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Interior angles – Angles formed inside the shape or inside two parallel lines.
Interior Gateway Protocol ::: (IGP) An Internet protocol which distributes routing information to the routers within an autonomous system. The term gateway is historical, router is currently the preferred term.See also Exterior Gateway Protocol, Open Shortest Path First, Routing Information Protocol. (1994-11-09)
Interior Gateway Protocol "networking" (IGP) An {Internet} {protocol} which distributes {routing} information to the {routers} within an {autonomous system}. The term "{gateway}" is historical, "router" is currently the preferred term. See also {Exterior Gateway Protocol}, {Open Shortest Path First}, {Routing Information Protocol}. (1994-11-09)
interior ::: a. --> Being within any limits, inclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner; -- opposed to exterior, or superficial; as, the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball.
Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland; as, the interior parts of a region or country. ::: n.
interior ::: adj. 1. Of or relating to one"s mental or spiritual being. 2. Of or pertaining to that which is within; inside. n. 3. The internal portion or area of anything. interiors.
interior angle The amount of rotation, centring on the vertex, of one edge of a polygon in order to coincide with an adjacent edge, through only the interior of the polygon.
interiority ::: n. --> State of being interior.
interiorly ::: adv. --> Internally; inwardly.
interior monologue: Where the author depicts the interior thoughts of a single individual, in the exact order these thoughts occur inside that character's head. The author does not attempt to provide any, or much, commentary, description, or guiding discussion to help the reader untangle the complex web of thoughts. Often the results include grammatical mistakes and illogical order. See stream of consciousness.
interior The points within the bounded section of a geometric figure.
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aisle ::: a longitudinal division of an interior area, as in a church, separated from the main area by an arcade or divided by a row of pillars. aisles.
alternate angles: Angles which are essentially vertically opposite angles, while not sharing the same vertex, if we identify as the same the two intersections between a pair of parallel lines and another line. The more common form cited are more specifically known as interior alternate angles, alternate angles which are both inside of the pair of parallel lines, coloquially known as "Z-angles" (not an accepted term in most examinations). The other form are called exterior alternate angles accordingly, being both outside of the pair of parallel lines.
Amarapura NikAya. One of three major monastic fraternities (NIKAYA) within the modern Sinhalese THERAVADA sangha (S. SAMGHA), the others being the majority SIYAM NIKAYA and the RAMANNA NIKAYA. The Amarapura NikAya was founded in the early nineteenth century in opposition to the Siyam NikAya's policy of restricting higher ordination (UPASAMPADA) to the highest Goyigama caste. The Goyigama was concentrated in the interior highlands of Sri Lanka, which were governed by the Kandyan king. The lower castes-comprised of toddy tappers and cinnamon pickers, who formed the majority population in the British controlled coastal lowlands-were at most given lower ordination (PRAVRAJYA) as novices (sRAMAnERA). In protest, five low-caste Sinhalese novices journeyed to the Burmese capital of Amarapura in 1800 to receive higher ordination from the Burmese patriarch, NAnabhivaMsa. In 1803, they were ordained as monks (BHIKsU) and, together with three Burmese elders (P. thera), returned to Sri Lanka to establish the reformist Amarapura NikAya. The Amarapura NikAya takes as its charter the KALYAnĪ INSCRIPTIONS of the Mon king Dhammazedi erected at Pegu in 1479, a recension of which it preserves in its monasteries as the KalyAnipakarana. Following its establishment, the Amarapura NikAya itself divided along caste lines into numerous subgroups, each group maintaining its own lineage of teachers that are traced back to the original founders of the Amarapura NikAya. Continued sectarianism, along with doctrinal disagreements over the role of meditation, led to the formation of another reformist monastic order with Burmese roots, the RAmaNNa NikAya, in 1862.
amblyopy ::: n. --> Weakness of sight, without and opacity of the cornea, or of the interior of the eye; the first degree of amaurosis.
Ananda Temple. A monumental THERAVADA Buddhist monastery located outside the Tharba Gate in the medieval Burmese capital of Pagan. The Ananda was built around 1105 by King Kyanzittha (r. 1084-1111), third monarch of the Pagan empire, and is dedicated to the four buddhas who have appeared during the present auspicious age: Krakucchanda (P. Kakusandha), Kanakamuni (P. KonAgamana), KAsYAPA, and GAUTAMA. In architectural style, the Ananda represents a fusion of Bengali, Burmese, and Pyu (precursors of the ethnic Burmans) elements. Legend states that eight ARHATs from Mount Gandhamadana in India visited King Kyanzittha, and he was so impressed that he constructed a monastery for them, and next to it founded the Ananda. Like all temples and pagodas of the city of Pagan, the Ananda is built of fired brick and faced with stucco. It is cruciform in plan following a Pyu prototype and crowned with a North Indian style tower, or sikhara. Its interior consists of two circumambulatory halls pierced by windows that allow a limited amount of light into the interior. The hallways are decorated with terracotta plaques depicting episodes from the PAli JATAKAs, the MahAnipAta, and NIDANAKATHA. The inner hall contains niches housing numerous seated images of the Buddha that are rendered in a distinctive Pala style. The temple is entered from four entrances facing the four cardinal directions, which lead directly to four large inner chambers, each containing a colossal standing statue of a buddha. Two of the statues are original; a third was rebuilt in the eighteenth century; and the fourth has been repaired. Three of the statues are flanked by smaller images of their chief disciples. The exception is the statue of Gautama Buddha, located in the western chamber, which is flanked by what is believed to be portrait statues of King Kyanzitha and SHIN ARAHAN, the Mon monk said to have converted Pagan to TheravAda Buddhism, who was also Kyanzittha's preceptor.
angoumois moth ::: --> A small moth (Gelechia cerealella) which is very destructive to wheat and other grain. The larva eats out the interior of the grain, leaving only the shell.
Antahkarana (Sanskrit) Antaḥkaraṇa [from antar interior, within + karaṇa sense organ] Interior organ or instrument; defined variously as the seat of thought and feeling, the thinking faculty, the heart, mind, soul, and conscience. In Vedanta philosophy, it is looked upon as a fourfold inner instrument or intermediary between spirit and body, with mind being the go-between or bridge. One could say that there are several antahkaranas in the human septenary constitution: one for every path or bridge between any two monadic centers. Man is a unity in diversity, and the antahkaranas are the links of vibrating consciousness-substance uniting these various centers (cf OG 5). Blavatsky describes it as “the path that lies between thy Spirit and thy self, the highway of sensations, the rude arousers of Ahankara” (the sense of egoity); and that when the two have merged into the One and the personal sacrificed to self impersonal, then the antahkarana vanishes because no longer useful as a functioning bridge between the two. Further, the antahkarana is “the lower Manas, the Path of communication or communion between the personality and the higher Manas or human Soul. At death it is destroyed as a Path or medium of communication, and its remains survive in a form as the Kamarupa — the ‘shell’ ” (VS 56, 88-9).
antara. ::: internal; interior; inside
Antarakasa (Sanskrit) Antarākāśa [from antar within, in the middle + ākāśa space, ether from ā-kāś to shine, be brilliant] The akasa of akasa, the essence of akasa; interior or inner aether. The spiritual-divine aether or pradhana which is the seat of the primordial atman, on the cosmic scale or as applicable to an individual entity. “Now what is within the brahmapura (city of brahman) is an abode, a small lotus-flower; within it is a small space (antarakasa). What is within that, should be searched out; that, assuredly, is what one should desire to understand” (ChU 8:1:1).
Antaratman (Sanskrit) Antarātman [from antar interior, within + ātman self] Interior self; the inner self or primeval heart of an individual. The goal of the yogi is ultimate union with the antaratman.
Antariksha, Antariksha (Sanskrit) Antarīkṣa, Antarikṣa [from antar within, interior + īkṣa from the verbal root īkṣ to behold, see] The mid-region; the firmament or space between earth and heaven, the abode of apsaras (nymphs), gandharvas (celestial musicians), and yakshas (nature sprites of many types) along with the mythical wish-granting cow of plenty, Kamadhenu. In the Vedas, antariksha is the middle or second of three lokas (spheres) usually enumerated as bhur, bhuvar, and svar. Above these rise in serial order the four higher lokas of the ordinary Brahmanical hierarchy. Hierarchically, taking the bhurloka as the physical sphere, bhuvarloka or antariksha corresponds with the astral plane. In the Vishnu-Purana (3:3), Antariksha is named as the Vyasa (arranger of the Veda) in the 13th dvapara yuga in the Vaivasvata manvantara, our present world cycle.
Antaryoga (Sanskrit) Antaryoga [from antar interior, within + yoga union from the verbal root yuj to join, unite] Interior union; a state of deep thought or abstraction signifying that high stage of inner spiritual and intellectual recollection in which all the superior part of a person’s constitution is gathered together and focused as it were into a single point of consciousness. It is involved in the attaining of the higher states of consciousness such as turiya-samadhi.
Antaskarana(Sanskrit) ::: Perhaps better spelled as antahkarana. A compound word: antar, "interior," "within"; karana,sense organ. Occultists explain this word as the bridge between the higher and lower manas or betweenthe spiritual ego and personal soul of man. Such is H. P. Blavatsky's definition. As a matter of fact thereare several antahkaranas in the human septenary constitution -- one for every path or bridge between anytwo of the several monadic centers in man. Man is a microcosm, therefore a unified composite, a unity indiversity; and the antahkaranas are the links of vibrating consciousness-substance uniting these variouscenters.
antechamber ::: n. --> A chamber or apartment before the chief apartment and leading into it, in which persons wait for audience; an outer chamber. See Lobby.
A space viewed as the outer chamber or the entrance to an interior part.
A polygon can be classified as equilateral (all sides are of the same length), equiangular (all angles are the same), regular (both equiangular and equiangular) or none of the above. It can also be independently classified into convex (all interior angles are less tha 180°) or concave (at least one angle is reflex - more than 180°).
asrār (plural of sirr): secrets, mysteries, something concealed; secret thoughts, innermost thoughts, or, as E. W. Lane variously put it: private knowledge; something inserted in the interior; a pleasure, or delight, and dilation of the heart, of which there is no external sign.
As the emblem in ancient symbolic art, representative of the soaring power of the human spirit-soul within, and from this fundamental idea the emblem has been applied to derivative symbolic ideas, such as the flight of the inner self into interior worlds during the trials of initiation, or the soaring intelligence of the initiate penetrating into the mysteries and secrets of interior worlds.
A symbolic crucifixion takes place in every incarnating divinity when it takes up terrestrial life. The myth of crucifixion symbolically has therefore become by custom significant of world saviors in general, as signifying those who lay down the personal life in order to arise a regenerated and impersonal savior. While the crucifixion mythos has become the central emblem of Christianity, the general idea of crucifixion as a symbol of regeneration is connected with many religious systems. Certainly Paul uses the word in the mystic and symbolic sense, as taking place interiorly in the individual, rather than referring to the story of Jesus’ crucifixion. See also CROSS.
Autonomous System "networking, routing" (AS) A collection of {routers} under a single administrative authority, using a common {Interior Gateway Protocol} for routing {packets}. (2001-09-16)
Autonomous System ::: (networking, routing) (AS) A collection of routers under a single administrative authority, using a common Interior Gateway Protocol for routing packets.(2001-09-16)
avicula ::: n. --> A genus of marine bivalves, having a pearly interior, allied to the pearl oyster; -- so called from a supposed resemblance of the typical species to a bird.
backboard ::: n. --> A board which supports the back wen one is sitting;
A board serving as the back part of anything, as of a wagon.
A thin stuff used for the backs of framed pictures, mirrors, etc.
A board attached to the rim of a water wheel to prevent the water from running off the floats or paddies into the interior of the wheel.
ball In mathematics, a ball refers to the collection of all points within a fixed distance of a fixed point. It differs from a sphere in that a ball include all points in the interior (so that the distance between the points and the fixed point - the centre - can be anything less than or equal to a certain value) while a sphere includes only points on the "surface" (so that the distance between the points and the fixed point - the centre - can only be exactly the same as the given value.)
beakiron ::: n. --> A bickern; a bench anvil with a long beak, adapted to reach the interior surface of sheet metal ware; the horn of an anvil.
belly ::: 1. The stomach. 2. The inside or interior cavity of something.
ben ::: --> Alt. of Ben nut
An old form of the pl. indic. pr. of Be. ::: adv. & prep. --> Within; in; in or into the interior; toward the inner apartment.
BhAjA. One of the earliest and best-preserved Buddhist cave temples in western India, located around 150 miles south of Mumbai (Bombay). According to the paleography of the inscriptions on site and the stylistic features of the monuments, the site seems to have been excavated around 100-70 BCE. Early Buddhist rock-cut cave temples like BhAjA, AJAntA, and KARLI were located along ancient trade routes, especially those connecting ports with inland towns. The architecture of these temples generally included one worship hall (CAITYA) containing a STuPA with an ambulatory that enabled circumambulation (PRADAKsInA), as well as numerous other cells that comprised the living quarters for the monks (VIHARA). At BhAjA, a large caitya hall dominates the site, featuring stylistic characteristics typical of this early phase of Buddhist architecture: a simple apsidal plan, divided into a nave and side aisles, crowned by a tunnel vault; the imitation of wooden prototypes in the detailing of the surface and the almost complete absence of sculptural decoration in the interior (though paintings may have once adorned the walls). The caitya hall is accompanied by seventeen further caves, which supposedly once housed a community of Buddhist nuns.
Interior angles – Angles formed inside the shape or inside two parallel lines.
Interior Gateway Protocol ::: (IGP) An Internet protocol which distributes routing information to the routers within an autonomous system. The term gateway is historical, router is currently the preferred term.See also Exterior Gateway Protocol, Open Shortest Path First, Routing Information Protocol. (1994-11-09)
Interior Gateway Protocol "networking" (IGP) An {Internet} {protocol} which distributes {routing} information to the {routers} within an {autonomous system}. The term "{gateway}" is historical, "router" is currently the preferred term. See also {Exterior Gateway Protocol}, {Open Shortest Path First}, {Routing Information Protocol}. (1994-11-09)
Blavatsky looks upon the apsarasas as “both qualities and quantities” (SD 2:585) and also as “ ‘sleep-producing’ aquatic plants, and interior forces of nature” (TG 28).
boat shell ::: --> A marine gastropod of the genus Crepidula. The species are numerous. It is so named from its form and interior deck.
A marine univalve shell of the genus Cymba.
bosom ::: n. --> The breast of a human being; the part, between the arms, to which anything is pressed when embraced by them.
The breast, considered as the seat of the passions, affections, and operations of the mind; consciousness; secret thoughts.
Embrace; loving or affectionate inclosure; fold.
Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior; as, the bosom of the earth.
The part of the dress worn upon the breast; an article, or a
boundary: The exterior of a set. A set which is in the closure (of another set) but not the interior.
bowel ::: n. --> One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural.
Hence, figuratively: The interior part of anything; as, the bowels of the earth.
The seat of pity or kindness. Hence: Tenderness; compassion.
Offspring. ::: v. t.
bowels ::: the interior of something.
breastheight ::: n. --> The interior slope of a fortification, against which the garrison lean in firing.
bridle ::: n. --> The head gear with which a horse is governed and restrained, consisting of a headstall, a bit, and reins, with other appendages.
A restraint; a curb; a check.
The piece in the interior of a gun lock, which holds in place the tumbler, sear, etc.
A span of rope, line, or chain made fast as both ends, so that another rope, line, or chain may be attached to its middle.
calycozoa ::: n. pl. --> A group of acalephs of which Lucernaria is the type. The body is cup-shaped with eight marginal lobes bearing clavate tentacles. An aboral sucker serves for attachment. The interior is divided into four large compartments. See Lucernarida.
cannulated ::: a. --> Hollow; affording a passage through its interior length for wire, thread, etc.; as, a cannulated (suture) needle.
ceiling ::: 1. An upper limit, especially as set by regulation. 2. The upper interior surface of a room.
cerebroscopy ::: n. --> Examination of the brain for the diagnosis of disease; esp., the act or process of diagnosticating the condition of the brain by examination of the interior of the eye (as with an ophthalmoscope).
Chain Used in modern theosophy to designate the visible and invisible globes which form the interior and exterior structure of any celestial body. The kosmos as a whole is a living organism, subdivided into almost innumerable subordinate series of hierarchical units; hence the kosmos is an assemblage of beings of many kinds, each of which is a compound unit, and in order to signify that the elements composing each such unit are linked together as an individual, the word chain is applied to celestial bodies. The teaching is that every celestial body whatever, visible or invisible, forms a unity with companion globes on invisible planes. When referring to the chains of globes forming a solar system, it is customary to call them planetary chains; thus we have the earth-chain, the lunar chain, the Mercury-chain, etc., each consisting of seven such globes on the manifested plane, to which the letters A, B, C, D, E, F, and G are applied.
chatoyant ::: a. --> Having a changeable, varying luster, or color, like that of a changeable silk, or oa a cat&
Chidagnikunda (Sanskrit) Cidagnikuṇḍa [from cit thought, consciousness, spirit + agni fire + kuṇḍa receptacle for fire, hearth, a place in which fire may burn] The interior fire of the spirit or the mystical site in the human constitution in which the fire of spiritual thought burns. The mahatma is said to completely transmute his ahamkara (merely ego-consciousness) and elevate it to spiritual egoic universality in chidagnikunda.
Clairvoyance ::: In its largest sense the word simply means "clear-seeing," insight behind the veils, inner visioning.Genuine clairvoyance is a spiritual faculty and is the ability to see and to see aright; and in seeing toknow that your seeing is truth. This is no psychical faculty. The clairvoyance commonly called thepsychical clairvoyance is very deceptive, because it is a mere moonlight reflection so to speak, and thismoonlight reflection is uncertain, deceiving, and illusory. Genuine spiritual clairvoyance, of which thepsychical clairvoyance so called is but a feeble ray, will enable one to see what passes at immensedistances. You can sit in your armchair and see, with eyes closed, all that you care to see, however faraway. This can be done not only in this exterior world, but one can penetrate into the interior andinvisible worlds with this spiritual vision, and thus know what is going on in the worlds spiritual andethereal. This vision is not physical vision, nor that which, on the astral plane, manifests itself aspsychical clairvoyance; but true vision is spiritual clairvoyance -- seeing through the inner spiritual eye.
concave: A geometric figure where it is possible to form a line between 2 points in the figure where the line consists of points not from the figure. For a plane figure, it is equivalent to a shape having an interior angle of greater than 180 degrees.
concave ::: a. --> Hollow and curved or rounded; vaulted; -- said of the interior of a curved surface or line, as of the curve of the of the inner surface of an eggshell, in opposition to convex; as, a concave mirror; the concave arch of the sky.
Hollow; void of contents. ::: n.
cone: A 3-dimensional geometric figure consisting of all points on line segments that joins any points in a circle (including the interior) to another point not lying on the same plane as the circle.
cornea ::: n. --> The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
corticated ::: a. --> Having a special outer covering of a nature unlike the interior part.
cultural anthropology ::: Traditionally refers to the study of cultural similarities and differences. In Integral Theory, it is exemplified in the study of worldviews and their patterns and regularities, as conducted by researchers as diverse as Jean Gebser and Michel Foucault. A third-person approach to first-person plural realities. An outside view of the interior of a collective (i.e., the outside view of a holon in the Lower-Left quadrant). Exemplary of a zone-
dado ::: n. --> That part of a pedestal included between the base and the cornice (or surbase); the die. See Illust. of Column.
In any wall, that part of the basement included between the base and the base course. See Base course, under Base.
In interior decoration, the lower part of the wall of an apartment when adorned with moldings, or otherwise specially decorated.
decorator ::: n. --> One who decorates, adorns, or embellishes; specifically, an artisan whose business is the decoration of houses, esp. their interior decoration.
defilade ::: v. t. --> To raise, as a rampart, so as to shelter interior works commanded from some higher point.
defilading ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Defilade ::: n. --> The art or act of determining the directions and heights of the lines of rampart with reference to the protection of the interior from exposure to an enemy&
defilement ::: n. --> The protection of the interior walls of a fortification from an enfilading fire, as by covering them, or by a high parapet on the exposed side.
The act of defiling, or state of being defiled, whether physically or morally; pollution; foulness; dirtiness; uncleanness.
Dharana (Sanskrit) Dhāraṇā [from the verbal root dhṛ to hold, carry, maintain, resolve] Intense concentration of the mind when directed to “some one interior object, accompanied by complete abstraction from everything pertaining to the external Universe, or the world of the Senses” (VS 73). It is the sixth stage of spiritual yoga, the effort to unite the human with the divine within, in which training “every sense as an individual faculty has to be ‘killed’ (or paralyzed) on this plane, passing into and merging with the Seventh sense, the most spiritual” (VS 78-9).
diamond ::: n. --> A precious stone or gem excelling in brilliancy and beautiful play of prismatic colors, and remarkable for extreme hardness.
A geometrical figure, consisting of four equal straight lines, and having two of the interior angles acute and two obtuse; a rhombus; a lozenge.
One of a suit of playing cards, stamped with the figure of a diamond.
disembowel ::: v. t. --> To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.
To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider.
Divination [from Latin divination a soothsayer from divus spiritual being, god] The art of obtaining hidden knowledge by the aid of spiritual or ethereal beings. It is divisible into two main kinds: the inducing of seership or clairvoyance, and the interpretation of signs. Under the former come the oracular responses of the Pythian priestess, of the Cumaean Sibyl, and many similar instances, including all cases where the diviner induces trance or clairvoyance, whether in himself by natural power or by incantations, drugs, or other preparations; or in a subject, as when ink is poured into the palm of a child, who sees visions in it, or by some kind of hypnotism. Under the second head come geomancy, augury, the reading of the marks on the liver of a slaughtered animal, reading cards, Chinese throwing-sticks, predictive astrology, palmistry, numerology, and a great variety of other forms. Between the two classes are ranged such practices as gazing into crystal or water, where external means and interior vision both play a part in the result. Often it is a means of utilizing one’s own inner faculties, whether by natural or induced clairvoyance, or by employing the agencies which regulate events apparently casual such as the fall of the cards, the marks in the sand, the drawing of lots; and this last is related to the subject of omens.
druse ::: n. --> A cavity in a rock, having its interior surface studded with crystals and sometimes filled with water; a geode.
One of a people and religious sect dwelling chiefly in the Lebanon mountains of Syria.
el dorado ::: --> A name given by the Spaniards in the 16th century to an imaginary country in the interior of South America, reputed to abound in gold and precious stones.
Any region of fabulous wealth; exceeding richness.
Ellorā. [alt. Elurā]. Among the many cave complexes scattered throughout Asia, perhaps the most famous are Ellorā and AJAntĀ in India; YUNGANG, DUNHUANG, and DAZU in China; and SoKKURAM in Korea. The site of Ellorā is located near Ajantā, eighteen miles north of the present-day city of Aurangabad, in the state of Maharashtra. From the sixth through the tenth centuries, there were thirty-four caves carved out of the solid rock of its cliffs. Twelve of these caves date from c. 600 to 730 CE and are Buddhist in orientation. They are rather modest in comparison to the site's Hindu and JAINA caves, which were built at a later date. As monks and nuns built retreats at the site, cave complexes were dug into the base of the cliffs. Some of these excavations were plain cells; others were more elaborate sanctuaries, adorned with paintings, statues, and bas-reliefs. Constructed in the late-seventh or early-eighth centuries, the three-storied Cave 12 was probably one of the last Buddhist caves created at Ellorā. While the central shrine on each floor shows a buddha flanked by the two BODHISATTVAs AVALOKITEsVARA and VAJRAPĀnI, it is especially noteworthy that Cave 12's interior artistic scheme also illustrates the early development of diagrams (MAndALA), both in two-dimensional relief and three-dimensional sculpture. The so-called eight-bodhisattva mandala (astabodhisattvamandala) is depicted on each floor. In addition, in some sections of the cave, the eight bodhisattvas (AstAMAHOPAPUTRA) surround a central buddha in a nine-square diagram. The mandalas shown in this cave attest to the highly developed ritual environments at Ellorā and also demonstrate that over the course of time artistic imagery was used in the service of specific Buddhist beliefs. The developments documented in exceptional caves like this one were nurtured by lay patronage and royal support. Stylistically, the Ellorā caves are similar to those of neighboring Ajantā, and may have been crafted by sculptors who worked at that earlier cave site.
enchondroma ::: n. --> A cartilaginous tumor growing from the interior of a bone.
endogeny ::: n. --> Growth from within; multiplication of cells by endogenous division, as in the development of one or more cells in the interior of a parent cell.
endoplasm ::: n. --> The protoplasm in the interior of a cell.
endosarc ::: n. --> The semifluid, granular interior of certain unicellular organisms, as the inner layer of sarcode in the amoeba; entoplasm; endoplasta.
endoscope ::: n. --> An instrument for examining the interior of the rectum, the urethra, and the bladder.
endotheca ::: n. --> The tissue which partially fills the interior of the interseptal chambers of most madreporarian corals. It usually consists of a series of oblique tranverse septa, one above another.
Enoch as an angel “at the interior of Paradise.”
enter ::: v. t. --> To come or go into; to pass into the interior of; to pass within the outer cover or shell of; to penetrate; to pierce; as, to enter a house, a closet, a country, a door, etc.; the river enters the sea.
To unite in; to join; to be admitted to; to become a member of; as, to enter an association, a college, an army.
To engage in; to become occupied with; as, to enter the legal profession, the book trade, etc.
entogastric ::: a. --> Pertaining to the interior of the stomach; -- applied to a mode of budding from the interior of the gastric cavity, in certain hydroids.
entophyte ::: n. --> A vegetable parasite subsisting in the interior of the body.
entotic ::: a. --> Pertaining to the interior of the ear.
entozoa ::: n. pl. --> A group of worms, including the tapeworms, flukes, roundworms, etc., most of which live parasitically in the interior of other animals; the Helminthes.
An artificial group, including all kinds of animals living parasitically in others. ::: pl.
esoteric ::: a. --> Designed for, and understood by, the specially initiated alone; not communicated, or not intelligible, to the general body of followers; private; interior; acroamatic; -- said of the private and more recondite instructions and doctrines of philosophers. Opposed to exoteric.
estre ::: n. --> The inward part of a building; the interior.
ether ::: n. --> A medium of great elasticity and extreme tenuity, supposed to pervade all space, the interior of solid bodies not excepted, and to be the medium of transmission of light and heat; hence often called luminiferous ether.
Supposed matter above the air; the air itself.
A light, volatile, mobile, inflammable liquid, (C2H5)2O, of a characteristic aromatic odor, obtained by the distillation of alcohol with sulphuric acid, and hence called also sulphuric ether. It is
Euler diagram: The elementary operations upon and relations between classes -- complementation, logical sum, logical product, class equality, class inclusion -- may sometimes advantageously be represented by means of the corresponding operations upon and relations between regions in a plane. (Indeed, if regions are considered as classes of points, the operations and relations for regions become particular cases of those for classes.) By using regions of simple character, such as interiors of circles or ellipses, to stand for given classes, convenient diagrammatic representations are obtained of the possible logical relationships between two or more classes. These are known as Euler diagrams, although their employment by Euler in his Letters to a German Princess (vol. 2, 1772) was not their first appearance. Or the diagram may be so drawn as to show all possible intersections (2n intersections in the case of classes), and then intersections known to be empty may be crossed out, and intersections known not to be empty marked with an asterisk or otherwise (Venn diagram). -- A.C.
Evolution ::: As the word is used in theosophy it means the "unwrapping," "unfolding," "rolling out" of latent powersand faculties native to and inherent in the entity itself, its own essential characteristics, or more generallyspeaking, the powers and faculties of its own character: the Sanskrit word for this last conception issvabhava. Evolution, therefore, does not mean merely that brick is added to brick, or experience merelytopped by another experience, or that variation is superadded on other variations -- not at all; for thiswould make of man and of other entities mere aggregates of incoherent and unwelded parts, without anessential unity or indeed any unifying principle.In theosophy evolution means that man has in him (as indeed have all other evolving entities) everythingthat the cosmos has because he is an inseparable part of it. He is its child; one cannot separate man fromthe universe. Everything that is in the universe is in him, latent or active, and evolution is the bringingforth of what is within; and, furthermore, what we call the surrounding milieu, circumstances -- nature, touse the popular word -- is merely the field of action on and in which these inherent qualities function,upon which they act and from which they receive the corresponding reaction, which action and reactioninvariably become a stimulus or spur to further manifestations of energy on the part of the evolvingentity.There are no limits in any direction where evolution can be said to begin, or where we can conceive of itas ending; for evolution in the theosophical conception is but the process followed by the centers ofconsciousness or monads as they pass from eternity to eternity, so to say, in a beginningless and endlesscourse of unceasing growth.Growth is the key to the real meaning of the theosophical teaching of evolution, for growth is but theexpression in detail of the general process of the unfolding of faculty and organ, which the usual wordevolution includes. The only difference between evolution and growth is that the former is a generalterm, and the latter is a specific and particular phase of this procedure of nature.Evolution is one of the oldest concepts and teachings of the archaic wisdom, although in ancient days theconcept was usually expressed by the word emanation. There is indeed a distinction, and an importantone, to be drawn between these two words, but it is a distinction arising rather in viewpoint than in anyactual fundamental difference. Emanation is a distinctly more accurate and descriptive word fortheosophists to use than evolution is, but unfortunately emanation is so ill-understood in the Occident,that perforce the accepted term is used to describe the process of interior growth expanding into andmanifesting itself in the varying phases of the developing entity. Theosophists, therefore, are, strictlyspeaking, rather emanationists than evolutionists; and from this remark it becomes immediately obviousthat the theosophist is not a Darwinist, although admitting that in certain secondary or tertiary senses anddetails there is a modicum of truth in Charles Darwin's theory adopted and adapted from the FrenchmanLamarck. The key to the meaning of evolution, therefore, in theosophy is the following: the core of everyorganic entity is a divine monad or spirit, expressing its faculties and powers through the ages in variousvehicles which change by improving as the ages pass. These vehicles are not physical bodies alone, butalso the interior sheaths of consciousness which together form man's entire constitution extending fromthe divine monad through the intermediate ranges of consciousness to the physical body. The evolvingentity can become or show itself to be only what it already essentially is in itself -- therefore evolution isa bringing out or unfolding of what already preexists, active or latent, within. (See also Involution)
exterior ::: a. --> External; outward; pertaining to that which is external; -- opposed to interior; as, the exterior part of a sphere.
External; on the outside; without the limits of; extrinsic; as, an object exterior to a man, opposed to what is within, or in his mind.
Relating to foreign nations; foreign; as, the exterior relations of a state or kingdom.
Exterior angle – In a triangle, an exterior angle i s equal to the measures of the two interior angles added together.
Exterior Gateway Protocol ::: (EGP) A protocol which distributes routing information to the routers which connect autonomous systems. The term gateway is historical, and router is defined in STD 18, RFC 904. See also Border Gateway Protocol, Interior Gateway Protocol.
Exterior Gateway Protocol "networking" (EGP) A {protocol} which distributes {routing} information to the {routers} which connect {autonomous systems}. The term "{gateway}" is historical, and "router" is currently the preferred term. There is also a routing protocol called {EGP} defined in {STD 18}, {RFC 904}. See also {Border Gateway Protocol}, {Interior Gateway Protocol}.
Eye of Siva The third eye; physically the pineal gland, which when awakened into activity becomes the organ of the inner spiritual vision of a seer. The pineal gland was in former ages an active physical exterior organ before the present-day two eyes were developed, and was then the faculty both of physical vision and of interior illumination. As the ages passed, this third eye or pineal gland receded within the skull, finally being covered by hardened bone and the scalp. This eye may be described as the organ on this plane of spiritual intuition, through which direct and certain knowledge is obtainable at any time at the will of the seer. “The ‘eye of Siva’ did not become entirely atrophied before the close of the Fourth Race. When spirituality and all the divine powers and attributes of the deva-man of the Third had been made the hand-maidens of the newly-awakened physiological and psychic passions of the physical man, instead of the reverse, the eye lost its powers” (SD 2:302).
facade ::: n. --> The front of a building; esp., the principal front, having some architectural pretensions. Thus a church is said to have its facade unfinished, though the interior may be in use.
fauces ::: n.pl. --> The narrow passage from the mouth to the pharynx, situated between the soft palate and the base of the tongue; -- called also the isthmus of the fauces. On either side of the passage two membranous folds, called the pillars of the fauces, inclose the tonsils.
The throat of a calyx, corolla, etc.
That portion of the interior of a spiral shell which can be seen by looking into the aperture.
filling ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Fill ::: n. --> That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency; as, filling for a cavity in a tooth, a depression in a roadbed, the space between exterior and interior walls of masonry, the pores of open-grained wood, the space between the outer
flatland ::: 1. When the interior quadrants (the Left-Hand path) are reduced to the exterior quadrants (the Right-Hand path). For example, scientific materialism. The dissociation of the value spheres Art, Morals, and Science, followed by the colonization of Art and Morals by Science. The “bad news” of Modernity. See gross reductionism and subtle reductionism. 2. Using any one level as the only level in existence.
Frick, Wilhelm ::: (1877-1946) A dedicated Nazi bureaucrat who was appointed Minister of the Interior in 1933 where he was responsible for enacting Nazi racial laws. In 1946, he was tried at Nuremberg, convicted, and executed.
gallery ::: a. --> A long and narrow corridor, or place for walking; a connecting passageway, as between one room and another; also, a long hole or passage excavated by a boring or burrowing animal.
A room for the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of paintings, sculptures, etc.
A long and narrow platform attached to one or more sides of public hall or the interior of a church, and supported by brackets
gastroscope ::: n. --> An instrument for viewing or examining the interior of the stomach.
geognosy ::: n. --> That part of geology which treats of the materials of the earth&
gourd ::: n. --> A fleshy, three-celled, many-seeded fruit, as the melon, pumpkin, cucumber, etc., of the order Cucurbitaceae; and especially the bottle gourd (Lagenaria vulgaris) which occurs in a great variety of forms, and, when the interior part is removed, serves for bottles, dippers, cups, and other dishes.
A dipper or other vessel made from the shell of a gourd; hence, a drinking vessel; a bottle.
A false die. See Gord.
hagioscope ::: n. --> An opening made in the interior walls of a cruciform church to afford a view of the altar to those in the transepts; -- called, in architecture, a squint.
harmattan ::: n. --> A dry, hot wind, prevailing on the Atlantic coast of Africa, in December, January, and February, blowing from the interior or Sahara. It is usually accompanied by a haze which obscures the sun.
hermeneutics ::: Traditionally refers to the study of interpretation. In Integral Theory, it is the study of interpretation within the interior of a “We,” as exemplified by Hans-Georg Gadamer. A first-person approach to first-person plural realities. The inside view of the interior of a collective (i.e., the inside view of a holon in the Lower-Left quadrant). Exemplary of a zone-
hierarchical routing "networking" A way of simplifying {routing} a large network like the {Internet} by breaking it into a {hierarchy} of smaller networks where each level is responsible for its own routing. The Internet has three levels: {backbone networks}, {mid-level networks} (or {transit networks}) and {stub networks}. The backbones know how to route between the mid-levels, the mid-levels know how to route between {autonomous systems} (sites) and each site knows how to route internally. {Routers} at each level cooperate by exchanging routing information. Typically, between mid-level networks this is via {Exterior Gateway Protocol} and within sites via {Interior Gateway Protocol}. (2017-12-02)
hierarchical routing ::: The complex problem of routing on large networks can be simplified by breaking a network into a hierarchy of smaller networks, where each level is responsible site (being an autonomous system) knows how to route internally. See also Exterior Gateway Protocol, Interior Gateway Protocol, transit network.
Hiranyagarbha (Sanskrit) Hiraṇyagarbha [from hiraṇya imperishable substance, golden + garbha womb, embryo, fetus, also the interior of anything, hence a temple] Golden egg or womb; the matrix of imperishable substance. “The luminous ‘fire mist’ or ethereal stuff from which the Universe was formed” (TG 142); applied to Brahma, described in the Rig-Veda as born from a golden egg formed out of the seed deposited in the waters when they were produced as the first vikaras of the Self-existent; according to Manu (1:9) this seed became a golden egg, resplendent as the sun, in which the self-existent Brahman while remaining transcendent in its higher parts, evolved into Brahma the Creator, who is therefore regarded as a manifestation of the Self-existent. Having continued a year in the egg, Brahma divided it into two parts by his mere thought, and with these two he formed the heavens and the earth; and in the middle he placed the sky, the eight regions, and the eternal abode of the waters.
hold ::: n. --> The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.
The act of holding, as in or with the hands or arms; the manner of holding, whether firm or loose; seizure; grasp; clasp; gripe; possession; -- often used with the verbs take and lay.
The authority or ground to take or keep; claim.
Binding power and influence.
Something that may be grasped; means of support.
hollow ::: a. --> Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow sphere.
Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.
Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar.
Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a hollow heart; a hollow friend.
IGP {Interior Gateway Protocol}
II. Early Scholastics (12 cent.) St. Anselm of Canterbury (+1109) did more than anyone else in this early period to codify the spirit of Scholasticism. His motto: credo, ut tntelligam taken from St. Augustine, expressed the organic relation that existed between the supernatural and the natural during the Middle Ages and the interpretative and the directive force which faith had upon reason. In this period a new interest was taken in the problem of the universals. For the first time a clear demarcation was noted between the realistic and the nominalistic solutions to this problem. William of Champeaux (+1121) proposed the former and Roscelin (+c. 1124) the latter. A third solution, concepiualistic in character, was proposed by Abelard (+1142) who finally crystalized the Scholastic method. He was the most subtle dialectician of his age. Two schools of great importance of this period were operating at Chartres and the Parisian Abbey of St. Victor. The first, founded by Fulbert of Chartres in the late tenth century, was characterized by its leanings toward Platonism and distinguished by its humanistic tendencies coupled with a love of the natural sciences. Many of its Greek, Arabian and Jewish sources for studies in natural sciences came from the translations of Constantine the African (+c. 1087) and Adelard of Bath. Worthy to be noted as members of or sympathizers with this school are Bernard and Thierry of Chartres (+c. 1127; c. 1150); William of Conches (+1145) and Bernard Silvestris (+1167). The two most important members of the School were Gilbert de la Poiree (+1154) and John of Salisbury (+1180). The latter was a humanistic scholar of great stylistic skill and calm, balanced judgment. It is from his works, particularly the Metalogicus, that most of our knowledge of this period still derives. Juxtaposed to the dialectic, syllogistic and rationalistic tendencies of this age was a mystical movement, headed by St. Bernard of Clairvaux (+1153). This movement did not oppose itself to dialectics in the uncompromising manner of Peter Damiani, but sought rather to experience and interiorize truth through contemplation and practice. Bernard found a close follower and friend in William of St. Thierry (+1148 or 1153). An attempt to synthesize the mystic and dialectical movements is found in two outstanding members of the Victorine School: Hugh of St. Victor (+1141) who founded its spirit in his omnia disce, videbis postea nihil esse supervuum and Richard of St. Victor (+1173), his disciple, who introduced the a posteriori proof for God's existence into the Scholastic current of thought. Finally, this century gave Scholasticism its principal form of literature which was to remain dominant for some four centuries. While the method came from Abelard and the formulas and content, in great part, from the Didascalion of Hugh of St. Victor, it was Robert of Melun (+1167) and especially Peter the Lombard (+1164) who fashioned the great Summae sententiarum.
Illusion Positive unreality, or that which is wholly and completely deceptive without basis in reality; as such some philosophers consider it to be rooted in the human mind itself, subjective or interior rather than external or objective. As thus understood, illusion falls far short of the significance of the Sanskrit maya, for which it is used as a translation. For the sense of maya is that of appearance rising out of reality, not something opposed to reality. It is evident that, if the universe can be said to exist at all, we must allow that illusion in the sense of maya has existence, a relative or temporary reality, for it obviously originates from and shadows forth the reality within and behind it. It is not that reality itself, but its multiform appearances. To say that the world in which we live, and all the people and beings and things in it, are an illusion, does not mean that all this is an empty dream; it means that what is so real to us, as long as we are conscious on this plane, will be seen as a maya or deceptive appearance from our viewpoint when we become conscious on a higher and more inclusive plane. See also MAYA
Indriyatman (Sanskrit) Indriyātman [from indriya sense + ātman self] A term used by Blavatsky (SD 2:108) to represent the third stage in the descending scale of the manifestation of Brahman. It implies that the spiritual or intellectual soul through its own particular radiations is the fundamental or guiding essence bringing about the evolution of the interior senses and their corresponding physical organs, and is likewise the latent guiding intelligence and instinct behind them.
inferior ::: a. --> Lower in place, rank, excellence, etc.; less important or valuable; subordinate; underneath; beneath.
Poor or mediocre; as, an inferior quality of goods.
Nearer the sun than the earth is; as, the inferior or interior planets; an inferior conjunction of Mercury or Venus.
Below the horizon; as, the inferior part of a meridian.
Situated below some other organ; -- said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below it, or of an ovary with an
inland ::: a. --> Within the land; more or less remote from the ocean or from open water; interior; as, an inland town.
Limited to the land, or to inland routes; within the seashore boundary; not passing on, or over, the sea; as, inland transportation, commerce, navigation, etc.
Confined to a country or state; domestic; not foreing; as, an inland bill of exchange. See Exchange.
inlander ::: n. --> One who lives in the interior of a country, or at a distance from the sea.
inly ::: a. --> Internal; interior; secret. ::: adv. --> Internally; within; in the heart.
In Mahayana Buddhism, alaya-vijnana has acquired a somewhat larger and higher significance: alaya (an abode, in the sense of focus of activity), the prepositional prefix a (meaning position or limitation) with the verb li (to dissolve) signifies solution or coalescence in unity. Used much as the term human monad is in theosophy, equivalent to the higher manas or even buddhi-manas, it therefore signifies the focus or interior organ of consciousness into which is collected at the end of each incarnation the aroma of the higher experiences during that lifetime, thus forming a kind of treasury.
inner ::: 1. Of or pertaining to the mind or spirit; mental; spiritual. 2. Situated within or farther within; interior. 3. Not obvious; hidden or obscure.
inner ::: a. --> Further in; interior; internal; not outward; as, an spirit or its phenomena.
Not obvious or easily discovered; obscure.
inner, interior; secret, hidden, concealed.
inside ::: adv. --> Within the sides of; in the interior; contained within; as, inside a house, book, bottle, etc. ::: a. --> Being within; included or inclosed in anything; contained; interior; internal; as, the inside passengers of a stagecoach; inside decoration.
insight ::: n. --> A sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; -- frequently used with into.
Power of acute observation and deduction; penetration; discernment; perception.
interior ::: a. --> Being within any limits, inclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner; -- opposed to exterior, or superficial; as, the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball.
Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland; as, the interior parts of a region or country. ::: n.
interior ::: adj. 1. Of or relating to one"s mental or spiritual being. 2. Of or pertaining to that which is within; inside. n. 3. The internal portion or area of anything. interiors.
interior angle The amount of rotation, centring on the vertex, of one edge of a polygon in order to coincide with an adjacent edge, through only the interior of the polygon.
interiority ::: n. --> State of being interior.
interiorly ::: adv. --> Internally; inwardly.
interior monologue: Where the author depicts the interior thoughts of a single individual, in the exact order these thoughts occur inside that character's head. The author does not attempt to provide any, or much, commentary, description, or guiding discussion to help the reader untangle the complex web of thoughts. Often the results include grammatical mistakes and illogical order. See stream of consciousness.
interior The points within the bounded section of a geometric figure.
Intermediate System-Intermediate System "networking" (IS-IS) The {OSI} {Interior Gateway Protocol}. (2003-07-12)
Intermediate System-Intermediate System ::: (networking) (IS-IS) The OSI Interior Gateway Protocol.(2003-07-12)
intern ::: a. --> Internal.
To put for safe keeping in the interior of a place or country; to confine to one locality; as, to intern troops which have fled for refuge to a neutral country.
internal ::: 1. Of or relating to man"s mental or spiritual nature. 2. Of, relating to, or located within the limits or surface; interior; inner.
internal ::: a. --> Inward; interior; being within any limit or surface; inclosed; -- opposed to external; as, the internal parts of a body, or of the earth.
Derived from, or dependent on, the thing itself; inherent; as, the internal evidence of the divine origin of the Scriptures.
Pertaining to its own affairs or interests; especially, (said of a country) domestic, as opposed to foreign; as, internal
internality ::: n. --> The state of being internal or within; interiority.
interne ::: a. --> That which is within; the interior.
internity ::: n. --> State of being within; interiority.
internment ::: n. --> Confinement within narrow limits, -- as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.
intersubjective ::: Pertaining to the interior of a collective, or the Lower-Left quadrant. Examples of intersubjective phenomena include shared values, interpersonal understanding, systems of signifieds, and semantics.
into ::: prep. --> To the inside of; within. It is used in a variety of applications.
Expressing entrance, or a passing from the outside of a thing to its interior parts; -- following verbs expressing motion; as, come into the house; go into the church; one stream falls or runs into another; water enters into the fine vessels of plants.
Expressing penetration beyond the outside or surface, or access to the inside, or contents; as, to look into a letter or book;
intra- ::: --> A prefix signifying in, within, interior; as, intraocular, within the eyeball; intramarginal.
intrados ::: n. --> The interior curve of an arch; esp., the inner or lower curved face of the whole body of voussoirs taken together. See Extrados.
intrinsic value ::: One of three main types of value that holons possess, along with extrinsic and Ground value. Refers to the wholeness of a holon. The greater the depth of a holon, the greater its intrinsic value and its significance. A deer, for example, due to a richer interior, has more intrinsic value than an atom and is therefore more significant than an atom. But the atom has a greater extrinsic value than the deer and is thus more fundamental. See extrinsic value and Ground value.
introspection ::: n. --> A view of the inside or interior; a looking inward; specifically, the act or process of self-examination, or inspection of one&
inward ::: 1. Located inside; within; inner. 2. Mental or spiritual; inner. 3. Directed or moving toward the interior. Also fig. inward-musing.
inward ::: a. --> Being or placed within; inner; interior; -- opposed to outward.
Seated in the mind, heart, spirit, or soul.
Intimate; domestic; private.
Alt. of Inwards ::: n.
inwards ::: a. --> Toward the inside; toward the center or interior; as, to bend a thing inward.
Into, or toward, the mind or thoughts; inwardly; as, to turn the attention inward. ::: adv. --> See Inward.
Jnana-sakti has the power or intrinsic faculty of movement of intelligence in the universe, which likewise expresses itself in man, a child of that universe; consequently it acts according to its own peculiarities or characteristics. The adept, knowing this through the power of his spiritual monad, can at any time select any one of these saktis of his constitution and use it alone or in combination with others to produce both interior or exterior phenomena. He does so by an expenditure of one or the other of the saktis that he is using, which are concentrated so to speak in his constitution. Hence their use is always followed by a corresponding reaction, much after the fashion of an electrical discharge; and a certain time is always required for the constitution to reestablish its normal equilibrium. Such equilibrium is a condition of health.
Kalaka (Sanskrit) Kālakā One of the daughters of the Danava Vaisvanara. Kalaka and her sister Puloma were mothers of thirty millions of Danavas by Kasyapa. They are said to have lived in Hiranyapura (the golden city) which floats in the air: in one sense the sun, and in another sense the etheric regions of space interior to the physical universe. Their children were called Kalakanjas and Paulomas.
Kārli. [alt. Kārle]. Buddhist cave temple site in western India, situated halfway between Mumbai (Bombay) and Pune in Maharashtra. Based on inscriptional evidence, the excavation of the site began around 124 CE, toward the end of the reign of Nahapāna, who ruled over much of western India during the early second century. The veranda and doorways to the site are decorated with outstanding sculptural features: flanking the doorways are carvings of couples in sexual union (MAITHUNA); these images are stylistically similar to contemporary carvings in the city of MATHURĀ. The end wall of the veranda features carvings of almost life-size elephants, which appear to support the architectural structure. The images of buddhas and BODHISATTVAs also found on the veranda were carved in the late fifth century, when the iconographic profile of the cave was modified. The interior of the cave's CAITYA hall, which is South Asia's largest, is characterized by an impressive, harmonious balance of architectural and sculptural elements. A STuPA appears at the end of the long nave, with an ambulatory that allows its circumambulation (PRADAKsInA). A row of pillars carved directly out of the rock parallels the shape of the cave itself. These pillars are adorned with capitals that depict sculpted images of figures riding animals, which are stylistically close to those of the contemporary or slightly earlier images at the great stupa at SĀNCĪ.
labyrinth ::: n. --> An edifice or place full of intricate passageways which render it difficult to find the way from the interior to the entrance; as, the Egyptian and Cretan labyrinths.
Any intricate or involved inclosure; especially, an ornamental maze or inclosure in a park or garden.
Any object or arrangement of an intricate or involved form, or having a very complicated nature.
An inextricable or bewildering difficulty.
lantern ::: n. --> Something inclosing a light, and protecting it from wind, rain, etc. ; -- sometimes portable, as a closed vessel or case of horn, perforated tin, glass, oiled paper, or other material, having a lamp or candle within; sometimes fixed, as the glazed inclosure of a street light, or of a lighthouse light.
An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior.
A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below
Left-Hand path ::: The approaches or methodologies that rely on the interior of the individual and collective, or the Upper- and Lower-Left quadrants.
lemniscus ::: n. --> One of two oval bodies hanging from the interior walls of the body in the Acanthocephala.
Lhasa or Lhassa (Tibetan) lha sa [from lha gods + sa place] Place of the gods, equivalent of the Sanskrit deva-bhumi. The capital city of Tibet, situated on the banks of an important tributary of the Tsang-po River; hither converged trade routes from Turkestan, Siberia, Mongolia, China, and India, as well as from the other parts of Tibet. Though called the Forbidden City, it was only so to Europeans, very few of whom were ever permitted to penetrate into the interior of Tibet. As well as being the most flourishing and prosperous city, it was the abode of the Dalai Lama and his government before the conquest of Tibet by the Chinese. Before it became the capital, Lhasa was apparently known as Ra-sa, “place of the goats.”
Life-Atoms ::: The physical body is composed essentially of energy, of energies rather, in the forms that are spoken ofin modern physical science as electrons and protons. These are in constant movement; they areincessantly active, and are what theosophists call the imbodiments or manifestations of life-atoms. Theselife-atoms are inbuilt into man's body during the physical life which he leads on earth, although they arenot derivative from outside, but spring forth from within himself -- at least a great majority of them aresuch. This is equivalent to saying that they compose both his physical as well as his intermediate nature,which latter is obviously higher than the physical.When the man dies -- that is to say, when the physical body dies -- its elements pass, each and all, intotheir respective and appropriate spheres: some into the soil, to which those that go there are drawn bymagnetic affinity, an affinity impressed upon their life-energies by the man when alive, whoseovershadowing will and desires, whose overlordship and power, gave them that direction. Others passinto the vegetation from the same reason that the former are impelled to the mineral kingdom; others passinto the various beasts with which they have, at the man's death, magnetic affinity, psychic affinity moreaccurately, an affinity which the man has impressed upon them by his desires and various impulses; andthose which take this path go to form the interior or intermediate apparatus of the beasts into which theypass. So much for the course pursued by the life-atoms of the man's lowest principles.But there are other life-atoms belonging to him. There are life-atoms, in fact, belonging to the sphere ofeach one of the seven principles of man's constitution. This means that there are life-atoms belonging tohis intermediate nature and to his spiritual nature and to all grades intermediate between these two higherparts of him. And in all cases, as the monad "ascends" or "rises" through the spheres, as he goes step bystep higher on his wonderful postmortem journey, on each such step he discards or casts off thelife-atoms belonging to each one of these steps or stages of the journey. With each step, he leaves behindthe more material of these life-atoms until, when he has reached the culmination of his wonderfulpostmortem peregrination, he is, as Paul of the Christians said, living in "a spiritual body" -- that is tosay, he has become a spiritual energy, a monad.Nature permits no absolute standing still for anything, anywhere. All things are full of life, full of energy,full of movement; they are both energy and matter, both spirit and substance; and these two arefundamentally one -- phases of the underlying reality, of which we see but the maya or illusory forms.The life-atoms are actually the offspring or the off-throwings of the interior principles of man'sconstitution. It is obvious that the life-atoms which ensoul the physical atoms in man's body are asnumerous as the atoms which they ensoul; and there are almost countless hosts of them, decillions upondecillions of them, in practically incomputable numbers. Each one of these life-atoms is a being which isliving, moving, growing, never standing still -- evolving towards a sublime destiny which ultimatelybecomes divinity.
Macrocosm ::: The anglicized form of a Greek compound meaning "great arrangement," or more simply the greatordered system of the celestial bodies of all kinds and their various inhabitants, including theall-important idea that this arrangement is the result of interior orderly processes, the effects ofindwelling consciousnesses. In other and more modern phrasing the macrocosm is the vast universe,without definable limits, which surrounds us, and with particular emphasis laid on the interior, invisible,and ethereal planes. In the visioning or view of the ancients the macrocosm was an animate kosmicentity, an "animal" in the Latin sense of this word, as an organism possessing a directing and guidingsoul. But this was only the outward or exoteric view. In the Mystery schools of the archaic ages, themacrocosm was considered to be not only what is hereinbefore just stated, but also to consist moredefinitely and specifically of seven, ten, and even twelve planes or degrees of consciousness-substanceranging from the superdivine through all the intermediate stages to the physical, and even to degreesbelow the physical, these comprised in one kosmic organic unit, or what moderns would call a universe.In this sense of the word macrocosm is but another name for kosmic hierarchy, and it must beremembered in this connection that these hierarchies are simply countless in number and not only fill butactually compose and are indeed the spaces of frontierless SPACE.The macrocosm was considered to be filled full not only with gods, but with innumerable multitudes orarmies of evolving entities, from the fully self-conscious to the quasi-self-conscious downwards throughthe merely conscious to the "unconscious." Note well that in strict usage the term macrocosm was neverapplied to the Boundless, to boundless, frontierless infinitude, what the Qabbalists called Eyn-soph. Inthe archaic wisdom, the macrocosm, belonging in the astral world, considered in its causal aspect, wasvirtually interchangeable with what modern theosophists call the Absolute.
Madhav: “The Serpent is the guardian Power of the interior.” The Book of the Divine Mother
Madhya (Sanskrit) Madhya The middle; as an adjective, middle, center, interior as contrasted with outer; also intermediate as contrasted with either extreme or end. As a neuter noun, 10,000,000 trillions or 10 quintillion (10,000,000,000,000,000,000).
Maya (Sanskrit) Māyā [from the verbal root mā to measure, form] Illusion, the non-eternal; in Brahmanical philosophy, the fabrication by the human mind of ideas derived from interior and exterior impressions, as it tries to interpret and understand the universe. While the exterior world exists — or it could not be illusory — we do not see clearly and as they actually are that which our mind and senses present to us. A traditional Vedantic illustration says that at twilight a person sees a coiled rope on the ground and springs aside, thinking it is a snake; the rope is there, but no snake.
Maya(Sanskrit) ::: The word comes from the root ma, meaning "to measure," and by a figure of speech it alsocomes to mean "to effect," "to form," and hence "to limit." There is an English word mete, meaning "tomeasure out," from the same IndoEuropean root. It is found in the Anglo-Saxon as the root met, in theGreek as med, and it is found in the Latin also in the same form.Ages ago in the wonderful Brahmanical philosophy maya was understood very differently from what it isnow usually understood to be. As a technical term, maya has come to mean the fabrication by man's mindof ideas derived from interior and exterior impressions, hence the illusory aspect of man's thoughts as heconsiders and tries to interpret and understand life and his surroundings; and thence was derived thesense which it technically bears, "illusion." It does not mean that the exterior world is nonexistent; if itwere, it obviously could not be illusory. It exists, but is not. It is "measured out" or is "limited," or itstands out to the human spirit as a mirage. In other words, we do not see clearly and plainly and in theirreality the vision and the visions which our mind and senses present to the inner life and eye.The familiar illustrations of maya in the Vedanta, which is the highest form that the Brahmanicalteachings have taken and which is so near to our own teaching in many respects, were such as follows: Aman at eventide sees a coiled rope on the ground, and springs aside, thinking it a serpent. The rope isthere, but no serpent. The second illustration is what is called the "horns of the hare." The animal calledthe hare has no horns, but when it also is seen at eventide, its long ears seem to project from its head insuch fashion that it appears even to the seeing eye as being a creature with horns. The hare has no horns,but there is then in the mind an illusory belief that an animal with horns exists there.That is what maya means: not that a thing seen does not exist, but that we are blinded and our mindperverted by our own thoughts and our own imperfections, and do not as yet arrive at the realinterpretation and meaning of the world or of the universe around us. By ascending inwardly, by risingup, by inner aspiration, by an elevation of soul, we can reach upwards or rather inwards towards thatplane where truth abides in fullness.H. P. Blavatsky says on page 631 of the first volume of The Secret Doctrine:Esoteric philosophy, teaching an objective Idealism -- though it regards the objectiveUniverse and all in it as Maya, temporary illusion -- draws a practical distinction betweencollective illusion, Mahamaya, from the purely metaphysical standpoint, and the objectiverelations in it between various conscious Egos so long as this illusion lasts.The teaching is that maya is thus called from the action of mulaprakriti or root-nature, the coordinateprinciple of that other line of coactive consciousness which we call parabrahman. From the momentwhen manifestation begins, it acts dualistically, that is to say that everything in nature from that pointonwards is crossed by pairs of opposites, such as long and short, high and low, night and day, good andevil, consciousness and nonconsciousness, etc., and that all these things are essentially mayic or illusory-- real while they last, but the lasting is not eternal. It is through and by these pairs of opposites that theself-conscious soul learns truth. It might be said, in conclusion, that another and very convenient way ofconsidering maya is to understand it to mean "limitation," "restriction," and therefore imperfect cognitionand recognition of reality. The imperfect mind does not see perfect truth. It labors under an illusioncorresponding with its own imperfections, under a maya, a limitation. Magical practices are frequentlycalled maya in the ancient Hindu books.
Mediator An agent who stands or goes between, specifically one who acts as the conscious agent or intermediary of special spiritual power and knowledge. Most often applied to highly-evolved characters who mediate, not only between superhuman spiritual entities and ordinary men, but who also themselves consciously unite their own spiritual nature with their merely human souls. Such people attain to this lofty state by the great sanctity and wisdom of their lives, aided by frequent interior ecstatic contemplation. They radiate a pure and beneficent atmosphere which invites, and is congenial to, exalted spiritual beings of the solar system. Evil entities of the astral realms cannot endure their clean and highly magnetic aura, nor are they able to continue obsessing other unfortunate persons if the mediator be present and will their departure, or even approaches the sufferer. This powerful spiritual self-consciousness of the individual who is a mediator reaching upwards to superior spiritual realms, is in sharpest possible contrast with the passive, unconscious, weak-willed medium who, through ignorance or folly, becomes the agent for the use of any astral entity that may be attracted to the entranced body. Apollonius, Iamblichus, Plotinus, and Porphyry are examples of mediators: “but if the temple is defiled by the admission of an evil passion, thought or desire, the mediator falls into the sphere of sorcery. The door is opened; the pure spirits retire and the evil ones rush in. This is still mediatorship, evil as it is; the sorcerer, like the pure magician, forms his own aura and subjects to his will congenial inferior spirits” (IU 1:487).
Mezuzah ::: (pl. mezuzot; "doorpost"). A parchment scroll with selected Torah verses (Deuteronomy 6.4-9; 11.13-21) placed in a container and affixed to the exterior doorposts (at the right side of the entrance) of observant Jewish homes (see Deuteronomy 6.1-4), and sometimes also to interior doorposts of rooms. The word shaddai (almighty) usually is inscribed on the back of the container.
midland ::: a. --> Being in the interior country; distant from the coast or seashore; as, midland towns or inhabitants.
Surrounded by the land; mediterranean. ::: n. --> The interior or central region of a country; -- usually in the plural.
midst ::: n. --> The interior or central part or place; the middle; -- used chiefly in the objective case after in; as, in the midst of the forest.
Hence, figuratively, the condition of being surrounded or beset; the press; the burden; as, in the midst of official duties; in the midst of secular affairs. ::: prep.
Moksha (Sanskrit) Mokṣa [from mokṣ to release, set free probably from the verbal root much] Freedom; freedom from sentient life for the reminder of a manvantara. Equivalent to nirvana, the absolute, mukti [from the verbal root much], the Palace of Love of the Zohar, the Gnostic Pleroma of Eternal Light, the Chinese nippang, and the Burmese neibban. “When a spirit, a monad, or a spiritual radical, has so grown in manifestation that it has first become a man, and is set free interiorly, inwardly, and from a man has become a planetary spirit or dhyan-chohan or lord of meditation, and has gone still higher to become interiorly a brahman, and from a brahman the Parabrahman for its hierarchy, then it is absolutely perfected, free, released: perfected for that great period of time which to us seems almost an eternity, so long is it, virtually incomputable by the human intellect. This is the Absolute: limited in comparison with things still more immense, still more sublime; but so far as we can think of it, ‘released’ or ‘freed’ from the chains or bonds of material existence” (Fund 183).
Moksha(Sanskrit) ::: This word comes from moksh, meaning "to release," "to set free," and is probably adesiderative of the root much, from which the word mukti also comes. The meaning of this word is thatwhen a spirit, a monad, or a spiritual radical, has so grown in evolution that it has first become a man,and is set free interiorly, inwardly, and from a man has become a planetary spirit or dhyan-chohan or lordof meditation, and has gone still higher, to become interiorly a Brahman, and from a Brahman theParabrahman for its hierarchy, then it is absolutely perfected, relatively speaking, free, released -perfected for that great period of time which to us seems almost an eternity so long is it, virtuallyincomputable by the human intellect. Now this also is the real meaning of the much abused wordAbsolute (q.v.), limited in comparison with things still more immense, still more sublime; but so far aswe can think of it, released or freed from the chains or bonds of material existence. One who is thusreleased or freed is called a jivanmukta. (See also Nirvana)
mongolians ::: n. pl. --> One of the great races of man, including the greater part of the inhabitants of China, Japan, and the interior of Asia, with branches in Northern Europe and other parts of the world. By some American Indians are considered a branch of the Mongols. In a more restricted sense, the inhabitants of Mongolia and adjacent countries, including the Burats and the Kalmuks.
monologue: An interior monologue does not necessarily represent spoken words, but rather the internal or emotional thoughts or feelings of an individual. Monologues can also be used when a character speaks aloud to himself or narrates an account to an audience with no other character on stage.
n. 1. The lower interior part of a ship or airplane where cargo is stored. 2. The act or a means of grasping. v. 3. To have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp. 4. To bear, sustain, or support, as with the hands or arms, or by any other means. 5. To contain or be capable of containing. 6. To keep from departing or getting away. 7. To withstand stress, pressure, or opposition; to maintain occupation of by force or coercion. 8. To have in its power, possess, affect, occupy. 9. To engage in; preside over; carry on. 10. To have or keep in the mind; think or believe. 11. To regard or consider. 12. To keep or maintain a grasp on something. 13. To maintain one"s position against opposition; continue in resistance. 14. To agree or side (usually followed by with). holds, holding. ::: hold back. 15. a. To retain possession of; keep back. b. To refrain from revealing; withhold. c. To refrain from participating or engaging in some activity.
nacre ::: n. --> A pearly substance which lines the interior of many shells, and is most perfect in the mother-of-pearl. [Written also nacker and naker.] See Pearl, and Mother-of-pearl.
Nāsik. A group of twenty-four Buddhist caves dating from the early second century CE, northeast of Mumbai (Bombay) in the Indian state of Maharastra. All the caves except cave 18 are VIHĀRA caves. The interiors of the caves are quite plain, in contrast to their highly ornamented exteriors, which include lithic carvings made to resemble wooden structures. The CAITYA cave has a pillared interior with a STuPA in its apse, which is a characteristic feature of early Indian Buddhist cave temples. Figures and ornaments in its facade bear resemblance to similar motifs at SĀNCĪ, suggesting artistic influence from that site.
Nazi central agency for Jewish emigration matters set up in the German Ministry of' Interior on Jan. 14, 1939.
neorama ::: n. --> A panorama of the interior of a building, seen from within.
nestle ::: v. i. --> To make and occupy a nest; to nest.
To lie close and snug, as a bird in her nest; to cuddle up; to settle, as in a nest; to harbor; to take shelter.
To move about in one&
nidhāna. (T. gter; C. fuzang; J. fukuzo/bukuzo; K. pokchang 伏藏/腹藏). In Sanskrit, "depository" or "hidden container"; ritual container placed in the interior of a Buddhist sculpture or hung above a painting in order to ritually vivify the image or painting. Following the methods described in the "Instructions on Image Making and Iconometry" (S. Sambaddhabhāsitapratimālaksanavivaranī; T. Rdzogs pa'i sangs rgyas kyis gzungs pa'i sku gzugs kyi mtshan nyid kyi rnam 'grel; C. Zaoxiang liangdu jing; J. Zozo ryodo kyo; K. Chosang nyangdo kyong), the insertion of the container was, along with the eye-opening ceremony (KAIYAN; NETRAPRATIstHĀPANA), an important part of the ritual of image consecration, which served as an agency for transforming the inert statue or painting into an object of worship. The contents of these intestinal depositories were often similar to those found in sARĪRA containers: viz., relic fragments, copies of DHĀRAnĪ and SuTRAs, and consecration certificates. But they also could be objects that would serve as a symbolic vivifying and spiritual force, e.g., viscera and entrails made from cloth, as well as five types of grain and five-colored threads. Although it is unknown when the tradition of sewing intestines to deposit in images began, the earliest extant East Asian example is a container found in the UDĀYANA image of sĀKYAMUNI Buddha at Seiryoji in Kyoto, which is dated to 988 CE.
nucula ::: n. --> A genus of small marine bivalve shells, having a pearly interior.
obtuse triangle: A triangle that has one (interior) angle greater than a right angle (90°).
opalescence ::: n. --> A reflection of a milky or pearly light from the interior of a mineral, as in the moonstone; the state or quality of being opalescent.
opalescent ::: a. --> Reflecting a milky or pearly light from the interior; having an opaline play of colors.
Open Shortest-Path First Interior Gateway Protocol ::: (networking, protocol, standard) (OSPF) A link state routing protocol that is one of the Internet standard Interior Gateway Protocols defined in RFC 1247.There is no OSPF EGP, OSPF is an IGP only.[Relationship to Internet Protocol packet routing?] .(2002-06-29)
Open Shortest-Path First Interior Gateway Protocol "networking, protocol, standard" (OSPF) A {link state routing protocol} that is one of the {Internet} standard {Interior Gateway Protocols} defined in {RFC 1247}. There is no OSPF {EGP}, OSPF is an IGP only. [Relationship to {Internet Protocol} packet routing?] {OSPF Design Guide (http://cisco.com/warp/public/104/1.html)}. (2002-06-29)
Open Shortest-Path First {Open Shortest-Path First Interior Gateway Protocol}
ophthalmoscope ::: n. --> An instrument for viewing the interior of the eye, particularly the retina. Light is thrown into the eye by a mirror (usually concave) and the interior is then examined with or without the aid of a lens.
orthoceras ::: n. --> An extinct genus of Paleozoic Cephalopoda, having a long, straight, conical shell. The interior is divided into numerous chambers by transverse septa.
OSPF {Open Shortest-Path First Interior Gateway Protocol}
Our subliminal self is not, like our surface physical being, an outcome of the energy of the Inconscient; it is a meeting-place of the consciousness that emerges from below by evolution and the consciousness that has descended from above for involution. There is in it an inner mind, an inner vital being of ourselves, an inner or subtle-physical being larger than our outer being and nature. This inner existence is the concealed origin of almost all in our surface self that is not a construction of the first inconscient World-Energy or a natural developed functioning of our surface consciousness or a reaction of it to impacts from the outside universal Nature,—and even in this construction, these functionings, these reactions the subliminal takes part and exercises on them a considerable influence. There is here a consciousness which has a power of direct contact with the universal unlike the mostly indirect contacts which our surface being maintains with the universe through the sense-mind and the senses. There are here inner senses, a subliminal sight, touch, hearing; but these subtle senses are rather channels of the inner being’s direct consciousness of things than its informants: the subliminal is not dependent on its senses for its knowledge, they only give a form to its direct experience of objects; they do not, so much as in waking mind, convey forms of objects for the mind’s documentation or as the starting-point or basis for an indirect constructive experience. The subliminal has the right of entry into the mental and vital and subtle-physical planes of the universal consciousness, it is not confined to the material plane and the physical world; it possesses means of communication with the worlds of being which the descent towards involution created in its passage and with all corresponding planes or worlds that may have arisen or been constructed to serve the purpose of the re-ascent from Inconscience to Superconscience. It is into this large realm of interior existence that our mind and vital being retire when they withdraw from the surface activities whether by sleep or inward-drawn concentration or by the inner plunge of trance. Our waking state is unaware of its connection with the subliminal being, although it receives from it—but without any knowledge of the place of origin—the inspirations, intuitions, ideas, will-suggestions, sense-suggestions, urges to action that rise from below or from behind our limited surface existence. Sleep like trance opens the gate of the subliminal to us; for in sleep, as in trance, we retire behind the veil of the limited waking personality and it is behind this veil that the subliminal has its existence. But we receive the records of our sleep experience through dream and in dream figures and not in that condition which might be called an inner waking and which is the most accessible form of the trance state, nor through the supernormal clarities of vision and other more luminous and concrete ways of communication developed by the inner subliminal cognition when it gets into habitual or occasional conscious connection with our waking self. The subliminal, with the subconscious as an annexe of itself,—for the subconscious is also part of the behind-the-veil entity,—is the seer of inner things and of supraphysical experiences; the surface subconscious is only a transcriber. It is for this reason that the Upanishad describes the subliminal being as the Dream Self because it is normally in dreams, visions, absorbed states of inner experience that we enter into and are part of its experiences...
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out ::: a. --> In its original and strict sense, out means from the interior of something; beyond the limits or boundary of somethings; in a position or relation which is exterior to something; -- opposed to in or into. The something may be expressed after of, from, etc. (see Out of, below); or, if not expressed, it is implied; as, he is out; or, he is out of the house, office, business, etc.; he came out; or, he came out from the ship, meeting, sect, party, etc.
Away; abroad; off; from home, or from a certain, or a usual,
outer ::: a. --> Being on the outside; external; farthest or farther from the interior, from a given station, or from any space or position regarded as a center or starting place; -- opposed to inner; as, the outer wall; the outer court or gate; the outer stump in cricket; the outer world. ::: n. --> The part of a target which is beyond the circles surrounding
outmost ::: a. --> Farthest from the middle or interior; farthest outward; outermost.
outwards ::: adv. --> From the interior part; in a direction from the interior toward the exterior; out; to the outside; beyond; off; away; as, a ship bound outward.
See Outward, adv.
palea ::: n. --> The interior chaff or husk of grasses.
One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc.
A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap.
parget ::: v. t. --> To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues; as, to parget the outside of their houses.
To paint; to cover over. ::: v. i. --> To lay on plaster.
To paint, as the face.
partition ::: v. --> The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; separation; division; distribution; as, the partition of a kingdom.
That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; separating boundary; dividing line or space; specifically, an interior wall dividing one part or apartment of a house, an inclosure, or the like, from another; as, a brick partition; lath and plaster partitions.
pavement ::: n. --> That with which anythingis paved; a floor or covering of solid material, laid so as to make a hard and convenient surface for travel; a paved road or sidewalk; a decorative interior floor of tiles or colored bricks. ::: v. t. --> To furnish with a pavement; to pave.
penetrate ::: v. t. --> To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to effect an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates darkness.
To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to touch with feeling; to make sensible; to move deeply; as, to penetrate one&
phenomenology ::: The study of consciousness as it immediately appears. A first-person approach to firstperson singular realities. Describing the inside view of the interior of an individual as it is (i.e., the inside view of a holon in the Upper-Left quadrant). Exemplary of a zone-
Phosphorus (Greek) phosphoros. Light-bringing; equivalent of Latin Lucifer (the morning star; a torchbearer, e.g., Hecate, a form of the moon). Satan, according to Christian legend, was once Phosphorus, the redeemer. Also a personified aspect of the astral fire and light in the anima mundi. Eliphas Levi speaks of the interior phosphorus, meaning the astral light.
pilidium ::: n. --> The free-swimming, hat-shaped larva of certain nemertean worms. It has no resemblance to its parent, and the young worm develops in its interior.
pith ::: n. --> The soft spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees, especially those of the dicotyledonous or exogenous classes. It consists of cellular tissue.
The spongy interior substance of a feather.
The spinal cord; the marrow.
Hence: The which contains the strength of life; the vital or essential part; concentrated force; vigor; strength; importance; as, the speech lacked pith.
plasterwork ::: n. --> Plastering used to finish architectural constructions, exterior or interior, especially that used for the lining of rooms. Ordinarly, mortar is used for the greater part of the work, and pure plaster of Paris for the moldings and ornaments.
plutonic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to Pluto; Plutonian; hence, pertaining to the interior of the earth; subterranean.
Of, pertaining to, or designating, the system of the Plutonists; igneous; as, the Plutonic theory.
polystyle ::: a. --> Having many columns; -- said of a building, especially of an interior part or court; as, a polystyle hall. ::: n. --> A polystyle hall or edifice.
porch ::: n. --> A covered and inclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof. Sometimes the porch is large enough to serve as a covered walk. See also Carriage porch, under Carriage, and Loggia.
A portico; a covered walk.
postern ::: n. --> Originally, a back door or gate; a private entrance; hence, any small door or gate.
A subterraneous passage communicating between the parade and the main ditch, or between the ditches and the interior of the outworks. ::: a.
Pratyagatman (Sanskrit) Pratyagātman [from pratyak interior, inner + ātman self] Jivatman or the spiritual monad; sometimes equivalent to the Logos.
Prayer As usually understood in the West, prayer implies the existence — whether actually so in nature or not — of a divine entity, such as God, Christ, an angel or saint, to whom petitions may be addressed and by whose favor benefits may be obtained, a view of prayer held in nearly all exoteric religious systems. Yet even among those who believe in personal divinities, some take a higher view of prayer than that of asking for special favors, rather looking upon it as an act of resignation to the divine will: “Not my will, but thine, be done.” Theosophy speaks of this as the endeavor of the aspiring human mind to establish individual communion between the personal man and his spiritual counterpart or inner god, the true meaning of the injunction to pray to our Father which is in secret. Thus prayer takes the form of aspiration combined with deep meditation, as has been the case with mystics, Eastern and Western. This involves a laying aside of personal wishes and a conscious desire for intuitive perception of the truth and for the power to follow it. If a personal wish is present, precisely because all personal wishes in the last analysis are restricted, and hence either physically or spiritually selfish, the act becomes one of black magic, for the person is seeking to evoke interior powers in furtherance of his own purposes, which in such cases are usually founded in self-seeking of some kind. Also, a well-intentioned person, praying on behalf of another, may unwittingly exercise on that other an interference with the latter’s will, similar in many respects to that of hypnotism.
Psychic Powers ::: The lowest powers of the intermediate or soul-nature in the human being, and we are exercising andusing them all the time -- yes, and we cannot even control them properly! Men's emotional thoughts arevagrant, wandering, uncertain, lacking precision, without positive direction, and feebly governed. Theaverage man cannot even keep his emotions and thoughts in the grip of his self-conscious will. Hisweakest passions lead him astray. It is this part of his nature whence flow his "psychic powers." It isman's work to transmute them and to turn them to employment which is good and useful and holy.Indeed, the average man cannot control the ordinary psycho-astral-physical powers that he commonlyuses; and when, forsooth, people talk about cultivating occult powers, by which they mean merelypsychic powers, it simply shows that through ignorance they know not to what they refer. Their mindsare clouded as regards the actual facts. Those who talk so glibly of cultivating occult powers are just thepeople who cannot be trusted as real guides, for before they themselves can crawl in these mysteriousregions of life, they seem to desire to teach other people how to run and to leap. What most people reallymean, apparently, when they speak of cultivating occult powers is "I want to get power over otherpeople." Such individuals are totally unfit to wield occult powers of any kind, for the motive is in mostcases purely selfish, and their minds are beclouded and darkened with ignorance.The so-called psychic powers have the same relation to genuine spiritual powers that baby-talk has to thediscourse of a wise philosopher. Before occult powers of any kind can be cultivated safely, man mustlearn the first lesson of the mystic knowledge, which is to control himself; and all powers that later hegains must be laid on the altar of impersonal service -- on the altar of service to mankind.Psychic powers will come to men as a natural development of their inner faculties, as evolution performsits wonderful work in future ages. New senses, and new organs corresponding to these new senses, bothinterior and exterior, will come into active functioning in the distant future. But it is perilous both tosanity and to health to attempt to force the development of these prematurely, and unless the training anddiscipline be done under the watchful and compassionate eye of a genuine occult teacher who knowswhat he is about. The world even today contains hundreds of thousands of "sensitives" who are the firstfeeble forerunners of what future evolution will make common in the human race; but these sensitivesare usually in a very unfortunate and trying situation, for they themselves misunderstand what is in them,and they are misunderstood by their fellows. (See also Occultism)
quadrants ::: As in the four quadrants, which represent four basic dimensions of all individual holons: the interior and exterior of the individual and collective. These are designated as the Upper Left (interior-individual), Upper Right (exterior-individual), Lower Left (interiorcollective), and Lower Right (exterior-collective). The quadrants correspond with “I,” “We,” “It,” and “Its,” which are often summarized as the Big Three: “I,” “We,” and “It/s.” The Big Three are correlated with, although not identical to, the value spheres of Art, Morals, and Science, and with Plato’s value judgments of the Good, the True, and the Beautiful. The 8 zones refer to the inside and outside of the four quadrants.
quincuncial ::: --> Having the form of a quincunx.
Having the leaves of a pentamerous calyx or corolla so imbricated that two are exterior, two are interior, and the other has one edge exterior and one interior; as, quincuncial aestivation.
quine "programming" /kwi:n/ (After the logician Willard V. Quine, via Douglas Hofstadter) A program that generates a copy of its own source text as its complete output. Devising the shortest possible quine in some given programming language is a common hackish amusement. In most interpreted languages, any constant, e.g. 42, is a quine because it "evaluates to itself". In certain {Lisp} dialects (e.g. {Emacs Lisp}), the symbols "nil" and "t" are "self-quoting", i.e. they are both a symbol and also the value of that symbol. In some dialects, the function-forming function symbol, "lambda" is self-quoting so that, when applied to some arguments, it returns itself applied to those arguments. Here is a quine in {Lisp} using this idea: ((lambda (x) (list x x)) (lambda (x) (list x x))) Compare this to the {lambda expression}: (\ x . x x) (\ x . x x) which reproduces itself after one step of {beta reduction}. This is simply the result of applying the {combinator} {fix} to the {identity function}. In fact any quine can be considered as a {fixed point} of the language's evaluation mechanism. We can write this in {Lisp}: ((lambda (x) (funcall x x)) (lambda (x) (funcall x x))) where "funcall" applies its first argument to the rest of its arguments, but evaluation of this expression will never terminate so it cannot be called a quine. Here is a more complex version of the above Lisp quine, which will work in Scheme and other Lisps where "lambda" is not self-quoting: ((lambda (x) (list x (list (quote quote) x))) (quote (lambda (x) (list x (list (quote quote) x))))) It's relatively easy to write quines in other languages such as {PostScript} which readily handle programs as data; much harder (and thus more challenging!) in languages like {C} which do not. Here is a classic {C} quine for {ASCII} machines: char*f="char*f=%c%s%c;main() {printf(f,34,f,34,10);}%c"; main(){printf(f,34,f,34,10);} For excruciatingly exact quinishness, remove the interior line break. Some infamous {Obfuscated C Contest} entries have been quines that reproduced in exotic ways. {Ken Thompson}'s {back door} involved an interesting variant of a quine - a compiler which reproduced part of itself when compiling (a version of) itself. [{Jargon File}] (1995-04-25)
radius of convergence: The radius of the circular region on an argand diagram where all points within that region (in the interior of the disc), as argument, provides a convergent power series of a specified function.
RāmaNNa Nikāya. Pāli name of one of the three predominant monastic fraternities (P. NIKĀYA) within the Sinhalese THERAVĀDA SAMGHA, the others being the majority SIYAM NIKĀYA and the AMARAPURA NIKĀYA. The RāmaNNa Nikāya is the smallest of these three, their monastic population being a third that of the Siyam Nikāya and half that of the Amarapura Nikāya. The RāmaNNa Nikāya was one of several reform schools that appeared in Sri Lanka in the mid-nineteenth century. At that time, the dominant Siyam Nikāya only ordained members of the elite Goyigama caste. The Goyigama caste was concentrated in the interior highlands of Sri Lanka, which was governed by the Kandyan king. The lower castes-comprised of toddy tappers and cinnamon peelers (salāgama), who formed the majority population in the British-controlled coastal lowlands-were at most given lower ordination (P. pabbajjā; see S. PRAVRAJITA) as novices (P. sāmanera; S. sRĀMAnERA). This discrimination led to the formation of as many as thirty religious orders whose members came from lower or rising castes. Members of the cinnamon-peeler caste sponsored delegations of religious aspirants who traveled to Burma (Myanmar) in order to receive ordination in an established lineage, ordination they could not receive in Sri Lanka. One such aspirant from the salāgama caste was Ambagahawatte Saranankara, who was ordained on June 12, 1861, by Venerable Gneiyadharma Sangharāja of the Ratnapunna Vihāra in Burma. In 1864, Ambagahawatte Saranankara returned to Sri Lanka and established the RāmaNNa Nikāya order. (RāmaNNa is the Pāli name for the region of south-coastal Burma.) The RāmaNNa Nikāya was established not only in response to caste discrimination but also as an attempt to reform the practices of the Sri Lankan saMgha. Indeed, the RāmaNNa Nikāya's official status as an institution that makes no distinction between castes is portrayed as a return to the Buddha's acceptance of all strata of the Indian caste system. The RāmaNNa Nikāya is particularly strong in the southwestern coastal regions of Sri Lanka, where it was founded.
re-entrant angle: An interior reflex angle, i.e. an angle of a geometric figure which is greater than 180°.
regular polygon: An equiangular and equilateral polygon, i.e. a polygon where all interior angles are the same and all edges are of the same length.
Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) ::: The National Central Security Department formed in 1939 combining the existing Security Police (Gestapo and Kripo) and the SD. It was the central office of the Supreme Command of the SS and the National Ministry of the Interior.
retrocession ::: n. --> The act of retroceding.
The state of being retroceded, or granted back.
Metastasis of an eruption or a tumor from the surface to the interior of the body.
routeing "networking" (US "routing") /roo'ting/ The process, performed by a {router}, of selecting the correct interface and next {hop} for a {packet} being forwarded. This is the British and international standard spelling. See also {Exterior Gateway Protocol}, {Interior Gateway Protocol}. (2001-05-28)
routeing ::: (networking) (US routing) /roo'ting/ The process, performed by a router, of selecting the correct interface and next hop for a packet being forwarded.This is the British and international standard spelling.See also Exterior Gateway Protocol, Interior Gateway Protocol.(2001-05-28)
router "networking" /roo't*/ A device which forwards {packets} between {networks}. The forwarding decision is based on {network layer} information and routing tables, often constructed by routing {protocols}. {Unix manual page}: route(8). See also {bridge}, {gateway}, {Exterior Gateway Protocol}, {Interior Gateway Protocol}, {flapping router}. (1999-08-24)
router ::: (networking) /roo't*/ A device which forwards packets between networks. The forwarding decision is based on network layer information and routing tables, often constructed by routing protocols.Unix manual page: route(8).See also bridge, gateway, Exterior Gateway Protocol, Interior Gateway Protocol, flapping router. (1999-08-24)
Routing Information Protocol ::: 1. (networking) (RIP) A distance vector, as opposed to link state, routing protocol. RIP is an Internet standard Interior Gateway Protocol defined in STD 34, RFC 1058 and updated by RFC 1388.See also Open Shortest Path First.2. (networking) (RIP) A companion protocol to IPX for exchange of routing information in a Novell network. RIP has been partly superseded by NLSP. It is not related to the Internet protocol of the same name. (1997-03-04)
Routing Information Protocol 1. "networking" (RIP) A {distance vector}, as opposed to {link state}, {routing} {protocol}. RIP is an {Internet} {standard} {Interior Gateway Protocol} defined in {STD} 34, {RFC 1058} and updated by {RFC 1388}. See also {Open Shortest Path First}. 2. "networking" (RIP) A companion {protocol} to {IPX} for exchange of {routing} information in a {Novell} {network}. RIP has been partly superseded by {NLSP}. It is not related to the {Internet} protocol of the same name. (1997-03-04)
salient angle: An interior angle os a geometric figure that is locally convex. An interior angle less than 180°.
sarcoblast ::: n. --> A minute yellowish body present in the interior of certain rhizopods.
scaling ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Scale ::: a. --> Adapted for removing scales, as from a fish; as, a scaling knife; adapted for removing scale, as from the interior of a steam boiler; as, a scaling hammer, bar, etc.
Serving as an aid in clambering; as, a scaling ladder,
secondary parts: The median, altitude, orthocenter etc., i.e. any derived parts of a triangle which is not one of the 3 sides or one of the 3 interior angles.
signified ::: The interior apprehension elicited by any sign or symbol. In Integral Theory, the signified is typically associated with the Upper-Left quadrant. See Integral Semiotics.
Skandha(s)(Sanskrit) ::: Literally "bundles," or groups of attributes, to use H. P. Blavatsky's definition. When deathcomes to a man in any one life, the seeds of those causes previously sown by him and which have not yetcome forth into blossom and full-blown flower and fruit, remain in his interior and invisible parts asimpulses lying latent and sleeping: lying latent like sleeping seeds for future flowerings into action in thenext and succeeding lives. They are psychological impulse-seeds lying asleep until their appropriatestage for awakening into action arrives at some time in the future.In the case of the cosmic bodies, every solar or planetary body upon entering into its pralaya, itsprakritika-pralaya -- the dissolution of its lower principles -- at the end of its long life cycle, exists inspace in the higher activity of its spiritual principles, and in the dispersion of its lowest principles, whichlatter latently exist in space as skandhas in a laya-condition.When a laya-center is fired into action by the touch of wills and consciousnesses on their downward way,becoming the imbodying life of a solar system, or of a planet of a solar system, the center manifests firston its highest plane, and later on its lower plane. The skandhas are awakened into life one after another:first the highest ones, next the intermediate ones, and lastly the inferior ones, cosmically and qualitativelyspeaking.The term skandhas in theosophical philosophy has the general significance of bundles or groups ofattributes, which together form or compose the entire set of material and also mental, emotional, andmoral qualities. Exoterically the skandhas are "bundles" of attributes five in number, but esoterically theyare seven. These unite at the birth of man and constitute his personality. After the death of the body theskandhas are separated and so remain until the reincarnating ego on its downward path into physicalincarnation gathers them together again around itself, and thus reforms the human constitutionconsidered as a unity.In brief, the skandhas can be said to be the aggregate of the groups of attributes or qualities which makeeach individual man the personality that he is; but this must be sharply distinguished from theindividuality.
Sleep In sleep the ego becomes unconscious on the physical plane in its brain — except in the cases of dreaming; the connection between the mind and the bodily senses is quiescent and there is no direct self-conscious cognition of physical objects and events. In short, the ego is functioning on a different plane of consciousness. On awaking, we have confused recollections of experiences of the state of imperfect sleep which fringes the waking and sleeping states, but the sleeping state is not a single state. Many planes of consciousness are enumerated, of which what we call the waking state is one. One Hindu system has a fourfold division of consciousness into jagrat, the waking state; svapna, the dream state; sushupti, the state of dreamless sleep; and, highest, the turiya, which is relatively complete egoic or spiritual consciousness on interior planes. From this last state of perfect awakenment, the jagrat or physical waking state is the farthest removed; what is to us the dream state (svapna) is a closer approach; and sushupti, which to us is complete loss of physical brain-mind consciousness, is actually the closest approach to the complete consciousness experienced by the ego in turiya. Turiya is the complete oblivion to the outside world, for the ego is functioning in its spiritual vehicle of consciousness.
solid of revolution: A 3-dimensional geometric figure created by the interior of a surface of revolution.
something concealed; secret thought; innermost being, inner essence or, as E. W. Lane variously described it: private knowledge; something inserted in the interior; a pleasure, or delight, and dilation of the heart, of which there is no external sign.
statoblast ::: n. --> One of a peculiar kind of internal buds, or germs, produced in the interior of certain Bryozoa and sponges, especially in the fresh-water species; -- also called winter buds.
stomatoscope ::: n. --> An apparatus for examining the interior of the mouth.
stream of consciousness: See interior monologue.
structuralism ::: Traditionally refers to the study of the structures of the mind that underlie human behavior. In Integral Theory, structuralism typically refers to the objective study of interior realities over time in search of regularities and patterns. It is most often used as a third-person approach to first-person singular realities. The outside view of the interior of an individual (i.e., the outside view of a holon in the Upper-Left quadrant). Exemplary of a zone-
subjective ::: 1. Pertaining to the interior of an individual, or the Upper-Left quadrant. Examples of subjective phenomena include thoughts, feelings, and visions. 2. Pertaining to the Left-Hand path, in general. 3. Pertaining to 1-p, in general.
Svabhava(Sanskrit) ::: A compound word derived from the verb-root bhu, meaning "to become" -- not so much "tobe" in the passive sense, but rather "to become," to "grow into" something. The quasi-pronominal prefixsva, means "self"; hence the noun means "self-becoming," "self-generation," "self-growing" intosomething. Yet the essential or fundamental or integral Self, although following continuously its ownlofty line of evolution, cannot be said to suffer the changes or phases that its vehicles undergo. Like themonads, like the One, thus the Self fundamental -- which, after all, is virtually the same as the onemonadic essence -- sends down a ray from itself into every organic entity, much as the sun sends a rayfrom itself into the surrounding "darkness" of the solar universe.Svabhava has two general philosophical meanings: first, self-begetting, self-generation, self-becoming,the general idea being that there is no merely mechanical or soulless activity of nature in bringing us intobeing, for we brought ourselves forth, in and through and by nature, of which we are a part of theconscious forces, and therefore are our own children. The second meaning is that each and every entitythat exists is the result of what he actually is spiritually in his own higher nature: he brings forth thatwhich he is in himself interiorly, nothing else. A particular race, for instance, remains and is that race aslong as the particular race-svabhava remains in the racial seed and manifests thus. Likewise is the casethe same with a man, a tree, a star, a god -- what not!What makes a rose bring forth a rose always and not thistles or daisies or pansies? The answer is verysimple; very profound, however. It is because of its svabhava, the essential nature in and of the seed. Itssvabhava can bring forth only that which itself is, its essential characteristic, its own inner nature.Svabhava, in short, may be called the essential individuality of any monad, expressing its owncharacteristics, qualities, and type, by self-urged evolution.The seed can produce nothing but what it itself is, what is in it; and this is the heart and essence of thedoctrine of svabhava. The philosophical, scientific, and religious reach of this doctrine is simplyimmense; and it is of the first importance. Consequently, each individual svabhava brings forth andexpresses as its own particular vehicles its various svarupas, signifying characteristic bodies or images orforms. The svabhava of a dog, for instance, brings forth the dog body. The svabhava of a rose bringsforth the rose flower; the svabhava of a man brings forth man's shape or image; and the svabhava of adivinity or god brings forth its own svarupa or characteristic vehicle.
tetra-mesh ::: The act whereby a holon meshes or fits with the selection pressures (i.e., the validity claims) of all four quadrants. In order to tetra-mesh, each holon must, to some degree, be able to register its own exterior accurately enough (truth), its own interior accurately enough (truthfulness), understand its cultural milieu (mutual understanding), and fit within its social system (functional fit). Also referred to as tetra-enactment or tetraevolution, meaning that all four selection pressures must be dealt with adequately in order for a holon to evolve.
The building was generally, in accordance with ancient mystery-habits, situated near a body of water and orientated from north to south, the synagog having three doors to the south; the interior was divided by columns into a nave and two aisles.
“The life-atoms are actually the offspring or the off-throwings of the interior principles of man’s constitution. It is obvious that the life-atoms which ensoul the physical atoms in man’s body are as numerous as the atoms which they ensoul; and there are almost countless hosts of them, . . . in practically incomputable numbers. Each one of these life-atoms is a learning entity, an evolving entity, a being which is living, moving, growing, never standing still — evolving towards a sublime destiny which ultimately becomes divinity” (OG 87).
theosophy ::: n. --> Any system of philosophy or mysticism which proposes to attain intercourse with God and superior spirits, and consequent superhuman knowledge, by physical processes, as by the theurgic operations of some ancient Platonists, or by the chemical processes of the German fire philosophers; also, a direct, as distinguished from a revealed, knowledge of God, supposed to be attained by extraordinary illumination; especially, a direct insight into the processes of the divine mind, and the interior relations of the divine nature.
To be an Aristotelian under such extremely complicated circumstances was the problem that St. Thomas set himself. What he did reduced itself fundamentally to three points: (a) He showed the Platonic orientation of St. Augustine's thought, the limitations that St. Augustine himself placed on his Platonism, and he inferred from this that St. Augustine could not be made the patron of the highly elaborated and sophisticated Platonism that an Ibn Gebirol expounded in his Fons Vitae or an Avicenna in his commentaries on the metaphysics and psychology of Aristotle. (b) Having singled out Plato as the thinker to search out behind St. Augustine, and having really eliminated St. Augustine from the Platonic controversies of the thirteenth century, St. Thomas is then concerned to diagnose the Platonic inspiration of the various commentators of Aristotle, and to separate what is to him the authentic Aristotle from those Platonic aberrations. In this sense, the philosophical activity of St. Thomas in the thirteenth century can be understood as a systematic critique and elimination of Platonism in metaphysics, psychology and epistemology. The Platonic World of Ideas is translated into a theory of substantial principles in a world of stable and intelligible individuals; the Platonic man, who was scarcely more than an incarcerated spirit, became a rational animal, containing within his being an interior economy which presented in a rational system his mysterious nature as a reality existing on the confines of two worlds, spirit and matter; the Platonic theory of knowledge (at least in the version of the Meno rather than that of the later dialogues where the doctrine of division is more prominent), which was regularly beset with the difficulty of accounting for the origin and the truth of knowledge, was translated into a theory of abstraction in which sensible experience enters as a necessary moment into the explanation of the origin, the growth and the use of knowledge, and in which the intelligible structure of sensible being becomes the measure of the truth of knowledge and of knowing.
tracheoscopy ::: n. --> Examination of the interior of the trachea by means of a mirror.
triforium ::: n. --> The gallery or open space between the vaulting and the roof of the aisles of a church, often forming a rich arcade in the interior of the church, above the nave arches and below the clearstory windows.
tuyere ::: n. --> A nozzle, mouthpiece, or fixture through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge.
U-min Ko-zei Pagoda. A multitowered pagoda (Burmese, JEDI) located in the Sagaing Hills in Upper Burma (Myanmar). Its name means "ninety caves," and it was given this epithet in imitation of another famous shrine found in the Sagaing Hills called U-min Thon-zei, or the "Thirty Caves Shrine." U-min Ko-zei Pagoda is in actuality not comprised of ninety caves but is a freestanding structure with more than thirty entrances leading to an interior artificial cave. U-min Ko-zei Pagoda is one of four related pagodas originally built during the AVA period that are collectively known as Hsin-bo-lei Hpaya ("the four pagodas equal in value to an elephant"). This unusual name is explained by the following story. On one occasion, King Min-hkaung-gyi of Ava (r. 1481-1502) went by elephant to pay his respects to the monk Ariyawuntha, a famous scholar whose monastery was located between four hillocks. As it happened, while the king was meeting with this monk, his elephant ate leaves from the monastery's BODHI TREE and promptly fell unconscious. Luckily, the elephant was revived with medicinal herbs gathered from the four surrounding hills. In memory of this event, the king built a pagoda on each of the four hilltops, the total cost of which equaled the value of his elephant.
Universal Brotherhood ::: Universal brotherhood as understood in the esoteric philosophy, and which is a sublime natural fact ofuniversal nature, does not signify merely sentimental unity, or a simple political or social cooperation. Itsmeaning is incomparably wider and profounder than this. The sense inherent in the words in their widesttenor or purport is the spiritual brotherhood of all beings; particularly, the doctrine implies that allhuman beings are inseparably linked together, not merely by the bonds of emotional thought or feeling,but by the very fabric of the universe itself, all men -- as well as all beings, both high and low andintermediate -- springing forth from the inner and spiritual sun of the universe as its hosts of spiritualrays. We all come from this one source, that spiritual sun, and are all builded of the same life-atoms onall the various planes.It is this interior unity of being and of consciousness, as well as the exterior union of us all, whichenables us to grasp intellectually and spiritually the mysteries of the universe; because not merelyourselves and our own fellow human beings, but also all other beings and things that are, are children ofthe same kosmic parent, great Mother Nature, in all her seven (and ten) planes or worlds of being. We areall rooted in the same kosmic essence, whence we all proceeded in the beginning of the primordialperiods of world evolution, and towards which we are all journeying back. This interlocking andinterblending of the numberless hierarchies of beings forming the universe itself extends everywhere, inthe invisible worlds as well as in the worlds which are visible.Finally, it is upon this fact of the spiritual unity of all beings and things that reposes the basis andfoundation of human ethics when these last are properly understood. In the esoteric philosophy ethics areno mere human convention or rules of action convenient and suitable for the amelioration of theasperities of human intercourse, but are fundamental in the very structure and inextricably coordinatedoperations of the universe itself.
urethroscope ::: n. --> An instrument for viewing the interior of the urethra.
vacuole ::: n. --> A small air cell, or globular space, in the interior of organic cells, either containing air, or a pellucid watery liquid, or some special chemical secretions of the cell protoplasm.
vacuum ::: n. --> A space entirely devoid of matter (called also, by way of distinction, absolute vacuum); hence, in a more general sense, a space, as the interior of a closed vessel, which has been exhausted to a high or the highest degree by an air pump or other artificial means; as, water boils at a reduced temperature in a vacuum.
The condition of rarefaction, or reduction of pressure below that of the atmosphere, in a vessel, as the condenser of a steam engine, which is nearly exhausted of air or steam, etc.; as, a vacuum
verger ::: n. --> One who carries a verge, or emblem of office.
An attendant upon a dignitary, as on a bishop, a dean, a justice, etc.
The official who takes care of the interior of a church building.
A garden or orchard.
vestibules ::: passages, halls, or antechambers between the outer door and the interior parts of a house or building.
way shaft ::: --> A rock shaft.
An interior shaft, usually one connecting two levels.
weevil ::: n. --> Any one of numerous species of snout beetles, or Rhynchophora, in which the head is elongated and usually curved downward. Many of the species are very injurious to cultivated plants. The larvae of some of the species live in nuts, fruit, and grain by eating out the interior, as the plum weevil, or curculio, the nut weevils, and the grain weevil (see under Plum, Nut, and Grain). The larvae of other species bore under the bark and into the pith of trees and various other plants, as the pine weevils (see under Pine). See
within ::: prep. --> In the inner or interior part of; inside of; not without; as, within doors.
In the limits or compass of; not further in length than; as, within five miles; not longer in time than; as, within an hour; not exceeding in quantity; as, expenses kept within one&
Yekanta bhakti: In bhakti yoga (q.v.) the interior and silent adoration of the ineffable formless, ubiquitous Presence.
yeoman ::: n. --> A common man, or one of the commonly of the first or most respectable class; a freeholder; a man free born.
A servant; a retainer.
A yeoman of the guard; also, a member of the yeomanry cavalry.
An interior officer under the boatswain, gunner, or carpenters, charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of the stores.
zoochlorella ::: n. --> One of the small green granulelike bodies found in the interior of certain stentors, hydras, and other invertebrates.
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5:In the interior of each atom that thou shalt cleave thou shalt find imprisoned a sun. ~ Ahmed Halif: Mystic Odes, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
6:Jesus loves hidden souls. A hidden flower is the most fragrant. I must strive to make the interior of my soul a resting place for the Heart of Jesus." ~ Saint Faustina Kowalska, #KEYS
7:He who speaks best of God is he who, in the presence of the plenitude of the interior riches, knows best how to be silent. ~ Eckhart, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
8:THOUGHT comes first, then WORDS, since our words express openly the interior conclusions of the mind. ~ Finally, after thoughts and words, comes ACTION, for our deeds carry out what the mind has conceived., #KEYS
9:There are some so restless that when they are free from labour they labour all the more, because the more leisure they have for thought, the worse interior turmoil they have to bear. ~ Pope St. Gregory the Great , #KEYS
10:The Master is both within and without, so he creates conditions to drive you inwards and at the same time prepares the interior to drag you to the Centre. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Path of Self-Knowledge, 14, #KEYS
11:For someone who penetrates the interior essence of Life, the enigmatic content of Christianity is suddenly illuminated in a light of such intensity that anyone perceiving it in this light finds himself profoundly unsettled. ~ Michel Henry, I Am the Truth, #KEYS
12:Actual grace is constantly offered to us for the accomplishment of the duty of the present moment, just as air comes constantly into our lungs to permit us to breathe. ~ Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, The Three Ages of the Interior Life: Prelude of Eternal Life, #KEYS
13:There has also entered into the Church disunity, division, strife and antagonism. The forces of atheism and Masonry, having infiltrated within it, are on the point of breaking up its interior unity and of darkening the splendor of its sanctity." ~ Our Lady to Fr. Stefano Gobbi, #KEYS
14:This interior division (at Church) is manifesting itself even among the faithful who often set themselves one against the other, in an attempt to defend and better promote the truth. Thus the truth is betrayed by even them, as the Gospel of my Son cannot be divided." ~ Our Lady , #KEYS
15:A sumptuous chamber of the spirit's sleep
At first she made, a deep interior room,
Where he slumbers as if a forgotten guest. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
16:True strength of will is calm; in calmness it is persevering so that it does not become discouraged by momentary lack of success or by any wounds received. No one is conquered until he has given up the struggle. And he who works for the Lord puts his confidence in God and not in himself. ~ Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, The Three Ages of the Interior Life: Prelude of Eternal Life, #KEYS
17:Meditation here is not reflection or any other kind of discursive thinking. It is pure concentration: training the mind to dwell on an interior focus without wandering, until it becomes absorbed in the object of its contemplation. But absorption does not mean unconsciousness. The outside world may be forgotten, but meditation is a state of intense inner wakefulness. ~ Anonymous, The Upanishads, #KEYS
18:To read Savitri is to witness a tremendous adventure in the interior realms; to witness and participate in a multidimensional quest. Because Savitri is cast in the mould of epic poetry or mahakavya, the requisite state of mind is one of openness and humility, similar to that of prayer. Each word and each phrase should ring in a 'solitude and an immensity', be heard in the 'listening spaces of the soul' and the 'inner acoustic space', and be seized by the deeper self when the mantric evocations come into effect. ~ Murali Sivaramakrishnan, #KEYS
19: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
20:To take symbolism seriously is to accept the 'analogy of being' between different levels of reality... More than the sum of its parts, the figure is the appearing-to-us of an infinite depth that cannot be fully revealed in time. Every symbol is a kind of gestalt, in which a universal meaning can be glimpsed. Eventually, every created thing can be seen as a manifestation of its own interior essence, and the world is transformed into a radiant book to be read with eyes sensitive to spiritual light. ~ Stratford Caldecott, Beauty for Truth's Sake: On the Re-enchantment of Education, #KEYS
21:Flatland accepts no interior domain whatsoever, and reintroducing Spirit is the least of our worries. 'Thus our task is not specifically to reintroduce spirituality and somehow attempt to show that modern science is becoming compatible with God. That approach, which is taken by most of the integrative attempts, does not go nearly deep enough in diagnosing the disease, and thus, in my opinion, never really addresses the crucial issues. 'Rather, it is the rehabilitation of the interior in general that opens the possibility of reconciling science and religion.' ~ Ken Wilber, Marriage of Sense and Soul, p. 142., #KEYS
22:Now let us return to our beautiful and charming castle and discover how to enter it. This appears incongruous: if this castle is the soul, clearly no one can have to enter it, for it is the person himself: one might as well tell some one to go into a room he is already in! There are, however, very different ways of being in this castle; many souls live in the courtyard of the building where the sentinels stand, neither caring to enter farther, nor to know who dwells in that most delightful place, what is in it and what rooms it contains. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, The Interior Castle, #KEYS
23:8. Now let us turn at last to our castle with its many mansions. You must not think of a suite of rooms placed in succession, but fix your eyes on the keep, the court inhabited by the King.23' Like the kernel of the palmito,24' from which several rinds must be removed before coming to the eatable part, this principal chamber is surrounded by many others. However large, magnificent, and spacious you imagine this castle to be, you cannot exaggerate it; the capacity of the soul is beyond all our understanding, and the Sun within this palace enlightens every part of it. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, The Interior Castle, #KEYS
24:The Yogi should always listen to the sound (nada) in the interior of his right ear. This sound, when constantly practiced, will drown every sound (dhvani from outside .... By persisting ... the sound will be heard subtler and subtler. At first, it will be like what is produced by the ocean (jaladhi), the cloud (jimuta), the kettle-drum (bheri), and the water-fall (nirjhara) . ... A little later it will be like the sound produced by a tabor (mardala, or small drum), a big bell (ghanta), and a military drum (kahala); and finally like the sound of the tinkling bell (kinkin), the bamboo-flute (vamsa), the harp (vina) and the bee (bhramara).
~ Nadabindu-Upanishad, (verses 31-41),#KEYS
25:Likewise, looking deep within the mind, in the very most interior part of the self, when the mind becomes very, very quiet, and one listens very carefully, in that infinite silence, the soul begins to whisper, and its feather-soft voice takes one far beyond what the mind could ever imagine, beyond anything rationality could possibly tolerate, beyond anything logic can endure. In its gentle whisperings, there are the faintest hints of infinite love, glimmers of a life that time forgot, flashes of a bliss that must not be mentioned, an infinite intersection where the mysteries of eternity breathe life into mortal time, where suffering and pain have forgotten how to pronounce their own names, this secret quiet intersection of time and the very timeless, an intersection called the soul. ~ Ken Wilber, Integral Psychology, p. 106., #KEYS
26:MATT: Okay. You spiral upward and upward and upward, climbing an extremely long period of time.
Your legs begin to ache a little bit. Then another floor opens up. It appears the tower is now divided into two chambers. From the bottom floor up, it's now two sides to a tower and you're on the right side. The hallway curves around the outer edge of the tower. On the opposite side, you can see the staircase continues upward. The interior of this chamber appears to be an incredible arcane laboratory, occupying the center space of the tower inside. You see six overlapping circles of dulled runes and glyphs that encompass the entire 30-foot walkway between here and the stairs. Shelves and tables of countless glass tubes and metallic vices lay out across tables, organized in a near-OCD pattern. Tomes and books line the inner chamber walls. What do you guys do? ~ Matt Mercer, Critical Role,#KEYS
27:10.: 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. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, The Interior Castle, 1.02, #KEYS
28:5. Belly of the Whale:The idea that the passage of the magical threshold is a transit into a sphere of rebirth is symbolized in the worldwide womb image of the belly of the whale. The hero, instead of conquering or conciliating the power of the threshold, is swallowed into the unknown and would appear to have died. This popular motif gives emphasis to the lesson that the passage of the threshold is a form of self-annihilation. Instead of passing outward, beyond the confines of the visible world, the hero goes inward, to be born again. The disappearance corresponds to the passing of a worshipper into a temple-where he is to be quickened by the recollection of who and what he is, namely dust and ashes unless immortal. The temple interior, the belly of the whale, and the heavenly land beyond, above, and below the confines of the world, are one and the same. That is why the approaches and entrances to temples are flanked and defended by colossal gargoyles: dragons, lions, devil-slayers with drawn swords, resentful dwarfs, winged bulls. The devotee at the moment of entry into a temple undergoes a metamorphosis. Once inside he may be said to have died to time and returned to the World Womb, the World Navel, the Earthly Paradise. Allegorically, then, the passage into a temple and the hero-dive through the jaws of the whale are identical adventures, both denoting in picture language, the life-centering, life-renewing act. ~ Joseph Campbell, #KEYS
29:WHEN THE GREAT YOGIN Padmasambhava, called by Tibetans Guru Rinpoche, "the precious teacher," embarks on his spiritual journey, he travels from place to place requesting teachings from yogins and yoginls. Guided by visions and dreams, his journey takes him to desolate forests populated with ferocious wild animals, to poison lakes with fortified islands, and to cremation grounds. Wherever he goes he performs miracles, receives empowerments, and ripens his own abilities to benefit others.
When he hears of the supreme queen of all dakinls, the greatly accomplished yogini called Secret Wisdom, he travels to the Sandal Grove cremation ground to the gates of her abode, the Palace of Skulls. He attempts to send a request to the queen with her maidservant Kumari. But the girl ignores him and continues to carry huge brass jugs of water suspended from a heavy yoke across her shoulders. When he presses his request, Kumari continues her labors, remaining silent. The great yogin becomes impatient and, through his yogic powers, magically nails the heavy jugs to the floor. No matter how hard Kumari struggles, she cannot lift them.
