop] In Norse myths, the “gnawer from beneath,” the serpent which gnaws at the roots of the Tree of Life and which in due course will overthrow the mighty ash tree Yggdrasil and bring the life cycle to a close. There are nine such serpents, just as there are nine trees of life and nine matter giants, Mimer, indicating the Edda’s multiple system of worlds.
Niflhel (Icelandic) [from nifl mist, nebula + Hel queen of the realms of death, daughter of Loki (mind)] In Norse myths, this realm of unliving matter comprises worlds of death and decay beneath our own, where substances that once built former worlds are ground to mist, recycled for use in worlds yet to come. In the Edda a giant is said to have come from worlds beneath Niflhel, which suggests an ancient, even beginningless past, unfathomed depths of matter from which progress is made toward future unimaginable heights of spirit.
night ::: n. --> That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise; esp., the time between dusk and dawn, when there is no light of the sun, but only moonlight, starlight, or artificial light.
Darkness; obscurity; concealment.
Intellectual and moral darkness; ignorance.
A state of affliction; adversity; as, a dreary night of sorrow.
Non-ego In European metaphysics, that which is external to or other than the ego; the object as opposed to the subject. Non-ego means both that which has risen above all lower egoities and become universal in its consciousness — in other words a jivanmukta, a monad which has attained mukti or moksha; and that which is beneath the state of egoity in its evolutionary development, in which this egoity has not yet been emanated or brought forth, such as the minerals, plants, and nearly all of the animal. Non-ego, therefore, in another sense corresponds to the term Absolute, that which is freed or above the circumscribing limitations of even egoity, which nevertheless is the abstract self or individual; or paradoxically enough the monad or ego in its jivanmukta form, where the ego becomes one with the surrounding cosmic spirit, while retaining its own individuality.
not going beneath the horizon.
notochord ::: n. --> An elastic cartilagelike rod which is developed beneath the medullary groove in the vertebrate embryo, and constitutes the primitive axial skeleton around which the centra of the vertebrae and the posterior part of the base of the skull are developed; the chorda dorsalis. See Illust. of Ectoderm.
Nut (Egyptian) Nut. Also Noot, Noun, Nout, Nu. Goddess of the sky or cosmic space — whether of the solar system or the galaxy — daughter of Shu and Tefnut, wife of Seb (the cosmic earth or outspread space), mother of Osiris and Isis, and of Set and Nephthys or Neith; the heavens personified. Some manuscripts distinguish between Nut, the day sky, and Naut, the night sky, although the two are but lower and higher aspects of one cosmic divinity. Her attributes partake of those of the other nature goddesses in the Egyptian pantheon: she is addressed as Lady of Heaven, who gave birth to all the gods. The favorite representation of Nut is of a woman bending so that her body forms a semicircle — a part of the endless circle of space — upon which the stars are portrayed, while her consort, Seb, prostrate beneath her, completes the circle. Again, the solar boat is represented sailing up over the lower limbs, in order to pursue its journey over the day sky; and sailing down her arms to complete its cycle in the night sky.
oedema ::: n. --> A swelling from effusion of watery fluid in the cellular tissue beneath the skin or mucous membrance; dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue.
on ::: prep. --> The general signification of on is situation, motion, or condition with respect to contact or support beneath
At, or in contact with, the surface or upper part of a thing, and supported by it; placed or lying in contact with the surface; as, the book lies on the table, which stands on the floor of a house on an island.
To or against the surface of; -- used to indicate the motion of a thing as coming or falling to the surface of another; as, rain
ophiuroidea ::: n. pl. --> A class of star-shaped echinoderms having a disklike body, with slender, articulated arms, which are not grooved beneath and are often very fragile; -- called also Ophiuroida and Ophiuridea. See Illust. under Brittle star.
optigraph ::: a. --> A telescope with a diagonal eyepiece, suspended vertically in gimbals by the object end beneath a fixed diagonal plane mirror. It is used for delineating landscapes, by means of a pencil at the eye end which leaves the delineation on paper.
overwhelm ::: v. t. --> To cover over completely, as by a great wave; to overflow and bury beneath; to ingulf; hence, figuratively, to immerse and bear down; to overpower; to crush; to bury; to oppress, etc., overpoweringly.
To project or impend over threateningly.
To cause to surround, to cover. ::: n.
parasphenoid ::: a. --> Near the sphenoid bone; -- applied especially to a bone situated immediately beneath the sphenoid in the base of the skull in many animals. ::: n. --> The parasphenoid bone.
Pātaliputra. (P. Pātaliputta; T. Pa ta la yi bu; C Huashi cheng; J. Keshijo; K. Hwassi song 華氏城). Capital of the kingdom of MAGADHA and later of the Mauryan empire, ruins of which are located near (and beneath) the modern city of Patna in Bihar. The place is described as having been a village named Pātaligāma at the time of the Buddha who, upon visiting the site, prophesied its future greatness. At that time Magadha's capital city was RĀJAGṚHA. It is not known when the capital was transferred to Pātaliputra, but it probably occurred sometime after the reign of the Buddha's junior contemporary, King AJĀTAsATRU. The city reached its greatest glory during the reign of the third Mauryan emperor, AsOKA, whose realm extended from Afghanistan in the west to Bengal in the east, and to the border of Tamil Nadu in the south. According to the Pāli chronicles DĪPAVAMSA and MAHĀVAMSA, it was in the royal palace of Pātaliputra that Asoka was converted to Buddhism by the seven-year-old novice Nigrodha. The same sources state that Pātaliputra was the site of the third Buddhist council (SAMGĪTI; see COUNCIL, THIRD), whence Buddhist missions were dispatched to nine adjacent lands (paccantadesa). These reports are partially confirmed by Asoka's own inscriptions. in which he describes his adoption and promotion of Buddhism and his dispatch of what appear to be diplomatic missions to several neighboring states. The city was known to the Greeks as Pālibothra and was described by Megasthenes, who dwelled there for a time. It continued to be the capital of Magadha after the fall of the Mauryans and served again as an imperial capital between the fourth and sixth centuries under the Gupta dynasty. By the time the Chinese pilgrim XUANZANG (600/602-664) visited India during the seventh century, Pātaliputra was mostly in ruins; what little remained was destroyed in the Muslim invasions of the twelfth century. See also MOGGALIPUTTATISSA.
percussion ::: n. --> The act of percussing, or striking one body against another; forcible collision, esp. such as gives a sound or report.
Hence: The effect of violent collision; vibratory shock; impression of sound on the ear.
The act of tapping or striking the surface of the body in order to learn the condition of the parts beneath by the sound emitted or the sensation imparted to the fingers. Percussion is said to be immediate if the blow is directly upon the body; if some
phanerocodonic ::: a. --> Having an umbrella-shaped or bell-shaped body, with a wide, open cavity beneath; -- said of certain jellyfishes.
Planetary Chain ::: Every kosmic body or globe, be it sun or planet, nebula or comet, atom or electron, is a composite entityformed of or comprised of inner and invisible energies and substances and of an outer, to us, and oftenvisible, to us, physical vehicle or body. These elements all together number seven (or twelve), being whatis called in theosophy the seven principles or elements of every self-contained entity; in other words, ofevery individual life-center.Thus every one of the physical globes that we see scattered over the fields of space is accompanied bysix invisible and superior globes, forming what in theosophy is called a chain. This is the case with everysun or star, with every planet, and with every moon of every planet. It is likewise the case with thenebulae and the comets as above stated: all are septiform entities, all have a sevenfold constitution, evenas man has, who is a copy in the little of what the universe is in the great, there being for us one life inthat universe, one natural system of "laws" in that universe. Every entity in the universe is an inseparablepart of it; therefore what is in the whole is in every part, because the part cannot contain anything that thewhole does not contain, the part cannot be greater than the whole.Our own earth-chain is composed of seven (or twelve) globes, of which only one, our earth, is visible onthis our earth plane to our physical sense apparatus, because that apparatus is builded or rather evolved tocognize this earth plane and none other. But the populations of all the seven (or twelve) globes of thisearth-chain pass in succession, and following each other, from globe to globe, thus gaining experience ofenergy and matter and consciousness on all the various planes and spheres that this chain comprises.The other six (or eleven) globes of our earth-chain are invisible to our physical sense, of course; and,limiting our explanation only to the manifest seven globes of the complete chain of twelve globes, the sixglobes other and higher than the earth exist two by two, on three planes of the solar system superior toour physical plane where our earth-globe is -- this our earth. These three superior planes or worlds areeach one superior to the world or plane immediately beneath or inferior to it.Our earth-globe is the fourth and lowest of all the manifest seven globes of our earth-chain. Three globesprecede it on the descending or shadowy arc, and three globes follow it on the ascending or luminous arcof evolution. The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky and the more recent work, Fundamentals of the Esoteric Philosophy (1932), contain most suggestive material for the student interested in this phase ofthe esoteric philosophy. (See also Ascending Arc)
podophyllous ::: a. --> Having thin, flat, leaflike locomotive organs.
Pertaining to, or composing, the layer of tissue, made up of laminae, beneath a horse&
Pomosa. (梵魚寺). In Korean, "BRAHMĀ Fish Monastery"; the fourteenth district monastery (PONSA) of the contemporary CHOGYE CHONG of Korean Buddhism, located on Kŭmjong (Golden Well) Mountain outside the southeastern city of Pusan. According to legend, Pomosa was named after a golden fish that descended from heaven and lived in a golden well located beneath a rock on the peak of Kŭmjong mountain. The monastery was founded in 678 by ŬISANG (625-702) as one of the ten main monasteries of the Korean Hwaom (C. HUAYAN) school, with the support of the Silla king Munmu (r. 661-680), who had unified the three kingdoms of the Korean peninsula in 668. Korea was being threatened by Japanese invaders, and Munmu is said to have had a dream that told him to have Ŭisang go to Kŭmjong mountain and lead a recitation of the AVATAMSAKASuTRA (K. Hwaom kyong) for seven days; if he did so, the Japanese would be repelled. The invasion successfully forestalled, King Munmu sponsored the construction of Pomosa. During the Koryo dynasty the monastery was at the peak of its power, with more than one thousand monks in residence, and it actively competed for influence with nearby T'ONGDOSA. The monastery was destroyed during the Japanese Hideyoshi invasions of the late-sixteenth century, but it was reconstructed in 1602 and renovated after another fire in 1613. The only Silla dynasty artifacts that remain are a stone STuPA and a stone lantern. Pomosa has an unusual three-level layout with the main shrine hall (TAEUNG CHoN) located at the upper level and the Universal Salvation Hall (Poje nu) anchoring the middle level. The lower level has three separate entrance gates. Visitors enter the monastery through the One-Pillar Gate (Ilchu mun), built in 1614; next they pass through the Gate of the Four Heavenly Kings (Sach'onwang mun), who guard the monastery from baleful influences; and finally, they pass beneath the Gate of Nonduality (Puri mun), which marks the transition from secular to sacred space. The main shrine hall was rebuilt by Master Myojon (d.u.) in 1614 and is noted for its refined Choson-dynasty carvings and its elaborate ceiling of carved flowers. In 1684, Master Hyemin (d.u.) added a hall in honor of the buddha VAIROCANA, which included a famous painting of that buddha that now hangs in a separate building; and in 1700, Master Myonghak (d.u.) added another half dozen buildings. Pomosa also houses two important stupas: a three-story stone stupa located next to the Poje nu dates from 830 during the Silla dynasty; a new seven-story stone stupa, constructed following Silla models, enshrines relics (K. sari; S. sARĪRA) of the Buddha that a contemporary Indian monk brought to Korea. After a period of relative inactivity, Pomosa reemerged as an important center of Buddhist practice starting in 1900 under the abbot Songwol (d.u.), who opened several hermitages nearby. Under his leadership, the monastery became known as a major center of the Buddhist reform movements of the twentieth century. Tongsan Hyeil (1890-1965), one of the leaders of the reformation of Korean Buddhism following the Japanese colonial period (1910-1945), who also served as the supreme patriarch (CHONGJoNG) of the CHOGYE CHONG from 1958 to 1961, resided at Pomosa.
porpoise ::: n. --> Any small cetacean of the genus Phocaena, especially P. communis, or P. phocaena, of Europe, and the closely allied American species (P. Americana). The color is dusky or blackish above, paler beneath. They are closely allied to the dolphins, but have a shorter snout. Called also harbor porpoise, herring hag, puffing pig, and snuffer.
A true dolphin (Delphinus); -- often so called by sailors.
pratyekanaraka. (P. paccekaniraya; T. nye 'khor ba'i dmyal ba; C. gu diyu; J. kojigoku; K. ko chiok 孤地獄). In Sanskrit, "neighboring hell" or "surrounding hell," a group of hells (S. naraka; cf. NĀRAKA). In traditional Buddhist cosmology the main hells are a system of eight hot hells and eight cold hells, located beneath the surface of the continent of JAMBUDVĪPA. According to the ABHIDHARMAKOsABHĀsYA, four neighboring hells are located on each of the four sides of the eight hot hells. It is said that, as the hell denizens exit one of the hot hells, they must pass through these four. The four are named: (1) KUKuLA or "heated by burning chaff," a pit of hot ashes where the hell denizens are burned; seeing what appears to be water ahead, they plunge into (2) KUnAPA, "mud of corpses," a swamp of rotting corpses; emerging from this, they set out on (3) KsURAMĀRGA, "razor road," a road made of sword blades, which the hell denizens must walk before entering a grove of swords (ASIPATTRAVANA) where blades fall from the trees and where they are forced to climb trees embedded with iron spikes (AYAḤsĀLMALĪVANA); finally they enter (4) NADĪ VAITARAnĪ, "river difficult to ford," a river of boiling water in which the hell denizens are forced to swim.
pride ::: n. --> A small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis); -- called also prid, and sandpiper.
The quality or state of being proud; inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one&
profound ::: n. 1. That which is eminently deep, or the deepest part of something; a vast depth; an abyss. lit. and fig; chiefly poetical. adj. 2. Situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed. 3. Coming as if from the depths of one"s being. 4. Of deep meaning; of great and broadly inclusive significance. 5. Being or going far beneath what is superficial, external, or obvious. 6. Showing or requiring great knowledge or understanding. profounder.
progne ::: n. --> A swallow.
A genus of swallows including the purple martin. See Martin.
An American butterfly (Polygonia, / Vanessa, Progne). It is orange and black above, grayish beneath, with an L-shaped silver mark on the hind wings. Called also gray comma.
prop ::: n. 1. An object placed beneath or against a structure to keep it from falling or shaking; a support. 2. Fig. A person or thing giving support, as of a moral or spiritual nature. 3. Theat. Property, a usually moveable item, other than costumes or scenery, used on the set of a theatre production, motion picture, etc.; any object handled or used by an actor in a performance. v. 3. To sustain or support. props.
protocol layer "networking" The {software} and/or {hardware} environment of two or more communications devices or computers in which a particular {network} {protocol} operates. A network connection may be thought of as a set of more or less independent protocols, each in a different layer or level. The lowest layer governs direct host-to-host communication between the hardware at different hosts; the highest consists of user {application programs}. Each layer uses the layer beneath it and provides a service for the layer above. Each networking component {hardware or software} on one host uses {protocols} appropriate to its layer to communicate with the corresponding component (its "peer") on another host. Such layered protocols are sometimes known as peer-to-peer protocols. The advantages of layered {protocols} is that the methods of passing information from one layer to another are specified clearly as part of the {protocol} suite, and changes within a protocol layer are prevented from affecting the other layers. This greatly simplifies the task of designing and maintaining communication systems. Examples of layered protocols are {TCP/IP}'s five layer {protocol stack} and the {OSI} seven layer model. (1997-05-05)
pṛthivī. [alt. pṛthivīdhātu] (P. pathavī; T. sa; C. dida; J. jidai; K. chidae 地大). In Sanskrit, lit. "earth" or "ground," viz., the property of "solidity"; one of the four "great elements" (MAHĀBHuTA) or "major elementary qualities" of which the physical world comprised of materiality (RuPA) is composed, along with wind (viz. motion, movement, VĀYU, P. vāyu/vāyo), water (viz. cohesion, ĀPAS, P. āpo), and fire (viz. temperature, warmth, TEJAS, P. tejo). "Earth" is characterized by hardness and firmness, and can refer to anything that exhibits solidity. Because earth has temperature (viz. fire) and tangibility (viz. water), and is capable of motion (viz. wind), the existence of the other three elements may also be inferred even in that single element. In the physical body, this element is associated with hair, bones, teeth, organs, and so on. ¶ Pṛthivī, "Earth," is also the proper name of the goddess of the earth, also known as STHĀVARĀ, or "Immovable," who played a crucial role in the story of GAUTAMA Buddha's enlightenment. When the BODHISATTVA's right to occupy the sacred spot beneath the BODHI TREE was challenged by MĀRA, Gautama touched the earth (BHuMISPARsAMUDRĀ) with his right hand, calling on the goddess of the earth to testify to his boundless meritorious deeds over his past lives. She responded by causing a mild earthquake or, in other versions of the story, emerging from the earth to bear witness. See also THORANI.
quagga ::: n. --> A South African wild ass (Equus, / Hippotigris, quagga). The upper parts are reddish brown, becoming paler behind and behind and beneath, with dark stripes on the face, neck, and fore part of the body.
Ra-Hoor-Khuit: The Egyptian God of Force and Fire. He is the child of Nuit and Hadit and therefore the manifested universe, as Hoor-paar-kraat (his twin) is the hidden universe. Ra-Hoor Khuit represents The Crowned and Conquering Child, and as such the fulfilment of the Will of the Magician which he brings to birth or manifests. Ra-HoorKhuit is a form of Horns; he is depicted on the Ste'le' of Revealing throned and crowned; his mother, Nuit, arched above him, with Hadit (his father) in the form of a winged globe of Light beneath her.
Root-types In biology animal or plant species derive from seven, ten, or twelve primeval physico-astral root-types, being in the case of every kingdom the origins of the widely differentiated, greatly specialized individuals now found on earth. “Every new Manvantara brings along with it the renovation of forms, types and species; every type of the preceding organic forms — vegetable, animal and human — changes and is perfected in the next, even to the mineral, which has received in this Round its final opacity and hardness; its softer portions having formed the present vegetation; the astral relics of previous vegetation and fauna having been utilized in the formation of the lower animals, and determining the structure of the primeval Root-Types of the highest mammalia” (SD 2:730). Primeval astral man was the root-type of those early mammalians, from whom the anthropoids sprang by human miscegenation, although this does not apply to the animals beneath the mammals.
Sāgara. (T. Rgya mtsho; C. Suojieluo/Suoqieluo; J. Shakara [alt. Shakatsura]/Shagara; K. Sagalla/Sagara 娑竭羅/娑伽羅). In Sanskrit, "Ocean"; one of the eight dragon kings (NĀGA) who served as guardians of the BUDDHADHARMA. His name appears alongside those of the other seven dragon kings who were in the audience when the Buddha taught the SADDHARMAPUndARĪKASuTRA. Sāgara is believed to be the dragon king of the ocean, who governs precipitation. He resides in a palace beneath the ocean that surrounds Mt. SUMERU. Sāgara occasionally appears as a flanking-attendant of the BODHISATTVA AVALOKITEsVARA. In his palace, Sāgara is said to store a MAnI jewel, which he sometimes offers to the bodhisattva. In the twelfth chapter of the Saddharmapundarīkasutra, Sāgara also appears as the father of the eight-year-old nāga princess who, by offering a jewel to the Buddha, instantaneously turns into a male, traverses the ten bodhisattva stages (BHuMI), and achieves buddhahood, evidence to some exegetes in the tradition that women have the capacity to achieve buddhahood.
saiga ::: n. --> An antelope (Saiga Tartarica) native of the plains of Siberia and Eastern Russia. The male has erect annulated horns, and tufts of long hair beneath the eyes and ears.
samurai A hacker who hires out for legal cracking jobs, snooping for factions in corporate political fights, lawyers pursuing privacy-rights and First Amendment cases, and other parties with legitimate reasons to need an electronic locksmith. In 1991, mainstream media reported the existence of a loose-knit culture of samurai that meets electronically on BBS systems, mostly bright teenagers with personal micros; they have modelled themselves explicitly on the historical samurai of Japan and on the "net cowboys" of William Gibson's {cyberpunk} novels. Those interviewed claim to adhere to a rigid ethic of loyalty to their employers and to disdain the vandalism and theft practiced by criminal crackers as beneath them and contrary to the hacker ethic; some quote Miyamoto Musashi's "Book of Five Rings", a classic of historical samurai doctrine, in support of these principles. See also {Stupids}, {social engineering}, {cracker}, {hacker ethic}, and {dark-side hacker}. [{Jargon File}]
scissorstail ::: n. --> A tyrant flycatcher (Milvulus forficatus) of the Southern United States and Mexico, which has a deeply forked tail. It is light gray above, white beneath, salmon on the flanks, and fiery red at the base of the crown feathers.
Secure Sockets Layer "networking, security" (SSL) A {protocol} designed by {Netscape Communications Corporation} to provide secure communications over the {Internet} using {asymmetric key encryption}. SSL is layered beneath application {protocols} such as {HTTP}, {SMTP}, {Telnet}, {FTP}, {Gopher} and {NNTP} and is layered above the connection protocol {TCP/IP}. It is used by the {HTTPS} {access method}. (2007-05-25)
seton ::: n. --> A few silk threads or horsehairs, or a strip of linen or the like, introduced beneath the skin by a knife or needle, so as to form an issue; also, the issue so formed.
sewellel ::: n. --> A peculiar gregarious burrowing rodent (Haplodon rufus), native of the coast region of the Northwestern United States. It somewhat resembles a muskrat or marmot, but has only a rudimentary tail. Its head is broad, its eyes are small and its fur is brownish above, gray beneath. It constitutes the family Haplodontidae. Called also boomer, showt&
sheth ::: n. --> The part of a plow which projects downward beneath the beam, for holding the share and other working parts; -- also called standard, or post.
shikan taza. (C. zhiguan dazuo; K. chigwan t'ajwa 祇/只管打坐). In Japanese, "just sitting"; a style of meditation emblematic of the Japanese SoToSHu of ZEN, in which the act of sitting itself is thought to be the manifestation of enlightenment. The Soto school attributes the introduction of this style of practice to DoGEN KIGEN (1200-1253), who claimed to have learned it from his Chinese CAODONG ZONG teacher TIANTONG RUJING (1162-1227). In this degenerate age of the dharma (J. mappo; C. MOFA), Soto claims, a radical simplification of practice was necessary. Rather than attempting to master the full range of meditative techniques used for concentrating the mind, such as counting the breaths (J. susokukan) or investigating a Zen question (J. kanna Zen; C. KANHUA CHAN), Dogen is claimed to have advocated "just sitting" in the posture that had been used by the buddhas (e.g., sĀKYAMUNI's seven days beneath the BODHI TREE) and the patriarchs of Zen (e.g., BODHIDHARMA's "wall contemplation," C. BIGUAN). As the later Soto school interprets shikan taza, by maintaining this posture of "just sitting," the mind would also become stabilized and concentrated in a state of full clarity and alertness, free from any specific content (i.e., "with body and mind sloughed off," J. SHINJIN DATSURAKU). By adopting this posture of the buddhas and patriarchs, the student's own body and mind would thus become identical to the body and mind of his spiritual ancestors. Shikan taza is therefore portrayed as the most genuine form of meditation in which a Buddhist adept can engage. The Soto tradition also deploys shikan taza polemically against the rival RINZAISHu, whose use of koans (C. GONG'AN) in meditation training was portrayed as an inferior, expedient attempt at concentration. In Dogen's own writings, however, there is little of this later Soto portrayal of the psychological dimensions of "just sitting"; instead, Dogen uses shikan taza simply as a synonym of "sitting in meditation" (zazen, C. ZUOCHAN), and may have spent most of his time while "just sitting" in the contemplation of koans.
Shin Upagot. A semi-immortal ARHAT who, according to Burmese (Myanmar) and Thai popular tradition, dwells in a gilded palace beneath the southern ocean. Shin Upagot (P. Upagutta, S. UPAGUPTA) is endowed with extraordinarily long life and is destined to survive until the coming of the future buddha, MAITREYA. According to Burmese legend, Shin Upagot was ordered by the Buddha not to pass into PARINIRVĀnA until Maitreya had appeared so that he might protect the Buddha's religion during times of crisis. Shin Upagot is renowned for assisting King AsOKA to construct eighty-four thousand STuPAs, and for vanquishing MĀRA and converting him to Buddhism. The earliest known record of the legend of Shin Upagot as it is known in Southeast Asia is found in the LokapaNNatti, a Pāli cosmological text said to have been written at Thaton in the twelfth century. That recension of the legend, in turn, is based on Sanskrit Buddhist antecedents found in such works as the AsOKĀVADĀNA, all of which recount the exploits of the Upagupta. The legend of Shin Upagot is celebrated in the Burmese royal chronicles (yazawin), Mahayazawin-gyi (c. 1730) and Hmannan Mahayazawin-daw-gyi (1829), while the story is omitted from all Burmese ecclesiastical chronicles (thathanawin), presumably because it is not attested in Pāli sources. Shin Upagot is regarded as a protector of sailors, and because of his powers to control the weather, he is propitiated to prevent rainfall at inopportune times. He is depicted iconographically as a monk seated cross-legged, looking skyward, with his right hand reaching into his alms bowl.
shole ::: n. --> A plank fixed beneath an object, as beneath the rudder of a vessel, to protect it from injury; a plank on the ground under the end of a shore or the like.
See Shoal.
shore ::: --> of Shear
imp. of Shear. ::: n. --> A sewer.
A prop, as a timber, placed as a brace or support against the side of a building or other structure; a prop placed beneath
Shub-Internet /shuhb in't*r-net/ (MUD, from H. P. Lovecraft's evil fictional deity "Shub-Niggurath", the Black Goat with a Thousand Young) The harsh personification of the {Internet}, Beast of a Thousand Processes, Eater of Characters, Avatar of Line Noise, and Imp of Call Waiting; the hideous multi-tendriled entity formed of all the manifold connections of the net. A sect of {MUD}ders worships Shub-Internet, sacrificing objects and praying for good connections. To no avail - its purpose is malign and evil, and is the cause of all network slowdown. Often heard as in "Freela casts a tac nuke at Shub-Internet for slowing her down." (A forged response often follows along the lines of: "Shub-Internet gulps down the tac nuke and burps happily.") Also cursed by users of {FTP} and {telnet} when the system slows down. The dread name of Shub-Internet is seldom spoken aloud, as it is said that repeating it three times will cause the being to wake, deep within its lair beneath the Pentagon. [{Jargon File}] (1994-11-04)
Shub-Internet ::: /shuhb in't*r-net/ (MUD, from H. P. Lovecraft's evil fictional deity Shub-Niggurath, the Black Goat with a Thousand Young) The harsh Shub-Internet is seldom spoken aloud, as it is said that repeating it three times will cause the being to wake, deep within its lair beneath the Pentagon.[Jargon File] (1994-11-04)
Silent Watcher ::: A term used in modern theosophical esoteric philosophy to signify a highly advanced spiritual entity whois, as it were, the summit or supreme chief of a spiritual-psychological hierarchy composed of beingsbeneath him and working under the Silent Watcher's direct inspiration and guidance. The SilentWatchers, therefore, are relatively numerous, because every hierarchy, large or small, high or low, has asits own particular hierarch or supreme head a Silent Watcher. There are human Silent Watchers, andthere is a Silent Watcher for every globe of our planetary chain. There is likewise a Silent Watcher of thesolar system of vastly loftier state or stage, etc."Silent Watcher" is a graphic phrase, and describes with fair accuracy the predominant trait orcharacteristic of such a spiritual being -- one who through evolution having practically gainedomniscience or perfect knowledge of all that he can learn in any one sphere of the kosmos, instead ofpursuing his evolutionary path forwards to still higher realms, remains in order to help the multitudes andhosts of less progressed entities trailing behind him. There he remains at his self-imposed task, waitingand watching and helping and inspiring, and so far as we humans are concerned, in the utter silences ofspiritual compassion. Thence the term Silent Watcher. He can learn nothing more from the particularsphere of life through which he has now passed, and the secrets of which he knows by heart. For the timebeing and for ages he has renounced all individual evolution for himself out of pure pity and highcompassion for those beneath him.
Silent Watcher, In theosophy, highly advanced spiritual entities, each the summit of a spiritual-psychological hierarchy composed of beings working under their direct inspiration and guidance. Every hierarchy, high or low, has a Silent Watcher as its own supreme head. “There are human ‘Silent Watchers,’ and there is a ‘Silent Watcher’ for every globe of our Planetary Chain. There is likewise a Silent Watcher of the solar system of vastly loftier state or stage . . .” He is “one who through evolution having practically gained omniscience or perfect knowledge of all that he can learn in any one sphere of the kosmos, instead of pursuing his evolutionary path forwards to still higher realms, remains in order to help the multitudes and hosts of less progressed entities trailing behind him. There he remains at his self-imposed task, waiting and watching and helping and inspiring, and so far as we humans are concerned, in the utter silences of spiritual compassion. . . . He can learn nothing more from the particular sphere of life through which he has now passed, and the secrets of which he knows by heart. For the time being and for ages he has renounced all individual evolution for himself out of pure pity and high compassion for those beneath him” (OG 156). See also WATCHER
silverweed ::: n. --> A perennial rosaceous herb (Potentilla Anserina) having the leaves silvery white beneath.
sink ::: v. i. --> To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a stone sinks in water; waves rise and sink; the sun sinks in the west.
To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate.
Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely.
To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fall slowly, as so the
Skandhas (Sanskrit) Skandha-s Bundles, groups of various attributes forming the compound constitution of the human being. They are the manifested qualities and attributes forming the human being on all six planes of Being, beneath the spiritual monad or atma-buddhi, making up the totality of the subjective and objective person. They have to do with everything that is finite in the human being, and are therefore inapplicable to the relatively eternal and absolute. Every vibration of whatever kind, mental, emotional, or physical, that an individual has undergone or made, is derivative of and from one of the skandhas composing his constitution. Skandhas are the elements of limited existence. The five skandhas of every human being are: rupa (form), the material properties or attributes; vedana (sensations, perceptions); sanjna (consciousness, abstract ideas); sanskara (action), tendencies both physical and mental; vijnana (knowledge), mental and moral predispositions. Two further, unnamed skandhas “are connected with, and productive of Sakkayaditthi, the ‘heresy or delusion of individuality’ and of Attavada ‘the doctrine of Self,’ both of which (in the case of the fifth principle the soul) lead to the maya of heresy and belief in the efficacy of vain rites and ceremonies; in prayers and intercession”; “The ‘old being’ is the sole parent — father and mother at once — of the ‘new being.’ It is the former who is the creator and fashioner, of the latter, in reality; and far more so in plain truth, than any father in flesh. And once that you have well mastered the meaning of Skandhas you will see what I mean” (ML 111). The human skandhas are the causal activities which by their action and interaction attract the reincarnating ego back to earth-life. The exoteric skandhas have to do with objective man; the esoteric with inner and subjective man.
skim ::: v. t. --> To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying thereon, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface; as, to skim milk; to skim broth.
To take off by skimming; as, to skim cream.
To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of.
Fig.: To read or examine superficially and rapidly, in order to cull the principal facts or thoughts; as, to skim a book or a
squilla ::: n. --> Any one of numerous stomapod crustaceans of the genus Squilla and allied genera. They make burrows in mud or beneath stones on the seashore. Called also mantis shrimp. See Illust. under Stomapoda.
Sri Aurobindo: "the black dragon of the Inconscience sustains with its vast wings and its back of darkness the whole structure of the material universe; its energies unroll the flux of things, its obscure intimations seem to be the starting-point of consciousness itself and the source of all life-impulse.” The Life Divine ::: **Unused, guarded beneath Night"s dragon paws,**
stagworm ::: n. --> The larve of any species of botfly which is parasitic upon the stag, as /strus, or Hypoderma, actaeon, which burrows beneath the skin, and Cephalomyia auribarbis, which lives in the nostrils.
Sthāvarā. (T. Sa'i lha mo; C. Anzhu dishen; J. Anjujijin; K. Anju chisin 安住地神). In Sanskrit, "Immovable," the goddess of the earth, also known as PṚTHIVĪ. She plays an important role in the story of sĀKYAMUNI Buddha's enlightenment. After MĀRA and his armies were unable to unseat the BODHISATTVA, Māra challenged his right to occupy the space beneath the BODHI TREE, claiming that he, Māra, had a greater right since, as a god, he had greater merit; his army boisterously attested to Māra's claim. The bodhisattva responded that his merit was greater because he had practiced the ten perfections (PĀRAMITĀ) for many lifetimes. When Māra asked who would attest to the Bodhisattva's claim, he touched the earth with his right hand in the famous "earth-touching gesture" (BHuMISPARsAMUDRĀ), calling on the goddess of the earth to attest to the truth of his statement. She responded by causing a tremor; in some versions, she emerges from the earth to bear witness. In the GAndAVYuHA (the final chapter of the AVATAMSAKASuTRA), the bodhisattva SUDHANA sets out in search of a teacher, encountering fifty-two beings (twenty of whom are female), including the Buddha's mother MAHĀMĀYĀ, the future buddha MAITREYA, as well as AVALOKITEsVARA and MANJUsRĪ. The thirtieth being he encounters is Sthāvarā, whom he meets at BODHGAYĀ. She also bears witness to his practice of virtue and predicts that he will achieve buddhahood. See also THORANI.
subconscious ::: not wholly conscious; partially or imperfectly conscious; existing or operating in the mind beneath or beyond consciousness.
Sri Aurobindo: "The subconscious in us is the extreme border of our secret inner existence where it meets the Inconscient, it is a degree of our being in which the Inconscient struggles into a half consciousness. . . .” The Life Divine
Sujātā. (T. Legs skyes ma; C. Xusheduo; J. Shujata; K. Susada 須闍多). The Sanskrit and Pāli proper name of a female lay disciple declared by the Buddha to be foremost among laywomen who had taken refuge in the three jewels (RATNATRAYA). According to the Pāli account, Sujātā was the daughter of a landowner named Senānī who lived in a village near Uruvelā. She had petitioned the spirit (YAKsA) of a banyan tree for a son and when she gave birth to a boy she resolved to make an offering of rice milk to the spirit in gratitude. On the day of her offering, she sent her servant Punnā to prepare a place beneath the tree. There, the servant encountered the bodhisattva SIDDHĀRTHA sitting in meditation, soon after he had decided to give up the practice of strict asceticism. Seeing the bodhisattva's emaciated body, the servant mistook him for the tree spirit and informed Sujātā of his physical presence. Sujātā prepared rice milk and offered it to the bodhisattva in a golden bowl. This offering was praised by the gods as important and praiseworthy, for it enabled the bodhisattva to regain his strength so that he could make the final push to achieve enlightenment as a perfect buddha (SAMYAKSAMBUDDHA). One of Sujātā's sons was YAsAS (P. Yasa), who became the Buddha's sixth convert after the enlightenment. Yasas attained arhatship and was ordained, after which he received alms at his parents' house in the company of the Buddha. At that time, having listened to the Buddha's sermon, Sujātā and Yasas' former wife became stream-enterers (SROTAĀPANNA) and took refuge in the three jewels, thus becoming the first female disciples to do so.
svastika. (P. sotthika/sotthiya; T. bkra shis ldan/g.yung drung; C. wan/wanzi; J. man/manji; K. man/mancha 卍/萬字). In Sanskrit, lit. "well-being," "auspicious"; a mark of good fortune that is widely used in the Buddhist world as an auspicious symbol in both its right-facing and left-facing forms. It is one of the auspicious marks on the soles of a buddha's feet and it often appears on the chest of buddha images in East Asia (see ANUVYANJANA). It commonly appears as a pattern in Buddhist vestments and in various decorative patterns in works of art. Even in the most ancient of Indian art, where the Buddha is represented in aniconic rather that physical form, this symbol is sometimes used to indicate his presence. Although the symbol originated in India, it is subsequently transmitted throughout the Buddhist world and is commonly used as a decorative element on Buddhist temples and shrines. In East Asia, the symbol itself was even constituted as the Sinograph wan ("myriad"). In Tibet, it was translated as g.yung drung, a pre-Buddhist term meaning "eternal" or "unchanging." A variety of theories have been offered on the origin of the svastika symbol, one of the more widely accepted being that it was originally connected with solar worship. ¶ Svastika was also the name of the grass cutter who prepared a seat for the buddha beneath the BODHI TREE.
tāpana. (T. tsha ba; yanre diyu; J. ennetsujigoku; K. yomyol chiok 炎熱地獄). In Sanskrit and Pāli, "heating"; one of the hot hells, usually identified as the sixth in descending order of depth beneath the continent of JAMBUDVĪPA and in ascending order of the suffering incumbent on denizens of that realm. According to some accounts, the denizens of this hell are burned in a great cauldron of molten metal; according to others, they are impaled on burning staves.
Tathāgatagarbhasutra. (T. De bzhin gshegs pa'i snying po'i mdo; C. Dafangdeng rulaizang jing; J. Daihodo nyoraizokyo; K. Taebangdŭng yoraejang kyong 大方等如來藏經). In Sanskrit, "Discourse on the Embryo of the TATHĀGATAS"; also known by the longer title of Tathāgatagarbhanāmavaipulyasutra, an influential Mahāyāna sutra, and the earliest to set forth the doctrine of the womb or embryo of buddhahood (TATHĀGATAGARBHA). The sutra, which is preserved only in Chinese and later Tibetan translations, was probably composed in the second half of the third century CE. The sutra, set ten years after the Buddha's enlightenment, opens with the Buddha seated on Vulture Peak (GṚDHRAKutAPARVATA) surrounded by one hundred thousand monks and bodhisattvas equal in number to the sands of the Ganges (GAnGĀNADĪVĀLUKĀ). The Buddha causes myriad closed lotuses to fill the sky, each enclosing a buddha who is emitting rays of light. The petals of the lotuses open and then became wilted and finally rotten, but the buddhas seated upon them remain pristine. The bodhisattva Vajramati then asks the Buddha to explain what has occurred. In the most famous section of the sutra, the Buddha then sets forth nine similes of the tathāgatagarbha. (1) Just as there was a buddha seated cross-legged within decaying lotus petals, so in each sentient being, there is a buddha encased in the sheaths of the afflictions. (2) Just as a honeycomb is surrounded by bees, so the buddhahood within each being is surrounded by afflictions and impurities; just as the beekeeper removes the bees, so the Buddha removes the afflictions and impurities of sentient beings. (3) Just as a kernel is encased in a husk, so buddhahood is encased by the afflictions. (4) Just as a piece of gold covered with excrement would be hidden until its presence was revealed by a god, so the buddha within each being, covered as he is by the filth of the afflictions, remains unknown until a buddha reveals his presence. (5) Just as a treasure buried deep beneath the house of a poor man would be unknown to him, leaving him to presume he was poor, so is the buddha-nature hidden deeply within all beings unknown to them, causing them to wander in SAMSĀRA. The Buddha sees the body of a buddha within all beings and teaches them how to become treasures of the dharma. (6) Just as hidden within a fruit is a seed and sprout that will produce a tree, so the Buddha sees the body of a buddha within the sheaths of the afflictions. (7) Just as a jeweled image of the Buddha wrapped in putrid rags would lie unnoticed by the side of the road until its presence was revealed by a god, so the body of a buddha wrapped in afflictions inside even an animal is seen only by the Buddha. (8) Just as a poor and ugly woman who carried the embryo of a universal emperor (CAKRAVARTIN) in her womb would remain discouraged by her lot, so sentient beings who carry a buddha within them continue to be distressed by saMsāra. (9) Just as a golden statue remains hidden within a blackened clay mold until the goldsmith breaks the mold with a hammer, so the knowledge of a buddha remains invisible within the afflictions until the Buddha uses the dharma to remove the afflictions.
tearpit ::: n. --> A cavity or pouch beneath the lower eyelid of most deer and antelope; the lachrymal sinus; larmier. It is capable of being opened at pleasure and secretes a waxy substance.
thee under his wings, and beneath His
The law of retardation means that certain individuals or groups are from time to time retarded in their forward development because the field of evolution immediately before them is already occupied by a superior aggregate group of evolving entities, which superior group exercises upon the inferior group an influence retarding the full expression of the evolving faculties of the individuals of the lower group. This can be illustrated by considering the evolution of the life-waves, or kingdoms, which run the rounds on our own planetary chain. The beasts are thus subject to a very definite law of retardation, because their immediate and future field of evolutionary unfolding is occupied by the evolving human kingdom, although it is equally true that the human kingdom exercises upon the beast kingdom beneath it a stimulating and elevating power. In the kingdoms of the planetary chain, if one such kingdom has not already reached a certain evolutionary standing on the ladder of life, it will have to wait in a more or less inactive or dormant evolutionary condition until room is made for its further progress by the passing ahead of the kingdom preceding it.
The phrase occurs in the Stanzas of Dzyan: ” ‘Darkness’ the Boundless, or the no-number, Adi-Nidana Svabhavat” (SD 1:98) — which, as the summit of the Third Logos, can be rendered as darkness and no-number since it is darkness to human intellect and yet the beginning of numeration of all hierarchies that flow forth from it. Hence for all beneath it, adinidana-svabhavat may likewise be called the Boundless, signifying the cosmic essence or spiritual substance without restricting frontiers.
The process of evolution cannot be considered as ending. Just as below human beings there are less evolved kingdoms, so above are beings in whom fuller self-consciousness has been achieved than we have yet achieved, and still more of the divine potentialities realized. All evolution beneath humankind tends towards humanhood as its objective; but humanity itself has ever greater heights still before it to attain in the future.
The sagas depict Thor as blunt, hot-tempered, without fraud or guile, of few words and ready blows. His chariot, drawn by the two goats Toothcrusher and Toothgnasher, has an iron whiffletree, and sparks fly from its wheels and from the goats’ hooves. Thor’s fiery eyes color the scarlet clouds, his beard is red, on his brow he wears a crown of stars, and under his feet rests the earth whose defender he is. His chariot cannot cross the rainbow bridge, Bifrost, for its lightnings would set the bridge on fire, so the god daily fords the river beneath it when he attends the Thing (parliament) of the gods.
Third Eye Possessed by early humans and, up to the physicalization of the third root-race, it was the only seeing organ in most living species. At the beginning of that root-race, the organ which has developed into the eye was beneath a semitransparent covering or membrane, like some of the blind vertebrata today. In early humanity, the third eye was the organ of spiritual vision, as it was that of objective vision in the animals (SD 2:299), as indeed it still remains, and it appears as the pineal gland inside the skull of modern mankind. In the course of physical evolution, with corresponding loss of spiritual vision, the cyclopean eye was gradually replaced by the physical vision of the two front eyes. The original eye has since then continued to function — although unrecognized by the vast majority of people — as the organ of intuitive discernment. As this recession was not complete before the close of the fourth root-race, there were late subraces of Lemurians and of early Atlanteans who were still in some degree at least physically three-eyed (SD 2:302).
thoracic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the thorax, or chest. ::: n. --> One of a group of fishes having the ventral fins placed beneath the thorax or beneath the pectorial fins.
Thorani. In Thailand and Laos, Phra Mae (Mother) Thorani or Nang (Lady) Thorani; a female deity depicted in mural depictions of the life of the Buddha. The name Thorani is the Thai and Lao pronunciation of the Sanskrit term DHĀRAnĪ, which, in addition to its common Buddhist denotation of "code" or "spell," also means "the earth," "soil," or "ground." In a variation of the story of STHĀVARĀ, as the future Buddha sat in meditation about to attain enlightenment, he was attacked by MĀRA and his minions. Māra taunted him, saying that the bodhisattva had no one to attest to his worthiness of becoming a buddha, whereas his vast retinue was present to attest that he, Māra, should be acknowledged as the awakened one. The Buddha then touched the earth with his right hand and summoned the earth to bear witness to his meritorious acts (see BHuMISPARsAMUDRĀ), particularly acts of giving (DĀNA), that he had performed in past existences. Lady Thorani then appeared from out of the earth in the form of a beautiful woman with long wet hair. As she wrung out her hair, all the water that had accumulated on the earth each time the Buddha offered donative libations during his myriad past lives became such a torrential deluge that it swept away Māra and all his minions. (Pouring a ceremonial libation of water is a common way to conclude many ceremonies and offering rituals in Southeast Asian Buddhism.) In paintings, Lady Thorani stands beneath the VAJRĀSANA of the Buddha while Māra and his retinue are off to either side, caught in the floodwaters. Central city shrines to Lady Thorani can be found in both Laos and northeastern Thailand, and in the past, it was common for households in northeastern Thailand to have a small shrine dedicated to Lady Thorani in their household compounds.
threshold ::: 1. A piece of wood or stone placed beneath a door; a doorsill. Also fig. 2. Fig. A level or point at which something would happen, would cease to happen, or would take effect, become true, etc. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as an adj.)
thysanura ::: n. pl. --> An order of wingless hexapod insects which have setiform caudal appendages, either bent beneath the body to form a spring, or projecting as bristles. It comprises the Cinura, or bristletails, and the Collembola, or springtails. Called also Thysanoura. See Lepisma, and Podura.
Tiph’ereth (Hebrew) Tif’ereth Beauty, glory, honor; the sixth Sephiroth which according to the Qabbalah is emanated from the five preceding Sephiroth, although this Sephirah is particularly regarded as the union of the two immediately preceding — Mercy or Love, and Power or Judgment. These three form the second triad or face, the so-called Microprosopus or Inferior Countenance, called in the Qabbalah Ze‘eyr ’Anpin. Being thus regarded as the union of the masculine and feminine potencies, Beauty — excluding Kether (Crown) — forms the head of the central Pillar of the Sephirothal Tree. Its Divine Name is commonly given as ’Elohim; in the Angelic Order it is represented as the Shin’annim. In its application to the human body, as corresponding to the Heavenly Man or ’Adam Qadmon, Tiph’ereth is regarded as the chest or region immediately beneath the heart, the second great center following upon the first, or that of the head, Kether. In its application to the seven globes of our planetary chain it corresponds to globe F (SD 1:200). From this Sephirah is emanated the seventh, Netsah.
toad ::: n. --> Any one of numerous species of batrachians belonging to the genus Bufo and allied genera, especially those of the family Bufonidae. Toads are generally terrestrial in their habits except during the breeding season, when they seek the water. Most of the species burrow beneath the earth in the daytime and come forth to feed on insects at night. Most toads have a rough, warty skin in which are glands that secrete an acrid fluid.
tongue-shaped ::: a. --> Shaped like a tongue; specifically (Bot.), linear or oblong, and fleshy, blunt at the end, and convex beneath; as, a tongue-shaped leaf.
torpedo ::: n. --> Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes belonging to Torpedo and allied genera. They are related to the rays, but have the power of giving electrical shocks. Called also crampfish, and numbfish. See Electrical fish, under Electrical.
An engine or machine for destroying ships by blowing them up.
A quantity of explosives anchored in a channel, beneath the water, or set adrift in a current, and so arranged that they will
Towers of Hanoi "games" A classic computer science problem, invented by Edouard Lucas in 1883, often used as an example of {recursion}. "In the great temple at Benares, says he, beneath the dome which marks the centre of the world, rests a brass plate in which are fixed three diamond needles, each a cubit high and as thick as the body of a bee. On one of these needles, at the creation, God placed sixty-four discs of pure gold, the largest disc resting on the brass plate, and the others getting smaller and smaller up to the top one. This is the Tower of Bramah. Day and night unceasingly the priests transfer the discs from one diamond needle to another according to the fixed and immutable laws of Bramah, which require that the priest on duty must not move more than one disc at a time and that he must place this disc on a needle so that there is no smaller disc below it. When the sixty-four discs shall have been thus transferred from the needle on which at the creation God placed them to one of the other needles, tower, temple, and Brahmins alike will crumble into dust, and with a thunderclap the world will vanish." The recursive solution is: Solve for n-1 discs recursively, then move the remaining largest disc to the free needle. Note that there is also a non-recursive solution: On odd-numbered moves, move the smallest sized disk clockwise. On even-numbered moves, make the single other move which is possible. ["Mathematical Recreations and Essays", W W R Ball, p. 304] {The rec.puzzles Archive (http://rec-puzzles.org/sol.pl/induction/hanoi)}. (2003-07-13)
Towers of Hanoi ::: (games) A classic computer science problem, invented by Edouard Lucas in 1883, often used as an example of recursion.In the great temple at Benares, says he, beneath the dome which marks the centre of the world, rests a brass plate in which are fixed three diamond placed them to one of the other needles, tower, temple, and Brahmins alike will crumble into dust, and with a thunderclap the world will vanish.The recursive solution is: Solve for n-1 discs recursively, then move the remaining largest disc to the free needle.Note that there is also a non-recursive solution: On odd-numbered moves, move the smallest sized disk clockwise. On even-numbered moves, make the single other move which is possible.[Mathematical Recreations and Essays, W W R Ball, p. 304] .(2003-07-13)
tracing ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Trace ::: n. --> The act of one who traces; especially, the act of copying by marking on thin paper, or other transparent substance, the lines of a pattern placed beneath; also, the copy thus producted.
