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Courage: In ethical discussions courage is usually regarded as a virtue (it is one of the traditional cardinal virtues), and either enjoined as a duty or praised as an excellence. When thus regarded as a virtue, courage is generally said to be a disposition, not merely instinctive, to exhibit a certain firmness, stopping short of rashness, in the face of danger, threat, temptation, pain, public opinion, etc. (thus including "moral" as well as physical courage, and passive courage or "fortitude" as well as active courage); which disposition, if it is to be a virtue, must, it is thought, be exhibited in the course of what the bearer knows or believes to be his duty, or at least in the support of some cause to which one is seriously committed or which is generally regarded as worthwhile. -- W.K.F.
courage ::: n. --> The heart; spirit; temper; disposition.
Heart; inclination; desire; will.
That quality of mind which enables one to encounter danger and difficulties with firmness, or without fear, or fainting of heart; valor; boldness; resolution.
courageous ::: a. --> Possessing, or characterized by, courage; brave; bold.
courageously ::: adv. --> In a courageous manner.
courageousness ::: n. --> The quality of being courageous; courage.
courage ::: the state or quality of mind or spirit that enables one to face danger, fear, or vicissitudes with self-possession, confidence, and resolution; bravery.
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5. A courage undaunted in every emergency, even by peril to life;
abet ::: v. t. --> To instigate or encourage by aid or countenance; -- used in a bad sense of persons and acts; as, to abet an ill-doer; to abet one in his wicked courses; to abet vice; to abet an insurrection.
To support, uphold, or aid; to maintain; -- in a good sense.
To contribute, as an assistant or instigator, to the commission of an offense.
abhaya (abhaya; abhayam) ::: fearlessness; passive courage, "freedom from fear which with a bold calmness meets and receives every menace of danger and shock of misfortune", an attribute of the ks.atriya.
accourage ::: v. t. --> To encourage.
achievement ::: something accomplished, esp. by superior ability, special effort, great courage, etc. achievements.
adj. 1. Lacking in colour or brightness, vividness, clearness, loudness, strength, etc. 2. Indistinct, ill-defined; dim; faded; slight. 3. Feeble through hunger, fear, exhaustion, etc. 4. Inclined to ‘faint" or swoon. faintest, faint-foot. v. 5. To lose strength, brightness, colour, courage etc.; to fade. 6. To grow weak. 7. To feel weak, dizzy or exhausted; falter; about to lose consciousness. 8. To weaken in purpose or spirit. faints, fainted, fainting.
adventurous ::: n. --> Inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; -- applied to persons.
Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger; requiring courage; rash; -- applied to acts; as, an adventurous undertaking, deed, song.
ALPS "language" 1. An interpreted {algebraic language} for the {Bendix G15} developed by Dr. Richard V. Andree (? - 1987), Joel C. Ewing and others of the {University of Oklahoma} from Spring 1966 (possibly 1965). Dale Peters "dpeters@theshop.net" reports that in the summer of 1966 he attended the second year of an {NSF}-sponsored summer institute in mathematics and computing at the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Andree's computing class mostly used the language GO-GO, later renamed ALPS. The language changed frequently during the class, which was occasionally disorienting. Dale believes it was also used in Summer 1965 and that it was about this time that {John G. Kemeny} (one of the designers of {Dartmouth BASIC}, 1963) saw it during a visit. Dr. Andree's January 1967 class mimeo notes on ALPS begin: "ALPS is a new programming language designed and perfected by Mr. Harold Bradbury, Mr. Joel Ewing and Mr. Harold Wiebe, members of the O.U. Mathematics Computer Consultants Group under the direction of Dr. Richard V. Andree. ALPS is designed to be used with a minimum of training to solve numerical problems on a computer with typewriter stations and using man-computer cooperation by persons who have little familiarity with advanced mathematics." The initial version of what evolved into ALPS was designed and implemented by Joel Ewing (a pre-senior undergrad) in G15 {machine language} out of frustration with the lack of applications to use the G15's dual-case alphanumeric I/O capabilities. Harold Wiebe also worked on the code. Others, including Ralph Howenstine, a member of the O.U. Math Computer Consultants Group, contributed to the design of extensions and Dr. Andree authored all the instructional materials, made the outside world aware of the language and encouraged work on the language. (2006-10-10) 2. A parallel {logic language}. ["Synchronization and Scheduling in ALPS Objects", P. Vishnubhotia, Proc 8th Intl Conf Distrib Com Sys, IEEE 1988, pp. 256-264]. (1994-11-24)
ALPS ::: (language) 1. An interpreted algebraic language for the Bendix G15 developed by Dr. Richard V. Andree (? - 1987), Joel C. Ewing and others of the University of Oklahoma from Spring 1966 (possibly 1965).Dale Peters reports that in the summer of 1966 he attended the second year of an NSF-sponsored summer institute in mathematics and used in Summer 1965 and that it was about this time that John G. Kemeny (one of the designers of Dartmouth BASIC, 1963) saw it during a visit.Dr. Andree's January 1967 class mimeo notes on ALPS begin: ALPS is a new programming language designed and perfected by Mr. Harold Bradbury, Mr. Joel typewriter stations and using man-computer cooperation by persons who have little familiarity with advanced mathematics.The initial version of what evolved into ALPS was designed and implemented by Joel Ewing (a pre-senior undergrad) in G15 machine language out of frustration materials, made the outside world aware of the language and encouraged work on the language.(2006-10-10)2. A parallel logic language.[Synchronization and Scheduling in ALPS Objects, P. Vishnubhotia, Proc 8th Intl Conf Distrib Com Sys, IEEE 1988, pp. 256-264]. (1994-11-24)
Amal: “the sirens are those beings whose songs used to lure away mariners. And when they answered the call, they were killed. There was a foreknowledge of what was to happen to Savitri so there was discouragement to venture out. . . so there is a plea to spare this being from suffering the same fate.”
animosity ::: v. t. --> Mere spiritedness or courage.
Violent hatred leading to active opposition; active enmity; energetic dislike.
A person engaged or experienced in warfare; soldier. 2. One who shows or has shown great vigour, courage, etc. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as an adj.) warriors.
appall ::: a. --> To make pale; to blanch.
To weaken; to enfeeble; to reduce; as, an old appalled wight.
To depress or discourage with fear; to impress with fear in such a manner that the mind shrinks, or loses its firmness; to overcome with sudden terror or horror; to dismay; as, the sight appalled the stoutest heart.
appalled ::: filled or overcome with horror, consternation, or fear, resulting in the loss of courage in the face of something dreadful.
ARRESTS IN SADHANA. ::: A difficulty comes or an arrest in some movement which you have begun or have been carrying on for some time. Such arrests are inevitably frequent enough; one might almost say that every step forward is followed by an arrest. It is to be dealt with by becoming always more quiet, more firm in the will to go through, by opening oneself more and more so that any obstructing non-receptivity in the nature may diminish or disappear, by an affirmation of faith even in the midst of obscurity, faith in the presence of a Power that is working behind the cloud and the veil, in the guidance of the Guru, by an observation of oneself to find any cause of the arrest, not in a spirit of depression or discouragement but with the will to find out and remove it. This is the only right attitude and, if one is persistent in taking it, the periods of arrest are not abolished, - for that cannot be at this stage, - but greatly shortened and lightened in their incidence. Sometimes these arrests are periods, long or short, of assimilation or unseen preparation, their appearance of sterile immobility is deceptive ::: in that case, with the right attitude, one can after a time, by opening, by observation, by accumulated experience, begin to feel, to get some inkling of what is being prepared or done. Sometimes it is a period of true obstruction in which the Power at work has to deal with the obstacles in the way, obstacles in oneself, obstacles of the opposing cosmic forces or any other or of all together, and this kind of arrest may be long or short according to the magnitude or obstinacy or complexity of the impediments that are met. But here, too, the right attitude can alleviate or shorten and, if persistently taken, help to a more radical removal of the difficulties and greatly diminish the necessity of complete arrests hereafter.
On the contrary, an attitude of depression or unfaith in the help or the guidance or in the certitude of the victory of the guiding Power, a shutting up of yourself in the sense of the difficulties, helps the obstructions to recur with force instead of progressively diminishing in their incidence.
art union ::: --> An association for promoting art (esp. the arts of design), and giving encouragement to artists.
a-saurya (a-shaurya) ::: lack of heroism or courage (saurya), perhaps a-saurya referring to a deficiency of abhaya and sahasa, two attributes of the ks.atriya.
Ashmogh (Pahlavi) Demon with disheveled hair of the race of wrath; Ahriman’s disciple who encourages Azhi-Dahak (Bevar-Aspa) to rise up in order to destroy mankind and shouts: “Now it is nine thousand years that Fereydun is not living; why do you not rise up, although thy fetters are not removed, when this world is full of people and they have brought them the enclosure which Yima formed?” (SBE 5:234).
Assassins [from Arab hashshashin hashish eaters; or from proper name Hassan] Originally an order founded in Persia and Syria during the 11th century by Hassan ben Sabbah, an offshoot of the Ismaelites of the Shiite division of Islam. They taught the esoteric doctrines of Islam, encouraged mathematics and philosophy, and are said to have used hashish as a means of obtaining celestial visions. They held that creation began with the intellectual world, moved to the soul and then the rest of creation. The human soul, imprisoned in the body to carry out the teacher’s orders, rejoins the universal soul at death. The usual accounts state that they sanctioned the employment of secret assassination against all enemies.
assurance ::: n. --> The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence.
The state of being assured; firm persuasion; full confidence or trust; freedom from doubt; certainty.
Firmness of mind; undoubting, steadiness; intrepidity; courage; confidence; self-reliance.
Excess of boldness; impudence; audacity; as, his assurance is intolerable.
atmaslagha (atmaslagha; atma slagha) ::: self-affirmation, "the high atmaslagha self-confidence of power, capacity, character and courage indispensable to the man of action", an attribute of the ks.atriya.
ATM Forum ::: (networking, body) An international non-profit arganisation aiming to encourage the user of Asynchronous Transfer Mode through interoperability specifications and to promote cooperation and awareness.The ATM Forum consists of a worldwide Technical Committee, three Marketing Committees for North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific as well as the User Committee, through which ATM end-users participate.Worldwide Headquarters: 2570 West El Camino Real, Suite 304 Mountain View, CA 94040-1313 USA.Telephone: +1 (650) 949 6700.E-mail: ATM Forum . . (1999-06-14)
ATM Forum "networking, body" An international non-profit arganisation aiming to encourage the user of {Asynchronous Transfer Mode} through {interoperability} specifications and to promote cooperation and awareness. The ATM Forum consists of a worldwide Technical Committee, three Marketing Committees for North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific as well as the User Committee, through which ATM end-users participate. Worldwide Headquarters: 2570 West El Camino Real, Suite 304 Mountain View, CA 94040-1313 USA. Telephone: +1 (650) 949 6700. E-mail: ATM Forum "info@atmforum.com". {(http://atmforum.com/)}. (1999-06-14)
Aufklärung: In general, this German word and its English equivalent Enlightenment denote the self-emancipation of man from mere authority, prejudice, convention and tradition, with an insistence on freer thinking about problems uncritically referred to these other agencies. According to Kant's famous definition "Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority, which is the incapacity of using one's understanding without the direction of another. This state of minority is caused when its source lies not in the lack of understanding, but in the lack of determination and courage to use it without the assistance of another" (Was ist Aufklärung? 1784). In its historical perspective, the Aufklärung refers to the cultural atmosphere and contrlbutions of the 18th century, especially in Germany, France and England [which affected also American thought with B. Franklin, T. Paine and the leaders of the Revolution]. It crystallized tendencies emphasized by the Renaissance, and quickened by modern scepticism and empiricism, and by the great scientific discoveries of the 17th century. This movement, which was represented by men of varying tendencies, gave an impetus to general learning, a more popular philosophy, empirical science, scriptural criticism, social and political thought. More especially, the word Aufklärung is applied to the German contributions to 18th century culture. In philosophy, its principal representatives are G. E. Lessing (1729-81) who believed in free speech and in a methodical criticism of religion, without being a free-thinker; H. S. Reimarus (1694-1768) who expounded a naturalistic philosophy and denied the supernatural origin of Christianity; Moses Mendelssohn (1729-86) who endeavoured to mitigate prejudices and developed a popular common-sense philosophy; Chr. Wolff (1679-1754), J. A. Eberhard (1739-1809) who followed the Leibnizian rationalism and criticized unsuccessfully Kant and Fichte; and J. G. Herder (1744-1803) who was best as an interpreter of others, but whose intuitional suggestions have borne fruit in the organic correlation of the sciences, and in questions of language in relation to human nature and to national character. The works of Kant and Goethe mark the culmination of the German Enlightenment. Cf. J. G. Hibben, Philosophy of the Enlightenment, 1910. --T.G. Augustinianism: The thought of St. Augustine of Hippo, and of his followers. Born in 354 at Tagaste in N. Africa, A. studied rhetoric in Carthage, taught that subject there and in Rome and Milan. Attracted successively to Manicheanism, Scepticism, and Neo-Platontsm, A. eventually found intellectual and moral peace with his conversion to Christianity in his thirty-fourth year. Returning to Africa, he established numerous monasteries, became a priest in 391, Bishop of Hippo in 395. Augustine wrote much: On Free Choice, Confessions, Literal Commentary on Genesis, On the Trinity, and City of God, are his most noted works. He died in 430. St. Augustine's characteristic method, an inward empiricism which has little in common with later variants, starts from things without, proceeds within to the self, and moves upwards to God. These three poles of the Augustinian dialectic are polarized by his doctrine of moderate illuminism. An ontological illumination is required to explain the metaphysical structure of things. The truth of judgment demands a noetic illumination. A moral illumination is necessary in the order of willing; and so, too, an lllumination of art in the aesthetic order. Other illuminations which transcend the natural order do not come within the scope of philosophy; they provide the wisdoms of theology and mysticism. Every being is illuminated ontologically by number, form, unity and its derivatives, and order. A thing is what it is, in so far as it is more or less flooded by the light of these ontological constituents. Sensation is necessary in order to know material substances. There is certainly an action of the external object on the body and a corresponding passion of the body, but, as the soul is superior to the body and can suffer nothing from its inferior, sensation must be an action, not a passion, of the soul. Sensation takes place only when the observing soul, dynamically on guard throughout the body, is vitally attentive to the changes suffered by the body. However, an adequate basis for the knowledge of intellectual truth is not found in sensation alone. In order to know, for example, that a body is multiple, the idea of unity must be present already, otherwise its multiplicity could not be recognized. If numbers are not drawn in by the bodily senses which perceive only the contingent and passing, is the mind the source of the unchanging and necessary truth of numbers? The mind of man is also contingent and mutable, and cannot give what it does not possess. As ideas are not innate, nor remembered from a previous existence of the soul, they can be accounted for only by an immutable source higher than the soul. In so far as man is endowed with an intellect, he is a being naturally illuminated by God, Who may be compared to an intelligible sun. The human intellect does not create the laws of thought; it finds them and submits to them. The immediate intuition of these normative rules does not carry any content, thus any trace of ontologism is avoided. Things have forms because they have numbers, and they have being in so far as they possess form. The sufficient explanation of all formable, and hence changeable, things is an immutable and eternal form which is unrestricted in time and space. The forms or ideas of all things actually existing in the world are in the things themselves (as rationes seminales) and in the Divine Mind (as rationes aeternae). Nothing could exist without unity, for to be is no other than to be one. There is a unity proper to each level of being, a unity of the material individual and species, of the soul, and of that union of souls in the love of the same good, which union constitutes the city. Order, also, is ontologically imbibed by all beings. To tend to being is to tend to order; order secures being, disorder leads to non-being. Order is the distribution which allots things equal and unequal each to its own place and integrates an ensemble of parts in accordance with an end. Hence, peace is defined as the tranquillity of order. Just as things have their being from their forms, the order of parts, and their numerical relations, so too their beauty is not something superadded, but the shining out of all their intelligible co-ingredients. S. Aurelii Augustini, Opera Omnia, Migne, PL 32-47; (a critical edition of some works will be found in the Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, Vienna). Gilson, E., Introd. a l'etude de s. Augustin, (Paris, 1931) contains very good bibliography up to 1927, pp. 309-331. Pope, H., St. Augustine of Hippo, (London, 1937). Chapman, E., St. Augustine's Philos. of Beauty, (N. Y., 1939). Figgis, J. N., The Political Aspects of St. Augustine's "City of God", (London, 1921). --E.C. Authenticity: In a general sense, genuineness, truth according to its title. It involves sometimes a direct and personal characteristic (Whitehead speaks of "authentic feelings"). This word also refers to problems of fundamental criticism involving title, tradition, authorship and evidence. These problems are vital in theology, and basic in scholarship with regard to the interpretation of texts and doctrines. --T.G. Authoritarianism: That theory of knowledge which maintains that the truth of any proposition is determined by the fact of its having been asserted by a certain esteemed individual or group of individuals. Cf. H. Newman, Grammar of Assent; C. S. Peirce, "Fixation of Belief," in Chance, Love and Logic, ed. M. R. Cohen. --A.C.B. Autistic thinking: Absorption in fanciful or wishful thinking without proper control by objective or factual material; day dreaming; undisciplined imagination. --A.C.B. Automaton Theory: Theory that a living organism may be considered a mere machine. See Automatism. Automatism: (Gr. automatos, self-moving) (a) In metaphysics: Theory that animal and human organisms are automata, that is to say, are machines governed by the laws of physics and mechanics. Automatism, as propounded by Descartes, considered the lower animals to be pure automata (Letter to Henry More, 1649) and man a machine controlled by a rational soul (Treatise on Man). Pure automatism for man as well as animals is advocated by La Mettrie (Man, a Machine, 1748). During the Nineteenth century, automatism, combined with epiphenomenalism, was advanced by Hodgson, Huxley and Clifford. (Cf. W. James, The Principles of Psychology, Vol. I, ch. V.) Behaviorism, of the extreme sort, is the most recent version of automatism (See Behaviorism). (b) In psychology: Psychological automatism is the performance of apparently purposeful actions, like automatic writing without the superintendence of the conscious mind. L. C. Rosenfield, From Beast Machine to Man Machine, N. Y., 1941. --L.W. Automatism, Conscious: The automatism of Hodgson, Huxley, and Clifford which considers man a machine to which mind or consciousness is superadded; the mind of man is, however, causally ineffectual. See Automatism; Epiphenomenalism. --L.W. Autonomy: (Gr. autonomia, independence) Freedom consisting in self-determination and independence of all external constraint. See Freedom. Kant defines autonomy of the will as subjection of the will to its own law, the categorical imperative, in contrast to heteronomy, its subjection to a law or end outside the rational will. (Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals, § 2.) --L.W. Autonomy of ethics: A doctrine, usually propounded by intuitionists, that ethics is not a part of, and cannot be derived from, either metaphysics or any of the natural or social sciences. See Intuitionism, Metaphysical ethics, Naturalistic ethics. --W.K.F. Autonomy of the will: (in Kant's ethics) The freedom of the rational will to legislate to itself, which constitutes the basis for the autonomy of the moral law. --P.A.S. Autonymy: In the terminology introduced by Carnap, a word (phrase, symbol, expression) is autonymous if it is used as a name for itself --for the geometric shape, sound, etc. which it exemplifies, or for the word as a historical and grammatical unit. Autonymy is thus the same as the Scholastic suppositio matertalis (q. v.), although the viewpoint is different. --A.C. Autotelic: (from Gr. autos, self, and telos, end) Said of any absorbing activity engaged in for its own sake (cf. German Selbstzweck), such as higher mathematics, chess, etc. In aesthetics, applied to creative art and play which lack any conscious reference to the accomplishment of something useful. In the view of some, it may constitute something beneficent in itself of which the person following his art impulse (q.v.) or playing is unaware, thus approaching a heterotelic (q.v.) conception. --K.F.L. Avenarius, Richard: (1843-1896) German philosopher who expressed his thought in an elaborate and novel terminology in the hope of constructing a symbolic language for philosophy, like that of mathematics --the consequence of his Spinoza studies. As the most influential apostle of pure experience, the posltivistic motive reaches in him an extreme position. Insisting on the biologic and economic function of thought, he thought the true method of science is to cure speculative excesses by a return to pure experience devoid of all assumptions. Philosophy is the scientific effort to exclude from knowledge all ideas not included in the given. Its task is to expel all extraneous elements in the given. His uncritical use of the category of the given and the nominalistic view that logical relations are created rather than discovered by thought, leads him to banish not only animism but also all of the categories, substance, causality, etc., as inventions of the mind. Explaining the evolution and devolution of the problematization and deproblematization of numerous ideas, and aiming to give the natural history of problems, Avenarius sought to show physiologically, psychologically and historically under what conditions they emerge, are challenged and are solved. He hypothesized a System C, a bodily and central nervous system upon which consciousness depends. R-values are the stimuli received from the world of objects. E-values are the statements of experience. The brain changes that continually oscillate about an ideal point of balance are termed Vitalerhaltungsmaximum. The E-values are differentiated into elements, to which the sense-perceptions or the content of experience belong, and characters, to which belongs everything which psychology describes as feelings and attitudes. Avenarius describes in symbolic form a series of states from balance to balance, termed vital series, all describing a series of changes in System C. Inequalities in the vital balance give rise to vital differences. According to his theory there are two vital series. It assumes a series of brain changes because parallel series of conscious states can be observed. The independent vital series are physical, and the dependent vital series are psychological. The two together are practically covariants. In the case of a process as a dependent vital series three stages can be noted: first, the appearance of the problem, expressed as strain, restlessness, desire, fear, doubt, pain, repentance, delusion; the second, the continued effort and struggle to solve the problem; and finally, the appearance of the solution, characterized by abating anxiety, a feeling of triumph and enjoyment. Corresponding to these three stages of the dependent series are three stages of the independent series: the appearance of the vital difference and a departure from balance in the System C, the continuance with an approximate vital difference, and lastly, the reduction of the vital difference to zero, the return to stability. By making room for dependent and independent experiences, he showed that physics regards experience as independent of the experiencing indlvidual, and psychology views experience as dependent upon the individual. He greatly influenced Mach and James (q.v.). See Avenarius, Empirio-criticism, Experience, pure. Main works: Kritik der reinen Erfahrung; Der menschliche Weltbegriff. --H.H. Averroes: (Mohammed ibn Roshd) Known to the Scholastics as The Commentator, and mentioned as the author of il gran commento by Dante (Inf. IV. 68) he was born 1126 at Cordova (Spain), studied theology, law, medicine, mathematics, and philosophy, became after having been judge in Sevilla and Cordova, physician to the khalifah Jaqub Jusuf, and charged with writing a commentary on the works of Aristotle. Al-mansur, Jusuf's successor, deprived him of his place because of accusations of unorthodoxy. He died 1198 in Morocco. Averroes is not so much an original philosopher as the author of a minute commentary on the whole works of Aristotle. His procedure was imitated later by Aquinas. In his interpretation of Aristotelian metaphysics Averroes teaches the coeternity of a universe created ex nihilo. This doctrine formed together with the notion of a numerical unity of the active intellect became one of the controversial points in the discussions between the followers of Albert-Thomas and the Latin Averroists. Averroes assumed that man possesses only a disposition for receiving the intellect coming from without; he identifies this disposition with the possible intellect which thus is not truly intellectual by nature. The notion of one intellect common to all men does away with the doctrine of personal immortality. Another doctrine which probably was emphasized more by the Latin Averroists (and by the adversaries among Averroes' contemporaries) is the famous statement about "two-fold truth", viz. that a proposition may be theologically true and philosophically false and vice versa. Averroes taught that religion expresses the (higher) philosophical truth by means of religious imagery; the "two-truth notion" came apparently into the Latin text through a misinterpretation on the part of the translators. The works of Averroes were one of the main sources of medieval Aristotelianlsm, before and even after the original texts had been translated. The interpretation the Latin Averroists found in their texts of the "Commentator" spread in spite of opposition and condemnation. See Averroism, Latin. Averroes, Opera, Venetiis, 1553. M. Horten, Die Metaphysik des Averroes, 1912. P. Mandonnet, Siger de Brabant et l'Averroisme Latin, 2d ed., Louvain, 1911. --R.A. Averroism, Latin: The commentaries on Aristotle written by Averroes (Ibn Roshd) in the 12th century became known to the Western scholars in translations by Michael Scottus, Hermannus Alemannus, and others at the beginning of the 13th century. Many works of Aristotle were also known first by such translations from Arabian texts, though there existed translations from the Greek originals at the same time (Grabmann). The Averroistic interpretation of Aristotle was held to be the true one by many; but already Albert the Great pointed out several notions which he felt to be incompatible with the principles of Christian philosophy, although he relied for the rest on the "Commentator" and apparently hardly used any other text. Aquinas, basing his studies mostly on a translation from the Greek texts, procured for him by William of Moerbecke, criticized the Averroistic interpretation in many points. But the teachings of the Commentator became the foundation for a whole school of philosophers, represented first by the Faculty of Arts at Paris. The most prominent of these scholars was Siger of Brabant. The philosophy of these men was condemned on March 7th, 1277 by Stephen Tempier, Bishop of Paris, after a first condemnation of Aristotelianism in 1210 had gradually come to be neglected. The 219 theses condemned in 1277, however, contain also some of Aquinas which later were generally recognized an orthodox. The Averroistic propositions which aroused the criticism of the ecclesiastic authorities and which had been opposed with great energy by Albert and Thomas refer mostly to the following points: The co-eternity of the created word; the numerical identity of the intellect in all men, the so-called two-fold-truth theory stating that a proposition may be philosophically true although theologically false. Regarding the first point Thomas argued that there is no philosophical proof, either for the co-eternity or against it; creation is an article of faith. The unity of intellect was rejected as incompatible with the true notion of person and with personal immortality. It is doubtful whether Averroes himself held the two-truths theory; it was, however, taught by the Latin Averroists who, notwithstanding the opposition of the Church and the Thomistic philosophers, gained a great influence and soon dominated many universities, especially in Italy. Thomas and his followers were convinced that they interpreted Aristotle correctly and that the Averroists were wrong; one has, however, to admit that certain passages in Aristotle allow for the Averroistic interpretation, especially in regard to the theory of intellect. Lit.: P. Mandonnet, Siger de Brabant et l'Averroisme Latin au XIIIe Siecle, 2d. ed. Louvain, 1911; M. Grabmann, Forschungen über die lateinischen Aristotelesübersetzungen des XIII. Jahrhunderts, Münster 1916 (Beitr. z. Gesch. Phil. d. MA. Vol. 17, H. 5-6). --R.A. Avesta: See Zendavesta. Avicehron: (or Avencebrol, Salomon ibn Gabirol) The first Jewish philosopher in Spain, born in Malaga 1020, died about 1070, poet, philosopher, and moralist. His main work, Fons vitae, became influential and was much quoted by the Scholastics. It has been preserved only in the Latin translation by Gundissalinus. His doctrine of a spiritual substance individualizing also the pure spirits or separate forms was opposed by Aquinas already in his first treatise De ente, but found favor with the medieval Augustinians also later in the 13th century. He also teaches the necessity of a mediator between God and the created world; such a mediator he finds in the Divine Will proceeding from God and creating, conserving, and moving the world. His cosmogony shows a definitely Neo-Platonic shade and assumes a series of emanations. Cl. Baeumker, Avencebrolis Fons vitae. Beitr. z. Gesch. d. Philos. d. MA. 1892-1895, Vol. I. Joh. Wittman, Die Stellung des hl. Thomas von Aquino zu Avencebrol, ibid. 1900. Vol. III. --R.A. Avicenna: (Abu Ali al Hosain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina) Born 980 in the country of Bocchara, began to write in young years, left more than 100 works, taught in Ispahan, was physician to several Persian princes, and died at Hamadan in 1037. His fame as physician survived his influence as philosopher in the Occident. His medical works were printed still in the 17th century. His philosophy is contained in 18 vols. of a comprehensive encyclopedia, following the tradition of Al Kindi and Al Farabi. Logic, Physics, Mathematics and Metaphysics form the parts of this work. His philosophy is Aristotelian with noticeable Neo-Platonic influences. His doctrine of the universal existing ante res in God, in rebus as the universal nature of the particulars, and post res in the human mind by way of abstraction became a fundamental thesis of medieval Aristotelianism. He sharply distinguished between the logical and the ontological universal, denying to the latter the true nature of form in the composite. The principle of individuation is matter, eternally existent. Latin translations attributed to Avicenna the notion that existence is an accident to essence (see e.g. Guilelmus Parisiensis, De Universo). The process adopted by Avicenna was one of paraphrasis of the Aristotelian texts with many original thoughts interspersed. His works were translated into Latin by Dominicus Gundissalinus (Gondisalvi) with the assistance of Avendeath ibn Daud. This translation started, when it became more generally known, the "revival of Aristotle" at the end of the 12th and the beginning of the 13th century. Albert the Great and Aquinas professed, notwithstanding their critical attitude, a great admiration for Avicenna whom the Arabs used to call the "third Aristotle". But in the Orient, Avicenna's influence declined soon, overcome by the opposition of the orthodox theologians. Avicenna, Opera, Venetiis, 1495; l508; 1546. M. Horten, Das Buch der Genesung der Seele, eine philosophische Enzyklopaedie Avicenna's; XIII. Teil: Die Metaphysik. Halle a. S. 1907-1909. R. de Vaux, Notes et textes sur l'Avicennisme Latin, Bibl. Thomiste XX, Paris, 1934. --R.A. Avidya: (Skr.) Nescience; ignorance; the state of mind unaware of true reality; an equivalent of maya (q.v.); also a condition of pure awareness prior to the universal process of evolution through gradual differentiation into the elements and factors of knowledge. --K.F.L. Avyakta: (Skr.) "Unmanifest", descriptive of or standing for brahman (q.v.) in one of its or "his" aspects, symbolizing the superabundance of the creative principle, or designating the condition of the universe not yet become phenomenal (aja, unborn). --K.F.L. Awareness: Consciousness considered in its aspect of act; an act of attentive awareness such as the sensing of a color patch or the feeling of pain is distinguished from the content attended to, the sensed color patch, the felt pain. The psychologlcal theory of intentional act was advanced by F. Brentano (Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkte) and received its epistemological development by Meinong, Husserl, Moore, Laird and Broad. See Intentionalism. --L.W. Axiological: (Ger. axiologisch) In Husserl: Of or pertaining to value or theory of value (the latter term understood as including disvalue and value-indifference). --D.C. Axiological ethics: Any ethics which makes the theory of obligation entirely dependent on the theory of value, by making the determination of the rightness of an action wholly dependent on a consideration of the value or goodness of something, e.g. the action itself, its motive, or its consequences, actual or probable. Opposed to deontological ethics. See also teleological ethics. --W.K.F. Axiologic Realism: In metaphysics, theory that value as well as logic, qualities as well as relations, have their being and exist external to the mind and independently of it. Applicable to the philosophy of many though not all realists in the history of philosophy, from Plato to G. E. Moore, A. N. Whitehead, and N, Hartmann. --J.K.F. Axiology: (Gr. axios, of like value, worthy, and logos, account, reason, theory). Modern term for theory of value (the desired, preferred, good), investigation of its nature, criteria, and metaphysical status. Had its rise in Plato's theory of Forms or Ideas (Idea of the Good); was developed in Aristotle's Organon, Ethics, Poetics, and Metaphysics (Book Lambda). Stoics and Epicureans investigated the summum bonum. Christian philosophy (St. Thomas) built on Aristotle's identification of highest value with final cause in God as "a living being, eternal, most good." In modern thought, apart from scholasticism and the system of Spinoza (Ethica, 1677), in which values are metaphysically grounded, the various values were investigated in separate sciences, until Kant's Critiques, in which the relations of knowledge to moral, aesthetic, and religious values were examined. In Hegel's idealism, morality, art, religion, and philosophy were made the capstone of his dialectic. R. H. Lotze "sought in that which should be the ground of that which is" (Metaphysik, 1879). Nineteenth century evolutionary theory, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and economics subjected value experience to empirical analysis, and stress was again laid on the diversity and relativity of value phenomena rather than on their unity and metaphysical nature. F. Nietzsche's Also Sprach Zarathustra (1883-1885) and Zur Genealogie der Moral (1887) aroused new interest in the nature of value. F. Brentano, Vom Ursprung sittlicher Erkenntnis (1889), identified value with love. In the twentieth century the term axiology was apparently first applied by Paul Lapie (Logique de la volonte, 1902) and E. von Hartmann (Grundriss der Axiologie, 1908). Stimulated by Ehrenfels (System der Werttheorie, 1897), Meinong (Psychologisch-ethische Untersuchungen zur Werttheorie, 1894-1899), and Simmel (Philosophie des Geldes, 1900). W. M. Urban wrote the first systematic treatment of axiology in English (Valuation, 1909), phenomenological in method under J. M. Baldwin's influence. Meanwhile H. Münsterberg wrote a neo-Fichtean system of values (The Eternal Values, 1909). Among important recent contributions are: B. Bosanquet, The Principle of Individuality and Value (1912), a free reinterpretation of Hegelianism; W. R. Sorley, Moral Values and the Idea of God (1918, 1921), defending a metaphysical theism; S. Alexander, Space, Time, and Deity (1920), realistic and naturalistic; N. Hartmann, Ethik (1926), detailed analysis of types and laws of value; R. B. Perry's magnum opus, General Theory of Value (1926), "its meaning and basic principles construed in terms of interest"; and J. Laird, The Idea of Value (1929), noteworthy for historical exposition. A naturalistic theory has been developed by J. Dewey (Theory of Valuation, 1939), for which "not only is science itself a value . . . but it is the supreme means of the valid determination of all valuations." A. J. Ayer, Language, Truth and Logic (1936) expounds the view of logical positivism that value is "nonsense." J. Hessen, Wertphilosophie (1937), provides an account of recent German axiology from a neo-scholastic standpoint. The problems of axiology fall into four main groups, namely, those concerning (1) the nature of value, (2) the types of value, (3) the criterion of value, and (4) the metaphysical status of value. (1) The nature of value experience. Is valuation fulfillment of desire (voluntarism: Spinoza, Ehrenfels), pleasure (hedonism: Epicurus, Bentham, Meinong), interest (Perry), preference (Martineau), pure rational will (formalism: Stoics, Kant, Royce), apprehension of tertiary qualities (Santayana), synoptic experience of the unity of personality (personalism: T. H. Green, Bowne), any experience that contributes to enhanced life (evolutionism: Nietzsche), or "the relation of things as means to the end or consequence actually reached" (pragmatism, instrumentalism: Dewey). (2) The types of value. Most axiologists distinguish between intrinsic (consummatory) values (ends), prized for their own sake, and instrumental (contributory) values (means), which are causes (whether as economic goods or as natural events) of intrinsic values. Most intrinsic values are also instrumental to further value experience; some instrumental values are neutral or even disvaluable intrinsically. Commonly recognized as intrinsic values are the (morally) good, the true, the beautiful, and the holy. Values of play, of work, of association, and of bodily well-being are also acknowledged. Some (with Montague) question whether the true is properly to be regarded as a value, since some truth is disvaluable, some neutral; but love of truth, regardless of consequences, seems to establish the value of truth. There is disagreement about whether the holy (religious value) is a unique type (Schleiermacher, Otto), or an attitude toward other values (Kant, Höffding), or a combination of the two (Hocking). There is also disagreement about whether the variety of values is irreducible (pluralism) or whether all values are rationally related in a hierarchy or system (Plato, Hegel, Sorley), in which values interpenetrate or coalesce into a total experience. (3) The criterion of value. The standard for testing values is influenced by both psychological and logical theory. Hedonists find the standard in the quantity of pleasure derived by the individual (Aristippus) or society (Bentham). Intuitionists appeal to an ultimate insight into preference (Martineau, Brentano). Some idealists recognize an objective system of rational norms or ideals as criterion (Plato, Windelband), while others lay more stress on rational wholeness and coherence (Hegel, Bosanquet, Paton) or inclusiveness (T. H. Green). Naturalists find biological survival or adjustment (Dewey) to be the standard. Despite differences, there is much in common in the results of the application of these criteria. (4) The metaphysical status of value. What is the relation of values to the facts investigated by natural science (Koehler), of Sein to Sollen (Lotze, Rickert), of human experience of value to reality independent of man (Hegel, Pringle-Pattlson, Spaulding)? There are three main answers: subjectivism (value is entirely dependent on and relative to human experience of it: so most hedonists, naturalists, positivists); logical objectivism (values are logical essences or subsistences, independent of their being known, yet with no existential status or action in reality); metaphysical objectivism (values --or norms or ideals --are integral, objective, and active constituents of the metaphysically real: so theists, absolutists, and certain realists and naturalists like S. Alexander and Wieman). --E.S.B. Axiom: See Mathematics. Axiomatic method: That method of constructing a deductive system consisting of deducing by specified rules all statements of the system save a given few from those given few, which are regarded as axioms or postulates of the system. See Mathematics. --C.A.B. Ayam atma brahma: (Skr.) "This self is brahman", famous quotation from Brhadaranyaka Upanishad 2.5.19, one of many alluding to the central theme of the Upanishads, i.e., the identity of the human and divine or cosmic. --K.F.L.
backset ::: n. --> A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.
Whatever is thrown back in its course, as water. ::: v. i. --> To plow again, in the fall; -- said of prairie land broken up in the spring.
Balarama (Balarama; Balaram) ::: the aspect of the fourfold isvara Balarama whose sakti is Mahakali, corresponding to the ks.atriya who represents the cosmic principle of Power in the symbolism of the caturvarn.ya; his qualities include "strength, grandeur, rushing impetuosity, overbearing courage" and he is identified with Rudra2.Balar Balarama-Aniruddha
BASIC "language" Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. A simple language originally designed for ease of programming by students and beginners. Many dialects exist, and BASIC is popular on {microcomputers} with sound and graphics support. Most micro versions are {interactive} and {interpreted}. BASIC has become the leading cause of brain-damage in proto-hackers. This is another case (like {Pascal}) of the cascading lossage that happens when a language deliberately designed as an educational toy gets taken too seriously. A novice can write short BASIC programs (on the order of 10-20 lines) very easily; writing anything longer is painful and encourages bad habits that will make it harder to use more powerful languages. This wouldn't be so bad if historical accidents hadn't made BASIC so common on low-end micros. As it is, it ruins thousands of potential wizards a year. Originally, all references to code, both {GOTO} and GOSUB (subroutine call) referred to the destination by its line number. This allowed for very simple editing in the days before {text editors} were considered essential. Just typing the line number deleted the line and to edit a line you just typed the new line with the same number. Programs were typically numbered in steps of ten to allow for insertions. Later versions, such as {BASIC V}, allow {GOTO}-less {structured programming} with named {procedures} and {functions}, IF-THEN-ELSE
IF constructs and {WHILE} loops etc. Early BASICs had no graphic operations except with graphic characters. In the 1970s BASIC {interpreters} became standard features in {mainframes} and {minicomputers}. Some versions included {matrix} operations as language {primitives}. A {public domain} {interpreter} for a mixture of {DEC}'s {MU-Basic} and {Microsoft Basic} is {here (ftp://oak.oakland.edu/pub/Unix-c/languages/basic/basic.tar-z)}. A {yacc} {parser} and {interpreter} were in the comp.sources.unix archives volume 2. See also {ANSI Minimal BASIC}, {bournebasic}, {bwBASIC}, {ubasic}, {Visual Basic}. [{Jargon File}] (1995-03-15)
Courage: In ethical discussions courage is usually regarded as a virtue (it is one of the traditional cardinal virtues), and either enjoined as a duty or praised as an excellence. When thus regarded as a virtue, courage is generally said to be a disposition, not merely instinctive, to exhibit a certain firmness, stopping short of rashness, in the face of danger, threat, temptation, pain, public opinion, etc. (thus including "moral" as well as physical courage, and passive courage or "fortitude" as well as active courage); which disposition, if it is to be a virtue, must, it is thought, be exhibited in the course of what the bearer knows or believes to be his duty, or at least in the support of some cause to which one is seriously committed or which is generally regarded as worthwhile. -- W.K.F.
BitTorrent "networking" A popular, distributed form of {peer-to-peer} {file sharing} that enables a {client} program to fetch different parts of a file (a "torrent") from different sources in parallel. The system is designed to encourage users to make downloaded data available for others to upload. This is aided by a scheme for exchanging unique identifiers, commonly stored in ".torrent" files. A downloader who does not serve data to others is called a "leech". A "seed" is a computer that has a complete copy of a file, possibly the original. The bittorrent.com site claims there are over 100 million users as of 2007-03-24. Most of the data is copyright material like films or commercial software. {(http://www.bittorrent.com/what-is-bittorrent)}. (2007-03-27)
bleak ::: 1. Exposed to the elements; unsheltered and barren; desolate; cold and cutting; raw, windswept. 2. Offering little or no hope or encouragement.
blench ::: v. i. --> To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.
To fly off; to turn aside. ::: v. t. --> To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder.
boast ::: v. i. --> To vaunt one&
bold ::: 1. Fearless and daring; courageous. 2. Clear and distinct to the eye.
bolden ::: v. t. --> To make bold; to encourage; to embolden.
boldness or determination in facing great danger, esp. in battle; heroic courage; bravery.
bold ::: n. --> Forward to meet danger; venturesome; daring; not timorous or shrinking from risk; brave; courageous.
Exhibiting or requiring spirit and contempt of danger; planned with courage; daring; vigorous.
In a bad sense, too forward; taking undue liberties; over assuming or confident; lacking proper modesty or restraint; rude; impudent.
Somewhat overstepping usual bounds, or conventional rules, as
bounty ::: n. --> Goodness, kindness; virtue; worth.
Liberality in bestowing gifts or favors; gracious or liberal giving; generosity; munificence.
That which is given generously or liberally.
A premium offered or given to induce men to enlist into the public service; or to encourage any branch of industry, as husbandry or manufactures.
Boycott Apple "legal" Some time before 1989, {Apple Computer, Inc.} started a lawsuit against {Hewlett-Packard} and {Microsoft}, claiming they had breeched Apple's {copyright} on the {look and feel} of the {Macintosh user interface}. In December 1989, {Xerox} failed to sue {Apple Computer}, claiming that the software for Apple's {Lisa} computer and {Macintosh} {Finder}, both copyrighted in 1987, were derived from two {Xerox} programs: {Smalltalk}, developed in the mid-1970s and {Star}, copyrighted in 1981. Apple wanted to stop people from writing any program that worked even vaguely like a {Macintosh}. If such {look and feel} lawsuits succeed they could put an end to {free software} that could substitute for commercial software. In the weeks after the suit was filed, {Usenet} reverberated with condemnation for Apple. {GNU} supporters {Richard Stallman}, {John Gilmore} and Paul Rubin decided to take action against Apple. Apple's reputation as a force for progress came from having made better computers; but The {League for Programming Freedom} believed that Apple wanted to make all non-Apple computers worse. They therefore campaigned to discourage people from using Apple products or working for Apple or any other company threatening similar obstructionist tactics (e.g. {Lotus} and {Xerox}). Because of this boycott the {Free Software Foundation} for a long time didn't support {Macintosh} {Unix} in their software. In 1995, the LPF and the FSF decided to end the boycott. [Dates? Other events? Why did Xerox's case against Apple fail?] (1995-04-18)
brag ::: v. i. --> To talk about one&
bravely ::: adv. --> In a brave manner; courageously; gallantly; valiantly; splendidly; nobly.
Finely; gaudily; gayly; showily.
Well; thrivingly; prosperously.
brave ::: possessing or exhibiting courage or courageous endurance. 2. *Archaic. Excellent; fine; admirable*.
brave ::: superl. --> Bold; courageous; daring; intrepid; -- opposed to cowardly; as, a brave man; a brave act.
Having any sort of superiority or excellence; -- especially such as in conspicuous.
Making a fine show or display. ::: n.
broken ::: 1. Forcibly separated into two or more pieces; fractured. 2. Crushed in spirit or temper; discouraged; overcome. 3. Incomplete. 4. Interrupted disturbed; disconnected. 5. Torn; ruptured. (Also pp. of break.)
brute force and ignorance "jargon" (BFI) A popular design technique at many software houses - {brute force} coding unrelieved by any knowledge of how problems have been previously solved in elegant ways. Dogmatic adherence to design methods tends to encourage this sort of thing. Characteristic of early {larval stage} programming; unfortunately, many never outgrow it. Also encountered in the variants BFMI - brute force and massive ignorance, and BFBI - brute force and bloody ignorance. "Gak, they used a {bubble sort}! That's strictly BFI." Compare {bogosity}. [{Jargon File}] (1996-06-12)
bulldog ::: n. --> A variety of dog, of remarkable ferocity, courage, and tenacity of grip; -- so named, probably, from being formerly employed in baiting bulls.
A refractory material used as a furnace lining, obtained by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of a rolling mill. ::: a.
bully ::: n. --> A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome; an insolent, tyrannical fellow.
A brisk, dashing fellow. ::: a. --> Jovial and blustering; dashing.
Fine; excellent; as, a bully horse.
"But our more difficult problem is to liberate the true Person and attain to a divine manhood which shall be the pure vessel of a divine force and the perfect instrument of a divine action. Step after step has to be firmly taken; difficulty after difficulty has to be entirely experienced and entirely mastered. Only the Divine Wisdom and Power can do this for us and it will do all if we yield to it in an entire faith and follow and assent to its workings with a constant courage and patience.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“But our more difficult problem is to liberate the true Person and attain to a divine manhood which shall be the pure vessel of a divine force and the perfect instrument of a divine action. Step after step has to be firmly taken; difficulty after difficulty has to be entirely experienced and entirely mastered. Only the Divine Wisdom and Power can do this for us and it will do all if we yield to it in an entire faith and follow and assent to its workings with a constant courage and patience.” The Synthesis of Yoga
Call-Level Interface ::: (database, standard) (SQL/CLI) A programming interface designed to support SQL access to databases from shrink-wrapped application programs.CLI was originally created by a subcommittee of the SQL Access Group (SAG). The SAG/CLI specification was published as the Microsoft Open DataBase Connectivity (ODBC) specification in 1992. In 1993, SAG submitted the CLI to the ANSI and ISO SQL committees.SQL/CLI provides an international standard implementation-independent CLI to access SQL databases. Client-server tools can easily access databases through dynamic link libraries. It supports and encourages a rich set of client-server tools.SQL/CLI is an addendum to 1992 SQL standard (SQL-92). It was completed as ISO standard ISO/IEC 9075-3:1995 Information technology -- Database languages -- SQL -- Part 3: Call-Level Interface (SQL/CLI). The current SQL/CLI effort is adding support for SQL3. . (1996-10-27)
Call-Level Interface "database, standard" (SQL/CLI) A programming interface designed to support {SQL} access to {databases} from shrink-wrapped {application programs}. CLI was originally created by a subcommittee of the {SQL Access Group} (SAG). The SAG/CLI specification was published as the {Microsoft} {Open DataBase Connectivity} (ODBC) specification in 1992. In 1993, SAG submitted the CLI to the {ANSI} and {ISO} SQL committees. SQL/CLI provides an international standard implementation-independent CLI to access SQL databases. {Client-server} tools can easily access databases through {dynamic link libraries}. It supports and encourages a rich set of client-server tools. SQL/CLI is an addendum to 1992 SQL standard (SQL-92). It was completed as ISO standard ISO/IEC 9075-3:1995 Information technology -- Database languages -- SQL -- Part 3: Call-Level Interface (SQL/CLI). The current SQL/CLI effort is adding support for {SQL3}. {(http://jcc.com/sql_cli.html)}. (1996-10-27)
Cardinal virtues: The cardinal virtues for a given culture are those which it regards as primary, the others being regarded either as derived from them or as relatively unimportant. Thus the Greeks had four: wisdom, courage, temperance, and justice; to which the Christians added three: faith, hope, and love or charity.
Cardinal virtues: The cardinal virtues for a given culture are those which it regards as primary, the others being regarded either as derived from them or as relatively unimportant. Thus the Greeks had four, wisdom, courage, temperance, and justice, to which the Christians added three, faith, hope, and love or charity. -- W.K.S.
chapfallen ::: a. --> Having the lower chap or jaw drooping, -- an indication of humiliation and dejection; crestfallen; discouraged. See Chopfallen.
cheeringly ::: adv. --> In a manner to cheer or encourage.
cherishment ::: n. --> Encouragement; comfort.
cherish ::: v. t. --> To treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect and aid.
To hold dear; to embrace with interest; to indulge; to encourage; to foster; to promote; as, to cherish religious principle.
chill ::: adj. 1. Cold, often unpleasantly so; numbing. 2. Discouraging; dispiriting. 3. Unduly formal; unfriendly; unfeeling. v. 4. To lower in temperature; cool; make cold. 5. Fig. To depress (enthusiasm, etc.); discourage. chilled, chilling.
chill ::: n. --> A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering.
A sensation of cold with convulsive shaking of the body, pinched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by undue cooling of the body or by nervous excitement, or forming the precursor of some constitutional disturbance, as of a fever.
A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly.
comfort ::: v. t. --> To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.
To assist or help; to aid.
To impart strength and hope to; to encourage; to relieve; to console; to cheer. ::: n.
Commercial Internet eXchange "networking, body" (CIX) The CIX is a non-profit, 501(c)6, trade association coordinating {Internet} services. Its member organisations provide {TCP/IP} or {OSI} data {internetwork} services to the general public. The CIX gives them unrestricted access to other worldwide networks. It also takes an interest in the development and future direction of the {Internet}. The CIX provides a neutral forum to exchange ideas, information, and experimental projects among suppliers of internetworking services. The CIX broadens the base of national and international cooperation and coordination among member networks. Together, the membership may develop consensus positions on legislative and policy issues of mutual interest. The CIX encourages technical research and development for the mutual benefit of suppliers and customers of data communications internetworking services. It assists its member networks in the establishment of, and adherence to, operational, technical, and administrative policies and standards necessary to ensure fair, open, and competitive operations and communication among member networks. CIX policies are formulated by a member-elected board of directors. {(http://cix.org/)}. (1995-01-13)
Compact Disc Rewritable "storage" (CD-RW) A rewritable version of {CD-ROM}. A CD-RW drive can write about 650 {megabytes} of data to CD-RW media an unlimited number of times. Most CD-RW drives can also write once to {CD-R} media. CD-RW media cannot be read by CD-ROM drives built prior to 1997 due to the reduced reflectivity (15% compared to 70%) of CD-RW media. CD-RW drives and media are currently (1999) more expensive than {CD-R} drives and media. CD-R is sometimes considered a better technology for archival purposes as the data cannot be accidentally modified or tampered with, and encourages better archival practices. Standard prerecorded CDs have their information permanently stamped into an aluminium reflecting layer. CD-WR discs have a phase-change recording layer and an additional silver (aluminium) reflecting layer. A laser beam can melt crystals in the recording layer into a non-crystalline amorphous phase or anneal them slowly at a lower temperature back to the crystalline state. The different reflectance of the areas make them appear as the 'pits' and 'lands' of a standard CD. {Phillips: New Technologies (http://www-us.sv.philips.com/newtech/cdrewritable.html)}. See also {CD-R} and {DVD-RAM}. (1999-08-01)
CONCENTRATION ::: Fixing the consciousness in one place or on one object and in a single condition.
A gathering together of the consciousness and either centralising at one point or turning on a single object, e.g. the Divine; there can also be a gathered condition throughout the whole being, not at a point.
Concentration is necessary, first to turn the whole will and mind from the discursive divagation natural to them, following a dispersed movement of the thoughts, running after many-branching desires, led away in the track of the senses and the outward mental response to phenomena; we have to fix the will and the thought on the eternal and real behind all, and this demands an immense effort, a one-pointed concentration. Secondly, it is necessary in order to break down the veil which is erected by our ordinary mentality between ourselves and the truth; for outer knowledge can be picked up by the way, by ordinary attention and reception, but the inner, hidden and higher truth can only be seized by an absolute concentration of the mind on its object, an absolute concentration of the will to attain it and, once attained, to hold it habitually and securely unite oneself with it.
Centre of Concentration: The two main places where one can centre the consciousness for yoga are in the head and in the heart - the mind-centre and the soul-centre.
Brain concentration is always a tapasyā and necessarily brings a strain. It is only if one is lifted out of the brain mind altogether that the strain of mental concentration disappears.
At the top of the head or above it is the right place for yogic concentration in reading or thinking.
In whatever centre the concentration takes place, the yoga force generated extends to the others and produces concentration or workings there.
Modes of Concentration: There is no harm in concentrating sometimes in the heart and sometimes above the head. But concentration in either place does not mean keeping the attention fixed on a particular spot; you have to take your station of consciousness in either place and concentrate there not on the place, but on the Divine. This can be done with eyes shut or with eyes open, according as it best suits.
If one concentrates on a thought or a word, one has to dwell on the essential idea contained in the word with the aspiration to feel the thing which it expresses.
There is no method in this yoga except to concentrate, preferably in the heart, and call the presence and power of the Mother to take up the being and by the workings of her force to transform the consciousness; one can concentrate also in the head or between the eye-brows, but for many this is a too difficult opening. When the mind falls quiet and the concentration becomes strong and the aspiration intense, then there is a beginning of experience. The more the faith, the more rapid the result is likely to be.
Powers (three) of Concentration ::: By concentration on anything whatsoever we are able to know that thing, to make it deliver up its concealed secrets; we must use this power to know not things, but the one Thing-in-itself. By concentration again the whole will can be gathered up for the acquisition of that which is still ungrasped, still beyond us; this power, if it is sufficiently trained, sufficiently single-minded, sufficiently sincere, sure of itself, faithful to itself alone, absolute in faith, we can use for the acquisition of any object whatsoever; but we ought to use it not for the acquisition of the many objects which the world offers to us, but to grasp spiritually that one object worthy of pursuit which is also the one subject worthy of knowledge. By concentration of our whole being on one status of itself we can become whatever we choose ; we can become, for instance, even if we were before a mass of weaknesses and fears, a mass instead of strength and courage, or we can become all a great purity, holiness and peace or a single universal soul of Love ; but we ought, it is said, to use this power to become not even these things, high as they may be in comparison with what we now are, but rather to become that which is above all things and free from all action and attributes, the pure and absolute Being. All else, all other concentration can only be valuable for preparation, for previous steps, for a gradual training of the dissolute and self-dissipating thought, will and being towards their grand and unique object.
Stages in Concentration (Rajayogic) ::: that in which the object is seized, that in which it is held, that in which the mind is lost in the status which the object represents or to which the concentration leads.
Concentration and Meditation ::: Concentration means fixing the consciousness in one place or one object and in a single condition Meditation can be diffusive,e.g. thinking about the Divine, receiving impressions and discriminating, watching what goes on in the nature and acting upon it etc. Meditation is when the inner mind is looking at things to get the right knowledge.
vide Dhyāna.
corage ::: n. --> See Courage
couage ::: v. t. --> To inspire with courage.
countenance ::: v. t. --> To encourage; to favor; to approve; to aid; to abet.
To make a show of; to pretend.
counttenance ::: n. --> Appearance or expression of the face; look; aspect; mien.
The face; the features.
Approving or encouraging aspect of face; hence, favor, good will, support; aid; encouragement.
Superficial appearance; show; pretense.
courage ::: n. --> The heart; spirit; temper; disposition.
Heart; inclination; desire; will.
That quality of mind which enables one to encounter danger and difficulties with firmness, or without fear, or fainting of heart; valor; boldness; resolution.
courageous ::: a. --> Possessing, or characterized by, courage; brave; bold.
courageously ::: adv. --> In a courageous manner.
courageousness ::: n. --> The quality of being courageous; courage.
courage ::: the state or quality of mind or spirit that enables one to face danger, fear, or vicissitudes with self-possession, confidence, and resolution; bravery.
coward ::: a. --> Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs; -- said of a lion.
Destitute of courage; timid; cowardly.
Belonging to a coward; proceeding from, or expressive of, base fear or timidity. ::: n.
cowardice ::: n. --> Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit.
cowardly ::: a. --> Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless.
Proceeding from fear of danger or other consequences; befitting a coward; dastardly; base; as, cowardly malignity. ::: adv. --> In the manner of a coward.
cruncha cruncha cruncha "jargon" /kruhn'ch* kruhn'ch* kruhn'ch*/ An encouragement sometimes muttered to a machine bogged down in a serious {grovel}. Also describes a notional sound made by grovelling hardware. See {grind} (sense 3). (2003-06-02)
dare ::: 1. To have the boldness and courage to try; venture; hazard; risk. 2. To meet defiantly; face courageously. dares, dared, daring.
dare ::: v. i. --> To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture.
To lurk; to lie hid. ::: v. t. --> To have courage for; to attempt courageously; to venture to do or to undertake.
daring ::: n. 1. Adventurous courage; boldness. daring"s. adj. 2. Bold or courageous; fearless or intrepid; adventurous.
dastardize ::: v. t. --> To make cowardly; to intimidate; to dispirit; as, to dastardize my courage.
daunt ::: v. t. --> To overcome; to conquer.
To repress or subdue the courage of; to check by fear of danger; to cow; to intimidate; to dishearten.
defectionist ::: n. --> One who advocates or encourages defection.
deject ::: v. t. --> To cast down.
To cast down the spirits of; to dispirit; to discourage; to dishearten. ::: a. --> Dejected.
demoralization ::: n. --> The act of corrupting or subverting morals. Especially: The act of corrupting or subverting discipline, courage, hope, etc., or the state of being corrupted or subverted in discipline, courage, etc.; as, the demoralization of an army or navy.
demoralize ::: v. t. --> To corrupt or undermine in morals; to destroy or lessen the effect of moral principles on; to render corrupt or untrustworthy in morals, in discipline, in courage, spirit, etc.; to weaken in spirit or efficiency.
despondency ::: n. --> The state of desponding; loss of hope and cessation of effort; discouragement; depression or dejection of the mind.
despond ::: v. i. --> To give up, the will, courage, or spirit; to be thoroughly disheartened; to lose all courage; to become dispirited or depressed; to take an unhopeful view. ::: n. --> Despondency.
dhira. ::: steadfast; strong; bold; courageous
disanimation ::: n. --> Privation of life.
The state of being disanimated or discouraged; depression of spirits.
discomfort ::: v. t. --> To discourage; to deject.
To destroy or disturb the comfort of; to deprive o/ quiet enjoyment; to make uneasy; to pain; as, a smoky chimney discomforts a family.
Discouragement.
Want of comfort; uneasiness, mental or physical; disturbance of peace; inquietude; pain; distress; sorrow.
discountenance ::: v. t. --> To ruffle or discompose the countenance of; to put of countenance; to put to shame; to abash.
To refuse to countenance, or give the support of one&
discourageable ::: a. --> Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
discouraged ::: 1. Deprived of courage, hope, or confidence; disheartened; dispirited. 2. Obstructed by opposition or difficulty; hindered. discouraging.
discouraged ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Discourage
discouragement ::: n. --> The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection.
That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent; as, the revolution was commenced under every possible discouragement.
discourager ::: n. --> One who discourages.
discourage ::: v. t. --> To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; -- the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt.
To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they discouraged his efforts.
discouraging ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Discourage ::: a. --> Causing or indicating discouragement.
disencouragement ::: n. --> Discouragement.
disheartenment ::: n. --> Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.
dishearten ::: v. t. --> To discourage; to deprive of courage and hope; to depress the spirits of; to deject.
Dis (Icelandic) Sister; in Norse myths an attendant spirit or constant companion. Possibly the astral double of a living entity for when one’s dis is absent, it presages death. Another companion entity, superior to the dis, is the hamingja, the higher self or guardian angel which protects and encourages the evolving soul, making the human monad in effect an asmegir — a god-maker or potential ase.
dismayedness ::: n. --> A state of being dismayed; dejection of courage; dispiritedness.
dismay ::: v. i. --> To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive or firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify.
To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet.
To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay. ::: v. t.
dispiritment ::: n. --> Depression of spirits; discouragement.
dispirit ::: v. t. --> To deprive of cheerful spirits; to depress the spirits of; to dishearten; to discourage.
To distill or infuse the spirit of.
drawback ::: n. --> A loss of advantage, or deduction from profit, value, success, etc.; a discouragement or hindrance; objectionable feature.
Money paid back or remitted; especially, a certain amount of duties or customs, sometimes the whole, and sometimes only a part, remitted or paid back by the government, on the exportation of the commodities on which they were levied.
DRY PERIOD. ::: There is a long stage of preparation neces- sary in order to arrive at the moer psychologic^ condition in which the doors of experience can open and one can walk from vista to vista — though even then new gates may present them- selves and refuse to open until all is ready. This period can be dry and desert-like unless one has the ardour of self-introspec- tion and self-conquest and finds every step of the effort and struggle interesting or unless one has or gets the secret of trust and self-giving which secs the hand of the Divine in every step of the path and even in the difficulty the grace or the guidance.
Such interval periods come to all and cannot be avoided.
The main thing is to meet them with quietude and not become restless, depressed or despondent. A constant fire can be there only when a certain stage has been reached, that is when one is always inside consciously living in the psychic being, but for that all this preparation of the mind, vital, physical is necessary.
For this fire belongs to the psychic and one cannot command it always merely by the mind's effort. The psychic has to be fully liberated and that is what the Force is working to make fully possible.
The difficulty comes when either the vital with its desires or the physical with its past habitual movements comes in — as they do with almost everyone. It is then that the dryness and difficulty of spontaneous aspiration come. This dryness is a well- known obstacle in all sadhana. But one has to persist and not be discouraged. If one keep? the will fixed even in these barren periods, they pass and after their passage a greater force of aspiration and experience becomes possible.
Dryness comes usually when the vital dislikes a movement or' condition or the refusal of its desires and starts non-co-operation.
But sometimes it is a condition that has to be crossed through, e.g. the neutral or dry quietude which sometimes comes when the ordinary movements have been thrown out but nothing positive has yet come to take their place, i.e, peace, joy, a higher know- ledge or force or action.
duck typing "programming" A term coined by Dave Thomas for a kind of {dynamic typing} typical of some programming languages, such as {Smalltalk}, {Ruby} or {Visual FoxPro}, where a {variable}'s {run-time} value determines the operations that can be performed on it. The term comes from the "duck test": if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck. Duck typing considers the {methods} to which a value responds and the {attributes} it posesses rather than its relationship to a type hierarchy. This encourages greater {polymorphism} because types are enforced as late as possible. {(http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/100511)}. (2006-09-13)
ELISP 1. "language" A {Lisp} variant originally implemented for {DEC-20s} by Chuck Hedrick of Rutgers. 2. "language" A common abbreviation for {Emacs Lisp}. Use of this abbreviation is discouraged because "Elisp" is or was a trademark. [Still a trademark? Whose?] (1995-04-04)
embodiment ::: n. --> The act of embodying; the state of being embodied.
That which embodies or is embodied; representation in a physical body; a completely organized system, like the body; as, the embodiment of courage, or of courtesy; the embodiment of true piety.
embolden ::: v. t. --> To give boldness or courage to; to encourage.
encouraged ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Encourage
encouraged ::: stimulated; urged; induced.
encouragement ::: n. --> The act of encouraging; incitement to action or to practice; as, the encouragement of youth in generosity.
That which serves to incite, support, promote, or advance, as favor, countenance, reward, etc.; incentive; increase of confidence; as, the fine arts find little encouragement among a rude people.
encourager ::: n. --> One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer.
encourage ::: v. t. --> To give courage to; to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope; to raise, or to increase, the confidence of; to animate; enhearten; to incite; to help forward; -- the opposite of discourage.
encouraging ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Encourage ::: a. --> Furnishing ground to hope; inspiriting; favoring.
enervate ::: v. t. --> To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of. ::: a. --> Weakened; weak; without strength of force.
enhearten ::: v. t. --> To give heart to; to fill with courage; to embolden.
enhort ::: v. t. --> To encourage.
enterprise ::: n. --> That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise.
Willingness or eagerness to engage in labor which requires boldness, promptness, energy, and like qualities; as, a man of great enterprise.
Epictetus Greek Stoic philosopher, a freed slave who taught philosophy in Rome until 90 AD, when Domitian expelled all philosophers. He left no writings, and his philosophy is known through the Discourses and Enchiridion of his pupil Flavius Arrian. Like other Stoics, he held that each person has at the root of his or her being a spark of the Logos, so that all people are brothers and relationships with others must be respected. Inner harmony could be attained by correct perceptions and attitudes, differentiating between what is “ours” and thus under our control, and what is “not ours” and therefore beyond our control. He encouraged making new habits of thought and action through constant practice and self-discipline and by acting deliberately.
erection ::: n. --> The act of erecting, or raising upright; the act of constructing, as a building or a wall, or of fitting together the parts of, as a machine; the act of founding or establishing, as a commonwealth or an office; also, the act of rousing to excitement or courage.
The state of being erected, lifted up, built, established, or founded; exaltation of feelings or purposes.
State of being stretched to stiffness; tension.
errorist ::: n. --> One who encourages and propagates error; one who holds to error.
Eucken, Rudolf: (1846-1926) Being a writer of wide popularity, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1908, Eucken defends a spiritualistic-idealistic metaphysics against materialistic naturalism, positivism and mechanism. Spiritual life, not being an oppositionless experience, is a struggle, a self-asserting action by resistance, a matter of great alternatives, either-ors between the natural and the spiritual, a matter of vital choice. Thus all significant oppositions are, within spiritual life itself, at once created and overcome. Immanence and transcendence, personalism and absolutism are the two native spiritual oppositions that agitate Eucken's system. Reconciliation between the vital dualities therefore depends not on mere intellectual insight, but on personal effort, courageous, heroic, militant and devoted action. He handles the basic oppositions of experience in harmony with the activist tenor of liberal Protestantism. Eucken sought to replace the prevailing intellectualistic idealism by an activistic idealism, founded on a comprehensive and historical consideration of culture at large. He sought to interpret the spiritual content of historical movements. He conceived of historical facts as being so many systematized wholes of life, for which he coined the term syntagma. His distinctive historical method consists of the reductive and the noological aspects. The former considers the parts directly in relation to an inward whole. The latter is an inner dialectic and immanent criticism of the inward principles of great minds, embracing the cosmologicnl and psychological ways of philosophical construction and transcending by the concept of spiritual life the opposition of the world and the individual soul. Preaching the need of a cultural renewal, not a few of his popularized ideas found their more articulated form in the philosophical sociology of his most eminent pupil, Max Scheler, in the cultural psychology of both Spranger and Spengler. His philosophy is essentially a call to arms against the deadening influences of modern life. -- H.H.
exhortation ::: n. --> The act of practice of exhorting; the act of inciting to laudable deeds; incitement to that which is good or commendable.
Language intended to incite and encourage; advice; counsel; admonition.
fainthearted ::: a. --> Wanting in courage; depressed by fear; easily discouraged or frightened; cowardly; timorous; dejected.
faint ::: superl. --> Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst.
Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed; as, "Faint heart ne&
fearful ::: a. --> Full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened.
inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage; timid.
Indicating, or caused by, fear.
Inspiring fear or awe; exciting apprehension or terror; terrible; frightful; dreadful.
feats ::: notable acts or deeds, especially acts of courage; exploits.
feeder ::: n. --> One who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward.
One who furnishes incentives; an encourager.
One who eats or feeds; specifically, an animal to be fed or fattened.
One who fattens cattle for slaughter.
A stream that flows into another body of water; a tributary; specifically (Hydraulic Engin.), a water course which
fomentation ::: n. --> The act of fomenting; the application of warm, soft, medicinal substances, as for the purpose of easing pain, by relaxing the skin, or of discussing tumors.
The lotion applied to a diseased part.
Excitation; instigation; encouragement.
fomenter ::: n. --> One who foments; one who encourages or instigates; as, a fomenter of sedition.
foment ::: v. t. --> To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid.
To cherish with heat; to foster.
To nurse to life or activity; to cherish and promote by excitements; to encourage; to abet; to instigate; -- used often in a bad sense; as, to foment ill humors.
foolhardiness ::: n. --> Courage without sense or judgment; foolish rashness; recklessness.
fortitude ::: n. --> Power to resist attack; strength; firmness.
That strength or firmness of mind which enables a person to encounter danger with coolness and courage, or to bear pain or adversity without murmuring, depression, or despondency; passive courage; resolute endurance; firmness in confronting or bearing up against danger or enduring trouble.
fortitudinous ::: a. --> Having fortitude; courageous.
foster ::: v. t. --> To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up.
To cherish; to promote the growth of; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster genius.
Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called stands in the relation of parent, child, brother, etc., as regards sustenance and nurture, but not by tie of blood.
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FRIENDSHIP. ::: Friendship or affection is not excluded fron the yoga. Friendship with the Divine is a recognised relation in the snd/ianii. Friendships between the sddhakas exist and are encouraged. Only, we seek to found them on a surer basis than that on which the bulk of human friendships are insecurely founded. It is precisely because we hold friendship, brotherhood, love to be sacred things that we want this change. We want them rooted in the soul, founded on the rock of the Divine.
From almost the beginning, two scholars encouraged and sustained me; also, on occasion, rescued
frosty ::: a. --> Attended with, or producing, frost; having power to congeal water; cold; freezing; as, a frosty night.
Covered with frost; as, the grass is frosty.
Chill in affection; without warmth of affection or courage.
Appearing as if covered with hoarfrost; white; gray-haired; as, a frosty head.
full-hearted ::: a. --> Full of courage or confidence.
functional language "language" A language that supports and encourages {functional programming}. (1995-11-08)
functional programming language "language" A language that supports and encourages {functional programming}. (1995-11-08)
gallant ::: a. --> Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.
Noble in bearing or spirit; brave; high-spirited; courageous; heroic; magnanimous; as, a gallant youth; a gallant officer.
Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous. ::: n.
game fowl ::: --> A handsome breed of the common fowl, remarkable for the great courage and pugnacity of the males.
generous ::: a. --> Of honorable birth or origin; highborn.
Exhibiting those qualities which are popularly reregarded as belonging to high birth; noble; honorable; magnanimous; spirited; courageous.
Open-handed; free to give; not close or niggardly; munificent; as, a generous friend or father.
Characterized by generosity; abundant; overflowing; as, a generous table.
gentility ::: n. --> Good extraction; dignity of birth.
The quality or qualities appropriate to those who are well born, as self-respect, dignity, courage, courtesy, politeness of manner, a graceful and easy mien and behavior, etc.; good breeding.
The class in society who are, or are expected to be, genteel; the gentry.
Paganism; heathenism.
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goshawk ::: n. --> Any large hawk of the genus Astur, of which many species and varieties are known. The European (Astur palumbarius) and the American (A. atricapillus) are the best known species. They are noted for their powerful flight, activity, and courage. The Australian goshawk (A. Novae-Hollandiae) is pure white.
hair [back-formation from {hairy}] The complications that make something hairy. "Decoding {TECO} commands requires a certain amount of hair." Often seen in the phrase "infinite hair", which connotes extreme complexity. Also in "hairiferous" (tending to promote hair growth): "GNUMACS elisp encourages {lusers} to write complex editing modes." "Yeah, it's pretty hairiferous all right." (Or just: "Hair squared!")
half-hearted ::: a. --> Wanting in heart or spirit; ungenerous; unkind.
Lacking zeal or courage; lukewarm.
halloo ::: n. --> A loud exclamation; a call to invite attention or to incite a person or an animal; a shout.
An exclamation to call attention or to encourage one. ::: v. i. --> To cry out; to exclaim with a loud voice; to call to a person, as by the word halloo.
hardiment ::: n. --> Hardihood; boldness; courage; energetic action.
harten ::: v. t. --> To hearten; to encourage; to incite.
hearten ::: v. t. --> To encourage; to animate; to incite or stimulate the courage of; to embolden.
To restore fertility or strength to, as to land.
heartless ::: a. --> Without a heart.
Destitute of courage; spiritless; despodent.
Destitute of feeling or affection; unsympathetic; cruel.
heart ::: n. --> A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood.
The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, and the like; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; -- usually in a good sense, when no epithet is expressed; the better or lovelier part of our nature; the spring of all our actions and purposes; the seat of moral life and character; the moral affections and character itself; the individual
heart-whole ::: a. --> Having the heart or affections free; not in love.
With unbroken courage; undismayed.
Of a single and sincere heart.
HELPFUL FORCES. ::: If there are always forces around which are concerned to depress and discourage, there are always forces above and around us which we can draw upon, — draw into our- selves to restore, to fill up again with strength and faith and joy
Hermod (Icelandic) [from her host, army + mod might, courage] A son of Odin in Norse mythology, equivalent to Hermes or Mercury, messenger of the gods. Best known for his memorable journey to the kingdom of Hel on behalf of the gods, when he was sent to entreat the queen of death to give up the sun god Balder whose death at the hands of his blind brother Hoder had been brought about by Loki (in some versions Odin himself undertakes the errand).
hero ::: 1. One who is distinguished by exceptional courage, nobility, fortitude, etc. 2. A person noted for feats of courage or nobility of purpose, especially one who has risked or sacrificed his or her life (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as an adj.) hero"s, heroes.
heroic ::: having, displaying, or characteristic of the qualities appropriate to a hero, such as bravery and courageousness.
heroism ::: n. --> The qualities characteristic of a hero, as courage, bravery, fortitude, unselfishness, etc.; the display of such qualities.
hey ::: a. --> High. ::: interj. --> An exclamation of joy, surprise, or encouragement.
A cry to set dogs on.
high-hearted ::: a. --> Full of courage or nobleness; high-souled.
high-spirited ::: a. --> Full of spirit or natural fire; haughty; courageous; impetuous; not brooking restraint or opposition.
honor ::: n. --> Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence.
That which rightfully attracts esteem, respect, or consideration; self-respect; dignity; courage; fidelity; especially, excellence of character; high moral worth; virtue; nobleness; specif., in men, integrity; uprightness; trustworthness; in women, purity; chastity.
Hugin (Icelandic) [from hug mind] One of two ravens which fly daily over the battlefield earth (Vigridsslatten) and report back to Allfather Odin. The word hug connotes thought and thinking, mood, courage, wish, opinion, desire, foreboding; in addition it is used in numerous combinations, such as strength of mind, peace of mind, etc.
Human nature is shot through in all its stuff with the thread of the ego ; even when one tries to get away from it, it is in front or could be behind all the thoughts and actions like a shadow. To see that is the first step, to discern the falsity and absurdity of the ego-movements is the second, to discourage and refuse it at each step is the third ; but it goes entirely only when one sees, experiences and lives the One in everything and equally everywhere.
hurra ::: interj. --> A word used as a shout of joy, triumph, applause, encouragement, or welcome.
huzza ::: interj. --> A word used as a shout of joy, exultation, approbation, or encouragement. ::: n. --> A shout of huzza; a cheer; a hurrah. ::: v. i.
If there is nothing in the waking consciousness to encourage
"I have started writing about doubt, but even in doing so I am afflicted by the ‘doubt" whether any amount of writing or of anything else can ever persuade the eternal doubt in man which is the penalty of his native ignorance. In the first place, to write adequately would mean anything from 60 to 600 pages, but not even 6000 convincing pages would convince doubt. For doubt exists for its own sake; its very function is to doubt always and, even when convinced, to go on doubting still; it is only to persuade its entertainer to give it board and lodging that it pretends to be an honest truth-seeker. This is a lesson I have learnt from the experience both of my own mind and of the minds of others; the only way to get rid of doubt is to take discrimination as one"s detector of truth and falsehood and under its guard to open the door freely and courageously to experience.” Letters on Yoga
I have started writing about doubt, but even in doing so I am afflicted by the ‘doubt’ whether any amount of writing or of anything else can ever persuade the eternal doubt in man which is the penalty of his native ignorance. In the first place, to write adequately would mean anything from 60 to 600 pages, but not even 6000 convincing pages would convince doubt. For doubt exists for its own sake; its very function is to doubt always and, even when convinced, to go on doubting still; it is only to persuade its entertainer to give it board and lodging that it pretends to be an honest truth-seeker. This is a lesson I have learnt from the experience both of my own mind and of the minds of others; the only way to get rid of doubt is to take discrimination as one’s detector of truth and falsehood and under its guard to open the door freely and courageously to experience.” Letters on Yoga
income ::: n. --> A coming in; entrance; admittance; ingress; infusion.
That which is caused to enter; inspiration; influence; hence, courage or zeal imparted.
That gain which proceeds from labor, business, property, or capital of any kind, as the produce of a farm, the rent of houses, the proceeds of professional business, the profits of commerce or of occupation, or the interest of money or stock in funds, etc.; revenue; receipts; salary; especially, the annual receipts of a private person,
indomitable ::: a. --> Not to be subdued; untamable; invincible; as, an indomitable will, courage, animal.
innerve ::: v. t. --> To give nervous energy or power to; to give increased energy,force,or courage to; to invigorate; to stimulate.
inspirational; offering or providing hope, encouragement, salvation, etc.
inspirit ::: v. t. --> To infuse new life or spirit into; to animate; to encourage; to invigorate.
INTEGRAL YOGA ::: This yoga accepts the value of cosmic existence and holds it to be a reality; its object is to enter into a higher Truth-Consciousness or Divine Supramental Consciousness in which action and creation are the expression not of ignorance and imperfection, but of the Truth, the Light, the Divine Ānanda. But for that, the surrender of the mortal mind, life and body to the Higher Consciousnessis indispensable, since it is too difficult for the mortal human being to pass by its own effort beyond mind to a Supramental Consciousness in which the dynamism is no longer mental but of quite another power. Only those who can accept the call to such a change should enter into this yoga.
Aim of the Integral Yoga ::: It is not merely to rise out of the ordinary ignorant world-consciousness into the divine consciousness, but to bring the supramental power of that divine consciousness down into the ignorance of mind, life and body, to transform them, to manifest the Divine here and create a divine life in Matter.
Conditions of the Integral Yoga ::: This yoga can only be done to the end by those who are in total earnest about it and ready to abolish their little human ego and its demands in order to find themselves in the Divine. It cannot be done in a spirit of levity or laxity; the work is too high and difficult, the adverse powers in the lower Nature too ready to take advantage of the least sanction or the smallest opening, the aspiration and tapasyā needed too constant and intense.
Method in the Integral Yoga ::: To concentrate, preferably in the heart and call the presence and power of the Mother to take up the being and by the workings of her force transform the consciousness. One can concentrate also in the head or between the eye-brows, but for many this is a too difficult opening. When the mind falls quiet and the concentration becomes strong and the aspiration intense, then there is the beginning of experience. The more the faith, the more rapid the result is likely to be. For the rest one must not depend on one’s own efforts only, but succeed in establishing a contact with the Divine and a receptivity to the Mother’s Power and Presence.
Integral method ::: The method we have to pursue is to put our whole conscious being into relation and contact with the Divine and to call Him in to transform Our entire being into His, so that in a sense God Himself, the real Person in us, becomes the sādhaka of the sādhana* as well as the Master of the Yoga by whom the lower personality is used as the centre of a divine transfiguration and the instrument of its own perfection. In effect, the pressure of the Tapas, the force of consciousness in us dwelling in the Idea of the divine Nature upon that which we are in our entirety, produces its own realisation. The divine and all-knowing and all-effecting descends upon the limited and obscure, progressively illumines and energises the whole lower nature and substitutes its own action for all the terms of the inferior human light and mortal activity.
In psychological fact this method translates itself into the progressive surrender of the ego with its whole field and all its apparatus to the Beyond-ego with its vast and incalculable but always inevitable workings. Certainly, this is no short cut or easy sādhana. It requires a colossal faith, an absolute courage and above all an unflinching patience. For it implies three stages of which only the last can be wholly blissful or rapid, - the attempt of the ego to enter into contact with the Divine, the wide, full and therefore laborious preparation of the whole lower Nature by the divine working to receive and become the higher Nature, and the eventual transformation. In fact, however, the divine strength, often unobserved and behind the veil, substitutes itself for the weakness and supports us through all our failings of faith, courage and patience. It” makes the blind to see and the lame to stride over the hills.” The intellect becomes aware of a Law that beneficently insists and a Succour that upholds; the heart speaks of a Master of all things and Friend of man or a universal Mother who upholds through all stumblings. Therefore this path is at once the most difficult imaginable and yet in comparison with the magnitude of its effort and object, the most easy and sure of all.
There are three outstanding features of this action of the higher when it works integrally on the lower nature. In the first place, it does not act according to a fixed system and succession as in the specialised methods of Yoga, but with a sort of free, scattered and yet gradually intensive and purposeful working determined by the temperament of the individual in whom it operates, the helpful materials which his nature offers and the obstacles which it presents to purification and perfection. In a sense, therefore, each man in this path has his own method of Yoga. Yet are there certain broad lines of working common to all which enable us to construct not indeed a routine system, but yet some kind of Shastra or scientific method of the synthetic Yoga.
Secondly, the process, being integral, accepts our nature such as it stands organised by our past evolution and without rejecting anything essential compels all to undergo a divine change. Everything in us is seized by the hands of a mighty Artificer and transformed into a clear image of that which it now seeks confusedly to present. In that ever-progressive experience we begin to perceive how this lower manifestation is constituted and that everything in it, however seemingly deformed or petty or vile, is the more or less distorted or imperfect figure of some elements or action in the harmony of the divine Nature. We begin to understand what the Vedic Rishis meant when they spoke of the human forefathers fashioning the gods as a smith forges the crude material in his smithy.
Thirdly, the divine Power in us uses all life as the means of this integral Yoga. Every experience and outer contact with our world-environment, however trifling or however disastrous, is used for the work, and every inner experience, even to the most repellent suffering or the most humiliating fall, becomes a step on the path to perfection. And we recognise in ourselves with opened eyes the method of God in the world, His purpose of light in the obscure, of might in the weak and fallen, of delight in what is grievous and miserable. We see the divine method to be the same in the lower and in the higher working; only in the one it is pursued tardily and obscurely through the subconscious in Nature, in the other it becomes swift and selfconscious and the instrument confesses the hand of the Master. All life is a Yoga of Nature seeking to manifest God within itself. Yoga marks the stage at which this effort becomes capable of self-awareness and therefore of right completion in the individual. It is a gathering up and concentration of the movements dispersed and loosely combined in the lower evolution.
Key-methods ::: The way to devotion and surrender. It is the psychic movement that brings the constant and pure devotion and the removal of the ego that makes it possible to surrender.
The way to knowledge. Meditation in the head by which there comes the opening above, the quietude or silence of the mind and the descent of peace etc. of the higher consciousness generally till it envelops the being and fills the body and begins to take up all the movements.
Yoga by works ::: Separation of the Purusha from the Prakriti, the inner silent being from the outer active one, so that one has two consciousnesses or a double consciousness, one behind watching and observing and finally controlling and changing the other which is active in front. The other way of beginning the yoga of works is by doing them for the Divine, for the Mother, and not for oneself, consecrating and dedicating them till one concretely feels the Divine Force taking up the activities and doing them for one.
Object of the Integral Yoga is to enter into and be possessed by the Divine Presence and Consciousness, to love the Divine for the Divine’s sake alone, to be tuned in our nature into the nature of the Divine, and in our will and works and life to be the instrument of the Divine.
Principle of the Integral Yoga ::: The whole principle of Integral Yoga is to give oneself entirely to the Divine alone and to nobody else, and to bring down into ourselves by union with the Divine Mother all the transcendent light, power, wideness, peace, purity, truth-consciousness and Ānanda of the Supramental Divine.
Central purpose of the Integral Yoga ::: Transformation of our superficial, narrow and fragmentary human way of thinking, seeing, feeling and being into a deep and wide spiritual consciousness and an integrated inner and outer existence and of our ordinary human living into the divine way of life.
Fundamental realisations of the Integral Yoga ::: The psychic change so that a complete devotion can be the main motive of the heart and the ruler of thought, life and action in constant union with the Mother and in her Presence. The descent of the Peace, Power, Light etc. of the Higher Consciousness through the head and heart into the whole being, occupying the very cells of the body. The perception of the One and Divine infinitely everywhere, the Mother everywhere and living in that infinite consciousness.
Results ::: First, an integral realisation of Divine Being; not only a realisation of the One in its indistinguishable unity, but also in its multitude of aspects which are also necessary to the complete knowledge of it by the relative consciousness; not only realisation of unity in the Self, but of unity in the infinite diversity of activities, worlds and creatures.
Therefore, also, an integral liberation. Not only the freedom born of unbroken contact of the individual being in all its parts with the Divine, sāyujya mukti, by which it becomes free even in its separation, even in the duality; not only the sālokya mukti by which the whole conscious existence dwells in the same status of being as the Divine, in the state of Sachchidananda ; but also the acquisition of the divine nature by the transformation of this lower being into the human image of the divine, sādharmya mukti, and the complete and final release of all, the liberation of the consciousness from the transitory mould of the ego and its unification with the One Being, universal both in the world and the individual and transcendentally one both in the world and beyond all universe.
By this integral realisation and liberation, the perfect harmony of the results of Knowledge, Love and Works. For there is attained the complete release from ego and identification in being with the One in all and beyond all. But since the attaining consciousness is not limited by its attainment, we win also the unity in Beatitude and the harmonised diversity in Love, so that all relations of the play remain possible to us even while we retain on the heights of our being the eternal oneness with the Beloved. And by a similar wideness, being capable of a freedom in spirit that embraces life and does not depend upon withdrawal from life, we are able to become without egoism, bondage or reaction the channel in our mind and body for a divine action poured out freely upon the world.
The divine existence is of the nature not only of freedom, but of purity, beatitude and perfection. In integral purity which shall enable on the one hand the perfect reflection of the divine Being in ourselves and on the other the perfect outpouring of its Truth and Law in us in the terms of life and through the right functioning of the complex instrument we are in our outer parts, is the condition of an integral liberty. Its result is an integral beatitude, in which there becomes possible at once the Ānanda of all that is in the world seen as symbols of the Divine and the Ānanda of that which is not-world. And it prepares the integral perfection of our humanity as a type of the Divine in the conditions of the human manifestation, a perfection founded on a certain free universality of being, of love and joy, of play of knowledge and of play of will in power and will in unegoistic action. This integrality also can be attained by the integral Yoga.
Sādhanā of the Integral Yoga does not proceed through any set mental teaching or prescribed forms of meditation, mantras or others, but by aspiration, by a self-concentration inwards or upwards, by a self-opening to an Influence, to the Divine Power above us and its workings, to the Divine Presence in the heart and by the rejection of all that is foreign to these things. It is only by faith, aspiration and surrender that this self-opening can come.
The yoga does not proceed by upadeśa but by inner influence.
Integral Yoga and Gita ::: The Gita’s Yoga consists in the offering of one’s work as a sacrifice to the Divine, the conquest of desire, egoless and desireless action, bhakti for the Divine, an entering into the cosmic consciousness, the sense of unity with all creatures, oneness with the Divine. This yoga adds the bringing down of the supramental Light and Force (its ultimate aim) and the transformation of the nature.
Our yoga is not identical with the yoga of the Gita although it contains all that is essential in the Gita’s yoga. In our yoga we begin with the idea, the will, the aspiration of the complete surrender; but at the same time we have to reject the lower nature, deliver our consciousness from it, deliver the self involved in the lower nature by the self rising to freedom in the higher nature. If we do not do this double movement, we are in danger of making a tamasic and therefore unreal surrender, making no effort, no tapas and therefore no progress ; or else we make a rajasic surrender not to the Divine but to some self-made false idea or image of the Divine which masks our rajasic ego or something still worse.
Integral Yoga, Gita and Tantra ::: The Gita follows the Vedantic tradition which leans entirely on the Ishvara aspect of the Divine and speaks little of the Divine Mother because its object is to draw back from world-nature and arrive at the supreme realisation beyond it.
The Tantric tradition leans on the Shakti or Ishvari aspect and makes all depend on the Divine Mother because its object is to possess and dominate the world-nature and arrive at the supreme realisation through it.
This yoga insists on both the aspects; the surrender to the Divine Mother is essential, for without it there is no fulfilment of the object of the yoga.
Integral Yoga and Hatha-Raja Yogas ::: For an integral yoga the special methods of Rajayoga and Hathayoga may be useful at times in certain stages of the progress, but are not indispensable. Their principal aims must be included in the integrality of the yoga; but they can be brought about by other means. For the methods of the integral yoga must be mainly spiritual, and dependence on physical methods or fixed psychic or psychophysical processes on a large scale would be the substitution of a lower for a higher action. Integral Yoga and Kundalini Yoga: There is a feeling of waves surging up, mounting to the head, which brings an outer unconsciousness and an inner waking. It is the ascending of the lower consciousness in the ādhāra to meet the greater consciousness above. It is a movement analogous to that on which so much stress is laid in the Tantric process, the awakening of the Kundalini, the Energy coiled up and latent in the body and its mounting through the spinal cord and the centres (cakras) and the Brahmarandhra to meet the Divine above. In our yoga it is not a specialised process, but a spontaneous upnish of the whole lower consciousness sometimes in currents or waves, sometimes in a less concrete motion, and on the other side a descent of the Divine Consciousness and its Force into the body.
Integral Yoga and other Yogas ::: The old yogas reach Sachchidananda through the spiritualised mind and depart into the eternally static oneness of Sachchidananda or rather pure Sat (Existence), absolute and eternal or else a pure Non-exist- ence, absolute and eternal. Ours having realised Sachchidananda in the spiritualised mind plane proceeds to realise it in the Supramcntal plane.
The suprcfhe supra-cosmic Sachchidananda is above all. Supermind may be described as its power of self-awareness and W’orld- awareness, the world being known as within itself and not out- side. So to live consciously in the supreme Sachchidananda one must pass through the Supermind.
Distinction ::: The realisation of Self and of the Cosmic being (without which the realisation of the Self is incomplete) are essential steps in our yoga ; it is the end of other yogas, but it is, as it were, the beginning of outs, that is to say, the point where its own characteristic realisation can commence.
It is new as compared with the old yogas (1) Because it aims not at a departure out of world and life into Heaven and Nir- vana, but at a change of life and existence, not as something subordinate or incidental, but as a distinct and central object.
If there is a descent in other yogas, yet it is only an incident on the way or resulting from the ascent — the ascent is the real thing. Here the ascent is the first step, but it is a means for the descent. It is the descent of the new coosdousness attain- ed by the ascent that is the stamp and seal of the sadhana. Even the Tantra and Vaishnavism end in the release from life ; here the object is the divine fulfilment of life.
(2) Because the object sought after is not an individual achievement of divine realisation for the sake of the individual, but something to be gained for the earth-consciousness here, a cosmic, not solely a supra-cosmic acbievement. The thing to be gained also is the bringing of a Power of consciousness (the Supramental) not yet organised or active directly in earth-nature, even in the spiritual life, but yet to be organised and made directly active.
(3) Because a method has been preconized for achieving this purpose which is as total and integral as the aim set before it, viz., the total and integral change of the consciousness and nature, taking up old methods, but only as a part action and present aid to others that are distinctive.
Integral Yoga and Patanjali Yoga ::: Cilia is the stuff of mixed mental-vital-physical consciousness out of which arise the movements of thought, emotion, sensation, impulse etc.
It is these that in the Patanjali system have to be stilled altogether so that the consciousness may be immobile and go into Samadhi.
Our yoga has a different function. The movements of the ordinary consciousness have to be quieted and into the quietude there has to be brought down a higher consciousness and its powers which will transform the nature.
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In the Ethics these basic principles are applied to the solution of the question of human good. The good for man is an actualization, or active exercise, of those faculties distinctive of man, that is the faculties of the rational, as distinct from the vegetative and sensitive souls. But human excellence thus defined shows itself in two forms, In the habitual subordination of sensitive and appetitive tendencies to rational rule and principle, and in the exercise of reason in the search for and contemplation of truth. The former type of excellence is expressed in the moral virtues, the latter in the dianoetic or intellectual virtues. A memorable feature of Aristotle's treatment of the moral virtues is his theory that each of them may be regarded as a mean between excess and defect; courage, for example, is a mean between cowardice and rashness, liberality a mean between stinginess and prodigality. In the Politics Aristotle sets forth the importance of the political community as the source and sustainer of the typically human life. But for Aristotle the highest good for man is found not in the political life, nor in any other form of practical activity, but in theoretical inquiry and contemplation of truth. This alone brings complete and continuous happiness, because it is the activity of the highest part of man's complex nature, and of that part which is least dependent upon externals, viz. the intuitive reason, or nous. In the contemplation of the first principles of knowledge and being man participates in that activity of pure thought which constitutes the eternal perfection of the divine nature.
intrepid ::: a. --> Not trembling or shaking with fear; fearless; bold; brave; undaunted; courageous; as, an intrepid soldier; intrepid spirit.
intrepidity ::: n. --> The quality or state of being intrepid; fearless bravery; courage; resoluteness; valor.
intrepidly ::: adv. --> In an intrepid manner; courageously; resolutely.
invite ::: 1. To attract, allure, entice, or tempt. 2. Fig. To bring on or call forth (something) or encourage (it) to come. inviting.
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It is only the ordinaiy vital emotions which waste the energy and disturb the concentration and peace that have to be dis- couraged. Emotion itself is not a bad thing ; it is a necessary part of nature and psychic emoiion is one of the most powerful helps to the sadhana. Psychic emotion, bringing tears of love for the Divine or tears of Ananda, ought not to be suppressed ::: it is only a vital mixture that brings disturbance in the sadhana.
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.