Removing the yoke and ropes from her shoulders, she steps before Padmasambhava, exclaiming, "You have developed great yogic powers. What of my powers, great one?" And so saying, she draws a sparkling crystal knife from the girdle at her waist and slices open her heart center, revealing the vivid and vast interior space of her body. Inside she displays to Guru Rinpoche the mandala of deities from the inner tantras: forty-two peaceful deities manifested in her upper torso and head and fifty-eight wrathful deities resting in her lower torso. Abashed that he did not realize with whom he was dealing, Guru Rinpoche bows before her and humbly renews his request for teachings. In response, she offers him her respect as well, adding, "I am only a maidservant," and ushers him in to meet the queen Secret Wisdom. ~ Judith Simmer-Brown, Dakini's Warm Breath: The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism, Introduction: Encountering the Dakini,#KEYS
30:reading :::
50 Spiritual Classics: List of Books Covered:
Muhammad Asad - The Road To Mecca (1954)
St Augustine - Confessions (400)
Richard Bach - Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)
Black Elk Black - Elk Speaks (1932)
Richard Maurice Bucke - Cosmic Consciousness (1901)
Fritjof Capra - The Tao of Physics (1976)
Carlos Castaneda - Journey to Ixtlan (1972)
GK Chesterton - St Francis of Assisi (1922)
Pema Chodron - The Places That Scare You (2001)
Chuang Tzu - The Book of Chuang Tzu (4th century BCE)
Ram Dass - Be Here Now (1971)
Epictetus - Enchiridion (1st century)
Mohandas Gandhi - An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth (1927)
Al-Ghazzali - The Alchemy of Happiness (1097)
Kahlil Gibran - The Prophet (1923)
GI Gurdjieff - Meetings With Remarkable Men (1960)
Dag Hammarskjold - Markings (1963)
Abraham Joshua Heschel - The Sabbath (1951)
Hermann Hesse - Siddartha (1922)
Aldous Huxley - The Doors of Perception (1954)
William James - The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
Carl Gustav Jung - Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1955)
Margery Kempe - The Book of Margery Kempe (1436)
J Krishnamurti - Think On These Things (1964)
CS Lewis - The Screwtape Letters (1942)
Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1964)
Daniel C Matt - The Essential Kabbalah (1994)
Dan Millman - The Way of the Peaceful Warrior (1989)
W Somerset Maugham - The Razor's Edge (1944)
Thich Nhat Hanh - The Miracle of Mindfulness (1975)
Michael Newton - Journey of Souls (1994)
John O'Donohue - Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom (1998)
Robert M Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974)
James Redfield - The Celestine Prophecy (1994)
Miguel Ruiz - The Four Agreements (1997)
Helen Schucman & William Thetford - A Course in Miracles (1976)
Idries Shah - The Way of the Sufi (1968)
Starhawk - The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess (1979)
Shunryu Suzuki - Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (1970)
Emanuel Swedenborg - Heaven and Hell (1758)
Teresa of Avila - Interior Castle (1570)
Mother Teresa - A Simple Path (1994)
Eckhart Tolle - The Power of Now (1998)
Chogyam Trungpa - Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism (1973)
Neale Donald Walsch - Conversations With God (1998)
Rick Warren - The Purpose-Driven Life (2002)
Simone Weil - Waiting For God (1979)
Ken Wilber - A Theory of Everything (2000)
Paramahansa Yogananda - Autobiography of a Yogi (1974)
Gary Zukav - The Seat of the Soul (1990)
~ Tom Butler-Bowdon, 50 Spirital Classics (2017 Edition),#KEYS
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:Our real journey in life is interior. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 2:The root of prayer is interior silence. ~ thomas-keating, @wisdomtrove 3:All the trials we endure cannot be compared to these interior battles. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 4:Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 5:Prosperity Whose sources are interior. As soon Adversity A diamond overtake. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 6:You cannot have exterior development without interior development to hold it in place. ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove 7:I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 8:Why do they call it the Department of Interior when they are in charge of everything outdoors? ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 9:The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove 10:& 11:Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life. ~ margaret-fuller, @wisdomtrove 12:When you approach intuitive methods with respect, you become open to hearing from your interior channels. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 13:When you approach intuitive methods with respect, you become open to hearing from your interior channels. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 14:Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 15:... and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 16:Interior Castle by, (Ch. 3), translated by the Benedictines of Stanbrook (1921), revised and edited by Fr. Benedict Zimmerman, 1577. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 17:Interior Castle by, (Ch. 2), as translated by the Benedictines of Stanbrook (1911), revised and edited by Fr. Benedict Zimmerman, 1577. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 18:There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 19:More than any gift or toy, ornament of tree, let us resolve that this Christmas shall be, like that first Christmas, a celebration of interior treasures. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 20:The net effect of Clarence Darrow's great speech yesterday seemed to be precisely the same as if he had bawled it up a rainspout in the interior of Afghanistan. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 21:In order to keep our balance, we need to hold the interior and exterior, visible and invisible, known and unknown, temporal and eternal, ancient and new, together. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove 22:Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable. ~ ambrose-bierce, @wisdomtrove 23:In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove 24:She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didn’t care. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 25:The question of immortality is of its nature not a scholarly question. It is a question welling up from the interior which the subject must put to itself as it becomes conscious of itself. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 26:Our real journey in life is interior; It is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts. Never was it more necessary to respond to that action. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 27:Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 28:All of the rocky and metallic material we stand on, the iron in our blood, the calcium in our teeth, the carbon in our genes were produced billions of years ago in the interior of a red giant star. We are made of star stuff. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 29:We wasters of sorrows! How we stare away into sad endurance beyond them, trying to foresee their end! Whereas they are nothing else than our winter foliage, our sombre evergreen, one of the seasons of our interior year. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove 30:The exterior must be joined to the interior to obtain anything from God, that is to say, we must kneel, pray with the lips, and soon, in order that proud man, who would not submit himself to God, may be now subject to the creature. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 31:One of the most important-and most neglected-elements in the beginning of the interior life is the ability to respond to reality, to see the value and the beauty in ordinary things, to come alive to the splendour that is all around us. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 32:You will never be able to have perfect interior peace and recollection unless you are detached even from the desire of peace and recollection. You will never be able to pray perfectly until you are detached from the pleasures of prayer. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 33:Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation. ~ salvador-dali, @wisdomtrove 34:The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more truly and perfectly himself: for his personality and individuality are perfected in their true order, the spiritual, interior order. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 35:Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only superficially) and is ready to release what lies deeper. When I am willfully alone, a slight ordering of my interior begins to take place and I need nothing more. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove 36:Interior silence is one of the most strengthening and affirming of human experiences. There is nothing more affirming in fact, than the experience of God´s presence. That revelation says, as nothing else can, You are a good person, I created you and I love you. ~ thomas-keating, @wisdomtrove 37:Global consciousness is not an objective belief that can be taught to anybody and everybody, but a subjective transformation in the interior structures that can hold belief in the first place, which itself is the product of a long line of inner consciousness development. ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove 38:If, in making a portrait, you hope to grasp the interior silence of a willing victim, it's very difficult, but you must somehow position the camera between his shirt and his skin. Whereas with pencil drawing, it is up to the artist to have an interior silence. ~ henri-cartier-bresson, @wisdomtrove 39:Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory. ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove 40:To listen is very hard, because it asks of us so much interior stability that we no longer need to prove ourselves by speeches, arguments, statements or declarations. True listeners no longer have an inner need to make their presence known. They are free to receive, welcome, to accept. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 41:Your adventure has to be coming out of your own interior. If you are ready for it then doors will open where there were no doors before, and where there would not be doors for anyone else. And you must have courage. It's the call to adventure, which means there is no security, no rules. ~ joseph-campbell, @wisdomtrove 42:Who can tell whether the parallelogram, which in our ignorance we have defined and drawn, and the whole of whose properties we profess to know, may not be all the while panting for exterior angles, sympathetic with the interior, or sullenly repining at the fact that it cannot be inscribed in a circle? ~ lewis-carroll, @wisdomtrove 43:Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 44:The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call “the trouble with you.” Nevertheless, the journey is worth making. ~ quentin-crisp, @wisdomtrove 45:Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not : whoso would behold her must climb with long and laborious effort, nay, still linger in the forecourt, till manifold trial have proved him worthy of admission into the interior solemnities. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 46:most of the shaping of your mind remains forever unconscious. This is called implicit memory, and it includes your expectations, models of relationships, emotional tendencies, and general outlook. Implicit memory establishes the interior landscape of your mind—what it feels like to be you—based on the slowly accumulating residues of lived experience. In ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove 47:I had a parakeet that used to fly around the house and crash into these huge mirrors my mother put in. Ever heard of this interior design principle, that a mirror makes it seem like you have an entire other room? What kind of jerk walks up to a mirror and goes, Hey look, there's a whole other room in there. There's a guy that looks just like me in there. ~ jerry-seinfeld, @wisdomtrove 48:When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and consequently it is held together by a violent and abusive authority. But when men are violently deprived of the solitude and freedom which are their due, then society in which they live becomes putrid, it festers with servility, resentment and hate. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 49:Mindfulness as a practice provides endless opportunities to cultivate greater intimacy with your own mind and to tap into and develop your deep interior resources for learning, growing, healing, and potentially for transforming your understanding of who you are and how you might live more wisely and with greater well-being, meaning, and happiness in this world. ~ jon-kabat-zinn, @wisdomtrove 50:Beauty and art pervade all the business of life like a kindly genius, brightly adorning our surroundings whether interior or exterior, mitigating the seriousness of existence and the complexities of the real life, extinguishing idleness in an entertaining fashion, and, where there is nothing good to be achieved, filling the place of vice better than vice itself. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove 51:The undiscovered vein within us is a living part of the psyche; classical Chinese philosophy names this interior way "Tao," and likens it to a flow of water that moves irresistibly towards its goal. To rest in Tao means fulfillment, wholeness, one's destination reached, one's mission done; the beginning, end, and perfect realization of the meaning of existence innate in all things. ~ carl-jung, @wisdomtrove 52:In other words, the real problem is not exterior. The real problem is interior. The real problem is how to get people to internally transform, from egocentric to sociocentric to worldcentric consciousness, which is the only stance that can grasp the global dimensions of the problem in the first place, and thus the only stance that can freely, even eagerly, embrace global solutions. ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove 53:Our thought should not merely be an answer to what someone else has just said. Or what someone else might have said. Our interior world must be more than an echo of the words of someone else. There is no point in being a moon to somebody else's sun, still less is there any justification for our being moons of one another, and hence darkness to one another, not one of us being a true sun. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 54:The most dangerous man in the world is the contemplative who is guided by nobody. He trusts his own visions. He obeys the attractions of an interior voice but will not listen to other men. He identifies the will of God with anything that makes him feel, within his own heart, a big, warm, sweet interior glow. The sweeter and the warmer the feeling is, the more he is convinced of his own infallibility. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 55:Don’t judge centering prayer on the basis of how many thoughts come or how much peace you enjoy. The only way to judge this prayer is by its long-range fruits: whether in daily life you enjoy greater peace, humility and charity. Having come to deep interior silence, you begin to relate to others beyond the superficial aspects of social status, race, nationality, religion, and personal characteristics. ~ thomas-keating, @wisdomtrove 56:The most dangerous man in the world is the contemplative who is guided by nobody. He trusts his own visions. He obeys the attractions of an interior voice but will not listen to other men. He identifies the will of God with anything that makes him feel, within his own heart, a big, warm, sweet interior glow. The sweeter and the warmer the feeling is, the more he is convinced of his own infallibility. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 57:If God but cares for our inward and eternal life, if by all the experiences of this life He is reducing it and preparing for its disclosure, nothing can befall us but prosperity. Every sorrow shall be but the setting of some luminous jewel of joy. Our very morning shall be but the enamel around the diamond; our very hardships but the metallic rim that holds the opal, glancing with strange interior fires. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 58:One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted - One need not be a House - The Brain - has Corridors - surpassing Material Place - Far safer, of a Midnight - meeting External Ghost - Than an Interior - Confronting - That cooler - Host. Far safer, through an Abbey - gallop - The Stones a'chase - Than Moonless - One's A'self encounter - In lonesome place - Ourself - behind ourself - Concealed - Should startle - most. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 59:Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove that God cannot make another God, or commit suicide, or make a man without a soul, or even make a triangle whose interior angles do not equal 180 degrees. But Bolyai and Lobachevsky were able to accomplish this last feat (on a curved surface) in the nineteenth century, and they were not even approximately gods. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 60:The way the world works now, the way the rules of engagement operate, you can't claim to make sense out of the exterior without booking voyages into the interior. Think about it: How can you understand & 61:I'm an indoors person. I'm not afraid of the outdoors and I penetrate it easily and cheerfully. However, I must admit I like Central Park better than the wilderness, and I like the canyons of Manhattan better than Central Park, and I like the interior of my apartment better than the canyons of Manhattan, and I like my two rooms better with the shades down at all times than with the shades up. I'm not an agoraphobe at all, but I am a claustrophile, if you see the distinction. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove 62:What good is it to continue to focus on the exterior technological wonders before us - from indefinite life extension to computer/mind interlinks to unlimited zero-point energy to worm-hole intergalactic space travel - if all we carry with us is an egocentric red-mem Nazis and KKK? Do we really want Jack the Ripper living 400 years, zipping around the country in his hypercar, unleashing misogynistic nanorobots? Exterior developments are clearly a concern; how much more so are interior developments - or lack there of. ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove 63:Gaia's main problems are not industrialization, ozone depletion, overpopulation, or resource depletion. Gaia's main problem is the lack of mutual understanding and mutual agreement in the noosphere about how to proceed with those problems. We cannot rein in industry if we cannot reach mutual understanding and mutual agreement based on a worldcentric moral perspective concerning the global commons. And we reach the worldcentric moral perspective through a difficult and laborious process of interior growth and transcendence. ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove 64:Mystics knew how to channel grace through prayer and they knew the power of that. They knew how to receive guidance through reflection and contemplation; they knew how to share the gift of illumination with each other. These are great gifts of life and profound grace that we are capable of providing for each other and the world. This is what it means to be a mystic without a monastery. You make a commitment to your own interior illumination and through that discover the sacred part of your contract and the true meaning of your highest potential. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 65:Mystics knew how to channel grace through prayer and they knew the power of that. They knew how to receive guidance through reflection and contemplation; they knew how to share the gift of illumination with each other. These are great gifts of life and profound grace that we are capable of providing for each other and the world. This is what it means to be a mystic without a monastery. You make a commitment to your own interior illumination and through that discover the sacred part of your contract and the true meaning of your highest potential. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 66:I remember asking myself one night, while I was curled up in the same old corner of my same old couch in tears yet again over the same old repetition of sorrowful thoughts, & 67:Much as your body is built from the foods you eat, your mind is built from the experiences you have. The flow of experience gradually sculpts your brain, thus shaping your mind. Some of the results can be explicitly recalled: This is what I did last summer; that is how I felt when I was in love. But most of the shaping of your mind remains forever unconscious. This is called implicit memory, and it includes your expectations, models of relationships, emotional tendencies, and general outlook. Implicit memory establishes the interior landscape of your mind —what it feels like to be you—based on the slowly accumulating residues of lived experience. ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:The interior was made ~ Victor Methos, #NFDB
2:Music is interior decoration. ~ Wayne Shorter, #NFDB
3:CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
4:I've always loved interior design. ~ Genie Francis, #NFDB
5:The interior life is often stupid. ~ Annie Dillard, #NFDB
6:Nuestro valor nace en nuestro interior. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
7:Interior liberty is universal. ~ Krzysztof Kieslowski, #NFDB
8:Our real journey in life is interior. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
9:He that attends to his interior self, ~ William Cowper, #NFDB
10:The root of prayer is interior silence. ~ Thomas Keating, #NFDB
11:man took another shot of the pod’s interior. ~ Hugh Howey, #NFDB
12:The root of prayer is interior silence. ~ Thomas Keating, #NFDB
13:La liberación del deseo conduce a la paz interior. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
14:In my interior I find the silence I seek. ~ Clarice Lispector, #NFDB
15:She is prey to interior winds he never felt. ~ Thomas Pynchon, #NFDB
16:En nuestro interior escuchamos una voz que dice: ~ Joel Osteen, #NFDB
17:Interior design courtesy of Franz Kafka. ~ Matthew FitzSimmons, #NFDB
18:No flat formulas could capture the human interior. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
19:established her own interior design firm years ~ Danielle Steel, #NFDB
20:An interior is the natural projection of the soul. ~ Coco Chanel, #NFDB
21:Coming to interior stillness requires waiting. ~ Brennan Manning, #NFDB
22:Journal writing is a voyage to the interior. ~ Christina Baldwin, #NFDB
23:las infinitas praderas del interior de Norteamérica. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
24:Prose is architecture, not interior decoration. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
25:La verdad es un contacto interior inexplicable". ~ Clarice Lispector, #NFDB
26:Interior decoration partly thrives on being social. ~ Nicholas Haslam, #NFDB
27:Fear is the primary color of the amateur’s interior world. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
28:«Hacia delante, hacia arriba y hacia el interior» ~ Arianna Huffington, #NFDB
29:I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky, #NFDB
30:The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind. ~ Vikas Swarup, #NFDB
31:To think well is to serve God in the interior court. ~ Thomas Traherne, #NFDB
32:The interior of the station wagon smelled of human hair. ~ Annie Proulx, #NFDB
33:No sé callar cuando habla el corazón en mi interior ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
34:No sé callar cuando el corazón habla en mi interior. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
35:The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity. ~ Grant Morrison, #NFDB
36:I saw him freeing me from the silences of the interior life. ~ Olivia Laing, #NFDB
37:Laughter is good for the soul and all your interior works. ~ Paulette Jiles, #NFDB
38:It’s time to learn the truths that govern our interior soul. ~ Caroline Myss, #NFDB
39:En realidad no vivimos en la Tierra, sino en el interior del tiempo. ~ Yu Hua, #NFDB
40:He's an escapist. He wants to cultivate his interior garden. ~ Nathanael West, #NFDB
41:En mi cielo interior no ha habido nunca una misera estrella. ~ Fernando Pessoa, #NFDB
42:Soy hija del desierto; nada interior parece exterior para mí. ~ Nnedi Okorafor, #NFDB
43:Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life. ~ William H Gass, #NFDB
44:Everything we do, our entire interior monologue, is prayer. ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
45:The interior of the earth is extremely hot – several million degrees. ~ Al Gore, #NFDB
46:Las palabras eran distintas cuando vivían en tu interior. ~ Benjamin Alire S enz, #NFDB
47:Lo único que me interesa - le dije- es encontrar la paz interior. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
48:Inferior and Superior life lives in the interior of a person. ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
49:interior. Within a few minutes a bell from within started to toll. ~ Carolyn Keene, #NFDB
50:Respeta tu propia visión interior y confía en tus pensamientos naturales ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
51:tu mundo exterior es simplemente un reflejo de tu mundo interior. Si ~ T Harv Eker, #NFDB
52:La imagen interior del hombre no debe confundirse con su atuendo. ~ Joseph Campbell, #NFDB
53:I'm gonna go live in a cave, just completely live in my interior world. ~ Tim Burton, #NFDB
54:I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
55:Could you please stop dripping your sarcasm all over my car’s interior? ~ Robin Benway, #NFDB
56:fumed hotter than the fast-rising oven-temperature of the car interior. ~ J B Cantwell, #NFDB
57:In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do. ~ Nate Berkus, #NFDB
58:All the trials we endure cannot be compared to these interior battles. ~ Teresa of vila, #NFDB
59:Todos albergamos secretos en nuestro interior que no podemos revelar. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
60:Buzzards don’t make good friends. They always have an interior motive. ~ John R Erickson, #NFDB
61:why did rail journeys always provoke interior monologues of philosophy? ~ Alex Rosenberg, #NFDB
62:I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child. ~ Claude Debussy, #NFDB
63:Man forms himself in his own interior, and nowhere else. ~ Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, #NFDB
64:Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players. ~ Steven Pinker, #NFDB
65:If I was made of chocolate I would melt myself in a car to ruin the interior. ~ Thom Yorke, #NFDB
66:Unos viven la calma como paz interior, otros como eterno estancamiento. ~ Daniel Glattauer, #NFDB
67:But it was impossible to know the truth of another's interior life. Wasn't it? ~ Mira T Lee, #NFDB
68:Este secreto me hace sentir como si llevara ascuas en el interior del pecho. ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
69:Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
70:A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us. ~ Henri Matisse, #NFDB
71:The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live. ~ Albert Hadley, #NFDB
72:All the trials we endure cannot be compared to these interior battles. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
73:Even then, her interior life was far more important to her than her external one. ~ Pat Conroy, #NFDB
74:interior of his purposes…. It’s not the latest message, but more like the oldest ~ Rick Warren, #NFDB
75:Prosperity Whose sources are interior. As soon Adversity A diamond overtake. ~ Emily Dickinson, #NFDB
76:A consciência é uma voz interior que nos adverte de que alguém pode estar olhando ~ H L Mencken, #NFDB
77:I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way. ~ Rachel Kushner, #NFDB
78:In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world. ~ Stephen Gardiner, #NFDB
79:The interior of a teenager’s mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever. ~ William Landay, #NFDB
80:the sage dresses plainly, even though his interior is filled with precious gems. ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB
81:America's last pioneers, urban nomads in search of wide open interior spaces ~ Cathleen McGuigan, #NFDB
82:tape recorder in this car?” He looked around the interior. “Fuck, reporters at ~ Linwood Barclay, #NFDB
83:It takes tenacity and daring to travel the darkest interior of one's self. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach, #NFDB
84:Nunca es un enemigo de fuera quien te derriba. Siempre es el enemigo interior. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
85:She yearned to be left alone with her interior life rather than to explain it. ~ Elin Hilderbrand, #NFDB
86:«Si algo te ofende, mira en tu interior… Es señal de que algo pasa ahí dentro.» ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
87:Three cheers for your rich interior life, may it serve you well come rent day. ~ Colson Whitehead, #NFDB
88:Una gran fuente de sabiduría es la intuición, nuestro conocimiento interior. ~ Arianna Huffington, #NFDB
89:I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world. ~ Patti Smith, #NFDB
90:The success of an intervention depends on the interior condition of the intervenor. ~ Bill O Brien, #NFDB
91:Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. ~ Matsuo Bashō, Narrow Road to the Interior, #NFDB
92:I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
93:No river in sub-Saharan Africa reaches from the open sea to deep into the interior. ~ Thomas Sowell, #NFDB
94:There are just two things you need to fix here: the interior and the exterior. ~ David Mazzucchelli, #NFDB
95:You cannot have exterior development without interior development to hold it in place. ~ Ken Wilber, #NFDB
96:crepuscular rays of light illuminated the interior of the Basilica, Moretti, faithful ~ Daniel Silva, #NFDB
97:en el interior de cada anciano, hay un joven preguntándose qué demonios ha pasado. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
98:I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
99:No interior da grande cidade de todos está a cidade pequena em que realmente vivemos. ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
100:...porque es tu propio interior el que constituye la fuente del dolor y de la alegría. ~ Knut Hamsun, #NFDB
101:They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior ~ Romain Gary, #NFDB
102:To create an interior, the designer must develop an overall concept and stick to it. ~ Albert Hadley, #NFDB
103:All our interior world is reality, and that, perhaps, more so than our apparent world. ~ Marc Chagall, #NFDB
104:En el interior existía todo esto, además de la seguridad. Afuera, la «Muerte Roja». ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
105:I like interior decorating. I really like to build houses. And landscaping, I like that. ~ Ester Dean, #NFDB
106:your beliefs shape both the interior and exterior world you create for yourself. ~ River Higginbotham, #NFDB
107:Am I willing to walk into the wilds of my interior life without knowing what I'll find? ~ Richard Rohr, #NFDB
108:As Bertrand Russell once wrote, two plus two is four even in the interior of the sun. ~ Martin Gardner, #NFDB
109:In all souls, as in all houses, beyond the façade lies a hidden interior. —RAUL BRANDÃO ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
110:But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
111:entre el estímulo y la respuesta, el ser humano tiene la libertad interior de elegir. ~ Stephen R Covey, #NFDB
112:What I felt then I feel now: the inexorable, unchanging interior hum of doubt and hope. ~ Cynthia Ozick, #NFDB
113:But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
114:¿existe una fuerza interior que hace que todos los seres vivos crezcan y se transformen? ~ Robert Greene, #NFDB
115:I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself. ~ Ursula Andress, #NFDB
116:«Soy más de lo que aparento, toda la fuerza y el poder del mundo están en mi interior.» ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
117:Algo procedente del exterior no puede restañar lo que está herido en nuestro interior. ~ Laurent Gounelle, #NFDB
118:Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space. ~ Philip Johnson, #NFDB
119:Everyone's so interior now, they're not really looking around them. They're on their phones. ~ Kim Gordon, #NFDB
120:Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs. ~ Antonin Scalia, #NFDB
121:Cuando haces cosas desde el alma,
sientes un río, un gozo que fluye en tu interior. RUMI ~ Phil Jackson,#NFDB
122:irradiaba una especie de calma interior, por lo que discutir con él resultaría exasperante. ~ David Brooks, #NFDB
123:La intuición y no el intelecto es el «ábrete sésamo» a tu interior. ALBERT EINSTEIN ~ Arianna Huffington, #NFDB
124:Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red. ~ Anish Kapoor, #NFDB
125:Fish have water, the bushmen of the Kalahari have sand, and Houstonians have interior décor. ~ Simon Hoggart, #NFDB
126:The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden ~ Stephen Gardiner, #NFDB
127:Nature has a counterpart, a representation of every interior mood and obscure perception of man. ~ Mary Butts, #NFDB
128:The composition is the organized sum of the interior functions of every part of the work. ~ Wassily Kandinsky, #NFDB
129:Para llegar al sentimiento de libertad interior, se necesita espacio en abundancia y soledad. ~ Sylvain Tesson, #NFDB
130:¿Acaso hay alguien en el mundo que no sueñe, que no contenga en su interior mundos no imaginados? ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
131:Every jacket I make has interior pockets big enough to store a book and a sandwich and a passport. ~ Rick Owens, #NFDB
132:Life and light made up the interior, the realm of daytime. The exterior was darkness and night. ~ Chess Desalls, #NFDB
133:Son muchos los que en medio del tumulto interior buscaron el resplandor de un paraíso secreto. ~ Ernesto Sabato, #NFDB
134:In the interior of each atom that thou shalt cleave thou shalt find imprisoned a sun. ~ Ahmed Halif: Mystic Odes, #NFDB
135:La soledad es un estado interior que puede practicarse, incluso, estando con otra gente, cree. ~ Claudia Pi eiro, #NFDB
136:lo que nos amenaza de verdad y cuesta más de combatir es algo que procede de nuestro interior. ~ John Katzenbach, #NFDB
137:Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living. ~ Sophia Loren, #NFDB
138:The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires. ~ Albert Schweitzer, #NFDB
139:In the interior of each atom that thou shalt cleave thou shalt find imprisoned a sun. ~ Ahmed Halif: Mystic Odes, #NFDB
140:Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat. ~ Patti Smith, #NFDB
141:Sempre posso parar, olhar além da janela. Mas do interior do trem, nunca é fixa a paisagem. ~ Caio Fernando Abreu, #NFDB
142:a spiritual desert is spreading - an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair. ~ Benedict XVI, #NFDB
143:The interior of the arms dealer's private jet was so ugly it hurt my feelings as well as my eyeballs. ~ Terry Hayes, #NFDB
144:En las profundidades del invierno finalmente aprendí que en mi interior habitaba un verano invencible ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
145:My life is a very interior and solitary life. I tend not to care that much about external things. ~ Joyce Carol Oates, #NFDB
146:The Aston Martin is a beautiful car. It's a work of art, I love the interior and the style of the car. ~ Adam Carolla, #NFDB
147:A spiritual desert is spreading: an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair. ~ Pope Benedict XVI, #NFDB
148:Hay siempre en el pensamiento cierta cantidad de rebelión interior, y le irritaba sentirla dentro de sí. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
149:Todo el interior de unas vidas interminables y sin final que es vacío. Lastimosas formas de ignorancia. ~ Jack Kerouac, #NFDB
150:Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life. ~ Margaret Fuller, #NFDB
151:Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me. ~ Colleen Atwood, #NFDB
152:I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing. ~ Chris Kirkpatrick, #NFDB
153:My truest life is unrecognizable, extremely interior and there is not a single word that defines it. ~ Clarice Lispector, #NFDB
154:Precisamente esa libertad interior, que nadie puede arrebatar, confiere a la vida intención y sentido. ~ Viktor E Frankl, #NFDB
155:Era peor tener a alguien socavando la unidad en el interior que estar rodeado de feroces enemigos. ~ Santiago Posteguillo, #NFDB
156:I'm going to design the container and interior spaces. You bring your own stuff to it and make it your own. ~ Frank Gehry, #NFDB
157:When you approach intuitive methods with respect, you become open to hearing from your interior channels. ~ Caroline Myss, #NFDB
158:From a chemist's point of view, the surface or interior of a star…is boring—there are no molecules there. ~ Roald Hoffmann, #NFDB
159:Every once in awhile, when you can see shades of the person's real interior life, I think that's interesting. ~ Donal Logue, #NFDB
160:Whenever our interior life becomes caught up in its own interests and concerns, there is no longer room for ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
161:with a singlemindedness common only to former Soviet interior-ministry troops and first-year law students ~ Gary Shteyngart, #NFDB
162:Agnes always wanted to go out. Out was better than in. In was inside, in was interior, in was introspection. ~ Kate Zambreno, #NFDB
163:I always think of music as interior decoration. So, if you have all kinds of music, you are fully decorated! ~ Wayne Shorter, #NFDB
164:it with the eye of an interior decorator, and there were possibilities everywhere she looked. She moved ~ Catherine Anderson, #NFDB
165:I would like to be invisible because I'd love to go into people's houses and see their interior decorating. ~ Rachel McAdams, #NFDB
166:The interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world. ~ James A Baldwin, #NFDB
167:The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world. ~ Stephen Gardiner, #NFDB
168:JH, meu cavalheiro sem armadura, pois sua força interior sob o mais brando dos exteriores basta para conquistar. ~ Jung Chang, #NFDB
169:Most people have a nasty interior monologue going on at all times, not Lotto. He’d rather think kindly of you. ~ Lauren Groff, #NFDB
170:No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy. ~ Pablo Picasso, #NFDB
171:Que a la larga no se puede defender la libertad de las masas, sino únicamente la propia, la libertad interior. ~ Stefan Zweig, #NFDB
172:I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things- ~ Anne Carson, #NFDB
173:What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
174:Writing mirrors the interior self. You know, any book is like the perfect blueprint of the psyche of the author. ~ Janet Fitch, #NFDB
175:Se acuerda de que alguien dejó dicho que el camino verdaderamente misterioso siempre va hacia el interior. ~ Enrique Vila Matas, #NFDB
176:There will be no propriety in the spectacle of an elegant interior approached by a low mean entrance. ~ Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, #NFDB
177:El ánimo interior, el predominio del conocer sobre el querer, puede provocar ese estado dentro de cualquier entorno. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
178:Ninguém é na aparência aquilo que é no interior. Nem tu. Nem eu. As pessoas são muito mais complicadas do que isso ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
179:producía la clara sensación de tener una tapa que contenía precariamente un pozo gigantesco de furia interior. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
180:Pueden matarnos, pueden matar hasta el último ser humano, pero no pueden matar lo que queda en nuestro interior... ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
181:Look behind somebody’s horrible exterior, and you usually found a horrible interior, shaped by a horrible history. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
182:El amor no es un proceso intelectual, sino una energía bastante dinámica que fluye por nuestro interior en todo momento ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
183:Ahora, finalmente él había regresado, y todas mis emociones explotaron en mi interior, una mezcla de felicidad y enojo. ~ Chris Kyle, #NFDB
184:El verdadero objeto de mis confesiones es hacer comprender exactamente mi interior en todas las situaciones. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau, #NFDB
185:He who speaks best of God is he who, in the presence of the plenitude of the interior riches, knows best how to be silent. ~ Eckhart, #NFDB
186:If God allows you to be stripped of the exterior portions of your life, He means for you to cultivate the interior ~ Oswald Chambers, #NFDB
187:I'm no interior decorator, but just I have a feeling that plastic plants in the bathroom... probably not a good idea. ~ Kyan Douglas, #NFDB
188:I only ever worked on interiors, and an interior is an interior. I don't know what they did about exteriors. ~ Christopher Eccleston, #NFDB
189:«La miró con cierta turbación, como si en un recóndito lugar de su interior no pudiera creer lo que estaba haciendo.» ~ Laura Tejada, #NFDB
190:The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level. ~ Edward Burnett Tylor, #NFDB
191:I'm an artist, a designer, a craftsman, interior designer, half-architect. There's no one name that fits me very well. ~ Dale Chihuly, #NFDB
192:Then there was another picture of some veck I thought I knew, and it was this Minister of the Inferior or Interior. ~ Anthony Burgess, #NFDB
193:I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life. ~ Gene Robinson, #NFDB
194:She could have been an interior decorator, a good one, too, if it wasn’t for the pressing demands of so on and so forth. ~ Ellen Raskin, #NFDB
195:The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile. ~ C D Wright, #NFDB
196:5 Y cuando miramos en nuestro interior, vemos brillar la pureza del Cielo en nuestro reflejo del Amor de nuestro Padre. ~ Helen Schucman, #NFDB
197:…while the outside world was full of danger, I knew my interior. I was certain that I could oust an intruder there. ~ Gail Carson Levine, #NFDB
198:puede ser que el cerebro, que jamás conoce una chispa de luz, construya en nuestro interior un mundo lleno de luces?». Si ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
199:Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
200:Todos tenemos una guía en nuestro interior, si queremos escucharla, mejor que la que ninguna persona nos puede proporcionar. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
201:una situación interior que no pase al plano consciente se manifestará en sucesos externos en forma de suerte o fatalidad. ~ A S A Harrison, #NFDB
202:I think my father would give me the Department of the Interior because of my love of the outdoors, so we can get that going. ~ Sean Hannity, #NFDB
203:No quiero secretos, ni estados de alma, ni cosas indecibles; no soy ni virgen ni sacerdote para jugar a la vida interior. ~ Jean Paul Sartre, #NFDB
204:My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning. ~ Clarice Lispector, #NFDB
205:Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
206:He hecho una encuesta y yo y mi yo interior estamos de acuerdo conmigo mismo. Bueno, bueno, bueno..., al menos Freud lo aprobaría. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
207:Eu disse que ler é como caminhar dentro de mim mesmo. E é verdade. Quando lemos estamos a percorrer o nosso próprio interior. ~ Valter Hugo M e, #NFDB
208:I am convinced that a calm, quiet and harmonious interior can be as beneficial to health as a sensible diet and regular exercise ~ Kelly Hoppen, #NFDB
209:Manando del Tao, el consejo del I Ching apela a nuestro mejor yo, despertando y confiriendo poderes a nuestro Sabio Interior. Si ~ Lou Marinoff, #NFDB
210:Si tan sólo miráramos en nuestro interior, veríamos la Luz brillando como si fuera nuestra imagen reflejada en un espejo. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
211:The breeze through the open window scented the interior of the car with leaves and water, growing things and secret things. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
212:dicha, debo añadir, no es la felicidad. La felicidad depende de factores externos mientras que la dicha procede del interior de cada ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
213:Eddie pensaba que en el interior de la mente de Roland era de noche desde hacía mucho tiempo… y el amanecer aún estaba muy lejos. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
214:eres capaz de alcanzar el equilibrio perfecto de la mente. Este camino exige un compromiso con tu propia transformación interior. ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB
215:An interior designer must be able to clarify his intent keeping ever in mind that decorating is not a look, it's a point of view. ~ Albert Hadley, #NFDB
216:I'm not an interior designer - I'm a normal working mum who wants her house to look good and doesn't need a man to do it for her. ~ Andrea McLean, #NFDB
217:Intentar cambiar el mundo no apacigua la energía del miedo porque esta procede del interior de nuestro propio campo energético. ~ David R Hawkins, #NFDB
218:It is good for a man to invite his ghosts into his warm interior, out of the wild night, into the firelight, out of the howling dark. ~ A S Byatt, #NFDB
219:...and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
220:I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior designer. ~ Lenny Kravitz, #NFDB
221:La búsqueda de uno mismo, de la autenticidad, pasa por mirar en el interior y dejarse guiar por la «brújula» que todos llevamos en él. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
222:Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience. ~ Steven Bochco, #NFDB
223:Uma galinha pensava tanto e era tão culta que ganhou uma obstrução interior, deixando de pôr ovos. Mataram-na no dia seguinte. ~ Gon alo M Tavares, #NFDB
224:Cuando las cosas del mundo nos preocupan, lo que tenemos que hacer no es unirnos al caos sino adentrarnos en la paz interior. ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB
225:La vida tiene una dimensión interior, con historias que no se materializan en la realidad, pero que no por ello dejamos de vivir. ~ David Foenkinos, #NFDB
226:The potential of the psychedelic drugs to provide access to the interior universe, is, I believe, their most valuable property. ~ Alexander Shulgin, #NFDB
227:Era como un atisbo de conocimiento en el interior de un mecanismo incomprensible, que tanto podía ser seguro como mortalmente peligroso. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
228:Este momento lo es todo, y todos somos todo. Puesto que encarnamos el todo, el todo está en juego en nuestro interior. El todo nos atraviesa. ~ Osho, #NFDB
229:Hay una voz interior, si estamos dispuestos a escucharla, que nos dice con toda certeza cuándo adentrarnos en lo desconocido ~ Elisabeth K bler Ross, #NFDB
230:I so hate it when I'm quoted to thwart the juices and desires of the great interior design public at large - Daily Express ~ Laurence Llewelyn Bowen, #NFDB
231:La memoria es verdaderamente un pandemonio, pero en su interior está todo. Por poco que hurgue, su dueño podrá encontrar cualquier cosa. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
232:Photography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space. ~ Gilles Deleuze, #NFDB
233:sobre todo si de repente una se siente perdida y sola y empieza a notar que el pánico se despliega en su interior como un helecho. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
234:Asiatic merchants coming to the African interior to sell European landscapes: this, I believe, is what they call globalization. ~ David Van Reybrouck, #NFDB
235:A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man. ~ Edvard Munch, #NFDB
236:Without stories we end up with stereotypes -- a flat earth with flat cardboard figures that have no texture or depth, no INTERIOR. ~ Eugene H Peterson, #NFDB
237:I wrote Report from the Interior was that after I finished Winter Journal, I took a pause, and I realized there was more I wanted to say. ~ Paul Auster, #NFDB
238:My models, my human figures, are never like extras in an interior. They are the main theme of my work. I depend absolutely on my model. ~ Henri Matisse, #NFDB
239:convierta en un hábito entrar dentro de usted de inmediato y concentrarse lo más que pueda en el campo de energía interior de su cuerpo. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
240:In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages. ~ Swami Brahmananda, #NFDB
241:I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal. ~ A R Ammons, #NFDB
242:Siempre escuchamos decir: «Lo que importa no es la belleza exterior, sino la belleza interior.» Pues no hay nada más falso que esa frase. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
243:Y es precisamente esta libertad interior la que nadie nos puede arrebatar, la que confiere a la existencia una intención y un sentido. ~ Viktor E Frankl, #NFDB
244:A verdade é sempre um contato interior inexplicável. A verdade é irreconhecível. Portanto não existe? Não, para os homens não existe. ~ Clarice Lispector, #NFDB
245:Los libros no se han hecho para servir de adorno: sin embargo, nada hay que embellezca tanto como ellos en el interior del hogar. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe, #NFDB
246:mindfulness o la plena consciencia puede ayudarte también a establecer, en tu interior, los cimientos de la libertad, la paz y el amor. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
247:Los angeles saben que el ruido es un estresante que puede crispar los nervios, interrumpir nuestros suenos y socavar nuestra paz interior. ~ Doreen Virtue, #NFDB
248:My interior was a wreck, a car crash, a plane crash, a family tragedy, financial misfortune. My body was sitting tight but my soul was not. ~ Jordan Krall, #NFDB
249:Pfaff, citado por Spitta, altera a redação de um ditado familiar: 'diga-me alguns dos teus sonhos, e eu te direi sobre o teu eu interior'. ~ Sigmund Freud, #NFDB
250:Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own. ~ Salvatore Quasimodo, #NFDB
251:Ronan's voice was slow, petulant. His eyes, though, half-hidden in the dim, warm light of the Camaro's interior -- they were terrible. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
252:There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. ~ Ann Voskamp, #NFDB
253:There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
254:Aquele lugar lhe deixava um frio interior. Afinal, todos queremos no peito o nó de um outro peito, o devolver da metade que perdemos ao nascer. ~ Mia Couto, #NFDB
255:Como especie, deberíamos tomarnos un rato cada día para dar gracias por ese asombroso órgano que funciona en el interior de nuestra cabeza. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
256:Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones. ~ Robert Adams, #NFDB
257:Los niños necesitan amor y, si no lo tienen, algo se muere en su interior. No podría vivir conmigo mismo sabiendo que un niño sufre por mi culpa ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
258:Acting becomes my real job, writing becomes my second job, and then when I turn 50, I think I'm going to open up an interior decorating company. ~ Ester Dean, #NFDB
259:...to know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes by discerning of spirits ~ John Geddes, #NFDB
260:Cannot the love of Christ carry the missionary where the slave-trade carries the trader? I shall open up a path to the interior or perish. ~ David Livingstone, #NFDB
261:el que más sirve más cosecha, emocional, física, mental y espiritualmente. Éste es el camino hacia la paz interior y la realización exterior. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
262:He had to learn how not to let his eyes be bewildered by manifestations, and thereby learn to treat appearances as signs and codes of the interior. ~ Ben Okri, #NFDB
263:I came to be emulated. That's what people didn't get. Followed, as in being an example, as in making your interior world resemble mine. p. 22 ~ Roland Merullo, #NFDB
264:I crave the indulgence of my senses but this is countered by an interior desire that is even keener than my senses to know the meaning of things ~ Errol Flynn, #NFDB
265:Jesús quiere que escribamos «Sé maravilloso» en una camiseta interior, donde no se puede ver, y no en la parte trasera de una sudadera con capucha. ~ Bob Goff, #NFDB
266:Me abrumó la soledad que desprendía su persona y, a un tiempo, creí ver en su interior un abismo infinito al que no podía evitar asomarme. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
267:el único jefe de nuestra vida somos nosotros mismos y no podemos responsabilizar a nadie más del rumbo que decide tomar nuestra «brújula interior». ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
268:...I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue ... ~ John Geddes, #NFDB
269:Meditation is that dimension of science which focuses on creating the right kind of interior, so that you can live a peaceful and joyous life. ~ Jaggi Vasudev, #NFDB
270:en última instancia todo es forma, forma más o menos interior, el universo mismo un caleidoscopio de formas enchufadas las unas en las otras ~ Miguel de Unamuno, #NFDB
271:I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced. ~ Jonathan Lethem, #NFDB
272:We were all patriotic, but I can’t even conceive of what else we would’ve been, because our entire experience was domestic, interior, American. We ~ Suzy Hansen, #NFDB
273:Crees que sabes lo que son basándote en los indicios que ves, pero cuando miras en el interior, no se parecen en nada a lo que esperas que sean.» ~ Bella Forrest, #NFDB
274:From within, from the very most interior center of existence and consciousness, the fact of oneness evermore proves to be the overriding truth. ~ Geoffrey Hodson, #NFDB
275:In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced. ~ Gaston Bachelard, #NFDB
276:Only in eternity shall we see the beauty of the soul, and only then shall we realize what great things were accomplished by interior suffering. ~ Mother Angelica, #NFDB
277:Su oponente era alguien que sabía que, a menudo, lo que nos amenaza de verdad y cuesta más de combatir es algo que procede de nuestro interior. ~ John Katzenbach, #NFDB
278:The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics. ~ Simone Weil, #NFDB
279:The interior of our skulls contain a portal to infinity...of course it's happening in your head but why on earth should that mean it's not real? ~ Grant Morrison, #NFDB
280:Dreams are one of your greatest natural therapies, and one of your most effective assets as connectors between the interior and exterior universes. ~ Jane Roberts, #NFDB
281:nunca muere. Morar en lo inmutable, mientras todo a nuestro alrededor cambia constantemente, es nuestra clave para alcanzar la paz interior. ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB
282:The interior designer must’ve been a medieval vampire, judging from the cold, lifeless colors and the giant iron chandeliers hanging from the ceilings. ~ L J Shen, #NFDB
283:The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul. ~ John Quincy Adams, #NFDB
284:Though we do not wholly believe it yet, the interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world. ~ James Baldwin, #NFDB
285:sometimes I wonder what my interior actually is. A heart that goes pitter-patter and thoughts that glide by like little paper boats on flowing water, ~ Orhan Pamuk, #NFDB
286:The wall of silence in the Interior Ministry, which protects those who are widely believed to have ordered this and similar crimes, remains intact. ~ Garry Robbins, #NFDB
287:My passion is interior decorating. My goal for the next years is to get into carpentry, because I really want to learn how to make my own furniture. ~ Anne Hathaway, #NFDB
288:To love and work for the glory of God cannot remain an idea about which we think once in a while. It must become an interior, unceasing doxology. ~ Henri J M Nouwen, #NFDB
289:We hang here, inquisitive carbon-based life forms, knowing that every atom of carbon now in our bodies was once in the interior of a star. ~ James Hamilton Paterson, #NFDB
290:An individual's harmony with his or her 'own deep self' requires not merely a journey to the interior but a harmonizing with the environmental world. ~ James Hillman, #NFDB
291:To desire to be what one can be is purpose in life. There are no exterior forces. There are only interior forces. Who squanders talent praises death. ~ Cynthia Ozick, #NFDB
292:Unlike the inside of a space shuttle or twenty-first century spacecraft, this interior looks uncluttered and clean. More Star Trek than Star Wars. ~ Nathan Van Coops, #NFDB
293:Ser uno mismo es, siempre, llegar a ser ese otro que somos y que llevamos escondido en nuestro interior, más que nada como promesa o posibilidad de ser. ~ Octavio Paz, #NFDB
294:Inside every woman there is a Kali. [Hindu goddess who morphed into seven hidden beings to win a battle] Do not mistake the exterior for the interior. ~ Jennifer Beals, #NFDB
295:Jung's message is that the modern individual must explore the unconscious and discover the spiritual contents that can be discerned in the interior life. ~ David Tacey, #NFDB
296:... no son los músculos lo que hacen que los hombres sean fuertes. Los secretos lo son. Cuantos más secretos guardes, más fuerte serás en el interior. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
297:Physical beauty is the sign of an interior beauty, a spiritual and moral beauty which is the basis, the principle, and the unity of the beautiful. ~ Friedrich Schiller, #NFDB
298:Trapped in the entryway was an old man, dead, hungry, and beating on the interior door. It was kind of funny that he still clung to his library book. ~ Rhiannon Frater, #NFDB
299:I clutched at the brow. The mice in my interior had now got up an informal dance and were buck-and-winging all over the place like a bunch of Nijinskys. ~ P G Wodehouse, #NFDB
300:Every time you see an interior, where somebody has a cockpit, is the real existing thing. Every time you see the exterior zooming by, it's completely CGI. ~ Daniel Simon, #NFDB
301:furnished with the taste of someone who didn’t have to live in it. ‘Interior designers with unlimited budgets and limited talent,’ as Agnete would have said. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
302:More than any gift or toy, ornament of tree, let us resolve that this Christmas shall be, like that first Christmas, a celebration of interior treasures. ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB
303:afrontaba sola y con gran entereza un mundo nuevo, donde tendría que tejer otras coronas de flores, ya que las de su interior destino estaban marchitas. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
304:Baroque sculpture and interior design has a quality of creating an environment that seems organic because it's full of curves and details, like a forest. ~ Camille Henrot, #NFDB
305:He saw her bright, fierce little face break into laughter when the crowd laughed. It was good. Laughter is good for the soul and all your interior works. ~ Paulette Jiles, #NFDB
306:I was driven from my position as Interior Secretary, not because of my environmental record, but because of my Christian beliefs. That's the real struggle. ~ James G Watt, #NFDB
307:For the moment however behold me sitting with Priscilla and Francis. A domestic interior. It is about ten o'clock in the evening and the curtains are drawn. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
308:Fue como si tuviera una especie de brújula interior que me iba empujando hacia mi destino. Creo que no hubiera podido detenerme aunque lo hubiera querido. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
309:If you’d managed to force it open, you would have made a direct path between the interior of the Peerless and the void, which is something we try to discourage. ~ Greg Egan, #NFDB
310:La Gran Tragedia de la vida no es la muerte. La gran tragedia de la vida es lo que dejamos morir en nuestro interior mientras estamos vivos. Norman Cousins. ~ Lorena Franco, #NFDB
311:An armchair Jungian would say the whole thing is about my own ongoing spiritual search. My interior life has always been one of trying to find a spiritual link. ~ David Bowie, #NFDB
312:Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary. ~ Julia Cameron, #NFDB
313:The net effect of Clarence Darrow's great speech yesterday seemed to be precisely the same as if he had bawled it up a rainspout in the interior of Afghanistan. ~ H L Mencken, #NFDB
314:But in this book, I use “prayer” as the umbrella word for any interior journeys or practices that allow you to experience faith, hope, and love within yourself. ~ Richard Rohr, #NFDB
315:Igual que en el momento de venir al mundo, al morir tenemos miedo de lo desconocido. Pero el miedo es algo interior que no tiene nada que ver con la realidad. ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
316:I just want to keep exploring music and hopefully the orders will keep coming in and I'll be able to keep growing the interior and exterior sides of my life. ~ John McLaughlin, #NFDB
317:La Gran Tragedia de la vida no es la muerte. La gran tragedia de la vida es lo que dejamos morir en nuestro interior mientras estamos vivos. “Norman Cousins” ~ Lorena Franco, #NFDB
318:Minimalism in interior design has become a caricature. Everywhere you find shops or hotels with an ambience that makes you feel like you are in a refrigerator. ~ Andree Putman, #NFDB
319:The “interior castle” of the human soul, as Teresa of Avila called it, has many rooms, and they are slowly occupied by God, allowing us time and room to grow. ~ Dallas Willard, #NFDB
320:The journey itself was the architect of the wood. The interior would never be fully dark because the struggle had cracked it, providing an avenue for the light. ~ Lisa Wingate, #NFDB
321:A veces, queremos que nuestros cuerpos hagan un mejor trabajo en mostrar las cosas que nos lastiman, las historias que mantenemos escondidas en nuestro interior. ~ Ava Dellaira, #NFDB
322:Images embrace us: they open up to us and close themselves to us in so far as they conjure up in us something that we could call an interior experience. ~ Georges Didi Huberman, #NFDB
323:¿Por qué tantos hombres eran tan desagradables? ¿Les faltaba algo o tenían algo repugnante instalado en su interior, como un circuito defectuoso en un ordenador? ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
324:A hot, dry breeze greeted the Swensen sisters and their mother when they emerged from the air-conditioned interior of McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas. ~ Joanne Fluke, #NFDB
325:He longed for the little cabin and the sun-kissed sea - for the cool interior of the well-built house, and for the never-ending wonders of the many books. ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs, #NFDB
326:There is not the Newtonian universe deployed throughout the parsecs and kiliocosms of physical space and the interior mental universe. They are the same thing. ~ Terence McKenna, #NFDB
327:obedecer la llamada interior o la inspiración secreta de hacer algo o de seguir algún camino cada vez que la sintiera, aunque no tuviera razón alguna para hacerlo, ~ Daniel Defoe, #NFDB
328:The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by the land as it is by genes. ~ Barry Lopez, #NFDB
329:Though we do not wholly believe it yet, the interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world. —James Baldwin ~ Roland Merullo, #NFDB
330:All the powers of soul and body,memory, understanding, and will, interior and exterior senses, thedesires of spirit and of sense, all workin and by love. ~ Saint John of the Cross, #NFDB
331:I have a really strong suspicion of the romantic nature of portraiture, the idea that you're telling some essential truth about the interior lives of your subject. ~ Kehinde Wiley, #NFDB
332:All art is, indeed, a monotony in external things for the sake of an interior variety, a sacrifice of gross effects to subtle effects, an asceticism of the imagination. ~ W B Yeats, #NFDB
333:I have been collecting pictures of airport carpets since the early 2000s because I am fascinated by their role as the world's largest interior visual design medium. ~ George Pendle, #NFDB
334:The exterior image of a human being and the diverse circumstances that surround him are the exact result of his interior image and of his psychological processes. ~ Samael Aun Weor, #NFDB
335:Cualquier hombre, a lo largo de su vida, se verá enfrentado a su destino y tendrá la oportunidad de convertir un puro estado de sufrimiento en una hazaña interior. ~ Viktor E Frankl, #NFDB
336:Es más fácil proyectar la culpa en los ojos de los demás y defenderse de ello que encontrarla en el interior de uno mismo, donde no hay defensa posible ~ Natalia Sanmart n Fenollera, #NFDB
337:Es más fácil proyectar la culpa en los ojso de los demás y defenderse de ello que encontrarla en el interior de uno mismo, donde no hay defensa posible ~ Natalia Sanmart n Fenollera, #NFDB
338:Existe una armonía en el universo, una sinfonía coral de felicidad. Para unirse al coro, uno debe encontrar la armonía interior, debe encontrar las notas verdaderas. ~ R A Salvatore, #NFDB
339:She’s out, Jim! The bugger’s out!” Well this was great. Anybody who has driven a car with a hysterical cat hurtling around the interior will appreciate my situation. ~ James Herriot, #NFDB
340:A love story - your own, or anyone else's - is interior, hidden. It can never be accurately reported, only imagined. It is all dreams and invention. It's guesswork. ~ Joan Wickersham, #NFDB
341:Falls. He saw her bright, fierce little face break into laughter when the crowd laughed. It was good. Laughter is good for the soul and all your interior works. THAT ~ Paulette Jiles, #NFDB
342:La dicha,debo añadir,no es la felicidad.
La felicidad depende de factores externos mientras que la dicha procede del interior de cada uno, sin que nada la provoque. ~ Rani Manicka,#NFDB
343:the most effective leaders who succeed over a long period of time are seen and accepted because their interior skills and exterior images are in perfect alignment. ~ Sylvie Di Giusto, #NFDB
344:Yo creo que todas las personas tenemos una fuerza interior que nos puede hacer matar a otras personas. Por desesperación o por odio o, por lo menos en defensa propia. ~ Stieg Larsson, #NFDB
345:concepto de pistas de migración acuñado por Ruppel (2006), plantea el uso de señales visibles al interior de un texto que conducen a contenidos presentes en otros canales. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
346:Even the sky a hybrid — here clean and black and starred, there roiling with a brusque signature of cloud or piled in strata like folded linen or the interior of rock. ~ Stanley Elkin, #NFDB
347:Laughter--an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features, and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious, and though intermittent, incurable. ~ Ambrose Bierce, #NFDB
348:mas también con la satisfacción interior, que experimentaba por vez primera, de poder decirme: “Merezco mi propia estimación; sé preferir mi deber a mi placer”. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau, #NFDB
349:Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright, #NFDB
350:Pero tal vez fuera más difícil de lo que creía desprenderse del lugar que uno ha ocupado en la vida. Llevamos nuestras señas de identidad tanto interior como exteriormente. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
351:Hablar con uno mismo es encontrar en el silencio la voz interior de la verdad y en los sonidos externos los silencios que expresan la voz callada y suave de la autenticidad. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
352:Strange as it may seem, wrote Richard Feynman, we understand the distribution of matter in the interior of the Sun far better than we understand the interior of the Earth. ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
353:The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property. ~ Salmon P Chase, #NFDB
354:Es así de sencillo. El reino de los cielos está en nuestro interior. Deje de buscar gurús. En vez de eso, búsquese a sí mismo. No tardará en encontrar su verdadero hogar. ~ Brian L Weiss, #NFDB
355:The white room is an interior to be made devoid of any specific sensualism emanated by objects. Ultimately it is classic white canvas expanded into three-dimensional space. ~ Gunter Brus, #NFDB
356:Dibujé entonces el interior de la serpiente boa a fin de que las personas mayores pudieran comprender. Siempre estas personas tienen necesidad de explicaciones. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
357:Si queremos alcanzar logros en el mundo exterior, tendremos que lograr progresos en nuestro interior. Porque el nivel de conciencia es el nivel de la causa; resolver ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB
358:"Solitude is truly an interior affair, and to realize this insight and to live accordingly amounts to the best and most helpful form of progress." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke (Letter, March 1907), #NFDB
359:Aquel vestido de sencillos pliegues ocultaba un corazón atormentado, y aquellos labios tan púdicos en ningún momento descubrían la tormenta que se libraba en su interior. ~ Gustave Flaubert, #NFDB
360:John me explicó que nunca perdemos el cielo. Que lo llevamos dentro. Que todos los átomos que componen nuestro cuerpo algún día se formaron en el interior de las estrellas. ~ Laura Esquivel, #NFDB
361:The interior would have resembled the backseat of a really big car if the seat belts hadn't had five-point fasteners that looked like they belonged in an X-wing fighter. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
362:Cualquier hombre, a lo largo de su vida, se verá enfrentado a su destino y tendrá la oportunidad de convertir un puro estado de sufrimiento en una hazaña interior. Piénsese ~ Viktor E Frankl, #NFDB
363:More and more clearly as the scones disappeared into his interior he saw that what the sensible man wanted was a wife and a home with scones like these always at his diposal. ~ P G Wodehouse, #NFDB
364:We must understand the connection between inner solitude and inner silence; they are inseparable. All the masters of the interior life speak of the two in the same breath. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
365:What did they know of motherhood, the mad miracle of finding your interior drawn from you, clinging and bawling and giggling and learning everything there was to learn anew? ~ R Scott Bakker, #NFDB
366:… when he slipped out of his mother’s womb, he was already filled with interior spaces that didn’t belong to him, and he can’t just look inside to inspect his own interior. ~ Jenny Erpenbeck, #NFDB
367:Each government minister views the circumstances of each issue differently. An interior minister has a different view of visa liberalization than does a foreign minister. ~ Thomas de Maiziere, #NFDB
368:el verdadero conocimiento tiene que salir del interior de cada uno. No puede ser impuesto por otros. Sólo el conocimiento que llega desde dentro es el verdadero conocimiento ~ Jostein Gaarder, #NFDB
369:se asume que toda la información ya está dentro del cliente, por lo que básicamente el proceso consistirá en ayudarle a conocerse a sí mismo y descubrir lo que hay en su interior. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
370:The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies ghost-written by willing architects and interior designers who, like their clients, want to show off. ~ T H Robsjohn Gibbings, #NFDB
371:What a house. Turns out they're doing OK, the Malfoy's. However, the interior decorating leaves a lot to be desired. And needless to say, Voldemort isn't the greatest houseguest. ~ Tom Felton, #NFDB
372:When I’d first loved him, I wanted to take him apart, as a child dismembers a clockwork toy, to comprehend the inscrutable mechanics of its interior.”
-flesh and the mirror ~ Angela Carter,#NFDB
373:I don't like men who live, by choice, out of their own country. I don't like interior decorators. I don't like Germans. I don't like buggers and I don't like Christian Scientists. ~ Duff Cooper, #NFDB
374:When men create movies about femme fatales, it really is always about how that female can destroy that male. It's not really about what's happening on the interior of that female. ~ Anna Biller, #NFDB
375:I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior. ~ Diane Wakoski, #NFDB
376:Porque soy una chica, pensó Claire. Casi no fue capaz de contener su alivio interior. Porque somos todas tontas e inseguras y creemos que nunca somos lo suficientemente
buenas. ~ Rachel Caine,#NFDB
377:Si he dejado una herida en tu interior, esta herida no es solo tuya, tambien es mia. Ai que no me odies por ello. Soy un ser imperfecto. Mucho mas imperfecto de lo que tu crees ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
378:I've never had access to another person's art and work or, particularly, someone who is as prolific and was able to externalize his interior world as deeply as Kurt [Cobain] could. ~ Brett Morgen, #NFDB
379:La PNL estudia también el modo como estructuramos mentalmente nuestra experiencia subjetiva: cómo pensamos, cómo creamos estados emocionales y cómo construimos nuestro mundo interior. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
380:Odysseus’ passage is one that moves through the same waters as does our development today, haunted as we are by the interior forces of psyche and destiny. ~ Bud Harris youtube.com/watch?v=XFrQVV…, #NFDB
381:Visualize a house that’s opening its front door to you and welcoming you to bask in the sacred warmth of its interior, and imagine leaving all angst and fear behind as you walk in. ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB
382:Si «los desiertos exteriores se multiplican en el mundo porque se han extendido los desiertos interiores»[152], la crisis ecológica es un llamado a una profunda conversión interior. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
383:Texas was ungodly hot. Like the circles of hell kind of hot. Even in the shaded interior of the rental car with cool air blasting from the vents, the heat seeped in from every tiny crack. ~ J Lynn, #NFDB
384:But is life worth living in the wrong form?” said Elphie.
“The interior doesn’t change,” she answered, “except by self-involvement. Of which be not afraid, and also beware. ~ Gregory Maguire,#NFDB
385:El mundo exterior refleja el estado del mundo interior. Controlando los pensamientos y la manera de reaccionar a los acontecimientos de la vida, uno empieza a controlar su destino. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
386:Es Dios quien primero ilumina, obra y habla al interior del hombre visionario abierto, antes que éste logre expresarse a sí mismo, pensarse a sí mismo y hacerse a sí mismo en el yo soy. ~ Otto Rahn, #NFDB
387:Los hijos, como los libros, son viajes al interior de una misma en los cuales el cuerpo, la mente y el alma cambian de direccion, se vuelven hacia el centro mismo de la existencia. ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
388:Maya dice que nada desaparece para siempre, que incluso las paredes conservan los pensamientos y las acciones de lo que ocurre en su interior. Todo
queda grabado, capa sobre capa. ~ Rani Manicka,#NFDB
389:My books have come many years apart and each one seems to reflect a period of experience. Ending the book is like putting a period on a certain movement. Interior and external - both. ~ Joan Larkin, #NFDB
390:El mundo no ve el interior de las personas, y que poco importan las esperanzas, penas y sueños que albergamos bajo una máscara de piel y hueso. Es así de sencillo, cruel y absurdo. ~ Khaled Hosseini, #NFDB
391:Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers - the rich. ~ Stephen Bayley, #NFDB
392:Nuestra reacción ante la lectura está más en la función de lo que sucede en nuestro interior que del contenido del libro... Los libros reposan en espera de que estemos preparados. ~ Bruno Bettelheim, #NFDB
393:Por aquel entonces, las habitaciones eran grandes como naves y en su interior daban vueltas dos personas gigantes que, no se sabe por qué, se ocupaban de mí: mi madre y mi padre. ~ Mircea C rt rescu, #NFDB
394:Porque el verdadero conocimiento tiene que salir del interior de cada uno. No puede ser impuesto por otros. Sólo el conocimiento que llega desde dentro es el verdadero conocimiento. ~ Jostein Gaarder, #NFDB
395:Conflictul interior al evreilor care vor să se confunde cu ceilalți și, în același timp, să iasă în evidență, care insistă că sînt diferiți și care insistă că nu sînt cu nimic diferiți... ~ Philip Roth, #NFDB
396:Cuando la información desorganiza la conciencia al amenazar sus metas, sucede el desorden interior, o entropía psíquica, una desorganización de la personalidad que menoscaba su efectividad. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
397:En el interior de cada uno de nosotros hay una capacidad inimaginable para la bondad, para dar sin buscar recompensa, para escuchar sin hacer juicios, para amar sin condiciones. ~ Elisabeth K bler Ross, #NFDB
398:I try to always go for something... very interior, following thoughts and memories, something that I think is difficult to do on the screen, which is essentially a third-person medium. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro, #NFDB
399:[P]rogress, however, has not sufficiently infiltrated the Interior Ministry, affording protection to those who participated in the Bytyqi murders and other egregious Milosevic-era crimes. ~ Avis Bohlen, #NFDB
400:We need a strong police force - the Interior Ministry of the Republic of Chechnya. We have to get rid of the traitors who have managed to penetrate into the law-enforcement department. ~ Akhmad Kadyrov, #NFDB
401:If this interior experience was possible in the twentieth century b.c. it is also possible in the twentieth century a.d. The fundamental nature of man has not changed during the interval. ~ Paul Brunton, #NFDB
402:The reason is that for so many years he has been developing a deep reserve of internal calm, so deep that the external unrest cannot disturb it. Interior calm gives birth to calm action. ~ Matthew Kelly, #NFDB
403:But Ali couldn’t answer, couldn’t breathe. Couldn’t believe she was staring at her ex-husband and his interior decorator. The woman he’d left her for. The woman who had borne him a baby. ~ Yvonne Lindsay, #NFDB
404:Those who sit in a glass house do wrong to throw stones about them; besides, the American glass house is rather thin, it will break easily, and the interior is anything but a gainly sight. ~ Emma Goldman, #NFDB
405:Una vez que estamos absolutamente convencidos de que no hay respuestas definitivas por fuera de uno mismo, comenzamos a buscarlas donde realmente se encuentran: en nuestro interior. ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB
406:And what is the problem? It is the old problem of the anxious searcher - the mythic in the interior castle, the poet-pilgrim in a dark wood not sure how to proceed. Which way is the right way? ~ Paul Elie, #NFDB
407:A sumptuous chamber of the spirit’s sleep
At first she made, a deep interior room,
Where he slumbers as if a forgotten guest. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
408:Orice marioneta are suflet. Doar ca trebuie sa stii sa i-l descoperi. Se gaseste poate, la fel ca la oameni, in interior.Cu siguranta insa ca unii vor dori sa-i dea un alt nume... ~ Lucian Dan Teodorovici, #NFDB
409:She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didn’t care. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
410:Não é algo terrível transformar sensações regulares e necessárias em fonte de miséria interior, e assim pretender tornar a miséria interior, em cada pessoa, algo regular e necessário? ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
411:The Master is both within and without, so he creates conditions to drive you inwards and at the same time prepares the interior to drag you to the Centre. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Path of Self-Knowledge, 14, #NFDB
412:Creo que en el interior de cada hombre cuelga un retrato estilizado de la mujer ideal, un modelo con el que comparar a esta o a aquella mortal de carne y hueso que sostiene entre sus brazos. ~ Benjamin Black, #NFDB
413:It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something. ~ Tadao Ando, #NFDB
414:El verdadero contacto entre los seres sólo se establece en la presencia muda, en la aparente no comunicación, en el intercambio misterioso y sin palabras que se asemeja a la plegaria interior. ~ Emil M Cioran, #NFDB
415:en la conciencia de cada individuo el hecho de que se puede poner bien a pesar de cualquier otra persona. La única condición es que confíe en Dios, y haga una limpieza de su interior. ~ A A World Services Inc, #NFDB
416:He had to keep busy; he had to keep moving so that the sinews connected behind his eyes did not slip loose and spin his eyes to the interior of his skull where the scenes waited for him. ~ Leslie Marmon Silko, #NFDB
417:If you're a follower of Jesus, He has given you abundance so that you can care for others, not so you can stock up on capri pants for next summer or afford a leather interior in the new SUV. ~ Craig Groeschel, #NFDB
418:I love actors. I love working with actors. I really enjoy the process. I love having those in-depth discussions about the interior of their character, and actors really love to discuss that too. ~ Steve Antin, #NFDB
419:¿qué esperar?, ¿cuándo?, ¿hasta dónde?, ¿por qué?, ¿para qué? Su interior se deshacía paulatinamente como un grifo mal construido. Algo goteaba horrorosas partículas de dolor. Algo, algo. ~ Alejandra Pizarnik, #NFDB
420:The question of immortality is of its nature not a scholarly question. It is a question welling up from the interior which the subject must put to itself as it becomes conscious of itself. ~ Soren Kierkegaard, #NFDB
421:Are you okay?’ ‘What do you mean?’ ‘You stopped talking. Just sat there looking intense.’ ‘Sorry. I had a stretch of interior monologue. Slightly lyrical. Takes a while to get through. ~ Michael Marshall Smith, #NFDB
422:Ciertas personas, en el afán de querer construir un mundo donde ninguna amenaza externa pueda penetrar, aumentan exageradamente sus defensas contra el exterior y dejan su interior desguarnecido. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
423:La iluminación no es sólo el fin del sufrimiento y del conflicto continuo interior y exterior, sino también el fin de la temible esclavitud del pensamiento incesante. ¡Qué increíble liberación! ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
424:The bell over the door gave a dusty jangle as Vimes entered the gloomy interior. The noise died away, and there was a definite feeling that this marked the end of the entertainment for today. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
425:Cristo interior es un ser que ha vuelto a nacer, cuyo padre es Dios y cuya madre es nuestra humanidad, que está ahí para expresar el potencial divino que hay dentro de cada uno de nosotros. ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB
426:I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody. ~ Orson Welles, #NFDB
427:¿Quién iba a decir que un beso pudiera ser así, capaz de alterar el paisaje interior hasta tal punto de, desbordar los mares, de empujar los ríos montaña arriba, de devolver la lluvia a las nubes? ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
428:Somos todos los fragmentos de lo que recordamos. Tenemos en nuestro interior las esperanzas y los temores de aquellos que nos aman. Mientras haya amor y memoria, no existe la auténtica pérdida. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
429:Cuando Dios habla, mediante Su Palabra o en nuestro interior, no tenemos que razonar, debatir o preguntarnos si lo que Él ha dicho es lógico. Cuando Dios habla, tenemos que movilizarnos, no razonar. ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
430:Igual que en el momento de venir al mundo, al morir tenemos miedo de lo desconocido. Pero el miedo es algo interior que no tiene nada que ver con la realidad. Morir es como nacer: sólo un cambio. ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
431:când evoci dintr-o dată, cu ochii închişi, pe ecranul interior al pleoapelor, replica obiectivă, perfect vizualizată, a chipului îndrăgit, fantomă minusculă în culori naturale (aşa o văd eu pe Lolita). ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
432:Cuando alguien imprescindible se va de tu lado, vuelves los ojos a tu interior y no encuentras más que banalidad, porque los vivos, comparados con los muertos, resultamos insoportablemente banales ~ Miguel Delibes, #NFDB
433:hay en su propio interior algo que hace causa con el atacante. Defiéndase, por ende, con ardor y actitud. El idealista, por el contrario, no puede abstenerse de mirar con cierto desprecio al dogmático, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
434:—Igual que en el momento de venir al mundo, al morir tenemos miedo de lo desconocido. Pero el miedo es algo interior que no tiene nada que ver con la realidad. Morir es como nacer: sólo un cambio. ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
435:I'm excited about the state of women's spiritual life and interior life and who women are. I wish the political establishment would catch up, because we still don't have equal rights in America. ~ Patricia Arquette, #NFDB
436:It rattled into the station like it was coming from another century. The interior lights cast a half-hearted glow over the nocturnal flotsam in its care: the janitors, drunkards, and dance-hall girls. ~ Amor Towles, #NFDB
437:Como se supone que dijo Stalin (que algo sabía sobre la mortalidad): «Una muerte es una tragedia; un millón de muertes, una estadística». La estadística permanece callada en nuestro interior. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
438:—esa proximidad al objeto que reside en las sensaciones carnales (el tacto, el gusto o el olfato) esculpen al encuentro de la conciencia; poder restituir de la visión interior, del olvido del sueño ~ Fernando Pessoa, #NFDB
439:Também no interior do corpo a treva é profunda, e contudo o sangue chega ao coração, o cérebro é cego e pode ver, é surdo e ouve, não tem mãos e alcança, o homem claro está, é o labirinto de si mesmo. ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
440:There can be such a gulf between one’s exterior and interior lives, and this should tell us something, it should teach us not to trust appearances too much; he who does so misses the essence. ~ J n Kalman Stef nsson, #NFDB
441:There is a love for the real, an affection for the true, in all of Dutch art. A church interior with its stillness. A hand with its gesture. A landscape with its distances. A cloud with its motion. ~ Katharine Weber, #NFDB
442:Buzz crouched between her feet and scrutinised as much as he could see of her perilous interior to find out if all was in order and there were no concealed fangs or guillotines inside her to ruin him. ~ Angela Carter, #NFDB
443:He comprendido que el fracaso, sea personal, profesional o incluso espiritual, es necesario para la expansión de la persona. Aporta un crecimiento interior y un sinfín de recompensas psíquicas. Nunca ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
444:I went to college at Florida State, which is where I got my interior design degree, and after college, I moved down to Miami. We moved back here a few years ago.” “Miami. Is that where you met your ~ Mary Kay Andrews, #NFDB
445:The interior of the animal was much as one would expect: close and dark and damp, with an odd smell. It was rather, Odette thought, like trying to enter a really popular nightclub on New Year’s Eve. ~ Daniel O Malley, #NFDB
446:Faeries are seen through the heart, not through the eyes. Remember that faeries inhabit the interior of the earth and the interior of all things, so look, in the first place, in the interior of yourself. ~ Brian Froud, #NFDB
447:It closed with a muffled thump that whispered money into the silent interior. The sound of my car door closing was vaguely reminiscent of a nickel hitting the bottom of a tuna can—cheap and tinny. ~ Michelle Leighton, #NFDB
448:Overhead the sky was dull and cloudless, a bland impassive blue, more the interior ceiling of some deep irrevocable psychosis than the storm-filled celestial sphere he had known during the previous days. ~ J G Ballard, #NFDB
449:¿Quién sabe si existen los fantasmas o si sólo son recuerdos palpitantes de los seres queridos que perviven en nuestro interior, que nos hablan, que intentan captar nuestra atención por todos los medios? ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
450:Salimos en busca de cosas externas pensando que van a darnos la felicidad, pero es a la inversa. Primero debes buscar la felicidad, la paz y la visión interior y luego se manifestará todo en el exterior. ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
451:The goat footgirl opened the door of the round carriage, revealing an inside of orange satin. “I could not get it to entirely agree with me, but no one will see the interior anyway,” Sybilla said grudgingly. ~ K M Shea, #NFDB
452:Conquest directed toward
the interior of the country is called repression or propaganda ("the first step on the road to hell," according
to Frank). Directed toward the exterior, it creates the army. ~ Albert Camus,#NFDB
453:A medida que avanzaba su estado de gravidez, parecía irse despegando irremisiblemente de la realidad y volcándose hacia el interior de sí misma, en un diálogo secreto y constante con la criatura. Esteban ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
454:El amor es la única realidad absoluta, que nunca cambia y nunca muere. Morar en lo inmutable, mientras todo a nuestro alrededor cambia constantemente, es nuestra clave para alcanzar la paz interior. ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB
455:In the way that I experience life, the physical world is really just the tip of the iceberg of reality. Whether it's trees or stones or water or animals or stars, everything has an ineffable interior quality. ~ Mark Nepo, #NFDB
456:Casi todos los hombres tienen miedo de que las historias de este tipo que puedan contar no encuentren semejanza o respuesta en la vida interior de quien los oye y, por tanto, sospechen o se rían de ellos. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
457:el victimismo procede del interior. Nadie puede convertirnos en víctima excepto nosotros mismos. Nos convertimos en víctimas, no por lo que nos sucede, sino porque decidimos aferrarnos a nuestra victimización. ~ Edith Eger, #NFDB
458:... esperava sentir, quando aqui chegasse, quando tocasse estes ferros, um abalo na alma profunda, uma dilaceração, um terramoto interior, como grandes cidades caindo silenciosamente porque lá não estamos... ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
459:In most instances, the central nervous system does not act directly on the outside world. The “interior” and the nervous system form an interactive complex; the “exterior” and the nervous system do not. ~ Ant nio R Dam sio, #NFDB
460:Eres como una segunda voz dentro de mí, que me acompaña día a día. Has convertido mi monólogo interior en un diálogo. Enriqueces mi vida interior. Indagas, insistes, parodias, entras en conflicto conmigo. ~ Daniel Glattauer, #NFDB
461:Kidd didn’t bother to argue. He got out of the car—no interior lights, they had custom switches, and the switches were off—and walked around to the driver’s side, as Lauren clambered into the passenger seat. ~ John Sandford, #NFDB
462:Está exteriorizando sus emociones. Lo preocupante es cuando no logra sacarlas fuera. Se acumulan en su interior y se enquistan. Las emociones van petrificándose y muriendo dentro de uno. Eso sí es terrible. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
463:Y si después de pasar por una época tan tenebrosa ves que queda un atisbo de felicidad en tu interior, no te queda más remedio que agarrar esa felicidad aunque acabes con la cara entera manchada de barro. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
464:To unlock the heavy outer door and to walk into the hushed interior, with the morning light spilling from the high windows on to the waiting books, gave her such pleasure that she would have worked for nothing. ~ Sue Townsend, #NFDB
465:Cuando la mente gobierna su vida, el conflicto, la disputa y los problemas son inevitables. Estar en contacto con su cuerpo interior crea un espacio claro de no-mente dentro del cual la relación puede florecer. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
466:Every time you have a major breakthrough in self-knowledge, and see the way the divine works within your own psyche, external events, and interior experiences of the divine, you are transformed in some degree. ~ Thomas Keating, #NFDB
467:In some ways, a novel isn't as structurally rigorous as a screenplay or a TV show, which have finite real estate. In a novel, you can more deeply illuminate a character's interior and get away with digressions. ~ Howard Gordon, #NFDB
468:It could be an important feature to be added to your portrait: your mind has interior walls that allow you to partition different times in which to stop or flow, to concentrate alternately on parallel channels. ~ Italo Calvino, #NFDB
469:I wondered how television worked. I thought about how an interior decorator decided on colors and styles. I wondered, when babies tarted learning how to walk, if they didn't know that that couldn't walk. ~ Cupcake Brown, #NFDB
470:Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior. ~ Charles Sturt, #NFDB
471:The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior. ~ Marilyn Hacker, #NFDB
472:The soul is kissed by God in its innermost regions. With interior yearning, grace and blessing are bestowed. It is a yearning to take on God's gentle yoke, It is a yearning to give one's self to God's Way. ~ Hildegard of Bingen, #NFDB
473:The venture into space is meaningless unless it coincides with a certain interior expansion, an ever-growing universe within, to correspond with the far flight of the galaxies our telescopes follow from without. ~ Loren Eiseley, #NFDB
474:A Tita le encantaría ser una simple semilla, no tener que dar cuentas a nadie de lo que se estaba gestando en su interior, y poder demostrarle al mundo su viente germinado sin exponerse al rechazo de la sociedad ~ Laura Esquivel, #NFDB
475:I try to do everything from thinking about big issues like how a building fits into the larger stream of architectural history to practical issues such as how it feels to navigate your way through its interior. ~ Paul Goldberger, #NFDB
476:Las obras de poco sirven sin el fuego interior. No hagas cosas que no deseas hacer para que te den luego palmaditas en la espalda por hacerlas. Nada, si se me permite decirlo, produce un resultado más odioso. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
477:empiece por concentrar su atención en el campo de energía interior de su cuerpo. Sienta el cuerpo desde dentro. Esto también lo pondrá en contacto con sus emociones. Exploraremos esto con más detalle más adelante. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
478:Katherine Heiny's work does something magical: elevates the mundane so that it has the stakes of a mystery novel, gives women's interior lives the gravity they so richly deserve -- and makes you laugh along the way. ~ Lena Dunham, #NFDB
479:The memory of an absent being grows bright in the darkness of the heart; the more it has disappeared the more radiant it is; the despairing and gloomy soul sees that light in its horizon; star of the interior night. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
480:To discover our own intimate contradictions is a success in itself because our interior judgment is spontaneously free. The man guided by the voice of the Consciousness walks victorious through the Correct Path. ~ Samael Aun Weor, #NFDB
481:esse querido plano interior; o segredo da felicidade é não termos escrúpulos para connosco e termos o máximo de atenções para com todos os outros; de resto, o próprio tempo disse já adeus a todos os piratas da alma ~ Stig Dagerman, #NFDB
482:Recently, I spent eight days in a car with my co-host from Top Gear James May, who has a notoriously flatulent bottom. But because he was living on army rations the interior was always pine fresh and lemon zesty. ~ Jeremy Clarkson, #NFDB
483:Venetian Interior
Allegra, rising from her canopied dreams,
Slides both white feet across the slanted beams
Which lace the peacock jalousies: behold
An idol of fine clay, with feet of gold
~ Elinor Morton Wylie,#NFDB
484:A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much as I am, it is well to have some sort of a ventilator from the interior. ~ Lucy Larcom, #NFDB
485:A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman. ~ Robert Johnson, #NFDB
486:His perfect face. His perfect body. His eyes as hard and beautiful as frozen gemstones. He repulses me. I want his exterior to match his broken black interior. I want to cripple his cockiness with the palm of my hand. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
487:organizers had been able to find interpreters for. First up on the dais was Mary Bulinski, the United States secretary of the interior, an inveterate hiker and climber, spry at sixty. By training she was a wildlife ~ Neal Stephenson, #NFDB
488:Railroads, in turn, were revolutionary in their social consequences. The concentrations of the world's populations along coasts and near rivers was reduced, as land transport into interior hinterlands became cheaper. ~ Thomas Sowell, #NFDB
489:You can tell a horse owner by the interior of their car. Boots, mud, pony nuts, straw, items of tack and a screwed-up waxed jacket of incredible antiquity. There is normally a top layer of children and dogs. ~ Helen Thompson Woolley, #NFDB
490:Within yourself lies the cause of whatever enters into your life. To come into full ralization of your own awakened interior powers is to be able to condition your life in exact accord with what you would have it. ~ Ralph Waldo Trine, #NFDB
491:Allí, en el interior de aquel universo bidimensional del juego, la vida era muy simple: 'Eres tu contra la maquina. Muévete con la mano izquierda, dispara con la derecha e intenta seguir vivo todo el tiempo que puedas'. ~ Ernest Cline, #NFDB
492:Had Jupiter been several dozen times more massive, the matter in its interior would have undergone thermonuclear reactions, and Jupiter would have begun to shine by its own light. The largest planet is a star that failed. ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
493:I see now what they mean by "holding your head high," and I am sometimes surprised by how much interior transformation a ramrod posture can afford. When I stand physically proud, I feel a small measure less mortified. ~ Lionel Shriver, #NFDB
494:Italian women are some of the most beautiful in the world. This is why the Vatican is in Italy. If a man can walk across Italy and retain his celibacy, he's got what it takes to be a priest - or an interior decorator. ~ Craig Ferguson, #NFDB
495:Our real journey in life is interior; It is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts. Never was it more necessary to respond to that action. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
496:Tanto en el interior como en el exterior, Madame de Bargeton vivía siempre en público. Estos detalles sirven por sí solos para ilustrar lo que es una provincia; los deslices en ella o son confesados o son imposibles. ~ Honor de Balzac, #NFDB
497:Wet, wet, the interior of the island, they said, bog and marsh, rivers and chains of ponds alive with metal-throated birds. The ships scraped on around the points. And the lookout saw shapes of caribou folding into fog. ~ Annie Proulx, #NFDB
498:Y en mi interior se forjaba la resolución de librarme de aquella situación de tiranía intolerable, o bien huyendo de la casa o, si eso no era posible, negándome a comer y a beber para concluir, muriendo, con tanta tortura. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
499:Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
500:I lost Davey twice, retrieving him on the second occasion from the interior of a huge granite sarcophagus. I was tempted to leave him there, for a while, since he could not get out of it. But Emerson wouldn't let me. ~ Elizabeth Peters, #NFDB
501:Llega un día en la vida en que debes decidir qué tren quieres tomar y, una vez en él, no puedes pensar lo que ocurriría si tomaras otro. Hay que disfrutar a tope y aprovechar al máximo todo lo que nos ofrece en su interior. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
502:No hay más realidad que la que tenemos dentro. Por eso la mayoría de los seres humanos vive tan irrealmente; porque cree que las imágenes exteriores son la realidad y no permiten a su propio mundo interior manifestarse. ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
503:Todo el mundo tiene algún secreto.
Como hace una ostra con un grano de arena, lo enterramos a gran profundidad en nuestro interior y lo cubrimos con capas opalescentes, como si eso pudiera curar nuestra herida mortal. ~ C W Gortner,#NFDB
504:He had an idea all such blocks were probably fear-centered and basically hysterical in nature, as if the brain detected (or thought it had detected) some nasty interior beast and had locked it in a cell with a steel door. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
505:I've always had a fascination with interior design. As a kid, I used to go to real estate open houses with my parents on the weekends. Like a nerd! I would think of how I would piece rooms together at those open houses. ~ Jeremiah Brent, #NFDB
506:All of the rocky and metallic material we stand on, the iron in our blood, the calcium in our teeth, the carbon in our genes were produced billions of years ago in the interior of a red giant star. We are made of star stuff. ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
507:En el interior de cada uno de ustedes hay una persona rica, una pobre y una de clase media, pero si eligen enfocarse en la columna de activos, y aprender más y más sobre los activos, entonces emergerá la persona rica. ~ Robert T Kiyosaki, #NFDB
508:Entonces la estrella de medianoche latió en su interior, con un silencioso recordatorio de que la vida no era fácil. A veces, demandaba que el corazón sangrara, devolviendo solamente un insoportable dolor. A veces, te rompía. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
509:It is often to be noted that highly willful individuals are precisely the people who are most prone to encounter a state of psychic paralysis: they find themselves blocked not by external circumstances, but by interior ones. ~ Luigi Zoja, #NFDB
510:She was a rapidly rising anchor. She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didn’t care. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
511:With his shyness and his formality and his tyrannical rages he protected his interior so ferociously that if you loved him, as she did, you learned that you could do him no greater kindness than to respect his privacy. ~ Jonathan Franzen, #NFDB
512:Del interior del país, que se cocinaba a fuego lento en su propia sopa, llegaba apenas el óxido del poder: las leyes, los impuestos, los soldados, las malas noticias incubadas a dos mil quinientos metros de altura ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
513:I have been on stage on a few occasions where I felt I couldn't escape the interior of my - my interior thoughts. But Peter Wolf once said, what's the strangest thing you can do on stage? Think about what you're doing. ~ Bruce Springsteen, #NFDB
514:It is very unfair to judge of any body’s conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation. Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
515:As a storyteller, you also don't want to make people feel like they're left out, like other people who have read the book have an interior knowledge of this show, and the degree of difficulty in watching it is much higher. ~ Damon Lindelof, #NFDB
516:Comprender no es justificar, sino darnos conciencia de que lo peor y lo mejor de todos los seres humanos está latente en nuestro interior. La parte más aterradora del verdugo es su semejanza potencial con nosotros mismos. ~ Mario Benedetti, #NFDB
517:Let us make our way through these low valleys of the humble and little virtues. We shall see in them the roses amid the thorns, charity that shows its beauty among interior and exterior afflictions, the lilies of purity. ~ Francis de Sales, #NFDB
518:...one interior life in which all beings live with God, themselves are God, existing in the mighty whole, indistinguishable as the cloudless east is from the cloudless west, when all the hemisphere is one cerulean blue. ~ William Wordsworth, #NFDB
519:Pero en un momento dado pasaste de ser algo a no ser gran cosa. Y tienes muchas posibilidades de convertirte en nada, en la nada más absoluta. Un hombre sólo lleva en su interior unos cuantos “síes”, y termina gastándolos todos. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
520:The tango is a very interior dance. It's not an exterior - it's not flashy and all over the floor. It's a very interior dance when you see the old guys dance in the clubs. I learned everything from the old guys in the clubs. ~ Robert Duvall, #NFDB
521:To inquire into the intricacies of a distant landscape, then, is to provoke thoughts about one’s own interior landscape, and the familiar landscapes of memory. The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves. ~ Barry Lopez, #NFDB
522:We wasters of sorrows! How we stare away into sad endurance beyond them, trying to foresee their end! Whereas they are nothing else than our winter foliage, our sombre evergreen, one of the seasons of our interior year. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB
523:What Montaigne seeks is his interior self, that which cannot submit to state, to family, to time, to circumstances, to money, to property; this interior self, which Goethe labelled the “citadel”, where all access is prohibited. ~ Stefan Zweig, #NFDB
524:Y, de repente, quiero tocarlo.
No un empujón, no un golpe, ni siquiera un abrazo amistoso. Quiero sentir los pliegues de su piel, conectar sus pecas con lineas invisibles, cepillar mis dedos en el interior de su muñeca. ~ Stephanie Perkins,#NFDB
525:I've always liked the fact that fiction takes all these pretty unquantifiable human feelings and experiences and projects them onto the page in ways that make interior human sense, even when they aren't entirely believable... ~ Scott Bradfield, #NFDB
526:Estar aquí o más allá, libre o recluido, lo importante es sentirse a gusto; de exterior que era la vida, se hace interior, pero su intensidad permanece igual. Ya sabes, es curioso a donde va a parar la alegría de vivir a veces ~ Blaise Cendrars, #NFDB
527:Good writing and dark wit always excite me and they come together thrillingly in this book. It has a quiet grip on the strangeness of the interior and exterior worlds of love and politics. I delighted in the writing and the scope. ~ Jenny Diski, #NFDB
528:Like a contractor building a house, this book is constructed from the ground up: first comes the big slabs of foundation, then the necessary load-bearing walls, the elegant but impermeable roof, and the lovely interior decorations. ~ Chris Voss, #NFDB
529:Los atletas y los músicos hablan muchas veces de estar en «la zona», ese lugar místico en el que su crítico interior queda silenciado y ellos viven plenamente el momento en que el pensamiento es nítido, y los movimientos, precisos. ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB
530:We found each other in Hollywood, as Minnesotan expatriates always do, common sense driving them together—though to leave the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes for a thirsty city built on a desert may speak of some interior flaw. ~ T Coraghessan Boyle, #NFDB
531:You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present. ~ William Henry O Connell, #NFDB
532:Let us make our way through these low valleys of the humble and little virtues. We shall see in them the roses amid the thorns, charity that shows its beauty among interior and exterior afflictions, the lilies of purity. ~ Saint Francis de Sales, #NFDB
533:Only tormented persons want truth. Man is like other animals, wants food and success and women, not truth. Only if the mind tortured by some interior tension has despaired of happiness: then it hates its life-cage and seeks further. ~ John N Gray, #NFDB
534:You know, Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that a lot of people from New York don't know what goes on beyond the South Jersey Shore. ~ Robert Duvall, #NFDB
535:The exterior must be joined to the interior to obtain anything from God, that is to say, we must kneel, pray with the lips, and soon, in order that proud man, who would not submit himself to God, may be now subject to the creature. ~ Blaise Pascal, #NFDB
536:For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise? ~ Anne Bancroft, #NFDB
537:I am learning to see. I don’t know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn’t stop where it once used to. I have an interior that I never knew of. Everything passes into it now. I don’t know what happens there. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB
538:I had thought that I knew her affliction and not merely the fact of it. It was no stranger to me. I understood it emotionally, empathetically. But I had only ever touched down at its airport. She was a citizen of its vast interior. ~ Elliot Perlman, #NFDB
539:There is no reader so parochial as the one who reads none but this morning's books. Books are not rolls, to be devoured only when they are hot and fresh. A good book retains its interior heat and will warm a generation yet unborn. ~ Clifton Fadiman, #NFDB
540:To really touch something, she is learning—the bark of a sycamore tree in the gardens; a pinned stag beetle in the Department of Etymology; the exquisitely polished interior of a scallop shell in Dr. Geffard’s workshop—is to love it. ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
541:unknown Magee to intrude. He put his hand gently upon the latch of the door. And yet--dim and heartless and cold was the interior of that waiting-room. No place, surely, for a gentleman to leave a lady sorrowful, particularly when the lady ~ Various, #NFDB
542:Olha para as tuas mãos, imagina tudo aquilo que elas serão capazes de construir. O mundo espera pelo invisível que, hoje, só tu és capaz de ver. Existe música por nascer no interior do silêncio. O possível é o futuro do impossível. ~ Jos Lu s Peixoto, #NFDB
543:To really touch something, she is learning—the bark of a sycamore tree in the gardens; a pinned stag beetle in the Department of Entomology; the exquisitely polished interior of a scallop shell in Dr. Geffard’s workshop—is to love it. ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
544:No ser capaz de dejar de pensar es una calamidad terrible, pero no nos damos cuenta de ello así que se considera normal. Este ruido mental incesante nos impide encontrar ese reino de quietud interior que es inseparable del Ser. También ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
545:Nuestra felicidad, amigo mío, tendrá siempre cabida entre la planta de nuestros pies y nuestro occipucio; y tanto si cuesta un millón al año como cien luises, la percepción intrínseca es la misma en el interior de nosotros. –Gracias; ~ Honor de Balzac, #NFDB
546:One of the most important-and most neglected-elements in the beginning of the interior life is the ability to respond to reality, to see the value and the beauty in ordinary things, to come alive to the splendour that is all around us. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
547:I'm very conscious of the fact that every line should have a cadence to it. It should contribute to the progress of the poem. And that the ending of the line is a way of turning the reader's attention back into the interior of the poem. ~ Billy Collins, #NFDB
548:You will never be able to have perfect interior peace and recollection unless you are detached even from the desire of peace and recollection. You will never be able to pray perfectly until you are detached from the pleasures of prayer. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
549:At his kiss, something opened up inside the scraped, empty interior of her heart, unfurled. For the first time, her romantic novels made sense, she realized that the landscape of a woman's soul could change as quickly as a world at war. ~ Kristin Hannah, #NFDB
550:la tarima de madera de la entrada, con infinidad de agujeros de puntas de crampones, estaba repleta de mochilas, cuerdas, jerséis y calcetines puestos a secar de alpinistas que pasaban con las botas desatadas y ropa interior en la mano. ~ Paolo Cognetti, #NFDB
551:Russell Ross reported that insulin also stimulates the proliferation of the smooth muscle cells that line the interior of arteries, a necessary step in the thickening of artery walls characteristic of both atherosclerosis and hypertension. ~ Gary Taubes, #NFDB
552:To really touch something, she is learning—the bark of a sycamore tree in the gardens; a pinned stag beetle in the Department of Entomology; the exquisitely polished interior of a scallop shell in Dr. Geffard’s workshop—is to love it. At ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
553:According to the Gospels, Jesus did not tell his listeners to believe whatever they wished to believe as individuals, or to follow him only in their private thoughts and interior sentiments but not in concrete, public, shared human life. ~ Brad S Gregory, #NFDB
554:He said he felt like the gut heart and lungs of Africa’s interior. He said he felt like the Kongo: “Land of the Panther.” He said he felt like “deserting his master,” as the Kongo is “prone to do.” He said he felt he could dance on a dime. ~ Ishmael Reed, #NFDB
555:That, if a straight line falling on two straight lines makes the interior angles on the same side less than two right angles, the two straight lines, if produced indefinitely, meet on that side on which the angles are less than two right angles. ~ Euclid, #NFDB
556:Creating lines that went straight into the interior [of a space station] was a recipe for disaster. Some knucklehead in an X-wing was bound to come along and drop an energy torpedo into your main power plant, and everyone knows how that ends. ~ John Ringo, #NFDB
557:I don’t know how you look at the inside of your head — what metaphor you choose — but for those of us with endless yawning stretches of interior and nothing but nothing to stop us from getting lost in it, drugs can be wonderfully helpful. ~ James St James, #NFDB
558:Until we become conscious of our interior workings, we experience most inner occurrences as exclusively subjective and through various emotional states that tend to seize us despite our best efforts. ~ Bud Harris, Knowing the Questions, Living the Answers, #NFDB
559:A medida que la vida interior de los prisioneros se hacía más intensa, sentíamos
también la belleza del arte y la naturaleza como nunca hasta entonces. Bajo su influencia
llegábamos a olvidarnos de nuestras terribles circunstancias. ~ Viktor E Frankl,#NFDB
560:I am going to design, in a great hurry, and I believe to build a station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc. etc. It is at Paddington, in cutting, and admitting of no exterior, all interior and all roofed in. ~ Isambard Kingdom Brunel, #NFDB
561:Pero no pasa nada. Es sólo eso. Está exteriorizando sus emociones. Lo preocupante es cuando no logra sacarlas fuera. Se acumulan en su interior y se enquistan. Las emociones van petrificándose y muriendo dentro de uno. Eso sí es terrible. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
562:Across much of Chinese history, it was customary to protest a corrupt emperor by leaving society and moving into the mountainous interior of the country. People who withdrew often came from the upper classes and were highly educated. Hermit ~ Michael Finkel, #NFDB
563:Cuando la vida interior se clausura en los propios intereses, ya no hay espacio para los demás, ya no entran los pobres, ya no se escucha la voz de Dios, ya no se goza la dulce alegría de su amor, ya no palpita el entusiasmo por hacer el bien. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
564:I have to say, without sounding like a total tosser, that everything I've learned in life, and that has taken me out of my natural interior life, has been with men. They exposed me to things that I wasn't aware of. I learned from all the guys. ~ Helen Mirren, #NFDB
565:I should be able to return to solitude each time as to the place I have never described to anybody, as the place which I have never brought anyone to see, as the place whose silence has mothered an interior life known to no one but God alone. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
566:Si te quedas te va a matar. Tal vez no físicamente, pero te vas a morir en el interior. Si no me quieres, te daré tu espacio, pero has construido mucho más en Groveton aparte de mí. Renuncia a nosotros si es necesario, pero no renuncies a ti. ~ Katie McGarry, #NFDB
567:The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live. It is about the realities of what makes for an attractive, civilized, meaningful environment, not about fashion or what's in or what's out. This is not an easy job. ~ Albert Hadley, #NFDB
568:Whatever character you're playing you have to complete the entire interior infrastructure, whatever it is - but what gets divulged or what people completely understand depends on the script and what you decide to show. But you have to know it. ~ Jason Patric, #NFDB
569:Actual grace is constantly offered to us for the accomplishment of the duty of the present moment, just as air comes constantly into our lungs to permit us to breathe. ~ Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, The Three Ages of the Interior Life: Prelude of Eternal Life, #NFDB
570:A lot of my ideas come from McNally Jackson bookstore. One of my favorite things to do is just go there and look through architecture books and interior design books. Something about the aesthetics of space and beautiful images works with my brain. ~ St Lucia, #NFDB
571:No tengo miedo. El miedo mata a la mente. El miedo es la pequeña muerte que conduce a la destrucción total. Afrontaré mi miedo. Permitiré que pase sobre mí y a través de mí. Y cuando haya pasado, giraré mi ojo interior para escrutar su camino. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
572:Benevolence is a world of itself -- a world which mankind, as yet, have hardly begun to explore. We have, as it were, only skirted along its coasts for a few leagues, without penetrating the recesses, or gathering the riches of its vast interior. ~ Horace Mann, #NFDB
573:Dentro de aquella casa con las persianas cerradas, sentí un odio profundo hacia la primavera. Odié todo lo que me había traído, odié el dolor sordo que sentía en mi interior. Era la primera vez en mi vida que odiaba algo con tanta intensidad. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
574:digamos «Dios amado, mi deseo, mi primera prioridad es la paz interior. Quiero la vivencia del amor. No sé lo que eso me aportará, y dejo en Tus manos el resultado de esta situación. Confío en lo que Tú quieras. Hágase Tu voluntad. Amén». ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB
575:Me preparé para la respuesta. Sabía que sería una lección de vida Zen. Algo
sobre la fuerza interior y la perseverancia, sobre como las decisiones que
tomamos hoy, influyen el futuro o alguna otra tontería.
En lugar de eso, él me besó. ~ Richelle Mead,#NFDB
576:The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. ~ Pope Paul VI, #NFDB
577:TO BE GRATEFUL for an unanswered prayer, to give thanks in a state of interior desolation, to trust in the love of God in the face of the marvels, cruel circumstances, obscenities, and commonplaces of life is to whisper a doxology in darkness. ~ Brennan Manning, #NFDB
578:After Trump took office, DJ Patil watched with wonder as the data disappeared across the federal government. Both the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Interior removed from their websites the links to climate change data. ~ Michael Lewis, #NFDB
579:But my bill, the Drill Now Act, would actually expedite the whole process, let the Interior Department move ahead quicker... It would stop the radical environmental lawyers from delaying for years with frivolous lawsuits the leasing of the property. ~ Jim DeMint, #NFDB
580:Cada um será tanto mais sociável quanto mais pobre for de espírito, e, em geral, mais vulgar (o que torna o homem saudável é justamente a sua pobreza interior). Pois, no mundo, não se tem muito além da escolha entre solidão e a vulgaridade. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB
581:El círculo vicioso del insulto interior es terrible: cuánto más te castigues más ansioso o deprimido estarás y menor será tu rendimiento, por lo que confirmarás tu incapacidad y nuevamente te tratarás mal. La involución “perfecta”. Sobregeneralizar ~ Walter Riso, #NFDB
582:If I wasn't acting, I think I would like to do interior design. Yeah, because you know, with the Balinese background, and being there and buying furniture, stuff like that. I love to do-up our home, so I would be an interior decorator, for sure. ~ Melissa George, #NFDB
583:I was a boarding school product from the age of eight, and I hated it. Though I do have a theory that boarding school is good training for writers because its so desperately lacking in privacy: you make space for yourself by having an interior life. ~ Simon Mawer, #NFDB
584:Neorealism taught us to follow the characters with the camera, allowing each shot its own real interior time. Well, I became tired of all this; I could no longer stand real time. In order to function, a shot must show only what is useful. ~ Michelangelo Antonioni, #NFDB
585:Whenever our interior life becomes caught up in its own interests and concerns, there is no longer room for others, no place for the poor. God’s voice is no longer heard; the quiet joy of his love is no longer felt, and the desire to do good fades. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
586:Memory takes a lot of poetic licence. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart. The interior is therefore rather dim and poetic. ~ Tennessee Williams, #NFDB
587:There is a fertile stretch of flat lands in Indiana where unagarian Eastern travelers, glancing from car windows, shudder and return their eyes to interior upholstery, preferring even the swaying comparisons of a Pullman to the monotony without. ~ Booth Tarkington, #NFDB
588:O único que eu sei: que existe o tempo obxectivo, pero tamén o subxectivo, o que levamos contra o interior do pulso, ao lado de onde se senten os latexos. E este tempo persoal, que é o tempo auténtico, mídese en función da nosa relación coa memoria. ~ Julian Barnes, #NFDB
589:el que ha nacido místico sabe que allí hay algo; algo se esconde tras las nubes o en el interior de los árboles. Pero cree que la búsqueda de la belleza es la manera de encontrarlo. Y la imaginación es una especie de hechizo que puede hacerlo surgir. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
590:Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy onto a kind of interior androgyny, a hermaphrodism of the soul. The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species ~ Michel Foucault, #NFDB
591:I could turn you over to the bluejackets, you know. It's in your best interest to come to terms."
Han shrugged and ran his hand over the interior wall. "This place could burn down, you know. Maybe even with you inside. That'd be a shame. ~ Cinda Williams Chima,#NFDB
592:Pero a quienes me aman y me adoran con pureza en su alma, viviendo siempre en armonía, a aquéllos cuyas almas están siempre en unidad con la Armonía interior, Yo les incremento lo que quiera que tengan, y aún es más, les doy aquello que todavía no tienen. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
593:El gran viraje se produjo hace unos años, cuando acepté mi fracaso. Desde entonces, he logrado paz interior, felicidad y un poco de sabiduría. Parte de esta sabiduría deriva de haberme dado cuenta de que éxito y fracaso no son criterios válidos para vivir. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
594:I think even with women who come across with a tough exterior, the interior is the same. I think you'll find this with women around the word: some women, because of their circumstances, are forced to be tougher, forced to cultivate tougher exteriors. ~ David Bezmozgis, #NFDB
595:He didn't have a religious or pious relationship with the church; it was aesthetic. The thrill of the battle between good and evil attracted him, perhaps because it mirrored his interior conflict, and revealed a line that he might yet need to cross.' p.16 ~ Patti Smith, #NFDB
596:Lee, sueña, descansa, diviértete. No cedas a la desesperación. Usa tus sueños. Y si están rotos, ¡pégalos! Un sueño roto bien pegado puede volverse aún más bello de lo que era. Ama las cosas. ¡Estás vivo! Y lucha solo: de ahí saldrá tu fuerza interior ~ Mathias Malzieu, #NFDB
597:Pregressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensity social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation ~ Angela Y Davis, #NFDB
598:Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation. ~ Salvador Dali, #NFDB
599:Truth is always an interior and inexplicable contact. My truest life is unrecognizable, extremely interior and there is not a single word that defines it. My heart has emptied itself of every desire and been reduced to its own final or primary beat. ~ Clarice Lispector, #NFDB
600:We are savages insides. We all want to be the chosen, the beloved, the esteemed. There isn't a person reading this who hasn't at one point or another had that why not me? voice pop into the interior mix when something good has happened to someone else. ~ Cheryl Strayed, #NFDB
601:When I was studying interior architecture, and playing around with glass because I really liked glass. There was one night when I blew a bubble and put a pipe into this glass I had melted and blew a bubble. From that moment, I wanted to be a glassblower. ~ Dale Chihuly, #NFDB
602:Aunque olvides todo lo demás, acuérdate de esto: la inspiración que viene de fuera de uno mismo es igual que el calor en el horno. De él salen panecillos mediocres. Pero la inspiración que proviene de tu interior es como un volcán: puede cambiar el mundo. ~ Alan Bradley, #NFDB
603:El Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados tenía su propio geometría y resultaba casi imposible pasar por el mismo lugar dos veces. En más de una ocasión se había perdido en el interior y había tardado un rato en dar con el camino de descenso a la salida. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
604:Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy into a kind of interior androgyny, a hermaphroditism of the soul. The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species. ~ Michel Foucault, #NFDB
605:I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct. ~ Barry Hannah, #NFDB
606:Los dioses no suelen caracterizarse por hacer regalos prácticos y funcionales, ¿verdad? Y mucho menos regalos contantes y sonantes. No, últimamente se limitan a cosas como la gracia, la paciencia, la fortaleza y la fuerza interior. Cosas que no se ven. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
607:Manuel Valls is popular because the others in the government are unpopular. Interior ministers are always popular because they give people the feeling that they are taking care of security, even when they are just people with tough words and a soft hand. ~ Marine Le Pen, #NFDB
608:The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more truly and perfectly himself: for his personality and individuality are perfected in their true order, the spiritual, interior order. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
609:Entering into the spirit of this interior, you will discover the best possible atmosphere in which to show fine paintings or listen to music. It is this atmosphere that seems to me most lacking in our art galleries, museums, music halls and theaters. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright, #NFDB
610:Every true gospel vocation is a resurrection vocation that arrives after a passage through the belly of the fish. All “word of God” vocations are thus formed. There can be no authentic vocation that is not shaped by passage through some such interior. ~ Eugene H Peterson, #NFDB
611:Lloraba en silencio por ella misma, porque había algo profundamente herido en su interior. Yo ignoraba qué era, ni me atrevía a preguntárselo. Me limitaba a decir lo que podía para calmar su dolor y la ayudaba a cerrar los ojos para rehuir la realidad. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
612:I enjoy trying to inspire myself. I enjoy the artistic side of everything. Music, art, fashion, everything. I just like to be on the cutting edge of it. Im into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing. ~ Chris Kirkpatrick, #NFDB
613:If we grew our own food, we wouldn't waste a third of it as we do today. If we made our own tables and chairs, we wouldn't throw them out the moment we changed the interior decor. If we had to clean our own drinking water, we probably wouldn't contaminate it. ~ Mark Boyle, #NFDB
614:The famous violinist who had coached them - Fodorio, she could not bring herself to say his name - was sort of a hack anyway, at least when it came to teaching. Jana would never tell him to his face, but she enjoyed the solemn interior pleasure of her disdain. ~ Aja Gabel, #NFDB
615:Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only superficially) and is ready to release what lies deeper. When I am willfully alone, a slight ordering of my interior begins to take place and I need nothing more. ~ Franz Kafka, #NFDB
616:Of the autistically interior, dreaming, reading, erotic, self-sufficient child in Balthus' painting we have practically no image at all. Balthus' children are not being driven to succeed where their parents failed, or to be popular, adjusted, or a somebody. ~ Guy Davenport, #NFDB
617:I don't think I have ever really gotten Leopold Bloom's interior ramblings out of my head! I am sure that voice continues to inspire the walking consciousness in my work - that is, the way I carry on an interior monologue as I walk through this city. ~ Stephen Vincent Benet, #NFDB
618:Normally I’d hide my gun in a canvas bag or a purse. Today I didn’t bother. My Baby Desert Eagle rested in a hip holster. Its magazine held twelve rounds, .40 S&W, and I’d brought two spare magazines, in the interior pocket within the lining of my jacket. ~ Ilona Andrews, #NFDB
619:A veces creo que la enfermedad yace agazapada en el interior de todas las mujeres, esperando el momento oportuno para aflorar... He conocido a tantísimas mujeres «enfermas» en mi vida... Enfermas, más enfermas y las más enfermas. ¿Qué era real y qué era falso? ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
620:COLEMAN SLEEPING BAG: LIGHTWEIGHT, LIME GREEN W/ BEIGE INTERIOR, WELL USED, ZIPPER BROKEN. 22 T-SHIRTS, SEVEN: ASSORTED BRANDS, COLORS, AND STYLES. 23 ENERGIZER LED FLASHLIGHT (NO BATTERIES). 24 SCARF: GRAY/BLUE STRIPED ACRYLIC FABRIC, FRINGE MISSING ON ONE END. ~ Tyler Dilts, #NFDB
621:I have come to the conviction that once one embarks on a concept for a building, this concept has to be exaggerated and overstated and repeated in every part of its interior so that wherever you are, inside or outside, the building sings with the same message. ~ Eero Saarinen, #NFDB
622:Para la gente inflexible es muy difícil alcanzar un estado de paz interior. Más aún, es prácticamente imposible estar cerca de una persona rígida, llámese pareja, compañera o compañero de trabajo o de universidad, y no verse afectado negativamente por ella o él. ~ Walter Riso, #NFDB
623:Yet there was something else, something different about her this time, like a room where someone has thrown out all the flowers while you were gone: a change in the interior you don’t even notice at first, not until you see the stems sticking out of the garbage. ~ Herman Koch, #NFDB
624:el agujero que yo creía que estaba fuera, alejado de mí, pero que en realidad estuvo siempre en mi interior, desde el principio, creciendo, tragándose cada vestigio de esperanza, confianza y amor que me quedaba, abriéndose paso a bocados por la galaxia de mi alma ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
625:It was not such a long way to the weightlessness of the needle’s hollow interior. She had her choice then: either towards the engine core, where Sering had no doubt taken steps to ensure that he would not be disturbed; or away. Away, in a very final sense. ~ Adrian Tchaikovsky, #NFDB
626:One should make movies innocently - the way Adam and Eve named the animals, their first day in the garden. Learn from your own interior vision of things, as if there had never been a D.W.Griffith, or a Eisenstein, or a [John] Ford, or a [Jean] Renoir, or anybody. ~ Orson Welles, #NFDB
627:The animating principle of mana, the effect of magic, the magical efficacy of spirits, and the reality of collective ideas, dreams, and ordeals are all governed by the laws of this interior reality which modern depth psychology is trying to bring to the surface. ~ Erich Neumann, #NFDB
628:wanting to know about the actions of an entire gene (a paragraph), you actually want to know the precise role of just one letter? After all, that could be the difference between your business card describing you as an ‘interior designer’ or an ‘inferior designer’. ~ Nessa Carey, #NFDB
629:Anyone who has become entranced by the sound of water drops in the darkness of a ruin can attest to the extraordinary capacity of the ear to carve a volume into the void of darkness. The space traced by the ear becomes a cavity sculpted in the interior of the mind. ~ Steven Holl, #NFDB
630:Contemplation means rest, suspension of activity, withdrawal into the mysterious interior solitude in which the soul is absorbed in the immense and fruitful silence of God and learns something of the secret of His perfections less by seeing than by fruitive love. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
631:Dreams are not comments on the day world, or censored versions of re-enacted childhood dramas, but self-representations of an interior reality. If we can think in terms of inner space, peopled by symbolic figures and mythic forces, we have begun to think like Jung. ~ David Tacey, #NFDB
632:To be liberated from the stigma of blackness by embracing it is to cease, forever, one's interior argument and collaboration with the authors of one's degradation. It abruptly reduces the white enemy to a contest merely physical, which he can win only physically. ~ James Baldwin, #NFDB
633:When talking with a set designer the dialogue is more centered on locations, interior design, what I like and what doesn't work. There is a certain taste I'm drawn to and feel inspired by, and finding that inspiration is what keeps the conversation moving forward. ~ Marc Forster, #NFDB
634:During the modern era, Richard Tarnas points out, the locus of all meaning in the world shifted exclusively to the interior realm of human consciousness. The world itself was conceived as possessing no meaning save for that projected onto it by the human psyche. ~ Keiron Le Grice, #NFDB
635:Els fills: la llibertat és l’amor; la llibertat interior és un valor absolut; és quan un no té por dels propis desitjos; és tenir les butxaques plenes, així un ho tindrà tot; és quan un pot viure sense pensar en la llibertat. La llibertat és una cosa normal. ~ Svetlana Alexievich, #NFDB
636:En los países con cierto bienestar ha predominado una medianía que oculta los horrores del resto del mundo. Cuando de esos horrores se desprende una violencia que llega hasta el interior de nuestras ciudades y nuestras costumbres nos sobresaltamos, nos alarmamos. ~ Elena Ferrante, #NFDB
637:I am inspired by working moms. Mothers who somehow balance the demands of their many lives - professional, familial, personal, and interior - and still manage to make time to have fun and invest in themselves! This is a huge challenge that I look forward to taking on. ~ Daphne Oz, #NFDB
638:Like the street his gallery was on, Fortin had an attractive front, hiding quite a foul interior. He was opportunistic. He fed on the talent of others. Got rich on the talent of others. While most of the artists themselves barely scraped by, and took all the risks. ~ Louise Penny, #NFDB
639:Speak to your darkest and most negative interior voices the way a hostage negotiator speaks to a violent psychopath: calmly, but firmly. Most of all, never back down. You cannot afford to back down. The life you are negotiating to save, after all, is your own. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
640:Todo suceso tiene un porqué y toda adversidad nos enseña una lección. He comprendido que el fracaso, sea personal, profesional o incluso espiritual, es necesario para la expansión de la persona. Aporta un crecimiento interior y un sinfín de recompensas psíquicas. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
641:Everything that makes up a human being lies in our interior but we do not have access to entirety of our inner nature through our rational mind, the one-eyed perspective. Access to our inner totality requires a second eye to be looking inward as the other eye looks outward ~ Harris, #NFDB
642:Lo que nos amenaza de verdad y cuesta más de combatir es algo que procede de nuestro interior. El impacto y el dolor de una pesadilla pueden ser mucho mayores que el de un puñetazo. Asimismo, a veces lo que duele no es tanto ese puñetazo como la emoción tras él... ~ John Katzenbach, #NFDB
643:No malgastes lo que te queda de vida en conjeturar sobre los demás, a no ser que busques el bien común; pues si te dedicas a imaginar qué hace la gente, por qué, qué dice, que piensa, qué trama, y cosas parecidas, dejarás de observar tu propia conciencia interior. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
644:To remind us of the existence of others when we have fallen into the maze of interior, subjective life is one large part of the work of literature’s windows. They keep us from stifling solipsism, by returning the personal self to connection with what is beyond it. ~ Jane Hirshfield, #NFDB
645:En Proverbios 29,18 se dice: «Cuando no hay visión, el pueblo se relaja». Esto significa que si carecemos de una visión «apasionante» para el futuro, «nos relajaremos» en nuestro interior, en tanto que careceremos de motivación y entusiasmo por lo que estemos haciendo. ~ Brian Tracy, #NFDB
646:Exham Priory itself I saw without emotion, a jumble of tottering mediaeval ruins covered with lichens and honeycombed with rooks’ nests, perched perilously upon a precipice, and denuded of floors or other interior features save the stone walls of the separate towers. ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
647:-He cambiado pero no de un modo visible.
