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forgetful ::: a. --> Apt to forget; easily losing remembrance; as, a forgetful man should use helps to strengthen his memory.
Heedless; careless; neglectful; inattentive.
Causing to forget; inducing oblivion; oblivious.
forgetfully ::: adv. --> In a forgetful manner.
forgetfulness ::: n. --> The quality of being forgetful; prononess to let slip from the mind.
Loss of remembrance or recollection; a ceasing to remember; oblivion.
Failure to bear in mind; careless omission; inattention; as, forgetfulness of duty.
forgetive ::: a. --> Inventive; productive; capable.
forget-me-not ::: n. --> A small herb, of the genus Myosotis (M. palustris, incespitosa, etc.), bearing a beautiful blue flower, and extensively considered the emblem of fidelity.
forgettable ::: a. --> Liable to be, or that may be, forgotten.
forgetter ::: n. --> One who forgets; a heedless person.
forgettingly ::: adv. --> By forgetting.
forgetting. Poteh is invoked in necromantic rites
forgetting ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Forget
forgetting: the inability to recall or recognise what has previously been remembered. Forgetting has been explained by a number of accounts ? trace-dependent forgetting (the memory trace is lost), cue-dependent forgetting (the lack of necessary cues to retrieve the memory), repression (painful memories are unconsciously repressed) or interference.
forget ::: v. t. --> To lose the remembrance of; to let go from the memory; to cease to have in mind; not to think of; also, to lose the power of; to cease from doing.
To treat with inattention or disregard; to slight; to neglect.
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18. forgetfulness (S. musitasmṛtitā; T. brjed nges pa; C. shinian 失念)
3. they are never forgetful (S. nāsti musitasmṛtitā; T. bsnyel ba med pa; C. nian wushi 念無失)
accessibility: in long-term memory, the principle that remembering and forgetting are dependent on effective retrieval; without the proper cues, information which exists in long-term memory may not be accessible.
Acheron (Greek) [probably from achos pain, distress; Etrusc. Acceruns] The River of Woe, one of five rivers surrounding Hades. The others were Cocytus (river of wailing), Styx (the hateful), Pyriphlegethon (the fiery), and Lethe (forgetfulness).
"All intuitive knowledge comes more or less directly from the light of the self-aware spirit entering into the mind, the spirit concealed behind mind and conscious of all in itself and in all its selves, omniscient and capable of illumining the ignorant or the self-forgetful mind whether by rare or constant flashes or by a steady instreaming light, out of its omniscience.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
“All intuitive knowledge comes more or less directly from the light of the self-aware spirit entering into the mind, the spirit concealed behind mind and conscious of all in itself and in all its selves, omniscient and capable of illumining the ignorant or the self-forgetful mind whether by rare or constant flashes or by a steady instreaming light, out of its omniscience.” The Synthesis of Yoga
amnesia ::: n. --> Forgetfulness; also, a defect of speech, from cerebral disease, in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of those he wishes to employ.
amnesty ::: v. --> Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; oblivion.
An act of the sovereign power granting oblivion, or a general pardon, for a past offense, as to subjects concerned in an insurrection. ::: v. t.
ana (ajnana; ajnanam) ::: ignorance; absence of jñana; "the forgetfulness of the high and true self", resulting in bondage to the three modes (trigun.a) of the lower Nature (apara prakr.ti). aj ñanam
Angel of Forgetting or Forgetfulness (or
Any attempt by an untrained student, without a teacher, to try to develop these chakras is sure to cause disaster, since it can result only in the arousing of powerful forces which he has not yet acquired the means to control, and which will therefore control him. Once awakened, they cannot be put to sleep again, and the result will be disorganization, physical or mental or both, manifested in disease, insanity, depravity, or death; in the worst cases, the unfortunate dabbler may set his feet on a path of black magic ending in the final separation of his spiritual ego from its hapless psycho-vital-astral-physical vehicle. The spiritual and higher intellectual powers and faculties must be cultivated first; and this cannot be done by any attempt at artificial stimulation based on fixing the attention on spots in the body or head. The only safe way to practice the chela life is to forget about the body and its mechanism, thus allowing evolution to proceed in its natural course, and dangerous forces to life quiescent until they come naturally and harmoniously into operation.
aprakasa ::: absence of light, obscurity, forgetfulness.
As liquors deaden the higher mind and feelings, while arousing the lower nature, the victim is largely devoid of the ordinary self-protection of his judgment, will, and conscience, and has gravitated to his own animal level. That he is, for the time, living in the consciousness of his own astral body accounts for the extraordinary strength he often displays, for the disorientation where he “wants to go home,” for his forgetfulness of all this afterwards, and for the convulsions which, when present, are reported as indistinguishable from true epilepsy. To the depleting vital drain from the continued restlessness and violent activity of the attacks, is added the abnormal strain of obsession by one or another excarnate entity which has been vitalized in proportion as the sufferer is exhausted.
asmaran.a ::: forgetfulness, inattentiveness; without attention. asmarana
Asmriti: Forgetfulness; state of unconsciousness.
* attachment must draw away altogether from the object of its love. The vital can be as absolute in its unquestioning self-giving as any other part or the nature ; nothing can be more generous than its movement when it forgets self for the Beloved. The vital and physical should both give themselves in the true way — the way of true love, not of ego-desire.
availability: in memory, the principle that remembering is determined by whether the information exists in long-term memory or not; forgetting implies that the information is destroyed.
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Baubo The Matron Baubo, the enchantress “before she succeeds in reconciling the soul — Demeter, to its new position, finds herself obliged to assume the sexual forms of an infant. Baubo is matter, the physical body; and the intellectual, as yet pure astral soul can be ensnared into its new terrestrial prison but by the display of innocent babyhood. Until then, doomed to her fate, Demeter, or Magna-mater, the Soul, wonders and hesitates and suffers; but once having partaken of the magic potion prepared by Baubo, she forgets her sorrows; for a certain time she parts with that consciousness of higher intellect that she was possessed of before entering the body of a child. Thenceforth she must seek to rejoin it again; and when the age of reason arrives for the child, the struggle — forgotten for a few years of infancy — begins again” (IU 2:112).
bourbon ::: n. --> A member of a family which has occupied several European thrones, and whose descendants still claim the throne of France.
A politician who is behind the age; a ruler or politician who neither forgets nor learns anything; an obstinate conservative.
burn-in period ::: 1. A factory test designed to catch systems with marginal components before they get out the door; the theory is that burn-in will protect customers by outwaiting the steepest part of the bathtub curve (see infant mortality).2. A period of indeterminate length in which a person using a computer is so intensely involved in his project that he forgets basic needs such as food, drink, sleep, etc. Warning: Excessive burn-in can lead to burn-out. See hack mode, larval stage.[Jargon File]
burn-in period 1. "testing" A factory {soak test} intended to increase the chance that components that fail early due to {infant mortality} will fail before the system leaves the factory. 2. "jargon" When one is so intensely involved in a new project that one forgets basic needs such as food, drink and sleep. Excessive burn-in can lead to burn-out. See {hack mode}, {larval stage}. [{Jargon File}] (2007-01-17)
But Rajayoga does not forget that the disabilities of the oidinarj’ mind proceed largely from its subjection to the reactions of the nervous sj’Stem and the body. It adopts therefore from the
"By individual we mean normally something that separates itself from everything else and stands apart, though in reality there is no such thing anywhere in existence; it is a figment of our mental conceptions useful and necessary to express a partial and practical truth. But the difficulty is that the mind gets dominated by its words and forgets that the partial and practical truth becomes true truth only by its relation to others which seem to the reason to contradict it, and that taken by itself it contains a constant element of falsity. Thus when we speak of an individual we mean ordinarily an individualisation of mental, vital, physical being separate from all other beings, incapable of unity with them by its very individuality. If we go beyond these three terms of mind, life and body, and speak of the soul or individual self, we still think of an individualised being separate from all others, incapable of unity and inclusive mutuality, capable at most of a spiritual contact and soul-sympathy. It is therefore necessary to insist that by the true individual we mean nothing of the kind, but a conscious power of being of the Eternal, always existing by unity, always capable of mutuality. It is that being which by self-knowledge enjoys liberation and immortality.” The Life Divine
“By individual we mean normally something that separates itself from everything else and stands apart, though in reality there is no such thing anywhere in existence; it is a figment of our mental conceptions useful and necessary to express a partial and practical truth. But the difficulty is that the mind gets dominated by its words and forgets that the partial and practical truth becomes true truth only by its relation to others which seem to the reason to contradict it, and that taken by itself it contains a constant element of falsity. Thus when we speak of an individual we mean ordinarily an individualisation of mental, vital, physical being separate from all other beings, incapable of unity with them by its very individuality. If we go beyond these three terms of mind, life and body, and speak of the soul or individual self, we still think of an individualised being separate from all others, incapable of unity and inclusive mutuality, capable at most of a spiritual contact and soul-sympathy. It is therefore necessary to insist that by the true individual we mean nothing of the kind, but a conscious power of being of the Eternal, always existing by unity, always capable of mutuality. It is that being which by self-knowledge enjoys liberation and immortality.” The Life Divine
Caloric According to a formerly widely accepted scientific theory of heat, when a hot body communicates heat to a cold body, there passes from the former to the latter an “imponderable” fluid, called caloric or phlogiston; and the heat developed by friction is due to a squeezing of caloric out from the body. This theory, misunderstood in later times, was abandoned when it was proved that the amount of heat which can thus be obtained from a body is unlimited, depending only on the amount of labor used in generating it. The error lay in considering that there was a definite, limited amount of caloric which, once extracted, left no further caloric to be extracted until the body had accumulated it anew, quite forgetting that the caloric or phlogiston theory held that caloric was a part of the substance of material things, just as modern electrical theory holds that material substances are themselves formed of electricity. One might as well hold that every material body possesses a certain amount of electricity, of which, when once extracted, the body can no longer furnish a further supply.
Chhaya(Chaya, Sanskrit) ::: Literally a "shade," "simulacrum," or "copy." In the esoteric philosophy, the wordsignifies the astral image of a person, and with this idea are bound up some of the most intricate andrecondite teachings of human evolution. The Secret Doctrine of H. P. Blavatsky contains manyinvaluable hints as to the part played by the chhayas of the pitris in human development.It is a word also which is applied with similar meaning to kosmical matters, for the esoteric studentshould never forget the ancient maxim of Hermes: "What is above is the same as what is below; what isbelow is the same as what is above."Briefly, then, and so far as human evolution is concerned, the chhaya may be called the astral body orimage.
Chongjung Musang. (C. Jingzhong Wuxiang; J. Joshu Muso 淨衆無相) (680-756, alt. 684-762). Korean-Chinese CHAN master of the Tang dynasty; because he was of Korean heritage, he is usually called Musang in the literature, following the Korean pronunciation of his dharma name, or Master Kim (K. Kim hwasang; C. Jin heshang), using his Korean surname. Musang is said to have been the third son of a Silla king and was ordained in Korea at the monastery of Kunnamsa. In 728, he arrived in the Chinese capital of Chang'an (present-day Xi'an) and had an audience with the Tang emperor Xuanzong (r. 712-756), who appointed him to the monastery of Chandingsi. Musang subsequently traveled to Chu (in present-day Sichuan province) and became a disciple of the monk Chuji (alt. 648-734, 650-732, 669-736), who gave him dharma transmission at the monastery of Dechunsi in Zizhou (present-day Sichuan province). He later resided at the monastery of Jingzhongsi in Chengdu (present-day Sichuan province; later known as WANFOSI), which gave him his toponym Chongjung (C. Jingzhong). Musang became famous for his ascetic practices and meditative prowess. Musang also began conferring a unique set of precepts known as the three propositions (SANJU): "no recollection" (wuji), which was equated with morality (sĪLA); "no thought" (WUNIAN) with concentration (SAMADHI); and "no forgetting" (mowang) with wisdom (PRAJNA). He also taught a practice known as YINSHENG NIANFO, a method of reciting the name of the Buddha by extending the length of the intonation. Musang's prosperous lineage in Sichuan came to be known as the JINGZHONG ZONG line of Chan. Musang seems to have taught or influenced several renowned Chan monks, including HEZE SHENHUI (668-760), BAOTANG WUZHU (714-774), and MAZU DAOYI (707-786); he also played an important role in transmitting Chan to Tibet in the 750s and 760s.
C+- "language, humour" (C More or Less) A subject-oriented language (SOL). Each C+- {class} instance, known as a subject, holds hidden {members}, known as prejudices, agendas or undeclared preferences, which are impervious to outside messages; as well as public members, known as boasts or claims. The following {C} {operators} are overridden as shown: " better than " worse than "" way better than "" forget it ! not on your life == comparable, other things being equal !== get a life, guy! C+- is {strongly typed}, based on stereotyping and self-righteous logic. The {Boolean} {variables} TRUE and FALSE (known as constants in other, less realistic languages) are supplemented with CREDIBLE and DUBIOUS, which are fuzzier than Zadeh's traditional {fuzzy logic} categories. All Booleans can be declared with the modifiers strong and weak. Weak implication is said to "preserve deniability" and was added at the request of the DoD to ensure compatibility with future versions of {Ada}. Well-formed falsehoods (WFFs) are {assignment}-compatible with all Booleans. What-if and why-not interactions are aided by the special conditional EVENIFNOT X THEN Y. C+- supports {information hiding} and, among {friend classes} only, rumor sharing. Borrowing from the {Eiffel} lexicon, non-friend classes can be killed by arranging contracts. Note that friendships are {intransitive}, {volatile} and non-{Abelian}. {Operator precedence} rules can be suspended with the dwim {pragma}, known as the "{Do what I mean}". {ANSIfication} will be firmly resisted. C+-'s slogan is "Be Your Own Standard." [{Jargon File}] (1999-06-15)
Conditions essfntitd for meditation ::: There are no essential external conditions, but solitude and seclusion at the time of meditation as as stillness of the body arc helpful, sometimes almost necessary to the beginner. Bui one should not bound b' external conditions. Once the habit of meditation is formed, it should be mads possible to do it in all circumstances, l.ving. sitting, walking, alone, in company, in silettce or in the midst of noise etc. The first imeroal condition necessary is concentration of the will against the obstacles to meditation. i.e. wandermg of the mind, forgetfulness, sfeep, phjsieal and nervous impatience and restlessness etc. The second is an increasing purity and calm of the inner consciousness (citia) out of which thought and emotion arise, i.e. a freedom frona all disturb i ng reactions, such as anger, grief, depression, anxiet>' about w-orldly happenings etc. Mental perfection and moral are always closely allied to each other.
Consciousness ::: Consciousness is a fundamental thing, the fundamental thing in existence; it is the energy, the motion, the movement of consciousness that creates the universe and all that is in it; not only the macrocosm but the microcosm is nothing but consciousness arranging itself. For instance, when consciousness in its movement or rather a certain stress of movement forgets itself in the action it becomes an apparently unconscious energy; when it forgets itself in the form it becomes the electron, the atom, the material object. In reality itis still consciousness that works in the energy and determines the form and the evolution of form. When it wants to liberate itself, slowly, evolutionarily, out of Matter, but still in the form, it emerges as life, as animal, as man and it can go on evolving itself still farther out of its involution and becomes something more than mere man.
Ref: SABCL Vol. 22-23-24, Page: 237
context-dependent forgetting: failure to retrieve information from long-term memory due to the absence of appropriate contextual cues.
cue-dependent forgetting: failure to recall memory due to a lack of cues that were present at the time of memory encoding.
Defenses (Defense Mechanisms) ::: Psychological forces which prevent undesirable or inappropriate impulses from entering consciousness (e.g., forgetting responsibilities that we really didn&
Disorientation ::: Inability to recognize or be aware of who we are (person), what we are doing (situation), the time and date (time), or where we are in relation to our environment (place). To be considered a problem, it must be consistent, result in difficulty functioning, and not due to forgetting or being lost.
displacement: forgetting in short-term memory, as a result of to new incoming information replacing the previous contents
disremember ::: v. t. --> To fail to remember; to forget.
drink therein and forget all the places which it has
Elysian Fields, Elysium (Greek) Originally in Greek mythology, beautiful meadows or plains, or islands of the blest, located in the far west by the banks of Ocean. There certain heroes of the fourth race who never experienced death were said to dwell in perfect happiness ruled by Rhadamanthus. The titans after being reconciled with Zeus also lived there under the rule of Kronos. Pindar holds that all who have passed blamelessly through life three times live there in bliss. Later, Elysium was located in the underworld as the abode of those whom the judges of the dead found worthy. The river Lethe (forgetfulness) flowed by the Elysian Fields. See also AANROO; DEVACHAN; HADES
Evolutionism: This is the view that the universe and life in all of its manifestations and nature in all of their aspects are the product of development. Apart from the religious ideas of initial creation by fiat, this doctrine finds variety of species to be the result of change and modification and growth and adaptation rather than from some form of special creation of each of the myriads of organic types and even of much in the inorganic realm. Contrary to the popular notion, evolution is not a product of modern thought. There has been an evolution of evolutionary hypotheses from earliest Indian and Greek speculation down to the latest pronouncement of scientific theory. Thales believed all life to have had a marine origin and Anaximander, Anaximenes, Empedocles, the Atomists and Aristotle all spoke in terms of development and served to lay a foundation for a true theory of evolution. It is in the work of Charles Darwin, however, that clarity and proof is presented for the explanation of his notion of natural selection and for the crystallization of evolution as a prime factor in man's explanation of all phases of his mundane existence. The chief criticism leveled at the evolutionists, aside from the attacks of the religionists, is based upon their tendency to forget that not all evolution means progress. See Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer, Thomas Hemy Huxley, Natural Selection, Evolutionary Ethics. Cf. A. Lalande, L'Idee de dissolution opposee a celle de l'evolution (1899), revised ed. (1930): Les Illusions evolutionistes. -- L.E.D.
forgat ::: --> of Forget
forgetful ::: a. --> Apt to forget; easily losing remembrance; as, a forgetful man should use helps to strengthen his memory.
Heedless; careless; neglectful; inattentive.
Causing to forget; inducing oblivion; oblivious.
forgetfully ::: adv. --> In a forgetful manner.
forgetfulness ::: n. --> The quality of being forgetful; prononess to let slip from the mind.
Loss of remembrance or recollection; a ceasing to remember; oblivion.
Failure to bear in mind; careless omission; inattention; as, forgetfulness of duty.
forgetive ::: a. --> Inventive; productive; capable.
forget-me-not ::: n. --> A small herb, of the genus Myosotis (M. palustris, incespitosa, etc.), bearing a beautiful blue flower, and extensively considered the emblem of fidelity.
forgettable ::: a. --> Liable to be, or that may be, forgotten.
forgetter ::: n. --> One who forgets; a heedless person.
forgettingly ::: adv. --> By forgetting.
forgetting. Poteh is invoked in necromantic rites
forgetting ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Forget
forgetting: the inability to recall or recognise what has previously been remembered. Forgetting has been explained by a number of accounts ? trace-dependent forgetting (the memory trace is lost), cue-dependent forgetting (the lack of necessary cues to retrieve the memory), repression (painful memories are unconsciously repressed) or interference.
forget ::: v. t. --> To lose the remembrance of; to let go from the memory; to cease to have in mind; not to think of; also, to lose the power of; to cease from doing.
To treat with inattention or disregard; to slight; to neglect.
forgot ::: imp. --> of Forget ::: --> of Forget
imp. & p. p. of Forget.
forgotten ::: p. p. --> of Forget ::: --> p. p. of Forget.
foryete ::: v. t. --> To forget.
four-colour glossies 1. Literature created by {marketroids} that allegedly contains technical specs but which is in fact as superficial as possible without being totally {content-free}. "Forget the four-colour glossies, give me the tech ref manuals." Often applied as an indication of superficiality even when the material is printed on ordinary paper in black and white. Four-colour-glossy manuals are *never* useful for finding a problem. 2. [rare] Applied by extension to manual pages that don't contain enough information to diagnose why the program doesn't produce the expected or desired output.
FUBAR 1. (WWII military slang) Fucked up beyond all recognition (or repair). See {foobar}. 2. "hardware" The Failed UniBus Address Register in a {VAX}. A good example of how jargon can occasionally be snuck past the {suits}. Larry Robinson "lrobins@indiana.edu" reports the following nonstandard use for FUBAR: One day somebody got mad at the {card reader} (or card eater that day) on our {Univac 3200}. He taped a sign, "This thing is FUBAR", on the metal weight that sits on the stack of unread cards. The sign stayed there for over a year. One day, somebody said, "Don't forget to put the fubar on top of the stack". It stuck! We called that weight the fubar until they took away the machine. The replacement card reader had two spring loaded card clamps, one for the feed and one for the return, and we called THOSE fubars until we dumped punch cards. Incidently, the way he taped the sign on the weight made up for the lack of a little nylon piece that was missing from it, and fixed the card reader. That's why the sign stayed there. [{Jargon File}] (1997-03-18)
Guides Spiritualistic term for supposed invisible helpers and instructors belonging to the Spirit-land communicating with people either through mediumship or by a receptive capacity of the person communicated with. While theosophy rejects the explanation offered by spiritualists, it nevertheless teaches that the universe in its webs of being contains many orders of entities existing in all-various grades. Some of these entities can be to any worthy person a source of inspiration. However, the fact that their influence comes from a nonphysical source is no guarantee of the desirability of that influence, but by the very fact of its unknown origin should be scrutinized at once or suspected as to character and source. Nor must we forget in this connection that the possibilities of self-deception are almost infinite.
impossible to forget; indelibly impressed on the memory.
ingratitude ::: n. --> Want of gratitude; insensibility to, forgetfulness of, or ill return for, kindness or favors received; unthankfulness; ungratefulness.
intuitive knowledge ::: Sri Aurobindo: " For the highest intuitive Knowledge sees things in the whole, in the large and details only as sides of the indivisible whole; its tendency is towards immediate synthesis and the unity of knowledge.” *The Life Divine
"The intuitive knowledge on the contrary, however limited it may be in its field or application, is within that scope sure with an immediate, a durable and especially a self-existent certitude.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"All intuitive knowledge comes more or less directly from the light of the self-aware spirit entering into the mind, the spirit concealed behind mind and conscious of all in itself and in all its selves, omniscient and capable of illumining the ignorant or the self-forgetful mind whether by rare or constant flashes or by a steady instreaming light, out of its omniscience.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
irretention ::: n. --> Want of retaining power; forgetfulness.
Jingzhong zong. (J. Joshushu; K. Chongjung chong 淨衆宗). A branch of the early CHAN ZONG that flourished at the monastery Jingzhongsi in Chengdu (present-day Sichuan province). The history of the Jingzhong line is documented in the LIDAI FABAO JI. According to this text, the Jingzhong line is derived from the Chan master Zhishen (609-702), a disciple of the fifth patriarch HONGREN. Zhishen is also said to have received the purple robe of the Chan founder BODHIDHARMA from Empress Dowager WU ZETIAN, which was ostensibly transmitted to Zhishen's disciple Chuji (648-734/650-732/669-736) and then to CHoNGJUNG MUSANG (C. Jingzhong Wuxiang) and BAOTANG WUZHU. The Lidai fabao ji, authored by a disciple of Wuzhu, claims that the Jingzhong lineage is eventually absorbed into the BAOTANG ZONG, though the two seem in fact to have been distinct lineages. The eminent Chan masters MAZU DAOYI and GUIFENG ZONGMI are also known to have once studied under teachers of the Jingzhong line of Chan. The school is most closely associated with the so-called three propositions (sanju), a unique set of Chan precepts that were equated with the traditional roster of the three trainings (TRIsIKsĀ): "no recollection" (wuyi), which was equated with morality (sĪLA); "no thought" (WUNIAN) with concentration (SAMĀDHI); and "no forgetting" (mowang) with wisdom (PRAJNĀ). These three propositions are associated most closely with Musang, but other texts attribute them instead to Musang's putative successor, Wuzhu. The portrayal in the literature of the teachings of the Jingzhong school divides along the fault line of these two great teachers, with Musang's Chan adaptation of mainstream Buddhist teachings contrasting markedly with Wuzhu's more radical, even antinomian approach, deriving from HEZE SHENHUI. The Jingzhong masters are also said to have had some influence in Tibet (see BSAM YAS DEBATE), including on the development of MAHĀYOGA and RDZOGS CHEN.
karana deha. ::: the causal body; a state of pure forgetfulness, ignorance, where there is no thought of well-being nor of the gross and subtle bodies; a state of forgetfulness where nothing can exist; the "knowing" principle
Lethe (Greek) Forgetfulness; a river of the Underworld which confers upon souls destined to live again on earth the boon of oblivion of their former experiences. It refers to the postmortem destiny of the human soul as it sinks into its pre-devachanic unconsciousness and final carefree devachanic bliss, thus gaining oblivion of inferior human concerns and utter peace before the time comes for the resumption of new bodies on earth. Also it refers to the loss of memory of the postmortem experiences and prebirth panoramic vision before birth.
lethe ::: n. --> Death.
A river of Hades whose waters when drunk caused forgetfulness of the past.
Oblivion; a draught of oblivion; forgetfulness.
Mahatma(Mahatman, Sanskrit) ::: "Great soul" or "great self" is the meaning of this compound word (maha, "great";atman, "self"). The mahatmas are perfected men, relatively speaking, known in theosophical literature asteachers, elder brothers, masters, sages, seers, and by other names. They are indeed the "elder brothers"of mankind. They are men, not spirits -- men who have evolved through self-devised efforts in individualevolution, always advancing forwards and upwards until they have now attained the lofty spiritual andintellectual human supremacy that now they hold. They were not so created by any extra-cosmic Deity,but they are men who have become what they are by means of inward spiritual striving, by spiritual andintellectual yearning, by aspiration to be greater and better, nobler and higher, just as every good man inhis own way so aspires. They are farther advanced along the path of evolution than the majority of menare. They possess knowledge of nature's secret processes, and of hid mysteries, which to the average manmay seem to be little short of the marvelous -- yet, after all, this mere fact is of relatively smallimportance in comparison with the far greater and more profoundly moving aspects of their nature andlifework.Especially are they called teachers because they are occupied in the noble duty of instructing mankind, ininspiring elevating thoughts, and in instilling impulses of forgetfulness of self into the hearts of men.Also are they sometimes called the guardians, because they are, in very truth, the guardians of the raceand of the records -- natural, racial, national -- of past ages, portions of which they give out from time totime as fragments of a now long-forgotten wisdom, when the world is ready to listen to them; and theydo this in order to advance the cause of truth and of genuine civilization founded on wisdom andbrotherhood.Never -- such is the teaching -- since the human race first attained self-consciousness has this order orassociation or society or brotherhood of exalted men been without its representatives on our earth.It was the mahatmas who founded the modern Theosophical Society through their envoy or messenger,H. P. Blavatsky, in New York in 1875.
Mind is a subordinate power of Supermind which takes its stand in the standpoint of division, actually forgetful here of the oneness behind though able to return to it by reillumination from the supramental.
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mouse-ear ::: n. --> The forget-me-not (Myosotis palustris) and other species of the same genus.
A European species of hawkweed (Hieracium Pilosella).
Mudhavastha: One of the five states of the mind; state of ignorance or forgetfulness of one's real nature.
Mugdhata: The state of very deluded forgetfulness of real divine nature through infatuation.
musitasmṛti. (P. mutthassati; T. brjed nges; C. shinian; J. shitsunen; K. sillyom 失念). In Sanskrit, "inattentiveness," "negligence," or "forgetfulness"; one of the forty-six mental concomitants (CAITTA) according to the SARVĀSTIVĀDA school of ABHIDHARMA (where the term is also called smṛtināsa) and one of the fifty-one according to the YOGĀCĀRA school. Within this group, it falls into the category of the "secondary afflictions" (UPAKLEsA). "Inattentiveness" refers to the lack of clarity caused by the failure to attend properly to and be mindful of either the present moment or an intended object of attention, or the failure to recollect what had transpired in the immediately preceding moments. It involves the inattentiveness to virtuous objects, thus leading to attention to nonvirtuous objects. The term is taken to be one of the possible derivative mental states of "ignorance" (AVIDYĀ), because it causes the mind to become distracted to the objects of the afflictions. It is the opposite of "attentiveness," "proper recollection," and "presence of mind" (SMṚTI).
Nafs (A) The ego or self. The limited awareness of one’s own identity. The aim of the sufi is to forget the nafs so one can merge into a divine awareness
Nirmanakaya(Sanskrit) ::: A compound of two words: nirmana, a participle meaning "forming," "creating"; kaya, a wordmeaning "body," "robe," "vehicle"; thus, nirmanakaya means "formed-body." A nirmanakaya, however,is really a state assumed by or entered into by a bodhisattva -- an individual man made semi-divine who,to use popular language, instead of choosing his reward in the nirvana of a less degree, remains on earthout of pity and compassion for inferior beings, clothing himself in a nirmanakayic vesture. When thatstate is ended the nirmanakaya ends.A nirmanakaya is a complete man possessing all the principles of his constitution except the linga-sariraand its accompanying physical body. He is one who lives on the plane of being next superior to thephysical plane, and his purpose in so doing is to save men from themselves by being with them, and bycontinuously instilling thoughts of self-sacrifice, of self-forgetfulness, of spiritual and moral beauty, ofmutual help, of compassion, and of pity.Nirmanakaya is the third or lowest, exoterically speaking, of what is called in Sanskrit trikaya or "threebodies." The highest is the dharmakaya, in which state are the nirvanis and full pratyeka buddhas, etc.;the second state is the sambhogakaya, intermediate between the former and, thirdly, the nirmanakaya.The nirmanakaya vesture or condition enables one entering it to live in touch and sympathy with theworld of men. The sambhogakaya enables one in that state to be conscious indeed to a certain extent ofthe world of men and its griefs and sorrows, but with little power or impulse to render aid. Thedharmakaya vesture is so pure and holy, and indeed so high, that the one possessing the dharmakaya orwho is in it, is virtually out of all touch with anything inferior to himself. It is, therefore, in thenirmanakaya vesture if not in physical form that live and work the Buddhas of Compassion, the greatestsages and seers, and all the superholy men who through striving through ages of evolution bring forthinto manifestation and power and function the divinity within. The doctrine of the nirmanakayas is one ofthe most suggestive, profound, and beautiful teachings of the esoteric philosophy. (See also Dharmakaya,Sambhogakaya)
Nirmanakaya (Sanskrit) Nirmāṇakāya [from nirmāṇa forming, creating + kāya body, robe, vehicle] Appearance body; the lowest of the trikaya, followed by sambhogakaya and dharmakaya. A state assumed by a bodhisattva who, instead of entering nirvana, remains on earth to help inferior beings. “A Nirmanakaya is a complete man possessing all the principles of his constitution except the Linga-sarira, and its accompanying physical body. He is one who lives on the plane of being next superior to the physical plane, and his purpose in so doing is to save men from themselves by being with them, and by continuously instilling thoughts of self-sacrifice, of self-forgetfulness, of spiritual and moral beauty, of mutual help, of compassion, and of pity” (OG 114). Beings in this state make a wall of protection around mankind, which shields humanity from evils.
Oblivescence: (Lat. oblivesci, to forget) The gradual obliteration of a memory. -- L.W.
oblivion ::: 1. Total forgetfulness. 2. The state of being disregarded or forgotten. self-oblivion.
oblivion ::: n. --> The act of forgetting, or the state of being forgotten; cessation of remembrance; forgetfulness.
Official ignoring of offenses; amnesty, or general pardon; as, an act of oblivion.
oblivion, the angel of forgetfulness. In Isaac
oblivious ::: a. --> Promoting oblivion; causing forgetfulness.
Evincing oblivion; forgetful.
“One thing you must know and never forget: in the work of transformation all that is true and sincere will always be kept; only what is false and insincere will disappear.” Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 15.
oubliez [French] ::: forget.
overflow pdl "jargon" The place where you put things when your {pdl} is full. If you don't have one and too many things get pushed, you forget something. The overflow pdl for a person's memory might be a memo pad. This usage inspired the following doggerel: Hey, diddle, diddle The overflow pdl To get a little more stack; If that's not enough Then you lose it all, And have to pop all the way back. --The Great Quux The term {pdl} seems to be primarily an {MIT}ism; outside MIT this term is replaced by "overflow {stack}". (2008-05-30)
overflow pdl ::: The place where you put things when your pdl is full. If you don't have one and too many things get pushed, you forget something. The overflow pdl for a person's memory might be a memo pad. This usage inspired the following doggerel: Hey, diddle, diddleThe overflow pdl The term pdl seems to be primarily an MITism; outside MIT this term is replaced by overflow stack.
pain ::: 1. An unpleasant sensation occurring in varying degrees of severity as a consequence of injury, disease, or emotional disorder. 2. The sensation of acute physical hurt or discomfort caused by injury, illness, etc. **Pain, pain"s, pains, earth-pain, life-pain, world-pain, pain-forgetting, pain-fraught.
paramarthika jiva. ::: ego in deep sleep state; the ego which comes in front of Self and forgets everything, knowing that everything is unreal; identical with Brahman;
pramada. ::: swerving from abidance in the Absolute; the forgetfulness of one's Self
Raja yoga ::: This is the first step only. Afterwards, the ordinary activities of the mind and sense must be entirely quieted in order that the soul may be free to ascend to higher states of consciousness and acquire the foundation for a perfect freedom and self-mastery. But Rajayoga does not forget that the disabilities of the ordinary mind proceed largely from its subjection to the reactions of the nervous system and the body. It adopts th
refore from the Hathayogic system its devices of asana and pranayama, but reduces their multiple and elaborate forms in each case to one simplest and most directly effective process sufficient for its own immediate object. Thus it gets rid of the Hathayogic complexity and cumbrousness while it utilises the swift and powerful efficacy of its methods for the control of the body and the vital functions and for the awakening of that internal dynamism, full of a latent supernormal faculty, typified in Yogic terminology by the kundalinı, the coiled and sleeping serpent of Energy within. This done, the system proceeds to the perfect quieting of the restless mind and its elevation to a higher plane through concentration of mental force by the successive stages which lead to the utmost inner concentration or ingathered state of the consciousness which is called Samadhi. By Samadhi, in which the mind acquires the capacity of withdrawing from its limited waking activities into freer and higher states of consciousness, Rajayoga serves a double purpose. It compasses a pure mental action liberated from the confusions of the outer consciousness and passes thence to the higher supra-mental planes on which the individual soul enters into its true spiritual existence. But also it acquires the capacity of that free and concentrated energising of consciousness on its object which our philosophy asserts as the primary cosmic energy and the method of divine action upon the world. By this capacity the Yogin, already possessed of the highest supracosmic knowledge and experience in the state of trance, is able in the waking state to acquire directly whatever knowledge and exercise whatever mastery may be useful or necessary to his activities in the objective world. For the ancient system of Rajayoga aimed not only at Swarajya, self-rule or subjective empire, the entire control by the subjective consciousness of all the states and activities proper to its own domain, but included Samrajya as well, outward empire, the control by the subjective consciousness of its outer activities and environment.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 23-24, Page: 36-37
RAM disk "operating system, storage" A memory-resident program which mimics a {hard disk} drive. It uses part of computer's {RAM} to store data which can be accessed as files. Unlike a real disk drive, this drive forgets all stored data when the computer is turned off. (1995-03-14)
RAM disk ::: (operating system, storage) A memory-resident program which mimics a hard disk drive. It uses part of computer's RAM to store data which can be accessed as files. Unlike a real disk drive, this drive forgets all stored data when the computer is turned off. (1995-03-14)
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
Recency Effect ::: The tendency to remember the last bit of information due to the shorter time available for forgetting.
Referred to also as the angel of forgetfulness.
Refers to a thought disorder wherein thinking takes a roundabout manner to get to an answer. Differentiable from tangentiality by the speaker eventually getting back to the point. For example: "My mother's job? She used to sit around the house doing nothing but drinking, she'd just sit there and stew, making noises, chugging her drinks. She threw my dad out of the house. I'll never forget that, the way she did it. Anyways, my mom was a waitress."
rig pa. The standard Tibetan translation of the Sanskrit term VIDYĀ, or "knowledge." The Tibetan term, however, has a special meaning in the ATIYOGA and RDZOGS CHEN traditions of the RNYING MA sect of Tibetan Buddhism, where it refers to the most profound form of consciousness. Some modern translators of Tibetan texts into European languages consider the term too profound to be rendered into a foreign language, while others translate it as "awareness," "pure awareness," or "mind." Unlike the "mind of clear light" (PRABHĀSVARACITTA; 'od gsal gyi sems) as described in other tantric systems, rig pa is not said to be accessible only in extraordinary states, such as death and sexual union; instead, it is fully present, although generally unrecognized, in each moment of sensory experience. Rig pa is described as the primordial basis, characterized with qualities such as presence, spontaneity, luminosity, original purity, unobstructed freedom, expanse, clarity, self-liberation, openness, effortlessness, and intrinsic awareness. It is not accessible through conceptual elaboration or logical analysis. Rather, rig pa is an eternally pure state free from the dualism of subject and object (cf. GRĀHYAGRĀHAKAVIKALPA), infinite and complete from the beginning. It is regarded as the ground or the basis of both SAMSĀRA and NIRVĀnA, with the phenomena of the world being its reflection; all thoughts and all objects of knowledge are said to arise from rig pa and dissolve into rig pa. The ordinary mind believes that its own creations are real, forgetting its true nature of original purity. For the mind willfully to seek to liberate itself is both inappropriate and futile because rig pa is already self-liberated. Rig pa therefore is also the path, and its exponents teach practices that instruct the student how to distinguish rig pa from ordinary mental states. These practices include a variety of techniques designed to eliminate karmic obstacles (KARMĀVARAnA), at which point the presence of rig pa in ordinary experience is introduced, allowing the mind to eliminate all thoughts and experiences itself, thereby recognizing its true nature. Rig pa is thus also the goal of the path, the fundamental state that is free from obscuration. Cf. LINGZHI.
samatha. (P. samatha; T. zhi gnas; C. zhi; J. shi; K. chi 止). In Sanskrit, variously translated as "calmness," "serenity," "quiescence," or "tranquillity" (and sometimes as "stopping," following the Chinese rendering of the term); one of the two major branches of Buddhist meditative cultivation (BHĀVANĀ), along with insight (VIPAsYANĀ). Calmness is the mental peace and stability that is generated through the cultivation of concentration (SAMĀDHI). samatha is defined technically as the specific degree of concentration necessary to generate insight (VIPAsYANĀ) into reality and thus lead to the destruction of the afflictions (KLEsA). samatha is a more advanced degree of concentration than what is ordinarily associated with the sensuous realm (KĀMADHĀTU) but not fully that of the first meditative absorption (DHYĀNA), viz., the first absorption associated with the subtle-materiality realm (RuPĀVACARADHYĀNA). According to the YOGĀCĀRABHuMI and the ABHIDHARMASAMUCCAYA, samatha is the fundamental state (maula) of each of the four concentrations (dhyāna) and attainments (SAMĀPATTI), in distinction to a neighboring part that is preparatory to that fundamental state (see SĀMANTAKA), which is vipasyanā. The process of meditative cultivation that culminates in calmness is described in one account as having nine stages. In the account found in the MADHYĀNTAVIBHĀGA, for example, there are eight forces that operate during these stages to eliminate five hindrances: viz., laziness, forgetting the object of concentration, restlessness and worry, insufficient application of antidotes (anabhisaMskāra), and over-application of the antidotes (abhisaMskāra). During the initial stage, when first placing the mind on its object, the first hindrance, laziness, is counteracted by a complex of four motivational mental factors: CHANDA (desire-to-do), vyāyāma (resolve), sRADDHĀ (faith), and PRAsRABDHI (pliancy or readiness for the task). When the cultivation of calmness has reached a slightly more advanced stage, mindfulness (SMṚTI) counteracts the forgetfulness that occurs when concentration wanders away from the meditation object. When a stream of concentration is first achieved, a meta-awareness called introspection or clear comprehension (SAMPRAJANYA) operates to counteract dullness and restlessness. Finally, in the last stages of the process, there is an application (abhisaMskāra) in order to heighten the intensity of the concentration to the requisite level, and to avoid the subtle overexcitement that comes with feelings of great ease; and just prior to the attainment of samatha, there is the setting aside of any application of conscious effort. At that point, calmness continues on its own as a natural stream of tranquillity, bringing great physical rapture (PRĪTI) and mental ease (SUKHA) that settles into the advanced state of serenity called samatha. ¶ In the context of monastic discipline, samatha, in its denotation as calming, is also used technically to refer to the formal settlement of monastic disputes. See ADHIKARAnAsAMATHA; SAPTĀDHIKARAnAsAMATHA.
sanju. (J. sanku; K. samgu 三句). In Chinese, "three propositions," a unique set of precepts taught by CHoNGJUNG MUSANG (680-756, alt. 684-762) in the JINGZHONG ZONG lineage of the early CHAN school. Musang sought to summarize the method of practice taught by the founder of Chinese Chan school, BODHIDHARMA, in three propositions, which he described as "no-recollection" (wuyi), which he equated with morality (sĪLA); "no-thought" (WUNIAN), which corresponded to concentration (SAMĀDHI); and "not-forgetting" (mowang), which was the equivalent of wisdom (PRAJNĀ). In other Jingzhong zong texts, Musang's successor BAOTANG WUZHU later claims that he was in fact the creator of these three propositions and makes the explicit connection between them and the three trainings (TRIsIKsĀ) of mainstream Buddhism. GUIFENG ZONGMI later explains the first proposition, "no-recollection," as not tracing back the past; the second "no-thought," as not yearning for the future; and the third "not-forgetting" as "always conforming to this knowledge without confusion or mistake."
Sheol: Hebrew for pit or grave. The nether-world, a dark and dreary underground dwelling place of the dead where their spirits find deep sleep, forgetfulness, silence and destruction.
smṛti. (P. sati; T. dran pa; C. nian; J. nen; K. yom 念). In Sanskrit, "mindfulness" or "memory" and often seen in Western sources in the Pāli equivalency sati; a polysemous term, but commonly used in meditative contexts to refer to the ability to remain focused on a chosen object without forgetfulness or distraction. The SARVĀSTIVĀDA school of ABHIDHARMA lists smṛti as one of a group of five determinative (VINIYATA) mental concomitants (CAITTA), whose function is to aid the mind in ascertaining or determining its object. The five are: aspiration or desire-to-act (CHANDA), determination or resolve (ADHIMOKsA), mindfulness or memory (smṛti), concentration (SAMĀDHI), and wisdom or cognition (PRAJNĀ). According to ASAnGA, these five determinative factors accompany wholesome (KUsALA) states of mind, so that if one is present, all are present. Mindfulness is crucial to all types of formal meditative practice because of its role in bringing clarity to the perceptual process; it leaves the mind in a purely receptive state that inhibits the unwholesome responses to sensory stimuli, such as greed, hatred, and delusion. Mindfulness also contributes to control of the mind, by eliminating distraction and helping the meditator gain mastery of his thought processes. Smṛti is also a catalyst of the related term "circumspection" or "introspection" (SAMPRAJANYA) and ultimately of wisdom (PRAJNĀ). As the third of the five spiritual faculties (PANCENDRIYA), smṛti helps to balance faith (sRADDHĀ) and wisdom (prajNā)-which could degenerate into blind faith or skepticism, respectively-as well as vigor (VĪRYA) and concentration (SAMĀDHI)-which could degenerate respectively into restlessness and indolence. Smṛti is thus the keystone that ensures the uniform development of all five faculties; for this reason, unlike the other four factors, there can never be too much mindfulness, because it cannot degenerate into a negative state. The emphasis on mindfulness is one of the most distinctive features of Buddhist meditation theory. Consequently, the term appears in numerous lists of virtuous qualities, especially in those pertaining to meditation. For example, in perhaps its most popular usage, right mindfulness (SAMYAKSMṚTI) is the seventh of the eight aspects of the noble eightfold path (ĀRYĀstĀnGAMĀRGA). Generally in this context, the cultivation of the "foundations of mindfulness" (SMṚTYUPASTHĀNA) is understood to serve as a basis for the development of liberating wisdom (prajñā). Thus, meditation exercises involving smṛti are often discussed in connection with those related to VIPAsYANĀ, or "insight." In one of the most widely read discourses on mindfulness, the MAHĀSATIPAttHĀNASUTTANTA, the Buddha offers four specific foundations of mindfulness training, namely, on the body (KĀYA), sensations (VEDANĀ), mental states (CITTA), and specific factors (P. dhamma; S. DHARMA). In his Prajñāpāramitāhṛdayanāmatīkā, a commentary on the PRAJNĀPĀRAMITĀHṚDAYASuTRA ("Heart Sutra"), KAMALAsĪLA lists mindfulness as the third of five "powers" (BALA) that are attained on the path of preparation (PRAYOGAMĀRGA). In another popular schema, smṛti is listed as the first of seven "limbs of awakening" or factors of enlightenment (BODHYAnGA); these are seven factors that contribute to enlightenment. See also ANUSMṚTI; SMṚTYUPASTHĀNA; SATIPAttHANASUTTA.
Spiritual Realism: The theory that only the truly good will is free. Causality based on spiritual activity. Self-forgetfulness as the way to a supreme realization of personality. Ravaisson expressed it in the phrase "To simplify one's self." -- R.T.F.
The Mother: "To be humble means for the mind, the vital and the body never to forget that without the Divine they know nothing, are noting and can do nothing; with the Divine they are nothing but ignorance, chaos and impotence. The Divine alone is Truth, Life, Power, Love, Felicity.” Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 14.
The physical mind is that which is fixed on physical objects and happenings, sees and understands these only, and deals with them according to their own nature, but can with difficulty respond to the higher forces. Left to itself, it Is skeptical of the existence of supra-physical things of which it has no direct experience and to which it can find no due ; even when it has spiritual experi- ences, it forgets them easily, loses (he impression and result and finds it difficult to believe. To enlighten the physical mind by the consciousness of the higher spiritual and Supramental planes is one object of this yoga, just as to enlighten it by the power of the higher vital and higher mental elements of the being is the greatest part of human self-development, civilisation and culture.
The story of Mel, a Real Programmer "programming, person" A 1983 article by Ed Nather about {hacker} {Mel Kaye}. The full text follows. A recent article devoted to the macho side of programming made the bald and unvarnished statement, "Real Programmers write in FORTRAN". Maybe they do now, in this decadent era of Lite beer, hand calculators and "user-friendly" software but back in the Good Old Days, when the term "software" sounded funny and Real Computers were made out of {drums} and {vacuum tubes}, Real Programmers wrote in {machine code} - not {Fortran}, not {RATFOR}, not even {assembly language} - {Machine Code}, raw, unadorned, inscrutable {hexadecimal} numbers, directly. Lest a whole new generation of programmers grow up in ignorance of this glorious past, I feel duty-bound to describe, as best I can through the generation gap, how a Real Programmer wrote code. I'll call him Mel, because that was his name. I first met Mel when I went to work for {Royal McBee Computer Corporation}, a now-defunct subsidiary of the typewriter company. The firm manufactured the {LGP-30}, a small, cheap (by the standards of the day) {drum}-memory computer, and had just started to manufacture the RPC-4000, a much-improved, bigger, better, faster -- drum-memory computer. Cores cost too much, and weren't here to stay, anyway. (That's why you haven't heard of the company, or the computer.) I had been hired to write a {Fortran} compiler for this new marvel and Mel was my guide to its wonders. Mel didn't approve of compilers. "If a program can't rewrite its own code," he asked, "what good is it?" Mel had written, in {hexadecimal}, the most popular computer program the company owned. It ran on the {LGP-30} and played blackjack with potential customers at computer shows. Its effect was always dramatic. The LGP-30 booth was packed at every show, and the IBM salesmen stood around talking to each other. Whether or not this actually sold computers was a question we never discussed. Mel's job was to re-write the blackjack program for the {RPC-4000}. ({Port}? What does that mean?) The new computer had a one-plus-one addressing scheme, in which each machine instruction, in addition to the {operation code} and the address of the needed {operand}, had a second address that indicated where, on the revolving drum, the next instruction was located. In modern parlance, every single instruction was followed by a {GO TO}! Put *that* in {Pascal}'s pipe and smoke it. Mel loved the RPC-4000 because he could optimize his code: that is, locate instructions on the drum so that just as one finished its job, the next would be just arriving at the "read head" and available for immediate execution. There was a program to do that job, an "optimizing assembler", but Mel refused to use it. "You never know where its going to put things", he explained, "so you'd have to use separate constants". It was a long time before I understood that remark. Since Mel knew the numerical value of every operation code, and assigned his own drum addresses, every instruction he wrote could also be considered a numerical constant. He could pick up an earlier "add" instruction, say, and multiply by it, if it had the right numeric value. His code was not easy for someone else to modify. I compared Mel's hand-optimised programs with the same code massaged by the optimizing assembler program, and Mel's always ran faster. That was because the "{top-down}" method of program design hadn't been invented yet, and Mel wouldn't have used it anyway. He wrote the innermost parts of his program loops first, so they would get first choice of the optimum address locations on the drum. The optimizing assembler wasn't smart enough to do it that way. Mel never wrote time-delay loops, either, even when the balky {Flexowriter} required a delay between output characters to work right. He just located instructions on the drum so each successive one was just *past* the read head when it was needed; the drum had to execute another complete revolution to find the next instruction. He coined an unforgettable term for this procedure. Although "optimum" is an absolute term, like "unique", it became common verbal practice to make it relative: "not quite optimum" or "less optimum" or "not very optimum". Mel called the maximum time-delay locations the "most pessimum". After he finished the blackjack program and got it to run, ("Even the initialiser is optimised", he said proudly) he got a Change Request from the sales department. The program used an elegant (optimised) {random number generator} to shuffle the "cards" and deal from the "deck", and some of the salesmen felt it was too fair, since sometimes the customers lost. They wanted Mel to modify the program so, at the setting of a sense switch on the console, they could change the odds and let the customer win. Mel balked. He felt this was patently dishonest, which it was, and that it impinged on his personal integrity as a programmer, which it did, so he refused to do it. The Head Salesman talked to Mel, as did the Big Boss and, at the boss's urging, a few Fellow Programmers. Mel finally gave in and wrote the code, but he got the test backward, and, when the sense switch was turned on, the program would cheat, winning every time. Mel was delighted with this, claiming his subconscious was uncontrollably ethical, and adamantly refused to fix it. After Mel had left the company for greener pa$ture$, the Big Boss asked me to look at the code and see if I could find the test and reverse it. Somewhat reluctantly, I agreed to look. Tracking Mel's code was a real adventure. I have often felt that programming is an art form, whose real value can only be appreciated by another versed in the same arcane art; there are lovely gems and brilliant coups hidden from human view and admiration, sometimes forever, by the very nature of the process. You can learn a lot about an individual just by reading through his code, even in hexadecimal. Mel was, I think, an unsung genius. Perhaps my greatest shock came when I found an innocent loop that had no test in it. No test. *None*. Common sense said it had to be a closed loop, where the program would circle, forever, endlessly. Program control passed right through it, however, and safely out the other side. It took me two weeks to figure it out. The RPC-4000 computer had a really modern facility called an {index register}. It allowed the programmer to write a program loop that used an indexed instruction inside; each time through, the number in the index register was added to the address of that instruction, so it would refer to the next datum in a series. He had only to increment the index register each time through. Mel never used it. Instead, he would pull the instruction into a machine register, add one to its address, and store it back. He would then execute the modified instruction right from the register. The loop was written so this additional execution time was taken into account -- just as this instruction finished, the next one was right under the drum's read head, ready to go. But the loop had no test in it. The vital clue came when I noticed the index register bit, the bit that lay between the address and the operation code in the instruction word, was turned on-- yet Mel never used the index register, leaving it zero all the time. When the light went on it nearly blinded me. He had located the data he was working on near the top of memory -- the largest locations the instructions could address -- so, after the last datum was handled, incrementing the instruction address would make it overflow. The carry would add one to the operation code, changing it to the next one in the instruction set: a jump instruction. Sure enough, the next program instruction was in address location zero, and the program went happily on its way. I haven't kept in touch with Mel, so I don't know if he ever gave in to the flood of change that has washed over programming techniques since those long-gone days. I like to think he didn't. In any event, I was impressed enough that I quit looking for the offending test, telling the Big Boss I couldn't find it. He didn't seem surprised. When I left the company, the blackjack program would still cheat if you turned on the right sense switch, and I think that's how it should be. I didn't feel comfortable hacking up the code of a Real Programmer." [Posted to {Usenet} by its author, Ed Nather "utastro!nather", on 1983-05-21]. {Jargon File (http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html)}. [{On the trail of a Real Programmer (http://www.jamtronix.com/blog/2011/03/25/on-the-trail-of-a-real-programmer/)}, 2011-03-25 blog post by "jonno" at Jamtronix] [When did it happen? Did Mel use hexadecimal or octal?] (2003-09-12)
"The true mm of old did not know what it was to love life or to have death. He did not rejoice in birth nor resist death. Spontaneously he went, spontaneously he came that was all. He did not forget whence he came, nor did he seek whence he would end. He accepted things gladly, and returned them to nature without reminiscence. This is called not to hurt Tao with the human heart, nor to assist heaven with man." (Chuang Tzu, between 399-295 B.C.)
The word Sabean itself has come down to us mainly through Greek and Latin writers, but so thoroughly imbued were the ancient Hebrews with this idea of the celestial hosts or cosmic spirits that the Bible is full of references where the context even wrongly endows the celestial hosts with the properties of the Most High God, and it has been so understood by Christian theologians; forgetting, however, that manifested deities, however high, are but the manifestations of the infinite and ineffable Mystery or parabrahman, from which all the celestial hosts flow or emanate. Thus not only ancient and modern Judaism, but Christianity itself, is filled with the thought of the ancient Sabeans.
trace-dependent forgetting: the information no longer stored in memory.
Tradition has it that in the immemorial past, certain lower gods associated intimately with their children, humanity, on this globe; but as time went by and mankind became more immersed in material pursuits, people grew to become increasingly forgetful of their divine origin and of the presence of the shining divinities instructing and guiding their forebears, so that the gods and demigods were remembered only in mythologies and religious metaphors of the various races.
transformation ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Transformation means that the higher consciousness or nature is brought down into the mind, vital and body and takes the place of the lower. There is a higher consciousness of the true self, which is spiritual, but it is above; if one rises above into it, then one is free as long as one remains there, but if one comes down into or uses mind, vital or body — and if one keeps any connection with life, one has to do so, either to come down and act from the ordinary consciousness or else to be in the self but use mind, life and body, then the imperfections of these instruments have to be faced and mended — they can only be mended by transformation.” *Letters on Yoga
"‘Transformation" is a word that I have brought in myself (like ‘supermind") to express certain spiritual concepts and spiritual facts of the integral yoga. People are now taking them up and using them in senses which have nothing to do with the significance which I put into them. Purification of the nature by the ‘influence" of the Spirit is not what I mean by transformation; purification is only part of a psychic change or a psycho-spiritual change — the word besides has many senses and is very often given a moral or ethical meaning which is foreign to my purpose.” *Letters on Yoga
"It is indeed as a result of our evolution that we arrive at the possibility of this transformation. As Nature has evolved beyond Matter and manifested Life, beyond Life and manifested Mind, so she must evolve beyond Mind and manifest a consciousness and power of our existence free from the imperfection and limitation of our mental existence, a supramental or truth-consciousness and able to develop the power and perfection of the spirit. Here a slow and tardy change need no longer be the law or manner of our evolution; it will be only so to a greater or less extent so long as a mental ignorance clings and hampers our ascent; but once we have grown into the truth-consciousness its power of spiritual truth of being will determine all. Into that truth we shall be freed and it will transform mind and life and body. Light and bliss and beauty and a perfection of the spontaneous right action of all the being are there as native powers of the supramental truth-consciousness and these will in their very nature transform mind and life and body even here upon earth into a manifestation of the truth-conscious spirit. The obscurations of earth will not prevail against the supramental truth-consciousness, for even into the earth it can bring enough of the omniscient light and omnipotent force of the spirit conquer. All may not open to the fullness of its light and power, but whatever does open must that extent undergo the change. That will be the principle of transformation.” The Supramental Manifestation
The Mother: "Transformation. The change by which all the elements and all the movements of the being become ready to manifest the supramental Truth.”
"One thing you must know and never forget: in the work of transformation all that is true and sincere will always be kept; only what is false and insincere will disappear.” Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 15.
Tso wang: Chinese for “sitting in forgetfulness”; that state of absolute freedom, in which the distinctions between others and self is forgotten, in which life and death are equated, in which all things have become one. A state of pure experience, in which one becomes at one with the infinite soul.
Tso wang: 'Sitting in forgetfulness'; that state of absolute freedom, in which the distinctions between others and self is forgotten, in which life and death are equated, in which all things have become one. A state of pure experience, in which one becomes at one with the infinite. (Chuang Tzu, between 399 and 295 B.C.). -- H.H.
unforgettable ::: a. --> Not forgettable; enduring in memory.
unforgettable :::
unlearn ::: v. t. --> To forget, as what has been learned; to lose from memory; also, to learn the contrary of.
To fail to learn.
unremembrance ::: n. --> Want of remembrance; forgetfulness.
unteach ::: v. t. --> To cause to forget, or to lose from memory, or to disbelieve what has been taught.
To cause to be forgotten; as, to unteach what has been learned.
vaxocentrism /vak"soh-sen"trizm/ [analogy with "ethnocentrism"] A notional disease said to afflict C programmers who persist in coding according to certain assumptions that are valid (especially under Unix) on {VAXen} but false elsewhere. Among these are: 1. The assumption that dereferencing a null pointer is safe because it is all bits 0, and location 0 is readable and 0. Problem: this may instead cause an illegal-address trap on non-VAXen, and even on VAXen under OSes other than BSD Unix. Usually this is an implicit assumption of sloppy code (forgetting to check the pointer before using it), rather than deliberate exploitation of a misfeature. 2. The assumption that characters are signed. 3. The assumption that a pointer to any one type can freely be cast into a pointer to any other type. A stronger form of this is the assumption that all pointers are the same size and format, which means you don't have to worry about getting the casts or types correct in calls. Problem: this fails on word-oriented machines or others with multiple pointer formats. 4. The assumption that the parameters of a routine are stored in memory, on a stack, contiguously, and in strictly ascending or descending order. Problem: this fails on many RISC architectures. 5. The assumption that pointer and integer types are the same size, and that pointers can be stuffed into integer variables (and vice-versa) and drawn back out without being truncated or mangled. Problem: this fails on segmented architectures or word-oriented machines with funny pointer formats. 6. The assumption that a data type of any size may begin at any byte address in memory (for example, that you can freely construct and dereference a pointer to a word- or greater-sized object at an odd char address). Problem: this fails on many (especially RISC) architectures better optimised for {HLL} execution speed, and can cause an illegal address fault or bus error. 7. The (related) assumption that there is no padding at the end of types and that in an array you can thus step right from the last byte of a previous component to the first byte of the next one. This is not only machine- but compiler-dependent. 8. The assumption that memory address space is globally flat and that the array reference "foo[-1]" is necessarily valid. Problem: this fails at 0, or other places on segment-addressed machines like Intel chips (yes, segmentation is universally considered a {brain-damaged} way to design machines (see {moby}), but that is a separate issue). 9. The assumption that objects can be arbitrarily large with no special considerations. Problem: this fails on segmented architectures and under non-virtual-addressing environments. 10. The assumption that the stack can be as large as memory. Problem: this fails on segmented architectures or almost anything else without virtual addressing and a paged stack. 11. The assumption that bits and addressable units within an object are ordered in the same way and that this order is a constant of nature. Problem: this fails on {big-endian} machines. 12. The assumption that it is meaningful to compare pointers to different objects not located within the same array, or to objects of different types. Problem: the former fails on segmented architectures, the latter on word-oriented machines or others with multiple pointer formats. 13. The assumption that an "int" is 32 bits, or (nearly equivalently) the assumption that "sizeof(int) == sizeof(long)". Problem: this fails on {PDP-11s}, {Intel 80286}-based systems and even on {Intel 80386} and {Motorola 68000} systems under some compilers. 14. The assumption that "argv[]" is writable. Problem: this fails in many embedded-systems C environments and even under a few flavours of Unix. Note that a programmer can validly be accused of vaxocentrism even if he or she has never seen a VAX. Some of these assumptions (especially 2--5) were valid on the {PDP-11}, the original {C} machine, and became endemic years before the VAX. The terms "vaxocentricity" and "all-the-world"s-a-VAX syndrome' have been used synonymously. [{Jargon File}]
vismaran.a ::: forgetfulness. vismarana
Vismriti: Loss of memory; forgetfulness.
vismr.ti (vismriti) ::: forgetfulness, inattention. vismrti
Whatever the good spirit makes, the evil spirit mars, even though “the two Spirits created the world, the Good Spirit and the Evil One” (Yasht 13, 76). When the world was created, Angra-Mainyu broke into it, and for every creation of Ahura-Mazda’s, he counter-created by his witchcraft a plague; he killed the firstborn bull that had been the first offspring and source of life on earth, created 99,999 diseases, etc. “Ahriman destroys the bull created by Ormazd — which is the emblem of terrestrial illusive life, the ‘germ of sorrow’ — and, forgetting that the perishing finite seed must die, in order that the plant of immortality, the plant of spiritual, eternal life, should sprout and live, Ahriman is proclaimed the enemy, the opposing power, the devil”; “Terrestrially, all these allegories were connected with the trials of adeptship and initiation. Astronomically, they referred to the Solar and Lunar eclipses” (SD 2:93, 380).
Work and the Gita ::: Any work can be done as a field for the practice of the spirit of the Gita. Forget yourself and your miseries in the aspiration to a larger consciousness, feel the greater Force working in the world and make yourself an instrument for a work to be done, however small it may be.
worldly-minded ::: a. --> Devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future; loving and pursuing this world&
yinsheng nianfo. (J. insho nenbutsu/inzei nenbutsu; K. insong yombul 引聲念佛). In Chinese, "intoning [the name of] the Buddha by drawing out the sound" (see NIANFO); one of the "five-tempo intonations of [the name of] the Buddha" (WUHUI NIANFO) devised by FAZHAO. Yinsheng nianfo involves the long, drawn-out intonation of the name of the buddha AMITĀBHA. Even before Fazhao, the practice of yinsheng nianfo is known to have been practiced by the CHAN master CHoNGJUNG MUSANG (680-756 [alt. 684-762]), who recommended this practice for those who wished to attain "no recollection" (wuyi), "no thought" (WUNIAN), and "no forgetting" (mowang).
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1 Saint Basil the Great
1 Roger Zelazny
1 Robert Adams
1 Rilke
1 Richard P Feynman
1 Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
1 Ralph Waldo Emerson
1 Proclus
1 Priti Dasgupta
1 Philippines 111. 13
1 PARAMAHAMSA YOGANANDA
1 Pablo Neruda
1 Neil Gaiman
1 Mother Mirra
1 Mohsin Fani "The Religion of the Sufis
1 Leo the Great
1 Koun Yamada
1 ken-wilber
1 Kamand Kojouri
1 Jon J. Muth
1 Johannes Kepler
1 Inayat Khan
1 Hua Hu Ching: The Unknown Teachings of Lao Tzu
1 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1 George R.R. Martin
1 Gary Gygax
1 Fyodor Dostoevsky
1 Friedrich Nietzsche
1 Frank Zappa
1 Evelyn Underhill
1 Etienne de la Boetie
1 Ernest Becker
1 Eliphas Levi
1 Edgar Allan Poe
1 Demophilus
1 Cyprian
1 Buddhist Texts
1 Binavi Badakhshani 13th century(?) Sufi poet.
1 Benjamin Franklin
1 Benjamin Disraeli
1 Baha-ullah
1 Attar of Nishapur
1 Asanga
1 Arundhati Roy
1 Arthur Schopenhauer
1 Antoine the Healer; Revelations
1 Al-Jilani
1 Alan Wilson
1 Alain de Botton
1 Walt Whitman
1 Meister Eckhart
1 Heraclitus
1 A E van Vogt
1 Abū Saʿīd Abū'l-Khayr
1 Aaron Koblin
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21 Anonymous
15 Paulo Coelho
9 William Shakespeare
9 Haruki Murakami
8 Stephen King
8 Neil Gaiman
8 Mason Cooley
8 Friedrich Nietzsche
8 Chuck Palahniuk
7 Publilius Syrus
7 J K Rowling
7 Elie Wiesel
6 Mehmet Murat ildan
6 John Green
6 Henry David Thoreau
5 Walt Whitman
5 Samuel Beckett
5 Jodi Picoult
5 Ernest Hemingway
4 Stephen Richards
1:If you forget yourself, you become the universe. ~ Hakuin Ekaku, #KEYS
2:If you forget yourself, you become the universe." ~ Hakuin Ekaku, #KEYS
3:The right way to go easy is to forget the right way...." ~ Zhuangzi, #KEYS
4:I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
~ Benjamin Disraeli,#KEYS
5:We were together. I forget the rest.
~ Walt Whitman,#KEYS
6:Do not forget the Mother's name. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
7:To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche,#KEYS
8:And then forget that you are there. ~ Hua Hu Ching: The Unknown Teachings of Lao Tzu, #KEYS
9:It is easy to believe we are each waves, and forget we are also the ocean." ~ Jon J. Muth, #KEYS
10:Never forget the lonely taste of the white dew.
~ Matsuo Basho,#KEYS
11:Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." ~ Benjamin Franklin, #KEYS
12:Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home." ~ Zhuangzi, #KEYS
13:In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself. ~ Alan Wilson, [T5], #KEYS
14:Don't forget to enjoy the life you're living instead of just living the life you've got." ~ Sue Aikens, #KEYS
15:With each and every breath, I dwell upon You; I shall never forget You.
~ Guru Nanak, Guru Granth Sahib,#KEYS
16:Let us never forget that if we wish to die like the saints we must live like them." ~ Saint Théodore Guérin, #KEYS
17:Do not forget the covenant. Struggle with your lower self. Either you ride it, or it will ride you. ~ Al-Jilani, #KEYS
18:If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
~ Edgar Allan Poe,#KEYS
19:Let Mother's will be done. Never mind sunshine or rain, we must not forget Mother at any time. ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
20:To forget God is to miss the whole point of existence. Learn to feel God, and to enjoy Him. ~ PARAMAHAMSA YOGANANDA, #KEYS
21:Never forget the goal. Never stop aspiring. Never halt in your progress, and you are sure to succeed. ~ Mother Mirra, #KEYS
22:To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves." ~ Dogen Zenji, #KEYS
23:Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie, #KEYS
24:The only things we should look after is never to forget loving Him, the Master of the Universe. ~ Swami Ramakrishnananda, #KEYS
25:If we drink of this cup, we shall forget the whole world. ~ Baha-ullah, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
26:At some time, one will have to forget everything that has been learnt. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
27:Do not forget that you have been rescued from the power of darkness and brought into the light of God's kingdom. ~ Leo the Great, #KEYS
28:Forget everything you have learned from people. Be whatever you learned from God. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, #KEYS
29:You don't forget Bhagavan and Bhagavan won't forget you ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Day by Day, [T5], #KEYS
30:There will come a time when one will have to forget all that one has learned. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
31:Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. ~ Saint Basil the Great, #KEYS
32:To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things. ~ Dogen Zenji, #KEYS
33:...before Thee we bow down and implore that we may never forget all we owe to Thee.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother I,#KEYS
34:Learn to forget that passionate music. It will end. True singing is a different breath. A breath of nothing. A gust within the god, a wind." ~ Rilke, #KEYS
35:That which is perfect is called Perfection. Never forget the Truth underlying all phenomena. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
36:The thing about pendulums we too easily forget in the darkest hours; they swing back. Right now, one is quietly supercharging its return." ~ Alain de Botton, #KEYS
37:Wilt thou that thy heart should be free from sorrow ? Forget not the hearts that sorrow devours. ~ Saadi, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
38:Are we then so insensate as to forget that we are members one of the other? ~ St. Clement to the Corinthians, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
39:When I think of the lotus feet of the Lord, I forget myself so completely that unconsciously my cloth falls off. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
40:There is an hour for knowledge, an hour to forget and to labour. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Ilion, #KEYS
41:My child, I have not abandoned you, and I am ready to forget, to efface all revolt. My help is always with you. ~ The Mother, Agenda Vol 1, #KEYS
42:do not forget
that in the thicket
there are flowers
~ Matsuo Basho, @BashoSociety#KEYS
43:We must never forget that our goal is to manifest the Supramental Reality. With my blessings
~ The Mother, Mantras Of The Mother, 25 May, [T5],#KEYS
44:It is necessary to remember oneself, but it is not necessary to forget phenomena. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad, A Commentary on the Isha Upanishad, #KEYS
45:Of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 103:1-2, #KEYS
46:Those who seek name and fame are under a delusion. They forget that everything is ordained by the great disposer of all things, the Lord. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
47:Some people look upon the sense of sin as the whole of religion. They forget that it marks only the earliest, lower stage of spirituality. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
48:Live in faith and hope, though it be in darkness, for in this darkness God protects the soul. Cast your care upon God for you are his and he will not forget you. ~ Saint John of the Cross, #KEYS
49:What helps you to know yourself is right. What prevents, is wrong. To know one's real self is bliss, to forget -- is sorrow. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, #KEYS
50:Money makes us forget God. Dependence on God is true self-reliance. Dependence on money is not. The two cannot go together. It is dangerous to have your legs in two boats. ~ SWAMI AKHANDANADA, #KEYS
51:Do what thou knowest to be good without expecting from it any glory. Forget not that the vulgar area bad judge of good actions. ~ Demophilus, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
52:Forget your difficulties. Forget yourself... And the Lord will take care of your progress. With love and blessings. 5 March 1968
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#KEYS
53:If you are never parted from the aspiring resolve to attain awak- ening, wherever you are born-whether above, below, or on the same level-you will not forget the thought of awakening. ~ Asanga, #KEYS
54:What more shall I tell you? Keep your mind on God. Don't forget Him. God will certainly reveal Himself to you if you pray to Him with sincerity. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
55:Let's not forget that what is looking out of your eyes and hearing with your ears right now is already Spirit. And that Spirit, that I AMness, is always present in all sentient beings. ~ ken-wilber, #KEYS
56:Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you. ~ George R.R. Martin, #KEYS
57:Find God and forget yourself. Be wholly surrendered, the moment you can give up everything and know your own nothingness, that moment God-vision will come and your will be free. ~ Swami Ramakrishnananda, #KEYS
58:Forget about reincarnation. Reincarnation is not for you. It is for the deluded ones. You are free of all karma, free of all samskaras, free of playing games. Feel your freedom. All is well. ~ Robert Adams, #KEYS
59:The secret of our apparent bondage is the Spirit's play by which It consents to forget God-consciousness in the absorption of Nature's movement.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad,#KEYS
60:He who learns must suffer. Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart
until, in our own despair, against our will,
comes wisdom through the awful grace of God. ~ Aeschylus,#KEYS
61:Two kinds of joy are there, O my brothers, and what are they? The joy of egoism and the joy to forget oneself; but nobler is the joy of self-oblivion. ~ Buddhist Texts, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
62:There is no end to the love of God. It is an inexhaustible treasure! The more you drink of it, the more thirsty you feel; and ultimately, losing yourself in bliss, you forget yourself and are merged in it. ~ Swami Virajananda, #KEYS
63:He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. ~ Aeschylus, Agamemnon, l. 177, #KEYS
64:An aimless life is always a miserable life. Every one of you should have an aim. But do not forget that on the quality of your aim will depend the quality of your life.
~ The Mother, On Education, p.3,#KEYS
65:However high be your endeavors, unless you renounce and subjugate your own will - unless you forget yourself and all that pertains to yourself - not one step will you advance on the road to perfection. ~ Saint John of the Cross, #KEYS
66:If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future." ~ Saint Thérèse de Lisieux, #KEYS
67:Charmed men applaud the skilful purpose, the dexterous speaker;
This they forget that a Force decides, not the wiles of the statesman. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Ilion,#KEYS
68:Krishna said to Arjuna, 'Friend, if you want to realize Me, you will not succeed if you have even one of the eight occult powers.' This is the truth. Occult power is sure to beget pride, and pride makes one forget God. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
69:Love all, trust none; forgive all, forget none, respect all, worship none. That is the manner of the wise." ~ Inayat Khan, (1882 - 1927) founder of the Sufi Order in the West in 1914, (London) and teacher of Universal Sufism, Wikipedia., #KEYS
70:We must never forget that we are here to serve the Supramental Truth and Light and to prepare its manifestation in ourselves and upon the earth. With my Blessings.
~ The Mother, Mantras Of The Mother, Aug 13th,#KEYS
71:Too hard the gods are with man's fragile race;
In their large heavens they dwell exempt from Fate
And they forget the wounded feet of man. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
72:Hold on to God even in gloom. Never miss meditation or forget to repeat the name of the Lord. Meditation is the anchorage of the soul. Meditation will purify your mind. Continue japa and meditation without losing heart. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
73:At the time of Japa and meditation, we meditate on the Lord keeping our mind concentrated on Him, in the same way, if we learn to see the same Lord in every man, then we shall not forget God even in the midst of work. ~ SWAMI VIRESWARANANDA, #KEYS
74:A veil is kept, something is still held back,
Lest, captives of the beauty and the joy,
Our souls forget to the Highest to aspire. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter,#KEYS
75:The whole universe is sum up in the Human Being. Devil is not a monster waiting to trap us, He is a voice inside. Look for Your Devil in Yourself, not in the Others. Don't forget that the one who knows his Devil, knows his God. ~ Shams Tabrizi, #KEYS
76:Forget your voice, sing! Forget your feet, dance! Forget your life, live! Forget yourself and be!" ~ Kamand Kojouri, author of "The Eternal Dance: Love Poetry and Prose,", (2018). Born in Tehran, raised in Dubai and Toronto, and resides in Wales., #KEYS
77:Nor should he forget the aim of these external aids which is to awaken his soul to the Divine within him. Nothing has been finally accomplished if that has not been accomplished.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga,#KEYS
78:O my God, Trinity whom I adore, help me forget myself entirely so to establish myself in you, unmovable and peaceful as if my soul were already in eternity. May nothing be able to trouble my peace or make me leave you. ~ Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity, #KEYS
79:You, therefore, who are undertaking the study of this book, if you persevere to the end and understand it, you will be either a monarch or a madman. Do what you will with this volume, you will be unable to despise or to forget it.
~ Eliphas Levi, Transcendental Magic,#KEYS
80:Have faith that we have to regain our lost Self and 'Stop not till the goal is reached.' Remember these words of Swamiji, 'Do not forget the ideal - do not cut it down.' Let this body perish, still do not lower the ideal. Pray for strength. Pray always. ~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
81:Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read. ~ Frank Zappa, #KEYS
82:Here is the secret of happiness. Forget yourself and think of others." ~ Swami Paramananda, (1884-1940), an early Indian teacher who went to the United States to spread the Vedanta philosophy. He was a mystic, a poet and an innovator in spiritual community living, Wikipedia., #KEYS
83:Forget the judges and governors. Let them puff themselves up with the symbols of their dignity, which lasts for only a year. The heavenly dignity in you is already sealed by the brightness of a year's honor, and its victorious glory continues into another year. ~ Saint Cyprian, #KEYS
84:Be courageous and do not think so much of yourself. It is because you make your little ego the centre of your preoccupation that you are sad and unsatisfied. To forget oneself is the great remedy for all ills.
~ The Mother, Some Answers From The Mother,#KEYS
85:I bow to You, Sweet Mother. Be present in me always and for ever.
Yes, I am always with you, but you must never forget to call me, for it is by calling me that the presence becomes effective. 15 December 1934 ~ The Mother, Some Answers From The Mother,#KEYS
86:"Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Isaiah, 49:15-16, #KEYS
87:The Self is the one reality that always exists and it is by its light all other things are seen. We forget it and concentrate on the appearances. We are so engrossed with the objects or appearances revealed by the light that we pay no attention to the light. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
88:Beloved, we shd never forget that we have renounced the world. We are living here now as aliens and only for a time. When the day of our homecoming puts an end to our exile, frees us from the world's bonds, and restores us to paradise and to a kingdom, we shd welcome it. ~ Cyprian, #KEYS
89:The Sufis throw off the shackles of the positive religion;… they neither fast, nor make pilgrimages to the temple of Mecca, nay, they forget their prayers; for with God there is no other but the soundless language of the heart." ~ Mohsin Fani "The Religion of the Sufis,", (1979), #KEYS
90:So long as one has not become-as simple as a child, one cannot expect the divine illumination. Forget all the knowledge of the world that you have acquired and become as ignorant as a child; then you shall attain to the divine wisdom. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
91:Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #KEYS
92:The giving up is the first step. But the real giving up is in realizing that there is nothing to give up, for nothing is your own. It is like deep sleep - you do not give up your bed when you fall asleep - you just forget it. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, #KEYS
93:We shall merge into the One from whom we came. The True One is pervading each and every heart. He Himself unites us in Union with Himself; the True Mansion of His Presence is close at hand. With each and every breath, I dwell upon You; I shall never forget You.
~ Guru Nanak, Guru Granth Sahib,#KEYS
94:The "memorize then fire and forget" principal for casting spells Jack Vance assumed in his fantasy stories seemed perfect to me for use by D&D magic-users. IT required forethought by the player and limited the power of the class all at once. ~ Gary Gygax, ENWorld, Q&A with Gary Gygax part 13, 2007, #KEYS
95:Wherever the Lord keeps you, that will be for your good. He knows best. Leave everything to Him & don't forget Him - that is your duty. It is His responsibility where & in what condition to keep you & what He will make you do. For your part, just see that you may not forget Him.~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
96:So long as one has not become-as simple as a child, one cannot expect the divine illumination. Forget all the knowledge of the world that you have acquired and become as ignorant as a child; then you shall attain to the divine wisdom. ~ Ramakrishna, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
97:The thing is somehow to unite the mind with God. You must not forget Him, not even once. Your thought of Him should be like the flow of oil, without any interruption. If u worship with love even a brick or stone as God, then thro His grace u can see Him. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
98:May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art ~ write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself. ~ Neil Gaiman, #KEYS
99:May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art - write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.