A regular path or track; a course.
underbind ::: v. t. --> To bind beneath.
underbrush ::: n. --> Shrubs, small trees, and the like, in a wood or forest, growing beneath large trees; undergrowth.
undercast ::: v. t. --> To cast under or beneath.
underclay ::: n. --> A stratum of clay lying beneath a coal bed, often containing the roots of coal plants, especially the Stigmaria.
underdig ::: v. t. --> To dig under or beneath; to undermine.
underfilling ::: n. --> The filling below or beneath; the under part of a building.
underget ::: v. t. --> To get under or beneath; also, to understand.
undergroan ::: v. t. --> To groan beneath.
underground ::: a region beneath the surface (of the earth, etc.).
underground ::: n. --> The place or space beneath the surface of the ground; subterranean space. ::: a. --> Being below the surface of the ground; as, an underground story or apartment.
Done or occurring out of sight; secret.
underjoin ::: v. t. --> To join below or beneath; to subjoin.
underlay ::: v. t. --> To lay beneath; to put under.
To raise or support by something laid under; as, to underlay a cut, plate, or the like, for printing. See Underlay, n., 2. ::: n. --> To put a tap on (a shoe).
The inclination of a vein, fault, or lode from the
underlie ::: v. t. --> To lie under; to rest beneath; to be situated under; as, a stratum of clay underlies the surface gravel.
To be at the basis of; to form the foundation of; to support; as, a doctrine underlying a theory.
To be subject or amenable to. ::: v. i.
underlying ::: a. --> Lying under or beneath; hence, fundamental; as, the underlying strata of a locality; underlying principles.
undermine ::: v. t. --> To excavate the earth beneath, or the part of, especially for the purpose of causing to fall or be overthrown; to form a mine under; to sap; as, to undermine a wall.
Fig.: To remove the foundation or support of by clandestine means; to ruin in an underhand way; as, to undermine reputation; to undermine the constitution of the state.
underneath ::: adv. --> Beneath; below; in a lower place; under; as, a channel underneath the soil. ::: prep. --> Under; beneath; below.
underpinning ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Underpin ::: n. --> The act of one who underpins; the act of supporting by stones, masonry, or the like.
That by which a building is underpinned; the material and construction used for support, introduced beneath a wall already
under ::: prep. --> Below or lower, in place or position, with the idea of being covered; lower than; beneath; -- opposed to over; as, he stood under a tree; the carriage is under cover; a cellar extends under the whole house.
Denoting relation to some thing or person that is superior, weighs upon, oppresses, bows down, governs, directs, influences powerfully, or the like, in a relation of subjection, subordination, obligation, liability, or the like; as, to travel under
underprop ::: v. t. --> To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold.
undershot ::: a. --> Having the lower incisor teeth projecting beyond the upper ones, as in the bulldog.
Moved by water passing beneath; -- said of a water wheel, and opposed to overshot; as, an undershot wheel.
undershut ::: a. --> Closed from beneath.
undersoil ::: n. --> The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
Underworld Classical mythology divides the universe into the heavens, the earth, and the underworld, each presided over by its particular deity. The underworld was the nether pole of the cosmic hierarchy, great or small, and hence the land of shadows, synonymous with Dis, Hades, Pluto, Orcus, Limbo, Tartarus, Amenti, Atala, She’ol, etc. The underworld for human beings may be the lower ranges of kama-loka, the region of the shades; the mystical pit or Planet of Death; or all the ranges, in a generalizing sense, of the cosmic planes beneath the solar plane on which our earth is located.
Upadhi: A superimposed thing or attribute that veils and gives a coloured view of the substance beneath it; limiting adjunct; instrument; vehicle; body; a technical term used in Vedanta philosophy for any superimposition that gives a limited view of the Absolute and makes It appear as the relative. Jiva's Upadhi is Avidya; Isvara's Upadhi is Maya.
upheave ::: v. t. --> To heave or lift up from beneath; to raise.
Varaha-avatara (Sanskrit) Varāha-avatāra The boar-avatara; a descent of Vishnu in the form of a boar, to deliver the world from the demon Hiranyaksha — the ruler of the fifth region of Patala (the nether world) — who had carried the earth into the lower regions of his spheres. The contest between Vishnu in this form and Hiranyaksha took place beneath the water, according to the Puranas; Vishnu emerged victorious and raised the earth from the deep. This legend, among several other interpretations, may refer to the risings and sinkings of continents.
velum ::: n. --> Curtain or covering; -- applied to various membranous partitions, especially to the soft palate. See under Palate.
See Veil, n., 3 (b).
A thin membrane surrounding the sporocarps of quillworts Isoetes).
A veil-like organ or part.
The circular membrane that partially incloses the space beneath the umbrella of hydroid medusae.
viz-cacha ::: n. --> A large burrowing South American rodent (Lagostomus trichodactylus) allied to the chinchillas, but much larger. Its fur is soft and rather long, mottled gray above, white or yellowish white beneath. There is a white band across the muzzle, and a dark band on each cheek. It inhabits grassy plains, and is noted for its extensive burrows and for heaping up miscellaneous articles at the mouth of its burrows. Called also biscacha, bizcacha, vischacha, vishatscha.
vomer ::: n. --> A bone, or one of a pair of bones, beneath the ethmoid region of the skull, forming a part a part of the partition between the nostrils in man and other mammals.
The pygostyle.
water ouzel ::: --> Any one of several species of small insessorial birds of the genus Cinclus (or Hydrobates), especially the European water ousel (C. aquaticus), and the American water ousel (C. Mexicanus). These birds live about the water, and are in the habit of walking on the bottom of streams beneath the water in search of food.
water spider ::: --> An aquatic European spider (Argyoneta aquatica) which constructs its web beneath the surface of the water on water plants. It lives in a bell-shaped structure of silk, open beneath like a diving bell, and filled with air which the spider carries down in the form of small bubbles attached one at a time to the spinnerets and hind feet. Called also diving spider.
A water mite.
Any spider that habitually lives on or about the water,
weatherboard ::: n. --> That side of a vessel which is toward the wind; the windward side.
A piece of plank placed in a porthole, or other opening, to keep out water.
A board extending from the ridge to the eaves along the slope of the gable, and forming a close junction between the shingling of a roof and the side of the building beneath.
A clapboard or feather-edged board used in
wheatear ::: n. --> A small European singing bird (Saxicola /nanthe). The male is white beneath, bluish gray above, with black wings and a black stripe through each eye. The tail is black at the tip and in the middle, but white at the base and on each side. Called also checkbird, chickell, dykehopper, fallow chat, fallow finch, stonechat, and whitetail.
When the cyclic hour for the climax of the geologic changes in the earth’s surface finally arrived, the catastrophe occurred during which the greater part of Atlantis and its population, largely of sorcerers, perished beneath the sea; yet many islands survived, some of them of large extent, such as Ruta and Daitya. But the wiser and more holy portions of the Atlanteans had left Atlantis before this, migrating to the high tablelands of Asia: they were the forefathers of the Turanians, Mongols, Chinese, and other ancient nations.
woodchat ::: n. --> Any one of several species of Asiatic singing birds belonging to the genera Ianthia and Larvivora. They are closely allied to the European robin. The males are usually bright blue above, and more or less red or rufous beneath.
A European shrike (Enneoctonus rufus). In the male the head and nape are rufous red; the back, wings, and tail are black, varied with white.
wormil ::: n. --> Any botfly larva which burrows in or beneath the skin of domestic and wild animals, thus producing sores. They belong to various species of Hypoderma and allied genera. Domestic cattle are often infested by a large species. See Gadfly. Called also warble, and worble.
See 1st Warble, 1 (b).
Xiangyan Zhixian. (J. Kyogen Chikan; K. Hyangom Chihan 香嚴智閑) (d. 898). Chinese CHAN master in the GUIYANG ZONG of the Chan tradition. Zhixian entered the monastery under BAIZHANG HUAIHAI and later became a student of YANGSHAN HUIJI. Zhixian dwelled for a long time at Mt. Xiangyan, whence his toponym. One day while he was sweeping the garden, Zhixian is said to have attained awakening when he heard the bamboo brush against the roof tiles. He is best known for the GONG'AN case "Xiangyan Hanging from a Tree": A man is dangling by his mouth from the branch of a tall tree, his hands tied behind his back and nothing beneath his feet. Someone comes under the tree branch and asks, "Why did BODHIDHARMA come from the West?" If he keeps his mouth clenched and refuses to answer, he is rude to the questioner; but if he opens his mouth to answer, he will fall to his death. How does he answer? Upon Zhixian's death, he was given the posthumous title Chan master Xideng (Inheritor of the Lamplight).
Yunjusi. (雲居寺). In Chinese, "Cloud Dwelling Monastery"; monastery that is the home of the FANGSHAN SHIJING (stone scriptures). The monk Jingwan (?-639) allegedly founded this monastery in 631, but a stone inscription dated to 669 is the earliest written record of its existence. The monastery was also known as Xiyusi (Western Valley or Western Region Monastery), and in the seventh-century Mingbaoji ("Records of Miraculous Retribution") it is called Zhichuansi (Fount of Wisdom Monastery). On the nearby hill of Shijingshan (Stone Scriptures Hill) just to the east of Yunjusi, nine cave libraries stored the Fangshan lithic canon: its total of 14,278 lithic blocks of 1,122 Buddhist scriptures represent textual lineages that derive from recensions that circulated during the Tang and Khitan Liao dynasties. The carving of the lithic scriptures started during the Sui dynasty under the monk Jingwan with the support of Empress Xiao (r. 604-617), and continued through the late Ming dynasty. The monastery itself is famous for its pagodas, which were closely associated with the engraving of the lithographs. Seven stone pagodas date from the Tang, of which the single-story one at the top of Stone Scriptures Hill, with an inscription dated to 898, is noted for both its architecture and carved decorations. Two of the five pagodas from the Liao are especially significant. Built in 1117, the octagonal Southern Pagoda has eleven stories and pointed eaves and includes a depository of Buddhist scriptures beneath it. The Northern Pagoda is uniquely shaped: the bottom half is octagonal with bracketed eaves and carved niches, while the upper half is cone-shaped and decorated with nine circular bands. Its surface is decorated with more than thirty groups of brick reliefs depicting scenes of dancing and singing, the most interesting example of which is a goddess strumming a three-stringed instrument, one of the rare extant examples for the study of Liao musical culture. The Northern Pagoda is surrounded by smaller stone pagodas dating from the Tang dynasty, several of which resemble the Xiaoyanta (Small Wild Goose Pagoda; see DACI'ENSI) in the ancient Chinese capital of Chang'an (modern Xi'an).
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1:Now I am light, now I fly, now I see myself beneath me, now a god dances through me. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, 'On Reading & Writing', #KEYS
2:The pathless path is the path always under our feet. And since that path is always beneath us, if we miss it, how stupid! ~ Longchenpa, #KEYS
3:The way of life is above to the wise that he may depart from hell which is beneath. ~ Proverbs XV 24, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
4:Our lives are God's messengers beneath the stars. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death, #KEYS
5:beneath which star
is my home?
autumn sky
~ Kobayashi Issa, @BashoSociety#KEYS
6:Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
7:It is the Lord who sustains our floundering hope, just as he sustained Peter when he was floundering in the water, and made the waters firm beneath his feet. ~ Saint Gregory of Nyssa, #KEYS
8:Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #KEYS
9:Death lay beneath him like a gate of sleep. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness, #KEYS
10:Even grief has joy hidden beneath its roots. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06, #KEYS
11:For the key is hid and by the Inconscient kept;
The secret God beneath the threshold dwells.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
12:Beneath the person lies, even in us, that "wholly other", whose profundities, impenetrable to any concept, can yet be grasped in the numinous self-feeling by one who has experience of the deeper life. ~ Rudolph Otto, #KEYS
13:Man is right when he believes that in all the world there is not a single being above him, but he errs when he thinks that there is on earth a single man beneath him. ~ Tolstoy, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
14:Happy, inert, he lies beneath her feet:
His breast he offers for her cosmic dance
Of which our lives are the quivering theatre, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
15:... my extraordinary interventions are not accepted; on the contrary, they are often opposed and openly rejected. My soul is pierced in seeing my Church prostrate beneath the weight of a most painful agony." ~ Our Lady to Father Stefano Gobbi, #KEYS
16:All here gathers beneath one golden sky:
The Powers that build the cosmos station take
In its house of infinite possibility; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
17:Earth lies unchanged beneath the circling sun;
She loves her fall and no omnipotence
Her mortal imperfections can erase. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#KEYS
18:Well is the unconscious rule for the animal breeds
Content to live beneath the immutable yoke;
Man turns to a nobler walk, a master path. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
19:An abyss yawned suddenly beneath her heart.
A vast and nameless fear dragged at her nerves
As drags a wild beast its half-slaughtered prey; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
20:Arisen beneath a triple mystic heaven
The seven immortal earths were seen, sublime:
Homes of the blest released from death and sleep ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
21:Behind her an ineffable Presence stood:
Her reign received their mystic influences,
Their lion-forces crouched beneath her feet. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness,#KEYS
22:The moment you feel unhappy, you may write beneath it: I am not sincere! These two sentences go together: I FEEL UNHAPPY. I AM NOT SINCERE. Now, what is it that is wrong? Then one begins to take a look, it is easy to find out...
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1954, [T2],#KEYS
23:All Religions and all Sciences connect themselves with one single science, always hidden from the common herd, and transmitted from age to age, from initiate to initiate, beneath the veil of fables and symbols. It preserves for a world yet to come the secrets of a world that has passed away. ~ Eliphas Levi, #KEYS
24:Beneath the body's crust of thickened self
A tardy fervent working in the dark,
The turbid yeast of Nature's passionate change,
Ferment of the soul's creation out of mire. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.04#KEYS
25:Happy, inert, he lies beneath her feet:
His breast he offers for her cosmic dance
Of which our lives are the quivering theatre,
And none could bear but for his strength within,
Yet none would leave because of his delight.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
26:Knowledge comes not to us as a guest
Called into our chamber from the outer world;
A friend and inmate of our secret self,
It hid behind our minds and fell asleep
And slowly wakes beneath the blows of life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
27:Sciences omnipotent in vain
By which men learn of what the suns are made,
Transform all forms to serve their outward needs,
Ride through the sky and sail beneath the sea,
But learn not what they are or why they came; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
28:It showed the riches of the Cave
Where, by the miser traffickers of sense
Unused, guarded beneath Night's dragon paws,
In folds of velvet darkness draped they sleep
Whose priceless value could have saved the world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
29:To share the suffering of the world I came,
I draw my children's pangs into my breast.
I am the nurse of the dolour beneath the stars;
I am the soul of all who wailing writhe
Under the ruthless harrow of the Gods. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
30:Afflicted by his harsh divinity,
Bound to his throne, he waited unappeased
The daily oblation of her unwept tears.
All the fierce question of man's hours relived.
The sacrifice of suffering and desire
Earth offers to the immortal Ecstasy
Began again beneath the eternal Hand.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn,#KEYS
31:Christ with me, Christ before me,
Christ behind me, Christ in me,
Christ beneath me, Christ above me,
Christ on my right, Christ on my left,
Christ when I lie down... Christ when I arise,
Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me, Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks of me, Christ in every eye that sees me,
Christ in every ear that hears me. ~ Saint Patrick,#KEYS
32:My guide and I crossed over and began
to mount that little known and lightless road
to ascend into the shining world again.
He first, I second, without thought of rest
we climbed the dark until we reached the point
where a round opening brought in sight the blest.
And beauteous shining of the heavenly cars.
And we walked out once more beneath the stars. ~ Dante Alighieri, Inferno,#KEYS
33:Christ with me,
Christ before me,
Christ behind me,
Christ in me,
Christ beneath me,
Christ above me,
Christ on my right,
Christ on my left,
Christ when I lie down,
Christ when I sit down,
Christ when I arise,
Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me,
Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks of me,
Christ in every eye that sees me,
Christ in every ear that hears me. ~ Saint Patrick,#KEYS
34:Beneath the surface level of conditioned thinking in every one of us there is a single living spirit. The still small voice whispering to me in the depths of my consciousness is saying exactly the same thing as the voice whispering to you in your consciousness. 'I want an earth that is healthy, a world at peace, and a heart filled with love.' It doesn't matter if your skin is brown or white or black, or whether you speak English, Japanese, or Malayalam - the voice, says the Gita, is the same in every creature, and it comes from your true self. ~ Eknath Easwaran, #KEYS
35:The condition of today's world cannot be transformed by technocratic rationality, since both technocracy and rationality are apparently nearing their apex.
Nor can it be transcended by preaching or admonishing a return to ethics and morality, or in fact, by any form of return to the past.
We have only one option: in examining the manifestations of our age, we must penetrate them with sufficient breadth and depth that we do not come under the demonic and destructive spell.
We must not focus our view merely on these phenomena, but rather on the humus of the decaying world beneath, where the seedlings of the future are growing, immeasurable in their potential and vigor.
Since our insight into the energies pressing toward development aids their unfolding, the seedlings and inceptive beginnings must be made visible and comprehensible." ~ Jean Gebser,#KEYS
36:Savitri is neither fantasy nor yet mere philosophical thought, but vision and revelation of the actual structure of the inner Cosmos and of the pilgrim of life within its sphere — the Stairway of the Worlds reveals itself to our gaze — worlds of Light above, worlds of Darkness beneath, and we see also ever-encircling life ('kindled in measure and quenched in measure') ascending that stair under the calm unwinking gaze of the Cosmic Gods who shine forth now as of old. Poetry is indeed the full manifestation of the Logos and, when as here, it is no mere iridescence dependent on some special standpoint, but the wondrous structure of the mighty Cosmos, the 'Adored One', that is revealed, then in truth does it manifest its full, its highest grandeur.
It is an omen of the utmost significance and hope that in these years of darkness and despair such a poem as Savitri should have appeared. ~ Krishnaprem,#KEYS
37:Here where one knows not even the step in front
And Truth has her throne on the shadowy back of doubt,
On this anguished and precarious field of toil
Outspread beneath some large indifferent gaze,
Impartial witness of our joy and bale,
Our prostrate soil bore the awakening ray.
Here too the vision and prophetic gleam
Lit into miracles common meaningless shapes;
Then the divine afflatus, spent, withdrew,
Unwanted, fading from the mortal's range.
A sacred yearning lingered in its trace,
The worship of a Presence and a Power
Too perfect to be held by death-bound hearts,
The prescience of a marvellous birth to come.
Only a little the god-light can stay:
Spiritual beauty illumining human sight
Lines with its passion and mystery Matter's mask
And squanders eternity on a beat of Time.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn,#KEYS
38:God reveals himself everywhere, beneath our groping efforts, as a universal milieu, only because he is the ultimate point upon which all realities converge. Each element of the world, whatever it may be, only subsists, hic et nunc, in the manner of a cone whose generatrices meet in God who draws them together-(meeting at .the term of their individual perfection and at the term of the general perfection of the world which contains them). It follows that all created things, every one of them, cannot be looked at, in their nature and action, without the same reality being found in their innermost being-like sunlight in the fragments of a broken mirror-one beneath its multiplicity, unattainable beneath its proximity, and spiritual beneath its materiality. No object can influence us by its essence without our being touched by the radiance of the focus of the universe. Our minds are incapable of grasping a reality, our hearts and hands of seizing the essentially desirable in it, without our being compelled by the very structure of things to go back to the first source of its perfections. This focus, this source, is thus everywhere. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Divine Milieu, #KEYS
39:Part 1 - Departure
1. The Call to Adventure ::: This first stage of the mythological journey-which we have designated the "call to adventure"-signifies that destiny has summoned the hero and transferred his spiritual center of grav ity from within the pale of his society to a zone unknown. This fateful region of both treasure and danger may be variously represented: as a distant land, a forest, a kingdom underground, beneath the waves, or above the sky, a secret island, lofty mountaintop, or profound dream state; but it is always a place of strangely fluid and polymorphous beings, unimaginable torments, superhuman deeds, and impossible delight. The hero can go forth of his own volition to accomplish the adventure, as did Theseus when he arrived in his father's city, Athens, and heard the horrible history of the Minotaur; or he may be carried or sent abroad by some benign or malignant agent, as was Odysseus, driven about the Mediterranean by the winds of the angered god, Poseidon. The adventure may begin as a mere blunder, as did that of the princess of the fairy tale; or still again, one may be only casually strolling, when some passing phenomenon catches the wandering eye and lures one away from the frequented paths of man. Examples might be multiplied, ad infinitum, from every corner of the world. ~ Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces,#KEYS
40:She"
How shall I welcome not this light
Or, wakened by it, greet with doubt
This beam as palpable to sight
As visible to touch? How not,
Old as I am and (some say) wise,
Revive beneath her summer eyes?
How not have all my nights and days,
My spirit ranging far and wide,
By recollections of her grace
Enlightened and preoccupied?
Preoccupied: the Morning Star
How near the Sun and yet how far!
Enlightened: true, but more than true,
Or why must I discover there
The meaning in this taintless dew,
The dancing wave, this blessed air
Enchanting in its morning dress
And calm as everlastingness?
The flame that in the heart resides
Is parcel of that central Fire
Whose energy is winds and tides-
Is rooted deep in the Desire
That smilingly unseals its power
Each summer in each springing flower.
Oh Lady Nature-Proserpine,
Mistress of Gender, star-crowned Queen!
Ah Rose of Sharon-Mistress mine,
My teacher ere I turned fourteen,
When first I hallowed from afar
Your Beautyship in avatar!
I sense the hidden thing you say,
Your subtle whisper how the Word
From Alpha on to Omega
Made all things-you confide my Lord
Himself-all, all this potent Frame,
All save the riddle of your name.
Wisdom! I heard a voice that said:
"What riddle? What is that to you?
How! By my follower betrayed!
Look up-for shame! Now tell me true:
Where meet you light, with love and grace?
Still unacquainted with my face?"
Dear God, the erring heart must live-
Through strength and weakness, calm and glow-
That answer Wisdom scorns to give.
Much have I learned. One problem, though,
I never shall unlock: Who then,
Who made Sophia feminine?
~ Owen Barfield, 1978,#KEYS
41:The obsession clouds all reason, impairs the ability to act, makes anything secondary to it seem unimportant. It's a double-bind tug o'war. The desire to maintain the fantasy may be stronger than the desire to make it real.
In classical occult terms I am describing a thought-form, a monster bred from the darker reccesses of mind, fed by psychic energy, clothed in imagination and nurtured by umbilical cords which twist through years of growth. we all have our personal Tunnels of Set; set in our ways through habit and patterns piling on top of each other. The thought-form rides us like a monkey; it's tail wrapped firmly about the spine of a self lost to us years ago; an earlier version threshing blindly in a moment of fear, pain, or desire.
Thus we are formed; and in a moment of loss we feel the monster's hot breath against our backs, it's claws digging into muscle and flesh. we dance to the pull of strings that were woven years ago, and in a lightning flash of insight, or better yet, the gentle admonitions of a friend, we may see the lie; the program. it is first necessary to see that there is a program. To say perhaps, this creature is mine, but not wholly me. What follows then is that the prey becomes the hunter, pulling apart the obsession, naming its parts, searching for fragments of understanding in its entrails. Shrinking it, devouring it, peeling the layers of onion-skin.
This is in itself a magick as powerful as any sorcery. Unbinding the knots that we have tied and tangled; sorting out the threads of experience and colour-coding the chains of chance. It may leave us freer, more able to act effectively and less likely to repeat old mistakes. The thing has a chinese puzzle-like nature. We can perceive only the present, and it requires intense sifting through memory to see the scaffolding beneath.
~ Phil Hine, Oven Ready Chaos,#KEYS
42:To Know How To Suffer
IF AT any time a deep sorrow, a searing doubt or an intense pain overwhelms you and drives you to despair, there is an infallible way to regain calm and peace.
In the depths of our being there shines a light whose brilliance is equalled only by its purity; a light, a living and conscious portion of a universal godhead who animates and nourishes and illumines Matter, a powerful and unfailing guide for those who are willing to heed his law, a helper full of solace and loving forbearance towards all who aspire to see and hear and obey him. No sincere and lasting aspiration towards him can be in vain; no strong and respectful trust can be disappointed, no expectation ever deceived.
My heart has suffered and lamented, almost breaking beneath a sorrow too heavy, almost sinking beneath a pain too strong.... But I have called to thee, O divine comforter, I have prayed ardently to thee, and the splendour of thy dazzling light has appeared to me and revived me.
As the rays of thy glory penetrated and illumined all my being, I clearly perceived the path to follow, the use that can be made of suffering; I understood that the sorrow that held me in its grip was but a pale reflection of the sorrow of the earth, of this abysm of suffering and anguish.
Only those who have suffered can understand the suffering of others; understand it, commune with it and relieve it. And I understood, O divine comforter, sublime Holocaust, that in order to sustain us in all our troubles, to soothe all our pangs, thou must have known and felt all the sufferings of earth and man, all without exception.
How is it that among those who claim to be thy worshippers, some regard thee as a cruel torturer, as an inexorable judge witnessing the torments that are tolerated by thee or even created by thy own will?
No, I now perceive that these sufferings come from the very imperfection of Matter which, in its disorder and crudeness, is unfit to manifest thee; and thou art the very first to suffer from it, to bewail it, thou art the first to toil and strive in thy ardent desire to change disorder into order, suffering into happiness, discord into harmony.
Suffering is not something inevitable or even desirable, but when it comes to us, how helpful it can be!
Each time we feel that our heart is breaking, a deeper door opens within us, revealing new horizons, ever richer in hidden treasures, whose golden influx brings once more a new and intenser life to the organism on the brink of destruction.
And when, by these successive descents, we reach the veil that reveals thee as it is lifted, O Lord, who can describe the intensity of Life that penetrates the whole being, the radiance of the Light that floods it, the sublimity of the Love that transforms it for ever! ~ The Mother, Words Of Long Ago, To Know How To Suffer, 1910,#KEYS
43:Sweet Mother, how can we make our resolution very firm?
By wanting it to be very firm! (Laughter)
No, this seems like a joke... but it is absolutely true. One does not want it truly. There is always, if you... It is a lack of sincerity. If you look sincerely, you will see that you have decided that it will be like this, and then, beneath there is something which has not decided at all and is waiting for the second of hesitation in order to rush forward. If you are sincere, if you are sincere and get hold of the part which is hiding, waiting, not showing itself, which knows that there will come a second of indecision when it can rush out and make you do the thing you have decided not to do...
[] But if you really want it, nothing in the world can prevent you from doing what you want. It is because one doesn't know how to will it. It is because one is divided in one's will. If you are not divided in your will, I say that nothing, nobody in the world can make you change your will.
But one doesn't know how to will it. In fact one doesn't even want to. These are velleities: "Well, it is like this.... It would be good if it were like that... yes, it would be better if it were like that... yes, it would be preferable if it were like that." But this is not to will. And always there at the back, hidden somewhere in a corner of the brain, is something which is looking on and saying, "Oh, why should I want that? After all one can as well want the opposite." And to try, you see... Not like that, just wait... But one can always find a thousand excuses to do the opposite. And ah, just a tiny little wavering is enough... pftt... the thing swoops down and there it is. But if one wills, if one really knows that this is the thing, and truly wants this, and if one is oneself entirely concentrated in the will, I say that there is nothing in the world that can prevent one from doing it, from doing it or being obliged to do it. It depends on what it is.
One wants. Yes, one wants, like this (gestures). One wants: "Yes, yes, it would be better if it were like that. Yes, it would be finer also, more elegant."... But, eh, eh, after all one is a weak creature, isn't that so? And then one can always put the blame upon something else: "It is the influence coming from outside, it is all kinds of circumstances."
A breath has passed, you see. You don't know... something... a moment of unconsciousness... "Oh, I was not conscious." You are not conscious because you do not accept... And all this because you don't know how to will.
[] To learn how to will is a very important thing. And to will truly, you must unify your being. In fact, to be a being, one must first unify oneself. If one is pulled by absolutely opposite tendencies, if one spends three-fourths of one's life without being conscious of oneself and the reasons why one does things, is one a real being? One does not exist. One is a mass of influences, movements, forces, actions, reactions, but one is not a being. One begins to become a being when one begins to have a will. And one can't have a will unless one is unified.
And when you have a will, you will be able to say, say to the Divine: "I want what You want." But not before that. Because in order to want what the Divine wants, you must have a will, otherwise you can will nothing at all. You would like to. You would like it very much. You would very much like to want what the Divine wants to do. You don't possess a will to give to Him and to put at His service. Something like that, gelatinous, like jelly-fish... there... a mass of good wills - and I am considering the better side of things and forgetting the bad wills - a mass of good wills, half-conscious and fluctuating....
Ah, that's all, my children. That's enough for today. There we are.
Only, put this into practice; just a little of what I have said, not all, eh, just a very little. There.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1954,#KEYS
1:The more beneath my feet the clouds I see, ~ giordano-bruno, @wisdomtrove 2:Our lives are God's messengers beneath the stars. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove 3:Clothes are but a symbol of something hid deep beneath. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 4:Beneath every excuse lies a fear. Practice being fearless. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 5:You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it. ~ alan-moore, @wisdomtrove 6:Always, beneath every apparent chaos, order waits to be revealed. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 7:Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock! ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 8:But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 9:Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 10:The world is satisfied with words. Few appreciate the things beneath. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 11:The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 12:How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove 13:Beneath this slab/ John Brown is stowed./ He watched the ads,/ And not the road. ~ ogden-nash, @wisdomtrove 14:Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove 15:Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded. ~ aeschylus, @wisdomtrove 16:Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove 17:Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon's hand; Better that they were not touched at all. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 18:My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee. ~ phyllis-diller, @wisdomtrove 19:Faith pulls the black mask from the face of trouble, and discovers the angel beneath. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 20:Beneath our frantic activities, there's a deep desire to show the world we are worthwhile. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 21:All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 22:Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn. ~ oliver-goldsmith, @wisdomtrove 23:Such hath it been& 24:Many seek happiness higher than men; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 25:If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand. ~ elizabeth-barrett-browning, @wisdomtrove 26:The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made. ~ oliver-goldsmith, @wisdomtrove 27:We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 28:How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra! ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 29:An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be. ~ steve-martin, @wisdomtrove 30:Like" and "like" and "like"& 31:Just beneath the surface of all experiences in life is God's, or the Guru's, compassionate face. ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove 32:Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof. ~ alan-moore, @wisdomtrove 33:When we cannot see the sunshine of God's face, it is blessed to cower down beneath the shadow of his wings. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 34:Choosing not to act on an angry impulse and to feel the pain that lies beneath it is a very courageous thing to do. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 35:I caught the happy virus last night, when I was out singing beneath the stars. It is remarkably contagious – So kiss me. ~ hafez, @wisdomtrove 36:Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 37:things which in my mind blossom will stumble beneath a clumsiest disguise appear capable of fragility and indecision ~ e-e-cummings, @wisdomtrove 38:Their experiments caused them to destabilize the structure of the continent and thus Atlantis sank beneath the waves. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 39:The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 40:Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 41:Be willing to face life squarely and get down beneath the surface of life where the verities and realities are to be found. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 42:No person [should] walk out into the world to begin the day until he or she has stood beneath the cross to receive God’s love. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 43:O Elbereth! Gilthoniel! We still remember, we who dwell In this far land beneath the trees. Thy starlight on the Western Seas. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 44:Pulling out the chair beneath your mind and watching you fall upon God What else is there for Hafez to do that is any fun in this world! ~ hafez, @wisdomtrove 45:Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 46:There is more going on beneath the surface than we think, and more going on in little, finite moments of time than we would guess. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 47:In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas; at noon, we stoop and bend beneath it; and at night, it crushes us flat to the ground. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 48:How beautiful the silent hour, when morning and evening thus sit together, hand in hand, beneath the starless sky of midnight! ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 49:By choosing not to allow parts of ourselves to exist, we are forced to expend huge amounts of psychic energy to keep them beneath the surface. ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove 50:Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 51:Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 52:Nicole's world had fallen to pieces, but it was only a flimsy and scarcely created world; beneath it her emotions and instincts fought on. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 53:Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 54:Sometimes sorrow, sometimes joy. But beneath it all remember the innate perfection of your life unfolding. That is the secret of unreasonable happiness. ~ dan-millman, @wisdomtrove 55:Yea, Paris is a festive ton - a festive Ton for all! Skate o'er on joy - Thin crust of gilded, polished joy! What matters it if Hell's beneath? ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 56:To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things. ~ amsel-adams, @wisdomtrove 57:Inner peace is found by facing life squarely, solving its problems, and delving as far beneath its surface as possible to discover its verities and realities. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 58:Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 59:This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 60:A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 61:Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known. ~ a-a-milne, @wisdomtrove 62:Since I have spread my wings to purpose high, The more beneath my feet the clouds I see, The more I give the winds my pinions free, Spurning the earth and soaring to the sky. ~ giordano-bruno, @wisdomtrove 63:We cannot fill up our emptiness with objects, possessions or people. We have to go deeper into that emptiness, then we will find beneath nothingness the flame of love to warm us. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove 64:Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore. ~ oliver-goldsmith, @wisdomtrove 65:Beneath the sophistication of Buddhist psychology lies the simplicity of compassion. We can touch into this compassion whenever the mind is quiet, whenever we allow the heart to open. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove 66:The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the healer's art Resolving the enigma of the fever chart. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 67:Being is thoughtless-beyond and beneath all categories of thought. Expression is the realization of creative thought. Being is still; expression, moving. But then if I do not strive, who will? ~ zhuangzi, @wisdomtrove 68:For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them ‚Äì the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found in giving up any belief in the idea of God. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 69:He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he'd been lucky enough to find her. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 70:We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature. ~ vernon-howard, @wisdomtrove 71:Beneath all this technicality is the feeling that it is indeed "obvious" that the conscious mind cannot work like a computer, even though much of what is involved in mental activity might do so. ~ roger-penrose, @wisdomtrove 72:Each day is a branch of the Tree of Life laden heavily with fruit. If we lie down lazily beneath it, we may starve; but if we shake the branches, some of the fruit will fall for us. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 73:The night before Atlantis sank beneath the waves forever, the members of the MysterySchool set sail from their doomed continent in twelve boats, headed for twelve different points on the globe. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 74:But words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left exposed to the dust of the street. The words we seek hang close to the tree. We come at dawn and find them sweet beneath the leaf. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 75:The exploration of the external world by the methods of physical science leads not to a concrete reality but to a shadow world of symbols, beneath which those methods are unadapted for penetrating. ~ sir-arthur-eddington, @wisdomtrove 76:You're quite right there, he said. I have practiced abstinence myself for years, and had my time of fasting, too, but now I find myself once more beneath the sign of Aquarius, a dark and humid constellation. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove 77:Our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 78:So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like scorpion girt by fire; So writhes the mind remorse hath riven, Unfit for earth, undoom'd for heaven, Darkness above, despair beneath, Around it flame, within it death. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 79:And if, in some distant place in the future, we see each other in our new lives, I will smile at you with joy, and remember how we spent a summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 80:Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 81:Don't ask me silly questions I won't play silly games I'm just a simple choo choo train And I'll always be the same. I only want to race along Beneath the bright blue sky And be a happy choo choo train Until the day I die. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 82:In order to reveal the gifts that lie beneath the surface of your heart’s greatest desires, you must look beyond your years here on earth, reconnect with the Divine, and bring forth your soul’s legacy into the present moment. ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove 83:I believe that evidence shows that there is a real spirit, a real Beach, but it is beneath no pavement whatsoever, for all pavements arise within it: Spirit is all-encompassing. It transcends everything, it includes everything. ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove 84:little feet! that such long years Must wander on through hopes and fears, Must ache and bleed beneath your load; I, nearer to the wayside inn Where toil shall cease and rest begin, Am weary, thinking of your road! ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 85:Hiding order beneath the cloak of disorder is simply a question of subdivision; concealing courage under a show of timidity presupposes a fund of latent energy; masking strength with weakness is to be effected by tactical dispositions. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove 86:If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower; by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 87:When people laughed at him because he walked backward beneath the portico, he said to them: "Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade? ~ diogenes, @wisdomtrove 88:To believe in an invisible order, a divine or implicate order, as quantum physics calls it, or the order beneath the disorder that chaos theory describes, is a healthier, more interesting choice than seeing no meaning in life whatsoever. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 89:When Summer lies upon the world, and in a noon of gold, Beneath the roof of sleeping leaves the dreams of trees unfold; When woodland halls are green and cool, and wind is in the West, Come back to me! Come back to me, and say my land is best! ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 90:As if paralyzed by the national fear of ideas, the democratic distrust of whatever strikes beneath the prevailing platitudes, it evades all resolute and honest dealing with what, after all, must be every healthy literature's elementary materials. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 91:To believe in an invisible order, a divine or implicate order, as quantum physics calls it, or the order beneath the disorder that chaos theory describes, is a healthier, more interesting choice than seeing no meaning in life whatsoever. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 92:History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 93:Many books in my library are now behind and beneath me. They were good in their way once, and so were the clothes I wore when I was ten years old; but I have outgrown them. Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 94:On each landing, opposite the lift shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 95:We are a bit of stellar matter gone wrong. We are physical machinery—puppets that strut and talk and laugh and die as the hand of time pulls the strings beneath. But there is one elementary inescapable answer. We are that which asks the question. ~ sir-arthur-eddington, @wisdomtrove 96:I did not imitate the sceptics who doubt only for doubting's sake, and pretend to be always undecided; on the contrary, my whole intention was to arrive at a certainty, and to dig away the drift and the sand until I reached the rock or the clay beneath. ~ rene-descartes, @wisdomtrove 97:At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 98:Heaven above was blue, and earth beneath was green; the river glistened like a path of diamonds in the sun; the birds poured forth their songs from the shady trees; the lark soared high above the waving corn; and the deep buzz of insects filled the air. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 99:... the body, normally, is never in question: our bodies are beyond question, or perhaps beneath question - they are simply, unquestionably, there. This unquestionability of the body, is, for Wittgenstein, the start and basis of all knowledge and certainty. ~ oliver-sacks, @wisdomtrove 100:Many adults, whether consciously or unconsciously, find it beneath their adult dignity to do anything as childish as read a book, think a thought, or get an idea. Adults are rarely embarrased at having forgotten what little algebra or geography they once learned ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove 101:She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman - you do not know; as strong, and steadfast, and generous as the sun. She could be as swift as a white whiplash, and as kind and gentle as warm rain, and as steadfast as the irreducible earth beneath us. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 102:Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet, Still round the corner we may meet A sudden tree or standing stone That none have seen but we alone. Tree and flower and leaf and grass, Let them pass! Let them pass! ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 103:Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may'st rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe; And all the daughters of the year shall dance! Sing now the lusty song of fruit and flowers. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 104:I hate this world, this dream, this horrible nightmare, with its churches and chicaneries, its books and blackguardisms, its fair faces and false hearts, its howling righteousness on the surface and utter hollowness beneath and, above all, its sanctified shopkeeping! ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 105:You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it; and yet it cannot, for down beneath the water it is anchored. So many a soul sways toward heaven, but cannot ascend thither, because it is anchored to some secret sin. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 106:As he glided stealthily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old man seemed like some loathsome reptile, engendered in the slime and darkness through which he moved: crawling forth, by night, in search of some rich offal for a meal. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 107:Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more return. Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 108:The critic is beneath the maker, but is his needed friend. The critic is not a base caviler, but the younger brother of genius. Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty. And of making others appreciate it. ~ margaret-fuller, @wisdomtrove 109:It is my opinion that the Christian conception of God current in these middle years of the twentieth century is so decadent as to be utterly beneath the dignity of the Most High God and actually to constitute for professed believers something amounting to a moral calamity. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 110:Down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a void boundless as the nether sky appeared beneath us, and we held by the roots of trees and hung over this immensity; but I said: if you please we will commit ourselves to this void and see whether providence is here also. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 111:thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat That flames from their large nostrils! Thou, O Summer, Oft pitchest here thy golden tent, and oft Beneath our oaks hast slept, while we beheld With joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 112:You must learn to get in touch with the innermost essence of your being. This true essence is beyond the ego. It is fearless; it is free; it is immune to criticism; it does not fear any challenge. It is beneath no one, superior to no one, and full of magic, mystery, and enchantment. ~ deepak-chopra, @wisdomtrove 113:A bad earthquake at once destroys the oldest associations: the world, the very emblem of all that is solid, has moved beneath our feet like a crust over a fluid; one second of time has conveyed to the mind a strange idea of insecurity, which hours of reflection would never have created. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 114:There is a geographical element in all belief-saying what seem profound truths in India have a way of seeming enormous platitudes in England, and vice versa . Perhaps the fundamental difference is that beneath a tropical sun individuality seems less distinct and the loss of it less important. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 115:These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 116:He was sailing over a boundless expanse of sea, with a blood-red sky above, and the angry waters, lashed into fury beneath, boiling and eddying up, on every side. There was another vessel before them, toiling and labouring in the howling storm: her canvas fluttering in ribbons from the mast. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 117:We conclude, therefore, that a Christian lives not in himself, but in Christ and in his neighbor. Otherwise he is not a Christian. He lives in Christ through faith, in his neighbor through love. By faith he is caught up beyond himself into God. By love he descends beneath himself into his neighbor. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 118:If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair? ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 119:Beneath multiple specific and individual distinctions, beneath innumerable and incessant transformations, at the bottom of the circular evolution without beginning or end, there hides a law, a unique nature participated in by all beings, in which this common participation produces a ground of common harmony. ~ zhuangzi, @wisdomtrove 120:Each solstice is a domain of experience unto itself. At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 121:The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type of solidity, has oscillated like a thin crust beneath our feet; and in seeing the laboured works of man in a moment overthrown, we feel the insignificance of his boasted power. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 122:The whole purpose of spiritual direction is to penetrate beneath the surface of a man's life, to get behind the fa√ßade of conventional gestures and attitudes which he presents to the world, and to bring out his inner spiritual freedom, his inmost truth, which is what we call the likeness of Christ in his soul. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 123:Deep beneath the surface of the Sun, enormous forces were gathering. At any moment, the energies of a million hydrogen bombs might burst forth in the awesome explosion... . Climbing at millions of miles per hour, an invisible fireball many times the size of Earth would leap from the Sun and head out across space. ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove 124:There is not land beneath the sun where there is an open Bible and a preached gospel, where a tyrant long can hold his place... Let the Bible be opened to be read by all men, and no tyrant can long rule in peace... The religion of Jesus makes men think, and to make men think is always dangerous to a despot's power. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 125:I am certain I have not a right feeling towards women - at this moment I am striving to be just to them, but I cannot. Is it because they fall so far beneath my boyish imagination? When I was a schoolboy I thought a fair woman a pure Goddess; my mind was a soft nest in which some one of them slept, though she knew it not. ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 126:When you experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power… Your true Self, which is your spirit, your soul, is completely free of those things. It is immune to criticism, it is unfearful of any challenge, and it feels beneath no one. ~ deepak-chopra, @wisdomtrove 127:If you get a drill and drill down 5km beneath the ground, it's teeming with life - millions of tiny living fossils. They resemble the earliest life forms and suggest that life started under the Ground. The bible talks of Eden as a sunny parkland with white fluffy clouds, but it probably ascended from the region that we now associate with Hell. ~ paul-davies, @wisdomtrove 128:The rich, sweet smell of the hayricks rose to his chamber window; the hundred perfumes of the little flower-garden beneath scented the air around; the deep-green meadows shone in the morning dew that glistened on every leaf as it trembled in the gentle air: and the birds sang as if every sparkling drop were a fountain of inspiration to them. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 129:The word & 130:What greater delight and wonder can there be than to leave the straight lines of personality and deviate into these footpaths that lead beneath brambles and thick tree trunks into the heart of the forest where live those wild beasts, our fellow men? That is true: to escape is the greatest of pleasures; street haunting in winter the greatest of adventures. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 131:A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement; the light was all withdrawn; the shining church turned cold and dark; the stream forgot to smile; the birds were silent; and the gloom of winter dwelt on everything. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 132:Burn, burn tree and fern! Shrivel and scorch! A fizzling torch To light the night for our delight, Ya hey! Bake and toast em, fry and roast em! till beards blaze, and eyes glaze; till hair smells and skins crack, fat melts, and bones black in cinders lie beneath the sky! So dwarves shall die, and light the night for our delight, Ya hey! Ya-harri-hey! Ya hoy! ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 133:... the problem of space remained, she thought, taking up her brush again. It glared at her. The whole mass of the picture was poised upon that weight. Beautiful and bright it should be on the surface, feathery and evanescent, one colour melting into another like the colours on a butterfly's wing; but beneath the fabric must be clamped together with bolts of iron. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 134:Shadowfax tossed his head and cried aloud, as if a trumpet had summoned him to battle. Then he sprang forward. Fire flew from his feet; night rushed over him. As he fell slowly into sleep, Pippin had a strange feeling: he and Gandalf were still as stone, seated upon the statue of a running horse, while the world rolled away beneath his feet with a great noise of wind. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 135:When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others. Inner peace is not found by staying on the surface of life, or by attempting to escape from life through any means. Inner peace is found by facing life squarely, solving its problems, and delving as far beneath its surface as possible to discover its verities and realities. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 136:The bridge of grace will bear your weight, brother. Thousands of big sinners have gone across that bridge, yea, tens of thousands have gone over it. Some have been the chief of sinners and some have come at the very last of their days but the arch has never yielded beneath their weight. I will go with them trusting to the same support. It will bear me over as it has for them. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 137:Beneath the makeup & behind the smile I'm just the girl who wishes for the world. A wise girl kisses, but doesn't love. Listens but dosen't believe. And leaves before she is left. If you can make a girl laugh - you can make her do anything. It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove 138:The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the surface of the water, then we saw the huge blue-black bulk glide quietly under the raft right beneath our feet. It lay there for some time, dark and motionless, and we held our breath as we looked down on the gigantic curved back of a mammal a good deal longer than the raft. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 139:To produce a really good biological theory one must try to see through the clutter produced by evolution to the basic mechanisms lying beneath them, realizing that they are likely to be overlaid by other, secondary mechanisms. What seems to physicists to be a hopelessly complicated process may have been what nature found simplest, because nature could only build on what was already there. ~ francis-crick, @wisdomtrove 140:Let the children be free; encourage them; let them run outside when it is raining; let them remove their shoes when they find a puddle of water; and when the grass of the meadows is wet with dew, let them run on it and trample it with their bare feet; let them rest peacefully when a tree invites them to sleep beneath its shade; let them shout and laugh when the sun wakes them in the morning. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 141:To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things - but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 142:He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 143:Women's lib, Frannie had decided, was nothing more nor less than an outgrowth of the technological society. Women were at the mercy of their bodies. They were smaller. They tended to be weaker. A man couldn't get with child, but a woman could - every four-year-old knows it. And a pregnant woman is a vulnerable human being. Civilization had provided an umbrella of sanity that both sexes could stand beneath. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 144:Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath? Do you also hurry, half-dressed and barefoot, into the garden, and softly, and exclaiming of their dearness, fill your arms with the white and pink flowers, with their honeyed heaviness, their lush trembling, their eagerness to be wild and perfect for a moment, before they are nothing, forever? ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove 145:Farewell sweet earth and northern sky, for ever blest, since here did lie and here with lissom limbs did run beneath the Moon, beneath the Sun, L√∫thien Tin√∫viel more fair than Mortal tongue can tell. Though all to ruin fell the world and were dissolved and backward hurled; unmade into the old abyss, yet were its making good, for this - the dusk, the dawn, the earth, the sea - that L√∫thien for a time should be. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 146:The history of humanity is not a hotel where someone can rent a room whenever it suits him; nor is it a vehicle which we board or get out of at random. Our past will be for us a burden beneath which we can only collapse for as long as we refuse to understand the present and fight for a better future. Only then ‚Äî but from that moment on ‚Äî will the burden become a blessing, that is, a weapon in the battle for freedom. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove 147:The several difficulties here discussed, namely our not finding in the successive formations infinitely numerous transitional links between the many species which now exist or have existed; the sudden manner in which whole groups of species appear in our European formations; the almost entire absence, as at present known, of fossiliferous formations beneath the Silurian strata, are all undoubtedly of the gravest nature. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 148:Strange and mysterious things, though, aren't they - earthquakes? We take it for granted that the earth beneath our feet is solid and stationary. We even talk about people being & 149:Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind, Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves, The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach, Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow. Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands, With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, Let me forget about today until tomorrow. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 150:A voice had begun to sing. It was very far away and Digory found it hard to decide from what direction it was coming. Sometimes it seemed to come from all directions at once. Sometimes he almost thought it was coming out of the earth beneath them. Its lower notes were deep enough to be the voice of the earth herself. There were no words. It was hardly a tune. But it was beyond comparison, the most beautiful sound he had ever heard. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 151:Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 152:Far over the Misty Mountains cold, To dungeons deep and caverns old, We must away, ere break of day, To seek our pale enchanted gold. The dwarves of yore made mighty spells, While hammers fell like ringing bells, In places deep, where dark things sleep, In hollow halls beneath the fells. The pines were roaring on the heights, The wind was moaning in the night, The fire was red, it flaming spread, The trees like torches blazed with light. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 153:For pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of time, of space ; the sense also of extreme fixity in passing objects ; and sounds very remote and then very close ; flesh being gashed and blood sparting, a joint suddenly twisted - beneath all of which appears something very important, yet remote, to be just held in solitude. Virginia Woolf, The Waves ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 154:Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone. Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair! ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 155:If you love Alex now, then love him forever. Make him laugh again, and cherish the time you spend together. Take walks and ride your bikes, curl up on the couch and watch movies beneath a blanket. Make him breakfast, but don't spoil him. Let him make breakfast for you as well, so he can show you he thinks you're special. Kiss him and make love to him and consider yourself lucky for having met him, for he's the kind of man who'll prove you right. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 156:This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes. From the western half of the sky the sun was shying little golden disks at the sea& 157:Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action without education is a weak expression of pure energy. Deeds uninformed by educated thought can take false directions. When we go into action and confront our adversaries, we must be as armed with knowledge as they. Our policies should have the strength of deep analysis beneath them to be able to challenge the clever sophistries of our opponents. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 158:There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall exist below a certain level or standard of living, and certainly we don't quarrel with this. But look more closely and you may find that all too often these well-meaning people are building a ceiling above which no one shall be permitted to climb and between the two are pressing us all into conformity, into a mold of standardized mediocrity. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 159:Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray, to not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove 160:The moralist and the revolutionary are constantly undermining one another. Marx exploded a hundred tons of dynamite beneath the moralist position, and we are still living in the echo of that tremendous crash. But already, somewhere or other, the sappers are at work and fresh dynamite is being tamped in place to blow Marx at the moon. Then Marx, or somebody like him, will come back with yet more dynamite, and so the process continues, to an end we cannot foresee. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 161:Fare well we call to hearth and hall Though wind may blow and rain may fall We must away ere break of day Over the wood and mountain tall To Rivendell where Elves yet dwell In glades beneath the misty fell Through moor and waste we ride in haste And wither then we cannot tell With foes ahead behind us dread Beneath the sky shall be our bed Until at last our toil be sped Our journey done, our errand sped We must away! We must away! We ride before the break of day! ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 162:There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands. Withered leaves crackled and snapped beneath his feet, as he crept softly on towards the house. The desolation of a winter night sat brooding on the earth, and in the sky. But, the red light came cheerily towards him from the windows; figures passed and repassed there; and the hum and murmur of voices greeted his ear sweetly. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 163:Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 164:The King beneath the mountains, The King of carven stone, The lord of silver fountains Shall come into his own! His crown shall be upholden, His harp shall be restrung, His halls shall echo golden To songs of yore re-sung. The woods shall wave on mountains. And grass beneath the sun; His wealth shall flow in fountains And the rivers golden run. The streams shall run in gladness, The lakes shall shine and burn, And sorrow fail and sadness At the Mountain-king’s return! ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 165:I would like to mention some preparations that were required of me. The first preparation is to take a right attitude toward life. This means, stop being an escapist! Stop being a surface liver who stays right in the froth of the surface. There are millions of these people, and they never find anything really worthwhile. Be willing to face life squarely and get down beneath the surface of life where the verities and realities are to be found. That's what we are doing here now. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 166:Under the Mountain dark and tall The King has come unto his hall! His foe is dead, the Worm of Dread, And ever so his foes shall fall. The sword is sharp, the spear is long, The arrow swift, the Gate is strong; The heart is bold that looks on gold; The dwarves no more shall suffer wrong. The dwarves of yore made mighty spells, While hammers fells like ringing bells In places deep, where dark things sleep, In hollow halls beneath the fells. -from The Hobbit (Dwarves Battle Song) ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 167:Journey’s end In western lands beneath the Sun The flowers may rise in Spring, The trees may bud, the waters run, The merry finches sing. Or there maybe 'tis cloudless night, And swaying branches bear The Elven-stars as jewels white Amid their branching hair. Though here at journey's end I lie In darkness buried deep, Beyond all towers strong and high, Beyond all mountains steep, Above all shadows rides the Sun And Stars for ever dwell: I will not say the Day is done, Nor bid the Stars farewell.J. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 168:The great constructive energies of the child ... have hitherto been concealed beneath an accumulation of ideas concerning motherhood. We used to say it was the mother who formed the child; for it is she who teaches him to walk, talk, and so on. But none of this is really done by the mother. It is an achievement of the child. What the mother brings forth is the baby, but it is the baby who produces the man. Should the mother die, the baby still grows up and completes his work of making the man. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 169:THE POISON TREE I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe; I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I water'd it in fears, Night & morning with my tears; And I sunned it with my smiles And with soft deceitful wiles. And it grew both day and night, Till it bore an apple bright; And my foe beheld it shine, And he knew that it was mine, And into my garden stole When the night had veil'd the pole: In the morning glad I see My foe outstretch'd beneath the tree. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 170:Why can't we be friends now?" said the other, holding him affectionately. "It's what I want. It's what you want." But the horses didn't want it ‚Äî they swerved apart: the earth didn't want it, sending up rocks through which riders must pass single file; the temple, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they emerged from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices "No, not yet," and the sky said "No, not there. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove 171:This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw up no opposition. He attempted no phrase. His fist did not form. I waited. I listened. Nothing came, nothing. I cried then with a sudden conviction of complete desertion. Now there is nothing. No fin breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea. Life has destroyed me. No echo comes when I speak, no varied words. This is more truly death than the death of friends, than the death of youth. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 172:The only thing for which we can combine is the underlying ideal of Socialism; justice and liberty. But it is hardly strong enough to call this ideal underlying. It is almost completely forgotten. It has been buried beneath layer after layer of doctnaire priggishness, party squabbles and half-backed progressivism until it is like a diamond hidden under a monition of dung. The job of the Socialist is to get it out again. Justice and liberty! Those are the words that have got to ring like a bugle across the world. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 173:I didn't dare to think of anything then except the "facts." To get beneath the facts I would have had to be an artist, and one doesn't become an artist overnight. First you have to be crushed, to have your conflicting points of view annihilated. You have to be wiped out as a human being in order to be born again an individual. You have to be carbonized and mineralized in order to work upwards from the last common denominator of the self. You have to get beyond pity in order to feel from the very roots of your being. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 174:Quickly capping 363 oil well fires in a war zone is impossible. The fires would burn out of control until they put themselves out... The resulting soot might well stretch over all of South Asia... It could be carried around the world... [and] the consequences could be dire. Beneath such a pall sunlight would be dimmed, temperatures lowered and droughts more frequent. Spring and summer frosts may be expected... This endangerment of the food supplies... appears to be likely enough that it should affect the war plans. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 175:To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation and contemplating its vast ramifications full of stars. We have a duty to perform, to cultivate the human soul, to defend mystery against miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and to reject the absurd; to admit nothing that is inexplicable excepting what is necessary, to purify faith and obliterate superstition from the face of religion, to remove the vermin from the garden of God. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 176:He loved, beneath all this summer transiency, to feel the earth's spine beneath him; for such he took the hard root of the oak tree to be; or, for image followed image, it was the back of a great horse that he was riding, or the deck of a tumbling ship - it was anything indeed, so long as it was hard, for he felt the need of something which he could attach his floating heart to; the heart that tugged at his side; the heart that seemed filled with spiced and amorous gales every evening about this time when he walked out. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 177:On two chairs beneath the bole of the tree and canopied by a living bough there sat, side by side, Celeborn and Galadriel... Very tall they were, and the Lady no less tall than the Lord; and they were grave and beautiful. They were clad wholly in white; and the hair of the Lady was of deep gold, and the hair of the Lord Celeborn was of silver long and bright; but no sign of age was upon them, unless it were in the depths of their eyes; for these were keen as lances in the starlight, and yet profound, the wells of deep memory. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 178:When we are in touch with our universal Self, we are immune to criticism, but responsive to feedback. This means that on the emotional, psychological, and spiritual levels, we feel neither beneath nor superior to anyone else. This doesn’t mean we are arrogant or cocky, but a quiet confidence and dignity radiate from us that result in a fearlessness and readiness to creatively take on any challenge. It also means we are never the victim of self- importance, knowing that all self- importance is a form of self- pity in disguise. ~ deepak-chopra, @wisdomtrove 179:For some time she observed a great yellow butterfly, which was opening and closing its wings very slowly on a little flat stone. "What is it to be in love?" she demanded, after a long silence; each word as it came into being seemed to shove itself out into an unknown sea. Hypnotized by the wings of the butterfly, and awed by the discovery of a terrible possibility in life, she sat for some time longer. When the butterfly flew away, she rose, and within, her two books beneath her arm returned again, much as a soldier prepares for battle. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 180:The memories which peaceful country scenes call up, are not of this world, nor of its thoughts and hopes. Their gentle influence may teach us how to weave fresh garlands for the graves of those we loved: may purify our thoughts, and bear down before it old enmity and hatred; but beneath all this, there lingers, in the least reflective mind, a vague and half-formed consciousness of having held such feelings long before, in some remote and distant time, which calls up solemn thoughts of distant times to come, and bends down pride and worldliness beneath it. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 181:Tell me how you could say such a thing, she said, staring down at the ground beneath her feet. You're not telling me anything I don't know already. & 182:For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we all secretly know this? It's a perfectly balanced mechanism of shouts and echoes pretending to be wheels and cogs, a dreamclock chiming beneath a mystery-glass we call life. Behind it? Below it and around it? Chaos, storms. Men with hammers, men with knives, men with guns. Women who twist what they cannot dominate and belittle what they cannot understand. A universe of horror and loss surrounding a single lighted stage where mortals dance in defiance of the dark. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 183:The roar of the traffic, the passage of undifferentiated faces, this way and that way, drugs me into dreams; rubs the features from faces. People might walk through me. And what is this moment of time, this particular day in which I have found myself caught? The growl of traffic might be any uproar - forest trees or the roar of wild beasts. Time has whizzed back an inch or two on its reel; our short progress has been cancelled. I think also that our bodies are in truth naked. We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 184:And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath me like the proud horse whose rider first spurs and then pulls him back. What enemy do we now perceive advancing against us, you whom I ride now, as we stand pawing this stretch of pavement? It is death. Death is the enemy. It is death against whom I ride with my spear couched and my hair flying back like a young man's, like Percival's, when he galloped in India. I strike spurs into my horse. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death! ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 185:Within the grip of winter, it is almost impossible to imagine the spring. The gray perished landscape is shorn of color. Only bleakness meets the eye; everything seems severe and edged. Winter is the oldest season; it has some quality of the absolute. Yet beneath the surface of winter, the miracle of spring is already in preparation; the cold is relenting; seeds are wakening up. Colors are beginning to imagine how they will return. Then, imperceptibly, somewhere one bud opens and the symphony of renewal is no longer reversible. From the black heart of winter a miraculous, breathing plenitude of color emerges. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove 186:Actively imagine what the other person could be thinking and wanting.Imagine what could be going on beneath the surface, and what might be pulling in different directions inside him. Consider what you know or can reasonably guess about him, such as his personal history, childhood, temperament,personality, “hot buttons,” recent events in his life, and the nature of his relationship with you: What effect might these have? Also take into account what you’ve already experienced from tuning in to his actions and emotions.Ask yourself questions, such as What might he be feeling deep down? What could be most important to him? What might he want from me? Be respectful,and don’t jump to conclusions: stay in & 187:Because in proportion as we ascend higher our speech is contracted to the limits of our view of the purely intelligible; and so now, when we enter that darkness which is above understanding, we pass not merely into brevity of speech, but even into absolute silence, and the negation of thought. Thus in the other treatises our subject took us from the highest to the lowest, and in the measure of this descent our treatment of it extended itself; whereas now we rise from beneath to that which is the highest, and accordingly our speech is restrained in proportion to the height of our ascent; but when our ascent is accomplished, speech will cease altogether, and be absorbed into the ineffable. But why, you will ask, do we add in the first and begin to abstract in the last? The reason is that we affirmed that which is above all affirmation by comparison with that which is most nearly related to it, and were therefore compelled to make a hypothetical affirmation; but when we abstract that which is above all abstraction, we must distinguish it also from those things which are most remote from it. Is not God more nearly life and goodness than air or a stone; must we not deny more fully that He is drunken or enraged, than that He can be spoken of or understood? ~ pseudo-dionysius-the-areopagite, @wisdomtrove 188:Again, ascending, we say that He is neither soul nor intellect; nor has He imagination, nor opinion or reason; He has neither speech nor understanding, and is neither declared nor understood; He is neither number nor order, nor greatness nor smallness, nor equality nor likeness nor unlikeness; He does not stand or move or rest; He neither has power nor is power; nor is He light, nor does He live, nor is He life; He is neither being nor age nor time; nor is He subject to intellectual contact; He is neither knowledge nor truth. nor royalty nor wisdom; He is neither one nor unity, nor divinity, nor goodness; nor is He spirit, as we understand spirit; He is neither sonship nor fatherhood nor anything else known to us or to any other beings, either of the things that are or the things that are not; nor does anything that is, know Him as He is, nor does He know anything that is as it is; He has neither word nor name nor knowledge; He is neither darkness nor light nor truth nor error; He can neither be affirmed nor denied; nay, though we may affirm or deny the things that are beneath Him, we can neither affirm nor deny Him; for the perfect and sole cause of all is above all affirmation, and that which transcends all is above all subtraction, absolutely separate, and beyond all that is. ~ pseudo-dionysius-the-areopagite, @wisdomtrove 189:It was not without a deeper meaning that the divine Moses was commanded first to be himself purified, and then to separate himself from the impure; and after all this purification heard many voices of trumpets, and saw many lights shedding manifold pure beams: and that he was thereafter separated from the multitude and together with the elect priests came to the height of the divine ascents. Yet hereby he did not attain to the presence of God Himself; he saw not Him (for He cannot be looked upon), but the place where He was. This, I think, signifies that the divinest and most exalted of visible and intelligible things are, as it were, suggestions of those that are immediately beneath Him who is above all, whereby is indicated the presence of Him who passes all understanding, and stands, as it were, in that spot which is conceived by the intellect as the highest of His holy places; then that they who are free and untrammelled by all that is seen and all that sees enter into the true mystical darkness of ignorance, whence all perception of understanding is excluded, and abide in that which is intangible and invisible, being wholly absorbed in Him who is beyond all things, and belong no more to any, neither to themselves nor to another, but are united in their higher part to Him who is wholly unintelligible, and whom, by understanding nothing, they understand after a manner above all intelligence. ~ pseudo-dionysius-the-areopagite, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:No Job Is Beneath You ~ Randy Pausch, #NFDB
2:I hold beneath pale green. ~ James Frey, #NFDB
3:Whining and panting beneath ~ E L James, #NFDB
4:I’m the wind beneath your wings ~ Kody Keplinger, #NFDB
5:Never live beneath your privileges. ~ Wayne Dyer, #NFDB
6:I don't beg, it's beneath me ~ Jennifer A Nielsen, #NFDB
7:I married beneath me. All women do. ~ Nancy Astor, #NFDB
8:I'll place my love beneath the stars. ~ David Bowie, #NFDB
9:savageness beneath the cool façade. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
10:There is nothing beneath a leader. ~ Richard Stengel, #NFDB
11:she’d wanted to crawl beneath a rock. ~ Bev Pettersen, #NFDB
12:Beneath every history, another history. ~ Hilary Mantel, #NFDB
13:ten thousand fathoms beneath the sea. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
14:What's beneath the bravado, Logan Preston? ~ Jay McLean, #NFDB
15:Beneath the sun's rays our shadow is our comrade; ~ Ovid, #NFDB
16:Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs: ~ Philip Larkin, #NFDB
17:But its coolness lies beneath its looks. ~ Jerry Spinelli, #NFDB
18:Organic life beneath the shoreless waves ~ Erasmus Darwin, #NFDB
19:Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon's hand; ~ Ovid, #NFDB
20:The truth is always buried beneath the lie. ~ Sienna Mynx, #NFDB
21:The path is always right beneath your feet. ~ Issan Dorsey, #NFDB
22:You are the love and joy beneath the pain. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
23:Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, ~ Omar Khayy m, #NFDB
24:beneath hers. Then he let go. Not happily, ~ Sharon Hamilton, #NFDB
25:few inches beneath what had been his fontanel. ~ C L Bevill, #NFDB
26:I hid my underwear beneath a parked Peugeot. ~ Jonathan Ames, #NFDB
27:We are buried beneath the weight of information. ~ Tom Waits, #NFDB
28:Cherish the hope that lies beneath the snow. ~ Melody Beattie, #NFDB
29:Words never mean anything. Look beneath them. ~ Dot Hutchison, #NFDB
30:Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed ~ William Wordsworth, #NFDB
31:no job is beneath those truly willing to work, ~ Loretta Nyhan, #NFDB
32:Reality was a bridge breaking beneath Adam ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
33:There’s blood beneath every layer of skin. ~ Alexander McQueen, #NFDB
34:You have got to be loyal to people beneath you. ~ David Brooks, #NFDB
35:Alec’s entire world dark beneath its shadow. Alec ~ Morgan Rice, #NFDB
36:Beneath the greatest love lies a hurricane of hate. ~ Phil Ochs, #NFDB
37:Death is always there, just beneath the surface. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
38:Girls keep secrets like knives beneath their teeth. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
39:if I were the one lifeless and crushed beneath the ~ Lisa Regan, #NFDB
40:Prisoned in glass beneath my seals of red. ~ Charles Baudelaire, #NFDB
41:We are all young beneath the watchful stars. ~ Robert V S Redick, #NFDB
42:All men beneath your position covet your station, ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
43:Our lives are God's messengers beneath the stars. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
44:A journey of a thousand leagues begins beneath one's feet. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
45:A man can be pulled in by beauty and not see beneath it. ~ J D Robb, #NFDB
46:beneath his heavy wool cloak. He does not turn when I ~ Holly Black, #NFDB
47:No one is above the law, and no one is beneath the law. ~ Van Jones, #NFDB
48:See. My one act. I might be a person. Beneath the. ~ Eimear McBride, #NFDB
49:Beneath the quiet equanimity, the simmering obsessions. ~ Neil Smith, #NFDB
50:Hunger lies beneath all of our ugliest transactions. ~ Mark Lawrence, #NFDB
51:I remember unloading guns beneath a complex heaven ~ Nicole Blackman, #NFDB
52:Steal from those beneath you; attack those above you. ~ Michael Lewis, #NFDB
53:The sea appears all golden. Beneath the sun-lit sky. ~ Heinrich Heine, #NFDB
54:The vile are trampled beneath the feet of other pigs. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
55:The world's finest wilderness lies beneath the waves. ~ Robert Wyland, #NFDB
56:They do not know what lies beneath their very noses. ~ Amanda Carlson, #NFDB
57:We are silk and lace, and beneath them we are steel. ~ Chanel Cleeton, #NFDB
58:Yet because I knew nothing, nothing was beneath me. ~ Madeline Miller, #NFDB
59:Build your architecture from what is beneath your feet. ~ Hassan Fathy, #NFDB
60:Life made its pattern around and beneath and through her. ~ Monica Ali, #NFDB
61:She walked along beneath a sky of bird’s-egg blue, ~ Stephen R Lawhead, #NFDB
62:Beware a calm surface—you never know what lies beneath. ~ Paula Hawkins, #NFDB
63:But when a cut is deep, it’s still just flesh beneath. ~ Veronica Rossi, #NFDB
64:Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
65:Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet. ~ Willa Cather, #NFDB
66:Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
67:Clothes are but a symbol of something hid deep beneath. ~ Virginia Woolf, #NFDB
68:Beneath every excuse lies a fear. Practice being fearless. ~ Robin Sharma, #NFDB
69:Cockney girl who was already beneath his tastes. He quit ~ Sidney Sheldon, #NFDB
70:Death, lonely death, Beneath the withered leaves. ~ Federico Garcia Lorca, #NFDB
71:Life has taught this boy to string nets beneath his hopes. ~ Ian Caldwell, #NFDB
72:That’s queer,” I ejaculated suddenly beneath my breath. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
73:No man is safe above but he that will gladly be beneath. ~ Thomas a Kempis, #NFDB
74:You can judge a man by the way he treats those beneath him. ~ Jeff Wheeler, #NFDB
75:Butter laughed beneath sea salt, and gravy anointed them both. ~ N D Wilson, #NFDB
76:Fuck, he was gorgeous, stretched out and flushed beneath him. ~ Layla Reyne, #NFDB
77:Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea. ~ Kim Edwards, #NFDB
78:Shed your mortal skin and let me take you beneath the waves. ~ Janet Morris, #NFDB
79:We all learn to bury a broken heart beneath layers of dignity ~ Mary Balogh, #NFDB
80:What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms. ~ Kobayashi Issa, #NFDB
81:As soon as there's pain, you know the gold is just beneath. ~ John de Ruiter, #NFDB
82:a square black hole that yawned darkly beneath a stone archway. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
83:Masks are what they seem to be; not so the faces beneath them. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
84:Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull. ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB
85:The fire which seems out often sleeps beneath the cinders. ~ Pierre Corneille, #NFDB
86:There was something beneath the surface of things. ~ Bret Easton Ellis, #NFDB
87:There's a heart beneath the boobs and a brain beneath the wig. ~ Dolly Parton, #NFDB
88:You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it. ~ Alan Moore, #NFDB
89:Beneath the sky’s vastness, I felt free, all restraints gone. ~ Ann Weisgarber, #NFDB
90:I came to the flowers; I slept beneath them; this was my leisure. ~ Yosa Buson, #NFDB
91:[On the volcano.] And many a fire there burns beneath the ground. ~ Empedocles, #NFDB
92:Quiet through the grave go I; or else beneath the graves I lie ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
93:The earth is a far a better place, now that she's beneath it. ~ Richard Laymon, #NFDB
94:The marvelous lies beneath the surface." ~ R C Sproul R.C. Sproul ~ R C Sproul, #NFDB
95:Always, beneath every apparent chaos, order waits to be revealed. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
96:But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. ~ Jack Kerouac, #NFDB
97:It is good to die on a hill of the llano, beneath the juniper-- ~ Rudolfo Anaya, #NFDB
98:She is naked beneath her dark hair; naked, naked, dark hair. ~ Marguerite Duras, #NFDB
99:Yea, and the little earth crumbles beneath our feet and we endure. ~ Ezra Pound, #NFDB
100:Beneath her thinnest skin and light, a fuse leads way to dynamite. ~ Mie Hansson, #NFDB
101:Bring the sky beneath your feet and listen to celestial music everywhere. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
102:Civilization is a fragile veneer.
Beneath is chaos. ~ Kathleen Ann Goonan,#NFDB
103:He was beneath the waves, a creature crawling the ocean bottom. ~ Doppo Kunikida, #NFDB
104:Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free. ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau, #NFDB
105:The only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet. ~ Nadia Comaneci, #NFDB
106:We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
107:You are my sunlight in the dark and the ground beneath my feet. ~ Kristin Hannah, #NFDB
108:Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock! ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
109:Devils don't come from hell beneath us, they come from the sky. ~ Jesse Eisenberg, #NFDB
110:i wonder what goes on night and day beneath the surface of a cemetery. ~ B Traven, #NFDB
111:My first priority is to finish above rather than beneath the ground. ~ James Hunt, #NFDB
112:There are entire worlds that exist just beneath our notice of them. ~ Nicola Yoon, #NFDB
113:The table was almost hidden beneath all Dudley’s birthday presents. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
114:What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms. ~ Kobayashi Issa,#NFDB
115:But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he. ~ Virginia Woolf, #NFDB
116:Still lay the Island-World beneath the whisper of a Dragon’s wings. ~ Marc Secchia, #NFDB
117:The shivering birds beneath the eaves Have sheltered for the night. ~ Claude McKay, #NFDB
118:To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things. ~ Will Durant, #NFDB
119:We each keep an untouched life beneath the one we've been given. ~ Carrie Fountain, #NFDB
120:And they always slept better with blades beneath their beds. ~ Cinda Williams Chima, #NFDB
121:Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water. ~ Gore Vidal, #NFDB
122:Christ, I forgot how fucking good you feel when you're beneath me. ~ Kristen Ashley, #NFDB
123:He was angry but his expression revealed love beneath the ferocity. ~ Renee Carlino, #NFDB
124:It's time to discuss what it's going to take to get you beneath me"-GC ~ Sylvia Day, #NFDB
125:Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin. ~ T S Eliot, #NFDB
126:A kind face reveals nothing about the man beneath. We all wear masks. ~ Dannika Dark, #NFDB
127:I find this day Stands in the way Of finding you Beneath the blue ~ Vickie Johnstone, #NFDB
128:Misery is what happiness rests upon. Happiness is what misery lurks beneath. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
129:Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
130:One must have the patience of radium buried beneath a Himalayan peak. ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
131:The viol, the violet, and the vine.
Resignedly beneath the sky ~ Edgar Allan Poe,#NFDB
132:At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon. ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
133:Beneath every no lays a passion for yes that had never been broken. ~ Wallace Stevens, #NFDB
134:Like the seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB
135:The world is satisfied with words. Few appreciate the things beneath. ~ Blaise Pascal, #NFDB
136:Funny how imperfections on the outside mean something splendid beneath. ~ Louise Penny, #NFDB
137:I kissed my teacher in the shadow of the water tower, beneath the stars. ~ Leah Raeder, #NFDB
138:Love is like that. I could crush her beneath the weight of confession. ~ Ellen Hopkins, #NFDB
139:Metaphor forms a crust beneath which the crevasse of each experience. ~ Rae Armantrout, #NFDB
140:The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes. ~ Pierre Corneille, #NFDB
141:There was not a continent, nor even an island, visible beneath them. The ~ Jules Verne, #NFDB
142:To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces. ~ Ansel Adams, #NFDB
143:Where was his empathy? Buried, I supposed, beneath his self-regard. ~ Geraldine Brooks, #NFDB
144:All at once, the ground rumbled beneath them; the walls vibrated gently. ~ Carl Ashmore, #NFDB
145:Odd how automatic masks are, even with those who’ve seen beneath them. ~ Ruthanna Emrys, #NFDB
146:the truth gets buried deep beneath ego, greed, status, and stupidity. ~ Anthony William, #NFDB
147:And the hatred was deep in the eyes of the people, beneath the surface. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
148:Despair is a cavern beneath our feet and we teeter on its very brink. ~ Geraldine Brooks, #NFDB
149:the hollow just beneath his throat. And then the curve of his shoulder. ~ Christina Skye, #NFDB
150:The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes. ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB
151:The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface. ~ Blaise Pascal, #NFDB
152:True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven. ~ Walter Scott, #NFDB
153:Anybody that's in my weight class, above me or beneath me, I keep an eye on. ~ Andre Ward, #NFDB
154:Beneath hot sun, desert roses bloomed. Under cold moon, I still refused to. ~ Aspen Matis, #NFDB
155:. . . beneath the great sisterhood of stars unfurling in the night sky . . . ~ Pat Conroy, #NFDB
156:They all nodded and he saw five pairs of knees tighten beneath their robes. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
157:As long as we live beyond our means, we are destined to live beneath our means. ~ Ron Paul, #NFDB
158:Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads, And not the road. ~ Ogden Nash, #NFDB
159:How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home. ~ William Faulkner, #NFDB
160:I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface. ~ Stephen Sondheim, #NFDB
161:It is good to die on a hill of the llano, beneath the juniper--" -Narciso. ~ Rudolfo Anaya, #NFDB
162:Probems must be resolved at the level beneath the one at which they occur. ~ John Whitmore, #NFDB
163:Style, after all, is a kind of humor,
Something truly beneath contempt... ~ Larry Levis,#NFDB
164:The chicken did not cross the road. The road passed beneath the chicken. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
165:The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary. ~ Mark Nepo, #NFDB
166:There are three floors beneath the garage? Why on earth?"
-Mac ~ Karen Marie Moning,#NFDB
167:Too low they build who build beneath the stars. ~ Edward Young, Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), #NFDB
168:with you I feel real.
but then I worry about the me that lies beneath. ~ David Levithan,#NFDB
169:You can stare right at something and not see what lies beneath the surface. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
170:You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity. ~ Ashly Lorenzana, #NFDB
171:Beneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world ~ Pope John Paul II, #NFDB
172:Don't be the rider who gallops all nightand never sees the horse that is beneath him ~ Rumi, #NFDB
173:She was asleep, that blond hair swirled like butter on the pillow beneath her ~ Jess Walter, #NFDB
174:The vessel, though her masts be firm,Beneath her copper bears a worm. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
175:AM said it with the shriek of babies being ground beneath blue–hot rollers. ~ Harlan Ellison, #NFDB
176:Beneath history, memory and forgetting
Beneath memory and forgetting, life. ~ Paul Ric ur,#NFDB
177:Beneath the bleeding hands we feel / The sharp compassion of the healer’s art. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
178:Just because a person is beautiful doesn’t mean there’s no soul beneath. Doesn ~ Rachel Cohn, #NFDB
179:Love is a magical shelter where you will feel yourself safe beneath it! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
180:poverty is the open-mouthed hell which yawns beneath civilization," we ~ Orison Swett Marden, #NFDB
181:So the next time you’re shutting down or angry, ask yourself what lies beneath. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
182:The skin merely hints at what lies within a man. Untold mysteries lurk beneath. ~ Fiona Paul, #NFDB
183:Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards. ~ Alain de Botton, #NFDB
184:Don't be the rider who gallops all night and never sees the horse that is beneath him. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
185:He'd never had anyone come apart beneath him like that -- it was so beautiful. ~ G L Carriger, #NFDB
186:It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies ~ Jack Kerouac, #NFDB
187:My view is that no idea is above scrutiny, and no people are beneath dignity. As ~ Sam Harris, #NFDB
188:Pain, like a pinecone unfolding, seemed to blossom beneath her breastbone. ~ Elizabeth Strout, #NFDB
189:They called him Mir, which to these people meant “the world beneath the world. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
190:It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. ~ Jack Kerouac, #NFDB
191:No woman can resist a man who has tidal waves and earthquakes beneath the skin. ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
192:Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one. ~ Glenn Beck, #NFDB
193:A follow-up question popped up beneath the first one. “Will you marry me? ~ Aimee Nicole Walker, #NFDB
194:But for now, on a blanket in the sand, beneath a sky of stars, we have tonight. ~ Kandi Steiner, #NFDB
195:He shifted, rolled. I ended up kneeling with him beneath me. Boo-ya! I was on top. ~ Devon Monk, #NFDB
196:I needed to be inside you. I wanted you beneath me and next to me and with me. ~ Laurelin Paige, #NFDB
197:No one knew about the squirrel’s skull beneath her bed, but no one wanted to know. ~ Ian McEwan, #NFDB
198:She woke shivering beneath a light coat of frost, missing the warmth of her kits. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
199:There are no secrets in life; just hidden truths that lie beneath the surface. ~ Michael C Hall, #NFDB
200:Too many ads that try not to go over the reader's head end up beneath his notice. ~ Leo Burnett, #NFDB
201:We may seem fine, even when the pain remains right there beneath our surface. ~ Ashly Lorenzana, #NFDB
202:Winter is come. Beneath the barren sky The Elves are silent. But they do not die! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
203:after which he followed up with the style of “Stealing Peaches beneath the Leaves ~ Anthony C Yu, #NFDB
204:And it sounds like two tectonic plates are getting it on somewhere beneath us ~ Daniel Jos Older, #NFDB
205:A small vine of sadness appeared beneath her ribs and blossomed into compassion ~ Kerrigan Byrne, #NFDB
206:Beneath their surface differences, there are a lot of deep, underlying differences. ~ Dave Barry, #NFDB
207:Persevere even though Hell and destruction should yawn beneath your feet. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, #NFDB
208:The heartless king has found his heart after all. It rests beneath my rib cage. ~ Laura Thalassa, #NFDB
209:The snow lay deep and undisturbed beneath the silver light of a dawning sky. ~ Stephen R Lawhead, #NFDB
210:Though trodden beneath the shepherd’s heel, the wild hyacinth blooms on the ground. ~ Gene Wolfe, #NFDB
211:Words are lies. It's what's beneath the words that has any hope of being true. ~ Matthew Sturges, #NFDB
212:Beneath the worst the world can do, there is always the glimmer of the best. ~ Frederick Buechner, #NFDB
213:Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
214:Don't wear your mask too long or you might start to forget who's beneath it. -Austin ~ Ted Dekker, #NFDB
215:Human life lay foul before men's eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion's weight. ~ Lucretius, #NFDB
216:I cant imagine getting bored with comedy or thinking comedy is beneath us suddenly. ~ Robert Webb, #NFDB
217:Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior. ~ Juvenal, #NFDB
218:Perfection isn’t real. It is only the top layer beneath which the ugliness lies. ~ Angela Marsons, #NFDB
219:She was very quiet but beneath a placid exterior a continual ferment went on. ~ Sherwood Anderson, #NFDB
220:Sometimes the near seemed far, far away and the faraway was right beneath your feet. ~ Lou Berney, #NFDB
221:Such hath it been--shall be--beneath the sun The many still must labour for the one. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
222:The savages are upon me and I feel my flesh burn beneath the teeth of their indifference. ~ Jewel, #NFDB
223:Your objections. It’s time to discuss what it’s going to take to get you beneath me. ~ Sylvia Day, #NFDB
224:And so beneath the weight lay I
And suffered death, but could not die. ~ Edna St Vincent Millay,#NFDB
225:Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword. ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton, #NFDB
226:casting smiles her way—knowing smiles. The wood creaked in laughter beneath their ~ MaryLu Tyndall, #NFDB
227:Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
228:Holy shit. This girl was a fucking tiger. Beneath my desk, my cock was applauding. ~ Nelle L Amour, #NFDB
229:I am not going to respect... gray hairs unless there is wisdom beneath them. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah, #NFDB
230:It seems that his grasp on life is as tenuous as a word caught beneath an eraser. ~ James A Levine, #NFDB
231:It was as if a unicorn had appeared beneath a double rainbow and started tap dancing. ~ Penny Reid, #NFDB
232:I want to remember that the sky is so gorgeously large, I feel stranded beneath it. ~ Anis Mojgani, #NFDB
233:Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded. ~ Aeschylus, #NFDB
234:No one knew about the squirrel’s skull beneath Briony bed, but no one wanted to know. ~ Ian Mcewan, #NFDB
235:On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow. ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
236:Our love will be the light and the darkness shall perish beneath the weight of it. ~ Andrea Zuvich, #NFDB
237:When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
238:When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. ~ Stanis aw Lem, #NFDB
239:Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet. ~ Edward Abbey, #NFDB
240:Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world. ~ Marilyn Monroe, #NFDB
241:Don't organize in the spirit of antagonism; that should be beneath your consideration. ~ Mark Hanna, #NFDB
242:I have spread my dreams beneath your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. ~ W B Yeats, #NFDB
243:I was shipwrecked beneath a stormless sky in a sea shallow enough to stand up in. ~ Fernando Pessoa, #NFDB
244:Now I am nothing but a veil; all my body is a veil beneath which a child sleeps. ~ Gabriela Mistral, #NFDB
245:There are tides beneath every tide
And the surface of water
Holds no weight. ~ Steven Erikson,#NFDB
246:Though trodden beneath the shepherd’s heel, the wild hyacinth blooms on the ground. He ~ Gene Wolfe, #NFDB
247:Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. ~ Cyril Connolly, #NFDB
248:Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the good how far,-but far above the great. ~ Thomas Gray, #NFDB
249:Just because there's tarnish on the copper, doesn't mean there's not a shine beneath. ~ Laurence Yep, #NFDB
250:My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee. ~ Phyllis Diller, #NFDB
251:Outward appearances are deceptive. What’s within them, beneath them, is what matters. ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
252:Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop. ~ Marie von Ebner Eschenbach, #NFDB
253:some pain never fully resolved. You just suppressed it beneath a façade of normalcy. ~ Robert Dugoni, #NFDB
254:The odds is gone, and there is nothing left remarkable beneath the visiting moon, ~ Georgina Guthrie, #NFDB
255:There are tides beneath every tide
And the surface of water
Holds no weight. ~ Steven Erikson,#NFDB
256:The way of life is above to the wise that he may depart from hell which is beneath. ~ Proverbs XV 24, #NFDB
257:What good’s slacking all the time if the ship comes apart beneath you while you sleep? ~ Scott Lynch, #NFDB
258:What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
259:What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover… ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
260:Beneath an unsinking black sun...through the boundless gloom...our journey continues. ~ Kentaro Miura, #NFDB
261:Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind
most of our colors are amazingly the same. ~ Aberjhani,#NFDB
262:~ “But unto wrong what is His Name? ~ Our God is a consuming flame ~ To every wrong beneath the sun!”, #NFDB
263:Here was the old Professor Emerson, simmering beneath Gabriel's chastened exterior. ~ Sylvain Reynard, #NFDB
264:She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage. ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
265:The savagery of our distant ancestors survives just beneath the surface of our civility, ~ Ben Galley, #NFDB
266:They do not fear the men beneath the tree;
They pace in sleek chivalric certainty. ~ Adrienne Rich,#NFDB
267:They’ll find us,” Sophia said, wriggling frantically beneath him. “Don’t, you mustn’t… ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
268:This is my social face,” he said lightly. “Don’t confuse it with the animal beneath. ~ Elizabeth Hoyt, #NFDB
269:Your attention is the same as the ray from a lighthouse. I am struck dumb beneath it. ~ Daisy Johnson, #NFDB
270:At last, the world stops spinning. The ground is solid beneath her feet once more. ~ Wendy Corsi Staub, #NFDB
271:Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea. ~ Charles Lamb, #NFDB
272:He lets it loose beneath the entire sky; His lightning to the ends of the earth. Job 37:3 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
273:I don't dig beneath the surface for things that don't appear before my own eyes. ~ John Singer Sargent, #NFDB
274:If I have to worry about the ants I crush beneath my feet, I couldn't even walk around ~ Kentaro Miura, #NFDB
275:Just because some people actually work for their money doesn’t mean they are beneath you. ~ Kevin Kwan, #NFDB
276:Some slight awareness in the back of her mind, beneath the pain, told her she was free. ~ Kayla Krantz, #NFDB
277:Who are you, Dorothy?" she said beneath her breath. "Who were you, before you became Ma? ~ Kate Morton, #NFDB
278:And he thought he heard her whisper, just before she shattered beneath him, I love you. ~ Juliana Stone, #NFDB
279:Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet. ~ W B Yeats, #NFDB
280:I'll love you until I'm ashes in the dirt beneath the Earth. Then, I'll love you even more. ~ K Webster, #NFDB
281:Life is about looking beneath the surface and seeing what lies beyond appearances. That ~ Connor Franta, #NFDB
282:ADAMANT, n. A mineral frequently found beneath a corset. Soluble in solicitate of gold. ~ Ambrose Bierce, #NFDB
283:all men carry murder in their hearts, yet even so, the poisoner is beneath contempt. ~ George R R Martin, #NFDB
284:All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue. ~ Plato, #NFDB
285:A pneumatic toy frog hops onto a lily pad, trembling. Beneath the surface, lies terror. ~ Thomas Pynchon, #NFDB
286:Beneath every society where self-interest pays off, lies a foundation of self-sacrifice. ~ Roger Scruton, #NFDB
287:Faith pulls the black mask from the face of trouble, and discovers the angel beneath. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
288:Her gasp of pain made me ache with guilt when her maidenhead gave way beneath me. Still, ~ Bella Forrest, #NFDB
289:Humans were far more terrifying predators than anything that lurked beneath the trees. ~ Kenley Davidson, #NFDB
290:look mother, look at me now, kingdoms blooming beneath my feet and a throne of shadows for me. ~ Arlen C, #NFDB
291:she was as insignificant in the grand scheme of the galaxy as the sand beneath her feet. ~ Chris Dietzel, #NFDB
292:Somehow things keep building up and piling up and suddenly you’re just trapped beneath it. ~ Jason Letts, #NFDB
293:what massive turbulence of emotion she hid beneath a surface of total calm and placidity. ~ William Boyd, #NFDB
294:When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. ~ Stanis aw Jerzy Lec, #NFDB
295:When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, #NFDB
296:Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises ~ Rumi, #NFDB
297:A necklace of sweat had formed around her throat. Beneath her shirt, a book was eating her up ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
298:A single decision, a moment in time, and the ground could shift beneath your feet. ~ Suzanne Woods Fisher, #NFDB
299:Beneath his awe, he had a sudden sense of security and serenity he had never felt before. ~ John Williams, #NFDB
300:Beneath our frantic activities, there's a deep desire to show the world we are worthwhile. ~ Henri Nouwen, #NFDB
301:How can you hold your ground when everyone around you is trying to bury you beneath it? ~ Shane L Koyczan, #NFDB
302:Our lives are God’s messengers beneath the stars. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death, #NFDB
303:put down his empty goblet with a grimace and reached beneath the table and pinched me, hard. ~ Amy Harmon, #NFDB
304:Remember: If someone's trying to pull you down that means they're already beneath you. ~ Karen Salmansohn, #NFDB
305:Such is the great nature of man, it resides the true face beneath a glittering masquerade. ~ Hari Kumar K, #NFDB
306:The mask of kindly patronage had dropped away to show the hatred and the fear beneath. ~ Michael Moorcock, #NFDB
307:There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude. ~ Robert Ballard, #NFDB
308:why worry about the monster beneath the bed when a very real bogeyman sleeps on top of it? ~ Lisa Gardner, #NFDB
309:You can study a face all you want, but you never really know what lies beneath the mask. ~ Tess Gerritsen, #NFDB
310:As I criss-cross the city hurrying, I feel always the unchanging cold beneath the pavement. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
311:At night ghosts come In rivers of grief, To claw away the sand beneath a man’s feet. ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB
312:...because on some basic, soul-deep level within me, he is the solid ground beneath my feet. ~ C J Redwine, #NFDB
313:Dig beneath a beautiful piece of writing [...] and you will find all manner of dishonor. ~ Khaled Hosseini, #NFDB
314:He who steps on stones is glad to feel the smallest spray of moss beneath his feet. ~ Anna Katharine Green, #NFDB
315:His eyes were open wounds beneath his heavy brows, a blue as dark as the sea by night. ~ George R R Martin, #NFDB
316:How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home. —William Faulkner ~ Nic Pizzolatto, #NFDB
317:If you're always worried about crushing the ants beneath you... you won't be able to walk. ~ Kentaro Miura, #NFDB
318:It seemed to me that we ought occasionally to be reminded of instability beneath our feet. ~ Julian Barnes, #NFDB
319:Oh, cruel abandonment! My bones turn to dust beneath the gaze of your ever-mocking smile! ~ Gene Luen Yang, #NFDB
320:The blue of daylight
fades and chills as the sun sinks
beneath clouds of fire. ~ Richelle E Goodrich,#NFDB
321:We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight. ~ P G Wodehouse, #NFDB
322:You can be strapped to the most stable chair and still feel the world give way beneath you. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
323:Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you. ~ Bill Hicks, #NFDB
324:All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
325:Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn. ~ Oliver Goldsmith, #NFDB
326:I advise you shut that hole beneath your nose before one of us fills it with a fist, ~ Tamara Rose Blodgett, #NFDB
327:I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them. ~ Alan Ball, #NFDB
328:Most people saw her as supremely confident and self assured but beneath that were the doubts. ~ Lauren Dane, #NFDB
329:Of course, after the creative act no one cared about follow-through. That was beneath them. ~ Carol S Dweck, #NFDB
330:Scars are just memories that skin
holds so dear
it got them tattooed
beneath the surface. ~ M,#NFDB
331:Winter was fond of paper. She liked the crisp, tactile way it crinkled beneath her fingers. ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
332:Would the day ever come when I would see her and not feel the earth shift beneath my feet? She ~ Sylvia Day, #NFDB
333:Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity. ~ John Tuzo Wilson, #NFDB
334:Beneath the stains of time the feeling disappears, you are someone else I am still right here. ~ Johnny Cash, #NFDB
335:Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water. ~ Ihara Saikaku, #NFDB
336:Men tend to die when you slide steel beneath their skin and wiggle it around. Even priests. ~ Brian Staveley, #NFDB
337:Please give me a single reason why I shouldn't hurl myself beneath the wheels of that bus. ~ Neal Shusterman, #NFDB
338:The hard and mighty lie beneath the ground
While the tender and weak dance on the breeze above. ~ Lao Tzu,#NFDB
339:We are tanks and guns. We are force of history. We will crush them beneath our heels like bugs. ~ Jeanne Ray, #NFDB
340:Women are the carriers of life. We hold the fruit of our loving beneath our hearts. ~ Jeannine Parvati Baker, #NFDB
341:Beneath its broad surface, storytelling should always work hard to say more than it seems to. ~ Frank Delaney, #NFDB
342:Beneath the smooth, familiar face of things is another that waits to tear the world in two. ~ Madeline Miller, #NFDB
343:Everytime people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes. ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
344:For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed. ~ Mary Lou Retton, #NFDB
345:I am only a literary lizard basking the day away beneath the great sun of Beauty. That's all. ~ Julian Barnes, #NFDB
346:I am shrunken and shriveled inside, a rotten chestnut hidden beneath a deceptively smooth shell ~ Laura Wiess, #NFDB
347:Listen, do you really expect me to believe that God lives beneath the Vatican?- Ezio Auditore ~ Oliver Bowden, #NFDB
348:Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
349:Many seek happiness higher than men; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
350:Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath. ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
351:The duties of each moment are the shadows beneath which hides the divine operation. ~ Jean Pierre de Caussade, #NFDB
352:The recess beneath the counter in which his flock mattress was thrust, looked like a grave. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
353:Your inner whore is awakening, my love – the dirty bitch that resides beneath the prim exterior. ~ Lily White, #NFDB
354:Dad has always said that a man who raises a hand against a female lowers himself beneath her feet. ~ Erin Watt, #NFDB
355:Every time people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes. ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
356:Faith pulls the black mask from the face of trouble—and discovers the angel beneath. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
357:I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
358:It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
359:Perhaps the woman was waiting beneath the lamps for cats to drop from the trees, like fruit. ~ Ramsey Campbell, #NFDB
360:Stir not murky waters if you know not the depth or the creatures that dwell beneath the surface. ~ Bryan Davis, #NFDB
361:the sunburned remnants of grass shattering into fragments beneath his leather slip-on shoes. ~ Camille Di Maio, #NFDB
362:Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
363:You do not drown simply by plunging into water, you only drown if you stay beneath the surface. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
364:Art reveals the power of the intuitive, capturing the reality hiding beneath the culture. The ~ Makoto Fujimura, #NFDB
365:Blackman looked beneath. Kristin could almost feel the nurse’s gaze on her totally exposed crotch. ~ Robin Cook, #NFDB
366:Fear
is a better friend than
you, who feel nothing,
beneath the weight of
my pain. ~ Ellen Hopkins,#NFDB
367:If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, #NFDB
368:Stephen looked coldly on the oblong skull beneath him overgrown with tangled twine-coloured hair. ~ James Joyce, #NFDB
369:The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made. ~ Oliver Goldsmith, #NFDB
370:Why does life carry some people on the crest of the wave while others drown beneath the water? ~ Michelle Moran, #NFDB
371:Words are like leaves and where they most abound,
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found ~ Ray Bradbury,#NFDB
372:Anything covered is always interesting. There is never nothing beneath something that is covered. ~ Deborah Levy, #NFDB
373:as had happened so many times in the past, for every problem solved a new one was added. Beneath ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
374:As the submarine disappeared beneath the waves, it felt like a piece of me was drowning with it. ~ Bella Forrest, #NFDB
375:He plunged beneath the surface and knew that these were Elyon's waters, and his lake had no bottom. ~ Ted Dekker, #NFDB
376:integration is the key mechanism beneath both the absence of illness and the presence of well-being. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
377:Keep still.” Jaypaw felt the hardness beneath Graystripe’s flank. “You’ve just given yourself gas. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
378:Kings and Dervishes. Ten devishes can sleep beneath one blanket Two kings cannot rein in one kingdom ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
379:Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch. ~ Kim Edwards, #NFDB
380:She would die here and not complain. She would be buried beneath this avalanche of lifelessness. ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
381:There is another capital beneath the waves,” She plunged ten thousand fathoms beneath the sea. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
382:The sky hides the night behind it and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above. ~ Paul Bowles, #NFDB
383:The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them. ~ Emily Bronte, #NFDB
384:The words are on my tongue—the rounded lumps of them, shining like the marbles beneath the tree. ~ Sue Monk Kidd, #NFDB
385:Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
386:We are luminous beings. Beneath our transient physical bodies we are made of intelligent light. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
387:Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found. ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
388:A heavy silence was followed by a vibration beneath their feet and Iko’s voice. “I don’t compute. ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
389:Baseball is a ceremony, a ritual, as surely as sacrificing a goat beneath a full moon is a ritual. ~ W P Kinsella, #NFDB
390:...beneath torrents of spring rain, buds come to life - and we do too, beneath torments of tears... ~ John Geddes, #NFDB
391:Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly. ~ Ken Robinson, #NFDB
392:For the first time, Ax saw that there could be strength in serenity, and steel beneath stillness. ~ Sean Williams, #NFDB
393:Grief is an ocean, and guilt the undertow that pulls me beneath the waves and drowns me. ~ Shaun David Hutchinson, #NFDB
394:Her blazing blue eyes see everything. See me. My soul. She sees the darkness and the monster beneath. ~ E L James, #NFDB
395:Let all cats old enough to catch their own prey join here beneath the Highledge for a Clan meeting! ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
396:Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing? ~ Virginia Woolf, #NFDB
397:quivery thermals rising from the blacktop, like spirits liberated from graves beneath the pavement… ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
398:Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight, someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight. ~ Linda Ronstadt, #NFDB
399:The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words. ~ Ronald A Heifetz, #NFDB
400:There are bodies buried beneath the flagstones of my parents' estate, and some graves never green. ~ Mackenzi Lee, #NFDB
401:There was silence in her head and silence beneath her window, and still she could not sleep. ~ Sarah Rees Brennan, #NFDB
402:To fight against an equal is risky; against a higher-up, insane; against someone beneath you, degrading. ~ Seneca, #NFDB
403:Wherever you stop, you will stay there. Don’t expect the ground beneath you to move forward! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
404:Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface. ~ Christophe Agou, #NFDB
405:Whoever finds love
beneath hurt and grief
disappears into emptiness
with a thousand new disguises ~ Rumi,#NFDB
406:Zen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks. ~ Reginald Horace Blyth, #NFDB
407:. . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion. ~ Robert Adams, #NFDB
408:Beneath the wardrobe of a gentlemale, he had the soul of vengeance and not just a little street in him. ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
409:Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet. ~ William Butler Yeats, #NFDB
410:Gideon: "It's time to discuss what it's going to take to get you beneath me."