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol "protocol" (LDAP) A {protocol} for accessing on-line {directory services}. LDAP was defined by the {IETF} in order to encourage adoption of {X.500} directories. The {Directory Access Protocol} (DAP) was seen as too complex for simple {internet clients} to use. LDAP defines a relatively simple protocol for updating and searching directories running over {TCP/IP}. LDAP is gaining support from vendors such as {Netscape}, {Novell}, {Sun}, {HP}, {IBM}/Lotus, {SGI}, {AT&T}, and {Banyan} An LDAP directory entry is a collection of attributes with a name, called a distinguished name (DN). The DN refers to the entry unambiguously. Each of the entry's attributes has a {type} and one or more values. The types are typically mnemonic strings, like "cn" for common name, or "mail" for {e-mail address}. The values depend on the type. For example, a mail attribute might contain the value "donald.duck@disney.com". A jpegPhoto attribute would contain a photograph in binary {JPEG}/{JFIF} format. LDAP directory entries are arranged in a {hierarchical} structure that reflects political, geographic, and/or organisational boundaries. Entries representing countries appear at the top of the tree. Below them are entries representing states or national organisations. Below them might be entries representing people, organisational units, printers, documents, or just about anything else. {RFC 1777}, {RFC 1778}, {RFC 1959}, {RFC 1960}, {RFC 1823}. {LDAP v3 (http://kingsmountain.com/LDAPRoadmap/CurrentState.html)}. [Difference v1, v2, v3?] (2003-09-27)
lines of code "programming, unit" (LOC) A common measure of the size or progress of a programming project. For example, one can describe a completed project as consisting of 100,000 LOC; or one can characterise a week's progress as 5000 LOC. Using LOC as a metric of progress encourages programmers to {reinvent the wheel} or split their code into lots of short lines. (2001-05-28)
Lion In Christian mystical thought one of the four sacred animals of the Bible, associated with the evangelist Mark and, as in the mystical thought of other peoples, representing intense energy, sometimes undaunted courage, and occasionally the solar fire. The lion was a favorite symbol with the ancients, for instance with the Chaldeans, and as a leitmotif of Chaldean art is found extensively. It is also found frequently on Gnostic gems and as emblem and as symbol among the ancient Mithraists, where the lion was one of the stages of instruction and initiation.
LION, indicates force and courage, and strength and power.
Lion ::: Vital force, strength, courage and power.
low-spirited ::: a. --> Deficient in animation and courage; dejected; depressed; not sprightly.
macdink /mak'dink/ To make many incremental and unnecessary cosmetic changes to a program or file. Often the subject of the macdinking would be better off without them. The {Macintosh} is said to encourage such behaviour. See also {fritterware}, {window shopping}. [{Jargon File}] (1994-11-22)
macro A name (possibly followed by a {formal argument} list) that is equated to a text or symbolic expression to which it is to be expanded (possibly with the substitution of {actual arguments}) by a macro expander. The term "macro" originated in early {assemblers}, which encouraged the use of macros as a structuring and information-hiding device. During the early 1970s, macro assemblers became ubiquitous, and sometimes quite as powerful and expensive as {HLLs}, only to fall from favour as improving {compiler} technology marginalised {assembly language} programming (see {languages of choice}). Nowadays the term is most often used in connection with the {C preprocessor}, {Lisp}, or one of several special-purpose languages built around a macro-expansion facility (such as {TeX} or {Unix}'s {troff} suite). Indeed, the meaning has drifted enough that the collective "macros" is now sometimes used for code in any special-purpose application control language (whether or not the language is actually translated by text expansion), and for macro-like entities such as the "keyboard macros" supported in some text editors (and {PC} {TSRs} or {Macintosh} INIT/CDEV keyboard enhancers). (1994-12-06)
magnanimous ::: a. --> Great of mind; elevated in soul or in sentiment; raised above what is low, mean, or ungenerous; of lofty and courageous spirit; as, a magnanimous character; a magnanimous conqueror.
Dictated by or exhibiting nobleness of soul; honorable; noble; not selfish.
male-spirited ::: a. --> Having the spirit of a male; vigorous; courageous.
Manduka Yoga (Sanskrit) Maṇḍūka-yoga [from maṇḍūka frog] A “particular kind of abstract meditation in which an ascetic sits motionless like a frog” (Monier-Williams). However, all true yoga practice involves complete mental abstraction from exterior concerns and the outer environment, so that all yogis, while practicing yoga sit motionless “like a frog.” It is not a particularly high kind of yoga, in any case, for true spiritual yoga is the yoga of the inner man, implying intense intellectual and spiritual concentration on affairs and subjects of spiritual character, and need not necessarily involve any sitting in yoga whatsoever. The true disciple may be doing his master’s business and going about in pursuit of his duties from day to day, and yet be practicing this spiritual yoga without a moment’s intermission. All forms of yoga practice which involve postures, sittings or similar things in which the physical body is active or inactive, technically belong to one of the various kinds of hatha yoga and are to be discouraged.
manful ::: a. --> Showing manliness, or manly spirit; hence, brave, courageous, resolute, noble.
manhood ::: n. --> The state of being man as a human being, or man as distinguished from a child or a woman.
Manly quality; courage; bravery; resolution.
manly ::: superl. --> Having qualities becoming to a man; not childish or womanish; manlike, esp. brave, courageous, resolute, noble. ::: adv. --> In a manly manner; with the courage and fortitude of a manly man; as, to act manly.
marcian ::: a. --> Under the influence of Mars; courageous; bold.
mastiff ::: n. --> A breed of large dogs noted for strength and courage. There are various strains, differing in form and color, and characteristic of different countries.
MECHANICAL REPETITION. ::: The principle of mechani- cal repetition is very strong in the material nature, so strong that it makes one easily think that it is incurable. That, however, is only a trick of the forces of (his material inconscicnce ; it is fay creating this impression that they try to endure. If on the contrary, you remain firm, refuse to be depressed or discouraged and, even in the moment of attack, a^irm the certainty of cventuar victory, the victory itself will come much more easily and sooner.
Medical treatment is sometimes a necessity. If one can cure by the Force it is the best ; but if for some reason the body is not able to respond to the Force (e.g. owing to doubt, lassitude or discouragement or for inability to react against the disease), then the aid of medical treatment becomes necessary. It is not that the Force ceases to act and leaves all to the medicines, — it will continue to act through the consciousness but take the support of the Irealntent so as to act directly on the resistance in the body, which responds more readily to physical means in its ordinary consciousness. ‘
metecorn ::: n. --> A quantity of corn formerly given by the lord to his customary tenants, as an encouragement to, or reward for, labor and faithful service.
mettle ::: n. --> Substance or quality of temperament; spirit, esp. as regards honor, courage, fortitude, ardor, etc.; disposition; -- usually in a good sense.
mighty ::: n. --> Possessing might; having great power or authority.
Accomplished by might; hence, extraordinary; wonderful.
Denoting and extraordinary degree or quality in respect of size, character, importance, consequences, etc.
A warrior of great force and courage. ::: adv.
misgive ::: v. t. --> To give or grant amiss.
Specifically: To give doubt and apprehension to, instead of confidence and courage; to impart fear to; to make irresolute; -- usually said of the mind or heart, and followed by the objective personal pronoun.
To suspect; to dread. ::: v. i.
moxie ::: n. --> energy; pep.
courage, determination.
Know-how, expertise.
Multimedia Personal Computer "multimedia" (MPC) A specification published by the Multimedia PC Marketing Council in 1990 to encourage the adoption of a standard {multimedia} computing platform. In May 1993, the MPC Marketing Council published a new specification called {MPC Level 2 Specification} as an enhanced multimedia computer standard. The original MPC specification, now also known as the {MPC Level 1 Specification}, continues in full effect. The appearance of the MPC or MPC2 certification mark on a computer system or upgrade kit indicates that the {hardware} meets the corresponding (Level 1 or Level 2) MPC Marketing Council specification. Software bearing the Multimedia PC mark has been designed to work on Multimedia PC licensed hardware. By establishing a standard platform, certifying hardware compliance and providing inter-operability between software and hardware for the consumer, the MPC Marketing Council is encouraging widespread use of multimedia applications and hardware. (1997-01-19)
nerveless ::: a. --> Destitute of nerves.
Destitute of strength or of courage; wanting vigor; weak; powerless.
nerve ::: n. --> One of the whitish and elastic bundles of fibers, with the accompanying tissues, which transmit nervous impulses between nerve centers and various parts of the animal body.
A sinew or a tendon.
Physical force or steadiness; muscular power and control; constitutional vigor.
Steadiness and firmness of mind; self-command in personal danger, or under suffering; unshaken courage and endurance; coolness;
nourish ::: v. t. --> To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment.
To support; to maintain.
To supply the means of support and increase to; to encourage; to foster; as, to nourish rebellion; to nourish the virtues.
To cherish; to comfort.
To educate; to instruct; to bring up; to nurture; to
nurser ::: n. --> One who nurses; a nurse; one who cherishes or encourages growth.
One who is distinguished by exceptional courage, nobility, fortitude, etc. 2. A person noted for feats of courage or nobility of purpose, especially one who has risked or sacrificed his or her life (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as an adj.) hero’s, heroes.
ooze ::: n. --> Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure.
Soft flow; spring.
The liquor of a tan vat.
To flow gently; to percolate, as a liquid through the pores of a substance or through small openings.
Fig.: To leak (out) or escape slowly; as, the secret oozed out; his courage oozed out.
open source "philosophy, legal" A method and philosophy for software licensing and distribution designed to encourage use and improvement of software written by volunteers by ensuring that anyone can copy the {source code} and modify it freely. The term "open source" is now more widely used than the earlier term "{free software}" (promoted by the {Free Software Foundation}) but has broadly the same meaning - free of distribution restrictions, not necessarily free of charge. There are various {open source licenses} available. Programmers can choose an appropriate license to use when distributing their programs. The {Open Source Initiative} promotes the {Open Source Definition}. {The Cathedral and the Bazaar (http://tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar.html)}. was a seminal paper describing the open source phenomenon. {Open Sources - O'Reilly book with full text online (http://oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/perens.html)}. {Articles from ZDNet (http://zdnet.com/pcmag/features/opensource/)}. (1999-12-29)
outbrave ::: v. t. --> To excel in bravery o/ in insolence; to defy with superior courage or audacity
To excel in magnificence or comeliness.
outdare ::: v. t. --> To surpass in daring; to overcome by courage; to brave.
outlaugh ::: v. t. --> To surpass or outdo in laughing.
To laugh (one) out of a purpose, principle, etc.; to discourage or discomfit by laughing; to laugh down.
Parkinson's Law of Data "Data expands to fill the space available for storage"; buying more memory encourages the use of more memory-intensive techniques. It has been observed over the last 10 years that the memory usage of evolving systems tends to double roughly once every 18 months. Fortunately, memory density available for constant dollars also tends to double about once every 12 months (see {Moore's Law}); unfortunately, the laws of physics guarantee that the latter cannot continue indefinitely. [{Jargon File}]
patronage ::: n. --> Special countenance or support; favor, encouragement, or aid, afforded to a person or a work; as, the patronage of letters; patronage given to an author.
Business custom.
Guardianship, as of a saint; tutelary care.
The right of nomination to political office; also, the offices, contracts, honors, etc., which a public officer may bestow by favor.
patron ::: n. --> One who protects, supports, or countenances; a defender.
A master who had freed his slave, but still retained some paternal rights over him.
A man of distinction under whose protection another person placed himself.
An advocate or pleader.
One who encourages or helps a person, a cause, or a work; a furtherer; a promoter; as, a patron of art.
PEEK The command in most {microcomputer} {BASICs} for reading memory contents (a byte) at an absolute address. POKE is the corresponding command to write a value to an absolute address. This is often extended to mean the corresponding constructs in any {High Level Language}. Much hacking on small {microcomputers} without {MMUs} consists of "peek"ing around memory, more or less at random, to find the location where the system keeps interesting stuff. Long (and variably accurate) lists of such addresses for various computers circulate (see {interrupt list}). The results of "poke"s at these addresses may be highly useful, mildly amusing, useless but neat, or total {lossage} (see {killer poke}). Since a {real operating system} provides useful, higher-level services for the tasks commonly performed with peeks and pokes on micros, and real languages tend not to encourage low-level memory groveling, a question like "How do I do a peek in C?" is diagnostic of the {newbie}. Of course, {operating system} {kernels} often have to do exactly this; a real {C} hacker would unhesitatingly, if unportably, assign an absolute address to a pointer variable and indirect through it. [{Jargon File}] (1995-01-31)
pencil and paper An archaic information storage and transmission device that works by depositing smears of graphite on bleached wood pulp. More recent developments in paper-based technology include improved "write-once" update devices which use tiny rolling heads similar to mouse balls to deposit coloured pigment. All these devices require an operator skilled at so-called "handwriting" technique. These technologies are ubiquitous outside hackerdom, but nearly forgotten inside it. Most hackers had terrible handwriting to begin with, and years of keyboarding tend to have encouraged it to degrade further. Perhaps for this reason, hackers deprecate pencil-and-paper technology and often resist using it in any but the most trivial contexts. [{Jargon File}] (1994-12-06)
persevered ::: persisted in or remained constant to a purpose, idea, or task in the face of obstacles or discouragement.
persevere ::: v. i. --> To persist in any business or enterprise undertaken; to pursue steadily any project or course begun; to maintain a purpose in spite of counter influences, opposition, or discouragement; not to give or abandon what is undertaken.
Personal Computer Memory Card International Association "body, hardware, standard" (PCMCIA, or "PC Card") An international trade association and the {standards} they have developed for devicies, such as {modems} and external {hard disk} drives, that can be plugged into {notebook computers}. A PCMCIA card is about the size of a credit card. For some unfathomable reason, around 1995(?) they decided to rename PCMCIA cards "PC Cards", perhaps to encourage sales to confused purchasers. {(ftp://ftp.sidewinder.com/pub/Portables/PCMCIA)}. Address: PCMCIA Administration, 1030 East Duane Avenue, Suite G, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 USA. Telephone: +1 (408) 720 0107. Fax: +1 (408) 720 9416. BBS: +1 (408) 720 9388. (1996-10-16)
Platonism as a political philosophy finds its best known exposition in the theory of the ideal state in the Republic. There, Plato described a city in which social justice would be fully realized. Three classes of men are distinguished: the philosopher kings, apparently a very small group whose education has been alluded to above, who would be the rulers because by nature and by training they were the best men for the job. They must excel particularly in their rational abilities: their special virtue is philosophic wisdom; the soldiers, or guardians of the state, constitute the second class; their souls must be remarkable for the development of the spirited, warlike element, under the control of the virtue of courage; the lowest class is made up of the acquisitive group, the workers of every sort whose characteristic virtue is temperance. For the two upper classes, Plato suggested a form of community life which would entail the abolition of monogamous marriage, family life, and of private property. It is to be noted that this form of semi-communism was suggested for a minority of the citizens only (Repub. III and V) and it is held to be a practical impossibility in the Laws (V, 739-40), though Plato continued to think that some form of community life is theoretically best for man. In Book VIII of the Republic, we find the famous classification of five types of political organization, ranging from aristocracy which is the rule of the best men, timocracy, in which the rulers are motivated by a love of honor, oligarchy, in which the rulers seek wealth, democracy, the rule of the masses who are unfit for the task, to tyranny, which is the rule of one man who may have started as the champion of the people but who governs solely for the advancement of his own, selfish interests.
Plato's theory of knowledge can hardly be discussed apart from his theory of reality. Through sense perception man comes to know the changeable world of bodies. This is the realm of opinion (doxa), such cognition may be more or less clear but it never rises to the level of true knowledge, for its objects are impermanent and do not provide a stable foundation for science. It is through intellectual, or rational, cognition that man discovers another world, that of immutable essences, intelligible realities, Forms or Ideas. This is the level of scientific knowledge (episteme); it is reached in mathematics and especially in philosophy (Repub. VI, 510). The world of intelligible Ideas contains the ultimate realities from which the world of sensible things has been patterned. Plato experienced much difficulty in regard to the sort of existence to be attributed to his Ideas. Obviously it is not the crude existence of physical things, nor can it be merely the mental existence of logical constructs. Interpretations have varied from the theory of the Christian Fathers (which was certainly not that of Plato himself) viz , that the Ideas are exemplary Causes in God's Mind, to the suggestion of Aristotle (Metaphysics, I) that they are realized, in a sense, in the world of individual things, but are apprehended only by the intellect The Ideas appear, however, particularly in the dialogues of the middle period, to be objective essences, independent of human minds, providing not only the foundation for the truth of human knowledge but afso the ontological bases for the shadowy things of the sense world. Within the world of Forms, there is a certain hierarchy. At the top, the most noble of all, is the Idea of the Good (Repub. VII), it dominates the other Ideas and they participate in it. Beauty, symmetry and truth are high-ranking Ideas; at times they are placed almost on a par with the Good (Philebus 65; also Sympos. and Phaedrus passim). There are, below, these, other Ideas, such as those of the major virtues (wisdom, temperance, courage, justice and piety) and mathematical terms and relations, such as equality, likeness, unlikeness and proportion. Each type or class of being is represented by its perfect Form in the sphere of Ideas, there is an ideal Form of man, dog, willow tree, of every kind of natural object and even of artificial things like beds (Repub. 596). The relationship of the "many" objects, belonging to a certain class of things in the sense world, to the "One", i.e. the single Idea which is their archetype, is another great source of difficulty to Plato. Three solutions, which are not mutually exclusive, are suggested in the dialogues (1) that the many participate imperfectly in the perfect nature of their Idea, (2) that the many are made in imitation of the One, and (3) that the many are composed of a mixture of the Limit (Idea) with the Unlimited (matter).
plucked ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Pluck ::: a. --> Having courage and spirit.
plucky ::: superl. --> Having pluck or courage; characterized by pluck; displaying pluck; courageous; spirited; as, a plucky race.
pot-valiant ::: a. --> Having the courage given by drink.
prelatize ::: v. t. --> To bring under the influence of prelacy. ::: v. i. --> To uphold or encourage prelacy; to exercise prelatical functions.
promoter ::: n. --> One who, or that which, forwards, advances, or promotes; an encourager; as, a promoter of charity or philosophy.
Specifically, one who sets on foot, and takes the preliminary steps in, a scheme for the organization of a corporation, a joint-stock company, or the like.
One who excites; as, a promoter of sedition.
An informer; a makebate.
promote ::: v. t. --> To contribute to the growth, enlargement, or prosperity of (any process or thing that is in course); to forward; to further; to encourage; to advance; to excite; as, to promote learning; to promote disorder; to promote a business venture.
To exalt in station, rank, or honor; to elevate; to raise; to prefer; to advance; as, to promote an officer. ::: v. i.
promotive ::: a. --> Tending to advance, promote, or encourage.
promottion ::: n. --> The act of promoting, advancing, or encouraging; the act of exalting in rank or honor; also, the condition of being advanced, encouraged, or exalted in honor; preferment.
prow ::: n. --> The fore part of a vessel; the bow; the stem; hence, the vessel itself.
See Proa. ::: superl. --> Valiant; brave; gallant; courageous.
pusillanimous ::: a. --> Destitute of a manly or courageous strength and firmness of mind; of weak spirit; mean-spirited; spiritless; cowardly; -- said of persons, as, a pussillanimous prince.
Evincing, or characterized by, weakness of mind, and want of courage; feeble; as, pusillanimous counsels.
Queen Mary and Westfield College (QMW) One of the largest of the multi-faculty schools of the {University of London}. QMW has some 6000 students and over 600 teaching and research staff organised into seven faculties. QMW was one of the first colleges in the University of London to develop fully the course-unit, or modular, approach to degree programmes. Cross faculty courses are encouraged and the physical proximity of all the College buildings is a major factor in enabling students to adopt an interdisciplinary approach to their studies. {(http://qmw.ac.uk/)}. (1995-01-25)
questmonger ::: n. --> One who lays informations, and encourages petty lawsuits.
Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal "humour" Back in the good old days - the "Golden Era" of computers, it was easy to separate the men from the boys (sometimes called "Real Men" and "Quiche Eaters" in the literature). During this period, the Real Men were the ones that understood computer programming, and the Quiche Eaters were the ones that didn't. A real computer programmer said things like "DO 10 I=1,10" and "ABEND" (they actually talked in capital letters, you understand), and the rest of the world said things like "computers are too complicated for me" and "I can't relate to computers - they're so impersonal". (A previous work [1] points out that Real Men don't "relate" to anything, and aren't afraid of being impersonal.) But, as usual, times change. We are faced today with a world in which little old ladies can get computers in their microwave ovens, 12-year-old kids can blow Real Men out of the water playing Asteroids and Pac-Man, and anyone can buy and even understand their very own Personal Computer. The Real Programmer is in danger of becoming extinct, of being replaced by high-school students with {TRASH-80s}. There is a clear need to point out the differences between the typical high-school junior Pac-Man player and a Real Programmer. If this difference is made clear, it will give these kids something to aspire to -- a role model, a Father Figure. It will also help explain to the employers of Real Programmers why it would be a mistake to replace the Real Programmers on their staff with 12-year-old Pac-Man players (at a considerable salary savings). LANGUAGES The easiest way to tell a Real Programmer from the crowd is by the programming language he (or she) uses. Real Programmers use {Fortran}. Quiche Eaters use {Pascal}. Nicklaus Wirth, the designer of Pascal, gave a talk once at which he was asked how to pronounce his name. He replied, "You can either call me by name, pronouncing it 'Veert', or call me by value, 'Worth'." One can tell immediately from this comment that Nicklaus Wirth is a Quiche Eater. The only parameter passing mechanism endorsed by Real Programmers is call-by-value-return, as implemented in the {IBM 370} {Fortran-G} and H compilers. Real programmers don't need all these abstract concepts to get their jobs done - they are perfectly happy with a {keypunch}, a {Fortran IV} {compiler}, and a beer. Real Programmers do List Processing in Fortran. Real Programmers do String Manipulation in Fortran. Real Programmers do Accounting (if they do it at all) in Fortran. Real Programmers do {Artificial Intelligence} programs in Fortran. If you can't do it in Fortran, do it in {assembly language}. If you can't do it in assembly language, it isn't worth doing. STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING The academics in computer science have gotten into the "structured programming" rut over the past several years. They claim that programs are more easily understood if the programmer uses some special language constructs and techniques. They don't all agree on exactly which constructs, of course, and the examples they use to show their particular point of view invariably fit on a single page of some obscure journal or another - clearly not enough of an example to convince anyone. When I got out of school, I thought I was the best programmer in the world. I could write an unbeatable tic-tac-toe program, use five different computer languages, and create 1000-line programs that WORKED. (Really!) Then I got out into the Real World. My first task in the Real World was to read and understand a 200,000-line Fortran program, then speed it up by a factor of two. Any Real Programmer will tell you that all the Structured Coding in the world won't help you solve a problem like that - it takes actual talent. Some quick observations on Real Programmers and Structured Programming: Real Programmers aren't afraid to use {GOTOs}. Real Programmers can write five-page-long DO loops without getting confused. Real Programmers like Arithmetic IF statements - they make the code more interesting. Real Programmers write self-modifying code, especially if they can save 20 {nanoseconds} in the middle of a tight loop. Real Programmers don't need comments - the code is obvious. Since Fortran doesn't have a structured IF, REPEAT ... UNTIL, or CASE statement, Real Programmers don't have to worry about not using them. Besides, they can be simulated when necessary using {assigned GOTOs}. Data Structures have also gotten a lot of press lately. Abstract Data Types, Structures, Pointers, Lists, and Strings have become popular in certain circles. Wirth (the above-mentioned Quiche Eater) actually wrote an entire book [2] contending that you could write a program based on data structures, instead of the other way around. As all Real Programmers know, the only useful data structure is the Array. Strings, lists, structures, sets - these are all special cases of arrays and can be treated that way just as easily without messing up your programing language with all sorts of complications. The worst thing about fancy data types is that you have to declare them, and Real Programming Languages, as we all know, have implicit typing based on the first letter of the (six character) variable name. OPERATING SYSTEMS What kind of operating system is used by a Real Programmer? CP/M? God forbid - CP/M, after all, is basically a toy operating system. Even little old ladies and grade school students can understand and use CP/M. Unix is a lot more complicated of course - the typical Unix hacker never can remember what the PRINT command is called this week - but when it gets right down to it, Unix is a glorified video game. People don't do Serious Work on Unix systems: they send jokes around the world on {UUCP}-net and write adventure games and research papers. No, your Real Programmer uses OS 370. A good programmer can find and understand the description of the IJK305I error he just got in his JCL manual. A great programmer can write JCL without referring to the manual at all. A truly outstanding programmer can find bugs buried in a 6 megabyte {core dump} without using a hex calculator. (I have actually seen this done.) OS is a truly remarkable operating system. It's possible to destroy days of work with a single misplaced space, so alertness in the programming staff is encouraged. The best way to approach the system is through a keypunch. Some people claim there is a Time Sharing system that runs on OS 370, but after careful study I have come to the conclusion that they were mistaken. PROGRAMMING TOOLS What kind of tools does a Real Programmer use? In theory, a Real Programmer could run his programs by keying them into the front panel of the computer. Back in the days when computers had front panels, this was actually done occasionally. Your typical Real Programmer knew the entire bootstrap loader by memory in hex, and toggled it in whenever it got destroyed by his program. (Back then, memory was memory - it didn't go away when the power went off. Today, memory either forgets things when you don't want it to, or remembers things long after they're better forgotten.) Legend has it that {Seymore Cray}, inventor of the Cray I supercomputer and most of Control Data's computers, actually toggled the first operating system for the CDC7600 in on the front panel from memory when it was first powered on. Seymore, needless to say, is a Real Programmer. One of my favorite Real Programmers was a systems programmer for Texas Instruments. One day he got a long distance call from a user whose system had crashed in the middle of saving some important work. Jim was able to repair the damage over the phone, getting the user to toggle in disk I/O instructions at the front panel, repairing system tables in hex, reading register contents back over the phone. The moral of this story: while a Real Programmer usually includes a keypunch and lineprinter in his toolkit, he can get along with just a front panel and a telephone in emergencies. In some companies, text editing no longer consists of ten engineers standing in line to use an 029 keypunch. In fact, the building I work in doesn't contain a single keypunch. The Real Programmer in this situation has to do his work with a "text editor" program. Most systems supply several text editors to select from, and the Real Programmer must be careful to pick one that reflects his personal style. Many people believe that the best text editors in the world were written at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center for use on their Alto and Dorado computers [3]. Unfortunately, no Real Programmer would ever use a computer whose operating system is called SmallTalk, and would certainly not talk to the computer with a mouse. Some of the concepts in these Xerox editors have been incorporated into editors running on more reasonably named operating systems - {Emacs} and {VI} being two. The problem with these editors is that Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor - complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. TECO, to be precise. It has been observed that a TECO command sequence more closely resembles transmission line noise than readable text [4]. One of the more entertaining games to play with TECO is to type your name in as a command line and try to guess what it does. Just about any possible typing error while talking with TECO will probably destroy your program, or even worse - introduce subtle and mysterious bugs in a once working subroutine. For this reason, Real Programmers are reluctant to actually edit a program that is close to working. They find it much easier to just patch the binary {object code} directly, using a wonderful program called SUPERZAP (or its equivalent on non-IBM machines). This works so well that many working programs on IBM systems bear no relation to the original Fortran code. In many cases, the original source code is no longer available. When it comes time to fix a program like this, no manager would even think of sending anything less than a Real Programmer to do the job - no Quiche Eating structured programmer would even know where to start. This is called "job security". Some programming tools NOT used by Real Programmers: Fortran preprocessors like {MORTRAN} and {RATFOR}. The Cuisinarts of programming - great for making Quiche. See comments above on structured programming. Source language debuggers. Real Programmers can read core dumps. Compilers with array bounds checking. They stifle creativity, destroy most of the interesting uses for EQUIVALENCE, and make it impossible to modify the operating system code with negative subscripts. Worst of all, bounds checking is inefficient. Source code maintenance systems. A Real Programmer keeps his code locked up in a card file, because it implies that its owner cannot leave his important programs unguarded [5]. THE REAL PROGRAMMER AT WORK Where does the typical Real Programmer work? What kind of programs are worthy of the efforts of so talented an individual? You can be sure that no Real Programmer would be caught dead writing accounts-receivable programs in {COBOL}, or sorting {mailing lists} for People magazine. A Real Programmer wants tasks of earth-shaking importance (literally!). Real Programmers work for Los Alamos National Laboratory, writing atomic bomb simulations to run on Cray I supercomputers. Real Programmers work for the National Security Agency, decoding Russian transmissions. It was largely due to the efforts of thousands of Real Programmers working for NASA that our boys got to the moon and back before the Russkies. Real Programmers are at work for Boeing designing the operating systems for cruise missiles. Some of the most awesome Real Programmers of all work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Many of them know the entire operating system of the Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft by heart. With a combination of large ground-based Fortran programs and small spacecraft-based assembly language programs, they are able to do incredible feats of navigation and improvisation - hitting ten-kilometer wide windows at Saturn after six years in space, repairing or bypassing damaged sensor platforms, radios, and batteries. Allegedly, one Real Programmer managed to tuck a pattern-matching program into a few hundred bytes of unused memory in a Voyager spacecraft that searched for, located, and photographed a new moon of Jupiter. The current plan for the Galileo spacecraft is to use a gravity assist trajectory past Mars on the way to Jupiter. This trajectory passes within 80 +/-3 kilometers of the surface of Mars. Nobody is going to trust a Pascal program (or a Pascal programmer) for navigation to these tolerances. As you can tell, many of the world's Real Programmers work for the U.S. Government - mainly the Defense Department. This is as it should be. Recently, however, a black cloud has formed on the Real Programmer horizon. It seems that some highly placed Quiche Eaters at the Defense Department decided that all Defense programs should be written in some grand unified language called "ADA" ((C), DoD). For a while, it seemed that ADA was destined to become a language that went against all the precepts of Real Programming - a language with structure, a language with data types, {strong typing}, and semicolons. In short, a language designed to cripple the creativity of the typical Real Programmer. Fortunately, the language adopted by DoD has enough interesting features to make it approachable -- it's incredibly complex, includes methods for messing with the operating system and rearranging memory, and Edsgar Dijkstra doesn't like it [6]. (Dijkstra, as I'm sure you know, was the author of "GoTos Considered Harmful" - a landmark work in programming methodology, applauded by Pascal programmers and Quiche Eaters alike.) Besides, the determined Real Programmer can write Fortran programs in any language. The Real Programmer might compromise his principles and work on something slightly more trivial than the destruction of life as we know it, providing there's enough money in it. There are several Real Programmers building video games at Atari, for example. (But not playing them - a Real Programmer knows how to beat the machine every time: no challenge in that.) Everyone working at LucasFilm is a Real Programmer. (It would be crazy to turn down the money of fifty million Star Trek fans.) The proportion of Real Programmers in Computer Graphics is somewhat lower than the norm, mostly because nobody has found a use for computer graphics yet. On the other hand, all computer graphics is done in Fortran, so there are a fair number of people doing graphics in order to avoid having to write COBOL programs. THE REAL PROGRAMMER AT PLAY Generally, the Real Programmer plays the same way he works - with computers. He is constantly amazed that his employer actually pays him to do what he would be doing for fun anyway (although he is careful not to express this opinion out loud). Occasionally, the Real Programmer does step out of the office for a breath of fresh air and a beer or two. Some tips on recognizing Real Programmers away from the computer room: At a party, the Real Programmers are the ones in the corner talking about operating system security and how to get around it. At a football game, the Real Programmer is the one comparing the plays against his simulations printed on 11 by 14 fanfold paper. At the beach, the Real Programmer is the one drawing flowcharts in the sand. At a funeral, the Real Programmer is the one saying "Poor George, he almost had the sort routine working before the coronary." In a grocery store, the Real Programmer is the one who insists on running the cans past the laser checkout scanner himself, because he never could trust keypunch operators to get it right the first time. THE REAL PROGRAMMER'S NATURAL HABITAT What sort of environment does the Real Programmer function best in? This is an important question for the managers of Real Programmers. Considering the amount of money it costs to keep one on the staff, it's best to put him (or her) in an environment where he can get his work done. The typical Real Programmer lives in front of a computer terminal. Surrounding this terminal are: Listings of all programs the Real Programmer has ever worked on, piled in roughly chronological order on every flat surface in the office. Some half-dozen or so partly filled cups of cold coffee. Occasionally, there will be cigarette butts floating in the coffee. In some cases, the cups will contain Orange Crush. Unless he is very good, there will be copies of the OS JCL manual and the Principles of Operation open to some particularly interesting pages. Taped to the wall is a line-printer Snoopy calendar for the year 1969. Strewn about the floor are several wrappers for peanut butter filled cheese bars - the type that are made pre-stale at the bakery so they can't get any worse while waiting in the vending machine. Hiding in the top left-hand drawer of the desk is a stash of double-stuff Oreos for special occasions. Underneath the Oreos is a flowcharting template, left there by the previous occupant of the office. (Real Programmers write programs, not documentation. Leave that to the maintenance people.) The Real Programmer is capable of working 30, 40, even 50 hours at a stretch, under intense pressure. In fact, he prefers it that way. Bad response time doesn't bother the Real Programmer - it gives him a chance to catch a little sleep between compiles. If there is not enough schedule pressure on the Real Programmer, he tends to make things more challenging by working on some small but interesting part of the problem for the first nine weeks, then finishing the rest in the last week, in two or three 50-hour marathons. This not only impresses the hell out of his manager, who was despairing of ever getting the project done on time, but creates a convenient excuse for not doing the documentation. In general: No Real Programmer works 9 to 5 (unless it's the ones at night). Real Programmers don't wear neckties. Real Programmers don't wear high-heeled shoes. Real Programmers arrive at work in time for lunch [9]. A Real Programmer might or might not know his wife's name. He does, however, know the entire {ASCII} (or EBCDIC) code table. Real Programmers don't know how to cook. Grocery stores aren't open at three in the morning. Real Programmers survive on Twinkies and coffee. THE FUTURE What of the future? It is a matter of some concern to Real Programmers that the latest generation of computer programmers are not being brought up with the same outlook on life as their elders. Many of them have never seen a computer with a front panel. Hardly anyone graduating from school these days can do hex arithmetic without a calculator. College graduates these days are soft - protected from the realities of programming by source level debuggers, text editors that count parentheses, and "user friendly" operating systems. Worst of all, some of these alleged "computer scientists" manage to get degrees without ever learning Fortran! Are we destined to become an industry of Unix hackers and Pascal programmers? From my experience, I can only report that the future is bright for Real Programmers everywhere. Neither OS 370 nor Fortran show any signs of dying out, despite all the efforts of Pascal programmers the world over. Even more subtle tricks, like adding structured coding constructs to Fortran have failed. Oh sure, some computer vendors have come out with Fortran 77 compilers, but every one of them has a way of converting itself back into a Fortran 66 compiler at the drop of an option card - to compile DO loops like God meant them to be. Even Unix might not be as bad on Real Programmers as it once was. The latest release of Unix has the potential of an operating system worthy of any Real Programmer - two different and subtly incompatible user interfaces, an arcane and complicated teletype driver, virtual memory. If you ignore the fact that it's "structured", even 'C' programming can be appreciated by the Real Programmer: after all, there's no type checking, variable names are seven (ten? eight?) characters long, and the added bonus of the Pointer data type is thrown in - like having the best parts of Fortran and assembly language in one place. (Not to mention some of the more creative uses for
reanimate ::: v. t. --> To animate anew; to restore to animation or life; to infuse new life, vigor, spirit, or courage into; to revive; to reinvigorate; as, to reanimate a drowned person; to reanimate disheartened troops; to reanimate languid spirits.
Rechaka(Recaka, Sanskrit) ::: One of the practices used in the hatha yoga system for the regulation of the breath.The breath is expelled or expired from one of the nostrils while the other nostril is held closed with thefinger, and then the operation isrepeated with the other nostril. These operations, as observed under Kumbhaka, are extremely dangerousto health and mental balance, and cannot be encouraged. Indeed, they should be unequivocallydiscouraged.
reencourage ::: v. t. --> To encourage again.
Ritschlianism: A celebrated school of 19th century Christian thought inaugurated by Albrecht Ritschl (1822-89). This school argued for God upon the basis of what is called the religious value-judgment. Two kinds of judgments are said to characterize man's reaction to his world of experience: (1) dependent or concomitant, those dependent upon perceived facts, such as the natural sciences; (2) independent or religious those which affirm man's superior worth independent of the limitations of the finite world and man's dependence upon a superhuman order of reality, God. God is not reached by speculation, nor by the "evidences" in nature, nor by intuitions or mystic experience, nor by a rational a priori or intimate feeling. God is implied in the religious value judgment: "though he slay me will I trust him." That man needs God as a deliverer from his bonds is the assertion of the independent religious value-judgment; the consequences following this judgment of need and worth sustain him with courage and victory over every obstacl.e Ritschlianism is notable in the emphasis it placed upon the category of value, an emphasis which has grown stronger in contemporary theistic belief. -- V.F.
sahasam ::: active courage and daring; hardihood.
sahasa (sahasa; sahasam) ::: boldness, "active courage and daring sahasa which shrinks from no enterprise however difficult or perilous", an attribute of the ks.atriya.
sanction ::: n. 1. Authoritative permission or approval, as for an action. 2. Something that supports or encourages, gives approval to. v. 3. To authorize, approve or allow. sanctions, sanctioned, sanctioning.
Sather "language" /Say-ther/ (Named after the Sather Tower at {UCB}, as opposed to the Eiffel Tower). An interactive {object-oriented} language designed by Steve M. Omohundro at {ICSI} in 1991. Sather has simple {syntax}, similar to {Eiffel}, but it is non-proprietary and faster. Sather 0.2 was nearly a subset of Eiffel 2.0, but Sather 1.0 adds many distinctive features: parameterised {class}es, {multiple inheritance}, statically-checked {strong typing}, {garbage collection}. The compiler generates {C} as an {intermediate language}. There are versions for most {workstations}. Sather attempts to retain much of {Eiffel}'s theoretical cleanliness and simplicity while achieving the efficiency of {C++}. The compiler generates efficient and portable C code which is easily integrated with existing code. A variety of development tools including a debugger and {browser} based on {gdb} and a {GNU Emacs} development environment have also been written. There is also a {class library} with several hundred classes that implement a variety of basic data structures and numerical, geometric, connectionist, statistical, and graphical abstractions. The authors would like to encourage contributions to the library and hope to build a large collection of efficient, well-written, well-tested classes in a variety of areas of computer science. Sather runs on {Sun-4}, {HP9000}/300, {Decstation} 5000, {MIPS}, {Sony News} 3000, {Sequent}/{Dynix}, {SCO} {SysV}R3.2, {NeXT}, {Linux}. See also {dpSather}, {pSather}, {Sather-K}. {(ftp://ftp.icsi.berkeley.edu/pub/sather)}. E-mail: "sather-admin@icsi.berkeley.edu". Mailing list: sather-request@icsi.berkeley.edu. (1995-04-26)
saurya (shaurya; sauryam) ::: heroism, courage, might; an element of Mahakali bhava or Can.d.ibhava.
scourage ::: n. --> Refuse water after scouring.
self-mettle ::: n. --> Inborn mettle or courage; one&
snail mail "messaging" (Or "snailmail", "smail" from "US Mail" via "USnail"; "paper mail"). Bits of {dead tree} sent via the postal service as opposed to {electronic mail}. One's postal address is, correspondingly, a "snail (mail) address". There have even been parody USnail posters and stamps made. The variant "paper-net" is a hackish way of referring to the postal service, comparing it to a very slow, low-reliability {network}. {Sig blocks} sometimes include a "Paper-Net:" header just before the sender's postal address; common variants of this are "Papernet" and "P-Net". Note that the standard {netiquette} guidelines discourage this practice as a waste of bandwidth, since netters are quite unlikely to casually use postal addresses and if they really wanted your {snail mail} address they could always ask for it by e-mail. Compare {voice-net}, {sneakernet}, {P-mail}. (1995-01-31)
sneaking ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Sneak ::: a. --> Marked by cowardly concealment; deficient in openness and courage; underhand; mean; crouching.
Software in the Public Interest, Inc. "company" (SPI) A non-profit corporation which helps organisations develop and distribute {open hardware} and {open software}. SPI's goals are: * to create, form and establish an organization to formulate and provide software systems for use by the general public without charge; * to teach and train individuals regarding the use and application of such systems; * to hold classes, seminars and workshops concerning the proper use and application of computers and computer systems; * to endeavor to monitor and improve the quality of currently existing publicly available software; * to support, encourage and promote the creation and development of software available to the general public; * to provide information and education regarding the proper use of the Internet; * to organize, hold and conduct meetings, discussions and forums on contemporary issues concerning the use of computers and computer software; * to foster, promote and increase access to software systems available to the general public; * to solicit, collect and otherwise raise money and to expend such funds in furtherance of the goals and activities of the corporation; * to aid, assist, cooperate, co-sponsor and otherwise engage in concerted action with private, educational and governmental organisations and associations on all issues and matters concerning the use of computers and computer software and; * generally to endeavor to promote, foster and advance interest in computers and computer software by all available means and methods. SPI currently supports {Berlin}, {Debian}, {GNOME}, {LSB}, {Open Source}. {SPI Home (http://spi-inc.org/)}. (2002-04-14)
software theft "legal" Unauthorised duplication and/or use of computer {software}. This usually means unauthorised copying, either by individuals for use by themselves or their friends or by companies who then sell the illegal copies to users. Many kinds of {software protection} have been invented to try to reduce software theft but, with sufficient effort, it is always possible to bypass or "crack" the protection, and {software protection} is often annoying for legitimate users. Software theft in 1994 was estimated to have cost $15 billion in worldwide lost revenues to software publishers. It is an offence in the UK under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, which states that "The owner of the copyright has the exclusive right to copy the work." It is estimated that European software houses alone lose $6 billion per year through the unlawful copying and distribution of software, with much of this loss being through business users rather than "basement hackers". One Italian pirating operation employed over 100 staff and had a turnover of $10M. It is illegal to: 1. Copy or distribute software or its documentation without the permission or licence of the copyright owner. 2. Run purchased software on two or more computers simultaneously unless the licence specifically allows it. 3. Knowingly or unknowingly allow, encourage or pressure employees to make or use illegal copies sources within the organisation. 4. Infringe laws against unauthorised software copying because someone compels or requests it. 5. Loan software in order that a copy be made of it. When software is upgraded it is generally the case that the licence accompanying the new version revokes the old version. This means that it is illegal to run both the old and new versions as only the new version is licensed. Both individuals and companies may be convicted of piracy offences. Officers of a company are also liable to conviction if the offences were carried out by the company with their consent. On conviction, the guilty party can face imprisonment for up to two years (five in USA), an unlimited fine or both as well as being sued for copyright infringement (with no limit) by the copyright owner. Because copying software is easy, some think that it is less wrong than, say, stealing it from a shop. In fact, both deprive software producers of income. Software theft should be reported to the {Federation Against Software Theft} (FAST). See also {Business Software Alliance}, {software audit}, {software law}. (2003-06-17)
Sometimes called the sacred animals of the Bible, they have been associated by Christians with the four evangelists. In this connection, “each represents one of the four lower classes of worlds or planes, into the similitude of which each personality is cast. Thus the Eagle (associated with St. John) represents cosmic Spirit or Ether, the all-piercing Eye of the Seer; the Bull of St. Luke, the waters of Life, the all-generating element and cosmic strength; the Lion of St. Mark, fierce energy, undaunted courage and cosmic fire; while the human Head or the Angel, which stands near St. Matthew is the synthesis of all three combined in the higher Intellect of man, and in cosmic Spirituality. . . . The Eagle, Bull and Lion-headed gods are plentiful, and all represented the same idea, whether in the Egyptian, Chaldean, Indian or Jewish religions, but beginning with the Astral body they went no higher than the cosmic Spirit or the Higher Manas — Atma-Buddhi, or Absolute Spirit and Spiritual Soul its vehicle, being incapable of being symbolised by concrete images” (TG 121).
spaghetti inheritance "humour, programming" A term used by users of {object-oriented} languages with inheritance, such as {Smalltalk} for a convoluted {class}-subclass graph, often resulting from carelessly deriving subclasses from other classes just for the sake of reusing their code. Coined to discourage such practice, through guilt-by-association with {spaghetti code}. [{Jargon File}] (2013-07-31)
spartan ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to Sparta, especially to ancient Sparta; hence, hardy; undaunted; as, Spartan souls; Spartan bravey. ::: n. --> A native or inhabitant of Sparta; figuratively, a person of great courage and fortitude.
SPECmark89 "benchmark" An old {SPECmark} {benchmark} result derived from a set of {floating-point} and integer {benchmarks}. It is the {geometric mean} of ten {SPEC ratios} of the outdated 1989 {SPEC} benchmark suite. The use of SPECmark89 is strongly discouraged, having been superseded by {CINT92} and {CFP92}. (1994-11-29)
spiritless ::: a. --> Destitute of spirit; wanting animation; wanting cheerfulness; dejected; depressed.
Destitute of vigor; wanting life, courage, or fire.
Having no breath; extinct; dead.
Sri Aurobindo: "The Unknown is not the Unknowable; it need not remain the unknown for us, unless we choose ignorance or persist in our first limitations. For to all things that are not unknowable, all things in the universe, there correspond in that universe faculties which can take cognisance of them, and in man, the microcosm, these faculties are always existent and at a certain stage capable of development. We may choose not to develop them; where they are partially developed, we may discourage and impose on them a kind of atrophy. But, fundamentally, all possible knowledge is knowledge within the power of humanity.” *The Life Divine
stout-hearted ::: a. --> Having a brave heart; courageous.
strengthen ::: v. t. --> To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; as, to strengthen a limb, a bridge, an army; to strengthen an obligation; to strengthen authority.
To animate; to encourage; to fix in resolution. ::: v. i. --> To grow strong or stronger.
Surrender of the nature is not an easy thing and may take a long lime ; surrender of the self, if one can do it, is easier and once that is done, that of the nature will come about sooner or later. For that it is necessary to detach oneself from the action of the Prakriti and see oneself as separate. To observe the movements as a witness without being discouraged or disturbed is the best way to cfTccl the necessary detachment and separation.
svadesi (Swadeshi) ::: [of the svadesa, indigenous; goods produced indigenously as opposed to those imported; Indian Nationalism generally, especially in its encouragement of indigenous industries and boycott of foreign (especially British) goods].
tall ::: superl. --> High in stature; having a considerable, or an unusual, extension upward; long and comparatively slender; having the diameter or lateral extent small in proportion to the height; as, a tall person, tree, or mast.
Brave; bold; courageous.
Fine; splendid; excellent; also, extravagant; excessive.
test-driven development "programming, testing" (TDD) An iterative {software development} process where each iteration consists of the developer writing an automated {test case} for an unimplemented improvement or function, then producing code to pass that test and finally {refactoring} the code to acceptable standards. {Kent Beck}, who is credited with having developed or "rediscovered" the technique, stated in 2003 that TDD encourages simple designs and inspires confidence. TDD is related to the humourous definition of programming as the process of {debugging an empty file}. (2012-05-01)
te: Universally recognized moral qualities of man, namely, wisdom (chih), moral chiracter (jen), and courage (yung). (Confucianism). -- W.T.C.
The astral light is itself divided into subordinate planes; the lower regions teem with gross emanations from the earth, including psychic remnants from deceased beings, which exert a negative influence on the living, especially when intercourse with these remnants is encouraged by moral and physical weakness or by ignorant experiments.
The human soul is considered by Plato to be an immaterial agent, superior in nature to the body and somewhat hindered by the body in the performance of the higher, psychic functions of human life. The tripartite division of the soul becomes an essential teaching of Platonic psychology from the Republic onward. The rational part is highest and is pictured as the ruler of the psychological organism in the well-regulated man. Next in importance is the "spirited" element of the soul, which is the source of action and the seat of the virtue of courage. The lowest part is the concupiscent or acquisitive element, which may be brought under control by the virtue of temperancc The latter two are often combined and called irrational in contrast to the highest part. Sensation is an active function of the soul, by which the soul "feels" the objects of sense through the instrumentality of the body. Particularly in the young, sensation is a necessary prelude to the knowledge of Ideas, but the mature and developed soul must learn to rise above sense perception and must strive for a more direct intuition of intelligible essences. That the soul exists before the body (related to the Pythagorean and, possibly, Orphic doctrine of transmigration) and knows the world of Ideas immediately in this anterior condition, is the foundation of the Platonic theory of reminiscence (Meno, Phaedo, Republic, Phaedrus). Thus the soul is born with true knowledge in it, but the soul, due to the encrustation of bodily cares and interests, cannot easily recall the truths innately, and we might say now, subconsciously present in it. Sometimes sense perceptions aid the soul in the process of reminiscence, and again, as in the famous demonstration of the Pythagorean theorem by the slave boy of the Meno, the questions and suggestions of a teacher provide the necessary stimuli for recollection. The personal immortality of the soul is very clearly taught by Plato in the tale of Er (Repub. X) and, with various attempts at logical demonstration, in the Phaedo. Empirical and physiological psychology is not stressed in Platonism, but there is an approach to it in the descriptions of sense organs and their media in the Timaeus 42 ff.
::: "The Lord of Beings is that which is conscious in the conscious being, but he is also the Conscious in inconscient things, the One who is master and in control of the many that are passive in the hands of Force-Nature. He is the Timeless and Time; he is Space and all that is in Space; he is Causality and the cause and the effect: He is the thinker and his thought, the warrior and his courage, the gambler and his dice-throw. All realities and all aspects and all semblances are the Brahman; Brahman is the Absolute, the transcendent and incommunicable, the Supracosmic Existence that sustains the cosmos, the Cosmic Self that upholds all beings, but It is too the self of each individual: the soul or psychic entity is an eternal portion of the Ishwara; it is his supreme Nature or Consciousness-Force that has become the living being in a world of living beings. The Brahman alone is, and because of It all are, for all are the Brahman; this Reality is the reality of everything that we see in Self and Nature. Brahman, the Ishwara, is all this by his Yoga-Maya, by the power of his Consciousness-Force put out in self-manifestation: he is the Conscious Being, Soul, Spirit, Purusha, and it is by his Nature, the force of his conscious self-existence that he is all things; he is the Ishwara, the omniscient and omnipotent All-ruler, and it is by his Shakti, his conscious Power, that he manifests himself in Time and governs the universe.” The Life Divine*
“The Lord of Beings is that which is conscious in the conscious being, but he is also the Conscious in inconscient things, the One who is master and in control of the many that are passive in the hands of Force-Nature. He is the Timeless and Time; he is Space and all that is in Space; he is Causality and the cause and the effect: He is the thinker and his thought, the warrior and his courage, the gambler and his dice-throw. All realities and all aspects and all semblances are the Brahman; Brahman is the Absolute, the transcendent and incommunicable, the Supracosmic Existence that sustains the cosmos, the Cosmic Self that upholds all beings, but It is too the self of each individual: the soul or psychic entity is an eternal portion of the Ishwara; it is his supreme Nature or Consciousness-Force that has become the living being in a world of living beings. The Brahman alone is, and because of It all are, for all are the Brahman; this Reality is the reality of everything that we see in Self and Nature. Brahman, the Ishwara, is all this by his Yoga-Maya, by the power of his Consciousness-Force put out in self-manifestation: he is the Conscious Being, Soul, Spirit, Purusha, and it is by his Nature, the force of his conscious self-existence that he is all things; he is the Ishwara, the omniscient and omnipotent All-ruler, and it is by his Shakti, his conscious Power, that he manifests himself in Time and governs the universe.” The Life Divine
The power needed in yoga is the power to go through elTort, difficulty or trouble without getting fatigued, depressed, dis- couraged or impatient and without breaking off the effort or giwng up one’s aim or resolution.
The power to go through ctTort. difilculty or trouble without getting fatigued, depressed, discouraged or impatient and with- out breaking off the effort or giving up one's aim or resolution.
..the release from subconscient ignorance and from disease, duration of life at will, and a change in the functioning of the body must be among the ultimate results of a supramental change.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 35, Page: 330 ::: .Supraphysical Worlds ::: This organisation includes, as on our earth, the existence of beings who have or take forms, manifest themselves or are naturally manifested in an embodying substance, but a substance other than ours, a subtle substance tangible only to subtle sense, a supraphysical form-matter. These worlds and beings may have nothing to do with ourselves and our life, they may exercise no action upon us; but often also they enter into secret communication with earth-existence, obey or embody and are the intermediaries and instruments of the cosmic powers and influences of which we have a subjective experience, or themselves act by their own initiation upon the terrestrial world’s life and motives and happenings. It is possible to receive help or guidance or harm or misguidance from these beings; it is possible even to become subject to their influence, to be possessed by their invasion or domination, to be instrumentalised by them for their good or evil purpose. At times the progress of earthly life seems to be a vast field of battle between supraphysical Forces of either character, those that strive to uplift, encourage and illumine and those that strive to deflect, depress or prevent or even shatter our upward evolution or the soul’s self-expression in the material universe. Some of these Beings, Powers or Forces are such that we think of them as divine; they are luminous, benignant or powerfully helpful: there are others that are Titanic, gigantic or demoniac, inordinate Influences, instigators or creators often of vast and formidable inner upheavals or of actions that overpass the normal human measure. There may also be an awareness of influences, presences, beings that do not seem to belong to other worlds beyond us but are here as a hidden element behind the veil in terrestrial nature. As contact with the supraphysical is possible, a contact can also take place subjective or objective—or at least objectivised— between our own consciousness and the consciousness of other once embodied beings who have passed into a supraphysical status in these other regions of existence. It is possible also to pass beyond a subjective contact or a subtle-sense perception and, in certain subliminal states of consciousness, to enter actually into other worlds and know something of their secrets. It is the more objective order of other-worldly experience that seized most the imagination of mankind in the past, but it was put by popular belief into a gross-objective statement which unduly assimilated these phenomena to those of the physical world with which we are familiar; for it is the normal tendency of our mind to turn everything into forms or symbols proper to its own kind and terms of experience.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 21-22 Page: 806-07
The six, seven, or ten paramitas have reference to the three fundamental grades of training in discipleship: six for the beginner, seven for the one who is more advanced, and ten which are practiced by the adept. A faithful following of these virtues is incumbent upon every disciple, and fidelity and perseverance in performance mark progress along the mystic way. The other three paramitas, making ten, are adhishthana (inflexible courage) that goes forward to meet danger or difficulty; upeksha (discrimination) which seeks and finds the right way of applying the paramitas; and prabodha (awakened inner consciousness) or sambuddhi (complete or perfect illumination).
the trait of lacking boldness and courage.
This would be the source of that wanting to get back to some- thing interesting and enthralling which accompanies the desire to fall into sleep. But this must not be encouraged in waking hours, it should be kept for hours set apart for sleep where it gets its natural field, Othenvisc there may be an unbalancing, a tendency to live more and too much in the visions of the supraphysical realms and a decrease of the hold on outer realities.
thoroughbred ::: a. --> Bred from the best blood through a long line; pure-blooded; -- said of stock, as horses. Hence, having the characteristics of such breeding; mettlesome; courageous; of elegant form, or the like. ::: n. --> A thoroughbred animal, especially a horse.
timid ::: a. --> Wanting courage to meet danger; easily frightened; timorous; not bold; fearful; shy.
timorous ::: a. --> Fearful of danger; timid; deficient in courage.
Indicating, or caused by, fear; as, timorous doubts.
To be always observing faults and wrong mo>’ements brings depression and discourages faith. Turn your eyes more to the incoming light and less to any immediate darkness.
uddiyana bandha. ::: a lower abdominal lock often described as bringing the navel to the base of the spine; most important bandha as it supports the breathing and encourages the development of strong core muscles
unbacked ::: a. --> Never mounted by a rider; unbroken.
Not supported or encouraged; not countenanced; unaided.
uncommon ::: a. --> Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage.
undaunted ::: undismayed; not discouraged; not forced to abandon purpose or effort.
Universal Serial Bus "hardware, standard" (USB) An external {peripheral} interface {standard} for communication between a computer and external {peripherals} over an inexpensive cable using {biserial} transmission. USB is intended to replace existing {serial ports}, {parallel ports}, {keyboard}, and {monitor} connectors and be used with {keyboards}, {mice}, {monitors}, {printers}, and possibly some low-speed {scanners} and removable {hard drives}. For faster devices existing {IDE}, {SCSI}, or emerging {FC-AL} or {FireWire} interfaces can be used. USB works at 12 Mbps with specific consideration for low cost peripherals. It supports up to 127 devices and both {isochronous} and {asynchronous} data transfers. Cables can be up to five metres long and it includes built-in power distribution for low power devices. It supports {daisy chaining} through a tiered star multidrop topology. A USB cable has a rectangular "Type A" plug at the computer end and a square "Type B" plug at the peripheral end. Before March 1996 Intel started to integrate the necessary logic into {PC} {chip sets} and encourage other manufacturers to do likewise. It was widely available by 1997. Later versions of {Windows 95} included support for it. It was standard on {Macintosh} computers in 1999. The USB 2.0 specification was released in 2000 to allow USB to compete with {Firewire} etc. USB 2.0 is backward compatible with USB 1.1 but works at 480 Mbps. {usb.org (http://usb.org/)}. (2004-01-31)
unknown ::: “The Unknown is not the Unknowable; it need not remain the unknown for us, unless we choose ignorance or persist in our first limitations. For to all things that are not unknowable, all things in the universe, there correspond in that universe faculties which can take cognisance of them, and in man, the microcosm, these faculties are always existent and at a certain stage capable of development. We may choose not to develop them; where they are partially developed, we may discourage and impose on them a kind of atrophy. But, fundamentally, all possible knowledge is knowledge within the power of humanity.” The Life Divine
unmanned ::: a. --> Deprived of manly qualities; deficient in vigor, strength, courage, etc.; weak; effeminate.
Not tamed; not made familiar with, or subject to, man; -- also used figuratively.
Not furnished with men; as, an unmanned ship.
unman ::: v. t. --> To deprive of the distinctive qualities of a human being, as reason, or the like.
To emasculate; to deprive of virility.
To deprive of the courage and fortitude of a man; to break or subdue the manly spirit in; to cause to despond; to dishearten; to make womanish.
To deprive of men; as, to unman a ship.
uphold ::: v. t. --> To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.
To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling; to maintain.
To aid by approval or encouragement; to countenance; as, to uphold a person in wrongdoing.
valiant ::: a. --> Vigorous in body; strong; powerful; as, a valiant fencer.
Intrepid in danger; courageous; brave.
Performed with valor or bravery; heroic.
valor ::: n. --> Value; worth.
Strength of mind in regard to danger; that quality which enables a man to encounter danger with firmness; personal bravery; courage; prowess; intrepidity.
A brave man; a man of valor.
valorous ::: a. --> Possessing or exhibiting valor; brave; courageous; valiant; intrepid.
vassalage ::: n. --> The state of being a vassal, or feudatory.
Political servitude; dependence; subjection; slavery; as, the Greeks were held in vassalage by the Turks.
A territory held in vassalage.
Vassals, collectively; vassalry.
Valorous service, such as that performed by a vassal; valor; prowess; courage.
Vedas, the drink and the plant refer to the same entity, and is perceived as a giver of immortality, a healthy and long life, offspring, happiness, courage, strength, victory over enemies, wisdom, understanding and creativity
Vicarious Atonement In Christian theology, the idea that God accepted the sacrifice of Jesus Christ as a substitution for the guilt incurred by man at the Fall, and that mankind will consequently escape punishment, provided that they accept by faith Jesus Christ’s sacrifice. The idea that by an atoning for evil done or sin committed, one undoes the past — broadened by Christian theology to include the doctrine of the vicarious atonement by some great spiritual being for the sins of others — is a theory rejected by the theosophic philosophy. To those who believe the Christian doctrine that every person was born into this world burdened with inevitable doom through Adam’s sin, such a compensatory doctrine seems to be necessary; but it discourages people’s faith in their own innate divinity and in their power thereby to effect their own spiritual and moral salvation, and violates our sense of justice by offering a way of avoiding the consequences of our own bad actions — which avoidance of sin already incurred is distinctly denied in several places in the New Testament where the ancient theosophical doctrine of karma is taught that as a man sows, that (and not something else) must he invariably reap. Vicarious atonement may be a distorted doctrine of reconciliation, in Christian notion reconciliation between God and man; also of the idea that the spiritual monad in man takes on itself the consequences for actions or “sins” committed by the less evolved human monad. Every human being is raised by the sacrifice made by the Christos within himself, so that whoever believes in and conforms his acts to his own spiritual nature, is “saved.”
virago ::: n. --> A woman of extraordinary stature, strength, and courage; a woman who has the robust body and masculine mind of a man; a female warrior.
Hence, a mannish woman; a bold, turbulent woman; a termagant; a vixen.
virtue ::: n. --> Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor.
Active quality or power; capacity or power adequate to the production of a given effect; energy; strength; potency; efficacy; as, the virtue of a medicine.
Energy or influence operating without contact of the material or sensible substance.
Excellence; value; merit; meritoriousness; worth.
Specifically, moral excellence; integrity of character;
virtuous ::: a. --> Possessing or exhibiting virtue.
Exhibiting manly courage and strength; valorous; valiant; brave.
Having power or efficacy; powerfully operative; efficacious; potent.
Having moral excellence; characterized by morality; upright; righteous; pure; as, a virtuous action.
Chaste; pure; -- applied especially to women.
virya. ::: creative power or might; strength; energy; courage
Vital plane ::: On the vital plane ( 1 ) never allow any fear to etilcc into you. Face all you meet and see in this world with detachment and courage. (2) Ask for protection before you sleep or meditate. Use our names when you are attacked or templed. (3) Do not indulge in this world in any kind of sym- pathy. (4) Do not allow any foreign personality to enter into you .
warrior ::: 1. A person engaged or experienced in warfare; soldier. 2. One who shows or has shown great vigour, courage, etc. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as an adj.) warriors.
WASTE. ::: Wanton waste, careless spoiling of physical things in an incredibly short time, loose disorder, misuse of service and materials due either to vital grasping or to tamasic inertia are baneful to prosperity and tend to drive away or discourage the
weak-hearted ::: a. --> Having little courage; of feeble spirit; dispirited; faint-hearted.
what ::: pron., a., & adv. --> As an interrogative pronoun, used in asking questions regarding either persons or things; as, what is this? what did you say? what poem is this? what child is lost?
As an exclamatory word: -- (a) Used absolutely or independently; -- often with a question following.
Used adjectively, meaning how remarkable, or how great; as, what folly! what eloquence! what courage!
Sometimes prefixed to adjectives in an
whet ::: v. t. --> To rub or on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening; to sharpen by attrition; as, to whet a knife.
To make sharp, keen, or eager; to excite; to stimulate; as, to whet the appetite or the courage. ::: n.
wiki "web" Any collaborative {website} that users can easily modify via the web, often without restriction. A wiki allows anyone, using a {web browser}, to create, edit or delete content that has been placed on the site, including the work of other authors. Text is entered using some simple {mark-up language} which is then rendered as {HTML}. A feature common to many of the different implementations is that any word in mixed case LikeThis (a "wikiword") is rendered as a link to a page of that name, which may or may not exist. Wikis work surprisingly well. The most famous example, {Wikipedia} (referred to as "wiki" by some), is one of the most visited sites on the web. Contributors tend to be more numerous and more persistent than vandals, and old versions of pages are always available. Like many simple concepts, open editing has profound effects on usage. Allowing everyday users to create and edit any page encourages democratic use of the web and promotes content composition by nontechnical users. In contrast, a {web log}, typically authored by an individual, does not allow visitors to change the original posted material, only add comments. Wiki wiki means "quick" in Hawaiian. The first wiki was created by {Ward Cunningham} in 1995. {wiki.org (http://wiki.org/)}. (2014-10-12)
yoicks ::: interj. --> A cry of encouragement to foxhounds.
Yung: Courage, one of the universally recognized moral qualities of man (ta te), especially of the superior man. -- W.T.C.
zulus ::: n. pl. --> The most important tribe belonging to the Kaffir race. They inhabit a region on the southeast coast of Africa, but formerly occupied a much more extensive country. They are noted for their warlike disposition, courage, and military skill.
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1:Courage is a sign of soul's nobility.
~ The Mother?,#KEYS
2:Genius is talent set on fire by courage. ~ Henry Van Dyke, #KEYS
3:Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
~ Baltasar Gracian,#KEYS
4:Sometimes even to live is an act of courage ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca, #KEYS
5:But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
~ Albert Camus,#KEYS
6:Be strong and of a good courage. ~ Joshua I. 9, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
7:The more fear you confront and conquer, the greater the courage you will possess.
~ Chin-Ning Chu,#KEYS
8:Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. ~ Laozi, #KEYS
9:Greatness is the courage to overcome obstacles.
~ David R Hawkins, Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender,#KEYS
10:Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. ~ Lao Tzu, #KEYS
11:Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." ~ Winston Churchill, #KEYS
12:Meditation and spiritual practices give you the power and the courage to smile at death. ~ MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI, #KEYS
13:It takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside." ~ Barbara De Angelis, #KEYS
14:You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit. ~ Oscar Wilde, #KEYS
15:Be strong and of a good courage; fear not. ~ Deuteronomy XXXI. 6, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
16:In true courage there is no impatience and no rashness. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, #KEYS
17:Have the courage to be completely frank with the Divine. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, #KEYS
18:No matter what suffering may befall you now, do not give in to it but develop courage again and again. ~ Padmasambhava, #KEYS
19:Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.
~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 31:24,#KEYS
20:There is no greater courage than to be always truthful
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, Courage.,#KEYS
21:It is only the coward who appeals always to destiny and never to courage. ~ Ramayana, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
22:Kali the Mother, is the killer of darkness, the punisher of evil-doers. She represents the necessary moral vigour and courage. ~ SISTER NIVEDITA, #KEYS
23:Keep courage in spite of all difficulties. You are sure to reach the goal, and the more you keep confidence, the quicker it will come. ~ Mother Mirra, #KEYS
24:Take chances - make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave." ~ Mary Tyler Moore, #KEYS
25:There is no greater courage than that of recognising ones own mistakes With my blessings
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#KEYS
26:Letting go takes a lot of courage sometimes. But once you let go, happiness comes very quickly. You won't have to go around search for it." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #KEYS
27:The tyranny exercised over us by despondency is a strong one. We need great courage if we are to persevere in resisting this emotion. ~ Saint John Chrysostom, #KEYS
28:The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness, beauty, and truth ~ Albert Einstein, #KEYS
29:Advance our standards, set upon our foes;
Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George,
Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons!
~ William Shakespeare,#KEYS
30:Say to the fainthearted. Take courage, and fear not. . . God himself will come and will save you" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Is. 35:4)., #KEYS
31:Steady abidance in the Self, looking at all with an equal eye, unshakable courage at all times, in all circumstances. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
32:The will of a single hero can breathe courage into the hearts of a million cowards. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Early Cultural Writings, The Real Difficulty, #KEYS
33:Faith and courage are the true attitude to keep in life and work always and in the spiritual experience also. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II, Faith, #KEYS
34:Just as there are for the body wounds and medicines, so for the soul are sins and repentance. However, sin has the shame and repentance possesses the courage. ~ Saint John Chrysostom, #KEYS
35:Statesmanship is not summed up in the words prudence and caution, it has a place for strength and courage. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin, Opinion and Comments, #KEYS
36:Be fearless! Courage! Courage! Do not allow even the thought of defeat to enter your mind. Realization of the Goal, or let the body fall ! - let this be your Mantra. ~ SWAMI VIRAJANANDA, #KEYS
37:A divine strength and courage and a divine compassion and helpfulness are the very stuff of that which he would be. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga: Renunciation #KEYS
38:The three elements of creativity are thus: loving, knowing, and doing - or heart, mind, and hands - or, as Zen Buddhist teaching has it; great faith, great question, and great courage." ~ Eric Maisel, #KEYS
39:If thy first endeavour to find the Eternal bears no fruit, lose not courage. Persevere and at last thou shalt obtain the divine grace. ~ Ramakrishna, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
40:The speed and distance that you travel on the path is determined by the level of your courage to go in the opposite direction from what you have been doing since beginningless time. ~ Chamtrul Rinpoche, #KEYS
41:The Twelve Powers of the Mother manifested for Her Work: Sincerity, Peace, Equality, Generosity, Goodness, Courage, Progress, Receptivity, Aspiration, Perserverance, Gratitude, Humility
~ The Mother?,#KEYS
42:If thou hast attempted and failed, O indomitable warrior, yet lose not courage; fight and return to the charge still and always. ~ Book of Golden Precepts, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
43:O my God, fill my soul with holy joy, courage and strength to serve You. Enkindle Your love in me and then walk with me along the next stretch of road before me." ~ Saint Benedicta of the Cross, (Edith Stein), #KEYS
44:When we trust in the Divine's Grace we get an unfailing courage. 15 May 1954
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, Faith and the Divine Grace, TRUST IN THE DIVINE GRACE AND HELP [92],#KEYS
45:Have strength. Have courage, no matter what may come before you. Overcome all weakness by the strength of purity. Move onward boldly, having real faith in the Lord. He will always protect you. ~ SWAMI PARAMANANDA, #KEYS
46:In a good life, prudence is like the eye, which directs a person; and courage is like the feet, which support and carry him ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Commentary on Colossians, ch. 3)., #KEYS
47:Have courage and do not fear the assaults of the Devil. Remember this forever; it is a healthy sign if the devil shouts and roars around your conscience, since this shows that he is not inside your will. ~ Saint Padre Pio, #KEYS
48:Pay attention carefully. After the sin comes the shame; courage follows repentance. Did you pay attention to what I said? Satan upsets the order; he gives the courage to sin and the shame to repentance. ~ Saint John Chrystotom, #KEYS
49:Always a few will be left whom the threatenings of Fate cannot conquer,
Always souls are born whose courage waits not on fortune ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Ilion,#KEYS
50:One sole oracle helps, still armoured in courage and prudence
Patient and heedful to toil at the work that is near in the daylight. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Ilion,#KEYS
51:The very first lesson in this Yoga is to face life and its trials with a quiet mind, a firm courage and an entire reliance on the Divine Shakti. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II, Patience and Perseverance, #KEYS
52:I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. ~ Anaïs Nin, #KEYS
53:Try your utmost never to succumb to anyone's influence. In order to become firm, calm, deeply serious, full of courage, with one's personality wholly intact, pure and holy out of one's own strength, one has to be centered in God. ~ SRI ANANDAMAYI MA, #KEYS
54:Holding in my hand the rein of courage, Clad in the armor of patience, And the helmet of endurance on my head, I started on my journey to the land of love." ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan, (1882 - 1927) founder of the Sufi Order in the West in 1914, Wikipedia., #KEYS
55:Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, #KEYS
56:And if it is a play of the All-Existence, then we may well consent to play out our part in it with grace and courage, well take delight in the game along with our divine Playmate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Renunciation, #KEYS
57:One who has not the courage to face patiently and firmly life and its difficulties will never be able to go through the still greater inner difficulties of the sadhana. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II, Patience and Perseverance, #KEYS
58:What honor I have, and my bit of courage, I inherit from the little creature [the child I used to be], so mysterious to me now, scuttling through the September rain across streaming meadows, his heart heavy at the thought of going back to school. ~ George Bernanos, #KEYS
59:Feed the hungry, ransom captives, give strength to the weak and courage to the faint-hearted. Let all peoples come to know that you alone are God, that Jesus Christ is your son, and that we are your people and the sheep of your flock. ~ Clement I to the Corinthians, #KEYS
60:Buddhism teaches that joy and happiness arise from letting go. Please sit down and take an inventory of your life. There are things you've been hanging on to that really are not useful and deprive you of your freedom. Find the courage to let them go." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #KEYS
61:Summoning up the courage to take action is always the same regardless of how seemingly big or small the challenge. What may look like a small act of courage is courage nonetheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward. ~ Nichiren, #KEYS
62:But it is not only the martyrs who share in his passion by their glorious courage; the same is true, by faith, of all who are reborn through baptism. That is why we are to celebrate the Lord's paschal sacrifice with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. ~ Saint Leo the Great, #KEYS
63:How to account for the fact that these men, who in Christ's lifetime did not stand up to the attacks by the Jews, set forth to do battle with the whole world once Christ was dead-if, as you claim, Christ did not rise and speak to them and rouse their courage? ~ Saint John Chrysostom, #KEYS
64:Courage their armour, faith their sword, they must walk,
The hand ready to smite, the eye to scout,
Casting a javelin regard in front,
Heroes and soldiers of the army of Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#KEYS
65:A summons to faith, courage and energy in the face of death isn't a call to heroics for the ego. It is an invitation to attend, to be absorbed in value, depth and beauty not our own. ~ Rowan Williams https://newstatesman.com/politics/religion/2020/08/covid-and-confronting-our-own-mortality, #KEYS
66:You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt, #KEYS
67:Doing good to others is virtue; injuring other is sin. Strength & courage are virtue; weakness & cowardice are sin. Independence is virtue; dependence is sin. Loving others is virtue; hating others is sin. Faith in God is virtue; doubt is sin. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
68:Heaven-fire laughed in the corners of her eyes;
Her body a mass of courage and heavenly strength,
She menaced the triumph of the nether gods. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
69:Do not test ur spiritual strength & purity when u are a beginner on the spiritual path. Do not rush into evil associations when u are a spiritual neophyte to show that u have the courage to face sin & impurity. It will be a serious mistake. You will be running into a grave danger~ Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #KEYS
70:Fear is hidden consent. When you are afraid of something, it means that you admit its possibility and thus strengthen its hand. It can be said that it is a subconscient consent. Fear can be overcome in many ways. The ways of courage, faith, knowledge are some of them. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, 243, #KEYS
71:Only were safe who kept God in their hearts:
Courage their armour, faith their sword, they must walk,
The hand ready to smite, the eye to scout,
Casting a javelin regard in front,
Heroes and soldiers of the army of Light.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night, [T5],#KEYS
72:We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true. ~ Carl Sagan,#KEYS
73:We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of great courage. We enjoy and even thrill to godlike possibilities we see in ourselves in such peak moments. And yet we simultaneously shiver with weakness, awe, and fear before these very same possibilities. ~ Abraham Maslow, #KEYS
74:In fact, however, the divine Strength, often unobserved and behind the veil, substitutes itself for our weakness and supports us through all our failings of faith, courage and patience. It makes the blind to see and the lame to stride over the hills.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Conditions of the Synthesis, The Synthesis of the Systems, 46,#KEYS
75:All the earth is no more than a great tomb and there is nothing on its surface which is not hidden in the tomb, under earth...All are hastening to bury themselves in the depths of the ocean of infinity. But be of good courage.. .The sun is cradled in darkness and the need of the night is to reveal the splendour of the stars. ~ Totaku-ko-Nozagual (Lopok. Mexico.), the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
76:It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. ~ Robert F. Kennedy, #KEYS
77:...to do the integral yoga one must first resolve to surrender entirely to the Divine, there is no other way, this is the way. But after that one must have the five psychological virtues, five psychological perfections and we say that the perfections are 1.Sincerity or Transparency 2.Faith or Trust (Trust in the Divine) 3.Devotion or Gratitude 4.Courage or Inspiration 5.Endurance or Perseverance
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1956,#KEYS
78:At all times, do not lose courage in your inner awareness; uplift yourself, while assuming a humble position in your outer demeanor. Follow the example of the life and complete liberation of previous accomplished masters. Do not blame your past karma; instead, be someone who purely and flawlessly practices the dharma. Do not blame temporary negative circumstances; instead, be someone who remains steadfast in the face of whatever circumstances may arise. ~ Dudjom Rinpoche, #KEYS
79:The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned ...Our hymns were loaded with arrogance -- self-congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, what hell everybody else would catch come Judgment Day.
~ Robert Heinlein, from Laurence J. Peter, Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time, also James A. Haught, ed., 2000 Years Of Disbelief, Famous People with the Courage to Doubt.Quotes About Priests,#KEYS
80:The centre of the Mother's symbol represent the Divine Consciousness, the Supreme Mother, the Mahashakti.
The four petals of the Mother's symbol represent the four Aspects or Personalities of the Mother; Maheshwari (Wisdom), Mahalakshmi(Harmony), Mahakali(Strength) and Mahasaraswati (Perfection).
The twelve petals of the Mother's symbol represent; Sincerity, Humility, Gratitude, Perseverance, Aspiration, Receptivity, Progress, Courage, Goodness, Generosity, Equality, Peace.
~ ?, https://www.auroville.com/silver-ring-mother-s-symbol.html, [T5],#KEYS
81:Enthusiasm and Straightforwardness
Joyous enthusiasm: the best way of facing life.
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True enthusiasm is full of a peaceful endurance.
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Our courage and endurance must be as great as our hope and
our hope has no limits. 2 August 1954
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A steady hope helps much on the way. 15 August 1954
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Our hopes are never too great for manifestation.
We cannot conceive of any thing that cannot be. 22 August 1954
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Straightforwardness shows itself as it is, without compromising. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#KEYS
82:Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe. Of course it's important to know what's right and what's wrong. Individual errors in judgment can usually be corrected. As long as you have the courage to admit mistakes, things can be turned around. But intolerant, narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host, change form and continue to thrive. They're a lost cause. ~ Haruki Murakami, #KEYS
83:... Poor sorrowful Earth, remember that I am present in thee and lose not hope; each effort, each grief, each joy and each pang, each call of thy heart, each aspiration of thy soul, each renewel of thy seasons, all, all without exception, what seems ugly and what seems to thee beautiful, all infallibly lead thee towards me, who am endless Peace, shadowless Light, perfect Harmony, Certitude, Rest and Supreme Blessedness.
Hearken, O Earth, to the sublime voice that arises,
Hearken and take new courage!
~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations, February 5th 1913,#KEYS
84:Everybody has certain ideals which determine the direction of his endeavors and his judgments. In this sense I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific research, life would have seemed to me empty. ~ Albert Einstein, #KEYS
85:People pontificate, Suicide is selfishness. Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching.
~ David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas,#KEYS
86:Arguably, the best advice for a serious student is to read a few hundred carefully selected books. An orgy of reading 30 or 40 first-rate books in a month ranks at the top of the usual list of human pleasures. If you wish, as an undergraduate, you could do it. You have time and energy, and with luck, you have the curiosity and courage to risk a month or two. Read Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, Pascal, Voltaire, Berkeley, Hegel, Marx, and Kanetz. Or you could just play Frisbee on the Plaza of the Americas. Life is choice and there is much to learn. Not making a choice is a choice. ~ Dr Robert A Hatch, How to Study, #KEYS
87:The ego cannot see where it is being led; it revolts against the leading, loses confidence, loses courage. These failings would not matter; for the divine Guide within is not offended by our revolt, not discouraged by our want of faith or repelled by our weakness; he has the entire love of the mother and the entire patience of the teacher. But by withdrawing our assent from the guidance we lose the consciousness, though not all the actuality-not, in any case, the eventuality -of its benefit. And we withdraw our assent because we fail to distinguish our higher Self from the lower through which he is preparing his self-revelation.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Four Aids, 64,#KEYS
88:The surest way towards this integral fulfilment is to find the Master of the secret who dwells within us, open ourselves constantly to the divine Power which is also the divine Wisdom and Love and trust to it to effect the conversion. But it is difficult for the egoistic consciousness to do this at all at the beginning. And, if done at all, it is still difficult to do it perfectly and in every strand of our nature. It is difficult at first because our egoistic habits of thought, of sensation, of feeling block up the avenues by which we can arrive at the perception that is needed. It is difficult afterwards because the faith, the surrender, the courage requisite in this path are not easy to the ego-clouded soul.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, [63] [T7],#KEYS
89:Certainly we have had our Napoleons and our Hitlers, but we have also had Jesus and Buddha. We have had tyrants, but also great humanitarians. We have had corrupt politicians, but also noble rulers. Even in the most selfish of times, the world has brought forth idealists, philanthropists, great artists, musicians, and poets. If we have inherited ages of feuding and intolerance, we have also inherited the magnificence of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. For each tyrant who has profaned the pages of history, there have been thousands, even millions, of gentle people who have lived unhonored and unknown, keeping principles and living convictions under the most difficult situations. To see this good, and to know it, is to find a new courage and a new faith. ~ Manly P Hall, PRS Journal Summer 1961, p.7, #KEYS
90:You have spoken much today of my self-sacrifice and devotion to my country. I have heard that kind of speech ever since I came out of jail, but I hear it with embarrassment, with something of pain. For I know my weakness, I am a prey to my own faults and backslidings. I was not blind to them before and when they all rose up against me in seclusion, I felt them utterly. I knew them that I the man was a man of weakness, a faulty and imperfect instrument, strong only when a higher strength entered into me. Then I found myself among these young men and in many of them I discovered a mighty courage, a power of self-effacement in comparison with which I was simply nothing. I saw one or two who were not only superior to me in force and character, - very many were that, - but in the promise of that intellectual ability on which I prided myself. ~ ?, #KEYS
91:We have no reason to harbor any mistrust against our world, for it is not against us. If it has terrors, they are our terrors; if it has abysses, these abysses belong to us; if there are dangers, we must try to love them. And if only we arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now appears to us as the most alien will become our most intimate and trusted experience. How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, #KEYS
92:Spirit comes from the Latin word to breathe. What we breathe is air, which is certainly matter, however thin. Despite usage to the contrary, there is no necessary implication in the word spiritual that we are talking of anything other than matter (including the matter of which the brain is made), or anything outside the realm of science. On occasion, I will feel free to use the word. Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual. So are our emotions in the presence of great art or music or literature, or of acts of exemplary selfless courage such as those of Mohandas Gandhi or Martin Luther King Jr. The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both. ~ Carl Sagan, #KEYS
93:4. Crossing the First Threshold:With the personifications of his destiny to guide and aid him, the hero goes forward in his adventure until he comes to the 'threshold guardian' at the entrance to the zone of magnified power. Such custodians bound the world in four directions-also up and down-standing for the limits of the hero's present sphere, or life horizon. Beyond them is darkness, the unknown and danger; just as beyond the parental watch is danger to the infant and beyond the protection of his society danger to the members of the tribe. The usual person is more than content, he is even proud, to remain within the indicated bounds, and popular belief gives him every reason to fear so much as the first step into the unexplored. The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown; the powers that watch at the boundary are dangerous; to deal with them is risky; yet for anyone with competence and courage the danger fades. ~ Joseph Campbell, #KEYS
94:DEFEAT
Defeat, my Defeat, my solitude and my aloofness;
You are dearer to me than a thousand triumphs,
And sweeter to my heart than all world-glory.
Defeat, my Defeat, my self-knowledge and my defiance,
Through you I know that I am yet young and swift of foot
And not to be trapped by withering laurels.
And in you I have found aloneness
And the joy of being shunned and scorned.
Defeat, my Defeat, my shining sword and shield,
In your eyes I have read
That to be enthroned is to be enslaved,
And to be understood is to be leveled down,
And to be grasped is but to reach one's fullness
And like a ripe fruit to fall and be consumed.
Defeat, my Defeat, my bold companion,
You shall hear my songs and my cries and my silences,
And none but you shall speak to me of the beating of wings,
And urging of seas,
And of mountains that burn in the night,
And you alone shall climb my steep and rocky soul.
Defeat, my Defeat, my deathless courage,
You and I shall laugh together with the storm,
And together we shall dig graves for all that die in us,
And we shall stand in the sun with a will,
And we shall be dangerous. ~ Kahlil Gibran,#KEYS
95:Raise Your Standards
Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.
Think of the far-reaching consequences set in motion by men and women who raised their standards and acted in accordance with them, deciding they would tolerate no less. History chronicles the inspiring examples of people like Leonardo da Vinci, Abraham Lincoln, Helen Keller, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Albeit Einstein, Cesar Chavez, Soichiro Honda, and many others who took the magnificently powerful step of raising their standards. The same power that was available to them is available to you, if you have the courage to claim it. Changing an organization, acompany, a country-or a world-begins with the simple step of changing yourself.
STEP TWO
Change Your Limiting Beliefs ~ Anthony Robbins, How to take Immediate Control of Your Mental Emotional Physical and Financial Destiny,#KEYS
96:Many are God's forms by which he grows in man;
They stamp his thoughts and deeds with divinity,
Uplift the stature of the human clay
Or slowly transmute it into heavens gold.
He is the Good for which men fight and die,
He is the war of Right with Titan wrong;
He is Freedom rising deathless from her pyre;
He is Valour guarding still the desperate pass
Or lone and erect on the shattered barricade
Or a sentinel in the dangerous echoing Night.
He is the crown of the martyr burned in flame
And the glad resignation of the saint
And courage indifferent to the wounds of Time
And the heros might wrestling with death and fate.
He is Wisdom incarnate on a glorious throne
And the calm autocracy of the sages rule.
He is the high and solitary Thought
Aloof above the ignorant multitude:
He is the prophets voice, the sight of the seer.
He is Beauty, nectar of the passionate soul,
He is the Truth by which the spirit lives.
He is the riches of the spiritual Vast
Poured out in healing streams on indigent Life;
He is Eternity lured from hour to hour,
He is infinity in a little space:
He is immortality in the arms of death.
These powers I am and at my call they come.
Thus slowly I lift mans soul nearer the Light.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
97:the powers of concentration :::
By concentration on anything whatsoever we are able to know that thing, to make it deliver up its concealed secrets; we must use this power to know not things, but the one Thing-in-itself. By concentration again the whole will can be gathered up for the acquisition of that which is still ungrasped, still beyond us; this power, if it is sufficiently trained, sufficiently single-minded, sufficiently sincere, sure of itself, faithful to itself alone, absolute in faith, we can use for the acquisition of any object whatsoever; but we ought to use it not for the acquisition of the many objects which the world offers to us, but to grasp spiritually that one object worthy of pursuit which is also the one subject worthy of knowledge. By concentration of our whole being on one status of itself, we can become whatever we choose; we can become, for instance, even if we were before a mass of weaknesses and fear, a mass instead of strength and courage, or we can become all a great purity, holiness and peace or a single universal soul of Love; but we ought, it is said, to use this power to become not even these things, high as they may be in comparison with what we now are, but rather to become that which is above all things and free from all action and attributes, the pure and absolute Being. All else, all other concentration can only be valuable for preparation, for previous steps, for a gradual training of the dissolute and self-dissipating thought, will and being towards their grand and unique object.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Concentration, [318],#KEYS
98:And therefore, all of those for whom authentic transformation has deeply unseated their souls must, I believe, wrestle with the profound moral obligation to shout form the heart-perhaps quietly and gently, with tears of reluctance; perhaps with fierce fire and angry wisdom; perhaps with slow and careful analysis; perhaps by unshakable public example-but authentically always and absolutely carries a a demand and duty: you must speak out, to the best of your ability, and shake the spiritual tree, and shine your headlights into the eyes of the complacent. You must let that radical realization rumble through your veins and rattle those around you.
Alas, if you fail to do so, you are betraying your own authenticity. You are hiding your true estate. You don't want to upset others because you don't want to upset your self. You are acting in bad faith, the taste of a bad infinity.
Because, you see, the alarming fact is that any realization of depth carries a terrible burden: those who are allowed to see are simultaneously saddled with the obligation to communicate that vision in no uncertain terms: that is the bargain. You were allowed to see the truth under the agreement that you would communicate it to others (that is the ultimate meaning of the bodhisattva vow). And therefore, if you have seen, you simply must speak out. Speak out with compassion, or speak out with angry wisdom, or speak out with skillful means, but speak out you must.
And this is truly a terrible burden, a horrible burden, because in any case there is no room for timidity. The fact that you might be wrong is simply no excuse: You might be right in your communication, and you might be wrong, but that doesn't matter. What does matter, as Kierkegaard so rudely reminded us, is that only by investing and speaking your vision with passion, can the truth, one way or another, finally penetrate the reluctance of the world. If you are right, or if you are wrong, it is only your passion that will force either to be discovered. It is your duty to promote that discovery-either way-and therefore it is your duty to speak your truth with whatever passion and courage you can find in your heart. You must shout, in whatever way you can. ~ Ken Wilber, One Taste,#KEYS
99:I have seen the truth; I have seen and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the power of living on earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind. And it is just this faith of mine that they laugh at. But how can I help believing it? I have seen the truth ~ it is not as though I had invented it with my mind, I have seen it, seen it, and the living image of it has filled my soul for ever. I have seen it in such full perfection that I cannot believe that it is impossible for people to have it. And so how can I go wrong? I shall make some slips no doubt, and shall perhaps talk in second-hand language, but not for long: the living image of what I saw will always be with me and will always correct and guide me. Oh, I am full of courage and freshness, and I will go on and on if it were for a thousand years! Do you know, at first I meant to conceal the fact that I corrupted them, but that was a mistake ~ that was my first mistake! But truth whispered to me that I was lying, and preserved me and corrected me. But how establish paradise ~ I don't know, because I do not know how to put it into words. After my dream I lost command of words. All the chief words, anyway, the most necessary ones. But never mind, I shall go and I shall keep talking, I won't leave off, for anyway I have seen it with my own eyes, though I cannot describe what I saw. But the scoffers do not understand that. It was a dream, they say, delirium, hallucination. Oh! As though that meant so much! And they are so proud! A dream! What is a dream? And is not our life a dream? I will say more. Suppose that this paradise will never come to pass (that I understand), yet I shall go on preaching it. And yet how simple it is: in one day, in one hour everything could be arranged at once! The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted ~ you will find out at once how to arrange it all. And yet it's an old truth which has been told and retold a billion times ~ but it has not formed part of our lives! The consciousness of life is higher than life, the knowledge of the laws of happiness is higher than happiness ~ that is what one must contend against. And I shall. If only everyone wants it, it can be arranged at once. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky in The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, #KEYS
100:Sri Aurobindo tells us that surrender is the first and absolute condition for doing the yoga. Therefore it is not merely one of the required qualities, it is the very first indispensable attitude for commencing the yoga.
If you are not decided to make a total surrender, you cannot begin. But to make your surrender total, all the other qualities are necessary: sincerity, faith, devotion and aspiration.
And I add another one : endurance. Because if you are not able to face difficulties without getting discouraged, without giving up under the pretext that it is too difficult, if you are not able to receive blows and continue all the same, to "pocket" them, as it is said,—you receive blows because of your defects : you put them into your pocket and continue to march on without faltering; if you cannot do that with endurance, you will not go very far; at the first turning, when you lose sight of the little habitual life, you despair and give up the game.
The most material form of endurance is perseverance. Unless you are resolved to begin the same thing over again a thousand times if needed, you will arrive nowhere.
People come to me in despair : "But I thought it had been done, and I have to begin again !" And if they are told, "But it is nothing, you have to begin probably a hundred times, two hundred times, a thousand times", they lose all courage.
You take one step forward and you believe you are solid, but there will be always something that will bring about the same difficulty a little farther ahead.
You believe you have solved the problem, but will have to solve it again, it will present itself with just a little difference in its appearance, but it will be the same problem.
Thus there are people who have a fine experience and they exclaim, "Now, it is done !" Then things settle down, begin to fade, go behind a veil, and all on a sudden, something quite unexpected, a thing absolutely commonplace, that appears to be of no interest at all, comes before them and closes up the road. Then you lament: "Of what use is this progress that I have made, if I am to begin again !
Why is it so? I made an effort, I succeeded, I arrived at something and now it is as if I had done nothing. It is hopeless". This is because there is still the "I" and this "I" has no endurance.
If you have endurance, you say : "All right, I will begin again and again as long as necessary, a thousand times, ten thousand times, a million times, if necessary, but I will go to the end and nothing can stop me on the way".
That is very necessary.
Now, to sum up, we will put at the head of our list surrender. That is to say, we accept the fact that one must, in order to do the integral yoga, take the resolution of surrendering oneself wholly to the Divine. There is no other way, it is the way. ~ The Mother,#KEYS
101:The supreme Truth aspect which thus manifests itself to us is an eternal and infinite and absolute self-existence, self-awareness, self-delight of being; this bounds all things and secretly supports and pervades all things. This Self-existence reveals itself again in three terms of its essential nature,-self, conscious being or spirit, and God or the Divine Being. The Indian terms are more satisfactory,-Brahman the Reality is Atman, Purusha, Ishwara; for these terms grew from a root of Intuition and, while they have a comprehensive preciseness, are capable of a plastic application which avoids both vagueness in the use and the rigid snare of a too limiting intellectual concept. The Supreme Brahman is that which in Western metaphysics is called the Absolute: but Brahman is at the same time the omnipresent Reality in which all that is relative exists as its forms or its movements; this is an Absolute which takes all relativities in its embrace. [...] Brahman is the Consciousness that knows itself in all that exists; Brahman is the force that sustains the power of God and Titan and Demon, the Force that acts in man and animal and the forms and energies of Nature; Brahman is the Ananda, the secret Bliss of existence which is the ether of our being and without which none could breathe or live. Brahman is the inner Soul in all; it has taken a form in correspondence with each created form which it inhabits. The Lord of Beings is that which is conscious in the conscious being, but he is also the Conscious in inconscient things, the One who is master and in control of the many that are passive in the hands of Force-Nature. He is the Timeless and Time; He is Space and all that is in Space; He is Causality and the cause and the effect: He is the thinker and his thought, the warrior and his courage, the gambler and his dice-throw. All realities and all aspects and all semblances are the Brahman; Brahman is the Absolute, the Transcendent and incommunicable, the Supracosmic Existence that sustains the cosmos, the Cosmic Self that upholds all beings, but It is too the self of each individual: the soul or psychic entity is an eternal portion of the Ishwara; it is his supreme Nature or Consciousness-Force that has become the living being in a world of living beings. The Brahman alone is, and because of It all are, for all are the Brahman; this Reality is the reality of everything that we see in Self and Nature. Brahman, the Ishwara, is all this by his Yoga-Maya, by the power of his Consciousness-Force put out in self-manifestation: he is the Conscious Being, Soul, Spirit, Purusha, and it is by his Nature, the force of his conscious self-existence that he is all things; he is the Ishwara, the omniscient and omnipotent All-ruler, and it is by his Shakti, his conscious Power, that he manifests himself in Time and governs the universe. These and similar statements taken together are all-comprehensive: it is possible for the mind to cut and select, to build a closed system and explain away all that does not fit within it; but it is on the complete and many-sided statement that we must take our stand if we have to acquire an integral knowledge.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Book 02: The Knowledge and the Ignorance - The Spiritual Evolution, Part I, The Infinite Consciousness and the Ignorance Brahman, Purusha, Ishwara - Maya, Prakriti, Shakti [336-337],#KEYS
102:THE WAND
THE Magical Will is in its essence twofold, for it presupposes a beginning and an end; to will to be a thing is to admit that you are not that thing.