~ Neil Gaiman,#KEYS
100:There is one thing to remember in this world. If you were to forget everything but didn't forget that thing there'd be no cause to worry. Whereas if you performed, remembered and didn't forget every single thing but forgot that thing you would have done nothing whatsoever. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, #KEYS
101:I too play with symbols... but I play in such a way that I do not forget that I am playing. For nothing is proved by symbols... unless by sure reasons it can be demonstrated that they are not merely symbolic but are descriptions of the ways in which the two things are connected and of the causes of this connection. ~ Johannes Kepler, #KEYS
102:The great teachers say that forgetfulness is the root of all evil, and is death for those who seek release;10 so one should rest the mind in one's Self and should never forget the Self: this is the aim. If the mind is controlled, all else can be controlled. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Self-Enquiry, 34, [T5], #KEYS
103:Do not forget even for a moment that all this has been created by Him out of Himself. Not only is He present in everything, but also He is everything. The differences are only in expression and manifestation.
If you forget this you lose everything.§ ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III, The Divine and the Universe, [4],#KEYS
104:What do I advise? Forget it all. Don't be afraid. Do what you get the most pleasure from. Is it to build a cloud chamber? Then go on doing things like that. Develop your talents wherever they may lead. Damn the torpedoes - full speed ahead!
If you have any talent, or any occupation that delights you, do it, and do it to the hilt ~ Richard P Feynman,#KEYS
105:To be humble means for the mind, the vital and the body never to forget that without the Divine they know nothing, are nothing and can do nothing; without the Divine they are nothing but ignorance, chaos and impotence. The Divine alone is Truth, Life, Power, Love, Felicity.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, Purity and Humility, 152,#KEYS
106:My dear child, I carry you always in my arms, pressed close to my heart, and I have no doubt that you will become aware of it if you forget the world and concentrate on me. By turning your thoughts towards me you will feel closer and closer to me and peace will come to dwell in your heart. Love. 25 May 1934
~ The Mother, On Education, [T0],#KEYS
107:The presence of a thought is like the presence of our beloved. We imagine we shall never forget this thought, and that this loved one could never be indifferent to us. But out of sight out of mind! The finest thought runs the risk of being irrevocably forgotten if it is not written down, and the dear one of being forsaken if we do not marry her. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #KEYS
108:But not the utter vision and delight.
A veil is kept, something is still held back,
Lest, captives of the beauty and the joy,
Our souls forget to the Highest to aspire.
In that fair subtle realm behind our own
The form is all, and physical gods are kings.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter,#KEYS
109:Never forget that you are not alone. The Divine is with you helping and guiding you. He is the companion who never fails, the friend whose love comforts and strengthens. The more you feel lonely, the more you are ready to perceive His luminous Presence. Have faith and He will do everything for you.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, The Divine Is with You, [T5],#KEYS
110:Surely, my child, I have no intention of leaving you and you need not worry; one thing you must know and never forget: all that is true and sincere will always be kept. Only what is false and insincere will disappear.
In the measure in which your need for me is sincere and genuine, it will be fulfilled. 5 October 1955
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother I, I am With You,#KEYS
111:To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget. ~ Arundhati Roy, #KEYS
112:My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. ... ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Proverbs, 3:1-35, #KEYS
113:Whatever you have in your mind—forget it; whatever you have in your hand—give it; whatever is to be your fate—face it." ~ Abū Saʿīd Abū'l-Khayr, (967 -1049), famous Sufi poet who contributed extensively to the evolution of Sufi tradition, Wikipedia. "One day man will realize that his own I AM-ness is the God he has been seeking throughout the ages, and that his own sense of awareness - his consciousness of being - is the one and only reality." ~ Neville Goddard, "The Complete Reader,", (2013), #KEYS
114:The Mother says, "Look at me, I am here, come back in my new body, divine, transformed and glorious. And I am the same Mother, still human. Do not worry. Do not be concerned about your own self, your progress and realisation, nor about others. I am here, look at me, gaze into me, enter into me wholly, merge into my being, lose yourself into my love, with your love. You will see all problems solved, everything done. Forget all else, forget the world. Remember me alone, be one with me, with my love." ~ Priti Dasgupta, Moments Eternal, #KEYS
115:The life of God is above the past, the present, and the future; it is measured by the single instant of immobile eternity... [However] forgetfulness of God leaves us in this banal and horizontal view of things on the line of time which passes; the contemplation of God is like a vertical view of things which pass, and of their bond with God who does not pass. To be immersed in time, is to forget the value of time, that is to say, its relation to eternity. ~ Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, The Three Ages of the Interior Life: Prelude of Eternal Life, #KEYS
116:Difficulties are sent to us exclusively to make the realisation more perfect. Each time we try to realise something and meet with a resistance or an obstacle or even a failure - what seems to be a failure - we should know, we should never forget that it is exclusively, absolutely, so that the realisation may be more perfect. So this habit of cringing, of getting discouraged or even of feeling uncomfortable, or of abusing yourself and telling yourself: There! Again I have made a mistake - all that is absolute foolishness.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#KEYS
117:I feel sincerely that I want the Divine and nothing else. But when I am in contact with other people, when I am busy with things without any value, I naturally forget the Divine, my one goal. Is it insincerity? If not, then what does it mean?
Yes. It is insincerity of the being, in which one part wants the Divine and another part wants something else. It is through ignorance and stupidity that the being is insincere. But with a persevering will and an absolute confidence in the Divine Grace, one can cure this insincerity.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#KEYS
118:The Good, the True, and the Beautiful, then, are simply the faces of Spirit as it shines in this world. Spirit seen subjectively is Beauty, and I of Spirit. Spirit seen intersubjectively is the Good, the We of Spirit. And Spirit seen objectively is the True, the It of Spirit....And whenever we pause, and enter the quiet, and rest in the utter stillness, we can hear that whispering voice calling to us still: never forgot the Good, and never forgot the True, and never forget the Beautiful, for these are the faces of your own deepest Self, freely shown to you. ~ Ken Wilber, Marriage of Sense and Soul, p. 201, #KEYS
119:The reason why you do not touch fire is because you know that it will cause you to suffer. Likewise, if you truly understand karma, you will not commit a single negative action, because unless that negative karma is purified, you know that it will eventually ripen into suffering.
You might forget this natural process, or you might not believe in it, because the ripening does not always happen immediately. But your karma will follow you like your shadow, that gets closer and closer without you realising, until you are eventually touched by it. Please, I urge you to always remember this. ~ Chamtrul Rinpoche,#KEYS
120:The thing is somehow to unite the mind with God. You must not forget Him, not even once. Your thought of Him should be like the flow of oil, without any interruption. If you worship with love even a brick or stone as God, then through His grace you can see Him.
"Remember what I have just said to you. One should perform such worship as the Śiva Puja. Once the mind has become mature, one doesn't have to continue formal worship for long. The mind then always remains united with God; meditation and contemplation become a constant habit of mind." ~ Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Gospel of Ramakrishna,#KEYS
121:Don't confuse having no violence in your heart with having no violence in the real world, if required. Your duty may or may not include violence, but let us not forget that there are indeed occasions where violence ends violence or, I should say, reflecting the messiness and microscopically incremental nature of Eros: there are occasions where violence replaces a grosser violence with a subtler violence, a lesser devil on the way to a vaguely greater good. The Zen-inspired code of the Samurai warrior is still as good a guide as any: the best fight is not to fight; the real sword is no sword-but if you think that means a Samurai warrior never used his sword, you are tad naive, I fear. ~ Ken Wilber?, #KEYS
122:Although our fallen minds forget to climb,
Although our human stuff resists or breaks,
She keeps her will that hopes to divinise clay;
Failure cannot repress, defeat o'erthrow;
Time cannot weary her nor the Void subdue,
The ages have not made her passion less;
No victory she admits of Death or Fate.
Always she drives the soul to new attempt;
Always her magical infinitude
Forces to aspire the inert brute elements;
As one who has all infinity to waste,
She scatters the seed of the Eternal's strength
On a half-animate and crumbling mould,
Plants heaven's delight in the heart's passionate mire,
Pours godhead's seekings into a bare beast frame,
Hides immortality in a mask of death.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri,#KEYS
123:When we are concentrated in mental movements or intellectual pursuits, why do we sometimes forget or lose touch with the Divine?
You lose it because your consciousness is still divided. The Divine has not settled in your mind; you are not wholly consecrated to the Divine Life. Otherwise you could concentrate to any extent upon such things and still you would have the sense of being helped and supported by the Divine. In all pursuits, intellectual or active, your one motto should be, Remember and Offer. Let whatever you do be done as an offering to the Divine. And this too will be an excellent discipline for you; it will prevent you from doing many foolish and useless things.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931, [T0],#KEYS
124:There are a vast amount of Buddhas already, and each one manifests countless forms simultaneously throughout all of the planes of cyclic existence for the benefit of all beings. However, at any given time, each individual being will have a stronger karmic connection with certain Buddhas, compared to other Buddhas.
Likewise, if you were a Buddha, since a huge number of beings throughout cyclic existence would have a stronger karmic connection with you during certain times, you would be able to benefit them much more directly than the many other Buddhas would be able to. Do not forget this.
The deeper you realise this, the greater your bodhicitta motivation becomes - in other words, the greater your compassionate wish to attain the enlightened state of a Buddha for the benefit of all beings, as soon as possible!
~ Chamtrul Rinpoche,#KEYS
125:To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself -- that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink. ~ George Orwell, 1984, #KEYS
126: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
127:But if in passing from one domain to another we renounce what has already been given us from eagerness for our new attainment, if in reaching the mental life we cast away or belittle the physical life which is our basis, or if we reject the mental and physical in our attraction to the spiritual, we do not fulfil God integrally, nor satisfy the conditions of His selfmanifestation. We do not become perfect, but only shift the field of our imperfection or atmost attain a limited altitude. However high we may climb, even though it be to the Non-Being itself, we climb ill if we forget our base. Not to abandon the lower to itself, but to transfigure it in the light of the higher to which we have attained, is true divinity of nature. Brahman is integral and unifies many states of consciousness at a time; we also, manifesting the nature of Brahman, should become integral and all-embracing. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, #KEYS
128:From the twilight of day till the twilight of evening, a leopard, in the last years of the thirteenth century, would see some wooden planks, some vertical iron bars, men and women who changed, a wall and perhaps a stone gutter filled with dry leaves. He did not know, could not know, that he longed for love and cruelty and the hot pleasure of tearing things to pieces and the wind carrying the scent of a deer, but something suffocated and rebelled within him and God spoke to him in a dream: ""You live and will die in this prison so that a man I know of may see you a certain number of times and not forget you and place your figure and symbol in a poem which has its precise place in the scheme of the universe. You suffer captivity, but you will have given a word to the poem.
God, in the dream, illumined the animal's brutishness and the animal understood these reasons and accepted his destiny, but, when he awoke, there was in him only an obscure resignation, a valorous ignorance, for the machinery of the world is much too complex for the simplicity of a beast. ~ Jorge Luis Borges,#KEYS
129:Supermind is the dynamic form of satcitananda (being-consciousness-bliss), and the necessary conduit, mediator or linkage between satcitananda and the manifest creation. (Life Divine Book I, ch.14-16) ... Supermind is spiritual consciousness acting as a self-luminous knowledge, will, sense, aesthesis, energy, self-creative and unveiling power of its own delight and being. Mind is the action of the same powers, but limited and only very indirectly and partially illumined. Supermind lives in unity though it plays with diversity; mind lives in a separative action of diversity, though it may open to unity. Mind is not only capable of ignorance, but, because it acts always partially and by limitation, it works characteristically as a power of ignorance : it may even and it does forget itself in a complete inconscience, or nescience, awaken from it to the ignorance of a partial knowledge and move from the ignorance towards a complete knowledge, -- that is its natural action in the human being, -- but it can never have by itself a complete knowledge.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Psychology of Self-Perfection, 625,#KEYS
130:He had no document but his memory; the training he had acquired with each added hexameter gave him a discipline unsuspected by those who set down and forget temporary, incomplete paragraphs. He was not working for posterity or even for God, whose literary tastes were unknown to him. Meticulously, motionlessly, secretly, he wrought in time his lofty, invisible labyrinth. He worked the third act over twice. He eliminated certain symbols as over-obvious, such as the repeated striking of the clock, the music. Nothing hurried him. He omitted, he condensed, he amplified. In certain instances he came back to the original version. He came to feel affection for the courtyard, the barracks; one of the faces before him modified his conception of Roemerstadt's character. He discovered that the wearying cacophonies that bothered Flaubert so much are mere visual superstitions, weakness and limitation of the written word, not the spoken...He concluded his drama. He had only the problem of a single phrase. He found it. The drop of water slid down his cheek. He opened his mouth in a maddened cry, moved his face, dropped under the quadruple blast.~ Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths, Selected Stories and Other Writings, #KEYS
131:A poet once said, 'The whole universe is in a glass of wine.' We will probably never know in what sense he meant it, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe. There are the things of physics: the twisting liquid which evaporates depending on the wind and weather, the reflection in the glass; and our imagination adds atoms. The glass is a distillation of the earth's rocks, and in its composition we see the secrets of the universe's age, and the evolution of stars. What strange array of chemicals are in the wine? How did they come to be? There are the ferments, the enzymes, the substrates, and the products. There in wine is found the great generalization; all life is fermentation. Nobody can discover the chemistry of wine without discovering, as did Louis Pasteur, the cause of much disease. How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it! If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts -- physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on -- remember that nature does not know it! So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let it give us one more final pleasure; drink it and forget it all! ~ Richard P Feynman, #KEYS
132:The sadhaka of the integral Yoga will make use of all these aids according to his nature; but it is necessary that he should shun their limitations and cast from himself that exclusive tendency of egoistic mind which cries, "My God, my Incarnation, my Prophet, my Guru," and opposes it to all other realisation in a sectarian or a fanatical spirit. All sectarianism, all fanaticism must be shunned; for it is inconsistent with the integrity of the divine realisation.
On the contrary, the sadhaka of the integral Yoga will not be satisfied until he has included all other names and forms of Deity in his own conception, seen his own Ishta Devata in all others, unified all Avatars in the unity of Him who descends in the Avatar, welded the truth in all teachings into the harmony of the Eternal Wisdom.
Nor should he forget the aim of these external aids which is to awaken his soul to the Divine within him. Nothing has been finally accomplished if that has not been accomplished. It is not sufficient to worship Krishna, Christ or Buddha without, if there is not the revealing and the formation of the Buddha, the Christ or Krishna in ourselves. And all other aids equally have no other purpose; each is a bridge between man's unconverted state and the revelation of the Divine within him. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga,#KEYS
133:The necessary and needful reaction from the collective unconscious expresses itself in archetypally formed ideas. The meeting with oneself is, at first, the meeting with one's own shadow. The shadow is a tight passage, a narrow door, whose painful constriction no one is spared who goes down to the deep well. But one must learn to know oneself in order to know who one is. For what comes after the door is, surprisingly enough, a boundless expanse full of unprecedented uncertainty, with apparently no one inside and no one outside, no above and no below, no here and no there, no mine and no thine, no good and no bad. It is a world of water, where all life floats in suspension; where the realm of the sympathetic system, the soul of everything living, begins; where I am indivisibly this and that; where I experience the other in myself and the other-than-myself experiences me.No, the collective unconscious is anything but an encapsulated personal system; it is sheer objectivity, as wide as the world and open to all the world. There I am the object of every subject, in complete reversal of my ordinary consciousness, where I am always the subject that has an object. There I am utterly one with the world, so much a part of it that I forget all too easily who I really am. ""Lost in oneself"" is a good way of describing this state. But this self is the world, if only a consciousness could see it. That is why we must know who we are. ~ Carl Jung, Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious, #KEYS
134:Are remembrance and memory the same thing?
Not necessarily. Memory is a mental phenomenon, purely mental. Remembrance can be a phenomenon of consciousness. One can remember in all the domains of one's being: one can remember vitally, one can remember physically, one can remember psychically, one can remember mentally also. But memory is a purely mental phenomenon. Memory can, first of all, be deformed and it can also be effaced, one can forget. The phenomenon of consciousness is very precise; if you can take the consciousness back to the state in which it was, things come back exactly as they were. It is as though you relived the same mo- ment. You can relive it once, twice, ten times, a hundred times, but you relive a phenomenon of consciousness. It is very different from the memory of a fact which you inscribe somewhere in your brain. And if the cerebral associations are disturbed in the least (for there are many things in your brain and it is a very delicate instrument), if there is the slightest disturbance, your memory goes out of order. And then holes are formed and you forget. On the other hand, if you know how to bring back a particular state of consciousness in you, it comes back exactly the same as it was. Now, a remembrance can also be purely mental and it may be a continuation of cerebral activities, but that is mental remembrance. And you have remembrances in feeling, remembrances in sensation.... ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953, 290-291,#KEYS
135:So," she said. "I've been thinking of it as a computing problem. If the virus or nanomachine or protomolecule or whatever was designed, it has a purpose, right?"
"Definitely," Holden said.
"And it seems like it's trying to do something-something complex. It doesn't make sense to go to all that trouble just to kill people. Those changes it makes look intentional, just... not complete, to me."
"I can see that," Holden said. Alex and Amos nodded along with him but stayed quiet.
"So maybe the issue is that the protomolecule isn't smart enough yet. You can compress a lot of data down pretty small, but unless it's a quantum computer, processing takes space. The easiest way to get that processing in tiny machines is through distribution. Maybe the protomolecule isn't finishing its job because it just isn't smart enough to. Yet."
"Not enough of them," Alex said.
"Right," Naomi said, dropping the towel into a bin under the sink. "So you give them a lot of biomass to work with, and see what it is they are ultimately made to do."
"According to that guy in the video, they were made to hijack life on Earth and wipe us out," Miller said.
"And that," Holden said, "is why Eros is perfect. Lots of biomass in a vacuum-sealed test tube. And if it gets out of hand, there's already a war going on. A lot of ships and missiles can be used for nuking Eros into glass if the threat seems real. Nothing to make us forget our differences like a new player butting in." ~ James S A Corey, Leviathan Wakes,#KEYS
136:Often in the beginning of the action this can be done; but as one gets engrossed in the work, one forgets. How is one to remember?
The condition to be aimed at, the real achievement of Yoga, the final perfection and attainment, for which all else is only a preparation, is a consciousness in which it is impossible to do anything without the Divine; for then, if you are without the Divine, the very source of your action disappears; knowledge, power, all are gone. But so long as you feel that the powers you use are your own, you will not miss the Divine support.
In the beginning of the Yoga you are apt to forget the Divine very often. But by constant aspiration you increase your remembrance and you diminish the forgetfulness. But this should not be done as a severe discipline or a duty; it must be a movement of love and joy. Then very soon a stage will come when, if you do not feel the presence of the Divine at every moment and whatever you are doing, you feel at once lonely and sad and miserable.
Whenever you find that you can do something without feeling the presence of the Divine and yet be perfectly comfortable, you must understand that you are not consecrated in that part of your being. That is the way of the ordinary humanity which does not feel any need of the Divine. But for a seeker of the Divine Life it is very different. And when you have entirely realised unity with the Divine, then, if the Divine were only for a second to withdraw from you, you would simply drop dead; for the Divine is now the Life of your life, your whole existence, your single and complete support. If the Divine is not there, nothing is left. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931,#KEYS
137:Response To A Logician :::
I bow at the feet of my teacher Marpa.
And sing this song in response to you.
Listen, pay heed to what I say,
forget your critique for a while.
The best seeing is the way of "nonseeing"
the radiance of the mind itself.
The best prize is what cannot be looked for
the priceless treasure of the mind itself.
The most nourishing food is "noneating"
the transcendent food of samadhi.
The most thirst-quenching drink is "nondrinking"
the nectar of heartfelt compassion.
Oh, this self-realizing awareness
is beyond words and description!
The mind is not the world of children,
nor is it that of logicians.
Attaining the truth of "nonattainment,"
you receive the highest initiation.
Perceiving the void of high and low,
you reach the sublime stage.
Approaching the truth of "nonmovement,"
you follow the supreme path.
Knowing the end of birth and death,
the ultimate purpose is fulfilled.
Seeing the emptiness of reason,
supreme logic is perfected.
When you know that great and small are groundless,
you have entered the highest gateway.
Comprehending beyond good and evil
opens the way to perfect skill.
Experiencing the dissolution of duality,
you embrace the highest view.
Observing the truth of "nonobservation"
opens the way to meditating.
Comprehending beyond "ought" and "oughtn't"
opens the way to perfect action.
When you realize the truth of "noneffort,"
you are approaching the highest fruition.
Ignorant are those who lack this truth:
arrogant teachers inflated by learning,
scholars bewitched by mere words,
and yogis seduced by prejudice.
For though they yearn for freedom,
they find only enslavement. ~ Jetsun Milarepa,#KEYS
138:Many Blows are Needed:
Mother, even when one tries to think that one is powerless, there is something which believes one is powerful. So?
Ah, yes, ah yes! Ah, it is very difficult to be sincere.... That is why blows multiply and sometimes become terrible, because that's the only thing which breaks your stupidity. This is the justification of calamities. Only when you are in an acutely painful situation and indeed before something that affects you deeply, then that makes the stupidity melt away a little. But as you say, even when there is something that melts, there is still a little something which remains inside. And that is why it lasts so long... How many blows are needed in life for one to know to the very depths that one is nothing, that one can do nothing, that one does not exist, that one is nothing, that there is no entity without the divine Consciousness and the Grace. From the moment one knows it, it is over; all difficulties have gone. When one knows it integrally and there is nothing which resists... but till that moment... And it takes very long.
Why doesn't the blow come all at once?
Because that would kill you. For if the blow is strong enough to cure you, it would simply crush you, it would reduce you to pulp. It is only by proceeding little by little, little by little, very gradually, that you can continue to exist. Naturally this depends on the inner strength, the inner sincerity, and on the capacity for progress, for profiting by experience and, as I said a while ago, on not forgetting. If one is lucky enough not to forget, then one goes much faster. One can go very fast. And if at the same time one has that inner moral strength which, when the red-hot iron is at hand, does not extinguish it by trying to pour water over it, but instead goes to the very core of the abscess, then in this case things go very fast also. But not many people are strong enough for this. On the contrary, they very quickly do this (gesture), like this, like this, in order to hide, to hide from themselves. How many pretty little explanations one gives oneself, how many excuses one piles up for all the foolishnesses one has committed.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1954,#KEYS
139:outward appearances..." I did not quite understand "the egoistic state of consciousness absorbed in the outward People are occupied with outward things. That means that the consciousness is turned towards external things - that is, all the things of life which one sees, knows, does - instead of being turned inwards in order to find the deeper truth, the divine Presence. This is the first movement. You are busy with all that you do, with the people around you, the things you use; and then with life: sleeping, eating, talking, working a little, having a little fun also; and then beginning over again: sleeping, eating, etc., etc., and then it begins again. And then what this one has said, what that one has done, what one ought to do, the lesson one ought to learn, the exercise one ought to prepare; and then again whether one is keeping well, whether one is feeling fit, etc.
This is what one usually thinks about.
So the first movement - and it is not so easy - is to make all that pass to the background, and let one thing come inside and in front of the consciousness as the important thing: the discovery of the very purpose of existence and life, to learn what one is, why one lives, and what there is behind all this. This is the first step: to be interested more in the cause and goal than in the manifestation. That is, the first movement is a withdrawal of the consciousness from this total identification with outward and apparent things, and a kind of inward concentration on what one wants to discover, the Truth one wants to discover.
This is the first movement.
Many people who are here forget one thing. They want to begin by the end. They think that they are ready to express in their life what they call the supramental Force or Consciousness, and they want to infuse this in their actions, their movements, their daily life. But the trouble is that they don't at all know what the supramental Force or Consciousness is and that first of all it is necessary to take the reverse path, the way of interiorisation and of withdrawal from life, in order to find within oneself this Truth which has to be expressed.
For as long as one has not found it, there is nothing to ~ The Mother,#KEYS
140:At the basis of this collaboration there is necessarily the will to change, no longer to be what one is, for things to be no longer what they are. There are several ways of reaching it, and all the methods are good when they succeed! One may be deeply disgusted with what exists and wish ardently to come out of all this and attain something else; one may - and this is a more positive way - one may feel within oneself the touch, the approach of something positively beautiful and true, and willingly drop all the rest so that nothing may burden the journey to this new beauty and truth.
What is indispensable in every case is the ardent will for progress, the willing and joyful renunciation of all that hampers the advance: to throw far away from oneself all that prevents one from going forward, and to set out into the unknown with the ardent faith that this is the truth of tomorrow, inevitable, which must necessarily come, which nothing, nobody, no bad will, even that of Nature, can prevent from becoming a reality - perhaps of a not too distant future - a reality which is being worked out now and which those who know how to change, how not to be weighed down by old habits, will surely have the good fortune not only to see but to realise. People sleep, they forget, they take life easy - they forget, forget all the time.... But if we could remember... that we are at an exceptional hour, a unique time, that we have this immense good fortune, this invaluable privilege of being present at the birth of a new world, we could easily get rid of everything that impedes and hinders our progress.
So, the most important thing, it seems, is to remember this fact; even when one doesn't have the tangible experience, to have the certainty of it and faith in it; to remember always, to recall it constantly, to go to sleep with this idea, to wake up with this perception; to do all that one does with this great truth as the background, as a constant support, this great truth that we are witnessing the birth of a new world.
We can participate in it, we can become this new world. And truly, when one has such a marvellous opportunity, one should be ready to give up everything for its sake. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1957-1958, [T1],#KEYS
141:34
D: What are the eight limbs of knowledge (jnana ashtanga)?
M: The eight limbs are those which have been already mentioned, viz., yama, niyama etc., but differently defined:
(1) Yama: This is controlling the aggregate of sense-organs, realizing the defects that are present in the world consisting of the body, etc.
(2) Niyama: This is maintaining a stream of mental modes that relate to the Self and rejecting the contrary modes. In other words, it means love that arises uninterruptedly for the Supreme Self.
(3) Asana: That with the help of which constant meditation on Brahman is made possible with ease is asana.
(4) Pranayama: Rechaka (exhalation) is removing the two unreal aspects of name and form from the objects constituting the world, the body etc., puraka (inhalation) is grasping the three real aspects, existence, consciousness and bliss, which are constant in those objects, and kumbhaka is retaining those aspects thus grasped.
(5) Pratyahara: This is preventing name and form which have been removed from re-entering the mind.
(6) Dharana: This is making the mind stay in the Heart, without straying outward, and realizing that one is the Self itself which is Existence-Consciousness-Bliss.
(7) Dhyana: This is meditation of the form 'I am only pure consciousness'. That is, after leaving aside the body which consists of five sheaths, one enquires 'Who am I?', and as a result of that, one stays as 'I' which shines as the Self.
(8) Samadhi: When the 'I-manifestation' also ceases, there is (subtle) direct experience. This is samadhi.
For pranayama, etc., detailed here, the disciplines such as asana, etc., mentioned in connection with yoga are not necessary.
The limbs of knowledge may be practised at all places and at all times. Of yoga and knowledge, one may follow whichever is pleasing to one, or both, according to circumstances. The great teachers say that forgetfulness is the root of all evil, and is death for those who seek release,10 so one should rest the mind in one's Self and should never forget the Self: this is the aim. If the mind is controlled, all else can be controlled. The distinction between yoga with eight limbs and knowledge with eight limbs has been set forth elaborately in the sacred texts; so only the substance of this teaching has been given here. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Self-Enquiry, 34,#KEYS
142:Countless books on divination, astrology, medicine and other subjects
Describe ways to read signs. They do add to your learning,
But they generate new thoughts and your stable attention breaks up.
Cut down on this kind of knowledge - that's my sincere advice.
You stop arranging your usual living space,
But make everything just right for your retreat.
This makes little sense and just wastes time.
Forget all this - that's my sincere advice.
You make an effort at practice and become a good and knowledgeable person.
You may even master some particular capabilities.
But whatever you attach to will tie you up.
Be unbiased and know how to let things be - that's my sincere advice.
You may think awakened activity means to subdue skeptics
By using sorcery, directing or warding off hail or lightning, for example.
But to burn the minds of others will lead you to lower states.
Keep a low profile - that's my sincere advice.
Maybe you collect a lot of important writings,
Major texts, personal instructions, private notes, whatever.
If you haven't practiced, books won't help you when you die.
Look at the mind - that's my sincere advice.
When you focus on practice, to compare understandings and experience,
Write books or poetry, to compose songs about your experience
Are all expressions of your creativity. But they just give rise to thinking.
Keep yourself free from intellectualization - that's my sincere advice.
In these difficult times you may feel that it is helpful
To be sharp and critical with aggressive people around you.
This approach will just be a source of distress and confusion for you.
Speak calmly - that's my sincere advice.
Intending to be helpful and without personal investment,
You tell your friends what is really wrong with them.
You may have been honest but your words gnaw at their heart.
Speak pleasantly - that's my sincere advice.
You engage in discussions, defending your views and refuting others'
Thinking that you are clarifying the teachings.
But this just gives rise to emotional posturing.
Keep quiet - that's my sincere advice.
You feel that you are being loyal
By being partial to your teacher, lineage or philosophical tradition.
Boosting yourself and putting down others just causes hard feelings.
Have nothing to do with all this - that's my sincere advice.
~ Longchenpa, excerpts from 30 Pieces of Sincere Advice
,#KEYS
143:Why do we forget things?
Ah! I suppose there are several reasons. First, because one makes use of the memory to remember. Memory is a mental instrument and depends on the formation of the brain. Your brain is constantly growing, unless it begins to degenerate, but still its growth can continue for a very, very long time, much longer than that of the body. And in this growth, necessarily some things will take the place of others. And as the mental instrument develops, things which have served their term or the transitory moment in the development may be wiped out to give place to the result. So the result of all that you knew is there, living in itself, but the road traversed to reach it may be completely blurred. That is, a good functioning of the memory means remembering only the results so as to be able to have the elements for moving forward and a new construction. That is more important than just retaining things rigidly in the mind.
Now, there is another aspect also. Apart from the mental memory, which is something defective, there are states of consciousness. Each state of consciousness in which one happens to be registers the phenomena of a particular moment, whatever they may be. If your consciousness remains limpid, wide and strong, you can at any moment whatsoever, by concentrating, call into the active consciousness what you did, thought, saw, observed at any time before; all this you can remember by bringing up in yourself the same state of consciousness. And that, that is never forgotten. You could live a thousand years and you would still remember it. Consequently, if you don't want to forget, it must be your consciousness which remembers and not your mental memory. Your mental memory will be wiped out inevitably, get blurred, and new things will take the place of the old ones. But things of which you are conscious you do not forget. You have only to bring up the same state of consciousness again. And thus one can remember circumstances one has lived thousands of years ago, if one knows how to bring up the same state of consciousness. It is in this way that one can remember one's past lives. This never gets blotted out, while you don't have any more the memory of what you have done physically when you were very young. You would be told many things you no longer remember. That gets wiped off immediately. For the brain is constantly changing and certain weaker cells are replaced by others which are much stronger, and by other combinations, other cerebral organisations. And so, what was there before is effaced or deformed.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1954,#KEYS
144:
When one is bored, Mother, does that mean one does not progress?
At that time, yes, certainly without a doubt; not only does one not progress, but one misses an opportunity for progressing. There was a concurrence of circumstances which seemed to you dull, boring, stupid and you were in their midst; well, if you get bored, it means that you yourself are as boring as the circumstances! And that is a clear proof that you are simply not in a state of progress. There is nothing more contrary to the very reason of existence than this passing wave of boredom. If you make a little effort within yourself at that time, if you tell yourself: "Wait a bit, what is it that I should learn? What does all that bring to me so that I may learn something? What progress should I make in overcoming myself? What is the weakness that I must overcome? What is the inertia that I must conquer?" If you say that to yourself, you will see the next minute you are no longer bored. You will immediately get interested and you will make progress! This is a commonplace of consciousness.
And then, you know, most people when they get bored, instead of trying to rise a step higher, descend a step lower, they become still worse than what they were, and they do all the stupid things that others do, go in for all the vulgarities, all the meannesses, everything, in order to amuse themselves. They get intoxicated, take poison, ruin their health, ruin their brain, they utter crudities. They do all that because they are bored. Well, if instead of going down, one had risen up, one would have profited by the circumstances. Instead of profiting, one falls a little lower yet than where one was. When people get a big blow in their life, some misfortune (what men call "misfortune", there are people who do have misfortunes), the first thing they try to do is to forget it - as though one did not forget quickly enough! And to forget, they do anything whatsoever. When there is something painful, they want to distract themselves - what they call distraction, that is, doing stupid things, that is to say, going down in their consciousness, going down a little instead of rising up.... Has something extremely painful happened to you, something very grievous? Do not become stupefied, do not seek forgetfulness, do not go down into the inconscience; you must go to the end and find the light that is behind, the truth, the force and the joy; and for that you must be strong and refuse to slide down. But that we shall see a little later, my children, when you will be a little older. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953, 50,#KEYS
145:Workshops, churches, and palaces were full of these fatal works of art; he had even helped with a few himself. They were deeply disappointing be cause they aroused the desire for the highest and did not fulfill it. They lacked the most essential thing-mystery. That was what dreams and truly great works of art had in common : mystery. Goldmund continued his thought: It is mystery I love and pursue. Several times I have seen it beginning to take shape; as an artist, I would like to capture and express it. Some day, perhaps, I'll be able to. The figure of the universal mother, the great birthgiver, for example. Unlike other fi gures, her mystery does not consist of this or that detail, of a particular voluptuousness or sparseness, coarseness or delicacy, power or gracefulness. It consists of a fusion of the greatest contrasts of the world, those that cannot otherwise be combined, that have made peace only in this figure. They live in it together: birth and death, tenderness and cruelty, life and destruction. If I only imagined this fi gure, and were she merely the play of my thoughts, it would not matter about her, I could dismiss her as a mistake and forget about her. But the universal mother is not an idea of mine; I did not think her up, I saw her! She lives inside me. I've met her again and again. She appeared to me one winter night in a village when I was asked to hold a light over the bed of a peasant woman giving birth: that's when the image came to life within me. I often lose it; for long periods it re mains remote; but suddenly it Hashes clear again, as it did today. The image of my own mother, whom I loved most of all, has transformed itself into this new image, and lies encased within the new one like the pit in the cherry.
As his present situation became clear to him, Goldmund was afraid to make a decision. It was as difficult as when he had said farewell to Narcissus and to the cloister. Once more he was on an impor tant road : the road to his mother. Would this mother-image one day take shape, a work of his hands, and become visible to all? Perhaps that was his goal, the hidden meaning of his life. Perhaps; he didn't know. But one thing he did know : it was good to travel toward his mother, to be drawn and called by her. He felt alive. Perhaps he'd never be able to shape her image, perhaps she'd always remain a dream, an intuition, a golden shimmer, a sacred mystery. At any rate, he had to follow her and submit his fate to her. She was his star.
And now the decision was at his fingertips; everything had become clear. Art was a beautiful thing, but it was no goddess, no goal-not for him. He was not to follow art, but only the call of his mother.
~ Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund,#KEYS
146:The preliminary movement of Rajayoga is careful self-discipline by which good habits of mind are substituted for the lawless movements that indulge the lower nervous being. By the practice of truth, by renunciation of all forms of egoistic seeking, by abstention from injury to others, by purity, by constant meditation and inclination to the divine Purusha who is the true lord of the mental kingdom, a pure, clear state of mind and heart is established.
This is the first step only. Afterwards, the ordinary activities of the mind and sense must be entirely quieted in order that the soul may be free to ascend to higher states of consciousness and acquire the foundation for a perfect freedom and self-mastery. But Rajayoga does not forget that the disabilities of the ordinary mind proceed largely from its subjection to the reactions of the nervous system and the body. It adopts therefore from the Hathayogic system its devices of asana and pranayama, but reduces their multiple and elaborate forms in each case to one simplest and most directly effective process sufficient for its own immediate object. Thus it gets rid of the Hathayogic complexity and cumbrousness while it utilises the swift and powerful efficacy of its methods for the control of the body and the vital functions and for the awakening of that internal dynamism, full of a latent supernormal faculty, typified in Yogic terminology by the kundalini, the coiled and sleeping serpent of Energy within. This done, the system proceeds to the perfect quieting of the restless mind and its elevation to a higher plane through concentration of mental force by the successive stages which lead to the utmost inner concentration or ingathered state of the consciousness which is called Samadhi.
By Samadhi, in which the mind acquires the capacity of withdrawing from its limited waking activities into freer and higher states of consciousness, Rajayoga serves a double purpose. It compasses a pure mental action liberated from the confusions of the outer consciousness and passes thence to the higher supra-mental planes on which the individual soul enters into its true spiritual existence. But also it acquires the capacity of that free and concentrated energising of consciousness on its object which our philosophy asserts as the primary cosmic energy and the method of divine action upon the world. By this capacity the Yogin, already possessed of the highest supracosmic knowledge and experience in the state of trance, is able in the waking state to acquire directly whatever knowledge and exercise whatever mastery may be useful or necessary to his activities in the objective world.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Conditions of the Synthesis, The Systems of Yoga, 36,#KEYS
147:Mother, suffering comes from ignorance and pain, but what is the nature of the suffering and pain the Divine Mother feels for her children-the Divine Mother in Savitri?
It is because she participates in their nature. She has descended upon earth to participate in their nature. Because if she did not participate in their nature, she could not lead them farther. If she remained in her supreme consciousness where there is no suffering, in her supreme knowledge and consciousness, she could not have any contact with human beings. And it is for this that she is obliged to take on the human consciousness and form, it is to be able to enter into contact with them. Only, she does not forget: she has adopted their consciousness but she remains in relation with her own real, supreme consciousness. And thus, by joining the two, she can make those who are in that other consciousness progress. But if she did not adopt their consciousness, if she did not suffer with their sorrow, she could not help them. Hers is not a suffering of ignorance: it is a suffering through identity. It is because she has accepted to have the same vibrations as they, in order to be able to enter into contact with them and pull them out of the state they are in. If she did not enter into contact with them, she would not be felt at all or no one could bear her radiance.... This has been said in all kinds of forms, in all kinds of religions, and they have spoken very often of the divine Sacrifice, but from a certain point of view it is true. It is a voluntary sacrifice, but it is true: giving up a state of perfect consciousness, perfect bliss, perfect power in order to accept the state of ignorance of the outer world so as to pull it out of that ignorance. If this state were not accepted, there would be no contact with it. No relation would be possible. And this is the reason of the incarnations. Otherwise, there would be no necessity. If the divine consciousness and divine force could work directly from the place or state of their perfection, if they could work directly on matter and transform it, there would be no need to take a body like man's. It would have been enough to act from the world of Truth with the perfect consciousness and upon consciousness. In fact that acts perhaps but so slowly that when there is this effort to make the world progress, make it go forward more rapidly, well, it is necessary to take on human nature. By taking the human body, one is obliged to take on human nature, partially. Only, instead of losing one's consciousness and losing contact with the Truth, one keeps this consciousness and this Truth, and it is by joining the two that one can create exactly this kind of alchemy of transformation. But if one did not touch matter, one could do nothing for it. ~ The Mother, Question And Answers,#KEYS
148:But there's a reason. There's a reason. There's a reason for this, there's a reason education sucks, and it's the same reason that it will never, ever, ever be fixed. It's never gonna get any better. Don't look for it. Be happy with what you got. Because the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners now, the real owners, the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They've long since bought and paid for the senate, the congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I'll tell you what they don't want: They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that. That doesn't help them. Thats against their interests. Thats right. They don't want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table to figure out how badly they're getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. They don't want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they're coming for your Social Security money. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They'll get it. They'll get it all from you, sooner or later, 'cause they own this fucking place. It's a big club, and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the big club. And by the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head in their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table is tilted folks. The game is rigged, and nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. Good honest hard-working people -- white collar, blue collar, it doesn't matter what color shirt you have on -- good honest hard-working people continue -- these are people of modest means -- continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don't give a fuck about them. They don't give a fuck about you. They don't give a fuck about you. They don't care about you at all -- at all -- at all. And nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. That's what the owners count on; the fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that's being jammed up their assholes everyday. Because the owners of this country know the truth: it's called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it. ~ George Carlin, #KEYS
149:
Sweet Mother, how can one feel the divine Presence constantly?
Why not?
But how can one do it?
But I am asking why one should not feel it. Instead of asking the question how to feel it, I ask the question: "What do you do that you don't feel it?" There is no reason not to feel the divine Presence. Once you have felt it, even once, you should be capable of feeling it always, for it is there. It is a fact. It is only our ignorance which makes us unaware of it. But if we become conscious, why should we not always be conscious? Why forget something one has learnt? When one has had the experience, why forget it? It is simply a bad habit, that's all.
You see, there is something which is a fact, that's to say, it is. But we are unaware of it and do not know it. But after we become conscious and know it, why should we still forget it? Does it make sense? It's quite simply because we are not convinced that once one has met the Divine one can't forget Him any more. We are, on the contrary, full of stupid ideas which say, "Oh! Yes, it's very well once like that, but the rest of the time it will be as usual." So there is no reason why it may not begin again.
But if we know that... we did not know something, we were ignorant, then the moment we have the knowledge... I am sincerely asking how one can manage to forget. One might not know something, that is a fact; there are countless things one doesn't know. But the moment one knows them, the minute one has the experience, how can one manage to forget? Within yourself you have the divine Presence, you know nothing about it - for all kinds of reasons, but still the chief reason is that you are in a state of ignorance. Yet suddenly, by a clicking of circumstances, you become conscious of this divine Presence, that is, you are before a fact - it is not imagination, it is a fact, it's something which exists. Then how do you manage to forget it once you have known it?
...
It is because something in us, through cowardice or defeatism, accepts this. If one did not accept it, it wouldn't happen.
Even when everything seems to be suddenly darkened, the flame and the Light are always there. And if one doesn't forget them, one has only to put in front of them the part which is dark; there will perhaps be a battle, there will perhaps be a little difficulty, but it will be something quite transitory; never will you lose your footing. That is why it is said - and it is something true - that to sin through ignorance may have fatal consequences, because when one makes mistakes, well, these mistakes have results, that's obvious, and usually external and material results; but that's no great harm, I have already told you this several times. But when one knows what is true, when one has seen and had the experience of the Truth, to accept the sin again, that is, fall back again into ignorance and obscurity - this is indeed an infinitely more serious mistake. It begins to belong to the domain of ill-will. In any case, it is a sign of slackness and weakness. It means that the will is weak.
So your question is put the other way round. Instead of asking yourself how to keep it, you must ask yourself: how does one not keep it? Not having it, is a state which everybody is in before the moment of knowing; not knowing - one is in that state before knowing. But once one knows one cannot forget. And if one forgets, it means that there is something which consents to the forgetting, it means there is an assent somewhere; otherwise one would not forget.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1955, 403,405,406,#KEYS
150:
"The beings who were always appearing and speaking to Jeanne d'Arc would, if seen by an Indian, have quite a different appearance; for when one sees, one projects the forms of one's mind.... You have the vision of one in India whom you call the Divine Mother; the Catholics say it is the Virgin Mary, and the Japanese call it Kwannon, the Goddess of Mercy; and others would give other names. It is the same force, the same power, but the images made of it are different in different faiths." Questions and Answers 1929 - 1931 (21 April 1929)
And then? You are not very talkative today! Is that all?
You say that "each person has his own world of dreamimagery peculiar to himself." Ibid.
Each individual has his own way of expressing, thinking, speaking, feeling, understanding. It is the combination of all these ways of being that makes the individual. That is why everyone can understand only according to his own nature. As long as you are shut up in your own nature, you can know only what is in your consciousness. All depends upon the height of the nature of your consciousness. Your world is limited to what you have in your consciousness. If you have a very small consciousness, you will understand only a few things. When your consciousness is very vast, universal, only then will you understand the world. If the consciousness is limited to your little ego, all the rest will escape you.... There are people whose brain and consciousness are smaller than a walnut. You know that a walnut resembles the brain; well these people look at things and don't understand them. They can understand nothing else except what is in direct contact with their senses. For them only what they taste, what they see, hear, touch has a reality, and all the rest simply does not exist, and they accuse us of speaking fancifully! "What I cannot touch does not exist", they say. But the only answer to give them is: "It does not exist for you, but there's no reason why it shouldn't exist for others." You must not insist with these people, and you must not forget that the smaller they are the greater is the audacity in their assertions.
One's cocksureness is in proportion to one's unconsciousness; the more unconscious one is, the more is one sure of oneself. The most foolish are always the most vain. Your stupidity is in proportion to your vanity. The more one knows... In fact, there is a time when one is quite convinced that one knows nothing at all. There's not a moment in the world which does not bring something new, for the world is perpetually growing. If one is conscious of that, one has always something new to learn. But one can become conscious of it only gradually. One's conviction that one knows is in direct proportion to one's ignorance and stupidity.
Mother, have the scientists, then, a very small consciousness?
Why? All scientists are not like that. If you meet a true scientist who has worked hard, he will tell you: "We know nothing. What we know today is nothing beside what we shall know tomorrow. This year's discoveries will be left behind next year." A real scientist knows very well that there are many more things he doesn't know than those he knows. And this is true of all branches of human activity. I have never met a scientist worthy of the name who was proud. I have never met a man of some worth who has told me: "I know everything." Those I have seen have always confessed: "In short, I know nothing." After having spoken of all that he has done, all that he has achieved, he tells you very quietly: "After all, I know nothing." ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953, [T8],#KEYS
151:
In the lower planes can't one say what will happen at a particular moment?
That depends. On certain planes there are consciousnesses that form, that make formations and try to send them down to earth and manifest them. These are planes where the great forces are at play, forces struggling with each other to organise things in one way or another. On these planes all the possibilities are there, all the possibilities that present themselves but have not yet come to a decision as to which will come down.... Suppose a plane full of the imaginations of people who want certain things to be realised upon earth - they invent a novel, narrate stories, produce all kinds of phenomena; it amuses them very much. It is a plane of form-makers and they are there imagining all kinds of circumstances and events; they play with the forces; they are like the authors of a drama and they prepare everything there and see what is going to happen. All these formations are facing each other; and it is those which are the strongest, the most successful or the most persistent or those that have the advantage of a favourable set of circumstances which dominate. They meet and out of the conflict yet another thing results: you lose one thing and take up another, you make a new combination; and then all of a sudden, you find, pluff! it is coming down. Now, if it comes down with a sufficient force, it sets moving the earth atmosphere and things combine; as for instance, when with your fist you thump the saw-dust, you know surely what happens, don't you? You lift your hand, give a formidable blow: all the dust gets organised around your fist. Well, it is like that. These formations come down into matter with that force, and everything organises itself automatically, mechanically as around the striking fist. And there's your wished object about to be realised, sometimes with small deformations because of the resistance, but it will be realised finally, even as the person narrating the story up above wanted it more or less to be realised. If then you are for some reason or other in the secret of the person who has constructed the story and if you follow the way in which he creates his path to reach down to the earth and if you see how a blow with the fist acts on earthly matter, then you are able to tell what is going to happen, because you have seen it in the world above, and as it takes some time to make the whole journey, you see in advance. And the higher you rise, the more you foresee in advance what is going to happen. And if you pass far beyond, go still farther, then everything is possible.
It is an unfolding that follows a wide road which is for you unknowable; for all will be unfolded in the universe, but in what order and in what way? There are decisions that are taken up there which escape our ordinary consciousness, and so it is very difficult to foresee. But there also, if you enter consciously and if you can be present up there... How shall I explain that to you? All is there, absolute, static, eternal: but all that will be unfolded in the material world, naturally more or less one thing after another; for in the static existence all can be there, but in the becoming all becomes in time, that is, one thing after another. Well, what path will the unfolding follow? Up there is the domain of absolute freedom.... Who says that a sufficiently sincere aspiration, a sufficiently intense prayer is not capable of changing the path of the unfolding?
This means that all is possible.
Now, one must have a sufficient aspiration and a prayer that's sufficiently intense. But that has been given to human nature. It is one of the marvellous gifts of grace given to human nature; only, one does not know how to make use of it. This comes to saying that in spite of the most absolute determinisms in the horizontal line, if one knows how to cross all these horizontal lines and reach the highest Point of consciousness, one is able to make things change, things apparently absolutely determined. So you may call it by any name you like, but it is a kind of combination of an absolute determinism with an absolute freedom. You may pull yourself out of it in any way you like, but it is like that.
I forgot to say in that book (perhaps I did not forget but just felt that it was useless to say it) that all these theories are only theories, that is, mental conceptions which are merely more or less imaged representations of the reality; but it is not the reality at all. When you say "determinism" and when you say "freedom", you say only words and all that is only a very incomplete, very approximate and very weak description of what is in reality within you, around you and everywhere; and to be able to begin to understand what the universe is, you must come out of your mental formulas, otherwise you will never understand anything.
To tell the truth, if you live only a moment, just a tiny moment, of this absolutely sincere aspiration or this sufficiently intense prayer, you will know more things than by meditating for hours.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953,#KEYS
152: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
153:Attention on Hypnagogic Imagery The most common strategy for inducing WILDs is to fall asleep while focusing on the hypnagogic imagery that accompanies sleep onset. Initially, you are likely to see relatively simple images, flashes of light, geometric patterns, and the like.
Gradually more complicated forms appear: faces, people, and finally entire scenes. 6
The following account of what the Russian philosopher P. D. Ouspensky called "half-dream states" provides a vivid example of what hypnagogic imagery can be like:
I am falling asleep. Golden dots, sparks and tiny stars appear and disappear before my eyes. These sparks and stars gradually merge into a golden net with diagonal meshes which moves slowly and regularly in rhythm with the beating of my heart, which I feel quite distinctly. The next moment the golden net is transformed into rows of brass helmets belonging to Roman soldiers marching along the street below. I hear their measured tread and watch them from the window of a high house in Galata, in Constantinople, in a narrow lane, one end of which leads to the old wharf and the Golden Horn with its ships and steamers and the minarets of Stamboul behind them. I hear their heavy measured tread, and see the sun shining on their helmets. Then suddenly I detach myself from the window sill on which I am lying, and in the same reclining position fly slowly over the lane, over the houses, and then over the Golden Horn in the direction of Stamboul. I smell the sea, feel the wind, the warm sun. This flying gives me a wonderfully pleasant sensation, and I cannot help opening my eyes. 7
Ouspensky's half-dream states developed out of a habit of observing the contents of his mind while falling asleep or in half-sleep after awakening from a dream. He notes that they were much easier to observe in the morning after awakening than before sleep at the beginning of the night and did not occur at all "without definite efforts." 8
Dr. Nathan Rapport, an American psychiatrist, cultivated an approach to lucid dreaming very similar to Ouspensky's: "While in bed awaiting sleep, the experimenter interrupts his thoughts every few minutes with an effort to recall the mental item vanishing before each intrusion that inquisitive attention." 9 This habit is continued sleep itself, with results like the following:
Brilliant lights flashed, and a myriad of sparkles twinkled from a magnificent cut glass chandelier. Interesting as any stage extravaganza were the many quaintly detailed figurines upon a mantel against the distant, paneled wall adorned in rococo.
At the right a merry group of beauties and gallants in the most elegant attire of Victorian England idled away a pleasant occasion. This scene continued for [a] period of I was not aware, before I discovered that it was not reality, but a mental picture and that I was viewing it. Instantly it became an incommunicably beautiful vision. It was with the greatest stealth that my vaguely awakened mind began to peep: for I knew that these glorious shows end abruptly because of such intrusions.
I thought, "Have I here one of those mind pictures that are without motion?" As if in reply, one of the young ladies gracefully waltzed about the room. She returned to the group and immobility, with a smile lighting her pretty face, which was turned over her shoulder toward me. The entire color scheme was unobtrusive despite the kaleidoscopic sparkles of the chandelier, the exquisite blues and creamy pinks of the rich settings and costumes. I felt that only my interest in dreams brought my notice to the tints - delicate, yet all alive as if with inner illumination. 10
Hypnagogic Imagery Technique
1. Relax completely
While lying in bed, gently close your eyes and relax your head, neck, back, arms, and legs. Completely let go of all muscular and mental tension, and breathe slowly and restfully. Enjoy the feeling of relaxation and let go of your thoughts, worries, and concerns. If you have just awakened from sleep, you are probably sufficiently relaxed.
Otherwise, you may use either the progressive relaxation exercise (page 33) or the 61-point relaxation exercise (page 34) to relax more deeply. Let everything wind down,
slower and slower, more and more relaxed, until your mind becomes as serene as the calmest sea.
2. Observe the visual images
Gently focus your attention on the visual images that will gradually appear before your mind's eye. Watch how the images begin and end. Try to observe the images as delicately as possible, allowing them to be passively reflected in your mind as they unfold. Do not attempt to hold onto the images, but instead just watch without attachment or desire for action. While doing this, try to take the perspective of a detached observer as much as possible. At first you will see a sequence of disconnected, fleeting patterns and images. The images will gradually develop into scenes that become more and more complex, finally joining into extended sequences.
3. Enter the dream
When the imagery becomes a moving, vivid scenario, you should allow yourself to be passively drawn into the dream world. Do not try to actively enter the dream scene,
but instead continue to take a detached interest in the imagery. Let your involvement with what is happening draw you into the dream. But be careful of too much involvement and too little attention. Don't forget that you are dreaming now!
Commentary
Probably the most difficult part of this technique to master is entering the dream at Step 3. The challenge is to develop a delicate vigilance, an unobtrusive observer perspective, from which you let yourself be drawn into the dream. As Paul Tholey has emphasized, "It is not desirable to want actively to enter into the scenery,
since such an intention as a rule causes the scenery to disappear." 11 A passive volition similar to that described in the section on autosuggestion in the previous chapter is required: in Tholey's words, "Instead of actively wanting to enter into the scenery, the subject should attempt to let himself be carried into it passively." 12 A Tibetan teacher advises a similar frame of mind: "While delicately observing the mind, lead it gently into the dream state, as though you were leading a child by the hand." 13
Another risk is that, once you have entered into the dream, the world can seem so realistic that it is easy to lose lucidity, as happened in the beginning of Rapport's WILD described above. As insurance in case this happens, Tholey recommends that you resolve to carry out a particular action in the dream, so that if you momentarily lose lucidity, you may remember your intention to carry out the action and thereby regain lucidity.
~ Stephen LaBerge, Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming,#KEYS
154:
Why do we forget our dreams?
Because you do not dream always at the same place. It is not always the same part of your being that dreams and it is not at the same place that you dream. If you were in conscious, direct, continuous communication with all the parts of your being, you would remember all your dreams. But very few parts of the being are in communication.
For example, you have a dream in the subtle physical, that is to say, quite close to the physical. Generally, these dreams occur in the early hours of the morning, that is between four and five o'clock, at the end of the sleep. If you do not make a sudden movement when you wake up, if you remain very quiet, very still and a little attentive - quietly attentive - and concentrated, you will remember them, for the communication between the subtle physical and the physical is established - very rarely is there no communication.
Now, dreams are mostly forgotten because you have a dream while in a certain state and then pass into another. For instance, when you sleep, your body is asleep, your vital is asleep, but your mind is still active. So your mind begins to have dreams, that is, its activity is more or less coordinated, the imagination is very active and you see all kinds of things, take part in extraordinary happenings.... After some time, all that calms down and the mind also begins to doze. The vital that was resting wakes up; it comes out of the body, walks about, goes here and there, does all kinds of things, reacts, sometimes fights, and finally eats. It does all kinds of things. The vital is very adventurous. It watches. When it is heroic it rushes to save people who are in prison or to destroy enemies or it makes wonderful discoveries. But this pushes back the whole mental dream very far behind. It is rubbed off, forgotten: naturally you cannot remember it because the vital dream takes its place. But if you wake up suddenly at that moment, you remember it. There are people who have made the experiment, who have got up at certain fixed hours of the night and when they wake up suddenly, they do remember. You must not move brusquely, but awake in the natural course, then you remember.
After a time, the vital having taken a good stroll, needs to rest also, and so it goes into repose and quietness, quite tired at the end of all kinds of adventures. Then something else wakes up. Let us suppose that it is the subtle physical that goes for a walk. It starts moving and begins wandering, seeing the rooms and... why, this thing that was there, but it has come here and that other thing which was in that room is now in this one, and so on. If you wake up without stirring, you remembeR But this has pushed away far to the back of the consciousness all the stories of the vital. They are forgotten and so you cannot recollect your dreams. But if at the time of waking up you are not in a hurry, you are not obliged to leave your bed, on the contrary you can remain there as long as you wish, you need not even open your eyes; you keep your head exactly where it was and you make yourself like a tranquil mirror within and concentrate there. You catch just a tiny end of the tail of your dream. You catch it and start pulling gently, without stirring in the least. You begin pulling quite gently, and then first one part comes, a little later another. You go backward; the last comes up first. Everything goes backward, slowly, and suddenly the whole dream reappears: "Ah, there! it was like that." Above all, do not jump up, do not stir; you repeat the dream to yourself several times - once, twice - until it becomes clear in all its details. Once that dream is settled, you continue not to stir, you try to go further in, and suddenly you catch the tail of something else. It is more distant, more vague, but you can still seize it. And here also you hang on, get hold of it and pull, and you see that everything changes and you enter another world; all of a sudden you have an extraordinary adventure - it is another dream. You follow the same process. You repeat the dream to yourself once, twice, until you are sure of it. You remain very quiet all the time. Then you begin to penetrate still more deeply into yourself, as though you were going in very far, very far; and again suddenly you see a vague form, you have a feeling, a sensation... like a current of air, a slight breeze, a little breath; and you say, "Well, well...." It takes a form, it becomes clear - and the third category comes. You must have a lot of time, a lot of patience, you must be very quiet in your mind and body, very quiet, and you can tell the story of your whole night from the end right up to the beginning.
Even without doing this exercise which is very long and difficult, in order to recollect a dream, whether it be the last one or the one in the middle that has made a violent impression on your being, you must do what I have said when you wake up: take particular care not even to move your head on the pillow, remain absolutely still and let the dream return.
Some people do not have a passage between one state and another, there is a little gap and so they leap from one to the other; there is no highway passing through all the states of being with no break of the consciousness. A small dark hole, and you do not remember. It is like a precipice across which one has to extend the consciousness. To build a bridge takes a very long time; it takes much longer than building a physical bridge.... Very few people want to and know how to do it. They may have had magnificent activities, they do not remember them or sometimes only the last, the nearest, the most physical activity, with an uncoordinated movement - dreams having no sense.
But there are as many different kinds of nights and sleep as there are different days and activities. There are not many days that are alike, each day is different. The days are not the same, the nights are not the same. You and your friends are doing apparently the same thing, but for each one it is very different. And each one must have his own procedure.
Why are two dreams never alike?
Because all things are different. No two minutes are alike in the universe and it will be so till the end of the universe, no two minutes will ever be alike. And men obstinately want to make rules! One must do this and not that.... Well! we must let people please themselves.
You could have put to me a very interesting question: "Why am I fourteen years old today?" Intelligent people will say: "It is because it is the fourteenth year since you were born." That is the answer of someone who believes himself to be very intelligent. But there is another reason. I shall tell this to you alone.... I have drowned you all sufficiently well! Now you must begin to learn swimming!
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953, 36?,#KEYS
155:Chapter 18 - Trapped in a Dream
(A guy is playing a pinball machine, seemingly the same guy who rode with him in the back of the boat car. This part is played by Richard Linklater, aka, the director.)
Hey, man.
Hey.
Weren't you in a boat car? You know, the guy, the guy with the hat? He gave me a ride in his car, or boat thing, and you were in the back seat with me?
I mean, I'm not saying that you don't know what you're talking about, but I don't know what you're talking about.
No, you see, you guys let me off at this really specific spot that you gave him directions to let me off at, I get out, and end up getting hit by a car, but then, I just woke up because I was dreaming, and later than that, I found out that I was still dreaming, dreaming that I'd woken up.
Oh yeah, those are called false awakenings. I used to have those all the time.
Yeah, but I'm still in it now. I, I can't get out of it. It's been going on forever, I keep waking up, but, but I'm just waking up into another dream. I'm starting to get creeped out, too. Like I'm talking to dead people. This woman on TV's telling me about how death is this dreamtime that exists outside of life. I mean, (desperate sigh) I'm starting to think that I'm dead.
I'm gonna tell you about a dream I once had. I know that's, when someone says that, then usually you're in for a very boring next few minutes, and you might be, but it sounds like, you know, what else are you going to do, right? Anyway, I read this essay by Philip K. Dick.
What, you read it in your dream?
No, no. I read it before the dream. It was the preamble to the dream. It was about that book, um Flow My Tears the Policeman Said. You know that one?
Uh, yeah yeah, he won an award for that one.
Right, right. That's the one he wrote really fast. It just like flowed right out of him. He felt he was sort of channeling it, or something. But anyway, about four years after it was published, he was at this party, and he met this woman who had the same name as the woman character in the book. And she had a boyfriend with the same name as the boyfriend character in the book, and she was having an affair with this guy, the chief of police, and he had the same name as the chief of police in his book. So she's telling him all of this stuff from her life, and everything she's saying is right out of his book. So that's totally freaking him out, but, what can he do?
And then shortly after that, he was going to mail a letter, and he saw this kind of, um, you know, dangerous, shady looking guy standing by his car, but instead of avoiding him, which he says he would have usually done, he just walked right up to him and said, "Can I help you?" And the guy said, "Yeah. I, I ran out of gas." So he pulls out his wallet, and he hands him some money, which he says he never would have done, and then he gets home and thinks, wait a second, this guy, you know, he can't get to a gas station, he's out of gas. So he gets back in his car, he goes and finds the guy, takes him to the gas station, and as he's pulling up at the gas station, he realizes, "Hey, this is in my book too. This exact station, this exact guy. Everything."
So this whole episode is kind of creepy, right? And he's telling his priest about it, you know, describing how he wrote this book, and then four years later all these things happened to him. And as he's telling it to him, the priest says, "That's the Book of Acts. You're describing the Book of Acts." And he's like, "I've never read the Book of Acts." So he, you know, goes home and reads the Book of Acts, and it's like uncanny. Even the characters' names are the same as in the Bible. And the Book of Acts takes place in 50 A.D., when it was written, supposedly. So Philip K. Dick had this theory that time was an illusion and that we were all actually in 50 A.D., and the reason he had written this book was that he had somehow momentarily punctured through this illusion, this veil of time, and what he had seen there was what was going on in the Book of Acts.
And he was really into Gnosticism, and this idea that this demiurge, or demon, had created this illusion of time to make us forget that Christ was about to return, and the kingdom of God was about to arrive. And that we're all in 50 A.D., and there's someone trying to make us forget that God is imminent. And that's what time is. That's what all of history is. It's just this kind of continuous, you know, daydream, or distraction.
And so I read that, and I was like, well that's weird. And than that night I had a dream and there was this guy in the dream who was supposed to be a psychic. But I was skeptical. I was like, you know, he's not really a psychic, you know I'm thinking to myself. And then suddenly I start floating, like levitating, up to the ceiling. And as I almost go through the roof, I'm like, "Okay, Mr. Psychic. I believe you. You're a psychic. Put me down please." And I float down, and as my feet touch the ground, the psychic turns into this woman in a green dress. And this woman is Lady Gregory.
Now Lady Gregory was Yeats' patron, this, you know, Irish person. And though I'd never seen her image, I was just sure that this was the face of Lady Gregory. So we're walking along, and Lady Gregory turns to me and says, "Let me explain to you the nature of the universe. Now Philip K. Dick is right about time, but he's wrong that it's 50 A.D. Actually, there's only one instant, and it's right now, and it's eternity. And it's an instant in which God is posing a question, and that question is basically, 'Do you want to, you know, be one with eternity? Do you want to be in heaven?' And we're all saying, 'No thank you. Not just yet.' And so time is actually just this constant saying 'No' to God's invitation. I mean that's what time is. I mean, and it's no more 50 A.D. than it's two thousand and one. And there's just this one instant, and that's what we're always in."
And then she tells me that actually this is the narrative of everyone's life. That, you know, behind the phenomenal difference, there is but one story, and that's the story of moving from the "no" to the "yes." All of life is like, "No thank you. No thank you. No thank you." then ultimately it's, "Yes, I give in. Yes, I accept. Yes, I embrace." I mean, that's the journey. I mean, everyone gets to the "yes" in the end, right?
Right.
So we continue walking, and my dog runs over to me. And so I'm petting him, really happy to see him, you know, he's been dead for years. So I'm petting him and I realize there's this kind of gross oozing stuff coming out of his stomach. And I look over at Lady Gregory, and she sort of coughs. She's like [cough] [cough] "Oh, excuse me." And there's vomit, like dribbling down her chin, and it smells really bad. And I think, "Well, wait a second, that's not just the smell of vomit," which is, doesn't smell very good, "that's the smell of like dead person vomit." You know, so it's like doubly foul. And then I realize I'm actually in the land of the dead, and everyone around me is dead. My dog had been dead for over ten years, Lady Gregory had been dead a lot longer than that. When I finally woke up, I was like, whoa, that wasn't a dream, that was a visitation to this real place, the land of the dead.
So what happened? I mean how did you finally get out of it?
Oh man. It was just like one of those like life altering experiences. I mean I could never really look at the world the same way again, after that.
Yeah, but I mean like how did you, how did you finally get out of the dream? See, that's my problem. I'm like trapped. I keep, I keep thinking that I'm waking up, but I'm still in a dream. It seems like it's going on forever. I can't get out of it, and I want to wake up for real. How do you really wake up?
I don't know, I don't know. I'm not very good at that anymore. But, um, if that's what you're thinking, I mean you, you probably should. I mean, you know if you can wake up, you should, because you know someday, you know, you won't be able to. So just, um ... But it's easy. You know. Just, just wake up. ~ Waking Life,#KEYS
156:[The Gods and Their Worlds]
[...] According to traditions and occult schools, all these zones of realities, these planes of realities have got different names; they have been classified in a different way, but there is an essential analogy, and if you go back far enough into the traditions, you see only the words changing according to the country and the language. Even now, the experiences of Western occultists and those of Eastern occultists offer great similarities. All who set out on the discovery of these invisible worlds and make a report of what they saw, give a very similar description, whether they be from here or there; they use different words, but the experience is very similar and the handling of forces is the same.
This knowledge of the occult worlds is based on the existence of subtle bodies and of subtle worlds corresponding to those bodies. They are what the psychological method calls "states of consciousness", but these states of consciousness really correspond to worlds. The occult procedure consists then in being aware of these various inner states of being or subtle bodies and in becoming sufficiently a master of them so as to be able to go out of them successively, one after another. There is indeed a whole scale of subtleties, increasing or decreasing according to the direction in which you go, and the occult procedure consists in going out of a denser body into a subtler body and so on again, up to the most ethereal regions. You go, by successive exteriorisations, into bodies or worlds more and more subtle. It is somewhat as if every time you passed into another dimension. The fourth dimension of the physicists is nothing but the scientific transcription of an occult knowledge. To give another image, one can say that the physical body is at the centre - it is the most material, the densest and also the smallest - and the inner bodies, more subtle, overflow more and more the central physical body; they pass through it, extending themselves farther and farther, like water evaporating from a porous vase and forming a kind of steam all around. And the greater the subtlety, the more the extension tends to unite with that of the universe: one ends by universalising oneself. And it is altogether a concrete process which gives an objective experience of invisible worlds and even enables one to act in these worlds.
There are, then, only a very small number of people in the West who know that these gods are not merely subjective and imaginary - more or less wildly imaginary - but that they correspond to a universal truth.
All these regions, all these domains are filled with beings who exist, each in its own domain, and if you are awake and conscious on a particular plane - for instance, if on going out of a more material body you awake on some higher plane, you have the same relation with the things and people of that plane as you had with the things and people of the material world. That is to say, there exists an entirely objective relation that has nothing to do with the idea you may have of these things. Naturally, the resemblance is greater and greater as you approach the physical world, the material world, and there even comes a time when the one region has a direct action upon the other. In any case, in what Sri Aurobindo calls the overmental worlds, you will find a concrete reality absolutely independent of your personal experience; you go back there and again find the same things, with the differences that have occurred during your absence. And you have relations with those beings that are identical with the relations you have with physical beings, with this difference that the relation is more plastic, supple and direct - for example, there is the capacity to change the external form, the visible form, according to the inner state you are in. But you can make an appointment with someone and be at the appointed place and find the same being again, with certain differences that have come about during your absence; it is entirely concrete with results entirely concrete.
One must have at least a little of this experience in order to understand these things. Otherwise, those who are convinced that all this is mere human imagination and mental formation, who believe that these gods have such and such a form because men have thought them to be like that, and that they have certain defects and certain qualities because men have thought them to be like that - all those who say that God is made in the image of man and that he exists only in human thought, all these will not understand; to them this will appear absolutely ridiculous, madness. One must have lived a little, touched the subject a little, to know how very concrete the thing is.
Naturally, children know a good deal if they have not been spoilt. There are so many children who return every night to the same place and continue to live the life they have begun there. When these faculties are not spoilt with age, you can keep them with you. At a time when I was especially interested in dreams, I could return exactly to a place and continue a work that I had begun: supervise something, for example, set something in order, a work of organisation or of discovery, of exploration. You go until you reach a certain spot, as you would go in life, then you take a rest, then you return and begin again - you begin the work at the place where you left off and you continue it. And you perceive that there are things which are quite independent of you, in the sense that changes of which you are not at all the author, have taken place automatically during your absence.
But for this, you must live these experiences yourself, you must see them yourself, live them with sufficient sincerity and spontaneity in order to see that they are independent of any mental formation. For you can do the opposite also, and deepen the study of the action of mental formation upon events. This is very interesting, but it is another domain. And this study makes you very careful, very prudent, because you become aware of how far you can delude yourself. So you must study both, the dream and the occult reality, in order to see what is the essential difference between the two. The one depends upon us; the other exists in itself; entirely independent of the thought that we have of it.
When you have worked in that domain, you recognise in fact that once a subject has been studied and something has been learnt mentally, it gives a special colour to the experience; the experience may be quite spontaneous and sincere, but the simple fact that the subject was known and studied lends a particular quality. Whereas if you had learnt nothing about the question, if you knew nothing at all, the transcription would be completely spontaneous and sincere when the experience came; it would be more or less adequate, but it would not be the outcome of a previous mental formation.
Naturally, this occult knowledge or this experience is not very frequent in the world, because in those who do not have a developed inner life, there are veritable gaps between the external consciousness and the inmost consciousness; the linking states of being are missing and they have to be constructed. So when people enter there for the first time, they are bewildered, they have the impression they have fallen into the night, into nothingness, into non-being!
I had a Danish friend, a painter, who was like that. He wanted me to teach him how to go out of the body; he used to have interesting dreams and thought that it would be worth the trouble to go there consciously. So I made him "go out" - but it was a frightful thing! When he was dreaming, a part of his mind still remained conscious, active, and a kind of link existed between this active part and his external being; then he remembered some of his dreams, but it was a very partial phenomenon. And to go out of one's body means to pass gradually through all the states of being, if one does the thing systematically. Well, already in the subtle physical, one is almost de-individualised, and when one goes farther, there remains nothing, for nothing is formed or individualised.
Thus, when people are asked to meditate or told to go within, to enter into themselves, they are in agony - naturally! They have the impression that they are vanishing. And with reason: there is nothing, no consciousness!
These things that appear to us quite natural and evident, are, for people who know nothing, wild imagination. If, for example, you transplant these experiences or this knowledge to the West, well, unless you have been frequenting the circles of occultists, they stare at you with open eyes. And when you have turned your back, they hasten to say, "These people are cranks!" Now to come back to the gods and conclude. It must be said that all those beings who have never had an earthly existence - gods or demons, invisible beings and powers - do not possess what the Divine has put into man: the psychic being. And this psychic being gives to man true love, charity, compassion, a deep kindness, which compensate for all his external defects.
In the gods there is no fault because they live according to their own nature, spontaneously and without constraint: as gods, it is their manner of being. But if you take a higher point of view, if you have a higher vision, a vision of the whole, you see that they lack certain qualities that are exclusively human. By his capacity of love and self-giving, man can have as much power as the gods and even more, when he is not egoistic, when he has surmounted his egoism.
If he fulfils the required condition, man is nearer to the Supreme than the gods are. He can be nearer. He is not so automatically, but he has the power to be so, the potentiality.
If human love manifested itself without mixture, it would be all-powerful. Unfortunately, in human love there is as much love of oneself as of the one loved; it is not a love that makes you forget yourself. - 4 November 1958
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III, 355
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157:The Science of Living
To know oneself and to control oneself
AN AIMLESS life is always a miserable life.
Every one of you should have an aim. But do not forget that on the quality of your aim will depend the quality of your life.
Your aim should be high and wide, generous and disinterested; this will make your life precious to yourself and to others.
But whatever your ideal, it cannot be perfectly realised unless you have realised perfection in yourself.
To work for your perfection, the first step is to become conscious of yourself, of the different parts of your being and their respective activities. You must learn to distinguish these different parts one from another, so that you may become clearly aware of the origin of the movements that occur in you, the many impulses, reactions and conflicting wills that drive you to action. It is an assiduous study which demands much perseverance and sincerity. For man's nature, especially his mental nature, has a spontaneous tendency to give a favourable explanation for everything he thinks, feels, says and does. It is only by observing these movements with great care, by bringing them, as it were, before the tribunal of our highest ideal, with a sincere will to submit to its judgment, that we can hope to form in ourselves a discernment that never errs. For if we truly want to progress and acquire the capacity of knowing the truth of our being, that is to say, what we are truly created for, what we can call our mission upon earth, then we must, in a very regular and constant manner, reject from us or eliminate in us whatever contradicts the truth of our existence, whatever is opposed to it. In this way, little by little, all the parts, all the elements of our being can be organised into a homogeneous whole around our psychic centre. This work of unification requires much time to be brought to some degree of perfection. Therefore, in order to accomplish it, we must arm ourselves with patience and endurance, with a determination to prolong our life as long as necessary for the success of our endeavour.
As you pursue this labour of purification and unification, you must at the same time take great care to perfect the external and instrumental part of your being. When the higher truth manifests, it must find in you a mind that is supple and rich enough to be able to give the idea that seeks to express itself a form of thought which preserves its force and clarity. This thought, again, when it seeks to clothe itself in words, must find in you a sufficient power of expression so that the words reveal the thought and do not deform it. And the formula in which you embody the truth should be manifested in all your feelings, all your acts of will, all your actions, in all the movements of your being. Finally, these movements themselves should, by constant effort, attain their highest perfection.
All this can be realised by means of a fourfold discipline, the general outline of which is given here. The four aspects of the discipline do not exclude each other, and can be followed at the same time; indeed, this is preferable. The starting-point is what can be called the psychic discipline. We give the name "psychic" to the psychological centre of our being, the seat within us of the highest truth of our existence, that which can know this truth and set it in movement. It is therefore of capital importance to become conscious of its presence in us, to concentrate on this presence until it becomes a living fact for us and we can identify ourselves with it.
In various times and places many methods have been prescribed for attaining this perception and ultimately achieving this identification. Some methods are psychological, some religious, some even mechanical. In reality, everyone has to find the one which suits him best, and if one has an ardent and steadfast aspiration, a persistent and dynamic will, one is sure to meet, in one way or another - outwardly through reading and study, inwardly through concentration, meditation, revelation and experience - the help one needs to reach the goal. Only one thing is absolutely indispensable: the will to discover and to realise. This discovery and realisation should be the primary preoccupation of our being, the pearl of great price which we must acquire at any cost. Whatever you do, whatever your occupations and activities, the will to find the truth of your being and to unite with it must be always living and present behind all that you do, all that you feel, all that you think.
To complement this movement of inner discovery, it would be good not to neglect the development of the mind. For the mental instrument can equally be a great help or a great hindrance. In its natural state the human mind is always limited in its vision, narrow in its understanding, rigid in its conceptions, and a constant effort is therefore needed to widen it, to make it more supple and profound. So it is very necessary to consider everything from as many points of view as possible. Towards this end, there is an exercise which gives great suppleness and elevation to the thought. It is as follows: a clearly formulated thesis is set; against it is opposed its antithesis, formulated with the same precision. Then by careful reflection the problem must be widened or transcended until a synthesis is found which unites the two contraries in a larger, higher and more comprehensive idea.
Many other exercises of the same kind can be undertaken; some have a beneficial effect on the character and so possess a double advantage: that of educating the mind and that of establishing control over the feelings and their consequences. For example, you must never allow your mind to judge things and people, for the mind is not an instrument of knowledge; it is incapable of finding knowledge, but it must be moved by knowledge. Knowledge belongs to a much higher domain than that of the human mind, far above the region of pure ideas. The mind has to be silent and attentive to receive knowledge from above and manifest it. For it is an instrument of formation, of organisation and action, and it is in these functions that it attains its full value and real usefulness.
There is another practice which can be very helpful to the progress of the consciousness. Whenever there is a disagreement on any matter, such as a decision to be taken, or an action to be carried out, one must never remain closed up in one's own conception or point of view. On the contrary, one must make an effort to understand the other's point of view, to put oneself in his place and, instead of quarrelling or even fighting, find the solution which can reasonably satisfy both parties; there always is one for men of goodwill.
Here we must mention the discipline of the vital. The vital being in us is the seat of impulses and desires, of enthusiasm and violence, of dynamic energy and desperate depressions, of passions and revolts. It can set everything in motion, build and realise; but it can also destroy and mar everything. Thus it may be the most difficult part to discipline in the human being. It is a long and exacting labour requiring great patience and perfect sincerity, for without sincerity you will deceive yourself from the very outset, and all endeavour for progress will be in vain. With the collaboration of the vital no realisation seems impossible, no transformation impracticable. But the difficulty lies in securing this constant collaboration. The vital is a good worker, but most often it seeks its own satisfaction. If that is refused, totally or even partially, the vital gets vexed, sulks and goes on strike. Its energy disappears more or less completely and in its place leaves disgust for people and things, discouragement or revolt, depression and dissatisfaction. At such moments it is good to remain quiet and refuse to act; for these are the times when one does stupid things and in a few moments one can destroy or spoil the progress that has been made during months of regular effort. These crises are shorter and less dangerous for those who have established a contact with their psychic being which is sufficient to keep alive in them the flame of aspiration and the consciousness of the ideal to be realised. They can, with the help of this consciousness, deal with their vital as one deals with a rebellious child, with patience and perseverance, showing it the truth and light, endeavouring to convince it and awaken in it the goodwill which has been veiled for a time. By means of such patient intervention each crisis can be turned into a new progress, into one more step towards the goal. Progress may be slow, relapses 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.