Eva: "A miracle. ~ Sylvia Day,#NFDB
411:His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away. ~ A E Housman, #NFDB
412:I walk beneath your pens, and am not what I truly am, but what you'd prefer to imagine me. ~ Juana In s de la Cruz, #NFDB
413:Starfleet, where keeping decorum ranked just beneath exploration as its reason for existing. ~ John Jackson Miller, #NFDB
414:The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink. ~ Joan Baez, #NFDB
415:The Thames was beautiful, dark, and swift beneath the billion yellow and white lights of the city… ~ Charles Finch, #NFDB
416:We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass. ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
417:With age, you no longer see the trappings on the surface. You start to see the people beneath. ~ Jessica Brockmole, #NFDB
418:A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides, #NFDB
419:I'm on a frosting sailboat, tossed around by blue-green waves, the deck shifting beneath my feet. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
420:Is it not clear that a reviewer's psyche, like an iceberg, is seven-eighths beneath the surface? ~ Delmore Schwartz, #NFDB
421:I think right now in the world we're feeling like there's no solid ground beneath our feet, you know? ~ Kelly Lynch, #NFDB
422:I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets. ~ Tori Amos, #NFDB
423:One of the lessons Obi-Wan needed to learn was to look beneath the surface. Perhaps this was one way. ~ Jude Watson, #NFDB
424:There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky. ~ Beryl Bainbridge, #NFDB
425:To acquire true self power you have to feel beneath no one, be immune to criticism and be fearless. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
426:Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound,
Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found. ~ Alexander Pope,#NFDB
427:Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic. ~ Jane Roberts, #NFDB
428:Buried beneath disappointment and fear, anger and pride, I just might find it in my heart to forgive. ~ Emily Giffin, #NFDB
429:How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra! ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
430:Once the world was pulled out from beneath your feet, did you ever get to stand on firm ground again? ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
431:She wouldn’t forget that somewhere, beneath the duties and the obligations, she still deserved joy. ~ Courtney Milan, #NFDB
432:standing on Europa, discussing the possibility of extraterrestrial life beneath the moon’s icy crust. ~ Ernest Cline, #NFDB
433:Still I walked behind him. Beneath hot sun, desert roses bloomed. Under cold moon, I still refused to. ~ Aspen Matis, #NFDB
434:The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin, #NFDB
435:The conviction was as solid as the bones beneath her skin: Even the powerful needed protection sometimes. ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
436:You can disagree, but it`s a personal belittling attack which is beneath the dignity of the presidency. ~ Bill Press, #NFDB
437:A groundswell of silence moved between us.
Trouble on the surface and even deeper currents beneath. ~ Lisa Kleypas,#NFDB
438:Even grief has joy hidden beneath its roots. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #NFDB
439:Every sinew, every vein, every thread and bunch of muscle seethed beneath the thin membrane of skin. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
440:For he possessed a soul that could suffer but not stifle, and led a steady life beneath his mutability. ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
441:God puts Christ's enemies as a footstool beneath His feet, for their salvation as well as their destruction. ~ Origen, #NFDB
442:There are always distractions to drown in. There are always people who wish to push you beneath them ~ Sheralyn Pratt, #NFDB
443:There is no place to search for the truth. Though it's right beneath your feet, it can't be found. ~ John Daido Loori, #NFDB
444:wished that I could also find “no better occupation than to look down into the garden” beneath my window, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
445:A haze had dulled the sky, and a plane was a silver needle pulling a white thread beneath the sun. ~ Patricia Cornwell, #NFDB
446:An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be. ~ Steve Martin, #NFDB
447:Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society. ~ Keith Miller, #NFDB
448:But man, even to himself, is a palimpsest, having an ostensible writing, and another beneath the lines. ~ Thomas Hardy, #NFDB
449:I don’t think stress makes a person “not me.” I think it brings out the “me” beneath the surface. ~ William L Myers Jr, #NFDB
450:In the glass burrow beneath their feet, the flames began to rise. First the flames, and then the screams ~ Scott Lynch, #NFDB
451:I tell ye true, liberty is the best of all things; never live beneath the noose of a servile halter. ~ William Wallace, #NFDB
452:It’s miserable living someone else’s life, and it is downright suffocating to live beneath your potential. ~ T D Jakes, #NFDB
453:Sailing to an island unknown Failing to find your way home you walk under a sea leagues beneath us ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
454:At night, the creature that was the Garden peeled back its synthetic skin to show the skeleton beneath. ~ Dot Hutchison, #NFDB
455:Beneath the red crosses was another insignia: CHP. California Highway Patrol. They were State Troopers. ~ Cory Doctorow, #NFDB
456:His hand is cool on my cheek as he paints a tear beneath my left eye, dark blue and swollen with sorrow. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
457:If I were dead and buried And I heard your voice, Beneath the sod My heart of dust Would still rejoice. ~ Dalton Trumbo, #NFDB
458:Just beneath the surface of all experiences in life is God's, or the Guru's, compassionate face. ~ Mata Amritanandamayi, #NFDB
459:Look at you! Standing there like a bloody ice sculpture. But there is fire beneath that ice. I’ve felt it, ~ Amy Harmon, #NFDB
460:November, I'll give thanks that you belong to me. December, you're the present beneath my Christmas tree. ~ Neil Sedaka, #NFDB
461:Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough. ~ Henry George, #NFDB
462:The lie had worked so far, but Lacey felt its softness, like a floor of rotten boards beneath her feet. ~ Justin Cronin, #NFDB
463:There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven, that does not know that slavery is wrong for him. ~ Frederick Douglass, #NFDB
464:to uncover the true workings of human society from beneath the aesthetic surface under observation. (xiii) ~ mile Zola, #NFDB
465:Two big tears had run beneath his glasses down the sides of his cheeks. They had hurt him badly this time. ~ Harper Lee, #NFDB
466:What you took as yourself begins to look like a little prison-house far away in the valley beneath you. ~ G I Gurdjieff, #NFDB
467:You must be always hungry and thirsty.” The Baron caressed his bulges beneath the suspensors. “Like me. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
468:Beneath black makeup, the skin around her eyes wrinkled like satin sheets after a restless night. ~ Mike Reeves McMillan, #NFDB
469:Eli had learned long ago that you can stare right at something and not see what lies beneath the surface. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
470:Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities. ~ John Zerzan, #NFDB
471:No need to speak with those who may rank higher than you by caste but are beneath you in your contribution. ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB
472:Once upon a time, chimaera descended by the thousands into a cathedral beneath the earth. And never left. ~ Laini Taylor, #NFDB
473:The evilest of us all get to walk the earth for as long as they like. The good ones are buried beneath it. ~ Anne Malcom, #NFDB
474:Archaeologists only look at what lies beneath their feet. The sky and the heavens don't exist for them. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
475:I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering. ~ Robert Ballard, #NFDB
476:I think that in the darkness beneath the stars the desert evokes even more loneliness than the sea. ~ Howard Andrew Jones, #NFDB
477:I was who I was: the same woman who pulsed beneath the bruise of her old life, only now I was somewhere else. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
478:Papa, Yeva said to the duke, desperate to stand beneath an open sky again. Why must I be the one to hide? ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
479:..he understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask. ~ Ry nosuke Akutagawa, #NFDB
480:..he understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask. ~ Ryunosuke Akutagawa, #NFDB
481:It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint. ~ Aim C saire, #NFDB
482:It's healthier for your soul to live outside and above a degraded moral code than within and beneath one. ~ Kate Bornstein, #NFDB
483:Love a girl who writes
and live her many lives;
you have yet to find her,
beneath her words of guise. ~ Lang Leav,#NFDB
484:music was what he feared and hated most, because music slid beneath the thinking mind to seize the heart; ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB
485:Oh no. He was emberant. Incarnadine. He was bright with better bright beneath, like copper-gilded gold. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
486:Sex with a squirrel who had exciting breasts beneath her little-kid pajamas was not without its appeal, ~ Jonathan Franzen, #NFDB
487:Time, it covered over everything eventually. Events, people, memory. Chiniquy had disappeared beneath Time. ~ Louise Penny, #NFDB
488:When the sky is fully covered by the birds, you will feel the winds of pure freedom beneath this sky! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
489:Beneath the sheet—which was already lower on his hips than should be legal —
He
Was
Still
Hard ~ Alice Clayton,#NFDB
490:Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me. ~ Saint Patrick, #NFDB
491:It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint. ~ Aime Cesaire, #NFDB
492:Now his wrath was a charade he had to keep up, his viciousness a cloak that hid something soft beneath it. ~ Laura Thalassa, #NFDB
493:Ravenous curiosity was moving like a sort of groundswell beneath his conscious determination to stand on guard. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
494:She’s like dough, how the give of it beneath kneading hands disguises its sturdiness, its potential. ~ Carmen Maria Machado, #NFDB
495:You must think like a patch of sand. Hide beneath your cloak and become a little dune in your very essence. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
496:About ten meters beneath us,” Yash says. “We'll be able to map its footprint, just like Stone says. ~ Kristine Kathryn Rusch, #NFDB
497:because the beautiful way he speaks in public is just another cloak he wears to hide what lies beneath his skin, ~ Greg Iles, #NFDB
498:Her anxiety flows beneath the surface in underground streams, rarely bubbling up or creating a disturbance. ~ A S A Harrison, #NFDB
499:I get drawn in when I feel there is something deep and mysterious going on beneath the surface of something. ~ Steven Pinker, #NFDB
500:I was already hiding beneath so many lies that I hardly knew who I was any more. I was becoming a non-person. ~ Hyeonseo Lee, #NFDB
501:Meanwhile, my experience has shown me that beneath the darkest of visages usually gleams the softest of hearts. ~ Nikki Sixx, #NFDB
502:Once again I feel beneath my heels the ribs of Rocinante. Once more, I'm on the road with my shield on my arm. ~ Che Guevara, #NFDB
503:quoting Pope. " 'Words are like leaves, where they most abound, beneath, little fruit or sense is found. ~ John Joseph Adams, #NFDB
504:Sugar's cheek was smooth and taut beneath the veil. It felt like one of these netted onions in a grocery store. ~ Anne Tyler, #NFDB
505:The birds disturbed from the network of waterways beneath the barges wheeled in the sky, calling plaintively. ~ Iain M Banks, #NFDB
506:was who I was: the same woman who pulsed beneath the bruise of her old life, only now I was somewhere else. ~ Cheryl Strayed, #NFDB
507:Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof. ~ Alan Moore, #NFDB
508:Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
509:I find it hard to look at her. I know from experience that beneath every peripheral girl is a central truth. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
510:In my dream,
the ghost of history lies down beside me,
rolls over, pins me beneath a heavy arm. ~ Natasha Trethewey,#NFDB
511:My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. ~ Emily Bronte, #NFDB
512:Once more I ventured within those brooding ruins that swelled beneath the sand like an ogre under a coverlet, ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
513:She was a rut in the road. Plenty of life beneath the surface but it was kept beaten down by the wheels. ~ Zora Neale Hurston, #NFDB
514:The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always. ~ Meredith Hall, #NFDB
515:Both could feel the relationship crumbling to pieces beneath the weight of everything that Gavin refused to say. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
516:For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
517:her hands caressing his chest and occasionally slipping beneath his jacket like a beagle searching for treats. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
518:His quiet certainty made the ground beneath my feet feel solid. Like someday everything might actually be okay. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
519:His voice is like a thunderstorm, and his hands know every secret hidden deep beneath the cool, dark earth. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
520:I make no apology about stirring the depths - every human longs to swim under water and see what lurks beneath ~ John J Geddes, #NFDB
521:It was like a mask had been pulled away from his face, uncovering a monster hidden beneath his friendly façade. ~ Danika Stone, #NFDB
522:Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
523:No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB
524:The miles mean more if you have travelled them one step at a time and felt the ground change beneath your feet ~ Mark Lawrence, #NFDB
525:When we cannot see the sunshine of God's face, it is blessed to cower down beneath the shadow of his wings. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
526:Biology doesn't make anyone a parent," Cassia added as she tucked her Eturian prayer stone beneath her shirt. ~ Melissa Landers, #NFDB
527:Her bones felt thin and hollow beneath my fists, but her frailty didn't deter me. I wanted her to feel my pain. ~ Courtney Cole, #NFDB
528:Mile after mile of rolling blue prairie flows beneath us, stretching to the ends of the earth, revealing nothing. ~ Carl Safina, #NFDB
529:No job should, be beneath us. And if you can't(or won't) sort mail, Where is the proof that you can do anything? ~ Randy Pausch, #NFDB
530:Onward we climb. The upper slope is a crust of friable lava. It crunches like peanut brittle beneath our steps. ~ David Quammen, #NFDB
531:Sailing to an island unknown
Failing to find your way home
you walk under a sea
leagues beneath us ~ Maggie Stiefvater,#NFDB
532:Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil. ~ Cyril Smith, #NFDB
533:The question that surrounds lovemaking is, "Did you cum?" and the unasked question beneath that is, "Am I all right? ~ Sam Keen, #NFDB
534:This was the void. Not blackness, not nothingness. This was what lay beneath the thinly painted scrim of reality. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
535:A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
536:Beneath it was a photograph of Hank alone, standing shirtless on the deck of a sailboat with his hands on his hips. ~ Sara Gruen, #NFDB
537:Better to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world. ~ Alexander Gordon Smith, #NFDB
538:But what is nice anyway? Nice is so often only on the surface in my experience. The debris usually lies beneath. ~ Claire Seeber, #NFDB
539:Choosing not to act on an angry impulse and to feel the pain that lies beneath it is a very courageous thing to do. ~ Gary Zukav, #NFDB
540:Do not adjust your sandals while passing through a melon-field, nor yet arrange your hat beneath an orange-tree. ~ Ernest Bramah, #NFDB
541:I find it hard to look at her. I know from experience that beneath every peripheral girl
is a central truth. ~ David Levithan,#NFDB
542:If you actually dissect the lyrics in 'Motley Crue', you'll notice that there's a lot going on beneath the surface. ~ Nikki Sixx, #NFDB
543:its muscles white and glistening beneath its creamy hide, its chest broad and heaving, its horn poised and thick. ~ Laura London, #NFDB
544:Something stirred beneath my skin, some being inside I'd only suspected existed, demon or angel, I couldn't say. ~ Ellen Hopkins, #NFDB
545:We never know what horrific and powerful currents run beneath the seemingly calm surface of another's life. ~ Richard Paul Evans, #NFDB
546:Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
547:After thoroughly inspecting his domicile, I, a cat of some breeding, chose the rug beneath the tea table as my bedroom. ~ Can Xue, #NFDB
548:Day by day beneath the opulence of this city Wang Lung lived in the foundations of poverty upon which it was laid. ~ Pearl S Buck, #NFDB
549:Each one has hopes and dreams. Isn’t it tragic that the vast majority are satisfied living beneath their potential ~ Jeff Wheeler, #NFDB
550:He leaned over me, so threatening and powerful that if he demanded it, I’d have told him the sky was beneath my feet. ~ C D Reiss, #NFDB
551:The art does not always mimic the artist. You never know the real person until you slide beneath their surface ~ Lisa Renee Jones, #NFDB
552:The truth was only another mask, even if it was the best fit, the closest to skin and all that lay beneath ~ Michelle Sagara West, #NFDB
553:What happens when you strip away all the masks a man wears and you find not a face beneath them but nothing at all? ~ Brent Weeks, #NFDB
554:A bruising love where every pat was just this side of a slap. The love one has for something always beneath you. ~ Joe Abercrombie, #NFDB
555:After we secure the border, not only build a wall, but beneath the ground and in the air, we do internal enforcement. ~ Mike Pence, #NFDB
556:A man cannot take on new burdens of debt at every turn or he will buckle beneath the weight and be unable to move. ~ Mark Lawrence, #NFDB
557:No man is worth the pain you’re putting yourself through. Don’t wither away because of someone who is beneath you. ~ Jennifer Foor, #NFDB
558:while I . . . napped on the couch, beneath Breccia, who, like all cats, weighed twenty pounds more asleep than awake. ~ Sharon Lee, #NFDB
559:...and then she was lying naked beneath the rain and the storm, the angry heavens and Simon of Navarre's golden eyes. ~ Anne Stuart, #NFDB
560:As we hang beneath the heavens, and we hover over hell, our hearts become the instruments we learn to play so well. ~ Dan Fogelberg, #NFDB
561:Every time I scratch apathy, I find powerlessness beneath it. Humans care, they just don't know what to do about it. ~ Quinn Norton, #NFDB
562:I kept you so well, buried beneath the darkest shame and stilled with filthy lies. Perhaps I should have dug deeper. ~ Nicole Lyons, #NFDB
563:...I make no apology about stirring the depths - every human longs to swim under water and see what lurks beneath ... ~ John Geddes, #NFDB
564:Now I am light, now I fly, now I see myself beneath me, now a god dances through me. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, ‘On Reading & Writing’, #NFDB
565:The pain of that thought had dulled over time, but never truly disappeared. The splinter still stuck beneath my skin. ~ Celia Aaron, #NFDB
566:things which in my mind blossom will stumble beneath a clumsiest disguise appear capable of fragility and indecision ~ e e cummings, #NFDB
567:We are creatures of fire and water. We wither under a surfeit of light as readily as we wither beneath drowned hopes. ~ Yoon Ha Lee, #NFDB
568:What is Human history, if not an ongoing succession of greater technologies grinding lesser ones beneath their boots? ~ Peter Watts, #NFDB
569:Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free,
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands ~ Bob Dylan,#NFDB
570:You're looking for help from God, you say he couldn't be found. Looking up to the sky and searchin' beneath the ground. ~ Matisyahu, #NFDB
571:Among all my dreams that obscure dream of love was the most loyal. I dreamt it over and over again; I walked beneath ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
572:As I was saying before,” he says, his eyes glued to me as I begin to writhe on the sheets beneath me, “I will allow it. ~ Kyra Davis, #NFDB
573:Beneath every story, there is another story. There is a hand within the hand...... There is a blow behind the blow. ~ Naomi Alderman, #NFDB
574:For every worm beneath the moon Draws different threads, and late and soon Spins, toiling out his own cocoon. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
575:His response filled me with glee. It was as if a unicorn had appeared beneath a double rainbow and started tap dancing. ~ Penny Reid, #NFDB
576:I don’t want to just burn the bridge he has with Anabelle, I want to drain the lake beneath it and fill it with concrete. ~ Sara Ney, #NFDB
577:In March the soft rains continued, and each storm waited courteously until its predecessor sunk beneath the ground. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
578:My eyes traced the lines of my hips, my convex stomach, the legs beneath my jeans.
What did the world see in me? ~ Jenny B Jones,#NFDB
579:She loved to spend rainy afternoons lost in thought, her hand daydreaming beneath the fabric of her floral panties. ~ Michael Faudet, #NFDB
580:we don’t know to be sad, the weight of our grandparents’ love like a blanket with us beneath it, safe and warm. ~ Jacqueline Woodson, #NFDB
581:You know your gut instincts are spot on about a person when you can also detect a water source in the soil beneath them. ~ Dane Cook, #NFDB
582:But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives. ~ Rosamund Lupton, #NFDB
583:But there's no emergency kit for marriage. No neat plan you can turn to when the ground shifts beneath your feet. ~ Michelle Richmond, #NFDB
584:How did you lose it?” he asked. Lila frowned. “Lose what?” His weathered fingers drifted up beneath her chin. “Your eye. ~ V E Schwab, #NFDB
585:I am like God and God like me. I am as large as God. He is as small as I. He cannot above me nor I beneath him be. ~ Angelus Silesius, #NFDB
586:If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it. ~ Gregory Maguire, #NFDB
587:it shall be a duty and a pleasing sport to wander with Momus beneath the tropic stars where Melpomene once stalked austere. ~ O Henry, #NFDB
588:It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface. ~ Al Gore, #NFDB
589:It was my first lesson. Beneath the smooth, familiar face of things is another that waits to tear the world in two. ~ Madeline Miller, #NFDB
590:Nothing is nearer to us than heaven. The earth is beneath our feet and we tread upon it, but heaven is within us. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis, #NFDB
591:The ground is bare and hard / and will hold all secrets / and the sky cares not / for the games of those beneath it. ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB
592:The main part of the tree is the root, and the root is always beneath the ground. It never is brought out into the light. ~ Malcolm X, #NFDB
593:would rather die a free man than live as a slave to a theocracy, beneath a puppet king who has less faith than I do. ~ David Dalglish, #NFDB
594:But in a fit of inspiration he’d fashioned a balaclava from a Tesco carrier bag – the handles tied beneath his chin. ~ Stuart MacBride, #NFDB
595:Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it. ~ Ninon de L Enclos, #NFDB
596:For always and for always
I pray remember me
Upon the moors, beneath the stars
With the King's wild company. ~ Susanna Clarke,#NFDB
597:Their experiments caused them to destabilize the structure of the continent and thus Atlantis sank beneath the waves. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
598:The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes. ~ Horace, #NFDB
599:They had no idea that normal didn't exist for me anymore. Normal had been smashed on the rocks beneath the bridge. ~ Cat Clarke, #NFDB
600:think our country sinks beneath the yoke. It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash Is added to her wounds. I ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
601:To write things down as luck wasn't the same as writing them off as non-existent or in some way beneath consideration. ~ Kingsley Amis, #NFDB
602:You’re breathtaking,” he explained. “All you have to do is stand there and breathe and the earth beneath my feet moves. ~ Quinn Loftis, #NFDB
603:A weak but steady throb lay beneath Kev's searching fingertips. Win's heartbeat...the pulse that sustained his universe. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
604:Beware of the stories you read or tell. Subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world. ~ Ben Okri, #NFDB
605:Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world. ~ Ben Okri, #NFDB
606:But beneath the surface of success – outside our view, often outside our awareness – is a mountain of necessary failure. ~ Matthew Syed, #NFDB
607:Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter when the promise of a brave new world unfurled beneath a clear blue sky? ~ Pink Floyd, #NFDB
608:Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath? ~ Mary Oliver, #NFDB
609:He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he'd been so lucky to find her. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
610:In the worship of security we fling ourselves beneath the wheels of routine-and before we know it our lives are gone. ~ Sterling Hayden, #NFDB
611:It is—an awakening. In thinking of the heaven above, I did not perceive—the—’ ‘Earth beneath?’ ‘The better heaven beneath. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
612:I’ve played on grass my whole life, Scout. There’s no need for me to see what’s out there when it’s green beneath my feet. ~ K Bromberg, #NFDB
613:Somewhere, beneath the howl of the wind and the groan of the trees, Falk thought he could almost hear a death knell toll. ~ Jane Harper, #NFDB
614:The pathless path is the path always under our feet. And since that path is always beneath us, if we miss it, how stupid! ~ Longchenpa, #NFDB
615:The priest’s deep brown eyes reminded Nicky of the bayou: light reflected on their surface, but dark things moved beneath. ~ Lee Thomas, #NFDB
616:The self-righteous have their fig leaves so tightly bound that they have forgotten the seeping wounds beneath the foliage. ~ Mark Lowry, #NFDB
617:The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters. ~ Guillermo del Toro, #NFDB
618:What is Human history, if not an ongoing succession of greater technologies grinding lesser ones beneath their boots? But ~ Peter Watts, #NFDB
619:Beneath their wary smiles, the people were warm and friendly. They had known sorrow and loss, but their spirit survived. ~ Amanda Grange, #NFDB
620:Everyone is a psychoanalyst, it would seem, and they try to dig beneath words. I say what I mean. There is no subtext. I ~ Mark A Rayner, #NFDB
621:Lurking beneath every goal are dangerous assumptions. The longer those assumptions remain unexamined, the greater the risk. ~ Jake Knapp, #NFDB
622:Most people confuse their life situation with their actual life, which is an underlying flow beneath the everyday events. ~ Richard Rohr, #NFDB
623:Murphy's face went through several mutations as he spoke, as if small animals were scurrying about just beneath his skin. ~ Pete Hautman, #NFDB
624:My heart pounded when its counterpart thumped beneath his skin. “How?”
“I don’t care,” he said, and kissed me. ~ Jeri Smith Ready,#NFDB
625:Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could, for all those born beneath an angry star, lest we forget how fragile we are. ~ Sting, #NFDB
626:The entire second-period sophomore girls’ PE class thought my balls were uniquely and supremely beneath contempt. Great. ~ Frank Portman, #NFDB
627:[...] the war between good and evil existed no longer, for the thing beneath the Graal was not fighting but vomiting. ~ Charles Williams, #NFDB
628:under stars.
meet me here
beneath the stars
near the moon
in the dark
I’ve been waiting
for someone like you ~ R H Sin,#NFDB
629:When crossing a river in bright moonlight, I love to see the water scatter in showers of crystal beneath the oxen's feet. ~ Sei Sh nagon, #NFDB
630:Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph? ~ Robert Browning, #NFDB
631:You will serve your husband dinner tonight by your own hand....not because you are beneath him...because you are more. ~ Jennifer Probst, #NFDB
632:Beneath every goober is a kid. A person. Maybe he's not what you would call 'regular.' But so what? Is that a bad thing? ~ Jerry Spinelli, #NFDB
633:Be Warned: I sleep as the earth sleeps beneath the night sky or the winter’s snow; and once awakened, I am servant to no man. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
634:For most Americans, work is the center of life, not because they yearn for it to be, but because it has to be. Beneath ~ Rebecca Traister, #NFDB
635:He felt as though the bones of his ribcage were snapping beneath the weight of the stone that God had laid over his heart. ~ Daniel Silva, #NFDB
636:He was like a pot of simmering silver: simple and serene to look at, but with a scalding danger waiting beneath the surface. ~ Drew Hayes, #NFDB
637:How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if I fell, at least I wouldn't do it alone. ~ Sarah Dessen, #NFDB
638:I am not in so great a hurry to put my neck beneath any man's foot; and I do not so greatly admire the crying of babies ~ Olive Schreiner, #NFDB
639:Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. ~ Elie Wiesel, #NFDB
640:Never turn yer back on the sea, and remember what's hidden beneath her is always more deadly than what's in plain sight. ~ Alison Goodman, #NFDB
641:Take off the disguise and another is revealed beneath. Regard well the many people you must be. There is no innermost layer. ~ Rod Duncan, #NFDB
642:Tectonic plates are shifting beneath my skin
and there's a new continent in my chest
that I want to call by your name ~ Shinji Moon,#NFDB
643:There is always enough self-love hidden beneath the greatest devoutness to set limits on charity. ~ Madeleine de Souvre marquise de Sable, #NFDB
644:Unapologetically smitten with thunderstorms...the thought of rough sex beneath an acid washed moon and hydrated stars... ~ Brandi L Bates, #NFDB
645:brown hair, pebbly eyes dark beneath his straw hat, drove a team of workhorses from the west. His cheeks were sunburned ~ Colson Whitehead, #NFDB
646:False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks. ~ Alexander Herzen, #NFDB
647:If not for a dumb beast's incomprehension at its own destruction beneath
the loving hands of two heartbroken children. ~ Steven Erikson,#NFDB
648:Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics. ~ Qiu Xiaolong, #NFDB
649:Nothing before, nothing behind;
The steps of faith
Fall on the seeming void, and find
The Rock beneath. ~ John Greenleaf Whittier,#NFDB
650:She had looked in the mirror a million times and only saw the brown of her skin and not the magic flowing beneath it. ~ Bernice L McFadden, #NFDB
651:She is of the strangest beauty and the darkest courage, and when she walks with intent the earth trembles beneath her feet. ~ Nicole Lyons, #NFDB
652:The stoniest of greens
Plague queens not yet queens
Just one beneath can steal the sleep
Of maidens counting sheep ~ Shannon Hale,#NFDB
653:This isn’t so bad, is it? Sure, he’ll make you do things, sexual things, but he’s proven to be human beneath his monster. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
654:Death lay beneath him like a gate of sleep. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness, #NFDB
655:God commands us to be filled with the Spirit, and if we are not filled, it is because we are living beneath our privileges ~ Dwight L Moody, #NFDB
656:Her concept of paradise was something more immediate: a book and a blanket beneath a tree, where she might read in peace. ~ Janet Evanovich, #NFDB
657:Humanity is evil -- civilization is the scum that forms on the surface, but beneath, humanity consists of brutes and animals. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
658:I knew the facts of death before I knew the facts of life. There never was a time when I didn't see the skull beneath the skin. ~ P D James, #NFDB
659:Like the apple of Thine eye preserve me, O Lord God; defend me and beneath Thy wings shelter me from temptations. ~ Saint Ephrem the Syrian, #NFDB
660:No person [should] walk out into the world to begin the day until he or she has stood beneath the cross to receive God’s love. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
661:Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface. ~ A Lee Martinez, #NFDB
662:The Moon always finds an opportunity to turn our attention from the ground beneath our feet to the sky above our head! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
663:things which in my mind blossom will
stumble beneath a clumsiest disguise appear
capable of fragility and indecision ~ E E Cummings,#NFDB
664:...to slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light. ~ Ellen Meloy, #NFDB
665:What lies beneath has pushed its way to the surface once again. Time to get away while there is still air left in our lungs. ~ Jeyn Roberts, #NFDB
666:And worse, they'll trample on it, inadvertently crush it, beneath a certain mediocrity inherent in professional competence. ~ William Gibson, #NFDB
667:Beneath the vast diamond sky, I felt both all important and utterly significant, the goddess and the damned in equal measure. ~ Sarah Ockler, #NFDB
668:But it is part of the business of the writer—as I see it—to examine attitudes, to go beneath the surface, to tap the source. ~ James Baldwin, #NFDB
669:I think our country sinks beneath the yoke;
It weeps, it bleeds; and each new day a gash
Is added to her wounds: ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
670:It was still there, a low-grade fever in the blood, an itch somewhere down beneath the skin, where you couldn’t scratch it. ~ Lawrence Block, #NFDB
671:Let’s just say, brat, that if the wits beneath your golden hair were any dimmer you would be not a female, but a dandelion, ~ Kasey Michaels, #NFDB
672:My mother always told me
No monster lived beneath my bed,
But she had failed to warn me
It laid on top of it instead. ~ Erin Hanson,#NFDB
673:nothing can alter the fact that beneath the fascist insignia of their uniforms, these men are fathers, husbands, sons. I ~ Steven Pressfield, #NFDB
674:Reached only by boat, seaplane and, with less surety, telephone-this is Fire Island, a pile of sand beneath a pile of people. ~ Al Aronowitz, #NFDB
675:She was realizing for the first time in her life what agony it was to experience such unquiet beneath an impeccable veneer. ~ Anna Godbersen, #NFDB
676:Stretched out,
Tipsy,
Under the vast sky:
Splendid dreams
Beneath the cherry blossoms.
~ Taigu Ryokan, Stretched Out
,#NFDB
677:Which left Aeduan, as always, on the edge of a scene, watching while the world unfolded without him beneath a darkening sky. ~ Susan Dennard, #NFDB
678:You are mine,” he whispered into her. “And the world is ours. There is nowhere beneath this sky that we do not belong together. ~ Tessa Dare, #NFDB
679:407Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics. ~ Qiu Xiaolong, #NFDB
680:Beneath the clock was an enormous arrow, on which was printed: Change Here For Eastern Trains. But time had no arrow, not here. ~ Martin Amis, #NFDB
681:Could I contain the darkness that always walked with me, beneath my skin, ever ready to be freed? The monster that they made me ~ Tillie Cole, #NFDB
682:He had layers that he wore like leather. I didn't want to even think about peeling those layers away to find out what was beneath ~ Nina Lane, #NFDB
683:He had one of those faces where you were aware of the bones beneath the skin, as if even his bare skull would be attractive. ~ David Nicholls, #NFDB
684:I don’t believe that," I said, and he raised his brow beneath his shaggy hair.
"I never asked you to.”
(Jessica) ~ Shannon A Thompson,#NFDB
685:Marie-Laure is glad to hear a smile enter his voice. But beneath it she can sense his thoughts fluttering like trapped birds. ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
686:Rion ran her hands and nails all over her itchy face. Instant gratification shot beneath her skin, the relief utterly satisfying. ~ Kelly Gay, #NFDB
687:Thankfully, the leaves and twigs are so demoralized by the earlier rain they don't have the heart to cry out beneath my feet. ~ Stuart Turton, #NFDB
688:The clear bulge he’d just revealed beneath the tight black cotton... mother of sweet mercy, it had her terrified and desperate. ~ Lucian Bane, #NFDB
689:The earth has disappeared beneath my feet, It fled from all my ecstasy. Now like a singing air creature I feel the rose keep opening. ~ Hafez, #NFDB
690:The monster once awakened, may go into hibernation, but he is always lurking, just beneath the polite suits and phallic ties. ~ Julian Darius, #NFDB
691:The technologies of virtual reality are attempting to make us see from beneath, from inside, from behind... as if we were God. ~ Paul Virilio, #NFDB
692:The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art. ~ Robert Burns, #NFDB
693:If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me! ~ James M Barrie, #NFDB
694:It’s a seed of doubt that will grow into a tree of trust, which I can sit beneath for shade or cut down for lumber as I see fit. ~ Scott Meyer, #NFDB
695:O Elbereth! Gilthoniel! We still remember, we who dwell In this far land beneath the trees. Thy starlight on the Western Seas. ~ J R R Tolkien, #NFDB
696:The old Ronan Lynch's laugh. No, it was better than that one, because this new one had just a hint of darkness beneath it. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
697:Want to see the rock? Want to lay on it naked, and feel me in you, beneath the pinwheel stars, while the grass sings our names? ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
698:We did not sense at first the extra time, bulging from the smooth edge of each day like a tumor blooming beneath skin. ~ Karen Thompson Walker, #NFDB
699:You have to accept that, at least: beneath everything, despite a privileged life and a sense of humor, I was an angry person. ~ Rebecca Makkai, #NFDB
700:Be a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
701:Do you love this world?
Do you cherish your humble and silky life?
Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath? ~ Mary Oliver,#NFDB
702:It is base to take advantage of our rank or greatness by making fun of those placed beneath us in life. ~ Madeleine de Souvre marquise de Sable, #NFDB
703:I used to like mine with champagne. The champagne as cold as Valley Forge and about a third of a glass of brandy beneath it. ~ Raymond Chandler, #NFDB
704:Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn,
Greater are none beneath the Sun
Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn. ~ Rudyard Kipling,#NFDB
705:Pride cannot live beneath the cross. Let us sit there and learn our lesson, and then rise and carry it into practice. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
706:She only wants my happiness,” Jessica murmured, offering him a reassuring smile from beneath the brim of her straw bonnet. “It may ~ Sylvia Day, #NFDB
707:Somewhere, beneath that darkness, I had seen both strength and honor. But his words of despair mocked my efforts at healing. ~ Juliet Marillier, #NFDB
708:A smile is his only answer, but it doesn't matter. I already know how, and it doesn't scare me: Damien Stark can see beneath my mask. ~ J Kenner, #NFDB
709:Faerie might be beautiful, but its beauty is like a golden stag’s carcass, crawling with maggots beneath his hide, ready to burst. ~ Holly Black, #NFDB
710:Faerie might be beautiful, but its beauty is like a golden stag’s carcass, crawling with maggots beneath his hide, ready to burst. ~ Holly Black, #NFDB
711:Far too many women are hesitant, and remain trapped in jobs for which they are over-qualified or paid beneath their worth. ~ Janet Street Porter, #NFDB
712:I am beneath or above no one. When I am independent of the good or bad opinion of others, I stand strong in my own divine power. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
713:Love her as in childhood Through feeble, old and grey. For you’ll never miss a mother’s love Till she’s buried beneath the clay. ~ Frank McCourt, #NFDB
714:Love is in air, love is in wind, love is in every soul hidden beneath. Wake up and show your love because love is all you need. ~ Santosh Kalwar, #NFDB
715:Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were. ~ Murray Kempton, #NFDB
716:No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man. ~ Bruce Barton, #NFDB
717:Pulling out the chair beneath your mind And watching you fall upon God What else is there for Hafiz to do that is any fun in this world! ~ Hafez, #NFDB
718:So many important things pass quickly without being understood at the time. So many powerful moments are buried beneath the absurd ~ Dan Simmons, #NFDB
719:The monster’s name was Izumrud, the great worm, and there were those who claimed he had made the tunnels that ran beneath Ravka. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
720:Whole worlds exist beneath the surface. And maybe you can't see down there, Michael thought, but there's a part of you that knows. ~ Jess Walter, #NFDB
721:Xang Xu, the name read beneath his picture. Wanted for computer fraud and various other cyber crimes. By the freaking FBI and god ~ Kaylea Cross, #NFDB
722:A savage place! As holy and enchanted/As e'er beneath the waning moon was haunted/By woman wailing for her Demon Lover! ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, #NFDB
723:Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, He is beneath it. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
724:For the key is hid and by the Inconscient kept;
The secret God beneath the threshold dwells.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
725:Fresh air, quiet, and the calming stimulus of the movement on the earth beneath the sky; that's why she loves to walk so much. ~ Richard Matheson, #NFDB
726:... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit. ~ Freya Stark, #NFDB
727:His job was to set the priorities, to think big picture, and then trust the people beneath him to do the jobs they were hired for. ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
728:I have thousands and thousands of hats. Some are the most outrageous hats in the world. They are my disguise. I hide beneath them. ~ Larry Hagman, #NFDB
729:The lute sang beneath her fingertips and her words sailed toward the rafters like floating lanterns set loose on a summer night. ~ Nicholas Eames, #NFDB
730:Until then she had been blind, but when she saw those mountains, she slipped beneath the surface of the war and found the country. ~ Tatjana Soli, #NFDB
731:We who fly do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet. ~ Cecil Day Lewis, #NFDB
732:A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart. ~ Greville Janner Baron Janner of Braunstone, #NFDB
733:Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
734:God must not be judged from appearances. Beneath the gilding of heaven I perceive a poverty-stricken universe. Creation is bankrupt. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
735:I died on a bitter cold night. Beneath a black sky and a bruised winter moon, I tried to fly, hoping my arms might act as wings. ~ Jennifer Archer, #NFDB
736:Imperialism could only have powered an internally homogeneous State which attaches to itself agrarian zones far beneath it culturally. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
737:It used to be you rose up through the ranks, and by the time you got a job as a boss, you had done the work of everybody beneath you. ~ Suzy Welch, #NFDB
738:War doesn’t start with an explosion….It bears far more subtlety. A simmer beneath the surface, as if bringing broth to a boil. ~ Kristina McMorris, #NFDB
739:Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
740:From beneath his slouched hat Ahab dropped a tear into the sea; nor did all the Pacific contain such wealth as that one wee drop. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
741:He combed a hand through his tousled brown hair, and Camille noticed how handsome he was. Beneath the dirt and insincerity, anyway. ~ Angie Frazier, #NFDB
742:I found a sad little fairy Beneath the shade of a paper tree. I know a sad little fairy Who was blown away by the wind one night. ~ Khaled Hosseini, #NFDB
743:Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute. ~ Gene Hackman, #NFDB
744:Nearly everyone in the world has appetites and impulses, trigger emotions, islands of selfishness, lusts just beneath the surface. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
745:That boy said there’s a corpse buried beneath each cherry tree. That’s why they bloom so prettily. He smiled when he said that. Who was he? ~ CLAMP, #NFDB
746:The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess. ~ Tess Gerritsen, #NFDB
747:The city was poisoned with the venom of small fundamentalisms, and the venom ran beneath us, like dirty water in the sewers. ~ Juan Gabriel V squez, #NFDB
748:There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
749:There's my Prince Charming, handsome as he is swoon worthy. Beneath the asshole, the best man I'll ever know and love is still there. ~ Nicole Snow, #NFDB
750:Water boiled up beneath the bubble, it seethed and spouted. The bubble surged into the air, bobbing and rolling on the water spout. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
751:When you met people, they were on their best behavior, smiles and best manners. You couldn’t tell what lurked beneath the surface ~ Chet Williamson, #NFDB
752:And the dancing has begun now, And the Dancings whirl round gaily In the waltz's giddy mazes, And the ground beneath them trembles. ~ Heinrich Heine, #NFDB
753:Beneath the hard, painful surface of her recollection were layers of healing truth. God had never left her side, not even for a moment. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
754:But now and then, beneath the outer numbness, something stirred, like a living pain waiting for the anesthetic to wear away. ~ Zilpha Keatley Snyder, #NFDB
755:Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room. ~ Claude Monet, #NFDB
756:Elizabeth found that nothing was beneath this great lady's attention, which could furnish her with an occasion of dictating to others. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
757:Everyone feels like they can hide behind a mask or a costume, but in the morning, they still wake up as the person beneath the mask. ~ Kandi Steiner, #NFDB
758:He had despised the sorcerer, thinking him one of those mewling souls who forever groaned beneath burdens of their own manufacture. ~ R Scott Bakker, #NFDB
759:His whole life had become those naked hours, her warm, soft body beneath him and beside him. Her kisses, her touches.