-Un científico dijo que si el océano fuera tan claro como el cielo, si pudiéramos ver todo lo que hay en él, nadie se metería nunca en el agua. Tan horrible es lo que vive en su interior a siete mil metros de profundidad. ~ Cassandra Clare,#NFDB
648:The interior deprives men of their senses. Here, the eerie stillness of the wilderness and the darkness of night render the men both deaf and blind. Without eyes or ears, they have no frame of reference-and without a frame of reference, they have no clear identities. ~ Joseph Conrad, #NFDB
649:Todo el mundo miente cuando tiene miedo. Algunos dicen muchas mentiras; otros, pocas. Algunos sólo tienen una gran mentira y la dicen tan a menudo que casi llegan a creerla... Aunque en su interior siempre sabrán que sigue siendo mentira, y eso se reflejará en su rostro. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
650:Global consciousness is not an objective belief that can be taught to anybody and everybody, but a subjective transformation in the interior structures that can hold belief in the first place, which itself is the product of a long line of inner consciousness development. ~ Ken Wilber, #NFDB
651:If, in making a portrait, you hope to grasp the interior silence of a willing victim, it's very difficult, but you must somehow position the camera between his shirt and his skin. Whereas with pencil drawing, it is up to the artist to have an interior silence. ~ Henri Cartier Bresson, #NFDB
652:If our eye could penetrate the earth and see its interior from pole to pole, from where we stand to the antipodes, we would glimpse with horror a mass terrifyingly riddled with fissures and caverns. —Thomas Burnet, Telluris Theoria Sacra, Amsterdam, Wolters, 1694, p. 38 ~ Umberto Eco, #NFDB
653:Our Sun is a second- or third-generation star. All of the rocky and metallic material we stand on, the iron in our blood, the calcium in our teeth, the carbon in our genes were produced billions of years ago in the interior of a red giant star. We are made of star-stuff. ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
654:As a woman lives them, she will understand more and more of these interior feminine rhythms, among them the rhythms of creativity, or birthing psychic babies and perhaps also human ones, the rhythms of solitude, of play, of rest, of sexuality, and of the hunt. ~ Clarissa Pinkola Est s, #NFDB
655:—Ella —dijo Vivian suavemente—, la verdadera belleza de una persona está en el interior. Si te sientes guapa, entonces le parecerás guapa a la gente sin importar el aspecto externo. —Señaló el vestido colgado del maniquí—. Ese vestido haría que cualquiera pareciese guapa. ~ Kelly Oram, #NFDB
656:MARTES. La realidad ataca y me hago fuerte en el cuarto de baño. La realidad que ataca es la interior, la del alma, para entendernos, de modo que el cuarto de baño, a primera vista, serviría de poco. Sin embargo, funciona. Los sanitarios tienen virtudes terapéuticas. ~ Juan Jos Mill s, #NFDB
657:Silence 'is so lacking in this world which is often too noisy, which is not favorable to recollection and listening to the voice of God. In this time of preparation for Christmas, let us cultivate interior recollection so as to receive and keep Jesus in our lives.' ~ Pope Benedict XVI, #NFDB
658:The idea that a baby doesn't amount to anything! Why, one baby is just a house and a front yard full by itself. One baby can, furnish more business than you and your whole Interior Department can attend to. He is enterprising, irrepressible, brimful of lawless activities. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
659:These three brothers were not afforded the opportunity to defend themselves in a court of law. They were not given a fair and public trial. Paramilitaries, under the command of senior Ministry of Interior officials, denied them these rights and shot them in cold blood. ~ Garry Robbins, #NFDB
660:We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and resource, distances of unspoken knowledge and unnoticed skills and luck, distances of interior landscape. ~ Eliezer Yudkowsky, #NFDB
661:Choosing a husband was much like choosing a good baguette. One looked for a strong outer shell, a tender interior, and most importantly, a tractability of dough to hold whatever shape the baker deemed appropriate. Abigail needed a good baguette by the end of the weeek ~ Karen Witemeyer, #NFDB
662:El mundo que queremos para nosotros y para nuestros hijos no surgirá de la velocidad de la electrónica sino de la calma interior que tiene su raíz en nuestras almas. Entonces, y sólo entonces, podremos crear un mundo que refleje el corazón en lugar de destrozarlo. ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB
663:Para percibir la distancia que hay entre lo divino y lo humano, basta comparar
estos rudos símbolos trémulos que mi falible mano garabatea en la tapa de un libro, con las letras orgánicas del interior: puntuales, delicadas, negrísimas, inimitablemente simétricas. ~ Jorge Luis Borges,#NFDB
664:Que nosso fogo interno esteja ao máximo, para esquentar a regra ao rubro e modificá-la! Que nossa realidade interior seja tão forte que corrija a realidade exterior! E que nossas paixões sejam devorantes, mas que tenhamos um apetite de viver ainda maior, para devorá-las! ~ Salvador Dal, #NFDB
665:Siéntate en silencio y cierra los ojos. 2 La luz en tu interior es suficiente. 3 Sólo ella puede concederte el don de la visión. 4 Ciérrate al mundo exterior, y dale alas a tus pensamientos para que lleguen hasta la paz que yace dentro de ti. 5 Ellos conocen el camino. ~ Helen Schucman, #NFDB
666:Una gran desgracia, en cualquier caso, para la vida interior de la vida y también para todos aquellos que aún desean utilizar subjetivamente la palabra, tensarla y estirarla hacia miles de conexiones de luz que quedan por restablecer en la gran oscuridad del mundo. ~ Enrique Vila Matas, #NFDB
667:Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory. ~ B K S Iyengar, #NFDB
668:A diplomatic passport for a Tal Zahavi, with a current photo of Yael-1. The same birth date as in the other passport. The interior must have had fifty entry stamps for European and South American countries, plus the U.S., Japan, and South Korea. The woman traveled a lot. ~ John Sandford, #NFDB
669:Every man, however good he may be, has a yet better man dwelling in him, which is properly himself, but to whom nevertheless he is often unfaithful. It is to this interior and less mutable being that we should attach ourselves, not to be changeable, every-day man. ~ Wilhelm von Humboldt, #NFDB
670:―No estás solo. ― Y antes que pueda decirle ‹‹De hecho lo estoy, lo cual no forma parte del problema. Todo estamos solos, atrapados en el interior del cuerpo y de la mente, y sea cual sea la compañía que podamos tener en esta vida, no es más que pasajera y superficial›› ~ Jennifer Niven, #NFDB
671:There is a moment when the interior light of the "eyes of faith" becomes one with the exterior light that shines from Christ, and this occurs because man's thirst, as he strives and seeks after God, is quenched as he finds repose in the revealed form of the Son. ~ Hans Urs von Balthasar, #NFDB
672:In every interior my firm and I design, we are always reaching for vintage pieces, and materials that feel classic and timeless. It's how I feel about fashion as well, and definitely one of the intentions I had when designing the layette collection. I'm not a fan of trends. ~ Nate Berkus, #NFDB
673:Tal vez eso es lo que nos llama a cada uno de nosotros, la promesa de la próxima historia, justo en el horizonte.
O la historia patinando por la ventana del frente.
O la que late en el interior de nuestros corazones, a la espera de ser puestas en libertad. ~ Suzanne Selfors,#NFDB
674:- Una historia es como un fruto seco - dijo Vashet -. Un necio se la traga entera y se atraganta. Otro necio la tira creyendo que no tiene ningún valor. - Sonrió -. Pero una mujer sabia encuentra la manera de romper la cáscara y comerse el fruto que hay en el interior. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
675:We have no word for this darkness. It is not night and it is not ignorance. From time to time we all cross this darkness, seeing everything: so much everything that we can distinguish nothing. You know it, Marisa, better than I. It’s the interior from which everything came. ~ John Berger, #NFDB
676:Affluence isn't affluence at all. Hong Kong is the benchmark; everybody else's affluence is mere tat. Until you've experienced that perfume-washed air as polarized glass doors embrace you into a luxury hotel's plush interior, you've only had a dud replica of the real thing. ~ Jonathan Gash, #NFDB
677:It's an easier task to imagine someone's interior world when you feel quite distanced from them. In the same way that I find writing about Australia easier than writing about the UK because I don't have the reality of it in front of me to get me bogged down in trying to be exact. ~ Evie Wyld, #NFDB
678:Parker looked distressed. He had confidence in Wimsey's judgment, and, in spite of his own interior certainty, he felt shaken.
"My dear man, where's the flaw in [this case]?"
"There isn't one ... There's nothing wrong about it at all, except that the girl's innocent. ~ Dorothy L Sayers,#NFDB
679:Todos los artistas verdaderos, lo sepan o no, crean desde un lugar de no-mente, de quietud interior. La mente entonces da forma a la visión o impulso creativo. Incluso los grandes científicos han dicho que sus grandes logros creativos llegaron en un momento de quietud mental. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
680:By maintaining our attention on what's going on within others, we offer them a chance to fully explore and express their interior selves. We would stem this flow if we were to shift attention too quickly either to their request or to our own desire to express ourselves. ~ Marshall B Rosenberg, #NFDB
681:i wasnt frightened of it. The gray death wasn't a monster or a spider i could see and shiver over. It was invisible. If I caught it would be somewhere within me and while the outside world was full of danger I knew my interior I was certain I could oust an intruder there. ~ Gail Carson Levine, #NFDB
682:It is imperative to create luxury products that are also functional. My vision for fashion precludes frivolous, fantasy-only designs. That said, fashion does tend to move more quickly than interior design. One doesn't change their couch every season as one does their wardrobe. ~ Giorgio Armani, #NFDB
683:«Te volveré loca —gritó su memoria cuando Tatiana se sentó a respirar la brisa salada de la eternidad en el alféizar de la ventana—. Andarás sonriente por la calle como una mujer normal, pero en tu interior te retorcerás como en la hoguera. No te liberaré, nunca serás libre.» ~ Paullina Simons, #NFDB
684:I loved that statement, loved especially the final line. I saw him freeing me from the silences of the interior life. That’s the dream of sex, isn’t it? That you will be liberated from the prison of the body by the body itself, at long last desired, its strange tongue understood. ~ Olivia Laing, #NFDB
685:La lógica del conjunto nos lleva, nos saca de nosotros mismos. Incluso, cuando intentamos centrarnos por completo con nuestro ser interior, lo hacemos con la experiencia de haber seguido la lógica de masas, por lo que ya nos conocemos como permeables, porosos, dentro de un conjunto. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
686:¿Qué más quieres, oh alma, y qué más buscas fuera de ti, pues dentro de ti tienes tus riquezas, tus deleites, tu satisfacción, tu hartura y tu reino, que es tu Amado, a quien desea y busca tu alma? Gózate y alégrate en tu interior recogimiento con él, pues le tienes tan cerca. ~ Juan de la Cruz, #NFDB
687:Almsgiving, according to the Gospel, is not mere philanthropy; rather it is a concrete expression of charity, a theological virtue that demands interior conversion to love of God and neighbor, in imitation of Jesus Christ, who, dying on the cross, gave his entire self for us. ~ Pope Benedict XVI, #NFDB
688:What many men desire--that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show, Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach, Which pries not to th' interior, but like the martlet Builds in the weather on the outward wall, Even in the force and road of casualty. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
689:As a system of hybrid communicating vessels, the human interior consists of paradoxical or autogenous hollow bodies that are at once tight and leaky, that must alternate between the roles of container and content, and which simultaneously have properties of inner and outer walls. ~ Peter Sloterdijk, #NFDB
690:In this endeavor to wed the vision of the Old World with that of the New, it is the writer, not the statesman, who is our strongest arm. Though we do not wholly believe it yet, the interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world. ~ James Baldwin, #NFDB
691:Com os prazeres, dá-se o mesmo que com as fotografias. O que apanhamos na presença da criatura amada não passa de um negativo; revelamo-lo mais tarde, uma vez em casa, quando encontramos à nossa disposição essa câmara escura interior cuja entrada é proibida enquanto há gente à vista. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
692:During the patriarchal time, the men were always and invariably dominant, legally and socially in marriage, so now it's possible to remodel the entire house of marriage, put in new footings and new joists and a new sort of interior. That is exactly what some men and women are now doing. ~ Robert Bly, #NFDB
693:I'm really into antiques. But really into it because of my father, who got me into them in the first place. He's an interior designer and he's really into going to antique shows and getting up really early on Sundays and driving out to these weird little towns north of Hamilton. ~ Kathleen Robertson, #NFDB
694:Text Your Way In After you install the Lockitron device ($179) over your door’s deadbolt and download the app, you can unlock the door by texting your password or tapping the app on your phone. The device is placed on the interior side of your door, and the app works with any smartphone. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
695:There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine. ~ R Buckminster Fuller, #NFDB
696:I am reminded by my journey how exceedingly new this country still is. You have only to travel for a few days into the interior and back parts even of many of the old States, to come to that very America which the Northmen, and Cabot, and Gosnold, and Smith, and Raleigh visited. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
697:Just as blueprints don't necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don't necessarily specify selfish organisms. As we shall see, sometimes the most selfish thing a gene can do is build a selfless brain. Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players. ~ Steven Pinker, #NFDB
698:To listen is very hard, because it asks of us so much interior stability that we no longer need to prove ourselves by speeches, arguments, statements or declarations. True listeners no longer have an inner need to make their presence known. They are free to receive, welcome, to accept. ~ Henri Nouwen, #NFDB
699:When I drink a Glass of water, it's thick and crawling with life. My mouth leads to the interior of my body - a caldron of disease, germs, and perversions of biology. I don't exist individually. I'm made of millions of living creatures, eating each other, decomposing, eating each other. ~ Michael Gira, #NFDB
700:El miedo puede ser bueno, Laia. Puede mantenerte con vida. Pero no permitas que te controle. No permitas que siembre la duda en tu interior. Cuando el miedo tome el control, procura utilizar la única arma lo bastante poderosa e indestructible como para doblegarlo: tu espíritu. Tu corazón. ~ Sabaa Tahir, #NFDB
701:En el momento en que nuestras miradas se cruzaron, sentí que algo me atravesaba hasta lo más hondo, aquella conciencia primitiva que sólo había sentido con él. De una forma muy primaria, algo en mi interior sabía que él era mío. Lo había sabido desde la primera vez que mis ojos lo miraron. ~ Sylvia Day, #NFDB
702:Domestic interior design is a fraught affair. It makes me hanker for the mild and soothing and tasteless red velvet interiors in which people lived so undiscriminatingly no more than twenty years ago. It was unhygienic, dark, cool, probably stuffed full of dangerous bacteria, and pleasant. ~ Joseph Roth, #NFDB
703:Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it. ~ Simone Weil, #NFDB
704:The enemy is crafty; if he would take all away at one stroke he would cause alarm. He starts a certain and infallible method of getting rid of it bit by bit and very gradually, that is, this idea of interior inspiration, by which everybody can receive or reject what seems good to him. ~ Francis de Sales, #NFDB
705:Aşa că renunţă la ideea că eşti prea bătrân ca să faci lucrurile pe care sufletul tău fără vârstă vrea să le faci, şi îndrăzneşte să-ţi respecţi adevărul interior. Să ţii minte mereu că vârsta nu e decât „o stare a minţii legată de o chestiune. Dacă nu te deranjează, nu contează“, Mark Twain. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
706:Creemos que conocemos a una persona, pero tanto ella como nosotros nos encontramos en constante cambio. Comprendí repentinamente que en eso consiste estar vivos. Las placas invisibles de nuestro interior se desplazan con el fin de alinearse y formar la persona en la cual nos convertiremos. ~ Ava Dellaira, #NFDB
707:De entre todas las cosas que he visto en la vida, creo que el mar es mi favorita.
A veces me descubro mirándolo y me olvido completamente de mis obligaciones. Es lo bastante grande como para contener en su interior todas las cosas que un hombre puede sentir a lo largo de toda una vida. ~ Anthony Doerr,#NFDB
708:Pike unscrewed the interior light so it wouldn’t come on, then left the car. It was full-on dark now, and Pike enjoyed the darkness. Darkness, rain, snow, a storm—anything that hid you was good. He circled the house to check the windows, then slipped back onto the porch and let himself in. ~ Robert Crais, #NFDB
709:Your adventure has to be coming out of your own interior. If you are ready for it then doors will open where there were no doors before, and where there would not be doors for anyone else. And you must have courage. It's the call to adventure, which means there is no security, no rules. ~ Joseph Campbell, #NFDB
710:Sometimes you want the outside world to match your interior reality, you said to James once, trying to explain why you loved thunderstorms. Another boom overhead and a streak of lightning on the right. Awesome, says the taxi driver, and catching your eye in the rearview mirror, he smiles. ~ Alice LaPlante, #NFDB
711:El mundo nos llena de suce dáneos e intenta convencernos de que nada falta, pero nada tiene la capacidad de llenar el vacío que sentimos en nuestro interior, de manera que tenemos que ir sustituyendo y modificando lo que inventa mos mientras nuestro vacío proyecta su sombra sobre nuestra vida ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
712:I just like watching people who really are not self-conscious, who aren't aware, because I fear that one could become too self-conscious, too artful, as an actor. Sometimes if you look at somebody, you can extrapolate from their exterior what might be happening in their interior. I'm nosy. ~ Harriet Walter, #NFDB
713:Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting. ~ Tatiana Maslany, #NFDB
714:The guiding principle of Martin’s personality, the sum of his interior existence, was the desire to be left alone. If all those years he’d sought attention, even novelty, and if he still relished them, then that was because attention proved him different and solitude begins in difference. ~ Jonathan Franzen, #NFDB
715:The process of schooling does not give birth to human beings - as education should but never will so long as it springs from the collective consciousness of our culture - but instead it teaches us to value abstract rewards at the expense of our autonomy, curiosity, interior lives, and time. ~ Derrick Jensen, #NFDB
716:Let's just say that during my travels I've become acquainted with interior states that collapse the distance between people. Sometimes, despite how far apart we are physically, I have drawn very close to you, right up into your innermost chamber. I can feel what you're feeling. From here. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides, #NFDB
717:One never knows enough about characters in real life to put them into novels. One gets started and then, suddenly, one can not remember what toothpaste they use; what are their views on interior decoration, and one is stuck utterly. No, major characters emerge; minor ones may be photographed. ~ Graham Greene, #NFDB
718:The silence is there within us. What we have to do is to enter into it, to become silent, to become the silence. The purpose of meditation and the challenge of meditation is to allow ourselves to become silent enough to allow this interior silence to emerge. Silence is the language of the spirit. ~ John Main, #NFDB
719:Julie, Julie, susurra Perry en el interior de mi cabeza. Le oigo sonreír. Mírame, nena. Mira la cara de R y me verás. Esas criaturas son demasiado pragmáticas para preocuparse por la venganza. Van a por vosotros. Y no porque provocarais esta escaramuza, sino porque saben que vais a ponerle fin. ~ Isaac Marion, #NFDB
720:The enemy is crafty; if he would take all away at one stroke he would cause alarm. He starts a certain and infallible method of getting rid of it bit by bit and very gradually, that is, this idea of interior inspiration, by which everybody can receive or reject what seems good to him. ~ Saint Francis de Sales, #NFDB
721:Whatever we attempt is a reflection of our inner thirst, which we hope to quench in all these external ways. What we are looking for lies within us, and if we gave out time and energy to an interior search, we would come across it much faster, since that is the only place where it is to be found. ~ Ayya Khema, #NFDB
722:The big gorilla of homeowner tax breaks is the deduction for mortgage interest, which reduces income tax revenues by about $100 billion each year. That is, this one tax deduction costs more than the budgets of the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Energy, the Interior, and the Treasury combined. ~ T R Reid, #NFDB
723:I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the interior monologues in their letters, and when I have to bridge the chasms between the factual evidence, I try to make an intuitive leap through the eyes and motivation of the person I'm writing about. ~ Irving Stone, #NFDB
724:One of the reasons to go to South Africa is because we can create great standing sets, both interior and exterior, and have the opportunity to create an actual water set outside, which will allow us to build a boat and probably part of another ship to be able to really bring that world to life. ~ Chris Albrecht, #NFDB
725:Para los estoicos, la forma más segura de encontrar la felicidad sería, por tanto, buscarla en lo único sobre lo que tenemos control: nuestro mundo interior. Todo lo que existe fuera de nosotros puede desaparecer, así que ¿cómo podemos confiarle nuestra felicidad futura y nuestro bienestar? ~ Arianna Huffington, #NFDB
726:Reverse Cannot Befall
395
Reverse cannot befall
That fine Prosperity
Whose Sources are interior—
As soon—Adversity
A Diamond—overtake
In far—Bolivian Ground—
Misfortune hath no implement
Could mar it—if it found—
~ Emily Dickinson,#NFDB
727:En su vida, nada había podido contaminar el pozo loco de sus sueños: ni la bebida, ni las drogas, ni el dolor. Escapó hacia ese pozo como un animal sediento que encuentra un charco al atardecer y bebió de él, lo que significa que encontró un agujero en el papel y se lanzó a su interior, agradecido ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
728:Freud definió la neurosis como el hecho de alejarse del Yo, y eso es. El verdadero Yo es el amor dentro de nosotros. Es el «hijo de Dios». El yo temeroso es un impostor. La vuelta al amor es el gran drama cósmico, el viaje personal desde lo ilusorio hasta el Yo, del dolor a la paz interior. ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB
729:La poderosa bestia primitiva se hacía fuerte en el interior de Buck y, bajo las terribles condiciones de vida de la traílla del trineo, no dejaba de crecer. Pero crecía en secreto, pues su recién adquirida astucia le proporcionaba equilibrio y control de sí mismo. JACK LONDON, La llamada de la selva. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
730:Su papel en la vida la tiene absorbida. Sé muy bien por qué: su belleza le acarrea dramas y acontecimientos. Las ideas significan poco. Vi en ella una caricatura de personaje teatral y dramático. Disfraz, actitudes, forma de hablar. Es una actriz soberbia. Sólo eso. No he podido llegar a su interior. ~ Ana s Nin, #NFDB
731:For one single affection remaining in the soul, or any one matter to which the mind clings either habitually or actually, is sufficient to prevent all perception and all communication of the tender and interior sweetness of the spirit of love, which contains within itself all sweetness supremely. ~ Juan de la Cruz, #NFDB
732:Només els muggles parlen de «llegir el pensament». El cervell no és un llibre que es pugui obrir quan es vulgui per mirar-se'l com qui fulleja el diari. Els pensaments no estan impresos a l'interior del crani perquè qualsevol intrús se'ls pugui mirar. El cervell és una cosa molt intricada i complexa. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
733:Royce scanned the interior. “Nobody home,” he said at length.
“Wasn’t last time either. I’m surprised they haven’t tightened security up more.”
“Oh yeah, a single break-in after centuries is something to schedule your guards around.”
“They’ll be kicking themselves tomorrow. ~ Michael J Sullivan,#NFDB
734:Seas lo que seas físicamente, hombre o mujer, fuerte o débil, enfermo o sano, todo eso no importa tanto como lo que tengas en el corazón. Si posees el alma de un guerrero, eres un guerrero. Todas esas otras cosas son tan sólo el cristal de la lámpara, pero tú eres la luz que brilla en su interior. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
735:Who the hell do you think you are?” your darkest interior voices will demand. “It’s funny you should ask,” you can reply. “I’ll tell you who I am: I am a child of God, just like anyone else. I am a constituent of this universe. I have invisible spirit benefactors who believe in me, and who labor ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
736:Character is a superstition, a wretched fetish. Once a year wouldn't be too often to seize upon sinners whose blameless life has placed them above suspicion, and turn them inside out before the community, so as to show people how the smoke of the Pit had been quietly blackening their interior. ~ William Dean Howells, #NFDB
737:I create enclosed spaces mainly by means of thick concrete walls. The primary reason is to create a place for the individual, a zone for oneself within society. When the external factors of a city's environment require the wall to be without openings, the interior must be especially full and satisfying. ~ Tadao Ando, #NFDB
738:I have a lot of interest in interior rhyming; not just rhyming at the end of the lines, but playing around with rhymes within the lines, playing with where the syllabic emphases in the sentences are, lining those up at strange moments in the line of the song. I’m not sure if that comes across or not. ~ Joanna Newsom, #NFDB
739:Miami is nothing like me, and thats why I need to be here - its the opposite. Im practical, where this place is moody, Im stolid in my interior, where this place has a certain flair, and Im materialistic in a sense that this place is fundamentally spiritual - theres a quicksilver quality about this place. ~ Iggy Pop, #NFDB
740:On the opposite wall was a Damien Hirst spot painting, bought by Arabella after a decent bonus season. Roger's considered view of the painting, looking at it from aesthetic, art-historical, interior-design, and psychological points of view, was that it had cost forty-seven thousand pounds, plus VAT. ~ John Lanchester, #NFDB
741:Some might say that one’s faith is a private matter and should not be spoken of so publicly. They might assert this in public, but what do they really think in their hearts? The fact is, those who say such things usually don’t even have a concern for faith in the privacy of their interior lives. ~ William Wilberforce, #NFDB
742:Who can tell whether the parallelogram, which in our ignorance we have defined and drawn, and the whole of whose properties we profess to know, may not be all the while panting for exterior angles, sympathetic with the interior, or sullenly repining at the fact that it cannot be inscribed in a circle? ~ Lewis Carroll, #NFDB
743:Come on,” insisted Zaphod, “I’ve found a way in.” “In?” said Arthur in horror. “Into the interior of the planet! An underground passage. The force of the whale’s impact cracked it open, and that’s where we have to go. Where no man has trod these five million years, into the very depths of time itself…. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
744:I always wished I could go to confession. I was so full of things I couldn't name and had an instinct to hide. I felt burdened by the loneliness of my interior life. I wanted some container that I could empty myself into, some ear that would never be shocked, even if it offered me some kind of penance. ~ Melissa Febos, #NFDB
745:Just someone trying to shoot in 70mm deserves the nomination, and he[Quentin Tarantino] is shooting interiors, like tight interior shots, for that matter. Obviously [Quentin] is the director and demanding the shots, but all credit for the beauty of that film [Hateful Eight] goes to the director of photography. ~ Bun B, #NFDB
746:Only much later did I understand that this raw material is the very marrow of literature, and that, from it, it’s possible to create an interior narrative. I say “interior” because at that time chronicles were considered to be where truth was to be found. “Interior” expression had not yet been born. ~ Aharon Appelfeld, #NFDB
747:In fact, it is the account of an interior voyage, the kind of excursion that’s hard to talk about without sounding foolish or annoyingly serene, or like someone who thinks the Great Spirit has singled him out to be the mouthpiece of ultimate truth. If you knew me you’d know that I am none of the above. ~ Roland Merullo, #NFDB
748:From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it. That the starry vault shall surcharge the heart with all rapturous marvelings, is only because we ourselves are greater miracles, and superber trophies than all the stars in universal space. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
749:It's a sign of this film's greatness that the enormous sadness that accompanies the final leave-taking of the circus interior is a good deal more than the conclusion of an unpretentious evening's entertainments; it's a sublime and awesome coda to the career of one of this century's greatest artists. ~ Jonathan Rosenbaum, #NFDB
750:The arm of the Federal government is long, but it is far too short to protect the rights of individuals in the interior of distant States. They must have the power to protect themselves, or they will go unprotected, spite of all the laws the Federal government can put upon the national statute-book. ~ Frederick Douglass, #NFDB
751:The woman—and more importantly, the man who adores her—knows that youth and vitality are more about what’s on the inside than what’s on the outside. The interior is what’s important, and only a precious few intimates get to see that. The exterior? Hell, everyone else on the planet can see that, free of charge. ~ J Thorn, #NFDB
752:«Estoy orgulloso de ti por intentarlo, y voy a estar ayudándote. Te daré el poder que necesitas si pasas tiempo conmigo leyendo mi Palabra cada día, si dependes de mi Espíritu que está en tu interior cada momento, y si confías en que yo usaré cada circunstancia de tu vida para tu propio bien y crecimiento». ~ Rick Warren, #NFDB
753:My fingers scrabbled at the smooth leather interior of Ryu’s BMW as he missed the exit we needed. Causing him to drop a few more F bombs and slam on the breaks. He then opened what I assume was a rift in the space time continuum in order to hurtle his German made steal cage of doom through said continuum. ~ Nicole Peeler, #NFDB
754:The ancient art of alchemy shows a way: Pay attention to your deep and complex interior life, become more sensitive about your relationships, consider your past thoughtfully, and use your imagination at its full power. Work from the ground up toward finding the work that will make your life worthwhile. The ~ Thomas Moore, #NFDB
755:I stared at him. At this too-thin, too-sincere boy. This person.
Because I knew what he meant. I understood exactly. And I’d felt it too, that interior certainty. But over the years, I’d let all the fervour fade. I’d stopped believing in it, somehow. I’d let it become something I did, not something I was. ~ Alexis Hall,#NFDB
756:We have entirely taken to thinking of the personality of a human being, or for that matter also that of an animal, as located in the interior of its body. To learn that it cannot really be found there is so amazing that it meets with doubt and hesitation, we are very loath to admit it. ~ Erwin Schrödinger, Mind and Matter, #NFDB
757:Usaba todo un ritual para fumar yerba y era muy puritano respecto de la droga, como la mayoría de los grifotas. Aseguraba que la yerba le ponía en contacto con campos gravitatorios supracelestes. Tenía opiniones formadas sobre todo: la ropa interior más sana, cuándo beber agua y cómo limpiarse el culo ~ William S Burroughs, #NFDB
758:We are human precisely insofar as we always intend a singularity across the thickness of our lives, insofar as we are grouped around this unique interior where there is no one, which is latent, veiled, and escapes from us always leaving behind in our hands truth which are like traces of its absence. ~ Maurice Merleau Ponty, #NFDB
759:I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I dont believe anymore in religions, because you see today there are religious wars, prejudice, false morals, and the woman is despised. Religion is too old now; its from another century, its not for today. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky, #NFDB
760:Lo relevante es reconocer y reparar el estado de alienación que uno tiene con uno mismo. Admitir que, de repente, llevamos mucho tiempo sin hacer una pausa. Tomar conciencia de que estamos "vestidos" con nosotros mismos las 24 horas del día, pero que es muy poco el tiempo que estamos "cerca" de nuestro interior. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
761:Thought without language, says Lavelle, would not be a purer thought; it would be no more than the intention to think. And his last book offers a theory of expressiveness which makes of expression not "a faithful image of an already realized interior being, but the very means by which it is realized. ~ Maurice Merleau Ponty, #NFDB
762:We're [writers] all afraid of writing badly, and there are psychological reasons, like the bad interior of ourselves is somehow being revealed, but we all fear that, and you can't write well if you're not willing to write badly. That's why you have to make writing a habit, so it feels normal and not strange. ~ Jennifer Egan, #NFDB
763:Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
764:It was the nicest cop car I’d ever been in, and I’d been in quite a few. The black leather interior smelled of vanilla. The Plexiglas divider was squeaky clean. The bench seat had a massage feature so I could relax after a hard day of loitering. Obviously, they served only the finest criminals here in Alfheim. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
765:This is the yin and yang of the earth, an energetic feedback. What happens below relates directly to what is happening on the surface and in the atmosphere and vice versa. Tectonics does not end at the ground beneath your feet. It is a dynamic system from the earth's interior all the way into the sky and back. ~ Craig Childs, #NFDB
766:For a stalk to grow or a flower to open there must be time that cannot be forced; nine months must go by for the birth of a human child; to write a book or compose music often years must be dedicated to patient research ...To find the mystery there must be patience, interior purification, silence, waiting. ~ Pope John Paul II, #NFDB
767:What is a camp? It is a part of the territory that exists outside the juridical-political order, a materialisation of the state of exception. Today, the state of exception and depoliticisation have penetrated everything. Is the space under CCTV surveillance in today's cities public or private, interior or exterior? ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
768:„Mi-am cucerit, puţin câte puţin, teritoriul interior care urma să fie al meu. Mi-am cerut, unul după altul, întinsurile de mlaştină în care nu mai rămăsese nimic din mine. Şi am scos la iveală fiinţa mea infinită, dar a trebuit să mă scot pe mine din mine cu forcepsul”. - Fernando Pessoa, "Cartea neliniştirii ~ Fernando Pessoa, #NFDB
769:No conocerás el miedo. El miedo mata la mente. El miedo es la pequeña muerte que conduce a la destrucción total. Afrontaré mi miedo. Permitiré que pase sobre mí y a través de mí. Y cuando haya pasado girare mi ojo interior para escrutar su camino. Allá donde haya pasado el miedo ya no habrá nada. Solo estare yo. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
770:Ser impecable con tus palabras significa utilizar tu energía correctamente, en la dirección de la verdad y del amor por ti mismo. Si llegas a un acuerdo contigo para ser impecable con tus palabras, eso bastará para que la verdad se manifieste a través de ti y limpie todo el veneno emocional que hay en tu interior. ~ Miguel Ruiz, #NFDB
771:The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call “the trouble with you.” Nevertheless, the journey is worth making. ~ Quentin Crisp, #NFDB
772:At times, my brother made me think of one of those tapered, horned conch shells, with a glossy pink interior curving away and out of sight into some tightly wound inner mystery. You could hold your ear to such a shell and imagine you heard the depths of a vast roaring ocean—but it was really just a trick of acoustics. ~ Joe Hill, #NFDB
773:Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart; eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. And, with those eyes, those interior eyes, open upon that coldness, I lay half asleep and looked at the visitor, death. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
774:¿Debemos optar por permanecer en el interior del paraíso del pasado el mayor tiempo posible o volver a nuestro anodino presente en el que, por lo general, las únicas cosas que anhelamos son el fin de semana, nuestro programa de televisión favorito, un sexo mediocre de vez en cuando, o ir a dormir por la noche? ~ Jonathan Carroll, #NFDB
775:The interior drama, therefore, is always the important one. The “story of your life” is written by you, by each reader of this book. You are the author. There is no reason, therefore, for you to view the drama and feel trapped by it. The power to change your own condition is your own. You have only to exercise it. ~ Jane Roberts, #NFDB
776:I looked along the aisle and saw her, and it was as if I saw her for the first time. Everything changed. The ancient featureless interior of me spangled orange, mint, cat-blue. I looked back to the window immediately, my face damp, my breath caught. And worried I would never have the courage to look at her again. ~ Sonya Hartnett, #NFDB
777:. . . Our Lord humbles in order to raise up, and allows the suffering of interior and exterior afflictions in order to bring about peace. He often desires some things more than we do, but wants us to merit the grace of accomplishing them by several practices of virtue and to beg for this with many prayers. ~ Saint Vincent de Paul, #NFDB
778:There are faces so fluid with expression, so flushed and rippled by the play of thought, that we can hardly find what the mere features really are. When the delicious beauty of lineament loses its power, it is because a more delicious beauty has appeared, that an interior and durable form has been disclosed. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
779:The sound of the sea, the curve of a horizon, wind in leaves, the cry of a bird leave manifold impression in us. And suddenly, without our wishing it at all, one of these memories spills from us and finds expression in musical language...I want to sing my interior landscape with the simple artlessness of a child. ~ Claude Debussy, #NFDB
780:They are living evidence that this rich and varied world with its overflowing and intoxicating life is not purely external, but also exists within . . . Their life teaches more than their words. . . . Their lives teach the other possibility, the interior life which is so painfully wanting in our civilization. Jung ~ Elaine N Aron, #NFDB
781:1239
Who Court Obtain Within Himself
803
Who Court obtain within Himself
Sees every Man a King—
And Poverty of Monarchy
Is an interior thing—
No Man depose
Whom Fate Ordain—
And Who can add a Crown
To Him who doth continual
Conspire against His Own
~ Emily Dickinson,#NFDB
782:Nadie escribe para sí mismo, no es necesario dejar las palabras en un papel para comunicarnos con nosotros mismos. Siempre hay una intención de dejar testimonio y la esperanza de que alguien lo lea y no ser olvidados. Se escribe para comunicar algo a alguien, para trascender más allá de nuestro interior. ~ Mercedes Pinto Maldonado, #NFDB
783:No conocerás el miedo. El miedo mata la mente. El miedo es la pequeña muerte que conduce a la destrucción total.
Afrontaré mi miedo. Permitiré que pase sobre mí y a través de mí. Y cuando haya pasado girare mi ojo interior para escrutar su camino. Allá donde haya pasado el miedo ya no habrá nada. Solo estaré yo. ~ Frank Herbert,#NFDB
784:No he hecho más que soñar. Ése ha sido y sigue siendo, incluso, el sentido de mi vida. Nunca he tenido otra preocupación verdadera que no fuese mi vida interior. Los mayores dolores de mi vida se desvanecen cuando, al abrir la ventana hacia la calle de mis sueños, consigo enajenarme en la visión de su movimiento. ~ Fernando Pessoa, #NFDB
785:O, to be a ruler of life-- not a slave, To meet life as a powerful conqueror, No fumes-- no ennui-- no more complaints or scornful criticisms. O me repellent and ugly, O to these proud laws of the air, the water and the ground, proving my interior Soul impregnable, And nothing exterior shall ever take command of me. ~ Walt Whitman, #NFDB
786:Projection is part of the false self. We diminish our God-given empowerment when we spend energy projecting rather than feeding our interior life. Living from our false self drains us of our desire for self-awareness and growth. Our self-respect is undermined and our tendencies toward internalized self-hatred are fed. ~ Laura Swan, #NFDB
787:A Map Of Love
Your face more than others' faces
Maps the half-remembered places
I have come to I while I slept—
Continents a dream had kept
Secret from all waking folk
Till to your face I awoke,
And remembered then the shore,
And the dark interior.
Anonymous submission.
~ Donald Justice,#NFDB
788:A talkative soul lacks both the essential virtues and intimacy with God. A deeper interior life, one of gentle peace and of that silence where the Lord dwells, is quite out of the question. A soul that has never tasted the sweetness of inner silence is a restless spirit which disturbs the silence of others. ~ Mary Faustina Kowalska, #NFDB
789:En la continua necesidad de goce y prueba de cosas siempre nuevas se me antoja un rasgo de pequeñez, falta de vida interior, alejamiento de la Naturaleza y mediana o defectuosa capacidad de comprensión. Es a los niños pequeños a los que siempre hay que mostrarles algo nuevo y distinto para que no estén descontentos. ~ Robert Walser, #NFDB
790:In fictional families - in sitcoms, in dramas - the members are sharing huge amounts of their interior lives. And that has not been my real-life experience. In fictional families - in sitcoms, in dramas - the members are sharing huge amounts of their interior lives. And that has not been my real-life experience. ~ Mary Kay Zuravleff, #NFDB
791:(...) atisbo su rostro, sus ojos turbios y salvajes que buscan los míos, y me siento como si nos estuviéramos besando otra vez, ahora desde lejos pero con más pasión (...). No sabía que fuera posible besarse con los ojos. No sabía nada. Y, entonces, los colores derriban las paredes del cuarto, los muros de mi interior… ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
792:By "the feminine principle" I mean everything vulnerable, interior, powerless, subtle, personal, intimate, and relational. By "the masculine principle" I mean everything clear, rational, linear, ordered, in control, bounded, provable, and hard. Both the feminine and masculine are good, but they must balance each other. ~ Richard Rohr, #NFDB
793:¿Está usted contaminando el mundo o limpiando el desorden? Usted es responsable de su estado interior; nadie más lo es, así como usted también es responsable por el planeta. Lo mismo que ocurre dentro, ocurre fuera: si los seres humanos limpian la contaminación interior, también dejarán de crear contaminación exterior. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
794:I appreciate our government's determination to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of the Bytyqi brothers, which Serbia's Interior Minister has rightly called 'an exceptionally serious crime,' and hope the Serbian government's pledge of full cooperation... is matched by a final accounting of their murder. ~ John McCain, #NFDB
795:Siempre he creído que las personas que son hermosas de verdad, por dentro y por fuera, son aquellas que no son conscientes del efecto que tienen en los demás. Aquellas que ostentan su belleza la echan a perder. La hermosura es pasajera. Es un caparazón que oculta las sombras y el vacío que hay en el interior... ~ Jennifer L Armentrout, #NFDB
796:The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man; it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful, more complex, more mysterious, or more infinite. There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
797:el simple hecho de correr una hora todos los días, asegurándome con ello un tiempo de silencio sólo para mí, se convirtió en un hábito decisivo para mi salud mental. Al menos cuando corría no tenía que hablar con nadie ni que escuchar a nadie. Bastaba con contemplar el paisaje que me rodeaba y mirar hacia mi interior. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
798:(...) atisbo su rostro, sus ojos turbios y salvajes que buscan los míos, y me siento como si nos estuviéramos besando otra vez, ahora desde lejos pero con más pasión (...). No sabía que
fuera posible besarse con los ojos. No sabía nada. Y, entonces, los colores derriban las paredes del cuarto, los muros de mi interior… ~ Jandy Nelson,#NFDB
799:People are, in the confines of their own apartments, becoming Magellans of the interior world and reaching out to this alien thing and beginning to map it and bring back stories that can only be compared to the kind of stories that the chroniclers of the New World brought back to Spain at the close of the 15th century. ~ Terence McKenna, #NFDB
800:Todo suceso tiene un porqué y toda adversidad nos enseña una lección. He comprendido que el fracaso, sea personal, profesional o incluso espiritual, es necesario para la expansión de la persona. Aporta un crecimiento interior y un sinfín de recompensas psíquicas. Nunca lamentes tu pasado. Acéptalo como el maestro que es. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
801:Augustine's, "Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee." The great saint states here in few words the origin and interior history of the human race. God made us for Himself: that is the only explanation that satisfies the heart of a thinking man, whatever his wild reason may say. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
802:The Tower is not a usual spectacle; to enter the Tower, to scale it, to run around its courses, is, in a manner both more elementary and more profound, to accede to a view and to explore the interior of an object (though an openwork one), to transform the touristic rite into and adventure of sight and of the intelligence. ~ Roland Barthes, #NFDB
803:The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to industrial design and then interior design. ~ Peter Zumthor, #NFDB
804:When we are truly in this interior simplicity our whole appearance is franker, more natural. This true simplicity. . . makes us conscious of a certain openness, gentleness, innocence, gaiety, and serenity. O, how amiable this simplicity is! Who will give it to me? I leave all for this. It is the pearl of the Gospel. ~ Francois Fenelon, #NFDB
805:Estás en cada una de mis respiraciones, en cada pensamiento, estas metida tan profundamente en mi interior que “amor” no es una palabra lo suficientemente fuerte para expresarlo, tienes mi devoción, tu nombre está grabado en mi alma, mi lobo es tuyo para que lo mandes. ¿Cien años? Eso no es suficiente. Yo quiero la eternidad. ~ Nalini Singh, #NFDB
806:In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. It was in that space, paradoxically, the painting 'took place.' Then, little by little, and to some extent deliberately, I made it go the other way, opening up an interior space... so that there was a layered, shallow depth. ~ Bridget Riley, #NFDB
807:Timpul d-tale interior, singurul care contează, îţi aparţine. Poţi munci visând, sau amintindu-ţi, sau gândind. Numai munca săvârşită întru împlinirea unei vocaţii, şi în primul rând scrisul, pentru că procesul lui e cel mai complicat, numai această muncă te confiscă definitiv. Numai actul creaţiei îţi cere această jertfă... ~ Mircea Eliade, #NFDB
808:We are not made up, as we had always supposed, of successively enriched packets of our own parts. We are shared, rented, occupied. At the interior of our cells, driving them, providing the oxidative energy that sends us out for the improvement of each shining day, are the mitochondria, and in a strict sense they are not ours. ~ Lewis Thomas, #NFDB
809:Las relaciones de poder entre creadores de contenidos y audiencias participativas deben superar el conflicto de interés por controlar todos los aspectos al interior de una narrativa. La libertad de participación es una herramienta de apoyo al crecimiento de una franquicia, si se aprovecha la creatividad de todos los involucrados. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
810:There is a wealth of information built into us ... tucked away in the genetic material in every one of our cells ... without some means of access, there is no way even to begin to guess at the extent and quality of what is there. The psychedelic drugs allow exploration of this interior world, and insights into its nature. ~ Alexander Shulgin, #NFDB
811:To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter, could function on its own; rather, ethics is an interior principle of the economy itself, which cannot function if it does not take account of the human values of solidarity and reciprocal responsibility. ~ Pope Benedict XVI, #NFDB
812:Montgomery, Alabama, was dreary and hot. “I have rarely seen a more dull, lifeless place,” he wrote. “It looks like a small Russian town in the interior.”58 The ubiquitous slave auctions filled him with disgust. He was also unnerved by the discovery that he was the only white man in the city who was not carrying a loaded revolver. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
813:a conclusão de que não há abismo, e que a infância não pára de desenvolver-se e crescer,
é um novo princípio de realidade, de morte, de velhice: eu não deixo de viver no mundo interior e exterior das metamorfoses flutuantes; é já dia, mas a noite que conduz a esperança no pensamento, e sobre si própria, não acabou. ~ Maria Gabriela Llansol,#NFDB
814:The idea that the world we experience is a solipsistic delusion projected from the interior of our mind consoles rather than disturbs us, since it conforms with our infantile fantasies of omnipotence; but the thought that our so-called interiority owe its existence to a fictionalized consensus will always carry an uncanny charge. ~ Mark Fisher, #NFDB
815:El coronel destapó el tarro del café y comprobó que no había más de una cucharadita. Retiró la olla del fogón, vertió la mitad del agua en el piso de tierra, y con un cuchillo raspó el interior del tarro sobre la olla hasta cuando se desprendieron las
últimas raspaduras del polvo de café revueltas con óxido de lata. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez,#NFDB
816:On one level, this was all about the shape of the outer boundary, and how it developed. Tiles trapped in the middle were of no further interest to the game—or so you might think. But on the other hand, the way in which an interior tile had been laid down ended up determining the location of every other tile in the whole Decagon. ~ Neal Stephenson, #NFDB
817:Las obras de amor al prójimo son la manifestación externa más perfecta de la gracia interior del Espíritu: «La principalidad de la ley nueva está en la gracia del Espíritu Santo, que se manifiesta en la fe que obra por el amor»[40]. Por ello explica que, en cuanto al obrar exterior, la misericordia es la mayor de todas las virtudes: ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
818:los cristianos piensan que cualquier bien que hagan proviene de la vida de Cristo en su interior. No creen que Dios nos amará porque seamos buenos, sino que Dios nos hará buenos porque nos ama, del mismo modo que el tejado de un invernadero no atrae el sol porque es brillante, sino que se vuelve brillante porque el sol brilla sobre él. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
819:Hemos perdido la costumbre de la vida hasta tal punto que a veces sentimos una suerte de asco por la vida verdadera, y por eso nos sienta mal el que nos la recuerden. Hemos llegado a considerar la vida viva como un trabajo, casi como un empleo, y todos somos en nuestro interior del parecer que es mejor vivir como en los libros. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
820:Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect, and interior decorating scheme. For example, men could be imported from the developing countries, many parts of which are suffering from a man excess, at least in relation to local food supply. ~ Barbara Ehrenreich, #NFDB
821:When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and consequently it is held together by a violent and abusive authority. But when men are violently deprived of the solitude and freedom which are their due, the society in which they live becomes putrid, it festers with servility ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
822:A Tita le encantaría ser una simple semilla, no tener que dar cuentas a nadie de lo que se estaba gestando en su interior, y poder mostrarle al mundo su vientre germinado sin exponerse al rechazo de la sociedad. Las semillas no tenían este tipo de problemas, sobre todo, no tenían madre a la que temer, ni miedo a que las enjuiciaran. ~ Laura Esquivel, #NFDB
823:A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. Even as a kid, my sister, who was the eldest, brought books home for me, and I think I spent more time sniffing and touching them than reading. I just remember the joy of the book, the beauty of the binding. The smelling of the interior. Happy. ~ Maurice Sendak, #NFDB
824:Led by myself and two colleagues, the course offers a newly developed model of spiritual direction that draws on both the age-old wisdom of the church and more recent perspectives. I call it the Passion/Wisdom Model of Spiritual Direction, and I see it as offering the opportunity for our interior worlds and supernatural reality to meet. ~ Larry Crabb, #NFDB
825:People made no sense to her. Men, with whom she had everything in common, did not want her around. Women, with whom she had nothing in common, smiled too much, laughed too loud, and mostly reminded her of small dogs, their lives lost in interior decorating and other people's outfits. There had never been a place for a person like her. ~ Philipp Meyer, #NFDB
826:Pienso que hay personas que pasan años dejando que la presión se acumule en su interior, sin darse cuenta, y un día cualquier tontería los hace perder la cabeza. Entonces dicen: «Basta. No lo soporto más». Algunos se suicidan. Otros se divorcian. También están los que se marchan a las zonas pobres de África y tratan de salvar el mundo. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
827:Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not : whoso would behold her must climb with long and laborious effort, nay, still linger in the forecourt, till manifold trial have proved him worthy of admission into the interior solemnities. ~ Thomas Carlyle, #NFDB
828:I sell a complete package... a life style that's in harmony with and exemplified by the exterior and interior living space. I'm obsessive about the way I live and work, so when it comes to renovating, I believe in finding the true integrity of a house, then breathing life back into it in a way that connects with a certain type of buyer. ~ Jeffrey Lewis, #NFDB
829:Most great filmmakers are good at place. Like how people say, like, "The city itself is a character in the movie," you know? I'm so interior. I always forget there's such a thing as an exterior wide shot, where you can see where someone is. As opposed to just: how can we show what this person is thinking, in an abstract way that is felt? ~ Miranda July, #NFDB
830:-¿Qué? -preguntó de mala gana.
-Ojalá dejaras de intentar desesperadamente atraer mi atención de este modo -dijo él-. Se ha vuelto embarazoso.
-El sarcasmo es el último refugio de los que tienen la imaginación en bancarrota -le respondió ella.
-No puedo evitarlo.Uso mi afilado ingenio para ocultar mi dolor interior. [pp. 185] ~ Cassandra Clare,#NFDB
831:When John Rawls, in his A Theory of Justice repeatedly referred to outcomes that 'society' can 'arrange,' these euphemisms finessed aside the plain fact that only government has the power to override millions of people's mutually agreed transactions terms. Interior decorators arrange. Governments compel. It is not a subtle distinctions. ~ Thomas Sowell, #NFDB
832:Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson star. I neglected to mention that, maybe because I was trying to place them in this review's version of the Witness Protection Program. If I were taken off the movie beat and assigned to cover the interior design of bowling alleys, I would have some idea of how they must have felt as they made this film. ~ Roger Ebert, #NFDB
833:While the poets were above all interested in the fluid and fugitive aspects of Nature, others desired, by slogging away with a hatchet and pickax, to discover the interior structure of Nature and the relationship between the separate morsels. The spirit of our friend Nature dissolved in their hands, leaving nothing but throbbing or dead parts. ~ Novalis, #NFDB
834:Cozy place you got here,” he said, looking around the office. “You read all them books?” “I fear not. But one cannot simply get rid of books, you know. Especially books which have reposed so long on the same shelf.” “Reckon they’re good insulation,” Yulie said, nodding at the shelving stretching from floor to ceiling along the interior wall. ~ Sharon Lee, #NFDB
835:Diga siempre "sí" al momento presente. ¿Qué podría ser más útil, más demente, que crear resistencia interior a algo que ya es? ¿Qué podría ser más demente que oponerse a la vida misma, que es ahora y siempre ahora? Ríndase a lo que es. Diga "sí" a la vida, y observe cómo esta empieza súbitamente a funcionar a favor suyo y no contra usted. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
836:Gnosticism is a system of thought based on interior, psychospiritual experience. This being the case, it is not surprising that Gnosticism emphasizes states of mind and regards actions as secondary in nature and importance. Gnostics have always held that consciousness, rather than external action, is the true indicator of moral worth. ~ Stephan A Hoeller, #NFDB
837:In fact they were initially sublimely indifferent to politics altogether, since they believed the world was going to end soon and that what mattered was preparing oneself for the immediate return of the Lord Jesus and an apocalyptic final judgement. Their core values focused around a personal (interior) relationship with God and holiness, ~ Sara Maitland, #NFDB
838:The man who has determined to admit love of the world and its cares into his interior life finds that he has to accept a supreme renunciation. He has sworn to seek for himself outside himself, in other words to love the world better than himself. He will now have to realize what this noble ambition will cost him. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Cosmic Life, #NFDB
839:The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the exterior of things; mind as well as matter. The true physics is that which will, one day, achieve the inclusion of man in his wholeness in a coherent picture of the world. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #NFDB
840:To touch a person...to sleep with a person...is to become a pioneer," she whispered then, "a frontiersman at the edge of their private world, the strange, incomprehensible world of their interior, filled with customs you could never imitate, a language which sounds like your own but is really totally foreign, knowable only to them. ~ Catherynne M Valente, #NFDB
841:I stepped inside and stopped, blinking in astonishment. From the exterior I'd expected a charming little book and curio shop with the inner dimensions of a university Starbucks. What I got was a cavernous interior that housed a display of books that made the library Disney's Beast gave to Beauty on their wedding day look understocked. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
842:Para ser nosotros mismos hemos de tenernos a nosotros mismos, hemos de poseer, de reposeer si es preciso, nuestras historias biográficas. Hemos de <> nosotros mismos el drama interior, la narración, la nuestra, de de nostros mismos. El individuo necesita esa narración, una narración interior continua, para mantener su identidad, su yo. ~ Oliver Sacks, #NFDB
843:Beautiful is he who recognizes what is truly beautiful even if the surface is ugly. Truthful is he who says what is true even if the truth is ugly. Ugly is he who measures beauty by its exterior without first weighing the interior. And ugly is the man who judges harshly what he sees looking out without first judging what he sees in the mirror. ~ Suzy Kassem, #NFDB
844:Every being has its own interior, its self, its mystery, its numinous aspect. To deprive any being of this sacred quality is to disrupt the total order of the universe. Reverence will be total or it will not be at all. The universe does not come to us in pieces any more than a human individual stands before us with some part of his/her being. ~ Thomas Berry, #NFDB
845:sofa. She looked around, her eyes taking in a wall of French doors that was visible on the ocean side. The room was huge, with ceilings that soared at least twenty feet high. An interior second-story balcony ran across one side of the room. Another wall held a collection of finely bound books. Comfortable furnishings were placed throughout. ~ David Baldacci, #NFDB
846:Viaţa dezvoltă plenitudinea şi vidul, exuberanţa şi depresiunea; ce suntem noi în faţa vârtejului interior care ne consumă până la absurd? Simt cum trosneşte viaţa în mine de prea multă intensitate, dar şi cum trosneşte de prea mult dezechilibru. Este ca o explozie pe care n-o poţi stăpâni, care te poate arunca şi pe tine în aer iremediabil. ~ Emil M Cioran, #NFDB
847:Aging brings out the flavors of a personality. The individual emerges over time, the way fruit matures and ripens. In the Renaissance view, depression, aging, and individuality all go together: the sadness of growing old is part of becoming an individual. Melancholy thoughts carve out an interior space where wisdom can take up residence. Saturn ~ Thomas Moore, #NFDB
848:A veces, cuando decimos las cosas, escuchamos silencio. O sólo eco. Como
gritando desde el interior. Y eso es realmente solitario. Pero eso sólo sucede cuando no estábamos realmente escuchando. Significa que no estábamos
dispuestos a escuchar todavía. Porque cada vez que hablamos, hay una voz. Allí está el mundo que te responde de vuelta. ~ Ava Dellaira,#NFDB
849:combate ya no se libra fuera del yo, sino en su interior. «La cultura domina la peligrosa inclinación agresiva del individuo, debilitando a este, desarmándolo y haciéndolo vigilar por una instancia alojada en su interior, como una guarnición militar en la ciudad conquistada».4 Freud ubica esta instancia de vigilancia psíquica en la conciencia ~ Byung Chul Han, #NFDB
850:I hope you still think that ideas are more dangerous than material thing," Quentin said. "That is what you were arguing at lunch."
Anthony pondered while glancing from side to side before he answered, "Yes, I do. All material danger is limited, whereas interior danger is unlimited. It's more dangerous for you to hate than kill, isn't it? ~ Charles Williams,#NFDB
851:["Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas"] is a very hard book to translate to film because there's so much interior monologue. The what if factor. I tried to write it cinematically and let the dialogue carry it but I forgot about the interior monologue. It's kind of hard to show what's going on in the head. I think we should do it like a documentary. ~ Hunter S Thompson, #NFDB
852:One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure - a willingness to let our partner enter into the interior of our private world and a genuine interest in the private world of that partner. Couples in love tend to show more of themselves to each other than to any other person. ~ Nathaniel Branden, #NFDB
853:Encuentro el elástico de su ropa interior. Tiro hacia abajo.
Despacio.
Lentamente.
El tatuaje está justo debajo del hueso de su cadera.
El infierno está vacío
y todos los demonios están aquí
Beso mi camino a través de las palabras.
Besando para alejar a los demonios.
Besando para alejar el dolor. ~ Tahereh Mafi,#NFDB
854:In order to dream so far, is it enough to read? Isn't it necessary to write? Write as in our schoolboy past, in those days when, as Bonnoure says, the letters wrote themselves one by one, either in their gibbosity or else in their pretentious elegance? In those days, spelling was a drama, our drama of culture at work in the interior of a word. ~ Gaston Bachelard, #NFDB
855:Reason is His voice, His interior prophet, in our souls. We call that prophet conscience. (St. Thomas used two terms for it: “synderesis” was the awareness of its reality and truth and authority and rules, and “conscience” was the application of it. We use “conscience” for both.) Conscience is essentially the power of reason to know good and evil. ~ Peter Kreeft, #NFDB
856:She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didn’t care. Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else in life becomes eerily easy. Tricia ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
857:Somehow, impossibly, the interior of the space we’re in is coated in ice. It shines as light from above cascades down on it, reflecting and refracting, spinning different colors with every new facet of itself. There are planes and crags of it around the walls, with parts of it worked smooth, while others are ragged and shifting.", FADE by Kailin Gow ~ Kailin Gow, #NFDB
858:The great danger in today's world, pervaded as it is by consumerism, is the desolation and anguish born of a complacent yet covetous heart, the feverish pursuit of frivolous pleasures, and a blunted conscience. Whenever our interior life becomes caught up in its own interests and concerns, there is no longer room for others, no place for the poor. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
859:But there is always a danger that the priest qualified to seriously direct religious will be overwhelmed by the demand for his services. His first duty, if he wants to be an effective director, is to see to his own interior life and take time for prayer and meditation, since he will never be able to give to others what he does not possess himself. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
860:There was something that was killing the people in the interior, in the forest area, of the country, and nobody quite knew what it was. That lasted a good three months before it was officially declared that it was Ebola virus. So it started off in Guinea and spread quite slowly, but then spread over the border into Sierra Leone and Liberia. ~ Ofeibea Quist Arcton, #NFDB
861:No existe ningún buen biólogo, cuyos trabajos fueran coronados por el éxito, que no haya sido llevado hacia su profesión por aquel placer interior que deriva de contemplar las bellezas de las criaturas vivas, y que al mismo tiempo no sienta aumentar su placer en la Naturaleza y en el trabajo, a medida que se amplían sus conocimientos profesionales. ~ Konrad Lorenz, #NFDB
862:A veces, cuando decimos las cosas, escuchamos silencio. O sólo eco. Como
gritando desde el interior. Y eso es realmente solitario. Pero eso sólo sucede
cuando no estábamos realmente escuchando. Significa que no estábamos
dispuestos a escuchar todavía. Porque cada vez que hablamos, hay una voz. Allí
está el mundo que te responde de vuelta. ~ Ava Dellaira,#NFDB
863:Elsewheres
South
The long green shutters are drawn.
Against what parades?
Closing our eyes against the sun,
We try to imagine
The darkness of an interior
Where something might still happen:
The razor lying open
On the cool marble washstand,
The drip of something--is it water?--
Upon stone floors. ~ Donald Justice,#NFDB
864:Ella se consideraba a sí misma como un cometa navegando en el viento y, asustada de su propio motín interior, cedía a veces a la tentación de pensar en alguien que pusiera freno a sus impulsos; pero esos estados de ánimo le duraban poco. Cuando meditaba en su futuro se tornaba melancólica, por eso prefería vivir desaforada mientras le fuera posible. ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
865:Feelings are primarily about the quality of the state of life in the body’s old interior, in any situation, during repose, during a goal-directed activity, or, importantly, during the response to the thoughts one is having, whether they are caused by a perception of the outside world or by a recollection of a past event as stored in our memories. ~ Ant nio R Dam sio, #NFDB
866:Not only was Prefect Mutz waiting for them, but his boss, Director General Jacques Gisquet, and his boss’s boss, Minister of the Interior Pierre Blot, were waiting for them. Neville saw this as a sign that they were taking her accusations seriously. Simon saw the potential for something very different, but before he could stop his boss, she started in. ~ Vince Flynn, #NFDB
867:People don't turn away from an attorney sitting in a wheelchair. If the guy has got the reputation for being the best attorney around, that's who you go with. But in show business, for some reason they're still reluctant to say an attorney or a physician or an interior decorator can be in a chair, or on crutches, or blind or any of the other things. ~ Gerald McRaney, #NFDB
868:Barefooted on the slick brick walk I rushed to where I could breathe in the cool breath from the interior of the springhouse. On a cold bubbling spring, covered dishes and crocks and pitchers of milk and butter and so on floated in a circle in the mild whirlpool, like horses on a merry-go-round, in the water that smelled of the mint that grew close by. ~ Eudora Welty, #NFDB
869:most of the shaping of your mind remains forever unconscious. This is called implicit memory, and it includes your expectations, models of relationships, emotional tendencies, and general outlook. Implicit memory establishes the interior landscape of your mind—what it feels like to be you—based on the slowly accumulating residues of lived experience. In ~ Rick Hanson, #NFDB
870:To look at a star by glances - to view it in a side-long way, by turning toward it the exterior portions of the retina (more susceptible of feeble impressions of light than the interior), is to behold the star distinctly - is to have the best appreciation of its lustre - a lustre which grows dim just in proportion as we turn our vision fully upon it. ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
871:People listening to songs are like people reading novels: for a few minutes, for a few hours, someone else gets to come in and hijack that part of your brain that's always thinking. A good book or song kidnaps your interior voice and does all the driving. With the artist in charge you're free for a little while to leave your body and be someone else. ~ Douglas Coupland, #NFDB
872:Ao retornar para a república de estudantes, onde morava, Marco Polo recolheu-se em seu interior. Seu pai, Rodolfo, sempre fora um admirador do italiano Marco Polo, um dos maiores aventureiros da história. O viajante veneziano tinha apenas 17 anos quando, em 1271, partiu da belíssima Veneza para a Ásia com seu pai e seu tio. A incrível odisséia durou 24 anos. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
873:[I had a sense of interior panic].Always. I didn't really know what to call it for a long time, but I have a friend in Greece who used that word panic a lot, and I found myself resisting it, until I totally accepted that as a precise description of my interior condition. It was mostly panic from one moment to the next. And nothing much else was going on. ~ Leonard Cohen, #NFDB
874:To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every inch of space is a miracle, every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same, every cubic foot of the interior swarms with the same; every spear of grass-the frames, limbs, organs, of men and women, and all that concerns them, all these to me are unspeakably perfect miracles. ~ Walt Whitman, #NFDB
875:Go back to bed', said the omniscient interior voice, because you don't need to know the final answer right now, at three o'clock in the morning on the Thursday in November. 'Go back to bed', because I love you. 'Go back to bed', beacause the only thing you need to do for now is get some rest and take good care of yourself until you do know the answer. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
876:I had a parakeet that used to fly around the house and crash into these huge mirrors my mother put in. Ever heard of this interior design principle, that a mirror makes it seem like you have an entire other room? What kind of jerk walks up to a mirror and goes, Hey look, there's a whole other room in there. There's a guy that looks just like me in there. ~ Jerry Seinfeld, #NFDB
877:La tan deseada y necesaria Paz no puede venir de fuera hacia dentro, sino a la inversa. Se ha de experimentar en el interior de cada ser humano, para que así se manifieste en el mundo exterior. Se puede vivir en este mundo como una flor de loto: aunque nace en aguas pútridas, nunca sus pétalos se ven tocados por ella. Flotando en la superficie, sube cuando el ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
878:When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and consequently it is held together by a violent and abusive authority. But when men are violently deprived of the solitude and freedom which are their due, then society in which they live becomes putrid, it festers with servility, resentment and hate. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
879:From the shadow length in Alexandria, the angle A can be measured. But from simple geometry (“if two parallel straight lines are transected by a third line, the alternate interior angles are equal”), angle B equals angle A. So by measuring the shadow length in Alexandria, Eratosthenes concluded that Syene was A = B = 7° away on the circumference of the Earth. ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
880:Harding’s nomination had cost him and his interests $1 million. But with Harding in the White House, a historian noted, “the oil men licked their chops.” Sinclair funneled, through the cover of a bogus company, more than $200,000 to the new secretary of the interior, Albert B. Fall; another oilman had his son deliver to the secretary $100,000 in a black bag. ~ David Grann, #NFDB
881:it any wonder that there can be no peace in a world where everything possible is done to guarantee that the youth of every nation will grow up absolutely without moral and religious discipline, and without the shadow of an interior life, or of that spirituality and charity and faith which alone can safeguard the treaties and agreements made by governments? ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
882:Napoleón no cenaba dos veces, ni podía tampoco tener más amantes de las que tiene cualquier estudiante de Medicina, no sé si me comprendes... Nuestra felicidad, amigo mío, tiene que caber siempre entre nuestros pies y nuestro occipucio, y, tanto si cuesta un millón al año como cien luises, la percepción intrínseca de ella es la misma en nuestro interior. ~ Honor de Balzac, #NFDB
883:Reading is perpetual nourishment, never a vehicle for vanity. Intellectuals, in general, are braggarts, perhaps because they do not possess a true interior landscape. Artists are more silent; they are observers and have, naturally, a great capacity for astonishment. Artists are continual absorbers, and it is perhaps only much later that they pick and choose. ~ Daniel Sada, #NFDB
884:…Most Floridians understand the danger of leaving children or pets in cars with the windows rolled up, where midday temperatures can reach a hundred and fifty degrees or more. But few give a second thought to cheap, throwaway lighters, which are butane under pressure and can easily explode at those temperatures, spraying flammable liquid all over the interior… ~ Tim Dorsey, #NFDB
885:No sabía qué pensar de aquel hombre caballo con quien debía permanecer casada durante un año. Era obvio que me interesaba. Después de todo, no había conocido nunca a nadie como él. Admitamos que no hay muchos centauros corriendo por Oklahoma, al menos por Tulsa. Una no podía saber lo que pasaba en el interior del Estado.
P.C. Cast, En el lugar de la diosa ~ P C Cast,#NFDB
886:Emma —“
“I’m calling.” Emma lunged for her phone.
“No!” Julian said, forcefully enough to stop her. “You know we can’t tell anyone. About Mark —“
“You’re not going to bleed to death in a car for Mark!”
“No,” he said, looking at her. His eyes were eerily green-blue, the only bright color in the dark interior of the car. “You’re going to fix me. ~ Cassandra Clare,#NFDB
887:I must brave the interior of the most tawdry and literally trumpery tower of them all ... the Trump Taj Mahal. For taking the name of the priceless mausoleum of Agra, one of the beauties and wonders of the world, for that alone Donald Trump should be stripped naked and whipped with scorpions along the boardwalk.- It is as if a giant toad has raped a butterfly. ~ Stephen Fry, #NFDB
888:Pensé desde el fondo de mi corazón: «Las personas no se dejan vencer por las
circunstancias o por fuerzas que vienen de fuera, sino por las que nacen en el interior
de sí mismos». Precisamente, ante mis ojos estaba a punto de acabar algo de lo que
no deseaba su fin. Pero no podía impacientarme o entristecerme. Sólo había una
oscuridad sombría. ~ Banana Yoshimoto,#NFDB
889:In the summer of 1970, according to a front-page story in The New York Times, the U.S. Interior Department charged the Olin Corporation with dumping 26.6 pounds of mercury a day into the Niagara River in upstate New York. Mercury was by then a known human health hazard. Scientists had documented its damage to the human brain and reproductive and nervous systems. ~ Jane Mayer, #NFDB
890:Is it any wonder that there can be no peace in a world where everything possible is done to guarantee that the youth of every nation will grow up absolutely without moral and religious discipline, and without the shadow of an interior life, or of that spirituality and charity and faith which alone can safeguard the treaties and agreements made by governments? ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
891:The sleek, white Gulfstream jet cruised at forty thousand feet above the Tyrrhenian Sea west of the Italian mainland. The luxuriously-fitted and technologically-advanced aircraft showcased a cozy interior with windows that permitted ample sunlight to brighten the cabin. Though the plane could accommodate eighteen people, only one passenger was aboard the flight. ~ S S Segran, #NFDB
892:Humanity is identity. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, here below, at least, in predestination. The same shadow in front, the same flesh in the present, the same ashes afterwards. But ignorance, mingled with the human paste, blackens it. This incurable blackness takes possession of the interior of a man and is there converted into evil. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
893:Kino escuchó el leve romper de las olas de la mañana en la playa. Era estupendo...Kino volvió a cerrar los ojos y atendió a su música interior. Quiza sólo él hiciera eso, y quizá lo hiciera toda su gente. Los suyos habían sido una vez grandes creadores de canciones, hasta el punto de que todo lo que veían o pensaban o hacían u oían, se convertía en canción... ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
894:La paciencia nos permite establecer vínculos duraderos, nos ayuda a escuchar y a volcarnos en las situaciones de forma plena. Amar es activo, ya que implica sentir, hacer y vivir. Tal como decía Einstein, dentro de cada ser humano late una bomba capaz de contrarrestar ki\otones de hostilidad y confusión. El corazón es nuestra mejor arma para ganar la paz interior. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
895:lo que había deseado. Con una última mirada calle arriba y abajo, salió del coche murmurando para sí que estaba paranoica y que era una imbécil y que no tenía nada que temer. De todos modos, abrió el buzón con cuidado como si temiera encontrar una serpiente venenosa enrollada en el interior. Lo primero que vio fue el sobre blanco encima de un catálogo a todo ~ John Katzenbach, #NFDB
896:I began to hear what I was being taught about God, by the priest and my parish, and my exterior teaching did not coincide, did not match up, with my interior reality. And as they were teaching me about that God I was thinking: Who are they talking about? This was not how I experienced God. I gradually began to move away from the God of organized religion. ~ Neale Donald Walsch, #NFDB
897:This is not a matter of compromises or adaptations. The power of a new Middle Ages is needed. A change, interior as well as exterior, of barbaric purity is required. Philosophy, “culture”, everyday politics: no more of all that. It is not a matter of shifting to the other side of this bed of agony. It is a matter of finally waking up, and standing on one’s feet. ~ Julius Evola, #NFDB
898:Meditation here is not reflection or any other kind of discursive thinking. It is pure concentration: training the mind to dwell on an interior focus without wandering, until it becomes absorbed in the object of its contemplation. But absorption does not mean unconsciousness. The outside world may be forgotten, but meditation is a state of intense inner wakefulness. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
899:Mindfulness as a practice provides endless opportunities to cultivate greater intimacy with your own mind and to tap into and develop your deep interior resources for learning, growing, healing, and potentially for transforming your understanding of who you are and how you might live more wisely and with greater well-being, meaning, and happiness in this world. ~ Jon Kabat Zinn, #NFDB
900:The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house. Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre. ~ John Berger, #NFDB
901:All things, all circumstances that occur outside ourselves, on the stage of this world, are exclusively the reflection of what we carry within. With good reason then, we can solemnly declare that the 'exterior is the reflection of the interior.' When someone changes internally and if that change is radical, then circumstances, life and the external also change. ~ Samael Aun Weor, #NFDB
902:An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. We call intuition here the sympathy by which one is transported into the interior of an object in order to coincide with what there is unique andconsequently inexpressible in it. Analysis, on the contrary, is the operation which reduces the object to elements already known. ~ Henri Bergson, #NFDB
903:Finally, the stores’ design, so critical to atmosphere, seemed to lack the warm, cozy feeling of a neighborhood gathering place. Some people called our interior spaces cookie-cutter or sterile: Clearly we have had to streamline store design to gain efficiencies of scale . . . [but] one of the results has been stores that no longer have the soul of the past. . . . ~ Howard Schultz, #NFDB
904:If you're a follower of Jesus, He has given you abundance so that you can care for others, not so you can stock up on capri pants for next summer or afford a leather interior in the new SUV. As long as you don't own the responsibility of being blessed with resources so that you can give to those around you, then you can stay focused on getting more for yourself. ~ Craig Groeschel, #NFDB
905:Solo comprendiendo al niño que vive en nuestro interior, podemos acceder a la verdadera dimensión de nuestras falencias y nuestros miedos, y desde esa realidad emocional, ver qué recursos tenemos para mejorar nuestra vida de adultos. Es indispensable comprender que dependemos de nuestra realidad emocional. Y que tendremos que encontrar la propia voz para nombrarla. ~ Laura Gutman, #NFDB
906:Why was she alive? Intelligence, foresight, the right decisions? How foolish to think that. Better to ask why thought always seeks stories, meaning. Why do we endlessly try to make sense of things? Why are we never satisfied with the right answer—dumb luck? Why do we always crave a motive? And why did rail journeys always provoke interior monologues of philosophy? ~ Alex Rosenberg, #NFDB
907:A única realidade é aquela que se contém dentro de nós, e se os homens vivem tão irrealmente é porque aceitam como realidade as imagens exteriores e sufocam em si a voz do mundo interior. Também se pode ser feliz assim; mas quando se chega a conhecer o outro, torna-se impossível seguir o caminho da maioria. O caminho da maioria é fácil, o nosso é penoso. Caminhemos. ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
908:God is always present, always available. At whatever moment in which one turns to him the prayer is received, is heard, is authenticated, for it is God who gives our prayer its value and its character, not our interior dispositions, not our fervor, not our lucidity. The prayer which is pronounced for God and accepted by him becomes, by that very fact, a true prayer. ~ Jacques Ellul, #NFDB
909:I’m here,” I told him, picking at the taxi company decal on
the interior of the car window.“My face is relaxed and content. My lips are curved upward.”
Sam did not laugh, because he was immune to my charms.
“Have you been to the place you’re staying yet? Is it okay?”
“I’m fine, Mother,” I replied. “I haven’t been yet. I’m going
to go see Baby now. ~ Maggie Stiefvater,#NFDB
910:I saw nothing I didn’t expect to see at a crime scene: a small crowd gathered at the yellow tape, some uniforms guarding the perimeter, a few cheap-suited detectives, and my team, the forensic geeks, scrabbling through the bushes on their hands and knees. All perfectly normal to the naked eye. And so I turned to my infallible fully clothed interior eye for an answer. ~ Jeff Lindsay, #NFDB
911:this real fucking genius, though I don’t really think anybody knew that back then, but there was something in him. Charisma. Gentleness, a kind of acceptance of people for who they are. That’s rare, you know? Someone who never, never judges. Most people have a nasty interior monologue going on at all times, not Lotto. He’d rather think kindly of you. Easier that way. ~ Lauren Groff, #NFDB
912:Two thirds of federal disaster aid is weather related,and though we cannot prevent bad weather, we are getting better at predicting it. The Commerce Department's NDRI will help save lives and protect property. We will be working closely with FEMA, the Interior Department and other federal agencies, with state and local governments and with our nation's businesses. ~ William M Daley, #NFDB
913:Considero una concepción errónea y peligrosa para la psicohigiene dar por supuesto que el hombre precisa ante todo equilibrio interior, o como se denomina en biología «homeostasis»: un estado sin tensiones, en equilibrio biológico interno. El hombre no necesita realmente vivir sin tensiones, sino esforzarse y luchar por una meta o una misión que le merezca la pena. ~ Viktor E Frankl, #NFDB
914:Dau în scris, pentru toată lumea care va veni după mine, că n-am în ce să cred pe acest pămînt şi că unica scăpare este uitarea absolută. Aş vrea să uit de tot, să mă uit complet, să nu mai ştiu nimic de mine şi de lumea aceasta. Adevăratele confesiuni nu se pot scrie decît cu lacrimi. Dar lacrimile mele ar îneca această lume, precum focul meu interior ar incendia-o. ~ Emil M Cioran, #NFDB
915:Não parece grande coisa visto aqui de fora. Mas é basicamente isso que se consegue ao olhar algo pelo lado de fora. As pessoas, principalmente, podem ser tao diferentes do que aparentam que você nunca imaginaria o que elas guardam dentro de si. Do que são capazes. no meu caso, o que espreitava em meu interior estava tão bem escondido que nem mesmo eu tinha conhecimento. ~ Teri Terry, #NFDB
916:How do we recognise another person? At its most basic, by shape, by colour, by outline, by dark and light, by smell. Or by nuances of tone, by the way the face looks in repose, the cadences of the voice, full of small interior knowledge, the way they hold their mouth while listening, or the way their gaze holds yours. By what their eyes say when they are not speaking. ~ Marion Coutts, #NFDB
917:Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first travelers. They are the constant lure, when they flow by our doors, to distant enterprise and adventure, and, by a natural impulse, the dwellers on their banks will at length accompany their currents to the lowlands of the globe, or explore at their invitation the interior of continents. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
918:Every person encounters the open door here and there in the course of life, and it occurs to everyone at one time or another that everything visible is symbolic and that spirit and eternal life are living behind the symbol. Of course, very few people go through the gate and abandon the beautiful phenomenon of the outside world for the interior reality that they intuit. ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
919:Pages are the students of the suit, suggestive of a person who has yet to master its special powers but who is earnestly engaged in figuring it all out. Knights are super action-oriented, ready to GO, on the double, like, yesterday! Queens are self-assured and generous, a bit interior, strong and meditative. Kings are likewise so but more extroverted and action-oriented. ~ Michelle Tea, #NFDB
920:último potencial es nuestra “naturaleza de Buda” y de “Cristo.” “Aceptar a Cristo” es aceptar que el amor de Dios está en nosotros y en todos. Una luz eterna brilla en nuestro interior porque allí la puso Dios; e invocar lo que nos agrada es mucho más poderoso que tratar de destruir lo que nos disgusta. En la presencia de nuestra luz, nuestra oscuridad desaparece. ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB
921:Siempre y cuando uno no olvide que lo que antes era invisible -la cuota de intimidad de cada uno, la vida interior de todos- ahora es expuesto en la escena pública, uno comprenderá que quienes procuran la invisibilidad están condenados al rechazo, a la exclusión, condenados a ser sospechosos de algún crimen. La desnudez física, social y psíquica está a la orden del día. ~ Zygmunt Bauman, #NFDB
922:-Solo estaba pensando -dijo Sparrow- que nuestra vida, cuando estamos despiertos es como la ciudadela. Quiero decir, que está encerrada. Transcurre en el interior, sin cielo. Pero soñar es como el jardín. Al soñar se puede salir de la prisión y percibir el cielo que hay alrededor. En un sueño puedes estar en cualquier sitio. Puedes ser libre. Tú también mereces eso, Sarai ~ Laini Taylor, #NFDB
923:The Lamar Life stationary carried on its letterhead an oval portrait of Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, for whom the Company had been named: a Mississippian who had been a member of Congress, Secretary of the Interior under Cleveland, and a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, a powerful orator who had pressed for the better reconciliation of North and South after the Civil War. ~ Eudora Welty, #NFDB
924:For so it is among those who shed lives every few years: they keep their deflated interior causeways, hold them running parallel with their current useable ones; ghost arteries, sleeping shrunken next to those that pump life. Hushed lymphatics, like quiet ivy alongside the speeding juice of now. Nerve trees like bone coral, hugging the whisper of bellowing communications. ~ Brian Catling, #NFDB
925:I sat up in bed. "What did he say?" Tyson groaned, still half asleep. He was lying facedown on the couch, his feet so far over the edge they were in the bathroom. "The happy man said...bowling practice?" I hoped he was right, but then there was an urgent knock on the suite's interior door. Annabeth stuck her head in--her blonde hair in a rat's nest. "DISEMBOWLING practice? ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
926:No se trata de que Dios, os niegue la admisión en Su paraíso si no poseéis ciertas cualidades de carácter: se trata de que si las personas no tienen al menos un indicio de tales cualidades en su interior, ninguna condición externa posible podría crear un «cielo» para ellas… es decir, hacerlas felices con la profunda, intensa, inamovible felicidad que Dios nos tiene reservada. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
927:Hence the “captive,” as an interior quantity, can be experienced both personalistically and transperson-ally on the subjective level, just as it can be experienced personalistically and transpersonally as an exterior feminine quantity. A personalistic interpretation is no more identical with the objective level than a transpersonal interpretation with the subjective level. ~ Erich Neumann, #NFDB
928:Entonces usted comienza a darse cuenta de que hay un vasto reino de inteligencia más allá del pensamiento, que el pensamiento es sólo un minúsculo aspecto de esa inteligencia. También se da cuenta de que todo lo que importa verdaderamente — la belleza, el amor, la creatividad, la alegría, la paz interior — surgen de un lugar más allá de la mente. Usted comienza a despertar. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
929:Even the interior minister, Na’if, had to admit that Saudi Arabia had a problem with Islamic militants. In November 2002 he said, “All our problems come from the Muslim Brotherhood. We have given too much support to this group. The Muslim Brotherhood has destroyed the Arab world.” Na’if went on to accept, at least minimally, Saudi Arabia’s responsibility for militant Islam. ~ Robert B Baer, #NFDB
930:The sky lay over the city like a map showing the strata of things and the big full moon toppled over in a furrow like the abandoned wheel of a gun carriage on a sunset field of battle and the shadows walked like cats and I looked into the white and ghostly interior of things and thought of you and I looked on their structural outsides and thought of you and was lonesome. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald, #NFDB
931:- Tu cara es como una buena espada.
En ocasiones, a Shin'ichi otras personas le habían dicho lo mismo, pero era la primera vez que lo oía de los labios de Chieko.
Cuando algo violento estaba por desencadenarse en su interior, la gente describía en esos términos la cara de Shin'ichi.
- Las buenas espadas no matan a la gente. Además, aquí estamos bajo las flores. ~ Yasunari Kawabata,#NFDB
932:Open your mouth, tesoro." He angled her face higher. "Open your mouth for me."
At his raw demand, her eyes flared wide. For a drunken moment, he drowned in glorious brown, rich, autumnal, sensual.
"O-open...?"
He took advantage and claimed her, sliding his tongue into the interior. She made a sound of surprise and tried to back off. "No."
"Bella, don't be afraid. ~ Anna Campbell,#NFDB
933:Some friends of theirs had rented their house for several months to an interior decorator. When they returned, they discovered that their entire library had been reorganized by color and size. Shortly thereafter, the decorator met with a fatal automobile accident. I confess that when this story was told, everyone around the dinner table concurred that justice had been served. ~ Anne Fadiman, #NFDB
934:It cannot but affect our philosophy favorably to be reminded of these shoals of migratory fishes, of salmon, shad, alewives, marsh-bankers, and others, which penetrate up the innumerable rivers of our coast in the spring, even to the interior lakes, their scales gleaming in the sun; and again, of the fry which in still greater numbers wend their way downward to the sea. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
935:Librarians are hot. They have knowledge and power over their domain...It is no coincidence how many librarians are portrayed as having a passionate interior, hidden by a cool layer of reserve. Aren't books like that? On the shelf, their calm covers belie the intense experience of reading one. Reading inflames the soul. Now, what sort of person would be the keeper of such books? ~ Holly Black, #NFDB
936:I am learning to see. I don't know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn't stop where it once used to. I have an interior that I never knew of... What's the use of telling someone that I am changing? If I'm changing, I am no longer who I was; and if I am something else, it's obvious that I have no acquaintances. And I can't possibly write to strangers. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB
937:I discovered that I felt at home and alive in the silence, which compelled me to enter my interior world and around there. Without the distraction of constant conversation, the words on the page began to speak directly to my inner self. They were no long expressing ideas that were simply interesting intellectually, but were talking directly to my own yearning and perplexity. ~ Karen Armstrong, #NFDB
938:In all the situations of life the “will of God” comes to us not merely as an external dictate of impersonal law but above all as an interior invitation of personal love. Too often the conventional conception of “God’s will” as a sphinx-like and arbitrary force bearing down upon us with implacable hostility, leads men to lose faith in a God they cannot find it possible to love. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
939:It must not be thought that it is ever possible to reach the interior earth by any perseverance in mining: both because the exterior earth is too thick, in comparison with human strength; and especially because of the intermediate waters, which would gush forth with greater impetus, the deeper the place in which their veins were first opened; and which would drown all miners. ~ Rene Descartes, #NFDB
940:Beauty and art pervade all the business of life like a kindly genius, brightly adorning our surroundings whether interior or exterior, mitigating the seriousness of existence and the complexities of the real life, extinguishing idleness in an entertaining fashion, and, where there is nothing good to be achieved, filling the place of vice better than vice itself. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, #NFDB
941:Le nace a uno cierta melodía, la canta uno silenciosamente, en el interior solamente; toda la naturaleza individual se posesiona de la tonada y se deja uno llevar por ella por su fuerza y emotividad, y lo notable es que mientras se adueña de uno se olvida lo fortuito, lo banal y lo burdo, nos armoniza con el universo y nos da fuerzas y alas contra nuestra torpeza y depresiones. ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
942:On hashish, he saw the elaborate furnishings of the nineteenth-century bourgeois interior concentrating “to satanic contentment, satanic knowing, satanic calm . . . To live in these interiors was to have woven a dense fabric about oneself, to have secluded oneself within a spider’s web, in whose toils world events hang loosely suspended like so many insect bodies sucked dry. ~ Daniel Pinchbeck, #NFDB
943:Del mismo modo, un cristiano no es un hombre que no peca nunca, sino un hombre al que se le ha concedido la capacidad de arrepentirse, levantarse del suelo y empezar de nuevo después de cada tropiezo… porque la vida de Cristo está en su interior, reparándolo en todo momento, permitiéndole que repita (hasta cierto punto) la clase de muerte voluntaria que Cristo mismo llevó a cabo. De ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
944:In other words, the real problem is not exterior. The real problem is interior. The real problem is how to get people to internally transform, from egocentric to sociocentric to worldcentric consciousness, which is the only stance that can grasp the global dimensions of the problem in the first place, and thus the only stance that can freely, even eagerly, embrace global solutions. ~ Ken Wilber, #NFDB
945:Llevo el calcetín derecho diferente al calcetín izquierdo. Uno tiene un dibujo de Mickey Mouse, el otro es un calcetín de lana liso. Mi habitación está manga por hombro y no puedo encontrar nada. Mejor no decirlo en voz alta, pero mis bragas dan pena. Tanto que un ladrón de ropa interior pasaría de largo. Si unos gamberros me mataran, con esta pinta no creo que hallara la paz. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
946:Meditation here is not reflection or any other kind of discursive thinking. It is pure concentration: training the mind to dwell on an interior focus without wandering, until it becomes absorbed in the object of its contemplation. But absorption does not mean unconsciousness. The outside world may be forgotten, but meditation is a state of intense inner wakefulness. ~ Anonymous, The Upanishads, #NFDB
947:I was recently cautioned about some 'difficult' characters in a work-in-progress, and I was surprised at first to hear them labeled as such. On second glance, there was nothing more difficult about them than anyone I know. But in a book you are privy to an interior world which exposes the uglier parts that in life we get to hide. Arguably, all characters should be somewhat unlikable. ~ Lisa Lutz, #NFDB
948:Cuando pienso en la gente con la que me he relacionado a veces se me ocurre que he tenido mala suerte, y otras pienso que los he ido buscando, que es como si mi corazón estuviera blindado con un sistema secreto de seguridad que sólo pudiera desactivarse introduciendo una combinación determinada, y de esta forma sólo acceden a mi interior gentes con determinadas características. ~ Luc a Etxebarria, #NFDB
949:I was struck by the absence, even among very young boys and girls, of any interior motivation; they were incapable of thinking, of inventing, of imagining, of choosing, of deciding for themselves; this incapacity was expressed by their conformism; in every domain of life they employed only the abstract measure of money, because they were unable to trust to their own judgment. ~ Simone de Beauvoir, #NFDB
950:You don't survive in me
because of memories;
nor are you mine because
of a lovely longing's strength.
What does make you present
is the ardent detour
that a slow tenderness
traces in my blood.
I do not need
to see you appear;
being born sufficed for me
to lose you a little less.
Translated by A. Poulin
~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Interior Portrait
,#NFDB
951:a large number of most excellent persons and great statesmen could see, with the naked eye, most marvellous horrors on West India plantations, while they could discern nothing whatever in the interior of Manchester cotton mills. He must know, too, with what quickness of perception most people could discover their neighbour’s faults, and how very blind they were to their own. If ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
952:I sat up in bed. "What did he say?"
Tyson groaned, still half asleep. He was lying facedown on the couch, his feet so far over the edge they were in the bathroom. "The happy man said...bowling practice?"
I hoped he was right, but then there was an urgent knock on the suite's interior door.
Annabeth stuck her head in--her blonde hair in a rat's nest. "DISEMBOWLING practice? ~ Rick Riordan,#NFDB
953:The sunlight could not quite dispel the difference in atmosphere now that she had seen the interior of the garden. It was as if a dark underside had been revealed that changed the cast of the whole property. But the whimsy of it, the way the eye was drawn down through every vista, the inventiveness, the fairy-tale quality, the melancholy of the lost gardens- it all excited her. ~ Deborah Lawrenson, #NFDB
954:We exist because of suburbia. Suburbia is a freak’s dreamworld, a world of extra rooms upstairs and long, lazy afternoons with no interference. A place where you can listen to your LPs for hours on end. You can live in your room, your own rent-free corner of the universe, and create a world of pleasure and interest entirely centered on yourself and your interior aesthetic and logic. ~ Dana Spiotta, #NFDB
955:Leer era una defensa, un escudo con el que armar de recursos su timidez para relacionarse. Pero escribir era infinitamente más que eso. Escribir era el palacio interior, los sitios secretos, los lugares más bellos formando parte de un conjunto de ilimitadas estancias que él recorría, riendo, corriendo descalzo, deteniéndose a acariciar la belleza de los tesoros que allí albergaba. ~ Dolores Redondo, #NFDB
956:She goes on with her beautiful hair and mouth like before,
I go on like before, alone in the field.
It’s like my head had been lowered,
And if I think this, and raise my head
And the golden sun dries the need to cry I can’t stop having.
How vast the field and interior love... !
I look, and I forget, like dryness where there was water and trees losing their leaves. ~ Alberto Caeiro,#NFDB
957:Sospecho que todo aquel que haya querido a un drogadicto - y todo el que haya estado alguna vez enganchado a la droga - alberga en su interior el mismo impulso (...). Querrá destruir la adicción. Aniquilar esa dependencia. Asfixiarla con furia. Harry Anslinger no es sino una muestra de lo que sucede con nuestros impulsos mas escondidos cuando a uno se le da poder y licencia para matar. ~ Johann Hari, #NFDB
958:Then he allowed himself to strike, like his childhood hero Allan Quatermain, off on that long slow underground stream which bore him on toward the interior of the dark continent where he hoped that he might find a permanent home, in a city where he could be accepted as a citizen, as a citizen without any pledge of faith, not the City of God or Marx, but the city called Peace of Mind. ~ Graham Greene, #NFDB
959:La violencia externa, en este sentido, es un alivio para el alma, pues esta exterioriza el sufrimiento. El alma no se encierra en un monólogo mortificador. En la Modernidad, la violencia toma una forma psíquica, psicológica, interior. Adopta formas de interioridad psíquica. Las energías destructivas no son objeto de una descarga afectiva inmediata, sino que se elaboran psíquicamente. ~ Byung Chul Han, #NFDB
960:We all have an ongoing narrative inside our heads, the narrative that is spoken aloud if a friend asks a question. That narrative feels deeply natural to me. We also hang on to scraps of dialogue. Our memories don’t usually serve us up whole scenes complete with dialogue. So I suppose I’m saying that I like to work from what a character is likely to remember, from a more interior place. ~ Lydia Davis, #NFDB
961:I tell myself that I have no problem believing in God, if “belief” can be defined as some utter interior I sent to in life that is both beyond and within this one, and if “assent” can be understood as at once active and unconscious, and if “God” is in some mysterious way both this action and its object, and if after all these qualifications this sentence still makes any effing sense. ~ Christian Wiman, #NFDB
962:suave y con acento. «Niños, el cerebro está envuelto por una oscuridad total —dice la voz—. Flota en un líquido transparente en el interior del cráneo y jamás recibe luz. Pero a pesar de eso el mundo que construye en nuestra mente está lleno de luz, rebosante de colores y de movimiento. ¿Cómo puede ser que el cerebro, que jamás conoce una chispa de luz, construya en nuestro interior un ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
963:Despite his title, the Secretary of the Interior was a shallow man. He was given to surfaces, not depths; to cortex, not medulla; to the puff, not the cream. He didn't understand the interior of anything: not the interior of a tenor sax solo, a painting or a poem; not the interior of an atom, a planet, a spider or his wife's body; not the interior, least of all, of his own heart and head. ~ Tom Robbins, #NFDB
964:He paused, wishing to embrace her, but feeling for the moment that he should not. Then, reaching into a waistcoat pocket, he took from it a thin gold locket, the size of a silver dollar, which he opened and handed to her. One interior face of it was lined with a photograph of Berenice as a girl of twelve, thin, delicate, supercilious, self-contained, distant, as she was to this hour. ~ Theodore Dreiser, #NFDB
965:A lone figure stood in the doorway of crumbling bricks, the sun just poking its rays over the treetops.
She was dressed in a simple white gown. Her hair was also white, flowing freely down over her shoulders. Her face was aged, but not overly so. She looked to be roughly sixty human years. She glanced at us and swung her arm toward the interior of the church.
“Won’t you come in? ~ Amanda Carlson,#NFDB
966:Our thought should not merely be an answer to what someone else has just said. Or what someone else might have said. Our interior world must be more than an echo of the words of someone else. There is no point in being a moon to somebody else's sun, still less is there any justification for our being moons of one another, and hence darkness to one another, not one of us being a true sun. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
967:was lack of that living spirit of brotherhood and solidarity which had made it possible for Otto Braun, Social-Democratic Premier of the Prussian state, and Karl Severing, Minister of the Interior, to bow to the threats of monocled aristocrats, and slink off to their villas without making the least effort to rouse the people to defend their republic and the liberties it guaranteed them. ~ Upton Sinclair, #NFDB
968:El mundo empieza a perder gradualmente su transparencia, se oscurece, se hace cada vez más incomprensible, se precipita hacia lo desconocido, mientras el hombre, traicionado por el mundo, huye hacia su interior, hacia su nostalgia, hacia sus sueños, hacia su rebelión y se deja ensordecer por la voz de su dolorido interior hasta el punto de dejar de oír las voces que le interpelan desde fuera. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
969:I give the world thoughtful observations and considered theses, and it gives me back a dozen Kardashians. You know what's going to happen to my library when I sell it? Nothing. Flat nothing. It will probably go to some interior designer who will tell her client how authentic it is. But I'll be damned if a single one of the books are cracked open by their video-game-playing fucktard children! ~ Jade Chang, #NFDB
970:Peterson remembered with a smile that the US Department of the Interior had made a thorough prediction of trends in 1937, and had missed atomic energy, computers, radar, antibiotics, and World War II. Yet they all kept on, with this simple-minded linear extrapolation that was, despite a bank of computers to refine the numbers, still merely a new way to be stupid in an expensive fashion. ~ Gregory Benford, #NFDB
971:The interior minister explained to the American ambassador that August why he was taking such drastic measures with the Armenians: “In the first place, they have enriched themselves at the expense of the Turks. In the second place, they are determined to domineer over us and establish a separate state,” Talaat Pasha said. “In the third place, they have openly encouraged our enemies. ~ Dawn Anahid MacKeen, #NFDB
972:Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings and in numbing awareness of what is played out inside. They learn to hide from their selves. ~ Bessel van der Kolk, #NFDB
973:Entre los sexos no hay amor espiritual, sino una transfiguración carnal en la que la persona amada se identifica con nosotros hasta producirnos la ilusión de la espiritualidad. Entonces únicamente surge la sensación de disolución, en la que la carne tiembla con un estremecimiento total y deja de ser resistencia y obstáculo para abrasarse gracias a un fuego interior, para fundirse y perderse. ~ Emil M Cioran, #NFDB
974:traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings and in numbing awareness of what is played out inside. They learn to hide from their selves. ~ Bessel A van der Kolk, #NFDB
975:The burnished gold of the crusts, the fragrance of sugar and cinnamon they exuded, were but preludes to the delights released from the interior when the knife broke the crust; first came a spice-laden haze, then chicken livers, hard boiled eggs, sliced ham, chicken and truffles in masses of piping hot, glistening macaroni, to which the meat juice gave an exquisite hue of suede. ~ Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, #NFDB
976:Because despite the undeniable knowledge that I wasn't human—or mostly human, anyway—despite the proof the computer screen had show in the repair room, I still picture my interior just the same as any other sixteen-year-old girl's. Blood and guts and bones. A brain, and a functioning heart. Hopes and dreams, fears and sorrow. They could tell me the truth, but they couldn't force me to accept it. ~ Debra Driza, #NFDB
977:In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world...Once we no longer live beneath our mother's heart, it is the earth with which we form the same dependent relationship, relying...on its cycles and elements, helpless without its protective embrace. ~ Louise Erdrich, #NFDB
978:In this oasis of quiet, before the wonderful spectacle of nature, one easily experiences how profitable silence is, a good that today is ever more rare... In reality, only in silence does man succeed in hearing in the depth of his conscience the voice of God, which really makes him free. And vacations can help to rediscover and cultivate this indispensable interior dimension of human life. ~ Pope John Paul II, #NFDB
979:Is it the shadow itself that looks out through our eyes at midday? Small wonder that so many traditional peoples give themselves over to siesta, and sleep, for an hour or two at this time, letting their tissues and organs respond to this interior visitation by the night, allowing the many cells or souls within them to be tutored by the darkness that has taken temporary refuge within their flesh. ~ David Abram, #NFDB
980:No one is a good historian of the patent, visible, striking, and public life of peoples, if he is not, at the same time, in a certain measure, the historian of their deep and hidden life; and no one is a good historian of the interior unless he understands how, at need, to be the historian of the exterior also...True history being a mixture of all things, the true historian mingles in everything. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
981:traigo la esperanza!... El Padre no está ahí, sino en vuestro interior... ¡Él os ama!... ¡Él espera!... ¡Él sabe!... ¡Él no distingue razas ni credos!... ¡Él no entiende de hombres libres o esclavos!... ¡No importa si sois judíos o paganos!... ¡No importa si sois ricos o pobres, hombres o mujeres, jóvenes o ancianos, buenos o malos, enfermos o sanos!... ¡Al Padre no le interesa vuestro pasado!... ~ J J Ben tez, #NFDB
982:Since it's clear then that what sets itself in motion is eternal, who could fail to attribute such a nature to the soul. Anything set in motion by external impetus is inanimate; what is animate moves by its own interior impulse. This is the nature and power of soul. And because it is the one thing out of all that sets itself in motion, then surely it was never born and will last forever. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB
983:An airplane crossed the sky, and she imagined its interior-people packed in rows like eggs in a carton, the chemical smell of the toilets, pretzels in foil pouches, cans hiss-popping open, black oval of night sky embedded in the rattling walls. How strange that something so drab, so confined, so stifling with sour exhalations and the fumes of indifferent machinery might be mistaken for a star. ~ Maggie Shipstead, #NFDB
984:REFLECTIONS OF A MIRROR
Beautiful is he who recognizes what is truly beautiful,
Even if the surface is ugly.
Truthful is he who says what is true,
Even if the truth is ugly.
Ugly is he who measures beauty by its exterior,
Without first weighing the interior.
And ugly is the man who judges harshly what he sees looking out,
Without first judging what he sees in the mirror. ~ Suzy Kassem,#NFDB
985:Interior of the hand. Sole that has come to walk only on feelings. That faces upward and in its mirror receives heavenly roads, which travel along themselves. That has learned to walk upon water when it scoops, that walks upon wells, transfiguring every path. That steps into other hands, changes those that are like it into a landscape: wanders and arrives within them, fills them with arrival. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB
986:Cuando el pelotón lo apuntó, la rabia se había materializado en una sustancia viscosa y amarga que le adormeció la lengua y lo obligó a cerrar los ojos. Entonces desapareció el resplandor de aluminio del amanecer, y volvió verse a sí mismo, muy niño, con pantalones cortos y un lazo en el cuello, y vio a su padre en una tarde espléndida conduciéndolo al interior de la carpa, y vio el hielo. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
987:Nuestro trabajo como maestros de Dios, si decidimos aceptarlo, consiste en buscar constantemente, en nuestro interior, una mayor capacidad de amor y de perdón. Hacemos esto mediante una «forma selectiva de recordar», mediante una decisión consciente de recordar únicamente los pensamientos amorosos y de desaferramos de cualesquiera pensamientos atemorizantes. Este es el significado del perdón, ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB
988:Oh my God!" I shouted, smacking at myself to get it off. The chanting abruptly stopped as I danced about the interior of the circle, beating the chunky dust off me. It only made things worse, and I began coughing on someone's dead grandmother. My eyes watered, and I finally gave up, glaring at them from around my hair, now all over the place. Damn it, I was covered in strawberries and human remains. ~ Kim Harrison, #NFDB
989:REFLECTIONS FROM A MIRROR
Beautiful is he who recognizes what is truly beautiful,
Even if the surface is ugly.
Truthful is he who says what is true,
Even if the truth is ugly.
Ugly is he who measures beauty by its exterior,
Without first weighing the interior.
And ugly is the man who judges harshly what he sees looking out,
Without first judging what he sees in the mirror. ~ Suzy Kassem,#NFDB
990:La luz del pasillo iluminaba débilmente mi rostro que se reflejaba de modo fantasmal en el cristal de la ventanilla y me hacía recordar el que tuve en la infancia, el que naufragó para siempre en la despedida, como si aquel niño se hallara agazapado en algún lugar de mi interior esperando un descuido mío para emerger de nuevo en las aguas fangosas del pasado con su sonrisa feliz y sus ojos brillantes. ~ Elia Barcel, #NFDB
991:One oilman from Oklahoma told a friend that Harding’s nomination had cost him and his interests $1 million. But with Harding in the White House, a historian noted, “the oil men licked their chops.” Sinclair funneled, through the cover of a bogus company, more than $200,000 to the new secretary of the interior, Albert B. Fall; another oilman had his son deliver to the secretary $100,000 in a black bag. ~ David Grann, #NFDB
992:Pierre-Jean Jouve writes: "poetry is a soul inaugurating form". The soul inaugurates. Here it is the supreme power. It is human dignity. Even if the "form" was already well-known, previously discovered, carved from "commonplaces", before the interior poetic light was turned upon it, it was a mere object for the mind. But the soul comes and inaugurates the form, dwells in it, takes pleasure in it. ~ Gaston Bachelard, #NFDB
993:THE most dangerous man in the world is the contemplative who is guided by nobody. He trusts his own visions. He obeys the attractions of an interior voice but will not listen to other men. He identifies the will of God with anything that makes him feel, within his own heart, a big, warm, sweet interior glow. The sweeter and the warmer the feeling is the more he is convinced of his own infallibility. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
994:Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings and in numbing awareness of what is played out inside. They learn to hide from their selves.” (p.97) ~ Bessel A van der Kolk, #NFDB
995:When you find yourself in philosophical difficulties, the first line of defense is not to define your problematic terms, but to see whether you can think without using those terms at all. Or any of their short synonyms. And be careful not to let yourself invent a new word to use instead. Describe outward observables and interior mechanisms; don’t use a single handle, whatever that handle may be. ~ Eliezer Yudkowsky, #NFDB
996:El hombre es una extraña mezcla de egoísmo y altruismo. Siempre que hacemos algo bueno, basta mirar atentamente en nuestro interior para descubrir motivos grandes y motivos rastreros. Es imposible separarlos. Pero no dejes que esto te deprima. No debes fijarte únicamente en los segundos y despreciar los primeros. Eso sería un error mucho mayor. Acéptate como eres, aprende a vivir
contigo mismo. ~ Manuel Alfonseca,#NFDB
997:Estás a punto de desvanecerte, y entonces yo me digo tienes que pensar en algo, tienes que mantenerte aferrada a un pensamiento, si consigo hacerme pequeña en ese pensamiento después todo pasará, sólo hay que resistir, pero lo cierto es que…, eso es de verdad el horror…, lo cierto es que ya no hay pensamientos, en ninguna parte en tu interior, ya no queda ni un pensamiento sino sólo sensaciones. ~ Alessandro Baricco, #NFDB
998:La identificación con su mente, que hace que el pensamiento se vuelva compulsivo. No ser capaz de dejar de pensar es una calamidad terrible, pero no nos damos cuenta de ello así que se considera normal. Este ruido mental incesante nos impide encontrar ese reino de quietud interior que es inseparable del Ser. También crea un falso ser hecho por la mente que arroja una sombra de temor y de sufrimiento. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
999:Pero he aprendido que todo sucede por alguna razón —le dijo el yogui Krishnan—. Todo suceso tiene un porqué y toda adversidad nos enseña una lección. He comprendido que el fracaso, sea personal, profesional o incluso espiritual, es necesario para la expansión de la persona. Aporta un crecimiento interior y un sinfín de recompensas psíquicas. Nunca lamentes tu pasado. Acéptalo como el maestro que es. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
1000:— Oye, ¿ese es mi E-Reader. Definitivamente lo era.
—Tal vez. Lo dejaste en tu escritorio.
—¿Así que pensaste que podías usarlo? ¿Qué más de mis cosas has usado?
—Sólo tu ropa interior —dijo, sus ojos todavía en la pantalla.
—Entrégalo —dije, tendiéndole mi mano.