Lastly, by means of a rational and discerning physical education, we must make our body strong and supple enough to become a fit instrument in the material world for the truth-force which wants to manifest through us.
In fact, the body must not rule, it must obey. By its very nature it is a docile and faithful servant. Unfortunately, it rarely has the capacity of discernment it ought to have with regard to its masters, the mind and the vital. It obeys them blindly, at the cost of its own well-being. The mind with its dogmas, its rigid and arbitrary principles, the vital with its passions, its excesses and dissipations soon destroy the natural balance of the body and create in it fatigue, exhaustion and disease. It must be freed from this tyranny and this can be done only through a constant union with the psychic centre of the being. The body has a wonderful capacity of adaptation and endurance. It is able to do so many more things than one usually imagines. If, instead of the ignorant and despotic masters that now govern it, it is ruled by the central truth of the being, you will be amazed at what it is capable of doing. Calm and quiet, strong and poised, at every minute it will be able to put forth the effort that is demanded of it, for it will have learnt to find rest in action and to recuperate, through contact with the universal forces, the energies it expends consciously and usefully. In this sound and balanced life a new harmony will manifest in the body, reflecting the harmony of the higher regions, which will give it perfect proportions and ideal beauty of form. And this harmony will be progressive, for the truth of the being is never static; it is a perpetual unfolding of a growing perfection that is more and more total and comprehensive. As soon as the body has learnt to follow this movement of progressive harmony, it will be possible for it to escape, through a continuous process of transformation, from the necessity of disintegration and destruction. Thus the irrevocable law of death will no longer have any reason to exist.
When we reach this degree of perfection which is our goal, we shall perceive that the truth we seek is made up of four major aspects: Love, Knowledge, Power and Beauty. These four attributes of the Truth will express themselves spontaneously in our being. The psychic will be the vehicle of true and pure love, the mind will be the vehicle of infallible knowledge, the vital will manifest an invincible power and strength and the body will be the expression of a perfect beauty and harmony.
Bulletin, November 1950
~ The Mother, On Education,#KEYS
158: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
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:Eternity forbids thee to forget. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 2:Learn it all, then forget it all. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 3:Style is to forget all styles. ~ jules-renard, @wisdomtrove 4:Seek the spirit, forget the form. ~ bulleh-shah, @wisdomtrove 5:Don't forget to love yourself. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 6:Women and elephants never forget. ~ dorothy-parker, @wisdomtrove 7:Throw everything away, forget about it all! ~ mooji, @wisdomtrove 8:We were together. I forget the rest. ~ walt-whitman, @wisdomtrove 9:let me forget about today until tomorrow ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 10:To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 11:Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 12:But I don't give up; I forget why not. ~ dorothy-parker, @wisdomtrove 13:Don't forget your history nor your destiny ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove 14:Don't forget to support your public library. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 15:Forget grammar and think about potatoes ~ gertrude-stein, @wisdomtrove 16:Let us forget and forgive injuries. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 17:Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget... ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 18:To forget oneself is to be happy. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 19:Forget favors given; remember those received. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 20:In this bright future you can't forget your past ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove 21:It is better to forget about yourself altogether. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 22:In this bright future you can't forget your past. ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove 23:Naturally, the human being wants to forget pain. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 24:A person cannot forget someone who is good to them. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 25:People will never forget how you made them feel. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 26:The right way to go easy is to forget the right way. ~ zhuangzi, @wisdomtrove 27:Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again? ~ a-a-milne, @wisdomtrove 28:Everything is ended if you forgive and forget. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 29:Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 30:Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world. ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove 31:If it makes you feel better, I promise to forget. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 32:Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 33:It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 34:I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget. ~ a-a-milne, @wisdomtrove 35:We forget that IMPOSSIBLE is one of God's favorite words ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 36:Don't forget who you are and where you come from. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 37:Just a few words on time management: forget all about it. ~ tim-ferris, @wisdomtrove 38:Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. ~ margaret-fuller, @wisdomtrove 39:America is a land of opportunity and don't ever forget it. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 40:Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 41:People forget ideas; they don't forget the real presence. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 42:The world must know what happened, and never forget. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove 43:If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 44:I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 45:Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 46:You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 47:Forget about being impressive and commit to being real. ~ danielle-laporte, @wisdomtrove 48:Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future. ~ sivananda, @wisdomtrove 49:Remember the to-do list but don't forget the to-be list. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 50:I’m a psychic amnesiac. I know in advance what I’ll forget. ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 51:Promise you won't forget me, ever. Not even when I'm a hundred. ~ a-a-milne, @wisdomtrove 52:I'll never forget my wedding day... they threw vitamin pills ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 53:Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep. ~ mahatma-gandhi, @wisdomtrove 54:I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 55:I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 56:Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave. ~ a-a-milne, @wisdomtrove 57:To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 58:You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it. ~ alan-moore, @wisdomtrove 59:Forget what you've been taught so you can remember what you know. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove 60:Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 61:While carrying responsibilities, never forget to smile. ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove 62:If you want it, measure it. If you can't measure it, forget it. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 63:Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ~ voltaire, @wisdomtrove 64:My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 65:Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 66:The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it. ~ aeschylus, @wisdomtrove 67:The more you forget yourself, the more Jesus will think of you. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 68:Child of God, you cost Christ too much for him to forget you. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 69:Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 70:People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights. ~ mahatma-gandhi, @wisdomtrove 71:Sometimes when we get overwhelmed we forget how big God is. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 72:The bully and his victim never quite forget their first relations. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove 73:The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 74:We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men. ~ jorge-luis-borges, @wisdomtrove 75:A man who does not forget an agreement is resolved and honorable man. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 76:Never forget the importance of living with unbridled exhilaration. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 77:You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 78:Modern women ... they don't sew your pockets ... forget that. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 79:Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 80:Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore! ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 81:Because of our routines we forget that life is an ongoing adventure. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 82:Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 83:Play your part in life, but never forget it is only a role. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 84:We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 85:To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove 86:When declaring your rights, don't forget your responsibilities. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 87:Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 88:Forget about getting, simply give; and I guarantee you, you will get much. ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove 89:It’s all in the One contained, understand that one and forget the rest. ~ bulleh-shah, @wisdomtrove 90:We need to hear the Gospel every day, because we forget it every day. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 91:Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 92:To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. ~ dogen, @wisdomtrove 93:I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget. ~ aeschylus, @wisdomtrove 94:Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry. ~ dr-seuss, @wisdomtrove 95:Don't be so concerned with your rights that you forget your manners. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 96:I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 97:Do not get so concerned with making a living that you forget to make a life. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 98:Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 99:In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 100:Politics is, for me, forgive and -as you may have heard- sometimes forget. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 101:Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. ~ benjamin-franklin, @wisdomtrove 102:The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 103:To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove 104:To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves. ~ dogen, @wisdomtrove 105:When you drink of the water, don't forget the spring from which it flows. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 106:Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 107:The happiest moments we ever know are when we entirely forget ourselves. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 108:The past is over... forget it. The future holds hope... reach for it. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 109:What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too. ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove 110:You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. ~ lewis-carroll, @wisdomtrove 111:As long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 112:Don't forget, a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 113:No girl should ever forget that she doesn't need anyone who doesn't need her. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove 114:How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 115:I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 116:One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being. ~ arthur-schopenhauer, @wisdomtrove 117:The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice. ~ jules-renard, @wisdomtrove 118:The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world’s dreadful injustice. ~ jules-renard, @wisdomtrove 119:The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 120:We choose to forget aspects of ourselves and then we forget that we've forgotten. ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove 121:Be good, sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 122:Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home! ~ zhuangzi, @wisdomtrove 123:Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. ~ michel-de-montaigne, @wisdomtrove 124:We often forget that the author of our faith must be the finisher of it also. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 125:And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 126:Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population. ~ gertrude-stein, @wisdomtrove 127:If you want to stand out from the crowd, give people a reason not to forget you ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 128:We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 129:A Coach must never forget that he is a leader and not merely a person with authority. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 130:Forget the economy. Just rewire your mentality. Then you'll create your own economy. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 131:Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 132:There's one good thing about tight shoes; they make you forget your other troubles. ~ josh-billings, @wisdomtrove 133:Don't forget honey. Never let one man worry your mind. Find 'em, fool 'em and forget 'em. ~ mae-west, @wisdomtrove 134:Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 135:If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 136:Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 137:There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won't forget them. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 138:Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. ~ zhuangzi, @wisdomtrove 139:You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play! ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 140:I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one. ~ viktor-frankl, @wisdomtrove 141:In the midst of your battles, never forget that God loves you and He has a plan for you. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 142:Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 143:Puddleglum's my name. But it doesn't matter if you forget it. I can always tell you again. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 144:When failure is not an option, we can forget about creativity, learning, and innovation. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 145:But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive ... nor worms forget. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 146:There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her. ~ jorge-luis-borges, @wisdomtrove 147:A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards. ~ a-a-milne, @wisdomtrove 148:If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 149:You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove 150:Drunk with the joy of singing I forget myself and call thee friend who art my lord. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 151:Evil people you never forget them. And that's the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten. ~ bette-davis, @wisdomtrove 152:His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 153:Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 154:We may forget him, but God will never forget us. We're forever on his mind and in his plans. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 155:Forget your dream-born mortal weakness. Wake up and know that you and God are one. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 156:Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 157:Many people think their prayers are never answered because it is the answered ones they forget. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 158:An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove 159:He must never forget Charlie's plea: Tell me where I'm going to die, so I'll never go there. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 160:There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn. ~ oliver-wendell-holmes-jr, @wisdomtrove 161:You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove 162:If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 163:In our obsessive wish to arrive, we often forget the most important thing, which is the journey. ~ paulo-coelho, @wisdomtrove 164:People remember Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, quite forget he was a Professor of Modern Languages! ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 165:When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age. ~ george-burns, @wisdomtrove 166:It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them. ~ gertrude-stein, @wisdomtrove 167:It might seem as the hardest thing to do, but you have to forget the guy who forgot about you. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 168:Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 169:I didn't forget your breakfast. I didn't bring your breakfast. Because you didn't eat your din-din. ~ bette-davis, @wisdomtrove 170:I don't think any of us should forget that the security of America is our highest responsibility. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 171:That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget. ~ jean-paul-sartre, @wisdomtrove 172:The fish trap exists because of the fish: once you have gotten the meanings, you can forget the words. ~ zhuangzi, @wisdomtrove 173:A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 174:The scariest thing about distance is that you don't know whether they'll miss you or forget you. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 175:To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 176:We're all so busy chasing the extraordinary that we forget to stop and be grateful for the ordinary. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 177:A mistake is valuable if you do four things with it: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 178:The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time. ~ gertrude-stein, @wisdomtrove 179:Think bigger. Forget limits. Embrace the idea of endless possibility... . It will change you. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 180:Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 181:To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things. ~ dogen, @wisdomtrove 182:I only wish I could write with both hands, so as not to forget one thing while I am saying another. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 183:Lovers, forget your love And list to the love of these She a window flower And he a winter breeze ... ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 184:You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 185:If you do something for someone else, never remember. If someone does something for you, never forget. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 186:‚ÄúI can forgive, but I cannot forget,‚Äù is only another way of saying, ‚ÄúI will not forgive.‚Äù ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 187:Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred. ~ sivananda, @wisdomtrove 188:And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove 189:Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one's corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead. ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove 190:Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we belong to it. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 191:The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present. ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove 192:It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 193:To give up the world is to forget the ego, to know it not at all - living in the body, but not of it. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 194:We must beat the Gospel into peoples' heads incessantly because it's the one thing we're prone to forget. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 195:If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove 196:So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 197:The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas. ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove 198:Change is not so much about being the first one to embrace a new idea, but being the first to forget an old one ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove 199:Don't become a victim of yourself. Forget about the thief waiting in the alley; what about the thief in your mind? ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 200:Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 201:When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 202:Don’t go on with borrowed knowledge. Otherwise you will forget that you are ignorant, and you will remain ignorant. ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove 203:I'll never forget my first fur. It was a modest little stole. Modest? People thought I was wearing anchovies. ~ phyllis-diller, @wisdomtrove 204:We are too quick to live this life and forget that there is another world to come... this is not the end. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 205:Forget about trying to stabilize the personal sense of Self. It is inherently unstable. See that the Self watches this. ~ mooji, @wisdomtrove 206:Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 207:Tell people - and they may forget... show them - they may remember... but involve them and they will understand. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 208:I prefer to forget both pairs of glasses and pass my declining years saluting strange women and grandfather clocks. ~ ogden-nash, @wisdomtrove 209:Never forget the nine most important words of any family- I love you. You are beautiful. Please forgive me. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 210:Not everyone is your friend. When you are psychic you tend to forget that others don't view life the way you do. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 211:We should never forget that after every night, there is a dawn. We should never lose our optimistic faith. ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove 212:F-E-A-R has two meanings: & 213:In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 214:Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 215:We may elevate ourselves but we should never reach so high that we would every forget those who helped us get there. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 216:Anyone who seeks success or greatness should first forget about both and seek only the truth. The rest will follow. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 217:Go Sir, gallop and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything but not time. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 218:In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 219:Knowing them to be superficial, give no value to your experiences, forget them as soon as they are over. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 220:To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to. ~ moliere, @wisdomtrove 221:We must never forget that higher knowledge has to do with revering truth and insight and not with revering people. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove 222:Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 223:Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 224:When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 225:The three most difficult things in life are: 1. To keep a secret. 2. To forget an injury. 3. To make good use of leisure. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 226:The more fascinated we become with the toys of this world, the more we forget that there's another world to come. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 227:Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her. ~ anais-nin, @wisdomtrove 228:God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 229:No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 230:We sometimes forget that we are God-beings, and that the intent of the Creator was for us to enjoy this thing called Life! ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 231:We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 232:You are engaged in a work so spiritual, so far above all human power, that to forget the Spirit is to ensure defeat. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 233:We are free to burn the Qur’an or any other book, and to criticize Muhammad or any other human being. Let no one forget it. ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove 234:Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 235:Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it. ~ josh-billings, @wisdomtrove 236:Forget yourself by becoming interested in others. Do every day a good deed that will put a smile of joy on someone's face. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 237:Live today to the fullest, and forget about the past. Today you can create a new way of living. You can change all the rules. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 238:Forget your troubles and dance! Forget your sorrows and dance! Forget your sickness and dance! Forget your weakness and dance! ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove 239:A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 240:As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 241:Do not forget that a traitor within our ranks, known to us, can do more harm to the enemy than a loyal man can do good to us. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove 242:Let me draw your attention to one thing which unfortunately we always forget: that is - "O man, have faith in yourself." ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 243:and if anybody asks me is it easy to forget I'll say it is easily done, you just pick anyone, and pretend that you never have met ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 244:First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down. ~ george-burns, @wisdomtrove 245:If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. ~ paulo-coelho, @wisdomtrove 246:No one will ever forget that night, and what it meant for this country. But I will never forget the man and what he meant to me. ~ alan-moore, @wisdomtrove 247:The idea of 10 dimensions might sound exciting, but they would cause real problems if you forget where you parked your car. ~ stephen-hawking, @wisdomtrove 248:Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it. ~ tim-ferris, @wisdomtrove 249:Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little". ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 250:I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be, I always forget to include myself. ~ george-burns, @wisdomtrove 251:Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 252:The words & 253:To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious. ~ alexander-hamilton, @wisdomtrove 254:Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 255:As you forget self in service to others, you will find that, without seeking it, your own cup of happiness will be full. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 256:Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep. ~ heraclitus, @wisdomtrove 257:To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove 258:You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 259:As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 260:Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 261:You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything‚ and I advise you to do the same. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 262:Laughter opens your heart and soothes your soul. No one should ever take life so seriously that they forget to laugh at themselves. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 263:Another problem with worry is that it makes you forget your worth. Worry makes you feel worthless, forgotten, and unimportant. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 264: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 265:it's good to have things done with when they don't work it's also good not to hate or even forget the person you've failed with. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 266:Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 267:Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove 268:The only friends who are free from cares are the goblet of wine and a book. Give me wine…that I may for a time forget the cares of the world. ~ hafez, @wisdomtrove 269:The way to defeat fear: decide on a course of conduct and follow it. Keep so busy and work so hard that you forget about being afraid. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 270:WOKING (vb.) To enter the kitchen with the precise determination to perform something only to forget what it is just before you do it. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 271:You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 272:Holiness grows so fast where there is kindness. The world is lost for want of sweetness and kindness. Do not forget we need each other. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 273:I was given two weeks to walk again, so I hooked up with a trainer, and he... had me walking. I'll never forget that, it was grueling. ~ richard-pryor, @wisdomtrove 274:Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove 275:The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 276:Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone might be looking. Hear and you forget, see and you remember, do and you understand. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 277:Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 278:Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove 279:The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the wind, and join in the general Dance. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 280:Forgive, you will have happiness. Forget, you will have satisfacton. Forgive and forget, You will have everlasting peace Within and without. ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove 281:I have tried to keep memory alive... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 282:Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 283:See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 284:All too often, we spend our days waiting for the ideal path to appear in front of us. We forget that paths are made by walking, not waiting. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 285:For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove 286:They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 287:It may be difficult to understand why a test comes our way, but we must never forget that the test is accomplishing refining and purification. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 288:What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget about it. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 289:I also wanted my basketball players to know that I really cared about them. Forget basketball; as a person, I cared, I cared about their family. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 290:I have read all my novels that were translated into English. Reading my novels is enjoyable because I forget almost all the content in them. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 291:The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 292:Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force. ~ carl-jung, @wisdomtrove 293:Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 294:Dot the i's, cross the t's, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil is in the details. ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove 295:I have a remarkable memory; I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me. ~ jules-renard, @wisdomtrove 296:The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 297:Business leaders take things far too seriously, and forget that most of the time people spend in their lives is at work, and it should be fun. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 298:It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace. ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove 299:Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 300:The more you learn, the more you know. The more you know, the more you forget. The more you forget, the less you know. So why bother to learn. ~ stephen-hawking, @wisdomtrove 301:We must not forget that health is only a means to an end. If health were the end, we would be like animals; animals rarely become unhealthy. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 302:Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 303:I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind. ~ brian-eno, @wisdomtrove 304:May all of you as Americans never forget your heroic origins, never fail to seek Divine guidance, and never lose your natural God-given optimism. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 305:In martial arts, every time you graduate, move to another level, you don't forget everything you've done. You build on it, but it's always there. ~ melody-beattie, @wisdomtrove 306:Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 307:The career of a movie star consists of helping everyone else forget their troubles. Using charm and beauty and good cheer to make life look easy. ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove 308:They're talking about partial nuclear disarmament, which is also like talking about partial circumcision - you either go all the way or forget it. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 309:they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my heart strings yet! ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 310:Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle would permit me to forget that. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 311:So I got off the plane and I forget to take off my seat-belt and I'm dragging the plane through the terminal... The wings are knocking people over. ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 312:There is no such thing as not-knowing. There is only forgetting. What is wrong with forgetting? It is as simple to forget as to remember. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 313:Times may be hard and people may be demanding, but never forget that life is special. Every single day is a special day. God is at work in you! ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 314:Don‚Äôt let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 315:Providence has done, and I am persuaded is disposed to do, a great deal for us; but we are not to forget the fable of Jupiter and the countryman. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove 316:& 317:some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems. ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove 318:It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven." ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 319:If we are not careful, it is all too easy to fall into becoming more of a human doing than a human being, and forget who is doing all the doing, and why. ~ jon-kabat-zinn, @wisdomtrove 320:We must never forget that while striving to leave a better planet to our kids, it is just as important that we strive to leave better kids to our planet. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 321:We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 322:And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 323:How can the bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing? How can a child, when fears annoy, But droop his tender wing, And forget his youthful spring? ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 324:It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 325:God's grace will never be available to you to become another person. He created to be you - the best "you" you can be! Forget about trying to be someone else. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 326:It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 327:The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not. ~ zhuangzi, @wisdomtrove 328:The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 329:Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil, And Fear her danger; opens a new world When this, the present, palls. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 330:& 331:He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 332:When we feel deep love, we can embrace those parts of ourselves that normally seem unlovable. We can allow ourselves to remember the suffering we prefer to forget. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove 333:Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way, and forget that the going is easy. ~ zhuangzi, @wisdomtrove 334:A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, & 335:The problem that we have with a victim mentality is that we forget to see the blessings of the day. Because of this, our spirit is poisoned instead of nourished. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 336:I cannot forget that the Nobel Prize for Peace was also a commission - a commission to work harder than I had ever worked before for "the brotherhood of man". ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 337:People have faith in & 338:Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove 339:Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating... too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 340:If you can fall in love again and again if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical you've got it half licked. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 341:Through incarnations, some beings do go down. That is to say, they forget. The soul falls into an eclipse of itself and there is a downward progression for a time. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 342:Everything in life is a checklist, whether it's building a birdhouse or building a kitchen. If you don't have a checklist, you're much more likely to forget something. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 343:Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.) ~ dr-seuss, @wisdomtrove 344:Forget yesterday - it has already forgotten you. Don't sweat tomorrow - you haven't even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift - today. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 345:Leave it all behind you. Forget it. Go forth, unburdened with ideas and beliefs. Abandon all verbal structures, all relative truth, all tangible objectives. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 346:What is the way of the Buddha? It is to study the self. What is the study of the self? It is to forget oneself. To forget oneself is to enlightened by everything in the world. ~ dogen, @wisdomtrove 347:Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead? Could not the grave forget thee, and lay low Some less majestic, less beloved head? ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 348:Too often, people forget the basic fact of life: all those good things we enjoy come from the ache in [our] backs and the willingness to shoulder great personals risks. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 349:God alone is perfectly and consistently just. We forget; God remembers. We see an action; God sees a motive. This qualifies Him as the best recordkeeper and judge. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 350:If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game. Religion, it seems to me, can survive only as a consciously accepted system of make-believe. ~ aldous-huxley, @wisdomtrove 351:Many companies forget what it means to make great products. After initial success, sales and marketing people take over and the product people eventually make their way out. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove 352:Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad. ~ rumi, @wisdomtrove 353:There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted. ~ henri-matisse, @wisdomtrove 354:I have seen too many men go down, and I never permit myself to forget that one day, through accident or under the charge of a younger, stronger knight, I too will go down. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 355:My view is that if there is no evidence for it, then forget about it. An agnostic is somebody who doesn’t believe in something until there is evidence for it, so I’m agnostic. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 356:When along the pavement, Palpitating flames of life, People flicker around me, I forget my bereavement, The gap in the great constellation, The place where a star used to be ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 357:Why forget the self through excess of attachment? Wisdom lies in never forgetting the self as the ever-present source of both the experiencer and his experience. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 358:Do not take life's experiences too seriously. For in reality they are nothing but dream experiences. Play your part in life, but never forget that it is only a role. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 359:I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 360:Do not work self into a state of over-anxiety at the changes that will be found, or attempt to use up the strength and vitality ... Forget not the sources of thine inspiration. ~ edgar-cayce, @wisdomtrove 361:Forget about your life situation and pay attention to your life. Your life situation exists in time. Your life is now. Your life situation is mind- stuff. Your life is real. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove 362:In secret we met - In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? - With silence and tears ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 363:Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 364:Did you ever consider how ridiculous it would be to try to cram on a farm – to forget to plan in spring, play all summer, and then cram in the fall to bring in the harvest? ~ stephen-r-covey, @wisdomtrove 365:Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don't remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don't understand the great secrets hidden inside of us. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 366:Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 367:When life is hard it's easy to focus only on the bad things and forget all about the good things God has given us. But God has blessed every one of us in ways we often overlook. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 368:Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you. ~ oprah-winfrey, @wisdomtrove 369:To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown‚àíups who are no longer interested in anything but figures. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove 370:We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely accurately describe the motives of another. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 371:When you're going though a difficult time, forget about yourself for a while. Go do something for someone else. This is the fastest way to pull yourself out of a negative state. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 372:Books never make religions, but religions make books. We must not forget that. No book ever created God, but God inspired all the great books. And no book ever created a soul. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 373:Immerse yourself in the task. Just start on the task, and focus completely on it. Forget about everything else, and let the world melt away. Get excited about the task and have fun. ~ leo-babauta, @wisdomtrove 374:Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires. ~ bertrand-russell, @wisdomtrove 375:We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget that the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it’s all about. ~ joseph-campbell, @wisdomtrove 376:A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 377:Forget the past, for it is gone from your domain! forget the future, for it is beyond your reach! control the present! Live supremely well now! This is the way of the wise. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 378:Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 379:If you're studying Geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all, but Philosophy you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life. ~ steve-martin, @wisdomtrove 380:Let's not forget that what is looking out of your eyes and hearing with your ears right now is already Spirit. And that Spirit, that I AMness, is always present in all sentient beings. ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove 381:There is much in nature against us. But we forget: Take nature altogether since time began, Including human nature, in peace and war, And it must be a little more in favor of man... . ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 382:My girlfriend's weird. One day she asked me, & 383:Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human undertakes, and he must do it as a child. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 384:It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty! ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 385:This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 386:Even that's a lie, said Tom savagely. "She didn't know you were alive. Why - there're things between Daisy and me that you'll never know, things that neither of us can ever forget." ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 387:Losing is only temporary and not encompassing. You must simply study it, learn from it, and try hard not to lose the same way again. Then you must have the self-control to forget about it. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 388:I been watchin' you, workin day and night, slavin so hard you barely have time to catch your breath. People do that for three reasons. Either they crazy, or stupid, or tryin' to forget. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 389:When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 390:And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet would I remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 391:In real meditation you forget the body. You may be cut to pieces and not feel it at all. You feel such pleasure in it. You become so light. This perfect rest we will get in meditation. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 392:In the progress of politics, as in the common occurrences of life, we are not only apt to forget the ground we have travelled over, but frequently neglect to gather up experiences as we go. ~ thomas-paine, @wisdomtrove 393:Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people... but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 394:In an age where there is much talk about "being yourself," I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is very little chance of my being anybody else. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 395:He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. ~ aeschylus, @wisdomtrove 396:There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must live in the needs of the day& 397:Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed up; I forget them almost immediately. ~ jean-paul-sartre, @wisdomtrove 398:What would it take for you to forget all your troubles? Are you willing to simply forget all your troubles today? When you remove your attention from a problem, it gets bored and moves away! ~ lyania-vanzant, @wisdomtrove 399:You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject. ~ henri-matisse, @wisdomtrove 400:Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick. ~ henri-cartier-bresson, @wisdomtrove 401:We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because & 402:This one commercial said, "Forget everything you know about slipcovers." So I did, and it was a load off of my mind. Then the commercial tried to sell slipcovers, but I didn't know what they were! ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove 403:Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 404:If there is no order in your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your neighbour - whether that neighbour is near or very far away - forget about meditation. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 405:You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous. And then you realize, no, actually if you take a break people might be more interested in you. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 406:I'll think about you everyday. Part of me is scared that there'll come a time when you don't feel the same way, that you'll somehow forget about what we shared, so this is what I want to do forever. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 407:A tale begun in other days, When summer suns were glowing - A simple chime, that served to time The rhythm of your rowing - Whose echoes live in memory yet, Though envious years would say & 408:I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 409:However much I may be impressed by the difference between a star and the dark space around it, I must not forget that I can see the two only in relation to each other, and that this relation is inseparable. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 410:Passion should believe itself irresistible. It should forget civility and consideration and all the other curses of a refined nature. Above all, it should never ask for leave where there is a right of way. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove 411:Sometimes it is harder for us to smile at those who live with us, the immediate members of our families, than it is to smile at those who are not so close to us. Let us never forget: love begins at home. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 412:I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 413:Are you still carrying everyone who's insulted you, injured you or interfered with you? That's a lot of weight. I'd let it go, personally, and just move on and forget. Be in the moment. Don't even notice. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 414:M: There is nothing wrong with memory as such. What is false is its content. Remember facts, forget opinions. Q: What is a fact? M: What is perceived in pure awareness, unaffected by desire. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 415:Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work's important, family's important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You're cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what's coming. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 416:You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but not everything. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove 417:Don't listen to voices. If you hear voices talking to you, forget it. Disregard the information, even if it is right occasionally. You are dealing with non-physical forces that are trying to influence you. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 418:There's this wonderful and very important event when we're born, and we forget everything that's gone before, or else we'd be such a mass of rememberings that we couldn't operate successfully on this planet. ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove 419:I will laugh at the world! Never will I allow myself to become so important, so wise, so dignified, so powerful, that I forget how to laugh at myself and my world.And so long as I can Laugh never will I be poor ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove 420:When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else. Blessed are the uneducated, who forget it entirely, and are never conscious of folly or pruriency in the past, of long aimless conversations. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove 421:At the very least, they can be persuaded that the bodily position makes no difference to their prayers; for they constantly forget[... ]that they are animals and that whatever their bodies do affects their souls. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 422:It is the habit of faith, when she is praying, to use pleas. Mere prayer sayers, who do not pray at all, forget to argue with God; but those who prevail bring forth their reasons and their strong arguments ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 423:When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me when I am gone, but don't forget to add, in common justice, that I was never converted to anything. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 424:Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 425:I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 426:Never forget that a man is made great and perfect as much by his faults as by his virtues. So we must not seek to rob a nation of its character, even if it could be proved that the character was all faults. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 427:Dream big . . . don't let anybody or anything break your wishbone. Stay strong, full of faith, and courageous... keep that backbone straight. And along the way, don't forget to laugh and enjoy the journey. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 428:As Buddhist monks, our task is to bring ourselves resolutely more and more into light, to forgive and forget, to forget those who create problems for us because to remember them is only to keep problems is mind. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 429:Be perfectly resigned, perfectly unconcerned; then alone can you do any true work. No eyes can see the real forces; we can only see the results. Put out self, forget it; just let God work, it is HIS business. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 430:To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 431:Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts. ~ jean-paul-sartre, @wisdomtrove 432:Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 433:So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination. Forget all the worldly knowledge that thou hast acquired and become as a child, and then will thou get the divine wisdom. ~ sri-ramakrishna, @wisdomtrove 434:The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove 435:Too often we make the mistake of remembering what we should forget-our hurts, failures and disappointments -and we forget what we should remember-our victories, accomplishments and the times we have made it through. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 436:When you paint, you forget everything except your object. When you are too much engrossed in it, you are lost in it. And when you are lost in it, your ego diminishes. And when the ego diminishes, love infinite appears. ~ meher-baba, @wisdomtrove 437:Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 438:The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time. ~ henry-ford, @wisdomtrove 439:The burden you are carrying around is the burden of self. You seek release from that. You want to let it all go. You want to forget who you are and what you are. You wish to be the whole universe, infinite, endless. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 440:The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 441:When in a state of security, he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 442:Where are you getting your affection? Who's touching you? Who's holding you? Who makes you feel alive? Who says, "You are a beautiful person, you are the beloved of God, don't forget it"? That's an important discipline. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 443:Why am I going?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I am going in order to be where you are," said he. "I cannot do otherwise." "Not a word, not a movement of yours will I ever forget, nor can I. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 444:You will have to learn many tedious things,... which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove 445:The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries and our anxieties. Tranquilising ourselves with over-consumption is not the way. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove 446:The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - such a man may be reckoned a complete man. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 447:To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people who are desperately lonely lose themselves in mental illness or violence to forget the inner pain. ~ jean-vanier, @wisdomtrove 448:The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 449:We should never forget that everything Adolph Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighers did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 450:Part of what we seek in Buddhism is the sense of quiet observation. We don't get so involved in a state of mind that we forget that it's just another transient state of mind, no matter how much ecstasy or agony is involved. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 451:The idea of enemies is awful it makes one stop remembering eternity and the fear of death. That is what enemies are. Possessions are the same as enemies only less so, they too make one forget eternity and the fear of death. ~ gertrude-stein, @wisdomtrove 452:Forget the past. The vanished lives of all men are dark with many shames. Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 453:Heart, we will forget him! You and I, to-night! You may forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light. When you have done, pray tell me, That I my thoughts may dim; Haste! lest while you‚Äôre lagging, I may remember him! ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 454:I don't know if this is true to you but for me sometimes it gets so bad that anything else say like looking at a bird on an overhead power line seems as great as a Beethoven symphony. then you forget it and you're back again. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 455:Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well, I won't do that. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 456:Forget about the past. It does not exist, except in your memory. Drop it. And stop worrying about how you’re going to get through tomorrow. Life is going on Right Here, Right Now —pay attention to that and all will be well. ~ neale-donald-walsch, @wisdomtrove 457:We must not forget that what I mean by the conquest of the world by spiritual thought is the sending out of the life-giving principles, not the hundreds of superstitions that we have been hugging to our breasts for centuries. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 458:The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 459:I just want to leave you with this thought, that it's just been sort of a dress rehearsal, and we're just getting started. So if any of you start resting on your laurels, I mean just forget it, because... we are just getting started. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 460:Managers thinking about accounting issues should never forget one of Abraham Lincoln's favorite riddles: How many legs does a dog have, if you call a tail a leg? The answer: Four, because calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 461:Throw everything away, forget about it all! You are learning too much, remembering too much, trying too hard . . . relax a little bit, give life a chance to flow its own way, unassisted by your mind and effort. Stop directing the river’s flow. ~ mooji, @wisdomtrove 462:As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me. ~ thomas-edison, @wisdomtrove 463:People in the West sometimes have these marvelous visions of India and Tibet. They assume that there are all these sadhus walking around and everybody is breathing enlightenment. Forget it. Don't look at it through rose-colored glasses. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 464:Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what's been happening in your life. Good or bad, whether it's been full of sorrow or anger, or even when you're questioning why terrible things have to happen. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 465:For I love the empress of my soul. I love and I cannot but love. You yourself see the whole of me. I shall fly to her, fall down before her: you were right to walk past me.. farewell and forget your victim, never trouble yourself more! ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 466:I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove 467:People involve themselves in countless activities which they consider to be important, but they forget about one activity which is more important and necessary than any other, and which includes all other things: the improvement of their soul ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 468:If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you desired, and that strength will help you to get what you want. ~ paulo-coelho, @wisdomtrove 469:Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age. ~ george-burns, @wisdomtrove 470:If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture. ~ brian-eno, @wisdomtrove 471:If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove 472:You and I were different. We came from different worlds, and yet you were the one how taught me the value of love. You showed me what it was like to care for another, and I am a better man because of it. I don't want you to ever forget that. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 473:My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them. They tell me those who were poor early have different views of gold. I don't know how that is. God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 474:We can invest so heavily in our beliefs about life that we forget that we really don’t know what life is. We can become so caught up in our opinions that we miss the breathtaking mystery. And when this happens, life becomes mundane and empty of wonder. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove 475:I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do& 476:Above all, the sitter must be made to forget about the camera and the photographer who is handling it. Complicated equipment and light reflectors and various other items of hardware are enough, to my mind, to prevent the birdie from coming out. ~ henri-cartier-bresson, @wisdomtrove 477:Create a landing strip. When I get home, I empty my pockets and put everything onto a tray near my doorway. Keys, wallet, my ID, anything. This way it doesn’t get tossed on our counter or table, and I never have to look for it or forget it when I leave. ~ leo-babauta, @wisdomtrove 478:Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story... To make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 479:Our kids were God's kids first... We tend to forget this fact, regarding our children as "our" children, as though we have the final say in their health and welfare. We don't. All people are God's people, including the small people who sit at our tables. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 480:That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 481:What I saw wasn't a ghost. It was simply& 482:The higher our self-esteem, the stronger the drive to express ourselves, reflecting the sense of richness within. The lower our self-esteem, the more urgent the need to "prove" ourselves or to forget ourselves by living mechanically and unconsciously. ~ nathaniel-branden, @wisdomtrove 483:There is a moral law in this world which has its application both to individuals and organized bodies of men. You cannot go on violating these laws in the name of your nation, yet enjoy their advantage as individuals. We may forget truth for our conv ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 484:Never give up searching for the job that youre passionate about. Try to find the job youd have if you were independently rich. Forget about the pay. When youre associating with the people that you love, doing what you love, it doesnt get any better than that. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 485:The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude. ~ washington-irving, @wisdomtrove 486:Let today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday. Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people... but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 487:I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O Great Beyond, O the keen call of thy flute! I forget, I ever forget, that I have no wings to fly, that I am bound in this spot evermore. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 488:The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself. ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove 489:When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you see him, you will see yourself. As you treat him, you will treat yourself. As you think of him, you will think of yourself. Never forget this, for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 490:If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 491:If you dont feel comfortable making a rough estimate of the assets future earnings, just forget it and move on. No one has the ability to evaluate every investment possibility. But omniscience isnt necessary; you only need to understand the actions you undertake. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 492:It's really important to find an hour or two to a day to make sure that you keep healthy, keep fit. It's very easy just to forget that aspect. And if you're feeling really good and fit, I think you can get two or three extra hours a day of hard work in as well. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 493:We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 494:Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove 495:And let us never forget that in honoring our flag, we honor the American men and women who have courageously fought and died for it over the last 200 years, patriots who set an ideal above any consideration of self. Our flag flies free today because of their sacrifice. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 496:There are two Gods, there is the God that people generally believe in - a God who has to serve them. This God does not exist. But the God whom people forget - the God whom we all have to serve - exists, and is the prime cause of our existence and of all that we perceive. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 497:The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 498:I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 499:If we make ourselves worthy of America's ideals, if we do not forget that our nation was founded on the premise that all men are creatures of God's making, the world will come to know that it is free men who carry forward the true promise of human progress and dignity. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove 500:The Tao is in all things, in their divisions and their fullness. What I dislike about divisions is that they multiply, and what i dislike about multiplication is that it makes people want to hold fast to it. So people go out and forget to return, seeing little more than ghosts. ~ zhuangzi, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:Forget it, I decided. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
2:Forget the past. ~ Nelson Mandela, #NFDB
3:Love does not forget! ~ Alex Flinn, #NFDB
4:Don't forget to vote. ~ Frank Zappa, #NFDB
5:Never regret. Never forget. ~ Tijan, #NFDB
6:Why do I not forget? ~ Louise Gl ck, #NFDB
7:Don’t forget to breathe. ~ T L Smith, #NFDB
8:want to forget Silas ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
9:Don't forget to smolder! ~ Holly Black, #NFDB
10:Never forget who you are. ~ Teri Terry, #NFDB
11:Do not forget my example. ~ Kate Schatz, #NFDB
12:Don't forget to be awesome ~ Hank Green, #NFDB
13:Forget thyself to marble. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
14:Promise you won't forget me. ~ J A Huss, #NFDB
15:To forget God is a waste of Time. ~ JB, #NFDB
16:Did you forget to evolve? ~ Cath Crowley, #NFDB
17:Forgive, but don't forget ~ Tupac Shakur, #NFDB
18:Never forget to dream. ~ Madonna Ciccone, #NFDB
19:Never forget what you are. ~ N K Jemisin, #NFDB
20:Never forgive, never forget. ~ Lee Child, #NFDB
21:You see, people forget you ~ Henry James, #NFDB
22:Eternity bids thee to forget ~ John Green, #NFDB
23:I can forgive, I just can't forget. ~ DMX, #NFDB
24:When I read, I could forget. ~ Roxane Gay, #NFDB
25:You can't forget the past. ~ Jen Calonita, #NFDB
26:Eternity bids thee to forget. ~ John Green, #NFDB
27:Let’s forget about time ~ Madonna Ciccone, #NFDB
28:Mummy will never forget you! ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
29:Never stop. Never forget. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
30:To think is to forget. ~ Jorge Luis Borges, #NFDB
31:Don’t forget your shoes, miss. ~ Ann Leckie, #NFDB
32:I began to forget myself ~ Margaret Atwood, #NFDB
33:And don’t forget the fox dung. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
34:Forget him. Forget him. ~ Jodi Lynn Anderson, #NFDB
35:Forgive but never forget........ ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
36:Hard to forget first puppy love. ~ Toba Beta, #NFDB
37:Have to be dead to forget. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
38:I tried to forget about it all. ~ David Bell, #NFDB
39:You must never forget to smile. ~ Lee Taemin, #NFDB
40:Commit today, forget tomorrow. ~ Marina Adair, #NFDB
41:Don't forget to be awesome DFTBA ~ John Green, #NFDB
42:Eternity forbids thee to forget. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
43:Forget not
Regret not
Live ~ Kim Holden,#NFDB
44:Learn it all, then forget it all. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
45:Life is good - we forget that. ~ Maryam d Abo, #NFDB
46:Don't forget where you come from ~ Macklemore, #NFDB
47:Forget love. Try good manners. ~ Rebecca Wells, #NFDB
48:Forget the brother and resume the man. ~ Homer, #NFDB
49:Forget the ones that forget you. ~ Wiz Khalifa, #NFDB
50:i can't remember to forget you ~ Brooke Taylor, #NFDB
51:I forgot to remember to forget. ~ Elvis Presley, #NFDB
52:Let's not forget, I got divorced. ~ Larry David, #NFDB
53:Never forget how beautiful you are ~ Gerard Way, #NFDB
54:And never forget, there is memory. ~ John Irving, #NFDB
55:Don’t forget to dance in the rain… ~ Nina Levine, #NFDB
56:Forget all the rules you ever learned ~ Bob Gill, #NFDB
57:Forget movies - I'd rather choose books! ~ Disha, #NFDB
58:I didn't forget. I wrote it down. ~ Julie Buntin, #NFDB
59:It's so easy to forget being wrong. ~ Hank Green, #NFDB
60:Keep the best, forget the rest. ~ Karl Lagerfeld, #NFDB
61:Never forget how beautiful you are. ~ Gerard Way, #NFDB
62:People forget how far things are. ~ Joanna Walsh, #NFDB
63:To be able to forget means sanity. ~ Jack London, #NFDB
64:you never forget your first fall. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
65:And we forget because we must. ~ Maggie O Farrell, #NFDB
66:But hopeful dear us, we forget. ~ George Saunders, #NFDB
67:In violence we forget who we are. ~ Mary McCarthy, #NFDB
68:In violence, we forget who we are ~ Mary McCarthy, #NFDB
69:It's easy to forget who you are. ~ Kendrick Lamar, #NFDB
70:I will never forget you, Hollyleaf. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
71:Never tell a computer to forget it. ~ Larry Niven, #NFDB
72:Tell people - and they may forget... ~ Confucius, #NFDB
73:They'll never be able to forget us. ~ John Lennon, #NFDB
74:To forgive does not mean to forget. ~ Allan Lokos, #NFDB
75:We being round thee, forget to die. ~ Donna Tartt, #NFDB
76:Well, don’t forget the flowers. ~ Rachel Thompson, #NFDB
77:When I work I forget all the rest. ~ Claude Monet, #NFDB
78:Could one forget how to be free? ~ Guy Gavriel Kay, #NFDB
79:Don't forget to love yourself. ~ Soren Kierkegaard, #NFDB
80:Don't forget to love yourself. ~ S ren Kierkegaard, #NFDB
81:Forget about weird Boy and move on ~ Laura J Burns, #NFDB
82:Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
83:Good to forgive, Best to forget. ~ Robert Browning, #NFDB
84:I love you when I forget about me. ~ Joni Mitchell, #NFDB
85:I think it mercy if Thou wilt forget. ~ John Donne, #NFDB
86:It's nice to be able to forget. ~ Thomas Bangalter, #NFDB
87:We Will Remember Them - Lest we Forget ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
88:Women and elephants never forget. ~ Dorothy Parker, #NFDB
89:You make me forget how to breathe. ~ Kristen Proby, #NFDB
90:Don't forget, taste, taste, taste. ~ Kathleen Flinn, #NFDB
91:Forget it, Jake. It's Shantytown. ~ W Bruce Cameron, #NFDB
92:Forget the failures. Keep the lessons. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
93:Forget yourself and go to work. ~ Gordon B Hinckley, #NFDB
94:Never look back, never forget. ~ Jessica Day George, #NFDB
95:No one reads to know, but to forget ~ Emil M Cioran, #NFDB
96:Throw everything away, forget about it all! ~ Mooji, #NFDB
97:We were together. I forget the rest. ~ Walt Whitman, #NFDB
98:we were together. i forget the rest. ~ Walt Whitman, #NFDB
99:You were never what I wanted to forget. ~ Sara Zarr, #NFDB
100:Did you forget? I'm a heartless wretch! ~ Davy Jones, #NFDB
101:Don't ever forget where God found you. ~ Johnny Hunt, #NFDB
102:Don't forget to remember me, alright? ~ Kahlen Aymes, #NFDB
103:Don't play hard to get, play hard to forget. ~ Drake, #NFDB
104:Forget things and have a quiet moment. ~ Taylor Dane, #NFDB
105:Forget what it was. Look at what it is. ~ Jay Maisel, #NFDB
106:Forget yourself and get to work. ~ Gordon B Hinckley, #NFDB
107:I forget sometimes what laughter can do. ~ Ken Kesey, #NFDB
108:I hope you won't completely forget me. ~ Kate Chopin, #NFDB
109:let me forget about today until tomorrow ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
110:To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice ~ Elie Wiesel, #NFDB
111:Alayana would forget my compliments ~ Manisha Koirala, #NFDB
112:Boys are haram; don't ever forget that ~ Warsan Shire, #NFDB
113:Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
114:Forget the planet, save the garden. ~ Colin Cotterill, #NFDB
115:Learn the rules, and then forget them. ~ Matsuo Basho, #NFDB
116:Make love to me, make me forget. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
117:move forward; but don't forget to look back ~ Various, #NFDB
118:Remember two matters and forget two matters; ~ Luqman, #NFDB
119:Sweetheart, never forget you’re a miracle ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
120:To forget a friend is sad. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
121:We forget what we already have, don ~ Anthony Robbins, #NFDB
122:With thee conversing I forget all time. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
123:You kick ass Sam. And don't forget it ~ Pittacus Lore, #NFDB
124:Be happy and well and forget me fast. ~ Elizabeth Finn, #NFDB
125:Children are apt to forget to remember. ~ E E Cummings, #NFDB
126:Do not allow me to forget you ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
127:Do not allow me to forget you ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez, #NFDB
128:Forget yourself! Think courage. ~ Norman Vincent Peale, #NFDB
129:Forgive yourself, but don't forget ~ Alexandra Bracken, #NFDB
130:I forget everything between footsteps. ~ Stuart Turton, #NFDB
131:If you play poorly one day, forget it. ~ Harvey Penick, #NFDB
132:I never forgive, but I always forget. ~ Arthur Balfour, #NFDB
133:Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it. ~ Nicola Yoon, #NFDB
134:Life is a gift. Don’t forget to live it. ~ Nicola Yoon, #NFDB
135:Never forget the essence of your spark! ~ Taylor Swift, #NFDB
136:Normal people have nothing to forget. ~ Emile M Cioran, #NFDB
137:People forget what they want to forget. ~ Fuyumi Soryo, #NFDB
138:The heart doesn't forget. It never forgets ~ Seth King, #NFDB
139:Too easy to get = Just as easy to forget. ~ Mandy Hale, #NFDB
140:To study the self is to forget the self. ~ Phil Knight, #NFDB
141:To think,” Borges writes, “is to forget. ~ Joshua Foer, #NFDB
142:We often forget that we are nature. ~ Andy Goldsworthy, #NFDB
143:We were together.
I forget the rest. ~ Walt Whitman,#NFDB
144:We were together. I forget the rest.
~ Walt Whitman,#NFDB
145:And don’t forget: Elvendork! It’s unisex! ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
146:But I don't give up; I forget why not. ~ Dorothy Parker, #NFDB
147:Control me...release me...forget about me. ~ Jeff Hardy, #NFDB
148:Do not forget the past; forgive the past. ~ John Irving, #NFDB
149:Don't forget your history nor your destiny ~ Bob Marley, #NFDB
150:Do we soon forget the things we cannot see? ~ Tori Amos, #NFDB
151:Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget. ~ John Keats, #NFDB
152:Forget whiplash, this woman had bitchlash; ~ Vi Keeland, #NFDB
153:Give love and forget that you gave it. ~ Sun Myung Moon, #NFDB
154:Hello.
World.
You will forget me. ~ Tahereh Mafi,#NFDB
155:I forget. I don't see. I don't think. ~ Fernando Pessoa, #NFDB
156:Now, the truth is the one you won’t forget. ~ Jay Asher, #NFDB
157:People forget years and remember moments. ~ Ann Beattie, #NFDB
158:Pray you now, forget and forgive. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
159:The little things you forget, kill me. ~ pleasefindthis, #NFDB
160:To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. ~ Joyce Cary, #NFDB
161:a girl you still could not forget? ~ Shilpi Somaya Gowda, #NFDB
162:Don't forget to stop and smell the roses. ~ Walter Hagen, #NFDB
163:Don't forget to support your public library. ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
164:Forget grammar and think about potatoes ~ Gertrude Stein, #NFDB
165:Forget math and peotry. Especially poetry. ~ C J Redwine, #NFDB
166:Forget the adage buy low and sell high. ~ William O Neil, #NFDB
167:I am more happy than not, Don't forget me ~ Adam Silvera, #NFDB
168:I don't like pot anymore -- I forget why. ~ Margaret Cho, #NFDB
169:I may forget my dignity, but you may not. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
170:I’m more happy than not. Don’t forget me. ~ Adam Silvera, #NFDB
171:I’m so tired I forget who I am sometimes. ~ Hannah Tinti, #NFDB
172:Never forget that Hitler was a Catholic. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
173:Never forget who you are, little star. ~ Madonna Ciccone, #NFDB
174:The best way to get even is to forget. ~ Debbie Macomber, #NFDB
175:There are some guys you just can't forget. ~ J S Cooper, #NFDB
176:Voters quickly forget what a man says. ~ Richard M Nixon, #NFDB
177:You never forget your first love. ~ Wendelin Van Draanen, #NFDB
178:You want it, you buy it, you forget it. ~ Barbara Kruger, #NFDB
179:Before I forget ...Beware the Ides of March. ~ Avan Jogia, #NFDB
180:But in the hero ne'er forget the man. ~ Mercy Otis Warren, #NFDB
181:Do your best and forget the consequences. ~ Walter Alston, #NFDB
182:Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget... ~ John Keats, #NFDB
183:find em, fool em, fuck em, forget em ~ Eric Jerome Dickey, #NFDB
184:Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream. ~ Charles Baxter, #NFDB
185:Forget God. This dude has to be a demon. ~ Laura Thalassa, #NFDB
186:Forget hard work, use Cosmic Ordering. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
187:Forget Regret, or life is yours to miss ~ Jonathan Larson, #NFDB
188:If I do, if I do forget, will you remind me? ~ Lex Martin, #NFDB
189:If I upset you, don't stress. Never forget ~ Tupac Shakur, #NFDB
190:Isn’t it delightful to forget how old we are? ~ Euripides, #NFDB
191:Let us forget and forgive injuries. ~ Miguel de Cervantes, #NFDB
192:Never forget a Favor, Never forgive a Slight! ~ Lee Child, #NFDB
193:People so easily forget their past selves. ~ Henrik Ibsen, #NFDB
194:They would grow old. They would forget me. ~ Sylvia Plath, #NFDB
195:To forget a wrong is the best revenge. ~ Imogen Robertson, #NFDB
196:We forget that every fervor will subside. ~ Chang rae Lee, #NFDB
197:We forget very easily what gives us pain. ~ Graham Greene, #NFDB
198:When you see the results, you forget the pain. ~ Avi Arad, #NFDB
199:You make me forget who I'm not. ~ Aleksandr Voinov, #NFDB
200:Alan will never forget. Click Here to ~ Richard Paul Evans, #NFDB
201:But I don't forget and I don't forgive. ~ Philippa Gregory, #NFDB
202:Enjoy the questions and forget the answers. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
203:FORGET ABOUT GOALS, FOCUS ON SYSTEMS INSTEAD ~ James Clear, #NFDB
204:Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. ~ Jonathan Larson, #NFDB
205:Forgive. Forget. Life is full of misfortunes. ~ Mario Puzo, #NFDB
206:How could I forget the day I found my person? ~ Jay McLean, #NFDB
207:I might die if I forget how to breathe. ~ Miranda Cosgrove, #NFDB
208:It is sure the hardest science to forget! ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
209:It is the doom of men that they forget. ~ Nicol Williamson, #NFDB
210:Live your life and forget your age. ~ Norman Vincent Peale, #NFDB
211:Never forget. Antarctica wants to kill you. ~ Matthew Iden, #NFDB
212:People don't forget. Nothing gets forgiven. ~ John Marston, #NFDB
213:Sure. Sure you have. I never forget a face. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
214:The heart sags. My footprints forget me. ~ Richard Jackson, #NFDB
215:The remedy for wrongs is to forget them. ~ Publilius Syrus, #NFDB
216:To forget oneself is to be happy. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, #NFDB
217:before long, I forget Oscar the Girl-Exhaler ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
218:C ha pte r 7 WE ALL TRIED TO FORGET about James ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
219:Forget the pat, let the dead burry the dead. ~ Robert Bloch, #NFDB
220:he x does not forget the cry of the afflicted. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
221:I can forget injuries, but never benefits. ~ Horace Walpole, #NFDB
222:i do not love you but i will not forget you ~ Janice Pariat, #NFDB
223:I don't want to forget I'm trying to remember. ~ E Lockhart, #NFDB
224:I’ll never forgive. I’ll never forget. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
225:Life is a gift. Don’t forget to live it.” Her ~ Nicola Yoon, #NFDB
226:Never forget that I am paid for my troubles! ~ Hank Stuever, #NFDB
227:adults forget how difficult that task was. ~ Donald A Norman, #NFDB
228:- and even if someone told us we'd forget ~ Tatyana Tolstaya, #NFDB
229:Don't forget to cherish all the things you love. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
230:Don't take it on yourself. Forget now. Live. ~ Arthur Miller, #NFDB
231:Forget logic...Logic doesn't know what you want. ~ Jay Asher, #NFDB
232:Forget what you know. Trust what you believe ~ Aaron L Speer, #NFDB
233:I am your man, and don’t forget it. Had ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
234:I never forget that I'm extremely fortunate. ~ James Nesbitt, #NFDB
235:In the striving to something, you forget to be. ~ Paul Selig, #NFDB
236:It is sometimes wise to forget who we are. ~ Publilius Syrus, #NFDB
237:Keep calm and don't forget the whipped cream. ~ Quinn Loftis, #NFDB
238:Lawyers never forget. - Christine McCall ~ William Bernhardt, #NFDB
239:Life must go on; I forget just why. ~ Edna St Vincent Millay, #NFDB
240:Never forget: We are alive within mysteries. ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB
241:People never really die until you forget them. ~ V C Andrews, #NFDB
242:Sometimes grownups forget stuff they've said. ~ R L LaFevers, #NFDB
243:Sometimes we forget that sin really is optional. ~ Mark Hart, #NFDB
244:The man forget not, though in rags he lies, ~ Mark Akenside, #NFDB
245:The stars will go out before I forget you. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
246:When you forget to eat, you know you're alive. ~ Henry James, #NFDB
247:Yet if you should forget me for a while ~ Christina Rossetti, #NFDB
248:Always we learn things and then we forget them. ~ Dave Eggers, #NFDB
249:But I forget myself. Who was I, again? Ah, yes. ~ N K Jemisin, #NFDB
250:Don't forget to do something for other people. ~ Marc Benioff, #NFDB
251:Everyone can forget us—as long as you remember. ~ Ocean Vuong, #NFDB
252:Forget trying to be sexy. That's just gruesome. ~ Colin Firth, #NFDB
253:I grew up very modest, and I never forget that. ~ Ronnie Dunn, #NFDB
254:I'll never forget my friends and where I came from. ~ Romario, #NFDB
255:I'm a conundrum. Or an enigma. I forget which. ~ James A Owen, #NFDB
256:In Lake Wobegon, we don't forget mistakes. ~ Garrison Keillor, #NFDB
257:I remember who you are. Even if you forget. ~ Kristen Simmons, #NFDB
258:It is better to forget about yourself altogether. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
259:It is good for everyone to know how to forget. ~ Ernest Renan, #NFDB
260:Never Forget. Never Quit. Semper Fidelis. ~ Patrick Van Horne, #NFDB
261:People didn't forget anything in a small town. ~ Sarah Dessen, #NFDB
262:People look at you and forget about things. ~ Diana Abu Jaber, #NFDB
263:Scary, how easy it is to forget bad things. ~ Victoria Schwab, #NFDB
264:Sometimes I forget about taking care of myself. ~ Tracey Gold, #NFDB
265:To forget someone means to think of him. ~ Jean de la Bruyere, #NFDB
266:Forget the audience, make what you want to see ~ Sofia Coppola, #NFDB
267:Forget the cheap white wine: go to beef and gin! ~ Julia Child, #NFDB
268:Forget those things that aren't worth remembering. ~ Tim Foley, #NFDB
269:Forget your studies. Just don't kill anyone. ~ Stephenie Meyer, #NFDB
270:How come you forget English when you swear? ~ Scott Westerfeld, #NFDB
271:I am your god, Sera. Don’t you forget it. ~ Elisabeth Naughton, #NFDB
272:If you want something done right, just forget it. ~ Neil Peart, #NFDB
273:In this bright future you can't forget your past. ~ Bob Marley, #NFDB
274:It's better to forget than remember me and cry. ~ Robert Smith, #NFDB
275:It turns out, I don't need to forget to move on. ~ Donia Bijan, #NFDB
276:Naturally, the human being wants to forget pain. ~ Elie Wiesel, #NFDB
277:One can forgive but one should never forget. ~ Marjane Satrapi, #NFDB
278:One's capacity to forget absolutely is immense. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
279:O teach me how I should forget to think. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
280:People change and forget to tell each other. ~ Lillian Hellman, #NFDB
281:Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, ~ Emily Bronte, #NFDB
282:Take up the song; forget the epitaph. ~ Edna St Vincent Millay, #NFDB
283:The old will die and the young will forget. ~ David Ben Gurion, #NFDB
284:We forget most of our past but embody all of it. ~ Adam Begley, #NFDB
285:We forget that the soul has its own ancestors. ~ James Hillman, #NFDB
286:Women do not forget. Women do not forgive. ~ George R R Martin, #NFDB
287:You may almost forget the smell of your family. ~ Jimi Hendrix, #NFDB
288:You never forget people who make you laugh. ~ Carolina Herrera, #NFDB
289:And Rhysand. Couldn’t forget about him. ~ Jennifer L Armentrout, #NFDB
290:And through our travels we get separated, never forget: ~ Jay Z, #NFDB
291:And you cannot be enthralled or made to forget. ~ Pamela Palmer, #NFDB
292:A person cannot forget someone who is good to them. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
293:Don't forget our vets. They have been forgotten. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
294:Forget about willpower. It’s time for why-power. ~ Darren Hardy, #NFDB
295:Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear ~ Thomas B Macaulay, #NFDB
296:Forget, forgive; conclude, and be agreed. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
297:Forget Jesus. Stars died so you could live. ~ Lawrence M Krauss, #NFDB
298:Forget the rope! They’d probably KILL ME ~ Rachel Ren e Russell, #NFDB
299:Forget who I really am, who I really want to be. ~ Nikki Grimes, #NFDB
300:I can't forget the words you've never said. ~ Ilsa Madden Mills, #NFDB
301:If you are feeling blue, don't forget to breathe ~ L Frank Baum, #NFDB
302:If you forget yourself, you become the universe. ~ Hakuin Ekaku, #NFDB
303:It's incredible how much cinema can do. We forget. ~ Leos Carax, #NFDB
304:People easily forget what they’re not proud of. ~ Me a Selimovi, #NFDB
305:people forget about creatures who live in shells. ~ Delia Owens, #NFDB
306:People forget if they don't keep testing things. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
307:People will never forget how you made them feel. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
308:Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
309:We don't shoot somebody soon, I'm gonna forget how ~ Dave Barry, #NFDB
310:We'll start to forget a place once we left it ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
311:We will never forgive and we will never forget, ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
312:We will never forgive and we will never forget. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
313:When you drink water, don't forget the fountain. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
314:When you're shopping you forget about eating! ~ Jennifer Hudson, #NFDB
315:Women and elephants never forget an injury. ~ Hector Hugh Munro, #NFDB
316:You're mine Angel, and don't you forget it. ~ Becca Fitzpatrick, #NFDB
317:Zakhor. Al Tichkah. Remember. Never forget. ~ Tatiana de Rosnay, #NFDB
318:Adults forget that kids are their own best censors. ~ Tim Burton, #NFDB
319:And don't forget to water the fuckin' goldfish. ~ William Gibson, #NFDB
320:And never forget my heart is always in your hands ~ Ren e Ahdieh, #NFDB
321:But men are men; the best sometimes forget ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
322:Don't forget:beautiful sunsets need cloudy skies. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
323:Don't forget to tell Pedrico the head is his. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
324:Don't forget your ruler on your first day of cult! ~ Robin Sloan, #NFDB
325:Forget the future. I'd worship someone who could do that. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
326:How could I forget you, Darryl? You called me God. ~ Adam Gopnik, #NFDB
327:If you can't define or act upon it, forget it. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
328:If you forget yourself, you become the universe. ~ Hakuin Ekaku, #NFDB
329:I had support - I had started it, not to forget. ~ Yasser Arafat, #NFDB
330:I live a real life so I forget to take pictures. ~ Iman Shumpert, #NFDB
331:I’m more happy than not.
Don’t forget me. ~ Adam Silvera,#NFDB
332:Never flinch. Never fear. And never, ever forget. ~ Jay Kristoff, #NFDB
333:The best remedy for an injury is to forget it. ~ Publilius Syrus, #NFDB
334:Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it ~ Sara Shepard, #NFDB
335:those who forget the past tend to regret the future ~ Anne Tyler, #NFDB
336:tht's why u mst never forget ma sister jodie ~ Jacqueline Wilson, #NFDB
337:What you cant forget... God cant remember! ~ John F MacArthur Jr, #NFDB
338:When I’m behind a camera I forget I exist. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB
339:You do more for yourself when you forget yourself. ~ Ron Kaufman, #NFDB
340:You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen. ~ John Major, #NFDB
341:You never forget. It must be somewhere inside you. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
342:You're not someone I could forget," he murmured. ~ Susan Mallery, #NFDB
343:Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. ~ John Irving, #NFDB
344:Your mine, Angel, and don't you forget that. ~ Becca Fitzpatrick, #NFDB
345:but I so often forget what I know! QUARANTINE ~ August Strindberg, #NFDB
346:But men are men; the best sometimes forget. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
347:Days go by, and I don't remember not to forget.. ~ Michael Chabon, #NFDB
348:Don't forget: Beautiful sunsets need cloudy Skies. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
349:Drink to forget; don't forget to drink. ~ Marina and the Diamonds, #NFDB
350:Even if I could forgive him, how would I forget? ~ Kristin Hannah, #NFDB
351:Forget how much it hurts and try again. ~Morely~ ~ Emma Gingerich, #NFDB
352:Forget the past and live the present hour. ~ Sarah Knowles Bolton, #NFDB
353:For new made honor doth forget men's names. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
354:For new-made honor doth forget men's names. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
355:For us military men, it is impossible to forget. ~ Andrei Grechko, #NFDB
356:However gold he shines, do not forget his fire. ~ Madeline Miller, #NFDB
357:I just want to forget,’ he said, before falling ~ Paul Pilkington, #NFDB
358:in the record. People would quickly forget our reason ~ Lee Child, #NFDB
359:Never forget the lonely taste of the white dew.
~ Matsuo Basho,#NFDB
360:Nobody will ever forget what I've accomplished. ~ Calvin Coolidge, #NFDB
361:People forget facts, but they remember stories. ~ Joseph Campbell, #NFDB
362:She didn’t forgive and forget, she just forgave. ~ Robert J Crane, #NFDB
363:She won't forget or recover, she is inconsolable. ~ Helen Oyeyemi, #NFDB
364:So easy to forget what you didn’t want to remember. ~ B A Shapiro, #NFDB
365:Some things you teach yourself to remember to forget. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
366:Sometimes it is easy to forget to pay attention ~ Melissa Brayden, #NFDB
367:There is much in nature against us. But we forget: ~ Robert Frost, #NFDB
368:To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees. ~ Paul Val ry, #NFDB
369:We’re never going to forget our sister Jodie. ~ Jacqueline Wilson, #NFDB
370:What a night to forget.
What a night to remember. ~ Amy Zhang,#NFDB
371:When I forget that the stars shine in air-- ~ Philip James Bailey, #NFDB
372:You cannot forget the past but you can forgive it. ~ Raila Odinga, #NFDB
373:Blood is a powerful thing, bachem, never forget that. ~ Harper Lee, #NFDB
374:Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again? ~ A A Milne, #NFDB
375:Everything is ended if you forgive and forget. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
376:Forget impressing the girl, just do it for yourself! ~ John Badham, #NFDB
377:Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you. ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
378:God is merciful in what He sometimes lets us forget. ~ Chaim Potok, #NFDB
379:If there's one thing I should forget, it's him. ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
380:I just wanted t forget about what my life had become ~ Stacey Lynn, #NFDB
381:I'll never forget the catch he made to save the game. ~ Don Larsen, #NFDB
382:I'm not a good storm-outer... because I forget stuff. ~ Kevin Hart, #NFDB
383:In the digital age, don’t forget to use your digits! ~ Lynda Barry, #NFDB
384:Is there a child who can forget his or her mom’s tears ~ V F Mason, #NFDB
385:It is so easy to dream but so hard to forget them. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
386:It's almost a mission for some people - to forget. ~ Lynne Tillman, #NFDB
387:It's hard to forget someone whos given so much to remember. ~ Tyga, #NFDB
388:Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world. ~ Mary Oliver, #NFDB
389:My jaw dropped. Forget balls, this guy had boulders. ~ Jus Accardo, #NFDB
390:Psychoanalysts and elephants, they never forget. ~ Arthur Laurents, #NFDB
391:Say something enough times and you never forget it. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
392:To forget hard things try even harder things! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
393:To forgive heals the wound, to forget heals the scar. ~ P T Barnum, #NFDB
394:We forget about the people we love sometimes. ~ Bernice L McFadden, #NFDB
395:We often forget that growth requires sacrifice. ~ Alberto Villoldo, #NFDB
396:What I do is when I go to the stage I forget about me. ~ Buddy Guy, #NFDB
397:You are mine,” I whisper. “Only mine. Don’t forget it. ~ E L James, #NFDB
398:Your husband is the boss - and don't forget it. ~ Mamie Eisenhower, #NFDB
399:You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you. ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB
400:Always aim for achievement, and forget about success. ~ Helen Hayes, #NFDB
401:As if I hadn't spent a lifetime pretending to forget. ~ Kate Morton, #NFDB
402:Beauty speaks to us in moments, and then we forget. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
403:Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep. ~ Vita Sackville West, #NFDB
404:Good Friends Are Hard to Find and Impossible to Forget ~ John Green, #NFDB
405:If it makes you feel better, I promise to forget. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
406:If you can’t define it or act upon it, forget it. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
407:I'm impossible to forget, but I'm hard to remember. ~ Cameron Crowe, #NFDB
408:In the digital age, don’t forget to use your digits! ~ Austin Kleon, #NFDB
409:I often think we're most happy when we forget the time. ~ Pico Iyer, #NFDB
410:It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
411:Never forget the first three letters of confidence. ~ Anthony Marra, #NFDB
412:Our memory is a monster; you forget it - it does not. ~ John Irving, #NFDB
413:Readers forget that one can critique yet still admire. ~ Bell Hooks, #NFDB
414:She’d been so hopeful that people would forget her. ~ Susan Mallery, #NFDB
415:so he must forget himself in the dream of daily life. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
416:To Remember Is Painful, To Forget Is Impossible. ~ Maureen Connolly, #NFDB
417:When you forget how bad it hurts, you feel so free. ~ Nova Ren Suma, #NFDB
418:You must not forget the suspenders, Best Beloved. ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB
419:Did you forget our twenty-eight years together, hymen? ~ Kabi Nagata, #NFDB
420:Don't forget that for now it's strawberry season ~ Clarice Lispector, #NFDB
421:Forget logic, he says. Logic doesn’t know what you want. ~ Jay Asher, #NFDB
422:Forget pizza,” Marc gasped. “Just want to fuck you. ~ Kelly Jamieson, #NFDB
423:Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. ~ John F Kennedy, #NFDB
424:Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes, ~ Charlotte Bront, #NFDB
425:Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes. ~ Charlotte Bront, #NFDB
426:Good friends are hard to find and impossible to forget. ~ John Green, #NFDB
427:I fear I lose myself among books. I forget everything. ~ C W Gortner, #NFDB
428:I need to learn not just to forget but to forgive. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
429:It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know. ~ Publilius Syrus, #NFDB
430:It's easy to forget the good things.' Hatcher said ~ Christina Henry, #NFDB
431:It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
432:It's not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember. ~ Alan Bennett, #NFDB
433:Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too. ~ S E Hinton, #NFDB
434:Let those who live never forget those who died! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
435:Listen to everything, forget much, correct little. ~ Pope John XXIII, #NFDB
436:Never forget, Jules. The choices we make, make us. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
437:Never forget, what your looking for is what is looking. ~ Wei Wu Wei, #NFDB
438:Never forget who you are!’ he shouts, grips my shoulders ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
439:Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him. ~ Lara St John, #NFDB
440:So here I am… What can my cock make you forget tonight? ~ M Robinson, #NFDB
441:The important thing to remember is not to forget ~ Benny Bellamacina, #NFDB
442:Those who criticize our generation forget who raised it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
443:those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it ~ Lauren Slater, #NFDB
444:true friends are hard to find and impossible to forget. ~ John Green, #NFDB
445:Unhappy people can be very dangerous, don't forget that. ~ S E Lynes, #NFDB
446:When somebody dies, you forget they're an asshole. ~ Karin Slaughter, #NFDB
447:Where you are right now blast some music and forget. ~ Andy Biersack, #NFDB
448:You are mine,” he whispers. “Only mine. Don’t forget it. ~ E L James, #NFDB
449:You cannot cure sclerosis, but you can forget it. ~ Faina Ranevskaya, #NFDB
450:You live and learn. Then you die and forget it all. ~ George Foreman, #NFDB
451:You make me forget everything. You are the best therapy. ~ E L James, #NFDB
452:You're going to women? Don't forget your whip! ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
453:A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial. ~ Clifton Fadiman, #NFDB
454:Are you visiting women? Do not forget your whip ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
455:Before I forget, where do you keep your chili recipe? ~ Sarah Brianne, #NFDB
456:Don't forget: there is no homosexuality in China! ~ David Henry Hwang, #NFDB
457:Don't forget your eyes
because I inhabit them ~ Alejandra Pizarnik,#NFDB
458:Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible ~ Ada Lovelace, #NFDB
459:Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.. ~ John F Kennedy, #NFDB
460:Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes. ~ Charlotte Bronte, #NFDB
461:Girls are just as clever as boys, and don't you forget it! ~ E Nesbit, #NFDB
462:Hot oil! We need hot oil!... Forget the water balloons! ~ Gary Larson, #NFDB
463:How can you forgive if you can’t remember to forget? ~ Jonathan Nolan, #NFDB
464:I could forget that part, but it had to have been true. ~ Deb Caletti, #NFDB
465:I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget. ~ A A Milne, #NFDB
466:In making dinner for a friend, don't forget the love. ~ Jeanne Moreau, #NFDB
467:It made her forget everything, even if for just a minute. ~ T K Leigh, #NFDB
468:It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget. ~ Eoin Colfer, #NFDB
469:...it's sad day when you forget your purpose in life. ~ Karen Hawkins, #NFDB
470:I will remember and recover,
not forgive and forget. ~ J K Rowling,#NFDB
471:Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us ~ Pablo Neruda, #NFDB
472:Love yourself. Then forget it.
Then, love the world. ~ Mary Oliver,#NFDB
473:May the angels protect you, and sadness forget you. ~ Madonna Ciccone, #NFDB
474:Once you're in the game, you forget about everything. ~ Manu Ginobili, #NFDB
475:Protector’s bastard, never forget. The Waynwoods are very ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
476:Romance makes people forget themselves, do silly things ~ Kate Morton, #NFDB
477:…she endeavoured to forget what she could not overlook… ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
478:Some days I forget that my skin is not a panic room. ~ Rudy Francisco, #NFDB
479:The rapidity with which we forget is astonishing. So, ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
480:Those who criticize our generation forget who raised it. ~ Bill Cosby, #NFDB
481:To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
482:We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we. ~ Sharon Salzberg, #NFDB
483:We don't forget, but something vacant settles in us. ~ Roland Barthes, #NFDB
484:We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us. ~ Roland Barthes, #NFDB
485:We forget that IMPOSSIBLE is one of God's favorite words ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
486:We may with advantage at times forget what we know. ~ Publilius Syrus, #NFDB
487:Who could forget him? Zachariah was a thing of beauty. ~ Sarina Bowen, #NFDB
488:You have to forgive to forget, and forget, to feel again. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
489:All I ask is that you do your best, and forget the rest. ~ Tony Horton, #NFDB
490:A lot of people can forget about you in Los Angeles. ~ Viggo Mortensen, #NFDB
491:Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices. ~ Elie Wiesel, #NFDB
492:Do I have to know rules and all that crap? Then forget it. ~ John Daly, #NFDB
493:Do not forget to drink a lot of water to stay feeling good. ~ Josie Ho, #NFDB
494:Don't forget who you are and where you come from. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
495:Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
496:Forget about the ones who set you up to see you fall. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
497:Forget about yourncompetitors, just focus on your customers. ~ Jack Ma, #NFDB
498:Forget every touch or sound that did not teach you how to dance ~ Rumi, #NFDB
499:Forget Jesus, the stars died so you could be born. ~ Lawrence M Krauss, #NFDB
500:Forget you are a man. Loose the animal you hide inside. ~ Pamela Clare, #NFDB
501:I can teach you a lesson you won't forget in a hurry ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
502:I don't want to forget the last time you touched me. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
503:If a figure doesn't look back at you, you forget it. ~ Nathan Oliveira, #NFDB
504:If we drink of this cup, we shall forget the whole world. ~ Baha-ullah, #NFDB
505:I knew I'd have to forget that, ignore what could be. ~ Jill Santopolo, #NFDB
506:I may be dead but I’m a dead witch. And we don’t forget. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
507:It's the things we forget about that tell us who we are. ~ Don DeLillo, #NFDB
508:I would like to reach a balance and forget a few things. ~ Mick Jagger, #NFDB
509:Love your enemy. But don't forget he is not your friend ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
510:Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. ~ Margaret Fuller, #NFDB
511:Never forget that all you have is all you need. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach, #NFDB
512:Never forget the strength it took to free yourself. ~ Jessica Sorensen, #NFDB
513:Never forget why you're really doing what you're doing. ~ Derek Sivers, #NFDB
514:Pray you now forget, and forgive: I am old and foolish, ~ Jean Hegland, #NFDB
515:Sometimes I wish I knew how to go crazy. I forget how. ~ Philip K Dick, #NFDB
516:To forget the wrongs you receive, is to remedy them. ~ Publilius Syrus, #NFDB
517:Umbrellas are so small and sad and easy to forget. ~ Stephanie Perkins, #NFDB
518:You can always forgive, you just can't really forget. ~ Brian Littrell, #NFDB
519:You can forget facts but you cannot forget understanding. ~ Eric Mazur, #NFDB
520:You can forget who you are if you're alone too much. ~ Margaret Atwood, #NFDB
521:You know, forget thinking. There's nothing to figure out. ~ Kate Perry, #NFDB
522:All the trouble starts when people forget they're human. ~ Oliver Sacks, #NFDB
523:And we forget because we must and not because we will. ~ Matthew Arnold, #NFDB
524:At the end of the day, don't forget that you're a person. ~ Indra Nooyi, #NFDB
525:Blood is a powerful thing, bachem, never forget that. ~ Khaled Hosseini, #NFDB
526:But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget. ~ Tim O Brien, #NFDB
527:Don't forget the little people, even when you want to. ~ Jesse Petersen, #NFDB
528:Forget hydrogen, forget hydrogen, forget hydrogen. ~ R James Woolsey Jr, #NFDB
529:Forget space exploration. The mind is the next frontier. ~ Laurel Dewey, #NFDB
530:If I have something I like to forget, then I forget it. ~ Gena Rowlands, #NFDB
531:I shall come after you. I shall not forget you. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe, #NFDB
532:It is easy to promise, and alas! How easy to forget! ~ Alfred de Musset, #NFDB
533:It is only when we forget our learning that we begin to know. ~ Thoreau, #NFDB
534:I try to forget that only this morning I had lost control. ~ Kyra Davis, #NFDB
535:I was born when I met you, now I'm dying to forget you ~ Brandi Carlile, #NFDB
536:Just a few words on time management: forget all about it. ~ Tim Ferriss, #NFDB
537:Love your enemy. But don't forget he is not your friend. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
538:O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224) ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
539:The key to success in politics: Never forget, seldom forgive. ~ Ed Koch, #NFDB
540:Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
541:To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
542:We forget that what matters begins with the imagination. ~ Terry Brooks, #NFDB
543:When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea. ~ Whoopi Goldberg, #NFDB
544:When you forget about the how, go back to the why. ~ Charlotte Eriksson, #NFDB
545:You feel real good, Lana. Makes me forget everything else ~ Abbi Glines, #NFDB
546:Anniversaries are lies if we forget why the confetti flies. ~ Gerard Way, #NFDB
547:Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
548:Forget ideas, Mr. Author.