Her sighs. ~ Annabel Joseph,#NFDB
760:I am, beneath everything else, a fan. I was fixed in this mode as a young boy and am awed by people who take the risks of performance. ~ Roger Ebert, #NFDB
761:I'm exactly as I appear. There is no warm lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water. ~ Gore Vidal, #NFDB
762:It's amazing what storms your face can hide, what terrible wrecks can writhe and heave beneath, without one ripple on the surface. ~ Jenny Valentine, #NFDB
763:Look around! Everything's rigid, hard, dark, what lies beneath it all? Something we don't understand. God's gone. Everything's gone. ~ Georg B chner, #NFDB
764:No matter how many lies you use to disguise it or how many excuses you bury it beneath, the truth will never cease to be true. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
765:Peyton Farquhar was dead; his body, with a broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of the Owl Creek bridge. ~ Ambrose Bierce, #NFDB
766:Self-centredness thus enabling every human being to see the universe spread out in descending tiers beneath himself who is its lord, ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
767:She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless. ~ Alice Hoffman, #NFDB
768:She had become an expert at wearing masks, so much so that sometimes it was difficult to find her true self beneath the layers: ~ Elizabeth Chadwick, #NFDB
769:Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilisation reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well? ~ mile Zola, #NFDB
770:Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well? ~ Emile Zola, #NFDB
771:So I can be the girl from Titanic who stays high and dry while you, the guy, vanish beneath the icy waves? I don’t think so. ~ Julia Spencer Fleming, #NFDB
772:Stars are out and there is sea
enough beneath the glistening earth
to bear me toward the future
which is not so dark. I see. ~ Frank O Hara,#NFDB
773:Sure it all seemed a little silly now but all the old antipathies about unfair penalties were still there just beneath the surface. ~ Liane Moriarty, #NFDB
774:The initiative to undertake your most important duty in life is often buried beneath the accumulated debris of human habits. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda, #NFDB
775:They were men like other young men, unknown to themselves. So much that lay within them they were now travelling to meet. Beneath ~ Richard Flanagan, #NFDB
776:Until the moon stops shining above you and the sun ceases to rise from beneath, and even then, in all that darkness…I’ll still love you. ~ Ker Dukey, #NFDB
777:When the truth get's buried deep beneath a thousand years of sleep, time demands a turnaround.. And once again the truth is found. ~ George Harrison, #NFDB
778:39know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that i the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; j there is no other. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
779:A horizontal band of amber sunlight smoldered beneath banks of gunmetal clouds, like lamplight leaking from beneath a closed door. ~ Sibella Giorello, #NFDB
780:A sheet spread beneath an apple-tree can receive only apples; a sheet spread beneath the stars can receive only star-dust. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
781:Beneath my feet were the bones of a thousand years. I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another. ~ Madeline Miller, #NFDB
782:Beneath our questions about God’s generosity and his care for our needs is something darker. What we really care about is our wants. ~ Edward T Welch, #NFDB
783:Besides, as Ma had told her innumerable times, a lady should never indicate in mixed company that she had limbs beneath her skirt. ~ Susan Page Davis, #NFDB
784:Her scapulae were delicate wings; her skull was a psalm to the elegant dancer waiting beneath the flesh of all who walked the earth. ~ Seanan McGuire, #NFDB
785:his chair, just beneath his drawing of the battle between the white blood cell soldiers and the invading E. coli troops. “He doesn’t ~ Eben Alexander, #NFDB
786:I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water. ~ Gore Vidal, #NFDB
787:I’m not sure what hurts more, the grenade exploding in my own chest or knowing that beneath that smile of hers, she’s wrecked and lost. ~ Jewel E Ann, #NFDB
788:In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace. ~ Aberjhani, #NFDB
789:I only wish you could spend just five minutes beneath my skin and feel what it’s like. Feel the savage swarming magic I feel. ~ Claire Louise Bennett, #NFDB
790:I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show. ~ Andrew Wyeth, #NFDB
791:Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature. ~ Al Gore, #NFDB
792:She listens closely to the silence as though the sounds just beneath the surface are awaiting to release the significance of a moment. ~ Truth Devour, #NFDB
793:the job itself is utterly beneath me, but then I seem to have become beneath me over the past year or two. I need to reset the scale. ~ Paula Hawkins, #NFDB
794:There is more going on beneath the surface than we think, and more going on in little, finite moments of time than we would guess. ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
795:They settle in around twilight, when the sun sinks beneath the horizon, slipping away to play with kids on the other side of the world. ~ Mary Kubica, #NFDB
796:Why, Sicarius, is it possible you have a playful side beneath your razor-edged knives, severe black clothing, and humorless glares? ~ Lindsay Buroker, #NFDB
797:Why, Sicarius, is it possible you have a playful side beneath your razor-edged knives, severe black clothing and humourless glares? ~ Lindsay Buroker, #NFDB
798:Ah! you wish us to be only objects of sensuality? All right; by the aid of sensuality we will bend you beneath our yoke,' say the woman. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
799:Had I known, I would not have left you,
alone beneath those stars,
on the night when I last saw you,
not knowing it was the last. ~ Lang Leav,#NFDB
800:Honour to Agamemnon is a thing / That he can pick, pick up, put back, pick up again, / A somesuch you might find beneath your bed. ~ Christopher Logue, #NFDB
801:I found a sad little fairy Beneath the shade of a paper tree. I know a sad little fairy Who was blown away by the wind one night. He ~ Khaled Hosseini, #NFDB
802:Many are less fortunate than you' may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower. ~ Georg C Lichtenberg, #NFDB
803:No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river. ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
804:Perhaps the so-called civilized world was a great noisy burden beneath all its wonders, and it was a relief to let go of it for a while. ~ Dani Harper, #NFDB
805:Sydney tugged off her shoes by the door and went to scrub the grave dirt and the lingering feel of the dead from beneath her fingernails. ~ V E Schwab, #NFDB
806:There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath... ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
807:And so we made our way across that heap of stones, which often moved beneath my feet because my weight was somewhat strange for them. ~ Dante Alighieri, #NFDB
808:A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover! ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge,#NFDB
809:Dig beneath your feet, there you will find a spring. The place where you are now is crucial. Never try to avoid that which you must do. ~ Daisaku Ikeda, #NFDB
810:Immortality in a book-lined catacomb down beneath the surface of the earth, or death up here, with all this? I'll take death and a kebab. ~ Robin Sloan, #NFDB
811:Not all is ideology, beneath the ideological mask, I am also a human person' is the very form of ideology, of its 'practical efficiency'. ~ Slavoj i ek, #NFDB
812:There is a shared reservoir of pain that lies like an aquifer beneath us. When all else is lost, that will be all that binds us. ~ Omar Robert Hamilton, #NFDB
813:What’s the use—when you will go back?” he broke out, a great hopeless How on earth can I keep you? crying out to her beneath his words. ~ Edith Wharton, #NFDB
814:400 mutineers were hanged simultaneously, while British officers seated beneath sipped whiskies and sodas and regimental bands played. ~ Rajmohan Gandhi, #NFDB
815:Adieu, sun! Disappear, thou radiant orb! rest beneath this open sea, and let a night of six months spread its shadows over my new domains! ~ Jules Verne, #NFDB
816:Before you knew it, a wonder could mix with the plain old earth beneath your feet until you could no longer tell the difference at all. ~ Kimberly Brock, #NFDB
817:Do not wander in the deeps,
Where the Shriker's shadow creeps.
When he rises from beneath,
Beware the Sharpness of his teeth. ~ Janet Lee Carey,#NFDB
818:Even the sea had lost its deep blue colour and, beneath the misty sky, took on the sheen of silver or iron, making it painful to look at. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
819:exquisite--such was Fantine; and beneath these feminine adornments and these ribbons one could divine a statue, and in that statue a soul. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
820:Figures dark beneath their loads pass down the far bank of the river, rendered immortal by the streak of sunset upon their shoulders ~ Peter Matthiessen, #NFDB
821:it surprised Ceony how warm Emery felt, like a campfire crackled beneath his skin. Not feverishly warm, just . . . comfortable. She ~ Charlie N Holmberg, #NFDB
822:I've always been able to see the savageness beneath the veneer of society. It's not so very far beneath the surface, no matter where you go. ~ Lily King, #NFDB
823:Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there's a seed that with the sun's love in the spring becomes a rose. ~ Bette Midler, #NFDB
824:Our subjects are equivalent to the tip of the patriarchal iceberg, but it's what lies beneath the surface that really makes the water cold.* ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
825:Then, if the hull go down, there'll be thirty lively fellows all fighting for one coffin, a sight not seen very often beneath the sun! ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
826:The pain of hunger beneath everything. At the end of all love-making, the dreamless sleep after the orgasm, which is like death. ~ Christopher Isherwood, #NFDB
827:These weren’t just any walls, these were the stones of Milderhurst Castle, beneath whose skin the distant hours were whispering, watching. ~ Kate Morton, #NFDB
828:The skin of frozen snow crunched satisfyingly beneath my boots as I smashed each step into the ground just as I planned to smash my foes. ~ Kate Elliott, #NFDB
829:The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit. ~ Tullian Tchividjian, #NFDB
830:The water is calm, but the currents pull beneath the surface. Though they can’t be seen, they have the power to drag cats to their deaths. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
831:We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, #NFDB
832:A bribed man can only hate his briber. When this man died the nation rang with praise and, just beneath, with gladness that he was dead. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
833:All that matters is what happens with the here and now. The past is just ground beneath your feet, there to hold you up or be left behind. ~ Karina Halle, #NFDB
834:beneath his head, closing his eyes to put Jack more at his ease. He felt the light touch of Jack’s calloused fingers on his belly, then ~ Claire Thompson, #NFDB
835:Desire, a venerable teacher had once told him, is this: To wait beneath the stars for someone to return, alive, from the field of battle. ~ Stefano Benni, #NFDB
836:Do you remember,” George went on, “what we found in the tunnels beneath Aickmere’s? Aside from a massive pile of human bones.” “I found ~ Jonathan Stroud, #NFDB
837:He sat in another season - spring time, maybe - beneath a separate sun whose rays ended at the periphery of her eyesight, her reality. ~ Joanne Greenberg, #NFDB
838:He stroked me, washed me, spoke to me. “What’s your name?” “Kitten,” I whispered weakly. “And mine?” he tensed beneath my fingers. “Master. ~ C J Roberts, #NFDB
839:I hate every human being on earth. I feel that everyone is beneath me, and I feel they should all worship me. That's what I told my kids. ~ Roseanne Barr, #NFDB
840:Love her as in childhood
Through feeble, old and grey.
For you’ll never miss a mother’s love
Till she’s buried beneath the clay. ~ Frank McCourt,#NFDB
841:Somewhere beneath the tides of those superficial emotions she knew the cold deep current of her grief sought to pull her down and drown her. ~ Robin Hobb, #NFDB
842:There will be men who fall in love with your skin and others who drown themselves in everything that lies beneath.” -Cindy Cherie, Poetess ~ Kennedy Ryan, #NFDB
843:This is what has to be remembered about the law: Beneath that cold, harsh, impersonal exterior there beats a cold, harsh, impersonal heart. ~ David Frost, #NFDB
844:Why do I have to be a pumpkin? This is discrimination,' Lottie moaned, hardly able to lift her arms from beneath the inflated orange suit. ~ Connie Glynn, #NFDB
845:You terrify me.” She smiled, wiggling beneath him before pushing her pelvis up against his. “I’m harmless.” “You’re lethal.” “I’m waiting. ~ Katy Regnery, #NFDB
846:But inflation or deflation can be forecast to some extent. The real risks are those that lie hidden beneath the veneer of “business as usual. ~ Ram Charan, #NFDB
847:Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a
different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity. ~ Charles J Sykes,#NFDB
848:He just knew, on a level beneath reason
and memory, that some part of him belonged
with Isabelle. Maybe even belonged to Isabelle. ~ Cassandra Clare,#NFDB
849:In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas; at noon, we stoop and bend beneath it; and at night, it crushes us flat to the ground. ~ Henry Ward Beecher, #NFDB
850:Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath. ~ Richard Paul Evans, #NFDB
851:a man is very revealed by his wife, just as a woman is revealed by her husband. People never marry beneath or above themselves, I assure you. ~ Carol Grace, #NFDB
852:Being frightened is a part of the human experience. It lies beneath every impulse to grow spiritually—to find the roots of fear and pull them. ~ Gary Zukav, #NFDB
853:Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion. ~ Julia Ward Howe, #NFDB
854:Beneath the hint of blueberries, Alex could taste the wild, winter flavor of Corbin himself, and he’d never tasted anything so intoxicating. ~ Roan Parrish, #NFDB
855:How beautiful the silent hour, when morning and evening thus sit together, hand in hand, beneath the starless sky of midnight! ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB
856:No one had ever accused Koko of being naughty. Perverse, perhaps, or arrogant, or despotic. But naughtiness was beneath his dignity. ~ Lilian Jackson Braun, #NFDB
857:Nothing, nothing felt better than the way sand felt beneath my feet. It was both solid and shifting. Constant and ever-changing. It was summer. ~ Jenny Han, #NFDB
858:She felt frightened only for a second. For one thing, the world beneath her was so very far away that it seemed to have nothing to do with her. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
859:She saw what lurked beneath his pleasant, confident exterior: a network of thorns in the shape of a man, a thing that wore him like a suit. ~ Max Gladstone, #NFDB
860:She was my ground, my favorite sound,
my country road, my city street,
my sky above, my only love,
and the ground beneath my feet ~ Salman Rushdie,#NFDB
861:Sipping tea
with glee
beneath a gooseberry tree.
I wish Alice were here.
Oh, my dear,
do not fear,
she will be. ~ Richelle E Goodrich,#NFDB
862:Terror surges through my body, paralyzing me. Somehow, I end up beneath the wooden floorboards. I can see everything from my hiding place. My ~ Mya Robarts, #NFDB
863:The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness. ~ Sydney J Harris, #NFDB
864:The land is numb. It stands beneath the feet, and one may come Walking securely, till the sea extends Its limber margin, and precision ends. ~ Yvor Winters, #NFDB
865:The spears, knives, and clubs Keta had been secretly stockpiling beneath the barrels of fish were also just tools. His mind was the weapon. ~ Larry Correia, #NFDB
866:We are like icebergs in the ocean: one-eighth part consciousness and the rest submerged beneath the surface of articulate apprehension. ~ William Gerhardie, #NFDB
867:Beneath your burdensome regrets and who you think you are through the lens of past mistakes, there is someone beautiful who wants to emerge. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
868:By choosing not to allow parts of ourselves to exist, we are forced to expend huge amounts of psychic energy to keep them beneath the surface. ~ Debbie Ford, #NFDB
869:Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
870:He understood Lawrence was weak and frightened, as bullies generally were when you scratched just beneath the surface of their swagger. “I ~ Claire Thompson, #NFDB
871:He was, of course, a demon incarnate – or the shadow of a god. They called him Mir, which to these people meant ‘the world beneath the world. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
872:I found a sad little fairy
Beneath the shade of a paper tree.
I know a sad little fairy
Who was blown away by the wind one night. ~ Khaled Hosseini,#NFDB
873:My best discovery of the night? Olivia is hiding a dirty girl beneath that shy, quietly sexy exterior.
And I’m going to set her free. ~ Michelle Leighton,#NFDB
874:The horse was called Diamond because of the marking on her brow, an orphaned splash of white beneath the swishing mask of her long forelock; ~ Justin Cronin, #NFDB
875:The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democracy, from beneath which the old aristocratic colors sometimes peep. ~ Alexis de Tocqueville, #NFDB
876:Who knows what crumbling infrastructure lies beneath our sleeping children? Actually, many people do - they pay surveyors to take a look. ~ Christine Pelosi, #NFDB
877:With the stick in my right hand, the throttle in my left, and the rudder beneath my feet, I can savor that essence from which life is made. ~ Stephen Coonts, #NFDB
878:And if no Lethe flows beneath your casement, And when ten years have not brought full effacement, Philosophy was wrong, and you may meet. ~ John Crowe Ransom, #NFDB
879:An earth hard as iron lay locked beneath a sky whose mottled clouds spit snow like ashes sucked up a chimney and then dispersed with the smoke. ~ John Updike, #NFDB
880:At least he could turn on the shower, stand beneath the hot needles, face thrust near the spray head, feeling the headache move back a little. ~ Annie Proulx, #NFDB
881:Beneath his hands, my skin is so light and tight I half imagine I’m transparent. I’m glass for him, all the way to my blood-red, shining heart. ~ Alexis Hall, #NFDB
882:Falling in love is like submerging beneath the ocean with a submarine; you leave the outside world and wander in the silence of dimness. ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
883:How it heaves itself at the rocks, this sea! It throws clouds of sea-foam at the darkling sky in banners, making the floor beneath me tremble. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
884:I found a sad little fairy
Beneath the shade of a paper tree.
I know a sad little fairy
Who was blown away by the wind one night. ~ Khaled Hosseini,#NFDB
885:I know I shouldn't look, but I can't help it, I have to see if it's like before. Even with his mask on, I saw the soul beneath the stone. ~ Alexandra Bracken, #NFDB
886:It's about the feeling you get: the road beneath the soles of your feet, the smell in the air. It makes you feel strong, somehow, invincible. ~ Rowan Coleman, #NFDB
887:Long hast thou lain in dreams of war— Lift from the dark your eyeless gaze! Stand beneath the sky once more, Where seas of suns spill all ablaze! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
888:Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed ~ Khaled Hosseini, #NFDB
889:No one can walk beneath palm trees with impunity, and ideas are sure to change in a land where elephants and tigers are at home. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
890:She practices yoga three times a week, tripping down the steps with her magic-carpet mat rolled beneath one arm, legs shrink-wrapped in Lululemon. ~ A J Finn, #NFDB
891:She was falling apart beneath my hands, and I was falling apart beneath her. My power was her power, and together, we sent each other soaring. ~ Rachael Wade, #NFDB
892:She watches him walk outside, through the big doors and into the morning. A big man with a big walk. The world turning like a wheel beneath him. ~ Neil Cross, #NFDB
893:The two commandments go beneath social performance and social appearance to the deep, elemental, defining issue of “God versus the gods. ~ Walter Brueggemann, #NFDB
894:To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I'm like a duck--paddling, paddling, paddling. ~ Scott Stossel, #NFDB
895:We've got no fairytale ending, in God's hands our fate is complete. Your heaven's here in my heart, our love's this dust beneath my feet. ~ Bruce Springsteen, #NFDB
896:Because in the conversation beneath this one, what we're really saying is I am an imperfect person. Here are my failures. Do you want me anyway? ~ Nina LaCour, #NFDB
897:Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind, Now slip, now slide, now move unseen, Above, beneath, betwixt, between. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
898:Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,/Above, beneath, betwixt, between. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
899:Be like the bird who,
Resting in his flight
On a twig too slight,
Feels it bend beneath him
Yet sings,
Knowing he has wings. ~ Victor Hugo,#NFDB
900:Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
901:He kept thinking about one word—forever—and felt the burning ache just beneath his rib cage. It hurt like the worst ass-kicking he’d ever gotten. ~ John Green, #NFDB
902:He was all for people speaking their minds but it did make him miss the time when what was beneath the surface had been permitted to stay there. ~ Rachel Cusk, #NFDB
903:Hidden beneath localism’s DIY attitude is a deep pessimism: it assumes we can’t make large-scale, collective social change,” worries Sharzer. ~ Leigh Phillips, #NFDB
904:I love you,' he says for the first time.
I turn my body to face his. 'Say it again.'
He says it over and over again, pulling me beneath him. ~ Lang Leav,#NFDB
905:Many things are found hidden beneath the ground. Men and kings and ancient warriors and the weapons they forged. All are eventually buried. ~ Brian Lee Durfee, #NFDB
906:When the person you love can't see your love for them beneath the painful things you say when they reject you, remember this: Love is blind. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
907:Epitaph Of A Young Poet Who Died Before Having
Achieved Success
Beneath this sod lie the remains
Of one who died of growing pains.
~ Amy Lowell,#NFDB
908:He didn’t know if his capacity to love had been stunted, buried beneath the need for survival for so long it had forgotten how to breathe.... ~ Brooke McKinley, #NFDB
909:In Vegas, the veneer of glamor was bright but thin. You didn't have to look that hard to see the darker realities that lurked beneath the surface. ~ Rob Thomas, #NFDB
910:Names are the just the layer on top. You peel it off and there is the real you beneath. Have you ever seen the real you? Have you ever tried to? ~ Cameron Jace, #NFDB
911:Nicole's world had fallen to pieces, but it was only a flimsy and scarcely created world; beneath it her emotions and instincts fought on. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
912:Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them. ~ Jean Paul, #NFDB
913:The ability to hear someone is really about trust, not simply about communication. A trust issue always lurks beneath a communication difficulty. ~ David Richo, #NFDB
914:The elms made him think of brothers, of sisters, of husbands and wives—he was sure that, beneath the ground, their roots were mortally entwined. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
915:The night is like warm velvet around them. The stars, burning diamonds in the cloudless sky, turn the road beneath their feet a silver grey. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
916:Then she snapped her fingers and we were standing on Europa, discussing the possibility of extraterrestrial life beneath the moon’s icy crust. I ~ Ernest Cline, #NFDB
917:The winds shook off in unison and yipped beneath the gleaming stars.
She gave him her lips. They kissed.
And she was in love with the thunder. ~ Ali Shaw,#NFDB
918:Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness. ~ Walter Benjamin, #NFDB
919:Transfixed beneath the rays of a jaundiced star, he huddled against the crumbling parapet, fighting an evil the priests assumed long vanquished. ~ Grace Draven, #NFDB
920:39 Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
921:As her life choked away beneath the tightness , in a strange way she welcomed the physical pain over the anguished years of mental affliction. ~ Patricia Gibney, #NFDB
922:But he only drifted, always with one eye on that distant sky, always with a promise to himself that one day he would see all of what lay beneath it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
923:If something seemed simple, you probably just weren’t looking at it hard enough or peeling away enough layers to see what’s really beneath. ~ Christian Cantrell, #NFDB
924:It is quite beneath the dignity of a person holding a Bachelor of Arts degree to engage in such a vulgar occupation as the writing of novels. ~ Fukuzawa Yukichi, #NFDB
925:The darkness of the night implies nothing sinister, only that the liberation takes place in hidden ways, beneath our knowledge and understanding. ~ Gerald G May, #NFDB
926:The smoke rolls along the low ceiling and pours up into the night - a reverse waterfall - like when the kettle boils beneath the plate cupboard. ~ Joe Dunthorne, #NFDB
927:The writing is definitely on the wall and no matter how pretty the ink looks, it will still bleed through and stain the layers beneath permanently. ~ K Bromberg, #NFDB
928:What should I believe? thought Shadow, and the voice came back to him from somewhere deep beneath the world, in a bass rumble: Believe everything. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
929:Whenever you’re disturbed, try to identify the fear beneath the disturbance. The root is always fear, and unless we face it, we tend to act badly. ~ John Verdon, #NFDB
930:Yea, Paris is a festive ton -- a festive Ton for all! Skate o'er on joy -- Thin crust of gilded, polished joy! What matters it if Hell's beneath? ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
931:below the hopelessness is faith, under the sorrow is joy, and beneath the spastic pelvic floor is the genital apparatus and the way to freedom. ~ Alexander Lowen, #NFDB
932:Burning the small dead branches broke from beneath thick spreading whitebark pine. A hundred summers snowmelt rock and air hiss in a twisted bough. ~ Gary Snyder, #NFDB
933:Did you ever know that you're my hero, you're everything I wish I could be. I could fly higher than an eagle with you as the wind beneath my wings. ~ Gary Morris, #NFDB
934:Even if you couldn't see it beneath the surface, molecules were bonding, energy pushing up slowly, as something worked do hare, all alone to grow. ~ Sarah Dessen, #NFDB
935:Few, few shall part where many meet, The snow shall be their winding sheet; And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier’s sepulchre. ~ William Dalrymple, #NFDB
936:Give me Pablo Neruda, picnic beneath a full moon & iridescent stars, black olives, cherries, dark things, canoe on a river...that's romance. ~ Brandi L Bates, #NFDB
937:He’d never liked the ocean, the sense of the unknown beneath his feet, that something hungry and full of teeth might be waiting to drag him under ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
938:How do you stand the pain?” I ask. “It’s just pain.” He shrugs. His white cloak, smeared with dust, sticks to him as though he is wet beneath it. ~ Mark Lawrence, #NFDB
939:I'll live to be one year younger, because I can't stand the idea of a world without you in it, and die buried beneath an avalanche of my own books. ~ Lance Olsen, #NFDB
940:In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced. ~ Gaston Bachelard, #NFDB
941:I remembered that life in that room seemed to be occuring beneath the sea, time flowed past indiffrently above us, hours and days had no meaning. ~ James Baldwin, #NFDB
942:I will rape their women, take their children as slaves, and bring their broken gods back to Vaes Dothrak to bow down beneath the Mother of Mountains. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
943:Looking at him in his cut, tattoos peeking out beneath his shirt, I realize why I can't have a Prince Charming; I've fallen in love with the villain. ~ M N Forgy, #NFDB
944:She stretched beneath him, bare and aching, held captive by an entirely new form of magic, one she'd thought existed only in books and movies. ~ Christine Warren, #NFDB
945:The Augustus Waters of the crooked smiles and unsmoked cigarettes was gone, replaced by this desperate humiliated creature sitting there beneath me. ~ John Green, #NFDB
946:The glory of Advent and Christmas is camouflaged by humility, anonymity and even foolishness, for our God likes to hide himself beneath his opposite. ~ Chad Bird, #NFDB
947:The same substance composes us--the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star--we are all one, all moving to the same end. ~ P L Travers, #NFDB
948:Walls tagged with graffiti (one such piece of tagging: a stencil of a familiar Sith Lord’s helmet with the phrase beneath it reading VADER LIVES). ~ Chuck Wendig, #NFDB
949:Water sprayed out from beneath his galoshes in muddy sheets. Their buckles made a jolly jingling as George Denbrough ran toward his strange death. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
950:Yellow melon flowers Crawl beneath the withered peach-trees; A date-palm throws its heavy fronds of steel Against the scoured metallic sky. ~ John Gould Fletcher, #NFDB
951:All the fear has left me now, I'm not frightened anymore. It's my heart that pounds beneath my flesh, it's my mouth that pushes out this breath. ~ Sarah McLachlan, #NFDB
952:Before you can hear, much less follow, the voice of your soul, you have to win back your body. You have to go on a pilgrimage beneath the skin. ~ Meggan Watterson, #NFDB
953:beneath Lincoln’s tenderness and kindness, he was without question the most complex, ambitious, willful, and implacable leader of them all. ~ Doris Kearns Goodwin, #NFDB
954:Beneath outer consciousness, two other beings, anonymous, impersonal, without labels, had met and recognized each other and clasped hands. ~ Christopher Isherwood, #NFDB
955:Beneath the skin, beyond the differing features and into the true heart of being, fundamentally, we are more alike, my friend, than we are unalike. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
956:But some days, he looked as if he’d been up all night drinking, hung over with whatever he’d done in his past, buried beneath guilt and disgrace. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
957:I always felt that way about the South, that beneath the smiles and southern hospitality and politeness were a lot of guns and liquor and secrets. ~ James McBride, #NFDB
958:It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met. ~ Yoshida Kenk, #NFDB
959:It is said that the inferior seek to emulate the superior. Thus, if a general slackens only a little, those beneath him will be greatly negligent. ~ Kato Kiyomasa, #NFDB
960:Preacher nodded then dove beneath the water, bare ass the last thing we saw. Becca made annoyed sounds that indicated sure punishment later for him. ~ Lucian Bane, #NFDB
961:ruling class that lives as ruling classes have lived in all times while, beneath them, a semihuman mass of semislaves exists on the leavings. It’s ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
962:Sliding him a glance of sparkling mischief from beneath her lashes, Annabelle murmured, “I wouldn’t be able to saw off just anyone’s leg, you know. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
963:That night in Robin’s arms I kissed his smooth throat, unmarked by the apple of Eve’s deceit. I touched the leather bindings beneath his tunic. ~ Saundra Mitchell, #NFDB
964:This was how mortals found fame, I thought. Through practice and diligence, tending their skills like gardens until they glowed beneath the sun. ~ Madeline Miller, #NFDB
965:What’s meant for you will reach you even if it’s beneath two mountains, and what’s not meant for you won’t reach you even if it’s between your two lips ~ Etaf Rum, #NFDB
966:Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. ~ Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, Part II, line 109 (1711)., #NFDB
967:Far beneath the tainted foamThat frets above our peaceful home,We dream in joy and wake in loveNor know the rage that yells above. ~ John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, #NFDB
968:For how long can one maintain total vigilance?
For how long can love last, in isolation, without sinking crushed beneath its own pressure? ~ Dorothy Dunnett,#NFDB
969:Franklin realized at that moment that dreams don't come true. They only lose their pretty facades and expose themselves as the nightmares beneath. ~ T W Piperbrook, #NFDB
970:Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
971:He hid his strength beneath unusual weakness, The diffidence of a solitary man: Where he was weak he recognised your mother’s power, And yielded to it. ~ T S Eliot, #NFDB
972:His eyes shone with an anguish Clara understood well. Loss, horrible loss. Pain and anger, and the world being pulled out from beneath one’s feet. ~ Claire Legrand, #NFDB
973:I know from experience that beneath every peripheral girl is a central truth. She’s hiding hers away, but at the same time she wants me to see it. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
974:I pull the key from around my neck and slip it into the hole beneath my brother’s card. It doesn’t turn. It never turns. But I never stop trying. ~ Victoria Schwab, #NFDB
975:I’ve made a mistake. It started with a prince, as most stories do. Once I felt the thrum of his heart beneath my fingers, I couldn’t forget it. ~ Alexandra Christo, #NFDB
976:Men feared even the shade of Alexander, lest they encounter him again beneath the earth, for surely in that world, too, none would surpass him. ~ Steven Pressfield, #NFDB
977:Names are the just the layer on top. You peel it off and there is the real you beneath. Have you ever seen the real you? Have you ever tried to? Now ~ Cameron Jace, #NFDB
978:slid methodically and silently back and forth on the greased runners beneath him. His arms and legs pulled and pushed smoothly, almost easily. ~ Daniel James Brown, #NFDB
979:So at a young age I learned that if I wanted to spend time with my dad, it was going to be under the hood or beneath a car, handing him greasy tools. ~ Jewel E Ann, #NFDB
980:There’s no such thing as an uninteresting life, such a thing is an impossibility. Beneath the dullest exterior, there is a drama, a comedy, a tragedy. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
981:The toad beneath the harrow knows
Where every separate tooth-point goes ;
The butterfly upon the road
Preaches contentment to that toad. ~ Rudyard Kipling,#NFDB
982:Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
983:Dude, you got to draw your lines in the sand somewhere and hold them. It’s especially important when the sand keeps shifting beneath your feet. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
984:Grab onto God's promises with one hand and His faithfulness with the other, ripping apart the natural to reveal the supernatural unseen beneath. ~ Alisa Hope Wagner, #NFDB
985:He had found beneath the sorrow a place where emotion and happiness could live alongside tenderness and the realization that he was lovable after all. ~ Nina George, #NFDB
986:He was sunk beneath seas of silence; and his name, which would once have caught his notice above the howling of a storm, had become and empty sound. ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
987:I'm beneath no man!" she replies harshly. Then, with a mischievous quirk to her mouth, she adds, "At least not without dinner and a drink first. ~ Michelle Leighton, #NFDB
988:Misery!—happiness is to be found by its side! Happiness!
—misery lurks beneath it! Who knows what either will
come to in the end?
祸兮福所倚，福兮祸所伏 ~ Lao Tzu,#NFDB
989:Sometimes Wayne felt that the world had been sliding apart beneath his feet for years. He was still waiting for it to pull him down, to bury him at last. ~ Joe Hill, #NFDB
990:somewhere deep beneath the ground: in a tunnel, perhaps, or a sewer. Light comes in flickers, defining the darkness, not dispelling it. He is not alone. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
991:Take off the disguise and another is revealed beneath. Regard well the many people you must be. When the last layer is gone, there can be no more life. ~ Rod Duncan, #NFDB
992:There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode. ~ Joseph de Maistre, #NFDB
993:The sand beneath the blast was instantly turned into a layer of green glass ten feet deep, and the shock waves could be felt one hundred miles away. ~ Bill O Reilly, #NFDB
994:What's beyond logic happens beneath will;
nor can these moments be translated: i say
that even after April
by God there is no excuse for May ~ E E Cummings,#NFDB
995:What’s meant for you will reach you even if it’s beneath two mountains, and what’s not meant for you won’t reach you even if it’s between your two lips’? ~ Etaf Rum, #NFDB
996:You cannot begin to deal with terms, propositions, and arguments—the elements of thought—until you can penetrate beneath the surface of language. ~ Mortimer J Adler, #NFDB
997:even tired she had that unfeigned natural poise which, in certain girls, makes young boys feel like something on the order of an insect beneath a heel. ~ Scott Lynch, #NFDB
998:Falling in love can happen to complete strangers. Staying in love requires being best friends and that means accepting the person beneath the veneer. ~ Ellen Hopkins, #NFDB
999:Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs. ~ Kristin Hannah, #NFDB
1000:I love your taste, my shundori," he murmured, and she felt his body tense beneath her. "I can't get enough of it. I can't get enough of you. ~ Charlotte Featherstone, #NFDB
1001:Never underestimate the power of a scented candle!" declared a sign beneath a display of coloured candles.
Yes, I thought. Buy two and invade Russia! ~ Alice Pung,#NFDB
1002:People will always consider us a happy couple, and no one will know how much solitude, bitterness, and resignation lies beneath the surface happiness. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1003:Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB
1004:Beneath the blossoms with a pot of wine, No friends at hand, so I poured alone; I raised my cup to invite the moon, Turned to my shadow, and we became three. ~ Li Bai, #NFDB
1005:He makes me feel like I’m something to reveal, something in which to revel. I’m the reward at the end of his magic trick, exposed beneath the velvet cape. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1006:I felt naked beneath the wildness of her eyes. I felt alive. Unknown. And I knew then that the world contained so many things I would never understand. ~ Chris Howard, #NFDB
1007:I was alone and orphaned, in the middle of the Pacific, hanging on to an oar, an adult tiger in front of me, sharks beneath me, a storm raging about me. ~ Yann Martel, #NFDB
1008:Sometimes sorrow, sometimes joy. But beneath it all remember the innate perfection of your life unfolding. That is the secret of unreasonable happiness. ~ Dan Millman, #NFDB
1009:With Damien’s back bared before him, he could now see the subtle stamp of scars under the kirin, a lifetime of pain drowned beneath ink and determination. ~ Rhys Ford, #NFDB
1010:A jolly young fellow from Yuma
Told an elephant joke to a puma;
now his skeleton lies
beneath hot western skies-
the puma had no sense of huma ~ Ogden Nash,#NFDB
1011:Beneath the surface there is a deeper and vastly more authentic Self, but its presence is usually veiled by the clamor of the smaller “I” with its ~ Cynthia Bourgeault, #NFDB
1012:Don't let that little pyramid with the bright eye fool you. That's to draw your attention away from the real thing: the big trapezoid beneath it. ~ Anton Szandor LaVey, #NFDB
1013:For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB
1014:I get up. I move through this pale light; I see it change beneath my hands and on the sleeves of my coat: I cannot describe how much it disgusts me. ~ Jean Paul Sartre, #NFDB
1015:I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden truths beneath appearances. ~ Auguste Rodin, #NFDB
1016:She was a beautiful dreamer. The kind of girl, who kept her head in the clouds, loved above the stars and left regret beneath the earth she walked on. ~ Robert M Drake, #NFDB
1017:The canopy of the woods was spread out beneath me and it looked as if autumn had taken a great torch to the trees, burnishing them gold, red, and bronze. ~ Kate Morton, #NFDB
1018:The most I would do was use the shadow tool in Photoshop to bring out the muscular rips in my stomach, which were honestly there. Beneath the fat. ~ Augusten Burroughs, #NFDB
1019:The vaults beneath the Lunar palace were carved from years of emptied lava tubes, their walls made of rough black stone and lit by sparse glowing orbs. ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
1020:I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet. ~ Nadia Comaneci, #NFDB
1021:once we wrapped the globe in endless circles of wires crossing the deserts and beneath the oceans, decentralization was not only possible, but inevitable. ~ Kevin Kelly, #NFDB
1022:Pantheists creep into the ministry, but they are generally cunning enough to concede the bredath of their minds beneath Christian phraseology. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1023:Sensitive people feel so deeply they often have to retreat from the world, in order to dig beneath the layers of pain to find their faith and courage. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
1024:Solid ground beneath his feet, dirt under his fingernails, the husbandry of growing things, bulbs and roots, seeds and shoots, this had been his world. ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB
1025:There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway: what is good is good without our saying so, and beneath all our majesty we know this. ~ Randall Jarrell, #NFDB
1026:Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean's surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of ocean governance. ~ Tom Allen, #NFDB
1027:You can't measure love by time put in, but the weight of those moments. Some in life are light, like a touch. Others, you can't help but stagger beneath. ~ Sarah Dessen, #NFDB
1028:You can’t measure love by time put in, but the weight of those moments. Some in life are light, like a touch. Others, you can’t help but stagger beneath. ~ Sarah Dessen, #NFDB
1029:As all the perfumes of the vanished dayRise from the earth still moistened with the dewSo from my chastened soul beneath thy rayOld love is born anew. ~ Alfred de Musset, #NFDB
1030:Does God ask us to do what is beneath us? This question will never trouble us again if we consider the Lord of heaven taking a towel and washing feet. ~ Elisabeth Elliot, #NFDB
1031:I have always looked upon the life of our Savior who descended beneath all things that He might rise above all things as an example for His followers. ~ Wilford Woodruff, #NFDB
1032:It had been strange at first, getting used to the rhythm of a city where the sun simply fell beneath the horizon like a quiescent murder victim each night, ~ Scott Lynch, #NFDB
1033:I touch the knots beneath the skin of your back,
trace the tree lines around your wrist,
and you smile at me and I love you
for how human you are. ~ Shinji Moon,#NFDB
1034:Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of you
the bittersweet echoes
infixed forever in my heart ~ Pawan Mishra,#NFDB
1035:Mattia was startled to find that he still had instincts, buried beneath the dense network of thoughts and abstractions that had woven itself around him. ~ Paolo Giordano, #NFDB
1036:There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel's Veins. And those plunged beneath that watery grave to drink of His blood will never be the same. ~ Ted Dekker, #NFDB
1037:They were angry, I thought. Horrified. These teenagers, with their hormones, making out beneath a video broadcasting the shattered voice of a former father. ~ John Green, #NFDB
1038:Too low they build who build beneath the stars. ~ Edward Young, Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 206., #NFDB
1039:We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. ~ Tom Waits, #NFDB
1040:130. "Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
1041:A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it. ~ James F Cooper, #NFDB
1042:As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface. ~ Robert Falcon Scott, #NFDB
1043:Certainly war meant dying, but it always shifted the ground beneath a person's feet when it was someone who had once lived and breathed in close proximity. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
1044:I want to stay a while, wrapped in silence, the way the trees and rocks and the ground beneath my feet are wrapped in moss and ivy and soft, green lichen. ~ Cathy Cassidy, #NFDB
1045:Life is meant to be lived loud, Avery. In the moment and without fear or apology. Don’t wait for the net to appear. Jump and let the wind rush beneath you. ~ Marina Adair, #NFDB
1046:...like isolated apartment dwellers running the TV for company, we sense a deeper isolation beneath the babble of voices, the poverty of our communications. ~ Mark Slouka, #NFDB
1047:Madness is locked beneath. It goes into tissues, is swallowed by the cells. The cells go mad. Cancer is their flag. Cancer is thegrowth of madness denied. ~ Norman Mailer, #NFDB
1048:Certainly, war meant dying, but it always shifted the ground beneath a person’s feet when it was someone who had once lived and breathed in close proximity. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
1049:Do you know the difference between an expat and an immigrant? You're an immigrant in a country you look up to, an expat in one you consider beneath you. ~ Rabih Alameddine, #NFDB
1050:Forgive me," Ash murmured, and I heard the faintest of tremors beneath his voice. "But I can't... I won't... give her up. Not now, when I've just found her. ~ Julie Kagawa, #NFDB
1051:From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free. ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau, #NFDB
1052:His pectoral muscles were shaped, and the six-pack lining his abdomen, and the V of muscle that disappeared beneath his jeans had my inner muscles clenching. ~ Jenika Snow, #NFDB
1053:I’d never had to explain sex. I barely knew the mechanics myself, but I had learned my body. I found the trick to exploding in the dark beneath my covers. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
1054:It supports a ruling class that lives as ruling classes have lived in all times while, beneath them, a semihuman mass of semislaves exists on the leavings… ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
1055:names that were so bad that when they dared to whisper them (bitch-cunt-whore-poet) to each other beneath the bedclothes, they were like poison in the air. ~ Kate Atkinson, #NFDB
1056:she kept dancing. the ground beneath her shaking the foundation she stood upon began to crumble unbothered by the destruction she danced like flames at a bonfire ~ R H Sin, #NFDB
1057:The fantastic graces of Chivalry lay upon the surface of life,but beneath it was a half-savage population,fierce and animal,with little ruth or mercy. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
1058:You are so, so beautiful, Auburn. Everywhere. Every part of you. On the outside, on the inside, when you’re beneath me, on top of me, painted on a canvas. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
1059:I could tell that we were in the midst of many trees... this fact was like the water running endlessly... It was a deep current beneath the surface of a stream. ~ Ned Hayes, #NFDB
1060:It was as though her soul were neatly removed by a drinking straw and siphoned into the green pool of quiet that lay beneath the rippling cascade of notes. ~ Louise Erdrich, #NFDB
1061:It wasn't a kiss that changed the frog, but the fact that a young girl looked beneath warts and slime and believed she saw a prince. So he became one. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
1062:Jewish shops that were still in operation in Molching. Inside, a small man was stuttering about, crushing the broken glass beneath his feet as he cleaned up. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
1063:Oh, Fortuna, blind, heedless goddess, I am strapped to your wheel,' Ignatius belched, 'Do not crush me beneath your spokes. Raise me on high, divinity. ~ John Kennedy Toole, #NFDB
1064:She once again thought about how badly she wanted to crawl back beneath the mound of already cooling blankets that covered her bed like an inviting nest. ~ Kimberly Derting, #NFDB
1065:We might recall, however, that one of the characteristics of a safely operating taboo is that it remains invisible, beneath discussion, taken for granted. ~ Margaret Visser, #NFDB
1066:What does it do?” “I don’t know.” Robert shrugged. “It was on the original Roosevelt desk. We think it fired a pistol concealed beneath the tabletop. ~ Jacopo della Quercia, #NFDB
1067:...but I believe I met my mother there, in the final instant. Not her ghost but some vaster portion of her, her self boundlessly recharged beneath the water. ~ Karen Russell, #NFDB
1068:Get yourself to a vantage point of seclusion and view the world with your eyes alone. Think of the infinite spaces of the skies and the world beneath. ~ Charles E Burchfield, #NFDB
1069:Glaciers and volcanoes both have the potential to transform landscapes, but one does so by burying what lies beneath, where the other spews forth new terrain. ~ James Luceno, #NFDB
1070:I have decided that I am in love, but love is a painful hotspot roil beneath the surface of me in a place where once there was stability, and I do not like it. ~ N K Jemisin, #NFDB
1071:Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all volcanic action lie. ~ Alexander von Humboldt, #NFDB
1072:Some say it eases pain to lay a knife beneath the bed.” “Is it true?” Alsy shrugged. “Likely not. But if the person thinks it, then the thinking eases the pain. ~ Lois Lowry, #NFDB
1073:Though there's something more
tender, beneath our vanity,
our will to become objects
of desire: we sweat the mark
of our presence onto the cloth. ~ Mark Doty,#NFDB
1074:To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things. ~ Ansel Adams, #NFDB
1075:We all rejoice in hearing those 3 words: I love you. Beneath these 3 words are another 3: I get you. It's when we feel understood that we feel most loved. ~ Karen Salmansohn, #NFDB
1076:A nose in the air just made it easier to cut the throat beneath it. And when it came to that choice, why, he never hesitated. As sure as any force of Nature. ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB
1077:Because for all those years he lived his double life, his wife and his children had no idea that the devil lurked beneath the face of the man they loved. ~ A Meredith Walters, #NFDB
1078:Beneath many erotic triggers lie symbolic solutions to some of our greatest fears, and poignant allusions to our yearnings for friendship and understanding. ~ Alain de Botton, #NFDB
1079:But as she lifted the candy from the box, she saw something unexpected tucked beneath it. A handwritten message. Patience, friend. They’re coming for you. She ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
1080:Her heart the damned thing had begun to race and she only hoped that the rapid inflation and deflation of her chest wasn't visible beneath her fitted bodice. ~ Anna Godbersen, #NFDB
1081:It occurred to him that, much in the way one experiences a brightening when walking beneath a cherry tree in bloom,so too did Klara generate and throw light. ~ Patrick deWitt, #NFDB
1082:knowing that history carried itself in the body and soul, not a physical location, not in letters burned in a fire or a magazine trapped beneath the rubble, ~ Kristen Simmons, #NFDB
1083:Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit. ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB
1084:Nature has always something rare to show us... and the danger to life and limb is hardly greater than one would experience crouching deprecatingly beneath a roof. ~ John Muir, #NFDB
1085:Perception has always interested me. The idea thatbehind every face, there are a thousand faces. Beneath the placidveneer of middle America, there lies terror. ~ Bryan Singer, #NFDB
1086:The fantastic graces of Chivalry lay upon the surface of life, but beneath it was a half-savage population, fierce and animal, with little ruth or mercy. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
1087:The struggle to excavate your true, authentic self from beneath the mountain of conditioning and ridiculous expectation is the epic struggle of your lifetime. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
1088:The terrain of my face was heavy with soft, rumbling acne scars blurring whatever delight or madness lay beneath that cold and deadly New England exterior. ~ Ottessa Moshfegh, #NFDB
1089:Baseema felt unbalanced, her mind alive and sparking beneath Nahri’s fingertips but misdirected. Broken. She hated how quickly the cruel word leaped to mind, ~ S A Chakraborty, #NFDB
1090:Do you remember,” George went on, “what we found in the tunnels beneath Aickmere’s? Aside from a massive pile of human bones.” “I found Lucy,” Lockwood said. ~ Jonathan Stroud, #NFDB
1091:Far rather would I be condemned to a perpetual dwelling in the infernal regions, than, even for one night, abide beneath the roof of Wuthering Heights again. ~ Charlotte Bront, #NFDB
1092:It occurred to him that, much in the way one experiences a brightening when walking beneath a cherry tree in bloom, so too did Klara generate and throw light. ~ Patrick deWitt, #NFDB
1093:Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
1094:Like standing on a beach as the tide sucks the sand beneath my feet back out to sea, I can feel my native world, and the reality that supports it, pulling away. ~ Blake Crouch, #NFDB
1095:Nobody in the heavens above or on the earth beneath or in the waters under the earth will ever object to your saying: ‘I may be wrong. Let’s examine the facts. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
1096:Reality became fluid. The ground gave way beneath my feet, dragging me downward, spinning fast, like sand rushing through a hole in the bottom of the universe. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1097:There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface. ~ Arianna Huffington, #NFDB
1098:They fought for glory, but not for blood. They were Weirlind, heirs of the warrior’s stone. And they always slept better with blades beneath their beds. ~ Cinda Williams Chima, #NFDB
1099:This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
1100:Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty? ~ Jack Kerouac, #NFDB
1101:At moments like this, he was lost to himself, lost in the shadows that hid beneath his heart. Rarely did he let himself go and when he did it was only with her. ~ Tiffany Reisz, #NFDB
1102:Concrete is the omnipresent human signature, our principal artistic medium on the world's blank canvas: Wherever we went, the Earth slowly disappeared beneath it. ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
1103:Concrete is the omnipresent human signature, our principal artistic medium on the world’s blank canvas: Wherever we went, the Earth slowly disappeared beneath it. ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
1104:Health, not illness, is our natural state. It’s usually just a matter of finding it tucked beneath the layers of imbalance that have accumulated over time. ~ Suhas G Kshirsagar, #NFDB
1105:I am wearing a gray shirt, blue jeans, black shoes--new clothes, but beneath them, my Dauntless tattoos. It is impossible to erase my choices. Especially these. ~ Veronica Roth, #NFDB
1106:I could feel it--inside, and I decided that night, reading poetry beneath a caged light bulb, that real was when you could fee your whole body light up from within. ~ Han Nolan, #NFDB
1107:There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel's veins. And those plunged beneath that watery grave to drink of his blood will never be the same. ~ Ted Dekker, #NFDB
1108:It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late. ~ Wendelin Van Draanen, #NFDB
1109:Knowledge is a rug of a certain size, and the world is larger. It’s not what remains uncovered at the edges that should worry you, rather what is swept beneath. ~ Mark Lawrence, #NFDB
1110:Man is right when he believes that in all the world there is not a single being above him, but he errs when he thinks that there is on earth a single man beneath him. ~ Tolstoy, #NFDB
1111:No job is beneath you.