Hence to will anything but the supreme thing, is to wander still further from it - any will but that to give up the self to the Beloved is Black Magick - yet this surrender is so simple an act that to our complex minds it is the most difficult of all acts; and hence training is necessary. Further, the Self surrendered must not be less than the All-Self; one must not come before the altar of the Most High with an impure or an imperfect offering. As it is written in Liber LXV, "To await Thee is the end, not the beginning."
This training may lead through all sorts of complications, varying according to the nature of the student, and hence it may be necessary for him at any moment to will all sorts of things which to others might seem unconnected with the goal. Thus it is not "a priori" obvious why a billiard player should need a file.
Since, then, we may want "anything," let us see to it that our will is strong enough to obtain anything we want without loss of time.
It is therefore necessary to develop the will to its highest point, even though the last task but one is the total surrender of this will. Partial surrender of an imperfect will is of no account in Magick.
The will being a lever, a fulcrum is necessary; this fulcrum is the main aspiration of the student to attain. All wills which are not dependent upon this principal will are so many leakages; they are like fat to the athlete.
The majority of the people in this world are ataxic; they cannot coordinate their mental muscles to make a purposed movement. They have no real will, only a set of wishes, many of which contradict others. The victim wobbles from one to the other (and it is no less wobbling because the movements may occasionally be very violent) and at the end of life the movements cancel each other out. Nothing has been achieved; except the one thing of which the victim is not conscious: the destruction of his own character, the confirming of indecision. Such an one is torn limb from limb by Choronzon.
How then is the will to be trained? All these wishes, whims, caprices, inclinations, tendencies, appetites, must be detected, examined, judged by the standard of whether they help or hinder the main purpose, and treated accordingly.
Vigilance and courage are obviously required. I was about to add self-denial, in deference to conventional speech; but how could I call that self-denial which is merely denial of those things which hamper the self? It is not suicide to kill the germs of malaria in one's blood.
Now there are very great difficulties to be overcome in the training of the mind. Perhaps the greatest is forgetfulness, which is probably the worst form of what the Buddhists call ignorance. Special practices for training the memory may be of some use as a preliminary for persons whose memory is naturally poor. In any case the Magical Record prescribed for Probationers of the A.'.A.'. is useful and necessary.
Above all the practices of Liber III must be done again and again, for these practices develop not only vigilance but those inhibiting centres in the brain which are, according to some psychologists, the mainspring of the mechanism by which civilized man has raised himself above the savage.
So far it has been spoken, as it were, in the negative. Aaron's rod has become a serpent, and swallowed the serpents of the other Magicians; it is now necessary to turn it once more into a rod.
~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA, Book 4, The Wand,#KEYS
103:Education
THE EDUCATION of a human being should begin at birth and continue throughout his life.
Indeed, if we want this education to have its maximum result, it should begin even before birth; in this case it is the mother herself who proceeds with this education by means of a twofold action: first, upon herself for her own improvement, and secondly, upon the child whom she is forming physically. For it is certain that the nature of the child to be born depends very much upon the mother who forms it, upon her aspiration and will as well as upon the material surroundings in which she lives. To see that her thoughts are always beautiful and pure, her feelings always noble and fine, her material surroundings as harmonious as possible and full of a great simplicity - this is the part of education which should apply to the mother herself. And if she has in addition a conscious and definite will to form the child according to the highest ideal she can conceive, then the very best conditions will be realised so that the child can come into the world with his utmost potentialities. How many difficult efforts and useless complications would be avoided in this way!
Education to be complete must have five principal aspects corresponding to the five principal activities of the human being: the physical, the vital, the mental, the psychic and the spiritual. Usually, these phases of education follow chronologically the growth of the individual; this, however, does not mean that one of them should replace another, but that all must continue, completing one another until the end of his life.
We propose to study these five aspects of education one by one and also their interrelationships. But before we enter into the details of the subject, I wish to make a recommendation to parents. Most parents, for various reasons, give very little thought to the true education which should be imparted to children. When they have brought a child into the world, provided him with food, satisfied his various material needs and looked after his health more or less carefully, they think they have fully discharged their duty. Later on, they will send him to school and hand over to the teachers the responsibility for his education.
There are other parents who know that their children must be educated and who try to do what they can. But very few, even among those who are most serious and sincere, know that the first thing to do, in order to be able to educate a child, is to educate oneself, to become conscious and master of oneself so that one never sets a bad example to one's child. For it is above all through example that education becomes effective. To speak good words and to give wise advice to a child has very little effect if one does not oneself give him an example of what one teaches. Sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self-control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches. Parents, have a high ideal and always act in accordance with it and you will see that little by little your child will reflect this ideal in himself and spontaneously manifest the qualities you would like to see expressed in his nature. Quite naturally a child has respect and admiration for his parents; unless they are quite unworthy, they will always appear to their child as demigods whom he will try to imitate as best he can.
With very few exceptions, parents are not aware of the disastrous influence that their own defects, impulses, weaknesses and lack of self-control have on their children. If you wish to be respected by a child, have respect for yourself and be worthy of respect at every moment. Never be authoritarian, despotic, impatient or ill-tempered. When your child asks you a question, do not give him a stupid or silly answer under the pretext that he cannot understand you. You can always make yourself understood if you take enough trouble; and in spite of the popular saying that it is not always good to tell the truth, I affirm that it is always good to tell the truth, but that the art consists in telling it in such a way as to make it accessible to the mind of the hearer. In early life, until he is twelve or fourteen, the child's mind is hardly open to abstract notions and general ideas. And yet you can train it to understand these things by using concrete images, symbols or parables. Up to quite an advanced age and for some who mentally always remain children, a narrative, a story, a tale well told teach much more than any number of theoretical explanations.
Another pitfall to avoid: do not scold your child without good reason and only when it is quite indispensable. A child who is too often scolded gets hardened to rebuke and no longer attaches much importance to words or severity of tone. And above all, take good care never to scold him for a fault which you yourself commit. Children are very keen and clear-sighted observers; they soon find out your weaknesses and note them without pity.
When a child has done something wrong, see that he confesses it to you spontaneously and frankly; and when he has confessed, with kindness and affection make him understand what was wrong in his movement so that he will not repeat it, but never scold him; a fault confessed must always be forgiven. You should not allow any fear to come between you and your child; fear is a pernicious means of education: it invariably gives birth to deceit and lying. Only a discerning affection that is firm yet gentle and an adequate practical knowledge will create the bonds of trust that are indispensable for you to be able to educate your child effectively. And do not forget that you have to control yourself constantly in order to be equal to your task and truly fulfil the duty which you owe your child by the mere fact of having brought him into the world.
Bulletin, February 1951
~ The Mother, On Education,#KEYS
104:
The whole question.
The whole question? And now, do you understand?... Not quite? I told you that you did not understand because it was muddled up; in one question three different ideas were included. So naturally it created a confusion. But taken separately they are what I explained to you just now, most probably; that is to say, one has this altogether ignorant and obliterated consciousness and is convinced that he is the cause and effect, the origin and result of himself, separate from all others, separate with a limited power to act upon others and a little greater capacity to be set in movement by others or to react to others' influence. That is how people think usually, something like that, isn't that so? How do you feel, you? What effect do you have upon yourself? And you? And you?... You have never thought about it? You have never looked into yourself to see what effect you exercise upon yourself? Never thought over it? No? How do you feel? Nobody will tell me? Come, you tell me that. Never tried to understand how you feel? Yes? No? How strange! Never sought to understand how, for example, decisions take place in you? From where do they come? What makes you decide one thing rather than another? And what is the relation between a decision of yours and your action? And to what extent do you have the freedom of choice between one thing and another? And how far do you feel you are able to, you are free to do this or that or that other or nothing at all?... You have pondered over that? Yes? Is there any one among the students who has thought over it? No? Nobody put the question to himself? You? You?...
Even if one thinks over it, perhaps one is not able to answer!
One cannot explain?
No.
It is difficult to explain? Even this simple little thing, to see where in your consciousness the wills that come from outside meet your will (which you call yours, which comes from within), at what place the two join together and to what extent the one from outside acts upon that from within and the one from within acts upon that from outside? You have never tried to find this out? It has never seemed to you unbearable that a will from outside should have an action upon your will? No?
I do not know.
Oh! I am putting very difficult problems! But, my children, I was preoccupied with that when I was a child of five!... So I thought you must have been preoccupied with it since a long time. In oneself, there are contradictory wills. Yes, many. That is one of the very first discoveries. There is one part which wants things this way; and then at another moment, another way, and a third time, one wants still another thing! Besides, there is even this: something that wants and another which says no. So? But it is exactly that which has to be found if you wish in the least to organise yourself. Why not project yourself upon a screen, as in the cinema, and then look at yourself moving on it? How interesting it is!
This is the first step.
You project yourself on the screen and then observe and see all that is moving there and how it moves and what happens. You make a little diagram, it becomes so interesting then. And then, after a while, when you are quite accustomed to seeing, you can go one step further and take a decision. Or even a still greater step: you organise - arrange, take up all that, put each thing in its place, organise in such a way that you begin to have a straight movement with an inner meaning. And then you become conscious of your direction and are able to say: "Very well, it will be thus; my life will develop in that way, because that is the logic of my being. Now, I have arranged all that within me, each thing has been put in its place, and so naturally a central orientation is forming. I am following this orientation. One step more and I know what will happen to me for I myself am deciding it...." I do not know, I am telling you this; to me it seemed terribly interesting, the most interesting thing in the world. There was nothing, no other thing that interested me more than that.
This happened to me.... I was five or six or seven years old (at seven the thing became quite serious) and I had a father who loved the circus, and he came and told me: "Come with me, I am going to the circus on Sunday." I said: "No, I am doing something much more interesting than going to the circus!" Or again, young friends invited me to attend a meeting where we were to play together, enjoy together: "No, I enjoy here much more...." And it was quite sincere. It was not a pose: for me, it was like this, it was true. There was nothing in the world more enjoyable than that.
And I am so convinced that anybody who does it in that way, with the same freshness and sincerity, will obtain most interesting results.... To put all that on a screen in front of yourself and look at what is happening. And the first step is to know all that is happening and then you must not try to shut your eyes when something does not appear pleasant to you! You must keep them wide open and put each thing in that way before the screen. Then you make quite an interesting discovery. And then the next step is to start telling yourself: "Since all that is happening within me, why should I not put this thing in this way and then that thing in that way and then this other in this way and thus wouldn't I be doing something logical that has a meaning? Why should I not remove that thing which stands obstructing the way, these conflicting wills? Why? And what does that represent in the being? Why is it there? If it were put there, would it not help instead of harming me?" And so on.
And little by little, little by little, you see clearer and then you see why you are made like that, what is the thing you have got to do - that for which you are born. And then, quite naturally, since all is organised for this thing to happen, the path becomes straight and you can say beforehand: "It is in this way that it will happen." And when things come from outside to try and upset all that, you are able to say: "No, I accept this, for it helps; I reject that, for that harms." And then, after a few years, you curb yourself as you curb a horse: you do whatever you like, in the way you like and you go wherever you like.
It seems to me this is worth the trouble. I believe it is the most interesting thing.
...
You must have a great deal of sincerity, a little courage and perseverance and then a sort of mental curiosity, you understand, curious, seeking to know, interested, wanting to learn. To love to learn: that, one must have in one's nature. To find it impossible to stand before something grey, all hazy, in which nothing is seen clearly and which gives you quite an unpleasant feeling, for you do not know where you begin and where you end, what is yours and what is not yours and what is settled and what is not settled - what is this pulp-like thing you call yourself in which things get intermingled and act upon one another without even your being aware of it? You ask yourself: "But why have I done this?" You know nothing about it. "And why have I felt that?" You don't know that, either. And then, you are thrown into a world outside that is only fog and you are thrown into a world inside that is also for you another kind of fog, still more impenetrable, in which you live, like a cork thrown upon the waters and the waves carry it away or cast it into the air, and it drops and rolls on. That is quite an unpleasant state. I do not know, but to me it appears unpleasant.
To see clearly, to see one's way, where one is going, why one is going there, how one is to go there and what one is going to do and what is the kind of relation with others... But that is a problem so wonderfully interesting - it is interesting - and you can always discover things every minute! One's work is never finished.
There is a time, there is a certain state of consciousness when you have the feeling that you are in that condition with all the weight of the world lying heavy upon you and besides you are going in blinkers and do not know where you are going, but there is something which is pushing you. And that is truly a very unpleasant condition. And there is another moment when one draws oneself up and is able to see what is there above, and one becomes it; then one looks at the world as though from the top of a very very high mountain and one sees all that is happening below; then one can choose one's way and follow it. That is a more pleasant condition. This then is truly the truth, you are upon earth for that, surely. All individual beings and all the little concentrations of consciousness were created to do this work. It is the very reason for existence: to be able to become fully conscious of a certain sum of vibrations representing an individual being and put order there and find one's way and follow it.
And so, as men do not know it and do not do it, life comes and gives them a blow here: "Oh! that hurts", then a blow there: "Ah! that's hurting me." And the thing goes on like that and all the time it is like that. And all the time they are getting pain somewhere. They suffer, they cry, they groan. But it is simply due to that reason, there is no other: it is that they have not done that little work. If, when they were quite young, there had been someone to teach them to do the work and they had done it without losing time, they could have gone through life gloriously and instead of suffering they would have been all-powerful masters of their destiny.
This is not to say that necessarily all things would become pleasant. It is not at all that. But your reaction towards things becomes the true reaction and instead of suffering, you learn; instead of being miserable, you go forward and progress. After all, I believe it is for this that you are here - so that there is someone who can tell you: "There, well, try that. It is worth trying." ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953, 199,#KEYS
105:The Supreme Discovery
IF WE want to progress integrally, we must build within our conscious being a strong and pure mental synthesis which can serve us as a protection against temptations from outside, as a landmark to prevent us from going astray, as a beacon to light our way across the moving ocean of life.
Each individual should build up this mental synthesis according to his own tendencies and affinities and aspirations. But if we want it to be truly living and luminous, it must be centred on the idea that is the intellectual representation symbolising That which is at the centre of our being, That which is our life and our light.
This idea, expressed in sublime words, has been taught in various forms by all the great Instructors in all lands and all ages.
The Self of each one and the great universal Self are one. Since all that is exists from all eternity in its essence and principle, why make a distinction between the being and its origin, between ourselves and what we place at the beginning?
The ancient traditions rightly said:
"Our origin and ourselves, our God and ourselves are one."
And this oneness should not be understood merely as a more or less close and intimate relationship of union, but as a true identity.
Thus, when a man who seeks the Divine attempts to reascend by degrees towards the inaccessible, he forgets that all his knowledge and all his intuition cannot take him one step forward in this infinite; neither does he know that what he wants to attain, what he believes to be so far from him, is within him.
For how could he know anything of the origin until he becomes conscious of this origin in himself?
It is by understanding himself, by learning to know himself, that he can make the supreme discovery and cry out in wonder like the patriarch in the Bible, "The house of God is here and I knew it not."
That is why we must express that sublime thought, creatrix of the material worlds, and make known to all the word that fills the heavens and the earth, "I am in all things and all beings."When all shall know this, the promised day of great transfigurations will be at hand. When in each atom of Matter men shall recognise the indwelling thought of God, when in each living creature they shall perceive some hint of a gesture of God, when each man can see God in his brother, then dawn will break, dispelling the darkness, the falsehood, the ignorance, the error and suffering that weigh upon all Nature. For, "all Nature suffers and laments as she awaits the revelation of the Sons of God."
This indeed is the central thought epitomising all others, the thought which should be ever present to our remembrance as the sun that illumines all life.
That is why I remind you of it today. For if we follow our path bearing this thought in our hearts like the rarest jewel, the most precious treasure, if we allow it to do its work of illumination and transfiguration within us, we shall know that it lives in the centre of all beings and all things, and in it we shall feel the marvellous oneness of the universe.
Then we shall understand the vanity and childishness of our meagre satisfactions, our foolish quarrels, our petty passions, our blind indignations. We shall see the dissolution of our little faults, the crumbling of the last entrenchments of our limited personality and our obtuse egoism. We shall feel ourselves being swept along by this sublime current of true spirituality which will deliver us from our narrow limits and bounds.
The individual Self and the universal Self are one; in every world, in every being, in every thing, in every atom is the Divine Presence, and man's mission is to manifest it.
In order to do that, he must become conscious of this Divine Presence within him. Some individuals must undergo a real apprenticeship in order to achieve this: their egoistic being is too all-absorbing, too rigid, too conservative, and their struggles against it are long and painful. Others, on the contrary, who are more impersonal, more plastic, more spiritualised, come easily into contact with the inexhaustible divine source of their being.But let us not forget that they too should devote themselves daily, constantly, to a methodical effort of adaptation and transformation, so that nothing within them may ever again obscure the radiance of that pure light.
But how greatly the standpoint changes once we attain this deeper consciousness! How understanding widens, how compassion grows!
On this a sage has said:
"I would like each one of us to come to the point where he perceives the inner God who dwells even in the vilest of human beings; instead of condemning him we would say, 'Arise, O resplendent Being, thou who art ever pure, who knowest neither birth nor death; arise, Almighty One, and manifest thy nature.'"
Let us live by this beautiful utterance and we shall see everything around us transformed as if by miracle.
This is the attitude of true, conscious and discerning love, the love which knows how to see behind appearances, understand in spite of words, and which, amid all obstacles, is in constant communion with the depths.
What value have our impulses and our desires, our anguish and our violence, our sufferings and our struggles, all these inner vicissitudes unduly dramatised by our unruly imagination - what value do they have before this great, this sublime and divine love bending over us from the innermost depths of our being, bearing with our weaknesses, rectifying our errors, healing our wounds, bathing our whole being with its regenerating streams?
For the inner Godhead never imposes herself, she neither demands nor threatens; she offers and gives herself, conceals and forgets herself in the heart of all beings and things; she never accuses, she neither judges nor curses nor condemns, but works unceasingly to perfect without constraint, to mend without reproach, to encourage without impatience, to enrich each one with all the wealth he can receive; she is the mother whose love bears fruit and nourishes, guards and protects, counsels and consoles; because she understands everything, she can endure everything, excuse and pardon everything, hope and prepare for everything; bearing everything within herself, she owns nothing that does not belong to all, and because she reigns over all, she is the servant of all; that is why all, great and small, who want to be kings with her and gods in her, become, like her, not despots but servitors among their brethren.
How beautiful is this humble role of servant, the role of all who have been revealers and heralds of the God who is within all, of the Divine Love that animates all things....
And until we can follow their example and become true servants even as they, let us allow ourselves to be penetrated and transformed by this Divine Love; let us offer Him, without reserve, this marvellous instrument, our physical organism. He shall make it yield its utmost on every plane of activity.
To achieve this total self-consecration, all means are good, all methods have their value. The one thing needful is to persevere in our will to attain this goal. For then everything we study, every action we perform, every human being we meet, all come to bring us an indication, a help, a light to guide us on the path.
Before I close, I shall add a few pages for those who have already made apparently fruitless efforts, for those who have encountered the pitfalls on the way and seen the measure of their weakness, for those who are in danger of losing their self-confidence and courage. These pages, intended to rekindle hope in the hearts of those who suffer, were written by a spiritual worker at a time when ordeals of every kind were sweeping down on him like purifying flames.
You who are weary, downcast and bruised, you who fall, who think perhaps that you are defeated, hear the voice of a friend. He knows your sorrows, he has shared them, he has suffered like you from the ills of the earth; like you he has crossed many deserts under the burden of the day, he has known thirst and hunger, solitude and abandonment, and the cruellest of all wants, the destitution of the heart. Alas! he has known too the hours of doubt, the errors, the faults, the failings, every weakness.
But he tells you: Courage! Hearken to the lesson that the rising sun brings to the earth with its first rays each morning. It is a lesson of hope, a message of solace.
You who weep, who suffer and tremble, who dare not expect an end to your ills, an issue to your pangs, behold: there is no night without dawn and the day is about to break when darkness is thickest; there is no mist that the sun does not dispel, no cloud that it does not gild, no tear that it will not dry one day, no storm that is not followed by its shining triumphant bow; there is no snow that it does not melt, nor winter that it does not change into radiant spring.
And for you too, there is no affliction which does not bring its measure of glory, no distress which cannot be transformed into joy, nor defeat into victory, nor downfall into higher ascension, nor solitude into radiating centre of life, nor discord into harmony - sometimes it is a misunderstanding between two minds that compels two hearts to open to mutual communion; lastly, there is no infinite weakness that cannot be changed into strength. And it is even in supreme weakness that almightiness chooses to reveal itself!
Listen, my little child, you who today feel so broken, so fallen perhaps, who have nothing left, nothing to cover your misery and foster your pride: never before have you been so great! How close to the summits is he who awakens in the depths, for the deeper the abyss, the more the heights reveal themselves!
Do you not know this, that the most sublime forces of the vasts seek to array themselves in the most opaque veils of Matter? Oh, the sublime nuptials of sovereign love with the obscurest plasticities, of the shadow's yearning with the most royal light!
If ordeal or fault has cast you down, if you have sunk into the nether depths of suffering, do not grieve - for there indeed the divine love and the supreme blessing can reach you! Because you have passed through the crucible of purifying sorrows, the glorious ascents are yours.
You are in the wilderness: then listen to the voices of the silence. The clamour of flattering words and outer applause has gladdened your ears, but the voices of the silence will gladden your soul and awaken within you the echo of the depths, the chant of divine harmonies!
You are walking in the depths of night: then gather the priceless treasures of the night. In bright sunshine, the ways of intelligence are lit, but in the white luminosities of the night lie the hidden paths of perfection, the secret of spiritual riches.
You are being stripped of everything: that is the way towards plenitude. When you have nothing left, everything will be given to you. Because for those who are sincere and true, from the worst always comes the best.
Every grain that is sown in the earth produces a thousand. Every wing-beat of sorrow can be a soaring towards glory.
And when the adversary pursues man relentlessly, everything he does to destroy him only makes him greater.
Hear the story of the worlds, look: the great enemy seems to triumph. He casts the beings of light into the night, and the night is filled with stars. He rages against the cosmic working, he assails the integrity of the empire of the sphere, shatters its harmony, divides and subdivides it, scatters its dust to the four winds of infinity, and lo! the dust is changed into a golden seed, fertilising the infinite and peopling it with worlds which now gravitate around their eternal centre in the larger orbit of space - so that even division creates a richer and deeper unity, and by multiplying the surfaces of the material universe, enlarges the empire that it set out to destroy.
Beautiful indeed was the song of the primordial sphere cradled in the bosom of immensity, but how much more beautiful and triumphant is the symphony of the constellations, the music of the spheres, the immense choir that fills the heavens with an eternal hymn of victory!
Hear again: no state was ever more precarious than that of man when he was separated on earth from his divine origin. Above him stretched the hostile borders of the usurper, and at his horizon's gates watched jailers armed with flaming swords. Then, since he could climb no more to the source of life, the source arose within him; since he could no more receive the light from above, the light shone forth at the very centre of his being; since he could commune no more with the transcendent love, that love offered itself in a holocaust and chose each terrestrial being, each human self as its dwelling-place and sanctuary.
That is how, in this despised and desolate but fruitful and blessed Matter, each atom contains a divine thought, each being carries within him the Divine Inhabitant. And if no being in all the universe is as frail as man, neither is any as divine as he!
In truth, in truth, in humiliation lies the cradle of glory! 28 April 1912 ~ The Mother, Words Of Long Ago, The Supreme Discovery,#KEYS
106:One little picture in this book, the Magic Locket, was drawn by 'Miss Alice Havers.' I did not state this on the title-page, since it seemed only due, to the artist of all these (to my mind) wonderful pictures, that his name should stand there alone.
The descriptions, of Sunday as spent by children of the last generation, are quoted verbatim from a speech made to me by a child-friend and a letter written to me by a lady-friend.
The Chapters, headed 'Fairy Sylvie' and 'Bruno's Revenge,' are a reprint, with a few alterations, of a little fairy-tale which I wrote in the year 1867, at the request of the late Mrs. Gatty, for 'Aunt Judy's Magazine,' which she was then editing.
It was in 1874, I believe, that the idea first occurred to me of making it the nucleus of a longer story.
As the years went on, I jotted down, at odd moments, all sorts of odd ideas, and fragments of dialogue, that occurred to me--who knows how?--with a transitory suddenness that left me no choice but either to record them then and there, or to abandon them to oblivion. Sometimes one could trace to their source these random flashes of thought--as being suggested by the book one was reading, or struck out from the 'flint' of one's own mind by the 'steel' of a friend's chance remark but they had also a way of their own, of occurring, a propos of nothing --specimens of that hopelessly illogical phenomenon, 'an effect without a cause.' Such, for example, was the last line of 'The Hunting of the Snark,' which came into my head (as I have already related in 'The Theatre' for April, 1887) quite suddenly, during a solitary walk: and such, again, have been passages which occurred in dreams, and which I cannot trace to any antecedent cause whatever. There are at least two instances of such dream-suggestions in this book--one, my Lady's remark, 'it often runs in families, just as a love for pastry does', the other, Eric Lindon's badinage about having been in domestic service.
And thus it came to pass that I found myself at last in possession of a huge unwieldy mass of litterature--if the reader will kindly excuse the spelling --which only needed stringing together, upon the thread of a consecutive story, to constitute the book I hoped to write. Only! The task, at first, seemed absolutely hopeless, and gave me a far clearer idea, than I ever had before, of the meaning of the word 'chaos': and I think it must have been ten years, or more, before I had succeeded in classifying these odds-and-ends sufficiently to see what sort of a story they indicated: for the story had to grow out of the incidents, not the incidents out of the story I am telling all this, in no spirit of egoism, but because I really believe that some of my readers will be interested in these details of the 'genesis' of a book, which looks so simple and straight-forward a matter, when completed, that they might suppose it to have been written straight off, page by page, as one would write a letter, beginning at the beginning; and ending at the end.
It is, no doubt, possible to write a story in that way: and, if it be not vanity to say so, I believe that I could, myself,--if I were in the unfortunate position (for I do hold it to be a real misfortune) of being obliged to produce a given amount of fiction in a given time,--that I could 'fulfil my task,' and produce my 'tale of bricks,' as other slaves have done. One thing, at any rate, I could guarantee as to the story so produced--that it should be utterly commonplace, should contain no new ideas whatever, and should be very very weary reading!
This species of literature has received the very appropriate name of 'padding' which might fitly be defined as 'that which all can write and none can read.' That the present volume contains no such writing I dare not avow: sometimes, in order to bring a picture into its proper place, it has been necessary to eke out a page with two or three extra lines : but I can honestly say I have put in no more than I was absolutely compelled to do.
My readers may perhaps like to amuse themselves by trying to detect, in a given passage, the one piece of 'padding' it contains. While arranging the 'slips' into pages, I found that the passage was 3 lines too short. I supplied the deficiency, not by interpolating a word here and a word there, but by writing in 3 consecutive lines. Now can my readers guess which they are?
A harder puzzle if a harder be desired would be to determine, as to the Gardener's Song, in which cases (if any) the stanza was adapted to the surrounding text, and in which (if any) the text was adapted to the stanza.
Perhaps the hardest thing in all literature--at least I have found it so: by no voluntary effort can I accomplish it: I have to take it as it come's is to write anything original. And perhaps the easiest is, when once an original line has been struck out, to follow it up, and to write any amount more to the same tune. I do not know if 'Alice in Wonderland' was an original story--I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it--but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen storybooks have appeared, on identically the same pattern. The path I timidly explored believing myself to be 'the first that ever burst into that silent sea'--is now a beaten high-road: all the way-side flowers have long ago been trampled into the dust: and it would be courting disaster for me to attempt that style again.
Hence it is that, in 'Sylvie and Bruno,' I have striven with I know not what success to strike out yet another new path: be it bad or good, it is the best I can do. It is written, not for money, and not for fame, but in the hope of supplying, for the children whom I love, some thoughts that may suit those hours of innocent merriment which are the very life of Childhood; and also in the hope of suggesting, to them and to others, some thoughts that may prove, I would fain hope, not wholly out of harmony with the graver cadences of Life.
If I have not already exhausted the patience of my readers, I would like to seize this opportunity perhaps the last I shall have of addressing so many friends at once of putting on record some ideas that have occurred to me, as to books desirable to be written--which I should much like to attempt, but may not ever have the time or power to carry through--in the hope that, if I should fail (and the years are gliding away very fast) to finish the task I have set myself, other hands may take it up.
First, a Child's Bible. The only real essentials of this would be, carefully selected passages, suitable for a child's reading, and pictures. One principle of selection, which I would adopt, would be that Religion should be put before a child as a revelation of love--no need to pain and puzzle the young mind with the history of crime and punishment. (On such a principle I should, for example, omit the history of the Flood.) The supplying of the pictures would involve no great difficulty: no new ones would be needed : hundreds of excellent pictures already exist, the copyright of which has long ago expired, and which simply need photo-zincography, or some similar process, for their successful reproduction. The book should be handy in size with a pretty attractive looking cover--in a clear legible type--and, above all, with abundance of pictures, pictures, pictures!
Secondly, a book of pieces selected from the Bible--not single texts, but passages of from 10 to 20 verses each--to be committed to memory. Such passages would be found useful, to repeat to one's self and to ponder over, on many occasions when reading is difficult, if not impossible: for instance, when lying awake at night--on a railway-journey --when taking a solitary walk-in old age, when eyesight is failing or wholly lost--and, best of all, when illness, while incapacitating us for reading or any other occupation, condemns us to lie awake through many weary silent hours: at such a time how keenly one may realise the truth of David's rapturous cry "O how sweet are thy words unto my throat: yea, sweeter than honey unto my mouth!"
I have said 'passages,' rather than single texts, because we have no means of recalling single texts: memory needs links, and here are none: one may have a hundred texts stored in the memory, and not be able to recall, at will, more than half-a-dozen--and those by mere chance: whereas, once get hold of any portion of a chapter that has been committed to memory, and the whole can be recovered: all hangs together.
Thirdly, a collection of passages, both prose and verse, from books other than the Bible. There is not perhaps much, in what is called 'un-inspired' literature (a misnomer, I hold: if Shakespeare was not inspired, one may well doubt if any man ever was), that will bear the process of being pondered over, a hundred times: still there are such passages--enough, I think, to make a goodly store for the memory.
These two books of sacred, and secular, passages for memory--will serve other good purposes besides merely occupying vacant hours: they will help to keep at bay many anxious thoughts, worrying thoughts, uncharitable thoughts, unholy thoughts. Let me say this, in better words than my own, by copying a passage from that most interesting book, Robertson's Lectures on the Epistles to the Corinthians, Lecture XLIX. "If a man finds himself haunted by evil desires and unholy images, which will generally be at periodical hours, let him commit to memory passages of Scripture, or passages from the best writers in verse or prose. Let him store his mind with these, as safeguards to repeat when he lies awake in some restless night, or when despairing imaginations, or gloomy, suicidal thoughts, beset him. Let these be to him the sword, turning everywhere to keep the way of the Garden of Life from the intrusion of profaner footsteps."
Fourthly, a "Shakespeare" for girls: that is, an edition in which everything, not suitable for the perusal of girls of (say) from 10 to 17, should be omitted. Few children under 10 would be likely to understand or enjoy the greatest of poets: and those, who have passed out of girlhood, may safely be left to read Shakespeare, in any edition, 'expurgated' or not, that they may prefer: but it seems a pity that so many children, in the intermediate stage, should be debarred from a great pleasure for want of an edition suitable to them. Neither Bowdler's, Chambers's, Brandram's, nor Cundell's 'Boudoir' Shakespeare, seems to me to meet the want: they are not sufficiently 'expurgated.' Bowdler's is the most extraordinary of all: looking through it, I am filled with a deep sense of wonder, considering what he has left in, that he should have cut anything out! Besides relentlessly erasing all that is unsuitable on the score of reverence or decency, I should be inclined to omit also all that seems too difficult, or not likely to interest young readers. The resulting book might be slightly fragmentary: but it would be a real treasure to all British maidens who have any taste for poetry.
If it be needful to apologize to any one for the new departure I have taken in this story--by introducing, along with what will, I hope, prove to be acceptable nonsense for children, some of the graver thoughts of human life--it must be to one who has learned the Art of keeping such thoughts wholly at a distance in hours of mirth and careless ease. To him such a mixture will seem, no doubt, ill-judged and repulsive. And that such an Art exists I do not dispute: with youth, good health, and sufficient money, it seems quite possible to lead, for years together, a life of unmixed gaiety--with the exception of one solemn fact, with which we are liable to be confronted at any moment, even in the midst of the most brilliant company or the most sparkling entertainment. A man may fix his own times for admitting serious thought, for attending public worship, for prayer, for reading the Bible: all such matters he can defer to that 'convenient season', which is so apt never to occur at all: but he cannot defer, for one single moment, the necessity of attending to a message, which may come before he has finished reading this page,' this night shalt thy soul be required of thee.'
The ever-present sense of this grim possibility has been, in all ages, 1 an incubus that men have striven to shake off. Few more interesting subjects of enquiry could be found, by a student of history, than the various weapons that have been used against this shadowy foe. Saddest of all must have been the thoughts of those who saw indeed an existence beyond the grave, but an existence far more terrible than annihilation--an existence as filmy, impalpable, all but invisible spectres, drifting about, through endless ages, in a world of shadows, with nothing to do, nothing to hope for, nothing to love! In the midst of the gay verses of that genial 'bon vivant' Horace, there stands one dreary word whose utter sadness goes to one's heart. It is the word 'exilium' in the well-known passage
Omnes eodem cogimur, omnium
Versatur urna serius ocius
Sors exitura et nos in aeternum
Exilium impositura cymbae.
Yes, to him this present life--spite of all its weariness and all its sorrow--was the only life worth having: all else was 'exile'! Does it not seem almost incredible that one, holding such a creed, should ever have smiled?
And many in this day, I fear, even though believing in an existence beyond the grave far more real than Horace ever dreamed of, yet regard it as a sort of 'exile' from all the joys of life, and so adopt Horace's theory, and say 'let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.'
We go to entertainments, such as the theatre--I say 'we', for I also go to the play, whenever I get a chance of seeing a really good one and keep at arm's length, if possible, the thought that we may not return alive. Yet how do you know--dear friend, whose patience has carried you through this garrulous preface that it may not be your lot, when mirth is fastest and most furious, to feel the sharp pang, or the deadly faintness, which heralds the final crisis--to see, with vague wonder, anxious friends bending over you to hear their troubled whispers perhaps yourself to shape the question, with trembling lips, "Is it serious?", and to be told "Yes: the end is near" (and oh, how different all Life will look when those words are said!)--how do you know, I say, that all this may not happen to you, this night?
And dare you, knowing this, say to yourself "Well, perhaps it is an immoral play: perhaps the situations are a little too 'risky', the dialogue a little too strong, the 'business' a little too suggestive.
I don't say that conscience is quite easy: but the piece is so clever, I must see it this once! I'll begin a stricter life to-morrow." To-morrow, and to-morrow, and tomorrow!
"Who sins in hope, who, sinning, says,
'Sorrow for sin God's judgement stays!'
Against God's Spirit he lies; quite stops Mercy with insult; dares, and drops,
Like a scorch'd fly, that spins in vain
Upon the axis of its pain,
Then takes its doom, to limp and crawl,
Blind and forgot, from fall to fall."
Let me pause for a moment to say that I believe this thought, of the possibility of death--if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong. If the thought of sudden death acquires, for you, a special horror when imagined as happening in a theatre, then be very sure the theatre is harmful for you, however harmless it may be for others; and that you are incurring a deadly peril in going. Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.
But, once realise what the true object is in life--that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds'--but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man--and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!
One other matter may perhaps seem to call for apology--that I should have treated with such entire want of sympathy the British passion for 'Sport', which no doubt has been in by-gone days, and is still, in some forms of it, an excellent school for hardihood and for coolness in moments of danger.
But I am not entirely without sympathy for genuine 'Sport': I can heartily admire the courage of the man who, with severe bodily toil, and at the risk of his life, hunts down some 'man-eating' tiger: and I can heartily sympathize with him when he exults in the glorious excitement of the chase and the hand-to-hand struggle with the monster brought to bay. But I can but look with deep wonder and sorrow on the hunter who, at his ease and in safety, can find pleasure in what involves, for some defenceless creature, wild terror and a death of agony: deeper, if the hunter be one who has pledged himself to preach to men the Religion of universal Love: deepest of all, if it be one of those 'tender and delicate' beings, whose very name serves as a symbol of Love--'thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women'--whose mission here is surely to help and comfort all that are in pain or sorrow!
'Farewell, farewell! but this I tell
To thee, thou Wedding-Guest!
He prayeth well, who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.
He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.' ~ Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno,#KEYS
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:Courage conquers all things. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 2:From caring comes courage. ~ lao-tzu, @wisdomtrove 3:Courage is fear that prays. ~ paulo-coelho, @wisdomtrove 4:Courage is exhilarating. ~ eleanor-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 5:Courage is knowing what not to fear. ~ plato, @wisdomtrove 6:courage is the gift of character ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove 7:Art is a personal act of courage. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 8:A coward's courage is in his tongue. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove 9:Courage is grace under pressure. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 10:Courage is found in unlikely places. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 11:Courage is the foundation of integrity. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove 12:The French courage proceeds from vanity ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 13:Courage and fear were one thing too. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 14:Have the courage to face the truth. ~ w-clement-stone, @wisdomtrove 15:Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends. ~ aeschylus, @wisdomtrove 16:Without justice, courage is weak. ~ benjamin-franklin, @wisdomtrove 17:Be bold, take courage... and be strong of soul ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 18:Another word for creativity is courage. ~ henri-matisse, @wisdomtrove 19:Effort + the courage to show up = enough. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 20:Any dream is possible, if you have courage. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 21:The weak in courage is strong in cunning. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 22:Adventure is the child of courage. ~ jonathan-lockwood-huie, @wisdomtrove 23:Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 24:Having courage does not mean we are unafraid. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 25:Perhaps it takes courage to raise children. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 26:We must substitute courage for caution. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 27:Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 28:The courage to receive time's mightiest dream. ~ e-e-cummings, @wisdomtrove 29:What is genius or courage without a heart? ~ oliver-goldsmith, @wisdomtrove 30:Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 31:Courage faces fear and thereby masters it ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 32:Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage. ~ aeschylus, @wisdomtrove 33:Love always requires courage and involves risk. ~ m-scott-peck, @wisdomtrove 34:Obedience is the highest practical courage. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 35:The best leaders blend courage with compassion. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 36:There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage. ~ moliere, @wisdomtrove 37:Nothing is lost as long as courage remains ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 38:You have the courage and power to live your dreams. ~ les-brown, @wisdomtrove 39:Courage may be taught as a child us taught to speak. ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove 40:Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 41:Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. ~ aristotle, @wisdomtrove 42:From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove 43:I have the courage to be mistaken. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove 44:Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove 45:Faith is the courage to face reality with hope. ~ robert-h-schuller, @wisdomtrove 46:Hope has two lovely daughters, anger and courage. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 47:I breathe in my courage. I exhale my fear. ~ jonathan-lockwood-huie, @wisdomtrove 48:Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ~ anais-nin, @wisdomtrove 49:Your life unfolds in proportion to your courage. ~ danielle-laporte, @wisdomtrove 50:Have the courage to act instead of react. ~ oliver-wendell-holmes-sr, @wisdomtrove 51:It requires more courage to suffer than to die. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 52:One thing it takes to accomplish something is courage. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 53:A good conscience is eight parts of courage. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 54:Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 55:Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 56:Women have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams. ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove 57:Your real courage shows best in the hour of adversity. ~ napoleon-hill, @wisdomtrove 58:Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 59:Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 60:Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long. ~ aeschylus, @wisdomtrove 61:I do not lack the courage to think a thought whole. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 62:Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 63:There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 64:Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 65:It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ~ e-e-cummings, @wisdomtrove 66:Courage is telling our story, not being immune to criticism. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 67:Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 68:my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 69:Courage comes from acting courageously on a day-to-day basis. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 70:Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 71:Great crisis produce great men and great deeds of courage. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 72:The greater part of courage is having done it before. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove 73:We are not born with courage, but neither are we born with fear. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 74:Cash combined with courage in a time of crisis is priceless. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 75:Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 76:No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward ~ aesop, @wisdomtrove 77:The comfort zone is the great enemy of courage and confidence. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 78:Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 79:Courage combined with integrity is the foundation of character. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 80:Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 81:Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . . ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 82:If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 83:I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 84:It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. ~ erma-bombeck, @wisdomtrove 85:Maturity is having the courage to use one's own intelligence! ~ immanuel-kant, @wisdomtrove 86:To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove 87:You can't get to courage without walking through vulnerability. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 88:But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 89:Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible. ~ aristotle, @wisdomtrove 90:Each body is a lion of courage, something precious of the earth. ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove 91:Loving and accepting ourselves are the ultimate acts of courage. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 92:This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends. ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove 93:Courage - To tell the story of who you are with your whole heart. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 94:Dare to go forward. Courage is the mark of greatness in leadership ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 95:Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 96:The great virtue of those who seek the spiritual path is courage. ~ paulo-coelho, @wisdomtrove 97:Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 98:Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 99:From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove 100:Humility is courage, the open acceptance of your own perfection. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 101:It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 102:Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 103:Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove 104:Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 105:We can have courage or we can have comfort, but we cannot have both. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 106:All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 107:Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 108:People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove 109:Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. ~ albert-camus, @wisdomtrove 110:Revolutions are good times for soldiers of talent and courage. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 111:We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 112:We must have courage, faith, and lunch together sometime soon. ~ ashleigh-brilliant, @wisdomtrove 113:Discipline is built by consistently performing small acts of courage. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 114:Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 115:Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard. ~ leonardo-da-vinci, @wisdomtrove 116:When confronted with a stranger's unimaginable pain... choose courage. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 117:Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 118:Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 119:Show me your achievement, and the knowledge will give me courage for mine. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 120:The place where failure happens is also the place where courage lives. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 121:Courage originally meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 122:Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 123:Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. ~ charlie-chaplan, @wisdomtrove 124:If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else. ~ reinhold-niebuhr, @wisdomtrove 125:To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 126:Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 127:Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. ~ winston-churchill, @wisdomtrove 128:Failure is not having the courage to try, nothing more and nothing less. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 129:Faith can give us courage to face the uncertainties of the future. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 130:If there's one thing the American people aren't lacking, it is courage. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 131:To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 132:True courage consists in being courageous precisely when when we're not. ~ jules-renard, @wisdomtrove 133:Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 134:Courage is summoning the inner strength to take action in spite of fear. ~ steve-pavlina, @wisdomtrove 135:Courage is the dividing line between weakness and strength of character. ~ steve-pavlina, @wisdomtrove 136:Courage means to keep making forward progress while you still feel afraid! ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 137:Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 138:You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you can't have both. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 139:Believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 140:Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 141:Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 142:With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it. ~ earl-nightingale, @wisdomtrove 143:Honesty first; then courage; then brains - and all are indispensable. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 144:Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes. ~ aesop, @wisdomtrove 145:True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 146:It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 147:When we're defined by what people think we lose the courage to be vulnerable. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 148:A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live. ~ lao-tzu, @wisdomtrove 149:A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove 150:Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 151:True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 152:Valour is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. ~ michel-de-montaigne, @wisdomtrove 153:Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 154:Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier. ~ eleanor-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 155:Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove 156:The four Cs as secret of my success-curiosity, confidence,courage and constancy. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 157:Courage is of the heart by derivation, And great it is. But fear is of the soul. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 158:It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 159:There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 160:To make the future demands courage. It demands work. But it also demands faith. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 161:Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove 162:Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself. ~ joseph-campbell, @wisdomtrove 163:The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage. ~ michel-de-montaigne, @wisdomtrove 164:As long as you have the courage to admit mistakes, things can be turned around. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 165:Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 166:Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success. ~ johann-wolfgang-von-goethe, @wisdomtrove 167:Humility means that you have the courage to accept that you are eternity itself. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 168:It is not until you have the courage to engage in human relationships that you grow. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 169:Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success? ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 170:To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare. ~ benjamin-franklin, @wisdomtrove 171:when I am feeling low all i have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 172:You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 173:You develop courage by acting courageously whenever you feel like acting otherwise. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 174:Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs Better than all the stalemate an's and ifs. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 175:May you respond to the call of your gift, and find the courage to follow its path. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove 176:Success comes when you have the trust on self, passion to transcend, and courage to do. ~ amit-ray, @wisdomtrove 177:Take Courage! Whatever you decide to do, it will probably be the wrong thing. ~ ashleigh-brilliant, @wisdomtrove 178:The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 179:You have to have courage to love somebody. Because you risk everything. Everything. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 180:Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 181:A good man will certainly also possess courage; but a brave man is not necessarily good. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 182:The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove 183:Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 184:You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove 185:Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 186:Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause. ~ plutarch, @wisdomtrove 187:Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you. ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove 188:Moral courage is more a rare commodity than bravery in a battle or great intelligence. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 189:we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 190:Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 191:Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 192:Courage is the hallmark of spirituality. Courage comes when you love yourself for who you are. ~ amit-ray, @wisdomtrove 193:Embodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove 194:Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage. ~ erma-bombeck, @wisdomtrove 195:The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove 196:The first step to getting what you want is to have the courage to get rid of what you don't. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 197:The main quality of leadership... ... ... .is courage ! If you can dream it, you can do it! ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 198:There is, in addition to a courage with which men die; a courage by which men must live. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 199:Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. ~ lao-tzu, @wisdomtrove 200:Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. ~ aristotle, @wisdomtrove 201:Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. ~ winston-churchill, @wisdomtrove 202:The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 203:The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 204:To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 205:All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination. ~ earl-nightingale, @wisdomtrove 206:No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 207:Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 208:We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can’t have both. Not at the same time. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 209:It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove 210:To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove 211:Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 212:Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 213:When you choose to view your stress response as helpful, you create the biology of courage. ~ kelly-mcgonigal, @wisdomtrove 214:Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 215:The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 216:A man of great common sense and good taste is a man without originality or moral courage. ~ george-bernard-shaw, @wisdomtrove 217:Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 218:We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 219:Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 220:Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always ready in the soul ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 221:Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release. ~ nathaniel-hawthorne, @wisdomtrove 222:Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 223:It's the hardest thing in the world - to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kinds of courage. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 224:You build your & 225:But what courage can withstand the ever-during and all-besetting terrors of a woman's tongue? ~ washington-irving, @wisdomtrove 226:Shall I tell you what you have that other men don't?... . It's the courage of your own tenderness. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 227:Courage is forged in pain, but not in all pain. Pain that is denied or ignored becomes fear or hate. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 228:Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it. ~ dan-millman, @wisdomtrove 229:Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 230:... find the courage to break those agreements that are fear-based and claim your personal power. ~ don-miguel-ruiz, @wisdomtrove 231:In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 232:That's what courage is. If she weren't scared, she wouldn't need courage in the first place." -Jo ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 233:There is no intimacy without vulnerability. Yet another powerful example of vulnerability as courage. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 234:The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 235:This country was founded and built by people with great dreams and the courage to take great risks. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 236:The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 237:The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them. ~ denis-diderot, @wisdomtrove 238:How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. ~ benjamin-franklin, @wisdomtrove 239:In time of revolution, with perseverance and courage, a soldier should think nothing impossible. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 240:Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God? ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 241:Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 242:The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 243:The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them. ~ thomas-aquinas, @wisdomtrove 244:Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand-that and such hope as I bring. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 245:I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove 246:Our strength will continue if we allow ourselves the courage to feel scared, weak, and vulnerable... ~ melody-beattie, @wisdomtrove 247:All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 248:Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 249:It takes courage to do what you want. Other people have a lot of plans for you... Follow your bliss. ~ joseph-campbell, @wisdomtrove 250:Apparent confusion is a product of good order; apparent cowardice, of courage; apparent weakness, of strength. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove 251:Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly ‚Äì all else is desperation. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 252:I now see how gifts like courage, compassion, and connection only work when they are exercised. Every day. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 253:The deepest courage we can exercise is continuing to believe in our dreams until we make them come true. ~ oprah-winfrey, @wisdomtrove 254:Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage. ~ plutarch, @wisdomtrove 255:The courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 256:Courage does not panic; it prays. Courage does not bemoan; it believes. Courage does not languish; it listens ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 257:Do you have the courage for it? Do you have the love? If you have enough of one, you will develop the other. ~ dan-millman, @wisdomtrove 258:Gradual change does not take you to a new level of conscious being. You need courage to let go. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 259:Having the courage to take the steps we always wanted to take is the only way to show that we trust in God. ~ paulo-coelho, @wisdomtrove 260:History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 261:Nothing fosters courage like a clear grasp of grace... & nothing fosters fear like an ignorance of mercy ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 262:To have true integrity, poise, and courage is to be attuned to the silent and invisible nature within you. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove 263:Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is. ~ vernon-howard, @wisdomtrove 264:I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people. ~ george-bernard-shaw, @wisdomtrove 265:Let us be very sincere in our dealings with each other and have the courage to accept each other as we are. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 266:Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove 267:Wisdom, humanity & courage, these three are universal virtues. The way by which they are practiced are one. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 268:You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 269:You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. ~ aristotle, @wisdomtrove 270:Courage is a learned mental skill that you must condition, just as weight training strengthens your muscles. ~ steve-pavlina, @wisdomtrove 271:I found something! Courage& 272:Prison, blood, death, create enthusiasts and martyrs, and bring forth courage and desperate resolution. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 273:Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 274:Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove 275:Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 276:It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. ~ arthur-schopenhauer, @wisdomtrove 277:It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure in order to embrace the new & unknown. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove 278:Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 279:The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 280:Have the courage to be selfless in a world were such qualities are not admired. Dare to be differnt. Be crazy! ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 281:In every crisis, doubt or confusion, take the higher path - the path of compassion, courage, understanding and love. ~ amit-ray, @wisdomtrove 282:It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. ~ eleanor-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 283:The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove 284:What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 285:He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 286:Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough ~ charlie-chaplan, @wisdomtrove 287:Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat? ~ plotinus, @wisdomtrove 288:Less gossiping, more learning. Less complaining, more excelling. Less walls, more bridges. Less fear, more courage ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 289:The Spirit goes ahead of us when we witness - preparing the way, giving us the words, and granting us courage. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 290:Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 291:Vulnerability is not about winning, and it's not about losing. It's about having the courage to show up and be seen. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 292:To be what I term a & 293:Let's fill our minds with thoughts of peace, courage, health, and hope, for "our life is what our thoughts make it." ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 294:Courage is what you earn when you've been through the tough times and you discover they aren't so tough after all. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 295:People who bring transformative change have courage, know how to re-frame the problem and have a sense of urgency. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 296:Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce. ~ plutarch, @wisdomtrove 297:Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength. ~ lao-tzu, @wisdomtrove 298:There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 299:Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others. ~ winston-churchill, @wisdomtrove 300:Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence. ~ mahatma-gandhi, @wisdomtrove 301:To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove 302:When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted. ~ eleanor-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 303:Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 304:Implement your plans with courage and persistence. Have complete faith in your ability to succeed and never, ever give up. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 305:It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 306:All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them. ~ erma-bombeck, @wisdomtrove 307:Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 308:Friends create the world anew each day. Without their loving care, courage would not suffice to keep heartsstrong for life. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 309:It is in the expectations of happiness that much of happiness itself is found. And it takes courage to expect happiness. ~ earl-nightingale, @wisdomtrove 310:The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 311:Leadership is not only having a vision, but also having the courage, the discipline, and the resources to get you there. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove 312:That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 313:I was once afraid of people saying, "Who does she think she is?" Now I have the courage to stand and say, "This is who I am.” ~ oprah-winfrey, @wisdomtrove 314:Standing in the inspiring vision of my future, I boldly take every step - large and small - with courage and intent. ~ jonathan-lockwood-huie, @wisdomtrove 315:The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 316:The word courage comes from the French word & 317:To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 318:Faith is the courage to live your life as if everything that happens does so for your highest good and learning. Like it or not. ~ dan-millman, @wisdomtrove 319:Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame. ~ alexander-the-great, @wisdomtrove 320:Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 321:Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 322:Each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence. ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove 323:I admire and respect the tenacity, courage, and patience of the unenlightened in the face of so much overwhelming evidence ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 324:It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 325:It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams. ~ les-brown, @wisdomtrove 326:Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 327:The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove 328:Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these qualities & 329:Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 330:Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 331:We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy‚îmaterial or spiritual. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove 332:What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 333:& 334:But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer. ~ viktor-frankl, @wisdomtrove 335:For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 336:We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 337:Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 338:By courage I mean the ability to face down those imaginary fears and reclaim the far more powerful life that you've denied yourself. ~ steve-pavlina, @wisdomtrove 339:Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 340:If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it. ~ abraham-lincoln, @wisdomtrove 341:Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove 342:My prayer for you is that you come to understand and have the courage to answer Jesus' call to you with the simple word & 343:Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 344:No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 345:Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 346:The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 347:There is only one courage and that is the courage to go on dying to the past, not to collect it, not to accumulate it, not to cling to it. ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove 348:My hope is that the description of God's love in my life will give you the freedom and the courage to discover... God's love in yours. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 349:Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 350:The formula of life is simple. It is the formula of giving - giving courage, attention, peace, love and comfort to yourself and the society. ~ amit-ray, @wisdomtrove 351:The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove 352:Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove 353:It took great courage to ask a beautiful young woman to marry me. Believe me, it is easier to play the whole Petrushka on the piano. ~ arthur-rubinstein, @wisdomtrove 354:Order or disorder depends on organisation and direction; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on tactical dispositions. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove 355:Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 356:I've always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 357:Face your path with courage, don't be scared of people's criticism. And, above all, don't let yourself get paralyzed by your own criticism. ~ paulo-coelho, @wisdomtrove 358:My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 359:You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. ~ epicurus, @wisdomtrove 360:Faith does not rely on knowing anything with certainty. It requires only the courage to accept that whatever happens is for the highest good. ~ dan-millman, @wisdomtrove 361:The courage to be vulnerable is not about winning or losing, it’s about the courage to show up when you can’t predict or control the outcome. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 362:The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to lead real men in matters of blood, or courage. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 363:The sun will stand as your best man and whistle when you have found the courage to marry forgiveness when you have found the courage to marry Love. ~ hafez, @wisdomtrove 364:Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 365:Seeking to understand takes consideration, seeking to be understood takes courage. Effectiveness lies in balancing or blending the two. ~ stephen-r-covey, @wisdomtrove 366:With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least ten per cent of your net worth in that stock ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 367:You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. ~ eleanor-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 368:A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 369:Serenity comes from the ability to say ‚ÄúYes‚Äù to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say ‚ÄúNo‚Äù to the wrong choices made by others. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 370:There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 371:Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 372:Have the courage to follow your passion – and if you don’t know what it is, realize that one reason for your existence on earth is to find it. ~ oprah-winfrey, @wisdomtrove 373:It seemed incredible to me, that physical courage should be so commonplace and revered, while moral courage . . . is so rare and despised. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove 374:Americans rouse - be unanimous, be virtuous, be firm, exert your courage, trust in Heaven, and nobly defy the enemies both of God and man! ~ alexander-hamilton, @wisdomtrove 375:In order to access a warrior's courage, we must explore why we are so committed to our story and what we are afraid will happen if we give it up. ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove 376:Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove 377:Hatred and fear blind us. We no longer see each other. We see only the faces of monsters, and that gives us the courage to destroy each other. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove 378:God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. ~ reinhold-niebuhr, @wisdomtrove 379:Most people believe vulnerability is weakness. But really vulnerability is Courage. We must ask ourselves... are we willing to show up and be seen. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 380:Now the only moral value is courage, which is useful here for judging the puppets and chatterboxes who pretend to speak in the name of the people. ~ albert-camus, @wisdomtrove 381:Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, "There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life. ~ plutarch, @wisdomtrove 382:There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove 383:Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 384:God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. ~ sonja-lyubomirsky, @wisdomtrove 385:My hope is that we develop enough courage to develop courage. To try to have, try to learn to treat each other fairly, with generosity and kindness. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 386:Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 387:Ability is of little account without opportunity. I have very rarely met with two o'clock in the morning courage: I mean instantaneous courage. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 388:The greatest act of courage is to be and to ownall of who you are - without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth of who you are. ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove 389:True love is love that causes us pain, that hurts, and yet brings us joy. That is why we must pray to God and ask Him to give us the courage to love ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 390:The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. ~ albert-einstein, @wisdomtrove 391:There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 392:Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the ones who raise society to greatness. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 393:Now is wanted intense Karma-Yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 394:The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove 395:A loving and kindly approach works between individuals, it works between groups and it would work between nations if nations had the courage to try it. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 396:Having the courage to make decisions and take action. Never be afraid to fail. You have nothing to fear if you have prepared to the best of your ability. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 397:Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 398:The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter. ~ paulo-coelho, @wisdomtrove 399:Courage is like—it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 400:I define a leader as anyone who takes responsibility for finding the potential in people and processes, and who has the courage to develop that potential. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 401:Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction. ~ albert-einstein, @wisdomtrove 402:There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove 403:We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 404:Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 405:Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 406:Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 407:The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 408:The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage. ~ paulo-coelho, @wisdomtrove 409:To get to this place of a warrior’s courage, we must give up the stories that have ruled our lives and shatter the self-image we created to affirm our story. ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove 410:If you are driven by fear, anger or pride nature will force you to compete. If you are guided by courage, awareness, tranquility and peace nature will serve you. ~ amit-ray, @wisdomtrove 411:In my experience, getting rich takes focus, courage, knowledge, expertise, 100 percent of your effort, a never-give-up attitude and of course a rich mind-set. ~ t-harv-eker, @wisdomtrove 412:I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything... I wish, just once, I could say, & 413:Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome? ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 414:The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove 415:The world lies in the hands of those who have the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams - each according to his or her own talent. ~ paulo-coelho, @wisdomtrove 416:I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. ~ nelson-mandela, @wisdomtrove 417:Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going, always going, no matter what happens, there is no certainty of success. It is really an endurance race. ~ henry-ford, @wisdomtrove 418:... in all the woods and forests, God did not create a single leaf the same as any other… People go against nature because they lack the courage to be different. ~ paulo-coelho, @wisdomtrove 419:Every time we choose courage, we make everyone around us a little better and the world a little braver. And our world could stand to be a little kinder and braver. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 420:I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid. I don't consider it a moral virtue. ~ susan-sontag, @wisdomtrove 421:It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let the person know how you feel. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 422:People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. Live your truth and don't EVER stop! ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 423:Spiritual maturity is measured not by the sophistication of a person's opinions, but by their genuineness and the courage necessary to express and maintain them. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 424:To live with courage, purpose, and connection - to be the person whom we long to be - we must again be vulnerable. We must ... show up, and let ourselves be seen. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 425:Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 426:I speak for those children who cannot speak for themselves, children who have absolutely nothing but their courage and their smiles, their wits and their dreams. ~ audrey-hepburn, @wisdomtrove 427:The challenge of statesmanship is to have the vision to dream of a better, safer world and the courage, persistence, and patience to turn that dream into reality. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 428:The secret of making dreams come true can be summarized in four C's.They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy; and the greatest of these is Confidence. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 429:Authenticity is also about the courage and the vulnerability to say, "Yeah, I'll try it. I feel pretty uncomfortable and I feel a little vulnerable, but I'll try it!" ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 430:It is not executive ability; it is not a great mentality; it is not kindliness, nor courage, nor a sense of humor, though each of these is of tremendous importance. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 431:It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak. ~ booker-t-washington, @wisdomtrove 432:The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 433:The stories of past courage... can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 434:Most people spend most of their time on low-priority busywork because it requires no additional knowledge, skills, or imagination-or courage. In a word, it's easier. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove 435:The first quality of courage is the willingness to launch with no guarantees. The second quality of courage is the ability to endure when there is no success in sight. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 436:Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity. ~ w-clement-stone, @wisdomtrove 437:Is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater courage? Without her, man would not be. If nonviolence is to be the law of our being, the future is with women. ~ mahatma-gandhi, @wisdomtrove 438:May I have the courage today to live the life I would love ... to postpone my dream no longer. But do at last what I came here for and waste my heart on fear no more. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove 439:The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor. ~ benjamin-franklin, @wisdomtrove 440:It takes courage... to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 441:Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 442:Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 443:Spiritual maturity is measured not by the sophistication of a person's opinions, but by their genuineness and the courage necessary to express and maintain them. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 444:Every president has taken comfort and courage when told... that the Lord "will be with thee. He will not fail thee nor forsake thee. Fear not-neither be thou dismayed." ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 445:Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 446:Nonviolence is only for the brave men and women of the world because it requires courage – courage to love the beauty of life, beauty of humanity and the beauty of the world. ~ amit-ray, @wisdomtrove 447:People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 448:This is in the end the only kind of courage that is required of us: the courage to face the strangest, most unusual, most inexplicable experiences that can meet us. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove 449:We each need to make our lion's roar - to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears - to declare our right to awaken. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove 450:Having courage does not mean that we are unafraid. Having courage and showing courage mean we face our fears. We are able to say, & 451:To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 452:Today is your day to paint life in bold colors; set today's rhythm with your heart-drum; walk today's march with courage; create today as your celebration of life. ~ jonathan-lockwood-huie, @wisdomtrove 453:Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen. To ask for what you need. To talk about how you're feeling. To have the hard conversations. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 454:My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 455:The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 456:We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond all senses. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 457:What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. ~ oliver-wendell-holmes-jr, @wisdomtrove 458:If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God's courage and his help. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 459:Those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 460:when pain is to be born, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 461:She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness, and love had a human face as well. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 462:The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 463:Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say "No," though all the world say "Yes. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove 464:You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, & 465:To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence. ~ martin-seligman, @wisdomtrove 466:Strong women- precious jewels all- their humanness is evident in their accessibility. We are able to enter into the spirit of these women and rejoice in their warmth and courage. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 467:There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 468:Makes sense to me. Sometimes starting over is exactly what a person needs. And I think it's admirable. A lot of people don't have the courage it takes to do something like that. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 469:The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 470:An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 471:When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way. ~ paulo-coelho, @wisdomtrove 472:Integrate these principles and habits deep within your nature; into your basic character: integrity, humility, fidelity, temperance, courage, justice, patience, simplicity, modesty. ~ stephen-r-covey, @wisdomtrove 473:Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove 474:Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 475:To ignite your confidence and reclaim your courage, you must step into the highest vision of who you are. The only way to do this is to make the journey back into the arms of the Divine. ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove 476:True courage comes not just from feeling confident and strong, but from being the honest, authentic expression in yourself. Think about how audacious it is to really believe in yourself. ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove 477:God, help me to see others not as enemies or as ungodly but rather as thirsty people. And give me the courage and compassion to offer your Living Water, which alone quenches deep thirst. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 478:It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 479:The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination - not the small reach of their courage or latent power. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 480:For the wise man delights in establishing his merit, the brave man likes to show his courage in action, the covetous man is quick at seizing advantages, and the stupid man has no fear of death. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove 481:The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time. ~ henri-matisse, @wisdomtrove 482:Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward life with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 483:Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 484:If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 485:In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice . . . Mankind will be refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood and obeyed. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 486:Life is as complex as we are. Sometimes our vulnerability is our strength, our fear develops our courage, and our woundedness is the road to our integrity. It is not an either/or world. ~ rachel-naomi-remen, @wisdomtrove 487:Not less strong than the will to truth must be the will to sincerity. Only an age, which can show the courage of sincerity, can possess truth, which works as a spiritual force within it. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove 488:This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 489:It takes great courage and personal strength to hold on to our center during times of great hurt. It takes wisdom to understand that our reactiveness only fans the flames of false drama. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 490:No matter what identity we cling to, it takes great courage to step out of the old masks we wear and the old scripts that we live by, and open ourselves to the mysterious inner core of our being. ~ adyashanti, @wisdomtrove 491:Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 492:Sailing has given me some of the most pleasant and exciting moments of my life. It also has taught me something of the courage, resourcefulness, and strength of men who sail the seas in ships. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 493:The Guru is there forgiving you courage because of his experience and success. But only what you discover through your own awareness, your own effort, will be of permanent use to you. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 494:The journey to wholeness requires that you look honestly, openly, and with courage into yourself, into the dynamics that lie behind what you feel, what you perceive, what you value, and how you act. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 495:Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it’s having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome. Vulnerability is not weakness; it’s our greatest measure of courage. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 496:We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under the most perfect conditions, under conditions of great courage. ~ abraham-maslow, @wisdomtrove 497:The gentleman holds justice to be of highest importance. If a gentleman has courage but neglects justice, he becomes insurgent. If an inferior man has courage but neglects justice, he becomes a thief. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 498:Courage is a value. My faith is the organizing principle in my life and what underpins my faith is courage and love, and so I have to be in the arena if I'm going to live in alignment with my values. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 499:We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise! ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 500:What is morality, she asked. Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:Courage has no age. ~ Anne Fortier, #NFDB
2:From caring comes courage. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
3:Courage conquers all things. ~ Ovid, #NFDB
4:Courage conquers all things: ~ Ovid, #NFDB
5:Courage is contagious ~ Jean Sasson, #NFDB
6:Courage is no good: ~ Philip Larkin, #NFDB
7:Fear out. Courage in. ~ C J Redwine, #NFDB
8:Have courage and be kind. ~ Unknown, #NFDB
9:Andrew or courage. ~ Neville Goddard, #NFDB
10:Courage is its own reward. ~ Plautus, #NFDB
11:Courage, Seph. ~ Cinda Williams Chima, #NFDB
12:Courage to win ~ Lois Walfrid Johnson, #NFDB
13:Have courage, dear heart. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
14:The Courage to Teach, ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
15:Courage is a kind of salvation. ~ Plato, #NFDB
16:Have Courage and Be Kind. ~ Jacob Grimm, #NFDB
17:choose courage over comfort ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
18:Courage! Do not fall back. ~ Joan of Arc, #NFDB
19:Courage is contagious. ~ Glenn Greenwald, #NFDB
20:Courage is knowing what to fear. ~ Plato, #NFDB
21:courage to say the word, ~ Lucinda Riley, #NFDB
22:Creativity takes courage ~ Henri Matisse, #NFDB
23:Choose courage over comfort. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
24:Creativity takes courage. ~ Henri Matisse, #NFDB
25:Love is an act of courage. ~ Paulo Freire, #NFDB
26:Courage has a brutal core. ~ Ciaran Carson, #NFDB
27:Courage is fear that prays. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
28:Courage is morally neutral. ~ Susan Sontag, #NFDB
29:Have courage, take heart. ~ Holly Ringland, #NFDB
30:The thing of courage ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
31:We, unaccustomed to courage ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
32:Wine fills the heart with courage. ~ Plato, #NFDB
33:Courage encourages courage. ~ Mark Buchanan, #NFDB
34:Courage is always rewarded. ~ Kenny Loggins, #NFDB
35:Courage is not fearlessness. ~ Shannon Hale, #NFDB
36:Courage isn’t a feeling that ~ Jill Briscoe, #NFDB
37:Have enough courage to love. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
38:Anger is a prelude to courage. ~ Eric Hoffer, #NFDB
39:Courage does not always roar, ~ Tomi Adeyemi, #NFDB
40:Courage is a mutual thing. ~ Keith Olbermann, #NFDB
41:Courage is exhilarating. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt, #NFDB
42:Courage is knowing what not to fear. ~ Plato, #NFDB
43:courage is the gift of character ~ Euripides, #NFDB
44:Courage is the goal of cowards. ~ Alan Watts, #NFDB
45:it takes courage to stand alone. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
46:One Child's courage to survive ~ Dave Pelzer, #NFDB
47:The secret of freedom, courage. ~ Thucydides, #NFDB
48:Courage is a kind of salvation, ~ Kami Garcia, #NFDB
49:Courage is fear on its knees. ~ Beverly Lewis, #NFDB
50:Courage is how bad you want it. ~ Joe Frazier, #NFDB
51:My courage rises while I write. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
52:Anger is the prelude to courage. ~ Eric Hoffer, #NFDB
53:Art is a personal act of courage. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
54:Be strong and of a good courage. ~ Joshua I. 9, #NFDB
55:Courage.
Hope.
Sacrifice. ~ Rick Riordan,#NFDB
56:Courage is adversity's lamp. ~ Luc de Clapiers, #NFDB
57:Love fostered courage. ~ Jennifer L Armentrout, #NFDB
58:Stress is not...a badge of courage ~ Kris Carr, #NFDB
59:The more wit the less courage. ~ Thomas Fuller, #NFDB
60:And with courage came freedom. ~ Danielle Steel, #NFDB
61:Courage in danger is half the battle. ~ Plautus, #NFDB
62:Courage never to submit of yield. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
63:Courage refuses frontiers! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
64:Lipstick is the red badge of courage. ~ Man Ray, #NFDB
65:A man with courage has every blessing. ~ Plautus, #NFDB
66:But desperate people find courage. ~ Ken Follett, #NFDB
67:Courage Is a Love Affair with the Unknown ~ Osho, #NFDB
68:She had not the courage for pain. ~ Jodi Daynard, #NFDB
69:The Keys to Courage and Confidence ~ Brian Tracy, #NFDB
70:With this life I give you courage, ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
71:Courage easily finds its own eloquence. ~ Plautus, #NFDB
72:Courage is a love affair with the unknown. ~ Osho, #NFDB
73:Everything is a matter of courage. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
74:Have the courage of your desire. ~ George Gissing, #NFDB
75:Have the courage to make a mistake. ~ Abraham Low, #NFDB
76:Sometimes it take courage to leave. ~ Ann Rinaldi, #NFDB
77:The essence of sport is courage. ~ Thomas McGuane, #NFDB
78:Acting with fear is called courage. ~ Ronda Rousey, #NFDB
79:Better to know defeat from courage ~ Leila Meacham, #NFDB
80:Courage doesn't always roar. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher, #NFDB
81:Courage doesn’t mean you aren’t scared. ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
82:Courage is ignoring your fear. ~ Tamara Ecclestone, #NFDB
83:Courage is just dreams with shoes on. ~ Reba Riley, #NFDB
84:Despair gives courage to a coward. ~ Thomas Fuller, #NFDB
85:Happiness is a form of courage. ~ Holbrook Jackson, #NFDB
86:He now radiates courage and magnetism. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
87:It takes greater courage to live. ~ Gail Tsukiyama, #NFDB
88:La couleur du courage, c'est le brun ~ Mary Gentle, #NFDB
89:Physical courage is a great test. ~ Oriana Fallaci, #NFDB
90:The man with courage is a majority. ~ Andrew Young, #NFDB
91:Treason seldom dwells with courage. ~ Walter Scott, #NFDB
92:You can't test courage cautiously. ~ Annie Dillard, #NFDB
93:A coward's courage is in his tongue. ~ Edmund Burke, #NFDB
94:Courage is grace under pressure. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
95:Courage is life's only measure. ~ S ren Kierkegaard, #NFDB
96:Got to have fear to have courage, ~ Joe Abercrombie, #NFDB
97:Great dreams require great courage. ~ Erwin McManus, #NFDB
98:Living with faith and courage is ~ Kathryn Kuhlman, #NFDB
99:Sans peur, il n’y a pas de courage. ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
100:What you call pride, I call courage. ~ Jeff Zentner, #NFDB
101:Courage Is a Love Affair with the Unknown ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
102:... courage is as contagious as fear. ~ Susan Sontag, #NFDB
103:Courage is found in unlikely places. ~ J R R Tolkien, #NFDB
104:Courage is the only Magic worth having. ~ Erica Jong, #NFDB
105:He recollected his courage. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, #NFDB
106:It needs courage to be afraid. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
107:It takes courage to push things forward. ~ Mo Mowlam, #NFDB
108:I would kiss you, had I the courage. ~ Edouard Manet, #NFDB
109:Real courage is risking one's clichés. ~ Tom Robbins, #NFDB
110:The French courage proceeds from vanity ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
111:truth is a letter from courage! ~ Zora Neale Hurston, #NFDB
112:You give me courage I never knew I had. ~ Kim Holden, #NFDB
113:Be bold, take courage... and be strong of soul ~ Ovid, #NFDB
114:Courage and fear were one thing too. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
115:Courage is a peculiar kind of fear. ~ Charles Kennedy, #NFDB
116:Courage is ignoring your fear. ~ Tamara Rose Blodgett, #NFDB
117:Courage is of the heart by derivation, ~ Robert Frost, #NFDB
118:Courage makes the things easier! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
119:Courage mounteth with occasion. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
120:Freedom is a system based on courage. ~ Charles Peguy, #NFDB
121:No arguments will give courage to the coward. ~ Aesop, #NFDB
122:Nothing but courage can guide life. ~ Luc de Clapiers, #NFDB
123:Part of courage is simple consistency. ~ Peggy Noonan, #NFDB
124:sometimes courage is just showing up. ~ Crystal Paine, #NFDB
125:Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. ~ Seneca, #NFDB
126:Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends. ~ Aeschylus, #NFDB
127:What is fear but courage's shadow? ~ Jacqueline Carey, #NFDB
128:Without justice, courage is weak. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
129:175. "Have courage for whatever comes. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
130:Be bold, take courage... and be strong of soul. ~ Ovid, #NFDB
131:Courage is a sign of soul's nobility.
~ The Mother?,#NFDB
132:Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs ~ Robert Frost, #NFDB
133:Forget yourself! Think courage. ~ Norman Vincent Peale, #NFDB
134:Motherhood is always an act of courage. ~ Stacy Schiff, #NFDB
135:One man with courage is a majority. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
136:Remember, we show courage in many ways. ~ Jody Hedlund, #NFDB
137:Sometimes, even to live is an act of courage. ~ Seneca, #NFDB
138:War is fear cloaked in courage. ~ William Westmoreland, #NFDB
139:What is fear, but courage’s shadow? ~ Jacqueline Carey, #NFDB
140:Another word for creativity is courage. ~ Henri Matisse, #NFDB
141:Be strong, and let your heart take courage, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
142:Courage is endurance for one moment more ~ Chelle Bliss, #NFDB
143:Courage is not the absence of fear... ~ Richard Stengel, #NFDB
144:Effort + the courage to show up = enough. ~ Brene Brown, #NFDB
145:Giving up also takes courage. ~ Joanne Crisner Alcayaga, #NFDB
146:God will give you courage when you need it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
147:Have courage! Get up; He's calling for you. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
148:How could courage be so utterly useless? ~ Ralph Peters, #NFDB
149:I have the courage of my convictions. ~ Brigitte Bardot, #NFDB
150:It takes courage to lead a life. Any life. ~ Erica Jong, #NFDB
151:Living takes courage. So does dying. ~ Juliet Blackwell, #NFDB
152:loves that produce our courage. ~ Gregory David Roberts, #NFDB
153:Presence of mind and courage in distress, ~ John Dryden, #NFDB
154:Terror is just the cousin of courage. ~ Sebastian Barry, #NFDB
155:You need to have the courage to fail. ~ Robert Kiyosaki, #NFDB
156:Courage delayed is cowardice. Courage is a ~ Brent Weeks, #NFDB
157:Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow ~ Dan Rather, #NFDB
158:Courage is fear that has said its prayers. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
159:Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand ~ Harper Lee, #NFDB
160:Courage is the rarest of all good traits ~ Dennis Prager, #NFDB
161:Desperate courage makes One a majority. ~ Andrew Jackson, #NFDB
162:Enthusiasm is a form of social courage. ~ Gretchen Rubin, #NFDB
163:Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision. ~ Sibel Hodge, #NFDB
164:have the courage to face your faults. ~ David J Schwartz, #NFDB
165:Knowledge without courage is sterile. ~ Baltasar Gracian, #NFDB
166:Knowledge without courage is sterile. ~ Baltasar Graci n, #NFDB
167:L’excès de la lâcheté a aussi son courage. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
168:screwed her courage to the sticking place ~ Lynsay Sands, #NFDB
169:Whatever you do, you need courage. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
170:You have to have fear to have courage. ~ Joe Abercrombie, #NFDB
171:Any dream is possible, if you have courage. ~ Walt Disney, #NFDB
172:Courage can be just as infectious as fear. ~ Alice Miller, #NFDB
173:Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. ~ Dan Rather, #NFDB
174:Courage is fear that has said its prayers. ~ Regina Brett, #NFDB
175:courage is simply fear that has said it's prayers! ~ Zane, #NFDB
176:Courage is the antidote to danger. ~ Erle Stanley Gardner, #NFDB
177:Courage only counts when you can count. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
178:Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. ~ Hosea Ballou, #NFDB
179:Genius is talent set on fire by courage. ~ Henry Van Dyke, #NFDB
180:It takes a lot of courage to be a performer. ~ Lola Kirke, #NFDB
181:Life is slavery if the courage to die is absent. ~ Seneca, #NFDB
182:No arguments will give courage to the coward. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
183:No arguments will give courage to the coward. The ~ Aesop, #NFDB
184:The weak in courage is strong in cunning. ~ William Blake, #NFDB
185:Until then we must carry on and have courage. ~ Jan Moran, #NFDB
186:Waiting feeds fear. Courage comes with deeds. ~ Garth Nix, #NFDB
187:Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound. ~ Ben Jonson, #NFDB
188:What you call pride is what I call courage ~ Jeff Zentner, #NFDB
189:Change of any sort requires courage. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher, #NFDB
190:Courage - and shuffle the cards. ~ George MacDonald Fraser, #NFDB
191:Courage is for the lean. I am wiser. ~ Stephen R Donaldson, #NFDB
192:Courage was simply a form of moving forward. ~ Dave Eggers, #NFDB
193:Fear is met and destroyed with courage. ~ James F Bell III, #NFDB
194:Genius is talent set on fire by courage. ~ Henry Van Dyke, #NFDB
195:Guilt and true courage are incompatible... ~ Matthew Lewis, #NFDB
196:Knowledge without courage is sterile. v ~ Baltasar Graci n, #NFDB
197:Magic is overrated. Courage is what matters. ~ Chloe Neill, #NFDB
198:One day I took my courage in both hands ~ Jacqueline Carey, #NFDB
199:the false courage of association with a crowd. ~ Zane Grey, #NFDB
200:Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit. ~ Baltasar Gracian, #NFDB
201:Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit. ~ Baltasar Graci n, #NFDB
202:Being a man is easy. Being the man takes courage. ~ Kim Law, #NFDB
203:Courage and clemency are equal virtues. ~ Delarivier Manley, #NFDB
204:Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
205:Courage is simply fear that trusts in God ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
206:He was very famous for his bravery and courage. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
207:In this way, courage establishes leadership. ~ Andy Stanley, #NFDB
208:I think laughter may be a form of courage. ~ Linda Ellerbee, #NFDB
209:Our courage comes from the courage of others. ~ Simon Sinek, #NFDB
210:the scars were commentary to his courage, ~ Deanna Raybourn, #NFDB
211:To create one's own world takes courage. ~ Georgia O Keeffe, #NFDB
212:Truthfulness is composed of justice and courage. ~ Ibn Hazm, #NFDB
213:Without fear there cannot be courage. ~ Christopher Paolini, #NFDB
214:All happiness depends on courage and work. ~ Honor de Balzac, #NFDB
215:A noblest courage is to recognise one's faults. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
216:Courage is grace under pressure.’” “Hemingway! ~ Roxy Sloane, #NFDB
217:Courage is not a feeling. Courage is an action. ~ Liz Tolsma, #NFDB
218:Courage is the most fundamental of all virtues. ~ Max Anders, #NFDB
219:Embrace the void and have the courage to exist. ~ Dan Howell, #NFDB
220:Having courage does not mean we are unafraid. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
221:He who faces no calamity gains no courage. ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB
222:One has to have the courage of one's pessimism. ~ Ian Mcewan, #NFDB
223:Perhaps it takes courage to raise children. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
224:Somewhere a man answers courage with courage ~ Anne Michaels, #NFDB
225:The only security is courage. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
226:There's courage involved if you want to become Truth. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
227:All happiness depends on courage and work. ~ Honore de Balzac, #NFDB
228:Courage, Alexander.....
Courage, Tatiana ~ Paullina Simons,#NFDB
229:Courage, determination, perseverance, dedication. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
230:Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows. ~ John Dryden, #NFDB
231:courage is demanded not to attack when afraid, ~ Mohsin Hamid, #NFDB
232:Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. ~ George S Patton, #NFDB
233:Courage is fear that has said its prayers.”5 ~ Dan B Allender, #NFDB
234:Courage is not how you feel. It’s what you do. ~ Beth Trissel, #NFDB
235:Courage leads starward, fear toward death. ~ Seneca the Elder, #NFDB
236:Every man of courage is a man of his word. ~ Pierre Corneille, #NFDB
237:He who whets his steel, whets his courage ~ Steven Pressfield, #NFDB
238:Lose not courage, lose not faith, go forward. ~ Marcus Garvey, #NFDB
239:Men of integrity and courage are rare these days. ~ Greg Iles, #NFDB
240:Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
241:Stay calm, have courage, and watch for signs. ~ Craig Johnson, #NFDB
242:The courage to receive time's mightiest dream. ~ e e cummings, #NFDB
243:Travel is not about money, it's about courage. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
244:What is genius or courage without a heart? ~ Oliver Goldsmith, #NFDB
245:what we regret most are our failures of courage, ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
246:Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion. ~ Ovid, #NFDB
247:Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
~ Baltasar Gracian,#NFDB
248:Worth, courage, honor, these indeed ~ Edmund Clarence Stedman, #NFDB
249:Yes, you must have the courage of being free. ~ Jose Carreras, #NFDB
250:A man of faith is also full of courage ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB
251:Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear. ~ Publilius Syrus, #NFDB
252:Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage. ~ Aeschylus, #NFDB
253:Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision. ~ Winston Churchill, #NFDB
254:Fear is religion, courage is science. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll, #NFDB
255:Genius is talent exercised with courage. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, #NFDB
256:He who whets his steel, whets his courage. ~ Steven Pressfield, #NFDB
257:I had to find the courage to turn my life around. ~ Nikki Sixx, #NFDB
258:It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. ~ Charlie Chaplin, #NFDB
259:Love always requires courage and involves risk. ~ M Scott Peck, #NFDB
260:Obedience is the highest practical courage. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
261:One should have the courage of one's loneliness. ~ Ngaio Marsh, #NFDB
262:Screw your courage to the sticking-place ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
263:screw your courage to the sticking place ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
264:shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance. ~ Dan Simmons, #NFDB
265:Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.” Anger ~ Seneca, #NFDB
266:Stay lifted in courage and patient with love. ~ Alexandra Elle, #NFDB
267:The best leaders blend courage with compassion. ~ Robin Sharma, #NFDB
268:The courage to be yourself is the essence of hip hop ~ KRS One, #NFDB
269:There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage. ~ Moliere, #NFDB
270:To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity. ~ Bill Maher, #NFDB
271:TRAVEL IS NEVER A MATTER OF MONEY BUT OF COURAGE!! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
272:Without courage, all other virtues are useless. ~ Edward Abbey, #NFDB
273:Without fear, there cannot be true courage ~ Loreth Anne White, #NFDB
274:You have to have fear in order to have courage. ~ Ronda Rousey, #NFDB
275:A man of courage is also full of faith, ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB
276:A man of courage is also full of faith. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB
277:CHAPTER 4 WHEN FEAR OUTSHINES COURAGE A secret POV ~ K Langston, #NFDB
278:Courage is only an accumulation of small steps. ~ Gyorgy Konrad, #NFDB
279:Courage is the ability to suspend the imagination. ~ Tim Dorsey, #NFDB
280:Courage is the most important spiritual quality. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
281:Did I have the courage to forge a path ~ Terry Tempest Williams, #NFDB
282:Nothing is lost as long as courage remains ~ Napoleon Bonaparte, #NFDB
283:Nothing is lost as long as courage remains ~ Napol on Bonaparte, #NFDB
284:Selfish is easy. It's sharing that takes courage. ~ Simon Sinek, #NFDB
285:The more comfort the less courage there is. ~ Alexander Suvorov, #NFDB
286:There is always a philosophy for lack of courage ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
287:Too few have the courage of my convictions. ~ Robert M Hutchins, #NFDB
288:Travel is never a matter of money but of courage ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
289:We must substitute courage for caution. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
290:Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
291:A kind life...is fundamentally a life of courage. ~ Wayne Muller, #NFDB
292:A noblest courage is to recognise one's own faults. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
293:Another leadership quality is courage. Children ~ Hannah Raybans, #NFDB
294:Be strong and of a good courage; fear not. ~ Deuteronomy XXXI. 6, #NFDB
295:Courage and comfort, all shall yet go well ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
296:Courage is essentially competitive and imitative. ~ Max Hastings, #NFDB
297:Courage... is fear holding on just a bit longer. ~ Kathryn Lasky, #NFDB
298:Courage is feeling the fear and doing it anyway. ~ Oprah Winfrey, #NFDB
299:Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use. ~ Ruth Gordon, #NFDB
300:courage is walking through your fear with faith. ~ Maria Shriver, #NFDB
301:Courage may be taught as a child us taught to speak. ~ Euripides, #NFDB
302:Courage without conscience is a wild beast. ~ Robert G Ingersoll, #NFDB
303:Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision. ~ Winston S Churchill, #NFDB
304:For courage, there must be something at stake. ~ Khaled Hosseini, #NFDB
305:Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
306:Have the courage to write a lousy first draft. ~ Mark Rubinstein, #NFDB
307:He alone had the courage to do what was right. ~ Jennifer L Holm, #NFDB
308:I got up the courage to ask, "What is my destiny? ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
309:It takes courage to stand for what you believe in. ~ James Jones, #NFDB
310:It takes strength and courage to admit the truth. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
311:Life is to be entered upon with courage. ~ Alexis de Tocqueville, #NFDB
312:Life without the courage to die is slavery. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
313:My courage does not depend on the weather. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher, #NFDB
314:Real thought takes courage more than intelligence. ~ Osamu Dazai, #NFDB
315:There is always a philosophy for lack of courage. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
316:To heal our wounds, we need courage to face them. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
317:Travel is never a matter of money but of courage. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
318:troubles. Lord Ransley had enough courage and ~ Kathleen Baldwin, #NFDB
319:We ought to face our destiny with courage. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
320:Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
321:What good are wings without the courage to fly? ~ Atticus Poetry, #NFDB
322:Courage faces fear and thereby masters it ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
323:Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
324:Courage is the fairest adornment of youth. ~ Erich Maria Remarque, #NFDB
325:Courage overrides self-doubt, but does not end it. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
326:Fate gave to man the courage of endurance. ~ Ludwig van Beethoven, #NFDB
327:From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage. ~ Franz Kafka, #NFDB
328:Greatness is the courage to overcome obstacles. ~ David R Hawkins, #NFDB
329:Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. ~ Steve Jobs, #NFDB
330:Human dignity demands courage to defend oneself. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
331:Ideas combined with courage can change the world. ~ David Litwack, #NFDB
332:Knowledge and courage take turns at greatness. ~ Baltasar Gracian, #NFDB
333:Many would be cowards if they had courage enough. ~ Thomas Fuller, #NFDB
334:Nothing fosters courage like a clear grasp of grace. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
335:Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow. ~ Alexandre Vinet, #NFDB
336:Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
337:Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
338:What a new face courage puts on everything! ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
339:You have far more courage than you think you do. ~ Alison Goodman, #NFDB
340:Conscience is the root of all true courage. ~ James Freeman Clarke, #NFDB
341:Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
342:Courage is walking naked through a cannibal village ~ Sam Levenson, #NFDB
343:Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
344:Courage was not a given; it was acquired, earned. ~ Cornelia Funke, #NFDB
345:Courage would be impossible in a world without pain. ~ Lee Strobel, #NFDB
346:Either life entails courage or it ceases to be life. ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
347:Fear is slavery, work is liberty, courage is victory. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
348:Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience. ~ Philip Sidney, #NFDB
349:How often is immense sadness mistaken for courage? ~ Anthony Marra, #NFDB
350:I have the courage to be mistaken. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, #NFDB
351:I never realized that courage was so terrifying. ~ Marieke Nijkamp, #NFDB
352:Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. ~ Rollo May, #NFDB
353:It is glorious to see such courage in one so young. ~ Robert E Lee, #NFDB
354:Just as anxiety can feed on itself, so can courage. ~ John J Ratey, #NFDB
355:Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity. ~ Ralph Nader, #NFDB
356:No courage is needed if there is no fear, after all, ~ Mary Balogh, #NFDB
357:The fantasy gives you the courage to feel things. ~ Andrew Dominik, #NFDB
358:The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance. ~ Dan Simmons, #NFDB
359:Anyone can stay the same. It takes courage to change ~ John Assaraf, #NFDB
360:Beauty takes courage. Courage itself takes courage. ~ Carol Shields, #NFDB
361:Caution is good, but sometimes courage is better. ~ Sally MacKenzie, #NFDB
362:Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
363:Courage is being afraid - and going ahead, anyway. ~ Heather Graham, #NFDB
364:Courage is the only virtue you cannot fake. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
365:Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
366:Courage is the willingness to act in spite of fear. ~ Michael Hyatt, #NFDB
367:Courage is to walk hand in hand with the fear! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
368:Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life. ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
369:Fortune can take away riches, but not courage. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
370:Hope has two lovely daughters, anger and courage. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
371:I should have the courage of my lack of convictions. ~ Tom Stoppard, #NFDB
372:It requires more courage to suffer than to die ~ Napol on Bonaparte, #NFDB
373:It sometimes requires courage to fly from danger. ~ Maria Edgeworth, #NFDB
374:Life involves passions, faiths, doubts, and courage. ~ Josiah Royce, #NFDB
375:Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ~ Anais Nin, #NFDB
376:Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ~ Ana s Nin, #NFDB
377:Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. ~ Ana s Nin, #NFDB
378:Life without the courage for death is slavery. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
379:Only a true weakling is capable of true courage. ~ Gichin Funakoshi, #NFDB
380:Political courage is not political suicide. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger, #NFDB
381:Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage ~ Matt Damon, #NFDB
382:Sometimes it takes a lot of courage to be who you are. ~ Joan Bauer, #NFDB
383:Success is less rare than the courage to attempt it. ~ Terry Rossio, #NFDB
384:There is no greater courage than to be always truthful ~ The Mother, #NFDB
385:True strength is the courage to admit our weaknesses. ~ Simon Sinek, #NFDB
386:We must train ourselves in courage and generosity. ~ Roger Caillois, #NFDB
387:Your life unfolds in proportion to your courage. ~ Danielle LaPorte, #NFDB
388:All men would be cowards if they only had the courage. ~ Johnny Depp, #NFDB
389:Celebrate those who have the courage to be second. ~ Chelsea Clinton, #NFDB
390:Courage and folly are cousins, or so I’ve heard. ~ George R R Martin, #NFDB
391:Courage is merely fear that’s said its prayers, ~ Mindy Starns Clark, #NFDB
392:Courage isn’t contagious; fear is, of course. ~ Jos Eduardo Agualusa, #NFDB
393:Courage without conscience is a wild beast. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll, #NFDB
394:Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome. ~ Plautus, #NFDB
395:Have the courage to act instead of react. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr, #NFDB
396:It requires more courage to suffer than to die. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte, #NFDB
397:It requires more courage to suffer than to die. ~ Napol on Bonaparte, #NFDB
398:Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #NFDB
399:loss of hope and courage can have a deadly effect. ~ Viktor E Frankl, #NFDB
400:One thing it takes to accomplish something is courage. ~ Walt Disney, #NFDB
401:Remember—sometimes even to live is an act of courage. ~ Jeff Wheeler, #NFDB
402:Sometimes even to live is an act of courage ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca, #NFDB
403:There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change. ~ Rollo May, #NFDB
404:True courage is in facing damger when you are afraid. ~ L Frank Baum, #NFDB
405:True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid. ~ L Frank Baum, #NFDB
406:vulnerability and love are the truest marks of courage. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
407:Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
408:Whatever you do in life, do it with courage, ~ Gregory David Roberts, #NFDB
409:Yes! it takes courage to act upon your dreams. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher, #NFDB
410:You have to have courage to stand up to your critics. ~ Enzo Ferrari, #NFDB
411:A good conscience is eight parts of courage. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, #NFDB
412:Anyone can die. It's living that requires courage. ~ Nobuhiro Watsuki, #NFDB
413:Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie ~ Stanley Kubrick, #NFDB
414:Courage has been described as “grace under pressure". ~ Joe Schreiber, #NFDB
415:Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear. ~ Seneca the Elder, #NFDB
416:Courage is being scared to death and standing up anyway. ~ John Wayne, #NFDB
417:Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible. ~ Rollo May, #NFDB
418:Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer. ~ Robert Kennedy, #NFDB
419:Have the courage to be completely frank with the Divine. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
420:I loved Gore Vidal's Burr. That book gave me courage. ~ Hilary Mantel, #NFDB
421:Injustice makes the rules and courage breaks them. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
422:It takes courage and skill to be unambiguous and clear. ~ Peter Senge, #NFDB
423:It was necessary to be afraid in order to have courage. ~ Sarah Perry, #NFDB
424:Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage. ~ Gabriele d Annunzio, #NFDB
425:Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity ... ~ Ralph Nader, #NFDB
426:Pray not for things, but for wisdom and courage. ~ H Jackson Brown Jr, #NFDB
427:Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form. ~ Sinclair Lewis, #NFDB
428:Take a stand. Be known for your courage and confidence. ~ Indra Nooyi, #NFDB
429:Talent is luck. The important thing in life is courage. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
430:To have courage. To have honor. Is very beautiful. ~ James A Michener, #NFDB
431:To set and work toward any goal is an act of courage. ~ Stephen Covey, #NFDB
432:Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. ~ Brene Brown, #NFDB
433:Will you have the courage to obey the voice of God? ~ Craig Groeschel, #NFDB
434:You get in life what you have the courage to ask for. ~ Oprah Winfrey, #NFDB
435:Ariel Sharon is a man of courage and a man of peace. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
436:Bravado may stir the crowd, but courage needs no audience. ~ T F Hodge, #NFDB
437:Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief ~ Napoleon Hill, #NFDB
438:Courage comes from a heart that is CONVINCED it is loved. ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
439:Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway. ~ John Wayne, #NFDB
440:Courage of the mind far surpasses that of the body. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
441:Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free. ~ Paul Tillich, #NFDB
442:Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage ~ Paulo Freire, #NFDB
443:Imagination takes humility, love and great courage. ~ Carson McCullers, #NFDB
444:Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
445:In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used? ~ Virgil, #NFDB
446:It takes a lot of courage to be a true slave, Jaime, ~ Claire Thompson, #NFDB
447:I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage. ~ Elizabeth Taylor, #NFDB
448:Just thinking of your laughter gives me courage. . . ~ Rosamund Lupton, #NFDB
449:Live. Have courage. Be a good friend. Always be grateful. ~ Amy Harmon, #NFDB
450:Love requires a different kind of courage, Andromache. ~ David Gemmell, #NFDB
451:Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth--the cowards! ~ Joaquin Miller, #NFDB
452:She [Hillary Clinton] had the courage to stand up. ~ Jennifer Palmieri, #NFDB
453:So many things talked if you had the courage to listen. ~ Debora Geary, #NFDB
454:Sorrow spoken lends a little courage to the speaker. ~ Walter Wangerin, #NFDB
455:The first of all qualities of a general is courage. ~ David McCullough, #NFDB
456:The future awaits those with the courage to create it. ~ Erwin McManus, #NFDB
457:they were wild-eyed and terrified even in their courage. ~ Naomi Novik, #NFDB
458:True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid... ~ L Frank Baum, #NFDB
459:Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going, ~ Henry Ford, #NFDB
460:Vulnerability + Action + Positive Thinking = Courage ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
461:We need courage if we are to be faithful to the Gospel. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
462:What I write about is not war but the courage of man. ~ Cornelius Ryan, #NFDB
463:Women have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams. ~ Alice Walker, #NFDB
464:Your real courage shows best in the hour of adversity. ~ Napoleon Hill, #NFDB
465:At times the greatest courage of all is to live. ~ David Clement Davies, #NFDB
466:Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding. ~ Edward Albert, #NFDB
467:Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
468:Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
469:Courage leads you to win battles everyone may lose. ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
470:Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long. ~ Aeschylus, #NFDB
471:Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. ~ Erich Fromm, #NFDB
472:Fate often enough will spare a man if his courage holds. ~ John Gardner, #NFDB
473:Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so. ~ Terry Brooks, #NFDB
474:I do not lack the courage to think a thought whole. ~ Soren Kierkegaard, #NFDB
475:I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion. ~ Mo Yan, #NFDB
476:It [is] that courage that Africa most desperately needs. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
477:Just thinking of your laughter gives me courage. . . ~ Rosamund Lupton, #NFDB
478:MUTTER COURAGE Mir scheint, ich hab zu lang gehandelt. ~ Bertolt Brecht, #NFDB
479:Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. ~ Vittorio Alfieri, #NFDB
480:Our poetry is courage, audacity and revolt. ~ Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, #NFDB
481:Risking vulnerability and love is what takes courage. ~ Ian Morgan Cron, #NFDB
482:The courage to soar to great heights is inside all of us. ~ Kerri Strug, #NFDB
483:Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
484:We should impart our courage and not our despair. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
485:Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
486:With tears came solace and surrender, pardon and courage. ~ Andr Aciman, #NFDB
487:At times, the greatest courage of all is to live. ~ David Clement Davies, #NFDB
488:Be ready. Be seated. See what courage sounds like. See. ~ Paul Kalanithi, #NFDB
489:Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. ~ Thomas Szasz, #NFDB
490:Courage, Alexander,” she whispered. “Courage, Tatiana. ~ Paullina Simons, #NFDB
491:Courage comes from the belly-all else is desperation. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
492:Courage comes from the belly—all else is desperation. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
493:Courage is easy, when the alternative is getting killed. ~ Justin Cronin, #NFDB
494:courage is not a matter of age, but true-made spirits. ~ Madeline Miller, #NFDB
495:Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls. ~ Plautus, #NFDB
496:Give me courage.