What kind of pen do you use? ~ Stephen Fry,#NFDB
549:He that will forget God, will also forget his benefactors. ~ Elizabeth I, #NFDB
550:If you forget who you've become remember who you are ~ Benny Bellamacina, #NFDB
551:I have your back, OK? Don’t forget that. I won’t let you. ~ Karina Halle, #NFDB
552:I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget. ~ Jennifer Egan, #NFDB
553:I’m always happy,” Sasha said. “Sometimes I just forget. ~ Jennifer Egan, #NFDB
554:I remember the quality of the pain. You don't forget it. ~ Paula Hawkins, #NFDB
555:It's easy to forget that life is the greatest gift of all ~ Karli Perrin, #NFDB
556:I've been down this road before and yeah I skidded but forget it ~ Drake, #NFDB
557:Let us never forget the duty, which we have taken upon us ~ Adolf Hitler, #NFDB
558:Let us not become so cautious that we forget to live ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
559:Love your enemy. But don't forget: he is not your friend. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
560:Never forget:
we walk on hell,
gazing at flowers. ~ Kobayashi Issa,#NFDB
561:Never, never, never. I am never going to forget you. ~ Alexandra Bracken, #NFDB
562:One can only forget about time by making use of it. ~ Charles Baudelaire, #NFDB
563:People forget ideas; they don't forget the real presence. ~ Henri Nouwen, #NFDB
564:People forget the good, because the bad has more punch. ~ Louise Erdrich, #NFDB
565:Remember, your words are your power. Never forget your words ~ Lang Leav, #NFDB
566:Repress the memories. That’s the ticket to sanity. Forget. ~ Bobby Adair, #NFDB
567:Sometimes it's good to be sad, Merry. Don't forget that. ~ Paul Tremblay, #NFDB
568:Talking about it makes it real again, harder to forget. ~ Brandy Colbert, #NFDB
569:Things don't go away just because you choose to forget them. ~ Teju Cole, #NFDB
570:To study the self is to forget the self. Mi casa, su casa. ~ Phil Knight, #NFDB
571:We look so much on color that we forget about the soul. ~ Kendrick Lamar, #NFDB
572:You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence! ~ Emily Bronte, #NFDB
573:You probably don't realize this, but you're hard to forget. ~ Lex Martin, #NFDB
574:You should never forget. But you should try to forgive. ~ Michelle Madow, #NFDB
575:Always forgive your enemies but never forget their names ~ John F Kennedy, #NFDB
576:At every occasion in your life, do not forget to commune with ~ Epictetus, #NFDB
577:Don't forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor. ~ Ina May Gaskin, #NFDB
578:Family is the one blessing we sometimes forget to count. ~ Sheila Roberts, #NFDB
579:Fear can be a good thing. Fear doesn't let you forget. ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
580:Forget what hurt you but never forget what it thaught you. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
581:Forget your mistakes but remember what they taught you ~ Vannetta Chapman, #NFDB
582:Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, #NFDB
583:If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much. ~ Soren Kierkegaard, #NFDB
584:If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you. ~ Bernard Malamud, #NFDB
585:If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
586:I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
587:In real life, you don't get to choose what you forget. ~ Jonathan Tropper, #NFDB
588:I suppose it's one way to forget what's going on around them ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB
589:...I watch her so much that I forget it's raining at all. ~ J A Redmerski, #NFDB
590:I would have taught her a lesson she wouldn't forget! ~ Robert Pattinson, #NFDB
591:Let us not become so cautious that we forget to live. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
592:live in a world of nothing. Hello. World. You will forget me. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
593:Never forget a customer. Never let a customer forget you ~ Frank Bettger, #NFDB
594:Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public ~ Cornel West, #NFDB
595:Never forget your dialogue with God, it is your strength. ~ Tariq Ramadan, #NFDB
596:Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget. ~ Robin Williams, #NFDB
597:Of what significance are the things you can forget. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
598:Remember, your words are your power. Never forget your words. ~ Lang Leav, #NFDB
599:Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
600:The critics tend to forget their own answers after a while ~ Gina Gershon, #NFDB
601:Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything. ~ Benjamin Graham, #NFDB
602:We need to forget about mistakes and take the positives. ~ Steven Gerrard, #NFDB
603:We pardon infidelities, but we do not forget them. ~ Madame de La Fayette, #NFDB
604:You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
605:You forget, time doesn't exist anymore. You gave it to me. ~ Gayle Forman, #NFDB
606:young seeds that have not seen sun forget and drown easily. ~ Audre Lorde, #NFDB
607:altogether, choosing to forget this place once and for all. ~ Ania Ahlborn, #NFDB
608:And one thing the author must not forget: his purpose. ~ S ren Kierkegaard, #NFDB
609:Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices. And ~ Elie Wiesel, #NFDB
610:Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
611:Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either. ~ Thomas Head Raddall, #NFDB
612:Forget the face of God, and forget your own name is Beloved. ~ Ann Voskamp, #NFDB
613:Forget your mistakes but remember what they taught you. ~ Vannetta Chapman, #NFDB
614:I just wanna make the world dance, forget about the price tags. ~ Jessie J, #NFDB
615:I'll forget about you long enough to forget why I need to ~ Matt Nathanson, #NFDB
616:I love you like there’s no tomorrow. Don’t ever forget that, ~ Carian Cole, #NFDB
617:I love you like there’s no tomorrow. Don’t ever forget that. ~ Carian Cole, #NFDB
618:I'm not like that smart. I like, forget stuff all the time. ~ Paris Hilton, #NFDB
619:I remember old Elvis when he forgot to remember to forget. ~ George Strait, #NFDB
620:Irish Alzheimer's: you forget everything except the grudges ~ Judy Collins, #NFDB
621:I would remember him always. He would forget me tomorrow. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
622:Let's not forget how beautiful simply washing dishes can be. ~ Noah Hawley, #NFDB
623:Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future. ~ Sivananda, #NFDB
624:Love me or hate me but your never going to forget me ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
625:Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
626:Men were stupid to forget what good sleuths women could be. ~ Edan Lepucki, #NFDB
627:Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public. ~ Cornel West, #NFDB
628:Never forget, the most vulnerable spot is down the middle. ~ Julian Barnes, #NFDB
629:Old habits are hard to forget, and old fears are habits. ~ Raymond E Feist, #NFDB
630:Remember the to-do list but don't forget the to-be list. ~ Richard Branson, #NFDB
631:The world must know what happened, and never forget. ~ Dwight D Eisenhower, #NFDB
632:Though the meek shall inherit the earth, but don't forget: ~ Kelvin Mercer, #NFDB
633:We cannot forget joy. No matter how deep our rage and pain. ~ Nalini Singh, #NFDB
634:We forget what we have heard if we do not write it down. ~ Dante Alighieri, #NFDB
635:When you got a condition, it's bad to forget your medicine. ~ Frank Miller, #NFDB
636:You probably wouldn't remember. I probably couldn't forget. ~ Steve Miller, #NFDB
637:Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. ~ Robert Kennedy, #NFDB
638:And dare love that, and say so too, And forget the He and She. ~ John Donne, #NFDB
639:But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
640:Doing the Muppet Show you forget about conventional filming. ~ Peter Mayhew, #NFDB
641:Do not
forget duty. But choose love when you can. ~ Cinda Williams Chima,#NFDB
642:Forget your sadness, anger, grudges, and hatred. Let them ~ Masaaki Hatsumi, #NFDB
643:Good things are always coming; sometimes we just forget it. ~ Damien Echols, #NFDB
644:If you don't judge my gold chains, I'll forget the iron chains. ~ LL Cool J, #NFDB
645:I like to act because I can forget about everything else. ~ David Morrissey, #NFDB
646:I'll never forget my wedding day... they threw vitamin pills ~ Groucho Marx, #NFDB
647:I’m a psychic amnesiac. I know in advance what I’ll forget. ~ Steven Wright, #NFDB
648:I think I'm just a summer fling that people will soon forget. ~ John Oliver, #NFDB
649:It’s not your fault. Life is a gift. Don’t forget to live it. ~ Nicola Yoon, #NFDB
650:Like first love, the heart of Russia will not forget you. ~ Fyodor Tyutchev, #NFDB
651:Memory is the thing you forget with. ~ Alexander Chase, Perspectives, 1966., #NFDB
652:Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream. ~ Malcolm Muggeridge, #NFDB
653:Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first. ~ Holly Black, #NFDB
654:Promise you won't forget me, ever. Not even when I'm a hundred. ~ A A Milne, #NFDB
655:Recalling, for me, is a great way of living, so not to forget. ~ Hilton Als, #NFDB
656:Sometimes Ceony wished he would forget she was a lady. ~ Charlie N Holmberg, #NFDB
657:To be alive is the strange and wondrous miracle we forget. ~ Atticus Poetry, #NFDB
658:To postpone unpleasantness is human; to forget it is divine. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
659:We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either. ~ Igor Stravinsky, #NFDB
660:We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB
661:We must not forget that the soul grows by being given away. ~ Rodney Collin, #NFDB
662:when i'm right no ones remembers, when i'm wrong no ones forget ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
663:you are so brave & quiet i forget you are suffering. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
664:You have to be a special kind of stupid to forget to eat. ~ Marsha Warfield, #NFDB
665:A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself. ~ William Hazlitt, #NFDB
666:but I remember the quality of the pain. You don’t forget it. ~ Paula Hawkins, #NFDB
667:Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater. ~ Roman Polanski, #NFDB
668:Detailed surrender: a surrender which does not forget anything. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
669:Don't ever forget the history. It will make and change who we are. ~ Sukarno, #NFDB
670:Forget aging. If you're six feet above ground, it's a good day. ~ Faith Hill, #NFDB
671:Forget normal.” He grinned. “We’re going to be extraordinary. ~ Claudia Gray, #NFDB
672:Forget that I remember And dream that I forget. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne, #NFDB
673:Good for you. Never forgive. Never forget. That’s my motto. ~ Liane Moriarty, #NFDB
674:guess we fake it,” Janine said. “Till we forget we’re faking. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
675:Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace. ~ Barry McGuire, #NFDB
676:History honors the unique minority the majority cannot forget. ~ Suzy Kassem, #NFDB
677:I'll never forget you," I said. "I could never forget you. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
678:I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
~ Benjamin Disraeli,#NFDB
679:I will never forget your fire. I can't wait to see what you do. ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB
680:I worked so hard for that first kiss, and a heart don't forget. ~ Tim McGraw, #NFDB
681:Make sure you know what makes you happy, and don’t forget it. ~ Derek Sivers, #NFDB
682:Never Forget. A country is it's people.- King Nefertari Cobra ~ Eiichiro Oda, #NFDB
683:Pain and happiness are simply conditions of the ego. Forget the ego. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
684:The very effort to forget teaches us to remember. ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon, #NFDB
685:We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB
686:We forget to remain focused on the things that really matter. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
687:When you go to prison they forget it's your Constitution, too. ~ Jimmy Hoffa, #NFDB
688:When you know love then that is the time you forget hate. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
689:With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before ~ Jhumpa Lahiri, #NFDB
690:You forget, darling.
I am the local psychopath. ~ Kelley Armstrong,#NFDB
691:You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest. ~ Judy Blume, #NFDB
692:You want to change the world? Forget politics. Learn to code. ~ Marcus Sakey, #NFDB
693:You wouldn't believe how fast people can forget about someone. ~ Ally Condie, #NFDB
694:Every time I ask her to explain her job, I forget to listen. ~ Liane Moriarty, #NFDB
695:Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important. ~ Herbert Simon, #NFDB
696:Forget about the reasons why you can't in life and start to try ~ Hilary Duff, #NFDB
697:Forget bad deeds, even the good we do are full of mistakes. ~ Nouman Ali Khan, #NFDB
698:Forget not your past, for in the future it may help you grow ~ James M Barrie, #NFDB
699:Forgiveness is what we all need to forget the past, even if we ~ Chris Colfer, #NFDB
700:I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
701:I just want to create situations where people forget time. ~ Marina Abramovic, #NFDB
702:I’m like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget. ~ Samuel Beckett, #NFDB
703:I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
704:I still forget, sometimes, that I am no longer 12 years old. ~ Eugene Ionesco, #NFDB
705:I still forget, sometimes, that I am no longer 12 years old. ~ Eug ne Ionesco, #NFDB
706:I've forgotten many things, but I'll never forget a melody. ~ Michael Jackson, #NFDB
707:Ive obviously got one of those faces that people can forget. ~ Hattie Morahan, #NFDB
708:I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
709:I wish I had amnesia so I could forget what you look like. ~ Lucy Christopher, #NFDB
710:Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious. ~ Al McGuire, #NFDB
711:Love imperfectly. Be a love idiot. Let yourself forget any love ideal. ~ Sark, #NFDB
712:Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave. ~ A A Milne, #NFDB
713:Never forget: we are alive within mysteries." - Wendell Berry ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB
714:One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
715:People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights. ~ Indira Gandhi, #NFDB
716:Please... please... dont let me forget how to reed and rite... ~ Daniel Keyes, #NFDB
717:Read. Forget everything you've been told about books and read. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
718:Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it. ~ Plautus, #NFDB
719:Resisting God’s promises will make us forget God’s presence. ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
720:Some things are easier to forget than other things, I'm noticing. ~ Amy Zhang, #NFDB
721:the horses running
until they forget that they are horses. ~ Richard Siken,#NFDB
722:The stars will go out before I forget you, Mark Blackthorn. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
723:They are words you don't easily forget: I don't have good news. ~ Joel Siegel, #NFDB
724:To forget all about your mistakes adds to them perhaps. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
725:To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time. ~ Elie Wiesel, #NFDB
726:To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at. ~ Claude Monet, #NFDB
727:When we forget about the Spirit, we really are forgetting God. ~ Francis Chan, #NFDB
728:When you walk with naked feet, how can you ever forget the Earth? ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
729:You don't need to know my name. You'll forget it soon enough. ~ Norihiro Yagi, #NFDB
730:You might forget a story, but you can never unhear a story. ~ Gregory Maguire, #NFDB
731:You’re so goddamn beautiful. And you’re mine. Don’t forget it. ~ Meghan March, #NFDB
732:Your whole life is ahead of you. Don't you ever forget that. ~ Jackie Collins, #NFDB
733:You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it. ~ Alan Moore, #NFDB
734:You will forget me soon. Oh dear one, hate me rather than forget. ~ W B Yeats, #NFDB
735:Baby I'll never forget none of that. Girl I told you I was comin back. ~ Drake, #NFDB
736:Being fit will keep you mentally sharp and people forget that. ~ Peter Shilton, #NFDB
737:Chanel was a workaholic. She must have had a lot to forget. ~ Marlene Dietrich, #NFDB
738:Completely forget about the mind and you will do all things well ~ Takuan Soho, #NFDB
739:Don’t ever forget those words.
I love you, brother.
Jake ~ Kate McCarthy,#NFDB
740:Don’t forget to make a curve when the road makes a curve! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
741:Don't hurry, don't worry, and don't forget to smell the flowers. ~ Travis Rice, #NFDB
742:Everest? Don't forget it's really just a big pile of rocks. ~ David Breashears, #NFDB
743:Every morning we have a choice -- forget our dreams or live them. ~ Seth Gabel, #NFDB
744:Forget luxury; as a great company you have to keep evolving. ~ Angela Ahrendts, #NFDB
745:Forget that blind ambition, and learn to trust your intuition. ~ Jimmy Buffett, #NFDB
746:Forget the secrets of success, use Cosmic Ordering instead. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
747:Forget what you are supposed to do, do what you want to do. ~ Ginnifer Goodwin, #NFDB
748:If only there was medicine that could make you forget memories. ~ Abigail Boyd, #NFDB
749:I'm so busy these days. I forget everything but my lines. ~ Christopher Meloni, #NFDB
750:Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive. ~ Ford Frick, #NFDB
751:Let us never forget this, he is pure mercy, let us go to Jesus! ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
752:Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
753:Never let the things you want make you forget the things you have. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
754:One may forgive infidelity, but one does not forget it. ~ Madame de La Fayette, #NFDB
755:Part of him wanted to remember; part of him needed to forget. ~ Larry McMurtry, #NFDB
756:She makes me forget to breathe. She makes me forget everything. ~ Lauren Layne, #NFDB
757:Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. ~ Xunzi, #NFDB
758:There's some nights I can't remember with friends I can't forget. ~ Toby Keith, #NFDB
759:those who cower forget how to stand and, in time, can only crawl ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
760:To see, we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at. ~ Claude Monet, #NFDB
761:We're so obsessed with [big] data, we forget how to interpret it. ~ danah boyd, #NFDB
762:What are you supposed to do when you forget what normal feels like? ~ Amy Reed, #NFDB
763:What is the secret of life?” I asked. “I forget,” said Sandra. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
764:While carrying responsibilities, never forget to smile. ~ Mata Amritanandamayi, #NFDB
765:With the right music you can forget anything or remember everything. ~ Unknown, #NFDB
766:Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights. ~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton, #NFDB
767:You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you are. ~ Sandra Cisneros, #NFDB
768:You forget the bad things. Why would you want to remember them? ~ James Smythe, #NFDB
769:Because I didn't want to forget was the heart and soul of poetry. ~ Andr Aciman, #NFDB
770:Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget. ~ Tabitha Soren, #NFDB
771:Don't forget to balance optimism with fact and belief with reality. ~ Joe Kraus, #NFDB
772:Forget about shortcuts. Instead, enjoy the wonders of your path. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
773:Forget startup companies. The next frontier is startup countries. ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
774:Forget the oracle. You don't like your destiny? Write a new one. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
775:He wanted to enter into, or to forget, the chaos at his center. ~ James Baldwin, #NFDB
776:If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger, #NFDB
777:If you're going to learn, you need to forget what you know. ~ Christopher Moore, #NFDB
778:If you want it, measure it. If you can't measure it, forget it. ~ Peter Drucker, #NFDB
779:I'll never forget the fall colors on the Berkshires. ~ William Standish Knowles, #NFDB
780:In all your prayers forget not to thank the Lord for his mercies. ~ John Bunyan, #NFDB
781:It’s too painful to remember”; “It’s even more painful to forget”; ~ Val Emmich, #NFDB
782:I've got "Sometimers." Sometimes I remember and sometimes I forget. ~ Spike Lee, #NFDB
783:I will never forget that moments, or the moments that came after ~ Sara Shepard, #NFDB
784:Let go of your past, but never forget what it has taught you. ~ Boonaa Mohammed, #NFDB
785:Let’s take a sentimental journey. Don’t forget to bleed. I have. ~ Ted Berrigan, #NFDB
786:Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB
787:Men are fools who forget what really matters while time goes by. ~ Janet Morris, #NFDB
788:Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget. ~ Robert Jordan, #NFDB
789:My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name. ~ Miguel de Cervantes, #NFDB
790:Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever. ~ Elie Wiesel, #NFDB
791:People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
792:Remember: If you see something, say nothing, and drink to forget. ~ Joseph Fink, #NFDB
793:The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it. ~ Aeschylus, #NFDB
794:The more you forget yourself, the more Jesus will think of you. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
795:...the scariest secret of all, the past we’re trying to forget. ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
796:Trust in your heart, but never forget that you're in the desert. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
797:We have no right ever to forget that psychological warfare ~ Mikhail Gorbachev, #NFDB
798:What made it special made it dangerous, so I bury it... and forget. ~ Kate Bush, #NFDB
799:When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
800:Whoo!! What a day. I'm gonna drink tang until I forget it all. ~ Jhonen V squez, #NFDB
801:You cannot teach a man how to forget fear. It is a rare quality ~ Simon Scarrow, #NFDB
802:You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them. ~ Sissy Spacek, #NFDB
803:Child of God, you cost Christ too much for him to forget you. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
804:Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life. ~ Dolly Parton, #NFDB
805:Don't get so caught up in looking behind you forget to look ahead. ~ Ilsa J Bick, #NFDB
806:Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
807:Forget yesterday, live for today. Tomorrow will take care of itself. ~ Rick Ross, #NFDB
808:I could forget everything I'd lost, because I'd never had it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
809:I didn't want to forget him. Maybe I didn't want him to forget me. ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
810:If you suddenly want me to act with Son Dongwoon one-on-one, forget it! ~ Yoseob, #NFDB
811:I just don't want to forget this first day of the rest of my life! ~ Dave Pelzer, #NFDB
812:I just want to bury myself in you and just forget everything but us. ~ E L James, #NFDB
813:I never forget those who do me a favor, and I never forget those who don't! ~ JR, #NFDB
814:In Heaven you forget everything. In Hell they make you remember. ~ Stewart O Nan, #NFDB
815:It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains. ~ Patrick Henry, #NFDB
816:Lesson learned. I was a monster. I would never forget that again. ~ Julie Kagawa, #NFDB
817:Modern women ... they don't sew your pockets ... forget that. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
818:needed to get shit-faced and forget everything that had happened. ~ Alan Russell, #NFDB
819:Never forget that what becomes timeless was once truly new. ~ Nicolas Ghesquiere, #NFDB
820:Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry. ~ Henry Ward Beecher, #NFDB
821:Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
822:someone who loves you when you forget to love yourself.’ She looked ~ Mary Grand, #NFDB
823:The bully and his victim never quite forget their first relations. ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
824:The bully and the victim never quite forget their first relations. ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
825:The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love. ~ Blaise Pascal, #NFDB
826:Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
827:We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men. ~ Jorge Luis Borges, #NFDB
828:Yes, ‘and don’t forget the soy or you’ll be fired.’ Got it. ~ Jennifer Blackwood, #NFDB
829:Along the journey we commonly forget its goal. —Friedrich Nietzsche ~ Steve Blank, #NFDB
830:A man who does not forget an agreement is resolved and honorable man. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
831:Apparently it'll all settle down and they'll forget about it soon. ~ Dominic West, #NFDB
832:A science that hesitates to forget its founders is lost. ~ Alfred North Whitehead, #NFDB
833:But let us persevere in what we have resolved, before we forget. ~ Samuel Beckett, #NFDB
834:Don't forget where you came from and treat people a certain way. ~ Justin Hartley, #NFDB
835:Every time I ask her to explain her job, I forget to listen. Her ~ Liane Moriarty, #NFDB
836:Forget about self-confidence; it's useless. Cultivate God-confidence. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
837:Forgive and be free. Forget that you have forgiven and be freer. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
838:I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. ~ Diane Setterfield, #NFDB
839:I think there's one more thing Perry can forget, too: Being president. ~ Jay Leno, #NFDB
840:It is your blood in my veins.
Tell me how I'm supposed to forget. ~ Rupi Kaur,#NFDB
841:It's time to bury the war hatchet and to forget where it lies ~ Viktor Yushchenko, #NFDB
842:Kind of hard to forget a bruise exists when you’re prodding at it. ~ Kirsty Eagar, #NFDB
843:Let us not forget this word: God never ever tires of forgiving us! ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
844:Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB
845:Most folks tend to forget that even a bargain costs money. ~ Suzanne Woods Fisher, #NFDB
846:Music lets you write your own checks. Don't ever forget that. ~ Jason Jack Miller, #NFDB
847:never forget a snob is a person utterly lacking in good taste. ~ Richard C Morais, #NFDB
848:Never forget that the devil is there 24/7 too. He's very, very busy. ~ Bill Cosby, #NFDB
849:Never forget the importance of living with unbridled exhilaration. ~ Robin Sharma, #NFDB
850:Nothing makes you forget everything as getting drunk of red wine. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
851:one can forgive even what they did. But one can never forget. ~ Frederick Forsyth, #NFDB
852:Peace is hard work and we must not allow people to forget it. ~ Margaret Thatcher, #NFDB
853:People piss you off but its always important to forgive and forget. ~ Bella Hadid, #NFDB
854:PSA103.2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
855:Should have. Forget that. There is only now, and what happens next. ~ John Gwynne, #NFDB
856:Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them. ~ Alice Hoffman, #NFDB
857:So much is buried in our lives that we forget what we have learned. ~ Harley King, #NFDB
858:The most perfect memories are the ones too painful to forget ~ A Meredith Walters, #NFDB
859:The public forgot Bofors, soon they will forget this as well ~ Sushilkumar Shinde, #NFDB
860:The Tsar is the most powerful man in the world, never forget that. ~ Daniel Silva, #NFDB
861:To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
862:To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard. ~ Allen Ginsberg, #NFDB
863:We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. ~ Joan Didion, #NFDB
864:We will never forget and we will not relent until our job is done. ~ Doc Hastings, #NFDB
865:when you have all tastes in your mouth,you'll forget the mouth. ~ Jostein Gaarder, #NFDB
866:You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
867:You don't have to forget the past to start enjoying the present. ~ Kentaro Yabuki, #NFDB
868:You forget: I have an addictive personality. I'm addicted to you. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
869:You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
870:You're thinking about something, and it makes you forget to talk. ~ Lewis Carroll, #NFDB
871:already starting to forget what normal life felt like, clocks ~ Susan Beth Pfeffer, #NFDB
872:And never forget that we exist so long as someone remembers us ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
873:A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost. ~ Alfred North Whitehead, #NFDB
874:but as an Indian, I find it far easier to forgive than to forget. ~ Shashi Tharoor, #NFDB
875:Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles. ~ William Feather, #NFDB
876:Don’t judge, because the moment you start judging you will forget watching. ~ Osho, #NFDB
877:Forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today. ~ Lawrence M Krauss, #NFDB
878:I can't forget. I can't really forgive. But I can live. Live with it. ~ Gail Giles, #NFDB
879:If the war on terror is endless, you could forget about democracy. ~ Robert Scheer, #NFDB
880:If you forget your lines, you had better mumble with conviction. ~ Connie Brockway, #NFDB
881:In life's orchestra, the bike is the double bass. Hard to forget it ~ Paul Fournel, #NFDB
882:In terms of history and sports, I don't think people will forget. ~ Kristine Lilly, #NFDB
883:It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
884:It is only when we forget our learning, do we begin to know. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
885:I will forget today, but that doesn't mean that today didn't matter. ~ Lisa Genova, #NFDB
886:Just remain in the center; watching. And then forget that you are there. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
887:Never forget what you learned in the light when you are in the dark. ~ Bryan Davis, #NFDB
888:Never look back, but never forget. Always forgive, and never regret. ~ K L Grayson, #NFDB
889:Nothing fixes a thing so firmly in the memory as the wish to forget it ~ Matt Haig, #NFDB
890:One continues to learn things in life, then promptly forget them. ~ Robyn Davidson, #NFDB
891:Our brains deliberately make us forget things, to prevent insanity ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
892:Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore! ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
893:Sometimes it was so easy to forget that I was kissing a vampire. ~ Stephenie Meyer, #NFDB
894:Sometimes you want to remember. And sometimes you need to forget. ~ Lisa Schroeder, #NFDB
895:That’s the first law of magic, Specs. Misdirection. Never forget it. ~ Donna Tartt, #NFDB
896:The most perfect memories are the ones too painful to forget. ~ A Meredith Walters, #NFDB
897:The teller and the tale are very different. We must not forget that. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
898:Thy mother honored us. We do not forget. - The yarthkin, to Thorgil ~ Nancy Farmer, #NFDB
899:We can be eaten by techniques and forget what we have inside of us. ~ Eric Cantona, #NFDB
900:We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one. ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau, #NFDB
901:We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things. ~ Pema Chodron, #NFDB
902:When there's 100 people around you can't really forget yourself. ~ Jean Luc Godard, #NFDB
903:When you get what you want you don't ask why and forget how. ~ Lawrence Schoonover, #NFDB
904:And don't forget, a prisoner's wife must always think good thoughts. ~ Naz m Hikmet, #NFDB
905:and she giggled. “Now that’s a wonderful sound. Just forget all ~ Catherine Coulter, #NFDB
906:Answers? Forget answers. The spectacle is all in the questions. ~ Rebecca Goldstein, #NFDB
907:A shepherd may like to travel, but he should never forget his sheep. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
908:Because of our routines we forget that life is an ongoing adventure. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
909:But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant ~ Jeffrey Eugenides, #NFDB
910:Don't forget: one of the saddest things in life is wasted talent. ~ Thomas S Monson, #NFDB
911:Don’t forget that in Thailand you’re brought up never to admit a mistake. ~ Jo Nesb, #NFDB
912:Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time. ~ Malcolm Forbes, #NFDB
913:I didn’t live like each day was a fuse to burn through and forget. ~ Melissa Albert, #NFDB
914:I don’t think children ever forget the lies their parents tell them. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
915:(It amazes us how often people forget they have had head injuries!) ~ Daniel G Amen, #NFDB
916:It doesn't matter how long you forget, only how soon you remember! ~ Stephen Levine, #NFDB
917:I will try to forget that Ky said “home” when he looked into my eyes. ~ Ally Condie, #NFDB
918:killing is evil in the eyes of God,’ I said. ‘Never forget that.’ The ~ Ann Swinfen, #NFDB
919:Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. ~ Gordon B Hinckley, #NFDB
920:Never forget how right it felt when my lips finally touched yours. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
921:Nor must we forget that in science there are no final truths. ~ Claude Levi Strauss, #NFDB
922:Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
923:One last toast, to our friend, Owen Hart. We'll never forget you, buddy. ~ Jim Ross, #NFDB
924:Play your part in life, but never forget it is only a role. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda, #NFDB
925:Remember: If you see something, say nothing, and drink to forget. The ~ Joseph Fink, #NFDB
926:She would die, and maybe everyone would forget that she had ever lived. ~ Amy Zhang, #NFDB
927:Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities. ~ Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, #NFDB
928:Some were desperate to remember and others were desperate to forget. ~ Ruta Sepetys, #NFDB
929:The first game was against Wake Forrest - I'll never forget that game. ~ Bo Jackson, #NFDB
930:The greatest dream that we can have is to forget that we are dreaming. ~ Adyashanti, #NFDB
931:There are many ways to be a criminal or hero. Don't forget that. ~ Caragh M O Brien, #NFDB
932:The same (hated) man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget. ~ Horace, #NFDB
933:Time goes by at such a pace,it's funny how it's easy to forget her face ~ Bil Keane, #NFDB
934:We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution. ~ John F Kennedy, #NFDB
935:Whatever you forget, is not the truth, always remember that. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj, #NFDB
936:What you understand, you know; and what you know, you don't forget. ~ Michel Thomas, #NFDB
937:When over the enemy's lines never forget your own line of retreat. ~ Oswald Boelcke, #NFDB
938:When people forget themselves, they usually do things others remember. ~ James Coco, #NFDB
939:After all, it’d be awfully hard to forget someone like Dr. Zollers. ~ Robert J Crane, #NFDB
940:but don't forget, most serial killers were once sweet little boys, too. ~ R P Dahlke, #NFDB
941:But one does not forget by trying to forget. One only remembers. ~ Richard Rodriguez, #NFDB
942:Do not ask your future, or you will forget to live in your present. ~ Nalo Hopkinson, #NFDB
943:Everyone knows that blaming and arguing never help; but we forget. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
944:Forget Halloween - Halloween to me is like every day. It's a lifestyle. ~ Tom Savini, #NFDB
945:I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them. ~ Charlie Kaufman, #NFDB
946:I love hanging out with people who make me forget to look at my phone. ~ David Wolfe, #NFDB
947:I never forget, remember that. Not an action, not a name, not a face. ~ Piper Laurie, #NFDB
948:In my life I do a lot of things but I never forget my training. ~ Haile Gebrselassie, #NFDB
949:it is your blood
in my veins
tell me how i'm
supposed to forget ~ Rupi Kaur,#NFDB
950:I will love you every day for the rest of my life; never forget that. ~ Rebecca Shea, #NFDB
951:I won't forget,” he whispered, and I swallowed the lump in my throat. ~ Julie Kagawa, #NFDB
952:Just because they want to kill her is no reason to forget her manners. ~ N K Jemisin, #NFDB
953:Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
954:Let's not forget it's you and me vs. the problem... NOT you vs. me. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
955:Life must go on;
I forget just why.
from "Lament ~ Edna St Vincent Millay,#NFDB
956:Marijuana: why forget something tomorrow when you can forget it today? ~ Doug Benson, #NFDB
957:Maybe it's not too late to learn how to love and forget how to hate. ~ Ozzy Osbourne, #NFDB
958:Never forget, your family should always have priority over your work. ~ Mary Kay Ash, #NFDB
959:People forget to understand your goodness, teach them something new. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
960:People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story". ~ Ken Burns, #NFDB
961:She had a chain of blue forget-me-nots tattooed around her left wrist. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
962:That’s how I travel: I forget the buildings but remember the bricks. ~ Mike McIntyre, #NFDB
963:The temptation to forget is woven into the fabric of these... costumes. ~ Ted Dekker, #NFDB
964:those poets the French incubate and forget next week. ~ Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, #NFDB
965:To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend. ~ Antoine de Saint Exupery, #NFDB
966:To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
967:To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche,#NFDB
968:To never let the other forget who they are—love is also about that. ~ Cornelia Funke, #NFDB
969:To recall a voter’s name is statesmanship. To forget it is oblivion. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
970:We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question. ~ Grace Hopper, #NFDB
971:When I forget my sovereign, may my God forget me. ~ Edward Thurlow 1st Baron Thurlow, #NFDB
972:Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
973:You see, I may be trying to forget, but I still remember quite a lot. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
974:A best friend is someone who loves you when you forget to love yourself. ~ Mary Grand, #NFDB
975:A good way to forget your troubles is to help others out of theirs. ~ Boonaa Mohammed, #NFDB
976:And to shape up my future it is not essential that I forget my past. ~ Ravinder Singh, #NFDB
977:At some point you have to forget about grudges because they only hurt. ~ Taylor Swift, #NFDB
978:Conrad calling me again—that was enough to make me forget how to breathe. ~ Jenny Han, #NFDB
979:Do not forget in the darkness what you have been promised in the light. ~ Katie Davis, #NFDB
980:Focusing on creating something helped me to forget everything else. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
981:Forget about getting, simply give; and I guarantee you, you will get much. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
982:Forget every Touch and Sound that did not teach You how to dance. ~ ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, #NFDB
983:Forget the damned motor car and built cities for lovers and friends . ~ Lewis Mumford, #NFDB
984:God does not save us to make us forget our heritage, but to complete it. ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
985:I accomplished something big and that's a memory I will never forget. ~ Gabby Douglas, #NFDB
986:If you can’t stand back up, you can always crawl. Don’t forget that. ~ Krista Ritchie, #NFDB
987:If you don't like don't do it. But don't forget that: NO PAIN NO GAIN. ~ Serge Nubret, #NFDB
988:I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand, ~ Eric R Lowther, #NFDB
989:I’m in charge here, don’t forget it,” he stated. I nodded, mesmerized. ~ Joanna Wylde, #NFDB
990:In case I forget to tell you later, I had a really good time tonight. ~ Julia Roberts, #NFDB
991:It doesn't matter who forgives you if you're the one who can't forget. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
992:it is your blood
in my veins
tell me how i'm
supposed to forget ~ Rupi Kaur,#NFDB
993:It's funny how when people change, you forget the way they used to be. ~ Cynthia Hand, #NFDB
994:It’s hard to forget, but forgiveness is something you do for yourself. ~ Azim Khamisa, #NFDB
995:Just be yourself and forget all of the stuff you read in 'GQ' magazine. ~ Chris Pratt, #NFDB
996:Life-and-death. Lifedeath. One event. One short event. Don't forget. ~ Robert Fulghum, #NFDB
997:Never forget, Sanada Takeo: in this forest, there is no place to hide. ~ Ren e Ahdieh, #NFDB
998:Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
999:Next time you are in a negotiation, don’t forget to relax your face. ~ James Altucher, #NFDB
1000:Nostalgia is basically the ability to forget the things that sucked. ~ Nelson DeMille, #NFDB
1001:Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget... ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
1002:O you who know what we suffer here, do not forget us in your prayers. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
1003:Rule No. 1 : Never lose money. Rule No. 2 : Never forget Rule No. 1. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
1004:The ability to forget was a kind of advance braking system of the mind. ~ Adam Nevill, #NFDB
1005:The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget. ~ Louis Ferdinand C line, #NFDB
1006:The cigarettes you light one after another won’t help you forget her. ~ Frank Sinatra, #NFDB
1007:We must never forget that the dance is the cradle of Negro music. ~ Alain LeRoy Locke, #NFDB
1008:We need to hear the Gospel every day, because we forget it every day. ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB
1009:When it’s someone like that, someone important, you never forget them. ~ Jill Mansell, #NFDB
1010:Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need ~ Barbara Kingsolver, #NFDB
1011:You're making something new. Don't forget that when it starts to hurt. ~ Paula McLain, #NFDB
1012:And... as long as they need me, it's easier to forget that I am alone. ~ Sarah MacLean, #NFDB
1013:A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget. ~ Mary McCarthy, #NFDB
1014:A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it. ~ Randall Jarrell, #NFDB
1015:Because of Jesus the sin we cannot forget God does not remember. ~ Tullian Tchividjian, #NFDB
1016:But don’t forget that memory is like salt: the right amount brings out ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1017:How do we remember this emptiness so in fullness we won't forget? ~ Mark Z Danielewski, #NFDB
1018:I don't do alcohol. Or other people's boyfriends. And don't you forget it. ~ Meg Cabot, #NFDB
1019:In case I forget to tell you, this was the best night of my existence. ~ Ashlan Thomas, #NFDB
1020:In summer, you remember yourself; in autumn, you forget yourself! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1021:In the middle of my little mess, I forget how BIG I'm blessed! ~ Francesca Battistelli, #NFDB
1022:In the quest for fortune and fame...don't forget about the simple things. ~ India Arie, #NFDB
1023:It does'nt matter who forgives you, if you're the one who can't forget. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
1024:It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean. ~ Jon J Muth, #NFDB
1025:I will never forget my first breath. Gasping. Heaving. Delicious. ~ MarcyKate Connolly, #NFDB
1026:Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you ~ Virginia Woolf, #NFDB
1027:Look how these people live. Never forget what they choose to deny you.” I ~ Roxane Gay, #NFDB
1028:misery was attached to them as if assigned. “Don’t forget your misery … ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
1029:Nothing fixes a thing so intently in the memory as the wish to forget it ~ Cat Patrick, #NFDB
1030:Once you've visited the underworld, you never forget the way back. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides, #NFDB
1031:People don’t buy stock; it gets sold to them. Don’t ever forget that. ~ Jordan Belfort, #NFDB
1032:Spend more time doing things that make you forget about the time. ~ Charlotte Eriksson, #NFDB
1033:Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. ~ Garr Reynolds, #NFDB
1034:The Holy Land... What an experience. I will never forget this day. ~ Justin Timberlake, #NFDB
1035:The way to forget our miseries, is to remember the God of our mercies. ~ Matthew Henry, #NFDB
1036:The whole idea of motivation is a trap, forget motivation, just do it ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
1037:Watching wild landscapes I forget distance
and come to the water's edge. ~ Wang Wei,#NFDB
1038:With time, people forget to say, "Darling I love you." just that word. ~ Ozzy Osbourne, #NFDB
1039:Write something that people might not “enjoy” but will never forget. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
1040:Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you. ~ Sarah Dessen, #NFDB
1041:You try too hard. Winners forget they're in a race. They just love to run. ~ Joe Pesci, #NFDB
1042:because those who cower forget how to stand and, in time, can only crawl. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
1043:Best roads are the roads where you forget everything but the road! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1044:But I am not allowed to forget
The taste of the tears of yesterday. ~ Anna Akhmatova,#NFDB
1045:Don't forget where you came from, but always remember where you're going. ~ Luke Taylor, #NFDB
1046:Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget. ~ Samuel Beckett, #NFDB
1047:Fear. Blame. Don't forget. Mom. I love you.
-Lauren Oliver, Delerium ~ Lauren Oliver,#NFDB
1048:Forget about finding your passion. Instead, focus on finding big problems. ~ Mark Cuban, #NFDB
1049:Forget the midlife crisis,” I say. “It’s all about the sixth-life crisis. ~ Ned Vizzini, #NFDB
1050:His fingers glide up my thigh, and for a split second, I forget the pain. ~ Bella Jewel, #NFDB
1051:How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it. ~ Jeanette Winterson, #NFDB
1052:If you want to have a good life, never forget that you are going to die ~ Tariq Ramadan, #NFDB
1053:It does not matter who forgives you, if you’re the one who can’t forget. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
1054:I think it's really important for me not to forget where I came from. ~ Anna Kournikova, #NFDB
1055:It is common to forget a man and slight him if his good will cannot help you. ~ Plautus, #NFDB
1056:It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
1057:It’s all for the glory of the Empire, honey, and don’t you forget it. ~ Christie Golden, #NFDB
1058:I was able to inflict a wound to his face that he won’t soon forget. ~ Christian Kachel, #NFDB
1059:Let us forget the past - this is the only way to be genuinely surprised. ~ Steve Aylett, #NFDB
1060:Never forget that you are practicing a craft with certain principles. ~ William Zinsser, #NFDB
1061:nothing fixes a thing so intently in the memory as the wish to forget it. ~ Cat Patrick, #NFDB
1062:Not knowing whether to wait or to forget is the worst kind of suffering. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1063:Only when we forget what we were taught do we start to have real knowledge. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1064:People forget that we are character actors and we can do other things. ~ Robert Englund, #NFDB
1065:philosophers have warned us: if we forget the past, we are doomed to repeat ~ Ira Levin, #NFDB
1066:Someone wise, I forget who, said we must leave our children to fate. ~ Bernard Cornwell, #NFDB
1067:Sometimes the best reminders are the memories we choose to forget. ~ Carla VanKoughnett, #NFDB
1068:Southern man better keep your head, don't forget what your good book says. ~ Neil Young, #NFDB
1069:The best way is to forget doubts and set about the task in hand. . . . ~ Robert Hillyer, #NFDB
1070:Then too you are in love. Do not forget that is a religious feeling. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
1071:The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others. ~ Woodrow Wilson, #NFDB
1072:The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
1073:To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself. ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton 1st Baron Lytton, #NFDB
1074:To live a creative life we must forget our fear of being wrong. ~ Joseph Chilton Pearce, #NFDB
1075:To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. ~ Dogen, #NFDB
1076:To the nights you'll never remember with the people you'll never forget. ~ Jillian Dodd, #NFDB
1077:We all need something that helps us to forget ourselves for a while ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
1078:We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
1079:We learn to walk when we’re babies and never forget unless we’re drunk. ~ Trent Zelazny, #NFDB
1080:We live our lives from A-Z, but forget the other 24 letters in between. ~ Timothy Leary, #NFDB
1081:we travel far and fast and as we pass through we forget where we have been ~ W S Merwin, #NFDB
1082:What we forget about animals we begin to forget about ourselves. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer, #NFDB
1083:When we forget old friends, it is a sign we have forgotten ourselves. ~ William Hazlitt, #NFDB
1084:When you dream, sometimes you remember. When you wake, you always forget. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1085:Who am I, why am I here? Forget the question, someone give me another beer. ~ Meat Loaf, #NFDB
1086:You may forget your childhood, but your childhood does not forget you. ~ Michael Dibdin, #NFDB
1087:You never forget the people who were kind to you in childhood, do you, sir? ~ P D James, #NFDB
1088:You seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane. ~ Ken Kesey, #NFDB
1089:And for a second, just for a second I forget. I forget that this isn't real. ~ Jenny Han, #NFDB
1090:But you forget, Miss Brewster, there is evil everywhere under the sun. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
1091:Buy a Tesla. Forget about the mess you’ve made of the planet for a while. ~ Ashlee Vance, #NFDB
1092:Charm is the ability to make others forget that you look as you do. ~ Jean Paul Belmondo, #NFDB
1093:Do you really think that if you don’t mention my family I’ll forget them? ~ Gayle Forman, #NFDB
1094:Forget about rubbing salt into a wound, that’s what ground glass is for. ~ Morgan Blayde, #NFDB
1095:Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends. ~ Lewis Mumford, #NFDB
1096:Forget them. Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
1097:I cannot forget the place that I come from. The Congo is much in need. ~ Dikembe Mutombo, #NFDB
1098:If you are going to learn, you need to forget what you know. - Pokey ~ Christopher Moore, #NFDB
1099:If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it. Now. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1100:I live for the nights that I can't remember with the people that I won't forget. ~ Drake, #NFDB
1101:In order to see Christianity, one must forget all the Christians. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel, #NFDB
1102:I remember and then I don't.
I forget and then it all comes rushing back. ~ Amy Zhang,#NFDB
1103:I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1104:I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy. ~ Marcel Carne, #NFDB
1105:I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget. ~ Aeschylus, #NFDB
1106:I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
1107:Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable. ~ Honore de Balzac, #NFDB
1108:Never forget the power of music. Spend a little time with it every day, ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
1109:Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry. ~ Dr Seuss, #NFDB
1110:Some drink to forget, some drink to remember-me, I drink to get bagged. ~ Jackie Gleason, #NFDB
1111:Tell me Georgia, does he make you come so hard you forget your own name? ~ Adriane Leigh, #NFDB
1112:The word 'home', it seemed, once learned, was a hard one to forget. ~ Sarah Rees Brennan, #NFDB
1113:to forget myself and my ephemeral, because human, sorrows. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, #NFDB
1114:We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have. ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
1115:We are the naked monkey that went to the moon. People seem to forget that. ~ Jason Silva, #NFDB
1116:We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful. ~ Dag Hammarskjold, #NFDB
1117:We forget that the imagination-at-play is at the heart of all good work. ~ Julia Cameron, #NFDB
1118:We must forget bodily consciousness like a deer which is infatuated by music. ~ Tukaram, #NFDB
1119:When a shadow looks very beautiful, we forget to look at its owner! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1120:When you forget who you are and whose you are, you start to compromise. ~ Kris Vallotton, #NFDB
1121:When you write about justice, you better forget who is going to be hurt. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
1122:you never forget to ride home on the horse that brought you to the dance. ~ Jordan Marie, #NFDB
1123:And don't forget music - music in the kitchen is an essential ingredient! ~ Thomas Keller, #NFDB
1124:A shepherd may like to travel, but he should never forget about his sheep. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1125:Better to face bravely what God gives, to forget the past and forge on— ~ Kathleen Morgan, #NFDB
1126:But if we forget our descendants, they will never be able to forget us. ~ Jostein Gaarder, #NFDB
1127:Don't worry chief,"said foaly,"It's like riding a unicorn,you never forget. ~ Eoin Colfer, #NFDB
1128:Father Earth thinks in ages, but he never, ever sleeps. Nor does he forget. ~ N K Jemisin, #NFDB
1129:Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk. ~ Stephenie Meyer, #NFDB
1130:Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
1131:I am a face that people forget. But I am also a brain that forgets little. ~ Durjoy Datta, #NFDB
1132:…I am a good Hegelian. If you have a good theory, forget about the reality. ~ Slavoj i ek, #NFDB
1133:If you want to do rock and roll, forget about those who've come after '65. ~ Robin Trower, #NFDB
1134:I just wanted to go to...some quiet place. To forget. To be someone else. ~ Kelsey Sutton, #NFDB
1135:I never allowed myself to forget how it had felt to be young and in love. ~ Kate Saunders, #NFDB
1136:I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. ~ Groucho Marx, #NFDB
1137:In life you have a choice: Bitter or Better? Choose better, forget bitter. ~ Nick Vujicic, #NFDB
1138:It'd be a spankiing you'd never forget, I promise you." Vishous, Lover At Last ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
1139:I think you just made me forget my own name. Not even amnesia managed that. ~ Amy Andrews, #NFDB
1140:It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
1141:Kiss me until I forget how terrified I am of everything wrong with my life. ~ Beau Taplin, #NFDB
1142:Life-change list Number Five: Don’t forget the care and feeding of friends. ~ Kaira Rouda, #NFDB
1143:May the spirit of death make a clerical error and forget you exist. ~ John Jackson Miller, #NFDB
1144:MEMO: DON’T FORGET THE SOOTY FOOTPRINTS. MORE PRACTICE ON THE HO HO HO. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1145:My mother had died in the sea, but we could never forget that it gave us life. ~ Lisa See, #NFDB
1146:Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we're half the human race. ~ Bella Abzug, #NFDB
1147:Power. It's all about that, don't you forget. People want money or power. ~ Cecelia Ahern, #NFDB
1148:She made them all laugh and forget for a moment that they were dying men. ~ Robert Coover, #NFDB
1149:Some things I can never forget. I must not. Otherwise what do I have left? ~ Rosie Thomas, #NFDB
1150:Sometimes the contract to forget is as important as any promise to remember ~ M L Stedman, #NFDB
1151:The ability to forget a sorrow is childhood's most enchanting feature. ~ Phyllis McGinley, #NFDB
1152:the cornmeal fritters were very good if you could forget about the maggots, ~ Nevil Shute, #NFDB
1153:There are a few things that I regret, but nothing that I need to forget. ~ Elvis Costello, #NFDB
1154:To forget the whole world is easy; to make the whole world forget you is hard. ~ Zhuangzi, #NFDB
1155:To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB
1156:To resent and remember brings strife; to forgive and forget brings peace. ~ J B Priestley, #NFDB
1157:Trust your luck, Taran Wanderer. But don't forget to put out your nets! ~ Lloyd Alexander, #NFDB
1158:Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia. ~ George Pickett, #NFDB
1159:What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone ~ Muriel Rukeyser, #NFDB
1160:When lying is part of your job, you forget how love is supposed to work. ~ Jake Adelstein, #NFDB
1161:When you stop playing for a while, people tend to forget about you. ~ Alexandra Kosteniuk, #NFDB
1162:Work hard and follow your dreams, but never forget where you came from. ~ Vanessa Hudgens, #NFDB
1163:You can forget Proust and those stupid cakes. Beatles’ songs are more potent. ~ Nick Webb, #NFDB
1164:Absolutely, love matters,” she reiterated. “We forget that at our own risk. ~ Paul Russell, #NFDB
1165:Because supposedly those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
1166:Don't forget - you're the one who swam across the freezing sea at night. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1167:Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation. ~ Joseph Conrad, #NFDB
1168:Every living thing, never forget, is a wonder of atomic engineering. Indeed, ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
1169:Fear made people forget themselves...Fear was a terribly destructive force. ~ Gemma Malley, #NFDB
1170:First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers. ~ Claude Debussy, #NFDB
1171:Forget about what the technology is. Just understand the motivation behind it. ~ Ray Dalio, #NFDB
1172:Forget being a bad failure, use Cosmic Ordering and be good at success. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
1173:Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing. ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
1174:Forget the dancer, the center of the ego; become the dance. That is meditation. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
1175:Go home and read to your adult. We forget how much we love to be read to. ~ Kate DiCamillo, #NFDB
1176:he didn’t forget this either. He just didn’t remember it in time. . . . ~ William Goldman, #NFDB
1177:I can not forget Melina Mercouri in black dress at 'Never on Sunday'. ~ Jean Paul Gaultier, #NFDB
1178:I’d again forget that things continue to exist even though I cannot see them. ~ Sara Baume, #NFDB
1179:I fall into all kinds of inauthenticity when I conspire to forget my mortality. ~ Sam Keen, #NFDB
1180:If you're too loyal to your own suffering, you forget that others suffer, too. ~ Teju Cole, #NFDB
1181:I hope that I will never forget the salvific power of joyful laughter. ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
1182:I'll never forget my little city! I could talk a whole day about it! ~ Alessandra Ambrosio, #NFDB
1183:In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself. ~ Alan Watts, #NFDB
1184:I think you might come to forget, too, that life is more than a science. ~ Dorothy Dunnett, #NFDB
1185:it’s easy to forget that the pursuit of happiness is not what life is about. ~ Rick Warren, #NFDB
1186:It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
1187:Let me forget the world and be swallowed up in the desire to glorify God. ~ David Brainerd, #NFDB
1188:Mike Laga will make you forget about every power hitter that ever lived. ~ Sparky Anderson, #NFDB
1189:Music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles. ~ Ricky Skaggs, #NFDB
1190:Never get so attached to a poem that you forget truth that lacks lyricism. ~ Joanna Newsom, #NFDB
1191:Never get so fascinated by the extraordinary that you forget the ordinary. ~ Magdalen Nabb, #NFDB
1192:O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion! ~ Ben Jonson, #NFDB
1193:part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn’t want to be without her. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1194:Politics is, for me, forgive and -as you may have heard- sometimes forget. ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB
1195:Sometimes I forget that I can hurt you. That you are capable of being hurt ~ Veronica Roth, #NFDB
1196:So tired you want to quit, then you get more tired, and forget to quit. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
1197:Standing for truth is everything. Truth is power. Don't ever forget that. ~ Terry Goodkind, #NFDB
1198:The more she went on to forget love, the closer she went on to become it. ~ Robert M Drake, #NFDB
1199:There are years from my childhood that I cannot remember and I cannot forget. ~ Robert Bly, #NFDB
1200:There is something about Safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows ~ Isak Dinesen, #NFDB
1201:To me, beauty is looks you can never forget. A face should jolt, not soothe. ~ John Waters, #NFDB
1202:We will never forget those like my great-grandfather who fought at Vicksburg. ~ Roy Barnes, #NFDB
1203:When I dance, I forget everything else and just feel completely happy. ~ Katherine Jenkins, #NFDB
1204:When most of us talk to our dogs, we tend to forget that they're not people. ~ Julia Glass, #NFDB
1205:When they mention great little things in life, they usually forget flossing. ~ Scott Simon, #NFDB
1206:After I die, I want people to remember my books, even if they forget my name. ~ Shikha Kaul, #NFDB
1207:A love astounds us or a pain consumes us and we forget that we glow on our own. ~ Mark Nepo, #NFDB
1208:Because if we destroy Creation, Creation will destroy us! Never forget this! ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1209:Don't forget to wind the restricted clock and put the confidential cat out. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
1210:going to work so as to forget that there was nothing worth working for ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
1211:History is what men choose to remember. Truth is what a man cannot forget. ~ Samantha Sotto, #NFDB
1212:I can't forget that stupid, fucking hologram speech. THAT'S why I did dope. ~ Carrie Fisher, #NFDB
1213:I don't need to know my name because by the time I'm done, you'll forget yours. ~ June Gray, #NFDB
1214:If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty. ~ Charles Stross, #NFDB
1215:If you ever forget how much you really mean to me, Every day I will remind you ~ Bruno Mars, #NFDB
1216:I’ll never forget the club or him I don’t see Arsenal without Arsene Wenger ~ Thierry Henry, #NFDB
1217:In our need to be somebody, we often forget that we are somebody. ~ Eric Micha el Leventhal, #NFDB
1218:It is amazing how the light can make us forget we were ever afraid of the dark. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1219:It is hard to forget that which it is worse than useless to remember. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
1220:It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past ~ Ken Burns, #NFDB
1221:It made hot girls forget you were a dork, which is the point of all music. ~ J Ryan Stradal, #NFDB
1222:I will never forget you,' she whispers, 'and somewhere inside, you'll know. ~ Tessa Gratton, #NFDB
1223:Mmmmmmm. Wish i was there. Don't forget about me. I'm the one who loves you. ~ Kahlen Aymes, #NFDB
1224:philosophers have warned us: if we forget the past, we are doomed to repeat it. ~ Ira Levin, #NFDB
1225:She was strong enough to give him up, but not strong enough to forget him. ~ Danielle Paige, #NFDB
1226:Sit down, son. It's all over. No-one will ever forget what you did here today ~ Eddie Futch, #NFDB
1227:Small town rule #5: If you forget what you were doing, ask a neighbor. “No, ~ Melinda Leigh, #NFDB
1228:sometimes you try so hard to fit in that you almost forget it’s all an act. ~ Holly Madison, #NFDB
1229:The best gift you can give somebody is a surprise because they never forget. ~ Chuck Wendig, #NFDB
1230:The mantra is forget your size discover your shape and transform yourself. ~ Trinny Woodall, #NFDB
1231:The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1232:Time is a great deadener; people forget, get bored, grow old, go away. ~ Jeanette Winterson, #NFDB
1233:To bask in the present, care nothing about the future, and forget the past. ~ R A Salvatore, #NFDB
1234:To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules. ~ Pablo Picasso, #NFDB
1235:To forgive is one thing," she said at last. "To forget is nearly impossible. ~ Candice Hern, #NFDB
1236:To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves. ~ Dogen, #NFDB
1237:We are such things as rubbish is made of, so let's drink up and forget it. ~ Eugene O Neill, #NFDB
1238:When you drink of the water, don't forget the spring from which it flows. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
1239:When you're writing, don't forget to keep your favorite audience in mind--you. ~ Lori Lesko, #NFDB
1240:While beer brings gladness, don't forget That water only makes you wet! ~ Harry Leon Wilson, #NFDB
1241:You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand. ~ E O Wilson, #NFDB
1242:At some time, one will have to forget everything that has been learnt. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
1243:But we forget that government was also created to act and make decisions. ~ Francis Fukuyama, #NFDB
1244:Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here. ~ Elizabeth Arden, #NFDB
1245:Did you forget who I am? Finding out the lies of men is my specialty." -Vashti ~ jaha Knight, #NFDB
1246:Do forgive me.... I've no reputation of my own, and I forget they matter. ~ Saundra Mitchell, #NFDB
1247:Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
1248:Don't forget, God uses words to create the world. Words! Words are only hope. ~ Bruce Feiler, #NFDB
1249:Forget everything else. Forget everyone else. You're exactly my kind of girl. ~ Amie Kaufman, #NFDB
1250:Forget the shoes, forget the mile long walk... just stop judging each other. ~ Stuart Duncan, #NFDB
1251:…he strove to leave his life in the hands of God, and to forget himself. ~ Elizabeth Gaskell, #NFDB
1252:I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily. ~ Gary Coleman, #NFDB
1253:If there is anyone to whom I owe money, I'm prepared to forget it if they are. ~ Errol Flynn, #NFDB
1254:I get it. Sometimes you want to remember. And sometimes you need to forget. ~ Lisa Schroeder, #NFDB
1255:I'll never forget. I'll never give up. I'll never be quiet.
I promise. ~ Angie Thomas,#NFDB
1256:I'm quite good at switching off and sometimes I forget who I am in a character. ~ Luke Evans, #NFDB
1257:In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself. ~ Alan W Watts, #NFDB
1258:In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they start. ~ Friedrich Schiller, #NFDB
1259:It's only when things are not going too badly for a while that we forget. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
1260:I would like to forget everything, to forget myself and to forget the world. ~ Emil M Cioran, #NFDB
1261:Lest we forget: It is easy to be human, very hard to be humane ~ Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, #NFDB
1262:Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it. ~ Danielle Steel, #NFDB
1263:Never flinch" A cold whisper in her ear. "Never fear. And never, ever forget. ~ Jay Kristoff, #NFDB
1264:Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1265:People here are funny. They work so hard at living, they forget how to live. ~ Robert Riskin, #NFDB
1266:Solitude, Celia realizes now, exists for us not to remember but to forget. ~ Cristina Garc a, #NFDB
1267:Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first. ~ Ali Liebegott, #NFDB
1268:The day you forget about the poors, you become the poorest of the poor! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1269:The happiest moments we ever know are when we entirely forget ourselves. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1270:The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1271:The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, #NFDB
1272:This is the disarming power of children: their need makes you forget your own. ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
1273:To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
1274:To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life. ~ Fernando Pessoa, #NFDB
1275:We easily forget crimes that are known to none but ourselves. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
1276:We forget that just because something is honest it is not necessary the truth. ~ Deb Caletti, #NFDB
1277:we forget that the greatest experiences we have as humans are with each other. ~ Jewel E Ann, #NFDB
1278:What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
1279:You forget, darling, I am the local psychopath." ~Clayton Danvers, Bitten ~ Kelley Armstrong, #NFDB
1280:You forget why you're fighting - you can lose sight of why you're doing it all. ~ David Haye, #NFDB
1281:You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. ~ Lewis Carroll, #NFDB
1282:And so many of them gone now. But their memory lives on. We shall never forget. ~ John Gwynne, #NFDB
1283:As long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1284:but if there’s one sure way not to forget something it’s to say Forget That. ~ Niall Williams, #NFDB
1285:Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost. ~ Bjarne Stroustrup, #NFDB
1286:Don't forget, a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated. ~ H Jackson Brown Jr, #NFDB
1287:Don't forget, Brodeck: it's ignorance that always triumphs, not knowledge. ~ Philippe Claudel, #NFDB
1288:Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1289:Don’t forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1290:Everyone wants the fairy tale, but don’t forget there are dragons in those stories. ~ R Queen, #NFDB
1291:GET YOURSELF TOGETHER DRINK TILL YOU DROP FORGET ABOUT TOMORROW AND HAVE ANOTHER SHOT ~ Slash, #NFDB
1292:Half blade and half silk, difficult to forget and not easy for the mind to follow ~ Rupi Kaur, #NFDB
1293:How could you forget someone you loved even if I did rip his heart to shreds? ~ Tarryn Fisher, #NFDB
1294:How should I forget them? They are around me like wasps around a honeypot. ~ Philippa Gregory, #NFDB
1295:I didn't completely forget how to be nice or feminine because I have a career. ~ Mindy Kaling, #NFDB
1296:I don't promise to forget the mystery, but I know I'll have a marvelous time. ~ Carolyn Keene, #NFDB
1297:If you can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work. ~ Truman Capote, #NFDB
1298:I have to start writing down things that happen, or I'll forget my life entirely. ~ Josh Lieb, #NFDB
1299:I’m usually so excited by the life I’m living I forget to take pictures. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
1300:I remember everything about you. Even the stuff I wish I could forget... ~ A Meredith Walters, #NFDB
1301:It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer. ~ Anna Godbersen, #NFDB
1302:Khalil, I’ll never forget. I’ll never give up. I’ll never be quiet. I promise. ~ Angie Thomas, #NFDB
1303:Life is so beautiful and special, I can't believe I ever let myself forget that ~ Demi Lovato, #NFDB
1304:Living men forget the lessons of the past. But the ancestors never forget. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
1305:Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple. ~ Barry Ritholtz, #NFDB
1306:Never forget those who believed in you. They are why you are where you are. ~ Deborah Roberts, #NFDB
1307:Now that you've met me, you'll never be able to forget me. That's something. ~ Kristin Hannah, #NFDB
1308:Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget. ~ Taraji P Henson, #NFDB
1309:One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it. ~ Rollo May, #NFDB
1310:Reason shows reason can only bring pain - how wise to forget and be happy again! ~ Gene Wolfe, #NFDB
1311:Rise up, O LORD; O God, lift up your hand; do not forget the oppressed. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1312:There is no greater wealth than Virtue,And no greater loss than to forget it. ~ Thiruvalluvar, #NFDB
1313:The workload is so heavy you forget about thinking, it just kind of happens. ~ David Giuntoli, #NFDB
1314:unfortunately I forget what I have written practically as soon as it is finished. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1315:We are going to hell together. But we're coming back alive. Don't forget that. ~ Atsuko Asano, #NFDB
1316:we travel far and fast
and as we pass through we forget
where we have been ~ W S Merwin,#NFDB
1317:What’s the point of living until old age if you forget to live on your way there? ~ T S Joyce, #NFDB
1318:And let’s not forget the universal impulse of fans to over consume what they love. ~ Tim Grahl, #NFDB
1319:Another crazy day where you drink the night away and forget about everything. ~ Gerry Rafferty, #NFDB
1320:Be. Here. NOW. Don't forget to breathe. When all else fails, grab a clown nose. ~ Tom Bergeron, #NFDB
1321:But just for a little while, the forget to know it. They believe ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
1322:(But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant …) Spring ~ Jeffrey Eugenides, #NFDB
1323:Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living. ~ B C Forbes, #NFDB
1324:Do you want to be happy? Forget yourself and get lost in this great cause. ~ Gordon B Hinckley, #NFDB
1325:Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru, #NFDB
1326:Forget men and romance. The answer to my aching loneliness would be all the cats. ~ Penny Reid, #NFDB
1327:Forget the complaints against complexity; instead, complain about confusion. ~ Donald A Norman, #NFDB
1328:God, you’re uptight. Did the aliens maybe forget to remove your anal probe? ~ Cherise Sinclair, #NFDB
1329:Guess what? You’re a MILF too, which in my book means a man I’d like to forget. ~ M K Schiller, #NFDB
1330:He drinks, even though drinking always makes him remember rather than forget. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
1331:. . . .how easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it. ~ Jeanette Winterson, #NFDB
1332:I'd sleep and forget it; I had my own life, my own sad and ragged life forever. ~ Jack Kerouac, #NFDB
1333:If yer after a husband, forget it, he says. I seen what you did to the last one. ~ Moira Young, #NFDB
1334:I may at times forget the details of my life but I remember the stories I read. ~ Ann Patchett, #NFDB
1335:I'm not likely to forget someone slapping my butt with a big piece of wood. ~ Cherise Sinclair, #NFDB
1336:I told you before I'll never stop loving you. I'll never forget what we have. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
1337:Many love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience. ~ Nicol s G mez D vila, #NFDB
1338:Memory is ever active, ever true. Alas, if it were only as easy to forget! ~ Ninon de L Enclos, #NFDB
1339:My fashion advice is to have a flattering mirror and then forget about it. ~ Vivienne Westwood, #NFDB
1340:Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn. ~ Clarence Darrow, #NFDB
1341:Never forget that the end of a sermon is the salvation of the people. ~ Robert Murray M Cheyne, #NFDB
1342:No girl should ever forget that she doesn't need anyone who doesn't need her. ~ Marilyn Monroe, #NFDB
1343:No one's coming in seeing my dogs, daughter or the crack of my ass, forget it. ~ Courtney Love, #NFDB
1344:Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the mind as the wish to forget it. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
1345:people forget that those who rush to every sweet fruit of life rush to death, too. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1346:Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave. ~ A A Milne, #NFDB
1347:Relax and calm your mind. Forget about yourself and follow your opponent's movement. ~ Yip Man, #NFDB
1348:Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
1349:That's the trouble, I can't forget him. He was everything to me, except mine. ~ Jennifer Worth, #NFDB
1350:The best dresses are like t-shirts - you just put them on and forget about them. ~ Marc Jacobs, #NFDB
1351:There have been so many great moments in golf that you even forget some of them. ~ Dan Jenkins, #NFDB
1352:To envision the future; you must forget the past and make the present a memory ~ Jeremy Aldana, #NFDB
1353:Until then, never lose hope. Never stop loving me. Never forget. Never Never, ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
1354:We forget that just because something is honest it is not necessarily the truth. ~ Deb Caletti, #NFDB
1355:We somehow forget that we can choose whether to make time an enemy or an ally. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
1356:When admiring other people's gardens, don't forget to tend to your own flowers. ~ Sanober Khan, #NFDB
1357:When I’m dead, I’m going to forget everything—and I advise you to do the same. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
1358:Yesterday does not equal tomorrow. Forget the past and move towards your goals. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB
1359:You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
1360:Anything that makes you forget the wounds in your heart does a sacred job! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1361:Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. ~ Jacques Prevert, #NFDB
1362:Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. ~ Jacques Pr vert, #NFDB
1363:focused too much on the details of the application and forget about basic usability ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1364:Forget how much it hurts and try again. ~ Emma GingerichMorely~ Emma Gingerich ~ Emma Gingerich, #NFDB
1365:Forgiveness is what we all need to forget the past, even if we don’t deserve to. ~ Chris Colfer, #NFDB
1366:Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1367:How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
1368:I am who I am for a reason. A reason I wish to forget and therefore forget who I am. ~ R D Cole, #NFDB
1369:I don’t think any man is my equal. Women are far superior, and don’t you forget it. ~ Jenny Han, #NFDB
1370:I don't want people to forget Babe Ruth. I just want them to remember Henry Aaron. ~ Hank Aaron, #NFDB
1371:If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
1372:if there’s one thing I’ve never been able to forget, it’s a single second with you. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1373:If you can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work. ~ Lawrence Grobel, #NFDB
1374:If you focus too much on the future, you’ll forget to have fun in the present. ~ Deborah Bladon, #NFDB
1375:If you help them (the crew) create good memories, they'll forget all the bad stuff ~ Geoff Dyer, #NFDB
1376:I love you all very; very much and I shall never, ever forget you, I promise. ~ Michael Jackson, #NFDB
1377:I must proceed to my next mystery and for the moment forget this one completely. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
1378:I never hold a grudge. As soon as I get even with the son-of-a bitch, I forget it. ~ W C Fields, #NFDB
1379:I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
1380:It is so easy to remember our differences, I sometimes forget the similarities. ~ Peter V Brett, #NFDB
1381:Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
1382:Making a whole is very important. Most people paint things and forget the whole. ~ Tove Jansson, #NFDB
1383:Me Brock Lesnar. Here comes the pain. God built me strong. Forget to give me brain. ~ John Cena, #NFDB
1384:Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy. ~ Shirley Manson, #NFDB
1385:Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two. ~ Indira Gandhi, #NFDB
1386:Never forget where you came from. That's what I think when I walk into a cave. ~ Demetri Martin, #NFDB
1387:Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
1388:Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
1389:Old women even forget how to love their sons. The heart gets worn out, Monsieur. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
1390:One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB
1391:People forget your goodness; teach thing something so they can always remember. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
1392:Sometimes you forget you're famous. You wonder, Why is that person staring at me? ~ Bob Newhart, #NFDB
1393:Sometimes you just have to forget all the other stuff and remember we're sisters. ~ Beth K Vogt, #NFDB
1394:The adrenaline gets pumping and you just got to forget about [injuries] and play. ~ Baron Davis, #NFDB
1395:The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world’s dreadful injustice. ~ Jules Renard, #NFDB
1396:The mind forgets pain, the physical sensation of pain. It doesn’t forget terror. ~ Kate Griffin, #NFDB
1397:The pain on the inside is what keeps you human,' she said. 'Never forget that. ~ Taylor Stevens, #NFDB
1398:The quickest way to forget about your pain is to help someone who hurts more. ~ Matthew Barnett, #NFDB
1399:They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. ~ Mark Bowden, #NFDB
1400:Things happen which would not happen without prayer. Let us not forget that. ~ Elisabeth Elliot, #NFDB
1401:To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else. ~ Jean de la Bruyere, #NFDB
1402:Too often we forget that “discipline” really means “to teach”—not “to punish. ~ Daniel J Siegel, #NFDB
1403:To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. ~ Fernando Pessoa, #NFDB
1404:We choose to forget aspects of ourselves and then we forget that we've forgotten. ~ Debbie Ford, #NFDB
1405:When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
1406:You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget ~ Mallory Ortberg, #NFDB
1407:You know what? Forget the warning. Read the book. Go insane. See if I care. ~ Jonathan L Howard, #NFDB
1408:An apple a day keeps the doctor away, but if the doctor is cute, forget the fruit ~ Karen Ranney, #NFDB
1409:Be good, sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1410:Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgive yourself. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1411:Don’t forget, God can see you masturbating. But don’t stop. He’s almost there. ~ Sarah Silverman, #NFDB
1412:Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day. ~ Jay Leno, #NFDB
1413:Even though you're disappointed, you didn't forget to still love him, did you? ~ Priscilla Glenn, #NFDB
1414:Fallen Leaves nodded. “Go well,” he murmured. “I will never forget you, Hollyleaf. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
1415:Flint, don’t get so caught up on the shadow that you forget the man who casts it. ~ Aly Martinez, #NFDB
1416:Focus on eating healthy natural foods; forget about trying to get enough protein. ~ Joel Fuhrman, #NFDB
1417:Forget all your learnings - just remember that NOW is the moment that never ends ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
1418:Forget girls who died decades ago; words were ghosts. They were what haunted me. ~ Leila Howland, #NFDB
1419:Forget the known, don't be all the time immersed in your experiences. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, #NFDB
1420:Forget the supernatural bounty hunters that are after him; that fucker is mine. ~ Laura Thalassa, #NFDB
1421:Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home! ~ Zhuangzi, #NFDB
1422:For someone who can’t remember very much, there seems to be a lot I can’t forget. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
1423:God will never forget the needy; the hope of the afflicted will never perish. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1424:I CAN'T FORGET. I'M INCAPABLE. THAT MUST BE NICE, BEING ABLE TO FORGET. IS IT NICE? ~ Charles Yu, #NFDB
1425:If you don’t make the decision to love, every day, it’s an easy thing to forget. ~ Hanna Jameson, #NFDB
1426:I need you. Let me do this. I can make you forget him. I can make you forget you. ~ S C Stephens, #NFDB
1427:I think about more than I forget, but I don't go around fire expecting not to sweat. ~ Lil Wayne, #NFDB
1428:I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it. ~ Robert M Pirsig, #NFDB
1429:It's easy to forget people are blood and bone. They're not indestructible. ~ Alexandra Adornetto, #NFDB
1430:Just because you forget the world does not mean that the world forgets you. ~ Elizabeth Chadwick, #NFDB
1431:Just remain in the center; watching. And then forget that you are there. ~ Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, #NFDB
1432:Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it. ~ Eileen Caddy, #NFDB
1433:Love can make someone forget their hatred. Hatred can make someone unable to see love. ~ Unknown, #NFDB
1434:Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind--But how could I forget thee? ~ William Wordsworth, #NFDB
1435:My black-headed black-eyed boy. I remember every day of you. How would I forget? ~ Jamie O Neill, #NFDB
1436:My name will be Edith Proir," she says. "And there is much I am happy to forget. ~ Veronica Roth, #NFDB
1437:Never forget, the greatest battle we’ll ever face is the battle within ourselves. ~ Brad Meltzer, #NFDB
1438:Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
1439::Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
1440:Oliver Wendel Holmes said, “A person must get a thing before they can forget it. ~ Kevin Horsley, #NFDB
1441:people is that we forget that something unexpected can happen at any time. ~ Catherine Ryan Hyde, #NFDB
1442:Tell me, and I forget; teach me, and I may remember; involve me, and I learn. ~ Bill Hargenrader, #NFDB
1443:That thou remember them, some claim as debt; I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget. ~ John Donne, #NFDB
1444:The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love. ~ Red Auerbach, #NFDB
1445:The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
1446:Unless you're willing to look a little foolish, forget the possibility of becoming great. ~ Cher, #NFDB
1447:Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting. ~ Charlie Sheen, #NFDB
1448:We easily forget our faults when no one knows them but ourselves. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
1449:We forget the little things, so it's no wonder some of us screw up the big things. ~ Neil Cavuto, #NFDB
1450:We need to forget what we think we are, so that we can really become what we are. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1451:We often forget that the author of our faith must be the finisher of it also. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
1452:we shouldn’t forget at each moment to ask, is this one of the unnecessary things? ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
1453:You don't forget Bhagavan and Bhagavan won't forget you ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Day by Day, [T5], #NFDB
1454:You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand. ~ Edward O Wilson, #NFDB
1455:and as long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1456:And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
1457:As children we believe that anything is possible, the trick is to never forget it. ~ David Blaine, #NFDB
1458:But part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn't want to be without her. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1459:But soon I forget all they are being and doing and saying, and stare out the window. ~ Teri Terry, #NFDB
1460:depression is like a guest who shows up just when I’ve managed to forget about him ~ Haemin Sunim, #NFDB
1461:Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population. ~ Gertrude Stein, #NFDB
1462:Don't forget I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her. ~ Julia Roberts, #NFDB
1463:Don’t forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else. And ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1464:Don't wear your mask too long or you might start to forget who's beneath it. -Austin ~ Ted Dekker, #NFDB
1465:Even needing to get to Angel, we couldn’t forget the basic necessity of eating. ~ James Patterson, #NFDB
1466:Every bad thing that happens here reminds people of what they’re trying to forget ~ Tarryn Fisher, #NFDB
1467:I can’t forget you, Piper. But sometimes, I can’t really remember you either. ~ Kate Karyus Quinn, #NFDB
1468:I don't want to make you forget. I want to make you remember. And I'm about to, Rosie. ~ L J Shen, #NFDB
1469:I, for one, don't forget a thing. I just sit around waiting for something worse. ~ Natasha Friend, #NFDB
1470:If you want to stand out from the crowd, give people a reason not to forget you ~ Richard Branson, #NFDB
1471:I'll never forget the day I realized I wasn't quite the Ford model I thought I was. ~ Amy Schumer, #NFDB
1472:I reckoned some things you do best to remember. But sometimes it's best to forget. ~ Chris Howard, #NFDB
1473:I swear to God I’m a freak. I mean it. One day I’m going to forget how to wake up. ~ Alice Oseman, #NFDB
1474:It is possible to be so active in the service of Christ as to forget to love him. ~ Peter Forsyth, #NFDB
1475:It's easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged. ~ Brian Eno, #NFDB
1476:It's easy to forget to look up when all you do is focus on the road straight ahead. ~ Jessi Kirby, #NFDB
1477:It's like you know a lyric for a song by heart and suddenly you forget the words. ~ Cecelia Ahern, #NFDB
1478:I turned you into a stranger in order to forget you and now I'm the stranger. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
1479:I turned you into a stranger in order to forget you and now I'm the stranger. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon, #NFDB
1480:I want to go home," she whispered to me. "Forget that last speech, I want to go home. ~ Lia Habel, #NFDB
1481:Let us never forget that what we are is more important than what we do; and ~ James Hudson Taylor, #NFDB
1482:men in general sooner forget the lost their matrimony than the death of their father ~ Mario Puzo, #NFDB
1483:Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony ~ Niccol Machiavelli, #NFDB
1484:Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like. ~ Christopher Hitchens, #NFDB
1485:Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell. ~ Louisa May Alcott, #NFDB
1486:Remember that only God can judge us; forget the haters, because Somebody loves you. ~ Miley Cyrus, #NFDB
1487:So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them. ~ Princess Diana, #NFDB
1488:Some memories were harder to forget than others. Especially the painful ones. ~ Elizabeth Eulberg, #NFDB
1489:Sometimes it's easy to forget how much you miss people until you see them again. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
1490:Sometimes it’s easy to forget how much you miss people until you see them again. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
1491:Success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be. ~ Harry Lloyd, #NFDB
1492:Tell me and I'll forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I'll learn. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
1493:The public may forget how handsome I am.” “I doubt it. Your face is on the money. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
1494:There are two ways to live a life either forget everything or, remember nothing. ~ Santosh Kalwar, #NFDB
1495:The years leech at a man's memories, even those he has vowed never to forget. ~ George R R Martin, #NFDB
1496:This is the moment behind which I could forget every other moment that has passed. ~ Britt Ekland, #NFDB
1497:To see such a glorious mind as his overthrown—it is something you never forget. ~ Nancy A Collins, #NFDB
1498:Whatever they've done to me, Tarver, whatever I am--I love you. Don't forget that. ~ Amie Kaufman, #NFDB
1499:What you hear, you forget; what you see, you remember; what you do, you understand. ~ T Harv Eker, #NFDB
1500:When people say “clean as a whistle”, they forget that a whistle is full of spit. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
450 Integral Yoga
251 Poetry
74 Philosophy
64 Yoga
60 Occultism
53 Fiction
53 Christianity
38 Mysticism
22 Psychology
14 Islam
10 Education
8 Sufism
5 Philsophy
5 Mythology
5 Baha i Faith
4 Science
4 Integral Theory
4 Hinduism
2 Theosophy
1 Zen
1 Thelema
1 Kabbalah
1 Cybernetics
1 Alchemy
288 The Mother
170 Satprem
145 Sri Aurobindo
79 Nolini Kanta Gupta
47 Sri Ramakrishna
39 H P Lovecraft
35 Aleister Crowley
30 William Wordsworth
23 Rabindranath Tagore
22 Carl Jung
21 Saint Augustine of Hippo
20 Walt Whitman
20 John Keats
17 Percy Bysshe Shelley
16 Robert Browning
16 Friedrich Nietzsche
14 Saint John of Climacus
14 Muhammad
14 Jorge Luis Borges
13 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
12 William Butler Yeats
12 Plotinus
12 A B Purani
11 Plato
9 Saint Teresa of Avila
9 Nirodbaran
8 Swami Vivekananda
8 Swami Krishnananda
8 James George Frazer
8 Edgar Allan Poe
8 Aldous Huxley
7 Sri Ramana Maharshi
7 Friedrich Schiller
6 Kabir
6 Anonymous
5 Ralph Waldo Emerson
5 Rainer Maria Rilke
5 Ovid
5 Li Bai
5 Baha u llah
4 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
4 Henry David Thoreau
4 Franz Bardon
4 Al-Ghazali
3 Ken Wilber
3 Jordan Peterson
3 George Van Vrekhem
2 Thubten Chodron
2 Swami Sivananda Saraswati
2 Sarmad
2 Rudolf Steiner
2 Lewis Carroll
2 Jalaluddin Rumi
2 Bulleh Shah
2 Basava
46 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
39 Lovecraft - Poems
30 Wordsworth - Poems
26 Agenda Vol 08
23 Tagore - Poems
23 Magick Without Tears
22 The Synthesis Of Yoga
22 Agenda Vol 10
20 Whitman - Poems
20 Record of Yoga
20 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
20 Keats - Poems
19 Agenda Vol 01
18 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
17 Shelley - Poems
17 Savitri
16 City of God
16 Browning - Poems
15 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
14 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
14 Quran
14 Questions And Answers 1953
14 Prayers And Meditations
14 Agenda Vol 11
14 Agenda Vol 03
13 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
13 Agenda Vol 09
12 Yeats - Poems
12 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
12 Talks
12 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
12 Collected Poems
11 Words Of Long Ago
11 On Education
11 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
11 Agenda Vol 13
10 Some Answers From The Mother
10 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
10 Liber ABA
10 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
10 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
10 Agenda Vol 02
9 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
9 The Life Divine
9 Questions And Answers 1956
9 Labyrinths
8 The Study and Practice of Yoga
8 The Perennial Philosophy
8 The Golden Bough
8 Questions And Answers 1955
8 Questions And Answers 1929-1931
8 Poe - Poems
8 Letters On Yoga IV
8 Agenda Vol 06
7 The Bible
7 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
7 Schiller - Poems
7 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
7 Agenda Vol 07
7 5.1.01 - Ilion
6 The Practice of Psycho therapy
6 The Confessions of Saint Augustine
6 Questions And Answers 1954
6 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02
6 On the Way to Supermanhood
6 Mysterium Coniunctionis
6 Letters On Yoga II
6 Agenda Vol 04
5 Words Of The Mother III
5 Twilight of the Idols
5 The Way of Perfection
5 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
5 Rilke - Poems
5 Metamorphoses
5 Li Bai - Poems
5 Hymn of the Universe
5 Essays Divine And Human
5 Emerson - Poems
5 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
5 Agenda Vol 12
4 Words Of The Mother II
4 Walden
4 The Practice of Magical Evocation
4 The Phenomenon of Man
4 The Interior Castle or The Mansions
4 The Alchemy of Happiness
4 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08
4 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06
4 Bhakti-Yoga
4 Agenda Vol 05
3 Vedic and Philological Studies
3 The Secret Doctrine
3 The Red Book Liber Novus
3 The Human Cycle
3 The Future of Man
3 Songs of Kabir
3 Sex Ecology Spirituality
3 Raja-Yoga
3 Preparing for the Miraculous
3 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 04
3 Maps of Meaning
3 Letters On Yoga I
3 Letters On Poetry And Art
3 Isha Upanishad
3 Essays On The Gita
3 Borges - Poems
3 Aion
2 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
2 The Book of Certitude
2 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
2 Symposium
2 Rumi - Poems
2 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 03
2 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
2 How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator
2 Goethe - Poems
2 Faust
2 Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin
2 Anonymous - Poems
2 Amrita Gita
2 Alice in Wonderland
0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
As his love for God deepened, he began either to Forget or to drop the formalities of worship. Sitting before the image, he would spend hours singing the devotional songs of great devotees of the Mother, such as Kamalakanta and Ramprasad. Those rhapsodical songs, describing the direct vision of God, only intensified Sri Ramakrishna's longing. He felt the pangs of a child separated from its mother. Sometimes, in agony, he would rub his face against the ground and weep so bitterly that people, thinking he had lost his earthly mother, would sympathize with him in his grief. Sometimes, in moments of scepticism, he would cry: "Art Thou true, Mother, or is it all fiction — mere poetry without any reality? If Thou dost exist, why do I not see Thee? Is religion a mere fantasy and art Thou only a figment of man's imagination?" Sometimes he would sit on the prayer carpet for two hours like an inert object. He began to behave in an abnormal manner
, most of the time unconscious of the world. He almost gave up food; and sleep left him altogether.