—De ninguna manera, tengo que descubrir con quién termina ella. —Levantó el brazo, por lo que estaba fuera de mi alcance. ~ Chelsea M Cameron,#NFDB
1001:This had been how Sidney’s last three hours had gone—trapped in a leather-interior hellhole with the crazy pregnant lady. She hoped the menfolk were having a nice, relaxing road trip in that souped-up man car they were riding in because as soon as they got to the Robertses’ house, she was pawning the woman formerly known as her sister onto the dude whose sperm had apparently turned her into a she-devil. ~ Julie James, #NFDB
1002:Photography really is all about lines, and so is clothing. I worked for Oberto Gili for a couple of years after I was at ICP; we worked in fashion, travel, interior design, everything. I was inspired by his styling choices within fashion photography, and I think those experiences helped steer me towards fashion design. I love photography as a medium, so I think I will always take inspiration from it. ~ Minnie Mortimer, #NFDB
1003:Por más harapos y jirones que vista, en mi interior puedo seguir siendo una princesa. María Antonieta en prisión, vestida de negro e insultada por su pueblo, tuvo más altura que cuando todo iba bien en la corte de Versalles —seguía cavilando Sara —. Es fácil parecer una princesa vistiendo ropajes de paño dorado, pero conducirse como tal sin que nadie lo sospeche, eso sí que es un gran triunfo ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett, #NFDB
1004:The sun had gone down but the trees and the first houses of Kampos were still glowing with the sunlight they had been storing up since dawn. It seemed to be shining from inside them with the private, interior radiance of summer in Greece that lasts for about an hour after sundown so that the white walls and the tree trunks and the stones fade into the darkness at last like slowly expiring lamps. ~ Patrick Leigh Fermor, #NFDB
1005:Each one, in my impassioned interior conversations, granted me some aspect of my most dearly held, most fiercely hidden heart’s desires. Life, art, motherhood. Love and the great seductive promise that I wasn’t nothing. That I could be seen for my unvarnished self, and that this hidden self, this precious girl without a mask, unseen for decades, could, that indeed she must, leave a trace upon the world. ~ Claire Messud, #NFDB
1006:If you sit down with a person, or a watermelon for that matter, when you're stoned and sing into it, the quality of the hallucination is such that there is a way of thinking about it where you could say, 'This is an acoustical hologram of the interior of their body.'" I don't say that.I just say, "My goodness isn't it strange that I seem to be able to see inside of the watermelon when I'm doing this.' ~ Terence McKenna, #NFDB
1007:todos nacemos con una caja de cerillos en nuestro interior, no los podemos encender solos, necesitamos, como en el experimento, oxígeno y la ayuda de una vela. Sólo que en este caso el oxígeno tiene que provenir, por ejemplo, del aliento de la persona amada; la vela puede ser cualquier tipo de alimento, música, caricia, palabra o sonido que haga disparar el detonador y así encender uno de los cerillos. ~ Laura Esquivel, #NFDB
1008:The most dangerous man in the world is the contemplative who is guided by nobody. He trusts his own visions. He obeys the attractions of an interior voice but will not listen to other men. He identifies the will of God with anything that makes him feel, within his own heart, a big, warm, sweet interior glow. The sweeter and the warmer the feeling is, the more he is convinced of his own infallibility. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
1009:The time is approaching when we shall have to struggle for the domination of
the world, and this struggle will be fought in the name of philosophical principles." In these words he
announced the twentieth century. But he was able to announce it because he was warned by the interior
logic of nihilism and knew that one of its aims was ascendancy; and thus he prepared the way for this
ascendancy. ~ Albert Camus,#NFDB
1010:If a baby is born in Gaza and is not registered with the Israeli Ministry of the Interior, that baby does not exist, it does not count. I get very annoyed when my Palestinian friends complain, 'Why didn't they give me a permit, I am not a terrorist,' because it is not about the person, it is about a policy that people can't articulate because there is no discourse to explain the political intention behind it. ~ Amira Hass, #NFDB
1011:So passed away Sorrow the Undesired--that intrusive creature, that bastard gift of shameless Nature who respects not the social law; a waif to whom eternal Time had been a matter of days merely, who knew not that such things as years and centuries ever were; to whom the cottage interior was the universe, the week's weather climate, new-born babyhood human existence, and the instinct to suck human knowledge. ~ Thomas Hardy, #NFDB
1012:There is a value in repetition. When we repeat certain phrases and even actions, like fingering prayer beads, we create a quiet rhythm within our spirits. The beating of our heart is a repetition as is the rhythm of our breathing. All of life has its rhythms, and the repetition of familiar prayers can bring our interior spirits into harmony with the Divine Heartbeat and the breathing of the Divine Christ. ~ Stephen J Binz, #NFDB
1013:Eu quisera concluir que as mais belas página de Jung, ou também as páginas mais belas de cada pessoa que consegue exprimir a própria criatividade, decorrem sempre de uma experiência de sedução, que coincida com a tomada de consciência do próprio mundo interior. Um doloroso caminho que nos impele à loucura, mas ninguém teria dúvida em escolher, entre a inocência e a possibilidade de ser encantado por outro. ~ Aldo Carotenuto, #NFDB
1014:it had been a winter of deadening seriousness, when all the illusions and bright dreams of my early twenties had withered and died. I did not yet have the interior resources to dream new dreams; I was far too busy mourning the death of the old ones and wondering how I was to survive without them. I was sure I could replace them somehow , but was not sure I could restore their brassy luster or dazzling impress . ~ Pat Conroy, #NFDB
1015:Mathematics may be likened to a large rock whose interior composition we wish to examine. The older mathematicians appear as persevering stone cutters slowly attempting to demolish the rock from the outside with hammer and chisel. The later mathematicians resemble expert miners who seek vulnerable veins, drill into these strategic places, and then blast the rock apart with well placed internal charges. ~ Howard Whitley Eves, #NFDB
1016:Una y otra vez, día tras día, me esforcé por ser vista. Solo quería que me prestara atención, no que me dejara tirada en el museo con si yo no existiera y se fuera a casa sin mí. No que cancelara un concurso porque estaba convencida de mi fracaso antes siquiera de mirar mis dibujos. No que hurgara en mi interior para apagar mi luz mientras le tendía la mano a Noah para ayudarlo a brillar en todo su esplendor. ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
1017:If God but cares for our inward and eternal life, if by all the experiences of this life He is reducing it and preparing for its disclosure, nothing can befall us but prosperity. Every sorrow shall be but the setting of some luminous jewel of joy. Our very morning shall be but the enamel around the diamond; our very hardships but the metallic rim that holds the opal, glancing with strange interior fires. ~ Henry Ward Beecher, #NFDB
1018:pole. Denise followed, her eyes rapidly exploring the interior which was completely tiled; walls, ceiling and floor. The tiles had once been white; now they were an indeterminate gray. The room was thirty feet long and twenty feet wide. Parked in rows on each side were old wooden carts with wheels the size of those on a bicycle. Down the center of the room was an open lane. Each cart supported a shrouded corpse. ~ Robin Cook, #NFDB
1019:Techno-systems Inc. occupies the top thee floors of a building so modern it looks like it must have been finished this morning. Yet compared to the interior of their offices, the rest of the building looks like a prewar colonial. Techno clearly wants to convey the impression that they are on the cutting edge, and for all I know, they may be. I wouldn't recognize the cutting edge if I sliced my finger on it. ~ David Rosenfelt, #NFDB
1020:The only way to achieve something in the interior world is let-go - a kind of effortlessness, a relaxation. It is not a doing; it is nondoing. It is not action; it is inaction. And it seems difficult because everybody from the very beginning is told, `Do something; don`t just go on sitting there! Something is always better than nothing.` In the inner world these are not the laws. Nothing is better than everything. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
1021:David had, in fact, done the Sherlock thing that Stevie had dismissed for herself, specifically, the BBC one. He was wearing a sharply cut blue dress shirt, slender, tailored pants, and a long gray-black coat with a red interior. He had teased out his hair a bit and made sure it curled. In many ways, it was a perfect costume while not being a costume at all. And it was obviously intentional, directed at her. ~ Maureen Johnson, #NFDB
1022:deeper insight into human nature and make them more capable of influencing others. Homosexuals also excel in professions associated with taste and beauty, such as interior decoration and clothing design; it is well known that the most famous clothes designers in the world are homosexuals, perhaps because their dual sexual nature enables them to design women’s clothes that are attractive to men and vice versa. ~ Alaa Al Aswany, #NFDB
1023:You get to middle school, and you think about these things. The world opens up; history stretches behind you, and the future stretches before you, and you're suddenly aware of the wild, unknowable interior lives of everyone around you, the realization that each and every person lives in an unspoken world as full and strange as your own, and that you can't ever hope entirely to know anything, not even yourself. ~ Claire Messud, #NFDB
1024:That is probable," replied the engineer, "although we have not yet explored the interior; but if no human beings are found, I fear that dangerous animals may abound. It is necessary to guard against a possible attack, so that we shall not be obliged to watch every night, or to keep up a fire. And then, my friends, we must foresee everything. We are here in a part of the Pacific often frequented by Malay pirates-- ~ Jules Verne, #NFDB
1025:What’s going on?” Royce asked as throngs of people suddenly moved toward him from the field and the castle interior. “I mentioned that you saw the thing and now they want to know what it looks like,” Hadrian explained. “What did you think? They were coming to lynch you?” He shrugged. “What can I say? I’m a glass-half-empty kinda guy.” “Half empty?” Hadrian chuckled. “Was there ever any drink in that glass? ~ Michael J Sullivan, #NFDB
1026:Don’t judge centering prayer on the basis of how many thoughts come or how much peace you enjoy. The only way to judge this prayer is by its long-range fruits: whether in daily life you enjoy greater peace, humility and charity. Having come to deep interior silence, you begin to relate to others beyond the superficial aspects of social status, race, nationality, religion, and personal characteristics. (OM, 114) ~ Thomas Keating, #NFDB
1027:nunca somos felices, excepto cuando perseguimos el placer, cuando experimentamos cierta sensación de disfrute, de gratificación, de satisfacción. Sin embargo, si examinan con detenimiento el contenido interno, dejando a un lado lo que han aprendido de los libros y las respuestas según el país en el cual viven, ¿se dan cuenta de que no hay absolutamente nada, excepto lo que cada uno ha puesto en su interior? ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB
1028:One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted - One need not be a House - The Brain - has Corridors - surpassing Material Place - Far safer, of a Midnight - meeting External Ghost - Than an Interior - Confronting - That cooler - Host. Far safer, through an Abbey - gallop - The Stones a'chase - Than Moonless - One's A'self encounter - In lonesome place - Ourself - behind ourself - Concealed - Should startle - most. ~ Emily Dickinson, #NFDB
1029:When every certainty is shaken and every utterance falters, when every principle appears doubtful, then there is only one ultimate belief on which we can base our rudderless interior life: the belief that there is an absolute direction of growth, to which both our duty and our happiness demand that we should conform; and that life advances in that direction, taking the most direct road. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Cosmic Life, #NFDB
1030:Over time, I've found the right tone of voice for these assertions, too. It's best to be insistent, but affable. Repeat yourself, but don't get shrill. Speak to your darkest and most negative interior voices the way a hostage negotiator speaks to a violent psychopath: calmly, but firmly. Most of all, never back down. You cannot afford to back down. The life you are negotiating to save, after all, is your own. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
1031:She lived almost fifty years of her life completely dedicated to the care of the poor and the marginalized. Astonishingly, for those nearly fifty years she identified completely with the poor she served by her own experience of being seemingly unwanted and unloved by God. In a mystical way — through this painful interior "darkness" — she tasted their greatest poverty of being "unwanted, unloved, and uncared for." ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
1032:New Rule: Stop putting all those pillows on the bed. Attention, interior designers, hotel maids, and real housewives of New Jersey: It's a bed, not an obstacle course. I'm sorry, baby, I'd like to make sweet love to you all night long, but by the time I get all that crap off your bed, I'm exhausted. A bed needs only two pillows: one to put my head on, and one to cuddle with and pretend it's Robert Pattinson. ~ Bill Maher, #NFDB
1033:Phresine showed him where he could sleep, in an interior room with no windows, a narrow bed, and a washstand. There were chests stacked along one wall, and Costis guessed the dismal spot was probably a closet cleaned out to make room for him. Hard to believe the royal apartments, so lavish elsewhere, would otherwise have such a plain corner. Expecting better of royal closets, Costis went to bed disappointed. ~ Megan Whalen Turner, #NFDB
1034:The legal reporter came out of his cubicle shouting that two bodies of unidentified girls were in the city morgue. Frightened, I asked him: What age? Young, he said. They may be refugees from the interior chased here by the regime's thugs. I sighed with relief. The situation encroaches on us in silence, like a bloodstain, I said. The legal reporter, at some distance now, shouted: "Not blood, Maestro,shit. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
1035:¿Cómo saben estos gansos cuándo es el momento de volar hacia el sol? ¿Quién les anuncia las estaciones? ¿Cómo sabemos los seres humanos cuándo es el momento de hacer otra cosa? ¿Cómo sabemos cuándo ponernos en marcha? Seguro que a nosotros nos ocurre igual que a las aves migratorias; hay una voz interior, si estamos dispuestos a escucharla, que nos dice con toda certeza cuándo adentrarnos en lo desconocido. ~ Elisabeth K bler Ross, #NFDB
1036:The Phrygians select a natural hillock, run a trench through the middle of it, dig passages, and extend the interior space as widely as the site admits. Over it they build a pyramidal roof of logs fastened together, and this they cover with reeds and brushwood, heaping up very high mounds of earth above their dwellings. Thus their fashion in houses makes their winters very warm and their summers very cool. ~ Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, #NFDB
1037:Vaig necessitar més llàgrimes i més temps del que em pensava per purgar aquesta petita fissura en el meu interior. Al final, però, estava tan exhausta que em vaig quedar adormida. La inconsciència no representava un alleujament total del dolor, només un descans matusser, semblant al sopor, com si fos una medicina, que, tot i que ho feia més suportable, no arreglava res i jo continuava sent conscient de tot plegat. ~ Stephenie Meyer, #NFDB
1038:A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. Even as a kid, my sister, who was the eldest, brought books home for me, and I think I spent more time sniffing and touching them than reading. I just remember the joy of the book, the beauty of the binding. The smelling of the interior. Happy."
[Interview with Emma Brockes, The Believer, November/December, 2012] ~ Maurice Sendak,#NFDB
1039:Beautiful is he who recognizes what is truly beautiful,
Even if the surface is ugly.
Truthful is he who says what is true,
Even if the truth is ugly.
Ugly is he who measures beauty by its exterior,
Without first weighing the interior.
And ugly is the man who judges harshly what he sees looking out,
Without first judging what he sees in the mirror.
REFLECTIONS FROM A MIRROR by Suzy Kassem ~ Suzy Kassem,#NFDB
1040:The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write out of ourselves, using ourselves; what we learn from, what we are sensitive to, what we feel strongly about--these become our characters and go to make our plots. Characters in fiction are conceived from within, and they have, accordingly, their own interior life; they are individuals every time. ~ Eudora Welty, #NFDB
1041:Then, upon turning their heads,they realised that they had unwittingly been following a succession of winding paths more complicated than those of a mine. There was no end to Harcamone's interior. It was more decked with black than capital whose king has just been assassinated. A voice from the heart declared: "The interior is grieving," and they swelled with fear, which rose within them like a light wind above the sea. ~ Jean Genet, #NFDB
1042:The stillness of the calm is awful. His voice begins to grow strange and portentous. He feels it in him like something swallowed too big for the esophagus. It keeps up a sort of involuntary interior humming in him, like a live beetle. His cranium is a dome full of reverberations. The hollows of his very bones are as whispering galleries. He is afraid to speak loud, lest he be stunned; like the man in the bass drum. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
1043:Un color invariable rige al melancólico: su interior es un espacio de color de luto; nada pasa allí, nadie pasa. Es una escena sin decorados donde el yo inerte es asistido por el yo que sufre por esa inercia. Este quisiera liberar al prisionero, pero cualquier tentativa fracasa como hubiera fracasado Teseo si, además de ser él mismo, hubiese sido, también, el Minotauro; matarlo, entonces, habría exigido matarse. ~ Alejandra Pizarnik, #NFDB
1044:Y sin embargo, sentía la alienación de estar rodeada por otros que no podían verme realmente o que preferían no hacerlo. Había sentido odio hacia mí misma, provocado por la sensación de ser un fraude, de interpretar una imagen de lo que deseaba ser pero no era. Había vivido con el miedo a que la gente que quería pudiera alejarse de mí si alguna vez llegaba a conocer a la verdadera persona que se ocultaba en mi interior. ~ Sylvia Day, #NFDB
1045:Alternar el amor con el odio distingue por largo tiempo el estado interior de un hombre que quiera ser libre en su juicio sobre la vida. Por fin, cuando toda la mesa de su alma está cubierta con notas de la experiencia, no tendrá para la existencia
desprecio, ni odio ni tampoco amor; morará muy por encima de ella, dirigiéndole semejante a la Naturaleza, tendrá en el pensamiento, bien el verano, bien el otoño. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,#NFDB
1046:In fact, it was because they came from a settled culture, of tribal customs and family ties, of communal life and traditional ritual, that African blacks found themselves especially helpless when removed from this. They were captured in the interior (frequently by blacks caught up in the slave trade themselves), sold on the coast, then shoved into pens with blacks of other tribes, often speaking different languages. The ~ Howard Zinn, #NFDB
1047:»Os han enseñado que sois impuras, que no sois sagradas, que vuestro cuerpo es impuro y jamás podréis albergar lo divino. Os han enseñado a despreciar todo lo que sois y a desear ser un hombre. Pero son mentiras. La Diosa está en vuestro interior, ha regresado a la Tierra para enseñaros, con la forma de este nuevo poder. No acudáis a mí en busca de respuestas, pues debéis encontrar las respuestas en vuestro interior.» ~ Naomi Alderman, #NFDB
1048:Pilgrimage always involves both an exterior and interior journey. Any travel can be a pilgrimage, regardless of the destination or whether or not there even is a destination. The difference between a pilgrim and a tourist is the intention of attention and openness to God. This transforms a trip into a pilgrimage, and the result is that the self that sets out on pilgrimage will not be the same as the self that returns. ~ David G Benner, #NFDB
1049:What I sought in books was imagination. It was depth, depth of thought and feeling; some sort of extreme of subject matter; some nearness to death; some call to courage. I myself was getting wild; I wanted wildness, originality, genius, rapture, hope. ... What I sought in books was a world whose surfaces, whose people and events and days lived, actually matched the exaltation of the interior life. There you could live. ~ Annie Dillard, #NFDB
1050:Cody stood looking up at Brian, his feet spread apart and his hands hanging stiffly at his sides. Their eyes locked together and I could hear the leathery unfolding of wings between them, the dark and sibilant greeting of twin interior specters. There was a look of belligerent wonder on Cody’s face, and he just stared for a long moment and Brian stared back, and finally Cody looked at me. “Like me,” he said. “Shadow Guy. ~ Jeff Lindsay, #NFDB
1051:If there is a lack of specificity in Grossman's description of the town and the walkers, and if the story perhaps sometimes becomes lost and confusing, then it is because the landscape and its inhabitants are really shadows, creatures of an interior world, whose journey and whose quest are within. Falling Out of Time is short, and clearly a deeply personal book, but its importance and impact ought not to be underestimated. ~ Ian Sansom, #NFDB
1052:Tú no eres una persona cualquiera. Si hay una persona que no es cualquiera, ése eres tú. Y menos para mí. Eres como una segunda voz dentro de mí, que me acompaña día a día. Has convertido mi monólogo interior en un diálogo. Enriqueces mi vida interior. Indagas, insistes, parodias, entras en conflicto conmigo. Cuando te veo, de inmediato siento el imperioso deseo de dejar que te acerques aún más, de tenerte muy cerca. ~ Daniel Glattauer, #NFDB
1053:What’s going on?” Royce asked as throngs of people suddenly moved toward him from the field and the castle interior.
“I mentioned that you saw the thing and now they want to know what it looks like,” Hadrian explained. “What did you think? They were coming to lynch you?”
He shrugged. “What can I say? I’m a glass-half-empty kinda guy.”
“Half empty?” Hadrian chuckled. “Was there ever any drink in that glass? ~ Michael J Sullivan,#NFDB
1054:The Princess of Mars Cruises’ flagship passenger liner Dejah Thoris is even larger than the Beanstalk climber, but a smaller portion of its interior volume is used to house passengers. The rest is the fuel supply, power plant, main engines, and cargo bays. It’s one of the largest civilian spacecraft ever built, and that says a lot about human civilization: we have slipped the surly bonds of Earth, now let’s party hearty. ~ Curtis C Chen, #NFDB
1055:To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even the expression, the interior form, the plan, the model. Look what remains after that! The drawing is three fourths and a half of what constitutes painting. If I had to put a sign over my door to the atelier, I would write: School of drawing, and I'm certain that I would create painters. ~ Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, #NFDB
1056:I don’t know anything different about death than I ever have, but I feel differently. I inhabit this difference in feeling- or does it live in me?- at the same time as I’m sorrowing. The possibility of consolation, of joy even, does not dispel the sorrow. Sorrow is the cathedral, the immense architecture; in its interior there’s room for almost everything; for desire, for flashes of happiness, for making plans for the future… ~ Mark Doty, #NFDB
1057:The body uses a code system called the HLA (human leukocyte antigen) system, which works in a similar fashion. It gives a code to all surfaces. Immune cells basically identify surfaces. Everything has a surface, whether it is your own cells, a microorganism, or a piece of food. When your immune system scans the interior surfaces of your body, it compares each to a list of approved codes, the ones it classifies as “self. ~ Alejandro Junger, #NFDB
1058:The books my mother read and reread provided a broader, more adventurous world, and escape from the confines of her chronic illness. Her interior life was enriched even as her physical life contracted. If she couldn't change the reality of her situation, she could change her perception of it. She could enter into the lives of the characters in her books, sharing their journeys while she remained seated in her chair. ~ Doris Kearns Goodwin, #NFDB
1059:el espacio interior del alma es igual de infinito y enigmático que el espacio cósmico exterior, y (...) tanto los cosmonautas del espacio exterior cuanto los del interior no pueden permanecer allí, sino que tienen que regresar a la tierra, a la conciencia cotidiana. además, ambos viajes exigen una buena preparación, para que puedan desarrollarse con un mínimo de peligro y convertirse en una empresa realmente enriquecedora. ~ Albert Hofmann, #NFDB
1060:What do I mean by commitment? I'll flash back to 1821: Shelley's claim, in "The Defence of Poetry", that "poets are the unacknowledged legislaters of the world". Piously overquoted, mostly out of context, it's taken to suggest that simply by virtue of compossing verse, poets exert some exemplary moral power - in a vaue, unthreatening way. (...) He did NOT say, "Poets are the unacknowledged interior decorators of the world". ~ Adrienne Rich, #NFDB
1061:Yo quiero escribir sobre todas las paredes esta eterna acusación contra el cristianismo, allí donde haya paredes; yo poseo una escritura que hace ver aun a los ciegos… Yo llamo al cristianismo la única gran maldición, la única gran corrupción interior, el único gran instinto de venganza, para el cual ningún medio es bastante venenoso, oculto, subterráneo, pequeño; yo la llamo la única inmortal vergüenza de la humanidad. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1062:Sometimes you only get one chance at something. Sometimes that's a good thing too. When that door slams shut on the thing you couldn't live without, what happens next is when the read education begins. You have to figure out how to make some peace with it all, how to have an interior life you can live with. Digging down deep is really never a bad thing in the end, but it will flat-out kick your ass while it's happening. ~ Amanda Kyle Williams, #NFDB
1063:That I know nothing about myself, that Siddhartha has remained thus alien and unknown to me, stems from one cause, a single cause: I was afraid of myself, I was fleeing from myself! I searched Atman, I searched Brahmin, I was willing to dissect myself and peel off all of its layers, to find the core of all peels in its unknown interior, the Atman, life, the divine part, the ultimate part. But I have lost myself in the process. ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
1064:If you pin your hopes on things outside your control, taking upon yourself things which rightfully belong to others, you are liable to stumble, fall, suffer, and blame both gods and men. But if you focus your attention only on what is truly your own concern, and leave to others what concerns them, then you will be in charge of your interior life. No one will be able to harm or hinder you. You will blame no one, and have no enemies. ~ Epictetus, #NFDB
1065:It’s the moment when something happens not just deep among the trees but also in the dark interior of the human heart, for the heart, too, has its night and its wild surges, as strong an instinct for the hunt as a wolf or a stag. The human night is filled with the crouching forms of dreams, desires, vanities, self-interest, mad love, envy, and the thirst for revenge, as the desert night conceals the puma, the hawk and the jackal. ~ S ndor M rai, #NFDB
1066:Outside, I avoided the gazes of passersby and slid gratefully into the cavernous interior of Godric's car. I didn't like to say "This is yours?" because wherever I placed the stress in that sentence, it sounded faintly insulting. It felt as if I were sitting inside a very pricey black leather handbag. Things glittered at me, and the bits that weren't leather or glittering were sort of dull black. It all smelled wildly expensive. ~ Hester Browne, #NFDB
1067:At rest, we know that its circumference is equal to p times the diameter. Once the merry-go-round is set into motion, however, the outer rim travels faster than the interior and hence, according to relativity, should shrink more than the interior, distorting the shape of the merry-go-round. This means that the circumference has shrunk and is now less than p times the diameter; that is, the surface is no longer flat. Space is curved. ~ Michio Kaku, #NFDB
1068:We've all led raucous lives,
some of them inside, some of them out.
But only the poem you leave behind is what's important.
Everyone knows this.
The voyage into the interior is all that matters,
Whatever your ride.
Sometimes I can't sit still for all the asininities I read.
Give me the hummingbird, who has to eat sixty times
His own weight a day just to stay alive.
Now that's a life on the edge. ~ Charles Wright,#NFDB
1069:Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple careers: I've been a teacher. A chauffeur. A chef. An interior decorator. A landscape architect, as well as a gardener. I’ve been a painter. A personal shopper. An accountant and a banker. I’ve been a beautician. Santa Claus. The Tooth Fairy. A movie reviewer. A nurse. A psychologist. A negotiator. An I have a Ph. D in How to Pretend Like You Don’t Mind. ~ Terry McMillan, #NFDB
1070:My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn. But it was more for me - it was that women of that generation were even less likely to express themselves, more likely to have that active interior life that they didn't dare speak out. So I was interesting in women of that era. I was interested in the language of that era. There's so much. And, certainly, this is cultural, so much there wasn't spoken about. ~ Alice McDermott, #NFDB
1071:Interior
Her mind lives in a quiet room,
A narrow room, and tall,
With pretty lamps to quench the gloom
And mottoes on the wall.
There all the things are waxen neat
And set in decorous lines;
And there are posies, round and sweet,
And little, straightened vines.
Her mind lives tidily, apart
From cold and noise and pain,
And bolts the door against her heart,
Out wailing in the rain.
~ Dorothy Parker,#NFDB
1072:The theatre will never find itself again except by furnishing the spectator with the truthful precipitates of dreams, in which his taste for crime, his erotic obsessions, his savagery, his chimeras, his utopian sense of life and matter, even his cannibalism, pour out on a level not counterfeit and illusory, but interior. […] If theatre wants to find itself needed once more, it must present everything in love, crime, war and madness. ~ Antonin Artaud, #NFDB
1073:Beautiful is he who recognizes what is truly beautiful,
Even if the surface is ugly.
Truthful is he who says what is true,
Even if the truth is ugly.
Ugly is he who measures beauty by its exterior,
Without first weighing the interior.
And ugly is the man who judges harshly what he sees looking out,
Without first judging what he sees in the mirror.
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun (2010) ~ Suzy Kassem,#NFDB
1074:el sufrimiento humano actúa como un gas en una cámara vacía; el gas se expande por completo y regularmente por todo el interior, con independencia de la capacidad del recipiente. Análogamente, cualquier sufrimiento, fuerte o débil, ocupa la conciencia y el alma entera del hombre. De donde se deduce que el «tamaño» del sufrimiento humano es absolutamente relativo. Y a la inversa, la cosa más menuda puede generar las mayores alegrías. ~ Viktor E Frankl, #NFDB
1075:Quiero que siempre lleves la cabeza bien alta y que persigas tus sueños, sean cuáles sean. No le hagas caso a la gente que quiera hacerte daño, no permitas que te hagan llorar. Escucha lo que te dice tu corazón para ser mejor que los otros. Nadie consigue nada hiriendo a los demás. La felicidad siempre proviene del interior. Vive tu vida como tú quieras vivirla y así serás feliz. Siempre. Eso es lo más importante, Torimou. (Theron) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
1076:how from time to time some young and beautiful nun had suddenly disappeared, to the surprise and alarm of her companions; how piercing shrieks had been heard to issue from the interior of the building, by those who passed near it at night,—and how the inmates themselves were often aroused from their slumbers by strange noises resembling the rattling of chains, the working of ponderous machinery, and the revolution of huge wheels. ~ George W M Reynolds, #NFDB
1077:Interior of the hand. Sole that has come to walk
only on feelings. That faces upward
and in its mirror
receives heavenly roads, which travel
along themselves.
That has learned to walk upon water
when it scoops,
that walks upon wells,
transfiguring every path.
That steps into other hands,
changes those that are like it
into a landscape:
wanders and arrives within them,
fills them with arrival. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,#NFDB
1078:There are ancient and modern poems which breathe, in their entirety and in every detail, the divine breath of irony. In such poemsthere lives a real transcendental buffoonery. Their interior is permeated by the mood which surveys everything and rises infinitely above everything limited, even above the poet's own art, virtue, and genius; and their exterior form by the histrionic style of an ordinary good Italian buffo. ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, #NFDB
1079:A particular type of film emerged from World War Two, with the Italian neorealist school. It was perfectly right for its time, which was as exceptional as the reality around us. Our major interest focused on that and on how we could relate to it. Later, when the situation normalized and post-war life returned to what it had been in peacetime, it became important to see the intimate, interior consequences of all that had happened. ~ Michelangelo Antonioni, #NFDB
1080:A privi moartea în sine, detaşată de viaţă, este a-ţi rata atât viaţa, cât şi moartea. Sentimentul interior al morţii numai atunci e fecund, când prin el putem da o adâncime actelor vieţii. Aceasta îşi pierde puritatea şi farmecul prin această relaţie; dar câştigă infinit în adâncime. Extazul pur al morţii duce fatal la o paralizare a întregii fiinţe. Numai când din obsesia morţii putem scoate scântei, numai atunci putem transfigura viaţa. ~ Emil M Cioran, #NFDB
1081:—Me dijeron que recogería a una hermosa mujer con vestido rojo —respondió el conductor—. Pero estoy seguro que el Sr. Silva no se quejará si tengo a la mujer equivocada.
Le di una sonrisa mientras me deslizaba al interior del automóvil.
—Estoy segura de que no lo haría.
Antes de que el conductor cerrara la puerta, se detuvo.
—Así que, ¿cuál es usted? ¿La mujer correcta o la incorrecta?
Lo miré a los ojos y le dije—: Ambas. ~ Nicole Williams,#NFDB
1082:I say to myself that the result of the unnatural effort to which I subject myself, writing, must be the respiration of this reader, the operation of reading turned into a natural process, the current that brings the sentences to graze the filter of her attention, to stop for a moment before being absorbed by the circuits of her mind and disappearing, transformed into her interior ghosts, into what in her is most personal and incommunicable. ~ Italo Calvino, #NFDB
1083:There are a lot of times the heart burrows deeper, goes tunnelling into itself for reasons only the heart itself seems to know.They are times of isolation, of hibernation, sometimes of desolation. There is a bareness that spreads out over the interior landscape of the self, a bareness like tundra, with no sign of life in any direction, no sign of anything beneath the frozen crust of ground, no sign that spring ever intends to come again. ~ Marya Hornbacher, #NFDB
1084:Tienes la misión de armonizar tu mente mortal con la Mente Divina, pues el miedo puede apegarse a la materia mortal, pero no a la Divinidad. Cuando invocas a la Mente Divina, no estás apelando a un poder externo a ti. Estás apelando a una fuerza que mora en tu interior. El Espíritu es la perfección que impregna todas las cosas, tanto para protegerlas del caos como para restaurar la armonía una vez que el desorden se ha manifestado. El ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB
1085:In the end, the only events of my life worth telling are those when the imperishable world erupted into this transitory one All other memories of travels, people and my surroundings have paled beside these interior happenings But my encounters with the 'other' reality, my bouts with the unconscious, are indelibly engraved on my memory. In that realm there has always been wealth in abundance, and everything else has lost importance by comparison. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
1086:In Freudian terms, each of us houses a dark self, an id, a brute that can unpredictably wrest control away from the superego. Thus a pleasant, friendly neighbor, seized by road rage, crashes his car into a semi. A teenager grabs a gun and shoots his friends. A priest rapes a boy. All these otherwise good people assume that they understand themselves. But in the heat of passion, suddenly, with the flip of some interior switch, everything changes. ~ Dan Ariely, #NFDB
1087:Tears of grief are unique. They contain chemicals that aren't found in the more mundane droplets of moisture that bathe the eyes, as if our tears wash us free of some noxious cause of sorrow. And tonight, after crying until I am empty, I have a rare glimpse of my own interior landscape - wounds piled like tiny skeletons into the reef of conscious adult life. I am aground amid my conquered traumas, stranded as a consequence of my achievements. ~ Carol Cassella, #NFDB
1088:The way the world works now, the way the rules of engagement operate, you can't claim to make sense out of the exterior without booking voyages into the interior. Think about it: How can you understand 'it' if you haven't made any effort to understand 'you'? Because what you're really doing is establishing a living, electrical, vital, energetic connection between it and you. You're creating both of them, simultaneously. A lot like quantum physics. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
1089:I say to myself that the result of the unnatural effort to which I subject myself, writing, must be the respiration of this reader, the operation of reading turned into a natural process, the current that brings the sentences to graze the filter of her attention, to stop for a moment before being absorbed by the circuits of her mind and disappearing, transformed into her interior ghosts, into what in her is most personal and incommunicable. At ~ Italo Calvino, #NFDB
1090:Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove that God cannot make another God, or commit suicide, or make a man without a soul, or even make a triangle whose interior angles do not equal 180 degrees. But Bolyai and Lobachevsky were able to accomplish this last feat (on a curved surface) in the nineteenth century, and they were not even approximately gods. ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
1091:Like any developing country, it has an inequality of wealth. In the Chinese case, it is particularly [pronounced] by the fact that they decided they couldn't make the whole country move forward simultaneously, so they've started region by region. So the interior regions are much less well off than the coastal regions. And this is certainly a huge challenge, because it produces a flow of populations from the poorer regions to the richer regions. ~ Henry A Kissinger, #NFDB
1092:The will and self are ultimately dynamic, they are their actions. This energy can be trained and directed, tuned like an orchestra. It is not a matter of a "rational interior" that poses a problem for a decorator, rather a feng-shui intelligence is called for that orients the "house" to the flow of life that takes place in it (I rather suspect this is turned on its head in most cases of feng-shui, i.e. Americans capitulate once again to "experts"). ~ Kenny Smith, #NFDB
1093:Valetta," he said, thinking she still looked good, then abandoning his Spidey sense long enough to let her take him in her arms, the skin of her bare shoulder in a halter top cool against his shoulder, the lady most definitely giving off that heavy 1978 Spencer's smell of love candles and sandlewood incense but, laid over top of it, the stink of cigarette, the instant-potatoes smell you might find in the interior of a beat-to-shit Toronado. "Damn. ~ Michael Chabon, #NFDB
1094:It starts with the writing. We have to think of all these characters - we have to treat them all equally. We have to think of them as having an interior life and having motivations. When I'm drawing female characters, I'm looking for that. I'm looking for subtext. I'm looking for ways to make the reader relate to them in a way that goes beyond the pure aesthetic value. You know, just drawing an attractive woman really gets kind of boring after a while. ~ Cliff Chiang, #NFDB
1095:La violencia se mantiene constante. Simplemente se traslada al interior. La decapitación en la sociedad de la soberanía, la deformación en la sociedad disciplinaria y la depresión en la sociedad del rendimiento son estadios de la transformación topológica de la violencia. La violencia sufre una interiorización, se hace más psíquica y, con ello, se invisibiliza. Se desmarca cada vez más de la negatividad del otro o del enemigo y se dirige a uno mismo. ~ Byung Chul Han, #NFDB
1096:Centuries-old ways of looking at the world, centuries-old rules, are jettisoned seemingly overnight. Traditions are mocked and banished. A man—or woman—with an unstable mind sees things falling apart. ‘The center cannot hold; / mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.’ To a psychopath, anarchy is exciting, the chaotic world reflects his chaotic interior life, confirms his conviction that anything should be allowed, that he can rightly do whatever he wants. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
1097:In loving him, I saw men encouraging each other to lay down their arms. In loving him, I saw small-town laborers creating excavations that other men spend their lives trying to fill. In loving him, I saw moving films of stone buildings; I saw a hand in prison dragging snow in from the sill. In loving him, I saw great houses being erected that would soon slide into the waiting and stirring seas. I saw him freeing me from the silences of the interior life. ~ Olivia Laing, #NFDB
1098:Interior of the hand. Sole that has come to walk
only on feelings. That faces upward
and in its mirror
receives heavenly roads, which travel
along themselves.
That has learned to walk upon water
when it scoops,
that walks upon wells,
transfiguring every path.
That steps into other hands,
changes those that are like it
into a landscape:
wanders and arrives within them,
fills them with arrival.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Palm
,#NFDB
1099:Superhero science has taught me this: Entire universes fit comfortably inside our skulls. Not just one or two but endless universes can be packed into that dark, wet, and bony hollow without breaking it open from the inside. The space in our heads will stretch to accommodate them all. The real doorway to the fifth dimension was always right here. Inside. That infinite interior space contains all the divine, the alien, and the unworldly we’ll ever need. ~ Grant Morrison, #NFDB
1100:bring our own worlds to bear in foreign landscapes in order to clarify them for ourselves. It is hard to imagine that we could do otherwise. The risk we take is of finding our final authority in the metaphors rather than in the land. To inquire into the intricacies of a distant landscape, then, is to provoke thoughts about one’s own interior landscape, and the familiar landscapes of memory. The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves. ~ Barry Lopez, #NFDB
1101:While the darkness of the interior concealed her body, the streetlight behind them illuminated the pale oval of her face, gilding her cheeks in shades of amber and ghostly blue. The effect was . . . arresting. Vermeer had used natural light to paint women in this way, faces emerging from the shadows, forcing the viewer’s eye to focus on what was most important: the look of grace. The mouth firmed in determination. The eyes poised to behold a revelation. ~ Meredith Duran, #NFDB
1102:Instead of canals, a magical four-story central courtyard faces the interior walls. A greenhouse of sorts. The roof is glass and the floor is a sensuous garden filled with freestanding columns, whimsical twelfth-century lion stylobates, and all manner of statuary. A Roman mosaic sits at the center, surrounded by an ever-changing installation of flowers and shrubs. A pair of towering palm trees reach up to the sunlight, climbing beyond the third floor. ~ Barbara A Shapiro, #NFDB
1103:We live through myriads of seconds, yet it is always one, just one, that casts our entire inner world into turmoil, the second when (as Stendhal has described it) the internal inflorescence, already steeped in every kind of fluid, condenses and crystallizes—a magical second, like the moment of generation, and like that moment concealed in the warm interior of the individual life, invisible, untouchable, beyond the reach of feeling, a secret experienced alone. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1104:But God gives true theologians a hunger born of humility, which cannot be satisfied with formulas and arguments, and which looks for something closer to God than analogy can bring you. This serene hunger of the spirit penetrates the surface of words and goes beyond the human formulation of mysteries and seeks, in the humiliation of silence, intellectual solitude and interior poverty, the gift of a supernatural apprehension which words cannot truly signify. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
1105:We usually recognize a beginning. Endings are more difficult to detect. Most often, they are realized only after reflection. Silence. We are seldom conscious when silence begins—it is only afterward that we realize what we have been a part of. In the night journeys of Canada geese, it is the silence that propels them. Thomas Merton writes, “Silence is the strength of our interior life.… If we fill our lives with silence, then we will live in hope. ~ Terry Tempest Williams, #NFDB
1106:It is a fair adornment of a man and a great convenience both to himself and to all those with whom he converses and deals, to act uprightly, uniformly, and consistently. The practice of piety frees a man from interior distraction and from irresolution in his mind, from duplicity or inconstancy in his character, and from confusion in his proceedings, and consequently securing for others freedom from deception and disappointment in their transactions with him. ~ Isaac Barrow, #NFDB
1107:Kleyweg’s Stads Koffyhuis is a local institution that’s won prizes for its sandwiches (see the trophies above the counter). This is a great spot for an affordable bite, either in the country-cozy interior or out on a canal barge (€7-10 sandwiches and hamburgers, €6-13 savory or sweet pancakes, big €13 salads, Mon-Fri 9:00-20:00, Sat 9:00-18:00, closed Sun, shorter hours off-season, just down the canal from the Old Church at Oude Delft 133, tel. 015/212-4625). ~ Rick Steves, #NFDB
1108:Likewise, every disturbance, whether resolved or not, is making space for an inner engagement. As a shovel digs up and displaces earth, in a way that must seem violent to the earth, an interior space is revealed for the digging. In just this way, when experience opens us, it often feels violent and the urge, quite naturally, is to refill that opening, to make it the way it was. But every experience excavates a depth, which reveals its wisdom once opened to air. ~ Mark Nepo, #NFDB
1109:The Founder-Director purposely designed the building in a U-shape, in the interior of which is a courtyard with a central fountain, to reflect the introspective nature of a true Muslim, a universal and perfect man. These interior parts of the building are hidden from the outside in contrast to secularized buildings which face the road and are exposed to the busy traffic of secular life and are therefore without real privacy and introspective spirit. ~ Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud, #NFDB
1110:She saw herself riding in the passenger seat, Sam behind the wheel. Like two of those little peg people in a toy car. Husband peg, wife peg, side by side. Facing the road and not looking at each other; for why would they need to, really, having gone beyond the visible surface long ago. No hope of admiring gazes anymore, no chance of unremitting adoration. Nothing left to show but their plain, true, homely, interior selves, which were actually much richer anyhow. ~ Anne Tyler, #NFDB
1111:Annie Wilkes had her own interior set of rules; in her way she was strangely prim. She had made him drink water from a floor-bucket; had withheld his medication until he was in agony; had made him burn the only copy of his new novel; had hand-cuffed him and stuck a rag reeking of furniture polish in his mouth; but she would not take the money from his wallet. She brought it to him, the old scuffed Lord Buxton he’d had since college, and put it in his hands. All ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1112:Superhero science has taught me this: Entire universes fit comfortably inside our skulls. Not just one or two but endless universes can be packed into that dark, wet, and bony hollow without breaking it open from the inside. The space in our heads will stretch to accommodate them all. The real doorway to the fifth dimension was always right here. Inside. That infinite interior space contains all the divine, the alien, and the unworldly we’ll ever need. ~ Grant Morrison, #NFDB
1113:Was it an hour, or a week before the light of the moon rose in the interior of my body? A bird with luminous wings flew in front of that full moon, and its head was as radiant as a point of light. That bird must be the Khu--this sweet bird of the night--a creature of divine intelligence loaned to us just so much as the Ren or the Sekhem. Yes, the Khu was a light in your mind while you lived, but in death, it must return to heaven. For the Khu was also eternal. ~ Norman Mailer, #NFDB
1114:Alegra el corazón”. Notemos la progresión: el que se convirtió fue hecho sabio y ahora es feliz; la verdad hace recto al corazón, y luego da alegría al corazón recto. La gracia libre da gozo al corazón. Los placeres terrenales son pasajeros y nos dejan sin fuerzas. En cambio, los placeres celestiales satisfacen la naturaleza interior y llenan las facultades mentales hasta rebosar. No hay nada más reconfortante que las aguas que vierten de las Escrituras. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1115:In people like us, the craving is as strong as the craving for food or water, the yearning for touch or light or love. I was looking for something--a diversion, an occupation, an unwavering force--that would elevate me, that would lift me out of the melancholy dissection of my own interior geography that otherwise would have consumed me pitilessly, as it had my father. I wanted to fly above myself-- if only for a few hours--and look down in tranquility upon my life. ~ Ethan Canin, #NFDB
1116:The high road to all perfection is pointed out in the "Our Father." "Fiat voluntas tua." Say this with your lips as well as you can; and still more perfectly in your heart, and be assured that, with this interior disposition nothing is wanting to you, nor ever will be. Learn by this to find repose in no matter what difficulties and troubles, because all will come right when God pleases, and according to our desires, if He should will it so, or permit it. ~ Jean Pierre de Caussade, #NFDB
1117:Nixon was becoming a discombobulated president, politically on the run. His interior secretary, Walter Hickel, posted a letter to the president that leaked to the Washington Star: "Youth in its protest must be heard." Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe were all young people in their day, Hickel argued; their "protests fell on deaf ears and finally led to war." (The president's response was to bulldoze the White House tennis court, beloved of Hickel.) ~ Rick Perlstein, #NFDB
1118:De tot ce se intampla in lume sunt si eu vinovat. Pentru ca nu sunt un om intreg, nu sunt o unitate armonioasa, sunt un ins dezaxat, fara centru. Probabil ca mai sunt si altii, zeci de milioane, ca mine. Si cum pentru societatile moderne lumea inseamna tot mai putin Cosmos si tot mai multa Istorie, iti dai seama ce repercusiuni poate avea dezechilibrul acesta interior in afara de noi. Cum am putea fi creatori in Istorie noi, cateva zeci de milioane de dezechilibrati? ~ Mircea Eliade, #NFDB
1119:De tot ce se întâmplă în lume sunt şi eu vinovat. Pentru că nu sunt un om întreg, nu sunt o unitate armonioasă, sunt un ins dezaxat, fără centru. Probabil că mai sunt şi alţii, zeci de milioane, ca mine. Şi cum pentru societăţile moderne lumea înseamnă tot mai puţin Cosmos şi tot mai multă Istorie, îţi dai seama ce repercusiuni poate avea dezechilibrul acesta interior în afară de noi. Cum am putea fi creatori în Istorie noi, câteva zeci de milioane de dezechilibraţi? ~ Mircea Eliade, #NFDB
1120:Here again the Japanese method of interior decoration differs from that of the Occident, where we see objects arrayed symmetrically on mantelpieces and elsewhere. In Western houses we are often confronted with what appears to us useless reiteration. We find it trying to talk to a man while his full-length portrait stares at us from behind his back. We wonder which is real, he of the picture or he who talks, and feel a curious conviction that one of them must be fraud. ~ Kakuz Okakura, #NFDB
1121:Instead of obtaining myself by fleeing, I find myself forsaken, alone, tossed into a dimensionless cubicle, where light and shadow are quiet ghosts. In my interior I find the silence I seek. But in it I become so lost from any memory of a human being and of myself that I make this impression into the certainty of physical solitude. If I were to scream - already without lucidity I imagine - my voice would receive the same, indifferent echo of the walls of the earth ~ Clarice Lispector, #NFDB
1122:Because it is located so far south, and the coastal plain quickly rises into high land, South Africa is one of the very few African countries that do not suffer from the curse of malaria, as mosquitoes find it difficult to breed there. This allowed the European colonialists to push into its interior much further and faster than in the malaria-riddled tropics, settle, and begin small-scale industrial activity which grew into what is now southern Africa’s biggest economy. ~ Tim Marshall, #NFDB
1123:Cuando me besas, Gwendolyn Shepherd, es como si perdiera el contacto con el suelo. No tengo ni idea de cómo lo haces ni de dónde lo has aprendido. En todo caso, si ha sido en una película, tenemos que verla juntos. Lo que quiero decir es que cuando me besas, ya no quiero hacer nada más que sentirte y tenerte entre mis brazos. ¡Mierda, estoy tan terriblemente enamorado de ti que es como si hubieran volcado una lata de gasolina en mi interior y le hubieran prendido fuego! ~ Kerstin Gier, #NFDB
1124:I was perplexed as to what the usefulness of any of the arts might be, with the possible exception of interior decoration. The most positive notion I could come up with was what I call the canary-in-the-coal-mine theory of the arts. This theory argues that artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison gas, long before more robust types realize that any danger is there. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
1125:The power of a text when it is read is different from the power it has when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command. ~ Walter Benjamin, #NFDB
1126:The tongue is a small member, but it does big things. A religious who does not keep silence will never attain holiness; that is, she will never become a saint. Let her not delude herself - unless it is the Spirit of God who is speaking through her, for then she must not keep silent. But, in order to hear the voice of God, one has to have silence in one's soul and to keep silence; not a gloomy silence but an interior silence; that is to say, recollection in God. ~ Mary Faustina Kowalska, #NFDB
1127:«Si por una emoción muy fuerte se llegan a encender todos los cerillos que llevamos en nuestro interior de un solo golpe, se produce un resplandor tan fuerte que ilumina más allá de lo que podemos ver normalmente y entonces ante nuestros ojos aparece un túnel esplendoroso que nos muestra el camino que olvidamos al momento de nacer y que nos llama a reencontrar nuestro perdido origen divino. El alma desea reintegrarse al lugar de donde proviene, dejando al cuerpo inerte» ~ Laura Esquivel, #NFDB
1128:Frente al vacío de la repetición de la vida cotidiana se construye un espacio ficcional en el interior del cual la experiencia es posible. (...) El héroe de la novela es aquel que se construye un espacio alternativo para zafar de ese mundo donde, como dice Benjamin, la experiencia ha muerto y nadie tiene nada personal para contar. ¿Por qué? Porque todo lo que hay para contar es la información que los medios han puesto en el lugar de la propia experiencia con la realidad. ~ Ricardo Piglia, #NFDB
1129:During this period (of technological confinement / [and language]) the human mind has been placed in its narrowest confines it has experienced since consciousness emerged from its Paleolithic phase. Even the most primitive tribes have a larger vision of the universe, of our place and functioning within it, a vision that extends to celestial regions of space and to interior depths of the human in a manner far exceeding the parameters of our world of technological confinement. ~ Thomas Berry, #NFDB
1130:I'm an indoors person. I'm not afraid of the outdoors and I penetrate it easily and cheerfully. However, I must admit I like Central Park better than the wilderness, and I like the canyons of Manhattan better than Central Park, and I like the interior of my apartment better than the canyons of Manhattan, and I like my two rooms better with the shades down at all times than with the shades up. I'm not an agoraphobe at all, but I am a claustrophile, if you see the distinction. ~ Isaac Asimov, #NFDB
1131:Life is really like a ship–the interior of a ship, that is. It has watertight compartments. You emerge from one, seal and bolt the doors, and find yourself in another. My life from the day we left Southampton to the day we returned to England was one such compartment. Ever since that I have felt the same about travel. You step from one life into another. You are yourself, but a different self. The new self is untrammelled by all the hundreds of spiders’ webs and filaments ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
1132:Manicured lawns and dozens of trees give it a peaceful, parklike atmosphere. The interior of the school is even more impressive. The main entrance has a huge fountain that is even LARGER than the one at the mall. There are tall columns, arched hallways, shiny marble floors, elegant chandeliers, and a courtyard with a fishpond and a rose garden! I feel like a traitor even thinking this, but NHH makes Westchester Country Day look like a basic, no-frills daycare center! ~ Rachel Ren e Russell, #NFDB
1133:Witten's result showed that much as the Wizard of Oz's frightening visage was produced by an ordinary man, a rapacious black hole is the holographic projection of something equally ordinary: a bath of hot particles in the boundary theory (Figure 9.6). Like a real hologram and the image it generates, the two theories-a black hole in the interior and a hot quantum field theory on the boundary-bear no apparent resemblance to each other, and yet they embody identical information. ~ Brian Greene, #NFDB
1134:customs and habits of men are not a matter for conflict. The saints do not get excited about the things that people eat and drink, wear on their bodies, or hang on the walls of their houses. To make conformity or nonconformity with others in these accidents a matter of life and death is to fill your interior life with confusion and noise. Ignoring all this as indifferent, the humble man takes whatever there is in the world that helps him to find God and leaves the rest aside. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
1135:The Visitor
The walls shriek with the eyes
of mangled pigeons, the weasel's glittering teeth,
the aimless thrashing of the terrified.
The heart clings to the prisoner's hand.
Forever it beats, song of the deserted,
as snipers circle about him.
And still he emerges from the crush of frozen cells.
Absorbed in the spirals of a choked life,
he looks to the interior, drinks from God's spring—
And the visitor shivers. He comes for nothing.
~ Ernst Toller,#NFDB
1136:When I'm looking for a strong female character, or a strong character at all, I'm looking for a character that has a purpose in that story, that has an interior life of some sort. They don't have to be physically strong; they don't have to be morally strong or ethically strong, because men and women come in a huge variety of all of those things. Emotionally, ethically - I'm less concerned with that. I just don't want them to be props. That's the only thing that offends me. ~ Kelly Sue DeConnick, #NFDB
1137:The universe is an emanation of mind. As human consciousness evolves in an accelerated spiral, we are being compelled to realize that our minds are manifesting reality to an ever-increasing extent- our collective shadow-projections of wasteful technologies, wars, and weaponry reflect subtler interior regions of our psyche and the discordant deceptions in our intimate relationships. If this interpretation is valid, it forces upon us a concomitant responsibility, a grave burden. ~ Daniel Pinchbeck, #NFDB
1138:Many beginners also at times possess great spiritual avarice. They hardly ever seem content with the spirit God gives them. They become unhappy and peevish because they don't find the consolation they want in spiritual things. Many never have enough of hearing counsels, or learning spiritual maxims, or keeping them and reading books about them. They spend more time in these than in striving after mortification and the perfection of the interior poverty to which they are obliged. ~ Juan de la Cruz, #NFDB
1139:El pensamiento, una vez puesto en marcha, ya no pudo detenerse, y siguiendo su propia lógica lo llevó a una conclusión a la que habría preferido no llegar (pero, tratándose del pensamiento, no era posible retroceder): el hombre, él mismo, o mejor dicho esos pedazos de él mismo que traía el mar, se estaban armando en algún lugar del interior de la isla. Se iban juntando para recomponer el hombre que había sido… Y ese hombre era él o su doble… Y cuando estuviera entero vendría buscarlo… ~ C sar Aira, #NFDB
1140:Glacier blue plasma rippled and sparked across the interior of the portal. “It seems keeping secrets is what you do.”
“Secrets are merely the necessary means. Survival is the end goal. Survival of ourselves, survival of species who do not deserve to be eradicated from the universe. Survival of the universe itself.”
“Survival’s noble and all, but what good is it without the freedom to live as you choose?”
“A question you have the luxury to ask because you survive. ~ G S Jennsen,#NFDB
1141:Sentía un enorme vacío en su interior, negro y profundo, más que la oscura corriente. Todo había desaparecido. Nada estaba donde se suponía que debía estar. Ahí estaba él en esa solitaria orilla, y sólo podía plantearse las preguntas tontas que se hacen los niños… ¿Por qué se acaban las cosas? ¿Por qué se mueren las personas? ¿Qué se han propuesto hacer los dioses?
Y eso era lo más duro, porque, para el hombre, una de las Cosas Adecuadas consistía en no hacer preguntas tontas. ~ Terry Pratchett,#NFDB
1142:The Interior Department on Friday released new regulations that give a green light — pun intended — for fracking on federally owned lands. After four years of study and 1.5 million public comments, the department’s Bureau of Land Management concluded fracking can be done safely. Focusing on science rather than politics — as Cuomo should have done — the bureau set limits on where drilling could happen and set strict standards for the construction of wells and the handling of wastewater. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1143:There is no ideal length, but you develop a little interior gauge that tells you whether or not you're supporting the house or detracting from it. When a piece gets too long, the tension goes out of it. That wordtensionhas an animal insistence for me. A piece of writing rises and falls with tension. The writer holds one end of the rope and the reader holds the other endis the rope slack, or is it tight? Does it matter to the reader what the next sentence is going to be? ~ John Jeremiah Sullivan, #NFDB
1144:El mapa cerebral del cuerpo Después de haber sido diagnosticado del cáncer de hígado que, años después, acabaría con su vida, Steve Jobs pronunció una charla muy inspiradora a una clase de graduados de Stanford. Su consejo fue el siguiente: «No permitas que el ruido de las opiniones ajenas silencie tu voz interior. Y, lo que es más importante, ten el coraje de hacer lo que te dicten tu corazón y tu intuición. De algún modo, ya sabes aquello en lo que realmente quieres convertirte». ~ Daniel Goleman, #NFDB
1145:In your school you take part in various activities that habituate you not to shut yourselves in on yourselves or in your small world, but to be open to others, especially to the poorest and neediest, to work to improve the world in which we live. Be men and women with others and for others, real champions in the service of others. To be magnanimous with interior liberty and a spirit of service, spiritual formation is necessary. Dear children, dear youths, love Jesus Christ ever more! ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1146:it would go and hung in front of three fans, drying the sweat-soaked interior. At least I could remove the fur by myself; by then I’d discovered the secret. Howie’s right paw was actually a glove, and when you knew the trick, pulling down the zipper to the neck of the costume was a cinch. Once you had the head off, the rest was cake. This was good, because I could change by myself behind a pull-curtain. No more displaying my sweaty, semi-transparent undershorts to the costume ladies. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1147:Travellers at least have a choice. Those who set sail know that things will not be the same as at home. Explorers are prepared. But for us, who travel along the blood vessels, who come to the cities of the interior by chance, there is no preparation. We who were fluent find life is a foreign language. Somewhere between the swamp and the mountains. Somewhere between fear and sex. Somewhere between God and the Devil passion is and the way there is sudden and the way back is worse. ~ Jeanette Winterson, #NFDB
1148:He always had trouble opening his heart. Tonight it was stuck again. It was a wooden chest secured by locked iron bands. An army duffel, rusted zipper. Kitchen cupboards glued shut. Tabernacle. Desk. Closet. He had to wedge apart doors, lift covers. He was always disappointed to find a drab or menacing interior. To make a welcoming place of his heart was mentally slippery work. Sometimes cleaning was involved, rearrangements. He had to dust. He had to throw out old junk to make room. ~ Louise Erdrich, #NFDB
1149:Monks were rich in interior life and very dirty, because the body, protected by a habit that, ennobling it, released it, was free to think, and to forget about itself. The idea was not only ecclesiastic; you have to think only of the beautiful mandes Erasmus wore. And when even the intellectual must dress in lay armor (wigs, waistcoats, knee breeches) we see that when he retires to think, he swaggers in rich dressing-gowns, or in Balzac’s loose, drôlatique blouses. Thought abhors tights. ~ Umberto Eco, #NFDB
1150:You don’t know what you’re doing,’ Lymond said. ‘You’re performing a play, in a schoolroom, for an excited audience of one. I said what else have you done?’
Below the long, taffeta bodice, Philippa’s interior had begun to ravel with cramp pains. She said hardily, ‘Nothing, so far. I didn’t know another permutation in breeding was possible.’
There was another brief pause. Then Lymond said pleasantly, ‘I would strike a man who was stupid enough to say that to me. ~ Dorothy Dunnett,#NFDB
1151:It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and the rare virtue of interior spaciousness. Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole. Like the great dome of St. Peter's, and like the great whale, retain, O man! in all seasons a temperature of thine own. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
1152:Lelia gave a dharma talk about letting go of self-definition: I can't do this because of what happened to me in my childhood; I can't do that because I am very shy; I could never go there because I'm afraid of clowns or mushrooms or polar bears. The group gave a gentle, collective laugh of self-recognition. Teresa found the talk helpful, as she had been having an extended interior dialogue during meditation about how septuagenarians from Torrance were fundamentally unsuited for Buddhism. ~ Ann Patchett, #NFDB
1153:The seventeenth-century Benedictine mystic, Dom Augustine Baker, who fought a determined battle for the interior liberty of contemplative souls in an age ridden by autocratic directors, has the following to say on the subject: “The director is not to teach his own way, nor indeed any determinate way of prayer, but to instruct his disciples how they may themselves find out the way proper for them. . . . In a word, he is only God’s usher, and must lead souls in God’s way, and not his own. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
1154:The Chinese central government will slowly and steadily lose authority while regional armies [gain power]. The Western powers are going to take sides to protect their investments - they have put billions of dollars into Shanghai. Their fear is that [these investments] are going to be expropriated by a warlord from the interior who will sweep down on Shanghai. They will try to form alliances with warlords to protect their concessions, and there will be a huge flow of weapons into China. ~ George Friedman, #NFDB
1155:These “thoughts” (the full title is precisely Zibaldone of Thoughts: see Z 4295) are at one and the same time the pulsations that the interior life transmits to the movement of the pen and the traces that are left behind on the paper. Gradually, as the ink dries, these are transformed into archaeological residues or fossils of a provisional state of the soul (self) that the future self will grasp as other than the self, at times not even recognizing the self in them (Z 1766–67, 2488). ~ Giacomo Leopardi, #NFDB
1156:You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And least of all can you condemn an artist pursuing, however humbly and imperfectly, a creative aim. In that interior world where his thought and his emotions go seeking for the experience of imagined adventures, there are no policemen, no law, no pressure of circumstance or dread of opinion to keep him within bounds. Who then is going to say Nay to his temptations if not his conscience? ~ Joseph Conrad, #NFDB
1157:Everyone is familiar with the slogan "The personal is political" -- not only that what we experience on a personal level has profound political implications, but that our interior lives, our emotional lives are very much informed by ideology. We oftentimes do the work of the state in and through our interior lives. What we often assume belongs most intimately to ourselves and to our emotional life has been produced elsewhere and has been recruited to do the work of racism and repression. ~ Angela Y Davis, #NFDB
1158:Los ingenieros del agua dejaron el calentador de la piscina en marcha demasiado tiempo y, por la noche, los vapores de cloro se elevaron por encima de la vida vegetal del planeta, y yo imaginé mi carne en el interior de la piscina, cálida, protegida, sintiendo la gravedad, pero capaz al mismo tiempo de burlarla flotando. ¿Flotarías conmigo ahora, si te lo pidiera, saltarías a la piscina, sin desnudarte siquiera? ¿Podría desnudarte dentro, quitarte la ropa y hundirnos juntos en el agua? ~ Douglas Coupland, #NFDB
1159:Se hallaba uno lleno de congoja luchando entre el temor y la esperanza; y un día cargado de tristeza entró en la iglesia y se postró delante del altar en oración, y meditando en su corazón varias cosas, dijo: ¡Oh! ¡Si supiese que había de perseverar! Y luego oyó en lo interior la divina respuesta: ¿Qué harías si eso supieses? Haz ahora lo que entonces quisieras hacer, y estarás seguro. Y en aquel punto, consolado y confortado, se ofreció a la divina voluntad, y cesó su congojosa turbación. ~ Thomas Kempis, #NFDB
1160:The interior looked like I expected. Two rooms--a main one and a tiny bedroom. Dusty stuffed fish and moth-eaten elk heads on bare walls. A wood plank floor that seemed as if it hadn’t been swept in years. Cobwebs decorating the ceiling. Furniture that would have been rejected by Goodwill. Mouse droppings everywhere. A few dark furry bat forms hung from the upper eaves. In the city, the place would have been condemned as a public health hazard. Here, it was just a typical hunting shack. ~ Kelley Armstrong, #NFDB
1161:To what expedient then shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several departments, as laid down in the constitution? The only answer that can be given is, that as all these exterior provisions are found to be inadequate, the defect must be supplied, by so contriving the interior structure of the government, as that its several constituent parts may, by their mutual relations, be the means of keeping each other in their proper places. ~ James Madison, #NFDB
1162:Eso que tú consideras destino sólo es aplicable al pasado. Nuestro futuro sólo es predecible porque nosotros, como criaturas de este mundo, somos predecibles. Piensa en un ratón y un gato. —Nigel mostró la parte interior del brazo, donde un gato de pelaje leonado estiraba las zarpas hacia un ratón con rayas blancas y negras—. Cuando un gato ve un ratón, siempre lo perseguirá, a menos, quizá, que al gato lo persiga algo más grande, como un perro, por ejemplo. Nosotros somos muy similares. ~ Stephanie Garber, #NFDB
1163:Generally speaking, the main principles are as follows: (1) the use of initiative, flexibility and planning in conducting offensives within the defensive, battles of quick decision within protracted war, and exterior-line operations within interior-line operations; (2) co-ordination with regular warfare; (3) establishment of base areas; (4) the strategic defensive and the strategic offensive; (5) the development of guerrilla warfare into mobile warfare; and (6) correct relationship of command. ~ Mao Zedong, #NFDB
1164:Go back to bed, said this omniscient interior voice, because you don’t need to know the final answer right now, at three o’clock in the morning on a Thursday in November. Go back to bed, because I love you. Go back to bed, because the only thing you need to do for now is get some rest and take good care of yourself until you do know the answer. Go back to bed so that, when the tempest comes, you’ll be strong enough to deal with it. And the tempest is coming, dear one. Very soon. But not tonight ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1165:The status of our relationship with God has moved from conflict to reconciliation, ensuring peace and communion with God. Our very being is transferred from the impending death of this world to the promised life of God’s new creational order, leading us to an increased appetite for that which pleases God and a growing distaste for that which does not please him. Finally, our perspective is altered so that we no longer focus on outward appearances but on a radical interior radiance (vv. 12, 16). ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1166:Y el último grupo lo formaban los habitantes de la Baja Macedonia, los cortesanos, los grandes nobles y barones de las ricas provincias del interior de Macedonia, hombres que poseían fincas del tamaño de pequeños países. Vestían a la griega y casi todos hablaban griego con fluidez, y estos sí eran capaces de decir cosas inteligentes sobre la obra de Platón. También eran tan o más duros que sus primos de las tierras altas, y sus deportes nacionales eran la caza del lobo y los regicidios. ~ Christian Cameron, #NFDB
1167:It is well known that at the coronation of kings and queens, even modern ones, a certain curious process of seasoning them for their functions is gone through. There is a saltcellar of state, so called, and there may be a caster of state. How they use the salt, precisely—who knows? Certain I am, however, that a king's head is solemnly oiled at his coronation, even as a head of salad. Can it be, though, that they anoint it with a view of making its interior run well, as they anoint machinery? ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
1168:St. Sergius through the small doorway in the southwest corner and was immediately enveloped in its cool, dim interior, infused with the scent of incense and beeswax. He loved the ancient Egyptian-Byzantine basilica and visited it often in his early days in the city. Its use of Islamic motifs, the inlaid wooden stars of the iconostasis screen, presented a certain harmony. It soothed him. An intermingling of Islamic and Coptic styles stretched back centuries and was a hallmark of this part of Cairo. ~ Dan Eaton, #NFDB
1169:Todos tenemos una lucha cuando evaluamos nuestra vida cristiana. Podemos ver cambios para bien en nuestra vida, pero también vemos las cosas que no queremos ver; las cosas que no queremos que nadie vea. Así que, al analizar el estado de nuestra alma, no necesitamos preguntar dónde estábamos cuando nacimos de nuevo, ni siquiera cómo sucedió. Más bien debemos preguntarnos si hay alguna evidencia de un cambio en la orientación interior de nuestra disposición, nuestra actitud hacia las cosas de Dios. ~ R C Sproul, #NFDB
1170:El señor Watanabe siente a menudo que en su interior bulle una marmita de emociones contrapuestas, y él se encuentra sujeto de manera aleatoria a los giros de la poción. Qué relación guarda esto con su dificultad para asentarse en un lugar, o posicionarse de manera firme respecto a las cuestiones que más le importan, continúa siendo un misterio para él mismo. Paradójicamente, esta indefinición define su carácter. Lejos de encontrar alivio en ellos, los matices lo asedian y refutan sin descanso. ~ Andr s Neuman, #NFDB
1171:The impresario function is about intervening with the company's more administrative management structure. It is about trying to establish a sense of boundaries and budgets and milestones and so forth on a project that does not necessarily lend itself to milestones. It is about translating between the intimate interior environment of the creative work team and the company's need to make money. And finally, it is about positioning the fruits of the creative process in the marketplace and selling them. ~ John Kao, #NFDB
1172:It is the utterly unknown people who can grow in all directions like an exuberant tree. It is in our interior lives that we find that people are too much themselves. It is in our private life that we find them swelling into the enormous contours, and taking on the colours of caricature. Many of us live publicly with featureless public puppets, images of the small public abstractions. It is when we pass our own private gate, and open our own secret door, that we step into the land of the giants. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
1173:En el pasillo de madera, justo al lado del contador del gas, la abuela dijo: SÉ QUE VOLVERÁS. No retuve esa frase en la memoria deliberadamente. Me la llevé al campo de trabajo sin darme cuenta. No tenía ni idea de que me acompañaba. Pero una frase así es libre. Ella actuó en mi interior más que todos los libros que me llevé. SÉ QUE VOLVERÁS se convirtió en cómplice de la pala del corazón y en adversario del ángel del hambre. Yo, que he regresado, puedo decirlo: Una frase así te mantiene con vida. ~ Herta M ller, #NFDB
1174:I am completely convinced that there is a wealth of information built into us, with miles of intuitive knowledge tucked away in the genetic material of every one of our cells. Something akin to a library containing uncountable reference volumes, but without any obvious route of entry. And, without some means of access, there is no way to even begin to guess at the extent and quality of what is there. The psychedelic drugs allow exploration of this interior world, and insights into its nature. ~ Alexander Shulgin, #NFDB
1175:Inside, they discovered bodies everywhere. Each seemed to have died from the same types of wounds: large, vicious cuts and injuries that almost seemed to have originated from a wild animal. Added to that, the interior of the transport smelled horribly of sulfur and the acrid odor of blood. To complicate matters, empty shell casings were found scattered about the interior of the cockpit. The pistols responsible, belonging to the pilot and co-pilot, were lying at their feet, their magazines emptied. ~ Aaron Mahnke, #NFDB
1176:A lucidez em alguns, é um dado primordial, um privilégio, e mesmo um dom. Não têm necessidade de adquiri-la, de procurá-la: são predestinados a ela. Todas as experiências contribuem para torná-los transparentes diante de si mesmos. Se vivem numa crise permanente, a aceitam com naturalidade: ela é imanente à sua existência. Em outros, a lucidez é um resultado tardio, o fruto de um acidente, de uma rachadura interior que ocorre em dado momento. Ao que tudo indica, viver é desmoronar progressivamente. ~ Emil M Cioran, #NFDB
1177:Gamache knew people were like homes. Some were cheerful and bright, some gloomy. Some could look good on the outside but feel wretched on the interior. And some of the least attractive homes, from the outside, were kindly and warm inside. He also knew the first few rooms were for public consumption. It was only in going deeper that he’d find the reality. And finally, inevitably, there was the last room, the one we keep locked, and bolted and barred, even from ourselves. Especially from ourselves. It ~ Louise Penny, #NFDB
1178:The single most damaging and distorting thing that religion has done to faith involves overlooking, undervaluing, and even outright suppressing this interior, ulterior kind of consciousness. So much Western theology has been constructed on a fundamental disfigurement of the mind and reality. In neglecting the voices of women, who are more attuned to the immanent nature of divinity, who feel that eruption in their very bodies, theology has silenced a powerful—perhaps the most powerful—side of God. ~ Christian Wiman, #NFDB
1179:By these last words and the relief which they brought me Swann at once annihilated for me one of those terrifying interior perspectives at the end of which a woman with whom we are in love appears so remote. At that moment I felt for him an affection which I believed to be deeper than my affection for Gilberte. For he, being the master over his daughter, was giving her to me, whereas she, she withheld herself now and then, I had not the same direct control over her as I had indirectly through Swann. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
1180:Algún día encontraré una palabra que penetre en tu vientre y lo fecunde, que se pare en tu seno como una mano abierta y cerrada al mismo tiempo. Hallaré una palabra que detenga tu cuerpo y lo dé vuelta, que contenga tu cuerpo y abra tus ojos como un dios sin nubes y te use tu saliva y te doble las piernas. Tú tal vez no la escuches o tal vez no la comprendas. No será necesario. Irá por tu interior como una rueda recorriéndote al fin de punta a punta, mujer mía y no mía, y no se detendrá ni cuando mueras. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1181:A man needs no arguments to make him discern and approve what is beautiful: it strikes at first sight, and attracts without a reason. And as this beauty is found in the shape and form of corporeal things, so also is there analogous to it a beauty of another kind, an order, a symmetry, and comeliness in the moral world. And as the eye perceiveth the one, so the mind doth by a certain interior sense perceive the other, which sense, talent, or faculty, is ever quickest and purest in the noblest minds. ~ George Berkeley, #NFDB
1182:As she neared the gazebo, the unmistakable sounds of passion drifted from the interior. She halted as a woman let out a long, soft moan.
"Oh, Robby, we need to stop. We're missing the party."
"I canna wait another minute," he grumbled in a low voice. "I need you now, Olivia."
The woman let out another long moan that Caitlyn could only interpret as surrender. She tiptoed across the grass, headed in another direction. A feminine squeal emanated from the gazebo, followed by a masculine growl. ~ Kerrelyn Sparks,#NFDB
1183:How much more interior can you get, after all, than the interior of bones? It's the center of the center of things. If marrow were a geological formation, it would be magma roiling under the earth's mantle. If it were a plant, it would be a delicate moss that grows only in the highest crags of Mount Everest, blooming with tiny white flowers for three days in the Nepalese spring. If it were a memory, it would be your first one, your most painful and repressed one, the one that has made you who you are. ~ Julie Powell, #NFDB
1184:We climbed up the stairs to the jet. As I entered, the first thing that came to my mind was, 'Holy shit, I'm on an episode of Criminal Minds.' The jet was super posh. Cream-colored leather seats in groups of four, with real wood tables in between, filled the spacious interior. The plush carpeting underfoot make our steps soundless, muffling the noises of our boarding. I was willing to bet that those chairs could recline all the way. This is about as far from coach class as I was ever going to get. ~ Elle Casey, #NFDB
1185:Suffering, I was beginning to think, was essential to a good life, and as inextricable from such a life as bliss. It’s a great enhancer. It might last a minute, but eventually it subsides, and when it does, something else takes its place, and maybe that thing is a great space. For happiness. Each time I encountered suffering, I believed that I grew, and further defined my capacities – not just my physical ones, but my interior ones as well, for contentment, friendship, or any other human experience. ~ Lance Armstrong, #NFDB
1186:The ethicist and theologian Lewis Smedes, expressing an Augustinian thought, describes the mottled nature of our inner world: Our inner lives are not partitioned like day and night, with pure light on one side of us and total darkness on the other. Mostly, our souls are shadowed places; we live at the border where our dark sides block our light and throw a shadow over our interior places…. We cannot always tell where our light ends and our shadow begins or where our shadow ends and our darkness begins. ~ David Brooks, #NFDB
1187:Gamache knew people were like homes. Some were cheerful and bright, some gloomy. Some could look good on the outside but feel wretched on the interior. And some of the least attractive homes, from the outside, were kindly and warm inside.
He also knew the first few rooms were for public consumption. It was only in going deeper that he'd find the reality. And finally, inevitably, there was the last room, the one we keep locked, and bolted and barred, even from ourselves. Especially from ourselves. ~ Louise Penny,#NFDB
1188:Lo único que necesitas es ser creativo, amar, tener conciencia, meditar... Si notas que la poesía empieza a surgir en tu interior, escríbela para ti mismo, para tu mujer, para tus hijos, tus amigos... y olvídate del asunto. Cántala, y si nadie la escucha, cántala a solas y disfrútala. Acércate a los árboles, que ellos la apreciarán y aplaudirán. O habla con los animales, que te entenderán mucho mejor que los estúpidos seres humanos a quienes los conceptos erróneos de la vida llevan corrompiendo siglos y siglos. ~ Osho, #NFDB
1189:No se puede vivir en un mundo interior del circuito eléctrico y mantener la letra escrita. La electricidad destruye la individualidad. (…) El individuo privado no se siente cómodo en condiciones eléctricas. Está demasiado cercano a los demás individuos y pierde su identidad. Es un hombre en la multitud, no es nadie, y debe luchar para demostrar que es alguien. Por tanto, a más electricidad mayor violencia. La gente no lucha porque odie a los demás, sino para demostrar que posee una identidad propia. ~ Marshall McLuhan, #NFDB
1190:Travellers at least have a choice. Those who set sail know that things
will not be the same as at home. Explorers are prepared. But for us,
who travel along the blood vessels, who come to the cities of the
interior by chance, there is no preparation. We who were fluent find life
is a foreign language. Somewhere between the swamp and the
mountains. Somewhere between fear and sex. Somewhere between God
and the Devil passion is and the way there is sudden and the way back is
worse. ~ Jeanette Winterson,#NFDB
1191:The government has departments to deal with the special interest groups that make themselves heard and felt. A Department of Agriculture cares for the farmers' needs. There is a Department of Health, Education and Welfare. There is a Department of the Interior - in which the Indians are included. Is the farmer, the doctor, the Indian, the greatest problem in America today? No - it is the black man! There ought to be a Pentagon-sized Washington department dealing with every segment of the black man's problems. ~ Malcolm X, #NFDB
1192:Jeremy is an optimist. Maybe there's something good on TV. He settles down with the remote control on one of his father's pet couches: oversized and reupholstered in an orange-juice-colored corduroy that makes it appear as if the couch has just escaped from a maximum security prison for criminally insane furniture. This couch looks like it's hobby is devouring interior decorators. Jeremy's father is a horror writer, so no one should be surprised if some of the couches he reupholsters are hideous and eldritch. ~ Kelly Link, #NFDB
1193:When you look at the Earth from the vantage point of space, our planet looks like a little blue marble. Seeing our world from that vantage point cognitively changes you. My orbital shift happened after breaking bread with my space station crewmates and my shuttle crewmates. it showed me how close we are as countries, as races, as a species. I marveled that on Earth we have all these distances and separations and geographic boundaries, but they vanish quickly in the weightless interior of the space station. ~ Leland Melvin, #NFDB
1194:No he mentido cuando he dicho que no creía en el amor a primera vista. Hace falta tiempo para enamorarse verdaderamente de alguien. Sin embargo, creo en los momentos. Ese momento en que vislumbras qué hay verdaderamente en el interior de alguien y ese alguien vislumbra qué hay verdaderamente en tu interior. En ese momento, dejas de pertenecerte, al menos por completo. Una parte de ti le pertenece a él y una parte de él te pertenece a ti. Después, ya no puedes recuperarla, por mucho que quieras o lo intentes. ~ Claudia Gray, #NFDB
1195:Have you ever considered how much pure stuff and nonsense surrounds this subject of interior decoration? Probably not. Almost everyone believes that there is something deep and mysterious about it or that you have to know all sorts of complicated details about periods before you can lift a finger. Well, you don't. Decorating is just sheer fun: a delight in color, an awareness of balance, a feeling for lighting, a sense of style, a zest for life and an amused enjoyment of the smart accessories of the moment. ~ Dorothy Draper, #NFDB
1196:While certain coastal cities have become very prosperous, the rest of China has a per capita income of $200 a year. The coast wants to have nothing to do with the interior; it wants to work with Tokyo and New York. This is an old story in China. It is why Mao succeeded in 1927. He wanted [coastal] Shanghai to throw the foreigners out, but Shanghai was doing too well financially [to expel foreigners]. So Mao went to the interior and raised a peasant army. He came back to Shanghai and sealed off the country. ~ George Friedman, #NFDB
1197:I said, my phone."
I stand at the threshold and look in. The princess has her back to me, and Lor is beyond noticing anything. Ryodan and Barrons are another matter. They're too observant by far. There is also the small matter of the enormous possessiveness I feel where Barrons is concerned.
I step inside and place my palm on the interior panel.
Two males roar in unison.
"Ms. Lane, you will not close-"
"Mac, you will give me my f*ucking-"
The door hisses closed behind me. ~ Karen Marie Moning,#NFDB
1198:Looking back at that moment, I understand that I had lived in books so long, in my narrow university setting, that I had become compressed by them internally. Suddenly, in this echoing house of Byzantium-one of the wonders of history-my spirit leaped out of its confines. I knew in that instant that, whatever happened, I could never go back to my old constraints. I wanted to follow life upward, to expand with it outward, the way this enormous interior swelled upward and outward. My heart swelled with it... ~ Elizabeth Kostova, #NFDB
1199:¿Qué es aquello que jamás puede morir?
Es aquella fuerza fiel que nace en nuestro interior, la que es más grande que nosotros, la que atrae la nueva semilla hacia los lugares abiertos, maltrechos y estériles de tal manera que pueda volver a arraigar en nosotros.
Esta fuerza, en su insistencia, en su lealtad a nosotros, en su amor por nosotros, en su acción casi siempre misteriosa, es mucho más grande, mucho más majestuosa y mucho más antigua que cualquier otra fuerza que jamás se haya conocido. ~ Clarissa Pinkola Est s,#NFDB
1200:When you look at the Earth from the vantage point of space, our planet looks like a little blue marble. Seeing our world from that vantage point cognitively changes you. My orbital shift happened after breaking bread with my space station crewmates and my shuttle crewmates. It showed me how close we are as countries, as races, as a species. I marveled that on Earth we have all these distances and separations and geographic boundaries, but they vanish quickly in the weightless interior of the space station. I’d ~ Leland Melvin, #NFDB
1201:I will talk about truth again, without which (without the word truth, without the mystery truth) there would be no writing. It is what writing wants. But it “(the truth)” is totally down below and a long way off. And all the people I love and whom I have mentioned are beings who are bent on directing their writing toward this truth-over-there, with unbelievable labor; they are fighting against the elements and principally agains the innumerable immediate exterior and interior enemies. ~ H l ne Cixous, #NFDB
1202:Las cosas que vemos – dijo Pistorious con voz apagada – son las mismas cosas que llevamos en nosotros. No hay más realidad que la que tenemos dentro. Por eso la mayoría de los seres humanos vive tan irrealmente, porque cree que las imágenes exteriores son la realidad y no permiten a su propio mundo interior manifestarse. Se puede ser muy feliz así, desde luego. Pero cuando se conoce lo otro, ya no se puede elegir el camino de la mayoría. Sinclair, el camino de la mayoría es fácil, el nuestro, difícil. Caminemos. ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
1203:Mi abuela tenía una teoría muy interesante, decía que si bien todos nacemos con una caja de cerillos en nuestro interior, no los podemos encender solos, necesitamos [...] oxígeno y la ayuda de una vela. Sólo que en este caso el oxígeno tiene que provenir, por ejemplo, del aliento de la persona amada; la vela puede ser cualquier tipo de alimento, música, caricia, palabra o sonido que haga disparar el detonador y así encender uno de los cerillos. Por un momento nos sentiremos deslumbrados por una inmensa emoción. ~ Laura Esquivel, #NFDB
1204:Nothing happens in the brain, except the gradual rust and detrition of the cells. But in the mind, worlds unclassified, undenominated, unassimilated, form, break, unite, dissolve, and harmonize ceaselessly. In the mind-world ideas are the indestructible elements which form the jeweled constellations of the interior life. We move within their orbits freely if we follow their intricate patterns, enslaved or possessed if we try to subjugate them. Everything external is but a reflection projected by the mind machine. ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
1205:Which is more worthwhile earning: a large fortune or the esteem and gratitude of the nation? This question is prompted anew by the death of ex-Secretary of the Interior [Franklin K.] Lane. He remained in public service, doing most noble work, until his means became absolutely exhausted, and he died before having had the opportunity to reaccumulate any bank account.... He died leaving no estate whatsoever. Is what he did leave more to be desired, more to be coveted, than a fortune reaching into six or seven figures? ~ B C Forbes, #NFDB
1206:Billy's one and only moment of candor was when I parked him in front of my computer to play a game. He took one look at the Noah's Ark display and his whole face flinched like someone had hit him. He told me that the snow leopard is extinct. The last surviving specimen died in a zoo a few weeks back. "The snow leopard was my favorite," he said. Then he sat down at the computer and within about 30 seconds he was lost in a realistic prison interior, shooting the guards' heads off, blowing doors open, getting killed. ~ Michel Faber, #NFDB
1207:I don't think that there's a target audience at all. These stories were in circulation. The stories were told by men, told in the marketplace by men, but also behind doors by women, but there's no real record of this. It's likely they were told by women to children in their interior rooms. The story could be a negative story, they could be presented as a, "Watch out! Women will get round you, do things to you, weave you in their toils." It could be buried in it an old cautionary story about women and their wiles. ~ Marina Warner, #NFDB
1208:Quando Laurel era criança, neste quarto e nesta cama onde se encontrava agora, fechava os olhos assim e o rítmico som nocturno das vozes dos dois entes queridos, a lerem alternadamente, subia as escadas para ir ter com ela. (...) Pela noite fora, as vozes deles a lerem um para o outro (...) sem deixar que nenhum silêncio as interrompesse, uniam-se numa voz única e ininterrupta que a envolvia (...) Adormecia sob um manto aveludado de palavras, (...), enquanto eles prosseguiam a leitura no interior dos seus sonhos". ~ Eudora Welty, #NFDB
1209:We have close to us as much as Joseph had at Nazareth; we have our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, but our poor eyes fail to see Him. Let us once become interior souls and we shall immediately see. In no better way can we enter into the Heart of our Lord than through Saint Joseph. Jesus and Mary are eager to pay the debts which they owe him for his devoted care of them, and their greatest pleasure is to fulfill his least desire. Let him, then, lead you by hand into the interior sanctuary of Jesus Eucharistic. ~ Peter Julian Eymard, #NFDB
1210:What good is it to continue to focus on the exterior technological wonders before us - from indefinite life extension to computer/mind interlinks to unlimited zero-point energy to worm-hole intergalactic space travel - if all we carry with us is an egocentric red-mem Nazis and KKK? Do we really want Jack the Ripper living 400 years, zipping around the country in his hypercar, unleashing misogynistic nanorobots? Exterior developments are clearly a concern; how much more so are interior developments - or lack there of. ~ Ken Wilber, #NFDB
1211:Setting sail from Tidore, his next port of call was the island of Celebes, where he found himself royally entertained by the King of Butung.... This island unknown to the English but Middleton (Captain David Middleton) enjoyed his stay here and found the King a curious fellow who was only to keen to entertain his guests with banquets and sweetmeats. Some meals were novel affairs; the ship's purser found himself eating in a room whose interior decor consisted entirely of rotting human heads, dangling from the ceiling. ~ Giles Milton, #NFDB
1212:She was yawning, and he saw the red interior of her mouth as if it had been a snake’s. She had stretched one arm so high above her coiled-up cable of hair that he could see its satin delicacy above the sunburn; her face was flushed with sleep, and her eyelids hung heavy over their pupils.The brim-fulness of her nature breathed from her.It was a moment when a woman’s soul is more incarnate than at any other time; when the most spiritual beauty bespeaks itself flesh; and sex takes the outside place in the presentation. ~ Thomas Hardy, #NFDB
1213:At the inn I could not stay more than three days and there were no apartments available close to the hermitage. Fortunately, I heard of a village about four versts away and I went there to look; God was with me and helped me to find a place. I made arrangements with a farmer to live in a little hut and guard his vegetable garden during the summer months. Praise be to God! I found a quiet place. Now I could begin to study interior prayer according to the method which was shown to me and I could still visit with the elder. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1214:Mother Mary of Anabolic Grace, we got Teras incoming?” He levels angry blue eyes on me. “You’re a hex, lady, dark luck, powerful bad juju, ken?”
“Only to people who try to kidnap me,” I tell him sweetly, and March snorts, so I feel obliged to add, “Or rescue me…” And then Dina makes a pfft sound. “Or who travel with me…” My gaze sweeps around the darkened interior, trying to find an ally, but nobody will hold my eyes more than two seconds, it seems. “Fine, frag you all, I’m dark juju, bad luck, and you’re all doomed. ~ Ann Aguirre,#NFDB
1215:... coloana vertebrală a lungului manuscris... Fiecare fragment e o vertebră din coloana vertebrală a fricii, având în vârf, sprijinită pe mecanismul obscen al axisului înfipt în atlas, cupola de os în care m-am născut și din care nu există ieșire. Urc de-a lungul ei, mă cațăr pe oasele ei poroase, ..., îmi lipesc urechea de lama arcului vertebral și ascult: măduva curge în interior cu vuiet, ca o cascadă. Sus e marele bazin neural, sunt un castel de apă ce alimentează cu frică îndepărtatul cartier al trupului meu. ~ Mircea C rt rescu, #NFDB
1216:The historical emphasis upon the individual has been at the expense of the associative and symbolic relationship that must in fact uphold the individual’s own sense of integrity. (…) “When the relation between man and God is subjective, interior (as in Luther) or in tímeles acts and logic (as in Calvin) man’s utter dependence upon God is not mediated through the concrete facts of historical life”, writes Canon Demant. And when it is not so mediated, the relation with God becomes tenuous, amorphous, and insupportable. ~ Robert A Nisbet, #NFDB
1217:Gaia's main problems are not industrialization, ozone depletion, overpopulation, or resource depletion. Gaia's main problem is the lack of mutual understanding and mutual agreement in the noosphere about how to proceed with those problems. We cannot rein in industry if we cannot reach mutual understanding and mutual agreement based on a worldcentric moral perspective concerning the global commons. And we reach the worldcentric moral perspective through a difficult and laborious process of interior growth and transcendence. ~ Ken Wilber, #NFDB
1218:Homily
If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out
If your tired unspeaking head
Rivet the dark with linear sight,
Crazed by a warlock with his curse
Dreamed up in some loquacious bed,
And if the stage-dark head rehearse
The fifth act of the closing night,
Why, cut it off, piece after piece,
And throw the tough cortex away,
And when you've marvelled on the wars
That wove their interior smoke its way,
Tear out the close vermiculate crease
Where death crawled angrily at bay.
~ Allen Tate,#NFDB
1219:In 1879 the Bengali scholar S.M. Tagore compiled a more extensive list of ruby colors from the Purana sacred texts: ‘like the China rose, like blood, like the seeds of the pomegranate, like red lead, like the red lotus, like saffron, like the resin of certain trees, like the eyes of the Greek partridge or the Indian crane…and like the interior of the half-blown water lily.’ With so many gorgeous descriptive possibilities it is curious that in English the two ancient names for rubies have come to sound incredibly ugly. ~ Victoria Finlay, #NFDB
1220:Las personas con alta autoestima –afirma Epstein– llevan, en efecto, en su interior un padre orgulloso de los éxitos de su hijo y tolerante con sus fracasos. Esta clase de individuos tiende a tener una visión optimista de la vida y es capaz de tolerar el estrés sin llegar a sentirse excesivamente ansiosa. Y aunque pueden desilusionarse y deprimirse ante experiencias puntuales, las personas con una adecuada autoestima se recuperan rápidamente, del mismo modo que lo hacen los niños que están seguros del amor de su madre. ~ Daniel Goleman, #NFDB
1221:The letter Q for question, seared into human flesh. As I started to sleepwrite my questions, the margin seemed to expand. The paper throbbed with light. Swelling, it engulfed me, until I realized with a mixture of trepidation and wonderment that I was enclosed in the grain of the paper, embedded in the white interior of the story itself. Weightless, I wandered all night long in Miss Winter’s story, plotting its landscape, measuring its contours and, on tiptoe at its borders, peering at the mysteries beyond its bounds. ~ Diane Setterfield, #NFDB
1222:To read Savitri is to witness a tremendous adventure in the interior realms; to witness and participate in a multidimensional quest. Because Savitri is cast in the mould of epic poetry or mahakavya, the requisite state of mind is one of openness and humility, similar to that of prayer. Each word and each phrase should ring in a 'solitude and an immensity', be heard in the 'listening spaces of the soul' and the 'inner acoustic space', and be seized by the deeper self when the mantric evocations come into effect. ~ Murali Sivaramakrishnan, #NFDB
1223:Writing is mysterious, and it's supposed to be...any path that gets you there is a good path in the end. But one true thing among all these paths is the need to tap a deep vein of connection between our own uncontrollable interior preoccupations and what we're most concerned about in the world around us. We write in response to that world; we write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves, the live, breathing, bleeding place where the picture forms, and where it all begins. ~ Andrea Barrett, #NFDB
1224:Here is what Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt said about Stegner’s biography of John Wesley Powell: When I first read Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, shortly after it was published in 1954, it was as though someone had thrown a rock through the window. Stegner showed us the limitations of aridity and the need for human institutions to respond in a cooperative way. He provided me in that moment with a way of thinking about the American West, the importance of finding true partnership between human beings and the land. ~ David Gessner, #NFDB
1225:Everything, which we invent, discover and in a higher sense name, is the meaningful execution and proof of the existence of an original sense of truth, which quietly long formed, leads immediately, with lightning speed, to a fruitful insight. It is a revelation, which develops from the interior according to the exterior and allows humans to glimpse their similarity with god. It is a synthesis of the world and of spirit-mind (Geist), which conveys the most soulful reassurance of the eternal harmony of existence. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
1226:[T]he natural world is not dead, but swarming with activity, sometimes perhaps even agency and intentionality. Even the place where you might expect to find quiet and solidity, the very heart of matter - the interior of a proton or a neutron - turns out to be animated with the ghostly flickerings of quantum fluctuation. I would not say that the universe is "alive," since that might invite misleading biological analogies. But it is restless, quivering, and juddering, from its vast vacant patches to its tiniest crevices. ~ Barbara Ehrenreich, #NFDB
1227:Unhappily for his master, as well as himself, his curiosity drew him unconsciously farther off than he intended to go. At last, having seen the Parsee carnival wind away in the distance, he was turning his steps towards the station, when he happened to espy the splendid pagoda on Malabar Hill, and was seized with an irresistible desire to see its interior. He was quite ignorant that it is forbidden to Christians to enter certain Indian temples, and that even the faithful must not go in without first leaving their shoes outside ~ Jules Verne, #NFDB
1228:A veces, tenemos lo malo por dentro y lo bueno por fuera. En tales circunstancias, necesitamos ser capaces de abrir nuestros límites para permitir la entrada de lo bueno y la salida de lo malo. En otras palabras, las cercas necesitan puertas. Por ejemplo, si encuentro que tengo alguna pena o pecado dentro de mí, necesito confiárselo a Dios y a los demás para ser sanado. Confesar nuestras penas y nuestros pecados nos ayuda a «echarlos afuera» para que dejen de envenenar nuestro interior (1 Juan 1:9; Santiago 5:16; Marcos 7:21-23). ~ Henry Cloud, #NFDB
1229:Sorabji's hair was long and matted, as was his beard. He'd spent six months in a tropical sun, and was now dark brown. His clothes had been disgusting after the first week; following local custom he had taken to wearing his shirt as a loincloth. Sorabji always liked to say that the unfortunate consul had travelled hundreds of miles into the interior to rescue a British citizen, only to find Gunga Din. It was true that the loincloth had come from Gieves & Hawkes, but this was not something you'd notice on a casual inspection. ~ Helen DeWitt, #NFDB
1230:Hence, when by continual mortification the four passions of the soul are calmed, that is, joy, grief, hope, and fear, when the natural desires are lulled to sleep in our sensual nature by persistent aridities, when the senses and the interior powers of the soul cease to be active, and meditation no longer pursued, as has been already said,12 which is the household of the lower part of the soul, then the liberty of the spirit is unassailable by these enemies and the house remains calm and tranquil as the words that follow show. ~ Juan de la Cruz, #NFDB
1231: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, #NFDB
1232:Sometimes fiction was so powerful that it even had reverberations in the real world. When I went to London with Louise and Paul, we visited Sherlock Holmes' house. Tourists from all over the world were there to see this house. But Sherlock Holmes never existed. Yet people come to see his typewriter, his magnifying glass, his deerstalker, his furniture, his interior, in a reconstruction based on Conan Doyle's novels. People know this, yet they queue up and pay to visit a house that is just a meticulous recreation of a fiction. ~ Delphine de Vigan, #NFDB
1233:Jupiter’s system of moons is replete with oddballs. Io, Jupiter’s closest moon, is tidally locked and structurally stressed by interactions with Jupiter and with other moons, pumping enough heat into the little orb to render molten its interior rocks; Io is the most volcanically active place in the solar system. Jupiter’s moon Europa has enough H2O that its heating mechanism—the same one at work on Io—has melted the subsurface ice, leaving a warmed ocean below. If ever there was a next-best place to look for life, it’s here. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson, #NFDB
1234:Good manners apart, though, the appearance of those monumental dishes of macaroni was worthy of the quivers of admiration they evoked. The burnished gold of the crusts, the fragrance of sugar and cinnamon they exuded, were but preludes to the delights released from the interior when the knife broke the crust; first came a mist laden with aromas, then chicken livers, hard-boiled eggs, sliced ham, chicken, and truffles in masses of piping hot, glistening macaroni, to which the meat juice gave an exquisite hue of suède. ~ Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, #NFDB
1235:Los celos —por lo que Tsukuru coligió de su sueño— son la prisión más desesperanzadora del mundo. Porque es una prisión en la que el preso se confina a sí mismo. Nadie lo mete a la fuerza. Uno entra por voluntad propia, cierra con llave desde dentro y lanza la llave por entre los barrotes. Y nadie en el mundo sabe que está ahí recluido. Naturalmente, si se decidiera a salir, podría hacerlo. Porque la prisión está en su interior. Pero no se decide. Su corazón se ha vuelto duro como un muro de piedra. Ésa es la esencia de los celos. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1236:My parents used to park us kids at the public library in downtown Honolulu every Saturday. They'd leave us there at 8 A.M. and pick us up at 4 P.M. - so between those hours, you'd better find something to do! I sat upstairs in the picture room and went through opera, ballet, and theater books. I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes - they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn't have much of a social life. ~ Bette Midler, #NFDB
1237:No se debería decir que el alma es una ilusión, o un efecto ideológico. Porque existe, tiene una realidad, que está producida permanentemente en torno, en la superficie y en el interior del cuerpo por el funcionamiento de un poder que se ejerce sobre aquellos a quienes se castiga y, de una manera más general, sobre aquellos a quienes se vigila, se educa y corrige, sobre los locos, los niños, los colegiales, los colonizados, sobre aquellos a quienes se sujeta a un aparato de producción y se controla a lo largo de toda su existencia. ~ Michel Foucault, #NFDB
1238:Always in conjunction with his fantasies he saw the imperturbable, faintly questioning face in its mask-like symmetry. He felt a sudden shudder of self pity that was almost pleasurable, it was such a complete expression of his mood. It was a physical shudder; he was alone, abandoned, lost, hopeless, cold. Cold especially – a deep interior cold nothing could change. Although it was the basis of his unhappiness, this glacial deadness, he would cling to it always, because it was also the core of his being; he had built the being around it. ~ Paul Bowles, #NFDB
1239:There was a bell clanging in the tower of the building next to the black-shrike-thorn-cave. She found the noise irritating, so she twisted her neck and loosed a jet of blue and yellow flame at it. The tower did not catch fire, as it was stone, but the rope and beams supporting the bell ignited, and a few seconds later, the bell fell crashing into the interior of the tower.
That pleased her, as did the two-legs-round-ears who ran screaming from the area. She was a dragon, after all. It was only right that they should fear her. ~ Christopher Paolini,#NFDB
1240:Cuando tengamos que tomar una decisión importante, escuchemos a nuestro corazón, a nuestra sabiduría interior, especialmente cuando hayamos de tomar una decisión sobre un regalo del destino como es un alma gemela. El destino depositará su obsequio directamente a nuestros pies, pero lo que decidamos hacer a partir de entonces con él es algo que depende de nosotros. Si confiamos únicamente en lo que nos digan los demás, es probable que cometamos errores muy graves. Nuestro corazón sabe lo que necesitamos. Los demás tienen otros intereses ~ Brian L Weiss, #NFDB
1241:It is not a young man’s response, which was more what we expected, but that of an elderly man of letters, which is all the more significant, perhaps, because it shows us the unexpected direction taken by Pasternak on his interior journey in his long period of silence. This last survivor of the Westernising, avant-garde poets of the 1920s has not detonated in the ‘thaw’ a display of stylistic fireworks long held in reserve; after the end of the dialogue with the international avant-garde, which had been the natural space for his poetry, ~ Italo Calvino, #NFDB
1242:Se desarrolla entonces toda una problemática: la de una arquitectura que ya no está hecha simplemente para ser vista (fausto de los palacios) o para vigilar el espacio exterior (geometría de las fortalezas) sino para permitir un control interior, articulado y detallado (...); en términos generales, la de una arquitectura que habría de ser un operador para la transformación de los individuos: obrar sobre aquellos a quienes abriga, permitir apresar su conducta, conducir hasta ellos los efectos del poder, darlos a conocer, modificarlos. ~ Michel Foucault, #NFDB
1243:We know amazingly little about what happens beneath our feet. It is fairly remarkable to think that Ford has been building cars and baseball has been playing World Series for longer than we have known that the Earth has a core. And of course the idea that the continents move about on the surface like lily pads has been common wisdom for much less than a generation. Strange as it may seem, wrote Richard Feynman, "we understand the distribution of matter in the interior of the Sun far better than we understand the interior of the Earth. ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
1244:—Dice que hay una piedra dentro de usted. Una piedra blanca y dura. Grande como el puño de un niño. No sabe de dónde ha venido.
—¿Una piedra? —dijo Satsuki.
—En la piedra hay algo escrito, pero está en japonés y no puede leerlo. Hay trazados unos pequeños caracteres en tinta negra. Es algo muy antiguo, usted debe de llevar muchos años viviendo con ello en su interior. Debe deshacerse de esa piedra. Si no lo hace, esa piedra permanecerá, ella sola, incluso después de que usted haya muerto y hayan incinerado su cuerpo. (Tailandia) ~ Haruki Murakami,#NFDB
1245:Fashion is the playing area for individuals that lack interior autonomy and need more support points, but who nonetheless feel the need to stand out, to be paid attention to and be considered apart from the rest Fashion elevates the insignificant by making it in the representative of a totality, the particular incarnation of a common spirit. Its function is to make possible the kind of social obedience which is at the same time individual differentiation It is the mixing of submission and the feeling of domination that is in action here. ~ Georg Simmel, #NFDB
1246:His grandfather was scathing about "speculative faith," which is the kind you get from worrying about the possibility that God exists and may be cross with you. Daniel Spork observed that God, if there is one, is well aware of the interior dialogue, and most likely unimpressed by it. Much better, he said, to get on with being the man you are, and hope like buggery that God thinks you did as well as could be expected. Hence all the lessons and strictures concealed in everyday objects. Learn the shape of the world, know the mind of God. ~ Nick Harkaway, #NFDB
1247:No; sed Colones de los continentes y mundos enteramente nuevos de vuestro interior y abrid nuevas vías, no para el comercio, sino para las ideas.
Todo hombre es dueño y señor de un reino junto al cual el imperio terrestre del zar no es sino una nimiedad, un rimerillo dejado por el hielo. Sin embargo, algunos que no se tienen respeto a sí mismos pueden pasar por patriotas y sacrificar lo más grande a lo más vano. Aman el suelo que conformará su tumba, pero no sienten simpatía alguna por el espíritu que anima aún su propio barro. ~ Henry David Thoreau,#NFDB
1248:Pessoa could not identify the instruments that he could hear so well, but we can do that for him. There are two groups of instruments in the Pessoa orchestra. First, the main sensory devices with which the world around and inside an organism interacts with the nervous system. Second, the devices that continuously respond emotively to the mental presence of any object or event. The emotive response consists of altering the course of life within the old interior of organisms. The devices are known as drives, motivations, and emotions. ~ Ant nio R Dam sio, #NFDB
1249:I am not engaged to Christianity by decent forms, or saving ordinances; it is not usage, it is not what I do not understand, that binds me to it -- let these be the sandy foundations of falsehoods. What I revere and obey in it is its reality, its boundless charity, its deep interior life, the rest it gives to my mind, the echo it returns to my thoughts, the perfect accord it makes with my reason through all its representation of God and His Providence; and the persuasion and courage that come out thence to lead me upward and onward. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1250:Salmo 128 [Libros] Bienaventuranza del que teme a Dios Cántico de ascenso gradual. 1 Bienaventurado todo aquel que teme al SEÑOR, que anda en sus caminos. 2Cuando comas del trabajo de tus manos, dichoso serás y te irá bien. 3Tu mujer será como fecunda vid en el interior de tu casa; tus hijos como plantas de olivo alrededor de tu mesa. 4He aquí que así será bendecido el hombre que teme al SEÑOR. 5 El SEÑOR te bendiga desde Sion, veas la prosperidad de Jerusalén todos los días de tu vida, 6y veas a los hijos de tus hijos. ¡Paz sea sobre Israel! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1251:The edge of the whirl was represented by a broad belt of gleaming spray; but no particle of this slipped into the mouth of the terrific tunnel, whose interior, as far as the eye could fathom it, was a smooth, shining, and jet black wall of water, inclined to the horizon at an angle of some forty-five degrees, speeding dizzily round and round with a swaying and sweltering motion, and sending forth to the winds an appalling voice, half shriek, half roar, such as not even the mighty cataract of Niagara ever lifts up in its agony to Heaven. ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
1252:Rather let us imagine the anima mundi as that particular soul-spark, that seminal image, which offers itself through each thing in its visible form. Then anima mundi indicates the animated possibilities presented by each new event as it is, its sensuous presentation as a face bespeaking its interior image - in short, its availability to imagination, its presence as psychic reality. Not only animals and plants ensouled as in the Romantic vision, but soul is given with each thing, God-given things of nature and man-made things of the street. ~ James Hillman, #NFDB
1253:Vi el mundo en el que había vivido desde mi nacimiento y comprendí lo frágil que era; comprendí que la realidad que yo conocia no era más que la fina capa de glaseado que cubre una inmensa y oscura tarta de cumpleaños, preñada de larvas, de pesadillas y de hambre. Vi el mundo desde arriba y desde abajo. Vi que había rutas y puertas y caminos más allá de la realidad. Vi todas esas cosas y las entendí y me llenaron por dentro, como me llenaban las aguas del océano.
Todo me susurraba en mi interior. Todo hablaba con todo, y yo lo sabía todo. ~ Neil Gaiman,#NFDB
1254:We know amazingly little about what happens beneath our feet. It is fairly remarkable to think that Ford has been building cars and baseball has been playing World Series for longer than we have known that the Earth has a core. And of course the idea that the continents move about on the surface like lily pads has been common wisdom for much less than a generation. “Strange as it may seem,” wrote Richard Feynman, “we understand the distribution of matter in the interior of the Sun far better than we understand the interior of the Earth.” The ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
1255:On most of the occasions when I visited the Ufford, halls and reception rooms were so utterly deserted that the interior might almost have been Uncle Giles's private residence. Had he been a rich bachelor, instead of a poor one, he would probably have lived in a house of just that sort: bare: anonymous: old-fashioned: draughty: with heavy mahogany cabinets and sideboards spaced out at intervals in passages and on landings; nothing that could possibly commit him to any specific opinion, beyond general disapproval of the way the world was run. ~ Anthony Powell, #NFDB
1256:[ Redactor's Note: Journey to the Centre of the Earth is number V002 in the Taves and Michaluk numbering of the works of Jules Verne. First published in England by Griffith and Farran, 1871, this edition is not a translation at all but a complete re-write of the novel, with portions added and omitted, and names changed. The most reprinted version, it is entered into Project Gutenberg for reference purposes only. A better translation is A Journey into the Interior of the Earth translated by Rev. F. A. Malleson, also available on Project Gutenberg.] ~ Jules Verne, #NFDB
1257:To a Japanese, accustomed to simplicity of ornamentation and frequent change of decorative method, a Western interior permanently filled with a vast array of pictures, statuary, and bric-a-brac gives the impression of mere vulgar display of riches. It calls for a mighty wealth of appreciation to enjoy the constant sight of even a masterpiece, and limitless indeed must be the capacity for artistic feeling in those who can exist day after day in the midst of such confusion of color and form as is to be often seen in the homes of Europe and America. ~ Kakuz Okakura, #NFDB
1258:Pero es que hay monstruos y monstruos.
Unos, los que son producto de la imaginación y la literatura, por ejemplo, sirven para que nos veamos reflejados en ellos y descubramos lo de humano que hay en nuestro interior. El monstruo sirve para conjurar nuestros fantasmas y pesadillas, sirve para mantener el frágil equilibrio entre nuestra parte oscura y nuestra parte luminosa, sirve para que reconozcamos en ellos la diferencia que hay con nosotros y mantengamos siempre el pulso para que la balanza no se descontrole y se vaya hacia una zona terrible. ~ Benito Taibo,#NFDB
1259:From their lofty summits overlooking Boston Harbor and the city itself, the colonists can fire cannonballs—which is why the British have spent the last three weeks secretly plotting an invasion of the Charlestown Peninsula, to capture those heights. But just two days ago, on June 13, the rebels got word of the British plans. Working day and night, they have been preparing redoubts from which to fend off the redcoats. Six feet high, made of earth, with wooden platforms on the interior from which men can stand to fire their muskets, the square-shaped ~ Bill O Reilly, #NFDB
1260:I remember asking myself one night, while I was curled up in the same old corner of my same old couch in tears yet again over the same old repetition of sorrowful thoughts, 'Is there ANYTHING about this scene you can change, Liz?' And all I could think to do was stand up, whle still sobbing, and try to balance on one foot in the middle of the living room. Just to prove that - while I couldn't stop the tears or change my dismal interior dialogue - I was not yet totally out of control: at least I could cry hysterically while balanced on one foot. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
1261:La evidencia física era la parte más significativa de la ecuación. Yo había cambiado, mi interior se había alterado hasta el punto de no ser reconocible. Incluso mi exterior parecía distinto, tenía el rostro cetrino, a excepción de las ojeras malvas que las pesadillas habían dejado bajo mis ojos, unos ojos bastante oscuros en contraste con mi piel pálida; tanto, que si yo hubiera sido hermosa y si se me miraba desde una cierta distancia, podría pasar ahora por un vampiro. Pero yo no era hermosa, y probablemente guardaba más parecido con un zombi. ~ Stephenie Meyer, #NFDB
1262:Regreso a mi estudio, le echo un vistazo a la prensa y decido contestar algunas llamadas que tengo pendientes. Empiezo por mi editora, pero, misteriosamente, responde una prima hermana de mi madre de la que no tenía noticias desde hace años. Creía que estaba muerta. Quizá, por el modo de hablar, lo esté. Cuando nos despedimos, observo el teléfono con desconfianza. Lo apago y vuelvo a encenderlo, para ver si se arregla. Una voz interior me dice que sería a mí mismo a quien debería apagar y encender de nuevo, pero ignoro dónde tengo el interruptor. ~ Juan Jos Mill s, #NFDB
1263:I learned capacity for self-reflection very early, finding it through interior monologues that books are so good at and that visual media is so bad at because it's so boring - nothing's happening. In a book, you can be inside the narrator's head for 50 pages, and nothing needs to happen. Then you learn to be inside your own head without something needing to happen. It's a very good antidote to a crazy, restless, "what's next?" culture - that you can just be in your own head and nothing is happening except that this is a rich place. I love that. ~ Jeanette Winterson, #NFDB
1264:It was not such a long way to the weightlessness of the needle’s hollow interior. She had her choice then: either towards the engine core, where Sering had no doubt taken steps to ensure that he would not be disturbed; or away. Away, in a very final sense. She could override anything Sering had done. She had full confidence in the superiority of her abilities. It would take time, though. If she cast herself that way down the needle, towards Sering and his traps and locked barriers, then time would be something she would not have the benefit of. ~ Adrian Tchaikovsky, #NFDB
1265:Mystics knew how to channel grace through prayer and they knew the power of that. They knew how to receive guidance through reflection and contemplation; they knew how to share the gift of illumination with each other. These are great gifts of life and profound grace that we are capable of providing for each other and the world. This is what it means to be a mystic without a monastery. You make a commitment to your own interior illumination and through that discover the "sacred" part of your "contract" and the true meaning of your highest potential. ~ Caroline Myss, #NFDB
1266:Pienso que hay personas que pasan años dejando que la presión se acumule en su interior, sin darse cuenta, y un día cualquier tontería los hace perder la cabeza. Entonces dicen: «Basta. No lo soporto más». Algunos se suicidan. Otros se divorcian. También están los que se marchan a las zonas pobres de África y tratan de salvar el mundo. Pero yo me conozco. Sé que mi única reacción va a ser reprimir lo que siento hasta que un cáncer me consuma por dentro. Porque realmente creo que gran parte de las enfermedades son el resultado de emociones reprimidas. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1267:¡En los tiempos de peligro y en presencia de la muerte, qué gran cosa es la sonrisa entre dos rostros que se contemplan! [...] he oído comentar que los grandes barcos modernos recibirían órdenes por medio del telégrafo. Admiro la mecánica tanto como cualquier hombre, y le estoy tan agradecido como cualquier hombre que por todo lo que hace por nosotros. Pero nunca habrá un sustituto para un rostro humano, con un alma en su interior, animando a otro a ser valiente y leal. Nunca intentéis fabricar un rostro humano. Se os caerá de las manos como el agua. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
1268:Mid-December then and still no snow. Strange Chicago crèches appeared in front yards: Baby Jesus, freed from the manger, leaned against a Santa sled half his height. He was crouching, as if about to jump; he wore just a diaper. Single strings of colored lights lay across bushes, as if someone had hatefully thrown them there. We patched the roof of a Jamaican immigrant whose apartment had nothing in it but hundreds of rags, spread across the floor and hanging from interior clotheslines. Nobody asked why. As we left, she offered us three DietRite Colas. ~ George Saunders, #NFDB
1269:-Maestro, si no nos ocultas a los dos prontamente, temo a los demonios que vienen detrás de nosotros; y tan así me lo imagino, que ya me parece que los oigo.