You ought to be thrilled you got a job in the mailroom And when you get there, here's what you do: Be really great at sorting mail. ~ Randy Pausch,#NFDB
1112:No scrim, no filter, no bullshit. She wasn't all bound up in there, gagged and furious and resentful beneath some high-pitched shrink-wrapped mess of pleasantry. ~ Elisa Albert, #NFDB
1113:Oh. Allison swallowed. He was protecting her again. If he didn't watch it, she’d definitely start to think he had a soft spot hidden beneath those claws and fur. ~ Cynthia Eden, #NFDB
1114:On the cross, Jesus lost the Father’s blessing and received a curse so that we, who have all our lives lived beneath a curse, could receive the Father’s blessing. ~ Scott Sauls, #NFDB
1115:On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man ~ Jules Verne, #NFDB
1116:Skinless creatures swayed in death throes from thick, silver hooks. Beneath them, on the turquoise mosaic floor, rows of buckets overflowed with clotting blood. ~ Douglas Clegg, #NFDB
1117:Some time just after one and somewhere in between awake and asleep, Sophie moved beneath him again. Tangled limbs. Entwined fingers. Damp cheeks. Bruised hearts. ~ Kitty French, #NFDB
1118:The struggle to excavate your true, authentic self from beneath the mountain of conditioning and ridiculous expectation is the epic struggle of your lifetime. ~ Bryant H McGill, #NFDB
1119:A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place. ~ Colette, #NFDB
1120:But the moment we experience the ground beneath our feet dissolving and feel the loss of all certainties is the moment we touch upon the experience of the Cross. ~ Peter Rollins, #NFDB
1121:I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72 percent of what is going on. ~ Robert Ballard, #NFDB
1122:It would leave a little rotten spot, right here.” I push my fist into the soft space beneath my rib cage. “Something that would only get bigger and darker with time. ~ Amy Engel, #NFDB
1123:My life was freaking scary a lot of the time, but there were perks. Like hellhound sleigh rides beneath a magical sky while dragons protected us from ice mammoths. ~ Linsey Hall, #NFDB
1124:Slowly he had learned that there is a world beneath the visible one, and that people, some people at least, have a different life, that they carry inside them. ~ Marcus Sedgwick, #NFDB
1125:These great trees of the mountains, I feel they know me well, as I watch them & listen to their secrets, happy to rest my head beneath their outstretched arms. ~ Ruskin Bond, #NFDB
1126:The sky is deep black, the stars pressing down brilliantly all around, and I am reminded that we are not beneath the constellations, but among them.
p 127 ~ Michael Perry,#NFDB
1127:Treating everyone she met like family, and burying needless critism of others so deep beneath the soil of everyday living that only kindness ever saw the light. ~ Jason F Wright, #NFDB
1128:A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, #NFDB
1129:But there is a cure in the house,
and not outside it, no,
not from others but from them,
their bloody strife. We sing to you,
dark gods beneath the earth. ~ Aeschylus,#NFDB
1130:Give me the clear blue sky above my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking! ~ Henry Hazlitt, #NFDB
1131:I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume? ~ T S Eliot,#NFDB
1132:In every southerner, beneath the veneer of clichés lies a much deeper motherlode of cliché. But even cliché is overlaid with enormous power when a child is involved. ~ Pat Conroy, #NFDB
1133:I tried tanning, but somehow only turned a beautiful shade of lobster-red before my skin puckered, peeled off, and revealed a lovely, new, white skin beneath. ~ Lacey Weatherford, #NFDB
1134:Lord Uthe once said I wouldn’t be the one at the head of the army, storming the castle. I’d be the engineer, tunneling beneath to bring the whole thing crashing down. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1135:[Slipped beneath the minnow Pea front door]
Nollopton
Monty No-way 6
Insane woman named Ella:
Retreat is what we want. Go away. Let we alone.
Anonymess ~ Mark Dunn,#NFDB
1136:The mining industry might make wealth and power for a few men and women, but the many would always be smashed and battered beneath its giant treads. ~ Katharine Susannah Prichard, #NFDB
1137:The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. ~ John Jay Chapman, #NFDB
1138:A hundred feet underground, in a fake field beneath a fake sky, with an ogre slaughtered like no more than a rat to a cat, and he sends us to search for the unusual. ~ Jim C Hines, #NFDB
1139:And dying is more natural than living, because what could be more unnatural than that panicstricken thing leaping and falling like a last flame beneath the ribs? ~ William Golding, #NFDB
1140:A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
1141:Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction. ~ Frederic Tuten, #NFDB
1142:Beneath a sky crowded with a billion stars. I don’t care what the stars say about how small we are. One, even the smallest, weakest, most insignificant one, matters. ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
1143:How very lovely she was, with the muted light of the afternoon falling over her shoulder like a veil! How gorgeously the shadow filled that notch beneath her lip! ~ Eleanor Catton, #NFDB
1144:I don’t believe that our human emotions are silly surface noise and that we should get down beneath them to a calm, untroubled state. That’s not what I mean by “joy”. ~ Tom Wright, #NFDB
1145:I read once in a book that it doesn’t matter if you’re lying beneath a marble tombstone on a hill or at the bottom of an oil sump, when you’re dead you’re dead. ~ Michael Connelly, #NFDB
1146:Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed. ~ Khaled Hosseini, #NFDB
1147:Sometimes I think the biggest challenge in life is overcoming the urge to recoil in horror when you see blackness that lies slightly beneath the skin of the world. ~ Damien Echols, #NFDB
1148:There was something sweet in watching him pull himself back together, restoring the façade he wore for the world while I knew at least a little of the man beneath it. ~ Sylvia Day, #NFDB
1149:Beneath the hush a whisper from long ago, promising peace of mind and a burden shared. No peace which is not peace for all, no rest until all has been fulfilled. ~ Dag Hammarskjold, #NFDB
1150:Holes of this sort are rare in New York City, where the earth is sealed beneath a layer of asphalt, and one can go for years without catching sight of actual dirt. ~ Kirsten Miller, #NFDB
1151:I hold still against her, taking one final look at this amazing, beautiful girl beneath me. "You're the greatest thing that's ever happened to my life," I whisper. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
1152:I placed my hand against the side of his precious, electric face and felt the stubble beneath my fingers. I was overwhelmed with the lust and wonder of it all. ~ Augusten Burroughs, #NFDB
1153:It is a strange time to be Cuban, to feel the stirrings beneath your feet, hear the rumblings in the sky, and to continue on as though nothing is happening at all. ~ Chanel Cleeton, #NFDB
1154:I will conduct myself with all due decorum." Mr. Crepsley said pompously, then added beneath his breath, "but I will miss her. With all my heart and soul, I miss her. ~ Darren Shan, #NFDB
1155:Knowledge is a rug of a certain size, and the world is larger. It’s not what remains uncovered at the edges that should worry you, rather what is swept beneath.” “I ~ Mark Lawrence, #NFDB
1156:Nobody in the heavens above or on the earth beneath or in the waters under the earth will ever object to your saying: “I may be wrong. Let’s examine the facts.” One ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
1157:Please come. I know my William is there somewhere, buried beneath the mountain of anger and disgust. My son is still there, but only lost. Please help me find him. ~ Christina Dodd, #NFDB
1158:Sometimes I think the biggest challenge in life is overcoming the urge to recoil in horror when you see blackness that lies slightly beneath the skin of the world". ~ Damien Echols, #NFDB
1159:The really pure in heart know nothing of what goes on around them each day, each night; never realize what poisonous weeds spring up beneath their childish feet. ~ Fran ois Mauriac, #NFDB
1160:The shallow forests toward the west glowed with an almost preternatural haze, and the highway blacktop shimmered beneath a slick cocktail of rainwater and motor oil. ~ Ronald Malfi, #NFDB
1161:Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh, #NFDB
1162:We ran for the forest, crashing through the stalks of wheat, beneath the rising moon and the stars spinning farther and farther away, alone beneath the godless sky. ~ David Benioff, #NFDB
1163:Where would I find enough leather
To cover the entire surface of the earth?
But with leather soles beneath my feet,
It’s as if the whole world has been covered. ~ ntideva,#NFDB
1164:Why climb? For the natural experience; for the danger that draws us ever on; for the feeling of total freedom; for the monstrous drop beneath you. It is like a drug. ~ Hermann Buhl, #NFDB
1165:A precious something dropped into the dark beneath a subway grate. A tangled mess of infinite possibilities, countless threads, cut at the quick by silver scissors. ~ Melissa Albert, #NFDB
1166:Beneath our clothes, our reputations, our pretensions, beneath our religion or lack of it, we are all vulnerable both to the storm without and the storm within. ~ Frederick Buechner, #NFDB
1167:Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies. ~ Beatrice Webb, #NFDB
1168:Happy, inert, he lies beneath her feet:
His breast he offers for her cosmic dance
Of which our lives are the quivering theatre, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
1169:I love you. You are my life.” He placed my hand over his heart. I could feel it beating erratically beneath my palm. “Feel that? It’s yours. For now and always! ~ A Meredith Walters, #NFDB
1170:She was angry at him--she knew that, felt it--but as he came toward her, that anger dried up and blew away like dust beneath the longing that mattered so much more. ~ Kristin Hannah, #NFDB
1171:Stop!” I shouted right as his thumbs hitched beneath the waist of his jeans. If I had to watch the rest of the Jesse Walker strip tease, I would moan the alphabet. ~ Nicole Williams, #NFDB
1172:The man was enormously fat. When he sat down, the metal chair disappeared beneath the spread of his buttocks and Alex was surprised it could even take his weight. ~ Anthony Horowitz, #NFDB
1173:And for the first time in my life, I had that feeling. You know, like the world is moving all around you, all beneath you, all inside you, and you're floating. ~ Wendelin Van Draanen, #NFDB
1174:I am stealing more and more money. I keep it in my top drawer beneath my underwear, along with my diaphragm and lipstick and switchblade—these are things a woman needs ~ Lorrie Moore, #NFDB
1175:In the midst of poverty and want, Felix carried with pleasure to his sister the first little white flower that peeped out from beneath the snowy ground. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, #NFDB
1176:It is a small soul, buried beneath the weight of affairs, that does not know how to get clean away from them, that cannot put them aside and pick them up again. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
1177:Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath. Alan Christoffersen’s diary ~ Richard Paul Evans, #NFDB
1178:When men and women put on blaze orange hunting vests or camo, they temporarily lose their individuality beneath the layers of symbolism loaded on the image of hunter. ~ Tovar Cerulli, #NFDB
1179:Your misconceptions veil the holy. The Princess is naked
beneath the surface of every form. Your boredom would
vanish if you had more of a clue about the Reality I know. ~ Rumi,#NFDB
1180:(A) trip to the attic is an excursion into history, and...all over the world the present unravels beneath the stored detritus of the past; that's what attics are for. ~ Valerie Martin, #NFDB
1181:Bill had always been a placid pond of a friend with a few boulders of madness lurking beneath the surface, but unlike me he knew how to keep the jagged edges out of sight. ~ Bob Tarte, #NFDB
1182:But I found steel beneath his soft-spoken manner. I could not break him. Despite his struggles with the tasks I set him, he lived with everything of gentleness and grace. ~ Carol Berg, #NFDB
1183:but just beneath the bell was a small scarlet plaque bearing the name of the club and the legend ALIS VOLAT PROPRIIS. “‘She flies with her own wings,’” I translated. ~ Deanna Raybourn, #NFDB
1184:For beneath that delicate black powder something highly unusual was happening: the book’s marbled cover was giving off a faint, but increasingly bright purple glow. ~ Richard Flanagan, #NFDB
1185:Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness -
And Wilderness is Paradise enow. ~ Omar Khayy m,#NFDB
1186:His face looked almost as gray as his suit, and the pouches beneath his eyes looked like little bags for holding all the sadness that his head couldn't hold. ~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, #NFDB
1187:It’s funny how life can be sometimes, just when you think you know how everything is, it sneaks out a surprise that really tears the rug right out from beneath your feet. ~ Mike Gayle, #NFDB
1188:I was scarred but I was not broken. Beneath my wounds I was still whole. Beneath my insecurities, beneath my pain, beneath my struggle, beneath it all, I was still whole. ~ Amy Harmon, #NFDB
1189:Now all things have been filled with light, both heaven and earth and those beneath the earth; so let all creation sing Christ's rising, by which it is established. ~ John of Damascus, #NFDB
1190:The power of the dark side. The heat of passion and emotion. I can feel it in you, as well. Burning beneath the surface. Burning like your anger. It makes you strong. ~ Drew Karpyshyn, #NFDB
1191:A bird cried jubilation. In that moment they lived long. All minor motions were stilled and only the great ones were perceived. Beneath them the earth turned, singing. ~ Sheri S Tepper, #NFDB
1192:An elderly man called Keith Mislaid his set of false teeth— They’d been laid on a chair, He’d forgot they were there, Sat down, and was bitten beneath. Irish limerick ~ Janice Thompson, #NFDB
1193:Forgive me," Ash murmured, and I heard the faintest of tremors beneath his voice. "But I can't... I won't... give her up. Not now, when I've just found her."
-Ash ~ Julie Kagawa,#NFDB
1194:i pull her closer to me and tucked her head beneath my chin. She lean in to me,and i though i felt her release a small sigh.''I would never let anything happen to you''. ~ Sherri Hayes, #NFDB
1195:Real charity and real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things. ~ Ivy Compton Burnett, #NFDB
1196:The fallen autumn leaves were slick beneath Bod's feet, and the mists blurred the edges of the world. Nothing was as clean-cut as he had thought it, a few minutes before. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1197:There was a sadness just beneath the surface of his pleasant expression. It drifted across his face like a ghost moving through the vacant rooms of an empty house. ~ Michelle Leighton, #NFDB
1198:True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes soon as granted fly; It liveth not in fierce desire. ~ Walter Scott, #NFDB
1199:You think I don’t deserve him,” I say to Cardan.
He smiles slowly, like the moon slipping beneath the waves of the lake. “Oh no, I think you’re perfect for each other. ~ Holly Black,#NFDB
1200:A Literary Hangman
Beneath his coat of dirt great Neilson loves
To hide the avenging rope.
He handles all he touches without gloves,
Excepting soap.
~ Ambrose Bierce,#NFDB
1201:All things on earth and beneath it passed away, but music was immortal. Even if I was dead to the world above, a part of me would live each time my music was heard" -Liesl ~ S Jae Jones, #NFDB
1202:And in that moment, beneath a cluster of tacky glow-in-the-dark stars, my face green with clay and red with embarrassment, I fall hopelessly in love with the boy next door. ~ K A Tucker, #NFDB
1203:A world in which the choices we make do not finally matter, because our wills are already fixed beneath the weight of a crushing determinism, is not a human world. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1204:drugged their despair with Thunderbird and buried their dead visions and dreams in the alley behind the Pastime, ignorant of the God at work beneath their emptiness. ~ Eugene H Peterson, #NFDB
1205:idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance. ~ Ellen Glasgow, #NFDB
1206:one of the chief characteristics of a servant is that he serves downward — that is, to those who by the world’s standards are beneath him in position or station in life. ~ Jerry Bridges, #NFDB
1207:Painted faces laughed. It was like a mad carnival where everyone was oblivious, lost in the bliss of chaos, a throng unaware of a bomb planted beneath the
floorboards. ~ Kelly Creagh,#NFDB
1208:These are some of my favorite smells: toasting bagel, freshly cut figs, the bergamot in good Earl Grey tea, a jar of whole soybeans slowly turning beneath a tropical sun. ~ Kirstin Chen, #NFDB
1209:THE VEIL OF CIVILISATION was thin indeed, so easily torn away to reveal depravity waiting beneath, waiting, as such things always did, for the first hint of turbulence. ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB
1210:You must marry ugly man," I said. "Very fet." I held my arms out in front of me, indicating a giant belly. "He weeel make you heppy." I heard Mal snort beneath his mask. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
1211:As much as she lights up a room, dancing, laughing from time to time, I'm beginning to see that just beneath the surface of Kai, there is as much shadow as there is shine. ~ Kennedy Ryan, #NFDB
1212:Because the air was bright and fresh, the ground beneath them empty, and both of them young, it was possible to imagine that either of them could become anything he wanted. ~ Caleb Crain, #NFDB
1213:Blue stands for many things at the end of time: for the forgotten, blazing blue stars of aeons past; the antithesis of redshift; the color of uncut veins beneath your skin. ~ Yoon Ha Lee, #NFDB
1214:But then an old man was discovered impaled in a ditch, and once again his world had started crumbling away beneath his feet. He wondered how long he could keep this up. ~ Henning Mankell, #NFDB
1215:Down they went, into the darkness. Down ancient, worn steps coated in slippery mildew. Down into the deep recesses of the earth, far beneath the corridors of Deep-Spire. ~ Sam J Charlton, #NFDB
1216:Everyone thought that things were getting back to normal. They had no idea that normal didn’t exist for me any more. Normal had been smashed on the rocks beneath the bridge. ~ Cat Clarke, #NFDB
1217:He picked up the knife, flipped it open, and used the tip of it beneath my chin to hold my head up. I looked into his eyes. Wild eyes. Green and brown. I’d seen them before. ~ Lisa Regan, #NFDB
1218:He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered. ~ Boethius, #NFDB
1219:I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again. ~ Lauren DeStefano, #NFDB
1220:Light swirled beneath her skin like a genie in a bottle. Four-pronged gossamer wings unfurled behind her. They briefly beat the air too quickly for me to see each stroke. ~ Pippa DaCosta, #NFDB
1221:There scotsmen must have arses like leather,for while he ate I could see naught beneath his kilts but a pair of rather large balls ," the secretary told him . - philippa ~ Bertrice Small, #NFDB
1222:and now, their great love, in which she dwelt immersed, seemed to dwindle beneath her, like the waters that vanish into the bed of the river, and she could see the mud. ~ Gustave Flaubert, #NFDB
1223:Beneath the hush a whisper from long ago, promising peace of mind and a burden shared.
No peace which is not peace for all, no rest until all has been fulfilled. ~ Dag Hammarskj ld,#NFDB
1224:I came to mistrust my desire to explode the picture and supercharge it in some way… what is more important is a feeling of strength in reserve – tension beneath calm. ~ Richard Diebenkorn, #NFDB
1225:I wanted to escape into her layers, to skim along the surface, and get lost in the beauty. To feel the shyness. To sink beneath, deeper into that pent-up confusion and dark. ~ A L Jackson, #NFDB
1226:Tell me how they will no longer
have to hide beneath burkas.
How you will wrap them in lace
‘til they are all as conveniently rape-able
as women in the States. ~ Andrea Gibson,#NFDB
1227:That was not the professional hatred of one warrior for another in the heat of battle, in which even beneath the hatred there still existed a certain begrudging respect. ~ Raymond E Feist, #NFDB
1228:There was something fascinating about tall thin men, the way their bones and Adam's apple lurked so unconcealed beneath the skin, their birdlike faces, their predatory stoop. ~ Ian McEwan, #NFDB
1229:This phenomenon of unconscious remembering, known as priming, is evidence of an entire shadowy underworld of memories lurking beneath the surface of our conscious reckoning. ~ Joshua Foer, #NFDB
1230:When I look down into this fucked out cunt of a whore I feel the whole world beneath me, a world tottering and crumbling, a world used up and polished like a leper's skull. ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
1231:A dim consciousness of infinite mystery and grandeur lies beneath all the commonplace of life . There is an awfulness and a majesty around us, in all our little worldliness . ~ Albert Pike, #NFDB
1232:beneath those clothes and this had only ignited a full-blown war in my head. My primitive reptilian brain was waging a fierce war against my logical self, fighting for control. ~ Jo Watson, #NFDB
1233:Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
1234: English version by Ivan M. Granger
Beneath the snows
the hidden world of winter grass.
And in the field of white, a white heron
hides himself.
~ Dogen, Worship
,#NFDB
1235:I think of my son. I remember him as a baby in my arms—the sweet smell of his soft head beneath my lips when I kissed him good night before setting him down in his crib. ~ Julianne MacLean, #NFDB
1236:It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask. ~ Katherine Mansfield, #NFDB
1237:The assassin crouched atop one of the shorter, thicker pillars, his body a curve of taut muscles beneath nondescript gray clothes. He looked more like a weapon than a person. ~ Leah Cypess, #NFDB
1238:The earth beneath your feet does not care you will be king. Nor the water in your cup. Nor the air you breathe. You must speak to them as equal, or even better, as supplicant. ~ V E Schwab, #NFDB
1239:The real life of the party is flattened beneath the bed, taping actual sex encounters, not sitting cross-legged on the floor with a guitar, embarrassing himself and others. ~ David Sedaris, #NFDB
1240:Will fired the shoes like two orange grenades into the alley, pushed her outside and offered in parting, "If you're in heat, Lula, go yowl beneath somebody else's window! ~ LaVyrle Spencer, #NFDB
1241:Any group has a sense of who it is and what is values, but this sense often remains beneath the surface. A wise leader can discern these unspoken beliefs and articulate them. ~ Diane Dreher, #NFDB
1242:As soon as Tara looked at the skull-and-barbed-wire
tattoo showing beneath the sleeve of Flynn O’Mara’s tight t-shirt, she flashed on a jail cell. Bummer. His Dad’s in jail ~ Sharon Sala,#NFDB
1243:Beneath his cheerful and friendly manner there peeked every now and then a condescension, an awareness that he had a lot and others had less. And somehow that made them less. ~ Louise Penny, #NFDB
1244:I refuse to be called by any name, and suddenly, beneath the unnameable, I discover the wealth of lived experience, inexpressible poetry, the preconditions of supersession. ~ Raoul Vaneigem, #NFDB
1245:Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known. ~ A A Milne, #NFDB
1246:That’s despicable, but I’m not sure it’s beneath me. If it’s true, it would be kindest to kill Peeta here and now. But for better or worse, I am not motivated by kindness. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
1247:The ladies of Italy, seemingly carefree, wore constructions of iron beneath their silks. It took infinite patience, not just in negotiation, to get them of of their clothes. ~ Hilary Mantel, #NFDB
1248:The only way to understand a land is to walk it. The only way to drink in its real meaning is to keep it firmly beneath one's feet … Only the walker can form the wider view ~ Sinclair McKay, #NFDB
1249:The smoke from her cigarette passed beneath the nostrils of the brown and white girls, and their space-annihilating concupiscence seemed centered on mentholated smoke along. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
1250:Vulnerability doesn’t come after trust—it precedes it. Leaping into the unknown, when done alongside others, causes the solid ground of trust to materialize beneath our feet. ~ Daniel Coyle, #NFDB
1251:He felt above him the vast indifferent dome and the calm processes of the heavenly bodies; and the earth beneath him, the earth that had borne him, had taken him to her breast. ~ James Joyce, #NFDB
1252:She smelled faintly of wildflowers. But beneath that she smelled like autumn leaves. Like the dark smell of her own hair, like road dust and the air before a summer storm. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
1253:The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin--the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world. ~ W E B Du Bois, #NFDB
1254:Those who adhere to the ideology of rejecting Israel’s right to exist, they might as well reject the earth beneath them or the sky above, because Israel is not going anywhere. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
1255:Though Jade had never seen or heard the ocean, she thought Xifeng's voice might sound like the sea - gentle beneath the wind, but hiding wild, untamed depths below the surface. ~ Julie C Dao, #NFDB
1256:And beneath the chaos of the moment, Denise becomes aware of a painful truth about herself: she is never as deeply in love with a man as she is in the moment he leaves her. ~ Jonathan Tropper, #NFDB
1257:A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises from level earth; A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
1258:Better to be like the falcon. Alone. Dependent on nothing but the air beneath her wings. At least for the falcon, the air had more substance than her foolish dreams of love. ~ Elizabeth Rolls, #NFDB
1259:I couldn’t help but think that even though his public persona was hazardous to my very existence, it might be worth flirting with danger to steal a taste of the man beneath it. ~ Meghan March, #NFDB
1260:I did not want to die. More than that, I did not want to die as Ursula Monkton had died, beneath the rending talons and beaks of things that may not even have had legs or faces. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1261:I get that you're scared and that you've been hurt. But doing what is easy and safe is no way to live, and a life without passion and love is so far beneath what you deserve. ~ Kiersten White, #NFDB
1262:I know. You’ll do what you have to do.” Peeling her hands off his shoulders, he placed a sweet kiss against her wrist, where the blood pulsed beneath her skin. “And so will I. ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
1263:I tried to keep myself busy, always. When I wasn’t busy I could feel myself getting dangerously close to a despair that always seemed to be there, just beneath the surface: ~ Anton DiSclafani, #NFDB
1264:It's true, isn't it, that each of us has two hearts? The secret heart, curled behind like a fist, living gnarled and shrunken beneath the plain, open one we use every day. ~ Carolyn Parkhurst, #NFDB
1265:I wonder if the pain would travel further into my body, if it would scrape out a hollow in the dirt of my heart until it made itself a bed, a dog's burrow beneath a bush. ~ Elizabeth J Church, #NFDB
1266:Men don't ask other men if they're getting home OK, they just assume that beneath the frail, weak exterior lurks a muscle-building kung fu master fearless of ever being mugged. ~ Kate Griffin, #NFDB
1267:Salander's fingers emerged like something dead from beneath the earth. Had there been any human watching, he would probably have reacted like the fox. He was gone like a shot. ~ Steig Larsson, #NFDB
1268:Salander's fingers emerged like something dead from beneath the earth. Had there been any human watching, he would probably have reacted like the fox. He was gone like a shot. ~ Stieg Larsson, #NFDB
1269:Softly, surrounded by a fringe of inquisitive bright creatures, itself a silver shape beneath the steadfast constellations, Simon's dead body moved out towards the open sea. ~ William Golding, #NFDB
1270:The past is a dark house, and we have only torches with dying batteries. It's probably best not to spend too much time in there in case the rotten floor gives way beneath our feet. ~ Mal Peet, #NFDB
1271:the path isn’t always the one a girl has chosen, but the path they’re given. And when that path cracks and bleeds beneath her feet, it’s not the fall, it’s how she survives it. ~ Nashoda Rose, #NFDB
1272:Thou saw'st the locked lovers when leaping from their flaming ship; heart to heart they sank beneath the exulting wave; true to each other, when heaven seemed false to them. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
1273:We have fallen into the sugar shaker.
We are the ground beneath you.
Let someone else describe the sky.
Hold us in silence.
Do no throw us back
into some discussion. ~ Rumi,#NFDB
1274:After much diligent research, aided by other women, I gradually came to understand that beneath the familiar Goddesses of the patriarchy, there is a much more ancient Goddess. ~ Carol P Christ, #NFDB
1275:A murderer's light spilled out from the sunset. It flooded William Street with its ruddy glow and ran beneath the blue-black hail clouds and up the boulevard like hot blood. ~ Richard Flanagan, #NFDB
1276:a sense of invisible rays and forces, a sense that beneath the familiar, visible world of colors and appearances there lay a dark, hidden world of mysterious laws and phenomena. ~ Oliver Sacks, #NFDB
1277:Catherine went still. Her eyes closed against a sudden wet sting. 'Did you accept her proposal?' Leo nuzzled tenderly into the hollow beneath her ear. 'Of course not, pea-goose. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
1278:Dying would be normal for me, and one day, I'd be buried beneath a stone, and nothing would matter anymore. It'd be ordinary, like life.
And that terrified me, endlessly. ~ Rae Hachton,#NFDB
1279:For all that I announce at intervals that I want to go mad, it is apparently impossible: beyond me, beneath me. It took This for me to learn that I am a citadel of sanity. ~ Philip Roth, #NFDB
1280:His once-magnificent white beard, which someone had unaccountably shaved off, was growing back sparse and wispy, leaving him with unsightly pink wattles to dangle beneath his neck. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1281:I figured you’d come here and try to do something stupid.” “I did nothing of the kind.” “You don’t consider ducking beneath that yellow tape stupid?” “Only if I’d gotten caught. ~ Jill Shalvis, #NFDB
1282:Is it still there?" I asked, staring at his head, bent over, as he wedged the stethoscope beneath my left breast. And then, before I could stop myself, "Does it sound broken? ~ Jennifer Weiner, #NFDB
1283:Is that the end... of all the races and civilizations, and the dreams of the world, to be able to leave a few stones buried beneath the sands, to tell the Dark that we were here? ~ C J Cherryh, #NFDB
1284:It's really beneath the office of a member of Congress to say something that outrageous. The fact that she was once the Speaker is mind-numbing, honestly... mind-numbingly stupid. ~ Trey Gowdy, #NFDB
1285:Or perhaps everything seems outwardly all right, but beneath the surface a person is suffering from a deadly boredom that makes everything seem meaningless and empty. P. 170 ~ Carl Gustav Jung, #NFDB
1286:The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see it before the fact - in the future. ~ Paul Klee, #NFDB
1287:The place between actual seasons is filled with tiny roses in transition. There are murders and amputations in the garden. There are choirs on the sandy floors beneath oceans. ~ Kate Braverman, #NFDB
1288:V rebuffed the magic that tickled beneath her skin, itching to get out. Ignored its incessant chattering, its constant thrashing against her every decision, her every movement. ~ Rosalyn Kelly, #NFDB
1289:We both seemed to understand that we were completely and totally screwed. No way was this going to be a one-time thing. Already I wanted to crawl beneath his skin and never leave. ~ L H Cosway, #NFDB
1290:You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he. ~ Michel Foucault, #NFDB
1291:For one can live in friendship
With verses and with cards, with Plato and with wine,
And hide beneath the gentle cover of our playful pranks
A noble heart and mind. ~ Alexander Pushkin,#NFDB
1292:Genres are like the surface of the ocean. There are waves and things moving, but you don't instantly see all the reefs and ecosystems that's happening beneath the surface. ~ Charlie Jane Anders, #NFDB
1293:Her [Odette's] eyes were beautiful, but so large they seemed to droop beneath their own weight, strained the rest of her face and always made her appear unwell or in a bad mood. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
1294:It's a terrible thing to be alone -- yes it is -- it is -- but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath -- as terrible as you like -- but a mask. ~ Katherine Mansfield, #NFDB
1295:It was one to three football fields in length. It was massive, about 300 feet above the ground. It had three lights on the points of its triangle and a large red light beneath. ~ Steven M Greer, #NFDB
1296:Maybe a certain kind of ignorance was the condition. Into the pure nothingness of my non-knowledge something sublime (an event?) beyond (beneath?) consciousness was able to occur. ~ Zadie Smith, #NFDB
1297:One step to the sink, and I calmly begin to scrub my dripping hands, careful to pick and scrape the words sorrow and tragedy from where they’re lodged beneath each fingernail. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
1298:She folded fat hands over a plump stomach and did her best to beam at him. The effect of the beam was spoiled by the wispy hair that straggled out from beneath her dowdy hat. ~ Clifford D Simak, #NFDB
1299:she lived a life almost obsessively devoted to triviality. She'd turned into a pond skater, not because she didn't know what lay beneath the surface, but precisely because she did. ~ Pat Barker, #NFDB
1300:Tears were a kind of language and I felt all language was far away from me. I was beneath tears. Tears were what you shed in purgatory. By the time you were in hell it was too late. ~ Matt Haig, #NFDB
1301:The cold November sun sent weak rays onto the floor of the old house. The floor beneath snickered, trying hard to hold back snaps of bawdy laughter. The temperature dropped with ease. ~ J Thorn, #NFDB
1302:The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never. ~ Victor Davis Hanson, #NFDB
1303:There is no why – no question and no answer. You cannot ask the Dark Goddess why – she is her own why. Your questions – my questions – are less than the dust beneath her throne. ~ Jane Meredith, #NFDB
1304:The state, rather, is a parasitic institution that lives off the wealth of its subjects, concealing its anti-social, predatory nature beneath a public-interest veneer. ~ Llewellyn H Rockwell Jr, #NFDB
1305:...thinking that the world was like an orange, that I could split it open with my thumbnail and find a whole different world, the grown-up world, the secrets beneath the skin. ~ Jennifer Weiner, #NFDB
1306:Though Mr. Crawley was now but a broken reed, and was beneath his feet, yet Mr. Thumble acknowledged to himself that he could not hold his own in debate with this broken reed ~ Anthony Trollope, #NFDB
1307:Where was Araceli? Ivy paced beneath the pepper trees where they always met, the winter limbs now naked with balled fists. Icy sprinkles stung her face. She whispered, “Hurry … ~ Pam Mu oz Ryan, #NFDB
1308:white crescents beneath the pupils made his pale blue eyes seem to protrude, though they did not: lacking depth, they appeared to be inset into the skin like stones in hide. ~ Peter Matthiessen, #NFDB
1309:But now I am beginning to understand we all become tyrants beneath our own roof slates. Or maybe we don't; maybe it's just my father and me—the tyrannical gene I inherited from him. ~ Sara Baume, #NFDB
1310:Elisa believes this creature is accustomed to much larger gestures: full-body tumbles within seething seas; darting attacks; unfolding to full height beneath a tropical sun. ~ Guillermo del Toro, #NFDB
1311:He felt her relax as his fingers caressed her back and moved lower to her buttocks, slick, yet firm, beneath the water.
"You're not going to wash my hair, are you?" she whispered. ~ E B Brown,#NFDB
1312:He restoreth my soul. He leadeth me on a path of righteousness for His name’s sake. A coal black, claw-like hand reaches from beneath the pile of burned debris where my father weeps. ~ Jen Blood, #NFDB
1313:if you could float when there was no room, no space anywhere, above, below, when you couldn’t take a step without feeling the spongy give of rotting stuff beneath your feet. She ~ Liane Moriarty, #NFDB
1314:The bears, over the years, have developed a primitive but heartfelt Buddhist discipline. Beneath the cinnamon trees they practice the repetition of the Growling Sutra. The ~ Catherynne M Valente, #NFDB
1315:The earth sank beneath us, pressed by the weight of the whole universe above. How could it set us up like this, every planet precisely aligned, if it didn’t mean for us to collide? ~ Leah Raeder, #NFDB
1316:The light shone down on his plump face, reflected from his rimless glasses, bathed the pinkness of his scalp beneath the thinning sandy hair as he bent his head to resume reading. ~ Robert Bloch, #NFDB
1317:There is enormous continuity beneath the day-to-day news that makes America that indispensable nation when it comes to maintaining order and promoting prosperity around the world. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
1318:Where was my mother? I wondered. I'd carried her so long, staggering beneath her weight. On the other side of the river, I let myself think. And something inside of me released. ~ Cheryl Strayed, #NFDB
1319:A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place. ~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, #NFDB
1320:First, say to yourself, 'I'm totally independent of the good or bad opinions of others.' Second: 'I'm beneath no one.' Third: 'I'm fearless in the face of any and all challenges.' ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
1321:Georgie was more than any man could hope for in life. To have her love and attention was like standing beneath the scorching sun on a summer day: suffocating and sustaining all at once ~ R S Grey, #NFDB
1322:He drifted past saguaros and alkali flats, camped beneath escarpments of naked Precambrian stone. In the distance spiky, chocolate-brown mountains floated on eerie pools of mirage. ~ Jon Krakauer, #NFDB
1323:I see myself beneath her.
Being taken and made love to.
I feel her.
I know her.
Taste her champagne mouth.
Ignore the ugly teeth.
Just shut my eyes and taste her. ~ Markus Zusak,#NFDB
1324:Janvier watched Ashwini stride away, her hips moving provocatively beneath the snug fit of her jeans. “Take care of her,” he said quietly to his friend. “She is my eternity, Louis. ~ Nalini Singh, #NFDB
1325:Leaves in every shade of the autumn spectrum - red, yellow, orange, brown - littered the ground at my feet, crunching beneath my boots as I stepped out of the car and looked around. ~ Kristi Cook, #NFDB
1326:Taillight brigades slipping smoothly beneath the westering sky. Democratic America. Standing next to one another, lined up silently, obediently, and respectfully at rest-stop urinals. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1327:There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze. ~ Charles Baudelaire, #NFDB
1328:They'll realize that beneath your unfeeling exterior is a heart that's breaking! Silently, and in more pain than any of us can possibly understand, because that's what it is to be Vulcan! ~ Kelis, #NFDB
1329:What god do you serve? Inej had asked him. Whichever will grant me good fortune. Fortunate people didn’t end up racing ass over teakettle beneath an ice moat in hostile territory. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
1330:You are a flower crushed beneath the feet of the animal that is concealed in a human being. Take comfort, in that you are the flower crushed and not the foot that has crushed it. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB
1331:1025
The Thought Beneath So Slight A Film
The thought beneath so slight a film
Is more distincly seen, -As laces just reveal the surge,
Or mists the Apennine.
~ Emily Dickinson,#NFDB
1332:All here gathers beneath one golden sky:
The Powers that build the cosmos station take
In its house of infinite possibility; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
1333:Anything that didn’t impale itself on the sharp line of this sleeping boy’s cruel mouth would be tangled in the merciless hooks of his tattoo, pulled beneath his skin to drown. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
1334:As the tissues of the body fester and rot under X rays, so under the sun fester and rot Anglo-Saxonism and Teutonism and Scandinavianism if left too long beneath its influence. ~ Compton Mackenzie, #NFDB
1335:Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
1336:herself from the rains. But through the raw and broken trees she could see the valley, faint beneath a gelatinous fog. She’s all but certain that she’s falling toward the very same ~ Jason Gurley, #NFDB
1337:His eyes flashed and the misconception that he didn’t know passion dissolved. He knew it. He wielded it. He hid beneath layers and layers of mystery I would never hope to unravel. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
1338:I catch a flash of red-gold beneath the surface of the water, and realize that there are koi in the pond, massive, serene, and I wonder: are they dreams of fish, or fish who dream? ~ Sarah Monette, #NFDB
1339:I do not own the words used to debase me in any way shape or form. I gladly take the shrapnel and shower it like confetti for all those who wish to dance or die beneath it. ~ Christy Leigh Stewart, #NFDB
1340:In a matter of seconds, the world had turned into a confusing labyrinth; the truth there and not there, shifting out beneath my feet, vanishing when I tried to look it head-on. ~ Becca Fitzpatrick, #NFDB
1341:nothing fake about his attraction to her, or how much he wants her beneath him in his bed, moaning his name. But what starts as a fun, flirty, temporary engagement quickly becomes ~ Carly Phillips, #NFDB
1342:Some people fall head over heels. Other people begin to fall without even knowing it—love grows like a spring flower beneath last autumn’s leaves and catches them by surprise. ~ Elizabeth Chandler, #NFDB
1343:The gypsies believe the bear to be a brother to man because he has the same body beneath his hide, because he drinks beer, because he enjoys music and because he likes to dance. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
1344:There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me, lest I fall. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
1345:Beneath the expensive clothes, unplaceable accent, and cultured veneer, there's something that never crawled all the way out of the swamp. It didn't want to. It likes it there. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
1346:Beneath the expensive clothes, unplaceable accent, and cultured veneer, there’s something that never crawled all the way out of the swamp. It didn’t want to. It likes it there. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
1347:Boyle inaugurated a long and less-than-glorious tradition of scientists sticking animals beneath bell jars—larks, mice, cats, snakes, cheese mites—and taking notes while they suffocated. ~ Sam Kean, #NFDB
1348:Clair de Lune,” a song that makes her think of leaves fluttering, and of the hard ribbons of sand beneath her feet at low tide. The music slinks and rises and settles back to earth, ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
1349:Did she feel what he felt? Something old. Something new. already he wanted more. Not just a kiss, though he'd invite her lips to his anytime, but he wanted the woman beneath the kiss ~ Rachel Hauck, #NFDB
1350:Earth lies unchanged beneath the circling sun;
She loves her fall and no omnipotence
Her mortal imperfections can erase. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#NFDB
1351:Happy he who was able to know the causes of things (felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas), and who trampled beneath his feet all fears, inexorable fate, and the roar of devouring hell. ~ Virgil, #NFDB
1352:His voice cracked with the strain, and they stood looking at each other in the whiteness and the emptiness, and Harry felt they were as insignificant as insects beneath that wide sky. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1353:I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath my skin and behind my eye. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
1354:Rome is a broken mirror, the falling straps of a dress, a puzzle of astonishing complexity. It is an iceberg floating below our terrace, all its ballasts hidden beneath the surface. ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
1355:She could imagine the view: her ass displayed lewdly, the plump lips of her sex visible beneath. It was a rude position, almost cruel in its offering, but she had to make it worse. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
1356:She ran into the bathroom and powdered her face and the front of her dress, drew a surrealistic version of a mouth beneath her nose, and dashed into her bedroom to find a coat. ~ John Kennedy Toole, #NFDB
1357:SUNLIGHT SEEPED THROUGH the thickly-bunched leaves of the towering kirstal trees, the clearing beneath them riddled with chaotic patches of brilliant light and gray shadow. ~ Mickey Zucker Reichert, #NFDB
1358:The forest stretched away before him. Beneath his paws he could feel the crisp crackle of newly fallen leaves. Silverpelt glittered in the sky like morning dew scattered on black fur. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
1359:The passing years are supposed to soften what has gone before, but they don’t. Because for most of us, the past has nowhere to go. The best we can do is live beneath its weight. ~ Billy O Callaghan, #NFDB
1360:Beneath her self-control, though he did not guess it, was the impatience of the keen brain watching a slower brain laboriously cover the ground it had already traversed in a flash. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
1361:Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow, Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground, With folded lids beneath their palmy shadow The gentian nods in dewy slumbers bound. ~ Sarah Helen Whitman, #NFDB
1362:But is it really you
behind the pretenses
beyond dust and distances
beneath the salt and the siren
announcements and ancient
impurities and decays
that claim to be you ~ W S Merwin,#NFDB
1363:Gideon pulled me down for the sweetest of kisses, his firm lips moving gently beneath mine. “I’d kill for you,” he whispered, “give up everything I own for you… but I won’t give you up. ~ Sylvia Day, #NFDB
1364:I heard a clanging on the ladder beneath me, and I knew who it was before I felt her curling around my heart. The warmth exploded across me, across the water tower, across Summerville. ~ Kami Garcia, #NFDB
1365:Sometimes we falter not because the ground beneath our feet is unstable but because it's exhausting to keep moving, to keep trying, to keep performing the same actions again and again. ~ Kyo Maclear, #NFDB
1366:The bottom fell out of my stomach. It was like putting a foot wrong on a frozen creek, the crack of ice, and sudden drop, the knowledge that there was nothing beneath but dark water. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
1367:This town is filled with echoes. It's like they were trapped behind the walls, or beneath the cobblestones. When you walk you feel like someone's behind you, stepping in your footsteps. ~ Juan Rulfo, #NFDB
1368:Using three battens from Kirit’s wing, Djonn and Ceetcee built a tripod over the fire and suspended a small bone trivet beneath. I placed the eggs in the trivet, and we waited hungrily. ~ Fran Wilde, #NFDB
1369:Always, everywhere, man is man, nor has he altered greatly beneath his veneer since he scurried into a hole between two rocks to escape the tyrannosaurus six million years ago. ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs, #NFDB
1370:As self-possessed as he is, when he’s tired from working too hard, his whole demeanor softens with vulnerability… which makes me want to tuck him right beneath my heart and hold on tight. ~ Nina Lane, #NFDB
1371:Beneath all of her thoughts and worries, beneath the complication of conflicting identities and needs, maybe it's as simple as loving the way some other person looks when they're sleeping. ~ Joe Meno, #NFDB
1372:Beneath her curls, I forget the world,
With a mere gaze she raises my hopes of gold.
Love is as much in her heart as in mine,
But she doesn’t say it, her punishment so divine. ~ Faraaz Kazi,#NFDB
1373:Catherine went still. Her eyes closed against a sudden wet sting. 'Did you accept her proposal?'
Leo nuzzled tenderly into the hollow beneath her ear. 'Of course not, pea-goose. ~ Lisa Kleypas,#NFDB
1374:I feel the music. I fell his pulse beneath my hands, but mostly I feel us. We're the music of this moment. He's the beat that I'm dancing to. And our music is a beautiful symphony. ~ Corinne Michaels, #NFDB
1375:In November, the earth is growing quiet. It is making its bed, a winter bed for flowers and small creatures. The bed is white and silent, and much life can hide beneath its blankets. ~ Cynthia Rylant, #NFDB
1376:Kyra stood atop the grassy knoll, the frozen ground hard beneath her boots, snow falling around her, and tried to ignore the biting cold as she raised her bow and focused on her target. ~ Morgan Rice, #NFDB
1377:She had lived among those oak and pine trees when their roots grew deep beneath her and their leaves thick above. Now he lived among them, too, only he lived among them cut and dead. ~ Louise Erdrich, #NFDB
1378:Trees are good for contemplation. Plato and Aristotle did their best thinking in the groves of olives and figs around Athens, and Buddha found enlightenment beneath a bo or peepul tree. ~ Colin Tudge, #NFDB
1379:We sit and talk quietly, with long lapses of silence, and I am aware of the stream that has no language, coursing beneath the quiet heaven of your eyes, which has no speech. ~ William Carlos Williams, #NFDB
1380:Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore. ~ Oliver Goldsmith, #NFDB
1381:And in general, the residents of the town wondered why they all felt hollow just beneath the throat, the result of missing something they had never been able to name in the first place. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
1382:Beneath the sophistication of Buddhist psychology lies the simplicity of compassion. We can touch into this compassion whenever the mind is quiet, whenever we allow the heart to open. ~ Jack Kornfield, #NFDB
1383:Can the heart become misshapen and contract incurable deformities and infirmities under the oppression of a disproportionate unhappiness, as the vertebral column beneath too low a vault? ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
1384:I hope thou shalt never retreat beneath the ground. The sun is thy inheritance. The sky is thy birthright. Stay here, my boy, and with the conversation of mankind. rejoice in the light. ~ M T Anderson, #NFDB
1385:Olanna gently placed a pillow beneath her head and sat thinking about how a single act could reverberate over time and space and leave stains that could never be washed off. ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, #NFDB
1386:Since I have spread my wings to purpose high,
The more beneath my feet the clouds I see,
The more I give the winds my pinions free,
Spurning the earth and soaring to the sky. ~ Giordano Bruno,#NFDB
1387:A dominate male through and through, but beneath that lived a man who only wanted approval. A man who had never had affection or love or a simple kiss. And that broke my fucking heart. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
1388:Amazing, isn’t it?” Kvothe addressed them bitingly. “Five fingers and flesh with blood beneath. One could almost believe that on the other end of that hand lay a person of some sort. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
1389:As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond - very calm on the surface but paddling away like crazy underneath. ~ Alexander Skarsgard, #NFDB
1390:Beneath the broad tides of human history there flow the stealthy undercurrents of the secret societies, which frequently determine in the depth the changes that take place upon the surface. ~ A E Waite, #NFDB
1391:Losing Foxen was bad. It would leave her blind and lonely in the dark. Being trapped beneath the pipes and choking out her life was awful too. But neither of those things were wrong. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
1392:Moreover, the church might be obliged to not only “bind up the wounds of those who have fallen beneath the wheel . . . but at times halt the wheel itself” by taking direct political action. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1393:One afternoon late in October of the year 1697, Euclide Auclair, the philosopher apothecary of Quebec, stood on the top of Cap Diamant gazing down the broad, empty river far beneath him. ~ Willa Cather, #NFDB
1394:Other Terms for Bombs flatulence backdoor trumpets air biscuits morning thunder cutting the cheese barking spiders depth charges butt bongos wind beneath your wings laying an egg stink-tail ~ Bart King, #NFDB
1395:She'd pushed it down, crushed it beneath the weight of stubborn determination, but still it haunted her at night, when such terrors shamble from their dens to torment innocent insomniacs. ~ Ari Marmell, #NFDB
1396:She longed to touch it, to stroke her fingers through that atmosphere, cleaving white billowing clouds and glittering salty seas, until she felt the hard scabbed crust beneath them. ~ Alastair Reynolds, #NFDB
1397:Tracy had never been so conscious of the sky above the earth, the dangerous clouds that gathered there, the way humans lived beneath such grandeur and threat every moment of their lives. ~ Paul Russell, #NFDB
1398:"We sit and talk quietly, with long lapses of silence, and I am aware of the stream that has no language, coursing beneath the quiet heaven of your eyes, which has no speech." ~ William Carlos Williams, #NFDB
1399:Arithon lent a disarming appearance of frailty. Beneath wind-flicked tangles of dark hair, his expression reflected the careless ennui of high-breeding, the features, sharp-faceted marble. ~ Janny Wurts, #NFDB
1400:Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared. ~ William Jennings Bryan, #NFDB
1401:bones that shouldn't have allowed Aren to rise, and yet he did. He turned on his knee to face his attackers, to face his soldiers. They were nondescript beneath their steel helms; two pairs ~ M R Forbes, #NFDB
1402:Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent. ~ Robert Ballard, #NFDB
1403:He takes my hand and presses it against his chest. Beneath my palm I feel his heartbeat racing. My eyes move from his chest to his face. “It does that whenever I’m around you,” he says. ~ Laura Thalassa, #NFDB
1404:I don't think I've ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there's a certain value for actors staying beneath the radar so they can play characters. ~ Liev Schreiber, #NFDB
1405:She was followed by another thaumaturge, one rank beneath Sybil, who had dark skin and piercing eyes and no purpose, it seemed to Kai, other than to stand behind his queen and look smug. ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
1406:Tarkin had long nursed suspicions about who Vader was beneath the black face mask and helmet, as well as how he had come to be, but he knew better than to give open voice to his thoughts. ~ James Luceno, #NFDB
1407:An equality of nation will never exist in our lifetime. Why? Because peace, freedom, and justice are deceptive concepts. Hidden beneath their surface are the instincts of the peking order. ~ Howard Bloom, #NFDB
1408:Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing hero, and a blood thirsty savage. ~ William Ralph Inge, #NFDB
1409:Beneath the lower point of the balloon swung a car, containing five passengers, scarcely visible in the midst of the thick vapor mingled with spray which hung over the surface of the ocean. ~ Jules Verne, #NFDB
1410:Beneath the surface, unnoticed by many, an even deeper force was at work—the rise of creativity as a fundamental economic driver, and the rise of a new social class, the Creative Class. ~ Richard Florida, #NFDB
1411:Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been heard by those who listened closely: the gentle sigh of an idea unbound. ~ Lydia Millet, #NFDB
1412:He had no idea what was wrong, but he knew something was wrong. It turned out that the heart of the fire had not been in the kitchen but in the basement beneath where the men had stood. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
1413:If Darwin could get into a submarine and see what I've seen, thousand of feet beneath the ocean, I am just confident that he would be inspired to sit down and start writing all over again. ~ Sylvia Earle, #NFDB
1414:I wonder if the greatest temptation is self-rejection. Could it be that beneath all the lures to greed, lust, and success rests a great fear of never being enough or not being lovable? ~ Henri J M Nouwen, #NFDB
1415:O ye, who see perplexities over your heads, beneath your feet, and to the right and left of you; you will be an eternal enigma unto yourselves until ye become humble and joyful as children. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
1416:The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface . ~ Aldous Huxley, #NFDB
1417:The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God. ~ James Russell Lowell, #NFDB
1418:When you take your stand along the maker's path, you must remain utterly still. You must think like a patch of sand. Hide beneath your cloak and become a little dune in your very essence. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
1419:You've taught me to search for the meaning beneath words, that music's true beauty is found in its silence, and that often the smallest scars carry the most pain. ~ Elizabeth IsaacsJax ~ Elizabeth Isaacs, #NFDB
1420:Beneath the thick flowering smell was an antiseptic undernote, profumo della morte. The scent of death was pervasive and ugly, no matter what Renaissance language she translated it into. She ~ J T Ellison, #NFDB
1421:He smelled like magic and sweat and the sea, but there was something else beneath all that, something sweet and warm like honey, and just for a moment I didn't feel afraid anymore. ~ Cassandra Rose Clarke, #NFDB
1422:His hand dove beneath my seat and surfaced with the sawed-off vintage Lupara.