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From now on Sri Ramakrishna began to seek the company of devotees and holy men. He had gone through the storm and stress of spiritual disciplines and visions. Now he realized an inner calmness and appeared to others as a normal person. But he could not bear the company of worldly people or listen to their talk. Fortunately the holy atmosphere of Dakshineswar and the liberality of Mathur attracted monks and holy men from all parts of the country. Sadhus of all denominations — monists and dualists, Vaishnavas and Vedantists, Saktas and worshippers of Rama — flocked there in ever increasing numbers. Ascetics and visionaries came to seek Sri Ramakrishna's advice. Vaishnavas had come during the period of his Vaishnava sadhana, and Tantriks when he practised the disciplines of Tantra. Vedantists began to arrive after the departure of Totapuri. In the room of Sri Ramakrishna, who was then in bed with dysentery, the Vedantists engaged in scriptural discussions, and, Forgetting his own physical suffering, he solved their doubts by referring directly to his own experiences. Many of the visitors were genuine spiritual souls, the unseen pillars of Hinduism, and their spiritual lives were quickened in no small measure by the sage of Dakshineswar. Sri Ramakrishna in turn learnt from them anecdotes concerning the ways and the conduct of holy men, which he subsequently narrated to his devotees and disciples. At his request Mathur provided him with large stores of food-stuffs, clothes, and so forth, for distribution among the wandering monks.
"Sri Ramakrishna had not read books, yet he possessed an encyclopedic knowledge of religions and religious philosophies. This he acquired from his contacts with innumerable holy men and scholars. He had a unique power of assimilation; through meditation he made this knowledge a part of his being. Once, when he was asked by a disciple about the source of his seemingly inexhaustible knowledge, he replied; "I have not read; but I have heard the learned. I have made a garland of their knowledge, wearing it round my neck, and I have given it as an offering at the feet of the Mother."
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Harish, a young man in affluent circumstances, renounced his family and took shelter with the Master, who loved him for his sincerity, singleness of purpose, and quiet nature. He spent his leisure time in prayer and meditation, turning a deaf ear to the entreaties and threats of his relatives. Referring to his undisturbed peace of mind, the Master would say: "Real men are dead to the world though living. Look at Harish. He is an example." When one day the Master asked him to be a little kind to his wife, Harish said: "You must excuse me on this point. This is not the place to show kindness. If I try to be sympathetic to her, there is a possibility of my Forgetting the ideal and becoming entangled in the world."
--- BHAVANATH
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Narendra, consumed with a terrific fever for realization, complained to the Master that all the others had attained peace and that he alone was dissatisfied. The Master asked what he wanted. Narendra begged for samadhi, so that he might altogether Forget the world for three or four days at a time. "You are a fool", the Master rebuked him. "There is a state even higher than that. Isn't it you who sing, 'All that exists art Thou'? First of all settle your family affairs and then come to me. You will experience a state even higher than samadhi."
The Master did not hide the fact that he wished to make Narendra his spiritual heir. Narendra was to continue the work after Sri Ramakrishna's passing. Sri Ramakrishna said to him: "I leave these young men in your charge. See that they develop their spirituality and do not return home." One day he asked the boys, in preparation for a monastic life, to beg their food from door to door without thought of caste. They hailed the Master's order and went out with begging-bowls. A few days later he gave the ochre cloth of the sannyasi to each of them, including Girish, who was now second to none in his spirit of renunciation. Thus the Master himself laid the foundation of the future Ramakrishna Order of monks.
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Yet one is not sure whether the Master's soul actually was tortured by this agonizing disease. At least during his moments of spiritual exaltation — which became almost constant during the closing days of his life on earth — he lost all consciousness of the body, of illness and suffering. One of his attendants (Latu, later known as Swami Adbhutananda.) said later on: "While Sri Ramakrishna lay sick he never actually suffered pain. He would often say: 'O mind! Forget the body, Forget the sickness, and remain merged in Bliss.' No, he did not really suffer. At times he would be in a state when the thrill of joy was clearly manifested in his body. Even when he could not speak he would let us know in some way that there was no suffering, and this fact was clearly evident to all who watched him. People who did not understand him thought that his suffering was very great. What spiritual joy he transmitted to us at that time! Could such a thing have been possible if he had 'been suffering physically? It was during this period that he taught us again these truths: 'Brahman is always unattached. The three gunas are in It, but It is unaffected by them, just as the wind carries odour yet remains odourless.' 'Brahman is Infinite Being, Infinite Wisdom, Infinite Bliss. In It there exist no delusion, no misery, no disease, no death, no growth, no decay.' 'The Transcendental Being and the being within are one and the same. There is one indivisible Absolute Existence.'"
The Holy Mother secretly went to a Siva temple across the Ganges to intercede with the Deity for the Master's recovery. In a revelation she was told to prepare herself for the inevitable end.
0.00 - The Book of Lies Text, #The Book of Lies, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
allowing enjoyment to cause Forgetfulness of the really
important thing. Those who allow themselves to wallow
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If I had Laylah, how could I Forget
Time, Age, and Death? Insufferable fret!
0.01f - FOREWARD, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
the dawn of life, or life in the Palaeozoic era, I do not Forget that
there would be a cosmic contradiction in imagining a man as
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nature up into pieces and to Forget both its deep inter-relations
and its measureless horizons : we incline to all that is bad in
0.02 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
all. Each one has his faults and must never Forget it when he
deals with others.
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I sing Your praises. I will never Forget how You respond when one calls You with intensity, nor the marvel
of Your presence which changes the attitude of others
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Yes, I am always with you, but you must never Forget to call me,
for it is by calling me that the presence becomes effective.
0.03 - III - The Evening Sittings, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
The long period of the Second World War with all its vicissitudes passed through these years. It was a priceless experience to see how he devoted his energies to the task of saving humanity from the threatened reign of Nazism. It was a practical lesson of solid work done for humanity without any thought of return or reward, without even letting humanity know what he was doing for it! Thus he lived the Divine and showed us how the Divine cares for the world, how He comes down and works for man. I shall never Forget how he who was at one time in his own words "not merely a non-co-operator but an enemy of British Imperialism" bestowed such anxious care on the health of Churchill, listening carefully to the health-bulletins! It was the work of the Divine, it was the Divine's work for the world.
There were no formal evening sittings during these years, but what appeared to me important in our informal talks was recorded and has been incorporated in this book.
0.03 - Letters to My little smile, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
is better to Forget your anger quickly; and if that isn't possible,
then you must tell me very simply what has happened so that
0.04 - The Systems of Yoga, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
But Rajayoga does not Forget that the disabilities of the ordinary mind proceed largely from its subjection to the reactions of the nervous system and the body. It adopts therefore from the Hathayogic system its devices of asana and pran.ayama, but reduces their multiple and elaborate forms in each case to one simplest and most directly effective process sufficient for its own immediate object. Thus it gets rid of the Hathayogic complexity and cumbrousness while it utilises the swift and powerful efficacy of its methods for the control of the body and the vital functions and for the awakening of that internal dynamism, full of a latent supernormal faculty, typified in Yogic terminology by the kun.d.alin, the coiled and sleeping serpent of Energy within. This done, the system proceeds to the perfect quieting of the restless mind and its elevation to a higher plane through concentration of mental force by the successive stages which lead to the utmost inner concentration or ingathered state of the consciousness which is called Samadhi.
By Samadhi, in which the mind acquires the capacity of withdrawing from its limited waking activities into freer and higher states of consciousness, Rajayoga serves a double purpose. It compasses a pure mental action liberated from the confusions of the outer consciousness and passes thence to the higher supra-mental planes on which the individual soul enters into its true spiritual existence. But also it acquires the capacity of that free and concentrated energising of consciousness on
0.05 - Letters to a Child, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have no doubt that you will become aware of it if you Forget the
Series Five - To a Child
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Do not Forget that I am always with you and do only what
you could do in front of me without feeling ashamed. I mean
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my work; I cannot Forget it. My dear mother, be with
me always.
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Never Forget this promise of Sri Aurobindo and keep
courage in spite of all difficulties. You are sure to reach the goal,
0.06 - Letters to a Young Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
At no moment do I Forget you. Don't you rather allow too many
other influences to come between you and me?
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you are sad and unsatisfied. To Forget oneself is the great remedy
for all ills.
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Yes, one must Forget one's past.
But why torment yourself so much? Be calm, don't get disturbed,
0.08 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For you must never Forget that the outer person is only the
form and symbol of an eternal Reality, and through the physical
0.09 - Letters to a Young Teacher, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
we adore. We must learn to live with respect and never Forget
His constant and immutable Presence.
01.01 - The Symbol Dawn, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Inert, released into Forgetfulness,
Prone it reposed, unconscious on mind's verge,
01.02 - Sri Aurobindo - Ahana and Other Poems, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The heart and its urges, the vital and its surges, the physical impulsesit is these of which the poets sang in their infinite variations. But the mind proper, that is to say, the higher reflective ideative mind, was not given the right of citizenship in the domain of poetry. I am not Forgetting the so-called Metaphysicals. The element of metaphysics among the Metaphysicals has already been called into question. There is here, no doubt, some theology, a good dose of mental cleverness or conceit, but a modern intellectual or rather rational intelligence is something other, something more than that. Even the metaphysics that was commandeered here had more or less a decorative value, it could not be taken into the pith and substance of poetic truth and beauty. It was a decoration, but not unoften a drag. I referred to the Upanishads, but these strike quite a different, almost an opposite line in this connection. They are in a sense truly metaphysical: they bypass the mind and the mental powers, get hold of a higher mode of consciousness, make a direct contact with truth and beauty and reality. It was Buddha's credit to have forged this missing link in man's spiritual consciousness, to have brought into play the power of the rational intellect and used it in support of the spiritual experience. That is not to say that he was the very first person, the originator who initiated the movement; but at least this seems to be true that in him and his au thentic followers the movement came to the forefront of human consciousness and attained the proportions of a major member of man's psychological constitution. We may remember here that Socrates, who started a similar movement of rationalisation in his own way in Europe, was almost a contemporary of the Buddha.
Poetry as an expression of thought-power, poetry weighted with intelligence and rationalised knowledge that seems to me to be the end and drive, the secret sense of all the mystery of modern technique. The combination is risky, but not impossible. In the spiritual domain the Gita achieved this miracle to a considerable degree. Still, the power of intelligence and reason shown by Vyasa is of a special order: it is a sublimated function of the faculty, something aloof and other-worldly"introvert", a modern mind would term it that is to say, something a priori, standing in its own au thenticity and self-sufficiency. A modern intelligence would be more scientific, let us use the word, more matter-of-fact and sense-based: the mental light should not be confined in its ivory tower, however high that may be, but brought down and placed at the service of our perception and appreciation and explanation of things human and terrestrial; made immanent in the mundane and the ephemeral, as they are commonly called. This is not an impossibility. Sri Aurobindo seems to have done the thing. In him we find the three terms of human consciousness arriving at an absolute fusion and his poetry is a wonderful example of that fusion. The three terms are the spiritual, the intellectual or philosophical and the physical or sensational. The intellectual, or more generally, the mental, is the intermediary, the Paraclete, as he himself will call it later on in a poem9 magnificently exemplifying the point we are trying to make out the agent who negotiates, bridges and harmonises the two other firmaments usually supposed to be antagonistic and incompatible.
01.02 - The Creative Soul, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Now the centre of this energy, the matrix of creativity is the soul itself, one's own soul. If you want to createlive, grow and be real-find yourself, be yourself. The simple old wisdom still remains the eternal wisdom. It is because we fall off from our soul that we wander into side-paths, paths that do not belong to our real nature and hence that lead to imitation and repetition, decay and death. This is what happens to what we call common souls. The force of circumstances, the pressure of environment or simply the momentum of custom or habit compel them to choose the easiest and the readiest way that may lie before them. They do not consult the demand of the inner being but the requirement of the moment. Our bodily needs, our vital hungers and our mental prejudices obsess and obscure the impulsions that thrill the hidden spirit. We hasten to gratify the immediate and Forget the eternal, we clutch at the shadow and let go the substance. We are carried away in the flux and tumult of life. It is a mixed and collective whirla Weltgeist that moves and governs us. We are helpless straws drifting in the current. But manhood demands that we stop and pause, pull ourselves out of the Maelstrom and be what we are. We must shape things as we want and not allow things to shape us as they want.
Let each take cognisance of the godhead that is within him for self is Godand in the strength of the soul-divinity create his universe. It does not matter what sort of universe he- creates, so long as he creates it. The world created by a Buddha is not the same as that created by a Napoleon, nor should they be the same. It does not prove anything that I cannot become a Kalidasa; for that matter Kalidasa cannot become what I am. If you have not the genius of a Shankara it does not mean that you have no genius at all. Be and become yourselfma gridhah kasyachit dhanam, says the Upanishad. The fountain-head of creative genius lies there, in the free choice and the particular delight the self-determination of the spirit within you and not in the desire for your neighbours riches. The world has become dull and uniform and mechanical, since everybody endeavours to become not himself, but always somebody else. Imitation is servitude and servitude brings in grief.
01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
As one Forgetting he searches for himself;
As if he had lost an inner light he seeks:
01.08 - A Theory of Yoga, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Secondly, there is the line of Substitution. Here the mind does not stand in an antagonistic and protestant mood to combat and repress the impulse, but seeks to divert it into other channels, use it to other purposes which do not demand equal sacrifice, may even, on the other hand, be considered by the conscious mind as worthy of human pursuit. Thus the energy that normally would seek sexual gratification might find its outlet in the cultivation of art and literature. It is a common thing in novels to find the heroine disappointed in love taking finally to works of charity and beneficence and thus Forgetting her disappointment. Another variety of this is what is known as "drowning one's sorrow in drinking."
Thirdly, there is the line of Sublimationit is when the natural impulse is neither repressed nor diverted but lifted up into a higher modality. The thing is given a new sense and a new value which serve to remove the stigma usually attached to it and thus allow its free indulgence. Instances of carnal love sublimated into spiritual union, of passion transmuted into devotion (Bhakti) are common enough to illustrate the point.
01.08 - Walter Hilton: The Scale of Perfection, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
This spiritual march or progress can also be described as a growing into the likeness of the Lord. His true self, his own image is implanted within us; he is there in the profoundest depth of our being as Jesus, our beloved and our soul rests in him in utmost bliss. We are aware neither of Jesus nor of his spouse, our soul, because of the obsession of the flesh, the turmoil raised by the senses, the blindness of pride and egoism. All that constitutes the first or old Adam, the image of Nought, the body of death which means at bottom the "false misruled love in to thyself." This self-love is the mother of sin, is sin itself. What it has to be replaced by is charity that is the true meaning of Christian charity, Forgetfulness of self. "What is sin but a wanting and a forbearing of God." And the whole task, the discipline consists in "the shaping of Christ in you, the casting of sin through Christ." Who then is Christ, what is he? This knowledge you get as you advance from your sense-bound perception towards the inner and inmost seeing. As your outer nature gets purified, you approach gradually your soul, the scales fall off from your eyes too and you have the knowledge and "ghostly vision." Here too there are three degrees; first, you start with faith the senses can do nothing better than have faith; next, you rise to imagination which gives a sort of indirect touch or inkling of the truth; finally, you have the "understanding", the direct vision. "If he first trow it, he shall afterwards through grace feel it, and finally understand it."
It is never possible for man, weak and bound as he is, to reject the thraldom of his flesh, he can never purify himself wholly by his own unaided strength. God in his infinite mercy sent his own son, an emanation created out of his substancehis embodied loveas a human being to suffer along with men and take upon himself the burden of their sins. God the Son lived upon earth as man and died as man. Sin therefore has no longer its final or definitive hold upon mankind. Man has been made potentially free, pure and worthy of salvation. This is the mystery of Christ, of God the Son. But there is a further mystery. Christ not only lived for all men for all time, whether they know him, recognise him or not; but he still lives, he still chooses his beloved and his beloved chooses him, there is a conscious acceptance on either side. This is the function of the Holy Ghost, the redeeming power of Love active in him who accepts it and who is accepted by it, the dynamic Christ-Consciousness in the true Christian.
0.10 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
past things be effaced by Forgetting the past?
If you can really allow them to be effaced and cease to exist,
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not know it, it is because you find it more convenient to Forget it.
27 September 1962
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Do not Forget - all of you who are here - that we want to
realise something which does not yet exist upon earth; so it is
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supreme Ananda and Forget life as it really is. What does
all this mean?
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something else... (the Divine for example) and Forget itself.
18 November 1964
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Never Forget where you are.
Letters on Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 23, pp. 593 - 94.
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Never Forget where you are living and the true aim of life.
Remember this at every moment and in all circumstances. In this
0.11 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(1) Never Forget the goal that one wants to attain.
(2) Never allow any part of the being or any of its movements to contradict one's aspiration.
0.12 - Letters to a Student, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
never Forgetting that it is for the Divine?
To achieve that, one must have an obstinate will and a great
0.14 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then gradually one learns that to Forget oneself is the source
of immutable peace. Later on, in this self- Forgetfulness, one finds
0 1955-09-15, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Otherwise, Mother, there is this block before me that is obscuring all the rest and taking away my taste for everything. I would like to leave, Mother, but not in revolt; may it be an experience to go through that receives your approval. I would not like to be cut off from you by your displeasure or your condemnation, for this would seem to me terrible and leave me no other recourse but to plunge into the worst excesses in order to Forget.
Mother, I would like you to forgive me, to understand me and, above all, not to deprive me of your Love. I would like you to tell me if I may leave for a few weeks and how you feel about it. It seems to me that I am profoundly your child, in spite of all this??
0 1956-04-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
My child, I have not abandoned you, and I am ready to Forget, to efface all revolt.
My help is always with you.
0 1958-05-10, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I began my sadhana at birth, without knowing that I was doing it. I have continued it throughout my whole life, which means for almost eighty years (even though for perhaps the first three or four years of my life it was only something stirring about in unconsciousness). But I began a deliberate, conscious sadhana at about the age of twenty-two or twenty-three, upon prepared ground. I am now more than eighty years old: I have thought of nothing but that, I have wanted nothing but that, I had no other interest in life, and not for a single minute have I ever forgotten that it was THAT that I wanted. There were not periods of remembering and Forgetting: it was continuous, unceasing, day and night, from the age of twenty-four and I had this experience for the first time about a week ago! So, I say that people who are in a hurry, people who are impatient, are arrogant fools.
It is a hard path. I try to make it as comfortable as possible, but nevertheless, it is a hard path. And it is obvious that it cannot be otherwise. You are beaten and battered until you understand. Until you are in that state in which all bodies are your body. But at that point, you begin to laugh! You were upset by this, hurt by that, you suffered from this or that but now, how laughable it all seems! And not only the head, but the body too finds it laughable!
0 1958-07-19, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
The Divine is everywhere, in everything. We should never Forget itnot for a second should we Forget it. He is everywhere, in everything; and in an unconscious but spontaneous, therefore sincere, way, all that exists below the mental manifestation is divine, without mixture; in other words, it exists spontaneously and in harmony with its nature. It is man with his mind who has introduced the idea of guilt. Naturally, he is much more conscious! Theres no question about it, its a fact, although what we call consciousness (what we call it, that is, what man calls consciousness) is the power to objectify and mentalize things. It is not the true consciousness, but its what men call consciousness. So according to the human mode, it is obvious that man is much more conscious than the animal, but the human brings in sin and perversion which do not exist outside of this state we call consciouswhich in fact is not conscious but merely consists in mentalizing things and in having the ability to objectify them.
It is an ascending curve, but a curve that swerves away from the Divine. So naturally, one has to climb much higher to find a higher Divine, since it is a conscious Divine, whereas the others are divine spontaneously and instinctively, without being conscious of it. All our moral notions of good and evil, all of that, are what we have thrown over the creation with our distorted and perverted consciousness. It is we who have invented it.
0 1958-08-09, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
If human love came forth unalloyed, it would be all-powerful. Unfortunately, in human love, there is as much SELF love as love for the beloved; it is not a love that makes you Forget yourself.
Evidently the gods of the Puranas are a good deal worse than human beings, as we saw in that film the other day1 (and that story was absolutely true). The gods of the Overmind are infinitely more egocentric the only thing that counts for them is their power, the extent of their power. Man has in addition a psychic being, so consequently he has true love and compassionwherein lies his superiority over the gods. It was very, very clearly expressed in this film, and its very true.
0 1958-09-16 - OM NAMO BHAGAVATEH, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
To sustain the aspirationto remember. We so easily lapse into Forgetfulness. To create a kind of automatism.
You have no mantras that have come to you, that give you a more living feeling? Are their mantras long?
0 1958-10-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
The other day, for example, though I no longer recall exactly when (I Forget everything on purpose)but it was in the last part of the night I had a rather long activity concerning the whole realization of the Ashram, notably in the fields of education and art. I was apparently inspecting this area to see how things were there, so naturally I saw a certain number of people, their work and their inner states. Some saw me and, at that moment, had a vision of me. It is likely that many were asleep and didnt notice anything, but some actually saw me. The next morning, for example, someone who works at the theater told me that she had had a splendid vision of me in which I had spoken to her, blessed her, etc. This was her way of receiving the work I had done. And this kind of thing is happening more and more, in that my action is awakening the consciousness in others more and more strongly.
Naturally, the reception is always incomplete or partially modified; when it passes through the individuality, it becomes narrowed, a personal thing. It seems impossible for each one to have a consciousness vast enough to see the thing in its entirety.
0 1958-10-06, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Each time we try to realize something and we encounter a resistance or an obstacle, or even a failurewhat appears to be a failurewe should know, we should NEVER Forget, that it is exclusively, absolutely, to make the realization more perfect.
So this habit of cringing, of being discouraged or even feeling ill at ease or abusing oneself, saying, There, Ive done it again All this is absolute foolishness.
0 1958-12-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
If you want, I can return to the Ashram and throw myself headlong into the work in order to Forget all this. There is a lot of work with Herberts things to correct, the revision of The Synthesis of Yoga, your old Questions and Answers and the Dhammapada, and perhaps you would accept to take up our work together again?
Otherwise, if you consider it preferable to wait, I could go join Swami in Rameswaram, discarding all my little personal reactions towards him. And I would try my best to find again the Light of the first time and return to you stronger. I dont know. I will do what you say. All this really has to change. I dont know, moreover, whether Swami wishes to have me.
0 1958-12-15 - tantric mantra - 125,000, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I have just received your letter of the 15th. Yes, I know that the hour is critical. It has been grave here as well. I had to stop everything, for the attack upon my body was too violent. Now it is better but I have not yet resumed any of my outer activities, and I remain in my room upstairs. The battle continues in the invisible and I consider it decisive. You are a very intimate part of this battle. This is to tell you that I am with you in the most integral sense of these words. I know what you are suffering, I feel it but you must hold on. The Grace is there, all-powerful. As soon as it is possible and without going through one minute more than needed to transform that which has to be transformed, the trial will reach its end and we shall emerge into the light and joy. So never Forget that I am with youin youand that WE SHALL TRIUMPH:
With all that love can bring of solace and endurance,
0 1960-01-28, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Of all forms of ego, you might think that the physical ego is the most difficult to conquer (or rather, the body ego, because the work was already done long ago on the physical ego). It might be thought that the form of the body is a point of concentration, and that without this concentration or hardness, physical life would not be possible. But thats not true. The body is really a wonderful instrument; its capable of widening and of becoming vast in such a way that everything, everything the slightest gesture, the least little taskis done in a wonderful harmony and with a remarkable plasticity. Then all of a sudden, for something quite stupid, a draft, a mere nothing, it Forgetsit shrinks back into itself, it gets afraid of disappearing, afraid of not being. And everything has to be started again from scratch. So in the yoga of matter you start realizing how much endurance is needed. I calculated it would take 200 years to say ten crore of my japa. Well, Im ready to struggle 200 years if necessary, but the work will be done.
Sri Aurobindo had made it clear to me when I was still in France that this yoga in matter is the most difficult of all. For the other yogas, the paths have been well laid, you know where to tread, how to proceed, what to do in such-and-such a case. But for the yoga of matter, nothing has ever been done, never, so at each moment everything has to be invented.
Of course, things are now going better, especially since Sri Aurobindo became established in the subtle physical, an almost material subtle physical.2 But there are still plenty of question marks The body understands once, and then it Forgets. The Enemys opposition is nothing, for I can see clearly that it comes from outside and that its hostile, so I do whats necessary. But where the difficulty lies is in all the small things of daily material lifesuddenly the body no longer understands, it Forgets.
Yet its HAPPY. It loves doing the work, it lives only for thatto change, to transform itself is its reason for being. And its such a docile instrument, so full of good will! Once it even started wailing like a baby: O Lord, give me the time, the time to be transformed It has such a simple fervor for the work, but it needs timetime, thats it. It wants to live only to conquer, to win the Lords Victory.3
0 1960-05-16, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
And then they say, I want to close my eyes and see nothing but Him I want nothing more of the outer world. And they Forget theres Love! That is the great Secret, that which is behind the Existent and the Non-Existent, the Personal and the ImpersonalLove. Not a love between two things, two beings A love containing everything.
In the early part of the century, I wrote Prayers and Meditations, and I too spoke of Him; but I wrote that with all my aspiration, all my sincerity (at least with all the sincerity of the conscious parts of my being) and I locked it up in a drawer so that no one would see it. It was Sri Aurobindo who later asked me to publish it, for it could be useful If I knew then, fifty years ago, what I know now, I would have been crushed! All this shame, all this unworthiness
0 1960-07-26 - Mothers vision - looking up words in the subconscient, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Its very simple, actually; its a convention, a conventional construction somewhere in the subconscious brain, and you write automatically. But if you want to try to bring the light of a slightly higher reason into it, its terrible. It becomes meaningless, and you Forget everything.
You have to be inside this automatic convention to remember; its very difficult (Mother laughs). So I make a lot of spelling mistakes (under her breath, in a mischievous tone) I think Ill ask him for his dictionary (laughter)!
0 1960-10-02a, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
This has protected me from all seeking for pleasure in life. It was a wonderful protection, because pleasure always seemed so futile to meyes, futile; for the sake of your personal satisfaction. Later, I even understood how foolish it is, for you can never be satisfiedthough when youre small you dont yet know that. I never liked it: But is it really useful, does it serve some purpose? And I still have this attitude in regard to my nights. I have this widening of the consciousness, this impersonalization, this wonderful joy of being above all that. But at the same time I also have, Im here in this body, on earth, to do something I mustnt Forget it. And this is what I have to do. But probably Im wrong!
Im waiting for the Lord to tell me clearly.
0 1960-10-22, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Sit as you normally do and Forget that Im here!
(After the meditation)
0 1960-10-25, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I found out the details: this boy had to go to the station, but on his way, he went into a shoe store just next to the station to buy a pair of sandals. As he entered, he saw a man there choosing a pair of womens shoes for himself! This seemed strange to him: Whats this man doing buying and he WATCHEDsuddenly, nothing more. He lost consciousness and no longer knew what happened to him. And thats how the story begana man selecting womens shoes in a shop! He must do strange thingsprobably intentionallyto attract peoples attention. Naturally, out of curiosity, the boy started watching, and that was thatall of a sudden, blank, nothing more! And long afterwards he found himself far away in a train with this man. Hes here now with his mother they came to thank me. Its he who gave me the details. Hes a nice boy, but all this has left him with some anxiety, especially when he speaks of it. Hes trying to Forget. He told me hed like to join the army and asked my permission. The boy feels a need for force and he has the idea that to be part of such a force would be good for him. (Of course, he didnt tell me all this, hes not that conscious. But thats what he feels the need to be supported by an organization of force.) So I encouraged him. I told him it was a good idea. His mother wasnt very happy! She feared he was leaping from the frying pan into the fire!
Another curious detail is that after having taken away all his appetite and having put him in the caf as a waiter, they told him, Now you must eat, so he tried to eat, and for four days he vomited up everything he put init was completely black! After that, he was able to start eating a little. Its a fantastic story!
0 1960-11-05, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Its the only way to Forget.
People often try to Forget the past, but it doesnt work. Only once it has brought all the lessons that it was meant to bring into your life (its decanted, so you see the thing in its deepest truth), is its utility finished, and it disappears.
I am convinced that at heart Karma is simply all the things we havent used in the true way that we drag along behind us If totally and clearly we have learned the lesson which each event or each circumstance ought to have brought, then its finished, its utility is gone and it dissolves.
0 1960-11-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
And, even with Sri Aurobindo, even with him I didnt speak of these things for I wouldnt waste his time, and I found it quite useless to burden him with all this. I would tell him I always described my visions and experiences at night I always recounted that to him. And he would remember (I myself would Forget; the next day, the whole thing would be gone), he would remember; then sometimes, long afterwards, even years afterwards, he would say, Ah, yes! You had seen that back then. He had a wonderful memory. While myself, I would already have forgotten. But those were the only things I told him, and even then only when I saw that it had a very sure, very superior quality. I didnt bother him with a whole jumble of words. But otherwise . even Nolini,4 who understands well I never, never felt even the (its not the need) not even the POSSIBILITY.
I dont want to tell you this too precisely, to expand on it, for these things cannot be explained. I want you tonot know nor think it, but feel it suddenly, like a little electric shock within that leaps forth.
0 1960-11-26, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Once or twice I heard certain things about him and I told him (for I told him all I saw or heard), and I said that I was that these suggestions were coming from the Enemy and that I was violently fighting against them. Then he looked at metwicehe looked at me, nodded his head and smiled. And thats all. Nothing more was said. How strange! I thought. And thats all. Then I myself must have forgotten. You see, he wanted me to Forget.
I only remembered afterwards.
0 1961-02-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The other is to find something worth concentrating upon that diverts your attention from your small, personal self. The most effective is a big ideal, but there are innumerable things that enter into this category. Most commonly, people choose marriage, because it is the most easily available (Mother laughs). To love somebody and to love children makes you busy and compels you to Forget your own self a little. But it is rarely successful, because love is not a common thing.
Others turn to art, others to science; some choose a social or a political life, etc., etc.
0 1961-02-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Otherwise, concentration is very good, it doesnt tire mewhen my body is not drained, when it isnt constantly aware that it exists because it hurts here, hurts there, aches here, aches there (pain is what gives it a sense of existing), when the body is able to Forget itself, things go well, its nothing. Now the Force passes through me without causing fatigue, while many years ago, too much Force created tension; but its not like that now, not at allon the contrary, the body feels better when a lot of force has passed through it.
I dont know. We shall see.
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Thats how it works. Because all substance is ONE. All is onewe constantly Forget that! We always have a sense of separation, and that is total, total falsehood; its because we rely on what our eyes see, on (Mother touches her hands and arms, as if to indicate a separate body, cut off from other bodies). That is truly Falsehood. As soon as your consciousness changes a little, you realize that what we see is like an image plastered over something. But its not true, NOT TRUE AT ALL. Even in the most material Matter, even a stoneeven in a stoneas soon as ones consciousness changes, all this separation, all this division, completely vanishes. These are (how to put it?) modes of concentration (something akin to yet not quite that), vibratory modes WITHIN THE SAME THING.8
(The clock strikes) Oh, now I must go!
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In any case, one thing: never Forget that what we have to do, we shall do; and we shall do it together because we have to do it together, that is alllike this, like that, in this way, in that way (Mother tilts her hand from right to left as though to indicate this side of the world or the other, life or death), it has no importance. But this is the true fact.
There, petit.
0 1961-03-27, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
That risks a terrible misunderstanding; be careful. Perhaps he wont even remember what he said anymore. Its difficult with X because he doesnt say things with his mindit just comes like that, and then he Forgets. You know how it is. Something may have made him speak. For instance, I know that with N. he almost always says unpleasant things about people and situations and this entirely results from N.s atmosphere. I have told N., He speaks like that because of your inner attitude. To one person he will say one thing, to another something completely different on the same subjectit depends a great deal on who hes talking to. No, I havent told you all this for you to speak with X about it, I have told you because it has posed a serious problem for me.
Its best to wait and see. I put a certain force into that note I wrote this morning (I wrote it at a very early hour) and you know that a formation4 is created when I write; I willed it to go to himand he may have received it. Well see what happens. Its better not to speak of it because it might speaking is too external.
0 1961-04-15, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But now I have the knack of Forgetting I just Forget. Because when I used to remember, I had to fight for entire days. So as soon as I wake up, I erase it right away: go away! Gone!
But all night long I am fully conscious of a lot of things they cant be called trivial, but. Oh, its as though everything that can comes to tell me: You think there will be a supramental transformation? Well then, just look: there is this and that and that and this, this one and that one, this circumstance, that thing, the world, people, things. Oh, a deluge!
0 1961-04-25, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ah, but thats far more difficult than talkingfar more! Far more, infinitely more difficult than talking. If you are a bit clear, transparentits enough just to be like this, at a given moment (gesture of opening upwards), to catch the Light, and then you can talk about it. Once you have seen it, you dont Forget it. But to do.
This paucity, this narrowness. Its relatively easy to get out of mental paucity, mental narrowness: one has only to pierce a hole, go beyond, and view things from above; and yes, immediately, it all widens. Thats relatively easy. But this vital and PHYSICAL paucity, material narrowness ohh!
0 1961-05-19, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was truly lovely. Then I gave my reason a good poke: How stupid can you be! You always Forget the essential.
It was very spontaneous and quite lovely.
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And then truly, truly it Forgets itself; truly it passes on to something else.
But all the rest of the time. From morning to evening, letters to read, things to organize, people to see. And at night, every time I come out of my trance there is a swarm of things here (gesture around the head) waiting to be heard, demanding attention.
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And all the time the body says. You know, its marvelous-all the time, whenever I grumble or grouse, it says, But its for Me, its Me, its Me, its for Me like that. Dont Forget, its for Me, its Me, its Me bringing in the people, its Me organizing, its Me making them ask things, it is Me.Very well. So I tweak my ears or pull my hair and say to myself, How stupid!
(silence)
0 1961-07-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yet it is He. There is nothing other than He! This should be repeated from morning to night, from night to morning, because we Forget it every minute.
There is only He, there is nothing other than He. He alone exists, there is no existence without Him. There is only He!
0 1961-08-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The moments of Forgetting are briefplunk! A knock from someone or something the shock of the ordinary vibration. Its unimportant, you turn your head and push it away. But I dont want that either, it [the movement of rejection] must go away entirely.
From a practical, concrete, effective standpoint, there are some results. Even when they dont write, people are beginning to receive my response very clearly, very precisely. People I dont know at all have written, and they receive my reply even before I write back (they tell this to intermediaries). I had another example only today. Its having results.
0 1961-08-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Sometimes I Forget to eat it, so its left over.
Well, so much the better, because I dont have much left!
0 1961-11-16a, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But its deplorable from an external viewpoint! Unread letters are piling up; I dont reply to people, I Forget everything I dont even try to remember. From an external point of view, Im pretty worthless.
It will last just as long as it lasts.
0 1962-02-24, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And with this change, the bodily substance, the very stuff of the cells, was constantly being told, Dont you Forget, now you see that miracles CAN happen. In other words, the way things work out in physical substance may not at all conform to the laws of Nature. Dont Forget, now! It kept coming back like a refrain: Dont Forget, now! This is how it is. And I saw how necessary this repetition was for the cells: they Forget right away and try to find explanations (oh, how stupid can you be!). Its a sort of feeling (not at all an individual way of thinking), its Matters way of thinking. Matter is built like that, its part of its make-up. We call it thinking for lack of a better word, but its not thinking: it is a material way of understanding things, the way Matter is able to understand.
Oh, thats enough talk for now!
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I think you can safely Forget about this formation.
But instead of doing equal amounts of time, it might be better to do less for inhaling and more for holding the breath. The holding part is extremely interesting! When the air is inside, lets say you have a headache or a sore throat or a pain in your arm, anything then you take the air (Mother demonstrates) and direct it to the unwell part very, very helpful and pleasant and interesting. You see the force go to the spot, settle in and stay there, all sorts of things.
0 1962-02-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When one is identified with the Supreme, there is a place where all is unequivocally known: in the past, in the present, in the future and everywhere. But when they return, those who go there usually Forget what they have seen. A particularly strict discipline is needed to remember. Thats the only realm where you cant be mistaken.
But the links of communication are seldom all there, so one rarely remembers.
0 1962-03-03, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I did know, but I hastened to Forget it
I knew it when he was still in his body.
0 1962-03-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You know, all those little rules were enjoined to follow: Above all, dont do that; and be sure to do this, dont Forget that. Like ablutions, for instance, or attitudes, or what to eattheres no dearth of them. A mountain of dos and dontsall completely swept away! And swept away to the point where sometimes a rule, something highly recommended (Be sure to do this, be careful to do thatan attitude or an action) becomes an obstacle. I hardly dare say it, but one example is having a regular schedulealways making ablutions at the same hour, always doing japa in the same manner and so on. And I am perfectly aware that Sri Aurobindo himself puts all sorts of trivial obstacles in my wayobstacles I could hurdle with a single second of reflection; he sets them up as if in play. Do you remember the aphorism where he says he was quarreling with the Lord and the Lord made him fall in the mud?2 Thats just what I feel. He puts a stick in my spokes and laughs. So I say, All right, thats enough, I dont give a hoot! Ill do whatever You want, its not my problem; I can do it or not do it, do it this way or that. It has all gone up in smoke now.
What has become constant, though. I shouldnt say it, because its going to get me into trouble again! But anyway, whats trying to be constant is DISCRIMINATION: taking all circumstances, vibrations, relationships, what comes from the people around me, what responds, and putting each in its proper place. A second-to-second discrimination. I know where things are coming from, why they come, their effect, where theyre going to lead me, and so on. Its growing more and more frequent, constant, automaticlike a state of being.
0 1962-03-13, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And thats all I said. Maybe I didnt put it in exactly those words, but I said it was for those who love me. Thats the point. For those who have loved me, well, its all right, I give it to them; even if they Forget me, it will make them remember. But its my gift to those who continue to love me. And I dont intend to give them a worthless gift.
No, no, I must really have expressed myself very poorly, because it was quite the opposite. I deem this Agenda far too intimate, far too near and dear to me, to be thrown as fodder to a bunch of idiots!
0 1962-05-24, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Lets Forget it.
What can you say!
As a matter of fact, it had occurred to me that we might just have to skip over or omit or Forget about certain aphorisms,2 especially the ones on doctors and medicine. (Not that I question the truth in themnot at all! But I question whether its appropriate to speak of them now.) And this one, too its better not to publish it.
I dont think all these aphorisms were written for publication I dont believe he was thinking of publishing them. He said certain things that were quite private.
0 1962-05-29, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Almost no philosophy, nothing intellectualalmost a story. His work presented in an entirely practical and matter-of-fact way, like the talks I used to give to the children here. When I said to the children, This, you know, is why you are here, I told them in a way they could understand, didnt I? Well the book should be like that. If I were to write (I will never write a book on Sri Aurobindo! Never, never, never I know it), but were I ever to write a book on Sri Aurobindo, thats the book I would write, something like a fairy tale. Just imagine. You see life, you see how it is, you are used to this sort of existence; and its dreary and its sad (some people find it entertainingbecause it doesnt take much to entertain them!). Well, behind it all there is a fairy tale. Something in the making, something thats going to be beautiful, beautiful, inexpressibly beautiful. And we shall take part in it. You have no idea, you think you will Forget everything when you die, leave it all behind you but its not true! And all who feel the call to a beautiful, luminous, joyous, progressive life, well they will all take part in it, in one way or another. You dont know now, but you will after a while. There you are.
A fairy tale.
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Anyway, lets Forget about this trip. When the book starts to come to me, well, Ill just get into it and that will be that.
Yes. But theres no hurry, is there?
0 1962-06-02, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Last night I spent almost all my time in such a building. And all the people who help the work were symbolized there but its always a material help, either work or money or. I remember being particularly struck by one character last night. (Again, there were a lot of aggravations, but someone or something was always on the scene when I arrived and it all sorted itself outit was the exact opposite of the dreams I was talking about the other day: all the difficulties sorted themselves out when I arrived.) Then I came to a rather difficult place to cross (you had to flounder about on slippery scaffoldings) and suddenly, facing me, there was a man (of course, it was probably a symbol rather than a man, but it might really be someone physical). He was one of the workers, a master mason (when I woke up this morning, I thought of the symbolism of Freemasonry and wondered if it might give a clue to the experience). Nearby, people were coming to supervise, observe, direct, people who thought themselves highly superior but they were never any help in solving practical problems! They were creating more problems than they were helping to solve. Anyway, this master mason appeared to be around fifty, with a beautiful facea workers face, beautiful and concentrated. There was a difficult place to cross, and he had worked the thing out very efficiently, with a lot of care. Then, when it was all done and I was able to go on my way, I felt a great surge of love go out to him, with neither gesture nor word and he received it, he felt and received it. His face lit up and he implored me, with wonderful humility, Never let me Forget this moment, the most beautiful moment of my life. (I dont know what language he used because it didnt come to me in words.) It was such an intense experience. His humility, his receptivity, his response were all so beautiful and pure that when I woke upwhen I came out of the experience, at any rate I was left with a most delightful impression.
What he represents might be partly manifested by somebody here. A beautiful face a man around fifty. Or it may be symbolic: such characters are sometimes put together with features from several people, to make it very clear that they represent a state of consciousness and not an individual. Its far more often a state of consciousness than an individual.
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The afternoon experience was very intriguing; I was busy working (organizing things for one of the departments, I no longer remember which) and then I said to the person I was with, Now I am going to my cousins place! When I was very young I had a cousin, the eldest son of one of my fathers brothers (he had a large family, such as you seldom see in France). This cousin became some kind of engineera civil engineer, maybe, or a mechanical engineer (he was an outstanding chemist). Anyway, this boy was very attracted to me. He went off to the war as an officer and caught some disease (I Forget what) and died around 1915, at the time I returned to France. Well, in my experience yesterday afternoon, a certain family living HERE gave me exactly the same sensation I had had towards those people when I was young. And especially for this cousin (for the rest of the family it was more vague, like a background to the experience). I am going to their place, I said. They have a lovely estate here, just as they had a lovely estate in France before (they had Madame de Sevignes chateau at Sucy, near Parisa beautiful property). And it was all so concrete! It wasnt coming through the head; it wasnt a thought but a sensation. I have to go see him now, I said. And even as I was having my vision I was telling myself, You must be going crazy! Can they really be here in Pondicherry? This uncle with whom I had only rather distant relations and this cousin I never saw much of, but whom I knew to be very nice and very loyalAre they really here?! The sensation was most strange (the head wasnt functioning at all; it was a SENSATION). So off I went to see this cousin, and it was on the way to see him that I had the experience of crossing the river. And on the way back, after the discussion with the spiritual brother (whom I really told off: Get out of here! I dont need you!), after that, when I found myself back on the bank, I started collecting my consciousness again, telling myself, Look here now! Lets try to see clearly. And then I realized that the cousin who died prematurely during the war had reincarnated in someone here. How strange, I thought. And the dates coincided.
But that is a singular state: there is no mental intervention at all; you live things POSITIVELY, just as you experience them physically, in the same way that this (Mother knocks on the table next to her) is physically a table. Its that kind of perception something positive. I positively said, I am going to my cousins place, and the relationship had an absolutely positive vibrationit wasnt at all something thought or even remembered: theres no remembering anything, its simply there, alive. A strange state. I have had it on several occasions, and when I have it I am aware that this must be the state people who know what is happening and make predictions are inin this state there is no possibility of doubt. No thoughts intervenenone at all, not one. Absolutely nothing intellectual: simply certain vital-physical vibrations, and then you know. And you dont even wonder how you know; its not that kind of thingits self-evident. And since I was in that state when I saw the reincarnation of the cousin, I am perfectly sure of what I saw. And god knows (Mother laughs), when I came out of it and began to look at it all with my usual consciousness, I said to myself, My word! I would never have thought of such a thing! It was millions of miles from any thought of mine. Besides, I never used to think of that cousin; he was a fine boy but I never paid much attention to him, he had no place in my active consciousness.
0 1962-06-09, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It all practically comes down to a capacity to spread the experience, or to INCLUDE things in the experience (its the same thing). You really have to Forget this business of one person and then another, one thing and then another. Even if you cant realize it concretely, at least imagine that there is but ONE thing, excessively complex, and (depending on the case) one experience taking place in one spot, or spreading out like oil on water, or embracing everything. This is all very approximate, but its the only way the thing can be understood. And the sole explanation for contagion is in that Oneness.
And power is what makes the difference. The greater the power, you might say (these words are all very clumsy), the farther the experience spreads. How great the power is depends on its starting point. If its starting point is the Origin, the power is lets say universal (we wont consider more than one universe for the moment); it is universal. As this Power manifests from plane to plane, it becomes more concrete and limited; on each plane, the field of action becomes more limited. If your power is vital (or pranic, as its called here in India), the field of action is terrestrial, and sometimes limited to just a few individuals, sometimes its a power capable of acting on just one small being. But originally its the SAME power, acting on the SAME substance I cant express it, words are impossible; but I sense very clearly what I mean.
0 1962-07-07, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No, no, people want to while away the time, they want to be diverted and Forget their worries, their family cares, their businesses for half an hour.
I am not being critical, its just a prediction!
0 1962-09-05, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But one has to. Look, its the same as for japa. Your japa is given to you, isnt it? You receive it (unless you find it on your own, but thats harder and already requires another level of realization); you receive your japa along with the power to do it but you have to learn how to do it, right? For a long while you dont fully succeed; all sorts of things happenyou Forget it right in the middle or fall asleep or grow tired, get a headache, all sorts of things; or even outer circumstances interfere and disturb you. Well, here its the same: you tell yourself, Ill do it, and you will do it, even if. You have to go at it just like a mule: everything blocks the way but you keep going. You said youd do it and you will do it. There are no results I dont care. Everything is against me I dont care. I said Id do it and I will I said Id do it and I will. And you keep on going like that.
Its the same thing in your case. It depends on what you want to achieve. Simply what I told you about sleep or resting, for example, ought to be enough. On that, you base your own disciplineor on words that were uttered, or gestures that were made, or ideas youve received. You establish your own discipline. And once you have chosen your discipline, you keep on with it.
0 1962-09-08, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Hes afraid that when you stop making the gestures, you Forget the path!
Yes, he feels I am dropping everything.
0 1962-09-26, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(A few days later Mother remarks, concerning her Forgetfulness and her way of hearing elsewhere:)
And sometimes I hear a word that isnt even close to what was said!
0 1962-11-20, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont Forget what Sri Aurobindo saiddeclared (in writing): that in 1967 the supramental Power will be behind all the earths governments. Whether its these people or those or whoever, they will be directly, maybe not consciously, but directly under the influence of the supramental forces, which will make them do what has to be done. And so, of course, the first result will be a kind of worldwide collaborationhe explicitly told me that, and he wrote it down. Thats what he had seen. But he didnt say we would get there without without catastrophe. He never said that.
Well, mon petit.
0 1963-02-23, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As soon as I got her letter, I saw: thats where she went. Besides, I knew she had gone there. Plenty of people go there and are unaware of it! They Forget. But she had a nice memory.
She goes there very often at night, very often, but generally people Forget.
Simply for want of training. If you train yourself, you remember quite well. There are small holes in the consciousness, gaps, and when you go through such a gap you Forget. You may suddenly get a fleeting impression of something, and then it eludes youoh, its gone! Only, it takes a long time to train yourself; you shouldnt be in a hurry or too busy. I went through it at a time when I was bedridden for five months. I had nothing to do. (You cant keep reading all the timeduring those five months I read some eight hundred books no, nine hundred and fifty! But it tires the eyes.) So the rest of the time (you cant sleep too much either when youre in bed all the time), I trained myself: that was when I learned to have completely conscious nights. But its a discipline. When you wake up, either in the middle of the night or in the morning, dont budge, stay absolutely still, concentrated, very silent, and PULL the memory back. For one month, two months, you seem to get nowhere; after six months it begins to work; and eventually you remember everything. At the end, you do the opposite movement, in the sense that whenever you have an interesting dream, you wake up: you learn to wake up in the middle of the night every time you have a vision or a dream, or some activity (there are various cases), so that you can remember, and then you repeat it to your consciousness (once youre awake, you repeat it to yourself two or three or ten times, till youre certain not to Forget), and then off you go again.
But you cant do that if, when morning comes, you have to leap out of your bed and attend to fifty thousand pressing matters. It isnt indispensable for the yoga, not at all. Its a hobby, rather, something to amuse yourself with.
0 1963-03-06, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
We always Forget that not only is everything possibleeverything, even the most contradictory things but every possibility is given at least one moment of existence.
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0 1963-03-30, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But its erased immediately; as soon as I wake up, my first movement (gesture of offering) is to present it all to the Lord: the cause, the effect, the image, the sensationeverything. When its all seen, I tell Him, Now its Yours. And then I Forgetfortunately, thank God!
It goes on every night. It takes the form of all sorts of scenes, of symbols, of memories, from words to images. It comes in groups and categories of tendencies, it represents the various human tendencies in detailits infinitesimal. Its only because they are multiplied millions of times that they can have some importance but theyre nothing! Mere nothings. Yet thats just what blocks the way.
0 1963-04-06, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All this takes place in the material consciousness. Physically, the body has all the sensations but not the hemorrhage, you understand. But it does have the sensations, that is, the effects: all the sensory effects. It goes on for a while and then follows a whole curve. All right. Once the battle is over, I take a look and wonder (I observe the whole thing, I see my body, which has been fairly shaken, mind you), I say to myself, What in the world is all this? But just for a second, then I Forget about it.
A few days afterwards, I receive a letter from someone very close, who has an ardent faith and really holds on to me with almost perfect faith, exceptional. In the letter: the whole story, the attack, the hemorrhage, how suddenly the being is SEIZED, the consciousness is SEIZED with an irresistible will, and hears words the very words that were uttered HERE. The result: saved (he was dying), saved, cured.
0 1963-05-11, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I know someone who could note it down: Sunil could note it down, he knows how to write music. I no longer do Ive forgotten all that. I have spent all my time Forgetting everything.
I used to write my Sanskrit as I write Frenchall gone.
0 1963-10-30, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And he said with assurance, Do tell him this, let him not Forget that all the most beautiful, the most marvelous, the most fantastic things we have dreamed of are nothing compared to what will be realized and yet that will be the realization of all dreams. But far more perfect, more marvelous, more complete, more living.
The other day I wondered, What am I going to tell him? And he immediately answered me, Tell him this.
0 1964-03-31, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I Forget completely. I seem to go by so fast, so fast, so fast, that its impossible to rememberit would pull me backwards.
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0 1964-07-15, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
to be grateful, never to Forget this wonderful Grace of the Supreme who leads each one to his divine goal by the shortest ways, in spite of himself, his ignorance and misunderstanding, in spite of the ego, its protests and its revolts.
June 26, 1964
Whats written here is such a true experience! Never to Forget this wonderful Grace of the Supreme who leads you straight to your true goal, in spite of all your revolt, all your misunderstandingstraight, imperturbably.
You cry out, you weep, you protest, you revolt. I will lead you right to the end in spite of yourself.
0 1964-10-10, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Now, the last stage is that the body should Forget it has been ill; thats very important.
Very difficult.
0 1964-11-04, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The difficulty is that one lives with others I understand very well that those who wanted to follow the inner law, the Impulse from above every second, were obliged to withdraw, because then they depend only on themselves (they depend on themselves, on Nature, that is to say, on the rising and setting of the sun, and then on plants and animals but those make no demands). But in a human life, you need set times to get up, to go to bed, to eat; especially for food: there are those who do the cooking. It has its advantages: there were periods in my life when I lived all alone (not long ones, not for a long time, but I had some), well, during those periods, more often than not I would Forget to eat and Forget to sleep. Thats a drawback.
But there is a great advantage.
0 1965-02-19, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its not exactly what one asks for, it is The only word, really, is aspiration. Its infinitely more than hope: there is the certainty that things will be that way, but one never Forgets that THAT is what one wants. And I add:
The first word represents:
0 1965-03-10, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Soon afterwards, regarding an old Playground Talk of March 12, 1951, in which Mother said that mans two chief occupations are Forgetting and keeping himself amused.)
Now I would say many things.
0 1965-03-24, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
After perfect stillness, there is the movement of inner aspiration (I am always referring to the aspiration of the cells I am using words to describe something wordless, but there is no other way to express oneself), the surrender, that is to say, the SPONTANEOUS AND TOTAL acceptance of the supreme Will (which is unknown to us). Does the total Will want things to go this way or that way, that is, towards the disintegration of certain elements or towards? And then again, there are endless nuances: there is the passage from one height to another (I am speaking of cellular realizations, of course, dont Forget that), I mean that you have a certain inner equilibrium, an equilibrium of movement, of life, and its understood that in order to go from one movement to a higher movement, there is almost always a descent, then a new ascent there is a transition. So does the shock received impel you to go down in order to climb up again, or does it impel you do go down in order to abandon old movements? Because there are cellular ways of being that have to disappear in order to give way to others; there are others that climb down in order to climb up again with a higher harmony and organization. This is the second point. And you should wait and see WITHOUT POSTULATING IN ADVANCE what has to be. There is especially, of course, the desire: the desire to be comfortable, the desire to be in peace and all that that must cease absolutely and disappear. You must be absolutely without any reaction, like this (gesture of immobile offering Upward, palms open). And then, when you are like that (you, meaning the cells), after a while the perception comes of the category the movement belongs to, and you just have to follow the perception, whether it is that something must disappear and be replaced by something else (which one doesnt know yet), or whether it is that something must be transformed.
And so forth. And its like that all the time.
0 1965-07-07, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont know for others but for a very long time in life when there is an illness (some illness of any kind) automatically the cells Forget everything, all their sadhana and everything, and it is only slowly when you get out of the illness that the cells begin to remember. And then, my ambition was (I remember that, it was long ago, many years ago), my ambition was that the cells should remember when being illwhich is absurd because it would have been better to aspire to have no illness! But for a time it was like that. The first time that the cells remembered, oh, I was very happy. But now, it is the opposite; that is, as soon as the disorder comes, the cells first first they got a little anxious: Oh, we are so bad that we are still catching illnesses that was a period; and then, afterwards there was the impression: Oh, You want to teach us a lesson, we have something to learn that was already much better: a kind of eagerness. And now there is an intense joy and a kind of power; a power that comes, a power of aspiration and a power of realization that comes with the sense: We are winning a victory, we are winning a new victory.
That has been my condition over the last few days.
0 1965-07-17, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother laughs) The reason is simple: that side is very, very close to the ordinary consciousness, so you remember; the other there isnt a sufficient connection, so when you wake up, you Forget.
Thats the discouraging thing, besides, because one always remembers the bad side, not the rest!
0 1965-08-04, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But I must say it is the result of years of effortnot effort: vigilance. Vigilance: not to Forget that THAT is what one wants, and that the other way is simply a stopgap in the meantime.
At any rate, it is quite certain (Sri Aurobindo wrote it somewhere, I read it again just two or three days ago), quite certain that the Lord doesnt want automatons that He has to push along. Thats not what He wants: He wants a conscious collaboration. Only, a point comes when the sense of the person truly disappears; you go on saying I, because how do you express yourself? But when you say I, you have the feeling (not the thought for the thought, it takes a long time), a sort of feeling of the higher Will manifesting here, in this spot, with these means.
0 1965-09-25, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
That will only be the last life the last life before the transformation. That will be the life of the transformation. Which means that all that has been prepared for millions and millions of years will be realized one fine day, and when it is realized, the one (the one or the ones, whatever) for whom it is realized will say, Here, weve done it! (Mother laughs) Forgetting that it took millions of years to prepare for that minute!
It would be good for that minute to come soon.
0 1965-10-20, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You must shake that up, mon petit! You must. In your being you have been and still are somewhere in full Light. I told you it was a sort of close collaboration between the Light which is in Sri Aurobindo and your capacity of expression. One has no right to Forget that.
I dont Forget that.
And then, there is in fact all that I have told you lately about this phase in the development because of which, outwardly Yes, thats what I hear from everyone: Why dont you change that? Why dont you free me from this? Why dont you eliminate that? So far, the power to do things instantly hasnt been given to me personally. I dont know why. But every time it is necessary to intervene, I pass everything on to the Lord and tell Him, Do it.
0 1966-01-26, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The trouble is that the outer being finds it hard to Forget its habit of regarding material things as true, real, concrete: This is concrete, you touch it, see it, feel it.
Its beginning to come.
0 1966-03-26, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Some curious things are happening. For instance, I take a paper like the one I have just read [the message], and I see very clearly; then comes the old habit (or the idea or memory) that I need a magnifying glass to seeand I cant see anymore! Then I Forget about seeing or not seeing, and I can do my work very well, I dont notice that I see or dont see! And its like that with everything.
With everything, everything. Sometimes for an hour I follow what goes on: there is a minute work of subtle observation of what goes on here [in Mother] and of what goes on in the thought or consciousness of one or two other persons, with a whole detailed observation showing the difference between the fact as it should normally be (which is simply something direct, a movement taking place), and the complication brought in by thoughtnot higher thought: the physical thought, that is, the observation and all sorts of deductions, along with the memories of similar events and things heard or seen and all sorts of instances of similar occurrences, of possible hazardsa mishmash, mon petit! Something frightening which spoils everything and complicates everything: the slightest thing becomes complicated.
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So, if for some reason or other there is a disorganization (but I think the reason is one of teaching), one must have the capacity to go like this (Mother brings her two hands down in a gesture that immobilizes everything) and to stop all that instantly. But the capacity has been there for a long time, a long time (it hasnt always been used, but it has been there): the Power. And its the same with EVERYTHING: world events or natural or human upheavals, earthquakes and tidal waves, volcanic eruptions, floods, or else wars, revolutions, people killing each other without even knowing whyas they are doing at the moment: everywhere something pushes them on. Behind this quiver, there is a will for disorder that tries to prevent Harmony from being established. Its there in the individual, in the collectivity, and in Nature. And then, its such a painstaking, persistent teaching, which Forgets nothing and is repeated every time something isnt totally understood, and is repeated in greater detail for you to better understand the working: the working in the hands, in the activity, in the Force going through [Mother] like this, in the use of vibrationsand which teaches the great Lesson: learning how to manifest the divine Force.
Its absolutely wonderful.
0 1966-05-18, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Naturally, in the evolutionary curve, it was necessary for man to Forget his all-powerfulness, because it had quite simply puffed him up with conceit and vanity, and so it was completely distorted and he had to be given the sense that lots of things were stronger and more powerful than he. But essentially, its not true. Its a necessity in the curve of progress, thats all.
Man is a potential god. He thought he was a realized god. He needed to learn that he was nothing but a puny little worm crawling on the earth, and so life planed and filed him down in every way till he understood isnt the word, but anyway, felt to some extent. But as soon as he assumes the true position, he knows he is a potential god. Only, he must become it, that is, he must overcome all that isnt it.
0 1966-09-28, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
She writes this: We must stop encouraging torturers, whether of men or of animals. I am writing to beg you to teach me how to obtain the powers to lessen sufferings in others through concentration of fluid, and how to act by inwardly returning blow for blow to the aggressors, without hatred but implacably. I beg you to help me. Which inner giving, which renunciation is necessary? Who will teach me the force and justice that will enable me to act and not to always let evil triumph? It is too easy to Forget, deny, minimize others suffering. I can no longer put up with it. I no longer want to shut my eyes and comfort myself till the next time. What should I undertake?
When did you get this letter?
0 1966-11-03, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its generally fragmentsfragments of life that were individualized, and when in the present life you follow a normal development with the [various beings] gathering around the central consciousness, all those elements come back to gather together. They come back, each with its own memories. For instance, I had a memory like that (I tell you, Ive had hundreds of them) when I was very young (I must have been twenty or so). It wasnt at night, but I was lying down, resting: suddenly I felt myself riding a horse, with tremendous warlike power and the sense a will for victory and the POWER of victory. And I felt as if I was riding a horse: I saw a white horse, I saw my legs, with riding breeches, you understand, and a red velvet costume. And there I was, at a gallop. I couldnt tell what the head was like or anything, naturally! And also, the crowd, the armies, and the rising sun. It was so strong, the sense that it was the sense of the will for victory and the POWER of victory. It came just like that. Then, sometime later, I read somewhere the story of Murat (I Forget I think his victory was Magenta3 I no longer remember all that), and I immediately understood that my vision was at the moment of launching the battle: he had an inner call to a Power, so there was an identification [with Mothers power], and thats what I remembered and what came back. If I said (as the Theosophists tell you), I was Murat, it would be stupid. But it was a consciousness coming back. It was so strong! The impression lasted long enough, with the sense of the battle but above all the sense of that POWER making you invincible. It was interesting, because at the time (it was just in the beginning, I was beginning to take interest in these things and I had just come across the Cosmic teaching), I was convinced that a womans psychic being was always reincarnated in a woman and a mans psychic being was always reincarnated in a man (many schools teach that; Thon too believed so, he insisted on it). So it came as a surprise, because it wasnt in conformity with what I thought (!). Afterwards (long afterwards), I realized that naturally all those dogmas were nonsense, but
It fits with what I told you last time: the STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS are what reincarnate, evolving, developing, growing more perfect. Thats rather how it was, thats how that memory came. Its like that with many memories. And I know that to say states of consciousness are what reincarnate, to adopt that as the sole explanation would be incorrectits absolutely incorrect but its one way of looking at the question beyond the sense of the little personality. It broadens the consciousness: one has in oneself things far more universal and far less limited than personal experiences. Just as in life some people have an exceptional life, in the same way they also have exceptional moments in their life, when they no longer are one single little person: they are a force in action. Thats how it is.
0 1966-11-09, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I remember, once, it was with Madame David-Neel. Its very interesting. She came to give a lecture (I wasnt acquainted with her, thats where I met her for the first time), I think it was at the Theosophical Society (I Forget). I went to the lecture, and while she was speaking, I saw Buddha I saw him clearly: not above her head, a little to the side. He was present. So after the lecture, I was introduced to her (I didnt know the kind of woman she was!), and I said to her, Oh, Madam, during your speech I saw Buddha present. She answered me (in a furious tone), Impossible! Buddha is in Nirvana! (Mother laughs) Oho! Better keep quiet! I thought.
But he really was there, whatever she thought!
0 1966-11-26, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There, the problem comes up again. Because there are various detailed experiences (in tiny details), detailed experiences of different attitudes of consciousness to find out which of them is effective. Its a whole field of study. Its microscopic, of course, but extremely interesting. And then, the answer is always the same; its so lovely: When you Forget that you are, when there only remains the Lord, all difficulties instantly disappear. Instantly: the previous second, the difficulty was there; the next second, gone. But its not something that can be done artificially; its not some mental or personal will to take this attitude: it must be spontaneous. And when its spontaneous, then all difficulties INSTANTLY disappear.
Stop existing the Lord alone exists.
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But how to do this? You understand, surrender, self-giving, acceptance, all that is really being done more and more, better and better, but its not enoughits not enough. Thats the point. Even the attempt of the consciousness to center on the Lords existence and to try and Forget, even that isnt enough. It has some effect, but a mixed one: thats not it. But when you succeed in ceasing to exist the Lord aloneinstantly theres a glory, thats what is marvelous!
But its difficult. There is a very old habit that makes it be otherwise.
0 1967-03-22, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This morning I was also bombarded with a quotation from Sri Aurobindo (they came and bombarded me in the name of Sri Aurobindo!), to tell me that in The Mother it was written that, The divine Grace can act only in the Truth and I shouldnt Forget that! (Mother laughs) There is a quotation from Sri Aurobindo in which he says, The divine Grace will answer, but do not think it will answer in Falsehood. An admirable sentence. Only, they dont know: they are the possessors of the Truth the Falsehood is the others! And even intelligent people (thats the strange thing, because its so idiotic!), even people anyway, those with a brain, who understand, fall into the trap.
Its very common at the School.
0 1967-04-15, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There are other, very interesting examples. Theres a Burmese (you may have heard of this) who has just received a peace prize. He has written an article (he is Burmese, I dont know which language he wrote it in, but it has been published in French in a Swiss newspaper), in which he says what everybody knows, but what everybody Forgets too: that if all the money wasted on preparing means of destruction were used for the progress of human well-being, we could work wonders. And he adds (I cant quote him exactly): for that to be possible, mennations and menmust stop distrusting and fearing each other, and live in the sense of unity. And he says, if, for that, HUMAN NATURE HAS TO CHANGE, its high time it changed and we must all work for that to happen.
I am extremely happy to hear this. Here is a man who has caught the true thing.2
0 1967-05-06, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
He even told me (I saw him), he even told me the vision that was at the origin of his cure. And it was really interesting. He said he saw it, as it were, almost with open eyes: everything was dark (it was in the night), the room was dark, he felt absolutely depressed, andit was a heart attackhad no more interest in anything, no more interest in life, and felt as if he was letting himself slip into death, just like that. Then, suddenly, he thought of me. Andhe says his eyes were open the whole room was dark, except for a sort of oval of light just in front of him. A quite dazzling oval of light, which remained. So he looked (he wasnt asleep), he looked to see what could be causing that light (he is sufficiently materialistic), but then, nothinghe realized there was nothing. Then he started watching that light, and he saw, rising from the bottom (he didnt know from where, couldnt see from where) like a flametwo small flamesof a very, very pale light, very bright. He found it interesting, and continued to watch. And all of a sudden, he saw in the light the shape of what he calls I think its Mahasaraswati (I Forget which, but I think its Mahasaraswati: perfection in work), that he saw there, staying there. And at the same time he felt in himself, oh, a great desire to serve, to work well, to consecrate his life to the divine work, all that. And the next morning, when the doctors came they said, Oh, everything is changed!
Interesting.
0 1967-05-10, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Even now, even when I used to play music, the memory of sounds was vague and incomplete. I had the memory of the sounds I heard at the origins of music (gesture above), and when the material music reproduced something of those sounds, I would recognize them; but there isnt the precision, the accuracy that would enable me to reproduce exactly the sound with the voice or an instrument. Its not there, its lacking. Whereas the memory of the eyes was it was astounding. When I had seen a thing ONCE, that was enough, I would never Forget it.
Several other times, in visions (visions, I mean memories: relived memories), I spoke the language of that time, I spoke it and heard myself speak, but the sound didnt stay. The MEANING of what I said stayed, but not the sound.
0 1967-05-17, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I remember, the first time I gave X (a Tantric) a flower, my fingers touched his and he almost jumped; then, when he went out, he said to someone that there was a kind of vibration or (I Forget his words) a current, I dont know, which went through his whole body, like an electric current. He simply touched my fingers when I gave him the flower.
To me, this is all the same thing, only its their material notation of the Fact. Thats all. To their intelligence it becomes much more real and concrete, but its the same thing.
0 1967-05-24, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
What marvellous clarity of vision! And so total, isnt it, Forgetting nothing.
Every word is full of meaning.
0 1967-06-07, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
He is the one who came here when we wanted to have a conference for the opening of the University, he presided over it.4 A rather tall man, and strong. I Forget his name. But it was in Kashmir that he was assassinated (not officially, of course: he fell ill).
It wasnt perfect, it was a stopgap, but anyway he would have done. But now Among the young people whom I dont know? What is needed is power combined with that breadth of mind capable of understanding Sri Aurobindos inspiration and transmitting it; and along with that, vital power. The two things together.
0 1967-06-14, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It went on worsening nicely, till the day (I Forget which) when I said with great indignation (Mother takes on a dramatic tone), What is this creation in which (I said it in English) in which living is suffering, dying is suffering, everything is suffering. (Mother laughs) As soon as that was uttered, it was enough. And the consciousness was there, saying, There is only one remedy, but the world rejects that remedy. So I was put in the presence of the fact, face to face with it, the thing staring at meoh, what a pretty drama!
(silence)
0 1967-06-30, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Whats that country again which started as a colony of brigands? (Laughing) Theres a country like that somewhere, which started as a colony, I Forget which.1
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0 1967-07-15, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is someone here, whose name is S., a man over forty (oh, no, much older than that, I think he is approaching fifty), and he learned French, but so energetically that he writes French really remarkably. He regularly sends me questions in French, and because of the care with which he writes, I reply. The other day, he wrote to me (I Forget his exact words, but it was very well put) that he had just realized that aspiration for progress and the result of the aspiration were both the divine Grace, the effect of the divine Grace. So I thought, Well, let me see if he knows French well enough to have a sense of humour. And I replied this:
One could say humorously that we are all divine but scarcely know it, and it is just what in us does not know it or is unaware of being divine that we call ourselves!
0 1967-07-19, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont remember, because I dont note those things mentally, but its an experience I have had with someone I see very often (maybe every day, I dont know, I Forget who). One day, for a time, the impression of an existent relationship, full and You could call it comfortable, with a sense of security; the same person in the same circumstances: suddenly like an image of himself: hollow (very alive and mentally active), but hollow and dry, indifferentnonexistent, so to say.
That was a few days ago. I dont know who it was anymore.
0 1967-07-22, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In a magazine (I think its Life, an American magazine), they published the story of a man (who is in fact one of the editors or administrators of the magazine), a man who was given an injection of penicillin and who was allergic to penicillin. And lo and behold, suddenly all his cells begin to dissolve, while he, entirely conscious and as if concentrated in his brain, watches the dissolution. When it reached up to the heart, the doctors declared him dead. The impression it had on him was that the cells had a kind of expanding movement, then burst and dissolved one after another: feet, legs, abdomen, everything. And when it reached the heart, the doctor said, Hes dead. But he had taken refuge in his brain and thought, I must hold out; if I can hold out here, concentrate and resist here, all will be well. And thats what he did. Then he felt all at once a power, he says, something so luminous, so beautiful, so gentle, so so much more full of love than anything else in the world, such a marvellous sensation that he let himself melt into it, and after some time, everything was put in order and he came back to life! He describes that. He describes it (with sentences: its in a magazine, so he makes sentences), but his experience is really interesting. You see, because of that will to concentrate in what he conceived to be the essential part of his being, the centre of his life, he suddenly found himself in the presence of that power. He said he tried to recapture it afterwards, but I Forget what it was, I no longer remember, except for the sensation, that sensation more marvellous than anything one can conceive.2
I found that interesting.
0 1967-07-26, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Once in my life I took an exam (I Forget which one), but I was just at the age limit, that is I was too young to sit at the time of the regular exam, so they had me sit with those who had flunked the first exam (I sat at that time because it was autumn, and then I was old enough). And I remember, we were a small group, the teachers were greatly annoyed because their holidays had been cut short, and the students were for the most part rather mediocre, or else rebellious. There I was, observing all that (I was very young, you understand, I dont remember how old, thirteen or fourteen), observing the whole thing: a poor little girl had been called to the blackboard to do a mathematical problem, and she didnt know how to do it, she kept stammering. Me (I wasnt being questioned just then), I looked and smiledoh, dear! The teacher saw me and was quite displeased. As soon as the girl was sent back, he called me and said, You do it. Well, naturally (I loved mathematics very much, really very much, and also I understood, it made sense), I did the problem the chaps face! You see, I wasnt in that (in the small outward person): I was constantly a witness. And I had the most extraordinary fun. So I know the way children are, the way teachers are, I know all that, I had great fun, really great fun.
At home, my brother was studying advanced mathematics (it was to enter Polytechnique2), and he found it difficult, so my mother had engaged a tutor to coach him. I was two years younger than my brother. I used to look on, and everything would become clear: the why, the how, it all was clear. So the teacher was working hard, my brother was working hard, when suddenly I said, But its like this! Then I saw the teachers face! It seems he went and told my mother, Its your daughter who should be learning! (Mother laughs) And it was all like a picture, you understand, so funny, so funny! So I know, I remember, I know the reactions, the habits. Thats why I didnt want to look after the School here because I thought it would be a headache and everyone would fall on me! Then I was forced to because of that copying affair. But now I find it funny! (Laughing) And I tell them outrageous things!
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The teacher of literature He was an old fellow full of all the most conventional ideas imaginable. What a bore he was, oh! So all the students sat there, their noses to the grindstone. He would give subjects for essaysdo you know The Path of Later On and the Road of Tomorrow? I wrote it when I was twelve, it was my homework on his question! He had given a proverb (now I Forget the words) and expected to be told all the sensible things! I told my story, that little story, it was written at the age of twelve. Afterwards he would eye me with misgivings! (Laughing) He expected me to make a scene. Oh, but I was a good girl!
But it was always like that: with that something looking on and seeing the sheer ridiculousness of this life which takes itself so seriously!
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I can recall only one instance when I took things seriously, and even then (laughing), I put on a serious LOOK. It involved my brother, who was still quite young (my brother must have been twelve, or less: ten, and I eightno, nine and eleven, something like that, mere children). My brother was quick-tempered, he was easily angered and would speak very bluntly, almost harshly. One day he talked back to my father (I Forget about what); my father was furious and put him across his knees (my father was an extremely strong man, I mean physically strong), he put my brother across his knees and (laughing) started spanking him; he had pulled his pants down and was spanking him. I enter and see that (it was taking place in the dining room), I see that, see my father, look at him, and say to myself, But this man is mad! And I told him, You stop at once, or Im leaving this house. (I was two years younger than my brother.) And I said it with such seriousness, oh! And I was resolute. And my father (laughing) was flabbergasted.
All those memories have come back like that. So now I remember to what extentto what extent the consciousness was already there. But it was amusing.
0 1967-08-02, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The contact with the great Asuras, the first Asuras, is like that: the full consciousness of their formidable power, their marvellous capacities they Forget one thing, its that they deserve no credit for it, its not their exclusive property! So they cut the connection and become instruments of disorder and confusion.
This one, the Lord of Falsehood.