Flash.
Give me heart.
Flash. ~ Chuck Palahniuk,#NFDB
497:Have courage” therefore means “Let your center speak. ~ Henri J M Nouwen, #NFDB
498:How little imagination and courage we show in our hatreds. ~ Amor Towles, #NFDB
499:I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double. ~ Catherine Deneuve, #NFDB
500:Il y a un extrême courage à courir à la mort en la redoutant. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB
501:Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. ~ Ann Christopher, #NFDB
502:I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity. ~ Elia Kazan, #NFDB
503:Loving requires so much courage and so little expectation. ~ Nina George, #NFDB
504:Peacemaking calls for courage, much more so than warfare. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
505:There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage. ~ Horace, #NFDB
506:The True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, ~ L Frank Baum, #NFDB
507:True courage is born only when it is accompanied by justice. ~ Mas Oyama, #NFDB
508:Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage. ~ Brene Brown, #NFDB
509:Among wellborn spirits courage does not depend on age. ~ Pierre Corneille, #NFDB
510:And no-one has ever questioned the courage of the Dwarves. ~ Markus Heitz, #NFDB
511:Courage does not always roar. Valor does not always shine. ~ Tomi Adeyemi, #NFDB
512:Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway. ~ RaeAnne Thayne, #NFDB
513:Courage is not an absence of fear; courage is fear walking. ~ Susan David, #NFDB
514:Courage is telling our story, not being immune to criticism. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
515:Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
516:courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. ~ J S Scott, #NFDB
517:Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence. ~ Don Meyer, #NFDB
518:Everyones got dreams, find the courage to follow your own. ~ Cody Simpson, #NFDB
519:for my life is simply unbearable without a bit of courage. ~ L Frank Baum, #NFDB
520:Have courage. We still have our clan. There is always hope. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
521:Her courage was her crown, and she wore it like a Queen. ~ Atticus Poetry, #NFDB
522:He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB
523:How much more courage it took to be kind than to be cruel. ~ Louise Penny, #NFDB
524:I just had to find the courage to take that first step. ~ Kirsten Hubbard, #NFDB
525:It is in great dangers that we see great courage. ~ Jean Francois Regnard, #NFDB
526:It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ~ E E Cummings, #NFDB
527:It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ~ e e cummings, #NFDB
528:La vie se rétracte ou se dilate à proportion de notre courage ~ Ana s Nin, #NFDB
529:Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
530:My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
531:Nothing inspires people more than reckless acts of courage. ~ Bear Grylls, #NFDB
532:Sorrow spoken lends a little courage to the speaker. ~ Walter Wangerin Jr, #NFDB
533:The greater a man's fear, the greater his potential courage ~ Tim O Brien, #NFDB
534:The Warrior knows the value of persistence and of courage. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
535:To succeed in life, you must have the courage to be hated. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
536:We need moral leadership and courage in our world. ~ Jacqueline Novogratz, #NFDB
537:With enough courage, you can do without a reputation. ~ Margaret Mitchell, #NFDB
538:Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning. ~ Winston Churchill, #NFDB
539:Courage comes from the belly - all else is desperation. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
540:Courage in the path is what makes the path manifest itself. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
541:Courage is a strange thing: One can never be sure of it ~ Raymond Chandler, #NFDB
542:Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
543:Courage is telling our story, not being immune to criticism. ~ Brene Brown, #NFDB
544:Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
545:Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. ~ Amelia Earhart, #NFDB
546:Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
547:Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage. ~ Theodore Roosevelt, #NFDB
548:Fear is just a flashlight that helps you find your courage ~ Natalie Lloyd, #NFDB
549:Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice. ~ John McCain, #NFDB
550:Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
551:Great things happen when you have the courage to be yourself ~ Michael Sam, #NFDB
552:Have courage. It clears the way for things that need to be. ~ Laura Fitton, #NFDB
553:I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. ~ David Sheff, #NFDB
554:Investing in courage and determination was an easy decision ~ Ben Horowitz, #NFDB
555:I promise loyalty. I promise secrecy. And I promise courage. ~ Chuck Dixon, #NFDB
556:It does not take courage to kill. It takes courage to live. ~ Ren e Ahdieh, #NFDB
557:lies such as love, guilt, hate, courage, loyalty, and honor. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
558:Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice. ~ Leon Blum, #NFDB
559:my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
560:So I took courage because I was strengthened by Yahweh my God, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
561:Stupidity can be mistaken for courage. Weakness, as well. ~ Tony Bertauski, #NFDB
562:The greater a man’s fear, the greater his potential courage. ~ Tim O Brien, #NFDB
563:There is such a thing as the courage in remaining baffled. ~ Donald Antrim, #NFDB
564:Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery ~ Anne Frank, #NFDB
565:To be afraid and to be brave is the best courage of all. ~ Alice Dalgliesh, #NFDB
566:To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage. ~ Georgia O Keeffe, #NFDB
567:A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail. ~ Lewis Mumford, #NFDB
568:...at times, the greatest courage of all is to live. ~ David Clement Davies, #NFDB
569:Courage comes by being brave; fear comes by holding back. ~ Publilius Syrus, #NFDB
570:Courage, friends! Do not despair, for soon you will be free. ~ L Frank Baum, #NFDB
571:Courage isn’t the absence of fear. It’s victory over fear. ~ Jonathan Yanez, #NFDB
572:Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount. ~ Clare Boothe Luce, #NFDB
573:Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen. ~ Brene Brown, #NFDB
574:Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the 70s. ~ Barton Gellman, #NFDB
575:Every possibility begins with the courage to imagine. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher, #NFDB
576:Give me the courage to stand the pain to get the grace. ~ Flannery O Connor, #NFDB
577:Great crisis produce great men and great deeds of courage. ~ John F Kennedy, #NFDB
578:He says that courage is a capital sum reduced by expenditure. ~ Ian Fleming, #NFDB
579:I lacked the courage or the knowledge to invent a self, ~ Patricia Lockwood, #NFDB
580:I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. ~ J D Salinger, #NFDB
581:Maturity is the balance between courage and consideration ~ Stephen R Covey, #NFDB
582:Nonviolence requires more courage than the soldier of war. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
583:Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear. ~ Umberto Eco, #NFDB
584:Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage. ~ Lurlene McDaniel, #NFDB
585:Sometimes it takes more courage to stay in place than to move. ~ A G Howard, #NFDB
586:Strength, courage & wisdom...it's been inside of me all along. ~ India Arie, #NFDB
587:The hope of being relieved gives him the courage to suffer. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
588:The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage. ~ Charles M Blow, #NFDB
589:The opposite of courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. ~ Jim Hightower, #NFDB
590:The rarest of the good qualities in human beings is courage ~ Dennis Prager, #NFDB
591:We are not born with courage, but neither are we born with fear. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
592:Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning. ~ Winston S Churchill, #NFDB
593:You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
594:Amish proverb: Courage is fear that has said its prayers. ~ Karen Anna Vogel, #NFDB
595:Courage consists in equality to the problem before us. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
596:Courage is a kind of salvation. Courage is knowing what not to fear. ~ Plato, #NFDB
597:Courage is one thing that no one can ever take away from you. ~ Chris Colfer, #NFDB
598:Courage is the first spiritual quality that you need to have. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
599:Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking. ~ Anita Roddick, #NFDB
600:Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence! ~ Immanuel Kant, #NFDB
601:fear is the raw material from which courage is manufactured. ~ Martha N Beck, #NFDB
602:For all the courage that we never had, I'm just about glad. ~ Elvis Costello, #NFDB
603:Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage. ~ John F Kennedy, #NFDB
604:If a Piglet demonstrates courage...
Is he still a Piglet? ~ Jos N Harris,#NFDB
605:it promotes charity, courage, contentment, and many other evils. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
606:It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one. ~ Azar Nafisi, #NFDB
607:It takes courage to look up. Courage just to want something, ~ Robert Dunbar, #NFDB
608:It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides, #NFDB
609:Maturity is the balance between courage and consideration. ~ Stephen R Covey, #NFDB
610:My adventures are a constant struggle between fear and courage. ~ Zak Bagans, #NFDB
611:My message to you all is hope, courage and confidence. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah, #NFDB
612:No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward ~ Aesop, #NFDB
613:Patience is the courage of virtue. ~ Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint Pierre, #NFDB
614:Screw your courage to the sticking place." - Lady MacBeth ~ Abraham Verghese, #NFDB
615:The devotion of one man had given strength and courage to all. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
616:Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage. ~ Jean Anouilh, #NFDB
617:virtue begins with understanding and is fulfilled by courage. ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
618:Wait for the LORD; i be strong, and let your heart take courage; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
619:What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage. ~ Dan Rather, #NFDB
620:Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
621:A great man once told me there can be no courage without fear ~ David Gemmell, #NFDB
622:A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things. ~ Jacques Maritain, #NFDB
623:Cash combined with courage in a time of crisis is priceless. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
624:Courage is about the most useful thing in an artist's outfit. ~ Edith Wharton, #NFDB
625:Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte, #NFDB
626:Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment. ~ Napol on Bonaparte, #NFDB
627:Courage is not the absence of fear, it is the conquest of it. ~ Frank Bettger, #NFDB
628:Courage is not the lack of fear, it is fear plus action. ~ Laura Schlessinger, #NFDB
629:Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB
630:Courage, Laches responds, “is a certain endurance of the soul. ~ Atul Gawande, #NFDB
631:Courage. Whatever the storm, we must remain invincible. ~ Susan Wittig Albert, #NFDB
632:Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections. ~ Francis de Sales, #NFDB
633:Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice. ~ Paul S Boynton, #NFDB
634:Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . . ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, #NFDB
635:I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
636:It often takes more courage to be a passenger than a driver. ~ E L Konigsburg, #NFDB
637:It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. ~ Erma Bombeck, #NFDB
638:Maturity is having the courage to use one's own intelligence! ~ Immanuel Kant, #NFDB
639:My longing for you keeps me in this moment My passion gives me courage ~ Rumi, #NFDB
640:Need to put footstep of courage into stirrup of patience. ~ Ernest Shackleton, #NFDB
641:The opposite of courage is not so much fear as it is conformity. ~ Wayne Dyer, #NFDB
642:To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. ~ Euripides, #NFDB
643:When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage. ~ Maria Callas, #NFDB
644:When we trust in the Divine’s Grace we get an unfailing courage. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
645:When you have chosen a path, you must walk it with courage. ~ Intisar Khanani, #NFDB
646:Wisdom and courage make mutual contributions to greatness. ~ Baltasar Gracian, #NFDB
647:You can't get to courage without walking through vulnerability. ~ Brene Brown, #NFDB
648:But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
649:Courage, Alexander,” she whispered.
“Courage, Tatiana. ~ Paullina Simons,#NFDB
650:Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity. ~ Cornel West, #NFDB
651:Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self. ~ Erwin McManus, #NFDB
652:Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
653:Courage is the most important virtue because it is the hardest. ~ David Brooks, #NFDB
654:Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood. ~ Philip Sidney, #NFDB
655:Each body is a lion of courage, something precious of the earth. ~ Mary Oliver, #NFDB
656:He gets his courage from the can, it makes him feel like a man. ~ Jack Johnson, #NFDB
657:If there was no fear, how could there be comfort? Or courage? ~ Veronica Rossi, #NFDB
658:Loving and accepting ourselves are the ultimate acts of courage. ~ Brene Brown, #NFDB
659:Making art is an act of courage. Do you know who said that? ~ Steve Guttenberg, #NFDB
660:Maturity is the balance between courage and consideration. I ~ Stephen R Covey, #NFDB
661:Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit it ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
662:Never mistake rashness for courage,nor indifference for patience. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
663:The best protection any woman can have... is courage. ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton, #NFDB
664:The courage of children and beasts is a function of innocence. ~ Annie Dillard, #NFDB
665:The future awaits those with the courage to create it. ~ Erwin Raphael McManus, #NFDB
666:There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow. ~ Alfred Adler, #NFDB
667:This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends. ~ Euripides, #NFDB
668:With this life, I give you courage. You will know how to use it. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
669:Because life constantly poses challenges, living demands courage ~ Manuel Neuer, #NFDB
670:Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life. ~ John Dewey, #NFDB
671:Courage and confidence are what decision making is all about. ~ Mike Krzyzewski, #NFDB
672:Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism. ~ Ayelet Waldman, #NFDB
673:Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. ~ Clare Boothe Luce, #NFDB
674:Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world. ~ Tommy Douglas, #NFDB
675:Courage - To tell the story of who you are with your whole heart. ~ Brene Brown, #NFDB
676:Daring greatly is not about winning or losing. It’s about courage. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
677:Do you think Oz could give me courage?" asked the Cowardly Lion. ~ L Frank Baum, #NFDB
678:Eleven pages— this is a letter! Have courage. I'm going to stop. ~ Jean Webster, #NFDB
679:Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide. ~ Andrew Johnson, #NFDB
680:I almost kissed her then, but lost my courage. Boys can be dopes ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
681:If you want courage, kill fear and blindfold ignorance ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, #NFDB
682:industry, compassion, humility, patience, honesty and courage. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
683:it is only courage on the path itself that makes the path appear ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
684:It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead. ~ Bill Hybels, #NFDB
685:It takes courage to raise a child; it also takes courage to be one. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
686:Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world. ~ Grace Paley, #NFDB
687:Never mistake rashness for courage, nor indifference for patience. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
688:Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.”" - ~ Umberto Eco, #NFDB
689:The high courage of a single man is an army all by itself! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
690:There was courage in no disguising the animal you happened to be. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
691:Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets. ~ George S Patton, #NFDB
692:What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? ~ Vincent Van Gogh, #NFDB
693:What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? ~ Vincent van Gogh, #NFDB
694:Courage and endurance are useless if they are never tested ~ Penelope Fitzgerald, #NFDB
695:Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are. ~ Tom Clancy, #NFDB
696:Courage is taking action in the presence of risk, in spite of fear. ~ Sean Platt, #NFDB
697:Courage what is within is more important than what is without. ~ Cressida Cowell, #NFDB
698:For the ocean is big and my boat is small. Find the courage. ~ Alanis Morissette, #NFDB
699:Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated. ~ Robert Frost, #NFDB
700:Having a soft heart
in a cruel world
is courage not
weakness ~ Unknown,#NFDB
701:I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage. ~ Sally Phillips, #NFDB
702:If there's no feeling of fear then there's no need for courage. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
703:If you have the courage to start, you have the courage to succeed. ~ Mel Robbins, #NFDB
704:I hated you when it would have taken less courage
to love. ~ Charles Bukowski,#NFDB
705:Il n'y a rien comme l'amour pour donner du courage aux jeunes gens. ~ mile Zola, #NFDB
706:Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next. ~ Bobby McFerrin, #NFDB
707:It takes courage to seek God, and courage to wait for His reply. ~ John Eldredge, #NFDB
708:It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
709:Kudos to the Imperial Guard for having stupid amounts of courage. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
710:My message to you all is of hope, courage, and confidence. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah, #NFDB
711:Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice, ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
712:Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
713:The courage to be is the most difficult thing for any human being. ~ Cornel West, #NFDB
714:The first is the courage to confront the reality of mortality—the ~ Atul Gawande, #NFDB
715:The great virtue of those who seek the spiritual path is courage. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
716:The leader is the one who has the courage to act on what he sees. ~ Andy Stanley, #NFDB
717:There was courage in not disguising the animal you happened to be. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
718:Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer. ~ Anthony Trollope, #NFDB
719:We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it. ~ Sharon Salzberg, #NFDB
720:What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, #NFDB
721:Without a vision the people perish, but without courage dreams die. ~ Rosa Parks, #NFDB
722:Without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
723:You become courageous by doing courageous acts...Courage is a habit. ~ Mary Daly, #NFDB
724:But I have no sense of humor and not enough courage to be cynical. ~ Albert Memmi, #NFDB
725:Courage and endurance are useless if they are never tested. ~ Penelope Fitzgerald, #NFDB
726:Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, #NFDB
727:Courage frees us from the fears that would rob us of life itself. ~ Erwin McManus, #NFDB
728:Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence. ~ Francois Fenelon, #NFDB
729:Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
730:Courage is simply doing whatever is needed in pursuit of the vision ~ Peter Senge, #NFDB
731:Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman. ~ Paul Johnson, #NFDB
732:Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. ~ John F Kennedy, #NFDB
733:Exile is courage. True exile is the true measure of each writer. ~ Roberto Bola o, #NFDB
734:Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
735:Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage. ~ Philip Sidney, #NFDB
736:From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you. ~ Franz Kafka, #NFDB
737:Gratefulness has the courage to trust and so overcomes fear. ~ David Steindl Rast, #NFDB
738:He hated dishonesty-- or lack of courage-- more than anything. ~ Elizabeth Strout, #NFDB
739:Humility is courage, the open acceptance of your own perfection. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
740:I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance. ~ Andr Gide, #NFDB
741:In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance. ~ Joseph Stalin, #NFDB
742:It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons. ~ Miguel de Cervantes, #NFDB
743:It is the courage, the insistence, the ruthless force of youth. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
744:It takes courage for a fruit to fall far from her tree. ~ C lestine Hitiura Vaite, #NFDB
745:It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. ~ E E Cummings, #NFDB
746:It takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient. ~ Judi Dench, #NFDB
747:I was the balance to his unsteadiness. He was the courage to my fear ~ Vi Keeland, #NFDB
748:Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. ANAÏS NIN ~ Julia Cameron, #NFDB
749:Love is not for the weak, my heart. You must have courage. ~ Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, #NFDB
750:Love trumps hate. Courage loves fear. Right always trumps wrong. ~ George Clooney, #NFDB
751:Maybe sometimes it takes more courage not to fight.
-Makino ~ Eiichiro Oda,#NFDB
752:Maybe the hardest part of life is just having the courage to try. ~ Rachel Hollis, #NFDB
753:Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
754:Never lose hope, and if you can, find the courage to love again. ~ Danielle Steel, #NFDB
755:Only those who have the courage to fail greatly achieve greatly. ~ Robert Kennedy, #NFDB
756:Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage. ~ Duke of Wellington, #NFDB
757:The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
758:Vulnerability is not weakness; it’s our greatest measure of courage. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
759:We were scared, but our fear was not as strong as our courage. ~ Malala Yousafzai, #NFDB
760:Before history is written down in books, it is written in courage. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
761:But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
762:But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
763:Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, #NFDB
764:courage insists that I honor it by choosing my voice over my comfort. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
765:Courage is feeling justly afraid and yet still doing what is right. ~ Shannon Hale, #NFDB
766:Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
767:Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. ~ Ruth Gordon, #NFDB
768:Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind. ~ Robert Jordan, #NFDB
769:Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. ~ John F Kennedy, #NFDB
770:Fear is the strongest prison and courage is the only way out! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
771:I find it remarkable how often amateurs confuse courage with idiocy. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
772:If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed. ~ David Viscott, #NFDB
773:If you want to develop courage, do the thing you fear and keep on ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
774:I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance. ~ Andre Gide, #NFDB
775:Investing in courage and determination was an easy decision for me. ~ Ben Horowitz, #NFDB
776:It takes true courage and real humility to say NO or YES! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, #NFDB
777:I was the balance to his unsteadiness. He was the courage to my fear. ~ Vi Keeland, #NFDB
778:Men don't need linguistic talent; they just need courage and words. ~ Helen Fisher, #NFDB
779:New opportunities abound if we but have the courage to face them. ~ John Lescroart, #NFDB
780:Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics. ~ Paul Johnson, #NFDB
781:No great thing comes to any person unless that person has courage. ~ James Gibbons, #NFDB
782:Our world expands or shrinks in direct proportion to our courage, ~ Vincent Zandri, #NFDB
783:The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
784:There can be no courage in men unless God supports them by his Word. ~ John Calvin, #NFDB
785:There is no way to counterfeit courage; we either have it or we do not ~ T F Hodge, #NFDB
786:To be afraid and to be brave is the best kind of courage of all. ~ Alice Dalgliesh, #NFDB
787:We can have courage or we can have comfort, but we cannot have both. ~ Brene Brown, #NFDB
788:We have all this courage as writers, but then there's this fear. ~ Sandra Cisneros, #NFDB
789:Whatever may happen, it must be of new hope or of new courage to me! ~ Bram Stoker, #NFDB
790:Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people. ~ Adam Driver, #NFDB
791:A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice. ~ James Callaghan, #NFDB
792:All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them. ~ Walt Disney, #NFDB
793:Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior. ~ Carl von Clausewitz, #NFDB
794:Courage comes through achievement, but also through the attempt. ~ Chris Guillebeau, #NFDB
795:Courage is being afraid, but then doing what you have to do anyway. ~ Rudy Giuliani, #NFDB
796:Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. ~ Arthur Koestler, #NFDB
797:Courage is simply doing whatever is needed in pursuit of the vision ~ Peter M Senge, #NFDB
798:Courage is to never let your actions be influenced by your fears. ~ Arthur Koestler, #NFDB
799:Daughters get either their courage or their fear from their mothers. ~ Naima Coster, #NFDB
800:Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections. ~ Saint Francis de Sales, #NFDB
801:Exercises cultivated self-reliance - the foundation of courage. ~ Alexander Suvorov, #NFDB
802:Funny thing about love, real love—it filled every soul with courage. ~ Rachel Hauck, #NFDB
803:Grant me courage to serve others; For in service there is true life. ~ Cesar Chavez, #NFDB
804:If you do not have the courage to be yourself, what will you be? ~ The Silver Elves, #NFDB
805:I had the courage to look backward
The ghosts of my days ~ Guillaume Apollinaire,#NFDB
806:In the spiritual life, the opposite of fear is not courage, but trust. ~ Peter Enns, #NFDB
807:It's courage, not luck, that takes us through to the end of the road. ~ Ruskin Bond, #NFDB
808:It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage. ~ Sean Penn, #NFDB
809:It takes courage to speak or react way slower than you think. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
810:It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
811:it takes more courage to heal the world’s hurts than to inflict them. ~ Ann Aguirre, #NFDB
812:Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one’s courage.” - Anais Nin ~ Mark Manson, #NFDB
813:Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
814:Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die. ~ Vittorio Alfieri, #NFDB
815:[On Denmark:] ... that little country of cottage cheese and courage. ~ Bette Midler, #NFDB
816:One person's courage will help the other person to be equally brave. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
817:People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
818:Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it. ~ Timothy Dalton, #NFDB
819:Revolutions are good times for soldiers of talent and courage. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte, #NFDB
820:Scientific progress is measured in units of courage, not intelligence. ~ Paul Dirac, #NFDB
821:The key ingredient to building trust is not time. It is courage. ~ Patrick Lencioni, #NFDB
822:True courage is to stand against evil, even when we stand alone. ~ Richard C Edgley, #NFDB
823:Truly, spiritual courage is on the endangered character-quality list. ~ Bill Hybels, #NFDB
824:Apparently alcohol increases charm and courage by at least ten points. ~ John Corwin, #NFDB
825:Courage is a finite resource, it is exhausted by the terrors we face. ~ Derrick Bell, #NFDB
826:Courage is not an occasional act, but a trait of choice and will. ~ Brendon Burchard, #NFDB
827:Courage results when one's convictions are bigger than one's fears. ~ Orrin Woodward, #NFDB
828:Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution. ~ Mary Daly, #NFDB
829:Discipline is built by consistently performing small acts of courage. ~ Robin Sharma, #NFDB
830:Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
831:Faith is not certainty. It is the courage to live with uncertainty. ~ Jonathan Sacks, #NFDB
832:For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage. ~ Johannes Brahms, #NFDB
833:Give us courage for your easy burden, so to live untaxed lives. ~ Walter Brueggemann, #NFDB
834:Have the courage of your convictions once you have made a decision. ~ Walter Schloss, #NFDB
835:Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
836:I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster. ~ Catherine the Great, #NFDB
837:It is only the coward who appeals always to destiny and never to courage. ~ Ramayana, #NFDB
838:it's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
839:It's like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging. ~ Mary Daly, #NFDB
840:It takes a lot of courage to be true to yourself, true to your heart. ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
841:Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #NFDB
842:Living isn't courage, knowing that you're living, that's courage ~ Clarice Lispector, #NFDB
843:Never had the courage to win her, only ever the fear of losing her. ~ Benedict Wells, #NFDB
844:One man with courage makes a majority.” —Andrew Jackson ~ Bathroom Readers Institute, #NFDB
845:People with courage and character always seem weird to other people. ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
846:Screw your courage to the sticking place and we will not fail. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
847:She said fear is just a flashlight that helps you find your courage. ~ Natalie Lloyd, #NFDB
848:Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
849:Telling the truth after proper investigation is the height of courage. ~ Wafa Sultan, #NFDB
850:The greatest test of courage is to bear defeat without losing heart. ~ James Maxwell, #NFDB
851:The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage. ~ Carrie Jones, #NFDB
852:The strength of walls depends on the courage of those who guard them. ~ Genghis Khan, #NFDB
853:The treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter and love. ~ Mark Helprin, #NFDB
854:To have courage for whatever comes in life– everything lies in that ~ Teresa of vila, #NFDB
855:We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can't have both. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
856:We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can’t have both. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
857:We must generate courage equal to the size of the difficulties we face. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
858:Whatever aspect of life you apply it to, making change takes courage. ~ Gloria Feldt, #NFDB
859:Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
860:Anger is a perversion of courage, as lust is a perversion of love. ~ Gregory of Nyssa, #NFDB
861:A trusty companion halves the journey and doubles the courage. ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton, #NFDB
862:But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
~ Albert Camus,#NFDB
863:but it took a little Hootie and three beers to throw me some courage. ~ Tarryn Fisher, #NFDB
864:Courage is not the absence of fear, but the ability to act despite it. ~ Desmond Tutu, #NFDB
865:Courage isn't about knowing the path, it's about taking the first step. ~ Katie Davis, #NFDB
866:Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth. ~ Vaclav Havel, #NFDB
867:...each body a lion of courage, and something
precious to the earth. ~ Mary Oliver,#NFDB
868:Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself ~ Charlie Chaplin, #NFDB
869:Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. ~ Augustus Hare, #NFDB
870:He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength. ~ Marie von Ebner Eschenbach, #NFDB
871:Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
872:Inaction breeds fear and doubt. Action breeds confidence and courage. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
873:In his own mind, it was never a matter of courage. But courage it was. ~ Carl Hiaasen, #NFDB
874:In the Soviet Union, it's takes more courage to retreat than advance. ~ Joseph Stalin, #NFDB
875:It's too bad we only had the courage to live our lives fully in dreams. ~ Kim Stanley, #NFDB
876:It wasn’t really, he knew, about less fear. It was about more courage. ~ Louise Penny, #NFDB
877:Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” –Anaïs Nin ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
878:Olive had great courage. Perhaps it takes courage to raise children. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
879:Show me your achievement, and the knowledge will give me courage for mine. ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB
880:The courage to care about your people, your clients, and your career. ~ David Maister, #NFDB
881:The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity. ~ Rollo May, #NFDB
882:The place where failure happens is also the place where courage lives. ~ Robin Sharma, #NFDB
883:The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage. ~ Thucydides, #NFDB
884:The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me. ~ Peter Fonda, #NFDB
885:To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that ~ Teresa of vila, #NFDB
886:To understand truth, one must find courage to seek light in the darkness. ~ K K Allen, #NFDB
887:We conquer fear with courage, and so through courage we gain our faith ~ Misty Moncur, #NFDB
888:...we have the power to transform anything we have the courage to face. ~ Alyson Noel, #NFDB
889:we live in a world in which courage is in far shorter supply than genius. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
890:you can choose courage or you can choose comfort but you can't have both ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
891:Any fool can start a fight. It takes real courage to walk away from one. ~ Hanna Peach, #NFDB
892:Be brave. Courage is one thing that no one can ever take away from you. ~ Chris Colfer, #NFDB
893:Be brave, courage is one thing that no one else can take away from you. ~ Chris Colfer, #NFDB
894:Courage and initiative come when you understand your purpose in life. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
895:courage doesn’t wander. It is with you always, you just need to find it. ~ Lola St Vil, #NFDB
896:Courage, enthusiasm, awareness -- if only one can keep these to the end. ~ Ruth Draper, #NFDB
897:Courage is not how a man stands or falls, but how he gets back up again ~ John L Lewis, #NFDB
898:Courage isn’t the absence of fear; it’s forging ahead despite that fear. ~ Lissa Bryan, #NFDB
899:Courage is the greatest virtue because it guarantees all the rest. ~ Winston Churchill, #NFDB
900:Courage originally meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
901:Courage originally meant “To speak one’s mind by telling all one’s heart. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
902:Courage originally meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart ~ Brene Brown, #NFDB
903:Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, #NFDB
904:Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results. ~ Kenneth Lee Pike, #NFDB
905:Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. ~ Charlie Chaplin, #NFDB
906:Focus not on reducing your fear, but on building your courage—because, ~ Eric Greitens, #NFDB
907:Her courage, after all, was only a determination to survive. The ~ Penelope Fitzgerald, #NFDB
908:If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else. ~ Reinhold Niebuhr, #NFDB
909:If you don't have courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues. ~ Tavis Smiley, #NFDB
910:It takes courage to speak your heart, when others do not want you to. ~ David Baldacci, #NFDB
911:Loving someone gives you courage; being loved back gives you strength. ~ Brandon Shire, #NFDB
912:May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! ~ Aleister Crowley, #NFDB
913:Poets have the courage to follow the echoes of the eloquence within. ~ Joseph Campbell, #NFDB
914:Take courage, Mortal... Death cannot banish you from the Universe. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
915:Take Courage, Mortal; Death can't banish thee out of the Universe. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
916:The human spirit is courage incarnate, overcoming the impossible. ~ Angel M B Chadwick, #NFDB
917:The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. ~ Rollo May, #NFDB
918:Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
919:To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
920:Unless you have the courage to doubt you will never come to know the truth. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
921:War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. ~ Alexander Berkman, #NFDB
922:We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
923:Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think. ~ Billy Graham, #NFDB
924:But screw your courage to the sticking place, and we'll not fail. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
925:Courage, energy and patience are the virtues which appeal to my heart. ~ Fritz Kreisler, #NFDB
926:Courage in a strategic moment can change the playing field dramatically. ~ Andy Stanley, #NFDB
927:Courage is not being fearless - it is created by overcoming your fears. ~ Courtney Cole, #NFDB
928:Courage, my friend, it's not too late to make the world a better place. ~ Tommy Douglas, #NFDB
929:Dorothy Bernard says that courage is just fear that has said its prayers. ~ Dave Ramsey, #NFDB
930:Failure is not having the courage to try, nothing more and nothing less. ~ Robin Sharma, #NFDB
931:Henry did not lack for physical courage; his was a moral cowardice. ~ Sharon Kay Penman, #NFDB
932:If there's one thing the American people aren't lacking, it is courage. ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB
933:I must take action of some sort whilst the courage of the day is upon me. ~ Bram Stoker, #NFDB
934:it takes courage to look life in the eye and say yes to the messy glory ~ Deborah Wiles, #NFDB
935:Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. Anais Nin ~ William Bernhardt, #NFDB
936:Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end. ~ Henry de Montherlant, #NFDB
937:One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
938:Pride is nothing more than false courage without long term solutions. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
939:Respect, Honesty, Courage, Rectitude, Loyalty, Honour, Benevolence ~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo, #NFDB
940:Sometimes it takes courage, you know, and a long time, to be honest. ~ Alex Michaelides, #NFDB
941:That is why we need a great deal of courage to challenge our own beliefs. ~ Miguel Ruiz, #NFDB
942:The first spiritual quality we need to have is not faith; it is courage. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
943:The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe. ~ Christopher Paolini, #NFDB
944:The real courage is living and suffering for what you believe in. ~ Christopher Paolini, #NFDB
945:The truth is liberating—but only when you have the courage to live it. ~ David Schnarch, #NFDB
946:Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance. ~ Thucydides, #NFDB
947:To age with dignity and with courage cuts close to what it is to be a man. ~ Roger Kahn, #NFDB
948:To live in relationship and yet remain independent, that is what courage is. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
949:True courage consists in being courageous precisely when when we're not. ~ Jules Renard, #NFDB
950:We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage. ~ Sam Keen, #NFDB
951:Whatever you do in life, do it with courage, and you won't go far wrong ... ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
952:...with a strong strong glow of courage, drank off the potion. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, #NFDB
953:Yes it is" Eragon said before his courage left him "just like you ~ Christopher Paolini, #NFDB
954:Your life expands in proportion to your courage. Fear limits a leader. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
955:All the evil in the world is powerless against intelligence and courage. ~ Derek Raymond, #NFDB
956:Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed. ~ John F Kennedy, #NFDB
957:Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied. ~ Millicent Fawcett, #NFDB
958:Courage is a greater virtue than love. At best, it takes courage to love. ~ Paul Tillich, #NFDB
959:Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
960:Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.” —THEODORE ROOSEVELT ~ Brett McKay, #NFDB
961:Disorder came from order, fear came from courage, weakness came from strength. ~ Sun Tzu, #NFDB
962:Do you know what courage is? It's being afraid and doing it anyway. ~ Lynda Mullaly Hunt, #NFDB
963:Failure is not having the courage to try, nothing more an nothing less. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
964:Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
965:It don't matter what happens, if you're only srong and have great courage. ~ Lois Lenski, #NFDB
966:It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness even to be truly base. ~ Jean Anouilh, #NFDB
967:It takes courage to begin something, but it can take even more to end it. ~ Marie Forleo, #NFDB
968:It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. —E.E. CUMMINGS ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
969:It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone ~ Marion Woodman, #NFDB
970:More courage is required to forgive than is required to take up arms. ~ Jose Ramos Horta, #NFDB
971:takes great courage to wear kindness as if one had never been hurt. ~ Richard Paul Evans, #NFDB
972:The freedom to think involves the courage to stumble upon our demons". ~ Alain de Botton, #NFDB
973:Three of the greatest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance. ~ Thucydides, #NFDB
974:Tom's cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
975:Victory is not final. Defeat is not failure. It's all about courage. ~ Winston Churchill, #NFDB
976:You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you can't have both. ~ Brene Brown, #NFDB
977:Believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic. ~ Brene Brown, #NFDB
978:Courage does not consist in the absence of fear, but in the conquest of it. ~ Brett McKay, #NFDB
979:Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea. ~ David McCullough, #NFDB
980:Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway. ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
981:Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm. ~ Winston Churchill, #NFDB
982:Death must be fought with life, and that means courage and that means joy, ~ Nancy Farmer, #NFDB
983:Don't yield! Keep up your courage! The same sun looks down on all of us! ~ Eiji Yoshikawa, #NFDB
984:Failure is not having the courage to try, nothing more and nothing less. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
985:Fear is not the opposite of courage. Fear is the catalyst of courage. ~ Joan D Chittister, #NFDB
986:God gave us memories that we might have roses in December. ~ J. M. Barrie, Courage, 1922., #NFDB
987:Have the courage "to swim against the tide". Have the courage to be happy. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
988:I admire King Hussein his courage in leading his country for a long time. ~ Yitzhak Rabin, #NFDB
989:If one suffers we all suffer. Togetherness is strength. Courage. ~ Jean Bertrand Aristide, #NFDB
990:If you believe in a dream and have the courage to try, anything is possible ~ Rick Hansen, #NFDB
991:If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed ~ David Viscott, #NFDB
992:I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
993:I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
994:It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it. ~ Pablo Casals, #NFDB
995:It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone. ~ Marion Woodman, #NFDB
996:Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, #NFDB
997:Knowing you might not make it... in that knowledge courage is born. ~ William S Burroughs, #NFDB
998:Knowledge is courage; understanding brings calmness and humility ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, #NFDB
999:May I deal with honour
May I act with courage
May I achieve humility ~ Dick Francis,#NFDB
1000:Mental clarity is the child of courage, not the other way around. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
1001:Serenity, courage, and wisdom are at the heart of temporal integration. ~ Daniel J Siegel, #NFDB
1002:The courage to charge for what you do comes from charging for what you do. ~ Marie Forleo, #NFDB
1003:The greatest test of courage is to bear defeat without losing heart. ~ Robert G Ingersoll, #NFDB
1004:The most important quality on the spiritual path is courage,” said Gandhi. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1005:There was a world out there, if only he had the courage to go and look for it. ~ Jean Ure, #NFDB
1006:To be a Bond girl you need courage, charm, determination and feistiness. ~ Olga Kurylenko, #NFDB
1007:Without courage, it doesn't matter how good the leader's intentions are. ~ Orrin Woodward, #NFDB
1008:You get strength and courage, when you stop to look fear in the face. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt, #NFDB
1009:All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. ~ Walt Disney Company, #NFDB
1010:A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
1011:......And she's courageous but scared to death But that's what courage means ~ Raine Maida, #NFDB
1012:At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage. ~ Tadao Ando, #NFDB
1013:Because it takes more courage to heal the worlds hurts than to inflict them. ~ Ann Aguirre, #NFDB
1014:Better to know defeat from courage than safety through chickenheartedness. ~ Leila Meacham, #NFDB
1015:Carlston, at least, believed she had courage. She could not let him down. ~ Alison Goodman, #NFDB
1016:could one make up for lack of moral courage by proving physical bravery? ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
1017:…courage and devotion always stir generous hearts, and win admiration… ~ Louisa May Alcott, #NFDB
1018:Courage isn't something you can conjure, it's either in you or it's not. ~ Vikki Wakefield, #NFDB
1019:Courage is the facing of a challenge with a healthy fear, not being fearless. ~ Les Stroud, #NFDB
1020:Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage. ~ Neal A Maxwell, #NFDB
1021:Even the bravest only rarely have courage for what they really know. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1022:Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
1023:Faith can give us courage to face the uncertainties of the future. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
1024:Honesty first; then courage; then brains - and all are indispensable. ~ Theodore Roosevelt, #NFDB
1025:If we have the courage to decide ourselves for peace we will have peace. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
1026:If your courage holds in the small battles, it will hold in the great ones. ~ Cliff Graham, #NFDB
1027:It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur. ~ Wallace Stevens, #NFDB
1028:It's not ugly. It's a mark of courage. Of survival. I think you're beautiful. ~ Maya Banks, #NFDB
1029:It takes enormous trust and courage to allow yourself to remember. ~ Bessel A van der Kolk, #NFDB
1030:It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect. ~ Emeli Sande, #NFDB
1031:Look at the blank pages before you with courage. Now fill them with beauty. ~ Blaine Hogan, #NFDB
1032:Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes. ~ Aesop, #NFDB
1033:Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. ~ George C Marshall, #NFDB
1034:Most courage comes from being too tired and hungry to be afraid anymore. ~ Ysabeau S Wilce, #NFDB
1035:One way to develop courage is to consider what will happen if we fail to act. ~ Ben Carson, #NFDB
1036:Successful leaders have the courage to take action while others hesitate. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
1037:The prime role of a leader is to offer an example of courage and sacrifice. ~ Regis Debray, #NFDB
1038:There's no work-life balance without making decisions and without courage. ~ Michael Hyatt, #NFDB
1039:True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness. ~ Miguel de Cervantes, #NFDB
1040:Wanting to live, but accepting death to save others: that was courage. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
1041:Who has the courage to set right those misperceptions that bring us love? ~ Joseph O Neill, #NFDB
1042:You have the courage and will to overcome your fear and do what's required. ~ Henry H Neff, #NFDB
1043:Action requires courage,” Thomas said. “Inaction only requires excuses. ~ John Twelve Hawks, #NFDB
1044:An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity. ~ Honore de Balzac, #NFDB
1045:Because it takes more courage to heal the world's hurts than to inflict them. ~ Ann Aguirre, #NFDB
1046:Courage is the key to creativity and to any relinquishing of ego structure. ~ Timothy Leary, #NFDB
1047:Determination, courage and self-confidence are the key factors for success ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB
1048:Even in the most bold and daring acts, courage is a matter of the heart. ~ Catherine Martin, #NFDB
1049:Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it. ~ Pericles, #NFDB
1050:I believe faith is not certainty but the courage to live with uncertainty. ~ Jonathan Sacks, #NFDB
1051:If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war. ~ Jeanette Winterson, #NFDB
1052:I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself. I ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
1053:"It takes courage to accept life fully, to say yes to our life." ~ Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, #NFDB
1054:It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1055:It takes great courage to wear kindness as if one had never been hurt. ~ Richard Paul Evans, #NFDB
1056:Life will either shrink or expand based on your decision to have courage. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
1057:Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has courage to lose sight of the shore ~ Andr Gide, #NFDB
1058:Sometimes it takes more courage to be the passenger than to be the driver. ~ E L Konigsburg, #NFDB
1059:The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes. ~ Mary Renault, #NFDB
1060:Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
1061:We all have wings, but it is up to each one of us to have the courage to fly ~ Miranda Kerr, #NFDB
1062:We don't move with our legs and arms, but with courage and will power. ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1063:What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage. ~ Matthieu Ricard, #NFDB
1064:When we're defined by what people think we lose the courage to be vulnerable. ~ Brene Brown, #NFDB
1065:“A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.” ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
1066:Bravely overcoming one small fear gives you the courage to take on the next. ~ Daisaku Ikeda, #NFDB
1067:Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius. ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
1068:But somehow the small red-painted sled had become a symbol of courage and hope. ~ Lois Lowry, #NFDB
1069:[Courage] arises in a great measure from the consciousness of strength . . . ~ Edward Gibbon, #NFDB
1070:Courage comes when you match your beliefs and values with your actions and words. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
1071:Courage is a strange thing. The more you use it, the more it consumes you. ~ Rachel Robinson, #NFDB
1072:Courage is defined by how we meet unfortunat circumstances - inevitable or not. ~ Kate Quinn, #NFDB
1073:Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on in spite of it. ~ Scott Turow, #NFDB
1074:Courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity to act despite our fears. ~ John McCain, #NFDB
1075:Courage is the moment when an ordinary being becomes an extraordinary being. ~ Brian Jacques, #NFDB
1076:Courage, real bravery, is being afraid and doing what you need to do anyway. ~ Jack Campbell, #NFDB
1077:Develop a capacity for things like purpose, love, wonder, courage, and grace. ~ John Jantsch, #NFDB
1078:Draw your sword with honour, sheathe it with courage.
- Shatai-kaj motto ~ Laura Resnick,#NFDB
1079:Everything is dangerous, and one must decide whether to live in fear, or courage ~ Emma Hamm, #NFDB
1080:Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. ~ Immanuel Kant, #NFDB
1081:"It is by practicing vulnerability of the heart that we discover courage." ~ Chögyam Trungpa, #NFDB
1082:It is indeed possible for those who have the will, courage and faith. ~ Norman Vincent Peale, #NFDB
1083:It took vulnerability to forge strength, the way true courage required fear. ~ Martina Boone, #NFDB
1084:Le courage est le don le plus important pour qui cherche le langage du monde. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1085:Love of justice is for most men only the courage to suffer injustice. ~ Comte de Lautr amont, #NFDB
1086:Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has courage to lose sight of the shore. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1087:Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself. ~ Alfred Adler, #NFDB
1088:Success is never final; failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts. ~ Angela Duckworth, #NFDB
1089:Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another. ~ Barbara Deming, #NFDB
1090:The courage to dream always precedes the capital needed to finance the dream. ~ Andy Stanley, #NFDB
1091:There is no act of love that is not an act of work or courage. No exceptions. ~ M Scott Peck, #NFDB
1092:The wages of courage is death, lad, but it's the wages of everything else, too. ~ Tim Powers, #NFDB
1093:Use your fear... it can take you to the place where you store your courage. ~ Amelia Earhart, #NFDB
1094:Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
1095:We grow our courage muscles like we grow our physical muscles, by using them. ~ Gloria Feldt, #NFDB
1096:What is courage?" I ask. "Bearing witness. That is a form of courage." (137) ~ Jessica Stern, #NFDB
1097:yet it may serve to show that courage is often nothing but inverted weakness. ~ Stefan Zweig, #NFDB
1098:You can choose COURAGE or you can choose COMFORT, but you cannot choose BOTH! ~ Brene Brown, #NFDB
1099:You can choose Courage or you can choose Comfort, but you cannot choose Both. ~ Brene Brown, #NFDB
1100:You have to fight, you have to have courage for what you really want ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger, #NFDB
1101:A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1102:A man without courage is a boat in a frozen lake! Get rid of your fears! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1103:Are you coming to me for wisdom?
Gansey shook his head head. ‘Courage. ~ Maggie Stiefvater,#NFDB
1104:Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. ~ Katie Couric, #NFDB
1105:Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius. ~ Reid Hoffman, #NFDB
1106:Courage does not consist in calculation, but in fighting against chances. ~ John Henry Newman, #NFDB
1107:Courage doesn't know what's around the corner, but goes around it anyway. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, #NFDB
1108:Education must award self-confidence, the courage to depend on one's own strength. ~ Sai Baba, #NFDB
1109:Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive. ~ John Eldredge, #NFDB
1110:How much courage does it take for Dean to throw red meat to the party faithful? ~ Howard Dean, #NFDB
1111:If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long. ~ Larry McMurtry, #NFDB
1112:If I have courage, it is because I have faith in the knowledge of my ancestors. ~ Mau Piailug, #NFDB
1113:I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers. ~ Wallis Simpson, #NFDB
1114:I have gained self-confidence, courage and the support of my people. ~ Velupillai Prabhakaran, #NFDB
1115:In true courage there is no impatience and no rashness. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, #NFDB
1116:Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand? ~ Charles Lindbergh, #NFDB
1117:I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life. ~ Colum McCann, #NFDB
1118:It takes courage to be yourself when everyone expects you to be someone else. ~ Camille Pag n, #NFDB
1119:Lawyers, ah yes, they have courage. But only when it is time to send the bill. ~ J P Donleavy, #NFDB
1120:Life had been hard on this girl, Jacob, but she had enough courage for an army. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
1121:One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
1122:People with courage and character are always called peculiar by other people. ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
1123:Sheer obstinacy is far more durable than courage, though it’s not as pretty. ~ Lionel Shriver, #NFDB
1124:Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It s courage that counts. ~ Vince Lombardi Jr, #NFDB
1125:Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1126:The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular. ~ Geraldo Rivera, #NFDB
1127:The definition of courage is going from defeat to defeat with enthusiasm. ~ Winston Churchill, #NFDB
1128:the heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe, #NFDB
1129:There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life. ~ Cato the Elder, #NFDB
1130:They said my heart's desire aloud, giving me the courage to acknowledge it. ~ Donna Jo Napoli, #NFDB
1131:To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
1132:Too much control can stunt a girl, sap her of courage, and render her weak. ~ Elizabeth Letts, #NFDB
1133:True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one. ~ J R R Tolkien, #NFDB
1134:You can always die. It's living that takes real courage." - Himura Kenshin ~ Nobuhiro Watsuki, #NFDB
1135:A cottage in the middle of nowhere is a courage in the middle of nowhere! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1136:Age only slows down those who never had the courage to walk at their own pace.. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1137:Believing in the sovereignty of God injects courage in the act of desire. ~ Jen Pollock Michel, #NFDB
1138:Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the LORD! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1139:Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte, #NFDB
1140:Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy. ~ Napol on Bonaparte, #NFDB
1141:Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt, #NFDB
1142:Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it. ~ Nelson Mandela, #NFDB
1143:Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character. ~ James Anthony Froude, #NFDB
1144:Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear. —MARK TWAIN ~ Jack Kilborn, #NFDB
1145:God makes me strong. He gives me courage. He gives me peace. He gives me purpose. ~ Amy Harmon, #NFDB
1146:Have the courage to be completely frank with the Divine. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, #NFDB
1147:I do not think that the only way to show courage is to face the world alone. ~ Charlotte Rogan, #NFDB
1148:I find that complete trust and subsequent courage galvanizing and inspiring. ~ Michael Lomenda, #NFDB
1149:If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you. ~ Waylon Jennings, #NFDB
1150:Is it the damned fool, who, at that dark moment, laughs courage right into you. ~ Jack Kerouac, #NFDB
1151:It is ... courage to choose not what will make us happy, but what is precious. ~ Sofia Samatar, #NFDB
1152:It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
1153:It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it. ~ Georg C Lichtenberg, #NFDB
1154:It’s too bad we only had the courage to live our lives fully in dreams. ~ Kim Stanley Robinson, #NFDB
1155:Le courage, c’est savoir que tu pars battu, mais d’agir quand même sans s’arrêter ~ Harper Lee, #NFDB
1156:Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power ~ B K S Iyengar, #NFDB
1157:Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. - Bruce Lee ~ K Langston, #NFDB
1158:Seneca, the Roman philosopher. Sometimes, even to live is an act of courage. ~ Janet Evanovich, #NFDB
1159:Sometimes it takes more courage to know when to retreat than to keep fighting. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
1160:Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. ~ Winston Churchill, #NFDB
1161:success is not final,failure is not fatal; it is the courage to cintinue that counts ~ Unknown, #NFDB
1162:The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. ~ Christopher Morley, #NFDB
1163:The four Cs as secret of my success-curiosity, confidence,courage and constancy. ~ Walt Disney, #NFDB
1164:There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete. ~ Helen Keller, #NFDB
1165:Though I often run out of courage and good sense, stubbornness keeps me going. ~ Simon R Green, #NFDB
1166:Weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born. ~ Malala Yousafzai, #NFDB
1167:Who hath not courage to revenge will never find generosity to forgive. ~ Henry Home Lord Kames, #NFDB
1168:You are a woman, and must begin to live like one. By which I mean: have courage. ~ Sarah Perry, #NFDB
1169:Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru, #NFDB
1170:Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar. ~ Erica Jong, #NFDB
1171:And whoever is patient and forgiving, these most surely are actions due to courage. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1172:Courage can't exist without action. Anything else is a lion without his roar. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
1173:Courage, garrulousness and the mob are on our side. What more do we want? ~ Georg C Lichtenberg, #NFDB
1174:Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear. ~ M Scott Peck, #NFDB
1175:Disbelief is easy, Kane. It’s faith that takes courage, and character. ~ Michael Marshall Smith, #NFDB
1176:I am bravery. I am courage. I am valor. I am daring. I am holding a thesaurus. ~ Demetri Martin, #NFDB
1177:I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn. ~ Anne Frank, #NFDB
1178:Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand? ~ Charles A Lindbergh, #NFDB
1179:I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage. ~ Paul Keating, #NFDB
1180:It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil. ~ Peter Kreeft, #NFDB
1181:It takes far less courage to cling to the past than it does to face the future". ~ Sandra Brown, #NFDB
1182:It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice. ~ Soren Kierkegaard, #NFDB
1183:It was a debt that Peter could never fully repay: the debt of borrowed courage. ~ Justin Cronin, #NFDB
1184:Le courage, monsieur Krausmann, le courage tout court, c'est de croire en soi. ~ Yasmina Khadra, #NFDB
1185:Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. ~ B K S Iyengar, #NFDB
1186:Loving someone gives you courage; being loved back gives you strength. -Lao Tzu ~ Brandon Shire, #NFDB
1187:Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence. ~ Jean Anouilh, #NFDB
1188:No man knows courage,” his father had told him, “who has not known fear. ~ James Conroyd Martin, #NFDB
1189:Our courage and endurance must be as great as our hope and our hope has no limits. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
1190:Summon your inner courage to ensure you strive unhindered - toward your chosen goals. ~ Eleesha, #NFDB
1191:The difference between courage and stupidity is measured by success and survival. ~ Evan Currie, #NFDB
1192:The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice... it is conformity. ~ Earl Nightingale, #NFDB
1193:There is always a road back. If we have the courage to look for it, and take it. ~ Louise Penny, #NFDB
1194:There is too much animal courage in society and not sufficient moral courage. ~ Mary Baker Eddy, #NFDB
1195:To make the future demands courage. It demands work. But it also demands faith. ~ Peter Drucker, #NFDB
1196:What matters is attitude and courage to really do what your heart tells you to. ~ Preeti Shenoy, #NFDB
1197:What will you reach for to give you hope, courage, and a reason to continue? ~ Paul David Tripp, #NFDB
1198:Willingly taking a dive headfirst into the unknown takes some serious courage. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
1199:You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore ~ Andr Gide, #NFDB
1200:You can't test courage cautiously, so I ran hard and waved my arms hard, happy. ~ Annie Dillard, #NFDB
1201:You gain courage and confidence from doing the things you think you cannot do. ~ Lois P Frankel, #NFDB
1202:Your courage to do what's right has to be greater than your fear of getting hurt ~ Hasan Minhaj, #NFDB
1203:Be brave, children. Courage is one thing that no one can ever take away from you. ~ Chris Colfer, #NFDB
1204:Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1205:But courage is only fear that has said its prayers. And we are going to pray. ~ Janet W Ferguson, #NFDB
1206:Courage, cheerfulness, and a desire to work depends mostly on good nutrition. ~ Jacob Moleschott, #NFDB
1207:Courage is a self-inflicted quality that gains momentum every time you try it. ~ Jeffrey Gitomer, #NFDB
1208:Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. ~ Mark Victor HansenDan Rather ~ Mark Victor Hansen, #NFDB
1209:Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake. ~ Hannah Arendt, #NFDB
1210:Courage isn't the absence of fear but the ability to move forward despite the fear. ~ Kasie West, #NFDB
1211:Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. – Mark Twain ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
1212:Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
1213:Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the Language of the World. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1214:Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the language of the world. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1215:Days of Dutch courage, just three French letters, and a German sense of humour. ~ Elvis Costello, #NFDB
1216:Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself. ~ Joseph Campbell, #NFDB
1217:Have the courage to build your life around what is really most important to you. ~ Joshua Becker, #NFDB
1218:Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
1219:If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions. ~ Julia Child, #NFDB
1220:Just as we need the courage to be happy, we also need the courage to live simply. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1221:Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. ~ Andr Gide, #NFDB
1222:N'écoutant que son courage, qui ne lui disait rien, il se garda bien d'intervenir ~ Jules Renard, #NFDB
1223:One cannot choose how one's life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage ~ Jet Li, #NFDB
1224:Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel, #NFDB
1225:Softness is not weakness. It takes courage to stay delicate in a world this cruel. ~ Beau Taplin, #NFDB
1226:Sometimes it takes courage—maybe all the courage you’ve got—to just live life. ~ Douglas Preston, #NFDB
1227:Take courage. We walk in the wilderness today and in the Promised Land tomorrow ~ Dwight L Moody, #NFDB
1228:The courage of husbands is directly proportionate to the proximity of the wife. ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB
1229:The greatest need in the world today is faith in God and courage to do His will. ~ David O McKay, #NFDB
1230:The mark of the true male is courage, but to have courage the man must take heart. ~ Th un Mares, #NFDB
1231:The only courage you will need is the courage to live the life you are meant to. ~ Oprah Winfrey, #NFDB
1232:The opportunity for greater courage comes in the most ordinary of moments. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher, #NFDB
1233:The path to big, systemic change is collective action. That takes Sister Courage. ~ Gloria Feldt, #NFDB
1234:The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
1235:we must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
1236:Without courage we will simply accumulate a collection of good ideas and regrets. ~ Andy Stanley, #NFDB
1237:woman. Courage like a mountain lion. All of that is inside you, Tori Burton, ~ Loreth Anne White, #NFDB
1238:Your feelings will guide you if you have the courage to tap into them and listen. ~ Marie Forleo, #NFDB
1239:Admitting your weaknesses does not diminish your strengths: it shows your courage. ~ Erin Andrews, #NFDB
1240:A good surgeon needs courage for which a good pair of balls is a prerequisite, ~ Abraham Verghese, #NFDB
1241:A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
1242:As ever, Morpurgo's warmth and humanity suffuse a story of courage, love and hope. ~ Amanda Craig, #NFDB
1243:As long as you have the courage to admit mistakes, things can be turned around. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1244:Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1245:Courage is not the absence of fear, he taught me. It’s learning to overcome it. ~ Richard Stengel, #NFDB
1246:Courage is not the absence of fear or despair, but the strength to conquer them. ~ Danielle Steel, #NFDB
1247:Courage isn’t knowing you can do something; it’s only being willing to try … ~ Jennifer A Nielsen, #NFDB
1248:Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear. —MARK TWAIN ~ Virginia Prodan, #NFDB
1249:Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
1250:Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one ~ Louise Penny, #NFDB
1251:His cheeks, and his courage apparently, had been warmed by whiskey’s sweet embrace. ~ Alyssa Cole, #NFDB
1252:Humility means that you have the courage to accept that you are eternity itself. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1253:I'd like to somehow find the courage to be on the outside who I am on the inside. ~ Katie McGarry, #NFDB
1254:It is not until you have the courage to engage in human relationships that you grow. ~ Gary Zukav, #NFDB
1255:Mastery is a journey, and that the master must have the courage to risk failure. ~ George Leonard, #NFDB
1256:Men have courage-one knows that...but they are more easily deceived than women. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
1257:...not all great acts of courage are obvious to those looking in from the outside. ~ Mia Sheridan, #NFDB
1258:Not knowing yourself is inevitable, and not knowing yourself demands courage. ~ Clarice Lispector, #NFDB
1259:Our destinies are our own, if we have the courage to take control of them. ~ David Clement Davies, #NFDB
1260:Real courage embraces the twin realities of current difficulty and ultimate triumph. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
1261:The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage. ~ Sue Monk Kidd, #NFDB
1262:There is such beauty in the fight to live. We must all find the courage to go on. ~ Kathryn Craft, #NFDB
1263:To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
1264:To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel, #NFDB
1265:To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first. ~ Janeane Garofalo, #NFDB
1266:To pluck up the courage and open your heart, and embrace someone else's heart is difficult. ~ Min, #NFDB
1267:To reach your goal, remember that courage is the only antidote for danger. ~ Erle Stanley Gardner, #NFDB
1268:Wait for the Lord; Be strong and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for the Lord. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1269:We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
1270:What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything! ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
1271:What value did courage have, without a free and challenging mind to direct it? ~ John Christopher, #NFDB
1272:when I am feeling low all i have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
1273:When you truly have the courage to dream, you have the courage to act as well. ~ Alberto Villoldo, #NFDB
1274:You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
1275:All of the goodness in the world doesn't amount to a hill of beans without courage ~ Dennis Prager, #NFDB
1276:Be of good courage, my son, and remember that the best men always make themselves. ~ Patrick Henry, #NFDB
1277:But that was the thing about courage. Sometimes you had to fake it to feel it. ~ Lisa Tawn Bergren, #NFDB
1278:By finding the courage to be ourselves, we gain the power to make a difference. ~ Lindsey Stirling, #NFDB
1279:Courage doesn't mean we're not afraid. Courage means we refuse to be mastered by fear. ~ Mark Hart, #NFDB
1280:Courage is an imaginary construct that people have made to hide their inferiority. ~ Rakesh Satyal, #NFDB
1281:Courage is not absence of fear; it is control of fear, mastery of fear.” —MARK TWAIN ~ Brian Tracy, #NFDB
1282:Courage: The lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children. ~ James M Barrie, #NFDB
1283:Don't be so afraid all the time. We never know where our courage is coming from. ~ Shirley Jackson, #NFDB
1284:dreams weren’t built on fear. They were built on the courage you used to get over it. ~ Max Monroe, #NFDB
1285:For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose. ~ Khaled Hosseini, #NFDB
1286:He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
1287:Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage. ~ George S Patton, #NFDB
1288:Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications. ~ Michael Crichton, #NFDB
1289:It takes great courage to write great books. Find your courage and find your voice. ~ Kristen Lamb, #NFDB
1290:I've always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions. ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
1291:Nothing can replace courage, a resounding motivation and that little bit of luck. ~ Edmund Hillary, #NFDB
1292:One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
1293:One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger. ~ Fran ois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
1294:Our objective is to transform fear into hope and courage, hatred into love and respect. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
1295:Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness. ~ Irving Stone, #NFDB
1296:Replacing fear with courage is one of the key components of being unfuckwithable ~ Vishen Lakhiani, #NFDB
1297:Saying yes . . . saying yes is courage. Saying yes is the sun. Saying yes is life. ~ Shonda Rhimes, #NFDB
1298:Somebody ought to have the courage to tell the truth. These people are terrorists. ~ Newt Gingrich, #NFDB
1299:Success comes when you have the trust on self, passion to transcend, and courage to do. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
1300:The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. ~ Paul Tillich, #NFDB
1301:The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence. ~ Walt Disney, #NFDB
1302:The moment of near despair is quite often the moment that precedes courage. ~ Christopher Hitchens, #NFDB
1303:The proud heart feels not terror nor turns to run and it is his own courage that kills him ~ Homer, #NFDB
1304:There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage. ~ Barbara Ehrenreich, #NFDB
1305:Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
1306:To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage. ~ Henri Matisse, #NFDB
1307:We make all sorts of assumptions because we don’t have the courage to ask questions. ~ Miguel Ruiz, #NFDB
1308:What an old maid I'm getting to be. lacking the courage to be in love with death! ~ Arthur Rimbaud, #NFDB
1309:You have to have courage to love somebody. Because you risk everything. Everything. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
1310:Be confident and courageous when you are about to make a start. Courage is key! ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
1311:Courage does not consist in calculation, but in fighting against chances. ~ Saint John Henry Newman, #NFDB
1312:Courage is like a strain of yoghurt culture, if you have some you can have some more. ~ Ruth Gordon, #NFDB
1313:Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important ~ Stephen Covey, #NFDB
1314:Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different. ~ John Hockenberry, #NFDB
1315:Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
1316:for few men's courage is proof against protracted meditation unrelieved by action ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
1317:Have the courage to take your own thoughts
seriously, for they will shape you. ~ Albert Einstein,#NFDB
1318:It's not just a matter of saying you have to have courage, because you learn courage. ~ Linda Seger, #NFDB
1319:It takes courage not to laugh at your boss’s joke, especially if it is funny. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
1320:Man is but mortal; and there is a point beyond which human courage cannot extend. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
1321:Moral courage further demands that you assume the responsibility for your own acts. ~ Napoleon Hill, #NFDB
1322:Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long. ~ Menander, #NFDB
1323:tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer. ~ Viktor E Frankl, #NFDB
1324:The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage. ~ Mary Stewart, #NFDB
1325:The moment you let your courage leave you, you turn to an abandoned old house! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1326:There's nothing gives you so much courage as good reasons," continued the sailor; ~ Alexandre Dumas, #NFDB
1327:Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect. ~ Brene Brown, #NFDB
1328:We who live forever can know no courage, nor do we love enough to give our lives. ~ Katherine Arden, #NFDB
1329:Whatever you are doing in life, do it with courage; or else, don’t ever do it! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1330:Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action. ~ Wim Wenders, #NFDB
1331:You just have to believe it and be willing to use it. It takes courage and strength, ~ Debbie Corso, #NFDB
1332:14 Wait for the Lord; Be strong and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for the Lord. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1333:24 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1334:A good man will certainly also possess courage; but a brave man is not necessarily good. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1335:All art requires is courage and the commitment to eat lots of biscuits. D Ellis / 2016 ~ David Ellis, #NFDB
1336:But courage was not lacking in her heart, though it might be foolhardy and unwise. ~ Guy Gavriel Kay, #NFDB
1337:Change requires courage, but the failure to change does not signify the lack of it. ~ Harriet Lerner, #NFDB
1338:Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it. ~ Jean Paul, #NFDB
1339:Courage isn't the absence of fear. Courage is moving forward even when you're afraid. ~ Jeff Wheeler, #NFDB
1340:Courage isn’t the absence of fear—it’s the strength to keep going when you are scared. ~ Richard Fox, #NFDB
1341:Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead. ~ Rollo May, #NFDB
1342:Courage to be who you are is the cousin of loving the Divine, yourself and others. ~ Robert V Taylor, #NFDB
1343:Daylight was coming outside, but it was not only that: courage cast its own light. ~ Guy Gavriel Kay, #NFDB
1344:Do not just envisage your own hopes, dreams — but, have the courage to strive toward them. ~ Eleesha, #NFDB
1345:Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you? ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
1346:Have the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody. ~ Juvenal, #NFDB
1347:If Gwyn could face death unafraid, how could I face life with any less courage? ~ Elizabeth A Reeves, #NFDB
1348:I hope you build up the courage to leave behind anyone who restricts you from being happy. ~ R H Sin, #NFDB
1349:Is it better to speak or die?” I’d never even have the courage to ask such a question. ~ Andr Aciman, #NFDB
1350:Love, understanding, courage, and acceptance are expressions of the life of Jesus, ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
1351:Now is not about gathering courage, it's about staying one step ahead of my fear. ~ Courtney Summers, #NFDB
1352:Some things suck; they hurt bad. The question is, Do you have the courage to let them? ~ Ethan Hawke, #NFDB
1353:That's what courage is you know: being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway. ~ Jasinda Wilder, #NFDB
1354:The butterfly is the totem of transformation and change and a symbol of courage. ~ Mary Alice Monroe, #NFDB
1355:The courage to go deeper is found by letting your desire grow larger than your fear. ~ Oriah Dreamer, #NFDB
1356:The difference between courage and stupidity is measured only by success and survival, ~ Evan Currie, #NFDB
1357:The more fear you confront and conquer, the greater the courage you will possess.
~ Chin-Ning Chu,#NFDB
1358:Therefore, Your servant has found the courage to pray this prayer to You. 2 Samuel 7:27 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1359:24. Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1360:A name to fill strong men with fear or courage, depending on which side they stand. ~ Joe Abercrombie, #NFDB
1361:Courage is instinct, and heroes are born in the moment. Trust yourself to be great, I do! ~ D C Akers, #NFDB
1362:Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important ~ Stephen R Covey, #NFDB
1363:Courage isn't knowing you can do something; it's only being willing to try . . . ~ Jennifer A Nielsen, #NFDB
1364:Courage is saying maybe what I'm doing isn't working, maybe I should try something else. ~ Anna Lappe, #NFDB
1365:Drink up your false courage and move forward. It’s the only direction a man can move in. ~ Robin Hobb, #NFDB
1366:Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1367:Give responsibility to persons of character and courage; and watch them change the world. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1368:Hell, you don’t even get to be born unless your mother has the courage to have you. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
1369:He longed for the oblivion at the end of it, but lacked the courage to face the fall ~ Melvin Burgess, #NFDB
1370:Hot coffee is like a warm-blooded man. They both give you the courage to face a new day. ~ Xiaolu Guo, #NFDB
1371:…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt. ~ Jeanette Winterson, #NFDB
1372:I think that’s what courage is, being scared and doing what needs to be done, anyway. ~ Sherryl Woods, #NFDB
1373:It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on experience. ~ Jonas Salk, #NFDB
1374:It's not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage. ~ Matthieu Ricard, #NFDB
1375:It’s very easy to stay down when you’re already there. It takes courage to get back up. ~ Lola St Vil, #NFDB
1376:I would love to be a Franciscan brother. Im just not sure I have the courage to do it. ~ Rich Mullins, #NFDB
1377:Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation. ~ Alan Autry, #NFDB
1378:Leadership simply begins with the courage to be yourself. So everyone else can be, too. ~ Umair Haque, #NFDB
1379:Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
1380:Men demonstrate their courage far more often in little things than in great. ~ Baldassare Castiglione, #NFDB
1381:She ate the apple and gave it also to Adam who had not the moral courage to resist her. ~ James Joyce, #NFDB
1382:Sometimes courage is carried by a roar—sometimes it is hidden within a wavering voice. ~ Scott Sigler, #NFDB
1383:That’s what courage is—doing something that needs to be done even though you’re afraid ~ Pamela Clare, #NFDB
1384:The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, #NFDB
1385:The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage. I ~ Mary Stewart, #NFDB
1386:There is no prose as inspiring as a single human being with the courage to live well. ~ Iain S Thomas, #NFDB
1387:They do not destroy orthodoxy; they only destroy political courage and common sense. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
1388:To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
1389:True courage, in the face of almost certain death, is the rarest quality on earth. ~ Christopher Pike, #NFDB
1390:When you walk in the company of your courage, nothing & no one - can stand in your way. ~ Eleesha, #NFDB
1391:Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue. ~ Walter Scott, #NFDB
1392:27 But Jesus spoke to them at once. “Don’t be afraid,” he said. “Take courage. I am here!* ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1393:Always providing you have enough courage—or money—you can do without a reputation. ~ Margaret Mitchell, #NFDB
1394:Bad governments always lie because telling the truth requires honour and courage! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1395:Being ourselves means sometimes having to find the courage to stand alone, totally alone. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
1396:But courage wasn't an absence of fear; it was fighting despite the knot in your stomach. ~ Ann Aguirre, #NFDB
1397:But courage wasn’t an absence of fear; it was fighting despite the knot in your stomach. ~ Ann Aguirre, #NFDB
1398:Courage never takes away fear; courage simply redistributes fear to get the job done. ~ Dan B Allender, #NFDB
1399:Courage sometimes skips a generation. Thank you for bringing it back to our family. ~ Kathryn Stockett, #NFDB
1400:Courage wasn't lack of fear - it was doing what needed doing in the face of it. ~ Cinda Williams Chima, #NFDB
1401:Fidelity to the law of your own being is an act of high courage flung in the face of life. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
1402:Have the courage to use your own understanding!" - that is the motto of enlightenment. ~ Immanuel Kant, #NFDB
1403:How powerful prayer is! May we never lose the courage to say: Lord, give us your peace. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1404:It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
1405:It takes less courage to criticize the decisions of others than to stand by your own. ~ Attila the Hun, #NFDB
1406:Jesus immediately said to them: “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.” —MATTHEW 14:27 ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
1407:Leadership is a matter of intelligence, trustworthiness, humaneness, courage, and sternness. ~ Sun Tzu, #NFDB
1408:Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men ~ George S Patton, #NFDB
1409:Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
1410:Show me, too. Show me your courage and your passion. Show me how strong you are.” In ~ Claire Thompson, #NFDB
1411:Sometimes, courage is really just cowardice. Sometimes the bravest thing is to let go. ~ Miguel Syjuco, #NFDB
1412:Taking in another’s criticism, even when it’s offered out of love, requires courage. ~ Sharon Salzberg, #NFDB
1413:The best leaders operate in four dimensions: vision, reality, ethics, and courage. ~ Peter Koestenbaum, #NFDB
1414:The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll, #NFDB
1415:The main quality of leadership..........is courage ! If you can dream it, you can do it! ~ Walt Disney, #NFDB
1416:There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
1417:The trick is to learn from your mistakes, and have the courage to be true to your heart. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
1418:The ways in which we are able to express courage also depend on the hand life deals us. ~ Chris Cleave, #NFDB
1419:they are but men huddling together and shouting to give themselves courage in the dark. ~ Alan W Watts, #NFDB
1420:Those who dare risk death have courage;
but those who death cannot destroy are immortal. ~ Lao Tzu,#NFDB
1421:To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give. ~ W Somerset Maugham, #NFDB
1422:What I was lacking wasn't thinner thighs or a flatter stomach. It was courage. ~ Jennifer L Armentrout, #NFDB
1423:What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it's the courage to raise one. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
1424:You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. ~ William Faulkner, #NFDB
1425:Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
1426:But if our mornings are faced with courage and wisdom, the past need not be lived again. ~ Andy Andrews, #NFDB
1427:Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring. ~ Marlene Dietrich, #NFDB
1428:Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause. ~ Plutarch, #NFDB
1429:Courage doesn't mean you don't get afraid. Courage means you don't let fear stop you ~ Bethany Hamilton, #NFDB
1430:Courage is the most important of all the virtues, without it, you can practice no other. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
1431:Daring to me is having courage; it's a daily meditation to take breath and find strength. ~ Uma Thurman, #NFDB
1432:Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you. ~ B K S Iyengar, #NFDB
1433:Fear is leaden. Courage is golden. Let go of the weight of the world, and you will fly. ~ Dean F Wilson, #NFDB
1434:For me a simple message, to think and act with courage, independence and imagination. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
1435:Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it. ~ Tori Amos, #NFDB
1436:Her courage seemed to collapse around her ankles like an old pair of elastic undies ~ Julie Anne Grasso, #NFDB
1437:If we want to create a different future, we must have the courage to look at the past. ~ Dan B Allender, #NFDB
1438:If you want to discover new oceans, you must first have the courage to leave shore. ~ Winston Churchill, #NFDB
1439:It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. ~ Robert Kennedy, #NFDB
1440:It's about having the courage to do something, to take a risk, when it matters most. ~ Lindsay Cummings, #NFDB
1441:It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman. ~ John Eldredge, #NFDB
1442:I will survive, Tracy thought. I face mine enemies naked, and my courage is my shield. ~ Sidney Sheldon, #NFDB
1443:Let your passion and courage swell in you until you can no longer be contained by fear. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
1444:Moral courage is more a rare commodity than bravery in a battle or great intelligence. ~ John F Kennedy, #NFDB
1445:Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good. ~ Pope Leo XIII, #NFDB
1446:Only boys and fools think men are first in courage. We do not bear children. ~ Katherine Arden, #NFDB
1447:Perfect courage and utter cowardice are two extremes which rarely occur. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
1448:Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage. 20 seconds of embarrassing bravery. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1449:Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. ~ Hourly History, #NFDB
1450:the world was in the hands of those who had courage to dream and to realize their dreams ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1451:To those with the courage to stay on course, and those with the imagination to wander. ~ Sulari Gentill, #NFDB
1452:we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
1453:We should not be much concerned about faults we have the courage to own. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
1454:When you flip anything, you really you just have to have the courage of your convictions. ~ Julia Child, #NFDB
1455:work with heavy heart and feel oh so lonely when I want all help and courage that may be! ~ Bram Stoker, #NFDB
1456:You don’t walk with your feet; you walk with your courage! No courage, no walking! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1457:You made her apologize for sickness. For her courage. You made her feel sorry for dying. ~ M T Anderson, #NFDB
1458:You're always being led to your highest good, as long as you have the courage to listen. ~ Marie Forleo, #NFDB
1459:Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
1460:Courage doesn't mean you don't get afraid. Courage means you don't let fear stop you. ~ Bethany Hamilton, #NFDB
1461:Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down. ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
1462:Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1463:Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common ~ John McCain, #NFDB
1464:Doubt increases emptiness; full faith keeps the body heavy and full of courage! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, #NFDB
1465:Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing. ~ Theodore Roosevelt, #NFDB
1466:I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous. ~ Aung San Suu Kyi, #NFDB
1467:It is an act of courage to acknowledge our own uncertainty and sit with it for a while. ~ Harriet Lerner, #NFDB
1468:It took strength and courage to know when you were at the outside of what you could handle. ~ Laura Kaye, #NFDB
1469:Mad fearlessness is not courage. The only requirement for courage is a good heart. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
1470:oh. It's an E.E. Cummings quote: 'It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are ~ Laura Kaye, #NFDB
1471:Pure religion is having the courage to do what is right and let the consequence follow. ~ Neal A Maxwell, #NFDB
1472:Rise up; this matter is in your hands. We will support you, so take courage and do it! ~ Karen Kingsbury, #NFDB
1473:The best way to accomplish something is to just do it, and then find the courage afterwards. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1474:The first and finest lesson that parents can teach their children is faith and courage. ~ Smiley Blanton, #NFDB
1475:The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, #NFDB
1476:There is no greater courage than to be always truthful
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, Courage.,#NFDB
1477:There will always be fear; do it anyway. Let your courage inspire the world around you. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
1478:The Ska huffed and puffed but could not quite blow down Maddox’s last shred of courage. ~ Vaughn Heppner, #NFDB
1479:The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
1480:Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them. ~ Jim Davis, #NFDB
1481:We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions. ~ Miguel Angel Ruiz, #NFDB
1482:Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again. ~ Anne Frank, #NFDB
1483:Where was my own courage and belief that I was entitled to a thorough knowledge of the truth? ~ Jan Hahn, #NFDB
1484:Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of man. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1485:Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1486:Courage is the hallmark of spirituality. Courage comes when you love yourself for who you are. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
1487:Courage overcomes, but does not replace, fear. Joy overcomes, but does not replace, pain. ~ Eric Greitens, #NFDB
1488:Embodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention. ~ Jack Kornfield, #NFDB
1489:Give me courage.
Flash.
Give me tolerance.
Flash.
Give me wisdom.
Flash. ~ Chuck Palahniuk,#NFDB
1490:had renounced my father’s world, I had never quite found the courage to live in this one. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1491:I tell people that we must have the courage to share what we feel, but no one follows me. ~ Tadashi Yanai, #NFDB
1492:It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
1493:It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless. ~ Giacomo Casanova, #NFDB
1494:It takes courage not only to make decisions, but to live with those decisions afterward ~ Mike Krzyzewski, #NFDB
1495:Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage. ~ Erma Bombeck, #NFDB
1496:Love is a risk. It always is. None of us is guaranteed a long life. But love takes courage. ~ Amy Andrews, #NFDB
1497:May they have the love and courage they need; may they have the will to die and be reborn. ~ Sandy Nathan, #NFDB
1498:Money is not the issue. Having the courage to give your highest gift is the issue. ~ Neale Donald Walsch, #NFDB
1499:Sometimes we must take the smallest step before finding the courage to leap.” “Frances, ~ Christine Nolfi, #NFDB
1500:The Christian life is one of spiritual courage and determination lived out in our flesh ~ Oswald Chambers, #NFDB
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118 The Mother
102 Sri Aurobindo
54 Satprem
40 Nolini Kanta Gupta
24 H P Lovecraft
19 Friedrich Nietzsche
18 William Wordsworth
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13 Saint John of Climacus
12 Sri Ramakrishna
12 Plotinus
11 Percy Bysshe Shelley
10 Walt Whitman
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7 William Butler Yeats
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5 Jordan Peterson
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2 Henry David Thoreau
2 Baha u llah
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24 The Synthesis Of Yoga
24 Lovecraft - Poems
18 Wordsworth - Poems
13 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
13 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
13 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
12 Words Of Long Ago
11 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
11 Shelley - Poems
11 Letters On Yoga IV
10 Whitman - Poems
10 Prayers And Meditations
10 Metamorphoses
10 Magick Without Tears
9 Schiller - Poems
9 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
9 Collected Poems
8 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
8 On Education
8 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
8 5.1.01 - Ilion
7 Yeats - Poems
7 The Golden Bough
7 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
7 Agenda Vol 10
6 Twilight of the Idols
6 The Life Divine
6 Some Answers From The Mother
6 Liber ABA
6 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
6 Agenda Vol 03
5 Words Of The Mother II
5 The Perennial Philosophy
5 The Human Cycle
5 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
5 Savitri
5 Questions And Answers 1954
5 Questions And Answers 1953
5 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
5 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 04
5 Maps of Meaning
5 Goethe - Poems
5 Agenda Vol 09
4 The Way of Perfection
4 The Bible
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4 Questions And Answers 1956
4 Mysterium Coniunctionis
4 Letters On Yoga II
4 Labyrinths
4 Essays On The Gita
4 Essays Divine And Human
4 Emerson - Poems
4 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
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4 Agenda Vol 01
3 The Practice of Psycho therapy
3 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
3 Tara - The Feminine Divine
3 Questions And Answers 1955
3 Preparing for the Miraculous
3 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 01
3 Faust
3 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06
3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
3 Agenda Vol 08
3 Agenda Vol 02
2 Walden
2 Vishnu Purana
2 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
2 The Secret Doctrine
2 The Phenomenon of Man
2 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
2 The Lotus Sutra
2 The Hero with a Thousand Faces
2 The Future of Man
2 The Divine Comedy
2 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
2 Symposium
2 Selected Fictions
2 Quran
2 Questions And Answers 1929-1931
2 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 03
2 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02
2 Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
2 Isha Upanishad
2 Hymn of the Universe
2 Crowley - Poems
2 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08
2 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
2 Agenda Vol 07
2 Agenda Vol 04
0 0.01 - Introduction, #Agenda Vol 1, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
- and it is terribly disturbing for all those who still climb trees in the old, millennial way. Perhaps it is even a heresy. Unless it is some cerebral disorder? A first man in his little clearing had to have a great deal of Courage. Even this little clearing was no longer so sure. A first man is a perpetual question. What am I, then, in the midst of all that? And where is my law? What is the law? And what if there were no more laws? ... It is terrifying. Mathematics - out of order. Astronomy and biology, too, are beginning to respond to mysterious influences. A tiny point huddled in the center of the world's great clearing. But what is all this, what if I were 'mad'? And then, claws all around, a lot of claws against this uncommon creature. A first man ... is very much alone. He is quite unbearable for the pre-human 'reason.' And the surrounding tribes growled like red monkies in the twilight of Guiana.
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.
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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
TRULY to the conquest of the new. The 'new' is painful, discouraging, it resembles nothing we know! We cannot hoist the flag of an unconquered country - but this is what is so marvelous: it does not yet exist. We must MAKE IT EXIST. The adventure has not been carved out: it is to be carved out. Truth is not entrapped and fossilized, 'spiritualized': it is to be discovered. We are in a nothing that we must force to become a something. We are in the adventure of the new species. A new species is obviously contradictory to the old species and to the little flags of the alreadyknown. It has nothing in common with the spiritual summits of the old world, nor even with its abysms - which might be delightfully tempting for those who have had enough of the summits, but everything is the same, in black or white, it is fraternal above and below. SOMETHING ELSE is needed.
00.03 - Upanishadic Symbolism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
We have, in modern times, a movement towards a more conscious and Courageous, knowledge of things that were taboo to puritan ages. Not to shut one's eyes to the lower, darker and hidden strands of our nature, but to bring them out into the light of day and to face them is the best way of dealing with such elements, which otherwise, if they are repressed, exert an unhealthy influence on the mind and nature. The Upanishadic view runs on the same lines, but, with the unveiling and the natural and not merely naturalisticdelineation of these under-worlds (concerning sex and food), it endows them with a perspective sub specie aeternitatis. The sexual function, for example, is easily equated to the double movement of ascent and descent that is secreted in nature, or to the combined action of Purusha and Prakriti in the cosmic Play, or again to the hidden fount of Delight that holds and moves the universe. In this view there is nothing merely secular and profane, but all is woven into the cosmic spiritual whole; and man is taught to consider and to mould all his movementsof soul and mind and bodyin the light and rhythm of that integral Reality.11
The central secret of the transfigured consciousness lies, as we have already indicated, in the mystic rite or law of Sacrifice. It is the one basic, fundamental, universal Law that upholds and explains the cosmic movement, conformity to which brings to the thrice-bound human being release and freedom. Sacrifice consists essentially of two elements or processes: (i) The offering or self giving of the lower reality to the higher, and, as a consequence, an answering movement of (ii) the descent of the higher into the lower. The lower offered to the higher means the lower sublimated and integrated into the higher; and the descent of the higher into the lower means the incarnation of the former and the fulfilment of the latter. The Gita elaborates the same idea when it says that by Sacrifice men increase the gods and the gods increase men and by so increasing each other they attain the supreme Good. Nothing is, nothing is done, for its own sake, for an egocentric satisfaction; all, even movements relating to food and to sex should be dedicated to the Cosmic BeingVisva Purusha and that alone received which comes from Him.
0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
At that time there lived in Calcutta a rich widow named Rani Rasmani, belonging to the sudra caste, and known far and wide not only for her business ability, Courage, and intelligence, but also for her largeness of heart, piety, and devotion to God. She was assisted in the management of her vast property by her son-in-law Mathur Mohan.
In 1847 the Rani purchased twenty acres of land at Dakshineswar, a village about four miles north of Calcutta. Here she created a temple garden and constructed several temples. Her Ishta, or Chosen Ideal, was the Divine Mother, Kali.
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Narendra was born in Calcutta on January 12, 1863, of an aristocratic kayastha family. His mother was steeped in the great Hindu epics, and his father, a distinguished attorney of the Calcutta High Court, was an agnostic about religion, a friend of the poor, and a mocker at social conventions. Even in his boyhood and youth Narendra possessed great physical Courage and presence of mind, a vivid imagination, deep power of thought, keen intelligence, an extraordinary memory, a love of truth, a passion for purity, a spirit of independence, and a tender heart. An expert musician, he also acquired proficiency in physics, astronomy, mathematics, philosophy, history, and literature. He grew up into an extremely handsome young man. Even as a child he practised meditation and showed great power of concentration. Though free and passionate in word and action, he took the vow of austere religious chastity and never allowed the fire of purity to be extinguished by the slightest defilement of body or soul.
As he read in college the rationalistic Western philosophers of the nineteenth century, his boyhood faith in God and religion was unsettled. He would not accept religion on mere faith; he wanted demonstration of God. But very soon his passionate nature discovered that mere Universal Reason was cold and bloodless. His emotional nature, dissatisfied with a mere abstraction, required a concrete support to help him in the hours of temptation. He wanted an external power, a guru, who by embodying perfection in the flesh would still the commotion of his soul. Attracted by the magnetic personality of Keshab, he joined the Brahmo Samaj and became a singer in its choir. But in the Samaj he did not find the guru who could say that he had seen God.
0.00 - The Book of Lies Text, #The Book of Lies, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
men of Courage. The plea that "love is sorrow", because
its ecstasies are only transitory, is contemptible.
0.00 - THE GOSPEL PREFACE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
He was one of the earliest of the disciples to visit Kamarpukur, the birthplace of the Master, in the latter's lifetime itself; for he wished to practise contemplation on the Master's early life in its true original setting. His experience there is described as follows by Swami Nityatmananda: "By the grace of the Master, he saw the entire Kamarpukur as a holy place bathed in an effulgent Light. Trees and creepers, beasts and birds and men all were made of effulgence. So he prostrated to all on the road. He saw a torn cat, which appeared to him luminous with the Light of Consciousness. Immediately he fell to the ground and saluted it" (M The Apostle and the Evangelist by Swami Nityatmananda vol. I. P. 40.) He had similar experience in Dakshineswar also. At the instance of the Master he also visited Puri, and in the words of Swami Nityatmananda, "with indomitable Courage, M. embraced the image of Jagannath out of season."
The life of Sdhan and holy association that he started on at the feet of the Master, he continued all through his life. He has for this reason been most appropriately described as a Grihastha-Sannysi (householder-Sannysin). Though he was forbidden by the Master to become a Sannysin, his reverence for the Sannysa ideal was whole-hearted and was without any reservation. So after Sri Ramakrishna's passing away, while several of the Master's householder devotees considered the young Sannysin disciples of the Master as inexperienced and inconsequential, M. stood by them with the firm faith that the Master's life and message were going to be perpetuated only through them. Swami Vivekananda wrote from America in a letter to the inmates of the Math: "When Sri Thkur (Master) left the body, every one gave us up as a few unripe urchins. But M. and a few others did not leave us in the lurch. We cannot repay our debt to them." (Swami Raghavananda's article on M. in Prabuddha Bharata vol. XXX P. 442.)
0.01f - FOREWARD, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
possible, and that the preservation of Courage and the joy of
action in those of us who wish, and know how, to plumb the
0.03 - Letters to My little smile, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You must not lose patience or Courage; everything will turn
out all right.
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knew how to work with Courage and steadiness, and in this
you were exceptional. But you have followed the example of
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You are a Courageous and energetic child.
Tender love.
0.05 - Letters to a Child, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
how. I have no Courage.
Do not distress yourself, it is the result of these last few days of
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energetic, Courageous, enduring and always good-tempered. I
have no doubt that you can acquire these qualities.
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follows, success always comes to those who are strong, Courageous, enduring. And you know that here our force and our help
are always available to you; you have only to learn to make use
0.05 - The Synthesis of the Systems, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
In psychological fact this method translates itself into the progressive surrender of the ego with its whole field and all its apparatus to the Beyond-ego with its vast and incalculable but always inevitable workings. Certainly, this is no short cut or easy sadhana. It requires a colossal faith, an absolute Courage and above all an unflinching patience. For it implies three stages of which only the last can be wholly blissful or rapid, - the attempt of the ego to enter into contact with the Divine, the wide, full and therefore laborious preparation of the whole lower Nature by the divine working to receive and become the higher Nature, and the eventual transformation. In fact, however, the divine
Strength, often unobserved and behind the veil, substitutes itself for our weakness and supports us through all our failings of faith, Courage and patience. It "makes the blind to see and the lame to stride over the hills." The intellect becomes aware of a Law that beneficently insists and a succour that upholds; the heart speaks of a Master of all things and Friend of man or a universal Mother who upholds through all stumblings. Therefore this path is at once the most difficult imaginable and yet, in comparison with the magnitude of its effort and object, the most easy and sure of all.
There are three outstanding features of this action of the higher when it works integrally on the lower nature. In the first place it does not act according to a fixed system and succession as in the specialised methods of Yoga, but with a sort of free, scattered and yet gradually intensive and purposeful working determined by the temperament of the individual in whom it operates, the helpful materials which his nature offers and the obstacles which it presents to purification and perfection. In a sense, therefore, each man in this path has his own method of
0.06 - Letters to a Young Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Only the resolution to face Courageously, in the present existence, all the difficulties, and to overcome them, is the sure
means of attaining the union you desire.
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Be Courageous and do not think of yourself so much. It is because
you make your little ego the centre of your preoccupation that
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Surely those who have Courage must have some for those who
have none.
01.01 - The Symbol Dawn, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Calm was her face and Courage kept her mute.
2.23
01.06 - Vivekananda, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
A personal reminiscence. A young man in prison, accused of conspiracy and waging war against the British Empire. If convicted he might have to suffer the extreme penalty, at least, transportation to the Andamans. The case is dragging on for long months. And the young man is in a solitary cell. He cannot always keep up his spirits high. Moments of sadness and gloom and despair come and almost overwhelm him. Who was there to console and cheer him up? Vivekananda. Vivekananda's speeches, From Colombo to Almora, came, as a godsend, into the hands of the young man. Invariably, when the period of despondency came he used to open the book, read a few pages, read them over again, and the cloud was there no longer. Instead there was hope and Courage and faith and future and light and air.
Such is Vivekananda, the embodiment of Fearlessnessabh, the Upanishadic word, the mantra, he was so fond of. The life and vision of Vivekananda can be indeed summed up in the mighty phrase of the Upanishads, nyam tm balahnena labhya. 'This soul no weakling can attain.' Strength! More strength! Strength evermore! One remembers the motto of Danton, the famous leader in the French Revolution:De l'audance, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace!