A lo que él contestó:
-Si yo fuera un espejo, no verías en mi tu imagen tan pronto como veo en tu interior. En este momento se cruzaban tus pensamientos con los míos bajo la misma faz y aspecto, de suerte que he deducido de ambos un solo consejo. Si es cierto que la cuesta que hay a nuestra derecha está tan inclinada, que nos permita bajar a la sexta fosa, huiremos de la caza que imaginamos. ~ Dante Alighieri,#NFDB
1270:You're such a girl," she chided, but somehow the words came out too soft...too tender, and ended up sounding like a compliment.
Jay just laughed. "So what does that make you, the guy?" He squeezed her hand even tighter, keeping it buried in his.
"Or some sort of lesbian," she teased, raising one eyebrow. "Maybe we should try out a little girl-on-girl action."
"Nice, Violet. Do you kiss your mom with that mouth?" His eyes glinted as he watched her.
She leaned closer to him in the darkness of the car's interior. "No, but I'll kiss you with it. ~ Kimberly Derting,#NFDB
1271:Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after a condition of freedom. God alone is the inciter and guarantor of freedom. He is the only guarantor. External freedom is only an aspect of interior freedom. Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible. Religion and freedom are indivisible. Without freedom the soul dies. Without the soul there is no justification for freedom. Necessity is the only ultimate justification known to the mind. ~ Whittaker Chambers, #NFDB
1272:En palabras de Kenneth Hagin: «Jesús probó la muerte espiritual de cada hombre. Y su Espíritu y el hombre interior fueron al infierno en mi lugar. ¿No se da cuenta? La muerte física no podía quitarle sus pecados. Él gustó la muerte por cada hombre. Él está hablando de experimentar la muerte espiritual» (Citado en Jones y Woodbridge, Health, Wealth, & Happiness, p. 70). Para un tratamiento académico completo de esta enseñanza en los círculos de Palabra de Fe, ver William P. Atkinson, The ‘Spiritual Death’ of Jesus (Leiden, Países Bajos: Brill, 2009). ~ John F MacArthur Jr, #NFDB
1273:Somente tem valor aquilo que surge da inspiração, do fundo irracional de nosso ser, aquilo que brota do ponto central da nossa subjetividade. Todo produto exclusivo do esforço e do trabalho é desprovido de valor, assim como todo produto exclusivo da
inteligência é estéril e desinteressante. Em contraste, enfeitiça-me o espetáculo da projeção bárbara e espontânea da inspiração, a efervescência dos estados de alma, do lirismo essencial e de tudo aquilo que é tensão interior - todas as coisas que fazem da inspiração a única realidade viva na ordem da criação. ~ Emil M Cioran,#NFDB
1274:Es como la elegancia, mi María, que está en el buen gusto, y no en el costo. La elegancia del vestido,-la grande y verdadera,-está en la altivez y fortaleza del alma. Un alma honrada, inteligente y libre, da al cuerpo más elegancia, y más poderío a la mujer, que las modas más ricas de las tiendas. Mucha tienda, poca alma. Quien tiene mucho adentro, necesita poco afuera. Quien lleva mucho afuera, tiene poco adentro, y quiere disimular lo poco. Quien siente su belleza, la belleza interior, no busca afuera belleza prestada: se sabe hermosa, y la belleza hecha echa luz. ~ Jos Mart, #NFDB
1275:It's alright" said a dreamy voice from beside Harry as Ron vanished into the coach's dark interior. "You're not going mad or anything. I can see them too."
"Can you?" said Harry desperately, turning to Luna. He could see the bat-winged horses reflected in her wide, silvery eyes.
"Oh yes," said Luna, "I've been able to see them since my first year here. They've always pulled the carriages. Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am."
Smiling faintly, she climbed into the musty interior of the carriage after Ron. Not altogether reassured, Harry followed her. ~ J K Rowling,#NFDB
1276:La moral, pues, parece ocuparse de tres cosas. La primera, de la justicia y la armonía entre los individuos. La segunda, de lo que podríamos llamar ordenar o armonizar lo que acontece en el interior de cada individuo. Y la tercera, del fin general de la vida humana como un todo: aquello para lo que el hombre ha sido creado; el rumbo que debería seguir toda la flota; la canción que el director de la orquesta quiere que ésta toque. Tal vez os hayáis dado cuenta de que las personas modernas están casi siempre pensando en la primera cosa y olvidándose de las otras dos. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1277:Esta frequente relutância das evidências a manifestarem-se sem se fazerem demasiado rogadas deveria ser objecto de uma profunda análise por parte dos entendidos, que certamente andam por aí, nas distintas, mas seguramente não opostas, naturezas do visível e do invisível, no sentido de averiguar se no interior mais íntimo daquilo que se dá a ver existirá, como parece haver fortes motivos para suspeitar, algo de químico ou de físico com uma tendência perversa para a negação e para o apagamento, um deslizar ameaçador na direcção do zero, um sonho obsessivo de vazio. ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
1278:Las palabras tienen poder.
Hay palabras que nos obligan a reír y nos hacen llorar. Palabras con las que empezar y palabras con las que terminar. Palabras que agarran los corazones en nuestros pechos y los aprietan fuerte, que hacen que nos hormiguee la piel sobre los huesos. Palabras tan bonitas que nos moldean, nos cambian para siempre, viven en nuestro interior durante todo el tiempo que tengamos aliento para pronunciarlas. Hay palabras olvidadas. Palabras que matan. Palabras enormes y aterradoras y terribles. Hay palabras Verdaderas.
Y luego hay imágenes. ~ Jay Kristoff,#NFDB
1279:Mientras que antes usted habitaba en el tiempo y hacía breves visitas al Ahora, establezca su residencia en el Ahora y haga breves visitas al pasado y al futuro cuando se requieran para manejar los asuntos prácticos de la vida. Diga siempre “sí” al momento presente. ¿Qué podría ser más fútil, más demente, que crear resistencia interior a algo que ya es? ¿Qué podría ser más demente que oponerse a la vida misma, que es ahora y siempre ahora? Ríndase a lo que es. Diga “sí” a la vida, y observe cómo esta empieza súbitamente a funcionar a favor suyo y no contra usted. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
1280:To take symbolism seriously is to accept the 'analogy of being' between different levels of reality... More than the sum of its parts, the figure is the appearing-to-us of an infinite depth that cannot be fully revealed in time. Every symbol is a kind of gestalt, in which a universal meaning can be glimpsed. Eventually, every created thing can be seen as a manifestation of its own interior essence, and the world is transformed into a radiant book to be read with eyes sensitive to spiritual light. ~ Stratford Caldecott, Beauty for Truth's Sake: On the Re-enchantment of Education, #NFDB
1281:Until we can insert a USB into our ear and download our thoughts, drawing remains the best way of getting visual information on to the page. I draw as a collagist, juxtaposing images and styles of mark-making from many sources. The world I draw is the interior landscape of my own personal obsessions and of cultures I have absorbed and adapted, from Latvian folk art to Japanese screens. I lasso thoughts with a pen. I draw a stave church or someone from Hello! magazine not because I want to replicate how they look, but because of the meaning they bring to the work. ~ Grayson Perry, #NFDB
1282:Las criaturas supuestamente inferiores son libres de ese miedo psicológico. Cuando un guepardo ataca a una gacela, esta entra en pánico y lucha por su vida. Sin embargo, cuando no hay ningún depredador presente, la gacela, hasta donde sabemos, lleva una vida de lo más despreocupada. No obstante, nosotros, los humanos, sufrimos horrores en nuestro mundo interior, y ese sufrimiento se transforma en problemas físicos. Cuando permites que tu cerebro te utilice, los riesgos son muy elevados. En cambio, cuando empiezas a utilizarlo tú a él, las recompensas son infinitas. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
1283:Because so many poets have chosen a political idiom right now in the US and so many poets have assigned value and inherent knowledge to their racial identity and used that as a form of argumentation, I'm thinking now's a good time to buy low for my own poems and write poems that are deeply in the interior and the psyche. There are plenty of people out there working on subjects of political poetry, partisan poetry, all the way through to crossing the threshold of propaganda. I start thinking now's a good time for me to start writing about the myths of my own psyche. ~ David Biespiel, #NFDB
1284:Heade’s calm is unsteady, storm-stirred; we respond in our era to its hint of the nervous and the fearful. His weather is interior weather, in a sense, and he perhaps was, if far from the first to portray a modern mood, an ambivalent mood tinged with dread and yet imbued with a certain lightness.The mood could even be said to be religious: not an aggressive preachment of God’s grandeur but a kind of Zen poise and acceptance, represented by the small sedentary or plodding foreground figures that appear uncannily at peace as the clouds blacken and the lightning flashes. ~ John Updike, #NFDB
1285:How many people there are in the world of today who have “lost their faith” along with the vain hopes and illusions of their childhood. What they called “faith” was just one among all the other illusions. They placed all their hope in a certain sense of spiritual peace, of comfort, of interior equilibrium, of self-respect. Then when they began to struggle with the real difficulties and burdens of mature life, when they became aware of their own weakness, they lost their peace, they let go of their precious self-respect, and it became impossible for them to “believe. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
1286:Beneath the current of our existence and within it, there is another current flowing in the opposite direction. In this life we go from yesterday to tomorrow, but there we go from tomorrow to yesterday. The web of life is being woven and unraveled at the same time. And from time to time we get breaths and vapors and even mysterious murmurs from that other world, from that interior of our own world. The inner heart of history is a counter-history; it is a process which inverts the course of history. The subterranean river flows from the sea and back to its source. ~ Miguel de Unamuno, #NFDB
1287:Now let us return to our beautiful and charming castle and discover how to enter it. This appears incongruous: if this castle is the soul, clearly no one can have to enter it, for it is the person himself: one might as well tell some one to go into a room he is already in! There are, however, very different ways of being in this castle; many souls live in the courtyard of the building where the sentinels stand, neither caring to enter farther, nor to know who dwells in that most delightful place, what is in it and what rooms it contains. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, The Interior Castle, #NFDB
1288:When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at that time, I implored God, for the sake of all these Holy Masses, to have mercy on the world and especially on poor sinners who were dying at that moment. At the same instant, I received an interior answer from God that a thousand souls had received grace through the prayerful mediation I had offered to God. We do not know the number of souls that is ours to save through our prayers and sacrifices; therefore, let us always pray for sinners. ~ Mary Faustina Kowalska, #NFDB
1289:Complaints about the social irresponsibility of the intellectual typically concern the intellectual's tendency to marginalize herself, to move out from one community by interior identification of herself with some other community - for example, another country or historical period... It is not clear that those who thus marginalize themselves can be criticized for social irresponsibility. One cannot be irresponsible toward a community of which one does not think of oneself as a member. Otherwise runaway slaves and tunnelers under the Berlin Wall would be irresponsible. ~ Richard Rorty, #NFDB
1290:remove the veil of maya is to uncover the secret of creation. He who thus denudes the universe is the only true monotheist. All others are worshipping heathen images. So long as man remains subject to the dualistic illusions of Nature, the Janus-faced Maya is his goddess; he cannot know the one true God. The world illusion, maya, manifests in men as avidya, literally, “not-knowledge,” ignorance, delusion. Maya or avidya can never be destroyed through intellectual conviction or analysis, but solely through attaining the interior state of nirbikalpa samadhi. The ~ Paramahansa Yogananda, #NFDB
1291:We live through myriads of seconds, yet it is always one, just one, that casts our entire inner world into turmoil, the second when (as Stendhal has described it) the internal inflorescence, already steeped in every kind of fluid, condenses and crystallizes—a magical second, like the moment of generation, and like that moment concealed in the warm interior of the individual life, invisible, untouchable, beyond the reach of feeling, a secret experienced alone. No algebra of the mind can calculate it, no alchemy of premonition divine it, and it can seldom perceive itself. ~ Stefan Zweig, #NFDB
1292:Cuando el ser humano tiene un cierto grado de Presencia, de atención y alerta en sus percepciones, puede sentir la esencia divina de la vida, la conciencia interior o el espíritu de todas las criaturas y de todas las formas de vida, y reconocer que es uno con esa esencia y amarla como a sí mismo. Sin embargo, hasta tanto eso sucede, la mayoría de los seres humanos perciben solamente las formas exteriores sin tomar conciencia de su esencia interior, de la misma manera que no reconocen su propia esencia y se limitan a identificarse solamente con su forma física y psicológica. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1293:the Apostle say: Pray without ceasing. [147] Yet can we genuflect without ceasing? Can we prostrate without ceasing? Can we lift up our hands without ceasing? How, then, does he say: Pray without ceasing? If by prayer he meant such things as these then I think we could not pray without ceasing. But there is another prayer, an interior prayer, which is without ceasing—desire. Whatever else you do, if only you desire that rest [148] you cease not to pray. If you wish to pray without ceasing then desire without ceasing. Your continual desire is your continual voice; ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, #NFDB
1294:As a sign of Christ’s presence, joy shapes the habitual state of the consecrated person. We therefore naturally seek out consolation not for its own sake, but as a sign of the Lord’s presence. Consolation may be sought in many different forms, as Saint Ignatius explains in his Spiritual Exercises: “By consolation I mean that which occurs when some interior motion is caused within the soul through which it comes to be inflamed with love of its Creator and Lord. As a result it can love no created thing on the face of the earth in itself, but only in the Creator of them all. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1295:Because they are so emphatically there, and so inconvertibly interior, it is almost inevitable that we take our feelings seriously as reputable guides to the reality that is deep within us--our hearts before God. But feelings are no more spiritual than muscles. They are entirely physical. They are real, and they are important. But they are real and important in the same way that our fingernails and noses are important--we would not want to live without them (although we could if we had to), but their length and shape and colour tell us nothing about our life with God. ~ Eugene H Peterson, #NFDB
1296:A little lifting up of the heart suffices; a little remembrance of God, an interior act of adoration, even though made on the march and with sword in hand, are prayers which, short though they may be, are nevertheless very pleasing to God, and far from making a soldier lose his courage on the most dangerous occasions, bolster it. Let him then think of God as much as possible so that he will gradually become accustomed to this little but holy exercise; no one will notice it and nothing is easier than to repeat often during the day these little acts of interior adoration. ~ Brother Lawrence, #NFDB
1297:For me, architects and film directors operate similarly. They are practical. As an architect, you know what you want in the conception of a space - but you still need a lot of people to help you out. You need an engineer, interior architects. But a film is the same - you have all these elements. But in terms of concept, it's always about time. When you approach a building, you need time to go from point A to B. Buildings are designed as a journey and films are the same, you have an opening that you come through, an angle you follow, maybe a disruption in space. ~ Apichatpong Weerasethakul, #NFDB
1298:Alexander's achievement was not the conquest of India, but the feat of actually getting there and his two years in India were more of a geographical expedition than a military campaign. .... a Greek army had reached what they regarded as the end of the earth. They had pitted themselves against the ultimate as bravely as the yogins had struggled to break through the limits of the human psyche. Where mystics had conquered interior space, Alexander explored the farthest reaches of the physical world. .... like many of the axial sages, he was constantly 'straining after more'. ~ Karen Armstrong, #NFDB
1299:O spiritual soul, when thou seest thy desire obscured, thy will arid and constrained, and thy faculties incapable of any interior act, be not grieved at this, but look upon it rather as a great good, for God is delivering thee from thyself, taking the matter out of thy hands; for however strenuously thou mayest exert thyself, thou wilt never do anything so faultlessly, perfectly, and securely as now—because of the impurity and torpor of thy faculties—when God, taking thee by the hand, is guiding thee in the dark as one that is blind, along a road and to an end thou knowest ~ Juan de la Cruz, #NFDB
1300:Over the last 10 years, there have been so many incredible albums created in bedrooms by people who never would've gotten an album deal. People keep thinking of professional music studios like they've always been this way for hundreds of years, but they're very much a child of the 70s. Even the interior is very 70s. Everything's brown and it's wood - somebody told me the wood panels are all by the same company. We're always mourning things that have died. It's a bit much sometimes. These studios have no fresh air, and there's this unwritten rule that they don't have windows, either. ~ Bjork, #NFDB
1301:You look nice,” he said, as a headlight splashed across the interior.
“Give yourself a pat on the back; you bought it. I really wish you didn’t keep filling my closet. I’m never going to be able to pay you back.”
“I would not take payment for something that is my duty.”
That’s what I liked about Justus; he would never admit that he enjoyed shopping for me. At first, I thought I wasn’t up to snuff and he was trying to change me. As it turns out, it was the only way he knew how to express his affection. Wearing one of his dresses was the equivalent of a hug ~ Dannika Dark,#NFDB
1302:There are countries in which public establishments are considered by the government as its own personal affair, so that it admits persons to them only according to its pleasure, just as a proprietor refuses at his pleasure admission into his house; they are a sort of administrative sanctuaries, into which no profane person can penetrate. These establishments, on the contrary, in the United States, are considered as belonging to all. The prisons are open to everyone who chooses to inspect them ad every visiter may inform himself of the order which regulates the interior. ~ Gustave de Beaumont, #NFDB
1303:Zeus, n. The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog. Some explorers who have touched upon the shores of America, and one who professes to have penetrated a considerable distance to the interior, have thought that these four names stand for as many distinct deities, but in his monumental work on Surviving Faiths, Frumpp insists that the natives are monotheists, each having no other god than himself, whom he worships under many sacred names. ~ Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Word Book (1906), later retitled The Devil's Dictionary, #NFDB
1304:Stay inside the carriage,” Rohan said. “I’ll go inside and inquire as to Ramsay’s whereabouts.” He gave Merripen a hard look. “Don’t leave Miss Hathaway unattended even for a second. It’s dangerous at this time of night.”
“It’s early evening,” Amelia protested. “And we’re in the West End, amid crowds of well-dressed gentlemen. How dangerous could it be?”
“I’ve seen those well-dressed gentlemen do things that would make you faint to hear of them.”
“I never faint,” Amelia said indignantly.
Rohan’s smile was a flash of white in the shadowed interior of the carriage. ~ Lisa Kleypas,#NFDB
1305:En el auténtico artista, el deseo de aplauso, aunque suele existir y ser muy fuerte, es secundario, en el sentido de que el artista desea crear cierto tipo de obra y tiene la esperanza de que dicha obra sea aplaudida, pero no alterará su estilo aunque no obtenga ningún aplauso. En cambio, el hombre cuyo motivo primario es el deseo de aplauso carece de una fuerza interior que le impulse a un modo particular de expresión, y lo mismo podría hacer un tipo de trabajo totalmente diferente. Esta clase de hombre, si no consigue que se aplauda su arte, lo mejor que podría hacer es renunciar. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1306:Jesus it’s clean in here,” Theo said, glancing around the spotless leather interior. “Just the way I like it.” Leone chuckled. “Don’t let Theo eat in the car, then. There’ll be crumbs in places in the upholstery you didn’t even know about.” Jamie leaned an elbow on the middle armrest and glanced at him. “That so?” Theo pressed his finger to the condensation on the front window and started writing. “I like my cars with personality.” “That means he cherishes the smell of stale crackers.” “Leone!” She laughed. “Hey, I like it. All I have to do is feel the grains and I know I’m home. ~ Anyta Sunday, #NFDB
1307:su realidad no solo malgasta la vida, sino que también la acorta. El yo es la descarada mentira que nos contamos a diario y la felicidad requiere ver más allá de dicha mentira, desenmascararla. «Estudiar el yo es olvidar el yo», decía Dogen, un maestro zen del siglo XIII. La voz interior, las voces externas, todo es lo mismo. No hay líneas divisorias. Sobre todo cuando se compite. La victoria, según el zen, «llega cuando nos olvidamos del yo y del adversario, que son las dos mitades de un todo. Todo esto se expone con claridad meridiana en el libro Zen en el arte del tiro con arco: ~ Phil Knight, #NFDB
1308:Justineau doesn’t have any answer. She watches with an eerie sense of dislocation as Caldwell crosses to another part of the lab, comes back with a glass fish tank in which she’s set up one of her tissue cultures. It’s an older one, with several years of growth. The tank is about eighteen inches by twelve by ten inches high, and its interior is completely filled with a dense mass of fine, dark grey strands. Like plague-flavoured candy floss, Justineau thinks. It’s impossible even to tell what the original substrate was; it’s just lost in the toxic froth that has sprouted from it. “This ~ M R Carey, #NFDB
1309:Speaking from experince, there are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free fall forever inside their heads. It's a spooky thing to be left alone inside an angry inner-verse.
Drugs redirect the fall. They cushion it. Give you a parachute. Or maybe just a flashlight and scuba gear. I don't know how you look at the inside of your head-- what metaphor you choose-- but for those of us with endless yawning stretches of interior and nothing but nothing to stop us from getting lost in it, drugs can be wonderfully helpful.
For a time. ~ James St James,#NFDB
1310:If you have a comfortable connection with your inner sensations—if you can trust them to give you accurate information—you will feel in charge of your body, your feelings, and your self. However, traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings and in numbing awareness of what is played out inside. They learn to hide from their selves. ~ Bessel A van der Kolk, #NFDB
1311:By focusing on the interior of a speaker's larynx and using infrared, he was able to convert the visible vibrations of the vocal cords into sound of fair quality, but that did not satisfy him. He worked for a while on vibrations picked up from panes of glass in windows and on framed pictures, and he experimented briefly with the diaphragms in speaker systems, intercoms and telephones. He kept on into October without stopping, and finally achieved a device that would give tinny but recognizable sound from any vibrating surface - a wall, a floor, even the speaker's own cheek or forehead. ~ Damon Knight, #NFDB
1312:—Te diré a lo que es real. Real es que yo estaba en la cárcel durante el último año, quedándome en conjunto con los distribuidores de drogas y consumiendo una porquería de basura como alimento, que ni siquiera tu perro tocaría. Real es no poder usar la maldita ropa interior propia y ducharte con veinticinco pollas de otros tipos todos los días mientras los guardias vigilan el reloj. Real es que mi vecina de al lado que camina como si estuviera en equilibrio sobre unos zancos, porque la pierna está tan jodido por el accidente. Brian, tu percepción de la realidad es totalmente errónea. ~ Simone Elkeles, #NFDB
1313:She had not heard him enter, and hardly realized his presence there. She was yawning, and he saw the red interior of her mouth as if it had been a snake's. She had stretched one arm so high above her coiled-up cable of hair that he could see its satin delicacy above the sunburn; her face was flushed with sleep, and her eyelids hung heavy over their pupils. The brim-fulness of her nature breathed from her. It was a moment when a woman's soul is more incarnate than at any other time; when the most spiritual beauty bespeaks itself flesh; and sex takes the outside place in the presentation. ~ Thomas Hardy, #NFDB
1314:After Venus lost its oceans to a runaway greenhouse, the interior also would have started to dry out, and this might have shut down plate tectonics. The question has forced a closer look at how and why plate tectonics works on Earth. We’ve learned there are many ways that plate tectonics is aided and lubricated by the presence of our planet’s pervasive hydrosphere. Venus could have started out with Earth-style plate tectonics and then lost its ability to recycle its surface and interior, as it lost its water to a runaway greenhouse, and the interior of the planet was slowly wrung dry. ~ David Grinspoon, #NFDB
1315:A soap opera character on the bar TV says, "You killed him, you smothered him with doughnuts!" Another character, another scene--she is sitting in a room with a man and an elderly woman--the leas character wonders if she's dead. The man says, No, you're alive," and the other woman hands her a plate of doughnuts.
A commercial comes on. A couple are on a date and the woman's voice-over articulates interior thoughts of what a wonderful guy her friend has set her up with: "He's so cute, and his IQ is higher than my bank balance . . . but she didn't tell me he has . . . Tourette's syndrome. ~ David Byrne,#NFDB
1316:this consciousness I’m describing is gendered (and I think it is), it is clearly feminine. The single most damaging and distorting thing that religion has done to faith involves overlooking, undervaluing, and even outright suppressing this interior, ulterior kind of consciousness. So much Western theology has been constructed on a fundamental disfigurement of the mind and reality. In neglecting the voices of women, who are more attuned to the immanent nature of divinity, who feel that eruption in their very bodies, theology has silenced a powerful—perhaps the most powerful—side of God. ~ Christian Wiman, #NFDB
1317:After a time I found that I could almost listen to the silence, which had a dimension all of its own. I started to attend to its strange and beautiful texture, which of course, it was impossible to express in words. I discovered that I felt at home and alive in the silence, which compelled me to enter my interior world and around there. Without the distraction of constant conversation, the words on the page began to speak directly to my inner self. They were no long expressing ideas that were simply interesting intellectually, but were talking directly to my own yearning and perplexity. ~ Karen Armstrong, #NFDB
1318:I am now at a time of life when I can look back on the past, for my soul has been refined in the crucible of interior and exterior trials. Now, like a flower after the storm, I can raise my head and see that the words of the Psalm are realised in me: "The Lord is my Shepherd and I shall want nothing. He hath set me in a place of pasture. He hath brought me up on the water of refreshment. He hath converted my soul. He hath led me on the paths of justice for His own Name's sake. For though I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will fear no evils for Thou are with me."[6] ~ Saint Therese of Lisieux, #NFDB
1319:may not clearly understand that they signal the opening of an inner rift. Their rocking, gentle at first, but then increasing, alerts us to a disconnection between our interior and exterior lives—often extreme, and sometimes total. Our first and completely natural instinct is to push these feelings away. We have busy lives and no desire to disrupt them. We dismiss the feelings as minor, and related “only” to a specific outward event—a disappointment or a loss. We attempt to ignore them. In the short term, this may be a successful strategy for us, especially if they are indeed minor. ~ Alexander John Shaia, #NFDB
1320:extraordinariamente pequeños (caben holgadamente en la punta de un alfiler) que utilizan la misma tecnología de grabado que se emplea en Silicon Valley, la cual permite imprimir cientos de millones de transistores en una oblea del tamaño de una uña. Una máquina sofisticada, con engranajes, palancas, poleas e incluso motores, puede ocupar menos que el punto que cierra esta frase. Algún día, un cirujano podrá ponerse un casco de telepatía y controlar con él, mediante conexión inalámbrica, un submarino con sistemas micro-electro mecánicos para realizar una operación quirúrgica desde el interior. ~ Michio Kaku, #NFDB
1321:Round the cabin stood half a dozen mountain ashes, as the rowans, inimical to witches, are there called. On the worn planks of the door were nailed two horse-shoes, and over the lintel and spreading along the thatch, grew, luxuriant, patches of that ancient cure for many maladies, and prophylactic against the machinations of the evil one, the house-leek. Descending into the doorway, in the chiaroscuro of the interior, when your eye grew sufficiently accustomed to that dim light, you might discover, hanging at the head of the widow’s wooden-roofed bed, her beads and a phial of holy water ~ J Sheridan Le Fanu, #NFDB
1322:Flatland accepts no interior domain whatsoever, and reintroducing Spirit is the least of our worries. 'Thus our task is not specifically to reintroduce spirituality and somehow attempt to show that modern science is becoming compatible with God. That approach, which is taken by most of the integrative attempts, does not go nearly deep enough in diagnosing the disease, and thus, in my opinion, never really addresses the crucial issues. 'Rather, it is the rehabilitation of the interior in general that opens the possibility of reconciling science and religion.' ~ Ken Wilber, Marriage of Sense and Soul, p. 142., #NFDB
1323:8. Now let us turn at last to our castle with its many mansions. You must not think of a suite of rooms placed in succession, but fix your eyes on the keep, the court inhabited by the King.23' Like the kernel of the palmito,24' from which several rinds must be removed before coming to the eatable part, this principal chamber is surrounded by many others. However large, magnificent, and spacious you imagine this castle to be, you cannot exaggerate it; the capacity of the soul is beyond all our understanding, and the Sun within this palace enlightens every part of it. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, The Interior Castle, #NFDB
1324:De fiecare dată o iau de la început.Iau întodeauna un caiet nou.De fiecare dată sper că asta va duce la ceva,că va fi o experiență constructivă,că voi deschide o ușă.Dar nu.Pană să ajung la o ușă oarecare,mă opresc în loc.Același obstacol invizibil:dacă ar fi vizibil,l-aș ocoli.Invizibilul e ceea ce mă oprește în loc.Cel puțin ar trebui să încerc să nu mai schimb caietul,să încerc să ajung pană la ultima pagină.Asta ar însemna că voi fi spus aproape tot.Obstacolul e tocmai tot ceea mai am încă de spus.Chiar asta și sunt îmbulzelile invizibile care îmi taie calea.Spațiul meu interior nu e liber. ~ Eug ne Ionesco, #NFDB
1325:Jeremy comes home from school, feeling as if he has passed the math test after all. Jeremy is an optimist. Maybe there’s something good on TV. He settles down with the remote control on one of his father’s pet couches: oversized and reupholstered in an orange-juice-colored corduroy that makes it appear as if the couch has just escaped from a maximum security prison for criminally insane furniture. This couch looks as if its hobby is devouring interior decorators. Jeremy’s father is a horror writer, so no one should be surprised if some of the couches he reupholsters are hideous and eldritch. ~ John Joseph Adams, #NFDB
1326:One need not be a chamber to be haunted,
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.
Far safer, of a midnight meeting
External ghost,
Than an interior confronting
That whiter host.
Far safer through an Abbey gallop,
The stones achase,
Than, moonless, one's own self encounter
In lonesome place.
Ourself, behind ourself concealed,
Should startle most;
Assassin, hid in our apartment,
Be horror's least.
The prudent carries a revolver,
He bolts the door,
O'erlooking a superior spectre
More near. ~ Emily Dickinson,#NFDB
1327:And there was no longer a single race who bred blindly and without question. Time and its agonizing nostalgia would touch the heart each season, and be seen in the fall of a leaf, or, most terrible of all, a loved face would grow old. Cronos and the Fates had entered man's thinking, and try to escape as he might, he would endure an interior Ice Age. He would make, and then unmake fables. Then at last, and unwillingly, comprehend an intangible abstraction called space-time, and shiver inwardly at the endless abysses of space as he had once shivered, unclothed and unlighted before the Earthly frost. ~ Loren Eiseley, #NFDB
1328:9. In conclusion, individuals must not fix the eyes of their souls on that rind of the figure and object supernaturally accorded to the exterior senses, such as locutions and words to the sense of hearing; visions of saints and beautifully resplendent lights to the sense of sight; fragrance to the sense of smell; delicious and sweet tastes to the palate; and other delights, usually derived from the spirit, to the sense of touch, as is more commonly the case with spiritual persons. Neither must they place their eyes on interior imaginative visions. They must instead renounce all these things. They ~ Juan de la Cruz, #NFDB
1329:I walked in and glanced around. Hotspots first, by instinct and long habit: seats facing the entrance, partially concealed corners, ambush positions. I detected no problems. I moved inside. The interior was vast, and decorated like a Hollywood prop warehouse. Everywhere there were antiques and curios: iron cash registers, a red British telephone booth, a cluster of parasols, busts and statues, shelves of colored bottles and jugs. Even the tables and chairs looked vintage. Had it been less capacious, it would have felt cluttered. The ceilings were high and of bare wood, the walls stone and alabaster. ~ Barry Eisler, #NFDB
1330:My heart breaks living in southern Utah on the edge of America's Redrock Wilderness, witnessing what the Bush Administration's policies regarding oil and gas exploitation are doing to our public lands that belong to all Americans. Their policy is not about the public or the public's best interest. It is about the oil and gas corporations' best interests. The Secretary of the Interior is urging the Bureau of Land Management to support the gas and oil industry's most extreme drilling scenario in some of the American West's most pristine and fragile areas without proper legal and public input. ~ Terry Tempest Williams, #NFDB
1331:And to one side of the room, occupying most of the open space, sat an enormous coffin of solid, cream-colored stone. Its surface was etched, inside and out, with row upon row of tiny symbols.
“Is that marble?” he asked.
“Alabaster. It’s a sarcophagus, from the tomb of King…” Sir Lewis ruffled his hair. “I forget his name at the moment. I have it somewhere.”
“And the inscriptions?”
“Hexes on the outside. On the interior, directions to the underworld.” The old man’s hoary eyebrows rose. “You can have a lie-down in the thing, if you like. Good for the spine.”
“Thank you, no.” Bram shuddered. ~ Tessa Dare,#NFDB
1332:On July 4, in his sixth “Continentalist” essay, Hamilton, with a nod to Morris, applauded the appointment of federal customs and tax collectors to “create in the interior of each state a mass of influence in favour of the federal government.”12 This essay makes clear that, in the Revolution’s waning days, Hamilton had to combat the utopian notion that America could dispense with taxes altogether: “It is of importance to unmask this delusion and open the eyes of the people to the truth. It is paying too great a tribute to the idol of popularity to flatter so injurious and so visionary an expectation.”13 ~ Ron Chernow, #NFDB
1333:Vor veni șiruri-șiruri, fiecare cu teancurile lui de cărți în brațe... Iar Domnul le va spune: „Da, le-am citit, firește, pe toate, chiar înainte ca voi să le fi scris. Ați adus oamenilor ceasuri de desfătare, i-ați îndemnat la meditație și reverie. Ați desenat în trompe l’oeil cele mai uimitoare, cele mai baroce, cele mai ornamentate, cele mai masive porți pe zidul interior al frunții, pe osul ei neted și gălbui. Dar care dintre aceste porți s-a deschis cu adevărat? Pe care dintre ele s-a ridicat pleoapa frunții de pe ochiul creierului? Prin care dintre ele creierul a început cu adevărat să vadă? ~ Mircea C rt rescu, #NFDB
1334:state-dominated ideological authorities - and these days that may simply mean Putin himself as a kind of chief lecturer to the nation - try to harmonize everything. That turns Russia's entire, incredible, tragic 20th century history into some kitschy, patriotic hero story - instead of authorities actually facing the real damages of this interior rupture, and most importantly investigating its causes. This lays the groundwork for an almost endless self-adulation, in which a grand Russia strides from one victory to the next, surrounded by a jealous world of enemies it has heroically withstand time and again. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1335:The interior journey of the soul from the wilds of sin into the enjoyed Presence of God is beautifully illustrated in the Old Testament tabernacle. The returning sinner first entered the outer court where he offered a blood sacrifice on the brazen altar and washed himself in the laver that stood near it. Then through a veil he passed into the holy place where no natural light could come, but the golden candlestick which spoke of Jesus the Light of the World threw its soft glow over all. There also was the shewbread to tell of Jesus, the Bread of Life, and the altar of incense, a figure of unceasing prayer. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
1336:The soul put on the white robe of faith on its going forth on this dark night, when walking in the darkness amidst interior trials, as I said before,7 it received no ray of light from the understanding; not from above, because heaven seemed shut and God hidden; not from below, because its spiritual directors gave it no comfort. It bore its trials patiently and persevered, without fainting or falling away from the Beloved, Who by these crosses and tribulations tried the faith of His bride, that it might be able hereafter truly to say with the Psalmist, “For the words of Thy lips, I have kept hard ways. ~ Juan de la Cruz, #NFDB
1337:Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home. I'd been writing letters once a week and signing them: "Love, Nick," and all I could think of was how, when that certain girl played tennis, a faint mustache of perspiration appeared on her upper lip. Nevertheless there was a vague understanding that had to be tactfully broken off before I was free. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
1338:The Department of Justice had become known as the Department of Easy Virtue. In 1924, after a congressional committee revealed that the oil baron Harry Sinclair had bribed the secretary of the interior Albert Fall to drill in the Teapot Dome federal petroleum reserve—the name that would forever be associated with the scandal—the ensuing investigation lay bare just how rotten the system of justice was in the United States. When Congress began looking into the Justice Department, Burns and the attorney general used all their power, all the tools of law enforcement, to thwart the inquiry and obstruct justice. ~ David Grann, #NFDB
1339:Todos los átomos pesados que componen la Tierra, todos los átomos necesarios para la vida, los átomos mismos que componen tu cuerpo, fueron forjados en lo más profundo de una estrella. Cuando respiras, es lo que inhalas. Cuando tocas tu piel, o la de otra persona, estás tocando polvo de estrellas. Te preguntabas antes por qué las estrellas como el Sol tienen que morir y explotar al final de su existencia, y aquí tienes la respuesta: sin esos finales, solo existiría el hidrógeno y el helio. La materia de la que estamos hechos se encontraría prisionera para siempre en el interior de estrellas eternas. ~ Christophe Galfard, #NFDB
1340:Whether you teach or live in the cloister or nurse the sick, whether you are in religion or out of it, married or single, no matter who you are or what you are, you are called to the summit of perfection: you are called to a deep interior life perhaps even to mystical prayer, and to pass the fruits of your contemplation on to others. And if you cannot do so by word, then by example.
Yet if this sublime fire of infused love burns in your soul, it will inevitably send forth throughout the Church and the world an influence more tremendous than could be estimated by the radius reached by words or by example. ~ Thomas Merton,#NFDB
1341:Engagement is not a matter of either speaking or doing; not a matter of either offering a compelling intellectual vision or embodying a set of alternative practices; not a matter of either merely making manifest the richness and depth of interior life or merely working to change the institutions of society; not a matter of either only displaying alternative politics as gathered in Eucharistic celebrations or merely working for change as the dispersed people of God. It is all these things and more. The whole person in all aspects of her life is engaged in fostering human flourishing and serving the common good. ~ Miroslav Volf, #NFDB
1342:In loving him, I saw a cigarette between the fingers of a hand, smoke blowing backwards into the room and sputtering planes diving low through the clouds. In loving him, I saw men encouraging each other to lay down their arms. In loving him, I saw small-town laborers creating excavations that other men spend their lives trying to fill. In loving him, I saw moving films of stone buildings; I saw a hand in prison dragging snow in from the sill. In loving him, I saw great houses being erected that would soon slide into the waiting and stirring seas. I saw him freeing me from the silences of the interior life. ~ David Wojnarowicz, #NFDB
1343:Having been pondering while slowly walking along, he now stopped as these thoughts caught hold of him, and right away another thought sprang forth from these, a new thought, which was: "That I know nothing about myself, that Siddhartha has remained thus alien and unknown to me, stems from one cause, a single cause: I was afraid of myself, I was fleeing from myself! I searched Atman, I searched Brahman, I was willing to to dissect my self and peel off all of its layers, to find the core of all peels in its unknown interior, the Atman, life, the divine part, the ultimate part. But I have lost myself in the process. ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
1344:I tried so hard to fight the endless sobbing. I remember asking myself one night, while I was curled up in the same old corner of my same old couch in tears yet again over the same old repetition of sorrowful thoughts, “Is there anything about this scene you can change, Liz?” And all I could think to do was stand up, while still sobbing, and try to balance on one foot in the middle of my living room. Just to prove that - while I couldn’t stop the tears or change my dismal interior dialogue - I was not yet totally out of control. At least I could cry hysterically while balanced on one foot. Hey, it was a start. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
1345:State Of Siege
The poor omnibus driver under the tin canopy,
warming a huge chilblain inside his glove,
follows his heavy omnibus along the left bank,
and from his inflated groin thrusts away the moneybag.
And while [in the] soft shadow
where there are policemen,
the respectable interior of the bus looks at the moon
in the deep sky rocking
among its green cotton wool,
in spite of the Edict
and the still delicate hour,
and the fact that the bus is
returning to the Odeon,
the lewd wanton utters piercing cries
at the darkened square!
Francois Coppee
~ Arthur Rimbaud,#NFDB
1346:There are deeply mystical experiences of interior soul pain, trials, and the inexplicably arid desolation of the human soul as it dies bit by bit as it moves through the higher Spheres; and this is balanced by your soul experiencing more joy, peace, gratitude, flow, life force, beauty and interior rest (and your sharing of life and love with your soul half if you have met) in fully desiring and deserving all that God wishes to give you. Anything within us that feels it does not deserve Divine Love in its fullness is part of our wounding, in particular our Original Wounding, and is not how God created us to be. ~ Padma Aon Prakasha, #NFDB
1347:GEOLOGY, n. The science of the earth's crust --to which, doubtless, will be added that of its interior whenever a man shall come up garrulous out of a well. The geological formations of the globe already noted are catalogued thus: The Primary, or lower one, consists of rocks, bones or mired mules, gas-pipes, miners' tools, antique statues minus the nose, Spanish doubloons and ancestors. The Secondary is largely made up of red worms and moles. The Tertiary comprises railway tracks, patent pavements, grass, snakes, mouldy boots, beer bottles, tomato cans, intoxicated citizens, garbage, anarchists, snap-dogs and fools. ~ Ambrose Bierce, #NFDB
1348:Their findings can be summarized in three statements which Aldous Huxley, following Leibnitz, has called the Perennial Philosophy because they appear in every age and civilization: (1) there is an infinite, changeless reality beneath the world of change; (2) this same reality lies at the core of every human personality; (3) the purpose of life is to discover this reality experientially: that is, to realize God while here on earth. These principles and the interior experiments for realizing them were taught systematically in “forest academies” or ashrams – a tradition which continues unbroken after some three thousand years. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1349:While in any other great city the vagabond child is a lost man, while nearly everywhere the child left to itself is, in some sort, sacrificed and abandoned to a kind of fatal immersion in the public vices which devour in him honesty and conscience, the street boy of Paris, we insist on this point, however defaced and injured on the surface, is almost intact on the interior. It is a magnificent thing to put on record, and one which shines forth in the splendid probity of our popular revolutions, that a certain incorruptibility results from the idea which exists in the air of Paris, as salt exists in the water of the ocean. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
1350:Pasamos cerca de un rancho; una mujer, debajo del alero, miró el tren. Se me ocurrió un pensamiento estúpido: «A esta mujer la veo por primera y última vez. No la volveré a ver en mi vida.» Mi pensamiento flotaba como un corcho en un río desconocido. Siguió por un momento flotando cerca de esa mujer bajo el alero. ¿Qué me importaba esa mujer? Pero no podía dejar de pensar que había existido un instante para mí y que nunca más volvería a existir; desde mi punto de vista era como si ya se hubiera muerto: un pequeño retraso del tren, un llamado desde el interior del rancho, y esa mujer no habría existido nunca en mi vida. Todo ~ Ernesto Sabato, #NFDB
1351:Then yesterday Hitler dispatched an ultimatum: Either carry out the terms of the Berchtesgaden “agreement,” or the Reichswehr marches. A little after midnight this morning Schuschnigg and Miklas surrendered. The new Cabinet was announced, Seyss-Inquart is in the key post of Minister of the Interior, and there is an amnesty for all Nazis. Douglas Reed when I saw him today so indignant he could hardly talk. He’s given the London Times the complete story of what happened at Berchtesgaden. Perhaps it will do some good. I dropped by the Legation this evening. John Wiley was pacing the floor. “It’s the end of Austria,” he said. ~ William L Shirer, #NFDB
1352:Griffy The Cooper
The cooper should know about tubs.
But I learned about life as well,
And you who loiter around these graves
Think you know life.
You think your eye sweeps about a wide horizon, perhaps,
In truth you are only looking around the interior of your tub.
You cannot lift yourself to its rim
And see the outer world of things,
And at the same time see yourself.
You are submerged in the tub of yourself —
Taboos and rules and appearances,
Are the staves of your tub.
Break them and dispel the witchcraft
Of thinking your tub is life!
And that you know life!
~ Edgar Lee Masters,#NFDB
1353:He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so severe that it was like the almost constant burden of some vague grief. And bound up with it all was an implacable sense of personal duty and the grim determination to present himself at his best, to conceal his frailties by any means possible, and to keep up appearances. It had all contributed to making his existence what it was: artificial, self-conscious, and forced—until every word, every gesture, the slightest deed in the presence of others had become a taxing and grueling part in a play. ~ Thomas Mann, #NFDB
1354:Crikey,’ I said.
‘I’m told that this place has all the warmth and charm of a lawyer’s waiting room,’ said Mark.
It did, too. The walls and flooring and kitchen cabinets were all beige, and the furnishings black. The only touch of colour was provided by two big canvases on the far wall, each one sporting a single red squiggle on a white background. I find it hard to be impressed by art that looks like it took longer to hang straight on the wall than it did to produce. However, those whose living rooms are a symphony of plum and orange are in no position to criticise anybody else’s interior design. And perhaps he loved it. ~ Danielle Hawkins,#NFDB
1355:Todos los átomos pesados que componen la Tierra, todos los átomos necesarios para la vida, los átomos mismos que componen tu cuerpo, fueron forjados en lo más profundo de una estrella. Cuando respiras, es lo que inhalas. Cuando tocas tu piel, o la de otra persona, estás tocando polvo de estrellas. Te preguntabas antes por qué las estrellas como el Sol tienen que morir y explotar al final de su existencia, y aquí tienes la respuesta: sin esos finales, solo existiría el hidrógeno y el helio. La materia de la que estamos hechos se encontraría prisionera para siempre en el interior de estrellas eternas.
- El universo en tu mano - ~ Christophe Galfard,#NFDB
1356:Podemos añadir, por otra parte, que no es por simple coincidencia que haya una estrecha similitud entre las palabras “sagrado” (sacratum) y “secreto” (secretum): se trata, en ambos casos, de lo que es puesto aparte (secernere, poner aparte, de donde el participio secretum), reservado, separado del dominio profano; al igual, el lugar consagrado es llamado templum, cuya raíz tem (que se encuentra en el griego temnô, cortar, cercenar, separar, de donde temenos, recinto sagrado) expresa también la misma idea; y la “contemplación”, cuyo nombre proviene de la misma raíz, se relaciona además con esta idea por su carácter estrictamente “interior” (6). ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1357:What is it that makes it so hard sometimes to determine whither we will walk? I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. It is not indifferent to us which way we walk. There is a right way; but we are very liable from heedlessness and stupidity to take the wrong one. We would fain take that walk, never yet taken by us through this actual world, which is perfectly symbolical of the path which we love to travel in the interior and ideal world; and sometimes, no doubt, we find it difficult to choose our direction, because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
1358:As soon as we are alone,...inner chaos opens up in us. This chaos can be so disturbing and so confusing that we can hardly wait to get busy again. Entering a private room and shutting the door, therefore, does not mean that we immediatel;y shut ou all our iner doubts, anxieities, fears, bad memories, unresolved conflicts, angry feelings and impulsive desires. On the contrary, when we have removed our outer distraction, we often find that our inner distraction manifest themselves to us in full force. We often use the outer distractions to shield ourselves from the interior noises. This makes the discipline of solitude all the more important. ~ Henri J M Nouwen, #NFDB
1359:But it’s hard to keep your guard up at all times. Jeremy comes home from school, feeling as if he has passed the math test after all. Jeremy is an optimist. Maybe there’s something good on TV. He settles down with the remote control on one of his father’s pet couches: oversized and reupholstered in an orange-juice-colored corduroy that makes it appear as if the couch has just escaped from a maximum security prison for criminally insane furniture. This couch looks as if its hobby is devouring interior decorators. Jeremy’s father is a horror writer, so no one should be surprised if some of the couches he reupholsters are hideous and eldritch. ~ John Joseph Adams, #NFDB
1360:The astonishing wealth of our mental processes hinges on images based on contributions from these worlds but assembled by different structures and processes. The exterior world contributes images that describe the perceived structure of the universe that surrounds us within the limits of our sensory devices. The old interior is the main contributor of the images we otherwise know as feelings. The new interior brings to the mind images of the overall, more or less global structure of the organism and contributes additional feelings. Accounts of mental life that fail to take these facts into consideration are likely to fall short of the mark. ~ Ant nio R Dam sio, #NFDB
1361:Until 1957 the West German Ministry of the Interior banned any screenings of Wolfgang Staudte’s (East German) film of Heinrich Mann’s Der Untertan (‘Man of Straw’, 1951)—objecting to its suggestion that authoritarianism in Germany had deep historical roots. This might seem to confirm the view that post-war Germany was suffering from a massive dose of collective amnesia; but the reality was more complex. Germans did not so much forget as selectively remember. Throughout the fifties West German officialdom encouraged a comfortable view of the German past in which the Wehrmacht was heroic, while Nazis were in a minority and had been properly punished. ~ Tony Judt, #NFDB
1362:One Need Not Be A Chamber To Be Haunted,
One need not be a chamber to be haunted,
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.
Far safer, of a midnight meeting
External ghost,
Than an interior confronting
That whiter host.
Far safer through an Abbey gallop,
The stones achase,
Than, moonless, one's own self encounter
In lonesome place.
Ourself, behind ourself concealed,
Should startle most;
Assassin, hid in our apartment,
Be horror's least.
The prudent carries a revolver,
He bolts the door,
O'erlooking a superior spectre
More near.
~ Emily Dickinson,#NFDB
1363:What goes on in those silent depths during the time of Centering Prayer is no one’s business, not even your own; it is between your innermost being and God; that place where, as St. Augustine once said, “God is closer to your soul than you are yourself.” Your own subjective experience of the prayer may be that nothing happened—except for the more-or-less continuous motion of letting go of thoughts. But in the depths of your being, in fact, plenty has been going on, and things are quietly but firmly being rearranged. That interior rearrangement—or to give it its rightful name, that interior awakening—is the real business of Centering Prayer, ~ Cynthia Bourgeault, #NFDB
1364:He quedado pensando que todo lo hacemos para tratar de conocer lo que ninguno llega a conocer, lo más interior a cada uno, eso que algunos llamamos alma. Puesto que lo peculiar del ser humano no es el espíritu puro sino esa desgarrada región intermedia llamada alma, región en que acontece lo más grave de la existencia y lo que más importa: el amor y el odio, el mito y la ficción, el sueño, la esperanza y la muerte; nada de lo cual es espíritu puro sino una vehemente mezcla de ideas y de sangre. Ansiosamente dual, el alma padece entre la carne y el espíritu. El arte —es decir, la poesía— surge de ese confuso territorio y a causa de su misma confusión. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1365:En aquel aposento encantado se calculaban las más complicadas cuestiones sociales, se llegaba a resultados exactos y finalmente se resolvían...ojalá se hubiese logrado hacérselo saber a los afectados. Al igual que si fuese factible un observatorio astronómico sin ventanas, y el astrónomo en su interior ordenara el universo estelar con la sola ayuda de pluma, tintero y papel, de igual modo el señor Gradgrind en su observatorio (y hay muchos así) no tenía ninguna necesidad de echar una ojeada a las pululantes miriadas de seres humanos a su alrededor para resolver sus destinos en una pizarra y borrar todas sus lágrimas con un trocito de esponja sucia ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
1366:Jesús, alguna vez quise decir las palabras, pero apenas podía admitirlo ante mí mismo, y mucho menos a ella. En el fondo yo sabía que era un pedazo de mierda, y ella se merecía algo mejor. Una parte de mí quería que la llevara a la habitación y mostrarle por qué ella era diferente, pero también fue lo único que me detuvo. Ella era mi opuesto: Inocente en la superficie, y dañada profundamente en su interior. Había algo en ella que necesitaba en mi vida, y aunque no estaba seguro de lo que era, no podía dar a mis malos hábitos y joderla. Ella era el tipo de las que perdona, yo podía ver, pero tenía líneas dibujadas que yo sabía que no debía cruzarlas. ~ Jamie McGuire, #NFDB
1367:O major está no interior da casa que serve de quartel, lendo. O seu estudo predileto é agora artilharia. Comprou compêndios; mas, como sua instrução é insuficiente, da artilharia vai à balística, da balística à mecânica, da mecânica ao cálculo e à geometria analítica; desce mais a escada; vai à trigonometria, à geometria e à álgebra e à aritmética. Ele percorre essa cadeia de ciências entrelaçadas com uma fé de inventor. Aprende uma noção elementaríssima após um rosário de consultas, de compêndio em compêndio; e leva assim aqueles dias de ócio guerreiro enfronhado na matemática, nessa matemática rebarbativa e hostil aos cérebros que já não são moços. ~ Lima Barreto, #NFDB
1368:Lo que tengo, es un tiempo vital y un conjunto de oportunidades, está en mí aprovecharlas. Con la recepción mística ocurre lo mismo: hay un mundo del lado del emisor, que se puede conocer. ¿Es posible recorrerlo completo? No. Pero es importante aprovechar las oportunidades que se tienen de llegar a él. La iniciación a la recepción implica también una responsabilidad: la discriminación positiva. No se trata de incriminar y juzgar, sino de poner un filtro. Aceptar la posición de recepción, de meterse en el propio mundo interior y hacerse cargo de él, aporta muchas más posibilidades que quedarse en una posición pasiva, mirando lo que se impone desde afuera. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1369:Por eso he mirado el mundo desde lo alto, en el que mis placeres han sido siempre fruiciones intelectuales. Mis vicios eran contemplar los mares, los pueblos, los bosques, las montañas. He visto todo; pero tranquilamente, sin fatiga. Nunca ha deseado nada. He esperado todo. Me he paseado por el universo como por el jardín de mi propia casa. Lo que los hombres llaman penas, amores, ambiciones, reveses, tristezas, son, para mí ideas que yo mudo en ilusiones; en vez de sentirlos, los expreso, los traduzco; en lugar de dejarles que destruyan mi vida, yo los dramatizo, los desarrollo, y con ello me divierto como si fueran novelas que leo en mi interior. ~ Honor de Balzac, #NFDB
1370:No era una llama de pasión ni un fogonazo de rabia, sino algo paralizante, como el fuego de una bomba de racimo que absorbe todo el oxígeno a su alrededor y te deja jadeando porque parece que te han dado una patada en tus partes y una aspiradora te ha succionado cualquier materia viva de tu interior y te has secado la boca, y esperas que nadie hable pues tú no puedes, y rezas para que no te pidan que te muevas porque tu corazón se ha atascado en un latir tan rápido que antes escupiría trozos de cristal que dejar que alguien circule por sus estrechos pasillos. Fuego como el miedo, como el pánico, como un minuto más así y me muero si no llama a mi puerta. ~ Andr Aciman, #NFDB
1371:A block or two west of the new City of Man in Turtle Bay there is an old willow tree that presides over an interior garden. It is a battered tree, long suffering and much climbed, held together by strands of wire but beloved of those who know it. In a way it symbolizes the city: life under difficulties, growth against odds, sap-rise in the midst of concrete, and the steady reaching for the sun. Whenever I look at it nowadays, and feel the cold shadow of the planes, I think: "This must be saved, this particular thing, this very tree." If it were to go, all would go -- this city, this mischevious and marvelous monument which not to look upon would be like death. ~ E B White, #NFDB
1372:Here I had a strange idea not unworthy of de Selby. Why was Joe so disturbed at the suggestion that he had a body? What if he had a body? A body with another body inside it in turn, thousands of such bodies within each other like the skins of an onion, receding to some unimaginable ultimum? Was I in turn merely a link in a vast sequence of imponderable beings, the world I knew merely the interior of the being whose inner voice I myself was? Who or what was the core and what monster in what world was the final uncontained colossus? God? Nothing? Was I receiving these wild thoughts from Lower Down or were they brewing newly in me to be transmitted Higher Up? ~ Flann O Brien, #NFDB
1373:Just beyond the opening the cave was higher, and as the boat floated into the dim interior they found themselves on quite an extensive branch of the sea. For a time neither of them spoke and only the soft lapping of the water against the sides of the boat was heard. A beautiful sight met the eyes of the two adventurers and held them dumb with wonder and delight. It was not dark in this vast cave, yet the light seemed to come from underneath the water, which all around them glowed with an exquisite sapphire color. Where the little waves crept up the sides of the rocks they shone like brilliant jewels, and every drop of spray seemed a gem fit to deck a queen. ~ L Frank Baum, #NFDB
1374:…[T]he whole thing is really a dazzling illusion empty of all perception, an astonishing farce of misperception. And yet what are we to do about this terribly significant business of other people, which gets bled of the significance we think it has and takes on instead a significance that is ludicrous, so ill-equipped are we all to envision one another’s interior workings and invisible aims? Is everyone to go off and lock the door and sit secluded like the lonely writers do, in a soundproof cell, summoning people out of words and then proposing that these word people are closer to the real thing than the real people that we mangle with our ignorance every day? ~ Philip Roth, #NFDB
1375:Elsewheres
South
The long green shutters are drawn.
Against what parades?
Closing our eyes against the sun,
We try to imagine
The darkness of an interior
Where something might still happen:
The razor lying open
On the cool marble washstand,
The drip of something--is it water?--
Upon stone floors.”
-
North
Already it is midsummer
In the Sweden of our lives.
The peasants have joined hands,
They are circling the haystacks.
We watch from the veranda.
We sit, mufflered,
Humming the tune in snatches
Under our breath.
We tremble sometimes,
Not with emotion. ~ Donald Justice,#NFDB
1376:For Feric Jaggar is essentially a monster: a narcissistic psychopath with paranoid obsessions. His total self-assurance and certainty is based on a total lack of introspective self-knowledge. In a sense, such a human being would be all surface and no interior. He would be able to manipulate the surface of social reality by projecting his own pathologies upon it, but he would never be able to share in the inner communion of interpersonal relationships. Such a creature could give a nation the iron leadership and sense of certainty to face a mortal crisis, but at what cost? Led by the likes of a Feric Jaggar, we might gain the world at the cost of our souls. No, ~ Norman Spinrad, #NFDB
1377:The Yogi should always listen to the sound (nada) in the interior of his right ear. This sound, when constantly practiced, will drown every sound (dhvani from outside .... By persisting ... the sound will be heard subtler and subtler. At first, it will be like what is produced by the ocean (jaladhi), the cloud (jimuta), the kettle-drum (bheri), and the water-fall (nirjhara) . ... A little later it will be like the sound produced by a tabor (mardala, or small drum), a big bell (ghanta), and a military drum (kahala); and finally like the sound of the tinkling bell (kinkin), the bamboo-flute (vamsa), the harp (vina) and the bee (bhramara).
~ Nadabindu-Upanishad, (verses 31-41),#NFDB
1378:It began to occur to me that the whole story of love might be nothing more than a wicked lie; that simply sleeping beside another body night after night gives no express right of entry to the interior world of their thoughts or dreams;that we are separate in the end whatever contrary illusions we may cherish; and that this miserable truth might as well be faced, since it will be dinned into one, like it or not by the failings of those we hold dear. I wasn't so bitter now. I'd begun to emerge into a sense of satisfaction with my not, but it would be a long time before I trusted someone, for I'd seen how essentially unknowable even the best loved might prove to be. ~ Olivia Laing, #NFDB
1379:But I refused to let him go. It was not that catching the other car might give me some answers, although that was probably true. And I was not thinking of justice or any other abstract concept. No, this was pure indignant anger, rising from some unused interior corner and flowing straight out of my lizard brain and down to my knuckles. What I really wanted to do was pull this guy out of his rotten little car and smack him in the face. It was an entirely new sensation, this idea of inflicting bodily harm in the heat of anger, and it was intoxicating, strong enough to shut down any logical impulses that might be left in me and it sent me across the median in pursuit. ~ Jeff Lindsay, #NFDB
1380:There are webs of complexity that tie everything together, and they are more numerous than the stars in the night sky. At the moment of self-organization of the bacterial membrane, complex feedback loops, both interoceptive and exteroceptive, immediately formed. Information from both locations began traveling in a huge, never-ending river composed of trillions upon trillions of bytes of data to the self-organized, more-than-the-sum-of-the-parts living system that had come into being. The system began, in that instant of self-organization, to modulate both its interior and exterior worlds in order to maintain its state. It began to modulate its environment. ~ Stephen Harrod Buhner, #NFDB
1381:A fool falls in love. One who dwells in indifference dwells at a distance from love, from its unexpected currents and the lonesome tumbling that causes a person to fall on her knees, if she falls. And there is never any reason to fall, to become so attached to another that one is driven to say, “I once fell in love,’ followed by an ellipsis, ‘…’, a trail leading down a path into—what? Some fatal dream? One grows weak from conflating the future and past, and the ellipsis, ‘…’, always leads into an exposed empty vat, the interior of an urn whose lid has been removed, whose ashes have been spread into water where, in time, everything dissolves, giving way to the past. ~ Claire Donato, #NFDB
1382:Tiene sentido que las Iglesias pujantes lean mas cuidadosas en su tratamiento hacia los nuevos creyentes que las Iglesias de comparacion. Los nuevos creyentes son, con frecuencia, los mejores misioneros verbales que tiene una iglesia. Todavia conocen a personas incredulas. Tienen un fuego en su interior que muchos creyentes de anos han Perdido. Los nuevos creyentes todavia no conocen todas las reglas religiosas. Hablan con libertad de la gracia que descubrieron.
Los nuevos creyentes son el mayor recurso que to iglesia tiene para influenciar a la comunidad. Cuando las iglesias pujantes nutren y forman a los nuevos creyentes, alimentan el movimiento del evangelio. ~ Thom S Rainer,#NFDB
1383:A fundamental mistake that urban planners made, Jacobs claims, was to infer functional order from the duplication and regimentation of building forms: that is, from purely visual order. Most complex systems, on the contrary, do not display a surface regularity; their order must be sought at a deeper level. “To see complex systems of functional order as order, and not as chaos, takes understanding. The leaves dropping from the trees in the autumn, the interior of an airplane engine, the entrails of a rabbit, the city desk of a newspaper, all appear to be chaos if they are seen without comprehension. Once they are seen as systems of order, they actually look different. ~ James C Scott, #NFDB
1384:everything actually was all-meaningful, that every symbol and combination of symbols led not hither and yon, not to single examples, experiments, and proofs, but into the center, the mystery and innermost heart of the world, into primal knowledge. Every transition from major to minor in a sonata, every transformation of a myth or a religious cult, every classical or artistic formulation was, I realized in that flashing moment, if seen with a truly meditative mind, nothing but a direct route into the interior of the cosmic mystery, where in the alternation between inhaling and exhaling, between heaven and earth, between Yin and Yang, holiness is forever being created. ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
1385:I could not give up either of these worlds, neither the book I am holding nor the gleaming forest, though I have told you almost nothing of what is said here on these grim pages, from the sentences of which I’ve conjured images of a bleak site years ago. Here in this room, I suppose, is to be found the interior world of the book; but it opens upon a world beyond the windows, where no event has been collapsed into syntax, where the vocabulary, it seems, is infinite. The indispensable connection for me lies with the open space (of the open window ajar year round, never closed) that lets the breath of every winter storm, the ripping wind and its pelting rain, enter the room. ~ Barry Lopez, #NFDB
1386:dairy products. This includes the Swiss in the high Alps, the Arabs (using camel's milk), and the Asiatic races (using milk of sheep and musk ox). In the second place there are those using liberally the organs of animals, and the eggs of birds, wild and domesticated. These include the Indians of the far North, the buffalo hunting Plains Indians and the Andean tribes. In the third place there are those using liberally animal life of the sea. These include Pacific Islanders and coastal tribes throughout the world. In the fourth place there are those using small animals and insects. These include the Australian Aborigines in the interior, and the African tribes in the interior. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1387:La iluminación significa levantarse por encima del pensamiento, no caer a un nivel inferior del pensamiento, el nivel de un animal o una planta. En el estado iluminado, usted todavía usa su mente pensante cuando la necesita, pero en una forma mucho más enfocada y efectiva que antes. La usa sobre todo con fines prácticos, pero está libre del diálogo interno involuntario y hay una quietud interior. Cuando usted usa la mente y particularmente cuando se necesita una solución creativa, usted oscila unos cuantos minutos entre el pensamiento y la quietud, entre la mente y la no-mente. La no-mente es conciencia sin pensamiento. Sólo de esta forma es posible pensar creativamente, ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
1388:To look at a star by glances—to view it in a side-long way, by turning toward it the exterior portions of the retina (more susceptible of feeble impressions of light than the interior), is to behold the star distinctly—is to have the best appreciation of its lustre—a lustre which grows dim just in proportion as we turn our vision fully upon it. A greater number of rays actually fall upon the eye in the latter case, but in the former, there is the more refined capacity for comprehension. By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct. ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
1389:Her dizziness has faded, but the rocking sensation continues. She feels as if her footing has been swept out from under her. Her body's interior has lost all necessary weight and is becoming a cavern. Some kind of hand is deftly stripping away everything that has constituted her as Eri until now: the organs, the senses, the muscles, the memories. She knows she will end up as a mere convenient conduit used for the passage of external things. Her flesh creeps with the overwhelming sense of isolation this gives her. I hate this! she screams. I don't want to he changed this way! But her intended scream never emerges. All that leaves her throat in reality is a fading whimper. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1390:Reading has a kernel to it, and the mere shed is little worth. In prayer there is such a thing as praying in prayer—a praying that is in the bowels of the prayer. So in praise there is a praising in song, an inward fire of intense devotion which is the life of the hallelujah. It is so in fasting: there is a fasting which is not fasting, and there is an inward fasting, a fasting of the soul, which is the soul of fasting. It is even so with the reading of the Scriptures. There is an interior reading, a kernel reading—a true and living reading of the Word. This is the soul of reading; and, if it be not there, the reading is a mechanical exercise, and profits nothing. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1391:Ya me va bien —me dije,
haciéndole mimos a Hamid—, al final, lo que
cuenta son estas muchachas tan competentes que no
se han encontrado ni una de las dificultades con las
que yo he tenido que vérmelas. Tienen unos
modales, unas voces, unas exigencias, unas
pretensiones, una conciencia de sí mismas que yo
ni siquiera hoy me atrevo a permitirme. Otros,
otras no tienen esa suerte. En los países con cierto
bienestar ha predominado una medianía que oculta
los horrores del resto del mundo. Cuando de esos
horrores se desprende una violencia que llega
hasta el interior de nuestras ciudades y nuestras
costumbres nos sobresaltamos, nos alarmamos ~ Elena Ferrante,#NFDB
1392:I’ve come to believe that what we need is a republic. People need to be run by people who like them, not boxed into a game they can’t win by people who can’t lose it. We need a head of state who’s been on the run. An interior minister who’s had the two o’clock knock and done solitary. A minister of agriculture who’s seen a spade fired in anger and done twenty years on the land. A health minister who’s had his life saved through swift transportation to a well-staffed, properly equipped hospital. An interior minister dedicated to dismantling the state with its futile bureaucratic waste and saving real money. And a police force that would put an end to the Bowmans of this world. ~ Derek Raymond, #NFDB
1393:In the Novel
He described her mouth as full of ashes.
So when he kissed her finally
he was thinking about ashes
and the blacker rim just below
the edge of the ashtray,
and the faint dark rim that outlined her lips,
and the lips themselves, at the limit
of another darkness, farther
and far more interior.
Then the way the red,
paling, just outside those lines
caught fire and the pages caught
soon after that. Slowly at first,
but then all at once
at the scalloped brown corners of each;
like the ruff of an offended and darkening bird,
extended, then folded
in on itself; multiple,
stiffening, gone. ~ Susan Stewart,#NFDB
1394:The police, he imagined, were now walking around the parked car. He imagined their bandit chaser was parked beside the car and now they were walking around it and looking at it and not saying anything. Now they were inside it. They would see the interior of the automobile. They were tremendous, these police, because the next thing they would do was to look at each other. They would look around at the night air. They would just stand there. The police, he told himself, were marvelous when it came to just standing there. Sometimes they elaborated on it a little and pushed their caps back and forth on their heads. Nobody could push a cap back and forth on his head like a policeman. ~ David Goodis, #NFDB
1395:people of Yarba, who resold them to the Christians." " The inhabitants of this province (Yarba) it is supposed originated from the remnant of the children of Canaan, who were of the tribe of Nimrod. The cause of their establishment in the West of Africa was, as it is stated, in consequence of their being driven by Yar-rooba, son of Kahtan, out of Arabia to the Western Coast between Egypt and Abyssinia. From that spot they advanced into the interior of Africa, till they reach Yarba where they fixed their residence. On their way they left in every place they stopped at, a tribe of their own people. Thus it is supposed that all the tribes of the Soudan who inhabit the mountains are ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
1396:Dollar for dollar, no other society approaches the United States in terms of the number of square feet per person, the number of baths per bedroom, the number of appliances in the kitchen, the quality of the climate control, and the convenience of the garage. The American private realm is simply a superior product. The problem is that most suburban residents, the minute the leave this refuge, are confronted by a tawdry and stressful environment. They enter their cars and embark on a journey of banality and hostility that lasts until they arrive that interior of their next destination. Americans may have the finest private realm in the developed world, but our public realm is brutal. ~ Andr s Duany, #NFDB
1397:Passados dois meses de tantas histórias, comecei a pensar no sentido da solidão. Um estado interior que não depende da distância nem do isolamento, um vazio que invade as pessoas e que a simples companhia ou presença humana não podem preencher, solidão foi a única coisa que eu não senti, depois de partir. Nunca. Em momento algum. Estava, sim, atacado de uma voraz saudade. De tudo e de todos, de coisas e pessoas que há muito tempo não via. Mas a saudade às vezes faz bem ao coração. Valoriza os sentimentos, acende as esperanças e apaga as distâncias. Quem tem um amigo, mesmo que um só, não importa onde se encontre, jamais sofrerá de solidão; poderá morrer de saudades, mas não estará só. ~ Amyr Klink, #NFDB
1398:«Caduca mi burbuja», leemos al principio del libro. Me parece una posible sinopsis de estos instantes de perfección destinados a quebrarse, tal como estalla una esfera entre las manos. Con hiriente delicadeza, Marcela Ribadeneira demuestra que conoce la simetría y sus accidentes, la forma literaria y su elástico nervio. Por eso se trata de un debut de alto nivel. Con un ritmo puntuado a cuchilladas, sus matrioskas contienendiminutas intimidades que liberan partículas de elegante tragedia. Bestiarios de interior. Epifanías parciales. Reflejos que meditan. Si «la repugnancia está en el espejo», su antídoto suele hallarse en la identidad literaria, siempre más verdadera que la nuestra. ~ Andr s Neuman, #NFDB
1399:Even if he didn’t profit from the options, at least he got to enjoy the airplane. Not surprisingly he fretted over how the interior would be designed. It took him more than a year. He used Ellison’s plane as a starting point and hired his designer. Pretty soon he was driving her crazy. For example, Ellison’s had a door between cabins with an open button and a close button. Jobs insisted that his have a single button that toggled. He didn’t like the polished stainless steel of the buttons, so he had them replaced with brushed metal ones. But in the end he got the plane he wanted, and he loved it. “I look at his airplane and mine, and everything he changed was better,” said Ellison. ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
1400:La búsqueda del maestro. A Musá Najib le preguntaron por qué cobraba honorarios a aquellos que asistían a sus sesiones y por qué a menudo ni siquiera se dirigía a su público. Dijo: “Cobro por esta lección objetiva: la gente cree que el conocimiento debe darse gratis y, por lo tanto, confunde todo lo que es gratis por conocimiento. No siempre doy conferencias, porque, entre los Sufis 'el maestro encuentra al discípulo'. El discípulo debe estar físicamente presente, pero puede estar ausente en cualquier otro sentido. Cuando percibo que un discípulo está 'presente', entonces lo 'encuentro', porque su llamado interior es oído por mí, aunque sea silencioso para él.” “Busca y serás hallado. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
1401:Nervous systems gradually enabled a process of multidimensional mapping of the world around them, a world that begins in the organism’s interior, so that minds—and feelings within those minds—would be possible. The mapping was based on varied sensory abilities, which eventually came to include smell, taste, touch, hearing, and vision. As will become clear in chapters 4 through 9, the making of minds—and of feelings in particular—is grounded on interactions of the nervous system and its organism. Nervous systems make minds not by themselves but in cooperation with the rest of their own organisms. This is a departure from the traditional view of brains as the sole source of minds. ~ Ant nio R Dam sio, #NFDB
1402:—¿Está seguro de que quiere que la mujer acabe muerta?—dijo Pai—.Las dudas son malas en negocios como este. Si existe la más mínima duda en su interior...
—No hay ninguna —señaló Estabrook—. Vine aquí para encontrar a un hombre que matara a mi esposa. Usted es ese hombre
—Aún la ama, ¿verdad?— preguntó Pai una vez que estuvieron fuera y de camino al coche.
—Por supuesto que la amo—confirmó Estabrook—. Por eso la quiero muerta.
-No existe la resurrección, señor Estabrook. Al menos, no para usted.
—No soy yo quien va a morir—respondió Charlie.
—Yo creo que sí—Fue la respuesta (...)—.Un hombre que mata aquello que ama muere también un poco. De eso no hay duda, ¿verdad? ~ Clive Barker,#NFDB
1403:Soon after Cortez conquered Mexico, the French explorer Jacques Cartier cautiously sailed his ships up America’s North Atlantic coast. In 1534 his expedition explored the coast of Canada, and like Cortez, he also wanted to venture inland in search of treasures and new cities. To prepare for the excursion into the interior, he kidnapped Taignoagny and Agaya, two coastal natives whom he took back to France with him to teach them to speak French. Cartier returned in the spring of the following year with the interpreters, whom he used to guide his ships up the St. Lawrence River to the Huron territory of Chief Donnaconna and on to the Huron village of Hochelaga, which became Montreal. ~ Jack Weatherford, #NFDB
1404:I ran my fingers around the interior of the skull getting the last few clumps of brain mater and sucked them from my fingers like icing from a mixing bowl. Desperately not wanting to wipe my mouth, I straightened and moved to the surviving gun man, crouched and did a quick pat down to make sure he didn't have another gun on him. No weapons but I did find a pack of cigarettes and a lighter in his shirt pocket. Grinning down at him I pulled the cigarette out and stuck it between my bloody lips and lit it, even allowed myself one sweet drag. Just one, didn't want to waste too many brains. But damn the moment called for it. I was reformed but I'd never be perfect. And that was okay with me. ~ Diana Rowland, #NFDB
1405:Boots clicked on concrete as he climbed the steps to the doors. He walked right up to the glass and peered inside. Shadowy interior. He huffed once, not liking the lack of light in the least, and flicked up the motorcycle’s visor. His eyes were an alert blue, with lines at the corners. He took another contemplative breath. Of course they were in there, somewhere, just waiting for him. For anyone. If he was smart, he should just about-face and march his leather-clad ass out of there. But he needed what the hospital potentially offered. Gus cursed and looked behind, considering the open doors of his van. He studied the empty space of the land, to the tree line beyond. Nothing in sight, ~ Keith C Blackmore, #NFDB
1406:Ele prosseguiu: - É possível adquirir uma vasta gama de conhecimento simplismente extraindo nossas camadas externas e examinando o que há no interior. Talvez você suponha que haja uma constante... ou um esquema, se preferir, válido para o que existe na parte interna de todo organismo vivo, independentemente de seu formato e ambiente. Mas sua teoria estaria equivocada. Não existem constantes, só variáveis, e ainda assim todos os organismos se esforçam para alcançar um objetivo comum.
- E que objetivo é esse? - perguntou Eva, olhando para a coleção de plantas e animais na mesa de Zim.
- Entender isso, Eva Nove, é entender um dos maiores mistérios do universo: por que estamos aqui? ~ Tony DiTerlizzi,#NFDB
1407:The last glow of sundown dims away. Stars appear in the east. Night encloses us. The ocean seems to enlarge. When you’re adrift at night, imagination and perception merge. They have to. You can’t see as well, as far, as deep. You tie knots by muscle memory, and you operate your reel mostly by feel. Your boat drifts, your thoughts drift. You sense the sweep of tide and water, and the boat gets rocked in turbulence just past each undersea ridgeline and boulder field. You, too, are looking up, searching constellations, dreaming. You fell again how flexible and expansive your mind can be when it’s working right. And you slip your leash to explore the vast vault of sky and great interior spaces. ~ Carl Safina, #NFDB
1408:You still want to know, don’t you? You’re still curious. I mean, I don’t blame you. Here’s the thing: does it matter exactly what happened and why those girls were excluded? It’s irrelevant. It happened. Done. Over. I’d rather not go into it. We don’t have to reveal everything to each other. That’s another thing I’ve learned in therapy: it’s OK to be private. It’s OK to say no. It’s OK to say, “I’m not going to share that.” So, if you don’t mind, let’s just leave it there. I mean, I appreciate your interest and concern, I really do. But you don’t need to pollute your brain with that stuff. Go and, like, listen to a nice song instead. MY SERENE AND LOVING FAMILY—FILM TRANSCRIPT INTERIOR. ~ Sophie Kinsella, #NFDB
1409:Does the body really transmit information about its condition to the nervous system, or does the body blend in with the nervous system so that the latter can be continuously apprised of its status? We can conclude from what we have discussed thus far that each of these two accounts corresponds to a different age in the evolution of body-brain relationships and to different levels of neural processing. The blending-in account is the only way of describing how the old interior, using old functional arrangements, interweaves body and brain. The transmission account fits well the more modern aspects of brain anatomy and function and how they capture both the old and the not so old interior. ~ Ant nio R Dam sio, #NFDB
1410:As I lay there, listening to the soft slap of the sea, and thinking these sad and strange thoughts, more and more and more stars had gathered, obliterating the separateness of the Milky Way and filling up the whole sky. And far far away in that ocean of gold, stars were silently shooting and falling and finding their fates, among these billions and billions of merging golden lights. And curtain after curtain of gauze was quietly removed, and I saw stars behind stars behind stars, as in the magical Odeons of my youth. And I saw into the vast soft interior of the universe which was slowly and gently turning itself inside out. I went to sleep, and in my sleep I seemed to hear a sound of singing. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
1411:The third sign we have for ascertaining whether this dryness be the purgation of sense, is inability to meditate and make reflections, and to excite the imagination, as before, notwithstanding all the efforts we may make; for God begins now to communicate Himself, no longer through the channel of sense, as formerly, in consecutive reflections, by which we arranged and divided our knowledge, but in pure spirit, which admits not of successive reflections, and in the act of pure contemplation, to which neither the interior nor the exterior senses of our lower nature can ascend. Hence it is that the fancy and the imagination cannot help or suggest any reflections, nor use them ever afterwards. ~ Juan de la Cruz, #NFDB
1412:Ponerse un huipil era toda una iniciación, al hacerlo uno repetía diariamente el viaje interior hacie el exterior. Al meter la cabeza por el orificio del huipil, uno transitaba entre el mundo de sueños que está reflejado en el bordado hacia la vida que aparece en cuanto uno saca la cabeza.Ese despertar a la realidad es un acto ritual matutino que recuerda día a día el significado del nacimiento.Los huipiles la mantienen a una con la cabeza en el centro, cubierta por delante, por detrás y por los costados. Esta cruz que forma la tela bordada del huipil significa estar plantada en el centro del universo. Alumbrada por el sol y arropada por los cuatro vientos, los cuatro rumbos, los cuatro elemntos. ~ Laura Esquivel, #NFDB
1413:The Palazzo Tè stands in a swamp, among this sort of vegetation; and is, indeed, as singular a place as I ever saw. Not for its dreariness, though it is very dreary. Not for its dampness, though it is very damp. Nor for its desolate condition, though it is as desolate and neglected as house can be. But chiefly for the unaccountable nightmares with which its interior has been decorated (among other subjects of more delicate execution), by Giulio Romano. There is a leering Giant over a certain chimney-piece, and there are dozens of Giants (Titans warring with Jove) on the walls of another room, so inconceivably ugly and grotesque, that it is marvellous how any man can have imagined such creatures. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
1414:By creating the Third Order, though, Francis did accept the distinction between radical commitment and the necessity of living in the world. The point of the Third Order is to accept with humility the task of one’s secular profession and its requirements, wherever one happens to be, while directing one’s whole life to that deep interior communion with Christ that Francis showed us. “To own goods as if you owned nothing” (cf. 1 Cor 7:29ff.)—to master this inner tension, which is perhaps the more difficult challenge, and, sustained by those pledged to follow Christ radically, truly to live it out ever anew—that is what the third orders are for. And they open up for us what this Beatitude can mean for all. ~ Benedict XVI, #NFDB
1415:Hay muchas personas mayores que se complacen en torturar a los niños, pero sólo a los niños. Con los adultos, tales individuos se muestran cariñosos y amables, como europeos cultos y humanitarios, pero experimentan un placer especial en hacer sufrir a los niños: es su modo de amarlos. La confianza angelical de estas indefensas criaturas seduce a las personas crueles. Estas personas no saben a dónde ir ni a quién dirigirse, y ello excita sus malos instintos. Todos los hombres llevan un demonio en su interior, hijo de un carácter colérico, del sadismo, de un desencantamiento de pasiones innobles, de enfermedades contraídas en un régimen de libertinaje, de la gota, del mal funcionamiento del hígado... ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
1416:I’d take you home with me, see, but two of us in the same Behold? Just wouldn’t work, ends up in all sorts of squabbles over interior design; and the human, well, one faery in the Behold of the Eye, that just gives them a little twinkle of imagination, but more than one and it’s like a bloody fireworks display. They get all unstable and artistic, blinded by the glamour of everything, real or imagined, concrete or abstract. They get confused between beauty and truth and meaning, you see, start thinking every butterfly-brained idea must be true; before you know it they’ve gone schizo on you and you’re in a three-way firefight with all the angels and the demons, them and their bloody ideologies. ~ Hal Duncan, #NFDB
1417:We could express this power in the following way: Most of the time we live in an interior world of dreams, desires, and obsessive thoughts. But in this period of exceptional creativity, we are impelled by the need to get something done that has a practical effect. We force ourselves to step outside our inner chamber of habitual thoughts and connect to the world, to other people, to reality. Instead of flitting here and there in a state of perpetual distraction, our minds focus and penetrate to the core of something real. At these moments, it is as if our minds—turned outward—are now flooded with light from the world around us, and suddenly exposed to new details and ideas, we become more inspired and creative. ~ Robert Greene, #NFDB
1418:Lines Addressed To Lieut. R.W.H. Hardy, R.N.
ON THE PERUSAL OF HIS VOLUME OF TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF MEXICO.
'Tis pleasant, lolling in our elbow-chair,
Secure at home, to read descriptions rare
Of venturous traveller in savage climes;
His hair-breadth 'scapes, toil, hunger-and sometimes
The merrier passages that, like a foil
To set off perils past, sweetened that toil,
And took the edge from danger; and I look
With such fear-mingled pleasure through thy book,
Adventurous Hardy! Thou a diver art,
But of no common form; and, for thy part
Of the adventure, hast brought home to the nation
Pearls of discovery-jewels of observation.
Enfield, January, 1830.
~ Charles Lamb,#NFDB
1419:Pentru prima oara iubea cu adevarat. Desi, in anumite privinte, era mult prea matur pentru varsta lui, in ce priveste sentimentele fusese pana atunci un copil sau un salbatic. Presimtea ca in forul sau interior se nastea ceva tainic, ca o lume cu totul noua era pe cale sa i se deschida.(...) Fata de aceasta fata era insa plin de gingasie. Se purta atat de cavalereste cu ea si se temu atat de mult sa n-o jigneasca, incat abia tarziu de tot, mult dupa ce se cunoscura, indrazni sa-i ceara o sarutare o data, la despartire. Si cand ea se rosi toata, cedand rugamintii lui, fu cat pe ce sa-si regrete indrazneala. Cand ii atinse gura feciorelnica si-i fura caldura buzelor, avu simtamantul ca a comis un sacrilegiu. ~ Henrik Pontoppidan, #NFDB
1420:That is why it is said in Ecclesiastes,5 “What doth he know,” asks the wise man, “that hath not been tried? . . . he that hath no experience knoweth little . . . he that hath not been tried, what manner of things doth he know?” Jeremiah also bears witness to the same truth, saying: “Thou hast chastised me, and I was instructed.”6 The most proper form of this chastening, for him who will apply himself unto wisdom, are those interior trials of which I am now speaking. They are that which most effectually purges sense of all sweetness and consolations, to which, by reason of our natural weakness, we are addicted, and by them the soul is really humbled that it may be prepared for its coming exaltation. 6. But how ~ Juan de la Cruz, #NFDB
1421:Esa necesidad de exteriorización es tanto más urgente cuanto más interior, profundo y concentrado es el lirismo.¿Por qué el hombre se vuelve lírico durante el sufrimiento y el amor? Porque esos dos estados, a pesar de que son diferentes por su naturaleza y su orientación, surgen de las profundidades del ser, del centro sustancial de la subjetividad, en cierto sentido. Nos volvemos líricos cuando la vida en nuestro interior palpita con un ritmo esencial. Lo que de único y específico poseemos se realiza de una manera tan expresiva que lo individual se eleva a nivel de lo universal. Las experiencias subjetivas más profundas son así mismo las más universales, por la simple razón de que alcanzan el fondo original de la 5 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1422:El adjetivo inoportuno hacía que uno quisiera ver inmediatamente si tenía manchada la ropa interior. Tenía, también, una vaguedad deliberada, como si nombrar lo que uno había hecho mal fuese repugnante, y atribuía cualidades morales a lo meramente normativo. La imparable costumbre moderna de recurrir a ese adjetivo teñía con un tenue brillo progresista lo que en realidad era conformismo reaccionario. Los que echaban mano de esa palabra para reprenderte por algo eran los mismos conservadores paranoicos que veían un pedófilo detrás de cada arbusto, pues últimamente se podía ser todo lo neurótico y sexualmente represivo que se quisiera siempre y cuando uno proyectara en los niños esa gazmoña repugnancia victoriana. ~ Lionel Shriver, #NFDB
1423:How is it that one day life is orderly and you are content, a little cynical perhaps but on the whole just so, and then without warning you find the solid floor is a trapdoor and you are now in another place whose geography is uncertain and whose customs are strange?
Travellers at least have a choice. Those who set sail know know that things will not be the same as at home. Explorers are prepared. But for us, who travel to cities of the interior by chance, there is no preparation. We who are fluent find life is a foreign language. Somewhere between the swamp and the mountains. Somewhere between fear and sex. Somewhere between God and the Devil passion is and the way there is sudden and the way back worse. ~ Jeanette Winterson,#NFDB
1424:No ofrecer resistencia a la vida es estar en un estado de gracia, sosiego y levedad. Ese estado ya no depende de que las cosas sean de cierto modo, buenas o malas. Parece casi paradójico, sin embargo que cuando su dependencia interior de la formas ha desaparecido, las condiciones generales de su vida, las formas externas, tienden a mejorar en gran medida. Las cosas, las personas o las condiciones que usted pensaba que necesitaba para su felicidad llegan ahora a usted sin esfuerzo de su parte y usted está libre para gozarlas y apreciarlas, mientras duren. Todas esas cosas, por supuesto, se irán, los ciclos irán y vendrán, pero una vez desaparecida la dependencia ya no hay temor a la pérdida. La vida fluye con facilidad ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1425:—¿Quién lo ha hecho? ¿Quién nos ha hecho esto? ¿Fue Gibarian? ¿Giese? ¿Einstein? ¿Platón? Eran todos unos delincuentes, ¿sabes? Piensa que, en el interior de un cohete, el ser humano puede estallar como una burbuja, o solidificarse, o cocerse, o vaciarse de sangre tan rápido que no le dé tiempo ni a gritar; después, los huesecillos golpearán las paredes de chapa, mientras dan vueltas por las órbitas de Newton corregidas por Einstein; ¡son los sonajeros del progreso! Nosotros acudimos sin protestar, porque es un camino precioso; por fin hemos llegado y nos hemos realizado, aquí, en estas celdas, sobre estos platos, entre friegaplatos inmortales, rodeados de un ejército de fieles armarios y devotas tazas de WC. (...) ~ Stanis aw Lem, #NFDB
1426:On Guard
I know how
to build fences.
I've built my border
for years.
Routinely, I repair
attempted entries
into
my space.
Everyone is suspect,
gray-haired women,
a child's hand
reaching in,
people disguised
as rocks,
all possible invasions.
Don't be deceived:
I savor
my isolation,
my dark interior.
Silence, please.
Your opinions
are unwelcome.
Your jabber,
your many tongues
bore me
but will never bore
into my well-guarded
space. All the un-me
is alien. I take pride
in being on guard.
I'm willing to share
my strategies–
threats, barks,
explosions–
for remaining untouched
–in here–
by the world's
garbage. ~ Pat Mora,#NFDB
1427:In The Garden Iii: An Interior
THE grass around my limbs is deep and sweet;
Yonder the house has lost its shadow wholly,
The blinds are dropped, and softly now and slowly
The day flows in and floats; a calm retreat
Of temper'd light where fair things fair things meet;
White busts and marble Dian make it holy,
Within a niche hangs Durer's "Melancholy"
Brooding; and, should you enter, there will greet
Your sense with vague allurement effluence faint
Of one magnolia bloom; fair fingers draw
From the piano Chopin's heart-complaint;
Alone, white-robed she sits; a fierce macaw
On the verandah, proud of plume and paint,
Screams, insolent despot, showing beak and claw.
~ Edward Dowden,#NFDB
1428:In the main courtyard, the pool is a sapphire under the sun, shooting liquid rainbows into the house at oblique angles. How she adores submergence. She is a healer of human cracks and fissures, her days spent dealing with her patients struggles and agonies, the emotional and psychic often embodied in the physical. She uncovers all the states and syndromes that can spark and catch fire from infancy on, searing a being, those flames rarely sputtering out on their own. She works hard quenching the symptoms, providing parents with answers, and the toddlers, children, and teenagers with techniques to manage their frightening infernos, helping them douse the alarming heat and gain interior strength against what is burning them up. ~ Cherise Wolas, #NFDB
1429:People who love as you do, with that plentitude and fire, always forget what others experience. The lover is not the one to be pitied: he quenches his thirst with his own pain, his own fire feeds him; but the loved one is like dry cracked ground that we ask to produce fountains and lakes; he receives all the offerings and homage of a lover and says nothing; he is a man with no answers and no voice because he is worn out. The gifts of youth dazzle and astonish him but he, the dying man who is not yet quite dead, who still loves life, who thinks first of all of protecting his peace, his interior fortress, really he finds nothing to say. The other’s love is transformed into a reproach because he does not know how to answer it. ~ Marie Claire Blais, #NFDB
1430:unusual in comparison with other tree nuts since the nut is outside the fruit. The cashew apple is an edible false fruit, attached to the externally born nut by a stem. In its raw state, the shell of the nut is leathery, not brittle. It contains the thick vesicant oil, CNSL, within a sponge-like interior. A thin testa skin surrounds the kernel and keeps it separated from the inside of the shell. The primary products of cashew nuts are the kernels which have value as confectionery nuts. Cashew nut shell liquid (CNSL) is an important industrial raw material for resin manufacture and the shells can be burned to provide heat for the decorticating operation. Cashew Apple Nut ShellFigure 2: Cross-section of a Cashew Fruit Tasta Skin Kernal ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1431:Her gray, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home. I'd been writing letters once a week and signing them: "Love, Nick," and all I could think of was how, when a certain girl played tennis, a faint mustache of perspiration appeared on her upper lip. Nevertheless there was a vague understanding that had to be tactfully broken off before I was free. Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people I have ever known. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
1432:A todo esto, yo me sentía muy mal. Vivía en una orgía autodestructiva y constante; y mientras mis compañeros me consideraban un cabecilla y un jabato, un muchacho valiente y juerguista, mi alma atemorizada aleteaba llena de angustia en lo más profundo de mi ser. Recuerdo que al salir de una taberna un domingo por la mañana me brotaron las lágrimas al ver unos niños jugando en la calle, limpios y alegres, recién peinados y vestidos de domingo. Y mientras yo me divertía y a menudo, en torno a una mesa sucia en tabernas de baja estofa, asustaba a mis amigos con mi inaudito cinismo, tenía en el fondo del corazón un gran respeto por todo aquello que ridiculizaba y en mi interior me arrodillaba ante mi alma, ante mi pasado, ante mi madre. ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
1433:Population control was a long-standing public-policy concern. “We need to make population and family planning household words,” Bush said. “The sensationalism needs to be taken out of the subject.” He urged the creation of a joint House-Senate panel on family planning and related issues. “Population control and family planning is too important to whisper and giggle about now,” Bush said. He credited his interest in the issue to his involvement with Planned Parenthood in Houston. Bush raised the stakes in the fall of 1969, proposing that the Department of the Interior become a new federal Department of Resources, Environment, and Population. His interest in legislation about “family-planning services” led Wilbur Mills to refer to Bush as ~ Jon Meacham, #NFDB
1434:...the spiritual life is the life of man's real self, the life of that interior self whose flame is so often allowed to be smothered under the ashes of anxiety and futile concern. The spiritual life is oriented toward God, rather than toward the immediate satisfaction of the material needs of life, but it is not, for all that, a life of unreality or a life of dreams. On the contrary, without a life of the spirit, our whole existence becomes unsubstantial and illusory. The life of the spirit, by integrating us in the real order established by God, puts us in the fullest possible contact with reality--not as we imagine it, but as it really is. It does so by making us aware of our own real selves, and placing them in the presence of God. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
1435:Gaia is a thin spherical shell of matter that surrounds the incandescent interior; it begins where the crustal rocks meet the magma of the Earth’s hot interior, about 100 miles below the surface, and proceeds another 100 miles outwards through the ocean and air to the even hotter thermosphere at the edge of space. It includes the biosphere and is a dynamic physiological system that has kept our planet fit for life for over three billion years. I call Gaia a physiological system because it appears to have the unconscious goal of regulating the climate and the chemistry at a comfortable state for life. Its goals are not set points but adjustable for whatever is the current environment and adaptable to whatever forms of life it carries. ~ James E Lovelock, #NFDB
1436:Migration statistics offer a hint of the shift. More than 170,000 migrants and refugees arrived in Italy by sea last year; Syrians and Eritreans were the two largest groups among them, accounting for more than 76,000 people, according to Italy’s Interior Ministry. Gambians ranked a distant fifth. Yet during the first quarter of 2015, a relatively slow period with just 10,165 arrivals — Gambia was the leading country of origin, accounting for 1,413 of the migrants. The authorities have not published figures for April yet, but humanitarian and migration groups confirm that a majority of the arriving migrants came originally from sub-Saharan African countries — some directly, with Italy as a destination, but many end up here less deliberately. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1437:Muchos años más tarde, cuando empecé las prácticas de cirugía estética, comprendí algo que se me había escapado aquel día en la cocina, cuando intenté convencer a Thalia de que cambiara Tinos por un internado londinense. Comprendí que el mundo no ve el interior de las personas, y que poco importan las esperanzas, penas y sueños que albergamos bajo una máscara de piel y hueso. Es así de sencillo, cruel y absurdo. Mis pacientes lo sabían. Veían cuanto eran, serían o podían aspirar a ser, supeditado a la simetría de su estructura ósea, al espacio entre los ojos, la longitud del mentón, la proyección de la nariz, la idoneidad del ángulo nasofrontal.
La belleza es un inmenso e inmerecido regalo que se reparte al azar, sin ton ni son. ~ Khaled Hosseini,#NFDB
1438:Depende de como você entende essa palavra, "esotérico" significa interno. O esoterismo encerra a idéia da existência de um círculo interno da humanidade. Lembra-se de como a humanidade foi descrita como constituída de quatro círculos - o esotérico, o mesotérico e o exotérico, que formam o círculo interior, e o círculo exterior no qual vivemos? A idéia de esoterismo implica a idéia de transmissão do conhecimento; presume a existência de um grupo de pessoas a quem pertence um certo conhecimento. Não se deve compreender isso de alguma forma mística, porém mais precisamente, de forma concreta. Há muitas diferenças entre os círculos interno e externo. Por exemplo, muitas coisas que queremos descobrir ou criar só podem existir no círculo interno. ~ P D Ouspensky, #NFDB
1439:Image making of any sort, from simple to complex, is the result of the neural devices that assemble maps and that later allow maps to interact so that combined images generate ever more complex sets and come to represent the universes external to the nervous system, inside and outside the organism. The distribution of maps and corresponding images is not even. The images related to the interior world are first integrated in brain-stem nuclei, although they are re-represented and expanded in a few key regions of the cerebral cortex such as the insular cortices and the cingulate cortices. The images related to the exterior world are integrated mostly in the cerebral cortex, although the superior colliculi have an integrative role as well. ~ Ant nio R Dam sio, #NFDB
1440:First, using images made from the oldest components of the organism’s interior—the processes of metabolic chemistry largely carried out in viscera and in the blood circulation and the movements they generated—nature gradually fashioned feelings. Second, using images from a less ancient component of the interior—the skeletal frame and the muscles attached to it—nature generated a representation of the encasement of each life, a literal representation of the house inhabited by each life. The eventual combination of these two sets of representations opened the way for consciousness. Third, using the same image-making devices and an inherent power of images—the power to stand for and symbolize something else—nature developed verbal languages. ~ Ant nio R Dam sio, #NFDB
1441:Find someone who has never been to your church. That’s usually a pretty easy task. Ask them to assess all of the church’s facilities, from the signage to the parking lot to the exterior to the interior. Ask them to take copious notes. Perhaps you can even pay them a small stipend for the effort. Actually, let me make it easier on you. Go to ThomRainer.com and get the free facility audit. Have the guest complete it. Make certain you ask them to be perfectly transparent and truthful, even if the process is a bit painful. After they have looked over all of your facilities and grounds, take the information and assess it yourself. Perhaps you bring in a few key leaders. It’s time to face the reality of what guests see when they come to your church. ~ Thom S Rainer, #NFDB
1442:The number of hands that have been wrung and fingers that have been wagged at girls who dare give voice name to their interior lives suggests that the written history of the world is absolutely awash with the stuff. But the female voice, and the girl’s voice especially, is characterized mostly by the deafening silence it emits from the canon... As brightly as these girls shine, there remain wet blankets around every corner attempting to extinguish the flames in their hearts. They are dismissed as excessively feminine and juvenile, two words that mean the same thing in the hearts and minds of critics who would sooner praise a six-volume gaze at a Norwegian man’s navel than consider the possibility that there are treasures in the hearts of girls. ~ Alana Massey, #NFDB
1443:Certas expressões, habituais na educação pela boca de pais e mestres, retratam com exatidão o que aqui descrevi como técnica muscular de encouraçamento. Uma das peças centrais da educação atual é o aprendizado do autocontrole. "Quem quer ser homem deve dominar-se." "Não se deve deixar-se levar." "Não se deve demonstrar medo." "Cólera é falta de educação." "Uma criança decente senta-se quieta." "Não se deve demonstrar o que se sente." "Deve-se cerrar os dentes." Essas frases, características da educação, inicialmente são repelidas pelas crianças, depois aceitas com relutância, laboradas e, por fim, exercitadas. Entortam-lhes — via de regra — a espinha da alma, quebram-lhes a vontade, destroem-lhes a vida interior, fazem delas bonecos bem educados. ~ Wilhelm Reich, #NFDB
1444:¡Se sentía tan sola y abandonada! Un chile en nogada olvidado en una charola después de un gran banquete no se sentiría peor que ella. Cuántas veces sola en la cocina se había tenido que comer una de estas delicias antes de permitir que se echara a perder. El que nadie se coma el último chile en una charola, generalmente sucede cuando la gente no quiere demostrar su gula y aunque les encantaría devorarlo, nadie se atreve. Y es así como se rechaza a un chile relleno que contiene todos los sabores imaginables, lo dulce del acitrón, lo picoso del chile, lo sutil de la nogada, lo refrescante de la granada, ¡un maravilloso chile en nogada! Que contiene en su interior todos los secretos del amor, pero que nadie podrá desentrañar a causa de la decencia. ~ Laura Esquivel, #NFDB
1445:The interior was dim like a cave. The ceiling, pressed tin, was stalactited with hooks from the days when the shopkeeper would hang it with buckets, watering cans, coils of rope and paired boots. Refrigerator cases lined a side wall, shallow crates of withered fruit and vegetables the back, and in the vast middle ground were aisles of rickety shelving, stacked with anything from tinned peaches to tampons. The sole cash register was adjacent to the entrance, next to ranks of daily newspapers and weekly and monthly magazines and a little bookcase thumbtacked with a sign, Library. If you were a farmer in need of an axe or some some sheep dip you headed for the far back corner. If you wanted to buy a stamp, you headed a couple of paces past the library. ~ Garry Disher, #NFDB
1446:Funny thing about Gabby: you wouldn’t know it from looking at him, with his golden halo and platonic beauty, but the guy was something of a pack rat. He’d been collecting little odds and ends since at least the double-digit redshifts. The interior reality of Gabriel’s Magisterium burbled and shifted like convection currents in a star on the zaftig end of the main sequence. Because, I realized, that’s what they were. Dull dim light, from IR to X-ray, oozed past me like the wax in a million-mile lava lamp while carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen nuclei did little do-si-dos about my toes. Every bubble, every sizzle, every new nucleus, every photodissociation tagged something of interest to Gabriel. The heart of this star smelled of roses and musty libraries. ~ Ian Tregillis, #NFDB
1447:Hi," she said. The gloomy interior of the car lit up with a warm green glow and the scent of sage filled the air. Virginia rubbed her forefinger and thumb together, and in the mirror, Josh saw a tiny ball of green energy appear. She flicked the ball at the motorcyclist.
"You missed!" Dee snapped.
"Here,let me..."
"Patience,Doctor,patience," Virginia said.
The rubber on the bike's front tire abruptly crumbled to black powder. Spokes collapsed, the wheel buckled and the bike careered across the road, the front forks scraping a shower of sparks from the concrete. Then the bike hit the low restraining wall on the bay side of the road and the rider was catapulted over it, disappearing without a sound.
"Subtle,as always, Virginia," Dee said. ~ Michael Scott,#NFDB
1448:Prestávamos atenção às palavras para sabermos como eram ditas as coisas. Porque alguns livros pareciam perfumar a linguagem, outros sujavam-na e outros ignoravam-na. Os livros podiam ser atentos ou desatentos ao modo como contavam. Nós, inspeccionando muito rigorosamente, achávamos melhores aqueles que falavam como se inventassem modos de falar. Para percebermos melhor o que, afinal, era reconhecido mas nunca fora dito antes. Os melhores livros inauguravam expressões. Diziam-nas pela primeira vez como se as nascessem. Ideias que nasciam para caberem nos lugares obscuros da nossa existência. Andávamos como pessoas com luzes acesas dentro. As palavras como lâmpadas na boca. Iluminando tudo no interior da cabeça. (...) As palavras deixavam-nos mágicos. ~ Valter Hugo M e, #NFDB
1449:A Hall
The road led straight to the temple.
Notre Dame, though not Gothic at all.
The huge doors were closed. I chose one on the side,
Not to the main building-to its left wing,
The one in green copper, worn into gaps below.
I pushed. Then it was revealed:
An astonishing large hall, in warm light.
Great statues of sitting women-goddesses,
In draped robes, marked it with a rhythm.
Color embraced me like the interior of a purple-brown flower
Of unheard-of size. I walked, liberated
From worries, pangs of conscience, and fears.
I knew I was there as one day I would be.
I woke up serene, thinking that this dream
Answers my question, often asked:
How is it when one passes the last threshold?
~ Czeslaw Milosz,#NFDB
1450:However, traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings and in numbing awareness of what is played out inside. They learn to hide from their selves.
The more people try to push away and ignore internal warning signs, the more likely they are to take over and leave them bewildered, confused, and ashamed. People who cannot comfortably notice what is going on inside become vulnerable to respond to any sensory shift either by shutting down or by going into a panic — they develop a fear of fear itself. ~ Bessel A van der Kolk,#NFDB
1451:Alina era tan poco aficionada a todas esas fruslerías sobrenaturales como yo. A ambas nos encantaba leer y ver una película de vez en cuando, pero siempre nos decantábamos por los misterios corrientes, las historias de suspense o las comedias románticas, nunca por las extravagancias de lo paranormal.
¿Vampiros? ¡Puaj! Muertos, y con eso ya está dicho todo. ¿Viajar en el tiempo? Ja, yo prefiero las comodidades domésticas a tener que andar por ahí con un highlander que parece un armario ropero y tiene los modales de un cavernícola. ¿Hombres lobo? Oh, por favor, ¡que memez! ¿Qué mujer va a querer enrollarse con un hombre que está regido por su perro interior? Como si todos los hombres no lo estuvieran de todas formas, incluso sin el gen licantrópico. ~ Karen Marie Moning,#NFDB
1452:One of the more extreme claims of the Gaia camp, at present neither proven nor refuted, is that the influence of life over the eons has helped Earth hold on to her life-giving water, while Venus and Mars, lifeless through most of their existence, lost theirs. If so, then life may indeed be responsible for Earth’s plate tectonics. One of the original architects of plate tectonic theory, Norm Sleep from Stanford, has become thoroughly convinced that life is deeply implicated in the overall physical dynamics of Earth, including the “nonliving” interior domain. In describing the cumulative, long-term influence of life on geology, continent building, and plate tectonics, he wrote, “The net effect is Gaian. That is, life has modified Earth to its advantage.”6 ~ David Grinspoon, #NFDB
1453:¡Oh noche! ¡Oh refrescantes tinieblas! ¡Sois para mí señal de fiesta interior, sois liberación de una angustia! ¡En la soledad de las llanuras, en los laberintos pedregosos de una capital, centelleo de estrellas, explosión de linternas, sois el fuego de artificio de la diosa Libertad!
¡Crepúsculo, cuán dulce y tierno eres! Los resplandores sonrosados que se arrastran aún por el horizonte, como agonizar del día bajo la opresión victoriosa de su noche, las almas de los candelabros que ponen manchas de un rojo opaco en las últimas glorias del Poniente, los pesados cortinajes que corro una mano invisible de las profundidades del Oriente, inician todos los sentimientos complicados que luchan dentro del corazón del hombre en las horas solemnes de la vida. ~ Charles Baudelaire,#NFDB
1454:Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple and even simultaneous careers: I've been a chauffeur. A chef. An interior decorator. A landscape architect, as well as a gardener. I've been a painter. A furniture restorer. A personal shopper. A veterinarian's assistant and sometimes the veterinarian. I've been an accountant, a banker and on occasion, a broker. I've been a beautician. A map. A psychic. Santa Claus. The Tooth Fairy. The T.V. Guide. A movie reviewer. An angel. God. A nurse and a nursemaid. A psychiatrist and psychologist. Evangelist. For a long time I have felt like I inadvertently got my master's in How To Take Care of Everybody Except Yourself and then a Ph.D. in How to Pretend Like You Don't Mind. But I do mind. ~ Terry McMillan, #NFDB
1455:Que amo eu, quando Vos amo? Não amo a formosura corporal, nem a glória temporal, nem a claridade da luz, tão amiga destes meus olhos, nem as doces melodias das canções de todo o gênero, nem o suave cheiro das flores, dos perfumes ou dos aromas, nem o maná ou o mel, nem os membros tão flexíveis aos abraços da carne. Nada disso amo, quando amo a Deus. E contudo, amo uma luz, uma voz, um alimento e um abraço, quando amo a Deus, luz, voz, perfume do homem interior, onde brillha para minha alma uma luz que nenhum espaço contém, onde soa uma voz que o tempo não arrebata, onde exala um perfume que o vento não esparge, onde se saboreia uma comida que a sofreguidão não diminui, onde se sente um contato que a saciedade não desfaz. Eis o que amo quando amo a Deus. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB
1456:217. “The external deserts in the world are growing, because the internal deserts have become so vast”.[152] For this reason, the ecological crisis is also a summons to profound interior conversion. It must be said that some committed and prayerful Christians, with the excuse of realism and pragmatism, tend to ridicule expressions of concern for the environment. Others are passive; they choose not to change their habits and thus become inconsistent. So what they all need is an “ecological conversion”, whereby the effects of their encounter with Jesus Christ become evident in their relationship with the world around them. Living our vocation to be protectors of God’s handiwork is essential to a life of virtue; it is not an optional or a secondary aspect of our Christian ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1457:He saw then that there was a lens at one end, disguised as a dewdrop in the throat of an asphodel. Gently he took the egg in his hands, closed one eye, and looked. The light of the interior was not, as he had half expected, gold tinted, but brilliantly white, deriving from some concealed source. A world surely meant for Earth shone within, as though seen from below the orbit of the moon—indigo sea and emerald land. Rivers brown and clear as tea ran down long plains. His mother said, “Isn’t it pretty?” Night hung at the corners in funereal purple, and sent long shadows like cold and lovely arms to caress the day; and while he watched and it fell, long-necked birds of so dark a pink that they were nearly red trailed stilt legs across the sky, their wings making crosses. ~ Gene Wolfe, #NFDB
1458:And then there is the waiter. Not pathetic-decidedly not comic. Never making one of those perfectly insignificant remarks which amaze you so coming from a waiter (as though the poor wretch were a sort of coffee-pot and a wine bottle and not expected to hold so much as a drop of anything else). He is grey, flat-footed, and withered, with long, brittle nails that set your nerves on edge while he scrapes up your two sous. When he is not smearing over the table or flicking at a dead fly or two, he stands with one hand on the back of a chair, in his far too long apron, and over his other arm the three-cornered dip of dirty napkin, waiting to be photographed in connexion with some wretched murder. “Interior of Café where Body was Found.” You’ve seen him hundreds of times. ~ Katherine Mansfield, #NFDB
1459:Both the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Interior removed from their websites the links to climate change data. The USDA removed the inspection reports of businesses accused of animal abuse by the government. The new acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Mick Mulvaney, said he wanted to end public access to records of consumer complaints against financial institutions. Two weeks after Hurricane Maria, statistics that detailed access to drinking water and electricity in Puerto Rico were deleted from the FEMA website. In a piece for FiveThirtyEight, Clare Malone and Jeff Asher pointed out that the first annual crime report released by the FBI under Trump was missing nearly three-quarters of the data tables from the previous year. ~ Michael Lewis, #NFDB
1460:Through this constant communion with his Lord and Master he gains much wisdom and understanding; he learns that true riches are of the spirit and are accessible to all. He knows as few of us do that a wholehearted response to the message of the Gospel is the only one that makes sense and satisfies the very core of our being. He knows that to give God one’s all means in the truest sense to gain all. He knows that the cost of discipleship will never begin to measure up to the rewards which await the faithful disciple who does the will of the Father, both here and hereafter. He knows the secret of interior freedom and what it means to have one’s hunger and thirst satisfied. He knows the beauty of each creature. He knows the deep, abiding joy and peace which surpass all understanding. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1461:cuando un motivo externo o el ánimo interior nos sacan repentinamente de la interminable corriente del querer; cuando el conocimiento se desgaja de la esclavitud de la voluntad y la atención no se dirige ya a los motivos del querer sino que capta las cosas fuera de su relación con la voluntad, es decir, las contempla de forma puramente objetiva, sin interés ni subjetividad, totalmente entregada a ellas en la medida en que son representaciones y no motivos: entonces aparece de un golpe por sí mismo el sosiego que siempre se buscaba por aquel camino del querer pero siempre se escapaba, y nos sentimos completamente bien. Es el estado indoloro que Epicuro celebró como el supremo bien y el estado de los dioses: pues por aquel instante nos hemos desembarazado de aquel vil afán de la voluntad, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1462:La vida de un hombre se divide básicamente en tres períodos. En el primero, uno ni siguiera piensa que envejecerá, ni que el tiempo pasa ni que, desde el primer día, cuando nacemos, caminamos hacia un único fin. Pasada la primera juventud, empieza el segundo período, en el que uno se da cuenta de la fragilidad de la propia vida y lo que en un principio es una simple inquietud va creciendo en el interior como un mar de dudas e incertidumbres que te acompañan durante el resto de tus días. Por último, al final de la vida se abre el tercer período, el de la aceptación de la realidad y, consecuentemente, la resignación y la espera. A lo largo de mi existencia he conocido a muchas personas que se quedaron ancladas en alguno de esos estadios y nunca lograron superarlos. Es algo terrible. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
1463:It is not suflficient, in order to have the consciousness of a remembrance, that such or such image be reproduced by the automatic play of he association of ideas; the personal J>erception must also seize upon the image and connect it with the other remembrances, with the sensations clear or confused, exterior or interior, the ensemble of which constitutes personality. Call this operation what you will,—give it the name personification, or be satisfied with the common terms we have always employed, personal perception of the remembrances or psychological assifn-ilation of images, we must still establish its existence and make a place for it in the psychology of memory, as well as in that of the sensations. This operation is with us so simple and easy that we do not even suspect its role. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1464:Nada más infeliz que el hombre que lo inquiere todo girando de aquí para allá, que escruta, como dice el poeta, «las profundidades de la tierra», que indaga por conjeturas lo que acontece en el alma ajena, sin acabar de entender que le bastaría sólo aplicarse al dios que habita en su interior y venerarle como es debido. Este culto consiste en conservarse puro de pasiones; de temeridad y de disgusto por aquello que procede de los dioses y de los hombres. Porque lo que viene de los dioses es digno de respeto, por ser obra de sí virtuosa; y lo que viene de los hombres nos es caro a causa del parentesco, si bien a veces no deja de ser, en cierto sentido, objeto de compasión, por su ignorancia del bien y del mal, ceguera no menor que la que nos impide poder discernir lo blanco de lo negro. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1465:As the van door starts to close, Brad suddenly realizes that the instant the doors close completely, the van interior will become the terrifying bland gray space he's heard about all his life, the place one goes when one has been Written Out.