0 1967-08-12, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You know, it came to me as a discovery. The whole religion, instead of being seen like this (gesture from below), was seen like that (gesture from above). Here is what I mean: the ordinary idea of Christianity is that the son (to use their language), the son of God came to give his message (a message of love, unity, fraternity and charity) to the earth; and the earth, that is, those who govern, who werent ready, sacrificed him, and his Father, the supreme Lord, let him be sacrificed in order that his sacrifice would have the power to save the world. That is how they see Christianity, in its most comprehensive idea the vast majority of Christians dont understand anything whatsoever, but I mean that among them there may be (perhaps, its possible), among the cardinals for instance who have studied occultism and the deeper symbols of things, some who understand a little better anyway. But according to my vision (Mother points to her note on Christianity), what happened was that in the history of the evolution of the earth, when the human race, the human species, began to question and rebel against suffering, which was a necessity to emerge more consciously from inertia (its very clear in animals, it has become very clear already: suffering was the means to make them emerge from inertia), but man, on the other hand, went beyond that stage and began to rebel against suffering, naturally also to revolt against the Power that permits and perhaps uses (perhaps uses, to his mind) this suffering as a means of domination. So that is the place of Christianity. There was already before it a fairly long earth historywe shouldnt Forget that before Christianity, there was Hinduism, which accepted that everything, including destruction, suffering, death and all calamities, are part of the one Divine, the one God (its the image of the Gita, the God who swallows the world and its creatures). There is that, here in India. There was the Buddha, who on the other hand, was horrified by suffering in all its forms, decay in all its forms, and the impermanence of all things, and in trying to find a remedy, concluded that the only true remedy is the disappearance of the creation. Such was the terrestrial situation when Christianity arrived. So there had been a whole period before it, and a great number of people beginning to rebel against suffering and wanting to escape from it like that. Others deified it and thus bore it as an inescapable calamity. Then came the necessity to bring down on earth the concept of a deified, divine suffering, a divine suffering as the supreme means to make the whole human consciousness emerge from Unconsciousness and Ignorance and lead it towards its realization of divine beatitude, but notnot by refusing to collaborate with life, but IN life itself: accepting suffering (the crucifixion) in life itself as a means of transformation in order to lead human beings and the entire creation to its divine Origin.
That gives a place to all religions in the development from the Inconscient to the divine Consciousness.
0 1967-08-30, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And its character is such that if you kept the consciousness of it when you woke up, youd look a little mad. I had that experience two days ago, and it taught me a lot I looked, studied and studied until I had understood. It was during the afternoon rest (I dont sleep at all in the afternoon, but just enter the inner consciousness), and I had decided beforeh and that I would wake up, that is, get up, at such and such a time. When the time came, I was still very much in my action and it went on, the state of consciousness went on with open eyes; and in that state of consciousness there was (I cant say I because its not the same I, you understand; at such times I am many people), but the I of that moment was in the habit (not here materially but up there) of wearing a gold watch (gesture to the wrist) and had forgotten to put that watch on; and looked and noticed it: Ah, I forgot to put my watch on, whats happened to it? Why did I Forget? Like that. So then, when I woke up (I dont wear any watch here, as you know), when I came back, the two consciousnesses were simultaneous, and I said aloud, Where is my watch? I forgot to put my watch on. And its only when I had said that (laughing) that I realized! So it left me thinking, I studied carefully, looked carefully, and clearly saw that at that moment the two consciousnesses were absolutely (Mother closely superposes her two hands), but absolutely simultaneous.
Its very interesting. Oh, all kinds of problems have been solved with that experience. For instance, the problem of many people who are called mad, and who are simply in that subtle consciousness (same superposed gesture): at certain times it prevails, which makes them say things that are meaningless here but have a very clear meaning over there, and so the consciousness is like this (superposed gesture, almost merged). That explains many cases of so-called madness. Certain cases of apparent insincerity are also like that, because the consciousness sees clearly in that region, and that region is so close that you can give things the same names (they seem to have the same shapes or very similar ones), but its not what is conventionally called here tangible reality: materially, outwardly, things arent exactly like that. And so, there are cases of so-called insincerity that are simply too close a mingling of the two consciousness estoo close for an active discernment.
0 1967-09-13, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have a nasty little story to tell you. The other day, I Forget when, F. met Mrs. Z, who told her (she too was in a concentration camp), I would like (word for word) I would like Satprem to go back to the concentration camp to see if his reaction now would be different! F. was so indignant that she couldnt help telling her, But that is a monstrous desire to have!
Theres my story: Id like him to go back to the concentration camp to see!
0 1967-09-30, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And recently I saw two photos of the heads of the Rosicrucian movement in Holland (or Belgium, I Forget), the Rosicrucian movement in Europeexactly the same nasty, hard, inexorable mouth. Odd.
Right in the beginning, you told me the same thing about the Pope.
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But I told you he was tormented by something. When he left, when it was time for me to get up and take leave of each other, he looked at me with a sort of anxiety in his eyes, and he said to me, What will you say to your disciples about our meeting? I smiled and said, I will tell them that we were united in the love (not identical or common, I Forget the words) for the supreme Lord. Then his face relaxed and he left. We were united in the same It wasnt the same it was I dont know, something expressing that both of us had been united in the love for the Supreme Lord. And I said it like that, with a smile, which means it was Sri Aurobindo who spoke with his sense of humour. His face relaxed and he left.
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(Mother laughs) Oh, this is amusing! Yesterday or in the night, I Forget when, I told you, but with great force (it was something very important!), I told you, At the end of the tunnel there is the light, and dont arguedont argue: at the end of the tunnel THERE IS the light. (Mother laughs) I wondered, Why do I tell him that!
Kalki: the last Avatar, who appears on a winged white horse and is armed with a sword. He will come "like a burning comet."
0 1967-10-07, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I remember, long ago, right at the beginning (I think I had just moved into Sri Aurobindos house), someone, I Forget who (did Tagore have a sister?1), she was a tall and strong woman, rather awe-inspiring, who had come to spend a day in the Ashram, and she said to me, Why dont you keep some rooms and rent them out to visitors? You would get ten rupees a day. (Mother laughs) I stared at her, I was flabbergasted (she was teaching me to be practical!). And at the end, she said, God bless you. At that point I couldnt restrain myself, and I answered her, Its already done! (Mother laughs)
So its the same thing everywhere, a patronizing attitude.
0 1967-10-11, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I also have deities (Mother catches hold of three bronze statuettes, immersed with some others under a flood of papers): this is a standing Ganesh; this is Garuda, Vishnus attendant; and this is Shivas bull. And there (a little farther on the table), I keep three Ganeshas: a tiny little silver Ganesh, between the legs of this deity (a modern-looking one), then another Ganesh, I dont know what its made of, and finally a bronze Ganesh. And in there (Mother points to a drawer in which she keeps money), I have three other Ganeshas: a bronze one, a silver one and a gold one! Its because he promised me that he would give me all the money I need, so this way (laughing) he cant say I Forget him (or his promise either!).
This particular Ganesh (on the table) was given to me by a little boy maybe two and a half years old. When that little boy was a few months old and till the age of one, his mother always brought him to me and he would cry and scream and make scenes the parents were desperate. Each time I would tell them, Dont worry, all will be well, well be very good friends. Then the parents would look at me in disbelief. Now he is two and half or three, and as soon as he is in the stairway, waitingMo ther, Mother, Mother! (or Ma, I dont know). But when he comes in (he is the first of the family to enter the room), he comes with a flower; and it was he who gave me this Ganesh, but with such consciousness! He is wonderful. Yesterday, he was absolutely exquisite: he comes in first, so self-assured, so joyful, then gestures to me as if to say, Everything is just fine, dont worry! And I speak to himhe doesnt understand a thing of what I say, but he approves gravely. Absolutely exquisite.
0 1967-10-14, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And since how many years? Since something like 1915, I feltconstantly felt I was acting on the Command: the Command from above. The personal impulsion had disappeared. Since as long as that, 1915, and in that condition, there has been a whole evolution and transformation. And now, when I look back, not only all I used to do, but the way of looking at things, especially the way of looking at things [seems childish to me]. The reaction was already like this (wide-open, even gesture), because great care had been taken to correct any ignorant reaction; the reaction was already very much like this (same wide open gesture), but it was VOLUNTARILY so, not spontaneously so. Thats the great difference. You understand, that sort of universal equality like this (same gesture) was voluntary, it was the effect of a constant vigilance and a constant will. Now also the vigilance is constant, but its replaced by the vigilance and will to be constantly like this (Mother turns the two palms of her hands upward, like a bowl and forming an upside-down triangle at the level of her forehead), all the time like this inwardly, turned inward, as though each cell were turned inward, towards its centre of light thats how it is. And there is still a vigilance not to Forget, not to flagall the cells turned inward towards That. So all that outward play, oh, how childish it all looks! And now I do things that are far more childish, lots of little things that are, to the ordinary human outlook, totally useless and quite childish but all that isnt the same thing its (a vast, supple, slow gesture) like the waves and rhythm of a divine Harmony expressing itself.
I might put it like this: at the time of this declaration (of 1954), I was still taking things seriously. At the time of the classes, when I spoke, I was taking all those things seriously.
0 1967-10-19, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The body itself is learning that every time it thinks of itself, theres a small catastrophenot catastrophe, but I mean on the bodys scale: a cellular catastrophe every time there is even a slight turning in on itself. It must Forget itself completely, Forget itself, and most importantly, it must not try to find support, comfort, understanding, help or anything of the sort (horizontal gesture all around)only there (gesture with palms open upward and the two hands forming a kind of upside down triangle): the only support is the Divine. The only support. The only help, the only responsibility. All the rest. There isnt one thing coming from or towards a human being that isnt mixed; and the moment its mixed, it means conflict.
This is a time of extremes, even extremes in the downright material. Did I tell you both the other day that I had received the first flower of a plant which visibly was supramental powera flower like this (gesture), a hibiscus? And yesterday there was the first flower of another plant, also a hibiscus, this big, snow-white, with such a colour at the centre! An indefinable colour, it cant be described. Its golden pink, but so beautiful that you wonder how such colours can be physical. A flower this big (gesture, about fifteen centimetres), the first flower was yesterday. And that was VISIBLY (it expressed itself, you know) the Victory of Love, the Power of Love. Its as if all this physical Nature were, oh, like this (gesture of intense aspiration), tryingshe tries, and there is a Response. They are blessed not to have a mind.
0 1967-11-08, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You know, a layer as thin as a sheet of paper, something undeveloped suffices to make the consciousness Forget when it goes from here to there (gesture between the two). At that point, it Forgets.
But the effects, the results, are thereone has them: it comes out from within. Its not that one is cut off, its only the active consciousness, the active remembrance thats not there.
0 1967-11-22, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But now there is a certitude. The result is still very farvery far off, there is much to do before the crust, the outermost surface experience as it is, can manifest what takes place within (not within in the spiritual depths: within in the body). For it to be able to manifest what is within That will come last, which is very good because if it came earlier, we would neglect the work; we would be so happy that wed Forget to complete the work. Everything must have been done within, everything must be fully and thoroughly changed, then the outside will express it.
But its all ONE SINGLE substance, the very same everywhere, which was unconscious everywhere; and so, the remarkable thing is that things are taking place AUTOMATICALLY (gesture of points scattered throughout the world), completely unexpected things, here and there, even in people who dont know anything.
0 1967-12-13, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont know what it is. I dont really know what it is, but the day before, in the evening (I Forget what I was doing, I was busy), there was suddenly Often there are small vital entities, I think, or vital forces (but to me those things are without force or power), and a small vital entity showed me the memory of an earthquake: around 1922 or 23, we had an earthquake; I was with Pavitra and we stood talking (we were going out, it was in the afternoon), when suddenly, hop! we jumped out of our skin, both of us.3 We knew what it was because we had gotten used to it in Japan. I said, Oh, an earthquake. It didnt lasta few seconds and it was over. I had completely forgotten it, and it was as if one of those beings came to bring the memory back, with at the same time, And what if there were another one? Oh, I said, what nonsense!
Just the evening before.
0 1967-12-16, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Sri Aurobindo said it, of course. He said it, he wrote it in black and white (I Forget the exact words): The pure divine love can manifest safely only in a in a ground (its not ground ) of Truth. I dont remember now. If we wanted to put it poetically, wed say, in a land of Truth.
So before we can proclaim, Love, manifest yourself, win the Victory, the ground of Truth must be ready.
0 1968-02-03, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In my life, I have been given so many, so many experiences, as proof that EVERYTHING is possible. For instance, when I was twenty-two, one night, after an experience I had in the night (I Forget the details of it) at the time women wore dresses that exactly touched the ground, just touched it without resting on it (gesture of skimming the ground), and in my experience at night, I had grown tallin the morning, there was one inch between the dress and the ground! Which means that the body had grown one inch WITH THE NIGHTS EXPERIENCE. You see, in the nights experience I had grown tall (I dont remember the details), and in the morning And Ive been given that material verification for many such experiences, so as to be sure, so the body may be convinced without having to repeat the experiences over and over again. So it KNOWS, it knows there is nothing impossible, it knows impossible doesnt mean anything. But it doesnt depend on an individual will, you understand. The Consciousness which rules things is a marvel of wisdom, patience, compassion, endurance. When there is destruction or disorder, it means its absolutely unavoidable, absolutelybecause matters resistance in the individual or in things is so strong that it quite naturally brings about disorder or destruction. But that doesnt form part of the Action, the supreme Action, which is a marvel. The body has understood that; it has understood, it is patient. Only, from time to time (how can I put it?) There are people whom I prevent from dyingseveral people. I dont yet have the consciousness, the conscious power to cure them, but the possibility is there and I maintain it above them. That is to say, its not all-powerful in the sense that a certain receptivity, a certain response, a certain attitude are necessary which arent always there (human natures are very fluctuating, there are ups and downs and more ups and downs, and that makes the work very difficult), but at times, during a down spell, when a being suffers or sags, there is something in the consciousness [of Mother], a compassion (how can I explain that?) Affliction and all those movements are movements of weakness, but that is something at once very strong and very sweet, almost like sorrow, and the whole, entire consciousness in the body rises like a prayer and an aspirationa pure prayer: Why are things still in this pitiful state, why? Why? And it instantly has an effect [in the sick person]. Unfortunately, the effect doesnt last; it doesnt last because certain conditions in others are still necessary. But its wonderful, you know! Its something so wonderful. And it makes one understand the necessity of a presence on this side, a presence capable of feeling, understanding still IN THE OTHER WAY, so the suffering of others may be a reality. And that also is taken into account, that also means time is needed, patience is needed. Now the body knows ittheres no longer any impatience; there is only, now and then, that sort of sorrow, especially when beings are full of aspiration, goodwill, faith, and in spite of it this suffering is still there, clinging. That on one side, and on the other, one thing: there is still a sort of horror and reprobation of acts of cruelty, of THE cruelty; thats And then, there is this awesome Poweryou feel, you can feel that a mere nothing, a simple little movement would, oh, bring about a catastrophe. So you have to keep that still, still, still so what happens may always be the best.
Now stupidity, imbecility, ignorance, all those things are looked at with a patience which waits for them to grow. But bad will and crueltyespecially viciousness, cruelty, what LOVES to cause suffering thats still difficult, one still has to keep a hold on oneself. In figurative language (not language, but a way of being), its Kali that wants to strike, and I have to tell her, Keep still, keep still. But thats a human transcription. All those gods, all those beings are real, they exist, but its a transcription. True truth is beyond all that.
0 1968-02-14, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yesterday I was shown the photo of a man who is the guru of many people.1 I do not know what he claims to be, but he is an Indian who went to Europe and America and has lotsthousands and thousandsof disciples, followers, believers. He says there is only one way to bring peace on earth, and that is total and complete freedom: intellectual and moral freedom, of course, but also vital and physical freedom. That is, freeing oneself from all subjections and all laws, living according to ones own impulsion. Then, he says, something (I Forget what he calls it) will govern you and will make you do what must be done. Its not the individual who decides, its that. And if he is asked, But how? How do you know that is it? How do you find that?, he simply answers, Come and sit down beside me in meditation, and you will know. And he is convinced he can bring peace to earth with that.
I saw his photo yesterday. Vitally, he is extraordinarily strong. I dont know if its his own force or if its what he receives from others, because you can find that out only through physical contact.
0 1968-03-09, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It came in the wake of a sentence someone had written (I Forget who, some writer or another), which said (I am adapting it), When one sees how humorous the creation is, one is certain that the Creator must be smiling. With that sentence, I saw how relative the clothing is in the human consciousness there is no absolute, no absolute expression, the expression is always relative, and the impression it leaves is relative to the individual perceiving it.
I am trying to express it, but it was a concrete experience: the relativity of the mental clothing on the action of the higher Consciousness.
0 1968-04-06, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
We could say that those who get drunk do it to Forget; but one doesnt come to Auroville to Forget: one comes to Auroville, on the contrary, to remember.
Yes, we might rather put it in that form.
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Thats why the most general formula is to say that any self- Forgetfulness is contrary to life in Auroville. One doesnt go to Auroville to Forget, or to Forget oneselfany self- Forgetfulness, in any form.
Ah, but self- Forgetfulness, if you take it from a moral standpoint! (Mother laughs)
Forgetting ones true self.
(Mother laughs) The minute one formulates
0 1968-04-10, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It seems he is a ministers son. I Forget who he confided in, but he said his father is (or was) prime minister in [such and such a country], and he himself is a lawyer and manages several peoples fortunes. He said he has to manage something like twenty crores of rupees,1 which means a considerable fortune. But thats all, he didnt say anything else.
He asked me what he should do with his money, so I advised him to go and see A. He said, for instance, that he had shares in lots of businesses, and he asked me, Should I divest myself of all this? I told him, A. will be able to advise you, but at first sight theres no reason to divest yourself; if you get interest, you may give it to the Ashram if you feel devoted to the Ashram, but theres no reason to throw everything overboard.
0 1968-04-20, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I got today a letter from a Swedish lady, I think (Swedish or Norwegian, I dont know), who bought a crucifixion. A HUGE paintinghuge, I Forget its size, but its fantastic, something like thirty feet high. She asks me what she should do with it! She wants to send it to me. So Ive told her (she paid a good sum for it, but shes a very rich woman; only she wanted to make a gift of it to me), Ive told her to make an exhibition in a large hall, with, written under the painting, The Past. Then to put next to it, quite small, a photo of the galaxy, which is almost identical to Aurovilles plana photo of the galaxy, big as this, and below, Aurovilles plan big as this (gesture still smaller), and to write, The Future.
And shell make people pay to come in and see!
0 1968-05-04, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its not his handwriting, but not mine either! Its a sort of combination of both. I had the same experience years ago, very soon after that illness, when I began translating Savitri here.3 One day, while writing, it was he who wrote; it was his handwriting, that is, nearly illegible! So (laughing) I said, No, I dont want it! (Because it was illegibleif it had been clearer than mine, Id have been happy!) And I stopped. But it came the day before yesterday, and it was I Forget where I put that paper (Mother looks for it). T. F. said in her letter her impression of who I am, and at the end she wrote, If it is truly so, if I am not mistaken So in answer to that, Sri Aurobindo came and said (Mother tries in vain to remember). I dont remember the words.
Its strange, I cant remember.
0 1968-05-22, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In any case, it is certain that we shall see the signs, or rather that we are now seeing the precursory signs. I said that to Rijuta while announcing to her (she didnt know it) that the U.S. president would go to Moscow to sign a peace treaty with Vietnam. There were three wars, one of which had stopped but wasnt resolved: that was the war between Egypt and Israel, over which they have reached an agreement. I Forget the third. And all three wars at the same time. But the most serious of the three was the war between America and Vietnam. So I said that to her; I told her, This is a sign.
And it isnt a mental conception, its not ideas: at the time of saying it I SAW it, I saw.
0 1968-07-06, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Finally, a letter from P.L. telling the story: I somewhat restrained myself from writing to you and telling you about my new situation, which might have been precipitated at any moment. On my return, the Vatican adopted a dual policy: threats on one hand, and on the other, promotions and offers of fine situations. I had been absent from Rome since December 9: what strange illness could last such a long time? There was talk of subjecting me to a medical examination by three physicians, demanding the names of the clinics2 visited, and so forth. I consulted His Eminence and Msgr. R. Being expelled by the application of the rule suited no one neither my family, nor the Cardinal himself. So the solution was to take up my new post, assuring them that I had fully recovered: thus the investigations stopped; I was no longer prosecuted, my case was shelved. No doubt, curiosity and suspicion havent been allayed, but my life has gone back to routine, and after some time everyone will Forget. I will see the Pope next month, and I may accompany him in his journey to Colombia at the end of August I will keep you informed. There is still the difficulty of his health which may prevent the journey. All that I have just told you is quite external to myself and I hardly participate in it; Id rather write about my consciousness: it hasnt changedit has remained fastened to Mothers influence. I feel her protection; everything is easy, for she is with me; she gives me the suitable answer. Like a mantra, I repeat, Oh, Mother, with your help is anything impossible? More than that, the joy she has put in my heart remains unshakable. My thought flies away towards her, full of gratitude. Msgr. R. told His Eminence I had been at the Ashram: the Cardinal is delighted. R. has finished reading your book: in his mass he has preached Aurobindos ideas. He told me he has come into contact with Mother: he is going to write to her, and later will go and see her. He has accepted Aurobindos message as a solution for the world. I must still tell you the joy the telegram gave me: to Mother all my gratitude.
(Mother goes into a long contemplation)
0 1968-09-11, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For me, only one thing has happened. A very interesting fact that I noted. I Forget the occasion and how it took place, but it was the day before yesterday, and the fact I noted was the presence of the psychic being that the psychic being hasnt gone at all. I said [on August 28], The vital and the mind have gone, but the psychic being hasnt.
I think it was in relation to someone I saw (I dont remember), and I noticed that a very great power was there; and the PHYSICAL being, the body, was conscious of the presence of the psychic being, which was constantly there, behind. It hasnt gone. Conscious.
It was a day when someone had come (I Forget who), and the whole Force which was there before concentrated on that personit was the same thing: the Force, the Presence, with the same Pressure on the person. And then, it was the psychic being which said, But I havent gone, Ive remained here! With its full consciousness, you understand. Its the intermediaries [i.e., the mind and the vital] that have gone.
Its difficult to explain. There is the impression of a lacka lack from the active point of view, the point of view of everyday action.
0 1968-11-06, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No, I didnt see the Bible, but there was also a sign (I Forget what).
They propagandize.
0 1968-11-13, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And it doesnt have (how should I put it?) a clear vision of the path or the process, so It only understands one thing: never Forget, never at any time, not even for a second, what it calls the Divine and wants to reach. Thats all.
And then, from time to time, there are flashes, like flashes from the Grace, absolutely wonderful. But they last for one second.
0 1968-11-27, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It remains to be seen if, for some reason or other, it was necessary or if it was an accident but how could it be an accident! For the moment (theres no thought, so its a little vague), for the moment there is an impression I might put it simply like this: the impression of a TREMENDOUS acquisition of consciousness, which has been gained by paying the very high price of all the suffering and all the disorder. Yesterday or today (I Forget when, I think yesterday), at one point the problem was so acute (Mother touches her cheek and throat), and then the divine Consciousness seemed to be saying, In all this suffering, its I who suffer (the Consciousness, you understand), its I who suffer, but in a way different from yours. I dont know how to express it. There was a sort of impression that the divine Consciousness was perceiving what to us was a suffering, that it existedit existed for the divine Consciousness. But not in the same way as it exists for our own consciousness. So then, there was an attempt to make understood the consciousness of the whole at the same time, the simultaneous consciousness of everything to express myself I might just say, the consciousness of suffering (the most acute disorder) and of Harmony (the most perfect Ananda)both together, perceived together. Naturally that changes the nature of suffering.
But all that is very conscious of being some kind of chatter. Its not the translation of what is.
0 1969-01-01, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Recently, I got a letter, I Forget from whom or where, but it was from someone in Europe, someone who saw my vital being, and someone else who saw my mental being. You know that they have been sent away (they go on working, seeing people, going and coming). So that person saw it as I myself know it (which surprised me, because generally people change the appearance according to their own conception). She saw me, she knew it was me, and it was a tall warriora very tall warrior with an ancient costume, holding a halberd.
Its the first time.
0 1969-01-04, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Theyre preparing here a publication in Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, and two other languages I Forget, to which they intend to add Tamil and Telugu, of all the works of Sri Aurobindo. Its a tremendous task.
At the same time, in America, there are two or three editions of Sri Aurobindos complete works: one edition for libraries, one for America, and one for India. Theyve sent me samples theyre magnificent! The edition for America is a marvel: big like this, with a marvelous paper
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Yes, just like me with my family! Last week I received a letter from someone (I Forget her name) who writes to me, Dear Aunt! (Mother laughs) But the children of my brother [Matto], I dont know them, even less their own children. My family is a large one too. This one [who has written to Mother] is the daughter of a sister of my grandmo ther! She writes (it seems she subscribes to the Bulletin) that I have helped her for years and she expresses her gratitude, and then says she is dreaming of coming to India.
One of my brothers daughters (I think) married a Japanese and came here with her Japanese husb and I saw himand she has a flock of kids! But my brothers son and his other daughter, I dont know them.
0 1969-02-08, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This mornings experience was very curious. All of a sudden, it awakened the memory of something that took place in my childhood when I was about eight or ten (which I had completely forgotten). On Sundays (I suppose so, or anyway on holidays), I used to go and play with my first cousins, the children of a brother of my father. I would go and play with them. I remember their house, I can still see it. We would usually spend our time playing scenes or enacting a story in tableaux. And today, it showed me something I had really forgotten. Theres a story of Bluebeard, isnt there? (Bluebeard I Forget, I only know what I remembered this morning.) One day, we did a tableau vivant, in several tableaux, with the story of Bluebeard who cut off his wives heads. (To Satprem:) Thats how the story went, isnt it? (Laughter) I only remember this morning, I dont recall the story. Now, we played in a big room, a sort of enclosed verandahin Paris, a big long room. We had stood (our playmates were little boys and girls), we had stood a certain number of girls against the wall: we had stuck them to the wall, with their hair strung above their heads (Mother laughs), and we had put a sheet in front to cover the rest of their bodies the sheet reached down to the floor so that we couldnt see their bodies, only their heads! I am saying that because I saw it this morning, otherwise I didnt remember in the least. I saw this scene, I saw the memory of that room and how it was all arranged. And at the same time there came You see, we found it quite natural, just a story we had read; I remembered my impression at the time: there was no sense of horror! We didnt find it monstrous (laughing), we were having great fun! So the experience came, and it remained for OVER AN HOUR to make me understand very deeply where this memory came from, how it acted and why we were in that state. And all of it not at all from a personal standpoint, not at all: from the general standpoint of the earth and humanity in general. It was exceedingly interesting! And then, at the same time, a vision showing how, with what swift movement, the universal consciousness moves (arrowlike gesture) in a progression towards the Divine the TRUE Divine, I mean, not religions, of coursetowards the TRUE Divine through all that. And with the consciousness of the WHOLEthe whole and nuances (Sade and all that line), from the highest to the lowest. For one hour I saw a whole stage of humanitya stage towards the late 1800s, the second half of the 1800sand how it moved on and progressed (gesture like a great curve). And thats I have no words or capacity to describe it, but its extraordinarily interesting. The vision of the human collectivity on earth, with all its stages, gradations, nuances, and how it all followed a movement (same arrowlike gesture). And this story (story this VISION, rather, because it wasnt a story: I didnt see what we said or anything, only the vision of what we did), this story came as the illustration of a certain state of mind of those times, and how children were given stories of that kind to readwe found it quite natural! (Mother laughs) And those things are so dreadful.
As soon as I am not busy talking or listening to people or doing a work, it goes on and on: certain samples, as it were, of this bodys life are taken up again, and through those samples, the whole is shown. A wonderful education! Never, never does any human education as its conceived resemble this, because its a vision of the whole, in which everything hangs together; youre shown everything together.
0 1969-03-12, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It also explained the use the raison dtre and the use, the utilizationof emotions: how all those things which in their incomplete state are seem to be obstacles and things to be got rid of, how, as soon as the consciousness is clarified, union is established, separation has disappeared, how all those things take their place and their full usefulness. Now I dont remember, but a few days ago I had such an interesting example! I dont remember (thats deliberate, I dont remember anything), but out of a movement of consciousness here (and now the body is very conscious of this presence of the superman consciousness, its very open and grateful, and very conscious), well, it saw a movement something resembling compassion, a keen compassion, but with the emotion the vital feels when it has compassion (what the vital adds, that is); it saw that, and immediately saw the resulting effect and the response. It was someone (I Forget who, the memory is deliberately taken away), it had to do with something that had happened to someone; this body consciousness reacted with a sort of moved pity, and that multiplied the power TENFOLD the effect of the power on the curebecause it was completely impersonal. It was the Power using that [emotion] as a means of action.
Constantly, constantly, its: learn and learn and learn. Interesting! (Mother laughs)
0 1969-03-19, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I write almost in darkness, without knowing what I write, and once Ive written I completely Forget what I said!
It must become more receptive to the consciousness and more plastic under its working.
0 1969-04-16, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(F.B.:) That is, Forgetting oneself completely?
(Satprem:) Being totally transparent.
0 1969-04-19, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So then, there were scenes (I Forget the details), rather unpleasant scenes, then a sort of riot, and the army had to open fire. Four people were killed.1 So the Communist government wants to arrest the four soldiers who opened fire, saying well, that they did quite wrong. They said that to the head of the army there, who said, If they come to arrest my men, I will arrest them! Ill arrest the police and put them in jail! I found it charming. But I had just seen N.S.2you know N.S., dont youwho had been sent by Indira to ask me questions about what should be done.3 She had just left when I was told about this other affair. I thought, How to have her told? (because Indira wont know what to dowhether to support the army or the police). Then I said, If she supports the police, the Chinese are here in two weeks; she must absolutely support the army So we had to catch up to N.S. (she had just left for Delhi), we had to catch up to her to tell her, Mother said you should And L. left behind to catch up with the plane.
Thats how it is. The previous days I had seen all kinds of catastrophic things. (I didnt know what the situation was.) When I was told, I instantly knew: I saw the Chinese HERE. Yes. It stirred me a lot, a lot. And with HORRIBLE things, horrible. So I had to send someone immediately to tell her, For heavens sake, support the army. Its Indias only hope. The army is good, but its not supported. But that shouldnt be told, because I am not supposed to concern myself with politics, so
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6) To be a true servitor of the Truth one must Forget all ones personal desires and preferences and have only the thought to serve the Truth.
7) The Mother then said to N.S. personally and hoped that the men present would not be offended, that it is only women who know how to use this Power that comes from serving the Truth.
0 1969-04-23, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its not constant. It comes when I am left in peace ([laughing] which doesnt happen often!), when I can melt into the joy of belonging to the Divine (something like that). There isnt even the idea of being the Divine, its not that! That seems so silly! The first time I read that, to me it was the height of egoism: You are the Divine! (Laughing) Its not the Divine who contains you, its you who contain the Divine, dont Forget! But there is the joy of wholly belonging to the Divine, and suddenly (gesture of breaking away) something takes place (Mother shows the absence of any more separation, of a giving and of a someone to give oneself to).
Strangely, as soon as theres the slightest slackening in the attitude, for instance, a second of Forgetfulness (what I might call Forgetfulness, that is, the former old habit, the old terrestrial habit of being), the body instantly feels about to be dissolved. And that, strangely, is something The body is now aware that it can hold together, exist together ONLY through the Lords Power, not through any natural law that it knowsand so, at such times, brr! there can come two or three seconds like that: you feel everything, but everything is about to be dissolved.
Strange.
0 1969-04-30, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It has an answer for everything, all the time. Now its become quite active. I got a letter from Y. describing the activities of all those young people who have come for Auroville (they have a place of their own now, its the office of =1, somewhere at the back or in front of the Library). They have an apartment where they do all kinds of things, including improvised dances; Y. wrote about that (with much praise, besides), and she asked, But the important thing is to know what Sri Aurobindo and you too think about it? (Mother smiles ironically) Then this Consciousness (laughing) made me answer her, Just see to it that it doesnt degenerate. And it added (I dont remember exactly because it wasnt I who wrote), See that it remains I Forget the words. But mon petit, the irony of it was priceless! And I sent it to her.
Constantly, constantly it says or answers something. It obliges me to write: Answer this. Say this. It has taken the place of the mind, you understand.
0 1969-06-25, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But you know, this little S.U. (Ive never said this; I Forget when it wasyears ago, she was big as a boot), when your famous Sannyasin3 came here, he wanted to do a worship to the Mother,4 and he did one thing which isnt regarded as very charitable (that individual had a certain capacity): he put into this child an emanation of a higher spirit (which he thought was an emanation of the Mother), he carried out the ceremony, and afterwards (it was infinitely too powerful for the child), he came to me and told me, Ill send her to you for you to take out the emanation, we cant keep that!
So he sent me the child.
0 1969-07-23, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Last night (that was the first time), I was in a place (again in this subtle physical), a place as if atop a rather barren mountain, but where people metthere were even kinds of seats. And I was there to see I dont know who (now I Forget), but they were wise and well-known people of India. It seemed (in my vision) that I was there permanently and that those people had come to see me. And they came from every side: all of Indias spiritual sects were represented, and everyone came, sat down, and told me (laughing) the virtues of his creed. It was pricelessly funny! It was I spent a good while, but I really had great fun! Some wore big turbans and were dressed in white, very important people who had had special seats brought for them, and they were quite (Mother puffs herself up) they swaggered, they looked down on others from their lofty heights! Some were almost completely naked, some were there were all sorts, and they were all in a big group like this (gesture in a circle). As for me, I was wearing a little white dress, like that, quite plain (the same shape as this one, but in white); I was sitting in a corner, having great fun but I took up very little room! (Mother makes herself small) It was quite comical. Last night.
A big circle: one group, another group, a third group, a fourth, a fifth, a sixth group and what fuss they made! It had to be seen.
0 1969-07-26, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I remember quite clearly and precisely (I still see the whole setting, in his room) a conversation I once had with himin what connection, I dont know. It was (I Forget what preceded, you understand), he told me, We cant both remain upon earth, one must go. Then I said to him, I am ready, Ill go. Then he told me, No, you cant go, your body is better than mine, you can undergo the transformation better than I can do.
And the strange thing is that It took place just before all his physical difficulties.
But I didnt attach too much importance [to that conversation]; its only when he left that it suddenly came back, and I thought, So there, he knew! It was I dont know. It was almost like a speculation, you understand, which he was just mentioning. It was at the time of our moving from the other house to this one,2 because it took place one day in that room, here [downstairs], and it was before his accident, before he broke his leg.3 In what connection, I Forget. Thats gone. But I remember clearly, so clearly, I still see the room and everything, how he was, how he told me, We cant both remain upon earth. Thats all.
But why cant both remain?
0 1969-08-09, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Have I seen you since that experience? I spent one night (but I Forget which), it was strange. I was with Sri Aurobindo, but a Sri Aurobindo (how can I put it?) quite joyful, full of liveliness, and slightly more material than what I usually see, as though not material, but (I dont know how to explain) more precise, and we spent hours working together, seeing things, seeing people, doing things, and so on. But then, the strange part, the peculiar part was that it didnt depend on my body being asleep: it didnt sleep, it was simply quiet; and in the middle of it I had to get up, but when I did, that consciousness and activity didnt cease. It was the ordinary consciousness (that is, the perception of ordinary things, of the room and all that) which was somewhat less precise. It was as if topsy-turvy, you understand. And it remained for a long time, even in the morning, until I was obliged to see people and do things.
It was very particular, its the first time it has happened like that. Which means that this slightly inner consciousness was more concrete than the ordinary consciousness.
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Did I tell you that in Italy a veterinarian has found a cure for cancer? This man has discovered that goats, the goat species (male and female), never have cancer! They even went as far as trying to make them have cancer, and they didnt succeed. Conclusion: in their makeup, theres something opposed to cancer; theyve discovered that something in the stomach (I Forget the details), and he made a serum. As he is a veterinarian, he doesnt have the right to give it, but he has doctor friends, and those doctors (a dozen or so) have tried it outextraordinary cure, without fail. But with a difference: the female goat cures certain cases, while the male cures other cases; its not the same with the male or the female, they cure different types of cancer (I understand nothing about it). Anyway, he lives somewhere in Italy, I dont know where, and I had him asked if he would like to come herehe has accepted. And hes going to come: theres a whole group of young Italians who want to come at the end of the year for Sri Aurobindos yoga, and hell probably come with them, or else he will come with Paolo if Paolo doesnt mind paying for his travel. My intention is to put him in touch with Dr. S., to let them study that together, and if it works well, Ill ask him to stay on. Because you know that S. now has a sort of dispensary in Auromodle [in Auroville] (theres even a young French medical student who has come and stays there too, he is very happy). So we could open a cancer clinic, that would be very interesting! Because with S.s presence here, theres no difficultyin Auroville he can do what he likes. That would be wonderful!
He is coming before the end of the year. And the other man, the healer, is coming in September The other, well see if he wants to cure some people here, that would be good.
0 1969-08-16, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Theres a Chinese in Shantiniketan (I Forget his name8) who once came to see Sri Aurobindo; I know him, he spoke to me. He is a philosopher. He had properties in China (he lives in India) and gave everything to the Communists, saying, I give it to you so you dont have to take it! He told me personally (I was downstairs, long ago, Sri Aurobindo was there9), he said to me, China is a very intelligent country; they would be able to understand Sri Aurobindos writings, and I see NOTHING ELSE that could save the world from confusion. Only, naturally, it would have to be in Chinese thats what S.H.10 did, he put it into Chinese, but now its not even printed and cant enter China.
And theyre cutting off the heads of all the intellectuals there,11 theyre demolishing a whole generationstupefying a whole generation.
0 1969-09-20, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its very useful: sometimes, when I Forget where I kept a piece of paper, it tells me. It says, Here. Its really very interesting! And most of the time, its this Consciousness that makes me write, especially with regard to Auroville.
But I told you (did I see you after I saw the President?), I told you that when the President was here, suddenly this Consciousness started pressing on my head: Say this. I didnt feel like speaking, so I kept quiet. Then the pressure became so strong that I started perspiring all over! So I made up my mind and spoke. And it was over. It was Without the Force in it, its a platitude, but at the time, it had the power of a revelation, you know, when it made me say
0 1969-10-01, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Thats what is remarkable in the physical, its that when the physical has learned something, it never Forgets. Once the cells have learned that, learned this self-giving, this offering to the Divine, and this NEED to offer themselves, its learned, and it DOESNT BUDGE ANYMORE. Its constant, twenty-four hours a day, ceaselessly, day after day, changelessly; even when something goes wrong (you have a pain or something), the first movement is this: its to offer it, to give itspontaneously. The higher consciousness doesnt intervene, its spontaneous: its the consciousness contained in the cells.
Its the vital and the mind that are like this (zigzagging gesture), unsteady Especially the vital, which is interested in all kinds of things.
0 1969-10-11, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I Forget who met him at the post office just before he left, but I was told, Oh, he was excited.Him get excited! Its quite surprising, he was excited.
Theres nothing to see there.
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Two or three days ago, I read an Aphorism of Sri Aurobindos (you might know it). I Forget the words, but he says that Christ came to purify humanity but didnt succeed, and he said he would come back, but this time, holding the sword of God
169Christ came into the world to purify, not to fulfill. He himself foreknew the failure of his mission, and the necessity of his return with the sword of God into a world that had rejected him.
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Theres a story that took place many, many years ago, but because of the baby seals its come back to me. One of K.s relatives (her aunt, I think) died of cholera (I knew her, shed known me before, then she left for somewhere or other, she caught cholera, and died). After some time, one night, I Forget where I was, but I suddenly found myself surrounded by a huge crowd of people who were shouting and protesting; then she came out of that crowd, came to me and told me, These are all those who died of cholera, theyve come to ask you WHY its like that. It struck me much, really very much, because, you know It was swarming with people, a huge crowd, in the middle of the night, like that, and she came towards me and said that to me.
Naturally thats only ONE misery among so many others. Only its a very brutal misery, which strikes in a very brutal way thats why And when I was told this affair of the baby seals, I suddenly remembered how I found myself there, with those thousands of people saying, Why is such a thing allowed? Why is it allowed?
0 1969-10-18, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I got a letter from N.S.4 in which she said she was almost desperate to have missed the appointment I had given her with A.R. But I am not sure [that it wasnt just as well]. She says that instead of the time she had been told, she arrived an hour later because she had been somewhere (I Forget where), had got completely drenched, and had to change her clothes; she sent word to A.R. requesting him to wait, but when she arrived, he had left. So she doesnt know whether L. didnt get her message, or didnt convey it. And she writes me that at the first opportunity she would like to come and see him. I had her told that for the moment he had withdrawn, but that as soon as he resumed his activity, I would let her know. But I didnt tell A.R., because
For her own sake I wish N.S. meets him, but I dont at all wish he should start expounding to her his great plans for the conversion of India!5
0 1969-10-25, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Hes very amusing! (Mother laughs) If it were an ordinary consciousness, what presumptuousness! But in him, its a sort of spontaneity. Its very amusing. But the two of them [A.R. and brother A.] have got along well enough; they said they would meet, theyve arranged to meet each other I Forget where.
Its amusing.
0 1969-11-08, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Conversation of October 1: "When the physical has learned something, it never Forgets, that doesn't budge anymore."
Like these conversations which began an hour and a half late.
0 1969-11-19, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But you know, most of the time, after having said it, I Forget.
You said, a vibration so rapid that its imperceptible, that its as if coagulated and still.
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All human reactions, even the highest, the purest, the noblest, it all seemed so childish! Theres a sentence Sri Aurobindo wrote somewhere, which kept coming back to me (one day, I Forget where, he wrote something, a rather long sentence), and in it, there was, And when I feel jealous, I know that the old man is still there.1 I read it more than thirty years ago maybeyes, about thirty years agoand I remember that when I read jealous, I thought, How can Sri Aurobindo be jealous! Then, thirty years later, I understood what he meant by being jealousits not at all what people call jealous, its quite another state of consciousness, which I saw clearly. And this morning, it came back: And when I feel jealous, I know that the old man is still there. This morning, I understood. Being jealous, for him, isnt what we call being jealous. Its this infinitesimal fragment which we call the individual, this infinitesimal parcel of consciousness, which puts itself at the center, which becomes the center of the perception. And then it perceives things coming like this (gesture to oneself) or going like this (gesture away from oneself), and all that doesnt come to it gives it a sort of perception that Sri Aurobindo called jealousy: the perception that things go towards diffusion instead of coming towards centralization. Thats what he called being jealous. So then, he said, When I feel jealous (thats what he meant), I know that the old man is still there, which means that that infinitesimal fragment of consciousness can STILL be at the center of itself: its the center of action, the center of perception, the center of sensation.
(silence)
0 1969-12-24, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I Forget who it was, I Forget if it was a Russian or an Englishman, but he was well known: the creator of materialism in the world (I dont remember who it was). And you know what he said? He said (I Forget in what language), I thank God for having made me an atheist-for having created me an atheist!
I found that charming. I read it in English: Thank God, he made me an atheist!
0 1970-01-17, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
What will happen under there? (Mother points to the underground part of the shell) All that is mental. When you have a big dark underground, whats going to happen in there? Whats going to happen?Lots of unspeakable things. Humanity isnt transformed, we shouldnt Forget that! And all kinds of people will come. Even if there is a control at the entrance, you cant stop people from going to see, and what will happen under there? That was my first objection when R. told me, We could build magnificent underground passages! I asked him, Thats very fine, but who will control what will take place under there?
I thought the descent was your idea?
0 1970-01-28, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But it was interesting. And its after this (I Forget at what time, but probably when it felt it was over or was going to be overat any rate the intensity of the operation was past) that I immediately had that vision: the body entered its usual rest, and the next thing, I was in that car that world car driven by Sri Aurobindo And so, so TRULY clear, living, realextraordinary!
(meditation)
0 1970-02-07, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then there are those who said (I Forget who, in what religion), But God does not suffer! (Mother laughs) So that made people still more furious: Yes, HE doesnt suffer; he makes us all suffer while HE doesnt! (Mother laughs) Maybe he finds it amusing!
I remember that poor Bharatidi (she was a rebel), once, long ago, we prepared together a play to be staged, and one day she told me (we were with all those who were going to play), To think that God sees all this and tolerates it! (Mother laughs) I told her, Maybe he doesnt see it as we do!
0 1970-02-28, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, last night, I think, or the night before (I Forget which), I gave you a demonstration of the condition you are in. Now I dont remember a single word.
A pity!
0 1970-03-25, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But this fact of personal expenses not allowed has been there since the beginning. I remember, long ago, my mother had started I Forget if it was a henhouse or something of the sort, because she wanted to increase her income a bit, so (that must have been some fifty or sixty years ago). She was very simple, not complicated; she opened her business and would sell her hens, her eggs and so on: she would spend the money personally and look after all her affairs. Until one fine day (laughing) when she was asked to give accounts! She narrowly escaped a severe punishment because she had used that money for her personal expensesshe didnt understand! I found it very amusing. That was at least fifty years ago.
You understand, I find it an odd frame of mind. You workwhat for? Normally, you work to earn your livelihoodits not legal. You must work, but the business isnt personal at all! You have no right to draw your own expenses on the industry you yourself started!
0 1970-03-28, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was broken, but the bones hadnt moved apart. I could feel the fracturea month later it was over (I Forget exactly how many days). And broken obviously means something very concrete!
But I dont know if, for instance, in the bodys present state, it wouldnt happen much faster. I dont know. But now, its a thoroughly conscious and almost methodical work, I might say, which is inflicted on the body so that one part after another, and all the parts and all the groups of cells may learn true life.
0 1970-04-18, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I Forget how it started, but I was very ill, seriously ill, and my body wasnt asleep, yet wasnt awake (thats a fairly normal state now: Ill be absorbed in a consciousness, which I think is the consciousness of the subtle physical; at least I was there last night). So then, I was very ill, but I knew it wasnt this body (but it was this bodys consciousness), it was a family at the Ashram, and the father was seeking help, looking for a doctor (all the details with such precision!). And while that was going on, the body said to itself, So I am identified with this person, since he is treating this person (me, that is); and since I am identified, I must do in this person what needs to be done. Then I concentrated and called the forces of the Lord, and treated the person. All that down to the last detail. It lasted for two hours. At the same time, I saw people who were extraordinarily interested in the event, looking on; for instance, among them, not to name him, there was Nolini, bent over like that and looking (Mother opens her eyes wide) to try and understand what was going on. Which means it was taking place in a world that had the full appearancefull appearanceof the material world, but in which people were conscious.
Im not recounting all the details, but my body FELT the battle of the illness. And at the same time it knew it wasnt its own body, you understand? It was like that, a very complex, very precise consciousness, with a great force. And all of it going on at the same time I wasnt asleep.
0 1970-05-09, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So then, yesterday I wrote (I Forget the words), But when You want to transform the IMAGE into Your likeness, what happens?1 Something like that. And I got the answer last night! Two activities of the subtle physical.
Oh, Ill tell the first (laughing): I killed someone point-blank!
0 1970-05-23, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Some people are seriously trying to locate the Garden of Eden! Some have found it. They told me, but I Forget where.
As for Thon, he used to say that the serpent is evolution.
0 1970-05-27, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You seem to Forget that, by the very fact that you live in the Ashram, you work neither for yourselves nor for an employer, but for the Divine. Your life must be a consecration to the divine Work and cannot be governed by petty human considerations.
Would you like to publish it, or have it posted up?
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True, it could be the intermediary. But the other thing would really mean a different degree of energy the absorption of a different degree of energy. As you used to do in the past when you breathed the smell of flowers, for instance, or as Madame Thon used to do when she put a fruit (I Forget which) on her chest.
A grapefruit! Oh, I saw that, it was extraordinary! She would put the fruit on her chest and it would dry out! She would simply put it there and she would keep it for a few hours, and when she removed it, it was all flabby, there was nothing left!
0 1970-06-06, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Forgetting Love, Forgetting Satyavan,
Annul thyself in his immobile peace.
0 1970-07-01, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I had an experience which I found interesting, because it was the first time. It was yesterday or the day before (I Forget), R. was here, just in front of me, kneeling, and I saw her psychic being towering above by this much (gesture about eight inches), taller. Its the first time. Her physical being was short, and the psychic being was tall, like this. And it was a sexless being: neither man nor woman. So I said to myself (it may be always that way, I dont know, but at that time I noticed it very clearly), I said to myself, But the psychic being is the one that will materialize and become the supramental being!
I saw it, it was like that. There were distinctive features, but not very pronounced, and it was clearly a being that was neither male nor female, that had features of both combined. And it was taller than her, it exceeded her on every side by about this much (gesture extending beyond the physical being by about eight inches). She was here, and it was like this (gesture). Its color was this color that, if it became very material, would be Aurovilles color [orange]. It was softer, as if behind a veil, it wasnt absolutely precise, but it was this color. And there was hair, but it was something else.
0 1970-08-01, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But there is I think its the Chief Minister, or a minister from Madras,2 who went to France because a Tamil congress was held there, and he met Z, who is our friend.3 And he told Z that he and the Madras government in general are very guarded about the Ashram because we are Bengalis (I Forgetabsolutely stupid!) and what we say isnt true. Anyway such stupid things that I cant even remember them. And thats the official attitude. He said, Wed rather have foreigners there than Bengalis, because we will be more secure. There you are! Absolutely imbecile.
So we are in a bizarre situation: the whole anti-government movement in India doesnt want us to be helped by the government; and the government of one province says we are friends with another province and we shouldnt be friends So to please them, we would have to become as stupid as they are.
0 1970-10-14, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Were finding some amusing things again. Three or four people here, at the SAME time, had come (when I wrote this, I Forget when), had come to succeed the universal Mother! Three or four. Especially two from America. And theres also one here (Mother laughs).
Its futile, its very childish.
0 1971-04-14, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, I know. I know. Forget it, wont you? Thats the best thing to do. It is a part of the being that must disappearits not you.
I know its not me, Mother. But it tried very hard to strike me.
0 1971-04-17, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You have a lot of nerve to say that Sri Aurobindo did not have the key to the yoga of the superman and that his integral yoga was a refinement of the mental bubble! And where have I learned what I write, if not from Mother and Sri Aurobindo? You Forget that it is thanks to him that the yoga of the superman is possible, that it is he who prepared it, he who brought down the great flood of the New Consciousness so that, instead of seeking for the Divine Truth up above, men can live it down here and walk their every step in it. It is like saying that Sri Aurobindo did not have the key to the door he opened!
His yoga is integral because, instead of confining the quest to the spiritual heights, he has told us repeatedly that our body too must participate and we must bring the Spiritual Truth down into our body and our life. The path of ascent and all the other paths, the other planes of consciousness, are part of an integral development for those who have the time and the special capacities that are required. But it is no longer the time for those excursions, since everything can be found heresince, in fact, Sri Aurobindo and Mother opened the way HERE. Please recall Mothers statement: Sri Aurobindo came to tell us: one need not leave the earth to find the Truth, one need not leave life to find ones soul, one need not abandon the world or have limited beliefs to enter into relation with the Divine. The Divine is everywhere, in everything, and if he is hidden, it is because we do not take the trouble to find him. (Questions and Answers, 8.13.1958) And again this: For many, spiritual life is meditation. As long as that nonsense is not uprooted from human consciousness, the supramental force will always find it very difficult not to be swallowed up in the obscurity of an uncomprehending human mind. (Questions and Answers, 4.17.1957) And if you know how to read Sri Aurobindo and Mother, you will see that they have completely described this road of here and the sunlit pathOn the Way to Supermanhood only puts an intentionally exclusive accent on the here, because there is no time to lose, because everyone does not have the special capacities for making large-scale explorations, and finally because we are at the Hour of Godwe are right there! It has come. Because there really is something different in the world since 1969.
0 1971-05-12, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But, Mother, dont Forget that India betrayed Tibet! When Tibet was invaded by the Chinese, Nehru kept his mouth, eyes and ears shut and did nothing to help the Tibetans.
(Mother shakes her head)
0 1971-08-14, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It has no need to know anything: it has a need of being entirely molded, set in motion and used in every way [by the Divine], and it has but one dreamto Forget that it existsto become spontaneously the expression (Mother has a blissful smile) of something of something it calls the Divine, which is the only true thing.
(silence)
0 1971-09-01, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
An image has remained with me which I cant Forget. There was a new governor, the one who succeeded Baron [in 1949], and I had gone to see him with Pavitra, and on my way out, in the salon or on the veranda, I dont remember, or the balcony, you were sitting theredont you remember?
No, Mother.
0 1972-03-24, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont know if Ill remember, thats why I am telling you. Because today is Friday and I wont see him till tomorrow. This way, I am sure I wont Forget. Youll tell him, wont you?
Yes, Mother.
0 1972-03-29a, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I call on you rather than any other contemporary writer because I think your works embody the very anguish of the West, an anguish I have bitterly experienced all the way to the German concentration camps at the age of twenty, and then in a long and uneasy wandering around the world. Insofar as I have always turned to you, daring and searching with each of your characters what surpasses man, I am again turning to you because I have a feeling that, more than anyone else, you can understand Sri Aurobindos message and perhaps draw a new impetus from it. I am also thinking of a whole generation of young people who expect much from you: more than an ideal of pure heroism, which only opens the doors (as does all self-offering) on another realm of man we have yet to explore, and more than a fascination with death, which also is only a means and not an end, although its brutal nakedness can sometimes open a luminous breach in the bodily prisonwhere we seem to have been immured alive and we emerge into a new dimension of our being. For we tend too often to Forget that it is for living that your heroes think so constantly of death; also I think that the young people I mentioned want the truth of Tchen and Katow, the truth of Hernandez, Perken and Moreno [characters in Malrauxs novels] beyond their death.
It may seem strange to speak of you in an Indian Ashram that one would consider far removed from the world and the agonizing problems and struggles of the Human Condition, but as a matter of fact Sri Aurobindos Ashram is concerned with this earthly life; it wants to transform it instead of fleeing it as all traditional Indian and Western religions do, forever proclaiming that His kingdom is not of this world. Knowing that there exists a fundamental reality beyond man, religions have focussed on that other realm to find the key to man just as your heroes focus on their death to discover the fundamental reality that will be able to stand in the face of death. But religion has not justified this life, except as a transition toward a Beyond which is supposedly the supreme goal; and your heroesthough so close to lifes throbbing heart that at times it seems to explode and reveal its poignant secretfinally plunge into death, as if to free themselves from an Absolute they cannot live in the flesh.
0 1972-04-04, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You see, some people come to me I dont know their names, I dont know what they do, I know nothing about them; the new requests for admission should come to me through one of you two (because you know the practical situation and the people). Unfortunately, many people write to me, and I dont know, you see, I never remember names; I only remember when I know who they are, what they do and so on. But if you know these peoples worth and can tell me, This one is like this or that, I trust what you say; and if you tell me, That person is undesirable, well, he must go. But I have to be informed beforehand, because people usually go through one person, then another to get their request to me, and I dont keep track, I dont know. Do you see the picture? I give a general answer, and they take it as because I think its somebody else. I dont remember, I Forget names the next minute I have forgotten. My head is full of something far vaster than all that, you know. There should be one personone or two (two is very good)to present the admissions to me, the new admissions to Auroville, and I fully agree to send back those you find undesirable.
Do you understand?
0 1972-04-05, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its the ego demanding that things be done without Forgetting its due respect(laughing) Mister Ego wants to continue enjoying all due respect! It complains shrilly before departing.
Oh, I have seen such fascinating things, mon petit! For hours I was a spectator the consciousness witnessed an encounter between the Ego and the supermans consciousness (laughing) it was like a duel! The ego was arguing so glibly! It seemed to be saying, See, if you send me off, the world will become hellish! And it was showing the most frightful scenes: If I withdraw from this one, it said, this is what he will do; if I withdraw from that, this is what will happen (Mother laughs) Horrible things, you know, the most staggering catastrophes! It went on for hours.
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Mothers immediate entourage was then composed of: Pranab, her bodyguard, a former boxer, a violent and arrogant man whose flagrant flaws were the reverse side of a Love he never accepted, because it would have meant surrendering himself. A for-mi-dable pride, Mother once told me.1 He trusted nothing except his biceps and was frustrated in his dreams of superman without any tangible physiological realization. In his own way, he was perfectly devoted, as a sportsman who knows he has lost the game he had hoped to win but sportingly plays on till the end. He treated Mother like a brute and talked to her like a brute, but he served her brutishly, sparing no pains, although with a growing impatience. He served Mother for more than twenty-five years. Pranab had an instinctive aversion toward me, as he had toward Pavitra (whom he badly mistreated), and in general toward anything that exceeded his primitive intellectPranab could only love what he was able to dominate. He was also openly xenophobic: the sahibs, as he would say, Forgetting, or maybe not, that Mother, too, was a foreigner. There were never any exchanges between Pranab and myself, we lived in completely different worlds and the work of one did not infringe upon that of the other. He only showed his annoyance and contempt for me when, entering Mothers room ponderously, he would find her in contemplation, holding my handsperhaps he was eager for a Love that eluded him. I never spoke a word to him. He never said anything to me.
The second person in Mothers entourage was her physician, Dr. Sanyal. A completely devoted, clear and uncalculating man but with a total lack of faith, except in his medicine and medical methods. He lived for some twenty years with Mother with no understanding of what she was doing, sowing her bodyconsciousness with his doubts and medical impossibilities. Mother has referred to him on several occasions in this Agenda.
0 1972-05-27, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, its quite interesting! But I dont go off, you see. I am not at all in a trance, not at all: I am wide awake and FULLY active. I see things, I do things, I hear people, I the whole time. But I Forget I simply Forget about material life. Then someone comes and abruptly calls me back.
I dont go out of material life, but it appears different.
0 1972-05-31, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For example, take that image I keep having of you sitting on that bench and staring at me likeyes, as if saying, What on earth is this! because I visited Government House (I used to come very often during Barons time, but I stopped coming after he left), so I came and you seemed to be saying, What on earth is this? as if yes, as if you were thinking, How quickly one Forgets! or something of the sort3anyway you werent overly friendly! (laughter) At least that was my impression. But why does it keep recurring like that? You see, that encounter that occasion was the starting point the starting point of a great action between us, together. A great action together. So why these trifling little ripples, just when destiny was being shaped?
One could almost say they were there to prove how appearances are illusions.
0 1972-07-19, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Andr = Mother's son. Only after Pavitra's passing away, in 1969, did Mother try to involve him. A weak man, constantly swayed by everybody. He was Mother's son but also, one Forgets too often, his father's son.
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0 1972-10-25, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It has come to a point that Forgetting, Forgetting the Divine for just a single minute is catastrophic.
How about you, how are things for you?
0 1972-11-25, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Forgetting the Divine even for a minute is becoming catastrophic, you see.
Now and then, for a few seconds, the true beatific consciousness comes but only now and then and for a few seconds. Thats all. Otherwise, I am like this (gesture, fists clenched to stand firm in the struggle).
0 1973-01-24, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont remember anything, I even Forget what I have said before. Everything is (gesture of crumbling).
And strangely, almost at the same time, theres torture and blissalmost at the same time. There you are.
0 1973-02-14, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, Mother, I also feel we should Forget about itpeople must understand from within, and that will be that.
I am hearing (through Nirod2) certain things that Sri Aurobindo said, and he says that even he contradicted himself a great number of times
02.01 - Our Ideal, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
To the regard of one line of experience, Matter seems opposed to Spirit only so far as the actual and outer formulation of Matter is concerned: even then the opposition is only apparent and relative. This is the very crux of the problem. For, to such a regard Spirit becomes Matter also, it is also Matterannam brahma eva. Spirit is consciousness, cit; and Matter, it is said, is unconsciousness, acit. But unconsciousness need not be and is not, in our view, the absolute negation or utter absence of consciousness, it is only an involved or involute consciousness. If consciousness is wakefulness, unconsciousness is nothing more than Forgetfulness: it is only an abeyance or suspension of consciousness, not annihilation.
Thus the spiritualisation of Matter becomes possible simply because Matter and Spirit are not absolutely different, contradictory or incommensurable entities; they are one and the same reality, in different modeseven as water or water vapour and ice are in substance one and identical, although different in appearance. Spirit has become Matter and Matter at heart is Spirit. Spirit is latent in Matter, as Matter itself is a possible formulation involved in Spirit. Matter has come out of Spirit as Spirit pressed upon itself and gradually condensed and consolidated into the concrete material reality. Spirit has become Matter by a process of crystallisation, of self-limitation and exclusive concentration. The movement follows a definite line of self-modification, along a downward gradient till it is consummated: it is one among an infinite variety of possible self-modifications, chosen and exclusively developed with a special purpose and a definite fulfilment In view.
02.02 - Lines of the Descent of Consciousness, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
When consciousness has reached the farthest limit of its opposite, when it has reduced itself to absolutely unconscious and mechanical atoms of Matter, when the highest has descended into and become the lowest, then, by the very force of its downward drive, it has swung round and begun to mount up again. As it could not proceed farther on the downward gradient, having reached the extreme and ultimate limit of inconscience, consciousness had to turn round, as it were, by the very pressure of its inner impetus. First, then, there is a descent, a gradual involution, a veiling and closing up; next, an ascent, a gradual evolution, unfoldment and expression. We now see, however, that the last limit at the bottomMatteralthough appearing to be unconscious, is really not so: it is inconscient. That is to say, it holds consciousness secreted and involved within itself; it is, indeed, a special formulation of consciousness. It is the exclusive concentration of consciousness upon single points in itself: it is consciousness throwing itself out in scattered units and, by reason of separative identification with them and absorption into them, losing itself, Forgetting itself in an absolute fixation of attention. The phenomenon is very similar to what happens when in the ordinary consciousness a worker, while doing a work, becomes so engrossed in it that he loses consciousness of himself, identifies himself with the work and in fact becomes the work, the visible resultant being a mechanical execution.
Now this imprisoned consciousness in Matter forces Matter to be conscious again when driven on the upward gradient. This tension creates a fire, as it were, in the heart of Matter, a mighty combustion and whorl in the core of things, of which the blazing sun is an image and a symbol. All this pressure and heat and concussion and explosion mean a mighty struggle in Matter to give birth to that which is within. Consciousness that is latent must be made patent; it must reveal itself in Matter and through Matter, making Matter its vehicle and embodiment. This is the mystery of the birth of Life, the first sprouting of consciousness in Matter. Life is half-awakened consciousness, consciousness yet in a dream state. Its earliest and most rudimentary manifestation is embodied in the plant or vegetable world. The submerged consciousness strives to come still further up, to express itself to a greater degree and in a clearer mode, to become more free and plastic in its movements; hence the appearance of the animal as the next higher formulation. Here consciousness delivers itself as a psyche, a rudimentary one, no doubt, a being of feeling and sensation, and elementary mentality playing in a field of vitalised Matter. Even then it is not satisfied with itself, it asks for a still more free and clear articulation: it is not satisfied, for it has not yet found its own level. Hence after the animal, arrives man with a full-fledged Mind, with intelligence and self-consciousness and capacity for self-determination.
02.02 - The Kingdom of Subtle Matter, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Our souls Forget to the Highest to aspire.
In that fair subtle realm behind our own
02.03 - The Shakespearean Word, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
However, we must not Forget Michael Angelo in this connection. He is living, he is energetic, to a supreme degree. If we seek anywhere intense au thentic life-movement, it is there at its maximum perhaps. Even his" statues are a paean of throbbing pulsating bodies. Still he has planted moving life in immobility and stilled rigidity. It is a passing moment stopped as though by magic; a mortis rigor holds in and controls, as it were, a wild vigour spurting out.
We know that almost no paraphernalia are really needed to present a Shakespearean drama on the stage. His magical, all powerful words are sufficient to do the work of the decorative artist. The magic of the articulate word, the mere sound depicts, not only depicts but carries you and puts you face to face with the living reality. I will give you three examples to show how Shakespeare wields his Prosperian wand. First I take the lines from Macbeth, that present before you the castle of Duncan, almost physicallyperhaps even a little more than physicallywith its characteristic setting and atmosphere:
02.06 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
What by our mind's Forgetfulness we miss,
Our being's natural felicity,
02.07 - George Seftris, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Stoop down, if you can, to the dark sea, Forgetting
The sound of a flute played to naked feet
02.09 - Two Mystic Poems in Modern French, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
My blood is now captured. It is the willing prey, the victim of its hunter. It is living only because it is dead. There is now no endeavour to seek and to hear, to run after the golden treasure, for now it is a child's consciousness made of a darkness, a Forgetfulness crowded with marvels.
The earthly blood that loses its way is heavy because it treads here below. Here there are stagnant waters, dead ashes. The arm from on high must extend here too. Here all forms are walking statues. They delay and delay in a death that is yet warmonly lukewarm but lifeless. The earthly love I bear is my enemy. Its fire ends in dust and I go to sleep into the unconsciousness. My home here is a mourning hall; how can it be changed into a hall of beauty and living and moving shapes? Yes, my mouth is empty and full of dust, yes, it cries bitten by a corrosive acid thrown upon an increasing silence. It is a fire that comes from the chill snowy heights.
02.11 - New World-Conditions, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
India should consider the present situation with calmness, detachment and wisdom, not hark back to the past, brooding over the mistakes and misdeeds of her erstwhile masters they are no longer masters; yes, forgiving and Forgetting, one must face squarely the new situation and make the best use of it. India, that claims a spiritual heritage and a high and hoary civilisation, can afford to be idealistic even and envisage a deeper and higher law of Nature, of universal harmony and solidarity, of conscious co-operation. Apart from that, if as practical men, we look to our self-interest, then also it will be wise for us to take up the same line of procedure, viz., what idealism demands. A nation too, like the individual, can be swayed by pride, prejudice, passion, a false sense of prestige and a spirit of vengeance. However natural these reactions may seem to be, in view of the conditions of their incidence, they possess, more often than not, the property of the boomerang, they hit back the originating source itself. It has been said, for example, that the origin of the present war the rise of Hitleris due to the Versailles Treaty that ended the last war, which was, in its turn a war of revenge having its origin on the field of Sedan; this campaign of 1870 again was the natural and inevitable outcome of the Napoleonic conquest. Thus there has been a seesaw movement in national relations without a definite issue. And pessimists of today aver that we are not come to the end of the spiral.
But we do not subscribe to such prognostics. There is no inevitability of the kind. "Time must have a stop." The two lower limbs of the dialectic must be rounded in then by a higher reality. For two reasons. First of, all, Nature herself moves towards synthesis and harmonydiscord and difference are part only of the process working for that eventual consummation. Secondly, the human spirit is there, with the urge of its inevitable destiny, to create its power in the vision and consciousness of the hidden truth and reality which 'surface contingencies seem often to deny.
02.12 - Mysticism in Bengali Poetry, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
She, the Eternal Memory, from the Forgetfulness of
earth's depths
02.13 - On Social Reconstruction, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
This theory of money power, in spite of its factual or practical truth, is not the whole truth. This is, I should say, the very old I Ptolemaic social system, in a new garb, which turns round man as an economic and physicalbeing. The Copernican system would view man chiefly as a psychological centre. A truly rational economic system can be based upon such an inner view of the situation. A merely economic view would take man as nothing more than a wage-earning machine and that will give the society and its government a mechanistic pattern. It will Forget this simple truism that a man's worth is not and need not be always commensurate with his wage-earning capacity or even his usefulness as a citizen (in the way the atom-bomb Scientists are proving useful today).
Personal value will mean then not productive value, but creative value, that is to say, the capacity to create values, that means the consideration of the psychological and moral makeup of the individual.
02.14 - Appendix, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Our birth is but a sleep and Forgetting:
The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,
03.01 - The Evolution of Consciousness, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
- not only the macrocosm, but the microcosm is nothing but consciousness arranging itself. For instance when consciousness in its movement, or rather a certain stress of movement, Forgets itself in the action it becomes an apparently "unconscious" energy; when it Forgets itself in the form it becomes the electron, the atom, the material object. In reality it is still consciousness that works in the energy and determines the form and the evolution of form. When it wants to liberate itself, slowly, evolutionarily, out of matter, but still in the form, it emerges as life, as the animal, as man and it can go on evolving itself still farther out of its involution and become something more than mere man.
Consciousness is a reality inherent in existence. It is there even when it is not active on the surface, but silent and immobile; it is there even when it is invisible on the surface, not reacting on outward things or sensible to them, but withdrawn and either active or inactive within; it is there even when it seems to us to be quite absent and the being to our view unconscious and inanimate.
03.05 - Some Conceptions and Misconceptions, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The exclusive concentration was the logical and inevitable final term of a movement of separativity and exteriorisation. It had its necessity and utility. Its special function was utilised by Nature for precision and perfection in details of execution in the most material order of reality. Indeed, what can be more exact and accurate than the laws of physics, the mathematical laws that govern the movements of the material particles? Furthermore, if we look at the scientist himself, do we not find in him an apt image of the same phenomenon? A scientist means a specialist the more specialised and restricted his view, the surer he is likely to be in his particular domain. And specialised knowledge means a withdrawal from other fields and viewpoints of knowledge, an ignorance of them. Likewise, a workman who moulds the head of a pin is all concentrated upon that single point of existencehe Forgets the whole world and himself in that act whose perfect execution seems to depend upon the measure of his self-oblivion. But evidently this is not bound to be so. A one-pointed self-absorption that is Ignoranceis certainly an effective way of dealing with material objectsthings of Ignorance; but it is not the only way. It is a way or mechanism adopted by Nature in a certain status under certain conditions. One need not always Forget oneself in the act in order to do the act perfectly. An unconscious instinctive act is not always best doneit can be done best consciously, intuitively. A wider knowledge, a greater acquaintance with objects and facts and truths of other domains too is being more and more insisted upon as a surer basis of specialisation. The pinpointed (one might almost say geometrically pointed) consciousness in Matter that resolves itself into unconsciousness acts perfectly but blindly; the vast consciousness also acts there with absolute perfection but consciouslyconscious in the highest degree.
As we have said, super-consciousness does not confine itself to the supreme status alone, to the domain of pure infinity, but it comes down and embraces the most inferior status too, the status of the finite. Precisely because it is infinity, it is not bound to its infinity but can express its infinity in and through infinite limits.
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We can, however, make a distinction between limitation and delimitation or individuation. Limitation is a movement of Ignorance: it is the result of exclusive concentration. It creates separateness, Forgets the unity. Delimitation, on the contrary, is a movement of knowledge, of pure consciousness dynamic. It creates diversity, multiplicity maintained in unity.
It is to be added that the limitation in Ignorance is after all apparent; that does not mean it is unreal or illusory, in the sense of Mayavada. Here is the distinction: Mayavada holds all formation as my, illusory, makes no difference between limitation and delimitation: according to it, all delimitation is ignorant and illusory limitation; none has real or essential existence. In Sri Aurobindo's view limitation is real, as also delimitation: only the former is a temporary reality, it is the latter itself but under certain conditions. Again, Mayavada speaks of the Brahman, the Absolute or Transcendent as the sole and true reality: it is the Stable, the Unmoving, the utter Unity cancelling, negating all movement and multiplicity. Sri Aurobindo views the highest reality as dynamic also, permeating the multiplicity and becoming the multiplicity, becoming or existing as the multiplicity in a movement of Knowledge, becoming and appearing also at first in a movement and mode of Ignorance as the material multiplicity but gradually transmuting this ignorant multiplicity into a movement and embodiment of Knowledge. For the Knowledge was always there in and behind the Ignorance, secretly informing and guiding, moulding and transforming it.
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One must not Forget, however, that the principle of exclusive concentration cannot be isolated I from the total action of consciousness and viewed as functioning by itself at any time. We isolated it for logical comprehension. In actuality it is integrated with the whole nisus of consciousness and operates in conjunction with and as part of the total drive. That total drive at one point results in the multiple realities of Matter. When the element of limitation in the physical plane is ascribed to the exclusiveness of a stress in consciousness, it should not be forgotten that the act is, as it were, a joint and several responsibility of the whole consciousness in its multiple functioning. And the reverse movement is also likewise a global act: there too the force that withdraws, ascends or eliminates cannot be isolated from the other force that reaffirms, re-establishes, reintegrates,the principle of exclusiveness (like that of pain) is not proved to be illusory and non-existent, but reappears in its own essential nature as a principle of centring or canalisation of consciousness.
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03.06 - The Pact and its Sanction, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The Pact if it is to be a success must be implemented at three levels. First of all, at the highest level, at the source itself, that is to say, between the Governments who initiated the move. The ministers and members at the top should themselves maintain an entente cordiale (in the literal and true sense of the phrase) and set an example by their word and deed, and what is more difficult and important, in their thought and feeling. They that are on either side of the fence should meet and talk and intermix as real friends and comrades, devise ways and means as to how best to carry out what they sincerely wish and desire. If they do not believe in the agreement in their heart of hearts, if they accept it simply because forced by compelling circumstances and because there was no other way out, if they entertain doubts and reservations and take it up as a pis aller, than surely more than half the force of the Pact is already gone. If the Pact is not sealed by the truth of our heart, then it becomes a mere scrap of paper and is sure to go the way of all such papers. It will not be stronger than the hundred and one contracts that are made between states only to be broken at the earliest opportunity. We have taken as the motto of our government the flaming mantra of the Upanishad, Truth alone leads to victory; we should not Forget the continuation of the text, and not false hood.
The leaders overhead should be actuated by the truth of the soul (indeed for that they should have first a soul). A mainly political deal covers up the fissure, an apparent solution or easing of the situation hides a festering sore. We should have understood by now, it has been the bitter lesson of the epoch comprising the last two great wars that mere politics does not save, on the contrary, it leads you into a greater and greater mess. And still if governments have not learnt the lesson, if they follow the old system of real-politick, well, we can say only God save us, for we are heading straight over the precipicea final crash or a terrible revolution.
The Pact has to be implemented not only at the top but equally at the bottom. Here the matter seems somewhat easier. For in reality the common people have no interest in quarrels, they would prefer to live and let live peacefully; the burden of daily life is sufficient for them and they are not normally inclined to be busy about things that would disturb their routine work. Difference in religion or caste or creed is not such a serious matter with them. They tolerate and accommodate themselves to any variety easily and if there is a clash on an occasion, they Forget it soon, and live amicably together as before. That has been the life in the villages for millennia. And if there is a formal Pact on the upper levels, it is what is normal and natural to the common mass.
The difficulty comes from the middle region, from the second element of the tripartite sanction. It is the "middle class", not quite in the economic but in the ideological sense. In other words, in every society there are people who have risen or are attempting to rise above the mass level. They look around and above: they are not satisfied with their lot, they aspire towards higher and wider ideals. They are the material out of which what we call reformers and revolutionaries are made. In the general mass who are more or less contented, they are the discontented: they form the leaven of cells that move and stir and work for change. Now all depends on what kind of leaven it is, what is the quality of the force that is called up, the nature of the ideal or idea that is invoked. For it can be either way, for good or for evil. There are elements that belong to the light, and there are elements that belong to darkness. There are mixtures in men no doubt, but on the whole there are these two types: one helps humanity's progress, the other retards and sometimes blocks completely. If the mass of mankind is tamasinertia there is a kind of rajasdynamism that drives towards greater tamas, as the Upanishad says, towards disintegration, under the garb of reformation it brings about disruption.
03.12 - TagorePoet and Seer, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Such a great name is Rabindranath Tagore in Bengali literature. We need not Forget Bankim Chandra, nor even Madhusudan: still one can safely declare that if Bengali language and literature belonged to any single person as its supreme liberator and fosterer savitand pit is Rabindranath. It was he who lifted that language and literature from what had been after all a provincial and parochial status into the domain of the international and universal. Through him a thing of local value was metamorphosed definitively into a thing of world value.
The miracle that Tagore has done is this: he has brought out the very soul of the raceits soul of lyric fervour and grace, of intuitive luminosity and poignant sensibility, of beauty and harmony and delicacy. It is this that he has made living and vibrant, raised almost to the highest pitch and amplitude in various modes in the utterance of his nation. What he always expresses, in all his creations, is one aspect or another, a rhythm or a note of the soul movement. It is always a cry of the soul, a profound experience in the inner heart that wells out in the multifarious cadences of his poems. It is the same motif that finds a local habitation and a name in his short stories, perfect gems, masterpieces among world's masterpieces of art. In his dramas and novels it is the same element that has found a wider canvas for a more detailed and graphic notation of its play and movement. I would even include his essays (and certainly his memoirs) within the sweep of the same master-note. An essay by Rabindranath is as characteristic of the poet as any lyric poem of his. This is not to say that the essays are devoid of a solid intellectual content, a close-knit logical argument, an acute and penetrating thought movement, nor is it that his novels or dramas are mere lyrics drawn out arid thinned, lacking in the essential elements of a plot and action and character. What I mean is that over and above these factors which Tagores art possesses to a considerable degree, there is an imponderable element, a flavour, a breath from elsewhere that suffuses the entire creation, something that can be characterised only as the soul-element. It is this presence that makes whatever the poet touches not only living and graceful but instinct with something that belongs to the world of gods, something celestial and divine, something that meets and satisfies man's deepest longing and aspiration.
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The modernist does not ask: is it good? is it beautiful? He asks: is it effective? is it expressive? And by effectivity and expressiveness he means something nervous and physical. Expressiveness to him would mean the capacity to tear off the veil over what once was considered not worth the while or decent to uncover. A strange recklessness and shamelessness, an unhealthy and perverse curiosity, characteristic of the Asura and the Pisacha, of the beings of the underworld, mark the movement of the modernist. But I Forget. The Modernist is not always an anarchist, for he too seeks to establish a New Order; indeed he arrogates to himself that mission and declares it to be his and his alone. Obviously it is not the order of the higher gods of Olympus: these have been ousted and dethroned. We are being led back to the mysteries of an earlier race, reverting to an infra-evolutionary status, into the arcana of Thor and Odin, godlings of an elemental Nature.
In such a world Tagore is a voice and a beacon from over the heights of the old world declaring and revealing the verities that are eternal and never die. They who seek to kill them do so at their peril. Tagore is a great poet: as such he is close to the heart of Bengal. He is a great Seer: as such humanity will claim him as its own.
03.14 - Mater Dolorosa, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Some believers in God or in the Spirit admit that it is so. The world is the creation of another being, a not-God, a not-Spiritwhe ther Maya or Ahriman or the Great Evil. One has simply to Forget the world, abandon earthly existence altogether as a nightmare. Peace, felicity one can possess and enjoy but not here in this vale of tears, anityam asukham lokam imam, but elsewhere beyond.