The gospel of strength that Vivekananda spread was very characteristic of the man. For it is not mere physical or nervous bravery, although that too is indispensable, and it is something more than moral Courage. In the speeches referred to, the subject-matter (as well as the manner to a large extent) is philosophical, metaphysical, even abstract in outlook and treatment: they are not a call to arms, like the French National Anthem, for example; they are not merely an ethical exhortation, a moral lesson either. They speak of the inner spirit, the divine in man, the supreme realities that lie beyond. And yet the words are permeated through and through with a vibration life-giving and heroic-not so much in the explicit and apparent meaning as in the style and manner and atmosphere: it is catching, even or precisely when he refers, for example, to these passages in the Vedas and the Upanishads, magnificent in their poetic beauty, sublime in their spiritual truth,nec plus ultra, one can say, in the grand style supreme:
Yasyaite himavanto mahitv
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The consciousness that breathed out these mighty words, these heavenly sounds was in itself mighty and heavenly and it is that that touches you, penetrates you, vibrates in you a kindred chord, "awakening in you someone dead" till thenmrtam kcana bodhayant. More than the matter, the thing that was said, was the personality, the being who embodied the truth expressed, the living consciousness behind the words and the speech that set fire to your soul. Indeed it was the soul that Vivekananda could awaken and stir in you. Any orator, any speaker with some kind of belief, even if it is for the moment, in what he says, by the sheer force of assertion, can convince your mind and draw your acquiescence and adhesion. A leader of men, self-confident and bold and fiery, can carry you off your feet and make you do brave things. But that is a lower degree of character and nature, ephemeral and superficial, that is touched in you thereby. The spiritual leader, the Guide, goes straight to the spirit in youit is the call of the deep unto the deep. That was what Vivekananda meant when he said that Brahman is asleep in you, awaken it, you are the Brahman, awaken it, you are free and almighty. It is the spirit consciousness Sachchidananda that is the real man in you and that is supremely mighty and invincible and free absolutely. The Courage and fearlessness that Vivekananda gave you was the natural attribute of the lordship of your spiritual reality. Vivekananda spoke and roused the Atman in man.
Vivekananda spoke to the Atman in man, he spoke to the Atman of the world, and he spoke specially to the Atman of India. India had a large place in Vivekananda's consciousness: for the future of humanity and the world is wedded to India's future. India has a great mission, it has a spiritual, rather the spiritual work to do. Here is India's work as Vivekananda conceived it in a nutshell:
0.10 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
afraid of snakes? Come, take Courage and walk through
them. They will not harm you." I walked through them
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Each one acts according to his nature and if he (or she) Courageously and sincerely follows the law of that nature, he or she
acts according to truth. Thus, it is impossible to judge and decide
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Yes, you must persevere with Courage and sincerity. You are sure
to succeed one day.
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strong, severe with themselves, Courageous and enduring.
But before trying to discipline one's whole life, one should
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Sincerity, Courage, discipline, endurance, absolute faith in the
Divine work and unshakable trust in the Divine Grace. All
0.13 - Letters to a Student, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
take its place; cowardice is replaced by Courage and energy.
Series Thirteen - To a Student
0.14 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The first qualities needed are boldness, Courage and perseverance.
And then to be conscious that one knows nothing compared
0 1958-11-14, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Do not flee the difficulty, face it Courageously and carry home the victory.
My love is with you.
0 1958-11-22, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
At that point, sometimes a great Courage is needed, sometimes a great endurance is needed, sometimes a true love is enough, sometimes, oh! if only faith were there, one thing, one tiny little thing is enough, and everything can be swept away. I have done it often; there are times when I have failed. But more often than not I have been able to remove it. But then, what is needed is a great, stoical Courage or a capacity to endure and to SEE IT THROUGH. The resistance (especially in cases of former suicide), the resistance to the temptation of renewing this stupidity creates a terrible formation. Or else this habit of fleeing when suffering comes: flee, flee, instead of absorbing the difficulty, holding on.
But just this, a faith in the Grace, or an awareness of the Grace, or the intensity of the call, or else naturally the response the response, the thing that opens, that breaks the response to this marvelous love of the Grace.
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Oh, the most terrible of all is when one does not have the strength, the Courage, something indomitable! How many times do they come to tell me, I want to die, I want to flee, I want to die.I say, But die, then, die to yourself! No one is asking you to let your ego survive! Die to yourself since you want to die! Have that Courage, the true Courage, to die to your egoism.
But because it is karma, one must, one must DO something oneself. Karma is the construction of the ego; the ego MUST DO something, everything cannot be done for it. This is it, THIS is the thing: karma is the result of the egos actions, and only when the ego abdicates is the karma dissolved. One can help it along, one can assist it, give it strength, bestow Courage upon it, but the ego must then make use of it.
(silence)
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But I always had a presentiment of the true thing: that only a VERY CourageOUS act of self-giving could efface the thingnot Courageous or difficult from the material point of view, not that There is a certain zone of the vital in you, a mentalized vital but still very material, which is very much under the influence of circumstances and which very much believes in the effectiveness of outer measuresthis is what is resisting.
That is all I know.
0 1959-04-07, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
With all my love, I envelope you, my child, and I tell you, Have Courage, the victory is certainnot a compromise or partial victory, but integral.
Signed: Mother
0 1959-06-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I should write you what X has revealed about my last three lives, but I have neither the Courage nor the desire to again speak of myself.
Your child,
0 1961-02-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So well see how long this is going to last. I understand why people have never tried to change it: stir up that quagmire? No! It takes a lot (laughing), a lot of Courage! Oh, its so easy to escape, so easy to say, None of that concerns me. I belong to higher spheres, it doesnt concern me.
Anyway, its obvious that nobody has succeeded, so far not a single person and I understand! I understand. When you find yourself face to face with it, you wonder, How could anything possibly withstand this!
0 1961-04-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But the indispensable foundation is truly an indomitable Courage and unflinching endurancefrom the most material cells of the body to the highest consciousness, from top to bottom, entirely. Without that, were pretty useless.
And I am really in the most favorable conditions, because my body says yes. It says yes, yes, yesit doesnt complain. This may be the sense behind all this illness and difficulty. Not a single day of complaint.
0 1961-04-12, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The first was with a boy who was a Sanskritist and had wanted to come to India with us. He was the son of a French ambassadoran old, noble family. But he learned that his lungs were bad, and so he joined the Army; he enlisted as an officer, just at the start of the 1914 war. And he had the Courage of those who no longer cling to life; when he received the order to advance on the enemy trenches (it was incredibly stupid, simply sending people to be slaughtered!), he didnt hesitate. He went. And he was hit between the two lines. For a long time, it was a no mans land; only after some days, when the other trench had been taken, could they go and collect the dead. All this came out in the newspapers AFTERWARDS. But on the day he was killed, of course, no one was aware of it.
I had a nice photo of him with a Sanskrit dedication, placed on top of a kind of wardrobe in my bedroom. I open the door and the photo falls. (There was no draft or anything.) It fell and the glass broke into smithereens. Immediately I said, Oh! Something has happened to Fontenay. (That was his name: Charles de Fontenay.) After that I came back down from my room, and then I hear a miaowing at the door (the door opened onto a large garden courtyard1). I open the door: a cat bursts in and jumps on me, like that (Mother thumps her breast). I speak to him: What is it, whats the matter? He drops to the ground and looks at meFontenays eyes! Absolutely! No one elses. And he just stayed put, he didnt want to go. I said to myself, Fontenay is dead.
0 1962-01-21, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Actually, people have always taken themselves for victims hounded by adverse forces the Courageous fight back, the rest lament. But increasingly there has been a very concrete vision of the role the adverse forces play in the creation, of their almost absolute necessity as goads to make the creation progress and become its Origin again. And there was such a clear vision that one should accomplish ones own transformation thats what we must pray for, what we must work outrather than demand the conversion or abolition of the adverse forces.
And this is all from the terrestrial, not the individual standpoint (for the individual standpoint, its quite clear): I am speaking from the terrestrial standpoint.
0 1962-01-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
He came to France and asked me. He absolutely insisted. He had read all Theons stuff and was well up on everything and very anxious to try. So I taught him how to do it; and whats more, I was there, he did it in my presence. And, mon petit, the moment he went out of his body, he was thrown into a panic! The man was no cowardhe was very Courageous but it absolutely terrified him! Sheer panic. So I said no, no, no.
But for instance, I do exteriorize at night.
0 1962-02-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ultimately, absolute sincerity is the great deciding factor for those who predict or foresee. Unfortunately, because of peoples curiosity, their insistence and the pressure they exert (which very few can resist), an almost involuntary mechanism of inner imagination comes to add just that small missing element to something not seen with precision or exactness. Thats what causes flaws in prediction. Very few have the Courage to say, Ah no, I dont know this, I dont see that, this eludes me. They dont even have the Courage to say it to themselves! So then, with a tiny drop of imagination, which acts almost subconsciously, the vision or information gets rounded outit can turn out to be anything at all! Very few people can resist this tendency. I have known many, many psychics, many extraordinarily gifted beings, and only a handful were able to stop just at the point where their knowledge stopped. Or else they embellish. Thats what gives these faculties their slightly dubious quality. One would have to be a great saint, a great sage, and completely free from other peoples influences (I dont speak of those who seek fame: they fall into the most flagrant traps); because even goodwillwanting to satisfy people, please them, help themis enough to distort the vision.
(Smiling) Are you satisfied? Have I answered everything?
0 1962-07-21, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In Bengal this weakness has gone to the extreme. The Bengali has a quick intelligence, emotional capacity and intuition. He is foremost in India in all these qualities. All of them are necessary but they do not suffice. If to these there were added depth of thought, calm strength, heroic Courage and a capacity for and pleasure in prolonged labor, the Bengali might be a leader not only of India, but of mankind. But he does not want that, he wants to get things done easily, to get knowledge without thinking, the fruits without labor, siddhi by an easy sadhana [discipline]. His stock is the excitement of the emotional mind. But excess of emotion, empty of knowledge, is the very symptom of the malady. In the end it brings about fatigue and inertia. The country has been constantly and gradually going down. The life-power has ebbed away. What has the Bengali come to in his own country? He cannot get enough food to eat or clothes to wear, there is lamentation on all sides, his wealth, his trade and commerce, his lands, his very agriculture have begun to pass into the hands of others. We have abandoned the sadhana of Shakti and Shakti has abandoned us. We do the sadhana of Love, but where Knowledge and Shakti are not, there Love does not remain, there narrowness and littleness come, and in a little and narrow mind there is no place for Love. Where is Love in Bengal? There is more quarreling, jealousy, mutual dislike, misunderstanding and faction there than anywhere else even in India which is so much afflicted by division.
In the noble heroic age of the Aryan people4 there was not so much shouting and gesticulating, but the endeavor they undertook remained steadfast through many centuries. The Bengalis endeavor lasts only for a day or two.
0 1962-08-14, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
One of our children, V., a Courageous boy, went up there all by himself. In winter its completely isolated, theres nothing nearby. It was May and still frightfully cold, it seems, snow still covered the ground. And the man was sitting there stark naked as though it were perfectly natural! He even asked the boy, Do you want to spend the night here? That was a bit too much!
Anyway, V. went there, sat down next to him, and after a while the man went into a sort of trance and began to tell V. about his life (the boys life, not his own!). So V. was interested and wanted to know more. Where do I come from? he asked. The man answered, Oh, from an ashram by the sea the sea is there. Then he began to speak (I must mention that outwardly he knew nothing about Sri Aurobindo or me or the Ashram, absolutely nothing at all), and he told V. that a great sage and the Mother were there, and that they wanted to do something on earth that had never been done before something very difficult. Then, I dont know whether he mentioned I was alone now (I have no idea), but he said, Oh, she has had to withdraw2 because the people around her dont understand and life there has become very difficult. It will be very difficult until 1964.
0 1962-11-03, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
We have to endure. And have Courage.
Au revoir, petit.
0 1963-06-15, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Because do you know the story of that Romanian who was tortured by the Communists and had visions of Sri Aurobindo2 (he didnt see him as he is, in fact, he saw him according to his own conception: thin and ascetic), and finally the apparition told him, I am your soul, and so on? But he had never read Sri Aurobindos name, he only heard it, and he wrote it in a very odd way [Aurobin Dogos]. It SEEMS to be something of Sri Aurobindo. Anyhow it gave him the strength to go through all those torturesappalling tortures, unimaginable. And he was able to escape, somebody helped him escape (now he is safe in England). But before that, he suffered so much that he thought of letting himself die, and that voice, that apparition which came and spoke to him for hours, was what gave him Courage and told him that the soul NEVER gets dis Couraged, it has something to do, and you must endure. He endured thanks to that voice.
Well, similar things may have happened elsewhere and some people may have received inspirationswe cannot say.
0 1963-10-05, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was a constructiona huge construction. It resembled one of those huge hotels they build nowadays, with inner courtyards and all sorts of things. And I had my room right at the top. (It called to my mind an old experience I had had. Do you remember that big hotel?1 It was somewhat like that.) And everyone there was APPARENTLY full of respect, of obedience, of thoughtfulness but everyone was going his own sweet way thats nothing new. At first, I was downstairs (my room was way upstairs, I dont know how many floors there were), and there I met some people, people whom I know. But each and every detail was so revealing, it was marvelous! And it was time for me to have my bath (I dont know what time it was!), so I wanted to go back upstairs to do so, but I needed someone to prepare the bath (its symbolic; I dont know yet, I havent yet understood the symbol of that bath, because it occurs very often; but there may be some meaning hidden in that symbol). But then one person was too old (someone who had offered to prepare the bath, but he was too old), another wasnt strong enough, anotherto be able to prepare the bath required VERY special qualities. It isnt the first time; it has happened two or three times before: to be able to prepare that bath took absolutely exceptional qualities of Courage, strength, physical power, endurance. And the people downstairs (gesture expressing incapacity). So I said to myself, All right, Ill go upstairs and see what happens.
On the way, the same thing happened again: I went the usual wayplop! cut off, nothing left, I cant get through; I come back, start another wayplop! cut off, I cant get through. Yet I kept going up (how, I dont know). Then I reached a sort of square terrace-balcony, perfectly square, and ALL its doors were closed. There was no way of going farther: all the doors were closed. Then I see water rising, rising, rising in the ENTIRE building, except the places where the doors were closed. Downstairs (I dont know, I was very high up, maybe on the fourth or fifth floor) the doors were closed, so naturally water could not get in. All the courtyards (large, immense courtyards) were turned into swimming pools. What water! I kept watching it, admiring it; I said to myself, What wonderful water! So clear, so clear, clearer than any I ever saw. Water that was I cant say, it was transparent like like purity itself, it was marvelous. It was rising and rising and rising. I saw in one of the courtyards on my left (a very large courtyard: it had become an immense swimming pool!), I saw a person in a bathing suit come out of the water, as if he had taken his bath in it, and wrap himself up (a very tall person, very tall, who was neither a man nor a woman), he wrapped himself up in a bathrobe, then walked away on the water (!) I was watching this till suddenly I realized that the water was beginning to reach my feet. Then I KNEW: Ah, yes! Theyve decided to do this. I was a little upset: They really could have told me they were going to do this! I thought. Its something they must do regularly. Did they inform some people? (All this in my head, of course.)
0 1964-03-28, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You know, one minute of such an experience gives you Courage for yearsit lasted a few minutes, I was having my breakfast.
Ultimately, thats also what I am waiting for: an experience in the body.
0 1964-04-08, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And this poor body says to the Lord, Tell me! Tell me. If I am to last, if I am to live, thats fine, but tell me so I may endure. I dont care about suffering and I am ready to suffer, as long as this suffering isnt a sign given me that I should prepare to go. Thats how it is, thats how the body is. Of course, it could be expressed with other words, but thats it. When you suffer, for instance, when the body suffers, it wonders why, it asks, Is there something I have to endure and overcome in order to be ready to continue my work, or is it a more or less roundabout way to tell me that I am coming undone and I am going to disappear? Because it rightly says, My attitude would be differentif I am to go, well, Ill completely stop bothering about myself, or about whats going on or anything; if I am to stay, I will have Courage and endurance, I wont budge.
But it isnt even told that I havent yet been able to obtain a clear answer.
0 1964-11-12, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is this phenomenon: as soon as the physical organism, with its crystallization and habits, is put in the presence of a new experience without being carefully forewarned (Now be careful, this is a new experience!), it is afraid. Its afraid, it panics, it worries. It depends on the person, but at the very least, in the most Courageous, in the most trusting, it creates an uneasinessit begins with a slight pain or a slight uneasiness. Some are afraid immediately; then its all over: the experience stops, it has to be started all over again; others (like those English people I was talking about, or like Z) hold on and observe, wait, and then the unpleasant effects, one may say, slowly die down, stop and turn into something else, and the experience begins to take on its own value or color.
With those faintings of sorts I told you about the other day, I observed (it went on the whole day), and I saw (saw with the inner vision): it is like the travelat times as quick as a flash, at other times slow and very measuredof a force that starts from one point to reach another one. That force travels along a precise route, which isnt always the same and seems to include certain cells on its way: the starting point and the arrival point (Mother draws a curve in the air). If you arent on your guard, if you are taken by surprise, during the passage of the force (whether long or short) you feel the same sensation (you, meaning the body), the same sensation as before fainting: its the phenomenon that precedes fainting. But if you are attentive, if you stay still and look, you see that it starts from one point, reaches another point, and then its overwhat that force had to do has been done, and there is no APPARENT consequence in the rest of the body.
0 1964-11-25, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Afterwards, for the rest of the day, it was as if the body were asking, or were en Couraged to ask (usually, it doesnt ask, it doesnt even ask for health or anything), and for the first time yesterday in the afternoon, it seemed to be saying, with a sort of aspiration almost not formulated in words, but with the feeling and impression: Am I not going to be ready for You to live in these cells? For these cells to be You? Words spoil it because they give a somewhat brutal and hard precision, but it was as if the cells were saying, Never will we have that marvelous Peace. It was a peace, but a peace full of creative power, and so rich, containing an infinite power, rich with joy; and it gave the body the Courage to say, We will be THAT only if You are here, and You alone.
Sri Aurobindo wrote, Every event (like every moment of life) will be a marvel when it is the marvelous Whole that lives that lives in the body. This was really like the expression of what the body felt. And it is its ONLY raison dtrethere is no other, all the rest It went through every disgust, every disdain, every indifference, to the point where it asked, But how can we live? What for? Why, why do we exist, why were we created? Why? All that is nothing! And strangely, there was a sort of memory of the eons of time during which people lived in this ignorance of the why and in a sort of bewilderment. That so much time could have been spent to find the only thing the only thing that exists! And why all that, why? All that, centuries of absurd sensations. It was curious: like a slow memory of a futile and useless lifeabsurd and so painful! Why all that in order to find THAT?
0 1965-07-24, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, thats right. But Sri Aurobindo said it to me. I asked him several times how it was that people (who consciously, outwardly, would rather have pleasant things and favorable events) are constantly attracting and attracting unpleasant things, even terrible catastrophes. I know some women (men too, but they are fewer), women who spend their time imagining the worst: they have children they imagine that each of them will meet with the worst catastrophes; someone goes away by caroh, the car will have an accident; they take the trainoh, the train will derail; and so forth. Well, thats why. Thats what Sri Aurobindo explained so well: all those parts of the being are terribly tamasic and it is the violence of the shock that awakens something in them; and that is why they attract those things as though instinctively. The Chinese, for example, have an extremely tamasic vital and an insensate physical: its sensation is totally blunted they are the ones who invented the most frightful forms of torture. It is because they need something extreme in order to feel, otherwise they dont feel. There was a Chinese who had a sort of anthrax, I think, in the middle of the back (generally an extremely sensitive spot, it seems), and because of his heart they couldnt put him to sleep to operate on him, so they were a bit worried. They operated without anesthesiahe was awake, he didnt move, didnt shout, didnt say anything, they were filled with admiration for his Courage; then they asked him what he had felt: Oh, yes, I felt some scraping in my back! Thats how it is. Thats what creates the necessity of catastrophesof unexpected catastrophes: the thing that gives you a shock to wake you up.
What you are saying here about those morbid and diseased imaginations, I said it myself not long ago: the imagination is instantly defeatist and catastrophic.
0 1965-08-07, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
If they have some intelligence, they will publish it. If they publish it, it will be good for everyone. I havent told you this little story which resembles yours: some two years ago, The Illustrated Weekly asked questions on where India stood, and in their questionnaire they had asked for the answers to be put in as few words as possible. Very well. As for me, I answered with one word, two words, three words, because things can be put in very few words.2 They published it in a box in the middle of peoples answers, which were columns long! Mon petit, it seems it had more effect than all the rest. They said to themselves, It has forced us to think. It will be the same thing for you if you have the Courage to put just what has to be put, in as few words as possible: the thing as exact as possible.
If they have the Courage to publish it, it will do a lot of good, a lot.3
And it isnt a question of condensing, its not that: its a question of saying just the essentialof catching the essential behind all that and of saying it.
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And he tells us that just because we have invented a few rockets and cultivated a few cerebral pyramids, that does not mean we have done with being men. A still greater adventure awaits us, divine and superhuman, if only we have the Courage to get under way.
And he gives us the means to do so.
0 1965-09-11, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Will they [the Indians] have the Courage to hold out against the pressure from the Americans, the British, etc.? Thats the most difficult. The most difficult part isnt the military part, its politically to hold out against the pressures from all those people who say, You must make peace.
But they arent sincere.
0 1965-09-25, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, because it isnt manifested, its outside the manifestation. But what Sri Aurobindo wants is for us to bring it down here. Thats just the difficulty. Thats it. And one must accept infirmity and the very appearance of stupidity and everything, and there isnt one being in fifty million (Sri Aurobindo told me I was the only one! [laughing] It may be so!) who has the Courage for that.
Just yesterday I was looking at this body, and there were no the reactions that might be called personal were truly reduced to an imperceptible minimum, which means there was a sense I cant say a universal sense because its not certain that Matter in other universes follows the same law, I dont know (I dont know I once knew: there was a time when I was in contact with this and that and I could have said, but now I dont want to concern myself with it: I am concerned only with the earth). Because this is always there, too: the possibility of escaping by going elsewhere. Lots of people did that in fact: they went off elsewhere, into another, more or less subtle world. Of course, there are millions of ways to escape there is only one way to stay, and thats to truly have Courage and endurance, to accept all the appearance of infirmity, the appearance of powerlessness, the appearance of incomprehension, the appearance, yes, of a negation of the Truth. But if one doesnt accept all that, nothing will ever be changed! Those who want to remain great, luminous, strong, powerful and what have you, well, let them stay up there, they can do nothing for the earth.
And its a very small thing (a very small thing because the consciousness is sufficient not to be affected in the least), but the incomprehension is so general and total! In other words, you receive abuse, expressions of contempt and all the rest, precisely because of what you do, because according to them (all the great intelligences of the earth), you have renounced your divinity. They dont say it like that, they say, What? You claim to have a divine consciousness, and then And this manifests in everyone and every circumstance. Now and then, someone for a moment has a flash, but thats quite exceptional, while Well, show your power!, thats everywhere.
0 1966-07-27, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its on this occasion, too, that I had an answer regarding death. I was told, But they all want to die! Because they dont have the Courage to be before That is manifested. And I saw I clearly saw it was like that.
The power of Death is that they all want to die! Not like that in their active thought, but in the bodys deep feeling, because it doesnt have the Courage to be without Thatit takes great Courage.
So they began with a complete ignorance and general stupidity, participating in all that this life is outwardly (as if it were something wonderful!). But as soon as they begin to grow a little wiser, it stops being wonderful. Its like what I said about this flower [the lotus]: when you know how to look at a flower, at the so spontaneous and, oh, uncomplicated expression of this marvelous Love, then you understand how long the way isall these attachments, all this importance we give to useless things, whereas there should be a spontaneous and natural beauty.
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If they knew too soon, if they were able to see the opposition between what is and what must be, they wouldnt have the Courage. One must one must truly be heroicheroic. I assure you, I see these cells, they are heroicheroic. As for them, they dont know in that mental way: its only their adoration that saves them. That is, What You will, Lord, what You will, what You will , with the simplicity of a childs ingenuous heart: What You will, what You will, what You will only what You will and nothing but what You will exists. Then its all right. But without that, its not possible. Its not possible to know what they know and to continue to be if That isnt there. You know, the feeling is, At Your service, what You will, what You will whatever You will , without discussion, without anything, without even a sensation, nothing: What You will, what You will.
This is the only strength, there is no other.
0 1966-12-07, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Basically, when we have reached the end (the end which is the beginning of something else), the end of this work of transformation, when it really is the transformation and we are settled in it, maybe well remember and derive a special pleasure from remembering having gone through this? In the higher spheres it has always been said that those who have the Courage to come for the preparation will have, when its done, superior assets and of a more intimate and deeper quality than those who will have quietly waited for others to do the work for them.
It may be so.
0 1967-06-07, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All the countries live in falsehood. If only one country stood Courageously for truth, the world might be saved.
(silence)
0 1967-06-14, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
We think we are we think we are so great, so wise, so Oh, all the virtues we give ourselves! (Mother laughs) So Courageous, so enduring, so An act we put on for ourselves our whole life long.
(silence)
0 1967-08-02, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But he must find the Courage to break off. Thats his problem.
He hasnt once told me, I want to stop.
0 1968-02-20, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And its true, I have noticed it: at times when the Force comes with really all its might, its terrible! Even for those who are most used to it, even for the most Courageous its hard. So its always like that: it contains itself so as not to be unbearable.
What do you have to tell me? Nothing? Its a pity. Im always the one who speaks!
0 1968-04-27, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I think its the only thing hes asking for. Only, he doesnt have the strength to put his situation in the Vatican in order. He doesnt have the Courage to put his affairs in order.
But the other fellow, Msgr. R., will do it for him: hell send him back.
Yes, but P.L. wont have the Courage to say that hes quitting everything.
Oh!
0 1968-06-22, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
P. L. could be very, very useful if he wanted tovery useful. But theres a little something that resists, I dont know whatmaybe like a slight lack of Courage somewhere, I dont know what. When he is in front of difficulty, he is instantly tormented.
Thats what bothers me. Because I have put on him enough force for him to pull through in any event, but if inwardly he starts vibrating, it cant work anymore.
0 1968-08-28, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
That is to say, for a few minutes the body lost patience. And then it knew, this fool, a few minutes later, it knew it had simply refused to accept a more total experiencevery well. You see, the body hadnt had the necessary Courage or endurance or patience or faith to accept a more total experience.
Would you imagine that suddenly, I dont know I must say it wasnt pleasant (!), something came from outside, like a malicious suggestion telling me, If you get cured now, when you have to die youll have to go through this again.4 It was hideous! I think that was the cause of the bodys outburst.
0 1968-12-04, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its the other side of his nature. There are many people who could kill if they had the Courage to.
In their feelings, they do kill.
0 1969-01-04, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
What Courage!
So you must have a multitude of nephews and nieces?
0 1969-03-26, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The disciple who had the vision wanted me to ask you if you happen to carry Mothers symbol or something of her around your neck? Because he saw you with this symbol around your neck. He told me that the basilica where the photo of this Msgr. Z was taken had very much the vibration of a haunted place! Poor Church. You are indeed Courageous, dear P.L., and you are silently doing a great and good work for the world.
S.
0 1969-04-02, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
He has acted with great Courage.
(silence)
0 1969-06-04, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
My work is the same, there are difficulties in accepting my ideas. I am regarded as a crank (I think so, though no one has talked to me about it, for there is a force protecting me). Yet, things at the Vatican, at the center of the Church, are changing. The struggle of the new forces against the traditional ones is now very strong. If the Pope accepts (his entourage is against it) to go to Geneva on June 10 and take part in the Assembly of Protestant Churches, and asserts there that we are not the only ones to possess the truth, I believe that will be a great step forward. But will he have the Courage to accept that other religious movements too are seeking? Or will he remain rooted in the assertion that extra ecclesia non est salus,1 that the only depository of the Truth, the exclusive owner (!) of salvation is the Catholic Church? For the time being, I am on the list of those accompanying him. Mothers assistance will have to be strong on that day
(after a silence)
0 1969-06-28, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In truth, this is the time of the Great Adventure. The world is closed, there are no more adventures outside: only robots go to the moon and our borders are guarded everywherein Rome or in Rangoon, the same functionaries of the great Machine are watching us, punching our cards, checking our faces and searching our pockets there is no more adventure outside! The Adventure is with inFreedom is within, Space is within, so is the transformation of our world by the power of the Spirit. Because, in truth, that Power was always there, supreme, all-powerful, prodding evolution on: it was the hidden Spirit growing to become the Spirit manifest upon earth, and if we have trust, if we want that supreme Power, if we have the Courage to descend into our hearts, everything is possible, for God is in us.
Its unfortunate that there cant be another word than God.
0 1969-11-29, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Knowledge, when it goes to the root of our troubles, has in itself a marvellous healing-power as it were. As soon as you touch the quick of the trouble, as soon as you, diving down and down, get at what really ails you, the pain disappears as though by a miracle. Unflinching Courage to reach true knowledge is therefore the very essence of yoga. No lasting superstructure can be erected except on a solid basis of true Knowledge.
Thats just for A.R.! (Laughing) Youd think it was written for him!
0 1969-12-17, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then (Mother takes other notes) I am continuing the answers to the Aphorisms, and yesterday (those Aphorisms of Sri Aurobindo are extremely interesting, I had forgotten), yesterday T. asked me a question (because in those Aphorisms, Sri Aurobindo speaks of Courage and love, meanness and selfishness, nobleness and generosity1), so she asked me, Could you give me the definition of these words? At first, I thought it wouldnt come, but all of a sudden it came. So I noted it down, its interesting.
(Mother reads)
Courage is the total absence of fear in all its forms.
It shouldnt be understood mentally, it should be understood like this (gesture above the head), because the words have a very vast meaning, as vast as possible, very universal.
0 1970-03-14, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
We have to struggle on, we need patience, Courage, will, trust but things are no longer just the way they are. Its the old thing trying to hang on tighthideous! Hideous. But its not like that anymore. Its not like that anymore.
There.
0 1971-01-16, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
They have broadcast it. (Laughing) The first thing they did was to send it to Delhi. Instead of broadcasting it here, they sent it to Delhi. They made such a fuss about it. But its good, it gives people Courage.
Yes, Mother, I dont know, but personally I have a strong feeling that its very close.
0 1971-03-31, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But India should have the Courage to intervene, Mother.
(Mother goes deep within, then, after a long time, makes a gesture as if to say, What can be done? and goes back within)
0 1971-04-07, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Lying is always the sign of a lack of Courage. A refusal to face the situation as it is.
(Mother goes back within, long contemplation)
0 1971-05-15, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The Great History tells us that India must again be one, and that particular current of history is so imperative that twice already Destiny has managed to put India before the possibility of her reunification. The first time was in 1965 when Pakistans foolish aggressiveness enabled India to counterattack and carry the battle right into the suburbs of Lahore and up to Karachi had she but had the Courage to seize boldly her destiny. The hour was indeed for a decisive choice. The Mother declared categorically: India is fighting for the triumph of Truth, and She must fight until India and Pakistan become ONE again, for such is the truth of their being. At Tashkent, we yielded on the crest of a petty compromise which was to lead us into a second, more bloody and painful reef, Bangladesh. There too destiny graciously arranged to enable India to hasten to the aid of her massacred brethreneven the famous skyjacking incident of January4 was, as it were, arranged by the Grace so as to spare India from delaying her intervention until it was too late (or to spare her the shame of not intervening at all and allowing Pakistans planes to fly over her head loaded with weaponry and murderers to slaughter her brothers). But there again, yielding to the demands of the moment and to the small, shortsighted interests, we refused to accept the challenge of the Great Direction of our History, and we now find ourselves on the brink of a new compromise which will lead us inevitably to a third and even more disastrous and bloody reef. For one day India must inevitably face that which twice she has fled. Only each time the conditions are more disastrous for her and for the worldperhaps so disastrous that the whole earth will even be engulfed in another general conflict, while the whole story could have been resolved at the little symbolic point that is Bangladesh, at the right hour, with the right gesture and a minimum of suffering.
For let there be no doubt about it, the Bangladesh affair is not an Indian event, it is a world event. The division of India is not a local incident, it is a terrestrial Falsehood which must disappear if the division of the world is to disappear. And here again we hear the voice of Sri Aurobindo, six months before his passing, referring to yet another phenomenon which then seemed of such slight importance, so remote, a trifling local affair at the other end of the world: the invasion of South Korea in 1950, twenty-one years ago. And yet that small Korean symbol, like the small symbol of Bangladesh (or the one of Czechoslovakia in 1938), contained in seed the whole fatal course which is still carrying the world toward a sinister destiny: The affair of Korea, wrote Sri Aurobindo, is the first move in the Communist plan of campaign to dominate and take possession first of these northern parts and then of South East Asia as a preliminary to their manoeuvres with regard to the rest of the continentin passing, Tibet as a gate opening to India. Now, twenty-one years later, we see that Tibet and the whole of South East Asia have been swallowed up and the gate into India has truly been opened wide by the wound of the Pakistani Falsehoodalready, or very shortly, the Chinese are, or will be, in Khulna, some eighty miles from Calcutta, to help Yahya Khan to pacify Bengal. And Sri Aurobindo added, If they succeed, there is no reason why domination of the whole world should not follow by steps until they are ready to deal with America.
0 1972-01-12, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then Courage. Then Prudence, Charity, Justice, Goodness, Patience, Sweetness, Thoughtfulness. And then Gratitude.
Yes.
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And Courage.
Perseverance came first, then Courage followed. Sincerity, Humility, Perseverance and Courage. That I remember. But there were twelve.
Next you mention Prudence.
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Mother later ordered the list of the twelve powers or "qualities" in the following sequence: Sincerity, Humility, Gratitude, Perseverance, Aspiration, Receptivity, Progress, Courage, Goodness, Generosity, Equanimity, Peace.
The experience of joining the vision of the whole together with the vision of all the details.
0 1972-01-19, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
8) Courage
9) Goodness
0 1972-03-29a, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In your reply to the Swedish magazine, you emphasize, The major obstacle to tolerance is not agnosticism but Manichaeism. That is also why religions will never be able to unite humanity, because they have remained Manichaean in their principle, because they are founded on morality, on a sense of good and evil, necessarily varying from one country to the next. Religions will not reconcile men with one another any more than they have reconciled men with themselves, or reconciled their aspiration to be with their need for action and for the same reasons, for in both cases they have dug an abyss between an ideal good, a being they have relegated to heaven, and an evil, a becoming, which reigns supreme in a world where all is vanity. I would like to quote here a passage from Sri Aurobindos Essays on the Gita which throws a clear light on the problem: To put away the responsibility for all that seems to us evil or terrible on the shoulders of a semi-omnipotent Devil, or to put it aside as part of Nature, making an unbridgeable opposition between world-nature and God-Nature, as if Nature were independent of God, or to throw the responsibility on man and his sins, as if he had a preponderant voice in the making of this world or could create anything against the will of God, are clumsily comfortable devices in which the religious thought of India has never taken refuge. We have to look Courageously in the face of the reality and see that it is God and none else who has made this world in his being and that so he has made it. We have to see that Nature devouring her children, Time eating up the lives of creatures, Death universal and ineluctable and the violence of the Rudra forces in man and Nature are also the supreme Godhead in one of his cosmic figures. We have to see that God the bountiful and prodigal creator, God the helpful, strong and benignant preserver is also God the devourer and destroyer. The torment of the couch of pain and evil on which we are racked is his touch as much as happiness and sweetness and pleasure. It is only when we see with the eye of the complete union and feel this truth in the depths of our being that we can entirely discover behind that mask too the calm and beautiful face of the all-blissful Godhead and in this touch that tests our imperfection the touch of the friend and builder of the spirit in man. The discords of the worlds are Gods discords and it is only by accepting and proceeding through them that we can arrive at the greater concords of his supreme harmony.2 I believe that the characters of your books would not be seeking sacrifice and death so intensely if they did not feel the side of light and joy behind the mask of darkness in which they so passionately lose themselves.
Sri Aurobindo has constantly stressed that, through progressive evolutionary cycles, humanity must go beyond the purely ethical and religious stage, just as it must go beyond the infrarational and rational stage, in order to reach a new spiritual and suprarational ageotherwise we will simply remain doomed to the upheavals, conflicts and bloody sacrifices that shake our times, for living according to a code of morality is always a tragedy, as one of the characters in Hope notes.
0 1972-04-04, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No! Certainly not! No, no, I dont favor deliberately adding difficulties! I know they come for. But they shouldnt be invitedon the contrary. They shouldnt. Things should be made as easy as possible. Only, we shouldnt be ruffled by difficulty, thats the point. I am not at all saying that difficulties should be accepteddont invite them at all, at all, at all; life is difficult enough as it is! But when a difficulty comes, you must take heart and face it Courageously.
We must strive for Order, Harmony, Beauty and collective aspirationall the things which for the moment are not there. We must you see, being the organizers, our task is to set the example of what we want others to do. We must rise above personal reactions, be exclusively attuned to the divine Will and be the docile instruments of the divine Willwe must be impersonal, without any personal reaction.
02.02 - Lines of the Descent of Consciousness, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Here also in the vital three ranges can be distinguished the lower becoming more and more turbid and turbulent and fierce or more and more self-centred and selfish. These levels can best be seen by their impact on our vital being and formations there. The first, the highest one, the meeting or confluence of the Mind and the Vital is the Heart, the centre of emotion, the knot of the external or instrumental vehicle, of the frontal consciousness, behind which is born and hides the true individualised consciousness, the psyche. The mid-region is the Higher Vital consisting of larger (egoistic) dynamisms, such as high ambition, great enterprise, heroic Courage, capacity for work, adventure, masterfulness, also such movements as sweeping violences, mighty hungers, and intense arrogances. The physical seat of this movement is, as perhaps the Tantras would say, the domain ranging between the heart and the navel. Lower down ranges the Lower Vital which consists of small desires, petty hankerings, blind cravingsall urges and impulses that are more or less linked up with the body and move to gross physical satisfactions.
But always the Consciousness is driving towards a yet greater disintegration and fragmentation, obscuration and condensation of self-oblivion. The last step in the process of transmutation or involution is Matter where consciousness has wiped itself out or buried itself within so completely and thoroughly that it has become in its outward form totally dark, dense, hard, pulverised into mutually exclusive grains. The supreme luminous Will of Consciousness in its gradual descent and self obliteration finally ends in a rigid process of mere mechanised drive.
02.03 - An Aspect of Emergent Evolution, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Bertr and Russell made a move in the right direction with a happy suggestion which unhappily he had not the Courage to follow up. Mind (and Life), he says, are certainly emergents out of Matter; that is because the reality is neither, it is a neutral stuff out of which all emergents issue. The conclusion is logical and sensible. But as he was initially bound to his position of scientific scepticism, he could not further question or probe the neutral and stopped on the fence.
The problem in reality, however, is simple enough, if we allow the facts to speak for themselves and do not hesitate to accept the conclusions to which they inevitably lead. After Matter came Life; that is to say, out of Matter came Life, and that can only be because Life was involved in Matter. And if such a conclusion makes of Matter a potentially living thing, we shall have to accept the position. In the same way, Mind that followed Life came out of Life, because Mind was involved in Life; and if that means endowing Life with a secret mentality, well, there is no help for it. And if, as a natural consequence of the two premises we have to admit the existence of some kind of mind or consciousness secreted in Mattera minimal psychic life, according to McDougall that would be but what the Upanishads always declared: Creation -is a vibration of consciousness, and all things and all kinds of existence are only forms and modalities of consciousness.
02.07 - The Descent into Night, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Courage their armour, faith their sword, they must walk,
The hand ready to smite, the eye to scout,
02.08 - Jules Supervielle, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Pour reprendre Courage.
Saisir quand tout me quitte,
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To give yourself Courage.
Seize when all else fails me,
02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The Courage and the strength death cannot touch
Awake in limbs that are mortal, hearts that fail;
03.02 - Yogic Initiation and Aptitude, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Needless to say that these tests and ordeals are mere externals; at any rate, they have no place in our sadhana. Such or similar virtues many people possess or may possess, but that is no indication that they have an opening to the true spiritual life, to the life divine that we seek. Just as accomplishments on the mental plane,keen intellect, wide studies, profound scholarship even in the scriptures do not entitle a man to the possession of the spirit, even so capacities on the vital plane,mere self-control, patience and forbearance or endurance and perseverance do not create a claim to spiritual realisation, let alone physical austerities. In conformity with the Upanishadic standard, one may not be an unworthy son or an unworthy disciple, one may be strong, Courageous, patient, calm, self-possessed, one may even be a consummate master of the senses and be endowed with other great virtues. Yet all this is no assurance of one's success in spiritual sadhana. Even one may be, after Shankara, a mumuksu, that is to say, have an ardent yearning for liberation. Still it is doubtful if that alone can give him liberation into the divine life.
What then is the indispensable and unfailing requisite? What is it that gives you the right of entrance into the divine life? What is the element, the factor in you that acts as the open sesame, as a magic solvent?
03.03 - Arjuna or the Ideal Disciple, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
All this, however, is not to say that Arjuna was in his external human nature, built of an inferior stuff; indeed, even from the human and profane standpoint Arjuna's was a heroic nature, if ever there was one. Still what one remarks in him is his representative character, that is to say, he is an average man, only the strengths and weaknesses are perhaps stressed and intensified in him. He is a hero, to be surewe must remember also the other condition that a spiritual aspirant is to fulfil, nyamtmbalahinena labhyaha2 but that did not immune him to the normal reactions of a normal man; on the contrary, the reactions were especially strong and violent, necessary indeed to bring out the whole implication of a spiritual crisis. Arjuna's doubts and depression, misgivings and questionings (Vishada Yoga) are what more or less every aspirant has to pass through when he arrives at the crucial point of his soul's journey and has either to choose the higher curve or follow the vicious circle. And at this threshold of the spiritual journey what is required of the true aspirant, the ideal disciple, is the resolution to face the situation, to go through to the end at the comm and and under the loving guidance of the Master. On this line Arjuna stands for us all and shows, by his example how we can take Courage and march out of the inferior nature into the peace and light and power of the higher divine nature.
Nor by brain-power, nor by much learning of Scripture.Katha Upanishad, 1. 2. 23.
03.06 - The Pact and its Sanction, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The whole difficulty centres upon the question: who rouses whom, and what is the principle that is meant to rouse. There is a slogan that incited the Red Terror of the French Revolution; there is the other one which inspired the Nazis; there is still another one rampant that had the seal and sanction of Stalin and his politburo. These have spread their dark wings and covered the saviour light. On the other hand, the voice of the Vedic Rishi that hymned the community of faith and speech and act, the kindly light that Buddha carried to suffering humanity, the love and sacrifice of Christ showing and embleming the way of redemption, the saints and sages in our own epoch who have visioned the ideal of human unity in a divine humanity, even secular leaders who labour for "one world", "a brave new world"all point to the other line of growth and development that man can follow and must and shall follow. The choice has to be made and the right direction given. In India today, there are these two voices put against each other and clear in their call: one asks for unity and harmony, wideness and truth, the other its contrary working for separativeness, disintegration, narrowness, and make-believe and falsehood. One must have the Courage and the sagacity to fix one's loyalty and adhesion.
A true covenant there can be only between parties that work for the light, are inspired by the same divine purpose. Otherwise if there is a fundamental difference in the motive, in the soul-impulse, then it is no longer a pact between comrades, but a patchwork of irreconcilable elements. I have spoken of the threefold sanction of the covenant. The sanction from the top initiates, plans and supports, the sanction from the bottom establishes and furnishes the field, but it is the sanction from the mid-region that inspires, executes, makes a living reality of what is no more than an idea, a possibility. On one side are the Elders, the seasoned statesmen, the wise ones; on the other, the general body of mankind waiting to be moved and guided; in between is the army of young enthusiasts, enlightened or illumined (not necessarily young in age) who form the pra, the vital sheath of the body politic. Allby far the largest part of itdepends upon the dreams that the Prana has been initiated and trained to dream.
03.16 - The Tragic Spirit in Nature, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
There runs a pessimistic vein in Nature's movement. Due to the original Inconscience out of which she is built and also because of a habit formed through millenniums it is not possible for her to expect or envisage anything else than decay, death and frustration in the end or on the whole. To every rise there must be a fall, a crest must end in a trough. Nature has not the Courage nor the faculty to look for any kind of perfection upon earth. Not that within her realm one cannot or should not try for the good; the noble, even the perfect, but one must be ready to pay the price. Good there is and may be, but it is suffered only on payment of its Danegeld to Evil. That is the law of sacrifice that seems to be fundamental to Nature's governance.
The Evil, we have said, is nothing else than the basis of unconsciousness or Inconscience in Nature. It is this which pulls the beingwhatever structure of consciousness can be reared upon itdown to decay and frustration. It is the force of gravitation or inertia. Matter is unconsciousness; the body, formed basically of matter, is unconsciousness too. The natural tendency of Matter is towards disintegration and dissolution; the body, therefore, is mortalbhasmntamidam arram. The scope and range of mortality is measured by the scope and range of unconsciousness. Matter is the most concrete and solid form of unconsciousness; but it casts its shadow upon the higher levels toolife and mind always lie in the penumbra of this original evil.
04.16 - To the Heights-XVI, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Faint Heart! Kindle your faith and take Courage!
Stupendous obstacles block the way?
05.03 - Of Desire and Atonement, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Do not turn back seeing the desert in front. Traverse it with Courage and fortitude-for beyond is the promised land flowing with milk and honey.
None is truly weak, not even any limb or element in him. One has only to open to the Universal Power, the Divine Mother; she is the origin and fountain-head of all strength and energy and she can make the mute speak and the lame leap over the mountains.
05.05 - In Quest of Reality, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Creation as a movement or expression of consciousness need not be dubbed a metaphysical jargon; it can be assumed as a scientific working hypothesis and seen how it affects our view, meets our problems and difficulties, whether it can give a satisfactory clue to some of the riddles of physical and psychical phenomena. A scientific supposition (or intuition) is held to be true if it can be applied invariably to facts of life and experience and if it can open up to our vision and perception new facts. The trend of scientific discoveries today is towards the positing of a background reality in Nature of which energy (radiant and electrical) is the first and overt form. We discarded ether, only to replace it by field and disposition. We have arrived at a point where the question is whether we cannot take Courage" in both hands and declare, as some have already done, that the substratum in Nature is consciousness-energy and on that hypothesis better explain certain movements of Matter and Life and Mind in a global unity. Orthodox and die-hard views will always protest and cry that it is a misalliance, a misjoinder to couple together Matter and Consciousness or even Life and Consciousness. But since the light has touched the higher mind even among a few of the positivist type, the few may very well be the precursor of the order of the day.
After all, only one bold step is needed: to affirm unequivocally what is being suggested and implied and pointed to in a thousand indirect ways. And Science will be transformed. The scientist too, like the famous Saltimbanque (clown) of a French poet, may one day in turning a somersault, suddenly leap up and find himself rolling into the bosom of the stars.
05.06 - Physics or philosophy, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Jeans is not alone to have such a revolutionary and unorthodox view. He seems to take Courage from Dirac also. Dirac too cannot admit an annihilation of the material world. His proposal to save and salvage it follows a parallel line. He says that the world presented or pictured by physical science may not be and is not the actual world, but it posits a substratum of reality to which it conforms: the pattern presented by subjective laws is so composed because of a pressure, an impact from an analogous substratum. There is no chain of causal relation in the pattern itself, the relation of causality is between the substratum reality and the pattern that it bodies forth. Here again we find ourselves at the end of physical inquiry driving straight into the tenuous spaces of spiritual metaphysics. We have one more example of how a modern physicist is metamorphosed into a mystic. What Dirac says is tantamount to the very well-known spiritual experience that the world as it appears to us is a vesture or symbol of an inner order of reality out of which it has been broadcastsah paryagtand the true causes of things are not on the surface, the so-called antecedents, but behind in the subtler world called therefore the causal world, kraa jagat.
Even Eddington is not so absurd or impossible as it may seem to some. He says, as we have seen, that all so-called laws of Nature can be discovered from within the mind itself, can be deduced logically from psychologically given premises: no empiricial observation or objective experimentation is necessary to arrive at them: they are found a priori in the subject. Now, mystic experience always lays stress on extra-sensory knowledge: it declares that such a knowledge is not only possible, but that this alone is the right and correct knowledge. All thingsmatter and mind and life and allbeing but vibrations of consciousness, even as the colours of a spectrum are vibrations, electro-magnetic waves of different frequency, mystic discipline enables one to enter into that condition in which one's consciousness mingles with all consciousness or with another particular consciousness (Patanjali's term is samyama), and one can have all knowledge that one wishes to have by this inner contact or concentration or identification, one discovers the knowledge within oneself, no external means of sense observation and experimental testing, no empirical inductive process is needed. We do not say that Eddington had in view anything of this kind, but that his attitude points in this direction.
05.26 - The Soul in Anguish, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The being immersed in Prakriti, as normally it is, in relation and communion with others, may entertain as a pleasure and luxury, the illusion of its separateness and freedom: it can do so at ease, because it feels it has the secret support of its environment, it is Courageous because it feels itself in good company. But once it rises out of the environmental level and stands truly apart and outside itit is the mental being which can do so more or less successfully the first feeling is that of freedom, no doubt, but along with it there is also the uncanny sense of isolation, of heavy responsibility, also a certain impotence, a loss of bearings. The normal Cartesian Co-ordinates, as it were, are gone and the being does not know where to look for the higher multi-dimensional co-ordinates. That is the real meaning of the Anguish which suddenly invades a being at a certain stage of his ascending consciousness.
The solution, the issue out is, of course, to go ahead. Instead of making the intermediary poise, however necessary it may be, a permanent character of the being and its destiny, as these philosophers tend to do, one should take another bold step, a jump upward. For the next stage, the stage when the true equilibrium, the inherent reconciliation is realised between oneself and others, between the inner soul and its outer nature is what the Upanishad describes as Vijnana, the Vast Knowledge.
06.02 - Darkness to Light, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
When you receive a blow, do not draw back or blink and sink down: hold up your head with Courage and fortitude and say to yourself, here is another opportunity given to take another step forward. The blow is a finger of light pointed towards a dark spot to be illumined, a weak link that has to be forged anew. In meeting and surmounting a difficulty you add another degree to your ascension, another sinew as it were to your muscle. Remember a difficulty is never out of proportion to your strength: it comes in the exact measure of your power to face it. It is your mind, your notion that makes the contrary suggestion, a kind of illusion possesses you that you are beyond your depth and must go adrift.
You may not be able to do the ideal things at a given moment. You may not comm and the perfect gesture that is expected of you in a set of circumstances; the Divine may seem to be veiled from you and you do not hear the direct voice. But it does not matter. What is expected of you is to do your best, do the best' that you are capable of at that moment. That highest that is present to you, the summit available for the time and under the circumstances that should be the source and inspiration of your act. Act on the heights where you stand and aspire for still higher heights.
06.11 - The Steps of the Soul, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The human individual is a very complex being: he is com-posed of innumerable elements, each one of which is an independent entity and has almost a personality. Not only so, the most contradictory elements are housed together. If there is a particular quality or capacity present, the very opposite of it, annulling it, as it were, will be also found along with it and embracing it.. I have seen a man brave, Courageous, heroic to the extreme, flinching from no danger, facing unperturbed the utmost peril, the bravest of the brave, truly; and yet I have seen the same man cowering in abject terror, like the last of poltroons, in the presence of certain circumstances. I have seen a most generous man, giving away largely, freely, not counting any expenditure or sacrifice, without the least care or reservation; the same person I have also found to be the vilest of misers in respect of certain other considerations. I have seen again the most intelligent person, with a clear mind, full of light and understanding, easily comprehending the logic and implication of a topic and yet I have seen him betraying the utmost stupidity of which even an ordinary man without education or intelligence would be incapable. These are not theoretical examples, but I have come across such persons actually in life.
The complexity arises not only in extension, but also in depth. Man does not live on a single plane but on many planes at the same time. There is a scale of gradation in human consciousness: the higher one rises in the scale the greater the number of elements or personalities that one possesses. Whether one lives mostly or mainly on the physical or vital or mental plane or on any particular section of these planes or on planes above and beyond, there will be accordingly differences in the constitution or psycho-physical make-up of the individual personality. The higher one stands the richer the personality, because it lives not only on its own normal level, but also on all that are below and which it has transcended. The complete or integral man, some occultists say, possesses 365 personalities; indeed it may be much more. (The Vedas speak of the three and thirty-three and thirty-three hundred and thirty-three thousand gods that may be housed in the human vehicle the basic three being evidently the triple status or world of Body, Life and Mind).
07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Her body a mass of Courage and heavenly strength,
She menaced the triumph of the nether gods.
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And Courage indifferent to the wounds of Time
And the hero's might wrestling with death and fate.
08.17 - Psychological Perfection, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
We come to the next term. I spoke to you once of Courage; I said Courage means the taste for adventure, the supreme adventure. This taste for the supreme adventure is Aspirationaspiration that seizes you wholly and throws you without calculation or reserve, without the possibility of withdrawal, into the great adventure of the discovery of the Divine, the great adventure of meeting the Divine and the still greater adventure of realising the Divine. It means plunging into an unknown venture without looking backward, without asking even for a moment what is going to happen for if you ask where you are going to fall, you never start, you remain fixed where you are, both your feet firmly rooted on the spot, fearing lest you lose your balance. That is why I call the thing Courage. But truly it is aspiration. The two go together. True aspiration is something full of Courage.
We have till now, then, four elements. The fifth one I wish to add is Endurance. For, if you are not capable of facing your difficulties without getting disheartened, without abandoning your effort because it is too difficult, and if you are not able to bear blows, pocket them and go on never minding for the blows come because of your faults and mistakesyou cannot go very far: at the first turning where you lose sight of your petty habitual life, you despair and give up the game.
08.23 - Sadhana Must be Done in the Body, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
To avoid a nightmare you have to be in your psychic consciousness; for when you are in that consciousness nothing troubles you or brings you anxiety. It is only when you are in a movement of ignorance that you do not have the Courage or the strength to face a danger.
What is the source of cowardice?
08.30 - Dealing with a Wrong Movement, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
There is a great difference between pushing a thing away simply because you do not want it and changing the state of the consciousness so that the thing you do not want becomes completely foreign to your nature. Usually when you have a movement in you which you do not like, you drive it back and repel it, but you do not take the trouble of finding in yourself that which served and serves still as a support to the movement, the particular tendency, the turn of consciousness which enables the thing to enter into the consciousness. If, however, instead of a gesture of mere condemnation and suppression, you enter deep into your vital consciousness and find out the support, that is to say, the small vibration of a special kind embedded far in a corner, often a corner so dark that it is difficult to see it is there, if, in spite of all difficulty, you concentrate and follow on the track of the thing, the origin of the movement, then at the end you discover quite a small snake-like thing, coiled up, quite small, not bigger than a pea, but very black and embedded firmly. There are then two procedures: either to throw a light so intense, the light of the truth-consciousness, so strong upon the point that the thing is dissolved or to seize the little object as with a pair of pincers, pluck it out and place it before your consciousness. The first method is radical, but you have not always at your disposal the light of the Truth and you cannot make use of it whenever you like. So you have to take to the second method. You may follow it, but it will give you pain, a pain as great as when a tooth is being pulled out. I do not know if any of you had the experience, but it is painful. Usually, however, what you do in the presence of an undesirable movement is to try to wipe it offgently, I supposeor cover it up; thus things go on as before. You do not have the Courage and so things do not change. Yes, it gives you pain; the pain is usually here in the heart. But if you have the Courage, it is better to pull out the thing than to temporize with it; pull it out and put it in front of your gaze; it dissolves. That makes an end of it and you are cured. The thing will not come into you any more to trouble you. But the operation is radical and it has to be done as an operation.
In the beginning you need a great perseverance in seeking out the thing. For normally when you are in search of these things, the mind comes in and deploys a thousand and one reasons and favourable explanations so that you may not pursue the enquiry. It tells you: "No, it is not your fault at all; it is the circumstances, it is the people, it is things coming from outside, it is this and it is that," all excellent excuses, and if you are not firm in your resolution, you let things go on and you remain where you were; the thing will come back to trouble you again and you have to begin all over once more. But if you have done the operation, everything is done with. Do not trust the mind and its explanations. It might inspire you to say: "Yes, yes, on other occasions it was like that, I admit, I was indeed in the wrong; but this time, I am sure, it is not my fault etc., etc." If you do not deal firmly with your adversary, it will be always there, hiding in the subconscient, lodged there comfortably, coming up any day you are off your guard. I have seen people cherishing the evil in this way for more than thirty-five years. And if one does not go about it in the right way, there is no reason why the things should not continue life after life. The only safe way then is to do the operation, cost what it may. For it gives you the final relief. I say, when you throw the beam of light upon the spot, it burns, it seres. But you must bear it. You must have the sincerity that does not allow you to draw back, to cover up the place and retire. You must instead throw it wide open, receive the blow straight upon you.
09.02 - The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
They have breathed a Courage that is met by death,
They have given a wisdom that is mocked by night,
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Frail creature with the Courage that aspires,
Forgetting thy bounds of thought, thy mortal role?
10.01 - A Dream, #Writings In Bengali and Sanskrit, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
At once Harimohon could see into the mans mind. He saw, as in an opulent city ravaged by a victorious enemy, innumerable terrible-looking demons and ogres who had entered into that brilliant intelligence, disturbing its peace and composure, plundering its happiness. The old man had quarrelled with his young son and turned him out; the sorrow of losing his beloved child had cowed down his spirit, but anger, pride and vanity had shut the door of his heart and were guarding it. Forgiveness had no entry there. Hearing calumnies against his own daughter he had driven her away and was lamenting over the cherished one he had lost. He knew that she was chaste but the fear of social censure and a feeling of shame coupled with his own arrogance and selfishness had put a curb on his affection. Frightened by the memory of a thousand sins the old man was trembling, but he did not have the Courage or the strength to mend his evil ways. Now and then thoughts of death and of the other world came to him and filled him with terror. Harimohon saw also that from behind these morbid thoughts the hideous messenger of death was constantly peeping out and knocking at the door. Whenever this happened, the old mans heart sank and he frantically screamed with fear.
Horrified by this sight Harimohon looked at the boy and exclaimed, Why, Keshta! I used to think this man the happiest of all! The boy replied, Just there lies my power. Tell me now which of the two is mightierthis Tinkari Sheel or Sri Krishna, the master of Vaikuntha? Look, Harimohon, I too have the police, sentinels, government, law, justice, I too can play the game of being a king; do you like this game? No, my child, answered Harimohon, it is a very cruel game. Why, do you like it? The boy laughed and declared, I like all sorts of games; I like to whip as well as to be whipped. Then he continued. You see, Harimohon, people like you look at the outward appearance of things and have not yet cultivated the subtle power of looking inside. Therefore you grumble that you are miserable and Tinkari is happy. This man has no material want; still, compared to you, how much more this millionaire is suffering! Can you guess why? Happiness is a state of mind, misery also is a state of mind. Both are only mind-created. He Who possesses nothing, whose only possessions are difficulties, even he, if he wills, can be greatly happy. But just as you cannot find happiness after spending your days in dry piety, and as you are always dwelling upon your miseries so too this man who spends his days in sins which give him no real pleasure is now thinking only of his miseries. All this is the fleeting happiness of virtue and the fleeting misery of vice, or the fleeting misery of virtue and the fleeting happiness of vice. There is no joy in this conflict. The image of the abode of bliss is with me: he who comes to me, falls in love with me, wants me, lays his demands on me, torments mehe alone can succeed in getting my image of bliss. Harimohon went on eagerly listening to these words of Sri Krishna. The boy continued, And look here, Harimohon, dry piety has lost its charm for you, but in spite of that you cannot give it up, habit4 binds you to it; you cannot even conquer this petty vanity of being pious. This old man, on the other hand, gets no joy from his sins, yet he too cannot abandon them because he is habituated to them, and is suffering hells own agonies in this life. These are the bonds of virtue and vice; fixed and rigid notions, born of ignorance, are the ropes of these bonds. But the sufferings of that old man are indeed a happy sign. They will do him good and soon liberate him.
1.008 - The Spoils, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
46. And obey God and His Messenger, and do not dispute, lest you falter and lose your Courage. And be steadfast. God is with the steadfast.
47. And do not be like those who left their homes boastfully, showing off before the people, and barring others from the path of God. God comprehends what they do.
1.00a - Introduction, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of performing these small ceremonies regularly, and being as nearly accurate as possible with regard to the times. You must not mind stopping in the middle of a crowded thoroughfare lorries or no lorries and saying the Adorations; and you must not mind snubbing your guest or your host if he or she should prove ignorant of his or her share of the dialogue. It is perhaps because these matters are so petty and trivial in appearance that they afford so excellent a training. They teach you concentration, mindfulness, moral and social Courage, and a host of other virtues.
Like a perfect lady, I have kept the tit bit to the last. It is absolutely essential to begin a magical diary, and keep it up daily. You begin by an account of your life, going back even before your birth to your ancestry. In conformity with the practice which you may perhaps choose to adopt later, given in Liber Thisarb, sub figura CMXIII, paragraphs 27-28, Magick, pp. 420-422, you must find an answer to the question: "How did I come to be in this place at this time, engaged in this particular work?" As you will see from the book, this will start you on the discovery of who you really are, and eventually lead you to your recovering the memory of previous incarnations.
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The reason for the relaxation of the rule was that it was thought better to help people along in the early stages of the work, even if there was no hope of their turning out first-class. But I should like you to realize that sooner or later, whether in this incarnation or another, it is put up to you to show perfect Courage in face of the completely unknown, and the power of rapid and irrevocable decision without without counting the cost.
I think that it is altogether wrong to allow yourself to be worried by "psychological, moral, and artistic problems." It is no good your starting anything of any kind unless you can see clearly into the simplicity of truth. All this humming and hawing about things is moral poison. What is the use of being a woman if you have not got an intuition, an instinct enabling you to distinguish between the genuine and the sham?
1.00 - PREFACE - DESCENSUS AD INFERNOS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
All the things I believed were things I thought sounded good, admirable, respectable, Courageous.
They werent my things, however I had stolen them. Most of them I had taken from books. Having
1.00 - PRELUDE AT THE THEATRE, #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
With resolute, Courageous trust
Seize every possible impression,
1.01 - Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious, #The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
44 This confrontation is the first test of Courage on the inner
way, a test sufficient to frighten off most people, for the meeting
1.01 - Economy, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
Even those who seem for a long while not to have any, if you inquire more narrowly you will find have some stored in somebodys barn. I look upon England to-day as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated from long housekeeping, which he has not the Courage to burn; great trunk, little trunk, bandbox and bundle. Throw away the first three at least. It would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise a sick one to lay down his bed and run.
When I have met an immigrant tottering under a bundle which contained his alllooking like an enormous wen which had grown out of the nape of his neck I have pitied him, not because that was his all, but because he had all _that_ to carry. If I have got to drag my trap, I will take care that it be a light one and do not nip me in a vital part. But perchance it would be wisest never to put ones paw into it.
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I would not subtract any thing from the praise that is due to philanthropy, but merely demand justice for all who by their lives and works are a blessing to mankind. I do not value chiefly a mans uprightness and benevolence, which are, as it were, his stem and leaves. Those plants of whose greenness withered we make herb tea for the sick, serve but a humble use, and are most employed by quacks. I want the flower and fruit of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our intercourse. His goodness must not be a partial and transitory act, but a constant superfluity, which costs him nothing and of which he is unconscious. This is a charity that hides a multitude of sins. The philanthropist too often surrounds mankind with the remembrance of his own cast-off griefs as an atmosphere, and calls it sympathy. We should impart our Courage, and not our despair, our health and ease, and not our disease, and take care that this does not spread by contagion. From what southern plains comes up the voice of wailing? Under what latitudes reside the hea then to whom we would send light? Who is that intemperate and brutal man whom we would redeem? If any thing ail a man, so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even,for that is the seat of sympathy,he forthwith sets about reforming the world.
Being a microcosm himself, he discovers, and it is a true discovery, and he is the man to make it,that the world has been eating green apples; to his eyes, in fact, the globe itself is a great green apple, which there is danger awful to think of that the children of men will nibble before it is ripe; and straightway his drastic philanthropy seeks out the Esquimaux and the Patagonian, and embraces the populous
1.01f - Introduction, #The Lotus Sutra, #Anonymous, #Various
Persistent and Courageous,
Going into remote mountains
1.01 - Introduction, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
On the knowledge that we attain of the supreme realities, depend all the steps that we shall take towards them, and on our Courageous self-orientation towards the highest point of truth of which we have caught a glimpse, whatever it may cost to our thought, depends our progressive conquest of the Light.
It is the most disinterested effort that will bring us to the most considerable result; it is the steepest way that will permit us to ascend to the highest summit.
1.01 - MAXIMS AND MISSILES, #Twilight of the Idols, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the Courage of what he
really knows.
1.01 - On renunciation of the world, #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
Those who aim at ascending with the body to heaven, need violence indeed and constant suffering6 especially in the early stages of their renunciation, until our pleasure-loving dispositions and unfeeling hearts attain to love of God and chastity by visible sorrow. A great toil, very great indeed, with much unseen suffering, especially for those who live carelessly, until by simplicity, deep angerlessness and diligence, we make our mind, which is a greedy kitchen dog addicted to barking, a lover of chastity and watchfulness. But let us who are weak and passionate have the Courage to offer our infirmity and natural weakness to Christ with unhesitating faith, and confess it to Him; and we shall be certain to obtain His help, even beyond our merit, if only we unceasingly go right down to the depth of humility.
All who enter upon the good fight, which is hard and narrow, but also easy, must realize that they must leap into the fire, if they really expect the celestial fire to dwell in them. But, let everyone examine himself, and so let him eat the bread of it with its bitter herbs, and let him drink the cup of it with its
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Let us charge into the good fight with joy and love without being afraid of our enemies. Though unseen themselves, they can look at the face of our soul, and if they see it altered by fear, they take up arms against us all the more fiercely. For the cunning creatures have observed that we are scared. So let us take up arms against them Courageously. No one will fight with a resolute fighter.
The Lord designedly makes easy the battles of beginners so that they should not immediately return to the world at the outset. And so rejoice in the Lord always, all servants of His, detecting in this the first sign of the Masters love for us, and a sign that He Himself has called us. But when God sees Courageous souls, He has often been known to act in this way: He lets them have conflicts from the very beginning in order to crown them the sooner. But the Lord hides the difficulty4 of this contest from those in the world. For if they were to know, no one would renounce the world.
Offer to Christ the labours of your youth, and in your old age you will rejoice in the wealth of dispassion. What is gathered in youth nourishes and comforts those who are tired out in old age. In our youth let us labour ardently and let us run vigilantly, for the hour of death is unknown. We have very evil and dangerous, cunning, unscrupulous foes, who hold fire in their hands and try to burn the temple of God with the flame that is in it. These foes are strong; they never sleep; they are incorporeal and invisible. Let no one when he is young listen to his enemies, the demons, when they say to him: Do not wear out your flesh lest you make it sick and weak. For you will scarcely find anyone, especially in the present generation, who is determined to mortify his flesh, although he might deprive
1.01 - Sets down the first line and begins to treat of the imperfections of beginners., #Dark Night of the Soul, #Saint John of the Cross, #Christianity
Wherefore, to the end that we may the better understand and explain what night is this through which the soul passes, and for what cause God sets it therein, it will be well here to touch first of all upon certain characteristics of beginners (which, although we treat them with all possible brevity, will not fail to be of service likewise to the beginners themselves), in order that, realizing the weakness of the state wherein they are, they may take Courage, and may desire that God will bring them into this night, wherein the soul is streng thened and confirmed in the virtues, and made ready for the inestimable delights of the love of God. And, although we may tarry here for a time, it will not be for longer than is necessary, so that we may go on to speak at once of this dark night.
2. It must be known, then, that the soul, after it has been definitely converted to the service of God, is, as a rule, spiritually nurtured and caressed by God, even as is the tender child by its loving mother, who warms it with the heat of her bosom and nurtures it with sweet milk and soft and pleasant food, and carries it and caresses it in her arms; but, as the child grows bigger, the mother gradually ceases caressing it, and, hiding her tender love, puts bitter aloes upon her sweet breast, sets down the child from her arms and makes it walk upon its feet, so that it may lose the habits of a child and betake itself to more important and substantial occupations. The loving mother is like the grace of God, for, as soon as the soul is regenerated by its new warmth and fervour for the service of God, He treats it in the same way; He makes it to find spiritual milk, sweet and delectable, in all the things of God, without any labour of its own, and also great pleasure in spiritual exercises, for here God is giving to it the breast of His tender love, even as to a tender child.
1.01 - Tara the Divine, #Tara - The Feminine Divine, #unset, #Zen
Tara, the Swift and Courageous Daughter of the
Worlds' Sovereign, has been benefiting beings during
1.01 - The Cycle of Society, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
This typal stage creates the great social ideals which remain impressed upon the human mind even when the stage itself is passed. The principal active contri bution it leaves behind when it is dead is the idea of social honour; the honour of the Brahmin which resides in purity, in piety, in a high reverence for the things of the mind and spirit and a disinterested possession and exclusive pursuit of learning and knowledge; the honour of the Kshatriya which lives in Courage, chivalry, strength, a certain proud self-restraint and self-mastery, nobility of character and the obligations of that nobility; the honour of the Vaishya which maintains itself by rectitude of dealing, mercantile fidelity, sound production, order, liberality and philanthropy; the honour of the Shudra which gives itself in obedience, subordination, faithful service, a disinterested attachment. But these more and more cease to have a living root in the clear psychological idea or to spring naturally out of the inner life of the man; they become a convention, though the most noble of conventions. In the end they remain more as a tradition in the thought and on the lips than a reality of the life.
For the typal passes naturally into the conventional stage. The conventional stage of human society is born when the external supports, the outward expressions of the spirit or the ideal become more important than the ideal, the body or even the clothes more important than the person. Thus in the evolution of caste, the outward supports of the ethical fourfold order,birth, economic function, religious ritual and sacrament, family custom,each began to exaggerate enormously its proportions and its importance in the scheme. At first, birth does not seem to have been of the first importance in the social order, for faculty and capacity prevailed; but afterwards, as the type fixed itself, its maintenance by education and tradition became necessary and education and tradition naturally fixed themselves in a hereditary groove. Thus the son of a Brahmin came always to be looked upon conventionally as a Brahmin; birth and profession were together the double bond of the hereditary convention at the time when it was most firm and faithful to its own character. This rigidity once established, the maintenance of the ethical type passed from the first place to a secondary or even a quite tertiary importance. Once the very basis of the system, it came now to be a not indispensable crown or pendent tassel, insisted upon indeed by the thinker and the ideal code-maker but not by the actual rule of society or its practice. Once ceasing to be indispensable, it came inevitably to be dispensed with except as an ornamental fiction. Finally, even the economic basis began to disintegrate; birth, family custom and remnants, deformations, new accretions of meaningless or fanciful religious sign and ritual, the very scarecrow and caricature of the old profound symbolism, became the riveting links of the system of caste in the iron age of the old society. In the full economic period of caste the priest and the Pundit masquerade under the name of the Brahmin, the aristocrat and feudal baron under the name of the Kshatriya, the trader and money-getter under the name of the Vaishya, the half-fed labourer and economic serf under the name of the Shudra. When the economic basis also breaks down, then the unclean and diseased decrepitude of the old system has begun; it has become a name, a shell, a sham and must either be dissolved in the crucible of an individualist period of society or else fatally affect with weakness and falsehood the system of life that clings to it. That in visible fact is the last and present state of the caste system in India.
1.01 - The Four Aids, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
24:The surest way towards this integral fulfilment is to find the Master of the secret who dwells within us, open ourselves constantly to the divine Power which is also the divine Wisdom and Love and trust to it to effect the conversion. But it is difficult for the egoistic consciousness to do this at all at the beginning. And, if done at all, it is still difficult to do it perfectly and in every strand of our nature. It is difficult at first because our egoistic habits of thought, of sensation, of feeling block up the avenues by which we can arrive at the perception that is needed. It is difficult afterwards because the faith, the surrender, the Courage requisite in this path are not easy to the ego-clouded soul. The divine working is not the working which the egoistic mind desires or approves; for it uses error in order to arrive at truth, suffering in order to arrive at bliss, imperfection in order to arrive at perfection. The ego cannot see where it is being led; it revolts against the leading, loses confidence, loses Courage. These failings would not matter; for the divine Guide within is not offended by our revolt, not dis Couraged by our want of faith or repelled by our weakness; he has the entire love of the mother and the entire patience of the teacher. But by withdrawing our assent from the guidance we lose the consciousness, though not all the actuality-not, in any case, the eventuality -- of its benefit. And we withdraw our assent because we fail to distinguish our higher Self from the lower through which he is preparing his self-revelation. As in the world, so in ourselves, we cannot see God because of his workings and, especially, because he works in us through our nature and not by a succession of arbitrary miracles. Man demands miracles that he may have faith; he wishes to be dazzled in order that he may see. And this impatience, this ignorance may turn into a great danger and disaster if, in our revolt against the divine leading, we call in another distorting Force more satisfying to our impulses and desires and ask it to guide us and give it the Divine Name.
25:But while it is difficult for man to believe in something unseen within himself, it is easy for him to believe in something which he can image as extraneous to himself. The spiritual progress of most human beings demands an extraneous support, an object of faith outside us. It needs an external image of God; or it needs a human representative, -- Incarnation, Prophet or Guru; or it demands both and receives them. For according to the need of the human soul the Divine manifests himself as deity, as human divine or in simple humanity, -- using that thick disguise, which so successfully conceals the Godhead, for a means of transmission of his guidance.
1.01 - The Science of Living, #On Education, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
may be frequent, but if a Courageous will is maintained, one is sure to triumph one day and see all difficulties
melt and vanish before the radiance of the truth-consciousness.
1.027 - The Ant, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
33. They said, “We are a people of might and great Courage, but the decision is yours, so consider what you wish to command.”
34. She said, “When kings enter a city, they devastate it, and subjugate its dignified people. Thus they always do.
1.02 - Education, #On Education, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There are other parents who know that their children must be educated and who try to do what they can. But very few, even among those who are most serious and sincere, know that the first thing to do, in order to be able to educate a child, is to educate oneself, to become conscious and master of oneself so that one never sets a bad example to ones child. For it is above all through example that education becomes effective. To speak good words and to give wise advice to a child has very little effect if one does not oneself give him an example of what one teaches. Sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, Courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self-control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches. Parents, have a high ideal and always act in accordance with it and you will see that little by little your child will reflect this ideal in himself and spontaneously manifest the qualities you would like to see expressed in his nature. Quite naturally a child has respect and admiration for his parents; unless they are quite unworthy, they will always appear to their child as demigods whom he will try to imitate as best he can.
With very few exceptions, parents are not aware of the disastrous influence that their own defects, impulses, weaknesses and lack of self-control have on their children. If you wish to be respected by a child, have respect for yourself and be worthy of respect at every moment. Never be authoritarian, despotic, impatient or ill-tempered. When your child asks you a question, do not give him a stupid or silly answer under the pretext that he cannot understand you. You can always make yourself understood if you take enough trouble; and in spite of the popular saying that it is not always good to tell the truth, I affirm that it is always good to tell the truth, but that the art consists in telling it in such a way as to make it accessible to the mind of the hearer. In early life, until he is twelve or fourteen, the childs mind is hardly open to abstract notions and general ideas. And yet you can train it to understand these things by using concrete images, symbols or parables. Up to quite an advanced age and for some who mentally always remain children, a narrative, a story, a tale well told teach much more than any number of theoretical explanations.
1.02 - MAPS OF MEANING - THREE LEVELS OF ANALYSIS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
part of the human environment which demands active, voluntary and Courageous investigation. Finally,
he must adapt to the presence of himself must face the endlessly tragic problem of the knower, the
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equally at odds: the little god of earth is also mortal worm, Courageous and craven, heroic and deceitful,
possessed of great and dangerous potential, knowing good and evil. The unknown cannot be described, by
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the unknown (as Courageous approach eliminates anticipatory anxiety, and exploration makes the
unexpected something valuable). So the indiscriminate categorization characterizing these passages has its
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recognized, or not); teaches the individual that the Courageous exploratory spirit can eternally prevail
over threat. It is this mimetic identification and its abstracted equivalents and consequences that account for
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it is Courage and genius (and the grace of God) that determines which aspect dominates. The uncontrollable
strength, sexuality and bloodlust of the bull is the power which, when domesticated, serves to foster,
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hero, divine son of the known and unknown, Courageously faces the unknown, unites with it creatively
abandoning all pretence of pre-existent absolute knowledge garners new information, returns to the
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or without the Courage to voluntarily submit to the experience of negative emotion [including anxiety, guilt,
and shame, as previously unconscious (implicit) faults and insufficiencies come to light]. The mythic
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hero of the story, is a simple tailor. He Courageously aids a wounded gypsy that is, acts humanely towards
an outsider, a stranger, a personified emissary of chaos. In return, the gypsy provides him with
1.02 - Skillful Means, #The Lotus Sutra, #Anonymous, #Various
None of the rvakas and pratyekabuddhas may be capable of understanding it. Why is this? The buddhas have closely attended innumerable hundreds of thousands of myriads of kois of other buddhas. They have exhaustively carried out practices with Courage and persistence under uncountable numbers of buddhas, their names becoming universally renowned. They have perfected this profound and unprecedented Dharma, and their intention in adapting their explanations to what is appropriate is difficult to understand.
O riputra! After attaining buddhahood I expounded the teaching extensively with various explanations and illustrations, and with skillful means (upya) led sentient beings to rid themselves of their attachments.
1.02 - The Descent. Dante's Protest and Virgil's Appeal. The Intercession of the Three Ladies Benedight., #The Divine Comedy, #Dante Alighieri, #Christianity
And such good Courage to my heart there coursed,
That I began, like an intrepid person:
1.02 - THE PROBLEM OF SOCRATES, #Twilight of the Idols, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
wisdom of his Courage before death. Socrates wished to die. Not Athens,
but his own hand gave him the draught of hemlock; he drove Athens to
1.02 - The Stages of Initiation, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy
and perseverance before he can himself gain knowledge of his own progress. The teacher, as we know, can confer upon the pupil no powers which are not already latent within him, and his sole function is to assist in the awakening of slumbering faculties. But what he imparts out of his own experience is a pillar of strength for the one wishing to penetrate through darkness to light. Many abandon the path to higher knowledge soon after having set foot upon it, because their progress is not immediately apparent to them. And even when the first experiences begin to dawn upon the pupil, he is apt to regard them as illusions, because he had formed quite different conceptions of what he was going to experience. He loses Courage, either because he regards these first experiences as being of no value, or because they appear to him to be so insignificant that he cannot believe they will lead him to any appreciable results within a measurable time. Courage and self-confidence are two beacons which must never be extinguished on the path to higher knowledge. No one will ever travel far who cannot bring himself to repeat, over and over
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It is not surprising that all this appears to many as illusion. "What is the use of such visions," they ask, "and such hallucinations?" And many will thus fall away and abandon the path. But this is precisely the important point: not to confuse spiritual reality with imagination at this difficult stage of human evolution, and furthermore, to have the Courage to press onward and not become timorous and faint-hearted. On the other hand, however, the necessity must be emphasized of maintaining unimpaired and of perpetually cultivating that healthy sound sense which distinguishes truth from illusion. Fully conscious self-control must never be lost during all these exercises, and they must be accompanied by the same sane, sound thinking which is applied to the details of every-day life. To lapse into reveries would be fatal. The intellectual clarity, not to say the sobriety of thought, must never for a moment be dulled. The greatest mistake would be made if the student's mental balance
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The would-be initiate must bring with him a certain measure of Courage and fearlessness. He must positively go out of his way to find opportunities for developing these virtues. His training should provide for their systematic cultivation. In this respect, life itself is a good school-possibly the best school. The student must learn to look danger calmly in the face and try to overcome difficulties unswervingly. For instance, when in the presence of some peril, he must swiftly come to the conviction that fear is of no possible use; I must not feel afraid; I must only think of what is to be done. And he must improve to the extent of feeling, upon occasions which formerly inspired him with fear, that to be frightened, to be disheartened, are things that are out of the question as far as his own inmost self is concerned. By self-discipline in this direction, quite definite qualities are develop which are necessary for initiation into the higher mysteries. Just as man requires nervous force in his physical being in order to use his physical sense, so also he
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requires in his soul nature the force which is only developed in the Courageous and the fearless. For in penetrating to the higher mysteries he will see things which are concealed from ordinary humanity by the illusion of the senses. If the physical senses do not allow us to perceive the higher truth, they are for this very reason our benefactors. Things are thereby hidden from us which, if realized without due preparation, would throw us into unutterable consternation, and the sight of which would be unendurable. The student must be fit to endure this sight. He loses certain supports in the outer world which he owes to the very illusion surrounding him. It is truly and literally as if the attention of someone were called to a danger which had threatened him for a long time, but of which he knew nothing. Hitherto he felt no fear, but now that he knows, he is overcome by fear, though the danger has not been rendered greater by his knowing it.
The forces at work in the world are both destructive and constructive; the destiny of manifested beings is birth and death. The seer is to behold the working of these forces and the march of destiny. The veil enshrouding the spiritual eyes
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in ordinary life is to be removed. But man is interwoven with these forces and with this destiny. His own nature harbors destructive and constructive forces. His own soul reveals itself to the seer as undisguised as the other objects. He must not lose strength in the face of this self-knowledge; but strength will fail him unless he brings a surplus on which to draw. For this purpose he must learn to maintain inner calm and steadiness in the face of difficult circumstances; he must cultivate a strong trust in the beneficent powers of existence. He must be prepared to find that many motives which had actuated him hitherto will do so no longer. He will have to recognize that previously he thought and acted in a certain way only because he was still in the throes of ignorance. Reasons that influenced him formerly will now disappear. He often acted out of vanity; he will now see how utterly futile all vanity is for the seer. He often acted out of greed; he will now become aware how destructive all greed is. He will have to develop quite new motives for his thoughts and actions, and it is just for this purpose that Courage and fearlessness are required.
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It is pre-eminently a question of cultivating this Courage and this fearlessness in the inmost depths of thought-life. The student must learn never to despair over failure. He must be equal to the thought: I shall forget that I have failed in this matter, and I shall try once more as though this had not happened. Thus he will struggle through to the firm conviction that the fountain-head of strength from which he may draw is inexhaustible. He struggles ever onward to the spirit which will uplift him and support him, however weak and impotent his earthly self may have proved. He must be capable of pressing on to the future undismayed by any experiences of the past. If the student has acquired these faculties up to a certain point, he is then ripe to hear the real names of things, which are the key to higher knowledge. For initiation consists in this very act of learning to call the things of the world by those names which they bear in the spirit of their divine authors. In these, their names, lies the mystery of things. It is for this reason that the initiates speak a different language from the uninitiated, for the former know the names by
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a wealth of experience, so that their self-confidence, Courage and fortitude have been greatly streng thened in a normal manner while learning to bear sorrow, disappointment and failure in their undertakings with greatness of soul, and especially with equanimity and unbroken strength. Thus they are often initiates without knowing it, and it then needs but little to unseal their spiritual hearing and sight so that they become clairvoyant. For it must be noted that a genuine fire-trial is not intended to satisfy the curiosity of the candidate. It is true that he learns many uncommon things of which others can have no inkling, but this acquisition of knowledge is not the end, but the means to the end; the end consists in the attainment, thanks to this knowledge of the higher worlds, of greater and truer self-confidence, a higher degree of Courage, and a magnanimity and perseverance such as cannot, as a rule, be acquired in the lower world.
The candidate may always turn back after the fire-trial. He will then resume his life, streng thened in body and soul, and wait for a future incarnation to continue his initiation. In his present incarnation he will prove himself a more
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the ability to come quickly to terms with himself, for he must here find his higher self in the truest sense of the word. He must rapidly decide in all things to listen to the inspiration of the spirit. There is no time for doubt or hesitation. Every moment of hesitation would prove that he was still unfit. Whatever prevents him from listening to the voice of the spirit must be Courageously overcome. It is a question of showing presence of mind in this situation, and the training at this stage is concerned with the perfect development of this quality. All the accustomed inducements to act or even to think now cease. In order not to remain inactive he must not lose himself, for only within himself can he find the one central point of vantage where he can gain a firm hold. No one on reading this, without further acquaintance with these matters, should feel an antipathy for this principle of being thrown back on oneself, for success in this trial brings with it a moment of supreme happiness.
At this stage, no less than at the others, ordinary life is itself an esoteric training for many. For anyone having reached the point of being able, when suddenly confronted with some task
1.02 - The Three European Worlds, #The Ever-Present Origin, #Jean Gebser, #Integral
With Leonardo the perspectival means and techniques attain their perfection. His Trattatodella Pittura (a collection of his writings assembled by others after his death based on a mid-sixteenth-century compilation known as the Codex Vaticanus Urbinas 1270) is the first truly scientific and not merely theoretical description of all possible types of perspective. It is the first detailed discussion of light as the visible reality of our eyes and not, as was previously believed, as a symbol of the divine spirit. This emergent illumination dispels any remaining obscurities surrounding perspective, and reveals Leonardo as the Courageous discoverer of aerial and color, as opposed to linear, perspective. Whereas linear perspective created the perspectival illusion on a plane surface by the projections of technical drafting, aerial and color perspective achieve their comprehension and rendering of space by techniques of gradation of color and hue, by the use of shadow, and by the chromatic treatment of the horizon.
Above and beyond this Leonardos establishment of the laws of perspective is significant in that it made technical drafting feasible and thereby initiated the technological age. This concluded a process which had required centuries before it entered human consciousness and effected a fundamental transformation of man's world. It is only after Leonardo that the unperspectival world finally passes out of its dream-like state, and the perspectival world definitely enters awareness. Having attempted to show the initial thrust toward awareness of space documented in Petrarch's letter, and to account for the process of painful withdrawal from traditional perceptions, we would here like to indicate the nature of Leonardos decisive development, for it was he who fully realized Petrarch's discovery.
1.02 - The Virtues, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Near to her, like two faithful guardians, stood Humility, at once respectful and proud, and Courage, lofty-browed, clear-eyed, his lips firm and smiling, with a calm and resolute air.
Close beside Courage, her hand in his, stood a woman, completely veiled, of whom nothing could be seen but her searching eyes, shining through her veils. It was Prudence.
Among them all, coming and going from one to another and yet seeming always to remain near to each one, Charity, at once vigilant and calm, active and yet discrete, left behind her as she passed through the groups a trail of soft white light. The light that she spreads and softens comes to her, through a radiance so subtle that it is invisible to most eyes, from her closest friend, her inseparable companion, her twin sister, Justice.
1.02 - What is Psycho therapy?, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
peculiarities and have the Courage to stand by them. Only when a man lives
in his own way is he responsible and capable of actiono therwise he is
1.03 - APPRENTICESHIP AND ENCULTURATION - ADOPTION OF A SHARED MAP, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
This historically-determined cultural structure is constructed of Courageously engineered and creatively
integrated responses to situations that arise typically in the course of human experience, arranged in terms
1.03 - BOOK THE THIRD, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
Thus quell your Courage; can the weak alarm
Of women's yells those stubborn souls disarm,
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He fought the strong; do you his Courage show,
And gain a conquest o'er a feeble foe.
1.03 - PERSONALITY, SANCTITY, DIVINE INCARNATION, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
Sometimes crisis alone, without any preparatory training, is sufficient to make a man forget to be his customary self and become, for the time being, something quite different. Thus the most unlikely people will, under the influence of disaster, temporarily turn into heroes, martyrs, selfless labourers for the good of their fellows. Very often, too, the proximity of death produces similar results. For example, Samuel Johnson behaved in one way during almost the whole of his life and in quite another way during his last illness. The fascinatingly complex personality, in which six generations of Boswellians have taken so much delight the learned boor and glutton, the kindhearted bully, the superstitious intellectual, the convinced Christian who was a fetishist, the Courageous man who was terrified of deathbecame, while he was actually dying, simple, single, serene and God-centred.
Paradoxical as it may seem, it is, for very many persons, much easier to behave selflessly in time of crisis than it is when life is taking its normal course in undisturbed tranquillity. When the going is easy, there is nothing to make us forget our precious selfness, nothing (except our own will to mortification and the knowledge of God) to distract our minds from the distractions with which we have chosen to be identified; we are at perfect liberty to wallow in our personality to our hearts content. And how we wallow! It is for this reason that all the masters of the spiritual life insist so strongly upon the importance of little things.
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The saint is one who knows that every moment of our human life is a moment of crisis; for at every moment we are called upon to make an all-important decisionto choose between the way that leads to death and spiritual darkness and the way that leads towards light and life; between interests exclusively temporal and the eternal order; between our personal will, or the will of some projection of our personality, and the will of God. In order to fit himself to deal with the emergencies of his way of life, the saint undertakes appropriate training of mind and body, just as the solther does. But whereas the objectives of military training are limited and very simple, namely, to make men Courageous, cool-headed and co-operatively efficient in the business of killing other men, with whom, personally, they have no quarrel, the objectives of spiritual training are much less narrowly specialized. Here the aim is primarily to bring human beings to a state in which, because there are no longer any God-eclipsing obstacles between themselves and Reality, they are able to be aware continuously of the divine Ground of their own and all other beings; secondarily, as a means to this end, to meet all, even the most trivial circumstances of daily living without malice, greed, self-assertion or voluntary ignorance, but consistently with love and understanding. Because its objectives are not limited, because, for the lover of God, every moment is a moment of crisis, spiritual training is incomparably more difficult and searching than military training. There are many good solthers, few saints.
We have seen that, in critical emergencies, solthers specifically trained to cope with that kind of thing tend to forget the inborn and acquired idiosyncrasies with which they normally identify their being and, transcending selfness, to behave in the same, one-pointed, better-than-personal way. What is true of solthers is also true of saints, but with this important difference that the aim of spiritual training is to make people become selfless in every circumstance of life, while the aim of military training is to make them selfless only in certain very special circumstances and in relation to only certain classes of human beings. This could not be otherwise; for all that we are and will and do depends, in the last analysis, upon what we believe the Nature of Things to be. The philosophy that rationalizes power politics and justifies war and military training is always (whatever the official religion of the politicians and war makers) some wildly unrealistic doctrine of national, racial or ideological idolatry, having, as its inevitable corollaries, the notions of Herrenvolk and the lesser breeds without the Law.
1.03 - Supernatural Aid, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology
continuing to follow Courageously as the consequences unfold,
the hero finds all the forces of the unconscious at his side.
1.03 - Sympathetic Magic, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
believe that by dancing they impart strength, Courage, and good
fortune to their husbands; accordingly during such times they give
1.03 - Tara, Liberator from the Eight Dangers, #How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator, #Thubten Chodron, #unset
will have the Courage to let it go because we want to be happy. Miserliness
impedes our spiritual progress, turns us into hypocrites, and perpetuates our
1.03 - The End of the Intellect, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
as it were, or rather as an explorer who does not care about precautions and maps, and hence avoids many unnecessary detours simply because he has the Courage to forge straight ahead. Thus, it was not in seclusion or in the lotus position or under the guidance of an enlightened Master that Sri Aurobindo undertook the journey, but just as we might do it ourselves, without any special knowledge, right in the midst of everyday life a life as busy and hectic as ours can be and all alone. Sri Aurobindo's first secret is probably a persistent refusal to cut life in two action vs. meditation, inner vs. outer, and the whole range of our false divisions; from the day he thought of yoga, he put everything into it, high and low, inside and outside, and he set out without ever looking back. Sri Aurobindo does not come to demonstrate exceptional qualities in an exceptional environment; he comes to show us what is possible for man, and to prove that the exceptional is only a normal possibility not yet mastered, just as the supernatural, as he said, is that the nature of which we have not attained or do not yet know, or the means of which we have not yet conquered.20 Ultimately, everything in this world is a matter of proper concentration; there is nothing that will not finally yield to a wellapplied concentration.
When he went ashore on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, he was overtaken by a spontaneous spiritual experience, a vast calm; but he had more immediate concerns of food and survival. Sri Aurobindo was twenty. He found a position with the Maharaja of Baroda, as 20
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professor of French, then taught English at the state college, where he soon became vice-principal. He worked also as private secretary to the Prince. Between the court and the college he was busy enough, but in truth, it was the destiny of India that preoccupied him. He traveled many times to Calcutta, familiarizing himself with the political situation and writing several articles that created a scandal, for he didn't just refer to the Queen-Empress of India as an old lady so called by way of courtesy,21 but he urged his countrymen to shake off the British yoke, and attacked the mendicant policy in the Indian Congress party: no reforms, no collaboration. His aim was to gather and organize all the energies of the nation toward revolutionary action. This must have required some Courage, considering the year was 1893, when the British ruled over three-fourths of the world. But Sri Aurobindo had a very special way of dealing with the problem; he did not lay any blame on the English, but on the Indians themselves:
Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our purblind sentimentalism. 22
1.03 - The Syzygy - Anima and Animus, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
man, on his ardour, above all on his Courage and resolution
when it comes to throwing his whole being into the scales. For
1.04 - A Leader, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
However, without betraying our emotion, with great admiration for the Courage of his sincerity, we replied:
Would you tell us how we could be of service to you?
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The collapse came, mowing us down like corn in a field; and misfortune compelled us to regain possession of ourselves, to think carefully. The best of us are lost. The most intelligent, those who were most able to guide and direct us paid for their Courageous self-sacrifice with exile or death. Consternation reigned in our ranks; at last I was able to make the others listen to what I thought, to what I felt.
We are not strong enough to fight by force, for we are not united enough, not organised enough. We must develop our intelligence to understand better the deeper laws of Nature, and to learn better how to act in an orderly way, to co-ordinate our efforts. We must teach the people around us, we must train them to think for themselves and to reflect so that they can become aware of the precise aim we want to attain and thus become an effective help to us, instead of being the hindrance they most often are at the moment.
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Put no more weapons in the hands of your adversaries, be irreproachable before them, set them an example of Courageous patience, of uprightness and justice; then your triumph will be near at hand, for right will be on your side, integral right, in the means as in the goal.
He had been listening to me carefully, occasionally nodding in agreement. After a silence full of thoughts, in which we could feel brooding around him all the painful hopes, all the burning aspirations of his companions in strife:
I am happy, Madame, he said, turning towards me, to see a woman concerned with such matters. Women can do so much to hasten the coming of better days! There, in Russia, their services have been invaluable to us. Without them we would never have had so much Courage, energy and endurance. They move about among us, going from town to town, from group to group, uniting us to one another, comforting the disheartened, cheering the downcast, nursing the sick and everywhere bringing with them, in them, a hope, a confidence, an enthusiasm that never tire.