The van interior becomes the bland gray space.
From the front yard TV comes the brash martial music that indicates UrgentUpdateNewsMinute.
Animal rights activists have expressed concern over the recent trend of spraying live Canadian geese with a styrene coating which instantaneously kills them while leaving them extremely malleable, so it then becomes easy to shape them into comical positions and write funny sayings in DryErase cartoon balloons emanating from their beaks, which, apparently, is the new trend for outdoor summer parties.
~ George Saunders,#NFDB
1466:A menudo es más difícil deshacerse de un libro que obtenerlo. Se adhieren con un pacto de necesidad y olvido, tal si fueran testigos de un momento en nuestras vidas al que no regresaremos. Pero mientras permanezcan ahí, creemos sumarlos. He visto que muchos fechan el día, el mes y el año de la lectura; trazan un discreto calendario. Otros escriben su nombre en la primera página, antes de prestarlos, anotan en una agenda al destinatario y le añaden la fecha. He visto tomos sellados, como los de las bibliotecas públicas, o con una delicada tarjeta del propietario deslizada en su interior. Nadie quiere extraviar un libro. Preferimos perder un anillo, un reloj, el paraguas, que el libro cuyas páginas ya no leeremos pero conservan, en la sonoridad de su título, una antigua y tal vez perdida emoción. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1467:Los términos “medicina” y “meditación” proceden de la misma raíz latina mederi, que significa “curar”. La raíz indoeuropea profunda de mederi transmite, además, el significado esencial de “medir” pero, en este caso, no se refiere tanto a la noción habitual de “medida” como una relación cuantitativa con el criterio establecido de una determinada propiedad como la longitud, el volumen o el área, sino a la noción platónica de que todas las cosas tienen su propia medida interna, la cualidad o “esencia” que hacen que el objeto sea lo que es. En este sentido, la medicina es el procedimiento destinado a restaurar, cuando ésta se ve perturbada, la mesura interior adecuada, y la meditación consistiría en la percepción directa y el conocimiento experiencial profundo de la naturaleza de esta magnitud. ~ Jon Kabat Zinn, #NFDB
1468:Can we get outside?" he asked Jasmine in a gasp.
"Up ahead," she said between breaths. "There is a columned loggia that leads to the Courtyard of the Rose-Scented Footstools."
Aladdin looked at her.
"Just kidding," she said with a quick smile. "They don't really smell."
The tiger bounded ahead as if he knew the plan. The carpet stayed behind them as if he was guarding the rear.
Aladdin wasn't sure what a loggia was, but ahead there was a hall dotted with columns that opened up into a large courtyard with no ceiling overhead. There were lemon trees, sweet-scented myrtle, and pots of roses. More columns, ornamental and abstract, decorated the interior of the courtyard along with statues depicting ancient river gods. There were indeed footstools- carved into the shape of roses. ~ Liz Braswell,#NFDB
1469:For more than a millennium the eastern Mediterranean seaboard called Syria Libanensis, or Mount Lebanon, had been able to accommodate at least a dozen different sects, ethnicities, and beliefs—it worked like magic. The place resembled major cities of the eastern Mediterranean (called the Levant) more than it did the other parts in the interior of the Near East (it was easier to move by ship than by land through the mountainous terrain). The Levantine cities were mercantile in nature; people dealt with one another according to a clear protocol, preserving a peace conducive to commerce, and they socialized quite a bit across communities. This millennium of peace was interrupted only by small occasional friction within Moslem and Christian communities, rarely between Christians and Moslems. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
1470:Her body swelled and stilled. There would be a moment when she would breathe for the last time. An exhalation. There would be that moment, her prize of air, her still lake, her sweet boat floating away away, her body warping wood, swale and heavy, a sinking thing. He sat beside her, a helpless observer, his only power in witness, some bleak ability to watch and record the event in his own brain, which sent the order to his lungs to breathe with her while she still breathed, channels rising, sparks of interior electrical connection fading with the mind's fool hope that it could create some kind of measurable response, to provide some worth of warmth. Her body beside his, swell and still. He thought of her still. He thought of holding her absolutely still. He loved, he loved her. He loved her, still. ~ Amelia Gray, #NFDB
1471:The first of the great Roman roads, the Via Salaria, Salt Road, was built to bring this salt not only to Rome but across the interior of the peninsula. This worked well in the Roman part of the Italian peninsula. But as Rome expanded, transporting salt longer distances by road became too costly. Not only did Rome want salt to be affordable for the people, but, more importantly as the Romans became ambitious empire builders, they needed it to be available for the army. The Roman army required salt for its soldiers and for its horses and livestock. At times soldiers were even paid in salt, which was the origin of the word salary and the expression “worth his salt” or “earning his salt.” In fact, the Latin word sal became the French word solde, meaning pay, which is the origin of the word, soldier. ~ Mark Kurlansky, #NFDB
1472:You are all talking a bit too much, said Armando, who had cautioned them from the beginning to stay out of popular culture and in their own interior worlds.
When you are caught up in the world that you did not design as support for your life and the life of earth and people, it is like being caught in someone else's dream or nightmare. Many people exist in their lives in this way. I say exist because it is not really living. It is akin to being suspended in a dream one is having at night, a dream over which one has no control. You are going here and there, seeing this and that person; you do not know or care about them usually, they are just there, on your interior screen. Humankind will not survive if we continue in this way, most of us living lives in which our own life is not the center. ~ Alice Walker,#NFDB
1473:During the brief summer (in Antarctica), it is warm enough for a few days or weeks to create meltwater; a few, inconsequential streams tumble down from the glaciers above the valleys. The sparking surface of the water is aberrant, a false promise, the land’s irony. The only really animate force here is the wind. It blows, always, from the interior, from the west- often, in the spring, at well over sixty knots. It wallops and scours the mountains, eroding and fracturing, sweeping clear the debris… the wind, a katabatic or gravity-driven wind, enters the valleys after falling vertically nearing two miles from the summit of the East Antarctic ice sheet; it comes into the valleys with a discernible hunger, and its effect on the land, which it abrades an lacerates with bits of sand and ice are often peculiar ~ Barry Lopez, #NFDB
1474:Why is that I never get cut off from pity, sympathy, participation, in spite of the fact that I am living out of my own dream, my interior vision, my fantasies without any interruptions. I dream, I kiss, I have orgasms, I get exalted, I leave the world, I float, I cook, I sew, have nightmares, write in my head, compose, decompose, improvise, invent, I listen to all, I hear all that is said, I feel Spain, I am aware, I am everywhere , I am open to wounds, open to love, I am rooted to my devotions, I am never separete, I am never cut off, never blind, deaf, absent. I hold on to the dream which makes life possible, to the creation which transfigures, to the God who sustains, to the crimes which gave life, to the illusions which makes the marvelous possible. I hold on to the poetry and the human simplicities. ~ Ana s Nin, #NFDB
1475:Todos los días recibimos miles de informaciones, carteles en los cuales adolescentes maquilladas se fingen mujeres y ofrecen milagrosos productos de belleza eterna; la noticia de que una pareja de ancianos escaló el monte Everest para celebrar su aniversario de bodas; anuncios de nuevas máquinas de masaje; vitrinas de farmacias abarrotadas de productos para adelgazar; películas que transmiten una idea falsa de la vida; libros que prometen resultados fantásticos; especialistas en dar consejos sobre cómo ascender en la carrera o encontrar la paz interior. Y todo eso hace que nos sintamos viejos, llevando una vida sin aventura, mientras la piel se vuelve flácida, los kilos se acumulan desconsoladamente y nos vemos obligados a reprimir las emociones y los deseos, porque ya no encajan en lo que llamamos «madurez». ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1476:El que haya gustado los otros días, los malos, los de los ataques de gota o los del maligno dolor de cabeza clavado detrás de los globos de los ojos, y convirtiendo, por arte del diablo, toda actividad de la vista y del oído de una satisfacción en un tormento, o aquellos días de la agonía del espíritu, aquellos días terribles del vacío interior y de la desesperanza, en los cuales, en medio de la tierra destruida y esquilmada por las sociedades anónimas, nos salen al paso, con sus muecas como un vomitivo, la humanidad y la llamada cultura con su fementido brillo de feria, ordinario y de hojalata, concentrado todo y llevado al colmo de lo insoportable dentro del propio yo enfermo; el que haya gustado aquellos días infernales, ése ha de estar muy contento con estos días normales y mediocres como el de hoy [...]. ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
1477:Me puse a trabajar al día siguiente, dando, por decirlo así, la espalda a la estación. Sólo de ese modo me parecía que podía mantener el control sobre los hechos redentores de la vida. Sin embargo, algunas veces había que mirar alrededor; veía entonces la estación y aquellos hombres que caminaban sin objeto por el patio bajo los rayos del sol. En algunas ocasiones me pregunté qué podía significar aquello. Caminaban de un lado a otro con sus absurdos palos en la mano, como una multitud de peregrinos embrujados en el interior de una cerca podrida. La palabra marfil permanecía en el aire, en los murmullos, en los suspiros. Me imagino que hasta en sus oraciones. Un tinte de imbécil rapacidad coloreaba todo aquello, como si fuera la emanación de un cadáver. ¡Por Júpiter ! Nunca en mi vida he visto nada tan irreal. ~ Joseph Conrad, #NFDB
1478:The life of the body, reduced to its
essentials, paradoxically produces an abstract and gratuitous universe, continuously denied, in its turn, by
reality. This type of novel, purged of interior life, in which men seem to be observed behind a pane of
glass, logically ends, with its emphasis on the pathological, by giving itself as its unique subject the
supposedly average man. In this way it is possible to explain the extraordinary number of "innocents"
who appear in this universe. The simpleton is the ideal subject for such an enterprise since he can only be
defined—and completely defined—by his behavior. He is the symbol of the despairing world in which
wretched automatons live in a machine-ridden universe, which American novelists have presented as a
heart-rending but sterile protest. ~ Albert Camus,#NFDB
1479:To listen is very hard, because it asks of us so much interior stability that we no longer need to prove ourselves by speeches, arguments, statements, or declarations. True listeners no longer have an inner need to make their presence known. They are free to receive, to welcome, to accept.
Listening is much more than allowing another to talk while waiting for a chance to respond. Listening is paying full attention to others and welcoming them into our very beings. The beauty of listening is that, those who are listened to start feeling accepted, start taking their words more seriously and discovering their own true selves. Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you. ~ Henri J M Nouwen,#NFDB
1480:Far worse, though, was the low, powerful moaning at dusk. The wind off the sea and the odd interior stillness dulled our ability to gauge direction, so that the sound seemed to infiltrate the black water that soaked the cypress trees. This water was so dark we could see our faces in it, and it never stirred, set like glass, reflecting the beards of gray moss that smothered the cypress trees. If you looked out through these areas, toward the ocean, all you saw was the black water, the gray of the cypress trunks, and the constant, motionless rain of moss flowing down. All you heard was the low moaning. The effect of this cannot be understood without being there. The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you Desolation tries to colonize you. ~ Jeff VanderMeer, #NFDB
1481:Likewise, looking deep within the mind, in the very most interior part of the self, when the mind becomes very, very quiet, and one listens very carefully, in that infinite silence, the soul begins to whisper, and its feather-soft voice takes one far beyond what the mind could ever imagine, beyond anything rationality could possibly tolerate, beyond anything logic can endure. In its gentle whisperings, there are the faintest hints of infinite love, glimmers of a life that time forgot, flashes of a bliss that must not be mentioned, an infinite intersection where the mysteries of eternity breathe life into mortal time, where suffering and pain have forgotten how to pronounce their own names, this secret quiet intersection of time and the very timeless, an intersection called the soul. ~ Ken Wilber, Integral Psychology, p. 106., #NFDB
1482:Ningún hombre sabe, hasta que llega el momento, qué profundidades hay en su interior. Para algunos hombres no llega nunca; dejémoslos descansar y demos gracias. Para mí, tú la has traído, tú la has forzado, y el fondo de ese mar embravecido se ha alzado desde entonces... Te amo. Lo que quieren decir otros hombres cuando usan esa expresión no lo sé; lo que quiero decir yo es que estoy bajo la influencia de una atracción terrible, que he resistido en vano y que me domina. Puedes arrastrarme al fuego, puedes arrastrarme a la horca, puedes arrastrarme a la muerte, puedes arrastrarme a todo aquello que siempre he evitado, puedes arrastrarme a cualquier peligro y cualquier desgracia. A eso y a la confusión de mis pensamientos, que es tal que no valgo para nada, es a lo que me refiero cuando digo que eres mi ruina. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
1483:Far worse, though, was a low, powerful moaning at dusk. The wind off the sea and the odd interior stillness dulled our ability to gauge direction, so that the sound seemed to infiltrate the black water that soaked the cypress trees. This water was so dark we could see our faces in it, and it never stirred, set like glass, reflecting the beards of gray moss that smothered the cypress trees. If you looked out through these areas, toward the ocean, all you saw was the black water, the gray of the cypress trunks, and the constant, motionless rain of moss flowing down. All you heard was the low moaning. The effect of this cannot be understood without being there. The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you. As ~ Jeff VanderMeer, #NFDB
1484:Realmente, la verdad que muchos nunca entienden, hasta que es demasiado tarde, es que cuanto más intentáis evitar el sufrimiento tanto más sufrís, porque motivos menores y más insignificantes empiezan a torturaros, en proporción a vuestro temor de sufrir. El que más hace para evitar el sufrimiento es, al final, el que sufre más: su sufrimiento le llega de cosas tan pequeñas y triviales que uno puede decir que ya no es objetivo en absoluto. Es su propia existencia, su propio ser, lo que es a la vez el sujeto y el origen de su dolor; su misma existencia y conciencia, su mayor tortura. Ésta es una de las grandes perversiones por medio de las cuales el demonio usa nuestras filosofías para extraernos toda nuestra naturaleza interior y desentrañar nuestras facultades para siempre, volviéndolas en contra de nosotros mismos. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
1485:primero debes calmarte y contemplar lo que te rodea. Rara vez miramos con atención las cosas que nos rodean. Las tomamos como meros objetos que ocupan un lugar secundario con respecto a cualquier cosa que nos ocupe la mente o debamos hacer. Pero es preciso recordar que en el universo todo está vivo, lleno de energía espiritual, y es una parte de Dios. Debemos pedir en forma intencional conectarnos con lo divino que hay en nuestro interior. "Como bien sabes, la medida para saber si estamos conectándonos o no con esta energía es nuestro sentido de la belleza. Plantéate siempre esta pregunta: ¿Cuán hermoso luce todo? No importa cómo veamos algo al principio; siempre podemos ver más belleza en ello si lo intentamos. El grado de belleza que somos capaces de ver mide cuánta energía divina estamos recibiendo en nuestro interior. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1486:my ignorance has gained more light from interior prayer than from anything else, and that I have not reached by myself —it has been granted me by the mercy of God and the teaching of my starets. And that can be done by anyone. It costs nothing but the effort to sink down in silence into the depths of one's heart and call more and more upon the radiant name of Jesus. Everyone who does that feels at once the inward light, everything becomes understandable to him, he even catches sight in this light of some of the mysteries of the kingdom of God. And what depth and light there is in the mystery of a man coming to know that he has this power to plumb the depths of his own being, to see himself from within, to find delight in self- knowledge, to take pity on himself and shed tears of gladness over his fall and his spoiled will! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1487:As with Nazism, the conspiracy theory needed Jews. The Iranian interior minister said that Zionists had ‘direct involvement’ in publishing the book. The Iranian president said that ‘Zionist-controlled news agencies’ had made Rushdie famous. In Syria, the Ba’athist dictatorship said that the novel was part of a plot to distract the world’s attention from Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians. In Pakistan, religious leaders talked of an ‘American Jewish conspiracy’. Across the planet, the drums shuddered to the same beat: ‘It’s the Jews, it’s the Jews, it’s the Jews.’ The demonstrations against Rushdie were not confined to the poor world. The faithful marched in Bradford and London as well as Tehran and Lahore. They inspired a fear in the West that went almost unnoticed during the elation the 1989 revolutions in Eastern Europe produced. ~ Nick Cohen, #NFDB
1488:Among the famous sayings of the Church fathers none is better know than Augustine’s ‘Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee.’ The great saint states here in few words the origin and interior history of the human race. God made us for Himself: that is the only explanation that satisfies the heart of a thinking man, whatever his wild reason may say. Should faulty education and perverse reasoning lead a man to conclude otherwise, there is little that any Christian can do for him. For such a man I have no message. My appeal is addressed to those who have been previously taught in secret by the wisdom of God; I speak to thirsty hearts whose longings have been wakened by the touch of God within them, and such as they need no reasoned proof. Their restless hearts furnish all the proof they need. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
1489:Among the famous sayings of the Church fathers none is better known than Augustine's, "Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee." The great saint states here in few words the origin and interior history of the human race. God made us for Himself: that is the only explanation that satisfies the heart of a thinking man, whatever his wild reason may say. Should faulty education and perverse reasoning lead a man to conclude otherwise, there is little that any Christian can do for him. For such a man I have no message. My appeal is addressed to those who have been previously taught in secret by the wisdom of God; I speak to thirsty hearts whose longings have been wakened by the touch of God within them, and such as they need no reasoned proof. Their restless hearts furnish all the proof they need. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1490:Among the famous sayings of the Church fathers none is better known than Augustine's, "Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee." The great saint states here in few words the origin and interior history of the human race. God made us for Himself: that is the only explanation that satisfies the heart of a thinking man, whatever his wild reason may say. Should faulty education and perverse reasoning lead a man to conclude otherwise, there is little that any Christian can do for him. For such a man I have no message. My appeal is addressed to those who have been previously taught in secret by the wisdom of God; I speak to thirsty hearts whose longings have been wakened by the touch of God within them, and such as they need no reasoned proof. Their restless hearts furnish all the proof they need. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
1491:He stands before a door that will not open--wood sometimes, iron, but always the same door, set into a well, maybe in the anonymous middle of some city block, unattended, no one in control of who enters and who can't, a blank door hardly different from the wall it is set into, silent, insert, no handle or knob, no lock or keyhole, fitting so tightly into its wall that not even a knifeblade can be slipped between them.... He could wait across the street, keep vigil all night and day and night again, praying though not in the usual way, exactly, for the unmarked hour when at last the quality of shadow at the edge of the door might slowly begin to change, the geometry deepen and shift, the unasked-for as that, the route to some so-far-undreamable interior lie open, a way in whose way back out lies too far ahead in the dream to worry about ~ Thomas Pynchon, #NFDB
1492:Of the colors, blue and green have the greatest emotional range. Sad reds and melancholy yellows are difficult to turn up. Among the ancient elements, blue occurs everywhere: in ice and water, in the flame as purely as in the flower, overhead and inside caves, covering fruit and oozing out of clay. Although green enlivens the earth and mixes in the ocean, and we find it, copperish, in fire; green air, green skies, are rare. Gray and brown are widely distributed, but there are no joyful swatches of either, or any of exuberant black, sullen pink, or acquiescent orange. Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life. Whether slick light sharp high bright thin quick sour new and cool or low deep sweet dark soft slow smooth heavy old and warm: blue moves easily among them all, and all profoundly qualify our states of feeling. ~ William H Gass, #NFDB
1493:-Todos vivimos en dos mundos-dijo Maggie en tono distraído mientras estudiaba las letras-.Esta el mundo real,con todos sus hechos y reglas,una lata.En el mundo real hay cosas que son verdad y otras que no lo son.La mayor parte del tiempo el mundo real es un asco.Pero todos vivimos también en el mundo que tenemos en la cabeza. Un paisaje interior, un mundo hecho de pensamientos.En un mundo hecho de pensamientos -en un paisaje interior- cada idea es un hecho. Las emociones son tan reales como la gravedad. Los sueños son tan poderosos como la historia. Las personas creativas, los escritores como Henry Rollins, por ejemplo, pasan mucho tiempo en su mundo de pensamientos.Los muy creativos, sin embargo, pueden usar un cuchillo para cortar las costuras que unen los dos mundos, pueden juntarlos. Tu bicicleta. Mis fichas. Esos son nuestros cuchillos. ~ Joe Hill, #NFDB
1494:Ignis Fatuus
In the twilight of my audacity
I saw you flee the world, the burnt highways
Of summer gave up their light: I
Followed you with the uncommon span
Of fear-supported and disbursed eyes.
Towards the dark that harries the tracks
Of dawn I pursued you only. I fell
Companionless. The seething stacks
Of cornstalks, the rat-pillaged meadow
Censured the lunar interior of the night.
High in what hills, by what illuminations
Are you intelligible? Your fierce latinity
Beyond the nubian bulwark of the sea
Sustains the immaculate sight.
To the green tissue of the subterranean
Worm I have come back, two-handed from
The chase, and empty. I have pondered it
Carefully, and asked: Where is the light
When the pigeon moults his ease
Or exile utters the creed of memory?
~ Allen Tate,#NFDB
1495:Until recently the locus of sexual fantasy was peopled with images actually glimpsed or were sensations actually felt, or private imaginings taken from suggestions in the real world, a dream well where weightless images from it floated, transformed by imagination. It prepared children, with these hints and traces of other people's bodies, to become adults and enter the landscape of adult sexuality and meet the lover face to face. Lucky men and women are able to keep a pathway clear to that dream well, peopling it with scenes and images that meet them as they get older, created with their own bodies mingling with other bodies; they choose a lover because of a smell from a coat, a way of walking, the shape of a lip, belong in their imagined interior and resonate back in time deep into the bones that recall childhood and early adolescent imagination. ~ Naomi Wolf, #NFDB
1496:She was reading Francis Godwin's Man in the Moone--its man was borne into space in a carriage drawn by swans--when she heard the sound of wheels upon the gravel. Two boxes from Martin & Allestyre were set down on the drive. 'My modest closet plays,' she said. She nearly ran down the stairs--for the recovery of her wayward crates that spring and the preparation of her plays for publication had rekindled inside Margaret a flame she'd feared had gone out. ... But now, in turning the pages, she grew concerned and then incensed: 'reins' where she had written 'veins,' 'exterior' when she had clearly meant 'interior.' The sun went down. The room grew dim. ... 'Before the printer ruined it,' she cried, 'my book was good!'
'Could it be,' he asked, soaking his bread in {lamb's} blood, 'that you were yourself the cause of this misfortune? ~ Danielle Dutton,#NFDB
1497:The crucial issue of the times, he suggested, was the human person: a unique being, who lived in a material world but had intense spiritual longings, a mystery to himself and to others, a creature whose dignity emerged from an interior life imprinted with the image and likeness of God. The world wanted to hear what the Church had to say about the human person and the human condition, particularly in light of other proposals—“scientific, positivist, dialectical”—that imagined themselves humanistic and presented themselves as roads to liberation. At the end of 2,000 years of Christian history, the world had a question to put to the Church: What was Christian humanism and how was it different from the sundry other humanisms on offer in late modernity? What was the Church’s answer to modernity’s widespread “despair [about] any and all human existence”? ~ George Weigel, #NFDB
1498:Well, she keeps an eye on big journeys from the interior to the exterior, or vice versa. She's there for the steps that takes you from one state to another. She's someone you see at crossroads, for instance. Well, you sort of see her but don't register what you've seen until it's too late to go back. She holds three keys...some say they're keys to the underworld, others that they're access to the past, present,and future. Picture the image of me fixed inthis doorway, and also in every other doorway you pass, sometimes tgree dimensional and sometimes vaporous, whatever I feel being at the moment you try to get past me. Imagine not being able to stop me from coming in, imagine not being able to cast me out because I own all thresholds. As an additional bonus, imagine me with three faces. That's who we're sending to have a little chat with Matyas Füst. ~ Helen Oyeyemi, #NFDB
1499:-A veces eres realmente... -Gideon sacudió la cabeza, y luego inspiró hondo y dijo muy serio-: Cuando me besas, Gwendolyn Sheperd, es como si perdiera el contacto con el suelo. No tengo ni idea de cómo lo haces ni de dónde lo has aprendido. En todo caso, si ha sido en una película, tenemos que verla juntos. -Se detuvo un momento-. Lo que quiero decir es que cuando me besas, ya no quiero hacer nada más que sentirte y tenerte entre mis brazos. ¡Mierda, estoy tan terriblemente enamorado de ti que es como si hubieran volcado una lata de gasolina en mi interior y le hubieran prendido fuego! Pero en este momento no podemos... al menos uno de nosotros debe mantener la cabeza fría. -La mirada que me lanzó disipó mis dudas-. Gwenny, todo esto me da un miedo horrible. Sin ti mi vida ya no tendría ningún sentido, sin ti... querría morirme si a ti te pasara algo. ~ Kerstin Gier, #NFDB
1500:There are many who predict that China is the next challenger to the United States, not Russia. I don’t agree with that view for three reasons. First, when you look at a map of China closely, you see that it is really a very isolated country physically. With Siberia in the north, the Himalayas and jungles to the south, and most of China’s population in the eastern part of the country, the Chinese aren’t going to easily expand. Second, China has not been a major naval power for centuries, and building a navy requires a long time not only to build ships but to create well-trained and experienced sailors. Third, there is a deeper reason for not worrying about China. China is inherently unstable. Whenever it opens its borders to the outside world, the coastal region becomes prosperous, but the vast majority of Chinese in the interior remain impoverished. ~ George Friedman, #NFDB
58 Christianity
44 Integral Yoga
41 Philosophy
33 Occultism
25 Fiction
18 Poetry
15 Science
13 Psychology
10 Integral Theory
3 Yoga
3 Theosophy
3 Hinduism
2 Cybernetics
1 Sufism
1 Philsophy
1 Mythology
1 Kabbalah
1 Alchemy
37 The Mother
28 Satprem
28 Plotinus
25 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
24 H P Lovecraft
14 Saint Teresa of Avila
14 Carl Jung
12 Sri Aurobindo
10 Walt Whitman
10 James George Frazer
8 Aleister Crowley
5 Plato
5 Aldous Huxley
4 Sri Ramana Maharshi
4 Saint Augustine of Hippo
3 Ken Wilber
3 Alice Bailey
2 Vyasa
2 Swami Vivekananda
2 Saint John of Climacus
2 Rudolf Steiner
2 Rainer Maria Rilke
2 Norbert Wiener
2 Jordan Peterson
24 Lovecraft - Poems
10 Whitman - Poems
10 The Phenomenon of Man
10 The Interior Castle or The Mansions
10 The Golden Bough
10 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02
9 The Future of Man
9 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 01
7 Mysterium Coniunctionis
7 Agenda Vol 12
6 Talks
6 Let Me Explain
5 The Perennial Philosophy
5 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 04
5 Liber ABA
5 Agenda Vol 03
4 The Way of Perfection
4 Savitri
4 Questions And Answers 1955
4 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 03
4 Aion
4 Agenda Vol 01
3 The Secret Doctrine
3 Sex Ecology Spirituality
3 Magick Without Tears
3 City of God
3 A Treatise on Cosmic Fire
2 Vishnu Purana
2 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
2 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
2 Some Answers From The Mother
2 Rilke - Poems
2 Record of Yoga
2 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
2 Maps of Meaning
2 Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
2 Dark Night of the Soul
2 Cybernetics
2 Agenda Vol 13
2 Agenda Vol 09
2 Agenda Vol 02
0.01f - FOREWARD, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
covers the Interior as well as the exterior of things ; mind as well
as matter. The true physics is that which will, one day, achieve
0.06 - Letters to a Young Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You must find the Divine first, whether in yourself by Interiorisation and concentration, or in Sri Aurobindo and me through
love and self-giving. Once you have found the Divine you will
0.08 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
indispensable starting-point. Through Interiorisation and concentration one has to enter into conscious contact with one's
psychic being. This psychic being always has an influence on the
01.03 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Souls Release, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
On hidden Interiors, lurking passages
Opened the windows of the inner sight.
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His acts betrayed not the Interior flame.
This forged the greatness of his front to earth.
0 1958-10-25 - to go out of your body, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
So they sit down (they are told to Interiorize, to go within themselves), and they panic!Naturally they feel that they that they are disappearing: there is nothing! There is no consciousness!
Purusha: the Being or the Self that witnesses and supports the Becoming.
0 1959-05-28, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
So there remains the pure spiritual destiny, pure Interiorization. That is what I have been trying to do for the last five years, without much success. There are good periods of collaboration, because one part of my being can be happy in any condition. But in a certain way this achievement remains truncated, especially when you base spiritual life on a principle of integrality. And these three destinies in me have their own good reasons, which are true: they are not inferior, they are not incidental, they are woven from the very threads that created the spiritual life in me. My error is to open the door to revolt when I feel too poignantly one or the other being stifled.
So you see, all this is insoluble. I have only to bow before these unfortunate circumstances. I perceive an injustice somewhere, but I have only to remain silent.
0 1960-05-24 - supramental flood, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
And during the time my experience lasted, I had no feeling of anything exceptional, but rather simply the fact that after all its preparation, the body consciousness was ready for a total identification with Thatin my consciousness its always the same, a perpetual, constant and eternal state in that it never leaves me. Its like that, and it never varies. What diminishes the immensity of the Vibration are the limitations of the material consciousness which can color it and even sometimes change it by giving it a personal appearance. Thus, when I see someone and speak to him, for example, when my eyes concentrate on the person, I have almost the sensation of this flood flowing from me towards the person or of it passing through me to go onto the person. There is an awareness of the eyes, the body. And it is this which limits or even changes a little the immensity of the thing But already this feeling has almost disappeared; this immensity seems to be acting almost constantly. There are moments when I am less Interiorized, when I am more on the surface, and it feels like its passing through a bodymoments when the body consciousness comes back a little. And this is what diminishes the thing.
This experience last night also enabled me to understand what X had felt during one of our meditations. He had explained his experience by way of saying that I was this mystic tree whose roots plunge into the Supreme and whose branches spread forth over the world,3 and he said that one of these branches had entered into himand it had been a unique experience. He had said, this is the Mother.
0 1960-05-28 - death of K - the death process- the subtle physical, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
And people here are much more sensitive than in Europe because they are much more Interiorized, so they are conscious of all these little entities, and naturally theyre afraid. And the more afraid they are, the more theyre vampirized!
I think that many of these entities are dispersed by fire that creates havoc.
0 1961-01-12, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You have this experience when for some reason or other, depending on the case, you come into contact with the universal consciousness not in its limitless essence but on any level of Matter. There is an atomic consciousness, a purely material consciousness and an even more generally prevailing psychological consciousness. When, through Interiorization or a sort of withdrawal from the ego you enter into contact with that zone of consciousness we can call psychological terrestrial or human collective (there is a difference: human collective is restricted, while terrestrial includes many animal and even plant vibrations; but in the present case, since the moral notion of guilt, sin and evil belongs exclusively to human consciousness, let us simply say human collective psychological consciousness); when you contact that through identification, you naturally feel or see or know yourself capable of any human movement whatsoever. To some extent, this constitutes a Truth-Consciousness, or at such times the egoistical sense of what does or doesnt belong to you, of what you can or cannot do, disappears; you realize that the fundamental construction of human consciousness makes any human being capable of doing anything. And since you are in a truth-consciousness, you are aware at the same time that to feel judgmental or disgusted or revolted would be an absurdity, for EVERYTHING is potentially there inside you. And should you happen to be penetrated by certain currents of force (which we usually cant follow: we see them come and go but we are generally unaware of their origin and direction), if any one of these currents penetrates you, it can make you do anything.
If one always remained in this state of consciousness, keeping alive the flame of Agni, the flame of purification and progress, then after some time, not only could one prevent these movements from taking an active form in oneself and becoming expressed physically, but one could act upon the very nature of the movement and transform it. Needless to say, however, that unless one has attained a very high degree of realization it is virtually impossible to keep this state of consciousness for long. Almost immediately one falls back into the egoistic consciousness of the separate self, and all the difficulties return: disgust, the revolt against certain things and the horror they create in us, and so on.
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Consequently, there is only one solution: by aspiration, concentration, Interiorization and identification, to unite with the supreme Will. And that is both omnipotence and perfect freedom. Its the only omnipotence, the only freedomall the rest are approximations. You may be en route, but its not That, not the total thing.
If you make the experiment, you will come to see that this supreme freedom and this supreme power are accompanied by a total peace and an unfaltering serenity; if you notice any contradictionrevolt, disgust or something inadmissiblethis indicates that some part in You is not touched by the transformation, is still en route: something still holding on to the old consciousness, thats all.
0 1961-11-16a, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But worknot a stroke. Ah, yes, I am translating The Synthesis of Yoga and it seems much easier. I go slower, a certain tension has disappeared, and the meaning is far clearer than usual. In other words, Im Interiorized there you have it.
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.
0 1962-02-24, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I should mention that three or four days before my birthday something apparently very troublesome happened5 (it could have been troublesome, anyway), and it made me wonder: Will I be able to do what I have to on the 21st? I wasnt happy about it. No, I said, I cant let these people down when theyre expecting so much from this day; thats not right. So throughout the 20th I stayed exclusively concentrated in a very, very deep, very Interiorized invocation, not in the least superficial, far from all emotions and sentiments something really at the summit of the being. And I remained in contact with That, for everything to be truly for the best, free from any false movement in Matter whatsoever. And that night I was CLEARLY cured; I mean I followed the action and saw myself really and truly cured. When I got up in the morning, I got up cured. All the things I constantly had to do, all the tapasyas just to keep going, were no longer necessarysomeone had taken charge of everything, and it was all over and done with. And on the morning of the 21st, with a crowd of two thousand and some hundred people, it went perfectly smoothly, without the slightest hitch. Then in the afternoon I had that very special experience for my legs.
So on the 21st morning I could say quite spontaneously and unhesitatingly, Today the Lord has given me the gift of healing me. (I was speaking in English about the things people had given me, and I said, and the Lord has given me the gift of healing me.)
0 1962-02-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have had hundreds and hundreds of experiences like thatinformed just at the last moment (not one second too soon)and in very different circumstances. Once in Paris I was crossing the Boulevard Saint Michel (I had resolved to attain union with the psychic presence, the inner Divine, within a certain number of months, and these were the last weeks I was thinking of nothing but that, engrossed in that alone). I lived near the Luxembourg Gardens and was going there for a stroll, to sit in the gardens that eveningstill indrawn. I came to a kind of intersectionnot a very sensible place to cross when youre Interiorized! So, in that state, I started to cross when all of a sudden I had a shock, as if something had hit me, and I instinctively jumped back. As I jumped back a streetcar rushed by. I had felt the streetcar at a little more than arms length. It had touched my aura, the protective aura (that aura was very strong at the time I was deep into occultism and knew how to maintain it). My protective aura was touched, and it literally threw me backwards, just like a physical shock. Accompanied by the drivers insults!
I leapt back just in time, and the streetcar passed by.
0 1962-06-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It must give a sort of woolly effect to someone not used to it. You know, when you want to draw your consciousness withinwhat people call concentrating for meditation, for instance, or japa, well, to the sharp-edged surface consciousness the movement of Interiorization is like entering something not exactly smoky, because it isnt dark, but woolly: the feeling of something with no angles, no precise demarcations. Dont you have that impression when you concentrate?
I dont see anything when I concentrate.
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It is a mental Interiorization.
Oh, yesits clear, very clear, very luminous a bit hard. But everything seems hard to me now! If you only knew. It has come to the point where as soon as I change states I get the feeling that the body is sitting on jagged chunks of wood and yet it is very comfortably ensconced on feather cushions!
0 1962-10-12, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Of course, when we start thinking of all the zones, all the universal planes of consciousness, and that Hes way, way, way up there at the end of all that, well then it does become very far, very far indeed! (Mother laughs) But if we think of Him as being everywhere, in everything, that He is everything, that only our way of perceiving things keeps us from seeing and feeling Him, and all we have to do is this (Mother turns her hands inwards) a movement like this, a movement like that (Mother turns her hands inwards and outwards in turn), then it gets to be quite concrete: you go like this (outward gesture) and everything becomes artificialhard, dry, false, deceptive, artificial; you go like that (inward gesture) and all is vast, tranquil, luminous, peaceful, immense, joyous. And its merely this or that (Mother turns her hands inwards and outwards in turn). How? Where? It cant be described, but it is solelysolelya movement of consciousness, nothing else. A movement of consciousness. And the difference between the true and the false consciousness becomes more and more precise and at the same time THIN: you dont need to do great things to get out of it. Before, there used to be a feeling of living WITHIN something and that a great effort of Interiorization, concentration, absorption was needed to get out of it; but now I feel its something one accepts (Mother puts her hand in front of her face like a screen), something like a thin little rind, very hardmalleable, but very hard, very dry, very thin, very thin something like a mask you put on then you go like this (gesture), and its gone.
I foresee a time when it will no longer be necessary to be aware of the mask: the mask will be so thin that we can see and feel and act through it, and it wont be necessary to put it back on.
0 1962-11-07, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its somewhat similar to collecting ones thoughts. Its part concentration, part Interiorization, and both togetherlike drawing back, but without movement.
After a while, it becomes almost automatic; I do it hundreds of times a day. Its difficult to describe, because the description makes it too concrete. But its a drawing back, an Interiorizationa self-gathering. But all those words seem dense, heavy; too material, too heavy. Yet its a very concrete sensation, very concrete, which immediately brings about a kind of stabilizationeverything stops. Everything stops, to the point where even a vibration of pain is stopped, it doesnt exist any more. But when you leave this state, back it comes again. It gets cured only when you persist for some time; otherwise the two might continue to coexist.
The most superficial way of putting it is: to take a step back. But its not that, of course.
0 1964-08-11, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Those oppositions are really what gives the consciousness an interesting knowledge. Because I have a feeling that that Action wasnt at all limited to the moment when the consciousness that acts here took part in it: its going on all the time. If for just a second (gesture of Interiorization) I stop speaking or acting, I feel that golden Glory behindbehind, its not behind, not within, its supporting everythingit is there. But in that experience, I was given two hours of TOTAL participation: there was nothing left but That, nothing existed anymore but That. And all the cells were given an unforgettable joy: they had become That.
What I dont know is, if someone had been looking, what would he have seen? I dont know.
0 1967-02-11, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And then, this incident made me realize that I seem to be learning a way of resting without going out of the body. Because there, I was sure I was awake, as its called: there was nothing resembling sleep, and I wasnt thinking. There was only the consciousness watching, like that. But Interiorized. And a will to get up at four-thirty. I looked at the time once in between (there was a clock near my bed, I looked at it), it was 3:15. I was surprised, I thought, How come? It was 2:30 a minute ago. Then I made a slight concentration to be sure of being quite awake at 4:30. And at exactly 4:30: How come? Ive just seen it was 3:15! It was astounding, because I didnt leave my body, I know I didnt sleep, and the consciousness was perfectly still, motionless, so to say; a consciousness concentrated like that (but a consciousness with foresight, which sees what has to be done), simply like that, without thought.
It was so to say instantaneous.
0 1968-06-18, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, Ive noticed. You seem to be far more Interiorized.
Interiorized, yes.
I hear myself speak, you understand. The consciousness is deeper down. I hear myself speak. Sometimes even, I dont recognize my voice; well, things of that sort.
0 1968-06-26, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mother indeed looks increasingly Interiorized and is speaking as though from very deep within.
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0 1969-07-30, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, but with this supramental being, in fact no body remains: he Interiorizes (meaning that to humans he becomes dead), or exteriorizes, meaning that to human beings he becomes alivegoing from one state to the other at will.
But thats my whole experience, that its not true, there isnt life and death.
0 1970-04-22, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Sujata:) Right now, its as if very Interiorized, and at the same time with the inner being in front: both at the same time, like that.
Yes.
0 1971-01-23, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have to see you. Only I hesitated to tell you to come because there are days when (gesture of Interiorization).1
But, Mother, that doesnt matter, it makes no difference to me.
0 1971-03-24, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Another sign of the times: The disciple who works in the Ashram post office refused to put stamps on Satprem's letterswhy, we don't know. At the time Satprem was giving all his money to Mother and possessed nothing personally. Mother is therefore forced to sign a note in her own hand so that Satprem's letters get stamped. Then she remains very Interiorized during the whole interview. It was the same on March 20, at the last interview: that day, she gave Satprem the first copy of "On the Way to Supermanhood," then went within the rest of the time.)
Do you want to say anything?
0 1971-03-27, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother remains very Interiorized. One has the impression of a total passivity within tremendous activity. It feels as if one were in an almost crushing bath of power.)
Here!
0 1971-08-28, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Not try: only one minute like that is enough (gesture of stepping backward), and time doesnt matter anymore. Its very curious, I make experiments for every little movement of life, like meals, for example; well, when I curl up like this (gesture of Interiorization), everything seems instantaneous. There isnt any time. When I am in the outer consciousness (what I call outer is a consciousness that witnesses the creation), then things take more or less time depending on the attention given it. And so everything, everything seems nothing seems to be (whats the word?) absolute, in the sense of realreal, a concrete realitynothing seems to be like that. Except unpleasant things in the body such as, for example, some functioning that goes wrong; that, you recognize as imperfection. The imperfection is what makes you feel the thing, otherwise its like this (same gesture of Interiorization, curled up in the Lord). And like this, the Power is tremendous, in the sense that for instance, for some people, a particular illness vanishes (without my doing anything outwardly in fact, without my even speaking to anyone, absolutely nothingits cured); for still another person its the end, he goes over to the other side. But then that other side has become both quite familiar to me and totally unknown.
I remember a time when the memory of past lives, the memory of night activities was so very concrete; the so-called invisible world was totally concretenow now everything is like a dreameverythingeverything is like a dream veiling a Reality an unknown Reality, and yet appreciable. I seem to be talking nonsense.
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So, quite naturally, the most interesting thing is to find That. Quite naturally, whenever I have nothing to do (gesture of Interiorization, curled up in the Lord). Thats why I am forever asking you if you have questions or something, because there is no longer any person to be active, its only the things which (gesture indicating the movements and vibrations of people or things triggering Mothers activity). So when thats not there, its (gesture in suspense, silence). Very far, far off quite close, quite close to the other Consciousness, there are moments (Mother speaks in a deep, solemn voice): OM Namo Bhagavateh. Thats the most material thing. Its already it seems so lifeless. It gives the impression that a piece of wood might give us. And yet its. So at one and the same time one can be in a painful and incomprehensible and absurd life and absolutely at the same time unutterably marvelous.
So naturally I cant speak to anyone anymore, I can say it only to you, because people would think I am going nuts.
0 1971-09-04, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But like this (gesture of Interiorization), when I dont say anything, then its all right.
(Mother goes within)
0 1971-10-02, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When I am like this (gesture of being motionless and Interiorized), I am simply conscious of that Force (same gesture of pressure), and then sometimes, a particular point (gesture of a ray being aimed) or a detail goes consciously through through the personality (I dont know how to say it), and there its it seems irresistible: curing someone, even getting a thief arrested (!), things like that. Its strange.
Its curious.
0 1971-10-13, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This is what I do more and more (gesture of Interiorization). I speak less and less, because everything one says is false.
(silence)
0 1972-06-10, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Interiorized.
Interiorized And you added, As if the physical were becoming double.
(Mother remains engrossed for a long time then comes out with a smile)
0 1972-09-13, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, but dont you? (gesture of Interiorization) Do you sleep at night?
Badly, not well.
02.03 - An Aspect of Emergent Evolution, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
This, however, is an aspect of the problem with which we are not immediately concerned. There is one question with which we have omitted to deal but which is nearer to us and touches present actualities. We spoke of the emergence of the Deity and of the Supreme Deityafter Mind. The question is, how long after? I do not refer to the duration of time needed, but to the steps or the stages that have to be passed. For between Mind and Deity, certainly between Mind and the Supreme Deity (Purushottama, as we would say), there may presumably still lie a course of graded emergence. In fact, Sri Aurobindo speaks of the Overmind and the Supermind, as farther steps of the evolutionary progress coming after Mind. He says that Mind closes the Interior hemisphere of man's nature and consciousness; with Overmind man enters into the higher sphere of the Spirit. In this view, the religious feeling or perception or conduct would be but an intermediary stage between Mind and Overmind. They are not really emergent properties, but reflections, faint echoes and promises of what is to come, mixed up with attributes of the present mentality. The Overmind brings in a true emergence.
Still Overmindwhose characteristic is a cosmic consciousness and a transcendence of all ego-senseis not the firm basis on which a new terrestrial organisation can stand and endure. It is still a basis of unstable equilibrium. For it is not the supernal light and, although it transcends all ignorance, yet does not possess that absolute synthetic unity, that transcendent power of consciousness which is at once the cosmic and the individual. That is the domain of the Supermind.
02.06 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
At first she made, a deep Interior room,
Where he slumbers as if a forgotten guest.
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Looks vibrant back to some Interior might.
A Mind not limited by external sense
02.14 - The World-Soul, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Along a road of pure Interior light,
Alone between tremendous Presences,
07.06 - Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
A student of her own Interior scene,
She watched the passion and the toil of life
1.00a - DIVISION A - THE INTERNAL FIRES OF THE SHEATHS., #A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, #Alice Bailey, #Occultism
The subject of the radiatory heat of the macrocosmic and microcosmic systems will be dealt with in detail in a later subdivision. Here we will only deal with the latent Interior fire of the
a. Sun.
1.00b - Introduction, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
Above the lotus flower, Creation has been symbolized by a ball, in the Interior of which are represented the procreative positive and negative forces which stand for the creating act of the universe.
The eternal, the infinite, the boundless, and the uncreated have been expressed symbolically by the word AUM and the dark purple to black colour.
1.00e - DIVISION E - MOTION ON THE PHYSICAL AND ASTRAL PLANES, #A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, #Alice Bailey, #Occultism
2. Momentum, or the Interior effect,
3. Frictional, environal effect,
1.00 - INTRODUCTORY REMARKS, #A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, #Alice Bailey, #Occultism
Let us now briefly recognise certain facts regarding fire in matter and let us take them in order, leaving time to elucidate their significance. First we might say that the internal fire being both latent and active, shows itself as the synthesis of the acknowledged fires of the system, and demonstrates, for instance, as solar radiation and inner planetary combustion. This subject has been somewhat covered by science, and is hidden in the mystery of physical plane electricity, which is an expression of the active internal fires of the system and of the planet just as inner combustion is an expression of the latent internal fires. These latter fires are to be found in the Interior of each globe, and are the basis of all objective physical life.
Secondly, we might note that the internal fires are the basis of life in the lower three kingdoms of nature, and in the fourth or human kingdom in connection with the two lower vehicles. The Fire of Mind, when blended with the internal fires, is the basis of life in the fourth kingdom, and united they control (partially now and later entirely) the lower threefold man or the personality; this control lasts up to the time of the first Initiation.
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1. Interior fire at the centre of the sphere, those inner furnaces which produce warmth. This is latent fire.
2. Radiatory fire. This type of fire might be expressed in terms of physical plane electricity, of light rays, and of etheric energy. This is active fire.
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Latent or Interior fire produces the internal heat which makes the solar system productive of all forms of life. It is the inherent warmth that causes all fertilisation, whether human, animal, or vegetable.
Active or radiatory fire retains in life and causes the evolution of all that has evolved into objectivity by means of latent fire.
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Human latent fire, the heat Interior of the human frame causes production of other forms of life, such as
1. The physical body cells.
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Having, therefore, made the above statements, we can proceed to take up somewhat in greater detail the Interior fires of the systems, microcosmic and macrocosmic.
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1.00 - Preliminary Remarks, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
There will be no need to persuade ourselves at great length that all external influences are likely to be unfavourable. New faces, new scenes will disturb us; even the new habits of life which we undertake for this very purpose of controlling the mind will at first tend to upset it. Still, we must give up our habit of eating too much, and follow the natural rule of eating only when we are hungry, listening to the Interior voice which tells us that we have had enough.
The same rule applies to sleep. We have determined to control our minds, and so our time for meditation must take precedence of other hours.
1.01 - Description of the Castle, #The Interior Castle or The Mansions, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
1. Plan of this book. 2. The Interior Castle. 3. Our curable self ignorance. 4. God dwells in the centre of the soul. 5. Why all souls do not receive certain favours. 6. Reasons for speaking of these favours. 7. The entrance of the Castle. 8. Entering into oneself. 9. Prayer. 10. Those who dwell in the first mansion. 11. Entering. 12. Difficulties of the subject.
1.: WHILE I was begging our Lord to-day to speak for me, since I knew not what to say nor how to commence this work which obedience has laid upon me, an idea occurred to me which I will explain, and which will serve as a foundation for that I am about to write.
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5.: I feel sure that vexation at thinking that during our life on earth God can bestow these graces on the souls of others shows a want of humility and charity for one's neighbour, for why should we not feel glad at a brother's receiving divine favours which do not deprive us of our own share? Should we not rather rejoice at His Majesty's thus manifesting His greatness wherever He chooses?8' Sometimes our Lord acts thus solely for the sake of showing His power, as He declared when the Apostles questioned whether the blind man whom He cured had been suffering for his own or his parents' sins.9' God does not bestow soul speaks of that sovereign grace of God in taking it into the house of His love, which is the union or transformation of love in God . . . The cellar is the highest degree of love to which the soul can attain in this life, and is therefore said to be the inner. It follows from this that there are other cellars not so Interior; that is, the degrees of love by which souls reach to this, the last. These cellars are seven in number, and the soul has entered them all when it has in perfection the seven gifts of the Holy Ghost, so far as it is possible for it. . . . Many souls reach and enter the first cellar, each according to the perfection of its love, but the last and inmost cellar is entered by few in this world, because therein is wrought the perfect union with God, the union of the spiritual marriage.' A Spiritual Canticle, stanza xxvi. 1-3. Concept. ch. vi. (Minor Works of St. Teresa.) these favours on certain souls because they are more holy than others who do not receive them, but to manifest His greatness, as in the case of St. Paul and St. Mary Magdalen, and that we may glorify Him in His creatures.
6.: People may say such things appear impossible and it is best not to scandalize the weak in faith by speaking about them. But it is better that the latter should disbelieve us, than that we should desist from enlightening souls which receive these graces, that they may rejoice and may endeavour to love God better for His favours, seeing He is so mighty and so great. There is no danger here of shocking those for whom I write by treating of such matters, for they know and believe that God gives even greater proofs of His love. I am certain that if any one of you doubts the truth of this, God will never allow her to learn it by experience, for He desires that no limits should be set to His work: therefore, never discredit them because you are not thus led yourselves.
1.01 - SAMADHI PADA, #Patanjali Yoga Sutras, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism
meditation is the Interior organ, the thinking organ, and when
the thinking organ is thought of as bereft of the qualities of
1.01 - THE STUFF OF THE UNIVERSE, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
a singular point of Interiorisation.
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1.02 - MAPS OF MEANING - THREE LEVELS OF ANALYSIS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
environment (on the maintenance of our cultures) as on Interior processes, classically related to the
strength of the ego or the personality. Social order is a necessary precondition for psychological stability: it
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(represents). He continues: representation... can be seen to be a kind of Interiorized imitation, and
therefore a continuation of accomodation.172 [With regards to the three-memory-system model (which
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devour him, he lets an arrow fly, which tears her Interior, and splits her heart. He subdues her, completely,
casts down her carcass, and stands upon it. His voluntarily encounter with the forces of the unknown
1.02 - Pranayama, Mantrayoga, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
7. O! let us strictly meditate on the adorable light of that divine Savitri (the Interior Sun, etc.). May she enlighten our minds!
8. Say:
1.02 - Prayer of Parashara to Vishnu, #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism
kāra the origin of the elements, each tenfold the extent of that which it invested; next came the principle of Intelligence; and, finally, the whole was surrounded by the indiscrete Principle: resembling thus the cocoa-nut, filled Interiorly with pulp, and exteriorly covered by husk and rind.
Affecting then the quality of activity, Hari, the lord of all, himself becoming Brahmā, engaged in the creation of the universe. Viṣṇu with the quality of goodness, and of immeasurable power, preserves created things through successive ages, until the close of the period termed a Kalpa; when the same mighty deity, Janārddana[32], invested with the quality of darkness, assumes the awful form of Rudra, and swallows up the universe. Having thus devoured all things, and converted the world into one vast ocean, the Supreme reposes upon his mighty serpent couch amidst the deep: he awakes after a season, and again, as Brahmā, becomes the author of creation.
1.02 - The Human Soul, #The Interior Castle or The Mansions, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
1.02 - The Necessity of Magick for All, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Here we are, then, caught in a net of circumstances; if we are to do anything at all beyond automatic vegetative living, we must consciously apply ourselves to Magick, "the Science and Art" (let me remind you!) "of causing change to occur in conformity with the Will." Observe that the least slackness or error means that things happen which do not thus conform; when this is so despite our efforts, we are (temporarily) baffled; when it is our own ignorance of what we ought to will, or lack of skill in adapting our means to the right end, then we set up a conflict in our own Nature: our act is suicidal. Such Interior struggle is at the base of nearly all neuroses, as Freud recently "discovered" as if this had not been taught, and taught without his massed errors, by the great teachers of the past! The Taoist doctrine, in particular, is most precise and most emphatic on this point; indeed, it may seem to some of us to overshoot the mark; for nothing is permissible in that scheme but frictionless adjustment and adaptation to circumstance. "Benevolence and righteousness" are actually deprecated! That any such ideas should ever have existed (says Lao-tse) is merely evidence of the universal disorder.
Taoist sectaries appear to assume that Perfection consists in the absence of any disturbance of the Stream of Nescience; and this is very much like the Buddhist idea of Nibbana.
1.02 - The Three European Worlds, #The Ever-Present Origin, #Jean Gebser, #Integral
Man's lack of spatial awareness is attended by a lack of ego-consciousness, since in order to objectify and qualify space, a self-conscious "I" is required that is able to stand opposite or confront space, as well as to depict or represent it by projecting it out of his soul or psyche. In this light, Worringer's statements regarding the lack of all space consciousness in Egyptian art are perfectly valid: "Only in the rudimentary form of prehistorical space and cave magic does space have a role in Egyptian architecture . . . . The Egyptians were neutral and indifferent toward space . . . . They were not even potentially aware of spatiality. Their experience was not trans-spatial but pre-spatial; . . . their culture of oasis cultivation was spaceless . . . . Their culture knew only spatial limitations and enclosures in architecture but no inwardness or Interiority as such. Just as their engraved reliefs lacked shadow depth, so too was their architecture devoid of special depth. The third dimension, that is the actual dimension of life's tension and polarity, was experience not as a quality but as a mere quantity. How then was space, the moment of depth-seeking extent, to enter their awareness as an independent quality apart from all corporality? . . . The Egyptians lacked utterly any spatial consciousness."
Despite, or indeed because of, Euclidean geometry, there is no evidence of an awareness of qualitative and objectified space in early antiquity or in the epoch preceding the Renaissance.
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Aretino's reproach, as well as Agrippa's more pointed remark, both of which characterize the unperspectival world and its mode of expression as "deformity" and "false vision", demonstrate clearly that space had already entered consciousness and become accepted at the outset of the sixteenth century. Having achieved and secured the awareness of space, man in the sixteenth century is overcome by a kind of intoxication with it. This perspectival intoxication with space is clearly evident, for example, in Altdorfer's Interiors and in the many depictions of church Interiors by the Netherlandic masters that have an almost jubilant expression. It is this jubilation that silences the voice of those who still attempted to preserve the old attitude toward the world. The silencing of objections was facilitated to a considerable degree by the fact that Petrarch's experience of landscape and space, as well as Leonardo's application and theory of perspective, had become common property and were evident in the increasing prevalence of landscape painting throughout Europe. We shall only mention a few of the great European masters who repeatedly took up the question of the perception and depiction of space in landscape: Altdorfer, van Goyen; Poussin, Claude Lorrain; Ruysdael, Magnasco; Watteau, Constable, Corot, Caspar David Friedrich; Millet, Courbert;Manet,Monet, Renoir, and finally, van Gogh and Rousseau.
Space is the insistent concern of this era. In underscoring this assertion, we have relied only on the testimony of its most vivid manifestation, the discovery of perspective. We did, however, mention in passing that at the very moment when Leonardo discovers space and solves the problem of perspective, thereby creating the possibility for spatial objectification in painting, other events occur which parallel his discovery. Copernicus, for example, shatters the limits of the geocentric sky and discovers heliocentric space; Columbus goes beyond the encompassing Oceanos and discovers earth's space: Vesalius, the first major anatomist, bursts the confines of Galen's ancient doctrines of the human Body and discovers the body's space; Harvey destroys the precepts of Hippocrates' humoral medicine and reveals the circulatory system. And there is Kepler, who by demonstrating the elliptical orbit of the planets, overthrows antiquity's unperspectival world-image of circular and flat surfaces (a view still held by Copernicus) that dated back to Ptolemy's conception of the circular movement of the planets.
1.02 - The Vision of the Past, #Let Me Explain, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
fringe of liberty and Interiority. The phenomenon of grow-
ing consciousness on earth, in short, is directly due to the
1.02 - THE WITHIN OF THINGS, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
' Interior ' appears at the heart of beings, as it were seen through
a rent. This is enough to ensure that, in one degree or another,
this ' Interior ' should obtrude itself as existing everywhere in
nature from all time. Since the stuff of the universe has an inner
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forms of Interior perception imaginable to the human phenomenon of reflec-
tive thought.
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superposed in the Interior of the world. It will appear more
clearly when we have discerned the qualitative laws that govern
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high radial energy) the tangential seems to become ' Interiorised ' and to disap-
pear from the physicist's view. Probably we have here an auxiliary principle
1.036 - The Rise of Obstacles in Yoga Practice, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
There is a sudden rising into the wakefulness of reality from the dream of world perception. All instruments of knowing are hushed forever. We begin to be aware of the presence of objects by a sympathy of 'being' rather than by a relatedness of sensory cognition. At present we are repelled by objects due to the egoism of personalities, and as one ego cannot tolerate another ego, there is an automatic repulsion of objects, one throwing the other out into a remote distance. But when this Interior consciousness arises, the repulsion that is consequent to the presence of egoism ceases, and the reverse action takes place, namely, a friendliness of attitude, not in the sense of an emotional affection that we are used to in this world, but the urge of kindred characters towards a fraternal embrace for a permanent union of their essential being.
This experience is uncommon, and humanly it is not possible, and we cannot call it human understanding, human awareness, or human relationship it is super-human, super-physical, super-psychical, super-intellectual, super- logical and super-relational. Such knowledge will rise as an emanation of being rather than as a faculty of understanding. This knowledge is a light that is shed by our essential being, and it is not merely a function of the psychological organ. This subject is explained in more detail in another sutra of Patanjali, which we shall study when we come to it later on. When this knowledge arises, there is a cessation of obstacles. Enmity ceases when the causes of enmity cease. The obstacles on the path to the realisation of Truth appear only as long as there is a hidden tendency of the individual to maintain itself in contradistinction with other individuals.
1.03 - Of some imperfections which some of these souls are apt to have, with respect to the second capital sin, which is avarice, in the spiritual sense, #Dark Night of the Soul, #Saint John of the Cross, #Christianity
say, they set their eyes only upon the reality of Interior perfection, which is to give
pleasure to God and in naught to give pleasure to themselves.
1.03 - Sympathetic Magic, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
will cause the flax to wave in the wind. In the Interior of Sumatra
rice is sown by women who, in sowing, let their hair hang loose down
1.03 - THE EARTH IN ITS EARLY STAGES, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
point with an Interior one. This we have shown already. Only
here the conditions have changed. Matter no longer spreads out
1.03 - THE GRAND OPTION, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
on the other hand, if it is understood to be the growing Interioriza-
tion of cosmic matter, offers to our freedom of choice a precise line
1.03 - The Phenomenon of Man, #Let Me Explain, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
complex and therefore appreciably Interiorized, each particle
being capable of being treated in isolation. Thus these two
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and psychic Interiorization once started, continuing, acceler-
ating, and growing to its utmost extent.' (A.M., p. 139.)
1.04 - Feedback and Oscillation, #Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, #Norbert Wiener, #Cybernetics
points will be termed Interior points. Thus in the diagram of
Fig. 1, with the boundary drawn in the sense of the arrow, the
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then tell us that the point at infinity cannot be an Interior point. It
may be a boundary point, although there are certain very defi-
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it may be. These concern the "thickness" of the set of Interior
points reaching out to infinity.138
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and ∞ will be an Interior point of this when and only when −1/λ is an
Interior point of Eq. 4.17.
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points are the points Interior to the right, half-plane. The point
−1/λ is always an exterior point, and any amount of feedback is
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described in the clockwise sense, and the Interior points are
those which we should ordinarily consider Interior. In this case
too, the admissible feedback is unlimited, as −1/λ is always out-
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the right. The Interior of this curve will contain no point of the
negative real axis, and, as in the previous case, the admissible
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sents the Interior points. All feedback with coefficient exceeding
1/8 is impossible. The corresponding a(t) is
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and, as the left half-plane is the Interior region, no servomecha-
nism whatever will stabilize the system.Feedback and Oscillation
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This is to say that the entire boundary between Interior and
exterior points must lie inside the circle of radius C about the
1.04 - GOD IN THE WORLD, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
It is in the Indian and Far Eastern formulations of the Perennial Philosophy that this subject is most systematically treated. What is prescribed is a process of conscious discrimination between the personal self and the Self that is identical with Brahman, between the individual ego and the Buddha-womb or Universal Mind. The result of this discrimination is a more or less sudden and complete revulsion of consciousness, and the realization of a state of no-mind, which may be described as the freedom from perceptual and intellectual attachment to the ego-principle. This state of no-mind exists, as it were, on a knife-edge between the carelessness of the average sensual man and the strained over-eagerness of the zealot for salvation. To achieve it, one must walk delicately and, to maintain it, must learn to combine the most intense alertness with a tranquil and self-denying passivity, the most indomitable determination with a perfect submission to the leadings of the spirit. When no-mind is sought after by a mind, says Huang Po, that is making it a particular object of thought. There is only testimony of silence; it goes beyond thinking. In other words, we, as separate individuals, must not try to think it, but rather permit ourselves to be thought by it. Similarly, in the Diamond Sutra we read that if a Bodhisattva, in his attempt to realize Suchness, retains the thought of an ego, a person, a separate being, or a soul, he is no longer a Bodhisattva. Al Ghazzali, the philosopher of Sufism, also stresses the need for intellectual humbleness and docility. If the thought that he is effaced from self occurs to one who is in fana (a term roughly corresponding to Zens no-mind, or mushin), that is a defect. The highest state is to be effaced from effacement. There is an ecstatic effacement-from-effacement in the Interior heights of the Atman-Brahman; and there is another, more comprehensive effacement-from-effacement, not only in the inner heights, but also in and through the world, in the waking, everyday knowledge of God in his fulness.
A man must become truly poor and as free from his own creaturely will as he was when he was born. And I tell you, by the eternal truth, that so long as you desire to fulfill the will of God and have any hankering after eternity and God, for just so long you are not truly poor. He alone has true spiritual poverty who wills nothing, knows nothing, desires nothing.
1.04 - On blessed and ever-memorable obedience, #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
Let us hear about another surprising attainment of theirs. For not even in the refectory did they stop mental activity,5 but according to a certain custom, these blessed men reminded one another of Interior prayer by secret signs and gestures. And they did this not only in the refectory, but at every encounter and gathering.
1 Psalm xxxi, 5.
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3 Hsychia, stillness, quiet, silence, peace; also leisure, rest (Latin otium). From this root is derived the technical term hesychasm, the science and practice of contemplative prayer, and also hesychast, one who practises Interior prayer.
4 visible fire: i.e. the bakehouse fire.
5 mental activity: Gk. noera ergasia, a common phrase for Interior prayer.
And if one of them committed a fault, he would receive many requests from the brothers to allow them to take the case to the shepherd and bear the responsibility and the punishment. That is why this great man, on learning that his disciples did this, inflicted lighter punishments, knowing that the one punished was innocent. And he did not even inquire who had actually fallen into the blunder.
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Insults, humiliations and similar things are like the bitterness of wormwood to the soul of a novice; while praises, honours and approbation are like honey and give birth to all manner of sweetness in pleasure-lovers. But let us look at the nature of each: wormwood purifies all Interior filth, while honey increases gall.
Let us trust with firm confidence those who have taken upon themselves the care of us in the Lord, even though they order something apparently contrary and opposed to our salvation. For it is then that our faith in them is tested as in a furnace of humiliation. For it is a sign of the truest faith if we obey our superiors without any hesitation, even when we see the opposite of what we had hoped for happening.
1.04 - SOME REFLECTIONS ON PROGRESS, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
ever more luminous fringe of liberty and Interiority. The phenom-
enon of growing consciousness on earth, in short, is directly due to
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the tension and Interior dislocation of Mankind shaken to its roots
as it stands at the crossroads, faced by the need to decide upon its
1.04 - The Conditions of Esoteric Training, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy
4. These words already express the fourth condition: to acquire the conviction that the real being of man does not lie in his exterior but in his Interior. Anyone regarding himself as a product of the outer world, as a result of the physical world, cannot succeed in this esoteric training, for the feeling that we are beings of soul and spirit forms its very basis. The acquisition of this feeling renders the student fit to distinguish between inner duty and outward success. He learns that the one cannot be directly measured by the other. He must find the proper mean between what is indicated by external conditions and what he recognizes as the right conduct for himself. He should not force upon his environment anything for which it can have no understanding, but also he must be quite free from the desire to do only what can be appreciated by those around him. The voice of his own soul struggling honestly toward knowledge must bring him the one and only recognition of the truths for which he stands. But he must learn as much as he possibly can from his environment so
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Anyone sincerely showing the good will to fulfill these conditions may decide to seek esoteric training. He will then be ready to follow the advice given above. Much of his advice may appear to be merely on the surface, and many will perhaps say that they did not expect the training to proceed in such strict forms. But everything Interior must manifest itself in an exterior way, and just as a picture is not evident when it exists only in the mind of the painter, so, too, there can be no esoteric training without outward expression. Disregard for strict forms is only shown by those who do not know that the exterior is the avenue of expression for the Interior. No doubt it is the spirit that really matters, and not the form; but just as form without spirit is null and void, so also would spirit remain inactive if it did not create for itself a form.
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1.04 - The Silent Mind, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
with an impression of bumping into everything, into gray or aggressive people, heavy objects, brutal events; the world appears enormously absurd. This is a sure sign of the beginning of Interiorization. Yet if we try to go consciously inside ourselves in meditation, we find a similar void, a sort of dark well or amorphous neutrality. If we persist inward, we might even drop off to sleep for a few seconds or minutes, or sometimes even longer. Yet this is no ordinary sleep: we have passed into another consciousness, but there is still no link between the two, and we come out of this state apparently no more enlightened than when we entered it. This transitory condition might easily lead to a sort of absurd nihilism:
nothing outside or inside. Here is where we must be very careful, once we have demolished our outer mental constructions, not to become confined in another construction of false profundity, an absurd,
1.05 - 2010 and 1956 - Doomsday?, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
of matter that surrounds the incandescent Interior of plan-
et Earth, almost entirely made of hot or molten rock and
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meet the magma of the Earths hot Interior, about 100 miles
below the surface, and proceeds another 100 miles upwards
1.05 - Christ, A Symbol of the Self, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
Dei factus est et ad similitudinem, Interior homo noster est, invisibilis et incor-
poralis, et incorruptus atque immortalis" (But that which is made after the image
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vera religione says: "in Interiore homine habitat Veritas" (truth dwells in the
inner man). From this it is clear that the imago Dei coincides with the Interior
homo.
1.05 - THE HOSTILE BROTHERS - ARCHETYPES OF RESPONSE TO THE UNKNOWN, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
inferos: Visita Interiora Terrae Recflficando invenies Occultum Lapidem (Visit the Interior of the Earth, and by
purification you will find the secret Stone) [Eliade, M. (1985). p. 256, footnote 89].
1.05 - The Magical Control of the Weather, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
to prevent rain from falling, he withdraws into the Interior of the
hut, and there heats a rock-crystal in a calabash. In order to
1.05 - The Universe The 0 = 2 Equation, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Note how admirably they have preserved the idea of balance. M.1. and F.1. are perfection. M.2. and F.2. still keep balance in their lines. The four "elements" show imperfection; yet they are all balanced as against each other. Note, too, how apt are the ideograms. M.3. shows the flames flickering on the hearth, F.3., the wave on the solid bottom of the sea; M.4., the mutable air, with impenetrable space above, and finally F.4., the thin crust of the earth masking the Interior energies of the planet. They go in to double these Kw, thus reaching the sixty-four Hexagrams of the Y King, which is not only a Map, but a History of the Order of Nature.
It is pure enthusiastic delight in the Harmony and Beauty of the System that has led me thus far afield; my one essential purpose is to show how the Universe was derived by these Wise Men from Nothing.
1.05 - Vishnu as Brahma creates the world, #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism
[6]: Ūrddha, 'above,' and Srotas, as before; their nourishment being derived from the exterior, not from the Interior of the body: according to the commentator; ### as a text of the Vedas has it; 'Through satiety derived from even beholding ambrosia.'
[7]: Arvāk, 'downwards,' and Srotas, 'canal.'
1.06 - A Summary of my Phenomenological View of the World, #Let Me Explain, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
and Interiorization can again be very clearly distinguished.
This means that all around us the fundamental process of
1.06 - Gestalt and Universals, #Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, #Norbert Wiener, #Cybernetics
markedly so for the receptors which record the Interior of a large
block of images with constant color and illumination, for even
1.06 - MORTIFICATION, NON-ATTACHMENT, RIGHT LIVELIHOOD, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
What follows is an account of the intellectual mortifications which must be practised by those whose primary concern is with the knowledge of the Godhead in the Interior heights of the soul.
Happy is the man who, by continually effacing all images and through introversion and the lifting up of his mind to God, at last forgets and leaves behind all such hindrances. For by such means only, he operates inwardly, with his naked, pure, simple intellect and affections, about the most pure and simple object, God. Therefore see that thy whole exercise about God within thee may depend wholly and only on that naked intellect, affection and will. For indeed, this exercise cannot be discharged by any bodily organ, or by the external senses, but only by that which constitutes the essence of manunderstanding and love. If, therefore, thou desirest a safe stair and short path to arrive at the end of true bliss, then, with an intent mind, earnestly desire and aspire after continual cleanness of heart and purity of mind. Add to this a constant calm and tranquillity of the senses, and a recollecting of the affections of the heart, continually fixing them above. Work to simplify the heart, that being immovable and at peace from any invading vain phantasms, thou mayest always stand fast in the Lord within thee, to that degree as if thy soul had already entered the always present now of eternity that is, the state of the deity. To mount to God is to enter into oneself. For he who so mounts and enters and goes above and beyond himself, he truly mounts up to God. The mind must then raise itself above itself and say, He who above all I need is above all I know. And so carried into the darkness of the mind, gathering itself into that all-sufficient good, it learns to stay at home and with its whole affection it cleaves and becomes habitually fixed in the supreme good within. Thus continue, until thou becomest immutable and dost arrive at that true life which is God Himself, perpetually, without any vicissitude of space or time, reposing in that inward quiet and secret mansion of the deity.
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A simple heart will love all that is most precious on earth, husb and or wife, parent or child, brother or friend, without marring its singleness; external things will have no attraction save inasmuch as they lead souls to Him; all exaggeration or unreality, affectation and falsehood must pass away from such a one, as the dews dry up before the sunshine. The single motive is to please God, and hence arises total indifference as to what others say and think, so that words and actions are perfectly simple and natural, as in his sight only. Such Christian simplicity is the very perfection of Interior lifeGod, his will and pleasure, its sole object.
N. Grou
1.06 - The Sign of the Fishes, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
"Item quod homo magis tenetur sequi instinctum Interiorem quam veritatero
Evangelii quod cottidie praedicatur . . . dicunt, se credere ibi (in Evangelio)
1.06 - The Transformation of Dream Life, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy
person toward the things of the spiritual world are very different from the feelings of the undeveloped person toward the things of the physical world. The latter feels himself to be at a particular place in the world of sense, and the surrounding objects to be external to him. The spiritually developed person feels himself to be united with, and as though in the Interior of, the spiritual objects he perceives. He wanders, in fact, from place to place in spiritual space, and is therefore called the wanderer in the language of occult science. He has no home at first. Should he, however, remain a mere wanderer he would be unable to define any object in spiritual space. Just as objects and places in physical space are defined from a fixed point of departure, this, too, must be the case in the other world. He must seek out some place, thoroughly investigate it, and take spiritual possession of it. In this place he must establish his spiritual home and relate everything else to it. In physical life, too, a person sees everything in terms of his physical home. Natives of Berlin and Paris will involuntarily describe London in a different way. And yet there is a difference between the spiritual and the physical home. We are born into the latter
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1.07 - The Farther Reaches of Human Nature, #Sex Ecology Spirituality, #Ken Wilber, #Philosophy
--- THE Interior CASTLE
--- VISION-LOGIC
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--- THE Interior CASTLE:
1:I have been constantly emphasizing that each stage of evolution, in whatever domain, involves a new emergence and therefore a new depth, or a new Interiority, whether that applies to molecules or to birds or to dolphins; and that each new within is also a going beyond, a transcendence, a higher and wider identity with a greater total embrace. The formula is: going within = going beyond = greater embrace. And I want to make very clear exactly what that means.
2:This is extremely important, I think, because the higher stages of development, the transrational and transpersonal and mystical stages, all involve a new going within, a new Interiorness. And the charge has been circulating, for quite some time now, that endeavors such as meditation are somehow narcissistic and withdrawn. Environmentalists, in particular, often claim that meditation is somehow "escapist" or "egocentric," and that this "going within" simply ignores the "real" problems in the "real" world "out there."
3:Precisely the opposite. Far from being some sort of narcissistic withdrawal or inward isolation, meditation (or transpersonal development in general) is a simple and natural continuation of the evolutionary process, where every going within is also a going beyond to a wider embrace.
4:Recall that two of our tenets (8 and 12d) stated that increasing evolution means increasing depth and increasing relative autonomy. In the realm of human development, this particularly shows up in the fact that, according to developmental psychology (as we will see), increasing growth and development always involve increasing internalization (or increasing Interiorization). And as paradoxical as it initially sounds, the more Interiorized a person is, the less narcissistic his or her awareness becomes. So we need to understand why, for all schools of developmental psychology, this equation is true: increasing development = increasing Interiorization = decreasing narcissism (or decreasing egocentrism).
5:In short, we need to understand why the more Interior a person is, the less egocentric he or she becomes.
6:Begin with Interiorization. "Evolution, to Hartmann [founder of psychoanalytic developmental psychology], is a process of progressive internalization, for, in the development of the species, the organism achieves increased independence from its environment, the result of which is that 'reactions which originally occurred in relation to the external world are increasingly displaced into the Interior of the organism.' The more independent the organism becomes, the greater its independence from the stimulation of the immediate environment."1 This applies to the infant, for example, when it no longer dissolves in tears if food is not immediately forthcoming. By Interiorizing its awareness, it is no longer merely buffeted by the immediate fluctuations in the environment: its relative autonomy-its capacity to remain stable in the midst of shifting circumstances-increases. This progressive internalization is a cornerstone of psychoanalytic developmental psychology (from Hartmann to Blanck and Blanck to Kernberg to Kohut). It is implicit in Jung's notion of individuation. Likewise, Piaget described thought as "internalized action," the capacity to internally plan an action and anticipate its course without being merely a reactive automaton-and so forth.
7:In other words, for developmental psychology, increasing development = increasing Interiorization = increasing relative autonomy. This, of course, is simply tenet 12d as it shows up in humans.
8:The second link in the equation concerns narcissism, which is roughly synonymous with egocentrism, about which we have already said much. We need only recall that increasing development involves precisely the capacity to transcend one's isolated and subjective point of view, and thus to find higher and wider perspectives and identities. Piaget referred to the entire developmental process as one of decreasing egocentrism, or what he also called "decentering."
9:Putting these all together, we have: increasing development = increasing Interiorization = increasing autonomy = decreasing narcissism (decentering).
10:In other words, the more one can go within, or the more one can introspect and reflect on one's self, then the more detached from that self one can become, the more one can rise above that self's limited perspective, and so the less narcissistic or less egocentric one becomes (or the more decentered one becomes). This is why Piaget is always saying things that sound paradoxical, such as: "Finally, as the child becomes conscious of his subjectivity, he rids himself of his egocentricity."2
11:The more he can subjectively reflect on his self, the more he can transcend it-his subjectivity, his Interiority, rids him of his egocentricity. Howard Gardner does a masterful job of summarizing development as being the two processes of decreasing egocentrism and increasing Interiority. "The first is the decline of egocentrism. The young child is, in Piaget's terms, totally egocentric-meaning not that he thinks selfishly only about himself, but to the contrary, that he is incapable of thinking about himself. The egocentric child is unable to differentiate himself from the rest of the world; he has not separated himself out from others or from objects. Thus he feels that others share his pain or his pleasure, that his mumblings will inevitably be understood, that his perspective is shared by all persons, that even animals and plants partake of his consciousness. In playing hide-and-seek he will 'hide' in broad view of other persons, because his egocentrism prevents him from recognizing that others are aware of his location. The whole course of human development can be viewed as a continuing decline in egocentrism. . . ."3
12:And this decreasing narcissism is directly connected with the "second trend in mental growth," namely, "the tendency toward internalization or Interiorization. The infant either solves problems by his activity upon the world or he does not solve them at all. The older child, on the other hand, can achieve many intellectual breakthroughs without overt physical actions. He is able to realize these actions Interiorly, through concrete and formal operations."4 By acting on the self Interiorly, that self is decentered, and this allows, among many other things, the continuing expansion (decentering) of moral response from egocentric to sociocentric to worldcentric (integralaperspectival).
13:In short, the more one goes within, the more one goes beyond, and the more one can thus embrace a deeper identity with a wider perspective.
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At level three, occurring around eleven to seventeen years (early formop), "the social personality or role is seen as a false outer appearance, different from the true inner self." Here we see very clearly the differentiation of the self (the rational ego) from its embeddedness in sociocentric roles-the emergence of a new Interiority or relative autonomy which is aware of, and thus transcends or disidentifies from, overt social roles. "The self is what the person's nature normally is; it is a kind of essence and remains itself over changes in mental contents."
Likewise, and for precisely the same reasons, "reflective self-awareness appears at this level." (This is fulcrum five, the rational and reflexive ego differentiating from, and thus transcending, sociocentric or mythic-membership roles, with the correlative possible pathology of "identity crisis." Notice also that the new ego-self is beginning to remain as witness to the stream of mental events, and is not merely carried away by any passing thoughts; the adolescent at this stage reports that something "remains itself over changes in mental contents.")
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But for a more transcendental self to emerge, it has first to differentiate from the merely empirical self, and thus we find, with Broughton: "At level five the self as observer is distinguished from the self-concept as known." In other words, something resembling a pure observing Self (a transcendental Witness or Atman, which we will investigate in a moment) is beginning to be clearly distinguished from the empirical ego or objective self-it is a new Interiority, a new going within that goes beyond, a new emergence that transcends but includes the empirical ego. This beginning transcendence of the ego we are, of course, calling the centaur (the beginning of fulcrum six, or the sixth major differentiation that we have seen so far in the development of consciousness).9 This is the realm of vision-logic leading to centauric integration, which is why at this stage, Broughton found that "reality is defined by the coherence of the interpretive framework."
This integrative stage comes to fruition at Broughton's last major level (late centauric), where "mind and body are both experiences of an integrated self," which is the phrase I have most often used to define the centauric or bodymind-integrated self. Precisely because awareness has differentiated from (or disidentified from, or transcended) an exclusive identification with body, persona, ego, and mind, it can now integrate them in a unified fashion, in a new and higher holon with each of them as junior partners. Physiosphere, biosphere, noosphere-exclusively identified with none of them, therefore capable of integrating all of them.
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The common objections to these contemplative sciences are not very compelling. The most typical objection is that these mystical states are private and Interior and cannot be publicly validated; they are "merely subjective."
This is simply not true; or rather, if it is true, then it applies to any and all nonempirical endeavors, from mathematics to literature to linguistics to psychoanalysis to historical interpretation. Nobody has ever seen, "out there" in the "sensory world," the square root of a negative one. That is a mathematical symbol seen only inwardly, "privately," with the mind's eye. Yet a community of trained mathematicians know exactly what that symbol means, and they can share that symbol easily in intersubjective awareness, and they can confirm or reject the proper and consistent uses of that symbol. Just so, the "private" experiences of contemplative scientists can be shared with a community of trained contemplatives, grounded in a common and shared experience, and open to confirmation or re buttal based on public evidence.
Recall that the Right-Hand path is open to empirical verification, which means that the Right-Hand dimension of holons, their form or exteriors, can indeed be "seen" with the senses or their extensions. But the Left-Hand dimension-the Interior side-cannot be seen empirically "out there," although it can be internally experienced (and although it has empirical correlates: my Interior thoughts register on an EEG but cannot be determined or interpreted or known from that evidence). Everything on the Left Hand, from sensations to impulses to images and concepts and so on, is an Interior experience known to me directly by acquaintance (which can indeed be "objectively described," but only through an intersubjective community at the same depth, where it relies on interpretation from the same depth). Direct spiritual experience is simply the higher reaches of the Upper-Left quadrant, and those experiences are as real as any other direct experiences, and they can be as easily shared (or distorted) as any other experiential knowledge.11 (The only way to deny the validity of direct Interior experiential knowledge-whether it be mathematical knowledge, introspective knowledge, or spiritual knowledge-is to take the behaviorist stance and identify Interior experience with exterior behavior. Should somebody mention that this is the cynical twist or pathological agency of Broughton's level four?)
There is, of course, one proviso: the experimenter must, in his or her own case, have developed the requisite cognitive tools. If, for example, we want to investigate concrete operational thought, a community of those who have only developed to the preoperational level will not do. If you take a preop child, and in front of the child pour the water from a short fat glass into a tall thin glass, the child will tell you that the tall glass has more water. If you say, no, there is the same amount of water in both glasses, because you just saw me pour the same water from one glass to the other, the child will have no idea what you're talking about. "No, the tall glass has more water." No matter how many times you pour the water back and forth between the two glasses, the child will deny they have the same amount of water. (Interestingly, if you videotape the child at this stage, and then wait a few years until the child has developed conop-at which point it will seem utterly obvious to him that the glasses have the same amount of water-and then show the child the earlier videotape, he will deny that it's him. He thinks you've doctored the videotape; he cannot imagine anybody being that stupid.) The preop child is immersed in a world that includes conop realities, is drenched in those realities, and yet cannot "see" them: they are all "otherworldly."
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Thus, I physically write the word dog on this page-that is the signifier. You read the word, and you understand that I mean something like a furry animal with four legs that goes wuff-wuff-that is the signified, that is what comes to your mind. A sign is a combination of these two components, and these two components are, of course, the Right-Hand dimension of the sign (the physical exterior) and the Left-Hand dimension of the sign (the Interior awareness or meaning).
And both of those are distinguished from the actual referent, or whatever it is that the sign is "pointing" to, whether Interior or exterior. Thus, the signifier is the word dog, the referent is the real dog, and the signified is what comes to your mind when you read or hear the signifier dog. Saussure's genius was to point out that the signified is not merely or simply the same as the referent, because "what comes to mind" depends on a whole host of factors other than the real dog, and this is what makes linguistic reality so fascinating.
Saussure's point-and this is what actually ignited the whole movement of structuralism-is that the sign cannot be understood as an isolated entity, because in and by itself the sign is meaningless (which is why different words can represent the same thing in different languages, and why "meaning" is never a simple matter of a word pointing to a thing, because how could different words represent the same thing?). Rather, signs must be understood as part of a holarchy of differences integrated into meaningful structures. Both the signifiers and the signifieds exist as holons, or whole/parts in a chain of whole/parts, and, as Saussure made clear, it is their relational standing that confers meaning on each (language is a meaningful system of meaningless elements: as always, the regime or structure of the superholon confers meaning on the subholons, meaning which the subholons do not and cannot possess on their own).
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The Left-Hand theorists wanted to study the contexts within contexts of Interior meaning, the signifieds that can only be interpreted, not seen, and interpreted only in a context of background cultural practices (the hermeneuticists, from Heidegger to Kuhn and Taylor and aspects of Wittgenstein).
But both the hermeneutical Left-Hand path and the structuralist Right-Hand path agreed that signs can only be understood contextually (whether in the context of shared cultural practices that provide the foreknowledge or background or context for common interpretation, or in the context of shared nonindividual linguistic structures. I argued in chapter 4 that both of these approaches are equally important-they represent the Interior and the exterior of the linguistic holon-and indeed even Foucault came to this understanding).12
All of which relates to mysticism in this way: the word dog has a shared meaning to you and to me because that sign exists in a shared linguistic structure and a shared cultural background of social and interpretive practices. But what if you had never seen a real dog? What then?
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In other words, all signs exist in a continuum of developmental referents and developmental signifieds. The referent of a sign is not just lying around in "the" world waiting for any and all to simply look at it; the referent exists only in a worldspace that is itself only disclosed in the process of development, and the signified exists only in the Interior perception of those who have developed to that worldspace (which structures the background interpretive meaning that allows the signified to emerge). No amount of experience by the conop child will ever show her the meaning of an "as-if" dog, because the as-if dog does not exist anywhere in the conop worldspace; it exists only in the formop worldspace, and thus it is a referent that demands a developmental signified to even be perceived in the first place.
To take it a point at a time: the signifiers of signs (such as the words on this page) are always physical, they are always material components, in which no meaning resides at all (Saussure's point); and because the signifiers arephysical, even my dog can see them (and, of course, sees no meaning in them; or rather, sees them from a sensorimotor level, as something to eat, perhaps). That is because the actual referent of a sign exists only in a worldspace (sensorimotor, magical, mythical, mental, etc.) that is itself disclosed only at a particular level of depth (preop, conop, formop, etc.). And in the same way, the corresponding signified of the sign exists only in the Interior perception of those who have developed the requisite depth. (All of this occurs in a context of cultural and social practices, or an intersubjective community of the same-depthed.)14
Both the conop child and my dog can see the physical words "as-if"; neither of them can understand the phrase.
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Several examples of referents and worldspaces: rocks exist in the sensorimotor worldspace; animistic clouds exist in the magic worldspace; Santa Claus exists in the mythic worldspace; the square root of a negative one exists in the rational worldspace; archetypes exist in the subtle worldspace, and so on-not as pregiven objects, but as the product of all four quadrants. And thus, in order to understand the referents represented by those signifiers (from "rocks" to "archetypes") one must possess the requisite depth through one's own Interior development (so that those signifiers can evoke the appropriate signified: when you read "the square root of a negative one," you know what that means, what that signifies, but only if you have developed to formop). Just so, the words Buddha-nature and Godhead and Spirit and Dharmakaya are signifiers whose referents exist only in the transpersonal or spiritual worldspace, and they therefore require, for their understanding, a developmental signified, an appropriately developed Interior or Left-Hand dimension corresponding with the exterior word, or else they remain only words, like the unseen dog, this unseen Spirit. And without the developmental signified, words will capture neither the dog nor the Spirit.
And note: I can run around until I find a dog and show you the dog, because we both exist in the sensorimotor worldspace and there is no developmental reason why you can't spot a dog. Or, in the other example, there is no reason you can't understand an as-if dog, whose referent exists in the rational worldspace. We already share that worldspace. We have already transformed to that level of depth: an entire and shared world of referents are therefore lying around for us to apprehend (because we have already created the worldspace or the opening in which they can manifest).
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This developmental model has also been found to be consistent with the stages of mystical or Interior prayer found in the Jewish (Kabbalist), Islamic (Sufi), and Christian mystical traditions (see, for example, Chirban's chapter in Transformations), and Brown has also found it in the Chinese contemplative traditions. Theorists such as Da Avabhasha have given extensive hermeneutic and developmental readings from what now appears to be at least a representative sampling from every known and available contemplative tradition (see, for example, The Basket of Tolerance), and they are in fundamental and extensive agreement with this overall developmental model.
The evidence, though still preliminary, strongly suggests that, at a minimum, there are four general stages of transpersonal development, each with at least two substages (and some with many more). These four stages I call the psychic, the subtle, the causal, and the nondual.
Each of these stages follows the same patterns and shows the same developmental characteristics as all the other stages of consciousness evolution: each is a holon following the twenty tenets (a new differentiation/integration, a new emergence with a new depth, a new Interiority, etc.); each possesses a new and higher sense of self existing in a new and wider world of others, with new drives, new cognitions, new moral stances, and so forth; each possesses a deep structure (basic defining pattern) that is culturally invariant but with surface structures (manifestations) that are culturally conditioned and molded; and each has a new and higher form of possible pathology (with the exception of the unmanifest "end" point, although even that is not without certain possible complications in its manifestation).
I have elsewhere given preliminary descriptions of the deep structures (and pathologies) of each of these four major stages.22 Instead of repeating myself, I have for this presentation simply chosen four individuals who are especially representative of these stages, and will let them speak for us. They are (respectively) Ralph Waldo Emerson, Saint Teresa of Avila, Meister Eckhart, and Sri Ramana Maharshi. Each also represents the type of mysticism typical at each stage: nature mysticism, deity mysticism, formless mysticism, and nondual mysticism (each of which we will discuss).
1.07 - THE GREAT EVENT FORESHADOWED - THE PLANETIZATION OF MANKIND, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
humanization. By Interiorizing itself under the influence of the
Spirit of Evolution, planetization (as the theory of complexity would
1.08 - The Depths of the Divine, #Sex Ecology Spirituality, #Ken Wilber, #Philosophy
It is, in fact, according to Emerson, an allegiance to the senses and nature, in itself, that blinds us to the Interior intuition of the Over-Soul and the God within and beyond:
To the senses and the unrenewed understanding, belongs a sort of instinctive belief in the absolute existence of nature. In their view man and nature are indissolubly joined. Things are ultimates, and they never look beyond their sphere [Piaget's egocentric "realism"]. . . . His mind is imbruted, and he is a selfish savage. . . .
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In concluding this brief survey of the psychic level and the cosmic consciousness of nature-nation mysticism, there are two points I would like to emphasize. The first is that, as I think is now obvious, this new going within has resulted in a new going beyond: a new and higher Interior identity (Over-Soul) accompanied by a new and wider embrace of others (World Soul)-a single Soul embracing the physiosphere, biosphere, and noosphere in one loving caress.19
Once again we go within and fall without to find this time . . . an actual cosmic consciousness. But this movement itself is in no way any different from all the previous stages that we have examined, all of which were "selfdevelopment through self-transcendence," a new going within to a deeper and wider beyond.
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At the subtle level, this process of " Interiorization" or "within-and-beyond" intensifies-a new transcendence with a new depth, a new embrace, a higher consciousness, a wider identity-and the soul and God enter an even deeper Interior marriage, which discloses at its summit a divine union of Soul and Spirit, a union prior to any of its manifestations as matter or life or mind, a union that outshines any conceivable nature, here or anywhere else.
Nature-nation mysticism gives way to Deity mysticism, and the God within announces itself in terms undreamt of in gross manifestation, with a Light that blinds the sun and a Song that thunders nature and culture into stunned and awestruck silence.
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In the Interior Castle, one of the truly great texts of subtle-level development, Teresa describes very clearly the stages of evolution of the "little butterfly," as she calls her soul, to its union with the very Divine, and she does so in terms of "seven mansions," or seven stages of growth.
The first three stages deal with the ordinary mind or ego, "unregenerate" in the gross, manifest world of thought and sense. In the first Mansion, that of Humility, the ego is still in love with the creatures and comforts outside the Castle, and must begin a long and searching discipline in order to turn within. In the second Mansion (the Practice of Prayer), intellectual study, edification, and good company streng then the desire and capacity to Interiorize and not merely scatter and disperse the self in exterior distractions. In the Mansion of Exemplary Life, the third stage, discipline and ethics are firmly set as a foundation of all that is to follow (very similar to the Buddhist notion that sila, or moral discipline, is the foundation of dhyana, or meditation, and prajna, or spiritual insight). These are all natural (or personal) developments.
In the fourth mansion, a supernatural (or transpersonal) grace enters the scene with the Prayer of Recollection and the Prayer of Quiet (which Teresa differentiates by their bodily effects). In both, there is a calming and slowing of gross-oriented faculties (memory, thoughts, senses) and a consequent opening to deeper, more Interior spaces with correlative "graces," which Teresa calls, at this stage, "spiritual consolations" (because they are consoling to the self, not yet transcending of the self). On the other hand, it is also as if the soul itself is actually beginning to emerge at this stage: "The senses and all external things seem gradually to lose their hold, while the soul, on the other hand, regains its lost control." And this carries a glimmer of the truth to come, "namely, that God is within us."26
In the fifth mansion, via the Prayer of Union, a Spiritual Betrothal occurs, where the soul first directly emerges and intuits Spirit residing in the deepest Interior of its own heart (the psychic). I say "emerge," because even if the soul was previously present in the depths, it now comes to the fore.
And this occurs in one particularly significant transformation, according to Teresa. The individual experiences, for the first time, a complete cessation27 of all faculties, and in that pure absorption, the self tastes its primordial union with God (or what Teresa also calls Uncreate Spirit). "For as long as such a soul is in this state, it can neither see nor hear nor understand: the period is always short [at this early stage]. God implants Himself in the Interior of that soul in such a way that, when it returns to itself, it cannot possibly doubt that God has been in it and it has been in God."28
And here Teresa uses perhaps her most famous metaphor. Prior to this transformative absorption, the unregenerate self (or ego) is, says Teresa, like a silkworm. But one taste of union (literally, just a single experience of this, she says, however brief), and the self is changed forever. One taste of absorption in Uncreate Spirit, and the worm emerges a butterfly. As we might put it, the ego dies and the soul emerges. ("All mean egotism vanishes; the currents of Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.") Teresa:
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One taste, and the butterfly is born, the soul is born (or emerges from its slumber in ego, its lostness in the exterior cocoon of form; and, of course, the butterfly is the omega point of the silkworm). The rest of Interior Castle describes the extraordinary journey of this little butterfly toward that primordial Flame in which, at last, it will happily die (to be, once again, reborn on yet a deeper level, that of union with Uncreate Spirit).
In the sixth mansion, Lover and Beloved, butterfly and God, soul and Uncreate Spirit, "see each other" for extended periods of time. Whereas the absorption of the Fifth Mansion might last up to a half-hour, various types of absorption here last a day or several days, she says (even if the cessation itself is still shortlived). The soul is "so completely absorbed and the understanding so completely transported-for as long as a day, or even for several days-that the soul seems incapable of grasping anything that does not awaken the will to love; to this it is fully awake, while asleep as regards all attachment. . . ."30
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There are many things which assault her soul with an Interior oppression so keenly felt and so intolerable that I do not know to what it can be compared. . . ."31
She is conscious of a strange solitude, since there is not a creature on the whole earth who can be a companion to her-in fact, I do not believe she would find any in Heaven, save Him Whom she loves: on the contrary, all earthly companionship is torment to her. She thinks of herself as of a person suspended aloft, unable either to come down and rest anywhere on earth or to ascend into Heaven. She is parched with thirst, yet cannot reach the water; and the thirst is not a tolerable one but a kind that nothing can quench. . . .32
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On the more positive side, it is here in the Sixth Mansion that all sorts of subtle-level phenomena begin to emerge in consciousness, and Teresa chronicles them with astonishing clarity: the Interior illuminations, the raptures, the subtle sounds and visions, the types of tranquillity and recollection, "ecstasy, rapture, or trance (for I think these are all the same)." Most of these visions (late psychic and early subtle) are in themselves transverbal ("the revelations are communicated to it without words," "in a way that involves no clear utterance of speech").33 But the central event remains, in each of them, the possibility of the absorption in Uncreate Spirit. "When the soul is thus cleansed,
God unites it with Himself. The soul becomes one with God."34
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Teresa is positively brilliant in distinguishing the agonies of the soul in its higher mansions or stages from those emotional problems that characterize the lower faculties. She clearly distinguishes, for example, three types of "inner voices"-those of "the fancy" or "imagination," which can be hallucinatory and "diseased," she says; those that are verbal, and may or may not represent true wisdom (for they may also be deceptive and "diseased"); and those that are transverbal altogether, representing direct Interior apprehension. She has an exquisite and precise discriminating awareness between "fancies" and "hallucinations" and direct intuitive apprehensions, and she explains the differences at length. She gives clear and classic phenomenological descriptions of so many of the subtle-level apprehensions: Interior illumination, sound, bliss, and understanding beyond ordinary time and place; genuine archetypal Form as creative pattern (not mythic motif); and psychic vision giving way to pure nonverbal, transverbal, subtle intuition; all summating in the "union of the whole soul with uncreated Spirit."
As for the use of the term "supernatural" by certain contemplatives (both East and West), care should be taken to differentiate what they mean by that term and what, for example, the mythic or religious literalist means by it.
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As for this inner transformation, this Interior realization, Teresa speaks movingly to her sister nuns, and to us, from the direct experience of the contemplative heart:
It becomes evident that there is "someone" in the Interior of the soul who sends forth these arrows and thus gives life to this life, and that there is a sun whence this great light proceeds, which is transmitted in the Interior part of the soul. The soul, as I said, neither moves from that center nor loses its peace; [it] leaves the soul in a state of pure spirituality, so that it might be joined with Uncreated Spirit.
Oh, God help me! What a difference there is between hearing and believing these words and being led in this way to realize how true they are! Each day this soul wonders more, for she feels that they have never left her, and perceives quite clearly, in the way I have described, that They [the "true words"] are in the Interior of her heart-in the most Interior place of all and in its greatest depths.41
This new depth, this new within, which is a new beyond, utterly transcends nature, utterly embraces nature, and is thus embodied in nature, as perhaps Aurobindo explained most forcefully:
1.09 - Concentration - Its Spiritual Uses, #Raja-Yoga, #Swami Vivkenanda, #unset
Again, in the very same meditation, when one struggles to take the elements out of time and space, and think of them as they are, it is called Nirvitarka, without question. When the meditation goes a step higher, and takes the Tanmatras as its object, and thinks of them as in time and space, it is called Savichra, with discrimination; and when in the same meditation one eliminates time and space, and thinks of the fine elements as they are, it is called Nirvichra, without discrimination. The next step is when the elements are given up, both gross and fine, and the object of meditation is the Interior organ, the thinking organ. When the thinking organ is thought of as bereft of the qualities of activity and dullness, it is then called Snanda, the blissful Samadhi. When the mind itself is the object of meditation, when meditation becomes very ripe and concentrated, when all ideas of the gross and fine materials are given up, when the Sattva state only of the Ego remains, but differentiated from all other objects, it is called Ssmita Samadhi. The man who has attained to this has attained to what is called in the Vedas "bereft of body". He can think of himself as without his gross body; but he will have to think of himself as with a fine body. Those that in this state get merged in nature without attaining the goal are called Prakritilayas, but those who do not stop even there reach the goal, which is freedom.
18. There is another Samadhi which is attained by the constant practice of cessation of all mental activity, in which the Chitta retains only the unmanifested impressions.
1.09 - FAITH IN PEACE, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
unifying itself. For if this Interior movement were to stop, it is the
Universe itself, embodied in Man, that would fail to curve inward
1.09 - Of the signs by which it will be known that the spiritual person is walking along the way of this night and purgation of sense., #Dark Night of the Soul, #Saint John of the Cross, #Christianity
7. In this sense we may understand that which the Spouse said to the Bride in the Songs, namely: 'Withdraw thine eyes from me, for they make me to soar aloft.'67 For in such a way does God bring the soul into this state, and by so different a path does He lead it that, if it desires to work with its faculties, it hinders the work which God is doing in it rather than aids it; whereas aforetime it was quite the contrary. The reason is that, in this state of contemplation, which the soul enters when it forsakes meditation for the state of the proficient, it is God Who is now working in the soul; He binds its Interior faculties, and allows it not to cling to the understanding, nor to have delight in the will, nor to reason with the memory. For anything that the soul can do of its own accord at this time serves only, as we have said, to hinder inward peace and the work which God is accomplishing in the spirit by means of that aridity of sense. And this peace, being spiritual and delicate, performs a work which is quiet and delicate, solitary, productive of peace and satisfaction68 and far removed from all those earlier pleasures, which were very palpable and sensual. This is the peace which, says David, God speaks in the soul to the end that He may make it spiritual.69 And this leads us to the third point.
64Numbers xi, 5-6.
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8. The third sign whereby this purgation of sense may be recognized is that the soul can no longer meditate or reflect in the imaginative sphere of sense as it was wont, however much it may of itself endeavour to do so. For God now begins to communicate Himself to it, no longer through sense, as He did aforetime, by means of reflections which joined and sundered its knowledge, but by pure spirit, into which consecutive reflections enter not; but He communicates Himself to it by an act of simple contemplation, to which neither the exterior nor the Interior senses of the lower part of the soul can attain. From this time forward, therefore, imagination and fancy can find no support in any meditation, and can gain no foothold by means thereof.
9. With regard to this third sign, it is to be understood that this embarrassment and dissatisfaction of the faculties proceed not from indisposition, for, when this is the case, and the indisposition, which never lasts for long,70 comes to an end, the soul is able once again, by taking some trouble about the matter, to do what it did before, and the faculties find their wonted support. But in the purgation of the desire this is not so: when once the soul begins to enter therein, its inability to reflect with the faculties grows ever greater. For, although it is true that at first, and with some persons, the process is not as continuous as this, so that occasionally they fail to abandon their pleasures and reflections of sense (for perchance by reason of their weakness it was not fitting to wean them from these immediately), yet this inability grows within them more and more and brings the workings of sense to an end, if indeed they are to make progress, for those who walk not in the way of contemplation act very differently. For this night of aridities is not usually continuous in their senses. At times they have these aridities; at others they have them not. At times they cannot meditate; at others they can. For God sets them in this night only to prove them and to humble them, and to reform their desires, so that they go not nurturing in themselves a sinful gluttony in spiritual things. He sets them not there in order to lead them in the way of the spirit, which is this contemplation; for not all those who walk of set purpose in the way of the spirit are brought by God to contemplation, nor even the half of themwhy, He best knows.
1.10 - THE FORMATION OF THE NOOSPHERE, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
In the eyes of nineteenth-century science the Interiorization of the
world, leading to the phenomenon of Reflection, might still pass
1.13 - Gnostic Symbols of the Self, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
On the contrary, it circles around something Interior, around a
centre. Now the centre is that from which proceeds the circle,
1.13 - THE HUMAN REBOUND OF EVOLUTION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
In Man evolution is Interiorized and made purposeful; and at the
same time, in the degree in which the strivings of human inventive-
1.14 - The Structure and Dynamics of the Self, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
i.e., in the earth. For it is in the Interior of the earth that the
Mercurial serpent dwells.
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actually dwells in the Interior of the earth and is the pneuma
that lies hidden in the stone. 75
1.14 - TURMOIL OR GENESIS?, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
to become centered and Interiorized that is to say, to endow itself
with Consciousness. This means that the degree of consciousness
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3 i.e., in seeking to grasp the Interior world and associative faculties of an ani-
mal it is not enough to try to diminish or decenter our own picture of the
1.15 - The Transformed Being, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
The freed supramental being will then be able to move within his own fluid, light, luminous solar substance, to travel at will, to withdraw into an invisible self-concentration or project himself victoriously outside, to change color and shape according to his state of being, level of concentration or operational need, to communicate directly and musically, to handle matter at will, modify it at will, recreate or reshape it at will, by the simple and direct manipulation of the vibration of truth in things, to build at will, dissolve at will and perform simply and instantly all the operations that our machines accomplish indirectly through a clumsy translation of our mental powers. For, in truth, he is a supramental being not because he is endowed with a super-mind poised one degree higher than the mind and possessing a more imperative power over matter, but because he is endowed with a more Interior degree of power, which does not impose itself on matter or wrest violent miracles from it, but releases its own creative energy, its own creative joy, and makes it sing its own note of light the way the shepherd makes his pipe sing.
And life outside will obey life inside.
1.16 - Dianus and Diana, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
which the Bush negroes in the Interior of Surinam regularly set up
as a guardian at the entrance of a village. The idol consists of a
1.16 - PRAYER, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
The spirit, in order to work, must have all sensible images, both good and bad, removed. The beginner in a spiritual course commences with the use of good sensible images, and it is impossible to begin in a good spiritual course with the exercises of the spirit. Those souls who have not a propensity to the Interior must abide always in the exercises, in which sensible images are used, and these souls will find the sensible exercises very profitable to themselves and to others, and pleasing to God. And this is the way of the active life. But others, who have the propensity to the Interior, do not always remain in the exercises of the senses, but after a time these will give place to the exercises of the spirit, which are independent of the senses and the imagination and consist simply in the elevation of the will of the intellective soul to God. The soul elevates her will towards God, apprehended by the understanding as a spirit, and not as an imaginary thing, the human spirit in this way aspiring to a union with the Divine Spirit.
Augustine Baker
1.19 - ON THE PROBABLE EXISTENCE AHEAD OF US OF AN ULTRA-HUMAN, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
organization and Interiorization, our present condition is still so
immature that Mankind in its existing form (and although there is
1.22 - THE END OF THE SPECIES, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
eruption of Interior life as an ecstasy. There is no need to rack
our brains to understand how the material vastness of the universe
1.240 - 1.300 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
The roof was pulled down and the walls demolished to get rid of the mud which harboured the ants. Sri Bhagavan saw that the hollows protected by stones were made into towns. These were skirted by walls plastered black, and there were roads to neighbouring cities which were also similarly skirted with black plastered walls. The roads were indicated by these walls. The Interior of the town contained holes in which ants used to live. The whole wall was thus tenanted by white ants which ravaged the roofing materials above.
Sri Bhagavan had also watched a spider making its web and described it. It is seen in one place, then in another place, again in a third place. The fibre is fixed at all these points. The spider moves along it, descends, ascends and goes round and round and the web is finished. It is geometrical. The net is spread out in the morning and rolled up in the evening.
1.240 - Talks 2, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
The roof was pulled down and the walls demolished to get rid of the mud which harboured the ants. Sri Bhagavan saw that the hollows protected by stones were made into towns. These were skirted by walls plastered black, and there were roads to neighbouring cities which were also similarly skirted with black plastered walls. The roads were indicated by these walls. The Interior of the town contained holes in which ants used to live. The whole wall was thus tenanted by white ants which ravaged the roofing materials above.
Sri Bhagavan had also watched a spider making its web and described it. It is seen in one place, then in another place, again in a third place. The fibre is fixed at all these points. The spider moves along it, descends, ascends and goes round and round and the web is finished. It is geometrical. The net is spread out in the morning and rolled up in the evening.
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Again, if the world is a projection from the Interior it must be recognised that it is projected simultaneously with the I-thought.
Either way the I is the fundamental basis knowing which all else is known.
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What should we do now? Only act up to the words of the master, work within. The Guru is both within and without. So he creates conditions to drive you inward and prepares the Interior to drag you to the centre. Thus he gives a push from without and exerts a pull from within so that you may be fixed at the centre.