Is that the whole truth? We, for ourselves, do not subscribe to this view. Truth is a very complex entity, the universe a mingled strain. It is not a matter of merely sinners and innocents that we have to deal with. The problem is deeper and more fundamental. The whole question is, where, in which world, on which level of consciousness do we stand, and, what is more crucial, how much of that consciousness is dynamic and effective in normal life. If we are in the ordinary consciousness and live wholly with that consciousness, it is inevitable that, being in the midst of Nature's current, we should be buffeted along, the good and the evil, as we conceive them to be, befalling us indiscriminately. Or, again, if we happen to live in part or even mainly in an inner or higher consciousness, more or less in a mood of withdrawal from the current of life allowing the life movements to happen as they list, then too we remain, in fact, creatures and playthings of Nature and we must not wonder if, externally, suffering becomes the badge of our tribe.
03.17 - The Souls Odyssey, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Our birth is but a sleep and a Forgetting:
The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,
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Not in entire Forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
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In the meanwhile, however, our birth is but a sleep and a Forgetting. A physical incarnation clouds the soul-consciousness and involves loss of memory, amnesia. The soul's travail therefore in a physical body is precisely to regain the memory of what has been forgotten. Spiritual discipline means at bottom this remembering, and all culture too means nothing more than that that is also what Plato thought when he said that all knowledge, all true knowledge consists in reminiscence.
Man, in his terrestrial body, although fallen, because shrouded and diverted from his central being of light and fire, is yet not, as I have said, wholly forsaken and cut adrift. He always carries within him that radiant core through all the peregrinations of earthly sojourn. And though the frontal consciousness, the physical memory has no contact with it, there is a stream of inner consciousness that continues to maintain the link. That is the silver lining to the dark cloud that envelops and engulfs our normal life. And that is why at timesnot unoften there occurs a crack, a fissure in the crust of our earthly nature of ignorance and a tongue of flame leaps outone or other perhaps of the seven sisters of which the Upanishad speaks. And then a mere man becomes a saint, a seer, a poet, a prophet, a hero. This is the flaming godhead whom we cherish within, Agni, the leader of our progressive life, the great Sacrifice, the child whom we nourish, birth after birth, by all that we experience and do and achieve. To live normally and naturally in that fiery elementlike the legendary Salamanderto mould one's consciousness and being, one's substance and constitution, even the entire cellular organisation into the radiant truth is the goal of man's highest aspiration, the ultimate end of Nature's evolutionary urge and the cycle of rebirth.
04.01 - The Birth and Childhood of the Flame, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Although our fallen minds Forget to climb,
Although our human stuff resists or breaks,
04.29 - To the Heights-XXIX, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
that has travelled down to a Forgetful Here Below,
awakening us to reminiscences of our ancient and eternal estate,
05.01 - The Destined Meeting-Place, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
And Forgetting obvious joys and common dreams,
Obedient to Time's call, to the spirit's fate,
05.02 - Satyavan, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Of celestial insight now Forgetful grown,
He seizes on some sign of outward charm
05.06 - The Birth of Maya, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
But, somewhere, in a part of universal being the Divine chose to Forget the Divine, a veil was allowed to interpose in front of the All-Light, the All-Bliss, the All-Power:
A mixture became possible, the dualities were born-
05.12 - The Soul and its Journey, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
An easy and quick passage to the place of rest, that is what the being needs and asks for after death. This is determined by one's Karma in life and the last wish and prayer at the moment of death for the force of consciousness at this critical moment acts not only upon the character of the passage but also upon the character even of the next birth. Apart from one's own merit, one can be helped by others also who are still upon earth and who claim to be his friends and relatives and wellwishers not in the way they think they do at present, that is to say, by grieving and lamenting or even by performing rites and ceremonies, these often retard rather than accelerate the passage, but by an inner detachment and calm prayer and goodwill: oftener perhaps to Forget the departed is the best way to help him. A truly conscious help can be given only by one who has the requisite occult power and spiritual realisation the Guru, for example.
III
06.01 - The Word of Fate, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
And they Forget the wounded feet of man,
His limbs that faint beneath the whips of grief,
06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Thy consciousness Forgets to be divine
As it walks in the vague penumbra of the flesh
06.15 - Ever Green, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The great secret of progressand also of permanent youthfulnessis to feel at every moment that you are just beginning your life and your life experience. Always you start afresh; even if you are on the same path and seem to be moving in the same direction for the hundredth time, you must feel as if it was for the first time that you undertook the journey, it was your maiden attempt towards a new discovery. Forget all past ideas, notions, experiences that crowd upon your mind; sweep away all the accumulated dust that has cumbered your brain; make your consciousness as clean and clear as that of a newborn babeall straightened out, with none of the convolutions and wrinkles of an aged cerebrum. Always you will come into contact with the world and things in all the simplicity and spontaneity of a pure consciousness and always the world and things will bring to you their unending wonder and beauty and truth.
Whenever you go inside and seek your poise, do not look for your old acquaintances, the familiar experiences, do not carry upon your back the load of the past, but go ahead, as if through a virgin tract, making quite new discoveries, and opening unexpected vistas at each step. You can make an experiment even on your physical body, i.e. take the physical consciousness too to share in your adventure of ever new discovery. Thus you may, for example, Forget your habit of eating or even walking, truly Forget and try to learn over again, even as you did for the first time as a child. You have to acquire consciously a capacity of the body that has become an almost unconscious reflex action. It is a wonderful and exhilarating experience. Naturally you cannot repeat too often or carry too far an experiment of this kind on the physical plane. But you can freely deal with your inner life and consciousness. You can make your mind and your vital a clean slate, as much as you like: not once in your life, but every moment of your life. And then see how the world impinges upon your consciousness, what fresh discoveries and awakenings come to you endlessly! You can always rid yourself of the accustomed vibrations on the normal levels of your existence, the physical, vital and mental; and even you can go beyond your psychic formation and be the wide, the vast, the limitless, the Infinite itself, void of all name and form. And then with that virgin consciousness drop straight into the world of material life and form, into your body and bodily reactions. The world will give itself up to you in its pristine purity, its original beauty and truth, always luminous and glorious. This experience has to be the normal mode of your living, not simply the culmination or acme of your being, a fixed and stagnant status, even if considered the highest, the summum bonum. That is how you can keep yourself and the world around you ever fresh and young and new.
The preacher who speaks of the truth and delivers it to his hearers is usually effective for the first time or for a first few occasions only, when he feels the truth of his truth and is sincere while delivering. But as time wears on, his truth too wears out, for it becomes stereotyped, a matter of mere habit. The experience is no longer lived, but mechanically doled out. You are sincere only when the experience is new and fresh and living, it should be made so every moment, otherwise it is dead letter, letter that killeth.
06.16 - A Page of Occult History, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
However, the Asuras came to think better of the game and consented to use their freedom on the side of the Divine, for the fulfilment of the Divine; that is to say, they agreed to conversion. Thus they took birth as or in human beings, so that they may be in contact with the human soulPsychewhich is the only door or passage to the Divine in this material world. But the matter was not easy; the process was not straight. For, even agreeing to be converted, even basking in the sunshine of the human psyche, these incorrigible Elders could not Forget or wholly give up their old habit and nature. They now wanted to work for the Divine Fulfilment in order to magnify themselves thereby; they consented to serve the Divine in order to make the Divine serve them, utilise the Divine End for their own purposes. They wished to see the new creation after their own heart's desire.
That is how things have become difficult upon earth and are delaying the ultimate consummation which, however, is sure to come about when the wheel of Time or Fate has turned full circle.
06.27 - To Learn and to Understand, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It is one thing to learn (apprendre), quite another to understand (comprendre). In learning you take in a thing by your surface mind and it is a thing that comes in from outside like a foreign body; it is put into you, almost driven and thrust into you. You do not absorb it, make it wholly your own. If you are not mindful, leave it aside for sometime, it goes clean out of your memory. Understanding a thing, on the other hand, means, you absorb it, get it into the stuff of your being, you live it in your consciousness within. When you have understood a thing you never Forget it; it has become an element of your consciousness. Years and years might have passed, yet the thing would be as clear and vivid as it was on the first day. Why do you Forget so easily the lessons that you learnwith pain and difficultyfrom books or at school from teachers? It is because you simply learn, but do not understand. You retain in your brain the words, the outer formula or forms, you note down the information; but what they stand for, their import and inner law, the living truth escape you totally. You read Einstein, read over and over again his formulas and equations and even commit them to memorylearn by rote; but after a time, if you lose touch with them, they vanish from your mind or become very vague and misty and you have to start again. That is because you learnt Einstein simply as a lesson, whereas if you entered into the perceptions these forms embody, the inner principles that determine them, if the Einsteinian consciousness became in some way your consciousness, then you would have understood and never forgotten. It would not be a lesson but an experience. What is needed, then, is this inner awakening by which you live a thing, identify yourself with it, become one with it and not simply meet or make a mere nodding acquaintance with it. Unless there is this awakening or openness, as we say, in the consciousness, however much a lesson is thrust into you, it will not enter deeply enough. You may learn, like a parrot, but you will not understand, it will pass over your head and soon be forgotten.
Indeed it was not very much necessary for the ancient sages and occultists to try to hide their knowledge in an obscure language, in codes and symbols and ciphers for fear of misuse by the common uninitiate; even if they had expressed their knowledge in ordinary language, ordinary people would not have understood it at all. It would be like my speaking to you in Chinese-, you would not make out anything of it. One comprehends only what one already possesses, that is to say, you must have within you something at least of what you want to know and understand, something corresponding to it, similar in nature and vibration. That is what I mean when I say that you should be open, your mind and consciousness should be turned and attuned to the object it wishes to seize; it must have some light in it in order to receive the light outside and beyond. If it is mere obscurity, the light does not light; even if it manages to come it departs soon or is engulfed in the darkness.
06.32 - The Central Consciousness, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Very often this was the experience: union with the Supreme is established, but as soon as the consciousness was about to settle and merge in the bliss of the union, it was called back and had to turn to the outside world to the ordinary affairs of ordinary consciousness. As if I was given to understand that it was not for me to Forget and reject the life of the physical world and pass into the Beyond, but to maintain the contact, the closest contact, between this world and the Beyond and hold both together in one consciousness. The process is some-what like this: you withdraw the consciousness from the world outside and turn inward; you withdraw even from your own physical activities and physical perceptions; you with-draw further in this way step by step through all the grades of life movements and mental movements, go deep inward and high upward till you reach the highest summit: the absolute silence and indivisible unity with the immutable single reality. This was the aim and, generally, the end of all the greatest spiritual disciplines of the past. We too have to possess this realisation; but for us, it is the basis, the indispensable basis, no doubt, all the same it is the starting-point. Sri Aurobindo has always said that our yoga begins where other yogas end. For what we aim at is not merely the attainment of the summit reality, the consciousness beyond, but to bring it down, make it a living and actual reality in the physical world. The older yogas intended to save the world, but accomplished only the salvation of the individual, one's own self, by passing beyond the world, realising the supreme Spirit and Truth and never coming back. Thus the world remained what it has ever been: only a few escaped out of it. Our yoga enters its crucial phase, its characteristic and its most difficult turn, when it seeks to bring down the highest consciousness once realised on the heights and make it enter into the life of the world and fix it there as the permanent possession of earthly life.
The key is to find the poise where both the extremes meet, the junction of the two levels of consciousness, the transcendent and the manifested, where the two not only do not contradict or oppose each other, but are aspects or modes of the same Truth, indissolubly united and unified. It is just the border-line, the last point of the manifested world and the first point of the Unmanifest (as one goes upward). If you are able to find the point you have not to make a choice between two irreconcilables, either the Brahman or the world. It is only when you miss the point that you are forced to the choice: some choose the other side of the border, the static consciousness, the eternal immutable pure being, self-absorbed and self-sufficient; others who dare not do that, turn to the world and remain entangled and drowned in its darkness, ignorance, travail, undelight, impotency and misery. But, as I have said, this is not the necessary or inevitable solutionif solution it is at allof the enigma.
07.02 - The Parable of the Search for the Soul, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Forgetting eternity's call, Forgetting God."
The Voice replied: "Is this enough, O spirit?
07.02 - The Spiral Universe, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Evolution does not proceed in a straight line, but in a spiral. That is to say, it is not a constant progress in one direction, but consists of progression, regression and an ultimate progression. The spiral movement means that all things must enter into the phenomenon of evolution, so that it is not one thing only that progresses and others lag behind but that all move forwardall move forward but at different speeds and also from different starting-points. And they move not straight as the crow flies, but in a circle like the soaring eagle. When you concentrate upon one point of the circle, you will see relatively to it many others not advancing at all but receding and the point itself will seem at times to be going back towards a position already left behind. One goes back to pick up certain elements that have not been included in the progress, not properly dealt with. It happens usually that when you progress in one thing, you Forget another; so you have to turn back and take up the neglected element. Thus you have to go round and round, as it were, until you include the totality of your being, even embrace the totality of the universe. When you have, however, gathered the by-passed factor and come back to the original position from where you seemed to have regressed, you find that you are not exactly at the same point but at a corresponding point on a higher plane. That forms a spiral, not merely a circle.
There are, in the universe, an infinite number of points moving, each forming a spiral; so there are an infinite number of spirals. And these spirals do not lie only side by side, but cross each other and thus give an aspect of contrariness and contradictoriness. So if you wish to take a total view of the movement of universal progress, you will be somewhat puzzled. There are so many lines that advance and there are so many which recede at the same time. Some come into the light, others go into the background and none independent or self-sufficient. There is a sort of intermingling, even coordination.
07.05 - The Finding of the Soul, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
To face the pang and to Forget the bliss,
To share the suffering and endure earth's wounds
07.16 - Things Significant and Insignificant, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Divine Disgust Why Do We Forget Things?
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Part SevenThings Significant and Insignificant
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Divine Disgust Why Do We Forget Things?
07.17 - Why Do We Forget Things?, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
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Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Part SevenWhy Do We Forget Things?
Why Do We Forget Things?
There are many reasons, of course. First and the most important is that we use the faculty of memory in order to remember. Memory is a mental instrument depending upon the formation and growth of the brain. Your brain is developing constantly unless, of course, it is already degenerating; the development can continue for a long time, longer than that of the body. In the process there are necessarily things replaced by others; and as the instrument grows, elements that were useful in one state are no longer so in a subsequent state and have to give place to others more suitable. The net result of our acquisitions remains there in essence, but all that had led to it, the intermediary steps are suppressed. Indeed, a good memory means nothing more than that that is to say, to remember the results only, so that the fundamentals are sifted and stored, namely, those alone that are useful for further construction. This is more important than just trying to retain some particular items in a rigid manner.
There is another thing. Apart from the fact that memory by itself in its very nature is a defective organ, there is the other fact that I there are different states of consciousness one following another. Each state faithfully records the phenomena of that moment, whatever they may be. Now, if your mind is calm and clear, wide and strong, you can by concentrating your consciousness on that moment bring out of it and recall in your present active state what is recorded there of your movements then; you can, that is to say, go back to the particular state of consciousness at a given moment and live it again. What is registered in your consciousness is never obliterated and hence not really forgotten. You can live a thousand years and you will not have forgotten that. Therefore, if you do not want to Forget a thing, you must retain it through your consciousness, and not through your mental memory. As I have said, the mental memory fades away, new things, things of today replace old things, things of yesterday. But that of which you are conscious in your conscious-ness, you can never Forget. It lies somewhere in the background, returns to you at your bidding. You have only to withdraw to that state of the consciousness where it lies imbedded. In this way you can recall things that you knew perhaps centuries ago. It is how you remember your past lives. For, a movement of consciousness never dies out, it is only the impressions on the surface brain-mind that are fugitive. What you have learnt with this superficial instrument laboriouslyonly read, heard, noted, underlinedleaves no lasting mark, but what is imbibed, breathed in into the stuff of consciousness remains. The brain is being constantly renewed and reformed. Old cells, cells that have become weak and atrophied are replaced by younger and stronger ones or the old cells combine differently or enter into other organisations. Thus the old impressions or memories they carried are obliterated.
It is, as I say, by entering into a previous state of consciousness where you experienced a thing that you can always call back the thing. Only you must know how to get at the point, submerged somewhere in the depths. The body, after death, dissolves, the greater part of the vital and the mind dissolves alsoonly a small portion that has been well organised, given a compact cohesive form endures. Such an achievement is a rare phenomenon. But it is otherwise with the consciousness. Consciousness is eternal. If you contact the consciousness you discover the whole mystery of the earth and creation. It is consciousness that can create.
07.18 - How to get rid of Troublesome Thoughts, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Why Do We Forget Things? Bad Thought-Formation
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Part SevenHow to get rid of Troublesome Thoughts
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There are several ways and also it depends upon the case. The first and the easiest way is to think of something else. Concentrate your attention upon a subject which has nothing to do with what troubles you. You can read something interesting or take up a work that demands care and consideration. Something creative would be more effective; writers and artists, for example, when they are engaged in their particular occupation Forget everything else, their whole mind is engrossed in that one matter. But, of course, once the work is done, the trouble begins again, if one has not learnt to control the thoughts in the meanwhile. So there is the second method which is a little more difficult. You have to learn a movement of rejection. As you reject or throwaway a physical object, even so you must throwaway and reject the thought. It is more difficult, but if you succeed, it is more effective. You have to practise and continue the endeavour, repeat and persevere and there is no reason why you should not succeed, if you are thoroughly sincere and serious.
There is a third method. It is to bring down from above a greater light which is in its nature the very opposite of the thoughts you are dealing with, opposite in a very radical and deep sense; that is to say, if the thoughts that trouble you are obscure and ignorant, especially if they happen to rise from the subconscient or the inconscient, supported by the mere instincts, then, by calling down the light from above and turning it upon the dark thoughts you can simply dissolve them or transform them, wherever possible. It is the supreme means, but perhaps not within the easy reach of all. But if you succeed in it, not only the thoughts do not come, their very cause is removed. The first method is to turn aside, the second to face and fight, the third to rise above and transform. In the third you are not only cured, but you make a progressa true progress.
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Why Do We Forget Things? Bad Thought-Formation
07.20 - Why are Dreams Forgotten?, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
To become conscious of all the various movements of your nights, to recover them in your memory, some sort of training is necessary. The different states of the being in which you roam at night are, as you have seen, usually separate from each other. There is a gap in between two states; you jump from one to the other. There is no highway passing through all the domains of your consciousness connecting them without break or interruption. That means Forgetfulness. When you leap from one into the other, you push back, that is Forget, the one you leave behind. So you have to construct a bridge and very few people know how to do it; it requires more engineering skill than to build a material bridge. You may have very wonderful experiences in sleep, but you Forget them all; perhaps you remember, as I have said, the last one, the one nearest to the physical mind. The best way then to remember and become conscious of the whole night is to begin at the end and go backward. Catch hold of the last image that still persists in your memory, like the loose end of a thread and then pull, pull slowly, till image after image comes back: it is something like the unrolling of a cinema film in the reverse direction. When you lose trace, stop and concentrate a little; try to call back whatever stray bit or faint impression still persists or can be more easily revived and then again pull slowly, gently, pick up whatever shows itself, try to join the bits. In this way, after some trial and training you will be able to recover a good part of the lost underworld.
There are, however, many ways of setting about the thing. For you must know that your nights are not all the same. Each one is different and brings its own kind of sleep and dream. As each day is different having its own particular kind of activity, each night too likewise comes with its peculiar experiences. You may think that one day is more or less exactly like the previous day, that you are doing the same thing from day to day; but it is not so. Outwardly the activities may appear to be the same, but really their nature and significance vary from one day to another. No two moments are alike in the universe. Your night too is an universe of its own kind. Each night brings its own problem and needs its own solution.
07.24 - Meditation and Meditation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Yes, some know how to meditate. But even supposing you know how to enter into the divine consciousness, that experience must have some effect upon your external lifenaturally it would differ according to the person concerned. There are some who cut themselves clean into two. These, as I have said, when they enter into meditation, have or think they have experiences and very fine experiences. But when they come back and begin to act, they become the most ordinary people, with the most ordinary reactions, doing all kinds of things that should not be done. They think of themselves alone, busy arranging their own life, without a thought for others, whether one could be useful to the world or not. And yet in meditation, they came into contact with some higher and deeper consciousness and reality. It is for this reason that people who have found it difficult to change human nature, have declared it an impossibility and advised that the one thing to do under the circumstances is to abandon the world and escape. Naturally, if all could run away there would no more be any world. But, luckily or unluckily, the existence of the world does not depend upon the will of individuals: they had no hand in the creation of the world and they do not know how it came about. Is it simply because some get away from the world that the world will cease to exist for them, perhaps, but for others? Although I am not sure whether even they really succeed in getting away. In any case, I do not believe that you can transform yourself by meditation. But when a work is there before you and you do it as well as you can, also while doing it you take care not to Forget the Divine and you give yourself up to him so that he may change your being, change your reactions into something beautiful and luminous, then indeed the Divine will transform you.
I have never seen people who left off everything to sit in a more or less empty meditation making any progress; in any case their progress is very small. On the contrary, I have seen people, full of enthusiasm for the work of transformation in the world, devoting themselves to that work without reservation: they give themselves up with no idea of personal salvation. Yes, it is such people I have seen making the wonderful progress. On the other hand, I have seen very many living in monasteries: well, they are not worth talking about. It is not by running away from the world that you will change it: it is only by working steadily at it that you can bring about the change.
07.41 - The Divine Family, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
At a given moment, when the time is ripe, they are called up. The souls are like children asleep, in the peace and repose of the psychic world, awaiting the urge or order for another birth. As soon as the order is given, they wake up and rush down towards the earth. When they drop thus into the earth's atmosphere, they are no longer together, they are scattered about all over the earth. One does not know even where one drops. Also once under the material conditions and circumstances here below, things take a very different aspect. For, the inner impulse, the original purpose gets veiled; the psychic Forgets and is now surrounded and hedged in by forces, things and persons perhaps quite foreign and contradictory to its nature. Now comes the labour of the soul, to find itself, to look about for the lost end of the thread. The inner urge must be strong enough, the original will categorical enough for the being to surmount all obstacles, pass through all vicissitudes, work through all the windings of a labyrinthine journey and finally arrive. Some perhaps do not arrive at all in a particular life or arrive only to stop at a distance: others arrive not in a straight line, but, as I have said, after a tortuous and roundabout wandering. In other words, in their external mind and impulsion, they look for other things, they are interested in objects that are far other than the soul's interestlike the person who enquired of Yoga, as she thought a Yogi could give her back her spoilt beauty. And yet the soul makes use of such trivial or absurd means to turn the man towards itself, guide him gradually to the place or the family to which he really belongs.
The material world is full of things that draw you away from your soul's quest, from approaching your home. Normally you are tossed about by the forces of ignorant Nature and you are driven even to do the worst stupidities. There is but one solution, to find your psychic being; and once you have found it, cling to it desperately and not to allow yourself to be drawn out by any temptation, any other impulsion whatsoever.
07.43 - Music Its Origin and Nature, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Music, you must remember, like any other art, is a means for expressing somethingsome idea, some feeling, some emotion, a certain aspiration and so on. There is even a domain where all these movements exist and from where they are brought down under a musical form. A good composer with some inspiration would produce good music; he is then called a good musician. A bad musician can have also a good inspiration, he can receive something from the higher domain, but possessing no musical capacity, he would produce only what is very commonplace, very ordinary and uninteresting. However, if you go beyond, precisely over to this place where lies the origin of music, get to the idea, the emotion, the inspiration behind, you can then taste of these things without being held back by the form. Still this musical form can be joined on to what is behind or beyond the form; for it is that which originally inspired the musician to compose. Of course, there are instances where no inspiration exists, where the source is only a kind of sound mechanics, which is not, in any case, always interesting. What I mean is this that there is an inner state in which the outer form is not the most important thing: there lies the origin of music, the inspiration that is beyond. It is trite to say, but one often Forgets that it is not sound that makes music, the sound has to express something.
There is a music that is quite mechanical and has no inspiration. There are musicians who play with great virtuosity, that is to say, they have mastered the technique and execute faultlessly the most complicated and rapid movements. It is music perhaps, but it expresses nothing; it is like a machine. It is clever, there is much skill, but it is uninteresting, soulless. The most important thing, not only in music, but in all human creations, in all that man does even, is, I repeat, the inspiration behind. The execution naturally is expected to be on a par with the inspiration; but to express truly well, one must have truly great things to express. It is not to say that technique is not necessary; on the contrary, one must possess a very good technique; it is even indispensable. Only it is not the one thing indispensable, not is it as important as the inspiration. For the essential quality of music comes from the region where it has its source.
08.07 - Sleep and Pain, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
You do many things at night in your sleep. You Forget most of them. If however you recall them, become conscious of them, you can begin controlling them. Before being conscious, without being conscious of a thing, you cannot have control over it. It is by being conscious that you get the power for control. If you can control your activities in sleep, you can have a restful sleep. Sometimes when you get up you find yourself more tired than when you went to bed. It is because you are in the habit of doing very many useless things in your sleep, running about wildly in your vital, wandering chaotically in your mind, etc., etc. Naturally when you get up you do not seem to have tasted any rest. Sometimes you get into bad quarters, dark and ugly regions and you struggle there, fight there, receive blows, give blows and you are prostrate in the end. All that you can avoid, when you become conscious and gain control.
When one sees oneself dead or dying, it may mean several things. It may mean a spiritual death or a vital death or the death of some part in you that is to go; in the last case it means a progress in the consciousness. It may be also a premonition. The significance depends upon the context.
08.35 - Love Divine, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Now to come out of the ego, you must have naturally, first of all, the will to do so. The surest way to do it is to give yourself to the Divine, not to pull the Divine towards you but to abandon yourself to Him. That is how you start Forgetting yourself. Usually when people think of the Divine, the immediate impulse in them is to pull Him (or whatever they represent Him to be) towards themselves, within themselves. The result generally is that they receive nothing; and they grumble: "Oh, I called and called, I prayed and prayed, but there was no answer, I received nothing, nothing came." But before grumbling, ask yourself if you had offered yourself. You would find that instead of offering yourself you had pulled. Instead of being generous, open-handed and open-hearted, you were a miser, a beggar. When you pull you remain wholly within yourself, shut up, sealed within your ego. You raise a wall of separation between you and the thing that is around you and wants to come in, which is thus not admitted, almost deliberately refused entrance. You enclose yourself within a prison and grumble that you have nothing, feel nothing. At least if you had opened a window you would have had something of the light and air about you.
Sri Aurobindo: Elements of Yoga.
09.01 - Towards the Black Void, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Thy elemental grasp; weep and Forget.
Entomb thy passion in its living grave.
09.02 - The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Live in thyself; Forget the man thou lov'st.
My last grand death shall rescue thee from life;
09.04 - The Divine Grace, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
As soon as you come in contact with it, you find that there is not a second in time, not a point in space which does not show in a signal manner this ceaseless work of the Grace, its constant intervention. And once you have seen that, you feel you are never up to the mark. For you must never Forget that you must not have fear or anguish or regret or recoil or even suffering. If you were in union with this Grace, if you saw it everywhere, you would begin to live a life of exultation, all power and infinite happiness. And that would be the best possible collaboration in the Divine Work.
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09.09 - The Origin, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
One has forgotten. From the fact of separation from Sat-Chit-Ananda comes Forgetfulness of what one is. You believe you are, does not matter what, a boy, a girl, a man, a woman, a dog, a horse, anything: a stone, the sea or the sun. You think you are all that, instead of thinking that you are the One Divine. Indeed, if you had continued to think that you are the One Divine, there would have been no universe at all. The phenomenon of separation seems to have been indispensable, otherwise it would have remained always as it was.
But once the curve has been followed up and the Unity re-established, having profited by the multiplicity and division, the Unity found is of a higher quality: a Unity that knows itself, instead of a unity that does not know itself, for there is nothing else there which knows the other. Where the Unity is absolute, who or what can know the Unity? Hence the need of the appearance of something which is not that, in order to know what it is.
1.001 - The Aim of Yoga, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
But this is a great illusion that is before us, and we live in a world of illusions which we mistake for realities. The illusion arises on account of our inability to see beyond a certain limit of the horizon of our mental perceptions. The farmer Forgets that the production of the harvest in the field is not the only aim, or rather the ultimate aim, of his efforts. It has another aim altogether connected with certain others, and so on and so forth, in an endless chain which cannot easily come within the comprehension of an untutored mind. The stomach does not eat for its satisfaction. We know very well why the stomach eats. The stomach may say "I eat", but it does not eat; the eater is somebody else, though it is thrust into the stomach. The legs do not walk for their own sake. What do the legs gain by walking? They are walking for some other purpose somebody else's purpose, not their own. Nor do the eyes gain anything by seeing; the eyes see for somebody else.
Likewise, there is an inherent and underlying basic aim which is transcendent to the immediate purpose visible in front of any particular individual who puts forth effort, just as the legs do not walk for their own sake, the eyes do not see for their own sake, the stomach does not eat for its own sake, and so on, and they seem to be functioning for some other purpose. They can miss this purpose, and then there is what we call dismemberment or disintegration of the personality. When the aim is missed, the effort loses its motive power and it becomes a fruitless effort, because an effort that has missed its aim cannot be regarded as a meaningful effort. Also, it may be possible that we may be conscious of an immediate aim before the effort, but the aims that are further behind or ahead may not be visible to our eyes.
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What are problems? A problem is a situation that has arisen on account of the irreconcilability of one person, or one thing, with the status and condition of another person, or another thing. I cannot reconcile my position with your position; this is a problem. You cannot reconcile your position with mine; this is a problem. Why should there be such a condition? How is it that it is not possible for me to reconcile myself with you? It is not possible because there is no clear perception of my relationship with you. I have a misconceived idea of my relationship with you and, therefore, there is a misconceived adjustment of my personality with yours, and a misconception cannot solve a problem. The problem is nothing but this misconception nothing else. The irreconcilability of one thing with another arises on account of the basic difficulty I mentioned, that the person who wishes to bring about this reconciliation, or establish a proper relationship, misses the point of one's own vital connection underline the word 'vital' with the object or the person with which, or with whom, this reconciliation is to be effected. Inasmuch as this kind of knowledge is beyond the purview or capacity of the ordinary human intellect, the knowledge of the Veda is regarded as supernormal, superhuman: apaurusheya not created or manufactured by an individual. This is not knowledge that has come out of reading books. This is not ordinary educational knowledge. It is a knowledge which is vitally and organically related to the fact of life. I am as much connected with the fact of life as you are, and so in my observation and study and understanding of you, in my relationship with you, I cannot Forget this fact. The moment I disconnect myself from this fact of life which is unanimously present in you as well as in me, I miss the point, and my effort becomes purposeless.
We are gradually led by this proclamation of the Veda into a tremendous vision of life which requires of us to have a superhuman power of will to grasp the interrelationship of things. This difficulty of grasping the meaning of the interrelationship of things is obviated systematically, stage by stage, gradually, by methods of practice. These methods are called yoga the practice of yoga. I have placed before you, perhaps, a very terrible picture of yoga; it is not as simple as one imagines. It is not a simple circus-master's feat, either of the body or the mind, but a superhuman demand of our total being. Mark this definition of mine: a superhuman demand which is made of our total being not an ordinary human demand of a part of our being, but of our total being. From that, a demand is made by the entire structure of life. The total structure of life requires of our total being to be united with it in a practical demonstration of thought, speech and action this is yoga. If this could be missed, and of course it can easily be missed as it is being done every day, then every effort, from the smallest to the biggest, becomes a failure. All our effort ends in no success, because it would be like decorating a corpse without a soul in it. The whole of life would look like a beautiful corpse with nicely dressed features, but it has no vitality, essence or living principle within it. Likewise, all our activities would look wonderful, beautiful, magnificent, but lifeless; and lifeless beauty is no beauty. There must be life in it only then has it a meaning. Life is not something dead; it is quite opposite of what is dead. We can bring vitality and life into our activity only by the introduction of the principle of yoga.
10.02 - The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Renounce, Forgetting joy and hope and tears,
Thy passionate nature in the bosom profound
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One with my fathomless Nihil all Forget.
Forget thy fruitless spirit's waste of force,
1.002 - The Heifer, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
44. Do you command people to virtuous conduct, and Forget yourselves, even though you read the Scripture? Do you not understand?
45. And seek help through patience and prayer. But it is difficult, except for the devout.
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237. If you divorce them before you have touched them, but after you had set the dowry for them, give them half of what you specified—unless they forego the right, or the one in whose hand is the marriage contract foregoes it. But to forego is nearer to piety. And do not Forget generosity between one another. God is seeing of everything you do.
238. Guard your prayers, and the middle prayer, and stand before God in devotion.
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286. God does not burden any soul beyond its capacity. To its credit is what it earns, and against it is what it commits. “Our Lord, do not condemn us if we Forget or make a mistake. Our Lord, do not burden us as You have burdened those before us. Our Lord, do not burden us with more than we have strength to bear; and pardon us, and forgive us, and have mercy on us. You are our Lord and Master, so help us against the disbelieving people.”
10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Forgetting love, Forgetting Satyavan,
Annul thyself in his immobile peace.
10.06 - Beyond the Dualities, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
What the mind Forgets or ignores is that the law of self-contradiction belongs exclusively to the finite. It does not hold good in infinity. The Infinite is infinite because it has transcended the laws and categories of the finite, even as Eternity has transcended the temporal. In the transcendental consciousness the reality is single and multiple at the same time, simultaneously (although the conception of time is not there at all); also God is both with form and without form at the same time. The mind may not be able to conceive it but the fact is that, for one can rise above the mind and see and experience the reality.
There are other dualities that are confusing to the mind. It is said two objects cannot occupy together the same spot or position. One object must drive out another to occupy its position. Obviously this is a truth belonging to the material world for it is said matter is impenetrable. But this law, however valid in the material plane, becomes less and less applicable in regions subtler and less and less material. Two movements or two vibrations of consciousness, may exist together without annihilating each other's identity, being a total identity.
1.006 - Livestock, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
41. In fact, it is Him you will call upon; and if He wills, he will remove what you called Him for, and you will Forget what you idolized.
42. We sent messengers to communities before you, and We afflicted them with suffering and hardship, that they may humble themselves.
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68. When you encounter those who gossip about Our revelations, turn away from them, until they engage in another topic. But should Satan make you Forget, do not sit after the recollection with the wicked people.
69. The righteous are in no way accountable for them; it is only a reminder, that they may be careful.
10.08 - Consciousness as Freedom, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
I have spoken of the light in the mind, the consciousness that has awakened there and has organised its activities as an autonomous unit. But we must not Forget that it is only partially so. The autonomy is very limited, for a- good part of the human mind is far from being conscious, there is a part half-conscious and a part almost wholly unconscious. This hemisphere so to say is under the influence of the vital and the physical being with their unconscious and ill-organised influence. The true light comes from elsewhere, the mind in so far as it receives the light becomes conscious and proportionately autonomous. The light is always the spiritual light, the consciousness of the spirit which is above and beyond mind. Not only the mind but the vital too, and the physical too in order to be consciously organised and free and autonomous must know how to take in that light beyond the mind and ba the in its liberating influence.
In fact, education means precisely this instilling of the consciousness into the part that is sought to be educated. Usually the thing is done in a different way which is wrong, at least an inefficient way. By education we usually mean exercising, that is teaching some exercises mostly of memory on some subject in which one seeks education. It is more or less an exercise of mechanical repetition. Whether it is of the mind or of the body the procedure is the same. As the muscles of the body are sought to be streng thened and developed through repetitive exercises, the mental faculties too are put under a training that consists of similar repetitive exercises. To store the mind with as many kinds of information as possible, hammer all ingredients of knowledge into the brain cellslearning by rote as it is termed, this is what education normally means; but as I said, it is consciousness that is to be evoked in the mind and it is not done by mere mechanical exercises. Even the body does not reach its true perfection unless the exercises are attended with consciousness, awareness, a play of light into the movements of the body, into the limbs that participate in the play of the exercises. Naturally the vital does not need any exercise for its development, it is naturally exercised, much exercised. It has to be not exercised but exorcised, that is to say, purified and controlled. And that means the introduction of the pure light of consciousness into it.
1.00a - Introduction, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Now there is one really important matter. The only thing besides The Book of the Law which is in the forefront of the battle. As I told you yesterday, the first essential is the dedication of all that one is and all that one has to the Great Work, without reservation of any sort. This must be kept constantly in mind; the way to do this is to practice Liber Resh vel Helios, sub figura CC, pp. 425-426 - Magick. There is another version of these Adorations, slightly fuller; but those in the text are quite alright. The important thing is not to Forget. I shall have to teach you the signs and gestures which go with the words.
It is also desirable before beginning a formal meal to go through the following dialogue: Knock 3-5-3: say, "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." The person at the other end of the table replies: "What is thy Will?" You: "It is my Will to eat and drink." He: "To what end?" You: "That my body may be fortified thereby." He: "To what end?" You: "That I may accomplish the Great Work." He: "Love is the law, love under will." You, with a single knock: "Fall to." When alone make a monologue of it: thus, Knock 3-5-3. Do what, etc. It is my Will to, etc., that my body, etc., that I may, etc., Love is, etc. Knock: and begin to eat.
1.00d - Introduction, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
Yet that one Thing is also the one and only Power because what shines in one point shines also in all other points. Once that is understood, all the rest is understood; there is but one Power in the world, not two. Even a child knows that: he is king, he is invulnerable. But the child grows up; he Forgets. And men have grown up, and nations and civilizations, each in its own way seeking the Great Secret, the simple secret through war and conquest, through meditation or magic, through beauty, religion or science. Though, in truth, we do not know who is most advanced: the Acropolis builder, the Theban magician, the Cape Kennedy astronaut, or the Cistercian monk, for one has rejected life in order to understand it, one has embraced it without understanding it, another has left a trace of beauty, and still another, a white trail in a changeless sky we are merely the last on the list, that's all. And we still have not found our magic. The point, the potent little point, is still there on the open beach of the world; it shines for whoever will seize it, just as it shone before we were humans under the stars.
Others, however, have touched the Secret. Perhaps the Greeks knew it, and the Egyptians, and certainly the Indian Rishis of Vedic times. But secrets are like flowers on a beautiful tree; they have their season, their unseen growth and sudden blossoming. There is a time for everything, for the conjunction of stars above our heads and the passage of the cormorant over the foam-flecked rock, and perhaps even for that foam itself, cast up for an instant from the swell of the wave; everything moves according to a single rite. And so do men. A secret, that is, a knowledge and power, has its own organic time; one little cell more evolved than others cannot embody the power of its knowledge, that is, change the world, hasten the blossoming of the great tree, unless the rest of the evolutionary terrain is ready.
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And we assert that there exists a future far more marvelous than all the electronic paradises of the mind: man is not the end, any more than the archaeopteryx was, at the height of the reptiles how could anything possibly be the culmination of the great evolutionary wave? We see it clearly in ourselves: We seem to invent ever more marvelous machines, ceaselessly expand the limits of the human, even progress towards Jupiter and Venus. But that is only a seeming, increasingly deceptive and oppressive, and we do not expand anything: we merely send to the other end of the cosmos a pitiful little being who does not even know how to take care of his own kind, or whether his caves harbor a dragon or a mewling baby. We do not progress; we inordinately inflate an enormous mental balloon, which may well explode in our face. We have not improved man; we have merely colosalized him. And it could not have been otherwise. The fault does not lie in some deficiency of our virtues or intellectual capacities, for pushed to their extreme these could only generate supersaints or supermachines monsters. A saintly reptile in its hole would no more make an evolutionary summit than a saintly monk would. Or else, let us Forget everything. The truth is, the summit of man or the summit of anything at all does not lie in perfecting to a higher degree the type under consideration; it lies in a something else that is not of the same type and that he aspires to become. Such is the evolutionary law. Man is not the end; man is a transitional being, said Sri Aurobindo long ago. He is heading toward supermanhood as inevitably as the minutest twig of the highest branch of the mango tree is contained in its seed. Hence, our sole true occupation, our sole problem, the sole question ever to be solved from age to age, the one that is now tearing our great earthly ship apart limb from painful limb is how to make this transition.
Nietzsche said it also. But his superman was only a colossalization of man; we saw what he did as he tramped over Europe. That was not an evolutionary progress, only a return to the old barbarism of the blond or brunet brute of human egoism. We do not need a super-man, but something else, which is already murmuring in the heart of man and is as different from man as Bach's cantatas are from the first grunts of the hominid. And, truly, Bach's cantatas sound poor when our inner ear begins to open up to the harmonies of the future.
1.00e - DIVISION E - MOTION ON THE PHYSICAL AND ASTRAL PLANES, #A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, #Alice Bailey, #Occultism
The other two centres have to do primarily with the etheric body and with the astral plane. The throat centre synthesises the entire personality life, and is definitely connected with the mental plane,the three planes, and the two higher planes, and the three centres with the two other centres, the heart and head. Yet, we must not Forget that the centre at the base of the spine is also a synthesiser, as would normally be expected, if it is recognised that the lowest plane of all manifestation is the point of deepest reflection. This lowest centre, by synthesising the fire of kundalini and the pranic fires, eventually blends and merges with the fire of mind, and later with the fire of Spirit, producing thus consummation.
We must disabuse our minds of the idea that these centres are physical things. They are whirlpools of force that swirl etheric, astral and mental matter into activity of some kind. Because the action is rotary, the result produced in matter is a circular effect that can be seen by the clairvoyant as fiery wheels situated:
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The first period is by far the longest, and covers the vast progression of the centuries wherein the activity aspect of the threefold self is being developed. Life after life slips away during which the aspect of manas or mind is being slowly wrought out, and the human being comes more and more under the control of his intellect, operating through his physical brain. This might be looked upon as corresponding to the period of the first solar system, wherein the third aspect logoic, that of Brahma, Mind, or Intelligence, was being brought to the point of achievement. [lxxvi]74 Then the second aspect began in [175] this present solar system to be blended with, and wrought out through it. Centuries go by and the man becomes ever more actively intelligent, and the field of his life more suitable for the coming in of this second aspect. The correspondence lies in similitude and not in detail as seen in time and space. It covers the period of the first three triangles dealt with earlier. We must not Forget that, for the sake of clarity, we are here differentiating between the different aspects, and considering their separated development, a thing only permissible in time and space or during the evolutionary process, but not permissible from the standpoint of the Eternal Now, and from the Unity of the All-Self. The Vishnu or the Love-Wisdom aspect is latent in the Self, and is part of the monadic content, but the Brahma aspect, the Activity-Intelligence aspect precedes its manifestation in time. The Tabernacle in the Wilderness preceded the building of the Temple of Solomon; the kernel of wheat has to lie in the darkness of mother Earth before the golden perfected ear can be seen, and the Lotus has to cast its roots down into the mud before the beauty of the blossom can be produced.
The second period, wherein the egoic ray holds sway, is not so long comparatively; it covers the period wherein the fourth and fifth triangles are being vivified, and marks the lives wherein the man throws his forces on the side of evolution, disciplines his life, steps upon the Probationary Path, and continues up to the third Initiation. Under the regime of the Personality Ray, the man proceeds upon the five Rays to work consciously with Mind, the sixth sense, passing first upon the four minor Rays and eventually upon the third. He works [176] upon the third Ray, or that of active Intelligence, and from thence proceeds to one of the subrays of the two other major Rays, if the third is not his egoic Ray.
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As regards taste and smell, we might call them minor senses, for they are closely allied to the important sense of touch. They are practically subsidiary to that sense. This second sense, and its connection with this second solar system, should be carefully pondered over. It is predominantly the sense most closely connected with the second Logos. This conveys a hint of much value if duly considered. It is of value to study the extensions of physical plane touch on other planes and to see whither we are led. It is the faculty which enables us to arrive [197] at the essence by due recognition of the veiling sheath. It enables the Thinker who fully utilises it to put himself en rapport with the essence of all selves at all stages, and thereby to aid in the due evolution of the sheath and actively to serve. A Lord of Compassion is one who (by means of touch) feels with, fully comprehends, and realises the manner in which to heal and correct the inadequacies of the not-self and thus actively to serve the plan of evolution. We should study likewise in this connection the value of touch as demonstrated by the healers of the race (those on the Bodhisattva line) [lxxxv]83 and the effect of the Law of Attraction and Repulsion as thus manipulated by them. Students of etymology will have noted that the origin of the word touch is somewhat obscure, but probably means to 'draw with quick motion.' Herein lies the whole secret of this objective solar system, and herein will be demonstrated the quickening of vibration by means of touch. Inertia, mobility, rhythm, are the qualities manifested by the not-self. Rhythm, balance, and stable vibration are achieved by means of this very faculty of touch or feeling. Let me illustrate briefly so as to make the problem somewhat clearer. What results in meditation? By dint of strenuous effort and due attention to rules laid down, the aspirant succeeds in touching matter of a quality rarer than is his usual custom. He contacts his causal body, in time he contacts the matter of the buddhic plane. By means of this touch his own vibration is temporarily and briefly quickened. Fundamentally we are brought back to the subject that we deal with in this treatise. The latent fire of matter attracts to itself that fire, latent in other forms. They touch, and recognition and awareness ensues. The fire of manas burns continuously and is fed by that which is attracted and repulsed. When the two [198] blend, the stimulation is greatly increased and the ability to touch intensified. The Law of Attraction persists in its work until another fire is attracted and touched, and the threefold merging is completed. Forget not in this connection the mystery of the Rod of Initiation. [lxxxvi]84 Later when we consider the subject of the centres and Initiation it must be remembered that we are definitely studying one aspect of this mysterious faculty of touch, the faculty of the second Logos, wielding the law of Attraction.
Let us now finish what may be imparted on the remaining three sensessight, taste, smell and then briefly sum up their relationship to the centres, and their mutual action and interaction. That will then leave two more points to be dealt with in this first division of the Treatise on Cosmic Fire, and a summing up. We shall then be in a position to take up that portion of the treatise that deals with the fire of manas and with the development of the manasaputras, [lxxxvii]85 both in their totality and likewise individually. This topic is of the most imperative importance as it deals entirely with man, the Ego, the thinker, and shows the cosmic blending of the fires of matter and of mind, and their utilisation by the indwelling Flame.
1.00 - The way of what is to come, #The Red Book Liber Novus, #unset, #Zen
He whose desire turns away from outer things, reaches the place of the soul. 40 If he does not find the soul, the horror of emptiness will overcome him, and fear will drive him with a whip lashing time and again in a desperate endeavor and a blind desire for the hollow things of the world. He becomes a fool through his endless desire, and Forgets the way of his soul, never to find her again. He will run after all things, and will seize hold of them, but he will not find his soul, since he would find her only in himself.
Truly his soul lies in things and men, but the blind one seizes things and men, yet not his soul in things and men. He has no knowledge of his soul. How could he tell her apart from things and men? He could find his soul in desire itself but not in the objects of desire. If he possessed his desire, and his desire did not possess him, he would lay a hand on his soul, since his desire is the image and expression of his soul. 41
10.10 - A Poem, #Writings In Bengali and Sanskrit, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Did you Forget? Have you forgotten the treasure of mercy,
Kalki is an avatar of the crew killer
1.012 - Joseph, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
42. And he said to the one he thought would be released, “Mention me to your master.” But Satan caused him to Forget mentioning him to his master, so he remained in prison for several years.
43. The king said, “I see seven fat cows being eaten by seven lean ones, and seven green spikes, and others dried up. O elders, explain to me my vision, if you are able to interpret visions.”
10.14 - Night and Day, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
To have control over the night one must, first of all, be conscious of what happens in the night, that is to say, one must remember the events that occur in sleep. Usually one Forgets and cannot recall easily the experiences that one has gone through while asleep. The first exercise then is, as soon as you awake, to retain whatever happens to linger still in memory, and then with this as the leading string to go backward to happenings associated with it. Even otherwise when you cannot recall any particular happening or experience, you can begin your enquiry by noting the nature of the feeling that the experiences have left on you, that is to say, you note whether you passed a good night or a bad night. A bad night means either a tamasic state or a disturbed state. Tamasic means when you get up you feel inert, heavy, depressed, still feeling like going to sleep again. The disturbed state is one in which you feel agitated, unable to control, unable to do any organised work. Instead of this unhappy condition the night may bring to you peace and happiness, a positively pleasurable sensation. That is the first step of the discipline of what I may call night-control viz. to distinguish these two states and react accordingly through your conscious will. The next step would be to distinguish two other categories of the experiences. The one is the confused and chaotic condition in which sensations and ideas and impulsions are in a jumble, a meaningless whirl or otherwise you find your sensations or notions or impulsions moving in an organised and purposeful way. The first naturally brings you discomfort and sadness, the second, on the contrary, gives you a sense of uncommon happiness.
There are occasions when the dream experience comes to you with a clear au thenticity as if you were taking part in a real drama. Everything is happening truly and undisputably exactly like a happening in the normal life. Indeed when it is happening you feel it is happening in your waking life. You find the difference only when you wake up. As a matter of fact it is a region very near to the material world running parallel to it. And at times we are lifted bodily as it were into it and the experiences and adventures we go through are very analogous to those in normal life. Still when we are awake and compare the two, we notice there is a difference in pattern and movement. Yet there are other experiences of quite a different nature. You feel and see, you are transported to a region made, it would appear, of elements of a different kind. The atmosphere gives a different feel from the earthly atmosphere, there is a light which seems to have a different vibration, even the earth there, for the earth still exists, is made of different density and solidity. These are the worlds perhaps, which Sri Aurobindo refers to when he speaks of "the other earths." Beings and things have a happy, a pure beauty in their form and movement. This does not come to you merely as a thought or an imagination but a very concrete reality in which you live your being.
1.018 - The Cave, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
24. Without saying, “If God wills.” And remember your Lord if you Forget, and say, “Perhaps my Lord will guide me to nearer than this in integrity.”
25. And they stayed in their cave for three hundred years, adding nine.
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57. Who does greater wrong than he, who, when reminded of his Lord’s revelations, turns away from them, and Forgets what his hands have put forward? We have placed coverings over their hearts, lest they understand it, and heaviness in their ears. And if you call them to guidance, they will not be guided, ever.
58. Your Lord is the Forgiver, Possessor of Mercy. Were He to call them to account for what they have earned, He would have hastened the punishment for them. But they have an appointment from which they will find no escape.
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63. He said, “Do you remember when we rested by the rock? I forgot about the fish. It was only the devil who made me Forget it. And so it found its way to the river, amazingly.”
64. He said, “This is what we were seeking.” And so they turned back retracing their steps.
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73. He said, “Do not rebuke me for Forgetting, and do not make my course difficult for me.”
74. Then they set out. Until, when they encountered a boy, he killed him. He said, “Did you kill a pure soul, who killed no one? You have done something terrible.”
1.019 - Mary, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
64. “We do not descend except by the command of your Lord. His is what is before us, and what is behind us, and what is between them. Your Lord is never Forgetful.”
65. Lord of the heavens and the earth and what is between them. So worship Him, and persevere in His service. Do you know of anyone equal to Him?
1.01 - Adam Kadmon and the Evolution, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
suffering and Forgetfulness. For Sri Aurobindo and the
Mother gnosis is the knowledge of the complete scheme of
1.01 - Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious, #The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
fication furnished by Revelation 1 : 13. 17 Nor should we Forget
Brother Klaus's other visions, for instance, of Christ in the bear-
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and heir sets out to fetch the jewel, but Forgets himself and his
task in the orgies of Egyptian worldliness, until a letter from his
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with the world, so much a part of it that I Forget all too easily
who I really am. "Lost in oneself" is a good way of describing
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easily roll over it, and then he Forgets who he was and does
things that are strange to him. Hence primitives are afraid of un-
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try to salvage it. As they must never Forget who they are, they
must on no account imperil their consciousness. They will keep
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man. We should never Forget that in dealing with the anima we
are dealing with psychic facts which have never been in man's
1.01 - Economy, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
When I ask for a garment of a particular form, my tailoress tells me gravely, They do not make them so now, not emphasizing the They at all, as if she quoted an authority as impersonal as the Fates, and I find it difficult to get made what I want, simply because she cannot believe that I mean what I say, that I am so rash. When I hear this oracular sentence, I am for a moment absorbed in thought, emphasizing to myself each word separately that I may come at the meaning of it, that I may find out by what degree of consanguinity _They_ are related to _me_, and what authority they may have in an affair which affects me so nearly; and, finally, I am inclined to answer her with equal mystery, and without any more emphasis of the they,It is true, they did not make them so recently, but they do now. Of what use this measuring of me if she does not measure my character, but only the breadth of my shoulders, as it were a peg to hang the coat on? We worship not the Graces, nor the Parc, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a travellers cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same. I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men. They would have to be passed through a powerful press first, to squeeze their old notions out of them, so that they would not soon get upon their legs again, and then there would be some one in the company with a maggot in his head, hatched from an egg deposited there nobody knows when, for not even fire kills these things, and you would have lost your labor. Nevertheless, we will not Forget that some Egyptian wheat was handed down to us by a mummy.
On the whole, I think that it cannot be maintained that dressing has in this or any country risen to the dignity of an art. At present men make shift to wear what they can get. Like shipwrecked sailors, they put on what they can find on the beach, and at a little distance, whether of space or time, laugh at each others masquerade. Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. We are amused at beholding the costume of Henry VIII., or Queen Elizabeth, as much as if it was that of the King and Queen of the Cannibal Islands.
1.01f - Introduction, #The Lotus Sutra, #Anonymous, #Various
And, Forgetting them,
Never became versed in them.
1.01 - MAPS OF EXPERIENCE - OBJECT AND MEANING, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
perspective who assume that it is, or might become, complete Forget that an impassable gulf currently
divides what is from what should be.
1.01 - MASTER AND DISCIPLE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
MASTER: "Yes, discrimination about objects. Consider - what is there in money or in a beautiful body? Discriminate and you will find that even the body of a beautiful woman consists of bones, flesh, fat, and other disagreeable things. Why should a man give up God and direct his attention to such things? Why should a man Forget God for their sake?"
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"Those in bondage are sunk in worldliness and Forgetful of God. Not even by mistake do they think of God.
"The seekers after liberation want to free themselves from attachment to the world.
1.01 - On knowledge of the soul, and how knowledge of the soul is the key to the knowledge of God., #The Alchemy of Happiness, #Al-Ghazali, #Sufism
Our intention has been to show you that man is a great world, and that you might know what a multitude of servants his body has to minister to him : so that you might realize while in your enjoyments, in walking, in sleeping or at rest in your world, that by God's appointment, these numerous servants in your employ never suffer their functions to cease for a minute. Listen now for a moment candidly. If you had a servant who had been faithful to you during his whole life, with whose services you were not able to dispense, while he could at any time find a better master-yet if he should only for a single day disobey your orders, you would get angry, beat him, and wish to get rid of him. But God has been abundant in kindness to you, and has given you so many servants, and has in no wise any need of you. How then can it be just that you should become enslaved to yourself, and follow your own passions, and that Forgetful of pleasing the infinite God, you should rebel against your Creator and Benefactor, and that you should render obedience to Satan, who is your enemy and the enemy of God ?
Many and even innumerable books, O student of the divine mysteries, have been written in explanation of the organization of the body and the uses of is parts: but they have no more made the subject clear and exhausted it, than a drop can illustrate the ocean, or an atom illustrate the sun. [38] It is impossible for the thing formed to understand the knowledge of him that formed it. And how is it possible, that he who is of yesterday, should comprehend the secrets of the operations of the Ancient of days ?
1.01 - ON THE THREE METAMORPHOSES, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
still become a child? The child is innocence and Forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a self-propelled
wheel, a first movement, a sacred "Yes." For the game
1.01 - Prayer, #Bhakti-Yoga, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism
There is a little difference in opinion between the teachers of knowledge and those of love, though both admit the power of Bhakti. The Jnanis hold Bhakti to be an instrument of liberation, the Bhaktas look upon it both as the instrument and the thing to be attained. To my mind this is a distinction without much difference. In fact, Bhakti, when used as an instrument, really means a lower form of worship, and the higher form becomes inseparable from the lower form of realisation at a later stage. Each seems to lay a great stress upon his own peculiar method of worship, Forgetting that with perfect love true knowledge is bound to come even unsought, and that from perfect knowledge true love is inseparable.
Bearing this in mind let us try to understand what the great Vedantic commentators have to say on the subject. In explaining the Sutra vrittirasakridupadesht (Meditation is necessary, that having been often enjoined.), Bhagavn Shankara says, "Thus people say, 'He is devoted to the king, he is devoted to the Guru'; they say this of him who follows his Guru, and does so, having that following as the one end in view. Similarly they say, 'The loving wife meditates on her loving husband'; here also a kind of eager and continuous remembrance is meant." This is devotion according to Shankara.
1.01 - The Divine and The Universe, #Words Of The Mother III, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Do not Forget even for a moment that all this has been created by Him out of Himself. Not only is He present in everything, but also He is everything. The differences are only in expression and manifestation.
If you Forget this you lose everything.
There is no end to the wonders of the universe.
1.01 - The First Steps, #Raja-Yoga, #Swami Vivkenanda, #unset
Practice is absolutely necessary. You may sit down and listen to me by the hour every day, but if you do not practice, you will not get one step further. It all depends on practice. We never understand these things until we experience them. We will have to see and feel them for ourselves. Simply listening to explanations and theories will not do. There are several obstructions to practice. The first obstruction is an unhealthy body: if the body is not in a fit state, the practice will be obstructed. Therefore we have to keep the body in good health; we have to take care of what we eat and drink, and what we do. Always use a mental effort, what is usually called "Christian Science," to keep the body strong. That is all nothing further of the body. We must not Forget that health is only a means to an end. If health were the end, we would be like animals; animals rarely become unhealthy.
The second obstruction is doubt; we always feel doubtful about things we do not see. Man cannot live upon words, however he may try. So, doubt comes to us as to whether there is any truth in these things or not; even the best of us will doubt sometimes: With practice, within a few days, a little glimpse will come, enough to give one encouragement and hope. As a certain commentator on Yoga philosophy says, "When one proof is obtained, however little that may be, it will give us faith in the whole teaching of Yoga." For instance, after the first few months of practice, you will begin to find you can read another's thoughts; they will come to you in picture form. Perhaps you will hear something happening at a long distance, when you concentrate your mind with a wish to hear. These glimpses will come, by little bits at first, but enough to give you faith, and strength, and hope. For instance, if you concentrate your thoughts on the tip of your nose, in a few days you will begin to smell most beautiful fragrance, which will be enough to show you that there are certain mental perceptions that can be made obvious without the contact of physical objects. But we must always remember that these are only the means; the aim, the end, the goal, of all this training is liberation of the soul. Absolute control of nature, and nothing short of it, must be the goal. We must be the masters, and not the slaves of nature; neither body nor mind must be our master, nor must we Forget that the body is mine, and not I the body's.
A god and a demon went to learn about the Self from a great sage. They studied with him for a long time. At last the sage told them, "You yourselves are the Being you are seeking." Both of them thought that their bodies were the Self. They went back to their people quite satisfied and said, "We have learned everything that was to be learned; eat, drink, and be merry; we are the Self; there is nothing beyond us." The nature of the demon was ignorant, clouded; so he never inquired any further, but was perfectly contented with the idea that he was God, that by the Self was meant the body. The god had a purer nature. He at first committed the mistake of thinking: I, this body, am Brahman: so keep it strong and in health, and well dressed, and give it all sorts of enjoyments. But, in a few days, he found out that that could not be the meaning of the sage, their master; there must be something higher. So he came back and said, "Sir, did you teach me that this body was the Self? If so, I see all bodies die; the Self cannot die." The sage said, "Find it out; thou art That." Then the god thought that the vital forces which work the body were what the sage meant. But after a time, he found that if he ate, these vital forces remained strong, but, if he starved, they became weak. The god then went back to the sage and said, "Sir, do you mean that the vital forces are the Self?" The sage said, "Find out for yourself; thou art That." The god returned home once more, thinking that it was the mind, perhaps, that was the Self. But in a short while he saw that thoughts were so various, now good, again bad; the mind was too changeable to be the Self. He went back to the sage and said, "Sir, I do not think that the mind is the Self; did you mean that?" "No," replied the sage, "thou art That; find out for yourself." The god went home, and at last found that he was the Self, beyond all thought, one without birth or death, whom the sword cannot pierce or the fire burn, whom the air cannot dry or the water melt, the beginningless and endless, the immovable, the intangible, the omniscient, the omnipotent Being; that It was neither the body nor the mind, but beyond them all. So he was satisfied; but the poor demon did not get the truth, owing to his fondness for the body.
1.01 - The Four Aids, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
31:Nor should he Forget the aim of these external aids which is to awaken his soul to the Divine within him. Nothing has been finally accomplished if that has not been accomplished. It is not sufficient to worship Krishna, Christ or Buddha without, if there is not the revealing and the formation of the Buddha, the Christ or Krishna in ourselves. And all other aids equally have no other purpose; each is a bridge between man's unconverted state and the revelation of the Divine within him.
32:The Teacher of the integral Yoga will follow as far as he may the method of the Teacher within us. He will lead the disciple through the nature of the disciple. Teaching, example, influence, -- these are the three instruments of the Guru. But the wise Teacher will not seek to impose himself or his opinions on the passive acceptance of the receptive mind; he will throw in only what is productive and sure as a seed which will grow under the divine fostering within. He will seek to awaken much more than to instruct; he will aim at the growth of the faculties and the experiences by a natural process and free expansion. He will give a method as an aid, as a utilisable device, not as an imperative formula or a fixed routine. And he will be on his guard against any turning of the means into a limitation, against the mechanising of process. His whole business is to awaken the divine light and set working the divine force of which he himself is only a means and an aid, a body or a channel.
1.01 - The King of the Wood, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
hills, can ever Forget it. The two characteristic Italian villages
which slumber on its banks, and the equally Italian palace whose
1.01 - The Path of Later On, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Hollow voices cry out to the traveller, "Flee this place; go back to the cross-roads; there is still time." The young man hesitates, then replies, "Tomorrow." He covers his face with his hands so as not to see the bodies rolling into the ravine, and runs along the road, drawn on by an irresistible urge to go forward. He no longer wonders whether he will find a way out. With furrowed brow and clothes in disorder, he runs on in desperation. At last, thinking himself far away from the accursed place, he opens his eyes: there are no more fir-trees; all around are barren stones and grey dust. The sun has disappeared beyond the horizon; night is coming on. The road has lost itself in an endless desert. The desperate traveller, worn out by his long run, wants to stop; but he must walk on. All around him is ruin; he hears stifled cries; his feet stumble on skeletons. In the distance, the thick mist takes on terrifying shapes; black forms loom up; something huge and misshapen suggests itself. The traveller flies rather than walks towards the goal he senses and which seems to flee from him; wild cries direct his steps; he brushes against phantoms. At last he sees before him a huge edifice, dark, desolate, gloomy, a castle to make one say with a shudder: "A haunted castle." But the young man pays no attention to the bleakness of the place; these great black walls make no impression on him; as he stands on the dusty ground, he hardly trembles at the sight of these formidable towers; he thinks only that the goal is reached, he Forgets his weariness and discouragement. As he approaches the castle, he brushes against a wall, and the wall crumbles; instantly everything collapses around him; towers, battlements, walls have vanished, sinking into dust which is added to the dust already covering the ground.
Owls, crows and bats fly out in all directions, screeching and circling around the head of the poor traveller who, dazed, downcast, overwhelmed, stands rooted to the spot, unable to move; suddenly, horror of horrors, he sees rising up before him terrible phantoms who bear the names of Desolation, Despair, Disgust with life, and amidst the ruins he even glimpses Suicide, pallid and dismal above a bottomless gulf. All these malignant spirits surround him, clutch him, propel him towards the yawning chasm. The poor youth tries to resist this irresistible force, he wants to draw back, to flee, to tear himself away from all these invisible arms entwining and clasping him. But it is too late; he moves on towards the fatal abyss. He feels drawn, hypnotized by it. He calls out; no voice answers to his cries. He grasps at the phantoms, everything gives way beneath him. With haggard eyes he scans the void, he calls out, he implores; the macabre laughter of Evil rings out at last.
1.01 - The Science of Living, #On Education, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Every one of you should have an aim. But do not Forget that on the quality of your aim will depend the quality of
your life.
1.01 - The Three Metamorphoses, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
24:Innocence is the child, and Forgetfulness, a new beginning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first movement, a holy Yea.
25:Aye, for the game of creating, my brethren, there is needed a holy Yea unto life: ITS OWN will, willeth now the spirit; HIS OWN world winneth the world's outcast.
1.01 - The Unexpected, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
The following day, Dr. Manilal had to face from the Mother such an unexpected thundering assault that we felt our hearts would stop with fear and consternation. It was Mahakali's wrath. I have never since seen her in such a fiery mood. Sri Aurobindo was lying quietly; the Mother came into the room and, standing by his bed, asked Dr. Manilal what he thought of the fracture. The doctor either purposely gave an evasive reply with some hesitation or did not consider the case serious. The Mother exploded, "Don't hide it! we know the truth," Then I saw something rare that I shall never Forget. The Mother prostrated herself on the floor before Sri Aurobindo and, I believe, began to pray to him. From this supplication I could realise the gravity of the situation. Yet, she had shown no trace of it until then. Calm and solemn, Sri Aurobindo heard the silent prayer.
Our working hours as attendants were divided according to individual preference. Purani chose the oddest hour of 12 midnight, but most convenient for the rest of us. As for the work, there was, to begin with, very little to do since Sri Aurobindo was to remain flat on his back in bed, without making any movement. Only someone had always to be near at hand in case he needed anything. The attendance by the entire team was required only at particular times, if, for instance, the body needed some adjustment after a long stay in one position. He who had had the Mother as the sole companion, and Champaklal as the only attendant, now had to admit others into his sanctum. Circumstances broke down the barriers of solitude and forced upon him a new pattern of life.
1.01 - To Watanabe Sukefusa, #Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin, #unset, #Zen
As I said in my previous letter, I was disturbed to learn you have recently been indulging in your reprehensible habit of using strong and unfilial language to your elderly parents. This has caused them much pain. It is altogether abominable. Never Forget that there is indeed such a thing as heavenly retri bution. The wrath of the gods is very real.
Until this spring I was staying at a place called Shinoda in Izumi Province. In a village nearby named Tsukumi, there lived the son of a very wealthy man named Shinkichir. He was talented, handsome, had a clever mind, and was dearly loved by all the members of his family, who coddled and protected him as he grew up. Shinkichir turned eighteen last year, his father having passed away three or four years earlier. Arrangements for his marriage were begun this past winter. An agreement was reached with the bride's family, and the bride was being fitted out with a trousseau and so forth.
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But never Forget, that no matter how long-lived your parents are, they cannot remain forever in this illusory world of dreams. Accounts have been transmitted throughout the past of brave samurai whose minds were filled with thoughts of filial devotion, of virtuous priests of deep attainment whose love and compassion for their parents was a constant concern. Still, perhaps you think it strange my saying these things to you. "Ekaku is quick to grab his brush and write letters of this kind to people. But what about him? Hasn't he left his father, who is well into his eighties, to go wandering off to the far-flung corners of the country, never so much as sending him a letter?"
However, a person who leaves his home to take the vows of a Buddhist monk has, in doing so, renounced his former self completely. He sets out in search of a good master who can help him achieve his goal, engaging in arduous practice day and night, precisely because he is concerned with obtaining a favorable rebirth for his parents into the endless future. He is performing the greatest kind of filial piety.
1.01 - What is Magick?, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
(Illustration: A popular leader is most successful when he Forgets himself, and remembers only "The Cause." Self-seeking engenders jealousies and schism. When the organs of the body assert their presence otherwise than by silent satisfaction, it is a sign that they are diseased. The single exception is the organ of reproduction. Yet even in this case self-assertion bears witness to its dissatisfaction with itself, since in cannot fulfill its function until completed by its counterpart in another organism.)
20. Man can only attract and employ the forces for which he is really fitted.
1.020 - Ta-Ha, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
52. He said, “Knowledge thereof is with my Lord, in a Book. My Lord never errs, nor does He Forget.”
53. He who made the earth a habitat for you; and traced in it routes for you; and sent down water from the sky, with which We produce pairs of diverse plants.
10.23 - Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
I then thought of all those who were watching over the ship to safeguard and protect our route, and in gratitude, I willed that Thy peace should be born and live in their hearts; then I thought of all those who, confident and carefree, slept the sleep of inconscience and, with solicitude for their miseries, pity for their latent suffering which would awake in them in their own waking, I willed that a little of Thy Peace might dwell in their hearts and bring to birth in them the life of the Spirit, the light which dispels ignorance. I then thought of the dwellers of this vast sea, visible and invisible, and I willed that over them might be extended Thy Peace. I thought next of those whom we had left far away and whose affection is with us, and with a great tenderness I willed for them Thy conscious and lasting Peace, the plenitude of Thy Peace proportioned to their capacity to receive it. Then I thought of all those to whom we are going, who are restless with childish preoccupations and fight for mean competitions of interest in ignorance and egoism and ardently, in a great aspiration for them I asked for the plenty light of Thy Peace. I next thought of all those whom we know, of all those whom we do not know, of all the life that is working itself out, of all that has changed its form and all that is not yet in form, and for all that, and also for all of which I cannot think, for all that is present to my memory and for all that I Forget, in a great eg ingathering and mute adoration, I implored Thy Peace.
What I willed for them, with Thy will, at the moments when I could be in a true communion with Thee, grant that they may have received it on the day when, striving to Forget external contingencies, they turned towards their noblest thought, towards their best feelings.
May the supreme serenity of Thy sublime Presence awake in them.
1.023 - The Believers, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
110. But you made them a target of ridicule, until they made you Forget My remembrance; and you used to laugh at them.
111. Today, I have rewarded them for their endurance. They are the ones who are the triumphant.”
10.26 - A True Professor, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Our birth is but a sleep and a Forgetting;
The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,
1.02 - Education, #On Education, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
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
1.02 - IN THE COMPANY OF DEVOTEES, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
God and His glory & Dangers of worldly life MASTER: "God and His glory. This universe is His glory. People see His glory and Forget everything. They do not seek God, whose glory is this world. All seek to enjoy 'woman and gold'. But there is too much misery and worry in that. This world is like the whirlpool of the Vilki. Once a boat gets into it there is no hope of its rescue. Again, the world is like a thorny bush: you have hardly freed yourself from one set of thorns before you find yourself entangled in another. Once you enter a labyrinth you find it very difficult to get out. Living in the world, a man becomes seared, as it were."
A DEVOTEE: "Then what is the way, sir?"
1.02 - MAPS OF MEANING - THREE LEVELS OF ANALYSIS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
the long run, our species Forgets everything that is useless: we do not Forget our myths, however
indeed, much of the activity broadly deemed cultural is in fact the effort to ensure that such myths are
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regard as purely subjective. The archaic mind had not yet learned how to Forget what was important.
Ancient stories of the generation of the world therefore focus on all of reality, rather than on those distant
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irrelevant with time; and (2) the dangers that necessarily accrue to a state that Forgets or refuses to admit
to the existence of the immortal deity of evil. Seth, the kings brother and opposite, represents the mythic
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These walls serve their purpose so well that it is easy for us to Forget our mortal vulnerability; indeed, we
generated those walls to aid that Forgetting. But it is impossible to understand why we are so motivated to
maintain our cultures our beliefs, and associated patterns of action without gazing at and appreciating
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and through her to Forget all his past sorrows. So on he went, thinking only of her and wishing to be with
her, and he never even saw the golden road. His horse cantered right along the middle of it, and when he
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come, over time, to Forget the necessity of such constraint risk the vengeance of God:
Thus says the LORD: For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment;
1.02 - On the Service of the Soul, #The Red Book Liber Novus, #unset, #Zen
I understand, I must not think either; should thought, too, no longer be? I should give myself completely into your hands-but who are you? I do not trust you. Not once to trust, is that my love for you, my joy in you? Do I not trust every valiant man, and not you, my soul? Your hand lies heavy on me, but I will, I will. Have I not sought to love men and trust them, and should I not do this with you? Forget my doubts, I know it is ignoble to doubt you. You know how difficult it is for me to set aside the beggar's pride I take in my own thought. I forgot that you are also one of my friends, and have
On the Service of the Soul
1.02 - Pranayama, Mantrayoga, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
The ideal mantra should be rhythmical, one might even say musical; but there should be sufficient emphasis on some syllable to assist the faculty of attention. The best mantras are of medium length, so far as the beginner is concerned. If the mantra is too long, one is apt to Forget it, unless one practises very hard for a great length of time. On the other hand, mantras of a single syllable, such as "Aum,"
footnote: However, in saying a mantra containing the word "Aum," one sometimes Forgets the other words, and remains concentrated, repeating the "Aum" at intervals; but this is the result of a practice already begun, not the beginning of a practice.
are rather jerky; the rhythmical idea is lost. Here are a few useful mantras:
1.02 - SADHANA PADA, #Patanjali Yoga Sutras, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism
perfectly angry, and Forget myself, identify myself with
anger. When he first began to abuse me I still thought I am
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PuruSa, when it identifies itself with nature, Forgets that it is
pure and infinite. The PuruSa does not live; it is life itself. It
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loves, and you will get through them safely if you never Forget
what you really are. Never Forget this is only a momentary
state, and that we have to pass through it. Experience is the
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have to go through these experiences, but let us never Forget
the ideal.
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that is what we always Forget. That is why sages and holy
persons, who have so much of this Sattva quality, are
1.02 - SOCIAL HEREDITY AND PROGRESS, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
dustry and agriculture; we must Forget our history; we must assume
that even language does not exist. In short, we must get as close as
1.02 - The Human Soul, #The Interior Castle or The Mansions, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
9.: A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds. Since God has given it such great dignity, permit it to wander at will through the rooms of the castle, from the lowest to the highest. Let it not force itself to remain for very long in the same mansion, even that of self-knowledge. Mark well, however, that self-knowledge is indispensable, even for those whom God takes to dwell in the same mansion with Himself. Nothing else, however elevated, perfects the soul which must never seek to Forget its own nothingness. Let humility be always at work, like the bee at the honeycomb, or all will be lost. But, remember, the bee leaves its hive to fly in search of flowers and the soul should sometimes cease thinking of itself to rise in meditation on the grandeur and majesty of its God. It will learn its own baseness better thus than by self-contemplation, and will be freer from the reptiles which enter the first room where self-knowledge is acquired. The palmito here referred to is not a palm, but a shrub about four feet high and very dense with leaves, resembling palm leaves. The poorer classes and principally children dig it up by the roots, which they peel of its many layers until a sort of kernel is disclosed, which is eaten, not without relish, and is somewhat like a filbert in taste. See St. John of the Cross, Accent of Mount Carmel, bk. ii. ch, xiv, 3. Although it is a great grace from God to practise self-examination, yet 'too much is as bad as too little,' as they say; believe me, by God's help, we shall advance more by contemplating the Divinity than by keeping our eyes fixed on ourselves, poor creatures of earth that we are.
10.: I do not know whether I have put this clearly; self-knowledge is of such consequence that I would not have you careless of it, though you may be lifted to heaven in prayer, because while on earth nothing is more needful than humility. Therefore, I repeat, not only a good way, but the best of all ways, is to endeavour to enter first by the room where humility is practised, which is far better than at once rushing on to the others. This is the right road;-if we know how easy and safe it is to walk by it, why ask for wings with which to fly? Let us rather try to learn how to advance quickly. I believe we shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavouring to know God, for, beholding His greatness we are struck by our own baseness, His purity shows our foulness, and by meditating on His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
1.02 - The Magic Circle, #The Practice of Magical Evocation, #Franz Bardon, #Occultism
When working in the open air, a magic weapon, dagger or sword has to be used for drawing the circle on the ground. When working in a room, the circle may be drawn on the floor with a piece of chalk. A large sheet of paper can also be used for the circle. The most ideal circle, however, is the one sewn or embroidered into a piece of cloth, flannel or silk, for such a circle can be laid out in a room as well as outside of the house. The circles drawn on paper have the disadvantage that the paper will soon wear out and fall to pieces. In any case, the circle must be large enough to enable the magician to move about in it freely. When drawing the circle, the appropriate state of mind and full concentration are most essential. If a circle were drawn without the necessary concentration, a circle would undoubtedly be the result, but it would not be a magic one. The magic circle that has been worked into a piece of cloth or silk has to be re-drawn symbolically with one's finger or magic wand, or with some other magic weapon; not to Forget the necessary concentration, meditation and state of mind. The magician must, in such a case, be fully aware of the fact that it is not the magical weapon in use that draws the circle, but the divine faculties symbolized by that magical instrument. Furthermore, he must realize that it is not he that is drawing the magic circle at the moment of concentration, but that the Divine Spirit is actually guiding his hand and instrument to draw the circle. Therefore, before drawing the magic circle, a conscious contact with the Almighty, with the Infinite, has to be brought about by the help of meditation and identification.
The trained magician, having a thorough comm and of the practical exercises of the first tarot-card, as explained in my first work "Initiation into Hermetics" , has learned during one of the steps of that book how to become fully conscious of the spirit and how to act consciously as a spirit. It is not difficult for him to imagine that not he, but the Divine Spirit in all its high aspects is actually drawing the magic circle he wishes to have. The magician has thus learned also that in the world of the Invisible it is not the same although two persons might physically be doing the same, for a sorcerer, who does not possess the necessary maturity, will never be able to draw a true magic circle.
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It is hardly necessary to mention the specimen of a magic circle, since every magician will now know from what I have said above how he has to proceed, and it is now up to him to make use of the instructions given here. Yet he must never Forget the main thing,
that is the orientation he needs when working with a magic circle, for only if he has reached the necessary cosmic contact by means of meditation and imagination, i. e. the personal connection with his God, will he be qualified for entering the circle and starting work inside it.
1.02 - THE PROBLEM OF SOCRATES, #Twilight of the Idols, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
special characteristic. Neither should we Forget those aural delusions
which were religiously interpreted as "the demon of Socrates."
1.02 - The Recovery, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
The last thing to be done was the bending of the knee. As I have mentioned, there was an exercise called hanging the leg. Manilal's approaching visit for the Darshan would make Sri Aurobindo utter, "Oh, Manilal is coming, I must hang my leg!" or when Manilal would enquire from Baroda about it, he would reply with a smile, "It is still hanging!" The bending exercise was apparently an ineffectual one, but Sri Aurobindo persisted and we too encouraged him as if he were a little child. At any rate the result was not proportionate to the effort. Dr. Rao who was very happy to see the Master at last free from the tyrannical shackles of the splints took the opportunity, whenever he came, of massaging his leg. "May I do it, Sir?" he would ask and would never Forget to praise Sri Aurobindo as an ideal patient.