So it was that a woman came to assist me in my work, when my eyes were overstrained by my long vigils spent writing by candle-light. For during the day I had to have some kind of occupation so as not to attract attention. It was only at night that I could prepare our plans, compose our propaganda leaflets and make numerous copies of them, draw up lists and do other work of the same kind. Little by little my eyes were burnt up. Now I can hardly see. So a young woman, out of devotion for the cause, became my secretary and writes to my dictation, as long as I wish, without ever showing the slightest trace of fatigue or boredom. And his expression softened and grew tender at the thought of this humble devotion, this proof of self-abnegation.
She came with me to Paris and we work together every evening. It is thanks to her that I shall be able to write the pamphlet we have spoken of. You know, it is Courageous to link ones destiny with a man whose life is as precarious as mine. To retain my freedom, everywhere, I must hide as if I were an outlaw.
At least you are safe in Paris?
1.04 - BOOK THE FOURTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
Then Courage takes, and full of vengeful ire
He heaves the bellows, and blows fierce the fire:
1.04 - Descent into Future Hell, #The Red Book Liber Novus, #unset, #Zen
They take aim at these and do not know that with these they mean themselves. They should sacrifice the hero in themselves, and because they do not know this, they kill their Courageous brother.
The time is still not ripe. But through this blood sacrifice, it should ripen. So long as it is possible to murder the brother instead of oneself the time is not ripe. Frightful things must happen until men grow ripe. But anything else will not ripen humanity. Hence all this that takes place in these days must also be, so that the renewal can come. Since the source of blood that follows the shrouding of the sun is also the source of the new life. 96
1.04 - On blessed and ever-memorable obedience, #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
The fathers of that place told us of many triumphs of this most saintly Menas, and amongst others the following: Once the superior wanted to test his God-given patience. In the evening Menas came to the abbots cell, and having prostrated before the abbot, asked him as usual to give him instruction. But the abbot left him lying on the ground till the hour of the Office, and only then blessed him; and having rebuked him for being fond of self-display and for being impatient, he ordered him to get up. The holy man knew Menas would bear all this Courageously, and therefore he made this scene for the edification of all. A disciple of Saint Menas confirmed what was told us about his director, and added: I was inquisitive to know whether sleep overcame him while he lay prostrate before the abbot. But he assured me that while lying on the ground he had recited by heart the whole psalter.
I must not fail to adorn the crown of this step with this emerald. Once I started a discussion on silence with some of the most experienced elders in the community. With a smile on their faces and in jovial mood they said to me in a friendly way: We, Father John, being material, live a material life, preferring to wage war according to the measure of our weakness, and considering it better to struggle with men, who are sometimes fierce and some times penitent, than with demons who are continually raging and up in arms against us!
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If anyone receives voluntarily some task from his father, and in doing it suffers a stumble, he should not ascribe the blame to the giver but to the receiver of the weapon. For he took the weapon for battle against the enemy, but has turned it against his own heart. But if he forced himself for the Lords sake to accept the task, though he previously explained his weakness to him who gave it, let him take Courage; for though he has fallen, he is not dead.
I have forgotten to set before you, my friends, this sweet bread of virtue. I saw there men obedient in the Lord who subjected themselves to insults and dishonour for Gods sake, so that, having prepared themselves in this way, they might get used to not quailing before insults coming from others.
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It is not when we Courageously endure the derision of our father that we are judged patient, but when we endure it from all manner of men. For we bear with our father both out of respect and as a duty to him.
Eagerly drink scorn and insult as the water of life from everyone who wants to give you the drink that cleanses from lust. Then a deep purity will dawn in your soul and the divine light will not grow dim in your heart.
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There was another, said John, in the same monastery in Asia who became a disciple of a certain meek, gentle and quiet monk. And seeing that the elder honoured and cared for him, he rightly judged that this would be fatal for many men, and he begged the elder to send him away. (As the elder had another disciple, this would not cause him much inconvenience.) And so he went away, and with a letter from his master he settled in a cenobitic monastery in Pontus. On the first night that he entered this monastery he saw in a dream his account being made out by someone, and after settling that awful account he was left a debtor to the sum of a hundred pounds of gold. When he woke up he began to reflect on what he had seen in his dream and said: Poor Antiochus (for this was his name), you certainly fall far short of your debt! And when, he continued, I had lived in this monastery for three years in unquestioning obedience, and was regarded by all with contempt and was insulted as the stranger (for there was no other strange monk there), then again I saw in a dream someone giving me a credit-note for the payment of ten pounds of my debt. And so when I woke up and had thought about my dream, I said: Still only ten! But when shall I pay the rest? After that I said to myself: Poor Antiochus! Still more toil and dishonour for you. From that time forward I began to pretend to be a blockhead, yet without in any way neglecting the service of all. But when the merciless fathers saw that I willingly served in that same condition, they gave me all the heavy work of the monastery. In such a way of life I spent thirteen years, when in a dream I saw those who had appeared to me before, and they gave me a receipt in complete settlement of my debt. So when the members of the monastery imposed upon me in any way, I remembered my debt and endured it Courageously. So you see, Father John, that wise John told me this as if it were about another person. And that was why he changed his name to Antiochus. But in actual fact it was he himself who so Courageously destroyed the handwriting1 by his patience and obedience.
1 Cf. Colossians ii, 24.
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But do not boast or rejoice when you bear insults and indignities Courageously, but rather mourn that you have done something meriting your bad treatment and incensed the soul of your director against you. Do not be surprised at what I am going to say (for I have Moses to support me). It is better to sin against God than against our father; for when we anger God, our director can reconcile us; but when he is incensed against us, there is no one to propitiate him for us. But it seems to me that both cases amount to the same thing.
Let us look carefully and make our decision and keep alert as to when we ought to endure thankfully and silently accusations made to our pastor, and when we ought to reassure him. It seems to me that in all cases when indignity is offered to us we should be silent; for it is our moment of profit. But in those cases where another person is involved, we should put up a defence so as to maintain the link of love and peace unbroken.
1.04 - SOME REFLECTIONS ON PROGRESS, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
ture, I have said, depends on the Courage and resourcefulness
which men display in overcoming the forces of isolationism, even
1.04 - Sounds, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter. I see these men every day go about their business with more or less Courage and content, doing more even than they suspect, and perchance better employed than they could have consciously devised. I am less affected by their heroism who stood up for half an hour in the front line at Buena Vista, than by the steady and cheerful valor of the men who inhabit the snow-plough for their winter quarters; who have not merely the three-o-clock in the morning Courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest, but whose Courage does not go to rest so early, who go to sleep only when the storm sleeps or the sinews of their iron steed are frozen. On this morning of the Great Snow, perchance, which is still raging and chilling mens blood, I hear the muffled tone of their engine bell from out the fog bank of their chilled breath, which announces that the cars
_are coming_, without long delay, notwithstanding the veto of a New
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I was also serenaded by a hooting owl. Near at hand you could fancy it the most melancholy sound in Nature, as if she meant by this to stereotype and make permanent in her choir the dying moans of a human being,some poor weak relic of mortality who has left hope behind, and howls like an animal, yet with human sobs, on entering the dark valley, made more awful by a certain gurgling melodiousness,I find myself beginning with the letters gl when I try to imitate it,expressive of a mind which has reached the gelatinous mildewy stage in the mortification of all healthy and Courageous thought. It reminded me of ghouls and idiots and insane howlings. But now one answers from far woods in a strain made really melodious by distance,_Hoo hoo hoo, hoorer hoo_; and indeed for the most part it suggested only pleasing associations, whether heard by day or night, summer or winter.
I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men. It is a sound admirably suited to swamps and twilight woods which no day illustrates, suggesting a vast and undeveloped nature which men have not recognized. They represent the stark twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have. All day the sun has shone on the surface of some savage swamp, where the single spruce stands hung with usnea lichens, and small hawks circulate above, and the chickadee lisps amid the evergreens, and the partridge and rabbit skulk beneath; but now a more dismal and fitting day dawns, and a different race of creatures awakes to express the meaning of Nature there.
1.04 - THE APPEARANCE OF ANOMALY - CHALLENGE TO THE SHARED MAP, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
The revolutionary hero is the individual who decides voluntarily, Courageously, to face some aspect of
the still-unknown and threatening. He may also be the only person who is presently capable of perceiving
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expand to meet it. Such belief faith provides the precondition for Courage. His act of voluntary
transcendence re-exposes him to the brute force of the unknown (and to the anger of the social group), but
1.04 - The Crossing of the First Threshold, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology
them is risky; yet for anyone with competence and Courage the
danger fades.
1.04 - The Discovery of the Nation-Soul, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The great determining force has been the example and the aggression of Germany; the example, because no other nation has so self-consciously, so methodically, so intelligently, and from the external point of view so successfully sought to find, to dynamise, to live itself and make the most of its own power of being; its aggression, because the very nature and declared watchwords of the attack have tended to arouse a defensive self-consciousness in the assailed and forced them to perceive what was the source of this tremendous strength and to perceive too that they themselves must seek consciously an answering strength in the same deeper sources. Germany was for the time the most remarkable present instance of a nation preparing for the subjective stage because it had, in the first place, a certain kind of visionunfortunately intellectual rather than illuminated and the Courage to follow itunfortunately again a vital and intellectual rather than a spiritual hardihood,and, secondly, being master of its destinies, was able to order its own life so as to express its self-vision. We must not be misled by appearances into thinking that the strength of Germany was created by Bismarck or directed by the Kaiser Wilhelm II. Rather the appearance of Bismarck was in many respects a misfortune for the growing nation because his rude and powerful hand precipitated its subjectivity into form and action at too early a stage; a longer period of incubation might have produced results less disastrous to itself, if less violently stimulative to humanity. The real source of this great subjective force which has been so much disfigured in its objective action, was not in Germanys statesmen and soldiers for the most part poor enough types of men but came from her great philosophers, Kant, Hegel, Fichte, Nietzsche, from her great thinker and poet Goethe, from her great musicians, Beethoven and Wagner, and from all in the German soul and temperament which they represented. A nation whose master achievement has lain almost entirely in the two spheres of philosophy and music, is clearly predestined to lead in the turn to subjectivism and to produce a profound result for good or evil on the beginnings of a subjective age.
This was one side of the predestination of Germany; the other is to be found in her scholars, educationists, scientists, organisers. It was the industry, the conscientious diligence, the fidelity to ideas, the honest and painstaking spirit of work for which the nation has been long famous. A people may be highly gifted in the subjective capacities, and yet if it neglects to cultivate this lower side of our complex nature, it will fail to build that bridge between the idea and imagination and the world of facts, between the vision and the force, which makes realisation possible; its higher powers may become a joy and inspiration to the world, but it will never take possession of its own world until it has learned the humbler lesson. In Germany the bridge was there, though it ran mostly through a dark tunnel with a gulf underneath; for there was no pure transmission from the subjective mind of the thinkers and singers to the objective mind of the scholars and organisers. The misapplication by Treitschke of the teaching of Nietzsche to national and international uses which would have profoundly disgusted the philosopher himself, is an example of this obscure transmission. But still a transmission there was. For more than a half-century Germany turned a deep eye of subjective introspection on herself and things and ideas in search of the truth of her own being and of the world, and for another half-century a patient eye of scientific research on the objective means for organising what she had or thought she had gained. And something was done, something indeed powerful and enormous, but also in certain directions, not in all, misshapen and disconcerting. Unfortunately, those directions were precisely the very central lines on which to go wrong is to miss the goal.
1.04 - The Divine Mother - This Is She, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
I shall now give an example of the Mother's considerable Courage in taking up the charge of a patient suffering from throat cancer. This man, a devotee, arrived from outside. He had refused all medical aid and turned down all entreaties of his relatives for the accepted treatment. He wanted only to be cured by the Mother or to die here. He was very thin, of a nervous type and his general health was poor. I was asked to supervise the case and give daily reports to the Mother and Sri Aurobindo. We shall see in the chapter 'God Departs' another devotee seeking entire refuge in them and being cured of a mysterious illness that endangered her life. I must admit frankly that I was stunned by the Mother's boldness and could not have an unreserved faith. Either in this context or another, I had asked the Mother and Sri Aurobindo if they had cured cancer by their Force. The Mother replied firmly, "Not only cancer, other diseases too, pronounced incurable by the doctors. Isn't it so?" She asked Sri Aurobindo, as if looking for confirmation; he nodded. The Mother once said that there is hardly a disease that Yoga cannot cure. Sri Aurobindo also wrote, "Of course it [Yoga] can, but on condition of faith or openness or both. Even a mental suggestion can cure cancer with luck of course, as is shown by the case of the woman operated on unsuccessfully for cancer, but the doctors lied and told her it had succeeded. Result, cancer symptoms all ceased and she died many years afterwards of another illness altogether," Here was a patient, then, who came with faith in the Mother. I began to do my duty regularly. At first the patient came for Pranam to the Mother. I witnessed her intense concentration and preoccupation with the case. While listening to the report, she would suddenly go into a trance and Sri Aurobindo would intently watch over her. Once she was on the point of falling down. Sri Aurobindo stretched both his arms, exclaiming "Ah!" The Mother regained her control. Things seemed to be moving at a slow pace. If some symptoms improved, new ones appeared; the condition fluctuated from day to day. Some days passed in a comparative restfulness. Our help was mostly psychological: to give Courage and instil faith. If some progress was noticed, I would with a cheerful face report it to the Mother. She would just listen quietly. Meanwhile letters from the relatives urged the patient to return. When the Mother heard about it, she replied, "If I can't cure it, there is none who can." The fight continued, it was a grim encounter, indeed. As a result of the Mother's steady Force, things looked bright and I felt we had turned the corner. The Mother kept her vigil and wasted no words. After the February Darshan, however, the picture changed for no apparent reason. The patient went gradually down-hill and in a month or two, life petered out. The patient was brought before the Mother to have her last blessings. She came down and with her soothing touch and the balm of her divine smile wiped away all his distress and made his passage peaceful. Later when I asked Sri Aurobindo the reason for this unaccountable reversal, he replied, "After the Darshan his faith got shaken and he could not get it back." Cancer of the throat is a scourge; one cannot eat, drink or speak; breathing becomes difficult. Let us remember Sri Ramakrishna's classical example. To keep a steady faith needs a heroic will which how many can have? Besides, the family surroundings also were not very congenial.
I remember Nishikanto, a sadhak-poet, who fell seriously ill after being cured of an equally serious illness. The Mother giving the occult reason told me that when he came to her on his birthday, she saw a definite crack in his faith. But a man of quite a different temperament, he pulled himself up, while the cancer-patient could not. "Why take up such a case at all?" one may ask. Well, it was the patient who made the choice; he had no faith in the usual medico-surgical treatment whose efficacy is at best doubtful. Here, he had at least the unique opportunity to live under the Mother's and Sri Aurobindo's direct care and supervision. For a bhakta, there cannot be a greater boon. If he lives, it will be glorious; if he dies, he will have a better life in the next birth.
1.04 - The Future of Man, #Let Me Explain, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
'providentially' arising to sustain our Courage - the hope, the
belief that some immense fulfilment lies ahead of us.
1.04 - The Paths, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
Its Gods are Athena, insofar as she protected the State from its enemies ; and Shiva and Mars. Minerva is also an attri bution, for she was believed to have guided men in war, where victory was to be gained by prudence, Courage, and perseverance. The Egyptian Mentu is also a god of War, depicted with the head of a Hawk. The Scandinavian Tyr is an attri bution to this Path, for he is the most daring and intrepid of the Gods, and it is he who dispenses valour, Courage, and honour in the Wars.
The Spear is the weapon appropriate ; the flower Ger- anium, and the jewel Ruby because of its colour.
1.04 - The Praise, #Tara - The Feminine Divine, #unset, #Zen
the swift, the Courageous one.
In front of you, who with TUTTARA dissipates all fears,
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Homage to the liberating one, swift and Courageous,
Whose sight is like instant lightning,
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HOMAGE TO TARE, THE SWIFT, THE CourageOUS ONE.
' IN FRONT OF YOU, WHO WITH TUTTARA DISSIPATES ALL FEARS,
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CourageOUS: Tara shows limitless Courage with no
weakness to protect beings from suffering, whether in
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CourageOUS, her absence of fear and weakness in
protecting beings from all dangers attests to her
1.04 - THE STUDY (The Compact), #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
The Courage of the lion's breed,
The wild stag's speed,
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Who comes to you with Courage good,
Somewhat of cash, and healthy blood:
1.04 - What Arjuna Saw - the Dark Side of the Force, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
It is only a few religions which have had the Courage
to say without any reserve, like the Indian, that this enig-
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We have to look Courageously in the face of the real-
ity and see that it is God and none else who has made this
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Fighting, war, Courage and heroism are not among the
favourite social occurences and virtues of the civilized mind
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grow into the Godhead. Courage, energy and strength are
among the very first principles of the divine nature in ac-
1.05 - BOOK THE FIFTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
Raising a sprightly Courage in his heart:
But Indian Athis took the weaker part,
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'Tis your cold Courage turns your hearts to stone.
Come, follow me; fall on the stripling boy,
1.05 - CHARITY, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; Courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who is its object; justice is love serving only Him who is its object, and therefore rightly ruling; prudence is love making wise distinctions between what hinders and what helps itself.
St. Augustine
1.05 - On painstaking and true repentance which constitute the life of the holy convicts; and about the prison., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
I am full aware, my good friends, that the struggles I have described will seem to some incredible, to others hard to believe, and will seem to some to breed despair. But to the Courageous soul they will serve as a spur, and a shaft of fire; and he will go away carrying zeal in his heart. He who is not up to this will realize his infirmity, and having easily obtained humility by self- reproach, he will run after the former; and I do not know whether he may not even overtake him. But the careless man should leave my stories alone, lest he despair and squander even the little which he has accomplished, and thus correspond to the man of whom it was said: From him who is without alacrity or generosity even what he has will be taken away from him.2
It is impossible for us who have fallen into the pit of iniquities ever to be drawn out of it, unless we sink into the abyss of the humility of the penitents.
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Do not be surprised that you fall every day; do not give up, but stand your ground Courageously. And assuredly the angel who guards you will honour your patience. While a wound is still fresh and warm it is easy to heal, but old, neglected and festering ones are hard to cure, and require for their care much treatment, cutting, plastering and cauterization. Many from long neglect become incurable. But with God all things are possible.3
The demons say that God is merciful before our fall, but that He is inexorable after the fall.
1.05 - Some Results of Initiation, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy
If the student, before attaining insight into higher worlds, has learned by quiet and sincere self-observation to realized the qualities and the defects of his own character, he will then, at the moment when his own inner self confronts him as a mirrored image, find strength and Courage to conduct himself in the right way. People who have failed to test themselves in this way, and are insufficiently acquainted with their own inner self, will not recognize themselves in their own mirrored image and will mistake it for an alien reality. Or they may become alarmed at the vision
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1.05 - The Ascent of the Sacrifice - The Psychic Being, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
But the most intimate character of the psychic is its pressure towards the Divine through a sacred love, joy and oneness. It is the divine Love that it seeks most, it is the love of the Divine that is its spur, its goal, its star of Truth shining over the luminous cave of the nascent or the still obscure cradle of the new-born godhead within us. In the first long stage of its growth and immature existence it has leaned on earthly love, affection, tenderness, goodwill, compassion, benevolence, on all beauty and gentleness and fineness and light and strength and Courage, on all that can help to refine and purify the grossness and commonness of human nature; but it knows how mixed are these human movements at their best and at their worst how fallen and stamped with the mark of ego and self-deceptive sentimental falsehood and the lower self profiting by the imitation of a soul movement. At once, emerging, it is ready and eager to break all the old ties and imperfect emotional activities and replace them by a greater spiritual Truth of love and oneness. It may still admit the human forms and movements, but on condition that they are turned towards the One alone. It accepts only the ties that are helpful, the heart's reverence for the Guru, the union of the God-seekers, a spiritual compassion for the ignorant human and animal world and its peoples, the joy and happiness and satisfaction of beauty that comes from the perception of the Divine everywhere. It plunges the nature inward towards its meeting with the immanent Divine in the heart's secret centre and, while that call is there, no reproach of egoism, no mere outward summons of altruism or duty or philanthropy or service will deceive or divert it from its sacred longing and its obedience to the attraction of the Divinity within it. It lifts the being towards a transcendent Ecstasy and is ready to shed all the downward pull of the world from its wings in its uprising to reach the One Highest; but it calls down also this transcendent Love and Beatitude to deliver and transform this world of hatred and strife and division and darkness and jarring Ignorance. It opens to a universal Divine Love, a vast compassion, an intense and immense will for the good of all, for the embrace of the World-Mother enveloping or gathering to her her children, the divine Passion that has plunged into the night for the redemption of the world from the universal Ignorance. It is not attracted or misled by mental imitations or any vital misuse of these great deep-seated Truths of existence; it exposes them with its detecting search-ray and calls down the entire truth of divine Love to heal these malformations, to deliver mental, vital, physical love from their insufficiencies or their perversions and reveal to them their abounding share of the intimacy and the oneness and the ascending ecstasy and the descending rapture.
All true truths of Love and of the works of Love the psychic being accepts in their place; but its flame mounts always upward and it is eager to push the ascent from lesser to higher degrees of Truth, since it knows that only by the ascent to a highest Truth and the descent of that highest Truth can Love be delivered from the cross and placed upon the throne; for the cross is the sign of the Divine Descent barred and marred by the transversal line of a cosmic deformation which turns life into a state of suffering and misfortune. Only by the ascent to the original Truth can the deformation be healed and all the works of love, as too all the works of knowledge and of life, be restored to a divine significance and become part of an integral spiritual existence.
1.05 - THE HOSTILE BROTHERS - ARCHETYPES OF RESPONSE TO THE UNKNOWN, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
addition and in consequence hatred of the virtuous and Courageous, precisely on account of their virtue
and Courage. Evil is the desire to disseminate darkness, for the love of darkness, where there could be light.
The spirit of evil underlies all actions that speed along the decrepitude of the world; underlies all actions
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adaptation in behavior. Such humility is, somewhat paradoxically, Courageous as admission of error and
possibility for error constitutes the necessary precondition for confrontation with the unknown. This makes
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effortless nor automatic. Mediation of order and chaos requires Courage and work.
Adoption of identity with the heroes of the past necessary, but with implicit pathological potential is
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pretends to be upright and Courageous, instead of acting morally and bravely. Truly Courageous actions
might turn the group against him, and it is only identity with that group that keeps his head above water.
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endeavor. This is the necessary leap that makes Courageous and creative action possible; that makes
religion something real. Humility means, therefore: I am not yet what I could be an adage both cautious
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by contrast in the spirit of ignorant humility, Courage disguised provides necessary precondition for
change.
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heroism as goal to valuation of truth, Courage and love allows for re-incorporation and subsequent
development of hitherto repressed, stunted, and pathologized possibilities:
The great epochs of our lives come when we gain the Courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in
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faith in oneself and the benevolence of the world manifests itself as the Courage to risk everything in the
pursuit of meaning. If the nature of the goal is shifted from desire for predictability to development of
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life. Voluntary participation in the heroic process, by contrast which means Courageous confrontation
with the unknown makes worship a matter of true identification. This means that the true believer
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ritual model for emulation Good King, Wise Judge, man of Courage, of Action, of Art, of Thought.
Insofar as he represents particular, specific patterns of action, however, he is the enemy of possibility, of
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to speak into the embodiment of Courageous, truthful individually unique existence:
Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his
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The alchemist Courageously posited that the work of redemption held up as absolute by the Church was
not yet complete or at least acted as if there was still work to be done. So he hoped to turn what was
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time, and in this solitary pursuit, his fantasy had free reign. Once he had the Courage to admit to his own
ignorance, his own insufficiency, his investigations into matter took the form of contact with the
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redemptive possibility. Tales of the travelling sage, wandering magician or Courageous adventurer
constitute recognition of the utility of such potential. From the perspective of such narratives, a totality of
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acceptance, expression and respect requires Courage in the absence of certainty, and discipline in the
smallest matters.
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constitutionally unique, finds meaning in different pursuits, if he has the Courage to maintain his difference.
Manifestation of individual diversity, transformed into knowledge that can be transferred socially, changes
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Christ, to aid, ritually (procedurally), in the incorporation of heroic faith and Courage. Frye states:
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I am a Courageous wild boar;
I am a salmon in the water;
1.05 - True and False Subjectivism, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
We need not suppose that all Germany thought in this strenuous fashion, as it was too long represented, or that the majority thought thus consciously; but it is sufficient that an energetic minority of thinkers and strong personalities should seize upon the national life and impress certain tendencies upon it for these to prevail practically or at the least to give a general trend subconsciously even where the thought itself is not actually proposed in the conscious mind. And the actual events of the present hour seem to show that it was this gospel that partly consciously, partly subconsciously or half articulately had taken possession of the collective German mind. It is easy to deride the rigidity of this terrible logic or riddle it with the ideas and truths it has ignored, and it is still easier to abhor, fear, hate and spew at it while practically following its principles in our own action with less openness, thoroughness and Courage. But it is more profitable to begin by seeing that behind it there was and is a tremendous sincerity which is the secret of its force, and a sort of perverse honesty in its errors; the sincerity which tries to look straight at ones own conduct and the facts of life and the honesty to proclaim the real principles of that conduct and notexcept as an occasional diplomacyprofess others with the lips while disregarding them in the practice. And if this ideal is to be defeated not merely for a time in the battle-field and in the collective person of the nation or nations professing it, as happened abortively in the War, but in the mind of man and in the life of the human race, an equal sincerity and a less perverse honesty has to be practised by those who have arrived at a better law.
The German gospel has evidently two sides, the internal and the external, the cult of the State, nation or community and the cult of international egoism. In the first, Germany, even if for a time entirely crushed in the battle-field, seems to have already secured the victory in the moral sense of the human race. The unsparing compulsion as against the assistance of the individual by the State7for his and the common good, of course, but who professes to compel for harm?is almost everywhere either dominant or else growing into a strong and prevailing current of opinion; the champions of individual freedom are now a morally defeated and dwindling army who can only fight on in the hope of a future reaction or of saving something of their principle from the wreck. On the external side, the international, the battle of ideas still goes on, but there were from the beginning ominous signs;8 and now after the physical war with its first psychological results is well over, we are already able to see in which direction the tide is likely to flow. War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat. Germany, defeated in the war, has won in the after war; the German gospel rearisen in a sterner and fiercer avatar threatens to sweep over all Europe.
1.06 - Being Human and the Copernican Principle, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
gio, domani sar peggio! (Be Courageous, tomorrow will be
worse!) ... The long-term future is bleak: entropy will con
1.06 - BOOK THE SIXTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
Orthomenos for men of Courage bold:
Cleonae lying in the lowly dale,
1.06 - Dhyana, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
26:Now the man who has experienced any of the more intense forms of Dhyana is thus liberated. The Universe is thus destroyed for him, and he for it. His will can therefore go on its way unhampered. One may imagine that in the case of Mohammed he had cherished for years a tremendous ambition, and never done anything because those qualities which were subsequently manifested as statesmanship warned him that he was impotent. His vision in the cave gave him that confidence which was required, the faith that moves mountains. There are a lot of solid-seeming things in this world which a child could push over; but not one has the Courage to push.
27:Let us accept provisionally this explanation of greatness, and pass it by. Ambition has led us to this point; but we are now interested in the work for its own sake.
1.06 - Iconography, #Tara - The Feminine Divine, #unset, #Zen
Perfect Courage; red.
S arms, 2 hands above
1.06 - LIFE AND THE PLANETS, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
"providentially 55 arising to sustain our Courage the hope, the belief
that some immense fulfillment lies ahead of us.
1.06 - On Thought, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Let us be transparent so that the light within us may fully illumine the thoughts we want to observe, analyse, classify. Let us be impartial and Courageous so as to rise above our own little preferences and petty personal conveniences. Let us look at the thoughts in themselves, for themselves, without bias.
And little by little, if we persevere in our work of classification, we shall see order and light take up their abode in our minds. But we should never forget that this order is but confusion compared with the order that we must realise in the future, that this light is but darkness compared with the light that we shall be able to receive after some time.
1.06 - Psychic Education, #On Education, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The best qualities to develop in children are sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, Courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm and self-control, and they are taught infinitely better by example than by speeches, however, beautiful.
The role of the teacher is to put the child upon the right road to his own perfection and en Courage him to follow it watching, suggesting, helping, but not imposing or interfering. The best method of suggestion is by personal example, daily conversation, and books read from day-to-day.
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When a child makes a mistake, one must see that he confesses it to the teacher or the guardian spontaneously and frankly; and when he has confessed, he should be made to understand with kindness and affection what was wrong in the movement and precaution should be taken to see that he does not repeat it. A fault confessed must be forgiven. The child should be en Couraged to think of wrong impulses not as sins or offences but as symptoms of a curable disease, alterable by a steady and sustained effort of the will, - falsehood being rejected and replaced by truth, fear by Courage, selfishness by sacrifice, attachment by renunciation and malice by love.
Due care should be taken to see that unformed virtues are not rejected as faults. The wildness and recklessness of many young natures are only the over-flowing of excessive strength, greatness and nobility. They should be purified and not dis Couraged.
1.06 - THE MASTER WITH THE BRAHMO DEVOTEES, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
MASTER (to the Marwari devotees): "You see, the feeling of 'I' and 'mine' is the result of ignorance. But to say, 'O God, Thou art the Doer; all these belong to Thee' is the sign of Knowledge. How can you say such a thing as 'mine'? The superintendent of the garden says, 'This is my garden.' But if he is dismissed because of some misconduct, then he does not have the Courage to take away even such a worthless thing as his mango-wood box. Anger and lust cannot be destroyed. Turn them toward God. If you must feel desire and temptation, then desire to realize God, feel tempted by Him. Discriminate and turn the passions away from worldly objects. When the elephant is about to devour a plaintain-tree in someone's garden, the mahut strikes it with his iron-tipped goad.
"You are merchants. You know how to improve your business gradually. Some of you start with a castor-oil factory. After making some money at that, you open a cloth shop. In the same way, one makes progress toward God. It may be that you go into solitude, now and then, and devote more time to prayer.
1.07 - BOOK THE SEVENTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
Their champion's Courage with inspiring praise.
Embolden'd now, on fresh attempts he goes,
1.07 - On Dreams, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You will easily understand that rather than letting them live on unknown to us, it is better to bring them boldly and Courageously to the light, so as to force them to leave us for ever.
We should therefore observe our dreams attentively; they are often useful instructors who can give us a powerful help on our way towards self-conquest.
1.07 - ON READING AND WRITING, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
goblins around me, for I am Courageous. Courage that
puts ghosts to flight creates goblins for itself: Courage
wants to laugh.
1.07 - The Ego and the Dualities, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
10:Yet the same law should hold throughout. The error of the practical reason is an excessive subjection to the apparent fact which it can immediately feel as real and an insufficient Courage in carrying profounder facts of potentiality to their logical conclusion. What is, is the realisation of an anterior potentiality; present potentiality is a clue to future realisation. And here potentiality exists; for the mastery of phenomena depends upon a knowledge of their causes and processes and if we know the causes of error, sorrow, pain, death, we may labour with some hope towards their elimination. For knowledge is power and mastery.
11:In fact, we do pursue as an ideal, so far as we may, the elimination of all these negative or adverse phenomena. We seek constantly to minimise the causes of error, pain and suffering. Science, as its knowledge increases, dreams of regulating birth and of indefinitely prolonging life, if not of effecting the entire conquest of death. But because we envisage only external or secondary causes, we can only think of removing them to a distance and not of eliminating the actual roots of that against which we struggle. And we are thus limited because we strive towards secondary perceptions and not towards root-knowledge, because we know processes of things, but not their essence. We thus arrive at a more powerful manipulation of circumstances, but not at essential control. But if we could grasp the essential nature and the essential cause of error, suffering and death, we might hope to arrive at a mastery over them which should be not relative but entire. We might hope even to eliminate them altogether and justify the dominant instinct of our nature by the conquest of that absolute good, bliss, knowledge and immortality which our intuitions perceive as the true and ultimate condition of the human being.
1.07 - The Three Schools of Magick 2, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
When the light of intelligence begins to dawn dimly through many fogs upon these savages, we reach a second stage. Bold spirits master Courage to assert that the evil which is so obvious, is, in some mysterious way, an illusion. They thus throw back the whole complexity of sorrow to a single cause; that is, the arising of the illusion aforesaid. The problem then assumes a final form: How is that illusion to be destroyed.
A fairly pure example of the first stage of this type of thought is to be found in the Vedas, of the second stage, in the Upanishads. But the answer to the question, "How is the illusion of evil to be destroyed?", depends on another point of theory. We may postulate a Parabrahm infinitely good, etc. etc. etc., in which case we consider the destruction of the illusion of evil as the reuniting of the consciousness with Parabrahm. The unfortunate part of this scheme of things is that on seeking to define Parabrahm for the purpose of returning to Its purity, it is discovered sooner or later, that It possesses no qualities at all! In other words, as the farmer said, on being shown the elephant: There ain't no sich animile. It was Gautama Buddha who perceived the inutility of dragging in this imaginary pachyderm. Since our Parabrahm, he said to the Hindu philosophers, is actually nothing, why not stick to or original perception that everything is sorrow, and admit that the only way to escape from sorrow is to arrive at nothingness?
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The documents of the Black School of Magick have already been indicated. They are, for the most part, tedious to the last degree and repulsive to every wholesome-minded man; yet it can hardly be denied that such books as The Dhammapada and Ecclesiastes are masterpieces of literature. They represent the agony of human despair at its utmost degree of intensity, and the melancholy contemplation which is induced by their perusal is not favourable to the inception of that mood which should lead every truly Courageous intelligence to the determination to escape from the ferule of the Black Schoolmaster to the outstretched arms of the White Mistress of Life.
Let us leave the sinister figure of Schopenhauer for the mysteriously radiant shape of Spinoza! This latter philosopher, in respect at least of his Pantheism, represents fairly enough the fundamental thesis of the White tradition. Almost the first observation that we have to make is that this White tradition is hardly discoverable outside Europe. It appears first of all in the legend of Dionysus. (In this connection read carefully Browning's Apollo and the Fates.)
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There is thus in this School no attempt to deny that Nature is, as Zoroaster said, "a fatal and evil force"; but Nature is, so to speak, "the First Matter of the Work", which is to be transmuted into gold. The joy is a function of our own part in this alchemy. For this reason we find the boldest and most skillful adepts deliberately seeking out the most repugnant elements of Nature that their triumph may be the greater. The formula is evidently one of dauntless Courage. It expresses the idea of vitality and manhood in its most dynamic sense.
The only religion which corresponds to this School at all is that of ancient Egypt; possibly also that of Chaldea. This is because those religions are Magical religions in the strict technical sense; the religious component of them is negligible. So far as it exists, it exists only for the uninitiate.
1.08 - BOOK THE EIGHTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
But wou'd take Courage, and abandon shame?
But wou'd, tho' ruin shou'd ensue, remove
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The virgin's fears decay, and Courage springs.
The hour was come, when Man's o'er-labour'd breast
1.08 - Origin of Rudra: his becoming eight Rudras, #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism
"Having thus spoken to his beloved spouse, the mighty Maheśvara created from his mouth a being like the fire of fate; a divine being, with a thousand heads, a thousand eyes, a thousand feet; wielding a thousand clubs, a thousand shafts; holding the shell, the discus, the mace, and bearing a blazing bow and battle-axe; fierce and terrific, shining with dreadful splendour, and decorated with the crescent moon; clothed in a tiger's skin, dripping with blood; having a capacious stomach, and a vast mouth, armed with formidable tusks: his ears were erect, his lips were pendulous, his tongue was lightning; his hand brandished the thunderbolt; flames streamed from his hair; a necklace of pearls wound round his neck; a garland of flame descended on his breast: radiant with lustre, he looked like the final fire that consumes the world. Four tremendous tusks projected from a mouth which extended from ear to ear: he was of vast bulk, vast strength, a mighty male and lord, the destroyer of the universe, and like a large fig-tree in circumference; shining like a hundred moons at once; fierce as the fire of love; having four heads, sharp white teeth, and of mighty fierceness, vigour, activity, and Courage; glowing with the blaze of a thousand fiery suns at the end of the world; like a thousand undimmed moons: in bulk like Himādri, Kailāsa, or Meru, or Mandara, with all its gleaming herbs; bright as the sun of destruction at the end of ages; of irresistible prowess, and beautiful aspect; irascible, with lowering eyes, and a countenance burning like fire; clothed in the hide of the elephant and lion, and girt round with snakes; wearing a turban on his head, a moon on his brow; sometimes savage, sometimes mild; having a chaplet of many flowers on his head, anointed with various unguents, and adorned with different ornaments and many sorts of jewels; wearing a garland of heavenly Karnikāra flowers, and rolling his eyes with rage. Sometimes he danced; sometimes he laughed aloud; sometimes he stood wrapt in meditation; sometimes he trampled upon the earth; sometimes he sang; sometimes he wept repeatedly: and he was endowed with the faculties of wisdom, dispassion, power, penance, truth, endurance, fortitude, dominion, and self-knowledge.
"This being, then, knelt down upon the ground, and raising his hands respectfully to his head, said to Mahādeva, 'Sovereign of the gods, command what it is that I must do for thee.' To which Maheśvara replied, Spoil the sacrifice of Dakṣa.' Then the mighty Vīrabhadra, having heard the pleasure of his lord, bowed down his head to the feet of Prajāpati; and starting like a lion loosed from bonds, despoiled the sacrifice of Dakṣa, knowing that the had been created by the displeasure of Devī. She too in her wrath, as the fearful goddess Rudrakālī, accompanied him, with all her train, to witness his deeds. Vīrabhadra the fierce, abiding in the region of ghosts, is the minister of the anger of Devī. And he then created, from the pores of his skin, powerful demigods, the mighty attendants upon Rudra, of equal valour and strength, who started by hundreds and thousands into existence. Then a loud and confused clamour filled all the expanse of ether, and inspired the denizens of heaven with dread. The mountains tottered, and earth shook; the winds roared, and the depths of the sea were disturbed; the fires lost their radiance, and the sun grew pale; the planets of the firmament shone not, neither did the stars give light; the Ṛṣis ceased their hymns, and gods and demons were mute; and thick darkness eclipsed the chariots of the skies[5].
1.08 - RELIGION AND TEMPERAMENT, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
With endomorphic constitution is closely correlated a temperamental pattern, which Sheldon calls viscerotonia. Significant among the viscerotonic traits are love of food and, characteristically, love of eating in common; love of comfort and luxury; love of ceremoniousness; indiscriminate amiability and love of people as such; fear of solitude and craving for company; uninhibited expression of emotion; love of childhood, in the form of nostalgia towards ones own past and in an intense enjoyment of family life; craving for affection and social support, and need of people when in trouble. The temperament that is related to mesomorphy is called somatotonia. In this the dominating traits are love of muscular activity, aggressiveness and lust for power; indifference to pain; callousness in regard to other peoples feelings; a love of combat and competitiveness; a high degree of physical Courage; a nostalgic feeling, not for childhood, but for youth, the period of maximum muscular power; a need for activity when in trouble.
From the foregoing descriptions it will be seen how inadequate is the Jungian conception of extraversion, as a simple antithesis to introversion. Extraversion is not simple; it is of two radically different kinds. There is the emotional, sociable extraversion of the viscerotonic endomorph the person who is always seeking company and telling everybody just what he feels. And there is the extraversion of the big-muscled somatotonic the person who looks outward on the world as a place where he can exercise power, where he can bend people to his will and shape things to his hearts desire. One is the genial extraversion of the salesman, the Rotarian good mixer, the liberal Protestant clergyman. The other is the extraversion of the engineer who works off his lust for power on things, of the sportsman and the professional blood-and-iron soldier, of the ambitious business executive and politician, of the dictator, whether in the home or at the head of a state.
1.08 - Sri Aurobindos Descent into Death, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
most a faint smile. ... One day taking Courage in both hands,
Dr. Satyendra asked: Why are you so serious, Sir? Sri Au-
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Nirodbaran, gathering his Courage in both hands, ventured
at last to ask him: Are you not using your force to cure
1.08 - THE MASTERS BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION AT DAKSHINESWAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
"But it is a great deal to his credit if a householder utters the name of the Lord. Think of King Janaka. What Courage he had, indeed! He fenced with two swords, the one of Knowledge and the other of work. He possessed the perfect Knowledge of Brahman and also was devoted to the duties of the world. An unchaste woman attends to the minutest duties of the world, but her mind always dwells on her paramour.
"The constant company of holy men is necessary. The holy man introduces one to God."
1.08 - The Supreme Discovery, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Before I close, I shall add a few pages for those who have already made apparently fruitless efforts, for those who have encountered the pitfalls on the way and seen the measure of their weakness, for those who are in danger of losing their self-confidence and Courage. These pages, intended to rekindle hope in the hearts of those who suffer, were written by a spiritual worker at a time when ordeals of every kind were sweeping down on him like purifying flames.
You who are weary, downcast and bruised, you who fall, who think perhaps that you are defeated, hear the voice of a friend. He knows your sorrows, he has shared them, he has suffered like you from the ills of the earth; like you he has crossed many deserts under the burden of the day, he has known thirst and hunger, solitude and abandonment, and the cruellest of all wants, the destitution of the heart. Alas! he has known too the hours of doubt, the errors, the faults, the failings, every weakness.
But he tells you: Courage! Hearken to the lesson that the rising sun brings to the earth with its first rays each morning. It is a lesson of hope, a message of solace.
You who weep, who suffer and tremble, who dare not expect an end to your ills, an issue to your pangs, behold: there is no night without dawn and the day is about to break when darkness is thickest; there is no mist that the sun does not dispel, no cloud that it does not gild, no tear that it will not dry one day, no storm that is not followed by its shining triumphant bow; there is no snow that it does not melt, nor winter that it does not change into radiant spring.
1.08 - The Supreme Will, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
1:IN THE light of this progressive manifestation of the Spirit, first apparently bound in the Ignorance, then free in the power and wisdom of the Infinite, we can better understand the great and crowning injunction of the Gita to the Karmayogin, "Abandoning all dharmas, all principles and laws and rules of conduct, take refuge in me alone." All standards and rules are temporary constructions founded upon the needs of the ego in its transition from Matter to Spirit. These makeshifts have a relative imperativeness so long as we rest satisfied in the stages of transition, content with the physical and vital life, attached to the mental movement, or even fixed in the ranges of the mental plane that are touched by the spiritual lustres. But beyond is the unwalled wideness of a supramental infinite consciousness and there all temporary structures cease. It is not possible to enter utterly into the spiritual truth of the Eternal and Infinite if we have not the faith and Courage to trust ourselves into the hands of the Lord of all things and the Friend of all creatures and leave utterly behind us our mental limits and measures. At one moment we must plunge without hesitation, reserve, fear or scruple into the ocean of the free, the infinite, the Absolute. After the Law, Liberty; after the personal, after the general, after the universal standards there is something greater, the impersonal plasticity, the divine freedom, the transcendent force and the supernal impulse. After the strait path of the ascent the wide plateaus on the summit.
2:There are three stages of the ascent, - at the bottom the bodily life enslaved to the pressure of necessity and desire, in the middle the mental, higher emotional and psychic rule that feels after greater interests, aspirations, experiences, at the summits first a deeper psychic and spiritual state and then a supramental eternal consciousness in which all our aspirations and seekings discover their own intimate significance. In the bodily life first desire and need and then the practical good of the individual and the society are the governing consideration, the dominant force. In the mental life ideas and ideals rule, ideas that are halflights wearing the garb of Truth, ideals formed by the mind as a result of a growing but still imperfect intuition and experience. Whenever the mental life prevails and the bodily diminishes its brute insistence, man the mental being feels pushed by the urge of mental Nature to mould in the sense of the idea or the ideal the life of the individual, and in the end even the vaguer more complex life of the society is forced to undergo this subtle process. In the spiritual life, or when a higher power than Mind has manifested and taken possession of the nature, these limited motive-forces recede, dwindle, tend to disappear. The spiritual or supramental Self, the Divine Being, the supreme and immanent Reality, must be alone the Lord within us and shape freely our final development according to the highest, widest, most integral expression possible of the law of our nature. In the end that nature acts in the perfect Truth and its spontaneous freedom; for it obeys only the luminous power of the Eternal. The individual has nothing further to gain, no desire to fulfil; he has become a portion of the impersonality or the universal personality of the Eternal. No other object than the manifestation and play of the Divine Spirit in life and the maintenance and conduct of the world in its march towards the divine goal can move him to action. Mental ideas, opinions, constructions are his no more; for his mind has fallen into silence, it is only a channel for the Light and Truth of the divine knowledge. Ideals are too narrow for the vastness of his spirit; it is the ocean of the Infinite that flows through him and moves him for ever.
1.09 - Equality and the Annihilation of Ego, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
8:This equality cannot come except by a protracted ordeal and patient self-discipline; so long as desire is strong, equality cannot come at all except in periods of quiescence and the fatigue of desire, and it is then more likely to be an inert indifference or desire's recoil from itself than the true calm and the positive spiritual oneness. Moreover, this discipline or this growth into equality of spirit has its necessary epochs and stages. Ordinarily we have to begin with a period of endurance; for we must learn to confront, to suffer and to assimilate all contacts. Each fibre in us must be taught not to wince away from that which pains and repels and not to run eagerly towards that which pleases and attracts, but rather to accept, to face, to bear and to conquer. All touches we must be strong to bear, not only those that are proper and personal to us but those born of our sympathy or our conflict with the worlds around, above or below us and with their peoples. We shall endure tranquilly the action and impact on us of men and things and forces, the pressure of the Gods and the assaults of Titans; we shall face and engulf in the unstirred seas of our spirit all that can possibly come to us down the ways of the soul's infinite experience. This is the stoical period of the preparation of equality, its most elementary and yet its heroic age. But this steadfast endurance of the flesh and heart and mind must be reinforced by a sustained sense of spiritual submission to a divine Will: this living clay must yield not only with a stern or Courageous acquiescence, but with knowledge or with resignation, even in suffering, to the touch of the divine Hand that is preparing its perfection. A sage, a devout or even a tender stoicism of the God-lover is possible, and these are better than the merely pagan self-reliant endurance which may lend itself to a too great hardening of the vessel of God: for this kind prepares the strength that is capable of wisdom and of love; its tranquillity is a deeply moved calm that passes easily into bliss. The gain of this period of resignation and endurance is the soul's strength equal to all shocks and contacts.
9:There is next a period of high-seated impartiality and indifference in which the soul becomes free from exultation and depression and escapes from the snare of the eagerness of joy as from the dark net of the pangs of grief and suffering. All things and persons and forces, all thoughts and feelings and sensations and actions, one's own no less than those of others, are regarded from above by a spirit that remains intact and immutable and is not disturbed by these things. This is the philosophic period of the preparation of equality, a wide and august movement. But indifference must not settle into an inert turning away from action and experience; it must not be an aversion born of weariness, disgust and distaste, a recoil of disappointed or satiated desire, the sullenness of a baffled and dissatisfied egoism forced back from its passionate aims. These recoils come inevitably in the unripe soul and may in some way help the progress by a dis Couragement of the eager desire-driven vital nature, but they are not the perfection towards which we labour. The indifference or the impartiality that we must seek after is a calm superiority of the high-seated soul above the contacts of things;1 it regards and accepts or rejects them but is not moved in the rejection and is not subjected by the acceptance. It begins to feel itself near, kin to, one with a silent Self and Spirit self-existent and separate from the workings of Nature which it supports and makes possible, part of or merged in the motionless calm Reality that transcends the motion and action of the universe. The gain of this period of high transcendence is the soul's peace unrocked and unshaken by the pleasant ripplings or by the tempestuous waves and billows of the world's movement.
1.09 - Legend of Lakshmi, #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism
Having thus spoken, the Brahman went his way; and the king of the gods, remounting his elephant, returned to his capital Amarāvati. Thenceforward, Maitreya, the three worlds and Śakra lost their vigour, and all vegetable products, plants, and herbs were withered and died; sacrifices were no longer offered; devout exercises no longer practised; men were no more addicted to charity, or any moral or religious obligation; all beings became devoid of steadiness[4]; all the faculties of sense were obstructed by cupidity; and men's desires were excited by frivolous objects. Where there is energy, there is prosperity; and upon prosperity energy depends. How can those abandoned by prosperity be possessed of energy; and without energy, where is excellence? Without excellence there can be no vigour nor heroism amongst men: he who has neither Courage nor strength, will be spurned by all: and he who is universally treated with disgrace, must suffer abasement of his intellectual faculties.
The three regions being thus wholly divested of prosperity, and deprived of energy, the Dānavas and sons of Diti, the enemies of the gods, who were incapable of steadiness, and agitated by ambition, put forth their strength against the gods. They engaged in war with the feeble and unfortunate divinities; and Indra and the rest, being overcome in fight, fled for refuge to Brahmā, preceded by the god of flame (Hutāśana). When the great father of the universe had heard all that had come to pass, he said to the deities, "Repair for protection to the god of high and low; the tamer of the demons; the causeless cause of creation, preservation, and destruction; the progenitor of the progenitors; the immortal, unconquerable Viṣṇu; the cause of matter and spirit, of his unengendered products; the remover of the grief of all who humble themselves before him: he will give you aid." Having thus spoken to the deities, Brahmā proceeded along with them to the northern shore of the sea of milk; and with reverential words thus prayed to the supreme Hari:-
1.09 - SKIRMISHES IN A WAY WITH THE AGE, #Twilight of the Idols, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
he has not the Courage even to acknowledge his _libertinage._ As a
historian he has no philosophy, and lacks the power of philosophical
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the Courage of his own personality--he really does enjoy his own
nature--he actually is a _master,_--In some respects he is a prototype
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The most intellectual men, provided they are also the most Courageous,
experience the most excruciating tragedies: but on that very account
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something "ugly." His feeling of power, his will to power, his Courage
and his pride--these things collapse at the sight of what is ugly, and
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communication A Courageous and free spirit, in the presence of a mighty
foe, in the presence of a sublime misfortune, and face to face with a
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went so far as not only to express his admiration for the Courage
displayed by my enterprise, but also to pretend to "understand" that
1.10 - BOOK THE TENTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
Thus far her Courage held, but here forsakes;
Her faint knees knock at ev'ry step she makes.
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Which durst, ye youths, your well-tim'd Courage wrong.
I knew not that the nymph, for whom you strove,
1.10 - Concentration - Its Practice, #Raja-Yoga, #Swami Vivkenanda, #unset
When this knowledge comes; it will come, as it were, in seven grades, one after the other; and when one of these begins, we know that we are getting knowledge. The first to appear will be that we have known what is to be known. The mind will cease to be dissatisfied. While we are aware of thirsting after knowledge, we begin to seek here and there, wherever we think we can get some truth, and failing to find it we become dissatisfied and seek in a fresh direction. All search is vain, until we begin to perceive that knowledge is within ourselves, that no one can help us, that we must help ourselves. When we begin to practise the power of discrimination, the first sign that we are getting near truth will be that that dissatisfied state will vanish. We shall feel quite sure that we have found the truth, and that it cannot be anything else but the truth. Then we may know that the sun is rising, that the morning is breaking for us, and taking Courage, we must persevere until the goal is reached. The second grade will be the absence of all pains. It will be impossible for anything in the universe, external or internal, to give us pain. The third will be the attainment of full knowledge. Omniscience will be ours. The fourth will be the attainment of the end of all duty through discrimination. Next will come what is called freedom of the Chitta. We shall realise that all difficulties and struggles, all vacillations of the mind, have fallen down, just as a stone rolls from the mountain top into the valley and never comes up again. The next will be that the Chitta itself will realise that it melts away into its causes whenever we so desire. Lastly we shall find that we are established in our Self, that we have been alone throughout the universe, neither body nor mind was ever related, much less joined, to us. They were working their own way, and we, through ignorance, joined ourselves to them. But we have been alone, omnipotent, omnipresent, ever blessed; our own Self was so pure and perfect that we required none else. We required none else to make us happy, for we are happiness itself. We shall find that this knowledge does not depend on anything else; throughout the universe there can be nothing that will not become effulgent before our knowledge. This will be the last state, and the Yogi will become peaceful and calm, never to feel any more pain, never to be again deluded, never to be touched by misery. He will know he is ever blessed, ever perfect, almighty.
28. By the practice of the different parts of Yoga the impurities being destroyed, knowledge be comes effulgent up to discrimination.
1.10 - Farinata and Cavalcante de' Cavalcanti. Discourse on the Knowledge of the Damned., #The Divine Comedy, #Dante Alighieri, #Christianity
And with Courageous hands and prompt my Leader
Thrust me between the sepulchres towards him,
1.10 - ON WAR AND WARRIORS, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
cause. War and Courage have accomplished more great
things than love of the neighbor. Not your pity but
your Courage has so far saved the unfortunate.
"What is good?' you ask. To be brave is good. Let
1.10 - THE NEIGHBORS HOUSE, #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
Ah, dearest dame, let not your Courage fail!
MEPHISTOPHELES
1.10 - The Secret of the Veda, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The modern world cares little for orthodox Hindu opinion, for the opinion of its Pandits or for the ancient authority of its received guides; putting these things aside as the heavy and now useless baggage of the dead past it moves on free and unhampered to its objective, seeking ever fresh vistas of undiscovered knowledge. But a Hindu writer, still holding the faith of his ancestors, owes a certain debt to the immediate past, not so much as to hamper his free enquiry and outlook upon truth, but enough to demand from him a certain respect for whatever in it is really respectworthy and some attempt to satisfy his coreligionists that in opening out a fresh outlook on ancient knowledge he is not uprooting truths that are essential to their common religion. Nothing in those truths compels us to accept the plenary authority of Sayana or the ritualistic interpretation of the Vedas. The hymns of the Veda are, for us, inspired truth and therefore infallible; it follows that the only interpretative authority on them which can claim also to be infallible is one which itself works by the faculty of divine inspiration. The only works for which the ordinary tradition claims this equal authority are the Brahmanas, Aranyakas & Upanishads. Even among these authorities, if we accept them as all and equally inspired and authoritative, and on this point Hindus are not in entire agreement,the Brahmanas which deal with the ceremonial detail of Vedic sacrifice, are authoritative for the ritual only; for the inner sense the Upanishads are the fit authority. Sayana can lay claim to no such sanctity for his opinions. He is no ancient Rishi, nor even an inspired religious teacher, but a grammarian and scholar writing in the twelfth century after Christ several millenniums subsequent to the Rishis to whom Veda was revealed. By his virtues & defects as a scholar his interpretation must be judged. His erudition is vast, his industry colossal; he has so occupied the field that everyone who approaches the Veda must pass to it under his shadow; his commentary is a mine of knowledge about Vedic Sanscrit and full of useful hints for the interpretation of Veda. But there the tale of his merits ends. Other qualities are needed for a successful Vedic commentary which in Sayana are conspicuous by their absence; and his defects as a critic are almost as colossal as his industry and erudition. He is not a disinterested mind seeking impartially the truth of Veda but a professor of the ritualistic school of interpretation intent upon reading the traditional ceremonial sense into the sacred hymns; even so he is totally wanting in consistency, coherence and settled method. Not only is he frequently uncertain of himself, halts and qualifies his interpretation with an alternative or not having the full Courage of his ritualistic rendering introduces it as a mere possibility,these would be meritorious failings,but he wavers in a much more extraordinary fashion, forcing the ritualistic sense of a word or passage where it cannot possibly hold, abandoning it unaccountably where it can well be sustained. The Vedas are masterpieces of flawless literary style and logical connection. But Sayana, like many great scholars, is guiltless of literary taste and has not the least sense of what is or is not possible to a good writer. His interpretation of any given term is seldom consistent even in similar passages of different hymns, but he will go yet farther and give two entirely different renderings to the same word though occurring in successive riks & in an obviously connected strain of thought. The rhythm and balance of a sentence is nothing to him, he will destroy it ruthlessly in order to get over a difficulty of interpretation; he will disturb the arrangement of a sentence sometimes in the most impossible manner, connecting absolutely disconnected words, breaking up inseparable connections, inserting a second and alien sentence in between the head & tail of the first, and creating a barbarous complexity & confusion where the symbolic movement of the Rishis, unequalled in its golden ease, lucidity and straightforwardness, demands an equal lucidity & straightforwardness in the commentator. A certain rough coherence of thought he attempts to keep, but his rendering makes oftenest a clumsy sense & not unoften no ascertainable sense at all; while he has no scruple in breaking up the coherence entirely in favour of his ritualism. These are, after all, faults common in a scholastic mentality, but even were they less prominent & persistent in him than I have found them to be, they liberate us from all necessity for an exaggerated deference to his authority as an interpreter. Nor, indeed, were Sayana an ideal commentator, could he possibly be relied upon to give us the true sense of Veda; for the language of these hymns, whatever the exact date of their Rishis, goes back to an immense antiquity and long before Sayana the right sense of many Vedic words and the right clue to many Vedic allusions and symbols were lost to the scholars of India. Much indeed survived in tradition, but more had been lost or disfigured, and the two master clues, intellectual & spiritual, on which we can yet rely for the recovery of these losses, a sound philology and the renewal in ourselves of the experiences which form the subject of the Vedic hymns, were the one entirely wanting, the other grown more & more inaccessible with time not only to the Pandit but to the philosopher. Even in our days the sound philology is yet wanting, though the seeds have been sown & even the first beginnings made; nor are the Vedic experiences any longer pursued in their entirety by the Indian Yogins who have learned to follow in this Kali Yuga less difficult paths and more modern systems.
But the ritualistic interpretation of the Rigveda does not stand on the authority of Sayana alone. It is justified by Shankaracharyas rigid division of karmakanda and jnanakanda and by a long tradition dating back to the propaganda of Buddha which found in the Vedic hymns a great system of ceremonial or effective sacrifice and little or nothing more. Even the Brahmanas in their great mass & minuteness seem to bear unwavering testimony to the pure ritualism of the Veda. But the Brahmanas are in their nature rubrics of directions to the priests for the right performance of the outward Vedic sacrifice,that system of symbolic & effective offerings to the gods of Soma-wine, clarified butter or consecrated animals in which the complex religion of the Veda embodied itself for material worship,rubrics accompanied by speculative explanations of old ill-understood details & the popular myths & traditions that had sprung up from obscure allusions in the hymns. Whatever we may think of the Brahmanas, they merely affirm the side of outward ritualism which had grown in a huge & cumbrous mass round the first simple rites of the Vedic Rishis; they do not exclude the existence of deeper meanings & higher purposes in the ancient Scripture. Not only so, but they practically affirm them by including in the Aranyakas compositions of a wholly different spirit & purpose, the Upanishads, compositions professedly intended to bring out the spiritual gist and drift of the earlier Veda. It is clear therefore that to the knowledge or belief of the men of those times the Vedas had a double aspect, an aspect of outward and effective ritual, believed also to be symbolical,for the Brahmanas are continually striving to find a mystic symbolism in the most obvious details of the sacrifice, and an aspect of highest & divine truth hidden behind these symbols. The Upanishads themselves have always been known as Vedanta. This word is nowadays often used & spoken of as if it meant the end of Veda, in the sense that here historically the religious development commenced in the Rigveda culminated; but obviously it means the culmination of Veda in a very different sense, the ultimate and highest knowledge & fulfilment towards which the practices & strivings of the Vedic Rishis mounted, extricated from the voluminous mass of the Vedic poems and presented according to the inner realisation of great Rishis like Yajnavalkya & Janaka in a more modern style and language. It is used much in the sense in which Madhuchchhandas, son of Viswamitra, says of Indra, Ath te antamnm vidyma sumatnm, Then may we know something of thy ultimate right thinkings, meaning obviously not the latest, but the supreme truths, the ultimate realisations. Undoubtedly, this was what the authors of the Upanishads themselves saw in their work, statements of supreme truth of Veda, truth therefore contained in the ancient mantras. In this belief they appeal always to Vedic authority and quote the language of Veda either to justify their own statements of thought or to express that thought itself in the old solemn and sacred language. And with regard to this there are spoken these Riks.
1.10 - The Three Modes of Nature, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
influences, often a conflict, a wrestling of forces, a struggle to dominate each other. All have in great or in small extent or degree, even if sometimes in a hardly appreciable minimum, their sattwic states and clear tracts or inchoate tendencies of light, clarity and happiness, fine adaptation and sympathy with the environment, intelligence, poise, right mind, right will and feeling, right impulse, virtue, order. All have their rajasic moods and impulses and turbid parts of desire and passion and struggle, perversion and falsehood and error, unbalanced joy and sorrow, aggressive push to work and eager creation and strong or bold or fiery or fierce reactions to the pressure of the environment and to life's assaults and offers. All have their tamasic states and constant obscure parts, their moments or points of unconsciousness, their long habit or their temporary velleities of weak resignation or dull acceptance, their constitutional feeblenesses or movements of fatigue, negligence and indolence and their lapses into ignorance and incapacity, depression and fear and cowardly recoil or submission to the environment and to the pressure of men and events and forces. Each one of us is sattwic in some directions of his energy of Nature or in some parts of his mind or character, in others rajasic, tamasic in others. According as one or other of the modes usually dominates his general temperament and type of mind and turn of action, it is said of him that he is the sattwic, the rajasic or the tamasic man; but few are always of one kind and none is entire in his kind. The wise are not always or wholly wise, the intelligent are intelligent only in patches; the saint suppresses in himself many unsaintly movements and the evil are not entirely evil: the dullest has his unexpressed or unused and undeveloped capacities, the most timorous his moments or his way of Courage, the helpless and the weakling a latent part of strength in his nature. The dominant gunas are not the essential soul-type of the embodied being but only the index of the formation he has made for this life or during his present existence and at a given moment of his evolution in Time.
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1.10 - THINGS I OWE TO THE ANCIENTS, #Twilight of the Idols, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
all, it is Courage in the face of reality that distinguishes such
natures as Thucydides from Plato: Plato is a coward I in the face of
11.14 - Our Finest Hour, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The inner discovery is indeed a battle and here too a victory has to be won. It needs more than in any physical battle a complete contingent of Courage and bravery, calm strength and persevering endurance, skill and energy to gain an absolute success. And there the field is free and vast, one can deploy oneself as largely as possible, move in any direction to any distance as one likes. It is no longer a prison,it is a region where one meets one's soul.
The individual seems always to precede the society. What begins in and with the individual is spread abroad and established in wide commonalty. But this individual self-concentration does not mean that one should withdraw from the world and its activities and sit and settle within oneself, apart and aloof. It does not mean while you are in prison, to accept imprisonment, dig a cave there and go into mere meditation. In other words, to find the inner solution it is not necessary to escape from the world, go into the solitude of mountain-tops or into the depths of the forests, take to the path of total renunciation till you attain perfect siddhi and then turn back and share your light and leading with humanity. Some great souls have done thisBuddha and Christ and Vivekananda. And it is not for every man to try that path in the way they did. But even if the path is not easy, to some extent at least every one of us has to follow it; for we must remember our aim is not easy either. The pioneers have to accept the difficulty of the path. Pursuing the figure of the prison, of the dungeon, we may say, instead of trying to break it down because of the hopelessness of the attempt, or as the alternative: sit down quiet for the inner illumination to come; instead of that one may cut a tunnel under the wall. That should be the nature of our activity in our present situation.
1.11 - BOOK THE ELEVENTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
Art fails, and Courage falls, no succour near;
As many waves, as many deaths appear.
1.11 - Oneness, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
making an unbridgeable opposition between world-nature and Godnature, as if Nature were independent of God, or to throw the responsibility on man and his sins, as if he had a preponderant voice in the making of this world or could create anything against the will of God, are clumsily comfortable devices. . . . We erect a God of Love and Mercy, a God of good, a God just, righteous and virtuous according to our own moral conceptions of justice, virtue and righteousness, and all the rest, we say, is not He or is not His, but was made by some diabolical Power which He suffered for some reason to work out its wicked will or by some dark Ahriman counterbalancing our gracious Ormuzd, or was even the fault of selfish and sinful man who has spoiled what was made originally perfect by God . . . . We have to look Courageously in the face of the reality and see that it is God and none else who has made this world in His being and that so He has made it. We have to see that Nature devouring her children,
Time eating up the lives of creatures, Death universal and ineluctable and the violence of the Rudra136 forces in man and Nature are also the supreme Godhead in one of his cosmic figures. We have to see that God the bountiful and prodigal creator, God the helpful, strong and benignant preserver is also God the devourer and destroyer. The torment of the couch of pain and evil on which we are racked is his touch as much as happiness and sweetness and pleasure. It is only 136
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For truth is the foundation of real spirituality and Courage is its soul.138
Then the wound is healed that seemed forever to divide the world between Satan and Heaven, as if there were nothing else but Good and Evil, with us in between like an infant coddled and whipped into virtuous ways.139 All duality is a vision based on Ignorance. There is nothing but the innumerable One140 everywhere, and "God's discords"
1.11 - The Master of the Work, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The movement of the Ignorance is egoistic at its core and nothing is more difficult for us than to get rid of egoism while yet we admit personality and adhere to action in the half-light and half-force of our unfinished nature. It is easier to starve the ego by renouncing the impulse to act or to kill it by cutting away from us all movement of personality. It is easier to exalt it into self-forgetfulness immersed in a trance of peace or an ecstasy of divine Love. But our more difficult problem is to liberate the true Person and attain to a divine manhood which shall be the pure vessel of a divine force and the perfect instrument of a divine action. Step after step has to be firmly taken; difficulty after difficulty has to be entirely experienced and entirely mastered. Only the Divine Wisdom and Power can do this for us and it will do all if we yield to it in an entire faith and follow and assent to its workings with a constant Courage and patience.
The first step on this long path is to consecrate all our works as a sacrifice to the Divine in us and in the world; this is an attitude of the mind and heart, not too difficult to initiate, but very difficult to make absolutely sincere and all-pervasive. The second step is to renounce attachment to the fruit of our works; for the only true, inevitable and utterly desirable fruit of sacrifice-the one thing needful -- is the Divine Presence and the Divine Consciousness and Power in us, and if that is gained, all else will be added. This is a transformation of the egoistic will in our vital being, our desire-soul and desire-nature, and it is far more difficult than the other. The third step is to get rid of the central egoism and even the ego-sense of the worker. That is the most difficult transformation of all and cannot be perfectly done if the first two steps have not been taken; but these first steps too cannot be completed unless the third comes in to crown the movement and, by the extinction of egoism, eradicates the very origin of desire. Only when the small ego-sense is rooted out from the nature can the seeker know his true person that stands above as a portion and power of the Divine and renounce all motive-force other than the will of the Divine shakti.
There are gradations in this last integralising movement; for it cannot be done at once or without long approaches that bring it progressively nearer and make it at last possible. The first attitude to be taken is to cease to regard ourselves as the worker and firmly to realise that we are only one instrument of the cosmic Force. At first it is not the one Force but many cosmic forces that seem to move us; but these may be turned into feeders of the ego and this vision liberates the mind but not the rest of the nature. Even when we become aware of all as the working of one cosmic Force and of the Divine behind it, that too need not liberate. If the egoism of the worker disappears, the egoism of the instrument may replace it or else prolong it in a disguise. The life of the world has been full of instances of egoism of this kind and it can be more engrossing and enormous than any other; there is the same danger in Yoga. A man becomes a leader of men or eminent in a large or lesser circle and feels himself full of a power that he knows to be beyond his own ego-Force; he may be aware of a Fate acting through him or a Will mysterious and unfathomable or a Light within of great brilliance. There are extraordinary results of his thoughts, his actions or his creative genius. He effects some tremendous destruction that clears the path for humanity or some great construction that becomes its momentary resting-place. He is a scourge or he is a bringer of light and healing, a creator of beauty or a messenger of knowledge. Or, if his work and its effects are on a lesser scale and have a limited field, still they are attended by the strong sense that he is an instrument and chosen for his mission or his labour. Men who have this destiny and these powers come easily to believe and declare themselves to be mere instruments in the hand of God or of Fate: but even in tile declaration we can see that there can intrude or take refuge an intenser and more exaggerated egoism than ordinary men have the Courage to assert or the strength to house within them. And often if men of this kind speak of God, it is to erect all image of him which is really nothing but a huge shadow of themselves or their own nature, a sustaining Deific Essence of their own type of will and thought and quality and force. This magnified image of their ego is the Master whom they serve. This happens only too often in Yoga to strong but crude vital natures or minds too easily exalted when they allow ambition, pride or the desire of greatness to enter into their spiritual seeking and vitiate its purity of motive; a magnified ego stands between them and their true being and grasps for its own personal purpose the strength from a greater unseen Power, divine or undivine, acting through them of which they become vaguely or intensely aware. An intellectual perception or vital sense of a Force greater than ours and of ourselves as moved by it is not sufficient to liberate from the ego.
This perception, this sense of a greater Power in us or above and moving us, is not a hallucination or a megalomania. Those who thus feel and see have a larger sight than ordinary men and have advanced a step beyond the limited physical intelligence, but theirs is riot the plenary vision or the direct experience. For, because they are not clear in mind and aware in the soul, because their awakening is more in the vital parts than into the spiritual substance of Self, they cannot be the conscious instruments of the Divine or come face to face with the Master, but are used through their fallible arid imperfect nature. The most they see of the Divinity is a Fate or a cosmic Force or else they give his name to a limited Godhead or, worse, to a titanic or demoniac Power that veils him. Even certain religious founders have erected the image of the God of a sect or a national God or a Power of terror and punishment or a Numen of sattwic love and mercy and virtue and seem not to have seen the One and Eternal. The Divine accepts the image they make of him and does his work in them through that medium, but, since the one Force is felt and acts in their imperfect nature but more intensely than in others, the motive principle of egoism too can be more intense in them than in others. An exalted rajasic or sattwic ego still holds them and stands between them and the integral Truth. Even this is something, a beginning, although far from the true and perfect experience. A much worse thing may befall those who break something of the human bonds but have not purity and have not -- the knowledge, for they may become instruments, but not of the Divine; too often, using his name, they serve unconsciously his masks and black Contraries, the Powers of Darkness. Our nature must house the cosmic Force but not in its lower aspect or in its rajasic or sattwic movement; it must serve the universal Will, but in the light of a greater liberating knowledge. There must be no egoism of any kind in the attitude of the instrument, even when we are fully conscious of the greatness of the Force within us. Every man is knowingly or unknowingly the instrument of a universal Power and, apart from the inner Presence, there is no such essential difference between one action and another, one kind of instrumentation and another as would warrant the folly of an egoistic pride. The difference between knowledge and ignorance is a grace of the Spirit; the breath of divine Power blows where it lists and fills today one and tomorrow another with the word or the puissance. If the potter shapes one pot more perfectly than another, the merit lies not in the vessel but the maker. The attitude of our mind must not be "This is my strength" or "Behold God's power in me", but rather "A Divine Power works in this mind and body and it is the same that works in all men and in the animal, in the plant and in the metal, in conscious and living things and in things appearing to be inconscient arid inanimate." This large view of the One working in all and of the whole world as the equal instrument of a divine action and gradual self-expression, if it becomes our entire experience, will help to eliminate all rajasic egoism out of us and even the sattwic ego-sense will begin to pass away from our nature.
1.11 - The Soul or the Astral Body, #Initiation Into Hermetics, #Franz Bardon, #Occultism
The choleric temper, in its active polarity, has the following good qualities: activity, enthusiasm, eagerness, resolution, Courage, productivity, etc. In the negative form these qualities are: gluttony, jealousy, passion, irritability, intemperance, bent to destruction, etc.
The sanguine temper in its active form shows: capacity of penetrating, diligence, joy, adroitness, kindness, clearness, lack of grief, cheerfulness, optimism, eagerness, independence, familiarity, etc. In the negative form: continual feeling of being affronted, contempt, propensity to gossiping, lack of endurance, slyness, garrulousness, dishonesty, fickleness, etc.
1.12 - BOOK THE TWELFTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
He chear'd to Courage, with a gentle stroke;
Then urg'd his fiery chariot on the foe;
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Caeneus, in Courage, and in strength, excell'd;
And still his Othrys with his fame is fill'd:
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For us, our Courage was increas'd by grief:
Asham'd to see a single man, pursu'd
1.12 - God Departs, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
One day taking Courage in both hands, Dr. Satyendra asked, "Why are you so serious, Sir?" Sri Aurobindo answered gravely, "The time is very serious." The answer left us more mystified; we could not probe further. This would mean that, as we will see later, he had taken the decision to leave his body and that was the first and last verbal indication of the gravity of the situation, not that he could be attached to his own personal existence in the body no Yogi is but there were vaster issues connected with the decision and demanded attention.
Meanwhile, urinary symptoms were worsening and now a trace of albumin was detected. He was informed, but made no comment. Then acetone appeared, a grave signal. He heard it in silence and said, "Tell the Mother." The Mother too heard it quietly. It all seemed so terribly mysterious. I was perplexed by their seeming indifference as compared with their former concern. Something must have gone amiss, surely. The mystery was too deep for my plummet to fathom, but I had faith that everything would turn out all right in the end.
1.12 - The Sacred Marriage, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
was placed between the two maidens, and was exhorted to take Courage
and catch many fish. The reason for choosing the brides so young was
1.12 - TIME AND ETERNITY, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
Selfishness and partiality are very inhuman and base qualities even in the things of this world; but in the doctrines of religion they are of a baser nature. Now, this is the greatest evil that the division of the church has brought forth; it raises in every communion a selfish, partial orthodoxy, which consists in Courageously defending all that it has, and condemning all that it has not. And thus every champion is trained up in defense of their own truth, their own learning and their own church, and he has the most merit, the most honour, who likes everything, defends everything, among themselves, and leaves nothing uncensored in those that are of a different communion. Now, how can truth and goodness and union and religion be more struck at than by such defenders of it? If you ask why the great Bishop of Meaux wrote so many learned books against all parts of the Reformation, it is because he was born in France and bred up in the bosom of Mother Church. Had he been born in England, had Oxford or Cambridge been his Alma Mater, he might have rivalled our great Bishop Stillingfleet, and would have wrote as many learned folios against the Church of Rome as he has done. And yet I will venture to say that if each Church could produce but one man apiece that had the piety of an apostle and the impartial love of the first Christians in the first Church at Jerusalem, that a Protestant and a Papist of this stamp would not want half a sheet of paper to hold their articles of union, nor be half an hour before they were of one religion. If, therefore, it should be said that churches are divided, estranged and made unfriendly to one another by a learning, a logic, a history, a criticism in the hands of partiality, it would be saying that which each particular church too much proves to be true. Ask why even the best amongst the Catholics are very shy of owning the validity of the orders of our Church; it is because they are afraid of removing any odium from the Reformation. Ask why no Protestants anywhere touch upon the benefit or necessity of celibacy in those who are separated from worldly business to preach the gospel; it is because that would be seeming to lessen the Roman error of not suffering marriage in her clergy. Ask why even the most worthy and pious among the clergy of the Established Church are afraid to assert the sufficiency of the Divine Light, the necessity of seeking only the guidance and inspiration of the Holy Spirit; it is because the Quakers, who have broke off from the church, have made this doctrine their corner-stone. If we loved truth as such, if we sought for it for its own sake, if we loved our neighbour as ourselves, if we desired nothing by our religion but to be acceptable to God, if we equally desired the salvation of all men, if we were afraid of error only because of its harmful nature to us and our fellow-creatures, then nothing of this spirit could have any place in us.
There is therefore a catholic spirit, a communion of saints in the love of God and all goodness, which no one can learn from that which is called orthodoxy in particular churches, but is only to be had by a total dying to all worldly views, by a pure love of God, and by such an unction from above as delivers the mind from all selfishness and makes it love truth and goodness with an equality of affection in every man, whether he is Christian, Jew or Gentile. He that would obtain this divine and catholic spirit in this disordered, divided state of things, and live in a divided part of the church without partaking of its division, must have these three truths deeply fixed in his mind. First, that universal love, which gives the whole strength of the heart to God, and makes us love every man as we love ourselves, is the noblest, the most divine, the Godlike state of the soul, and is the utmost perfection to which the most perfect religion can raise us; and that no religion does any man any good but so far as it brings this perfection of love into him. This truth will show us that true orthodoxy can nowhere be found but in a pure disinterested love of God and our neighbour. Second, that in this present divided state of the church, truth itself is torn and divided asunder; and that, therefore, he can be the only true catholic who has more of truth and less of error than is hedged in by any divided part. This truth will enable us to live in a divided part unhurt by its division, and keep us in a true liberty and fitness to be edified and assisted by all the good that we hear or see in any other part of the church. Thirdly, he must always have in mind this great truth, that it is the glory of the Divine Justice to have no respect of parties or persons, but to stand equally disposed to that which is right and wrong as well in the Jew as in the Gentile. He therefore that would like as God likes, and condemn as God condemns, must have neither the eyes of the Papist nor the Protestant; he must like no truth the less because Ignatius Loyola or John Bunyan were very zealous for it, nor have the less aversion to any error, because Dr. Trapp or George Fox had brought it forth.
1.13 - BOOK THE THIRTEENTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
Will he compare my Courage with his sleight?
As well he may compare the day with night.
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Men of obscure descent, but Courage try'd:
All these this hand laid breathless on the ground;
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Thus conduct won the prize, when Courage fail'd,
And eloquence o'er brutal force prevail'd.
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From him their Courage, and their name they take,
And, as they liv'd, they dye for Memnon's sake.
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Of manly Courage, and with mind serene,
Orion's daughters in the town were seen;
1.13 - On despondency., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
10. A Courageous soul resurrects his dying mind, but despondency and sloth squander all his riches.
11. Since despondency is one of the eight capital vices, and moreover the gravest, let us deal with it just as we have dealt with the others; but let us only add this. When there is no psalmody, then despondency does not make its appearance. And as soon as the appointed Office is finished, the eyes open.
1.14 - On the clamorous, yet wicked master-the stomach., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
The victory (over this vice) is a Courageous one. He who is able, let him hasten to dispassion and to the highest degree of chastity.
1.14 - The Secret, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
Such is the key to the Transformation, the key to overcoming the laws of Matter by using the Consciousness within Matter Consciousness above is Consciousness below. It is the door to the future world and the new earth announced by the Scriptures two thousand years ago: "A new earth wherein the Truth shall dwell." (2 Peter 3. 13) For, actually, the earth is our salvation, the ultimate place of Victory and of perfect accomplishment. There is no need to escape to heaven. All is here, totally, in the body Joy, Consciousness, supreme Powers if we have the Courage to unseal our eyes and to descend, to dream a living dream instead of a sleeping one:
They must enter into the last finite if they want to reach the last infinite.251
1.15 - Prayers, #Words Of The Mother III, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Lord, give us the indomitable Courage that comes from a perfect trust in Thee.
4 April 1942
1.16 - Man, A Transitional Being, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
seeking to sweep up everything in its dance. Joy, yes, if we have the Courage to want it. The laurel and not the cross should be the aim of the conquering human soul335 but men are still in love with grief. . . .
Therefore Christ still hangs on the cross in Jerusalem. 336 The joy of being, of being fully, in all that is, has been, and will be here, there,
1.16 - On Concentration, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
The material must be chosen and prepared in the kind and in the manner, best suited to the design of the intended machine; the various parts must be put together with the utmost precision; every obstacle to the function must be removed, and every source of error eliminated. Now cheer up, child! In the case of a machine that he has devised and constructed himself with every condition in his favour, he thinks he is doing not too badly if he gets some fifteen or twenty per cent of the calculated efficiency out of the instrument; and even Nature, with millions of years to adjust and improve, very often cannot boast of having done much better. So you have no reason to be dis Couraged if success does not smile upon you in the first week or so of your Work, starting as you do with material of whose properties you are miserably ignorant, with means pitifully limited, with Laws of Nature which you do not understand; in fact, with almost everything against you but indomitable Will and unconquerable Courage.
(I know I'm a poor contemptible Lowbrow; but I refuse to be ashamed for finding Kipling's If and Henley's Don't remember-the title; they may not be poetry but they are honest food and damned good beer for the plebeian wayfarer. It was such manhood, not the left-wing high-brow Bloomsbury sissies, that kept London through the blitz. Pray forgive the digression!)
1.16 - The Process of Avatarhood, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
But it is to assist that ascent or evolution the descent is made or accepted; that the Gita makes very clear. It is, we might say, to exemplify the possibility of the Divine manifest in the human being, so that man may see what that is and take Courage to grow into it. It is also to leave the influence of that manifestation vibrating in the earth-nature and the soul of that manifestation presiding over its upward endeavour. It is to give a spiritual mould of divine manhood into which the seeking soul of the human being can cast itself. It is to give a dharma, a religion, - not a mere creed, but a method of inner and outer living, - a way, a rule and law of self-moulding by which he can grow towards divinity. It is too, since this growth, this ascent is no mere isolated and individual phenomenon, but like all in the divine world-activities a collective business, a work and the work for the race, to assist the human march, to hold it together in its great crises, to break the forces of the downward gravitation when they grow too insistent, to uphold or restore the great dharma of the Godward law in man's nature, to prepare even, however far off, the kingdom of God, the victory of the seekers of light and perfection, sadhunam, and the overthrow of those
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1.16 - The Suprarational Ultimate of Life, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The first mark of the suprarational, when it intervenes to take up any portion of our being, is the growth of absolute ideals; and since life is Being and Force and the divine state of being is unity and the Divine in force is God as Power taking possession, the absolute vital ideals must be of that nature. Nowhere are they wanting. If we take the domestic and social life of man, we find hints of them there in several forms; but we need only note, however imperfect and dim the present shapes, the strivings of love at its own self-finding, its reachings towards its absolute the absolute love of man and woman, the absolute maternal or paternal, filial or fraternal love, the love of friends, the love of comrades, love of country, love of humanity. These ideals of which the poets have sung so persistently, are not a mere glamour and illusion, however the egoisms and discords of our instinctive, infrarational way of living may seem to contradict them. Always crossed by imperfection or opposite vital movements, they are still divine possibilities and can be made a first means of our growth into a spiritual unity of being with being. Certain religious disciplines have understood this truth, have taken up these relations boldly and applied them to our souls communion with God; and by a converse process they can, lifted out of their present social and physical formulas, become for us, not the poor earthly things they are now, but deep and beautiful and wonderful movements of God in man fulfilling himself in life. All the economic development of life itself takes on at its end the appearance of an attempt to get rid of the animal squalor and bareness which is what obligatory poverty really means, and to give to man the divine ease and leisure of the gods. It is pursued in a wrong way, no doubt, and with many ugly circumstances, but still the ideal is darkly there. Politics itself, that apparent game of strife and deceit and charlatanism, can be a large field of absolute idealisms. What of patriotism,never mind the often ugly instincts from which it starts and which it still obstinately preserves,but in its aspects of worship, self-giving, discipline, self-sacrifice? The great political ideals of man, monarchy, aristocracy, democracy, apart from the selfishnesses they serve and the rational and practical justifications with which they arm themselves, have had for their soul an ideal, some half-seen truth of the absolute and have carried with them a worship, a loyalty, a loss of self in the idea which have made men ready to suffer and die for them. War and strife themselves have been schools of heroism; they have preserved the heroic in man, they have created the katriys tyaktajvit of the Sanskrit epic phrase, the men of power and Courage who have abandoned their bodily life for a cause; for without heroism man cannot grow into the Godhead; Courage, energy and strength are among the very first principles of the divine nature in action. All this great vital, political, economic life of man with its two powers of competition and cooperation is stumbling blindly forward towards some realisation of power and unity,in two divine directions, therefore. For the Divine in life is Power possessed of self-mastery, but also of mastery of His world, and man and mankind too move towards conquest of their world, their environment. And again the Divine in fulfilment here is and must be oneness, and the ideal of human unity however dim and far off is coming slowly into sight. The competitive nation-units are feeling, at times, however feebly as yet, the call to cast themselves into a greater unified cooperative life of the human race.
No doubt all is still moving, however touched by dim lights from above, on a lower half rational half infrarational level, clumsily, coarsely, in ignorance of itself and as yet with little nobility of motive. All is being worked out very crudely by the confused clash of life-forces and the guidance of ideas that are half-lights of the intellect, and the means proposed are too mechanical and the aims too material; they miss the truth that the outer life-result can only endure if it is founded on inner realities. But so life in the past has moved always and must at first move. For life organises itself at first round the ego-motive and the instinct of ego-expansion is the earliest means by which men have come into contact with each other; the struggle for possession has been the first crude means towards union, the aggressive assertion of the smaller self the first step towards a growth into the larger self. All has been therefore a half-ordered confusion of the struggle for life corrected by the need and instinct of association, a struggle of individuals, clans, tribes, parties, nations, ideas, civilisations, cultures, ideals, religions, each affirming itself, each compelled into contact, association, strife with the others. For while Nature imposes the ego as a veil behind which she labours out the individual manifestation of the spirit, she also puts a compulsion on it to grow in being until it can at last expand or merge into a larger self in which it meets, harmonises with itself, comprehends in its own consciousness, becomes one with the rest of existence. To assist in this growth Life-Nature throws up in itself ego-enlarging, ego-exceeding, even ego-destroying instincts and movements which combat and correct the smaller self-affirming instincts and movements,she enforces on her human instrument impulses of love, sympathy, self-denial, self-effacement, self-sacrifice, altruism, the drive towards universality in mind and heart and life, glimmerings of an obscure unanimism that has not yet found thoroughly its own true light and motive-power. Because of this obscurity these powers, unable to affirm their own absolute, to take the lead or dominate, obliged to compromise with the demands of the ego, even to become themselves a form of egoism, are impotent also to bring harmony and transformation to life. Instead of peace they seem to bring rather a sword; for they increase the number and tension of conflict of the unreconciled forces, ideas, impulses of which the individual human consciousness and the life of the collectivity are the arena. The ideal and practical reason of man labours to find amidst all this the right law of life and action; it strives by a rule of moderation and accommodation, by selection and rejection or by the dominance of some chosen ideas or powers to reduce things to harmony, to do consciously what Nature through natural selection and instinct has achieved in her animal kinds, an automatically ordered and settled form and norm of their existence. But the order, the structure arrived at by the reason is always partial, precarious and temporary. It is disturbed by a pull from below and a pull from above. For these powers that life throws up to help towards the growth into a larger self, a wider being, are already reflections of something that is beyond reason, seeds of the spiritual, the absolute. There is the pressure on human life of an Infinite which will not allow it to rest too long in any formulation,not at least until it has delivered out of itself that which shall be its own self-exceeding and self-fulfilment.
1.17 - ON THE WAY OF THE CREATOR, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
your Courage and your hopes are still whole. But the
time will come when solitude will make you weary,
when your pride will double up, and your Courage
gnash its teeth. And you will cry, "I am alone" The
1.17 - The Transformation, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
but from that very share of human illness one has the Courage to acknowledge and to take upon oneself. In any case, the illness undeniably exists, only one person closes his eyes to it and escapes into ecstasy, while the other person rolls up his sleeves and gets to work with his test tubes. When an older disciple once bitterly complained about the odd human mixture in the Ashram and all those "impossible" individuals who were in it, Sri Aurobindo replied: It is necessary or rather inevitable that in an Ashram which is a "laboratory" . . . for a spiritual and supramental yoga, humanity should be variously represented. For the problem of transformation has to deal with all sorts of elements favourable and unfavorable. The element favourable carries in him a mixture of these two things. If only sattwic [virtuous] and cultured men come for yoga, men without very much of the vital difficulty in them, then, because the difficulty of the vital element in terrestrial nature has not been faced and overcome, it might well be that the endeavour would fail. 382 In a moment of remorse, another disciple wrote to Sri Aurobindo, "What disciples we are! . . . You should have chosen or called some better stuff perhaps somebody like Z." Sri Aurobindo replied: As to the disciple, I agree! Yes, but would the better stuff, supposing it to exist, be typical of humanity? To deal with a few exceptional types would hardly solve the problem. And would they consent to follow my path that is another question. And if they were put to the test, would not the common humanity suddenly reveal itself that is still another question.383 I do not want hundreds of thousands of disciples. It will be enough if I can get a hundred complete men, empty of petty egoism,
who will be instruments of God.384
1.18 - On insensibility, that is, deadening of the soul and the death of the mind before the death of the body., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
2. Insensibility is negligence that has become habit; benumbed thought; the birth of presumption; a snare for zeal; the noose of Courage; ignorance of compunction; a door to despair; the mother of forgetfulness, which gives birth to loss of the fear of God. And then she becomes the daughter of her own daughter.2
3. He who has lost sensibility is a brainless philosopher, a self-condemned commentator, a self-contradictory windbag, a blind man who teaches others to see. He talks about healing a wound, and does not stop irritating it. He complains of sickness, and does not stop eating what is harmful. He prays against it, and immediately goes and does it. And when he has done it, he is angry with himself; and the wretched man is not ashamed of his own words. I am doing wrong, he cries, and eagerly continues to do so. His mouth prays against his passion, and his body struggles for it. He philosophises about death, but he behaves as if he were immortal. He groans over the separation of soul and body, but drowses along as if he were eternal. He talks of temperance and self-control, but he lives for gluttony. He reads about the judgment and begins to smile. He reads about vainglory, and is vainglorious while actually reading. He repeats what he has learnt about vigil, and drops asleep on the spot. He praises prayer, but runs from it as from the plague. He blesses obedience, but he is the first to disobey. He praises detachment, but he is not ashamed to be spiteful and to fight for a rag. When angered he gets bitter, and he is angered again at his bitterness; and he does not feel that after one defeat he is suffering another. Having overeaten he repents, and a little later again gives way to it. He blesses silence, and praises it with a spate of words. He teaches meekness, and during the actual teaching frequently gets angry. Having woken from passion he sighs, and shaking his head, he again yields to passion. He condemns laughter, and lectures on mourning with a smile on his face. Before others he blames himself for being vainglorious, and in blaming himself is only angling for glory for
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5. As far as my poor powers and knowledge allow, I have exposed the wiles and weals of this stony, obstinate, raging and stupid passion. I have not the patience to expatiate on it. He who is experienced and able in the Lord should not shrink from applying healing to the sores. For I am not ashamed to admit my own powerlessness, since I am sorely afflicted with this sickness. I should not have been able to discover its wiles and tricks by myself if I had not caught it and held it firmly, probing it to make it acknowledge what has been said above, and plying it with the scourge of the fear of the Lord and with unceasing prayer. That is why this tyrant and evil doer said to me: My subjects laugh when they see corpses. When they stand at prayer they are completely stony, hard and darkened. When they see the holy altar they feel nothing; when they partake of the Gift, it is as if they had eaten ordinary bread. When I see persons moved by compunction, I mock them. From my father I learnt to kill all good things which are born of Courage and love. I am the mother of laughter, the nurse of sleep, the friend of a full belly. When exposed I do not grieve. I go hand in hand with sham piety.1
6. I was astounded at the words of this raving creature and asked her about her father, wishing to know her name, and she said; I have no single parentage; my conception is mixed and indefinite. Satiety nourishes me, time makes me grow, and bad habit entrenches me. He who keeps this habit will never be rid of me. Be constant in vigil, meditating on the eternal judgment; then perhaps I shall to some extent relax my hold on you. Find out what caused me to be born in you, and then battle against my mother; for she is not in all cases the same. Pray often at the coffins, and engrave an indelible image of them in your heart. For unless you inscribe it there with the pencil of fasting, you will never conquer me.
1.18 - ON LITTLE OLD AND YOUNG WOMEN, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
"Let there be Courage in your lovely With your love
you should proceed toward him who arouses fear in
1.18 - The Divine Worker, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
of the evolving Dharma, and every turn of the conflict has been designed and mapped by the foreseeing eye of the Master of the battle, the Lord of works and Guide of the dharma. Honour and dishonour from men cannot move him, nor their praise nor their blame; for he has a greater clear-seeing judge and another standard for his action, and his motive admits no dependence upon worldly rewards. Arjuna the Kshatriya prizes naturally honour and reputation and is right in shunning disgrace and the name of coward as worse than death; for to maintain the point of honour and the standard of Courage in the world is part of his dharma: but Arjuna the liberated soul need care for none of these things, he has only to know the kartavyam karma, the work which the supreme Self demands from him, and to do that and leave the result to the Lord of his actions. He has passed even beyond that distinction of sin and virtue which is so allimportant to the human soul while it is struggling to minimise the hold of its egoism and lighten the heavy and violent yoke of its passions, - the liberated has risen above these struggles and is seated firmly in the purity of the witnessing and enlightened soul. Sin has fallen away from him, and not a virtue acquired and increased by good action and impaired or lost by evil action, but the inalienable and unalterable purity of a divine and selfless nature is the peak to which he has climbed and the seat upon which he is founded. There the sense of sin and the sense of virtue have no starting-point or applicability.