In sleep you are centred within. Simultaneously with waking your mind rushes out, thinking this, that and all else. This must be checked. It is possible only for the agent who can work both within and without. Can he be identified with a body? We think that the world can be conquered by our efforts. When frustrated externally and driven internally, we feel Oh! oh! There is a power higher than man. The existence of the higher power must be admitted and recognised. The ego is a very powerful elephant and cannot be brought under control by anyone less than a lion, who is no other than the Guru in this instance; whose very look makes the elephant tremble and die. We will know in due course that our
1.24 - The Killing of the Divine King, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
The Matiamvo is a great king or emperor in the Interior of Angola.
One of the inferior kings of the country, by name Challa, gave to a
1.27 - CONTEMPLATION, ACTION AND SOCIAL UTILITY, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
A question now, quite naturally, presents itself: Who is called to that highest form of prayer which is contemplation? The answer is unequivocally plain. All are called to contemplation, because all are called to achieve deliverance, which is nothing else but the knowledge that unites the knower with what is known, namely the eternal Ground or Godhead. The oriental exponents of the Perennial Philosophy would probably deny that everyone is called here and now; in this particular life, they would say, it may be to all intents and purposes impossible for a given individual to achieve more than a partial deliverance, such as personal survival in some kind of heaven, from which there may be either an advance towards total liberation or else a return to those material conditions which, as all the masters of the spiritual life agree, are so uniquely propitious for taking the cosmic intelligence test that results in enlightenment. In orthodox Christianity it is denied that the individual soul can have more than one incarnation, or that it can make any progress in its posthumous existence. If it goes to hell, it stays there. If it goes to purgatory, it merely expiates past evil doing, so as to become capable of the beatific vision. And when it gets to heaven, it has just so much of the beatific vision as its conduct during its one brief life on earth made it capable of, and everlastingly no more. Granted these postulates, it follows that, if all are called to contemplation, they are called to it from that particular position in the hierarchy of being, to which nature, nurture, free will and grace have conspired to assign them. In the words of an eminent contemporary theologian, Father Garigou-Lagrange, all souls receive a general remote call to the mystical life, and if all were faithful in avoiding, as they should, not only mortal but venial sins, if they were, each according to his condition, generally docile to the Holy Ghost, and if they lived long enough, a day would come when they would receive the proximate and efficacious vocation to a high perfection and to the mystical life properly so called. This view that the life of mystical contemplation is the proper and normal development of the Interior life of recollectedness and devotion to Godis then justified by the following considerations. First, the principle of the two lives is the same. Second, it is only in the life of mystical contemplation that the Interior life finds its consummation. Third, their end, which is eternal life, is the same; moreover only the life of mystical contemplation prepares imme thately and perfectly for that end.
There are few contemplatives, because few souls are perfectly humble.
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In cases where the one-pointed contemplation is of God there is also a risk that the minds unemployed capacities may atrophy. The hermits of Tibet and the Thebad were certainly one-pointed, but with a one-pointedness of exclusion and mutilation. It may be, however, that if they had been more truly docile to the Holy Ghost, they would have come to understand that the one-pointedness of exclusion is at best a preparation for the one-pointedness of inclusion the realization of God in the fulness of cosmic being as well as in the Interior height of the individual soul. Like the Taoist sage, they would at last have turned back into the world riding on their tamed and regenerate individuality; they would have come eating and drinking, would have associated with publicans and sinners or their Buddhist equivalents, wine-bibbers and butchers. For the fully enlightened, totally liberated person, samsara and nirvana, time and eternity, the phenomenal and the Real, are essentially one. His whole life is an unsleeping and one-pointed contemplation of the Godhead in and through the things, lives, minds and events of the world of becoming. There is here no mutilation of the soul, no atrophy of any of its powers and capacities. Rather, there is a general enhancement and intensification of consciousness, and at the same time an extension and transfiguration. No saint has ever complained that absorption in God was a cursed evil.
In the beginning was the Word; behold Him to whom Mary listened. And the Word was made flesh; behold Him whom Martha served.
1.27 - Succession to the Soul, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
is still practised at Ibadan, a large town in the Interior of Lagos,
West Africa. When the king dies his head is cut off and sent to his
1.28 - Describes the nature of the Prayer of Recollection and sets down some of the means by which we can make it a habit., #The Way of Perfection, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
us incomparably more precious than anything we see outside. Do not let us suppose that the Interior
of the soul is empty; God grant that only women may be so thoughtless as to suppose that. If we
1.29 - Concerning heaven on earth, or godlike dispassion and perfection, and the resurrection of the soul before the general resurrection., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
2. The firmament has the stars for its beauty, and dispassion has the virtues for its adornments; for by dispassion I mean no other than the Interior heaven of the mind, which regards the tricks of the demons as mere toys.
3. And so he is truly dispassionate, and is recognized as dispassionate, who has made his flesh incorruptible, who has raised his mind above creatures and has subdued all his senses to it, and who keeps his soul in the presence of the Lord, ever reaching out to Him even beyond his strength.
1.29 - Continues to describe methods for achieving this Prayer of Recollection. Says what little account we should make of being favoured by our superiors., #The Way of Perfection, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
out of prayer, and it is because I have always gained such great benefits from this custom of Interior
recollection104 that I have written about it at such length. Perhaps you all know this, but some sister
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oneself for one's own good is to make use of the senses in the service of the Interior life. If she is
speaking she must try to remember that there is One within her to Whom she can speak; if she is
1.300 - 1.400 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
Again, if the world is a projection from the Interior it must be recognised that it is projected simultaneously with the 'I-thought'.
Either way the 'I' is the fundamental basis knowing which all else is known.
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What should we do now? Only act up to the words of the master, work within. The Guru is both within and without. So he creates conditions to drive you inward and prepares the Interior to drag you to the centre. Thus he gives a push from without and exerts a pull from within so that you may be fixed at the centre.
In sleep you are centred within. Simultaneously with waking your mind rushes out, thinking this, that and all else. This must be checked. It is possible only for the agent who can work both within and without. Can he be identified with a body? We think that the world can be conquered by our efforts. When frustrated externally and driven internally, we feel "Oh! oh! There is a power higher than man." The existence of the higher power must be admitted and recognised. The ego is a very powerful elephant and cannot be brought under control by anyone less than a lion, who is no other than the Guru in this instance; whose very look makes the elephant tremble and die. We will know in due course that our
1.30 - Describes the importance of understanding what we ask for in prayer. Treats of these words in the Paternoster: Sanctificetur nomen tuum, adveniat regnum tuum. Applies them to the Prayer of Quiet, and begins the explanation of them., #The Way of Perfection, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
tranquillity and glory, a joy in the rejoicings of all, a perpetual peace, and a great Interior satisfaction
which will come to us when we see that all are hallowing and praising the Lord, and are blessing
1.31 - Adonis in Cyprus, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
depth that travelling in the Interior is difficult and tedious. The
lofty range of Mount Olympus (the modern Troodos), capped with snow
1.39 - Continues the same subject and gives counsels concerning different kinds of temptation. Suggests two remedies by which we may be freed from temptations.135, #The Way of Perfection, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
is accompanied by an Interior peace and joy of which we should not like to be deprived. Far from
disturbing or depressing the soul, it enlarges it and makes it fit to serve God better. The other kind
1.39 - The Ritual of Osiris, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
painted a life-size figure of Osiris; and the Interior of the
figure, which was waterproof, contained a mixture of vegetable
1.40 - The Nature of Osiris, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
fell in the far Interior. Again, the legend that Osiris was the
first to teach men the use of corn would be most naturally told of
1.439, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
M.: Is it necessary to show the way in the Interior of your own home?
This is within you.
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M.: Detachment in the Interior and attachment in appearance, says
Yoga Vasishta.
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Anandamaya. These are sheaths and not the core, which is Interior
to all these. It lies beyond waking, dream and deep sleep. That is the
1.450 - 1.500 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
M.: Is it necessary to show the way in the Interior of your own home?
This is within you.
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M.: "Detachment in the Interior and attachment in appearance," says
Yoga Vasishta.
1.47 - Lityerses, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
by the Apoyaos, another tribe in the Interior of Luzon.
Among the Lhota Naga, one of the many savage tribes who inhabit the
1.57 - Public Scapegoats, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
thus collected was taken into the Interior of the country and
expended in the purchase of two sickly persons "to be offered as a
1.63 - Fear, a Bad Astral Vision, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
This is where I want to have you, with us who are come thus far, in a state utterly detached from the Ego, so that you appear the plain Jane Wolfe[122] "doing your duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call you" and consequently unremarked like a Rosicrucian, "wearing the habit of the country in which you are travelling" but trembling with Interior illumination, so that the first relaxation of the constant conscious burden of Jane Wolfe, Soror Estai is automatically released, a pillar of Creative Light.
"I am Thou, and the Pillar is 'stablished in the Void."
1951-05-11 - Mahakali and Kali - Avatar and Vibhuti - Sachchidananda behind all states of being - The power of will - receiving the Divine Will, #Questions And Answers 1950-1951, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have explained that to you in connection with Sachchidananda. Sachchidananda exists at the very origin of the worlds, but there is a Sachchidananda behind all the other states of being. You could make a diagram (though that does not explain much, it is quite an erroneous idea, but it makes things more easily understandable), you arrange the states of being according to a scale. Then, you have the earth below and the Supreme above (it is not at all like that, I hasten to tell you! But anyway, it is easy to understand), you put the earth at the bottom and the Supreme at the top, and you divide that into lots of little parts each of which represents a state of being; that makes a kind of ladder. And then, you have as though behind it, behind your ladder, something which supports it, against which it leans. It is not a wall but it is something which supports your ladder. And that is precisely the first principle of the universal form. In Hindu terminology it is called Sachchidananda. It is there, everything leans upon that; without that nothing could exist. It is that which upholds and allows existence. Then, if you enter a certain state of consciousness and find yourself, for instance, in the higher mind (for generally it is more easily there that this happens; you have started from the physical and climbed slowly, rung by rung, as far as the higher mind), but instead of continuing your ascent on the ladder you enter into a kind of Interiorisation and try to go out of the form, you pass into a kind of silence outside the form. You pass in between the bars of your ladder and enter straight into Sachchidananda which supports everything from behind. And then you can have mentally the experience of Sachchidananda. I have known people who had it and thought they had reached the heights of the Supreme. For there is a similarity in the experience, a very great likeness, only it is limited to the mind, the mind alone participates in it. Well, for the will it is the same thing. Instead of being the support of the ladder it is a kind of force, a very powerful current which passes through all these states, starting from aboveit is the supreme Willand coming down into the physical manifestation. Hence, if you get into affinity with this vibration or this force, you can enter the state of will; that is, whatever state of being you may find yourself inphysical, vital, mental, etc.if you enter a certain state of consciousness and force, you come into contact with this power of will: it penetrates into you and you can use it for any purpose. If your reception is free from all egoism, if you are pure, completely surrendered and accept only what comes from the Divine, and if you dont mix anything with it, egoism or desires or limitations well, it is a state a bit difficult to attain, but if you attain it, you receive this force of will in its original state, pure (for it comes down pure, it is only in its reception that it gets deformed), then, instead of being your will it becomes an expression of the divine Will. And this happens without your leaving the physical bodyyou can receive the force of the divine Will without leaving the physical. Only, you see, you must not change it and deform it, spoil it in the receiving. When you feel within you a kind of indomitable energy to realise something, when you tell yourself, I shall do this whatever the cost, I shall go to the end and shall use all my will (for you always say my will), well, you cannot be in that state unless you have come into contact with this current of will-force. Only, with your little personal reaction, naturally you deform it and use it all wrongly, and then you come into conflict with other elements. But if you are truly a yogi, you receive the current and nothing can stop the lan of your action, even physically.
There are other things like that, other states, other forces, there are many of these. Fundamentally, if one studies very attentively, one perceives that there is nothing in the individual being which is not the expression or the deformation or diminution, reduction and lessening of something which has its origin in the Supreme and is of a universal nature. So, you see, all these ideas of pulling, calling, are not quite right. Essentially, the only thing one should do is to prepare oneself, make oneself worthy of this contact and, when one has had it, not deform it. And this excludes nobody. Even a very small child can, at certain moments in his life, come into touch with one of these great universal forces of divine origin, and use it for its childish needs. Unfortunately, there are added to it so many limitations, so much egoism, ignorance, stupidity, that it is often completely disfigured. It cannot be recognised, it is unrecognisable. But the origin of the force is the same, and that is why when one attains a certain state of consciousness, one perceives that if these forces were not there, one would be nothing, would not exist. And instead of saying with the usual self-complacency, I do this, I do not do that, I have decided that, I want that thing, I shall succeed, all this goes away from you in such a way that you can never again think like that; it seems to you so ridiculousso ridiculous. As soon as the little I comes in, that means a deformation, a limitation, a degradation. In fact, all that you do not value comes with your Iyou remove the I and all that disappears at the same time.
1955-03-09 - Psychic directly contacted through the physical - Transforming egoistic movements - Work of the psychic being - Contacting the psychic and the Divine - Experiences of different kinds - Attacks of adverse forces, #Questions And Answers 1955, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I think I have already told you this once. One can find the psychic through each part of the consciousness: you can find a psychic behind the physical you can enter into contact with the psychic directly through the physical consciousness, directly through the vital consciousness, directly through the mental consciousness. It is not as though you had to cross all the states of being in order to find the psychic. You can enter the psychic without leaving your physical consciousness, through Interiorisation, because it is not an ascent or gradation. It is an Interiorisation, and this Interiorisation can be done without passing through the other states of being, directly. This is what Sri Aurobindo means: you are in the physical consciousness, nothing prevents you from opening this physical consciousness to the psychic consciousness, you dont need to develop vitally or mentally or to return to these states of being in order to enter into contact with the psychic. You can enter directly. The psychic manifests itself directly in your physical without passing through the other states; thats what it means.
Sweet Mother, here it is said: a complete equality and peace and a complete dedication free from personal demand or desire in the physical and the lower vital parts are the thing to be established.
1955-04-27 - Symbolic dreams and visions - Curing pain by various methods - Different states of consciousness - Seeing oneself dead in a dream - Exteriorisation, #Questions And Answers 1955, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But you have never noticed that it is different? For example, your physical consciousness or your subtle physical consciousness, your vital consciousness or the consciousness of your higher or lower vital, your psychic consciousness, your mental consciousness, each one is completely different! So when you sleep you have one consciousness, and when you are awake you have another. In your waking state you look at things projected outside you, in your sleep state you see them Interiorised. So it is as though in one case you were pushed altogether outside yourself, in front, and in the other it is as though you were looking at yourself in an inner mirror.
Dont understand? Not very well!
1955-07-20 - The Impersonal Divine - Surrender to the Divine brings perfect freedom - The Divine gives Himself - The principle of the inner dimensions - The paths of aspiration and surrender - Linear and spherical paths and realisations, #Questions And Answers 1955, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
One can have a little understanding of these things if one knows the multiplicity of dimensions, if one has understood this principle. First of all you are taught the fourth dimension. If you have understood that principle, of the dimensions, you can understand this. For example, as I said, you dont need to exteriorise yourself to go from one plane to another, when going to the most subtle planes to pass from the last most subtle plane to what we call Nirvanato express it somehow. It is not necessary. You can, through a kind of Interiorisation and by passing into another dimension or other dimensions you can find in any domain whatever of your being this non-existence. And truly, one can understand a little bit of this without experiencing it. It is very difficult, but still, even without the experience one can understand just a little, if one understands this, this principle of the inner dimensions.
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There are people who go beyondeven mentally, you see their mental atmosphere goes beyond their body, even their vital atmosphere goes beyond their bodythere are people whose consciousness is vast enough to extend over continents and even over other earths and other worlds, but this is a spatial concept. Yet by an Interiorisation in other dimensions, the fourth and more, you can find all this in yourself, in one point the infinite.
Then Mother, isnt the infinite an extension of space?
1955-11-02 - The first movement in Yoga - Interiorisation, finding ones soul - The Vedic Age - An incident about Vivekananda - The imaged language of the Vedas - The Vedic Rishis, involutionary beings - Involution and evolution, #Questions And Answers 1955, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
object:1955-11-02 - The first movement in Yoga - Interiorisation, finding ones soul - The Vedic Age - An incident about Vivekananda - The imaged language of the Vedas - The Vedic Rishis, involutionary beings - Involution and evolution
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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 dont 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 express. And by imagining that one is living an exceptional life, one lives only in the illusion of ones exceptional state. Therefore, at first not only must one find ones soul and the Divine who possesses it, but one must identify oneself with it. And then later, one may begin to come back to outward activities, and then transform them; because then one knows in what direction to turn them, into what to transform them.
1957-10-16 - Story of successive involutions, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There we can choose from many stories that have been told, stories more or less true, more or less complete, more or less expressive. But if by Interiorising or exteriorising oneselfwhich, from a certain point of view, is essentially the same thingif one can relive this story, at least partially and in its broad outlines, it helps one to understand and hence to master the how and why of things. Some people have done that, they are the ones usually considered as initiates, occultists and prophets at the same time and very beautiful stories have been told.
I am going to tell you one, very succinctly. Dont take it as a gospel! Take it rather as a story.
1960 11 13? - 50, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Therefore there is only one solution: to unite ourselves by aspiration, concentration, Interiorisation and identification with the supreme Will. And that is both omnipotence and perfect freedom at the same time. And that is the only omnipotence and the only freedom; everything else is an approximation. You may be on the way, but it is not the entire thing. So if you experience this, you realise that with this supreme freedom and supreme power there is also a total peace and a serenity that never fails. Therefore, if you feel something which is not that, a revolt, a disgust, something which you cannot accept, it means that in you there is a part which has not been touched by the transformation, something which has kept the old consciousness, something which is still on the path that is all.
In this Aphorism Sri Aurobindo speaks of those who hate the sinner. One must not hate the sinner.
1962 10 12, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Naturally, when we begin to think of all the zones, all the planes of universal consciousness and that it is at the very end, at the very end, right at the very end, then it becomes very far away, very, very far! (Mother laughs.) But when we think that He is everywhere, that He is everything and that it is only our perception that prevents us from seeing Him and feeling Him and that we only have to do this (Mother turns her hands inwards); it is a movement like this and like that (Mother turns her hands alternately inwards and outwards), it becomes very concrete: you do this (outward movement), everything becomes artificial, hard, dry, false, untrue, artificial; you do this (inward movement), everything becomes wide, tranquil, luminous, peaceful, vast, joyful. And it is simply this, that (Mother turns her hands alternately inwards and outwards). How? Where? It cannot be described, it is only, only a movement of consciousness, nothing else. A movement of consciousness. And the difference between the true consciousness and the false consciousness becomes more and more precise, and at the same time, thinyou dont have to do great things to come out of it. Before that, one has the impression that one is living inside something and that a great Interiorisation, concentration, absorption, is needed to get out of it; but now the impression is of something one accepts (Mother screens her face with her hand), something like a thin little peel that is very hardvery hard but malleable, very, very dry, very thin, very thin, something like putting on a mask; and then one does this (gesture), and it disappears.
One can foresee the time when it will not be necessary to be aware of the mask; it will be so thin that one will be able to see, to feel, to act through it with no need to put the mask on again. That is what has just begun.
1.A - ANTHROPOLOGY, THE SOUL, #Philosophy of Mind, #unset, #Zen
Nowhere so much as in the case of the soul (and still more of the mind) if we are to understand it, must that feature of 'ideality' be kept in view, which represents it as the negation of the real, but a negation, where the real is put past, virtually retained, although it does not exist. The feature is one with which we are familiar in regard to our mental ideas or to memory. Every individual is an infinite treasury of sensations, ideas, acquired lore, thoughts, etc.; and yet the ego is one and uncompounded, a deep featureless characterless mine, in which all this is stored up, without existing. It is only when I call to mind an idea, that I bring it out of that Interior to existence before consciousness. Sometimes, in sickness, ideas and information, supposed to have been forgotten years ago, because for so long they had not been brought into consciousness, once more come to light. They were not in our possession, nor by such reproduction as occurs in sickness do they for the future come into our possession; and yet they were in us and continue to be in us still. Thus a person can never know how much of things he once learned he really has in him, should he have once forgotten them: they belong not to his actuality or subjectivity as such, but only to his implicit self. And under all the superstructure of specialized and instrumental consciousness that may subsequently be added to it, the individuality always remains this single-souled inner life. At the present stage this singleness is, primarily, to be defined as one of feeling
- as embracing the corporeal in itself: thus denying the view that this body is something material, with parts outside parts and outside the soul. Just as the number and variety of mental representations is no argument for an extended and real multeity in the ego; so the 'real' outness of parts in the body has no truth for the sentient soul. As sentient, the soul is characterized as immediate, and so as natural and corporeal: but the outness of parts and sensible multiplicity of this corporeal counts for the soul (as it counts for the intelligible unity) not as anything real, and therefore not as a barrier: the soul is this intelligible unity in existence - the existent speculative principle. Thus in the body it is one simple, omnipresent unity. As to the representative faculty the body is but one representation, and the infinite variety of its material structure and organization is reduced to the simplicity of one definite conception: so in the sentient soul, the corporeity, and all that outness of parts to parts which belongs to it, is reduced to ideality (the truth of the natural multiplicity). The soul is virtually the totality of nature: as an individual soul it is a monad: it is itself the explicitly put totality of its particular world - that world being included in it and filling it up; and to that world it stands but as to itself.
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411 The Soul, when its corporeity has been moulded and made thoroughly its own, finds itself there a single subject; and the corporeity is an externality which stands as a predicate, in being related to which, it is related to itself. This externality, in other words, represents not itself, but the soul, of which it is the sign. In this identity of Interior and exterior, the latter subject to the former, the soul is actual: in its corporeity it has its free shape, in which it feels itself and makes itself felt, and which as the Soul's work of art has human pathognomic and physiognomic expression.
Under the head of human expression are included, for example, the upright figure in general, and the formation of the limbs, especially the hand, as the absolute instrument, of the mouth - laughter, weeping, etc., and the note of mentality diffused over the whole, which at once announces the body as the externality of a higher nature. This note is so slight, indefinite, and inexpressible a modification, because the figure in its externality is something immediate and natural, and can therefore only be an indefinite and quite imperfect sign for the mind, unable to represent it in its actual universality. Seen from the animal world, the human figure is the supreme phase in which mind makes an appearance.
1f.lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
shrivelled, giving no clue to Interior or to what has been broken
off there. Must dissect when we get back to camp. Cant decide
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swath, extending from the plateaus Interior to a cleft in the
foothills about a mile to the left of the pass we had traversed, was
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hare-and-hounds for marking our course in any Interior mazes we might
be able to penetrate. This had been brought in case we found some cave
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traces of banded carvings or bas-reliefs on the Interior walls; facts
we had indeed guessed before, when flying low over this rampart and
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perhaps find wholly clear Interiors leading down to the true ground
level if we entered those structures still roofed at the top. Before we
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at all available apertures to study Interiors and investigate entrance
possibilities. Some were above our reach, whilst others led only into
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unless a more easily gained Interior were encountered.
Finally, though, we did encounter exactly the opening we wished; an
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Interior choked. As it was, the ramp shewed sad battering; whilst the
choking was such that all the archways at the bottom seemed to have
1f.lovecraft - Discarded Draft of, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
considerable expectancy. The Interior was shabby and ill-lighted, but
contained a large number of display cases of solid and capable
1f.lovecraft - Facts concerning the Late, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
in work, and made two long expeditions in the Interior of Africa. In
1849 his second son, Nevil, a singularly repellent person who seemed to
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Continent had caused her to flout Sir Wades talk of the Interior, a
thing which such a man would not be likely to forgive. She had died in
1f.lovecraft - In the Walls of Eryx, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
that the Interior of this vast enclosure was divided by partitions.
Bending to examine the corpse, I discovered that it bore no wounds.
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toward those Interior regions whence the dead man had presumably come.
Later on I would investigate the hallway I had left.
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walls? Why were there no traces of doors, either Interior or exterior?
I knew only that I was in a round, roofless, doorless edifice of some
1f.lovecraft - Medusas Coil, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
I cant tell you now whether its an exterior or an Interiorwhether
those hellish Cyclopean vaultings are seen from the outside or the
1f.lovecraft - Pickmans Model, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Interiora heavily beamed room with lattice windows, a settle, and
clumsy seventeenth-century furniture, with the family sitting about
1f.lovecraft - The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
courteously shewn about the Interior by old Asa and his stout wife
Hannah. Here there was more change than the outside indicated, and Ward
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darker than any ordinary Interior paint or the wood beneath it was
likely to have been. A few more careful tests with a thin knife, and he
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storm this forbidden retreat, and even his father knew of its Interior
only from such descriptions as he chose to give; but Willett felt that
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Then there came from the dark Interior a husky whisper which somehow
chilled the hearer through and through though he did not know why he
1f.lovecraft - The Haunter of the Dark, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
hinged lid thrown back, and its Interior holding what looked beneath
the decade-deep dust to be an egg-shaped or irregularly spherical
1f.lovecraft - The Hoard of the Wizard-Beast, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
plunged at once within the cave. The Interior was very cramped and
exceedingly dirty, but the roof glittered with an innumerable array of
1f.lovecraft - The Horror at Red Hook, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
vaguely disturbed by many things about the Interior. There were crudely
painted panels he did not likepanels which depicted sacred faces with
1f.lovecraft - The Horror in the Museum, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
African Interior, the Arabian desert, the Amazon valley, Alaska, and
certain little-known islands of the South Pacific, plus claims of
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an incredible Interior chamber with wild carvings and a curious throne
whose proportion could not have been designed for a human occupant. The
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places and had seen strange things. Yet this mad Interior picture might
easily be a fraudtaken from a very clever stage setting. One must not
1f.lovecraft - The Last Test, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Suddenly from the Interior came a thin, subdued sound like a cry of a
childa plaintive call of Mamma! Mamma! at which Dick barked, while
1f.lovecraft - The Lurking Fear, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
window or the Interior, had begun with the men on each side and left
the middle man till the last, when the titan fireball had scared it
1f.lovecraft - The Mound, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
the air of the norths Interior. On the stone jambs were works
proclaiming the bygone presence of hinges, but of any actual door or
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stood wide open, and absolute darkness filled the windowless Interior.
Conquering the repulsion which the mural sculptures had excited,
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There being no available refuge in the great, gold-patined Interior, he
felt that he must close the long-disused door; which still hung on its
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Interior sentry. . . .
It was a very real shock which chased this morbid speculation from my
1f.lovecraft - The Nameless City, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
rock houses or temples; whose Interiors might preserve many secrets of
ages too remote for calculation, though sandstorms had long since
1f.lovecraft - The Night Ocean, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
wash of pale gold rippling across the northwestern Interior of my
house, at others waning till it was only a luminous ball, like some
1f.lovecraft - The Rats in the Walls, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
precipice, and denuded of floors or other Interior features save the
stone walls of the separate towers.
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mediaevally fitted, its Interior was in truth wholly new and free from
old vermin and old ghosts alike.
1f.lovecraft - The Shadow out of Time, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
incredible entitya half-plastic denizen of the hollow Interior of an
unknown trans-Plutonian planet eighteen million years in the futurehad
1f.lovecraft - The Shunned House, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
and dormerless attic, and with the Georgian doorway and Interior
panelling dictated by the progress of taste at that time. It faced
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Interior shutters, peeling wall-paper, falling plaster, rickety
staircases, and such fragments of battered furniture as still remained.
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frowning down on him. Again he seemed to be in the Interior of a
housean old house, apparentlybut the details and inhabitants were
1f.lovecraft - The Temple, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
storage batteries still capable of long use, both for Interior lighting
and for the searchlight. We often cast a beam around the ship, but saw
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the valley wall, though how the vast Interior was ever excavated I
cannot imagine. Perhaps a cavern or series of caverns furnished the
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black Interior which might prove the lair of some indescribable marine
monster or a labyrinth of passages from whose windings I could never
1f.lovecraft - The Tomb, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
cold, damp Interior, into which I vainly peered through the aperture so
tantalisingly left, contained for me no hint of death or decay. But in
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fixed on the crevice that leads to the Interior. Against these
assertions I have no tangible proof to offer, since my key to the
1f.lovecraft - Two Black Bottles, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
The Interior had a musty and mildewed odor. Everything I touched was
covered with a cold, clammy moisture. I struck a match and began to
1f.lovecraft - Under the Pyramids, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
arduous detail of entering the cramped Interior passages of any of the
pyramids, though we saw several of the hardiest tourists preparing for
1f.lovecraft - Winged Death, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
situation in the Interiorat Mgonga, only fifty miles from the Uganda
line. It is a cotton and ivory trading-post, with only eight white men
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this Interior region has insects as poisonous as the natives say, Ill
see that he gets a shipment of them from a source he wont suspect, and
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the Interior, and I have sent to Dr. Vandervelde at Nyangwe for some of
the Congo types. I shant have to send Mevana for more tainted meat
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long vacation in the Interior, grow a beard, mail the package at Ukala
while passing as a visiting entomologist, and return here after shaving
1.mah - If They Only Knew, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
while the Interior of beyond
to and for the heart of being.
1.pbs - Oedipus Tyrannus or Swellfoot The Tyrant, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
The Interior of the Temple of Famine. The statue of the Goddess, a skeleton clothed in parti-coloured rags, seated upon a heap of skulls and loaves intermingled. A number of exceedingly fat Priests in black garments arrayed on each side, with marrow-bones and cleavers in their hands. [Solomon, the Court Porkman.] A flourish of trumpets.
Enter Mammon as arch-priest, Swellfoot, Dakry, Purganax, Laoctonos, followed by Iona Taurina guarded. On the other side enter the Swine.
1.poe - Eureka - A Prose Poem, #Poe - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Now, a certain exertion of the diffusive power (presumed to be the Divine Volition) -in other words, a certain force -whose measure is the quantity of matter -that is to say, the number of atoms emitted; emits, by irradiation, this certain number of atoms; forcing them in all directions outwardly from the centre -their proximity to each other diminishing as they proceed -until, finally, they are distributed, loosely, over the Interior surface of the sphere.
When these atoms have attained this position, or while proceeding to attain it, a second and inferior exercise of the same force -or a second and inferior force of the same character -emits, in the same manner -that is to say, by irradiation as before -a second stratum of atoms which proceeds to deposit itself upon the first; the number of atoms, in this case as in the former, being of course the measure of the force which emitted them; in other words the force being precisely adapted to the purpose it effects -the force and the number of atoms sent out by the force, being directly proportional.
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Now, admitting the ring to have possessed, by some seemingly accidental arrangement of its heterogeneous materials, a constitution nearly uniform, then this ring, as such, would never have ceased revolving about its primary; but, as might have been anticipated, there appears to have been enough irregularity in the disposition of the materials, to make them cluster about centres of superior solidity; and thus the annular form was destroyed. No doubt, the band was soon broken up into several portions, and one of these portions, predominating in mass, absorbed the others into itself; the whole settling, spherically, into a planet. That this latter, as a planet, continued the revolutionary movement which characterized it while a ring, is sufficiently clear; and that it took upon itself, also, an additional movement in its new condition of sphere, is readily explained. The ring being understood as yet unbroken, we see that its exterior, while the whole revolves about the parent body, moves more rapidly than its Interior. When the rupture occurred, then, some portion in each fragment must have been moving with greater velocity than the others. The superior movement prevailing, must have whirled each fragment round -that is to say, have caused it to rotate; and the direction of the rotation must, of course, have been the direction of the revolution whence it arose. the fragments having become subject to the rotation described, must, in coalescing, have imparted it to the one planet constituted by their coalescence. -This planet was Neptune. Its material continuing to undergo condensation, and the centrifugal force generated in its rotation getting, at length, the better of the centripetal, as before in the case of the parent orb, a ring was whirled also from the equatorial surface of this planet: this ring, having been ununiform in its constitution, was broken up, and its several fragments, being absorbed by the most massive, were collectively spherified into a moon. Subsequently, the operation was repeated, and a second moon was the result. We thus account for the planet Neptune, with the two satellites which accompany him.
Laplace assumed his nebulosity heterogeneous, merely that he might be thus enabled to account for the breaking up of the rings; for had the nebulosity been homogeneous, they would not have broken. I reach the same result -heterogeneity of the secondary masses immediately resulting from the atoms -purely from an a priori consideration of their general design -Relation.
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Continuing to shrink, the Sun, on becoming so small as just to fill the orbit of Mars, now discharged this planet -of course by the process repeatedly described. Having no moon, however, Mars could have thrown off no ring. In fact, an epoch had now arrived in the career of the parent body, the centre of the system. The de crease of its nebulosity, which is the in crease of its density, and which again is the de crease of its condensation, out of which latter arose the constant disturbance of equilibrium -must, by this period, have attained a point at which the efforts for restoration would have been more and more ineffectual just in proportion as they were less frequently needed. Thus the processes of which we have been speaking would everywhere show signs of exhaustion -in the planets, first, and secondly, in the original mass. We must not fall into the error of supposing the decrease of interval observed among the planets as we approach the Sun, to be in any respect indicative of an increase of frequency in the periods at which they were discarded. Exactly the converse is to be understood. The longest interval of time must have occurred between the discharges of the two Interior; the shortest, between those of the two exterior, planets. The decrease of the interval of space is, nevertheless, the measure of the density, and thus inversely of the condensation, of the Sun, throughout the processes detailed.
Having shrunk, however, so far as to fill only the orbit of our Earth, the parent sphere whirled from itself still one other body -the Earth -in a condition ~~~~so nebulous as to admit of this body's discarding, in its turn, yet another, which is our Moon; -but here terminated the lunar formations.
Finally, subsiding to the orbits first of Venus and then of Mercury, the Sun discarded these two Interior planets; neither of which has given birth to any moon.
Thus from his original bulk -or, to speak more accurately, from the condition in which we first considered him -from a partially spherified nebular mass, certainly much more than 5,600 millions of miles in diameter -the great central orb and origin of our solar-planetary-lunar system, has gradually descended, by condensation, in obedience to the law of Gravity, to a globe only 882,000 miles in diameter; but it by no means follows, either that its condensation is yet complete, or that it may not still possess the capacity of whirling from itself another planet.
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The radical assumptions of this Discourse suggest to me, and in fact imply, certain important modifications of the Nebular Theory as given by Laplace. The efforts of the repulsive power I have considered as made for the purpose of preventing contact among the atoms, and thus as made in the ratio of the approach to contact -that is to say, in the ratio of condensation. In other words, Electricity, with its involute phaenomena, heat, light and magnetism, is to be understood as proceeding as condensation proceeds, and, of course, inversely as density proceeds, or the cessation to condense. Thus the Sun, in the process of its aggregation, must soon, in developing repulsion, have become excessively heated -perhaps incandescent: and we can perceive how the operation of discarding its rings must have been materially assisted by the slight incrustation of its surface consequent on cooling. Any common experiment shows us how readily a crust of the character suggested, is separated, through heterogeneity, from the Interior mass. But, on every successive rejection of the crust, the new surface would appear incandescent as before; and the period at which it would again become so far encrusted as to be readily loosened and discharged, may well be imagined as exactly coincident with that at which a new effort would be needed, by the whole mass, to restore the equilibrium of its two forces, disarranged through condensation. In other words: -by the time the electric influence (Repulsion) has prepared the surface for rejection, we are to understand that the gravitating influence (Attraction) is precisely ready to reject it. Here, then, as everywhere, the Body and the Soul walk hand in hand.
See previous paragraph, "With the understanding of a sphere of atoms"
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Again: -we know that there exist non-luminous suns -that is to say, suns whose existence we determine through the movements of others, but whose luminosity is not sufficient to impress us. Are these suns invisible merely on account of the length of time elapsed since their discharge of a planet? And yet again: -may we not -at least in certain cases -account for the sudden appearances of suns where none had been previously suspected, by the hypothesis that, having rolled with encrusted surfaces throughout the few thousand years of our astronomical history, each of these suns, in whirling off a new secondary, has at length been enabled to display the glories of its still incandescent Interior? -To the well-ascertained fact of the proportional increase of heat as we descend into the Earth, I need of course, do nothing more than refer: -it comes in the strongest possible corroboration of all that I have said on the topic now at issue.
In speaking, not long ago, of the repulsive or electrical influence, I remarked that "the important phaenomena of vitality, consciousness, and thought, whether we observe them generally or in detail, seem to proceed at least in the ratio of the heterogeneous. " I mentioned, too, that I would recur to the suggestion: -and this is the proper point at which to do so. Looking at the matter, first, in detail, we perceive that not merely the manifestation of vitality, but its importance, consequences, and elevation of character, keep pace, very closely, with the heterogeneity, or complexity, of the animal structure. Looking at the question, now, in its generality, and referring to the first movements of the atoms towards mass-constitution, we find that heterogeneousness, brought about directly through condensation, is proportional with it forever. We thus reach the proposition that the importance of the development of the terrestrial vitality proceeds equably with the terrestrial condensation.
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Now this is in precise accordance with what we know of the succession of animals on the Earth. As it has proceeded in its condensation, superior and still superior races have appeared. Is it impossible that the successive geological revolutions which have attended, at least, if not immediately caused, these successive elevations of vitalic character -is it improbable that these revolutions have themselves been produced by the successive planetary discharges from the Sun -in other words, by the successive variations in the solar influence on the Earth? Were this idea tenable, we should not be unwarranted in the fancy that the discharge of yet a new planet, Interior to Mercury, may give rise to yet a new modification of the terrestrial surface -a modification from which may spring a race both materially and spiritually superior to Man. These thoughts impress me with all the force of truth -but I throw them out, of course, merely in their obvious character of suggestion.
The Nebular Theory of Laplace has lately received far more confirmation than it needed, at the hands of the philosopher, Compte. These two have thus together shown -not, to be sure, that Matter at any period actually existed as described, in a state of nebular diffusion, but that, admitting it so to have existed throughout the space and much beyond the space now occupied by our solar system, and to have commenced a movement towards a centre it must gradually have assumed the various forms and motions which are now seen, in that system, to obtain. A demonstration such as this -a dynamical and mathematical demonstration, as far as demonstration can be -unquestionable and unquestioned -unless, indeed, by that unprofitable and disreputable tribe, the professional questioners -the mere madmen who deny the Newtonian law of Gravity on which the results of the French mathematicians are based -a demonstration, I say, such as this, would to most intellects be conclusive -and I confess that it is so to mine -of the validity of the nebular hypothesis upon which the demonstration depends.
1.rmr - Elegy X, #Rilke - Poems, #Rainer Maria Rilke, #Poetry
one of the seasons of our Interior year, -not only season,
but place, settlement, camp, soil and dwelling.
1.rmr - Interior Portrait, #Rilke - Poems, #Rainer Maria Rilke, #Poetry
object:1.rmr - Interior Portrait
author class:Rainer Maria Rilke
1.rwe - The Problem, #Emerson - Poems, #Ralph Waldo Emerson, #Philosophy
For out of Thought's Interior sphere
These wonders rose to upper air;
1.sfa - Prayer from A Letter to the Entire Order, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
English version by Regis J. Armstrong, OFM CAP & Ignatius C. Brady, OFM Original Language Italian Almighty, eternal, just, and merciful God, grant us in our misery to do for You alone what we know You want us to do, and always to desire what pleases You. Thus, inwardly cleansed, Interiorly enlightened, and inflamed by the fire of the Holy Spirit, may we be able to follow in the footprints of Your beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. And, by Your grace alone, may we make our way to You Most High, Who live and rule in perfect Trinity and simple Unity, and are glorified God all-powerful forever and ever. Amen [1495.jpg] -- from Francis and Clare: The Complete Works: The Classics of Western Spirituality, Translated by Regis J. Armstrong, OFM CAP / Translated by Ignatius C. Brady, OFM <
1.whitman - American Feuillage, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
On Interior rivers, by night, in the glare of pine knots, steamboats
wooding up;
1.whitman - As I Sat Alone By Blue Ontarios Shores, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
The unsurvey'd Interior, log-houses, clearings, wild animals,
hunters, trappers;
1.whitman - Assurances, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
I do not doubt Interiors have their Interiors, and exteriors have
their exteriorsand that the eye-sight has another eye-sight,
1.whitman - Brother Of All, With Generous Hand, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
While through the Interior vistas,
Noiseless uprose, phantasmic (as, by night, Auroras of the North,)
1.whitman - Miracles, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Every foot of the Interior swarms with the same;
Every spear of grassthe frames, limbs, organs, of men and women,
1.whitman - Poems Of Joys, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Interior Soul impregnable,
And nothing exterior shall ever take command of me.
1.whitman - Prayer Of Columbus, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
The potent, felt, Interior command, stronger than words,
A message from the Heavens, whispering to me even in sleep,
1.whitman - States!, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
of the Interior, and all their brood,
These shall be masters of the world under a new power,
1.whitman - To Oratists, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
On the Interior and exterior of man or woman,
On the laws of Natureon passive materials,
1.whitman - Who Is Now Reading This?, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Or as if I did not see, perfectly well, Interior in myself, the stuff
of wrong-doing,
2.00 - BIBLIOGRAPHY, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
POULAIN, A. The Graces of Interior Prayer (London, 1910).
POURRAT, P. Christian Spirituality, 3 vols. (London, 1922).
2.01 - THE ADVENT OF LIFE, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
of Interiority ' of a cosmic element can undoubtedly vary to the
point at which it rises suddenly on to another level.
2.01 - The Mother, #Words Of The Mother I, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Later on, as the Interior and exterior development proceeded, the spiritual and psychic relation with one of these beings became more and more clear and frequent; and although I knew little of the Indian philosophies and religions at that time I was led to call him Krishna, and henceforth I was aware that it was with him (whom I knew I should meet on earth one day) that the divine work was to be done.
In the year 1910 my husb and came alone to Pondicherry where, under very interesting and peculiar circumstances, he made the acquaintance of Sri Aurobindo. Since then we both strongly wished to return to India the country which I had always cherished as my true mother-country. And in 1914 this joy was granted to us.
2.01 - War., #The Interior Castle or The Mansions, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
10.: Reason convinces the soul that as outside its Interior castle are found neither peace nor security, it should cease to seek another home abroad, its own being full of riches that it can enjoy at will. Besides, it is not every one who, like itself, possesses all he needs within his own dwelling, and above all, such a Host, Who will give it all it can desire, unless, like the prodigal son, it chooses to go astray and feed with the swine.3' Surely these arguments are strong enough to defeat the devil's wiles! But, O my God, how the force of worldly habits and the example of others who practise them ruin everything! Our faith is so dead that we trust less to its teaching than to what is visible, though, indeed, we see that worldly lives bring nothing but unhappiness. All this results from those venomous thoughts I described, which, unless we are very careful, will deform the soul as the sting of a viper poisons and swells the body.
11.: When this happens, great care is evidently needed to cure it, and only God's signal mercy prevents its resulting in death. Indeed, the soul passes through severe trials at this time, especially when the devil perceives from a person's character and behaviour that she is likely to make very great progress, for then all hell will league together to force her to turn back. O my Lord! what need there is here that, by Thy mercy, Thou shouldst prevent the soul from being deluded into forsaking the good begun! Enlighten it to see that its welfare consists in perseverance in the right way, and in the withdrawing from bad company.
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15.: Do not act thus, sisters; embrace the cross your Spouse bore on His shoulders; know that your motto should be: 'Most happy she who suffers most if it be for Christ!'10' All else should be looked upon as secondary: if our Lord give it you, render Him grateful thanks. You may imagine you would be resolute in enduring external trials if God gave you Interior consolations: His Majesty knows best what is good for us; it is not for us to advise Him how to treat us, for He has the right to tell us that we know not what we ask.11' Remember, it is of the greatest importance-the sole aim of one beginning to practise prayer should be to endure trials, and to resolve and strive to the utmost of her power to conform her own will to the will of God.12' Be certain that in this consists all the greatest perfection to be attained in the spiritual life, as I will explain later. She who practises this most perfectly will receive from God the highest reward and is the farthest advanced on the right road. Do not imagine that we have need of a cabalistic formula or any other occult or mysterious thing to attain it our whole welfare consists in doing the will of God. If we start with the false principle of wishing God to follow our will and to lead us in the way we think best, upon what firm foundation can this spiritual edifice rest?
16.: Let us endeavour to do our best: beware of the poisonous reptiles-that is to say, the bad thoughts and aridities which are often permitted by God to assail and torment us so that we cannot repel them. Indeed, perchance we feel their sting! He allows this to teach us to be more on our guard in the future and to see whether we grieve much at offending Him. Therefore if you occasionally lapse into sin, do not lose heart and cease trying to advance, for God will draw good even out of our falls, like the merchant who sells theriac, who first takes poison, then the theriac, to prove the power of his elixir.13' This combat would suffice to teach us to amend our habits if we realized our failings in no other way, and would show us the injury we receive from a life of dissipation. Can any evil be greater than that we find at home? What peace can we hope to find elsewhere, if we have none within us? What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company? These seem to wage war on us as if they knew the harm our vices had wrought them. 'Peace, peace be unto you,' my sisters, as our Lord said, and many a time proclaimed to His Apostles.14' Believe me, if we neither possess nor strive to obtain this peace at home, we shall never find it abroad.
2.03 - Atomic Forms And Their Combinations, #Of The Nature Of Things, #Lucretius, #Poetry
That her Interiors cannot entered be-
So big her count of brutes of which we see
2.03 - DEMETER, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
nervous system, it therefore corresponds on the Interior to the
installation of a psychic state coextensive with the earth. On
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dream of expressing the mechanism of evolution in this ' Interior-
ised ', ' radial ' form. On the other hand, one thing becomes
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and it quickly yields under increasing Interior volumes. The
insect cannot grow beyond an inch or two without becoming
2.03 - The Christian Phenomenon and Faith in the Incarnation, #Let Me Explain, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
self-contained personal enjoyment and Interior perfection -
none of these can any longer come up in any way to our ideal
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space. This, I feel, is the natural Interior climate to develop
and evolve in which I am made. I can find no other explana-
2.05 - Apotheosis, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology
opposites, yet he saw in his own Interior darkness the destiny of
Oedipus. Shiva appears united in a single body with Shakti,
2.05 - The Cosmic Illusion; Mind, Dream and Hallucination, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It is into this large realm of Interior existence that our mind and vital being retire when they withdraw from the surface activities
The Cosmic Illusion
2.07 - I Also Try to Tell My Tale, #The Castle of Crossed Destinies, #Italo Calvino, #Fiction
In these paintings of Interiors, what counts is how a certain number of quite distinct objects are set in a certain space and allow light and time to flow over their surface: bound volumes, parchment scrolls, hourglasses, astrolabes, shells, the sphere hanging from the ceiling which shows how the heavens rotate (in Drer, its place is taken by a pumpkin). The Saint Jerome-Saint Augustine figure can be seated squarely in the center of the canvas, as in Antonello, but we know that the portrait includes the catalogue of objects, and the space of the room reproduces the space of the mind, the encyclopaedic ideal of the intellect, its order, its categories, its calm.
Or its restlessness: Saint Augustine, in Botticelli (Uffizi), begins to grow nervous, crumples page after page and throws them on the ground beneath the desk. Also in the study where there reigns meditative serenity, concentration, ease (I am still looking at the Carpaccio), a high-tension current passes: the scattered books left open turn their pages on their own, the hanging sphere sways, the light falls obliquely through the window, the dog raises his nose. Within the Interior space there hovers the announcement of an earthquake: the harmonious intellectual geometry grazes the borderline of paranoid obsession. Or is it the explosions outside that shake the windows? As only the city gives a meaning to the bleak landscape of the hermit, so the study, with its silence and its order, is simply the place where the oscillations of the seismographs are recorded.
For years now I have been shut up in here, brooding over a thousand reasons for not putting my nose outside, unable to find one that gives my spirit peace. Do I perhaps regret more extroverted ways of expressing myself? There was also a time when, wandering through museums, I would stop to face and question the Saint Georges and their dragons. The paintings of Saint George have this virtue: you can tell the painter was pleased to have to paint a Saint George. Because Saint George can be painted without believing too much in him, believing only in painting and not in the theme? But Saint George's position is shaky (as a legendary saint, too similar to the Perseus of the myth; as a mythical hero, too similar to the younger brother of the fairy tale), and painters always seem to have been aware of this, so they always looked on him with a somewhat "primitive" eye. But, at the same time, believing: in the way painters and writers have of believing in a story that has gone through many forms, and with painting and repainting, writing and rewriting, if it was not true, has become so.
2.14 - The Unpacking of God, #Sex Ecology Spirituality, #Ken Wilber, #Philosophy
Many individuals intuit the Over-Soul (or higher) and yet unpack that intuition, interpret that intuition, in terms merely or solely of the Higher Self, the Inner Voice, the care of the Soul, Interior Witnessing, the Universal Mind, pure Awareness, transcendental Consciousness, or similar such Upper-Left quadrant terms. And however true that aspect of the intuition is, this unpacking leaves out, or seriously diminishes, the "we" and the "it" dimensions. It leaves out the social and cultural and objective manifestations: it fails to give a seamless account of the types of community and social service and cultural activity that are inherently demanded by a higher Self; it ignores or neglects the changes in the techno-economic infrastructures that support each and every type of embodied self (whether higher or lower or anything in between); it ignores the overall objective state of affairs or objective reality that does not detract from the Self but is an unavoidable aspect of that Self's very manifestation.
The idea seems to be that if I can just contact my higher Self, then everything else will take care of itself. But this fails miserably to see that Spirit manifests always and simultaneously as the four quadrants of the Kosmos. Spirit (at any level) manifests as a self in a community with social and cultural foundations and objective correlates, and thus any higher Self will inextricably involve a wider community existing in a deeper objective state of affairs.
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Likewise, there are many good souls who have a profound intuition of Spirit but unpack that intuition in merely "It" terms, describing Spirit as the sum total of all phenomena or processes interwoven together in a great unified system or net or web or implicate order or unified field (Lower-Right quadrant). All of which is true enough, but all of which leaves out entirely the Interior dimensions of "I" and "we." This less-than-adequate interpretation is monological to the core, flatl and through and through.
It is the old Spinozist move, the other pole-the Eco pole-of the fundamental Enlightenment paradigm (in the form of the Romantic rebellion). It thinks that the enemy is atomism, and that the central problem is simply to be able to prove or demonstrate once and for all that the universe is a great and unified holistic System or Order or Web. It marshals a vast amount of scientific evidence, from physics to biology, and offers extensive arguments, all geared to objectively proving the holistic nature of the universe. It fails to see that if we take a bunch of egos with atomistic concepts and teach them that the universe is holistic, all we will actually get is a bunch of egos with holistic concepts.
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And nothing changes because the "proof" or the "new paradigm" or "great system" is still being put in monological it-language. This doesn't engage the process of inner transformation. The profoundly transformative question is not: is the world holistic or atomistic? The transformative question is: who or what is aware of both holistic and atomistic concepts? (The move from the exterior to the Interior.) And then: having rested in the Witness of those concepts, a Witness that itself is neither holistic nor atomistic, see here the Witness dissolve in an
Emptiness that embraces the entire Kosmos. (The move from the Interior to the superior.)
To remain arguing about the exteriors is to effectively seal out the Interior and thus the superior. Focusing on the exterior world being holistic thus misses the central transformative occasion.
Long ago Nagarjuna devastated such approaches, pointing out that holistic or atomistic, or both or neither, are all beside the point (and, he added, they're all false anyway). It is the radical deconstruction of all conceptualizations whatsoever that paves the way for pure intuition (prajna) of Shunyata (Emptiness or Openness). If we meet even the Buddha and are supposed to kill him, guess how holism will fare.
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Sum Total of the shadows in the Cave. So intent are we on proving that the shadows are one great interlocking order that we never move from these exteriors to the real Interior, and thus we never find the genuine superior.
This less-than-adequate interpretation makes it appear that the most urgent problem in the modern world is to teach everybody systems theory (or some version of Gaia's web-of-life notions, or some version of the "new physics"), instead of seeing that what is required is an understanding of the Interior stages of consciousness development. Gaia's main problem is not toxic waste dumps, ozone depletion, or biospheric pollution. These global problems can only be recognized and responded to from a global, worldcentric awareness, and thus Gaia's main problem is that not enough human beings have developed and evolved from egocentric to sociocentric to worldcentric, there to realize-and act on-the ecological crisis. Gaia's main problem is not exterior pollution but Interior development, which alone can end exterior pollution.
Preconventional/egocentric and conventional/ethnocentric could care less about the global commons; only postconventional/worldcentric can fully see, and effectively respond to, the universal dimensions of the problem (only formop and vision-logic can grasp universal perspectives). Thus, the more we emphasize teaching a merely
Right-Hand map of systems theory or a Gaia Web of Life, instead of equally emphasizing the importance of Interior development from egocentric to sociocentric to worldcentric, then the more we are contri buting to Gaia's demise.
Global problems demand global awareness, and only Interior and Left-Hand stages of development-precisely the domain ignored by flatl and Eco approaches-can even begin to handle the problem.
The pure Eco approach, like its cousin the pure Ego (or pure Self) approach, simply reduces all of Spirit's dimensions to one privileged domain, crippling the full emergence and descent of Spirit itself. Just as the idea in the pure Self camp is that if we simply contact the Higher Self, all our problems will be solved, so the idea in the pure Eco approach is that if we can just demonstrate, once and for all, the unified and holistic nature of the pure Eco, then that will solve all our problems. That forceful demonstration (that Spinozist proof in objective terms) will itself compel all individuals to transform to ultimate unity, or so it is maintained.
Thus, the only " Interior" change this camp recognizes is the single change from holding an atomistic conception to holding a holistic conception. Because this camp centers on exteriors, it has an incredibly naive and anemic conception of all the inner and Interior developments necessary in order to be able to embrace the All. Further, in recognizing only this "single" change from atomistic to holistic concepts, it misses the crucial fact that change of beliefs does not mean change of consciousness. It means simply a new translation, not necessarily a new transformation.
The standard response from the Eco camps is that if people truly learned and really understood the holistic oneness of reality and the great web, that would force them to give up their egos and they would indeed truly transform. But, as we have seen, it is actually quite the contrary: embracing a monological worldview in flatl and terms results precisely in divine egoism. (Because the Right-Hand-only view of systems theory lacks an understanding of the Interior stages of consciousness development-from preconventional/egocentric to conventional/sociocentric to postconventional/worldcentric-or more precisely, because it lacks an understanding of all nine fulcrums of Interior unfolding, it has no way to carefully gauge consciousness evolution and development. For this reason, flatl and cannot spot the difference between infrarational consciousness and suprarational consciousness-because it cannot spot Interior consciousness at all-and thus it constantly falls prey to massive pre/trans fallacies. This allows its proponents to embrace preconventional Interiors as if they were postconventional realities: allows them to fall into preconventional/egocentric enthusiasms, even as they champion exterior holism and the great Web of Life, precisely as we saw with the Romantics.)
This approach, then, focuses almost exclusively on Dharma, or the objective Truth, and not enough on Buddha (subjective) and Sangha (intersubjective), or how that Truth refracts as well through the psychological and cultural domains (how that Spirit manifests as all four quadrants of the Kosmos). And when objective truth is made the "total truth"-when it is really thought to be "utterly holistic" and "all-encompassing"-then Buddha and Sangha are violently reduced to flatl and objectivist terms, and an approach that originally wishes us to transcend and include, ends up being a merely and purely Descended worldview that effectively blocks transcendence altogether.
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In other words, the real problem is not exterior. The real problem is Interior. The real problem is how to get people to internally transform from egocentric to sociocentric to worldcentric consciousness, which is the only stance that can grasp the global dimensions of the problem in the first place, and thus the only stance that can freely, even eagerly, embrace global solutions.
And about these Interior transformations, and all the intricate psychological changes necessary in order to effect them, the Eco camps have virtually nothing to say. They are so focused on exterior, monological, reflective "paradigms" that their understanding of Interior dynamics and development is incredibly anemic; thus they are contri buting little to the real changes that have to occur in order to "save Gaia."
Hence, the only "transformation" most ecophilosophers talk about is having everybody change their objective and monological views of reality and accept a "web-of-life" conception, as if that would effect a genuine Interior transformation. But not only is the web-of-life ontology regressive (its end limit is always biocentric feeling in divine egoism), but, more tellingly-and this is the only point I would like to emphasize-even if the web-of-life ontology were absolutely true, nonetheless change in objective belief is not the primary driving force of Interior development.
(For example: all ecological forecasts are forms of as-if and what-if scientific projections, often computerized.
These can only be grasped by formop. Teach these what-if scenarios to preop or conop individuals, and no matter how much they repeat the words, they do not possess the developmental signified and thus they have no real idea of the actual referent. Genuinely global or worldcentric consciousness is not possible short of formop. In other words, global consciousness is not an objective belief that can be taught to anybody and everybody, but a subjective transformation in the Interior structures that can hold the belief in the first place, which itself is the product of a long line of inner consciousness development.)
We have an enormous amount of information about how and why those Interior psychological transformations occur (egocentric to sociocentric to worldcentric), but the Eco camps by and large display no awareness of, and no interest in, those inner dynamics, fixated as they are on describing exterior mononature in "holistic" terms.
This is most naive, and belies the inadequacy of attempting to change people by altering the object instead of growing the subject. Focusing merely on monological and objective and exterior and scientific terms-no matter how utterly true-beyond a certain point simply detracts away from the fundamental problem, hides the fundamental problem, which is not exterior pollution but Interior development.10
Everywhere the paradox of damage: absolutizing the biosphere contri butes inexorably to its destruction.
2.19 - Union, Gestation, Birth, #General Principles of Kabbalah, #Rabbi Moses Luzzatto, #Kabbalah
of the upper ones is hidden in the Interior of the lower
ones. At this point we may see that the advantage
3.01 - Fear of God, #The Interior Castle or The Mansions, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
9.: O Jesus! can any one declare that he does not desire this great blessing, especially after he has passed through the chief difficulties? No; no one can! We all say we desire it, but there is need of more than that for the Lord to possess entire dominion over the soul. It is not enough to say so, any more than it was enough for the young man when our Lord told him what he must do if he desired to be perfect.6' Since I began to speak of these dwelling-rooms I have him constantly before my mind, for we are exactly like him; this very frequently produces the great dryness we feel in prayer, though sometimes it proceeds from other causes as well. I am not speaking of certain Interior sufferings which give intolerable pain to many devout souls through no fault of their own; from these trials, however, our Lord always delivers them with much profit to themselves. I also except people who suffer from melancholy and other infirmities. But in these cases, as in all others, we must leave aside the judgments of God.
10.: I hold that these effects usually result from the first cause I mentioned; such souls know that nothing would induce them to commit a sin (many of them would not even commit a venial sin advertently), and that they employ their life and riches well. They cannot, therefore, patiently endure to be excluded from the presence of our King, Whose vassals they consider themselves, as indeed they are. An earthly king may have many subjects yet all do not enter his court. Enter then, enter, my daughters, into your Interior; pass beyond the thought of your own petty works, which are no more, nor even as much, as Christians are bound to perform: let it suffice that you are God's servants, do not pursue so much as to catch nothing.7' Think of the saints, who have entered the Divine Presence, and you will see the difference between them and ourselves.
11.: Do not ask for what you do not deserve, nor should we ever think, however much we may have done for God, that we merit the reward of the saints, for we have offended Him. Oh, humility, humility! I know not why, but I am always tempted to think that persons who complain so much of aridities must be a little wanting in this virtue. However, I am not speaking of severe Interior sufferings, which are far worse than a want of devotion.
12.: Let us try ourselves, my sisters, or let our Lord try us; He knows well how to do so (although we often pretend to misunderstand Him). We will now speak of these well-ordered souls. Let us consider what they do for God and we shall see at once what little right we have to murmur against His Majesty. If we turn our backs on Him and go away sorrowfully like the youth in the Gospel8 when He tells us what to do to be perfect, what can God do? for He must proportion the reward to our love for Him. This love, my daughters, must not be the fabric of our imagination; we must prove it by our works. Yet do not suppose that our Lord has need of any works of ours; He only expels us to manifest our goodwill.9
3.01 - THE BIRTH OF THOUGHT, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
another kind of life precisely that Interior life of which I have
spoken above. A moment ago we compared the simplicity of
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only the individual structure of the organs and the Interior
ramifications of the species, but even the tendencies and behaviour
3.02 - Aridity in Prayer, #The Interior Castle or The Mansions, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
12.: I know, too, that our bodies are not the chief factors in the work we have before us; they are accessory: extreme humility is the principal point. It is the want of this, I believe, that stops people's progress. It may seem that we have made but little way: we should believe that is the case, and that our sisters are advancing much more rapidly than we are. Not only should we wish others to consider us the worst of all; we should endeavour to make them think so. If we act in this manner, our soul will do well; otherwise we shall make no progress and shall always remain the prey to a thousand troubles and miseries. The way will be difficult and wearisome without self-renunciation, weighed down as we are by the burden and frailties of human nature, which are no longer felt in the more Interior mansions.
13.: In these third mansions the Lord never fails to repay our services, both as a just and even as a merciful God, Who always bestows on us far more than we deserve, giving us greater happiness than could be obtained from any earthly pleasures and amusements. I think He grants few consolations here, except, perhaps, occasionally to entice us to prepare ourselves to enter the last mansions by showing us their contents. There may appear to you to be no difference except in name between sensible devotion, and consolations and you may ask why I distinguish them. I think there is a very great difference, but I may be mistaken.
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15.: Those who do not receive these consolations may feel a despondency that is uncalled for, since perfection does not consist in consolation but in greater love; our reward will be in proportion to this, and to the justice and sincerity of our actions. Perhaps you wonder, then, why I treat of these Interior favours and their nature. I do not know; ask him who bade me write this. I must obey Superiors, not argue with them, which I have no right to do.
16.: I assure you that when I had neither received these favours,17' nor understood them by experience, or ever expected to (and rightly so, for I should have felt reassured if I had known or even conjectured that I was pleasing to God in any way), yet when I read of the mercies and consolations that our Lord grants to His servants, I was delighted and praised Him fervently. If such as myself acted thus, how much more would the humble and good glorify Him! I think it is worth while to explain these subjects and show what consolations and delights we lose through our own fault, if only for the sake of moving a single soul to praise God once.
3.02 - Mysticism, #Let Me Explain, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
tion of the Interior life in search of perfection. But I have long
been convinced that this superficial unanimity disguises a
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In recent times there has emerged in our Interior vision a
Universe that has at last become knit together around itself
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an Interior attitude (the centric cosmic sense) in which,
through force of circumstances we are all, without it being
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is the paradoxical Interior act that can immediately be effected
in the Christie ambiance. (Comment je vois, para. 37.)
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for our Interior life of this amazing situation.
There are three, and they may be expressed as follows:
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cerned. Thus our Interior life remains fragmented and plural-
ized.
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in Christ, the whole task of the Interior moral and mystical
life may be reduced to two essential and complementary
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the work of Interior development by which we tear ourselves
away from ourselves, leave ourselves behind, emerge from
3.02 - The Practice Use of Dream-Analysis, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
often betrays the Interior arrangement. The manifest dream-picture is the
dream itself and contains the whole meaning of the dream. When I find
3.03 - The Formula of Tetragrammaton, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
undergo a crystallization resplendent with Interior light. Such
modifications of the original Will may be observed in the course of
3.07 - The Formula of the Holy Grail, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
magical order, thus ' / VISITA / & / InteriorIA / % / TERR / ! / RECTIFICANDO / $ /
INVENIES / # / OCCVLTVM / = / LAPIDEM. Accompanying each word is a symbolic
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Democracy, who, on being informed by the Minister of the Interior that the scarcity
of provisions was due to the Law of Supply and Demand, passed a unanimous
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externalizing ones Interior wisdom need not be regarded as sceptical,
save only in the last resort. No scientific hypothesis can adduce
3.18 - Of Clairvoyance and the Body of Light, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Now this Interior body of the Magical, of which we spoke at the
beginning of this chapter, does exist, and can exert certain powers
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disaster which his own Interior mentor foresees?
Those who embark on divination will be wise to consider the
3.2.02 - The Veda and the Upanishads, #Letters On Yoga II, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Perception is not enough to transform the nature. Payata3 in the spiritual language does not mean only perception. Perception is of the mind and a mental perception is not enougha substantial and dynamic realisation in all the being is necessary. Otherwise one of three things may happen. (1) The mind perceives oneness but the vital is not affected, it goes on with its impulses, for the vital is governed not by thought or reason but by tendency, impulse, desire-forceit uses reason only as a justification for its tendencies. Or even the vital may say, All is one so it does not matter what I do. Why should not I seek oneness with others in my own way? (2) If the mind has a realisation, but the vital does not share in it or distorts it, then also the vital can insist on its own way or even carry the mind along with it. As the Gita says, the senses (vital) carry away the mind even of the sage who sees, as the wind carries away a ship on a stormy sea. (3) The inner being may have the realisation strongly and live in the oneness, calm, peace, but the Interior parts of the outer may feel the reactions of desire etc. In this case the reactions are more superficial; but even so rejection is needed till they cease. When all the being lives in the solid realisation of calm, peace, liberation, oneness, then the desires fall away and the necessity of rejection ceases, because there is nothing to reject any longer.
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4.01 - Sweetness in Prayer, #The Interior Castle or The Mansions, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
4.: I will now describe, as I promised, the difference between sweetness in prayer and spiritual consolations. It appears to me that what we acquire for ourselves in meditation and petitions to our Lord may be termed 'sweetness in devotion.'7' It is natural, although ultimately aided by the grace of God. I must be understood to imply this in all I say, for we can do nothing without Him. This sweetness arises principally from the good work we perform, and appears to result from our labours: well may we feel happy at having thus spent our time. We shall find, on consideration, that many temporal matters give us the same pleasure-such as unexpectedly coming into a large fortune, suddenly meeting with a dearly-loved friend, or succeeding in any important or influential affair which makes a sensation in the world. Again, it would be felt by one who had been told her husband, brother, or son was dead, and who saw him return to her alive. I have seen people weep from such happiness, as I have done myself. I consider both these joys and those we feel in religious matters to be natural ones. Although there is nothing wrong about the former, yet those produced by devotion spring from a more noble source-in short, they begin in ourselves and end in God. Spiritual consolations, on the contrary, arise from God, and our nature feels them and rejoices as keenly in them, and indeed far more keenly, than in the others I described. The first three mansions of the Interior Castle correspond with the 'first water,' or the prayer of Meditation, explained in ch. xi-xiii. of the Life; the fourth mansion, or the prayer of Quiet, with the 'second water,' Life, ch. xiv. and xv.; the fifth mansion, or the prayer of Union, with the 'third water,' Life, ch. xvi. and xvii.; and the sixth mansion, ecstasy, etc., with the 'fourth water,' Life, ch. xviii.-xxi.
5.: O Jesus! how I wish I could elucidate this point! It seems to me that I can perfectly distinguish the difference between the two joys, yet I have not the skill to make myself understood; may God give it me! I remember a verse we say at Prime at the end of the final Psalm; the last words are: 'Cum dilatasti cor meum'-'When Thou didst dilate my heart:8' To those with much experience, this suffices to show the difference between sweetness in prayer and spiritual consolations; other people will require more explanation. The sensible devotion I mentioned does not dilate the heart, but generally appears to narrow it slightly; although joyful at seeing herself work for God, yet such a person sheds tears of sorrow which seem partly produced by the passions. I know little about the passions of the soul, or I could write of them more clearly and could better define what comes from the sensitive disposition and what is natural, having passed through this state myself, but I am very stupid. Knowledge and learning are a great advantage to every one.
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9.: Do Thou, O Lord, take into account all that we suffer in this way through our ignorance. We err in thinking that we need only know that we must keep our thoughts fixed on Thee. We do not understand that we should consult those better instructed than ourselves, nor are we aware that there is anything for us to learn. We pass through terrible trials, on account of not understanding our own nature and take what is not merely harmless, but good, for a grave fault. This causes the sufferings felt by many people, particularly by the unlearned, who practise prayer. They complain of Interior trials, become melancholy, lose their health, and even give up prayer altogether for want of recognizing that we have within ourselves as it were, an Interior world. We cannot stop the revolution of the heavens as they rush with velocity upon their course, neither can we control our imagination. When this wanders we at once imagine that all the powers of the soul follow it; we think everything is lost, and that the time spent in God's presence is wasted. Meanwhile, the soul is perhaps entirely united to Him in the innermost mansions, while the imagination is in the precincts of the castle, struggling with a thousand wild and venomous creatures and gaining merit by its warfare. Therefore we need not let ourselves be disturbed, nor give up prayer, as the devil is striving to persuade us. As a rule, all our anxieties and troubles come from misunderstanding our own nature.
10.: Whilst writing this I am thinking of the loud noise in my head which I mentioned in the Introduction, and which has made it almost impossible to obey the comm and given me to write this. It sounds as if there were a number of rushing waterfalls within my brain, while in other parts, drowned by the sound of the waters, are the voices of birds singing and whistling. This tumult is not in my ears, but in the upper part of my head, where, they say, is placed the superior part of the soul. I have long thought that this must be so because the flight of the spirit seems to take place from this part with great velocity.13' Please God I may recollect to explain the cause when writing of the latter mansions, this not being the proper place for it. It may be that God has sent this suffering in my head to help me to understand the matter, for all this tumult in my brain does not interfere with my prayer, nor with my speaking to you, but the great calm and love and desires in my soul remain undisturbed and my mind is clear.
4.01 - THE COLLECTIVE ISSUE, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
in an Interior totalisation of the world upon itself, in the unani-
mous construction of a spirit of the earth.
4.02 - Autobiographical Evidence, #Let Me Explain, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
years devoted to the pursuit of Interior unity, I have the
feeling that a synthesis has been effected naturally between
4.02 - Divine Consolations., #The Interior Castle or The Mansions, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
5.: This joy is not, like earthly happiness, at once felt by the heart; after gradually filling it to the brim, the delight overflows throughout all the mansions and faculties, until at last it reaches the body. Therefore, I say it arises from God and ends in ourselves, for whoever experiences it will find that the whole physical part of our nature shares in this delight and sweetness. While writing this I have been thinking that the verse 'Dilatasti cor meum,' 'Thou hast dilated my heart,'21' declares that the heart is dilated. This joy does not appear to me to originate in the heart, but in some more Interior part and, as it were, in the depths of our being. I think this must be the centre of the soul, as I have since learnt and will explain later on. I discover secrets within us which often fill me with astonishment: how many more must there be unknown to me! O my Lord and my God! how stupendous is Thy grandeur! We are like so many foolish peasant lads: we think we know something of Thee, yet it must be comparatively nothing, for there are profound secrets even in ourselves of which we know naught. I say 'comparatively nothing' in proportion with all the secrets hidden within Thee, yet how great are Thy mysteries that we are acquainted with and can learn even by the study of such of Thy works as we see!22
6.: To return to the verse I quoted, which may help to explain the dilation begun by the celestial waters in the depths of our being. They appear to dilate and enlarge us internally, and benefit us in an inexplicable manner, nor does even the soul itself understand what it receives. It is conscious of what may be described as a certain fragrance, as if within its inmost depths were a brazier sprinkled with sweet perfumes. Although the spirit neither sees the flame nor knows where it is, yet it is penetrated by the warmth, and scented fumes, which are even sometimes perceived by the body. Understand me, the soul does not feel any real heat or scent, but something far more subtle, which I use this metaphor to explain. Let those who have never experienced it believe that it really occurs to others: the soul is conscious of it and feels it more distinctly than can be expressed. It is not a thing we can fancy or gain by anything we can do; clearly it does not arise from the base coin of human nature, but from the most pure gold of Divine Wisdom. I believe that in this case the powers of the soul are not united to God, but are absorbed and astounded at the marvel before them. I may possibly be contradicting what I wrote elsewhere;23' nor would this be surprising, for it was done about fifteen years ago, and perhaps God has given me since then a clearer insight into the matter. I may be entirely mistaken on the subject, both then and now, but never do I wilfully say what is untrue. No; by the mercy of God, I would rather die a thousand times than tell a falsehood: I speak of the matter as I understand it. I believe that in this case the will must in some way be united with that of God. The after effects on the soul, and the subsequent behaviour of the person, show whether this prayer was genuine or no: this is the best crucible by which to test it.
4.03 - Prayer of Quiet, #The Interior Castle or The Mansions, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
3.: I think I never put this matter so clearly before. To seek God within ourselves avails us far more than to look for Him amongst creatures; Saint Augustine tells us how he found the Almighty within his own soul, after having long sought for Him elsewhere.28' This recollection helps us greatly when God bestows it upon us. But do not fancy you can gain it by thinking of God dwelling within you, or by imagining Him as present in your soul: this is a good practice and an excellent kind of meditation, for it is founded on the fact that God resides within us;29' it is not, however, the prayer of recollection, for by the divine assistance less labour in entering within oneself than in rising above oneself and therefore it appears to me that when the soul is ready and fit for either, you ought to do the former, because the other will follow without any effort, and will be all the more pure and spiritual; however, follow what course your soul prefers as this will bring you more grace and benefit,' (Tr. ix, ch, viii). Some editors of the Interior Castle think that St. Teresa refers to the following passage taken from the Confessions of St. Augustine: 'Too late have I loved Thee, O Beauty, ever ancient yet ever new! too late have I loved Thee! And behold, Thou wert within me and I abroad, and there I searched for Thee, and, deformed as I was, I pursued the beauties that Thou hast made. Thou wert with me, but I was not with Thee. Those things kept me far from Thee, which, unless they were in Thee, could have had no being' (St. Augustine's Confessions, bk. x, ch. xxvii.). The Confessions of St. Augustine were first translated into Spanish by Sebastian Toscano, a Portuguese Augustinian. This edition, which was published at Salamanca in 1554, was the one used by St. Teresa. St. Teresa quotes a passage which occurs in a pious book entitled Soliloquia, and erroneously attributed to St. Augustine: 'I have gone about the streets and the broad ways of the city of this world seeking Thee, but have not found Thee for I was wrong in seeking without for what was within.' (ch. xxxi.) This treatise which is also quoted by St. John of the Cross, Spiritual Canticle, stanza i. 7, Ascent of Mount Carmel, bk. i. ch. v. 1, appeared in a Spanish translation at Valladolid in 1515, at Medina del Campo in 1553, and at Toledo in 1565. every one can practise it, but what I mean is quite a different thing. Sometimes, before they have begun to think of God, the powers of the soul find themselves within the castle. I know not by what means they entered, nor how they heard the Shepherd's pipe; the ears perceived no sound but the soul is keenly conscious of a delicious sense of recollection experienced by those who enjoy this favour, which I cannot describe more clearly.
4.: I think I read somewhere30 that the soul is then like a tortoise or sea-urchin, which retreats into itself. Those who said this no doubt understood what they were talking about; but these creatures can withdraw into themselves at will, while here it is not in our power to retire into ourselves, unless God gives us the grace. In my opinion, His Majesty only bestows this favour on those who have renounced the world, in desire at least, if their state of life does not permit their doing so in fact. He thus specially calls them to devote themselves to spiritual things; if they allow Him power to at freely He will bestow still greater graces on those whom He thus begins calling to a higher life. Those who enjoy this recollection should thank God fervently: it is of the highest importance for them to realize the value of this favour, gratitude for which would prepare them to receive still more signal graces. Some books advise that as a preparation for hearing what our Lord may say to us we should keep our minds at rest, waiting to see what He will work in our souls.31' But unless His Majesty has begun to suspend our faculties, I cannot understand how we are to stop thinking, without doing ourselves more harm than good. This point has been much debated by those learned in spiritual matters; I confess my want of humility in having been unable to yield to their opinion.32
5.: Some one told me of a certain book written on the subject by the saintly Friar Peter of Alcantara (as I think I may justly call him); I should have submitted to his decision, knowing that he was competent to judge, but on reading it I found he agreed with me that the mind must act until called to recollection by love, although he stated it in other words.33'Possibly I may be mistaken, but I rely on these reasons. Firstly, he who reasons less and tries 30 St. Teresa read this in the Tercer Abecedario of Francisco de Osuna (tr. vi, ch, iv): 'This exercise concentrates the senses of man in the Interior of the heart where dwells 'the daughter of the king'; that is, the Catholic soul; thus recollected, man may well be compared to the tortoise or sea-urchin which rolls itself up and withdraws within itself, disregarding everything outside.' Eighth Counsel. Let the last and chiefest counsel be that in this holy exercise we should endeavour to unite Meditation with Contemplation making of the one a ladder for attaining to the other. For this we must know that (p. 118) the very office of Meditation is to consider Divine things with studiousness and attention passing from one to another, to move our hearts to some affection and deep feeling for them, which is as though one should strike a flint to draw from it the spark. For Contemplation is to have drawn forth this spark: I mean to have now found this affection and feeling which were sought for, and to be in peace and silence enjoying them; not with many discursive and intellectual speculations but with simple gaze upon the truth. Wherefore, says a holy teacher, Meditation goes its way and brings forth fruit, with labour, but Contemplation bears fruit without labour. The one seeketh, the other findeth; the one consumeth the food, the other enjoys it; the one discourseth, and maketh reflections, the other is contented with a simple gaze upon the things, for it hath in possession their love and joy. Lastly, the one is as the means, the other as the end; the one as the road and journeying along it, the other as the end of the road and of the journeying. From this is to be inferred a very common thing, which all masters of the spiritual life teach, although it is little (p. 119) understood of those who learn it; which is this, that, as the means cease when the end has been attained, as the voyaging is over when the port has been touched, so when, through the working out of our Meditation, we have come to the repose and sweet savour of Contemplation, we ought then to cease from that pious and laborious searching; and being satisfied with the simple gaze upon, and thought of, God-as though we had Him there present before us-we should rest in the enjoyment of that affection then given, whether it be of love, or of admiration, or joy, or other like sentiment. The reason why this counsel is given is this, that as the aim of this devotion is love and the affections of the will rather than the speculations of the understanding, when the will has been caught and taken by this affection, we should put away all those discursive and intellectual speculations, so far as we can, in order that our soul with all its forces may be fastened upon this affection without being diverted by the action of other influences. A learned teacher, therefore, counsels us that as soon as anyone feels himself fired by the love of God, he should first put aside (p. 120.) all these considerations and thoughts-however exalted they may seem-not because they are really not good in themselves, but because they are then hindrances to what is better. and more important. For this is nothing else than that, having come to the end and purpose of our work, we should stay therein, and leave Meditation for the love of Contemplation. This may especially be done at the end of any exercise, that is, after the petition for the Divine love of which we have spoken, for one reason, because then it is supposed that the labour of the exercise we have just gone through has produced some divine devotion and feeling, since, saith the wise man, 'Better is the end of prayer than the beginning': and for another reason, that, after the work of Prayer and Meditation, it is well that one should give his mind a little rest, and allow it to repose in the arms of Contemplation. At this point, then, we should put away all other thoughts that may present themselves, and, quieting the mind and stilling the memory, fix all upon our Lord; and remembering that we are then in His presence, no longer dwell upon the details of divine things. Ibidem p. 121. And not only at the end of the exercise but in the midst of it, and at whatever part of it, this spiritual swoon should come upon us, when the intellect is laid to sleep, we should make this pause, and enjoy the blessing bestowed; and then, when we have finished the digestion of it, turn to the matter we have in hand, as the gardener does, when he waters his garden-bed; who, after giving it (p. 122) a sufficiency of water, holds back the stream, and lets it soak and spread itself through the depths of the earth; and then when this hath somewhat dried up, he turns down upon it again the flow of water that it may receive still more, and be well irrigated.' to do least, does most in spiritual matters. We should make our petitions like beggars before a powerful and rich Emperor; then, with downcast eyes, humbly wait. When He secretly shows us He hears our prayers, it is well to be silent, as He has drawn us into His presence; there would then be no harm in trying to keep our minds at rest (that is to say, if we can). If, however, the King makes no sign of listening or of seeing us, there is no need to stand inert, like a dolt, which the soul would resemble if it continued inactive. In this case its dryness would greatly increase, and the imagination would be made more restless than before by its very effort to think of nothing. Our Lord wishes us at such a time to offer Him our petitions and to place ourselves in His presence; He knows what is best for us.
6.: I believe that human efforts avail nothing in these matters, which His Majesty appears to reserve to Himself, setting this limit to our powers. In many other things, such as penances, good works, and prayers, with His aid we can help ourselves as far as human weakness will allow. The second reason is, that these Interior operations being sweet and peaceful,34' any painful effort does us more harm than good. By 'painful effort' I mean any forcible restraint we place on ourselves, such as holding our breath.35' We should rather abandon our souls into the hands of God, leaving Him to do as He chooses with us, as far as possible forgetting all self-interest and resigning ourselves entirely to His will. The third reason is, that the very effort to think of nothing excites our imagination the more. The fourth is, because we render God the most true and acceptable service by caring only for His honour and glory and forgetting ourselves, our advantages, comfort and happiness. How can we be self-oblivious, while keeping ourselves under such strict control that we are afraid to move, or even to think, or to leave our minds enough liberty to desire God's greater glory and to rejoice in the glory which He possesses? When His Majesty wishes the mind to rest from working He employs it in another manner, giving it a light and knowledge far above any obtainable by its own efforts and absorbing it entirely into Himself. Then, though it knows not how, it is filled with wisdom such as it could never gain for itself by striving to suspend the thoughts. God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.36 'The whole of the time in which our Lord communicates the simple, loving general attention of which I made mention before, or when the soul, assisted by grace, is established in that state, we must contrive to keep the understanding in repose, undisturbed by the intrusion of forms, figures, or particular knowledge, unless it were slightly and for an instant, and that with sweetness of love, to enkindle our souls the more. At other times, however, in all our acts of devotion and good works, we must make use of good recollections and meditations, so that we may feel an increase of profit and devotion; most especially applying ourselves to the life, passion,
7.: In my opinion, when God chooses to place the soul in this mansion it is best for it to do as I advised, and then endeavour, without force or disturbance, to keep free from wandering thoughts. No effort, however, should be made to suspend the imagination entirely from arming, for it is well to remember God's presence and to consider Who He is. If transported out of itself by its feelings, well and good; but let it not try to understand what is passing within it, for this favour is bestowed on the will which should be left to enjoy it in peace, only making loving aspirations occasionally. Although, in this kind of prayer, the soul makes no effort towards it, yet often, for a very short time, the mind ceases to think at all. I explained elsewhere why this occurs during this spiritual state.37' On first speaking of the fourth mansions, I told you I had mentioned divine consolations before the prayer of recollection. The latter should have come first, as it is far inferior to consolations, of which it is the commencement. Recollection does not require us to give up meditation, nor to cease using our intellect. In the prayer of quiet, when the water flows from the spring itself and not through conduits, the mind ceases to act; it is forced to do so, although it does not understand what is happening, and so wanders hither and thither in bewilderment, finding no place for rest. Meanwhile the will, entirely united to. God, is much disturbed by the tumult of the thoughts: no notice, however, should be taken of them, or they would cause the loss of a great part of the favour the soul is enjoying. Let the spirit ignore these distractions and abandon itself in the arms of divine love: His Majesty will teach it how best to act, which chiefly consists in its recognizing its unworthiness of so great a good and occupying itself in thanking Him for it.
8.: In order to treat of the prayer of recollection, I passed over in silence the effects and symptoms to be found in souls thus favoured by God. Divine consolations evidently cause a dilation or enlargement of the soul that may be compared to water flowing from a spring into a basin which has no outlet, but is so constructed as to increase in size and proportion to the quantity poured into it. God seems to work the same effect by this prayer, besides giving many other marvellous graces, so preparing and disposing the soul to contain all He intends to give it. After Interior sweetness and dilation the soul is not so restrained as formerly in God's service, but possesses much more liberty of spirit. It is no longer distressed by the terror of hell, for though more anxious than ever not to offend God, it has lost servile fear and feels sure that one day it will possess its Lord. It does not dread the loss of health by austerities;38' believing that there is nothing it could not do by His grace, it is more desirous than before of doing penance. Greater indifference is felt for sufferings because faith being stronger, it trusts that if borne for God He will give the grace to endure them patiently. Indeed, such a one at times even longs for trials, having a most ardent desire to do something for His sake. As the soul better understands the Divine Majesty, it realizes more vividly its own baseness. Divine consolation shows it how vile are earthly pleasures; by gradually withdrawing from them, it gains greater self-mastery. In short, its virtues are increased and it will not cease to advance in perfection, unless it turns back and offends God. Should it act thus, it would lose everything, however high the state it may have reached.
9.: It is not to be supposed that all these effects are produced merely by God's having shown these favours once or twice. They must be received continually, for it is on their frequent reception that the whole welfare of the soul depends. I strongly urge those who have reached this state to avoid most carefully all occasions of offending God.39' The soul is not yet fully established in virtue, but is like a new-born babe first feeding at its mother's breast:40' if it leaves her, what can it do but die? I greatly fear that when a soul to whom God has granted this favour discontinues prayer, except under urgent necessity, it will, unless it returns to the practice at once, go from bad to worse.
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11.: You, my sisters, are free from such dangers, as far as we can tell: God keep you from pride and vainglory! The devil sometimes offers counterfeits of the graces I have mentioned: this can easily be detected-the effects being exactly contrary to those of the genuine ones.42' Although I have spoken of it elsewhere,43' I wish to warn you here of a special danger to which those who practise prayer are subject, particularly women, whose weakness of constitution makes them more liable to such mistakes. On account of their penances, prayers, and vigils, or even merely because of debility of health, some persons cannot receive spiritual consolation without being overcome by it. On feeling any Interior joy, their bodies being languid and weak, they fall into a slumber-they call it spiritual sleep-which is a more advanced stage of what I have described; they think the soul shares in it as well as the body, and abandon themselves to a sort of intoxication. The more they lose self-control, the more do their feelings get possession of them, because the frame becomes more feeble. They fancy this is a trance and call it one, but I call it nonsense; it does nothing but waste their time and injure their health.
12.: This state lasted with a certain person for eight hours, during which time she was neither insensible, nor had she any thought of God.44' She was cured by being made to eat and sleep well and to leave off some of her penances. Her recovery was owing to some one who understood her case; hitherto she had unintentionally deceived both her confessor and other people, as well as herself. I feel quite sure the devil had been at work here to serve his own ends and he was beginning to gain a great deal from it. It should be known that when God bestows such favours on the soul, although there may be languor both of mind and body, it is not shared by the soul, which feels great delight at seeing itself so near God, nor does this state ever continue for more than a very short time.45' Although the soul may become absorbed again, yet, as I said, unless already feeble, the body suffers neither exhaustion nor pain. I advise any of you who experience the latter to tell the Prioress, and to divert your thoughts as much as possible from such matters. The Superior should prevent such a nun from spending more than a very few hours in prayer, and should make her eat and sleep well until her usual strength is restored, if she has lost it in this way.46' If the nun's constitution is so delicate that this does not suffice, let her believe me when I tell her that God only calls her to the active life. There must be such people in monasteries: employ her in the various offices and be careful that she is never left very long alone, otherwise she will entirely lose her health. This treatment will be a great mortification to her: our Lord tests her love for Him by the way in which she bears His absence. He may be pleased, after a time, to restore her strength; if not, she will make as much progress, and earn as great a reward by vocal prayer and obedience as she would have done by contemplation, and perhaps more.
4.03 - THE ULTIMATE EARTH, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
of Interior tension : the only biological outcome proper to or
conceivable for the phenomenon of man.
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' Interiorise ' matter : to imagine an energetics of the mind ; to
conceive a noogenesis rising upstream against the flow of
4.04 - Conclusion, #The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
of Interior images. One concentrates one's attention on some
impressive but unintelligible dream-image, or on a spontane-
4.04 - THE REGENERATION OF THE KING, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
[409] In the lion hunt of Marchos172 the lion, as we have seen, takes the place of the king. Marchos prepares a trap and the lion, attracted by the sweet smell of a stone that is obviously an eye-charm,173 falls into it and is swallowed by the magic stone. And this stone, which the lion loves, is a woman.174 The trap was covered by a glass roof, and the Interior, called by Senior the cucurbita, is here called the thalamus (bridal chamber). The lion therefore falls like a bridegroom into the bridal chamber, where the magic stone that is good for the eyes and is a woman, lies on a bed of coals. This stone swallows (transglutit) the lion so that nothing more of him was to be seen. This is a parallel of the Arisleus vision, where Beya causes Gabricus to disappear into her body.
[410] In the lion hunt the incest, though veiled, is clear enough. The love-affair is projected on the lion, the animal nature or accrescent soul of the king; in other words it is enacted in his unconscious or in a dream. Because of his ambiguous character the lion is well suited to take over the role of this indecorous lover. As the king is represented by his animal and his mother by the magic stone, the royal incest can take place as though it were happening somewhere outside, in quite another sphere than the personal world of the king and his mother. Indeed the marriage not only seems to be unnatural but is actually intended to be so. The tabooed incest is imposed as a task and, as the wealth of allegories shows, it is always in some symbolical form and never concrete. One has the impression that this sacral act, of whose incestuous nature the alchemists were by no means unconscious, was not so much banished by them into the cucurbita or glass-house but was taking place in it all the time. Whoever wished to commit this act in its true sense would therefore have to get outside himself as if into an external glasshouse, a round cucurbita which represented the microcosmic space of the psyche. A little reason would teach us that we do not need to get outside ourselves but merely a little deeper into ourselves to experience the reality of incest and much else besides, since in each of us slumbers the beastlike primitive who may be roused by the doves of Diana (n. 168). This would account for the widespread suspicion that nothing good can come out of the psyche. Undoubtedly the hierosgamos of the substances is a projection of unconscious contents. These connstents, it is usually concluded, therefore belong to the psyche and, like the psyche itself, are inside man, Q.E.D. As against this the fact remains that only a very few people are or ever were conscious of having any incestuous fantasies worth mentioning. If such fantasies are present at all they are not yet conscious, like the collective unconscious in general. An analysis of dreams and other products of the unconscious is needed to make these fantasies visible. To that end considerable resistances have to be overcome, as though one were entering a strange territory, a region of the psyche to which one feels no longer related, let alone identical with it; and whoever has strayed into that territory, either out of negligence or by mistake, feels outside himself and a stranger in his own house. I think one should take cognizance of these facts and not attri bute to our personal psyche everything that appears as a psychic content. After all, we would not do this with a bird that happened to fly through our field of vision. It may well be a prejudice to restrict the psyche to being inside the body. In so far as the psyche has a non-spatial aspect, there may be a psychic outside-the-body, a region so utterly different from my psychic space that one has to get outside oneself or make use of some auxiliary technique in order to get there. If this view is at all correct, the alchemical consummation of the royal marriage in the cucurbita could be understood as a synthetic process in the psyche outside the ego.175
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[412] This region, if still seen as a spectral land beyond, appears to be a whole world in itself, a macrocosm. If, on the other hand, it is felt as psychic and inside, it seems like a microcosm of the smallest proportions, on a par with the race of dwarfs in the casket, described in Goethes poem The New Melusine, or like the Interior of the cucurbita in which the alchemists beheld the creation of the world, the marriage of the royal pair, and the homunculus.178 Just as in alchemical philosophy the Anthroparion or homunculus corresponds, as the lapis, to the Anthropos, so the chymical weddings have their dogmatic parallels in the marriage of the Lamb, the union of sponsus and sponsa, and the hierosgamos of the mother of the gods and the son.
[413] This apparent digression from our theme seemed to me necessary in order to give the reader some insight into the intricate and delicate nature of the lion-symbol, whose further implications we must now proceed to discuss.
5.01 - EPILOGUE, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
bound up with a correlative increase in Interiorisation, that is to
say in the psyche or consciousness.
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organic doubling-back upon itself, and thus of Interiorisation.
Which amounts to saying that, for science, life is always under
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pression, organisation and Interiorisation, under which the bio-
logical synthesis of reflection operates, do not at any moment
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on a supreme pole of Interiorisation.
What finer experimental basis could we have on which to
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and Interioriscd, but at the same time and by the same token a
universe which labours, which sins, and which suffers. Arrange-
5.04 - THE POLARITY OF ADAM, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
Here Adam appears on the one hand as the body of the people of Israel 202 and on the other as its general soul. This conception can be taken as a projection of the Interior Adam: the homo maximus appears as a totality, as the self of the people. As the inner man, however, he is the totality of the individual, the synthesis of all parts of the psyche, and therefore of the conscious and the unconscious. 20 says: And therefore our masters have said: The son of David shall not come until all the souls that were in the body (of the first-created) have fully gone out.203 The going out of the souls from the Primordial Man can be understood as the projection of a psychic integration process: the saving wholeness of the inner mani.e., the Messiahcannot come about until all parts of the psyche have been made conscious. This may be sufficient to explain why it takes so long for the second Adam to appear.
[594] The same treatise says: From En Soph, from the most general One, was produced the universe, which is Adam Kadmon, who is One and Many, and of whom and in whom are all things. The differences of genera are denoted by concentric circles which proceed from him or are contained in him. He is thus something like a schema of the psychic structure, in which the specific differences [those characterizing species] are denoted by a straight line204 (i.e., in a concentric system, by the radius). Thus in Adam Kadmon are represented all the orders of things, both genera and species and individuals.205
5.06 - THE TRANSFORMATION, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
[606] The appearance of Adam Kadmon has characteristic consequences for the Shulamite: it brings about a solificatio, an illumination of the inwards of the head. This is a veiled but, for the psychology of alchemy, typical allusion to the transfiguration(glorificatio) of the adept or of his inner man. For Adam is Interior homo noster, the Primordial Man in us.
[607] Seen in the light of the above remarks, Eleazars text assumes a by no means uninteresting aspect and, since its train of thought is characteristic of the basic ideas of alchemy, a meaning with many facets. It depicts a situation of distress corresponding to the alchemical nigredo: the blackness of guilt has covered the bridal earth as with black paint. The Shulamite comes into the same category as those black goddesses (Isis, Artemis, Parvati, Mary) whose names mean earth. Eve, like Adam, ate of the tree of knowledge and thereby broke into the realm of divine privilegesye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. In other words she inadvertently discovered the possibility of moral consciousness, which until then had been outside mans range. As a result, a polarity was torn open with momentous consequences. There was a sundering of earth from heaven, the original paradise was shut down, the glory of the First Man was extinguished, Malchuth became a widow, the fiery yang went back aloft, and the damp yin enveloped humanity with darkness, degenerated through ever-increasing wantonness, and finally swelled into the black waters of the Deluge, which threatened to drown every living thing but on the other hand could be understood more hopefully as an ablution of the blackness. Noah, too, appears in a different light: he is no longer seen as someone runing away from the catastrophe but as Lord of the Waters, the minister of the ablution. This operation does not seem to be enough, however, for the Shulamite promptly gets herself into the opposite kind of pickleinto the dry desert, where, like the children of Israel, she is menaced by evil in the form of poisonous serpents.212 This is an allusion to the tribulations of the Exodus, which in a sense was a repetition of the expulsion from paradise, since bidding farewell to the fleshpots of Egypt was quite as painful a prospect as the stony ground from which our first parents had to wrest a living in the sweat of their brows. But even with this last extremity the goal is not reached, for the Shulamite has still to be fixed to a black cross. The idea of the cross points beyond the simple antithesis to a double antithesis, i.e., to a quaternio. To the mind of the alchemist this meant primarily the intercrossing elements:
5.4.01 - Notes on Root-Sounds, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Interior of forest
arm-pit (boils in arm-pit)
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belly.. womb.. Interior..
cavity, cave .. scabbard.
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.. filling the Interior.
abdominal.. attached to the sides.
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belly.. womb .. Interior.. cavity, cave .. sheath of sword. Hollow. Contain
gluttonous, voracious.. filling the Interior. Hollow. Contain
saffron .. saffron plant. Light (colour)
6.01 - THE ALCHEMICAL VIEW OF THE UNION OF OPPOSITES, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
[664] It is significant for the whole of alchemy that in Dorns view a mental union was not the culminating point but merely the first stage of the procedure. The second stage is reached when the mental union, that is, the unity of spirit and soul, is conjoined with the body. But a consummation of the mysterium coniunctionis can be expected only when the unity of spirit, soul, and body is made one with the original unus mundus. This third stage of the coniunctio was depicted51 after the manner of an Assumption and Coronation of Mary, in which the Mother of God represents the body. The Assumption is really a wedding feast, the Christian version of the hierosgamos, whose originally incestuous nature played a great role in alchemy. The traditional incest always indicated that the supreme union of opposites expressed a combination of things which are related but of unlike nature.52 This may begin with a purely intra-psychic unio mentalis of intellect or reason with Eros, representing feeling. Such an Interior operation means a great deal, since it brings a considerable increase of self-knowledge as well as of personal maturity, but its reality is merely potential and is validated only by a union with the physical world of the body. The alchemists therefore pictured the unio mentalis as Father and Son and their union as the dove (the spiration common to both), but the world of the body they represented by the feminine or passive principle, namely Mary. Thus, for more than a thousand years, they prepared the ground for the dogma of the Assumption. It is true that the far-reaching implications of a marriage of the fatherly spiritual principle with the principle of matter, or maternal corporeality, are not to be seen from the dogma at first glance. Nevertheless, it does bridge over a gulf that seems unfathomable: the apparently irremediable separation of spirit from nature and the body. Alchemy throws a bright light on the background of the dogma, for the new article of faith expresses in symbolical form exactly what the adepts recognized as being the secret of their coniunctio. The correspondence is indeed so great that the old Masters could legitimately have declared that the new dogma has written the Hermetic secret in the skies. As against this it will be said that the alchemists smuggled the mystic or theological marriage into their obscure procedures. This is contradicted by the fact that the alchymical marriage is not only older than the corresponding formulation in the liturgy and of the Church Fathers but is based on classical and pre-Christian tradition.53 The alchemical tradition cannot be brought into relationship with the Apocalyptic marriage of the Lamb. The highly differentiated symbolism of the latter (lamb and city) is itself an offshoot of the archetypal hierosgamos, just as this is the source for the alchemical idea of the coniunctio.
[665] The adepts strove to realize their speculative ideas in the form of a chemical substance which they thought was endowed with all kinds of magical powers. This is the literal meaning of their uniting the unio mentalis with the body. For us it is certainly not easy to include moral and philosophical reflections in this amalgamation, as the alchemists obviously did. For one thing we know too much about the real nature of chemical combination, and for another we have a much too abstract conception of the mind to be able to understand how a truth can be hidden in matter or what an effective balsam must be like. Owing to medieval ignorance both of chemistry and of psychology, and the lack of any epistemological criticism, the two concepts could easily mix, so that things that for us have no recognizable connection with one another could enter into mutual relationship.
6.02 - STAGES OF THE CONJUNCTION, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
[670] Although the esoteric symbolism of the coniunctio occupies a prominent position, it does not cover all aspects of the mysterium. In addition we have to consider the symbolism of death and the grave, and the motif of conflict. Obviously, very different if not contradictory symbolisms were needed to give an adequate description of the paradoxical nature of the conjunction. In such a situation one can conclude with certainty that none of the symbols employed suffices to express the whole. One therefore feels compelled to seek a formula in which the various aspects can be brought together without contradiction. Dorn attempted to do this with the means that were then at his disposal. He could do so the more easily as the current idea of correspondentia came to his aid. For a man of those times there was no intellectual difficulty in postulating a truth which was the same in God, in man, and in matter. With the help of this idea he could see at once that the reconciliation of hostile elements and the union of alchemical opposites formed a correspondence to the unio mentalis which took place simultaneously in the mind of man, and not only in man but in God (that He may be one in All). Dorn correctly recognized that the entity in which the union took place is the psychological authority which I have called the self. The unio mentalis, the Interior oneness which today we call individuation, he conceived as a psychic equilibration of opposites in the overcoming of the body, a state of equanimity transcending the bodys affectivity and instinctuality.60 The spirit (animus), which is to unite with the soul, he called a spiracle [spiraculum] of eternal life, a sort of window into eternity (Leibniz), whereas the soul is an organ of the spirit and the body an instrument of the soul. The soul stands between good and evil and has the option of both. It animates the body by a natural union, just as, by a supernatural union, it is endowed with life by the spirit.61
[671] But, in order to bring about their subsequent reunion, the mind (mens) must be separated from the bodywhich is equivalent to voluntary death62for only separated things can unite. By this separation (distractio) Dorn obviously meant a discrimination and dissolution of the composite, the composite state being one in which the affectivity of the body has a disturbing-influence on the rationality of the mind. The aim of this separation was to free the mind from the influence of the bodily appetites and the hearts affections, and to establish a spiritual position which is supraordinate to the turbulent sphere of the body. This leads at first to a dissociation of the personality and a violation of the merely natural man.
6.05 - THE PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF THE PROCEDURE, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
[706] This process can, as I have said, take place spontaneously or be artificially induced. In the latter case you choose a dream, or some other fantasy-image, and concentrate on it by simply catching hold of it and looking at it. You can also use a bad mood as a starting-point, and then try to find out what sort of fantasy-image it will produce, or what image expresses this mood. You then fix this image in the mind by concentrating your attention. Usually it will alter, as the mere fact of contemplating it animates it. The alterations must be carefully noted down all the time, for they reflect the psychic processes in the unconscious background, which appear in the form of images consisting of conscious memory material. In this way conscious and unconscious are united, just as a waterfall connects above and below. A chain of fantasy ideas develops and gradually takes on a dramatic character: the passive process becomes an action. At first it consists of projected figures, and these images are observed like scenes in the theatre. In other words, you dream with open eyes. As a rule there is a marked tendency simply to enjoy this Interior entertainment and to leave it at that. Then, of course, there is no real progress but only endless variations on the same theme, which is not the point of the exercise at all. What is enacted on the stage still remains a background process; it does not move the observer in any way, and the less it moves him the smaller will be the cathartic effect of this private theatre. The piece that is being played does not want merely to be watched impartially, it wants to compel his participation. If the observer understands that his own drama is being performed on this inner stage, he cannot remain indifferent to the plot and its dnouement. He will notice, as the actors appear one by one and the plot thickens, that they all have some purposeful relationship to his conscious situation, that he is being addressed by the unconscious, and that it causes these fantasy-images to appear before him. He therefore feels compelled, or is encouraged by his analyst, to take part in the play and, instead of just sitting in a theatre, really have it out with his alter ego. For nothing in us ever remains quite uncontradicted, and consciousness can take up no position which will not call up, somewhere in the dark corners of the psyche, a negation or a compensatory effect, approval or resentment. This process of coming to terms with the Other in us is well worth while, because in this way we get to know aspects of our nature which we would not allow anybody else to show us and which we ourselves would never have admitted.127 It is very important to fix this whole procedure in writing at the time of its occurrence, for you then have ocular evidence that will effectively counteract the ever-ready tendency to self-deception. A running commentary is absolutely necessary in dealing with the shadow, because otherwise its actuality cannot be fixed. Only in this painful way is it possible to gain a positive insight into the complex nature of ones own personality.
6.08 - Intellectual Visions, #The Interior Castle or The Mansions, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
9. When the effects described are felt, any of you whom our Lord leads by this way may be certain that it is neither deception nor fancy in her case. I believe it to be impossible for the devil to produce an illusion lasting so long, neither could he benefit the soul so remarkably nor cause such Interior peace. It is not his custom, nor, if he would, could such an evil creature bring about so much good; the soul would soon be clouded by self-esteem and the idea that it was better than others. The minds continual keeping in the presence of God144 and the concentration of its thoughts on Him would so enrage the fiend that, although he might try the experiment once, he would not often repeat it. God is too faithful to permit him so much power over one whose sole endeavour is to please His Majesty and to lay down her life for His honour and glory; He would soon unmask the demons artifices.
10. I contend, as I always shall, that if the soul reaps the effects described from these divine graces, although God may withdraw these special favours, His Majesty will turn all things to its advantage; even should He permit the devil to deceive it at any time, the evil spirit will only reap his own confusion. Therefore, as I told you, daughters, none of you who are led by this way need feel alarm. Fear is good and we should be cautious and not overconfident, for if such favours made you careless, it would prove they were not from God as they did not leave the results I described. It would be well at first to tell your case, under the seal of confession, to a thoroughly qualified theologian (for that is the source whence we must obtain light) or to some highly spiritual person. If your confessor is not very spiritual, a good theologian would be preferable;145 best of all, one who unites both qualities.146 Do not be disturbed if he calls it mere fancy; if it is, it can neither harm nor benefit your soul much. Recommend yourself to the divine Majesty and beg Him not to allow you to be misled.
6.08 - THE CONTENT AND MEANING OF THE FIRST TWO STAGES, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
[753] The light that gradually dawns on him consists in his understanding that his fantasy is a real psychic process which is happening to him personally. Although, to a certain extent, he looks on from outside, impartially, he is also an acting and suffering figure in the drama of the psyche. This recognition is absolutely necessary and marks an important advance. So long as he simply looks at the pictures he is like the foolish Parsifal, who forgot to ask the vital question because he was not aware of his own participation in the action. Then, if the flow of images ceases, next to nothing has happened even though the process is repeated a thousand times. But if you recognize your own involvement you yourself must enter into the process with your personal reactions, just as if you were one of the fantasy figures, or rather, as if the drama being enacted before your eyes were real. It is a psychic fact that this fantasy is happening, and it is as real as youas a psychic entityare real. If this crucial operation is not carried out, all the changes are left to the flow of images, and you yourself remain unchanged. As Dorn says, you will never make the One unless you become one yourself. It is, however, possible that if you have a dramatic fantasy you will enter the Interior world of images as a fictitious personality and thereby prevent any real participation; it may even endanger consciousness because you then become the victim of your own fantasy and succumb to the powers of the unconscious, whose dangers the analyst knows all too well. But if you place yourself in the drama as you really are, not only does it gain in actuality but you also create, by your criticism of the fantasy, an effective counterbalance to its tendency to get out of hand. For what is now happening is the decisive rapprochement with the unconscious. This is where insight, the unio mentalis, begins to become real. What you are now creating is the beginning of individuation, whose immediate goal is the experience and production of the symbol of totality.
[754] It not infrequently happens that the patient simply continues to observe his images without considering what they mean to him. He can and he should understand their meaning, but this is of practical value only so long as he is not sufficiently convinced that the unconscious can give him valuable insights. But once he has recognized this fact, he should also know that he then has in his hands an opportunity to win, by his knowledge, independence of the analyst. This conclusion is one which he does not like to draw, with the result that he frequently stops short at the mere observation of his images. The analyst, if he has not tried out the procedure on himself, cannot help him over this stileassuming, of course, that there are compelling reasons why the procedure should be continued. In these cases there is no medical or ethical imperative but only a comm and of fate, which is why patients who by no means lack the necessary acumen often come to a standstill at this point. As this experience is not uncommon I can only conclude that the transition from a merely perceptive, i.e., aesthetic, attitude to one of judgment is far from easy. Indeed, modern psycho therapy has just reached this point and is beginning to recognize the usefulness of perceiving and giving shape to the images, whether by pencil and brush or by modelling. A musical configuration might also be possible provided that it were really composed and written down. Though I have never met a case of this kind, Bachs Art of Fugue would seem to offer an example, just as the representation of the archetypes is a basic feature of Wagners music. (These phenomena, however, arise less from personal necessity than from the unconscious compensations produced by the Zeitgeist, though I cannot discuss this here.)
6.09 - Imaginary Visions, #The Interior Castle or The Mansions, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
Although I call it a picture, you must not imagine that it looks like a painting; Christ appears as a living Person Who sometimes speaks and reveals deep mysteries. You must understand that though the soul sees this for a certain space of time, it is no more possible to continue looking at it than to gaze for a very long time on the sun; therefore this vision passes very quickly, although its brightness does not pain the Interior sight in the same way as the suns glare injures our bodily eyes.
3. The image is seen by the Interior sight alone; but of bodily apparitions I can say nothing, for the person I know so intimately never having experienced anything of the kind herself could not speak about them with certainty.151 The splendour of Him Who is revealed in the vision resembles an infused light like that of the sun covered with a veil as transparent as a diamond, if such a texture could be woven, while His raiment looks like fine linen. The soul to whom God grants this vision almost always falls into an ecstasy, nature being too weak to bear so dread a sight. I say dread, though this apparition is more lovely and delightful than anything that could be imagined even though any one should live a thousand years and spend all that time in trying to picture it, for it far surpasses our limited imagination and understanding; yet the presence of such surpassing majesty inspires the soul with great fear.
4. There is no need to ask how the soul knew Who He was or who declared with absolute certainty that He was the Lord of heaven and earth. This is not so with earthly kings; unless we were told their names or saw their attendant courtiers, they would attract little notice.
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7. In the favour of which I speak, the case is very different. A person is far from thinking of seeing anything, no idea of which has crossed the mind, when suddenly the vision is revealed in its entirety, causing within the powers and senses of the soul a fright and confusion soon changed into a blissful peace. Thus, after St. Paul was thrown to the ground, a great tempest and noise followed from heaven;156 so, in the Interior world of the soul, there is a violent tumult followed instantly, as I said, by perfect calm. Meanwhile certain sublime truths have been so impressed on the mind that it needs no other master, for with no effort of its own, Wisdom Himself has enlightened its former ignorance.
8. The soul for some time afterwards possesses such certainty that this grace comes from God that whatever people may say to the contrary it cannot fear delusion. Later on, when her confessor suggests doubts to her, God may allow such a person to waver in her belief for a time and to feel misgivings lest, in punishment for her sins, she may possibly have been left to go astray. However, she does not give way to these apprehensions, but (as I said in speaking of other matters)157 they only affect her in the same way as the temptations of the devil against faith, which may disturb the mind but do not shake the firmness of belief. In fact, the more severe the assault,158 the more certain is she that the evil one could never have produced the great benefits she is conscious of having received, because he exercises no such power over the Interior of the soul. He may present a false apparition but it does not possess such truth, majesty, and efficacy.
9. As confessors cannot see these effects, which perhaps the person to whom God has shown the vision is unable to explain, they are afraid of deception, as indeed they have good reason to be. Therefore caution is necessary and time should be allowed to see what effects follow. Day by day, the progress of the soul in humility and in the virtues should be watched: if the devil is concerned in the matter, he will soon show signs of himself and will be detected in a thousand lies. If the confessor is experienced and has received such favours himself, he will not take long in discovering the truth. In fact, he will know immediately, on being told of the vision, whether it is divine or comes from the imagination or the demon: more especially if he has received the gift of discerning spirits then, if he is learned, he will understand the matter at once even though he has not personally experienced the like.
6.0 - Conscious, Unconscious, and Individuation, #The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
63 This homo Interior or altus was Mercurius, or was at least derived from him.
Cf. "The Spirit Mercurius," pars. 284ff.
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entry of affectivity into the pneumatic Interior. They are ob-
viously meant to activate and enrich the spirit dwelling within.
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the whole Interior is filled with the black substance. The blue-
green of the water has condensed to a dark blue quaternity, and
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to the outside world and can no longer be seen in the Interior.