Another imposition placed on him by the doctor was that in order to tone up his body he had to do some free-hand exercises. Every morning while still in bed, he would, without fail, practise them vigorously the flexion and extension of his arms and the raising and lowering of his legs. Sometimes the arms overcome by sleep would sink into feeble, mechanical movements and then would wake up with a start to resume their duty! The summer heat or an uncomfortable position in bed could not persuade him to break the rule. When I entered the room for my morning work, this assiduous application would greet my eyes. His leg would rise and fall like a hammer, and I could not contain my feeling of amusement and admiration at this hard Tapasya to achieve the supramental perfection of the body. Perhaps this semi-blasphemy has come upon me like a boomerang, now making me undergo physical Tapasya even at this age! It cannot be denied, anyway, that Sri Aurobindo was not meant for such hard and rough gymnastics. There are some things which cannot be conceived of, for instance Tagore or Dilip courting jail during the Non-cooperation movement.
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There he was, then, sitting on the bed, with his right leg stretched out. I was watching his movements from behind the bed. No sooner had he begun than followed line after line as if everything was chalked out in the mind, or as he used to say, a tap was turned on and a stream poured down. Absorbed in perfect poise, gazing now and then in front, wiping the perspiration off the hands for he perspired profusely he would go on for about two hours. The Mother would drop in with a glass of coconut water. Sometimes she had to wait for quite a while before he was aware of her presence. Then exclaiming "Ah", he took the glass from the loving hand, drank it slowly, and then plunged back into his work! It was a very sweet vision, indeed, the Mother standing quietly by his side with a smile and watching him, and he Forgetful of everything, writing away; then a short exchange of beatific glances. At the end of the writing, the place where he sat would be completely drenched there was so much perspiration in the summer months. But remarkably free from any odour! We used to wipe his body and change the bed sheets. But what shocked me most was when finishing the first chapter, he asked us to tear it and throw it into the wastepaper basket! It needed rewriting! I was very much tempted to keep it intact, but that would be a violation of his order. Champaklal told me that he kept some of the torn pieces as a souvenir. I noticed what a fine calligraphy it was with hardly a scratch, almost without a scar or wound. Not at all like his "correspondence" handwriting which he himself could not decipher sometimes! We have cut many jokes with him about his handwriting. Once I wrote, "Sir, will you take the trouble to mark those portions of your letter that can be shown to others?" He replied, "Good Lord, sir, I can't do that. You Forget that I will have to try to read my own hieroglyphs. I have no time for such an exercise. I leave it for others." I do not know if all great men write in this spotless and spontaneous manner. It seems he wrote all his seven volumes of the Arya directly on the typewriter. How I wished I could one day write at this "aeroplanic speed", to use Sri Aurobindo's own expression. However the writing of Savitri was quite a different story. There he had to "labour", change, chisel, omit, revise; all this, of course, from a silent mind. Only a few poems like Rose of God and A God's Labour just came down en bloc and not a word was changed! The Mother must have been very pleased to see him resume his activity after the passage through the long dark night.
With the improvement of his health, he began to spend some hours sitting in a chair and devoting his entire time to spiritual, intellectual and creative activities. The accident had released him in a drastic manner from the 8 or 9 hours' labour of "correspondence". He could now take up the revision of all his major works, one after another. The first to see the light of day was the first volume of his magnum opus, The Life Divine. It was the end of 1939, the year of World War II. The publication of the Arya of which the Divine Life was the basic theme, started in 1914, the year of World War I. Can we call these mere coincidences? The two other volumes came out on the heels of the first one and were extensively rewritten. He composed many sonnets also. We used to see his pen indefatigably writing away page after page. We could not know what was being written, because, except for the sonnets, he passed everything to the Mother. She received it as a gift from God and sent it on to Prithwi Singh for typing. Though his eyesight was bad, his typing was so neat and clean, done with such minute care, that Sri Aurobindo was very pleased with his work.
1.02 - The Stages of Initiation, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy
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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If the candidate is found fit for the foregoing experiences, he is then given what is called symbolically the draught of Forgetfulness. This means that he is initiated into the secret knowledge that enables him to act without being continually disturbed by the lower memory. This is necessary for the initiate, for he must have full faith in the immediate present. He must be able to destroy the veil of memory which envelops man every moment of his life. If we judge something that happens to us today according to the experience of yesterday, we are exposed to a multitude of errors. Of course this does not mean that experience gained in life should be renounced. It should always be kept in mind as clearly as possible. But the initiate must have the ability to judge every new experience wholly according to what is inherent in it, and let it react upon him, unobscured
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1.02 - The Three European Worlds, #The Ever-Present Origin, #Jean Gebser, #Integral
Like Petrarch, who separated landscape from land, man separates from the whole only that part which his view or thinking can encompass, and Forgets those sectors that lie adjacent, beyond, or even behind. One result is the anthropocentrism that has displaced what we might call the the ocentrism previously held. Man, himself a part of the world, endows his sector of awareness with primacy; but he is, of course, only able to perceive a partial view. The sector is given prominence over the circle; the part outweighs the whole. As the whole cannot be approached from a perspectival attitude to the world, we merely superimpose the character of wholeness onto the sector, the result being the familiar "totality."
It is no accident that the ambivalence inherent in the (Latin) primal word totusis evident in the word "totality." Although in more recent times the word totushasmeant "all" or "whole," it would earlier have meant "nothing." In any event, theaudial similarity between totus and [German] tot, "dead," is readily apparent. But let us Forget the totality with its nefarious character; it is not the whole. Andal though the whole can no longer even be approached from the perspectival position, the whole, as we shall see further on, is again being approached in novel ways from the aperspectival attitude.
Perspectivation, let us remember, also includes a reduction; and this reductive nature is evident, for instance, in perspectival man's predominantly visual or sight orientation in contrast to unperspectival man's audial or hearing orientation. The basis of the perspectival world view is the visual pyramid; the two lines extend from the eyes and meet at the object viewed. The image formed by the isolated sector includes the subject, the object, and the space in between. Pierodella Francesca clearly expresses this in his remark: "The first is the eye that sees; the second, the object seen; the third, the distance between the one and the other." On this Panofsky comments: "It [perspective] furnished a place for the human form to unfold in a life-like manner and move mimically [which is equivalent to the discovery of space]; but it also enabled light to spread and diffuse in space [the illumination of space is the emergence of spatial awareness] and permitted considerable freedom in the treatment of the human body. Perspective provides a distance between man and objects." Such detachment is always a sign of an emergent objectifying consciousness and of the liberation of previously innate potentialities that are subsequently rediscovered and realized in the outer world.
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This process was unique and original with Picasso. By drawing on his primitive, magic inheritance (his Negroid period), his mythical heritage (his Hellenistic-archaistic period), and his classicistic, rationally-accentuated formalist phase (his Ingres period), Picasso was able to achieve the concretion of time (or as we would like to designate this new style which he and his contemporaries introduced in painting, "temporic concretion"). Such temporic concretion is not just a basic characteristic of this particular drawing, but is in fact generally valid: Only where time emerges as pure present and is no longer divided into its three phases of past, present and future, is it concrete. To the extent that Picasso from the outset reached out beyond the present, incorporating the future into the present of his work, he was able to "presentiate" or make present the past. Picasso brought to the awareness of the present everything once relegated to the dormancy of Forgetfulness, as well as everything still latent as something yet to come; and this temporal wholeness realized in spatiality and rendered visible and transparent in a depiction of a human form, is the unique achievement of this temporic artist.
We shall in consequence designate as "temporic" artists those painters of the two major artistic generations since 1880 (i.e., following the classicistic, romantic and naturalistic movements) who were engaged - doubtless unintentionally in concretizing time. From this point of view, all of the attempts by the various "movements" - expressionism, cubism, surrealism, and even tachism - show as their common trait this struggle to concretize and realize time. Understandably, such experimentation resulted in numerous faulty solutions; but as we noted earlier, such faults were equally unavoidable during the search for perspective and spatial realization.
1.02 - The Ultimate Path is Without Difficulty, #The Blue Cliff Records, #Yuanwu Keqin, #Zen
will be like the excellent flavor of ghee. If you don't Forget your
emotional interpretations, then you'll see a profusion of confu
1.035 - The Recitation of Mantra, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
Simultaneously with this feeling of a subtle thrill in the system when the chanting of pranava is done properly, there is a feeling that a loss of body-consciousness is gradually taking place. We will not feel that we exist at all. We will be aware of a non-objective something, and it is this non-objective awareness, which is the effect of the chanting of pranava, which also creates the feeling of levitation. We are not actually getting lifted up physically, but we will feel as if we are lifted up from the earth and moving in the air, as it were. Though we are on the ground and not moving in the air physically, the mind will feel as if it is lifted up, and this is the astral body getting stirred because of the harmonious vibration that is being produced. Though the physical body is not moving in the air, the subtle body is trying to get up, and that is why we feel as if we are moving in the air. The feeling of levitation is generated by the effect produced upon the subtle body, by the chanting of the mantra. The subtle body is ordinarily so intimately connected with the physical body that we cannot isolate one from the other. When we are intensely conscious of the physical body, the subtle body gets impregnated with the notion of the physical body, and we cannot Forget that we are anything but the body.
This difficulty one has in getting tethered to the notion of the physical body alone arises on account of a distracted, inharmonious movement of the mind and the pranas. If we want to draw the mind or the subtle body away from its contact with or attachment to the physical body, the first thing we should do is to create a system of harmonious feeling in the mind, as well as to very, very carefully isolate every component of the subtle body from its contact with the physical body by a new type of vibration altogether. Sometimes sticking plasters cannot be removed from the finger immediately. If we pull them off, the skin is removed and we feel much pain. So doctors and nurses try to remove a sticking plaster from a wound very, very slowly by pouring some solution over the sticking plaster, and this detaches the plaster automatically by the smoothness and softness produced by the application of the solution.
1.036 - Ya-Seen, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
78. And he produces arguments against Us, and he Forgets his own creation. He says, “Who will revive the bones when they have decayed?”
79. Say, “He who initiated them in the first instance will revive them. He has knowledge of every creation.”
1.037 - Preventing the Fall in Yoga, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
Vydhi styna saaya pramda (I.30) Pramada is the other obstacle in the sutra that is mentioned by Patanjali. Blunder, floundering and gross error are called pramada. What can be a greater blunder than to Forget the existence of God and our purpose in life? Most of the students do not go beyond this stage; they end with this. Their life closes with this difficulty. They make a serious blunder in choosing a different line of activity altogether. For example, suddenly there can be an emotion fired up within to save the world from falling into to hell. They will think that, "We have come to a stage now where we have to lift the world from perdition." There will be arguments after arguments, logically deduced, justifying this attitude, because logic also comes from the mind it does not come from outside. The aspiration of the spirit for God-realisation will be dubbed as selfishness of the worst type. Even today we have thousands of people before us who have such suspicions in their minds. These suspicions do not arise merely in idiotic minds, but they also arise in minds of those who are very intelligent, very learned, very honest and sincere in their approach. Such people will have doubts of this type, and come to think that working for the liberation of others is better than working for the liberation of one's own self, because one's own self is a selfish centre. The thinking is: "This is very clear everybody knows that, and it does not require very much argument to prove that a single person's salvation is selfish compared to the salvation of many others."
So we give up the aspiration for the salvation of the soul, and work for the salvation of others. The result is that both will be in equal bondage, and neither will we get salvation, nor will the other. This will not be understood by the mind. It is a trick that is played, because there is no such thing as a salvation of the type that people are arguing for in this manner. It is a gross error of thinking; it is a blunder of the first water. But this pramada or mistake will be committed by most people, and even advanced seekers will not be free from this mistake.
1.039 - Throngs, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
8. When some adversity touches the human being, he prays to his Lord, repenting to Him. But then, when He confers on him a grace of His, he Forgets what he was praying for before, and he attributes rivals to God, in order to lead astray from His way. Say, “Enjoy your disbelief for a little while; you will be among the inmates of the Fire.”
9. Is he who worships devoutly during the watches of the night, prostrating himself and standing up, mindful of the Hereafter, and placing his hope in the mercy of his Lord? Say, “Are those who know and those who do not know equal?” Only those possessed of reason will remember.
1.03 - On Knowledge of the World., #The Alchemy of Happiness, #Al-Ghazali, #Sufism
After you have learned, O student of the divine mysteries, what this world in its meaning really is, it is important that you should look at the world in detail. Every thing in the world of matter which grows, has been included under three classes, animal, vegetable and mineral, which are called the three generations or kingdoms. Animals were created some for riding, some for food, and some for tilling. Vegetables were created to afford food and conveniences to man, and sustenance to various animals. Minerals, like gold, silver, copper and iron, were created to serve as instruments to provide means of sustaining life in man. It was designed that by means of these three kingdoms, the spirit of man, while dwelling for a few days in the body, should be employed in making preparation for the future world. Man, however, Forgetful of the end for which he had come hither, heedless of the fact that he was soon to depart, and that he would then repent to find that he was going unprepared, became engaged in strife with his fellows about the things of the world, fell in love with its ways, and attempted to gain its wealth. In consequence various qualities began to appear in the heart, such as avarice, envy, ambition and hatred, which are sources of its ruin. Finally the heart, Forgetful of the duties for the performance of which it had come in to the world, exhausted all its energies in building up the world.
As man's primary necessities in the world are three, viz : clothing, food and shelter, so the arts of the world are three, viz: weaving, planting and building. The rest of the arts serve either for the purpose of perfecting the others, or for repairing injuries. Thus the spinner aids the work [69] of weaving, the tailor carries out that work to perfection, while the cloth-dresser adds beauty to the work. In the arts, there is need of iron, skins and wood, and for these many instruments are necessary. No person is able to work at all kinds of trades, but by the will of God, upon one is devolved one art and upon another two, and the whole community is made dependent, one member upon the other. When avarice, ambition and covetousness hold sway in the hearts of men, because some are not pleased to see others obtain honors, and because they do not endeavor to quell their wants, envy and hatred arise among them. Each one, dissatisfied with his own rights, plots against the property and honor of his fellows. On this account there was a necessity for three farther distinctions, viz: sovereignty, judicial authority, and jurisprudence, which contains the digest of the law. But alas ! poor and wretched man coming under the influence of all these causes, motives and instruments, spends his life in collecting wealth and lays up for himself sources of regret. And just as the pilgrim, who on his way to the Kaaba of Mecca, was engaged day and night in taking care of his camel, got separated from the caravan, and perished in the desert, so those who know not the real nature of the world and its worthlessness, and do not understand that it is the place where seed is sown for eternity, but spend all their thoughts upon it, are certainly fascinated and deceived; as the apostle of God declares. "The world is more enchanting than Harout and Marout: let men beware of it."1
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.
God requires a faithful fulfilment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called.
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Some people measure the worth of good actions only by their natural qualities or their difficulty, giving the preference to what is conspicuous or brilliant. Such men Forget that Christian virtues, which are Gods inspirations, should be viewed from the side of grace, not that of nature. The dignity and difficulty of a good action certainly affects what is technically called its accidental worth, but all its essential worth comes from love alone.
Jean Pierre Camus
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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.
The biographies of the saints testify unequivocally to the fact that spiritual training leads to a transcendence of personality, not merely in the special circumstances of battle, but in all circumstances and in relation to all creatures, so that the saint loves his enemies or, if he is a Buddhist, does not even recognize the existence of enemies, but treats all sentient beings, sub-human as well as human, with the same compassion and disinterested good will. Those who win through to the unitive knowledge of God set out upon their course from the most diverse starting points. One is a man, another a woman; one a born active, another a born contemplative. No two of them inherit the same temperament and physical constitution, and their lives are passed in material, moral and intellectual environments that are profoundly dissimilar. Nevertheless, insofar as they are saints, insofar as they possess the unitive knowledge that makes them perfect as their Father which is in heaven is perfect, they are all astonishingly alike. Their actions are uniformly selfless and they are constantly recollected, so that at every moment they know who they are and what is their true relation to the universe and its spiritual Ground. Of even plain average people it may be said that their name is Legionmuch more so of exceptionally complex personalities, who identify themselves with a wide diversity of moods, cravings and opinions. Saints, on the contrary, are neither double-minded nor half-hearted, but single and, however great their intellectual gifts, profoundly simple. The multiplicity of Legion has given place to one-pointedness not to any of those evil one-pointednesses of ambition or covetousness, or lust for power and fame, not even to any of the nobler, but still all too human one-pointednesses of art, scholarship and science, regarded as ends in themselves, but to the supreme, more than human one-pointedness that is the very being of those souls who consciously and consistently pursue mans final end, the knowledge of eternal Reality. In one of the Pali scriptures there is a significant anecdote about the Brahman Drona who, seeing the Blessed One sitting at the foot of a tree, asked him, Are you a deva? And the Exalted One answered, I am not. Are you a gandharva? I am not, Are you a yaksha? I am not. Are you a man? I am not a man. On the Brahman asking what he might be, the Blessed One replied, Those evil influences, those cravings, whose non-destruction would have individualized me as a deva, a gandharva, a yaksha (three types of supernatural being), or a man, I have completely annihilated. Know therefore that I am Buddha.
1.03 - Reading, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
Those who have not learned to read the ancient classics in the language in which they were written must have a very imperfect knowledge of the history of the human race; for it is remarkable that no transcript of them has ever been made into any modern tongue, unless our civilization itself may be regarded as such a transcript. Homer has never yet been printed in English, nor schylus, nor Virgil evenworks as refined, as solidly done, and as beautiful almost as the morning itself; for later writers, say what we will of their genius, have rarely, if ever, equalled the elaborate beauty and finish and the lifelong and heroic literary labors of the ancients. They only talk of Forgetting them who never knew them. It will be soon enough to Forget them when we have the learning and the genius which will enable us to attend to and appreciate them. That age will be rich indeed when those relics which we call Classics, and the still older and more than classic but even less known Scriptures of the nations, shall have still further accumulated, when the Vaticans shall be filled with Vedas and
Zendavestas and Bibles, with Homers and Dantes and Shakespeares, and all the centuries to come shall have successively deposited their trophies in the forum of the world. By such a pile we may hope to scale heaven at last.
1.03 - Sympathetic Magic, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
in the pot or a banana in the fire), you will become Forgetful. The
Galelareese are also of opinion that if a woman were to consume two
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might melt with love of her, did not Forget to throw into the fire a
shred of his cloak which he had dropped in her house. In Prussia
1.03 - The Desert, #The Red Book Liber Novus, #unset, #Zen
[2] I also had to detach myself from my thoughts through turning my desire away from them. And at once, I noticed that my self became a desert, where only the sun of unquiet desire burned. I was overwhelmed by the endless infertility of this desert. Even if something could have thrived there, the creative power of desire was still absent. Wherever the creative power of desire is, there springs the soil's own seed. But do not Forget to wait. Did you not see that when your creative force turned to the world, how the dead things moved under it and through it, how they grew and prospered, and how your thoughts flowed in rich rivers? If your creative force now turns to the place of the soul, you will see how your soul becomes green and how its field bears wonderful fruit.
Nobody can spare themselves the waiting and most will be unable to bear this torment, but will throw themselves with greed back at men, things, and thoughts, whose slaves they will become from then on. Since then it will have been clearly proved that this man is incapable of enduring beyond things, men, and thoughts, and they will hence become his master and he will become their fool, since he cannot be without them, not until even his soul has become a fruitful field. Also he whose soul is a garden, needs things, men, and thoughts, but he is their friend and not their slave and fool.
1.03 - The House Of The Lord, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
"Did he sleep at night?" was the question very often asked. To all appearance he did sleep and quite sufficiently. The Mother and he always insist on observing normal rules of health. We must eat well and sleep well, So, if there was a physical need for food, there could be a need for sleep as with us, but with a difference. For our sleep is a heavy plunge into inconscience where we Forget everything, whereas a Yogi sleeps awake. There is also a state in which the physical body is apparently asleep, while the subtle body goes out visiting various persons in their sleep. The Mother has said that she does most of the subtle work in this way at night. Sri Aurobindo wrote to me, "In former days when she was spending the night in a trance and out working in the Ashram, she brought back with her the knowledge of all that was happening to everybody... I often know from her what has happened before it is reported by anyone."
This is the overall picture of Sri Aurobindo's outer life as we saw it and lived it together through his last twelve years. The programme remained, on the whole, constant till the end except for some minor variations due to exigencies of circumstances. I have said nothing about his inner life, for I was not given a vision or perception of that vast secret field; nor had I Arjuna's unique privilege of seeing his Vivarpa, except some glimpses of his God-like stature. Sri Aurobindo had reminded me again and again in his letters that my physical crust was too thick. All the same, the joy, peace, light and energy that constantly sustained us could come from his silent Presence alone. People used to remark that we seemed to be beings of another world. Unfortunately, that brightness and felicity gave place to a grave seriousness with the rolling of years and a shadow of gloom was over us all, though we could not account for it at the time. Besides, the dark underside of our human nature, I am talking particularly of myself also began to show its grisly face. "Mortality bears ill the Eternal's touch." Of course, Sri Aurobindo remained samam brahman. Our frailties and shortcomings he had already seen from above, and was prepared for them when he accepted us for his service; he had never shown any annoyance. On the contrary, he forgave us all. Though he was impersonal by nature, hardly looked at us while talking, rarely spoke our name while asking for something, there was an ineffable sweetness in his Presence. And during our pranam on our birthdays or Darshan days, he used to make up for all his want of expression by melting into fatherly or friendly love and affection. He would pat us on the head, press it long with his warm velvety hands and look into our eyes with the tenderness of his sweet personality. Satyendra told me that when on his birthday he used to rub some attar on Sri Aurobindo's hand, he would then put forward the other one. His constant silent love and compassion shine ever bright in the depths of our hearts.
1.03 - The Sephiros, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
In view of our Qabalistic doctrine, however, of the inadequacy of the intellectual faculties to solve these insuperable philosophical problems - a fact which a num- ber of loquacious Qabalists constantly ignore or Forget - it would be as well, and much more sensible, to admit that logically we cannot account for the existence of the first
Sephirah from which everything else has been evolved.
1.03 - The Sunlit Path, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
We had no need of silence, of a well-insulated room, of keeping life's tentacles at a distance. On the contrary, the tighter they grasp and try to suffocate us, the more deafened we are by all that racket of life, and the more it burns inside, the hotter it is, the greater the need to be that and only that, that other vibrating thing without which we cannot live or brea the Forgetting it even for a second is to fall into total suffocation. We are treading the sunlit path amidst the world's darkness inside, outside, it's all the same, alone or in a crowd we are forever safe, nothing and nobody can take that away from us! We carry our secret royalty everywhere we go, moving ahead gropingly within another geography, which gradually reveals secret harbors and unexpected fjords and continents of peace and glimpses of unknown seas reverberating with the echo of a vaster life. There is no more wanting or not wanting in us, no more compulsion to acquire this or that, no struggle to live or become or know: we are borne by another rhythm that has its spontaneous knowledge, its clear life, its unforeseeable will and lightning effectiveness. A different kingdom begins to open up to us; we cast another look at the world, still a little blind and unknowing, but insightful, as if pregnant with a reality yet unborn, made wide by a knowledge still unformulated, a still shy wonderment. Perhaps we are like that brother ape of not so long ago who looked at his forest with a strange look, at his mates who ran and climbed and hunted so well but were not aware of the clear little vibration, the odd marvel, the sudden stillness that seemed to sunder the dark clouds and stretch far, far away, into a vastness vibrating with creative possibilities.
1.03 - The Syzygy - Anima and Animus, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
this he would need a faithless Eros, one capable of Forgetting his
mother and undergoing the pain of relinquishing the first love
1.03 - To Layman Ishii, #Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin, #unset, #Zen
"The great teacher Hsuan-sha practiced arduously at Hsueh-feng's mountain hermitage, Forgetting both food and sleep, but was unable to achieve a breakthrough of any kind. He left the temple with tears in his eyes, yet Hsueh-feng did not utter a single word to help him. At this point, you can be sure that one of today's teachers would have burdened him with a copious load of warm shit. As it turned out, when Hsuan-sha reached the foot of the mountain, he tripped and fell, and experienced a sudden realization.n
"It is like a melon grower harvesting his crop. He waits until their fragrance and flavor are at their peak before he goes into the melon patch. When he does, he has no need to carry a knife with him, only a bamboo basket. As the melons are fully ripe, the roots and tendrils and stems don't have to be cut; they have fallen away of themselves, leaving the fruit lying there on the ground. All he has to do is to go and pick them up.
1.03 - VISIT TO VIDYASAGAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
"God laughs on two occasions. He laughs when the physician says to the patient's mother, 'Don't be afraid, mother; I shall certainly cure your boy.' God laughs, saying to Himself, 'I am going to take his life, and this man says he will save it!' The physician thinks he is the master, Forgetting that God is the Master. God laughs again when two brothers divide their land with a string, saying to each other, 'This side is mine and that side is your'. He laughs and says to Himself, 'The whole universe belongs to Me, but they say they own this portion or that portion.'
"Can one know God through reasoning? Be His servant, surrender yourself to Him, and then pray to Him.
1.045 - Kneeling, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
34. And it will be said, “Today We Forget you, as you forgot the encounter of this Day of yours. Your abode is the Fire, and there are no saviors for you.
35. That is because you took God’s revelations for a joke, and the worldly life lured you.” So today they will not be brought out of it, and they will not be allowed to repent.
1.04 - ADVICE TO HOUSEHOLDERS, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
"After attaining God one Forgets His external splendour; the glories of His creation. One doesn't think of God's glories after one has seen Him. The devotee, once immersed in God's Bliss, doesn't calculate any more about outer things. When I see Narendra, I don't need to ask him: 'What's your name? Where do you live?' Where is the time for such questions? Once a man asked Hanuman which day of the fortnight it was. 'Brother,' said Hanuman, 'I don't know anything of the day of the week, or the fortnight, or the position of the stars. I think of Rama alone.' "
October 16, 1882
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In the boundless bliss of Thy Love, and utterly Forget Myself, O Lord, attaining Thee.
Narendra sang again:
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Be sure, O mind, you never Forget to chant
His holy name: when danger stares in your face, Call on Him, your Father Compassionate;
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"Gangamayi became very fond of me in Vrindvan. She was an old woman who lived all alone in a hut near the Nidhuvan. Referring to my spiritual condition and ecstasy, she said, 'He is the very embodiment of Radha.' She addressed me as 'Dulali'. When with her, I used to Forget my food and drink, my bath, and all thought of going home. On some days Hriday used to bring food from home and feed me. Gangamayi also would serve me with food prepared by her own hands.
"Gangamayi used to experience trances. At such times a great crowd would come to see her. One day, in a state of ecstasy, she climbed on Hriday's shoulders.
1.04 - Body, Soul and Spirit, #Theosophy, #Alice Bailey, #Occultism
In the course of the childhood of a human being, there comes a moment in which, for the first time, he feels himself to be an independent being distinct from the whole of the rest of the world. For persons with finely-strung natures it is a significant experience. The poet Jean Paul says in his autobiography, "I shall never Forget the event which took place within me, hitherto narrated to no one, and of which I can give place and time, when I stood present at the birth of my self-consciousness. As a very small child I stood at the door of the house one morning, looking toward the wood pile on my left, when suddenly the inner revelation 'I am an I' came to me like a flash of lightning from heaven and has remained shining ever since. In that moment my ego had seen itself for the first time and forever. Any deception of memory is hardly to be conceived as possible here, for no narrations by outsiders could have
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1.04 - BOOK THE FOURTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
And not one Grecian attribute Forget,
Which to thy praise, great Deity, belong,
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Forbears to fall, yet half Forgets to ride.
Still at thy near approach, applauses loud
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But Venus did not thus Forget the Sun.
He, who stol'n transports idly had betray'd,
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And sooth immortal wrath, Forgets her state.
Down from the realms of day, to realms of night,
1.04 - Feedback and Oscillation, #Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, #Norbert Wiener, #Cybernetics
Before we end this chapter, we must not Forget another
important physiological application of the principle of feed-
1.04 - GOD IN THE WORLD, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
All of a sudden we Forget the external entanglements;
When the ten thousand things are viewed in their oneness,
1.04 - Of other imperfections which these beginners are apt to have with respect to the third sin, which is luxury., #Dark Night of the Soul, #Saint John of the Cross, #Christianity
7. Some of these persons make friendships of a spiritual kind with others, which oftentimes arise from luxury and not from spirituality; this may be known to be the case when the remembrance of that friendship causes not the remembrance and love of God to grow, but occasions remorse of conscience. For, when the friendship is purely spiritual, the love of God grows with it; and the more the soul remembers it, the more it remembers the love of God, and the greater the desire it has for God; so that, as the one grows, the other grows also. For the spirit of God has this property, that it increases good by adding to it more good, inasmuch as there is likeness and conformity between them. But, when this love arises from the vice of sensuality aforementioned, it produces the contrary effects; for the more the one grows, the more the other decreases, and the remembrance of it likewise. If that sensual love grows, it will at once be observed that the soul's love of God is becoming colder, and that it is Forgetting Him as it remembers that love; there comes to it, too, a certain remorse of conscience. And, on the other hand, if the love of God grows in the soul, that other love becomes cold and is forgotten; for, as the two are contrary to one another, not only does the one not aid the other, but the one which predominates quenches and confounds the other, and becomes streng thened in itself, as the philosophers say. Wherefore Our Saviour said in the Gospel: 'That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.'38
That is to say, the love which is born of sensuality ends in sensuality, and that which is of the spirit ends in the spirit of God and causes it to grow. This is the difference that exists between these two kinds of love, whereby we may know them.
--- Overview of verb forget
The verb forget has 4 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (61) forget, bury ::: (dismiss from the mind; stop remembering; "I tried to bury these unpleasant memories")
2. (21) forget, block, blank out, draw a blank ::: (be unable to remember; "I'm drawing a blank"; "You are blocking the name of your first wife!")
3. (9) forget ::: (forget to do something; "Don't forget to call the chairman of the board to the meeting!")
4. forget, leave ::: (leave behind unintentionally; "I forgot my umbrella in the restaurant"; "I left my keys inside the car and locked the doors")
--- Grep of noun forget
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My Brother and Me (1994 - 1995) - A wholesome Nickelodeon show centered around a middle class African American family...particularly the relationship between the youngest son, Dee Dee, and his older brother, Alfie. Let's not forget Alfie's best friend, Goo, who with the help of Alfie tries to make Dee Dee's life as tough as possibl...
Freddy's Nightmares (1988 - 1990) - One of the most unforgettable anti-heroes from the decade of bad taste plays a kind of unconvincing Alfred Hitchcock as he introduces his worst nightmares to our very living rooms
A Different World (1987 - 1993) - This fun show was a spin-off of the successful NBC comedy "The Cosby Show". This show featured Denise Huxtable and her adventures at Hillman College. She encountered other unforgettable characters like the rich and spoiled Whitley Gilbert, Resident advisor Jaleesa Vinson, girl crazy but intelligent...
Blinky Bill (1992 - 1994) - This is an Australian Classic Show lets not forget that this show was from AUSTRALIA.
Thundarr the Barbarian (1980 - 1982) - Forget the global chaos myth that was Y2K. In the world of Thundarr the Barbarian, the end of civilization occurred six years earlier, when, in 1994, a runaway planet hurtled between the earth and the mooon, unleashing cosmic destruction. Now, 2000 years later, Earth is a savage world occupied by...
The Adventures of Corduroy Bear (1997 - 1999) - A little girl, Lisa, wanted to buy something with her money, so she went to the toy shop, and saw Corduroy, and bought him. Lisa and Corduroy have adventure with the other toys, Buckaroo the rocking horse, and the mouse (I forget the name). Lisa's friend is Moppy, and nobody else knows that Corduroy...
Father Ted (1995 - 1998) - Three Irish priests living on craggy island, a very isolated island with few inhabitants, off the coast of Ireland, and the havoc that they call their lives. Not forgeting their "ever trying to impress" housekeeper Mrs Doyle.
Groundling Marsh (1995 - 1997) - This show wasn't far from being in the heavy-populated area. They look small from human standards, but they learn all about enviromental harmony through the wisest character, Eco, who has the ability to talk to nature. She's a great gardener and wise storyteller. Other characters are unforgettable...
NBA SHOWTIME ON NBC (1990 - 2002) - this was probably THE BEST pregame basketball show followed by theplay by play commentary especially in the 90s when the jordan and the bulls were rulingwho could forget that unforgettable dope beat and the all satr cast of commentators like hannah storm,steve(snapper)jones,bill walton,and ahmad ras...
Don't Forget the Lyrics! (2007 - 2011) - Hosted by Wayne Brady a single contestant must sing onscreen lyrics to popular songs live but must keep singing remembering the lyrics themselves when the music and words stop. Contestants sang 10 songs for $1,000,000.
The Little Rascals(1994) - Spanky and the members of the He-Man Woman Haters Club find out that Alfalfa has been courting Darla. After a trial they sentence him to forget about her and other girls forever. Alfalfa is having trouble with his punishment, partularly since the new rich kid is moving in on his territory, and he wo...
Sixteen Candles(1984) - Samantha's life is going downhill fast. The fifteen-year-old has a crush on the most popular boy in school, and the geekiest boy in school has a crush on her. Her sister's getting married, and with all the excitement the rest of her family forgets her birthday! Add all this to a pair of horrendously...
Child's Play 2(1990) - Chucky is back, and this time, it's Andy he wants! Despite being roasted to a crisp in his last escapade, Chucky rises from the ashes after being reconstructed by the toy company, who are wanting to forget the negative publicity surrounding the doll. Chucky, back in one piece, traces Andy to a foste...
Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday(1993) - It's 1993. The world has changed. But apparently The Blind Melons, Spin Doctors and the Wacko in Waco still haven't changed the world enough to make it forget about Jaso
Tommy(1975) - Tommy is blind, deaf and dumb, but there is nothing wrong with him. As a small child, he accidentally witnessed the murder of his father by his stepfather. His mother and stepfather told him to forget everything he had seen and heard, and to never talk about it; but Tommy carried it to the extreme,...
The Jungle Book(1967) - The Jungle Book follows the ups and downs of the man-cub Mowgli as he makes his way back to the human village with wise panther Bagheera to escape ruthless tiger Shere Khan. Along the way, he meets unforgettable friends and foes including mad King Louie of the Apes, the hypnotic snake Kaa, and the l...
Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle for Earth(1992) - Basically a crewed remake of 1961's "Mothra" with Godzilla and Battra thrown into the mix, this movie is a rather forgettable kaiju film. That doesn't mean it isn't good, however.
Creator(1985) - Dr. Harry Wolper (Peter O'Toole) is an eccentric scientist who can't forget the wife he lost to childbirth 30 years ago. To assuage his heartache, he decides to clone his dead wife. Little does Wolper realize, however, that true love may be staring him in the face -- in the form of his lab assistant...
Divine Madness(1980) - Self-defined diva Bette Midler performs her take on comedy and perverse pop music in this unforgettable concert performance, filmed live at Pasadena's Civic Auditorium. Rotating between comic monologues and energetic musical numbers, DIVINE MADNESS proves why Midler has such a dedicated legion of fa...
Finding Dory(2016) - In the sequel to the movie that was once the single best-selling animated film of all time the friendly-but-forgetful blue tang decides to leave the Great Barrier Reef to find her long-lost family, but things take a turn for the worst when Dory is kidnapped and sent to an aquarium in Los Angeles. Br...
One Fine Day(1996) - Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one morning when overwhelmed Jack is left unexpectedly with Maggie and forgets that Melanie was to take her to school. As a result, both children miss their sch...
High Heels and Low Lifes(2001) - In this broad comedy from sometime comic actor Mel Smith, two women find themselves fleeing criminals. Minnie Driver stars as Shannon, a London nurse who finds her boyfriend Ray, a "sound sculptor", becoming increasingly dull and inattentive. When he forgets her birthday, she decides to hit the town...
Godzilla(2014) - The king of all monsters returns in this Warner Bros./Legendary Pictures production helmed by Gareth Edwards. As the story opens in Japan, we find dedicated nuclear power-plant manager Joe Brody so caught up in his work that he forgets it's his birthday. Sending his young son Ford off to school befo...
Pat And Mike(1952) - Pat's a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiance is around. The lady's golf championship is in her reach until she gets flustered by his presence at the final holes. He wants them to get married and forget the whole thing, but she can't give up on herself that easily. She enlists the he...
A Night in Heaven(1983) - The Florida heat is about to get hotter when community-college professor Faye Hanlon is gets a lesson she herself will never forget...especially when she's stuck with an emotionally depressed husband and a lot of sexual frustration. But when her visiting sister takes her on a girls' night out to a s...
Dude, Where's My Car?(2000) - Dude, Where's My Car? is a 2000 American stoner comedy film directed by Danny Leiner. The film stars Ashton Kutcher and Seann William Scott as two young men who find themselves wasted and forget where they parked thei
The Hangover(2009) - For four men, they vowed that a night in Vegas would be one they would never forget, but somehow they can't remember any of the bachelor party. The next morning, their hotel suite is trashed, one is missing a tooth, a tiger is in their bathroom, and they also found a baby. But what's worse: Doug the...
Melody Time(1948) - In the grand tradition of Disney's greatest musical classics, such as FANTASIA, MELODY TIME features seven classic stories, each enhanced with high-spirited music and unforgettale characters...A feast for the eyes and ears [full of] wit and charm...a delightful Disney classic with something for ever...
50 First Dates(2004) - Henry Roth is a man afraid of commitment up until he meets the beautiful Lucy. They hit it off and Henry think he's finally found the girl of his dreams, until he discovers she has short-term memory loss and forgets him the very next day.
Final Mission(1984) - Vince Deacon, a higly decorated Vietnam War veteran, serves as a SWAT team captain for LAPD. When his family gets attacked by thugs and he kills one of them in self defense he's being suspended by his boss. Deacon and his family decide to spend the weekend camping at a lake to forget about everythin...
Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle(2015) - Curious George goes on an epic adventure to space that crash lands in the jungles of Africa leading to an unforgettable journey with some new animal friends.
Weekend Pass(1984) - Three rookie sailors who have just completed basic training are out on their first weekend pass. As they hit one bar after another, they soon forget everything the Navy ever taught them.
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1268/Aquarian_Age__Saga_II_-_Dont_Forget_Me -- Action, Super Power, Drama
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50 First Dates (2004) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 39min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 13 February 2004 (USA) -- Henry Roth is a man afraid of commitment until he meets the beautiful Lucy. They hit it off and Henry think he's finally found the girl of his dreams until discovering she has short-term memory loss and forgets him the next day. Director: Peter Segal Writer:
Deliverance (1972) ::: 7.7/10 -- R | 1h 49min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 18 August 1972 (USA) -- Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country. Director: John Boorman Writers:
Finding Dory (2016) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG | 1h 37min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 17 June 2016 (USA) -- Friendly but forgetful blue tang Dory begins a search for her long-lost parents, and everyone learns a few things about the real meaning of family along the way. Directors: Andrew Stanton, Angus MacLane (co-director) Writers:
Forget Paris (1995) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 41min | Comedy, Romance | 19 May 1995 (USA) -- Mickey, an NBA referee, meets Ellen, an American airline official, in Paris. It develops into a relationship of ups and downs. Director: Billy Crystal Writers: Billy Crystal, Lowell Ganz | 1 more credit
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) ::: 7.1/10 -- R | 1h 51min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 18 April 2008 (USA) -- Devastated Peter takes a Hawaiian vacation in order to deal with the recent break-up with his TV star girlfriend, Sarah. Little does he know, Sarah's traveling to the same resort as her ex - and she's bringing along her new boyfriend. Director: Nicholas Stoller Writer:
Road to Singapore (1940) ::: 6.8/10 -- Approved | 1h 25min | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 22 March 1940 (USA) -- Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore - until they meet a beautiful dancer. Director: Victor Schertzinger Writers: Don Hartman (screen play), Frank Butler (screen play) | 1 more credit
Shirobako ::: TV-PG | Animation, Comedy, Drama | TV Series (2014- ) Episode Guide 26 episodes Shirobako Poster -- Aoi will never forget how she felt the day her high school animation club's labor of love was shown at the cultural festival. The sense of awe and the feeling of accomplishment that came ... S Stars:
Sicilian Vampire (2015) ::: 6.3/10 -- Not Rated | 2h 4min | Crime, Drama, Horror | 10 September 2015 (USA) -- Equal parts Goodfellas (1990) and From Dusk Till Dawn (1996). Reputed mobster Sonny Trafficante was hoping to get away to the family hunting lodge for a little rest and relaxation and create some memories. Instead, what he got was a night he will never forget. Director: Frank D'Angelo Writer: Frank D'Angelo
The Bureau ::: Le Bureau des Lgendes (original tit ::: TV-MA | 52min | Drama | TV Series (2015 ) -- After six years of undercover work in Syria, French intelligence officer Malotru returns home, where he struggles to forget his undercover identity, train a young recruit, and investigate when a colleague disappears in Algeria.
The Flying Deuces (1939) ::: 6.9/10 -- Approved | 1h 9min | Comedy, War | 3 November 1939 (USA) -- Ollie has fallen in love with the innkeeper's daughter in Paris. The only problem - she's very much in love with her husband. To forget her he joins the Foreign Legion with Stan. Bad idea. Director: A. Edward Sutherland Writers: Ralph Spence (original story), Charley Rogers (original story) (as Charles Rogers) | 6 more credits
The Leisure Seeker (2017) ::: 6.7/10 -- R | 1h 52min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 3 January 2018 (France) -- A runaway couple go on an unforgettable journey in the faithful old RV they call "The Leisure Seeker". Director: Paolo Virz Writers: Michael Zadoorian (novel), Stephen Amidon (screenplay) | 3 more
The Woody Woodpecker Show ::: TV-G | 30min | Animation, Comedy, Family | TV Series (19401972) A various of incredible adventures involving a cheerful woodpecker with an unforgettable laugh. Stars: Walter Lantz, Grace Stafford, Daws Butler
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Aku no Hana -- -- Zexcs -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Psychological Drama Romance School Shounen -- Aku no Hana Aku no Hana -- Kasuga Takao is a boy who loves reading books, particularly Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal. A girl at his school, Saeki Nanako, is his muse and his Venus, and he admires her from a distance. One day, he forgets his copy of Les Fleurs du Mal in the classroom and runs back alone to pick it up. In the classroom, he finds not only his book, but Saeki's gym uniform. On a mad impulse, he steals it. -- -- Now everyone knows "some pervert" stole Saeki's uniform, and Kasuga is dying with shame and guilt. Furthermore, the weird, creepy, and friendless girl of the class, Nakamura, saw him take the uniform. Instead of revealing it was him, she recognizes his kindred deviant spirit and uses her knowledge to take control of his life. Will it be possible for Kasuga to get closer to Saeki, despite Nakamura's meddling and his dark secret? What exactly does Nakamura intend to do with him? -- -- (Source: MangaHelpers) -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- TV - Apr 5, 2013 -- 168,662 7.16
Aku no Hana -- -- Zexcs -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Psychological Drama Romance School Shounen -- Aku no Hana Aku no Hana -- Kasuga Takao is a boy who loves reading books, particularly Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal. A girl at his school, Saeki Nanako, is his muse and his Venus, and he admires her from a distance. One day, he forgets his copy of Les Fleurs du Mal in the classroom and runs back alone to pick it up. In the classroom, he finds not only his book, but Saeki's gym uniform. On a mad impulse, he steals it. -- -- Now everyone knows "some pervert" stole Saeki's uniform, and Kasuga is dying with shame and guilt. Furthermore, the weird, creepy, and friendless girl of the class, Nakamura, saw him take the uniform. Instead of revealing it was him, she recognizes his kindred deviant spirit and uses her knowledge to take control of his life. Will it be possible for Kasuga to get closer to Saeki, despite Nakamura's meddling and his dark secret? What exactly does Nakamura intend to do with him? -- -- (Source: MangaHelpers) -- TV - Apr 5, 2013 -- 168,662 7.16
Animegataris -- -- WAO World -- 12 eps -- Original -- Comedy Parody School -- Animegataris Animegataris -- After dreaming about an anime she used to watch as a child, Minoa Asagaya could not forget a particularly memorable scene. However, despite her best efforts, she cannot recall the name of the show. Due to this, Minoa asks for help from her fellow classmates at Sakaneko High School. Her conversation is overheard by Arisu Kamiigusa, the most popular and wealthy girl in class who is also a hardcore otaku. Yet even with her vast knowledge, Arisu does not recognize the show. -- -- After discovering that there isn't an anime club at their school, Minoa and Arisu create the Anime Research Club, as they may obtain the answer to Minoa's mystery if they gather people who share the same interest. Thus, Minoa is exposed to a bizarre new world—the world of anime! -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 62,728 6.40
Aria the Natural -- -- Hal Film Maker -- 26 eps -- Manga -- Sci-Fi Slice of Life Fantasy Shounen -- Aria the Natural Aria the Natural -- Akari Mizunashi continues her training to become a Prima Undine (a professional tour guide gondolier) along with her friends Aika and Alice in the peaceful city of Neo Venezia. Despite the fact that these three girls are from competing companies, they are constantly together, learning more about how to become better tour guides and more about the mysteries of Neo Venezia. -- -- As the group continues to meet interesting and unforgettable people through their daily routines, they will also come closer to the secrets that make the enigmatic and ever beautiful city of Neo Venezia so warm and alive. -- -- Welcome back to Neo Venezia: the city where miracles can be created by hand. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Nozomi Entertainment -- 65,006 8.19
Battle Royal High School -- -- AIC -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Horror Super Power Demons Supernatural Martial Arts -- Battle Royal High School Battle Royal High School -- Hyoudo Riki is just an ordinary guy who likes to wear a tiger mask while Kung-Fu fighting, which means he fits in real well at BATTLE ROYAL HIGH SCHOOL! -- -- Unfortunately for Riki, he`s the doppleganger in our world of Byoudo, Master of the Dark Realm, and when a dimensional gate opens between the two worlds, the evil Fairy Master tricks Byoudo into making an attempt to conquer our beautiful, and better lit, world. -- -- Now poor Riki is semi-possessed by his opposite number, and the minions of the Fairy Master are mutating his classmates into hideous lustful monsters. To make matters worse, all the inter-dimensional commotion has attracted the attention of a sword-happy exorcist and the heroic Zankan of the Space-Time Police! -- -- Which all means that Riki is about to take one bitch of a mid-term. The course is survival, and forget "Pass/Fail". The test is graded "Live/Die". -- -- Licensor: -- AnimEigo -- OVA - Dec 10, 1987 -- 5,964 5.56
Battle Royal High School -- -- AIC -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Horror Super Power Demons Supernatural Martial Arts -- Battle Royal High School Battle Royal High School -- Hyoudo Riki is just an ordinary guy who likes to wear a tiger mask while Kung-Fu fighting, which means he fits in real well at BATTLE ROYAL HIGH SCHOOL! -- -- Unfortunately for Riki, he`s the doppleganger in our world of Byoudo, Master of the Dark Realm, and when a dimensional gate opens between the two worlds, the evil Fairy Master tricks Byoudo into making an attempt to conquer our beautiful, and better lit, world. -- -- Now poor Riki is semi-possessed by his opposite number, and the minions of the Fairy Master are mutating his classmates into hideous lustful monsters. To make matters worse, all the inter-dimensional commotion has attracted the attention of a sword-happy exorcist and the heroic Zankan of the Space-Time Police! -- -- Which all means that Riki is about to take one bitch of a mid-term. The course is survival, and forget "Pass/Fail". The test is graded "Live/Die". -- OVA - Dec 10, 1987 -- 5,964 5.56
Bleach Movie 3: Fade to Black - Kimi no Na wo Yobu -- -- Studio Pierrot -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Adventure Comedy Super Power Supernatural Shounen -- Bleach Movie 3: Fade to Black - Kimi no Na wo Yobu Bleach Movie 3: Fade to Black - Kimi no Na wo Yobu -- After a mysterious pair attack Rukia Kuchiki and erase her memories while she is in Seireitei, Ichigo Kurosaki, a substitute Soul Reaper, briefly forgets Rukia, until he is reminded of her by Kon, an Underpod Mod-Soul. Confused, he seeks his town's candy-shop owner, Kisuke Urahara, who opens the pathway to Seireitei for them. Ichigo is then shocked to find that his allies in Seireitei, the Shinigami of the Soul Society, have forgotten him. -- -- Filled with action, Kimi no Na wo Yobu follows Ichigo and Kon as they fight against their former comrades while searching for the missing Rukia and discovering her assailants before they strike again. -- -- -- Licensor: -- VIZ Media -- Movie - Dec 13, 2008 -- 189,102 7.51
Bleach Movie 3: Fade to Black - Kimi no Na wo Yobu -- -- Studio Pierrot -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Adventure Comedy Super Power Supernatural Shounen -- Bleach Movie 3: Fade to Black - Kimi no Na wo Yobu Bleach Movie 3: Fade to Black - Kimi no Na wo Yobu -- After a mysterious pair attack Rukia Kuchiki and erase her memories while she is in Seireitei, Ichigo Kurosaki, a substitute Soul Reaper, briefly forgets Rukia, until he is reminded of her by Kon, an Underpod Mod-Soul. Confused, he seeks his town's candy-shop owner, Kisuke Urahara, who opens the pathway to Seireitei for them. Ichigo is then shocked to find that his allies in Seireitei, the Shinigami of the Soul Society, have forgotten him. -- -- Filled with action, Kimi no Na wo Yobu follows Ichigo and Kon as they fight against their former comrades while searching for the missing Rukia and discovering her assailants before they strike again. -- -- Movie - Dec 13, 2008 -- 189,102 7.51
Cannon Busters -- -- Satelight, Yumeta Company -- 12 eps -- Other -- Action Sci-Fi Adventure Fantasy Mecha -- Cannon Busters Cannon Busters -- Follow the adventures and exploits of S.A.M, a high-end, royal-class friendship droid who's joined by a quirky, discarded maintenance robot and a brash, deadly fugitive. Together, the unlikely trio embarks on an unforgettable journey in a fantastic and dangerous world in search of S.A.M's best friend, the heir to a powerful kingdom under siege. -- -- (Source: Official Website) -- ONA - Aug 15, 2019 -- 27,533 6.47
Chrome Shelled Regios -- -- Zexcs -- 24 eps -- Light novel -- Action Adventure Fantasy School Sci-Fi -- Chrome Shelled Regios Chrome Shelled Regios -- In a post-apocalyptic world overrun with mutated beasts called Limbeekoon or Filth Monsters, humanity is forced to live in large mobile cities called Regios and learn to use special weapons called Dite, by harnessing the power of Kei to defend themselves. In the Academy City of Zuellni, Layfon Alseif is hoping to start a new life and forget his past. However, his past has caught the attention of Karian Loss, the manipulative Student Council President and Nina Antalk, a Military Arts student and Captain of the 17th Military Arts Platoon, who instantly recognizes his abilities and decides he’s the perfect candidate to join her group. However, with a secret past that won’t leave him alone and unknown powers beyond normal, Layfon just might not take it. -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- TV - Jan 11, 2009 -- 182,565 7.34
Crayon Shin-chan -- -- Shin-Ei Animation -- ? eps -- Manga -- Slice of Life Comedy Ecchi School Seinen -- Crayon Shin-chan Crayon Shin-chan -- There is no such thing as an uneventful day in the life of kindergartener Shinnosuke "Shin-chan" Nohara. The five-year-old is a cut above the most troublesome, perverted, and shameless kid one can imagine. Shin-chan is almost always engaged in questionable activities such as forgetting about a friend during hide and seek, sumo wrestling for love, performing various gags including the notorious "elephant" in public, and flirting with college girls. The exemplary troublemaker has done it all and has no plans to stop anytime soon. -- -- Crayon Shin-chan follows the daily shenanigans of Shin-chan with his group of friends, parading around as the self-proclaimed "Kasukabe Defense Force." The adults witnessing these shenanigans unfold can't help but adore Shin-chan, as he keeps them entertained while unintentionally solving their daily troubles through his mindless antics—leaving himself as the only problem they do not know what to do with. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 60,098 7.69
Crystal Blaze -- -- - -- 12 eps -- Original -- Action Sci-Fi -- Crystal Blaze Crystal Blaze -- Rags Town is the garbage dump of Japan. The place where people who want to forget their pasts run to. In this town, where the rules strictly forbid asking about the past or getting to know people, there is small detective agency called S&A Detectives. -- -- The story revolves around Ayamana, the inseparable pair of misfit wannabe detectives, the case Manami takes on impulse, and the trouble that arises from it. On the case they find a woman who is abnormally hot, and who is being chased by a bunch of women with guns. After being dubbed Sara, the detectives try and figure out just what is going on with her. At the same time, all over town teenage girls are burning up and turning into glass. The government is covering everything up, but the detectives, as well as a nosy reporter and the local police, are determined to find out what is happening. -- -- Licensor: -- Maiden Japan -- 15,411 6.15
Eikoku Koi Monogatari Emma: Molders-hen -- -- Ajia-Do -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Slice of Life Romance Historical Drama Seinen -- Eikoku Koi Monogatari Emma: Molders-hen Eikoku Koi Monogatari Emma: Molders-hen -- In the faraway village of Haworth, a new chapter in Emma's life has begun. Now employed by the wealthy Molders family, Emma has resolved to put the past behind her. She'll have to adjust to a new house, a charming (but eccentric) new mistress, and a host of fellow servants, some with buried pasts of their own. -- -- Meanwhile, back in London, William is doing his best to uphold his father's wishes as the Jones family heir, but try as he might, he can't forget Emma. Yet, whenever he feels at his worst, Eleanor is always there to comfort him with a warm, shy smile. Could the answer to his broken heart be right before his eyes? -- -- (Source: RightStuf) -- -- Licensor: -- Nozomi Entertainment -- TV - Apr 17, 2007 -- 21,300 7.86
Genei wo Kakeru Taiyou -- -- AIC -- 13 eps -- Original -- Magic -- Genei wo Kakeru Taiyou Genei wo Kakeru Taiyou -- Akari Taiyou is an apprentice fortune teller living with her aunt, uncle, and their daughter Fuyuna. Having lost her mother at a young age, the only thing Akari has left of her is a deck of tarot cards and a dream to follow in her footsteps as a fortune teller. -- -- One night, Akari has a dream of being attacked by a plant monster and witnesses a stronger version of herself defeat it. When she awakens, she discovers to her horror that the monster was actually Fuyuna. But mysteriously, Akari and her relatives soon forget Fuyuna ever existed. After another close encounter with a similar monster, she is rescued by three magical girls: Ginka Shirokane, Seira Hoshikawa, and Luna Tsukuyomi. They explain that they are from the Sefiro Fiore organization, which uses Elemental Tarot power to fight the evil creatures known as "Daemonia." -- -- Akari discovers she too is a magical girl and has inherited her mother's power of The Sun card. However, she comes to realize Daemonia are actually people who have been possessed, and she must decide whether to try to save what is left of their humanity or to wipe them from existence. As Akari comes to terms with her grim duty of protecting the world from Daemonia, the bonds of the organization and that of their team will soon be strained when they deal with grave threats from the outside and from within. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- 48,475 6.42
Glasslip -- -- P.A. Works -- 13 eps -- Original -- Romance Slice of Life Supernatural -- Glasslip Glasslip -- What if you hold the power to hear the voices or see fragments of images from the future? Would that be a good thing or a bad thing? Glasslip follows the life of Touko Fukami, an aspiring glass artist born from a glass artisan family. She enjoys her worry-free life in Fukui, save for the fragments of images that she sees on occasion. -- -- On her 18th summer, she meets the transfer student Kakeru Okikura at her school, and then again at her favorite café called Kazemichi together with all four of her friends. The voices from the future lead Kakeru to Touko, and his arrival disrupts her mediocre existence. All six of the friends must face their most unforgettable summer full of hope, affection, and heartache. -- 147,366 5.43
Golden Time -- -- J.C.Staff -- 24 eps -- Light novel -- Comedy Drama Romance -- Golden Time Golden Time -- Due to a tragic accident, Banri Tada is struck with amnesia, dissolving the memories of his hometown and past. However, after befriending Mitsuo Yanagisawa, he decides to move on and begin a new life at law school in Tokyo. But just as he is beginning to adjust to his college life, the beautiful Kouko Kaga dramatically barges into Banri's life, and their chance meeting marks the beginning of an unforgettable year. -- -- After having a glimpse of college life, Banri learns that he is in a new place and a new world—a place where he can be reborn, have new friends, fall in love, make mistakes, and grow. And as he begins to discover who he was, the path he has chosen leads him towards a blindingly bright life that he will never want to forget. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 734,590 7.77
Hanyou no Yashahime: Sengoku Otogizoushi - Ni no Shou -- -- - -- ? eps -- Original -- Action Adventure Comedy Historical Demons Supernatural Magic Fantasy -- Hanyou no Yashahime: Sengoku Otogizoushi - Ni no Shou Hanyou no Yashahime: Sengoku Otogizoushi - Ni no Shou -- Second season of Hanyou no Yashahime: Sengoku Otogizoushi. -- TV - ??? ??, ???? -- 9,028 N/A -- -- Full Moon wo Sagashite: Kawaii Kawaii Daibouken -- -- Studio Deen -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Comedy Fantasy Shoujo Supernatural -- Full Moon wo Sagashite: Kawaii Kawaii Daibouken Full Moon wo Sagashite: Kawaii Kawaii Daibouken -- Mitsuki wakes up late, and must rush to a photo shoot. However, in her hury she forgets to bring Takuto and Meroko along. Now they must catch up to her, before the photo shoot begins, despite everything that gets in their way. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- Special - Nov 1, 2002 -- 8,928 6.72
Hibike! Euphonium: Kakedasu Monaka -- -- Kyoto Animation -- 1 ep -- Novel -- Music Drama School -- Hibike! Euphonium: Kakedasu Monaka Hibike! Euphonium: Kakedasu Monaka -- After the Kitauji High School concert band's auditions for club member participation in the Kyoto Prefectural Concert Band competition, 10 members fail to pass the strict evaluation. Despite being unable to play with the rest of the wind ensemble, the group—who decide to name themselves Team Monaka—is determined to support their peers in any way possible until the day of the competition. -- -- From carrying supplies to creating monaka-shaped good-luck charms, Team Monaka's efforts prove to be pivotal for the unforgettable, bittersweet summer in the concert band's journey toward nationals. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Ponycan USA -- Special - Dec 16, 2015 -- 42,696 7.47
Kamisama Hajimemashita: Kako-hen -- -- TMS Entertainment -- 4 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Demons Supernatural Romance Fantasy Shoujo -- Kamisama Hajimemashita: Kako-hen Kamisama Hajimemashita: Kako-hen -- While playing in the snow one day at her shrine, the land god Nanami Momozono witnesses her familiar—the fox youkai Tomoe—collapse, with dark markings appearing on his body. Tomoe's former master, Lord Mikage, appears after his long absence and places Tomoe into a magical pocket mirror in order to stave off his ailment. -- -- Mikage explains that long ago, before he and Tomoe had met, the fox youkai was in love with a human woman. Seeking to live as a human with his beloved, he made a deal with a fallen god, but he only ended up cursed and dying. When Mikage discovered Tomoe, the god made the youkai forget his human love as a quick solution. However, something has changed recently to reactivate the curse; Tomoe has fallen in love with his new human master, Nanami. Since there is no way to stop the curse, Nanami wants to stop Tomoe from getting cursed in the first place by traveling back through time, even if it means they may never meet. As Nanami travels back hundreds of years to save her precious familiar, she discovers that she is far more closely bonded to Tomoe than she previously thought. -- -- OVA - Aug 20, 2015 -- 121,684 8.37
Karas -- -- Tatsunoko Production -- 6 eps -- Original -- Action Sci-Fi Super Power Fantasy -- Karas Karas -- The world of the humans and the world of the demons (youkai) have overlapped one another, leaving humans to walk the streets of life as they normally would, while demons walk, hidden from the naked eye, down the very same streets. A seemingly young woman named Yurine and her servant, the Karas (from the Japanese word for "Crow"), have long maintained order and balance between the overlapped worlds, ultimately keeping the demons from interrupting the lives of humans. However, humans have come to forget and jest at the existence of demons, and no longer understand the privilege it is to live without fear. Disgusted by this arrogance, an old Karas turns his back on the laws he had once upheld, and in his human form, named Eko, he creates an army of Mikura, or mechanized demons, to ready an attack on the human race. -- -- A young man named Otoha inherits the powers of the Karas and takes his place at the side of Yurine, who claims that his soul called out for her while he lived the life of a human. They live in the world of the demons. It is now up to Otoha to prove himself as a Karas, and restore the balance that Eko threatens to upset. -- -- Meanwhile, a superstitious police officer named Sagisaka and his rational new recruit, Kure, follow the trail of the murders dealt by Eko's Mikura, as well as the trail of a rogue Mikura named Nue. The prophecy unfolds from here into a grave revelation for all in the city. -- -- (Source: Wikipedia) -- -- Licensor: -- Manga Entertainment -- OVA - Mar 25, 2005 -- 58,176 7.41
Kimera -- -- animate Film -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Horror Sci-Fi Shounen Ai Supernatural Vampire -- Kimera Kimera -- Osamu and Jay are two cereal salesmen traveling for work when they encounter a barricade. Curious as to what is going on, they step out of their car and enter into a government secret. Two mysterious demon-like men have been terrorizing the military, who came to respond to a car crash involving a vehicle carrying government research material. Inside the car wreckage, Osamu finds a beautiful hermaphrodite with gold and crimson eyes trapped in a frozen chamber. Osamu shares a kiss with them through the glass before he is forced to flee the scene. -- -- Osamu and Jay interrogate Jay's father, a top researcher at a government laboratory, who reveals that what Osamu and Jay saw was top-secret, and they would likely be sitting in prison if it weren't for his influence. While Jay is ready to forget everything that happened, Osamu cannot let it go that easily. After stealing a security badge, Osamu finds where the person he kissed is being kept, and learns that their name is Kimera. Osamu wants to run away with the beautiful Kimera, though he does not know why Kimera is being held captive or what a relationship with them means for the future of humanity. -- -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films -- OVA - Jul 31, 1996 -- 6,184 5.12
Kimera -- -- animate Film -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Horror Sci-Fi Shounen Ai Supernatural Vampire -- Kimera Kimera -- Osamu and Jay are two cereal salesmen traveling for work when they encounter a barricade. Curious as to what is going on, they step out of their car and enter into a government secret. Two mysterious demon-like men have been terrorizing the military, who came to respond to a car crash involving a vehicle carrying government research material. Inside the car wreckage, Osamu finds a beautiful hermaphrodite with gold and crimson eyes trapped in a frozen chamber. Osamu shares a kiss with them through the glass before he is forced to flee the scene. -- -- Osamu and Jay interrogate Jay's father, a top researcher at a government laboratory, who reveals that what Osamu and Jay saw was top-secret, and they would likely be sitting in prison if it weren't for his influence. While Jay is ready to forget everything that happened, Osamu cannot let it go that easily. After stealing a security badge, Osamu finds where the person he kissed is being kept, and learns that their name is Kimera. Osamu wants to run away with the beautiful Kimera, though he does not know why Kimera is being held captive or what a relationship with them means for the future of humanity. -- -- OVA - Jul 31, 1996 -- 6,184 5.12
Kuuchuu Buranko -- -- Toei Animation -- 11 eps -- Novel -- Comedy Psychological Drama Seinen -- Kuuchuu Buranko Kuuchuu Buranko -- The world of psychology is far from strange to the unusual Dr. Ichirou Irabu, a resident psychiatrist of Irabu General Hospital. He and his charming nurse Mayumi run through several patients, each suffering from a mental illness that harms their everyday life. -- -- Patients should be wary of the seductive Mayumi, with her spellbinding looks and devilishly short pink nurse uniform. On the other hand, the doctor seems to have three separate personalities: a child with an oversized lab coat; an intelligent, youthful man with feminine traits; and a selfish, outgoing green bear. While curing his patients in questionable ways, Dr. Irabu often tries to gain something from them outside of his profession—and in doing so, occasionally forgets his role as a doctor. -- -- As each patient struggles to face the nature of their distress, an obvious yet invisible thread ties their paths together. -- -- 75,563 7.96
Listeners -- -- MAPPA -- 12 eps -- Original -- Action Mecha Music Sci-Fi -- Listeners Listeners -- Set in a world where the concept of music ceases to exist. The story begins when a boy encounters Myuu, a mysterious girl who possesses an audio input jack in her body. The two intermingle with the history of rock music and embark on an unforgettable journey. -- -- (Source: MAL News) -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 51,305 5.37
Magical Suite Prism Nana -- -- Shaft -- 7 eps -- Original -- Magic -- Magical Suite Prism Nana Magical Suite Prism Nana -- In a future not too distant from ours, Nanagoo City is a beautiful city in Japan surrounded by mountains and ocean-sides. The sensitive, adolescent girls who live there are each opening up doors to their own, unique possibilities. No one wants to forget the path they take to adulthood. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- OVA - Nov 29, 2015 -- 8,671 6.14
Monochrome Factor -- -- A.C.G.T. -- 24 eps -- Manga -- Action Shounen Ai Supernatural -- Monochrome Factor Monochrome Factor -- The story revolves around high school student Akira Nikaido, a typical slacker living a normal life. That is, until he meets the mysterious Shirogane, a man who suddenly appears and tells him that they have a destiny together. When Akira hears this, he is shocked and doesn't believe a word of it. Aya, a friend of Akira, forgets something in the school one night, and asks Akira to help her and go find it. He agrees, and while there, he gets attacked by a shadow monster. Shirogane convinces him that the balance between the human world and the shadow world has been distorted and that Akira must become a "shin"- a creature of the shadow world- in order to help restore the balance. The anime has shonen-ai themes which are completely absent from the manga. -- -- (Source: Wikipedia) -- TV - Apr 8, 2008 -- 53,058 6.97
Mon-Soni! D'Artagnan no Idol Sengen -- -- LIDENFILMS -- 5 eps -- Game -- Action Game Music Fantasy -- Mon-Soni! D'Artagnan no Idol Sengen Mon-Soni! D'Artagnan no Idol Sengen -- When D'Artagnan went to Tokyo for a little fun, she spotted an unforgettable sight: Lucifer singing while basking in moonlight in a park. From that moment, no matter if she was asleep or awake, D'Artagnan's heart would not stop throbbing for some reason. -- -- One day, D'Artagnan sees a concert by the popular idol act Angely Diva at her friend Izumo's invitation. There, she resolved to follow her idol dreams, and the story of song and miracles begins. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- ONA - Jun 14, 2017 -- 1,940 5.86
Natsu-iro Kiseki -- -- Sunrise -- 12 eps -- Original -- School Slice of Life Supernatural -- Natsu-iro Kiseki Natsu-iro Kiseki -- Yuka, Rinko, Saki, and Natsumi are childhood friends and classmates nearing the end of their second year of middle school and eagerly awaiting their summer break. Unfortunately, it's a bittersweet time for this close-knit group, as Saki is transferring to another school. -- -- The girls are determined to keep the spirit of their friendship alive, even if only for this summer. They reminisce about a large stone the four of them used to visit, tucked away in an old Shinto shrine, and the belief that if four friends gathered around it and made a single wish, it would come true. Now, much to their surprise, they discover that old folktale is true. -- -- Natsu-iro Kiseki follows the magical events the girls go through during this last summer they’ll all spend together. As friendships get tested, and fantasies are fulfilled, the four classmates will end up learning a great deal about themselves and each other on the path to forging a summer that they’ll never forget. -- 38,381 7.01
Ryuuou no Oshigoto! -- -- Project No.9 -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Comedy Game Slice of Life -- Ryuuou no Oshigoto! Ryuuou no Oshigoto! -- Shogi, a Japanese game similar to chess, is one of the most popular board games in the country, played by everyone from children to the elderly. Some players are talented enough to take the game to a professional level. The title of Ryuuou, meaning "the dragon king," is only awarded to the person who reaches the pinnacle of competitive shogi. -- -- Yaichi Kuzuryuu has just become the youngest Ryuuou after winning the grand championship. However, the shogi community is unwelcoming to his victory, some even calling him the worst Ryuuou in history. Moreover, he forgets about the agreement he made with Ai Hinatsuru, a little girl he promised to coach if he won. After she shows up at his doorstep, he reluctantly agrees to uphold his promise and makes Ai his disciple. -- -- Together, they aim to improve and exceed the limits of their shogi prowess: Ai, to unlock her hidden talents; Yaichi, to prove to the world that he deserves his accomplishments. -- -- 140,877 6.90
Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata ♭ -- -- A-1 Pictures -- 11 eps -- Light novel -- Harem Comedy Romance Ecchi School -- Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata ♭ Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata ♭ -- After finally completing the first route of his visual novel, Blessing Software's producer Tomoya Aki is optimistic about the future of his team and achieving their goal of creating the best game of the season. -- -- However, they still have a long way to go. For one, Megumi Katou still has an incredibly flat personality and is unable to fit the role of Tomoya's ideal heroine. The other members of Blessing Software, Eriri Spencer Sawamura, Utaha Kasumigaoka, and Michiru Hyoudou, often forget she is even there due to her lack of presence and character. -- -- Throughout the development of their game, Blessing Software learns the struggles of working in an industry where deadlines must be met and edits are made constantly, and the hardships of working in a group setting. -- -- 254,378 7.79
Shion no Ou -- -- Studio Deen -- 22 eps -- Manga -- Drama Game Mystery Thriller -- Shion no Ou Shion no Ou -- Shion no Ou follows the story of Yasuoka Shion, a 13-year-old Shougi player with a past of tragedy. Shion's parents were brutally murdered in front of her when she was 5 years old. The murderer sat down with her and challenged her to a game of Shougi, after telling her that if she wanted to stay alive she should forget how to speak, and forget what happened that night. -- -- Now Shion has entered the realm of female pro Kishi, mute but strong. As her playing gathers more and more attention, so do the questions about her past and the brutal murder she witnessed. Shion's memories slowly come back, and the mystery begins to unravel, thread by thread. -- TV - Oct 14, 2007 -- 28,400 7.55
Sora no Method -- -- Studio 3Hz -- 13 eps -- Original -- Drama Fantasy School Slice of Life -- Sora no Method Sora no Method -- A group of friends—Nonoka Komiya, Koharu Shiihara, Shione Togawa, and twins Yuzuki and Souta Mizusaka—once attempted to summon a flying saucer to grant their wishes. After thinking that they failed, they called it a day. However, soon afterward, Nonoka abruptly moved out of Kiriya City, breaking the bond of their circle. Little did the group know, they were successful and the saucer has been floating in the sky since then, waiting to fulfill its purpose. -- -- Seven years later, Nonoka returns to Kiriya, all but forgetting everything regarding her life there. She meets Noel, a little girl wearing strange clothes, and through her, Nonoka begins to remember the past and the friends she left behind. From there, she strives to reforge her severed relationship with the others as she uncovers the mysteries connecting Noel, the saucer, and the wishes they once cherished together. -- -- 91,491 6.76
Sora no Method -- -- Studio 3Hz -- 13 eps -- Original -- Drama Fantasy School Slice of Life -- Sora no Method Sora no Method -- A group of friends—Nonoka Komiya, Koharu Shiihara, Shione Togawa, and twins Yuzuki and Souta Mizusaka—once attempted to summon a flying saucer to grant their wishes. After thinking that they failed, they called it a day. However, soon afterward, Nonoka abruptly moved out of Kiriya City, breaking the bond of their circle. Little did the group know, they were successful and the saucer has been floating in the sky since then, waiting to fulfill its purpose. -- -- Seven years later, Nonoka returns to Kiriya, all but forgetting everything regarding her life there. She meets Noel, a little girl wearing strange clothes, and through her, Nonoka begins to remember the past and the friends she left behind. From there, she strives to reforge her severed relationship with the others as she uncovers the mysteries connecting Noel, the saucer, and the wishes they once cherished together. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 91,491 6.76
Steins;Gate 0 -- -- White Fox -- 23 eps -- Visual novel -- Sci-Fi Psychological Drama Thriller -- Steins;Gate 0 Steins;Gate 0 -- The eccentric, self-proclaimed mad scientist Rintarou Okabe has become a shell of his former self. Depressed and traumatized after failing to rescue his friend Makise Kurisu, he has decided to forsake his mad scientist alter ego and live as an ordinary college student. Surrounded by friends who know little of his time travel experiences, Okabe spends his days trying to forget the horrors of his adventures alone. -- -- While working as a receptionist at a college technology forum, Okabe meets the short, spunky Maho Hiyajo, who -- later turns out to be the interpreter at the forum's presentation, conducted by Professor Alexis Leskinen. In front of a stunned crowd, Alexis and Maho unveil Amadeus—a revolutionary AI capable of storing a person's memories and creating a perfect simulation of that person complete with their personality and quirks. Meeting with Maho and Alexis after the presentation, Okabe learns that the two were Kurisu's colleagues in university, and that they have simulated her in Amadeus. Hired by Alexis to research the simulation's behavior, Okabe is given the chance to interact with the shadow of a long-lost dear friend. Dangerously tangled in the past, Okabe must face the harsh reality and carefully maneuver around the disastrous consequences that come with disturbing the natural flow of time. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 622,458 8.51
Wonder Egg Priority -- -- CloverWorks -- 12 eps -- Original -- Drama Fantasy Psychological -- Wonder Egg Priority Wonder Egg Priority -- Following the suicide of her best and only friend, Koito Nagase, Ai Ooto is left grappling with her new reality. With nothing left to live for, she follows the instructions of a mysterious entity and gets roped into purchasing an egg, or specifically, a Wonder Egg. -- -- Upon breaking the egg in a world that materializes during her sleep, Ai is tasked with saving people from the adversities that come their way. In doing so, she believes that she has moved one step closer to saving her best friend. With this dangerous yet tempting opportunity in the palms of her hands, Ai enters a place where she must recognize the relationship between other people's demons and her own. -- -- As past trauma, unforgettable regrets, and innate fears hatch in the bizarre world of Wonder Egg Priority, a young girl discovers the different inner struggles tormenting humankind and rescues them from their worst fears. -- -- 391,294 8.17
Wonder Egg Priority -- -- CloverWorks -- 12 eps -- Original -- Drama Fantasy Psychological -- Wonder Egg Priority Wonder Egg Priority -- Following the suicide of her best and only friend, Koito Nagase, Ai Ooto is left grappling with her new reality. With nothing left to live for, she follows the instructions of a mysterious entity and gets roped into purchasing an egg, or specifically, a Wonder Egg. -- -- Upon breaking the egg in a world that materializes during her sleep, Ai is tasked with saving people from the adversities that come their way. In doing so, she believes that she has moved one step closer to saving her best friend. With this dangerous yet tempting opportunity in the palms of her hands, Ai enters a place where she must recognize the relationship between other people's demons and her own. -- -- As past trauma, unforgettable regrets, and innate fears hatch in the bizarre world of Wonder Egg Priority, a young girl discovers the different inner struggles tormenting humankind and rescues them from their worst fears. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 391,294 8.17
W: Wish -- -- Picture Magic, Trinet Entertainment -- 13 eps -- Visual novel -- Drama Harem Romance School Slice of Life -- W: Wish W: Wish -- Based on a game by Princess Soft -- -- The main character, Junna has a twin sister Senna. He is an ordinal student of an elite school. However, in the past, a traffic accident deprived him of his parents and his memory. Junna survived the accident, and he has lived only with his sister though he has been looked after by his relatives. -- -- And present... -- The life with Senna in the same high school is so pleasant that he can forget the severe past. Because he has been in the world where there is only Senna, his lives in this town, such as the beginning of a new life, new environments, and the meetings, are so refreshing. -- -- However, he begins to recall the memories he lost in the accident. Though he enjoys happy and pleasant days, he is tossed by the past, the present, and the future. What is the truth hidden in his memory? -- -- (Source: AniDB) -- TV - Oct 3, 2004 -- 13,847 6.18
Yuri Kuma Arashi -- -- SILVER LINK. -- 12 eps -- Original -- Psychological Drama Fantasy School Seinen Shoujo Ai -- Yuri Kuma Arashi Yuri Kuma Arashi -- In the past, humanoid bears coexisted with humans. However, a meteor shower that fell onto Earth had a strange effect on bears throughout the world: they suddenly became violent and hungry for human flesh, spurring an endless cycle of bloodshed in which bear ate man and man shot bear, forgetting the lively relationship they once had. The "Wall of Severance" was thus built, separating the two civilizations and keeping peace. -- -- Kureha Tsubaki and Sumika Izumino are two lovers attending Arashigaoka Academy, who, upon the arrival of two bears that have sneaked through the Wall of Severance and infiltrated the academy, find their relationship under a grave threat. The hungering yet affectionate bears, Ginko Yurishiro and Lulu Yurigasaki, seem to see the bear-hating Kureha as more than just another meal, and in getting closer to her, trigger an unraveling of secrets that Kureha may not be able to bear. -- -- When their relationships provoke the Invisible Storm, a group that keeps order within the ideological school, the girls must stand on trial with their love, embarking on a journey of self-discovery en route to attaining true love's "promised kiss." -- -- 86,301 7.07
Yuri Kuma Arashi -- -- SILVER LINK. -- 12 eps -- Original -- Psychological Drama Fantasy School Seinen Shoujo Ai -- Yuri Kuma Arashi Yuri Kuma Arashi -- In the past, humanoid bears coexisted with humans. However, a meteor shower that fell onto Earth had a strange effect on bears throughout the world: they suddenly became violent and hungry for human flesh, spurring an endless cycle of bloodshed in which bear ate man and man shot bear, forgetting the lively relationship they once had. The "Wall of Severance" was thus built, separating the two civilizations and keeping peace. -- -- Kureha Tsubaki and Sumika Izumino are two lovers attending Arashigaoka Academy, who, upon the arrival of two bears that have sneaked through the Wall of Severance and infiltrated the academy, find their relationship under a grave threat. The hungering yet affectionate bears, Ginko Yurishiro and Lulu Yurigasaki, seem to see the bear-hating Kureha as more than just another meal, and in getting closer to her, trigger an unraveling of secrets that Kureha may not be able to bear. -- -- When their relationships provoke the Invisible Storm, a group that keeps order within the ideological school, the girls must stand on trial with their love, embarking on a journey of self-discovery en route to attaining true love's "promised kiss." -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 86,301 7.07
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