Arjuna, still in the ignorance, may feel in his heart the call of right and justice and may argue in his mind that abstention from battle would be a sin entailing responsibility for all the suffering that injustice and oppression and the evil karma of the triumph of wrong bring upon men and nations, or he may feel in his heart the recoil from violence and slaughter and argue in his mind that all shedding of blood is a sin which nothing can justify. Both of these attitudes would appeal with equal right to virtue and reason and it would depend upon the man, the circumstances and the time which of these might prevail in his mind or before the eyes of the world. Or he might simply feel constrained by his heart and his honour to support his friends against his enemies,
1.19 - The Curve of the Rational Age, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It is true that this inevitable character of socialism is denied or minimised by the more democratic socialists; for the socialistic mind still bears the impress of the old democratic ideas and cherishes hopes that betray it often into strange illogicalities. It assures us that it will combine some kind of individual freedom, a limited but all the more true and rational freedom, with the rigours of the collectivist idea. But it is evidently these rigours to which things must tend if the collectivist idea is to prevail and not to stop short and falter in the middle of its course. If it proves itself thus wanting in logic and Courage, it may very well be that it will speedily or in the end be destroyed by the foreign element it tolerates and perish without having sounded its own possibilities. It will pass perhaps, unless guided by a rational wisdom which the human mind in government has not yet shown, after exceeding even the competitive individualistic society in its cumbrous incompetence.1 But even at its best the collectivist idea contains several fallacies inconsistent with the real facts of human life and nature. And just as the idea of individualistic democracy found itself before long in difficulties on that account because of the disparity between lifes facts and the minds idea, difficulties that have led up to its discredit and approaching overthrow, the idea of collectivist democracy too may well find itself before long in difficulties that must lead to its discredit and eventual replacement by a third stage of the inevitable progression. Liberty protected by a State in which all are politically equal, was the idea that individualistic democracy attempted to elaborate. Equality, social and political equality enforced through a perfect and careful order by a State which is the organised will of the whole community, is the idea on which socialistic democracy stakes its future. If that too fails to make good, the rational and democratic Idea may fall back upon a third form of society founding an essential rather than formal liberty and equality upon fraternal comradeship in a free community, the ideal of intellectual as of spiritual Anarchism.2
In fact the claim to equality like the thirst for liberty is individualistic in its origin,it is not native or indispensable to the essence of the collectivist ideal. It is the individual who demands liberty for himself, a free movement for his mind, life, will, action; the collectivist trend and the State idea have rather the opposite tendency, they are self-compelled to take up more and more the compulsory management and control of the mind, life, will, action of the community and the individuals as part of ituntil personal liberty is pressed out of existence. But similarly it is the individual who demands for himself equality with all others; when a class demands, it is still the individual multiplied claiming for himself and all who are of his own grade, political or economic status an equal place, privilege or opportunity with those who have acquired or inherited a superiority of status. The social Reason conceded first the claim to liberty, but in practice (whatever might have been the theory) it admitted only so much equalityequality before the law, a helpful but not too effective political equality of the voteas was necessary to ensure a reasonable freedom for all. Afterwards when the injustices and irrationalities of an unequalised competitive freedom, the enormity of the gulfs it created, became apparent, the social Reason shifted its ground and tried to arrive at a more complete communal justice on the basis of a political, economic, educational and social equality as complete as might be; it has laboured to make a plain level on which all can stand together. Liberty in this change has had to undergo the former fate of equality; for only so much libertyperhaps or for a timecould survive as can be safely allowed without the competitive individual getting enough room for his self-assertive growth to upset or endanger the equalitarian basis. But in the end the discovery cannot fail to be made that an artificial equality has also its irrationalities, its contradictions of the collective good, its injustices even and its costly violations of the truth of Nature. Equality like individualistic liberty may turn out to be not a panacea but an obstacle in the way of the best management and control of life by the collective reason and will of the community.
1.19 - THE MASTER AND HIS INJURED ARM, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
"A man will have the Courage to practise renunciation if he sees one hundred percent renunciation in a sannyasi. Then only will he try to give up 'woman and gold'. If a sannyasi does not set this example, then who will?
"One may lead a householder's life after realizing God. It is like churning butter from milk and then keeping the butter in water. Janaka led the life of a householder after attaining Brahmajnana.
1.201 - Socrates, #Symposium, #Plato, #Philosophy
A line of poetry from an unknown source. 185 Or Courage; see arete. arete. 187 doxa. 188 The verb supplied is missing in the Greek.
offspring which it is fitting for the soul to conceive and bear. What offspring are these? Wisdom189 and the rest of virtue,190 of which the poets are all procreators, as well as those craftsmen who are regarded as innovators. But by far the most important and beautiful expression of this wisdom is the good ordering191 of cities and households; and the names for this kind of wisdom are moderation and justice.
1.2.01 - The Call and the Capacity, #Letters On Yoga II, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Jagannath are both of them indications that he has the capacity for Yoga experience and that there is a call of the Divine on his inner being. But capacity is not enough; there must be also the will to seek after the Divine and Courage and persistence in following the path. Fear is the first thing that must be thrown away and, secondly, the inertia of the outer being which has prevented him from responding to the call.
The Light is the light of the Divine Consciousness. The aim of this Yoga is first to come into contact with this consciousness and then to live in its light and allow the light to transform the whole nature, so that the being may live in union with the
1.2.08 - Faith, #Letters On Yoga II, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Whatever adverse things present themselves you must meet them with Courage and they will disappear and the help come. Faith and Courage are the true attitude to keep in life and work always and in the spiritual experience also.
In moments of trial faith in the Divine protection and the call for that protection; at all times the faith that what the Divine wills is the best.
1.20 - On bodily vigil and how to use it to attain spiritual vigil and how to practise it., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
2. Now let us see how we stand before God our King, when we stand at our prayers in the evening, or during the day and night. For some at their evening all-night vigil lift up their hands in prayer as if they were incorporeal and stripped of all care. Others stand at that time singing psalms. Others are more occupied in reading. And some out of weakness Courageously resist sleep by working with their hands. Others try to feel the horror of the thought of death, hoping thus to obtain contrition. And of all these, the first and last are in all-night vigil for the love of God; the second do what befits a monk; while the third go the lowest way. Yet God accepts and values the offerings of each according to their intention and power.
3. A vigilant eye makes the mind pure; but much sleep binds the soul.
1.20 - RULES FOR HOUSEHOLDERS AND MONKS, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
"When my father walked along the lanes of the village wearing his wooden sandals, the shopkeepers would stand up out of respect and say, 'there he comes!' When he bathed in the Haldrpukur, the villagers would not have the Courage to get into the water.
Before bathing they would inquire if he had finished his bath.
1.20 - Tabooed Persons, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
remarkable for Courage, and had signalised himself in the wars of
the tribe," but "no sooner did he hear the fatal news than he was
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legs. This is supposed to impart Courage and strength to them. The
following day, at early dawn, he dashes out of his house, fully
1.2.11 - Patience and Perseverance, #Letters On Yoga II, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
One who has not the Courage to face patiently and firmly life and its difficulties will never be able to go through the still greater inner difficulties of the sadhana. The very first lesson in this Yoga is to face life and its trials with a quiet mind, a firm Courage and an entire reliance on the Divine Shakti.
It is true that a great patience and steadfastness is needed. Be then firm and patient and fixed on the aims of the sadhana, but not over-eager to have them at once. A work has to be done in you and is being done; help it to be done by keeping an attitude of firm faith and confidence. Doubts rise in all, they are natural to the human physical mind - reject them. Impatience and overeagerness for the result at once are natural to the human vital; it is by firm confidence in the Mother that they will disappear. The love, the belief in her as the Divine to whom your life is given, - oppose with that every contrary feeling and then those contrary feelings will after a time no longer be able to come to you.
1.22 - On the many forms of vainglory., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
1 There are inclinations which are considered virtues, yet are not, but are really gifts and advantages of nature. Many people are naturally meek, gentle, sober, Courageous, modest, chaste, or silent. It is no virtue to be naturally a small eater; but it is a virtue to abstain voluntarily and by choice.
obtain the supernatural blessings, because he who is unfaithful in a little is also unfaithful and vainglorious in much.1
1.23 - The Double Soul in Man, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
6:It follows that in this surface or desire-soul there is no true soul-life, but a psychic deformation and wrong reception of the touch of things. The malady of the world is that the individual cannot find his real soul, and the root-cause of this malady is again that he cannot meet in his embrace of things outward the real soul of the world in which he lives. He seeks to find there the essence of being, the essence of power, the essence of conscious-existence, the essence of delight, but receives instead a crowd of contradictory touches and impressions. If he could find that essence, he would find also the one universal being, power, conscious existence and delight even in this throng of touches and impressions; the contradictions of what seems would be reconciled in the unity and harmony of the Truth that reaches out to us in these contacts. At the same time he would find his own true soul and through it his self, because the true soul is his self's delegate and his self and the self of the world are one. But this he cannot do because of the egoistic ignorance in the mind of thought, the heart of emotion, the sense which responds to the touch of things not by a Courageous and wholehearted embrace of the world, but by a flux of reachings and shrinkings, cautious approaches or eager rushes and sullen or discontented or panic or angry recoils according as the touch pleases or displeases, comforts or alarms, satisfies or dissatisfies. It is the desire-soul that by its wrong reception of life becomes the cause of a triple misinterpretation of the rasa, the delight in things, so that, instead of figuring the pure essential joy of being, it comes rendered unequally into the three terms of pleasure, pain and indifference.
7:We have seen, when we considered the Delight of Existence in its relations to the world, that there is no absoluteness or essential validity in our standards of pleasure and pain and indifference, that they are entirely determined by the subjectivity of the receiving consciousness and that the degree of either pleasure and pain can be heightened to a maximum or depressed to a minimum or even effaced entirely in its apparent nature. Pleasure can become pain or pain pleasure because in their secret reality they are the same thing differently reproduced in the sensations and emotions. Indifference is either the inattention of the surface desire-soul in its mind, sensations, emotions and cravings to the rasa of things, or its incapacity to receive and respond to it, or its refusal to give any surface response or, again, its driving and crushing down of the pleasure or the pain by the will into the neutral tint of unacceptance. In all these cases what happens is that either there is a positive refusal or a negative unreadiness or incapacity to render or in any way represent positively on the surface something that is yet subliminally active.
1.240 - Talks 2, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
The Self being always the Self, why should only a dhira be illumined? Does it mean a man of Courage? No; dhih = intellect; rah = watch; protection. So dhira is the one who always keeps the mind inward bent without letting it loose.
8th February, 1937
1.24 - On meekness, simplicity, guilelessness which come not from nature but from habit, and about malice., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
He who has the strength for this step, let him take Courage; for he has become an imitator of Christ his Master and has been saved.
1.24 - The Killing of the Divine King, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
and die.' If his Courage fails him at the supreme moment, a friend
renders him this last service, and quietly, without betraying the
1.25 - ADVICE TO PUNDIT SHASHADHAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
"Teachers like Nrada belong to the class of the vijnni. They were much more Courageous than the other rishis. They are like an expert satrancha-player. You must have noticed how he shouts, as he throws the dice: 'What do I want? Six? No, five! Here is five!' And every time he throws the dice he gets the number he wants. He is such a clever player! And while playing he even twirls his moustaches.
"A mere Jnni trembles with fear. He is like an amateur satrancha-player. He is anxious to move his pieces somehow to the safety zone, where they won't be overtaken by his opponent. But a vijnni isn't afraid of anything. He has realized both aspects of God: Personal and Impersonal. He has talked with God. He has enjoyed the Bliss of God.
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"A man with tamasic bhakti shows the Courage and boisterousness of a highway robber.
A highway robber goes on his expedition openly, shouting, 'Kill! Plunder!' He isn't afraid even of eight police inspectors. The devotee with tamasic bhakti also shouts like a madman:'Hara! Hara! Vyom! Vyom! Victory to Kli!' He has great strength of mind and burning faith.
1.25 - On the destroyer of the passions, most sublime humility, which is rooted in spiritual feeling., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
49. Holy humility obtains from God the power to bear fruit thirty fold, sixty fold and one hundredfold.8 The dispassionate attain to the last degree, the Courageous to the middle, and all can rise to the first.
50. He who has come to know himself is never tricked into undertaking what is beyond him, but keeps his feet safely on the blessed path of humility.
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63. If the pride of some of the angels made them demons,2 no doubt humility can make angels out of demons. So those who have fallen may take Courage!
64. Let us hasten with all our powers to fight our way to the crest of humility. Failing this, let us at least mount on her shoulders. And if our effort is not sufficient for this, let us at least not fall out of her arms; for I hardly think a man who falls out of them will receive any eternal gift.
1.26 - On discernment of thoughts, passions and virtues, #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
Those who have been humbled by their passions may take Courage. For even if they fall into every pit and are trapped in all the snares and suffer all maladies, yet after their restoration to health they become physicians, beacons, lamps, and pilots for all, teaching us the habits of every disease and from their own personal experience able to prevent their neighbours from falling.
If some are still dominated by their former bad habits, and yet can teach by mere word, let them teach. But they should not have authority as well. For, perhaps, being put to shame by their own words, they will eventually begin to practise what they preach. And even if they do not begin, yet they may be able to help, as I saw happen with others who were stuck in the mud. Bogged down as they were, they were telling the passers-by how they had sunk there, explaining this for their salvation, so
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(J) Courage (V) detachment
(K) cold (X) innocent simplicity
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There are Courageous souls who with love and humility of heart throw themselves into tasks that are beyond them; and there are proud hearts who do the same. For our foes often intentionally suggest to us things beyond our powers so that these should cause us to lose heart and leave even what is within our power and make ourselves a great laughing-stock to our enemies.
I have seen those who were sick in soul and body who, because of the multitude of their sins, engaged in battles that were beyond them and which they could not continue. I say to such as these that God judges our repentance not by our labours but by our humility.
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The man who despairs of himself when he hears of the supernatural virtues of the saints is most unreasonable. On the contrary, they teach you supremely one of two things: either they rouse you to emulation by their holy Courage, or they lead you by way of thrice-holy humility to deep self-contempt and realization of your inherent weakness.
Amongst the impure evil demons, there are some more evil than others. They suggest to us that we should not commit sin alone, but they counsel us to have others as companions in evil in order to make our punishment more severe. I have seen one learning a bad habit from another, and although he who taught came to his senses and began to repent and gave up doing wrong, his repentance was ineffectual on account of the influence of his pupil.
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I have seen toilers3 who for some reason slightly indulged their stomachs, but soon after this, these Courageous ascetics chastised their poor stomachs by standing throughout the night, and in this way they taught them to be well content to refrain from satiety.
The demon of avarice strives fiercely against those who possess nothing, and when it cannot vanquish them it reminds them of the state of the poor and persuades those who are spiritual to become material again.
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Vanity or conceit twines itself round Courage just as bindweed twines round cypress.
Let us constantly guard against admitting even the mere thought that we have attained to any good whatsoever; and let us keep on looking carefully to see whether this is one of our characteristics. If it is, then we shall know that we have utterly failed.
1.26 - PERSEVERANCE AND REGULARITY, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
If a sharp penance had been laid upon me, I know of none that I would not very often have willingly undertaken, rather than prepare myself for prayer by self-recollection. And certainly the violence with which Satan assailed me was so irresistible, or my evil habits were so strong, that I did not betake myself to prayer; and the sadness I felt on entering the oratory was so great that it required all the Courage I had to force myself in. They say of me that my Courage is not slight, and it is known that God has given me a Courage beyond that of a woman; but I have made a bad use of it. In the end Our Lord came to my relief, and when I had done this violence to myself, I found greater peace and joy than I sometimes had when I had a desire to pray.
St. Teresa
To one of his spiritual children our dear father (St Franois de Sales) said, Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean, do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh Courage. I am glad you make a fresh beginning daily; there is no better means of attaining to the spiritual life than by continually beginning again, and never thinking that we have done enough. How are we to be patient in bearing with our neighbours faults, if we are impatient in bearing with our own? He who is fretted by his own failings will not correct them; all profitable correction comes from a calm, peaceful mind.
Jean Pierre Camus
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Yea, some souls there are conducted by Almighty God by no other way, but only by such prayer of aridity, finding no sensible contentment in any recollection, but, on the contrary, continual pain and contradiction, and yet, by a privy grace and Courage imprinted deeply in the spirit, cease not for all that, but resolutely break through all difficulties and continue, the best way they can, their internal exercises to the great advancement of their spirit.
Augustine Baker
1.27 - On holy solitude of body and soul., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
1. We are like bought serfs under contract to unholy passions; we therefore know to some extent the whims, ways, will and wiles of the spirits that rule over our poor souls. But there are others who through the action of the Holy Spirit, and by reason of their liberation from the rule of those spirits, are fully alive to their tricks. The former, being in a painful state of sickness, can only guess about the relief which would come with good health; while the latter, being in a healthy condition, are able to form ideas and draw conclusions about the miseries attendant on sickness. That is why we, who are weak and infirm, hesitate to philosophize in our discourse about the haven of solitude, for we know that at the table of the good brotherhood there is always some cur watching to snatch from it a piece of bread, that is, a soul, and it then runs off with it in its mouth and devours it on the quiet. We do not want our discourse to give room to that dog, and an opportunity to those who are looking for opportunities, and for this reason we do not consider it permissible to talk about peace to the Courageous warriors of our King who are struggling in the battle. We will simply remark that crowns of peace and calm are woven for those who do not flag in the fight. But we do not want to grieve anyone by speaking of other things without even mentioning this, and so we shall, if you wish, speak briefly about solitude, if only in order to explain what it is.
2. Solitude of the body is the knowledge and reduction to order of the habits and feelings. And solitude of soul is the knowledge of ones thoughts and an inviolable mind.
3. A friend of solitude is a Courageous and unrelenting power of thought which keeps constant vigil at the doors of the heart and kills or repels the thoughts that come. He who is solitary in the depth of his heart will understand this last remark; but he who is still a child is unaware and ignorant of it.
4. A discerning solitary3 will have no need of words, because he expresses words by deeds.
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23. When the watchman grows weary he stands up and prays; and then he sits down again and Courageously takes up his former task.
24. One who had learnt about this from experience wanted to tell others about it exactly and in detail, but he was afraid in case he should damp the enthusiasm of those already practising it, or frighten off with the noise of his words those who were making up their minds to embark upon it.
1.28 - Need to Define God, Self, etc., #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
As "higher" gave the idea of aggression, of conquest, "within" usually implies safety. Always we get back to that stage of history when the social unit, based on the family, was little less than condition No. 1 of survival. The house, the castle, the fortified camp, the city wall; the "gens," the clan, the tribe, the "patrie," to be outside means danger from cold, hunger and thirst, raiding parties, highway robbers, bears, wolves, and tigers. To go out was to take a risk; and, your labour and Courage being assets to your kinsmen, you were also a bad man; in fact, a "bounder" or "outsider." "Debauch" is simply "to go out of doors!" St. John says: "without are dogs and sorcerers and whoremongers and adulterers and idolaters and..." so on.[52]
We of Thelema challenge all this briskly. "The word of Sin is Restriction." (AL I, 41). Our formula, roughly speaking, is to go out and grab what we want. We do this so thoroughly that we grow thereby, extending our conception of "I" by including each new accretion instead of remaining a closely delineated self, proud of possessing other things, as do the Black Brothers.
1.28 - On holy and blessed prayer, mother of virtues, and on the attitude of mind and body in prayer., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
63. If you constantly converse with the King concerning your enemies, take Courage when they attack you. You will not labour long, for they will soon retire of their own accord. These unholy spirits do not want to see you receive a crown for your struggle against them through prayer. And moreover, they will flee as from fire when scourged by prayer.
64. Have all Courage, and you will have God for your teacher in prayer. Just as it is impossible to learn to see by word of mouth because seeing depends on ones own natural sight, so it is impossible to realize the beauty of prayer from the teaching of others. Prayer has a Teacher all its ownGodwho teaches man knowledge,6 and grants the prayer of him who prays, and blesses the years of the just.7 Amen.
1 Cf. St. Luke x, 42.
1.300 - 1.400 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
The Self being always the Self, why should only a dhira be illumined? Does it mean a man of Courage? No; dhih = intellect; rah = watch; protection. So dhira is the one who always keeps the mind inward bent without letting it loose.
8th February, 1937
1.32 - Expounds these words of the Paternoster Fiat voluntas tua sicut in coelo et in terra. Describes how much is accomplished by those who repeat these words with full resolution and how well, #The Way of Perfection, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
and He gives in accordance with the Courage which He sees that each of us has and the love we
bear to His Majesty. When He sees a soul who loves Him greatly, He knows that soul can suffer
1.33 - Treats of our great need that the Lord should give us what we ask in these words of the Paternoster Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie., #The Way of Perfection, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
things and our want of love and Courage. He saw that, before we could be aroused, we needed His
aid, not once but every day, and it must have been for this reason that He resolved to remain with
1.3.5.05 - The Path, #Essays Divine And Human, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
of the Divine; there must be a complete and never failing assent, a Courageous willingness to let the Divine Power do with us whatever is needed for the work that has to be done.
Man cannot by his own effort make himself more than man; the mental being cannot by his own unaided force change himself into a supramental spirit. A descent of the Divine Nature can alone divinise the human receptacle.
1.37 - Death - Fear - Magical Memory, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Good: now see how logical this is." For how else could one have reasonable "certainty," as contrary with "faith" (=interior conviction), otherwise than by the acquisition of the "Magical Memory" the memory of former lives. And this must evidently include that of former deaths. Indeed "Freudian forgetfulness" is very pertinacious on such themes; the shock of death makes it a matter of displaying the most formidable Courage to go over in one's mind the incidents of previous deaths. You recall the Buddhist "Ten Impurities;" The Drowned Corpse, the Gnawed-by-wild-beasts-Corpse, and the rest.
Magick (though I says it as shouldn't) gives a very full and elaborate account of this Memory, and Liber CMXIII (Thisarb) a sound Official Instruction on the two main methods of acquiring this faculty. (None of my writings, by the way, deal with the First Method; this is because I could never make any headway with it; none at all. F.'. Iehi Aour, on the other hand, was a wizard at it; he thought that some people could use that way, and others not: born so.
1.38 - Treats of the great need which we have to beseech the Eternal Father to grant us what we ask in these words: Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo. Explains certain temptations. This chapter is noteworthy., #The Way of Perfection, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
time I seem to have so much Courage that I should not quail at anything I was asked to do in order
to serve God, and, when I am tested, I find that I really can do these things. And then on the next
day I discover that I should not have the Courage to kill an ant for God's sake if I were to meet with
any opposition about it. Sometimes it seems not to matter in the least if people complain or speak
1.41 - Speaks of the fear of God and of how we must keep ourselves from venial sins., #The Way of Perfection, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
matters which occupy you, and do not allow these things to make your spirit quail and your Courage
fade, for if you do that you may lose many blessings. As I have said, let your intention be upright
1.439, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
D.: I meant to say that no one else has the Courage to put things straight like Maharshi.
M.: Where is the Courage in saying things as they are?
Talk 470.
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it gives us Courage to bring our knowledge into our everyday life.
If one realised the Self and acted up to it in the West, one would
1.450 - 1.500 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
D.: I meant to say that no one else has the Courage to put things straight like Maharshi.
M.: Where is the Courage in saying things as they are?
Talk 470.
1.50 - A.C. and the Masters; Why they Chose him, etc., #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
My theory is that They chose me for (a) my literary skill, knowledge and judgment; (b) my scientific training; (c) my familiarity with Eastern ways, habits of thought, and sympathetic predisposition; (d) my stern adherence to Truth; (e) my moral Courage; (f) my dour persistence; and (g) my Karma as aforesaid.
They prepared me by (a) pushing me rapidly forward both in Magick and in Yoga; (b) wearying me of both of them and making me despair of them both as a solution to the problem of Life, and (c) fixing me both in Buddhistic pessimism and scientific rationalism, so that their victory over me might be as difficult and solid as achievement as possible. (I am by no means proud of myself. Either I fought them or failed them, at every turn.) Chapter V of The Equinox of the Gods might have been written with more emphasis; but there are passages elsewhere in that volume which lay great stress upon the point.
1.51 - Homeopathic Magic of a Flesh Diet, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
the Courage and strength of these beasts. The Bushmen will not give
their children a jackal's heart to eat, lest it should make them
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and Courage. But "it is not suited for women; it would make them too
strong-minded." In Corea the bones of tigers fetch a higher price
than those of leopards as a means of inspiring Courage. A Chinaman
in Seoul bought and ate a whole tiger to make himself brave and
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Hialto gained strength and Courage by eating the heart of a bear and
drinking its blood.
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initiation there is one which is intended to infuse Courage,
intelligence, and other qualities into the novices. Whenever an
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because this is supposed to give them his Courage and strength in
battle. When Sir Charles M'Carthy was killed by the Ashantees in
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Ashantee army, who hoped by this means to imbibe his Courage. His
flesh was dried and parcelled out among the lower officers for the
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of the qualities and Courage of the dead. The Kamilaroi of New South
Wales ate the liver as well as the heart of a brave man to get his
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acquire their Courage. For the same reason the Efugaos, another
tribe of the Philippines, suck the brains of their foes. In like
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his flesh, and so acquire his strength and Courage. The notorious
Zulu chief Matuana drank the gall of thirty chiefs, whose people he
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boiling water to extract the Courage; this infusion of bravery was
then drunk by the warriors. In New Zealand "the chief was an _atua_
1.52 - Killing the Divine Animal, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
men sometimes drink the warm blood of the bear "that the Courage and
other virtues it possesses may pass into them"; and sometimes they
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for the chase, and become Courageous."
The Orotchis, another Tunguzian people of the region of the Amoor,
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portion of the animal's mighty powers, particularly his Courage and
strength. No wonder, therefore, that they should treat so great a
1.53 - The Propitation of Wild Animals By Hunters, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
to be of good Courage and to fear nothing, for it was all to serve
their friends who honoured them and did not burn their bones." The
1.63 - Fear, a Bad Astral Vision, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
The general principle seems to be "This boat carries Caesar and his Fortunes!" and no doubt Pride in its most Satanic degree is one's greatest asset. But the essence of the practice, as a practice, is to seek out and to face what one fears. Do not forget that Courage implies fear what else should fear be useful for?
Of course, fears differ greatly both in quality and in degree; and one must distinguish between rational fear, ignorance of which implies stupidity, brutishness, imbecility, or what have you, and the pathological fear which springs from mental or moral disorder. There are in fact many types of fear which may be uprooted by some form of psycho-analysis. Generally speaking, it is up to you to invent a practice to meet each specific case.
1.66 - Vampires, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Tte--tte, they shake one's resolution, kill one's enthusiasm, devitalize one's faith and Courage.
Yes, we all know such people. Mercury, by the way, is the planet responsible. I have examined a considerable number of nativities, both of murderers and of people murdered; in both cases it was not a "malefic" that did the dirty work, but poor tiny innocent silvery-shining Mercury!
1.72 - Education, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
7. This game calls not only for an extensive vocabulary but for Courage; foresight, judgment, resource, subtlety and even low cunning. It can be played by more than two players, but the more there are, the more the element of chance comes in; and this is hateful to really fine players and diminishes the excitement. The rapier-play of two experts, when a word changes from one line of formation to another, and then again, perhaps even a third time, is as exhilarating as a baseball-game or a bull-fight.
And what the Tartarus-Tophet-Jehanna has all this to do with Education, and the Great Work? This, child! H. G. Wells and others have pointed out with serene justice that a gap in your vocabulary implies a gap in your mind; you lack the corresponding idea. Too true, "Erbert! But I threap that a pakeha with such xerotes as his will chowter with an arsis of ischonophony, beyond aught that any fub, even in Vigonia and dwale mammodis with a cascade from a Dewan tauty, a kiss-me-quick, a chou over her merkin and a parka over her chudder could do to save him, and have an emprosthotonos, when he reads this. Sruti!
1.78 - Sore Spots, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Softly repeating to myself passages from The Revenge by the late Alfred Lord Tennyson, of which the scene most powerfully reminded me. "Rat after rat, for half an hour, flung back as fast as it came." Their Courage wilted; the hunted became the huntress; I thought of Artemis as I sang softly to myself, "When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces."[157] But she pursued; snapped the last spine, and flung it into the gallery with a yell of triumph.
It was not so easy a victory as I have perhaps described it, once she slipped in the slime and came down with a thud; and at the end blood spurted from innumerable bites.
1913 02 05p, #Prayers And Meditations, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Hearken and take new Courage!
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1913 02 08p, #Prayers And Meditations, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
O Lord, Thou art my refuge and my blessing, my strength, my health, my hope, and my Courage. Thou art supreme Peace, unalloyed Joy, perfect Serenity. My whole being prostrates before Thee in a gratitude beyond measure and a ceaseless worship; and that worship goes up from my heart and my mind towards Thee like the pure smoke of incense of the perfumes of India.
Let me be Thy herald among men, so that all who are ready may taste the beatitude that Thou grantest me in Thy infinite Mercy, and let Thy Peace reign upon earth.
1914 02 15p, #Prayers And Meditations, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Give me constancy in the will to attain the end, give me firmness and energy and the Courage which shakes off all torpor and lassitude.
Give me the peace of perfect disinterestedness, the peace that makes Thy presence felt and Thy intervention effective, the peace that is ever victorious over all bad will and every obscurity.
1914 04 07p, #Prayers And Meditations, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
What kind of Courage is mine that I always try to avoid the fight? What kind of energy is mine, that I am instinctively frightened of the new effort to be made and try, without being aware of it, to go to sleep passively, relying upon the results of previous efforts? In order to act, I have to be compelled and my mute contemplation is partly made of laziness. All this is becoming more and more clearly apparent to me. All that I have done till now seems to me to be nothing. The poverty and limitations of the instrument I put at Thy service, Lord, are evident to me, and I laugh a little sorrowfully at the idea that at times I could have a good opinion of my being, its efforts and their results. This threshold of the true life that I always think I have reached is like a hope bestowed upon me but never a tangible realisation; it is the toy promised to a child, the reward held out for a moment before the weak.
When shall I become a truly strong being, made entirely of Courage, energy, valour and calm perseverance; when shall I have forgotten my own person completely enough to be nothing but an instrument moulded solely by the forces it has to manifest? When will my consciousness of unity be no longer tinged with any inertia; when will my feeling of divine love be no longer mixed with any weakness?
O Lord, all thought seems dead within me, now that I have asked these questions. I search for my conscious mind and I do not find it; I search for my individuality and I cannot discover it anywhere; I search for my personal will and it is not there. I search for Thee, and Thou art silent. Silence, silence.
1914 04 10p, #Prayers And Meditations, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It is as though all were energy, Courage, force, will, infinite sweetness, incomparable compassion.
Even more forcibly than during these last days the past is dead and as though buried under the rays of a new life. The last glance that I have just thrown backward as I read a few pages of this book definitely convinced me of this death, and lightened of a great weight I present myself before Thee, O my divine Master, with all the simplicity, all the nudity of a child And still the one only thing I perceive is that calm and pure immensity.
1914 06 12p, #Prayers And Meditations, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
O my sweet Master, eternal splendour, I can only unite with Thee in silence and peace, saying that Thy Will may be done in every detail as in the whole. Take possession of Thy kingdom, master all that revolts against Thee, heal the souls who do not know Thee and the intellects that do not want to submit and be consecrated to Thee. Awaken our slumbering energies, stimulate our Courage, enlighten us, O Lord, show us the Way.
My heart is overflowing with a sovereign peace, my thought is calm and silent.
1914 07 13p, #Prayers And Meditations, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Patience, strength, Courage, calm and indomitable energy.
Let the mind learn to be silent, let it not be eager to profit immediately by the forces which come to us from Thee for the integral manifestation.
1915 01 17p, #Prayers And Meditations, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In a partial and limited battle, but one that is representative of the great terrestrial struggle, Thou dost put my strength, determination and Courage to the test to see if I can truly be Thy servitor. If the result of the battle shows that I am worthy of being the mediator of Thy regenerating action, Thou wilt extend the field of action. And if I always live up to what Thou expectest of me, a day will come, O Lord, when Thou wilt be upon earth, and the whole earth will rise against Thee. But Thou wilt take the earth in Thy arms and the earth will be transformed.
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1916 12 20p, #Prayers And Meditations, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As thou art contemplating me, I shall speak to thee this evening. I see in thy heart a diamond surrounded by a golden light. It is at once pure and warm, something which may manifest impersonal love; but why dost thou keep this treasure enclosed in that dark casket lined with deep purple? The outermost covering is of a deep lustreless blue, a real mantle of darkness. It would seem that thou art afraid of showing thy splendour. Learn to radiate and do not fear the storm: the wind carries us far from the shore but shows us over the world. Wouldst thou be thrifty of thy tenderness? But the source of love is infinite. Dost thou fear to be misunderstood? But where hast thou seen man capable of understanding the Divine? And if the eternal truth finds in thee a means of manifesting itself, what dost thou care for all the rest? Thou art like a pilgrim coming out of the sanctuary; standing on the threshold in front of the crowd, he hesitates before revealing his precious secret, that of his supreme discovery. Listen, I too hesitated for days, for I could foresee both my preaching and its results: the imperfection of expression and the still greater imperfection of understanding. And yet I turned to the earth and men and brought them my message. Turn to the earth and menisnt this the comm and thou always hearest in thy heart?in thy heart, for it is that which carries a blessed message for those who are athirst for compassion. Henceforth nothing can attack the diamond. It is unassailable in its perfect constitution and the soft radiance that flashes from it can change many things in the hearts of men. Thou doubtest thy power and fearest thy ignorance? It is precisely this that wraps up thy strength in that dark mantle of starless night. Thou hesitatest and tremblest as on the threshold of a mystery, for now the mystery of the manifestation seems to thee more terrible and unfathomable than that of the Eternal Cause. But thou must take Courage again and obey the injunction from the depths. It is I who am telling thee this, for I know thee and love thee as thou didst know and love me once. I have appeared clearly before thy sight so that thou mayst in no way doubt my word. And also to thy eyes I have shown thy heart so that thou canst thus see what the supreme Truth has willed for it, so that thou mayst discover in it the law of thy being. The thing still seems to thee quite difficult: a day will come when thou wilt wonder how for so long it could have been otherwise.
Skyamuni
19.23 - Of the Elephant, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
If you have as your companion one who is intelligent and wise and of perfect conduct, then you will overcome all obstacles and go forward with him, contented and Courageous.
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1929-05-05 - Intellect, true and wrong movement - Attacks from adverse forces - Faith, integral and absolute - Death, not a necessity - Descent of Divine Consciousness - Inner progress - Memory of former lives, #Questions And Answers 1929-1931, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Attacks from adverse forces are inevitable: you have to take them as tests on your way and go Courageously through the ordeal. The struggle may be hard, but when you come out of it, you have gained something, you have advanced a step. There is even a necessity for the existence of the hostile forces. They make your determination stronger, your aspiration clearer.
It is true, however, that they exist because you gave them reason to exist. So long as there is something in you which answers to them, their intervention is perfectly legitimate. If nothing in you responded, if they had no hold upon any part of your nature, they would retire and leave you. In any case, they need not stop or hamper your spiritual progress.
1931 11 24p, #Prayers And Meditations, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Thus, my prayer rushed up towards Thee; and, from the depths of the abyss, I beheld Thee in Thy radiant splendour; Thou didst appear and Thou saidst to me: Lose not Courage, be firm, be confident,I COME.
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1951-01-11 - Modesty and vanity - Generosity, #Questions And Answers 1950-1951, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I want to speak of moral generosity. To feel happy, for example, when a comrade is successful. An act of Courage, of unselfishness, a fine sacrifice have a beauty in them which gives you joy. It may be said that moral generosity consists in being able to recognise the true worth and superiority of others.
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1951-01-25 - Needs and desires. Collaboration of the vital, mind an accomplice. Progress and sincerity - recognising faults. Organising the body - illness - new harmony - physical beauty., #Questions And Answers 1950-1951, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Progress may be slow, falls may be frequent, but if a Courageous will is maintained one is sure to triumph some day and see all difficulties melt and vanish before the radiant consciousness of truth.
The Science of Living, On Education
If I lay stress here upon defects and difficulties, it is not to dis Courage you from making an effort but to tell you that you must do things with the necessary Courage and precisely not be disheartened because you are not successful at once; but if the aspiration is there in you, if the will is there in you, it is absolutely certain that sooner or later you will succeed. And I am saying this for people who live in very ordinary circumstances, less favourable perhaps than yours, but who can, even so, learn to know themselves and conquer themselves, master themselves, control themselves. Therefore, if the conditions are favourable you have a much greater chance of succeeding. One thing is always necessary, not to give up the game for it is a great game and the result is worth the trouble of playing it through.
Lastly, we must, by means of a rational and clear-seeing physical education, make our body strong and supple so that it may become in the material world a fit instrument for the truth-force which wills to manifest through us.
1951-02-10 - Liberty and license - surrender makes you free - Men in authority as representatives of the divine Truth - Work as offering - total surrender needs time - Effort and inspiration - will and patience, #Questions And Answers 1950-1951, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You must be attentive, silent, must await the inner inspiration, not do anything from external reactions, you must be moved by the light that comes from above, constantly, regularly, must act only under the inspiration of that light and nothing else. Never to think, never to question, never to ask Should I do this or that?, but to know, to see, to hear. To act with an inner certitude without questioning and without doubting, because the decision does not come from you, it comes from above. Well, this may come very soon or one may have to wait perhaps a long time that depends upon ones previous preparation, upon many things. Till then you must will and will with persistence, and above all never lose patience or Courage. If necessary, repeat the same thing a thousand times, knowing that perhaps the thousandth time you will realise the result.
You are not all of a single piece. Your present body is often an accident. If you have within you a conscious soul which has influenced the formation of your body, you are infinitely better prepared than someone, a soul, which falls head foremost into a body without knowing where it is going; in this latter case much hard work is needed to lift up the consciousness which has thus fallen into obscurity. The inner preparation may come from previous lives or from the present life; or you have reached a turning-point in your integral growth and are in just the right relation with the circumstances necessary for the last step to be taken. But this does not mean that you have not lived a thousand times before reaching this turning-point.
1951-02-24 - Psychic being and entity - dimensions - in the atom - Death - exteriorisation - unconsciousness - Past lives - progress upon earth - choice of birth - Consecration to divine Work - psychic memories - Individualisation - progress, #Questions And Answers 1950-1951, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The aim of the psychic being is to form an individual being, individualised, personalised around the divine centre. Normally, all the experiences of the external life (unless one does yoga and becomes conscious) pass without organising the inner being, while the psychic being organises these experiences serially. It wants to realise a particular attitude towards the Divine. Hence it looks for all favourable experiences in order to have the complete series of opportunities, so to say, which will allow it to realise this attitude towards the Divine. Take someone, for example, who wants to have the experience of nobilitya nobility which makes it impossible for you to act like an ordinary person, which infuses into you a bravery, a Courage which may almost be taken for rashness because the attitude, the experience demands that you face danger without showing the least fear. I was telling you a while ago that I would explain to you what one could acquire by entering into the body of a king. A king is an ordinary man, isnt he, like all others; he does not have a special consciousness, but through the necessities of his life, because he is a kind of symbol to his people, there are things he is obliged to do which he could never do if he were an ordinary man. I know this by experience, but I saw this also while looking at photographs which represented a king in actual circumstances: something had happened, which might have been an attempt on his life, but was averted. The photographs showed the king inspecting a regiment; all of a sudden someone had rushed forward, perhaps with a bad intention, perhaps not, for nothing had happened; in any case, the king had remained completely impassive, absolutely calm, the same smile on his lips, without moving the least from the place where he was; and he was quite within sight, an easy target for one who wanted to rush forward and hurt him. For all I know, this king was not a hero, but because he was a king, he could not take to flight! That would have been ignoble. So he remained calm, without stirring, without showing any outward fear. This is an example of what one can learn in the life of a king.
There is also a true story about Queen Elizabeth. She had come to the last days of her life and was extremely ill. But there was trouble in the country and, about questions of taxation, a group of people (merchants, I believe) had formed a delegation to present a petition to her in the name of a party of the people. She lay very ill in her room, so ill that she could hardly stand. But she got up and dressed to receive them. The lady who was attending upon her cried out, But it is impossible, you will die of this! The queen answered quietly, We shall die afterwards. This is an example from a whole series of experiences one can have in the life of a king, and it is this which justifies the choice of the psychic being when it takes up this kind of life.
1951-04-23 - The goal and the way - Learning how to sleep - relaxation - Adverse forces- test of sincerity - Attitude to suffering and death, #Questions And Answers 1950-1951, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This is to give you Courage, Courage to act. You must be vigilant and must keep your will, whatever happens. If you put the two things end to end, you have the complete thing.
How can one remain conscious in the midst of unconsciousness?
1953-06-10, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Attacks from adverse forces are inevitable: you have to take them as tests on your way and go Courageously through the ordeal. The struggle may be hard, but when you come out of it, you have gained something, you have advanced a step. There is even a necessity for the existence of the hostile forces. They make your determination stronger, your aspiration clearer.
It is true, however, that they exist because you gave them reason to exist. So long as there is something in you which answers to them, their intervention is perfectly legitimate. If nothing in you responded, if they had no hold upon any part of your nature, they would retire and leave you.
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For that, you must be very vigilant and have a little Courage, in the sense that at times you have to grip it hard and then pull it outit hurts a little and then you throw it out along with the forces you send away. After that, it is finished. And so long as this is not done, it comes back and back again; and then if one is not in oneself sufficiently Courageous or vigilant or persevering, the fourth or fifth time one falls flat and says: Thats too much, I have had enough! So the force installs itself, contented, satisfied with its work; and then you can see it laughing, it enjoys itself immensely, it got what it wanted. Now to send it back again means a very considerable work. But if you follow the other method, if you look closely this way: Well, I am going to catch the thing that has allowed it to come, you see somewhere within you something rising, wriggling, coming up in response to the evil force which is approaching. That is the moment to seize it and throw it out with all the rest.
But when we throw it out, it does not die. Then it can go elsewhere once more, for it remains in the world.
1953-06-24, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When one does not have this psychic contact, but is still a reasonable being, that is, when one has a free movement of the reasoning mind, one can use it to reason with, to speak to oneself as one would to a child, explaining that this fear is a bad thing in itself and, even if there is a danger, to face the danger with fear is the greatest stupidity. If there is a real danger, it is only with the power of Courage that you have a chance of coming out of it; if you have the least fear, you are done for. So with that kind of reasoning, manage to convince the part that fears that it must stop being afraid.
If you have faith and are consecrated to the Divine, there is a very simple way, it is to say: Let Your will be done. Nothing can frighten me because it is You who are guiding my life. I belong to You and You are guiding my life. That acts immediately. Of all the means this is the most effective: indeed, it is. That is, one must be truly consecrated to the Divine. If one has that, it acts immediately; all fear vanishes immediately like a dream. And the being with the bad influence also disappears like a dream along with the fear. You should see it running away at full speed, prrt! Voil.
1953-07-01, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I knew people who should have really died according to all physical and vital laws; and they refused. They said: No, I will not die, and they lived. There are others who do not need at all to die, but they are of that kind and say: Ah! Well! Yes, so much the better, it will be finished, and it is finished. Even that much, even nothing more than that: you need not have a persistent wish, you have only to say: Well, yes, I have had enough! and it is finished. So it is truly like that. As you say, you may have death standing by your bedside and tell him: I do not want you, go away, and it will be obliged to go away. But usually one gives way, for one must struggle, one must be strong, one must be very Courageous and enduring, must have a great faith in the importance of life; like someone, for example, who feels very strongly that he has still something to do and he must absolutely do it. But who is sure he has not within him the least bit of a defeatist, somewhere, who just yields and says: It is all right? It is here, the necessity of unifying oneself.
Whatever the way we follow, the subject we study, we always arrive at the same result. The most important thing for an individual is to unify himself around his divine centre; in that way he becomes a true individual, master of himself and his destiny. Otherwise, he is a plaything of forces that toss him about like a piece of cork on a river. He goes where he does not want to go, he is made to do things he does not want to do, and finally he falls into a hole without having the strength to hold on. But if you are consciously organised, unified around the divine centre, ruled and directed by it, you are master of your destiny. That is worth the trouble of attempting In any case, I find it preferable to be the master rather than the slave. It is a rather unpleasant sensation to feel yourself pulled by the strings and made to do things whether you want to or not that is quite irrelevant but to be compelled to act because something pulls you by the strings, something which you do not even see that is exasperating. However, I do not know, but I found it very annoying, even when I was a little child. At five, it began to seem to me quite intolerable and I sought for a way so that it might be otherwisewithout people getting a chance to scold me. For I knew nobody who could help me and I did not have the chance that you have, someone who can tell you: This is what you have to do! There was nobody to tell me that. I had to find it out all by myself. And I found it. I started at five. And you, you were five long ago Voil.
1953-07-29, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You must have a great deal of sincerity, a little Courage and perseverance and then a sort of mental curiosity, you understand, curious, seeking to know, interested, wanting to learn. To love to learn: that, one must have in ones nature. To find it impossible to stand before something grey, all hazy, in which nothing is seen clearly and which gives you quite an unpleasant feeling, for you do not know where you begin and where you end, what is yours and what is not yours and what is settled and what is not settledwhat is this pulp-like thing you call yourself in which things get intermingled and act upon one another without even your being aware of it? You ask yourself: But why have I done this? You know nothing about it. And why have I felt that? You dont know that, either. And then, you are thrown into a world outside that is only fog and you are thrown into a world inside that is also for you another kind of fog, still more impenetrable, in which you live, like a cork thrown upon the waters and the waves carry it away or cast it into the air, and it drops and rolls on. That is quite an unpleasant state. I do not know, but to me it appears unpleasant.
To see clearly, to see ones way, where one is going, why one is going there, how one is to go there and what one is going to do and what is the kind of relation with others. But that is a problem so wonderfully interestingit is interesting and you can always discover things every minute! Ones work is never finished.
1953-09-09, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, yes. All your troubles, depression, dis Couragement, disgust, fury, all, all come from the vital. It is that which turns love into hate, it is that which induces the spirit of vengeance, rancour, bad will, the urge to destroy and to harm. It is that which dis Courages you when things are difficult and not to its liking. And it has an extraordinary capacity for going on strike! When it is not satisfied, it hides in a corner and does not budge. And then you have no more energy, no more strength, you have no Courage left. Your will is like like a withering plant. All resentment, disgust, fury, all despair, grief, angerall that comes from this gentleman. For it is energy in action.
Therefore, it depends on which side it turns. And I tell you, it has a very strong habit of going on strike. That is its most powerful weapon: Ah! you are not doing what I want, well, I am not going to move, I shall sham dead. And it does that for the least reason. It has a very bad character; it is very touchy and it is very spitefulyes, it is very ill-natured. For I believe it is very conscious of its power and it feels clearly that if it gives itself wholly, there is nothing that will resist the momentum of its force. And like all people who have a weight in the balance, the vital also bargains: I shall give you my energy, but you must do what I want. If you do not give me what I ask for, well, I withdraw my energy. And you will be flat as a pancake. And it is true, it happens like that.
1954-02-03 - The senses and super-sense - Children can be moulded - Keeping things in order - The shadow, #Questions And Answers 1954, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
"... Everyone possesses in a large measure, and the exceptional individual in an increasing degree of precision, two opposite tendencies of character, in almost equal proportions, which are like the light and the shadow of the same thing. Thus someone who has the capacity of being exceptionally generous will suddenly find an obstinate avarice rising up in his nature, the Courageous man will be a coward in some part of his being and the good man will suddenly have wicked impulses. In this way life seems to endow everyone not only with the possibility of expressing an ideal, but also with contrary elements representing in a concrete manner the battle he has to wage and the victory he has to win for the realisation to become possible. Consequently, all life is an education pursued more or less consciously, more or less willingly."
The "Evil Persona"
1954-04-07 - Communication without words - Uneven progress - Words and the Word, #Questions And Answers 1954, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No other questions? You dont have Courage?
Yes, I have Courage, but I dont have questions!
(Another child) Sweet Mother, can it happen that though a person does not move forward very much he doesnt move backward either?1
1954-06-30 - Occultism - Religion and vital beings - Mothers knowledge of what happens in the Ashram - Asking questions to Mother - Drawing on Mother, #Questions And Answers 1954, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, after a while. Which means that all this is not at all a joke, you understand, or just a matter of having fun or something one can do simply to amuse oneself. It must be done in the right way and in the required conditions, and with great care. And then, one thing is absolutely essential, absolutely: you must not touch this occult science if you have the least fear in you. For instance, if in your dreams you meet terrible things and get frightened, you should not practise occultism. If, on the other hand, the most frightful dreams you have leave you absolutely calm, and even at times amused and very much interested, if you can handle all that and know how to get out of the difficulty in every circumstance, then that means you have the ability and can do it. Some people are very brave warriors in their dreams. When they meet enemies, they know how to fight; they know not only how to defend themselves, but also to conquer; they are full of ardour, energy, Courage; these indeed are the true candidates for occultism. But those who rush back into their body as fast as a rat into its hole, they should surely not touch it. And then, you must also have an infinite patience; because just as it takes many years to learn how to handle the different chemical substances, just as you have to work for long periods without getting any visible results when you want to discover the least thing thats new, so in occultism you may try for years together and not have the least experience. And that becomes very monotonous and hardly interesting; and there is always in man that kind of physical mind, practical and positive, which keeps on telling you, Why are you trying? You see quite well there is nothing in it, these are all stories people tell you; why are you working for nothing? You are wasting your time. There is nothing at all in it, it is all imagination. It is very difficult to keep ones conviction and faith when there is nothing upon which to found them.
Sweet Mother, are religious exercises very important for those who have an ordinary consciousness?
1954-07-14 - The Divine and the Shakti - Personal effort - Speaking and thinking - Doubt - Self-giving, consecration and surrender - Mothers use of flowers - Ornaments and protection, #Questions And Answers 1954, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There was a man working in an office whose life was rather poor and who was not very successful, and one day he found a perforated coin. He put it in his pocket and said to himself, Now I am going to prosper! And he was full of hope, Courage, energy, because he knew: Now that I have the coin, I am sure to succeed! And, in fact, he went on prospering, prospering more and more. He earned more and more money, he had a better and better position, and people said, What a wonderful man! How well he works! How he finds all the solutions to all problems! Indeed, he became a remarkable man, and every morning when he put on his coat, he felt itlike thisto be sure that his coin was in his pocket. He touched it, he felt that the coin was there, and he had confidence. And then, one day, he was a little curious, and said, I am going to see my coin!years later. He was having his breakfast with his wife and said, I am going to see my coin! His wife told him, Why do you want to see it? Its not necessary. Yes, yes, let me see my coin. He took out the little bag in which he kept the coin, and found inside a coin which was not perforated!
Ah, he said, this is not my coin! What is this? Who has changed my coin? Then his wife told him, Look, one day there was some dust on your coat. I shook it off through the window and the coin fell out. I had forgotten that the coin was there. I ran to look for it but didnt find it. Someone had picked it up. So I thought you would be very unhappy and I put another coin there. (Laughter) Only, he, of course, was confident that his coin was there and that was enough.
1954-12-22 - Possession by hostile forces - Purity and morality - Faith in the final success -Drawing back from the path, #Questions And Answers 1954, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When you have started, you must go to the very end. Sometimes, you see, to people who come to me with enthusiasm I say, Think a little, it is not an easy path, you will need time, you will need patience. You will need much endurance, much perseverance and Courage and an untiring goodwill. Look and see if you are capable of having all this, and then start. But once you have started, it is finished, there is no going back any more; you must go to the very end.
Sometimes I tell them, I tell them that I give them a few days or a few months. There are some to whom I have given a few years for reflection. I told them, Look well, be quite sure. But once they come and say, Now I have decided, I want to start, it is good. Now, one must go on to the very end, whatever the cost; even if it is very difficult, one has to go to the very end.
1955-02-09 - Desire is contagious - Primitive form of love - the artists delight - Psychic need, mind as an instrument - How the psychic being expresses itself - Distinguishing the parts of ones being - The psychic guides - Illness - Mothers vision, #Questions And Answers 1955, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But the vitalis the same thing, exactly the same phenomenon for the vital. The vital as it is at present is said to be the cause of all the troubles and all the difficulties, the seat of the desires, passions, impulses, revolts, etc., etc. But if the vital is entirely surrendered to the psychic, it becomes a wonderful instrument, full of enthusiasm, power, force of realisation, impetus, Courage.
And then there remains the poor physical The poor physical being has been accused of all the misdeeds. In the days of old it was always said that it was impossible, one could do nothing with something so inert, so obscure, so little receptive. But if it too was surrendered to the psychic it also would do the right thing in the right way, and then it would have a stability, a quietude, an exactness in its movements which the other parts of the being dont have, a precision in the execution which one cant have without a body. You have only to see when the body is just a little out of order, when it is ill, how many things you can no longer do, even with a strong will, a great concentration of the vital and the mind. Even when one has the precise knowledge of what ought to be done, if the body is out of order one can no longer do it. Even I mean, even an activity which is not purely physical, as for instance, writing something.
1955-06-08 - Working for the Divine - ideal attitude - Divine manifesting - reversal of consciousness, knowing oneself - Integral progress, outer, inner, facing difficulties - People in Ashram - doing Yoga - Children given freedom, choosing yoga, #Questions And Answers 1955, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It is because, I think, you have kept the division in your being, that is, there is one part of your being which has refused to go along with the rest. It is usually like this that it happens. There is one part which has progressed, one part which holds on and doesn't want to move; so you feel it more and more as something which persists in being what it is. That's because you have dropped some of your baggage on the way and left it on the roadside instead of carrying it along with you. That will always pull you backward. Sometimes, unfortunately, one has to turn back, go and pick it up and bring it along; so one loses much time. This is how, indeed, one loses time. It's because one shuts one's eyes to so many things in the being. One doesn't want to see them, because they are not so pretty to see. So one prefers not to know them. But because one is ignorant of the thing it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist any longer. One does this: one puts it down on the way and then tries to go forward, but it is bound by threads, it pulls one back like a millstone drag, and so one must Courageously take it up and hold it up like this (gesture) and tell it: "Now you will walk along with me!" It's no use playing the ostrich. You see, one shuts the eyes and doesn't want to see that one has this fault or that difficulty or that ignorance and stupidity; one doesn't want to see, doesn't want, one looks away to the other side, but it remains there all the same.
One day you have to face the thing, you have to. Otherwise you can never reach the end, it will always pull you backward. You may feel ahead, may see the goal there, drawing near, all this more and more, you may have something which goes before and has almost the feeling that it is going to touch, but you will never touch it if you have these millstones pulling you back. One day you must make a clean sweep of everything. It sometimes takes very long but one must burn one's bridges; otherwise you go in a round, progress bit by bit until the end of your life, and then, when the time to leave has come you suddenly feel: "Ah! But... well, it will be perhaps for another time." This is not pleasant; why, it must be something frightful; for if one has known nothing, understood nothing, if one has never tried... People are born, live, die and are reborn and live and die again, and it goes on, continues indefinitely, they don't even put the problem before themselves. But when one has had the taste, the foretaste of what life is, and why one is here, and what one has to do here, and then in addition one has made some effort and tries to realise, if one doesn't get rid of all the baggage of what does not follow, then it will be necessary to begin again yet another time. Better not. It is better to do one's work while one can do it consciously, and indeed this is what is meant by "Never put off for tomorrow what you can do today." This "today" means in this present life, because the occasion is here, the opportunity here; and perhaps one will have to wait many thousands of years to find it once again. It is better to do one's work, at any cost. there!... losing as little time as possible.
1955-10-19 - The rhythms of time - The lotus of knowledge and perfection - Potential knowledge - The teguments of the soul - Shastra and the Gurus direct teaching - He who chooses the Infinite..., #Questions And Answers 1955, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And this is what gives thats what he says, doesnt he?this is what gives that kind of confidence, of certitude, precisely, that one is predestined; and if one is predestined, even if there are mountains of difficulties, what can that matter since one is sure to succeed! This gives you an indomitable Courage to face all difficulties and a patience that stands all trials: you are sure to succeed.
And its a factin fact, it is like that: the moment you thought about it, well, you thought about it because someone thought about you; you chose because you were chosen. And once you have been chosen, you are sure of the thing. Therefore, doubts, hesitations, depressions, uncertainties, all this is quite simply a waste of time and energy; it is of no use at all.
1956-01-25 - The divine way of life - Divine, Overmind, Supermind - Material body for discovery of the Divine - Five psychological perfections, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I remember that once we spoke of Courage as one of the perfections; I remember having written it down once in a list. But this Courage means having a taste for the supreme adventure. And this taste for supreme adventure is aspirationan aspiration which takes hold of you completely and flings you, without calculation and without reserve and without a possibility of withdrawal, into the great adventure of the divine discovery, the great adventure of the divine meeting, the yet greater adventure of the divine Realisation; you throw yourself into the adventure without looking back and without asking for a single minute, Whats going to happen? For if you ask what is going to happen, you never start, you always remain stuck there, rooted to the spot, afraid to lose something, to lose your balance.
Thats why I speak of Courage but really it is aspiration. They go together. A real aspiration is something full of Courage.
And now, surrender. In English the word is surrender, there is no French word which gives exactly that sense. But Sri Aurobindo has said I think we have read this that surrender is the first and absolute condition for doing the yoga. So, if we follow what he has said, this is not just one of the necessary qualities: it is the first attitude indispensable for beginning the yoga. If one has not decided to make a total surrender, one cannot begin.
1956-03-28 - The starting-point of spiritual experience - The boundless finite - The Timeless and Time - Mental explanation not enough - Changing knowledge into experience - Sat-Chit-Tapas-Ananda, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Turning to a child) You want to ask a question? Speak up, take Courage.
Sweet Mother, how can one increase ones understanding?
1956-07-18 - Unlived dreams - Radha-consciousness - Separation and identification - Ananda of identity and Ananda of union - Sincerity, meditation and prayer - Enemies of the Divine - The universe is progressive, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It is from someone who is trying to prepare himself to receive the Supermind, and in this preparation, among other things come prayer and meditation. And then there is this reflection which is very frank and which very few would have the Courage to make. Here it is:
I begin to meditate and pray ardently and fervently , my aspiration is intense and my prayer full of devotion; and then, after a certain length of time sometimes short, sometimes long the aspiration becomes mechanical and the prayer purely verbal. What should I do?
1956-08-15 - Protection, purification, fear - Atmosphere at the Ashram on Darshan days - Darshan messages - Significance of 15-08 - State of surrender - Divine Grace always all-powerful - Assumption of Virgin Mary - SA message of 1947-08-15, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
An indomitable Courage, a perfect sincerity and a sincere self-giving, so that one does not calculate or bargain, does not give with the idea of receiving, does not trust with the idea of being protected, does not have a faith which asks for proofsit is this that is indispensable in order to walk on the path, and it is this alone which can truly shelter you from all danger.
(Silence)
1957-01-02 - Can one go out of time and space? - Not a crucified but a glorified body - Individual effort and the new force, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It is neither sacrifice nor renunciation nor weakness which can bring the victory. It is only Delight, a delight which is strength, endurance, supreme Courage. The delight brought by the supramental force. It is much more difficult than giving everything up and running away, it demands an infinitely greater heroism but that is the only way to conquer.
Nothing else? I have some questions here, but now it is rather late.
1957-02-13 - Suffering, pain and pleasure - Illness and its cure, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Quite naturally we ask ourselves what this secret is, towards which pain leads us. For a superficial and imperfect understanding, one could believe that it is pain which the soul is seeking. Nothing of the kind. The very nature of the soul is divine Delight, constant, unvarying, unconditioned, ecstatic; but it is true that if one can face suffering with Courage, endurance, an unshakable faith in the divine Grace, if one can, instead of shunning suffering when it comes, enter into it with this will, this aspiration to go through it and find the luminous truth, the unvarying delight which is at the core of all things, the door of pain is often more direct, more immediate than that of satisfaction or contentment.
I am not speaking of pleasure because pleasure turns its back constantly and almost completely on this profound divine Delight.
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But for that one must be neither cowardly nor fearful. When the physical disorder comes, one must not be afraid; one must not run away from it, must face it with Courage, calmness, confidence, with the certitude that illness is a falsehood and that if one turns entirely, in full confidence, with a complete quietude to the divine Grace, It will settle in these cells as It is established in the depths of the being, and the cells themselves will share in the eternal Truth and Delight.
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1957-03-13 - Our best friend, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
We dont like the company of someone who has a contagious disease, and avoid him carefully; generally he is segregated so that it does not spread. But the contagion of vice and bad behaviour, the contagion of depravity, falsehood and what is base, is infinitely more dangerous than the contagion of any disease, and this is what must be very carefully avoided. You must consider as your best friend the one who tells you that he does not wish to participate in any bad or ugly act, the one who gives you Courage to resist low temptations; he is a friend. He is the one you must associate with and not someone with whom you have fun and who streng thens your evil propensities. Thats all.
Now, we wont labour the point and I hope that those I have in mind will understand what I have said.
1957-03-27 - If only humanity consented to be spiritualised, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But something has happened in the worlds history which allows us to hope that a selected few in humanity, a small number of beings, perhaps, are ready to be transformed into pure gold and that they will be able to manifest strength without violence, heroism without destruction and Courage without catastrophe.
But in the very next paragraph Sri Aurobindo gives the answer: If man could once consent to be spiritualised. If only the individual could consent to be spiritualised could consent.1
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This Courage, this heroism which the Divine wants of us, why not use it to fight against ones own difficulties, ones own imperfections, ones own obscurities? Why not heroically face the furnace of inner purification so that it does not become necessary to pass once more through one of those terrible, gigantic destructions which plunge an entire civilisation into darkness?
This is the problem before us. It is for each one to solve it in his own way.
1957-04-24 - Perfection, lower and higher, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And the lower perfection is to be able to make the human being in his present form and in his body, in his relation with all terrestrial things, do the utmost he can. This is the case of all great men of genius: artistic genius, literary genius, genius in organisation, the great rulers, those who have carried physical capacities to their maximum perfection, human development to the limit of its possibilities; and, for instance, all those who have complete control over their bodies and succeed in doing miraculous things, as we saw, for example, during the war, with the airmen: they made their bodies do things which at first sight seemed quite impossible, they obtained from them an endurance, a skill, a power which were almost unthinkable. And from every point of view: from the point of view of physical strength, of intellectual realisation, of the physical qualities of energy and Courage, of disinterestedness, goodness, charity; all human qualities carried to their utmost limits. That is the lower perfection.
The higher perfection is spiritual and super-human. The lower perfection is human perfection carried to its maximum limits, and this may be quite independent of all spiritual life, all spiritual aspiration. One can be a genius without having any spiritual aspiration. One can have all the most extraordinary moral qualities without having any spiritual life. And even, usually, those who have a very great power of human realisation are satisfiedmore or less satisfiedwith their condition. They feel they are self-sufficient, that they carry in themselves the source of their realisation and their joy, and it is usually very difficult to make them understand and feel that they are not the creators of their own creations, whatever they may be. Most of them, with very rare exceptions, if they were told, You are not the originator of this work you are doing, it is a force higher than you and you are only its instrument, they would dislike it very much and they will send you about your business! Therefore, these two perfections are really divergent in ordinary life. It was said in the old yoga that the first condition for doing yoga was to be disgusted with life. But those who have realised this human perfection are very rarely disgusted with life, unless they have met with personal difficulties such as the ingratitude of people around them, the lack of understanding of their genius which was not sufficiently appreciatedso all this disgusts them, but92@ otherwise, so long as they are in their period of success and creation, they are perfectly satisfied. So, as they are satisfiedabove all, self-satisfied they dont need to seek anything else.
1957-05-01 - Sports competitions, their value, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In the admission of an activity such as sports and physical exercises into the life of the Ashram it is evident that the methods and the first objects to be attained must belong to what we have called the lower end of the being. Originally they have been introduced for the physical education and bodily development of the children of the Ashram School and these are too young for a strictly spiritual aim or practice to enter into their activities. Yet what can be attained within the human boundaries can be something very considerable and sometimes immense: what we call genius is part of the development of the human range of being and its achievements, especially in things of the mind and will, can carry us halfway to the divine. Even what the mind and will can do with the body in the field proper to the body and its life, in the way of physical achievement, bodily endurance, feats of prowess of all kinds, a lasting activity refusing fatigue or collapse and continuing beyond what seems at first to be possible, Courage and refusal to succumb under an endless and murderous physical suffering, these and other victories of many kinds sometimes approaching or reaching the miraculous are seen in the human field and must be reckoned as a part of our concept of a total perfection.
The body, we have said, is a creation of the Inconscient and itself inconscient or at least subconscient in parts of itself and much of its hidden action; but what we call the Inconscient is an appearance, a dwelling place, an instrument of a secret Consciousness or a Superconscient which has created the miracle we call the universe. Matter is the field and the creation of the Inconscient and the perfection of the operations of inconscient Matter, their perfect adaptation of means to an aim and end, the wonders they perform and the marvels of beauty they create, testify, in spite of all the ignorant denial we can oppose, to the presence and power of consciousness of this Superconscience in every part and movement of the material universe. It is there in the body, has made it and its emergence in our consciousness is the secret aim of evolution and the key to the mystery of our existence.
1958-05-21 - Mental honesty, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You catch yourself, dont you, you suddenly catch yourself in the act of giving yourself somewhere in your head or here (Mother indicates the heart), here it is more serious giving a very favourable little explanation. And only when you can get a grip on yourself, there, hold fast and look at yourself clearly in the face and say, Do you think it is like that?, then, if you are very Courageous and put a very strong pressure, in the end you tell yourself, Yes, I know very well that it is not like that!
It sometimes takes years. Time must pass, one must have changed much within oneself, ones vision of things must have become different, one must be in a different condition, in a different relation with circumstances, in order to see clearly, completely, how far one was deceiving oneself and at that moment one was convinced that one was sincere.
1958-06-25 - Sadhana in the body, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This seems to be a very exact description of individual development. It is exactly like that. And so you lose patience or lose Courage, for you feel that you are not advancing. But when you engage in the development of the bodymaterial, physical developmentwhen you want the physical body to do sadhana, it is exactly like that. You begin by trying out all kinds of things without precision or exactitude, without knowing which end to begin with, and you feel you are groping, searching, going round and round and going nowhere. And then, gradually, one thing comes up and then another, and it is only very much later that something like a programme begins to be worked out. And this description Sri Aurobindo gives at the end, when the goal of evolution emerges and becomes perceptible, how much care must be taken for it not to be engulfed once again in the primal Inconscience!
And that is why the work seems interminable. And yet this is the only way it can be done. The road to be covered between the usual state of the body, the almost total inconscience to which we are accustomed because we are like that, and the perfect awakening of consciousness, the response of all the cells, all the organs, all the functionings between the two there seem to be centuries of labour. However, if one has learnt to open, to aspire, give oneself up, and if one can make use of these same movements in the body, teach the cells to do the same thing, then things go much faster. But much faster does not mean fast; it is still a long and slow work. And each time that an element which has not entered the movement of transformation wakes up to enter it, one feels that everything must be started againall that one believed had been done must be done once more. But it is not true, it is not the same thing that one does again, it is something similar in a new element which was either forgotten or else left aside because it was not ready, and which, now that it is ready, awakens and wants to take its place. There are many elements like that.
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The sadhana of all the inner beings, inner domains, has been done by many people, has been explained at length, systematised by some, the stages and paths have been traced out and you go from one stage to another, knowing that it has to be like that; but as soon as you go down into the body, it is like a virgin forest. And everything is to be done, everything is to be worked out, everything is to be built up. So you must arm yourself with great patience, great patience, and not think that you are good for nothing because it takes so much time. You must never be despondent, never tell yourself, Oh! This is not for me! Everyone can do it, if he puts into it the time, the Courage, the endurance and the perseverance that are demanded. But all this is needed. And above all, above all, never lose heart, be ready to begin the same thing again ten times, twenty times, a hundred timesuntil it is really done.
And one often feels that unless everything is done, unless the work is finished, well, it is as if one had done nothing.
1958 10 10, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And then, when you have enough Courage to overcome this, when you say, Come what may! After all, theres not much to lose, then you become wary, you wonder if it is reasonable, if it is true, if all that is not an illusion, if you are not just imagining things, if there is really any substance to it. And mind you, this mistrust seems stupid, but you encounter it even in the most intelligent, even in those who have repeatedly had conclusive experiencesit is something that you take in with the food you eat, the air you breathe, your contacts with others; and that is why you can speak of the tentacles of Nature,2 everywhere, in all things, like an octopus stealing in and catching you and binding you.
Even when you have overcome these two obstacles, when the experiences are so strong that you can no longer doubt, that doubt becomes impossiblelike doubting ones own life then there remains something awful, petty, dry, corrosive: scepticism. And this is founded on human pride, that is why it lasts so long. You want to think that you are above all these things, Oh, I am not one to fall into those traps! I am a reasonable man, I see things from a practical point of view; Im not so easily deceived. It is awful! It is sordid. But it is dangerous.
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And that is it. When you have truly had enough of it and want things to be different, then you have the Courage, the strength, the capacity to conquer these three terrible enemies: fear, doubt and scepticism. But I repeat, it is not enough to sit down one fine day, watch yourself be, and struggle with these things inside you once and for all. You have to do it and do it again and again and continue in a way which seems almost endless, to be sure that you have got rid of it all. In reality, you are perhaps never truly rid of it, but there comes a time when inside yourself, you are so different that you can no longer be touched by these things. You can see them, but you see them with a smile, and at a simple gesture they go away, back to where they came from, perhaps a little changed, perhaps a little less strong, less obstinate, less aggressiveuntil the time when the Light is so strong that all darkness vanishes.
As for the marvels Sri Aurobindo tells us about, it is better not to describe them, because each individual feels them, undergoes them, experiences them in his own wayand for each person that is the best way. One must not adopt anothers way, one must go ones own way, then the experience has its full value, its full inestimable value.
1958-11-12 - The aim of the Supreme - Trust in the Grace, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Indeed, a great Courage is necessary to go farther; this soul one discovers must be an intrepid warrior soul which does not at all rest satisfied with its own inner joy while comforting itself for the unhappiness of others with the idea that sooner or later everybody will reach that state and that it is good for others to make the same effort that one has made or, at best, that from this state of inner wisdom one can, with great benevolence and deep compassion help others to reach it, and that when everybody has attained it, well, that will be the end of the world and thats so much the better for those who dont like suffering!
But there is a but. Are you sure that this was the aim and intention of the Supreme when he manifested?
1960 04 07? - 28, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Besides, everything that happens on earth necessarily leads to its progress. Thus wars are schools of Courage, endurance, fearlessness; they may serve to destroy a past which refuses to disappear although its time is over, and they make room for new things. Wars can, like Kurukshetra,1 be a way to rid the earth of a domineering or destructive race so that justice and right may reign. They can, through the presence of danger, shake the apathy of a too tamasic2 consciousness and awaken dormant energies. Finally they can, by contrast, and because of the horrors that accompany and follow them, drive men to seek an effective way to make such a barbarous and violent form of transformation unnecessary.
For everything that is unnecessary to the evolution of the earth automatically ceases to exist.
1960 05 04, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So, in all circumstances of life you must always be very careful to guard against despair. Besides, this habit of being sombre, morose, of despairing, does not truly depend on events, but on a lack of faith in the nature. One who has faith, even if only in himself, can face all difficulties, all circumstances, even the most adverse, without dis Couragement or despair. He fights like a man to the end. Natures that lack faith also lack endurance and Courage.
Sri Aurobindo tells us that for human beings the degree of success in physical life depends on the degree of harmony between the individual and universal physical Nature. Some people have a will which is spontaneously in tune with the will of Nature, and they succeed in everything they undertake; others, on the contrary, have a will which is more or less totally out of tune with the will of cosmic Nature and they fail in everything they do or try to do.
1962 01 21, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Indeed, men have always considered themselves victims harassed by adverse forces; those who are Courageous fight, the others complain. But I have an increasingly concrete vision of the role that the adverse forces play in the creation, of the almost absolute necessity for them, so that there can be progress and for the creation to become its Origin once again and such a clear vision that instead of asking for the conversion or abolition of the adverse forces one must realise ones own transformation, pray for it and carry it out. This is from the terrestrial point of view, I am not taking the individual standpoint. We know the individual standpoint; this is from the terrestrial point of view. It was the sudden vision of all the error, all the misunderstanding, all the ignorance and obscurity, and even worse, all the bad will in the terrestrial consciousness which felt responsible for the perpetuation of these adverse beings and forces and which offered them in a great aspirationmore than an aspiration, a kind of holocaustso that the adverse forces might disappear and have no further reason to exist, so that they might no longer be there to point out everything that has to be changed.
Their presence was made unavoidable by all these things that were negations of the divine life. And this movement of offering of the earth consciousness to the Supreme, in an extraordinary intensity, was like a redemption so that the adverse forces might disappear.
1962 02 27, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In fact, an important factor for those who predict or see, is their absolute sincerity. Unfortunately, because of peoples curiosity, their insistence, the pressure they applywhich very few can resistwhat happens, when there is something they do not see exactly and precisely, is that there is an almost involuntary faculty of inner imagination, which adds the little missing element. This is what causes the flaws in their predictions. Very few have the Courage to say, Oh no, I do not know about that, it eludes me. They do not even have the Courage to say it to themselves. And then, just a touch of imagination, acting almost subconsciously, and they fill in the vision, the informationanything can happen. Very few people can resist that. I have known many, many clairvoyants, I have known many people who had a marvellous gift; very few of them would stop when they come to the end of their knowledge. Or else they would add some little detail. This is what always gives these faculties a rather doubtful quality. One must truly be a sainta great saint, a great sage and completely free, not at all influenced by other people. Naturally, I am not speaking of those who seek fame, because there they fall into the crudest traps; but even goodwill, the wish to make people happy, to please them, to help them, is enough to create a distortion.
When events are already prepared in the subtle physical and you have a vision of them, is it too late to change things? Can one still act?
1965 09 25, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No, because it is not manifested, it is outside the manifestation. But Sri Aurobindo wants us to bring it down here. That is the difficulty. And one must accept infirmity and even the appearance of imbecility, everything, and not one out of fifty million has the Courage for that.
There are millions of ways of fleeing. There is only one way to remain: it is truly to have Courage and endurance, to accept every appearance of infirmity, helplessness, incomprehension, even an apparent denial of the Truth. But if one does not accept that, it will never change. Those who want to remain great, luminous, strong, powerful and so on and so forth, well, let them stay up there, they cannot do anything for the earth.
And this incomprehension is a very small thinga very small thing because the consciousness is such that it is not affected in the least but it is a total and all-embracing incomprehension! That is to say, one is insulted and held in contempt and all that, just because of what one is doing; for, according to themall the great minds of the earthone has forsaken ones divinity. They do not put it like that, they say: What? You claim to have a divine consciousness, and then And one meets it in everybody, in all circumstances. From time to time, someone, for a moment, has a flash, but it is quite exceptional, whereas, Well then, show your powerthis is everywhere.
1969 12 15, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
1) Courage and love
2) Meanness and selfishness
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1) Courage is the total absence of fear in any form.
2) Love is self-giving without asking anything in return.
1970 04 20 - 485, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
486He who condemns failure and imperfection, is condemning God; he limits his own soul and cheats his own vision. Condemn not, but observe Nature, help and heal thy brothers and streng then by sympathy their capacities and their Courage.
487Love of man, love of woman, love of things, love of thy neighbour, love of thy country, love of animals, love of humanity are all the love of God reflected in these living images. So love and grow mighty to enjoy all, to help all and to love for ever.
1.A - ANTHROPOLOGY, THE SOUL, #Philosophy of Mind, #unset, #Zen
We should have, for example, to explain the line of connection by which anger and Courage are felt in the breast, the blood, the 'irritable' system, just as thinking and mental occupation are felt in the head, the centre of the 'sensible' system. We should want a more satisfactory explanation than hitherto of the most familar connections by which tears, and voice in general, with its varieties of language, laughter, sighs, with many other specializations lying in the line of pathognomy and physiognomy, are formed from their mental source. In physiology the viscera and the organs are treated merely as parts subservient to the animal organism; but they form at the same time a physical system for the expression of mental states, and in this way they get quite another interpretation.
402 Sensations, just because they are immediate and are found existing, are single and transient aspects of psychic life - alterations in the substantiality of the soul, set in its self-centred life, with which that substance is one. But this self-centred being is not merely a formal factor of sensation: the
1.ac - A Birthday, #Crowley - Poems, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Be the true Courage; either has its splendour.
But since we chose the first, God aid the right,
1.ac - The Neophyte, #Crowley - Poems, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
My Courage did not falter: now I feel
My heart beat wave-wise, and my throat catch breath
1f.lovecraft - Beyond the Wall of Sleep, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Courageous of them returned, Slater was gone, leaving behind an
unrecognisable pulp-like thing that had been a living man but an hour
1f.lovecraft - Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
fans my cheeks is fast restoring my vanished Courage. Clearly, the
house cannot be on fire, for every vestige of the torturous smoke is
1f.lovecraft - Medusas Coil, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
deal of Courage to make me obey, especially when I saw how my guides
eyes dilated in the wavering candle light as he looked at the unveiled
1f.lovecraft - Sweet Ermengarde, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Ermengarde, he had found Courage to utter that which was within his
heart.
1f.lovecraft - The Beast in the Cave, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
victim. Accordingly I retraced my steps, this time with a Courage born
of companionship, to the scene of my terrible experience. Soon we
1f.lovecraft - The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
and blind Courage of maternity, advanced and knocked affrightedly at
the concealing panels, but obtained no sign of recognition. She knocked
--
mustered up the Courage to peer over the rough-hewn brink; lying at
full length and holding the torch downward at arms length to see what
1f.lovecraft - The Curse of Yig, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
for despite his strong general Courage the very mention of a snake
would cause him to grow faint and pale, while the sight of even a tiny
1f.lovecraft - The Diary of Alonzo Typer, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
search diligently and thoroughly. It will take Courage to unlock that
iron door, for what prisoned horrors may not lurk within?
--
My Courage and curiosity wane. I know the horror that lies beyond that
iron door. What if Claes van der Heyl was my ancestorneed I expiate
1f.lovecraft - The Dunwich Horror, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Courage and snapped the switch. One of the threeit is not certain
whichshrieked aloud at what sprawled before them among disordered
--
and walked ahead to shew the right one. Courage and confidence were
mounting; though the twilight of the almost perpendicular wooded hill
1f.lovecraft - The Electric Executioner, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
took from that sagging right-hand coat pocket. I never had the Courage
to ask about thatbecause my own revolver was missing after the night
1f.lovecraft - The Evil Clergyman, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
summoned up Courage and propped the small object up on the table
against a bookthen turned the rays of the peculiar violet light upon
1f.lovecraft - The Horror in the Museum, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
recognition as he summoned up the Courage to enter, and in the vaulted
chamber below an attendant touched his cap cheerfully. Perhaps
1f.lovecraft - The Hound, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
loot in particular that I must not speakthank God I had the Courage to
destroy it long before I thought of destroying myself.
--- Overview of noun courage
The noun courage has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (15) courage, courageousness, bravery, braveness ::: (a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear)
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun courage
1 sense of courage
Sense 1
courage, courageousness, bravery, braveness
=> spirit
=> character, fiber, fibre
=> trait
=> attribute
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
--- Hyponyms of noun courage
1 sense of courage
Sense 1
courage, courageousness, bravery, braveness
=> heart, mettle, nerve, spunk
=> heroism, gallantry, valor, valour, valorousness, valiance, valiancy
=> dauntlessness, intrepidity
=> Dutch courage
=> stoutheartedness
=> fearlessness
=> fortitude
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun courage
1 sense of courage
Sense 1
courage, courageousness, bravery, braveness
=> spirit
--- Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun courage
1 sense of courage
Sense 1
courage, courageousness, bravery, braveness
-> spirit
=> courage, courageousness, bravery, braveness
=> cowardice, cowardliness
--- Grep of noun courage
courage
courageousness
dutch courage
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Courage the Cowardly Dog (1999 - 2002) - A story about a cowardly dog called Courage. When he was new born he was abandoned as a puppy. Supposedly because his previous owners couldn't look after him. He was then found by Muriel and has then since been living in the middle of nowhere with Muriels husband or rather Courage's house enemy Eust...
Lamb Chop's Play Along (1992 - 1997) - Lamb Chop's Play-Along is a children's television series that ran on PBS from 1992 until 1997. The half-hour program starred Shari Lewis, a puppeteer and ventriloquist, and Lambchop, described as a feisty 6-year-old girl. The goal of the show was to encourage kids to participate, to come play, inste...
Reading Rainbow (1983 - 2006) - The show is designed to encourage reading amongst youth. Using no puppets or gimmicks, this sincere, evenly paced show remains popular among children and educators. It is hosted by LeVar Burton, well known for his role in Roots and in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Power Rangers Lost Galaxy (1999 - 1999) - Power-Packed Adventure! Action-Packed Fun! A time in the future. The space colony Terra Venture journeys beyond Earth in search of new worlds. Peace reigns throughout the cosmos...or does it? Far away, in a strange galaxy, the evil Scorpius attacks an innocent planet. Five courageous teens from Terr...
The What-A-Cartoon Show (1995 - 2002) - A showcase of animated shorts on Cartoon Network which launched five of the network's premiere series (Dexter's Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Johnny Bravo, and Cow and Chicken). Originally back in 1995 it was called World Premire Toons and was only 10 minutes long, Than...
ZOOM (1972 - 1978) - ZOOM encouraged children to "turn off the TV and do it!" On the show, a rotating cast of seven kids (known as ZOOMers) performed various activities such as games, plays, poems, recipes, jokes, and science experiments, all suggested by viewer contributions. The mail-in request in both the 1970s and 9...
ZOOM (90s version) (1999 - 2005) - ZOOM encouraged children to "turn off the TV and do it!" On the show, a rotating cast of seven kids (known as ZOOMers) performed various activities such as games, plays, poems, recipes, jokes, and science experiments, all suggested by viewer contributions. The mail-in request in both the 1970s and 9...
The Dr. Fad Show (1988 - 1994) - This was a science game show that encouraged creativity and inventiveness.
Mobile Police Patlabor: The New Files (1990 - 1992) - Special Vehicles Division 2 is back on duty, along with their Ingram Patrol Labor (Patlabor) robots. Using their courage as well as the Ingrams, Captain Goto's motley crew of officers battle crime in Tokyo city. They also deal with their personal lives, as well as the supernatural.
Washington Week (1967 - Current) - Washington Weekpreviously Washington Week in Reviewis an American public affairs television program which has aired on PBS and its predecessor, National Educational Television, since 1967. Unlike other panel discussion shows which encourage informal (sometimes vociferous) debates as a means of pre...
The Adventures Of Courageous Cat & Minute Mouse (1960 - 1971) - This campy 1960 tv cartoon series..follows the super crime fighting exploits of"Couageous Cat" and his partner"Minute Mouse"as they use their multi purpose "Cat guns"to foil the crimes of their foes.Dallas McKennon did all of the voices.
What A Cartoon! (1995 - 2002) - An American animation showcase series created by Fred Seibert for Hanna-Barbera Cartoons which aired on Cartoon Network. The project consisted of 79 short cartoons, many of which became hit shows for Cartoon Network including Johnny Bravo, The PowerPuff Girls, Courage The Cowardly Dog, and the Seth...
Pocoyo (2005 - 2010) - Set in a 3D space, with a plain white background and usually no backdrops, it is about Pocoyo, a 3-year-old boy, interacting with his friends Pato (a duck), Elly (an elephant) and Loula (a dog). Viewers are encouraged to recognise situations that Pocoyo is in, and things that are going on with or ar...
Bo on the Go! (2007 - Current) - Get-up-and-go with Bo as she leads you through amazing adventures! Cheerful, energetic and inquisitive our young heroine along with her young dragon Dezzy encourages young audiences to spring into action while performing various maneuvers in order to help her save the day. Each mythic quest contains...
Shugo Chara! (2007 - 2010) - When Amu wishes for the courage to be reborn as her would-be self, she is surprised to find three colorful eggs the next morning, which hatch into three Guardian Characters: Ran, Miki, and Su
Wisharoo Park (1999 - 2003) - Created by Paula A. Luciano, Wisharoo Park is a series all about learning to use your imagination for play and learning. Using the act of wishing, something that every child (and adult) can understand, the show encouraged children to use their imagination to engage in healthy play and discovery, and...
LazyTown (2004 - 2014) - A series created by Icelandic athlete Magnus Scheving which encourages healthy lifstyles. A girl named Stephanie moves in with her uncle Milford Meanswell, the mayor of a town called Lazy Town, where the kids never play outside. Planning to change that, Stephanie calls in a superhero named Sportacus...
Aladdin and the King of Thieves(1996) - At long last, Aladdin is about to marry the Princess Jasmine. Despite the presence and encouragement of his friends Genie, Carpet, and Abu, he is fearful and anxious. He is most worried as to what kind of father he will be, having never known his own. But when the 40 Thieves disrupt the wedding tryi...
Sleeping Beauty(1959) - When an enchanted kingdom and the most fair Princess Aurora fall prey to the ultimate mistress of evil, Maleficent, the fate of the empire rests in the hands of three small, reclusive faries and a courageous prince's magical kiss. Their quest is fraught with preril as the spirited group must battle...
Newsies(1992) - Starring academy award winner Robert Duvall and screen favorite Ann-Margret, here's the true story of a courageous group of newsboys who become unlikely heroes when they team up to fight an unscrupulous newspaper tycoon. Determined to make their dreams come true, they find the courage to challenge...
The Man From Snowy River(1982) - Jim Craig has lived his entire life in the mountains of Australia until his father dies from a sudden accident. Jim is soon forced to look for work in the lowlands to rebuild what his father fought so hard to make, all the while encouraged by the lone miner Spur to persevere. Jim finds work with H...
The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue(1998) - In this direct-to-video sequel to Don Bluth's 1982 animated adventure The Secret of NIMH, Timmy (voice of Ralph Macchio) is the son of two courageous mice who helped save the day for the animals of Thorn Valley. While the wise Nicodemus has predicted that Timmy will some day be a great hero and h...
Trancers II: The Return of Jack Deth(1991) - Once again someone from the future has come back to create an army of Trancers, human zombies who do what they're told without question or pause. Now officer Jack Deth, a cop from the future stranded in the past, must once again go forth to stop them. This sci-fi action sequel chronicles his courage...
Honeymoon in Vegas(1992) - Most men are encouraged to get married...Not so Jack Singer (Nicolas Cage). Before his mother Bea (Anne Bancroft) dies, she makes him promise to never get married. Despite this, he really cares for his girlfriend Betsy (Sarah Jessica Parker). He decides to go against his late mother's wishes, and it...
The World of Hans Christian Andersen(1971) - Unable to attend the opera.. Hans Christian Andersen is encourage by hi
The Last Prom(1980) - Driver's education film depicting the dangers of drinking and driving, and teenage alcohol use. The movie was frequently shown during the spring of the year, as such milestone events as prom and graduation were upcoming in many students' lives. The underscoring idea was, of course, to encourage stud...
C.H.U.D.(1984) - A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A courageous policeman, a photo journalist and his girlfriend, and a nutty bum, who seems to know a lot about the creatures, band together to try and determine what the creatur...
A Winner Never Quits(1993) - "Young Pete Gray, at the age of 10, lost his arm after being run over by a milk truck, but that didn't discourage him from trying to realize his life-long dream - to play Major League Baseball in Yankee Stadium. Carradine portrays this true-life hero from the 1940's
White-Water Sam (1978)(1978) - "White-Water Sam and his Siberian Husky, Sybar, brave the dangers of the Pacific Northwest as they travel southward down the great river. Cougars, savage Indians, and starving wolves are among the many adventures white-water same courageously faces
Wings of Courage (1995)(1995) - "40 min. An Imax story of two legendary French aviation pioneers, Jean Mermoz and Antoine de St. Exupery. Having heard of Henri Guillaumet's flying exploits and needing another young pilot to cover the Santiago de Chile/Buenos Aires route, the two famous airmen recruit Henri to fly for them. Henri h...
The Clan of the Cave Bear(1986) - At a time in prehistory when Neanderthals shared the Earth with early Homo sapiens, a band of cave-dwellers adopt blond and blue-eyed Ayla, a child of the "Others". As Ayla matures into a young woman of spirit and courage (unlike other women of the clan), she must fight for survival against the jeal...
The Other(1972) - Chilling and eerie, this supernatural tale of good versus evil coils around twin brothers living with their grandmother in a sleepy rural area during the summer of 1935. After his grandmother encourages Niles to develop what seem to be psychic gifts, Niles starts to suspect that his twin may be invo...
Godzilla's Revenge(1969) - Ichiro, a young boy, is sick and tired of the horrors and stresses of everyday life so he dreams he goes to Monster Island and meets Minya, the son of Godzilla, to help him give courage and be strong to take on unwanted obstacles ranging from a pair of Abbot and Costello-like robbers to bullies. Wo...
For Ladies Only(1981) - A young man from Iowa comes to New York hoping to make it as an actor. However, he doesn't get a break and is almost out of money. So another actor who moonlights as a stripper encourages him to try it out. Eventually, he becomes the headliner of the club but his acting aspirations are in danger cau...
Day Zero(2007) - The military draft is back, three best friends are drafted and given 30 days to report for duty. In that time, they're forced to confront everything they believe about courage, duty, love, friendship and honor.
High Season(1987) - On the isle of Rhodes, Katherine, an expatriate English photographer, lives with her daughter. A young local wants to encourage tourism, so he commissions a sculpture of the Unknown Tourist for the town square; the sculptor he brings to Rhodes is Kate's ex-husband. Also there to see Kate is Sharp, a...
Repo! The Genetic Opera(2008) - A worldwide epidemic encourages a biotech company to launch an organ-financing program similar in nature to a standard car loan. The repossession clause is a killer, however.
Son Of Lassie(1945) - Laddie, son of Lassie, and his master are trapped in Norway during WW2. Has he inherited his mother's famous courage?
Homebodies(1974) - When a quiet group of pensioners learn that their homes are to be torn down to make way for a block of flats, they decide to take action. What starts as an attempt to discourage the developers soon escalates into wholesale murder of both the developers and the construction workers.
The Courage Of Kavik, The Wolf Dog(1980) - A boy and his sled dog fight against the elements.
The Red Badge Of Courage (1951)(1951) - Truncated adaptation of Stephen Crane's novel about a Civil War Union soldier who stuggles to find the courage to fight in the heat of battle.
Behind The Convent Walls(1978) - A zealous, handsome priest, who is the confessor for a convent full of women, encourages the equally zealous abbess of one such institution to enforce the same strict rules on these unfortunate women that are applied to others. In doing so, they uncover a snake pit of sexual couplings, both lesbian...
Slacker Uprising(2008) - Slacker Uprising is a movie of Michael Moore's tour of colleges in swing states during the 2004 election, with a goal to encourage 1829 year olds to vote, and the response it received. The film is a re-edited version of Captain Mike Across America, which played at the Toronto International Film Fes...
The Children Of Huang Shi(2008) - About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937.
The Cat in the Hat(1971) - On a cold rainy day, a brother and sister are left stuck at home with nothing to do. When their mother leaves them home for the day, claiming she'll be home at 3:30 sharp, a mysterious cat shows up and shows them how to have a little fun, much to the discouragement of the fish Mr. Karlos K. Krinkleb...
Beasts of the Southern Wild(2012) - Faced with both her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, 6-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love. Directed by Benh Zeitlin. Starring Quvenzhane Wallis, Dwight Henry, Levy Easter
Fantastic Four(2005) - Dr. Reed Richards has become encouraged that evolution on Earth was triggered by cosmic radiation in space. Going with his friends (Susan Storm, Johnny Storm, Ben Grimm) into space they go to investigate and get exposed to the radiation of the clouds first hand. Upon returning to Earth they all find...
Fifty Pills(2006) - Darren Giles has lost his college scholarship, can't work up the courage to ask out the girl of his dreams and doesn't have the cash to stay in college another semester. Unless he can survive the teenage dominatrix, New York's largest drug mogul, convince his parents he's not gay, write a paper on D...
National Treasure(2004) - Benjamin Franklin Gates (Nicolas Cage) is a historian and amateur cryptologist, and the youngest descendant of a long line of treasure hunters. Though Ben's father, Patrick Henry Gates, tries to discourage Ben from following in the family line, as he had spent over 20 years looking for the national...
the brothers grimm(2005) - starring matt matt damon a film about the famous brothers grimm. Will and Jake Grimm are traveling con-artists who encounter a genuine fairy-tale curse which requires true courage instead of their usual bogus exorcisms.
Sword Of Lancelot(1963) - Lancelot is King Arthur's most valued Knight of the Round Table and a paragon of courage and virtue. Things change, however, when he falls in love with Queen Guinevere.
I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown(2003) - After unfair treatment by his older siblings Linus and Lucy and getting in trouble at school, Rerun thinks that having a pet dog will cheer him up. He writes a letter to Santa Claus asking for a dog, but is later discouraged by the expensive costs of owning a pet and his mother's objections. Watchin...
The Legend of Frosty the Snowman(2005) - Frosty the Snowman befriends a young boy named Tommy Tinkerton in the town of Evergreen, an upbeat but decrepit town where every kid has to follow harsh rules and having fun is discouraged. When word gets out that Tommy has befriended a fun-loving snowman he becomes an outcast in the town. Meanwhile...
Mr. Popper's Penguins(2011) - Thomas Popper Jr, a divorced real estate agent and father of two has just learned his father was killed on an expedition in Antarctica. He soon takes in a penguin his father befriended, and despite his efforts to get rid of it, his children encourage him to take in five more. He soon finds the pengu...
Courage Of Lassie(1946) - Bill (Pal) gets separated from his litter, making friends with the wild creatures until he's found and adopted by young Kathie Merrick (Dame Elizabeth Taylor). An accident separates him from her, and he's drafted into K-9 duty in the trenches until battle fatigue takes its toll and he turns vicious....
Growing Up Wild(2016) - Travel to the wildest corners of the planet as five courageous animals tackle the very first challenges of their young lives. With a little guidance from sage family members, each must figure out how to find food and recognize danger.