"I distinctly remember telling you not to bring that thing," I complained.
"Felt like you were daring me. ~ Jenn Bennett,#NFDB
1423:His heart. I just want his heart. I know he has one.
Something red and big and beautiful buried beneath layers of darkened ash.
A heart that I won't uncover, no matter how hard I try. ~ Karina Halle,#NFDB
1424:I no longer needed to peel myself of my skin, or to hide. To Dash the colorless ephemeral things that existed just beneath my surface were as vivid as the beauty marks he traced on my cheek. ~ Aspen Matis, #NFDB
1425:I turned to face him, and when I saw him standing there in the pale, blue-gray sunlight, my breath caught somewhere beneath my ribs. The boy was probably my age, and about my height, too. ~ Danielle Paige, #NFDB
1426:Kremlin political intrigues are comparable to a bulldog fight under a rug. An outsider only hears the growling, and when he sees the bones fly out from beneath it is obvious who won. ~ Winston S Churchill, #NFDB
1427:The deepest fear we have, 'the fear beneath all fears,' is the fear of not measuring up, the fear of judgment. It's this fear that creates the stress and depression of everyday life. ~ Tullian Tchividjian, #NFDB
1428:You can hide beneath the covers and study your pain, make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain. Waste your summer praying in vain, for a savior to rise from these streets. ~ Bruce Springsteen, #NFDB
1429:Devil, cease; and do not poison the air with these sounds of malice. I have declared my resolution to you, and I am no coward to bend beneath words. Leave me; I am inexorable. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, #NFDB
1430:Rock... is the expression of elemental passions... In the ecstasy of having all their defenses torn down, the participants sink, as it were, beneath the elemental force of the universe. ~ Pope Benedict XVI, #NFDB
1431:There was a Being whom my spirit oft
Met on its visioned wanderings far aloft.
A seraph of Heaven, too gentle to be human,
Veiling beneath that radiant form of woman.... ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley,#NFDB
1432:vulnerability and hurt. A lot of things happen below the surface, don’t you think? A jab, a deflection, a hit, then pain—all hidden beneath exquisite manners and an aura of sophistication. ~ Katherine Reay, #NFDB
1433:We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns. ~ Tom Waits, #NFDB
1434:Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin; And breastless creatures under ground Leaned backward with a lipless grin. —T. S. Eliot, “Whispers of Immortality” I ~ Paul Kalanithi, #NFDB
1435:When we repress our desires, they do not disappear but stay beneath the surface and continue to exert their influence. Prohibition arouses desire and suggests stratagems for satisfying it. ~ Alain Dani lou, #NFDB
1436:For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we're dreaming all the time. That's what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls. ~ Anthony Hopkins, #NFDB
1437:For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found in giving up any belief in the idea of God. ~ Alan Watts, #NFDB
1438:How insignificant mere money seeking looks in comparison with a serene life—a life that dwells in the ocean of Truth, beneath the waves, beyond the reach of tempests, in the Eternal Calm! "How ~ James Allen, #NFDB
1439:She didn’t plan for me to need her like I do—to need to feel her body beneath mine, to need to taste her soft recesses, to need to be inside her more and more with every day that passes. ~ Michelle Leighton, #NFDB
1440:Some of my favorite music is incredibly repetitive, or on the surface has an element of repetition. But once you go beneath the surface, you realize in the repetition is constant variation. ~ John Dieterich, #NFDB
1441:The atmosphere beneath is languorous, and is so tinged with azure that what artists call the middle distance partakes also of that hue, while the horizon beyond is of the deepest ultramarine. ~ Thomas Hardy, #NFDB
1442:Those who perished within the first floor were buried beneath books on the second floor; it was not enough to keep away the scent of decay, but it was enough to pay them reverence. ~ M Amanuensis Sharkchild, #NFDB
1443:Why should men be allowed to strut under the privilege of their life adventures, wearing them like a breast full of medals, while women went all gray and silent beneath the weight of theirs? ~ Carol Shields, #NFDB
1444:Be careful who you point your blame at, Layla. And remember that anytime you point your finger to accuse someone, there are three fingers beneath it, curled to point right back at you. ~ Fatima Farheen Mirza, #NFDB
1445:Beneath the standard military-issue stiffness there lies a vast and heedless confidence born of wealth and leisure, a sense that the world is malleable, that it will bend to his desires. Sumner ~ Ian McGuire, #NFDB
1446:Beneath the stars the lake lay dark and sombre," Stead wrote, "but on its shores gleamed and glowed in golden radiance the ivory city, beautiful as a poet's dream, silent as a city of the dead. ~ Erik Larson, #NFDB
1447:Diane turned and pointed in the direction of Evan’s cubicle. But instead of a cubicle, there was a fern and an empty chair beneath a framed photo of a cloud. She wasn’t sure which cloud it was. ~ Joseph Fink, #NFDB
1448:Even thinking about heading up there again made my heart thump harder; it took nothing for me to recall that sense of the world disappearing from beneath me, like a rug pulled from under my feet ~ Jojo Moyes, #NFDB
1449:Her life hadn’t just taken detours or even gone off the rails. It was as though the rails had vanished beneath her. A person needs answers. A person needs them to make some kind of sense. They ~ Harlan Coben, #NFDB
1450:Is this the secret of Istanbul—that beneath its grand history, its living poverty, its outward-looking monuments, and its sublime landscapes, its poor hide the city’s soul inside a fragile web? ~ Orhan Pamuk, #NFDB
1451:There are many so-called glorious and invincible ships now rotting beneath the oceans! Most of them – with high conceit – had thought that they would always continue their golden voyage! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1452:There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag. ~ Ade Edmondson, #NFDB
1453: A beard, I figured, was power. Grown properly, a beard was like a mask. The man beneath the beard looked out at a world with clarity but that same world could not necessarily see into him. ~ Andersen Prunty, #NFDB
1454:Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1455:Even thinking about heading up there again made my heart thump harder; it took nothing for me to recall that sense of the world disappearing from beneath me, like a rug pulled from under my feet. ~ Jojo Moyes, #NFDB
1456:Father, it’s Wistala. Wistala.”
Father grimaced. “You’re a star, Wistala — I saw you twinkling beneath dear Irelia last night. You, Auron, and Jizara all in a row. I’ll be up there soon. Wait. ~ E E Knight,#NFDB
1457:For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found in giving up any belief in the idea of God. ~ Alan W Watts, #NFDB
1458:He let himself relax slightly, grudgingly, beneath her palms. She flipped over and pulled his arm back around her. “You’re welcome, you big idiot.” He’d lied. He did like the way she talked. * ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
1459:However you must have sensed a lurking 'but' skulking beneath my happy, blithe, and chipper exterior. A minuscule vexation, like the teeniest lump of raw liver sticking to the inside of my boot. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1460:If some volcano in the Alleghanies threatens North Carolina with a disaster similar to that of Martinique, buried beneath the outpourings of Mont Pelee, then these people must leave their homes. ~ Jules Verne, #NFDB
1461:It was rather beautiful: the way he put her insecurities to sleep. The way he dove into her eyes and starved all the fears and tasted all the dreams she kept coiled beneath her bones. ~ Christopher Poindexter, #NFDB
1462:Jane reminds us that God is in his heaven, the monarch on his throne and the pelvis firmly beneath the ribcage. Apparently rock and roll liberated the pelvis and it hasn't been the same since. ~ Emma Thompson, #NFDB
1463:Success: a marvelous stimulant, bubbling with inspiration and incitement. But for all except the few who are strong and steadfast, there lurks beneath the effervescence a subtle poison. ~ Samuel Hopkins Adams, #NFDB
1464:The essential advantage for a poet is not to have a beautiful world with which to deal; it is to be able to see beneath both beauty and ugliness; to see the boredom, and the horror, and the glory. ~ T S Eliot, #NFDB
1465:Thus from beneath the black veil there rolled a cloud into the sunshine, an ambiguity of sin or sorrow, which enveloped the poor minister, so that love or sympathy could never reach him. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne, #NFDB
1466:We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
We are monkeys with money and guns. ~ Tom Waits,#NFDB
1467:We are like two young lovers huddled beneath an umbrella in a rainstorm. We find shelter from the elements, warmth in each other’s arms, and solace in otherwise unforgiving circumstances. ~ Michelle Leighton, #NFDB
1468:For the first time in ages, I wish for silk and silver armor, to look like the leader I pretend to be. Instead, I shiver in my threadbare sweater, trying to hide the scars and bones beneath. ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
1469:God i've missed you. I can't wait to give you your present. He kisses me hotter this time, and beneath me, through his denim and mine. I can feel the promise of his Christmas gift soon to come. ~ Ellen Hopkins, #NFDB
1470:He sees me based on what I can do for him, not who I am. He has an image of me and he doesn’t want to see beneath the image. You can’t be with a man who is unwilling or unable to see the real you. ~ Cathy Lamb, #NFDB
1471:He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he'd been lucky enough to find her. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
1472:I feel a strong immortal hope, which bears my mournful spirit up beneath its mountain load; redeemed from death, and grief, and pain, I soon shall find my [child] again within the arms of God. ~ Charles Wesley, #NFDB
1473:Kiss me, babe."'
"No, really." Beneath the light of a sixty-watt bulb on her porch, Adele Harris placed a hand on the chest of her latest date. "I've had enough excitement for one night. ~ Rachel Gibson,#NFDB
1474:My makeup is ruined,” she said, sliding a finger beneath her lashes to wipe away the mascara. “That’s okay, Halloween is only four months away.” “You’re never too old to be grounded, young lady. ~ Dannika Dark, #NFDB
1475:My path forward was the opposite of theirs and theirs was the opposite of mine. It distilled itself down until all that was left was the argument. And maybe, lurking just beneath that, the hatred. ~ Hank Green, #NFDB
1476:No person is ever truly their online or media persona. For better or for worse, the human condition, desires, and faults are so much more robust than pixels on a screen or words beneath a caption. ~ L H Cosway, #NFDB
1477:Shifting from one hip to the other in his lumbering, elephantine fashion, Ignatius sent waves of flesh rippling beneath the tweed and flannel, waves that broke upon buttons and seams. Thus ~ John Kennedy Toole, #NFDB
1478:Tarkin had long nursed suspicions about who Vader was beneath the black face mask and helmet, as well as how he had come to be, but he knew better than to give open voice to his thoughts. ~ John Jackson Miller, #NFDB
1479:Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1480:We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature. ~ Vernon Howard, #NFDB
1481:Well is the unconscious rule for the animal breeds
Content to live beneath the immutable yoke;
Man turns to a nobler walk, a master path. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
1482:Confucius says: 'Many seek happiness higher than man; others beneath him. But happiness is the
same height as man.' That is true. So there must be a happiness to suit every man's stature. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis,#NFDB
1483:Each day is a branch of the Tree of Life laden heavily with fruit. If we lie down lazily beneath it, we may starve; but if we shake the branches, some of the fruit will fall for us. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB
1484:Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date; Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight Shall be thy doom! ~ Robert Burns, #NFDB
1485:Everyone was oblivious to the seething hatred and anger that churned in other parts of the city — beneath the surface like an undiscovered fault line waiting to open up and swallow all above. ~ Michael Connelly, #NFDB
1486:It was a worrying trend. Everybody else was deep into their own stories, and all the stories were woven together just beneath the surface into a web that included Plum. But what was Plum's story? ~ Lev Grossman, #NFDB
1487:More highly favoured are we than David in Adullam, or Jonah beneath his gourd, for none can invade or destroy our shelter. The person of Jesus is the quiet resting-place of His people. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1488:She felt tears slip from beneath her lashes, no matter how she tried to blink them back. Her heart was ablaze. It seemed that her entire life had led to this man, this moment of unexpressed love. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
1489:The night before Atlantis sank beneath the waves forever, the members of the MysterySchool set sail from their doomed continent in twelve boats, headed for twelve different points on the globe. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1490:The professional permanent staff that lies right beneath them will still be in place, making everything work until the [Donald] Trump appointees start populating the offices on top of them. ~ Lawrence O Donnell, #NFDB
1491:To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and show that there is more to this world than what meets the eye. ~ Marvin Gaye, #NFDB
1492:What lies beneath this envelope of flesh and blood, hmm? Is it something special? Perhaps, when I peel it open, I will be able to see. Perhaps your screams will tell me everything I need to know. ~ Julie Kagawa, #NFDB
1493:Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1494:At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon. An opiate vapor, dewy, dim, Exhales from out her golden rim, And, softly dripping, drop by drop, Upon the quiet mountain top, ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
1495:He thinks of Elienad, lying beneath tables, listening to the inflections of lies. Watching the hesitations, the gestures, the tensed muscles. Learning a language the king was unaware he even spoke. ~ Holly Black, #NFDB
1496:It is not excess of thought but defect of fertile and generous emotion that marks them out. Their heads are no bigger than the ordinary: it is the atrophy of te chest beneath that makes them seem so. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1497:Near the foot of the mountain we visited a yogi who dwelled in a hollow tunneled beneath a boulder. He pondered our notion of climbing Shivling and said: 'First travel, then struggle, finally calm'. ~ Greg Child, #NFDB
1498:there are mountains growing
beneath our feet
that cannot be contained
all we've endured
has prepared us for this
bring your hammer and fists
we have a glass ceiling to shatter ~ Rupi Kaur,#NFDB
1499:What we must demand from the photographer is the ability to put such a caption beneath his picture as will rescue it from the ravages of modishness and confer upon it a revolutionary use value. ~ Walter Benjamin, #NFDB
1500:When a parent dies, for those left behind it can feel as though half the sky has fallen. My father was the sheltering sky, and beneath his mild firmament no storm ever raged, no hard rain fell. ~ John Birmingham, #NFDB
355 Poetry
142 Fiction
69 Christianity
60 Integral Yoga
55 Philosophy
37 Occultism
34 Islam
16 Psychology
12 Mythology
11 Yoga
11 Science
11 Philsophy
10 Integral Theory
7 Hinduism
5 Mysticism
5 Baha i Faith
1 Zen
1 Theosophy
1 Thelema
1 Education
1 Buddhism
1 Alchemy
75 H P Lovecraft
74 Percy Bysshe Shelley
63 William Wordsworth
53 Sri Aurobindo
36 Satprem
34 Muhammad
30 Robert Browning
28 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
26 The Mother
25 John Keats
22 Walt Whitman
21 Plotinus
21 Aleister Crowley
20 Friedrich Schiller
16 Lucretius
14 Carl Jung
13 Saint Augustine of Hippo
12 Ovid
11 Sri Ramakrishna
11 Ralph Waldo Emerson
8 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
8 Edgar Allan Poe
6 Vyasa
6 Plato
6 Nolini Kanta Gupta
6 Friedrich Nietzsche
5 Rainer Maria Rilke
5 Jorge Luis Borges
5 James George Frazer
5 Baha u llah
5 Anonymous
4 Jordan Peterson
4 Hafiz
3 Sri Ramana Maharshi
3 Saint Teresa of Avila
3 Rudolf Steiner
3 Rabindranath Tagore
3 Li Bai
3 Jalaluddin Rumi
2 William Butler Yeats
2 Swami Vivekananda
2 Omar Khayyam
2 Jorge Luis Borges
2 Jean Gebser
2 Henry David Thoreau
2 Hakim Sanai
75 Lovecraft - Poems
74 Shelley - Poems
63 Wordsworth - Poems
34 Quran
31 Savitri
30 Browning - Poems
25 Keats - Poems
20 Whitman - Poems
20 Schiller - Poems
16 Of The Nature Of Things
12 Metamorphoses
11 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
11 Emerson - Poems
10 The Phenomenon of Man
10 City of God
9 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
9 The Divine Comedy
8 Crowley - Poems
7 Words Of Long Ago
7 The Future of Man
7 The Bible
7 Poe - Poems
7 On the Way to Supermanhood
7 Magick Without Tears
7 Hymn of the Universe
6 Vishnu Purana
6 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02
6 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 01
6 Mysterium Coniunctionis
6 Labyrinths
6 Faust
5 The Golden Bough
5 Rilke - Poems
5 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 04
5 Liber ABA
5 Collected Poems
5 Agenda Vol 07
4 Twilight of the Idols
4 The Secret Doctrine
4 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
4 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 03
4 Maps of Meaning
4 Let Me Explain
4 Hafiz - Poems
3 The Synthesis Of Yoga
3 The Confessions of Saint Augustine
3 Tagore - Poems
3 Li Bai - Poems
3 Agenda Vol 02
3 Agenda Vol 01
2 Yeats - Poems
2 Walden
2 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
2 The Way of Perfection
2 The Practice of Psycho therapy
2 The Ever-Present Origin
2 The Book of Certitude
2 The Blue Cliff Records
2 Talks
2 Selected Fictions
2 Questions And Answers 1954
2 Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
2 Goethe - Poems
2 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
2 Anonymous - Poems
2 Aion
2 Agenda Vol 09
2 Agenda Vol 06
2 A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah
0 0.01 - Introduction, #Agenda Vol 1, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
One day, we were like this first man in the great, stridulant night of the Oyapock. Our heart was beating with the rediscovery of a very ancient mystery - suddenly, it was absolutely new to be a man amidst the diorite cascades and the pretty red and black coral snakes slithering Beneath the leaves. It was even more extraordinary to be a man than our old confirmed tribes, with their infallible equations and imprescriptible biologies, could ever have dreamed. It was an absolutely uncertain 'quantum' that delightfully eluded whatever one thought of it, including perhaps what even the scholars thought of it. It flowed otherwise, it felt otherwise. It lived in a kind of flawless continuity with the sap of the giant balata trees, the cry of the macaws and the scintillating water of a little fountain. It 'understood' in a very different way. To understand was to be in everything. Just a quiver, and one was in the skin of a little iguana in distress. The skin of the world was very vast.
To be a man after rediscovering a million years was mysteriously like being something still other than man, a strange, unfinished possibility that could also be all kinds of other things. It was not in the dictionary, it was fluid and boundless - it had become a man through habit, but in truth, it was formidably virgin, as if all the old laws belonged to laggard barbarians. Then other moons began whirring through the skies to the cry of macaws at sunset, another rhythm was born that was strangely in tune with the rhythm of all, making one single flow of the world, and there we went, lightly, as if the body had never had any weight other than that of our human thought; and the stars were so near, even the giant airplanes roaring overhead seemed vain artifices Beneath smiling galaxies. A man was the overwhelming Possible. He was even the great discoverer of the Possible.
Never had this precarious invention had any other aim through millions of species than to discover that which surpassed his own species, perhaps the means to change his species - a light and lawless species. After rediscovering a million years in the great, rhythmic night, a man was still something to be invented. It was the invention of himself, where all was not yet said and done.
--
We landed there, one day in February 1954, having emerged from our Guianese forest and a certain number of dead-end peripluses; we had knocked upon all the doors of the old world before reaching that point of absolute impossibility where it was truly necessary to embark into something else or once and for all put a bullet through the brain of this slightly superior ape. The first thing that struck us was this exotic Notre Dame with its burning incense sticks, its effigies and its prostrations in immaculate white: a Church. We nearly jumped into the first train out that very evening, bound straight for the Himalayas, or the devil. But we remained near Mother for nineteen years. What was it, then, that could have held us there? We had not left Guiana to become a little saint in white or to enter some new religion. 'I did not come upon earth to found an ashram; that would have been a poor aim indeed,' She wrote in 1934. What did all this mean, then, this 'Ashram' that was already registered as the owner of a great spiritual business, and this fragile, little silhouette at the center of all these zealous worshippers? In truth, there is no better way to smother someone than to worship him: he chokes Beneath the weight of worship, which moreover gives the worshipper claim to ownership. 'Why do you want to worship?' She exclaimed. 'You have but to become! It is the laziness to become that makes one worship.' She wanted so much to make them
become this 'something else,' but it was far easier to worship and quiescently remain what one was.
She spoke to deaf ears. She was very alone in this 'ashram.' Little by little, the disciples fill up the place, then they say: it is ours. It is 'the Ashram.' We are 'the disciples.' In Pondicherry as in Rome as in Mecca. 'I do not want a religion! An end to religions!' She exclaimed. She struggled and fought in their midst - was She therefore to leave this Earth like one more saint or yogi, buried Beneath haloes, the 'continuatrice' of a great spiritual lineage? She was seventy-six years old when we landed there, a knife in our belt and a ready curse on our lips.
She adored defiance and did not detest irreverence.
--
Her step by step, as one discovers a forest, or rather as one fights with it, machete in hand - and then it melts, one loves, so sublime does it become. Mother grew Beneath our skin like an adventure of life and death. For seven years we fought with Her. It was fascinating, detestable, powerful and sweet; we felt like screaming and biting, fleeing and always coming back: 'Ah! You won't catch me! If you think I came here to worship you, you're wrong!' And She laughed. She always laughed.
We had our bellyful of adventure at last: if you go astray in the forest, you get delightfully lost yet still with the same old skin on your back, whereas here, there is nothing left to get lost in! It is no longer just a matter of getting lost - you have to CHANGE your skin. Or die. Yes, change species.
--
Where, then, was 'the Mother of the Ashram' in all this? What is even 'the Ashram,' if not a spiritual museum of the resistances to Something Else. They were always - and still today - reciting their catechism Beneath a little flag: they are the owners of the new truth. But the new truth is laughing in their faces and leaving them high and dry at the edge of their little stagnant pond. They are under the illusion that Mother and Sri Aurobindo, twenty-seven or four years after their respective departures, could keep on repeating themselves - but then they would not be Mother and
Sri Aurobindo! They would be fossils. The truth is always on the move. It is with those who dare, who have courage, and above all the courage to shatter all the effigies, to de-mystify, and to go
--
'Are you conscious of your ceils?' She asked us a short time after the little operation of spiritual demolition She had undergone. 'No? Well, become conscious of your cells, and you will see that it gives TERRESTRIAL results.' To become conscious of one's cells? ... It was a far more radical operation than crossing the Maroni with a machete in hand, for after all, trees and lianas can be cut, but what cannot be so easily uncovered are the grandfa ther and the grandmo ther and the whole atavistic pack, not to mention the animal and plant and mineral layers that form a teeming humus over this single pure little cell Beneath its millennial genetic program. The grandfa thers and grandmo thers grow back again like crabgrass, along with all the old habits of being hungry, afraid, falling ill, fearing the worst, hoping for the best, which is still the best of an old mortal habit. All this is not uprooted nor entrapped as easily as celestial 'liberations,' which leave the teeming humus in peace and the body to its usual decomposition. She had come to hew a path through all that. She was the Ancient One of evolution who had come to make a new cleft in the old, tedious habit of being a man. She did not like tedious repetitions, She was the adventuress par excellence - the adventuress of the earth. She was wrenching out for man the great Possible that was already beating there, in his primeval clearing, which he believed he had momentarily trapped with a few machines.
She was uprooting a new Matter, free, free from the habit of inexorably being a man who repeats himself ad infinitum with a few improvements in the way of organ transplants or monetary exchanges. In fact, She was there to discover what would happen after materialism and after spiritualism, these prodigal twin brothers. Because Materialism is dying in the West for the same reason that Spiritualism is dying in the East: it is the hour of the new species. Man needs to awaken, not only from his demons but also from his gods. A new Matter, yes, like a new Spirit, yes, because we still know neither one nor the other. It is the hour when Science, like Spirituality, at the end of their roads, must discover what Matter TRULY is, for it is really there that a Spirit as yet unknown to us is to be found. It is a time when all the 'isms' of the old species are dying: 'The age of
--
Day after day, for seventeen years, She sat with us to tell us of her impossible odyssey. Ah, how well we now understand why She needed such an 'outlaw' and an incorrigible heretic like us to comprehend a little bit of her impossible odyssey into 'nothing.' And how well we now understand her infinite patience with us, despite all our revolts, which ultimately were only the revolts of the old species against itself. The final revolt. 'It is not a revolt against the British government which any one can easily do. It is, in fact, a revolt against the whole universal Nature!' Sri Aurobindo had proclaimed fifty years earlier. She listened to our grievances, we went away and we returned. We wanted no more of it and we wanted still more. It was infernal and sublime, impossible and the sole possibility in this old, asphyxiating world. It was the only place one could go to in this barbedwired, mechanized world, where Cincinnati is just as crowded and polluted as Hong Kong. The new species is the last free place in the general Prison. It is the last hope for the earth. How we listened to her little faltering voice that seemed to return from afar, afar, after having crossed spaces and seas of the mind to let its little drops of pure, crystalline words fall upon us, words that make you see. We listened to the future, we touched the other thing. It was incomprehensible and yet filled with another comprehension. It eluded us on all sides, and yet it was dazzlingly obvious. The 'other species' was really radically other, and yet it was vibrating within, absolutely recognizable, as if it were THAT we had been seeking from age to age, THAT we had been invoking through all our illuminations, one after another, in Thebes as in Eleusis as everywhere we have toiled and grieved in the skin of a man. It was for THAT we were here, for that supreme Possible in the skin of a man at last. And then her voice grew more and more frail, her breath began gasping as though She had to traverse greater and greater distances to meet us. She was so alone to beat against the walls of the old prison. Many claws were out all around. Oh, we would so quickly have cut ourself free from all this fiasco to fly away with Her into the world's future. She was so tiny, stooped over, as if crushed Beneath the 'spiritual' burden that all the old surrounding species kept heaping upon her. They didn't believe, no. For them, She was ninety-five years old + so many days. Can someone become a new species all alone? They even grumbled at Her: they had had enough of this unbearable Ray that was bringing their sordid affairs into the daylight. The Ashram was slowly closing over Her. The old world wanted to make a new, golden little Church, nice and quiet. No, no one wanted TO
BECOME. To worship was so much easier. And then they bury you, solemnly, and the matter is settled - the case is closed: now, no one need bother any more except to print some photographic haloes for the pilgrims to this brisk little business. But they are mistaken. The real business will take place without them, the new species will fly up in their faces - it is already flying in the face of the earth, despite all its isms in black and white; it is exploding through all the pores of this battered old earth, which has had enough of shams - whether illusory little heavens or barbarous little machines.
--
something to be played forever as the one great game of the world; a who-knows-what that left this sprig of a pensive man in the middle of a clearing; a little 'something' that beats, beats, that keeps on breathing Beneath every skin that has ever been put on it - like our deepest breath, our lightest air, our air of nothing - and it keeps on going, it keeps on going. We must catch the light little breath, the little pulsation of nothing. Then suddenly, on the threshold of our clearing of concrete, our head starts spinning incurably, our eyes blink into something else, and all is different, and all seems surcharged with meaning and with life, as though we had never lived until that very minute.
Then we have caught the tail of the Great Possible, we are upon the wayless way, radically in the new, and we flow with the little lizard, the pelican, the big man, we flow everywhere in a world that has lost its old separating skin and its little baggage of habits. We begin seeing otherwise, feeling otherwise. We have opened the gate into an inconceivable clearing. Just a light little vibration that carries you away. Then we begin to understand how it CAN CHANGE, what the mechanism is - a light little mechanism and so miraculous that it looks like nothing. We begin feeling the wonder of a pure little cell, and that a sparkling of joy would be enough to turn the world inside out. We were living in a little thinking fishbowl, we were dying in an old, bottled habit. And then suddenly, all is different. The Earth is free! Who wants freedom?
0.00 - The Book of Lies Text, #The Book of Lies, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
It seems sometimes as if Beneath all conscious doubt
there lay some deepest certainty. O kill it! Slay the
--
For whoso findeth the SPRING Beneath the earth
maketh the treaders-of-earth to course the heavens.
--
O ye who dwell in the City of the Pyramids Beneath
the Night of PAN, remember that ye shall see no
--
each containing 72 letters. If these be written Beneath
each other, the middle verse bring reversed, i.e. as in
0.01f - FOREWARD, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
concealed Beneath a veil of immobility the entirely new in-
sinuating itself into the heart of the monotonous repetition of the
0.02 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Sleep well and rest yourself Beneath the protective shade of my
blessing.
01.01 - The Symbol Dawn, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Outspread Beneath some large indifferent gaze,
Impartial witness of our joy and bale,
--
Began again Beneath the eternal Hand.
2.39
01.02 - The Issue, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
A creature born to bend Beneath the yoke,
A chattel and a plaything of Time's lords,
01.03 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Souls Release, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
That flows Beneath the cosmic surfaces,
Only mid an omniscient silence heard,
--
Unused, guarded Beneath Night's dragon paws,
In folds of velvet darkness draped they sleep
01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
At peace, regarding the trouble Beneath the stars,
Deathless, watching the works of Death and Chance,
--
Happy, inert, he lies Beneath her feet:
His breast he offers for her cosmic dance
--
The secret God Beneath the threshold dwells.
In a body obscuring the immortal Spirit
01.05 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Spirits Freedom and Greatness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Death lay Beneath him like a gate of sleep.
One-pointed to the immaculate Delight,
--
Effaced themselves Beneath the Incarnate's tread.
The dire velamen and the bottomless crypt
--
Their lion-forces crouched Beneath her feet;
The future sleeps unknown behind their doors.
0 1955-06-09, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
During the day, I live more or less calmly in my little morass, but as evening and the moment to meet you draw near, then the forces pinning me to the ground begin raging Beneath your pressure, and I feel at times an unbearable tearing that burns and constricts in my throat like tears that cannot be shed. Afterwards, Truth regains possession of me but the following day it all begins again.
Mother, it is an impossible, absurd, unlivable life. I feel as though I have no hand in this cruel little game. Oh Mother, why doesnt your grace trust that deep part in me which knows so well that you are the Truth? Deliver me from these evil forces since, profoundly, it is you and you alone I want. Give me the aspiration and strength I do not have. If you do not do this Yoga for me, I feel I shall never have the strength to go on.
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 1960-04-14, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Our turn will come in twenty to thirty years. To win, we need an element of surprise. The bourgeoisie should be lulled to sleep. Therefore, we must first launch the most spectacular peace movement that has ever existed, replete with inspiring proposals and extraordinary concessions. The stupid and decadent capitalist countries will cooperate joyfully in their own destruction. They will jump at this new opportunity for friendship. As soon as their guard is down, we shall crush them Beneath our closed fist.
(Quoted in the Revue Militaire d Information, December 1959.)
0 1961-01-24, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There are places where it happens like that: suddenly everything stopsno more school, no more mail, no more trains. I remember a poor little village in Japan where they had a flu epidemic, the first of its kind. They didnt know what it was and the whole village fell ill. It was winter, the village was snowed in and there was no more communication with the outside (the mail came only once every fifteen days). The postman arrived and everyone was dead, buried Beneath the snow.
I was there in Japan when it happened.
0 1961-04-12, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
That one too was beautiful, with such a color! Golden chestnut, I have never seen a cat like him. He is buried here Beneath the tree I named Service. I put him Beneath the roots myself. There had been an old mango tree there that was withering away. We replaced it with a little copper pod tree with yellow flowers.
These animals are so nice when you know how to handle them.
0 1961-07-28, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then, wreathed by the splendid colors of the rainbow, enveloped by lulling melodies and exquisite perfumes, Beneath his gaze so powerful, so tender, I drift into a beatific repose. And during my sleep I learn many beautiful and useful things.
Of all these marvelous things, understood without the noise of words, I mention only one.
0 1962-12-28, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This cleansing of the middle ground is the whole story of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother I had been dredging, dredging, dredging the mire of the subconscious. The supramental light was coming down before November,2 but afterwards all the mud arose and it stopped.3 Once again Sri Aurobindo verified, not individually this time but collectively, that if one pulls down too strong a light, the violated darkness below is made to moan. It is noteworthy that each time Sri Aurobindo and the Mother had some new experience marking a progress in the transformation, this progress automatically materialized in the consciousness of the disciples, without their even knowing anything about it, as a period of increased difficulties, sometimes even revolts or illnesses, as though everything were grating and grinding. But then, one begins to understand the mechanism. If a pygmy were abruptly subjected to the simple mental light of a cultivated man, we would probably see the poor fellow traumatized and driven mad by the subterranean revolutions within him. There is still too much jungle Beneath the surface. The world is still full of jungle, thats the crux of the matter in a word; our mental colonization is a minuscule crust plastered over a barely dry quaternary. And the battle seems endless; one digs and digs, said the Rishis, and the deeper one digs, the more the bottom seems to recede: I have been digging, digging. Many autumns have I been toiling night and day, the dawns aging me. Age is diminishing the glory of our bodies. Thus, thousands of years ago, lamented Lopamudra, wife of Rishi Agastya, who was also seeking transformation. But Agastya doesnt lose heart, and his reply is magnificently characteristic of the conquerors the Rishis were: Not in vain is the labor which the gods protect. Let us relish all the contesting forces, let us conquer indeed even here, let us run this battle race of a hundred leadings.
(Rig-Veda I.179)
0 1965-08-07, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
On a December morning, almost twenty years ago, on the platforms of the Gare du Nord, a youth was preparing to set off for anywhere, as long as it was as far and adventurous as possible for the time being, it was South America. And Beneath the enormous clock which weighed several tons and seemed to him as weighty as Western time, this youth was repeating a curious mantra in his heart: Sri Aurobindo-Mauthausen. Only these two words remained to live and walk with. Behind, there was a world collapsed once for all under the Austrian watchtowers. Although the watchtowers might as well have been Boulevard Montparnasseit was the same thing; another searchlight would have pierced the scenery perfectly well. And there was in that word all the force of a man who had emerged from the dead. Then this name, which did not have a very precise meaning, Sri Aurobindo, but it goes without saying that open sesames have never spoken to the headthey open the door. And there was in it all the force of a man who needs one true little thing to live.
Because we can entertain our minds as long as we likeour libraries are full; we can amass all the possible explanations of the world, but we will not have achieved anything or walked a single step if we havent touched the secret spring behind the minds flourishes. For the Truth is not what makes us think, but what makes us walk on.
0 1965-12-25, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It corresponds to a sort of vibration the vibration received from people who hate. Its a vibration which is, so to say, fundamentally the same as the vibration of love. At its very bottom, there is the same sensation. Although on the surface its the opposite, it is supported by the same vibration. And we could say that we are just as much the slaves of what we hate as of what we lovemaybe even more. Its something that keeps hold of you, that obsesses you and which you cherish; a sensation you cherish, because Beneath its violence there is a warmth of attraction as great as that which you feel for what you love. And it seems its only in the activity of the manifestation, that is to say, quite on the surface, that there is this distorted appearance.
You are obsessed by what you hate still more than by what you love. And the obsession stems from that inner vibration.
0 1966-05-14, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ride through the sky and sail Beneath the sea,
But learn not what they are or why they came.
--
Ride through the sky and sail Beneath the sea,
But learn not what they are or why they came
0 1966-07-27, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But the work is being done like that, on all the planes; on all the planes (there are even planes Beneath the feet), constantly, constantly, without stop, night and day.
***
0 1966-09-21, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Only, to me, all this is the crust, the quite superficial experience the crust; and things have to happen underneath, Beneath that crust. Its just an appearance.
I said that to those who look after Auroville, I told them, Those people [of UNESCO] are two hundred years behind the earths march, so theres little hope theyll understand. But anyway, I didnt tell them not to deal with them I dont give any advice.
0 1966-11-09, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In reality, its a threefold movement: the creation, which was the flight from the Divine (according, of course, to the ordinary conception which says that the creation fell, it wandered away from the Divine and men wandered away from the Divine); that was the first movement. But thats because he sees it too closely; he doesnt see that the Divine plunged to the very bottom of the Inconscient. (And thats the question: Why did He plunge to the very bottom of the Inconscient? Thats to be investigated [Mother laughs], one doesnt yet know how to explain it: everyone explains it differently.) He plunged to the very bottom (as for me, I think I know why, but that will be for later). He plunged to the very bottom of the Inconscient: Beneath the stone (Mother makes a gesture of immutability, at the very bottom), Beneath the mineral; the mineral is already a first awakening of the consciousness. But you have to see it as a whole to understand that its an ascent. If you see human life as it is, the impression is that men become lost in the fall, but thats the result of the Mind; the Mind needed to go through the whole experience, to go down to the very bottom in order to understand everything and bring everything back towards the ascent. For plants, its really an ascent. Thus, according to this vision, there are three movements. But if you see the whole simultaneously, there are only two movements: the first movement is the descent of the Lord into the Inconscient (we cant say anything about that for the moment; once we have emerged from it, well be able to say); the second (the first we can conceive of) is, very, very slowly, through all possible experiences, even the most complete mental denials of the Divine, the ascent towards the Divine. And then, once we have climbed up (Mother makes a gesture of descent), Come, come here: change this prison into the mansion of the Divine.
That will be very good, a very good message for 4.5.67.
0 1966-11-23, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Eternal while the ages toil Beneath,
Unmoved, untouched by aught that he has made,
0 1967-02-11, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It will be a monument! Its better to leave it as a monument, not to publish it in bits: massively, a thick volume like this, and then (laughing) crush people Beneath it! Then they wont ask anything anymore.
Do you want me to start preparing an edition (!)
0 1968-04-23, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All that is going on in the bodyperhaps in different parts of the body, I dont know. There are GRADATIONS of consciousness, or more or less complete identifications, according to certain bodily functions I dont know. And Beneath, there are still old undercurrents of mental influence, from what we are used to calling the higher mind (intuitive mind and so on). And then, all around, a whole play of forces, suggestions, formations, which comes from outside. I say from outside, but theres no sense of outside; theres no such sense, no longer any sense of these people here and those people there its not like that, no longer at all, even for the body.
(Mother abruptly goes into a long contemplation that lasts till the end)
0 1968-10-26, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And as if underneath, as if coming from the depths, Beneath, the perception of this Compassion the divine Compassion the perception of the way the thing is seen and felt by the Divine. That was wonderful.
It really was a dominant note.
0 1969-05-31, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, the other day, I had a perception (I dont have the gift of vision), but such a concrete perception, that the earth was as if Beneath a black cloakwhat you call Falsehood or Illusion. It was something COVERING the earth.
Yes, yes.
02.03 - The Glory and the Fall of Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
And Love's body held Beneath a rapturous yoke.
All was a game of meeting kinglinesses.
02.03 - The Shakespearean Word, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Beside the lake, Beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.2
--
For all Beneath the moon Would I not leap upright.
Glo. Let go my hand.
02.04 - The Kingdoms of the Little Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Up from subconscient depths Beneath Time's foam;
Oblivious of their flame of happy truth,
02.05 - The Godheads of the Little Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Our springs are kept close hid Beneath, within;
Our souls are moved by powers behind the wall.
--
He trod a soil that failed Beneath his feet
And journeyed in stone strength to a fugitive end.
02.06 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
For all is wrought Beneath a baffling mask:
A semblance other than its hidden truth
--
Even grief has joy hidden Beneath its roots:
For nothing is truly vain the One has made:
02.07 - The Descent into Night, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Once more they moved Beneath a real sun.
Though Hell claimed rule, the spirit still had power.
02.10 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
And slowly wakes Beneath the blows of life;
The mighty daemon lies unshaped within,
02.12 - The Heavens of the Ideal, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
But passed nor stayed Beneath their splendour's rule.
73.36
02.13 - In the Self of Mind, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Reposed Beneath the voices and the march
The dim Inconscient's dumb incertitude.
03.03 - The House of the Spirit and the New Creation, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Maintained Beneath him her broad numberless fields,
Her enormous act, receding, failed remote
03.04 - The Vision and the Boon, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
His barriers cede Beneath the Infinite's tread;
339
--
Awake Beneath the ignorant vault of Night,
He saw the unnumbered people of the stars
03.13 - Human Destiny, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Anthropologists1 speak of a very interesting, if not strange biological phenomenon. A baby monkey's face, it seems, is much nearer to the adult human face than to its own form when adult and grown-up. Also the characteristic accentuations that mark out the grown-up ape come in its case too soon, but the human being continues, generally and on the whole, the stamp of his early, i.e., immature animality through-out his life. The rough and gold blotches, the rude and crude structures that make up the adult simian face, meaning all the specialisation of its character are not inherited by man; man retains always something of the fragility and effeminacy of the child. Reference is made to the fore cranium proportion, delicate jaws corresponding smaller teeth, shortened cranial base, expanding brain, bulging forehead, face retracted neatly Beneath the brow which are characteristics of the simian baby. There is a lack of a certain forceful hard masculinity that becomes so dominant in the ultimate phase.
This phenomenon is akin and may be linked to the other one also pointed out by anthropologists. A new species, it is said, grows not out of a mature, fully developed, that is to say, specialised type, but out of an earlier, somewhat immature, undeveloped, non-specialised type. The new shoot of the genealogical tree branches out not from the topmost, the latest stem, but from one just below it, an earlier stock. The latest means the most developed, that is to say, the most specialised, and that means fossilisedbarren; nothing new can be produced out of that; it can repeat only what was before so long as it does not die out and perish.
04.04 - The Quest, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Plastic and firm Beneath the eternal hand,
Met Nature with a bold and friendly clasp
--
Mute sentinels Beneath a drifting moon,
Or wandered in some lone tremendous wood
05.01 - The Destined Meeting-Place, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Earth prostrate lay Beneath their feet of stone.
Below them crouched a dream of emerald woods
05.02 - Satyavan, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The heedless scout Beneath her tenting lids
Admired indifferent beauty and cared not
05.03 - Satyavan and Savitri, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
And thy heart can beat Beneath a human gaze
And thy aureate bosom quiver with a look
06.01 - The Word of Fate, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
That lay Beneath him like a glowing bowl
Tilted upon a table of the Gods,
--
As one who speaks Beneath the eyes of Fate:
"Father and king, I have carried out thy will.
--
His limbs that faint Beneath the whips of grief,
His heart that hears the tread of time and death.
--
But as a common man Beneath his load
Grows faint and breathes his pain in ignorant words,
06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Must pass Beneath the yoke of grief and pain;
They are caught by the Wheel that they had hoped to break,
--
The human mass lingers Beneath the yoke.
Escape, however high, redeems not life,
--
By the quaking of the world Beneath his tread
He matches himself against the Eternal's calm
06.10 - Fatigue and Work, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The question is not about your scope and capacity. All depends upon your attitude, the consciousness with which you approach a work, especially when you are a sadhak. When a work comes to you or when you have to do a work, you must take it up as a thing worth doing. Whatever the value given to it normally or you often put upon it, you should not neglect or merely tolerate it, but welcome it and set about it with the utmost conscientiousness possible. Even if it were a trifling insignificant thing, a menial affair, for example, do not consider it as mean or Beneath your dignity. Directly you begin to do a thing in the right spirit, you will find it becoming miraculously interesting. Try to bring perfection even in that bit of insignificance. Do it with a goodwill, even if it is scrubbing the floor, telling yourself: I must do it as best I can, that is to say, this too I shall do even better than a servant, I shall make the floor look really neat and clean and beautiful. That is the crux of the matter. You should try to bring out the best in you and put it into your work. In other words, the work becomes an instrument of progress. The goodwill, attention, concentration, self-forgetfulness and the control over yourself, over your organs and nerves the smaller the work the more detailed is the control gainedall which are involved in doing a work perfectly, with as much perfection as it is possible for you to command, are elements called forth in you and help to make you a better man. Indeed a work for which you have no preferential bias, to which you are not emotionally attached, even indifferent normally, may be of especial help, for you will be able to do it with less nervous disturbance, with a large amount of detachment and disinterestedness.
Man usually chooses his work or is made to choose a work because of a vital preference, a prejudice or notion that it is the kind in which he can shine or succeed. This egoistic vanity or opportunism may be necessary or unavoidable in ordinary life; but when one wishes to go beyond the ordinary life and aspires for the true life, this attachment or personal choice is more an impediment than a help to progress, towards finding the way to the true life. The Yogic attitude to work therefore is that of absolute detachment, not to have any choice, but to accept and do whatever is given to you, whatever comes to you in your normal course of life and do it with the utmost perfection possible. It is in that way and that way alone that all work becomes supremely interesting, and all life a miracle of delight.
07.01 - The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
That lolled at ease Beneath the summer heavens,
Region on region spacious in the sun,
--
Huddled Beneath a patch of azure hue
In a sunlit clearing that seemed the outbreak
--
At first to her Beneath the sapphire heavens
The sylvan solitude was a gorgeous dream,
07.02 - The Parable of the Search for the Soul, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
This ignorant life Beneath indifferent skies
Tied like a sacrifice on the altar of Time,
--
Crosses the globe, journeys Beneath the stars,
To subtle worlds takes his ethereal course,
07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
I am the nurse of the dolour Beneath the stars;
I am the soul of all who wailing writhe
--
The spirit escapes or dies Beneath his knife.
He sees as a blank stretch, a giant waste
07.06 - Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
An abyss yawned suddenly Beneath her heart.