The silvery rim of the aerial hemisphere in the preceding pic-
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principles. The Interior of the mandala is empty. Or rather, it
contains a "Nothing" that is expressed by a quaternity. This is
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homo :altus / Interior / maximus,%o$n,
312, 314; philosophicus, 13471;
Aeneid, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
Garaman'tes a tribe of the Interior of Africa, to the southeast of
the GAETULIANS. VI, 1052.
Appendix 4 - Priest Spells, #Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2E, #unset, #Zen
The spell is reversible, causing darkness in the same area and under the same conditions as the light spell, but with half the duration. Magical darkness is equal to that of an unlit Interior room--pitch darkness. Any normal light source or magical light source of lesser intensity than full daylight does not function in magical darkness. A darkness spell cast directly against a light spell cancels both, and vice versa.
SPELL - Locate Animals or Plants (Divination)
Blazing P2 - Map the Stages of Conventional Consciousness, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
experience. But what is more central, perhaps, to the Interior change is the way a person
regulates feelings. Having moved the shared context over from subject to object of experience,
Blazing P3 - Explore the Stages of Postconventional Consciousness, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
institutional but in the coordinating of the institutional, ones own and others, Interior life
is freed up (or broken open) within oneself, and with others. This new dynamism results
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selves within the (interindividual) self, are thereby open to emotional conflict as an Interior
conversation.
BOOK II. -- PART III. ADDENDA. SCIENCE AND THE SECRET DOCTRINE CONTRASTED, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy
designed with considerable skill, is no less than 250 ft. long. . . . . The Interior is formed of a heap of
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BOOK II. -- PART II. THE ARCHAIC SYMBOLISM OF THE WORLD-RELIGIONS, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy
excitation due to this Interior phosphorus (?). Thus light, finally, is of the nature of fire,
the intelligent use of which warms and vivifies, and the excess of which, on the
BOOK I. -- PART III. SCIENCE AND THE SECRET DOCTRINE CONTRASTED, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy
window cut into the real Solar palace and presence, which reflects, however, faithfully the Interior
work.
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from the point of view of his shell-side and in ignorance of the Interior work. Even Plato, the greatest
philosopher of his country, became guilty, before his initiation, of such statements as that liquids pass
BOOK XI. - Augustine passes to the second part of the work, in which the origin, progress, and destinies of the earthly and heavenly cities are discussed.Speculations regarding the creation of the world, #City of God, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity
This Mediator, having spoken what He judged sufficient, first by the prophets, then by His own lips, and afterwards by the apostles, has besides produced the Scripture which is called canonical, which has paramount authority, and to which we yield assent in all matters of which we ought not to be ignorant, and yet cannot know of ourselves. For if we attain the knowledge of present objects by the testimony of our own senses,[446] whether internal or external, then, regarding objects remote from our own senses, we need others to bring their[Pg 439] testimony, since we cannot know them by our own, and we credit the persons to whom the objects have been or are sensibly present. Accordingly, as in the case of visible objects which we have not seen, we trust those who have, (and likewise with all sensible objects,) so in the case of things which are perceived[447] by the mind and spirit, i.e. which are remote from our own Interior sense, it behoves us to trust those who have seen them set in that incorporeal light, or abidingly contemplate them.
4. That the world is neither without beginning, nor yet created by a new decree of God, by which He afterwards willed what He had not before willed.
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We have said as much as the scope of this work demands regarding these two things, to wit, our existence, and our knowledge of it, and how much they are loved by us, and how there is found even in the lower creatures a kind of likeness of these things, and yet with a difference. We have yet to speak of the love wherewith they are loved, to determine whether this love itself is loved. And doubtless it is; and this is the proof. Because in men who are justly loved, it is rather love itself that is loved; for he is not justly called a good man who knows what is good, but who loves it. Is it not then obvious that we love in ourselves the very love wherewith we love whatever good we love? For there is also a love wherewith we love that which we ought not to love; and this love is hated by him who loves that wherewith he loves what ought to be loved. For it is quite possible for both to exist in one man. And this co-existence is good for a man, to the end that this love which conduces to our living well may grow, and the other, which leads us to evil may decrease, until our whole life be perfectly healed and transmuted into good. For if we were beasts, we should love the fleshly and sensual life, and this would be our sufficient good; and when it was well with us in respect of[Pg 472] it, we should seek nothing beyond. In like manner, if we were trees, we could not, indeed, in the strict sense of the word, love anything; nevertheless we should seem, as it were, to long for that by which we might become more abundantly and luxuriantly fruitful. If we were stones, or waves, or wind, or flame, or anything of that kind, we should want, indeed, both sensation and life, yet should possess a kind of attraction towards our own proper position and natural order. For the specific gravity of bodies is, as it were, their love, whether they are carried downwards by their weight, or upwards by their levity. For the body is borne by its gravity, as the spirit by love, whithersoever it is borne.[494] But we are men, created in the image of our Creator, whose eternity is true, and whose truth is eternal, whose love is eternal and true, and who Himself is the eternal, true, and adorable Trinity, without confusion, without separation; and, therefore, while, as we run over all the works which He has established, we may detect, as it were, His footprints, now more and now less distinct even in those things that are beneath us, since they could not so much as exist, or be bodied forth in any shape, or follow and observe any law, had they not been made by Him who supremely is, and is supremely good and supremely wise; yet in ourselves beholding His image, let us, like that younger son of the gospel, come to ourselves, and arise and return to Him from whom by our sin we had departed. There our being will have no death, our knowledge no error, our love no mishap. But now, though we are assured of our possession of these three things, not on the testimony of others, but by our own consciousness of their presence, and because we see them with our own most truthful Interior vision, yet, as we cannot of ourselves know how long they are to continue, and whether they shall never cease to be, and what issue their good or bad use will lead to, we seek for others who can acquaint us of these things, if we have not already found them. Of the trustworthiness of these witnesses, there will, not now, but subsequently, be an opportunity of speaking. But in this book let us go on as we have begun, with God's help, to speak of the city of God, not in its state of pilgrimage[Pg 473] and mortality, but as it exists ever immortal in the heavens,that is, let us speak of the holy angels who maintain their allegiance to God, who never were, nor ever shall be, apostate, between whom and those who forsook light eternal and became darkness, God, as we have already said, made at the first a separation.
29. Of the knowledge by which the holy angels know God in His essence, and by which they see the causes of His works in the art of the worker, before they see them in the works of the artist.
BOOK XXII. - Of the eternal happiness of the saints, the resurrection of the body, and the miracles of the early Church, #City of God, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity
For if that reasoning of the philosophers, by which they attempt to make out that intelligible or mental objects are so seen by the mind, and sensible or bodily objects so seen by the body, that the former cannot be discerned by the mind through the body, nor the latter by the mind itself without the body,if this reasoning were trustworthy, then it would certainly follow that God could not be seen by the eye even of a spiritual body. But this reasoning is exploded both by true reason and by prophetic authority. For who is so little acquainted with the truth as to say that God has no cognisance of sensible objects? Has He therefore a body, the eyes of which give Him this knowledge? Moreover, what we have just been relating of the prophet Elisha, does this not sufficiently show that bodily things can be discerned by the spirit without the help of the body? For when that servant received the gifts, certainly this was a bodily or material transaction, yet the prophet saw it not by the body, but by the spirit. As, therefore, it is agreed that bodies are seen by the spirit, what if the power of the spiritual body shall be so great that spirit also is seen by the body? For God is a spirit. Besides, each man recognises his own life that life by which he now lives in the body, and which vivifies these earthly members and causes them to growby an Interior sense, and not by his bodily eye; but the life of other men, though it is invisible, he sees with the bodily eye. For how do we distinguish between living and dead bodies, except by seeing at once both the body and the life which we cannot see save by the eye? But a life without a body we cannot see thus.
Wherefore it may very well be, and it is thoroughly credible, that we shall in the future world see the material forms of the new heavens and the new earth in such a way that we shall most distinctly recognise God everywhere present and governing all things, material as well as spiritual, and shall see Him, not as now we understand the invisible things of God, by the things which are made,[1046] and see Him darkly, as[Pg 540] in a mirror, and in part, and rather by faith than by bodily vision of material appearances, but by means of the bodies we shall wear and which we shall see wherever we turn our eyes. As we do not believe, but see that the living men around us who are exercising vital functions are alive, though we cannot see their life without their bodies, but see it most distinctly by means of their bodies, so, wherever we shall look with those spiritual eyes of our future bodies, we shall then, too, by means of bodily substances behold God, though a spirit, ruling all things. Either, therefore, the eyes shall possess some quality similar to that of the mind, by which they may be able to discern spiritual things, and among these God,a supposition for which it is difficult or even impossible to find any support in Scripture,or, which is more easy to comprehend, God will be so known by us, and shall be so much before us, that we shall see Him by the spirit in ourselves, in one another, in Himself, in the new heavens and the new earth, in every created thing which shall then exist; and also by the body we shall see Him in every body which the keen vision of the eye of the spiritual body shall reach. Our thoughts also shall be visible to all, for then shall be fulfilled the words of the apostle, "Judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the thoughts of the heart, and then shall every one have praise of God."[1047]
BOOK XXI. - Of the eternal punishment of the wicked in hell, and of the various objections urged against it, #City of God, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity
Nevertheless, when we declare the miracles which God has[Pg 421] wrought, or will yet work, and which we cannot bring under the very eyes of men, sceptics keep demanding that we shall explain these marvels to reason. And because we cannot do so, inasmuch as they are above human comprehension, they suppose we are speaking falsely. These persons themselves, therefore, ought to account for all these marvels which we either can or do see. And if they perceive that this is impossible for man to do, they should acknowledge that it cannot be concluded that a thing has not been or shall not be because it cannot be reconciled to reason, since there are things now in existence of which the same is true. I will not, then, detail the multitude of marvels which are related in books, and which refer not to things that happened once and passed away, but that are permanent in certain places, where, if any one has the desire and opportunity, he may ascertain their truth; but a few only I recount. The following are some of the marvels men tell us:The salt of Agrigentum in Sicily, when thrown into the fire, becomes fluid as if it were in water, but in the water it crackles as if it were in the fire. The Garamant have a fountain so cold by day that no one can drink it, so hot by night no one can touch it.[860] In Epirus, too, there is a fountain which, like all others, quenches lighted torches, but, unlike all others, lights quenched torches. There is a stone found in Arcadia, and called asbestos, because once lit it cannot be put out. The wood of a certain kind of Egyptian fig-tree sinks in water, and does not float like other wood; and, stranger still, when it has been sunk to the bottom for some time, it rises again to the surface, though nature requires that when soaked in water it should be heavier than ever. Then there are the apples of Sodom, which grow indeed to an appearance of ripeness, but, when you touch them with hand or tooth, the peel cracks, and they crumble into dust and ashes. The Persian stone pyrites burns the hand when it is tightly held in it, and so gets its name[Pg 422] from fire. In Persia, too, there is found another stone called selenite, because its Interior brilliancy waxes and wanes with the moon. Then in Cappadocia the mares are impregnated by the wind, and their foals live only three years. Tilon, an Indian island, has this advantage over all other lands, that no tree which grows in it ever loses its foliage.
These and numberless other marvels recorded in the history, not of past events, but of permanent localities, I have no time to enlarge upon and diverge from my main object; but let those sceptics who refuse to credit the divine writings give me, if they can, a rational account of them. For their only ground of unbelief in the Scriptures is, that they contain incredible things, just such as I have been recounting. For, say they, reason cannot admit that flesh burn and remain unconsumed, suffer without dying. Mighty reasoners, indeed, who are competent to give the reason of all the marvels that exist! Let them then give us the reason of the few things we have cited, and which, if they did not know they existed, and were only assured by us they would at some future time occur, they would believe still less than that which they now refuse to credit on our word. For which of them would believe us if, instead of saying that the living bodies of men hereafter will be such as to endure everlasting pain and fire without ever dying, we were to say that in the world to come there will be salt which becomes liquid in fire as if it were in water, and crackles in water as if it were in fire; or that there will be a fountain whose water in the chill air of night is so hot that it cannot be touched, while in the heat of day it is so cold that it cannot be drunk; or that there will be a stone which by its own heat burns the hand when tightly held, or a stone which cannot be extinguished if it has been lit in any part; or any of those wonders I have cited, while omitting numberless others? If we were to say that these things would be found in the world to come, and our sceptics were to reply, "If you wish us to believe these things, satisfy our reason about each of them," we should confess that we could not, because the frail comprehension of man cannot master these and such-like wonders of God's working; and that yet our reason was thoroughly convinced that the[Pg 423] Almighty does nothing without reason, though the frail mind of man cannot explain the reason; and that while we are in many instances uncertain what He intends, yet that it is always most certain that nothing which He intends is impossible to Him; and that when He declares His mind, we believe Him whom we cannot believe to be either powerless or false. Nevertheless these cavillers at faith and exactors of reason, how do they dispose of those things of which a reason cannot be given, and which yet exist, though in apparent contrariety to the nature of things? If we had announced that these things were to be, these sceptics would have demanded from us the reason of them, as they do in the case of those things which we are announcing as destined to be. And consequently, as these present marvels are not non-existent, though human reason and discourse are lost in such works of God, so those things we speak of are not impossible because inexplicable; for in this particular they are in the same predicament as the marvels of earth.
COSA - BOOK III, #The Confessions of Saint Augustine, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity
their lowliness, nor could my sharp wit pierce the Interior thereof. Yet
were they such as would grow up in a little one. But I disdained to be a
ENNEAD 01.01 - The Organism and the Self., #Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 04, #Plotinus, #Christianity
There is often a resemblance and community between exterior and Interior things; in this case the soul will not any the less exercise herself on herself, will not any the less remain within herself, without feeling any passive modification. As to the modifications and troubles which may arise in us, they derive from foreign elements, attached to the soul, as well as from passions experienced by the above described common part.
DISTINCTIONS IN "WE" AND THE "REAL MAN."
ENNEAD 01.02 - Concerning Virtue., #Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 01, #Plotinus, #Christianity
We may therefore unhesitatingly state that the resemblance to the divinity lies in such regulation, in remaining261 impassible while thinking intelligible things; for what is pure is divine and the nature of the divine action is such that whatever imitates it thereby possesses wisdom. But it is not the divinity that possesses such a disposition, for dispositions are the property of souls only. Besides, the soul does not think intelligible objects in the same manner as the divinity; what is contained in the divinity is contained within us in a manner entirely different, or even perhaps is not at all contained. For instance, the divinity's thought is not at all identical with ours; the divinity's thought is a primary principle from which our thought is derived and differs. As the vocal word is only the image of the Interior reason341 of the soul, so also is the word of the soul only the image of the Word of a superior principle; and as the exterior word, when compared to the Interior reason of the soul, seems discrete, or divided, so the reason of the soul, which is no more than the interpreter of the intelligible word, is discrete, in comparison with the latter. Thus does virtue belong to the soul without belonging either to absolute Intelligence, nor to the Principle superior to Intelligence.
PURIFICATION PRODUCES CONVERSION; AND VIRTUE MAKES USE OF THIS.
ENNEAD 01.04 - Whether Animals May Be Termed Happy., #Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 04, #Plotinus, #Christianity
HAPPINESS DEPENDS EXCLUSIVELY ON Interior CHARACTERISTICS.
3. Dismissing these theories, we return to our own definition of happiness. We do not necessarily make life synonymous with happiness by attri buting happiness to a living being. Otherwise, we would be implying that all living beings can achieve it, and we would be admitting to real complete enjoyment thereof all those who possessed that union and identity which all living beings are naturally capable of possessing. Finally, it would be difficult to grant this privilege to the reasonable being, while refusing it to the brute; for both equally possess life. They should, therefore, be capable of achieving happinessfor, on this hypothesis, happiness could be no more than a kind of life. Consequently, the philosophers who make it consist in the rational life, not in the life common to all beings, do not perceive that they implicitly suppose that happiness is something different from life. They are then obliged to say that happiness resides in a pure quality, in the rational faculty. But the subject (to which they should refer happiness) is the rational life, since happiness can belong only to the totality (of life joined to reason). They therefore, really limit the life they speak of to a certain kind of life; not that they have the right to consider these two kinds of life (life1024 in general, and rational life) as being ranked alike, as both members of a single division would be, but another kind of distinction might be established between them, such as when we say that one thing is prior, and the other posterior. Since "life" may be understood in different senses, and as it possesses different degrees, and since by mere verbal similarity life may be equally predicated of plants and of irrational animals, and since its differences consist in being more or less complete, analogy demands a similar treatment of "living well." If, by its life, a being be the image of some other being, by its happiness it will also be the image of the happiness of this other being. If happiness be the privilege of complete life, the being that possesses a complete life will also alone possess happiness; for it possesses what is best since, in the order of these existences, the best is possession of the essence (being) and perfection of life. Consequently, the Good is not anything incidental, for no subject could owe its good to a quality that would be derived from elsewhere. What indeed could be added to complete life, to render it excellent?
ENNEAD 01.06 - Of Beauty., #Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 01, #Plotinus, #Christianity
3. The soul appreciates beauty by an especially ordered faculty, whose sole function it is to appreciate44 all that concerns beauty, even when the other faculties take part in this judgment. Often the soul makes her (aesthetic) decisions by comparison with the form of the beautiful which is within her, using this form as a standard by which to judge. But what agreement can anything corporeal have with what is incorporeal? For example, how can an architect judge a building placed before him as beautiful, by comparing it with the Idea which he has within himself? The only explanation can be that, on abstracting the stones, the exterior object is nothing but the Interior form, no doubt divided within the extent of the matter, but still one, though manifested in the manifold? When the senses perceive in an object the form which combines, unites and dominates a substance which lacks shape, and therefore is of a contrary nature; and if they also perceive a shape which distinguishes itself from the other shapes by its elegance, then the soul, uniting these multiple elements, fuses them, comparing them to the indivisible form which she bears within herself, then she pronounces their agreement, kinship and harmony with that Interior type.
INSTANCES OF CORRESPONDENCE OF OUTER SENSE BEAUTY WITH ITS IDEA.
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Interior BEAUTIES COULD NOT BE APPRECIATED WITHOUT AN Interior MODEL.
Just as we could not have spoken of sense-beauties if we had never seen them, nor recognized them as such, if, in respect to them, we had been similar to persons born blind, likewise we would not know enough to say anything about the beauty either of the arts or sciences, or of anything of the kind, if we were not already in possession of this kind of beauty; nor of the splendor of virtue, if we had not contemplated the ("golden) face of Justice," and of temperance, before whose splendor the morning and evening stars grow pale.
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HOW TO TRAIN THIS Interior VISION.
9. But how shall we train this Interior vision? At the moment of its (first) awakening, it cannot contemplate beauties too dazzling. Your soul must then first be accustomed to contemplate the noblest occupations of man, and then the beautiful deeds, not indeed those performed by artists, but those (good deeds) done by virtuous men. Later contemplate the souls of those who perform these beautiful actions. Nevertheless, how will you discover the beauty which their excellent soul possesses? Withdraw within yourself, and examine yourself. If you do not yet therein discover beauty, do as the artist, who cuts off, polishes, purifies until he has adorned his statue with all the marks of beauty. Remove from your soul, therefore, all that is superfluous, straighten out all that is crooked, purify and illuminate what is obscure, and do not cease perfecting your statue until the divine resplendence of virtue shines forth upon your sight, until you see temperance in its holy purity seated in your breast. When you shall have acquired this perfection; when you will see it in yourself; when you will purely dwell54 within yourself; when you will cease to meet within yourself any obstacle to unity; when nothing foreign will any more, by its admixture, alter the simplicity of your Interior essence; when within your whole being you will be a veritable light, immeasurable in size, uncircumscribed by any figure within narrow boundaries, unincreasable because reaching out to infinity, and entirely incommensurable because it transcends all measure and quantity; when you shall have become such, then, having become sight itself, you may have confidence in yourself, for you will no longer need any guide. Then must you observe carefully, for it is only by the eye that then will open itself within you that you will be able to perceive supreme Beauty. But if you try to fix on it an eye soiled by vice, an eye that is impure, or weak, so as not to be able to support the splendor of so brilliant an object, that eye will see nothing, not even if it were shown a sight easy to grasp. The organ of vision will first have to be rendered analogous and similar to the object it is to contemplate. Never would the eye have seen the sun unless first it had assumed its form; likewise, the soul could never see beauty, unless she herself first became beautiful. To obtain the view of the beautiful, and of the divinity, every man must begin by rendering himself beautiful and divine.
THE LANDMARKS OF THE PATH TO ECSTASY.
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Page 53, line 16, Interior Vision, Republic, x., p. 533, Cary 13.
Page 53, line 34, Temperance Seated, Phaedrus, p. 279, Cary 147.
ENNEAD 02.02 - About the Movement of the Heavens., #Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 01, #Plotinus, #Christianity
How can the Soul impart to the heavens a local movement, herself possessing a different kind of motion? Perhaps the circular movement, when considered by itself, may not seem a local movement. If then it be a local movement only by accident, what is its own nature, by itself? It is the reflection upon itself, the movement of consciousness, of reflection, of life; it withdraws nothing from the world, it changes the location of nothing, while embracing228 all. Indeed, the power which governs the universal Animal (or world) embraces everything, and unifies everything. If then it remained immovable, it would not embrace everything either vitally or locally; it would not preserve the life of the Interior parts of the body it possesses, because the bodily life implies movement. On the contrary, if it be a local movement, the Soul will possess a movement only such as it admits of. She will move, not only as soul, but as an animated body, and as an animal; her movement will partake both of the movement proper to the soul, and proper to the body. Now the movement proper to the body is to mobilize in a straight line; the movement proper to the Soul, is to contain; while both of these movements result in a third, the circular movement which includes both transportation and permanence.
FIRE MOVES STRAIGHT ONLY PRELIMINARILY.
ENNEAD 02.03 - Whether Astrology is of any Value., #Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 04, #Plotinus, #Christianity
14. Poverty, wealth, glory, and authoritative positions may have many different causes. If a man1181 derive his wealth from his parents, the stars have only announced that he would be rich; and they would have only announced his nobility if he owed his wealth to his birth. If a man acquire wealth by his merit, in some way in which his body contri buted thereto, the causes of his bodily vigor co-operated in his fortune; first his parents, then his fatherland, if it be possessed of a good climate, and last the fertility of the soil.248 If this man owe his wealth to virtue, this source should be considered exclusive; and likewise with the transitory advantages he may by divine favor possess. Even if his wealth be derived from virtuous persons, still, in another way, his fortune is due to virtue. If his wealth were derived from evil men, though by a just means, yet the wealth proceeds from a good principle which was active in them. Finally, if a man who has amassed wealth be evil, the cause of his fortune is this very wickedness, and the principle from which it derives; even those who may have given him money must be included in the order of its causes. If a man owe his wealth to labor, such as agricultural work, the causes of the wealth include the care of the ploughman and the co-operation of exterior circumstances. Even if he found a treasure, it is something in the universe which contri buted thereto. Besides, this discovery may have been foretold; for all things concatenate with everything else, and, consequently, announce each other. If a man scatter his wealth, he is the cause of their loss; if his wealth be taken from him, the cause is the man who takes it. Many are the contri butory causes of a shipwreck. Glory may be acquired justly or unjustly. Just glory is due to services rendered, or to the esteem of other people. Unjust glory is caused by the injustice of those who glorify that man. Deserved power is due to the good sense of the electors, or to the activity of the man who acquired it by the1182 co-operation of his friends, or to any other circumstance. A marriage is determined by a preference, or by some accidental circumstance, or by the co-operation of several circumstances. The procreation of children is one of its consequences; it occurs in accordance with the ("seminal) reason," in case it meet no obstacle; if it be defective, there must be some Interior defect in the pregnant mother, or the fault lies in the impotence of the father.
A SOUL'S DESTINY DEPENDS ON THE CONDITION OF THE UNIVERSE AT BIRTH.
ENNEAD 02.09 - Against the Gnostics; or, That the Creator and the World are Not Evil., #Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02, #Plotinus, #Christianity
The differences between the universal Soul and our (human) souls are very important. To begin with, the universal Soul does not govern the world in the same manner (as our soul governs the body); for she governs the world without being bound thereto. Besides many other differences elsewhere noted,324 we were bound to the body after the formation of a primary bond.325 In the universal Soul the nature that is bound to the body (of the world) binds all that it embraces; but the universal Soul herself is not bound by the things she binds. As she dominates them, she is impassible in respect to them, while we ourselves do not dominate exterior objects. Besides, that part of the universal Soul which rises to the intelligible world remains pure and independent; even that326 which communicates life to the body (of the world) receives nothing therefrom. In general what is in another being necessarily participates in the state of that being; but a principle which has its own individual life would not receive anything from any other source.327 That is why, when one thing is located within another, it feels the experiences of the latter, but does not any the less retain its individual life in the event of the destruction of the latter. For instance, if the fire within yourself be extinguished, that would not extinguish the universal fire; even if the latter were extinguished, the universal Soul would not feel it, and only the constitution of the body (of the world) would be affected thereby. If a world exclusively composed613 of the remaining three elements were a possibility, that would be of no importance to the universal Soul, because the world does not have a constitution similar that of each of the contained organisms. On high, the universal Soul soars above the world, and thereby imposes on it a sort of permanence; here below, the parts, which as it were flow off, are maintained in their place by a second bond.328 As celestial entities have no place (outside of the world), into which they might ooze out,329 there is no need of containing them from the Interior, nor of compressing them from without to force them back within; they subsist in the location where the universal Soul placed them from the beginning. Those which naturally move modify the beings which possess no natural motion.330 They carry out well arranged revolutions because they are parts of the universe. Here below there are beings which perish because they cannot conform to the universal order. For instance, if a tortoise happened to be caught in the midst of a choric ballet that was dancing in perfect order, it would be trodden under foot because it could not withdraw from the effects of the order that regulated the feet of the dancers; on the contrary, if it conformed to that order, it would suffer no harm.
GNOSTIC DEMANDS FOR REASON OF WORLD'S CREATION ARE IDLE, AND INVOLVE STILL LARGER QUESTIONS.
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They also pride themselves on expelling diseases. If this were done through temperance, by a well regulated life, as do the philosophers, this claim might be respected. But they insist that diseases are demons, which they can expel by their words, and they boast of this in order to achieve reputation among the common people, that is always inclined to stand in awe of magic. They could not persuade rational individuals that diseases do not have natural causes, such as fatigue, satiety, lack of food, corruption, or some change depending on an Interior or exterior principle. This is proved by the nature of diseases. Sometimes628 a disease is expelled by moving the bowels, or by the administration of some potion; diet and bleeding are also often resorted to. Is this because the demon is hungry, or the potion destroys him? When a person is healed on the spot, the demon either remains or departs. If he remain, how does his presence not hinder recovery? If he depart, why? What has happened to him? Was he fed by the disease? In this case, the disease was something different from the demon. If he enter without any cause for the disease, why is the individual into whose body he enters not always sick? If he enter into a body that contains already a natural cause of disease, how far does he contri bute to the disease? The natural cause is sufficient to produce the disease. It would be ridiculous to suppose that the disease would have a cause, but that, as soon as this cause is active there would be a demon ready to come and assist it.
THE GENUINE VALUE OF GNOSTICISM SEEN IN ITS LOW MORAL ASPECTS.
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We must further observe that it is not the same beauty that is seen in the parts and in the whole, in individuals and in the universe; that there are beauties great enough in sense-objects and in individuals, for instance, in the guardians, to lead us to admire their creator, and to prove to us that they indeed are works of his. In this way we may attain a conception of the unspeakable beauty of the universal Soul, if we do not attach ourselves to sense-objects, and if, without scorning them, we know how to rise to intelligible entities. If the Interior of a sense-being be beautiful, we shall judge that it is in harmony with its exterior beauty. If it be ugly we will consider that it is635 inferior to its principle. But it is impossible for a being really to be beautiful in its exterior while ugly within; for the exterior is beautiful only in so far as it is dominated by the Interior.382 Those who are called beautiful, but who are ugly within, are externally beautiful only deceptively. In contradiction to those who claim that there are men who possess a beautiful body and an ugly soul, I insist that such never existed, and that it was a mistake to consider them beautiful. If such men were ever seen, their Interior ugliness was accidental, and also their soul was, by nature, beautiful; for we often meet here below obstacles which hinder us from reaching our goal. But the universe cannot by any obstacle be hindered from possessing Interior beauty in the same way that it possesses exterior beauty. The beings to whom nature has not, from the beginning, given perfection, may indeed not attain their goal, and consequently may become perverted; but the universe never was a child, nor imperfect; it did not develop, and received no physical increase. Such a physical increase would have been impossible inasmuch as it already possessed everything. Nor could we admit that its Soul had ever, in the course of time, gained any increase. But even if this were granted to the (Gnostics), this could not constitute any evil.
RECOGNITION OF THE BEAUTY OF THE BODY NEED NOT IMPLY ATTACHMENT THERETO; IT IS COMPATIBLE WITH RESIGNATION.
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Now among the things that become, or among those that although perpetually existent do not always result in the same actions, it may be boldly asserted that87 everything has a cause. We should not admit (the Stoic contention99) that something happens without a cause, nor accept the (Epicurean100) arbitrary convergence of the atoms, nor believe that any body initiates a movement suddenly and without determining reason, nor suppose (with Epicurus again101) that the soul undertakes some action by a blind impulse, without any motive. Thus to suppose that a thing does not belong to itself, that it could be carried away by involuntary movements, and act without motive, would be to subject it to the most crushing determinism. The will must be excited, or the desire awakened by some Interior or exterior stimulus. No determination (is possible) without motive.
EVERY GOOD THING HAS SOME CAUSE; NATURE BEING THE ULTIMATE CAUSE.
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In this world, indeed, just as in the theatre, it is not the soul, the Interior man, but his shadow, the exterior man, who gives himself up to lamentations and groans, who on this earth moves about so much, and who makes of it the scene of an immense drama with numberless different acts (?) Such is the characteristic of the actions of a man who considers exclusively the things placed at his feet, and outside of him, and who does not know that his tears and serious occupations are any more than games.68 The really earnest man occupies himself seriously only with really serious affairs, while the frivolous man applies himself to frivolous things. Indeed, frivolous things become serious for him who does not know really serious occupations, and who himself is frivolous. If, indeed, one cannot help being mixed up in this child's play, it is just as well to know that he has fallen into child's play where one's real personality is not in question. If Socrates were to mingle in these games, it would only be his exterior man who would do so. Let us add that tears and groans do not prove that the evils we are complaining of are very real evils; for often children weep and lament over imaginary grievances.
DOES THIS POINT OF VIEW DESTROY SIN AND JUSTICE?
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3. There are desires and aversions in the soul, which demand consideration. It is impossible to deny that pain, anger, joy, appetite and fear are changes and affections which occur in the soul, and that move her.38 We must here draw a distinction, for it would be denying the evidence to insist that there are in us no changes or perception of these changes. We cannot attri bute them to the soul, which would amount to the admission39 that she blushes, or grows pale, without reflecting that these "passions," though produced by the soul, occur in a different substance. For the soul, shame consists in the opinion that something is improper; and, as the soul contains the body, or, to speak more exactly, as the body is a dependency of the animating soul, the blood, which is very mobile, rushes to the face. Likewise, the principle of fear is in the soul; paleness occurs in the body because the blood concentrates within the Interior parts. In joy, the noticeable dilation belongs to the body also; what the body feels is not a "passion." Likewise with pain and appetite; their principle is in the soul, where it remains in a latent condition; what proceeds therefrom is perceived by sensation. When we call desires, opinions and reasonings "movements of the soul," we do not mean that the soul becomes excited in the production of these movements,40 but that they originate within her. When we call life a movement, we do not by this word mean an alteration; for to act according to one's nature is the simple and indivisible life of each part of the soul.
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TIME IS AS Interior TO THE SOUL AS ETERNITY IS TO EXISTENCE.
Time, therefore, is not something external to the soul, any more than eternity is exterior to existence. It is neither a consequence nor a result of it, any more than eternity is a consequence of existence. It appears within the soul, is in her and with her, as eternity is in and with existence.
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6. (5). The purpose of action is to contemplate, and to possess the contemplated object. The object or activity, therefore, is contemplation. It seeks to achieve indirectly what it is unable to accomplish directly. It is not otherwise when one has achieved539 the object of one's desires. One's real desire is not to possess the desired object without knowing it, but to know it more thoroughly, to present it to the sight of the soul, and to be able to contemplate it therein. Indeed, activity always has in view some good; one desires to posses it Interiorly, to appropriate it, and to possess the result of one's action. Now as Good can be possessed only by the soul, activity once more brings us back to contemplation. Since the soul is a "reason," what she is capable of possessing could be no more than a silent "reason," being so much the more silent as it is more a "reason," for perfect "reason" seeks nothing farther; it rests in the manifestation of that with which it is filled; the completer the manifestation, the calmer is the contemplation, and the more does it unite the soul. Speaking seriously, there is identity between knowing subject and known object in the actualization of knowledge. If they were not identical, they would be different, being alien to each other, without any real bond, just as reasons (are foreign to the soul) when they slumber within her, without being perceived. The reason187 must therefore not remain alien to the learning soul, but become united thereto, and become characteristic of her. Therefore when the soul has appropriated a "reason," and has familiarized herself therewith, the soul as it were draws it out of her (breast) to examine it. Thus she observes the thing that she (unconsciously) possessed, and by examining it, distinguishes herself therefrom, and by the conception she forms of it, considers it as something foreign to her; for though the soul herself be a "reason" and a kind of intelligence, nevertheless when she considers something, she considers it as something distinct from herself, because she does not possess the true fulness, and is defective in respect to her principle (which is intelligence). Besides, it is with calmness that she observes what she540 has drawn from within herself; for she does not draw from within herself anything of which she did not formerly have even a notion. But she only drew from within herself that of which her view was incomplete, and which she wished to know better. In her actualizations (such as sensation), she adapts the "reasons" she possesses to exterior objects.188 On one hand, as she possesses (the intelligible entities) better than does nature, she is also calmer and more contemplative; on the other hand, as she does not possess (the intelligible entities) perfectly, more (than intelligence) she desires to have direct experimental knowledge and contemplation of the object she contemplates. After having (temporarily) withdrawn from her own higher part, and having (by discursive reason) run through the series of differences, she returns to herself, and again gives herself up to contemplation by her higher part (intelligence) from which she had withdrawn (to observe the differences); for the higher part does not deal with differences, as it abides within herself. Consequently the wise mind is identical with reason, and in itself possesses what it manifests to others. It contemplates itself; it arrives at unity not only in respect to exterior objects, but also in respect to itself; it rests in this unity, and finds all things within itself.
THIS CONTEMPLATION IS THE GOAL OF ALL KINDS AND GRADES OF EXISTENCE.
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8. (7). Since contemplation rises by degrees, from nature to the Soul, from the Soul to Intelligence; and as within it thought becomes more and more (intimate or) Interior, more and more united to the thinker; and as in the perfect Soul the things known are identical with the knower; and because they aspire to Intelligence, the subject must then evidently within Intelligence be identical with the object; not through any appropriation thereof, as the perfect Soul does indeed appropriate it, but because their essence ("being") is identical, because of the identity between thinking and being ("essence"). Within intelligence no longer do we have on one side the object, and on the other the subject; otherwise we would need another principle where this difference would no longer exist. Within it, then, these two things, the subject and the object, form but a single (entity). That is a living contemplation, and no longer an object of contemplation which seems to inhere in something else; for existence within a living being is not identical with living by oneself. Therefore if it is to be alive, the object of contemplation and of thought must be life itself, and not the life of plants, that of sensation, or psychic life. Those are different thoughts, the one being the thought of plants, the thought of sensation, and psychic thought. They are thoughts because they are "reasons."
"ALL BEINGS ARE CONTEMPLATIONS."
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13. What is called inevitable necessity and divine justice consists in the sway of nature which causes each soul to proceed in an orderly manner into the bodily image which has become the object of her affection, and of her predominating disposition. Consequently the soul, by her form, entirely approaches the object towards which her Interior disposition bears her. Thus she is led and introduced where she is to go; not that she is forced to descend at any particular moment into any particular body; but, at a fixed411 moment, she descends as it were spontaneously where she ought to enter. Each (soul) has her own hour. When this hour arrives, the soul descends as if a herald was calling her, and she penetrates into the body prepared to receive her, as if she had been mastered and set in motion by forces and powerful attractions exerted by magic.127 Similarly in an animal, nature administers all the organs, solves or begets everything in its own time, grows the beard or the horns, gives special inclinations and powers to the being, whenever they become necessary. Similarly, in plants, (nature) produces flowers or fruits at the proper season. The descent of souls into the bodies is neither voluntary nor forced; it is not voluntary, since it is not chosen or consented to by souls. It is not compulsory, in the sense that the latter obey only a natural impulsion, just as one might be led to marriage, or to the accomplishment of various honest actions, rather by instinct than by reasoning. Nevertheless, there is always something fatal for each soul. One accomplishes her destiny at some one moment; the other soul at some other moment. Likewise, the intelligence that is superior to the world also has something fatal in its existence, since itself has its own destiny, which is to dwell in the intelligible world, and to make its light radiate therefrom. Thus individuals come here below by virtue of the common law to which they are subjected. Each one, indeed, bears within himself this common law, a law which does not derive its power from outside, but which depends on the nature of those who are subject to it, because it is innate in them. Consequently all voluntarily carry out its decrees at the predestined time, because this law impels them to their goal; and because, deriving its force from those whom it commands, it presses and stimulates them and inspires them with the desire to go whither their Interior vocation calls them.
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25. Memory raises the following questions. Does memory generally remain with the bodies that have issued from here below? Does it subsist only in some of them? In this case is memory general or special, durable or transitory? These questions cannot be answered until we define that Interior principle in us to which memory belongs. That is, we shall have to determine, not what is memory, but in what kind of beings it must exist by virtue of its nature, for elsewhere we have often defined and treated of memory itself. We must therefore exactly define that principle within us to which memory is natural.140
MEMORY INAPPLICABLE EXCEPT TO BEINGS SUBJECT TO LIMITATIONS OF TIME.
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But perhaps our solution seems superficial, and appears to rest on an insufficient analysis. It might indeed be asked whether memory and reminiscence, instead of belonging to the rational soul, might not characterize the lower soul, or the composite of soul and body that we call the organism? If indeed they belong to the lower soul, from where does the latter derive them, and how does she possess them? The same question may further be asked in the case of the430 organism. To answer all this, we shall, as said above, have to study our own Interior principle to which memory belongs. If it be the soul that possesses memory, we shall have to ask what faculty or part thereof is constituted by memory. If, as has been urged by some, it be the organism to which memory belongs, and considering the organism as the sentient principle, how could this faculty operate within it? Besides, what is it that we should call the organism? Further, is it the same power that perceives sense-objects, and intelligible entities, or are there two distinct powers?
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SENSATION.
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Now, to enter into details, let us first say that one does not necessarily retain all one has seen. When something is neither interesting nor important, the senses, impressed by the diversity of objects without our voluntary direction of consciousness, are alone affected; the soul does not perceive the impressions because there is no utility in them for her. When the soul is turned towards herself, or towards other objects, and when she applies herself to them entirely, she could not remember these indifferent things, for she does not even perceive them when they are present. Neither is it necessary that the imagination should represent to itself what is accidental; nor, if it does represent them to itself, that it should retain them faithfully. It is easy to be convinced that a sense-impression of this kind is not perceived, on the ground of the following arguments. In the act of walking we divide, or rather traverse the air, without any conscious purpose; consequently we neither notice it, nor think of it, while we press forward. Likewise, if we had not decided to take some particular road, and unless we could fly through the air, we would not think of the region of the earth where we are, nor of the distance we have traveled. This is proved by the fact that when the mind possesses the general knowledge of what occurs, and is sure that the things will occur as planned, a man no longer attends to details. Besides, if a person continues to do the same thing,452 it would be useless to continue to observe the similar details. Consequently if the stars, while following their courses, carry out their duties without attending to the occurrence of what goes on; and unless their chief duty is to observe occurrences or the occurrence itself; and if their progress is nothing more than accidental, while their attention is held by other and greater objects; and if they regularly continue to pass through the same orbit without considering the calculation of time, even if it had already been divided (under these four conditions); there is no need to suppose that these stars would have a memory of the places they pass by, or of their periods. Their life would be uniform; because they always travel through the same places, so that their movement is, so to speak, more vital than local, because it is produced by a single living being (the universe), which, realizing it within itself, is exteriorly at rest and Interiorly in motion by its eternal life.
STAR-MOTIONS COMPARED TO A BALLET-CHORUS.
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We might well, in respect to the memory of these periods, examine the number of these periods, and whether it is known to Jupiter; for if it be a finite number, the universe will have had a commencement within time; but if it be infinite, Jupiter will not have been able to know how many things he has done. (To solve this problem) we must admit that Jupiter ever enjoys knowledge, in a single and unitary life. It is in this sense that he must be infinite and possess454 unity, not by a knowledge come to him from without, but Interiorly, by his very nature, because the infinite ever remains entire in him, is inherent in him, is contemplated by him, and is not, for him, simply the object of an accidental knowledge. Indeed, while knowing the infinity of his life, Jupiter simultaneously knows that the influence he exercises on the universe is single; but his knowledge thereof is not due to his exercising it on the universe.
JUPITER MAY BE TAKEN IN A DOUBLE SENSE.
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The earth also possesses a soul; and therefore also such a potentiality; and it is from the earth that the plants derive their vegetative potentiality. One might reasonably first ask which is this soul that resides in the earth. Does she proceed from the sphere of the universe (to which alone Plato seems to attri bute a soul from the very first), so as to make of her an irradiation of this sphere upon the earth? Or should we on the contrary, attri bute to the earth a soul similar to that of the stars, as Plato does when he calls the earth the first and most ancient of the divinities contained within the Interior of the heavens? Could it, in this case, be a divinity, if it did not have a soul? It is therefore difficult to determine the exact state of affairs, and the very words of Plato here instead of diminishing our embarrassment, only increase it.
At first, how will we manage to form a reasonable opinion on this subject? Judging from what the earth causes to grow, one might conjecture that it possesses471 the vegetative potentiality. As many living beings are seen to grow from the earth, why would it itself not be a living being? Being besides a great living being, and a considerable part of the world, why should the earth not possess intelligence, and be a divinity? Since we consider every star as a living being, why would we not similarly consider the earth, which is a part of the universal living being? It would, indeed, be impossible to admit that it was exteriorly contained by a foreign soul, and that Interiorly it would have no soul, as if it were the only being incapable of having an individual soul. Why should we grant animation to the (starry) bodies of fire, while not to the earthly body of our earth? Indeed, bodies could as easily be of earth as of fire. Not in the stars, any more than in the earth, is there any nose, flesh, blood, or humours, although the earth is more varied than the stars, and although it be composed of all the other living bodies. As to its inability to move, this can be said only in reference to local motion. (For it is capable of motion in the respect that it can feel.)
THE EARTH CAN FEEL AS WELL AS ANY OF THE STARS.
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Those who (with Plotinos himself) teach that vision operates by sympathy, assert that vision is poorer through a medium, because this medium hinders, fetters, and weakens sympathy. In this case, indeed, the medium necessarily weakens sympathy even though it shared the same nature (as the eye and the object), and was affected in the same manner. (It acts like the integument) of some body that is deeply burned by fire applied to it; the Interior parts are less affected because they are protected by the exterior parts. There is no doubt that the parts of one and the same animal will be less affected in experiencing sympathy because of the existence of a medium. The affection will be weakened according to the nature of the medium, because such a medium would hinder excess of affection, unless indeed that which is transmitted (by one part to another) is not such as to fail to affect the medium. But if the universe sympathize with itself because it constitutes a single organism, and if we are affected because we are contained within this single organism, and form part of it, why should any continuity be necessary for us to feel a distant object? The single organism, indeed, could not be continuous without the continuity of some medium; this continuous medium is affected only by accident; but otherwise we would have to admit that all can be affected by all. But if these two objects are affected in one manner, and other two objects are affected in another manner, there might not always be need of a medium. Whoever asserts the need of a medium for vision will have to advance a very good argument, inasmuch as that which traverses the air does not always affect the air, and often limits itself to dividing the air. Thus when a stone falls the only518 thing that happens to the air is that it fails to support the stone. As falling is part of the stone's nature, it would be unreasonable to assert that its falling was due to the reaction exerted by the ambient air. Otherwise we would have to assert that it is this same reaction of the ambient air that makes fire ascend, which is absurd; because the fire, by the rapidity of its motion, forestalls this reaction. That, by the very rapidity of the motion, reaction is accelerated, takes place only by accident, and has no relation to the upward impulsion; for trees grow from above without receiving any (upward) impulsion. Even we, when walking, divide the air without being pushed by the reaction of the air; the air behind us limits itself to filling the void we have created. If then the air allow itself to be divided by bodies without being affected by them, what would hinder the air from permitting free transit for the images to reach the eye, without being thereby divided?
IMAGES DO NOT REACH US BY EFFLUENCE.
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If the light which is contiguous to the eye should become animated, and if the soul should, so to speak, interpenetrate it, uniting with it as she unites with the Interior light, there would be no need of intermediary light for the perception of the visible object. Sight resembles touch; it operates in light by somehow transferring itself to the object, without the medium experiencing any affection. Now consider: does the sight transfer itself to the visible object because of the existence of an interval between them, or because of the existence of some body in the interval? In the latter case, vision would occur by removing this obstacle. If, on the other hand, it be because of the existence of a mere interval, then the nature of the visible object must seem inert and entirely inactive. This is however impossible; not only does touch announce and experience the neighboring object but, by the affection it experiences, it proclaims the differences of the tangible object, and even perceives it from a distance, if nothing oppose it; for we perceive the fire at the same time as the air that surrounds us, and before this air has been heated by the fire. A solid body heats better than does the air; and consequently522 it receives heat through the air, rather than by the intermediation of air. If then the visible object have the power to act, and if the organ have the power of experiencing (or suffering), why should sight need any intermediary (besides light) to exert its power? This would really be needing an obstacle! When the light of the sun reaches us, it does not light up the air before lighting us, but lights both simultaneously; even before it has reached the eye, while it is still elsewhere, we have already seen, just as if the air was not affected at all; that is the case, probably, because the medium has undergone no modification, and because light has not yet presented itself to our view. Under this hypothesis (which asserts that the air receives and transmits an affection) it would be difficult to explain why during the night we see the stars and, in general, any kind of fire.
NOT EVEN THE LIGHT OF THE EYE IS TO BE CONSIDERED AS MEDIUM.
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5. As to hearing, there are several theories. One is that the air is first set in motion, and that this motion, being transmitted unaltered from point to point from the (location of the) sound-producing air as far as the ear, causes the sound to arrive to the sense. Again, another theory is that the medium is here affected accidentally, and only because it happens to be interposed; so that, if the medium were annihilated, we would feel the sound immediately on its production by the shock of two bodies. We might think that the air must first be set in motion, but the medium interposed (between the first moved air and the ear) plays a different part. The air here seems to be the sovereign condition of the production of sound; for, at the origin of the sound, the shock of two bodies would produce no sound if the air, compressed and struck by their rapid concussion did not transmit the motion from point to point as far as the ear.173 But if the production of the sound depend on the impulsion impressed on the air, the (qualitative) difference between voices and (instrumental) sounds will challenge explanation; for there is great difference (of "timbre") between metal struck by metal of the same kind, or another. These differences are not merely quantitative, and cannot be attri buted to the air which (everywhere) is the same, nor to the force of the stimulus (which may be equal in intensity). Another theory (of Aristotle's) is that the production of voices and sound is due to the air, because the impulsion impressed524 on the air is sonorous. (To this it should be answered that) air, in so far as it is air, is not the cause of sound; for it resounds only in so far as it resembles some solid body, remaining in its situation, before it dilates, as if it were something solid.174 The (cause of the sound) then is the shock between objects, which forms the sound that reaches the sense of hearing. This is demonstrated by the sounds produced in the Interior of animals, without the presence of any air, whenever one part is struck by some other. Such is the sound produced by certain articulations when they are bent (as, the knee); or certain bones, when they are struck against each other, or when they break; in this case air has nothing to do with the production of the sound. These considerations compel a theory of hearing similar to our conclusions about sight. The perception of audition, like that of vision, therefore consists in a repercussion (an affection sympathetically felt) in the universal organism.
THE RELATION OF THE AIR TO THE LIGHT.
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7. It might be asked whether the withdrawal of the object from which light emanates abandons the light to destruction, or does the light follow the source into withdrawal? This question is related to the former one; (and it may be said that) if the light inhere in the illuminated body in a manner such as to have become characteristic of it, the light perishes with it. The light is an immanent actualization, for otherwise it would surround the object from which it emanates, and remain within it, accumulating there. If this were so, the light could not vanish so long as the object from which it emanates itself continues to subsist. If this object pass from one place to another, light would pass thither also, not because it turns back on itself or changes locality, but because the actualization of the luminous object exists and is present as soon as nothing opposes it. If the distance from the sun to the earth were much more considerable than it really is, the light of the sun would nevertheless reach us, providing no obstacle were interposed. On the one hand, there is in the luminous body an actualization, a kind of superabundant life, a principle and source of activity; on the other hand, beyond the limits of the luminous body, exists a second actualization which is the image of the actualization characteristic of this body, and which never separates itself from the body. Every being has an actualization which is its image; so that, as527 soon as the being exists, its actualization exists also; and so long as the being subsists, its actualization radiates nearer or further. Actualizations (differ indeed); some are feeble and obscure, others are secret or hidden, others are powerful and radiate afar. When an actualization radiates at a distance it must be admitted to exist there where it acts, where it exercises and manifests its power. Consequently one can see light shine from the eyes of animals whose eyes are naturally brilliant175; likewise when the animals that exert a concentrated Interior fire happen to open their eyelids, they radiate rays of light into the darkness; while, when they close their eyes, no more light exists outside them. The light therefore does not perish; only, it is no longer produced exteriorly. It does not re-enter into the animal but merely ceases to exist exteriorly, for the visual fire does not pass outside, remaining inside. Is light itself then within? At least this light remains within; but (when the eye is closed) the eyelid forms an obstacle to its diffusion.
LIGHT AS ACTUALIZATION IS THE BEING OF THE LUMINOUS BODY, AND IS INCORPOREAL.
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8. Though I should set myself in opposition to popular views, I shall set down clearly what seems to me the true state of affairs. Not the whole soul enters into the body. By her higher part, she ever remains united to the intelligible world; as, by her lower part, she remains united to the sense-world. If this lower part dominates, or rather, if it be dominated (by sensation) and troubled, it hinders us from being conscious of what the higher part of the soul contemplates. Indeed that which is thought impinges on our consciousness only in case it descends to us, and is felt. In general, we are conscious of what goes on in every part of the soul only when it is felt by the entire soul. For instance, appetite, which is the actualization of lustful desire, is by us cognized only when we perceive it by the Interior sense or by discursive reason, or by both simultaneously. Every soul has a lower part turned towards the body, and a higher part turned towards divine Intelligence. The universal Soul manages the universe by her lower part without any kind of trouble, because she governs her body not as we do by any reasoning, but by intelligence, and consequently in a manner entirely different from that adopted by art. The individual souls, each of whom administers a part of the universe,185 also have a part that rises above their body; but they are distracted from thought by sensation, and by a perception of a133 number of things which are contrary to nature, and which come to trouble them, and afflict them. Indeed, the body that they take care of constitutes but a part of the universe, is incomplete, and is surrounded by exterior objects. That is why it has so many needs, why it desires luxuriousness, and why it is deceived thereby. On the contrary, the higher part of the soul is insensible to the attraction of these transitory pleasures, and leads an undisturbed life.
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10. Above existence, therefore, is the One. This has by us been proved as far as could reasonably be expected, and as far as such subjects admit of demonstration. In the second rank are Existence and Intelligence; in the third, the Soul. But if these three principles, the One, Intelligence, and the Soul, as we have said, obtain in nature, three principles must also obtain within us. I do not mean that these three principles are in sense-objects, for they are separate therefrom; they are outside of the sense-world, as the three divine principles are outside of the celestial sphere, and, according to Plato's expression,254 they constitute the "the Interior man." Our soul, therefore, is something divine; it has a nature different (from sense-nature), which conforms to that of the universal Soul. Now the perfect Soul possesses intelligence; but we must distinguish between the intelligence that reasons (the discursive reason), and the Intelligence that furnishes the principles of reasoning (pure intelligence). The discursive reason of the soul has no need, for operation, of any bodily organ;255 in its operations, it190 preserves all its purity, so that it is capable of reasoning purely. When separated from the body, it must, without any hesitation, be ranked with highest intellectual entities. There is no need of locating it in space; for, if it exist within itself, outside of body, in an immaterial condition, it is evidently not mingled with the body, and has none of its nature. Consequently Plato256 says, "The divinity has spread the Soul around the world." What he here means is that a part of the Soul remains in the intelligible world. Speaking of our soul he also says, "she hides her head in heaven."257 He also advises us to wean the soul from the body; and he does not refer to any local separation, which nature alone could establish. He means that the soul must not incline towards the body, must not abandon herself to the phantoms of imagination, and must not, thus, become alienated from reason. He means that the soul should try to elevate to the intelligible world her lower part which is established in the sense-world, and which is occupied in fashioning the body.258
THERE MUST BE AN OBJECTIVE JUSTICE AND BEAUTY TO WHICH WE ARE INTIMATELY UNITED.
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But how is an actualization begotten from that self-limited (intelligible)? We shall have to draw a distinction between an actualization of being, and an actualization out of the being of each thing (actualized being, and actualization emanating from being). Actualized being cannot differ from being, for it is being itself. But the actualization emanating from being and everything necessarily has an actualization of this kinddiffers from what produces it. It is as if with fire: there is a difference between the heat which constitutes its being, and the heat which radiates exteriorly, while the fire Interiorly realizes the actualization138 which constitutes its being, and which makes it preserve its nature. Here also, and far more so, the First remains in His proper state, and yet simultaneously, by His inherent perfection, by the actualization which resides in Him, has been begotten the actualization which, deriving its existence from so great a power, nay, from supreme Power, has arrived at, or achieved essence and being. As to the First, He was above being; for He was the potentiality of all things, already being all things.
HOW THE FIRST IS ABOVE ALL BEING.
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7. When intelligence is in actualization it can see in two ways, as does the eye.274 First, the eye may see the form of the visible object; second, it may see the light by which this object is seen. This light itself is visible, but it is different from the form of the object; it reveals the form and is itself seen with this form, to which it is united. Consequently it itself is not seen distinctly, because the eye is entirely devoted to the illuminated object. When there is nothing but light, it is seen in an intuitive manner, though it be still united to some other object. For if it were isolated from every other thing, it could not be perceived. Thus the light of the sun would escape our eye if its seat were not a solid mass. My meaning will best appear by considering the whole sun as light. Then light will not reside in the form of any other visible object, and it will possess no property except that of being visible; for other visible objects are not pure light. Likewise in intellectual intuition (sight of the mind) intelligence sees intelligible objects by means of the light shed on them by the First; and the Intelligence, while seeing these objects, really sees intelligible light. But, as Intelligence directs its attention to the enlightened object, it does not clearly see the Principle that enlightens them. If, on the contrary, it forget the objects it sees, in the process of contemplating only the radiance that renders them visible, it587 sees both the light itself, and its Principle. But it is not outside of itself that that Intelligence contemplates intelligible light. It then resembles the eye which, without considering an exterior and foreign light, before even perceiving it, is suddenly struck by a radiance which is proper to it, or by a ray which radiates of itself, and which appears to it in the midst of obscurity. The case is still similar when the eye, in order to see no other objects, closes the eye-lids, so as to draw its light from itself; or when, pressed by the hand, it perceives the light which it possesses within itself. Then, without seeing anything exterior the eye sees, even more than at any other moment, for it sees the light. The other objects which the eye heretofore saw, though they were luminous, were not light itself. Likewise, when Intelligence, so to speak, closes its eye to the other objects, concentrating in itself, and seeing nothing, it sees not a foreign light that shines in foreign forms, but its own light which suddenly radiates Interiorly, with a clear radiance.
INTELLIGIBLE LIGHT, NOT BEING SPATIAL, HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH PLACE.
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RECOGNITION OF BEAUTY DEPENDS ON PRELIMINARY Interior BEAUTY.
Further, the cause of beauty must be either ugly, beautiful or indifferent. If it were ugly, it could not produce its opposite. If it were indifferent, it would have no more reason to produce that which is beautiful, than that which is ugly. Therefore nature which produces so many beautiful objects must in herself possess a very superior beauty. But as we do not have the habit of seeing the Interior of things, which remains unknown, we attach ourselves only to their exterior, forgetting that which moves us hides itself within them; and (in this habit of ours) we resemble (Narcissus206), who, on seeing his image, and not knowing whence it came, would try to catch it. It is not the mass of an object that constitutes its attractiveness for us, for it is not in mass that beauty inheres.207 This is revealed by the beauty found in the sciences, in the virtues, and in general in the souls, where it shines more truly and brilliantly on contemplation and admiration of its inherent wisdom. Then we do not regard the countenance, which may be ugly; we leave aside the form of the body, to attach ourselves exclusively to Interior beauty. If, carried away by the emotion that such a spectacle should cause, you should not proclaim its beauty; and if, on directing your gaze within yourself, you should not experience all the charm of beauty,208 then you search for intelligible beauty, by such a555 method, would be vain; for you would seek it only with what is impure and ugly.209 That is why these discussions are not intended for all men. But if you have recognized beauty within yourself they you may rise to the reminiscence (of intelligible beauty).
BEAUTY IS THE CREATING PRINCIPLE OF THE PRIMARY REASON.
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The advantages derived from this conversion towards the divinity are first self-consciousness, so long as he remains distinct from the divinity. If he penetrate into his Interior sanctuary, he possesses all things, and renouncing self-consciousness in favor of indistinction from the divinity, he fuses with it. As soon as he desires to see something, so to speak, outside of himself, it is he himself that he considers, even exteriorly. The soul that studies the divinity must form an idea of him while seeking to know him. Later, knowing how great is that divinity to which she desires to unite herself, and being persuaded that she will find beatitude in this union, she plunges herself into the depths of the divinity until, instead of contenting herself with contemplating the intelligible world, she herself becomes an object of contemplation, and shines with the clearness of the conceptions whose source is on high.
HOW THE SOUL MAY BE UNITED TO THE DIVINITY WITHOUT SEEING HIM.
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7. The scientific notions that the soul forms of sense-objects, by discursive reason, and which should rather be called opinions,132 are posterior to the objects (they deal with); and consequently, are no more than images of them. But true scientific notions received from intelligence by discursive reasons do not contain any sense-conceptions. So far as they are scientific notions, they are the very things of which they are the conceptions; they reveal the intimate union of intelligence and thought. Interior Intelligence, which consists of the primary (natures) possesses itself intimately, resides within itself since all eternity, and is an actualization. It does not direct its glances outside of itself, because it possesses everything within itself; it does not acquire, and does not reason to discover things that may not be present to them. Those are operations characteristic of the soul. Intelligence, remaining fixed within itself, is all things simultaneously. Nevertheless, it is not thought which makes each of them subsist; it is only because intelligence thought the divinity or movement, for instance, that the divinity or movement exists.133 When we say that111 thoughts are forms, we are mistaken if thereby we mean that the intelligible exists only because Intelligence thinks it. On the contrary, it is only because the intelligible exists, that Intelligence can think. Otherwise, how would Intelligence come to think the intelligible? It cannot meet the intelligible by chance, nor waste itself in fruitless efforts.
THOUGHT IS THE FORM, SHAPE THE ACTUALIZATION OF THE BEING.
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8. We must posit these three genera (essence, movement, and stability) because intelligence thinks each of them separately. By thinking them simultaneously, Intelligence posits them; and, as soon as Intelligence thinks them, they are (in existence). The things whose existence ("essence") implies matter do not exist in Intelligence; for otherwise they would be immaterial. On the contrary, immaterial things come into existence by merely being thought. So then contemplate pure Intelligence, instead of seeking it with your bodily eyes, fix on it your Interior gaze. Then will you see the hearth of "Being," where shines an unsleeping light; you will see therein how essences subsist as simultaneously divided and united; you will see in it an abiding life, the thought which applies not to the future, but to the present; which possesses it already, and possesses it for ever; which thinks what is intimate to it, and not what is foreign. Intelligence905 thinks: and you have actualization and movement. Intelligence thinks what is in itself: and you have "being" and essence; for, by merely existing, Intelligence thinks: Intelligence thinks itself as existing, and the object to which Intelligence applies its thought exists also. The actualization of Intelligence on itself is not "being"; but the object to which it refers, the Principle from which it derives, is essence. Essence, indeed, is the object of intuition, but not intuition itself; the latter exists (has "essence") only because it starts from, and returns thereto. Now as essence is an actualization, and not a potentiality, it unites both terms (existence and intuition, object and subject), and, without separating them, it makes of intuition essence, and of essence intuition. Essence is the unshakable foundation of all things, and support of their existence; it derives its possessions from no foreign source, holding them from itself, and within itself. It is simultaneously the goal of thought, because it is stability that never needed a beginning, and the principle from which thought was born, because it is unborn stability; for movement can neither originate from, nor tend towards movement. The idea also belongs to the genus of stability, because it is the goal (or limit) of intelligence; but the intellectual actualization by which it is thought constitutes movement. Thus all these things form but one thing; and movement, stability, and the things which exist in all essences constitute genera (or classifications). Moreover, every essence posterior to these genera is, in its turn, also definite essence, definite stability, and definite movement.
THIS TRIUNE PLAY IMPLIES ALSO IDENTITY AND DIFFERENCE.
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7. Imagine a luminous point which serves as centre, and imagine around it a transparent sphere, so that the clearness of the luminous point shines in the296 whole body that surrounds it without the exterior receiving any light from elsewhere; you will surely have to acknowledge that this Interior light, by remaining impassible, penetrates the whole surrounding mass, and that it embraces the whole sphere from the central point in which it is seen to shine. The truth is that the light did not emanate from the little body placed in the centre; for this little body did not glow inasmuch as it was a body, but inasmuch as it was a luminous body; that means, by virtue of an incorporeal power. Now in thought annihilate the mass of the little luminous body, and preserve its luminous power; could you still say that light is somewhere? Will it not be equally in the Interior, and in the whole exterior sphere? You will no longer perceive where it was fixed before, and you will no longer say whence it comes, nor where it is; in this respect you will remain uncertain and astonished; you will see the light shine simultaneously in the Interior and in the exterior sphere. An example of this is the solar light that shines in the air when you look at the body of the sun, at the same time that you perceive everywhere the same light without any division; that is demonstrated by objects that intercept the light; they reflect it nowhere else than in the direction from which it came; they do not shatter it into fragments. But if the sun were an incorporeal power, you could not, when it would radiate light, tell where the light began, nor from where it was sent; there would be but a single light, the same everywhere, having neither point of beginning, nor principle from which it proceeds.
UNITY IS IN THE MANIFOLD BY A MANNER OF EXISTENCE.
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Appetite noticed only when perceived by reason or Interior sense, iv. 8.8 (6-132).
Appetite, when swaying soul, leaves it passive, iii. 1.9 (3-98).
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Beauty external, appreciation of, depends on cognition of Interior beauty, v. 8.2 (31-554).
Beauty external, partial, does not mar beauty of universe, ii. 9.17 (33-634).
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Beauty Interior, could not be appreciated, without Interior model, i. 6.4 (1-45).
Beauty is creating principle of primary reason, v. 8.3 (31-555).
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Chance, men escape by Interior isolation, vi. 8.15 (39-800).
Chance, no room for in Supreme, assisted by intelligence, vi. 8.17 (39-804).
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Eternity is to existence, as time is Interior to the soul, iii. 7.10 (45-1008).
Eternity is to intelligence, what time is to the world-soul. iii. 7.10 (45-1007).
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Happiness dependent upon Interior characteristics, i. 4.3 (46-1023).
Happiness, does it increase with duration of time? 1.5 (36-684).
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Interior model, cause of appreciation of Interior beauty, i. 6.2 (1-45).
Interior vision, how trained, i. 6.9 (1-53).
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Liberty refers to the Interior life, rather than to the exterior, vi. 8.6 (39-781).
Liberty would be destroyed by astrology. iii. 1.7 (3-96).
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Men escape chance by Interior isolation, vi. 8.15 (39-800).
Men non-virtuous, do good when not hindered by passions, iii. 1.10 (3-98).
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Model, Interior, cause of appreciation of Interior beauties, i. 6.4 (1-45).
Model of reason, is the universal soul, iv. 3.11 (27-407).
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Phoebus inspires men to Interior vision, v. 8.10 (31-569).
Physical categories are matter, form, combination, attri butes and accidents, vi. 3.3 (44-938).
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Supreme must be free, as chance is escaped by Interior isolation, vi. 8.13 (39-795); vi. 8.15 (39-800).
lxv Supreme must be simple and not compound, ii. 9.1 (33-599).
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Time is as Interior to the soul as eternity is to existence, iii. 7.10 (45-1008).
Time is measured by movement and is measure of movement, iii. 7.12 (45-1011).
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Training of Interior vision, i. 6.9 (1-53).
Trance of ecstasy, vi. 9.11 (9-169).
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Vision Interior, how trained, i. 6.9 (1-53).
Vision not dependent on medium's vision, iv. 5.3 (29-520).
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7. Our nature and we ourselves all depend on (cosmic) being; we aspire to it, we use it as principle, from the very beginning. We think the intelligible321 (entities contained in essence) without having either images or impressions thereof. Consequently, when we think the intelligible (entities), the truth is that we are these very intelligible entities themselves. Since we thus participate in the genuine knowledge, we are the intelligible entities, not because we receive them in us, but because we are in them. However, as beings other than we constitute intelligible entities, as well as we, we are all the intelligibles. We are intelligible entities so far as they subsist simultaneously with all essences; consequently, all of us together form but a single unity. When we turn our gaze outside of Him from whom we depend, we no longer recognize that we are an unity; we then resemble a multitude of faces which (being disposed in a circle) would, as seen from the exterior, form a plurality, but which in the Interior would form but a single head. If one of these faces could turn around, either spontaneously, or by the aid of Minerva, it would see that itself is the divinity, that it is the universal Essence. No doubt, it would not at first see itself as universal, but later, not being able to find any landmarks by which to determine its own limits, and to determine the distance to which it extends, it would have to give up the attempt to distinguish itself from the universal (Essence), and it would become the universal (Essence) without ever changing location, and by remaining in the very foundation of the universal (Essence).
THIS IS PROVED BY THE PARTICIPATION OF MATTER IN IDEAS.
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But how does the earth exist in the intelligible world? What is its essence? How can the earth in the intelligible world be alive there? Let us first examine our earth, that is, inquire what is its essence? It must be some sort of a shape, and a reason; for the reason of the plant is alive, even here below. Is there then a living ("seminal) reason" in the earth also? To discover the nature of the earth, let us take essentially terrestrial objects, which are begotten or fashioned by it. The birth of the stones, and their increase, the Interior formation of mountains, could not exist unless an animated reason produced them by an intimate and secret work. This reason is the "form of the earth,"92 a form that is analogous to what is called nature in trees. The earth might be compared to the trunk of a tree, and the stone that can be detached therefrom to the branch that can be separated from the trunk. Consideration of the stone which is not yet dug out of the earth, and which is united to it as the uncut branch is united to the tree, shows that the earth's nature, which is a productive force, constitutes719 a life endowed with reason; and it must be evident that the intelligible earth must possess life at a still higher degree, that the rational life of the earth is the Earth-in-itself, the primary Earth, from which proceeds the earth here below.
THE FIRE AS IT IS IN THE INTELLIGIBLE WORLD.
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14. By intellectual examples we can understand the nature of Intelligence, and see that it could not be a unity which does not admit any kind of difference. As example, consider the ("seminal) reason" of a plant, and that of an animal. If it be only a unity, without any kind of variety, it is not even a "reason," and what is born will be no more than matter. This "reason" must therefore contain all the organs; and, while embracing all matter, it must not leave any part of it to remain identical with any other. For instance, the face does not form a single mass; it contains the nose and the eyes. Nor is even the nose something simple; it contains different parts whose variety make of it an organ; if it were reduced to a state of absolute simplicity, it would be no more than a mass. Thus Intelligence contains the infinite, because it is simultaneously one and manifold; not indeed like a house, but as is a ("seminal) reason" which is manifold Interiorly. It contains within, therefore, a sort of figure (or scheme) or even a picture, on which are Interiorly drawn or inscribed its powers and thoughts; their division does not take place exteriorly, for it is entirely Interior. Thus the universal living Organism embraces other living beings, within which may be discovered still smaller living beings, and still smaller powers, and so on till we arrive at the "atomic form."98 All these forms are distinguished from each other by their division, without ever having been confounded together, though they all occur in the constitution of a single unity. Thus exists in the intelligible world that union (by Empedocles) called "friendship"; but such union is very different from that which exists in the sense-world.163 In fact, the latter is only the image of the726 first, because it is formed of completely disparate elements. Veritable union however consists in forming but a single (thing) without admitting of any separation between (elements). Here below, however, objects are separated from each other.
B. A STUDY OF THE GOOD.
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35. Such, then, is the state of the soul that she no longer values even thought, which formerly excited her admiration; for thought is a movement, and the soul would prefer none. She does not even assert758 that it is Intelligence that she sees, though she contemplate only because she has become intelligence, and has, so to speak, become intellectualized, by being established in the intelligible place. Having arrived to Intelligence, and having become established therein, the soul possesses the intelligible, and thinks; but as soon as she achieves the vision of the supreme Divinity, she abandons everything else. She behaves as does the visitor who, on entering into a palace, would first admire the different beauties that adorn its Interior, but who regards them no longer as soon as she perceives the master; for the master, by his (living) nature, which is superior to all the statues that adorn the palace, monopolizes the consideration, and alone deserves to be contemplated; consequently the spectator, with his glance fixed on Him, henceforward observes Him alone. By dint of continual contemplation of the spectacle in front of him, the spectator sees the master no longer; in the spectator, vision confuses with the visible object. What for the spectator first was a visible object, in him becomes vision, and makes him forget all that he saw around himself. To complete this illustration, the master here presenting himself to the visitor must be no man, but a divinity; and this divinity must not content Himself with appearing to the eyes of him who contemplates Him, but He must penetrate within the human soul, and fill her entirely.
INTELLIGENCE HAS THE TWO POWERS OF INTELLIGENCE AND LOVE.
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LIBERTY REFERS TO THE Interior LIFE, RATHER THAN TO THE EXTERIOR.
6. How then did we previously refer liberty to volition, saying that "that which depends on us, our responsibility, is that which occurs according to our will"? Yes, but we added, "or does not occur." If indeed we be right, and if we continue to support our former opinion, we shall have to recognize that virtue and intelligence are their own mistresses, and that it is to them that we must refer our free will and independence. Since they have no master, we shall admit that (our) intelligence remains within itself, that virtue must equally remain calm in itself, regulating the soul so as to make her good, and that in this respect it itself is both free, and enfranchises the soul. If passions or necessary actions arise, (virtue) directs them automatically; nevertheless she still preserves her independence (or, freedom) by getting into relations with everything. For instance, (virtue) does not engage in exterior things to save the body in times of danger; on the contrary, she abandons it, if it seem advisable; she orders the man to renounce even life, wealth, children, and fatherland; for her object is to be honorable, relinquishing anything beneath her dignity. This evidently shows that our liberty of action and independence do not refer to practical matters,782 nor to external occupations, but to Interior activity, to thought, to the contemplation of virtue itself. This virtue must be considered as a kind of intelligence, and must not be confused with the passions that dominate and govern reason; for these, as (Plato185) says, seem to derive something from the body, though trained by exercise and habit.
LIBERTY DEPENDS ON THE HIGHEST INTELLIGENCE.
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7. Your mind remains in uncertainty because the divinity is none of these things (that you know). Apply it first to these things, and later fix it on the divinity. While doing so, do not let yourself be distracted by anything exterior for the divinity is not in any definite place, depriving the remainder of its presence, but it is present wherever there is any person who is capable of entering into contact therewith. It is absent only for those who cannot succeed therein. Just as, for other objects, one could not discover what one seeks by thinking of something else, and as one162 should not add any alien thing to the object that is thought if one wishes to identify oneself therewith; likewise here one must be thoroughly convinced that it is impossible for any one whose soul contains any alien image to conceive of the divinity so long as such an image distracts the soul's attention. It is equally impossible that the soul, at the moment that she is attentive, and attached to other things, should assume the form of what is contrary to them. Just as it is said of matter that it must be absolutely deprived of all qualities to be susceptible of receiving all forms; likewise, and for a stronger reason, the soul must be stripped of all form, if she desire to be filled with and illuminated by the primary nature without any Interior hindrance. Thus, having liberated herself from all exterior things, the soul will entirely turn to what is most intimate in her; she will not allow herself to be turned away by any of the surrounding objects and she will put aside all things, first by the very effect of the state in which she will find herself, and later by the absence of any conception of form. She will not even know that she is applying herself to the contemplation of the One, or that she is united thereto. Then, after having sufficiently dwelt with it, she will, if she can, come to reveal to others this heavenly communion. Doubtless it was enjoyment of this communion that was the basis of the traditional conversation of Minos with Jupiter.197 Inspired with the memories of this interview, he made laws which represented it, because, while he was drawing them up, he was still under the influence of his union with the divinity. Perhaps even, in this state, the soul may look down on civil virtues as hardly worthy of her,198 inasmuch as she desires to dwell on high; and this does indeed happen to such as have long contemplated the divinity.
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8. Self-knowledge reveals the fact that the soul's natural movement is not in a straight line, unless indeed it have undergone some deviation. On the contrary, it circles around something Interior, around a centre. Now the centre is that from which proceeds the circle, that is, the soul.200 The soul will therefore move around the centre, that is, around the principle from which she proceeds; and, trending towards it, she will attach herself to it, as indeed all souls should do. The souls of the divinities ever direct themselves towards it; and that is the secret of their divinity; for divinity consists in being attached to the Centre (of all souls). Anyone who withdraws much therefrom is a man who has remained manifold (that is, who has never become unified), or who is a brute.201
THE CELEBRATED SIMILE OF THE MAN WHOSE FEET ARE IN A BATH-TUB.
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In this condition, indeed, the soul busies herself not even with the beautiful things, for she rises above beauty, and passes beyond even the (Stoic) "choir of virtues." Thus he who penetrates into the Interior of a sanctuary leaves behind him the statues placed (at the entrance) of the temple. These indeed are the first objects that will strike his view on his exit from the sanctuary, after he shall have enjoyed the Interior spectacle, after having entered into intimate communion, not indeed with an image or statue, which would be considered only when he comes out, but with the divinity. The very word "divine spectacle" does not, here, seem sufficient (to express the contemplation of the soul); it is rather an ecstasy, a simplification, a self-abandonment, a desire for intercourse, a perfect quietude, and last, a wish to become indistinguishable from what was contemplated in the sanctuary.214 Any one who would seek to see the Divinity in any other way would be incapable of enjoying His presence.
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The Interior Struggle
15 For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.
Gorgias, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
The myth of the Phaedo is of the same type, but it is more cosmological, and also more poetical. The beautiful and ingenious fancy occurs to Plato that the upper atmosphere is an earth and heaven in one, a glorified earth, fairer and purer than that in which we dwell. As the fishes live in the ocean, mankind are living in a lower sphere, out of which they put their heads for a moment or two and behold a world beyond. The earth which we inhabit is a sediment of the coarser particles which drop from the world above, and is to that heavenly earth what the desert and the shores of the ocean are to us. A part of the myth consists of description of the Interior of the earth, which gives the opportunity of introducing several mythological names and of providing places of torment for the wicked. There is no clear distinction of soul and body; the spirits beneath the earth are spoken of as souls only, yet they retain a sort of shadowy form when they cry for mercy on the shores of the lake; and the philosopher alone is said to have got rid of the body. All the three myths in Plato which relate to the world below have a place for repentant sinners, as well as other homes or places for the very good and very bad. It is a natural reflection which is made by Plato elsewhere, that the two extremes of human character are rarely met with, and that the generality of mankind are between them. Hence a place must be found for them. In the myth of the Phaedo they are carried down the river Acheron to the Acherusian lake, where they dwell, and are purified of their evil deeds, and receive the rewards of their good. There are also incurable sinners, who are cast into Tartarus, there to remain as the penalty of atrocious crimes; these suffer everlastingly. And there is another class of hardly-curable sinners who are allowed from time to time to approach the shores of the Acherusian lake, where they cry to their victims for mercy; which if they obtain they come out into the lake and cease from their torments.
Neither this, nor any of the three greater myths of Plato, nor perhaps any allegory or parable relating to the unseen world, is consistent with itself. The language of philosophy mingles with that of mythology; abstract ideas are transformed into persons, figures of speech into realities. These myths may be compared with the Pilgrim's Progress of Bunyan, in which discussions of theology are mixed up with the incidents of travel, and mythological personages are associated with human beings: they are also garnished with names and phrases taken out of Homer, and with other fragments of Greek tradition.
Liber 111 - The Book of Wisdom - LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
Things of the Mind. Yet because of the Interior Harmony of all Things
that proceedeth from their Original One Nature, there is Action and
Liber 46 - The Key of the Mysteries, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
rites, I was seated in the circle on the Interior threshold of my door,
and the victim had just been consumed in a great fire of alder and
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moral sense. Pleasure is the music of the {264} Interior harmonies; the
senses are only its instruments, instruments which sound false in
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physical ugliness; for the astral medium, that Interior architect of
our bodily edifice, modifies it ceaselessly according to our real or
Meno, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
SOCRATES: Has not each Interior line cut off half of the four spaces?
BOY: Yes.
Phaedo, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
The hollows on the surface of the globe vary in size and shape from that which we inhabit: but all are connected by passages and perforations in the Interior of the earth. And there is one huge chasm or opening called Tartarus, into which streams of fire and water and liquid mud are ever flowing; of these small portions find their way to the surface and form seas and rivers and volcanoes. There is a perpetual inhalation and exhalation of the air rising and falling as the waters pass into the depths of the earth and return again, in their course forming lakes and rivers, but never descending below the centre of the earth; for on either side the rivers flowing either way are stopped by a precipice. These rivers are many and mighty, and there are four principal ones, Oceanus, Acheron, Pyriphlegethon, and Cocytus. Oceanus is the river which encircles the earth; Acheron takes an opposite direction, and after flowing under the earth through desert places, at last reaches the Acherusian lake,this is the river at which the souls of the dead await their return to earth. Pyriphlegethon is a stream of fire, which coils round the earth and flows into the depths of Tartarus. The fourth river, Cocytus, is that which is called by the poets the Stygian river, and passes into and forms the lake Styx, from the waters of which it gains new and strange powers. This river, too, falls into Tartarus.
The dead are first of all judged according to their deeds, and those who are incurable are thrust into Tartarus, from which they never come out. Those who have only committed venial sins are first purified of them, and then rewarded for the good which they have done. Those who have committed crimes, great indeed, but not unpardonable, are thrust into Tartarus, but are cast forth at the end of a year by way of Pyriphlegethon or Cocytus, and these carry them as far as the Acherusian lake, where they call upon their victims to let them come out of the rivers into the lake. And if they prevail, then they are let out and their sufferings cease: if not, they are borne unceasingly into Tartarus and back again, until they at last obtain mercy. The pure souls also receive their reward, and have their abode in the upper earth, and a select few in still fairer 'mansions.'
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Such is the nature of the whole earth, and of the things which are around the earth; and there are divers regions in the hollows on the face of the globe everywhere, some of them deeper and more extended than that which we inhabit, others deeper but with a narrower opening than ours, and some are shallower and also wider. All have numerous perforations, and there are passages broad and narrow in the Interior of the earth, connecting them with one another; and there flows out of and into them, as into basins, a vast tide of water, and huge subterranean streams of perennial rivers, and springs hot and cold, and a great fire, and great rivers of fire, and streams of liquid mud, thin or thick (like the rivers of mud in Sicily, and the lava streams which follow them), and the regions about which they happen to flow are filled up with them. And there is a swinging or see-saw in the Interior of the earth which moves all this up and down, and is due to the following cause:There is a chasm which is the vastest of them all, and pierces right through the whole earth; this is that chasm which Homer describes in the words,
'Far off, where is the inmost depth beneath the earth;'
r1913 01 13, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Samadhi, today, reenriched itself with drishti of the spoken shabda, ie to say human voices & words reaching the ear as if overheard and, in addition, memory of the thing seen reemerges. Three shabdadrishtis were distinct, a female voice saying ?, another saying simultaneously in quite another scene ! and Ramaswamys voice, saying I dont know what; a fourth, Ramaswamys voice again, said something which did not reach the supta ear clearly. Things seen were a darbar hall, the Interior of an Indian house, a door in a river-steamer, a long railwaysaloon, several figures; the rest are forgotten. Tamasic nidra could not be extruded from the swapna samadhi, which had finally to be abandoned.
In the trikaldrishti knowledge of the past, of past lives, of feelings, thoughts & motives of people in the past is becoming normally active. It has been suggested that Aishwarya should be renounced in the physical siddhi except saundarya; but owing to the persistence of physical asiddhi,tejas in the assimilative process, virulent jalavisrishti, inhibition of kamananda (except in the form of madira and sukshma sahaituka kamananda), etc,the mental shakti & its anucharas are unwilling to accept this suggestion as anything but a false & premature movement of withdrawal. The personality of the Master, long held back, remanifests in Script.
r1918 03 15, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Kamananda continued through samadhi, light and double, only suspended by the deep and complete Interiority. Other former incompatibilities initially conquered. A beginning has been made in overcoming the exclusive forgetfulness, but this is not yet confirmed.
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Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (text), #Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
compared to the flame of a lamp which illumines only the Interior of a room. The Jnana of a Bhakta
(devotee) is a stronger light. It may be compared to the light of the moon which reveals things both
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did not' tell him anything about the sandal trees, but simply advised him to proceed into the Interior of
the forest. So next day he went even beyond the region of the sandal trees, till at last he came upon a
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advanced into the Interior of the palace the more was the grandeur of the people whom he saw. And at
every succeeding stage he thought that he beheld the king and so questioned his friend. But when he
Talks 051-075, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
1896. Arrived at Tiruvannamalai and stayed in the temple premises, beneath the tree, in the Interior of the underground cellar, Pathala
Lingam, sometimes in the gopurams, etc.
Talks 176-200, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
Gods Grace begins to manifest. God takes the form of a Guru and appears to the devotee; teaches him the Truth; purifies the mind by his teachings and contact; the mind gains strength, is able to turn inward; with meditation it is purified yet further, and eventually remains still without the least ripple. That stillness is the Self. The Guru is both exterior and Interior. From the exterior he gives a push to the mind to turn inward; from the Interior he pulls the mind towards the Self and helps the mind to achieve quietness. That is Grace.
Hence there is no difference between God, Guru and Self.
Talks 600-652, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
Anandamaya. These are sheaths and not the core, which is Interior to all these. It lies beyond waking, dream and deep sleep. That is the
Reality and consists of true bliss (nijananda).
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M.: But even without diving in, you are That. The ideas of exterior and Interior exist only so long as you do not accept your real identity.
D.: But I took the idea from you that you want me to dive in.
Talks With Sri Aurobindo 1, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
the Interior of my own heart. They seem like faint, distant whispers, and
peace is upon everything, sweet, peacelike that one feels for a few moments just before falling into sleep, when things are seen and felt like shadowswithout fear, without love, without emotionPeace that one feels
The Act of Creation text, #The Act of Creation, #Arthur Koestler, #Psychology
architecture and Interior design to the hybrid 'arts and crafts' and
finally to the representative arts; here one variable of the curve could
Theaetetus, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
The system which has thus arisen appears to be a kind of metaphysic narrowed to the point of view of the individual mind, through which, as through some new optical instrument limiting the sphere of vision, the Interior of thought and sensation is examined. But the individual mind in the abstract, as distinct from the mind of a particular individual and separated from the environment of circumstances, is a fiction only. Yet facts which are partly true gather around this fiction and are naturally described by the help of it. There is also a common type of the mind which is derived from the comparison of many minds with one another and with our own. The phenomena of which Psychology treats are familiar to us, but they are for the most part indefinite; they relate to a something inside the body, which seems also to overleap the limits of space. The operations of this something, when isolated, cannot be analyzed by us or subjected to observation and experiment. And there is another point to be considered. The mind, when thinking, cannot survey that part of itself which is used in thought. It can only be contemplated in the past, that is to say, in the history of the individual or of the world. This is the scientific method of studying the mind. But Psychology has also some other supports, specious rather than real. It is partly sustained by the false analogy of Physical Science and has great expectations from its near relationship to Physiology. We truly remark that there is an infinite complexity of the body corresponding to the infinite subtlety of the mind; we are conscious that they are very nearly connected. But in endeavouring to trace the nature of the connexion we are baffled and disappointed. In our knowledge of them the gulf remains the same: no microscope has ever seen into thought; no reflection on ourselves has supplied the missing link between mind and matter...These are the conditions of this very inexact science, and we shall only know less of it by pretending to know more, or by assigning to it a form or style to which it has not yet attained and is not really entitled.
Experience shows that any system, however baseless and ineffectual, in our own or in any other age, may be accepted and continue to be studied, if it seeks to satisfy some unanswered question or is based upon some ancient tradition, especially if it takes the form and uses the language of inductive philosophy. The fact therefore that such a science exists and is popular, affords no evidence of its truth or value. Many who have pursued it far into detail have never examined the foundations on which it rests. The have been many imaginary subjects of knowledge of which enthusiastic persons have made a lifelong study, without ever asking themselves what is the evidence for them, what is the use of them, how long they will last? They may pass away, like the authors of them, and 'leave not a wrack behind;' or they may survive in fragments. Nor is it only in the Middle Ages, or in the literary desert of China or of India, that such systems have arisen; in our own enlightened age, growing up by the side of Physics, Ethics, and other really progressive sciences, there is a weary waste of knowledge, falsely so-called. There are sham sciences which no logic has ever put to the test, in which the desire for knowledge invents the materials of it.
The Dwellings of the Philosophers, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
on the Interior frieze of a window, Marsyas victus obmutescit (15) . Robillard de Beaupaire
says, "It is an allusion to the musical duel between Apollo and Marsyas in which figure as
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cabalistic star, and the seven words, emblem of Vitriol: Visita Interiora Terrae,
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(3) Visit the Interior of the Earth, purify it and youll find the hidden stone.
(4) Revelation, Chapter 10: 1-4,8-9. This very instructive parable is reproduced with several variants specifying its hermetic
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plans for a symbolic Interior where the secret signs which had guided his works would be
found, skillfully distributed and hidden with great care. Once the topics were well-established
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today offers but an empty Interior with barren walls. The furniture, the porches, sculpted
stones, ceilings, and even quoin turrets have all been scattered. Some of these artworks were
the Eternal Wisdom, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
33) He who speaks best of God is he who, in the presence of the plenitude of the Interior riches, knows best how to be silent. ~ Eckhart
34) O Inexpressible, Ineffable, whom silence alone can name! ~ Hermes
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13) In the Interior of each atom that thou shalt cleave thou shalt find imprisoned a sun. ~ Ahmed Halif: Mystic Odes
14) In each atom thou shalt see the All, thou shalt contemplate millions of secrets asluminous as the sun. ~ Farid-ud-din-attar
The Monadology, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
17. Moreover, it must be confessed that perception and that which depends upon it are inexplicable on mechanical grounds, that is to say, by means of figures and motions. And supposing there were a machine, so constructed as to think, feel, and have perception, it might be conceived as increased in size, while keeping the same proportions, so that one might go into it as into a mill. That being so, we should, on examining its Interior, find only parts which work one upon another, and never anything by which to explain a perception.
Thus it is in a simple substance, and not in a compound or in a machine, that perception must be sought for. Further, nothing but this
The Shadow Out Of Time, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
unchoked and traversable? In that hall the captive mind of an incredible entity - a halfplastic denizen of the hollow Interior of an unknown trans-Plutonian planet eighteen
million years in the future - had kept a certain thing which it had modelled from clay.
Timaeus, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
Thus far the universal animal was made in the divine image, but the other animals were not as yet included in him. And God created them according to the patterns or species of them which existed in the divine original. There are four of them: one of gods, another of birds, a third of fishes, and a fourth of animals. The gods were made in the form of a circle, which is the most perfect figure and the figure of the universe. They were created chiefly of fire, that they might be bright, and were made to know and follow the best, and to be scattered over the heavens, of which they were to be the glory. Two kinds of motion were assigned to themfirst, the revolution in the same and around the same, in peaceful unchanging thought of the same; and to this was added a forward motion which was under the control of the same. Thus then the fixed stars were created, being divine and eternal animals, revolving on the same spot, and the wandering stars, in their courses, were created in the manner already described. The earth, which is our nurse, clinging around the pole extended through the universe, he made to be the guardian and artificer of night and day, first and eldest of gods that are in the Interior of heaven. Vain would be the labour of telling all the figures of them, moving as in dance, and their juxta-positions and approximations, and when and where and behind what other stars they appear to disappearto tell of all this without looking at a plan of them would be labour in vain.
The knowledge of the other gods is beyond us, and we can only accept the traditions of the ancients, who were the children of the gods, as they said; for surely they must have known their own ancestors. Although they give no proof, we must believe them as is customary. They tell us that Oceanus and Tethys were the children of Earth and Heaven; that Phoreys, Cronos, and Rhea came in the next generation, and were followed by Zeus and Here, whose brothers and children are known to everybody.
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We have now to consider the much discussed question of the rotation or immobility of the earth. Plato's doctrine on this subject is contained in the following words:'The earth, which is our nurse, compacted (OR revolving) around the pole which is extended through the universe, he made to be the guardian and artificer of night and day, first and eldest of gods that are in the Interior of heaven'. There is an unfortunate doubt in this passage (1) about the meaning of the word (Greek), which is translated either 'compacted' or 'revolving,' and is equally capable of both explanations. A doubt (2) may also be raised as to whether the words 'artificer of day and night' are consistent with the mere passive causation of them, produced by the immobility of the earth in the midst of the circling universe. We must admit, further, (3) that Aristotle attri buted to Plato the doctrine of the rotation of the earth on its axis. On the other hand it has been urged that if the earth goes round with the outer heaven and sun in twenty-four hours, there is no way of accounting for the alternation of day and night; since the equal motion of the earth and sun would have the effect of absolute immobility. To which it may be replied that Plato never says that the earth goes round with the outer heaven and sun; although the whole question depends on the relation of earth and sun, their movements are nowhere precisely described. But if we suppose, with Mr. Grote, that the diurnal rotation of the earth on its axis and the revolution of the sun and outer heaven precisely coincide, it would be difficult to imagine that Plato was unaware of the consequence. For though he was ignorant of many things which are familiar to us, and often confused in his ideas where we have become clear, we have no right to attri bute to him a childish want of reasoning about very simple facts, or an inability to understand the necessary and obvious deductions from geometrical figures or movements. Of the causes of day and night the pre-Socratic philosophers, and especially the Pythagoreans, gave various accounts, and therefore the question can hardly be imagined to have escaped him. On the other hand it may be urged that the further step, however simple and obvious, is just what Plato often seems to be ignorant of, and that as there is no limit to his insight, there is also no limit to the blindness which sometimes obscures his intelligence (compare the construction of solids out of surfaces in his account of the creation of the world, or the attraction of similars to similars). Further, Mr. Grote supposes, not that (Greek) means 'revolving,' or that this is the sense in which Aristotle understood the word, but that the rotation of the earth is necessarily implied in its adherence to the cosmical axis. But (a) if, as Mr Grote assumes, Plato did not see that the rotation of the earth on its axis and of the sun and outer heavens around the earth in equal times was inconsistent with the alternation of day and night, neither need we suppose that he would have seen the immobility of the earth to be inconsistent with the rotation of the axis. And (b) what proof is there that the axis of the world revolves at all? (c) The comparison of the two passages quoted by Mr Grote (see his pamphlet on 'The Rotation of the Earth') from Aristotle De Coelo, Book II (Greek) clearly shows, although this is a matter of minor importance, that Aristotle, as Proclus and Simplicius supposed, understood (Greek) in the Timaeus to mean 'revolving.' For the second passage, in which motion on an axis is expressly mentioned, refers to the first, but this would be unmeaning unless (Greek) in the first passage meant rotation on an axis. (4) The immobility of the earth is more in accordance with Plato's other writings than the opposite hypothesis. For in the Phaedo the earth is described as the centre of the world, and is not said to be in motion. In the Republic the pilgrims appear to be looking out from the earth upon the motions of the heavenly bodies; in the Phaedrus, Hestia, who remains immovable in the house of Zeus while the other gods go in procession, is called the first and eldest of the gods, and is probably the symbol of the earth. The silence of Plato in these and in some other passages (Laws) in which he might be expected to speak of the rotation of the earth, is more favourable to the doctrine of its immobility than to the opposite. If he had meant to say that the earth revolves on its axis, he would have said so in distinct words, and have explained the relation of its movements to those of the other heavenly bodies. (5) The meaning of the words 'artificer of day and night' is literally true according to Plato's view. For the alternation of day and night is not produced by the motion of the heavens alone, or by the immobility of the earth alone, but by both together; and that which has the inherent force or energy to remain at rest when all other bodies are moving, may be truly said to act, equally with them. (6) We should not lay too much stress on Aristotle or the writer De Caelo having adopted the other interpretation of the words, although Alexander of Aphrodisias thinks that he could not have been ignorant either of the doctrine of Plato or of the sense which he intended to give to the word (Greek). For the citations of Plato in Aristotle are frequently misinterpreted by him; and he seems hardly ever to have had in his mind the connection in which they occur. In this instance the allusion is very slight, and there is no reason to suppose that the diurnal revolution of the heavens was present to his mind. Hence we need not attri bute to him the error from which we are defending Plato.
After weighing one against the other all these complicated probabilities, the final conclusion at which we arrive is that there is nearly as much to be said on the one side of the question as on the other, and that we are not perfectly certain, whether, as Bockh and the majority of commentators, ancient as well as modern, are inclined to believe, Plato thought that the earth was at rest in the centre of the universe, or, as Aristotle and Mr. Grote suppose, that it revolved on its axis. Whether we assume the earth to be stationary in the centre of the universe, or to revolve with the heavens, no explanation is given of the variation in the length of days and nights at different times of the year. The relations of the earth and heavens are so indistinct in the Timaeus and so figurative in the Phaedo, Phaedrus and Republic, that we must give up the hope of ascertaining how they were imagined by Plato, if he had any fixed or scientific conception of them at all.
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Plato found heat and air within the human frame, and the blood circulating in every part. He assumes in language almost unintelligible to us that a network of fire and air envelopes the greater part of the body. This outer net contains two lesser nets, one corresponding to the stomach, the other to the lungs; and the entrance to the latter is forked or divided into two passages which lead to the nostrils and to the mouth. In the process of respiration the external net is said to find a way in and out of the pores of the skin: while the Interior of it and the lesser nets move alternately into each other. The whole description is figurative, as Plato himself implies when he speaks of a 'fountain of fire which we compare to the network of a creel.' He really means by this what we should describe as a state of heat or temperature in the Interior of the body. The 'fountain of fire' or heat is also in a figure the circulation of the blood. The passage is partly imagination, partly fact.
He has a singular theory of respiration for which he accounts solely by the movement of the air in and out of the body; he does not attri bute any part of the process to the action of the body itself. The air has a double ingress and a double exit, through the mouth or nostrils, and through the skin. When exhaled through the mouth or nostrils, it leaves a vacuum which is filled up by other air finding a way in through the pores, this air being thrust out of its place by the exhalation from the mouth and nostrils. There is also a corresponding process of inhalation through the mouth or nostrils, and of exhalation through the pores. The inhalation through the pores appears to take place nearly at the same time as the exhalation through the mouth; and conversely. The internal fire is in either case the propelling cause outwardsthe inhaled air, when heated by it, having a natural tendency to move out of the body to the place of fire; while the impossibility of a vacuum is the propelling cause inwards.
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Thus far and until the birth of time the created universe was made in the likeness of the original, but inasmuch as all animals were not yet comprehended therein, it was still unlike. What remained, the creator then proceeded to fashion after the nature of the pattern. Now as in the ideal animal the mind perceives ideas or species of a certain nature and number, he thought that this created animal ought to have species of a like nature and number. There are four such; one of them is the heavenly race of the gods; another, the race of birds whose way is in the air; the third, the watery species; and the fourth, the pedestrian and land creatures. Of the heavenly and divine, he created the greater part out of fire, that they might be the brightest of all things and fairest to behold, and he fashioned them after the likeness of the universe in the figure of a circle, and made them follow the intelligent motion of the supreme, distributing them over the whole circumference of heaven, which was to be a true cosmos or glorious world spangled with them all over. And he gave to each of them two movements: the first, a movement on the same spot after the same manner, whereby they ever continue to think consistently the same thoughts about the same things; the second, a forward movement, in which they are controlled by the revolution of the same and the like; but by the other five motions they were unaffected, in order that each of them might attain the highest perfection. And for this reason the fixed stars were created, to be divine and eternal animals, ever-abiding and revolving after the same manner and on the same spot; and the other stars which reverse their motion and are subject to deviations of this kind, were created in the manner already described. The earth, which is our nurse, clinging (or 'circling') around the pole which is extended through the universe, he framed to be the guardian and artificer of night and day, first and eldest of gods that are in the Interior of heaven. Vain would be the attempt to tell all the figures of them circling as in dance, and their juxtapositions, and the return of them in their revolutions upon themselves, and their approximations, and to say which of these deities in their conjunctions meet, and which of them are in opposition, and in what order they get behind and before one another, and when they are severally eclipsed to our sight and again reappear, sending terrors and intimations of the future to those who cannot calculate their movementsto attempt to tell of all this without a visible representation of the heavenly system would be labour in vain. Enough on this head; and now let what we have said about the nature of the created and visible gods have an end.
To know or tell the origin of the other divinities is beyond us, and we must accept the traditions of the men of old time who affirm themselves to be the offspring of the godsthat is what they sayand they must surely have known their own ancestors. How can we doubt the word of the children of the gods? Although they give no probable or certain proofs, still, as they declare that they are speaking of what took place in their own family, we must conform to custom and believe them. In this manner, then, according to them, the genealogy of these gods is to be received and set forth.
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These elements, therefore, God employed for the sake of distributing moisture from the belly into the veins, weaving together a network of fire and air like a weel, having at the entrance two lesser weels; further he constructed one of these with two openings, and from the lesser weels he extended cords reaching all round to the extremities of the network. All the Interior of the net he made of fire, but the lesser weels and their cavity, of air. The network he took and spread over the newly-formed animal in the following manner:He let the lesser weels pass into the mouth; there were two of them, and one he let down by the air-pipes into the lungs, the other by the side of the air-pipes into the belly. The former he divided into two branches, both of which he made to meet at the channels of the nose, so that when the way through the mouth did not act, the streams of the mouth as well were replenished through the nose. With the other cavity (i.e. of the greater weel) he enveloped the hollow parts of the body, and at one time he made all this to flow into the lesser weels, quite gently, for they are composed of air, and at another time he caused the lesser weels to flow back again; and the net he made to find a way in and out through the pores of the body, and the rays of fire which are bound fast within followed the passage of the air either way, never at any time ceasing so long as the mortal being holds together. This process, as we affirm, the name-giver named inspiration and expiration. And all this movement, active as well as passive, takes place in order that the body, being watered and cooled, may receive nourishment and life; for when the respiration is going in and out, and the fire, which is fast bound within, follows it, and ever and anon moving to and fro, enters through the belly and reaches the meat and drink, it dissolves them, and dividing them into small portions and guiding them through the passages where it goes, pumps them as from a fountain into the channels of the veins, and makes the stream of the veins flow through the body as through a conduit.
Let us once more consider the phenomena of respiration, and enquire into the causes which have made it what it is. They are as follows:Seeing that there is no such thing as a vacuum into which any of those things which are moved can enter, and the breath is carried from us into the external air, the next point is, as will be clear to every one, that it does not go into a vacant space, but pushes its neighbour out of its place, and that which is thrust out in turn drives out its neighbour; and in this way everything of necessity at last comes round to that place from whence the breath came forth, and enters in there, and following the breath, fills up the vacant space; and this goes on like the rotation of a wheel, because there can be no such thing as a vacuum. Wherefore also the breast and the lungs, when they emit the breath, are replenished by the air which surrounds the body and which enters in through the pores of the flesh and is driven round in a circle; and again, the air which is sent away and passes out through the body forces the breath inwards through the passage of the mouth and the nostrils. Now the origin of this movement may be supposed to be as follows. In the Interior of every animal the hottest part is that which is around the blood and veins; it is in a manner an internal fountain of fire, which we compare to the network of a creel, being woven all of fire and extended through the centre of the body, while the outer parts are composed of air. Now we must admit that heat naturally proceeds outward to its own place and to its kindred element; and as there are two exits for the heat, the one out through the body, and the other through the mouth and nostrils, when it moves towards the one, it drives round the air at the other, and that which is driven round falls into the fire and becomes warm, and that which goes forth is cooled. But when the heat changes its place, and the particles at the other exit grow warmer, the hotter air inclining in that direction and carried towards its native element, fire, pushes round the air at the other; and this being affected in the same way and communicating the same impulse, a circular motion swaying to and fro is produced by the double process, which we call inspiration and expiration.
The phenomena of medical cupping-glasses and of the swallowing of drink and of the projection of bodies, whether discharged in the air or bowled along the ground, are to be investigated on a similar principle; and swift and slow sounds, which appear to be high and low, and are sometimes discordant on account of their inequality, and then again harmonical on account of the equality of the motion which they excite in us. For when the motions of the antecedent swifter sounds begin to pause and the two are equalized, the slower sounds overtake the swifter and then propel them. When they overtake them they do not intrude a new and discordant motion, but introduce the beginnings of a slower, which answers to the swifter as it dies away, thus producing a single mixed expression out of high and low, whence arises a pleasure which even the unwise feel, and which to the wise becomes a higher sort of delight, being an imitation of divine harmony in mortal motions. Moreover, as to the flowing of water, the fall of the thunderbolt, and the marvels that are observed about the attraction of amber and the Heraclean stones,in none of these cases is there any attraction; but he who investigates rightly, will find that such wonderful phenomena are attri butable to the combination of certain conditionsthe non-existence of a vacuum, the fact that objects push one another round, and that they change places, passing severally into their proper positions as they are divided or combined.
Verses of Vemana, #is Book, #unset, #Zen
If thou apply thy heel and hold it firmly to thy anus and then seek for thy Interior so as to understand the entrance of power, then if thou also cause a change in thy mind (give thy word) and determine on attaining felicity and it becomes the perfection. This is the path of perfection (or yoga).
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How subtle is the Interior vision? Pure is the sight of sight. Equal to the deity is the eye of our eye.
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If thy eye be single, the knowledge shall be one like a man in this earth is united with a woman. Then shall thy Interior be full of light like to the lord of the world.
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--- Overview of noun interior
The noun interior has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (16) inside, interior ::: (the region that is inside of something)
2. inside, interior ::: (the inner or enclosed surface of something)
3. Department of the Interior, Interior Department, Interior, DoI ::: (the United States federal department charged with conservation and the development of natural resources; created in 1849)
--- Overview of adj interior
The adj interior has 5 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) interior ::: (situated within or suitable for inside a building; "an interior scene"; "interior decoration"; "an interior bathroom without windows")
2. home, interior, internal, national ::: (inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics")
3. inner, interior, internal ::: (located inward; "Beethoven's manuscript looks like a bloody record of a tremendous inner battle"- Leonard Bernstein; "she thinks she has no soul, no interior life, but the truth is that she has no access to it"- David Denby; "an internal sense of rightousness"- A.R.Gurney,Jr.)
4. interior ::: (inside and toward a center; "interior regions of the earth")
5. interior, midland, upcountry ::: (of or coming from the middle of a region or country; "upcountry districts")
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun interior
3 senses of interior
Sense 1
inside, interior
=> region, part
=> location
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 2
inside, interior
=> surface
=> boundary, bound, bounds
=> extremity
=> region, part
=> location
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 3
Department of the Interior, Interior Department, Interior, DoI
=> executive department
=> federal department, federal office, department of the federal government
=> government department
=> department, section
=> division
=> administrative unit, administrative body
=> unit, social unit
=> organization, organisation
=> social group
=> group, grouping
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
--- Hyponyms of noun interior
2 of 3 senses of interior
Sense 1
inside, interior
=> midland
=> midst, thick
=> penetralia
Sense 2
inside, interior
=> belly
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun interior
3 senses of interior
Sense 1
inside, interior
=> region, part
Sense 2
inside, interior
=> surface
Sense 3
Department of the Interior, Interior Department, Interior, DoI
=> executive department
--- Similarity of adj interior
5 senses of interior
Sense 1
interior (vs. exterior)
=> indoor
=> inside(prenominal)
Also See-> indoor#1
Sense 2
home(prenominal), interior(prenominal), internal, national
=> domestic (vs. foreign)
Sense 3
inner, interior, internal
=> inward (vs. outward)
Sense 4
interior
=> internal (vs. external)
Sense 5
interior, midland, upcountry
=> inland (vs. coastal)
--- Antonyms of adj interior
5 senses of interior
Sense 1
interior (vs. exterior)
exterior (vs. interior)
=> out(prenominal)
=> outside(prenominal)
Sense 2
home(prenominal), interior(prenominal), internal, national
INDIRECT (VIA domestic) -> foreign
Sense 3
inner, interior, internal
INDIRECT (VIA inward) -> outward
Sense 4
interior
INDIRECT (VIA internal) -> external
Sense 5
interior, midland, upcountry
INDIRECT (VIA inland) -> coastal
--- Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun interior
3 senses of interior
Sense 1
inside, interior
-> region, part
=> atmosphere, air
=> biosphere
=> depth
=> interplanetary space
=> interstellar space
=> heliosphere
=> intergalactic space
=> deep space
=> aerospace
=> zone
=> belt
=> bottom
=> county
=> distance
=> Eden, paradise, nirvana, heaven, promised land, Shangri-la
=> extremity
HAS INSTANCE=> D-layer, D region
HAS INSTANCE=> Appleton layer, F layer, F region
HAS INSTANCE=> Heaviside layer, Kennelly-Heaviside layer, E layer, E region
=> hell, hell on earth, hellhole, snake pit, the pits, inferno
=> inside, interior
=> ionosphere
=> layer
=> outside, exterior
=> radius
=> side
=> air
=> vacuum, vacuity
=> top
=> zodiac
=> sign of the zodiac, star sign, sign, mansion, house, planetary house
HAS INSTANCE=> Achaea
HAS INSTANCE=> Doris
HAS INSTANCE=> Cynoscephalae
HAS INSTANCE=> Transylvania
=> Papua
=> Sind
HAS INSTANCE=> Witwatersrand, Rand, Reef
=> black hole
=> Kuiper belt, Edgeworth-Kuiper belt
=> mare, maria
Sense 2
inside, interior
-> surface
=> interface
=> hard palate
=> palate, roof of the mouth
=> side, face
=> celestial sphere, sphere, empyrean, firmament, heavens, vault of heaven, welkin
=> end
=> inside, interior
=> outside, exterior
=> substrate, substratum
=> wave front, wavefront
=> photosphere
Sense 3
Department of the Interior, Interior Department, Interior, DoI
-> executive department
=> White House, EXEC
=> Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Department, Agriculture, USDA
=> Department of Commerce, Commerce Department, Commerce, DoC
=> Department of Defense, Defense Department, United States Department of Defense, Defense, DoD
=> Department of Education, Education Department, Education
=> Department of Energy, Energy Department, Energy, DOE
=> Department of Health and Human Services, Health and Human Services, HHS
=> Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security
=> Department of Housing and Urban Development, Housing and Urban Development, HUD
=> Department of Justice, Justice Department, Justice, DoJ
=> Department of Labor, Labor Department, Labor, DoL
=> Department of State, United States Department of State, State Department, State, DoS
=> Department of the Interior, Interior Department, Interior, DoI
=> Department of the Treasury, Treasury Department, Treasury, United States Treasury
=> Department of Transportation, Transportation, DoT
=> Department of Veterans Affairs, VA
=> Department of Commerce and Labor
=> Department of Health Education and Welfare
=> Navy Department
=> War Department
--- Pertainyms of adj interior
5 senses of interior
Sense 1
interior (vs. exterior)
Sense 2
home(prenominal), interior(prenominal), internal, national
Sense 3
inner, interior, internal
Sense 4
interior
Sense 5
interior, midland, upcountry
--- Derived Forms of adj interior
--- Grep of noun interior
department of the interior
interior
interior angle
interior decoration
interior decorator
interior department
interior design
interior designer
interior door
interior live oak
interior monologue
interior secretary
secretary of the interior
zone of interior
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Kishibe Rohan wa Ugokanai -- -- David Production -- 4 eps -- Manga -- Action Mystery Shounen Supernatural -- Kishibe Rohan wa Ugokanai Kishibe Rohan wa Ugokanai -- Kishibe Rohan wa Ugokanai adapts a handful of one-shots based on the manga series JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken, and follows the bizarre adventures that Rohan Kishibe goes through as he searches for inspiration for his manga. -- -- Fugou Mura -- -- Rohan accompanies manga editor Kyouka Izumi to a secretive village where she plans on buying a house. Izumi informs Rohan that inhabitants of the village suddenly become rich at the age of 25 after purchasing their homes. Being 25 years old herself, Izumi has high hopes for moving into the village and invites Rohan to gather ideas for his manga. As they enter one of the houses for an interview with the seller, they are greeted by a servant named Ikkyuu, who puts them through a test of etiquette with deadly consequences. -- -- Mutsukabezaka -- -- Rohan meets with his editor, Minoru Kagamari, to discuss both his manga and the six mountains that the manga author recently bought. He explains that he purchased the mountains in order to search for a legendary spirit known as the Mutsukabezaka. To give his search context, he tells the tale of Naoko Osato, a wealthy heiress who murdered her boyfriend and became cursed by the spirit. -- -- Zangenshitsu -- -- Rohan decides to vacation in Venice after putting his manga on hiatus. While there, he explores the interior of a church and examines the structure of its confessional. After stepping into the priest's compartment, Rohan hears a man enter the confessional and begin to confess his sins. The man recounts his confrontation with a starving beggar and the haunting events that followed. -- -- The Run -- -- Youma Hashimoto is a young male model who has quickly risen to success. As his popularity grows, so does his obsession with his appearance and body. One day, he meets Rohan at the gym, and the two quickly form a rivalry which pushes Youma to intensify his training. Soon. Youma's fixation on his physique takes a dark turn as his training takes precedence over his life, and he challenges Rohan to a fatal competition on the treadmills. -- -- OVA - Sep 20, 2017 -- 77,010 7.62
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