Albert Nobbs (2011) ::: 6.7/10 -- R | 1h 53min | Drama, Romance | 22 February 2012 (France) -- Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th-century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most elegant hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape the lie she has been living. Director: Rodrigo Garca Writers:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) ::: 8.0/10 -- PG | 2h 9min | Drama, Romance | March 1945 (USA) -- Encouraged by her idealistic if luckless father, a bright and imaginative young woman comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s. Director: Elia Kazan Writers:
Back to School (1986) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 36min | Comedy, Romance, Sport | 13 June 1986 (USA) -- To help his discouraged son get through college, a funloving and obnoxious rich businessman decides to enter the school as a student himself. Director: Alan Metter Writers:
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 33min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | 5 July 2012 (Russia) -- Faced with both her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love. Director: Benh Zeitlin Writers:
Bedlam (1946) ::: 6.8/10 -- Approved | 1h 19min | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 10 May 1946 (USA) -- Nell Bowen, the spirited protege of rich Lord Mortimer, becomes interested in the conditions of notorious St. Mary's of Bethlehem Asylum (Bedlam). Encouraged by the Quaker Hannay, she tries... S Director: Mark Robson Writers: William Hogarth (suggested by The William Hogarth painting Bedlam Plate #8 "The Rake's Progress"), Val Lewton (screenplay) (as Carlos Keith) |
Being Human (1994) ::: 5.5/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 2min | Comedy, Drama | 6 May 1994 (USA) -- One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart. Director: Bill Forsyth Writer: Bill Forsyth
Beyond the Lights (2014) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 56min | Drama, Music, Romance | 14 November 2014 (USA) -- The pressures of fame have superstar singer Noni on the edge, until she meets Kaz, a young cop who works to help her find the courage to develop her own voice and break free to become the artist she was meant to be. Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood Writer:
Bilal: A New Breed of Hero (2015) ::: 7.9/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 45min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 2 February 2018 (USA) -- A thousand years ago, one boy with a dream of becoming a great warrior is abducted with his sister and taken to a land far away from home. Thrown into a world where greed and injustice rule all, Bilal finds the courage to raise his voice and make a change. Inspired by true events, this is a story of a real hero who earned his remembrance in time and history. Directors: Khurram H. Alavi, Ayman Jamal
Blue Car (2002) ::: 6.5/10 -- R | 1h 36min | Drama | 2 May 2003 (USA) -- A troubled young woman is encouraged by a teacher to enter a poetry contest. Director: Karen Moncrieff Writer: Karen Moncrieff
Boy Meets Girl (2014) ::: 7.1/10 -- R | 1h 35min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6 February 2015 (USA) -- Boy Meets Girl is a funny, tender, sex positive romantic comedy that explores what it means to be a real man or woman, and how important it is to live a courageous life not letting fear stand in the way of going after your dreams. Director: Eric Schaeffer Writer:
Captain Planet and the Planeteers ::: TV-Y7 | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (19901996) -- A quintet of teenagers work together to encourage environmentally responsible behavior and can summon a superhero to deal with ecological disasters. Creators:
Captains Courageous (1937) ::: 8.0/10 -- G | 1h 57min | Adventure, Drama, Family | 25 June 1937 (USA) -- A spoiled brat who falls overboard from a steamship gets picked up by a fishing boat, where he's made to earn his keep by joining the crew in their work. Director: Victor Fleming Writers:
Courageous (2011) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 9min | Drama, Fantasy | 30 September 2011 (USA) -- When a tragedy strikes close to home, four police officers struggle with their faith and their roles as husbands and fathers; together they make a decision that will change all of their lives. Director: Alex Kendrick Writers:
Courage the Cowardly Dog ::: TV-Y7 | 11min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (19992002) -- The offbeat adventures of Courage, a cowardly dog who must overcome his own fears to heroically defend his unknowing farmer owners from all kinds of dangers, paranormal events and menaces that appear around their land. Creator:
Courage the Cowardly Dog ::: TV-Y7 | 11min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (19992002) -- Trailer
Courage Under Fire (1996) ::: 6.6/10 -- R | 1h 56min | Action, Drama, Mystery | 12 July 1996 (USA) -- A U.S. Army officer, despondent about a deadly mistake he made, investigates a female chopper commander's worthiness for the Medal of Honor. Director: Edward Zwick Writer:
Dead of Night (1945) ::: 7.6/10 -- Approved | 1h 17min | Drama, Horror | 15 February 1946 (Finland) -- Architect Walter Craig (Mervyn Johns) senses impending doom as his half-remembered recurring dream turns into reality. The guests at the country house encourage him to stay as they take turns telling supernatural tales. Directors: Alberto Cavalcanti (as Cavalcanti), Charles Crichton | 2 more credits Writers:
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) ::: 7.8/10 -- PG | 1h 55min | Family, Sci-Fi | 11 June 1982 (USA) -- A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home world. Director: Steven Spielberg Writer: Melissa Mathison
Harriet (2019) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 5min | Action, Biography, Drama | 1 November 2019 (USA) -- The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes, whose courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history. Director: Kasi Lemmons Writers:
Iron Will (1994) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG | 1h 48min | Adventure, Family | 14 January 1994 (USA) -- A brave young man is thrust into adulthood as he and his courageous team of sled dogs embark on a grueling and treacherous cross-country marathon. Director: Charles Haid Writers:
Learning to Drive (2014) ::: 6.4/10 -- R | 1h 30min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 21 August 2015 (USA) -- As her marriage dissolves, a Manhattan writer takes driving lessons from a Sikh instructor with marriage troubles of his own. In each other's company they find the courage to get back on the road and the strength to take the wheel. Director: Isabel Coixet Writer:
Queen of the Mountains (2014) ::: 7.4/10 -- Kurmanjan datka (original title) -- Queen of the Mountains Poster The relevant epic story of the strong-willed, courageous and independent woman before her time, Kurmanjan, who is revered to this day for her diplomacy for saving her nation from complete destruction when the Russians invaded. Director: Sadyk Sher-Niyaz Writers: Sadyk Sher-Niyaz (screenplay), Bakytbek Turdubaev | 1 more credit
Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008) ::: 6.6/10 -- R | 1h 38min | Horror, Musical, Sci-Fi | 20 November 2008 (Czech -- Repo! The Genetic Opera Poster -- A worldwide epidemic encourages a biotech company to launch an organ-financing program similar in nature to a standard car loan. The repossession clause is a killer, however. Director: Darren Lynn Bousman Writers:
Rory O'Shea Was Here (2004) ::: 7.8/10 -- Inside I'm Dancing (original title) -- Rory O'Shea Was Here Poster When the kinetic Rory moves into his room in the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, his effect on the home is immediate. Most telling is his friendship with Michael, a young man with cerebral palsy and nearly unintelligible speech. Somehow, Rory understands Michael, and encourages him to experience life outside the confines of home. Director: Damien O'Donnell Writers:
Sky Kids (2008) ::: 6.9/10 -- The Flyboys (original title) -- Sky Kids Poster -- Two boys from a small town find their courage tested when they accidentally stow away aboard an airplane owned by the mob. Director: Rocco DeVilliers Writers:
Song for a Raggy Boy (2003) ::: 7.6/10 -- 1h 34min | Drama, History | 22 August 2003 (Denmark) -- The true story of a single teacher's courage to stand up against an untouchable prefect's sadistic disciplinary regime and other abuse in a Catholic Reformatory and Industrial School in 1939 Ireland. Director: Aisling Walsh Writers: Aisling Walsh, Kevin Byron Murphy (as Kevin Byron-Murphy) | 1 more credit
The Accused (1988) ::: 7.1/10 -- R | 1h 51min | Crime, Drama | 14 October 1988 (USA) -- After a young woman suffers a brutal gang rape in a bar one night, a prosecutor assists in bringing the perpetrators to justice, including the ones who encouraged and cheered on the attack. Director: Jonathan Kaplan Writer:
The Children of Huang Shi (2008) ::: 7.0/10 -- R | 2h 5min | Drama, War | 13 June 2008 (USA) -- About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937. Director: Roger Spottiswoode Writers:
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (2009) ::: 7.2/10 -- TV-PG | 1h 35min | Biography, Drama, War | TV Movie 19 April 2009 -- The story of Irena Sendler, a social worker who was part of the Polish underground during World War II and was arrested by the Nazis for saving the lives of nearly 2,500 Jewish children by smuggling them out of the Warsaw ghetto. Director: John Kent Harrison Writers:
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 3min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 21 November 2014 (USA) -- Katniss Everdeen is in District 13 after she shatters the games forever. Under the leadership of President Coin and the advice of her trusted friends, Katniss spreads her wings as she fights to save Peeta and a nation moved by her courage. Director: Francis Lawrence Writers:
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962) ::: 7.6/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 44min | Drama, Sport | 8 October 1962 (USA) -- A juvenile offender (Sir Tom Courtenay) at a tough reform school impresses its Governor (Sir Michael Redgrave) with his running ability and is encouraged to compete in an upcoming race, but faces ridicule from his peers. Director: Tony Richardson Writers:
The Red Badge of Courage (1951) ::: 7.2/10 -- Approved | 1h 9min | Drama, War | 11 October 1951 (USA) -- Truncated adaptation of Stephen Crane's novel about a Civil War Union soldier who stuggles to find the courage to fight in the heat of battle. Director: John Huston Writers:
The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974) ::: 7.8/10 -- TV-G | 51min | Animation, Comedy, Family | TV Movie 10 December 1974 -- When a weary and discouraged Santa Claus considers skipping his Christmas Eve run one year, Mrs. Claus and his Elves set out to change his mind. Directors: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. Writers: William J. Keenan (teleplay) (as William Keenan), Phyllis McGinley (novel)
What's Love Got to Do with It (1993) ::: 7.3/10 -- R | 1h 58min | Biography, Drama, Music | 25 June 1993 (USA) -- The story of singer Tina Turner's rise to stardom and how she gained the courage to break free from her abusive husband, Ike Turner. Director: Brian Gibson Writers: Tina Turner (book), Kurt Loder (book) | 1 more credit
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Arslan Senki (TV) -- -- LIDENFILMS, SANZIGEN -- 25 eps -- Manga -- Action Adventure Drama Fantasy Historical Shounen -- Arslan Senki (TV) Arslan Senki (TV) -- The year is 320. Under the rule of the belligerent King Andragoras III, the Kingdom of Pars is at war with the neighboring empire, Lusitania. Though different from his father in many aspects, Arslan, the young prince, sets out to prove his valor on the battlefield for the very first time. However, when the king is betrayed by one of his most trusted officials, the Parsian army is decimated and the capital city of Ecbatana is sieged. With the army in shambles and the Lusitanians out for his head, Arslan is forced to go on the run. With a respected general by his side, Daryun, Arslan soon sets off on a journey in search of allies that will help him take back his home. -- -- However, the enemies that the prince faces are far from limited to just those occupying his kingdom. Armies of other kingdoms stand ready to conquer Ecbatana. Moreover, the mastermind behind Lusitania's victory, an enigmatic man hiding behind a silver mask, poses a dangerous threat to Arslan and his company as he possesses a secret that could jeopardize Arslan's right to succession. -- -- With the odds stacked against him, Arslan must find the strength and courage to overcome these obstacles, and allies who will help him fight in the journey that will help prepare him for the day he becomes king. -- -- 311,716 7.70
Arslan Senki (TV) -- -- LIDENFILMS, SANZIGEN -- 25 eps -- Manga -- Action Adventure Drama Fantasy Historical Shounen -- Arslan Senki (TV) Arslan Senki (TV) -- The year is 320. Under the rule of the belligerent King Andragoras III, the Kingdom of Pars is at war with the neighboring empire, Lusitania. Though different from his father in many aspects, Arslan, the young prince, sets out to prove his valor on the battlefield for the very first time. However, when the king is betrayed by one of his most trusted officials, the Parsian army is decimated and the capital city of Ecbatana is sieged. With the army in shambles and the Lusitanians out for his head, Arslan is forced to go on the run. With a respected general by his side, Daryun, Arslan soon sets off on a journey in search of allies that will help him take back his home. -- -- However, the enemies that the prince faces are far from limited to just those occupying his kingdom. Armies of other kingdoms stand ready to conquer Ecbatana. Moreover, the mastermind behind Lusitania's victory, an enigmatic man hiding behind a silver mask, poses a dangerous threat to Arslan and his company as he possesses a secret that could jeopardize Arslan's right to succession. -- -- With the odds stacked against him, Arslan must find the strength and courage to overcome these obstacles, and allies who will help him fight in the journey that will help prepare him for the day he becomes king. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 311,716 7.70
Battle Athletess Daiundoukai (TV) -- -- AIC -- 26 eps -- Original -- Action Sci-Fi Adventure Comedy Sports Drama School Shounen -- Battle Athletess Daiundoukai (TV) Battle Athletess Daiundoukai (TV) -- Akari Kanzaki has just joined an all-girls academy in hopes of entering the University Satellite, an elite sports training facility. She wants to win the title of Cosmo Beauty - a title held years ago by her mother. It's not an easy task for her as fear, doubt and peer pressure get in her way, but friends, rivals and fans slowly encourage her to overcome her obstacles and become the best of the Battle Athletes. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Geneon Entertainment USA -- 7,478 6.89
Bikini Warriors -- -- feel. -- 12 eps -- Other -- Comedy Ecchi Fantasy Parody -- Bikini Warriors Bikini Warriors -- When darkness threatens the world, four heroines hold the only hope for salvation—if they can even manage to get out of the first town, that is. Bikini Warriors follows a party of beautiful adventurers in revealing armor: courageous Fighter, airheaded Paladin, timid Mage, and alluring Darkelf. But can you really be an adventurer if you don't get going on an adventure? -- -- Our heroines are eternally broke, insufferably vain, and frequently outmatched by the dangers of their world. Between fleeing dungeons and robbing peasants, the unlikely heroes will have to learn to live with each other before they can survive a battle with ultimate evil! -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 69,772 5.15
Boku no Hero Academia the Movie 2: Heroes:Rising -- -- Bones -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Super Power Shounen -- Boku no Hero Academia the Movie 2: Heroes:Rising Boku no Hero Academia the Movie 2: Heroes:Rising -- Izuku "Deku'' Midoriya and his fellow students in Class 1-A of UA High's hero course have been chosen to participate in a safety program on Nabu Island. To further improve their skills and gain experience in more ordinary heroics, the students aid the kind citizens with small services and everyday chores. With the low crime rate in the quiet community, all seems well and good, but the rise of a new villain threatens to put the students' courage to the test and challenge their capabilities as heroes. -- -- A merciless villain by the name of Nine is in search of a certain "quirk" needed to fulfill his diabolical plan—creating a society where only those with the strongest quirks reign supreme. As his attack on Nabu Island endangers the lives of the residents, securing the citizens becomes the first priority for Class 1-A; defeating Nine along with his wicked accomplices is also imperative. A straightforward strategy is formulated until a young boy named Katsuma Shimano, whom Deku had befriended, suddenly requires particular protection. Concerned for the boy's wellbeing, Deku and his classmates must now devise a plan to ensure Katsuma's safety at all costs. -- -- With Nine wreaking havoc to find the catalyst for his ill-intended schemes and the heroes desperate to defend Katsuma from harm, will Deku and his friends be able to come out victorious, or will they find themselves unable to escape a hopeless situation? -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- Movie - Dec 20, 2019 -- 311,218 8.07
Boku no Hero Academia the Movie 2: Heroes:Rising -- -- Bones -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Super Power Shounen -- Boku no Hero Academia the Movie 2: Heroes:Rising Boku no Hero Academia the Movie 2: Heroes:Rising -- Izuku "Deku'' Midoriya and his fellow students in Class 1-A of UA High's hero course have been chosen to participate in a safety program on Nabu Island. To further improve their skills and gain experience in more ordinary heroics, the students aid the kind citizens with small services and everyday chores. With the low crime rate in the quiet community, all seems well and good, but the rise of a new villain threatens to put the students' courage to the test and challenge their capabilities as heroes. -- -- A merciless villain by the name of Nine is in search of a certain "quirk" needed to fulfill his diabolical plan—creating a society where only those with the strongest quirks reign supreme. As his attack on Nabu Island endangers the lives of the residents, securing the citizens becomes the first priority for Class 1-A; defeating Nine along with his wicked accomplices is also imperative. A straightforward strategy is formulated until a young boy named Katsuma Shimano, whom Deku had befriended, suddenly requires particular protection. Concerned for the boy's wellbeing, Deku and his classmates must now devise a plan to ensure Katsuma's safety at all costs. -- -- With Nine wreaking havoc to find the catalyst for his ill-intended schemes and the heroes desperate to defend Katsuma from harm, will Deku and his friends be able to come out victorious, or will they find themselves unable to escape a hopeless situation? -- -- Movie - Dec 20, 2019 -- 311,218 8.07
Bokura no Nanokakan Sensou -- -- Ajia-Do -- 1 ep -- Novel -- Action Comedy Drama -- Bokura no Nanokakan Sensou Bokura no Nanokakan Sensou -- Mamoru Suzuhara is an introverted high school student who spends his free time reading up on modern warfare. Upon discovering that his crush, Aya Chiyono, is reluctantly moving away with her family next week, he musters enough courage to ask her to run away with him. Consequently, Mamoru, Aya, and four of their fellow classmates set out and camp in the abandoned Satomi Coal Factory. After enjoying themselves during their first day there, they come to the surprising conclusion that they may not be alone in the factory. -- -- Bokura no Nanokakan Sensou, based on the novel of the same name, is a coming-of-age story about an act of rebellion that evolves into a full-out war against the adults. Meanwhile, the children struggle to open up about their feelings and protect what they hold dear. -- -- Movie - Dec 13, 2019 -- 18,346 6.69
Brave Story -- -- Gonzo -- 1 ep -- Novel -- Action Adventure Fantasy Kids Magic Supernatural -- Brave Story Brave Story -- When 11-year-old Wataru's father leaves home and his mother is taken ill to the hospital, he decides to change his fate by traveling through the door shown to him by his friend Mitsuru. In a land of magic and monsters, Wataru must summon all his courage and embark on a journey with several comrades to meet the Goddess of Destiny and change this "mistaken fate." -- -- (Source: ANN) -- Movie - Jul 8, 2006 -- 37,734 7.45
Bungou Stray Dogs: Dead Apple -- -- Bones -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Comedy Mystery Super Power Supernatural -- Bungou Stray Dogs: Dead Apple Bungou Stray Dogs: Dead Apple -- A large scale catastrophe is occurring across the planet. Ability users are discovered after the appearance of a mysterious fog, apparently having committed suicide, so the Armed Detective Agency sets out to investigate these mysterious deaths. The case seems to involve an unknown ability user referred to as "Collector," a man who could be the mastermind behind the incident. -- -- Trust and courage are put to the test in order to save the city of Yokohama and ability users across the world from the grip of Collector where the Armed Detective Agency forms an unlikely partnership with the dangerous Port Mafia. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Crunchyroll -- Movie - Mar 3, 2018 -- 150,291 7.86
Bungou Stray Dogs: Dead Apple -- -- Bones -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Comedy Mystery Super Power Supernatural -- Bungou Stray Dogs: Dead Apple Bungou Stray Dogs: Dead Apple -- A large scale catastrophe is occurring across the planet. Ability users are discovered after the appearance of a mysterious fog, apparently having committed suicide, so the Armed Detective Agency sets out to investigate these mysterious deaths. The case seems to involve an unknown ability user referred to as "Collector," a man who could be the mastermind behind the incident. -- -- Trust and courage are put to the test in order to save the city of Yokohama and ability users across the world from the grip of Collector where the Armed Detective Agency forms an unlikely partnership with the dangerous Port Mafia. -- -- Movie - Mar 3, 2018 -- 150,291 7.86
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
Clannad: After Story - Mou Hitotsu no Sekai, Kyou-hen -- -- Kyoto Animation -- 1 ep -- Visual novel -- Drama Romance School -- Clannad: After Story - Mou Hitotsu no Sekai, Kyou-hen Clannad: After Story - Mou Hitotsu no Sekai, Kyou-hen -- Included in the 8th and final DVD of Clannad ~After Story~ is an extra episode set in an alternate universe. Here, Fujibayashi Kyou is the main heroine in place of Furukawa Nagisa. -- -- Love can be wonderfully exciting, but also extremely painful. Fujibayashi Ryou, Kyou's sister, is in love with Okazaki Tomoya, the male protagonist. With the help of Kyou, Ryou manages to sum up the courage to ask him out and now Tomoya and Ryou are a couple. However, as things progress, Kyou begins to acknowledge her feelings for Tomoya, and a love-triangle is formed. -- -- As everything is revealed, the sisters learn the pains of love and try to decide between the two loves of their life: Tomoya, or each other. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- Special - Jul 1, 2009 -- 225,544 7.84
Diamond no Ace -- -- Madhouse, Production I.G -- 75 eps -- Manga -- Comedy School Shounen Sports -- Diamond no Ace Diamond no Ace -- With a stray pitch that completely missed the batter, Eijun Sawamura loses his final middle school baseball game. Frustrated by this defeat, Eijun and his teammates vow to reach the national tournament once they are in high school. But everything changes when a scout unexpectedly invites him to Tokyo's prestigious Seidou High School after seeing the potential in his unusual pitching style. Encouraged by his teammates, Eijun accepts the offer, ready to improve his skills and play at a much more competitive level of baseball. -- -- However, now surrounded by a large number of skilled players, Eijun struggles to find his place on the team. He declares that he will one day become the team's ace, but that's only if fellow first year Satoru Furuya doesn't take the title first, with his breakneck fastballs that earn him a coveted spot on the starting roster. With the addition of these talented new players to an already powerful lineup, the Seidou baseball team aims to become the best in Japan, facing off against a number of formidable foes that stand in their way. -- -- 188,213 8.11
Etotama -- -- Encourage Films, Shirogumi -- 12 eps -- Original -- Action Comedy Fantasy -- Etotama Etotama -- Every 60 years, the heavens conduct a sacred ritual called ETM12. This custom involves selecting worthy Eto-musume—celestial beings representing different animals—to become one of the members of the Chinese zodiac, or Eto-shin. However, since the first ETM12 two thousand years ago, the original batch of Eto-shin reigns with no one being able to replace them. -- -- Nyaa-tan is a cat Eto-musume who aspires to become a member of the zodiac in the ongoing ETM12. Fulfilling her ambition requires her to secure 12 seals, one for each Eto-shin. To that end, she must win various types of battles using Sol/Lull—divine energy created by people's positive emotions. This task is not easy however, as her powers as an Eto-musume are far below the abilities of a single Eto-shin. As such, she needs a constant source of energy. -- -- But in a chance encounter, Nyaa-tan meets Takeru Amato, a man who has just transferred to the apartment where she is secretly staying. To Nyaa-tan's delight, Takeru discovers that he gives out high quality Sol/Lull—something that sets him apart from most people. With this, the story of Takeru and Nyaa-tan begins. As Takeru supports Nyaa-tan in her dreams, he meets the Eto-shin and begins to uncover a mysterious past. -- -- 70,946 6.84
Etotama -- -- Encourage Films, Shirogumi -- 12 eps -- Original -- Action Comedy Fantasy -- Etotama Etotama -- Every 60 years, the heavens conduct a sacred ritual called ETM12. This custom involves selecting worthy Eto-musume—celestial beings representing different animals—to become one of the members of the Chinese zodiac, or Eto-shin. However, since the first ETM12 two thousand years ago, the original batch of Eto-shin reigns with no one being able to replace them. -- -- Nyaa-tan is a cat Eto-musume who aspires to become a member of the zodiac in the ongoing ETM12. Fulfilling her ambition requires her to secure 12 seals, one for each Eto-shin. To that end, she must win various types of battles using Sol/Lull—divine energy created by people's positive emotions. This task is not easy however, as her powers as an Eto-musume are far below the abilities of a single Eto-shin. As such, she needs a constant source of energy. -- -- But in a chance encounter, Nyaa-tan meets Takeru Amato, a man who has just transferred to the apartment where she is secretly staying. To Nyaa-tan's delight, Takeru discovers that he gives out high quality Sol/Lull—something that sets him apart from most people. With this, the story of Takeru and Nyaa-tan begins. As Takeru supports Nyaa-tan in her dreams, he meets the Eto-shin and begins to uncover a mysterious past. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Ponycan USA -- 70,946 6.84
Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone -- -- Khara -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Sci-Fi Psychological Drama Mecha -- Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone -- In a post-apocalyptic world, the last remaining human settlement in Japan is the heavily fortified city of Tokyo-3. Fourteen-year-old Shinji Ikari is brought to the headquarters of Nerv, an underground organization lead by his estranged father, Gendou. He requests that Shinji become a pilot of an "Evangelion," a colossal android built to fight against monstrous and destructive alien creatures known as "Angels" that wreak havoc on the planet and threaten the survival of the remaining human race. -- -- Although initially reluctant, Shinji is swayed by the idea of reconciling with his father, and agrees to aid in mankind's perilous endeavor against its alien threat, as the pilot of Evangelion Unit-01. Thrust into the midst of a dangerous battlefield, Shinji must find the necessary courage and resolve to face against the Angels' incursions before it is too late. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- Movie - Sep 1, 2007 -- 382,429 8.06
Fate/Grand Order: Shuukyoku Tokuiten - Kani Jikan Shinden Solomon -- -- - -- ? eps -- Game -- Action Supernatural Magic Fantasy -- Fate/Grand Order: Shuukyoku Tokuiten - Kani Jikan Shinden Solomon Fate/Grand Order: Shuukyoku Tokuiten - Kani Jikan Shinden Solomon -- (No synopsis yet.) -- - - ??? ??, ???? -- 22,965 N/A -- -- Aa! Megami-sama!: Sorezore no Tsubasa Specials -- -- - -- 2 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Magic Romance Seinen Supernatural -- Aa! Megami-sama!: Sorezore no Tsubasa Specials Aa! Megami-sama!: Sorezore no Tsubasa Specials -- When Keiichi found his grandpa's diary and saw a treasure map inside, Skuld and Urd started to feel a great urge to search it. With the company of his friends, Keiichi arrives to Honda Inn, the place indicated on the map. Once the party is inside, they meet Honda Chieko, who seems to share a certain promise with Keiichi. Apart from all that confusion, it's time for Keiichi to have enough courage to say the words "I love you" to Belldandy. -- Special - Feb 23, 2007 -- 22,925 7.53
Future Card Buddyfight -- -- OLM, Xebec -- 64 eps -- Card game -- Game -- Future Card Buddyfight Future Card Buddyfight -- An adaptation of the Future Card Buddyfight card game. -- -- Future Card Buddyfight takes place in a more futuristic version of today. The card game connects to a parallel universe through special cards (Buddy Rare Cards) that act as portals. They bring monsters to Earth in order for them to become buddies with humans. Through friendship and courage, they take on and fight challenges, known as Buddyfights, where people of all ages have friendly non-hurtful competitions. The main character, Gaou Mikado has just started Buddyfighting. As the story progresses, Buddyfights are seeming to become a little too real... -- 8,294 6.72
Gantz 2nd Stage -- -- Gonzo -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Horror Psychological Supernatural Drama Ecchi -- Gantz 2nd Stage Gantz 2nd Stage -- Kurono Kei and his ex-elementary school classmate, Kato Masaru have survived the first two ordeals that the unknown black sphere Gantz has sent them through. Exploding body parts, struggling to stay alive till the last seconds and seeing your fellow comrades fall in a pile of blood and gore are norm to them now. They are aware now that Gantz can call them up along with any new deeds, at any time for another confrontation with aliens. -- -- Will Kato's experiences in the Gantz world give him the same courage in the real world? With fellow veteran Gantzer Kei Kishimoto currently staying at Kurono's home as his "adopted pet", can Kurono stave off his growing lust for her mammaries? -- -- What the heck is Gantz? -- -- (Source: anime-source.com) -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films, Funimation -- TV - Aug 26, 2004 -- 138,168 7.08
Gantz 2nd Stage -- -- Gonzo -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Horror Psychological Supernatural Drama Ecchi -- Gantz 2nd Stage Gantz 2nd Stage -- Kurono Kei and his ex-elementary school classmate, Kato Masaru have survived the first two ordeals that the unknown black sphere Gantz has sent them through. Exploding body parts, struggling to stay alive till the last seconds and seeing your fellow comrades fall in a pile of blood and gore are norm to them now. They are aware now that Gantz can call them up along with any new deeds, at any time for another confrontation with aliens. -- -- Will Kato's experiences in the Gantz world give him the same courage in the real world? With fellow veteran Gantzer Kei Kishimoto currently staying at Kurono's home as his "adopted pet", can Kurono stave off his growing lust for her mammaries? -- -- What the heck is Gantz? -- -- (Source: anime-source.com) -- TV - Aug 26, 2004 -- 138,168 7.08
Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu: Die Neue These - Seiran 2 -- -- Production I.G -- 4 eps -- Novel -- Action Drama Military Sci-Fi Space -- Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu: Die Neue These - Seiran 2 Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu: Die Neue These - Seiran 2 -- Marquis Reinhard von Lohengramm's plot to destabilize the Free Planets Alliance succeeds when the treacherous former Rear Admiral Arthur Lynch instigates a coup on Heinessen. Equipped with a plan crafted by Reinhard himself, Lynch encourages his longtime friend Admiral Dwight Greenhill to supervise the National Salvation Military Council's toppling of the civilian government. Seeking to defend democracy and restore the Alliance constitution, Admiral Yang Wen-li faces off against his fellow citizens—and, regrettably, the father of his devoted adjutant Lieutenant Frederica Greenhill. -- -- Now with the Free Planets Alliance thoroughly occupied with their own internal matters, the forces of the Galactic Empire can safely suppress the newly formed Lippstadt League led by Duke Otto von Braunschweig. However, with his friend and loyal subordinate High Admiral Siegfried Kircheis fighting far away in the noble-controlled frontier regions, Reinhard increasingly relies on the advice of the ruthless Vice Admiral Paul von Oberstein, whose influence within the esteemed Lohengramm admiralty steadily grows. -- -- Though bloodshed is inevitable on both sides of the galaxy, Yang Wen-li of the Alliance and Reinhard von Lohengramm of the Empire each ask themselves the same questions: how will history look back on their actions? Will the ends justify the means? -- -- Movie - Oct 25, 2019 -- 15,432 8.09
Gochuumon wa Usagi Desu ka? Bloom -- -- Encourage Films -- 12 eps -- 4-koma manga -- Slice of Life Comedy -- Gochuumon wa Usagi Desu ka? Bloom Gochuumon wa Usagi Desu ka? Bloom -- Although the year is coming close to an end, there is no lack of fun for Kokoa Hoto and the other café waitresses! From bazaars to festivals, life is as enjoyable as it gets. As for Chino Kafuu and her middle school friends—the friendly Megumi Natsu and the playful Maya Jouga—they begin to look towards the future and decide on a high school to enroll in. -- -- Bonds of friendship and exciting adventures blend into Gochuumon wa Usagi Desu ka? Bloom as the joyful lives of the café waitresses continue. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 38,514 7.96
Hakugei Densetsu -- -- Annapuru, Studio Junio -- 26 eps -- Original -- Sci-Fi Adventure Space -- Hakugei Densetsu Hakugei Densetsu -- A courageous young man tries to find the only person who can save his planet from the most terrifying beast in the universe—the great white whale Moby Dick—in this futuristic anime adventure set in 4699. But locating the outlaw Captain Ahab and his illusory crew of whale hunters and persuading them to put an end to the leviathan's long reign of terror won't be easy. Will Ahab take up the challenge one more time? -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films -- 3,287 6.64
Hashiri Tsuzukete Yokattatte. -- -- Signal.MD -- 4 eps -- Original -- Drama Slice of Life -- Hashiri Tsuzukete Yokattatte. Hashiri Tsuzukete Yokattatte. -- Minato visits a recitation at an anime event with his friend. He is captivated by the voice actors' performances and decides to enroll in Suidoubashi Animation Academy. There, he meets Chikako, who used to live in the room he is moving into and who left a message in a USB drive. Minato, who aims to be a voice actor but is unable to put himself into the role, and Chikako, who lives with a past trauma, encourage one another and try to improve themselves. With the help of seniors such as Ryouta and Kei watching over them, they try to mature. As they stumble and worry, what lies ahead for them both? -- -- (Source: MAL News) -- 10,172 6.41
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
Hayate no Gotoku!!: Atsu ga Natsuize - Mizugi-hen! -- -- J.C.Staff -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Comedy Harem Parody Romance -- Hayate no Gotoku!!: Atsu ga Natsuize - Mizugi-hen! Hayate no Gotoku!!: Atsu ga Natsuize - Mizugi-hen! -- To encourage Nagi to swim and enjoy summer, Maria invites various friends to their Sanzenin family's private beach. While everyone is having fun, Nagi hesitates to wear swimsuits and come out because of her small breasts, and refuses to join... -- OVA - Mar 6, 2009 -- 35,002 7.33
Heavy Object -- -- J.C.Staff, SANZIGEN -- 24 eps -- Light novel -- Action Military Sci-Fi Mecha -- Heavy Object Heavy Object -- In the distant future, the nature of war has changed. "Objects"—massive, spherical tanks impermeable to standard weaponry and armed with destructive firepower—rule the battlefield; their very deployment ensures victory, rendering traditional armies useless. However, this new method of warfare is about to be turned on its head. -- -- Qwenthur Barbotage, a student studying Object Design, and Havia Winchell, a radar analyst of noble birth, serve in the Legitimate Kingdom's 37th Mobile Maintenance Battalion, tasked with supporting the Baby Magnum, one of the nation's Objects. Unfortunately, a battle gone awry places the duo in a precarious situation: mere infantry stand face-to-face against the unfathomable might of an enemy Object. As they scramble to save themselves and their fellow soldiers, a glimmer of hope shines through, and the world's perception of Objects is changed forever. -- -- Heavy Object follows these two soldiers alongside Milinda Brantini, the Baby Magnum's pilot, and their commanding officer Frolaytia Capistrano as the unit treks all over the globe to fight battle after battle. Facing one impossible situation after another, they must summon all their wit and courage to overcome the insurmountable foes that are Objects. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 131,484 7.28
Heya Camp△ -- -- C-Station -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Slice of Life Comedy -- Heya Camp△ Heya Camp△ -- During an Outdoor Activities Club meeting, Nadeshiko Kagamihara, Aoi Inuyama, and Chiaki Oogaki debate what it means to be a real Yamanashi native. Somewhere along the line, Chiaki brings up the Yamanashi Kids' Stamp Rally, which Nadeshiko has never heard of. The rally encourages one to visit famous places in the prefecture and collect stamps; those who complete the rally will win a year's worth of Minobu steamed buns. Enticed by the humongous food prize, Nadeshiko is set on participating. -- -- Follow the Outdoor Activities Club as they travel around the Yamanashi prefecture to collect stamps and explore what the region has to offer! -- -- 69,262 7.22
Hinako Note -- -- Passione -- 12 eps -- 4-koma manga -- Comedy Slice of Life -- Hinako Note Hinako Note -- Born and raised in the countryside of Japan, Hinako "Hina" Sakuragi gets anxious easily when she talks to new people—so much so that she resembles a stiff scarecrow. To overcome this, Hina hopes to get involved in theater, inspired by a play she saw during her school's field trip. So, Hina moves into the Hitotose Manor in the bustling city of Tokyo to study at Fujiyama High School, aspiring to join the school's renowned theatre club. -- -- But to Hina's dismay, she learns that Fujiyama High's theatre club has been on a lengthy hiatus. Having already come to Tokyo and enrolled in the school, Hina is at a loss for what to do next. Sensing her disappointment and eagerness to learn theatre, Chiaki Hagino, the landlady of Hitotose Manor, encourages Hina to create a troupe with the residents of Hitotose Manor as its members. -- -- Hinako Note follows Hina as she begins a new life in Tokyo attending Fujiyama High while learning the ropes of theatre with the support of her friends along the way. -- -- 82,771 6.76
Hitoribocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu -- -- C2C -- 12 eps -- 4-koma manga -- Comedy School Shounen Slice of Life -- Hitoribocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu Hitoribocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu -- Many of us know what it is like to transition to a new school with few to no friends in a new environment, going through the arduous process of getting to know people again. Bocchi Hitori knows this struggle all too well, having just graduated from elementary school and thrown into middle school. Unfortunately, she suffers from extreme social anxiety: she faints when overwhelmed, vomits when nervous, and draws up ridiculously convoluted plans to avoid social contact. It does not help that her only friend from elementary school, Kai Yawara, will not be attending the same middle school as Bocchi. However, wanting to help her, Kai severs ties with Bocchi and promises to reconcile with her when she befriends all of her classmates in her new middle school class. -- -- Even though Bocchi has no faith in herself, she is determined to be friends with Kai again. Summoning all of her courage, Bocchi takes on the daunting challenge of making friends with her entire class, starting with the delinquent-looking girl sitting in front of her... -- -- 152,537 7.50
Hitorijime My Hero -- -- Encourage Films -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Drama Romance School Shounen Ai Slice of Life -- Hitorijime My Hero Hitorijime My Hero -- Masahiro Setagawa is a hopeless teenager who is often used by the neighborhood bullies as an errand boy. Defenseless, Masahiro knows that nobody will ever save him. However, his life drastically changes when he meets Kousuke Ooshiba, a man known as the "Bear Killer," who takes down neighborhood gangs. -- -- A year later, Masahiro and his former friend, Kensuke Ooshiba, attend high school, only to find that Kousuke is their math teacher. While the three grow closer, Masahiro starts to view Kousuke as his "hero," and Kousuke develops an urging desire to protect Masahiro. However, their normal lives take a turn when Kensuke's childhood friend, Asaya Hasekura, returns, seeing Kensuke as more than just a friend, much to his surprise. Will the three boys be able to live a regular high school life? Or will forbidden love keep them apart forever? -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 111,434 7.38
Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha. -- -- Production IMS -- 10 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Romance School Seinen Supernatural -- Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha. Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha. -- Frazzle-haired middle schooler Inari Fushimi is less than average; she's painfully shy and horribly clumsy, but despite all this, she is undeniably kind. Running about the winding streets of her hometown, she takes a shortcut through the local shrine and stumbles upon a small fox pup in a river. After rescuing him, she continues on, but from this moment on, her life takes a drastic turn. -- -- Grateful for rescuing the pup, the shrine goddess Uka-no-Mitama-no-Kami, "Uka-sama," grants Inari a fragment of her power. Now, Inari has the ability to transform into anyone by shouting the magical phrase "Inari, konkon." Could this power also grant her the courage to convey her feelings to her crush, Kouji Tanbabashi? With her new heavenly ability and the fox spirit Kon, Inari forms a sincere friendship with Uka-sama, encounters more of the supernatural world, and learns that true love knows no bounds. -- -- 131,046 7.21
Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha. -- -- Production IMS -- 10 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Romance School Seinen Supernatural -- Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha. Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha. -- Frazzle-haired middle schooler Inari Fushimi is less than average; she's painfully shy and horribly clumsy, but despite all this, she is undeniably kind. Running about the winding streets of her hometown, she takes a shortcut through the local shrine and stumbles upon a small fox pup in a river. After rescuing him, she continues on, but from this moment on, her life takes a drastic turn. -- -- Grateful for rescuing the pup, the shrine goddess Uka-no-Mitama-no-Kami, "Uka-sama," grants Inari a fragment of her power. Now, Inari has the ability to transform into anyone by shouting the magical phrase "Inari, konkon." Could this power also grant her the courage to convey her feelings to her crush, Kouji Tanbabashi? With her new heavenly ability and the fox spirit Kon, Inari forms a sincere friendship with Uka-sama, encounters more of the supernatural world, and learns that true love knows no bounds. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 131,046 7.21
Isekai Cheat Magician -- -- Encourage Films -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Action Adventure Fantasy -- Isekai Cheat Magician Isekai Cheat Magician -- Regular high schooler Taichi Nishimura and his childhood friend, Rin Azuma, are on their way to school one ordinary morning. Suddenly, a glowing light envelops them, transporting them to a fantasy world full of magical creatures. -- -- Upon their arrival, Taichi and Rin are threatened by a beast. They are promptly saved by a group of adventurers, who advise the pair that traveling unarmed and inexperienced makes them vulnerable to the recently increasing monster attacks. Taichi and Rin are directed to the Guild, where they can determine their magical aptitude and register as adventurers. However, the test they take reveals an unprecedented result: Taichi and Rin possess extraordinary powers that far surpass the standard mage, instantly transforming them from typical high school students to the ultimate cheat magicians. -- -- Taichi and Rin learn to grasp the full extent of their powers and familiarize themselves with their new world. However, while the duo seeks to uncover the reason behind their transportation and a possible way back to their original world, unexpected trouble lurks in the shadows. -- -- 203,921 5.37
Isshuukan Friends. -- -- Brain's Base -- 12 eps -- 4-koma manga -- Slice of Life Comedy School Shounen -- Isshuukan Friends. Isshuukan Friends. -- Sixteen-year-old Yuuki Hase finally finds the courage to speak to his crush and ask her if she wants to become friends. The object of his affection, Kaori Fujimiya, is a quiet and reserved girl who cuts herself off from everyone and does not spare him the same blunt rejection she gives everybody else. -- -- Some time after, Yuuki finds her eating lunch on the roof where she secludes herself during break. He decides to start meeting with Kaori every day in the hopes of beginning to understand her better. The more time they spend together, the more she begins to open up to him. However, nearing the end of the week, she starts to push him away once more. It is then revealed to him the reason for Kaori's cold front: at the end of the week, her memories of those close to her, excluding her family, are forgotten, as they are reset every Monday. The result of an accident in middle school, the once popular and kind Kaori is now unable to make friends in fear of hurting the people dear to her. -- -- Determined to become more than just one week friends, Yuuki asks her the exact same question each Monday: "Would you like to be friends?" Because he knows that deep down, Kaori wishes for that more than anything. -- -- 259,203 7.56
Isshuukan Friends. -- -- Brain's Base -- 12 eps -- 4-koma manga -- Slice of Life Comedy School Shounen -- Isshuukan Friends. Isshuukan Friends. -- Sixteen-year-old Yuuki Hase finally finds the courage to speak to his crush and ask her if she wants to become friends. The object of his affection, Kaori Fujimiya, is a quiet and reserved girl who cuts herself off from everyone and does not spare him the same blunt rejection she gives everybody else. -- -- Some time after, Yuuki finds her eating lunch on the roof where she secludes herself during break. He decides to start meeting with Kaori every day in the hopes of beginning to understand her better. The more time they spend together, the more she begins to open up to him. However, nearing the end of the week, she starts to push him away once more. It is then revealed to him the reason for Kaori's cold front: at the end of the week, her memories of those close to her, excluding her family, are forgotten, as they are reset every Monday. The result of an accident in middle school, the once popular and kind Kaori is now unable to make friends in fear of hurting the people dear to her. -- -- Determined to become more than just one week friends, Yuuki asks her the exact same question each Monday: "Would you like to be friends?" Because he knows that deep down, Kaori wishes for that more than anything. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 259,203 7.56
Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunousen 3rd Season -- -- - -- ? eps -- Manga -- Comedy Psychological Romance School Seinen -- Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunousen 3rd Season Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunousen 3rd Season -- Third season of Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunousen. -- TV - ??? ??, ???? -- 138,754 N/AGantz 2nd Stage -- -- Gonzo -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Horror Psychological Supernatural Drama Ecchi -- Gantz 2nd Stage Gantz 2nd Stage -- Kurono Kei and his ex-elementary school classmate, Kato Masaru have survived the first two ordeals that the unknown black sphere Gantz has sent them through. Exploding body parts, struggling to stay alive till the last seconds and seeing your fellow comrades fall in a pile of blood and gore are norm to them now. They are aware now that Gantz can call them up along with any new deeds, at any time for another confrontation with aliens. -- -- Will Kato's experiences in the Gantz world give him the same courage in the real world? With fellow veteran Gantzer Kei Kishimoto currently staying at Kurono's home as his "adopted pet", can Kurono stave off his growing lust for her mammaries? -- -- What the heck is Gantz? -- -- (Source: anime-source.com) -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films, Funimation -- TV - Aug 26, 2004 -- 138,168 7.08
Kamichu! -- -- Brain's Base -- 12 eps -- Original -- Comedy Drama Slice of Life Supernatural -- Kamichu! Kamichu! -- Yurie Hitotsubashi was just an average middle school student living in the city of Onomichi on Japan's inland sea in the easygoing times of the 1980s. She spent her days worrying about exams and trying to get Kenji, the clueless boy she likes, to notice her. Then during lunch one day she suddenly announces to her friend Mitsue that the night before she had become a goddess. Their classmate Matsuri quickly latches on to Yurie's newfound divinity as a way to promote her family's bankrupt Shinto shrine. She hopes that replacing their hapless local god, Yashima-sama, with Yurie will make the shrine more popular (and profitable). Now, with Matsuri as her manager, Yurie has to grant wishes, cure curses, meet aliens, and attend god conventions. All the while attending school and working-up the courage to confess to Kenji. -- -- The DVD/BD box set includes the Kamichu! Specials episodes. For a complete list of episodes and the order they're included in the box set, see the More Info tab. -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation, Geneon Entertainment USA -- TV - Jun 29, 2005 -- 51,494 7.39
Kamichu! -- -- Brain's Base -- 12 eps -- Original -- Comedy Drama Slice of Life Supernatural -- Kamichu! Kamichu! -- Yurie Hitotsubashi was just an average middle school student living in the city of Onomichi on Japan's inland sea in the easygoing times of the 1980s. She spent her days worrying about exams and trying to get Kenji, the clueless boy she likes, to notice her. Then during lunch one day she suddenly announces to her friend Mitsue that the night before she had become a goddess. Their classmate Matsuri quickly latches on to Yurie's newfound divinity as a way to promote her family's bankrupt Shinto shrine. She hopes that replacing their hapless local god, Yashima-sama, with Yurie will make the shrine more popular (and profitable). Now, with Matsuri as her manager, Yurie has to grant wishes, cure curses, meet aliens, and attend god conventions. All the while attending school and working-up the courage to confess to Kenji. -- -- The DVD/BD box set includes the Kamichu! Specials episodes. For a complete list of episodes and the order they're included in the box set, see the More Info tab. -- TV - Jun 29, 2005 -- 51,494 7.39
Kanashimi no Belladonna -- -- Mushi Production -- 1 ep -- Book -- Dementia Drama Hentai Historical -- Kanashimi no Belladonna Kanashimi no Belladonna -- The beautiful Jeanne marries a man named Jean, and the happy newlyweds make their way to the Lord's castle with a cow's worth of money for his blessings. However, the demonic Lord is unmoved by their offering, ignoring their desperate, impoverished pleas. The Lord's wife offers an alternative: Jeanne must become the Lord's conquest for the night in a ritual deflowering. -- -- Scarred by the experience, the shaken Jeanne receives no sympathy from her husband. Instead, she is neglected. But as Jeanne drifts off to sleep, she is met by a strange spirit that encourages her to deliver retribution to those who wronged her. And with a mysterious surge of pleasure and an unquenching libido, Jeanne agrees. -- -- Kanashimi no Belladonna is a captivating, psychosexual adventure that tells a story of cunning witchcraft and deceitful superstition in a poor, rural village of medieval France. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Cinelicious Pics -- Movie - Jun 30, 1973 -- 25,287 7.12
Kanashimi no Belladonna -- -- Mushi Production -- 1 ep -- Book -- Dementia Drama Hentai Historical -- Kanashimi no Belladonna Kanashimi no Belladonna -- The beautiful Jeanne marries a man named Jean, and the happy newlyweds make their way to the Lord's castle with a cow's worth of money for his blessings. However, the demonic Lord is unmoved by their offering, ignoring their desperate, impoverished pleas. The Lord's wife offers an alternative: Jeanne must become the Lord's conquest for the night in a ritual deflowering. -- -- Scarred by the experience, the shaken Jeanne receives no sympathy from her husband. Instead, she is neglected. But as Jeanne drifts off to sleep, she is met by a strange spirit that encourages her to deliver retribution to those who wronged her. And with a mysterious surge of pleasure and an unquenching libido, Jeanne agrees. -- -- Kanashimi no Belladonna is a captivating, psychosexual adventure that tells a story of cunning witchcraft and deceitful superstition in a poor, rural village of medieval France. -- -- Movie - Jun 30, 1973 -- 25,287 7.12
Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san 2 -- -- Shin-Ei Animation -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Slice of Life Comedy Romance School Shounen -- Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san 2 Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san 2 -- Even after spending a considerable amount of time with Takagi, Nishikata is still struggling to find a perfect plan to defeat the expert teaser. A battle of wits, a contest of physical prowess, a test of courage—any strategy he employs to expose her weaknesses is to no avail. On the contrary, Nishikata's pitiful attempts only reveal more of his own flaws, which Takagi takes advantage of to become increasingly daring in her teasing attempts. To make things worse for Nishikata, rumors about him and Takagi may have spread in class due to the frequent interactions between them. -- -- However, the optimistic Nishikata believes that wisdom comes with age and that as the days go by, his experience with her constant teasing will eventually bear fruit, leading him to the awaited moment of victory. Thus, Nishikata continues to strive for the seemingly impossible—to outsmart Takagi and make her blush with embarrassment. -- -- 197,501 8.13
Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl -- -- Studio Hibari -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Drama Romance School Shoujo Ai Slice of Life -- Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl -- Hazumu was a shy boy who enjoyed gardening, collecting herbs, and long walks in the mountains. One day he finally worked up the courage to confess his love to Yasuna, but she rejected him. -- -- Depressed, he wandered up Mt. Kashimayama, the place where they first met, to reconsider his feelings. After getting lost, he wished upon a shooting star and received a bizarre twist of fate. -- -- Now he is a she, and she stumbles headfirst back into social life and relationships only to find that the entire landscape has changed! -- -- (Source: Media Blasters) -- -- Licensor: -- Discotek Media, Media Blasters -- TV - Jan 12, 2006 -- 43,936 6.66
Kimi ni Todoke -- -- Production I.G -- 25 eps -- Manga -- Slice of Life Drama Romance School Shoujo -- Kimi ni Todoke Kimi ni Todoke -- Known for her semblance to the Sadako character of The Ring series, Sawako Kuronuma is given the nickname "Sadako" and misunderstood to be frightening and malicious like her fictional counterpart, despite having a timid and sweet nature. Longing to make friends and live a normal life, Sawako is naturally drawn to the cheerful and friendly Shouta Kazehaya, the most popular boy in her class. From their first meeting, Sawako has admired Kazehaya's ability to be the center of attention and aspires to be like him. -- -- When Kazehaya organizes a test of courage for the entire class and encourages her to attend, Sawako sees this as an opportunity to get along with her classmates, starting with Ayane Yano and Chizuru Yoshida. Through each new encounter and emotion she experiences, Sawako believes that meeting Kazehaya has changed her for the better. Little does Sawako know, her presence has also changed Kazehaya. -- -- -- Licensor: -- NIS America, Inc. -- 679,229 8.01
Koi to Uso -- -- LIDENFILMS -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Drama Romance School -- Koi to Uso Koi to Uso -- In a futuristic society, Japan has implemented a complex system referred to as "The Red Threads of Science" to encourage successful marriages and combat increasingly low birthrates. Based on a compatibility calculation, young people at the age of 16 are assigned marriage partners by the government, with severe repercussions awaiting those who disobey the arrangement. For Yukari Nejima, a teen that considers himself average in every way, this system might be his best shot at living a fulfilling life. -- -- However, spurred by his infatuation for his classmate and long-time crush, Misaki Takasaki, Yukari defies the system and confesses his love. After some initial reluctance, Misaki reciprocates his feelings in a moment of passion. Unfortunately, before the two can further their relationship, Yukari receives his marriage notice. He is then thrown into a confusing web of love and lies when his less-than-thrilled assigned partner, Ririna Sanada, becomes fascinated with his illicit romance. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 294,276 6.56
Konjiki no Gash Bell!! -- -- Toei Animation -- 150 eps -- Manga -- Adventure Comedy Demons Supernatural Magic Shounen -- Konjiki no Gash Bell!! Konjiki no Gash Bell!! -- Takamine Kiyomaro, a depressed don't-care-about-the-world guy, was suddenly given a little demon named Gash Bell to take care of. Little does he know that Gash is embroiled into an intense fight to see who is the ruler of the demon world. All of the demons have to pick a master on Earth and duke it out with other demons until one survives. Needless to say, Kiyomaro becomes Gash's master, and through their many battles, Kiyomaro learns the importance of friendship and courage. -- 100,678 7.54
Konjiki no Gash Bell!! -- -- Toei Animation -- 150 eps -- Manga -- Adventure Comedy Demons Supernatural Magic Shounen -- Konjiki no Gash Bell!! Konjiki no Gash Bell!! -- Takamine Kiyomaro, a depressed don't-care-about-the-world guy, was suddenly given a little demon named Gash Bell to take care of. Little does he know that Gash is embroiled into an intense fight to see who is the ruler of the demon world. All of the demons have to pick a master on Earth and duke it out with other demons until one survives. Needless to say, Kiyomaro becomes Gash's master, and through their many battles, Kiyomaro learns the importance of friendship and courage. -- -- Licensor: -- Flatiron Film Company, VIZ Media -- 100,678 7.54
Kono Oto Tomare! 2nd Season -- -- Platinum Vision -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Drama Music Romance School Shounen -- Kono Oto Tomare! 2nd Season Kono Oto Tomare! 2nd Season -- The Tokise High School Koto Club has courageously pushed through their fractured and unsynchronized performance at the Kanto Region Traditional Japanese Music Festival. Clubmembers Chika Kudou, Satowa Houzuki, Takezou Kurata, Hiro Kurusu, Kouta Mizuhara, Saneyasu Adachi, and Michitaka Sakai are devastated to learn the negative results of their performance, leaving them crushed. Nonetheless, the group recognizes their potential and enthusiastically agree to collectively sharpen their skills, improve their flaws, and develop higher caliber playing to succeed in the upcoming national qualifiers in winter. -- -- With the help of their now willing club advisor Suzuka Takinami, the group's goal gradually becomes achievable as they begin to grasp the foundations of good music and refine their koto-playing abilities, with the suggestion of performing more often to gain what they lack most—experience. -- -- However, as their journey to nationals is underway, the koto club members face challenges that obstruct their focus and progress. Not only does the threat of other powerhouse schools and musicians remain, but the high school issues of budding romance and soon-to-be-graduating seniors also begin to push the limits of the determined group of teenagers and the future of the koto club. -- -- 90,539 8.42
Love Kome: We Love Rice -- -- Encourage Films -- 12 eps -- Original -- Slice of Life -- Love Kome: We Love Rice Love Kome: We Love Rice -- The project anthropomorphizes rice (kome in Japanese) into schoolboys. At the Kokuritsu Inaho Academy ("Rice Ear Academy," a wordplay on national schools), five new rice-inspired students attempt to supplant bread as the popular grain at the school. The new students form the "Love Rice" unit and challenge themselves to perform at the "Harvest Show" to show the delicious appeal of rice grains. The "heartwarming 'kome'dy with laughs and passion" promises to let audiences rediscover the virtues of rice ("Japan's soul food"). -- -- (Source: ANN) -- 9,640 4.64
Lovely� -- Complex -- -- Toei Animation -- 24 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Romance Shoujo -- Lovely� -- Complex Lovely� -- Complex -- Love is unusual for Koizumi Risa and Ootani Atsushi, who are both striving to find their ideal partner in high school—172 cm tall Koizumi is much taller than the average girl, and Ootani is much shorter than the average guy at 156 cm. To add to their plights, their crushes fall in love with each other, leaving Koizumi and Ootani comically flustered and heartbroken. To make matters worse, they're even labeled as a comedy duo by their homeroom teacher due to their personalities and the stark difference in their heights, and their classmates even think of their arguments as sketches. -- -- Lovely� -- Complex follows Koizumi and Ootani as they encourage each other in finding love and become close friends. Apart from their ridiculous antics, they soon find out an unexpected similarity in their music and fashion tastes. Maybe they possess a chemistry yet unknown, but could love ever bloom between the mismatched pair? -- -- -- Licensor: -- Discotek Media -- TV - Apr 7, 2007 -- 452,926 8.05
Magi: The Kingdom of Magic -- -- A-1 Pictures -- 25 eps -- Manga -- Action Adventure Magic Fantasy Shounen -- Magi: The Kingdom of Magic Magi: The Kingdom of Magic -- After celebrating their victory against Al-Thamen, Aladdin and his friends depart the land of Sindria. With the end of the battle, however, comes the time for each of them to go their separate ways. Hakuryuu and Kougyoku are ordered to go back to their home country, the Kou Empire. Meanwhile Aladdin announces he needs to head for Magnostadt—a mysterious country ruled by magicians—to investigate the mysterious events occurring in this new kingdom and become more proficient in magic. For their part, encouraged by Aladdin's words, Alibaba and Morgiana also set off in pursuit of their own goals: training and going to her homeland, respectively. -- -- Magi: The Kingdom of Magic follows these friends as they all go about their separate adventures, each facing their own challenges. However, a new threat begins to rise as a great war looms over the horizon... -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- 665,463 8.26
Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic -- -- A-1 Pictures -- 25 eps -- Manga -- Action Adventure Fantasy Magic Shounen -- Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic -- Dispersed around the world, there are several bizarre labyrinths hiding incredible treasures within them. These mysterious places, known as "Dungeons," are said to be the work of Magi, a class of rare magicians, who also help people build their empires by guiding them to a dungeon. Djinns, supernatural beings that rule over the labyrinths, grant successful conquerors access to their immense power and choose them as potential king candidates to rule the world. -- -- Having spent life in isolation, Aladdin, a kind and young magician, is eager to explore the world upon finally leaving his home behind. He begins his journey only accompanied by his mentor Ugo—a djinn that Aladdin can summon with his flute. However, Aladdin soon becomes friends with the courageous Alibaba Saluja after causing the destruction of a local merchant's supply cart. In order to pay for the damages, Alibaba suggests that they attempt to conquer the nearest dungeon, taking the first step in an epic adventure that will decide the fate of the world itself. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- 807,447 8.06
Major S1 -- -- Studio Hibari -- 26 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Sports Drama Shounen -- Major S1 Major S1 -- Gorou Honda, a little boy obsessed with baseball, has always admired his father, Shigeharu. Wishing to follow in his father's footsteps, Gorou dreams of becoming a professional baseball player. In turn, his son's starry-eyed admiration encourages Shigeharu to keep persevering, despite his late wife's death and his unsatisfying position on the second-string team Blue Ocean. -- -- Unfortunately, an elbow injury forces Shigeharu off the team, and he falls into despair. However, after an offhand joke from his childhood friend, Shigeharu reevaluates his choices and decides to keep playing, leaving behind his prime position as pitcher and taking up the bat. Now motivated more than ever, Gorou works hard to carve his way in the Japanese Little League. -- -- 82,609 8.26
Mecha-ude -- -- TriF Studio -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Sci-Fi Mecha -- Mecha-ude Mecha-ude -- Long ago, alien lifeforms came to Earth, fusing with people on the planet. Due to their appearance, they were dubbed "Mecha-ude," as when fused, they bore a striking resemblance to mechanized limbs. -- -- Through an involuntary partnership, average middle schooler Hikaru Amatsuga works alongside the Mecha-ude Arma, who is an extremely rare and special existence. To protect Arma, the resistance group ARMS assigns the dual Mecha-ude user Aki Murasame to follow him wherever he goes. However, she is also looking for a mysterious Snake-Type Mecha-ude wielder, who has put many of her comrades in a critical state. -- -- Behind the scenes, an organization known as the Kagami Group is searching for the mythical "Trigger Arm," a Mecha-ude said to grant unlimited power. When Aki's life is threatened by this group, Hikaru must team up with Arma to find the courage to fight back and, along the way, learn that his life will never be ordinary again. -- -- ONA - Sep 30, 2018 -- 13,106 6.92
Mekakucity Days -- -- - -- 5 eps -- Music -- Music Psychological Sci-Fi -- Mekakucity Days Mekakucity Days -- Mekakucity Days is a series of music videos that tell the stories of some of the members of the "Mekakushi-dan." -- -- Kagerou Daze -- In the scorching heat haze of summer, Hibiya Amamiya feels every day is monotonous. On a swing in a park, he meets up with Hiyori Asahina, who gently strokes the cat in her arms. However, when the cat leaps away, Hiyori runs headlong into a never-ending tragedy—and Hibiya will do whatever it takes to see her safe. -- -- Headphone Actor -- "The end of the world is nigh," the news broadcast proclaims. Amidst the chaos, Takane Enomoto hears a voice in her headphones, asking if she wants to live. Following its directions, she races onward, but what awaits her may not be the salvation that she desires. -- -- Souzou Forest -- Due to her red eyes and white hair, everybody sees Mari Kozakura as a monster. Although she lacks the courage to do so, she dreams of escaping her house in the forest where she lives alone, imagining the world outside. Fortunately, her lonesome life begins to change with a simple knock on the door. -- -- Konoha no Sekai Jijou -- The android-like being Konoha lacks many memories. What he recalls are feelings of longing, but by who and for who, he cannot place. What he does know, however, is that in the heat haze of summer, a young boy and girl face a tragedy. But fate is unchangeable, and his desperate attempts to save them can never seem to rewrite the future. -- -- Toumei Answer -- Shintarou Kisaragi knows how every day will go. Blessed with a photographic memory, he knows he will score full marks on his next exam, and he knows that Ayano Tateyama, the girl who sits next to him, will do poorly. But with his genius also comes unrelenting boredom; not even Ayano's bright smile and optimistic outlook can make him waver. His apathy may finally be broken, however, when Ayano does something that shakes Shintarou to his very core. -- -- Music - May 30, 2012 -- 8,282 7.51
Merc Storia: Mukiryoku no Shounen to Bin no Naka no Shoujo -- -- Encourage Films -- 12 eps -- Game -- Action Adventure Magic Fantasy -- Merc Storia: Mukiryoku no Shounen to Bin no Naka no Shoujo Merc Storia: Mukiryoku no Shounen to Bin no Naka no Shoujo -- Merc Storia takes places in a world where humans and monsters coexist. The protagonist, Yuu, is a healer apprentice and possesses the ability to tame monsters. In a quest to regain the memories of Merc, a girl confined in a bottle, the pair embarks on a journey. -- -- (Source: MAL News) -- 24,596 6.53
Miyakawa-ke no Kuufuku -- -- Encourage Films, Ordet -- 10 eps -- Manga -- Slice of Life -- Miyakawa-ke no Kuufuku Miyakawa-ke no Kuufuku -- A spin-off of Lucky Star. Centers around big sister Hinata Miyakawa and little sister Hikage Miyakawa's impoverished daily life at home (due to Hinata's wasteful habits) and Hikage's life at elementary school. -- ONA - Apr 29, 2013 -- 21,043 6.52
MM! -- -- Xebec -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Harem Comedy Ecchi School -- MM! MM! -- Taro Sado is a high school student who lives his day to day life with a big secret—he's a masochist! Encouraged by his cross-dressing best friend Tatsukichi Hayama, Taro asks the Second Voluntary Club for help with his problem and ends up joining the club after they vow to "fix" him. -- -- However, it turns out that all of the members of the club have some serious issues. The club leader Mio Isurugi is a self-designated god who is afraid of cats, Arashiko Yuuno has a severe fear of men, and the club advisor Michiru Onigawara is a sadist who enjoys making people cosplay. -- -- Together with other wacky characters such as Yumi Mamiya, a talented masseuse and Yuuno's best friend, and Noa Hiiragi, the president of the invention club, they all learn about the importance of acceptance and kindness. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- TV - Oct 2, 2010 -- 207,981 7.10
Momokuri -- -- Satelight -- 26 eps -- Web manga -- Comedy Romance Slice of Life -- Momokuri Momokuri -- After taking one hundred secret photos and observing him from afar for months, second-year high schooler Yuki Kurihara has finally mustered up the courage to ask out her first-year crush Shinya "Momo" Momotsuki. Although taken by surprise, the bashful Momo accepts; however, he does not know the profoundly abnormal truth. As her strait-laced friend, Norika Mizuyama, has observed, Yuki has developed some unnerving—but nonetheless sincere—habits: taking pictures of Momo in secret, doing extensive research into his personal life, collecting his used straws, and even going "Momo watching." -- -- Though Momo remains blissfully unaware of his new girlfriend's peculiar habits, he does notice some oddities in their daily conversations. Still unsure and nervous about his first relationship, Momo finds himself regularly getting into awkward interactions due to his inexperience, but nevertheless resolves to make his new girlfriend happy. -- -- Momokuri follows Yuki and Momo as they shyly explore their newfound love, and also deal with the problems that arise from it. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- ONA - Dec 24, 2015 -- 74,971 7.09
Momokuri -- -- Satelight -- 26 eps -- Web manga -- Comedy Romance Slice of Life -- Momokuri Momokuri -- After taking one hundred secret photos and observing him from afar for months, second-year high schooler Yuki Kurihara has finally mustered up the courage to ask out her first-year crush Shinya "Momo" Momotsuki. Although taken by surprise, the bashful Momo accepts; however, he does not know the profoundly abnormal truth. As her strait-laced friend, Norika Mizuyama, has observed, Yuki has developed some unnerving—but nonetheless sincere—habits: taking pictures of Momo in secret, doing extensive research into his personal life, collecting his used straws, and even going "Momo watching." -- -- Though Momo remains blissfully unaware of his new girlfriend's peculiar habits, he does notice some oddities in their daily conversations. Still unsure and nervous about his first relationship, Momo finds himself regularly getting into awkward interactions due to his inexperience, but nevertheless resolves to make his new girlfriend happy. -- -- Momokuri follows Yuki and Momo as they shyly explore their newfound love, and also deal with the problems that arise from it. -- -- ONA - Dec 24, 2015 -- 74,971 7.09
Netoge no Yome wa Onnanoko ja Nai to Omotta? -- -- Project No.9 -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Game Comedy Romance Ecchi School -- Netoge no Yome wa Onnanoko ja Nai to Omotta? Netoge no Yome wa Onnanoko ja Nai to Omotta? -- After mustering up the courage to propose to a girl in an online game, naïve otaku Hideki "Rusian" Nishimura is devastated when she flat out rejects him. To make matters worse, the girl reveals that she is actually an older man in real life. With his dreams crushed and his heart broken, Rusian comes to an abrupt decision in the midst of his raging fit: he will never trust another girl in an online game again. -- -- Years later, Rusian is now in a guild with three other players, one of whom possesses a female avatar by the name of "Ako." Ako is deeply in love with Rusian and wants to marry him. Although he entertains the possibility that she might be a guy, Rusian accepts her proposal, claiming that her gender doesn't matter as long as she is cute in the game. However, after a discussion between guild members that led to all of them having an offline meeting, Rusian finds out that Ako, along with the other members, are not just girls, but also his schoolmates. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 401,877 6.80
Noein: Mou Hitori no Kimi e -- -- Satelight -- 24 eps -- Original -- Sci-Fi Adventure Slice of Life Drama -- Noein: Mou Hitori no Kimi e Noein: Mou Hitori no Kimi e -- During their last summer of elementary school, four friends decide to undertake a test of courage at their local graveyard. Before the test begins, Haruka Kaminogi makes a last effort to pull Yuu Gotou away from his controlling mother. While doing so, Haruka suddenly has a strange vision of blue snow followed by the appearance of an imposing silver-haired man. Later, a similar vision occurs at the graveyard to both Haruka and her friends before they try to escape what they assume are ghosts. -- -- Unbeknownst to the children, the people who appeared before them are Dragon Soldiers: an elite military group from a dimension known as La'cryma. The soldiers have traveled to this dimension to secure the "Dragon Torque"—an entity they believe to be their last hope for survival. However, both the Dragon Soldiers and Haruka are shocked to learn that the Dragon Torque is Haruka herself. She attempts to escape from the Dragon Soldiers as she finds her own last ray of hope—the strange silver-haired man who claims to be another version of Yuu himself. -- -- 79,486 7.61
Noein: Mou Hitori no Kimi e -- -- Satelight -- 24 eps -- Original -- Sci-Fi Adventure Slice of Life Drama -- Noein: Mou Hitori no Kimi e Noein: Mou Hitori no Kimi e -- During their last summer of elementary school, four friends decide to undertake a test of courage at their local graveyard. Before the test begins, Haruka Kaminogi makes a last effort to pull Yuu Gotou away from his controlling mother. While doing so, Haruka suddenly has a strange vision of blue snow followed by the appearance of an imposing silver-haired man. Later, a similar vision occurs at the graveyard to both Haruka and her friends before they try to escape what they assume are ghosts. -- -- Unbeknownst to the children, the people who appeared before them are Dragon Soldiers: an elite military group from a dimension known as La'cryma. The soldiers have traveled to this dimension to secure the "Dragon Torque"—an entity they believe to be their last hope for survival. However, both the Dragon Soldiers and Haruka are shocked to learn that the Dragon Torque is Haruka herself. She attempts to escape from the Dragon Soldiers as she finds her own last ray of hope—the strange silver-haired man who claims to be another version of Yuu himself. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation, Manga Entertainment -- 79,486 7.61
Okusama ga Seitokaichou! -- -- Seven -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Romance Ecchi School Shounen -- Okusama ga Seitokaichou! Okusama ga Seitokaichou! -- Hayato Izumi is running for student council president. He's studious, responsible, down to earth...and completely outmatched by his rival, Ui Wakana. Ui wins in a landslide after promising comprehensive sex education, free condoms, and other exciting reforms. Bloodied but not discouraged, Hayato licks his wounds and settles for vice president. -- -- Then Ui moves in with him. As it turns out, their parents made a drunken promise decades ago that their children would one day marry. Ui and Hayato must now balance school life with matrimony, keeping their relationship secret from a prudish student body and learning to live with each other. Can they keep the student council in line and find happiness together? Find out in Okusama ga Seitokaichou! -- 225,865 6.64
Okusama ga Seitokaichou! -- -- Seven -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Romance Ecchi School Shounen -- Okusama ga Seitokaichou! Okusama ga Seitokaichou! -- Hayato Izumi is running for student council president. He's studious, responsible, down to earth...and completely outmatched by his rival, Ui Wakana. Ui wins in a landslide after promising comprehensive sex education, free condoms, and other exciting reforms. Bloodied but not discouraged, Hayato licks his wounds and settles for vice president. -- -- Then Ui moves in with him. As it turns out, their parents made a drunken promise decades ago that their children would one day marry. Ui and Hayato must now balance school life with matrimony, keeping their relationship secret from a prudish student body and learning to live with each other. Can they keep the student council in line and find happiness together? Find out in Okusama ga Seitokaichou! -- -- Licensor: -- Media Blasters -- 225,865 6.64
Onegai☆Twins: Natsu wa Owaranai -- -- Daume -- 1 ep -- Original -- Comedy Drama Romance -- Onegai☆Twins: Natsu wa Owaranai Onegai☆Twins: Natsu wa Owaranai -- Two weeks have passed since the dilemma between Maiku, Karen and Miina was resolved, but their lives are more hectic than ever. Karen has become possessed in her newly discovered brother and Miina is desperate for attention as well, which leaves little time for Maiku to concentrate on his work. Therefore he decides to head out in the woods and set up a camp, where he can be work in peace. But, as always, we have Morino who is up to no good. To make things a bit more interesting, she organizes a field trip to Maiku's camp site, and encourages everyone to make some good summer memories. -- OVA - Apr 28, 2004 -- 27,598 7.03
One Off -- -- TYO Animations -- 4 eps -- Original -- Slice of Life -- One Off One Off -- A slice of life of high school girls in the early summer. Shiozaki Haruno is a 17-year-old girl who loves her motor cycle, HONDA's Giorno. She lives in remote highlands and longs for a vivid life in a city. -- -- Encounters with people staying at Haruno's parents' boardinghouse encourage her to step forward to her dream. -- OVA - Aug 5, 2012 -- 13,934 6.43
One Piece: Mamore! Saigo no Dai Butai -- -- Toei Animation -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Adventure Comedy Fantasy Shounen -- One Piece: Mamore! Saigo no Dai Butai One Piece: Mamore! Saigo no Dai Butai -- For many years, Ex-Marine Lieutenant Randolph and his troupe have put on a play aboard his ship. Having lost his family to pirates, Randolph wishes to put on plays that will give courage to those who have also lost their loved ones to pirates. Unfortunately, Randolph must retire soon, and he is now giving his last performance. Luffy and his crew come to see the play, and somehow manage to take part in it themselves. But from Randolph's past comes a vengeful subordinate with a diabolical plan who has finally become commander in order to capture Randolph. Luffy and his nakama now must prove to the people that not all pirates are scum, and protect Randolph's final farewell performance from the bitter commander. (aired after Episode 174) -- -- (Source: ANN) -- Special - Dec 14, 2003 -- 24,301 7.37
Ore Monogatari!! -- -- Madhouse -- 24 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Romance Shoujo -- Ore Monogatari!! Ore Monogatari!! -- With his muscular build and tall stature, Takeo Gouda is not exactly your average high school freshman. However, behind his intimidating appearance hides a heart of gold, and he is considered a hero by the boys for his courage and chivalry. Unfortunately, these traits do not help much with his love life. As if his looks are not enough to scare the opposite sex away, Takeo's cool and handsome best friend and constant companion Makoto Sunakawa easily steals the hearts of the female students—including every girl Takeo has ever liked. -- -- When Takeo gallantly saves cute and angelic Rinko Yamato from being molested, he falls in love with her instantly, but suspects that she might be interested in Sunakawa. With his own love for Yamato continuing to bloom, Takeo unselfishly decides to act as her cupid, even as he yearns for his own love story. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 502,304 7.94
Ouritsu Uchuugun: Honneamise no Tsubasa -- -- Gainax -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Drama Military Sci-Fi Space -- Ouritsu Uchuugun: Honneamise no Tsubasa Ouritsu Uchuugun: Honneamise no Tsubasa -- Shirotsugh "Shiro" Lhadatt may be a cadet in the Kingdom of Honneamise's Royal Space Force (RSF), but he has never been in space before—in fact, nobody has. The RSF is often regarded as a failure both by the country's citizens and a government more interested in precipitating a war with a neighboring country than scientific achievement. Following the funeral of a fellow cadet, an unmotivated Shiro is walking in the city one night, when he bumps into Riquinni Nonderaiko, a young, pious woman, genuinely enthusiastic about the significance of space exploration. -- -- As the two gradually bond, Riquinni's encouragement inspires Shiro to volunteer as a pilot for a prospective rocket ship, potentially becoming Honneamise's first man in space. Shiro and the RSF are soon joined by a team of elderly but eager scientists and engineers, and together, they embark on a mission to mold their nation's space program into a success. However, their efforts soon catch the attention of the government, which seems to have a different plan for the RSF in mind. Even as the odds are stacked against them, these men and women continue to stubbornly look to the sky, because somewhere among the frontiers of space may lie humanity's last chance at redemption. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Visual USA, Maiden Japan, Manga Entertainment -- Movie - Mar 14, 1987 -- 35,422 7.52
Pokemon Movie 02: Maboroshi no Pokemon Lugia Bakutan -- -- OLM -- 1 ep -- Game -- Adventure Comedy Kids Drama Fantasy -- Pokemon Movie 02: Maboroshi no Pokemon Lugia Bakutan Pokemon Movie 02: Maboroshi no Pokemon Lugia Bakutan -- An ancient prophecy tells of a day when the titans of ice, lightning, and fire are disturbed. When this occurs, Lugia, the guardian of the sea, will rise up and restore harmony. Enchanted by the words of the prophecy, Gelardan, a Pokémon collector, sets out on his airship with a dreadful plan to capture Lugia by going after these three titans. -- -- After Gelardan makes his move, drastic climate change begins to take place, as terrible storms start popping up all over the globe. One such storm causes the ship carrying Pokémon trainers Satoshi, Kasumi, and Kenji to drift off course and land on Earthia Island. Upon arriving, Satoshi is told of the ancient prophecy, and of his destiny as the chosen one who will help Lugia restore balance to the world. -- -- With the fate of the world in his hands, Satoshi must summon the courage to face the chaos that threatens to tear everything apart and stop Gelardan. -- -- -- Licensor: -- 4Kids Entertainment, Warner Bros. Japan -- Movie - Jul 17, 1999 -- 150,877 7.35
Pumpkin Scissors -- -- AIC, Gonzo -- 24 eps -- Manga -- Action Comedy Drama Military -- Pumpkin Scissors Pumpkin Scissors -- Three years ago, the long war between the Royal Empire and the Republic of Frost came to an end. With both nations a long way from recovery, a passionate young woman named Alice L. Malvin leads the Pumpkin Scissors, a unit of the imperial army specializing in war relief. -- -- During a mission to assist a village occupied by renegade soldiers, Alice meets Randal Oland, a scarred former soldier with a sordid past and kind heart. Encouraged by the efforts of the Pumpkin Scissors, he joins the team on their mission. During the assault, however, Randal enters a trance-like state prompted by a mysterious blue lantern. As a result, he acquires monstrous strength and decimates the enemy forces. -- -- Despite having witnessed Randal's disturbing transformation, Alice invites him to join her squandrant, confident that his gentle nature will prevail and make him a perfect fit for the Pumpkin Scissors. -- -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films, Funimation -- 36,200 7.18
Romeo no Aoi Sora -- -- Nippon Animation -- 33 eps -- Novel -- Adventure Drama Historical Slice of Life -- Romeo no Aoi Sora Romeo no Aoi Sora -- Romeo is a kindhearted and courageous boy living with his family in a small village in Switzerland. Unfortunately, Romeo becomes the interest of a man named Luini, known as "The God of Death," who is infamous for buying children and selling them as chimney sweeps in Milan. While visiting the village, Luini burns down Romeo's family cornfield in an attempt to have Romeo as his own. With the cornfield gone and his father sustaining a head injury trying to put out the fire, Romeo bravely sells himself to the God of Death in order to help his family afford a doctor. -- -- On his way to Milan, Romeo meets a boy named Alfredo Martini and they quickly become friends. Just as Alfredo is sold to a different master, the two boys swear eternal friendship and vow to meet again. As a chimney sweep, Romeo faces many hardships and abuse, especially from his master's family and a gang known as the Wolf Pack. But after reuniting with Alfredo, the two form a fraternity of chimney sweeps called "The Black Brothers," who will learn to fight against the Wolf Pack and help each other in times of need. -- -- 38,391 8.35
Schoolgirl Strikers: Animation Channel -- -- J.C.Staff -- 13 eps -- Game -- Action Sci-Fi School -- Schoolgirl Strikers: Animation Channel Schoolgirl Strikers: Animation Channel -- It's the near future. The newly established girls' private school Goryoukan Academy has another face. This school has a special unit, Fifth force, who is assembled and selected from the school's student body in order to fight an enemy called O'bli. -- -- This is a story about love, courage and friendship about the girls called Strikers. -- 17,899 5.71
Seireitsukai no Blade Dance -- -- TNK -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Action Harem Comedy Supernatural Romance Ecchi Fantasy School -- Seireitsukai no Blade Dance Seireitsukai no Blade Dance -- On his way to Areishia Spirit Academy, Kamito Kazehaya runs into a naked Claire Rouge, a student who had been bathing as part of a purification ceremony. She had been preparing to form a contract with a powerful spirit in order to acquire more power as an "elementalist." Her efforts are wasted, however, when Kamito ends up with the spirit despite the fact that only shrine maidens can become elementalists. Yet to be discouraged, Claire then announces that Kamito must become her contracted spirit instead! -- -- After reaching the school grounds, Kamito escapes from Claire and meets Headmaster Greyworth Ciel Mais, who invites him to enroll at the academy. Although his life at Areishia will be far from easy as the only male student among the shrine princesses-in-training, he begrudgingly accepts in exchange for information about his former contracted spirit, Restia Ashdoll. Adding on to that, he also must fulfill Greyworth's main request: to win in the Blade Dance, a battle festival occurring in two months, where he will face the strongest elementalist rumored to be contracted with a darkness spirit. -- -- 293,324 6.79
Seireitsukai no Blade Dance -- -- TNK -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Action Harem Comedy Supernatural Romance Ecchi Fantasy School -- Seireitsukai no Blade Dance Seireitsukai no Blade Dance -- On his way to Areishia Spirit Academy, Kamito Kazehaya runs into a naked Claire Rouge, a student who had been bathing as part of a purification ceremony. She had been preparing to form a contract with a powerful spirit in order to acquire more power as an "elementalist." Her efforts are wasted, however, when Kamito ends up with the spirit despite the fact that only shrine maidens can become elementalists. Yet to be discouraged, Claire then announces that Kamito must become her contracted spirit instead! -- -- After reaching the school grounds, Kamito escapes from Claire and meets Headmaster Greyworth Ciel Mais, who invites him to enroll at the academy. Although his life at Areishia will be far from easy as the only male student among the shrine princesses-in-training, he begrudgingly accepts in exchange for information about his former contracted spirit, Restia Ashdoll. Adding on to that, he also must fulfill Greyworth's main request: to win in the Blade Dance, a battle festival occurring in two months, where he will face the strongest elementalist rumored to be contracted with a darkness spirit. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 293,324 6.79
Senki Zesshou Symphogear -- -- Encourage Films, Satelight -- 13 eps -- Original -- Action Sci-Fi Music -- Senki Zesshou Symphogear Senki Zesshou Symphogear -- Tsubasa Kazanari and Kanade Amou—the idol duo known as Zwei Wing—use their songs to power ancient weapons known as "symphogears" to combat a deadly alien race called the "Noise." While the general public is aware of the Noise's existence, knowledge of the symphogears are kept a secret. When the Noise attack one of Zwei Wing's concerts, Kanade sacrifices herself to protect a young girl named Hibiki Tachibana, leaving Tsubasa devastated and a fragment of her symphogear embedded within Hibiki. -- -- Two years pass and Hibiki is once again dragged into a Noise attack. While rescuing a young girl who has been left behind during the evacuation, she awakens the power of Kanade's symphogear lying within her. Although Tsubasa still grieves over the loss of Kanade, both girls must now learn to work together using their powers to defend humanity against the Noise. -- -- 97,499 7.02
Senki Zesshou Symphogear -- -- Encourage Films, Satelight -- 13 eps -- Original -- Action Sci-Fi Music -- Senki Zesshou Symphogear Senki Zesshou Symphogear -- Tsubasa Kazanari and Kanade Amou—the idol duo known as Zwei Wing—use their songs to power ancient weapons known as "symphogears" to combat a deadly alien race called the "Noise." While the general public is aware of the Noise's existence, knowledge of the symphogears are kept a secret. When the Noise attack one of Zwei Wing's concerts, Kanade sacrifices herself to protect a young girl named Hibiki Tachibana, leaving Tsubasa devastated and a fragment of her symphogear embedded within Hibiki. -- -- Two years pass and Hibiki is once again dragged into a Noise attack. While rescuing a young girl who has been left behind during the evacuation, she awakens the power of Kanade's symphogear lying within her. Although Tsubasa still grieves over the loss of Kanade, both girls must now learn to work together using their powers to defend humanity against the Noise. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Discotek Media -- 97,499 7.02
Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi -- -- Studio Ghibli -- 1 ep -- Original -- Adventure Supernatural Drama -- Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi -- Stubborn, spoiled, and naïve, 10-year-old Chihiro Ogino is less than pleased when she and her parents discover an abandoned amusement park on the way to their new house. Cautiously venturing inside, she realizes that there is more to this place than meets the eye, as strange things begin to happen once dusk falls. Ghostly apparitions and food that turns her parents into pigs are just the start—Chihiro has unwittingly crossed over into the spirit world. Now trapped, she must summon the courage to live and work amongst spirits, with the help of the enigmatic Haku and the cast of unique characters she meets along the way. -- -- Vivid and intriguing, Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi tells the story of Chihiro's journey through an unfamiliar world as she strives to save her parents and return home. -- -- -- Licensor: -- GKIDS, Walt Disney Studios -- Movie - Jul 20, 2001 -- 1,324,076 8.82
Servant x Service -- -- A-1 Pictures -- 13 eps -- 4-koma manga -- Comedy Seinen Slice of Life -- Servant x Service Servant x Service -- Frustrating, insufficient, and irritating is how most citizens would describe civil servants. However, three new employees are about to discover what really happens behind the scenes. Lucy Yamagami, bent on revenge against the civil servant who allowed her comically long name to be put on her birth certificate; Yutaka Hasebe, an easygoing guy always on the lookout for a place to slack off; and Saya Miyoshi, a nervous first-time worker, are about to experience the underwhelming satisfaction of being government employees. -- -- They are supposed to be trained by Taishi Ichimiya, but he has no idea how to do so, even though he has worked there for eight years. With an incompetent senior colleague and unfavorable confrontations with clients, the trio starts to lose faith in their chosen occupation but encourage each other to do their best. -- -- TV - Jul 5, 2013 -- 175,099 7.67
Shijou Saikyou no Deshi Kenichi -- -- TMS Entertainment -- 50 eps -- Manga -- Action Comedy Martial Arts School Shounen -- Shijou Saikyou no Deshi Kenichi Shijou Saikyou no Deshi Kenichi -- "Weak Legs" Kenichi Shirahama would rather spend his time reading self improvement books than fighting. However, when he finally works up the courage to become strong and join his school's karate club, he is coerced into fighting a bullying upperclassman who is intent on getting him kicked out of the club. He is about to give it all up until he falls for his mysterious new classmate, Miu Furinji. In order to face this challenge, he undergoes rigorous training at the dojo she lives at, Ryouzanpaku. Some initial training by the masters there allow him to defeat his upperclassman, however his fighting prowess brings him to the attention of the powerful gang of delinquents, Ragnarok. Wishing to protect the things he loves and determined to have the strength to face the increasing adversity, he must learn various martial arts from the dojo's resident masters, taking Karate, Muay Thai, Ju Jitsu and Chinese Martial Arts and combining them to create his own fighting style! -- -- Licensor: -- Discotek Media, Funimation -- TV - Oct 7, 2006 -- 248,869 8.10
Shijou Saikyou no Deshi Kenichi -- -- TMS Entertainment -- 50 eps -- Manga -- Action Comedy Martial Arts School Shounen -- Shijou Saikyou no Deshi Kenichi Shijou Saikyou no Deshi Kenichi -- "Weak Legs" Kenichi Shirahama would rather spend his time reading self improvement books than fighting. However, when he finally works up the courage to become strong and join his school's karate club, he is coerced into fighting a bullying upperclassman who is intent on getting him kicked out of the club. He is about to give it all up until he falls for his mysterious new classmate, Miu Furinji. In order to face this challenge, he undergoes rigorous training at the dojo she lives at, Ryouzanpaku. Some initial training by the masters there allow him to defeat his upperclassman, however his fighting prowess brings him to the attention of the powerful gang of delinquents, Ragnarok. Wishing to protect the things he loves and determined to have the strength to face the increasing adversity, he must learn various martial arts from the dojo's resident masters, taking Karate, Muay Thai, Ju Jitsu and Chinese Martial Arts and combining them to create his own fighting style! -- TV - Oct 7, 2006 -- 248,869 8.10
Shugo Chara! -- -- Satelight -- 51 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Magic School Shoujo -- Shugo Chara! Shugo Chara! -- Amu Hinamori is a student at Seiyo Elementary, where she has a reputation for being "cool and spicy"; however, her real personality is that of an extremely shy and easily intimidated girl. One night Amu makes a wish that she would have the courage to be reborn as her "would-be" self. The next morning Amu finds three brightly colored eggs—red, blue, and green—in her bed. Each egg eventually hatches into a Guardian Character: Ran, Miki, and Su. Guardian Characters are angel-like beings that aid a person into becoming their "would-be" selves and fulfill the person's dreams. The Guardian Characters accomplish this by giving encouragement and advice, but they can also temporarily change a person's personality and abilities. With the Guardian Characters, Amu's life becomes much more complex as she now struggles to deal with her new personalities and the Seiyo Elementary Guardians—a student council group where each member has their own Guardian Character—who recruits Amu to search for and seal the X eggs and X Characters, corrupted forms of people's dreams. -- TV - Oct 6, 2007 -- 186,908 7.41
SKET Dance -- -- Tatsunoko Production -- 77 eps -- Manga -- Comedy School Shounen -- SKET Dance SKET Dance -- At Kaimei High School there is a special club dedicated to helping others known as the SKET Brigade. The brains of the group is Kazuyoshi "Switch" Usui, a tech-savvy otaku who speaks through speech synthesis software, while the brawn is provided by Hime "Himeko" Onizuka, the hockey stick-wielding girl once known as "Onihime." And last but not least, their leader is Yuusuke "Bossun" Fujisaki, whose latent ability is evoked by his goggles, allowing him to summon the awesome power of extraordinary concentration. -- -- However, most of the school only know them as the club that handles odd jobs. Many of their days are spent in the clubroom slacking off, but when there is something to be done, they give their all to help others—usually in sincere, but unintentionally hilarious, ways. The SKET Brigade do all they can to provide support, kindness, encouragement, and troubleshooting to any students crazy enough to ask for their services. -- -- 189,583 8.24
Sol -- -- - -- 1 ep -- - -- Dementia Music -- Sol Sol -- This video clip is a story of realization. -- A story of a child who has been inheriting a negative legacy of humankind that continuously accumulates in diverse ways. The child keeps carrying the legacy, that is too heavy and too much to bear for her body, feverishly without knowing the real meaning of the act. -- -- Soon, the child starts to act out a vision of knowledge, prayers, courage and curiosity. She realizes that positive power is the best balance towards purification and she should stop carrying on the negativity through a negative attitude. -- -- (Source: Vimeo) -- Music - Jan 12, 2012 -- 269 4.90
Soukyuu no Fafner: Right of Left - Single Program -- -- Production I.G, Xebec -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Drama Mecha Military Sci-Fi -- Soukyuu no Fafner: Right of Left - Single Program Soukyuu no Fafner: Right of Left - Single Program -- Yumi Ikoma and Ryou Masaoka are children who have been selected to take part in a top secret mission, to be the pilots of the first Fafner combat units; the last chance of survival for the human race. The enemy is ruthless, remorseless and is able to read the minds of humans. Therefore, the details of this mission are kept a secret even from the personnel involved. The young pilots must use all their courage and faith in order to survive and complete their mission or the fate of mankind would be compromised. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- Special - Dec 30, 2005 -- 13,314 7.40
Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2202: Ai no Senshi-tachi -- -- Xebec -- 26 eps -- Original -- Action Drama Military Sci-Fi Space -- Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2202: Ai no Senshi-tachi Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2202: Ai no Senshi-tachi -- Three years since the return of the legendary Space Battleship Yamato, Earth has begun rebuilding itself and has made peace with the Gamilans. However, this recovery comes at the cost of utilizing the forbidden Wave Motion technology. -- -- Meanwhile, the notorious former crew members of the Yamato, who have each gone their separate ways, receive a psychic message from the mysterious Goddess Teresa. She urges them to return to their beloved ship and travel to the distant planet Terezart. They are promised a revolutionary power to combat the unprecedented threat of the relentless Gatlantis Empire, who are approaching Earth with all but innocent intentions. -- -- Unable to resist her plea, the crew reassembles and sets sail on another perilous intergalactic voyage, one that will test their sheer courage and versatility in the face of an even greater foe. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- OVA - Feb 25, 2017 -- 18,035 7.69
Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2205: Aratanaru Tabidachi -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Military Sci-Fi Space Drama -- Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2205: Aratanaru Tabidachi Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2205: Aratanaru Tabidachi -- (No synopsis yet.) -- Movie - ??? ??, 2021 -- 1,908 N/A -- -- The Humanoid: Ai no Wakusei Lezeria -- -- Kaname Productions -- 1 ep -- - -- Space Mecha Drama Sci-Fi -- The Humanoid: Ai no Wakusei Lezeria The Humanoid: Ai no Wakusei Lezeria -- Dr. Watson has created his masterpiece – a beautiful woman made of metal. A wonder of science, Antoinette is a childlike innocent who holds the key to an ancient civilization that could save the world, or destroy it. And when a mad tyrant kidnaps the man she loves, Antoinette finally discovers the courage – and the amazing fighting skills – that are her true calling. -- -- Licensor: -- Central Park Media -- OVA - Mar 5, 1986 -- 1,881 4.81
Wake Up, Girls! -- -- Ordet, Tatsunoko Production -- 12 eps -- Original -- Drama Music -- Wake Up, Girls! Wake Up, Girls! -- On Christmas 2013, the band Wake Up, Girls plays their debut song to a small audience without much fanfare. After the concert, the group’s manager takes off with the money, leaving Green Leaves Entertainment on the verge of closure and the band without a future. -- -- Despite this tumultuous beginning, the girls get a second chance, thanks to a mysterious benefactor and a shady business proposal. From here it’s a rocky climb to the top, but it’s a climb the girls are ready to make. Wake Up, Girls! follows the internal and external struggles of being a small-time idol girl band, from finding and accepting gigs to competing in popularity against other pop bands. -- -- Through the band, the girls come to accept their pasts and become more certain about their futures. Faced with increasing stakes and popularity, each of the band’s seven members must find the strength and courage inside herself to give her all to the band. -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 47,169 6.98
Yama no Susume -- -- 8bit -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Adventure Slice of Life Comedy -- Yama no Susume Yama no Susume -- As a child, Aoi Yukimura adored mountains and was passionate about climbing. However, a playground accident has since left her afraid of heights, turning her toward indoor hobbies. Unfortunately, now a shy and timid first-year high school student, Aoi has become so absorbed in these pastimes that she can barely socialise with others, leaving her practically friendless. It’s only when she runs into the lively Hinata Kuraue, an old friend from her climbing days, that things start to change. -- -- Impulsive and high-spirited, Hinata insists on having Aoi join her in all sorts of climbing activities. Though reluctant at first, Aoi quickly finds that her time with Hinata brings back fond memories of their childhood and soon decides to start climbing again. As the return to her past hobby starts to bring her out of her shell, Aoi finds herself gaining close friends, taking on new challenges, and continuing to find her own encouragement to climb. -- -- 62,796 6.82
Yuru Yuri Nachuyachumi! -- -- TYO Animations -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Comedy Shoujo Ai Slice of Life -- Yuru Yuri Nachuyachumi! Yuru Yuri Nachuyachumi! -- Even during summer break, the Amusement Club lives up to its name! When Akari Akaza, Kyouko Toshinou, Chinatsu Yoshikawa, and Yui Funami find a camping tent, they decide to put it to good use by spending the weekend outside in the mountains. When some student council members catch wind of this, they are invited to come along as well. -- -- After a very long journey, the group arrives at their destination and is ready to make the most of their trip. They engage in classic camping activities, such as outdoor cooking and tests of courage, and finish it all off with a visit to the hot springs. An extravagant trip like this doesn't happen every day, but the Amusement Club is sure to savor each moment. -- -- OVA - Feb 18, 2015 -- 61,094 7.87
Zetsumetsu Kigu Shoujo: Amazing Twins -- -- Encourage Films -- 2 eps -- Original -- Magic Slice of Life -- Zetsumetsu Kigu Shoujo: Amazing Twins Zetsumetsu Kigu Shoujo: Amazing Twins -- Amane Todoroki is a young girl who is straightforward but also unthinking. She will try her very best in everything and say, "I don't know how to answer you if you ask me whether this can be done. I just believe it can. If not, then nothing will get started!" She easily gets stuck in her thinking, but she can also get easily moved at something small and start crying. -- -- (Source: MAL News) -- OVA - Feb 26, 2014 -- 10,199 6.37
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