A vast and nameless fear dragged at her nerves
--
The men who walked Beneath an unreal sky
Seemed mobile puppets out of cardboard cut
--- Overview of adv beneath
The adv beneath has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) below, at a lower place, to a lower place, beneath ::: (in or to a place that is lower)
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Aggressive Retsuko (ONA) 2nd Season -- -- Fanworks -- 10 eps -- Other -- Comedy Slice of Life -- Aggressive Retsuko (ONA) 2nd Season Aggressive Retsuko (ONA) 2nd Season -- Red panda Retsuko continues to work at her cyclic office job, with the occasional stress-venting via death metal karaoke on the side. With the company of her newfound friends Gori and Washimi, life is more enjoyable than ever before. But some new shake-ups to her status quo threaten to add more stress to her life. At the office, new employee Anai seems like a fine addition to the company. Yet when Retsuko is placed in charge of his training, she finds that beneath his steadfast dedication, he may pose a threat to the stability of the workplace. Meanwhile, at home, Retsuko's mother pays an abrupt visit, fully intent on having her daughter finally settle down and find a man. With this in mind, she sets Retsuko up for various marriage appointments, much to her chagrin. -- -- Now, Retsuko finds all the more reasons to head to the karaoke bar and unleash her furious diatribes. However, knowing that this will not truly solve her problems, she decides to make a more spontaneous choice to avoid her issues. And so, Retsuko finds herself set upon another self-reflecting journey, coming to learn more about herself and love, with the ever cathartic support of death metal karaoke. -- -- ONA - Jun 14, 2019 -- 73,221 7.78
Bananya -- -- Gathering -- 13 eps -- Original -- Slice of Life Comedy Kids -- Bananya Bananya -- Above a nondescript kitchen counter quietly hangs a bunch of ripe, yellow bananas. Suddenly, one of the slender fruits begins to shake, gently at first but slowly increasing in ferocity until it tears itself away from the rest. With a graceful landing, the long and curvy edible gradually rolls back its golden peels, revealing what lies beneath its firm covering to be... a cat? -- -- This mysterious feline-fruit hybrid is named Bananya. Carefree and gentle, the adorable creature dreams of one day becoming a luscious bananya bathed in chocolate. Together with his fellow bananya, this kitten cloaked in yellow passes its days without a care in the world, enjoying a rather calm and peaceful existence as it experiences what the world has to offer. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Discotek Media -- 55,806 6.73
Brain Powerd -- -- Sunrise -- 26 eps -- Original -- Action Adventure Mecha Sci-Fi -- Brain Powerd Brain Powerd -- In the not so distant future much of the earth has been submerged under the sea or destroyed by earthquakes. At the center of the turmoil is the mysterious Orphan. Orphan may or may not be the original cause of the cataclysms. Orphan`s goal is to raise a ship hidden deep beneath the sea to the surface, but doing so would result in the destruction of all humans except for the small number which are loyal to Orphan. -- -- Orphan`s agents pilot mysterious mecha known as Grand Cheres, and search the world for mysterious, giant disks which occasionally appear, flying at high speeds and wrecking much of the countryside, or cities, when they hit the ground. After a dying disc almost kills Hime, a Brain Powerd is born from the disc. Brain Powerds are another type of Mecha, similar to but not the same as Grand Cheres. -- -- Hime becomes the Brain Powerd`s pilot, forming a symbiotic relationship with the living mecha and joins an International Organization dedicated to stopping Orphan, or at the very least saving humanity should Orphan succeed. -- -- (Source: AniDB) -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment, Sentai Filmworks -- TV - Apr 8, 1998 -- 8,146 6.09
Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: Fuuin Sareta Card -- -- Madhouse -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Comedy Drama Fantasy Magic Romance Shoujo -- Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: Fuuin Sareta Card Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: Fuuin Sareta Card -- For this year's Nadeshiko Festival, Sakura Kinomoto's elementary school class is presenting a play. She will portray a princess who struggles to respond to the love confession of the neighboring country's prince. Sakura empathizes with her character all too well, since she herself still owes an answer to the boy who confessed his love for her four months ago. -- -- When cousins Shaoran and Meiling Li return from Hong Kong to pay a surprise visit to their friends in Japan, Sakura receives further encouragement to finally declare her feelings. However, she is repeatedly distracted by a presence reminiscent of a Clow Card as well as unexplained disappearances around town. -- -- Eventually, Sakura learns of another of Clow Reed's creations—the "Nothing"—which was formerly sealed away beneath the magician's old house. It has power equal to all 52 cards Sakura possesses, and furthermore, it wants to take those cards away from her! Objects, space, and people disappear from Tomoeda with each card that is stolen. Sakura sets out to capture the Nothing so everything will return to normal, but what must she sacrifice in the process? -- -- Movie - Jul 15, 2000 -- 97,928 8.22
Chocolat no Mahou -- -- SynergySP -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Supernatural Drama Magic Shoujo -- Chocolat no Mahou Chocolat no Mahou -- Chocolatier Chocolat Aikawa and her enigmatic acquaintance Cacao Theobroma run a shop named Chocolat Noir, which is famous for its specially crafted chocolates, known to miraculously grant wishes. A variety of troubled individuals find themselves in front of the shop, seeking its merchandise, but these chocolates are expensive—each customer must pay with their most precious belonging. -- -- Although Chocolat seems to be a lady who would have no problems of her own, due to her ability to grant wishes, beneath her mysterious facade is a distressed young girl who has not settled a score from her past... -- -- OVA - Mar 3, 2011 -- 6,757 6.19
Danganronpa 3: The End of Kibougamine Gakuen - Zetsubou-hen -- -- Lerche -- 11 eps -- Game -- Action Mystery Horror Psychological School -- Danganronpa 3: The End of Kibougamine Gakuen - Zetsubou-hen Danganronpa 3: The End of Kibougamine Gakuen - Zetsubou-hen -- Hope's Peak Academy's unconventional class 77-B is about to have an even more eccentric addition: Chisa Yukizome, an alumna with the title of Super High School-Level Housekeeper—and their new homeroom teacher. Cheerful, passionate, and capable, Chisa immediately sets about correcting the students' problematic behavior and strengthening their relationships. It may not be easy dealing with diverse pupils ranging from princesses and nurses to yakuza and impossibly lucky students, but anything is possible with the power of hope. -- -- Meanwhile, Hajime Hinata, an unremarkable boy from the school's Reserve Course, longs for a talent. One day, he has an unexpected meeting with class 77-B's Super High School-Level Gamer Chiaki Nanami, who presents to him a new, hope-filled outlook on life. However, unbeknownst to him, the school's upper echelon is about to execute a sinister project centered around Hajime that will bring Hope's Peak—and the rest of the world—to its knees. -- -- Zetsubou-hen chronicles the daily lives carried out at the talent-cultivating academy, and the darkness that lurks beneath. As despair slowly infects hope, plans are put into motion to start the Biggest, Most Awful, Most Tragic Event in Human History, and the end begins. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 239,647 7.47
Darker than Black: Kuro no Keiyakusha - Sakura no Hana no Mankai no Shita -- -- Bones -- 1 ep -- Original -- Sci-Fi Comedy Parody -- Darker than Black: Kuro no Keiyakusha - Sakura no Hana no Mankai no Shita Darker than Black: Kuro no Keiyakusha - Sakura no Hana no Mankai no Shita -- A side-story of Darker than Black, also called Episode 26, that takes place during the events of Kuro no Keiyakusha. -- -- The Syndicate has another job for Hei and his team. This assignment involves the sought after possessions of a dead contractor, which are believed to have been buried beneath a cherry tree. Meanwhile, Misaki Kirihara and her team plan a trip to the Cherry Blossom festival. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- Special - Mar 26, 2008 -- 123,854 7.57
Darker than Black: Kuro no Keiyakusha - Sakura no Hana no Mankai no Shita -- -- Bones -- 1 ep -- Original -- Sci-Fi Comedy Parody -- Darker than Black: Kuro no Keiyakusha - Sakura no Hana no Mankai no Shita Darker than Black: Kuro no Keiyakusha - Sakura no Hana no Mankai no Shita -- A side-story of Darker than Black, also called Episode 26, that takes place during the events of Kuro no Keiyakusha. -- -- The Syndicate has another job for Hei and his team. This assignment involves the sought after possessions of a dead contractor, which are believed to have been buried beneath a cherry tree. Meanwhile, Misaki Kirihara and her team plan a trip to the Cherry Blossom festival. -- -- Special - Mar 26, 2008 -- 123,854 7.57
Demi-chan wa Kataritai -- -- A-1 Pictures -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Vampire Fantasy School Seinen -- Demi-chan wa Kataritai Demi-chan wa Kataritai -- High school biology teacher Tetsuo Takahashi may look like your average everyday instructor, but beneath his gentle appearance lies something less ordinary: his fascination for the "Ajin," more commonly known as "Demi." Although these half-human, half-monster beings have integrated into human society, Takahashi believes that much about them will remain unknown unless he interacts with them firsthand. -- -- Demi-chan wa Kataritai follows Takahashi's daily life in Shibasaki High School together with his three Demi students—Hikari Takanashi, an energetic vampire; Kyouko Machi, a gentle dullahan; and Yuki Kusakabe, the shy snow woman. Along the way, Takahashi also meets fellow teacher Sakie Satou, a succubus with an aversion towards men. To fulfill his goal of learning more about the Demi, Takahashi decides to conduct casual interviews with the girls to learn more about their abilities, psyche, and interaction with human society. As Takahashi strengthens his bond with his students, he soon discovers that the Demi are not as unusual as he initially believed. -- -- 328,868 7.60
Demi-chan wa Kataritai -- -- A-1 Pictures -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Vampire Fantasy School Seinen -- Demi-chan wa Kataritai Demi-chan wa Kataritai -- High school biology teacher Tetsuo Takahashi may look like your average everyday instructor, but beneath his gentle appearance lies something less ordinary: his fascination for the "Ajin," more commonly known as "Demi." Although these half-human, half-monster beings have integrated into human society, Takahashi believes that much about them will remain unknown unless he interacts with them firsthand. -- -- Demi-chan wa Kataritai follows Takahashi's daily life in Shibasaki High School together with his three Demi students—Hikari Takanashi, an energetic vampire; Kyouko Machi, a gentle dullahan; and Yuki Kusakabe, the shy snow woman. Along the way, Takahashi also meets fellow teacher Sakie Satou, a succubus with an aversion towards men. To fulfill his goal of learning more about the Demi, Takahashi decides to conduct casual interviews with the girls to learn more about their abilities, psyche, and interaction with human society. As Takahashi strengthens his bond with his students, he soon discovers that the Demi are not as unusual as he initially believed. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Crunchyroll, Funimation -- 328,868 7.60
Dragon Ball Z Movie 02: Kono Yo de Ichiban Tsuyoi Yatsu -- -- Toei Animation -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Adventure Comedy Fantasy Shounen -- Dragon Ball Z Movie 02: Kono Yo de Ichiban Tsuyoi Yatsu Dragon Ball Z Movie 02: Kono Yo de Ichiban Tsuyoi Yatsu -- In his laboratory, biotechnology expert Dr. Kochin gathers the dragon balls intending to free his master Dr. Uirou, a mad scientist hellbent on ruling the world, forever frozen in the never-melting ice of the Tsurumai-Tsuburi Mountains. Attempting to locate the dragon balls, Gohan Son and Oolong arrive at the scene and are ambushed by several creatures known as "Bio-Men." Training nearby, Piccolo attempts to save them but is then attacked by three mysterious warriors. When the ice beneath them breaks, it cuts their altercation short, burying Gohan and Oolong within. -- -- After regaining consciousness, they return home to Kame House only to encounter Bio-Men, demanding Muten-Roushi to follow them. Refusing, he easily defeats the creatures, piquing Dr. Kochin's interest. Under the impression of Muten-Roushi being the strongest man in the world, Dr. Kochin takes Bulma hostage, forcing Roushi's agreement to accompany him in mysterious plans involving his master. Who are Dr. Kochin and Dr. Uirou? What even is their purpose? -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- Movie - Mar 10, 1990 -- 91,335 6.64
Dragon Ball Z Movie 02: Kono Yo de Ichiban Tsuyoi Yatsu -- -- Toei Animation -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Adventure Comedy Fantasy Shounen -- Dragon Ball Z Movie 02: Kono Yo de Ichiban Tsuyoi Yatsu Dragon Ball Z Movie 02: Kono Yo de Ichiban Tsuyoi Yatsu -- In his laboratory, biotechnology expert Dr. Kochin gathers the dragon balls intending to free his master Dr. Uirou, a mad scientist hellbent on ruling the world, forever frozen in the never-melting ice of the Tsurumai-Tsuburi Mountains. Attempting to locate the dragon balls, Gohan Son and Oolong arrive at the scene and are ambushed by several creatures known as "Bio-Men." Training nearby, Piccolo attempts to save them but is then attacked by three mysterious warriors. When the ice beneath them breaks, it cuts their altercation short, burying Gohan and Oolong within. -- -- After regaining consciousness, they return home to Kame House only to encounter Bio-Men, demanding Muten-Roushi to follow them. Refusing, he easily defeats the creatures, piquing Dr. Kochin's interest. Under the impression of Muten-Roushi being the strongest man in the world, Dr. Kochin takes Bulma hostage, forcing Roushi's agreement to accompany him in mysterious plans involving his master. Who are Dr. Kochin and Dr. Uirou? What even is their purpose? -- -- Movie - Mar 10, 1990 -- 91,335 6.64
Gall Force: Chikyuu Shou -- -- AIC -- 3 eps -- Original -- Action Military Sci-Fi Mecha -- Gall Force: Chikyuu Shou Gall Force: Chikyuu Shou -- The year 2085 and the only winners of the last war were the machines. Years previously the human race discovered the ruins of an ancient ship beneath the moon's surface and used the knowledge gained to create weapons of war. Eventually these weapons turned against mankind, seeing them as a threat and deciding the only way to stop these war loving humans was to destroy them. Heavily influenced by the 1988 Terminator movie, this new series focuses upon Sandy Newman as she leads a band of warriors in an attempt to reclaim the earth from the machines. If they can reach a group of unlaunched nuclear missiles, they can take out the machine`s headquarters located in Australia. -- -- (Source: AniDB) -- -- Licensor: -- Central Park Media -- OVA - Dec 25, 1989 -- 2,272 6.20
Gintama': Enchousen -- -- Sunrise -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Action Comedy Historical Parody Samurai Sci-Fi Shounen -- Gintama': Enchousen Gintama': Enchousen -- While Gintoki Sakata was away, the Yorozuya found themselves a new leader: Kintoki, Gintoki's golden-haired doppelganger. In order to regain his former position, Gintoki will need the help of those around him, a troubling feat when no one can remember him! Between Kintoki and Gintoki, who will claim the throne as the main character? -- -- In addition, Yorozuya make a trip back down to red-light district of Yoshiwara to aid an elderly courtesan in her search for her long-lost lover. Although the district is no longer in chains beneath the earth's surface, the trio soon learn of the tragic backstories of Yoshiwara's inhabitants that still haunt them. With flashback after flashback, this quest has Yorozuya witnessing everlasting love and protecting it as best they can with their hearts and souls. -- -- Gintama': Enchousen includes moments of action-packed intensity along with their usual lighthearted, slapstick humor for Gintoki and his friends. -- -- 232,586 9.04
Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens -- -- Satelight -- 12 eps -- Novel -- Action Mystery -- Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens -- Although the city of Fukuoka might look relatively peaceful at first glance, in actuality it houses a thriving mixture of dangerous individuals such as killers, detectives, and professional revenge seekers right beneath its surface. Among their number is Zenji Banba, a laidback and observant detective who is investigating the work of other hitmen companies in the area. However, Banba might not be the only one with a bone to pick with these organizations, as Xianming Lin, a crossdressing male hitman in the employ of one such company begins getting fed up with his lack of jobs and pay. -- -- One day, after Lin's current target commits suicide before the hitman could reach him, his company refuses to pay him even half the amount they were originally supposed to for the assassination. Frustrated, Lin requests another mission and is offered the job of taking out Banba, whom his organization believes has been interfering with their business. However, when Banba arrives at his home and finds the hitman inside, Lin surprisingly doesn't even attempt to kill him. Instead, he offers the detective another option: to join him and form a team. With the offer on the table, exactly how will Banba respond, and just what plans does Lin have in store for the underground world of Fukuoka? -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 123,884 7.40
Hataage! Kemono Michi -- -- ENGI -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Fantasy Shounen -- Hataage! Kemono Michi Hataage! Kemono Michi -- Professional wrestler Genzou Shibata sports the body of a mountain, but beneath his hulking appearance is a man with an extreme affection for animals. Facing off his opponents in the ring as the legendary "Animal Mask," Genzou wins the hearts of crowds everywhere with his iconic tiger persona. -- -- During the bout for the title of World Champion against his greatest rival, the Macadamian Ogre, Genzou is suddenly summoned to a fantasy world by a princess. With her kingdom being threatened by a monster infestation, she pleads the wrestler for assistance—to which he answers by knocking her out with a German suplex! Escaping the castle and finding himself stranded in a mysterious land, Genzou decides to begin his career as a beast hunter to capture and befriend creatures far and wide. Joined by the wolf-girl Shigure, the dragon-girl Hanako, and the vampire Carmilla Vanstein, the professional wrestler pursues all kinds of dangerous requests for the sake of fulfilling his dream as a pet shop owner. -- -- 142,305 6.67
Hataage! Kemono Michi -- -- ENGI -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Fantasy Shounen -- Hataage! Kemono Michi Hataage! Kemono Michi -- Professional wrestler Genzou Shibata sports the body of a mountain, but beneath his hulking appearance is a man with an extreme affection for animals. Facing off his opponents in the ring as the legendary "Animal Mask," Genzou wins the hearts of crowds everywhere with his iconic tiger persona. -- -- During the bout for the title of World Champion against his greatest rival, the Macadamian Ogre, Genzou is suddenly summoned to a fantasy world by a princess. With her kingdom being threatened by a monster infestation, she pleads the wrestler for assistance—to which he answers by knocking her out with a German suplex! Escaping the castle and finding himself stranded in a mysterious land, Genzou decides to begin his career as a beast hunter to capture and befriend creatures far and wide. Joined by the wolf-girl Shigure, the dragon-girl Hanako, and the vampire Carmilla Vanstein, the professional wrestler pursues all kinds of dangerous requests for the sake of fulfilling his dream as a pet shop owner. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 142,305 6.67
Hataraku Maou-sama! 2nd Season -- -- - -- ? eps -- Light novel -- Comedy Demons Supernatural Romance Fantasy -- Hataraku Maou-sama! 2nd Season Hataraku Maou-sama! 2nd Season -- Second season of Hataraku Maou-sama! -- TV - ??? ??, ???? -- 98,137 N/A -- -- Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: Fuuin Sareta Card -- -- Madhouse -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Comedy Drama Fantasy Magic Romance Shoujo -- Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: Fuuin Sareta Card Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: Fuuin Sareta Card -- For this year's Nadeshiko Festival, Sakura Kinomoto's elementary school class is presenting a play. She will portray a princess who struggles to respond to the love confession of the neighboring country's prince. Sakura empathizes with her character all too well, since she herself still owes an answer to the boy who confessed his love for her four months ago. -- -- When cousins Shaoran and Meiling Li return from Hong Kong to pay a surprise visit to their friends in Japan, Sakura receives further encouragement to finally declare her feelings. However, she is repeatedly distracted by a presence reminiscent of a Clow Card as well as unexplained disappearances around town. -- -- Eventually, Sakura learns of another of Clow Reed's creations—the "Nothing"—which was formerly sealed away beneath the magician's old house. It has power equal to all 52 cards Sakura possesses, and furthermore, it wants to take those cards away from her! Objects, space, and people disappear from Tomoeda with each card that is stolen. Sakura sets out to capture the Nothing so everything will return to normal, but what must she sacrifice in the process? -- -- -- Licensor: -- Discotek Media, Geneon Entertainment USA, Nelvana -- Movie - Jul 15, 2000 -- 97,928 8.22
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai -- -- Studio Deen -- 24 eps -- Visual novel -- Mystery Psychological Supernatural Thriller -- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai -- In the small village of Hinamizawa, Rika Furude and her friends live together in relative harmony. Beneath this mask of peace, however, lies a hidden darkness, one that Rika understands all too well. In this eternal summer, she has been witness to unspeakable horrors. Every time the clock resets, Rika must try to find the villain behind these senseless deaths before tragedy strikes again. However, trying to decipher a mystery when only half the clues are present proves time and again to be disastrous, and each time she believes that things will change, she inevitably fails. As the annual festival approaches, Rika begins her descent from hope to despair in her struggle to break the chains of fate entangling them all. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 398,376 8.22
Hyouka -- -- Kyoto Animation -- 22 eps -- Novel -- Mystery School Slice of Life -- Hyouka Hyouka -- Energy-conservative high school student Houtarou Oreki ends up with more than he bargained for when he signs up for the Classics Club at his sister's behest—especially when he realizes how deep-rooted the club's history really is. Begrudgingly, Oreki is dragged into an investigation concerning the 45-year-old mystery that surrounds the club room. -- -- Accompanied by his fellow club members, the knowledgeable Satoshi Fukube, the stern but benign Mayaka Ibara, and the ever-curious Eru Chitanda, Oreki must combat deadlines and lack of information with resourcefulness and hidden talent, in order to not only find the truth buried beneath the dust of works created years before them, but of other small side cases as well. -- -- Based on the award-winning Koten-bu light novel series, and directed by Yasuhiro Takemoto of Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu, Hyouka shows that normal life can be full of small mysteries, be it family history, a student film, or even the withered flowers that make up a ghost story. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 993,559 8.13
Innocent Venus -- -- Brain's Base -- 12 eps -- Original -- Adventure Drama Mecha Military Sci-Fi -- Innocent Venus Innocent Venus -- In the year 2010 AD, Hyper Hurricanes born concurrently all over the world caused severe damage. Five billion people lost their lives, decreasing the world's population to 3 billion. Existing economies and military were wiped out. Countries were frozen under solid ice, plains sank beneath seas, the world was changed dramatically. -- -- Human civilization enters a chaotic era. Poverty flourished outside of these economic zones and slums were widespread. The ruling class called themselves Logos and maintained their position by force of arms. They call the poor Revenus, who are exiled to live outside the special economic areas. -- -- Time has passed since then. Katsuragi Jo and Tsurasawa Jin, escape from Phantom, a force organized to watch Revenus and to suppress renegade elements of the Logos, taking with them a mysterious girl, Nobuto Sana. There are many who are interested in her, all with their own reasons. -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films -- TV - Jul 27, 2006 -- 24,549 6.83
Innocent Venus -- -- Brain's Base -- 12 eps -- Original -- Adventure Drama Mecha Military Sci-Fi -- Innocent Venus Innocent Venus -- In the year 2010 AD, Hyper Hurricanes born concurrently all over the world caused severe damage. Five billion people lost their lives, decreasing the world's population to 3 billion. Existing economies and military were wiped out. Countries were frozen under solid ice, plains sank beneath seas, the world was changed dramatically. -- -- Human civilization enters a chaotic era. Poverty flourished outside of these economic zones and slums were widespread. The ruling class called themselves Logos and maintained their position by force of arms. They call the poor Revenus, who are exiled to live outside the special economic areas. -- -- Time has passed since then. Katsuragi Jo and Tsurasawa Jin, escape from Phantom, a force organized to watch Revenus and to suppress renegade elements of the Logos, taking with them a mysterious girl, Nobuto Sana. There are many who are interested in her, all with their own reasons. -- TV - Jul 27, 2006 -- 24,549 6.83
Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu -- -- Toei Animation -- 6 eps -- Light novel -- Drama Romance Sci-Fi -- Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu -- Asaba Naoyuki is an ordinary high school student. As a member of his school's press club, he's just spent the summer camping outside the local military base, in hopes of seeing the UFOs that are secretly kept there, according to local legend. Returning to school, he meets a strange girl, Iriya Kana, and gradually comes to realize that she is more than merely strange - and that a dark secret lies beneath the world that he knows. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- OVA - Feb 25, 2005 -- 23,344 6.98
Maou Gakuin no Futekigousha: Shijou Saikyou no Maou no Shiso, Tensei shite Shison-tachi no Gakkou e -- -- SILVER LINK. -- 13 eps -- Light novel -- Action Demons Magic Fantasy School -- Maou Gakuin no Futekigousha: Shijou Saikyou no Maou no Shiso, Tensei shite Shison-tachi no Gakkou e Maou Gakuin no Futekigousha: Shijou Saikyou no Maou no Shiso, Tensei shite Shison-tachi no Gakkou e -- In the distant past, a war between humans and demons brought about widespread chaos and bloodshed. To put an end to this seemingly endless conflict, Demon King Anos Voldigoad willingly sacrificed his life, hoping to be reborn in a peaceful future. -- -- In preparation for their king's return, the demon race created the Demon King Academy, an elite institution tasked with determining Anos' identity when he reawakens. He reincarnates two millennia later, but to his surprise, he soon learns that the level of magic in the world has drastically waned during his absence. Moreover, when he enrolls at the academy to reclaim his rightful title, he finds out that demonkind remembers him differently. His personality, his deeds, and even his legacy are all falsified—masked beneath the name of an impostor. This "lack" of common knowledge renders him the academy's outlier—a misfit never before seen in history. -- -- Despite these drawbacks, Anos remains unfazed. As he sets out to uncover those altering his glorious past, he takes it upon himself to make his descendants recognize that their ruler has finally returned. -- -- 402,347 7.33
Maou Gakuin no Futekigousha: Shijou Saikyou no Maou no Shiso, Tensei shite Shison-tachi no Gakkou e -- -- SILVER LINK. -- 13 eps -- Light novel -- Action Demons Magic Fantasy School -- Maou Gakuin no Futekigousha: Shijou Saikyou no Maou no Shiso, Tensei shite Shison-tachi no Gakkou e Maou Gakuin no Futekigousha: Shijou Saikyou no Maou no Shiso, Tensei shite Shison-tachi no Gakkou e -- In the distant past, a war between humans and demons brought about widespread chaos and bloodshed. To put an end to this seemingly endless conflict, Demon King Anos Voldigoad willingly sacrificed his life, hoping to be reborn in a peaceful future. -- -- In preparation for their king's return, the demon race created the Demon King Academy, an elite institution tasked with determining Anos' identity when he reawakens. He reincarnates two millennia later, but to his surprise, he soon learns that the level of magic in the world has drastically waned during his absence. Moreover, when he enrolls at the academy to reclaim his rightful title, he finds out that demonkind remembers him differently. His personality, his deeds, and even his legacy are all falsified—masked beneath the name of an impostor. This "lack" of common knowledge renders him the academy's outlier—a misfit never before seen in history. -- -- Despite these drawbacks, Anos remains unfazed. As he sets out to uncover those altering his glorious past, he takes it upon himself to make his descendants recognize that their ruler has finally returned. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- 402,347 7.33
Nagi no Asu kara -- -- P.A. Works -- 26 eps -- Original -- Drama Fantasy Romance -- Nagi no Asu kara Nagi no Asu kara -- Long ago, all humans lived beneath the sea. However, some people preferred the surface and abandoned living underwater permanently. As a consequence, they were stripped of their god-given protection called "Ena" which allowed them to breathe underwater. Over time, the rift between the denizens of the sea and of the surface widened, although contact between the two peoples still existed. -- -- Nagi no Asu kara follows the story of Hikari Sakishima and Manaka Mukaido, along with their childhood friends Chisaki Hiradaira and Kaname Isaki, who are forced to leave the sea and attend a school on the surface. There, the group also meets Tsumugu Kihara, a fellow student and fisherman who loves the sea. -- -- Hikari and his friends' lives are bound to change as they have to deal with the deep-seated hatred and discrimination between the people of sea and of the surface, the storms in their personal lives, as well as an impending tempest which may spell doom for all who dwell on the surface. -- -- -- Licensor: -- NIS America, Inc. -- 482,003 8.06
Neon Genesis Evangelion -- -- Gainax, Tatsunoko Production -- 26 eps -- Original -- Action Sci-Fi Dementia Psychological Drama Mecha -- Neon Genesis Evangelion Neon Genesis Evangelion -- In the year 2015, the world stands on the brink of destruction. Humanity's last hope lies in the hands of Nerv, a special agency under the United Nations, and their Evangelions, giant machines capable of defeating the Angels who herald Earth's ruin. Gendou Ikari, head of the organization, seeks compatible pilots who can synchronize with the Evangelions and realize their true potential. Aiding in this defensive endeavor are talented personnel Misato Katsuragi, Head of Tactical Operations, and Ritsuko Akagi, Chief Scientist. -- -- Face to face with his father for the first time in years, 14-year-old Shinji Ikari's average life is irreversibly changed when he is whisked away into the depths of Nerv, and into a harrowing new destiny—he must become the pilot of Evangelion Unit-01 with the fate of mankind on his shoulders. -- -- Written by Hideaki Anno, Neon Genesis Evangelion is a heroic tale of a young boy who will become a legend. But as this psychological drama unfolds, ancient secrets beneath the big picture begin to bubble to the surface... -- -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films, Netflix -- 1,227,361 8.32
One Piece Film: Gold -- -- Toei Animation -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Adventure Comedy Drama Fantasy Shounen -- One Piece Film: Gold One Piece Film: Gold -- Monkey D. Luffy and his Straw Hat Crew have finally arrived on Gran Tesoro, a ship carrying the largest entertainment city in the world. Drawn in by the chances of hitting the jackpot, the crew immediately head to the casino. There, they quickly find themselves on a winning streak, playing with what seems to be endless luck. -- -- When offered a special gamble by Gild Tesoro—the master of the city himself—the crew agrees, choosing to believe in their captain's luck. However, when they find themselves victims of a despicable scam, the crew quickly realize that there is something darker happening beneath the city's surface. -- -- Left penniless and beaten down, the Straw Hat Crew are forced to rely on another gamble of a plan. With the help of a new friend or two, the group must work to reclaim what they've lost before time, and what remains of their luck, runs out. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- Movie - Jul 23, 2016 -- 128,942 7.94
Ookami Shoujo to Kuro Ouji -- -- TYO Animations -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Romance School Shoujo -- Ookami Shoujo to Kuro Ouji Ookami Shoujo to Kuro Ouji -- Erika Shinohara has taken to lying about her romantic exploits to earn the respect of her new friends. So when they ask for a picture of her "boyfriend," she hastily snaps a photo of a handsome stranger, whom her friends recognize as the popular and kind-hearted Kyouya Sata. -- -- Trapped in her own web of lies and desperately trying to avoid humiliation, Erika explains her predicament to Kyouya, hoping he will pretend to be her boyfriend. But Kyouya is not the angel he appears to be: he is actually a mean-spirited sadist who forces Erika to become his "dog" in exchange for keeping her secret. -- -- Begrudgingly accepting his deal, Erika soon begins to see glimpses of the real Kyouya beneath the multiple layers of his outer persona. As she finds herself falling for him, she can't help but question if he will ever feel the same way about her. Will Kyouya finally make an honest woman out of Erika, or is she destined to be a "wolf girl" forever? -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 355,961 7.14
Phi Brain: Kami no Puzzle - Shukuteki! Rätsel-hen -- -- Sunrise -- 25 eps -- Original -- Action Game Mystery Shounen -- Phi Brain: Kami no Puzzle - Shukuteki! Rätsel-hen Phi Brain: Kami no Puzzle - Shukuteki! Rätsel-hen -- "Are puzzles really necessary in this world?" -- -- In order to restore Jin's memory, Kaito and his friends go on a puzzle-viewing journey to England. As they're walking through the underground maze beneath the church, where young Kaito and Rook first met Jin, a mysterious girl appears in front of them. -- -- Jin calls the girl by the name "Raetsel". It seems they know each other. However, she suddenly disappears and takes Jin with her. What's more, the traps in the underground maze are activated and start coming after Kaito and his friends. -- -- (Source: www9.nhk.or.jp) -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- TV - Oct 6, 2013 -- 32,133 7.27
Romeo x Juliet -- -- Gonzo -- 24 eps -- Book -- Drama Fantasy Historical Romance -- Romeo x Juliet Romeo x Juliet -- On the floating continent of Neo Verona, the Montague family slaughters the entire Capulet family and seizes control of the kingdom. The true heir to the throne, Juliet Fiammata Asto Capulet, manages to escape the onslaught and is hidden away by loyalists for 14 years with hope that she may one day overthrow the cruel Montague regime. -- -- Despite having forgotten the murder of her entire family, Juliet now secretly protects the oppressed citizens of Neo Verona as a vigilante called the Red Whirlwind. During one of her escapades she meets Romeo Candorebanto Montague, the kind and selfless son of the tyrannical Prince Laertes Montague, and without knowledge of each other's background, they both fall in love at first sight. -- -- Unfortunately, however, their destiny is a cursed one: not only does each of the two families wish to obliterate the other, but an ancient secret hidden beneath Neo Verona also threatens their undying love for each other. Will they be able to defy the stars, or is this truly a love that can never be? -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- TV - Apr 5, 2007 -- 158,356 7.64
Rosario to Vampire -- -- Gonzo -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Harem Comedy Romance Ecchi Vampire Fantasy School Shounen -- Rosario to Vampire Rosario to Vampire -- Youkai Academy is a seemingly normal boarding school, except that its pupils are monsters learning to coexist with humans. All students attend in human form and take normal academic subjects, such as literature, gym, foreign language, and mathematics. However, there is one golden rule at Youkai Academy—all humans found on school grounds are to be executed immediately! -- -- Tsukune Aono is an average teenager who is unable to get into any high school because of his bad grades. His parents inadvertently enroll him into Youkai Academy as a last-ditch effort to secure his education. As Tsukune unknowingly enters this new world, he has a run-in with the most attractive girl on campus, Moka Akashiya. Deciding to stay in the perilous realm in order to further his relationship with Moka, he does not realize that beneath her beauty lies a menacing monster—a vampire. -- -- Rosario to Vampire is a supernatural school comedy that explores Tsukune's romantic exploits, experiences, and misadventures with a bevy of beautiful but dangerous creatures. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 561,832 6.82
Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan - Tsuioku-hen -- -- Studio Deen -- 4 eps -- Manga -- Action Historical Drama Romance Martial Arts Samurai Shounen -- Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan - Tsuioku-hen Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan - Tsuioku-hen -- When mankind's savagery surpasses his fear of death, there is little hope for those who wish to live honest lives. Beneath a full moon, a young boy witnesses the murder of the bandits who had enslaved him, and is then christened with a new name by the man who rescued him. This boy is Shinta, now known as Kenshin Himura, and he is destined to become a swordsman. The softness of his heart does not befit the occupation, but his desire to protect the innocent is absolute. -- -- Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan - Tsuioku-hen details the origins of the man who would bear the name of Hitokiri Battousai long before he swore his oath not to kill and before he earned his reputation as an assassin. The young man's heart is divided between justice and corruption, while the fate of a nation rests on his actions. -- -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films, Aniplex of America -- OVA - Feb 20, 1999 -- 233,140 8.72
Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan - Tsuioku-hen -- -- Studio Deen -- 4 eps -- Manga -- Action Historical Drama Romance Martial Arts Samurai Shounen -- Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan - Tsuioku-hen Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan - Tsuioku-hen -- When mankind's savagery surpasses his fear of death, there is little hope for those who wish to live honest lives. Beneath a full moon, a young boy witnesses the murder of the bandits who had enslaved him, and is then christened with a new name by the man who rescued him. This boy is Shinta, now known as Kenshin Himura, and he is destined to become a swordsman. The softness of his heart does not befit the occupation, but his desire to protect the innocent is absolute. -- -- Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan - Tsuioku-hen details the origins of the man who would bear the name of Hitokiri Battousai long before he swore his oath not to kill and before he earned his reputation as an assassin. The young man's heart is divided between justice and corruption, while the fate of a nation rests on his actions. -- -- OVA - Feb 20, 1999 -- 233,140 8.72
Saint Seiya -- -- Toei Animation -- 114 eps -- Manga -- Adventure Fantasy Sci-Fi Shounen -- Saint Seiya Saint Seiya -- In ancient times, a group of young men devoted their lives to protecting Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom and War. These men were capable of fighting without weapons—a swing of their fist alone was powerful enough to rip the very sky apart and shatter the earth beneath them. These brave heroes became known as Saints, as they could summon up the power of the Cosmos from within themselves. -- -- Now, in present day, a new generation of Saints is about to come forth. The young and spirited Seiya is fighting a tough battle for the Sacred Armor of Pegasus, and he isn't about to let anyone get in the way of him and his prize. Six years of hard work and training pay off with his victory and new title as one of Athena's Saints. -- -- But Seiya's endeavor doesn't end there. In fact, plenty of perils and dangerous enemies face him and the rest of the Saints throughout the series. What new quests await the heroes of the epic Saint Seiya saga? -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films, DiC Entertainment, Flatiron Film Company -- TV - Oct 11, 1986 -- 149,298 7.76
Saint Seiya -- -- Toei Animation -- 114 eps -- Manga -- Adventure Fantasy Sci-Fi Shounen -- Saint Seiya Saint Seiya -- In ancient times, a group of young men devoted their lives to protecting Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom and War. These men were capable of fighting without weapons—a swing of their fist alone was powerful enough to rip the very sky apart and shatter the earth beneath them. These brave heroes became known as Saints, as they could summon up the power of the Cosmos from within themselves. -- -- Now, in present day, a new generation of Saints is about to come forth. The young and spirited Seiya is fighting a tough battle for the Sacred Armor of Pegasus, and he isn't about to let anyone get in the way of him and his prize. Six years of hard work and training pay off with his victory and new title as one of Athena's Saints. -- -- But Seiya's endeavor doesn't end there. In fact, plenty of perils and dangerous enemies face him and the rest of the Saints throughout the series. What new quests await the heroes of the epic Saint Seiya saga? -- TV - Oct 11, 1986 -- 149,298 7.76
Sidonia no Kishi -- -- Polygon Pictures -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Mecha Sci-Fi Seinen Space -- Sidonia no Kishi Sidonia no Kishi -- After destroying Earth many years ago, the alien race Gauna has been pursuing the remnants of humanity—which, having narrowly escaped, fled across the galaxy in a number of giant seed ships. In the year 3394, Nagate Tanikaze surfaces from his lifelong seclusion deep beneath the seed ship Sidonia in search of food on the upper levels, only to find himself dragged into events unfolding without his knowledge. -- -- When the Gauna begin their assault on Sidonia, it's up to Tanikaze—with the help of his fellow soldiers and friends Shizuka Hoshijiro, Izana Shinatose, and Yuhata Midorikawa—to defend humanity's last hope for survival, and defeat their alien foes. Sidonia no Kishi follows Tanikaze as he discovers the world that has been above him his entire life, and becomes the hero Sidonia needs. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- TV - Apr 11, 2014 -- 200,208 7.68
Sola -- -- Nomad -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Drama Romance Slice of Life Supernatural -- Sola Sola -- Yorito Morimiya is obsessed with the sky. He especially loves taking pictures of its array of different faces—sunrises, sunsets, clouds. On one of his early-morning excursions to photograph the sunrise, Yorito meets a strange girl engaged in an argument with a vending machine. By the time that Yorito forces the girl's tomato juice out of the machine, she's vanished without a trace. -- -- Sola follows the story of Yorito, his sister Aono, and their childhood friends Mana and Koyori Ishizuki, as well as that of a mysterious girl who appears and disappears, and who seems to harbor a dark secret. In a world where magic and the supernatural are never far below the surface and no one is who they seem to be, love and loneliness vie for supremacy beneath Yorito's sky. -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment -- TV - Apr 7, 2007 -- 91,526 7.21
Sola -- -- Nomad -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Drama Romance Slice of Life Supernatural -- Sola Sola -- Yorito Morimiya is obsessed with the sky. He especially loves taking pictures of its array of different faces—sunrises, sunsets, clouds. On one of his early-morning excursions to photograph the sunrise, Yorito meets a strange girl engaged in an argument with a vending machine. By the time that Yorito forces the girl's tomato juice out of the machine, she's vanished without a trace. -- -- Sola follows the story of Yorito, his sister Aono, and their childhood friends Mana and Koyori Ishizuki, as well as that of a mysterious girl who appears and disappears, and who seems to harbor a dark secret. In a world where magic and the supernatural are never far below the surface and no one is who they seem to be, love and loneliness vie for supremacy beneath Yorito's sky. -- TV - Apr 7, 2007 -- 91,526 7.21
Star Driver: Kagayaki no Takuto -- -- Bones -- 25 eps -- Original -- Action Romance Mecha Shounen -- Star Driver: Kagayaki no Takuto Star Driver: Kagayaki no Takuto -- Deep beneath the surface of Southern Cross Isle, a mysterious organization known as the Glittering Crux Brigade frequently gathers in their underground fortress. The group is particularly interested in "Cybodies," stone giants which can transform into massive fighting humanoids but only in a realm known as "Zero Time." By finding and shattering the seals of the island's four seal maidens, Glittering Crux hopes to break free of Zero Time and use the Cybodies anywhere they please. -- -- One night, a young man named Takuto Tsunashi washes up on the island's shore and is rescued by Sugata Shindou and his fiancée Wako Agemaki, one of the island's seal maidens. After he awakens, Takuto quickly befriends the two and proceeds to enroll at the local academy, where many of his fellow students are secretly members of Glittering Crux. However, Takuto holds a secret: when in Zero Time, he can utilize a Cybody of his own—the Tauburn. In the forthcoming battle, Takuto and the Tauburn will be the key to preventing Glittering Crux from shattering Wako's seal and realizing its nefarious ambitions. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America, Bandai Entertainment -- 99,739 7.22
Tenchi Muyou! Manatsu no Eve -- -- AIC -- 1 ep -- - -- Action Comedy Sci-Fi Shounen Space -- Tenchi Muyou! Manatsu no Eve Tenchi Muyou! Manatsu no Eve -- Tenchi Masaki gets the surprise of his life when a teenage girl approaches him and calls him "Daddy." Believing that the girl is mistaking him for someone else, Tenchi brings her home to figure out what is going on, which turns out to be a big mistake. When the girl introduces herself as Mayuka Masaki, Tenchi's daughter, the Masaki household is thrown into yet another frenzy. -- -- Thinking that Mayuka is just taking advantage of Tenchi, the girls refuse to believe that she is really his child. However, when DNA testing reveals that Tenchi is indeed her father, Washuu comes to the conclusion that Mayuka is his daughter from the future, the result of a recent time distortion. With this new revelation, everyone tries to welcome Mayuka into their lives with the sole exception being Ryouko Hakubi, who senses something sinister lurking beneath Mayuka's charm. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation, Geneon Entertainment USA -- Movie - Aug 2, 1997 -- 13,867 7.14
The God of Highschool -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Web manga -- Action Sci-Fi Supernatural Martial Arts Fantasy -- The God of Highschool The God of Highschool -- It all began as a fighting tournament to seek out for the best fighter among all high school students in Korea. Mori Jin, a Taekwondo specialist and a high school student, soon learns that there is something much greater beneath the stage of the tournament. -- -- (Source: Webtoon YouTube Channel) -- ONA - May 24, 2016 -- 16,662 6.97
The God of High School -- -- MAPPA -- 13 eps -- Web manga -- Action Sci-Fi Adventure Comedy Supernatural Martial Arts Fantasy -- The God of High School The God of High School -- The "God of High School" tournament has begun, seeking out the greatest fighter among Korean high school students! All martial arts styles, weapons, means, and methods of attaining victory are permitted. The prize? One wish for anything desired by the winner. -- -- Taekwondo expert Jin Mo-Ri is invited to participate in the competition. There he befriends karate specialist Han Dae-Wi and swordswoman Yu Mi-Ra, who both have entered for their own personal reasons. Mo-Ri knows that no opponent will be the same and that the matches will be the most ruthless he has ever fought in his life. But instead of being worried, this prospect excites him beyond belief. -- -- A secret lies beneath the facade of a transparent test of combat prowess the tournament claims to be—one that has Korean political candidate Park Mu-Jin watching every fight with expectant, hungry eyes. Mo-Ri, Dae-Wi, and Mi-Ra are about to discover what it really means to become the God of High School. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Crunchyroll -- 536,956 7.05
Tsumiki no Ie -- -- Oh! Production -- 1 ep -- Original -- Drama -- Tsumiki no Ie Tsumiki no Ie -- In a flooded town where the waters are ever-rising, an old man must constantly build new floors onto his home in order to keep dry. But when his favorite smoking pipe falls into the watery abyss beneath him, he dives into the depths of not only his house, but memories of years past. -- -- Tsumiki no Ie is a short film about the everlasting effect of time on one's life—how it can swallow the past entirely, and how one must learn to continue moving forward despite what has already happened. -- -- Movie - Jun 10, 2008 -- 79,458 8.07
Umi Monogatari: Anata ga Ite Kureta Koto -- -- Zexcs -- 12 eps -- Game -- Supernatural Drama Magic Romance Fantasy -- Umi Monogatari: Anata ga Ite Kureta Koto Umi Monogatari: Anata ga Ite Kureta Koto -- Marin and her younger sister Urin are seafolk who happen upon something quite strange: a beautiful silver ring lost beneath the waves. The kind-hearted Marin, intent on returning it to its owner, drags a reluctant Urin along with her to the sky world despite reminders of a turtle elder who left for the surface and never returned. After locating the ring's owner, Kanon Miyamori, they learn that Kanon had tossed it into the sea after her boyfriend dumped her earlier that day. -- -- Though Marin insists that such a lovely item should not be thrown away, Kanon discards it once again. As they search for the ring, Urin becomes separated from the other two and accidently breaks the seal on a stone coffin, releasing an evil being known as Sedna. Sensing Sedna's release, the formerly missing turtle elder, Matsumoto, reveals himself to Kanon and her companions, naming Marin as the Priestess of the Sea. Together with the Priestess of the Sky, she has the power to seal Sedna away again. And as luck would have it, during an encounter with one of Sedna's minions, Kanon discovers that she is the Priestess of the Sky. Though Kanon is hesitant, she and Marin decide to work together to save the world from the evil that threatens it. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Nozomi Entertainment -- TV - Jun 25, 2009 -- 23,914 6.63
Umi Monogatari: Anata ga Ite Kureta Koto -- -- Zexcs -- 12 eps -- Game -- Supernatural Drama Magic Romance Fantasy -- Umi Monogatari: Anata ga Ite Kureta Koto Umi Monogatari: Anata ga Ite Kureta Koto -- Marin and her younger sister Urin are seafolk who happen upon something quite strange: a beautiful silver ring lost beneath the waves. The kind-hearted Marin, intent on returning it to its owner, drags a reluctant Urin along with her to the sky world despite reminders of a turtle elder who left for the surface and never returned. After locating the ring's owner, Kanon Miyamori, they learn that Kanon had tossed it into the sea after her boyfriend dumped her earlier that day. -- -- Though Marin insists that such a lovely item should not be thrown away, Kanon discards it once again. As they search for the ring, Urin becomes separated from the other two and accidently breaks the seal on a stone coffin, releasing an evil being known as Sedna. Sensing Sedna's release, the formerly missing turtle elder, Matsumoto, reveals himself to Kanon and her companions, naming Marin as the Priestess of the Sea. Together with the Priestess of the Sky, she has the power to seal Sedna away again. And as luck would have it, during an encounter with one of Sedna's minions, Kanon discovers that she is the Priestess of the Sky. Though Kanon is hesitant, she and Marin decide to work together to save the world from the evil that threatens it. -- -- TV - Jun 25, 2009 -- 23,914 6.63
Violence Jack: Jigoku Gai-hen -- -- Studio 88 -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Drama Horror -- Violence Jack: Jigoku Gai-hen Violence Jack: Jigoku Gai-hen -- The World as we know it has been torn apart shattered by a series of natural disasters that have turned civilization into a brutish nightmare of survival and has left whole cities buried beneath the Earth. It's now a lethal and chaotic place, a place where only the strongest and most savage remain alive. The strongest of them all is a giant warrior known as Violence Jack… -- -- Violence Jack tries to avert a civil war brewing among the wretched inhabitants of a subterranean metropolis called Evil Town. Based on a character created by manga horror specialist, Go Nagai. -- -- (Source: AniDB) -- -- Licensor: -- Discotek Media -- OVA - Dec 6, 1988 -- 8,387 5.53
Yodomi no Sakagi -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Original -- Dementia Drama -- Yodomi no Sakagi Yodomi no Sakagi -- The two of them, all alone at home. All alone with her father's corpse. Memories, ideals, and reality all sink beneath the muck. Everyone is alone. Everyone is in solitude. -- -- (Source: Geidai Animation) -- Movie - ??? ??, 2014 -- 650 5.89
Yonimo Osoroshii Nihon Mukashibanashi -- -- - -- 3 eps -- - -- Dementia Horror Psychological -- Yonimo Osoroshii Nihon Mukashibanashi Yonimo Osoroshii Nihon Mukashibanashi -- The horrible truths behind Japanese Fairy Tales from the ancient times are finally revealed! This title includes three episodes: "The Monkey and the Crab", "Click-Crack Mountain" and "Urashima and the Kingdom beneath the Sea". -- -- (Source: Official Website) -- OVA - ??? ??, 2000 -- 1,114 5.85
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